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Wrapped Around My Middle Finger is the second studio album released by Donnie Vie.
Track listing
"Wrapped Around My Middle Finger"
"Wunderland"
"Lisa"
"Daddy’s Girl"
"Now Ya Know"
"No Escape"
"Lil’ Wonder"
"Flames Of Love"
"Rattle On"
"I Won’t Let You Down"
"Smokin’ Hot Lollipop"
References
2012 albums
Donnie Vie albums |
Peranakan cut beads (Peranakan: Manek potong)
are faceted glass beads used by the Peranakan women to make Peranakan beaded slippers (kasot manek) and other Peranakan artifacts like wedding veils, handbags, belts, tapestries and pouches.
The beads used in the past were very tiny multi-faceted glass seed beads from Europe. For the beaded slippers, both smooth and faceted beads were used to form the pattern.
Nowadays, the bead size commonly in use for Peranakan beadwork are sizes 15 to 18 (the larger the size number, the smaller the bead).
Modern day faceted beads are single-faceted seed beads, usually referred to as charlotte beads or 'charlottes'. These beads are usually from the Czech Republic.
Notes
Beadwork |
Uruguay competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany. Thirteen competitors, ten men and three women, took part in twelve events in five sports.
Athletics
Men's Hammer Throw
Darwin Piñeyrúa
Women's 200 metres
Josefa Vicent
Women's 400 metres
Josefa Vicent
Boxing
Men's Flyweight (– 51 kg)
Jorge Acuña
First Round — Lost to Leo Rwabwogo (UGA), 0:5
Cycling
Five cyclists represented Uruguay in 1972.
Individual road race
Walter Tardáguila — 74th place
Mario Mergaleff — did not finish (→ no ranking)
Alberto Rodríguez — did not finish (→ no ranking)
Jorge Jukich — did not finish (→ no ranking)
Team time trial
Jorge Jukich
Lino Benech
Alberto Rodríguez
Walter Tardáguila
Rowing
Men's Coxed Pairs
Pedro Ciapessoni, Jorge Buenahora and Daniel Jorge
Heat — 8:29.51
Repechage — 8:52.42 (→ did not advance)
Swimming
Women's 100m Freestyle
Susana Saxlund
Women's 100m Backstroke
Felicia Ospitaletche
Women's 200m Backstroke
Felicia Ospitaletche
Women's 100m Butterfly
Susana Saxlund
Women's 200m Individual Medley
Felicia Ospitaletche
References
External links
Montevideo.com
Official Olympic Reports
Nations at the 1972 Summer Olympics
1972 Summer Olympics
1972 in Uruguayan sport |
Duke Fergerson (born April 21, 1954) is a former professional American football wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL) for the Dallas Cowboys, Seattle Seahawks and Buffalo Bills. He was drafted in the third round of the 1976 NFL Draft out of San Diego State University.
Early years
Fergerson was raised by his single mother in Merced, California and attended Merced High School where he was a three-sport athlete. As a track runner, he recorded the second fastest low hurdle time in the history of high school track during his senior year.
He was even more successful as a football player, but dyslexia prevented him from earning a student-athlete scholarship. Even though he earned a diploma, his combined SAT score of 580 essentially qualified him as a functional illiterate at graduation.
College career
To address his academic deficits, he enrolled at Merced College and made such progress in two years that Stanford, Washington State, UCLA, Duke, and the University of Alabama all offered him full athletic scholarships. He chose Washington State University to play college football and majored in Political Science with a minor in US History.
After his junior year where he had 10 receptions for 123 yards and one touchdown, he transferred to San Diego State University where his brother Nate was a wide receiver and because he felt the passing offense gave him a better chance at a professional career.
As a senior, he caught 57 passes for 886 yards and 4 touchdowns. Finishing as the NCAA's third leading wide receiver in receptions. He was selected to participate in the Senior Bowl, where he scored two touchdowns for the North squad. He also practice track and ran a 9.4 seconds 100-yard dash.
Professional career
Dallas Cowboys
Fergerson was selected in the third round (73rd overall) of the 1976 NFL Draft by the Dallas Cowboys. As a rookie, he tore a tendon in his right ring finger and was placed on the injured reserve list. The next year, he was traded to the Seattle Seahawks in exchange for a second-round draft choice (#54-Glenn Carano).
Seattle Seahawks
He started 8 games in 1977, but his career with the Seattle Seahawks was spent playing mostly on special teams. He was released on September 26, 1979.
Buffalo Bills
On September 2, 1980, he signed with the Buffalo Bills after a tryout. He scored 2 preseason touchdowns in his first season. He was cut on August 23, 1981.
Los Angeles Rams
In 1983, he signed with the Los Angeles Rams and was released on August 29.
Personal life
After football, he began working for Farmers Insurance Group. He then moved on to work for Professional Asset Securities, whose primary line of business was to advise and manage excess liquidity for banks, foodservices companies, trusts and pension funds.
In 1986, Fergerson worked as a Ward Coordinator, political fundraiser and get-out-the–vote organizer for Joseph Patrick Kennedy II's first congressional run for political office. When Fergerson first began, he was assigned a district that had been strongly Democratic for many years, but in which Kennedy was only polling at 18 percent, the lowest ever for a Kennedy in Massachusetts. He was tasked with raising Kennedy's visibility by organizing rallies, leaflet drops, outreach to the many black churches in the area and fundraisers, including a highly successful Dizzy Gillespie concert. By election day, Kennedy went from 18% (third place) to 34.7%, winning the district by 2 votes.
For the next 10 years, Fergerson would be mentored by Pulitzer Prize winning author Doris Kearns-Goodwin and her husband Richard, the former Presidential speechwriter for the late John F. Kennedy, the late New York Senator Robert F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Fergerson then entered Harvard Business School to earn an MBA in 1987. In the summer between June and September
1988, Fergerson worked for Congressional majority Whip Tony Coelho. In January 1988, Fergerson was awarded the Learner of the Month
citation for overcoming illiteracy. On November 15, 1988, Fergerson was invited to Washington, DC to receive a citation from Governors William Jefferson Clinton and George Kean.
Before beginning his second year at Harvard, Fergerson was diagnosed with dyslexia and asked to withdraw from the MBA program. He then began working with the late film producer Harold Schneider. Upon Harold's death, he returned to the financial services industry to make a living, but continued to learn the film business.
In 1994, Fergerson joined the Al Checchi for Governor Campaign. Fergerson spent the next year and a half as one of Al's ‘kitchen cabinet’ advisers, a group that provided statewide advice for the campaign. He was campaign director for Orange County, San Diego County and Northern Mexico, a strategic trading partner for the State of California. After Checchi's defeat, in conjunction with the Staubach Real Estate Company, Fergerson worked to develop living wage opportunities for residents of Harlem.
When Fergerson discovered that Harlem had not had high school football for 62 years, he called all 13 Harlem-based principals and devised and presented a plan to the Chancellor of the NYCDOE that would unite them all into one community high school football team.
The plan, which is currently used by the New York School system, is the blueprint by which the schools organize on all levels so that students can participate in combined community sports teams while continuing to attend their individual schools. It was originally believed that the plan would take 5–6 years to complete, but Fergerson, through his grassroots efforts and diligence within the community and partnership with Columbia University, was able to complete it in 9 months. Chancellor Klein signed the waiver allowing the Harlem Hell-fighters to organize as a scholar/athlete program to serve the needs of the at-risk urban males of color. Within three years of participating in the Public School Athletic League, Fergerson took the 2007 Hellfighters to the city championship game against John Adams High School, losing 58-42.
In January 2007, Fergerson became the only New York state high school football coach ever chosen to
coach in the prestigious US High School Army All-America Bowl game in San Antonio, Texas. In March 2007, he was given a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Wheeler school in Providence, Rhode Island, and in September 2007, he was chosen by
Universal-McCann Erickson and the US Army as a COI: Center of Influence in aiding the Army's urban outreach programs. He was asked to meet with the Secretary of the Army in January 2008 and travel to the Pentagon to meet with Army brass in April 2008.
References
External links
Fergerson Seeking Job Security
1954 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Merced, California
Players of American football from Merced County, California
American football wide receivers
Merced College alumni
Washington State Cougars football players
San Diego State Aztecs football players
Buffalo Bills players
Dallas Cowboys players
Seattle Seahawks players
Sportspeople with dyslexia |
David Stone may refer to the following people:
David B. Stone (1927–2010), American businessman
David E. Stone (born 1947), American sound editor
David Henry Stone (1812–1890), Lord Mayor of London in 1874
David John Anthony Stone (born 1947), British Army officer and military historian
David Lamme Stone Jr. (1876–1959), American Army officer
David Lee Stone (born 1978), British fantasy author
David R. Stone (born 1968), American military historian
David Scott Stone, musician
David Stone (cyclist) (born 1981), British cyclist
David Stone (footballer) (born 1942), English footballer
David Stone (keyboardist) (born 1952), keyboardist
David Stone (magician) (born 1972), French magician
David Stone (politician) (1770–1818), American politician, Governor of North Carolina and U.S. Senator
David Stone (producer) (born 1966), American theatre and musical producer
See also
Dave Stone, British television writer |
Shinwar is a district in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan. It is on the main highway from Jalalabad to the Torkham border crossing. Its population, which is 70% Tajik, was estimated at 40,147 in 2002, of whom 16,000 were children under 12. The district centre is the village of Shinwar.
References
UNHCR District Profile, dated 2002-05-14, accessed 2006-07-24 (PDF).
External links
Map of Shinwar district (PDF)
Districts of Afghanistan |
Leptostylus gnomus is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Monné & Hoffmann in 1981.
References
Leptostylus
Beetles described in 1981 |
Yet Another Next Generation (YANG, /jæŋ/, which rhymes with "hang") is a data modeling language for the definition of data sent over network management protocols such as the NETCONF and RESTCONF. The YANG data modeling language is maintained by the NETMOD working group in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and initially was published as in October 2010, with an update in August 2016 (). The data modeling language can be used to model both configuration data as well as state data of network elements. Furthermore, YANG can be used to define the format of event notifications emitted by network elements and it allows data modelers to define the signature of remote procedure calls that can be invoked on network elements via the NETCONF protocol. The language, being protocol independent, can then be converted into any encoding format, e.g. XML or JSON, that the network configuration protocol supports.
YANG is a modular language representing data structures in an XML tree format. The data modeling language comes with a number of built-in data types. Additional application specific data types can be derived from the built-in data types. More complex reusable data structures can be represented as groupings. YANG data models can use XPATH expressions to define constraints on the elements of a YANG data model.
History
Many network management protocols have associated data modeling languages. The first widely deployed Internet standard for network management was the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). The data modeling language associated with SNMP was called the Structure of Management Information (SMI). The SMI language itself was based on the 1988 version of the Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1). The current version of the SMI language, SMIv2 defined in , has developed into an extended subset of ASN.1.
In the late 1990s, a project was started to create a replacement for SMIv2, which was called SMIng. One motivation was to decouple SMIng from the management protocol SNMP and to give SMIng a syntactic structure that is both easy to parse for computer programs and easy to learn for people familiar with programming languages that use a C-like notation. While the SMIng project did not succeed in the IETF, the SMIng specifications were published as experimental documents in May 2004 ().
Soon after the development of the NETCONF protocol in the IETF, it became clear that a data modeling language was needed to define data models manipulated by the NETCONF protocol. A design team created a proposal that became the basis of the YANG language. The syntactic structure and the base type system was essentially borrowed from SMIng. However, based on the lessons learned from the SMIng project, no attempts were made to make the YANG protocol neutral. Instead, YANG ties into concepts of the NETCONF protocol, such as the assumption that data model instances can be serialized into XML. Standardization of YANG started with the formation of the NETMOD working group in April 2008. The YANG 1.0 specification was published as in October 2010. Recently, the NETMOD working group has been working on YANG 1.1, which has been published in August 2016 in .
Example
The following YANG module example-sports shows a data model for team sports. The module declares a namespace and a prefix and imports the type library module ietf-yang-types before defining the type season. It then defines a container sports that includes a list of persons and a list of teams. A team has a list of players that reference persons via the leafref type and its path restriction.
module example-sports {
namespace "http://example.com/example-sports";
prefix sports;
import ietf-yang-types { prefix yang; }
typedef season {
type string;
description
"The name of a sports season, including the type and the year, e.g,
'Champions League 2014/2015'.";
}
container sports {
config true;
list person {
key "name";
leaf name { type string; }
leaf birthday { type yang:date-and-time; mandatory true; }
}
list team {
key "name";
leaf name { type string; }
list player {
key "name season";
unique number;
leaf name { type leafref { path "/sports/person/name"; } }
leaf season { type season; }
leaf number { type uint16; mandatory true; }
leaf scores { type uint16; default 0; }
}
}
}
}
JSON encoding
The code block below shows the JSON representation of an instantiation of the example-sports data model.
{
"example-sports:sports": {
"person": [
{
"name": "Lionel Andrés Messi",
"birthday": "1987-06-24T00:00:00-00:00"
},
{
"name": "Cristiano Ronaldo",
"birthday": "1985-02-05T00:00:00-00:00"
}
],
"team": [
{
"name": "FC Barcelona",
"player": [
{
"name": "Lionel Andrés Messi",
"season": "Champions League 2014/2015",
"number": 10,
"scores": 43
}
]
},
{
"name": "Real Madrid",
"player": [
{
"name": "Cristiano Ronaldo",
"season": "Champions League 2014/2015",
"number": 7,
"scores": 48
}
]
}
]
}
}
XML encoding
The code block below shows the XML representation of an instantiation of the example-sports data model.
<data xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:netconf:base:1.0">
<sports xmlns="http://example.com/example-sports">
<person>
<name>Lionel Andrés Messi</name>
<birthday>1987-06-24T00:00:00-00:00</birthday>
</person>
<person>
<name>Cristiano Ronaldo</name>
<birthday>1985-02-05T00:00:00-00:00</birthday>
</person>
<team>
<name>FC Barcelona</name>
<player>
<name>Lionel Andrés Messi</name>
<season>Champions League 2014/2015</season>
<number>10</number>
<scores>43</scores>
</player>
</team>
<team>
<name>Real Madrid</name>
<player>
<name>Cristiano Ronaldo</name>
<season>Champions League 2014/2015</season>
<number>7</number>
<scores>48</scores>
</player>
</team>
</sports>
</data>
Documentation
Language specifications and architectural documents
The following Request for Comments (RFCs) define the YANG language and some basic extensions:
: YANG - A Data Modeling Language for the Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF)
: Mapping YANG to Document Schema Definition Languages and Validating NETCONF Content
: The YANG 1.1 Data Modeling Language [does not replace ]
: JSON Encoding of Data Modeled with YANG
: Defining and Using Metadata with YANG
: Network Management Datastore Architecture (NMDA)
: YANG Library [obsoletes ]
: YANG Schema Mount
: YANG Data Structure Extensions
: Encoding of Data Modeled with YANG in the Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR)
Guidelines and supporting documentation
The following requests for comments provide guidelines and supporting documentation:
: Guidelines for Authors and Reviewers of Documents Containing YANG Data Models [obsoletes ]
: YANG Module Classification
: YANG Tree Diagrams
: A Framework for Automating Service and Network Management with YANG
: A File Format for YANG Instance Data
IETF usage
Standards-track protocol specifications
The following requests for comments define standards-track protocols that are (partially) defined using YANG modules:
: Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF)
: With-defaults Capability for NETCONF
: Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF) Base Notifications
: RESTCONF Protocol
: NETCONF Call Home and RESTCONF Call Home
: YANG Patch Media Type
: Network Configuration Access Control Model [obsoletes ]
: NETCONF Extensions to Support the Network Management Datastore Architecture
: RESTCONF Extensions to Support the Network Management Datastore Architecture
: Secure Zero Touch Provisioning (SZTP)
: Subscription to YANG Notifications
: Dynamic Subscription to YANG Events and Datastores over NETCONF
: Subscription to YANG Notifications for Datastore Updates
: Dynamic Subscription to YANG Events and Datastores over RESTCONF
Standards-track data models
The following RFCs define standards-track YANG data models:
: YANG Module for NETCONF Monitoring
: Common YANG Data Types [obsoletes ]
: Translation of Structure of Management Information Version 2 (SMIv2) MIB Modules to YANG Modules
: Configuration Data Model for the IP Flow Information Export (IPFIX) and Packet Sampling (PSAMP) Protocols
: IANA Interface Type YANG Module
: A YANG Data Model for System Management
: A YANG Data Model for SNMP Configuration
: YANG Data Model for Key Chains
: A YANG Data Model for LMAP Measurement Agents
: Common YANG Data Types for the Routing Area
: YANG Data Model for L3VPN Service Delivery
: A YANG Data Model for Interface Management [obsoletes ]
: A YANG Data Model for IP Management [obsoletes ]
: A YANG Data Model for Network Topologies
: A YANG Data Model for Layer 3 Topologies
: A YANG Data Model for the Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)
: A YANG Data Model for Hardware Management
: A YANG Data Model for Routing Management (NMDA Version) [obsoletes ]
: A Voucher Artifact for Bootstrapping Protocols
: A YANG Data Model for the Routing Information Base (RIB)
: A YANG Data Model for Layer 2 Virtual Private Network (L2VPN) Service Delivery
: A YANG Module for Network Address Translation (NAT) and Network Prefix Translation (NPT)
: A YANG Data Model for Dual-Stack Lite (DS-Lite)
: YANG Data Model for Network Access Control Lists (ACLs)
: Manufacturer Usage Description Specification
: YANG Data Model for Network Instances
: YANG Model for Logical Network Elements
: Generic YANG Data Model for Connection-Oriented Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) Protocols
: Generic YANG Data Model for the Management of Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) Protocols That Use Connectionless Communications
: A YANG Data Model for Retrieval Methods for the Management of Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) Protocols That Use Connectionless Communication
: A YANG Data Model for Fabric Topology in Data-Center Networks
: A YANG Data Model for Microwave Radio Link
: YANG Data Model for the Precision Time Protocol (PTP)
: A YANG Data Model for Alarm Management
: A YANG Data Model for the Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) and Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD)
: A YANG Data Model for Tunnel Interface Types
: YANG Modules for IPv4-in-IPv6 Address plus Port (A+P) Softwires
: A YANG Data Model for the Routing Information Protocol (RIP)
: Common YANG Data Types for Traffic Engineering
: YANG Data Model for Traffic Engineering (TE) Topologies
: A YANG Data Model for Factory Default Settings
: A YANG Data Model for the Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP)
: A YANG Data Model for Layer 2 Network Topologies
: A YANG Data Model for MPLS Base
: YANG Module Tags
: YANG Data Model for Segment Routing
: A YANG Data Model for IPsec Flow Protection Based on Software-Defined Networking (SDN)
: A YANG Data Model for Routing Policy
: YANG Data Model for MPLS LDP
: A YANG Data Model for Layer 0 Types
: A YANG Data Model for Wavelength Switched Optical Networks (WSONs)
: A YANG Data Model for Terminal Access Controller Access-Control System Plus (TACACS+)
: YANG Types for DNS Classes and Resource Record Types
: A YANG Data Model for Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) and Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) Snooping
: A YANG Grouping for Geographic Locations
: A Common YANG Data Model for Layer 2 and Layer 3 VPNs
: YANG Modules Describing Capabilities for Systems and Datastore Update Notifications
: A YANG Data Model for DHCPv6 Configuration
: A YANG Data Model for NTP
: A YANG Network Data Model for Layer 2 VPNs
: YANG Data Model for Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)
: YANG Data Model for Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM)
: YANG Data Model for the OSPF Protocol
: YANG Data Model for the IS-IS Protocol
: A YANG Module for IS-IS Reverse Metric
: A YANG Data Model for IP Traffic Flow Security
: A YANG Data Model for Static Context Header Compression (SCHC)
: A YANG Data Model for Network and VPN Service Performance Monitoring
: A YANG Data Model for Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) and Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) Proxy Devices
: A YANG Network Data Model for Service Attachment Points (SAPs)
: A YANG Data Model for Service Assurance
: A YANG Data Model for Reporting Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) and Vulnerability Information
Experimental specifications
The following requests for comments are experimental specifications that use or extend YANG:
: Extending YANG with Language Abstractions
: Time Capability in NETCONF
Implementations
Open source implementations (sorted by name):
clixon is a YANG-based toolchain including interactive CLI, NETCONF and RESTCONF interfaces written in C.
goyang is a YANG parser and compiler written in Go to produce Go language objects
jnc is a pyang-based YANG-to-Java-API compiler
libyang is a YANG parser and toolkit written in C and providing API in C
pyang is an extensible YANG validator and converter written in Python
pyangbind is a pyang-based Python binding generator
Sysrepo is a YANG-based configuration and operational datastore for Unix/Linux applications.
yangbuilder is a builder for YANG, implemented in Apache Groovy (generate yang data models with Apache Groovy, maintain similar models with one source code base)
yang-ide is an Eclipse plugin for editing and visualizing YANG models
yang-js is a YANG parser and evaluator written in CoffeeScript/JavaScript for Node.js and the web browser
yang-express is a yang-js based Express.js web framework generator
yang-swagger is a yang-js based Swagger/OpenAPI specification generator
yangson is a Python 3 library for working with JSON encoded configuration and state data modeled using the YANG data modeling language.
YANG Tools is an OpenDaylight Project toolset written in Java
Yang-Explorer - is a pyang-based Yang Browser and RPC Builder Application
ydk-gen is a YANG-to-API compiler generating APIs in multiple languages (e.g. Python, C++)
yuma123 is netconf/YANG toolchain written in C providing: libyuma - API for development of applications supporting runtime compilation of YANG modules, netconfd - modular server, yangcli - interactive command line tool
Closed source implementations (sorted by name):
confd is a commercial management agent toolkit including a YANG compiler
MasterYANG is a YANG model designer, visualizer, and editor for Windows
Visual YANG Designer is a YANG definition file creator/editor/modeler/builder/designer and YANG compiler implemented in Java
yumapro is a commercial management agent toolkit including a YANG compiler
References
External links
YANG Model Catalog - Online catalog with a REST API
YANG central - YANG information and tutorials
YANG Discussion Forum - ConfD User Community Forum for discussing YANG related questions.
For a list of YANG-based clients and servers see the NETCONF page.
- "Network Programmability with YANG: The Structure of Network Automation with YANG, NETCONF, RESTCONF, and gNMI"
Data modeling
Data modeling languages |
Maurizio P. Vasco, television director, video journalist, author, was born in Italy (1955) and raised amid Apulia, Tuscany and Milan where he studied History, Photography and Television after he attended the Naval School of La Maddalena-Sardinia.
He took his first steps in the Media Industry in 1978, publishing his photos on Weekend Magazine and his stories on Universo's Comics.
He completed his education in New York City in the early 1980s through the New School for Social Research and The Global Village Video Studies Center.
Television
He is a former permanent employee of Videotime-Mediaset, contributor of Italian and International Media Organizations, including: RAI, Mediaset, Telepiu' (actual SKY), Studio Pontaccio, Rewire.com.
MPV has directed and/or produced numerous television programs and series including: Elton John- the One, Madonna's at the Roxy in 1983, Soccer's Stars and Legends, "The Lie Detector" (La Macchina della Verita') with Giancarlo Santalmassi, Scrondo, "Focus", "Viva Le Donne", Moda, Mr. Billion (Mister Miliardo), Tandem, Notorious, "Bim Bum Bam" with Paolo Bonolis, "The Milan International Commercial-Film Award " with Fiorello, "Mediaset's All Stars Christmas Promo" as Production Manager and "Fine Secolo"(the End of the Century) with Adriano Sofri. He has been rewarded at 1984-1989 editions of Filmmaker the Milan Independent Film Festival. Maurizio P Vasco, is an Accredited Senior Member of the New York's Foreign Press since 1997.
Writing
He has written the first edition of Mister Papa -together with Abel Ferrara and Fernanda Pivano- (the controversial Passage to Italy of Ernest Hemingway ), The Miracle of the Bell Tower (a metaphorical return to an idealized South) "Human Inter-courses Vortex" a grotesque drama about the HIV 's fear/paranoia and Lyons and the East Village Tales (autobiographical novel). In 1996 he founded Alpahazet Magazine and Spirals, two Internet Ventures and Propaganda, a creative circle of recruiting and developing for the New York's hospitality industry.
New projects: "Desperate House Husbands" the stories of four divorced (forced to house) Italian-Americans New Yorkers and " Ash is what remains of a fire" (the epistolary of an ended story): works in progress. Two of his stories/articles have been published on Corriere della Sera and La Repubblica Cultural pages. He has written also, two Facebook-diaries: "Carpe that fuc@#ing diem" , Volume 1 and 2, now available on Amazon as eBooks. His new memoire "Marry the Chef - Capo-" will be published soon.
"The Enigma of the Maltese Saint Croix" , a novel, is his last fatigue.
Travels
He has extensively traveled and resided for many years in Africa, Middle East, India, Asia, Europe and USA.
His motto: Victoria Nobis Vitae -Life itself is a victory-(Engraved on the Battleship "Vittorio Veneto" the Italian Navy Admiral Vessel, where he served in 1974).
Maurizio P Vasco is also a certified maritime captain (former Italian Navy J. Officer) and holds an international license as a sailing/motor boat skipper. He resides among New York City and the Virgin Islands.
Chef Vasco
Since 1993 MPV has, parallel to his primary career, cultivated a passion for gastronomy, wines and culinary arts: He is a retired chef, restaurateur and gastronome who has created and realized menus for many Manhattan ventures as: Anarchy Cafe, Bacco, Gallo Nero, Taci Opera, Porta Toscana, Mambo.
References
The New School alumni
Italian film directors
American people of Italian descent
Italian chefs |
Beatrijs (English: Beatrice) is a poem written in last quarter of 14th century (ca.1374), possibly by Diederic van Assenede, and is an original Dutch poem about the legend of a nun, Beatrijs, who deserted her convent for the love of a man, lives with him for seven years and has two children. When their money is low he deserts her and she becomes a prostitute to support her children for another seven years. One day she is near her old convent, so she inquires discreetly what has become of the nun Beatrijs, and learns that people think Beatrijs is still at the convent. One night a voice urges her to return to the convent, and when she returns, Beatrijs learns that Mary (mother of Jesus) has been acting in her role at the convent, and she can return without anyone knowing of her absence.
The Dutch poem was created out of a legend recorded in Latin, Dialogus Miraculorum (1219-1223) and Libri Octo Miraculorum (1225-1227) written by Caesarius von Heisterbach. Although Hilka claims that Caesarius von Heisterbach was not the true author of the latter text, as Duinhoven points out, he was certainly the author of record during the Middle Ages. The subject matter is possibly of Dutch origin during his travels in the Netherlands. However the Dutch version was not a word-for-word translation. The tale is translated into English, Esperanto, Frisian, French, German, Spanish, Old Norse and Arabic.
Adaptations
In the 20th century several modern adaptations have been produced:
Poem: Beatrijs by Dutch poet P.C. Boutens
Play: Ik dien (Dutch for I serve) by Herman Teirlinck
Opera libretto: Beatrijs by Felix Rutten
See also
Dutch folklore
Notes
References
Duinhoven, A.M. De geschiedenis van Beatrijs. Utrecht: HES, 1989.
Die Wundergeschichten des Caesarius von Heisterbach." Ed. An Alfons Hilka. Gesellschaft für rheinische Geschichtskunde, Publikationen 43, 1933.
Meijer, Reinder. Literature of the Low Countries: A Short History of Dutch Literature in the Netherlands and Belgium. New York: Twayne Publishers, Inc., 1971, page 20-21.
External links
Beatrijs at the Digital Library for Dutch Literature (in Dutch)
14th-century poems
Dutch legends
Fictional Christian nuns
Fictional Dutch people
Middle Dutch literature |
Bulbophyllum orsidice is a species of orchid in the genus Bulbophyllum.
References
The Bulbophyllum-Checklist
The Internet Orchid Species Photo Encyclopedia
orsidice |
Alatenghua (Chinese 阿拉腾花, Ala Tenghua, Tenghua Ala; born on 22 January 1993) is a Chinese draughts player (International draughts). She was Women's Asian Champion 2014 Alatenghua is an international female master (MIF).
World Championship
2013 (6th place)
2015 (12th place)
Asian Championship
2014 (1st place)
2016 (6th place)
Chinese Championship
2009 (1st place)
2011 (1st place)
2013 (2nd place)
2014 (4th place)
2015 (1st place)
2016 (3rd place)
2017 (3rd place)
2018 (2nd place)
References
External links
Profile at toernooibase
Profile at the FMJD website
Participation page of the 1st SportAccord World Mind Games/Beijing 2011
1993 births
Living people
Chinese draughts players
Players of international draughts
Place of birth missing (living people) |
Praxis marmarinopa, the western praxis, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Edward Meyrick in 1897. It is found in Australia.
References
Catocalinae |
Horatio Orlando Poulter (29 October 1877 – 30 August 1963) was a British sport shooter who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.
In 1912 he won the bronze medal as member of the British team in the team 30 metre military pistol event as well as in the team 50 metre military pistol competition. In the individual 50 metre pistol event he finished sixth.
References
External links
Horatio Poulter's profile at databaseOlympics
1877 births
1963 deaths
British male sport shooters
ISSF pistol shooters
Olympic shooters for Great Britain
Shooters at the 1912 Summer Olympics
Olympic bronze medallists for Great Britain
Olympic medalists in shooting
Medalists at the 1912 Summer Olympics
20th-century British people |
Kutë is a village and a former municipality in Fier County, southwestern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality Mallakastër. The population at the 2011 census was 1,977.
References
Former municipalities in Fier County
Administrative units of Mallakastër
Villages in Fier County |
The men's one hand lift, an event similar to the modern snatch, was one of two weightlifting events in the weightlifting at the 1896 Summer Olympics programme.
Viggo Jensen, injured from the first event, was able to lift only enough to earn a silver medal while Launceston Elliot far surpassed all of the other athletes in the field on his way to winning the United Kingdom's first gold medal of the Olympics.
Alexandros Nikolopoulos lifted 57.0 kilograms with one hand, which would have put him in a tie with Jensen had he lifted the same weight with his other hand. He lifted only 40.0 kilograms with the other, but was awarded third place as Sotirios Versis could only lift 40.0 with either hand.
Prince George of Greece and Denmark, one of the judges, demonstrated his strength after the event by moving one of the heavy weights with ease after an assistant struggled to clear the weight from the competition area.
Background
This was the only appearance of this one hand lift event. Somewhat similar events were held in other early Games: an all-around dumbbell event was held in 1904 and there were two one-hand lifts (snatch and clean & jerk) as part of the 1924 combined events.
Top visiting weightlifters in Athens included Launceston Elliot and Lawrence Levy of Great Britain and Viggo Jensen of Denmark. Two Greek weightlifters competed as well. Levy withdrew from all weightlifting competitions after being told that there would be no two-hand dumbbell event, though he served as a judge and assistant to Elliott.
Competition format
In the second weightlifting event, held soon after the first, only one hand was allowed in lifting the weights. Lifters had to perform the lift with each hand successively. The technique was similar to the modern snatch event. Lifters received three attempts. Each lifter performed one attempt before any began their second attempts. After each had lifted three times, the top three received three more attempts.
Schedule
Results
References
External links
(Digitally available at )
(Excerpt available at )
Men's one hand |
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Cymatosyrinx nodulosa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.
Description
Distribution
This species occurs in the demersal zone of the Mediterranean Sea.
References
Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682: 1–1295.
External links
nodulosa
Gastropods described in 1882 |
The Andover Village Industrial District encompasses one of the 19th century industrial mill villages of Andover, Massachusetts known locally as "The Village". The growth of this village contributed to the decision in the 19th century to separate the more rural area of North Andover from the town. It is centered on a stretch of the Shawsheen River between North Main Street on the east and Moraine Street on the west. Most of the district's properties lie on Stevens Street, Red Spring Road, Shawsheen Road, and Essex Street, with a few properties also located on adjacent roads.
Although no buildings remain from Andover's earliest industrial enterprises in the area, there are still some mill buildings that date as far back as to the 1820s in the old Marland Mill complex on Stevens Street. The most prominent building in this complex, however, is a spinning and carding mill that was built in 1885, and features a five-story tower and ornate brick detailing.
One of the older buildings in the district was the Abbot Mills complex, with history dating to 1814. Located at 18-20 Red Spring Road, it was a -story wood-frame barn-like structure. It was next door to the mills of Smith & Dove, which are of stone construction dating to the 1820s. The other major industrial component of the district is the Tyer Rubber complex on Railroad Street, whose main building dates to 1912. The barn-like structure of the Abbot Mills complex suffered a fire in 2013 and was demolished in 2014. Much of the wood in the building was salvaged and recycled.
There is a significant variety in the types of housing related to the mills. Much of the early housing has Greek Revival styling, although there are a few houses that show more Federal style detailing. Later housing includes boarding houses, tenements, and other multiunit buildings in a diversity of styles.
The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Andover, Massachusetts
National Register of Historic Places listings in Essex County, Massachusetts
References
Historic districts in Essex County, Massachusetts
Andover, Massachusetts
National Register of Historic Places in Andover, Massachusetts
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts |
is a mountain in the Ushirotateyama Mountains in the Hida Mountains. The mountain body straddles Kurobe, Toyama and Ōmachi, Nagano, and the summit is mostly located on the Toyama side. It is one of the 100 Famous Japanese Mountains. It is sometimes written as Goryu-dake with only "dragon" in the old font.
References
External links
Goryu
Goryu |
Euphrasie Kandeke was a Burundian politician. She was named Minister for Women's Questions by Jean-Baptiste Bagaza in 1982 (some sources state instead that she took the position in 1974.) She served alongside Caritas Mategeko Karadereye, who at the time was the Minister of Social Affairs; the two were the first women to serve in the Burundian cabinet. She remained in her position until 1987. During her career she also served as the secretary general of the Burundian Women's Federation, and was a member of the political bureau of the Union for National Progress. Later she was imprisoned, being taken into custody the night before the 1987 coup; among her offenses was held to be making the suggestion that the army should be smaller. While in jail she was served Fanta lemonade mixed with salt, among other hardships. Kandeke was a Tutsi.
See also
List of the first women holders of political offices in Africa
References
Possibly living people
Government ministers of Burundi
20th-century women politicians
Union for National Progress politicians
Prisoners and detainees of Burundi
Tutsi people
Women government ministers of Burundi
Year of birth missing |
WAGM-TV (channel 8) is a television station in Presque Isle, Maine, United States, affiliated with CBS, Fox, and The CW Plus. It is owned by Gray Television alongside Fort Kent–licensed low-power NBC affiliate WWPI-LD (channel 16). The two stations share studios on Brewer Road in Presque Isle; WAGM-TV's transmitter is located on the northern section of Mars Hill Mountain among the wind turbines.
WAGM-TV has been the only full-power commercial television station transmitting in Northeast Maine since the station was founded in 1956.
History
Early years
WAGM-TV signed on October 13, 1956, on VHF channel 8. It was a CBS affiliate owned by Harold Glidden and the Aroostook Broadcasting Corporation along with WAGM radio (then at 1450 AM; later at 950 AM). The transmitter was behind the station's Brewer Road studios, providing a coverage area limited to the immediate area including Presque Isle and Caribou. In 1957, Glidden sold Aroostook Broadcasting to Community Broadcasting System, a company controlled by former Governor Horace Hildreth, who also owned WABI-AM-TV in Bangor.
Soon afterward, the station changed its primary affiliation to NBC, matching WABI-TV; however, WAGM-TV maintained secondary affiliations with CBS and ABC. It returned to being a primary CBS affiliate, again following WABI's lead, in 1959. However, in practice, as an affiliate of all the big three networks, WAGM cherry-picked the most popular programs for its prime time lineup.
Community Broadcasting Service merged with Journal Publications in 1971 to form Diversified Communications. WAGM radio was sold in 1981 and renamed WKZX; it went silent by 1991. The radio station's building remained abandoned for years. As of 2023, it no longer exists. Meanwhile, the three transmitter towers nearby were dismantled sometime in the early 1990s. In 1984, Diversified Communications sold WAGM-TV to NEP Communications, then-owner of WNEP-TV in Scranton, Pennsylvania. NEP sold WNEP to The New York Times Company a year later, but retained WAGM under the licensee name NEPSK, Inc. At one point co-owned by Tom Shelburne, Peter Kozloski, and Norman Johnston, Kozloski assumed full ownership of the station in 1991, retaining the NEPSK name.
Changes
Around the same time as the sale to NEP, WAGM began phasing out its secondary affiliations with ABC and NBC. Given increasing availability of cable and satellite television in rural Aroostook County, the necessity to carry programming from multiple networks decreased. Many stations over the Canadian border in New Brunswick also serve Aroostook County. By 1990, WAGM carried the entire CBS prime time lineup, with other network programs airing nightly between 7 and 8. The station dropped ABC completely in 1998, while the last NBC show seen on the station, Days of Our Lives, disappeared from the schedule in September 2005. The end of the ABC and NBC affiliations left KXGN-TV in Glendive, Montana, as the last television station in the United States affiliated with more than one big three network on a single feed (that station, formerly a dual CBS/NBC affiliate, moved NBC to a digital subchannel in September 2009). Today, WVII-TV from Bangor serves as the de facto ABC affiliate on Charter Spectrum's Presque Isle system; until the launch of WWPI-LD in 2020, WLBZ served the same function for NBC.
When Fox gained broadcasting rights to games from the NFL's National Football Conference in 1994, WAGM aired them since Fox did not have an affiliate in Presque Isle; this made it the only station in the United States to air programs from all four major networks at the same time. The arrangement ended when CBS obtained the American Football Conference contract in 1998; as a result, Fox programming was provided to the Presque Isle area via Foxnet, and it remained that way until September 2006. WAGM also aired some UPN programming during late nights and weekends from 1995 until 2006 when that network closed and merged with The WB to form The CW.
The station moved its transmitter site in 1999 to the summit of Big Rock ski resort on Mars Hill Mountain's southwestern face. The move placed the antenna at a much higher point greatly improving reception of the signal. This location is where its first digital signal on UHF channel 16 signed on from in July 2003. This conflicts with an official statement made in 2006 by WAGM, which stated it launched its digital signal in April 2002. For the U.S. digital transition on June 12, 2009, WAGM applied for a 10 kilowatt digital signal and moved its transmitter to the northern section of Mars Hill Mountain. At midnight on June 12, it signed off the analog channel 8 and digital channel 16 signals for the final time. The next day, the station signed on a new, more powerful digital signal on channel 8.
WAGM is seen across Western New Brunswick in Canada and can be picked up over-the-air a few miles outside of Fredericton city limits in communities such as Keswick Ridge. On cable, it is seen throughout Northwestern New Brunswick towns such as Woodstock, Grand Falls, and Edmundston. The station was available to a greater extent in Canada such as in Fredericton until the advent of satellite-delivered American broadcast stations on Cancom in the early-1990s.
Sale to Gray Television
In April 2015, WAGM was sold to Gray Television for $10.25 million. The transaction closed on July 1, 2015, following FCC approval. WAGM is Gray's first television station in the Northeastern United States.
In February 2017, Gray announced that it would purchase Bangor's WABI-TV from Diversified Communications with the transaction expected to close in the second quarter of 2017 pending FCC approval. The purchase would reunite WAGM with its former co-owned station, and in the press release from Gray announcing the purchase it was stated that the two stations would share newsgathering and other resources.
Subchannel history
WAGM-DT2
WAGM-DT2 is the Fox-affiliated second digital subchannel of WAGM-TV, broadcasting in high definition on channel 8.2.
On September 12, 2006, WAGM launched a Fox affiliate on its primary digital channel, 8.1, preceding the shutdown of Foxnet. Prior to then, outside of the station's secondary Fox affiliation during the mid-1990s, Foxnet provided the state's only access to Fox on cable outside of the Portland and Bangor areas; the subchannel's launch coincided with the shutdown of Foxnet (which served as the Fox affiliate for the entire state of Maine between late 2001 and April 2003). Foxnet was originally scheduled to cease operations on September 1, but the shutdown was postponed to allow WAGM time to set up the service. The change resulted in the main CBS signal moving to a new second subchannel, 8.2. Such a placement is generally uncommon as most broadcasters number a digital signal equivalent to the analog signal as minor channel 1 and number other subchannels with higher minor channel numbers. This is a similar situation as NBC affiliate WGBC in Meridian, Mississippi, which moved its original NBC affiliation to a new second digital subchannel so its main channel could join Fox and the Retro Television Network (RTV). Despite this, the CBS feed was still the main signal, as it was the only one broadcast in HD, and the one that continued to be available on analog TV until its end in 2009.
Until Time Warner Cable switched to WAGM's relocated CBS feed, it offered Fox in high definition for a short time on digital channel 508. On November 15, 2007, WAGM created a new separate website for its Fox channel featuring the "My Fox" format and layout from Fox Interactive Media. However, the web address "myfoxaroostook.com" was eventually abandoned.
By fall 2017, the over-the-air feed of "WAGM Fox 8" had begun airing in Fox's recommended 720p HD resolution; the Fox subchannel had only been carried in high definition on cable prior to then. In addition to its over-the-air resolution upgrade, WAGM Fox 8 had also been moved to the station's second digital subchannel while CBS programming was returned to its original position on WAGM's main channel.
WAGM-DT3
WAGM-DT3 (branded as The County's CW 8.3, in reference to the large Aroostook County containing most of WAGM's coverage area) is the CW-affiliated third digital subchannel of WAGM-TV, broadcasting in 16:9 widescreen standard definition on channel 8.3. All programming on WAGM-DT3 is received through The CW's programming feed for smaller media markets, The CW Plus, which provides a set schedule of syndicated programming acquired by The CW for broadcast during time periods outside of the network's regular programming hours; however, Gray Television handles local advertising and promotional services for the subchannel. WAGM-DT3 was launched on September 10, 2018, and is carried locally on Spectrum channel 13 in SD, and in high definition on channel 1212. Presently, the HD feed is exclusive to cable due to WAGM's current multiplexer limitations.
Previously, the CW affiliation in the market was available through a cable-only channel operated by Spectrum and the forerunner providers in the market, which carried the station on cable channel 13 since 1998, when it launched as a WB affiliate with the WB 100+ service (then branded as "Presque Isle's WB") under the unofficial callsign "WBPQ" (which stood for The WB Presque Isle) for the purposes of identification in electronic program guides and Nielsen ratings tabulation. Throughout its twenty years as a cable channel, it only ran in standard definition. It seamlessly became associated with the new CW network (branded as "Presque Isle CW", though it used a "CW 13" logo) on September 18, 2006, after the merger of The WB and UPN into that one network. Following this CW affiliate's September 10, 2018, debut over the new WAGM-DT3 subchannel, it updated its branding to "The County's CW 8.3" to reflect its new over-the-air presence.
Programming
WAGM-TV airs the complete CBS schedule; until 2013, the station signed off every night and thus did not show CBS News Up to the Minute. During the fall potato harvest (potatoes being the most important industry in the region), the annual Potato Picker's Special is aired weekdays at 5 a.m. for approximately three weeks beginning in September. The program announces details from area farmers regarding the harvest and has been airing on either radio or television for over 50 years.
News operation
WAGM's NewsSource 8 broadcasts have routinely ranked as the highest-rated local newscasts in the United States based on Nielsen market share. The station serves a large area but its primary market is Aroostook County which is about the size of Connecticut and Rhode Island combined. Given the station's transmitter location in close proximity to Canada, it also covers news and weather in Western New Brunswick.
The small market nature of WAGM tends to result in a high employee turnover rate with most personalities staying at the station for only a year or two before moving on to a larger market. Nevertheless, a few personnel have been with WAGM for more than a few years such as Assistant News Director and Sports Director Rene Cloukey. Another long-lasting employee no longer with the station is Station Manager and News Director Jon Gulliver who recently came back to the station on a part-time basis helpimg with sports as well as former News Director Sue Bernard. Current Chief Meteorologist Ted Shapiro has been with WAGM since being ousted from Bangor's WVII when that station axed its weather department and outsourced forecasting segments to AccuWeather in State College, Pennsylvania. Ironically, WAGM uses some of that company's CinemaLive weather graphics system in its own forecast segments.
With the September 12, 2006, launch of Fox on its main channel came a new prime time weeknight newscast known as NewsSource 8 at 10. This program closely mirrors local news seen on the CBS channel. On April 11, 2009, due to a decrease in sponsorship, increased preemptions from network sports coverage, and financial reasons, WAGM stopped airing a Saturday night newscast at 6. In late-September 2010, NewsSource 8: The Saturday Edition was brought back to air on the Fox channel with occasional airings on the CBS channel if preempted. In addition, the prime time newscast at 10 was expanded to Saturday nights at that point in time. With the launch of Fox College Footballs prime time games in 2012, the Saturday newscast was discontinued.
On August 23, 2010, WAGM renovated its news and weather set but kept the same music theme and graphics package. Unlike most CBS affiliates, WAGM does not air a noon newscast and/or a newscast weeknights at 5. When the Fox channel first launched, it replayed the morning broadcast originally at 8 a.m. This was eventually moved to 9 a.m. and then dropped altogether at some point.
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
Former translators
A translator signal, W16DA-D in Fort Kent, changed its call letters to WWPI-LD on June 3, 2019, after Gray Television filed with the FCC on May 21 for a construction permit to move the translator's city of license from Fort Kent to Presque Isle (the FCC granted that CP on August 7). WWPI-LD then fell silent and returned to the air January 7, 2020, as an NBC affiliate.
A second translator, W02AU-D (channel 2) in St. Francis, used to transmit from the north of Back Settlement and was licensed to the St. Francis Chamber of Commerce; however, on June 4, 2016, the FCC deleted W02AU-D from its database.
A third translator, W11AY-D (channel 11) in St. John Plantation was licensed to the Town of St. John; however, on January 11, 2023, the FCC cancelled W11AY-D's license.
References
External links
Television channels and stations established in 1956
AGM-TV
CBS network affiliates
1956 establishments in Maine
Gray Television |
John Edward Galley (born 7 May 1944) is an English former professional footballer who scored 149 goals from 409 games in the Football League playing as a centre forward for Wolverhampton Wanderers, Rotherham United, Bristol City, Nottingham Forest, Peterborough United and Hereford United during the 1960s and 1970s. He was part of the Hereford United side that won the Third Division title in 1976. After 14 seasons in the Football League, he dropped down into non-league football to play for Telford United.
Galley's older brothers Gordon and Maurice Galley also played in the Football League.
References
External links
1944 births
Living people
People from Clowne
Footballers from Derbyshire
English men's footballers
Men's association football forwards
Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. players
Rotherham United F.C. players
Bristol City F.C. players
Nottingham Forest F.C. players
Peterborough United F.C. players
Hereford United F.C. players
Telford United F.C. players
English Football League players |
Without Walls Central Church was a Christian megachurch in Auburndale, Florida outside Lakeland co-founded by Paula and Randy White, in January 2004, when they were still married. It was under the auspices of Without Walls International Church, Tampa, Florida. The Church closed in 2011 and should not be confused with Without Walls Church, a ministry for the homeless also based in Tampa, Florida.
History
In one year, the congregation grew from 125 to over 1,500. With growth of this scale, the Auburndale facility quickly became inadequate and, in April 2005, Pastor Scott began two Sunday morning worship services to accommodate the attendance. This, however, was only a short-term solution, as in September 2005, Without Walls Central Church moved to a new location at the former facility of Carpenter's Home Church in Lakeland, Florida.
Pastors Scott and Cindy Thomas were the senior pastors at the church. Its operations included citywide ministry outreaches and relationships with city schools, businessmen, and government officials; networking with community organizations to help local residents; bringing well-known Christian artists and ministers to the community; and participating in city- and county-sponsored community activities.
In 2011, the Without Walls Central Church vacated the Lakeland building, as a result of debts. The United States bankruptcy court required Without Walls to sell their properties. In February 2015, the building was purchased by developers. Demolition commenced on 16 March 2015.
Location
Without Walls Central was located in Lakeland, Florida in the former facilities of Carpenter's Home Church. Lakeland is located between the cities of Tampa and Orlando.
Kay Fields
In November 2007, Kay Fields, a local school board member and member of Without Walls church, responded to suggested new standards for Florida science teaching by suggesting that the section that mentioned evolution be changed to require the teaching of intelligent design as well.
Notes
Former megachurches
Evangelical churches in Florida
Buildings and structures in Lakeland, Florida
Churches in Polk County, Florida
2004 establishments in Florida
2011 disestablishments in Florida
Buildings and structures demolished in 2015 |
John Ericsson Memorial, located near the National Mall at Ohio Drive and Independence Avenue, SW,
in Washington, D.C., is dedicated to the man who revolutionized naval history with his invention of the screw propeller. The Swedish engineer John Ericsson was also the designer of , the ship that ensured Union naval supremacy during the American Civil War.
The memorial was authorized by Congress August 31, 1916, and dedicated May 29, 1926 by President Calvin Coolidge and Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden. Congress appropriated $35,000 for the creation of the memorial, and Americans chiefly of Scandinavian descent raised an additional $25,000. Constructed on a site near the Lincoln Memorial between September 1926 and April 1927, the pink Milford granite memorial is high with a diameter base.
Sculpted by James Earle Fraser, it features a seated figure of Ericsson high, and three standing figures representing adventure, labor, and vision. The national memorial is managed by National Mall and Memorial Parks.
Images
See also
List of public art in Washington, D.C., Ward 2
References
External links
John Ericsson Memorial official NPS website
1926 establishments in Washington, D.C.
1926 sculptures
Granite sculptures in Washington, D.C.
National Mall and Memorial Parks
Outdoor sculptures in Washington, D.C.
Monuments and memorials on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington, D.C.
Sculptures of men in Washington, D.C.
Sculptures of women in Washington, D.C.
Southwest (Washington, D.C.)
Union (American Civil War) monuments and memorials in Washington, D.C.
Works by James Earle Fraser (sculptor) |
Swaroop Kishen Reu (13 July 1930 – 21 November 1992) was an Indian Test cricket umpire. His name is sometimes spelled "Swarup Kishan".
He was born in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir. He played cricket as a wicketkeeper batsman at Delhi University. He became a lawyer, working in the Auditor-General's Office.
He umpired in first-class cricket from 1969 to 1984, including the final of the Duleep Trophy in 1981/2 and of the Ranji Trophy in 1982/3. He also umpired in List A cricket, including the final of the Deodhar Trophy in 1980/1.
He stood in 17 Test matches between 1978 and 1984, equalling the Indian record set by B. Satyaji Rao in 1979, but subsequently surpassed by VK Ramaswamy (26 matches between 1985 and 1999) and Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan (73 matches between 1993 and 2004). All of the Test matches he umpired were played in India. His bulky white-coated body and habit of chewing tobacco made him instantly recognisable.
He first stood as a Test umpire in the 2nd Test between India and West Indies at M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore in December 1978, with Mohammad Ghouse. He also stood in the 4th Test, at MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chepauk, Madras, in January 1979, with Jiban Ghosh. He also stood in the 1st and 5th Tests against Australia later in 1979, and the 1st, 4th and 5th Tests against Pakistan in 1979/80. The first day of the first India-Pakistan Test, also in Bangalore, was interrupted when a swarms of bees flew over the field, and the players and umpires threw themselves to the ground to escape.
Controversy attended the final day of the rain-affected 1st Test against Pakistan in Bangalore in September 1983. A minimum of 77 overs were due to be bowled, but Kishen and Madhav Gothoskar informed Pakistan captain Zaheer Abbas that all 20 of the overs due when the final hour of play started had to be completed. However, Zaheer Abbas led his team off the field after the 14th over (the 77th over of the day) but was persuaded to return to allow Indian captain Sunil Gavaskar to reach his 28th Test century.
India only lost two of the Tests he umpired, both against West India in 1983. He was standing at the other end at Bombay in November 1983 when Desmond Haynes was give out "handled the ball" - the fourth in Test history.
His last Test, and also his last first-class match, as an umpire was played between India and England at Wankhede Stadium in Bombay in November 1984.
He also stood in 6 One-day Internationals between 1981 and 1985, including 3 in Sharjah, and umpired one Women's Test, played between Australia and India at Feroz Shah Kotla in Delhi in January 1984.
He was awarded the Padma Shri for his services to cricket. He died in Delhi from cancer.
See also
List of Test cricket umpires
List of One Day International cricket umpires
References
External links
Profile from Cricinfo
Duplicate profile from Cricinfo
Lists of matches from CricketArchive
1930 births
1992 deaths
Indian Test cricket umpires
Indian One Day International cricket umpires
People from Srinagar
Recipients of the Padma Shri in sports
Cricketers from Punjab, India |
Lee Waisler (born February 25, 1938) is an American painter and printmaker based in Los Angeles. His early artwork depicted political statements, such as the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement. His current work includes portraits of celebrities and historical figures. His work is held in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, National Gallery of Modern Art, among others.
Early life
Lee Waisler was born on February 25, 1938, in the Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, to a politically progressive Jewish family. Growing up in nearby West Hollywood, Waisler was surrounded by the movie business and those aspiring to be in it, which, Waisler says, came to be an important part of his development. Waisler attended the Hollywood Academy of Arts from the age of seven. At the time Waisler was growing up, the Abstract expressionism movement was gaining popularity. Waisler became interested in abstraction and was influenced by artists like Mark Rothko and Clyfford Still.
Early work
Waisler's first solo show took place at the Ryder Gallery in Los Angeles in 1968. Waisler exhibited a series of figurative color etching. Much of the work Waisler produced in his early career was socially and politically charged, relating to the Holocaust, civil rights, the Vietnam War, and the anti-nuclear cause.
Public works
In 1981, responding to a critic's negative review of his anti-nuclear work, Waisler dumped 5 tons of horse manure at the entrance to the LA Times. The dump truck that deposited the manure had a sign reading "A critic's choice." The dump symbolized Waisler's frustration over the control art critics had over artists and the causes to which they directed their work. Waisler received international media coverage with mixed reception from artists and political sources. In spite of rejections, Waisler continued anti-nuclear and anti-war works in painting, sculpture, and public works.
Later that year, Waisler began the project entitled "Target LA" to spread anti-nuclear awareness. Using stencils to spray paint a stop-sign-within-a-target logo across the Los Angeles area, Waisler invited the public to a culminating event at the L.A. city hall for the presentation of another public work called "Bomb Cage." The sculpture consists of 8 World War II-era bomb shells encased within an octagonal wooden structure. The sculpture is presented covered by a black parachute. When the parachute is withdrawn, hundreds of black balloons escape from inside the sculpture. The balloons represent the nuclear fallout of a bomb exploding at that location. The sculpture was presented as a gift to the city of Los Angeles, but was rejected. It was later sent to Hamburg, Germany, and installed at the headquarters of the "Greens" political party.
Continuing his anti-nuclear public works, in 1985 Waisler constructed "Under the Mushroom", a 5-story tall, 50-foot wide black mushroom-cloud inflatable as a movable sculpture. The work is first exhibited in Amsterdam where the artist invited the crowd to assist in deflation by trampling the sculpture as a symbol of nuclear disarmament. The sculpture went on to be exhibited approximately 30 times internationally with public participation at each showing.
Paintings
Waisler's paintings deal with a variety of social, political, and symbolic themes. His interest in the abstract expressionists that came to popularity during his youth (particularly Mark Rothko) influenced his work greatly. Waisler's early paintings were much more formal and ethereal, eventually moving on to integrating human figures into monumental, minimal, and architectural forms. From there, Waisler began to experiment with non-traditional materials: first wood, then sand, earth, and silicone carbonate. Waisler also uses recurring imagery and colors as symbols to develop a dialogue between paintings and events, such as his Holocaust memorials.
Waisler uses a variety of materials, both in paintings and sculpture, that double as representative symbols. Wood, a recurring element in Waisler's paintings, symbolizes life and shelter. Sand is used to represent time, various forms of Earth to represent power, and various forms of carbon to represent life. Waisler has also used ash and stone in his Holocaust memorials. The materials serve both symbolic and formal purposes. Waisler often layers multiple materials with paint to create high-impasto surfaces on his works, adding to other formal properties. Additionally, Waisler uses light-reflective materials and paints to explore the symbolism of light with the belief that life is transferred by light.
New Delhi
In 1996 Waisler was invited to exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in New Delhi. In 1998, Waisler spent 4 months in India producing the work for the exhibition.
In order to avoid the effect of a colonial installation, Waisler produced all the work in India so as to reflect Indian culture and philosophy in both theme and materials.
A central theme of the works from this period was Mandala imagery and the meditative response that it evokes. Waisler also produced an anti-colonialist sculpture called "IMF Lifesaver", a large life-saver shape made of barbed wire. The Mandala symbol continued as a recurring theme in Waisler paintings after the exhibition.
Current work
In the early 2000s, Waisler began to paint portraits of people which has continued to the present day. Some figures painted include Albert Einstein, Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, Rosa Parks, Paul Celan, Virginia Woolf, Aung San Suu Kyi, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Ethel Rosenberg. Waisler also continues to produce other figurative and abstract works and sculptures and exhibit worldwide.
Further reading
Malik, Keshav. Waisler & Malik. Ojai: Edwin House Publishing (1998).
Stelmach, Augelina. Crossing Boundaries: The Art of Lee Waisler. Ahmedabad: Mapin Publishing (2006).
Wendon, John. The Art of Lee Waisler. London: Andre Deutsch Ltd. (1991).
References
External links
Lee Waisler at Sundaram Tagore Gallery
Lee Waisler at Artnet
1938 births
20th-century American painters
American male painters
21st-century American painters
Living people
20th-century American male artists |
The 1902–03 FA Cup was the 32nd season of the world's oldest association football competition, the Football Association Challenge Cup (more usually known as the FA Cup). Bury won the competition for the second and (as of 2022) final time, beating Derby County 6–0 in the final at Crystal Palace. This scoreline stood as a record victory in an FA Cup final until Manchester City equalled it by beating Watford 6–0 on 18 May 2019.
Matches were scheduled to be played at the stadium of the team named first on the date specified for each round, which was always a Saturday. If scores were level after 90 minutes had been played, a replay would take place at the stadium of the second-named team later the same week. If the replayed match was drawn further replays would be held at neutral venues until a winner was determined. If scores were level after 90 minutes had been played in a replay, a 30-minute period of extra time would be played.
Calendar
The format of the FA Cup for the season had a preliminary round, five qualifying rounds, an intermediate round, three proper rounds, and the semi-finals and final.
Intermediate round
The Intermediate Round featured ten games, played between the ten winners of the fifth qualifying round, and ten teams given byes. First Division Middlesbrough, along with Bristol City, Preston North End, Woolwich Arsenal, Burnley and Lincoln City from the Second Division were entered automatically into this round, as were non-league Reading, Bristol Rovers, West Ham United and Millwall Athletic.
The other Second Division sides had to gain entry to this round through the earlier qualifying rounds. Burton United, Blackpool and Stockport County were entered at the first qualifying round, while the others, Burslem Port Vale, Chesterfield, Doncaster Rovers, Gainsborough Trinity, Leicester Fosse and Manchester United, were entered in the third qualifying round. Of these, only Manchester United, Glossop and Burton United reached the Intermediate Round. They were joined by seven other non-league sides.
The ten matches were played on 13 December 1902. Three matches went to replays, with one of these going to a second replay (held at Villa Park).
First round proper
The first round proper contained 16 ties between 32 teams. 17 of the 18 First Division sides were given a bye to this round, as were Manchester City and Small Heath from the Second Division, and Southern League teams Southampton, Portsmouth, and Tottenham Hotspur. They joined the ten teams who won in the intermediate round.
The matches were played on Saturday, 7 February 1903. Four matches were drawn, with the replays taking place in the following midweek. One of these, the Notts County v Southampton match, went to a second replay, which Notts County won at Small Heath's St Andrew's ground.
Second round proper
The eight Second Round matches were played on Saturday, 21 February 1903. There was one replay, between Nottingham Forest and Stoke City, played in the following midweek.
Third round proper
The four Third Round matches were played on Saturday 7 March 1903. There were no replays.
Semi-finals
The semi-final matches were played at neutral venues on Saturday 21 March 1903. Bury and Derby County won and went on to meet each other in the final.
Final
The Final was contested by Bury and Derby County at Crystal Palace. Bury won 6–0, with goals from George Ross, Charlie Sagar, Joe Leeming (2), William Wood and Jack Plant. The scoreline was a record for the biggest winning margin in the FA Cup final until Manchester City equalled it in 2019.
Match details
See also
FA Cup Final
References
General
Official site; fixtures and results service at TheFA.com
1902–03 FA Cup at rsssf.com
1902–03 FA Cup at soccerbase.com
Specific
1902-03 |
Mary Estella Sprague (1870 – May 17, 1940) was an American home economics professor and academic administrator at the University of Connecticut, then Connecticut Agricultural College. She served as dean of women from 1917 to 1926 and as the first dean of the Division of Home Economics from 1920 to 1926.
Life and career
Born in Massachusetts in January 1870, Sprague graduated from Bridgewater State Normal School as a member of the class of 1887. She taught in public schools for more than twenty years. After studying home economics at Simmons College, she became house director and teacher of home economics at Caroline Rest, a rest home for new mothers near Scarsdale, New York.
In 1914, she became the first woman extension service worker in Connecticut when she became assistant state leader of the Boys & Girls Clubs of America and later state leader of the Girls' Club. In November 1917, she was appointed a professor of home economics and Dean of Women at UConn. She lobbied President Charles L. Beach in 1922 to hire more senior faculty for the division. She served as Dean of Women from 1917 to 1926 and as the first Dean of the Division of Home Economics from 1920 to 1926. Dean Sprague supervised approximately four faculty members, all women. Under her leadership, enrollment in home economics rose from thirty to 120 students by 1926. Concurrently, the college's female enrollment rose to around 26% of the student population in 1925 and 31% in 1930, up from only 19% in 1920.
During World War I, Sprague served as state director of home economics for the U.S. Food Administration. Appointed in June 1917 and serving through the war's end in 1918, she coordinated Connecticut's women's organizations and coordinated a statewide campaign to bolster domestic food production and conservation in support of the war effort. UConn trustees noted that the job required "a woman of broad vision and forceful personality who knew Connecticut people," and that Sprague "more than met these requirements."
Legacy
Built in 1942, the M. Estella Sprague Residence Hall, a three-story dormitory on UConn's main campus in Storrs, is named in her honor. In August 1926, she was the first woman to receive an "honorary recognition" given to "leaders in agriculture and rural life" by Connecticut Agricultural College.
Sprague left a substantial collection of costumes and textiles. Over 7,000 items were donated by Sprague and other collectors and assembled under the direction of faculty members Nellie Gard and Margaret Gaylord. Ranging from ancient Egyptian fabrics to contemporary designer dresses, the materials supported the curricular of the School of Home Economics. Most pieces dated from the 19th and early 20th centuries. An exhibit, "Perfect in Her Place: Women at Work in Industrial America," at the Homer Babbidge Library showcasing Sprague's collection ran from March through April 1985. In 2021, a curator was hired to prepare the M. Estelle Sprague Costume Collection for incorporation into the collection of the William Benton Museum of Art.
Sprague retired in 1926. She died after a long illness on May 17, 1940, in Templeton, Massachusetts, at the age of 70.
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Mark Merklein (born June 28, 1972) is a Bahamas-born former college and professional tennis player. He played for the Bahamas Davis Cup team from 1999–2004.
Merklein was born in Freeport, Bahamas. He grew up in Coral Springs, Florida, and attended St. Thomas Aquinas High School in nearby Fort Lauderdale. Playing for the St. Thomas Raiders high school tennis team, he won six Class 3A high school titles – two at No. 2 singles, one at No. 1 singles, and three at No. 1 doubles.
Merklein accepted an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where he played for the Florida Gators men's tennis team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and Southeastern Conference (SEC) competition from 1991 to 1994. As a Gator, he won the NCAA national championship doubles title with partner David Blair in 1993. The following year, Merklein won the NCAA national championship singles title in 1994 in dominating fashion, losing only one set. Merklein was a four-time All-American, a three-time All-SEC selection, and the SEC Player of the Year in 1994. He was inducted into the University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame as a "Gator Great" in 2005.
Merklein turned professional in 1994, and won four doubles titles during his career. He won matches at all four Majors. On July 7, 1997, he reached his highest singles ranking of world No. 160, and reached his highest doubles ranking on January 12, 2004, when he became world No. 37.
On May 24, 2013, Merklein was hired as the University of Florida men's tennis assistant coach.
Merklein currently resides in Gainesville, Florida.
Grand Slam tournament performance timelines
Singles
Doubles
See also
List of Florida Gators tennis players
List of University of Florida Olympians
List of University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame members
References
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1972 births
Living people
Bahamian expatriates in the United States
Bahamian male tennis players
Bahamian people of German descent
Florida Gators men's tennis players
Sportspeople from Gainesville, Florida
People from Freeport, Bahamas
Tennis people from Florida
Tennis players at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Tennis players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Olympic tennis players for the Bahamas
St. Thomas Aquinas High School (Florida) alumni |
The following is an alphabetical list of political families in the United States whose last name begins with Y.
The Yates
Richard Yates (1818–1873), Illinois State Representative 1842–45 1848–49, U.S. Representative from Illinois 1851–55, Governor of Illinois 1861–65, U.S. Senator from Illinois 1865–71. Father of Richard Yates.
Richard Yates (1860–1936), Attorney of Jacksonville, Illinois 1885–90, Judge of Marion County, Illinois 1894–97; Collector of Internal Revenue for Illinois 1897–1900; Governor of Illinois 1901–05; U.S. Representative from Illinois 1919–33. Son of Richard Yates.
Richard Yates Rowe (1888–1973), Illinois Republican Committeeman 1943, Chairman of the Illinois Republican Party 1944, Illinois Secretary of States 1944–45, Treasurer of Illinois 1947–49. Relative of Richard Yates and Richard Yates.
Harris Rowe (1923–2013), Member of the Illinois House of Representatives 1961–67. Son of Richard Yates Rowe.
The Youngs and Browns
William Singleton Young (1790–1827), U.S. Representative from Kentucky 1825–27. Brother of Bryan Young.
Bryan Young (1800–1882), U.S. Representative from Kentucky 1845–47, Kentucky State Representative. Brother of William Singleton Young.
John Young Brown (1835–1904), U.S. Representative from Kentucky 1859–61 1873–77, Governor of Kentucky 1891–95, candidate for U.S. Representative from Kentucky 1896, candidate for Governor of Kentucky 1899. Nephew of William Singleton Young and Bryan Young.
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Zina Kocher (born December 5, 1982, in Red Deer, Alberta) is a Canadian cross-country skier and former biathlete. She competed for Team Canada in biathlon at the 2006, 2010, 2014 Winter Olympics and in 12 editions of the Biathlon World Championships.
Career
Kocher started out competing as a cross-country skier, and was introduced to the sport of biathlon at the 1998 Alberta Winter Games. After graduating from high school in 2000, she moved to Canmore to train full-time. She subsequently was selected to compete for Canada at the 2001 Junior World Championships, before embarking on her first full-time Biathlon World Cup campaign in the 2003-04 season, during which she took five top 30 finishes.
In the opening race of the 2006-07 season, a 15 km individual competition in Östersund, Sweden, Kocher finished third, becoming the first Canadian biathlete to make the podium in a top-level international event since Myriam Bédard ten years earlier. After a two-year period where she struggled with illness, Kocher took a fourth place in a pursuit at the third meeting of the 2009–10 season in Pokljuka, Slovenia, shooting 20 out of 20 targets in an event for the first time, having already taken a tenth place in the sprint at the same meeting. At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, she was part of the Canadian team that finished eighth in the women's relay, the best ever Canadian finish in that event.
Kocher retired from biathlon competition in March 2016, and by January 2017 she had enrolled as a student of massage therapy at Mount Royal University. She subsequently competed in the 2017 national cross-country ski championships in Canmore: having trained on a part-time basis, she won the 5 km competition and finished second in the 30 km event, in a field containing members of the Canadian national cross-country ski team. She subsequently decided to switch to part-time studies and return to competition as a cross-country skier with the aim of being selected for the 2018 Winter Olympics, partly in memory of Richard Boruta, her former biathlon coach, who had been killed in a climbing accident in August 2017. Kocher won the 51 km freestyle race at the Gatineau Loppet in February 2018.
Bold Beautiful Biathlon
She was part of a group of five athletes (along with Canadian biathletes Megan Tandy, Sandra Keith, Rosanna Crawford, and Megan Imrie), who posed for the Bold Beautiful Biathlon calendar. Although Zina Kocher was one of the few fully funded athletes in the national biathlon program, she took the initiative to find opportunities for extra funding. Kocher felt the calendar would build a new image for young Canadian girls to look up to; the image of a healthy, athletic body. The nude photos were taken by Rachel Boekel and Adrian Marcoux in Canmore, Alberta. The concept was that each athlete will be featured on two pages of the calendar, and there will be four group photos. The calendar was called Bold Beautiful Biathlon, and sold for $25. The biathletes were inspired by a calendar that was done featuring Olympic cross-country skiers, Sara Renner and Beckie Scott in 2001. Renner and Scott, along with three other teammates, tastefully took their clothes off for a calendar to raise funds.
Personal life
Kocher married Alex Lawson in the summer of 2017. She is a trained doula.
See also
List of Canadian sports personalities
References
External links
CBC Bio
Zina Kocher on Real Champions
1982 births
Biathletes at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Biathletes at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Biathletes at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Canadian female biathletes
Living people
Olympic biathletes for Canada
Sportspeople from Red Deer, Alberta
Canadian female cross-country skiers
21st-century Canadian women |
"Letting Go" is a song credited to Paul and Linda McCartney and originally released by Wings on their 1975 album Venus and Mars. The song was remixed and released as a single on 4 October 1975 in the United States, and on 18 October 1975 in the United Kingdom. The song peaked at number 41 in the UK, 41 on the Cash Box Top 100 and number 39 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Recording
The song was recorded late in 1974 at Abbey Road Studios, before the band went to New Orleans to record the majority of Venus and Mars. It was one of only three songs recorded for the album with short-term Wings drummer Geoff Britton before he quit the band (the others being "Love in Song" and "Medicine Jar").
Lyrics and music
Like many of Paul McCartney's songs of this period, the subject of "Letting Go" is his wife Linda. The singer describes himself in a relationship with a beautiful woman but he remains concerned about the relationship. McCartney biographer Peter Ames Carlin claims that the song "traced the thin line between love and obsession", with "passion in all its unhinged, dangerous glory." The song reflects McCartney's recognition that he needed to give his wife more space to pursue her own interests, after Linda had given up her career as a photographer to join his band. The content of the lyrics varies between the verses and refrain, with the verses describing the subject and the refrain acknowledging the idea of "letting go." The key is A minor at the start of the song, but the song ends in C minor.
The contrast in the lyrics is also reflected in the music, with the refrain using a descending note melody and having a darker sound than the verses, which have a melody that wavers up and down. The song uses a medium tempo, and the instruments include a guitar part described by Allmusic critic Donald Guarisco as "bluesy" and keyboards, plus a horn parts in an interlude as well as in the outro. "Letting Go" has more of a soul music feel than most of the songs on Venus and Mars, which are more pop music oriented.
Critical reception
Billboard described it as being one of Wings' "less surrealistic productions," commenting on its "hymn-to-nature" lyrics and "vaguely omninous minor chord progression." Cash Box commented on the "Eagles-influenced guitars." The single version is remixed and is approximately a minute shorter than the album track. The single also incorporates elements that were not included on the album track, such as an organ glissando at the beginning.
Ultimate Classic Rock contributor Nick DeRiso rated "Letting Go" to be Wings' 10th greatest song, praising its "dark, roiling tone" and how it "explores that narrow space between love and obsession to great effect." Chip Madinger and Mark Easter called it "one of the best songs on the LP." Robert Rodriguez called it "a strong track topped with a full slab of brass" and noted that it was "one of the Wings' onstage highlights." Authors Roy Carr and Tony Tyler described the song as one of the few "genuinely potent" tracks on Venus and Mars but said that McCartney "should have taken his advice and let go. This seeks to be composedly heavy but merely succeeds in attaining a considerable degree of ponderosity." In the book The Rough Guide to the Beatles, Chris Ingham wrote "Letting Go" was "an inert sludge rocker," calling it "a disastrous choice for a single."
Live performances
The song was performed during the Wings over America tour in 1976, and was included on the live album Wings over America and on the concert film, Rockshow. Larry Rohter of The Washington Post described the performance on Wings Over America as "rollicking" and "exciting." Ben Fong-Torres described McCartney's live performance of the song as "reaching back for some of that Little Richard inspiration." Ultimate Classic Rock critic Nick DeRiso said that it "is shot through with this jagged sexuality." McCartney played it again during his 2010 Up and Coming Tour and his 2016 One on One tour.
A previously unreleased mix of the song was offered as a free download through Lauren Laverne's Radio 6 Music show on 29 October 2014.
Covers
"Letting Go" has been covered by Ian Mitchell on the album Garage Band Tribute To the Beatles.
In 2014 the song was covered by Heart on The Art of McCartney covers album. Allmusic critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine describes this version as laying into the song's "spooky heart."
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Paul McCartney songs
Paul McCartney and Wings songs
Songs written by Paul McCartney
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Song recordings produced by Paul McCartney
Songs written by Linda McCartney
Music published by MPL Music Publishing
Heart (band) songs
1974 songs |
Zaw Myint Maung () is a Burmese politician, physician and former political prisoner who currently serves as Chief Minister of Mandalay Region and Mandalay Region MP for Amarapura Township.
Early life and education
Zaw Myint Maung graduated with a medical degree from the Institute of Medicine, Mandalay in 1979. During his medical career, he worked in Sagaing Division's Yuthitgyi Hospital and served as a demonstrator of biochemistry department at the University of Medicine, Mandalay, formerly known as the Institute of Medicine, Mandalay from 1983 to 1988.
Political career
In the 1990 Burmese general election, he was elected as a Pyithu Hluttaw MP, winning a majority of 21,119 (66% of the votes), but was never allowed to assume his seat.
On 22 November 1990, he was arrested under Article 122 of the Myanmar Penal Code and sentenced to 25 years, for attending meetings on forming a provisional government. In March 1996, he was sentenced to a further seven years under the 1950 Emergency Provision Act, for publishing a magazine celebrating the 75th anniversary of Rangoon University and another called New Blood Wave. In total, he served a 19-year sentence at a prison in Myitkyina. He was released on 21 February 2009. He is the vice-president of NLD and current acting president of the party.
In the wake of the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état on 1 February, Zaw Myint Maung was detained by the Myanmar Armed Forces. Authorities have charged him with violating COVID restrictions, corruption, and incitement. Zaw Myint Maung is incarcerated at Obo Prison in Mandalay, and was diagnosed with leukemia in 2019.
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on Facebook
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Living people
Members of Pyithu Hluttaw
National League for Democracy politicians
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Region or state chief ministers of Myanmar |
Christopher John Payne is a British musician.
He is known as a member of Gary Numan's backing-band and the co-writer of Visage's 1981 synthpop hit single "Fade to Grey". Payne plays keyboards and viola and also a number of medieval instruments. He formed the band Dramatis with other members of Numan's backing-band in the early 1980s. Payne has composed music for television and films and formed the band Celtic Legend. He has composed, scored, recorded and conducted his orchestral and choral works in London and Prague.
Collaborations
Tubeway Army, Gary Numan (keyboards and viola 1979–1989)
Visage (played synthesizer/co-writer of "Fade to Grey")
Dramatis (band member 1981–1982) (2013–present)
Dead or Alive (musical director, 1985 tour)
References
English keyboardists
English violinists
English new wave musicians
British male violinists
1957 births
Living people
English male songwriters
English male composers
Place of birth missing (living people)
21st-century violinists
21st-century British male musicians |
Giovanni Giacomo Barbelli (17 April 1604 – 12 July 1656) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in Lombardy. He was a canvas and fresco painter known for his religious and mythological scenes that decorate many churches and residences in Lombardy. He was a highly skilled draughtsman and a brilliant colorist. His work shows an inventive imagination and a thorough knowledge of perspective.
Life
He was born in Offanengo, near Crema. At a young age, he learned the art of drawing and painting in Naples. After returning to his homeland, he began to work in his own city. There, he passed his craft to other Lombard centers, where, by alternately treating the technique of oil painting and fresco, he demonstrated skill in drawing and often brilliant color. He painted vaults and walls of stately rooms with a high spirit of inventive imagination and perspective knowledge.
He is mentioned as a mentor of Evaristo Baschenis.
Among his works are a Nativity altarpiece for the sanctuary of Nostra Signora della Brughiera in Bulliana in the province of Biella. He also painted two altarpieces, a Crucifixion and a Circumcision (attributed) for the Sanctuary della Madonna del Pianto in Ono Degno, near Pertica Bassa. He painted history scenes into quadratura by Domenico Ghislandi for the Palazzo Terzi as well as for the Palazzo Moroni (1649–1654) in Bergamo. Barbello frescoed Glory of the Magdalen and scenes from her life in the presbytery and apse for the church of Santa Maria Maddalena, Cremona.
He died on 2 July 1656 in Calcinato (Brescia) when he was accidentally hit by an arquebus shot during a festival.<ref>{{cite book | first= Stefano| last= Ticozzi| year=1830| title= Dizionario degli architetti, scultori, pittori, intagliatori in rame ed in pietra, coniatori di medaglie, musaicisti, niellatori, intarsiatori d'ogni etá e d'ogni nazione''' (Volume 1)| pages= 108 | publisher=Gaetano Schiepatti |location=Milan | url= https://books.google.com/books?id=0ownAAAAMAAJ }}</ref>
One of his pupils was Giovanni Battista Botticchio.
Artistic Activity
Among his early works are frescoes depicting Episodes of life of St George (1611), in the church of Casaletto Vaprio, and frescoes depicting Fifteen Mysteries of the Rosary, (1611-1618) in the oratory of San Rocco in Montodine.
Barbelli painted an altarpiece depicting Saints Roch and Sebastian (1631) for the parish church of Madignano, near Crema. Around 1635-38, he painted two important fresco cycles in the churches of Santa Maria delle Grazie and San Giovanni Decollato of Crema.
In 1636 he executed a lively self-portrait in the act of playing the guitar with an elegant gentleman's dress. A decade later he painted the altarpiece with Virgin in Glory and Saints (1646) for the church of San Lazzaro in Bergamo. He painted in 1646 an altarpiece of the Virgin in Glory with the Saints Joseph and Lazarus for the Church of Saint Lazarus in Bergamo.
In the years 1647-49 Barbelli made the vast fresco decorations in the vaults of the staircase and some rooms in the palace of the Counts Moroni in Bergamo, together with Giovanni Battista Azzola, his first student. In Bergamo and in the Bergamasco he carried out his major activity, painting figures for churches, generally of considerable size. For San Rocco, he executed an altarpiece depicting Saints Fermo and Antony for the Angelini chapel in Sant'Agostino, and Two Stories of Miracles of San Nicola, now displayed to the parish church of Sant'Andrea after the suppression of the Augustinian church.
He painted an altarpiece depicting the Holy Trinity for the church of Gandino; in Lovere, in the ancient church of Santa Maria di Valvendra, aSt Francis of Assisi, and a large painting depicting Presentation of Jesus at the Temple. The Pinacoteca Tadini in Lovere displays two of his works: a Dead Christ between the Madonna and Mary Magdalene and a St Michael''.
Altarpieces are found in Santi Faustino e Giovita, Brescia and in the parishes of Quintano (Cremona) and Santa Maria Assunta, Ombriano.
Before he completed the large decorative works of the Palazzo Terzi and Palazzo Moroni in Bergamo and the rooms of the castle of Cavemago, Barbelli had already demonstrated excellent knowledge of perspective in painting rooms of Crema and Cremasco buildings, sucha as in: villa Tensini (now Sabadini), Santa Maria della Croce, Premoli palace in Crema, and villa Vimercati Sanseverino (formerly Benzoni) in Vaiano Cremasco.
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Banksia ser. Quercinae is a valid botanic name for a series of Banksia. First published by Carl Meissner in 1856, the name has had three circumscriptions.
According to Meissner
B. ser. Quercinae was first published in 1856, in Carl Meissner's chapter on the Proteaceae in A. P. de Candolle's Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis. It was one of four series into which the subgenus Eubanksia was divided. These four series were defined in terms of leaf characters, with series Quercinae containing the species with strongly dentate, cuneate to obovate leaves. As they were defined on leaf characters alone, all of Meissner's series were highly heterogeneous.
The placement and circumscription of B. ser. Quercinae in Meissner's arrangement may be summarised as follows:
Banksia
B. sect. Eubanksia
B. ser. Abietinae (8 species, 1 variety)
B. ser. Salicinae (23 species, 8 varieties)
B. ser. Quercinae
B. coccinea
B. sceptrum
B. Baueri
B. ornata
B. latifolia (now B. robur)
B. marcescens (now B. praemorsa)
B. oblongifolia
B. serrata
B. æmula
B. Caleyi
B. caleyi var. sinuosa (now B. caleyi)
B. Lemanniana
B. quercifolia
B. dentata
B. prostrata (now B. gardneri)
B. Goodii
B. barbigera
B. repens
B. Solandri
B. solandri var. major (now B. solandri)
B. ser. Dryandroideae (8 species)
B. sect. Isostylis (1 species)
Meissner's arrangement was current until 1870, when George Bentham published his arrangement, discarding all four of Meissner's series.
According to George
In 1981, Alex George published a thorough revision of Banksia in his classic monograph The genus Banksia L.f. (Proteaceae). He reinstated B. ser. Quercinae, placing it within B. sect. Banksia, and redefining it as containing those species with awned perianths, and beaked follicles. Initially, the series contained three species, but in 1988 George moved B. baueri (Woolly Orange Banksia) into its own series, B. ser. Bauerinae, leaving just B. quercifolia (Oak-leaved Banksia) and B. oreophila (Western Mountain Banksia) in B. ser. Quercinae.
The placement and circumscription of B. ser. Quercinae in George's taxonomic arrangement of Banksia may be summarised as follows:
Banksia
B. subg. Banksia
B. sect. Banksia
B. ser. Salicinae (11 species, 7 subspecies)
B. ser. Grandes (2 species)
B. ser. Banksia (8 species)
B. ser. Crocinae (4 species)
B. ser. Prostratae (6 species, 3 varieties)
B. ser. Cyrtostylis (13 species, 2 subspecies)
B. ser. Tetragonae (3 species)
B. ser. Bauerinae (1 species)
B. ser. Quercinae
B. quercifolia
B. oreophila
B. sect. Coccinea (1 species)
B. sect. Oncostylis (3 series, 22 species, 4 subspecies, 11 varieties)
B. subg. Isostylis (3 species)
According to Thiele and Ladiges
In 1996, Kevin Thiele and Pauline Ladiges undertook a cladistic analysis of morphological characters of Banksia, which yielded a phylogeny somewhat at odds with George's taxonomic arrangement. B. ser. Quercinae was found to be monophyletic, though quite closely related to B. ser. Spicigerae. They therefore retained the series, placing it next to B. ser. Spicigerae in their arrangement.
The placement and circumscription of B. ser. Quercinae in Thiele and Ladiges' arrangement may be summarised as follows:
Banksia
B. subg. Isostylis (3 species)
B. elegans (incertae sedis)
B. subg. Banksia
B. ser. Tetragonae (4 species)
B. ser. Lindleyanae (1 species)
B. ser. Banksia (2 subseries, 12 species)
B. baueri (incertae sedis)
B. lullfitzii (incertae sedis)
B. attenuata (incertae sedis)
B. ashbyi (incertae sedis)
B. coccinea (incertae sedis)
B. ser. Prostratae (8 species)
B. ser. Cyrtostylis (4 species)
B. ser. Ochraceae (3 species, 2 subspecies)
B. ser. Grandes (2 species)
B. ser. Salicinae (2 subseries, 11 species, 4 subspecies)
B. ser. Spicigerae (3 subseries, 7 species, 6 varieties)
B. ser. Quercinae
B. quercifolia
B. oreophila
B. ser. Dryandroideae (1 species)
B. ser. Abietinae (4 subseries, 15 species, 8 varieties)
Thiele and Ladiges' arrangement remained current only until 1999, when George's treatment of the genus for the Flora of Australia series of monographs was published. This was essentially a revision of George's 1981 arrangement, which took into account some of Thiele and Ladiges' data, but rejected their overall arrangement. With respect to B. ser. Quercinae, George's 1999 arrangement was no different from that of 1988.
Recent developments
Since 1998, Austin Mast has been publishing results of ongoing cladistic analyses of DNA sequence data for the subtribe Banksiinae. His analyses suggest a phylogeny that is very greatly different from George's taxonomic arrangement, including finding Banksia to be paraphyletic with respect to Dryandra. With respect to B. ser. Quercinae, however, Mast's analysis concurs with previous arrangements, placing its two species alone in a clade that is fairly widely separated from other clades.
Early in 2007 Mast and Thiele initiated a rearrangement of Banksia by transferring Dryandra into it, and publishing B. subg. Spathulatae for the species having spoon-shaped cotyledons. The members of B. ser. Quercinae fall within B. subg. Spathulatae, but no further details have been proffered. Mast and Thiele have foreshadowed publishing a full arrangement once DNA sampling of Dryandra is complete.
References
External links
ser.Quercinae
Eudicots of Western Australia
Plant series
Taxa named by Carl Meissner |
Kumbakonam was a Lok Sabha constituency in Tamil Nadu. It existed from 1951 to 1977 when it was abolished
Assembly segments
Kumbakonam Lok Sabha constituency was previously composed of the following assembly segments:
Kumbakonam
Thiruvaiyaru
Valangaimaan
Papanasam
Aduthurai
Jayankondam
Members of the Parliament
Election results
General election 1971
General election 1967
General election 1962
General election 1957
General election 1952
References
Election Commission of India
See also
Kumbakonam
List of constituencies of the Lok Sabha
Thanjavur district
Constituencies disestablished in 1977
Former Lok Sabha constituencies of Tamil Nadu
Former constituencies of the Lok Sabha |
This list includes properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Cumberland County, North Carolina, United States. Click the "Map of all coordinates" link to the right to view a Google map of all properties and districts with latitude and longitude coordinates in the table below.
Current listings
|}
Former listings
|}
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in North Carolina
List of National Historic Landmarks in North Carolina
References
Cumberland County, North Carolina
Cumberland County |
Kaulana Noa (born December 29, 1976) is a former an American football offensive guard. He was selected by the St. Louis Rams in the fourth round of the 2000 NFL Draft with the 104th overall pick.
College career
Noa was a four-year starter, primarily at right tackle at the University of Hawaii, lettering each year from 1996 through 1999.
Professional career
Pre-draft
St. Louis Rams
Noa was on the St. Louis Rams practice squad in 2000 and 2001.
References
External links
1976 births
Living people
American football offensive guards
St. Louis Rams players
People from Hawaii (island)
Players of American football from Hawaii |
Bill Jackson or Billy Jackson may refer to:
Sports
Bill Jackson (first baseman) (1881–1958), professional baseball player, 1914–1915
Bill Jackson (pitcher) (fl. 1890–1906), pitcher and outfielder for early minor leagues and Negro leagues
Billy Jackson (boxer), British boxer
Bill Jackson (Australian footballer) (1874–1921), Australian rules footballer
Bill Jackson (footballer, born 1894) (1894–1917), English footballer
Bill Jackson (American football) (born 1960), former professional American football defensive back
Billy Jackson (American football) (born 1959), former professional American football running back
Bill Jackson (bowls) (born 1915), Rhodesian lawn bowler
Billy Jackson (bowls) (born 1970), English bowls player
Billy Jackson (footballer) (1902–1974), English footballer
Other
Billy Morrow Jackson (1926–2006), American painter
Bill Jackson (photographer) (born 1953), English photographer
Bill Jackson (politician) (born 1932), U.S. state senator from Georgia
Bill Jackson (television personality) (1935–2022), American television personality, cartoonist, and educator
Billie Jackson, EastEnders character, also called Billy Jackson
See also
William Jackson (disambiguation)
Will Jackson (disambiguation) |
Simmtronics Infotech Pvt. Ltd is a multinational technology company, headquartered in India, operating in the segments of computer hardware manufacturing and development. It sells and supports computer related products such as Laptop Ram, Desktop Ram, Pen drive, and Micro SD cards.
Simmtronics also processes, tests and resells hard disk drives under its label, originally manufactured by other suppliers (eg. Western Digital, Seagate). The company was founded in Delhi, India
Simmtronics has sales and subsidiary offices in Algeria, France, Mauritius, Macedonia, Nepal, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States, Vietnam and U.A.E.
History
In December 2010, VIA Technologies tied-up with Simmtronics as Exclusive Manufacturing and Distribution Partner for 'VIA pc-1' Mainboards in India, covering 15 other countries in SAARC, Middle East and Africa.
Products
The company's products include:
Desktop Ram
Laptop Ram
Pen Drive/Flash Drive
Micro SD Card
References
External links
Computer companies of India
Computer hardware companies
Computer memory companies
Electronics companies of India
Mobile phone manufacturers
Manufacturing companies based in Delhi
Computer companies established in 1992
Electronics companies established in 1992
Software companies established in 1992
Indian brands |
```swift
import Foundation
import CoreBluetooth
class RxCBPeripheral: RxPeripheralType {
let peripheral: CBPeripheral
private let internalDelegate: InternalPeripheralDelegate
init(peripheral: CBPeripheral) {
self.peripheral = peripheral
internalDelegate = RxCBPeripheral.getInternalPeripheralDelegateRef(cbPeripheral: peripheral)
}
deinit {
RxCBPeripheral.putInternalPeripheralDelegateRef(cbPeripheral: peripheral)
}
var identifier: UUID {
return peripheral.value(forKey: "identifier") as! NSUUID as UUID
}
var objectId: UInt {
return UInt(bitPattern: ObjectIdentifier(peripheral))
}
var name: String? {
return peripheral.name
}
var state: CBPeripheralState {
return peripheral.state
}
var services: [RxServiceType]? {
return peripheral.services?.compactMap(RxCBService.init)
}
var canSendWriteWithoutResponse: Bool {
// Although available since iOS 11.0, on versions < iOS 11.2 canSendWriteWithoutResponse will always
// return false (on first try). We work around this issue by always returning true for < iOS 11.2.
// See: path_to_url
if #available(iOS 11.2, *) {
return peripheral.canSendWriteWithoutResponse
} else {
return true
}
}
var rx_didUpdateName: Observable<String?> {
return internalDelegate.peripheralDidUpdateNameSubject
}
var rx_didModifyServices: Observable<([RxServiceType])> {
return internalDelegate.peripheralDidModifyServicesSubject
}
var rx_didReadRSSI: Observable<(Int, Error?)> {
return internalDelegate.peripheralDidReadRSSISubject
}
var rx_didDiscoverServices: Observable<([RxServiceType]?, Error?)> {
return internalDelegate.peripheralDidDiscoverServicesSubject
}
var rx_didDiscoverIncludedServicesForService: Observable<(RxServiceType, Error?)> {
return internalDelegate.peripheralDidDiscoverIncludedServicesForServiceSubject
}
var rx_didDiscoverCharacteristicsForService: Observable<(RxServiceType, Error?)> {
return internalDelegate.peripheralDidDiscoverCharacteristicsForServiceSubject
}
var rx_didUpdateValueForCharacteristic: Observable<(RxCharacteristicType, Error?)> {
return internalDelegate.peripheralDidUpdateValueForCharacteristicSubject
}
var rx_didWriteValueForCharacteristic: Observable<(RxCharacteristicType, Error?)> {
return internalDelegate.peripheralDidWriteValueForCharacteristicSubject
}
var rx_didUpdateNotificationStateForCharacteristic: Observable<(RxCharacteristicType, Error?)> {
return internalDelegate.peripheralDidUpdateNotificationStateForCharacteristicSubject
}
var rx_didDiscoverDescriptorsForCharacteristic: Observable<(RxCharacteristicType, Error?)> {
return internalDelegate.peripheralDidDiscoverDescriptorsForCharacteristicSubject
}
var rx_didUpdateValueForDescriptor: Observable<(RxDescriptorType, Error?)> {
return internalDelegate.peripheralDidUpdateValueForDescriptorSubject
}
var rx_didWriteValueForDescriptor: Observable<(RxDescriptorType, Error?)> {
return internalDelegate.peripheralDidWriteValueForDescriptorSubject
}
var rx_isReadyToSendWriteWithoutResponse: Observable<Bool> {
return internalDelegate.peripheralIsReadyToSendWriteWithoutResponseSubject
}
func discoverServices(_ serviceUUIDs: [CBUUID]?) {
RxBluetoothKitLog.d("""
\(peripheral.logDescription) discoverServices(
serviceUUIDs: \(String(describing: serviceUUIDs?.logDescription)))
""")
peripheral.discoverServices(serviceUUIDs)
}
func discoverCharacteristics(_ characteristicUUIDs: [CBUUID]?, for service: RxServiceType) {
let cbService = (service as! RxCBService).service
RxBluetoothKitLog.d("""
\(peripheral.logDescription) discoverCharacteristics(
characteristicUUIDs: \(String(describing: characteristicUUIDs?.logDescription)),
for: \(cbService.logDescription))
""")
peripheral.discoverCharacteristics(characteristicUUIDs, for: cbService)
}
func discoverIncludedServices(_ includedServiceUUIDs: [CBUUID]?, for service: RxServiceType) {
let cbService = (service as! RxCBService).service
RxBluetoothKitLog.d("""
\(peripheral.logDescription) discoverIncludedServices(
includedServiceUUIDs: \(String(describing: includedServiceUUIDs?.logDescription)),
for: \(cbService.logDescription))
""")
peripheral.discoverIncludedServices(includedServiceUUIDs, for: cbService)
}
func readValue(for characteristic: RxCharacteristicType) {
let cbcharacteristic = (characteristic as! RxCBCharacteristic).characteristic
RxBluetoothKitLog.d("""
\(peripheral.logDescription) readValue(
for: \(cbcharacteristic.logDescription))
""")
peripheral.readValue(for: cbcharacteristic)
}
func writeValue(_ data: Data,
for characteristic: RxCharacteristicType,
type: CBCharacteristicWriteType) {
let cbcharacteristic = (characteristic as! RxCBCharacteristic).characteristic
RxBluetoothKitLog.d("""
\(peripheral.logDescription) writeValue(
data: \(data.logDescription),
for: \(cbcharacteristic.logDescription),
type: \(type.logDescription))
""")
peripheral.writeValue(data, for: cbcharacteristic, type: type)
}
func setNotifyValue(_ enabled: Bool, for characteristic: RxCharacteristicType) {
let cbcharacteristic = (characteristic as! RxCBCharacteristic).characteristic
RxBluetoothKitLog.d("""
\(peripheral.logDescription) setNotifyValue(
enabled: \(enabled),
for: \(cbcharacteristic.logDescription))
""")
peripheral.setNotifyValue(enabled, for: cbcharacteristic)
}
func discoverDescriptors(for characteristic: RxCharacteristicType) {
let cbcharacteristic = (characteristic as! RxCBCharacteristic).characteristic
RxBluetoothKitLog.d("""
\(peripheral.logDescription) discoverDescriptors(
for: \(cbcharacteristic.logDescription))
""")
peripheral.discoverDescriptors(for: cbcharacteristic)
}
func readValue(for descriptor: RxDescriptorType) {
let cbdescriptor = (descriptor as! RxCBDescriptor).descriptor
RxBluetoothKitLog.d("""
\(peripheral.logDescription) readValue(
for: \(cbdescriptor.logDescription))
""")
peripheral.readValue(for: cbdescriptor)
}
@available(OSX 10.12, iOS 9.0, *)
func maximumWriteValueLength(for type: CBCharacteristicWriteType) -> Int {
return peripheral.maximumWriteValueLength(for: type)
}
func writeValue(_ data: Data, for descriptor: RxDescriptorType) {
let cbdescriptor = (descriptor as! RxCBDescriptor).descriptor
RxBluetoothKitLog.d("""
\(peripheral.logDescription) writeValue(
data: \(data.logDescription),
for: \(cbdescriptor.logDescription))
""")
peripheral.writeValue(data, for: cbdescriptor)
}
func readRSSI() {
RxBluetoothKitLog.d("\(peripheral.logDescription) readRSSI()")
peripheral.readRSSI()
}
@objc fileprivate class InternalPeripheralDelegate: NSObject, CBPeripheralDelegate {
let peripheralDidUpdateNameSubject = PublishSubject<String?>()
let peripheralDidModifyServicesSubject = PublishSubject<([RxServiceType])>()
let peripheralDidReadRSSISubject = PublishSubject<(Int, Error?)>()
let peripheralDidDiscoverServicesSubject = PublishSubject<([RxServiceType]?, Error?)>()
let peripheralDidDiscoverIncludedServicesForServiceSubject = PublishSubject<(RxServiceType, Error?)>()
let peripheralDidDiscoverCharacteristicsForServiceSubject = PublishSubject<(RxServiceType, Error?)>()
let peripheralDidUpdateValueForCharacteristicSubject = PublishSubject<(RxCharacteristicType, Error?)>()
let peripheralDidWriteValueForCharacteristicSubject = PublishSubject<(RxCharacteristicType, Error?)>()
let peripheralDidUpdateNotificationStateForCharacteristicSubject =
PublishSubject<(RxCharacteristicType, Error?)>()
let peripheralDidDiscoverDescriptorsForCharacteristicSubject =
PublishSubject<(RxCharacteristicType, Error?)>()
let peripheralDidUpdateValueForDescriptorSubject = PublishSubject<(RxDescriptorType, Error?)>()
let peripheralDidWriteValueForDescriptorSubject = PublishSubject<(RxDescriptorType, Error?)>()
let peripheralIsReadyToSendWriteWithoutResponseSubject = PublishSubject<Bool>()
@objc func peripheralDidUpdateName(_ peripheral: CBPeripheral) {
RxBluetoothKitLog.d("""
\(peripheral.logDescription) didUpdateName(name: \(String(describing: peripheral.name)))
""")
peripheralDidUpdateNameSubject.onNext(peripheral.name)
}
@objc func peripheral(_ peripheral: CBPeripheral, didModifyServices invalidatedServices: [CBService]) {
RxBluetoothKitLog.d("""
\(peripheral.logDescription) didModifyServices(services:
[\(invalidatedServices.logDescription))]
""")
peripheralDidModifyServicesSubject.onNext(invalidatedServices.compactMap(RxCBService.init))
}
@objc func peripheral(_ peripheral: CBPeripheral, didReadRSSI rssi: NSNumber, error: Error?) {
RxBluetoothKitLog.d("""
\(peripheral.logDescription) didReadRSSI(rssi: \(rssi),
error: \(String(describing: error)))
""")
peripheralDidReadRSSISubject.onNext((rssi.intValue, error))
}
@objc func peripheral(_ peripheral: CBPeripheral, didDiscoverServices error: Error?) {
RxBluetoothKitLog.d("""
\(peripheral.logDescription) didDiscoverServices(services
: \(String(describing: peripheral.services?.logDescription)),
error: \(String(describing: error)))
""")
peripheralDidDiscoverServicesSubject.onNext((peripheral.services?.compactMap(RxCBService.init), error))
}
@objc func peripheral(_ peripheral: CBPeripheral,
didDiscoverIncludedServicesFor service: CBService,
error: Error?) {
RxBluetoothKitLog.d("""
\(peripheral.logDescription) didDiscoverIncludedServices(for:
\(service.logDescription), includedServices:
\(String(describing: service.includedServices?.logDescription)),
error: \(String(describing: error)))
""")
peripheralDidDiscoverIncludedServicesForServiceSubject.onNext((RxCBService(service: service), error))
}
@objc func peripheral(_ peripheral: CBPeripheral,
didDiscoverCharacteristicsFor service: CBService,
error: Error?) {
RxBluetoothKitLog.d("""
\(peripheral.logDescription) didDiscoverCharacteristicsFor(for:
\(service.logDescription), characteristics:
\(String(describing: service.characteristics?.logDescription)),
error: \(String(describing: error)))
""")
peripheralDidDiscoverCharacteristicsForServiceSubject.onNext((RxCBService(service: service), error))
}
@objc func peripheral(_ peripheral: CBPeripheral,
didUpdateValueFor characteristic: CBCharacteristic,
error: Error?) {
RxBluetoothKitLog.d("""
\(peripheral.logDescription) didUpdateValueFor(for:\(characteristic.logDescription),
value: \(String(describing: characteristic.value?.logDescription)),
error: \(String(describing: error)))
""")
peripheralDidUpdateValueForCharacteristicSubject
.onNext((RxCBCharacteristic(characteristic: characteristic), error))
}
@objc func peripheral(_ peripheral: CBPeripheral,
didWriteValueFor characteristic: CBCharacteristic,
error: Error?) {
RxBluetoothKitLog.d("""
\(peripheral.logDescription) didWriteValueFor(for:\(characteristic.logDescription),
value: \(String(describing: characteristic.value?.logDescription)),
error: \(String(describing: error)))
""")
peripheralDidWriteValueForCharacteristicSubject
.onNext((RxCBCharacteristic(characteristic: characteristic), error))
}
@objc func peripheral(_ peripheral: CBPeripheral,
didUpdateNotificationStateFor characteristic: CBCharacteristic,
error: Error?) {
RxBluetoothKitLog.d("""
\(peripheral.logDescription) didUpdateNotificationStateFor(
for:\(characteristic.logDescription), isNotifying: \(characteristic.isNotifying),
error: \(String(describing: error)))
""")
peripheralDidUpdateNotificationStateForCharacteristicSubject
.onNext((RxCBCharacteristic(characteristic: characteristic), error))
}
@objc func peripheral(_ peripheral: CBPeripheral,
didDiscoverDescriptorsFor characteristic: CBCharacteristic,
error: Error?) {
RxBluetoothKitLog.d("""
\(peripheral.logDescription) didDiscoverDescriptorsFor
(for:\(characteristic.logDescription), descriptors:
\(String(describing: characteristic.descriptors?.logDescription)),
error: \(String(describing: error)))
""")
peripheralDidDiscoverDescriptorsForCharacteristicSubject
.onNext((RxCBCharacteristic(characteristic: characteristic), error))
}
@objc func peripheral(_ peripheral: CBPeripheral,
didUpdateValueFor descriptor: CBDescriptor,
error: Error?) {
RxBluetoothKitLog.d("""
\(peripheral.logDescription) didUpdateValueFor(for:\(descriptor.logDescription),
value: \(String(describing: descriptor.value)), error: \(String(describing: error)))
""")
peripheralDidUpdateValueForDescriptorSubject.onNext((RxCBDescriptor(descriptor: descriptor), error))
}
@objc func peripheral(_ peripheral: CBPeripheral,
didWriteValueFor descriptor: CBDescriptor,
error: Error?) {
RxBluetoothKitLog.d("""
\(peripheral.logDescription) didWriteValueFor(for:\(descriptor.logDescription),
error: \(String(describing: error)))
""")
peripheralDidWriteValueForDescriptorSubject.onNext((RxCBDescriptor(descriptor: descriptor), error))
}
@objc func peripheralIsReady(toSendWriteWithoutResponse peripheral: CBPeripheral) {
//resolve build errors with XCode 11 / iOS 13
let canSendWriteWithoutResponse: Bool
if #available(iOS 11.2, *) {
canSendWriteWithoutResponse = peripheral.canSendWriteWithoutResponse
} else {
canSendWriteWithoutResponse = true
}
RxBluetoothKitLog.d("\(peripheral.logDescription) peripheralIsReady(toSendWriteWithoutResponse:\(canSendWriteWithoutResponse)")
peripheralIsReadyToSendWriteWithoutResponseSubject.onNext(canSendWriteWithoutResponse)
}
}
fileprivate class InternalPeripheralDelegateWrapper {
fileprivate let delegate: InternalPeripheralDelegate
fileprivate var refCount: Int
fileprivate init(delegate: InternalPeripheralDelegate) {
self.delegate = delegate
refCount = 1
}
}
private static let internalPeripheralDelegateWrappersLock = NSLock()
private static var internalPeripheralDelegateWrappers = [CBPeripheral: InternalPeripheralDelegateWrapper]()
private static func getInternalPeripheralDelegateRef(cbPeripheral: CBPeripheral) -> InternalPeripheralDelegate {
internalPeripheralDelegateWrappersLock.lock(); defer { internalPeripheralDelegateWrappersLock.unlock() }
if let wrapper = internalPeripheralDelegateWrappers[cbPeripheral] {
wrapper.refCount += 1
return wrapper.delegate
} else {
let delegate = InternalPeripheralDelegate()
cbPeripheral.delegate = delegate
internalPeripheralDelegateWrappers[cbPeripheral] = InternalPeripheralDelegateWrapper(delegate: delegate)
return delegate
}
}
fileprivate static func putInternalPeripheralDelegateRef(cbPeripheral: CBPeripheral) {
internalPeripheralDelegateWrappersLock.lock(); defer { internalPeripheralDelegateWrappersLock.unlock() }
if let wrapper = internalPeripheralDelegateWrappers[cbPeripheral] {
wrapper.refCount -= 1
if wrapper.refCount == 0 {
cbPeripheral.delegate = nil
internalPeripheralDelegateWrappers[cbPeripheral] = nil
}
} else {
fatalError("Implementation error: internal delegate for CBPeripheral is cached in memory")
}
}
}
``` |
Spin welding is a form of friction welding used to join thermoplastic parts. The parts to be welded must be round, and in plane with each other. Like all other welding methods this process utilizes heat, time, and pressure to create a weld joint. Heat is generated via internal friction generated between the two parts when rotating and subjected to a load normal to the weld joint. This frictional heat causes the plastic to melt and a bond to be created.
Due to this process's high speeds, and high repeat ability it is favored for a high production environment. This process was initially used to weld plastic compasses under a liquid to allow the internal parts of the compass to be filled with the liquid, but it is used in a very wide range of industries and applications.
Spin welding equipment
Spin welding machines come in two different types an inertia welding machine, and a continuous drive machine. In general, one of the parts to be welded is clamped in place, while the other is rotated. Spin welding machines consist of two tool fixtures; fixed tooling, and a driven tooling.
Tooling
The tooling in the spin welding machine provides support for the materials being joined while under heat and pressure. Tooling can be made of metal, such as aluminum, or epoxy molding compounds depending on how the tooling will be used. Guards may be incorporated into the tooling to prevent molten material or parts from being ejected.
Lower tooling
The lower tooling, sometimes referred to as the "nest", supports one of the parts to be welded. The part is usually placed in the nest with the walls supporting the component as close to the joint as possible to prevent distortion of the part during joining.
Upper tooling
Depending on the design of the machine, the upper tooling may hold a part to be joined or simply apply the necessary pressure and impart rotation to one of the parts being joined. For parts that held in place by the upper tooling prior to the start of welding, press fitting the part will prevent dropping prior to welding. Drive pins, serrations, or a grit blasted finish may be used to help the upper tooling impart rotational force on the part.
Inertia welding machines
Inertia welding machines use a motor to spin the parts to a set RPM, and then disengages the motor and relies on the internal friction of the parts to slow down the machine again. The inertial energy contained in the machine's flywheel is transferred to the weld interface through the parts. There are also two different designs for inertia welding machines. One such design disengages the clamped part, and allows the whole part to rotate until slowing to a stop, while another allows the parts to continue to rotate until cooling and solidification stops the rotation.
Continuous drive welding machines
Continuous drive machines operate under the same principle of using a motor to spin the part up to a user determined RPM, but instead of disengaging the drive when welding begins it continues to spin the part through the whole welding cycle. The rotation is stopped via a mechanical braking system that halts the machine either gradually or instantly, this depends on the system.
Process steps
This section outlines the overall steps of the spin welding process. This is a description of what is might be observed in a production setting when using the spin welding process.
Part preparation and loading
Normally parts are loaded into a holding fixture. The parts may be placed in the base of the welding machine or for larger assemblies, one half may be placed in the upper fixture of the welding machine. This process can be accomplished in 2 to 5 seconds when manually loading parts
Press actuation
The drive motors are activated, and begin to spin The speed of the drive motors can vary, based on the application, from 200 to 14,000 rpm, with a normal speed of 2,000 rpm. The drives then engage the part to be welded. This step normally only takes 1 to 2 seconds.
Welding
The welding step consists of four main sub-steps which describe how the heat generated from friction melts the parts at their interface. These steps can be described as follows:
Phase 1
Friction between parts begins due to rotation from motor and the downward pressure. Heat is generated until the glass transition temperature, for amorphous polymers or the melting temperature, for semicrystalline polymers, is reached.
Phase 2
Part melting begins; material is melted and part of the melted material is extruded into the "flash".
Phase 3
A steady state is reached between the melt layer and the amount of material squeezed into the flash. The spinning is then stopped.
Phase 4
While the joint cools, the parts are held in contact with each other, under pressure. This ensures a solid mating at the joint while the molten material cools.
Phases 1 through 3 are usually completed in 0.5 to 2 seconds, with an additional 1 to 2 seconds required for Phase 4.
Part removal
After weld solidification, parts are removed and any required post processing is conducted to remove the flash. Step 4 normally takes 2 to 5 seconds to complete.
Joint design
When designing a weld joint, multiple factors are considered. Some examples of those factors include: desired weld strength, geometry of the parts, material being welded, cosmetic of the joint, whether post processing is an option or not. It is important to balance all of these factors to achieve the optimal final part.
In spin welding the most consistent variable is that at least one of the parts needs to be circular for this process to be effective. The simplest joint design in most processes, spin welding included, is a butt joint. This can be used when final part flash is acceptable, this is because there will always be internal flash as well as external flash. A separate process will need to be conducted to remove said flash, and often time the internal flash will be impossible to remove. Due to this, alternative geometries can be used that incorporate flash traps.
Other joints often utilize self-centering geometries such as angled faces, which act as pre-weld sites, and also increase the overall welding area of the joint. Also of note is the fact that when using this form of weld joint a flash trap will be difficult to utilize.
Heat generation
Spin welding utilizes internal heat generation which is created from friction between the two parts being welded. In its simplest form spin welding utilizes three input parameters to vary the welding process. These three parameters can be varied to change the heat generation rate as well. Parameters include: weld RPM, weld pressure, and weld time. Alternatively, other factors such as cooing time, displacement, and braking speed are possible parameters that can be altered depending on the system.
Welding time
Welding time is defined as how long the parts are rotated while in contact. While welding time does not directly affect the overall heat generation rate, it is an influential factor on how much overall heat is generated throughout the welding process. Usually when utilizing this process there is a threshold time that is necessary to reach a steady state for heat generation. This steady state is defined by when the amount of material melted is equal to the amount of material expelled by the welding pressure. To achieve a quality weld this steady state must be reached for a uniform melt layer.
Weld rotations per minute (RPM)
The most influential factor when trying to increase heat generation or generation rate is the welding RPM. Several experiments have been conducted, and in general the higher the RPM of the part the more heat that will be generated. This combined with welding time will help to determine the overall heat generated in the weld.
Generally, rotation speeds can be varied between 200-14000 RPM depending on the part and application. RPM is the main input parameter to determine heat generation in the part.
When using an inertia spin welding consideration must also be given to the run up time in order to ensure that the drive head is operating at the proper speed prior to engaging the parts.
When using direct-drive spin welding an optimum RPM should be chosen based on the optimal linear speed of the materials being joined. The required RPM can be calculated using the following equation:
Weld pressure
Pressure also plays a role in heat generation, it is normally a secondary parameter. In general, the higher the pressure the more heat that is generated during welding. This is due to the increase in friction by increasing contact between the parts, this falls off when the pressures become so high that the parts are unable to rotate. [Thermoplastic welding will normally use weld pressures between 72.5 psi and 290 psi.
Welding pressure is a parameter determined by the size and area of the part being welded, larger parts require higher pressures to reach the required amount of part upset.
Mathematical analysis of heat generation
During the spin welding process there are two main phases for heat generation. The initial phase, or the solid phase is when the bulk of the heating in the part is caused by the two solid parts rubbing against one another. The heat generation can be modeled by the following:
Where q is the heat generation rate, f is the coefficient of friction, r is the radius of the parts being welded, and ω is related to rpm by the following:
Where Ω is the RPM of the parts being welded.
The Second phase of heat generation is phase 3 of the weld, or the steady-state phase. This is the phase of the process where there is a constant film of molten plastic at the interphase, and viscous heating is dominant. The heat generation can be modeled by the following:
Where is the viscosity of the molten polymer, r is the part radius, ω is related to the RPM as above, and 2h is the thickness of the melt layer.
Materials
The spin welding process can adequately join almost all thermoplastic polymers. Typical with friction welding applications, higher melting temperature materials will require more energy to melt, so they will require more welding time or higher RPMs. Common additives and filler will often alter the weldability of polymers. These additions can make the weld process more difficult, or change the intended properties of the weld.
A note on composite materials, fiber reinforced for example. The reinforcement material will not cross the weld joint, so the intended bulk material properties will vary drastically in the welded region.
A list showing the weldability of common materials is shown below:
Applications
Spin welding creates a clean and sound weld joint that requires little post processing. Due to this most parts being welded are in the final stages of production, or are in final assembly.
The first known application of spin welding was in the assembly of compasses, however spin welding has become used in a wide variety of products. These products include but are not limited to fuel filters, check valves, truck lights, aerosol cylinders, and floats, as well as some structural components, piping, tanks, and containers.
Advantages
Simple process and equipment
Relatively short cycle times
Not greatly affected by surface preparation
Energy efficient
Little excess heat generation
Short cooling times
No foreign material entry in joint
Size of parts joined is only limited by equipment
Inertia spin welders are inexpensive
Disadvantages
Limited to circular joints
Direct drive spin welders are expensive
References
Plastic welding |
During the 2005–06 German football season, FC Schalke 04 competed in the Bundesliga.
Season summary
The 2005-06 season was one of ups and downs for Schalke. The club only dropped two points more compared to the previous season, but this was only good enough to see Schalke finish in 4th. Schalke also exited the Champions League at the group stage, though there was little shame in elimination given that they were placed in the same group as last season's runners-up AC Milan and semi-finalists PSV Eindhoven. Schalke compensated with a great run to the UEFA Cup semi-final, with eventual champions Sevilla needing extra time to overcome the Germans. Less flattering was Schalke's domestic cup form, with the club thrashed by eventual finalists Frankfurt 6-0 in the second round. This humiliation, along with the mediocre league form, saw coach Ralf Rangnick sacked in December, with Mirko Slomka appointed as his replacement in early January.
First-team squad
Squad at end of season
Left club during season
Competitions
Bundesliga
League table
DFB-Pokal
First round
Second round
UEFA Champions League
Group stage
UEFA Cup
Knockout phase
Round of 32
Round of 16
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
References
Notes
FC Schalke 04 seasons
FC Schalke 04 |
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Deferrisoma palaeochoriense is a thermophilic, anaerobic and mixotrophic bacterium from the genus of Deferrisoma which has been isolated from a hydrothermal vent from the Palaeochori Bay from Greece.
References
Thermodesulfobacteriota
Bacteria described in 2016 |
Gayle Tierney is an Australian politician. She has been a Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Council since November 2006, representing Western Victoria Region.
Tierney was the minister for training and skills from November 2016, the minister for higher education from November 2018, and the minister for agriculture from June 2022. She was also the minister for corrections between 2016 and 2018.
Early life
Tierney studied politics and Asian studies at Flinders University, before entering the trade union movement.
Notably, she was the first woman to become state secretary of the traditionally male-dominated Vehicle Division of the Automotive, Metals and Engineering Union (now part of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union), having in that role from 1993 to 2006, and was its federal president from 2000 to 2006.
Political career
Tierney entered politics at the 2006 state election.
She has held various positions including shadow parliamentary secretary for employment from 2012 to 2014 and cabinet secretary in 2016.
On 9 November 2016, Tierney was appointed as minister for corrections and minister for training and skills following the resignation of Steve Herbert.
Following the 2018 Victorian state election, she was re-appointed as minister for training and skills and appointed minister of higher education.
In 2020, Tierney was appointed deputy leader of the government in the Legislative Council. In June 2022, she was additionally appointed as minister for agriculture.
Tierney is a member of the Labor Left faction of the Labor Party.
Personal life
Tierney is married and has an adult son.
References
Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Victoria
Members of the Victorian Legislative Council
Labor Left politicians
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Flinders University alumni
21st-century Australian politicians
Women members of the Victorian Legislative Council
21st-century Australian women politicians
Ministers for Agriculture (Victoria)
Ministers for Higher Education (Victoria)
Ministers for Training and Skills (Victoria)
Ministers for Corrections (Victoria) |
The Bersih 2.0 rally (also called the Walk for Democracy) was a demonstration in Kuala Lumpur held on 9 July 2011 as a follow-up to the 2007 Bersih rally. The rally, organised by the Coalition for Clean and Fair Elections (Bersih), was supported by Pakatan Rakyat, the coalition of the three largest opposition parties in Malaysia, but was deemed illegal by the government. Bersih, chaired by former president of the Bar Council Ambiga Sreenevasan, were pushing the Election Commission of Malaysia (EC) to ensure free and fair elections in Malaysia. It demanded that the EC clean up the electoral roll, reform postal voting, use indelible ink, introduce a minimum 21-day campaign period, allow all parties free access to the media, and put an end to electoral fraud.
The police vowed to stop any rallies from taking place on the planned date on the grounds that all public gatherings without police permits are illegal. Having originally planned to march through the streets of Kuala Lumpur, Bersih decided to hold its rally at Merdeka Stadium after consultations with the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, Malaysia's head of state.
Supporters of Bersih claim that demands for electoral reform made during the 2007 demonstration fell on deaf ears. UMNO Youth and Perkasa planned counter-rallies, dismissing Bersih's demands for electoral reform, but Perkasa called off its counter-rally due to its inability to secure a venue and permit.
Estimates of the turnout ranged between 10,000 and over 20,000. The protesters were unable to congregate at Merdeka Stadium as many were forced to disperse by police who were heavily deployed throughout the city. Police arrested more than 1600 protesters, including Ambiga and several opposition figures.
Background
The ruling coalition in Malaysia, Barisan Nasional (BN), which consists of parties representing the major racial groups in Malaysia, has won every federal election since independence in 1957. Opposition parties and civil society organisations have long claimed that BN has been manipulating elections in its favour.
Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) deputy president Mohamad Sabu said there were many "concerns" about how the next general election will be conducted. He accused BN of cheating tactics, including registering foreign nationals as BN voters. PAS information chief Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man said the EC and the National Registration Department (NRD) "were committing abuses," and that there were "rampant media abuses." Democratic Action Party (DAP) member of parliament Teresa Kok accused BN of "gerrymandering" and "malapportioning" electoral constituencies. She also pointed out how the opposition parties' share of seats in parliament was a lot less than their share of the popular vote. Leader of the Opposition Anwar Ibrahim claimed that BN would lose power if elections were free and fair.
Civil society organisation Aliran claimed that there are "severe restrictions on political freedom" on opposition politicians in Malaysia. It highlighted structural problems such as access to the media, short notices of election dates, and short campaign periods. Human rights group SUARAM also claim abuses by the ruling party such as gerrymandering constituencies, using public funds for projects to win political support, and the "unscrutinised" counting of postal ballots. Transparency International's Malaysian branch, criticising both BN and opposition parties, spoke out against financial rewards promised by political parties to voters while campaigning, calling the practice "vote buying" and "corrupt."
Both the Election Commission and BN have denied allegations of abuse.
Protests in Malaysia
Street demonstrations are rare in Malaysia, but the public has become more vocal with the rise of alternative media and a resurgent opposition. Gatherings in Malaysia of five or more people must receive a police permit, which is rarely granted. The government has used heavy police presence to block rallies as well as arrest protest leaders to stop illegal public protests. Former prime minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said he was willing to sacrifice public freedoms in the interest of national stability. Four rallies in 2007 ended with arrests made by police. A protest in 2009 against the Internal Security Act was also broken up by tear gas and water cannons.
Bersih
Bersih, short for the Coalition for Clean and Fair Elections (), is a coalition of 62 non-governmental organisations founded in November 2006. Since its founding, Bersih has been supported by the three main opposition parties, Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR), PAS, and DAP. Bersih is the Malay word for "clean" in reference to the claims of large scale corruption in the leading party.
The first Bersih rally on 10 November 2007 was estimated to have drawn between 30,000 and 50,000 people. It was broken up by police using tear gas and chemical-laced water cannons. The rally was said to play a major role in helping the opposition parties make big gains in the 2008 general election.
Bersih 2.0, as the organisation branded itself for the 2011 rally, is chaired by former Bar Council president Ambiga Sreenevasan. Ambiga served as president of the Bar from 2007 to 2009 and is a recipient of the US State Department's International Women of Courage Awards.
Demands
Ambiga has summed up the main issues raised by the organisation she leads as "unhappiness... in the Sarawak [election], unhappiness about corruption, [and] unhappiness about the independence of our institutions." She said demands made during the first rally in 2007 have not been addressed, hence the follow-up rally.
The communiqué issued by Bersih issued in 2007 called for reforms to Malaysia's first-past-the-post electoral system, ensuring the independence of the Election Commission (EC), eliminating electoral practices deemed unfair to opposition candidates, eliminating corrupt campaign practices, equal access to the media for all political parties, and instituting a caretaker government during election periods, among others in the long term.
The 2011 rally's immediate demands were:
Clean the electoral roll
Reform postal voting
Use of indelible ink
A minimum campaign period of 21 days
Free and fair access to mainstream media
Strengthen public institutions
Stop corruption
Stop dirty politics
After agreeing to abandon plans for a street demonstration, Bersih also called for a Royal Commission into election practices.
Plans
The rally's original plan was to have protesters gather at the KL Sogo shopping center, Kuala Lumpur City Hall building, and the Kampung Baru Mosque before marching to the Istana Negara to deliver a memorandum to the Yang di-Pertuan Agong. After consultations with the King, Bersih decided to hold the rally in a stadium instead. However, their request to use Merdeka Stadium was rejected by police. Bersih accused the government of reneging on a previous offer to let them rally in a stadium instead of the streets.
Bersih insisted on gathering at Merdeka Stadium, despite preventative measures taken by police.
Abroad
Simultaneous rallies in support of Bersih were planned by Malaysian citizens in more than 30 cities in New Zealand, Australia, Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Egypt, Switzerland, Sweden, Austria, France, Great Britain, Ireland, Canada, the United States and Cambodia.
Lead-up to the rally
Announcement
After frustration at by being shut out of observing the April 2011 Sarawak election, Bersih announced in a press release on 26 May that it had decided to organise a gathering on 9 July to press for electoral reform.
Counter-rallies
Perkasa
Malay Supremacy movement Perkasa spoke out strongly against the rally. On 15 June, Perkasa announced that it had secured the support of over 30 non-governmental organisations and challenged Bersih organisers over who could stage a bigger rally on 9 July. It called on Bersih to cancel its rally, warning that clashes might occur. Perkasa president Ibrahim Ali warned "[If they proceed] there will be a clash. If that happens, it is for the better."
On 19 June, Perkasa held a gathering to protest the Bersih rally and to launch an opposing coalition of NGOs known as Gerak Aman. During the gathering, images of Ambiga—described by flyers as "a dangerous Hindu woman"—were burned, while Ibrahim warned the Chinese community not to participate in the Bersih rally.
On 8 July, Perkasa announced the cancellation of its counter-rally due to its inability to secure a venue and a police permit.
UMNO Youth
UMNO Youth leader Khairy Jamaluddin announced that UMNO Youth will hold another rally on the same day (known as the "Patriot Rally" or Himpunan Patriot) to "strengthen the democratic system" and show that "the voice of the people does not belong only to the opposition." He added that they had "a right to assembly guaranteed by the constitution."
Khairy and Ibrahim became involved in a war of words over the latter's comments on regarding the Chinese community, with each side calling for the other to be investigated under the Sedition Act. Ibrahim later backtracked from his comments.
UMNO Youth's plan was to gather at Bukit Bintang and possibly march towards Merdeka Stadium.
Election Commission reaction
Bersih's demands were repeatedly dismissed by the Election Commission (EC), who sought to tie the organisation to the opposition's agenda. EC deputy chairman Wan Ahmad Wan Omar claimed Bersih was working with Pakatan Rakyat to "overthrow the government." In turn, Ambiga criticised the EC's conduct, asking them to remain independent from politics.
On 20 June, the EC extended an offer to Bersih to meet and discuss its demands, on the condition that the rally be called off. He claimed that during a previous meeting with Bersih in 2010, it had agreed that its demands were met. Bersih rejected the EC's offer.
Speaking to reporters while observing the Thai general election in July, Abdul Aziz said the EC was considering allowing international observers to monitor the next Malaysian general election.
Government reaction
Prime minister Najib Razak warned that Bersih would be responsible if chaos ensued from the rally. Home Minister Hishamuddin Hussein warned against the rally, fearing the chaos that might ensue. He affirmed on 7 June that the rally was "illegal," and urged the organisers to call it off. He promised to clamp down on demonstrators if they threatened national security. On 22 June, he confirmed that none of the three rallies would receive police permits to hold gatherings on 9 July.
The government also outlawed the wearing and distribution of Bersih's yellow shirts and declared Bersih an illegal organisation under Section 5 of the Societies Act 1966. Bersih countered that as a coalition of groups it need not be registered.
Najib initially offered Bersih the opportunity of holding the rally in a stadium instead of the streets. The government later rejected Bersih's request to hold the rally at Merdeka Stadium, and asked them to use a stadium in Selangor instead. However, the Sultan of Selangor had previously condemned demonstrations.
Opposition reaction
PAS deputy president Mohamad Sabu gave the rally his party's full backing. Calling the event the "Walk for Democracy," he asked for 300,000 PAS members to attend the gathering. PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang ordered all of its members (numbering one million) to join the rally. The Leader of the Opposition, Anwar Ibrahim, will also take part in the rally. The DAP also pledged support for the rally.
On 19 June, Anwar reportedly told members of his Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) that he would ask Ambiga to cancel the rally if the government met Bersih's demands. His statement was rebuffed by Ambiga the following day. Anwar later claimed he was misquoted. This incident was criticised by ruling coalition parties, who have argued that the rally is in fact an opposition tool to gain support.
Non-governmental organisations
The Bersih rally was backed by the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (Suhakam), Transparency International Malaysia (TI-M), and the Malaysian Consultative Council of Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Sikhism and Taoism (MCCBCHST). The MCCBCHST also backed Perkasa and UMNO Youth's right to hold their rallies.
Amnesty International called on the government to end the "mass repression" of Bersih activists. Human Rights Watch urged the government to release all detained activists, return confiscated material, and permit the rally to proceed. Deputy Asia director Phil Robertson said "Governments that elected Malaysia to a second term on the UN Human Rights Council might feel duped."
The Asia-Europe Peoples' Forum (AEPF), consisting of 120 international NGOs, condemned the Malaysian government for the crackdown on activists.
International response
On 5 July, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights voiced concern about the restriction of freedom of expression in Malaysia and urged the government to release detained Bersih activists.
Threats of violence
On 23 June, Ambiga received a death threat via text message. She remained defiant, saying "nothing has changed" and the rally will go on.
The grandmaster of the Malaysian Silat Lincah Organisation (PSSLM) reportedly threatened to "wage war" against Bersih activists. Najib subsequently endorsed silat groups, including PSSLM.
Yang di-Pertuan Agong's intervention
Malaysia's head of state, the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin, issued a statement on 3 July urging moderation by all parties. He said "street demonstrations bring more bad than good although the original intention is good," and called for Bersih to resolve its differences with the government peacefully. He also expressed confidence in Prime Minister Najib Razak's administration.
Following an audience with the King, Ambiga announced that Bersih accepted the government's offer to hold the rally in a stadium instead of the streets. Despite Bersih's meeting with the King, the government maintained its stance that Bersih is illegal.
Police reports and reaction
At least 2,136 police reports, from business operators, travel agencies, and UMNO Youth, were filed against Bersih since the rally's announcement. On 15 June, the police announced that permits would not be issued for any rally, saying that the rallies would "disturb the peace" and "cause traffic chaos." Bersih remained defiant despite not receiving the permit, and promised to co-operate with police during the gathering.
Police also investigated allegations that Ambiga received funds from foreign NGOs "to cause chaos in Malaysia."
Police recorded statements from Ambiga, Ibrahim, and opposition politicians ahead of the rally. On 1 July, the police ceased discussions with Bersih, Perkasa and UMNO Youth and promised to prevent any street rallies from taking place.
Pre-rally arrests and raids
More than 150 people were arrested before 9 July for Bersih-related activities, including distributing leaflets. Most were released after several hours of questioning.
30 members of Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) were arrested in Penang on 26 June on suspicion of spreading communism and conspiring to overthrow the government. Six members, including MP Michael Jeyakumar Devaraj, remain held under the Emergency Ordinance 1969, which allows indefinite detention without trial.
Police also raided and vandalised Bersih's office in Petaling Jaya on 30 June.
One day before the planned rally, police released a list of 91 individuals, including Ambiga, Khairy and Ibrahim, barred from entering Kuala Lumpur's central business district on 9 July.
Lockdown
Police began imposing roadblocks in the Klang Valley on Wednesday, 6 July, which led to massive traffic congestion and complaints from the public. They described it as a "preventive" move to stop protesters from participating in the protest.
On 8 July, police sealed off Merdeka Square and rolled in water cannon and riot police trucks. At midnight on 9 July, major roads in the city was shut and public transportation suspended.
Protests
Kuala Lumpur was described as a "ghost town" on the morning of 9 July. Many offices and shops were closed as police maintained heavy presences in key areas. Crowds began pouring in by noon, where they were met by police who took "extraordinary" security measures, known as "Operation Erase Bersih." Many were arrested and transported to the police training center (Pulapol). The protesters were arrested under Section 27 of the Police Act for planning to participate in illegal rallies, and face several years in prison if convicted.
Independent assessments put the rally numbers at between 10,000 and over 20,000, while Bersih claimed a turnout of 50,000.
Major gathering points included Menara Maybank, Jalan Pudu, and Puduraya where riot police confronted protesters. Thousands tried to reach Merdeka Stadium from various parts of the city, chanting "Hidup rakyat!" ("Long live the people!"). Police responded by firing numerous rounds of tear gas and chemical-laced water, causing the crowds to disperse into nearby buildings. Police continued to fire tear gas and chemical-laced water at the buildings. Many buildings were targeted by the police including a hospital which the police denied happened even though there are pictures of the water cannons spraying the hospital.
At 14:00, Bersih and Pakatan Rakyat leaders began their march towards Merdeka Stadium. Shielded by hundreds of supporters, they pushed past three lines of police personnel awaiting them outside KL Sentral. Around 14:30, while walking with supporters in Brickfields, Ambiga and fellow steering committee member Maria Chin Abdullah were arrested. Opposition politicians detained include Abdul Hadi Awang, Mohamad Sabu, Salahuddin Ayub, Mahfuz Omar, Dzulkefly Ahmad, Azmin Ali, Tian Chua, Fuziah Salleh, Sivarasa Rasiah, and Ngeh Koo Ham. Anwar Ibrahim said he sustained a bruise on his head and a cut leg when police fired live rounds. PAS MP Khalid Samad was said to have suffered a serious head injury and was admitted to hospital.
UMNO Youth's rally in Bukit Bintang however, was allowed to on peacefully without intervention from the police.
Around 1,000 protesters eventually reached Merdeka Stadium, including national laureate A. Samad Said and PAS's Husam Musa. At around 16:00, the crowd voluntarily began dispersing. However, police continued to fire tear gas and chemical-laced water at any individual and moved in to arrest them. Another group of protesters tried to reach the National Palace, while a third group gathered at Kuala Lumpur City Centre (KLCC) Park beneath the Petronas Twin Towers. Thousands eventually gathered at KLCC but were dispersed by police using tear gas and chemically-laced water.
By 18:40 in the evening, police had confirmed 1,667 arrests, including 167 females and minors. Most of the arrested protesters, including Ambiga, were freed by the end of the day.
One death was reported. Protester Baharuddin Ahmad accidentally inhaled tear gas fired by police. He was later arrested, but when he started to black out police didn't do anything and just stood there and watched. He was restrained by handcuffs which made the matters worse and he wasn't released because police lost the keys. After 15 minutes, an ambulance was called but never arrived. Finally, a volunteer took Baharuddin to a nearby hospital but it was already too late. Police said he died of heart complications.
International protests
Bersih rallies also commenced in Melbourne, Sydney, Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane and Canberra, Australia, attracting around 750 people, 300 people, 200 people, 150 people, 50 people and 30 people respectively. Rallies were also reported in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch, New Zealand, as well as in London, England. A gathering of about 120 people was reported at the Speaker's Corner at Hong Lim Park, Singapore. Further rallies were reported in central Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Switzerland, Sweden, France, England, Scotland, Ireland, Canada and the United States.
Aftermath
National laureate A. Samad Said called the rally a "great success", lauding the multiracial unity among the protesters. Ambiga, speaking after being released, congratulated those who attended the rally, saying "we were not intimidated." The Bersih leadership commended protesters for behaving peacefully and condemned the police for reacting harshly to the demonstration. They said the gathering was "not the end, it is but one more step in the long walk for clean and fair elections in Malaysia."
Leader of the Opposition Anwar Ibrahim said the rally was a "success" despite "police brutality." DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng said the "police abuse" was "a big blow to the image of Malaysia."
Prime Minister Najib Razak downplayed the rally, insisting it only represented a minority of the population. He also said the anti-government sentiment among the protesters confirmed the government's fears that Bersih's agenda had been hijacked by the opposition. Home Minister Hishamuddin Hussein praised the police for keeping the rally under control and said the rally revealed itself to be an opposition plot.
The United States expressed concern over the crackdown. State Department spokesman Mark Toner said "We stand for... the right for people to freely express their democratic aspirations and express their views freely."
Amnesty International released a statement saying: "This brutal crackdown on peaceful protesters is undermining Malaysia’s claim to be a moderate democracy. Mr. Najib’s government has chosen the path of repression, not reform." Lawyers for Liberty released a statement saying that the police deliberately shot gas canisters against the protesters.
Reform proposals
On 15 August 2011, Najib announced that a parliamentary select committee will be formed to examine the electoral system. He said the committee will consist of members of parliament from both the government and opposition coalition who will discuss electoral reform issues "so that a mutual agreement can be reached."
In his Malaysia Day 2011 address in September, Najib announced the government's intentions to repeal the Internal Security Act, Emergency Ordinance, remove the annual renewal of press and publication permits, and review Section 27 of the Police Act. In November 2011, the government tabled the Peaceful Assembly Act to replace Section 27 of the Police Act.
Coverage and analysis
Pre-rally
The lead-up to the rally has received polarising coverage in Malaysia's print and internet news media. Malaysia's print media are subject to the Printing Presses and Publications Act, which stipulates they can only publish with a license granted by the Ministry of Home Affairs. A news website has alleged that the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission instructed radio and television stations to omit coverage of police violence and focus on the damage done by rally participants.
State news agency Bernama quoted several political analysts saying that the rally will tarnish Malaysia's image abroad and is a distraction from Anwar Ibrahim's ongoing sodomy trials. It claimed the 1998 demonstrations against Anwar's arrest and the 2007 Bersih rally caused "inconvenience to the public and damage to public property, attracting bad publicity from the international media." One analyst said elections are "already fair as fair can be." Bernama also reported analysts saying that Ambiga has a history of provoking Muslims and working against interests of the Malay community.
Print media
Utusan Malaysia, a newspaper owned by the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), a governing party, criticised the rally as "dirty" on a 12 June editorial. In particular, it made reference to Anwar's sodomy trial and sex video allegations, calling him a hypocrite and urging Malaysians to protest against the opposition leader instead. It also warned against disunity among Malays, and claimed that the DAP, backed strongly by Chinese constituents, would benefit most from the rally. Utusan reported that 70 percent of the 1000 who attended the Bersih 2.0 pre-launch on 19 June were non-Malay. The newspaper has also portrayed the rally as anti-Islam. They quoted pro-UMNO political analysts attacking Ambiga for "angering Muslims and Malays," as well as reported that foreign Christian organisations are funding the rally.
Tay Tian Yan wrote in the Sin Chew Daily, the highest circulated daily in Malaysia, that the rally is a repeat scenario of the 2007 protest, where the opposition cashed in on public discontent over rising prices and staged the rally to generate momentum ahead of the general election. He also noted that the counter-rally by UMNO Youth is a ploy by BN to mitigate the Bersih rally's momentum, as opposed to suppressing the rally outright, which he said would swing public opinion against BN. Lim Sue Goan noted the involvement of Pakatan Rakyat and UMNO in opposite rallies, and said the event has grown from becoming a mere march to demand free elections to a political showdown between the government and opposition.
In a 22 June editorial, The Star, owned by the Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA), also a governing party, said opposition parties are colluding with the rally's organisers to discredit the authorities in an attempt to gain support ahead of the elections. It accused Bersih of "[creating] cynical distrust in the authorities to give [themselves] and their political ringleaders a psychological advantage."
Johan Jaaffar, chairman of Media Prima (owned by UMNO), the parent company of the New Straits Times, wrote in the paper: "The government of the day is not perfect. So, too, the system... we don't solve problems on the streets. That's not us, nor our way."
M Faqih, writing in the PAS organ Harakah Daily, compared the planned rally to the September 1998 protests in Kuala Lumpur against then-deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim's sacking and detention on sodomy and corruption charges, which he described as peaceful unlike the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt. He called on the opposition to seize the initiative with public discontent over government policies and use the rally as a stepping stone to victory in next general election.
Internet news
Josh Hong of Malaysiakini questioned the law requiring protest organisers to obtain permits, saying the freedom of speech and right to assembly are guaranteed by the Constitution. He also criticised the government's record of cracking down civil rights campaigners and political activists and the mainstream media's demonisation of the Bersih rally. Fellow columnists Mariam Mokhtar and Dean Johns criticised the government's crackdown on Bersih.
News website The Malaysian Insider called the government's tough stand against the Bersih rally "double standards," deriding the government's non-action against Ibrahim Ali, who had earlier called for jihad against Christians. It also blamed the police for the chaos that occurred during the 2007 rally and dismissed the government's concern for national security and threat to tourism as self-caused. The website reported analysts saying the rally will help PAS cement the growing support the party has gained among the Malay community.
Free Malaysia Today, another news website, argued in favour of the rally, saying that concerns that it will serve as a "spring offensive" to overthrow the government are exaggerated. It lamented what it perceived as Malaysia's flawed democracy, saying "[there] are two ways to punish political perverts who have raped democracy: vote them out or take to the streets." It also criticised the government for threatening to clamp down on protesters, saying that the ruling coalition is using public order as an excuse to preserve its stay in power. In another editorial the day before the rally, FMT was highly critical of the government, asking the people to "decide the course of history" and defy a "harsh and repressive" state.
International
In an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal, former US ambassador to Malaysia John R. Malott said Najib's UMNO is "running scared" of losing power and is waging a campaign of intimidation against Bersih. He called the protest "a brave step" towards the country's transition to full democracy.
Professor Clive Kessler of the University of New South Wales in an interview with ABC Radio stated that the Agong's intervention was a rebuke to Umno and the government and an acknowledgement of Bersih’s legitimacy.
Reactions to the rally
Newspapers owned by Barisan Nasional parties were highly critical of the rally, accusing Bersih of disturbing the peace. Utusan Malaysia called the police operation to foil the illegal rally a success. The Star remarked in an editorial the following day: "If every complaint made one or the other party take to the streets, bringing a city to a standstill, people would not be getting much work done." It said Bersih achieved the publicity it sought, and that everyone should move on. The New Straits Times said there was "no winner in this madness" as many were hurt, and "Bersih's intentions were hijacked by the opposition coalition." NST's 10 July front page featured a photo of a protester throwing an object with the headline "Peaceful?"
The Malaysian Insiders Debra Chong said Najib's administration "took a massive punch to its gut," as accounts of police personnel using tear gas and water cannons against unarmed civilians were reported by international media. She said the rally showed the willingness of the middle class and civil society to stand up to the government. TMI's Sheridan Mahavera said the rally was a display of racial unity. Jeswan Kaur of Free Malaysia Today said Najib and the police were to blame for the chaotic scenes.
Ibrahim Suffian, head of the Merdeka Center, an independent think tank, said the actions of Bersih and the government polarised Malaysians of opposite political opinions. "For Pakatan Rakyat supporters, it has just increased their scepticism of the [BN-ruled] government. For those who are pro-government, it has hardened their belief that the PR is out to cause trouble." One analyst accused Barisan Nasional of abusing public institutions to protect its power, while another added that "the police lost more credibility than the protesters."
International reaction was unanimously critical of the government. The Singapore Straits Times added that Malaysian society has been polarised by the country’s divisive politics as clearly demonstrated when thousands braved a security lockdown of Kuala Lumpur. In an editorial, the Jakarta Post described Malaysia as a "rich but not free" country, with its leaders still "laboring under an old paradigm" and refusing to allow its people to exercise their rights to free speech by invoking racial tension. Al Jazeera English's Teymoor Nabili said the government acted out of fear of an Egypt-style revolution. Bloomberg columnist William Pesek calls the rally a part of the "rising call for political change in Asia" that play a decisive role in foreign investment to Asian countries. The Asian Sentinel stated that although Najib Tun Razak appears to have won the battle by closing down Kuala Lumpur on Saturday and arresting 1,667 mostly peaceful marchers and would-be marchers, the consensus seems to be that Malaysia has suffered a blow to its international reputation as a moderate, democratic country.
The Guardians Simon Tisdall slammed Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak's harsh treatment towards the peaceful rally participants, noting that the British Prime Minister David Cameron should tell Najib that "strong-arm tactics against protesters are unacceptable" and that "Malaysia's leaders should wake up and smell the coffee".
Censorship
The Economists coverage of the rally was partially censored by the government. Four lines in the article titled "Taken to the cleaners – an overzealous government response to an opposition rally" was inked out. Najib later admitted that censoring parts of the article was a mistake which generated negative publicity.
Criticism
Election Commission
The Election Commission of Malaysia (EC) has dismissed Bersih's claims, saying that it has already met the organisation's demands. EC chairman Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusof, who met with Bersih officials in December 2010, slammed Bersih chairman Ambiga's knowledge of voter registration as "shallow." Abdul Aziz also claimed that Bersih had a political agenda, saying that the opposition parties were propping up the organisation. He claimed the opposition were using the EC as a scapegoat for political gain.
Response to demands
Responding to Bersih's demand that voter registration be automatic once a citizen reaches voting age, Abdul Aziz said such a proposal would contravene Article 119 (4) of the Constitution, which he claims clearly states that registration as a voter can only be done through application by the voter him/herself. EC deputy chairman Wan Ahmad Wan Omar added that unregistered voters are "indifferent," and will not bother to vote anyway.
Abdul Aziz also defended against allegations that the EC is lackadaisical in tackling phantom voting. He said that the EC cannot strike names of dead voters off the electoral roll unless the family of a dead voter requests it and produces the dead voter's death certificate. He also blamed allegations of voting in multiple constituencies on voters who refuse to change the addresses on their identification cards when they move homes.
Wan Ahmad said the use of indelible ink is "regressive" and only practised in less developed countries. He also raised the possibility of voters not wanting their fingers inked and voters who somehow inked their fingers before voting. Abdul Aziz said the EC was considering a biometric fingerprinting system instead.
Wan Ahmad said a 21-day campaign period is "unnecessary" as Malaysia has a relatively small land area and population.
Government
The rally has been roundly criticised by government politicians, who claim that the opposition are using the rally, purportedly a non-partisan protest, to advance its own political agenda. Some ministers also accused the rally organisers of attempting a coup d'état.
Prime minister Najib said claims that elections are unfair "did not make sense," adding that the opposition are using instability to their political advantage. He challenged them to take on the government in the polls instead. The Home Minister, Hishamuddin, responding to early reports announcing the rally, criticised public demonstrations in particular. He slammed Bersih for trying to "instill hatred" and "show the world that our country is chaotic." Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin said the planned rally is "undemocratic" and claimed that it is supported only by a small segment of the population. He also warned of foreign powers taking advantage of instability in Malaysia.
UMNO
UMNO's information chief Ahmad Maslan said that the event might risk damaging the economy and national security. UMNO Youth leader Khairy Jamaluddin said Anwar's attempts to exert influence over the rally on 19 June was proof that Bersih was "compromised" by the opposition. UMNO Youth executive council member Tengku Azman Tengku Zainol Abidin said public rallies should not be held on the streets and that the 2007 Bersih rally "achieved nothing."
Anwar's former political secretary Senator Ezam Mohd Noor called Anwar a hypocrite, saying that Anwar's own PKR party election in 2010 was rife with allegations of manipulation.
Perkasa
Perkasa has criticised the rally for threatening to spread chaos, claiming that the opposition will use the rally to trigger an uprising similar to Egypt and Libya. Perkasa president Ibrahim Ali also threw his support behind the EC, arguing that they had already answered demands for free and fair elections. Ibrahim Ali also warned Chinese community should avoid joining this rally and stay away from it by keeping food at home.
Independents
"Independent" Member of Parliament Zulkifli Nordin questioned the need for the rally, claiming that democracy was already "alive," citing the result of the previous election as an example. Fellow independent MP Wee Choo Keong hinted that Bersih's cause is "politically motivated," and advised Ambiga to join a political party instead of "hiding behind a non-governmental organisation."
Business
Sections of the business community initially condemned the proposed street rally, arguing that business operators would have suffered losses on 9 July, a Saturday. Among the groups opposed to the rally were the KL and Selangor Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Malaysian Associated Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and the Executive Taxi Owners' Association.
UMNO encouraged business operators and taxi drivers to sue Bersih for any losses that may be caused by the rally.
See also
Elections in Malaysia
List of protests in the 21st century
References
External links
Bersih 2.0
Joint Communiqué issued by Bersih
UMNO Youth
YouTube.com channel of public's account on Bersih 2.0 Rally
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Syed Golam Kibria (died on May 31, 1996) was a Bangladeshi journalist and politician. He was awarded Ekushey Padak in 2016 by the Government of Bangladesh.
Career and personal life
Kibria was a Language-movement activist in 1952, for which he was posthumously awarded Ekushey Padak, the second highest civilian award in Bangladesh, at 2016.
Kibria served as the acting editor of the Daily Azad and Daily Bhorer Kagoj.
Kibria was the father-in-law of Bangladeshi minister and Awami League politician Shajahan Khan. He was also the grandfather-in-law of Bangladesh Awami League MP Soto Monir.
Kibria died at 1996, he left behind a wife, 4 daughters and 3 sons.
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John Cunningham is an Irish former Gaelic footballer who played for Na Cealla Beaga and the Donegal county team.
He won the 1987 All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship with Donegal.
He returned from London ahead of the 1990 Ulster Senior Football Championship. He played in the final against Armagh, which Donegal won.
He was a panellist on the day of the 1992 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final but did not play. He had lost his place in the team following his team's Ulster final win.
He has also managed his club. And he has been chairman.
He is married to Fionnula.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
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Gaelic football managers
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The Yendegaia River originates from the terminus of Stoppani Glacier in Cordillera Darwin located at southwestern Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego. It is part of Yendegaia National Park.
See also
List of rivers of Chile
Rivers of Chile
Rivers of Magallanes Region
Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego |
Caño Island () is a small island and biological reserve in the Bahia de Corcovado (Corcovado Bay) in Osa, Costa Rica. It is on the Pacific Ocean side of Costa Rica, west of Punta Llorona on Península de Osa. It rises steeply to a flat top of in height.
Biological reserve
Caño Island Biological Reserve (), is a protected area in Costa Rica, managed under the Osa Conservation Area, it was created in 1976 by decree 6385-A.
The island and surrounding marine area of has been established as a biological reserve, with a permanent ranger station on the island. It is a popular tourist destination for ecotourism such as whale watching, attracting visitors for its beaches, coral beds, and sea life. Researchers currently use the coral beds to study the factors surrounding coral death and recolonization. Marine life includes manta rays, dolphins, false killer whales, sea turtles, whales, a wide variety of fish, and possibly manatees as well. The nudibranch Mexichromis tica was described from here and Darwin Island on the Galápagos Islands in 2004. The limited diversity of terrestrial fauna, however, is noticeable, with the island having less than one percent of the insect diversity of the peninsula and an absence of numerous animals native to the nearby mainland.
Archaeology
Evidence of pre-Columbian human activity on the island is substantial, with some of the most interesting artifacts being stone spheres evidently carved by early civilizations.
See also
Corcovado National Park
Bahía Drake
List of lighthouses in Costa Rica
References
External links
Photos of Caño Island
Cano, Isla del
Lighthouses in Costa Rica
Nature reserves in Costa Rica
Protected areas established in 1976 |
Edvín Bayer (anglicized as Edwin Bayer; 17 February 1862 – 17 March 1927) was a Czech botanist. He worked at the National Museum in Prague and specialised in lichens and plant fossils.
Biography
Bayer was born in Chotěboř where his father was a notary. His brother Karel Bayer (1854–1930) became a prominent professor of surgery. He went to the local school before going in 1874 to the Prague Gymnasium. In 1882 he joined the German University in Prague to study law but moved to the Czech University in Prague two years later to graduate in the natural sciences in 1888. He worked as an assistant to Ladislav Josef Čelakovský at the museum and in 1889 he wrote a dissertation on the lichens of Bohemia and received a doctorate in 1891. He joined the Museum of the Kingdom of Bohemia in 1892 under There he graduated in natural sciences, which he finished in 1888. He then worked for three years as a paid assistant in the botanical department of the Museum of the Kingdom of Bohemia under Antonín Frič. He also taught botany at the Czech University along with Čelakovský. In 1918 he became a director of the botanical department of the museum.
References
External links
Phytopalaeontologische beiträge zur kenntnis der perucer kreideschichten in Böhmen (1920)
1862 births
1927 deaths
People from Chotěboř
Czech botanists |
The Tusayan Ruins (aka Tusayan Pueblo) is an 800-year-old Pueblo Indian site located within Grand Canyon National Park, and is considered by the National Park Service (NPS) to be one of the major archeological sites in Arizona.
The site consists of a small, u-shaped pueblo featuring a living area, storage rooms, and a kiva. Tree ring studies indicate that the site was occupied for about twenty years, beginning around 1185. It is found on the Desert View Drive portion of Arizona State Route 64, 3 miles west of the Desert View Watchtower. The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
The site was excavated in 1930 by members of the Gila Pueblo of Globe, Arizona. Preservation work took place in 1948 and 1965. The site represents the survival of an isolated Pueblo II culture into the Pueblo III era.
The Tusayan Ruin and Museum is a NPS interpreted location, which includes a trail from the museum thru part of the ruin. Tours may be ranger lead or self-guided. The Tusayan Museum was built in 1928 to a design by National Park Service architect Herbert Maier and sponsored by Laura Spelman Rockefeller as a trailside museum. It was expanded in 1934, and represents an interpretation of a Hopi structure.
See also
Tusayan National Forest
Notes
Further reading
Ancient Puebloan archaeological sites in Arizona
Grand Canyon
Buildings and structures in Coconino County, Arizona
Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Arizona
Former populated places in Arizona
Museums in Coconino County, Arizona
Native American museums in Arizona
Buildings and structures in Grand Canyon National Park
Former populated places in Coconino County, Arizona
National Register of Historic Places in Coconino County, Arizona
National Register of Historic Places in Grand Canyon National Park |
The Central Committee (CC) composition was elected by the 9th Congress, and sat from 5 April 1920 until 16 March 1921. The CC 1st Plenary Session renewed the composition of the Politburo, Secretariat and the Organizational Bureau (OB) of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks).
Plenary sessions
Composition
Members
Candidates
References
General
Plenary sessions, apparatus heads, ethnicity (by clicking on the individual names on "The Central Committee, elected IXth Congress of the RCP (B) 04.05.1920 members" reference), the Central Committee full- and candidate membership, Politburo membership, Secretariat membership and Orgburo membership were taken from these sources:
Bibliography
Sources
Central Committee of the 9th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) |
Senator Montford may refer to:
Bill Montford (born 1947), Florida State Senate
John T. Montford (born 1943), Texas State Senate |
The siege of Nice occurred in 1543 and was part of the Italian War of 1542–46 in which Francis I and Suleiman the Magnificent collaborated as part of the Franco-Ottoman alliance against the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, and Henry VIII of England. At that time, Nice was under the control of Charles III, Duke of Savoy, an ally of Charles V. This is part of the 1543–1544 Mediterranean campaign of Barbarossa.
Siege
In the Mediterranean, active naval collaboration took place between France and the Ottoman Empire to fight against Spanish forces, following a request by Francis I, conveyed by Antoine Escalin des Aimars.
The French forces, led by François de Bourbon, and the Ottoman forces, led by Hayreddin Barbarossa, first joined at Marseilles in August 1543. Although the Duchy of Savoy, of which Nice was a part, had been a French protectorate for a century, Francis I chose to attack the city of Nice with the allied force, mainly because Charles III, Duke of Savoy had angered him by marrying Beatrice of Portugal, thus becoming an ally of the Habsburgs.
François de Bourbon had already attempted to make a surprise attack on Nice once, but had been repulsed by Andrea Doria.
Arrival of the Ottoman fleet
Following an agreement between Francis I and Suleyman the Magnificent, through the intervention of the French ambassador in Constantinople, Captain Polin, a fleet of 110 galleys under Hayreddin Barbarossa left from the Sea of Marmara in mid-May 1543. He then raided the coasts of Sicily and Southern Italy through the month of June, anchoring in front of Rome at the mouth of the Tiber on 29 June, while Polin wrote reassurances that attacks against Rome would not take place.
Barbarossa arrived with his fleet, accompanied by the French Ambassador Polin, at Île Saint-Honorat on 5 July. As almost nothing had been prepared on the French side to assist the Ottoman fleet, Polin was dispatched to meet with Francis I at Marolles and ask him for support. Meanwhile, Barbarossa went to the harbour of Toulon on 10 July and then was received with honours at the harbour of Marseille on 21 July, where he joined the French forces under the Governor of Marseille, François, Count of Enghien. The combined fleet sailed out of Marseille on the 5th of August.
Siege
The Ottoman force first landed at Villefranche, 6 kilometers east of Nice, which it took and destroyed.
The French and Ottoman forces then collaborated to attack the city of Nice on 6 August 1543. In this action 110 Ottoman galleys combined with 50 French ones.
The Franco-Ottomans were confronted by a stiff resistance which gave rise to the story of Catherine Ségurane, culminating with a major battle on 15 August, but the city surrendered on 22 August. The French prevented the Ottomans from sacking the city. They could not however take the castle, the "Château de Cimiez", apparently because the French were unable to supply sufficient gunpowder to their Ottoman allies.
Another important battle against the castle took place on 8 September, but the force finally retreated upon learning that an Imperial army was on the move to meet them: Duke Charles III, ruler of the Duchy of Savoy, had raised an army in Piedmont to free the city.
Some source say that the last night before leaving, Barbarossa plundered the city, burned parts of it, and took 5,000 captives. The relief army, transported on ships by Andrea Doria, landed at Villefranche, and successfully made its way to the Nice citadel. However, Spanish accounts are unanimous that it was the French who burned the town, and Sir Godfrey Fisher quotes the French Marshal Vieilleville as saying: “The town of Nice was sacked in defiance of the capitulation terms, and it was then burned. But for this one must not blame Barbarossa and his troops, for they were already far off when this happened… This was put upon the unfortunate Barbarossa in order to uphold the honour and reputation of France, indeed Christendom itself.”
During the campaign, Barbarossa is known to have complained about the state of the French ships and the inappropriateness of their equipment and stores. He famously said "Are you seamen to fill your casks with wine rather than powder?". He nevertheless displayed great reluctance to attack Andrea Doria when the latter was put in difficulty after landing the relief army, losing 4 galleys in a storm. It has been suggested that there was some tacit agreement between Barbarossa and Doria on this occasion.
Catherine Ségurane
Catherine Ségurane (Catarina Ségurana in the Niçard dialect of Provençal) is a folk heroine of Nice said to have played a decisive role in repelling the city's siege by Turkish invaders allied with Francis I, the siege of Nice, in the summer of 1543. At the time, Nice was part of Savoy, independent from France, and had no standing military to defend it. Most versions of the tale have Catherine Ségurane, a common washerwoman, leading the townspeople into battle. Legend has it that she knocked out a standard-bearer with her beater and took his flag.
Catherine's existence has never been definitively proven, and her heroic act of mooning is likely pure fiction or highly exaggerated; Jean Badat, a historian who stood witness to the siege, made no mention of her involvement in the defense. Historically attested defense of Nice include the townspeople's destruction of a key bridge and the arrival of an army mustered by a Savoyard duke, Charles III. Nevertheless, the legend of Catherine Ségurane has excited the local imagination. Louis Andrioli wrote an epic poem about her in 1808, and a play dedicated to her story was written by Jean-Baptiste Toselli in 1878. In 1923, a bas-relief monument to Catherine was erected near the supposed location of her feat. In Nice, Catherine Segurane Day is celebrated annually, concurrent with St. Catherine's Day on 25 November.
Ottoman wintering in Toulon
Following the siege, the Ottomans were offered by Francis to winter at Toulon, so that they could continue to harass the Holy Roman Empire, and especially the coast of Spain and Italy, as well the communications between the two countries. Barbarossa was also promised that he would receive help from the French in reconquering Tunis if he stayed through the winter in France.
Throughout the winter, the Ottoman fleet, with its 110 galleys and 30,000 troops, was able to use Toulon as a base to attack the Spanish and Italian coasts under Admiral Salah Rais. They raided Barcelona in Spain, and Sanremo, Borghetto Santo Spirito, Ceriale in Italy, and defeated Italo-Spanish naval attacks. Sailing with his whole fleet to Genoa, Barbarossa negotiated with Andrea Doria the release of Turgut Reis. France provided about 10,000,000 kilograms of bread to supply the Ottoman army during the 6 months it stayed in Toulon, and for the provisioning of the following summer's campaign and return to Constantinople.
It seems the involvement of Francis I to this joint effort with the Ottomans were rather half-hearted however, as many European powers were complaining about such an alliance against another Christian power. Relations remained tensed and suspicious between the two allies.
Aftermath
A French-Habsburg peace treaty was finally signed at Crépy on 18 September 1544, and a truce was signed between the Habsburg and the Ottomans on 10 November 1545. The Habsburg emperor Charles V agreed to recognize the new Ottoman conquests. A formal peace treaty was signed on 13 June 1547, after the death of Francis I.
A local consequence of the siege was the reinforcement of the coast with defensive fortifications, especially the castles of Nice and Mont Alban, and the fort of Saint-Elme de Villefranche.
See also
Orientalism in early modern France
Notes
References
William Miller The Ottoman Empire and Its Successors, 1801–1927 Routledge, 1966
Peter Malcolm Holt, Ann K. S. Lambton, Bernard Lewis The Cambridge History of Islam Cambridge University Press, 1977
Roger Crowley, Empire of the sea, 2008 Faber & Faber
Baghdiantz McAbe, Ina 2008 Orientalism in Early Modern France, , Berg Publishing, Oxford
External links
Anthem for Catherine Ségurane.
Information from the City of Nice's website (in French)
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Suleiman the Magnificent
Conflicts in 1543
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Josip Katalinski (12 May 1948 – 9 June 2011) was a Bosnian professional football manager and player.
Club career
Katalinski's career began in a small club Igman based in Ilidža, a suburb of Sarajevo. He was spotted there in 1964 by Željezničar coaches who offered a move to their club's youth system. He accepted the offer immediately and one year later made his first team debut. Katalinski played for Željezničar until 1975, making more than 250 league appearances and, although a defender, scoring 32 league goals. In total, he played more than 350 games for Željezničar, scoring more than 100 goals. He was a part of the team that won the Yugoslav First League in the 1971–72 season.
Katalinski decided to go abroad in 1975. Subsequently, he signed a contract with French Ligue 1 club Nice. He played 150 games for Nice before deciding end his career in 1978 at only the age of 30 because of a severe injury.
International career
As a youngster, Katalinski started playing for junior team of SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, and later for the Yugoslav junior national team (12 caps) and Under-21 national team (18 caps). In 1972, he made his debut for the senior Yugoslavia national team. He collected 41 caps and scored 10 goals.
One of the most famous moments of his career was a 1974 FIFA World Cup qualification play-off match against Spain at Waldstadion in Frankfurt. Katalinski scored the only goal of the game that secured Yugoslavia a place at the 1974 FIFA World Cup and instantly became a hero of the nation. He was part of the Yugoslav 1974 FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro 1976 squads. His final international was a May 1977 FIFA World Cup qualification match against Romania.
Postplaying career
Katalinski worked as a youth coordinator for the Football Association of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He was an educated football manager and had also graduated in physical education. He worked as a coach in several clubs and at one time he was vice president of his favourite Željezničar.
In 1998, he was also the manager of the Bosnian Premier League club Čelik Zenica.
Death and memorial
On 9 June 2011, Katalinski died at the age of 63 in Sarajevo after a long and hard battle with an illness. In his memory, the Football Association of Bosnia and Herzegovina has been organizing the Memorial tournament Josip Katalinski-Škija for U17 teams since June 2012.
Honours
Player
Željezničar
Yugoslav First League: 1971–72
Individual
Awards
Yugoslav Footballer of the Year: 1974
References
External links
1948 births
2011 deaths
Footballers from Sarajevo
Men's association football defenders
Men's association football midfielders
Yugoslav men's footballers
Yugoslavia men's international footballers
1974 FIFA World Cup players
UEFA Euro 1976 players
FK Željezničar Sarajevo players
OGC Nice players
Yugoslav First League players
Ligue 1 players
Yugoslav expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in France
Yugoslav expatriate sportspeople in France
Bosnia and Herzegovina football managers
NK Čelik Zenica managers |
Marts is an English surname.
Notable people with this surname include:
Alvin Lee Marts (born 1923), American sailor
Lonnie Marts (born 1968), American American Football player
Mårts
Mårts () is a Swedish surname.
Pär Mårts (born 1953), Swedish ice hockey player |
"Drive (For Daddy Gene)" is a song written and recorded by American country music singer Alan Jackson. It was released in January 2002 as the second single from his album, Drive. It reached number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks in May 2002 and also peaked at number 28 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Content
The song is dedicated to Alan's father, Eugene Jackson, who died on January 31, 2000. In the song, Alan recalls as a child he and his father driving around the countryside in an old beat up truck that they fixed up together, as well as a boat they would drive around the lake. In the final verse, Alan talks about sharing his childhood experiences with his daughters and letting them drive his Jeep around their pasture.
Critical reception
Chuck Taylor, of Billboard magazine reviewed the song favorably saying that it's "a heartfelt lyric that allows listeners to share a stroll down memory lane with Jackson and appreciate a kinder, simpler time". Taylor also says that Jackson delivers the song with "the same honesty, integrity, and emotional warmth that has always made listeners powerfully connect to his work".
Music video
The music video, directed by Steven Goldmann and animated by The Illusion Factory, follows the plot of the story by showing scenes of a boy and his father driving around in a speedboat and later in his truck. The scene for the final verse shows Jackson driving around in a Jeep with his three daughters. The whole video is presented as animated pictures in a story coming to life out of a book. The music video was nominated for Music Video of the Year in the top award shows and won the award for Best Music Video in the Country Music Awards.
Cover versions
When Jackson was honored by "CMT Giants," country singer Taylor Swift sang "Drive" as a tribute.
Chart positions
"Drive (For Daddy Gene)" debuted at number 53 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of February 2, 2002.
Year-end charts
Certifications
References
2002 singles
2002 songs
Alan Jackson songs
Songs written by Alan Jackson
Commemoration songs
Music videos directed by Steven Goldmann
Song recordings produced by Keith Stegall
Arista Nashville singles
Songs about fathers
Songs about cars |
Haruhisa Chiba (3 June 1951 – 8 February 2006) was a Japanese alpine skier. He competed at the 1972 Winter Olympics and the 1976 Winter Olympics.
References
1951 births
2006 deaths
Japanese male alpine skiers
Olympic alpine skiers for Japan
Alpine skiers at the 1972 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiers at the 1976 Winter Olympics
Skiers from Hokkaido
20th-century Japanese people |
The Riverside County Administration Building is a 14-story glass-curtain tower located in downtown Riverside, California. It was built in 1974 and designed by architect Herman O. Ruhnau. Ruhnau also designed the nearby 7-story Riverside City Hall. The building serves as the main headquarters for Riverside County.
The building is the tallest in the city of Riverside by height though the Mount Rubidoux Manor has two more floors.
See also
List of landmarks in Riverside, California
List of tallest buildings in Inland Empire
Government of Riverside County, California
Buildings and structures in Riverside, California
County government buildings in California |
The Dutch Eerste Divisie for the 1961/1962 season was contested by 36 teams. It was the last time the Eerste Divisie was divided into two groups, as next season there would only be one division of sixteen teams: this meant that many teams were relegated to the Tweede Divisie. Heracles won the championship after a play-off against Fortuna Vlaardingen and were promoted to the Eredivisie.
New entrants and group changes
Group A
Promoted from the 1960–61 Tweede Divisie:
HFC Haarlem
Relegated from the 1960–61 Eredivisie:
Alkmaar '54
Entered from the B-group:
DHC
FC Eindhoven
Go Ahead
't Gooi
VV Helmond
Sittardia
SVV
Group B
Promoted from the 1960–61 Tweede Divisie:
FC Hilversum
RKVV Wilhelmina
Relegated from the 1960–61 Eredivisie:
Elinkwijk
TSV NOAD
Entered from the A-group:
Enschedese Boys
Hermes DVS
Hollandia Victoria Combinatie
Limburgia
RBC
Final Tables
Group A
Group B
Play-offs
Promotion play-off
Heracles promoted to Eredivisie.
Relegation play-off
SVV relegated to Tweede Divisie.
See also
1961–62 Eredivisie
1961–62 Tweede Divisie
References
Netherlands - List of final tables (RSSSF)
Eerste Divisie seasons
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Neth |
Bray Pennyroyal Field is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest between Windsor and Maidenhead in Berkshire.
This field is a filled in gravel pit next to the River Thames. It is the only site in the county for the nationally rare pennyroyal, which is listed in the British Red Data Book of vascular plants. The site is grazed by horses, a management regime which is thought to be beneficial to the plant.
The site is private land with no public access.
References
Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Berkshire |
John Chown is a monetary economist in the United Kingdom who made his career as an international tax specialist with particular reference to currency and financial markets. Since retiring from Chown Dewhurst LLP he has remained very active, taking part in discussions on public policy issues with special reference to the development of capital markets and encouragement of inward investment into transitional and emerging economies, the future of the Eurozone, and advising on. He also works closely with a group advising on the financing of high-tech, `disruptive’ start-ups.
Early life and education
Chown was educated at Gordonstoun and Selwyn College, Cambridge, where he won the Adam Smith Prize for a dissertation on fixed versus floating exchange rates, awarded the Wrenbury Scholarship as top of his year, is now an Honorary Fellow of the College. He served for many years on the Investment Committee.
Career
In 1962, Chown founded his tax advisory company, J F Chown & Company Limited, now Chown Dewhurst LLP. He has been a public policy adviser to Conservative Chancellors and Shadow Chancellors, commenting on European tax harmonisation proposals and visiting Canada, Australia, New Zealand as an international adviser on their respective tax reforms. He was active in the Know How Fund, which provided market and taxation advice to transitional countries after the collapse of Communism, he continued to do advisory work in Russia, including a World Bank project of the development of capital markets and has worked, with Jackie Newbury, on projects in Mongolia and Thailand and has been on many City of London missions.
Chown is a co-founder of the Institute for Fiscal Studies and remains on the Committee of the International Tax Specialist Group, is active in the Political Economy Club, the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation, the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum, and several other Think Tanks.
He is Honorary Financial Adviser to the Royal Society of Musicians (and now an `Honorary Member’) and is still very active with the London Handel Society and other musical charities.
Writings
Chown wrote several books on tax policy, is the author of “A History of Monetary Unions” (Routledge 2003), and has contributed a chapter, “Lessons of Monetary History”, to the IEA study, “The Euro – the Beginning, the Middle .. and the End?” (April 2013) and reviewed for Central Banking, Harold James “Making the European Monetary Union” (February 2013).
Two articles and several other reviews in Central Banking deal more generally with the financial crisis. In November 2009, he wrote an article “Towards a New Banking System! In which he commented briefly on the problems arising from bad practices in the banking system. The editor invited him to follow up on this in “Conflicts of Interest and System Risk”, Central Banking, November 2010, discusses improper (and therefore unsustainable) profits made by banks, and their potential threat to financial stability, was a follow-up to an earlier article in November 2009, “Towards a New Banking System”. Several subsequent book reviews followed up on his point. He has contributed chapters to more than fifteen books on the topics of tax reform and monetary policy.
Chown, shocked by the way in which the banks were making very substantial hidden profits out of Initial Public Offerings by exploiting conflicts of interest, he made major campaigns and published “End to Underwriting: How the Coalition can avoid being Ripped Off!”, Centre for Policy Studies, August, 2011. When the EU proposed a Financial Transactions Tax (the Tobin Tax), Chown was invited to give evidence to the House of Lords Committee in late 2011 and followed this with a publication “Time To Bin The Tobin Tax” Centre for Policy Studies, April 2012.
2019
Review by John Chown. “Shadow Networks; financial disorder and the system that caused crisis.” Francisco Louca and Michael Ash. OUP, 2018, 416 pages. In Central Banking Vo. XXX, Number 1, September 2019. p 156-157.
2018
Review by John Chown. “Edge of Chaos: why democracy is failing to deliver economic growth”. Dambisa Moyo. Little, Brown, 2018, 320 pages. In Central Banking, Vol. XXIX, Number 1, August 2018.
2017
Review by John Chown. “Crash Bang Wallop: The Inside Story of London’s Big Bang and a Financial Revolution that Changed the World”, Sceptre, 2016, 352 pages. In Central Banking Vol. XXVIII, Number 1, August 2017.
“What the Financial Crisis should have taught us about conflicts of interest and how to avoid them. John Chown, David Russell, QC. Trust & Trustees, January 2017, Oxford University Press. Trusts & Trustees (2017) 23 (2): 209-214. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1093/tandt/ttw221
John Chown. “How to Sell the Family Silver – Lessons from the Royal Mail Sale”. The Pointmaker. Centre for Policy studies, May 2016.
“The Tobin Tax Rears its Ugly Head, Again”, John Chown, The Pointmaker, Centre for Policy Studies, May 2013
Books
A history of monetary unions. London [u.a.]: Routledge. 2003, .
The Taxation of Foreign Exchange and Derivatives – John Chown & Kim Desai, Financial Times Financial Publishing, Pearson Professional Limited, , 1997.
A History of Money – from AD 800 – John Chown, Routledge, London and New York, 1994, , paperback 1996.
"Tax Efficient Foreign Exchange Management" - John F Chown. Woodhead Faulkner, Cambridge, 1990. .
"Tax Efficient Forex Management" - Professional Publishing. 1986.
"Taxation and Social Security Europe" – The Economist Publications in conjunction with J F Chown and Company Limited. Editor: John F Chown, 1985.
"Taxation and Social Security Europe" – Mica International in conjunction with J F Chown and Company Limited. Editor: John F Chown, 1984.
"Foreign Exchange Risk: A Tax and Financial Analysis" – (Oyez Longman 1983.)
"Offshore Financial Centres" – J F Chown (4th ed revised by Mary Cook) Banker Research Unit, 1981 (1st ed, 1975 as Offshore Investment Centres).
The taxation of direct investment in the United States. London: Butterworths. 1980, .
"Corporate Finance under Floating Exchange Rates" – J F Chown. Cityforum Ltd, 1979.
"Foreign Currency Debt Management" – J F Chown and M J Finney. J F Chown and Company Limited, 1977.
"Investing in the Eastern Mediterranean" – J F Chown and G N Stathopoulos. J F Chown and Company Limited, 1977.
"Taxation and Multinational Enterprise" – J F Chown. Longman, 1974.
"Acquisition of Assets, Companies and Real Estate in Europe" – J F Chown and M Edwardes Ker. Financial Times, 1974, published by The Financial Times.
"Corporation Tax under the Imputation System" – John Chown and Richard Norman. Financial Times 1973.
"VAT Explained" – J F Chown. Kogan Page, 1972 and 1973.
"International Fund Year Book" – John Chown Editorial consultant, Investors Chronicle publication, July 1970, published Throgmorton Publications Limited, 1970.
"International Bond Market in the 1960s" – J F Chown and R Valentine. Frederick A Praeger, 1968.
References
External links
Chown Dewhurst LLP
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The 2016–17 season of the Bermudian Premier Division (also known as the Cingular Wireless Premier Division for sponsorship reasons) is the 54th season of top-tier football in Bermuda. It started on 25 September 2016 and will finish on 19 March 2017. Dandy Town Hornets are the defending champions, having won their 8th top tier title last season.
Changes from 2015–16
At the end of the 2015–16 season, Southampton Rangers and Hamilton Parish were relegated after finishing 9th and 10th in the competition. They were replaced by the champions and runners-up of the First Division, Somerset Eagles and Flanagan's Onions.
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Ironclads: High Seas (or IHS) – steam-ship period 3D tactical naval simulator focusing on fleet-scale battles in real time.
The game allows you to set up battles squadron groups, their formations and management, with realistic ship models and characteristics, as well as advanced ballistics and weapon models.
See also
Ironclads: American Civil War
References
External links
Official website
2009 video games
Real-time tactics video games
Windows games
Windows-only games
American Civil War video games
Naval video games
Video games developed in Russia |
YALI RCL West Africa is one of the four regional leadership centres across Africa. The Ghana campus is situated at GIMPA in Accra, provides leadership training, networking, and professional development activities for young people ages 18–35 in West Africa (Gambia, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Togo). RLC is the acronym for Regional Leadership Center (RLC). Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) is an initiative of the United States Department of State. YALI started in 2010 by President Barack Obama. YALI is a programme aimed at educating and networking young African leaders regionally, which started in 2014. YALI RLC West Africa was one of the four regional "leadership centers" Ghana, West Africa. The centre at Ghana, is located at Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA). The West Africa centres carry out training which aims at millennials within west African region. Participants of the Regional Leadership Centres go through online and in-person training and are provided with professional development opportunities in these three track areas; business and entrepreneurship, civil society management and public policy and management.
According to USAID, a sum of $38,770,950.00 is Total Lifetime Investment support for the project; USG Investment $12,500,000.00; Non-USG Investment $26,270,950.00
Activities within West Africa
"YALI RLC West Africa, Accra was developed in order to provide a platform for the next potential generation of Africa’s leaders to come together and prepare for future endeavours that will effect change and ultimately transform the continent."
According to the former President of the United States, Barack Obama said :
“You will not only be making a difference in your own countries but also be the foundation of a new generation of global leadership’’.
The implementing organisation carry out training of African leaders. In 2017, YALI RLC West Africa held its first alumni conference at Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), Accra, Ghana. In 2018, YALI RLC in Lagos, Nigeria had 127 participants.
Organisation and Partnership
The organisation comprises the YALI Regional Leadership Center (RLC) Director Dr. Shola Safo-Duodu, also known as SHOW-la SAH-fo doe-DO, the Deputy Rector of the Ghana Institute of Management, Professor Philip Duku-Osei (Public administration), Mr. Anthony Sala (Dean of students at GIMPA), Mr. Daniel Moore (USAID West Africa Mission Director), and the RLC Governing Council.
Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) serves as the implementing partner along with other resources partners which are namely:
Higher education Institutions
Non-governmental organizations
Private Organizations
Private Businesses
Private Philanthropies
McKinsey and Company
Microsoft
Cisco Systems
Intel
IBM
Atlas Mara
Other RLC locations
The Regional Leadership Center West Africa centers are also at :
Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), Accra, Ghana
Centre Africain d’Etudes Supérieures en Gestion (CESAG), Dakar, Senegal
Administrative Staff College of Nigeria (ASCON), Lagos, Nigeria
References
External links
Organisations based in Ghana
Leadership
Barack Obama |
The fortifications of Copenhagen underwent a comprehensive modernization and expansion in the 17th century. The project was commenced and was largely the masterplan of Christian IV in the early 17th century but was continued and completed by his successors. The new fortifications relied on the existing, medieval fortifications of the city but the fortified area was extended and a defensive ring around the city completed particularly with new edifices facing the sea. The ring fortification consisted of four bastioned ramparts and an annexed citadel as well as various outworks.
Though largely developed to a final form in the 17th century, the fortifications remained in use until the second half of the 19th century, when they finally, a long time overdue, were decommissioned. Today only the Christianshavn Rampart and the citadel Kastellet remain intact, while the rest of the fortifications were dismantled in the years after its demise. The grounds were to a large extent laid out as parks, forming a green band around the city centre still known as the Fortification Ring, as well as for construction of a number of public buildings, including the new Copenhagen City Hall as well as a number of museums.
History
Christian IV's modernization project
Christian IV's modernization of the fortifications of Copenhagen commenced in 1606 and would take 20 years to complete. The course of the medieval fortifications was kept but Slotsholmen was now incorporated into the complex. A large bastion in masonry was constructed on its southwestern tip and connected to Vestervold by a vaulted dam known as Løngangen. In the same time, Østervold was taken around parts of Bremerholm to meet the sea.
A total of 12 bastions were constructed and just outside the entire fortification a moat was dug. Due to topographical variations in the terrain, it was constructed as a series of basins, separated by dams, to solve the problem of variations in the terrain. The uppermost basin was fed by water from Peblingesøen. The Western and Northern City Gates were also renovated and given tall spires and a new Eastern City Gate was built.
From 1618 to 1623 Christianshavn was laid out and incorporated as a privileged market town. Strategically situated in the middle of a shallow-watered, marshy area north of Amager, the town was fortified with low earthworks facing Amager. The rampart was constructed with four and a half bastions and a gate, known as Amager Gate.
To guard the northern entrance to the port, a blockhouse was constructed on the shallow-watered Refshaleø in 1624. On the Zealand side of the harbour, north of the city, an advanced post, named Sankt Annæ Skanse (English: St. Anne's Redoubt) was constructed, on the site later to become Kastellet. This work was begun in 1627.
Expansion of the fortified city
As part of his aspirations to strengthen Copenhagen as a regional centre, Christian IV decided to expand the area of the fortified city northwards. As early as 1606, when his modernization of the fortifications began, he had purchased 200 hectares of land outside the Eastern City Gate. His intention was to redevelop this area into a new district referred to as Ny København (English: New Copenhagen) or Sankt Annæ By (Saint Ann's Town). The plan was to change the course of Østervold, which at that time made a bend and ran along what is today Gothersgade and Kongens Nytorv. The new Østervold would be a direct extension of Nørrevold, connecting it to Sankt Annæ Skanse, thereby increasing the area of the fortified city with approximately 40%. However, the 1630s was a time of economic crisis and both Sankt Annæ Skanse and the new course of Østervold was delayed with no major work going on during that decade. After both Jutland and Scania had been occupied by enemy forces in the first half of the 1640s and the Kingdom's very existence had been threatened, work on the fortifications was resumed.
The new Østervold was constructed and a new project for the fortress at Sankt Annæ Skanse, with the layout of a bastioned pentagram, was completed in 1661.
Decommissioning of the fortifications
The British bombing of Copenhagen during the Battle of Copenhagen in 1807 made it clear that the city's fortifications were outdated but during the years of economic constraints that followed, no action was taken. In 1840 Christian VIII appointed a national defense commission which two years later recommended that the existing fortifications be decommissioned.
At the outbreak of the First Schleswig War in 1848, nothing had happened and considerable work was carried out to strengthen the ramparts around the city gates in the event of a German attack. In 1852, the Line of Demarcation was partially disabandoned but work to maintain and improve the ramparts were carried out as late as 1856–57.
In 1868 a law finally provided for the official abolishment of the demarcation statutes and the disabandonment of the fortifications proper. In 1856–58 the city gates were dismantled. These provisions did not apply to fortifications at Christianshavn and Kastellet. Christianshavn's ramparts were extended as late as 1868–1870 with a rampart along the east coast of the newly reclaimed Refshaleø, which only a few years later was rented out to the shipyard Burmeister & Wain. The fortifications at Christianshavn remained in use into the 20th century. Some areas were opened up in the late 1910s, and the last areas were not made public until 1961.
Fortifications
Ramparts
The ramparts generally consisted of large earthworks with a ditch in front of it.
As part of the improvements, numerous bastions were constructed along their course. In 1781, after extensive work on the fortifications in the preceding years, the bastions were given official names according to group: The bastions in Copenhagen were named for officers of note from the siege or other events of the early absolute era, the bastions at Christianshavn were named for powerful animals and at Kastellet. Since 1669, the bastions at Kastellet had been named for members of the Royal family and the King's lands.
Nørrevold
Nørrevold ran from Jarmers Tower to a site just east of Nørreport, at the junction of today's Gothersgade and Øster Voldgade.
Vestervold
In connection with a modernisation of Vestervold in the 1660s, the ramparts were extended towards the south from Vesterport all the way to the coastline and into the water on reclaimed seabed. The extension included three new bastions, two of which were located on reclaimed land.
Østervold
Originally Østervold ran from a location just east of Nørreport along today's Gothersgade to Østerport's original location at the end of Østergade. As result of Christian IV's efforts to modernize the fortifications, the southern end of Østervold was continued around parts of Bremerholm.
After the expansion of the fortified city in the 1650s, Østervold continued Nørrevold in a straight north-eastern direction, connecting the fortifications to the north side of Kastellet.
Christianshavns Vold
The first Christianshavns Vold, constructed around 1620, had 4 and a half bastions. In the 1670s, when Vestervold was extended to reach the sea, Christiansvold was moved and extended to match the new course of Vestervold. The new Christianshavns Vold had 5 very large bastions. Around the entire complex was a moat with a protecting counterscarp. From 1682 to 1692 Christianshavns Vold was extended once more, this time northwards, to guard the entrance to the harbour and protect the new base for the Royal Fleet at Nyholm. The extension included 7 new bastions, named for current members of the Royal family. The last extension of Christianshavns Vold was constructed as late as 1878–82, when a rampart was constructed along the eastern margin of the newly reclaimed Refshaleø.
City gates
The gates that once guarded the entrances to the City of Copenhagen through the City Ramparts were stone buildings that had a single archway through the middle for traffic, protected by gates and portcullises. There were four gates affording access to the city.
Østerport
Østerport was originally located at the end of Østergade, where Kongens Nytorv lies today. When the fortified city was expanded in the late 17th century to make room for the new Royal square and the district Saint Anne's Town, Østerport was dismantled and a new gate built at a site close to present day Østerport railway station. While the original East Gate faced east, the new gate was very close the northernmost point of the city.
It is uncertain when the new Østerport was built but it may have been as early as 1647. Its original design is unknown but in 1708 it was rebuilt by Frederick VIII to a fairly modest design. The gate was dismantled in 1857.
Nørreport
Nørreport was located at a site where Nørreport station lies today. Nørregade, which led to the original gate, is named for it. Due to its location, it was the gate used by travellers from Norway and Sweden, arriving via Elsinore, as well as Northern Zealand. Since the Royals often resided at Frederiksborg Palace during the summer, arriving and departing through Nørreport, the street immediately inside the new gate was named Frederiksborggade. In 1671, during the reign of Christian V, an older gate was replaced by a new one, built to the design of Lambert van Haven. It was the tallest and finest of the city's gates with ornamentation in sandstone. It was dismantled in 1857.
Vesterport
The first Vesterport was erected in 1588 and later rebuilt in stone by Frederik III in 1668. The new gate was almost 4 metres wide and metres tall and as an architectural curiosity, with canon barrels used as columns to support the main cornice. The gate was renovated in 1722 by Frederick IV. Vesterport was the most fortified of the city's gates. It was the gate most used for transportation of goods from Zealand. Opening to the main road which led to Korsør, it was also through this gate that travellers from Jutland and Funen would normally arrive.
Amagerport
Amagerport was rebuilt in 1724 and dismantled in 1857.
Kastellet
As part of Cristian IV's endeavour to improve the fortification, he planned and commenced the construction of a citadel known as Kastellet, constructed in connection with the ramparts in the form of a pentagram. Construction began in 1626 with the building of an entrenchment in the northern part of the defense wall of the city. The original plans included construction of a castle at the site for the King to seek haven in the event of siege, but this part of the plan was dropped on account of economic constraints. Construction continued with his successor King Christian III. After the Swedish siege on Copenhagen (1658–1660) the Dutch engineer Henrik Rüse was called in to help rebuild and extend the construction. The fortification was named Citadellet Frederikshavn ("The Frederikshavn Citadel"), but it is better known as Kastellet ("the citadel").
Outside the ramparts
Demarcation line
Immediately outside the ramparts, there was a no-build zone, known as the Line of Demarcation (Danish: Demarkeringslinjen). The demarcation line was introduced in 1661 after the Assault on Copenhagen. It reached from the fortification ring to Jagtvej. The construction of new buildings in this zone required special permission. It was generally a requirement that they could easily be burnt in the event of an enermy attack. In 1852, the demarcation line was moved from Jagtvej to the eastern shoreline of The Lakes.
The Lakes
The row of lakes today known as Søerne used to be located just outside the fortifications, running along Nørrevold as well as parts of Østervold and Vestervold. They originate in a need for dammed water for watermills, leading to the creation of the first lake, but after a siege of Copenhagen in 1523, it was decided to extend the entrenchments for strategic purposes, incorporating them into the defence of the city as an extra barrier. The levee at Peblinge Sø was expanded and another dam was constructed, which resulted in the creation of Sortedams Sø. In the beginning of the 17th century, Sankt Jørgens Sø was created, as a result of further damming. As a results of these efforts, it was now possible to flood the banks and lakes in case of an attack on the city.
Other uses
Gunpowder magazines
A substantial number of gunpowder magazines were located in the fortifications
After his appointment as Naval Building Master at Holmen, Hans van Steenwinckel the Youngest was responsible for the construction of two gunpowder magazines at the Christianshavn Rampart. Construction of the first magazine, located at Vilhelms Bastion, was commenced in 1688, while the second one, built to a similar design at Carls Bastion, began two years later.
The gunpowder magazine at the Eastern Rampart exploded on two occasions. The first time was on 16 December 1658, during the Swedish siege of Copenhagen in the Second Northern War. On 31 March 1779 it exploded again. Seven people were killed and 47 were injured. It was subsequently rebuilt and not decommissioned until 1872.
Windmills
Many of the bastions were used for the construction of wind mills. Due to their height they offered particularly good wind conditions. In the same time, a fortified city needed secure supplies, including supplies of flour and rolled groats, in the event of siege. In 1800, a total of 16 windmills were found on the ramparts of Copenhagen.
In 1669–70 windmills were constructed on both of the bastions flanking Amager City Gate in Christianshavns Rampart, then known as the Mill Bastion (now the Elephant's Bastion) and the Bastion at the Church (now the Lion's Bastion). Breslaus Mølle on the Mill Bastion was demolished in 1842. Little Mill on the Lion's Bastion was originally a post mill but it was destroyed in a storm and replaced by a smock mill in 1783. It remained in use til the late 19th century, from 1832 supplemented by a steam mill which remained in use until 1909.
Also in 1669, the miller Hans Hansen obtained permission to build a mill on Gyldenløves Bastion, just south of the Western City Gate. Whether it later burned or was never built is uunknown, but in 1697 Jürgen Gosbruch, another miller, received permission to build a windmill on the same site. It was known as Luciemølle or Lusse Møllen. Some time during the 1790s, another windmill, known as Store Kongens Mølle (English: Large King's Mill), was built on Shacks Bastion on the other side of the Western City Gate. in 1692 a windmill was also built at Gothersgade, on the old Eastern Rampart.
Dronningens Mølle (English:Queen's Mill) was located on Rosenkrantz' Bastion in the Eastern Rampart. It was completely destroyed when the gunpowder magazine at the Eastern Rampart exploded on 31 March 1779. It was rebuilt but torn down in 1895.
When the British besieged Copenhagen in 1807, it was feared that they would destroy the mills on the fortifications. Therefore, two extra mills were constructed on less exposed locations, one at Sølvgade and one on Nyholm.
The fortifications today
Fortification Ring
The grounds which used to be occupied by the fortifications are still known as the Fortification Ring (Danish: Fæstningsringen). From the ramparts were first decommissioned and purchased by the City of Copenhagen, their grounds have been dominated by parks and other recreational uses. It is still municipal policy that the Fortification Ring is maintained and developed as a green band within the urban area of the city.
Parks located within the Fortification Ring include Østre Anlæg, University of Copenhagen Botanical Garden and Ørstedsparken. The preserved parts of the fortifications at Christianshavn and Kastellet are also green and serve as parks. This also applies for Freetown Christiania which is partially located on the northern part of the Christianshavn Ramparts. The area also houses a number of museums, including the National Gallery, The Hirschsprung Collection and Lille Mølle.
Remains of the fortifications
Kastellet
Christianshavn Rampart
Jarmers Tower
See also
Fæstningens Materielgård
References
17th-century establishments in Denmark
Tourist attractions in Copenhagen
Forts in Denmark
17th century in Copenhagen
17th-century fortifications |
The 1996 United States presidential election in Minnesota took place on November 5, 1996, as part of the 1996 United States presidential election. Voters chose ten representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
A Democratic-leaning state, Minnesota was comfortably won by incumbent Democratic President Bill Clinton. Clinton took 51.10% of the popular vote over Republican challenger Bob Dole, who took 34.96%, a victory margin of 16.14%. Reform Party candidate Ross Perot finished in third, with 11.75% of the popular vote.
, and despite the state’s long Democratic streak – having not voted Republican since 1972 – this is the most recent election that the Republican candidate received less than forty percent of the vote in a presidential election, the most recent in which a Democrat would win the state by more than 15% of the vote, the most recent in which the Democratic candidate won more counties than the Republican, and the most recent when Anoka, Becker, Benton, Cass, Chisago, Clearwater, Cottonwood, Crow Wing, Dodge, Faribault, Goodhue, Hubbard, Isanti, Jackson, Kanabec, Kandiyohi, Lake of the Woods, Le Sueur, Lyon, Martin, McLeod, Meeker, Mille Lacs, Morrison, Nobles, Renville, Scott, Sherburne, Sibley, Stearns, Steele, Todd, Wabasha, Waseca, and Wright Counties voted for a Democratic presidential candidate. This is the only time since 1952 that Martin County voted for a Democratic presidential candidate. This is the last election in which Minnesota voted to the left of California, Delaware, Maryland, and Washington, all of which have become soundly Democratic leaning states, while Minnesota is a marginally competitive Democratic leaning state.
Results
Results by county
Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic
Becker
Cottonwood
Crow Wing
Dodge
Faribault
Houston
Lyon
Martin
McLeod
Stearns
Steele
See also
United States presidential elections in Minnesota
References
Minnesota
1996
1996 Minnesota elections |
is a national park in the Kantō region, on the main island of Honshū in Japan. The park spreads over three prefectures: Tochigi, Gunma and Fukushima, and was established in 1934.
History
The establishment of Nikkō National Park dates to the early 20th century. The Diet of Japan designated Nikkō an in 1911. The National Parks Law was passed in 1931, and Nikkō National Park was established in 1934. The park was expanded throughout the 20th century. Oze National Park was once part of Nikkō National Park, but became a separate national park in 2007.
Description
The park is considered one of the most beautiful in Japan, and is a popular tourist destination. Beyond its striking scenery, the park is noted for its historical Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines, most notably the Nikkō Tōshō-gū and Rinnō-ji. They are designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site as the "Shrines and Temples of Nikkō".
The park is free entry and is divided into three zones, such as Nikko, Kinugawa/Kuriyama, Nasu Kashi/Shiobara.
Notable places
Nikkō Tōshō-gū, a Shinto shrine, Nikkō, Tochigi Prefecture
Lake Chūzenji, , a scenic lake, Nikkō
Kegon Falls, , one of Japan's three highest waterfalls
Mount Nantai, , rises dramatically above Lake Chūzenji
Mount Nikkō-Shirane, , a shield volcano
Rinnō-ji, a Buddhist temple, Nikkō
Ryūzu Falls, , a scenic twin waterfalls
Sessho-seki, a "killing stone" that fractured in 2022
Flora
Nikkō National Park is noted for numerous species of plants and trees, including mizu-bashō, the white skunk cabbage of the Ozegahara marshland, maples, firs, and magnificent stands of sugi, the Japanese cedar that line the roads around Nikkō.
Recreation
Nikkō National Park is a popular destination for hiking, skiing, camping, golfing, and its numerous historical onsen hot spring resorts.
See also
List of national parks of Japan
References
External links
Japan Ministry of the Environment: Nikko National Park
日光国立公園
National parks of Japan
Parks and gardens in Fukushima Prefecture
Parks and gardens in Gunma Prefecture
Parks and gardens in Tochigi Prefecture
1934 establishments in Japan
Protected areas established in 1934 |
Rez Gardi (, ; born 11 August) is a Kurdish New Zealander international lawyer and human rights activist. She was awarded the Young New Zealander of the Year for 2017 for her services to human rights.
Life
Gardi was born in a United Nations refugee camp in Quetta, Pakistan as her parents fled from persecution in their homeland of Kurdistan.
Gardi's mother fled the Kurdish region of Iraq when her village Sedakan was attacked by chemical weapons during the Anfal campaign. Gardi's grandmother and two aunts were killed in an attack by Saddam Hussein's Ba'ath regime and her grandfather was disabled. Gardi's father is from the Hakkari region in the Kurdish region of Turkey and his family fled to Iraqi Kurdistan due to oppressive treatment by the Turkish Government. They then fled from Iraq to Iran as political refugees. Gardi's parents met as teenagers as part of a Kurdish human rights movement in Iran. Gardi's parents were forced to flee Iran when it became too dangerous for human rights activists. While fleeing across the Iran-Pakistan border in 1989, Gardi and her family were saved by a border guard, who chose not to report them hiding in the truck they were being smuggled in.
Gardi's family were accepted as political refugees in Pakistan and remained there until 1998 when they were resettled to New Zealand as part of the UNHCR resettlement programme.
Gardi has said that she was forced to lie about her Kurdish heritage at school to avoid Islamophobic bullying in the wake of the 9/11 attacks in the United States.
Gardi has two siblings: one sister and one brother.
Education
Gardi graduated with a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) and a Bachelor of Arts (double major) in 2016 from the University of Auckland, where she was recognized as 40 under 40 alumni. She completed a Master of Law at Harvard Law School in 2019, becoming the first Kurd in history to graduate from Harvard Law. At Harvard Law School, she received the Dean's Award for Community Leadership and was a Class Day Speaker at the Harvard Law School Commencement. Gardi was awarded a Harvard Satter Human Rights Fellowship for her work in Iraq.
Legal career and advocacy
Gardi is qualified to practice as a lawyer in the United States and New Zealand. Gardi is an international lawyer working in the Kurdish region of Iraq.
Gardi worked as a Legal Officer at the New Zealand Human Rights Commission. Prior to that she was a solicitor at New Zealand law firm Chapman Tripp in the litigation team. She has previously worked at the United Nations Office in Nairobi, Kenya.
Gardi is a co-founder of the Centre for Asia Pacific Refugee Studies at the University of Auckland. Gardi has represented New Zealand at various international conferences. She represented New Zealand at the Global Refugee Youth Consultations and helped form the Global Youth Advisory Council to the UNHCR, she also has spoken at the UNHCR-NGO Consultations, and the High Commissioner's Dialogue on Protection Challenges, all in Geneva, the Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Conference in Bangkok, the Women Deliver Conference in Copenhagen and the OECD Forum in Paris.
Gardi supports young refugees to access higher education. She is the founder of ‘Empower’, a youth-led organisation aiming to address the underrepresentation of refugees in higher education. Empower enables refugee youth through education, leadership, and capacity-building. She is also working on projects in camps across Iraq and provides workshops to foster participation, leadership, and training opportunities for young refugees.
Gardi advocates for gender equality, particularly the many different forms of discrimination ethnic and minority women face in New Zealand. She is a young leader for SuperDIVERSE Women and raises awareness about the issues minority women face.
Gardi is an advocate for New Zealand increasing its refugee quota.
Awards
Gardi was awarded the Young New Zealander of the Year for 2017 for her services to human rights. She was a Women of Influence finalist in the Global category for 2017. In 2018 she was selected as a finalist of the Next Magazine Woman of the Year Awards. In 2019, she was awarded the Outstanding Youth Delegate Award at the UN Youth Assembly.
Gardi was awarded a Harvard Satter Human Rights Fellowship for her work in Iraq.
References
1991 births
Refugees in Pakistan
Living people
Kurdish activists
Kurdish lawyers
Kurdish women activists
Kurdish women lawyers
Kurdish people
New Zealand women lawyers
New Zealand people of Kurdish descent
Refugees in New Zealand
Turkish expatriates in Pakistan
University of Auckland alumni
Harvard Law School alumni
Human rights in Kurdistan
21st-century New Zealand women lawyers
21st-century New Zealand lawyers |
In enzymology, a dolichyl-phosphate D-xylosyltransferase () is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction
UDP-D-xylose + dolichyl phosphate UDP + dolichyl D-xylosyl phosphate
Thus, the two substrates of this enzyme are UDP-D-xylose and dolichyl phosphate, whereas its two products are UDP and dolichyl D-xylosyl phosphate.
This enzyme belongs to the family of glycosyltransferases, specifically the pentosyltransferases. The systematic name of this enzyme class is UDP-D-xylose:dolichyl-phosphate D-xylosyltransferase.
References
EC 2.4.2
Enzymes of unknown structure |
Krzywda is a village in Łuków County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Krzywda. It lies approximately south-west of Łuków and north-west of the regional capital Lublin.
References
Villages in Łuków County
Lublin Voivodeship (1474–1795)
Siedlce Governorate
Lublin Governorate
Lublin Voivodeship (1919–1939) |
Below is a list of Missouri state high school baseball championships sanctioned by the Missouri State High School Activities Association since the organization began holding the tournaments in 1950. More recently, championships have been held at Meador Park in Springfield to 2012, and CarShield Field (formerly T.R. Hughes Ballpark) in O'Fallon from 2013. Since 2021, they are played at U.S. Baseball Park in Ozark, Missouri.
Championships
See also
List of Missouri state high school football champions
List of Missouri state high school boys basketball championships
List of Missouri state high school girls basketball championships
List of Missouri state high school girls volleyball championships
List of Missouri high schools by athletic conferences
References
High school baseball in the United States
high school baseball
high school baseball
Missouri state baseball champions |
Gorzeszyn is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Skępe, within Lipno County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland. It lies approximately south-east of Skępe, east of Lipno, and south-east of Toruń.
References
Gorzeszyn |
Mary Meijer-van der Sluis (11 July 1917 – 31 January 1994) was a Dutch fencer and singer. She competed in the women's individual foil event at the 1948 Summer Olympics.
Born Mary van der Sluis to a Jewish family in Rotterdam, she married Mozes Meijer in 1940 there three months after the German bombing of that city. Though before the war she had fenced competitively, becoming Dutch champion foil fencing in 1937, she primarily focused on performing and teaching singing until at least the 1950s. Nevertheless, in 1948, when competitions were restarted, she again became Dutch champion in foil and was selected for the Olympic Games. It was considered remarkable that a Jewish woman could compete at the Olympics so soon after the war. Mary participated in the 1957 Maccabiah Games, the 1969 Maccabiah Games, and the 1973 Maccabiah Games. In 1957 she won a gold medal, and in 1973 she was, at the age of 56 the oldest participant. In 1969, the youngest of her three children, Sophia Meijer, also became Dutch champion fencing.
References
External links
1917 births
1994 deaths
Dutch female foil fencers
Dutch Jews
Fencers at the 1948 Summer Olympics
Olympic fencers for the Netherlands
Jewish Dutch sportspeople
Maccabiah Games gold medalists for the Netherlands
Competitors at the 1957 Maccabiah Games
Competitors at the 1969 Maccabiah Games
Competitors at the 1973 Maccabiah Games
Maccabiah Games medalists in fencing
Sportspeople from Rotterdam
Jewish female foil fencers |
Bazuyevo () is a rural locality (a village) in Gaynskoye Rural Settlement, Gaynsky District, Perm Krai, Russia. The population was 26 as of 2010. There is 1 street.
Geography
Bazuyevo is located 33 km southwest of Gayny (the district's administrative centre) by road. Tiunovo is the nearest rural locality.
References
Rural localities in Gaynsky District |
George "Malmo" Malley (born July 28, 1955) is an American long-distance runner. He held American records in the 3000m steeplechase, 12 km, and half marathon.
Early career
George Malley graduated from DuVal High School in Lanham, Maryland in 1973. He began competing in track and field and cross country his sophomore year. The DuVal High School cross-country team was ranked ninth and fifth nationally during his junior and senior years. He would set personal bests of 4:16.4 in the mile and 9:10.2 in the two mile.
Malley attended Penn State University, where he was a five-time All-America, and broke the American record in the steeplechase with his 8:22.54 at the 1977 AAU National Championships in Westwood, California. In the summer of 1977 he improved his mile personal best to 4:00.5 in Berlin, Germany.
He was ranked sixth in the world in the 3000m steeplechase event by Track & Field News for 1977
Professional career
1978 Malley would run the steeplechase in 8:21.72, narrowly missing the new record of 8:21.55 set by Henry Marsh, and lowered his 1500-meter best to 3:40.21 just two days later.
1981 began with a New Years Day attempt on Bill Rodgers American Record at 15,000 m (43:39.8) in Palo Alto, CA. Malley would fall 3 seconds short with his 43:43.2 On March 15, in Cherry Hill, NJ, he would tie the existing 10 mile AR of 47:02 held by Herb Lindsay in a losing effort to fellow steeplechaser Mike Roche, who established the new mark with his 46:57. On March 21 he would set the American 12 km record with his 35:10 over a hilly course in Holyoke, MA. While preparing for the 1981 IAAF World Cross Country Championships Malley would tear his plantar fascia. He still ran the race, finishing 51st, helping the US team win the silver medal. It was the highest finish, and remains the lowest 6-man score by a US team in World Cross Country competition.
In 1982 he set the American record in the half-marathon, a 1:01:43 in Philadelphia on September 19, losing to Michael Musyoki of Kenya in world record time (1:01:35) and eclipsing the old world record of 1:01:47 set by Herb Lindsay. He followed that with a 2:13:29 marathon debut in New York City. He would run his lifetime best of 2:12:23 in Sacramento in 1985.
Nickname
In 1978 Malley defeated Swedish Olympic steeplechase runner Dan Glans in his hometown of Malmö, which earned him the nickname Malmo.
Personal bests
References
1955 births
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
American male long-distance runners
American male marathon runners
American male steeplechase runners
Penn State Nittany Lions men's track and field athletes
People from Lanham, Maryland
Sportspeople from Prince George's County, Maryland
Track and field athletes from Maryland |
Abu Muḥammad Chishti () was famous Sufi of Chishti Order.
Career
Chishti was disciple of Abu Aḥmad Abdal Chishti and master of Abu Yusuf ibn Saman
He died in 1020. Abu Muḥammad Chishti was part of golden chain of Chishti Order of Sufism.
See also
Chishti Order
References
Chishti Order
Sufi saints
Chishtis |
Nikola Mladenov (; 10 March 1964 – 26 March 2013) was a Macedonian journalist, actor, founder and managing editor of the weekly newspaper Fokus, widely regarded as one of the most reputable journalists in Macedonia, who along with his colleagues from the newspaper Mlad borec is considered to have laid the basis for the pluralistic principles in the Macedonian journalism. The "Award for best research story of the year – Nikola Mladenov", which is awarded by the Macedonian Institute for Media, is named after him.
Biography
Early years
Nikola Mladenov was born in Skopje on 10 March 1964. His career began as an actor but in the middle of the 1980s he joined the newspaper Mlad borec as a journalist, where he gained reputation and affirmation as a pioneer in the democratic processes in SR Macedonia. The newspaper was published by the Union of Socialist Youth of Macedonia and predominantly dealt with the autocensorship and addressing critics for the sins of the communist nomenclature. While working for this newspaper, Mladenov also disclosed information concerning the people listed on the so-called "blacklists" in the Macedonian journalism. After leaving the job at Mlad borec, Mladenov founded a radio station named Libertas, and in 1995 he founded the weekly newspaper Fokus, which is considered to have been the first independent and free weekly newspaper in Macedonia. Fokus has eventually become a medium for freedom of speech, and its main motto was "Weekly newspaper of the inner, and honestly the outer enemy".
Swiss accounts affair
In December 2005, articles deliberating information that the President of Macedonia at the time Branko Crvenkovski and the former Prime Minister of Macedonia Hari Kostov hold secret accounts in Swiss banks appeared in several editions of Fokus. These articles subsequently lead to several lawsuits relating the affair, in which Mladenov was found guilty and fined to pay penalties to the opposite parties in the trials.
Namely, Mladenov was charged with an indictment from the former Prime Minister of Macedonia Hari Kostov, for whom it was announced in Fokus that he holds accounts in Swiss banks which were not disclosed in the questionnaire during his terms as Prime Minister and Minister for Internal Affairs. The verdict was in favour of the prosecutor and the accused was fined to pay a penalty totalling 155,158 denars. Furthermore, the court has partially approved the amends made by the prosecutor and Mladenov had to pay Kostov 950,000 denars personally for inflicting heartache and evoking bad reputation. During the judgement neither Mladenov nor his lawyer were present at the court, and the lawyer stated that the judgement was passed upon under political pressure.
Death and reactions
Mladenov died in a road accident in the night of 26 March 2013 on the entrance of Skopje. The accident occurred near the interchange of Skopje's suburb Hipodrom, where Mladenov crashed at the last curve while driving his car of the brand Mercedes-Benz and died after the car overturned several times off the road ending in a ditch.
As later reported, Mladenov was driving alone on the way back from Veles to Skopje, and few hours before the accident had a phone call with his relatives. But after 22:00 (CET) no more contacts could have been made with him anymore. His wife called the police next morning to report that her husband was missing and after two hours of investigation the police found the car with the aid of the signal that was emitted by his mobile phone. According to some sources, the overturned car in the ditch off the road was seen as early as the night by a passer who evidenced that lights of a car are gleaming in his proximity. Following the obduction of the body, it was announced that the cause of death was internal bleeding as result of the bash that the killed has had in the steering wheel.
Reactions with condolences to the death of Mladenov were sent by the Society of Journalists of Macedonia, the Embassy of the United States in Skopje, and many of his colleagues. On 28 March 2013, a session commemorating the life and work of Nikola Mladenov was held in Skopje and attended by members of his family, journalists, collaborators, public life personalities, and foreign diplomats. Nikola Mladenov was buried later in the day at the Butel cemetery in Skopje.
Posthumous recognition
The Macedonian Institute for Media decided to name the "Award for best research story of the year" in honour of Nikola Mladenov and thus the award is now known as "Award for best research story of the year – Nikola Mladenov".
See also
Fokus
Mlad borec
Swiss accounts affair
References
1964 births
2013 deaths
Macedonian journalists
Male journalists
Male actors from Skopje
Writers from Skopje
Road incident deaths in North Macedonia |
George Charles Disch (March 15, 1879 – August 25, 1950) was a pitcher in Major League Baseball. He played for the Detroit Tigers in 1905.
References
External links
1879 births
1950 deaths
Major League Baseball pitchers
Detroit Tigers players
Baseball players from Missouri
Sportspeople from Rapid City, South Dakota
Milwaukee Brewers (minor league) players
Marshalltown Grays players
Evansville River Rats players
Freeport Pretzels players
Kosciuszko Reds players |
Howlers in the Dock () is a 1960 Italian "musicarello" film directed (and co-written) by Lucio Fulci. It is also known as Howlers of the Dock in some reference books. The film was shown on Italian TV under a longer title, Metti, Celentano e Mina...Urlatori alla sbarra.
Plot
The film is a fast-paced musical comedy about a band of teddy boys and rock n' roll chicks, whose crazy, fun-loving habits inspire bitter complaints from their neighbors in the town. A prominent blue jeans company owner feels that the kids' poor reputation adversely affects his product's sales and public image. Prevailing upon the youths to help, he engineers a series of promotional stunts to lighten the public's opinion of these good-hearted rock n rollers and their lovely jeans. An unscrupulous politician makes things difficult for the youngsters, but everything turns out well.
Cast
Joe Sentieri as Joe Il Rosso
Adriano Celentano as Adriano
Mina Mazzini as Mina
Elke Sommer as Giulia Giommarelli
Chet Baker as Chet
Mario Carotenuto as Professor Giommarelli
Turi Pandolfini as Senator Bucci
Giacomo Furia as On. Gubellini
Marilù Tolo as Marilù
Umberto Bindi as "Agonia"
Corrado Lojacono as Corrado
Gianni Meccia as "Satan"
Gorni Kramer as Maestro Bremer
Enzo Garinei as Carimei
Sandro Giovannini as Giuseppeni
Bruno Martino
Lino Banfi as Leopoldo Cannavone
I Brutos as a group of shepherds
References
External links
1960 films
1960 musical comedy films
Italian musical comedy films
Films directed by Lucio Fulci
Films scored by Piero Umiliani
Musicarelli
1960s Italian-language films
1960s Italian films |
```swift
//
// Extensions.swift
// UICircularProgressRing
//
// Created by Luis on 2/5/19.
//
/**
* This file includes internal extensions.
*/
import UIKit
/// Helper extension to allow removing layer animation based on AnimationKeys enum
extension CALayer {
func removeAnimation(forKey key: UICircularRing.AnimationKeys) {
removeAnimation(forKey: key.rawValue)
}
func animation(forKey key: UICircularRing.AnimationKeys) -> CAAnimation? {
return animation(forKey: key.rawValue)
}
func value(forKey key: UICircularRing.AnimationKeys) -> Any? {
return value(forKey: key.rawValue)
}
}
/**
A private extension to CGFloat in order to provide simple
conversion from degrees to radians, used when drawing the rings.
*/
extension CGFloat {
var rads: CGFloat { return self * CGFloat.pi / 180 }
}
/// adds simple conversion to CGFloat
extension TimeInterval {
var float: CGFloat { return CGFloat(self) }
}
/// adds simple conversion to TimeInterval
extension CGFloat {
var interval: TimeInterval { return TimeInterval(self) }
}
``` |
New Germany is a city in Carver County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 372 at the 2010 census. A large proportion of the early settlers being natives of Germany caused the name to be selected.
History
New Germany was established in the 1880s around the Great Northern Railroad depot. Its first post office, however, was moved onto the area from a different site and kept the original name of Purity. The post office name was not changed to match the railroad and community name until 1902. New Germany incorporated as a village in 1901 in Camden Township and separated as a city under Minnesota law in 1974. In 1917 during World War I, the village changed its name to Motordale. It restored the name New Germany in 1922.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all land.
County Roads 30 and 33 are two of the main routes in the community. Minnesota State Highway 7 is in proximity to the city.
New Germany borders the lake Minnetonka regional trail
Demographics
2010 census
As of the census of 2010, there were 372 people, 146 households, and 99 families living in the city. The population density was . There were 168 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 96.0% White, 0.3% Asian, 2.7% from other races, and 1.1% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 7.3% of the population.
There were 146 households, of which 37.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 52.1% were married couples living together, 8.2% had a female householder with no husband present, 7.5% had a male householder with no wife present, and 32.2% were non-families. 26.0% of all households were made up of individuals, and 8.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.55 and the average family size was 3.09.
The median age in the city was 34.4 years. 29.3% of residents were under the age of 18; 4.7% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 32.3% were from 25 to 44; 23.7% were from 45 to 64; and 10.2% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 51.3% male and 48.7% female.
2000 census
As of the census of 2000, there were 346 people, 143 households, and 94 families living in the city. The population density was . There were 147 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 97.69% White, 2 African Americans, 1 Native American, and 3 from two or more races.
There were 143 households, out of which 27.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 55.9% were married couples living together, 5.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 33.6% were non-families. 32.2% of all households were made up of individuals, and 19.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.42 and the average family size was 2.98.
In the city, the population was spread out, with 23.7% under the age of 18, 7.5% from 18 to 24, 31.8% from 25 to 44, 17.9% from 45 to 64, and 19.1% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 37 years. For every 100 females, there were 87.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 94.1 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $36,094, and the median income for a family was $45,625. Males had a median income of $29,750 versus $24,545 for females. The per capita income for the city was $16,314. About 9.5% of families and 14.4% of the population were below the poverty line, including 17.5% of those under age 18 and 33.8% of those age 65 or over.
Politics
Education
Waconia Public Schools operates the area public schools, including Waconia High School.
Notable people
Dicephalic conjoined twins Abigail and Brittany Hensel are natives
References
German-American culture in Minnesota
Cities in Carver County, Minnesota
Cities in Minnesota |
The Cambridge School () (also known as TCS) is a private international school that is located in Doha, Qatar, the school provides an education based on the National Curriculum for England to students from Kindergarten to Year 13. The school prepares students for the IGCSE, AS and A Level, following the Cambridge International Examinations Board. The school has grown from just under 300 students seven years ago to almost over 1,500 students with over 60 different nationalities. Some of the teachers are from the United Kingdom, although most of them are from South Africa and India. The school is founded by Mohammed Taleb Mohammed Al Khouri and managed by the Taleb Group. The company also own and manage two other schools in Qatar, Cambridge International School for Girls and Doha Modern Indian School.
The school is organised into three sections: Kindergarten, Primary, and Secondary. Each section has a Head of Section. The Cambridge School also has a sixth form. The Primary and Secondary sections are further divided into key stages. Boys and girls are taught together in all grades. Students enrolled at TCS come from countries such as Qatar, Egypt, Pakistan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Palestine, and many more countries. All graduating students of Grade 11, 12 and 13 receive IGCSE, AS and A Level certificates from Cambridge International Examinations.
History
The Cambridge School Doha was founded in 2001 and opened in September 2002 with under 300 students. In 2003, The school started to offer IGCSE followed by A Level in 2005. The school inducted its first ever group of prefects in May 2003. Eighteen senior students were sworn in as house captains, vice captains and prefects.
Cambridge International School for Girls, established in 2004 with the primary objective of providing education for girls. CISG provides the National Curriculum for England and Wales, delivered in English by mostly native speakers. It has a thriving Kindergarten and Primary School, both based around the Early Years emergent curriculum. The Secondary School is only for girls offering IGCSE and A Level. CISG is the first school for girls alone from year 5 onwards in the private sector.
In 2008, Taleb Group took over the management of the schools. The management of the schools which was previously carried out by the GEMS Education of the Varkey Group, were undertaken by the Taleb Group.
Curriculum
The Cambridge School Doha offers the National Curriculum for England with the addition of Arabic and Islamic Studiesfor students from Kindergarten up to Year 9. GradeT3-9 are also provided Qatar History. he Kindergarten follows the Early Years Foundation Stage and Primary and Secondary follow the British Curriculum. Toward the end of Year 9, students will make some choices about subjects for the International General Certificate Secondary Education ( IGCSE ) offered through the Cambridge International Examinations Board (CIE). After IGCSE, students will continue to study Advanced Supplementary (AS) and Advanced Level (A level) subjects mainly under the Cambridge International Examinations Board.
The main subjects taught in school consist in three levels: Core, Foundation, and Additional Subjects. Core subjects include English, Mathematics, Science, and ICT. The Foundation subjects include History, Geography, Art, Music, Physical Education, and a selection of second languages, which include French and Arabic. Additional subjects include Arabic for both native and non-native speakers, Islamic Studies for Muslim students as well as Moral Education. The school offers IGCSE for Years 10 and 11. Students must take a minimum of eight subjects which consist of two compulsory subjects and six elective subjects. AS and A Level offered for students in Years 12 and 13. Students must take a minimum of three subjects and a maximum of four subjects. Students who wish to continue AS and A Level must have a minimum of five subjects with a grade C in IGCSE and a grade B to take Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry.
The Cambridge School Doha offers a Sixth Form for students in Years 12 and 13 since 2005. The sixth form provides AS Level for Year 12 and A Level for students in Year 13. The school provides the same courses as a sixth form college in England. Uniform is different for Sixth Form students; they must wear their formal suit. In Year 12, students may choose between three and four AS Level subjects to study. The school holds a sixth form open evening for students and provides them with choice application forms. Grade 12 and 13 can also contribute in community service in their free lessons. Community service is only held in school during school hours.
School life
Extracurricular
The school also offers after-school activities. All students are expected to participate on Mondays and Tuesdays. Monday is for students in Years 2 – 4 and Tuesday is for students in Years 5 – 13. The activities include sports activities, science club, debate, and drama. Some students will be directed to certain activities such as additional graded Arabic or English courses.
The Cambridge School has been regularly active in opportunities outside of school, some of those include Interschool debate, CS4Qatar at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar, and Qatar Debate
References
External links
The Cambridge School – Doha Official Website
Cambridge International School for Girls Official Website
Doha Modern Indian School – Official Website
Schools in Qatar
British international schools in Qatar
Cambridge schools in Qatar
Educational institutions established in 2001
2001 establishments in Qatar
international schools in Qatar
Schools offering Cambridge International Examinations |
```go
/*
path_to_url
Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
*/
package register
import (
"bytes"
"fmt"
"os"
"testing"
"k8s.io/minikube/pkg/minikube/tests"
)
func TestPrintStep(t *testing.T) {
Reg.SetStep(InitialSetup)
expected := `{"data":{"currentstep":"0","message":"message","name":"Initial Minikube Setup","totalsteps":"%v"},"datacontenttype":"application/json","id":"random-id","source":"path_to_url","specversion":"1.0","type":"io.k8s.sigs.minikube.step"}`
expected = fmt.Sprintf(expected, Reg.totalSteps())
expected += "\n"
buf := bytes.NewBuffer([]byte{})
SetOutputFile(buf)
defer func() { SetOutputFile(os.Stdout) }()
GetUUID = func() string {
return "random-id"
}
PrintStep("message")
actual := buf.Bytes()
tests.CompareJSON(t, actual, []byte(expected))
}
func TestPrintInfo(t *testing.T) {
expected := `{"data":{"message":"info"},"datacontenttype":"application/json","id":"random-id","source":"path_to_url","specversion":"1.0","type":"io.k8s.sigs.minikube.info"}`
expected += "\n"
buf := bytes.NewBuffer([]byte{})
SetOutputFile(buf)
defer func() { SetOutputFile(os.Stdout) }()
GetUUID = func() string {
return "random-id"
}
PrintInfo("info")
actual := buf.Bytes()
tests.CompareJSON(t, actual, []byte(expected))
}
func TestError(t *testing.T) {
expected := `{"data":{"message":"error"},"datacontenttype":"application/json","id":"random-id","source":"path_to_url","specversion":"1.0","type":"io.k8s.sigs.minikube.error"}`
expected += "\n"
buf := bytes.NewBuffer([]byte{})
SetOutputFile(buf)
defer func() { SetOutputFile(os.Stdout) }()
GetUUID = func() string {
return "random-id"
}
PrintError("error")
actual := buf.Bytes()
tests.CompareJSON(t, actual, []byte(expected))
}
func TestErrorExitCode(t *testing.T) {
expected := `{"data":{"a":"b","c":"d","exitcode":"5","message":"error"},"datacontenttype":"application/json","id":"random-id","source":"path_to_url","specversion":"1.0","type":"io.k8s.sigs.minikube.error"}`
expected += "\n"
buf := bytes.NewBuffer([]byte{})
SetOutputFile(buf)
defer func() { SetOutputFile(os.Stdout) }()
GetUUID = func() string {
return "random-id"
}
PrintErrorExitCode("error", 5, map[string]string{"a": "b"}, map[string]string{"c": "d"})
actual := buf.Bytes()
tests.CompareJSON(t, actual, []byte(expected))
}
func TestWarning(t *testing.T) {
expected := `{"data":{"message":"warning"},"datacontenttype":"application/json","id":"random-id","source":"path_to_url","specversion":"1.0","type":"io.k8s.sigs.minikube.warning"}`
expected += "\n"
buf := bytes.NewBuffer([]byte{})
SetOutputFile(buf)
defer func() { SetOutputFile(os.Stdout) }()
GetUUID = func() string {
return "random-id"
}
PrintWarning("warning")
actual := buf.Bytes()
tests.CompareJSON(t, actual, []byte(expected))
}
``` |
Shake It is the third extended play by South Korean girl group Sistar. It was released on June 22, 2015, by Starship Entertainment and distributed by LOEN Entertainment.
Background and release
In May 2015, it was revealed that Sistar were coming back at the end of June. On June 2, Sistar released teaser photos through their official Twitter account. Three days after, they released another set of teaser photos and revealed to come back on June 22 with an extended play. Four days later, they released another set of teaser photos. On June 11, Sistar confirmed that the title track of their new extended play is called "Shake It", produced by Duble Sidekick who produced their previous title tracks "Give It to Me" and "Loving U", along with an official teaser photo. Three days later, Sistar released a second official teaser photo. On the next day, Sistar released another teaser photo. On June 17, Sistar released the official music video teaser for "Shake It".
On June 22, Sistar released Shake It and its title track of the same name along with its music video. On the following day, Sistar released a dance practice video for "Shake It".
Promotion
The promotions of title track "Shake It" started on June 25, 2015, on Mnet's M Countdown. The song was also promoted on music shows The Show, Music Bank, Show! Music Core and Inkigayo. On July 2, Sistar won their first trophy award on M Countdown for "Shake It". They continue winning on July 3 on Music Bank, July 5 on Inkigayo, July 8 on Show Champion, and July 10th on Music Bank. They ended their promotions after promoting for a month.
Track listing
Charts
Sales and certifications
Music program awards
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2015 EPs
Korean-language EPs
Sistar EPs
Starship Entertainment EPs |
The following is a list of albums released by defunct record label Scotti Brothers Records and its subsidiary labels Rock 'n Roll Records, and Street Life Records.
1970s
1977
Leif Garrett — Leif Garrett (Atlantic)
1978
Leif Garrett — Feel the Need
John Paul Young — Love Is in the Air (Albert/Ariola)
1979
Addrisi Brothers — Ghost Dancer
Leif Garrett — Same Goes for You
Ironhorse — Ironhorse
Ian Lloyd — Goose Bumps
Survivor — Survivor
1980s
1980
Leif Garrett — Can't Explain
Ironhorse — Everything is Grey
Fred Knobloch — Why Not Me
Ian Lloyd — 3WC*
1981
Susan Anton — Foxy
Susan Anton — Killin' Time
Claudia — Claudia
Leif Garrett — My Movie Of You
Doug Kershaw — Instant Hero
John Schneider — Now Or Never
John Schneider — White Christmas
Survivor — Premonition
1982
The Dukes of Hazzard soundtrack
Noel & The Red Wedge — Peer Pressure
Nowherefast — Nowherefast
John Schneider — Quiet Man
Survivor — Eye of the Tiger
1983
Big Ric — Big Ric (Rock 'n Roll)
John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band — Eddie and the Cruisers soundtrack
Felony — The Fanatic (Rock 'n Roll)
John Schneider — If You Believe
The Shakin' Pyramids — The Shakin' Pyramids (Rock 'n Roll)
Survivor — Caught in the Game
"Weird Al" Yankovic — "Weird Al" Yankovic (Rock 'n Roll)
1984
Darque — Jenny's Out Tonight (Rock 'n Roll)
Revenge of the Nerds soundtrack
Survivor — Vital Signs
"Weird Al" Yankovic — "Weird Al" Yankovic in 3-D (Rock 'n Roll)
Ya Ya — Scarred (Rock 'n Roll)
1985
John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band — Tough All Over
Flag — Flag
Robert Froman — Cat Juggling
LaMarca — LaMarca
Jill Michaels — Jill Michaels
Mountain — Go for Your Life
Rocky IV soundtrack
"Weird Al" Yankovic — Dare to Be Stupid (Rock 'n Roll)
1986
James Brown — Gravity
Cobra (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)|Cobra (soundtrack)
Survivor — When Seconds Count
Robert Tepper — No Easy Way Out
The Transformers soundtrack
"Weird Al" Yankovic — Polka Party! (Rock 'n Roll)
The Wraith soundtrack
1987
Stan Bush & Barrage — Stan Bush & Barrage
Tim Feehan — Tim Feehan
He's My Girl soundtrack
Lady Beware soundtrack
Lion — Dangerous Attraction
1988
James Brown — I'm Real
John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band — Roadhouse
David Hallyday — True Cool
Rambo III soundtrack
Roxanne — Roxanne
Robert Tepper — Modern Madness
Survivor — Too Hot to Sleep
"Weird Al" Yankovic — Even Worse (Rock 'n Roll)
1989
James Brown & Friends — Soul Session Live
Eddie and the Cruisers II: Eddie Lives! soundtrack
The Funk Club — Funky And Then Some
Gigi on the Beach — Gigi on the Beach
Roxanne — Burning Through the Night
"Weird Al" Yankovic — UHF – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack and Other Stuff (Rock 'n Roll)
Work Force — Work Force
1990s
1990
Another 48 Hrs. soundtrack
ELO Part II — Electric Light Orchestra Part Two (Telstar)
David Hallyday — Rock 'n' Heart
The Northern Pikes — Snow in June
Tommy Puett — Life Goes On
1991
James Brown — Love Over-Due
Carl King — Bandits
Cartouche — House Music All Night Long
Dread Filmstone and the Modern Tone Age Family — From the Ghetto
Jimi Jamison — When Love Comes Down
The Nylons — 4 On the Floor (Live in Concert)
Tag — Contagious
1992
Colonel Abrams — About Romance
AZ-1 — AZ-1
Blackbird — Blackbird
John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band — Eddie and the Cruisers: Live and in Concert
David Cassidy — Didn't You Used to Be...
Cell Mates — Between Two Fires
David Hallyday — On the Road
May May — The Introduction
Mother's Finest — Black Radio Won't Play This Record
Naked Soul — Seed
The Nylons — Live to Love
"Weird Al" Yankovic — Off the Deep End (Rock 'n Roll)
1993
James Brown — Universal James
Michael Damian — Reach Out to Me
Fabio — Fabio After Dark
G-Wiz — Naughty Bits
Trevor Jones — Cliffhanger soundtrack
Lost City — Watching You
Naked Soul — Visiting Your Planet
Spark 950 & Timbo King — United We Slam (Street Life)
Truck Stop Love — Truck Stop Love (Backyard)
"Weird Al" Yankovic — Alapalooza (Rock 'n Roll)
F.O.S. - Big Black Boots
1994
12 Gauge — 12 Gauge (Street Life)
Gerald Alston — First Class Only
Blind Fish & David Hallyday — 2000 Bdf
Kolorz — Kolorz
The Nylons — Because...
Sweet Sable — Old Times' Sake (Street Life)
Young Dubliners — Rocky Road (Backyard)
1995
12 Gauge — Let Me Ride Again (Street Life)
Alfonzo Blackwell — Let's Imagine... (Street Life)
Black 9 — Black 9 (Mix It Up)
Breakdown — Ain't Nuttin' But Bass
James Brown — Live at the Apollo 1995
Gold Teet — The Heat is On (Street Life)
Freddie Jackson — Private Party (Street Life)
Tina Moore — Tina Moore (RCA)
Nais — Str-8 from Da' Boot (Street Life)
Never Talk to Strangers
Shiro — Can We Talk (Street Life)
Skee-Lo — I Wish (Sunshine)
Truck Stop Love — How I Spent My Summer Vacation (Backyard)
Young Dubliners — Breathe (Backyard)
1996
Big Bully soundtrack]]
DJ Yella — One Mo Nigga ta Go (Street Life)
The Nylons — Run for Cover
"Weird Al" Yankovic — Bad Hair Day
1997
Artie The-1-Man Party — Levante Las Manos
Chris Thomas King — Chris Thomas King
References
Discographies of American record labels |
Sadiq Al-Mohsin (born 23 October 1997) is a Saudi Arabian handball player for Al-Khaleej and the Saudi Arabian national team.
He participated at the 2017 World Men's Handball Championship.
References
1997 births
Living people
Saudi Arabian male handball players
Handball players at the 2018 Asian Games
Asian Games competitors for Saudi Arabia
21st-century Saudi Arabian people |
Phenomenography is a qualitative research methodology, within the interpretivist paradigm, that investigates the qualitatively different ways in which people experience something or think about something. It is an approach to educational research which appeared in publications in the early 1980s. It initially emerged from an empirical rather than a theoretical or philosophical basis.
While being an established methodological approach in education for several decades, phenomenography has now been applied rather extensively in a range of diverse disciplines such as environmental management, computer programming, workplace competence, and internationalization practices.
Overview
Phenomenography's ontological assumptions are subjectivist: the world exists and different people construct it in different ways and from a non-dualist viewpoint (viz., there is only one world, one that is ours, and one that people experience in many different ways). Phenomenography's research object has the character of knowledge; therefore its ontological assumptions are also epistemological assumptions.
Its emphasis is on description. Its data collection methods typically include semi-structured interviews with a small, purposive sample of subjects, with the researcher "working toward an articulation of the interviewee’s reflections on experience that is as complete as possible". Description is important because our knowledge of the world is a matter of meaning and of the qualitative similarities and differences in meaning as it is experienced by different people.
A phenomenographic data analysis sorts qualitatively distinct perceptions which emerge from the data collected into specific "categories of description." The set of these categories is sometimes referred to as an "outcome space." These categories (and the underlying structure) become the phenomenographic essence of the phenomenon. They are the primary outcomes and are the most important result of phenomenographic research. Phenomenographic categories are logically related to one another, typically by way of hierarchically inclusive relationships, although linear and branched relationships can also occur. That which varies between different categories of description is known as the "dimensions of variation."
The process of phenomenographic analysis is strongly iterative and comparative. It involves continual sorting and resorting of data and ongoing comparisons between the data and the developing categories of description, as well as between the categories themselves.
A phenomenographic analysis seeks a "description, analysis, and understanding of . . . experiences". The focus is on variation: variation in both the perceptions of the phenomenon, as experienced by the actor, and in the "ways of seeing something" as experienced and described by the researcher. This is described as phenomenography's "theory of variation." Phenomenography allows researchers to use their own experiences as data for phenomenographic analysis; it aims for a collective analysis of individual experiences.
Emphasis on description
Phenomenographic studies usually involve contextual groups of people and data collection involves individual description of understanding, often through interview. Analysis is whole group orientated since all data is analysed together with the aim of identifying possible conceptions of experience related to the phenomenon under investigation, rather than individual experiences. There is emphasis on detailed analysis of description which follows from an assumption that conceptions are formed from both the results of human action and from the conditions for it. Clarification of understanding and experience depends upon the meaning of the conceptions themselves. The object of phenomenographic study is not the phenomenon per se but the relationship between the actors and the phenomenon.
Distinguished from phenomenology
Phenomenography is not phenomenology. Phenomenographers adopt an empirical orientation and they investigate the experiences of others. The focus of interpretive phenomenology is upon the essence of the phenomenon, whereas the focus of phenomenography is upon the essence of the experiences and the subsequent perceptions of the phenomenon.
See also
Ference Marton
Antipositivism
References
Qualitative research
Educational research |
Dame Elaine Inglesby-Burke is a British nurse. She was the Group Chief Nursing Officer at Salford Royal Hospital and the Northern Care Alliance NHS Group till 2019.
Career
Born in Orford, Elaine trained at Warrington General Hospital from 1977 to 1980 and qualified as a Registered Nurse in 1980. She came to Salford Royal as Chief Nurse in 2004 and later held the positions of Executive Nurse Director and Deputy Chief Executive, at Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust. She also worked on The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.
She was a member of the Nursing and Care Quality Forum and was part of the Berwick National Advisory Group of the Safety of Patients in England. In 2016, She became the non-executive director of the National Institute of Care and Excellence.
Awards
In 2015, she was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for services to nursing in the 2015. In 2019, Elaine became the first national recipient of NHS England's Chief Nursing Officers Gold Award.
In October 2020, she was promoted to a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2020 Queen's Birthday Honours.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
British women nurses
British nursing administrators
Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire |
Bente Skari, née Martinsen, (born 10 September 1972) is a Norwegian former cross-country skier. She is one of the most successful cross-country skiers ever.
Career
She won her first Olympic medals in 1998, and won her first gold medal in the 2002 Winter Olympics, coming from behind to beat the favourites Olga Danilova and Julija Tchepalova in the last kilometers of the 10 km classical event. She also won a bronze medal in 30 km classical as well as a silver medal in the relay.
Additionally, she won five gold medals (5 km: 1999, 10 km: 2001, 2003, and 15 km: 2001, 2003) from the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, as well as two silver (4 × 5 km relay: 1997, 2001) medals. She won the overall cross-country skiing World Cup four times before retiring after the 2003 season.
Skari also won the women's 30 km event at the Holmenkollen ski festival in 2003. In 2001, she received the Holmenkollen medal (shared with Adam Małysz and Thomas Alsgaard). Her father, Odd Martinsen, earned the Holmenkollen medal in 1969. They are the only father-daughter combination to ever win this prestigious honour.
In 1998, she won Tjejvasan.
After retirement
In 2007, Skari was named as the first female race administrator in cross-country skiing. She assisted in the 2007-08 Tour de Ski, working as an assistant technical delegate in the events held in the Czech Republic. This is part of the Norwegian Ski Federation's effort to promote more women in management positions in skiing.
Cross-country skiing results
All results are sourced from the International Ski Federation (FIS).
Olympic Games
5 medals – (1 gold, 2 silver, 2 bronze)
World Championships
7 medals – (5 gold, 2 silver)
a. Cancelled due to extremely cold weather.
World Cup
Season titles
9 titles – (4 overall, 5 sprint)
Season standings
a. 5th in the Long Distance World Cup. 6th in the Middle Distance World Cup.
Individual podiums
42 victories
60 podiums
Team podiums
5 victories – (4 , 1 )
23 podiums – (22 , 1 )
Note: Until the 1999 World Championships, World Championship races were included in the World Cup scoring system.
Overall record
a. Classification is made according to FIS classification.
b. Includes individual and mass start races.
c. Includes pursuit and double pursuit races.
d. May be incomplete due to lack of appropriate sources for some relay races prior to 1995/96 World Cup season.
Note: Until 1999 World Championships and 1994 Olympics, World Championship and Olympic races are part of the World Cup. Hence results from those races are included in the World Cup overall record.
Personal life
Bente Skari was named Martinsen before marrying Geir Skari in 1999. She is the mother of three children, Filip, Oda and Selma.
References
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2011 February 12, 2008 article on Skari's role in the championships. - accessed March 12, 2008.
Holmenkollen medalists - click Holmenkollmedaljen for downloadable pdf file
Holmenkollen winners since 1892 - click Vinnere for downloadable pdf file
Notes
1972 births
Living people
Holmenkollen medalists
Holmenkollen Ski Festival winners
Norwegian female cross-country skiers
Cross-country skiers at the 1994 Winter Olympics
Cross-country skiers at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Cross-country skiers at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Olympic cross-country skiers for Norway
Olympic gold medalists for Norway
Olympic silver medalists for Norway
Olympic bronze medalists for Norway
People from Nittedal
Olympic medalists in cross-country skiing
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in cross-country skiing
FIS Cross-Country World Cup champions
Medalists at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Medalists at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Skiers from Viken (county) |
Cephalotes supercilii is a species of arboreal ant of the genus Cephalotes, characterized by an odd shaped head and the ability to "parachute" by steering their fall if they drop off of a tree. Giving their name also as gliding ants.
References
supercilii |
Üçkaya is a village in the Rize District, Rize Province, in Black Sea Region of Turkey. Its population is 282 (2021).
History
According to list of villages in Laz language book (2009), name of the village is Oma Toxli.
Geography
The village is located away from Rize.
References
Villages in Rize District |
James M. Fahey (born May 11, 1979) is an American former professional ice hockey defenseman who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the San Jose Sharks and the New Jersey Devils. He last played for the Krefeld Pinguine of the DEL.
Playing career
Fahey was drafted in the 8th round, 212th overall, by the San Jose Sharks in the 1998 NHL Entry Draft. Before becoming a professional hockey player, Jim was a member of the Dorchester, MA (Greater Boston Youth Hockey League), Tier 2 National Championship Midget Team in 1996, and subsequently a standout at Catholic Memorial High School. He went on to become a star at Northeastern University, where he finished his career with the single-season defense scoring record for the Huskies as a First Team All-American and Hobey Baker Award finalist. During his draft year, he was featured in a segment with his idol, Raymond Bourque, in a feature for NHL on Fox.
Following his college career, in the 2003 season, after spending some time with San Jose's AHL farm team in Cleveland, Fahey was recalled to the Sharks and was selected San Jose's rookie of the year. Despite spending nearly half the season in the minor leagues, he led all rookie NHL defensemen in scoring.
In the 2004 season, Fahey battled pneumonia, and after recording only two points in fifteen games, was sent down to Cleveland, where he played for the remainder of that season, and saw only sporadic NHL duty thereafter.
Fahey has also played in international competitions, like the 2003 IIHF Men's World Championships. He has been named to the PlanetUSA AHL All-Star team.
Fahey re-signed on a one-year contract worth US$500,000 on July 15, 2006. Prior to the 2006–07 NHL season, Fahey was traded with Alexander Korolyuk to the New Jersey Devils for Vladimir Malakhov and a conditional first-round pick.
On July 27, 2007, Fahey signed with the Chicago Blackhawks and spent the full year with the Rockford IceHogs of the AHL. On March 26, 2008, Fahey signed with the German team Krefeld Pinguine of the DEL.
On July 6, 2010, after two seasons with Krefeld, Fahey signed a one-year contract with rival DEL team Thomas Sabo Ice Tigers. However, only three weeks later on July 24, Fahey terminated his agreement with the Ice Tigers due to personal reasons and remained in the US.
Career statistics
Regular season and playoffs
International
Awards and honors
References
External links
1979 births
American men's ice hockey defensemen
Cleveland Barons (2001–2006) players
Ice hockey people from Boston
Krefeld Pinguine players
Living people
Lowell Devils players
New Jersey Devils players
Northeastern Huskies men's ice hockey players
Rockford IceHogs (AHL) players
San Jose Sharks draft picks
San Jose Sharks players
AHCA Division I men's ice hockey All-Americans |
Faith McNulty (November 28, 1918 – April 10, 2005) was an American non-fiction author, probably best known for her 1980 literary journalism genre book The Burning Bed. She is also known for her authorship of wildlife pieces and books, including children's books.
Biography
Faith Trumbull Corrigan was born in New York City, November 28, 1918. She was the daughter of a judge. She attended Barnard College for one year, then attended Rhode Island State College. But she dropped out of college once she got a job as a copy girl at the New York Daily News. She later went to work for Life magazine. She worked for the United States Office of War Information in London during World War II.
McNulty was a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine from 1953 to 1994. In 1980, a collection of her New Yorker work was published as The Wildlife Stories of Faith McNulty. For many years, she edited the annual New Yorker compilation of the year's best children's books.
She also frequently wrote children's books on wildlife, including How to Dig a Hole to the Other Side of the World in 1979 and When I Lived With Bats in 1998. Her 1966 book The Whooping Crane: The Bird that Defies Distinction was written for adults.
Her husband, John McNulty, was also a writer for The New Yorker and with Thomas Wolfe, Truman Capote, Gay Talese and James Baldwin, a major figure in the development of the literary genre of Creative nonfiction, which is also known as literary journalism or literature in fact. As earlier here noted, having herself been years exposed to Harold Ross' New Yorker magazine's rarefied environment, which was then so promoting of this evolving genre, Faith's own major nonfiction work, The Burning Bed, is, itself, a quintessential and quality example of the genre of literary journalism or, as Thomas Wolfe once labeled it, the “New Journalism”. After her husband John died in 1956, Faith remarried, to Richard Martin, a set designer and an inventive designer of set props.
The Burning Bed was based on the true story of Francine Hughes, who set fire to the bedroom in which her husband was sleeping. Hughes defended herself by saying that her husband had been abusing her for 13 years. The jury at her trial ruled that she had been temporarily insane, and she was found not guilty.
Faith had fonder memories of life with kinder family, however. "I can remember my father in his nightshirt, digging for worms for the baby robin in the bathroom. That's the kind of household it was; I had woodchucks in the bathroom, cats, squirrels, chipmunks", McNulty once said.
Towards the end of her life, she wrote a weekly column for The Providence Journal on a local animal shelter run by the Animal Welfare League. Her mother had founded the Animal Welfare League in southern Rhode Island. McNulty had long been known for taking in stray animals at her farm.
She suffered a stroke in 2004. She died at her farm in Wakefield, Rhode Island.
McNulty's last book was illustrated by Steven Kellogg and published by Scholastic Books in 2005, If You Decide to Go to the Moon—a picture book written in the second person. Next year (after McNulty's death) it won a major "year's best" children's literary award, the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for Nonfiction.
Selected works
How to Dig a Hole to the Other Side of the World
Dancing with Manatees
The Burning Bed
''The Wildlife Stories of Faith McNulty
Peeping in the Shell: A Whooping Crane Is Hatched
Arty The Smarty
Why Must They Die? The strange case of the prairie dog and the black-footed ferret
Whales: Their Life in the Sea
Listening to Whales Sing
How Whales Walked into the Sea
The Elephant Who Couldn't Forget
Endangered Animals
The Great Whales
Hurricane
If Dogs Ruled the World
The Lady and the Spider
Mouse and Tim
Orphan: The Story of a Baby Woodchuck
Playing With Dolphins
Red Wolves
The Silly Story of a Flea and His Dog
A Snake in the House
With Love from Koko
Woodchuck
If You Decide to Go to the Moon, illustrated by Steven Kellogg (Scholastic, 2005)
References
External links
Photograph of Faith McNulty in 2003
1918 births
2005 deaths
American children's writers
Children's non-fiction writers
American nature writers
People of the United States Office of War Information
American women civilians in World War II |
Northern Zonal Council is a zonal council that comprises the states and union territories of Chandigarh, National Capital Territory of Delhi, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Rajasthan and Ladakh.
The States have been grouped into six zones having an Advisory Council to foster cooperation among these States. Five Zonal Councils were set up vide Part-III of the States Reorganisation Act, 1956.
See also
North-Eastern Zonal Council
Central Zonal Council
Eastern Zonal Council
Western Zonal Council
Southern Zonal Council
References
Zonal Councils |
"Defuera" is a song by Dardust featuring vocals from Ghali, Madame and Marracash. It was released on 15 July 2020 by Island Records.
Music video
The music video for "Defuera", directed by YouNuts! and Bendo, premiered on 17 July 2020 via Durdust's YouTube channel.
Charts
Certifications
References
2020 songs
2020 singles
Island Records singles
Songs written by Dario Faini
Madame (singer) songs
Songs written by Davide Petrella |
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