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Julián Vara López (born 17 November 1983) is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a right midfielder.
Football career
Vara was born in Las Rozas de Madrid, Community of Madrid. A product of Atlético Madrid's youth academy, he spent most of his spell there with the reserves, only appearing twice for the first team: in rounds #37 and #38 of the 2005–06 season, he played ten minutes against Valencia CF and Real Betis, both ending in 1–1 La Liga draws.
In the 2007–08 campaign, Vara also served a loan to RC Celta de Vigo in the second division, being rarely used. After another spell in that tier (still owned by Atlético) with SD Huesca, he resumed his career in the lower levels of his country, scoring five goals as AD Alcorcón promoted to division two for the first time ever in 2010.
References
External links
1983 births
Living people
Spanish men's footballers
Footballers from the Community of Madrid
Men's association football midfielders
La Liga players
Segunda División players
Segunda División B players
Tercera División players
Atlético Madrid B players
Las Rozas CF players
Atlético Madrid footballers
RC Celta de Vigo players
SD Huesca footballers
AD Alcorcón footballers
Football League (Greece) players
GS Ilioupolis players
Spanish expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Greece |
Pollex jurivetei is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Michael Fibiger in 2007. It is known from Indonesia's western Seram Island.
The wingspan is 9–10 mm. The forewing is narrow and brown, with a black-brown costa in the medial area. The hindwing is unicolorous brown with an indistinct black discal spot and the underside unicolorous brown.
References
Micronoctuini
Taxa named by Michael Fibiger
Moths described in 2007 |
The Shkumbin (; ; , also or ), also known as Shkembi, is a river in Southern Europe. It is long and its drainage basin is . Its average discharge is .
Etymology
It derives from Latin Scampinus, which replaced Illyrian Genusus, as recorded in Latin and ancient Greek literature. A Slavic intermediation has been rejected. Its inclusion in Latin loanwords into Proto-Albanian and phonetic evolution coincides with the historical existence of a large Roman town (near present-day Elbasan), which gave the river its new name.
Overview
The river originates in the eastern Valamara Mountains between Maja e Valamarës () and Gur i Topit () in Southeastern Albania.
After descending from the Valamaras, it flows northwards through Proptisht and Qukës with many deep gorges and canyons and passes the Gora Mountains. A significant inflow comes from Gur i Kamjës () southwest of Pogradec. Over the course, it flows inside a syncline between the Mokra and Shebenik Mountains in the east and the Polis Mountains in the west. Close to Librazhd the river turns some westwards of its origin and joins the Rapun stream. At the end the river cross the Myzeqe Plain and forms a small delta in Karavasta Lagoon, the direct proximity of the Adriatic Sea.
Human history
The ancient name of the river was Genusus and was located in central southern Illyria. At the same time, it was referred as Scampini, as it was identified by the town of Scampa. In classical antiquity, the valley of the Shkumbin was inhabited by several Illyrian peoples. The Parthini lived in the middle valley of the river. They neighbored to the west the Taulantii who lived in the coastal area including the lower valley of the river, and to the east the Dassaretii who lived in the region of Lake Ohrid, including the upper valley of the river. The ancient Via Egnatia followed the river, giving it the role of a strategically important corridor between orient and occident. The Via Egnatia started with two branches, the northern one from Epidamnos-Dyrrhachion, and the southern one from Apollonia. The two branches converged at Ad Quintum, near modern Elbasan, continuing eastwards through the valley of the Shkumbin.
In Roman Imperial times, the line of division between the administrative provinces of Illyricum and Epirus Nova ran from the west somewhere between Scodra and Dyrrachium, to the east somewhere between the north side of the Shkumbin and Lake Ohrid. During this period, the valley of Skumbin constituted roughly the border between the Latin and the Greek-speaking area.
The river is roughly the geographical dividing line between Tosk and Gheg Albanian dialects, with Gheg spoken north of the Shkumbin and Tosk south of it. The dialectal split occurred after Christianisation of the region (4th century AD), with the river as the historic dialectal boundary which straddled the Jireček line.
See also
Geography of Albania
Central Mountain Range
Rivers of Albania
References
Bibliography
Rivers of Albania
Geography of Korçë County
Geography of Elbasan County
Geography of Tirana County
Drainage basins of the Adriatic Sea
Braided rivers in Albania |
Rapstar is a hip hop duo consisting of two Italian rappers, Fabri Fibra and Clementino.
Debut album
Clementino met Fabri Fibra in the summer of 2011 at the Controcultura Tour of Fabri Fibra in Naples, and immediately they began to record together.
The initial idea, as stated by Clementino in an interview, was simply to make a mixtape. Subsequently, however, both changed their minds and decided to produce a whole album.
On January 9, 2012, a double single: "Ci rimani male/Chimica Brother" was released. Non è gratis, the debut album of the band, was released on January 31, 2012.
Discography
Album
2012 – Non è gratis
Singles
2012 – Ci rimani male/Chimica Brother [Double single]
References
Italian hip hop groups
Musical groups from Milan |
MS Bleichen is a museum ship in the port of Hamburg, which has its berth in the Hansa port on Bremer Kai in front of Shed 50. The ship, built in 1958, is a breakbulk cargo carrier of its time and is located in front of the listed general cargo storage shed used by the port museum.
Design
The Bleichen has midships and stern superstructures, a deck design that went out of fashion as early as the 1950s, but guaranteed a high level of comfort in the center bridge, as it was less affected by engine vibrations and noise. Despite its age, the ship is largely unchanged and in good condition. The ship's diesel engine from Klöckner-Humboldt-Deutz has remained unchanged, as have the steering gear, the lifeboats and the propeller. According to information provided by former crew members, the interior is also in its original condition.
The Bleichen was therefore built with a high ice class in order to be able to navigate the Baltic Sea all year round.
Construction and career
The ship was built at the Nobiskrug Shipyard in Rendsburg for the Hamburg shipping company H. M. Gehrckens (HMG) and put into service under the name of Bleichen on 28 August 1958. Like its sister ship Borgesch, the freighter was named after an old Hamburg street. The Bleichen was a typical general cargo ship, as it was in use before the advent of container ships. The Gehrckens shipping company used their ships in the Scandinavian trade.
The ship transported paper from Finland to Germany until 1970. In 1970 it was given the name Canale Grande by the new Italian owner. The Canale Grande was bought by a Turkish shipowner in 1979 and renamed Arcipel. The ship was used from 1994 to December 2006 under the name Old Lady for transporting bulk cargo in the Black Sea.
Due to the construction as a three-island ship and the complex operation, the operation of the ship was no longer profitable. The Bleichen had relatively small hatches and tween decks, making loading and unloading inefficient by today's standards. With a crew of 22 men, it took three days to load 2,000 tons of scrap. The ship was to be decommissioned and scrapped.
The Hamburg Maritime Foundation, which was looking for a general cargo ship for its museum at the Shed 50, the last remaining Hamburg quay shed from the time of the German Empire, became aware of the ship in 2006 and decided to buy it. The purchase price of 450,000 euros was raised through donations. After a stay in the shipyard in Turkey, it was transferred to Hamburg in January 2007, where it arrived on January 30, 2007.
On 27 April 2007, the Old Lady was christened back to her first name, Bleichen. Since then it has sailed again under the German flag with its home port of Hamburg. On February 6, 2007, a works association "Friends of the General Cargo Freighter MS Bleichen" was founded for restoration and operation. The restoration is to be carried out by volunteers and by the "Youth in Work" project. The restoration time was estimated at around three years, but took longer. Deficiencies were found in the midships superstructure and the main engine, which will take longer than expected to be rectified.
On 24 October 2017, the Bleichen was successfully tested and accepted on the Elbe. Guest trips have been offered again since 2018.
References
External links
Friends of the MS BLEICHEN
General cargo carrier BLECHEN. Hamburg Maritime Foundation
MS Bleichen, historic general cargo ship. Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
1958 ships
Ships built in Rendsburg
Museum ships in Germany |
Gun Smoke is a 1936 American Western film, directed by Bartlett Carré. It stars Buck Coburn, Marion Shilling, and Bud Osborne, and was released in January 1936.
Cast list
Buck Coburn as Steve Branning
Marion Shilling as Jean Culverson
Bud Osborne as Haws McGee
Ben Corbett as Shorty
Henry Hall as George Culverson
Roger Williams as Sam Parsons
Dick Botiller as Felipe
Nelson McDowell as Long Distance Jones
Lloyd Ingraham as Eli Parker
Tracy Layne as Pecos
Philo McCullough as Abner Sneed
Lafe McKee as Sheriff
Phyllis Barrington as Mrs. Parker in Photo
References
External links
1936 Western (genre) films
1936 films
American Western (genre) films
American black-and-white films
1930s American films
1930s English-language films |
Jurassic World: The Ride is a dark ride / water ride attraction that is themed to the Jurassic World series at Universal Studios Hollywood. The original Jurassic Park: The Ride, which operated from June 21, 1996, to September 3, 2018, underwent a major refurbishment and reopened as Jurassic World: The Ride.
History
The ride was announced on May 10, 2018, by Universal Studios Hollywood officials during a 25th anniversary celebration of the 1993 film Jurassic Park, directed by Steven Spielberg. It was stated that Jurassic Park: The Ride, which opened on June 21, 1996, would be closed for retheming based on the 2015 film Jurassic World and its 2018 sequel Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. The Jurassic Cafe restaurant and Jurassic Outfitters retail store near the original attraction were also closed temporarily to be rethemed.
Universal Creative worked on the new ride, and Jon Corfino was the project director and show producer. He worked closely on the ride with Colin Trevorrow and Frank Marshall, the director and producer respectively for the 2015 film. Corfino worked to blend elements of the old ride with the new one, and the final idea was presented to Spielberg. The team had to rush to get the ride finished for the busy summer tourist season. Mosasaurus, an aquatic reptile that appeared in the films, is digitally featured on the ride. Industrial Light & Magic collaborated with the design team at Universal Studios Hollywood to create the creature and its environment. The walls of the Mosasaurus tank are depicted across four large, high-definition screens on both sides of the boat. A 3D effect makes objects in the foreground move faster than those in the background, a technique that gives the Mosasaurus a realistic appearance. The attraction also features larger dinosaurs than Jurassic Park: The Ride, and new animatronics allow the dinosaurs to move better than their predecessors. Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, and B.D. Wong reprise their roles from Jurassic World and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.
The attraction officially opened on July 12, 2019, without advanced notice or fanfare. It previously had a soft opening for friends and family of Universal employees. The official opening coincided with a number of other Jurassic World-themed attractions adjacent to the ride entrance. Guests can take part in the Triceratops Encounter, where guests interact with Juliet, a Triceratops, and Dino Play, in which young visitors excavate large dinosaur fossils. Guests can also interact with baby dinosaurs along with their trainer. The Mosasaurus is part of the Aquarium Observatory section, an area that responds to real-world weather, changing between day time and night time depending on the actual time of day. Jurassic Cafe introduced a bar called Isla Nu-bar, named after the series' fictional Isla Nublar island.
Following a refurbishment in 2021, the ride's climax was updated with a new Indominus Rex animatronic.
Ride description
Queue
Guests enter through the Jurassic World gates and into a series of switchbacks. The queue is designed to look like Isla Nublar from the film. The queue is covered with posters and billboards explaining the dinosaurs at the park. Overhead, video monitors display "Jurassic World Network", the island's TV station which shows Dino facts as well as interviews with characters from the movie. As guests approach the loading area, smaller monitors display safety info before guests board their boat.
Ride
Each boat is capable of holding 25 people. The ride begins by climbing an initial lift hill, and the boats are taken to the Mosasaurus Aquarium Observatory, encountering a Mosasaurus. Guests then go to a lush, tropical area, where they find a mother Stegosaurus and her baby and encounter a Parasaurolophus before entering Predator Cove, where the riders see carnage has ensued after the Indominus rex has broken out of its paddock, along with the Tyrannosaurus rex and some Dilophosaurus. Riders overhear that the ACU is being called in to round up the escaped dinosaurs, passing by a damaged Gyrosphere and a pair of Compsognathus/Procompsognathus fighting over a tourist's hat. Claire Dearing comes in over a monitor and tries to comfort the riders, but her feed breaks up before riders traverse another lift hill, where they see the "Indominus" itself spying on them through a hole in the nearby wall. Owen Grady then patches in and says to not move out of the boat. He then sends Blue to help the riders escape.
As the boat nears the top of the lift, a Velociraptor holding a chewed wire lunges at guests through a hole in the ceiling. Following attempts by Dilophosaurus to spit venom (actually water) at riders and a close call with the Indominus, the riders meet up with Blue the Velociraptor, who guides them to an exit, but the Indominus has made it there first. The Tyrannosaurus then appears and attacks the Indominus, which buys riders the time needed to escape. The boat then goes down a drop of , splashing all guests with water once it reaches the bottom and ending the ride. The riders exit the ride into the gift shop.
Reception
Reaction from riders was mostly positive at the time of opening. Todd Martens of the Los Angeles Times called it "an imperfect ride but the perfect one for where the 'Jurassic Park' franchise has gone," stating that the Jurassic World films focused more on thrills than story. Martens stated that the ride "packs plenty of tension and scares and wow-inducing special effects into its five-plus minutes. But it does this at the expense of a sense of awe, grandeur and basic grasp of storytelling that the original attraction possessed." Laure Prudom of IGN wrote "once you move past the nostalgia, most of the updates help enhance the exhilaration of the ride, and aside from the mosasaurus's screens, the rest of the ride focuses on practical effects and tangible animatronics, which helps it retain its charm."
See also
VelociCoaster
References
Animatronic attractions
Amusement rides introduced in 2019
Universal Studios Hollywood
Jurassic Park in amusement parks |
Sharon Township is one of the eighteen townships of Richland County, Ohio, United States. It is a part of the Mansfield Metropolitan Statistical Area. The 2020 census found 9,006 people in the township.
Geography
Located in the northwestern part of the county, it borders the following townships:
Plymouth Township - north
Cass Township - northeast corner
Jackson Township - east
Springfield Township - southeast
Sandusky Township - south
Jackson Township, Crawford County - southwest
Vernon Township, Crawford County - west
Auburn Township, Crawford County - northwest corner
Most of the city of Shelby is located in northeastern Sharon Township.
Name and history
Statewide, other Sharon Townships are located in Franklin, Medina, and Noble counties.
Government
The township is governed by a three-member board of trustees, who are elected in November of odd-numbered years to a four-year term beginning on the following January 1. Two are elected in the year after the presidential election and one is elected in the year before it. There is also an elected township fiscal officer, who serves a four-year term beginning on April 1 of the year after the election, which is held in November of the year before the presidential election. Vacancies in the fiscal officership or on the board of trustees are filled by the remaining trustees.
References
External links
County website
Townships in Richland County, Ohio
Townships in Ohio |
Flora of Australia is a 59 volume series describing the vascular plants, bryophytes and lichens present in Australia and its external territories. The series is published by the Australian Biological Resources Study who estimate that the series when complete will describe over 20 000 plant species. It was orchestrated by Alison McCusker.
Series
Volume 1 of the series was published in 1981, a second extended edition was released in 1999. The series uses the Cronquist system of taxonomy. The ABRS also published the Fungi of Australia, the Algae of Australia and the Flora of Australia Supplementary Series. A new online Flora of Australia was launched by ABRS in 2017, and no more printed volumes will be published.
Volumes published
1. Introduction (1st edition) 1981
1. Introduction (2nd edition) 1999
Other Australian floras
A few censuses of the Australian flora have been carried out, they include
1793-95 - J. E. Smith - A Specimen of the Botany of New Holland
1804-05 - J. E. Smith - Exotic Botany
1804-07 - J. J. H. de Labillardière - Novae Hollandiae Plant. Spec
1810 - R. Brown - Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen
1814 - R. Brown - Botanical Appendix to Flinders' Voyage
1849 - R. Brown - Botanical Appendix to C. Sturt, Narrative of an Expedition into Central Australia
1856 - J. D. Hooker - Introductory Essay, Flora Tasmaniae
1863-78 - G. Bentham - Flora Australiensis
1882 - F. Mueller - Systematic Census of Australian Plants
1889 - F. Mueller - Second Systematic Census
1990 - R. J. Hnatiuk - Census of Australian Vascular Plants
See also
Flora of Australia
Systematic Census of Australian Plants
References
External links
Flora of Australia online
Botany in Australia
Books about Australian natural history
Australia
F01
Online botany databases
Publications established in 1981
1981 establishments in Australia |
Sankoff is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
David Sankoff (born 1942), mathematician, bioinformatician, computer scientist and linguist
Gillian Sankoff, sociolinguist
Irene Sankoff, musical theatre creator |
The Hovey-Winn House is a historic house at 384 Main Street in Winchester, Massachusetts. The -story Greek Revival cottage was built c. 1841 by John Coats, a local housewright who built a number of houses along Main Street. It is one of a small number of local houses (the nearby Horace Hatch House is another) with a side gable roof that overhangs a full-width Doric porch. The house in the 19th century had a number of locally prominent individuals, include Reverend William Eustis, druggist Josiah Hovey, and Hovey's son-in-law Denis Winn, who owned the town's first livery stable.
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Winchester, Massachusetts
References
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Winchester, Massachusetts |
Aucó Airport , is an airport northeast of Illapel, a city in the Coquimbo Region of Chile.
The runway is in a valley with low mountains in all quadrants, and nearby hills to the northwest.
See also
Transport in Chile
List of airports in Chile
References
External links
OpenStreetMap - Aucó
OurAirports - Aucó
FallingRain - Aucó Airport
Airports in Coquimbo Region |
The Great Britain women's national baseball team is the national women's baseball team of the United Kingdom. It is governed by the British Baseball Federation, and is also a member nation of the Confederation of European Baseball.
History of women's baseball in the United Kingdom
The emergence of women's baseball in the London region
In 1929 an exhibition baseball match took place between the women of the West End theatre production company of The Five O'Clock Girl at Stamford Bridge. In the early 1930s informal women's baseball teams such as Middlesex Ladies were being formed in the London region and playing occasional games in Wealdstone. By this time the Kodak research facility had been established at the Kodak Harrow site, and with ties internationally to Rochester, New York it appears more than coincidental that baseball was popular in the area. Initially formed in 1926, by 1931 the baseball section of the Kodak Recreation Society had three teams in a works based women's league.
The most successful of these teams was Hawkeye, who had won the previous two Kodak League Cups, played under ‘Canadian softball rules’. The Coach of the baseball players was Toronto native Eddie Lynch, who was so impressed with Hawkeye that he openly challenged all-comers to try and defeat his team, with the winner to be crowned winners of the ‘European Championship of Baseball’. The first club to accept the challenge were St Dyfrig's Girls Team, of Cardiff, who were defeated 10–8, with the Kodak Hawkeye team made up predominantly of factory typists, and thus claimed the title of European Champions of Baseball.
British Celanese were another manufacturing company who encouraged baseball among its female workers via works teams, Kodak's Hawkeye team defeated them twice prior to the European Championship challenge had been laid down by Lynch. The Kodak works baseball teams were still going strong as late as 1935. In 1936 two women's clubs were formed at Hackney, by the founder of the Hackney Royals, Fred Whitehead, and to be coached by Royals Coach Irving ‘Snooker’ Ruvinsky. Ruvinsky, a catcher originally from Montreal, was part of the Great Britain roster that won the 1938 Baseball World Cup. Whitehead proposed that the players would be female staff from the Hackney greyhounds and local female speedway fans. In 1937 the Kodak girls were invited to challenge West Ham girls, prior to a senior men's West Ham game, in an effort to promote the women's game, and the Kodak team were described as "pioneers of ladies baseball".
The rise and fall of organised women's baseball in Yorkshire
In April 1936 Alfred T. Grogan, honorary Secretary Treasurer of the newly formed Yorkshire County Baseball Association, was bombared by requests from women in the region for the establishment of a women's team, which would be the first of its kind in the North of England. It was not long before Leeds Pioneers and Greenfield Amazons (Bradford) were formed and preparing to play against each other. That August the first ever women's baseball game played in Leeds took place at Elland Road and in Bradford, at Greenfield Stadium. Grogan reportedly received an invitation for these West Yorkshire clubs to form a representative England team to tour Australia.
By October 1936 two women's clubs had also appeared in Kingston upon Hull and Grogan turned his attention to the establishment of a formal women's league, these two teams were given coaching by Elliott Lydiatt. It was noted that 40% of spectators at men's baseball games in Hull were women, which was a primary driver for Grogan to develop women's organised baseball in the area. Six women's teams were formed, including works sides of Reckitt and Sons and Needler's.
A formal league was finally established for the 1937 season, with the support of Chet Adams, who was the newly appointed Manager of the men's Hull Baseball Club. At a meeting at Christ Church, Hull, attended by representatives from Reckitts along with Lydiatt, Grogan and Rev H. J. Munday, Chairman of Hull Amateur Baseball League. It was agreed that Lydiatt, a well known pitcher and member of the National Baseball Association, would organise good coaching for the women. Grogan stated that teams were being formed in Leeds and other parts of Yorkshire, along with Hull, and that it was expected that a Yorkshire representative side would be selected to challenge a London representative side at West Ham Stadium.
In May 1937 members of Castleford Urban Council formed a women's team to play against Castleford Tigers, another local woman's team. The women were starting to create an impression in the press, in June 1937 Irene Lockwood of Leeds Pioneers was described in the Daily Mirror as "the Babe Ruth of Leeds", following their 19–9 victory over Castleford Tigers. Young girls were also being inspired by the baseball playing ladies, Castleford Tigers chose four-year old Greta Scott as their mascot.
By this stage Hull had established a league with six women's teams, Castleford had two teams, Bradford had two teams, Leeds had one, and Eddie Gladu was coaching the women of Sheffield, and the establishment of an inter-city league was a genuine prospect. In fact baseball had really caught the imagination of the women of Yorkshire, Hull Nomads were so inundated with applications to play for them that they were forced to create two additional teams alongside their senior side and Craven Park, Hull was often used for games. The 1937 season saw teams from across the Hull area join the league, including Young Women's Christian Association, Co-Op Ladies, Hull Pioneer White Caps and Boulevesco.
In January 1938 Mr R. E. Lewis, Secretary of newly formed the Coventry Thursday Baseball League, asked for women interested in forming women's teams to contact him. He erroneously believed this league would be the first women's baseball league in the country. In truth, the league in Hull was the only women's league in the United Kingdom. By the 1938 season the women's section of the Hull Amateur League was expanded to two divisions of six teams, with Hull G. Girls and Alexandra Laundry joining the league. Teams were also competing for the Yorkshire Ladies Baseball Cup and the Infirmary Cup. During this golden age Hull Nomads were dominant, much to the joy of their president, the Sheriff of Hull, Wallace Rockett, such was the impact of the league that the American Consul in Hull, Ilo Clare Funk, donated a silver trophy for the league winners.
The 1939 season had eight teams competing, including Alexandra Nationals and Hammonds Royals The impact of World War II began to negatively affect the league, it was expected that in the 1940 season some clubs would play friendlies rather than join the league and that teams would be created from local defence units. Indeed, on the eve of the 1940 season only four teams had joined the league Across this era Hull Nomads won the league championship, Ladies Baseball Cup and the Infirmary Cup multiple times. The Nomads had incredibly won the league every year, since its inception in 1937 and had even defeated the men's team, Beetonsville Diamonds.
Wartime decline
As war took hold on life in the United Kingdom there were opportunities for the baseball playing ladies to use their experience against the military. Hull Nomads competed against a men's team for the second time, in an exhibition game versus Hull Air Cadets. The exploits of North American service personnel playing baseball in wartime United Kingdom have been documented, but few are aware that the people of Birmingham were lucky enough to witness the women of "Six Triple Eight" playing baseball in their city. In 1945 the Birmingham Mail described how locals would often enjoy watching the ladies from the all black 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion enjoying playing baseball, during their down time. In the Aldershot area, Canadian women serving in the United Kingdom established the Canadian Women's Baseball League.
At the conclusion of hostilities there was an effort to revive women's baseball in the United Kingdom, especially in the former hotbed of Hull. In 1948 preparations got underway to revive the league, but this never came to fruition. In 1949 it was announced that some women were already in training and that a women's section of the Hull Baseball League was to be formed, but again it proved futile. Whilst men's domestic baseball shrunk after the war, women's all but vanished.
National team formation and controversy
Baseball in the United Kingdom has a long history, and a well established men's senior representative side, but it was not until 2020 that a women's side was established by the British Baseball Federation. Amanda ‘Doris’ Hocking, who had spearheaded the formation of Women's Baseball UK, the body that created the first women's domestic league in the United Kingdom for 80 years, was appointed as the first General Manager.
However, in April 2021 Hocking resigned in protest over a tweet made by the British Baseball Federation's Twitter account, which was widely perceived to have sexualised women in baseball. Amongst those who supported Hocking for her stance was men's senior team Manager, Drew Spencer. The President of the British Baseball Federation, Gerry Perez, was forced to resign, after a week of defending the tweet and refusing to remove it.
First international tournament
In preparation for their international debut at the Women's European Baseball Championship Sheffield Bruins women's team Head Coach, Josh Taylor, was appointed as Pitching Coach and Fiona Brambley was appointed as team Trainer, to travel out to France with the squad. The team's debut international championship got off to an explosive start, with the women piling on the runs in a commanding victory over the Czech Republic, on the first day of the competition. Laura Hirai scored six runs in the game. Dora Lau and Gabriella Sassoli both crossed the plate four times. Sassoli also collected four RBI. During the tournament catcher Marianna Casal placed emphasis on the importance of the team making its international debut, hoping to inspire other girls and women to take up baseball in the United Kingdom, by leading her team in the European Championship. She said "Even if we do come back in fourth, we will have been the first women in Great Britain to go a baseball Euros. That is an achievement, we are making history."
Notable figures
Although she never played domestically in the United Kingdom, nor represented Great Britain, it is important to note the legacy of Elizabeth Stride, known professionally as Lizzie Arlington. Stride was born to English parents in the United States, in 1877, and was the first woman to play for a professional men's team.
Laura Hirai was the first ever batter for the senior women's team, scoring the first run. Hirai was also the first ever Ball Girl in New York Yankees history, at the 2019 MLB London Series. Hirai is the first woman to represent both the Great Britain Baseball Youth National teams (U16 and U18) and the Great Britain Baseball Women’s Senior National Team, and also play for the Great Britain Softball Women’s Senior National team.
Coaching staff
Results and fixtures
Legend
2022
Record by team
Tournament records
World Cup
Great Britain have yet to qualify for the Women's Baseball World Cup, the most recent tournament was scheduled to take place in Monterrey, Mexico in 2020 but was postponed until 2021 then cancelled due to covid. The finals of the next tournament are scheduled to take place in 2024, in Thunder Bay, Canada.
European Baseball Championship
Great Britain were not formed in time to compete at the 2019 2019 Women's European Baseball Championship, in Rouen, France, and were therefore not eligible to qualify for the 2020 Women's Baseball World Cup.
The 2022 Women's European Baseball Championship was held on Wednesday, 3 August to Saturday, 6 August 2022 in Montpellier in France, with France as defending champions. Once again the championships also served as qualifying event for the next Baseball World Cup. Great Britain, in their first ever international tournament, finished 4th and therefore did not qualify for the Baseball World Cup.
Current roster
The team's most recent roster, for the 2022 Women's European Baseball Championship.
References
External links
Baseball Softball UK
British Baseball Federation
Womens Baseball UK
WBSC Europe
Women's national baseball teams
National baseball teams
National baseball teams in Europe
WBSC Europe
Great Britain national baseball team
Baseball in the United Kingdom |
Erbessa priverna is a moth of the family Notodontidae first described by Pieter Cramer in 1777. It is found in northern South America, extending as far west as central Venezuela. It also occurs south into Brazil.
The length of the forewings reaches up to 25 mm for females.
References
Moths described in 1777
Notodontidae of South America |
Sex Hygiene is a 1942 American drama film short directed by John Ford and Otto Brower. The official U.S. military training film is in the instructional social guidance film genre, offering adolescent and adult behavioural advice, medical information, and moral exhortations. The Academy Film Archive preserved Sex Hygiene in 2007.
Plot
Several servicemen relax by playing pool at their base. One later visits a prostitute and contracts syphilis. As a result of his unfortunate experience, there is an opportunity for sexual health information about syphilis, how it is spread and how its spread can be prevented.
Cast
Kenneth Alexander as Soldier
Robert Conway as Soldier
Robert Cornell as Soldier
Richard Derr as Soldier
Herbert Gunn as Soldier
Robert Lowery as Pool player No. 2
George Reeves as First Sergeant.
Robert Shaw as Pool player
Charles Tannen as Soldier
Charles Trowbridge as Medical officer
Basil Walker as Soldier
Robert Weldon as Soldier
See also
To the People of the United States
List of Allied propaganda films of World War II
Social guidance films
List of sex hygiene films
References
External links
Complete film Sex Hygiene on Google
1942 films
1942 drama films
American black-and-white films
Films directed by John Ford
Films directed by Otto Brower
Military medicine in the United States
American social guidance and drug education films
American World War II propaganda shorts
Films produced by Darryl F. Zanuck
Films about syphilis
American drama short films
1940s English-language films
1940s American films
English-language drama films |
VG-1 (also known as V Gold 1 steel) is a high Carbon (C) Molybdenum (Mo) stainless steel manufactured by Takefu Special Steel Co.,Ltd. It is not the same steel as VG-10.
VG-1 has a Carbon (C) content between 0.95-1.05 %, Chromium (Cr) content between 13.0-15.0 %, Molybdenum (Mo) content between 0.2-0.4 % and contains less than 0.25% of Nickel (Ni). During forging, Mo and Cr form hard double carbide bonds, which help improve the abrasion and corrosion resistance of the steel. It is usually heat treated to reach hardness of 58-61
Knife retailer Cold Steel markets a variety of knives that use VG-1. Cold Steel claims that VG-1 has better sharpness, edge retention, point strength, shock and strength characteristics than 440C, VG-10, or ATS 34 stainless steels, though any of those alloys may be better than VG-1 in individual categories. There have been reports that VG-1 might be more chipping prone than other comparable stainless steels, but these reports have been disputed.
VG-1 is also used in hairdresser's scissors, kitchen knives and blades for food-processing machines.
References
Steels |
```go
//go:build !gomock && !generate
package mocklogging
import (
"net"
"time"
"github.com/quic-go/quic-go/internal/mocks/logging/internal"
"github.com/quic-go/quic-go/logging"
"go.uber.org/mock/gomock"
)
type MockConnectionTracer = internal.MockConnectionTracer
func NewMockConnectionTracer(ctrl *gomock.Controller) (*logging.ConnectionTracer, *MockConnectionTracer) {
t := internal.NewMockConnectionTracer(ctrl)
return &logging.ConnectionTracer{
StartedConnection: func(local, remote net.Addr, srcConnID, destConnID logging.ConnectionID) {
t.StartedConnection(local, remote, srcConnID, destConnID)
},
NegotiatedVersion: func(chosen logging.Version, clientVersions, serverVersions []logging.Version) {
t.NegotiatedVersion(chosen, clientVersions, serverVersions)
},
ClosedConnection: func(e error) {
t.ClosedConnection(e)
},
SentTransportParameters: func(tp *logging.TransportParameters) {
t.SentTransportParameters(tp)
},
ReceivedTransportParameters: func(tp *logging.TransportParameters) {
t.ReceivedTransportParameters(tp)
},
RestoredTransportParameters: func(tp *logging.TransportParameters) {
t.RestoredTransportParameters(tp)
},
SentLongHeaderPacket: func(hdr *logging.ExtendedHeader, size logging.ByteCount, ecn logging.ECN, ack *logging.AckFrame, frames []logging.Frame) {
t.SentLongHeaderPacket(hdr, size, ecn, ack, frames)
},
SentShortHeaderPacket: func(hdr *logging.ShortHeader, size logging.ByteCount, ecn logging.ECN, ack *logging.AckFrame, frames []logging.Frame) {
t.SentShortHeaderPacket(hdr, size, ecn, ack, frames)
},
ReceivedVersionNegotiationPacket: func(dest, src logging.ArbitraryLenConnectionID, versions []logging.Version) {
t.ReceivedVersionNegotiationPacket(dest, src, versions)
},
ReceivedRetry: func(hdr *logging.Header) {
t.ReceivedRetry(hdr)
},
ReceivedLongHeaderPacket: func(hdr *logging.ExtendedHeader, size logging.ByteCount, ecn logging.ECN, frames []logging.Frame) {
t.ReceivedLongHeaderPacket(hdr, size, ecn, frames)
},
ReceivedShortHeaderPacket: func(hdr *logging.ShortHeader, size logging.ByteCount, ecn logging.ECN, frames []logging.Frame) {
t.ReceivedShortHeaderPacket(hdr, size, ecn, frames)
},
BufferedPacket: func(typ logging.PacketType, size logging.ByteCount) {
t.BufferedPacket(typ, size)
},
DroppedPacket: func(typ logging.PacketType, pn logging.PacketNumber, size logging.ByteCount, reason logging.PacketDropReason) {
t.DroppedPacket(typ, pn, size, reason)
},
UpdatedMetrics: func(rttStats *logging.RTTStats, cwnd, bytesInFlight logging.ByteCount, packetsInFlight int) {
t.UpdatedMetrics(rttStats, cwnd, bytesInFlight, packetsInFlight)
},
AcknowledgedPacket: func(encLevel logging.EncryptionLevel, pn logging.PacketNumber) {
t.AcknowledgedPacket(encLevel, pn)
},
LostPacket: func(encLevel logging.EncryptionLevel, pn logging.PacketNumber, reason logging.PacketLossReason) {
t.LostPacket(encLevel, pn, reason)
},
UpdatedMTU: func(mtu logging.ByteCount, done bool) {
t.UpdatedMTU(mtu, done)
},
UpdatedCongestionState: func(state logging.CongestionState) {
t.UpdatedCongestionState(state)
},
UpdatedPTOCount: func(value uint32) {
t.UpdatedPTOCount(value)
},
UpdatedKeyFromTLS: func(encLevel logging.EncryptionLevel, perspective logging.Perspective) {
t.UpdatedKeyFromTLS(encLevel, perspective)
},
UpdatedKey: func(generation logging.KeyPhase, remote bool) {
t.UpdatedKey(generation, remote)
},
DroppedEncryptionLevel: func(encLevel logging.EncryptionLevel) {
t.DroppedEncryptionLevel(encLevel)
},
DroppedKey: func(generation logging.KeyPhase) {
t.DroppedKey(generation)
},
SetLossTimer: func(typ logging.TimerType, encLevel logging.EncryptionLevel, exp time.Time) {
t.SetLossTimer(typ, encLevel, exp)
},
LossTimerExpired: func(typ logging.TimerType, encLevel logging.EncryptionLevel) {
t.LossTimerExpired(typ, encLevel)
},
LossTimerCanceled: func() {
t.LossTimerCanceled()
},
ECNStateUpdated: func(state logging.ECNState, trigger logging.ECNStateTrigger) {
t.ECNStateUpdated(state, trigger)
},
ChoseALPN: func(protocol string) {
t.ChoseALPN(protocol)
},
Close: func() {
t.Close()
},
Debug: func(name, msg string) {
t.Debug(name, msg)
},
}, t
}
``` |
Dr. Dalhatu Umaru Sangari was elected Senator for the Taraba South constituency of Taraba State, Nigeria at the start of the Nigerian Fourth Republic, running on the All People's Party (APP) platform. He took office on 29 May 1999.
Sangari gained a doctoral degree in Land Resources Development from the University of Ibadan.
He was a lecturer in geography and researcher at Bayero University, Kano for 16 years before entering politics.
He became Deputy Dean of the University's Post Graduate School (1996–1998).
He was elected as a senator during the Sani Abacha transition regime, but did not take his seat before Abacha's death.
After taking his seat in the Senate in June 1999 Sangari was appointed to committees on Environment, Labor, Water Resources (vice chairman), Education, Information and Government Affairs.
He was appointed a member of the panel led by Senator Idris Ibrahim Kuta that probed possible financial irregularities in contract awards between June 1999 and July 2000, which indicted several Senators.
References
Living people
People from Taraba State
All People's Party (Nigeria) politicians
Peoples Democratic Party members of the Senate (Nigeria)
20th-century Nigerian politicians
21st-century Nigerian politicians
Year of birth missing (living people) |
Emil Artur Longen, born Emil Václav František Pitterman (29 July 1885, Pardubice – 24 April 1936, Benešov) was a Czech playwright, director, actor, screenwriter and painter. He was initially drawn to Post-Impressionism and Expressionism, but was also influenced by Cubism. In addition to painting, he created illustrations and caricatures for various periodicals.
Biography
His father was a notary, originally from Vlašim. After 1904, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague, with František Thiele. In 1907, he participated in founding the artists' association, . He was expelled from the Academy in 1908, for disciplinary infractions.
Although focused on art, he was also attracted to the theater and the cabaret. Around 1909, he began to collaborate with the writer and actor, Eduard Bass. It was then that he first used the pseudonym "Longen". Over the next twenty years, he would become a prominent figure in many Prague cabarets, including the famous (Red Seven). In 1910, he married the actress, Xena Marková.
In 1911, he made his mark at the beginnings of Czech cinema, co-authoring and starring in a series of four short comedies about a bon-vivant named Rudi. He also directed the last film in the series, Rudi Sportsman.
He opened his own cabarets in 1920: (Boom) and (The Revolutionary Scene). In 1921, he was in his first full-length silent film; Otrávené světlo (The Poisoned Light), playing a magician opposite Karel Lamač and Anny Ondra. For a time, he also worked abroad; in Paris, Ljubljana and Berlin. Back in Prague in 1925, he and the director, , agreed to merge their theater companies to create a new company named (an acronym for "Spojené ensembly Českého studia E. A. Longena"). It was short-lived, however, so he became an actor and dramaturge at the new . While there, in 1927, he wrote a biography of the theater's founder, the comedian Vlasta Burian.
Despite his professional successes, his marriage proved to be a very unhappy one. Xena felt disrespected, became depressed, addicted to morphine and cocaine and, in 1928, committed suicide by jumping from a window. Later that same year, he remarried, to Maria Uhlířová, apparently also an actress, and they had two children. He wrote a biographical novel in Xena's honor, called Herečka (Actress)
Since his student days, he had been known for his Bohemian lifestyle and explosive temperament, and was intoxicated almost daily. Much of his considerable income was squandered, and he was perpetually in debt. During the last half of his life, his paintings increasingly came to serve as little more than a way to help pay those debts. He died in 1936, in Beneš Hospital, at the age of fifty, from a perforated ulcer.
Selected paintings
References
Further reading
Various authors, Dějiny českého divadla/IV, Academia, Prague, 1983, pp.;40, 47, 50–52, 96, 158–161, 171–2, 182, 268, 374, 520, 590, 591, 596–7, 603, 611–2, 642, 647–8
Z. Sílová, R. Hrdinová, A. Kožíková and V. Mohylová : Divadlo na Vinohradech 1907–2007 – Vinohradský ansámbl, vydalo Divadlo na Vinohradech, Prague, 2007, pp204–5
External links
More works by Longen @ ArtNet
Entry on Longen @ the Česko-Slovenská filmová databáze
Entry on Longen @ abART
Emil Artur Longen, Jaroslav Hašek (biography), Beaufort publishing, 1928 (Full text online @ Bohemian Library)
"Emil Artur Longen brought both Švejk and Lenin to the scene for the first time" by David Hertl @ Český rozhlas
1885 births
1936 deaths
Czech painters
Czech actors
Czech screenwriters
Male screenwriters
Czech directors
Deaths from ulcers
People from Pardubice |
"Make No Mistake, He's Mine" is a song written by Kim Carnes, recorded as a duet with Barbra Streisand in 1984. The duet was subsequently recorded as "Make No Mistake, She's Mine" by Ronnie Milsap and Kenny Rogers in 1987. Both versions of the song charted.
In the wake of the Glee cover, where a man and woman sing about a female lover, Carnes said there were now "three different meanings of the song", regarding the malleability of the piece as "rewarding and gratifying".
Barbra Streisand and Kim Carnes recording
The song was recorded by Streisand and Carnes, co-produced (with Bill Cuomo) by Carnes, It was released on Streisand's 1984 album Emotion and as a single in December 1984, it hit #8 on the Adult Contemporary chart and #51 on the Billboard Hot 100 in early 1985.
In 1985 Carnes become the first artist to appear on the Billboard charts as part of a solo ("Invitation To Dance"), duet ("Make No Mistake, He's Mine"), and trio ("What About Me?") at the same time.
"Make No Mistake" later appeared on Carnes' 1993 compilation album Gypsy Honeymoon. The song was also featured on Streisand's 2002 compilation Duets.
A solo rendition by Carnes surfaced as a bonus track on the 2001 CD reissue of her 1985 album Barking at Airplanes.
Critical reception
Billboard said Streisand was "wonderfully feisty" in the duet. Other outlets at the time compared the "lovely song" to "The Girl Is Mine", given the common theme of possessiveness between rivals. A decade later Streisand and Carnes were praised for "brilliant vocal performances" that sounded as contemporary in 1993 as they did in 1984.
Charts
Ronnie Milsap and Kenny Rogers recording
"Make No Mistake, She's Mine" was recorded as a duet single by country pop artists Ronnie Milsap and Kenny Rogers in 1987.
The song topped the Billboard country chart and peaked at No. 42 on the Adult Contemporary chart. The song was later included on Ronnie Milsap's Heart & Soul and Kenny Rogers' I Prefer the Moonlight.
The song won a Grammy award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals.
Charts
In popular culture
In 2013 Naya Rivera and Chord Overstreet sang the "She's Mine" version for the "Diva" episode of the television series Glee.
References
1984 singles
Kim Carnes songs
Barbra Streisand songs
1987 singles
Ronnie Milsap songs
Kenny Rogers songs
Male vocal duets
Songs written by Kim Carnes
Song recordings produced by Kyle Lehning
RCA Records singles
1984 songs
Female vocal duets |
Bjerknes is a lunar impact crater that is located in the southern hemisphere on the rugged far side of the Moon. The crater lies behind the southeastern limb, and beyond the region that is sometimes brought into sight through libration. Thus this crater can not be viewed from Earth, and has only been seen from orbit. Nearby named craters are Clark to the east, and Pogson to the south-southwest.
The crater rim is generally circular, but with some slight irregularities along the northeastern quadrant. The rim is relatively sharp-edged, and displays little appearance of wear. The interior floor is rough and irregular, beginning with the slumped material at the base of the inner walls.
The crater is named in honor of Vilhelm Bjerknes, a pioneer in the field of weather forecasting.
Satellite craters
By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Bjerknes.
References
Impact craters on the Moon |
Isofucosterol, or 28-Isofucosterol, sometimes incorrectly called Δ-5-Avenasterol, is the E–Z isomer of Fucosterol and position isomer of Δ-7-Avenasterol. Isofucosterol is a natural, stigmastane-type sterol, mainly distributed in marine sponge.
References
Sterols
Isopropyl compounds |
Greater Kailash (often referred to as GK) is a residential area in South Delhi consisting of several neighborhoods and multiple markets. It is divided into two zones, namely Parts 1, 2, and 3, located around a section of the Outer Ring Road. The neighborhood registered a 4.4% growth in residential sales.
Greater Kailash 1
Greater Kailash 1 (GK-I) was developed in the 1960s by DLF Limited when Delhi Government allowed private developers to build colonies and is today one of the most affluent neighborhoods in the city, home to well-known politicians, business personality and people associated with Bollywood industry. GK 1 markets in M and N Block are some of the most popular markets among Delhites and tourists because of its wide range of shopping, restaurants, bars, etc. The Office of ASSOCHAM was there in Zamrudpur Community Centre till May 2013.
Greater Kailash Part 2
The development of Greater Kailash-I was followed by the expansion of Greater Kailash Part II, which has easier accessibility to the Outer Ring Road of New Delhi. M-Block, GK II is a popular market, with many restaurants, coffee shops, sanitary shops and beauty salons. It is one of the largest hubs for sanitary ware in Northern India. Recently the market has experienced heavy footfall due to several restaurants, salons and banks.
Greater Kailash Part 3
The development of Greater Kailash-II has also led to its expansion into Greater Kailash-III, now bordering GK-II and adjacent to the Greater Kailash Metro station.
Real estate
Established in the early 1960s, the Greater Kailash locality has two metro stations on the violet and magenta lines. It has its own prime market which hosts numerous opulent salons, boutiques and eating joints. Property prices have always been high in this borough due to the numerous facilities available. Builder floors and independent villas cost anywhere between INR 6-25 crores (the US $800,000 - $9,000,000). Rental rates are also very high due to which this residential area is among the most expensive places of New Delhi.
Educational institutions
Balvantray Mehta Vidya Bhawan Anguridevi Shersingh Memorial Academy
Don Bosco School
Summer Fields School
K R Mangalam
After School Academy
Hospitals
Shekhawati Hospital
Apollo Spectra Hospital
Fortis La Femme Hospital
Sukhda Hospital
Phoenix Hospital
Premier Skin Hospital
Bharti Eye Hospital
Spectra Eye Hospital
AJ Kanwar Skin Hospital
CB Physiotherapy, Greater Kailash
Religious buildings
Gurdwara Sri Guru Singh Sabha (Greater Kailash)
∆ Sanatan Dharm Mandir
∆ Arya Samaj Mandir
∆ Church
Accessibility
The Domestic Airport is 17 km from Greater Kailash.
The International Airport (IGI) is 22 km from Greater Kailash.
The Nizamuddin Railway station is approximately 9 km from Greater Kailash
The New Delhi Railway Station is approximately 15 – 16 km from Greater Kailash
Contiguous neighborhoods
East of Kailash
Nehru Place
Lajpat Nagar
Kalkaji
Chittaranjan Park
Masjid Moth
Greater Kailash 3
Kailash Colony
Sant Nagar
Pamposh Enclave
Hemkunt Colony
Chirag Enclave
Siri Fort Road
Alaknanda
tughlaqabad extension
Govind puri
References
External links
Nehru Place Distributors
Nehru Place
Neighbourhoods in Delhi
South Delhi district |
Russians of Croatia (, ) are one of the twenty-two national minorities expressly mentioned and defined by law of Croatia. According to the 2021 Census, there were 1,481 Croatian citizens in the country, who identified themselves as Russians, most of them living in Zagreb (380).
Statistics
History and legal status
A significant number of Russian nationals were first brought to the territory of modern Croatia, then a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, as prisoners of war during the First World War; some of them remained there after the war ended in 1918. In 1920, there began mass immigration of refugees fleeing the Soviet-controlled Russia to the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes; some of those people settled in what is now Croatia, first mainly in Dubrovnik and Split, later in Zagreb and elsewhere. The government of the Kingdom of SHS in early 1920 established the State Commission for Russian Refugees at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (that category then included all arrivals from the former Russian Empire irrespective of their actual ethnicity). But even before that, the government had appointed a special official who was charged with reception and accommodation of arrivals from Russia; the position was given to Sergei Nikolayevich Paleolog, a former senior official in the Russian Ministry of the Interior. Major Russian communities (″colonies″) were established in Dubrovnik, Split, Crikvenica, Zagreb, and some other towns in the early 1920s, while the majority of those arriving in the Kingdom eventually settled in Serbia. The government of the Kingdom of SHS explained its hospitality afforded to Russian exiles by presenting it as paying back the debt Serbia owed Russia for the latter′s intervention on the side of Serbia at the outbreak of World War I.
The first large group of mostly wealthy Russians arrived in Dubrovnik in March 1920 and some of those went further west. Russians arriving in Dubrovnik as refugees were sent on to Vojvodina, whereas those who arrived in Bakar (since December 1920) were mostly settled all over Croatia. Multiple Russian clubs, associations, as well as cultural, educational, political and professional institutions were founded in Zagreb. The Russian All-Military Union, an organisation set up by Gen Pyotr Wrangel in Karlovci in September 1924 that sought to embrace all the veterans of the Imperial Russian Armed Forces the world over, had an office in Zagreb. Zagreb′s Russian colony was in 1924 headed up by Stepan Stanislavovich Skovronsky and totaled about 2,000 members. For academic year 1922/1923, the University of Zagreb enrolled 232 students from Russia (10.10 percent of all those enrolled). According to the Kingdom′s Ministry of the Interior′s documents, the local population occasionally displayed hostility towards Russian refugees, usually due to the view that Russians were taking away jobs, but also due to the fact that the left-leaning strata of society tended to see all Russian émigrés as "counter revolutionists". In 1921, a Russian religious community was founded in Zagreb by admiral Vyatkin who chaired it until his death in 1943.
In Crikvenica, an Orthodox church of St Nicholas was built in 1923–1924 specifically for Russian worshippers and survives as a building. There is also a ″Russian″ chapel in Zagreb′s Mirogoj cemetery, which was consecrated on 4 November 1928. Those were erected by White Russian exiles, mainly former Russian Imperial Army officers and intelligentsia, who had fled Russia and moved to what was then the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, as part of a massive Russian exodus that resulted from the Russian revolution in 1917 and the ensuing Civil War. Most of those refugees from the former Russian Empire did not initially intend to stay outside Russia permanently and hoped to return.
Notable figures of the interwar period include: Margarita Froman, a principal dancer and choreographer of the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb; generals Alexander Adlerberg, Daniil Dratsenko and Ivan Polyakov, who consecutively headed the Zagreb chapter of the Russian All-Military Union (ROVS); counter admiral Fyodor Vyatkin (Vjatkin) who in 1931 took over as chairman of Zagreb′s chapter of the Union of Russian Officers; generals Nikolai Stremoukhov, Alexander Ozarovsky and Pavel Panchenko-Krivorotenko; Archbishop Germogen (Maximov), who became the primate of the Croatian Orthodox Church in 1942.
After the German invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941 and the establishment of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH), the number of registered Russians who resided in the territory of the NDH totaled 5,000. In August 1941, the NDH government issued a directive that exempted Russians in the NDH from any discrimination or reprisals as long as they were politically loyal; political loyalty was to be certified by Russian colonies′ leadership, namely the Representation of Russian Emigration (Predstavništvo ruske emigracije) in Zagreb. As early as in July 1941, a campaign was launched to recruit the Russians in the NDH to what would be in September instituted as the Separate Russian Corps (later known in German as Russisches Schutzkorps Serbien). The commander of the Corps, with headquarters in Belgrade, was Russian general Boris Shteifon, who died in Zagreb′s Esplanade hotel in April 1945 while leading his men to Austria. According to a report received by the Main Ustaša Headquarters in early 1942, in the territory of the NDH there were forty Russian colonies with about 5.500 people. Since most of the Russians in the NDH were of anti-Communist and anti-Soviet political orientation, a significant number of them had left Zagreb months before the end of WWII and the establishment of the Communist regime in Croatia, the final massive departures occurring in the autumn of 1944 and in early spring of 1945; a considerable number of those who stayed were later in 1945 subjected to reprisals and prosecution. All Russian clubs and associations were terminated after May 1945. Germogen (Maximov), along with three priests of the Croatian Orthodox Church, was court-martialled on 29 June 1945 and executed the next day.
Some former citizens of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union left for the USSR, a move that was facilitated by the Decree of the Supreme Soviet of 14 June 1946. The situation for the Russians in Yugoslavia became still worse in 1948, following the Cominform Resolution of 28 June 1948 that resulted from the Tito–Stalin Split. Some Russians, who already had Yugoslavian citizenship, were stripped of it, especially in the summer and autumn of 1948; some were deported to the USSR as exposed Soviet spies. After 1948, Russians′ social and cultural life in Zagreb in any form virtually ceased.
In the 1960s and 1970s, the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia developed economic ties with the Soviet Union, which caused immigration of Soviets to Croatia, usually Soviet women through marriage. During the period of dissolution of Yugoslavia, Croatia′media created a negative perception of those residents of Croatia who were Orthodox Christians; teaching of the Russian language in schools was largely abandoned. Nevertheless, the number of Russians in Croatia nearly doubled in the period between 1991 and 2011.
In modern Croatia, ethnic Russians (persons who identify themselves as such), who are citizens of Croatia, are expressly cited as one of the twenty-two ″national minorities″ recognised by the Constitution of Croatia (″the Republic of Croatia is hereby established as the nation state of the Croatian nation and the state of the members of its national minorities: [...]″). According to 2011 Census, there were 1,279 Russians in Croatia. Their rights, like the rights of other "national minorities" () in Croatia, are regulated by the Constitutional Act on The Rights of National Minorities in the Republic of Croatia adopted in 2002 and amended in 2010. Chapter 16 thereof reads as follows: ″Members of national minorities, their associations and national minority councils and representatives may freely maintain contacts with people with whom they share the same ethnic, linguistic, cultural and/ or religious traits, and with legal entities based in the country of that people which engage in educational, scholarly, cultural, publishing and humanitarian activities.″ According to 2021 Census, there were 1,481 Russians in Croatia.
Notes and citations
References
Filip Škiljan. Rusi u Hrvatskoj između 1991. i 2011. Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, Zagreb.
Памятка о русских города Загреба List of Russian POWs and emigres (Russian military officers only) buried in Zagreb, compiled by Dr Andrey Chebotaryov (Andrej Čebotarjov).
See also
Croatia–Russia relations
Ethnic groups in Croatia
Russian diaspora
Ethnic groups in Croatia
Croatia
Croatia |
Soyma () is a rural locality (a village) in Golovinskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 391 as of 2010. There are 6 streets.
Geography
Soyma is located on the Soyma River, 10 km northwest of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Penki is the nearest rural locality.
References
Rural localities in Sudogodsky District |
Viraat is a 2016 Indian Kannada-language action drama film directed by H. Vasu and written by M. S. Ramesh. The film, produced by C. Kalyan under Theja Cinemas banner, features Darshan in the lead role. whilst newcomers Vidhisha Srivatsav, Isha Chawla and Chaitra Chandranath play the female lead characters. P. Ravi Shankar, Suhasini Maniratnam and Sumalatha play crucial supporting roles. V. Harikrishna has composed the soundtrack and background score, while the dialogues and screenplay were written by M. S. Ramesh.
The film which was earlier slated for a 2012 release underwent significant delays during the making due to the earlier producer and director tussles which ended up in the producer Sandesh Nagaraj walking out of the film. The film was eventually shelved and later was taken up by C. Kalyan, a Tollywood-based producer.
Viraat was released on 29 January 2016, where it received mixed to negative reviews from critics and became a box-office bomb.
Premise
Viraat Prasad is a business magnate who faces oppositions for his thermal power project from another business magnate Surendra Singh. Viraat's trouble also increases when three girls Keerthi, Spoorthi and Preethi falls in love with him, where he decides to test them in order to prove their love.
Cast
Darshan as Viraat Prasad
Isha Chawla as Preethi
Vidisha Shrivastav as Spoorthi
Chaitra Chandranath as Keerthi
Suhasini Maniratnam as Chief Minister
Sumalatha as Viraat's mother
P. Ravi Shankar as Surendra Singh
Srinivasa Murthy
Sadhu Kokila
Bullet Prakash
Chitra Shenoy
Padma Vasanthi
Bank Janardhan
Thulasi Shivamani
Production
The official launch and the first schedule shooting of Viraat began on 27 February 2012. The film considered to be a big budget venture with a big glass house worth crores of rupees is being made at the Bababudangiri Hills for the first 15 days shooting schedule. Actress Suhasini Maniratnam played the role of a powerful Chief Minister for the first time in her career.
Reception
The Bangalore Mirror gave the movie 3 stars. Its review said, "[T]he film has its moments but the film isn't exactly a must-watch, except for the hero's fans", and added, "[T]he plot is more like the TV reality show The Bachelor".
Music
Music for the film is composed by V. Harikrishna who is the regular composer for Darshan's films. A single song is composed and sung by Raghu Kunche, making his debut in Kannada cinema. The song "Gandasu Safety Pin" is a recreation of Kunche's Telugu song "Ramanamma" from the film Bumper Offer.
The audio launch was held on January 12, 2016. The audio rights has been bought by Lahari Music.
External links
References
2016 films
Films set in Bangalore
2010s Kannada-language films
Indian action films
Films scored by V. Harikrishna
Films shot in Bangalore
Films shot in Switzerland
Films scored by Raghu Kunche
2016 action films |
Victor David Brenner (born Avigdor David Brenner; June 12, 1871 – April 5, 1924) was a Lithuanian sculptor, engraver, and medalist known primarily as the designer of the United States Lincoln Cent.
Biography
Brenner was born to Jewish parents in Šiauliai, Russian Empire. His name at birth was Avigdor David Brenner ("Avigdor ben Gershon," in Hebrew, as his gravestone attests), but he changed the name to Victor David Brenner.
He emigrated to the United States in 1890, living mostly in the New York City area. When Brenner arrived in America, he had little more to fall back upon except the trade taught to him by his father — gem and seal engraving. This technical preparation included the tools of the sculptor's craft. He took night classes at Cooper Union. Brenner soon mastered English as he had mastered French.
Eight years later Brenner was in Paris, studying with the great French medalist Oscar Roty at the Académie Julian. There he exhibited his work and obtained awards at the Paris Exposition of 1900. He returned to the United States, and from that time on his career prospered. He appeared to be on his way to the fulfilment of the splendid predictions made for his future by Rodin.
Brenner died in 1924 and is buried at Mount Judah Cemetery, Ridgewood, Queens, New York.
Lincoln cent
Brenner is probably best known for his enduring Lincoln coin design, the obverse of which is the longest-running design in United States Mint history, and perhaps the most reproduced piece of art in world history. Brenner's design had been picked by President Theodore Roosevelt, who had earlier posed for him in New York. Since arriving nineteen years earlier in the United States, Brenner had become one of the nation's premier medalists. Roosevelt had learned of Brenner's talents in a settlement house on New York City's Lower East Side and was immediately impressed with a bas-relief that Brenner had made of Lincoln, based on the early Civil War era photographer, Mathew Brady's photograph.
Roosevelt, who considered Lincoln the savior of the Union, the greatest Republican president and also considered himself Lincoln's political heir, ordered the new Lincoln penny to be based on Brenner's work and that it be produced to commemorate Lincoln's 100th birthday in 1909. The likeness of President Lincoln on the obverse of the coin is an adaptation of a plaque Brenner executed several years earlier and which had come to the attention of President Roosevelt in New York.
Bronze bas-reliefs dated 1907 and signed by Brenner have been identified and some sold in auctions for as much as $3,900.
Charles Eliot Norton of Harvard, whom Brenner counted among his friends, gave the sculptor an unpublished portrait of Lincoln which served Brenner as a basis for Lincoln's features. He also examined other portraits.
When Brenner forwarded the model of the Lincoln cent to the Director of the Mint, the design bore his whole name, after the fashion of the signatures on the coinage of other countries, notably on the gold coins which Oscar Roty designed for France. The Director, however, decided to have the initials substituted for the name.
Following the precedent of James B. Longacre, whose initials "JBL" (or simply "L") graced a number of U.S. coin designs for much of the latter half of the 19th century, Brenner placed his initials "VDB" at the bottom of the reverse between the wheat ear stalks.
Widespread criticism of the initials' prominence resulted in their removal midway through 1909, the design's first year of issue. In 1918, Brenner's initials returned as small letters below Lincoln's shoulder, where they remain today. (The incorporation of the designer's initials into a coin design is now commonplace in the U.S.)
A 1909 VDB US cent was mounted on the calibration target on the Mars Curiosity rover. This is a nod to the rover's geologic mission and the common practice by geologists including a coin in photographs to document the size of objects.
Works
Some of Brenner's most noteworthy sculptural works include:
Rev. Dr Muhlenberg Medal (issued by the American Numismatic and Archaeological Society)
Portrait-plaquette of Fridtjof Nansen
Portrait medallion of J. Sanford Saltus
Portrait medallion of C. Delacour
Portrait-plaquette of Abraham Lincoln (the same plaquette that was used in the design of the Lincoln cent)
Portrait medallion of Prince Heinrich of Prussia (1902)
Portrait bas-relief of John Paul Jones
Portrait bas-relief of Carl Schurz
Bust of Charles Eliot Norton
Seal of the New York Public Library
Portrait of Spencer Trask.
A Song to Nature in Schenley Plaza at the University of Pittsburgh
See also
List of Saltus Award winners
Gallery
References
External links
PCGS The Professional Coin Grading Service's biography of Victor David Brenner
Leonard Forrer, Biographical Dictionary of Medallists (Vol 1, 1904) pp. 277–279
1871 births
1924 deaths
People from Šiauliai
People from Shavelsky Uyezd
Jews from the Russian Empire
Jewish sculptors
Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States
American people of Lithuanian-Jewish descent
20th-century American sculptors
20th-century male artists
19th-century American sculptors
19th-century male artists
American male sculptors
Cooper Union alumni
American medallists
American currency designers
Coin designers
Sculptors from the Russian Empire |
is a Japanese novel series written by Chisato Abe. The series began publication in June 2012, with nine main volumes and two side story volumes being released as of October 2022. A manga adaptation of the first novel, titled A Raven for All Seasons, was serialized on Kodansha's Comic Days manga website from June 2018 to April 2020. A manga adaptation of the second novel, titled Karasu wa Aruji o Erabanai, began serialization in Kodansha's Evening magazine in May 2020, before being transferred to the Comic Days website in December 2021. An anime television series adaptation of the second novel is set to premiere in April 2024.
Media
Novels
First part
Second part
Side stories
Manga
A manga adaptation of the first novel illustrated by Natsumi Matsuzaki, titled A Raven for All Seasons, was serialized on Kodansha's Comic Days manga website from June 23, 2018 to April 11, 2020. The manga is published in English on Kodansha's K Manga app.
A manga adaptation of the second novel, also illustrated by Matsuzaki, began serialization in Kodansha's Evening manga magazine on August 25, 2020. It was later transferred to the Comic Days website beginning on November 5, 2021.
A Raven for All Seasons
Karasu wa Aruji o Erabanai
Anime
An anime television series adaptation of the second novel Karasu wa Aruji o Erabanai was announced on October 24, 2023. It is set to premiere on NHK in April 2024.
References
External links
2012 Japanese novels
2024 anime television series debuts
Anime and manga based on novels
Bungeishunjū books
Fiction about shapeshifting
Historical fantasy anime and manga
Japanese fantasy novels
Japanese historical novels
Japanese webcomics
Kodansha manga
NHK original programming
Novels about birds
Seinen manga
Webcomics in print |
The Agaminae are a subfamily of reptiles in the family Agamidae.
Genera
Listed alphabetically:
Genus Acanthocercus
Genus Agama
Genus Bufoniceps (Laungwala long-headed lizard)
Genus Coryphophylax
Genus Laudakia (Asian rock agamas)
Genus Paralaudakia - sometimes included in Laudakia (Asian rock agamas)
Genus Phrynocephalus (toadhead agamas)
Genus Pseudotrapelus
Genus Trapelus
Genus Xenagama
References
External links
Agaminae, The Reptile Database
Agamidae
Taxa named by John Edward Gray
Reptile subfamilies |
Kymlinge () is an area of Sundbyberg Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden. It is mostly a recreational park, part of which is a nature reserve (Igelbäcken).
History
The area has been inhabited since the Iron Age. The name is known since 1347, then as Kymmelinghe. Until the beginning of the 20th century, the area was still used as a farm. Since the farm was abandoned, the area has been kept as a park.
In the 1970s there were plans to develop the area as a suburb, mainly to accommodate government agencies, state-owned enterprises and other offices moving out from central Stockholm (they needed larger offices). The plans were eventually scrapped, for several reasons. The suburbanisation of Stockholm had already peaked, and some government agencies were instead relocated to other cities in Sweden. Also, the municipality (which is the smallest in Sweden by area) wanted to preserve the area as a nature resort, so it was left untouched.
Plans to develop the area are discussed every few years, especially around elections.
Metro station
In the early 1970s, the planning of a metro station in Kymlinge, located between Hallonbergen and Kista stations, on the blue line to Akalla, was already well advanced. The transit authority Storstockholms Lokaltrafik decided to go on with the building, but the station was left unfinished, and the metro line was opened in 1977 without it. If the area is ever developed in the future it will be possible to carry on with the work. At the beginning of the 21st century such plans were again discussed.
Kymlinge is sometimes called a “ghost station” or an “abandoned station”, but the fact is that the project has simply been put off indefinitely. The station is said to be haunted by the Silverpilen ghost train.
See also
North End tube station - never-opened station on the London Underground.
Haxo - a never-opened station on the Paris Metro
Porte Molitor - never-opened station on the Paris Métro.
Silverpilen, the "ghost train" of the Stockholm Metro, sometimes associated with Kymlinge
The Philip K. Dick short story "The Commuter" involving a station called "Macon Heights".
Ryugyong Hotel, of Pyongyang, a hotel office project that stood incomplete for a decade, once featured on North Korean propaganda, such as stamps etc, airbrushed out, dubbing it the Phantom hotel.
References
External links
Images of Kymlinge 'ghost' station
Map of the Kymlinge section of the Igelbäcken nature reserve (white outline)
Stockholm urban area
Buildings and structures in Stockholm
Abandoned rapid transit stations
sv:Kymlinge |
Chester Township is a township in Wabasha County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 470 at the 2000 census.
Chester Township was organized in 1858.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of ; of it is land and of it (0.08%) is water. The township contains one property listed on the National Register of Historic Places: the 1874 Bear Valley Grange Hall, which now serves as the town hall.
Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there were 470 people, 162 households, and 125 families residing in the township. The population density was . There were 165 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the township was 99.57% White and 0.43% Asian. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.43% of the population.
There were 162 households, out of which 38.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 64.8% were married couples living together, 4.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 22.8% were non-families. 18.5% of all households were made up of individuals, and 9.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.90 and the average family size was 3.37.
In the township the population was spread out, with 30.0% under the age of 18, 9.4% from 18 to 24, 28.3% from 25 to 44, 22.6% from 45 to 64, and 9.8% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 37 years. For every 100 females, there were 110.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 110.9 males.
The median income for a household in the township was $48,750, and the median income for a family was $52,308. Males had a median income of $31,406 versus $21,731 for females. The per capita income for the township was $20,701. About 1.7% of families and 3.8% of the population were below the poverty line, including 4.7% of those under age 18 and 5.4% of those age 65 or over.
References
Townships in Wabasha County, Minnesota
Rochester metropolitan area, Minnesota
Townships in Minnesota |
Mike Revis is an American politician who served as a Democratic member of the Missouri House of Representatives for the 97th district from 2018 to 2019.
Background
Revis graduated from Rockwood Summit High School and worked for Anheuser-Busch InBev as a purchasing manager. He also was an intern for Governor Jay Nixon.
On February 6, 2018, Revis won a special election to succeed John McCaherty (R), who resigned as state representative for District 97.
References
21st-century American politicians
Living people
Democratic Party members of the Missouri House of Representatives
Politicians from St. Louis
Year of birth missing (living people) |
Phaikolum is a village in the Peren district of Nagaland, India. It is located in the Kebai Khelma Circle.
Demographics
According to the 2011 census of India, Phaikolum has 21 households. The effective literacy rate (i.e. the literacy rate of population excluding children aged 6 and below) is 92.41%.
References
Villages in Kebai Khelma Circle |
Hans Schwarzentruber (25 March 1929 – 23 November 1982) was a Swiss gymnast who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics and in the 1960 Summer Olympics.
References
1929 births
1982 deaths
Swiss male artistic gymnasts
Olympic gymnasts for Switzerland
Gymnasts at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Gymnasts at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Olympic silver medalists for Switzerland
Olympic medalists in gymnastics
Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics
20th-century Swiss people |
Signal Port (also, Hardscratch and Signal) is a former settlement in Mendocino County, California. It was located near the mouth of Signal Creek northwest of Fish Rock, at an elevation of 108 feet (33 m).
The Signal post office operated for a time in 1882. The Signal Port post office operated from 1888 to 1890. The name refers to signals given ships waiting to load lumber at the site.
References
Former settlements in Mendocino County, California
Former populated places in California |
Ignacew Rozlazły is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Parzęczew, within Zgierz County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It lies approximately south-east of Parzęczew, north-west of Zgierz, and north-west of the regional capital Łódź.
References
Villages in Zgierz County |
Uncial 078 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 15 (Soden), is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament, dated paleographically to the 6th century. It is a palimpsest.
Description
The codex contains a small parts of the Matthew 17:22-18:3.11-19; 19:5-14; Luke 18:14-25; John 4:52-5:8; 20:17-26 on 6 parchment leaves (27 cm by 20 cm). The text is written in two columns per page, 22 lines per page.
It is a palimpsest, the upper text was written in the 10th century in Georgian language.
The Greek text of this codex was influenced by the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category III.
Tischendorf deciphered text of the palimpsest. David C. Parker gave a new reconstruction of the text of the Gospel of John.
Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 6th century.
The codex is located now at the Russian National Library (Suppl. Gr. 13, fol. 1-7) in Saint Petersburg.
See also
List of New Testament uncials
Textual criticism
References
Further reading
C. Tischendorf, Monumenta sacra inedita (J.C. Hinrichs, Bibliopola: Leipzig: 1855), pp. XII-XIX, 5-10.
U. B. Schmid, D. C. Parker, W. J. Elliott, The Gospel according to St. John: The majuscules (Brill 2007), pp. 66-68. [text of the codex in the Gospel of John]
External links
Uncial 078 at the Wieland Willker, "Textual Commentary"
Greek New Testament uncials
6th-century biblical manuscripts
Palimpsests
National Library of Russia collection |
Alberto Mazzoncini (born 14 February 1991) is a South African cricketer. He is a left-handed batsman and left-arm medium-pace bowler who played for Griqualand West. Between 2009 and 2012, Mazzoncini played six times in First-class cricket, 16 in List A cricket matches and five Twenty20 games.
He was born in Kimberley and attended Diamantveld High School.
Mazzoncini played for Griqualand West Under-19s in the CSA Under-19s competition between January 2008 and December 2009.
Mazzoncini made his first-class debut during the 2009–10 season, against Boland.
References
External links
Alberto Mazzoncini at Cricket Archive
1991 births
Living people
South African cricketers
Griqualand West cricketers
South African people of Italian descent |
Karakar Pass (; el. 1336 m./4384 ft.) is a mountain pass in the Hindu Kush, connecting Swat and Buner in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. From the top of the pass, one can view Buner Valley.
It was at this pass in February 1586 where about 8,000 Mughal soldiers, including their commander-in-chief Birbal, were killed by the Yusufzai lashkar led by Kalu Khan. This was the greatest disaster faced by the Mughal Army during Akbar's reign.
The 45 km-long road from Pir Baba to Barikot passes through Elum Ghar rising through mature pine forests to Karakar Pass.
See also
Karakar Tunnel
Elum Ghar
References
Mountain passes of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Mountain passes of the Hindu Kush |
The Salt Lake City, Utah, area includes many diverse media outlets, not only found within the official city boundaries, but also in the greater Wasatch Front urban area.
Newspapers
Major daily
Daily Herald, Provo - daily morning news
Deseret Morning News, Salt Lake City - daily morning news
The Herald Journal, Logan - daily morning news
The Salt Lake Tribune, Salt Lake City - daily morning news
Standard-Examiner, Ogden - daily morning news
Alternative
El Semanal Magazine - free bi-weekly, family-oriented and independent media. Written entirely in Spanish.
CATALYST Magazine - monthly environmental, spirituality, health, arts and politics magazine
NOW Salt Lake - free monthly entertainment magazine
QSaltLake - bi-weekly free gay and lesbian news
Salt Lake City Weekly - weekly free alternative
Salt Lake Free Press - free weekly alternative; news and entertainment
College
BYU NewsNet - Brigham Young University
The Daily Universe - Brigham Young University
Daily Utah Chronicle - daily student paper, University of Utah
The Globe - twice a week, Salt Lake Community College
Hard News Cafe - Utah State University's journalism and communication department online newspaper
Schooled Magazine - Utah Valley's student publication for BYU, UVU, and speciality college students; motto is "for the student, by the student"
The Signpost - three times a week, Weber State University
The Utah Statesman - award-winning campus newspaper published three times each week, produced entirely by students at Utah State University; distributed to on-campus locations and selected downtown locations every Monday, Wednesday and Friday of the academic school year
Venceremos student newspaper - the only bilingual student newspaper in Utah
Forum - fortnightly student paper of Westminster College, Salt Lake City
Magazines
El Semanal Magazine is a free bi-weekly independent printing media, published totally in Spanish since September 2001; news and entertainment, family oriented. www.elsemanalonline.com
architectureUTAH magazine - annual published by Silver King Media
CATALYST Magazine - monthly environmental, spirituality, health, arts and politics magazine
Parent Fresh Magazine - monthly parenting magazine for discerning Utah families
Salt Lake Magazine - bi-monthly local magazine
Schooled Magazine - monthly local BYU & UVU magazine
SLUG Magazine - Salt Lake Underground music magazine
UGLY Magazine - digital tablet-based fashion, arts, and culture magazine
Utah Homes & Garden magazine - quarterly, published by Silver King Media
Utah Valley Magazine - bi-monthly local magazine
Digital
24saltlake.com - news, weather, traffic and local events
ksl.com - news, weather, traffic and local events
utahpolicy.com - political news
utahpoliticalcapitol.com - political news
Aggregators
UtahTweets - comprising information from Twitter streams
Television
Salt Lake City is the 30th largest television market, according to Nielsen.
Radio
Salt Lake City is the 31st largest radio market, according to Arbitron.
References
External links
Utah Radio Talk
Utah Internet radio
UTRadioGuide.com
Utah media guide
Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City media |
The 2023 Islamabad local government elections or the 2023 Islamabad local bodies election, () will be held in the Islamabad Capital Territory. Around one million voters will choose their representatives in the federal capital's long-delayed local government elections, according to a schedule released by the Election Commission of Pakistan.
The candidates for the Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PML-N) and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) sparred a lot during the most recent elections, which were conducted in 2015. The PML-N won the elections, and Sheikh Anser Aziz was later elected as Islamabad's first mayor. Aziz later resigned in 2020 and was replaced by Pir Adil Gillani.
Background
Elections in Islamabad were long overdue since the Islamabad Metropolitan Corporation, the city's previous municipal administration, finished its five-year term in February 2021. The government and the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) both failed to hold the elections within the required four months. The ECP has finally released the election timetable for Islamabad's 101 Union Councils (UCs) after an egregious delay. The number of UCs has now been expanded by the government from 50 to 101 due to Islamabad’s population increase according to the 2017 census.
On 23 December 2022, the Senate passed a bill that increased the number of UCs from 101 to 125. On 27 December 2022, a five member bench of the ECP, headed by the Chief Election Commissioner, conducted a hearing which concluded in the postponement of the elections “for the time being”. Because of the increase in the number of UCs, the ECP would have to conduct fresh delimitations and redo the whole election process, which would at least take 4 months. On 30 December 2022, the Islamabad High Court (IHC) accepted identical petitions filed by the PTI and Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) set aside the ECP’s order of postponement of the elections and directed it to hold the elections as per schedule, that is on 31 December 2022.
However, elections were not held on 31 December 2022, despite lines of voters outside polling stations. The ECP stated it would be “practically impossible” to hold the elections on such a short notice and subsequently filed an intra-court appeal against the IHC’s decision. Concurrently, the PTI filed a petition in the IHC seeking contempt of court proceedings against the ECP for not holding the elections.
On 15 February 2023, the IHC sought a fresh schedule for the elections from the ECP after Parliament increased the number of UCs from 101 to 125.
On 29 July 2023, the ECP decided to convene a meeting on 2 August to decide on the date of the elections.
Seat allocation
The local government election in Islamabad Capital Territory consists of 101 Union Councils and 1 Metropolitan Corporation Islamabad.
Elections
Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PML-N), Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) are the political parties that are most likely to compete against one another in the elections. The PPP is a strong electoral force in Islamabad and works with the PML-N in the federal government's alliance. In order to defeat the PTI, there is a likelihood that these two parties will run united candidates in numerous Union Councils.
See also
2015 Islamabad local government elections
References
Local elections in Pakistan
Loc
Islamabad
December 2022 events in Pakistan |
TerraSAR-X, is an imaging radar Earth observation satellite, a joint venture being carried out under a public-private-partnership between the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and EADS Astrium. The exclusive commercial exploitation rights are held by the geo-information service provider Astrium. TerraSAR-X was launched on 15 June 2007 and has been in operational service since January 2008. With its twin satellite TanDEM-X, launched 21 June 2010, TerraSAR-X acquires the data basis for the WorldDEM, the worldwide and homogeneous DEM available from 2014.
Satellite and mission
With its phased array synthetic aperture radar (SAR) antenna (X-band wavelength 31 mm, frequency 9.65 GHz), TerraSAR-X provides radar images of the entire planet from an Earth polar orbit of 514 km altitude. This is selected so that the satellite follows a Sun-synchronous orbit. This specific orbit means that the satellite moves along the Day-Night boundary of the Earth and allows it to present the same face to the Sun: thus, providing the best solar incidence angles to its solar cells for power. TerraSAR-X is designed to carry out its task for five years, independent of weather conditions and illumination, and provides radar images with a resolution of up to 1m.
Features of TerraSAR-X:
resolution of up to 1 m,
high radiometric accuracy,
high geometric accuracy,
quick site access time of 2.5 days max. (2 days at 95% probability) to any point on Earth,
agility feature (rapidly switches between imaging modes and polarisations)
TerraSAR-X imaging modes
TerraSAR-X acquires radar data in the following three main imaging modes:
SpotLight: up to 1 m resolution, scene size 10 km (width) × 5 km (length);
StripMap: up to 3 m resolution, scene size 30 km (width) × 50 km (length);
ScanSAR: up to 16 m resolution, scene size 100 km (width) × 150 km (length);
In addition, the design of TerraSAR-X's SAR antenna allows a variety of polarimetric combinations: single or dual polarization, or full polarimetric data takes.
Depending on the desired application, one of four different processing levels is selected:
Single Look Slant Range Complex (SSC)
Multi Look Ground Range Detected (MGD)
Geocoded Ellipsoid Corrected (GEC)
Enhanced Ellipsoid Corrected (EEC)
TanDEM-X and WorldDEM Akida
TanDEM-X (TerraSAR-X add-on for Digital Elevation Measurements) is a second, similar spacecraft launched on 21st June 2010 from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Since October 2010, TerraSAR-X and TanDEM-X have orbited in close formation at distances of a few hundred metres and record data synchronously.
This twin satellite constellation will allow the generation of WorldDEM, the global digital elevation models (DEMs). With higher accuracy, coverage and quality – WorldDEM is a consistent DEM of the Earth's land surface is envisaged to be acquired and generated within three years after launch. Available from 2014, WorldDEM is to feature a vertical accuracy of 2m (relative) and 10m (absolute), within a horizontal raster of approximately 12x12 square meters, slightly varying depending on the geographic latitude.
Satellite radar
Radar stands for Radio Detection and Ranging and contains traditionally:
Range finding (EDM) by means of the time a reflected signal needs to return;
Direction measurement over the adjustment of the antenna, and;
Different analysis such as SAR, polarization and Interferometry.
Satellite radar entered use more than fifteen years after optical camera systems did. The resolution is lower than optical imaging, but radar can gather information at any time of the day or night and independent of cloud cover.
Early radar satellite techniques were e.g. the Altimetrie (leveling over the sea), NASA's SEASAT (launched in 1978), regulation of waves/wind or soil data. The military has used radar since the late 1930s and radar satellites at least since 1978.
Innovations with TerraSAR X
TerraSAR X will exhibit some technical-industrial novelties. One of these innovations is a kind of zoom shot, with the resolution and scanning field vice versa changeable in a 1:10 relationship, either a larger area to grasp or a small area with the highest possible resolution.
Furthermore, the antenna can be aligned by electronics within an angle range so that the point of view is adjustable. Earlier radar satellites could radiate the antenna only in one direction.
Scanning and trajectory
With the adjustable angle radar sensor - along with other course refinements (precession by the earth flattening) - any place on earth can be observed preferentially within 1–3 days.
For a specific point on the Earth's equator, TerraSAR X has a revisit cycle of 11 days. The revisit time decreases towards the poles, e.g. Northern Europe has a revisit time of typically 3–4 days.
Ground segment
The ground operating mechanism and controls for the TerraSAR X is developed by the DLR in Oberpfaffenhofen.
It consists of Mission Operating Equipment, the Payload Ground Segment and the Instrument Operation and Calibration Segment. At the base of the ground segment lies the German Space Operation Center (GSOC), the German Remote Sensing Datum Center (DFD) as well as Institutes for Methodology of Remote Sensing (MF) and the Institute for High-Frequency Engineering and Radar Systems (HR) which are all part of the DLR.
Applications
Applications of the high-resolution TerraSAR-X radar imagery include:
Topographic Mapping: 2D and 3D, in scales down to 1:25,000, map updates
Surface Movement: Based on time series acquired by TerraSAR-X over the same area surface displacements caused by subsurface mining, oil-/gas extraction, infrastructure construction, excavations, or underground engineering can be visualised.
Change Detection: for the monitoring of large-scale construction projects, infrastructure networks, monitoring and documentation of changes and developments
Land Cover and Land Use Mapping: accurate and up-to-date land cover / land use informations, also from places, where it is difficult to get informations with using other technologies because of permanent cloud cover
Defence and Security Applications: Applications include effective mission planning, the quick assessment of natural or manmade disasters or border control through detection of paths (changes), fences and moving objects
Rapid Emergency Response: due to its rapid revisit time TerraSAR-X is a reliable source of information in case of natural or man-made disasters (e.g. earthquakes, floods, military conflicts etc.) providing reliable information for disaster management and response allowing the recognition and assessment of damages to populated areas and traffic infrastructure, the identification of focus areas, and an efficient coordination of rescue actions.
Environmental applications: e.g. forest monitoring, flood monitoring, water quality applications
Further applications currently under evaluation: Traffic Monitoring, Maritime applications, vegetation monitoring
Scientific use of TerraSAR-X data
The scientific use of the TerraSAR-X data will be coordinated through the TerraSAR-X Science Service System by the DLR. The new-quality data records, as provided by TerraSAR-X, will offer a vast amount of new research incentives, for instance in ecology, geology, hydrology and oceanography. The smallest movements of the Earth's surface (plate tectonics, volcanism, earthquake) are further scientific fields of application.
Commercial use of TerraSAR-X data
In order to ensure the commercial success of the mission, EADS Astrium founded its 100% subsidiary Infoterra in 2001; the company being responsible for establishing a commercial market for TerraSAR-X data as well as TerraSAR-X-based geo-information products and services.
See also
OPS 3762: The very first SAR radar in space, 1964
Seasat: The SAR radar in space in 1978
SAR Lupe: Germany's military radar satellites
SAR technology(Synthetic Aperture Radar)
Earth observation technology
Earth observation satellite
Digital elevation model
Radars on the Space Shuttle:
SIR-A (Shuttle Imaging Radar) aboard STS-2 in 1981
SIR-B aboard STS-41-G in 1984
SRL-1 (Shuttle Radar Laboratory): SIR-C (Spaceborne Imaging Radar) and X-SAR (X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar) on STS-59 in 1994
SRL-2: SIR-C/X-SAR on STS-68 in 1994
SRTM (Shuttle Radar Topography Mission) on STS-99 in 2000
(the TerraSAR-X authors were involved in SRL and SRTM missions)
References
External links
Astrium Geo
TerraSAR-X at DLR website.
TerraSAR-X for risk management.
TanDEM-X at DLR website.
TanDEM-X Science Home at DLR website
Terrasar-x at Astrium website
Satellites of Germany
Spacecraft launched by Dnepr rockets
Spacecraft launched in 2007
Synthetic aperture radar satellites
Twin satellites |
Coldspring, also known as Cold Spring, is a neighborhood in the North District of Baltimore, located between Cylburn (west) and the Village of Cross Keys (east). Its boundaries are drawn by West Northern Parkway (north), Greenspring Avenue (west), Jones Falls Expressway (east) and West Cold Spring Lane (south). Cold Spring Park covers about two-thirds of the neighborhood, running from Cold Spring's northern tip, where the Jones Falls Expressway crosses over West Northern Parkway, and overlapping the neighborhood's southern edge at West Cold Spring Lane.
The Jones Falls Trail passes through Cold Spring on its 10-mile course between Mount Washington and the Inner Harbor, with a branch of the trail extending to the Cylburn Arboretum in Cold Spring Park.
Demographics
The population of Cold Spring was estimated to be 1,308 in 2011, of which 86.3 percent were black and 11.4 percent were white. Median household income for Cold Spring was estimated at $57,713, which was significantly higher than the city-wide median of $38,721. However, 12.3 percent of Cold Spring residents were living below the poverty level in 2011.
Public transportation
Route 1 (MTA Maryland) provides local transit bus service in Cold Spring along Greenspring Avenue traveling between Sinai Hospital and Fort McHenry.
See also
List of Baltimore neighborhoods
References
Neighborhoods in Baltimore
Northern Baltimore |
pg is a terminal pager program on Unix and Unix-like systems for viewing text files. It can also be used to page through the output of a command via a pipe. pg uses an interface similar to vi, but commands are different.
As of 2018, pg has been removed from the POSIX specification, but is still included in util-linux. Users are expected to use other paging programs, such as more, less or most.
History
pg is the name of the historical utility on BSD UNIX systems. It was written to address the limit of the historical more command not being able to traverse the input backward. Eventually that ability was added also to more, so both are quite similar.
References
See also
less
more
most (Unix)
Terminal pagers |
Mortonson–Van Leer Log Cabin (a.k.a. Schorn Log Cabin), is a historic cabin and one of the last historical dwellings in Swedesboro, Gloucester County, New Jersey, United States. It stands on the grounds of the cemetery of the Trinity Church. It is one of the oldest original log cabins of early Swedish-Finnish architecture in the United States.
History
The Mortonson–Van Leer Log Cabin was originally built along the north bank of the Raccoon River by Morton Mortenson, a Swedish-Finnish man who arrived in the Delaware Valley, at that time part of the colony of New Sweden, in May 1654. Mortenson's great-grandson, John Morton, would go on to sign the Declaration of Independence as a Pennsylvania delegate. The cabin consists of one small room with no windows and a single door and its walls are made of cedar logs and lime mortar caulk. The Cabin was also owned by a local notable Dr. Bernardhus Van Leer and later by the Van Leer family who were noted in the anti-slavery cause. Prior to and during the American Civil War, the Van Leer family used the Log Cabin as a station for the Underground Railroad to help slaves escape to free negro communities. Van Leers also built nearby villages for freed slaves and financially supported the Underground Railroad. Being originally located along Raccoon Creek on a terrain belonging to the Morton Mortenson Plantation, the cabin was donated by the Schorn Family to the Gloucester County Historical Society, who relocated the cabin to the cemetery located behind Trinity Episcopal Church in Swedesboro in 1989.
Architecture
The cabin is an example of the typical Swedish-Finnish cabin architecture, utilizing notched logs which overlapped corners, brought to the area upon the settlement of the New Sweden Colony.
See also
List of the oldest buildings in New Jersey
Morton Homestead
John Morton (American politician)
Van Leer Cabin
New Sweden Farmstead Museum
References
External links
Historic American Buildings Survey in New Jersey
Swedish-American history
Finnish-American history
Swedish American culture in New Jersey
Finnish-American culture in New Jersey
New Sweden
Van Leer family
American abolitionists
Underground Railroad
Houses on the Underground Railroad
Underground Railroad locations
American Anti-Slavery Society |
Václav Janovský is a former Czechoslovak slalom canoeist who competed in the 1950s and 1960s. He won a gold medal in the C-1 team event at the 1959 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Geneva.
References
Czechoslovak male canoeists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Medalists at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships |
Phthersigena unicornis is a species of praying mantis native to Australia.
See also
List of mantis genera and species
Unicorn mantis
References
Mantidae
Insects of Timor
Insects described in 1923 |
Castagnac (; ) is a commune in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern France.
Geography
The Lèze forms most of the commune's north-eastern border. There are numerous hiking routes.
The commune is bordered by five other communes, three of them is in Haute-Garonne, and two of them is in Ariège: Latrape to the west, Canens to the south, Massabrac to the southeast, and finally by the department of Ariège to the north and east by the communes of Lézat-sur-Lèze to the north and Saint-Ybars to the east.
Population
Sights and monuments
Château de Castagnac, medieval castle listed by the French Ministry of Culture as a monument historique since 18 March 2003.
Gardens of the château.
Windmill
Église Saint-Sébastien, restored Gothic church
See also
Communes of the Haute-Garonne department
References
Communes of Haute-Garonne |
The Whifflet Line is one of the lines within the Strathclyde suburban rail network in Scotland.
History
The line was built between 1863 and 1865 as the Rutherglen and Coatbridge Railway, part of the Caledonian Railway. It opened to goods traffic (mainly coal and iron) in September 1865 and to passengers in August 1866. It has been in continuous operation ever since. Stations in the first service on the line were at , (now ), , and (until 1964). Passenger services ceased in November 1966 following the Beeching Axe (latterly running to ). Between 1972 and 1974 scheduled passenger trains between Glasgow Central and Perth used the route. For the following twenty years, the route was only used for freight and diverted passenger services. However the line was reopened by British Rail to scheduled passenger services with intermediate stations on 4 October 1993, running to the newly built station at rather than Coatbridge Central as previously.
Line description
The modern line currently serves seven stations. It connects parts of south east Glasgow, Bargeddie and Coatbridge to Glasgow city centre. Between and Rutherglen, the line shares the same track as the West Coast Main Line (and is hence electrified) before branching off in a north easterly direction towards Coatbridge (this section is now electrified).
Services
The route is operated by ScotRail.
1993 to 2002
Following re-opening as a passenger line, service was provided by a mix of 1980s Class 156 and 1950s Class 101 DMUs. During their final years, the last of BR ScotRail's power-twin Class 101 2-car DMUs, reduced from 3-car by having the centre trailer removed, operated the Whifflet and Paisley Canal lines almost exclusively, based at Corkerhill Depot. In 2002 the remaining 101s were sent South to Manchester and more modern units took over the services.
2009 service pattern
Trains operated at a half-hour frequency. All services were scheduled to run as two car trains only, although four carriage services were technically possible. Services were operated using Class 158 DMUs and the occasional Class 156 DMU. Three trains operated on this route during the day, usually remaining dedicated on this service throughout the day.
From December 2014
In late 2014, the Whifflet Line electrification was commissioned and from 14 December 2014 the service was incorporated into the Argyle Line, operated by EMUs. At the same time an all year round Sunday service commenced. Current Sunday Service is hourly from Balloch to Motherwell via Whifflet
Line Developments
In 2006, Network Rail announced tentative proposals to electrify the Rutherglen - Whifflet section, as part of a £1.4bn upgrade to Scotland's railways. The main benefits of this scheme were to provide an enhanced frequency for the Whifflet to central Glasgow routes and to provide an electric diversionary path for long distance WCML services. The new timetable came into operation on 14 December 2014, the Whifflet Line has been added to the Argyle Line system with services through Glasgow Central Low Level to the western suburbs.
Sources
Page 25 - First ScotRail timetable for this route.
External links
Video of trains at Whifflet
Transport in Glasgow
Railway lines in Scotland
Standard gauge railways in Scotland
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David Sulzer (born November 6, 1956) is an American neuroscientist and musician. He is a professor at Columbia University Medical Center in the departments of psychiatry, neurology, and pharmacology. Sulzer's laboratory investigates the interaction between the synapses of the cerebral cortex and the basal ganglia, including the dopamine system, in habit formation, planning, decision making, and diseases of the system. His lab has developed the first means to optically measure neurotransmission, and has introduced new hypotheses of neurodegeneration in Parkinson's disease, and changes in synapses that produce autism and habit learning.
Under the stage name Dave Soldier, he is known as a composer and musician in a variety of genres including avant-garde, classical, and jazz.
Scientific contributions
Studies on synapses
Sulzer works on basal ganglia and dopamine neurons, brain cells of central importance in translating will to action. His team have introduced new methods to study synapses, including the first means to measure the fundamental "quantal" unit of neurotransmitter release from central synapses. They reported the first direct recordings of quantal neurotransmitter release from brain synapses using an electrochemistry technique known as amperometry, based on the method of Mark Wightman, a chemist at the University of North Carolina, to measure release of adrenaline from adrenal chromaffin cells. They showed that the quantal event at dopamine synapses consisted of the release of about 3,000 dopamine molecules in about 100 nanoseconds. They further showed that the quantal events could "flicker" due to extremely rapid opening and closing of the a synaptic vesicle fusion pore (at rates as high as 4,000 times a second) with the plasma membrane. This approach also demonstrated that the "size" of the quanta could be altered in numerous ways, for example by the drug L-DOPA, a drug so used to treat Parkinson's disease.
Sulzer's lab, together with that of Dalibor Sames, a chemist at Columbia University, introduced "fluorescent false neurotransmitters", compounds that accumulated like genuine neurotransmitters into neurons and synaptic vesicles. This is used to observe neurotransmitter release and reuptake from individual synapses in video. Sulzer, along with his mentor Stephen Rayport, showed that the neurotransmitter glutamate is released from dopamine neurons, an important exception to the Dale's principle that a neuron releases the same transmitter from each of its synapses.
Addictive drugs
By introducing the "weak base hypothesis" of amphetamine action, for measuring amphetamine's effects on the quantal size of dopamine release, intracellular patch electrochemistry to measure dopamine levels in the cytosol, and providing real-time measurement of dopamine release by reverse transport, Sulzer's lab showed how amphetamine and methamphetamine release dopamine and other neurotransmitters and exert their synaptic and clinical effects. They showed how methamphetamine neurotoxicity occurs due to dopamine-derived oxidative stress in the cytosol followed by induction of autophagy, and with Nigel Bamford of the University of Washington, how these drugs activate long-term changes in the cortical synapses that project to the striatum. They call these "chronic postsynaptic depression" and "paradoxical presynaptic potentiation", which may explain drug dependence and addiction.
Sulzer explains in an interview on NOVA that his interest in understanding mechanisms of addiction stem from crashing a talk by William Burroughs at Naropa Institute in 1980, where Burroughs claimed that new synthetic opiates would be so powerful that users would become addicts with a single dose. In an interview in Nature Medicine on his lab's discovery of the mechanism by which nicotine filters synaptic noise and can focus attention to tasks, he recalls his father's early death due to smoking, saying "if some idiot or drug company is going to twist things around, the only thing that would come out of [this research] that I'd be horrified by is if people used it to advocate smoking. I think it would be a real travesty if that happened."
Neurological and psychiatric disease
Sulzer and his lab also studied nerve impulses in Parkinson's and Huntington's diseases, schizophrenia, drug addiction, and autism. They helped to establish the role of autophagy by lysosomes in neuronal disease. They showed the role of neuromelanin, the pigment of the substantia nigra, in methamphetamine neurotoxicity, and Huntington's disease. With Ana Maria Cuervo of Albert Einstein College of Medicine they showed that a cause of Parkinson's disease could be due to an interference with a chaperone-mediated autophagy caused by the protein alpha-synuclein. His work indicates that a lack of normal pruning of synapses could underlie the development of autism, and that in turn may also my due to inhibited neuronal autophagy in patients, due to overactivation of the mTOR pathway during childhood and adolescence.
In 2017, his lab introduced the role of autoimmune response in Parkinson's disease patients, which answers a century-old mystery on the role of immune system activation in that disorder.
The Sulzer lab has published over 250 papers on this research. For his work, Sulzer has received awards from the McKnight Foundation, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), and NARSAD. He ran the Basic Neuroscience NIH / NIDA (T32) training program for postdoctoral research in basic neuroscience at Columbia. He received a Ph.D. in biology from Columbia University in 1988. He founded the Gordon Conference on Parkinson's Disease, the Dopamine Society (with Louis-Eric Trudeau) and the journal Nature Parkinson's Disease (with Ray Chaudhuri).
Awards and honors
2020 - Youdim / Finberg Award, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
2020 - Raymond D. Adams Lecture, Harvard University, Mass General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
2019 - Distinguished Lecture in Medicinal Chemistry, University of Minnesota, USA
2017 - Presidential Lecture, Society of Neuroimmune Pharmacology
2013 - Helmsley Award for Scientific Research
2012 - Keynote Lecture in Cellular Neuroscience, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
2008 - McKnight Award in Neuroscience for Technical Innovation
1996 - James T. Shannon Award, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, USA
Art and Science projects
Sulzer wrote a book on scientific principles that underlie music and sound "Music Math and Mind" [Columbia University Press], 2021), and teaches a related course at Columbia University on the physics and neuroscience of music and sound.
He co-ran the original science cafe, "Entertaining Science" from 2012 to 2019, with its founder (2002), chemist and writer Roald Hoffmann in Greenwich Village at the Cornelia Street Cafe .
With Brad Garton, he developed the "Brainwave Music Project", which allows users to create music from neural activity and enable teaching on brain function.
Music
Sulzer uses the alias, Dave Soldier, for his alternate career in music.
Music by animals
Many of Soldier's works are collaborative, such as with the Thai Elephant Orchestra which he co-founded with conservationist Richard Lair, based on the observation that elephants are said to enjoy listening to music. This ensemble consists of up to 14 elephants at the Thai Elephant Conservation Center near Lampang, and is listed by Guinness as the world's largest animal orchestra, with a combined weight of approximately 23 tonnes (50,706 lb). He built giant musical instruments on which he trained the elephants to improvise: they eventually played on 22 instruments. The orchestra has released three CDs and play an abbreviated concert daily at the Conservation Center.
He also created specially designed instruments for music played by zebra finches and bonobos, the latter in collaborations with physicist Gordon Shaw, who researched classical music's effect on the brain and introduced the Mozart effect.
Music by children
Soldier has made multiple recordings in which he coached child composers in different cultures. He and flutist Katie Down coached free improvisation with The Tangerine Awkestra featuring 2-10 year old Brooklyn schoolchildren. Da HipHop Raskalz featured rap and dub tracks performed (including the instrumental tracks) by 5-10 year old East Harlem children, who had no previous experience playing instruments. Sulzer and the santur player Alan Kushan produced Yol K'u with Mayan Indian children from the Seeds of Knowledge School in the high mountains of San Mateo Ixtatan, Guatemala, a collaboration using giant marimbas. He produced two CDs by Les Enfants des Tyabala, with the jazz musician Sylvian Leroux who coached children in Conakry, Guinea to form an ensemble and create works with the traditional Fula flute, which Leroux has adapted to play chromatic scales.
The Soldier String Quartet
In 1985 he founded the Soldier String Quartet, a punk chamber group that plays with amplification and a percussionist. As a leader, composer and violinist for the group, Soldier wrote and performed traditional pieces influenced by music styles including serialism, Delta blues and hip-hop. With inspiration from Haydn and Beethoven quartets, he explored anachronisms stemming from a classical ensemble playing in contemporary popular idioms, particularly rhythm and blues and punk rock. With a drummer incorporated into the quartet, Soldier found that string instruments could play the blues in the hands of players who understood the contrasting styles, including violinists Regina Carter and Todd Reynolds. The Soldier String Quartet also premiered and recorded works by other composers such as Elliott Sharp, Iannis Xenakis, Alvin Curran, Nicolas Collins, Butch Morris, Zeena Parkins, Leroy Jenkins and Phill Niblock, as well as with jazz musicians including Tony Williams and Amina Claudine Myers. They recorded with the rock and pop musicians Guided by Voices, Lambchop, Bob Neuwirth, Ric Ocasek, Van Dyke Parks, and Jesse Harris and were the touring and recording group for the Velvet Underground's John Cale from 1992 to 1998.
Experimental music
With Komar & Melamid, and inspired by their art project, "The People's Choice", Soldier wrote "The People's Choice: Music", with lyrics by Nina Mankin. It was written according to answers from a survey of over 500 Americans, resulting in "The Most Wanted Song" and "The Most Unwanted Song". The latter is over 22 minutes in length and features an operatic soprano rapping cowboy songs, holiday songs with a children's choir screaming advertisements, and political rants backed by bagpipe, banjo, tuba, piccolo, and church organ.
Soldier collaborates with the computer musician Brad Garton for the Brainwave Music Project, creating music played by performer's brainwaves using electroencephalograms.
Soldier realized the request by Johannes Kepler for a specific motet as related 400 years earlier in Harmonices Mundi, also known as The Music of the Spheres, a foundational book for modern physics. This microtonal piece for six acapella singers, each portraying a different planet in the solar system, had not been realized before according to Kepler's specific instructions, and is recorded in three dimensional virtual reality sound by Drazen Bosnjak with the vocal group Ekmeles so that the planets revolve around the head of the listener. The resulting composition, "Motet: Harmony of the World", is co-credited to Kepler and Soldier.
He has a body of compositions using math derivations such as fractal manipulations, including a notorious 20 minute version of Chopin's Minute Waltz.
Concert music
Soldier's compositions with classical musicians include a socialist-realist opera, "Naked Revolution", based on paintings by the Russian conceptual artists Komar and Melamid, commissioned for the 25th anniversary of "The Kitchen".
The opera "The Eighth Hour of Amduat" uses as its text Italian translations of the ancient Egyptian of the book of Amduat and features Marshall Allen of the Sun Ra Arkestra playing the part of Sun Ra.
Soldier wrote two chamber operas in collaboration with author Kurt Vonnegut, "The Soldier's Story" and "Ice-9 Ballads", both recorded with Vonnegut playing characters in the operas.
Many of his chamber and orchestra works were recorded by the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra under conductor Richard Auldon Clark and by the Composer's Concordance orchestra. These include a collection of early Latin homoerotic lyrics in "Smut", and settings of Frederick Douglass in "The Apotheosis of John Brown" and Mark Twain in "War Prayer". The orchestra fanfare, "Samul Nori Overture", was commissioned by Kristjan Järvi and the Absolute Ensemble.
Chamber works by Soldier have been recorded by violinists Regina Carter and Miranda Cuckson, cellist Erik Friedlander, pianists Steven Beck, Taka Kigawa and Christopher O'Riley, accordionist William Schimmel, the PubliQuartet, singer Eliza Carthy, the choir Ekemeles, and flutist Robert Dick.
Rock music
Soldier performed in the early 1980s with Bo Diddley and founded The Kropotkins in the 1990s, a punk/country blues band with the Memphis singer Lorette Velvette and the drummers drummer, Moe Tucker of The Velvet Underground, Charles Burnham of the James Blood Ulmer's Odyssey Band, and Jonathan Kane of Swans and La Monte Young's band; the Kropotkins recorded four albums and developed a cult following. He continued collaborations with Jonathan Kane in a symphonic minimalist blues duo known as Soldier Kane.
In the early 1980s, Soldier played guitar with Bo Diddley and various rock groups. He later worked as an arranger, violinist, or guitarist with John Cale, Guided by Voices, Van Dyke Parks, David Byrne, Ric Ocasek, Lee Ranaldo, Eliza Carthy, Maureen Tucker, Laurie Anderson, the Plastic People of the Universe, Jesse Harris, Pete Seeger, Richard Hell, and Bob Neuwirth.
Soldier led the touring group for John Cale, consisting of the Soldier String Quartet and B. J. Cole from 1992 to 1996, writing the groups arrangements for tours and several CDs and films including for Cale's scores for the Andy Warhol films "Eat" and "Kiss": his metal violin playing is featured on "Heartbreak Hotel" on Fragments of a Rainy Season. He led an flamenco/Middle Eastern rock group, The Spinozas, featuring lyrics from Arabic and Hebrew poetry from medieval Andalusia released on the album "Zajal".
Jazz
Soldier recorded as a multi-instrumentalist with the William Hooker Trio with Sabir Mateen and Roy Campbell, and has performed and recorded with Leroy Jenkins, Henry Threadgill, drummer Tony Williams, Jonas Hellborg, Butch Morris, Jason Hwang, William Parker (musician), Billy Bang, Marshall Allen of the Sun Ra Arkestra, Karl Berger, Teo Macero, Myra Melford, Michael Wolff and Amina Claudine Myers.
Production
Soldier co-founded the EEG Records (formerly Mulatta Records) label in 2000, for which he has produced a wide variety of recordings including contemporary flamenco music by Pedro Cortes, Texas singer/ songwriter Vince Bell with Bob Neuwirth, the 30 piece jazz string orchestra Spontaneous River by Jason Hwang, jazz drummer William Hooker, the traditional group Wofa from Guinea with American R&B musicians including Bernie Worrell; the jazz French horn virtuoso John Clark (musician), the New York-Iranian santur virtuoso Alan Kushan and released music by David First, two albums of Fula flute music by Sylvain Leroux with children in Conakry, Guinea, Memphis musician Alex Greene, Ursel Schlicht, and Twink.
Personal life
Sulzer grew up in Carbondale in southern Illinois where he was exposed to music common to the area, particularly country and R&B. His earliest influences included James Brown and Isaac Hayes. He played viola, violin, piano, and eventually banjo and guitar. He moved with his family to Storrs, CT, at the age of 16, where he became enamoured with salsa music. He credits Eddie Palmieri's music as his inspiration to be a composer. He attended Michigan State University as an undergraduate and attempted a study of classical composition. He found that stultifying, however, and instead studied botany at the university and privately with the avant-garde jazz saxophonist/composer Roscoe Mitchell. He lived in Florida briefly, where he played guitar in Bo Diddley's band.
He relocated to New York in 1981, and played in various salsa, classical, and rock-oriented bands in the early '80s. In New York he engaged in many collaborations with producer Giorgio Gomelsky, including running "The House Band", the Russian conceptual artists Komar and Melamid, and co-wrote two extended musical theater pieces with author Kurt Vonnegut. While attending graduate school in biology at Columbia University, he privately studied composition with the co-inventor of the synthesizer and "tape music" Otto Luening and formed his Soldier String Quartet in 1985. He co-founded Mulatta Records in 2000 to document his projects, including the Thai Elephant Orchestra and recordings with child improvisers, and to produce a broad range of unusual musical styles.
Soldier performed, recorded, composed, and arranged for television and film (Sesame Street, I Shot Andy Warhol), and pop and jazz acts ranging from Pete Seeger to David Byrne and Guided by Voices. In 2021, his book "Music, Math, and Mind" on the physics and neuroscience of music was published by Columbia University Press. Sulzer is married to biologist Francesca Bartolini.
Discography
Studio Albums as Leader
1988 Sequence Girls: Soldier String Quartet
1990 Romances From the Second Line piano music performed by Christopher O'Riley
1991 Sojourner Truth: Soldier String Quartet
1993 The Apotheosis of John Brown: oratorio with libretto from Frederick Douglass
1994 War Prayer; with the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra with libretto from Mark Twain
1994 Smut; with medieval Latin lyric poetry
1996 She's Lightning When She Smiles: Soldier String Quartet
1997 The People's Choice: Music with Komar & Melamid: the Most Wanted and The Most Unwanted Songs
1997 Jazz Standards on Mars: Soldier String Quartet with Robert Dick
2000 The Tangerine Awkestra: with Katie Down and children from Fort Greene, Brooklyn
2001 Thai Elephant Orchestra
2001 Ice-9 Ballads: with Kurt Vonnegut as narrator and lyricist
2004 Elephonic Rhapsodies: with the Thai Elephant Orchestra
2004 Inspect for Damaged Gods: Soldier String Quartet
2005 Soldier Stories: with Kurt Vonnegut as actor and librettist
2006 Da Hiphop Raskalz: with children from East Harlem
2006 Chamber Music: classical works for small ensembles, double CD
2008 Yol K'u (Inside the Sun): Mayan Mountain Music with children from San Mateo Ixtatan, Guatemala
2011 Water Music: with the Thai Elephant Orchestra
2011 The Complete Victrola Sessions: works for violin and piano with Rebecca Cherry
2012 Organum: solo organ works inspired by patterns in nature, performed by Walter Hilse
2015 In Black & White: solo piano works, double CD, performed by Steven Beck
2015 In Four Color: music for string quartet, performed by the Soldier String Quartet and the PUBLIQuartet
2015 Smash Hits by the Thai Elephant Orchestra: with Richard Lair and Thai Elephant Orchestra
2015 With Kurt Vonnegut: radio opera and song cycle with Kurt Vonnegut's narration and libretti, and the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra
2016 Soldier Kane: duos composed and performed by Dave Soldier with Jonathan Kane
2016 Dean Swift's Satyrs for the Very Very Young: featuring singer Eliza Carthy, Soldier's music for lyrics by Jonathan Swift
2016 The Eighth Hour of Amduat: opera for mezzo, choir, and orchestra featuring saxophonist Marshall Allen playing Sun Ra
2017 History of the Kropotkins songs performed by the Kropotkins
2017 The Brainwave Music Project; with Brad Garton, Margaret Lancaster, William Hooker, Dan Trueman, Terry Pender, compositions for improvisers and brainwaves
2018 Naked Revolution: a socialist realist opera based on immigrant dreams, with artists Komar and Melamid and Russian singers
2019 Zajal: songs from ancient Andalusia in medieval Arabic, Hebrew and Spanish with flamenco, middle eastern, salsa and jazz musicians
2019 Jaleo: solo piano performed by Steven Beck
2021 February Meets Soldier String Quartet: duos composed and performed by Dave Soldier with Jonathan Kane
2021 Calo: solo violin works in flamenco forms performed by Miranda Cuckson with additional percussion by Jose Moreno and Pedro Cortes
2022 Motet: Harmonies of the World: choir in just intonation performed by Ekmeles according to the book by Harmonices Mundi also known as Music of the Spheres by Johannes Kepler with lyrics by Proclus
2022 LeWitt Etudes: experiments in group composition, co-led with William Hooker, featuring Etudes 7. 9. 16. 24, 39, 40, 43, 45, 48 with Luke Stewart, Kirk Knuffke, Rebecca Cherry, Alex Greene, Ken Filiano, Hans Tammen, Ishito AyumiCollaborations 1996 The Kropotkins; performer, composer
2000 the Kropotkins, Five Points Crawl; performer, composer
2009 the Kropotkins, Paradise Square; performer, composer
2015 the Kropotkins, Portents of Love; performer, composer
1997 Robert Dick with the Soldier String Quartet, Jazz Standards on Mars: performer, arranger
Arranger, performer: John Cale, "Fragments From a Rainy Season", CD
Arranger, conductor: John Cale, "Paris S'Eveille", CD
Arranger, conductor: John Cale, "Antarida", CD
Arranger, performer: John Cale, " "Walking on Locusts" CD
Arranger: John Cale, "Dance Music" CD
Arranger: Andy Warhol composed by John Cale "Eat/Kiss: Music for the Films by Andy Warhol" CD
Arranger: Christina Rosenvinge "Foreign Land" CD
Arranger, performer: Guided by Voices "Isolation Drills", CD
Arranger, performer: Guided by Voices "Hold on Hope", CD
Arranger, performer: Guided by Voices "Do the Collapse" CDRecordings with the Soldier String QuartetLast Day on Earth; Bob Neuwirth, John Cale
Walking on Locusts, John Cale
Eat and Kiss, John Cale
Fragments From a Rainy Season, John Cale
Hammer Anvil Stirrup, Elliott Sharp
Larynx, Elliott Sharp
Tessalation Row, Elliott Sharp
Twistmap, Elliott Sharp
Abstract Repressionism, Elliott Sharp
Cryptoid Fragments, Elliott Sharp
Xeno-Codex, Elliott Sharp
Rheo/Umbra, Elliott Sharp
String Quartets 1986-1996, Elliott Sharp
Early Winter, Phill Niblock
Themes & Improvisations on the Blues, Leroy Jenkins
A Dark & Stormy Night, Nicolas Collins
The Word, Jonas Hellborg & Tony Williams
Third Stone from the Sun, Robert DickSidemanThe Ordinaires The Ordinaires (1987, Dossier) violin
Lorette Velvette Lost Part of Me (1998, Veracity) banjo, violin
Elliott Sharp & Carbon Larynx (1987, SST) violin
Bob Neuwirth & John Cale "Last Day on Earth" arranger, performer
Le Nouvelles Polyponies Corses (Corsican Polyphony) Le Praiduisu (1999, Mercury) violin, arranger
Sussan Deyhim Madman of God (1999, Crammed Disc) violin, remixed by Bill Laswell as Shy Angels (2008)
While the Music Lasts, Jesse Harris
William Hooker TrioYearn For Certainty: performer, trio with Sabir Mateen 2010
William Hooker Trio Heart of the Sun: performer, trio with Roy Campbell Jr. 2013
William Hooker Aria: performer, arranger 2016
Mandeng Eletrik (2004, Mulatta) violin
Elliott Sharp & Carbon Abstract Repressionism, violin (1992, Victo) violin
Elliott Sharp & Carbon Syndakit, violin (1999, Zoar) violinFilm Scores Arranger: John Cale film scores: "Paris S'Eveille", "Antarida", "Walking on Locusts", "Dance Music"
Arranger: films by Andy Warhol composed by John Cale "Eat/Kiss: Music for the Films by Andy Warhol"
Arranger, Conductor: Mary Harron director film score I Shot Andy Warhol
Arranger: Julian Schnabel director, film score Basquiat
Composer: Vanessa Ly, director, film score Mekong Interior
Composer: Nadia Roden, director, cartoon scores Sesame Street
Composer: Winsome Brown, director, film score The Violinist
Composer: Vicki Bennett, director, film score (partial) Gesture Piece
Composer: Dave Soldier, director, animation The Eighth Hour of Amduat
Composer: Deborah Kampmeier, director, film score (partial), "Hounddog"
Composer: Kate Taverna, Alan Adleson, directors, film score, "In Bed with Ulysses"
Performer: Phill Niblock, director, "China"Producer'''
Jason Kao Hwang and Spontaneous River Orchestra Symphony of Souls CD, Mulatta Records, 2013
Pedro Cortes Los Viejos Non Mueren CD, Mulatta Records, 2014
Sylvain Leroux with children from Conakry, Guinea Les Enfants de Tyabala and Tyabla CDs, Mulatta Records, 2015, 2019
Archer Spade Orbital Harmony CD, Mulatta Records, 2015
William Hooker Aria: performer, producer, 2016
John Clark Sonus Inenarrabilis (Mulatta Records), works for 9 piece chamber group, CD, Mulatta Records, 2016
Robert Dick and Ulrike Lentz Are There? (Mulatta Records), flute duos CD, Mulatta Records, 2017
Vince Bell Ojo (Mulatta Records), co-production with Bob Neuwirth, Mulatta Records, 2018
William Hooker Pillars ... at the Portal, Multatta Records, 2018
Alan Kushan Santur, EEG Records, 2023
Compositions for Classical Musicians
References
Additional sources
Ratcliff, Carter. Komar and Melamid, New York: Abbeville Press, 1988.
Wypijewski, JoAnn, ed. Painting by Numbers: Komar and Melamid's Scientific Guide to Art, New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.
Komar and Melamid. When Elephants Paint: The Quest of Two Russian Artists to Save the Elephants of Thailand, New York: HarperCollins, 2000.
Weiss, Evelyn. Komar & Melamid: The Most Wanted and the Most Unwanted Painting'', Museum Ludwig Koln, Ostfildern: Cantz, 1997.
External links
Sulzer lab, Columbia University: homepage
Scientific articles
The Department of Neuroscience | DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSCIENCE
Sulzer lab, Columbia University, research directions
Entertaining Science – The Back Story
Dave Soldier at Mulatta Records
Dave Soldier Music Blog
Brainwave Music Project at Columbia University
Interviews
PDONLINERESEARCH.ORG
Dave Sulzer | Secret: Elephant Music | Secret Lives of Scientists - YouTube
1956 births
Living people
American neuroscientists
Columbia University faculty
American male musicians
American multi-instrumentalists
People from Carbondale, Illinois
American classical composers
Songwriters from Illinois
Record producers from Illinois
American male songwriters
Michigan State University alumni
University of Florida alumni
Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni |
Syzygium conglomerata is a species of plant from the family of Myrtaceae. It is found in Malaysia and Singapore.
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conglomeratum
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The Prentis House, built in 1773 in Hadley, Massachusetts, by the Dickinson family, is typical of the indigenous style of saltbox architecture that developed in New England during the Colonial period and remained in use, particularly in rural areas, through the American Revolution. The Prentis House was relocated to the Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vermont, and furnished with 17th and 18th century period furniture and decorative arts.
Saltbox architecture developed as builders devised a simple way to enlarge a two-story frame building. The term "saltbox" refers to the structure's characteristic asymmetrical roofline that extends on one side from the peak of the roof to the first floor, thus resembling the profile of an early wooden salt container. Builders would typically position a saltbox structure so that the extended roof faced north, diminishing the impact of winter winds, while the façade windows faced south, collecting warmth from the sun.
Typical of the style, Prentis House is built around a massive central chimney. Seven flues meet on the second floor in a huge beehive-shaped formation before the chimney narrows again at the roofline.
References
External links
Shelburne Museum website
Shelburne Museum
Historic house museums in Vermont
Saltbox architecture in the United States
Houses in Chittenden County, Vermont
Relocated buildings and structures in Vermont
Houses completed in 1773
1773 establishments in the Province of Massachusetts Bay |
Kardinya is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia. Previously the site of the Somerville Pine Plantation, situated on University of Western Australia (UWA) endowment land, the suburb was developed in the 1970s.
There are several recurring themes in the street names in Kardinya. Most street names are taken from the surnames of people, although Loris Way is taken from a first name. Many are named after UWA professors, architects, or administrators. Others are named after early residents, ratepayers, landowners and roads board members in the area, and some are named after local school principals, teachers and the like. A few streets are named after species of pine trees that were grown in the Somerville Pine Plantation, or species of pigs that were farmed in the area, and there is a group of streets in the suburb's east that have a "green" name theme.
List of streets in Kardinya
See also
List of streets in Perth
List of streets in East Perth
List of streets in West Perth
List of streets in Crawley and Nedlands
List of streets in Bayswater, Western Australia
List of streets and paths in Kings Park
References
Kardinya
Kardinya, Western Australia
Kardinya streets |
Rhododendron kanehirai is a species of plant in the family Ericaceae. It was originally endemic to Taiwan. It has become extinct in the wild, though it still exists in cultivated form.
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kanehirai
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Hu Qing (born January 19, 1986) is a male amateur boxer from China. He competed at the 2006 Asian Games in the lightweight (- 60 kg) division winning the gold medal in the match against Mongolia's Uranchimegiin Mönkh-Erdene.
At the World Championships he lost his first match to Olexandr Klyuchko 13:26. He qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics by beating Bekzod Khidirov. At the Olympics, he upset Ukrainian Oleksandr Klyuchko 10:8 and beat Kazakh Merey Akshalov 11:7 before losing to Frenchman Daouda Sow 6:9.
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Raymond Sweeney is an Irish former Gaelic footballer who played for An Clochán Liath and the Donegal county team.
He started the first game of Brian McEniff's last spell as Donegal manager, a league defeat to Galway in Tuam in February 2003.
Sweeney was sent off in Donegal's 2003 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship semi-final against Armagh at Croke Park, in an incident later described as "one of the great injustices in Donegal football" history.
He had also started Mickey Moran's first game in charge of Donegal, a league win at home to Offaly in October 2000.
Sweeney made his championship debut against Antrim in 1998. He missed Donegal's National Football League in 2007 after leaving the squad at the end of the previous season due to a disagreement with the then manager Brian McIver. He also never won the Ulster Senior Football Championship during his career. However, he did win the 2009 Dr McKenna Cup with Donegal and the 2004 Railway Cup with Ulster. Sweeney retired from playing for Donegal in 2010 after more than a decade and 96 games.
His brother Adrian also played for An Clochán Liath and Donegal.
Honours
Donegal
All-Ireland Vocational Schools Championship: 1995
Dr McKenna Cup: 2009
Ulster
Railway Cup: 2004
References
External links
Raymond Sweeney at gaainfo.com
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
An Clochán Liath Gaelic footballers
Donegal inter-county Gaelic footballers
Ulster inter-provincial Gaelic footballers |
Office for the Cooperation of the People with the President () was a political organization in Iran that was closely associated to then-President Abolhassan Banisadr.
Since Banisadr was skeptical of partisan activities in Iran, he did not like the idea of creating a party. However, despite using the name "office", the organization "was created out of necessity to fulfill some, if not all, of the functions of a political party". It had branches all over the country.
Parliamentary election and presence
OCPP issued an electoral list for the 1980 Iranian legislative election, that had candidates shared with the Freedom Movement, the National Front and the People's Mujahedin. The exclusive candidates of OCPP included Fathollah Banisadr (his brother), Mohammad Moballeghi-Eslami (Banisadr's choice for Channel 2) and Mohammad Ja'fari (editor-in-chief of Enghelabe Eslami). Ahmad Salamatian and Ahmad Ghazanfarpour were notable members elected to the parliament under banner of the organization.
According to Houchang Chehabi, the group formed a minority in the parliament. Siavush Randjbar-Daemi estimates that they were less than a dozen deputies, however initially some forty independents were also "ostensibly sympathetic to Banisadr".
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Chattanooga, Tennessee, was a major rail center and a strategic vantage-point, with high ground competed-for by both sides. When Union forces were besieged in the town, General Ulysses S. Grant forced a supply-route, earning him Lincoln's particular gratitude.
Loyalties in a divided state
Tennessee was the last state to join the Confederacy (June 1861), being deeply divided between the mountainous eastern zone, including Chattanooga, that was pro-Union, and the slave-intensive western counties that voted Confederate. At one point, it was proposed that East Tennessee should become a separate state of the Union.
When Tennessee seceded, future President Andrew Johnson was the only southern senator to remain in the senate, putting his life at risk, but earning him credibility with Lincoln, who appointed him military governor of Tennessee in March 1862. (The Confederacy retaliated by confiscating his land.) As a southern War Democrat, Johnson was the natural choice as Lincoln's running-mate in his successful 1864 re-election bid.
Tennessee contributed more regiments to the Union than any other Confederate state.
Troop movements
As an important railroad hub, connecting major southern arsenals, Chattanooga was closely engaged in the Confederate war effort from the start, despite local resistance and even some guerrilla activity.
The city remained in Confederate hands until September 1863, after which it was occupied continuously by the Union. General Rosecrans retreated to safety there following his catastrophic defeat at Chickamauga, besieged by General Braxton Bragg until General Ulysses S. Grant was able to open a supply line. Grant drove the Confederates off Lookout Mountain, before routing them decisively at Missionary Ridge. Chattanooga then served as the gateway to Georgia for General William T. Sherman's 1864 campaign.
The Battles
First Battle of Chattanooga (June 7–8, 1862)
A raid by Union Brig. Gen. James Negley aimed at capturing the Rebel-held city. His long artillery bombardment provoked a disorganised response from enemy gunners, but Negley withdrew on the second day. It had been a minor Confederate victory, but it demonstrated that the Union could strike deep into the enemy heartlands.
Second Battle of Chattanooga (August 21 - September 8, 1863)
Diversionary tactic by Union Maj. Gen. William S. Rosecrans to distract the attention of Confederate General Braxton Bragg through extensive shelling from the north-east of the city, while Union troops were massing to the south-west. When Bragg learned of this, he retreated into Georgia, and the Union occupied the city.
Chattanooga campaign (Sept. 21 – November 25, 1863)
After its shock-defeat at Chickamauga (Georgia), Rosecrans’ Army of the Cumberland retreated into its fortifications at Chattanooga, where it was under heavy siege by Bragg and facing surrender. The demoralised Rosecrans was urgently reinforced by the team of Grant, Thomas and Sherman. Principal actions:
‘Cracker Line’ (October 26–28)
By seizing a ferry-point on the Tennessee River, the Union managed to secure a supply-route that could feed the starving troops, who cheerfully dubbed it the Cracker Line.
Battle of Wauhatchie (October 28–29)
Confederate bid to re-take the Cracker Line, with many orders going astray in the dark. The Union, under Joe Hooker, were almost as disorganised, but retained the position.
Lookout Mountain (November 24)
The Confederate position looked impregnable, but their artillery could not aim low enough to prevent Hooker driving them off the peak in a dense fog, which cleared to show the Union flag.
Missionary Ridge (November 25)
Grant had ordered the Cumberlands to capture the rifle-pits at the base of the ridge. But apparently on impulse, they continued on up to the crest, achieving a startling victory.
Battle of Ringgold Gap (November 27)
Failed attempt by Grant to capture the Confederates retreating into Georgia. Led by Pat Cleburne, they drove off the Union with minimal casualties, and Grant did not pursue further.
See also
Tennessee in the American Civil War
References
History of Chattanooga, Tennessee
Tennessee in the American Civil War
U.S. cities in the American Civil War |
In the fields of computer vision and image analysis, the Harris affine region detector belongs to the category of feature detection. Feature detection is a preprocessing step of several algorithms that rely on identifying characteristic points or interest points so to make correspondences between images, recognize textures, categorize objects or build panoramas.
Overview
The Harris affine detector can identify similar regions between images that are related through affine transformations and have different illuminations. These affine-invariant detectors should be capable of identifying similar regions in images taken from different viewpoints that are related by a simple geometric transformation: scaling, rotation and shearing. These detected regions have been called both invariant and covariant. On one hand, the regions are detected invariant of the image transformation but the regions covariantly change with image transformation. Do not dwell too much on these two naming conventions; the important thing to understand is that the design of these interest points will make them compatible across images taken from several viewpoints. Other detectors that are affine-invariant include Hessian affine region detector, Maximally stable extremal regions, Kadir–Brady saliency detector, edge-based regions (EBR) and intensity-extrema-based regions (IBR).
Mikolajczyk and Schmid (2002) first described the Harris affine detector as it is used today in An Affine Invariant Interest Point Detector. Earlier works in this direction include use of affine shape adaptation by Lindeberg and Garding for computing affine invariant image descriptors and in this way reducing the influence of perspective image deformations, the use affine adapted feature points for wide baseline matching by Baumberg and the first use of scale invariant feature points by Lindeberg; for an overview of the theoretical background. The Harris affine detector relies on the combination of corner points detected through Harris corner detection, multi-scale analysis through Gaussian scale space and affine normalization using an iterative affine shape adaptation algorithm. The recursive and iterative algorithm follows an iterative approach to detecting these regions:
Identify initial region points using scale-invariant Harris–Laplace detector.
For each initial point, normalize the region to be affine invariant using affine shape adaptation.
Iteratively estimate the affine region: selection of proper integration scale, differentiation scale and spatially localize interest points..
Update the affine region using these scales and spatial localizations.
Repeat step 3 if the stopping criterion is not met.
Algorithm description
Harris–Laplace detector (initial region points)
The Harris affine detector relies heavily on both the Harris measure and a Gaussian scale space representation. Therefore, a brief examination of both follow. For a more exhaustive derivations see corner detection and Gaussian scale space or their associated papers.
Harris corner measure
The Harris corner detector algorithm relies on a central principle: at a corner, the image intensity will change largely in multiple directions. This can alternatively be formulated by examining the changes of intensity due to shifts in a local window. Around a corner point, the image intensity will change greatly when the window is shifted in an arbitrary direction. Following this intuition and through a clever decomposition, the Harris detector uses the second moment matrix as the basis of its corner decisions. (See corner detection for more complete derivation). The matrix , has also been called the autocorrelation matrix and has values closely related to the derivatives of image intensity.
where and are the respective derivatives (of pixel intensity) in the and direction at point (,); and are the position parameters of the weighting function w. The off-diagonal entries are the product of and , while the diagonal entries are squares of the respective derivatives. The weighting function can be uniform, but is more typically an isotropic, circular Gaussian,
that acts to average in a local region while weighting those values near the center more heavily.
As it turns out, this matrix describes the shape of the autocorrelation measure as due to shifts in window location. Thus, if we let and be the eigenvalues of , then these values will provide a quantitative description of how the autocorrelation measure changes in space: its principal curvatures. As Harris and Stephens (1988) point out, the matrix centered on corner points will have two large, positive eigenvalues. Rather than extracting these eigenvalues using methods like singular value decomposition, the Harris measure based on the trace and determinant is used:
where is a constant. Corner points have large, positive eigenvalues and would thus have a large Harris measure. Thus, corner points are identified as local maxima of the Harris measure that are above a specified threshold.
where are the set of all corner points, is the Harris measure calculated at , is an 8-neighbor set centered on and is a specified threshold.
Gaussian scale-space
A Gaussian scale space representation of an image is the set of images that result from convolving a Gaussian kernel of various sizes with the original image. In general, the representation can be formulated as:
where is an isotropic, circular Gaussian kernel as defined above. The convolution with a Gaussian kernel smooths the image using a window the size of the kernel. A larger scale, , corresponds to a smoother resultant image. Mikolajczyk and Schmid (2001) point out that derivatives and other measurements must be normalized across scales. A derivative of order , , must be normalized by a factor in the following manner:
These derivatives, or any arbitrary measure, can be adapted to a scale space representation by calculating this measure using a set of scales recursively where the th scale is . See scale space for a more complete description.
Combining Harris detector across Gaussian scale-space
The Harris-Laplace detector combines the traditional 2D Harris corner detector with the idea of a Gaussian scale space representation in order to create a scale-invariant detector. Harris-corner points are good starting points because they have been shown to have good rotational and illumination invariance in addition to identifying the interesting points of the image. However, the points are not scale invariant and thus the second-moment matrix must be modified to reflect a scale-invariant property. Let us denote, as the scale adapted second-moment matrix used in the Harris-Laplace detector.
where is the Gaussian kernel of scale and . Similar to the Gaussian-scale space, is the Gaussian-smoothed image. The operator denotes convolution. and are the derivatives in their respective direction applied to the smoothed image and calculated using a Gaussian kernel with scale . In terms of our Gaussian scale-space framework, the parameter determines the current scale at which the Harris corner points are detected.
Building upon this scale-adapted second-moment matrix, the Harris-Laplace detector is a twofold process: applying the Harris corner detector at multiple scales and automatically choosing the characteristic scale.
Multi-scale Harris corner points
The algorithm searches over a fixed number of predefined scales. This set of scales is defined as:
Mikolajczyk and Schmid (2004) use . For each integration scale, , chosen from this set, the appropriate differentiation scale is chosen to be a constant factor of the integration scale: . Mikolajczyk and Schmid (2004) used . Using these scales, the interest points are detected using a Harris measure on the matrix. The cornerness, like the typical Harris measure, is defined as:
Like the traditional Harris detector, corner points are those local (8 point neighborhood) maxima of the cornerness that are above a specified threshold.
Characteristic scale identification
An iterative algorithm based on Lindeberg (1998) both spatially localizes the corner points and selects the characteristic scale. The iterative search has three key steps, that are carried for each point that were initially detected at scale by the multi-scale Harris detector ( indicates the iteration):
Choose the scale that maximizes the Laplacian-of-Gaussians (LoG) over a predefined range of neighboring scales. The neighboring scales are typically chosen from a range that is within a two scale-space neighborhood. That is, if the original points were detected using a scaling factor of between successive scales, a two scale-space neighborhood is the range . Thus the Gaussian scales examined are: . The LoG measurement is defined as:
where and are the second derivatives in their respective directions. The factor (as discussed above in Gaussian scale-space) is used to normalize the LoG across scales and make these measures comparable, thus making a maximum relevant. Mikolajczyk and Schmid (2001) demonstrate that the LoG measure attains the highest percentage of correctly detected corner points in comparison to other scale-selection measures. The scale which maximizes this LoG measure in the two scale-space neighborhood is deemed the characteristic scale, , and used in subsequent iterations. If no extrema, or maxima of the LoG is found, this point is discarded from future searches.
Using the characteristic scale, the points are spatially localized. That is to say, the point is chosen such that it maximizes the Harris corner measure (cornerness as defined above) within an 8×8 local neighborhood.
Stopping criterion: and .
If the stopping criterion is not met, then the algorithm repeats from step 1 using the new points and scale. When the stopping criterion is met, the found points represent those that maximize the LoG across scales (scale selection) and maximize the Harris corner measure in a local neighborhood (spatial selection).
Affine-invariant points
Mathematical theory
The Harris-Laplace detected points are scale invariant and work well for isotropic regions that are viewed from the same viewing angle. In order to be invariant to arbitrary affine transformations (and viewpoints), the mathematical framework must be revisited. The second-moment matrix is defined more generally for anisotropic regions:
where and are covariance matrices defining the differentiation and the integration Gaussian kernel scales. Although this may look significantly different from the second-moment matrix in the Harris-Laplace detector; it is in fact, identical. The earlier matrix was the 2D-isotropic version in which the covariance matrices and were 2x2 identity matrices multiplied by factors and , respectively. In the new formulation, one can think of Gaussian kernels as a multivariate Gaussian distributions as opposed to a uniform Gaussian kernel. A uniform Gaussian kernel can be thought of as an isotropic, circular region. Similarly, a more general Gaussian kernel defines an ellipsoid. In fact, the eigenvectors and eigenvalues of the covariance matrix define the rotation and size of the ellipsoid. Thus we can easily see that this representation allows us to completely define an arbitrary elliptical affine region over which we want to integrate or differentiate.
The goal of the affine invariant detector is to identify regions in images that are related through affine transformations. We thus consider a point and the transformed point , where A is an affine transformation. In the case of images, both and live in space. The second-moment matrices are related in the following manner:
where and are the covariance matrices for the reference frame. If we continue with this formulation and enforce that
where and are scalar factors, one can show that the covariance matrices for the related point are similarly related:
By requiring the covariance matrices to satisfy these conditions, several nice properties arise. One of these properties is that the square root of the second-moment matrix, will transform the original anisotropic region into isotropic regions that are related simply through a pure rotation matrix . These new isotropic regions can be thought of as a normalized reference frame. The following equations formulate the relation between the normalized points and :
The rotation matrix can be recovered using gradient methods likes those in the SIFT descriptor. As discussed with the Harris detector, the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the second-moment matrix, characterize the curvature and shape of the pixel intensities. That is, the eigenvector associated with the largest eigenvalue indicates the direction of largest change and the eigenvector associated with the smallest eigenvalue defines the direction of least change. In the 2D case, the eigenvectors and eigenvalues define an ellipse. For an isotropic region, the region should be circular in shape and not elliptical. This is the case when the eigenvalues have the same magnitude. Thus a measure of the isotropy around a local region is defined as the following:
where denote eigenvalues. This measure has the range . A value of corresponds to perfect isotropy.
Iterative algorithm
Using this mathematical framework, the Harris affine detector algorithm iteratively discovers the second-moment matrix that transforms the anisotropic region into a normalized region in which the isotropic measure is sufficiently close to one. The algorithm uses this shape adaptation matrix, , to transform the image into a normalized reference frame. In this normalized space, the interest points' parameters (spatial location, integration scale and differentiation scale) are refined using methods similar to the Harris-Laplace detector. The second-moment matrix is computed in this normalized reference frame and should have an isotropic measure close to one at the final iteration. At every th iteration, each interest region is defined by several parameters that the algorithm must discover: the matrix, position , integration scale and differentiation scale . Because the detector computes the second-moment matrix in the transformed domain, it's convenient to denote this transformed position as where .
Computation and implementation
The computational complexity of the Harris-Affine detector is broken into two parts: initial point detection and affine region normalization. The initial point detection algorithm, Harris-Laplace, has complexity where is the number of pixels in the image. The affine region normalization algorithm automatically detects the scale and estimates the shape adaptation matrix, . This process has complexity , where is the number of initial points, is the size of the search space for the automatic scale selection and is the number of iterations required to compute the matrix.
Some methods exist to reduce the complexity of the algorithm at the expense of accuracy. One method is to eliminate the search in the differentiation scale step. Rather than choose a factor from a set of factors, the sped-up algorithm chooses the scale to be constant across iterations and points: . Although this reduction in search space might decrease the complexity, this change can severely effect the convergence of the matrix.
Analysis
Convergence
One can imagine that this algorithm might identify duplicate interest points at multiple scales. Because the Harris affine algorithm looks at each initial point given by the Harris-Laplace detector independently, there is no discrimination between identical points. In practice, it has been shown that these points will ultimately all converge to the same interest point. After finishing identifying all interest points, the algorithm accounts for duplicates by comparing the spatial coordinates (), the integration scale , the isotropic measure and skew. If these interest point parameters are similar within a specified threshold, then they are labeled duplicates. The algorithm discards all these duplicate points except for the interest point that's closest to the average of the duplicates. Typically 30% of the Harris affine points are distinct and dissimilar enough to not be discarded.
Mikolajczyk and Schmid (2004) showed that often the initial points (40%) do not converge. The algorithm detects this divergence by stopping the iterative algorithm if the inverse of the isotropic measure is larger than a specified threshold: . Mikolajczyk and Schmid (2004) use . Of those that did converge, the typical number of required iterations was 10.
Quantitative measure
Quantitative analysis of affine region detectors take into account both the accuracy of point locations and the overlap of regions across two images. Mioklajcyzk and Schmid (2004) extend the repeatability measure of Schmid et al. (1998) as the ratio of point correspondences to minimum detected points of the two images.
where are the number of corresponding points in images and . and are the number of detected points in the respective images. Because each image represents 3D space, it might be the case that the one image contains objects that are not in the second image and thus whose interest points have no chance of corresponding. In order to make the repeatability measure valid, one remove these points and must only consider points that lie in both images; and only count those points such that . For a pair of two images related through a homography matrix , two points, and are said to correspond if:
Robustness to affine and other transformations
Mikolajczyk et al. (2005) have done a thorough analysis of several state-of-the-art affine region detectors: Harris affine, Hessian affine, MSER, IBR & EBR and salient detectors. Mikolajczyk et al. analyzed both structured images and textured images in their evaluation. Linux binaries of the detectors and their test images are freely available at their webpage. A brief summary of the results of Mikolajczyk et al. (2005) follow; see A comparison of affine region detectors for a more quantitative analysis.
Viewpoint Angle Change: The Harris affine detector has reasonable (average) robustness to these types of changes. The detector maintains a repeatability score of above 50% up until a viewpoint angle of above 40 degrees. The detector tends to detect a high number of repeatable and matchable regions even under a large viewpoint change.
Scale Change: The Harris affine detector remains very consistent under scale changes. Although the number of points declines considerably at large scale changes (above 2.8), the repeatability (50-60%) and matching scores (25-30%) remain very constant especially with textured images. This is consistent with the high-performance of the automatic scale selection iterative algorithm.
Blurred Images: The Harris affine detector remains very stable under image blurring. Because the detector does not rely on image segmentation or region boundaries, the repeatability and matching scores remain constant.
JPEG Artifacts: The Harris affine detector degrades similar to other affine detectors: repeatability and matching scores drop significantly above 80% compression.
Illumination Changes: The Harris affine detector, like other affine detectors, is very robust to illumination changes: repeatability and matching scores remain constant under decreasing light. This should be expected because the detectors rely heavily on relative intensities (derivatives) and not absolute intensities.
General trends
Harris affine region points tend to be small and numerous. Both the Harris-Affine detector and Hessian-Affine consistently identify double the number repeatable points as other affine detectors: ~1000 regions for an 800x640 image. Small regions are less likely to be occluded but have a smaller chance of overlapping neighboring regions.
The Harris affine detector responds well to textured scenes in which there are a lot of corner-like parts. However, for some structured scenes, like buildings, the Harris-Affine detector performs very well. This is complementary to MSER that tends to do better with well structured (segmentable) scenes.
Overall the Harris affine detector performs very well, but still behind MSER and Hessian-Affine in all cases but blurred images.
Harris-Affine and Hessian-Affine detectors are less accurate than others: their repeatability score increases as the overlap threshold is increased.
The detected affine-invariant regions may still differ in their rotation and illumination. Any descriptor that uses these regions must account for the invariance when using the regions for matching or other comparisons.
Applications
Content-based image retrieval
Model-based recognition
Object retrieval in video
Visual data mining: identifying important objects, characters and scenes in videos
Object recognition and categorization
Remotely sensed image analysis: Object detection from remotely sensed images
Software packages
Affine Covariant Features: K. Mikolajczyk maintains a web page that contains Linux binaries of the Harris-Affine detector in addition to other detectors and descriptors. Matlab code is also available that can be used to illustrate and compute the repeatability of various detectors. Code and images are also available to duplicate the results found in the Mikolajczyk et al. (2005) paper.
lip-vireo - binary code for Linux, Windows and SunOS from VIREO research group. See more from the homepage
External links
- Presentation slides from Mikolajczyk et al. on their 2005 paper.
- Cordelia Schmid's Computer Vision Lab
- Code, test Images, bibliography of Affine Covariant Features maintained by Krystian Mikolajczyk and the Visual Geometry Group from the Robotics group at the University of Oxford.
- Bibliography of feature (and blob) detectors maintained by USC Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems
- Digital implementation of Laplacian of Gaussian
See also
Hessian-affine
MSER
Kadir brady saliency detector
Scale space
Isotropy
Corner detection
Interest point detection
Affine shape adaptation
Image derivative
Computer vision
ASIFT -> Affine-Sift (A fully affine invariant image matching algorithm)
References
Feature detection (computer vision) |
Rajkumar Sharma is a cricket coach and a former Ranji Trophy player. He was born in Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh on 18 June 1965.
Sharma was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm off break bowler. He represented Delhi in First Class Cricket (1986-1991) matches and also some List A matches.
On 29 September 2016, He was awarded Dronacharya Award for his coaching.
He appointed coach of Malta national cricket team for 2019 Spain Triangular T20I Series from 29 to 31 March 2019.
Rajkumar Sharma is now a bowling coach of the senior men’s team of the Delhi & District Cricket Association (DDCA)
Sharma founded West Delhi Cricket Academy on 30 May 1998. The academy is known for training batsmen like Virat Kohli.
References
External links
West Delhi Cricket Academy
Indian cricketers
Delhi cricketers
1965 births
Living people
Punjabi people
Recipients of the Dronacharya Award |
Veronica incana, the silver speedwell, is a species of flowering plant in the family Plantaginaceae. It is native to parts of Eastern Europe and Russia, all of Siberia, Mongolia, and northern China, and has been introduced to Czechoslovakia. A number of authorities consider it to be a subspecies of the spiked speedwell Veronica spicata; Veronica spicata subsp.incana. It is a parent of the hybrids Veronica ×czemalensis (with V.porphyriana) and Veronica ×grisea (with V.longifolia).
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Veronica incana | High Plains Gardening
Veronica spicata subsp. incana 'Pure Silver' (Silver Speedwell) - Gardenia.net
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Radhanagari Vidhan Sabha seat is one of the 288 Vidhan Sabha (legislative assembly) constituencies of Maharashtra state in western India.
Overview
Radhanagari (constituency number 272) is one of the ten Vidhan Sabha constituencies located in the Kolhapur district. This constituency covers the entire Radhanagari tehsil and parts of Ajra and Bhudargad tehsils of this district.
Radhanagari is part of the Kolhapur Lok Sabha constituency along with five other Vidhan Sabha segments in this district, namely Chandgad, Kagal, Kolhapur South, Karvir and Kolhapur North.
Members of Legislative Assembly
1980: Haribhau kadav, Indian National Congress (I)
1985: Bajarang Desai, Indian Congress (Socialist)
1990: Shankar Patil, Janata Dal
1995: Namdevrao Bhoite, Independent
1999: Bajarang Desai, Indian National Congress
2004: Krishnarao Patil, Independent
2009: Krishnarao Patil, Nationalist Congress Party
2014: Prakash Abitkar, shivsena
2019: Prakash Abitkar, shivsena
See also
Radhanagari
Kolhapur District
List of constituencies of Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha
References
Assembly constituencies of Maharashtra |
Emma Kowal is an Australian cultural and medical anthropologist, physician and scholar of science and technology studies. She is most well known for her books Trapped in the Gap: Doing Good in Indigenous Australia, and the co-edited volumes of Force, Movement, Intensity: The Newtonian Imagination in the Humanities and Social Sciences (with Ghassan Hage), Cryopolitics: Frozen Life in a Melting World (with Joanna Radin).
Early life and education
She received her Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery and a Bachelor of Arts in history and philosophy of science from University of Melbourne in 2000 and worked for a few years as a physician and a public health professional in the Northern Territory of Australia. She returned to the University of Melbourne to receive her PhD in public health anthropology in 2007. She is currently a professor in Anthropology at Deakin University and Convenor of the Deakin Science and Society Network.
Career
In 2014, she received the Paul Bourke Award for Early Career Research from the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. She was the deputy director for the National Centre for Indigenous Genomics at Australian National University between 2013 and 2017. In 2019 she was elected to the Fellowship of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Since 2021 Emma Kowal is president of the Society for Social Studies of Science. She was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences in 2022.
Publications
Emma Kowal has contributed to a large number of scholarly articles.
References
Australian anthropologists
Science and technology studies scholars
Australian women anthropologists
Medical anthropologists
Living people
University of Melbourne alumni
Academic staff of Deakin University
Year of birth missing (living people)
Fellows of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia
Fellows of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences |
In mathematics, an affine representation of a topological Lie group G on an affine space A is a continuous (smooth) group homomorphism from G to the automorphism group of A, the affine group Aff(A). Similarly, an affine representation of a Lie algebra g on A is a Lie algebra homomorphism from g to the Lie algebra aff(A) of the affine group of A.
An example is the action of the Euclidean group E(n) on the Euclidean space En.
Since the affine group in dimension n is a matrix group in dimension n + 1, an affine representation may be thought of as a particular kind of linear representation. We may ask whether a given affine representation has a fixed point in the given affine space A. If it does, we may take that as origin and regard A as a vector space; in that case, we actually have a linear representation in dimension n. This reduction depends on a group cohomology question, in general.
See also
Group action
Projective representation
References
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Homological algebra
Representation theory of Lie algebras
Representation theory of Lie groups |
Shirvan is a historical Iranian region in the eastern Caucasus, now in Azerbaijan.
Shirvan or Sirvan or variants may also refer to:
Places
Şirvan, Azerbaijan
Şirvan, Shamakhi, Azerbaijan
Sirvan County, Ilam province, Iran
Shirvan County, North Khorasan province, Iran
Shirvan, Iran
Shirvan District
Shirvan District (Borujerd County), Borujerd County, Lorestan province, Iran
Shirvan-e Gharbi Rural District
Shirvan-e Sharqi Rural District
Shirvan, Lorestan
Sirvan Rural District, Kermanshah province, Iran
Şirvan District, in Siirt Province
Şirvan, Siirt, seat of Şirvan District, Turkey
Shirvan steppe, part of the Kur-Araz Lowland of Azerbaijan
Lerrnakert, Shirak, formerly Shirvan, Armenia
Other uses
Emirate of Şirvan, a Kurdish emirate
Sirvan Khosravi (born 1982), an Iranian singer
See also
Shirvani (disambiguation)
Sirwan River, Iran/Iraq |
The 485th Air Expeditionary Wing is a provisional United States Air Force unit assigned to Air Combat Command. As a provisional unit, the 485 AEW may be inactivated or activated at any time by Air Combat Command. The wing was last known to be active during Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003 at Tabuk Regional Airport, Saudi Arabia, in 2003.
The wing was first activated as the 485th Bombardment Group, a Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bombardment group that served with Fifteenth Air Force during World War II. The group was awarded the Distinguished Unit Citation for its action in a mission to Vienna, Austria in 1944. The 485th returned to the United States in May 1945, where it converted to Boeing B-29 Superfortresss, training with Second Air Force. When the war ended in August 1945, the group remained at its training base and became one of the original ten bombardment groups assigned to Strategic Air Command (SAC). The group was inactivated in 1946 and its aircraft, personnel and equipment were transferred to the 97th Bombardment Group.
The second forerunner of the wing was the 585th Tactical Missile Group, which was stationed at Bitburg Air Base, Germany from 1956 to 1962. The 585th operated forward deployed TM-61 Matador cruise missiles from its home station. Later these missiles were replaced by TM-76 Mace (later MGM-13) missiles. It was inactivated in 1962 and its operational squadron transferred to the 38th Tactical Missile Wing.
In 1983, the two groups were consolidated as the 485th Tactical Missile Wing, a Ground Launched Cruise Missile (GLCM) wing stationed at Florennes Air Base, Belgium. The wing was inactivated as a result of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty in 1989. In 2003 the wing was converted to provisional status as the 485th Air Expeditionary Wing and allotted to Air Combat Command.
Overview
When activated in 2003, the 485 AEW was a composite wing of 24 McDonnell Douglas F-15C Eagle fighter aircraft and 46 Lockheed C-130H Hercules airlift aircraft and more than 3500 personnel from 82 different locations. The C-130s represented one of the largest combat groupings of this aircraft ever.
The wing was activated for Operation Iraqi Freedom and was composed of aircraft and regular Air Force personnel from Langley AFB, Virginia and Eglin AFB, Florida. It also included aircraft and guardsmen from the West Virginia, Tennessee, Missouri, Kentucky, Oklahoma, and Delaware Air National Guards, and reservists from Niagara Falls.
By 3 May 2003, the C-130 portion of the wing had flown 1199 missions, 3354 sorties, 7451 hours, hauled 9382 tons of cargo and 8800 passengers, and boasted a mission capable rate greater than 90 percent. When the F-15s completed flight operations 17 April they had compiled 581 sorties, flown more than 4000 hours and maintained a mission capable rate greater than 83 percent.
The wing was inactivated in early May 2003 with the last members returning to the United States in September of that year.
History
World War II
The wing was originally constituted as the 485th Bombardment Group (Heavy) and activated on 20 September 1943. Its original squadrons were the newly activated 828th, 829th, and 830th Bombardment Squadrons, which were joined a few days later by the 831st Bombardment Squadron at Gowen Field, Idaho. The 831st was an experienced Consolidated B-24 Liberator squadron that had been performing anti-submarine warfare missions as the 11th Antisubmarine Squadron. The group deployed to Gowen, where it derived its initial cadre from the 29th Bombardment Group and was assigned to Second Air Force for training with B-24s at Gowen and at Fairmont Army Air Field, Nebraska. The group deployed to the Mediterranean Theater of Operations (MTO) in March and April 1944.
Although the ground echelon had deployed to Southern Italy by April 1944, the air echelon was detained in Tunisia for further training. The group entered combat with Fifteenth Air Force in May 1944. The 485th engaged in very long range strategic bombing missions to enemy military, industrial and transportation targets in Italy, France, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Romania, and Yugoslavia, bombing marshalling yards, oil refineries, airfields, heavy industry, and other strategic objectives.
The group received a Distinguished Unit Citation for combating intense fighter opposition and attacking an oil refinery at Vienna on 26 June 1944. The 485th also carried out some support and interdiction operations. It struck bridges, harbors, and troop concentrations in August 1944 to aid Operation Dragoon, the invasion of southern France, It hit lines of communications and other targets during March and April 1945 to support the advance of British Eighth Army in northern Italy. It flew its 187th and last combat mission against Linz, Austria before preparing to return to the United States and re-equip.
The 485th returned to the United States in May 1945 and was programmed for deployment to the Pacific Theater of Operations (PTO) as a Boeing B-29 Superfortress very heavy bombardment group. Many combat veterans of MTO demobilized upon arrival in the United States, and a small cadre of personnel reformed at Sioux Falls Army Airfield, South Dakota at the end of May. The group was reassigned to Second Air Force for training in Iowa. Because B-29 groups had only three combat squadrons, the 831st Bombardment Squadron was inactivated in August. The group then moved on paper to Smoky Hill Army Air Field, Kansas in September.
The group remained on active duty after the Japanese surrender. In March 1946 Continental Air Forces became Strategic Air Command and Second Air Force was replaced by Fifteenth Air Force as the group's intermediate headquarters. Simultaneously, the 506th Bombardment Squadron was assigned to the group from the 44th Bombardment Group. In August 1946 the personnel and equipment of the 485th were reassigned to the 97th Bombardment Group and the 485th was inactivated.
Matador and Mace era
In 1954 USAF began deploying TM-61 Matador cruise missiles to Germany. By 1956, three squadrons were in place and USAFE organized the 701st Tactical Missile Wing with a subordinate group at each of the main bases where Matadors were stationed. The 585th Tactical Missile Group was activated at Bitburg Air Base, Germany in September 1956 to command the 1st Tactical Missile Squadron and two support squadrons.
Shortly after activation the group began upgrading its TM-61A missiles to TM-61Cs. The TM-61C was equipped with the Shannicle guidance system which generated a grid the missile could use to navigate, replacing the ground to air steering systems of the TM-61A. The group participated in periodic test launches of Matadors at Wheelus AB, Libya.
In 1958, USAFE replaced the 701st wing with the 38th Tactical Missile Wing in an administrative move to keep on active duty units whose roots could be traced to World War II. Simultaneously, the 1st squadron was replaced by the 71st Tactical Missile Squadron, one of the historical elements of the WW II 38th Bombardment Group. The Matador was growing obsolescent and the last Matador was taken off Victor (nuclear) Alert on 30 June 1962.
The group replaced its Matadors with TM-76 Mace (later MGM-13) missiles. These missiles did not rely on ground signals for guidance, but used an onboard radar to match the terrain with a map stored on board the missile. In 1962 the 585th and its companion groups in Germany were inactivated and the missile squadrons assigned directly to the 38th Wing. On the same day, the last Matador at Bitburg was decommissioned.
Ground Launched Cruise Missile era
The 485th Tactical Missile Wing was activated at Florennes Air Base, Belgium in August 1984. The first Gryphon missile arrived on 28 August and the wing began operating the Gryphon from 1985 until the implementation of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty in 1988.
The wing and its base were the target of periodic peace movement protests near the main gate. In August 1988 a ten-man Soviet Inspection Team visited Florennes to insure treaty compliance. The wing was inactivated in 1989 with the withdrawal of American forces from Florennes.
Lineage
485th Bombardment Group
Constituted as 485th Bombardment Group (Heavy) on 14 September 1943
Activated on 20 September 1943
Redesignated 485th Bombardment Group, Heavy on 25 January 1944
Redesignated 485th Bombardment Group, Very Heavy on 5 August 1945
Inactivated on 4 August 1946
585th Tactical Missile Group
Constituted as 585th Tactical Missile Group on 3 August 1956
Activated on 15 September 1956
Inactivated on 25 September 1962
485th Air Expeditionary Wing
485th Bombardment Group and 585th Tactical Missile Group consolidated on 19 December 1983 as the 485th Tactical Missile Wing
Activated on 1 August 1984
Inactivated on 30 September 1989
Redesignated 485th Air Expeditionary Wing and converted to provisional status 30 January 2003
c. 4 March 2003 – c. May 2003
Assignments
Second Air Force, 20 September 1943
55th Bombardment Wing, 14 March 1944 – 15 May 1945
Army Service Forces, Port of Embarkation, 30 May 1945
Second Air Force, 1 August 1945
Fifteenth Air Force, 21 March 1946 – 4 August 1946
701st Tactical Missile Wing, 15 September 1956
38th Tactical Missile Wing, 18 June 1958 – 25 September 1962
Seventeenth Air Force, 1 August 1984 – 30 September 1989
Air Combat Command for activation or inactivation at any time after 30 January 2003
Attached to United States Central Command Air Forces, c. 4 March 2003 – c. May 2003
Components
Groups
485th Combat Support Group: 1 October 1984 – 30 April 1989
485th Security Police Group: 1 October 1984 – 30 April 1989
Squadrons
Tactical Squadrons
1st Tactical Missile Squadron: 15 September 1956 – 18 June 1958
71st Tactical Missile Squadron: 18 June 1958 – 25 September 1962; 1 August 1984 – 30 April 1989
506th Bombardment Squadron: 7 March 1946 – 4 August 1946
828th Bombardment Squadron: 20 September 1943 – 4 August 1946
829th Bombardment Squadron: 20 September 1943 – 4 August 1946
830th Bombardment Squadron: 20 September 1943 – 6 May 1946
831st Bombardment Squadron: 1 October 1943 – 20 August 1945
Support Squadrons
585th Command and Guidance Squadron (Tactical Missile) (later 585th Missile Maintenance Squadron, 485th Tactical Missile Maintenance Squadron): 15 September 1956 – 25 September 1962; 1 August 1984 – 30 April 1989
585th Support Squadron (Tactical Missile): 15 September 1956 – 25 September 1962
USAF Clinic, Florennes (later 485th USAF Clinic): 1 October 1984 – 30 April 1989
Stations
Fairmont Army Air Field, Nebraska, 20 September 1943 – 11 March 1944 (operated from Gowen Field, Idaho 27 September 1943 – 15 November 1943)
Venosa Airfield, Italy, April 1944 – 15 May 1945
Sioux Falls Army Air Field, South Dakota, 30 May 1945
Sioux City Army Air Base, Iowa, 24 July 1945
Smoky Hill Army Air Field, Kansas, 8 September 1945 – 4 August 1946
Bitburg Air Base, West Germany, 15 September 1956 – 25 September 1962
Florennes Air Base, Belgium 4 August 1984 – 30 September 1989
Tabuk Regional Airport, Saudi Arabia, c. 4 March 2003 – c. May 2003
Missile Sites
Matador/Mace
Site VII "B" Pad – NW of Bitburg AB (1st/71st TMS)
Site VIII "C" Pad – SSW of Bitburg AB (1st/71st TMS)
Missile Support Area – SSW of Bitburg AB
GLCM
Aircraft and Missiles
B-24 Liberator, 1943–1945
Boeing B-29 Superfortress, 1945–1946
Martin Matador TM-61A, 1956–1957
Martin Matador TM-61C, 1957–1962
Martin Mace TM-76B, ? – ?
General Dynamics BGM-109G Gryphon, 1985–1988
McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle, 2003
Lockheed C-130 Hercules, 2003
Lockheed C-5 Galaxy (2003)
Awards and campaigns
See also
List of BGM-109G GLCM Units
519th Air Service Group Support Unit during World War II
References
Explanatory notes
Citations
Bibliography
Further reading
The Short, appy Life of the Glick-Em, Air Force Magazine
External links
485th Wing Story
Globalsecurity.org: Florennes, Belgium
United States Air Force 485th Tactical Missile Wing Florennes Air Base Belgium
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Military units and formations disestablished in 2003 |
Kyonpaw is a village in Ye Township in the Mon State of south-east Burma. It is located 3 miles north-west of Ye city.
Nearby towns and villages include Zayat (3.9 nm), Hnyihnu (4.0 nm), Zuntalin (4.1 nm), Webaw (2.2 nm), Tumyaung (1.9 nm) and Abaw (3.6 nm).
Populated places in Mon State |
Bundu (also Bondu, Bondou and Boundou) was a state in West Africa existing from the late 17th century until it became a French protectorate dependent on the colony of Senegal. It lay between the Falémé River and the upper course of the Gambia River, that is between 13 and 15 N., and 12 and 13 W.
Description
The country is an elevated plateau, with hills in the southern and central parts. These are generally unproductive, and covered with stunted wood; but the lower country is fertile, and finely clothed with the baobab, the tamarind and various valuable fruit-trees. Bondu is traversed by torrents, which flow rapidly during the rains but are empty in the dry season. The name 'Bundu' means 'well' in Pulaar.
History
Early History
Bundu in the 17th century was a sparsely-populated part of the kingdom of Gajaaga inhabited mostly by Pulaar communities but with minorities of Jakhanke, Soninke and other peoples, all non-Muslim.
Malick Sy
In 1690, Fula Torodbe cleric Malick Sy came to the region from him home near Podor in Futa Toro. He and his followers may have been fleeing persection in the aftermath of the Char Bouba war or simply seeking a place where Sy could enforce his interpretation of sharia law. The tunka of Gajaaga gave Sy control first over one village and then a larger territory, the border of which Sy advantageously manipulated by cheating on a pact with the king. Bundu's growth that would set a precedent for later Fula jihads in West Africa. Sy settled the lands with relatives from his native Futa Toro and Muslim immigrants from as far west as the Djolof Empire and as far west as Nioro du Sahel.
Under Sy, Bundu became a refuge for Muslims and Islamic scholars persecuted by traditional rulers in other kingdoms. It eventually expanded east, taking territory from Bambuk. Sy was killed in 1699 caught in an ambush by the army of Gajaaga.
After Malick Sy
Sy was succeeded by his son Bubu Malick Sy, who expanded the realm southwards at the expense of local Mandinka kingdoms. By 1716 Bundu was the most powerful state on the upper Senegal. When he in turn died between 1718 and 1727, an interregnum ensued that threatened both Sisibe (the descendants of Malick Sy) control over the state and the integrity of its central authority. This was, however, restored by Bubu's son Maka Jiba between 1731 and 1735.
From the 1720s to the 1760s Bundu suffered Moroccan and Moorish slave raids, as did the neighboring states of Gajaaga, Bambuk, and Futa Toro. Maka Jiba died in 1764 and was suceeded by his son Amadi Gai, who adopted the title of almamy and introduced a legal system based on sharia. The division between the Bulibani and Koussan branches of the family, which would be the source of many succession disputes. originated at this time.
Mungo Park, the first European traveller to visit the country, passed through Bondu in 1795, and had to submit to many exactions from the reigning monarch. The royal residence was then at Fatteconda; but when Major William Gray, a British officer who attempted to solve the Niger problem, visited Bondu in 1818 it had been moved to Bulibani (Boolibany), a village with a population of 1500–1800, surrounded by a strong clay wall.
19th Century
The French established a fort at Bakel in Gajaaga in 1820, followed by a brief presence at Sansanding in Bundu itself. Almamy Saada Amadi Aissata Sy, trying to promote trade, agreed to allow a permanent fort built at Senudebou in 1845, though this became a source of contention within the Sisibe ruling class. He also hoped to gain French support for the alliance he was building with the Imamate of Futa Toro and Bambuk against Kaarta, the only state on the upper Senegal that could rival Bundu at this time. But the Europeans, while happy to see Kaarta humbled, did not want Bundunke hegemony either.
In 1851 Saada Amadi died and a civil war broke out. El Hadj Umar Tall took advantage, taking over the area initially with the support of both the people and the Bundu aristocracy. Many Fulbe migrated east to Nioro du Sahel, heart of Tall's Toucouleur Empire. In 1855 Bokar Saada Sy, son of Saada Amadi, claimed the title of almamy with French support, but only managed to exert real control over Bundu after Tall's 1857 defeat at the Siege of Medina Fort with French military support. During this period warfare and famine devastated the economy, and Tall's call for Muslims to emigrate eastwards to his domain dramatically reduced the population, particularly among the Fulbe.
In the 1860s and 70s the Sisibe under Bokar Saada rebuilt their wealth through extensive raiding and trading for slaves and cattle as well as taxing the people. By the late 19th century two thirds of the population was enslaved. After the closing of the Senoudebou fort in 1862, Saada was the most powerful representative of French interests east of Bakel. He used this position to continually raid neighboring states for captives and booty, particularly the Kingdom of Wuli.
Nevertheless, in the face of popular discontent, a series of famines and plague outbreaks, and renewed succession disputes, the state was fragile. Mahmadu Lamine's popular 1885-7 jihad briefly drove the Sisibe out of power until French military power defeated the jihadist forces and restored them to the throne. With this, French control was effectively complete. The last almamy, chosen by the French, died in 1902.
Colonialism
Early years of French control saw a rising population as many former migrants returned. Starting in 1904, however, conditions deteriorated significantly, and large-scale famines forced much of the population to move within or leave Bundu. Slaves in particular took the opportunity to flee or renegotiate their situations, and many joined the French army during World War 1. With the growth of the peanut basin and the reorientation of trade towards the Dakar-Niger Railway, Bundu was increasingly ignored by the colonial administration. The area was economically marginalized, but also saw a flourishing of religious communities deliberately separating themselves from the pagan French.
Government and Society
Although nominally a theocracy, Bundu was founded peacefully rather than through religious revolts such as occurred later in Futa Toro and Futa Djallon. This, as well as the presence of large numbers of non-Fulbe and/or non-Muslim inhabitants, meant that Bundu was more secular than other Fula states of the period, though Islam was a source of prestige and legitimacy as well as causus belli for slaving raids and conquest. Over time increased Fulbe immigration from these more Islamized areas increased the Muslim population. Still, Bundu never attempted to spread Islam beyond its borders.
Bundu purchased weapons from both the French on the Senegal river and the British on the Gambia, helping them become a regional power and rival to non-Muslim Kaarta. These weapons also, however, sparked internal conflict over rulership between rival branches of the Sisibe family based in Koussan and Bulibani.
Economy
Bundu benefited from a position athwart major trade routes in gold, ivory, kola nuts, salt, cloth, cotton, gum arabic, and cattle. Large numbers of slaves taken in raids against neighboring communities worked the almamy's plantations or were sold on to Moorish or Wolof buyers. Visitors in the late 18th century described a flourishing local agricultural industry, with particularly fine horses, and domestic production of incense, cotton, and indigo.
Notable people
Ayuba Suleiman Diallo (1701—1773), slave trader who was enslaved by the Mandinka
Richard Pierpoint, freed slave, British Army soldier and farmer in Fergus, Ontario Canada
References
Sources
Further reading
History of Senegal
French West Africa
Fula history |
Carcass or Carcase (both pronounced ) may refer to:
Dressed carcass, the body of a livestock animal ready for butchery, after removal of skin, visceral organs, head, feet etc.
Carrion, the decaying dead body of an animal or human being, Also called a Carcass.
The structural system or frame of a structure, especially one not normally seen
Carcass saw, a type of backsaw
Arts and entertainment
Carcass (band), a British extreme metal band
Carcass (G.I. Joe), a fictional character
Have His Carcase, a British crime novel
Military
Carcass (projectile), a type of incendiary ammunition designed to be fired from a cannon
, three ships of the Royal Navy
Carcass, in the US Navy, a repairable component that is Depot Level Repairable (DLR), but Not Ready-For-Issue (NRFI)
Places
Carcass Island, one of the Falkland Islands
Krkavče, a village in Slovenia
See also
Cadaver (disambiguation)
Carrion (disambiguation)
Corpse (disambiguation) |
An annular solar eclipse occurred on July 9, 1926. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is smaller than the Sun's, blocking most of the Sun's light and causing the Sun to look like an annulus (ring). An annular eclipse appears as a partial eclipse over a region of the Earth thousands of kilometres wide. Annularity was visible from the islands of Pulo Anna and Merir in Japan's South Seas Mandate (now in Palau) and Wake Island on July 10 (Saturday), and Midway Atoll on July 9 (Friday).
Related eclipses
Solar eclipses 1924–1928
Saros 135
It is a part of Saros cycle 135, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 71 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on July 5, 1331. It contains annular eclipses from October 21, 1511, through February 24, 2305, hybrid eclipses on March 8, 2323, and March 18, 2341, and total eclipses from March 29, 2359, through May 22, 2449. The series ends at member 71 as a partial eclipse on August 17, 2593. The longest duration of totality will be 2 minutes, 27 seconds on May 12, 2431.
Inex series
Tritos series
Notes
References
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1926 7 9
1926 in science
July 1926 events |
Wacław Aleksander Maciejowski (10 September 1792 – 10 February 1883) was a Polish historian.
Maciejowski was born in Cierlicko near Cieszyn. He studied in Warsaw, Berlin, and Göttingen, and became professor of law at the University of Warsaw in 1819.
He wrote three major works: a history of Slavic legislation (1832–38, 4 vols.; 2nd ed. 1856–65, 6 vols.), a history of Polish literature since the 16th century (1851–62, 3 vols.) and a history of the peasants of Poland (1874); the latter was the first monograph to be written on the Polish peasantry. He followed the historical Romanticism of Joachim Lelewel, and had a Pan-Slavic outlook.
References
External links
1792 births
1883 deaths
People from Karviná District
People from Austrian Silesia
People from Cieszyn Silesia
19th-century Polish historians
Polish male non-fiction writers
Academic staff of the University of Warsaw |
Japanese football in 1977
Japan Soccer League
Division 1
Division 2
Japanese Regional Leagues
Emperor's Cup
Japan Soccer League Cup
National team
Results
Players statistics
External links
Seasons in Japanese football |
Attanagalla is an electorate in Gampaha District, situated in the Western Province of Sri Lanka.
References
Populated places in Western Province, Sri Lanka
Grama Niladhari divisions of Sri Lanka |
The Starting a Business Index is a sub-index of the World Bank Ease of Doing Business Index.
Authors of the methodology
This methodology was developed by Simeon Djankov, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-De-Silanes and Andrei Shleifer in a paper, "The Regulation of Entry".
Djankov is the creator of the annual Doing Business report, once a publication of the World Bank Group. The report was discontinued in 2021.
Ranking
Ranking of all nations from 2010 report
The 2019 ranking has New Zealand at the top again.
See also
Barriers to entry
Commercial law
References
World Bank
Business law
Economic indicators
International rankings
cs:Index snadnosti podnikání
id:Indeks Kemudahan Berbisnis
pl:Ease of Doing Business Index
vi:Chỉ số thuận lợi kinh doanh
zh:各国经商容易度列表 |
The China International Development Cooperation Agency (CIDCA), branded as China Aid, is the foreign aid and international development agency of the People's Republic of China. It is a deputy ministerial-level agency affiliated with the State Council.
The China International Development Cooperation Agency is mainly responsible for formulating foreign aid strategic guidelines, plans, and policies, coordinating major foreign aid issues and making recommendations, promoting the reform of foreign aid methods, formulating foreign aid programs and plans, determining foreign aid projects, and supervising and evaluating the implementation.
Establishment
On March 17, 2018, the first session of the 13th National People's Congress adopted the "Decision of the First Session of the 13th National People's Congress on the Institutional Reform Plan of the State Council" and approved the "Organizational Reform Plan of the State Council". The plan stipulates: "Establish the National International Development Cooperation Agency. Integrate the Ministry of Commerce's foreign aid related responsibilities and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' foreign aid coordination and other responsibilities to establish the National International Development Cooperation Agency as an agency directly under the State Council. The specific implementation of foreign aid will still be carried out by relevant departments. Departments are responsible for division of labor.”
On April 18, 2018, the National Agency for International Development and Cooperation held an unveiling ceremony. The name "National Agency for International Development and Cooperation" with black characters on a white background was unveiled. Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Director of the Office of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission Yang Jiechi, State Councilor and Minister of Foreign Affairs Wang Yi attended the unveiling ceremony and delivered a speech. After the unveiling ceremony, the China International Development Cooperation Agency held its founding meeting.
Responsibilities
According to the "Regulations on the Functional Configuration, Internal Structure and Staffing of the National Agency for International Development and Cooperation", the Agency for International Development and Cooperation assumes the following functions:
Responsible for formulating foreign aid strategic guidelines, plans and policies. Take the lead in drafting foreign aid laws and regulations and formulating departmental regulations.
Responsible for coordinating major foreign aid issues and making recommendations to better serve the country’s overall diplomatic layout and the joint construction of the “Belt and Road” initiative.
Responsible for researching and promoting the reform of foreign aid methods.
Responsible for the preparation of foreign aid programs and plans.
Responsible for determining foreign aid projects, conducting intergovernmental foreign aid negotiations, negotiating and signing intergovernmental aid agreements, and coordinating and resolving major issues with the governments of recipient countries.
Responsible for supervising and evaluating the implementation of foreign aid projects.
Organize and carry out international exchanges and cooperation in foreign aid.
Complete other tasks assigned by the Party Central Committee and the State Council.
Organizational structure
According to the "Regulations on the Functional Configuration, Internal Organizations and Staffing of the National International Development Cooperation Agency", the internal organization of the International Development Cooperation Agency is at the deputy department–bureau level, and the following organizations are set up:
Departments
General Department
Policy and Planning Department
Regional First Department
Regional Second Department
Supervision and Evaluation Department
International Cooperation Department
Institutional Party Committee (Human Resources Department)
Affiliate institution
China International Development Cooperation Agency Foreign Aid Service Support Center (China International Development Cooperation Agency Global Development Promotion Center)
See also
Chinese foreign aid
Foreign aid to China
Exim Bank of China
References
External links
International development agencies
State Council of the People's Republic of China
Chinese foreign aid |
Ancien Village de Gara is a village in the Bamingui-Bangoran Prefecture in the northern Central African Republic.
References
Populated places in Bamingui-Bangoran
Bamingui |
Tortilla de rescoldo or ember tortilla is a traditional Chilean and Northern Argentine flatbread, often unleavened, that was commonly prepared by rural travelers. It consists of a wheat-flour-based bread, traditionally baked in the coals of a campfire or fireplace. It is common street food in populated areas or along roadways and sold by palomitas (little doves).
History
The bread dates Spanish colonizers, who used it as a travel ration similar to pan subcinerario.
Vendors known as palomitas, typically women dressed all in white, sell the tortillas in train stations and other public areas, especially in Antihue and Laraquete.
Ingredients
Typical ingredients are flour; lard, butter, vegetable shortening, or a combination; and salt; some recipes include baking soda or yeast.
Preparation and serving
Ingredients are mixed to create a soft dough which is formed into disks varying from to in diameter. Embers are raked from the fire and the tortillas placed directly onto them.
Tortillas de rescoldo are served with butter or regional condiments.
Flavors
The finished tortillas are characterized by strong flavors of smoke, ash, and char.
Variations
Regional variations include those of Antihue, which include pork, and of Laraquete which is made chuchitas, a local shellfish.
Regulations
Government safety regulations prevent the sale of traditional tortillas de rescoldo, requiring them to be cooked in ovens rather than on open fires and requiring the chuchitas to be preserved in vinegar. Both regulations profoundly change the taste and sensory experience of the traditional product.
See also
Damper (food)
References
Further reading
Chilean breads
Tortilla
Unleavened breads |
Roland E. Arnall (March 29, 1939 – March 17, 2008) was an American businessman and diplomat. As the owner of ACC Capital Holdings, he became a billionaire with Ameriquest Mortgage. Additionally he funded, financed and was the visionary and co-founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and from 2006 until shortly before his death he was the United States Ambassador to the Netherlands.
Early life
Roland Arnall was born on March 29, 1939, in Paris, France. His parents were Eastern European Jews who had fled to Paris. During World War II, Arnall was raised as a Roman Catholic in a French village. He was kept unaware of being a Jew until after the war had ended, when he was six years old.
After the war, Arnall and his family moved to Montreal, Canada. In the late 1950s they relocated to the United States, and for a while Arnall sold flowers on the streets of Los Angeles, California.
Community activities
In 1977 Arnall, a longtime supporter of Israel, was the president of Israel Bonds and helped found and fund the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the Museum of Tolerance. He also funded and found the City of David for over 11 years. He was the initial investor and carried the project alone for over 11 years. He also has served to assist Shalva Located in the heart of Jerusalem. The brand-new Shalva National Center opens new doors for individuals with disabilities and their families offering programs, services and facilities never before available in Israel. The Center is Israel’s beacon of inclusion and an international leader of innovative programs and research. He funded and built numerous Chabad houses across the West Coast, the last was built in Aspen. Arnall always discreetly invested in NGO’s leaders with outstanding institutions that would out live him. He so dearly believed in investing in community development and building a strong United community from progressive left to conservative right. He served for 16 years on the California State University board of trustees.
Ameriquest
Arnall was the billionaire owner of ACC Capital Holdings, the parent company of Ameriquest, which was once one of the United States's largest sub-prime mortgage lenders. By the end of 2005 two of Arnall's companies, Ameriquest and Argent, had funded almost $75 billion in subprime loans. A major factor of this development was Arnall's origination of the stated income loan, meaning loans were given without verification of income. In early 2006, the company announced a $325 million settlement with state attorneys general and law enforcement agencies and financial regulators in 49 states and the District of Columbia who had accused Ameriquest of misrepresenting and failing to disclose loan terms, charging excessive loan origination fees and inflating appraisals to qualify borrowers for loans.
In 2007 Arnall got out of the mortgage business having sold most of it to Citigroup for an undisclosed amount.
Political activities
Since 2002, Arnall had given campaign contributions to California politicians including Arnold Schwarzenegger.
In the 2003–05 period, Arnall and his wife raised more than $12 million for George W. Bush's political efforts, including $5 million for the Progress for America Voter Fund, a self-proclaimed "conservative issue advocacy organization dedicated to keeping the issue record straight." Arnall was quoted as saying his support for Bush stemmed for his stance on Israel. In 2004 he was one of the top 10 donors to the Republican Party.
Mrs. Arnall also served as a co-chair for the 2004 Republican Convention and hosted a $1 million Bush-Cheney fundraiser at the couple's home in Holmby Hills. In 2005, Ameriquest Capital and three of its subsidiaries comprised four of the 53 entities that each contributed the maximum of $250,000 to the second inauguration of President George W. Bush. Writes USA Today, "Inaugural fundraisers Dawn and Roland Arnall found a creative way to pump more than the $250,000 limit into the event. Their mortgage firm, Ameriquest Capital, contributed the maximum, as did three subsidiaries, for a total of $1 million. The company declined to comment on its political giving."
In order to circumvent campaign finance laws, Arnall mandated that Ameriquest staffers, on company time, solicit campaign contributions from vendors and directed to selected candidates, including Antonio Villaraigosa, Mayor of Los Angeles from 2005 to 2013.
Arnall's contributions to Republican Bush were a change of heart, and the result of Arnall's support for Bush's middle east policies post 9/11. Previously, Arnall was a long-time Democratic Party supporter and fundraiser. His wedding to Dawn Arnall was officiated by Democratic California Governor Gray Davis. Arnall was also an ardent supporter and fundraiser for Los Angeles Mayor Democrat Antonio Villaraigosa.
Diplomatic career
On August 1, 2005, President George W Bush nominated Arnall to become the U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands. The Senate approved his nomination on February 9, 2006. Arnall was installed as ambassador on March 8, 2006, when Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands received Arnall's letters of credence.
Arnall announced his resignation as ambassador on February 21, 2008, effective on March 7, citing the ill health of his son.
Personal life
Arnall and his wife, Dawn, were longtime, generous political contributors, giving to both parties, according to Federal Election Commission records. Arnall had two children with his first wife Sally, from whom he divorced in 1998 after a 37-year marriage. His nephew is Adam J. Bass, previously Vice Chairman of Ameriquest.
He purchased singer Engelbert Humperdinck's Los Angeles estate for $30 million. He also bought a ranch in Aspen, Colorado, for $46 million from movie mogul Peter Guber.
On March 17, 2008, Arnall died of cancer according to FOX Business at the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, twelve days shy of his 69th birthday.
SHMAIS.com (Lubavitch News Website) reported that Chabad of California was to be the beneficiary of an $18 million donation from the estate of Roland Arnall. According to their source, before his death, he made arrangements for Rabbi Shlomo Cunin to receive the donation, and a short while later sent in a down payment of $180,000. Arnall made three payments of $180,000 each to Chabad before dying of cancer in March 2008; after his death, Chabad sought payment for what it said was the balance of his pledge. Arnall's widow, Dawn Arnall, denied that the payments made by her late husband had been part of a pledge. On January 25, 2013, a California appeals court affirmed a lower court's ruling denying a claim from Chabad of California Inc. of an $18-million pledge that the local Jewish nonprofit group said was promised to it by Arnall.
References
Links
Ameriquest Mortgage Illegal Purchase of Consumer Credit Reports for Target Marketing and Privacy Law Violations
Meet the biggest predatory lender in Cleveland -- America's new ambassador to the Netherlands., Cleveland Scene magazine.
Forbes Magazine top 400 entry for Roland Arnall
Los Angeles Times: Roland Arnall, 68; founder of subprime specialist Ameriquest
Workers Say Lender Ran 'Boiler Rooms' , Los Angeles Times, February 4, 2005
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2008 deaths
American billionaires
American people of French-Jewish descent
French emigrants to the United States
Businesspeople from Los Angeles
Ambassadors of the United States to the Netherlands
Deaths from cancer in California
California Republicans
American real estate businesspeople
People from Holmby Hills, Los Angeles
20th-century American businesspeople |
Lips is a Dutch and German patronymic surname, "Lip" being a short form of Filip or Philip. People with this name include:
Bruno Lips (1908–1939), Swiss canoer
Charles C. Lips (ca. 1835–1888), German-born American civil servant
Constantine Lips (died 917), Byzantine aristocrat and admiral
Hannie Lips (1924–2012), Dutch broadcaster and television announcer
Joest Lips (1547–1606), Flemish philologist and humanist better known as "Lipsius"
Johann Heinrich Lips (1758–1817), Swiss copper engraver
Karen Lips (born 1995), American biologist
Michael Lips (born 1967), Swiss curler
Miriam Lips (born 1967), Dutch-born New Zealand academic
Robert Lips (1912–1975), Swiss cartoonist and fencer
Thomas Lips (born 1970), Swiss curler
Tim Lips (born 1985), Dutch equestrian
Tom Lips (born 1968), American soccer player
See also
Marjolein Lips-Wiersma, New Zealand academic
References
Dutch-language surnames
German-language surnames
Patronymic surnames |
Mankato is a ghost town in Boyd County, Nebraska, United States.
History
A post office was established at Mankato in 1890, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1901. It was likely named after Mankato, Minnesota.
References
Geography of Boyd County, Nebraska |
LTBL may refer to:
Lessons to Be Learned, an album by Australian singer-songwriter Gabriella Cilmi.
The ICAO code for Çiğli Air Base, a military airport in Turkey.
Leukoencephalopathy with thalamus and brainstem involvement and high lactate, a rare disorder that affects the brain. |
Hugh Davson, Baron Davson (25 November 1909 – 2 July 1996) was an English physiologist who worked on membrane transport and ocular fluids.
Davson was born in Paddington, London, the son of physician Wilfred Maynard Davson and Mary Louisa Scott.
He attended University College School. He later studied at University College London and took a variety of research posts at institutes such as UCL, and Canada's Dalhousie University. With James Danielli he proposed a model for cell membrane structure which became known as the Davson-Danielli or "protein sandwich" model.
In 1931 he married the society portrait painter Marjorie Heath with whom he had one daughter.
He was a cousin of the renowned journalist and broadcaster, Alistair Cooke.
He had intimate friendships with influential individuals such as Winston Churchill and Clement Attlee.
References
1909 births
1996 deaths
English physiologists
People educated at University College School
Alumni of University College London |
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Alexander Butler was a British film director who made over sixty features and short films during the 1910s and 1920s including many for G. B. Samuelson's production company. Butler directed several British films in Hollywood in 1920, where Samuelson had made an arrangement with Universal Pictures. Amongst his notable films are the Sherlock Holmes adaptation The Valley of Fear (1916) and the early British horror film The Beetle (1919).
Selected filmography
Just a Girl (1916)
The Valley of Fear (1916)
A Pair of Spectacles (1916)
A Fair Impostor (1916)
The Girl Who Loves a Soldier (1916)
Nursie! Nursie! (1916)
The Sorrows of Satan (1917)
The Odds Against Her (1919)
The Beetle (1919)
The Disappearance of the Judge (1919)
Damaged Goods (1919)
David and Jonathan (1920)
Love in the Wilderness (1920)
The Ugly Duckling (1920)
The Night Riders (1920)
Married Love (1923)
The Knockout (1923)
A Royal Divorce (1923)
I Pagliacci (1923)
She (1925)
References
Bibliography
Low, Rachel. The History of British Film: Volume IV, 1918–1929. Routledge, 1997.
Nollen, Scott Allen. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at the Cinema. McFarland & Co., 1996.
Rigby, Jonathan. English Gothic: A Century of Horror Cinema. Reynolds & Hearn, 2004.
External links
Year of birth unknown
Year of death unknown
British film directors |
The 2008 Northern Arizona Lumberjacks football team was an American football team that represented Northern Arizona University (NAU) as a member of the Big Sky Conference (Big Sky) during the 2008 NCAA Division I FCS football season. In their eleventh year under head coach Jerome Souers, the Lumberjacks compiled a 6–5 record (4–4 against conference opponents), outscored opponents by a total of 316 to 273, and finished fifth out of nine teams in the Big Sky.
On September 6, the team set a school record with 752 yards of total offense against New Mexico Highlands.
The team played its home games at the J. Lawrence Walkup Skydome, commonly known as the Walkup Skydome, in Flagstaff, Arizona.
Schedule
References
Northern Arizona
Northern Arizona Lumberjacks football seasons
Northern Arizona Lumberjacks football |
Celâl Nuri İleri (1881–1938) was a Turkish writer and politician, who was an important figure in the transition from a constitutional monarchy to a republic.
His mother was Nefise Hanım, the eldest daughter of the Ottoman Albanian statesman Prevezeli Abidin Pasha, who served as Adana governor, Bahr-i Sefit (Aegean Islands) governor and minister of foreign affairs.
In 2021 a book about Celal Nuri İleri was published by York Norman: Celal Nuri: young Turk modernizer and Muslim nationalist.
References
External links
1881 births
1938 deaths
Place of death missing
People from Gelibolu
Republican People's Party (Turkey) politicians
20th-century Turkish politicians
20th-century Turkish writers |
VU, Vu or vu may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
Music
Sandra Vu, American musician, singer, and songwriter
The Velvet Underground, American rock band
VU (album), an album released by the Velvet Underground
Volume unit as displayed on a VU meter
Other media
Vu (film), an Indian film
Vu (magazine), a French publication that existed from 1928 to 1940
Tom Vu, poker player and former infomercial star
Businesses and organizations
Political organizations
Patriotic Union (Vaterländische Union), a political party in Liechtenstein
Venstres Ungdom, the youth wing of the Danish liberal party Venstre
Volksunie, a defunct Flemish political party
Universities
Victoria University (disambiguation), various unrelated universities
United States
Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, Indiana
Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee
Vanguard University in Costa Mesa, California
Villanova University in Villanova, Pennsylvania
Vincennes University in Vincennes, Indiana
Elsewhere
Vedanta University in Orissa, India
Vilnius University in Vilnius, Lithuania
Virtual University of Pakistan in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in Amsterdam, Netherlands
Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Brussels, Belgium
Other businesses and organizations
Air Ivoire, IATA airline designator
Vietravel Airlines, IATA airline designator
Vivendi Universal, now Vivendi SA, a French company active in media and communications
Agence Vu, a photography agency, publisher and gallery based in Paris
Vu Televisions, a television brand and an LED TV and display manufacturer based in Mumbai
Science and technology
νμ, in physics, the symbol for a muon neutrino
.vu, Vanuatu's country code top-level domain
Vu+, satellite set-top box equipment
LG Vu, a cell phone produced by LG
Vulnerable species, on the IUCN Red List
VU meter, a representation of audio signal strength
Other uses
Vanuatu (country code VU)
Voices United, the official hymn book of the United Church of Canada
Vũ, Vietnamese surname |
The E-6 process (often abbreviated to E-6) is a chromogenic photographic process for developing Ektachrome, Fujichrome and other color reversal (also called slide or transparency) photographic film.
Unlike some color reversal processes (such as Kodachrome K-14) that produce positive transparencies, E-6 processing can be performed by individual users with the same equipment that is used for processing black and white negative film or C-41 color negative film. The process is highly sensitive to temperature variations: A heated water bath is mandatory to stabilize the temperature at 100.0 °F (37.8 °C) for the first developer and first wash to maintain process tolerances.
History
The E-6 process superseded Kodak's E-3 and E-4 processes. The E-3 process required fogging with light to accomplish image reversal and produced transparencies that faded quickly. The E-4 process used polluting chemicals, such as the highly toxic reversal agent borane tert-butylamine (TBAB).
Non-Kodak color reversal films introduced in the 1980s were compatible with the E-6 process, including variants of Fujichrome and Agfachrome, sold by Fujifilm and Agfa-Gevaert, respectively; one notable exception was Fujichrome 1600 Professional D, which was compatible with E-6 but used a customized PZ process for best results. The PZ process was similar to E-6, but used a different fog-suppressing chemical.
Process variations
There are two versions of the E-6 process. Commercial laboratories use a six-bath chemical process. The 'hobby' type chemistry kits, such as those produced by Tetenal, use three chemical baths that combine the color developer and fogging bath solutions, and the pre-bleach, bleach and fixer bath solutions.
Six-bath process version
The structure of E-6 film has three separate light-sensitive layers; each layer is sensitive to a different group of wavelengths corresponding to red, green, and blue colors. When the film is exposed, each layer records a latent image based on its sensitivity. A yellow filter prevents blue light from exposing the green- and red-sensitive layers, which have some sensitivity to blue light.
Kodak Publication Z-119 provides instructions for various methods to carry out the E-6 process, including the use of continuous processors, roller-transport processors, rack-and-tank processors, batch processing, and rotary-tube processors; however, they largely share the same steps and recommendations for time and temperature with the exception of rotary-tube processors. The first developer, first wash, and reversal bath must be carried out in darkness.
See also
Replenishment (photography)
References
External links
Kodak Process E-6 Publication Z-119
Kodak Q-LAB Process Control Handbook - more details than processing manual Z-119
Kodak Professional First Developer Replenisher, Process E-6 (PDF)
FujiFilm USA Product Bulletin Library technical data sheets
E-6 Ektachrome DIY processing super-8 & 16mm.
Photographic film processes |
Mintonophis is a genus of snakes belonging to the family Homalopsidae.
The species of this genus are found in India.
Species
Species:
Mintonophis pakistanicus (Mertens, 1959)
References
Homalopsidae
Snake genera |
Iglesia de San Juan Bautista may refer to:
in Spain
Iglesia de San Juan Bautista (Arganda del Rey)
Iglesia de San Juan Bautista (Chiclana de la Frontera), Andalusia, Spain
Iglesia de San Juan Bautista (Jodra del Pinar)
Iglesia de San Juan Bautista (San Tirso de Abres), Asturias, Spain
Iglesia de San Juan Bautista (Talamanca de Jarama)
Iglesia de San Juan Bautista (Vélez-Málaga)
Iglesia de San Juan Bautista, Baños de Cerrato
in Puerto Rico, U.S. territory
Iglesia de San Juan Bautista (Maricao, Puerto Rico), Maricao, Puerto Rico |
"That's Entertainment!" is a popular song with music written by Arthur Schwartz and lyrics by Howard Dietz. The song was published in 1952 and was written especially for the 1953 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musical film The Band Wagon. The song is performed in the film by Jack Buchanan supported by Fred Astaire, Nanette Fabray, and Oscar Levant.
In 2004, the song finished at number 45 in AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema. It was orchestrated for the film by Conrad Salinger under the musical direction of Adolph Deutsch.
Since the movie, the song has become the signature tune for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and an anthem for Hollywood and theater in general, being used as an opening number in many shows. Alongside "Hooray for Hollywood," "There's No Business Like Show Business" and "Another Op'nin', Another Show", it is considered one of the American entertainment industry's best known tunes.
The song is perhaps most associated with Judy Garland, who recorded it for her 1960 LP That's Entertainment!, using a shortened version of the original Salinger arrangement. A year later, a live version appeared on Garland's Grammy-winning double album Judy at Carnegie Hall. She also performed it on The Judy Garland Show where she dances around the TV stage during an orchestral interlude.
The song has become nearly synonymous with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The studio used the tune for its 1955-56 television series MGM Parade which featured clips from past and forthcoming MGM films. The song title was later used for MGM's popular retrospective film series featuring clips from its golden age, as That's Entertainment!. The original 1974 release spawned two sequels in which the song was retained. The studio also used a remix of Judy Garland's recording of the song to underscore the trailer for the January 15, 2023 launch of the network and streaming platform MGM+, following the network's rebrand from Epix. The 1974 film was also added to the network's streaming platform the same day as the rebrand's launch.
In That's Entertainment, Part II, some new lyrics were added to the song and performed by hosts Gene Kelly and Astaire. The film credited those lyrics to Dietz and Saul Chaplin, one of the film's producers, though Chaplin was known as a composer, not a lyricist.
In 1979, the song was sung with parody lyrics by the villain Mordru in the television special Legends of the Superheroes. In the 1980s, the song was performed, again with new lyrics, by Larry Santos in a commercial for TV Guide magazine.
Renditions
Rufus Wainwright - Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall (2007)
References
Songs about theatre
Hollywood, Los Angeles in fiction
Songs with music by Arthur Schwartz
Songs with lyrics by Howard Dietz
Fred Astaire songs
1952 songs |
The British School of Jakarta (BSJ) is an independent school in Pondok Aren, South Tangerang in Greater Jakarta, Indonesia. The British School of Jakarta is an international member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference. It was established in Jakarta in 1973 under the auspices of the British Embassy. The main campus was relocated to Bintaro in 1994 to accommodate increasing numbers of students, and an early years centre was opened in Pondok Indah in 1999. The school offers classes for students from pre-school to year 13 based on a British curriculum, with the final two years covered by the International Baccalaureate diploma program.
The school was enforced to change its name from 'British International School' to 'British School Jakarta' in 2014 to correspond to the Indonesian government's regulations on prohibiting the use of the word 'international' in school names.
History
The British School was first established in Jakarta in 1973 under the auspices of The British Embassy. In 1975 the committee of parents responsible for the School approached a group of British businessmen for the purpose of setting up an enlarged facility in specially-built premises in Permata Hijau. In 1976, The British School was established as a Yayasan or Foundation, in keeping with the laws of Indonesia. In the early 1980s the school was renamed The British International School under Queen Elizabeth II's command.
In 1989, Diana Frances Spencer, otherwise known as Princess Diana of Wales, visited BSJ.
In 1990, when there was much pressure for spaces in the school, market research surveys and feasibility studies led to the decision to find a new site on which to build a new school for an enlarged intake and an extended age range - what became known as the Relocation Project. That Project reached its climax in the school year 1993-94 when the Permata Hijau site was closed and the School took over its new facilities on a site in Bintaro, southwest of Jakarta. The new BIS was officially opened by Prince Edward in March 1994, and the first full stage of the project completed in the summer of 1994.
Campus Phase Two, which started in 1997, included the addition of the Cafeteria, the Art and Technology Block in the Secondary School and several smaller projects to improve and develop the campus. In 1999
the school opened a new Early Years Education Centre in Pondok Indah in response to growing demand for places in Pre-School and Reception classes. In February 2007 a new Performing Arts centre, the BIS World Theatre, was opened providing facilities and three performance areas. The Theatre was officially opened by the Duke of York, Prince Andrew, on 6 March 2008.
In early 2009, the construction of the Secondary Library Building was completed, which houses a cafe, school shop, meeting rooms and additional class room spaces. Extra land was purchased at the Bintaro campus and the School's Strategic Development Plan provides a framework for the future. An extension to the IB Centre to accommodate growing demand was completed in December 2009. In 2012 the Early Years Centre was comprehensively refurbished and reopened. In 2014 the school name changed to British School Jakarta to comply with new Indonesian law. In 2015 construction of the New Sports Hall commenced as part of the development of the East Campus.
In 2015, BSJ was awarded the TES British International School of the Year.
Campuses
The school is set in a fourteen hectare campus in Perigi Lama, Bintaro.
A pre-school campus in Pondok Indah has been closed and all equipment moved to the Bintaro campus.
Notable alumni
Maudy Ayunda, Singer-Songwriter, graduated 2013
Frederika Alexis Cull, beauty pageant titleholder who won Puteri Indonesia 2019
Elkan Baggott, Indonesian football player
Sherina Munaf, Indonesian Singer-Songwriter
References
External links
Alumni website
International schools in Greater Jakarta
Member schools of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference
Schools in Banten
Jakarta
Educational institutions established in 1973
1973 establishments in Indonesia |
Benedict Sandiford is a British actor who is best known for his role as son Neil on the British sitcom Barbara and for 'Harry Enfield & Chums' in 1997. He also made guest appearances on Heartbeat, Peak Practice, A Touch of Frost, Touching Evil, At Home with the Braithwaites, Pie in the Sky, Cadfael, This Life, Foyle's War, Midsomer Murders and Coronation Street.
He played rent boy Alfred Wood in the 1997 film Wilde, alongside Stephen Fry and Jude Law, and starred in the TV drama "Eskimo Day" and its sequel "Cold Enough For Snow", both penned by Jack Rosenthal and also starring Maureen Lipman, Tom Wilkinson, Anna Carteret and David Ross.
His theatre credits include: Falling Over England (Greenwich Theatre), The Schoolmistress (Chichester Festival Theatre), Spring and Port Wine, The Grouch, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Kafka's Dick (Watford Palace Theatre), Restoration (Salisbury Playhouse), Lady in the Van (Hull Truck and UK Tour).
Sandiford is now an Artist in Residence at South Street Arts Centre in Reading, where he has made 8 original pieces of theatre: Jacksons Corner, Kaspar, The Final Whistle, The Great British Bump Off, Being Gordon Greenidge, In Ruins, Amelia, and Behind Closed Doors.
He now works at Reading School as Head of Drama, where he teaches GCSE drama and A-level Theatre Studies.
External links
British male television actors
Living people
1973 births |
Sajan (Boyfriend) is a 1947 Hindi romantic film directed by Kishore Sahu. The film was produced by Filmistan and had music by C. Ramchandra. The story and screenplay were by Kishore Sahu. The film had Rehana in the female lead, and following the success of this film, as well as Shehnai (1947), she became an "overnight star". The cast included Ashok Kumar, Rehana, Ramesh Gupta, Anant Prabhu and Leela Mishra.
The story revolves around Prakash (Ashok Kumar), a man suffering from amnesia following a train accident. A man pretending to be Prakash surfaces at his house. The film was a big commercial success.
Plot
Prakash (Ashok Kumar) is returning home after eleven years from UK, and is now on a train for his journey back home. He meets a young man, also called Prakash (Ramesh Gupta), on the train who befriends him. The train meets with an accident and Prakash loses his memory. While Prakash is wandering around trying to regain his memory, the man from the train thinking that Prakash (Kumar) is dead, pretends to be Prakash and reaches his house. There everyone believes him to be Pakash except for his wife, Kamla (Rehana), who then runs away from home. She joins a band of wandering gypsies. Kamla and Prakash meet, both unaware of each other's true identity. Forming a close bond, the two finally realise the truth when Prakash's memory returns. The fake Prakash is revealed as the villain.
Cast
Ashok Kumar as Prakash
Rehana as Kamla
Ranjit Kumari as Bijli
Leela Mishra
S. L. Puri as Gypsy Chief
Reception
Filmindia called it a "highly improbable and unrealistic story", but praised it for its fast pace and "good entertainment". The story was inspired by Random Harvest (1942), however unlike it, Sajan made "no effort" to remain "plausible". Baburao Patel, the editor of Filmindia, remarked on the implausible situation of a mother, servants and others not recognising someone only after a period of eleven years. Critical of Rehana's acting, citing it as "Rehana flops", Patel praised S. L. Puri, in his role of the gypsy leader, as the only actor to show any "authenticity" in the film.
Soundtrack
Ashok Kumar, who was to sing his songs in the film, was replaced by playback singer Mohammed Rafi. In his book "A Journey Down Melody Lane", Bharatan states that Ashok Kumar was unable to reach the recording studios due to the Hindu-Muslim riots (1947), and hence the composer of the film, C. Ramchandra, "daringly" chose Rafi to sing "Hum Ko Tumhara Hi Aasra", which became "an instant hit". The lyricists were Moti B. A. ,
Qamar Jalalabadi, Ram Murti chaturvedi.
Song List
References
External links
1947 films
1940s Hindi-language films
Films directed by Kishore Sahu
Films scored by C. Ramchandra
Indian romance films
1940s romance films
Indian black-and-white films
Hindi-language romance films |
Here is presented a listing of the National Register of Historic Places in Black Hawk County, Iowa.
The list is intended to give a complete review of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Black Hawk County, Iowa, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations can be seen on an online map.
There are 49 properties and districts listed in the National Register of the county. Four properties were once listed, but have since been removed.
Current listings
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Former listings
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See also
List of National Historic Landmarks in Iowa
National Register of Historic Places listings in Iowa
Listings in neighboring counties: Benton, Bremer, Buchanan, Butler, Fayette, Grundy, Tama
References
Black Hawk
Buildings and structures in Black Hawk County, Iowa |
The Hopkinson and Imperial Chemical Industries Professorship of Applied Thermodynamics at the University of Cambridge was established on 10 February 1950, largely from the endowment fund of the proposed Hopkinson Professorship in Thermodynamics and a gift from ICI Limited of £50,000, less tax, spread over the seven years from 1949 to 1955. The professorship is assigned primarily to the Faculty of Engineering.
The chair is named in honour of John Hopkinson, whose widow originally endowed a lectureship in thermodynamics in the hope that it would eventually be upgraded to a professorship.
List of Hopkinson and Imperial Chemical Industries Professors of Applied Thermodynamics
1951 - 1980 Sir William Rede Hawthorne
1980 - 1983 John Arthur Shercliff
1985 - 1997 Kenneth Noel Corbett Bray
1998 - 2015 John Bernard Young
2015–present Epaminondas Mastorakos
References
Engineering education in the United Kingdom
Imperial Chemical Industries
Applied Thermodynamics, Hopkinson and Imperial Chemical Industries
School of Technology, University of Cambridge
Applied Thermodynamics, Hopkinson and Imperial Chemical Industries
1950 establishments in the United Kingdom |
Elaphriella leia is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Solariellidae.
Distribution
This species occurs in Solomon Islands.
References
Solariellidae |
Teatr na drodze (English: Performance on the Road) is the fourth studio album by Polish group 2 Plus 1, released in 1978 by Polskie Nagrania Muza. The LP included one of the band's greatest hits, "Windą do nieba", as well as duet with Czesław Niemen, "Ballada łomżyńska". In 2001 the album was reissued in CD format.
Track listing
Side A:
"Ding-dong" ("Free Me")
"Windą do nieba" ("A Lift to Heaven")
"California mon amour"
"Dokąd idziesz, kochanie" ("Where Are You Going, Dear")
"U nas już po burzy" ("It's All Over")
Side B:
"Romanse za grosz" ("Two Penny Romance")
"Podobny do ludzi" ("Similar to Others")
"Teatr na drodze" ("Performance on the Road")
"Ballada łomżyńska" ("The Ballad from Łomża")
"O leli lo!"
"Komu w oczach słońce" ("To Whom the Sun Beams")
Personnel
Elżbieta Dmoch: Vocals, Flute
Janusz Kruk: Vocals, Guitars, Piano
Zbigniew Hołdys: Guitars
Janusz Koman: Fender Rhodes
Czesław Niemen: Synthi EMS, Moog Piano, Vocals
Cezary Szlązak: Mellotron, Saxophone, Vocals
Andrzej Pawlik: Bass
Wacław Laskowski: Drums
Józef Gawrych: Percussion
External links
Teatr na drodze on Discogs
References
1978 albums
2 Plus 1 albums
Polish-language albums |
Constantin Dimitrescu (; 19 March 1847 in Blejoi, Romania – 9 May 1928) was a Romanian classic composer and music teacher, one of the most prominent representatives of the late Romantic period.
Background
Born in Blejoi, Prahova County, he was taken to Bucharest at an early age, once his musical talent was recognized. There he studied cello and composition with some of Romania's best-known music teachers. Funds were subsequently made available for him to continue his education in Vienna and then later in Paris where he studied with, among others, the famous cello virtuoso Auguste Franchomme.
Musical work
Upon his return to Bucharest, he became principal cellist of the Bucharest Philharmonic and also of the National Theater Orchestra. In later years, he served as conductor for both. He was also engaged as a professor at the Bucharest Conservatory, where one of his students was George Georgescu, later to become an important conductor after a hand injury forced him to abandon a successful career as a cellist.
Despite his many occupations and duties, Dimitrescu found time to compose orchestral and operatic works as well as chamber music. In fact, it was his great love of chamber music which led him to found Bucharest's first permanent string quartet. He served as its cellist for many years. Thus it comes as no surprise to find that throughout his long musical life, Dimitrescu composed string quartets, seven in all.
Serenada română (Romanian Serenade) for cello and piano, Op. 9
Dans ţănănesc (Peasants Dance; also known as "Rustic Dance") for cello and piano, Op. 15
String Quartet No. 1 in G major, Op. 21
String Quartet No. 2 in D minor, Op. 26
String Quartet No. 3 in B major, Op. 33
String Quartet No. 4 in G minor, Op. 38
String Quartet No. 5 in F major, Op. 42 (published 1890)
Concerto No. 1 for cello and orchestra
Concerto No. 2 for cello and orchestra
Sergentul Cartuș, Opera (1883)
Renegatu, Opera (1886)
Sanda, Opera (1886)
Nini, Comic Opera in 3 acts (1897); premiered 1898 in Bucarest; libretto by Dimitrie Ionescu-Zane
Sănziana şi Pepelea, Musical Fairytale in 5 Acts (1899); premiered 1899 in Bucarest; libretto by Vasile Alecsandri
References
External links
Constantin Dimetrescu String Quartet No.1, Op.21 Soundbites & Information.
Academic staff of the National University of Music Bucharest
Romanian composers
People from Blejoi
1847 births
1928 deaths
Romanian classical cellists
Romanian conductors (music)
Male conductors (music) |
The Ships That Meet () is a 1916 Swedish silent drama film directed by Victor Sjöström.
Cast
Lili Bech as Ethel
Egil Eide as John Hall
Mathias Taube as Dr. Hiller
August Warberg as Cramer
References
External links
1916 films
Swedish drama short films
Swedish silent short films
1910s Swedish-language films
Swedish black-and-white films
1916 drama films
1916 short films
Films directed by Victor Sjöström
Silent Swedish drama films |
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