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Rochelle High School or Rochelle School is a public high school located in unincorporated Rochelle, Texas (USA) and classified as a 1A school by the UIL. It is part of the Rochelle Independent School District located in eastern McCulloch County. In 2015, the school was rated "Met Standard" by the Texas Education Agency.
Athletics
The Rochelle Hornets compete in these sports
Basketball
Cross country
Six-man football
Golf
Tennis
Track and field
State titles
Girls' track -
2008(1A), 2009(1A)
Rochelle is notable for winning the 2008 and 2009 Class A girls' state track titles, based on the strength of Texas A&M University signee Bonnie Richardson, who was the school's only state qualifier in 2008 and the sole member of the girls' track team in 2009.
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External links
Rochelle ISD
List of Six-man football stadiums in Texas
Schools in McCulloch County, Texas
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Market Place is the financial programme broadcast Monday to Friday at 10:30pm in Hong Kong by television channel TVB Pearl.
History
On February 2, 2009, Market Place programme changed to High Definition.
TVB
TVB original programming |
Amjad Ali Shakir () is a Pakistani writer and an educationist who was born to Abdul Qadir, a graduate of Darul Uloom Deoband. He studied at the University of the Punjab and University of Multan in 1977. He started his career in education as a lecturer in 1979 at Govt College Bahawalnagar and served as a principal in various colleges before retiring in 2014. He has written many books on various topics, including history, research, and sketches.
Early life and education
Shakir was born to Abdul Qadir — a graduate of Darul Uloom Deoband. With the help of an educated environment at home, he passed 10th grade at Govt High School Basirpur, Lahore at the age of 15 only in 1969. Then he entered to Municipal degree college Okara (now Govt Post Graduate College Okara) and did his B.A from the University of the Punjab. After that, he did his M.A in Urdu as a private student from the University of Multan (now Bahauddin Zakariya University) in 1977.
Career
He started his service in education as a lecturer on 17 Feb 1979 at Govt college Bahawalnagar. After spending one year he was transferred to Govt college Pakpatan, where he spent four years. Then transferred to Govt College, Dipalpur, and served here relatively for a long time.
In 1992, he was promoted to assistant professor and transferred to Govt college Kasur, shortly he then transferred to Govt College Ravi Road Shahdara, Lahore 1993. He was transferred as a principal to Govt college Kasur again and stayed here for 10 years. After that, he was promoted to grade 20 and served as principal in various colleges and retired as principal in 2014.
Views about government colleges
According to Shakir, government colleges in Pakistan have adequate infrastructure and facilities, including well-equipped laboratories and libraries with more resources than private colleges. He believes that teachers have a responsibility to approach their work with dedication and passion, as the future of the nation depends on them.
Literary works
Shakir has written books, three of which are of the Sketch genre, the other three are related to history and research while the remaining books discuss various topics.
Some of them are:
Maulana Ubaidullah Sindhi and his philosophy of history (in Urdu)
Iqbālīyāt ke poshīdah goshe (2009)(in Urdu)
Rivāyat: shak̲h̲ṣī k̲h̲āke (2014) (in Urdu)
Masnad (2014) (in Urdu)
Bibliography
References
Pakistani writers
Pakistani educators
University of the Punjab alumni
Bahauddin Zakariya University alumni
People from Lahore
1954 births
Living people |
Paul-Godefroi de Berlo de Franc-Douaire (1701—1771) was the thirteenth bishop of Namur.
Life
Berlo was born at Franc-Douaire Castle, in the Prince-Bishopric of Liège, on 22 September 1701, as the son of Paul-Marie and Marie-Albertine de Berlo. Engaging in an ecclesiastical career, he became a canon of Huy and provost of Nivelles. In December 1746, Pope Benedict XIV confirmed his appointment as bishop of Namur. He dedicated his energies and his fortune to repairing the damage and disorder caused in his diocese by the armies of Louis XV of France during the War of the Austrian Succession, including the rebuilding of Namur cathedral itself.
He died at Nivelles on 19 January 1771.
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1701 births
1771 deaths
Bishops of Namur |
Michele Lowe (born November 1, 1957) is an American playwright and librettist whose work has been produced on Broadway, off Broadway and around the world. She received the Francesca Primus Prize in 2010 for her play Inana. She is the only playwright in the history of the Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award to be nominated and receive finalist status in one season. She is also the recipient of two Edgerton Foundation New Play Awards. She is Jewish.
Early life and education
Lowe was raised in Massapequa Park, New York. She is the daughter of Doris Lowe and Marshall Lowe. She graduated from Massapequa High School in 1975 and received a BSJ from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism in 1979. Ogilvy and Mather attempted to hire her as a copywriter in her junior year, but she opted to remain in school.
Career
Lowe worked as a copywriter at Foote, Cone & Belding (True North) and later J. Walter Thompson (WPP). In 1984 she won over 50 international awards including a Gold Lion at the Cannes Advertising Film Festival for “I’ll Have the Soup” (Kraft Miracle Whip) and a Clio for "Skunk" (Lowe’s Brand Kitty Litter (no relation to Ed Lowe). At the time, she was the youngest person ever made a VP at JWT. After a stint as a senior VP and associate creative director at BBDO she left the business full time and enrolled in Playwrights Horizons Theatre school where she was mentored by Robert Moss and Neal Bell.
Theatre
Lowe is a member of the Dramatists Guild and sits on the Publications Committee. She regularly writes for The Dramatist Guild Magazine.
Plays
The Smell of the Kill
The story of three women who want to kill their husbands and get the chance to do it, The Smell of the Kill premiered at Cleveland Playhouse in 1999. Elizabeth Ireland and Nelle Nugent teamed up to produce it on Broadway. It opened in March 2002 at the Helen Hayes Theater with Chris Ashley directing. It has been produced hundreds of times around the world and translated into over two dozen languages including French, Korean, Greek, Spanish, Estonian, Czech, and Icelandic.
String of Pearls
String of Pearls is about a group of women and the necklace that touches each of them over the course of 35 years. Four actresses play 27 roles. The show opened at City Theatre Pittsburgh in 2003 and was then produced by Primary Stages off Broadway at 59 E 59 Theater in October 2004 with Eric Simon directing.
Inana
On the eve of the U.S. invasion of Baghdad, one man, an Iraqi museum curator plots to save the statue of Inana, Goddess of War and Sex, from destruction. Fleeing to London with his young bride, he makes a life-altering deal to ensure the statue's preservation. A window of hope and healing, a love story amidst a background of international and personal intrigue. Inana opened at Denver Center Theatre with Michael Pressman directing in January, 2009.
Other plays
Moses (2021)
The Greatest (2017)
Map of Heaven (2011)
Victoria Musica (2009)
A Thousand Words Come to Mind with composer Scott Davenport Richards (2008)
Mezzulah, 1946 (2007)
Backsliding in the Promised Land (2003)
Other works
Queen Esther monologue in Motherhood Out Loud (2011)
Residencies
Cape Cod Theatre Project (2020)
Artist in Residence, Sundance Theatre Lab (2017)
New York Stage and Film (2012, 2002)
New Harmony Project (2006)
Colorado New Play Summit (2005, 2008)
Play Labs, Playwrights Center (2006)
O’Neill National Music Theatre Conference (1991)
Hedgebrook (2000)
Awards and nominations
2021 Theater J Trish Vradenburg New Play Prize (finalist) - Moses
2010 Edgerton New Play Award
2010 Francesca Primus Prize
2010 Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award (finalist) - Inana
2010 Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award (finalist)- Victoria Musica
2009 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize (finalist) - Inana
2008 Edgerton New Play Award
2005 Outer Critics Circle Best Play (nomination) — String of Pearls
2004 Robert M Frankel Award, City Theatre, Pittsburgh
1984 Gold Lion, Cannes Advertising Film Festival, Kraft Miracle Whip "I'll Have the Soup"
1984 Clio — Lowe’s Kitty Litter "Skunk"
Personal life
Lowe resides in New York and is the mother of Isadora Lowe Porte.
References
External links
1957 births
Living people
Medill School of Journalism alumni
Women librettists
American women dramatists and playwrights
American librettists
21st-century American dramatists and playwrights
People from Hempstead, New York
People from Massapequa Park, New York
Writers from New York (state) |
Artworks at Hampton Court Palace belong to the Royal Collection and are subject to change. They are displayed in several parts of the palace, including the new Cumberland Art Gallery. In September 2015, the Royal Collection recorded 542 works (only those with images) as being located at Hampton Court, mostly paintings and furniture, but also ceramics and sculpture. The full current list can be obtained from their website. They include:
Triumphs of Caesar (Mantegna), 1484–92, displayed in their own section of the palace.
Anonymous – Field of Cloth of Gold c. 1545.
Jacopo Bassano – The Adoration of the Shepherds c. 1544–45.
Sir Godfrey Kneller – William III on Horseback, 1701; Hampton Court Beauties, 1690s.
Sir Peter Lely – Windsor Beauties, 1660s.
William Scrots – Edward VI, c. 1550
Girolamo da Treviso – The Four Evangelists Stoning the Pope early 16th century.
The Allegory of the Tudor Succession, copy by Remigius van Leemput of Holbein's lost work.
The Family of Henry VIII.
Boy Peeling Fruit (Caravaggio)
The Calling of Saints Peter and Andrew, by Caravaggio
Rembrandt Self-portrait
Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting by Artemisia Gentileschi
12 views of Venice by Canaletto
Portraits by Holbein and Van Dyck
Apart from the paintings some important tapestries are displayed, including:
The Story of Abraham – Flemish, set of 10 tapestries commissioned by Henry VIII in the early 1540s, 6 of which are displayed in the Great Hall.
Conflict of Virtues and Vice – Flemish, c1500, probably bought by Cardinal Wolsey in 1522.
The Story of Alexander the Great – Brussels, late 17th century, in the Queen's Gallery.
The Labours of Hercules & The Triumph of Bacchus – Brussels, purchased by Henry VIII in the 1540s, in the King's Presence Chamber.
Moved away by 2015
Agnolo Bronzino (attributed) – Portrait of a Lady in Green c. 1530–32.?
Pieter Bruegel the Elder – The Massacre of the Innocents 1565–7.
Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger – Portrait of a Woman c. 1590–1600.
Lorenzo Lotto – Portrait of Andrea Odoni c. 1525.
Daniel Mytens – Charles I & Henrietta Maria c. 1630–32.
Raphael – Self portrait c. 1506–7.
References
Hampton Court Palace
Hampton Court
London-related lists
Hampton Court |
Dogspot is India's biggest online platform for dogs, cats, birds, fish and some small pets. It is also the leading online store for pet supplies, food, accessories and other products.
History
Dogspot was founded in 2007 by Rana Atheya. It is the biggest online platform for pets in India. It sells Pedigree, Royal Canin, Eukanoba, Hill's, Whiskas and many other brands.
In Jan 2016, Ratan Tata invested in Dosgpot. Existing investors, Ronnie Screwala also participated in the round. Dogspot had earlier, raised funding from India Quotient, K Ganesh and Ronnie Screwala in 2014.
Product lines
Dog products
Dogspot owns Nibbles. DogSpot also sells Purina dog food and its Supercoat blends.
References
External links
Dogspot
petsfoodspro
why socialization is so important
Retail companies established in 2007
Internet properties established in 2007
Pet stores
2007 establishments in Haryana |
Slepe is a hamlet in the county of Dorset, England. It is located on the A35 east of Organford.
References
Hamlets in Dorset
Purbeck District |
Daydream Nation is a 2010 Canadian drama film written and directed by Michael Goldbach. It features Kat Dennings, Reece Thompson, and Josh Lucas. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 10, 2010.
Plot
Seventeen-year-old Caroline Wexler (Kat Dennings) and her father move from a large city to a small town where an industrial fire burns endlessly and many of the students in her new high school seem to be permanently stoned. One of Caroline's classmates, Thurston Goldberg (Reece Thompson), quickly falls for her after they first meet at a party. Caroline is attracted to her high school English teacher Mr. Anderson (Josh Lucas) and the two begin to have sex.
On Halloween, Thurston and his best friends Paul (Landon Liboiron), Charles (Jesse Reid) and Craig (Calum Worthy) spend most of the day getting stoned and inhaling cleaning products which later causes Craig to have a violent seizure during health class. Afterwards, Mr. Anderson cancels his plans with Caroline in order to help the health teacher Ms. Budge (Rachel Blanchard). Mr. Anderson tells Caroline that they should probably go out with other people to avoid looking suspicious, and blows Caroline off on the phone. Feeling upset, Caroline goes out with Thurston where they end up having sex in her car. He admits to her that he was a virgin until that night.
The next day, Mr. Anderson apologizes to her, but says that their relationship must be as discreet. They make up and Caroline spends the night after reading Mr. Anderson's draft of his new novel. Thurston continues to try to pursue Caroline, coming to her home with cupcakes. After he is rejected at the door by Caroline's father (Ted Whittall), Thurston's mother (Andie MacDowell) intercedes on his behalf, which leads to her and Caroline's father sharing intimate moments over drinks. Caroline eventually realizes that Mr. Anderson is deeply dysfunctional, and breaks off the relationship in favor of Thurston. In return, Mr. Anderson does everything to sabotage the budding romance, and Caroline's life descends into chaos. Meanwhile, the local TV station, KCRR reports that there is a serial killer who killed a high school cheerleader.
As Caroline and Thurston's relationship develops, Mr. Anderson becomes even more unstable. He tells Thurston that he was just a cover, and on a rampage, Thurston breaks up with Caroline. Caroline leaves and goes to confront Mr. Anderson, who is on the verge of a mental breakdown. After Caroline leaves, he tries to commit suicide but shoots himself in the leg instead. Caroline goes to try to find Thurston and calls him while driving, leaving a message telling him to stay at the Christmas party where she will go to find him and that she loves him.
In the meantime, Thurston goes to the Christmas party and almost has sex with another girl, Jenny (Katie Boland) who is obsessed with him. Caroline inadvertently crashes her car into the serial killer, who dies from his injuries. She is thought to be a hero and gets back together with Thurston. Ms. Budge shows up at Mr. Anderson's home to tell him the serial killer is dead and takes him to the hospital to treat his injured leg.
Cast
Production
Principal photography began in Vancouver on January 9, 2010.
Reception
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 68% based on 22 reviews, with an average rating of 6.03/10. On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 57 out of 100, based on eight critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".
References
External links
2010 films
2010s coming-of-age drama films
2010s high school films
2010s teen drama films
Canadian coming-of-age drama films
Canadian teen drama films
English-language Canadian films
Films about scandalous teacher–student relationships
Films set in Canada
Films shot in Vancouver
Canadian films about cannabis
2010 directorial debut films
2010 drama films
2010s English-language films
2010s Canadian films |
Prostaglandin F receptor (FP) is a receptor belonging to the prostaglandin (PG) group of receptors. FP binds to and mediates the biological actions of Prostaglandin F2α (PGF2α). It is encoded in humans by the PTGFR gene.
Gene
The PTGFR gene is located on human chromosome 1 at position p31.1 (i.e. 1p31.1), contains 7 exons, and codes for a G protein coupled receptor (GPCR) of the rhodopsin-like receptor family, Subfamily A14 (see rhodopsin-like receptors#Subfamily A14). PTGFR is expressed as two alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding different isoforms, FPA and FPB, which have different C-terminal lengths. MicroRNA miR-590-3p binds to the Three prime untranslated region of the FP gene to repress its translation. miR-590-3p thus appears to be a negative regulator of FP expression in various cell types.
Expression
In humans, FP mRNA and/or protein is highly expressed in the uterine myometrium; throughout the eye (endothelium and smooth muscle cells of blood vessels of the iris), ciliary body and choroid plexus; ciliary muscle (circular muscle, collagenous connective tissues; sclera; and ovarian (follicles and corpus luteum). Studies in mice indicate that FP mRNA and/or protein is expressed in diverse tissues including the kidney (distal tubules), uterus, and ovary (Luteal cells of corpus luteum.
Ligands
Activating ligands
The FP receptor is the least selective of the prostenoid receptors in that it is responsive to PGD2 and to a lesser extent PGE2 at concentrations close to those of PGF2α. Standard prostanoids have the following relative efficacies as receptor ligands in binding to and activating FP: PGF2α>PGD2>PGE2>PGI2=TXA2. In typical binding studies, PGF2α has one-half maximal binding and cell stimulating actions at ~1 nanomolar whereas PGD2 and PGE2 are ~5- to 10-fold and 10-100-fold weaker than this. The synthetic analogs that like PGF2α act as selective receptor agonists of FP viz., cloprostenol, flupostenol, latanoprost, and tafluprost (acid form) have FP binding affinities and stimulating potencies similar to PGF2α while others as enprostil, sulprostone, U46619, carbacyclin, and iloprost are considerably weaker FP agonists. Fluprostenol is a widely used clinically as a selective FP receptor agonist; latanoprost is a suitable substitute.
Inhibiting ligands
Currently, there are no selective receptor antagonists for FP.
Mechanism of cell activation
FP is classified as a contractile type of prostenoid receptor based on its ability, upon activation, to contract certain smooth muscle preparations and smooth muscle-containing tissues such as those of the uterus. When bound to PGF2α or other of its agonists, FP mobilizes primarily G proteins containing the Gq alpha subunit bound to of the Gq-Gβγ complex(i.e. Gqβγ). Gqβγ then dissociate into its Gq and Gβγ components which act to regulate cell signaling pathways. In particular, Gq stimulates cell signal pathways involving a) phospholipase C/IP3/cell Ca2+ mobilization/diacylglycerol/protein kinase Cs; calmodulin-modulated myosin light chain kinase; RAF/MEK/Mitogen-activated protein kinases; PKC/Ca2+/Calcineurin/Nuclear factor of activated T-cells; and the EGF cellular receptor. In certain cells, activation of FP also stimulates G12/G13-Gβγ G proteins to activate the Rho family of GTPases signaling proteins and Gi-Gβγ G proteins to activateRaf/MEK/mitogen-activated kinase pathways.
Functions
Studies using animals genetically engineered to lack FP and examining the actions of EP4 receptor agonists in animals as well as animal and human tissues indicate that this receptor serves various functions. It has been regarded as the most successful therapeutic target among the 9 prostanoid receptors.
Eye
Animal and human studies have found that the stimulation of FP receptors located on Ciliary muscle and trabecular meshwork cells of the eye widens the drainage channels (termed the uveoscleral pathway) that they form. This increases the outflow of aqueous humor from the anterior chamber of the eye through Schlemm's canal to outside of the eyeball. The increase in aqueous humor outflow triggered by FP receptor activation reduces Intraocular pressure and underlies the widespread usage of FP receptor agonists to treat glaucoma. László Z. Bitó is credited with making critical studies to define this intraocular pressure-relieving pathway. Three FP receptor agonists are approved for clinical use in the USA viz., travoprost, latanoprost, and bimatoprost, and two additional agonists are prescribed in Europe and Asia viz., unoprostone and tafluprost.
Hair growth
Since FP receptors are expresses in human dermal papillae and the use of FP agonists to treat glaucoma has as a side-effect an increase in eyelash growth, it has been suggested that FP agonists may be useful for treating baldness. This is supported by studies in the stump-tailed Macaque primate model of androgen-induced scalp alopecia which have found that the FP agonist, latanoprost, promotes scalp hair growth. These studies have not yet been translated into baldness therapy in humans.
Reproduction
FP receptor activation contributes to the regression of the corpus luteum and thereby the estrus cycle in many species of farm animals. However, it does not make these contributions in mice and its contribution to these functions in humans is controversial. The receptor has been in use as a target for decades to regulate the estrus cycle as well as to induce labor in pregnant farm animals FP gene knockout in female mice blocks parturition. That is, these FP-/- mice fail to enter labor even if induced by oxytocin due to a failure in copus luteum regression and consequential failure to stop secreting progesterone (declining progesterone levels trigger labor). Studies with monkey and human tissues allow that FP receptors may have a similar function in humans.
Skin pigmentation
One side effect of applying FP receptor agonists to eyelashes in humans is the development of hyperpigmentation at nearby skin sites. Follow-up studies of this side effect indicated than human skin pigment-forming melanocyte cells express FP receptors and respond to FP receptor agonists by increasing their dendricites (projections to other cells) as well as to increase their tyrosinase activity. Since skin melanocytes use their dendrites to transfer the skin pigment melanin to skin keratinocytes thereby darkening skin and since tyrosinase is the rate-limiting enzyme in the synthesis of melanin, these studies suggest that FP receptor activation may be a useful means to increase skin pigmentation.
Bone
PGF2α triggers the NFATC2 pathway stimulating skeletal muscle cell growth. PGF2α, shown or presumed to operate by activating FP receptors, has complex effects on bone osteoclasts and osteoblasts to regulate Bone remodeling. However, further studies on the impact of the PGF2α-FP axis on bone are needed to better understand the pathophysiology underlying bone turnover and to identify this axis as a novel pharmacological target for the treatment of bone disorders and diseases.
Inflammation and allergy
Unlike other prostaglandin receptors which have been shown in numerous studies to contribute to inflammatory and allergic responses in animal models, there are few studies on the function of FP receptors in these responses. Gene knockout studies in mice clearly show that FP mediates the late phase (thromboxane receptor mediates the early phase) of the tachycardia response to the pro-inflammatory agent, lipopolysaccharide. PTGFR knockout mice also show a reduction in the development of pulmonary fibrosis normally caused by microbial invasion or bleomycin treatment. Finally, administration of PGF2α to mice causes an acute inflammatory response and elevated biosynthesis of PGF2α has been found in the tissues of patients with rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, and other forms of arthritis. While much further work is needed, these studies indicate that PGF2α-FP axis has some pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory effects in animals that may translate to humans. The axis may likewise play role in human allergic responses: PGF2α causes airway constriction in normal and asthmatic humans and its presence in human sputum is related to sputum eosinophil levels.
Cardiovascular system
PGF2α simulates an increase in systolic blood pressure in wild type but not FP(−/−) mice. Furthermore, FP(-/-) mice have significantly lower blood pressure, lower plasma renin levels, and lower plasma angiotensin-1 levels than wild-type mice, and FP agonists have a negative inotropic effect to weaken the strength of heart beating in rats. Finally, FP(−/−) mice deficient in the LDL receptor exhibit significantly less atherosclerosis than FP(+/+) LDL receptor-deficient mice. Activation of FP thus has pathophysiological consequences for the cardiovascular system relative to blood pressure, cardiac function, and atherosclerosis in animal models. The mechanism behind these FP effects and their relevancy to humans have not been elucidated.
Clinical significance
Therapeutic
Glaucoma
FP receptor agonists, specifically latanoprost, travoprost, bimatoprost, and tafluprost, are currently used as first-line drugs to treat glaucoma and other causes of intra-ocular hypertension (see Glaucoma#Medication).
Hair growth
The FP receptor agonist, bimatoprost, in the form of an 0.03% ophthalmic solution termed Latisse, is approved by the US Food and Drug Administration to treat hypotrichosis of the eyelashes, in particular to darken and lengthen eyelashes for cosmetic purposes. Eyelid hypotrichosis caused by
Veterinary uses
FP receptor agonists are used as highly effective agents to synchronize the oestrus cycles of farm animals and thereby to facilitate animal husbandry.
Translational studies
Hair growth
Eyelash hypotrichosis due to the autoimmune disease, Alopecia areata, or to chemotherapy have been successfully treated with FP agonists in small Translational research studies. In a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled pilot study of 16 men with male pattern baldness (also termed androgenetic alopecia) topical application of the FP agonist, latanoprost, for 24 weeks produced a significant increase in scalp hair density. Despite these findings, however, a case report of one woman with female pattern hair loss found that injection of FP agonist bimatoprost failed to influence hair growth.
Skin pigmentation
In preliminary studies, 3 Korean patients with periorbital vitiligo (i.e. skin blanching) were treated topically with the FP receptor agonist, latanoprost, for two months; the three patients experienced 20%, 50%, and >90% re-pigmentation of their vitiligo lesions. Fourteen patients with hypopigmented in their scarreed tissues were treated with the FP receptor agonist, bimatoprost, applied topically plus laser therapy and topical tretinoin or pimecrolimus. Most patients demonstrated significant improvement in their hypopigmentation, but the isolated effect of topical bimatoprost was not evaluated. These studies allow that FP receptor agonists may be useful for treating hypopigmentation such as occurs in scar tissue as well as diseases like vitiligo, tinea versicolor, and pityriasis alba.
Genomic studies
The single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) A/G variant, rs12731181, located in the Three prime untranslated region of PTGFR has been associated with increased risk for hypertension in individuals from southern Germany; while this association was not replicated in other European populations, it was found in a Korean population. This SNP variant reduces the binging of MicroRNA miR-590-3p to PTGFR; since this binding represses translation of this gene, the rs127231181 variant acts to increase expression of the FP receptor. PTGFR SNP variants rs6686438 and rs10786455s were associated with positive and SNP variants rs3753380, rs6672484, and rs11578155 in PTGFR were associated with negative responses to latanoprost for the treatment of Open-Angle Glaucoma in a Spanish population. PTGFR SNP variants rs3753380 and rs3766355 were associated with a reduce response to latanoprost in a Chinese population study.
See also
Prostaglandin F2 alpha
Prostaglandin receptors
Eicosanoid receptor
References
External links
Further reading
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The Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication is an honor bestowed by the Starmus Festival to individuals in science and the arts to recognize the work of those helping to promote the public awareness of science.
History
The Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication was initially announced on December 16, 2015, at the Royal Society in London, by a panel including Professor Stephen Hawking, the Starmus founding director Professor Garik Israelian, Dr. Brian May, Professor Richard Dawkins, Alexei Leonov and Nobel laureate Sir Harold Kroto.
The Stephen Hawking Medals are awarded to the Science Communicator of the Year in three categories:
Music & Arts
Science Writing
Films & Entertainment
Lifetime Achievement
During the presentation of the Medal, Stephen Hawking said:
"I am delighted to present the Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication to be awarded at STARMUS festivals. This medal will recognize excellence in science communication across different media, whether in writing, broadcasting, music, film, or fine art. This takes account of the great diversity, richness, creativity, and scope that science communicators use to reach a wide popular audience... I am very pleased to support and honour the work of science communicators, and look forward to awarding The Stephen Hawking Medal at STARMUS Festivals."
The first Stephen Hawking Medals for Science Communication were awarded at the third Starmus Festival in June 2016. The winners were selected by Stephen Hawking himself and received the Medal from him.
Professor Hawking said of the award:
By engaging with everyone from school children to politicians to pensioners, science communicators put science right at the heart of daily life. Bringing science to the people brings people into science. This matters to me, to you, to the world as a whole.
After Starmus III, the Starmus Advisory Board joined Stephen Hawking in the selection of winners.
The medal
The design of the medal used a portrait of Professor Hawking by cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, the first man to perform a spacewalk and member of the Advisory Board of Starmus since its first edition. The other side combines the image of Alexei Leonov during the first spacewalk, and the “Red Special” – Brian May’s guitar – to demonstrate music, another major component of the Starmus Festival.
The Medal itself was designed by Alexei Leonov and Brian May.
Brian May said about the Medal:
"The Stephen Hawking Medal will be awarded for the first time at Starmus III to the human being who by their sharing of science and music with us all, is the greatest inspiration to the next generation of artists and scientists."
During the Stephen Hawking Medal Award Ceremony at Starmus III, Alexei Leonov pointed out:
"I did a sketch of Stephen Hawking… and when I showed it to him, I saw a big smile on his face. The Stephen Hawking Medal created by STARMUS will be awarded to the best science communicators in the world in three categories: science and/or science-fiction writers, musicians and artists, and people in the film and entertainment industry. I am honoured to be a part of this historical medal."
Recipients
2016
Music & Arts: Hans Zimmer
Science writing: Jim Al-Khalili
Films & Entertainment: Science documentary Particle Fever
2017
Music & Arts: Jean-Michel Jarre
Science Writing: Neil deGrasse Tyson
Films & Entertainment: Sitcom The Big Bang Theory
2019
Music & Arts: Brian Eno
Science Writing: Elon Musk
Films & Entertainment: Science documentary Apollo 11
Lifetime Achievement: Buzz Aldrin
2022
Music & Arts: Brian May
Science Writing: Diane Ackerman
Films & Entertainment: NASA TV and Communications Office
Lifetime Achievement: Jane Goodall
References
External links
Starmus: Medal Home Page
Guardian Newspaper: 2016 Winners
Astronomy Magazine: Announcement about institution of medal
Science communication awards
Awards established in 2015 |
Ian Philip Gibaut ( ; born November 19, 1993) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has played in (MLB) for the Tampa Bay Rays, Texas Rangers, Minnesota Twins, and Cleveland Guardians. He has played for the Great Britain national baseball team at the 2023 World Baseball Classic.
Career
Amateur
The son of the cricketer Russel Gibaut, he attended Lamar High School in Houston, Texas and played college baseball at Tulane University. In 2014, he played collegiate summer baseball with the Hyannis Harbor Hawks of the Cape Cod Baseball League. He was drafted by the Tampa Bay Rays in the 11th round of the 2015 Major League Baseball Draft.
Tampa Bay Rays
Gibaut made his professional debut with the Princeton Rays and spent all of 2015 there, going 3-1 with a 2.12 ERA in 29.2 innings pitched in relief. In 2016, he pitched for the Bowling Green Hot Rods and Charlotte Stone Crabs where he compiled a combined 2-2 record, 2.53 ERA, and 1.25 WHIP in 57 total innings pitched, and in 2017 he pitched with Charlotte and the Montgomery Biscuits where he was 7-1 with a 2.21 ERA in 48 combined relief appearances between the two teams. Gibaut spent 2018 with the Durham Bulls, going 4-3 with a 2.09 ERA and a 1.00 WHIP, striking out 75 batters in 56 relief innings pitched.
The Rays added Gibaut to their 40-man roster after the 2018 season. He began 2019 on the injured list with Durham. After being activated, he pitched on a rehab assignment for Charlotte and then returned to Durham.
On July 5, 2019, the Rays promoted Gibaut to the major leagues. He made his major league debut on July 12 versus the Baltimore Orioles, allowing two runs and striking out two batters over two innings pitched.
On July 23, 2019, Gibaut was designated for assignment.
Texas Rangers
On July 28, 2019, Gibaut was traded to the Texas Rangers in exchange for cash considerations or a PTBNL. He was assigned to the Nashville Sounds following the trade. In 9 games for Texas in 2019, Gibaut went 1–1 with a 5.11 ERA over innings. On December 2, 2019, Gibaut was non-tendered by Texas and became a free agent, but was re-signed to a minor league contract with an invitation to spring training on December 19, 2019. He appeared in 14 games for the Rangers in the 2020 season, collecting 14 strikeouts in innings.
Minnesota Twins
On October 30, 2020, Gibaut was claimed off waivers by the Minnesota Twins. On February 19, 2021, Gibaut was outrighted off of the 40-man roster to make space for Matt Shoemaker and was invited to Spring Training as a non-roster invitee. After appearing in 27 games for the St. Paul Saints, posting a 1-3 record with a 7.20 ERA and 46 strikeouts, Gibaut's contract was selected by the Twins on August 27. Gibaut made 3 appearances for the Twins, recording a 2.70 ERA with 4 strikeouts. Gibaut was outrighted off of the 40-man roster on October 8. On October 14, Gibaut elected free agency.
Cleveland Guardians
On March 17, 2022, Gibaut signed a minor league contract with the Cleveland Guardians. The deal includes an invitation to the Guardians' 2022 major league spring training camp. On June 27, Gibaut was selected to the major league roster. He was designated for assignment the following day after appearing in one game for Cleveland.
Los Angeles Dodgers
On June 30, 2022, Gibaut was claimed off waivers by the Los Angeles Dodgers. He was designated for assignment on July 3 without appearing in a game.
Cincinnati Reds
On July 5, 2022, Gibaut was claimed off waivers by the Cincinnati Reds.
References
External links
Tulane Green Wave bio
1993 births
Living people
Lamar High School (Houston, Texas) alumni
Baseball players from Houston
Major League Baseball pitchers
Tampa Bay Rays players
Texas Rangers players
Minnesota Twins players
Cleveland Guardians players
Cincinnati Reds players
Tulane Green Wave baseball players
Hyannis Harbor Hawks players
Princeton Rays players
Bowling Green Hot Rods players
Charlotte Stone Crabs players
Montgomery Biscuits players
Durham Bulls players
Nashville Sounds players
St. Paul Saints players
American people of Jersey descent
2023 World Baseball Classic players |
Epiphany Cathedral may refer to:
Dominican Republic
Episcopal Cathedral of the Epiphany (Santo Domingo)
Russia
Yelokhovo Cathedral, Moscow
United States
Epiphany Cathedral (Venice, Florida)
Cathedral of the Epiphany (Sioux City, Iowa) |
The 2021 Garden Open was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the twelfth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2021 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Rome, Italy between 19 and 25 April 2021.
Singles main-draw entrants
Seeds
1 Rankings as of 12 April 2021.
Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
Stefano Napolitano
Andrea Pellegrino
Giulio Zeppieri
The following player received entry into the singles main draw using a protected ranking:
Thanasi Kokkinakis
The following player received entry into the singles main draw as a special exempt:
Mathias Bourgue
The following players received entry into the singles main draw as alternates:
Andrea Collarini
Borna Gojo
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
Flavio Cobolli
Vít Kopřiva
Tristan Lamasine
Alex Molčan
Champions
Singles
Andrea Pellegrino def. Hugo Gaston 3–6, 6–2, 6–1.
Doubles
Sadio Doumbia / Fabien Reboul def. Paolo Lorenzi / Juan Pablo Varillas 7–6(7–5), 7–5.
References
2021 ATP Challenger Tour
2021
2021 in Italian tennis
April 2021 sports events in Italy |
Maila Rästas (born Maila Liivoja; 8 April 1937 – 19 April 2008) was an Estonian stage, film, and radio actress. Rästas was employed at Estonian Drama Theatre in Tallinn from 1961 until 1992 before retiring. She also appeared in several films.
Early life and education
Maila Rästas was born Maila Liivoja in Tartu to Paul and Elfriede Vilhelmine Liivoja (née Kasak). The family later relocated to the capital of Tallinn, where she graduated from Tallinn 7th Secondary School in 1955. Following secondary school, she enrolled in the Performing Arts Department of the Tallinn Conservatory (now, the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre) to study acting under direction of actor and theatre pedagogue Voldemar Panso, graduating in 1961. Rästas' diploma production role was that of Isabel in Pedro Calderón de la Barca's The Phantom Lady. Her graduating classmates included Tõnu Aav, Meeli Sööt, Mati Klooren, Mikk Mikiver, Ines Aru, Jaan Saul, Madis Ojamaa, and Aarne Üksküla.
Career
In 1961, shortly after graduation from the Tallinn Conservatory, Rästas began an engagement as an actress at the Estonian Drama Theatre in Tallinn which lasted until 1992, when she was laid off from the theatre. During her three decade-long engagement at the Estonian Drama Theatre she performed in numerous stage productions as an actress in works by such varied authors and playwrights as: Victor Rozov, Juhan Liiv, Peter Shaffer, Eugene O'Neill, Hugo Raudsepp, Ion Druță, August Strindberg, Oskar Luts, Konstantin Trenyov, Valentin Rasputin, Clare Boothe Luce, Françoise Sagan, Albert Camus, and Werner Schwab.
Rästas' most critically acclaimed performances with the Estonian Drama Theatre were the roles of Tiina in A. H. Tammsaare's Man and Man (1972), Natalia "Natasha" Ivanovna in Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters (1973), and Magda in Jaan Kruusvall's In the Colors of Clouds (1983).
In addition to roles in the theatre, Rästas also appeared in several films; her first was as the character Külliki in the 1960 Herbert Rappaport directed drama Vihmas ja päikeses, released by Tallinna Kinostuudio (now, Tallinnfilm). Her final film role was in the Valentin Kuik penned and directed 1992 Tallinnfilm drama Armastuse lahinguväljad.
Rästas' television career wasn't as prolific as her stage career, although several stage productions featuring Rästas were televised on Eesti Televisioon (ETV), including a 1974 production of Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan in which she played the role of The Duchess of Berwick, and a 1979 production of Hermann Bahr's The Concert. She also had a small role in the 1981 Tõnis Kask directed ETV television biographical film Two Days from the Life of Viktor Kingissepp, which chronicled Estonian communist politician Viktor Kingissepp.
Rästas also performed in a number of radio plays during her career. The most notable of which was in the 1969 Raimond Kaugver penned and Leo Martin directed drama Vilve, which aired on Eesti Raadio.
Following her departure from the Estonian Drama Theatre in 1992, Rästas rarely pursued further work as an actress, preferring to live quietly in semi-retirement. She would occasionally take small roles in the intervening years, most notably opposite Ita Ever, Ülle Ulla, Liina Olmaru, Epp Eesapäev, and Ago-Endrik Kerge in a production of Agatha Christie's They Do It with Mirrors directed by Roman Baskin, which premiered at the House of Blackheads in Tallinn in April 2005 and subsequently performed at several theatres throughout Estonia shortly after.
Personal life
Maila Liivoja married to Kainu Rästas while still a student at the Tallinn Conservatory. The couple had one child. After her departure from the Estonian Drama Theatre she settled for a time on a small farm near Vasalemma in Harju County. Later, she moved to an apartment in the Tallinn subdistrict of Kopli. Kainu Rästas died in 2007, and Maila Rästas died unexpectedly the following year in Tallinn, aged 71 and was buried in Pärnamäe Cemetery.
Acknowledgements
Meritorious Artist of the Estonian SSR (1986)
References
External links
1937 births
2008 deaths
Estonian stage actresses
Estonian film actresses
Estonian voice actresses
Soviet actresses
Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre alumni
Actresses from Tartu
20th-century Estonian actresses
Burials at Pärnamäe Cemetery |
"Lick Shots" is a buzz single by American recording artist Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott from her third album, Miss E... So Addictive (2001). The song was written and produced by both Elliott and frequent collaborator Timbaland.
Although it was never intended to be released as an actual album single, the song was instead released as a buzz single to generate further attention for Elliott's third album. The song was released promotionally two weeks prior to the release of Elliott's third album and charted moderately on Billboard Hot Rap Songs and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks. Prior to its release, the song appeared as a snippet in the music video to Elliott's preceding single, "Get Ur Freak On".
In April 2008, the song was used during Anete Jensen & Daniel Sarr's "hip-hop" challenge as part of the second-week run of the now-defunct international reality dance competition, So You Think You Can Dance Scandinavia.
"Lick Shots" contains an uncredited sample of "Simchat He'amel", by Effi Netzer.
Track listings and formats
12" vinyl
"Lick Shots" (Original)
"Get Ur Freak On" (Bastone & Bernstein Club Mix)
"Lick Shots" (Instrumental)
"Lick Shots" (Acapella)
"Get Ur Freak On" (Bastone & Bernstein Dub Mix)
12" promo
"Lick Shots" (Amended Version)
"Lick Shots" (Album Version)
"Lick Shots" (Instrumental)
"Lick Shots" (TV Track)
"Lick Shots" (Acappella)
"Lick Shots" (DJ Zinc vs. Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott)
Charts
See also
2001 in music
Timbaland production discography
Missy Elliott production discography
The Goldmind Inc.
References
2001 singles
2001 songs
Missy Elliott songs
Songs written by Missy Elliott
Song recordings produced by Timbaland
Elektra Records singles
Songs written by Timbaland
Dance-pop songs |
The 2022–23 Binghamton Bearcats men's basketball team represented Binghamton University in the 2022–23 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. They played their home games at the Binghamton University Events Center in Vestal, New York, led by second-year head coach Levell Sanders. They finished the season 13-18, 8-8 in America East Play for a three-way-tie for 4th place. They defeated UMBC in the quarterfinals of the America East Tournament before losing to Vermont in the semifinals.
Previous season
The Bearcats finished the 2021–22 season 12–17 overall, 8–10 in conference play to finish in sixth place. They defeated New Hampshire in the quarterfinals of the America East tournament before losing in the semifinals to Vermont.
Roster
Schedule and results
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References
Binghamton Bearcats men's basketball seasons
Binghamton Bearcats
Binghamton Bearcats men's basketball
Binghamton Bearcats men's basketball |
Dr Fontem A. Neba (born Fontem Aforteka’a Neba, in 1970) is an Anglophone Cameroonian university lecturer, author and a civil rights activist who emerged on the Cameroon political stage as the founding Secretary General of Cameroon Anglophone Civil Society Consortium before it was banned by the government of Cameroon on January 17, 2017. He was arrested on the same day alongside Barrister Nkongho Felix Agbor and deported to Yaoundé overnight where they would both spend nine perilous months in the Kondengui Maximum security prison. Before becoming Secretary General of the banned Cameroon Anglophone Civil Society Consortium (CACSC), he was the Secretary General of teachers’ trade union of the University of Buea (SYNES) before his arrest on January 17, 2017, for staging a peaceful protest in the defence of Anglophone Cameroon common law system of education. He is the author of English Language Mastery and Academic Success which was launched on June 18, 2015.
Early life and career
Dr. Fontem Aforteka'a Neba was born on August 8, 1970. He holds a PhD from the University of Ibadan in Nigeria. He is a linguist, lecturer, author and an activist. He is the author of English Language Mastery and Academic Success. He was the Secretary General of teachers’ trade union of the University of Buea (SYNES) before his arrest on January 17, 2017 and the Secretary General of the banned Cameroon Anglophone Civil Society Consortium (CACSC).
Arrest
On January 17, 2017, at about 6:15 pm, it was reported that Dr. Fontem Neba was arrested alongside Barrister Agbor Balla, Ayah Paul Abine in Buea by a combined squad of police, gendarmes, elements of the military intelligence unit and the dreaded secret service unit known by its French Acronym as DGR. The arrest immediately followed the banning of the Consortium which had waged a civil disobedience campaign to protest grave marginalization and systemic assimilation of the English speaking minority in Cameroon by the majority Francophones.
Court charges and trial of Dr. Fontem Neba
Dr.Fontem Neba and Co, were charged with 8 counts by the Cameroon Military tribunals in Yaounde for treason, terrorism, civil unrest, jeopardizing the peace and unity of the Republic of Cameroon and if found guilty would have faced the death penalty. On the March 23 the Neba Fondem trial at the Yaounde military court tribunal was adjourned for another hearing on April 27, May 24 and July 27 same year and on the August 31 through a presidential decree by president Paul Biya. Neba and friends were released and all charges against them were cancelled. While in prison, Fontem Neba spoke to the French daily le Jour Newspaper during the visit of members of the Social Democratic Front (Cameroon) (SDF) parliamentary group on April 7, 2017, he said
See also
2016–2017 Cameroonian protests
References
External links
Cameroonian activists
1970s births
Living people
Cameroonian Protestants |
Taqulittuq (, often transliterated as Tookoolito; – December 31, 1876) was an Inuk interpreter and guide. She and her husband Ipirvik (also known as Joe) worked alongside Arctic explorer Charles Francis Hall and joined him in his search for Franklin's lost expedition in the 1860s, as well as the Polaris expedition to reach the North Pole
Biography
Early life and family
Taqulittuq was born at Cape Searle in the Cumberland Sound or Qikiqtaaluk Region, or Baffin Island area. Her brother, Eenoolooapik, traveled in 1839 with whaler William Penny to Aberdeen. Other relatives, Totocatapik and Kur-king, were also renowned as travelers. In 1852, Taqulittuq began learning English from a British whaler, William Barron.
Travels
In 1853, a whaling captain named John Bowlby (sometimes called Thomas Bowlby) brought her with Ipirvik and an unrelated child, Akulukjuk ("Harlookjoe"), to England. The three Inuit were exhibited in various venues throughout the north of the country. They were eventually brought to London, where they were received by Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle. She and Ipirvik dined with the Queen and Prince Albert. Unlike many less scrupulous showmen, Bowlby returned the group to the Arctic.
In 1860, the explorer Charles Francis Hall met Taqulittuq and Ipirvik, hiring them as a translator and guide on his first expedition to search for remains of the Franklin expedition. Local inhabitants led him to the remains of the Frobisher expedition instead. Sidney Budington captained the expedition's ship, the George Henry.
She and Ipirvik returned with Hall in the fall of 1862, and appeared alongside him at his lectures. Later that year, Hall arranged for them to be exhibited at Barnum's American Museum in New York, where they drew enormous crowds, advertised as "Esquimaux Indians ... from the Arctic regions ... the first and only inhabitants of these frozen regions ever brought to" the United States. Not long after, Hall agreed to a second exhibition at Boston's Aquarial Gardens, but when no payment was forthcoming, decided that such shows were not worth the risk to Hannah and Ipirvik’s health. Nevertheless, they accompanied him on his East Coast lecture tour throughout the early months of 1863, and possibly, as a result, Taqulittuq's young son Butterfly became ill and died of pneumonia. Inconsolable, Taqulittuq became suicidal, but eventually regained her health.
Along with Ipirvik, she returned with Hall to the Arctic on his second land expedition from 1864 to 1869. During this expedition, Taqulittuq gave birth to a son "King William," who died in infancy; she and Ipirvik then adopted a two-year-old Inuit girl whom they called simply Panik (Inuktitut: "daughter").
Taqulittuq and Ipirvik also accompanied Hall on his final expedition aboard the . Along with their daughter Panik and Hans Hendrik, they were among the party left behind after Hall's death, when the ship abruptly broke loose of the ice and failed to return. This party endured a remarkable six-month drift on a gradually-shrinking ice-floe, kept alive only by Ipirvik and Hans's hunting skills; the entire party was rescued by a sealer in April 1873.
During the investigation into Hall's death, both Taqulittuq and Ipirvik testified, both corroborating Hall's belief that he had been poisoned, but their evidence was discounted.
Later life
They returned to Groton, Connecticut, to a home that whaling captain that Hall and Sidney O. Budington had helped establish. Ipirvik returned to the Arctic several times to work as a guide, while Taqulittuq remained behind, caring for Panik and working as a seamstress.
After Panik—whose health had been poor since her experience on the ice floe—died at the age of nine, Hannah fell into declining health. Ipirvik was with her when she died on December 31, 1876; she was buried in the Starr Burying Ground not far from the Budington family plot.
Legacy
Tookoolito Inlet, located on the western side of Cornelius Grinnell Bay in Nunavut, and Hannah Island, in the mouth of Bessels Fjord, North Greenland, is named after her. Taqulittuq and her husband were named Persons of National Historic Significance in 1981.
Notes
Bibliography
External links
Biography of Taqulittuq at the Canadian Encyclopedia by John Bennett
Kenn Harper, "Taissumani: A Day in Arctic History — Nov. 2 1860: A Fortuitous Meeting", Nunatsiaq News archive
Listing in Parks Canada's Persons of National Historic Significance
Review of Midnight to the North by Kenn Harper at the Arctic Book Review
Handbill and description of public exhibitions of "Hannah" and "Joe," at the "Esquimaux" on Display page (Rhode Island College)
1830s births
1876 deaths
19th-century indigenous people of the Americas
Castaways
Female polar explorers
Inuit from the Northwest Territories
Persons of National Historic Significance (Canada)
Polaris expedition
People from Qikiqtaaluk Region
Interpreters
19th-century translators |
Arifin Shuvoo (; born 2 February 1982) is a Bangladeshi film actor and television personality. He is the recipient of several awards and nominations, including a National Film Award and two Meril Prothom Alo Awards. He made his debut in 2007, appearing in the television series Ha/Na before appearing in his first film Jaago - Dare To Dream in 2010.
He made a debut into mainstream cinema with Purno Doirgho Prem Kahini in 2013. For his negative role in the film, he received a nomination for Best Actor at the Meril Prothom Alo Awards. He later went on to star in Bhalobasha Zindabad in 2013 and the romantic action film Agnee in 2014. In 2015, his performance in Chuye Dile Mon earned him his first Meril Prothom Alo Awards for Best Actor. He later starred in the film Musafir directed by Ashiqur Rahman in 2016. In 2017, he starred in Dhaka Attack directed by Dipankar Dipon. In 2021 he starred in Mission Extreme Directed by Sunny Sanowar & Faisal Ahmed. His upcoming projects are Mujib: The Making of a Nation, Noor, & Football 71
Career
2007–2009: Television
Before working in television, Shuvoo worked in television commercials. He made his acting debut in 2007, with appearance in Mostofa Sarwar Farooki's television series Ha/Na in 2007, where he had a recurring role. He also had a recurring role in the show Iz Equal Two in 2008.
He then starred in the television series Serious Ekta Kotha Ache alongside Mosharraf Karim and Sohana Saba. His performance was praised by critics. Another critically praised performance of his was in the show Lilaboti. He continued in television until 2009 before starring in his debut film Jaago - Dare To Dream.
2009–2013: Debut and breakthrough
Shuvo made his film debut in 2010 with Khijir Hayat Khan's sports drama film Jaago - Dare To Dream, starring alongside Ferdous and Bindu. He made his breakthrough in Shafi Uddin Shafi's Purno Doirgho Prem Kahini by starring alongside Jaya Ahsan and Shakib Khan, where he played the antagonist. The film was a huge success commercially and his performance was highly praised by critics, earning him a Best Actor nomination at the Meril Prothom Alo Awards. He next starred in Debashish Biswas Bhalobasha Zindabad alongside Airin Sultana.
2014–present: Critical acclaim
In 2014, Shuvo was first seen in Iftakar Chowdhury's action thriller Agnee, alongside Mahiya Mahi. He next started in Mohammad Mostafa Kamal Raz's Taarkata, which received mixed to negative reviews from critics and received a mixed reaction from the audience. The film was a commercial failure. His next project, Ashiqur Rahman's Kistimaat, co-starring Achol, where he plays the role of a cop, was a huge success at box office and was critically a success. The film was one of the highest-grossing films of 2014.
In 2015, he starred in Shihab Shaheen's romantic drama film Chuye Dile Mon, alongside Zakia Bari Momo. The film and his performance was highly appreciated by both critics and audience, earning Shuvo his first Meril Prothom Alo award for Best Actor He next went on to star in Shafi Uddin Shafi's Warning alongside Mahiya Mahi and Rubel. The film was a moderate success commercially.
In 2016, Shuvo starred in Ashiqur Rahman's Musafir. He then starred in Anonno Mamun's Ostitto which released in May 2016. He also starred in the Indo-Bangladeshi joint venture Niyoti, which directed by Jakir Hossain Raju and was produced by Jaaz Multimedia and Eskay Movies. He then played a cameo in Amitabh Reza Chowdhury's Aynabaji which released in 30 September 2016.
In 2017, Shuvoo began the year with Jakir Hossain Raju's Premi O Premi and Shamim Ahamed Roni's Dhat Teri Ki, both being produced by Jaaz Multimedia and co-starring Nusrat Faria Mazhar. Regarding the former, the film and Shuvoo's performance were critically acclaimed. Shuvoo also gave the voiceover for the first animated film of Bangladesh Detective, directed by Tapan Ahmed. Later he acted in the film Dhaka Attack which was a huge blockbuster in the box office. The film was directed by Dipankar Dipon. The film was the highest-grossing Bangladeshi film of 2017 & still, it is the third highest-grossing Bangladeshi film of all time. And it is also the highest-grossing Bangladeshi film worldwide.
In 2018, Shuvoo started the year with Jakir Hossain Raju's Bhalo Theko produced by 'Tiger Media' co-starring Tanha Tasnia Islam and Asif Imrose. Though the story of this film was good enough, Shuvoo received negative reviews from the critics for acting in this film. Next, he then starred in renowned film actor Alamgir's Ekti Cinemar Golpo, co-starring Rituparna Sengupta and Alamgir. The film was a commercial failure.
In 2019, Shuvoo started the year with Ranjan Ghosh's Ahaa Re co-starring Rituparna Sengupta which is completely an Indian Bengali film. He also worked in Shapludu, a political thriller film directed by Golam Sohrab Dodul, where he portrayed the character of Arman. The movie was released on 27 September 2019.
In 2021, Shuvoo started the year with Sunny Sanwar and Faisal Ahmed's Police action-thriller film Mission Extreme, where he played the character of Nabid Al Shahriar, Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (ADC), CTTC. The movie was released on 3 December 2021. He also starred in the second part of the movie Black War : Mission Extreme 2 which was released on 6 January 2023. He worked in a Chorki original movie Unish 20, which was directed by Mizanur Rahman Aryan and releasedon 13 February 2023. He will also next starring in Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's biopic Mujib: The Making of a Nation, Raihan Rafi's Noor, produced by Shapla Media and Noyeem Imtiaz Neyamul's Jam, which is about a traffic jam and produced by Dhallywood Cinema Megastar Manna's Kritanjoli Kothachitra.
Personal life
Arifin married to Arpita Samaddar who is a fashion designer from India and works for a multinational company in Dhaka.
Filmography
Unreleased and dropped films
Television
Web series
Awards and nominations
References
External links
Living people
21st-century Bangladeshi male actors
Bangladeshi male film actors
Best Actor National Film Award (Bangladesh) winners
People from Bhaluka Upazila
1982 births
People from Mymensingh District
Alumni of St. Joseph Higher Secondary School |
Fernand Visser was a Belgian water polo player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1928 Summer Olympics.
References
Year of birth missing
Year of death missing
Belgian male water polo players
Olympic water polo players for Belgium
Water polo players at the 1928 Summer Olympics
Place of birth missing |
```xml
import { ActivatedRouteSnapshot, RouterStateSnapshot } from "@angular/router";
import { ProductTierType, ProductType } from "@bitwarden/common/billing/enums";
import { freeTrialTextResolver } from "./free-trial-text.resolver";
const route = {
queryParams: {},
} as ActivatedRouteSnapshot;
const routerStateSnapshot = {} as RouterStateSnapshot;
describe("freeTrialTextResolver", () => {
[
{
param: ProductType.PasswordManager,
keyBase: "startYour7DayFreeTrialOfBitwardenPasswordManager",
},
{
param: ProductType.SecretsManager,
keyBase: "startYour7DayFreeTrialOfBitwardenSecretsManager",
},
{
param: `${ProductType.PasswordManager},${ProductType.SecretsManager}`,
keyBase: "startYour7DayFreeTrialOfBitwarden",
},
].forEach(({ param, keyBase }) => {
describe(`when product is ${param}`, () => {
beforeEach(() => {
route.queryParams.product = `${param}`;
});
it("returns teams trial text", () => {
route.queryParams.productTier = ProductTierType.Teams;
expect(freeTrialTextResolver(route, routerStateSnapshot)).toBe(`${keyBase}ForTeams`);
});
it("returns enterprise trial text", () => {
route.queryParams.productTier = ProductTierType.Enterprise;
expect(freeTrialTextResolver(route, routerStateSnapshot)).toBe(`${keyBase}ForEnterprise`);
});
it("returns families trial text", () => {
route.queryParams.productTier = ProductTierType.Families;
expect(freeTrialTextResolver(route, routerStateSnapshot)).toBe(`${keyBase}ForFamilies`);
});
it("returns default trial text", () => {
route.queryParams.productTier = "";
expect(freeTrialTextResolver(route, routerStateSnapshot)).toBe(keyBase);
});
});
});
});
``` |
Het Rijk der Vrouw () was a Belgian women's magazine published between 1925 and 1990.
History and profile
The magazine was established in 1924, and its first issue appeared in 1925. Its original title was Het Modeblad. It was published by n.v. Het Rijk der Vrouw which was part of a company owned by Jan Meuwissen. The focus of the magazine was on fashion for women and girls. The magazine was renamed as Het Rijk der Vrouw in 1931 after it was redesigned.
Femmes d'Aujourd'hui was its sister publication, and both magazines were acquired by the publishing company J. Hoste in 1975. Later, Het Rijk der Vrouw became part of Almaspar. Mediaxis bought the magazine in 1990.
It was a conservative magazine emphasizing family values and connoisseurship. Its target audience was young women as well as experienced housewives. The magazine covered articles on fashion, home decoration and marriage. It also featured photonovels from the issue 617 dated 27 February 1957.
In 1990 Het Rijk der Vrouw went bankrupt and then, merged with Libelle, another Belgian women's magazine.
See also
List of magazines in Belgium
References
1924 establishments in Belgium
1990 disestablishments in Belgium
Conservatism in Belgium
Conservative magazines
Defunct magazines published in Belgium
Dutch-language magazines
Lifestyle magazines
Magazines established in 1924
Magazines disestablished in 1990
Magazines published in Flanders
Women's magazines published in Belgium
Women's fashion magazines |
The 2008–09 Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team represented Michigan State University in the 2008–09 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. They were led by head coach Tom Izzo who was in his 14th year as head coach. The team played their home games at the Breslin Center in East Lansing, Michigan and were member of the Big Ten Conference. MSU finished the season 31–7, 15–3 in Big Ten play to win the Big Ten regular season championship by four games. They defeated Minnesota in the quarterfinals of the Big Ten tournament before losing to Ohio State in the semifinals. The Spartans received their 12th-straight NCAA tournament bid, an at-large bid as the No. 2 seed in the Midwest region. They defeated Robert Morris, USC, Kansas, and Louisville to advance to the Final Four for the fifth time under Izzo. In the Final Four, they defeated UConn to advance to the National Championship game where they lost to North Carolina.
Previous season
The Spartans finished the 2007–08 season 27–9, 12–6 in Big Ten play to finish in fourth place. Michigan State received a No. 5 seed in the NCAA tournament, their 11th straight trip to the Tournament, and advanced to the Sweet Sixteen, their seventh trip under Tom Izzo, before losing to Memphis.
The Spartans lost Drew Neitzel (13.9 points and 4 assists per game) to graduation following the season.
2008 recruiting class
Season summary
Michigan State was led by sophomore Kalin Lucas (14.7 points and 4.6 assists per game), junior Raymar Morgan (10.2 points and 5.3 rebounds per game), and senior Goran Suton (10.4 points and 8.4 rebounds per game).
Regular season
The team began the season ranked No. 6 in the country and began the season well with home wins against Idaho and IPFW (coached by future MSU assistant coach Dane Fife).
The Spartans next traveled to Florida to participate in the Old Spice Classic. In the first round, they faced unranked Maryland who controlled the game, defeating MSU 80–62. The Spartans rebounded from the loss to Maryland by beating Oklahoma State 94–79 in the consolation bracket. In the consolation championship, MSU defeated Wichita State 65–57 behind 12 points from Marquise Gray.
The Spartans then faced No. 1 North Carolina in the Big Ten-ACC Challenge at the site of the upcoming Final Four, Ford Field. There, MSU was blown out, 98–63. Izzo took the blame for the loss, "The blame goes on me for the scheduling. We were dead."
Michigan State returned home after playing five straight games away from the Breslin Center. Following easy wins over Bradley, Alcorn State, and The Citadel, MSU then went on the road again to face No. 5-ranked Texas at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas. MSU, ranked 19th in the AP poll, were led by Goran Suton's 18 points, but still trailed as time wound down in the game. Durrell Summers hit a three-pointer with 18.6 second remaining to help pull out a 67–63 win.
The Spartans next defeated Oakland at the Palace of Auburn Hills in Detroit, 82–66, to move to 9–2 and were ranked No. 10 in the country to finish the non-conference schedule.
MSU opened conference play on New Year's Eve with a win over No. 21 Minnesota behind a career-high 24 points from Kalin Lucas. Wins over Northwestern and Ohio State followed before the Spartans stepped back out of conference to welcome defending national champion Kansas to the Breslin Center on January 11. MSU fell behind early 7–1 and 11–6, but fought back before taking control of the game at the half with a 37–18 lead. Lucas again led the Spartans, scoring 22 points as the Spartans won 75–62 for their ninth straight win, pushing their record to 13–2 on the season.
Wins over Penn State and No. 20 Illinois pushed the win streak to 11. Prior to the win over Illinois, the Spartans retired Morris Peterson's jersey. The win over Illinois also gave MSU a 5–0 record in Big Ten play, their best start in conference since 1978. Looking to extend their win streak to 12 games, MSU welcomed Northwestern to the Breslin Centeron January 21. The Spartans, hampered by Raymar Morgan's sickness, were stunned by Northwestern, losing 70–63. The loss ended the Spartans 28-game home winning streak as well and left them at 5–1 in conference, 15–3 overall.
MSU returned to their winning ways defeating Ohio State and Iowa on the road to mark five straight Big Ten road wins. Another surprising loss at home, this time to Penn State, preceded a second win over No. 21-ranked Minnesota. At 18–4 and 8–2 on the season, the Spartans returned to the top ten rankings, moving to No. 9 in the AP poll. The Spartans then welcomed former Izzo assistant Tom Crean, coach of Indiana, to the Breslin Center on February 7. MSU, led by freshman Draymond Green's 15 points and 12 rebounds, blew out the Hoosiers, 75–47.
The Spartans then took their perfect road record to Michigan. MSU led the majority of the game, but Michigan rallied to within four with under five minutes remaining. But Kalin Lucas, who scored 13 of his 15 points after half time, made a three to extend the lead and Delvon Roe scored a season-high 14 points as MSU won 54–42.
The win over Michigan moved MSU to No. 6 in the AP poll (No. 5 in the Coaches Poll) and set up an important road game against No. 19 Purdue. The Boilermakers forced 22 Spartan turnovers, blocked eight shots and held MSU to 33% from the field. Lucas scored 13 for MSU, but it wasn't enough as they were blown out 72–54. The Purdue loss broke the road-winning streak, but still left MSU at 20–5 and 10–3 in conference.
The Purdue loss would also mark the last regular season loss by the Spartans. Wins over Wisconsin and Iowa preceded the No. 9-ranked Spartans trip to No. 20 Illinois. Lucas led the Spartans again with 18 points as they defeated Illinois 74–66 clinching a share of the Big Ten regular season championship. With a 64–59 win at Indiana on March 3, the Spartans won their first Big Ten regular season title since 2001 and first outright title since 1999. In the final game of the season, a 62–51 win over No. 19 Purdue, Lucas scored 21 points to lead MSU to the Big Ten championship by four games with a 15–3 record, 25–5 overall, and ranked No. 7 in the country.
Following the conclusion of the regular season, Kalin Lucas was named Big Ten Player of the Year and Tom Izzo was voted Big Ten Coach of the Year. Travis Walton was named Defensive Player of the Year, while Goran Suton was a second team All-Big Ten selection. Delvon Roe was named to the Big Ten freshmen team.
Big Ten tournament
As the No. 1 seed in the Big Ten tournament, MSU had a bye into the quarterfinals. Looking to make their case for a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament, MSU defeated No. 8-seeded Minnesota 64–56 led by Chris Allen's 17 points. The win moved the Spartans to the Big Ten semifinals to face Ohio State. However, Michigan State's hopes for a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament vanished as they were defeated by Ohio State, 82–70. Evan Turner had 18 points to lead the Buckeyes to win the over the Spartans, who shot just 38 percent from the field.
NCAA Tournament
Michigan State received an at-large bid as the No. 2 seed in the Midwest Region of the NCAA tournament, their 12th straight appearance in the Tournament. Though they only received a No. 2 seed, the path to the Final Four looked good for the Spartans with games in Minneapolis, Minnesota and Indianapolis, Indiana before the Final Four in Detroit.
In the First Round, the Spartans defeated No. 15-seed Robert Morris 77–62 behind Raymar Morgan's 16 points and Goran Suton's 11 points and 17 rebounds. Draymond Green added 16 points in the easy win. In the Second Round, MSU faced No. 10-seed USC for the right to advance to the Sweet Sixteen. With a surprising offensive output by Travis Walton, scoring a career-high 18 points, the Spartans were able to hold off USC to advance to the Sweet Sixteen.
In the Sweet Sixteen, MSU faced No. 14-ranked and No. 3-seeded Kansas, marking MSU's eighth trip to the Sweet Sixteen in the previous 12 years. The game was held in Indianapolis where MSU was 5–0 all-time in NCAA Tournament games. Michigan State trailed by as many as 13 in the first half as Lucas struggled from the field. MSU trailed 36–29 at the half, but started strong in the second half as Draymond Green cut the Kansas lead to just one point just three minutes into the half. Lucas sealed the win by scoring seven points in the final 49 seconds of the game (going five for five from the free throw line) as MSU advanced to the Elite Eight with a 67–62 win.
In the Elite Eight, the Spartans faced overall No. 1 seed Louisville with a chance to go to the Final Four in nearby Detroit, only 90 miles from MSU's campus. Led by MSU's rugged defense, Louisville, who had scored 103 points in their win over Arizona in the Sweet Sixteen, was held to 52 points and lost for the first time in 14 games. The Spartans, who slowed the game down, were led by Suton's 19 points and 10 rebounds and won 64–52. The win sent MSU to the Final Four for the fifth time in 11 seasons. "Detroit, here we come," said coach Tom Izzo, a Michigan native. "I can't tell you how much I'm looking forward to that." Durrell Summers contributed 10 second-half points in the win.
In Detroit for the Final Four, the Spartans practiced before a crowd of over 30,000 fans as they were clearly the hometown favorites. In the national semifinals, Michigan State faced Connecticut, another No. 1 seed, for the right to play for the national championship. Kalin Lucas led the Spartans with 21 points and Raymar Morgan added 18 as the smaller Spartans took it to the much bigger Huskies, led by Hasheem Thabeet. MSU led by two at the half and pulled away in the second to win 82–73 to advance to the national championship game. In contrast to the slowed down play against Louisville in the Elite Eight, MSU pushed the ball and wore out Thabeet and the Huskies.
In the National Championship game, the Spartans were rematched with North Carolina, whom they had also lost to earlier in the season at Ford Field. Michigan State was appearing in only its third national championship game, going 2–0 in prior trips while winning the 1979 and 2000 Tournaments. Further, under Tom Izzo, MSU was 14–2 in the second game of a weekend in NCAA Tournament play. However, the game started horribly for MSU as North Carolina jumped out to a lead of 17–7 in the first five minutes and extend the lead to 24–7 with 14 minutes remaining in the half. North Carolina scored more points than any team had ever scored in the first half of an NCAA championship game, scoring 55 and blowing out the Spartans 55–34 at the half. MSU's 14 turnovers in the first half aided the Tar Heels 52.9% shooting. The Spartans only made 12 baskets in the first half. The Spartans held UNC in check more in the second half, outscoring the Tar Heels 38–34, but it was too little too late. The Spartans were defeated by North Carolina 89–72, marking the Spartans' first ever loss in the national championship game.
The Spartans faced three No. 1 seeds (Louisville, UConn, and North Carolina) in the Tournament, only losing to North Carolina.
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Awards and honors
Kalin Lucas – Big Ten Player of the Year
Kalin Lucas – NABC All District First Team
Kalin Lucas – USBWA All-District Team
Kalin Lucas – AP All-American honorable mention
Tom Izzo – Big Ten Coach of the Year (Coaches)
Travis Walton – Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year
Goran Suton – All Big Ten Second Team
Goran Suton – NABC All District Second Team
Raymar Morgan – All Big Ten Honorable Mention
Delvon Roe – Big Ten All-Freshman Team
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Sí, soy llanero is the first studio album by Colombian band Cimarron.
This 2004 record production earned a Grammy nominee for Best Traditional World Music Album.
Recording
The album was produced by Carlos "Cuco" Rojas, harpist and founder of Cimarron, and Daniel Sheeny, director of the non-profit record label Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.
It was recorded by Pete Reinger at Audio Productions Patrick Mildenberg, in Bogotá (Colombia). Reinger also mixed the album in Smithsonian Folkways. The mastering was done by Charlie Pilzer, at Airshow Mastering, in Springfield (Virginia).
Tour
The songs on this album were performed live by Cimarron on stages such as the Smithsonian Folklife Festival (Washington), the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering (Elko, Nevada) and the International Book Fair of Panama.
Grammy nomination
Sí, soy llanero was nominated for Best Traditional World Music Album in the 47th Annual Grammy Awards.
Track listing
Llanero sí soy llanero
Los diamantes
Pajarillo
Un llanero de verdad
Los Merecures
Y soy llanero
Seis por derecho
El gaván restiao
Quitapesares
Atardecer en Arauca
Zumbaquezumba
María Laya
Puerto Carreño
Se me murió mi caballo
Las tres damas
Soy llanero pelo-piso
Pajarillo
Musicians
Ana Veydó (lead vocals)
Carlos "Cuco" Rojas (harpist and composer)
Luis Eduardo Moreno "El Gallito Lagunero" (vocals)
Yesid Benites Sarmiento (Bandola)
Omar Edgar Fandiño Ramírez (Maracas)
Wilton Ernesto Games Balcárcel (Coplero)
Hugo Antonio Molina Martínez (Bandola)
Pedro Libardo Rey Rojas (Cuatro)
Ricardo Zapata Barrios (Bass)
References
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Anett Schuck (born 11 April 1970 in Leipzig, Sachsen) is a German sprint canoer and marathon canoeist who competed from the early 1990s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two gold medals in the K-4 500 m event, earning them in 1996 and 2000.
Schuck also won twenty medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with ten golds (K-2 200 m: 1997, K-2 500 m: 1995, 1997; K-2 5000 m: 1993; K-4 200 m: 1997, K-4 500 m: 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998), six silvers (K-2 500 m: 1998, K-4 200 m: 1994, 1995; K-4 500 m: 1999, 2001, 2002), and a bronze (K-2 500 m: 1993, K-4 200 m: 2002).
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Reverend William Walter Watts (1856–1920) was one of New South Wales's greatest authorities on moss. He might be best known for his unfinished Census of Australian Mosses. The fern genus Revwattsia is named in his honour as are at least 30 other species including the fern species Grammitis wattsii.
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John Daly (16 July 1937 – 31 October 2008) was a British film producer.
Personal life
John Daly was born in South East London, a part of London which was badly bombed and damaged in World War II. He attended St Joseph's Roman Catholic school in Camberwell. Daly was father to Jenny, Michael, Jonathan, Julian, and Timothy.
Career
Music
With David Hemmings, Daly formed Hemdale Film Corporation in 1967. Hemdale had many diverse entertainment business interests, and grew rapidly in the 1970s by managing bands such as Yes, Black Sabbath, as reported in Billboard Magazine, 2 September 1972, and many other well-known UK artists. The company also acquired the worldwide stage rights for Lionel Bart's musical Oliver!, along with producing Grease starring Richard Gere.
Film
Hemdale began producing, financing and distributing its own full-length feature films, becoming a leading independent film company in Britain with films such as Melody, Tommy, The Triple Echo and Images by Robert Altman.
Hemdale gave career starts to actors such as Keanu Reeves, Denzel Washington, and Julia Roberts. It also worked with directors including James Cameron (The Terminator); Oliver Stone (Salvador, Platoon); Mick Jackson (The Bodyguard); Martin Campbell (James Bond and The Legend of Zorro); Michael Apted (Coal Miner's Daughter); Robert Altman (Images); John Schlesinger (The Falcon and the Snowman), Ken Loach (Hidden Agenda); Harold Becker (The Boost); Gillian Armstrong (High Tide); Tim Hunter (River's Edge) and James Foley (At Close Range). Under Daly, Hemdale made over 100 films, grossing over $1.5 billion.
In 2004, Daly produced, co-wrote and directed The Aryan Couple, starring Oscar winner Martin Landau, which received numerous awards at international film festivals. Daly also directed The Box Collector for Corsan Productions.
Sport
In 1974, Don King was trying to promote "The Rumble in the Jungle" heavyweight boxing match between George Foreman and Muhammad Ali. He turned to Daly, who together with Video Techniques Inc. (of which King was a director), were the official co-promoters.
In 1994, Daly conceived the High Noon in Hong Kong boxing event, investing at least $800,000 of his own money, but it was cancelled at the last minute after Barry Hearn withdrew his boxers when no purses was forthcoming. "My end of the deal was kept," Daly argued. "I had to arrange the stadium, air fares and all the pre-fight promotional expenses, which I did, but the purses were not part of my obligation."
Business interests
Daly's company Hemdale acquired an ownership interest in a TV company, its own film studios, and an off-track betting company chain of shops.
From 2003, Daly acted as Chairman, CEO and President of Film and Music Entertainment, Inc. and its subsidiaries. In May 2008, he took a leave of absence from his executive duties. He remained chairman until his death.
Death
John Daly, 71, died on 31 October 2008 of cancer. He was survived by his daughter, Jenny, and four sons, Michael, Jonathan, Julian and Timothy.
Awards
On behalf of his companies, Daly achieved 21 Oscar nominations and 13 wins, including consecutive Best Picture wins for Platoon and The Last Emperor (as executive producer, shared with the film's producer Jeremy Thomas), an unequaled achievement in independent filmmaking.
Throughout his forty-year career, Daly won numerous awards at the Golden Globes, the Cannes Film Festival, the Berlin International Film Festival, the Independent Spirit Awards and the Houston Film Festival, along with many other prizes.
References
External links
Producer John Daly dies at 71, Oscar winners 'Platoon,' 'Emperor' among credits Variety, 1 November 2008
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2008 deaths
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All Superheroes Must Die (also known as Vs) is a 2011 American independent superhero horror film directed by and starring Jason Trost. It also stars James Remar, and Lucas Till. Filming took place in Los Angeles, California. All Superheroes Must Die premiered in Toronto, Ontario, at the Toronto After Dark Film Festival on October 26, 2011. The film received overwhelmingly negative reviews. A sequel, All Superheroes Must Die 2: The Last Superhero, was released on Jason Trost's YouTube channel.
Plot
The film opens with Charge/John (Trost), Cutthroat/Ben (Till), The Wall/Charlie (Valmassy), and Shadow/Jill (Merkley), waking up in a seemingly abandoned town, all bearing strange injection marks on their wrists. They soon discover television sets through which their nemesis, Rickshaw, whom the group thought Charge had defeated some time ago, explains to them that he has staged a game all across town with innocents' lives at stake, and that he has also taken away their powers. To prove this, he executes a civilian near Cutthroat's location, then instructs the heroes to head to a meeting ground. Once there, the four have a brief personal reunion, in which the group realizes that Charge still retains some of his abilities, before Rickshaw interrupts them, giving them new orders. Charge assumes command of the group almost unanimously, with the exception of Cutthroat, who appears disgruntled with the others' decision.
The group finds themselves in a hardware store, where Rickshaw instructs each of them to choose a weapon, then divides them into teams of two and orders them to a deathmatch with two of his goons in different parts of the town; Charge and Cutthroat head off to the lumber mill, while The Wall and Shadow go to the scrap yard. In the mill, Charge and Cutthroat find a group of civilians strapped to explosives with the fuse already lit, and Charge faces Sledgesaw, a goon of Rickshaw's, while Cutthroat tries to defuse the explosives. Charge defeats his opponent and they succeed in cutting the fuse, only for Rickshaw to remotely detonate the device moments after Charge saves Cutthroat and himself by pulling him away from the civilians. While surveying the wreckage, Cutthroat laments in his inability to save the civilians, stating that if he had his power of super speed, he could have saved them.
Meanwhile, in the scrap yard, The Wall and Shadow are attacked by Manpower, who wields a flamethrower against them. Once it runs out of fuel, The Wall charges him, only to be promptly taken down without his superpower (presumably some form of invincibility, which also renders him immune to physical pain). Shadow tries to help, but without her own power of invisibility, she is unable to prevent Manpower from stabbing The Wall in the stomach. Just as he turns to her, Charge and Cutthroat arrive and defeat Manpower. Charge then informs the group that The Wall only has moments to live, as his wounds are not treatable. He instructs Shadow, who presumably had an intimate relationship with him, to stay with The Wall until the end while he explains to Cutthroat that he has a plan to defeat Rickshaw and that Rickshaw does not care if they win or not, but will execute civilians merely to affect them; he is proven right when, moments after The Wall's death, he executes the trapped civilians and then gives the group the coordinates for a new, "Bonus Round".
The group arrives at a cabin where three civilians are held, and they discover three coffins with their names on them, as well as a single gun. Rickshaw appears and tells them that he will spare a civilian for each of them that commits suicide at their respective coffin, but Charge takes the gun and executes the hostages himself, much to the others' horror. He argues that Rickshaw would kill them anyway, and that he did it so none of the others would be tempted to take their own lives. Cutthroat tells Shadow that he trusts Charge to have a plan, noting that "...failure is just not an option to him." It is revealed through flashbacks that the four were close friends at some point, that Charge was the one who had urged the rest to become superheroes after they obtained their powers, and that Charge and Cutthroat were working as a team. It is also suggested that Charge and the Shadow had feelings for one another, but never acted on them. Rickshaw congratulates Charge on his actions, then orders them to head to a bar.
Once there, they find two guns next to the TV set. Rickshaw appears and reveals he has Cutthroat's sister hostage, then orders Cutthroat to kill the other two in order to save her. Charge and Shadow try to reason with him, but he attacks Charge, bitter about how he was always treated as a sidekick by him. While fighting, he picks up a pair of knives, throwing one onto Shadow's shoulder and slashing Charge across the chest with the other, before Charge drives it into his chest. Cutthroat dies, and, soon after, Rickshaw executes his sister. Charge and Shadow grieve briefly before Charge reveals that he loves Shadow, and that, unlike the other three who each got a power and agelessness from "that thing [that] fell out of the sky", he himself never had any special powers, which is why he had been constantly training and why he has aged over the time they had been apart. He reveals that he can locate Rickshaw and kill him, as he can see them but not hear them, but he needs the location of the next TV set to do so.
When they arrive at the location of the next TV set, Rickshaw orders one to kill the other. Charge tells Shadow that she needs to shoot him in a way that would make it seem as if he died, then he would find and kill Rickshaw while he was distracted monitoring her. She does, unwillingly, and heads out towards the "Last Round". Meanwhile, Charge triangulates his position, then storms his hideout. Rickshaw, shocked to see him alive, is shot by Charge with a shotgun, but manages to activate a failsafe device right before he dies. Charge tells Shadow to head out of town, but she frees the civilians of the Last Round and then finds his map, where he had marked Rickshaw's location. She finds him and helps him to his feet, and they leave the hideout as the timer counts down, with little more than a minute left.
In a post-credits scene, a brief shot shows Cutthroat's eyes suddenly opening.
Cast
Development
Toronto After Dark's Peter Kuplowsky states, "Trost demonstrates a remarkable charisma that sneaks up on you amidst the small, but strong cast that includes Lucas Till (Havok from X-Men: First Class) and a scenery-chewing James Remar (Dexter), the grinning villain at the centre of this superhero horror flick."
Reception
The film was met with unanimously negative reviews. Criticisms centered on its poor production values, weak dialogue and characterization, and its failure to live up to an intriguing premise. Several critics singled out James Remar's performance as one of the few highlights of the film.
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Fernando Sabogal Viana (28 May 1941 − 1 December 2013) was a Colombian Roman Catholic bishop.
Ordained to the priesthood on 22 January 1967, Viana was named auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bogotá and was also named titular bishop of Muteci on 8 March 1996 and died while still in office on 1 December 2013.
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The 2017–18 Saint Louis Billikens women's basketball team represents the Saint Louis University during the 2017–18 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Billikens, led by sixth year head coach Lisa Stone, play their home games at the Chaifetz Arena and were members of the Atlantic 10 Conference. They finished the season 17–16, 9–7 in A-10 play to finish in seventh place. They advanced to the semifinals of the A-10 women's tournament where they lost to Saint Joseph's. They received an at-large bid to the Women's National Invitation Tournament where they lost to Kansas State in the first round.
Media
All non-televised Billikens home games and conference road games stream on the A-10 Digital Network.
Roster
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Rankings
2017–18 NCAA Division I women's basketball rankings
See also
2017–18 Saint Louis Billikens men's basketball team
References
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Eucharistic discipline is the term applied to the regulations and practices associated with an individual preparing for the reception of the Eucharist. Different Christian traditions require varying degrees of preparation, which may include a period of fasting, prayer, repentance, and confession.
Anglican practice
From the 1979 Book of Common Prayer of the Episcopal Church in the United States:
The Holy Eucharist is the sacrament commanded by Christ for the continual remembrance of his life, death, and resurrection, until his coming again. The Eucharist, the Church's sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving, is the way by which the sacrifice of Christ is made present, and in which he unites us to his one offering of himself. The Holy Eucharist is called the Lord's Supper, and Holy Communion; it is also known as the Divine Liturgy, the Mass, and the Great Offering.
The outward and visible sign in the Eucharist is bread and wine, given and received according to Christ's command. The inward and spiritual grace in the Holy Communion is the Body and Blood of Christ given to his people, and received by faith. The benefits we receive are the forgiveness of our sins, the strengthening of our union with Christ and one another, and the foretaste of the heavenly banquet which is our nourishment in eternal life.
Prior to receiving the Eucharist, it is required that we should examine our lives, repent of our sins, and be in love and charity with all people.
Saint Augustine's Prayer Book, which is used by many Anglicans of a High Churchmanship, requires a Eucharistic Fast to be held by Christians prior to receiving Holy Communion; it defines this as a "strict fast from both food and drink from midnight" that is done "in order to receive the Blessed Sacrament as the first food of the day" in "homage to our Lord". It asks Anglicans to fast for some hours before the Midnight Mass of Christmas Eve, the first liturgy of Christmastide.
Catholic practice
Sufficient spiritual preparation must be made by each Catholic prior to receiving Holy Communion and one must believe truly in the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist. A Catholic in a state of mortal sin should first make a sacramental confession: otherwise that person commits a sacrilege. A sacrilege is the unworthy treatment of sacred things. Deliberate and irreverent treatment of the Eucharist is the worst of all sacrileges, as this quote from the Council of Trent shows:
The above applies to both Latin Church and Eastern Catholics; the Eastern Catholic canon law (which applies to the Eastern Catholic Churches) having exactly the same rule regarding the obligation to receiving the sacrament of Penance or Reconciliation before taking Communion.
Latin Church
In addition, one abstains from food and drink (except water and medicine) for at least one hour before receiving. The discipline for Eastern Catholics generally requires a longer period of fasting and some Latin Catholics observe the earlier (pre-1955) discipline of fasting from the previous midnight.
The 1917 Code of Canon Law mandated a Eucharistic Fast from midnight until the reception of Holy Communion; this fast requires abstention from both food and liquids, inclusive of water. It was required for those aged twenty-one to sixty. As such, “Those who have not kept the natural fast from midnight are not allowed to receive, except in danger of death, or in case it should become necessary to consume the Blessed Sacrament to safeguard it against irreverence.” On 6 January 1953, Pope Pius XII provided a dispensation in which the sick could take liquids during this time, though alcohol was strictly forbidden; the dispensation also allowed priests to consume liquids if they were offering the sacrifice of the Holy Mass after 9 am, engaged in "onerous work of the sacred ministry (for example, from early in the morning or for a long time)," or after a long journey.
The present-day canonical discipline of the Latin Church is found in Book IV, Part I, Title III, Chapter I, Article 2 (Participation in the Holy Eucharist) of the 1983 Code of Canon Law. The particular applications of Canon 915 have been quite controversial in recent years, while canons 916 and 919 have not stirred as much controversy:
Can. 916: A person who is conscious of grave sin is not to celebrate Mass or receive the body of the Lord without previous sacramental confession unless there is a grave reason and there is no opportunity to confess; in this case the person is to remember the obligation to make an act of perfect contrition which includes the resolution of confessing as soon as possible.
Can. 919: §1. A person who is to receive the Most Holy Eucharist is to abstain for at least one hour before holy communion from any food and drink, except for only water and medicine.
§2. A priest who celebrates the Most Holy Eucharist two or three times on the same day can take something before the second or third celebration even if there is less than one hour between them.
§3. The elderly, the infirm, and those who care for them can receive the Most Holy Eucharist even if they have eaten something within the preceding hour.
Eastern Catholic Churches
The rules regarding fasting, prayer and other works of piety are set by each church sui iuris and the faithful should follow those rules wherever taking Communion. The rules of the Eastern Catholic Churches of Byzantine tradition correspond to those of the Eastern Orthodox Church, as detailed in the next section.
Eastern Orthodox practice
Eastern Orthodox Christians are required to fast from all food and drink and abstain from marital relations in preparation for receiving the eucharist. The fast commences, depending on local custom, no later than when the retiring to sleep the preceding evening and no later than midnight, or even from vespers or sunset the night before. The abstinence from marital relations extends through the preceding day (for which reason married priests may not celebrate the divine liturgy daily), and in some places (notably in Russia), a married priest sleeps in a separate bed from his wife the night before celebrating the liturgy. Fasting in monastic practice is often more strict. During this fasting period, many faithful keep a period of quiet reflection by, for example, abstaining from or limiting television and other entertainment, and by reading devotional literature. Fasting is relaxed for pregnant and nursing women, the ill, the elderly, and young children. It is a matter of some controversy whether or not a menstruating woman may receive the eucharist, with very traditional churches not allowing her to even enter the nave of the church or receive any of the sacraments except on her deathbed, while other churches may totally disregard this custom. Likewise, a man who is bleeding, for instance from a recently extracted tooth, also may not commune.
One who communes infrequently must go to confession beforehand, while one who communes on a regular basis does confess, but the frequency varies by local custom. However, for those who are mentally or physically incapable of communicating their sins to a priest, absolution is given without confessing, and for babies and young children even absolution is dispensed with.
Additional Russian practices
In some parts of the Russian church, there is a custom before receiving holy communion that, in addition to reading the evening and morning prayers and attending vespers the night before, reading three devotional canons and an akathist. The canons are usually to Christ, the Theotokos and the guardian angel. There is a custom, among those who have the liturgical resources, to chant the following canons according to the day of the week:
On a Monday: Canon to the Lord, the Theotokos, the Archangels, and if he so desire, the Guardian Angel
On a Tuesday: Canon to Lord, the Theotokos, the Forerunner, and the Guardian Angel
On a Wednesday: Canon to the cross, the Theotokos, and the Guardian Angel
On a Thursday: Canon to the Lord, the Theotokos, the Guardian Angel, the Apostles and, if he so desire, Saint Nicholas
On a Friday: Canon to the cross, the Theotokos, and the Guardian Angel
On a Saturday: Canon to the Lord, the Theotokos, the Guardian Angel, and All Saints
On a Sunday: Canon to the Lord, the Theotokos, and the Guardian Angel
For Pascha (Easter) and Bright Week, this requirement is usually relaxed.
Prayers before and after communion
In all Orthodox churches, special prayers before and after communion are recited by the faithful before and after the Eucharist. In current practice, at least a portion of the pre-communion prayers are often recited during the divine liturgy. These prayers express humility and the communicants' sense of unworthiness for the gift they are about to receive. The post-Communion prayers are often read aloud by a reader or a member of the congregation after the liturgy and during the veneration of the cross, these prayers of thanksgiving expressing the communicants' joy at having received the holy mysteries "for the healing of soul and body".
Irvingian practice
The New Apostolic Church, the largest of the Irvingian Churches, teaches:
Lutheran practice
In the Lutheran tradition, the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ is believed to be really present in the sacrament of the Eucharist (see Sacramental union).
Lutherans are taught to prepare to receive this sacrament through prayerful reflection upon their sinful nature, their need for a Savior, the promise that their sins are forgiven for the sake of Jesus' death on the Cross, and that the Eucharist gives this forgiveness to them. "Fasting and bodily preparation are indeed a fine outward training," Martin Luther said, "but he is truly worthy and well prepared who has faith in these words, 'given and shed for you for the forgiveness of sins.
As such, many Lutherans receive the sacrament of penance before partaking of the Eucharist.
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the largest Lutheran denomination in the United States, practices open communion, offering the Eucharist to adults without receiving catechetical instruction, provided they are baptized and believe in the Real Presence.
Some Lutherans practice closed communion, and require catechetical instruction for all people before receiving the Eucharist. Failing to do so is condemned by these Lutherans as the sin of "unionism". These Lutheran denominations restrict communicants to members of their own Synod and those churches and Synods with whom they share "altar and pulpit fellowship", which may mean excluding even other Lutherans from Eucharistic reception.
The timing of First Communion also varies. Historically, First Communion was delayed until after an individual had completed catechism classes and been confirmed, but gradually the timing of First Communion shifted so that it was administered before Confirmation rather than after, following the Roman Catholic tradition. In many Lutheran churches, the average age of first communion is somewhere between the ages of seven and ten, though a considerable number of Lutheran churches offer First Communion even earlier. In North America, the time for administering First Communion is usually determined by the parents in consultation with the local pastor, but some Synods may have guidelines which prevent communion before a specific minimum age.
Methodist practice
The Doctrines and Discipline of the Methodist Church specifies that "Upon entering the church let the communicants bow in prayer and in the spirit of prayer and meditation approach the Blessed Sacrament." Traditionally, before the Lord's Supper is celebrated on a Sunday, Methodist pastors meet with class leaders and their class meetings on the preceding Friday (the traditional day of fasting in Methodism) to "inquire how their souls are prospering; to exhort, reprove, advise, etc., as duty may require, preparatory to their receiving the Lord's Supper."
In many Methodist connexions, such as the United Methodist Church, the table is made available to all people, and none are turned away. This practice is referred to as keeping an "Open table". The general invitation is typically made in the ritual, "Christ our Lord invites to his table all who love him, who earnestly repent of their sin and seek to live in peace with one another." All are free to communicate at the appropriate time, though unbaptized persons who respond to the invitation are urged to be instructed in and receive baptism as soon as possible, as Methodism recognises that in normal circumstances, baptism should be a prerequisite to a person's partaking in the Eucharist. Other Methodist connexions, such as the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, teach that "No person shall be admitted to the Lord's Supper among us who is guilty of any practice from which we would exclude a Member of our Church." The Wesleyan Holiness Association of Churches holds that "Being the Communion Feast, only those who have faith in Christ and love for the saints should be called to participate (Matt. 26:26-29; Luke 22:19-20; 1 Cor. 11:23-29)."
Oriental Orthodox practice
In Oriental Orthodox Christianity, the "holiness of the Church is traditionally tied scripturally with the Jerusalem Temple". As such, believers fast after midnight and "sexual intercourse is prohibited the night before communion".
Pope Dionysius of Alexandria taught that with regard to menstruating women that "not even they themselves, being faithful and pious, would dare when in this state either to approach the Holy Table or to touch the body and blood of Christ." As such, Oriental Orthodox Christian women, such as those belonging to the Coptic Orthodox Church, are not permitted to receive Holy Communion while they are menstruating.
In the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, people who are ritually unclean may approach the church but are not permitted to enter it; they instead stand near the church door and pray during the liturgy.
Presbyterian practice
Among Presbyterians, there is neither requirement, nor prohibition, of any of the traditional understandings of what it means to "make ready": it is left to local custom. In modern times, there is no uniform practice of earlier patterns of fasting, public or private prayer, or the preparatory service (Vespers).
However, the Westminster Larger Catechism has rather extensive instructions on how those who "receive the sacrament of the Lord's supper are, before they come, to prepare themselves unto..." Specifically, they are to prepare "by examining themselves of their being in Christ, of their sins and wants; of the truth and measure of their knowledge, faith, repentance; love to God and the brethren, charity to all men, forgiving those that have done them wrong; of their desires after Christ, and of their new obedience; and by renewing the exercise of these graces, by serious meditation, and fervent prayer."
Therefore, the Presbyterian Church in America's Directory for the Worship of God advises that a week's notice be given to the congregation prior to the administration of the Lord's supper: "It is proper that public notice should be given to the congregation, at least the Sabbath before the administration of this ordinance, and that, either then, or on some day of the week, the people be instructed in its nature, and a due preparation for it, that all may come in a suitable manner to this holy feast."
The Westminster Larger Catechism also provides extensive instructions on "what is required of them that receive the sacrament of the Lord's supper" during and after its administration.
Sedevacantist practice
Sedevacantists are people who identify as Catholic and hold that the present occupier of the Holy See is not the pope due to the mainstream church's espousal of what they see as heresies of modernism and that, for lack of a valid pope, the See has been vacant since the death of Pope Pius XII in 1958, the death of Pope John XXIII in 1963, the death of Pope Paul VI in 1978, or since the first alleged publicly proclaimed heresy by Paul VI, or what they view as some other failure of the true Church to appoint a valid pontiff. Sedevacantists often hold concerns regarding perceived departures from dogmatic pronouncements and changes to ecclesiastical discipline since the Second Vatican Council, leading to a difference between their fasting and abstinence practices and that of the Catholic Church.
The Congregation of Mary Immaculate Queen (CMRI), a sedavacantist religious group, teaches that the Eucharistic Fast consists of means fasting from food and alcohol three hours prior to receiving Holy Communion, and though not obligatory, members of the sect are "urged to observe the Eucharistic fast" from midnight on a day until the time that they receive communion.
Jansenist practice
Jansenists were a theological group part of the Roman Catholic church starting in the 1600s. They believed that Holy Communion should be received very infrequently, and that reception required much more than freedom from mortal sin instead arguing that a high degree of perfection, including purification from attachment to venial sin, was necessary before approaching the sacrament of the Eucharist.
See also
Thanksgiving after Communion
Open communion
Closed communion
Spiritual Communion
Notes
External links
Orthodox
Preparation for Holy Communion — article by Thomas Hopko, former Dean of St Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary.
Preparation to Holy Communion — excerpt from Beginning Orthodoxy by Bishop Alexander (Mileant) of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia.
Communion from the website of Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in San Jose, California; includes the text of pre- and post-Communion prayers.
Eucharist
Eucharist in the Catholic Church
Lutheran Eucharistic theology
Anglican Eucharistic theology
Eucharistic devotions
Sacramental law |
Michael Owen Johnson (born 4 July 1973) is a former footballer who played as a defender, primarily at centre back, although he also played left-back when called upon. He is a current England U18s coach and club ambassador of Derby County. He made more than 550 appearances in the Football League and Premier League, including more than 250 games for Birmingham City and more than 100 each for Notts County, the club where he began his professional career, and for Derby County. Johnson was born in Nottingham, England, and played 13 times for the Jamaica national team, for which he qualified by descent. He retired as a player at the end of the 2008–09 season, and took up the post of youth team manager with Notts County.
Playing career
Notts County
Johnson began his career at Notts County, making his league début in the 1991–92 season at the age of 18, playing 5 games as County were relegated from the First Division, the season before the Premier League was founded. It would be 10 years before Johnson played in the highest league in England again.
Johnson became a first team regular in the following season, playing 37 league games in the 1992–93 season and helping County avoid a second successive relegation. The 1993–94 season was more successful for County as they finished 7th, missing out on the playoffs by three points. In contrast, the 1994–95 season was disastrous. County finished bottom and were relegated to the Second Division (the third tier of English league football). At the end of the season, Johnson left County, joining Birmingham City, who had just been promoted back to the First Division, for £230,000.
Birmingham City
Johnson played 33 league games in his first season with Birmingham, helping the club to a safe mid-table position. The 1996–97 season saw Birmingham finish 10th, 5 points off the playoffs. The following season saw Johnson score his first career league goal, in a 2–0 win over Sheffield United on 22 February 1998. Johnson finished the season with 3 goals in 38 league appearances as Birmingham finished 7th, missing out on the playoffs by goal difference. Johnson scored 5 goals in 45 league appearances in the 1998–99 season and was the club's Player of the Year as Birmingham finished 4th, qualifying for the play-offs. After playing to a 1–1 draw in the play-off semi final, Birmingham lost to Watford, the eventual play-off winners, on penalties.
The 1999–2000 season saw Birmingham again qualify for the play-offs and again fail to reach the final, losing in the semi-finals, this time to Barnsley, 5–2 on aggregate. The 2000–01 season saw Birmingham come close to getting promotion and winning the League Cup. Johnson scored twice in 39 league games as Birmingham again finished 5th, losing 4–2 on penalties after a 2–2 draw in the play-off semi-final against Preston. Birmingham also reached the final of the League Cup, losing 5–4 to Liverpool on penalties after a 1–1 draw.
The 2001–02 season saw Birmingham finally promoted to the Premier League. Johnson scored one goal in 32 appearances as Birmingham finished 5th, beating Millwall 2–1 (on aggregate) in the semi-final and beating Norwich on penalties in the final after a 1–1 draw. The 2002–03 season saw Birmingham finish safely mid-table in their first season back in the top division. However, Johnson found himself out of the first team picture, and only played six league games all season.
Derby County
Johnson joined Derby on a free transfer in August 2003 after eight seasons with Birmingham. Johnson quickly established himself in the heart of the Derby defence, playing 39 games and scoring once as Derby narrowly avoided relegation from the First Division. The 2004–05 season (the first as the Championship, the new name for the old First Division), was a great success for Derby, as they finished 4th and qualified for the play-offs, though injuries to key players Iñigo Idiakez and Grzegorz Rasiak meant they lost in the play-off semi-final to Preston.
The 2005–06 season saw Johnson named as captain, a role he held until 2006 when he was named club captain. It was a disappointing for Derby as a pre-season change of manager and the sale of several key players meant that the club finished 20th, with Johnson playing 31 games and scoring once. The 2006–07 season began well for Derby. After being top of the table for most of the season, the team slipped away towards the end of the season, finishing third and qualifying for the play-offs. After beating Southampton 3–2 on aggregate in the semi-finals, Derby beat West Bromwich Albion 1–0 in the final. Despite missing the end of the season (including all three play-off games) through injury, Johnson made 29 league appearances, scoring once.
The 2007–08 season saw Johnson, now 34 years old, relegated to fifth-choice centre back. Consequently, in September 2007, Johnson joined Sheffield Wednesday on an emergency one-month loan deal. He made his debut on 22 September and made an impact as Wednesday picked up their first points of the season (which was 9 games old) in a 1–0 win against Hull City at Hillsborough. His loan was extended for a third and final month in November 2007, with Johnson playing 13 league games for Wednesday before returning to Derby at the end of December 2007.
On 26 December 2007, Johnson returned to the Derby team to face Liverpool, coming on as a first-half substitute. His return was greeted by Derby fans with cheers and chants of "There's only one Michael Johnson". Johnson made 2 further league appearances and came on as a substitute in the cup against Sheffield Wednesday at Hillsborough, where he was greeted by a hero's welcome from the Wednesday fans. He then left to re-join the team where he started his career, Notts County, on loan for the remainder of the season.
Return to Notts County
On 29 February 2008 Johnson returned to Notts County on loan for the remainder of the 2007–08 season, playing 12 times and scoring once. The goal, against Rochdale on 22 March 2008, was his first league goal in a Notts County shirt, and came some sixteen years after he had made his début for the club. At the end of the season, he agreed a one-year permanent deal with the club following the completion of his Derby contract on 1 July 2008.
Johnson played 29 games and scored 2 goals in the 2008–09 season as Notts County finished 21st. He played the final league game of his career in a 3–0 defeat to Dagenham & Redbridge on 25 April 2009, announcing his retirement from professional football at the end of his contract in May 2009, and remained at the club taking over the role of youth team manager from the 2009–10 season.
Style of play
Johnson was a fans' favourite at all his clubs, most notably Birmingham, where he picked up the nickname "Magic" (in reference to Earvin "Magic" Johnson, the American basketball player), for his often immense performances. During his career he was known as a quick, clever centre back. Johnson was known for his incredible leap, which scored him a number of goals for Birmingham.
Managerial and coaching career
When Notts County sacked manager Ian McParland, Johnson took over briefly as caretaker manager alongside Dave Kevan. During their brief spell at County, they drew with Rotherham United and beat Crewe Alexandra 2–0. When Notts County brought in Hans Backe as manager, Johnson returned to his role as youth team manager. A succession of managers came and went over a short period of time, however Johnson was dismissed when Paul Ince was sacked and replaced by Martin Allen.
Johnson took up a coaching position with Cardiff City in July 2015, as assistant to under-21 team manager Kevin Nicholson.
He was appointed as head coach of the Guyana national football team in June 2018, In March 2019 he said he had previously had 10 or 11 job interviews. aiming to help them qualify for the CONCACAF Gold Cup.
On 2 September 2019, and having resigned from his role with Guyana, Johnson was named as a coach for the England U21s as part of The FA's 2019–20 Elite Coach Placement Programme.
On 26 August 2021, Johnson was named as assistant of the England U18s alongside Paul Williams.
Controversy
A Christian, Johnson told a BBC interview in 2012 that he would not support a Football Association (FA) campaign against homophobia "because of my beliefs, because of the Bible that I read, in the Bible it does state that homosexuality is detestable unto the Lord." In January 2014 the interview was referenced again when Johnson was appointed to the FA's Inclusion Advisory Board. He claimed that his opinion had shifted in the intervening period but nevertheless on 7 January 2014 he announced his intention to step down from the position.
References
External links
Johnson's profile at The Reggae Boyz Supporterz Club
Johnson's profile on BBC Derby
1973 births
Living people
English people of Jamaican descent
English Christians
Jamaican Christians
Black British sportsmen
Footballers from Nottingham
English men's footballers
Jamaican men's footballers
Men's association football central defenders
Men's association football fullbacks
Notts County F.C. players
Birmingham City F.C. players
Derby County F.C. players
Sheffield Wednesday F.C. players
English Football League players
Premier League players
Jamaica men's international footballers
2000 CONCACAF Gold Cup players
2003 CONCACAF Gold Cup players
English football managers
Jamaican football managers
Cardiff City F.C. non-playing staff
Notts County F.C. non-playing staff
Notts County F.C. managers
Guyana national football team managers
English Football League managers
2019 CONCACAF Gold Cup managers
English expatriate football managers
Jamaican expatriate football managers
English expatriate sportspeople in Guyana
Jamaican expatriate sportspeople in Guyana
Expatriate football managers in Guyana |
Jeremy Thomas Andrew Benton (born 14 June 1995) is a New Zealand former cricketer. He made his Twenty20 debut for Canterbury on 4 December 2016 in the 2016–17 Super Smash. Prior to his debut, he was part of New Zealand's squad for the 2014 Under-19 Cricket World Cup. He made his List A debut for Canterbury in the 2017–18 Ford Trophy on 3 December 2017.
He played cricket in Ireland in 2018 and 2019, captaining the Munster Reds team.
References
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1995 births
Living people
New Zealand cricketers
Canterbury cricketers
Munster Reds cricketers
Sportspeople from Canterbury, New Zealand
New Zealand sportsmen |
The Alajuela 38 is an American sailboat that was designed by William Atkin as a cruiser and first built in 1977.
The Alajuela 38 is a development of an earlier Atkin design, the Ingrid 38 and the Goucho. Versions of the design were also built by many other builders using an assortment of materials for hull construction, including wood and ferro-cement.
Production
The design was built by the Alajuela Yacht Corp in the United States. The company completed about 72 examples of the design between 1977 and 1985, including some boats delivered as bare hulls and kits for owner-completion. Some boats were completed to this design built from wood or using a ferrocement hull. The number reported as completed varies, depending on whether boats sold as bare hulls or kits are counted. The number is thought to be between 70 and 80.
The boat was the company's first design produced and it took founder Mike Riding almost four years to build the hull molds for the start of production.
Design
The Alajuela 38 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wood trim. It has a cutter rig, a spooned raked stem with a teak bowsprit, a canoe transom, a transom-hung rudder controlled by a tiller, or an optional wheel and a fixed long keel. It displaces and carries of lead ballast.
The Mark II version has a taller rig of about , designed by Raymond Richards and has a shorter aluminum bowsprit.
The boat has a draft of with the standard keel fitted. The Mark II has a draft of .
The boat is fitted with an inboard diesel engine of for docking and maneuvering. The fuel tank holds and the fresh water tank has a capacity of .
Sleeping accommodations are provided for five people. These include a "V"-berth in the bow cabin, plus two settee berths and a pilot berth in the main cabin. The galley is "U"-shaped and located on the starboard side at the foot of the companionway steps. In includes a top-loading icebox and a two-burner propane-fueled stove. There is a navigation station aft. A wet locker is mounted between the aft engine room and the galley. The cabin has a teak and holly sole and is finished in teak wood, with a planked ceiling. The head is located just aft of the bow cabin, on the starboard side. The stern lazarette provides vented storage for propane tanks.
Ventilation is provided by four teak ventilators, plus an optional teak skylight.
For sailing there are three two-speed winches for the halyards and five two-speed winches for the sheets. Tracks are provided for the genoa and the staysail sheets. The mainsheet has a mechanical advantage of 6:1 and employs with a mainsheet traveler. The outhaul is an internally mounted design, with a 2:1 advantage. The side decks are wide and have a non-skid surface of ground walnut shells. The cockpit coamings are of teak. The boat can be equipped with a spinnaker.
The design has a hull speed of .
Operational history
In a 1994 review Richard Sherwood wrote, "this is a passage or cruising boat, not a racer. Long keel gives directional stability, but Alajuela will not turn on a dime. Double-enders offer less area to pooping seas and are intended for cruising. Alajuela has a fast-draining, relatively small cockpit for insurance."
See also
List of sailing boat types
Related development
Alajuela 33
Similar sailboats
C&C 38
Catalina 38
Columbia 38
Eagle 38
Farr 38
Hunter 380
Hunter 386
Landfall 38
Sabre 38
Shannon 38
Yankee 38
References
Keelboats
1970s sailboat type designs
Sailing yachts
Sailboat type designs by William Atkin
Sailboat types built by Alajuela Yacht Corp |
Kodjo Mavunio Ludwig Amla (born November 13, 2000) is a Danish professional footballer who plays for HFX Wanderers of the Canadian Premier League.
Early life
Amla is of Togolese descent and was born in Skjern, Denmark, but grew up in Canada from a young age and holds a Canadian passport. He began playing football at the age of six with the B.67 soccer organization in Denmark. In 2011, he moved to Canada, where he played youth football with Cosmos de Granby, CS Longueuil, and FC Saint-Hyacinthe.
He played college soccer at Collège Ahuntsic. In 2018, he was named Championship MVP and was an RSEQ Division I regular season all-star and championship all-star, as his team won the gold medal. Soon after, he had offers to join American universities to play college soccer, but he elected to turn professional instead.
Club career
He began his senior career with CS St-Hubert in the Première ligue de soccer du Québec.
In February 2021, he began training with Makedonija GP in the Macedonian First Football League. On February 12, he signed a two-year contract with the club. He scored his first goal on March 6 against FK Sileks.
In 2022, he returned to CS St-Hubert. He scored a hat trick on July 16 against AS Blainville and scored two goals in a friendly against HFX Wanderers U23 on July 27.
On July 30, 2022, he signed a contract through the 2023 season, with an option for 2024 with Canadian Premier League club HFX Wanderers FC, after trialing with the club for a couple of weeks and playing in the friendly against the HFX U23 side for his former club CS St-Hubert, in which he scored 2 goals in a 3–2 victory for St-Hubert. He made his debut for the Wanderers on August 1 against York United FC. On June 15, 2023, Amla was suspended by the Canadian Anti-Doping Program for a period of two years (backdated to the original Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport notice of charge date) until February 7, 2025, with him being "unable to participate in any capacity in any sport that is a signatory to the CADP", due to testing positive for terbutaline, which was in his asthma inhaler. He had yet to feature with the club that season, as a result of the suspension while under appeal. Upon the suspension becoming official, Amla was put on the ineligible list and removed from the active roster.
Career statistics
References
External links
2000 births
Living people
People from Ringkøbing-Skjern Municipality
Danish men's footballers
Canadian men's soccer players
Danish emigrants to Canada
Danish people of Togolese descent
Canadian people of Togolese descent
Men's association football forwards
CS Longueuil players
CS St-Hubert players
FK Makedonija G.P. players
HFX Wanderers FC players
Ligue1 Québec players
Macedonian First Football League players
Canadian Premier League players |
Edward Leier (3 November 1927 – 25 November 2022) was a Polish-born Canadian baseball player, track athlete, and ice hockey player. He played two seasons with the Chicago Black Hawks of the National Hockey League. He was named to the Manitoba Junior Hockey League Second All-Star Team in 1948. On 29 September 1948 he signed as a free agent to the Saskatoon Quakers of the Western Canada Senior Hockey League. Leier grew up in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Leier played baseball for several years, and in 1950 was an all-star in the ManDak League. He was inducted into the Manitoba Baseball Hall of Fame in 2000, noted for his fielding, batting average, and baserunning. Leier was also Manitoba's provincial champion in 100 and 200 yard dashes. He was the grandfather of Canadian Olympic swimmer Rhiannon Leier. Leier died in November 2022, at the age of 95.
Career statistics
Regular season and playoffs
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1927 births
2022 deaths
Canadian ice hockey centres
Chicago Blackhawks players
Polish emigrants to Canada
Sportspeople from Rivne
Ice hockey people from Winnipeg
Winnipeg Black Hawks players
Winnipeg Rangers players
Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in the United States |
Kangyang (Mandarin: 康扬镇) is a town in Jainca County, Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai, China. In 2010, Kangyang had a total population of 8,182 people: 4,023 males and 4,159 females: 2,096 under 14 years old, 5,584 aged between 15 and 64 and 502 over 65 years old.
References
Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
Township-level divisions of Qinghai |
Edward Ellice was launched in New Brunswick in 1813 and sailed to England where she was re-registered. She was sold in 1822 in South America.
Career
Edward Ellice was re-registered at London on 28 May 1813. She first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1813 with J.Lenox, master, G.Inglis & Co., owners, and trade Liverpool–Quebec.
Lloyd's List (LL) reported on 29 March 1821 that Edward Ellice, Heath, master, , Brown, master, and , Hogarth, master, had sailed from Cadiz in June 1820. They were then caught up in the conflict between Spain and the local independence movement in South America. The Chilean squadron had detained Edward Ellice and Lord Suffield at Callao; the Spanish authorities had seized Grant. The report listed a number of other vessels, British and American, such as , that had also been detained by one side or the other.
A report in The Times stated that Lord Cochrane's squadron had captured and taken Edward Ellice and Lord Suffield into Huaco on 9 December 1820. The alleged cause of the capture was that the vessels had Spanish property aboard. The crews of the vessels joined Cochrane's squadron and the vessels were to be taken to Valparaiso for adjudication.
Edward Ellice, Lord Suffield, and Indian, which Cochrane's squadron had detained, arrived at Valparaiso for adjudication on 1 March 1821. A later report was that the Prize Court at Valparaiso had condemned Indian and her cargo. Edward Ellice and Lord Suffield had not yet been adjudicated. However, Commodore Thomas Hardy, Commander-in-Chief on the South America Station, was present in and stated that he would not allow any of the property to be touched. An advice dated 8 August at Santiago de Chili reported that Edward Ellice and Lord Suffield had been restored, with their cargoes. On 15 September she sailed for the coast of Peru.
Fate
Edward Ellice became Independencia del Sud. With Heath, master, she arrived at Callao from Guayaquil on 8 April 1822.
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Age of Sail merchant ships of England
Captured ships |
Penzin is a municipality in the Rostock district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It is located at the northeast of Germany and belongs to the amt of Bützow Land.
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Ferrante Pallavicino (23 March 1615 – 5 March 1644) was an Italian writer of numerous antisocial and obscene stories and novels with biblical and profane themes, lampoons and satires in Venice which, according to Edward Muir, "were so popular that booksellers and printers bought them from him at a premium." Pallavicino's scandalous satires, which cost him his head at the age of twenty-eight, were all published under pseudonyms or anonymously.
Early life
Pallavicino was born in Piacenza, Italy, a member of the old Italian family of the Pallavicini. He received a good education at Padua and elsewhere, and early in life entered the Augustinian order, residing chiefly in Venice. For a year he accompanied the general Ottavio Piccolomini in his German campaigns as field chaplain, and in 1641, shortly after his return, he published a number of clever but exceedingly scurrilous satires on the Roman Curia and on the powerful house of the Barberini, held together by the frame story expressed in its title, Il Corriero svaligiato ("The Post-boy Robbed of his Bag"). In this novella published in 1641, four courtiers read and comment on a post-bag of letters that their noble master has ordered stolen from a courier, which include some political ones written by the Spanish governor of Milan. The basis of his story allowed Pallavicino to express a number of divergent opinions, which included those critical of contemporary rulers in Italy, who included Pope Urban VIII Barberini, "the barber who cut the beard of Christ"; the Jesuits, who were attempting to monopolize all education and intellectual life; the Roman Inquisition, which ruined publishers through its prosecutions; and the Spanish, who at the time occupied parts of Italy. "The only powers to escape condemnation in the letters", according to Muir, "were the valiant republics, Genoa, Lucca, and especially Venice, which had managed to maintain political independence."
The reaction to this work was immediate: the papal nuncio to Venice, Francesco Vitelli, demanded Pallavicino's arrest; although the writer spent six months in prison, his allies kept him from being tried. In March 1642, the pro-papal party in the Venetian Senate proposed legislation to banish Pallavicino and forbid the sale of Il Corriero, but despite receiving four votes the measure failed to pass. In spite of these successes, after his release from prison Pallavicini was persecuted by the papal nuncio and Francesco Barberini, Pope Urban's nephew. "Twice Pallavicino was forced to leave his monastery and take refuge with Loredan," writes Muir, "and during the summer of 1642 he escaped Venice, traveling home to Parma, to Friuli, and back to Parma, only to return in August to see a woman."
Later career
Despite these travails, Pallavicino continued his satiric attacks on the Pope. In the 18 months following the publication of Il Corriero, he wrote four more books. In 1642 appeared his Baccinata ouero battarella per le api barberine, a "Drumming against the Barberini bees, on the occasion of Our Lord Pope Urban the Eighth taking up arms against Parma" in the First War of Castro against Odoardo Farnese, duke of Parma and Castro. It was the country folk's practice to make a racket on pots and pans (baccinata) in order to disperse a swarm of bees — the heraldic emblem of the Barberini — that were settling in an undesirable place. The Baccinata took the form of a letter to Francesco Vitelli, papal nuncio at Venice, comparing the papal actions unfavourably with those of Christ:
Christ shed his own blood, and Our Lord sheds the blood of others and promises eternal life to those who shed the most Christian blood... and if the shepherd is only permitted a thin rod with which to control the sheepfold, or better still, nothing at all, as Christ said to the Apostles, 'Do not carry any rod with you on the way', what can be said of Our Lord and Pastor, who scatters the herd of the Church with swords, guns, arquebuses and cannons?"
Even more notorious was La Retorica delle puttane ("The Rhetoric of Whores"), which Muir describes as a "scandalous anti-Jesuit work", which "demonstrates why Pallavicino was the only Italian author of his epoch capable of a coherent vision that integrated satire, skepticism, and naturalistic morality." La Retorica is written in the form of a dialogue between an aged prostitute and her naive apprentice. The older woman is sick, poor, and miserable because, she explains, she "did not know to stop at rhetoric, wanting to go on to learn philosophy." Muir explains, "By 'rhetoric,' she means the arts of simulation and dissimulation, which would have brought her pleasure and riches, without danger, while philosophy, with its pretension to discovering truth, has brought her the ruin of emotional authenticity." The fifteen lessons of the old whore were based on Cypriano de Soarez's De arte rhetorica, the manual used in Jesuit schools. Muir pointedly notes, "By systematically pursuing the parallels between rhetorical persuasion and erotic seduction, Pallavicino demonstrates how the high art of rhetoric has the same instrumental character as the lowly deceptions of the prostitute."
La Retorica delle puttane (1643) proved to be a step too far, and in the autumn of 1643 Pallavicino had to flee Venice for Bergamo, where he completed the first volume of his last work, Il Divortio celeste ("The Celestial Divorce"), published in 1643, which Muir reports "came to be known, in the words of a contemporary, as 'superior to all others in impiety and blasphemies against the Roman Church.'" In this proposed trilogy, Pallavicino had portrayed Jesus Christ as seeking to divorce himself from the Roman Catholic Church (widely known then as the "bride of Christ"), for committing intolerable adulteries and for living a sinful life. God then sends Saint Paul to investigate these claims, and based on his findings, he recommends that Christ's request be granted. Although the only completed volume of the series ends at this point, according to Muir the story was continued "with an account of how Luther, Calvin, and Mark of Ephesus (the 15th-century Greek theologian who had opposed the unification of the Greek and Roman churches) offered their own churches as the new bride of Christ. After considering their suitability for matrimony, Christ was to have demurred, stating that he did not intend to wed any of the existing churches." A copy of Pallavicino's manuscript found its way to Geneva, where it was published. Il Divortio became a sensation in Italy (where Muir notes it was sold "under the counter"), and was plagiarized in Protestant countries, where German, Swedish, French, Dutch and English translations appeared.
Death and legacy
It was in Bergamo that the son of an Italian bookseller in Paris, Charles de Breche – who, as a paid agent of the Barberini had befriended Pallavicino a few years before – convinced him that Cardinal Richelieu greatly admired his works and wanted to commission Pallavicino to serve as the cardinal's official historian if he were to come to France. Despite the fact that Richelieu died while the two were en route to Paris, de Breche convinced Pallavicino to continue the journey, and as they were crossing one of the bridges at Orange in the neighborhood of Avignon, a papal enclave within France, there de Breche betrayed him to the local papal authorities. After fourteen months' imprisonment, during which time he wrote a letter to Francesco Barberini, begging for clemency but also during which his Il Divortio was also published in Geneva, with unlucky timing, Pallavicino was beheaded at Avignon.
His enemies did not long survive Pallavicino. Five months later, Pope Urban was dead; within two years de Breche was stabbed to death in Paris by a certain Ganducci, but as Muir comments, "whether or not in revenge for Pallavicino's death is unknown." When a brief life was appended to a selection of his works that included a continuation of the Corriero, the author, Girolamo Brusoni, remained discreetly anonymous. Pallavicino's scandalous reputation continued until the end of the century and inspired satires of Antonio Lupis, Carlo Moscheni, Gregorio Leti and Alain René Lesage. Often a free-thinking individual named "Ferrante" appears in their satiric dialogues.
Other writings
Pallavicino was a prolific writer in his truncated career. A bibliography of his scattered works and ephemera and a rigorous chronology of their numerous reprints and translations was compiled by Laura Coci, "Bibliografia di Ferrante Pallavicino", Studi secenteschi 24 (1983:221-306).
Le due Agrippine
La taliclea
La Rete di Vulcano
Le bellezze dell'anima
Il Giuseppe
La Susanna
Il principe hermafrodito
La Bersabea
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Jonathan Keith Smart (born September 21, 1964) is an American collegiate basketball coach and former player.
Playing career
He is perhaps best remembered for hitting the game-winning shot in the 1987 NCAA championship game that gave the Indiana Hoosiers a 74–73 victory over the Syracuse Orangemen. He had transferred to Indiana from Garden City Community College in Kansas where he was a two-year standout and Jayhawk Conference Player of the Year.
After two seasons at Indiana, Smart was signed by the San Antonio Spurs, with whom he played two games in the 1988–89 season. In 12 minutes, Smart scored two points and had two assists and one rebound. Smart later played in the Philippines, with the San Miguel Beermen of the PBA, in the 1989 Reinforced Conference, where he played through an injury and was eventually replaced by Ennis Whatley after only five games. After the PBA, he played in the World Basketball League: first with the Worcester Counts in 1989. He then played for the Youngstown Pride and was traded to the Halifax Windjammers in March 1991. Smart later played in the Continental Basketball Association with the Rapid City Thrillers (1995–96) and Fort Wayne Fury (1996–97). He also played two seasons in France, and one in Venezuela.
Coaching career
In 2002, Smart finished the season as interim coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers. His record was 9–31 with the club. In 2003, he became an assistant with the Golden State Warriors.
In 2010, Smart took over for Golden State Warriors head coach Don Nelson before the start of the 2010-11 training camp.
The Warriors fired Smart on April 27, 2011 following a 36 win season, a 10-game improvement from the previous season. He joined the Sacramento Kings as an assistant coach in November 2011. On January 5, 2012, the Kings named Smart head coach after firing Paul Westphal. He recorded a 48–93 record over parts of two seasons with the team. On May 31, 2013, the Kings fired Smart with one year remaining on his contract.
On September 17, 2014, the Miami Heat announced they had hired Smart as an assistant coach.
On December 6, 2019, Smart was fired by the New York Knicks.
On May 12, 2021, Smart was announced as Assistant Coach of the Arkansas Razorbacks under Head Coach Eric Musselman.
On January 15, 2022, Smart served one game as the Arkansas interim coach while Musselman was out with shoulder surgery. Smart led the unranked Razorbacks to a thrilling 65-58 victory over No. 12 LSU in Baton Rouge.
Personal life
Smart and his wife Carol have two children. His son Jared is currently a wide receiver for the University of Hawaii.
Head coaching record
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|59||20||39||.339|| align="center" |5th in Pacific||—||—||—||—
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See also
Notes
External links
BasketballReference.com: Keith Smart (as coach)
1964 births
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Nightlight Christian Adoptions is a national, non-profit, Hague-accredited, pro-life licensed adoption agency that counsels pregnant women and arranges adoptions. They have locations in ten U.S. states and arrange adoptions both domestically and internationally. The agency was founded in 1959. Nightlight was the first agency beginning in 1995 to organize a tour of the United States by group of orphaned Russian children. In 1997, the agency created the first program in the United States to arrange for couples to adopt frozen embryos.
Founding and purpose
Nightlight is a licensed non-profit Hague accredited adoption agency that provides pro-life counseling to pregnant women and adoption services to families. They coordinate adoptions both in the United States and internationally. They also facilitate adoption of frozen embryos and provide humanitarian assistance to children in orphanages.
Nightlight was founded in 1959 by a group of evangelical Christian churches with the purpose of addressing the needs of women in unplanned pregnancy. At the time, the name of the agency was Evangelical Welfare Agency. The agency was later called Christian Adoption and Family Services. In 1994, Ron Stoddart, a California adoption attorney, assumed leadership.
The agency changed its name to Nightlight Christian Adoptions and has offices in multiple states. It arranges adoptions within the United States and from twelve foreign countries. In 1995 Nightlight was the first agency to bring a group of Russian orphan children to the United States on a tour to help increase awareness of older children's adoption needs.
Daniel Nehrbass became Executive Director in May 2012.
Adoptions
International adoptions
Nightlight has been involved in international adoptions in multiple countries. The organization has successfully helped over 1000 families adopt children from countries overseas, with the largest number coming from Russia. Fees for an international adoption can be as much as $49,000. To help adoptive families, the company "created a $50,000 scholarship fund. The monies are available to help prospective adopting parents wanting to adopt eligible children; but who may not have the financial resources available to do so."
Some adoptees express their gratitude for the success they have found in their new homes. Oleg Parent was rescued from a dangerous home in Russia. He became a star football player in his high school and tattooed his adoptive mother's name on his calf.
Adoption issues
In an example of an adoption that went badly, a 12-year-old Russian child, abandoned as a baby by her prostitute mother, was adopted in 1997 by a Michigan couple, Priscilla and Neal Whatcott. The Whatcotts alleged that Nightlight did not tell them that the child had problems but, when the child became unmanageable, referred them to a therapist who also had adopted a Russian girl. The girl was extremely difficult to parent and was eventually surrendered to the state. Nightlight has since said that families and organizations who are involved in international adoptions now recognize "the need for post-adoption support."
Native American adoption
In 2009, Nightlight was contacted by Christina Maldonado who wanted to place her unborn child for adoption. Maldonado had been engaged to Dusten Brown in December 2008, and she became pregnant in January 2009. Brown asked her to married him sooner than they had planned, but he refused to provide any support until they were married. Maldonado decided to put the child up for adoption.
The Indian Child Welfare Act requires that the tribe must be notified when a Native American child is adopted outside the tribe. Maldonado thought that Brown might be a Cherokee Indian, and Maldanado's attorney contacted the Cherokee Nation to determine whether he was an enrolled member, but their letter misspelled Brown's name and provided an incorrect date of birth. As a result, the tribe could not verify if Brown was formally enrolled and took no action on the pending adoption.
The agency helped Maldonado to arrange for Matt and Melanie Capobianco of South Carolina to adopt her child. Four months later the Capobianco's attorney notified them that the biological father was seeking custody. Attorneys for the Cherokee Nation got involved a few months later. Maldonado's attorneys later argued that she did know he was a Native American and that he had never invited her to take part in tribal customs, events, or food. Brown and his new wife gained custody of the infant.
Court records show that Brown had previously testified that he was willing to surrender his paternal rights if he "would not be responsible in any way for child support or anything else as far as the child's concerned." The case went to the United States Supreme Court which ruled against Brown. A South Carolina court finalized the adoption and the Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled on September 23, 2013, that it did not have jurisdiction over Veronica. Brown and his wife returned Veronica to her adoptive parents on September 24.
Embryo adoption program
In vitro fertilization has become an increasingly popular choice for infertile couples. The process harvests a donor woman's eggs which are then fertilized in a laboratory using a donor male's sperm. Fertile embryos are then implanted in the woman who will carry the embryo to term. But the process results in a number of fertile embryos that are never used. Couples have the choice to allow them to thaw and perish, allow the eggs to be used for research, donate them to another infertile couple, or keep them in cold storage. It costs up to $1,200 a year to store frozen embryos.
The Catholic Church has stated that frozen embryos have a right to life even before they are implanted in a woman's uterus. It opposes in vitro fertilization but it has not issued a formal statement on embryo adoption, although it discourages the practice due to its close connection to in vitro fertilization.
Individuals have differing opinions about the beginning of human personhood and whether the embryos have the potential to become a person. Stoddart and Nightlight believe that life begins when the embryo is created. According to a survey by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, 54% of fertility patients want to preserve their remaining embryos for future use. Another 21% want to donate leftover embryos for research. Donating embryos for research may be a good alternative when patients receive proper, honest and clear information about the research project, the procedures and the scientific value of the research. The remaining 7% of those surveyed are willing to donate leftover embryos to another couple.
Dr. Jeffrey Nelson is Director of the Huntington Reproductive Center, one of California's largest IVF clinics. He reports that "Twenty-five per cent of patients want to donate their [spare] embryos – not as many as I'd like." He added, "People tend to hold on to their embryos because they don't want to make a decision. We started buying more and more cryopreservation tanks, and we finally had to say that there's a fee for a certain number of years' storage, and beyond that the price starts to escalate." As of May 2012, there were about 600,000 frozen embryos stored in laboratories and fertility clinics, costing the donor families about $72 million annually for storage fees.
Origins
In 1997, after Stoddart heard a radio show talking about British frozen embryos being destroyed, Nightlight established an embryo "adoption" program to enable infertile couples to gain access to frozen embryos. Nightlight describes the process as an "adoption" because they match embryo donors with recipients using practices commonly used in traditional adoptions. The U.S. Health and Human Services agency has given grants to Nightlights's Snowflakes program and others to promote "embryo adoption."
Until Stoddart conceived of his program, embryo transfer was typically arranged by medical doctors, but Stoddart hoped positioning the transfer as an adoption would increase the number of embryos implanted in women and brought to term. The process is considerably less expensive than standard adoption, costing about $9,500.
U.S. Embryo Adoption program
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services funded an Embryo Adoption Awareness Campaign beginning in 2002. In 2013 the program had a $1.9 million budget. From 2011 to 2012, the number of embryo adoptions rose 25% in the U.S. As of January, 2013, more than 4500 babies have been born in the U.S. through embryo adoption. A total of about 1,900 babies were born between 2004 and 2009 as a result of the program. Of those, more than 300 have been born since 1997 through Nightlight's Snowflake embryo adoption program. The Obama administration removed funding for the embryo donation awareness program from its budget in 2013 due to "limited interest" from a "very small pool of applicants, many of whom are repeat recipients."
Various studies show that the percentage of frozen embryos that survive after they are unfrozen varies from one-sixth to about three fourths. According to a 2003 study by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine only 2 percent of frozen embryos are actually donated. Other studies have shown that the government grants to improve embryo adoption awareness has led to drastic cuts in the amount Americans are paying for indefinite storage of embryos.
Nightlight donation program
Nightlight established the first program that organized the adoption of embryo in 1997. It was one of several organizations that received funding from the Health and Human Services to increase awareness of the opportunity to adopt frozen embryos. Nightlight received a $500,000 grant that it used to produce promotional videos targeting strongly religious, middle-class couples.
The campaign has successfully influenced public opinion: one survey "asked what should be done with remaining embryos. Most respondents said that the embryos should be donated to other infertile couples (68.8 percent) rather than being destroyed (5.9 percent) or being donated for research."<ref>Ron Stoddart, [http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2010/july/25.46.html Frozen Embryos:BioTech's Hidden Dilemma], , July 28, 2010.</ref>
Those donating embryos through Nightlight's Snowflake program can designate that only Christian families may receive them. Most embryos have been received by Christian families who pledged to raise the child born in a "constructive, wholesome and spiritual home environment."
Stoddart has worked to publicize the issue of frozen embryos in storage, believing it would increase the number of donations. In 2005, Stoddart and Lori Maze, the director of the Snowflakes Frozen Embryo Adoption Program, were recognized by President George W. Bush for their work in transferring frozen embryos to infertile couples. In his biography Decision Points'', President Bush wrote that increasing support for embryo adoption, and specifically Nightlight's Snowflake program, had a profound place in his legacy as president.
Open adoptions
Asked why a three-day-old blastocyst should be subject to the same adoptive process as a baby, Nightlight Executive Director Daniel Nehrbass said, "We have learnt over the past 100 years that every child not raised by its biological parents will eventually start looking for them, Now we're repeating the mistake with assisted reproduction because we're creating a new set of anonymous parents through sperm and now embryo donation." For this reason Nightlight encourages "open adoption," allowing an adopted child to grow up knowing who its biological parents are. Nightlight believes that an open adoption model gives parents of donor embryos increased confidence in the family adopting their frozen embryos.
The majority of clinics do not offer open embryo donation to their patients or the recipients.
Stem cell lawsuit
In 2006, President George W. Bush vetoed increased funding for embryonic stem cell research. Three years later, on March 9, 2009, President Barack Obama reversed that decision and issued Executive Order 13505 allowing the research to go forward. In August 2009, Nightlight, along with two researchers, two potential couples for embryo donation, the embryos themselves, and the Christian Medical Association filed a lawsuit in the D.C. District Court to block the research. On Oct. 27, 2009, Judge Royce C. Lamberth dismissed the suit, ruling that none of the plaintiffs had standing to bring the case. On appeal to the D.C. Circuit Court the decision was reversed in part. The two researchers were held to have standing, while Nightlight and the others did not. On August 23, 2010, Lamberth issued a preliminary injunction against the Federal government conducting stem cell research.
Scientists immediately objected to the ruling, stating that it would do "irreparable harm" to the field. In September 2010, the D.C. Circuit Court temporarily lifted the injunction, finding that the plaintiff was unlikely to prevail at trial. The scientific community reacted positively, stating that this would allow potentially critical, life-saving research to proceed. The Coalition for the Advancement of Medical Research, the most vocal advocate of using regenerative medicine to cure disease, said the ruling sent a message that "frivolous" suits against scientific research would not be tolerated. In April 2011, Lamberth's injunction was formally reversed by the U.S. Court of Appeals.
Orphanage work
Nightlight has partnered with the Heart of a Child agency in Kampala, Uganda, to fund an orphanage for infants. It has organized tours of orphaned youth to the United States where they can meet with prospective adoptive parents. In 1995, they were the first agency to organize a tour for older orphaned Russian children to the United States. They have conducted the tours annually in partnership with Detsky Dom Partners, later renamed Every Child Has a Name, bringing over 500 children from Russia, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, and Taiwan to the United States. Nightlight says their goal is to "expose the children to American culture and to raise awareness of the needs of older Russian children" waiting for adoption.
Financial
During 2011, Nightlight received donations of $712,142 and other revenue totaling $2,119,264. Their net assets totalled $521,222. Nightlight adheres to the standards of the Evangelical Council on Financial Accountability.
Reviews
As of January 2014, Nightlight had received an average 3.7 star rating (out of 5) by one website that offers individual reviews of adoption agencies. Some reviews posted by adoptive parents were extremely positive, while others were very negative. The negative reviews in some cases referred to the controversial adoptions previously described, to badly prepared paperwork, and to the sometimes difficult work of placing children from foreign countries with families in the United States. The Better Business Bureau of Colorado and Wyoming in January 2014 had no record of complaints against the company and had insufficient information to provide a rating, while the BBB serving San Diego, Orange and Imperial Counties showed only a single, closed issue with "Problems with Product/Service" during the prior three years.
Footnotes
References
Christian organizations based in the United States
Adoption in the United States
Adoption-related organizations
Non-profit organizations based in California
Adoption and religion |
Kyle Alan Howard (born April 13, 1978) is an American actor.
Early life
Howard grew up in Loveland, Colorado. He has worked in both film and television. His film career includes House Arrest alongside Jamie Lee Curtis, Skeletons with Ron Silver, Orange County and The Paper Brigade. His work includes a Coca-Cola commercial with talking ice cubes that are anxious to be bathed in cola.
Career
Acting
Howard played Bobby Newman on the TBS original series My Boys. Howard's previous television work includes Love Boat: The Next Wave, Related, Grosse Pointe, and Run of the House. He has also guest-starred in CSI, Home Improvement, Chicago Hope, What I Like About You, The Drew Carey Show, Numbers, 8 Simple Rules, Friends, Nip/Tuck, Ghost Whisperer and Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23. He played the character Dickey in Baby Geniuses in 1999.
Howard starred alongside Milo Ventimiglia and Chris Evans as one of three boys in an all-girls school in Opposite Sex on Fox's summer 2000 schedule. The show was canceled after 8 episodes.
In May 2010, NBC announced that Howard would star in the upcoming television series Perfect Couples. The half-hour romantic comedy was expected to premiere for the 2010–11 television season. However, on July 1, 2010, Deadline.com reported that Kyle Bornheimer had replaced Kyle Howard as Dave because of uncertainty about whether the actor would be available due to TBS' decision to see how the fourth season of My Boys performed before it was renewed or canceled. It was canceled two months later.
As of 2011, Howard plays Dr. Paul Van Dyke on Royal Pains. In 2015, Howard began playing the starring role of Oliver in Your Family or Mine.
In 2020, Howard played Budd Skriff in Upside-Down Magic.
Filmography
Film
Television
References
External links
PopGurls Interview: Kyle Howard
1978 births
20th-century American male actors
21st-century American male actors
American male film actors
American male television actors
American male voice actors
Living people
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People from Loveland, Colorado
American expatriate male actors in the United Kingdom |
```python
from itertools import product
import numpy as np
from numpy.testing import assert_almost_equal, assert_array_almost_equal
from scipy import linalg
import pytest
from sklearn import neighbors, manifold
from sklearn.manifold._locally_linear import barycenter_kneighbors_graph
from sklearn.utils._testing import ignore_warnings
from sklearn.utils._testing import assert_raise_message
eigen_solvers = ['dense', 'arpack']
# your_sha256_hash------
# Test utility routines
def test_barycenter_kneighbors_graph():
X = np.array([[0, 1], [1.01, 1.], [2, 0]])
A = barycenter_kneighbors_graph(X, 1)
assert_array_almost_equal(
A.toarray(),
[[0., 1., 0.],
[1., 0., 0.],
[0., 1., 0.]])
A = barycenter_kneighbors_graph(X, 2)
# check that columns sum to one
assert_array_almost_equal(np.sum(A.toarray(), 1), np.ones(3))
pred = np.dot(A.toarray(), X)
assert linalg.norm(pred - X) / X.shape[0] < 1
# your_sha256_hash------
# Test LLE by computing the reconstruction error on some manifolds.
def test_lle_simple_grid():
# note: ARPACK is numerically unstable, so this test will fail for
# some random seeds. We choose 2 because the tests pass.
rng = np.random.RandomState(2)
# grid of equidistant points in 2D, n_components = n_dim
X = np.array(list(product(range(5), repeat=2)))
X = X + 1e-10 * rng.uniform(size=X.shape)
n_components = 2
clf = manifold.LocallyLinearEmbedding(n_neighbors=5,
n_components=n_components,
random_state=rng)
tol = 0.1
N = barycenter_kneighbors_graph(X, clf.n_neighbors).toarray()
reconstruction_error = linalg.norm(np.dot(N, X) - X, 'fro')
assert reconstruction_error < tol
for solver in eigen_solvers:
clf.set_params(eigen_solver=solver)
clf.fit(X)
assert clf.embedding_.shape[1] == n_components
reconstruction_error = linalg.norm(
np.dot(N, clf.embedding_) - clf.embedding_, 'fro') ** 2
assert reconstruction_error < tol
assert_almost_equal(clf.reconstruction_error_,
reconstruction_error, decimal=1)
# re-embed a noisy version of X using the transform method
noise = rng.randn(*X.shape) / 100
X_reembedded = clf.transform(X + noise)
assert linalg.norm(X_reembedded - clf.embedding_) < tol
def test_lle_manifold():
rng = np.random.RandomState(0)
# similar test on a slightly more complex manifold
X = np.array(list(product(np.arange(18), repeat=2)))
X = np.c_[X, X[:, 0] ** 2 / 18]
X = X + 1e-10 * rng.uniform(size=X.shape)
n_components = 2
for method in ["standard", "hessian", "modified", "ltsa"]:
clf = manifold.LocallyLinearEmbedding(n_neighbors=6,
n_components=n_components,
method=method, random_state=0)
tol = 1.5 if method == "standard" else 3
N = barycenter_kneighbors_graph(X, clf.n_neighbors).toarray()
reconstruction_error = linalg.norm(np.dot(N, X) - X)
assert reconstruction_error < tol
for solver in eigen_solvers:
clf.set_params(eigen_solver=solver)
clf.fit(X)
assert clf.embedding_.shape[1] == n_components
reconstruction_error = linalg.norm(
np.dot(N, clf.embedding_) - clf.embedding_, 'fro') ** 2
details = ("solver: %s, method: %s" % (solver, method))
assert reconstruction_error < tol, details
assert (np.abs(clf.reconstruction_error_ -
reconstruction_error) <
tol * reconstruction_error), details
# Test the error raised when parameter passed to lle is invalid
def test_lle_init_parameters():
X = np.random.rand(5, 3)
clf = manifold.LocallyLinearEmbedding(eigen_solver="error")
msg = "unrecognized eigen_solver 'error'"
assert_raise_message(ValueError, msg, clf.fit, X)
clf = manifold.LocallyLinearEmbedding(method="error")
msg = "unrecognized method 'error'"
assert_raise_message(ValueError, msg, clf.fit, X)
def test_pipeline():
# check that LocallyLinearEmbedding works fine as a Pipeline
# only checks that no error is raised.
# TODO check that it actually does something useful
from sklearn import pipeline, datasets
X, y = datasets.make_blobs(random_state=0)
clf = pipeline.Pipeline(
[('filter', manifold.LocallyLinearEmbedding(random_state=0)),
('clf', neighbors.KNeighborsClassifier())])
clf.fit(X, y)
assert .9 < clf.score(X, y)
# Test the error raised when the weight matrix is singular
def test_singular_matrix():
M = np.ones((10, 3))
f = ignore_warnings
with pytest.raises(ValueError):
f(manifold.locally_linear_embedding(M, n_neighbors=2, n_components=1,
method='standard',
eigen_solver='arpack'))
# regression test for #6033
def test_integer_input():
rand = np.random.RandomState(0)
X = rand.randint(0, 100, size=(20, 3))
for method in ["standard", "hessian", "modified", "ltsa"]:
clf = manifold.LocallyLinearEmbedding(method=method, n_neighbors=10)
clf.fit(X) # this previously raised a TypeError
``` |
Prisoners’ Education Trust (PET) is a registered charity that works in prisons in England and Wales. It offers distance learning courses and educational advice and guidance to people in prison. It was founded in HMP Wandsworth in 1989.
In 2022, PET helped 1,375 people in prison start a course. Its prospectus includes 125 courses including GCSEs and A-levels, Open University Access modules and a wide range of professional courses.
The charity also uses its policy and advocacy work to improve prison education and show prisons, policymakers and the public the impact it can have — for people in prison, their families, and society.
In 2021 the Justice Data Lab – a team of statisticians at the Ministry of Justice – studied the employment and reoffending records in the first year of release for over 9,000 people PET have supported with distance learning in prison.
The research found that the people supported by PET are more likely to get a job within one year than prisoners PET does not support; that even if they do not get a job they are less likely to reoffend within that year than other prisoners who do not get jobs; and that if they do get jobs they are even less likely to reoffend than other prisoners who find employment.
References
External links
Prison charities based in the United Kingdom |
Quípama is a town and municipality in the Colombian Department of Boyacá, part of the subregion of the Western Boyacá Province.
Climate
Quípama has a tropical rainforest climate (Af) with heavy to very heavy rainfall year-round.
It is home of one of the largest emerald mines in the world.
See also
Las Pavas
Muzo, Chivor, Somondoco
References
External links
Municipalities of Boyacá Department |
Victoria Centre is a shopping centre in Nottingham, England, constructed between 1967 and 1972. It contains fashion and high street chain stores as well as cafes, restaurants, a health and fitness centre, and the Nottingham Victoria bus station.
History
The Victoria Centre stands on the site of the old Nottingham Victoria railway station, which was demolished in 1967. The clock tower and the former Victoria Station Hotel (now run by Hilton Hotels) were the only parts of the old station to be retained. The shopping centre was built between 1967 and 1972 by Taylor Woodrow. Above the shopping centre rise the 26 floor, high Victoria Centre Flats, which run north–south along their length. There are 464 flats and of office space.
In 1970, the kinetic sculptor Rowland Emett was commissioned to design and build a "water-powered" clock known as The Aqua Horological Tintinnabulator. The clock was installed in late 1972 and chimed on the hour and half-hour, playing "Gigue en Rondeau II" (1724) from Rameau's "Pieces de Clavecin" Suite in E minor. This musical animated sculpture was originally located on the lower mall and was a popular meeting place. The clock was later modified to chime and play the music every fifteen minutes. In February 2014, the clock was dismantled and refurbished by engineer Pete Dexter and the Rowland Emett Society. It was reassembled for exhibition in Millennium Point, Birmingham, during the summer of 2014 before being dismantled again and stored until December 2014. The parts were then transported back to Nottingham, where Dexter and Intu Victoria Centre staff carried out further refurbishment work. It was reassembled in its new location, at the north end of the upper mall. Its stature, colour scheme, and most of its original water features were restored. It was officially restarted on 17 June 2015.
In 1997, the centre was extended to provide more retail space and allow the addition of a new anchor, House of Fraser. The rest of the centre was refurbished.
In 2010, it was announced that the Victoria Centre would be expanded to compete with Westfield's nearby Broadmarsh Centre and new centres in Derby and Leicester. In November 2011, Capital Shopping Centres purchased the Broadmarsh Centre. The purchase prompted an investigation by the Office of Fair Trading and the Competition Commission, which was concerned the company's monopoly over the city's shopping centres could negatively impact competition. Following the purchase, the owners wished to begin the planned development of the Victoria Centre, but Nottingham City Council insisted that Broadmarsh must be their "priority" and offered £50 million towards its redevelopment. The deputy leader of Nottingham City Council said the council would withhold planning permission for the development of the Victoria Centre until they "see bulldozers going into the Broadmarsh Centre".
In February 2013, the parent company, Capital Shopping Centres, changed its name to Intu. The centre was rebranded Intu Victoria Centre as part of the company's £25m nationwide rebrand.
In 2013, plans were revealed for the centre to be refurbished. The refurbishment began in February 2014 and was completed in summer 2015. It was undertaken by Laing O'Rourke and features a new restaurant quarter in the clock tower area and new lighting, flooring, entrances, and toilet facilities. This is the second refurbishment of the centre since the last major refurbishment in 1997. There are plans for an extension to the centre to increase floor space, but these will not be considered until plans for Intu Broadmarsh have been submitted.
Following Intu Properties plc entering administration in June 2020, a subsidiary of the company called Intu SGS received funding to take full control of the centre along with Lakeside, Braehead and Intu Watford. The transfer involved Global Mutual becoming asset manager of the centres and Savills serving as property manager. In November 2020, the centre's name reverted from intu Victoria Centre back to Victoria Centre.
Victoria Centre Market
On the first floor, opposite John Lewis, is Nottingham's largest indoor market, the Victoria Centre Market. It sells a range of goods, including fresh food, meat, and fish. There are also speciality stalls selling items such as books, jewellery, and haberdashery. The market is open from Monday to Saturday from 9:00 to 5:00 p.m.
In 2008 it won the award for the Greenest Market in the Midlands from the National Market Traders Federation.
See also
Nottingham Victoria bus station
List of shopping centres in the United Kingdom
Nottingham City Centre
Broadmarsh
References
External links
Buildings and structures in Nottingham
Shopping centres in Nottinghamshire
Shopping malls established in 1972
1972 establishments in England |
```smalltalk
using System;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading;
using System.Xml;
using System.Xml.Linq;
using Microsoft.Build.Utilities;
using Microsoft.Build.Framework;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using Xamarin.Android.Tools;
using Microsoft.Android.Build.Tasks;
namespace Xamarin.Android.Tasks
{
public class Aapt : AsyncTask
{
public override string TaskPrefix => "APT";
public ITaskItem[] AdditionalAndroidResourcePaths { get; set; }
public string AndroidComponentResgenFlagFile { get; set; }
public ITaskItem AndroidManifestFile { get; set;}
public bool NonConstantId { get; set; }
public string AssetDirectory { get; set; }
[Required]
public ITaskItem[] ManifestFiles { get; set; }
[Required]
public string ResourceDirectory { get; set; }
public string ResourceOutputFile { get; set; }
[Required]
public string JavaDesignerOutputDirectory { get; set; }
[Required]
public string JavaPlatformJarPath { get; set; }
public string UncompressedFileExtensions { get; set; }
public string PackageName { get; set; }
public string ExtraPackages { get; set; }
public ITaskItem [] AdditionalResourceDirectories { get; set; }
public ITaskItem [] LibraryProjectJars { get; set; }
public string ExtraArgs { get; set; }
protected string ToolName { get { return OS.IsWindows ? "aapt.exe" : "aapt"; } }
public string ToolPath { get; set; }
public string ToolExe { get; set; }
public string ApiLevel { get; set; }
public bool AndroidUseLatestPlatformSdk { get; set; }
public string [] SupportedAbis { get; set; }
public bool CreatePackagePerAbi { get; set; }
public string ImportsDirectory { get; set; }
public string OutputImportDirectory { get; set; }
public string AssemblyIdentityMapFile { get; set; }
// pattern to use for the version code. Used in CreatePackagePerAbi
// eg. {abi:00}{dd}{version}
// known keyworks
// {abi} the value for the current abi
// {version} the version code from the manifest.
public string VersionCodePattern { get; set; }
// Name=Value pair seperated by ';'
// e.g screen=21;abi=11
public string VersionCodeProperties { get; set; }
public string AndroidSdkPlatform { get; set; }
public string ResourceSymbolsTextFileDirectory { get; set; }
Dictionary<string,string> _resource_name_case_map;
AssemblyIdentityMap assemblyMap = new AssemblyIdentityMap ();
string resourceDirectory;
Dictionary<string, string> resource_name_case_map => _resource_name_case_map ??= MonoAndroidHelper.LoadResourceCaseMap (BuildEngine4, ProjectSpecificTaskObjectKey);
bool ManifestIsUpToDate (string manifestFile)
{
return !String.IsNullOrEmpty (AndroidComponentResgenFlagFile) &&
File.Exists (AndroidComponentResgenFlagFile) && File.Exists (manifestFile) &&
File.GetLastWriteTime (AndroidComponentResgenFlagFile) > File.GetLastWriteTime (manifestFile);
}
bool RunAapt (string commandLine, IList<OutputLine> output)
{
var stdout_completed = new ManualResetEvent (false);
var stderr_completed = new ManualResetEvent (false);
var psi = new ProcessStartInfo () {
FileName = GenerateFullPathToTool (),
Arguments = commandLine,
UseShellExecute = false,
RedirectStandardOutput = true,
RedirectStandardError = true,
StandardOutputEncoding = Encoding.UTF8,
CreateNoWindow = true,
WindowStyle = ProcessWindowStyle.Hidden,
WorkingDirectory = WorkingDirectory,
};
object lockObject = new object ();
using (var proc = new Process ()) {
proc.OutputDataReceived += (sender, e) => {
if (e.Data != null)
lock (lockObject)
output.Add (new OutputLine (e.Data, stdError: false));
else
stdout_completed.Set ();
};
proc.ErrorDataReceived += (sender, e) => {
if (e.Data != null)
lock (lockObject)
output.Add (new OutputLine (e.Data, stdError: true));
else
stderr_completed.Set ();
};
proc.StartInfo = psi;
LogDebugMessage ("Executing {0}", commandLine);
proc.Start ();
proc.BeginOutputReadLine ();
proc.BeginErrorReadLine ();
CancellationToken.Register (() => {
try {
proc.Kill ();
} catch (Exception) {
}
});
proc.WaitForExit ();
if (psi.RedirectStandardError)
stderr_completed.WaitOne (TimeSpan.FromSeconds (30));
if (psi.RedirectStandardOutput)
stdout_completed.WaitOne (TimeSpan.FromSeconds (30));
return proc.ExitCode == 0;
}
}
bool ExecuteForAbi (string cmd, string currentResourceOutputFile)
{
var output = new List<OutputLine> ();
var ret = RunAapt (cmd, output);
var success = !string.IsNullOrEmpty (currentResourceOutputFile)
? File.Exists (Path.Combine (currentResourceOutputFile + ".bk"))
: ret;
foreach (var line in output) {
if (line.StdError) {
LogEventsFromTextOutput (line.Line, MessageImportance.Normal, success);
} else {
LogMessage (line.Line, MessageImportance.Normal);
}
}
if (ret && !string.IsNullOrEmpty (currentResourceOutputFile)) {
var tmpfile = currentResourceOutputFile + ".bk";
Files.CopyIfZipChanged (tmpfile, currentResourceOutputFile);
File.Delete (tmpfile);
}
return ret;
}
void ProcessManifest (ITaskItem manifestFile)
{
var manifest = Path.IsPathRooted (manifestFile.ItemSpec) ? manifestFile.ItemSpec : Path.Combine (WorkingDirectory, manifestFile.ItemSpec);
if (!File.Exists (manifest)) {
LogDebugMessage ("{0} does not exists. Skipping", manifest);
return;
}
bool upToDate = ManifestIsUpToDate (manifest);
if (AdditionalAndroidResourcePaths != null)
foreach (var dir in AdditionalAndroidResourcePaths)
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty (dir.ItemSpec))
upToDate = upToDate && ManifestIsUpToDate (string.Format ("{0}{1}{2}{3}{4}", dir, Path.DirectorySeparatorChar, "manifest", Path.DirectorySeparatorChar, "AndroidManifest.xml"));
if (upToDate) {
LogMessage (" Additional Android Resources manifsets files are unchanged. Skipping.");
return;
}
var defaultAbi = new string [] { null };
var abis = CreatePackagePerAbi && SupportedAbis?.Length > 1 ? defaultAbi.Concat (SupportedAbis) : defaultAbi;
foreach (var abi in abis) {
var currentResourceOutputFile = abi != null ? string.Format ("{0}-{1}", ResourceOutputFile, abi) : ResourceOutputFile;
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty (currentResourceOutputFile) && !Path.IsPathRooted (currentResourceOutputFile))
currentResourceOutputFile = Path.Combine (WorkingDirectory, currentResourceOutputFile);
string cmd = GenerateCommandLineCommands (manifest, abi, currentResourceOutputFile);
if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace (cmd) || !ExecuteForAbi (cmd, currentResourceOutputFile)) {
Cancel ();
}
}
return;
}
public override System.Threading.Tasks.Task RunTaskAsync ()
{
resourceDirectory = ResourceDirectory.TrimEnd ('\\');
if (!Path.IsPathRooted (resourceDirectory))
resourceDirectory = Path.Combine (WorkingDirectory, resourceDirectory);
assemblyMap.Load (Path.Combine (WorkingDirectory, AssemblyIdentityMapFile));
return this.WhenAll (ManifestFiles, ProcessManifest);
}
protected string GenerateCommandLineCommands (string ManifestFile, string currentAbi, string currentResourceOutputFile)
{
// For creating Resource.designer.cs:
// Running command: C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools\aapt
// "package"
// "-M" "C:\Users\Jonathan\AppData\Local\Temp\ryob4gaw.way\AndroidManifest.xml"
// "-J" "C:\Users\Jonathan\AppData\Local\Temp\ryob4gaw.way"
// "-F" "C:\Users\Jonathan\AppData\Local\Temp\ryob4gaw.way\resources.apk"
// "-S" "c:\users\jonathan\documents\visual studio 2010\Projects\MonoAndroidApplication4\MonoAndroidApplication4\obj\Debug\res"
// "-I" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk-windows\platforms\android-8\android.jar"
// "--max-res-version" "10"
// For packaging:
// Running command: C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools\aapt
// "package"
// "-f"
// "-m"
// "-M" "AndroidManifest.xml"
// "-J" "src"
// "--custom-package" "androidmsbuildtest.androidmsbuildtest"
// "-F" "bin\packaged_resources"
// "-S" "C:\Users\Jonathan\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects\AndroidMSBuildTest\AndroidMSBuildTest\obj\Debug\res"
// "-I" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk-windows\platforms\android-8\android.jar"
// "--extra-packages" "com.facebook.android:my.another.library"
var cmd = new CommandLineBuilder ();
cmd.AppendSwitch ("package");
if (MonoAndroidHelper.LogInternalExceptions)
cmd.AppendSwitch ("-v");
if (NonConstantId)
cmd.AppendSwitch ("--non-constant-id");
cmd.AppendSwitch ("-f");
cmd.AppendSwitch ("-m");
string manifestFile;
string manifestDir = Path.Combine (Path.GetDirectoryName (ManifestFile), currentAbi != null ? currentAbi : "manifest");
Directory.CreateDirectory (manifestDir);
manifestFile = Path.Combine (manifestDir, Path.GetFileName (ManifestFile));
ManifestDocument manifest = new ManifestDocument (ManifestFile);
manifest.TargetSdkVersion = AndroidSdkPlatform;
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty (VersionCodePattern)) {
try {
manifest.CalculateVersionCode (currentAbi, VersionCodePattern, VersionCodeProperties);
} catch (ArgumentOutOfRangeException ex) {
LogCodedError ("XA0003", ManifestFile, 0, ex.Message);
return string.Empty;
}
}
if (currentAbi != null && string.IsNullOrEmpty (VersionCodePattern)) {
manifest.SetAbi (currentAbi);
}
if (!manifest.ValidateVersionCode (out string error, out string errorCode)) {
LogCodedError (errorCode, ManifestFile, 0, error);
return string.Empty;
}
manifest.Save (LogCodedWarning, manifestFile);
cmd.AppendSwitchIfNotNull ("-M ", manifestFile);
var designerDirectory = Path.IsPathRooted (JavaDesignerOutputDirectory) ? JavaDesignerOutputDirectory : Path.Combine (WorkingDirectory, JavaDesignerOutputDirectory);
Directory.CreateDirectory (designerDirectory);
cmd.AppendSwitchIfNotNull ("-J ", JavaDesignerOutputDirectory);
if (PackageName != null)
cmd.AppendSwitchIfNotNull ("--custom-package ", PackageName.ToLowerInvariant ());
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty (currentResourceOutputFile))
cmd.AppendSwitchIfNotNull ("-F ", currentResourceOutputFile + ".bk");
// The order of -S arguments is *important*, always make sure this one comes FIRST
cmd.AppendSwitchIfNotNull ("-S ", resourceDirectory.TrimEnd ('\\'));
if (AdditionalResourceDirectories != null) {
foreach (var dir in AdditionalResourceDirectories) {
var resdir = dir.ItemSpec.TrimEnd ('\\');
if (Directory.Exists (resdir)) {
cmd.AppendSwitchIfNotNull ("-S ", resdir);
}
}
}
if (AdditionalAndroidResourcePaths != null) {
foreach (var dir in AdditionalAndroidResourcePaths) {
var resdir = Path.Combine (dir.ItemSpec, "res");
if (Directory.Exists (resdir)) {
cmd.AppendSwitchIfNotNull ("-S ", resdir);
}
}
}
if (LibraryProjectJars != null)
foreach (var jar in LibraryProjectJars)
cmd.AppendSwitchIfNotNull ("-j ", jar);
cmd.AppendSwitchIfNotNull ("-I ", JavaPlatformJarPath);
// Add asset directory if it exists
if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace (AssetDirectory)) {
var assetDir = AssetDirectory.TrimEnd ('\\');
if (!Path.IsPathRooted (assetDir))
assetDir = Path.Combine (WorkingDirectory, assetDir);
if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace (assetDir) && Directory.Exists (assetDir))
cmd.AppendSwitchIfNotNull ("-A ", assetDir);
}
if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace (UncompressedFileExtensions))
foreach (var ext in UncompressedFileExtensions.Split (new char[] { ';', ','}, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries))
cmd.AppendSwitchIfNotNull ("-0 ", ext.StartsWith (".", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase) ? ext : $".{ext}");
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty (ExtraPackages))
cmd.AppendSwitchIfNotNull ("--extra-packages ", ExtraPackages);
cmd.AppendSwitch ("--auto-add-overlay");
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty (ResourceSymbolsTextFileDirectory))
cmd.AppendSwitchIfNotNull ("--output-text-symbols ", ResourceSymbolsTextFileDirectory);
if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace (ExtraArgs))
cmd.AppendSwitch (ExtraArgs);
if (!AndroidUseLatestPlatformSdk)
cmd.AppendSwitchIfNotNull ("--max-res-version ", ApiLevel);
return cmd.ToString ();
}
protected string GenerateFullPathToTool ()
{
return Path.Combine (ToolPath, string.IsNullOrEmpty (ToolExe) ? ToolName : ToolExe);
}
protected void LogEventsFromTextOutput (string singleLine, MessageImportance messageImportance, bool apptResult)
{
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty (singleLine))
return;
var match = AndroidRunToolTask.AndroidErrorRegex.Match (singleLine.Trim ());
if (match.Success) {
var file = match.Groups["file"].Value;
int line = 0;
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty (match.Groups["line"]?.Value))
line = int.Parse (match.Groups["line"].Value.Trim ()) + 1;
var level = match.Groups["level"].Value.ToLowerInvariant ();
var message = match.Groups ["message"].Value;
if (message.Contains ("fakeLogOpen")) {
LogMessage (singleLine, MessageImportance.Normal);
return;
}
if (level.Contains ("warning")) {
LogCodedWarning (GetErrorCode (singleLine), singleLine);
return;
}
// Try to map back to the original resource file, so when the user
// double clicks the error, it won't take them to the obj/Debug copy
string newfile = MonoAndroidHelper.FixUpAndroidResourcePath (file, resourceDirectory, string.Empty, resource_name_case_map);
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty (newfile)) {
file = newfile;
}
bool manifestError = false;
if (AndroidManifestFile != null && string.Compare (Path.GetFileName (file), Path.GetFileName (AndroidManifestFile.ItemSpec), StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase) == 0) {
manifestError = true;
}
// Strip any "Error:" text from aapt's output
if (message.StartsWith ("error: ", StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase))
message = message.Substring ("error: ".Length);
if (level.Contains ("error") || (line != 0 && !string.IsNullOrEmpty (file))) {
if (manifestError)
LogCodedError (GetErrorCode (message), string.Format (Xamarin.Android.Tasks.Properties.Resources.AAPTManifestError, message.TrimEnd('.')), AndroidManifestFile.ItemSpec, 0);
else
LogCodedError (GetErrorCode (message), message, file, line);
return;
}
}
if (!apptResult) {
var message = string.Format ("{0} \"{1}\".", singleLine.Trim (), singleLine.Substring (singleLine.LastIndexOfAny (new char [] { '\\', '/' }) + 1));
LogCodedError (GetErrorCode (message), message, ToolName);
} else {
LogCodedWarning (GetErrorCode (singleLine), singleLine);
}
}
static string GetErrorCode (string message)
{
foreach (var tuple in error_codes)
if (message.IndexOf (tuple.Item2, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase) >= 0)
return tuple.Item1;
return "APT1000";
}
static readonly List<Tuple<string, string>> error_codes = new List<Tuple<string, string>> () {
Tuple.Create ("APT1001", "can't use '-u' with add"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1002", "dump failed because assets could not be loaded"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1003", "dump failed because no AndroidManifest.xml found"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1004", "dump failed because the resource table is invalid/corrupt"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1005", "during crunch - archive is toast"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1006", "failed to get platform version code"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1007", "failed to get platform version name"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1008", "failed to get XML element name (bad string pool)"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1009", "failed to write library table"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1010", "getting resolved resource attribute"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1011", "Key string data is corrupt"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1012", "list -a failed because assets could not be loaded"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1013", "manifest does not start with <manifest> tag"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1014", "missing 'android:name' for permission"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1015", "missing 'android:name' for uses-permission"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1016", "missing 'android:name' for uses-permission-sdk-23"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1017", "Missing entries, quit"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1018", "must specify zip file name"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1019", "No AndroidManifest.xml file found"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1020", "No argument supplied for '-A' option"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1021", "No argument supplied for '-c' option"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1022", "No argument supplied for '--custom-package' option"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1023", "No argument supplied for '-D' option"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1024", "No argument supplied for '-e' option"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1025", "No argument supplied for '--extra-packages' option"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1026", "No argument supplied for '--feature-after' option"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1027", "No argument supplied for '--feature-of' option"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1028", "No argument supplied for '-F' option"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1029", "No argument supplied for '-g' option"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1030", "No argument supplied for '--ignore-assets' option"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1031", "No argument supplied for '-I' option"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1032", "No argument supplied for '-j' option"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1033", "No argument supplied for '--max-res-version' option"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1034", "No argument supplied for '--max-sdk-version' option"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1035", "No argument supplied for '--min-sdk-version' option"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1036", "No argument supplied for '-M' option"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1037", "No argument supplied for '-o' option"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1038", "No argument supplied for '-output-text-symbols' option"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1039", "No argument supplied for '-P' option"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1040", "No argument supplied for '--preferred-density' option"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1041", "No argument supplied for '--private-symbols' option"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1042", "No argument supplied for '--product' option"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1043", "No argument supplied for '--rename-instrumentation-target-package' option"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1044", "No argument supplied for '--rename-manifest-package' option"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1045", "No argument supplied for '-S' option"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1046", "No argument supplied for '--split' option"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1047", "No argument supplied for '--target-sdk-version' option"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1048", "No argument supplied for '--version-code' option"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1049", "No argument supplied for '--version-name' option"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1050", "no dump file specified"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1051", "no dump option specified"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1052", "no dump xmltree resource file specified"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1053", "no input files"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1054", "no <manifest> tag found in platform AndroidManifest.xml"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1055", "out of memory creating package chunk for ResTable_header"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1056", "out of memory creating ResTable_entry"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1057", "out of memory creating ResTable_header"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1058", "out of memory creating ResTable_package"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1059", "out of memory creating ResTable_type"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1060", "out of memory creating ResTable_typeSpec"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1061", "out of memory creating Res_value"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1062", "Out of memory for string pool"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1063", "Out of memory padding string pool"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1064", "parsing XML"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1065", "Platform AndroidManifest.xml is corrupt"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1066", "Platform AndroidManifest.xml not found"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1067", "print resolved resource attribute"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1068", "retrieving parent for item:"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1069", "specify zip file name (only)"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1070", "Type string data is corrupt"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1071", "Unable to parse generated resources, aborting"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1072", "Invalid BCP 47 tag in directory name"), // ERROR: Invalid BCP 47 tag in directory name: %s
Tuple.Create ("APT1073", "parsing preferred density"), // Error parsing preferred density: %s
Tuple.Create ("APT1074", "Asset package include"), // ERROR: Asset package include '%s' not found
Tuple.Create ("APT1075", "base feature package"), // ERROR: base feature package '%s' not found
Tuple.Create ("APT1076", "Split configuration"), // ERROR: Split configuration '%s' is already defined in another split
Tuple.Create ("APT1077", "failed opening/creating"), // ERROR: failed opening/creating '%s' as Zip file
Tuple.Create ("APT1078", "as Zip file for writing"), // ERROR: unable to open '%s' as Zip file for writing
Tuple.Create ("APT1079", "as Zip file"), // ERROR: failed opening '%s' as Zip file
Tuple.Create ("APT1080", "included asset path"), // ERROR: included asset path %s could not be loaded
Tuple.Create ("APT1081", "getting 'android:name' attribute"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1082", "getting 'android:name'"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1083", "getting 'android:versionCode' attribute"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1084", "getting 'android:versionName' attribute"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1085", "getting 'android:compileSdkVersion' attribute"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1086", "getting 'android:installLocation' attribute"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1087", "getting 'android:icon' attribute"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1088", "getting 'android:testOnly' attribute"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1089", "getting 'android:banner' attribute"),
Tuple.Create ("APT1090", "getting 'android:isGame' attribute"),
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The Battle of Alamance, which took place on May 16, 1771, was the final battle of the Regulator Movement, a rebellion in colonial North Carolina over issues of taxation and local control, considered by some to be the opening salvo of the American Revolution. Named for nearby Great Alamance Creek, the battle took place in what was then Orange County and has since become Alamance County in the central Piedmont area, about south of present-day Burlington, North Carolina.
Background
In the spring of 1771, North Carolina Governor William Tryon left New Bern, mustering and marching approximately 1,000 militia troops westwards to address a rebellion that had been brewing in western counties for several years. It had up to this point included only minor, scattered acts of violence, followed by refusals to pay fees, disruptions of court proceedings, and continued harassment of government officials.
About 2,000 so-called "regulators" had gathered, hoping to gain concessions from Tryon by intimidating him with a show of superior force. Funded £6,000 by council member and wealthy merchant Samuel Cornell, on May 11, Tryon left the county seat of Hillsborough with his militia to confront the Regulators, who had made camp south of Great Alamance Creek in western Orange County.
Battle
On the evening of May 15, Tryon received word that the Regulators were camped about six miles away. The next morning, at about 8:00 am, Tryon's troops set out to a field about one-half mile from the camp of the Regulators. He formed two lines, and divided his artillery between the wings and the center of the first line. The Regulators remained disorganized, with no leadershipno officer ranked higher than captainand no anticipation of an attack, expecting that their superior numbers would frighten Tryon's militia.
Tryon sent one of his aides-de-camp, Captain Philemon Hawkins II, and the Sheriff of Orange County with a proclamation:
Alamance Camp, Thursday, May 16, 1771.
To Those Who Style Themselves "Regulators": In reply to your petition of yesterday, I am to acquaint you that I have ever been attentive to the interests of your County and to every individual residing therein. I lament the fatal necessity to which you have now reduced me by withdrawing yourselves from the mercy of the crown and from the laws of your country. To require you who are now assembled as Regulators, to quietly lay down your arms, to surrender up your leaders, to the laws of your country and rest on the leniency of the Government. By accepting these terms within one hour from the delivery of this dispatch, you will prevent an effusion of blood, as you are at this time in a state of rebellion against your King, your country, and your laws.
(Signed) William Tryon.
While the terms were being read, Tryon's troops began to move forward. Shortly after that, Tryon was informed that the Regulators had rejected his terms. Herman Husband, a Quaker, realizing violence was about to take place, left the area.
By midday the hour had expired. Tryon sent one final warning:
Gentlemen and Regulators: Those of you who are not too far committed should desist and quietly return to your homes, those of you who have laid yourselves liable should submit without resistance. I and others promise to obtain for you the best possible terms. The Governor will grant you nothing. You are unprepared for war! You have no cannon! You have no military training! You have no commanding officers to lead you in battle. You have no ammunition. You will be defeated!
Some of the Regulators petitioned Tryon to give up seven captured Regulators in exchange for two of his men that they had captured the previous day. Tryon agreed, but after a half an hour, the captured officers did not appear. He became suspicious that his positions were being flanked and ordered the militia to march within 30 yards of the Regulators. Shortly thereafter, a large crowd of Regulators appeared in front of the militia, waving their hats and daring the militia to open fire. At about this time, two men who had been attempting to negotiate a peace between the two sides left Tryon's camp: Reverend David Caldwell and Robert Thompson. Caldwell made it to the field between the two lines, but was warned by the Regulators, who saw that the Governor was about to open fire. Thompson was detained by Tryon as a prisoner. Tryon, in a moment of anger, took a musket from a militiaman and shot Thompson dead. Realizing what he had done, he sent a flag bearer named Donald Malcolm with a white flag in hopes of calming things quickly. The flag bearer was himself fired upon by the Regulators, who called out, "Fire and be damned".
The Regulators lacked the leadership, organization, and ammunition that Tryon had, but the early course of the battle went well for them. They employed what was referred to as "Indian style" fighting, hiding behind trees and avoiding structure and lines. This allowed two of the Regulators, brothers named McPherson, to capture one of Tryon's three cannons. Unfortunately for them, the Regulators had no ammunition and it could not be used. A man considered one of the principal military leaders of the Regulators, Captain Montgomery, was killed by a shell at about the same time a bullet hit Tryon's hat. The Governor sent a second white flag, but the aide-de-camp was killed while regulator Patrick Muller called for his fellow insurgents to cease fire. Outraged at the disregard of a second white flag, the Governor rallied his troops against the insurgents, whose ammunition was running out. Many of the Regulators fled the field. Delays prevented the 300 reinforcements under Captain Benjamin Merrill from arriving in time. Some of the Regulators remained behind to continue firing upon the militia. Tryon then ordered the woods to be set on fire.
Aftermath
Losses for both sides are disputed. Tryon reported nine dead and 61 wounded among the militia. Other historians indicate much greater numbers, between 15 and 27 killed. Both sides counted nine dead among the Regulators and from dozens to approximately two-hundred wounded. Tryon took 13 prisoners. One of them, James Few, was executed at the camp, and six were executed later in nearby Hillsborough. Many Regulators traveled on to frontier areas beyond North Carolina. Tryon pardoned others and allowed them to stay on the condition that they pledge an oath of allegiance to the royal government. The battle took place in what was then Orange County. During the American Revolution a decade later, the same section of Orange County (subdivided into Alamance County in 1849) saw several minor skirmishes, including the infamous Pyle's Hacking Match in 1781. Recent archaeological studies at the site have shown that the area now known as Alamance Battleground was also the site of another skirmish in the revolutionary war and of a civil war era Confederate encampment.
Order of battle
Provincial militia
According to Tryon's journal, the following men served under his command:
Major-generals: John Ashe and Thomas Lloyd
Lieutenant-generals: John Rutherford, Lewis Henry deRosset, John Sampson, Robert Palmer, Benjamin Heron, and Samuel Strudwick
Majors of brigade: Abner Nash and Robert Howe
Colonels: Alexander Osborne, Edmund Fanning, Robert Harris, James Sampson, Samuel Spencer, James Moore, and Maurice Moore
Lieutenant-colonels: John Frohock, Moses Alexander, Alexander Lillington, John Gray, Samuel Benton, and Robert Schaw
Majors: William Bullock, Walter Lindsay, Thomas Lloyd, Martin Fifer, and John Hinton
Alexander Lillington and James Moore were both American patriots at the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge
Richard Caswell was delegate to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia, one of the principal authors of the 1776 constitution of North Carolina, and the first governor of the newly independent state
Francis Nash, whose guilt for extortion precipitated the Regulator Movement, fought and died as an American patriot in the Revolution
Griffith Rutherford served as a brigadier general in Salisbury District Brigade of the North Carolina militia
Regulators
The following individuals were numbered as members of the Regulators:
Herman Husband
James Hunter – So-called "General of the Regulators", whose 1901 statue is now found at Alamance Battleground
James Few – executed at camp after the battle
Charles Harrington – died from wounds received at the battle
Abraham and John Helton
The following were excepted from pardons by Tryon:
Samuel Jones
Joshua Teague
Samuel Waggoner
Simon Dunn Jr.
Abraham Creson
Benjamin Merrit [Merrill]
James Wilkerson Sr.
Edward Smith
Malachi Fyke
John Bumpass
Joseph Boring
William Rankin
William Robeson
John Winkler
John Wilcox
Six men were found guilty of treason, but were pardoned at Tryon's behest:
Forest Mercer
James Stewart
James Emerson – later signed the Revolutionary War Patriots' Muster Roll as James Emison (Emmerson)
Hermon (or Harmon) Cox – his powder horn is now on display at Alamance Battleground
William Brown
James Copeland
Six men were found guilty of treason and were sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered, although in practice, they were only hanged:
Benjamin Merrill
Robert Matear (Matter)
Pugh
Captain Robert Messer
Peter Craven
Marmaduke Vickery
Historiography
Some historians in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries considered the battle to be a forerunner to the American Revolutionary War, and contemporaneous locals agreed with this assessment. Yet, this has been questioned by present-day historians arguing that the Regulators (though viewed in the eyes of Tryon and his allies as being in rebellion against King, country, and law) were not intending a complete overthrow of His Majesty's Government in North Carolina. They were only standing up against those certain local officials who had become corrupt and unworthy tools of the King, and they only turned to riot and armed rebellion as a last resort when all other peaceful means through petitions, elections to the Assembly, etc. had failed to redress their grievances. Many surviving ex-Regulators became loyalists during the Revolution, and several anti-Regulators [e.g. William Hooper, Alexander Martin, Francis Nash, and Samuel Johnston] became patriots during the Revolution.
Legacy
Visitors to Alamance Battleground State Historic Site may view the field of battle, memorialized in 1880 with a granite monument and a second monument in 1903. Today the site contains exhibits, period cannon, and colored flags representing troop positions. The visitors' center offers exhibits, artifacts, and a presentation on the battle. Visitors may also tour the onsite Allen House, a restored frontier farmstead of the period. The Battle of Alamance is further memorialized through an annual battle reenactment.
The battle features in the Diana Gabaldon novel, The Fiery Cross, and is depicted in the television adaptation, Outlander, in the fifth season's episode "The Ballad of Roger Mac" which first aired in 2020.
See also
Overmountain Men
Watauga Association
References
Breaking Loose Together: The Regulator Rebellion in Pre-Revolutionary North Carolina by Marjoleine Kars.
External links
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Military history of the Thirteen Colonies
Pre-statehood history of North Carolina
Pre-statehood history of South Carolina
Pre-statehood history of Tennessee
Tax resistance in the United States
1760s in the Thirteen Colonies
1770 in the Thirteen Colonies
1771 in the Thirteen Colonies
Battles in North Carolina
Conflicts in 1770
Conflicts in 1771
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"Harmony" is a song written by Jimbeau Hinson and Rick Ellsworth, and recorded by American country music artist John Conlee. It was released in February 1986 as the first single and title track from the album Harmony. The song reached #10 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.
Chart performance
References
1986 singles
1986 songs
John Conlee songs
Columbia Records singles
Songs written by Jimbeau Hinson |
Upon his return to New York in 1959 after a nearly a decade spent based in London, UK, Alan Lomax produced a concert, Folksong '59, in New York City's Carnegie Hall, featuring Arkansas singer Jimmy Driftwood; the Selah Jubilee Singers and Drexel Singers (gospel groups); Muddy Waters and Memphis Slim (blues); Earl Taylor and the Stoney Mountain Boys (bluegrass); Pete Seeger, Mike Seeger (urban folk revival); and The Cadillacs (a rock and roll group).
The occasion marked the first time bluegrass was performed on the Carnegie Hall stage. "The time has come for Americans not to be ashamed of what we go for, musically, from primitive ballads to rock 'n' roll songs," Lomax told the audience. According to Izzy Young, owner of the Folklore Center, and chronicler of the Greenwich Village folk music scene, the audience booed when Alan Lomax told them to lay down their prejudices and listen to rock 'n' roll.
In Young's opinion, "Lomax put on what is probably the turning point in American folk music . . . . At that concert, the point he was trying to make was that Negro and white music were mixing, and rock and roll was that thing."
According to Tina Aridas, writing in the DC Bluegrass Union:That night back in April of 1959 when Earl Taylor and the Stoney Mountain Boys played Carnegie Hall (along with Muddy Waters and Memphis Slim, Jimmy Driftwood, and Mike and Pete Seeger, among others). Curtis Cody, who was guesting on fiddle for the Baltimore-based bluegrass band, peeked through the curtains before the start of the show. The elegant hall was packed with Northern folk-music fans, as the first bluegrass group ever to perform at the elegant and historic concert hall — more accustomed to playing in bars in and around Baltimore — paced nervously backstage.Curtis turned to banjo player Walter Hensley and said, "Walt, I don't think they'll like us a bit." Walt recalls that his legs "were like Jell-O - and we had to play the fastest song we knew." But when Walt, with legs shaking, stepped out onto the stage before the assembled audience at Alan Lomax's Folksong '59 concert, Curtis recalls that "he played something on the banjo, and they tore that place up."
Curtis Cody wasn't alone in his assessment of the band's performance and the crowd's reaction. "There is true folk magic in every note Walt plays," according to Alan Lomax. Neil V. Rosenberg, in his book Bluegrass: A History, reports that "all agreed that of the various groups in the concert, Earl Taylor and the Stoney Mountain Boys were the hit of the evening." Years later in an article in Bluegrass Unlimited by Tom Ewing, Earl Taylor recalled, "When we would end a number, I knew that it would take five minutes before we could go into another one — that was how much rarin' and screamin' and hair-pullin' there was". The recording of that concert, released as an LP later that year on United Artists (Folksong Festival at Carnegie Hall, UAL 3049), influenced a generation of young musicians and new fans, many from urban areas in the North who were exposed to bluegrass for the first time.
Notes
References
Cohen, Ronald D. Rainbow Quest: The Folk Music Revival and American Society, 1940-1970. University of Massachusetts Press, 2002.
Rosenberg, Neil V. Bluegrass, a History University of Illinois Press, [1985] revised anniversary edition, 2005.
Internet Resources
| Tina Aridas, "Walter Hensley: The Banjo Baron of Baltimore" (Sept. 19, 2010), DC Bluegrass Union.
1959 in American music
1959 in New York City
1950s in Manhattan
April 1959 events in the United States
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Thomas Hochstrasser (born 13 July 1976) is a Swiss cyclist. He competed in the men's cross-country mountain biking event at the 2000 Summer Olympics.
References
External links
1976 births
Living people
Swiss male cyclists
Olympic cyclists for Switzerland
Cyclists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Place of birth missing (living people)
Swiss mountain bikers |
Fountain of the Centaurs is a fountain located on the grounds of the Missouri State Capitol in Jefferson City, Missouri, north of the Capitol building.
Description
The fountain consists of two separate components, the granite pool containing the bronze centaurs and other figures by Adolph Alexander Weinman and the Signing of the Louisiana Purchase Agreement, a large high relief by Karl Bitter. Both were dedicated in 1927.
Although the mythical beings in the fountain are labeled as “centaurs” they are in fact “ichthyocentaurs". This is because the lower portion of their bodies are sea serpents rather than horses. Each of the centaurs is portrayed in a struggle with some sort of creature of the waters. They both are surrounded by playful sea urchins who spray water on them.
Signing of the Treaty
After being named director of sculpture for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904, Bitter contributed several pieces to the array of sculpture at the event. Since it was all made of staff and thus perusable and “swept into the dust bins of time,” only his relief showing the signing of the Louisiana Purchase by Robert R. Livingston, James Monroe and “the amiable” François Barbé-Marbois was saved. Following the close of the fair, Bitter was employed to make “improvements in a score of delicate details” of the work and it was cast in bronze and placed in the Jefferson Memorial in St. Louis. Bitter was comfortable with the proposed changes and made them, “without any special thumbscrew to my conscience” A decade later, the Missouri Capitol Decoration Committee received permission from Bitter's widow to make another bronze casting of the work and place it in Jefferson City.
The relief is used on a US Postal stamp commemorating the 150th anniversary of the event.
References
Buildings and structures in Jefferson City, Missouri
Monuments and memorials in Missouri
Tourist attractions in Jefferson City, Missouri
1924 sculptures
Outdoor sculptures in Missouri
Nude sculptures in the United States
Statues of presidents of the United States
Sculptures of fish in the United States
Works by Adolph Weinman
Louisiana Purchase
Animal sculptures in the United States |
A (sometimes hyphenated as ; Breton for 'night festival') is a Breton traditional festival, with dancing in groups and live musicians playing acoustic instruments.
Although it is all too easy to write off the and as modern inventions, most of the traditional dances of the are ancient, some dating back to the Middle Ages, providing a way for the community to grasp hold of its past and relish a deep sense of being with ancestors and with place.
The plural in Breton is , but the Goadec Sisters (a family of traditional singers) used to say , and the French may also say in French .
On 5 December 2012 the was added by UNESCO to the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
Fest noz
A (plural ) is a traditional dance festival in Brittany. Most Breton dances are social dances, in a group. Currently, many are also held outside Brittany within diaspora, bringing the Breton culture to life outside Breton territory. This term is known since the end of the 19th century but is given as a name only since the 1950s.
In the past, the dances were sometimes used to trample the ground to make a firm earth floor in a house or a solid surface for farm work (the "aire neuve" dances), to which people from the neighbourhood were invited, which explains the presence of stamping movements in some of the dances. For a long time the church banned "kof-ha-kof" (stomach-to-stomach) dances, meaning dancing in pairs. These festivals were a chance for young people to meet and size each other up, on a social level, by their clothes, and to see how quickly they got tired, since dances sometimes continued for a long time and involved complex and swift steps that required effort and skill.
These days, are still very popular, mixing the different generations. Most of the villages have a at least once a year, organised by the sports clubs, the school, etc... It is a way to express their culture and identity, and to share common values with friends of a night. As in many group folk dances, one talks of sometimes reaching a trance state because of repetitive music, and physical exertion. During the summer and tourist season, in many ways, taking part in a is for many people like an alternative way of going to a night club.
The dances
There are hundreds of traditional dances, of which the most well-known are gavottes, , , , and Scottish. During the , most dances are practised in a chain or in a circle (everyone holds hands), but there are also dances in pairs and "choreographed" dances, meaning dances enriched with precise artistic elements (sequences, figures, etc.).
The major study on Breton dancing is "La tradition populaire de danse en Basse-Bretagne", book written from his thesis dissertation, by Jean-Michel Guilcher - new edition by Coop-Breizh - Chasse-Marée/Armen - 1995.
The music
There are principally two types of music at these festivals: music sung a cappella (), accompanied with music or purely instrumental. Before the invention of microphones and amplified instruments, the instruments that were most often used were the (a sort of oboe or shawm) and the Breton bagpipes (), due to their high volume. Also popular was the diatonic accordion, the clarinet, and occasionally the violin and the hurdy-gurdy. After the Second World War, the Scottish bagpipes () also became common in Brittany thanks to (pipe bands) and thus often replaced the . The basic clarinet (, 'cabbage core' in Breton) had all but disappeared but has regained popularity over the past few years.
Other than the traditional instruments, there are nowadays groups with many different styles of music ranging from rock, jazz, to punk and also mixes with styles from other countries. String instruments (the violin, the double-bass, the acoustic guitar, the electric guitar, the bass guitar) and North African percussion instruments have long since been adopted. To varying degrees, some groups also use electronic keyboards and synthesisers (Strobinell, Sonerien Du, Les Baragouineurs, Plantec, etc.). Brass instruments are becoming increasingly commonplace, often bringing with them sounds approaching those of Oriental music.
The programme
Just after the revival of the 1970s, the standard was to alternate a couple of singers (a cappella or ) and a couple of musicians ( and generally). It was common to see the holding of "free stages". Currently, couples of singers (kanerien) and couples of musicians (sonerien) play alternately with a band. Bands play more instrumental music and often the practice of the dance is different from the two other ways to conduct the dancers.
Between every "suite" (three dances), there are short breaks where dancers socialise by chatting to other dancers or visiting the traditional buffet of local dishes like , , , and , with local cider, beer, and , a mead-like drink made from fermented honey.
See also
Balfolk
dance
Music of Brittany
Faroese chain dance
References
External links
Official UNESCO video presentation
Fest Noz Spezet
Fest-noz included on the Unesco Intangible Heritage List - The official website of France (in English)
Social dance
Dance festivals in France
Breton words and phrases
Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity
Celtic music festivals |
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Clarksville, Tennessee, United States.
18th-19th centuries
1784 - Town platted; named Clarksville after military leader George Rogers Clark.
1788 - Blockhouse (fort) built.
1794 - November 11: "Native American attack repulsed at blockhouse."
1796 - Town becomes seat of newly formed Montgomery County.
1800 - Religious "revival at Red River" held near Clarksville.
1815 - Clarksville Chronicle newspaper in publication.
1820 - James E. Elder becomes mayor.
1822 - First Presbyterian Church founded.
1830
Tobacco stemmery in business.
Post House built (approximate date).
1846 - Clarksville Female Academy chartered.
1850 - Stewart College active.
1855 - City of Clarksville incorporated.
1860 - Memphis, Clarksville and Louisville Railroad begins operating.
1868 - Labor strike of the Memphis, Clarksville and Louisville Railroad.
1869 - Clarksville Tobacco Leaf newspaper begins publication.
1875 - Southwestern Presbyterian University active.
1878
Fire.
County courthouse constructed.
1882 - Madison Street Methodist Church built.
1888 - Star newspaper begins publication.
1889 - Times newspaper begins publication.
1890
Clarksville Evening Tobacco Leaf-Chronicle newspaper in publication.
Population: 7,924.
20th century
1905 - Herald newspaper begins publication.
1910 - January 6: Snowstorm.
1919 - First Woman's Bank established.
1922 - Confederate Monument installed in Greenwood Cemetery.
1923 - Public library established.
1925 - Southwestern Presbyterian University moves from Clarksville to Memphis.
1927 - Austin Peay Normal School founded.
1928 - Capitol Theatre in business.
1937 - January: Flood.
1940 - Population: 11,831.
1941
WJZM radio begins broadcasting.
Roxy Theatre in business.
1942 - U.S. military Camp Campbell begins operating near Clarksville.
1954 - WDXN radio begins broadcasting.
1955 - Sunset Drive-In cinema in business.
1959 - Clarksville-Montgomery County Public Library active.
1960
Clarksville–Montgomery County Regional Airport active.
Athlete Wilma Rudolph of Clarksville wins gold medal at 1960 Summer Olympics.
1970 - Population: 31,719.
1984 - Clarksville Montgomery County Museum established.
1990 - Population: 75,494.
1999 - January 22: Tornado.
2000 - Population: 103,455.
21st century
2003 - Marsha Blackburn becomes U.S. representative for Tennessee's 7th congressional district.
2010 - Population: 132,929.
2011 - Kim McMillan becomes mayor.
See also
Clarkville history
List of mayors of Clarksville, Tennessee
National Register of Historic Places listings in Montgomery County, Tennessee
Timelines of other cities in Tennessee: Chattanooga, Knoxville, Memphis, Murfreesboro, Nashville
References
Bibliography
. (Includes information about Clarksville)
(Includes information about Clarksville)
External links
Items related to Clarksville, Tennessee, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America)
Clarksville, Tennessee
Clarksville |
A chorale cantata is a church cantata based on a chorale—in this context a Lutheran chorale. It is principally from the German Baroque era. The organizing principle is the words and music of a Lutheran hymn. Usually a chorale cantata includes multiple movements or parts. Most chorale cantatas were written between approximately 1650 and 1750. By far the most famous are by Johann Sebastian Bach, especially the cantatas composed in his second annual cycle of cantatas, started in Leipzig in 1724.
Description
The chorale cantata developed out of the chorale concerto, an earlier form much used by Samuel Scheidt in the early 17th century, which incorporated elements of the Venetian School, such as the concertato style, into the liturgical music of the Protestant Reformation. Later the chorale cantata developed into three general forms:
a form in which each verse (strophe) of the chorale was developed as an independent movement;
a form in which the chorale appeared in some of the movements, perhaps only two, while the other parts of the cantata used other texts; and
the version pioneered by J. S. Bach, in which the first and last movements use the first and last strophes of the chorale, but the inner movements—perhaps aria and recitative—use paraphrases of the chorale text. Typically the beginning and ending movements use all the instrumental and vocal forces, while the interior movements are for smaller groups.
Most compositions in this genre were never published. It was common at the time for composers to write for local performances; often the composer and the music director at a church were the same person, and the music was written, copied and performed in short order, remaining in manuscript. Some 95% of all compositions of this type have been lost.
Composers
Composers of chorale cantatas include:
Baroque
Samuel Scheidt
Johann Andreas Herbst
Johann Erasmus Kindermann
Franz Tunder
Nicolaus Bruhns
Dieterich Buxtehude
Johann Krieger
Sebastian Knüpfer
Johann Schelle
Johann Pachelbel, e.g. his sacred concerto Christ lag in Todesbanden, P 60, with one movement for each of the "Christ lag in Todesbanden" hymn's seven stanzas.
Johann Rosenmüller
Johannes Crüger
Joachim Gerstenbüttel
Georg Bronner
Christoph Graupner
Johann Kuhnau
Georg Philipp Telemann
Johann Sebastian Bach
Post-Baroque
Felix Mendelssohn (Verleih uns Frieden, Vom Himmel hoch)
Arnold Mendelssohn
References
Articles "Chorale cantata", "Chorale settings", in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. Stanley Sadie. 20 vol. London, Macmillan Publishers Ltd., 1980.
Manfred Bukofzer, Music in the Baroque Era. New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 1947.
German music history
Baroque music
Classical church music |
The CWA World Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship in the American promotion, the Continental Wrestling Association. It existed from 1979 to 1981.
Title history
Footnotes
See also
Continental Wrestling Association
CWA World Tag Team Championship
References
World heavyweight wrestling championships
Continental Wrestling Association championships
Professional wrestling in Memphis, Tennessee |
The European Association of Political Consultants (EAPC) is the professional association of political consultants in Europe, with members from over 20 countries. Although the foundation of The EAPC was started in 1996 in Vienna, the association's current organization was formally established in Leibnitz in 2002. The EAPC is a platform for exchanging ideas between political consultants and is committed to supporting the development of democratic structures in Europe.
The current president is Gülfem Saydan Sanver from Turkey. Vice-presidents are Reza Kazemi from Germany, Torbjörn Sjöström from Sweden and Ana Fernandes from Portugal.
Past presidents include Igor Mintusov, Marko Rakar, Jan Juul Christensen, Gerlinde Manz-Christ of Liechtenstein, Necati Özkan, Christoph Hofinger, Volker Riegger, Mario Ballerini, Andrey Bulychev, Mehmet Ural and Bo Krogvig.
Activities
The EAPC co-organises annual conferences, the EAPC Master Class and the annual Polaris Awards for excellence in the field of political consulting under a number of categories. Entries are accepted from across Europe and prizes in the international categories have been awarded to outfits across the world.
Whilst it takes no commercial position, the EAPC seeks to engender best practice amongst political consultants, particularly when it comes to ethical issues.
Concern about the potential for 'video photoshop' to mislead voters was expressed in the EAPC's London conference in March 2018.
In May 2018, the EAPC commented publicly on the activities of Cambridge Analytica following the firm's use of honeytraps to exert influence on candidates and the wider voting public. The association said in a statement, “Campaign consultants SCL/Cambridge Analytica appear to have crossed the line in terms of professional and ethical responsibilities. There are clearly concerns that have been raised about using “honey-traps” and actions that may have exerted inappropriate influence on both candidates and the voting public. We strongly encourage all members to be fully open and transparent, and to challenge client requests for work that may be less than fair and honest or against the interests of democracy.”
Members of the Board of Directors of the EAPC
The European Association of Political Consultants is led by an elected Board of Directors.
The following people are currently representing the EAPC as Board Members.
Annual Conference
The EAPC holds its annual conference in a different European City each year.
The 15th annual conference was held in Vienna, Austria in 2010.
The 16th annual conference was held in Madrid, Spain in 2011.
The 17th annual conference was held in Dubrovnik, Croatia from May 10 to 12, 2012.
The 18th annual conference was held in Milano, Italy in 2013.
The 19th annual conference was held in St. Petersburg, Russa in 2014.
The 20th annual conference was held in Istanbul, Turkey between 8 and 9 May 2015, with a keynote speech delivered by video link by former Deputy Chief of Staff at the White House and campaign manager for Barack Obama, Jim Messina.
The 21st annual conference was held in Copenhagen, Denmark on 20 and 21 May 2016.
The 22nd annual conference was held in Brussels, Belgium between 28 and 31 May 2017. Keynote speakers included former Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou and former US Presidential candidate and DNC chair Howard Dean.
The 23rd annual conference was held in London, UK on 13 and 14 March 2018. Speakers included George Papandreou, former UK Health Minister Stephen Dorrell, Baroness Jenkin and political scientist John Curtice.
The 24rd annual conference was held in Athens, Greece between 30 and 31 May 2019.
References
External links
Official website
EAPC conference 2019
Pan-European trade and professional organizations
Political organizations based in Europe |
Zach Mecelis (Žilvinas Mecelis) is a Lithuanian investor and philanthropist.
Life and career
Mecelis grew up in Plungė and at the age of 19 he went to study in the USA. In 2003 he earned B.A. in finance from Pace University.
Mecelis’ finance career began in New York City, at Wall Street, with Zimmer Lucas Partners.
When Lithuania joined the European Union, he moved to London, as he explained, because of too high taxes in America. In 2003 he earned B.A. in finance from Pace University. He joined GLG Partners LP in London. In 2006 and 2007, he was voted and ranked #1 by European energy executives as a top analyst in the Thomson Reuters Extel poll. In 2009, Mecelis moved to Noble Group, a Fortune 500 company, where he set up Arc Asset Management.
In 2012, Mecelis co-founded an investment management firm, Covalis Capital, a joint British-Lithuanian employee-owned venture. Mecelis leads the firm’s global strategy and a global team in London and New York offices, managing multi billion euros as of 2020.
In 2020, Mecelis announced a 500 million euro fund to take advantage of sharp stock market moves during quarantine. Similarly, in 2021, Mecelis launched a fund to profit from trends in ESG investing. Mecelis is also the founder of Nature Infrastructure Capital, an energy transition, special situation private equity firm.
Mecelis donated 250,000 euros to medical institutions and initiatives in Lithuania. he is known as the private person who donated the most to the fight against COVID in Lithuania. Since 2018, he has been one of the Vilnius MO Museum’s sponsors.
In 2020 he was a nominee for Global Lithuanian Awards, awards for persons from the Lithuanian diaspora, in category "For Global Experience against Pandemic Challenges".
References
Lithuanian businesspeople
Lithuanian philanthropists
1980 births
Living people
Pace University alumni |
Raúl García may refer to:
Politicians
Raúl Roa García (1907–1982), Cuban intellectual, politician and diplomat
Sportspeople
Association football
Raúl García (footballer, born 1959), Peru international left-back
Raúl García (footballer, born 1962) (1962–2018), El Salvador international goalkeeper
Raúl García (footballer, born 1976), Spanish defender
Raúl García (footballer, born 1980), Spanish centre-back
Raúl García (footballer, born 1986), Spain international midfielder
Raúl García (footballer, born 1989), Spanish left-back
Raúl García (footballer, born 2000), Spanish forward
Other sports
Raúl García (basketball) (1924–2013), Cuban Olympic basketball player
Raúl García (swimmer) (1930–2020), Cuban Olympic swimmer
Raúl García (wrestler) (born 1943), Mexican Olympic wrestler
Raül García Paolicchi (born 1952), Andorran chess player
Raúl García (field hockey) (born 1959), Cuban Olympic hockey player
Raúl García Castán (born 1970), Spanish mountain runner and sky runner
Raúl García (boxer) (born 1982), Mexican professional boxer
Fictional people
Raul Garcia (The Messengers), fictional character |
Dragon and Thief is a science fiction/adventure novel published in 2003 by Timothy Zahn. It is the first of a six-part series, concluded in 2008, following the adventures of a reformed juvenile thief alongside a draconoid 'symbiont'.
Characters
Jack Morgan is a fourteen-year-old boy, raised by his adoptive uncle, Virgil Morgan, as a professional thief and confidence artist but presently interested in reform. Throughout the first book, he lives aboard the starship Essenay, protected by an artificial intelligence mimicking his uncle.
Draycos is a 'k'da': a pseudo-reptile resembling a wingless dragon, requiring periodic physical contact with an anthropoid host to retain existence, and in return serving the host as bodyguard. Deprived of his customary host in battle, he befriends Jack Morgan to identify his attackers.
Virgil Morgan, the adoptive uncle of Jack, is a professional thief and confidence artist, notorious throughout the Orion Arm, and therefore sought as an ally by the story's antagonists; but has died before the events of the initial book, and is represented largely in Jack's memories. Because his death is kept secret by Jack, he is believed alive by supporting characters until the final book.
Uncle Virge is the artificial intelligence guiding the starship Essenay. Being created to mimic the late Virgil, he is the reader's chief source of information upon the latter, and serves as devil's advocate in any discussion by Jack, Draycos, and himself of future plans.
Arthur Neverlin is the chairman of the board of Braxton Universis, an interstellar megacorporation, who arranges to frame Jack Morgan for theft, and later murder, in order to interest Virgil Morgan in Neverlin's own feud with Cornelius Braxton, his superior.
Lieutenant Raven is Neverlin's subordinate, who frames Jack for theft by planting dry ice in place of cargo, and later for murder by killing two noncombatants. Himself killed by Draycos.
Drabs is Raven's subordinate.
Cornelius Braxton is the founder and CEO of Braxton Universis; nearly assassinated by Neverlin, but saved by Jack and Draycos.
Harper is Braxton's bodyguard and gatekeeper.
Polphir is Draycos' former host, who dies in battle. He is shontine, a race similar to humans.
Plot
After two years in space, the two species Shontine and K'da reach Iota Klestis, the world they have bought to flee from their enemies, the Valaghua; but are attacked by mercenary starships using the Valaghua's weapon, known as the Death. Of the crew, only Draycos survives; later to acquire Jack as host. They are twice attacked by human soldiers, of whom they imprison one and render the other senseless; but prevent the second from probable death. In leaving Iota Klestis, they are attacked by two other spacecraft, but escape when Draycos frightens these into collision. Thereafter Draycos explains that he is part of an 'advance team' of refugees fleeing the Valaghua, and must now discover who revealed their arrival to enemies. Because Jack is in danger of arrest for a theft he did not commit, they travel to the planet Vagran, to clear his name. There, Jack deduces that the stolen cargo consisted solely of dry ice, and was entrusted to him to ensure his blame for disappearance of a non-extant machine. Pursued by Drabs and Raven, they conceal themselves among the local 'Wistawki', masquerading as entertainers at a wedding party. Upon leaving this, they are ambushed by Lieutenant Raven and two other soldiers, who frame Jack for murder by killing two Wistawki, then transfer him unconscious to the spacecraft Advocatus Diaboli. Here, Jack is assigned by Neverlin to exchange a genetic sample for an unidentified poison, aboard the spaceborne luxury liner Star of Wonder. Having obtained the original device, Jack and Draycos offer it directly to the owner (identified belatedly as Cornelius Braxton), only to be captured at once by Raven and his subordinates Vance and Meyers. These then transfer Braxton, Jack, and the concealed Draycos to a cargo bay, intending to suffocate them in an airlock; but Vance and Meyers are struck senseless by Draycos, and Raven killed. Cornelius Braxton then clears Jack's name of criminal charges; but after Jack leaves, orders an investigation of Jack and his uncle, and of the mark made by Draycos to distinguish the true genetic sample from the false.
Publication history
2003, United States, Tor, Pub date February 2003, Hardback and Softcover
Sequels
This book is the first of six, whereof the titles combine the phrase 'Dragon and[...]' with the name of Jack's temporary vocation. The second of the series is Dragon and Soldier; the third Dragon and Slave, etc.
Awards and nominations
American Library Association: Best Library Book for Young Adults
Reception
Publishers Weekly says "Zahn keeps the story moving at a breakneck pace, maintaining excitement even when the plot becomes clichéd."
Kirkus Reviews calls it "A palatable adventure for a young audience, well paced and smoothly narrated."
References
http://us.macmillan.com/dragonandthief
External links
Amazon.com's review of the book
The publisher's listing for the book
Disambiguation
This book is not to be confused with The Dragon and the Thief by Gillian Bradshaw.
Novels by Timothy Zahn
2003 American novels
American science fiction novels
Novels about orphans |
The 1992 Algerian coup d'état took place on 11 January 1992. Concerned by the FIS (Islamic Salvation Front) victory in the first round of the 1991 Algerian legislative election, the army took action and cancelled the electoral process to prevent the forming of an Islamic state in Algeria. The army forced president Chadli Bendjedid to resign and brought in the exiled Mohamed Boudiaf to serve as the new president. The military argued that they had done this to "safeguard Algeria's republican institutions from political and radical Islamists" and to prevent Algeria from turning into a theocratic state.
Background
Preceding the coup were social-political-economic problems such as a 1986 collapse of oil prices (at the time 95% of Algerian exports and 60% of the government budget came from petroleum), a population explosion without jobs or housing to accommodate it, rhetoric of Third World socialism solidarity by the party and government masking "corruption on a grand scale" (and discrediting the "vocabulary of socialism"), a concentration of power and resources by the military and FLN party elite originating from the east-side of Algeria. The ruling FLN (National Liberation Front (Algeria)) "banned all opposition" but the oil money used to pacify the population had been decimated. On 4 October 1988, massive riots and destruction by the urban poor was met with "ruthless" police response killing hundreds.
In 1989, the FIS was founded. It was influenced by the Muslim Brotherhood and quickly gained popularity in Algeria. It won control of many local governments in the June 1990 municipal elections, and won the first round of the Algerian legislative election in December 1991 with twice as many votes as the ruling FLN. The FIS had made open threats against the ruling pouvoir, condemning them as unpatriotic and pro-French, as well as financially corrupt. Additionally, FIS leadership was at best divided on the desirability of democracy, and some Algerian non-Islamists expressed fears that a FIS government would be, as U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Edward Djerejian put it, "one person, one vote, one time."
Plot
A secret meeting was held in December 1991 to discuss the options available to the military, attended by all senior generals including Khaled Nezzar, Abdelmalek Guenaizia, leaders of the navy, gendarmerie and security services. They agreed that the FIS's path to victory should be blocked by using constitutional mechanisms rather than by physical force. They also decided that president Chadli Bendjedid had to resign because this would force the suspension of the second round of the election.
Coup
On 11 January 1992, the army took power and forced president Chadli Bendjedid to resign. Chadli appeared on national television and announced his resignation in a quiet voice: "Given the difficulty and gravity of the current situation, I consider my resignation necessary to protect the unity of the people and the security of the country". He was replaced with a High Council of State. The army then moved onto the streets of Algiers the next day as tanks and troops guarded important locations in the city, and suspended the electoral process. The High Council of State announced the appointment of a HCE as a collective successor to Chadli, comprising Khaled Nezzar, Ali Kafi, Tijani Haddam, Ali Haroun and Mohamed Boudiaf.
Mohamed Boudiaf was appointed the new president of Algeria. He arrived from Morocco after an official absence of 28 years in exile. He was chosen to give the regime a fresh image and an enhanced sense of legitimacy to attract popular support for the regime, but was assassinated several months later in June. The army then rounded up tens of thousands of Muslims who supported the FIS and put them in camps in the middle of the Algerian Desert.
Reaction
According to John Enteils, "the Arab world had never before experienced such a genuinely populist expression of democratic aspirations… Yet when the army overturned the whole democratic experiment in January 1992, the United States willingly accepted the results… In short, a democratically elected Islamist government hostile to American hegemonic aspirations in the region… was considered unacceptable in Washington."
Arguments against this line include that Washington's influence was likely limited with Algeria's ruling party, the anti-capitalist, anti-secular, anti-European culture, pro-Islamic identity third world socialist FLN; that after its massive 1990 municipal elections victory, the FIS was praised for its virtue in governance, but the solutions it offered to Algeria's problems -- forced hijab, separate swimming areas, banning French culture and any use of the French language, liquor stores, video shops, enforcing sharia law in general -- however popular, were unlikely to be much help against Algeria's long-term problems; that while the Islamists were very much in favor of the opportunity to gain power through
democratic elections, that doesn't mean they would have surrendered power after elections later on, and statements by its leaders before the coup, as well as the
killings of hundreds of civilians, foreign and domestic, by Islamist guerillas in the subsequent bloody and destructive civil war do not inspire confidence that it would have, if the coup had never happened.
References
1990s coups d'état and coup attempts
1992 in Algeria
Algerian Civil War
Military coups in Algeria |
Kraljevica (known as Porto Re in Italian and literally translated as "King's cove" in English) is a town in the Kvarner region of Croatia, located between Rijeka and Crikvenica, approximately thirty kilometers from Opatija and near the entrance to the bridge to the island of Krk. The population of the settlement of Kraljevica itself is 2,857 with a total of 4,618 in the area of the Town of Kraljevica, which is part of Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, and includes Šmrika. The town is known for its shipyard which has built a number of ships for the Croatian navy.
History
Kraljevica is a town that was written about as early as the 13th century. Today, in addition to having the oldest shipyard on the Adriatic, Kraljevica's skyline is dominated by two medieval castles and a church of the Croatian nobles Zrinski and Frankopan. Kraljevica's shipyard employed Josip Broz Tito, the former leader of Yugoslavia, during the first half of the 20th century in his early years of organizing for the Communist Party. After he became marshal of Yugoslavia following World War II the shipyard took his name, until democratic changes in the 1990s. Kraljevica was the site of an Italian-run concentration camp during WW II.
Today Kraljevica is also a popular tourist destination on the Adriatic coast. The Krk Bridge is located nearby, in the southeast part of the city.
Population
References
Cities and towns in Croatia
Populated places in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County |
Halystina globulus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Seguenziidae. The scientific name of Halystina globulus comes from the Greek words "Halys" (meaning sea) and "Stena" (meaning chest), referring to the location of the snail's body within its shell.
Description
Halystina globulus has a small, smooth, and glossy shell that is globular or oval-shaped, with a height of up to 5 mm and a width of up to 4 mm. The shell is thin, fragile, and translucent, with a white to yellowish-brown coloration. The snail has a small, conical spire and a round aperture with a thin, sharp outer lip. The surface of the shell is smooth, with fine and closely spaced growth lines and a few spiral lines on the base. The operculum is thin and corneous, with a brown coloration.
Distribution
Halystina globulus is found in deep waters of the Southwest Pacific Ocean, specifically around New Zealand and Australia.
Habitat
Halystina globulus is a benthic species that is at depths ranging from 200 to 1,100 meters, and it typically lives on muddy or sandy substrates. It is commonly found in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, including off the coast of Chile, Peru, and Ecuador. Due to its deep-water habitat, humans do not commonly encounter the species.
References
External links
globulus
Gastropods described in 2006 |
Samat is a village in the Mudurnu District of Bolu Province in Turkey. Its population is 346 (2021).
References
Villages in Mudurnu District |
The 2010 season of the Polish American Football League (PLFA I) was the 5th season played by the major american football league in Poland. Regular season play was held from March 27 to July 4, 2010. The Polish champion title was eventually won by the Devils Wrocław when they defeated The Crew Wrocław; the Polish Bowl championship game, at the Niskie Ląki stadium in Wrocław, Lower Silesian Voivodeship on July 24.
Regular season
Playoffs
Top four teams was qualify to the play-offs.
Bracket
Semi-finals
July 10, Wrocław
The Crew vs. Seahawks 49:0
July 11, Wrocław
Devils vs. Eagles 54:13
Polish Bowl V
July 24, 2010
Wrocław
Niskie Łąki stadium
Attendance: 1,200
MVP: Dawid Tarczyński (Devils)
See also
2010 in sports
References
External links
Polish American Football Association
Polish American Football League seasons
Poland
Plfa Season, 2010 |
The Akron Cemetery is a historic cemetery in rural southeastern Independence County, Arkansas. The cemetery is located on the west side of Arkansas Highway 122, about south of Newark, on top of a Native American mound. With its oldest recorded burial dating to 1829, it is possibly the oldest cemetery in the county, and is known to be the burial site of some of the Newark area's earliest settlers. It is all that survives of the community of Big Bottom, and early settlement that was renamed Akron in 1880, and was abandoned around 1940.
The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.
See also
Walnut Grove Cemetery
National Register of Historic Places listings in Independence County, Arkansas
References
External links
Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas
Cultural infrastructure completed in 1829
National Register of Historic Places in Independence County, Arkansas
1829 establishments in Arkansas Territory
Mounds in Arkansas
Cemeteries established in the 1820s |
METI International, known simply as METI, is a non-profit research organization founded in July 2015 by Douglas Vakoch that creates and transmits interstellar messages to attempt to communicate with extraterrestrial civilizations. It is based in San Francisco, California.
Overview
METI targets nearby stars and researches the nature of the messages to send. On October 16, 17, and 18, 2017, it sent a message consisting of a scientific and mathematical tutorial to the red dwarf Luyten's Star, just over 12 light years from Earth. The message was sent from a radio transmitter at the EISCAT research facility in Tromsø, Norway. One of METI's missions is to examine people's views of transmitting interstellar messages.
METI's aim is to build an interdisciplinary community to design interstellar messages, within the context of the evolution of intelligence and language. In May 2016, it convened the meeting “The Intelligence Of SETI: Cognition And Communication In Extraterrestrial Intelligence” in Puerto Rico. In May 2018 in Los Angeles, it held “Language in the Cosmos” in conjunction with the International Space Development Conference. to examine the connection between astrobiology and linguistics. On March 22, 2017, it held a workshop in Paris examining the question "What is life?" from an extraterrestrial perspective.
METI also conducts an optical search of extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). Its optical observatory in Panama looks for laser pulses from advanced civilizations. It has examined anomalous stars like the nearby red dwarf star Ross 128, as well as HD 164595, 94 light years from Earth. None of the searches has yielded evidence of artificial signals.
Criticism
American scientist and science-fiction author David Brin has questioned "whether small groups of zealots should bypass all institutions, peer critique, risk appraisal or public opinion, to shout ‘yoohoo’ into a potentially hazardous cosmos" and so force a fait accompli on humanity.
Numerous other authors and scientists have expressed similar concerns, generally known as the Dark forest hypothesis of ETI, including Stephen Hawking. Of particular interest in science fiction is Cixin Liu's Remembrance of Earth's Past, exploring the theory and some of its implications.
Notable members
Notable members of METI's Board of Directors and Advisory Council include:
Iván Almár, Consultant, Konkoly Observatory of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
Setsuko Aoki, Professor of Policy Management, Keio University, Japan
, Ethics Advisor, Centre national d'études spatiales (CNES), France
Jerome H. Barkow, Professor Emeritus of Social Anthropology, Dalhousie University, Canada
Nelly Ben Hayoun, Designer of Experiences, Nelly Ben Hayoun Studios, UK
Lowry Burgess, Professor of Art, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Kerri Chandler, Founder of Madhouse Records, USA
Nathaniel C. Comfort, Professor of History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, USA
Paul Davies, Regents' Professor and Director of the Beyond Center, Arizona State University, USA
Steven J. Dick, Former Chief Historian, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), USA
David Dunér, Professor of History of Science and Ideas, Lund University, Sweden
George Dvorsky, chair of the board, Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, Canada
José Gabriel Funes, Professor of Philosophy of Nature, Catholic University of Córdoba, Argentina
Ellen Howell, Senior Research Astronomer, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, USA
Chris Impey, Associate Dean, College of Science and Distinguished Professor of Astronomy, University of Arizona, USA
Mary Lee Jensvold, Director of the Chimpanzee and Human Communication Institute (CHCI), Central Washington University, USA
James Kasting, Evan Pugh University Professor, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Arik Kershenbaum, Fellow of Girton College at the University of Cambridge, and author of The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy, UK
, Researcher and Science Policy Consultant, UNESCO, Argentina
Jeffrey A. Lockwood, Professor of Natural Sciences and Humanities, University of Wyoming, USA
Roger Malina, Arts and Technology Distinguished Chair and Professor of Physics, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Lori Marino, Founder and executive director, Kimmela Center for Animal Advocacy, Inc., USA
David Messerschmitt, Roger A. Strauch Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Anson Mount, Actor; known for his portrayal of fictional character, Cullen Bohannon, in the AMC western drama series, Hell on Wheels, and Captain Christopher Pike in season two of Star Trek: Discovery and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, USA
, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Vienna, Austria
Alexander Ollongren, Professor Emeritus at Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), Leiden University, Netherlands
Serpil Oppermann, Past President, EASCLE (European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture, and the Environment), Turkey
Irene Pepperberg, Research Associate, Harvard University, USA
Ted Peters, Research Professor Emeritus in Systematic Theology and Ethics, Graduate Theological Union (GTU), USA
Stephen G. Post, Director, Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics, Stony Brook University, USA
Ian Roberts, Professor of Linguistics, University of Cambridge, UK
Holmes Rolston III, University Distinguished Professor and Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, Colorado State University, USA
Vandana Singh, Professor and Chair of Physics and Earth Sciences, Framingham State University, USA
Susan Stryker, Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and Director of the Institute for LGBT Studies, University of Arizona, USA
John Traphagan, Professor of Religious Studies and Anthropology and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Fellow, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Douglas Vakoch, President of METI, USA
Ariel Waldman, Global Director, Science Hack Day, USA
See also
Active SETI — METI (Messaging to Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence)
Fermi paradox — Lack of evidence that extraterrestrials exist
Zoo hypothesis — Hypothesis that suggests humanity is effectively caged on Earth
References
External links
METI Website
Search for extraterrestrial intelligence
Astrobiology
Space organizations
Science and technology in the San Francisco Bay Area
Research institutes in the San Francisco Bay Area
Science and technology in California
Research institutes in California
Non-profit organizations based in California
Non-profit organizations based in San Francisco
Organizations based in San Francisco
Organizations based in California
Charities based in California |
The small Samoan flying fox (Pteropus allenorum) is a species of fruit-eating megabat whose type specimen was originally collected in Samoa in 1856, but was not identified as a new species until 2009. Its wingspan was at least two feet, and it weighed around 8 oz. As the type specimen is dead, and no other examples of the species are known, it is believed to be extinct.
References
Pteropus
Mammals described in 2009
Mammal extinctions since 1500 |
```shell
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# vim:ts=4:sts=4:sw=4:et
#
# Author: Hari Sekhon
# Date: 2020-03-24 15:36:53 +0000 (Tue, 24 Mar 2020)
#
# path_to_url
#
#
# If you're using my code you're welcome to connect with me on LinkedIn and optionally send me feedback to help steer this or other code I publish
#
# path_to_url
#
set -euo pipefail
[ -n "${DEBUG:-}" ] && set -x
srcdir="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)"
# shellcheck disable=SC1090,SC1091
. "$srcdir/lib/utils.sh"
# used by usage() in lib/utils.sh
# shellcheck disable=SC2034
usage_description="Returns a list of Shippable projects ids and names, or a single project name if the project id is given as an arg"
# shellcheck disable=SC2034
usage_args="[<project_id>]"
if [ -z "${SHIPPABLE_ACCOUNT_ID:-}" ]; then
usage "SHIPPABLE_ACCOUNT_ID environment variable is not set (get this value from your Web UI Dashboard)"
fi
help_usage "$@"
project_id=""
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project_id="$1"
shift || :
fi
if [ -n "$project_id" ] &&
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usage "invalid project id '$project_id' argument specified, must be alphanumeric"
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jq_query="$jq_query_common"
fi
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jq -r "$jq_query"
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Bangladesh Water Development Board is a government agency which is responsible for surface water and ground water management in Bangladesh and is located in Dhaka. As of 2023, Md. Mahbur Rahman is the director general of the board.
History
In 1954 to 1956 there were a series of consecutive floods in East Pakistan. J A Crug, US state department official lead a mission to investigate and recommend solutions. On their recommendation East Pakistan Water and Power Development Authority was formed for water management. After the Independence of Bangladesh, the authority was split into Bangladesh Water Development Board and Bangladesh Power Development Board. It is under the Ministry of Water Resources. It manages irrigation, flood control and drainage system.
See also
Char Development and Settlement Project
References
1972 establishments in Bangladesh
Government agencies of Bangladesh
Organisations based in Dhaka
Water organizations
Water supply and sanitation in Bangladesh
Water management authorities in Bangladesh |
Lucien Saint (26 April 1867 – 24 February 1938) was a French administrator and politician.
Early years
Lucien Charles Xavier Saint was born on 26 April 1867 in Évreux, Eure, where his father was a doctor.
He obtained a law degree in Paris, and began his career as a lawyer before entering the prefectorial service in 1896 as a chief of staff.
He was chief of staff of the prefecture of Aube, then sub-prefect of Rochefort.
In 1902 he married the daughter of Georges Trouillot, the Minister of Commerce, and became chief of staff to his father-in-law.
He was next chief of staff to the Minister Jean Cruppi.
He was appointed prefect of Nièvre in 1906, then of Ille-et-Vilaine in 1909.
World War I (1914–1918) began in July 1914.
In 1915 he was appointed Prefect of Toulouse, and in 1918 to Bouches-du-Rhône.
In 1919 he was appointed by Georges Clemenceau to organize reconstruction of the Aisne department, which had been devastated by the war.
Tunisia
Lucien Saint was appointed Minister Plenipotentiary first class and Resident General in the French protectorate of Tunisia from 1 January 1921 to 2 January 1929.
He was responsible for creating four types of elected councils in Tunisia:
Caïd councils, mainly reserved for Tunisians and given an advisory role in economic matters
Regional Councils, composed of French and Tunisian members, with an advisory role in the economic sphere and responsible for distributing certain subsidies between caïdats and municipalities
The Grand Council, with a French section and a Tunisian section, to examine the budget of the regency
The arbitration committee of the Grand Council, which governed disputes between the two sections of the Grand Council.
These reforms created a degree of decentralization, and also a degree of association between the leading Tunisian and French figures.
Morocco
Lucien Saint was appointed Resident General in Morocco from 2 January 1929 to 29 July 1933.
In this capacity, he was committed to completing the work of Marshal Hubert Lyautey by extending the authority of the makhzen
while completing French occupation of the territory.
It was during his residency that one of the last bastions of Berber resistance in Morocco joined the makhzen, that of the Aït Atta refugees in Jbel Saghro led by Sheikh Assou Oubasslam.
As resident general, Lucien Saint invited the sultan of Morocco, Moulay Mohammed (later Mohammed V), his grand vizier and his interpreter to Marignac on 26 July 1929 as part of their stay in Bagnères-de-Luchon, and their signatures in Arabic script are in the town's register.
Later career
Lucien Saint became mayor of Marignac from 1933 to 1938.
During the World War I, during one of his tours of prefect, he fell in love with the town and bought the property of Sacère.
The name of Saint Lucien remains attached to an academic group that he brought to the commune in 1935.
He was elected Senator of the Haute-Garonne on 10 January 1933.
He joined the Democratic Left group, and sat on committees on Foreign Affairs, Colonies, Algeria and Air.
Saint died of heart disease on 24 February 1938 at his home of Sacère near Marignac. He was 71 years old.
He is buried in the cemetery of Marignac.
A speech that Édouard Daladier delivered in 1933 to honor him is inscribed on his stele.
Awards
Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor
Cross of war
Prefect Emeritus of the Haute-Garonne
References
Citations
Sources
1867 births
1938 deaths
French residents-general in Tunisia
Resident generals of Morocco
Senators of Haute-Garonne |
Castigloine del Genovesi is a town and comune in the province of Salerno in the Campania region of south-western Italy.
Until 1862 it was known simply as Castiglione. It takes its current name from the philosopher and economist Antonio Genovesi, who was born here in 1713.
Located on the hillside below the Monte Monna, part of the Monti Picentini Regional Park, Castiglione borders with the municipalities of Baronissi, Fisciano, Giffoni Sei Casali, Salerno, San Cipriano Picentino and San Mango Piemonte.
References
External links
Official website
Cities and towns in Campania |
Atarfe is a Spanish city in the north central part of the Vega of Granada in the province of Granada, Andalusia. It borders the municipalities of Moclín, Colomera, Albolote, Maracena, Granada, Santa Fe, and Pinos Puente. By this village run the Rivers Cubillas and Colomera. Its districts include Caparacena, Sierra Elvira, Hurpe and Cubillas.
History
The Granada dictionary of toponyms by Amador Diaz Garcia and Manuel Barrios Aguilera says that its name comes from the Arabic al-Taraf, which in Granada would be a-tarf dialect, meaning strut, probably related to its Castillejo and Colorao peaks.
This view is also shared by the linguist Jesus Martinez del Castillo. Other views situate its origin in the artarf Arabic word which means limit, as it was the limit in the vicinity of the city of Elvira. There seems to be, as some have thought, a Moorish dynasty Tarfe, a close relative of the kings of Granada. The first civilizations that settled into the soil date from the Neolithic, Iberian and Roman close to them, under whose domination Ilíberis city was founded in the foothills of Sierra Elvira. During the Caliphate, the city was renamed Elvira, and achieved great splendor as the capital of the Kūra, one of the most important of Al-Andalus.
The decisive Battle of Higueruela between the troops of Juan II and King Muhammed IX of Granada took place a short distance from the city center of the village, precisely in the annex of Sierra Elvira. In July 1486, during the Battle of the Acequia Gorda, where died Martin Vazquez de Arce, better known as the Doncel Siguenza. It definitively became a Castilian power after the battle.) At the church, in around 1570, the Moors of Albolote, Atarfe, Armilla, Belicena and Pinos Puente, met in order to be ken to Castile.
Politics
Atarfe results of the last municipal elections, held on May 24, 2015 :
Atarfe results of the municipal elections of 2011:
Monuments
Church of the Incarnation. Erected as a copy of the Metropolitan Church of Granada promoted in 1501, stands on the place where the old mosque Xini was, as published in the Book of Hábices. In 1617 it consisted of a single nave, which still maintains its coffered ceiling tracery conducted by Antonio Bermudez and Christopher Calvo, from the Granada school.
By 1642, three ships midpoint were built, with triumphal arches, made of brick and masonry, like the three gates. Inside there are 12 frames of the Granada Baroque school, called " apostolada series "which can be dated from 1700. Also dated from this year are the tabernacle and pulpit, the latter topped with a sculpture of the Faith.
Santa Ana hermitage. St. Of the town. The chapel is located in what was the Convent of the Order of St. Paul of the Cross, northwest from downtown. After the abandonment of the Convent , the area became the municipal cemetery and once it moved to its current location, the convent chapel became the patron saint, Santa Ana.
Monument to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, in front of the Chapel of Santa Ana, made of stone from Sierra Elvira, by a local sculptor from Granada, Antonio Cano Correa in 1940.
Hermitage of the Three Johns . A local devotee of the Three Johns (Saint John Baptist, Saint John Evangelist and Saint Juan de Dios ), the chapel was erected in the first half of the twentieth century, on the ruins of an old Moorish castle in Cerro del Castillejo. After the death of its creator, construction froze and did not have a religious use. At the end of the century, the town hall finished the work to use it as a civic place, such as a viewing point. The surrounding areas have exotic animals such as peacocks.
Celebrations and festivities
Local celebrations: They are celebrated around July 26, the festivity of Santa Ana, with cultural and recreational activities for adults and children. During these, bullfights are held at the Coliseo Ciudad Atarfe, a covered bullring, one of the few in Spain.
Gastronomy: Although today the local gastronomy has become known in the area, it is worth to mention, quince jelly and pipirrana, products of home slaughter", porridge croutons" and maimones soup of tata Frasquita.
1956 earthquake
On 19 April 1956, Atarfe and the neighboring city of Albolote were struck by a earthquake, Spain's most destructive of the 20th century. Twelve people died from the earthquake and subsequent landslide, and many of the city's buildings were ruined.
Pink Floyd park
Atarfe is known for its music concerts. In 2008, Roger Waters, a former member of the band Pink Floyd, played there, resulting in a public park dedicated to Pink Floyd being created by the council.
Coliseo de Atarfe
Other notable music acts have played in Atarfe, including Placebo, Mark Knopfler and Leonard Cohen, either playing in the Coliseo de Atarfe football stadium or outdoors in the Recinto de Feria. The Coliseo also hosts corridas where top bullfighters such as El Fandi, El Cordobes and Paquirri appear.
References
External links
Sistema de Información Multiterritorial de Andalucía – Statistical information
Ciudad Atarfe – Tourist, cultural and administrative information on Atarfe
Coliseo de Atarfe – Listings for the Coliseo events
Municipalities in the Province of Granada |
Orthaga disparoidalis is a species of snout moth in the genus Orthaga. It is found in China.
References
Moths described in 1925
Epipaschiinae
Endemic fauna of China |
Smithsonidrilus is a genus of oligochaete worms.
Species
The following species are currently recognized within Smithsonidrilus:
Smithsonidrilus appositus Erséus, 1990
Smithsonidrilus arcuatus Erséus, 1997
Smithsonidrilus arduus Erséus, 1997
Smithsonidrilus assimilis (Erséus, 1990)
Smithsonidrilus capricornae (Erséus, 1983)
Smithsonidrilus convexus Erséus, 1997
Smithsonidrilus edgari Erséus, 1993
Smithsonidrilus exspectatus Erséus, 1993
Smithsonidrilus fecundus Erséus & Wang, 2005
Smithsonidrilus grandiculus (Erséus, 1983)
Smithsonidrilus hummelincki (Righi & Kanner, 1979)
Smithsonidrilus involutus Erséus, 1990
Smithsonidrilus irregularis (Erséus, 1983)
Smithsonidrilus ludmillae Erséus, 1997
Smithsonidrilus luteolus (Erséus, 1983)
Smithsonidrilus marinus Brinkhurst, 1966
Smithsonidrilus minusculus (Erséus, 1983)
Smithsonidrilus multiglandularis Erséus, 1990
Smithsonidrilus nimius Erséus, 1997
Smithsonidrilus pauper Erséus, 1990
Smithsonidrilus peruanus (Finogenova, 1986)
Smithsonidrilus sacculatus (Erséus, 1983)
Smithsonidrilus tenuiculus (Erséus, 1984)
Smithsonidrilus tuber (Erséus, 1983)
Smithsonidrilus vesiculatus (Erséus, 1984)
Smithsonidrilus westoni Erséus, 1982
References
Further reading
Diaz, Robert J., and Christer Erseus. "Habitat preferences and species associations of shallow-water marine Tubificidae (Oligochaeta) from the barrier reef ecosystems off Belize, Central America." Aquatic Oligochaete Biology V. Springer Netherlands, 1994. 93–105.
Erséus, Christer. "Mangroves and marine oligochaete diversity." Wetlands Ecology and Management 10.3 (2002): 197–202.
Animals described in 1966
Invertebrates of Central America
Tubificina
Annelid genera |
Akie is a feminine Japanese given name.
Possible writings
Akie can be written using many different combinations of kanji characters. Here are some examples:
明江, "bright, creek"
明恵, "bright, grace"
明絵, "bright, drawing"
明枝, "bright, branch"
明慧, "bright, wise"
昭江, "clear, creek"
昭恵, "clear, grace"
昭絵, "clear, drawing"
昭枝, "clear, branch"
昭慧, "clear, wise"
秋江, "autumn, creek"
秋恵, "autumn, grace"
秋絵, "autumn, drawing"
晶江, "sparkle, creek"
晶恵, "sparkle, grace"
晶絵, "sparkle, drawing"
章慧, "chapter, wise"
章恵, "chapter, grace"
章絵, "chapter, drawing"
彰江, "clear, creek"
晃慧, "clear, wise"
朗枝, "clear, branch"
亜紀恵, "Asia, chronicle, wise"
The name can also be written in hiragana あきえ or katakana アキエ.
Notable people with the name
, Japanese socialite, radio personality and wife of Shinzō Abe, Prime Minister of Japan
, Japanese comedian
Akie Dagogo Fubara, Nigerian banker, businessman, politician, and philanthropist
, Japanese freestyle wrestler
Akie Kotabe (born 1980), American actor
Akie Noah, Sierra Leoneon footballer
, is a Japanese tarento
, Japanese handball player
, Japanese idol, singer and actress
Japanese feminine given names
Feminine given names |
İsmail Türüt (born 8 June 1965) is a Turkish male folk music artist from the Black Sea Region.
"Plan Yapmayın Plan" controversy
His 2007 album, Dünya Tatlısı, contains a song named Plans, don't make any plans (), which created a major controversy in Turkey. The lyrics take aim at Americans, Russians, Kurds, Christians, Armenians and the Turks who support them, telling them not to make plans against the Black Sea region of Turkey. The lyrics praise Alperen Hearths and Arif Şirin, the alleged killers of the Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink and end with "If a person betrays the country, he is finished off". His 2007 album, Dünya Tatlısı, contains a song named Plans, don't make any plans (), which created a major controversy in Turkey.), which created a major controversy in Turkey. The lyrics take aim at Americans, Russians, Kurds, Christians, Armenians and the Turks who support them, telling them not to make plans against the Black Sea region of Turkey. The lyrics praise AlperenOgün HearthsSamast and ArifYasin ŞirinHayal, the alleged killers of the Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink and end with "If a person betrays the country, he is finished off".
Whereas the song does not name Ogün, Yasin and Hrant Dink explicitly, a video clip posted on YouTube shows images of Ogün, Yasin, and Hrant Dink throughout the song.
YasinHakan HayalÖztekin of TrabzonÇarşamba claimed responsibility for making the video clip. He claims that he didn't have a political motive when creating the clip, but created the clip as a hobbyist.<ref name="hakan_oztekin">
Television programmes
1997-2001, 2003-2005 Türüt Show (Kanal 7)
2001-2003 Türüt Show (TGRT)
2005-2011 Türüt Show (Flash TV)
2011-2013 Türütten Türküler (Meltem TV)
2013-2015 Türüt Show (Mavi Karadeniz TV)
2005-2009 Fıkralarla Türkiye (Kanal 7)
Television series
2001-2003 Tirvana TGRT
2009-2011 N'aber Bacanak Kanal 7
Notes
External links
Official website
1965 births
Living people
Turkish folk musicians
People from Rize Province
20th-century Turkish male musicians
21st-century Turkish male musicians |
Artemisia pipe is a diamond bearing diatreme in the Slave craton region of northern Northwest Territories, Canada.
See also
List of volcanoes in Canada
Volcanism of Canada
Volcanism of Northern Canada
References
Diatremes of the Northwest Territories
Pre-Holocene volcanoes |
The history of the Jews in Botswana is relatively modern and centered in the city of Gaborone. Most Jews in Botswana are Israelis and South Africans.
History
Only about 100 Jews lived in Botswana during the 2000s, with almost all living in Gaborone. The community was predominantly Jewish Israelis working in agriculture, business, and industry. No synagogues exist in Botswana. The South African Jewish Board of Deputies provides rabbis for the community during the High Holidays. Services are typically held at Jewish homes or at communal centers. Jews in Botswana are buried in non-Jewish cemeteries, as there is no Jewish cemetery in the country. Kosher food is imported from South Africa.
Botswana renewed diplomatic recognition of Israel in 1993. The Israeli representative in Botswana is the Israeli ambassador to Zimbabwe.
In May of 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Botswana, the Baruch Padeh Medical Center sent a delegation of Israeli doctors to assist Botswana during the pandemic. The Israeli delegation partnered with the Sir Ketumile Masire Teaching Hospital in Gaborone.
According to the World Jewish Congress, only 21 Jews live in Botswana. Botswana's Jewish community is one of the youngest Jewish communities in Africa. The community is represented by the Jewish Community of Botswana (JCB), the Botswanan affiliate of the African Jewish Congress and the World Jewish Congress.
Notable Botswanan Jews
Benjamin Steinberg, a Botswanan cattle rancher and politician who was the first Treasurer of the Botswana Democratic Party and the first white Botswanan Member of Parliament in 1965.
See also
Angolan Jews
Namibian Jews
South African Jews
Zambian Jews
Zimbabwean Jews
References
External links
Botswana, Jews Were Here
Israeli diaspora
Jews and Judaism in Southern Africa
Religion in Botswana
South African-Jewish diaspora |
Jacob Two Two Meets The Hooded Fang is a 1999 film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Mordecai Richler.
Synopsis
This humorous children's story recounts the adventure of a young boy who strives to be heard. As The Globe and Mail writer James Bradshaw writes, Jacob Two-Two is "two plus two plus two years old, has two brothers and two sisters, and has to say everything twice just to be heard; odd numbers aren't his thing." This quirk gives rise to his nickname "Two-Two". One day, he decides to buy the groceries for his parents, where he says, typically for Two-Two: "I want two pounds of firm, ripe tomatoes. I want two pounds of firm, ripe tomatoes." Misunderstanding Jacob, the clerk threatens to have him arrested for "insulting a grown-up"; Jacob runs from the store and eventually finds himself in court. He is sentenced to two years, two months, two weeks and two minutes by the judge (Ice-T) in the Children's Prison hundreds of miles away from civilization. His place of punishment is a dark, dirty dungeon-like place where the children work and are kept in cells. There are the three head characters, Master Fish, a fish/human, Mistress Fowl, a bird-like woman and the Hooded Fang himself. They also have green henchmen who spray "slime resistors" at the children to prevent them escaping. Two child agents try to help him out, as the children also devise a plan for escape.
Critical reaction
Writing for Variety, Brendan Kelly suggests that while the opening of the film is funny, at least some of the material may not hold children's attention: "This dark, edgy kids’ fantasy may not have enough light action to keep the grade-schoolers amused. Sophisticated and largely intriguing, modern-day fairy tale centers on a six-year-old boy’s nightmare of life in a prison for kids. Helmer George Bloomfield and scripter Tim Burns have crafted a haunting, funny take on kids’ anxieties. But the acting is uneven, the pacing not fast enough for young attention spans, and the material may simply be too downbeat to click with the under-ten set."
Rotten Tomatoes reviewer Lafe Fredbjornson panned the 1999 film version as being a "not very good" adaptation of the book: "Because of how perfect the 1977 film was, this one's flaws stuck out. The kid playing Jacob Two-Two was pretty generic and lacked character. The Ice-T rap-session in the courtroom didn't seem to fit. Gary Busey as the Hooded Fang was scary for all the wrong reasons. Mark McKinney and Miranda Richardson seemed like standup comics in animal costumes. The prison set didn't feel like the one described in the book. The songs were dreadful."
Cast
Gary Busey ... The Hooded Fang
Mark McKinney ... Mr. Fish
Miranda Richardson ... Miss Fowl
Max Morrow ... Jacob Two Two
Ice-T ... Justice Rough, The Judge
Maury Chaykin ... Mr. Cooper/Louie Loser
Joe Dinicol ... O'Toole/Noah
Alison Pill ... Shapiro/Emma
Emma Bambrick ... Shelly
Jake Goldsbie ... Oscar
Shawn Roberts ... Daniel
Lauren Harlow... extra
References
External links
CBC Television original films
English-language Canadian films
1999 films
Films based on Canadian novels
Films based on works by Mordecai Richler
Canadian children's fantasy films
Films directed by George Bloomfield
1990s English-language films
1990s Canadian films |
Dawid Sarkisow (born 20 November 1982) is a Turkmen footballer currently playing for Aşgabat FK. He has also been capped by the national team 16 times. Sarkisow is an ethnic Armenian.
Club career
From summer 2015 player of FC Ashgabat.
International career
Sarkisow has played for Turkmenistan 16 times, playing in the 2012 AFC Challenge Cup and FIFA World Cup qualifying matches.
Honors
AFC Challenge Cup:
Runners-up: 2012
References
External links
1982 births
Living people
Ethnic Armenian sportspeople
Turkmenistan men's footballers
Turkmenistan men's international footballers
Men's association football defenders
Turkmenistan people of Armenian descent
FC Aşgabat players |
Rob Muzzy is an American owner of Muzzy's Performance Products, a specialty engineering company that designs, manufactures and sells high performance parts for motorcycles. He is also a successful motorcycle racing team owner, winning national and international championships in motorcycle road racing and drag racing. His contributions to motorcycle racing resulted in his induction into the AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame.
Motorcycle career
Muzzy began his motorcycle career during the 1950s when he competed in drag racing and dirt track racing in Southern California. After his competitive riding career, he was hired by Kawasaki as a mechanic in the 1970s. Muzzy built and tuned motorcycle engines for Kawasaki teams that won AMA Superbike Championships in 1981, 1982 and 1983 with riders Eddie Lawson and Wayne Rainey. In 1984, Kawasaki disbanded their racing team and, Muzzy was hired to be the crew chief for the Honda racing team, tuning motorcycles that won the 1984 AMA Grand National Championship, the 1985 125cc AMA National Motocross Championship, the 1986 Daytona 200 and the 1987 AMA Superbike Championship.
In 1988, Muzzy opened his own business in Bend, Oregon, producing engines and exhaust systems for motorcycle racers. He formed a racing team in 1990 using Kawasaki motorcycles with support from the Kawasaki factory. In his first year as a team owner, his riders, Doug Chandler and Scott Russell finished first and second in the 1990 AMA Superbike Championship. The Kawasaki factory then asked Muzzy's team to compete in the World Superbike Championship. The height of his team's success came in 1993 when Muzzy Kawasaki riders Scott Russell and Aaron Slight won the Suzuka 8 Hours race in Japan. Russell then won the 1993 Superbike World Championship for the Muzzy Kawasaki team. In the United States, Miguel Duhamel won the 1993 AMA Supersport Championship.
After his success in international competition, Muzzy returned to the United States to focus on racing in the AMA Superbike Championship. Muzzy's team won two consecutive Daytona 200 races in 1994 and 1995 with rider Scott Russell. Doug Chandler returned to the team in 1996 and won two consecutive AMA Superbike Championships in 1996 and 1997. In 2000, The Muzzy team shifted their focus into motorcycle drag racing with riders Rickey Gadson and Ryan Schnitz winning several major AMA and NHRA titles.
Over his motorsports career, Muzzy has won 21 AMA National Championships in Superbike, Supersport, Drag Racing, Dirt Track, Motocross plus a World Superbike Championship, a victory at the Suzuka 8-hour endurance championship race and 4 Daytona 200 wins. His team of championship winning riders includes; Eddie Lawson, Ricky Graham, Scott Russell, Doug Chandler, Ron Lechien, Miguel Duhamel and Rickey Gadson. He was inducted into the Motorcycle Hall of Fame in 2014.
References
External links
Rob Muzzy at the AMA Hall of Fame
Interview from early 1998
Living people
People from Bend, Oregon
Superbike racing
Motorcycle racing team owners
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people) |
Matteo Zamboni (active early 18th century) was an Italian painter, active in Emilia-Romagna. He was the pupil of Carlo Cignani.
Biography
This Matteo Zamboni died young, and was active circa 1710, and is best known for two altarpieces from the church of San Niccolo in Rimini, one depicting San Pietro Celestino and the other San Benedetto. Lanzi notes some works in private houses, such as Casa Panzachi, and that he painted in a style resembling his teacher.
The name Matteo Zamboni also applies to a painter from Cento, but known as Cremonini, who was a master of Guercino. He lived in the parish of San Marmolo.
References
18th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
Painters from Bologna
1679 births
1758 deaths
18th-century Italian male artists |
Ghana–Yugoslavia relations were historical foreign relations between Ghana and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Formal diplomatic relations at the level of Embassy were established in 1959. Both countries were the founding member states of the Non-Aligned Movement at the 1961 Non-Aligned Conference in Belgrade. President of Yugoslavia Josip Broz Tito paid his first State visit to Ghana in 1961, just one year after the full independence of the Dominion of Ghana.
History
Informal contacts were initiated as early as 1956 when an unsuccessful proposal came from the Ghanaian Erick Nkrumah towards the Yugoslav Delegation at the United Nations to visit Yugoslavia The proposal was not fesable for the delegation so it was rejected. On 24 November 1958 meeting of Trusteeship Council Ghana and Yugoslavia, together with India and Iraq, requested United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld to convene a Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly to consider the question of the future of the Trust Territories of British Cameroon and French Cameroon.
During the 1961 President Tito diplomatic tour President of Ghana Kwame Nkrumah gave the Yugoslav president men's slippers which symbolize willingness to a long journey, with a message related to good long-term results of Tito's visit. President of Yugoslavia was the first foreign leader who was invited to address the Parliament of Ghana since independence in 1957. Yugoslav delegation gifted Nkrumah with a Yugoslav produced car Crvena zastava 1100, and his wife Fathia Nkrumah with a set of violet crystal plates. Other gifts included an X-ray machine Morava to the city of Accra, a cinema projector to the University of Ghana and a radio and two sets of toys to the city hospital. Yugoslavia approved loans to Ghana, sent experts, and helped Ghana build a naval base. Economic relations in early years were modest but growing with Ghanaian import from Yugoslavia amounting to 15,383 GBP in 1958, 72,380 GBP in 1959 and 241,462 GBP in 1960.
While the post-coup National Liberation Council in 1966 expelled Chinese and Soviet experts from the country, it didn't take any measure against Yugoslav experts which remained in Ghana. Folklore musical ensemble Tanec from Skopje, Socialist Republic of Macedonia visited Ghana in 1968.
See also
Yugoslavia and the Non-Aligned Movement
Yugoslavia and the Organisation of African Unity
Death and state funeral of Josip Broz Tito
Further reading
Political relations between Ghana and Yugoslavia. Code JC file 10392. (1959). The National Archives, Kew.
Foreign relations between Yugoslavia and Ghana pamphlet collection. (1961). Hoover Institution Microfilm. (1993).
External links
Waiting for Tito: unofficial scenes from a presidential tour of Africa
References
Ghana
Yugoslavia
Ghana–North Macedonia relations
Ghana–Serbia relations
Ghana–Slovenia relations
Ghana–Montenegro relations |
Minjar Mela, also known as the Minjar Fair, is a popular annual festival celebrated in the state of Himachal Pradesh in India. The fair is held in the town of Chamba, which is located in the scenic Chamba Valley. Minjar Mela is a week-long event that typically takes place in the month of July. The festival holds great cultural and historical significance for the people of Chamba. It is celebrated to mark the harvesting of the maize crop and to seek blessings for a bountiful year ahead. The highlight of Minjar Mela is the Minjar procession, which is a grand and colorful event. The procession is led by a decorated chariot, accompanied by folk dancers, musicians, and devotees dressed in traditional attire. People from nearby villages and towns join the procession, adding to the festive atmosphere.
History
The history of Minjar Mela dates back several centuries and is closely associated with the town of Chamba in Himachal Pradesh, India. The festival's origin can be traced to the reign of Raja Sahil Varman, the founder of the Chamba dynasty, who ruled the region in the 10th century. According to the legend, Raja Sahil Varman was suffering from a severe illness, and the entire kingdom was in distress. The royal astrologers advised him to offer prayers to Lord Vishnu and seek his blessings for a speedy recovery. The king followed their advice and offered prayers and a golden umbrella (Minjar) at the temple of Lakshmi Narayan, seeking divine intervention.
Legend has it that the king's health miraculously improved, and the kingdom was saved from the crisis. In gratitude, the king initiated the tradition of Minjar Mela as a way to express his gratitude and seek blessings for prosperity and good fortune for the kingdom. Over time, the festival gained popularity and became an integral part of the local culture. The Minjar Mela is celebrated to commemorate the successful harvest of maize, which is a major crop in the region. The golden silk tassels (minjars) offered during the festival represent the abundance and prosperity associated with the harvest.
The festival also has historical significance as it symbolizes the unity and resilience of the Chamba kingdom. It served as a platform for the king to interact with his subjects, address their concerns, and strengthen the bond between the ruler and the ruled. Throughout the centuries, the Minjar Mela has evolved and adapted to changing times. It has incorporated various cultural elements, including folk dances, music, and traditional arts and crafts. The fair has become a vibrant celebration of Himachali culture, attracting visitors from far and wide. Today, the Minjar Mela continues to be an important cultural event in Chamba, preserving the region's rich heritage and promoting communal harmony. It serves as a reminder of the historical and cultural legacy of the Chamba dynasty and the significance of agriculture in the lives of the local communities.
During the Minjar Mela, people offer prayers at the Lakshmi Narayan Temple in Chamba. The temple is beautifully adorned with flowers, and devotees make offerings of minjar, which are silk tassels representing the golden maize silk. These minjars are considered auspicious and are exchanged among friends and family as a symbol of good luck. PM Modi urges people to visit fairs across country, upload pictures on social media. The fairgrounds are filled with various stalls selling traditional handicrafts, local cuisine, and other items. Cultural performances, including folk dances, music, and theater, are organized throughout the week, providing visitors with a glimpse into the rich cultural heritage of the region.
Minjar Mela is not only a religious and cultural event but also a time for social gatherings and festivities. It brings together people from different communities and backgrounds, fostering unity and harmony. The festival has been celebrated for centuries and continues to attract both locals and tourists from far and wide. It offers a unique opportunity to experience the vibrant culture, traditions, and warm hospitality of the people of Chamba.
References
Fairs in India
Festivals in Himachal Pradesh |
Isoceras bipunctata is a species of moth of the family Cossidae. It is found in Georgia, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Iran, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Israel and Iraq.
Adults have been recorded on wing from March to June in Israel.
References
Moths described in 1887
Cossinae |
High Coal or Highcoal is an unincorporated community and coal town located in Boone County, West Virginia, United States.
References
Coal towns in West Virginia
Unincorporated communities in West Virginia
Unincorporated communities in Boone County, West Virginia
Former populated places in West Virginia |
Arthur H. Charles (July 1, 1911 – August 4, 1999) was an American politician from Maine. Charles, a Republican from Portland, three terms in the Maine Legislature between 19551960. In 1954, he was elected to the Maine House of Representatives. In 1956 and 1958, he won election to the Maine Senate.
Early life
Charles' parents left the Ottoman Empire in the late nineteenth-century with the assistance of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and settled in Portland, Maine, where Charles was born in 1911. His father owned a grocery story and was at one time President of the Maine Grocers Association. Charles graduated from Portland High School before attending Hebron Academy for a post-graduation year. After Hebron, he was admitted to Boston University. However, he left BU after two years due to health difficulties and returned to Portland. He then enrolled at Portland College from which he earned a Bachelor in Business Administration.
References
1911 births
1999 deaths
Portland High School (Maine) alumni
University of Southern Maine alumni
Hebron Academy alumni
Boston University alumni
Politicians from Portland, Maine
Republican Party members of the Maine House of Representatives
Republican Party Maine state senators
20th-century American politicians |
The 1908 World Greco-Roman Wrestling Championship were held in Vienna, Cisleithania, Austria-Hungary on 8 December 1908.
Medal table
Medal summary
Men's Greco-Roman
References
UWW Database
USA Wrestling
World Wrestling Championships
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Harry Walters (born July 21, 1952) is a Canadian football player who played professionally for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Edmonton Eskimos.
References
1952 births
Living people
Winnipeg Blue Bombers players
Maryland Terrapins football players |
Gana Khedi is a village in the Bhopal district of Madhya Pradesh, India. It is located in the Berasia tehsil.
Demographics
According to the 2011 census of India, Gana Khedi has 111 households. The effective literacy rate (i.e. the literacy rate of population excluding children aged 6 and below) is 55.19%.
References
Villages in Berasia tehsil |
Number format
Fixed Land line +962 6 555 5555
+962 Jordan 6 city Amman ..# .
Mobile phones +962 79 999 9999 (the first three numbers after 962 can be either 079, 078, 077, 075)
+962 Jordan 7X operator ID
Local area codes
2 Northern Area (Irbid, Ajloun, Jerash, Mafraq)
3 Southern Area (Tafilah, Karak, Ma'an, Aqaba, Petra)
5 Zarqa
6 Amman
7 Mobile Phones
75× Friendi
77x Orange
78x Umniah
79x Zain
8 Free Lines
9 Service Lines
See also
Telecommunications in Jordan
References
ITU allocations list
Jordan
Telecommunications in Jordan
Jordan communications-related lists |
Currently, eight countries maintain consulates-general in Jerusalem: Belgium, France, Greece, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, and the United Kingdom. The Consulate General of the United States in Jerusalem was merged into the Embassy of the United States in 2018. To this list, one usually includes the Vatican (Holy See), which maintains an "Apostolic Delegation to Jerusalem and Palestine" in Jerusalem.
Some consulates-general in Jerusalem have jurisdiction over the Palestinian territories (the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip), and their heads act as representatives to Palestine.
These consulates are not diplomatic missions to Israel: the countries possessing consulates-general in Jerusalem maintain their embassies to Israel in Tel Aviv, and it is their ambassador in Tel Aviv that presents letters of credence to the president of Israel.
History
Having consulates-general in Jerusalem not accredited to any foreign government is a result of the unresolved issue of the status of Jerusalem. Under the United Nations Partition Plan of 1947, Jerusalem was to become a corpus separatum under international control, separate from both the Jewish state and the Arab one whose creation the partition plan envisaged; that would have logically entailed various countries having a separate diplomatic representation in Jerusalem. While the corpus separatum idea was never implemented, the status of Jerusalem remains disputed and unresolved. The international community never recognized the declaration of Jerusalem as Israel's capital in 1949 or the annexation of East Jerusalem to Israel in 1967. Thus, the anomalous Jerusalem consulates serve as a convenient way for various countries to have a diplomatic presence in the city without recognizing such Israeli "accomplished facts".
The United States maintained a consulate general in Jerusalem between 1844 and 2019, which was also responsible for conducting relations with Palestinians. After the United States relocated its Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in 2018, the Consulate General was formally merged into the US Embassy in early 2019, ending the US practice of accrediting separate missions to the Israelis and Palestinians. Most of its former responsibilities were assumed by a new Palestinian Affairs Unit which now works inside the Embassy in Jerusalem.
List of missions
All countries with consulates-general in Jerusalem include the contacts with the Palestinian National Authority in the consulate-general's responsibilities. All countries with consulates-general in Jerusalem have separate embassies in Tel Aviv that are accredited to Israel.
, in East Jerusalem
, Consulate General of France in Jerusalem
, with offices in West Jerusalem (listed under "Israel" on Ministry of Foreign Affairs website) and in East Jerusalem
, Apostolic Delegation to Jerusalem and Palestine, in East Jerusalem
, with offices in both East and West Jerusalem
, in East Jerusalem
, in East Jerusalem
, in East Jerusalem; the Turkish Consul General in Jerusalem is also accredited as the Ambassador of Turkey to the State of Palestine
, in East Jerusalem; it "provides services" for "Jerusalem and the Palestinian territories"
Several more countries are represented by Jerusalem-based honorary consuls.
Former missions
/ Germany, former German Consulate-General on 57, Street of the Prophets in western Jerusalem (Closed in 1939)
- Consulate General of the United States in Jerusalem: merged into the Embassy of the United States in 2019
See also
List of diplomatic missions in Israel
List of diplomatic missions in Palestine
References
Israel diplomacy-related lists
Jerusalem-related lists
State of Palestine-related lists |
Tongji Hospital Station (), is a station on Line 11 of the Wuhan Metro. It entered revenue service on October 1, 2018. It is located in Hongshan District.
Station layout
References
Wuhan Metro stations
Line 11, Wuhan Metro
Railway stations in China opened in 2018 |
The R720 is a Regional Route in Free State, South Africa that connects Vredefort with Senekal via Koppies, Edenville and Steynsrus.
Route
Its northern terminus is a junction with the R721 about 4 km south of Vredefort. From there, it heads south-east, crossing the N1, to reach Koppies, where it meets the R82. The R82 joins the R720 and they are one road south-east for 4 km, crossing the Renoster River, before the R82 becomes its own road south-west. From there, it heads south for 29 km to reach a junction with the R34. It joins the R34 to be co-signed south-west for 7.7 km, reaching Edenville, where it turns east before turning south in the town centre. From Edenville, it heads south for 46 km to Steynsrus, where it crosses the R76. The route continues south for 39 km to end at a junction with the R70 approximately 7 km north of Senekal.
References
Regional Routes in the Free State (province) |
```smalltalk
using Microsoft.CodeAnalysis;
namespace Roslynator.CSharp.Analysis.Documentation;
internal abstract class ElementInfo<TNode> where TNode : SyntaxNode
{
protected ElementInfo(TNode node, int insertIndex, NewLinePosition newLinePosition)
{
Node = node;
InsertIndex = insertIndex;
NewLinePosition = newLinePosition;
}
public abstract string Name { get; }
public TNode Node { get; }
public int InsertIndex { get; }
public NewLinePosition NewLinePosition { get; }
}
``` |
Chris Cracknell (born 6 August 1984 in Windsor, England) is a former England rugby union player. He coached the Fijiana team after being brought in by Ben Ryan in 2014. Cracknell attended Ridgeway (Junior School to Claires Court), Crosfields School and Shiplake College. The latter now hosts a 7s tournament in which schools compete for the 'Cracknell Cup' named in honour of the alumnus.
A flanker, Cracknell has previously played for the Cornish Pirates, Exeter Chiefs, Bath and Worcester Warriors.
In May 2010 Cracknell became subject of a WRFC and RFU investigation, when he became involved in an altercation with fellow Worcester player James Collins's father following the team's relegation decider match with Leeds. He was later fined and banned.
In 2015, Fiji Rugby Union confirmed that he has been chosen to be the assistant coach for the Fiji 7's team alongside Ben Ryan, who became the Fiji coach in 2013. In 2015, he was promoted as the head coach for the Fijiana team.
In 2022, Cracknell was named as the Belgium national team's coach, taking over from Frédéric Cocqu.
Honours and awards
After the 2016 Summer Olympics, Cracknell was awarded the Officer of the Order of Fiji.
References
External links
Worcester Warriors Profile
England Profile
1984 births
Living people
Bath Rugby players
Coaches of international rugby sevens teams
Commonwealth Games rugby sevens players for England
English expatriates in Fiji
English rugby union coaches
English rugby union players
Officers of the Order of Fiji
People educated at Claires Court School
Rugby sevens players at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
Rugby union players from Windsor, Berkshire
Worcester Warriors players |
It's Alright with Me is the third studio album by American singer Patti LaBelle, released in 1979 via Epic Records. Produced by Skip Scarborough, the album was a success due to the popularity of the songs "Come What May" and "Music is My Way of Life", the latter finding success on the dance chart.
Critical reception
Rolling Stone wrote that the "sleek arrangements are too tight to allow the aimless vocal overkill that marred so many earlier performances, yet they're flexible enough to avoid formulas." The Bay State Banner thought that "sometimes [Labelle's] shrill yells and cries can wear on the ears, but the bulk of this album presents her most effectively, joining the past cosmic aura of the group Labelle with today's more earthy atmosphere."
Track listing
All tracks produced by Skip Scarborough.
Personnel
Patti LaBelle – lead vocals
Michael Stanton – acoustic piano (1, 5, 9), Fender Rhodes (2-4, 8), clavinet (9)
Ernest Straughter – Fender Rhodes (1, 5, 6, 9), acoustic piano (2-4, 8)
Felton Pilate – synthesizers (6, 9)
Wayne Vaughn – synthesizers (6)
Skip Scarborough – acoustic piano (7), Fender Rhodes (7), horn and string arrangements
Johnny Graham – guitar (1, 3, 8)
John Rowin – guitar (1-6, 8, 9)
Louis Russell – guitar (2), acoustic guitar (7)
Spencer Bean – guitar (4, 6, 9)
Wayne Douglas – bass (1, 3, 4, 7, 8)
Robert Russell – bass (2, 6, 9)
Nate Neblett – drums
Miguel Fuentes – glockenspiel (1, 3, 4, 8), triangle (1, 8), xylophone (1, 3, 8), percussion (2, 7), vibraphone (5)
Munyungo Jackson – percussion (1-6, 8, 9)
David Crawford – orchestra arrangements and conductor
George Bohanon – horn contractor
Charles Veal – string contractor
Emma Coleman – additional backing vocals (1)
The Waters [Julia, Luther, Maxine and Oren Waters] – backing vocals (1, 2, 4, 5, 7-9)
Scherrie Payne – backing vocals (3, 6)
The Wright Combination [Dianne and Michael Wright] – backing vocals (3, 6)
Production
James Budd Ellison – assistant producer
Don Cody – recording, mixing
Steve MacMillan – assistant engineer
Jerry Williamson – assistant engineer
Steve Mantoani – technical advisor
Stacy Baird – technical assistant
Ben O'Brien – technical assistant
Stuart J. Romaine – mastering
Sigidi Abdullah – music copyist
Yvonne Brooks – production coordinator
Janet Perr – art direction, design
Paula Scher – art direction, design
Bill King – photography
Mixed at Different Fur Studios (San Francisco, California).
Mastered at CBS Studios (New York City, New York).
Charts
References
Album chart usages for Billboard200
Album chart usages for BillboardRandBHipHop
1979 albums
Patti LaBelle albums
Epic Records albums
Albums recorded at Total Experience Recording Studios |
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