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George Kaczender (19 April 1933 – 24 August 2016) was a Hungarian-born Canadian film director. He directed 26 films between 1963 and 2001.
Biography
Kaczender left Hungary in 1956 as a political refugee after studying film and working as an assistant director at the Pannonia Film Studios in Budapest.
Before coming to Los Angeles in the early 80s he worked at the National Film Board of Canada in Montreal from 1956 to 1969 where he wrote and directed award-winning documentaries and short dramatic features. In 1968 he wrote and directed the award-winning feature film, Don't Let the Angels Fall, starring Arthur Hill, that became the first Canadian feature film invited to the main competition at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival. In 1970 he left the Film Board to work in London with the producer, Oscar Lewenstein. The same year he became one of the founding partners of International Cinemedia Center in Montreal.
In the 1970s he directed numerous award-winning educational films for Learning Corporation of America and five theatrical feature films before leaving Canada for Hollywood. Among them, In Praise of Older Women based on the best-selling novel by S. Vizinczey, and Chanel Solitaire, the life of Coco Chanel, shot on location in France.
He has worked with stars such as Robert Mitchum, Richard Harris, Jeanne Moreau, Tom Berenger, JoBeth Williams, Brad Pitt, George Clooney and Karen Black. He has also directed numerous films for network and cable television such as Jonathan: The Boy Nobody Wanted.
His film Don't let the Angels Fall was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival and his film The Girl in Blue was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 1973 Berlin Film Festival. He has numerous international awards for his work on documentaries and short dramatic films.
His first novel, An Unreasonable Notion of Desire, was self-published in 2000 through Xlibris. His second novel, "Notebooks of an Incurable Romantic", was published in 2013 by Red Cat Tales Publishing.
Between 2002 and 2004 he was adjunct professor at the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television, teaching film directing.
Selected filmography
Don't Let the Angels Fall (1969)
Freud: The Hidden Nature of Man (1970)
The Girl in Blue (1973)
In Praise of Older Women (1978)
The Agency (1980)
Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid (1981)
Chanel Solitaire (1982)
Tomorrow's a Killer (1987)
Jonathan: The Boy Nobody Wanted (1993)
Christy: A Change of Seasons (2001)
Publications
"An Unreasonable Notion of Desire" (2000)
"Notebooks of an Incurable Romantic" (2013)
References
External links
Films by George Kaczender at the National Film Board of Canada
1933 births
2016 deaths
20th-century Canadian screenwriters
21st-century Canadian screenwriters
Canadian film directors
Canadian film editors
Canadian male screenwriters
Hungarian emigrants to Canada
National Film Board of Canada people
Writers from Budapest |
Dosa ben Harkinas () was of the first generation of the Jewish Tanna sages, proceeding from the era of the Zugot. Contemporary to Yochanan ben Zakai, he was active during the era of the Second Temple of Jerusalem, and lived to a ripe old age, even after the destruction of the Second Temple. He died approximately 60 years after the destruction of the temple.
The Babylonian Talmud relates a story attributed to Rabbi Dosa ben Harkinas and how that he had received an oral teaching passed down from Haggai the prophet, who had said three things: (a) that it is not lawful for a man whose brother married his daughter (as a co-wife in a polygamous relationship) to consummate a levirate marriage with one of his deceased brother's co-wives (a teaching accepted by the School of Hillel, but rejected by the School of Shammai); (b) that Jews living in the regions of Ammon and Moab separate from their produce the poor man's tithe during the Sabbatical year; (c) that they accept of proselytes from the peoples of Tadmor (Palmyra) and from the people of Ḳardu (Corduene).
In the days of Rabbi Dosa ben Harkinas, the general practice was as the teachings of the School of Hillel who prohibited a man of like status to consummate a levirate marriage with one of the co-wives of his daughter. The rabbis had heard that Rabbi Dosa ben Harkinas permitted it. They, therefore, came to question Rabbi Dosa's beliefs in this regard when it was reported in "Ben Harkinas' name" that he permitted such marriages. As it turned out, he explained that it was not him who permitted it, but rather his brother, Yonathan, who followed the teachings of the School of Shammai.
Dictums attributed unto Rabbi Dosa ben Harkinas
His best-known saying is cited in Pirkei Avot:
References
Mishnah rabbis
Pirkei Avot rabbis
1st-century rabbis
2nd-century rabbis |
The Lehman Interclub, also called the Lehman 10, is an American sailboat that was designed by Barney Lehman as a one design racer and first built in 1958.
Production
The design was initially built by Barney Lehman and then by his company PlastiGlass in the United States, starting in 1948. It was also built by W. D. Schock Corp, starting in 1956, after buying out PlasticGlass, but it is now out of production.
Design
The Lehman Interclub is a racing sailing dinghy, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wood trim. It has a stayed catboat rig, a plumb stem and transom, a transom-hung rudder controlled by a tiller and a retractable daggerboard. It displaces .
The boat has a draft of with the daggerboard extended and with it retracted, allowing operation in shallow water, beaching or ground transportation on a trailer or car roof.
Operational history
The design was used for a US-Mexico regatta that was held in Acapulco in February, 1952 and which included sponsorship from the Mexican government.
The August 1963 issue of Motor Boating and Sailing noted that the boat was being "widely used for intercollegiate racing" on the American west coast at that time.
See also
List of sailing boat types
Related development
Lehman 12
Similar sailboats
Interclub Dinghy
References
Dinghies
1950s sailboat type designs
Sailboat type designs by Barney Lehman
Sailboat types built by W. D. Schock Corp
Sailboat types built by PlastiGlass |
Arzum Onan (born 31 October 1973) is a Turkish actress, former model and Miss Europe 1993.
Biography
She was born on October 31, 1973, in Ankara, Turkey. Her family is of Circassian descent. After the primary school in Ankara, her family moved to İstanbul, where she finished the vocational high school as a draftswoman.
Arzum began her career in 1992 as a model. She participated in the Miss Turkey contest in April 1993, and won the title. The same year in July, she represented her country at the Miss Europe beauty contest held in İstanbul, and was crowned Miss Europe 1993. She became the fifth Turkish beauty queen following Günseli Başar, Filiz Vural, Nazlı Deniz Kuruoğlu and Neşe Erberk.
Since 1997, she successfully played in a number of films, mini television series and commercials.
In 1996, Arzum married the actor Mehmet Aslantuğ, from whom she has a son, Can, born in 2000. In 2005, she underwent a thyroid surgery.
Filmography
Yeni Bir Yıldız (1997)
Sıcak Saatler (1998)
Aşk ve Hüzün (2000)
Merdoğlu (2000)
Zeybek Ateşi (2002)
Sahra (2004)
Sessiz Firtina (2007)
Kardelen (2008)
References
Official Fan Page - Biography of Arzum Onan
DiziFilm.Com - Biography of Arzum Onan
Who is who database - Biography of Arzum Onan
HyperTV - News on Arzum Onan
1973 births
Actresses from Ankara
Miss Turkey winners
Miss Europe winners
Living people
Turkish television actresses |
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end
``` |
The Great American Lesbian Art Show (GALAS) was an art exhibition at the Woman's Building (a feminist art center) in Los Angeles, California with associated events in other locations. It ran from 3–31 May 1980. The Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Community Services Center also supported the exhibit.
Structure
The GALAS consisted of an "invitational" event, a curated exhibition of the work of ten selected artists, and many "regional" or "sister" exhibitions in multiple cities across the United States. These locations included New York City, San Francisco, Boston, Chicago, Bozeman, Winter Park, Lawrence, Alexandria, and Anchorage among "over 200 shows and events." According to Margo Hobbs Thompson, the art displayed constituted "a critique of contemporary gender norms." It was described by Terry Wolverton, one of the organizers, as "a year-long project to bring national recognition to lesbian art and artists." All of the invited artists lived in either Los Angeles or New York. GALAS was curated by the GALAS Collective including: Terry Wolverton, Bia Lowe, Jody Isanna Palmer, Tyaga, and Louise Moore.
Artists invited
The artists invited to participate in the curated exhibit were:
Lula Mae Blocton
Tee Corinne
Betsy Damon
Louise Fishman
Nancy Fried
Harmony Hammond
Debbie Jones
Lili Lakich
Gloria Longval
Kate Millett (although she identified as bisexual, not lesbian)
Origins
Planning for the GALAS started in the spring of 1979. The organizing group, known as the GALAS Collective, was separate from the Lesbian Art Project, which also met at the Woman's Building, although there was some overlap of membership.
Reactions
Tyaga, one of the event curators, was quoted by the Los Angeles Times while the exhibition was running as saying: "Just having the name 'Great American Lesbian Art Show' says a lot. It helps overcome fear. Art is non-threatening--it hangs on the wall and people look. It's the label that's the threat."
Harmony Hammond, writing in the Encyclopedia of Lesbian and Gay Histories and Cultures said that GALAS was "noteworthy for its innovative curatorial structure" and that it "marked the first time that lesbians of color participated in a major exhibition of lesbian art."
Christopher Reed described GALAS as "poorly documented" but said that it showed "a greater interest in figuration among lesbian artists outside New York."
Simon LeVay wrote about the art displayed at GALAS and another exhibition of roughly the same time: "For the first time a wide range of artists were willing to be public about being lesbians, although some of them still kept lesbian content as a suggestion rather than an overt statement in their art."
Sarah L. Stifler wrote of the "variety of media" in GALAS, but said that it did not include the "blatant references to sexuality" that were featured in the 1990 exhibition "All but the Obvious" (ABO). Stifler also wrote that "Much of my research has focused on" GALAS and ABO.
Notes
See also
Lesbian Art Project
LGBT arts organizations
LGBT events in California
1980 in LGBT history
Art exhibitions in the United States
LGBT art in the United States
Lesbian history in the United States |
Double Creek is a long 3rd order tributary to South Hyco Creek in Person County, North Carolina.
Course
Double Creek rises in a pond about 1 mile northeast of Bushy Fork, North Carolina and then flows northerly to join South Hyco Creek about 3 miles southeast of Leasburg.
Watershed
Double Creek drains of area, receives about 46.6 in/year of precipitation, has a wetness index of 385.51, and is about 52% forested.
References
Rivers of North Carolina
Rivers of Person County, North Carolina
Tributaries of the Roanoke River |
The Zu Mountain Saga () was a 20-episode Hong Kong television drama series that aired on Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) Cantonese-language Jade Channel between 22 July and 16 August 1991. It was aired in India in 1996 Home Tv channel and gained huge popularity. Starring local actors, it was a loose sequel to The Gods and Demons of Zu Mountain () that aired in 1990.
Synopsis
The story take place a hundred years after The Gods and Demons of Zu Mountain.
Evil has been reborn in the Zu Mountain, who is ostracized by his village, as a demon. He meets Yu Ying Nam and Wo Mei Pai and from there they face many challenges that would question evil and good.
Cast
Main Characters
Adia Chan - Yu Ying Nan, the current eldest female disciple of the Zu Mountain Sect.
Ekin Cheng - Shi Sheng, the present reincarnation of the Blood Demon.
Law Lok Lam - the Supreme Wizard and the current leader of the demon sect.
Lily Chung Shuk Wai - Cui Ying
Jimmy Au - Sheng Tu Hong
Support Characters
Lau Kong - A demonic scholar who tries to turn Shi Sheng to the dark side and use him for his own goals. Ironically, he was killed by Shi Sheng.
Helena Law - Current leader of the Zu Mountain Sect and the mentor of Yu Ying Nan.
Chan On Ying - Lai Guo
Tsang Kong Sen - Sun Nan
Guest Star
Eddie Kwan - Sheung Guan Ging Er, the Blood Demon from Episode 1 of The Gods and Demons of Zu Mountain
1991 Hong Kong television series debuts
1991 Hong Kong television series endings
1990s Hong Kong television series
Television shows set in Sichuan |
Sauze may refer to:
Sauze (band), alternative/power metal band from Asturias, Spain
Sauze, Alpes-Maritimes, commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in southeastern France
Sauze di Cesana, comune in the Metropolitan City of Turin, Piedmont, Italy
Sauze d'Oulx, town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Turin, Piedmont, Italy
Sauzé-Vaussais, commune in the Deux-Sèvres department in western France |
Capitol Central, previously called the Negros Occidental Provincial Capitol Complex, is a government complex and mixed-use estate centered around the Negros Occidental Provincial Capitol, currently co-managed with Ayala Land. Certain portions are leased or sold to Ayala Land, as part of their industrial estate in Bacolod, Philippines.
Location
Capitol Central is bounded by 12th Street to the north, extending towards Lacson Street on the eastern portion. The property is directly fronting the Bacolod Capitol Shopping Center, renamed as the Bacolod Chinatown. Towards the south is Burgos Street, stretching from Lacson Street to San Juan Street and the North Capitol Roads, including the Old Pala Pala Seafoods Market.
Facilities
Capitol Central contains the Negros Occidental Provincial Capitol at the core, along with the adjacent Provincial Administrative Center (PAC) and the Kadiwa Center, housing the Provincial Cooperative Office and a hostel. Negros Museum currently occupies the renovated former Agriculture Building, beside the Commission on Audit Regional Office. The Hall of Justice, Philippine Postal Corporation and the Negros Occidental Chapter of the Boy Scouts of the Philippines also occupies a gated compound.
Banking facilities also hold their regional offices in the complex, which includes Landbank of the Philippines, Veteran's Bank, Development Bank of the Philippines and the Philippine National Bank. The 7-storey PNB Center was recently renovated to house provincial government and regional offices, while renovations are ongoing for the PAC and Kadiwa Center.
Formerly, Fort San Juan (also known as the Negros Occidental Provincial Jail) occupied the outskirts and has been replaced by a mall complex, an extension of the earlier 888 Chinatown Mall. The jail complex was transferred to nearby Bago City, with the neighboring National Food Authority also planned to be vacated, as part of the Ayala development, and will also be located in a new complex to be constructed near the jail. Corazon Locsin Memorial Regional Hospital, the former provincial hospital, occupies southeastern portion of the property, adjacent to the University of St. La Salle College of Nursing. Meanwhile, the Negros Forest Ecological Foundation, Inc. occupying the lot between DBP and COA is planning to transfer its facilities in Panaad Park and Stadium and the township of Mambukal.
The Department of Agriculture, Department of Science and Technology, Department of Health, and the National Telecommunications Commission regional offices for Negros Island Region, occupies rented spaces near the capitol. National Bureau of Investigation shares office spaces with the Department of Justice NIR regional office.
Mall
Ayala Malls Capitol Central is a shopping mall developed and managed by Ayala Malls located within the Capitol Central estate. This is Ayala Malls' second mall in Negros Occidental after The District – North Point in Talisay, and its first regional mall in Western Visayas. The mall is located behind the Provincial Capitol building.
Other infrastructure
As part of the Deed of Sale and Memorandum of Agreement, Capitol Central covers 7.7 hectares of provincial government property. 4.04 hectares are under lease for 50 years, with a yearly rent of P106 million and subject to renewal, while the remaining 3.6 hectares are now owned by Ayala Land.
Amaia Steps Capitol Central is currently under construction, to house 550 residential units, located at the rear portion of the property near the Bacolod Real Estate Development Corporation (BREDCO) reclamation facility. While part of Capitol Central, Amaia Steps was purchased from a private land owner. At the heart of Ayala's development is Ayala Malls Capitol Central, located behind the Provincial Capitol. Leasable area is projected to be up to 70,000 sq.m. and would include events and convention facilities, a mall and office spaces.
The historic Capitol Park and Lagoon will also be renovated, in lieu of soon to be constructed 155-room Seda Hotel Capitol Central across it. In lieu of this, the Negros Cooperative Bank holding office inside the park will be relocated to the Negros First Cyber Center. A four-storey office spaces named the "Capitol Corporate Center" will be built to augment provincial government offices and house BPO facilities.
Controversy
SM Prime Holdings (SMPH) earlier stated their interest on the property, planning a P2.5 billion investment on a convention center facility. The proposal also includes commercial and office facilities. Hans Sy, the president of SM Prime Holdings, met with Gov. Alfredo Maranon on May 11, 2011 to submit his proposal. However, they lost the bid to Ayala Land a month after on June 11, 2011. A failure of bidding was declared previously on July 7, 2011, since only Ayala and SMPH showed up, Robinsons Land backed out.
On April 13, 2012, in a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange, previously noted that they were backing out of the deal, due to the complexities of the case and the initial disapproval of the Commission on Audit. Finally, the lease and acquisition gained COA approval on September 21, 2012. Due to the development, Ayala Land rekindled their project on September 10, 2013, after talks with representatives of the Provincial Government of Negros Occidental.
The case was dismissed by both the Regional Trial Court Branch 50 in Bacolod and the Court of Appeals in Cebu City.
External links
Ayala Malls Capitol Central Official website
See also
Negros Occidental Provincial Capitol
Capitol Park and Lagoon
Bacolod Public Plaza
Fountain of Justice
References
Mixed-use developments in the Philippines
Shopping districts and streets in the Philippines
Tourist attractions in Bacolod
Buildings and structures in Bacolod |
A Golden Anniversary Bibliography of Edgar Rice Burroughs is a bibliography of the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs by Henry Hardy Heins. It was first published by Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc. in an edition of 1,000 copies. The book was revised from a mimeograph edition that Heins had produced in September 1962. The book lists books, stories, and articles by Burroughs. It also contains information about Burroughs and a section on magazine illustrations and publisher's announcements.
References
1964 non-fiction books
American non-fiction books
Burroughs
Books about books
Science fiction studies
Published bibliographies
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Donald M. Grant, Publisher books |
Darkness Rising is a 2017 American supernatural horror film directed by Austin Reading.
Synopsis
The film opens with a man playing with his daughter Sarah as a house appears in the distance.
Twenty-five years ago Madison's mother smothered her infant daughter Olivia. Only the intervention of Madison's father saved the girl; however, he reported hearing a voice whispering the number five. Years later Madison returns to her childhood home alongside her boyfriend Jake and her cousin Izzy. Jake is concerned for Madison, as she has recently begun strange behaviors, one of which is writing the number five as slashes.
Once inside the house the trio experience strange supernatural events. When Madison reveals that there have been similar homes that have disappeared after tragic events, the group tries to leave the home but is unsuccessful. Izzy briefly disappears and returns possessed. She tries to kill Madison but is stopped by Jake, who ties Izzy up as she rants. While they are trying to find a way to get help or escape, Jake discovers a photo album containing pictures of Seth, a brother that Madison realizes she couldn't remember. Madison also recalls nightmares of the past and the words that "five must die". She tells Jake that she is pregnant, which is why she wanted to return home. Madison is attacked by Izzy and flees to another room, during which time she is also attacked by other supernatural forces.
When Madison returns to Jake, she discovers that he is possessed and states that the curse will continue. She is forced to defend herself against him, leading to his death. Madison is led by Seth to Izzy, who tells her that three more people must die, after which a door to the other side will open. Realizing that two more people must die, Madison kills Izzy. She is then possessed and experiences a vision of her mother implying that the final death can be the unborn baby. Madison stabs herself to kill the fetus and crawls to the front door. She opens it, but seemingly drops dead in the process. The film then shows the man looking at the house in surprise along with Sarah.
Cast
Tara Holt as Madison
Christian Ganiere as Seth
Bryce Johnson as Jake
Katrina Law as Izzy
Heather Mazur as Kate
Myk Watford as Daniel
Ted Raimi
Reception
Frank Scheck for The Hollywood Reporter claimed the film "would be infuriating except that its terminal dullness saps the energy required for outrage." Monica Castillo for The New York Times found that the film had potential but disappointed saying "Austin Reading's horror movie "Darkness Rising" has the makings of a solid haunted-house story...However, tossing these ingredients together does not guarantee a decent scare." Noel Murray of the Los Angeles Times called the film "as blandly forgettable as its title."
Maitland McDonagh for Film Journal International said "Ultimately, the trouble with Darkness Rising isn't that so much it's generic—Robert Wise's The Haunting (1963) is a classic that works with the same basic notes—as that the characters are so undefined that it's impossible to care what happens to them beyond wishing that they'd stop screaming." Matt Boiselle for Dread Central gave the film two stars saying "Overall, I'd recommend Darkness Rising solely to fans of watered-down haunted house flicks, but only if damn near every other watered-down haunted house flick was unavailable to be viewed at that specific time—take a pass." Horrorella for Aint It Cool News called it "a very mixed bag of good intentions, potentially interesting ideas and poor execution."
References
External links
2017 films
2017 horror films
American supernatural horror films
2010s English-language films
2010s American films |
The Creditsafe Group is a privately owned multinational provider of on-line company credit scores and credit report information. Founded in 1997 the company has expanded and now has operations in 12 countries across Europe, North America & Japan and claims to be the world’s most-used provider of company credit reports. Creditsafe now employs over 1,200 people and has a customer base in excess of 100,000 subscription customers worldwide.
History
Creditsafe was founded in 1997 in Oslo, Norway with the idea of using the then emerging technology of the internet to supply business information to a market of smaller and medium-sized businesses by selling over the telephone and delivering reports over the internet. Following the Norwegian launch Creditsafe established an office in Gothenburg Sweden in 1998 before moving to the UK in 2000. Creditsafe re-located the UK sales operation to Caerphilly in South Wales in 2002. In 2006 Creditsafe France was launched in Roubaix near Lille. Additional entities were later launched in Dublin in Ireland in 2007, The Hague in the Netherlands in 2008, Berlin, Germany in 2010, Brussels, Belgium in 2011 and Turin in Italy in 2013. Creditsafe moved outside Europe in 2012 with the founding of Creditsafe United States in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Since launching in the USA, Creditsafe have now increased its US workforce by opening a new office in Tempe, Arizona Creditsafe established a shared service centre in Cardiff Bay, Wales in 2006 which has grown to support the sales operations around the world. In September 2016, Creditsafe set up its own operation in Japan. Creditsafe Japan has its offices in Fukuoka and Tokyo
Current Status
In each country in which it operates Creditsafe has a sales and customer service operation dealing with customers over the telephone and internet. Creditsafe employs over 1,200 people in its 16 offices in 10 countries it currently has just over 200,000 subscription users.
Creditsafe claims to be the world’s most-used provider of on-line company credit reports and estimates it will deliver over 110 million reports during 2016.
Products and services
Creditsafe’s core business offering is an on-line company credit report based on original source public and private data which is brought together to give information on a company and an assessment of its creditworthiness. Creditsafe provides a credit rating and suggested credit limit in all its reports.
Creditsafe reports are accessed via Creditsafe’s own websites over the internet by most of its customers however increasing large volume customers purchase solutions that either integrate into their own accounting software or use one of Creditsafe’s own integrated services such as Creditsafe 3D.
Creditsafe combines data from all its operating countries in its reports in an attempt to provide full international details on companies that operate in more than one country or who have other international linkages.
References
Risk management companies
Financial services companies established in 1997
Consulting firms established in 1997
Data brokers |
Tea accounts, known on YouTube as drama channels or tea channels, are social media accounts that report on internet controversy and drama ("tea"). They exist on YouTube, Twitter and Instagram. On YouTube, tea channels include Spill and Tea by Ali. Drama YouTubers include DramaAlert and The Shade Room. Similarly, commentary YouTubers such as Danny Gonzalez, Drew Gooden and D'Angelo Wallace also report on online controversy. Tea accounts are also on TikTok.
Commentary has existed on YouTube since its early days. The anonymous channel YT Watchdog was active from 2006 to 2015 and, under a voice filter, called out other YouTuber for actions such as artificially inflating video rankings using alternate accounts. Various drama channels, commentary channels and tea channels now exist on YouTube. While many tea channels are anonymous and focus mainly on the evidence, drama and commentary channels often have a central figure who viewers watch for their personality and opinions. In 2018, several tea channels became popular for their coverage of "Dramageddon", a feud between five Beauty YouTubers. Tea accounts were actively involved in the controversy between beauty YouTubers James Charles and Tati Westbrook, who released statements to YouTubers rather than media outlets. Taylor Lorenz of The Atlantic described tea accounts as "online gossip magazines on steroids".
Commercial success
Tea accounts on YouTube earn revenue from Google AdSense. Many have supplemented their income from brand sponsorships, affiliate programs, and third party memberships. Companies have also created tea channels most notability the channel Spill which was created by the Candian media company AWED.
Controversy
Tea accounts have been heavily criticized on the internet and media for encouraging gossip and fueling influencer feuds and scandals much like how tabloids do so with mainstream celebrities One of the biggest internet feuds in history between beauty vloggers James Charles and Tati Westbrook was infamously blown out of proportion due to tea channels painstakingly documenting every incremental update on the feud and shared them live. While this feud was covered by mainstream media outlets such as CNN, both Tati and James released their statements to tea channels on YouTube such as Here For The Tea.
Many tea accounts on YouTube have been accused of copyright infringement due to using content from other creators to commentate on. While fair use laws permits the use of copyrighted material for the purpose of research, education, criticism, review or news reporting, many YouTube creators have been known to issue copyright strikes against tea channels that have reported negatively on them.
In 2021 an article in Vox criticized tea channels for often engaging in horse race journalism.
See Also
Tabloid
Internet celebrity
References
YouTube controversies
YouTube |
Kulayan Natin is the debut studio album by Filipino indie folk band Munimuni. It was released on July 26, 2019 by Marilag Records and Productions.
Background
Two years after releasing their debut EP, Munimuni finally released their debut album.
Its title comes from the last song of the album, "Kulayan Natin".
Singles
The first single of the album, "Tahanan" was released in March 2018. The song is about someone assuring a person experiencing difficulties that he will stay no matter what life brings. Owen Castro, the writer of the song, shared in an interview, "That’s nice, because that’s the goal of the song, to release all your tears. So if there are tears still left inside, you should let it out. Crying on that first line is okay because it means the tears will soon run out."
The second single of the album, "Oras" was released in August 2018.
The third single of the album, "Kalachuchi" was released in December 2018. The inspiration behind the song was during his days at the University of the Philippines Diliman, de Ocampo was walking with a “special person” inside the university premises sometime in May years ago, talking about the latter's problem, when that person saw kalachuchi flowers blossoming inside the university grounds.
Track listing
Personnel
Munimuni
Adj Jiao – lead vocals ("Simula", "Bakunawa", "Oras", "Kulayan Natin"), guitar, backing vocals
TJ de Ocampo – guitar, lead vocals ("Bahay na Puti", "Solomon", "Bawat Piyesa", "Kalachuchi", "Banaag"), backing vocals
John Owen Castro – flute, backing vocals, lead vocals ("Tahanan", "Pagsibol")
Jolo Ferrer – bass
Josh Tumaliuan – drums
Additional personnel
Clara Benin – co-lead vocals ("Solomon")
Martin Honasan – creative director
Arvin Ventura – sound engineer, mixing, mastering
Luke Sigua – assistant sound engineer
References
2019 debut albums |
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Marie-Josèphe Caron, called in Spanish Doña María Josefa Carrón (baptized 13 January 1725; died 21 December 1784) was a French artist active in Spain.
Biography
Born in Paris, Caron was one of the five sisters of Pierre Beaumarchais, born to watchmaker André-Charles Caron; their cousin was the artist Suzanne Caron. At her baptism at the her godmother was listed as Jeanne-Josèphe de La Borde. On 27 November 1748, at Saint-Jacques-de-la-Boucherie, she married one Louis Guillebert, possibly Guilbert (1717–1772) a maître maçon who was soon appointed architect to the king of Spain, whereupon the couple settled in Madrid. Accompanying them was her younger sister, Marie-Louise, called Lisette, whose involvement with a Spanish official, José Clavijo y Fajardo, led the playwright to make a 1764 trip to rescue her honor, a story which later inspired the play Clavigo by Goethe.
In Madrid, Marie-Josèphe established a fashion shop; her husband, meanwhile, lost his reason and died. In 1770 she sent a letter of application to the Académie de peinture et de sculpture in Marseille; later that same year she repeated her request. Early in 1771 she received a favorable response, pending submission of an artwork as part of the application. In May 1771 she was at Toulon, from where she wrote to thank the Académie; soon thereafter she apologized for the delay in sending the required artwork, attributing it to the death of her husband and to a serious illness on her part. She was recovered enough by that December to submit her work, a portrait of a Marseillais lieutenant-colonel, which she sent from Madrid. In 1772 she returned to Paris where, without funds, she relied upon her brother's financial support until her death. Spanish sources claim she died in Madrid in 1823, but this is incorrect. A 1761 portrait in pastel of the architect Diego de Villanueva is in the collection of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando.
References
1725 births
1784 deaths
French women painters
French expatriates in Spain
18th-century French painters
18th-century French women artists
Pastel artists
Painters from Paris
18th-century French businesspeople |
The United States Post Office at 81 N. Forest St. in Camden, Tennessee was built in 1936. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
Design credit is given to U.S. Treasury department's supervising architect Louis A. Simon and the Treasury's Neal A. Melick, an engineer, is credited as builder.
It is an L-shaped one-story building.
References
Post office buildings in Tennessee
National Register of Historic Places in Benton County, Tennessee
Government buildings completed in 1936 |
A hydrogen maser, also known as hydrogen frequency standard, is a specific type of maser that uses the intrinsic properties of the hydrogen atom to serve as a precision frequency reference.
Both the proton and electron of a hydrogen atom have spins. The atom has a higher energy if both are spinning in the same direction, and a lower energy if they spin in opposite directions. The amount of energy needed to reverse the spin of the electron is equivalent to a photon at the frequency of , which corresponds to the 21 cm line in the hydrogen spectrum.
Hydrogen masers are very complex devices and sell for as much as . There are two types to be distinguished: active and passive.
In both types, a small storage bottle of molecular hydrogen, , leaks a controlled amount of gas into a discharge bulb. The molecules are dissociated in the discharge bulb into individual hydrogen atoms by an electric arc. This atomic hydrogen passes through a collimator then a magnetic state selector and into a storage bulb. The storage bulb is roughly high and in diameter and made of quartz internally coated with PTFE. Adsorption onto, chemical interaction with, and perturbation of atomic state by the bulb surface is much reduced. Consistent interactions with the bulb increase the quality of the oscillation. A durable PTFE and bulb coating technology allows for over 20-year lifetime. The storage bulb is in turn inside a microwave cavity made from a precisely machined copper or silver-plated ceramic cylinder. This cavity is tuned to the resonance frequency of the atoms. A weak static magnetic field is applied parallel to the cavity axis by a solenoid to lift the degeneracy of the magnetic Zeeman sublevels. To decrease the influence of changing external magnetic fields on the transition line frequency and be compliant to electromagnetic interferences, the cavity is surrounded by several nested layers of shields.
In the active hydrogen maser, the cavity oscillates by itself. This requires a higher hydrogen atom density and a higher quality factor for the cavity. However, with advanced microwave cavities made out of silver-plated ceramic, the gain factor can be much higher, thereby requiring less hydrogen atom density. The active maser is more complex and more expensive but has better short-term and long-term frequency stabilities.
In the passive hydrogen maser, the cavity is fed from an external frequency. The external frequency is tuned to produce a maximum output in the cavity. This allows the use of lower hydrogen atom density and lower cavity quality factor, which reduces the cost.
See also
Timeline of hydrogen technologies
References
Bibliography
Hydrogen technologies
Laser applications
Electronics standards
Atomic clocks |
Solorio is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Christian Solorio, American politician
Jose Solorio (born 1970), American politician
Luis Solorio (born 1994), Mexican footballer
Rabindranath Salazar Solorio (born 1968), Mexican politician |
Jayantbhai Ramanbhai Patel, popularly known as Boskey is an Indian politician and member of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP). Boskey is currently serving as the president of Gujarat NCP.
Early life and education
Boskey was born in Aden (a city in South Yemen) on 16 May 1960. He acquired his primary schooling in the Bhagalpur district of Bihar at Mt. Carmel Convent School and at C.M.S. High School. He completed his graduation in Commerce from Vallabh Vidyanagar (B.J.V.M.).
Later in the year 1988, Boskey was married to Rita Patel, a Commerce Graduate from Mumbai College, Mumbai. They had their first child, Unnati Patel, in the year 1989 and their second child, Krishna Patel, in 1991.
Inclination towards Sports
Boskey had an innate inclination towards cricket and football during his school and college days. In the year 1976-77, he played for Bihar School Boys in The Cooch Behar Trophy. In the following year, he played as a goalkeeper in the football team of Bihar School Boys. In the year 1979-80, he played cricket along with Rubin Mukherji's Tata team at the Junior County, Q.K. London. He has also played for the Bhagalpur Senior District team against the cricket teams of Patna, Bihar, etc. He is keenly interested in cricket.
Political career
Boskey was elected as the MLA from 134 Sarsa Constituency in the year 1990. In the year 1992, he was selected as the Parliamentary Secretary to the honorable Chief Minister (સંસદીય સચિવ) and contributed to the fields of Youth Service, Sports Affairs, and Public Grievance.
Offices held
1990-1995: MLA, 134 Sarsa Constituency
2007-2012: MLA, 134 Sarsa Constituency
2012-2017: MLA, 111 Umreth Constituency
2005: President, Gujarat NCP
2017: General Secretary, Gujarat NCP
2020–present: President, Gujarat NCP
References
State NCP chief Jayant Patel to contest from Anand
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
People from Anand district
Gujarat MLAs 2012–2017
Nationalist Congress Party politicians from Gujarat
Gujarat MLAs 1990–1995
Gujarat MLAs 2007–2012
Gujarat MLAs 2017–2022 |
Nandi Hills is a town and also an electoral constituency in Kenya's Nandi County.The name also refers to the general area of Nandi County, where the urban settlement is located. Its current Member of Parliament is Hon. Bernard Kibor Kitur of United Democratic Alliance (UDA) party.
Location
Nandi Hills is located in a highland area of Lush Green Rolling Hills at the edge of the Great Rift Valley in the southwestern part of Kenya. It is located approximately , by road, northwest of Nairobi, the capital and largest city in the country. The coordinates of Nandi Hills, Kenya are:0°06'01.0"N, 35°10'35.0"E (Latitude:0.100278; Longitude:35.176389). Nandi Hills lies an elevation of approximately , above sea level.
Overview
The small town named Nandi Hills, is often referred to as the "cradle land of Kenyan running". The area is home to many world-renowned athletes, including Kipchoge Keino, Wilson Kipketer, Janeth Jepkosgei, Augustine Choge, Wilfred Bungei, Henry Rono and Mike Boit. The area is mostly inhabited by the Nandi people. Nandi Hills has a cool and wet climate with two rain seasons during the equinoxes. Temperatures vary between 18 °C and 24 °C which coupled with the rich volcanic soils make the area ideal for growing tea. The scenic area is known for its many tea estates. There is also a golf course, Nandi Bears Club, where several annual tournaments are held annually such as the Gill Trophy, the Kenya Ladies' Golf Union and the prestigious Kenya Breweries Festival of Golf besides rally and cross countries.
It is a very significant area of Rift Valley province and the Kalenjin community. It was a battleground against the Luo and Luhya communities and the burial site of the renowned Nandi seer Koitalel Arap Samoei. He is buried under a symbolic tree. On top of Nandi Hills sits Samoei with its red earth. When Koitalel was killed by British officer Richard Meinertzhagen, some believe the ground turned red on the spot of his death.
Local economy
The economy of Nandi Hills relies mainly on the surrounding tea estates. Many people work on tea farms as pluckers, managers, field maintenance, factory service works, official duties and business. Nandi Hills town has barely a tarmac street despite a lot of taxes accrued from tea farms.
Transportation
The transport system in Nandi Hills is mainly land-based via tarmac. The Nandi Hills road network connects it to major Kenyan cities including Eldoret, Nakuru, Kericho, Kisumu and, ultimately, Nairobi and Mombasa.
References
External links
Nandi Bears Golf Club
The Kenyan Camper: Nandi Hills – Much More Than Tea
Mountain ranges of Kenya
Populated places in Nandi County |
Nina Shebalina (born 10 June 1946) is a Soviet cross-country skier. She competed in the women's 10 kilometres at the 1972 Winter Olympics.
Cross-country skiing results
Olympic Games
References
External links
1946 births
Living people
Soviet female cross-country skiers
Olympic cross-country skiers for the Soviet Union
Cross-country skiers at the 1972 Winter Olympics
Sportspeople from Novgorod Oblast |
The Cedarville School Building, also known as the Old Rock School, is a historic school building on Crawford County Road 523 in Cedarville, Arkansas. It is a single-story rectangular masonry stone structure, with a deck-on-hip roof and a stone foundation. Its main facade (facing west) has a recessed entry under a slightly-projecting shed roof, with three banks of sash windows to its left. The school was built in 1931, and initially served as the city's high school. The building now serves as a community center.
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Crawford County, Arkansas
References
School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas
Buildings and structures in Crawford County, Arkansas
National Register of Historic Places in Crawford County, Arkansas |
Douglas Neil Walton (2 June 1942 – 3 January 2020) was a Canadian academic and author, known for his books and papers on argumentation, logical fallacies and informal logic. He was a Distinguished Research Fellow of the Centre for Research in Reasoning, Argumentation, and Rhetoric (CRRAR) at the University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada, and before that (2008–2014), he held the Assumption Chair of Argumentation Studies at the University of Windsor. Walton's work has been used to better prepare legal arguments and to help develop artificial intelligence.
A special issue of the journal Informal Logic surveyed Walton's contributions to informal logic and argumentation theory up to 2006.
Education
Walton earned his PhD from the University of Toronto in 1972.
Work
Walton's work represents a distinctive approach built around a set of practical methods to help a user identify, analyze, and evaluate arguments in specialized areas such as law and science, as well as arguments of the kind used in everyday conversational discourse. Walton has called this approach logical argumentation, and as a method it has twelve defining characteristics, shown below in a simplified list.
The method analyzes and evaluates argumentation concerning a contestable claim, one where there is evidence for the claim as well as against it. The claim is tested evidentially by the pro and con arguments that support or attack it.
The procedure for examining and criticizing the arguments on both sides forms a dialogue structure in which two sides, the claimant and its opponent, take turns putting forward speech acts (for example, asking questions and putting forward arguments).
The dialogue has rules for incurring and retracting commitments that are activated by speech acts. For example, when a participant makes an assertion (claim), he or she becomes committed to the proposition contained in the assertion.
The method uses the notion of commitment (acceptance) as the fundamental tool for the analysis and evaluation of argumentation rather than the notion of belief. The reason is that belief is held to be a psychological notion internal to an agent that can only be determined indirectly, by inference to the best explanation of the agent's speech and actions.
The method assumes a database of commonly accepted knowledge that, along with other commitments, provides premises for arguments. The knowledge base is set in place at the opening stage, but can be revised as new relevant information comes in.
The method comprises the study of explanations as well as arguments, including the form of argument called inference to the best explanation or abductive reasoning.
The dialogue system is dynamic, meaning that it continually updates its database as new information comes in that is relevant to an argument being considered.
The arguments advanced are (for the most part) defeasible, meaning that they are subject to defeat as new relevant evidence comes in that refutes the argument.
Conclusions are accepted on a presumptive basis, meaning that in the absence of evidence sufficient to defeat it, a claim that is the conclusion of an argument can be tentatively accepted, even though it may be subject to later defeat.
The dialogue uses critical questioning as a way of testing plausible explanations and finding weak points in an argument that raise doubt concerning the acceptability of the argument.
The method uses standards of proof. Criteria for acceptance are held to depend on standards that require the removal of specifiable degrees of reasonable doubt.
The method is based on argumentation schemes, such as argument from expert opinion, that represent commonly used types of arguments that are defeasible.
In the method, schemes work as heuristic devices that only offer presumptive support of a claim that may have to be withdrawn as new evidence comes in. The schemes connect arguments together into sequences, often called chaining, by taking the conclusion of one argument as a premise in a subsequent argument. Some common schemes are argument from goal-based reasoning, argument from negative consequences, argument from positive consequences, inference to the best explanation (abductive reasoning), argument from sign, argument from analogy, argument from precedent, argument from an established rule, argument from evidence to a hypothesis, argument from cause to effect, argument from correlation to cause, argument from sunk costs, argument from threat, argument from perception, argument from witness testimony, argument from expert opinion, argument from ignorance, argument from commitment, direct ad hominem argument, argument from inconsistency of commitments, slippery slope argument.
Bibliography
Statutory Interpretation - Pragmatics and Argumentation, D. Walton, F. Macagno, G. Sartor, Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Handbook of legal reasoning and argumentation, G. Bongiovanni, G. Postema, A. Rotolo, G. Sartor, C. Valentini, D. Walton (editors), Springer, 2018.
Interpreting Straw Man Argumentation: The Pragmatics of Quotation and Reporting, Springer, 2017.
Argument Evaluation and Evidence, Springer, 2015.
Goal-based Reasoning for Argumentation, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Burden of Proof, Presumption and Argumentation, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Emotive Language in Argumentation, F. Macagno and D. Walton, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Methods of Argumentation, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Argumentation Schemes, D. Walton, C. Reed and F. Macagno, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Informal Logic: A Pragmatic Approach, second edition, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Witness Testimony Evidence: Argumentation, Artificial Intelligence and Law, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Dialog Theory for Critical Argumentation, Amsterdam, John Benjamins Publishers, 2007.
Media Argumentation: Dialectic, Persuasion and Rhetoric, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Character Evidence: An Abductive Theory, Berlin, Springer, 2007.
Fallacies: Selected Papers: 1972–1982, J. Woods and D. Walton, Studies in Logic, vol. 7, London, King's College, 2007.
Fundamentals of Critical Argumentation, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Argumentation Methods for Artificial Intelligence in Law, Berlin, Springer, 2005.
Abductive Reasoning, Tuscaloosa, University of Alabama Press, 2004.
Relevance in Argumentation, Mahwah, N.J., Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004.
Ethical Argumentation, Lanham, Md., Lexington Books, 2002.
Legal Argumentation and Evidence, University Park, Pa., Penn State Press, 2002.
Scare Tactics: Arguments that Appeal to Fear and Threats, Dordrecht, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000.
Appeal to Popular Opinion, University Park, Pa., Penn State Press, 1999.
One-Sided Arguments: A Dialectical Analysis of Bias, Albany, State University of New York Press, 1999.
Ad Hominem Arguments, Tuscaloosa, University of Alabama Press, 1998.
The New Dialectic, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1998.
Appeal to Expert Opinion: Arguments from Authority, University Park, Pa., Penn State Press, 1997.
Appeal to Pity: Argumentum ad Misericordiam (SUNY Series in Logic and Language), Albany, SUNY Press, 1997.
Historical Foundations of Informal Logic, (co-edited with A. Brinton), Aldershot, England, Ashgate Publishing, 1997.
Argument Structure: A Pragmatic Theory, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1996.
Argumentation Schemes for Presumptive Reasoning, Mahwah, N.J., Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1996.
Arguments from Ignorance, University Park, Pa., Penn State Press, 1996.
Fallacies Arising from Ambiguity, Dordrecht, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996.
Commitment in Dialogue: Basic Concepts of Interpersonal Reasoning, D. Walton and E. C. W. Krabbe, Albany, SUNY Press, 1995.
A Pragmatic Theory of Fallacy, Tuscaloosa, University of Alabama Press, 1995.
The Place of Emotion in Argument, University Park, Pa., Penn State Press, 1992.
Plausible Argument in Everyday Conversation, Albany, State University of New York Press, 1992.
Slippery Slope Arguments. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1992.
Begging the Question: Circular Reasoning as a Tactic of Argumentation, New York, Greenwood Press, 1991.
Practical Reasoning: Goal-Driven, Knowledge-Based, Action-Guiding Argumentation, Savage, Maryland, Rowman and Littlefield, 1990.
Informal Logic: A Handbook for Critical Argumentation, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1989.
Question-Reply Argumentation, Westport, Connecticut, Greenwood Press, 1989.
Informal Fallacies (Pragmatics and Beyond Companion Series, IV), Amsterdam, John Benjamins, 1987.
Courage: A Philosophical Investigation, Berkeley, U. of California Press, 1986.
Arguer's Position: A Pragmatic Study of Ad Hominem Attack, Criticism, Refutation, and Fallacy, Westport, Connecticut, Greenwood Press, 1985.
Physician-Patient Decision-Making, Westport, Connecticut, Greenwood Press, 1985.
Logical Dialogue-Games and Fallacies, Lanham, Maryland, University Press of America, 1984.
Ethics of Withdrawal of Life Support Systems, Westport, Connecticut, Greenwood Press, 1983.
Topical Relevance in Argumentation, Amsterdam, John Benjamins, 1982.
See also
List of University of Waterloo people
John Woods (logician)
References
1942 births
2020 deaths
20th-century Canadian philosophers
21st-century Canadian philosophers
Canadian logicians
University of Toronto alumni
University of Waterloo alumni
Academic staff of University of Windsor
Academic staff of University of Winnipeg |
The Clinton Street Theater is a theater located in southeast Portland, Oregon. It is believed to be the second oldest operating movie house in the city and one of the oldest continually operating cinemas in the United States. The theater was designed by Charles A. Duke in 1913, built in 1914, and opened as The Clinton in 1915. It became known as the 26th Avenue Theatre in 1945 and the Encore in 1969, before reverting to a resemblance of its original name in 1976. The Clinton often screens grindhouse, cult and experimental films, and has become known for hosting regular screenings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show (since 1978, marking one of the film's longest-running showings) and Repo! The Genetic Opera. The venue also hosts the annual Filmed by Bike festival, the Faux Film Festival and the Portland Queer Documentary Film Festival.
History
A photograph of the building that was to house the theater appeared in The Morning Oregonian newspaper in 1913. Known as the Kleist Building after its owner, Edward Kleist, it had a pressed brick front and walls with hollow tiles. The second floor was intended for residential rooms and apartments, and the ground floor was designed for business storerooms and a movie theater. According to a February 1915 newspaper advertisement, The Exploits of Elaine, the first in a continuing series of Craig Kennedy detective stories, was to show at The Clinton on March 1.
The 300-seat theater was designed by Charles A. Duke in 1913 and opened in 1915 as The Clinton. Its main entrance faced 26th Avenue until 1922. The venue became known as the 26th Avenue Theatre in 1945 and the Encore in 1969, before reverting to a variation of its original name on May 30, 1975. At that time, a five-person collective bought the theater. The collective consisted of Jim Blashfield, Joe Uris, Lenny Diener, David Lifton and others. The group also published the Clinton St. Quarterly, with poetry by Walt Curtis and cartoons by John Callahan. The movie house had been showing X-rated films, which the collective replaced with a wide variety of movies including foreign films, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and older films like The African Queen.
In September 1999, Elizabeth Rozier and Dennis Nyback took over operation of the theater. Nyback had previously shown films at the Clinton beginning in 1997. He was told about the availability of the theater when he was showing films in June 1999. During his time operating the theater with Rozier, Clinton showed a mix of new films, revival films, and creations by Nyback using his archive. His shows included: "Defining the 1970's Through Classic Commercials", "Bad Bugs Bunny", "Strange and Surreal Industrial Films", "F&#k Mickey Mouse", "Scopitone A Go Go", "Jazz on Film", "The Dark Side of Dr. Seuss", "Forty Years of Classic Commercials", and "The Genius of Bob Clampett".
Seth and Nicola Sonstein purchased the business from Elizabeth Rozier in September 2003. The couple "fell in love with both the city and the theater" after visiting in July 2002 as coordinators of San Francisco's Sick Puppy short film festival. The Sonsteins added heating and air conditioning, both firsts for the theater, and refurbished the bathrooms, lobby and walls, among other upgrades. Screening independent films and supporting local filmmakers remain the couple's primary goals.
In March 2012 the business, including fixtures and projection and concession equipment, but not the building itself, were listed for sale. In April 2012 ownership of the business transferred from the Sonsteins to Roger and Lani Jo Leigh. After the sale, Seth Sonstein said in a press release: "For the last eight-and-a-half years I have had the opportunity to run the coolest movie theater, in the coolest neighborhood, in the coolest city in America. My eternal gratitude goes out to the citizens of Portland. I can never say thank you enough times for all of the support you have given to the Clinton." Events to mark the change included an open house "meet-and-greet", which included screenings of two documentary films by Lani Jo, and an evening of rare trailers and video clips from the Prelinger Archives. Lani Jo confirmed the theater will continue to offer screenings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and focus on documentary and independent films.
In April 2022, ownership was transferred from the Leighs to a collective of six co-owners, who plan to continue the weekly screening of Rocky Horror.
Events
Clinton Street Theater offers: "a mixture of grindhouse, music films, political documentaries and experimental films". The theater has become known for its weekly screenings of Rocky Horror and Repo! The Genetic Opera, and for its annual Filmed by Bike festival, which began in 2003 and features: "bike-themed independent short movies from around the world." Rocky Horror screenings began in 1978, marking one of the longest-running showings of the film. The theater also hosts the Faux Film Festival, offering cult and independent film showings, and the Portland Queer Documentary Film Festival.
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Portland Trail Blazers, in 2009 the theater screened the 1978 rare and out of circulation documentary Fast Break about the team's 1976–77 championship season. In 2010 the Clinton hosted the Three-Minute Picture Show, which featured screenings of three-minute films by first-time filmmakers. The venue has also hosted benefit events, such as "Can't Stop the Serenity" (presented by PDX Browncoats), which included showings of the film Serenity among other features to benefit Equality Now and the Oregon Food Bank. Other hosted events have included the Portland Underground Film Festival, comedy shows, commemorations for holidays such as Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and lectures on film making.
Many celebrities have appeared at the theater to promote films, including Crispin Glover in 2008, and Bill Plympton and Tom Shadyac in 2011. Chuck Palahniuk, Tom Potter and Gus Van Sant have also appeared at the theater.
See also
History of film
Midnight movie
Neptune Theatre (Seattle), also known for screening The Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Rocky Horror Picture Show cult following
References
External links
1910s architecture in the United States
1915 establishments in Oregon
Cinemas and movie theaters in Oregon
Hosford-Abernethy, Portland, Oregon
Theatres completed in 1915
Theatres in Portland, Oregon |
Gordon Bay Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada.
Geography
Gordon Bay is located on the western shore of the south end of Cowichan Lake. The 49-hectare park of second-growth Douglas fir forest is in one of Vancouver Island's sunniest valleys, and is a popular campsite in the Cowichan Valley area. There are many species of birds, such as juncos, Steller's jays and chestnut-backed chickadees as well as mergansers and golden eye ducks. Wildlife includes deer, raccoons and red squirrels. Rainbow, Dolly Varden, and cutthroat trout live in the lake, and chum, coho and spring salmon spawn in the lake and in its tributaries. Steelhead spawn in the Cowichan River.
References
External links
BC Parks - Gordon Bay Provincial Park, Cowichan Lake
Provincial parks of British Columbia
Cowichan Valley
Year of establishment missing |
A double referendum was held in Uruguay on 31 October 1999 alongside general elections. Voters were asked two questions; whether they approved of two initiatives, one on the financial autonomy of the judiciary, and one on preventing directors of state-owned companies from becoming MPs. Both were rejected by voters.
Initiatives
Judiciary
The referendum on the financial judiciary of the judiciary was put forward by the General Assembly after being approved by 41 of the 99 members of the Chamber of Deputies and 12 of the 30 members of the Senate. It would involve amending articles 220, 233 and 239 of the constitution.
Directors of state-owned companies
The referendum on directors of state-owned companies was also put forward by the General Assembly, where it was approved by 61 Deputies and 20 Senators.
Results
Judiciary
Directors of state-owned companies
References
Uruguay
Referendum
Referendums in Uruguay
Uruguay |
Orthophytum fosterianum is a plant species in the genus Orthophytum. This species is endemic to Brazil.
Cultivars
Orthophytum 'Clouds'
References
BSI Cultivar Registry Retrieved 11 October 2009
fosterianum
Flora of Brazil |
The Durham Light Infantry Brigade was formed in 1902 to command the part-time Volunteer battalions of the Durham Light Infantry (DLI). Previously these had been in a combined Tyne and Tees Brigade with battalions of the Northumberland Fusiliers. It consisted of the 1st–4th Volunteer Battalions of the DLI (the 5th VB had remained in the Tyne Brigade), which were renumbered as the 5th–8th Battalions when the Volunteers were subsumed into the Territorial Force (TF) under the Haldane Reforms of 1908. Consisting of 6th–9th Battalions (the 5th Bn joined the York and Durham Brigade), it became part of the TF's Northumbrian Division. During World War I it was numbered as the 151st (Durham Light Infantry) Brigade on 14 May 1915, when the division became the 50th (Northumbrian) Division. The TF also raised 2nd Line units and formations, and the 190th (2nd Durham Light Infantry) Brigade was formed in 63rd (2nd Northumbrian) Division. The 1st Line battalions adopted the prefix '1/'
Order of Battle
The brigade's composition during World War I was as follows:
1/6th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry – reduced to training cadre 15 July 1918
1/7th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry – left on 16 November 1915 to become the divisional pioneer battalion
1/8th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry – reduced to training cadre 15 July 1918
1/9th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry – left 13 February 1918
1/5th Battalion, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment – joined 11 June 1915, left 21 December 1915
1/5th Battalion, Border Regiment – joined from 149th (Northumberland) Brigade 20 December 1915; left 13 February 1918
1/5th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry – joined from 150th (York and Durham) Brigade12 February 1918; reduced to training cadre 15 July 1918
151st Machine Gun Company – formed 6 February 1916; transferred to divisional Machine Gun Battalion 1 March 1918
151st Trench Mortar Battery – formed June 1916
After the Third Battle of the Aisne, the 50th Division was reduced to training cadres. The 151st Brigade was then reconstituted with battalions withdrawn from Salonika, giving it the following composition:
6th Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
1st Battalion, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
4th Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps
151st Trench Mortar Battery
After the Armistice with Germany, 50th Division was disbanded in France on 19 March 1919. The old Northumbrian Division was reconstituted in April 1920.
Actions
The brigade fought in the following actions during World War I:
Second Battle of Ypres
Battle of St Julien (24 April – 3 May 1915)
Battle of Frezenberg Ridge (11–13 May 1915)
Battle of Bellewaarde Ridge (24–25 May 1915)
Battle of the Somme
Battle of Flers-Courcelette (15–22 September 1916)
Battle of Morval (25–28 September 1916)
Battle of the Transloy Ridges (1–3 October 1916)
Battle of Arras
First Battle of the Scarpe (11–14 April 1917)
Capture of Wancourt Ridge (13–15 April 1917)
Second Battle of the Scarpe (23–24 April 1917)
Third Battle of Ypres
Second Battle of Passchendaele (26 October – 9 November 1917)
Battles of the Somme
Battle of St Quentin (21–23 March 1918)
Actions at the Somme Crossings (23 March 1918)
Battle of Rosieres (26–27 March 1918)
Battle of the Lys
Battle of Estaires (9–11 April 1918)
Battle of Hazebrouck (12 April 1918)
Third Battle of the Aisne (27 May – 6 June 1918)
Battles of the Hindenburg Line
Battle of the St Quentin Canal (1 October 1918)
Battle of the Beaurevoir Line(3–5 October 1918)
Battle of Cambrai (8 October 1918)
Pursuit to the Selle (11–12 October 1918)
Final Advance in Picardy
Battle of the Selle (17–18 October 1918)
Battle of the Sambre (4 November 1918)
Commanders
The following officers commanded the brigade during World War I:
Col (Brig-Gen from 5 August 1914) J.W. Sears, appointed 30 March 1913, till 16 December 1914
Brig-Gen H. Martin, till 4 July 1915
Brig-Gen J.S.M. Shea, till 17 May 1916
Brig-Gen P.T. Westmorland, till 6 September 1916
Brig-Gen N.J.G. Cameron, till 20 October 1917
Brig-Gen C.T. Martin, killed 27 May 1918
Lt-Col F. Walton, acting
Brig-Gen R.E. Sugden, from 7 June 1918
Notes
References
Maj A.F. Becke,History of the Great War: Order of Battle of Divisions, Part 2a: The Territorial Force Mounted Divisions and the 1st-Line Territorial Force Divisions (42–56), London: HM Stationery Office, 1935/Uckfield: Naval & Military Press, 2007, .
Maj A.F. Becke,History of the Great War: Order of Battle of Divisions, Part 2b: The 2nd-Line Territorial Force Divisions (57th–69th), with the Home-Service Divisions (71st–73rd) and 74th and 75th Divisions, London: HM Stationery Office, 1937/Uckfield: Naval & Military Press, 2007, .
Col John K. Dunlop, The Development of the British Army 1899–1914, London: Methuen, 1938.
Edward M. Spiers, The Army and Society 1815–1914, London: Longmans, 1980, .
Everard Wyrall, The Fiftieth Division 1914–1919, 1939/Uckfield: Naval & Military, nd, .
External sources
The Long, Long Trail
The Regimental Warpath 1914–1918 (archive site)
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George Washington Latimer (July 4, 1819 – May 29, 1897) was an escaped enslaved person whose case became a major political issue in Massachusetts.
Early life
George Washington Latimer was born in Norfolk, Virginia. His father, Mitchell Latimer, was a white man and his mother, Margaret Olmsted, a woman who was enslaved by his uncle Edward A. Latimer. In the early part of his life he was enslaved by a man named Edward Mallery and was a "domestic servant" until the age of sixteen. After that time, his labor was hired out and he primarily worked driving a dray and as a shopkeeper. On two separate occasions, he spent time in prison as a result of the debts of his enslaver. He was eventually sold to enslaver James B. Gray. Gray was a shop owner whose store Latimer manned. He abused Latimer and it is thought that this abuse in part precipitated Latimer's flight to Boston.
Escape from slavery
On October 4, 1842, Latimer and his wife, Rebecca, who was pregnant at the time, ran away. The pair hid beneath the deck of a northbound ship that took them to Baltimore. From there they traveled to Philadelphia, with Rebecca posing as a servant to her lighter-skinned husband. At last, they made their way to Boston, arriving on either October 7 or 8th. James Gray offered a reward of $25 if Latimer was captured in Virginia and $50 plus expenses if he was captured outside Virginia. On the day George Latimer and Rebecca arrived in Boston, Latimer was recognized by a man named William R. Carpenter, a former employee of James Gray, who contacted Gray. On October 20, Latimer was arrested. The initial charge was larceny. Latimer was brought before Justice Joseph Story, who ordered that he be held.
Events surrounding Latimer's imprisonment
After Latimer's arrest word spread through the black community and a group led by Henry G. Tracy attempted to rescue him. They were unsuccessful. Latimer's lawyer, Samuel Edmund Sewall, then sought a writ of personal replevin from Massachusetts Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw, who was known to have strong anti-slavery views. Sewall argued that Latimer should have the right to have his identity determined by a jury. This attempt at freeing Latimer, however, also failed, as Shaw denied the writ. According to the abolitionist paper The Liberator, Shaw said that it was a federal matter and the Constitution and the laws of Congress "were to be obeyed, however disagreeable to our natural sympathies or views of duty."
Latimer's arrest resulted in an uproar so great that "Boston was, without a doubt, the most potentially violent city in America." The case brought about an immense public response in the state of Massachusetts. Latimer's counsel, Sewell, chaired a meeting at Faneuil Hall where attendees not only vowed resistance to slave-catching but also voted for disunion. Additional meetings were held throughout the state, called "Latimer Meetings." These meetings included both black and white abolitionists.
The Latimer and North Star Journal was created by the men appointed to the newly formed Latimer Committee, Henry Ingersoll Bowditch, William F. Channing, and Frederick Cabot. Issues came out every other day. The Latimer Journal reported that the social unrest related to Latimer's imprisonment was such that "fire and bloodshed threatened in every direction."
A major development that occurred as a result of Latimer's arrest was the Latimer Committee's creation of two separate petitions, the "Great Massachusetts Petition" and the "Great Petition to Congress." The former requested a law banning the involvement of state officials or public property in the detention or arrest of suspected fugitives. The latter demanded that laws be passed severing any connection between Massachusetts and slavery. Latimer's freedom was purchased while these petition drives were still ongoing, but they had a considerable impact. The petition delivered to the State Assembly contained 64,526 signatures and weighed 150 pounds by the time it was delivered on February 17, 1843. This petition was a significant contribution to the passage of the 1843 Liberty Act, dubbed the "Latimer Law," which prevented Massachusetts officials from assisting in the detention of suspected fugitive enslaved people and banned the use of state facilities to detain such suspects. The petition to Congress, delivered to John Quincy Adams was less successful, with no legislation resulting from it.
Latimer's arrest spurred other action as well. It was the "immediate impetus" for the organization of the New England Freedom Association and increased collective action in the black community of Massachusetts. One example of this is the fundraising efforts that helped raise the money that was eventually used to purchase Latimer. These meetings were addressed by such abolitionists as Frederick Douglass and Charles Lenox Remond.
Latimer's freedom was eventually purchased from Gray for $400.
Post-freedom
After his freedom was purchased, George Latimer remained involved in the abolitionist cause, attending anti-slavery conventions and helping to gather signatures for the two petitions that were started while he was imprisoned.
There is not a great deal of information available about Latimer's life as a free man. He continued to be involved in, and connected to, the abolitionist movement. In 1851 he was involved in the rescue of an escaped enslaved person, Shadrach Minkins, when he was paid to keep Minkins's owner under surveillance.
Latimer's primary occupation was as a paperhanger and he worked in this capacity for forty-five years in Lynn, Massachusetts. The first of the Latimers' four children was born shortly after his freedom was purchased. The youngest, Lewis Howard Latimer, who was born in 1848, went on to become an inventor, and worked for such prominent inventors as Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison.
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HMS Moira (or HMS Earl of Moira) was a British 14-gun schooner of the Royal Navy, that plied the waters of Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River during the War of 1812 . Initially constructed for the Provincial Marine in 1805, the vessel took part in the Engagements on Lake Ontario. Renamed Charwell in 1814, following the war, the vessel became a powder hulk and an accommodation vessel. The vessel was sold in 1837.
Description and construction
Moira was a schooner that measured 168 tons burthern with a length overall and at the keel. The vessel had a beam of and a draught of . Initially rigged as a schooner but was re-rigged as a brig in 1813. As a schooner, the vessel was launched with 14 guns. After being re-rigged, the vessel was re-armed with two 9-pounder guns and fourteen 24-pounder carronades. By 1814, the vessel's armament had changed to a single 18-pounder and twelve 24-pounder carronades.
The vessel was constructed at Kingston Royal Naval Dockyard in Kingston, Upper Canada under the supervision of Master Shipwright John Dennis to a design by Alexander Munn and was launched on 28 May 1805 at Point Frederick. Moira was named for the 1st Marquis of Hastings and 2nd Earl of Moira (1754–1826).
Service history
As Earl of Moira
At the outset of the War of 1812, the Provincial Marine force on Lake Ontario comprised four vessels, making it more powerful than their American foe. Earl of Moira was the second oldest Provincial Marine vessel and a proposal to increase the vessel's armament by lengthening her hull was rejected in early 1812. However, during an inspection of Earl of Moira, extensive rot was found which required significant repairs. By this point, Earl of Moira was armed with only ten 18-pounder carronades. In July 1812, Earl of Moira was commanded by Lieutenant Theophilius Sampson and was part of the squadron that sailed to Sackets Harbor, New York. On 19 July the squadron presented itself off the harbour where the American brig was stationed. Oneida sailed out, intending to separate the British vessels. However, the squadron drew together and cut off Oneida from Lake Ontario. Oneida reversed course and anchored near the navy yard in Sackets Harbor. There, the American forces prepared themselves for an attack by the British squadron. The Americans fired upon the British squadron and claimed to have hit "several times". The British broke off the attack and departed.
A few weeks later, Earl of Moira and were sent downriver to capture American merchant vessels at the port of Ogdensburg, New York. The American schooner was sent to intercept the two vessels. On 31 July, Julia found the British vessels off Elizabethtown, Upper Canada. Earl of Moira fired three of her carronades at Julia causing no damage. Musketry from shore drove the American ship closer to the American shore, with the British ships giving chase. Julia retreated to Ogdensburg and anchored with the onset of darkness. The next day Earl of Moira and Duke of Gloucester lay off Ogdensburg. The town prepared itself for an attack but none came. The merchant vessels and Julia remained blockaded at Ogdensburg by the two British ships until a truce was agreed to in August that allowed all the American vessels to sail to Lake Ontario unmolested.
In November, Earl of Moira was escorting the sloop Elizabeth off Wolfe Island when the American schooner happened upon them. Growler captured Elizabeth, ignoring the British schooner and brought the prize into Sackets Harbor. By the end of November, the Provincial Marine was considered a weak link in the defence of Upper Canada and was placed under review. The review found that Earl of Moira had been anchored in Navy Bay and her crew reduced to a few dozen sailors. In January 1813, Earl of Moiras condition was found to be "bad" and a refit was authorized, reducing the vessel's rig from three masts to two and converting the vessel into a brig.
Engagements on Lake Ontario
The conversion took the rest of the winter and in April 1813, Lieutenant Sampson was ordered to clean up the vessel. Sampson had done so little by the time the inspection of the ship took place, that he was arrested on the spot and confined to quarters until his affairs were put in order and command of the brig was given to Lieutenant George Smith. Once the ship was ready, Earl of Moira was positioned at the opening of Navy Bay at Kingston, keeping a watch for the American squadron. A company of Royal Newfoundland Fencibles was distributed amongst the Lake Ontario squadron, with Earl of Moiras complement rising to fifty-four.
Commodore Sir James Lucas Yeo, who had arrived on 16 May to take command of the Lake Ontario squadron. After his arrival, he reorganized the commands and Earl of Moira passed to Commander Thomas England. Shortly after assuming command, England became sick and was invalided home and Lieutenant Alexander Dobbs was made acting-commander. In May 1813, word arrived from Fort George that the American squadron had left their anchorage and sailed south. A council of war was organized and a force under the command of Colonel Edward Baynes would be landed at Sackets Harbor by Yeo's force. Earl of Moira was among the vessels that participated in transporting the troops to the Second Battle of Sacket's Harbor. Earl of Moira did not participate further in the battle beyond transporting troops. In June, the squadron carried elements of the 8th Foot to Burlington Heights. While passing a large encampment on 7 June, the squadron became aware that it was American. Yeo had Beresford towed within range to bombard the camp. Earl of Moira, and Sir Sidney Smith sailed on to Forty Mile Creek to disembark the troops. Departing the area on 11 June the squadron searched for the American fleet but did not find them and had to settle for capturing three schooners and two sloops, burned a raft and raided storehouses along the Gensee River and American Eighteen Mile Creek. The squadron returned to Kingston on 17 June.
On 31 July, the squadron departed Kingston in search of the Americans. A week later on 7 August the two fleets came together in Lake Ontario off the Niagara River. Nothing came of the encounter, but three days later, the Americans sought battle only for their tactical advantage to change in favour of the British. Yeo's squadron closed with the Americans and captured two schooners, Julia and Growler. In September, the two squadrons fought again, with the British retreating, returning to Kingston on 16 September.
In order to make his ships more capable, Yeo ordered the reorganization of guns in his fleet. Earl of Moira had two carronades removed to open up space on her deck. The squadron sailed again onto Lake Ontario and encountered the Americans on 28 September in Burlington Bay. Earl of Moira was fourth in the line of battle and engaged the American ships , Oneida and . The British squadron retreated after the flagship, Wolfe became heavily damaged and returned to Kingston on 7 October.
In October, Earl of Moira was among the flotilla sent to support operations against American ground forces at French Creek. Earl of Moira was one of the vessels anchored in a line across the bay which opened fire on the American columns. The Americans returned fire and traded shots with the British until darkness fell. The next morning, the British began their bombardment again but were driven off by the intense American fire, suffering one killed and five injured. Earl of Moira saw no further action until being laid up when winter came.
As Charwell
She was renamed Charwell on 22 January 1814. On 1 May, the squadron was reorganized. Charwell continued to be captained by Alexander Dobbs, now of the rank of commander. On 4 May 1814, Charwell was part of Commodore Sir James Lucas Yeo's squadron, embarking 400 soldiers to attack the American fort at Fort Oswego.
During the assault Charwell and HMS Star escorted the bateaux filled with troops towards the landing near the fort's glacis, firing on American positions as they closed. The British captured the fort and the seized goods were brought back to the warships lying offshore. The squadron returned to Kingston on 8 May. Yeo then ordered a blockade of Sackets Harbor, with the smaller vessels of the squadron ferrying troops or patrolling for American shipping. After the British defeat at Sandy Creek on 29 May, Yeo lifted the blockade on 5 June and sailed for the Bay of Quinte. A shuffle of commands took place with Commander Dobbs leaving Charwell to command Star and was replaced by Lieutenant Henry Spence.
In July, under the command of Alexander Dobbs, Charwell, with Star, HMS Magnet and HMS Netley and Vincent had sailed to the Niagara River to provide transportation for British ground forces in the area. In August, American ships arrived to blockade them within the river. The British ships remained penned in by the American blockade for nearly two months.
Unable to leave, Dobbs took men from his vessels and marched down to Fort Erie, where the British had besieged the American fort. There, on 12 August men from Charwell (A.F. Spence), Magnet (Edward Collier), Netley (Lieutenant Charles Radcliffe), and Star (Alexander Dobbs), captured two American schooners, Somers and Ohio. In October, the rest of the squadron sailed for the Niagara peninsula, carrying reinforcements for the British Army with them. The American blockade lifted and the trapped vessels sailed out to rejoin the squadron, transferring the soldiers to shore from the larger ships. Following the American withdrawal from Fort Erie, the squadron returned to Kingston on 10 November. The war ended on 24 December 1814, but word only reached North America in 1815.
After the end of the war Charwell became a powder hulk from 1816 and an accommodation vessel in 1827. Charwell was sold in 1837.
Notes
Citations
References
Further reading
External links
The War of 1812 Magazine
PAH2677 View of the embarkation of the Earl of Moira, on board the Sterling Castle off Cooper's Island, Port Louis.... Augt 20th 1813
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The Bradano is a river in the Basilicata and Apulia regions of southern Italy. Its source is Lago Pesole (which is near Forenza and Filiano) in the province of Potenza. The river flows southeast near Monte Torretta, Acerenza, and Oppido Lucano. After crossing into the province of Matera, it is joined by a right tributary, the Alvo. The river flows near Irsina before being joined by a left tributary, the Basentello. Shortly after that, it is joined by another right tributary, the Bilioso. The river then enters Lago di San Giuliano. After flowing out of the lake, the Bradano is joined by a left tributary, the Gravina, and flows southeast near Montescaglioso before entering the province of Taranto. It is then joined by a left tributary, the Gravina di Matera, before re-entering the province of Matera after a short distance. The river flows near the border with the province of Taranto before entering the Gulf of Taranto near Lido di Metaponto.
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Neverender was a four-night concert series performed by Coheed and Cambria. It took place in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and London, and consisted of one of the band's four studio albums being played in full each night, telling the story of the concept in sequence according to each album. "Neverender" is a song from the album The Second Stage Turbine Blade.
Night One: The Second Stage Turbine Blade
Night Two: In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3
Night Three: Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness
Night Four: Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World For Tomorrow
(The London showing played in a different order due to cancellation on December 2.)
Announcement
In early July 2008, the band's official website and MySpace featured a teaser poster with the dragonfly artwork for an event called Neverender. A few days later, the event was unveiled to the public. Four days before all of the tickets went on sale there was a presale of special "VIP" tickets. These were 10% of the total number of tickets for the concerts. They sold out within minutes of going on sale.
In early August, the band's official website along with their MySpace featured two flags on the same Neverender poster. Two days later it was announced that Neverender would also have shows in Chicago and London. The film Night of the Living Dead was played in the background on night four.
Neverender: The Children of the Fence Box Set
On March 24, 2009 a box set was released containing footage from all nights of Neverender from the New York City dates. It contains a CD and DVD of each night of the concert as well as a documentary entitled The Fiction Will See The Real, both directed by Doug Spangenberg.
Tour dates
London Astoria cancellation
The band were forced to cancel their show at the London Astoria on Tuesday December 2, due to a power cut caused by road maintenance outside the building and the accidental severance of a major power conduit. One worker died as a result of electrocution. As a result, the performance of In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 was rescheduled for Friday December 5.
Initially, the VIP Meet and Greet and Acoustic performance were moved to the Friday, but as a fair number of fans were unable to make the new date, lead singer Claudio Sanchez announced on-stage that the Thursday would remain the same and Friday date would feature a cover song set including music by Claudio Sanchez's one-man side project The Prize Fighter Inferno.
Neverender 12%
On February 26, 2009 an exclusive live EP was released only at Hot Topic stores, which contains 6 tracks pulled from the upcoming Neverender set. The tracks were recorded by Michael Comstock at Terminal 5, NYC, October 22–25, 2008, and were mixed and mastered by Mike Major, at Mike's Mix Room, Madeira Beach, FL
Tracks:
Gravemakers and Gunslingers – 5:13
Delirium Trigger – 4:51
The Willing Well II : From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness – 6:39
A Favor House Atlantic – 3:31
Three Evils (Embodied In Love and Shadow) – 4:54
Wake Up – 4:38
External links
Official website
DVD Presale Information
Concerts |
Thomas de Clare, Lord of Thomond (1244×124729 August 1287) was an Anglo-Norman peer and soldier. He was the second son of Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Gloucester and his wife Maud de Lacy, Countess of Gloucester. In 1272 he served a term as Lieutenant of the Duchy of Aquitaine. On 26 January 1276 he was granted the Lordship of Thomond by Edward I of England; he spent the next eight years attempting to conquer it from the O'Brien dynasty, kings of Thomond.
Career
Thomas was born in about 1245 in Tonbridge, Kent, England, the second eldest son of Richard de Clare and Maud de Lacy. He and his brother Bogo received gifts from King Henry III when they were studying at Oxford from 1257–59. Thomas was a close friend and intimate advisor of Prince Edward of England, who would in 1272 accede to the throne as King Edward I. Together they took part in the Ninth Crusade. He held many important posts such as Governor of Colchester Castle (1266) and Governor of The City of London (1273). He was made Commander of the English forces in Munster, Ireland and created Lord of Inchiquin and Youghal. On 26 January 1276, he was granted the entire lordship of Thomond by King Edward.
That same year, he jointly commanded a Norman army along with Sir Geoffrey de Geneville, Justiciar of Ireland against the Irish clans of County Wicklow. They were joined by a contingent of men from Connacht led by his father-in-law Maurice FitzGerald, 3rd Lord of Offaly. Thomas and Justiciar de Geneville's forces attacked the Irish at Glenmalure, but they were soundly defeated and suffered severe losses.
Civil War in Thomond
Civil war raged in Thomond between the rival factions of the O'Brien dynasty. In 1276, Brian Ruad, the deposed King of Thomond appealed to Thomas for support to help him regain his kingdom from his great-nephew Toirrdelbach MacTaidg O' Brien, who had usurped the throne. In return for his aid, Brian Ruad promised that Thomas would be allowed to colonise all the land between Athsollus in Quin and Limerick. Together, Thomas and Brian Ruad expelled Toirrdelbach MacTaidg O'Brien and recaptured Clonroad which the latter had taken from Brian Ruad. O'Brien escaped to Galway where he elicited the help of his cousin William de Burgh, and in 1277 together with the assistance from clans, MacNamara and O'Dea they defeated the combined forces of Thomas and Brian Ruad. The latter fled to Bunratty Castle, but Thomas had his former ally hanged and drawn for treason. The civil war continued for the next seven years, with Thomas supporting Brian Ruad's son Donnchad against Toirrdelbach; however, following the drowning death of Donnchad in 1284, Toirrdelbach emerged the victor. Thereafter until his death in 1306, Toirrdelbach MacTaidg O'Brien ruled as undisputed King of Thomond and Thomas had no choice but to accommodate him. O'Brien rented part of Bunratty Manor at £121 per annum. In 1280, Thomas embarked on a castle-building project at Quin, but was disrupted in his efforts by the O'Briens and MacNamaras. Thomas also reconstructed Bunratty Castle in stone, replacing the earlier wooden building.
Marriage and children
In February 1275, he married Juliana FitzGerald, the 12-year-old daughter of Maurice FitzGerald, 3rd Lord of Offaly and Maud de Prendergast. During their marriage, Thomas and Juliana lived in Ireland and in England. For instance, on 5 May 1284 the King notified his bailiffs and lieges in Ireland of the attorneys who were to act in Ireland on behalf of the couple as they were then in England. This arrangement was to continue for three years, except when Thomas and Juliana went to Ireland.
Thomas and Juliana had four children:
Maud de Clare (1276–1327), married firstly, Robert de Clifford, 1st Baron de Clifford, by whom she had issue; and secondly Robert de Welles, 2nd Baron Welles.
Gilbert de Clare, Lord of Thomond, (3 February 12811308)
Richard de Clare, Steward of Forest of Essex, 1st Lord Clare, Lord of Thomond (after 128110 May 1318), married a woman by the name of Joan, by whom he had one son, Thomas. He was killed at the Battle of Dysert O'Dea.
Margaret de Clare (c. 1 April 128722 October 1333/3 January 1334), married firstly, Gilbert de Umfraville; and secondly Bartholomew de Badlesmere, 1st Baron Badlesmere, by whom she had issue.
Death
When evidence was taken in 1302 to prove the age of his son Gilbert, it was established that Thomas had died on 29 August 1287. A mid-18th century compilation known as the
Dublin Annals of Inisfallen states that Thomas was killed in battle against Turlough son of Teige and others. However, none of the earlier records of his death indicate that Thomas met a violent end. Some of the witnesses to Gilbert's age in 1302 referred to the date of Thomas' death in their calculations but all were silent as to its circumstances. This and much other evidence on the subject has been set out and evaluated by Goddard Henry Orpen of Trinity College, Dublin. Thomas was succeeded as Lord of Thomond by his eldest son, Gilbert who was six years old. His widow Juliana, aged 24 years, would go on to marry two more times.
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Marcus Oswald Hornby Lecky Birley (29 May 1930 – 24 August 2007), known as Mark Birley, was a British entrepreneur known for his investments in the hospitality industry.
Early life
Mark Birley was the son of Sir Oswald Birley (1880–1952), the royal and society portrait painter, and the artist and gardener Rhoda Vava Mary Lecky Pike. His sister, Maxime de la Falaise (1922–2009), became a noted fashion model of the 1950s; Maxime's daughter, Loulou de la Falaise (1948–2011), was a muse to the fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent.
He was educated at Eton where he excelled at drawing. After doing his National Service he went up to University College, Oxford, to read PPE but he left after failing his first year exams after national service. He then started working as a copywriter for J. Walter Thompson.
Career
In 1963, Birley founded Annabel's at Berkeley Square in the Mayfair district in central London. The club was named for his wife, the former Lady Annabel Vane-Tempest-Stewart, and it was the first of its kind: a member-only nightclub that catered to an exclusive clientele, including the Prince of Wales.
In 1972, Birley opened Mark's Club and continued to expand his portfolio in the restaurant, nightclub and hotel business. He became the owner of the Annabel's Group, which includes Mark Birley Holdings Limited. In 1979 Birley opened Harry's Bar on South Audley Street in Mayfair. It became noted for its Italian cuisine. He launched a men's fragrance line, Mark Birley for Men, in 1996, in collaboration with the perfumers Frédéric Malle and Pierre Bourdon. Birley also designed the former family offices of Peter Palumbo, Baron Palumbo, in the City of London into a member's club, The Walbrook Club, which opened in 2000.
In 1989 Birley established the Bath & Racquets Club on Brook's Mews.
Personal life
On 10 March 1954, he married Lady Annabel Vane-Tempest-Stewart (born 1934), daughter of the 8th Marquess of Londonderry (1902–1955). Annabel Birley became the mistress of Birley's former friend Sir James Goldsmith (1933–1997), and gave birth to two of Goldsmith's children while she was still married to, but separated from, Birley. The Birleys divorced in 1975. Mark and Annabel had three children:
Rupert Birley (1955–1986; presumed dead), who disappeared whilst working in Togo, West Africa in 1986.
Robin Birley (born 1958)
India Jane Birley (born 1961), who married Jonty Colchester (div. 1985). She later married Francis Pike.
As a child Birley's son Robin was mauled and badly scarred for life by a tiger at the private zoo of family friend John Aspinall (1926–2000). In 1986, Birley's other son, Rupert, disappeared in Togo and was never found. He is assumed to be deceased.
In his last years, Birley himself was disabled and needed to use a wheelchair. For a time, he turned over the reins of his businesses to his two surviving children. In 2006, however, Birley dismissed his son Robin and returned to the helm of his empire, which until his death he ran with his daughter India Jane.
Birley lived at Thurloe Lodge in South Kensington for 30 years. India Jane sold Thurloe Lodge in 2011 for £17 million. An auction of 500 of Birley's possessions from the house was held at Sotheby's in March 2013. The auction realised £3.85 million.
Death
He died on 24 August 2007, aged 77, following a stroke. His memorial service was held at St Paul's Church in Knightsbridge.
References
Sources
Annabel's: A tale of love, snobbery, revenge... and some jolly good cocktails by Liz Hoggard, The Independent, 15 October 2006
The Peerage.com Lady Annabel Vane-Tempest-Stewart
Orth, Maureen. "Hurly Birley". Vanity Fair. p. 152 (6 pages in online edition). 1 February 2008. . Retrieved 30 August 2009.
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Easter Is Cancelled is the sixth studio album by the British hard rock band the Darkness. It was released on 4 October 2019 through Canary Dwarf and Cooking Vinyl.
Background
The album was first announced on 4 April 2019, via a video published on the band's official YouTube channel, featuring the band members reciting a poem. A few days later they also announced details of a UK headline tour to support the album. The first single from the album, "Rock and Roll Deserves to Die", was released on 6 August 2019, along with an accompanying music video.
Critical reception
The album received generally favourable reviews.
Track listing
"Rock and Roll Deserves to Die" – 5:23
"How Can I Lose Your Love" – 3:02
"Live 'Til I Die" – 3:32
"Heart Explodes" – 3:47
"Deck Chair" – 2:24
"Easter Is Cancelled" – 4:18
"Heavy Metal Lover" – 4:41
"In Another Life" – 4:01
"Choke on It" – 3:21
"We Are the Guitar Men" – 4:21
Deluxe edition bonus tracks
<li> "Laylow" – 3:23
<li> "Different Eyes" – 2:51
<li> "Confirmation Bias" – 4:35
<li> "Sutton Hoo" – 3:27
Japanese Edition bonus track
<li> "Dancing House" – 1:05
Personnel
Justin Hawkins – vocals, guitars, piano
Dan Hawkins – guitars, backing vocals
Frankie Poullain – bass, backing vocals
Rufus Tiger Taylor – drums, backing vocals
Charts
References
2019 albums
Cooking Vinyl albums
The Darkness (band) albums |
Mahadevapura Assembly constituency is one of the 224 constituencies in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly of Karnataka a south state of India. It is also part of Bangalore Central Lok Sabha constituency. The constituency is represented by PC Mohan, Member of Parliament from the Bangalore Central Lok Sabha constituency.
Member of Legislative Assembly
Election results
2018
See also
Bangalore Urban district
List of constituencies of Karnataka Legislative Assembly
References
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Bangalore Urban district |
Kesava Shankar Pillai (31 July 1902 – 26 December 1989), better known as Shankar, was an Indian cartoonist. He is considered the father of political cartooning in India. He founded Shankar's Weekly, India's Punch in 1948. Shankar's Weekly also produced cartoonists like Abu Abraham, Ranga and Kutty, he closed down the magazine during the Emergency of 25 June 1975. From then on he turned to making children laugh and enjoy life.
He was awarded the Padma Vibhushan in 1976, the second highest civilian honour given by the Govt. of India. Today he is most remembered for setting up Children's Book Trust established 1957 and Shankar's International Dolls Museum in 1965.
Early life and education
Shankar was born in 1902 at Kayamkulam, Kerala. He attended schools in Kayamkulam and Mavelikkara. The sleeping posture of one of his teachers in the classroom was his first cartoon which got him into trouble. He was encouraged by his uncle who saw in him a great potential as a cartoonist. After schooling, he studied painting at Ravi Varma School of Painting at Mavelikara (Raja Ravi Varma College of Fine Arts).
Shankar took keen interest in dramas, scouting, literary activities etc. He amazingly did good campaign for the collection of funds towards flood relief. This concern for the poor and the distressed people continued all through his life and reflected in his cartoons.
After graduating from the Maharaja's College of Science (now University College), Trivandrum, in 1927, he left for Bombay (now Mumbai) for higher studies and joined the Law College, but quit his law studies midway and started working.
Career
Shankar's cartoons were published in The Free Press Journal and The Bombay Chronicle. Pothan Joseph, the editor of the Hindustan Times brought him to Delhi as a staff cartoonist, in 1932 and he continued as its staff cartoonist till 1946. Thus he and his family settled in Delhi finally.
Shankar's cartoons attracted even Viceroys like Lord Willington and Lord Linlithgow. Gandhi wrote a postcard to Shankar questioning one of his cartoons on Jinnah. There were other occasions too when Congress leaders disputed Shankar's cartoons. During this time, Shankar had a chance of training in London for about 14 months. He spent the period in various Art schools, using the opportunity to study the advanced techniques in cartooning. He also visited Berlin, Rome, Vienna, Geneva and Paris. When he returned to India, the country was in the thick of freedom struggle. The dawn of independence also favoured Shankar's dreams for a separate periodical. The idea came true when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru released Shankar's Weekly, edited by Shankar himself. However his cartoon also remained neutral often critical to his work, notable a cartoon published on 17 May 1964, just 10 days before Pandit Nehru death, showed an emaciated and exhausted Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, with a torch in hand, running the final leg of a race, with party leaders Gulzari Lal Nanda, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Morarji Desai, Krishna Menon and Indira Gandhi in tow, to which Nehru remarked, "Don't spare me, Shankar".
Shankar loved kids and organised Shankar started the Shankar's International Children's Competition in 1949, and as a part of it, the Shankar's On-the-Spot Painting Competition for Children in 1952. He instituted an annual Competition for Writers of Children's Books in 1978. Beginning with English this competition is now held in Hindi too. It later began drawing children from all over the world. Annual awards from Shankar's Weekly were presented by prime ministers.
He also founded the Children's Book Trust in Nehru House on Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg in New Delhi in 1957. Later in 1965, the International Dolls Museum too came to be located here. Thus Nehru House became a 'must visit' item for kids going to New Delhi. It has now a children's library and reading room, known as Dr. B.C. Roy Memorial Children's Library and Reading Room and Library and a Doll development and production centre.
Personal life
The name of Shankar's wife was Thankam. He had two sons and three daughters. The Government of India released two postal stamps in 1991, depicting two of his cartoons. He was a member of Kerala Lalit Kala Academy. He also published an autobiographical work, 'Life with my Grandfather'in 1965, a Children's Book Trust publication.
Legacy
In 2002, 'A Symphony of Dreams', an exhibition to commemorate his birth centenary year, was organised at the Lalit Kala Academy, Delhi. In May 2012, a cartoon of Bhimrao Ambedkar sketched by him in 1949 caused "furor" in Indian Parliament, in reaction to its inclusion in NCERT education material, resulting in resignation of concerned NCERT personnel. Individuals claiming to belong to "Republican Panthers" protested against the cartoon. Shankar Memorial National Cartoon Museum and Art Gallery was established by the Kerala Lalithakala Akademi in 2014, as a tribute to the renowned Indian cartoonist in his hometown.
Honors and awards
Padma Shri, 1956
Padma Bhushan, 1966
Padma Vibhushan, 1976
Order of the Smile (1977), an honour from a committee of Polish children
D. Litt. (honoris causa) by the University of Delhi.
Bibliography
Shankar (1937), 101 Cartoons from the Hindustan Times. Delhi: Printed at the Hindustan Times Press. One hundred and one cartoons from the Hindustan Times; With a foreword by Jawaharlal Nehru.
Shankar (1965), Life with grandfather. New Delhi, Children's Book Trust. Written and illustrated by Shankar: An orphan Indian boy being raised by his grandparents tells stories about his life.
Shankar (1983), Don't spare me Shankar: Jawaharlal Nehru. New Delhi: Children's Book Trust. Reproduction of 400 selected cartoons from the Shankar's weekly, 20 June 1948 – 17 May 1964.
Khanduri. 2014. Caricaturing Culture in India: Cartoons and History of the Modern World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/authors/246935
Further reading
K. Shankar Pillai Our Leaders, Volume 11. Children's Book Trust, . P 149-174.
References
External links
Shankar at Children's Book Trust
The Ingenious Cartoonist with an Aching Heart
Shankar's International Dolls Museum
Shankar's Works at WorldCat
1902 births
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Mees Hendrikx (born 8 August 2000) is a Dutch cyclist, who currently rides for the IKO–Crelan team in cyclo-cross, and UCI Continental team for his road races.
Career
Hendrikx was a promising junior rider, winning the junior race at the Grand Prix Nommay, part of the 2017–18 UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup where he finished third in the overall classification with four podium finishes in 7 races. After a disappointing, injury-riddled winter season in 2018-2019 he couldn't find a team. As an independent rider, he achieved more success in the next cyclo-cross season, culminating in his selection for the Dutch team for the 2020 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships in Switzerland, where he won the bronze medal in the U23 category.
In the 2021–2022 season, he won his first U23 World Cup race with the Cyklokros Tábor in the Czech Republic. He also won the overall U23 World Cup, having finished 3rd in the three other races. He finished 9th in the Duinencross Koksijde, an elite World Cup race, and was third in the Dutch cyclocross championships, and first of the U23 riders.
Major results
Cyclo-cross
2017–2018
3rd Overall UCI Junior World Cup
1st Nommay
2nd Bogense
3rd Hoogerheide
3rd Zeven
2nd National Junior Championships
Junior Soudal Classics
2nd Sint-Niklaas
2019–2020
2nd National Under-23 Championships
3rd UCI World Under-23 Championships
2021–2022
1st Overall UCI Under-23 World Cup
1st Tábor
3rd Namur
3rd Dendermonde
3rd Flamanville
Under-23 X²O Badkamers Trophy
2nd Loenhout
2nd Lille
3rd Brussels
3rd National Championships
3rd Ardooie
References
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Mees Hendrikx at Cyclocross 24
2000 births
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ArcelorMittal Ghent is a Belgian steelworks situated in Ghent near Zelzate, Flanders. It was founded in 1962 by ARBED as Sidmar; the first maritime steel producer in Belgium.
History
Background
Traditionally the steelworks of Belgium had been concentrated in the southern half of the country, in Wallonia, close to the historic coal mining areas at the edge of the Rhenish Massif; which in part defined the area that came to be known as the Sillon industriel, including Liège Province and Hainaut Province.
In the 1920s the Luxembourg-based steel company ARBED began buying land next to the Ghent–Terneuzen Canal, by 1932 the company had acquired . Economic depression in the 1930s, the second world war and its aftermath prevented plans for a new steel plant;. however by the 1950s the economic conditions had become favourable again, and the company began exploring the possibility of a plants' construction.
At the beginning of the 1960s preliminary work began towards the construction of a new plant; the canal was to be dredged to enable Panamax size ships to use the canal, Arbed's land holding increased to , and on 27 April 1962 the European Coal and Steel Community approved the plants construction. The company Siderurgie Maritime NV (Sidmar) was formed on 10 July 1962, with a capital of 4.5billion Belgian franc, of which 2bn came from Arbed, as well as 1bn from Cockerill-Sambre. Schneider, the Société Générale de Belgique, Compagnie Belge de Participations (COBEPA) and Compagnie Financière et Industrielle (COFININDUS) also backed the scheme, and loans were got from state banks.
Amongst the steelworkers of the Walloon region the development was not so well received; in May 1960 union leader André Renaud declared it to be:
La guillotine de la Wallonie.
Sidmar
Construction began in 1964, with a cold rolling mill completed in March 1966, and a hot rolling operational by the end of that year, the first blast furnace in 1967 and a second in 1968. Expansion continued in the early 1970s with a coking factory and second cold rolling mill.
The 1973–75 recession caused a crisis in the global steel market in the mid-1970s. Though the company fared better than the southern Belgian steel producers, investors other than Arbed disposed of their shares; Cockerill sold its 21.9 share to Arbed in 1975 due to its own financial problems, giving Arbed, which had previously increased its holding to 62.2% by 1973 a large majority shareholding of over 80%.
By the beginning of the 1980s some re-investment and expansion started again; a continuous rolling mill in 1981, as well as acquiring stakes in ALZ, and Klöckner Stahl. In 1989 Sidmar's steel capacity represented 30% of total Belgian steel production. In 1994 Sidmar acquired majority share ownership of Stahlwerke Bremen (formerly Klöckner Stahl) from Klöckner.
Further investment in the 1990s and 2000s gave the plant galvanising facilities (through a joint venture Galtec with Dutch steelmaker Hoogovens opened 1998, and renamed Sidgal in 2002, followed by two more lines Sidgal 2 and Sidgal 3 in 2000.) and later the ability to continuous cast slab steel, as well as blast furnace expansion.
In 2002, as part of Arbed the company became part of Arcelor, and was renamed Arcelor Ghent in 2006.
ArcelorMittal Ghent
Under ArcelorMittal ownership production continued, as ArcelorMittal Ghent. The company produces ~5million tonnes pa of flat steel, with automotive manufacturers being a major source of custom. Flat steel is produced as hot or electrolytically galvanised, and plastic coated steel. The plant produces steel from ore, and has coking plants, Sinter Plants (blast furnace feedstock production), blast furnaces of total capacity over 4million tonnes pa, and hot and cold rolling facilities.
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Guyjeh Qaleh-ye Sofla (, also Romanized as Gūyjeh Qal‘eh-ye Soflá; also known as Gowjeh Qal‘eh-ye Soflá and) is a village in Quri Chay-ye Gharbi Rural District, Saraju District, Maragheh County, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 62, in 13 families.
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Selastele onustum is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Calliostomatidae.
Description
Distribution
This marine species occurs off New Zealand.
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Scott Crooker is a research scientist at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory pulsed field facility at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, Santa Barbara and his B.A. in physics from Cornell University. He is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America, a fellow of Los Alamos National Laboratory, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a fellow of the American Physical Society.
He received a Los Alamos National Laboratory Fellow's Prize in 2007 for his outstanding research in the development of novel magneto-optical spectroscopies and their application to problems in solid state and atomic physics systems. In 2007 he also received a Los Alamos National Laboratory Outstanding Innovation Technology Transfer Award for a patent on multifunctional nanocrystals.
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Castiglione d'Orcia is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Siena in the Italian region of Tuscany, located about southeast of Florence and about southeast of Siena, in the Val d'Orcia, not far from the Via Cassia.
Castiglione d'Orcia borders the following municipalities: Abbadia San Salvatore, Castel del Piano, Montalcino, Pienza, Radicofani, San Quirico d'Orcia, Seggiano and with a little characteristic town of few inhabitants, located on a rock, called “Campiglia d’Orcia”.
History
The settlement is mentioned for the first time in 714, when it was a possession of the Aldobrandeschi family. In 1252 it became a free commune, but lost its independence in the following century to the Republic of Siena, which entrusted it to powerful families like the Piccolomini and Salimbeni. Later, Castiglione was part of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany and, from 1861, of unified Italy.
Main sights
Both these locations are a museum and can be visited during appropriate hours.
Rocca (Castle) of Tentennano, overlooking the frazione of Rocca d'Orcia. It was the centre of the struggle between the Salimbeni and the Republic of Siena, which re-acquired it in 1408. In the 16th century it was again contended between Siena and Florence. It was handed over to the government in 1971 after fear by the owners due to the old age of the fortress and danger of rocks hitting people.
Rocca Aldobrandesca.
Romanesque churches of Santa Maria Maddalena and Santi Stefano and Degna. The latter houses a Madonna with Child by Simone Martini and a Madonna with Child by Pietro Lorenzetti.
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Roberta Wilson (1896-1977) was an American actress who appeared in several silent films. She had three sisters, and all the young women would eventually act in films. Roberta and her older sister Lois Wilson were born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, while her two youngest sisters were born in Chicago, Illinois. In 1907, when Roberta was 11, the entire household moved to Birmingham, Alabama. Roberta and Lois would always regard Alabama as their home. Lois Wilson, the oldest of the girls, would end up experiencing the longest career in films, including both silent and sound pictures.
In 1915, Roberta was coaxed into acting by her older sister. After making several uncredited appearances, her career blossomed in 1916. By the end of 1916, she was receiving top billing, and the movie colony glitterati affectionately called her "Bobby." Her star was rising, and 1916 would become the most productive year of her entire movie career. During this time, Roberta and Lois became known as the "Alabama beauties." Roberta completed 24 movies between 1916 and 1918, with the bulk of the films being two-reel shorts. This first phase lasted until Roberta's marriage in 1918. She departed the silver screen at age 21 to concentrate on her marriage.
After the collapse of her first marriage, she reinvented her persona and became Diana Kane. She knew the name change was needed because her motion picture career always existed in the shadow of her famous sister Lois. Whenever the media listed Roberta Wilson or Diana Kane in print, the name was accompanied by parentheses and the phrase – sister of Lois Wilson. Roberta's film production in 1916 proved she needed no additional endorsements.
Between 1924 and 1927, she acted in eight feature films as Diana Kane. She received critical praise for all of her performances. Roberta Wilson worked in 31 movies between 1916 and 1927. This second stint of movie making came to a close with her second marriage in 1927. She would never return to the silver screen again in a credited role. Instead, she was content to focus her energy on charity work, children, entertaining, and preserving successful marriages.
Roberta's age seemed to fluctuate depending on the source. Many actors of this period and successive eras believed they would extend their careers by remaining youthful. In Roberta's case, the media of the period reported her birth year to be between 1896 — 1905. A verifiable birth certificate could settle the controversy, but the whereabouts of Roberta Wilson's actual birth certificate continues to be a mystery.
Early life 1896–1915
When Roberta Wilson's father, Andrew Wilson (1869-1940), was 14 years old, his family emigrated from Ottawa, Canada to the United States.
The Wilson Family settled in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. When Andrew was 23 years old, he met 19-year-old Grace Stock. Grace was from an established family in nearby Franklin, Pennsylvania. Grace Stock married Andrew Wilson in Pittsburgh on September 7, 1893.
They had their first child, Lois, on June 28, 1894. Their second daughter, Roberta, was born on January 15, 1896. When Roberta was born, Grace Wilson was experiencing the initial stages of Consumption. In 1897, she traveled to one of the Los Angeles, California sanatoriums for treatment. Southern California had become an epicenter for people having tuberculosis, chronic pneumonia, cirrhosis, and jaundice. People who flocked to these sanatoriums believed the sunshine and temperate climate would cure these conditions.
Grace Wilson was -years old when she died in Los Angeles on September 11, 1897. The cause was listed as "Tuberculosis of the lungs." When their biological mother dies, Lois is , and Roberta is . Since Roberta was a toddler when her mother died, she would have no memory of her biological mother.
After Grace's death, Roberta's father moved to Chicago, Illinois. The reasons behind the move are unknown. The 1900 Census listed him as a mercantile reporter. While residing in Chicago, he meets Constance Dooling, and they married on August 17, 1899. Andrew is and Constance . Since Roberta was very young when her biological mother died, Constance would become Roberta's de facto mother for the rest of her life. This explains why Roberta (Diana) would always list her mother as Constance. While living in Chicago, Andrew and Constance have a daughter, Janice, born on October 28, 1900, and another daughter, Constance, on September 13, 1903.
In 1907, Andrew, Constance, and the four girls move to Birmingham, Alabama. Andrew and Constance have a listing in the 1909 and 1910 Birmingham phone directories. The 1910 census reveals the entire family living in Birmingham, Alabama. The children are Lois, , Roberta, , Janis, , and Constance, .
Some reporters have implied there was significance that the family moved to the "Pittsburgh of the South." There is no published evidence to support this.
In 1915, Roberta Wilson lived Birmingham with her father and stepmother Constance. She is years old. One news article states, "when at finishing school she took part in all branches of athletics." That same year, Roberta's sister, Lois, moves to California after winning a beauty contest put on by Universal Studios and The Birmingham News. This beauty pageant was the predecessor to the Miss Alabama. Lois Wilson is the original Miss Alabama.
Roberta's sister, Lois, started making films in 1915. 21-year-old Lois Wilson's first movie was , a 2-reel short for Universal released in November 1915. Lois becomes convinced her younger sister should follow her to Hollywood to seek fame and fortune. In 1915, 19-year-old Roberta Wilson heeded her sister's advice and settled in Hollywood. She accepted, playing minor parts until her experience secured more demanding roles. She gained an increasing reputation and respect among her colleagues for her excellent acting work. 1916 would become her Golden Age in film making.
Films 1916–1918
The studio directory item on the right states Roberta Wilson started working for Universal in November 1915. Like most aspiring actors, she had to earn her acting chops in minor uncredited roles. There are no published listings of these early films.
1916 would prove to be a banner year for Roberta Wilson. It would mark the highest yearly film output of her entire acting career. Wilson would receive onscreen credit for 12 movies consisting of 3 features and 9 short films. She had gone from uncredited to shared top billing in a matter of months. She was skilled at her craft and worked hard at perfecting her performances. Her ascension to top billing was not based on the influence of her more famous sister but rather on her determination to achieve success in her chosen art form.
Wilson appeared in her first Universal movie with an onscreen credit - . The 2-reel society drama was released on April 25, 1916, and produced by Universal. The magazine ads for the film lists G. Raymond Nye and Roberta Wilson as the featured leads under the direction of Jacques Jaccard.
After her introduction as a female lead in , her leading man, G. Raymond Nye, and director Jacques Jaccard would unite to make four more films: ,
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They sprinkled these initial offerings with a short comedy, , with Eddie Lyons and Roberta Wilson as the featured leads released in July 1916.
All of these short films were released between April and August 1916.
Roberta Wilson's first feature-length film was the Universal Red Feature production of . Filming started in August 1916, and the film was released on October 30, 1916. The film opened to mostly positives reviews. The movie ad from the October 1916 issue Moving Picture World December 1916 edition shows Roberta sharing top billing with Frank Whitson and Hayward Mack under the direction of Burton George. Her rise to top billing was remarkably fast. Before shooting her next feature-length film, she released on November 11.
Wilson's second feature-length film was the Universal Red Feather production of . The film was released on November 13, 1916. Magazine articles stated the film started as a Bluebird production, but in the end, didn't measure up to Bluebird standards. The film was finally released as a Red Feather Photoplay.
Wilson's filmed two more short films, and before releasing her final Feature-length film for 1916 - the Bluebird production of The Right to Be Happy. The Christmas production was appropriately released on December 25, 1916, even though that was not the planned release date. Roberta Wilson received credit on the poster ad for the film. This film was capped a successful first year for Roberta Wilson.
All the magazine ads show Roberta Wilson stood as a top cast member and stood tall on her own acting legs with no behind-the-scenes support from her sister, Lois, or friends in the industry.
In 1917, Roberta Wilson acted in 8 films consisting of 1 feature and seven short films. March would prove to be her most productive month of the year. March 1917 saw the release of 6 films, starting with the Universal feature-length Comedy followed by seven short films, including , , and .
Perils of the Secret Service - was a 9-episode series of two-reel adventure films. Wilson would act in 2 of the nine episodes - the fourth episode released March 30 and the fifth episode released in April. Wilson's last film of 1917 was .
1918 saw the continuing decline of her film appearances. Her last short film for Universal was released in January 1918 by a Universal subsidiary Nestor Film Company. Roberta signed on with the movie company, Paralta Plays. She acted in two feature-length films, Shackled released in May and . With the July 14, 1918 release of , Roberta Wilson believed she had released her last film. Ironically, was written by Ouida Bergere, the wife of famous director George Fitzmaurice. A decade later, Diana Kane would wed the divorced director.
Wilson had decided to give up Hollywood for marriage. Roberta could not shake her belief that she was living in the shadow of her famous older sister. Most magazine and newspapers articles refer to Roberta as the sister of Lois Wilson. In September 1918, Roberta exchanged wedding vows and "severed her connection with the movie world." All of Roberta Wilson's films made during this period are lost except the 1916 release of
Eyster marriage 1918–1923
In May 1881, Raymond W Eyster was born in Amelia, Ohio. He moved to Chicago by 1900 and rose to become the proprietor of a hotel equipment company - the R.W. Eyster Linen Company. The company's success made him wealthy. Ray Eyster wed Bertha Koch in Chicago on December 24, 1906. They filed for divorce in October 1914, with Bertha citing cruelty. It is uncertain if Roberta knew the reasons for Eyster's earlier divorce, since those details might predict his future destructive behavior.
On September 14, 1918, Roberta Wilson, age , wed Ray E Eyster, age , in Chicago, IL.
The age disparity barely violated the archaic "Half-your-age-plus-seven rule", so this marriage would not raise any collective societal eyebrows. This nuptial is Roberta Wilson's first marriage and marked Roberta Wilson's entrance into Chicago's society. The 1920 census shows Ray and Roberta Eyster living at 4949 Sheridan Road with a live-in German servant.
Newspaper snippets show a contented Roberta Eyster attending country club functions. Another newspaper photograph shows her sitting on a polo pony in a Chicago hotel. The news article stated Roberta Wilson got married and "severed her connection with the movie world." Indeed, she honored her promise to leave the movie business while married to Eyster, releasing her last film one month before her marriage.
The apparent facade of years of wedded bliss came crashing down in 1922. The Chicago Tribune printed a picture headlined - BEATEN IN PUBLIC. It further explained, "Blows Mrs. Roberta Eyster alleges her husband, Raymond W. Eyster, struck her in the Congress hotel Pompeian room may win her a divorce." It did lead to a divorce. Several circumstances contributed to their divorce, besides the blatant physical abuse. A check of Chicago newspapers plainly shows Eyster was not an attention-grabbing business owner. But his low-profile days ended when he married a Hollywood starlet scarcely out of her teens. After four years of marriage, they had no children, suggesting Roberta had personal reasons preventing her from embracing motherhood. This conclusion is supported, especially when you consider the timing of children in her second marriage.
After his divorce, Eyster went on a year-long cruise around the world. He never remarried and remained devoted to his one daughter. When he was 71, he died of injuries sustained in an elevator accident.
After her marital divorcement and subsequent divorce, Roberta worked as a social director in Chicago's Blackstone Hotel. Her responsibilities included scheduling and focusing on conducting debutante functions. The Blackstone attracted celebrities, prominent families, politicians and was named "The Hotel of Presidents." Her working days didn't last long, she had a rebirth as a different persona in another city.
New York 1924–1927
In Summer 1924, Lois Wilson was chosen to represent the motion-picture industry at the British Empire Exhibition. Starting the first leg of her journey, she boarded a train in Hollywood and headed East to New York. Along the way, she picked up her disgruntled and disillusioned sister Roberta, who had quit her job at the Blackstone hotel. They traveled to New York together.
In July, while Lois set sail on the RMS Aquitania for Europe, Roberta moved in with her best friend Bebe Daniels and Bebe's mother, Phyllis Daniels. At Bebe's insistence, Roberta moved to New York and started a new life. According to the Hollywood media, Bebe treated Roberta like her "kid" sister. Roberta and Bebe would start living life as New York Flappers. Bebe also began working on resetting Roberta's life in an attempt to blot out the memories of a dismal past in Chicago.
Bebe decided to create a new pseudonym for Roberta, "Diana Kane as part of the process." Roberta Wilson gave few public explanations for the name change; however, several published views on why Roberta changed her name.
1. Roberta served as a social director at the Blackstone hotel. Chicago held a lot of bad memories, especially her public humiliation at the Congress Hotel restaurant. Moving to New York would bury the bad memories of Chicago. The press states, Roberta Wilson, changed her name to Diana Kane but never mentioned her experiences in Chicago as one of the contributing reasons for change. Also, during this transition, she changed her birthday from January 15, 1896, to January 10, 1901. Bebe's birthday was January 14, 1901. Changing your birth to the 20th century also helped secure film roles meant for young actresses.
2. In 1923, Bebe Daniels starred in Sam Wood's production of His Children's Children. The film was produced by Paramount Pictures, filmed in Astoria, New York, and released on November 4, 1923. The film depicts the rise of the Mayne family (Kayne family in the book). Bebe Daniels played one of the main characters, Diana Mayne (Diana Kayne in the book). Also, Robert Kane was a leading executive of the Famous Players–Lasky Studios at the time of the movie's release. Roberta's sister, Lois, had a long-time friendship with Kane, which might explain why she changed the spelling of Kayne to Kane.
3. Lastly, Roberta mentions her last name of Wilson, always being associated with her more famous sister, Lois Wilson. Roberta believed the movie-going public would endlessly compare her acting to her older sister. In 1924, she stated, "I do not want to shine in reflected glory or to trade on my sister's reputation," says Miss Kane in explanation of her screen name.
Roberta also suggested some movie fans told she got her parts in the films because of her sister. Checking the last three pictures she acted in 1918, Roberta Wilson was featured in supporting roles. Reading the reviews of these movies, none mention Lois Wilson, and the vast majority of reviews hardly mention Roberta's supporting roles.
Besides changing Roberta's name, Bebe was also trying to redefine Diana's roles. Bebe hoped to switch Diana from drama to comedic roles. Between 1924 and 1927, Diana Kane acted in 8 feature films, and 5 out of the eight projects were comedies.
Her return to acting using her new cognomen was the Paramount release of Sinners in Heaven starring Bebe Daniels. The film was released in September 1924 and told the story of a man and woman's romance while cast away on a desert island. Her next film was another Bebe Daniels vehicle Dangerous Money released in October 1924.
Starting in 1925, she acted in the January release of Miss Bluebeard. This film was a comedy starring Bebe Daniels. The movie was filmed in Astoria, New York for Paramount Pictures. After a long pause, she acted in a Paramount comedy Lovers in Quarantine. The film was released in October and featured Bebe Daniels. Her last project for 1925 was a feature-length drama, The New Commandment released in November for another New York-based production company, First National Pictures. The film featured Blanche Sweet and Ben Lyon.
In January 1926, First National Pictures released Bluebeard's Seven Wives. The comedy project featured Ben Lyon, Blanche Sweet and Diana's sister, Lois Wilson. Diana Kane's name is displayed on the lobby poster. Next was First National Pictures 's massive production of The Brown Derby, released in July 1926.
Diana Kane's last onscreen credited film was The Perfect Sap released in January 1927 and filmed at the Biograph Studios in The Bronx, New York City, New York. This would become her farewell performance from filming making. She would marry for the second time in November 1927. All of Roberta Wilson's films made during this second stint are lost except, Miss Bluebeard Lovers in Quarantine and The Brown Derby.
Fitzmaurice marriage 1927–1940
George Fitzmaurice was a film director born in Paris, France, on February 13, 1885. He studied fine arts before moving to America. His background allowed him to work as a set designer for stage productions, eventually designing sets for motion pictures. In 1914, he made his first motion picture. His shows would become admired for their innovations and extravagant sets. He had a string of successful pictures, which made him wealthy.
His first marriage was to his chief scenario writer, Ouida Bergere, in September 1919. They divorced in 1924. After his divorce, Fitzmaurice became engaged to Florence Vidor, but she broke the engagement. Now a bon vivant, George Fitzmaurice was sitting in his new home when Diana Kane stopped in to ask for a part in a movie. The media claimed it was love at first sight for both.
As mentioned previously, after Roberta's marriage failed, she moved to New York and settled in with Bebe Daniels In 1923, she changed her name to Diana Kane. While living in New York, she became involved with Fitzmaurice.
Diana Kane married George Fitzmaurice at 7:00 pm on Tuesday, November 1, 1927, in Santa Barbara, California. At the time of their marriage, she was 31, and he was 42. It was the second marriage for both bride and groom. The private ceremony was performed at the Hotel El Mirasol with only a handful of guests present. Diana's older sister, Lois Wilson, was a bridesmaid.
After George and Diana were married, they moved into George's new Tudor-style mansion in Beverly Hills. The home had been completed in 1926 for $300,000 (). The new home featured 10,000 Square Feet of living space.
George Fitzmaurice was interviewed By Anne Bye of Screenland Magazine for her column, "In New York," in 1928. She writes, ". . . there is just one thing I have against George Fitzmaurice, he is responsible for keeping Diana Kane, Mrs. Fitzmaurice, off the screen she hasn't made a picture in months, and it is all his fault I asked him why - "One of us had to retire," he said with the muse smile. "Two picture people in one family? But you may be sure she will always be my favorite actress." Diana Kane's experience as a social director would serve her well in becoming a prominent socialite and Hollywood hostess. Diana used her home to stage weddings, showers, social functions, and most importantly, a place to raise children.
According to the 1930 census, the house was a primary residence for George, Diana, 1-year-old daughter Sheila, an English Butler, servant, Child Nurse, and a 35-year-old French maid.
Diana Kane and George Fitzmaurice would have three children together during their marriage.
Diana's firstborn daughter was Sheila Mary Fitzmaurice, born on March 10, 1929, in Los Angeles. Sheila's Godmother was Bebe Daniels. Sheila was years old when she married year old William Shay (1919 – 2000) in May 1950. They had six children together and remained married for 50 years. Sheila was the only surviving child to take care of her mother's estate when she died in 1977. Lois Wilson, her famous aunt, spent her final years with Sheila in Reno before dying in 1988. Bill Shay died in June 2000, and Sheila died in Reno, Nevada, on June 10, 2013. Sheila Shay was years old when she died.
After Sheila's birth, Diana had twins. Patricia Constance and Michael were born on June 2, 1931. Michael died a few weeks later on June 19. When Patricia was years old she married year old Leslie (Les) Thompson Baxter (1922–1996) in San Francisco on December 14, 1951. They had two children together. Patricia Baxter tragically died in February 1961 at the age of . Les Baxter never remarried and died in 1996.
George Fitzmaurice directed the picture Adventure in Diamonds. The film was released by Paramount Pictures on March 8, 1940, and would become the last movie he directed. He began work on his next picture but suffered from ill-health. He was hospitalized in the Beverly Hills Good Samaritan Hospital for a rare blood disorder. His health continued its downward spiral. While surrounded by Diana, Sheila, 11, Patricia 8, and Diana's sister Lois, he died on June 13, 1940. He was 55 at the time of his death. Fitzmaurice had directed over 80 films in his 35-year. In 1960, he was given a star on the Hollywood walk of fame. George Fitzmaurice was interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park.
Cousins marriage 1945–1960
Ralph Pittmann Cousins was born in Mexia, Texas on December 1, 1891. Cousins graduated from the West Point Military Academy and became a Cavalry officer under Jack Pershing. He also flew airplanes for the British in World War I. Brigadier General Cousins took charge of the Army Air Forces West Coast Training Center in 1942. He was promoted to Major General the same year. He helped "build the struggling US air arm into the colossus of World War II."
In an article by Hollywood gossip columnist Louella Parsons dated April 27, 1945, she states, "Mrs. Diana Fitzmaurice, widow, of one of Hollywood's most beloved directors, George Fitzmaurice announced today she would wed Maj. Gen. Ralph Cousins, commandant of the Santa Ana Army Air Base."
Parsons further stated Diana is "one of the film colony's favorite personalities," and her future husband is "well-liked in Hollywood" and "made hosts of friends among southern California movie and society celebrities." Parson's comment explains how they met since they traveled in the same social circles.
Major General Ralph P Cousins (age ) married Diana Fitzmaurice (age ) in the base chapel on May 10, 1945. After honoring the couple on the base parade ground, they were treated to a small reception on base. It was his second marriage and her third. Diana had two daughters, Sheila, age 16, and Patricia, age 14. There was no honeymoon. After the ceremony, the general resumed his duties, and Diana hers.
It should be noted - even though VE Day was celebrated on Tuesday, May 8, 1945, the war with Japan would continue until V.J. Day was celebrated on August 15, 1945. After the war, the general retired in 1946. He became active in several post-ware projects. Diana kept up with her busy social calendar and volunteer work, along with raising two daughters.
Retired General Ralph died at his ranch on Sunday, March 15, 1964. The year old died of complications resulting from a heart attack. Diana was years old at the time of his death. Cousins was interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park.
Death
Wilson died of heart failure on April 20, 1977, in Beverly Hills, California. She was interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park. Her grave marker reads:
Diana Fitzmaurice Cousins obituary reads:
Mother of Sheila Shay, Sister of Janice Stroub and Lois Wilson, six grandsons, two granddaughters, and one great-grandson. There is no mention of an acting career.
Her marker shows the birth year of 1897, but both the California death index and social security death index show the birth year of 1901. Even in death, they were still disputing her age and identity. On her death certificate, they list her occupation as - housewife.
Parents and siblings
, Roberta's father was years old when he died in January 1940. , Roberta's stepmother was years old when she died in February 1950. Their successful daughters had moved them to California, providing them with a nice Beverly Hills home and a comfortable lifestyle for the rest of their lives. Lois Wilson remained devoted to her parents. She lived with them until they both passed.
In later life, Lois Wilson moved to Reno, Nevada to be closer to her niece Sheila Shay, Roberta's only surviving daughter. During her career, she appeared in over 150 films between 1915 and 1952. Lois never married. Lois Wilson died of pneumonia at a Skilled Care facility in Reno, Nevada, on March 3, 1988, at the age of years old.
began her brief career in films by acting in Pitfalls of a Big City released on April 13, 1919. 4 more movies would follow: , The White Circle, The Mask and The Swamp released on October 30, 1921. The Swamp would be Janice Wilson's last film. Janice married James Bell (1900–1966) on December 5, 1921. They had one son James Edgar Bell Jr (1922–1942). They later divorced, and Janice Bell married Harold Stroub (1896–1967) in December 1947. , Roberta's younger sister, was years old when she died on November 5, 1982, in Beverly Hills, California.
, Roberta's youngest sister married George Lewis (1900–1951) on August 18, 1923, when she was years old. Lewis was an ensign in the United States Navy. They had one son George Lewis III (1924–2014). They later divorced, and Constance Lewis married Abraham Bayuk (1906–2005), the scion of Bayuk cigars in 1935.
She had a short movie and television career but never left a mark in the industry. (Connie), Roberta's youngest sister, was years old when she died on January 4, 1968, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania after choking on a piece of meat in a restaurant.
Other age factors
Roberta Wilson (Diana Kane) had birth dates ranging from Jan 1896 to 1905. Other birth sources are shown below:
The 1900 Census would list the birth date as January 15, 1896.
The 1910 Census is consistent with the 1900 census citing Roberta's age as 14. Roberta's birth year is consistent with the 1900 Census.
On November 12, 1958, Diana Fitzmaurice Cousins filed a Social Security Claim. The claim lists the name as Roberta Wilson, born on September 15, 1896. Further investigation would discover a second Social Security Number filing and a third Social Security number on her death certificate.
In Social Security Death filing issued in 1963, list Diana Cousins born on January 10, 1901. This would make her 76 at the time of her death. Genealogists commonly use this document as a source for determining her birth date.
The most outrageous source used to determine her age was the newspaper articles displaying her third marriage in 1945. The headline read - "Gen. Cousins, Flight Training Chief, Weds" and further states, "Maj. Gen. Ralph Cousins, 53, commandant of the Western Flying Training Command, and Mrs. Diana Fitzmaurice, 40, widow of film director George Fitzmaurice." Using this article to determine age would assess her birth date as sometime in 1905, making her age 11 when she made her first movie in 1916.
Searching for in the "Cook County, Illinois, U.S., Birth Certificates Index, 1871-1922" database shows: Constance Wilson was born on September 13, 1903, in Oak Park, Illinois. There were no other Wilson discoveries.
Diana Fitzmaurice Cousins death certificate displays wrong SSN, mother, birthplace, and birth date.
Filmography
This listing does not include every film Roberta Wilson appeared in. Only one film with an offscreen credit film is listed, while the rest are lost to time.
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The wind generation potential in the United States far exceeds demand. North Dakota, the windiest state, has the capacity to install 200,000 MW at 50% capacity factor -high turbines. Texas, although not as windy, is larger, and has the capacity to install 250,000 MW at 50% capacity factor, and 1,757,355.6 MW of at least 35% capacity factor, capable of generating 6,696,500 GWh/year, more than all of the electricity generated in the United States in 2010.
There are only two states with no commercially significant wind power potential, Mississippi and Florida. Florida has the potential to install 900 MW at 25% capacity factor -high turbines, and Mississippi the potential to install 30,000 MW at 25% capacity factor -high turbines. For commercial operation, a capacity factor of at least 35% is preferred. There are no locations in either state that would achieve 30% capacity factor.
By the end of 2011, the United States had installed 46,919 MW of wind power, and generated 94,652 GWh of electricity from wind power in 2010.
The annual production of a wind turbine is a product of the capacity rating, the capacity factor, and the number of hours in a year. A 200 MW wind farm at 35% capacity factor will generate approximately 613.2 GWh/year.
In addition to the megawatt wind farms, community scale single wind turbines of from 250 kW to 750 kW are typically 50 meters high, and residential or farm wind turbines are typically high. To address these markets, maps are available showing wind potential at and .
The United States generated 4,125,060 GWh of electricity in 2010.
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The United States has trailed other countries in the development of off-shore wind farms, and the first large-scale projects are under development in several states.
See also
Wind power in the United States
Offshore wind power in the United States
References
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Facundo, el tigre de los llanos is a 1952 Argentine biopic film based on the life of La Rioja province's strongman Facundo Quiroga. The movie was directed by Miguel P. Tato and Carlos F. Borcosque.
Cast
Francisco Martínez Allende
Zoe Ducos
Félix Rivero
Miguel Bebán
Jorge Molina Salas
Pascual Nacarati
Mario Cozza
Hugo Mújica
Cirilo Etulain
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New Balance Athletics, Inc. (NB), best known as simply New Balance, is one of the world's major sports footwear and apparel manufacturers. Based in Boston, Massachusetts, the multinational corporation was founded in 1906 as the New Balance Arch Support Company.
New Balance maintains a manufacturing presence in the United States, as well as in the United Kingdom for the European market, where it produces some of its popular models. New Balance claims to differentiate its products with technical features, such as blended gel inserts, heel counters and a greater selection of sizes, particularly for very narrow or very wide widths. The company is privately held and totaled $5.3 billion in revenue in 2022.
History
In 1906, William J. Riley, an English immigrant, founded the New Balance Arch Support Company in the Boston area, manufacturing arch supports and other accessories designed to improve shoe fit. His first product, a flexible arch support, was designed with three support points to provide greater balance and comfort in the shoe. It is believed that Riley came up with the name "New Balance" by observing chickens in his yard and demonstrated the way his arch supports worked by keeping a chicken foot on his office desk. He explained to customers that the chicken's three-pronged foot resulted in perfect balance. In 1927, Riley hired Arthur Hall to be a salesman. In 1934, Hall became a business partner. The company later did business under the name New Balance Athletic Shoe Company. As New Balance slowly established itself as a niche business in the 1930s, baseball players and track and field athletes sought the company out for its specialty footwear.
In 1956, Hall sold the business to his daughter Eleanor and her husband Paul Kidd. Eleanor and Paul Kidd continued to sell mainly arch supports until 1960, when they designed and manufactured the "Trackster", the first running shoe to come in varying widths. The Trackster gained popularity through YMCA programs in which it became the unofficial shoe. College track teams such as Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Tufts University and Boston University adopted the Trackster for their cross-country teams, soon to be followed by other colleges and private high schools around the country. Marketing was mostly word-of-mouth or through local sports fairs.
Sales languished until 1972, when 28-year-old Jim Davis bought the company, feeling that "leisure-time products would be a high-growth market." At the time, the company consisted of six people making 30 pairs of shoes daily and selling products primarily through mail-order with a few U.S. retailers. The Boston area became a center for the running boom of the 1970s, and the product line expanded and sales grew rapidly. The company opened a UK factory in Workington in 1982, which relocated to Flimby in 1991.
In 2001, New Balance purchased canvas sneaker company PF Flyers and re-launched the brand in 2003. In February 2004, the company purchased Warren, Michigan-based Warrior Lacrosse, now Warrior Sports. In 2011 New Balance placed its Aravon, Cobb Hill, and Dunham brands under its Drydock Footwear affiliate. In 2015, New Balance's parent, together with Berkshire Partners, bought the Rockport shoe company from the Adidas Group and combined it with Drydock Footwear under the name The Rockport Group, now with the Aravon, Cobb Hill, Dunham, and Rockport brands. In 2018, The Rockport Group went into bankruptcy and was sold.
In February 2015, New Balance announced its entry into the global soccer (association football) market. The company had started its soccer business through its subsidiary Warrior Sports in 2012, punctuated by a $40-million-a-year sponsorship deal with Liverpool F.C., but made the move to rebrand based on the global reach of the parent brand. Later on, the UK High Court rejected the legal filling of New Balance against the Liverpool's UK£70 million+ kit deal with Nike, which come into force in January 2020 and staggered the Manchester United deal with Adidas for £75 million annually.
During 2016, New Balance opposed the Trans Pacific Partnership and condemned the Obama administration's support for it, arguing that it would hurt its domestic shoe manufacturing (while Nike, which does not manufacture in the US, supported the TPP). Matt Lebretton, the company's Vice President of public affairs said in April 2016 "I would say that when Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump all agree on something, then it has to be given a closer look; and they all agree that TPP is not the right policy." After Donald Trump won the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Lebretton told a reporter, "The Obama administration turned a deaf ear to us [about trade] and frankly, with President-elect Trump, we feel things are going to move in the right direction." Some news outlets reported that an ad hoc boycott campaign was created out of an interpretation of Lebretton's remarks as supportive of Trump. Owner and Chairman Davis donated almost $400,000 to the Trump Victory Committee in September 2016.
In December 2018, Chief Commercial Officer Joe Preston succeeded Rob DeMartini as New Balance's president. In March 2020, the company announced that it would be converting some of its manufacturing facilities in New England to produce face masks in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
In April 2021, Teddy Santis, founder of lifestyle brand Aimé Leon Dore, was named creative director of New Balance’s premium sneaker line.
Products and operations
New Balance manufactures a range of shoes and apparel. It maintains a manufacturing presence in the United States, as well as in the United Kingdom for the European market, where it produces some of its most popular models such as the 990—in contrast to its competitors, which often manufacture exclusively outside the United States and Europe. As a result, New Balance shoes tend to be more expensive than those of many other manufacturers. To offset this pricing difference, New Balance claims to differentiate its products with technical features, such as blended gel inserts, heel counters and a greater selection of sizes, particularly for very narrow or very wide widths. Between 1992 and 2019, the company made approximately $69 billion in profit. In 2017, New Balance's facility in Flimby, England was producing 28,000 pairs of shoes a week, 5 percent of the New Balance shoes sold in the European market.
Sponsorships and collaborations
New Balance sponsors a variety of sports teams, leagues and individuals. Sponsorships include the New York Road Runners, which organizes the New York City Marathon; the National Basketball Association (NBA); major league baseball teams the New York Mets and the Boston Red Sox; and Team Ireland at the Rio 2016 Olympics. It has sponsored football national and club teams worldwide, US and European athletics teams, and individual athletes in basketball, cricket, cycling, tennis, rugby, lacrosse, motorsports, and skateboarding.
The company has launched products in collaboration with apparel company Aimé Leon Dore, NBA star Kawhi Leonard, and British fashion designer Paul Smith.
New Balance Foundation
The New Balance Foundation was established in 1981. The foundation donates to national and Boston-based charitable organizations, and groups that support children and families with a focus on health, nutrition, education and physical activity.
Toning footwear
In 2011, a class action lawsuit was filed against New Balance alleging that the company's toning footwear touts unproven benefits. In support of its claim of false advertising, it cited a University of Wisconsin–La Crosse research study on toning shoes that was funded and published by the American Council on Exercise.
Researchers studying rival toning shoes made by Skechers and Reebok reported that there were no "statistically significant increases in either exercise response or muscle activation" as a result of wearing the toning shoes. There was no statistically significant difference between participants wearing special "toning shoes" and controls wearing normal sneakers. The researchers concluded that there is "simply no evidence to support the claims that these shoes will help wearers exercise more intensely, burn more calories or improve muscle strength and tone." However, it was noted that "These shoes may be encouraging a fair number of people who probably wouldn't put on a normal pair of walking shoes and go out and walk." In August 2012, New Balance agreed to pay $2.3 million to settle false advertising claims.
References
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FAQ answer on New Balance UK manufacturing
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The 2013 LEB Oro promotion Playoffs is the final stage of the 2012–13 LEB Oro season. They will start on 26 April 2013, and they will finish on May 31 or June 2 or 4.
All the series will be played in a best-of-5 games format. The best seeded team plays at home the games 1, 2 and 5 if necessary. The winner of the playoffs will promote to 2013–14 ACB season with Ford Burgos, the champion of the regular season.
Bracket
Quarterfinals
River Andorra – Leyma Natura Básquet Coruña
Lucentum Alicante – Lobe Huesca
Palencia Baloncesto – Força Lleida CE
CB Breogán – Cáceres Patrimonio de la Humanidad
Semifinals
River Andorra – Cáceres Patrimonio de la Humanidad
Lucentum Alicante – Palencia Baloncesto
Final
River Andorra – Lucentum Alicante
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This list lists achievements and distinctions of various presidential candidates. It does not include the accomplishments of vice presidential candidates nor distinctions achieved during presidencies, with the exception of those that directly relate to presidential elections. Records concerning party nominations go back to 1796, the first time that political parties nominated presidential tickets. Records concerning the national popular vote only go back to the 1824 election, when the national popular vote began to be officially recorded. Certain other records are noted as going back to the 1804 ratification of the Twelfth Amendment, which made significant alterations to the process of presidential elections.
1789
First victorious candidate to have served in the Continental Army: George Washington
First victorious candidate whose primary state of residence was in the Southern United States: George Washington
1796
First presidential nominee of the Federalist Party, and first Federalist to win a presidential election: John Adams
First major party candidate and first victorious candidate whose primary state of residence was in the Northeastern United States: John Adams
First presidential nominee of the Democratic-Republican Party: Thomas Jefferson
First recipient of a vote from a faithless elector: Thomas Jefferson
1800
First individuals to serve as the presidential nominee of a major party in two elections: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
1808
First individual to win election during the presidency of another individual from the same party: James Madison
1812
First major party candidate to have served in the United States Senate: DeWitt Clinton
1816
First sitting U.S. senator and first sitting member of Congress to serve as a major party candidate: Rufus King
1824
First winning presidential candidate to not win a plurality of the national popular vote: John Quincy Adams
First victorious candidate with a spouse born outside of North America: John Quincy Adams
First losing presidential candidate to win a plurality of the national popular vote: Andrew Jackson
1828
First nominee of the Democratic Party, and first Democrat to win a presidential election: Andrew Jackson
First victorious candidate to have served in the United States Army after 1796: Andrew Jackson
First nominee of the National Republican Party: John Quincy Adams
1832
First individual nominated by a presidential nominating convention: William Wirt
1840
First major party nominee and first victorious candidate whose primary state of residence was in the Midwestern United States: William Henry Harrison
First presidential candidate to campaign with an official party platform: Martin Van Buren
1844
First dark horse candidate to win a major party's presidential nomination: James K. Polk
First sitting president to serve no more than one term and not win a major party's presidential nomination: John Tyler
First sitting president to be nominated by a third party: John Tyler
1848
First sitting president to serve no more than one term and decline to seek another term: James K. Polk
First major party nominee and first victorious candidate who had never previously held elective office: Zachary Taylor
First former president to run for president as a third party nominee: Martin Van Buren
First third party candidate to win at least ten percent of the national popular vote: Martin Van Buren
1856
First sitting, elected president to lose a bid for re-nomination: Franklin Pierce
First major party candidate whose primary state of residence was in the Western United States: John C. Frémont
First third party candidate to win at least twenty percent of the national popular vote: Millard Fillmore
1860
First Republican to win a presidential election: Abraham Lincoln
First victorious candidate born outside of the original thirteen states of the United States: Abraham Lincoln
First major party candidates that resided in the same home state: Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas
First victorious major party nominee to win less than 40 percent of the national popular vote: Abraham Lincoln
First third party candidate to finish second in the electoral vote: John C. Breckinridge
First third party nominee to win at least ten percent of the national popular vote, but finish fourth in the national popular vote: John Bell
1864
First individual from the Northern states to win two presidential elections: Abraham Lincoln
1872
First woman to run for president: Victoria Woodhull
First major party nominee to die before the official tallying of electoral votes: Horace Greeley
1876
First losing presidential candidate to win a majority of the popular vote: Samuel J. Tilden
1880
First individual to seek a third presidential term: Ulysses S. Grant
1884
First former mayor to win a presidential election: Grover Cleveland
1892
First individual to run on a major party ticket with three different running mates during their career: Grover Cleveland
First individual to win two presidential elections without winning a majority of the national popular vote: Grover Cleveland
1904
First individual to succeed to the presidency following the death or resignation of a predecessor, and then win election in his own right: Theodore Roosevelt
First African American to run for president: George Edwin Taylor
1912
First individual to win a presidential preference primary: Robert M. La Follette
1916
First Supreme Court justice to win a major party's presidential nomination: Charles Evans Hughes
1928
First Roman Catholic to be nominated for President of the United States by a major party: Al Smith
First victorious candidate born west of the Mississippi River: Herbert Hoover
First victorious candidate whose primary state of residence was in the Western United States: Herbert Hoover
1940
First major party nominee who had never held elective office, served as a Cabinet secretary, or held the rank of general: Wendell Willkie
1944
First major party nominee born in the 20th century: Thomas E. Dewey
1948
First individual to run for president in six elections: Norman Thomas
1960
First Roman Catholic to win a presidential election: John F. Kennedy
First individual who had served in the United States Navy to win a presidential election: John F. Kennedy
First African American to run for president in a major party primary: Frank R. Beckwith
1964
First woman to seek a major party's presidential nomination: Margaret Chase Smith
1972
First African-American woman to seek a major party's presidential nomination: Shirley Chisholm
First woman to seek the Democratic Party's presidential nomination: Shirley Chisholm
1980
First Latino American to seek a major party's presidential nomination: Ben Fernandez
1984
First African-American man to seek a major party's presidential nomination: Jesse Jackson
First woman to serve as a major party vice presidential nominee and vice presidential nominee for the Democratic Party: Geraldine Ferraro
1988
First woman to appear on the general election ballot of all fifty states: Lenora Fulani
First Greek American and Greek Orthodox to run for President: Michael Dukakis
1992
First independent candidate to win at least ten percent of the national popular vote: Ross Perot
2008
First African American major party presidential nominee and first African American to win a presidential election: Barack Obama
First victorious presidential candidate born outside of the Contiguous United States: Barack Obama
First major party presidential nominees born outside of the Contiguous United States: Barack Obama and John McCain
First woman to serve as a vice presidential nominee for the Republican Party: Sarah Palin
First Latino American to seek the Democratic Party's presidential nomination: Bill Richardson
First former First Lady to run for president: Hillary Clinton
2012
First member of LDS Church to serve as a major party presidential nominee: Mitt Romney
First openly gay candidate for president: Fred Karger
2016
First woman to serve as a major party's presidential nominee: Hillary Clinton
First women to receive electoral votes for president: Hillary Clinton and Faith Spotted Eagle
First woman to win the popular vote in a presidential election: Hillary Clinton
First Jewish candidate to win a presidential primary contest: Bernie Sanders
First Jewish candidate to receive electoral college votes for president: Bernie Sanders
First Native American to receive electoral college votes for president: Faith Spotted Eagle
First Latino American to win a presidential primary contest: Ted Cruz
First Cuban American to win a presidential primary contest: Marco Rubio
First Indian American candidate to seek a major party's presidential nomination: Bobby Jindal
2020
First openly gay candidate to win a major party's presidential primary contest: Pete Buttigieg
First Hindu and millennial candidate to seek a major party's presidential nomination: Tulsi Gabbard
2024
First front-runner for a major party to be under indictment: Donald Trump.
See also
List of United States presidential firsts
Notes
References
Works cited
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Adrien Rougier (23 June 1892 – 1 July 1993 was a French organist, organ builder, conductor and composer.
Life
Born in Vernaison, from a family of silk merchants in Lyon, Rougier studied the piano and then the organ with Édouard Commette, organist at the Lyon Cathedral. He then continued his musical studies and learned musical composition with Georges Martin Witkowski, founder of the Société des Grands Concerts. Mobilized for military service in 1912 and during the First World War, he was wounded several times in the trenches of the Battle of Verdun before joining the Armée française d'Orient until the end of the war.
On his return from the front, he went back to music and entered the Schola Cantorum de Paris with Maurice Sergent, Vincent d'Indy and especially Louis Vierne as teachers, whose latter's influence would be predominant in his compositions for organ. The latter also commissioned him to create his Triptych for organ Op. 58 with orchestra. In 1921, his symphonic poem Les Elfes won the prize of the musical composition of the Société des Grands Concerts, at the same time as a Sarabande by Pierre-Octave Ferroud and the following year he became conductor of the Hector Berlioz Symphony Concerts in Grenoble. For the 1927/1928 musical season, he did not forget the Lyon scene alongside Paul Le Flem, André Caplet and Jacques Ibert by premiering En marge de trois maîtres français.
But Rougier returned to his favourite instrument, the pipe organ and, after an experience as assistant at the Church of Saint-Sulpice and as appointed organist at the Dominicains convent of the rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré in Paris he became a titular in several parishes in Lyon such as Saint-Irénée, Saint-Polycarpe and Saint-Pothin. Back from Paris in the 1920s, he stressed the importance and variety of the organ repertoire by Bach with his former master, Édouard Commette, who would later make reference recordings of the German master whose work was increasingly popular with the public. Titular of the great organ of the Église Saint-Pothin, he invited in particular Marcel Dupré, Pierre Cochereau, Maurice Duruflé, Gaston Litaize, Jeanne Demessieux, Jean Langlais and Marie-Claire Alain to the gallery . It was at his request that Duruflé's Requiem was first performed for solo organ with the composer at the pulpit, the first for large orchestra taking place in 1947, Salle Gaveau, in Paris. In 1937, he was one of the members of the "Cercle du Luth". with Édouard Commette, Ennemond Trillat, Jean Bouvard, Robert de Fragny, Ferrier-Jourdain, Pierre Giriat, Marcel Paponaud, Marcel Pehu, Jean Reynaud and Victor Richer, a musical society in Lyon that disappeared during the Second World War. He also participated in the premieres of many works by contemporary artists including Jean Langlais.
For his 51 stops organ of Saint-Pothin's Church, he implemented his invention, a device for calling combinations called "Acribès". One of these combiners had been installed on the grandstand organ of the primatial Saint-Jean de Lyon when it was reinstalled in 1935-1936. This combiner is still in operation in the organ of the Saint-André church in Tarare while another copy is located at the .
A professor at the , where Georges Aloy, Patrice Caire, Maurice Clerc, Paul Coueffë, Georges Guillard, Jean-Pierre Millioud, Jean-Luc Salique, Marcel Godard among others were his students as well as Madeleine Jallifier, Rougier was a tireless promoter of organ music in Lyon, which led him to create the Société des Amis de l'Orgue with
Jean Bouvard, Norbert Dufourcq, Marcel Péhu and abbott François Boursier, and to devote research to the electronic combiner and organ building. His contribution to the restitution of the sounds of the organs of Johann Sebastian Bach led him to make both a biographical and technical synthesis of the works of the Leipziger Kantor. With regard to organ restoration, he called for restorations that respected as much as possible the original historical instrument. In 1974 he was elevated to the rank of chevalier of the Order of St. Gregory the Great by Alexandre Renard, bishop of Lyon.
He was the brother of astronomer and physicist , and 's cousin.
Works
Les Elfes, poème symphonique pour orchestre, 1921 (premiered by the Orchestre philharmonique de Grenoble, 19 April 1922)
En marge de trois maîtres français, pour orchestre (premiered on 9 November 1928, salle Rameau à Lyon, by the orchestra of the Société philharmonique de Lyon conducted by the author).
Trois Esquisses pour l'Odyssée: Ulysse, Calypso, Les Jeux chez les Phéaciens, for orchestra (premiered March 1934, salle Rameau in Lyon, by the orchestre de la Société philharmonique de Lyon conducted by Jean Witkowski).
Nocturne pour violoncelle et piano (published at Jobert, Paris)
Trois mélodies sur des poèmes d’Albert Samain, pour soprano et piano : La Maison du Matin, Le Petit Palémon, dedicated to Suzanne Balguerie and Les Constellations dedicated to her brother Gilbert Rougier, (published by Jobert, Paris, 1936)
Prélude, extract of Suite Française, for piano, by the Members of the Luth (published at Béal, in Lyon)
Elégie-lamento pour orgue (published by Rubin, Lyon)
Arabesque pour orgue (published by Rubin, Lyon)
Elevation en ré bémol majeur pour orgue (published by Rubin, Lyon)
Interlude en ut mineur pour orgue (published by Rubin, Lyon)
Toccata et fugue en sol mineur pour orgue, premiered in the presence of Alexandre Renard, archbishop of Lyon (published by Rubin, Lyon)
Petites pièces pour orgue
Berceuse pour violon et orgue
Initiation à la facture d'orgue publication in Amis de l’orgue de Lyon - 1940/41 –
Les Orgues de Jean-Sébastien Bach - Imprimerie Roudil Frères – Lyon
J.-S. Bach, l'organiste et l'œuvre pour orgue by Adrien Rougier.
Selected discography
Berceuse pour violon et orgue, by Georges Guillard (choir organ) and Michel Dietz (violin), Saint-Louis-en-l'Île church in the Île Saint-Louis, Disque Orgues Nouvelles No 6, 2009.
Toccata et fugue, by Georges Aloy, Lyon, Basilique de Fourvière, Disque Amis de l'orgue.
Arabesque, by Patrice Caire, Lyon, chapelle des Chartreux, Lugduvox Records, 1980.
References
External links
Hommage à Adrien Rougier
Adrien Rougier
(La Maison du Matin, extract from Trois mélodies sur des poèmes d’Albert Samain, pour soprano et piano, played by Qi Xiaoxiao and Sim Hyun Min at the
Toccata et fugue en sol mineur pour orgue played by Georges Aloy and Arabesque performed by Philippe Quattroccolo playing the organ of Église du Saint-Nom de Jésus
1892 births
1984 deaths
People from Rhône (department)
Schola Cantorum de Paris alumni
French male conductors (music)
20th-century French composers
French classical organists
French male organists
French classical composers
French male classical composers
French male composers
French music educators
French pipe organ builders
20th-century organists
20th-century French conductors (music)
20th-century French male musicians
Male classical organists |
James Scully is a retired senior Australian public servant. He is best known for his time in the Australian Government trade department.
Life and career
Scully was the son of William Scully, a federal Labor MP and government minister. He studied English and History at the University of Sydney, going on to join the Australian Public Service in 1949, in the Department of Trade and Customs as a junior clerk.
Between 1961 and 1963, Scully was Assistant Trade Commissioner in Cairo. In 1967, Scully was appointed a First Assistant Secretary in the Department of Trade and Industry, heading the trade services section.
In August 1975, Scully was appointed to his first Secretary role, heading the Department of Minerals and Energy. He went on to fill the Secretary position at the Department of National Resources (1975–1977), the Department of Trade and Resources (1977–1983) and the Department of Trade (1983–1984). In 1981, he led bilateral talks on resources development with South Korea.
After retiring from the public service, Scully moved into a private sector career. He headed an independent committee advising the ACT Government on the Very Fast Train project.
For a time in the 1990s, Scully was a director at Westpac. He resigned following a September 1992 board meeting in which a loss of $1.5 billion was announced.
Awards
Scully was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in January 1984 for his public service.
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Australian public servants
Officers of the Order of Australia
University of Sydney alumni
20th-century Australian businesspeople |
Megachile mortyana is a species of bee in the family Megachilidae. It was described by Karl Wilhelm von Dalla Torre in 1896.
References
Mortyana
Insects described in 1896 |
Progress MS-16 (), Russian production No. 445, identified by NASA as Progress 77P, was a Progress spaceflight operated by Roscosmos to resupply the International Space Station (ISS). This was the 168th flight of a Progress spacecraft.
History
The Progress-MS is an uncrewed freighter based on the Progress-M featuring improved avionics. This improved variant first launched on 21 December 2015. It has the following improvements:
New external compartment that enables it to deploy satellites. Each compartment can hold up to four launch containers. First time installed on Progress MS-03.
Enhanced redundancy thanks to the addition of a backup system of electrical motors for the docking and sealing mechanism.
Improved Micrometeoroid (MMOD) protection with additional panels in the cargo compartment.
Luch Russian relay satellites link capabilities enable telemetry and control even when not in direct view of ground radio stations.
GNSS autonomous navigation enables real time determination of the status vector and orbital parameters dispensing with the need of ground station orbit determination.
Real time relative navigation thanks to direct radio data exchange capabilities with the space station.
New digital radio that enables enhanced TV camera view for the docking operations.
The Ukrainian Chezara Kvant-V on board radio system and antenna/feeder system has been replaced with a Unified Command Telemetry System (UCTS).
Replacement of the Kurs A with Kurs NA digital system.
Launch
A Soyuz-2.1a launched Progress MS-16 to the International Space Station from Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 31 on 15 February 2021 following a two-day, 34-orbit rendezvous profile. Progress MS-16 was docked on 17 February 2021, 06:26:47 UTC, using manual docking system operated by Expedition 64 commander Sergey Ryzhikov to the Pirs module of the ISS, where it remained until 26 July 2021, 10:55 UTC.
Cargo
On 4 February 2021, Roscosmos said that Progress MS-16 had been installed back into its processing stand inside the assembly building at Site 254 for final pre-launch operations and loading of fresh food items in its cargo bay. The ship's cargo included 600 kg of propellant for refueling, 420 kg of drinking water in the Rodnik system, 40.5 kg of pressurized gases with extra nitrogen supplies and 1,400 kg of various equipment and supplies, including the repair kit with reinforced glue patches for temporary sealing of the Transfer Chamber, PrK, in the Zvezda Service Module (SM).
The Progress MS-16 spacecraft was loaded with of cargo, with of this being dry cargo.
Dry cargo:
Propellant:
Pressurized Gases:
Drinking Water:
Undocking and decay
The Progress MS-16 was expected to remain docked at the station until 23 July 2021, 12:45 UTC, when it would depart with the Pirs module docked to it for destructive reentry four hours later over the South Pacific Ocean, which would also mark the first module to be decommissioned from use aboard the International Space Station. The Nauka module, which would replace Pirs after its fiery reentry and subsequent destruction, was launched on 21 July 2021 at 14:58:25 UTC, for docking on 29 July 2021, at 13:25 UTC. However, due to post-launch telemetry and propulsion issues with Nauka, the undocking of Progress MS-16 was delayed to 26 July 2021, at 10:55 UTC. The spacecraft, together with the Pirs module, was successfully deorbited on the same day at 14:51 UTC.
Gallery
See also
Uncrewed spaceflights to the International Space Station
References
Progress (spacecraft) missions
2021 in Russia
Supply vehicles for the International Space Station
Spacecraft launched by Soyuz-2 rockets
Spacecraft launched in 2021
Spacecraft which reentered in 2021 |
Ora is the twelfth studio album by Italian singer-songwriter Jovanotti, released by Universal Music on 25 January 2011.
The album debuted atop the Italian Albums Chart and peaked at number one for three consecutive weeks. The album was preceded by the single "Tutto l'amore che ho", released on 2 December 2010, which peaked at number one on the FIMI Singles Chart. It also spawned the top-10 singles "Le tasche piene di sassi", "Il più grande spettacolo dopo il Big Bang", "La notte dei desideri" and "Ora".
Background
During the presentation of the album, which took place on the top floor of the Pirelli skyscraper in Milan, It has now been defined by Jovanotti himself as "an album where I try to enter modernity, to be contemporary, particularly in the sounds." Jovanotti has also expressed about the sound of the disc, saying that "it sounds very electronic, and I realized in a primordial way. Alone, with machines, samplers, turntables, drums and keyboards"
Track listing
Charts and certifications
Charts
Year-end charts
Certifications
References
2011 albums
Jovanotti albums
Universal Music Italy albums
Italian-language albums
Albums produced by Michele Canova |
Saint-Priest-Bramefant (; ) is a commune in the Puy-de-Dôme department in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes in central France.
Tourism, places and monuments
There is a 3-stars hotel in that commune.
Main monuments :
Château de Maulmont (16th, 19th)
The church (Middle Age, 19th, 20th)
See also
Communes of the Puy-de-Dôme department
References
Saintpriestbramefant |
Dendrobium guibertii is a species of orchid endemic to Thailand. It was first formally described in 1876 by Élie-Abel Carrière and the description was published in Revue Horticole. The specific epithet (guibertii) honours "M. Guibert of Passy-Paris, well known in the world of horticulture for his remarkable collection of orchids".
References
guibertii
Orchids of Thailand
Plants described in 1876
Taxa named by Élie-Abel Carrière |
Lee Ki-hyung (born 28 September 1974) is a South Korean professional football manager and former player who is the current manager of Seongnam FC.
International career
Nicknamed the "Cannon shooter", Lee was a full-back who showed the strongest shot in South Korea. He played for South Korea in the 1996 Summer Olympics and the 1996 AFC Asian Cup. He also participated in qualifiers of the 1998 FIFA World Cup, but failed to be selected for the World Cup team by manager Cha Bum-kun.
Career statistics
Club
International
Results list South Korea's goal tally first.
Honours
Suwon Samsung Bluewings
K League 1: 1998, 1999
Korean FA Cup: 2002
Korean League Cup: 1999, 1999+, 2000, 2001
Korean Super Cup: 1999, 2000
Asian Club Championship: 2000–01, 2001–02
Asian Super Cup: 2001, 2002
Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma
K League 1: 2003
Korean League Cup: 2004
AFC Champions League runner-up: 2004
FC Seoul
Korean League Cup: 2006
Auckland City
New Zealand Football Championship: 2008–09
Notes
References
External links
Lee Ki-hyung – National Team stats at KFA
1974 births
Living people
Men's association football defenders
South Korean men's footballers
South Korean expatriate men's footballers
South Korea men's international footballers
Suwon Samsung Bluewings players
Seongnam FC players
FC Seoul players
Auckland City FC players
K League 1 players
Expatriate men's association footballers in New Zealand
Footballers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Olympic footballers for South Korea
Footballers from South Jeolla Province
South Korean expatriate sportspeople in New Zealand
Korea University alumni
New Zealand Football Championship players
South Korean football managers
FC Seoul non-playing staff
Incheon United FC managers
Busan IPark managers
Seongnam FC managers |
The 1957 Southwestern Louisiana Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented the Southwestern Louisiana Institute of Liberal and Technical Learning (now known as the University of Louisiana at Lafayette) in the Gulf States Conference during the 1957 NCAA College Division football season. In their first year under head coach John Robert Bell, the team compiled a 4–5–1 record.
Schedule
References
Southwestern Louisiana
Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns football seasons
Southwestern Louisiana Bulldogs football |
Thomas Whittemore (January 1, 1800 – March 21, 1861 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) was a Christian Universalist author, speaker and influential member of the Universalist Church of America. He founded and was the editor of The Trumpet and Universalist magazine, which succeeded the Universalist magazine of Hosea Ballou in 1828.
Like Ballou and Ballou's grand-nephew, Hosea Ballou II, first president of Tufts College, Whittemore contributed to Universalist historiography by identifying precedents for Universalist beliefs in earlier Christianity. With Thomas J. Sawyer of New York, he co-founded the Universalist Historical Society in 1834. These histories were influential in bringing many readers to regard the Christians of the first centuries as Universalists.
Massachusetts Legislature
From 1831 to 1836, Whittemore served as Cambridge's representative in the Massachusetts legislature, serving as chair of the committee that oversaw the disestablishment of the Congregational Church and Unitarian Church, to whose special status Whittemore was opposed, from the privileged position they had been accorded in the Massachusetts Constitution. Whittmore held that "no civil government has a right to compel the citizens to support any system of religion whatsoever" and supported calls for a popular referendum on the separation of church and state in 1834. The results of that referendum brought Massachusetts into accord with the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
He was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery.
His papers are in the Harvard Divinity School Library at Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts; the Thomas Whittemore family papers are at Tufts University's Digital Collections and Archives.
Ideas
"The glory of God, and of His Son Jesus Christ, as manifested in the final holiness and happiness of all men, is the central sun of Universalism."
-Thomas Whittemore, Plain Guide to Universalism
Works
The Modern History of Universalism 1830, revised 1860 - a companion to Ballou's Ancient History of Universalism which covers 1500-1800
The plain guide to Universalism: designed to lead inquirers to the belief of the doctrine, and believers to the practice of it 1840
"Universalists Sustain the Bible", in The Trumpet and Universalist Magazine, August 19, 1848
"Decision of the Vermont Convention" in The Trumpet and Universalist Magazine, September 23
Life of Rev. Hosea Ballou, 1855
The early days of Thomas Whittemore: An autobiography 1860
A commentary on the Revelation of St. John, the Divine 1848
Notes
External links
Plain Guide to Universalism book outlining his overview of what Universalism
1800 births
1861 deaths
Members of the Universalist Church of America
Politicians from Cambridge, Massachusetts
Members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
19th-century Christian universalists
18th-century Christian universalists
19th-century American politicians
Christian universalism |
The 1909 Chinese parliamentary election was an indirect election to the first imperial Advisory Council, a preparatory body of the parliament created under the constitutional reform bought by the late Qing dynasty. It was seen as the first popular election in Chinese history.
Originally 100 members, half of the seats in the Council were to be elected by the members of the Provincial Consultative Assemblies, while the other half were appointed by the Emperor. Due to the fact the Provincial Consultative Assembly had not been set up in Sinkiang, the seats were reduced to 98.
Translations with bracketed Chinese text are for reference only.
Electoral system
The candidates were indirectly elected by members of Consultative Assembly in provinces. The number of candidate each electorate shall vote for was double the delegated seats. Amongst all the supported candidates, half of them would be chosen by the governor as elected members. Appointed members included a certain degree of election features as there were considerable size of eligible members.
Constituencies
The new Advisory Council only consisted of 196 members, instead of 200 as planned, as Consultative Assembly was not established in Sinkiang, and the number of appointed members shrank to 98 to achieve the balance.
Elected members are as follows:
Appointed members are as follows:
Result
The constitutionalists, who advocated constitutional monarchy in Qing, secured a majority in the Advisory Council. The revolutionaries on the other hand, despite banned by the authorities, won a few seats. The party membership is only estimation as political party system was immature at the time. Some members resigned during the session and the vacancies were filled according to the precedence list, which their membership is not reflected here.
Detailed results
See also
Democracy in China
1909 Chinese provincial elections
References
1909 in China
China
20th-century elections in China
September 1909 events
October 1909 events |
Jõesuu may refer to several places in Estonia:
Jõesuu, Harju County, village in Jõelähtme Parish, Harju County
Jõesuu, Hiiu County, village in Hiiumaa Parish, Hiiu County
Jõesuu, Pärnu County, village in Tori Parish, Pärnu County
See also
Narva-Jõesuu
Vääna-Jõesuu |
The 2022–23 Coupe de France preliminary rounds, Hauts-de-France is the qualifying competition to decide which teams from the leagues of the Hauts-de-France region of France take part in the main competition from the seventh round.
A total of twenty teams will qualify from the Hauts-de-France preliminary rounds.
In 2021–22, three teams progressed as far as the round of 64. AS Beauvais Oise beat FC Chambly from the division above, before losing to ES Thaon from the division below on penalties. Entente Feignies Aulnoye FC were beaten by Paris Saint-Germain. Wasquehal Football were heavily beaten by Vannes OC.
Draws and fixtures
Draws for the first two rounds were carried out separately by districts. First round draws were published in July and early August, with a total of 828 clubs featuring. Draws for the second round were in some cases published at the same time as the first round, and in some cases after the conclusion of the first round. A total of 291 ties were drawn, with 168 teams entering at this stage. Only 287 ties were scheduled due to penalties from the first round and subsequent withdrawals.
The third round draw, which saw the entry of the five remainining teams from Régional 1 and the ten from Championnat National 3, was published on the leagues Facebook page on 6 September 2022. The fourth round draw, which saw the entry of the five Championnat National 2 teams from the region, was also published on the leagues Facebook page on 15 September 2022.
The fifth round draw, including the only club in the region from Championnat National, was published on 29 September 2022. The sixth round draw was published on 10 October 2022.
First round
These matches were played on 27 and 28 August 2022, with one replayed on 4 September 2022.
Second round
These matches were played on 3, 4 and 11 September 2022.
Third round
These matches were played on 10, 11 and 18 September 2022.
Fourth round
These matches were played on 24 and 25 September 2022.
Fifth round
These matches were played on 8 and 9 October 2022.
Sixth round
These matches were played on 15 and 16 October 2022.
References
Preliminary rounds |
Joaquim Forn i Chiariello (born 1 April 1964) is a Spanish politician and lawyer from Catalonia. A former deputy mayor of the city of Barcelona in north-eastern Spain, Forn served as Minister of the Interior from July 2017 to October 2017 when he was removed from office following the Catalan declaration of independence.
Born in 1964 in Barcelona, Forn graduated from the University of Barcelona before joining the legal profession. A supporter of Catalan independence, Forn joined the nationalist Democratic Convergence of Catalonia (CDC) whilst a student. He was elected to the Municipality Council of Barcelona in 1999 and in 2011 he became the city's first deputy mayor, serving until 2015. He was appointed Minister of the Interior for Catalonia in July 2017.
On 1 October 2017, an independence referendum was held in Catalonia despite the Constitutional Court ruling that it breached the Spanish constitution. 92% supported independence though turnout was only 43% due to a boycott by unionists. The Catalan Parliament declared independence on 27 October 2017 which resulted in the Spanish government imposing direct rule on Catalonia, dismissing the Catalan government, including Forn. The Catalan Parliament was dissolved and fresh elections imposed by central government. On 30 October 2017 charges of rebellion, sedition and misuse of public funds were brought against Forn and other members of the Catalan government. Forn and Puigdemont, along with others, fled to Belgium, but on 31 October 2017 Forn returned to Spain. On 2 November 2017 Forn and seven other Catalan ministers were remanded in custody by the Audiencia Nacional. Six of the ministers were released on bail on 4 December 2017 but Forn and Vice President Oriol Junqueras were kept in custody. At the regional elections held on 21 December 2017 Forn was elected to Parliament and Catalan secessionists retained a slim majority in the Catalan Parliament. Forn resigned from Parliament in January 2018 but remains in prison. During December 2018 he did a hunger strike. On 1 February 2019 he was transferred to a prison in Madrid, waiting for the trial that started on 12 February.
In the 2019 Barcelona City Council election, he was head of the Together for Catalonia candidacy to Mayor of Barcelona. He was not able to participate in the electoral campaign while in prison. The Supreme Court allowed him to collect the councilor's credentials on 14 June and took office on 15 June.
He was pardoned and released, along with the other 8 jailed Catalonia independence leaders, in June 2021.
Early life and family
Forn was born on 1 April 1964 in Barcelona, capital of Catalonia in north eastern Spain. He is the son of a Catalan and an Ecuadorian. After being home schooled, he joined the Lycée Français de Barcelone aged 13, avoiding the Spanish francoist education.
After school Forn joined the University of Barcelona, graduating with a Bachelor of Laws degree. Whilst a student he joined the Democratic Convergence of Catalonia (CDC), a conservative Catalan nationalist political party, now known as the Catalan European Democratic Party (PDeCAT), and helped re-establish the National Student Federation of Catalonia (Federació Nacional d'Estudiants de Catalunya, FNEC), a Catalan nationalist student organisation, serving as its president from 1986 to 1988.
Career
After university Forn started working in a law firm. In 1989 he joined the Acció Olímpica (Olympic Action) group that organised the Freedom for Catalonia campaign during the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona.
Forn contested the 1999 local elections as a Convergence and Union (CiU) electoral alliance candidate in Barcelona and was elected. In May 2000 he was beaten and his arm broken by the National Police Corps (Policía Nacional) as he took part in a demonstration against a Spanish Army parade on Montjuïc, in the Sants district of Barcelona, celebrating Armed Forces Day (Día de las Fuerzas Armadas). He was re-elected at the 2003 and 2007 local elections. He was CiU group spokesman on the city council from 2007 to 2011. At the 2011 local elections, in which Forn we re-elected, the CiU ended the Socialists's 32-year rule in Barcelona and Forn became first deputy mayor. He was spokesman of the city government, president of Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona, vice-president of the Autoritat del Transport Metropolità's board of directors, and an advisor and member of the Àrea Metropolitana de Barcelona's board of governors.
Forn was re-elected at the 2015 local elections but the CiU lost control of Barcelona to Barcelona en Comú. He was appointed Minister of the Interior for Catalonia in July 2017. During his office, the 17 August 2017 terrorist attacks occurred.
Catalonia independence crisis
In June 2017 President of Catalonia Carles Puigdemont announced that a referendum on Catalan independence would be held on 1 October 2017. The Catalan Parliament passed legislation on 6 September 2017 authorising the referendum which would be binding and based on a simple majority without a minimum threshold. The following day Constitutional Court of Spain suspended the legislation, blocking the referendum. The Spanish government put into effect Operation Anubis in order to disrupt the organisation of the referendum and arrested Catalan government officials. Despite this the referendum went ahead though it was boycotted by unionists and turnout was only 43%. 92% of those who voted supported independence. Around 900 people were injured as the Spanish police used violence to try to prevent voting in the referendum.
On 27 October 2017 the Catalan Parliament declared independence in a vote boycotted by opposition MPs. Almost immediately the Senate of Spain invoked article 155 of the constitution, dismissing Puigdemont and the Catalan government and imposing direct rule on Catalonia. The following day Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy dissolved the Catalan Parliament and called for fresh regional elections on 21 December 2017. On 30 October 2017 Spanish Attorney General José Manuel Maza laid charges of rebellion, sedition and misuse of public funds at the Audiencia Nacional against Puigdemont, Forn and other members of the Catalan government. The charges carry maximum sentences of 30, 15 and 6 years in prison respectively.
Forn, Puigdemont and four other Catalan ministers (Dolors Bassa, Meritxell Borràs, Antoni Comín and Meritxell Serret) arrived in Belgium on 30 October 2017. According to Spanish media the group had driven to Marseille shortly after the charges were laid before the Audiencia Nacional and from there flown to Brussels. Forn and Bassa flew back to Barcelona on 31 October 2017 where they were met at El Prat Airport by a group of Spanish nationalists hurling abuse and taunting the former ministers. The flag waving group shouted "off to prison", "dogs", "traitors" and "where is your republic?" through megaphones and pursued Forn as he left the airport, causing the Mossos d'Esquadra to intervene.
Imprisonment
On 2 November 2017 Audiencia Nacional judge Carmen Lamela remanded in custody Forn and seven other Catalan ministers (Bassa, Borrás, Oriol Junqueras, Carles Mundó, Raül Romeva, Josep Rull and Jordi Turull) as she considered them a flight risk. The jailed ministers were separated and sent to five different prisons: Bassa and Borrás to Alcalá, Junqueras and Forn to Estremera, Mundó to Aranjuez prison, Romeva and Turull to Valdemoro and Rull to Navalcarnero. A ninth minister, Santi Vila, was freed on bail as he had resigned from the government the day before the declaration of independence, but had to spend a night in Estremera prison whilst his lawyers secured his €50,000 bail. According to their lawyer Jaume Alonso-Cuevillas, the ministers were mistreated whilst being transported to prison. They were allegedly handcuffed behind their backs without seat belts in a van going very fast, forced to listen to the Spanish national anthem on a loop and threatened by their guards. Mundo allegedly suffered injuries due to the handcuffs and two ministers were allegedly forced to strip to prevent them carrying anything into prison. Earlier, as the ministers arrived at the Audiencia Nacional, Spanish police officers were shown, in video obtained Reuters and published by the La Vanguardia, making sneering, homophobic comments about the ministers, with one officer saying "Wait till you see what they do to the little teddy bear", referring to Junqueras, "When they get him on all fours, they’ll fix his eye".
On 1 December 2017 the eight jailed ministers and two jailed independence activists - Jordi Cuixart and Jordi Sànchez i Picanyol - appeared before Supreme Court judge Pablo Llarena to request bail while they await trial. They renounced the declaration of independence, pledged support for the imposition of direct rule and agreed to work within the law. On 4 December 2017 Llarena released, after 32 days in prison, six of the ministers (Bassa, Borrás, Mundó, Romeva, Rull and Turull) on bail of €100,000 but ordered that their passports be confiscated. However, Forn and Junqueras, together with Cuixart and Sànchez, were refused bail. In denying them bail, Llarena claimed that it remained to be seen if their pledge to abide by Spanish law was "truthful and real" and that there was a risk that they would commit the same crimes if released.
Whilst remaining in prison, Forn contested the 2017 regional election as a Together for Catalonia (JuntsxCat) electoral alliance candidate in the Province of Barcelona and was elected to the Parliament of Catalonia. A Christmas crib sent to Forn and Junqueras in prison was returned to its sender Antoni Bargalló smashed and with Viva España scrawled on the box. Cuixart, Forn and Sànchez appeared before Supreme Court judge Pablo Llarena on 11 January 2018 to secure release from prison. At the hearing Forn testified that, although he did not renounce Catalan independence, he would only seek to achieve this by reforming the Spanish constitution and if the Catalan government sought to achieve independence unilaterally he would resign from Parliament. On 12 January 2018, at a separate hearing for Junqueras, Llarena opened the way for the three jailed MPs - Forn, Junqueras and Sànchez - to vote by proxy in the Catalan Parliament. When the Catalan Parliament met on 17 January 2018 it allowed the three jailed MPs to vote by proxy, with Turull voting for Forn and Sànchez. Forn resigned from Parliament with effect from 24 January 2018 in order to secure his freedom. Despite this, on 2 February 2018, Llarena refused Forn's application for release on bail, saying that Forn's refusal to give up support for independence meant that there was a risk that he would re-offend. The testimony by Spanish army colonel Diego Pérez de los Cobos, who was in charge of Spanish security forces during the crackdown against the independence referendum, was seen as key to keeping Forn in prison.
On 7 March 2018 the High Commissioner of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights reminded Spanish authorities that "pre-trial detention should be considered a measure of last resort" referring to Catalan politicians and activists arrested after the independence referendum.
On 3 December 2018, he went on a hunger strike, ended on 20 December. On 1 February 2019, he was transferred back to a prison in Madrid, expecting trial that started on 12 February. The trial ended and was remitted to decision on 12 June 2019.
On 14 October 2019, he was sentenced to 10 years and six months in prison and disqualification for sedition crime. The verdict was delivered by 7 judges at Spain's supreme court, after a 4-month trial that heard from 422 witnesses.
Pardon
He was pardoned and released, along with the other 8 jailed Catalonia independence leaders, in June 2021. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said that he pardoned them because it was the best decision for Spain and Catalonia, but did not overturn their bans from holding public office.
Personal life
Forn is married to Laura Masvidal. They have two daughters.
Electoral history
References
External links
1964 births
Barcelona municipal councillors (2015–2019)
Barcelona municipal councillors (2019–2023)
Catalan European Democratic Party politicians
Lawyers from Barcelona
Catalan prisoners and detainees
Convergence and Union politicians
Democratic Convergence of Catalonia politicians
Interior ministers of Catalonia
Living people
Members of the 12th Parliament of Catalonia
People barred from public office
Politicians from Barcelona
Prisoners and detainees of Spain
Together for Catalonia (2017) politicians
Together for Catalonia (2020) politicians
University of Barcelona alumni
Spanish politicians convicted of crimes
Hunger strikers |
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/*
* Wire
*
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*
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*
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console.log('Selecting configuration "staging" (reason: default)');
return 'staging';
};
let repositoryUrl;
const forcedConfigUrl = process.env.FORCED_CONFIG_URL;
if (forcedConfigUrl) {
console.log(`Selecting configuration "${forcedConfigUrl}" (reason: forced config URL)`);
repositoryUrl = forcedConfigUrl;
} else {
const configurationEntry = `wire-web-config-default-${selectConfiguration()}`;
repositoryUrl = appConfigPkg.dependencies[configurationEntry];
}
console.log('Repo URL', repositoryUrl);
module.exports = {
files: {
[`${pkg.name}/content/**`]: 'resource/',
[`${pkg.name}/.env.defaults`]: `${__dirname}/.env.defaults`,
},
repositoryUrl,
};
``` |
Jawbreaker is a port of SameGame for the Pocket PC bundled with the Microsoft Windows Mobile 2003 operating system for PDAs. The operating system, and thus the game, was officially released on April 7, 2003. The game itself was developed by American studio oopdreams software, Inc. Jawbreaker is officially listed as one of the "Core Applications" of the Windows Mobile software family, in a paper released by Microsoft. In Windows Mobile 5.0 and Windows Mobile 6.0 it is called Bubble Breaker. The original non-bundled version of the game is available from the developer itself as Bubblets.
Gameplay
The game-board consists of a screen of differently-colored balls arranged in a matrix. There are five different colors: red, blue, green, yellow and purple. The player then clicks on any two or more connecting similarly-colored balls to eliminate them from the matrix, earning an appropriate number of points in the process. The more balls eliminated at once, the higher the points added to the player's score.
The scoring can be expressed in the formula "Y=X(X-1)". X represents the number of balls grouped together, Y is the resulting score. For example an elimination of 16 balls will result in 240 points (240=16(16-1)).
In the standard mode of the game, the game ends when the player has no more moves left; there are no more like-colored balls adjacent to each other. The screen immediately goes to the scoring screen, where statistics such as Average Score, Total Score and Games Played can be seen, along with a button that the player can press in order to start a new game.
Game Options and Modes
Breaker Set
The Breaker Set option allows the player to choose between Colorful Breakers and Greyscale Breakers. The first option is the default and sets the game balls' colors to the standard five colors. Choosing the latter changes the color palette and instead of differently-colored balls, the balls are adorned with various unique greyscale patterns allowing players with monochromatic Pocket PCs to play the game, as well as players who may be colorblind and have trouble differentiating the colored balls from one another. Some of the patterns include lightly colored balls, dark grey balls and a white ball with a dark dot in the middle.
Game Styles
The player has four unique game styles to choose from, including Standard, which is described above. The other game styles are Continuous, Shifter and MegaShift.
Continuous is one of the game styles available for Jawbreaker. This particular mode is similar to the standard mode, with one major difference. Whenever the player clears an entire column of balls, a new one arrives from the left side of the game board. New columns can be previewed in a small area at the bottom of the screen. As with the regular standard mode, the game ends when the player runs out of adjacent like-colored balls.
MegaShift is another one of the game styles available for Jawbreaker. The major difference in this mode is the addition of a new column of balls whenever the player manages to clear an entire column of balls from the game board. Balls will always move to the right of the screen if there is space for them to do so. The newly-appearing column of balls can be previewed at the bottom of the screen before they are brought on-board and they appear from the leftmost side of the game board. As with the other modes, the game ends when the player ceases to have any moves left.
Shifter is one of the game styles available for Jawbreaker. This game mode is similar to the MegaShift mode in that balls will tend to gravitate towards the right part of the game board. Unlike MegaShift mode however, the board has a finite number of balls and no new balls arrive to replenish the ones the player clicks off the game board.
History
Windows Mobile 2003 was Jawbreaker's first inclusion into a packaged handheld operating system. Pocket PC operating systems prior to Windows Mobile 2003, ending with Pocket PC 2002 did not include the game. It has since been bundled with succeeding Windows Mobile releases, including Windows Mobile 2003 SE (second edition) and Windows Mobile 5.0 & 6.0.
Jawbreaker in Other Operating Systems
Aside from being included in the Windows Mobile operating system, Jawbreaker is also distributed by Oopdreams Software, Inc. under another name, Bubblets. Bubblets is almost-identical to Jawbreaker, with some slight visual and semantic differences. Instead of balls, the player bursts bubbles, thus the name.
Bubblets in this form is available for a much broader range of operating systems than the Jawbreaker version. The game is officially distributed as shareware for Pocket PC 2002/Windows Mobile 2003, Palm OS, and the Handheld PC Pro platforms. Bubblets is also available for desktop PCs, with the official Windows version of Bubblets, also distributed as expiring shareware.
As Bubblets, the game was a finalist for the Best Puzzle Game category of Pocket PC Magazine's Pocket PC Award Winners of 2001, won by another SameGame clone called PocketPop produced by PocketFun (http://www.pocketfun.co.uk/PocketPopRevenge.html ). It was given the People's Choice Award in the same event.
The Palm OS version of the game Bubblet, was favorably reviewed by PDAStreet's Palm Boulevard. Geek.com gave Bubblets a perfect score on their review and was named a Geek.com pick.
The game has also been distributed as freeware for mobiles since June 2008. The mobile phone version, also called JawBreaker, was developed for those who did not have Jawbreaker-capable PDAs but had phones supporting Java ME. This iteration of the game could be run on mobile devices supporting Java ME CLDC 1.1/MIDP 2.0 with screen resolutions of 240×320 or 176×220.
There is also a JavaScript online version published as Google Gadget.
References
External links
Jawbreaker by Kurylo Dmytro Port to JavaScript on HTML Canvas
Oopdreams Software, Inc. official website
Google Gadget port to JavaScript
2003 video games
Puzzle video games
IOS games
Video games developed in the United States
Windows Mobile Professional games
Windows Mobile Standard games
Windows games
J2ME games |
Walter Höllerer (19 December 1922 – 20 May 2003) was a German writer, literary critic, and literature academic. He was professor of literary studies at the Technical University of Berlin from 1959 to 1988. Höllerer was a member of the Group 47, founder of the German literary magazine Akzente (1953) and the Literary Colloquium of Berlin (1963).
Biography
Walter Höllerer was born in Sulzbach-Rosenberg, Bavaria. He joined the Wehrmacht and became a soldier in 1942 during the Second World War. After 1945 he studied philology, philosophy, history, German studies, and comparative literature at the Universities of Erlangen–Nuremberg, Göttingen, and Heidelberg; in 1949 he earned a Doctor title in Gottfried Keller School. He worked as a lecturer assistant from 1954 to 1958 at the Goethe University Frankfurt. In 1954, he attended regular sessions with the 47, which was a group of young German authors who spoke about post-war Germany from the west BRD. During the early 1960s he moderated literature broadcasts on a free broadcasting channel of Berlin. From 1959 to his retirement in 1988 he was a professor of literary studies at the Technical University of Berlin. Meanwhile, he looked and researched a lot of professors from the United States.
During his research and work he published poems and novels, and put together critical statements for other literature works. In 1954 Höllerer put together the bimonthly literary magazine Akzente, one of the most important literature forums in the Federal Republic of Germany. In 1961 Höllerer published the newspaper Sprache im technischen Zeitalter ("Language in the Age of Technology"), in 1963 he founded the Literary Colloquium of Berlin. Through his hard work as a publisher and critic and a professor at TU Berlin he helped with the era of literature. In 1965 Höllerer married a photographer from Mangoldt, Renate, she previously had two sons. In 1977 he founded literary archives in Sulzbach-Rosenberg, which he then embedded the magazine Akzente into the archives.
In 1966 he was honored with the Fontane-Award and in 1993 together with Robert Creeley, the Horst-Bienek-award for lyrics and in 1994 the Rahel-Varnhagen-von-Ense-Medaille from Berlin. He was also honorary citizen and culture award-winning from the city Sulzbach-Rosenberg.
Robert Neumann harshly criticized Höllerer's leading role in the Group 47 and in the literary scene. He obtained research from Christoph König that Höllerer was a member of the NSDAP in 1941. Höllerer said that he has not gotten any confirmation for being in the NSDAP.
Höllerer was laid to rest at the Friedhof Heerstraße in Berlin. His widow Renate donated the archive Sulzbach-Rosenberg as a gift to Walter Höllerers research, which since 2007 has been developed and been researched even more. Since 19 April 2007, the Sulzbach-Rosenberg school changed its name to Walter-Höllerer-Realschule.
List of works
Non-fiction
Gottfried Kellers "Leute von Seldwyla" als Spiegel einer geistesgeschichtlichen Wende. Eine Studie zur Geschichte der Novelle im 19. Jahrhundert. Erlangen 1949
Zwischen Klassik und Moderne. Lachen und Weinen in der Dichtung einer Übergangszeit. Klett, Stuttgart 1958; new edition: SH, Köln 2005,
Theorie der modernen Lyrik. Dokumente zur Poetik 1. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1965
Advanced new edition in 2 volumes: Hanser, München 2003,
Modernes Theater auf kleinen Bühnen. Literal Colloquium, Berlin 1965
Literary works
Der andere Gast. Hanser, München 1952
Gedichte. Beigefügt: Wie entsteht ein Gedicht? Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1964
Systeme. Neue Gedichte. Literarisches Colloquium, Berlin 1969
Die Elephantenuhr. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 1973, ; Paperback ed. 1975,
Geschichte, die nicht im Geschichtsbuch steht. Kopp, Sulzbach-Rosenberg 1976
Alle Vögel, alle. Eine Komödie in 2 Akten samt einem Bericht und Anmerkungen zum Theater. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 1978,
Gedichte 1942–1982. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 1982,
Oberpfälzische Weltei-Erkundungen. Weiden 1987,
As editor
Junge amerikanische Lyrik (with Gregory Corso). Hanser, München 1960
Transit. Lyrikbuch der Jahrhundertmitte. Mit Randnotizen. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 1956
Movens. Dokumente und Analysen zur Dichtung, bildenden Kunst, Musik, Architektur. Limes, Wiesbaden 1960
Spiele in einem Akt. 35 exemplarische Stücke. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 1961
Ein Gedicht und sein Autor. Lyrik und Essay. Literal Colloquium, Berlin 1967
Dramaturgisches. Ein Briefwechsel (with Max Frisch). Literal Colloquium, Berlin 1969
Welt aus Sprache. Auseinandersetzung mit Zeichen und Zeichensystemen der Gegenwart. Art Academy, Berlin 1972
Zurufe, Widerspiele. Aufsätze zu Dichtern und Gedichten (with Michael Krüger). Berlin Scientific Publishing, Berlin 1993,
Films
Literatur im technischen Zeitalter, TV series, 13 films, Sender Freies Berlin, 1961/62, First episode: 13 November 1961
Berlin stellt vor. TV series, 39 films, Sender Freies Berlin, 1962, First episode: 28 May 1962
Modernes Theater auf kleinen Bühnen, TV series, 10 films, Sender Freies Berlin, 1964/65, First episode: 18 November 1964
Der weiße Hopfengarten, 1966
Ein Gedicht und sein Autor, TV series, 11 films, Sender Freies Berlin, 1966/67, First episode: 1 December 1966
Die Alexanderschlacht, 1968
Das literarische Profil von Prag, 1969
Das literarische Profil von Stockholm, 1969
Das literarische Profil von London, 1970
Das literarische Profil von Rom, 1970
Das literarische Profil von Berlin, 1971
Vögel und Fluggespenster, 1973
Further reading
Barbara Baumann-Eisenack: Walter Höllerer: Zu seinen Gedichten und seiner Lyrik-Anthologie "Transit". Literaturarchiv Sulzbach-Rosenberg 2002,
Helmut Böttiger, Lutz Dittrich: Elefantenrunden. Walter Höllerer und die Erfindung des Literaturbetriebs. Ausstellungsbuch, Texte aus dem Literaturhaus Berlin, Bd. 15, Berlin 2005,
Walter Höllerer: Memorandum zur Gründung eines Instituts "Sprache im technischen Zeitalter". In: Berliner Hefte zur Geschichte des literarischen Lebens, 8, 2008, , S. 103–109
Roland Berbig, Alexander Krüger: Ein Novum unter der Ägis eines Lehrstuhlinhabers. Walter Höllerer im Jahr 1959. In: Berliner Hefte zur Geschichte des literarischen Lebens, 8, 2008, , S. 89–99
Achim Geisenhanslüke, Michael Peter Hehl (ed.): Poetik im technischen Zeitalter. Walter Höllerer und die Entstehung des modernen Literaturbetriebs. Transcript, Bielefeld 2013,
External links
Biography as part of the Berlin Institute of Technology's 125th anniversary commemoration
Walter Höllerer in the Sulzbach-Rosenberg (Höllerer-Nachlass) literature archive
References
1922 births
2003 deaths
20th-century German educators
20th-century German male writers
20th-century German non-fiction writers
20th-century philologists
21st-century German educators
21st-century German male writers
21st-century German non-fiction writers
21st-century philologists
Comparative literature academics
German-language poets
German-language writers
German literary critics
German literary historians
German literature academics
German magazine editors
German male non-fiction writers
German male poets
German military personnel of World War II
German newspaper editors
German philologists
Academic staff of Goethe University Frankfurt
Heidelberg University alumni
Knights Commander of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Academic staff of the Technical University of Berlin
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg alumni
University of Göttingen alumni |
Hell's Backbone Road is a 38-mile (61 km) gravel road that was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s, and connects the towns of Boulder, Utah and Escalante, Utah. Halfway along the road is Hell's Backbone Bridge, which is long, and wide. A drop is on either side. Near the bridge are views of the Box-Death Hollow Wilderness. From late spring to autumn, the road, which climbs to more than 9,000 feet (2,750 m) elevation, is passable by ordinary passenger vehicles, but it is very narrow and winding.
Hell's Backbone Road is a high-country alternative to the paved Utah Scenic Byway 12, which also connects Boulder and Escalante, 27 road miles (44 km) apart.
Images
References
Roads in Utah
Civilian Conservation Corps in Utah
Gravel roads |
Ascalenia melanogastra is a moth in the family Cosmopterigidae. It is found in South Africa.
References
Endemic moths of South Africa
Moths described in 1918
Ascalenia
Moths of Africa |
Lebuh SPA (Sungai Udang–Paya Rumput–Ayer Keroh Highway), Federal Route 33 (formerly Malacca State Route M17), is a major highway in Malacca state, Malaysia. This 23.1 km (14.4 mile) highway connects Sungai Udang in the west to Ayer Keroh in the east.
Route background
The Kilometre Zero of the Federal Route 33 starts from Sungai Udang.
History
Construction began in 2002 and was completed in 2005. In 2010, the highway was gazetted as the federal roads by JKR as Federal Route 33.
Features
This highway features fast lane-to-slow lane U-turns.
Two-lane carriageway
Hang Jebat Stadium
At most sections, the SPA Highway was built under the JKR R5 road standard as a dual-carriageway highway with partial access control, with a speed limit of 90 km/h.
There are no overlaps, alternate routes, or sections with motorcycle lanes.
List of interchanges
References
Highways in Malaysia
Malaysian Federal Roads |
Toronto Aerodrome, also known as Canadian Air Express Airport, was an aerodrome located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
One of the historical airfields of Canada, operated from 1928 to 1939, it was situated at the current Sheppard West station on Dufferin Street and Sheppard Avenue West. Toronto Aerodrome was one of several small airfields established in the Toronto area during the 1920s and 1930s. This aerodrome served as the principal custom entry point for aircraft coming to Toronto until 1939, when Malton airfield, now Toronto Pearson International Airport, became operational.
The aerodrome shared the site with the Toronto Flying Club (located at Dufferin Street and Wilson Avenue). The Toronto Flying Club's site is now the south end of Downsview Airport, TTC Wilson Complex.
Following the end of World War II into the 1960s, parts of the former airfield and surrounding farmland were developed into the residential neighbourhood of Wilson Heights and mixed commercial-industrial area of Downsview.
See also
List of defunct airports in Canada
List of airports in the Greater Toronto Area
References
Defunct airports in Ontario
Transport in Toronto
1928 establishments in Ontario
1939 disestablishments in Ontario |
The first season of Solsidan, a Swedish television comedy series, created by comedian and actor Felix Herngren, Jacob Seth Fransson, Ulf Kvensler and Pontus Edgren premiered on January 29, 2010 on TV4 and ended on April 9, 2010. The series is about Alex (Felix Herngren) and Anna (Mia Skäringer), a couple expecting their first child and planning to move to where Alex grew up, the posh neighbourhood of Solsidan, the name of which means "The Sunny Side". The show has been sold internationally and will be aired in Norway, Denmark, Finland and Iceland. On December 3, 2010, the producers announced that the script to the series had been sold to the American network ABC, which plans to create their own version of the series to air in the United States.
Plot
Alex is a thirty-nine-year-old dentist, who moves back to his childhood home in Saltsjöbaden, Stockholm, along with his pregnant girlfriend Anna. Anna works as an actor and feels like an outsider in Alex's old neighbourhood. Alex's mother Margareta has sold the couple her house, but thinks that she still lives there. Fredde is Alex's childhood friend who lives down the block with his wife Mickan and two children. Ove Sundberg is another of Alex childhood friends who is believed to be the dullest and greediest resident in Solsidan.
Cast
The first season has four main characters as well as several recurring characters:
Alex Löfström (Felix Herngren)
Anna Svensson (Mia Skäringer)
Fredde Schiller (Johan Rheborg)
Mickan Schiller (Josephine Bornebusch)
Margareta Löfström (Mona Malm)
Lussan (Rebecka Englund)
Ove Sundberg (Henrik Dorsin)
Anette Sundberg (Malin Cederbladh)
Palle Svensson (Magnus Krepper)
Victor Schiller (Carl Sjögren)
Ebba Schiller (Ester Granholm and Otilia Anttila)
Episodes
References
External links
Official website
Solsidan on Facebook
2010 Swedish television seasons
1 |
Beyanlu or Bayanlu or Bianlu or Bayanloo or Biyanlu () may refer to:
Bayanlu, Kurdistan
Bianlu, West Azerbaijan
Beyanlu, Zanjan |
Gelmersee (or Lake Gelmer) is a reservoir in Bernese Oberland, Switzerland. The hydroelectric reservoir was completed in 1932, at about the same time as the Grimselsee reservoir, and both are operated by Kraftwerke Oberhasli. The reservoir's volume is 13 million m³ and its surface area .
The reservoir may be reached by the Gelmerbahn from Handegg, Guttannen at 1,412 m. The funicular's track with a length of 1,028 m has a maximum inclination of 106%.
See also
List of lakes of Switzerland
List of mountain lakes of Switzerland
External links
Lake Gelmer
Reservoirs in Switzerland
Bernese Oberland
Oberhasli
Lakes of the canton of Bern
LGelmersee |
The African Union of Railways is an organisation under the auspices of the new African Union dealing with railways. It is similar to the International Union of Railways (UIC).
Overview
Africa's railways are disjointed and disconnected. The AUR hopes to rectify things. By 2012 a number of railway projects had been proposed to rectify this, some of which would make connections between international railway systems. This interconnectivity would require the development of more standardised systems.
Standards
Gauge
The AUR sees that conversion to a common gauge is too difficult and expensive due to the gauge muddle, but based on reports from the World Bank, does see the following gauges as preferred in the following regions:
North -
South - mostly connected and quite strong.
East - (but Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda and isolated Ethiopia are ).
West - (but Sierra Leone and Nigeria are isolated).
Other
South Africa NG
Eritrea NG
Algeria NG - isolated systems
Scattered mining railways - plus Gabon.
Several railways such as Senegal, Guinea and Tanzania have talked about conversion to standard gauge, though it remains to be seen if talk develops into action. Guinea built one new branch as standard gauge even though metre gauge is needed to take the ore to the port. Nigeria has built one short branch with dual gauge sleepers, and a network aiming to serve the port of Warri is also standard gauge. An extension from Tanzania into Rwanda is proposed as standard gauge, though it starts at a station that is already a container transhipment dry port. Mining railways that carry very large tonnages (> 10,000 metric tonnes per year) are generally standard gauge.
However, conspicuous by their absence, is the possibility of dual gauge, containerisation, variable gauge axles, bogie exchange, piggy back operation and even triple gauge.
However the African Union now supports the 50-year plan to build the African Integrated High Speed Railway Network.
Timeline
2014
Construction of standard gauge lines is being progressed in
Ethiopia and Eritrea
Kenya
Tanzania
Nigeria
Ghana
Cameroon - Kribi-Mbalam (2023 now under construction)
Break of gauge
Because the mainlines of different countries of different gauges rarely meet, except Kidatu, break of gauge is paradoxically not a problem at the moment.
Couplings
Couplings in use include:
European style buffers and chain couplers, the spacing and height of the buffers varying with the gauge;
Norwegian chopper couplings of various kinds, which are low in strength and obsolete.
AAR coupler - an automatic type used throughout the contiguous Southern African network.
SA3 coupler - an automatic type used in the former Soviet Union.
Digital automatic coupling - proposal
More than one of the above, such as buffers and AAR coupler.
There are a few other uncommon and obsolete types, such as those used in Benin.
The American AAR coupler is the most widely used of the modern types, and is usable with the heaviest trains of regularly .
Whatever the advantages of the modern SA3 coupler, it is not as widely used as the AAR and is in the minority. The SA3 coupler has been used in a train of , thus either matching or surpassing the strength of the AAR coupler.
Match wagons can overcome incompatibilities at the price of extra deadweight. Similarly with coupling adapters.
The type of coupling is less important when trains travel in fixed block loads.
Modern wagons are usually built with draw-gear designed for easy conversion to some kind of centre coupling such as the AAR or SA3.
Brakes
Westinghouse air brakes and vacuum brakes (or no continuous brakes at all) are usually fitted. Dual brakes or piped only can overcome incompatibilities. Vacuum brakes are considered to be obsolete. Electronically controlled pneumatic brakes (ECP) are starting to be fitted on faster, heavy-duty trains for higher performance, and the two ECP systems are compatible. Air brakes are to be preferred to vacuum brakes because of their greater power.
Electrification
Most railways in Africa are diesel-operated, but electrification where it exists it mostly conforms to the modern standard of 25 kV AC, with some obsolete systems using the older 3 kV DC. Trams in cities are usually low voltage such as 750 VDC. Dual and multi voltage locomotives and electric multiple units (EMUs) are proven technology. Africa has great hydro-electric potential to run electric trains with, though this would not happen overnight.
Loading gauge
Loading gauges vary considerably, and through trains would be forced to use the most restrictive loading gauge along its route. The structure gauge of tunnels and bridges needs to be about taller to allow for piggy back operation of trains of one gauge on the wagons of another gauge.
The loading gauge width for new standard gauge railways in Ethiopia and Kenya is following the standard for high speed lines pioneered by Shinkansen in Japan, and followed by South Korea and China. May also be followed by Tanzania and Nigeria.
Platform and carriage floor heights should be standardised, as well as the gap between platform and carriage.
Axle loads
Axle loads vary considerably, depending on the strength of the track, especially the weight of the rails which are generally too light for modern traffic. A reasonable minimum rail weight is , though or would be preferred for heavy duty use.
The Kribi-Mbalam iron ore railway has an axleload of 37.5T.
Train lengths and crossing loop lengths
Crossing loops should be as long as the longest likely train, considered globally. Some UIC standards are . Extra length of the loop enables the rear of the train to clear the main line at more than line speed thus saving time.
Because of dangers imposed by wild animals such as lions, manual control of loops turnouts is not necessarily a good idea, and some degree of automation of these turnouts, and fencing, is desirable.
Minimum radius
Limits speeds, although speeds are less important on minor branch lines. Minimum radius also affects heaviest trains, due to tendency to pull wagons off the rails and derail them.
Language
Confusion and even accidents can occur if more than one language (or accent) is used to operate a railway. A simplified language such as seaspeak would be useful to reduce such problems.
Pécrot rail crash with confusion of Dutch and French speakers.
Complicated phrases can be simplified and made succinct by using say telegraphic codes.
Great Western Railway telegraphic codes
Australian railway telegraphic codes
Railway block code
Commercial code
Words can be spelled out over noisy lines using say the NATO phonetic alphabet.
Names of stations should be distinguishable from one another. Similarly the Post Office doesn't like towns spoken or written alike.
Thus the village of Perth in New South Wales was getting mail intended for Perth, Scotland and Perth, Western Australia, so it was renamed Perthville.
Thus Makutopora and Makutupora are two distinct localities.
Namibia
As of 2007, Namibian railways built nearly of a line with Angola. Namibia has been using Tubular Modular Track. Tubular Modular Track maintains its track resilience even in harshest sandy desert conditions. Transnet Freight Rail in South Africa uses Tubular Modular Track in the main Ermelo yard on its 70 million tonnes per annum heavy haul coal export line. The continuous support provided by Tubular Modular Track increases rails and turnout life by a factor of two and weld life by a factor of ten (compared to conventional and slabtrack offering discrete support for rails). The Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA) uses Tubular Modular Track in stations to ensure fixed vertical alignment between platforms and trains.
Nigeria
Plans by Nigeria's to change convert its gauge lines to have accelerated in 2020. Some new lines are double track replacing single track sections.
Libya
Libya started in 2007 building a completely new railway system, albeit slowly. A link across the Sahara to Central Africa, probably Nigeria, would also spur the growth of connections, which make use of continuous access to the Middle East, Europe, and even China in the foreseeable future. In March 2011, the works ground to a halt because of the revolution with no news when or even if they would resume.
Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda
Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda are odd men in the South & East zone as they use gauge.
The latest plans for a greatly expanded railway with links to adjoining countries are to build new lines in standard gauge and possibly upgrade and convert existing metre gauge lines to the same wider gauge.
Zambia
Mchinji - connects to Malawi Railways
Chipata () - railhead - opened 2010
Iron ore railways
Heavy duty iron ore railways in Africa carry much more traffic than ordinary railways so they almost always adopt standard gauge to make use of proven off the shelf technology. New such lines are planned for Cameroon, Senegal and Guinea. Gabon is already using . The Transguinean Railways is proposed to be standard gauge. Some standard gauge lines in Liberia are to be restored. An isolated gauge line in Sierra Leone is to be converted to standard gauge.
High Speed Lines
High Speed Lines (AIHSRN)
Conferences
- a conference held in Brazzaville on 10–14 April 2006.
35th General Assembly
2006
Timeline
2023
The rail link on the Brazzaville–Kinshasa Bridge will be single track. Both sides of the bridge use the same 1067mm gauge. For compatibility with future AIHSRN a third rail or Dual Gauge sleepers should be provided.
2010
Dakar-Port Sudan Railway
2007
Railway Corridors in Continent to be Connected - The UAR is set to work out modalities on how to link all railway corridors in the continent.
Related organisations
Northern Corridor Transit and Transport Coordination Authority
Southern African Railway Association
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
Southern African Railway Association
ECOWAS rail
Similar organisations
Association of American Railroads (AAR)
International Union of Railways (UIC)
OSShD
See also
African Integrated High Speed Rail Network (AIHSRN)
AfricaRail
East African Railway Master Plan
North-South Corridor Project
Timeline of African Union of Railways
Trans-Asian Railway
References
African Union
Rail transport in Africa
Railway associations |
Robert Lewis (born 20 November 1987) is a Welsh rugby union player. Lewis primarily played for Newport Gwent Dragons, London Welsh RFC, and Birmingham Moseley. Lewis represented Wales at grade age levels, as well as in rugby sevens.
Professional career
A scrum-half, he has represented Wales at U18, U19 and at U21 level, and was selected for the Wales Sevens squad in 2007, in which he competed in four tournaments, – Adelaide, Wellington, Hong Kong and San Diego. He was a key figure for Wales U19s, helping them win the Six Nations Championship Grand Slam and was Wales's top try scorer in the tournament. The same year he represented Wales U19 at the Junior World Cup in Dubai.
Robert came through the Newport Gwent Dragons Academy learning his trade with Ebbw Vale RFC and made his debut for the region in December 2007, coming off the bench away to Munster. He would go on to make a further 14 appearances for the Newport Gwent Dragons gaining Celtic League, LV Cup and four Heineken Cup experiences. Lewis scored a try in the Christmas period derby win over the Ospreys.
In May 2009 Lewis joined London Welsh and made a total of 88 appearances in three seasons and in 2011–2012 he played a major role in London Welsh winning the English Championship, beating Cornish Pirates in the two leg final and gaining promotion to the Aviva Premiership. During Lewis’s first spell at London Welsh RFC he represented The Barbarians, helping them to a narrow victory over the Combined Services at Aldershot RFC.
In July 2012 he joined Cardiff Blues but in December he returned to London Welsh who were then competing in the Premiership. Lewis again played a major role in London Welsh winning the English Championship for a second time in 2013–2014 and went on to play in a total of 136 league games making him the second highest in league appearances in the club's history after Matt Corker.
Following the unfortunate financial situation at London Welsh and its loss of a licence to continue to play in the RFU Greene King Championship, Rob returned to Ebbw Vale RFC in January 2017. On 16 March 2017 Birmingham Moseley Rugby Club announced that Lewis was the first new signing for the club's 2017–2018 National League 1 campaign. In his second season at Birmingham Moseley Lewis was announced as Captain, alongside Buster Lawrence and Sam Brown.
After a two season spell in Birmingham Lewis would go on to join Luctonians RFC, whilst also becoming Head Coach at Malvern College Independent School.
In September 2020 Lewis was appointed as the Head of Rugby at Royal Grammar School Worcester.
Personal
Robert's twin brother James Lewis is also a professional rugby union player.
References
External links
Newport Gwent Dragons profile
Cardiff Blues profile
Rugby union players from Abergavenny
Welsh rugby union players
Dragons RFC players
London Welsh RFC players
Cardiff Rugby players
Living people
1987 births
Teachers at Royal Grammar School Worcester
Rugby union scrum-halves |
Locharbriggs is a village in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. It is located near the Lochar Water, north-northeast of the town of Dumfries. It was one of several villages that stood on the edge of the Lochar Moss which was largely reclaimed in the 19th Century. The Locharbriggs locality (which also includes neighbouring Heathhall) had an estimated population of in 2016.
Locharbriggs is known for the quarrying of distinctive red sandstone of the Locharbriggs Sandstone Formation. This has been used for buildings in towns and cities including Dumfries, Glasgow and Edinburgh. The stone has also been exported further afield, including for the construction of the steps of the Statue of Liberty in New York. Only one quarry now remains active.
The village's amenities include bus services, three local shops, a public house (the Lochar Inn), a social club, a Chinese takeaway, fish and chip shop, hairdressers, community centre, a library, and a primary school.
Transport links from Locharbriggs to Dumfries often suffer during school holidays, when major works are routinely carried out on the main A701 trunk road.
References
External links
Villages in Dumfries and Galloway
Dumfries |
John Donald "Jake" Rathwell (born August 12, 1947) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey right winger who played in one National Hockey League game for the Boston Bruins during the 1974–75 NHL season, on January 23, 1975 against the Kansas City Scouts. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1968 to 1975, was spent in the minor leagues.
Career statistics
Regular season and playoffs
See also
List of players who played only one game in the NHL
External links
1947 births
Living people
Boston Bruins players
Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in the United States
Canadian ice hockey right wingers
Cincinnati Swords players
Clinton Comets players
Ice hockey people from Quebec
Iowa Stars (CHL) players
Kitchener Rangers players
Sportspeople from Abitibi-Témiscamingue
Peterborough Petes (ice hockey) players
Portland Buckaroos players
Rochester Americans players
Salt Lake Golden Eagles (WHL) players
San Diego Gulls (WHL) players
Verdun Maple Leafs (ice hockey) players |
The Bustleton section of Northeast Philadelphia, United States is located in the Far Northeast, north of Rhawnhurst and Fox Chase and south of Somerton; sitting between Roosevelt Boulevard to the east, the city boundary to the west, Red Lion Road to the north, and Pennypack Park to the south, it is centered at the intersection of Grant Avenue and Bustleton Avenue (PA-532) and is completely included in the 19115 postal ZIP code.
In the early history of the city, the neighborhood was centered on the Bustleton Tavern, a local bar established before the American Revolution. Pennypack Park is part of the Fairmount Park system and was the site of much industry, including mills. The area was a trading center and had hotels drawing farmers bringing goods for sale via horse and buggy. Much of the commerce was also conducted via small streams and rivers of the present-day Pennypack Watershed. The old Paul's Run waterway once provided navigation from the Bustleton Tavern all the way to the Delaware River.
Bustleton was originally part of Lower Dublin Township, also known as Dublin Township, a defunct township that was located in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. The township ceased to exist and was incorporated into the City of Philadelphia following the passage of the Act of Consolidation, 1854.
Bustleton is home to the Lower Dublin Baptist Church, one of the oldest churches in America. Its burial ground contains the remains of many notable Americans and Revolutionary War Soldiers. Another church is the Protestant Episcopal Church of Saint Luke The Beloved Physician. It is the only church in Philadelphia that was designed by the architect Richard Upjohn of New York. It is located on Welsh Road and has a burial ground, now home to the veterans from the Civil War to present. It was consecrated on August 30, 1861.
The 1870 Roman Catholic Church of Maternity, Blessed Virgin Mary on Old Bustleton Ave in Pennypack Park is the large Roman Catholic parish that served as a mother church for most of the parishes in the Northeast section of Philadelphia. Saint Katherine Drexel attended Mass in the Old BVM Church.
One of the early schools went by the name: Bustleton Academy, also known as The academy at Bustelton, not to be confused with Lower Dublin Academy which is an older school, located in the Holmesburg section of Lower Dublin.
Present day
In the present day, Bustleton is largely a residential community with major commercial areas on Roosevelt Boulevard, Bustleton Avenue, Grant Avenue, and Red Lion Road. It has minimal industrial presence. US Census Bureau data show that the community is home to an increasingly racially and ethnically diverse population with many immigrant groups represented; in particular one can see store-fronts, billboards, and newspapers in Russian (especially along Bustleton Avenue) from the many immigrants from Russia, Ukraine, and other former Soviet Republics.
Population
According to the 2000 US Census, the total population was 31,853 of whom 45.9 percent were male, less than the 49.1 percent of the total US population who was male in 2000. Just less than 17 percent of area residents were under 18 years old, compared with over a quarter throughout the US. Nearly 27 percent were 65 years or older, well over twice the rate in the general population; four percent of the total Bustleton population was 85 years or older. Reflecting the large concentration of older citizens, the median age in Bustleton was 46.8 years compared with 35.3 years nationwide, and local residents were somewhat more likely to be disabled, 26.4 percent versus a national average of 19.3 percent.
Whites made up 87.1 percent of the population (US share was 75.1 percent), blacks were 3.5 percent (US share was 12.3 percent), Asians were 7.0 percent (US share was 3.6 percent) with the majority of those Indian-American. Nearly one-third of residents spoke a foreign language at home compared with less than 18 percent nationwide.
Economically, only 53.4 percent of those 16 years or older were in the labor force in 2000, well below the US average of 63.9 percent but the per capita income of $21,540 was nearly identical to the national level. Less than 10 percent were below the poverty level (US rate was 12.4 percent).
Four of every five adults, 25 years and over, were at least high school graduates as of 2000, and one in four had at least a bachelor's degree (slightly more than the US population).
Bustleton is home to many of the city's Police Officers and Firefighters.
Transportation
Public transportation is provided by several SEPTA bus and regional rail routes, including bus routes 19, 58, 67, 88, and the West Trenton Line and Fox Chase Line regional rail lines in nearby communities. Major roads include Welsh Road, Verree Road, Red Lion Road (PA 63), Bustleton Avenue (PA 532), Grant Avenue, Krewstown Road, and the Roosevelt Boulevard (U.S. 1). Bustleton is home to two of the most dangerous intersections in the United States: Roosevelt Boulevard at Grant Avenue and at Red Lion Road. After decades of complaints due to the large numbers of accidents, these intersections became the first in Philadelphia to have cameras installed which record the license plates of vehicles entering the intersections after the traffic light has turned red. The program has since spread to many intersections throughout the city.
It is bordered on the east by Northeast Philadelphia Airport, a municipal reliever airport that dates to World War II.
Housing
According to the 2000 US Census, there were 13,719 occupied housing units, 62 percent were owner-occupied and 38 percent were renter-occupied; the 423 vacant units were just three percent of all Bustleton-units, a vacancy rate one-third that of the US. There were 7,209 single-family owner-occupied homes with a median value of $120,000, just $400 more than the median for the US as a whole.
In 2007, newly constructed single homes were selling for between $350,000 and $500,000. Average existing home values are approximately $200,000 to $350,000 for single homes and $175,000 to $250,000 for twin homes. There are no row homes in Bustleton, though there are several dozen apartment complexes and condominiums, and a significant number of the homes are side-by-side duplexes, often referred to by locals as "twins".
Infrastructure and government
The United States Postal Service operates the Bustleton Post Office at 9925 Bustleton Avenue. This Post Office serves the communities of Bustleton (19115, 19152) and Somerton (19116).
The 7th District Police Station at Bustleton and Bowler shares the building with the fire station and other smaller municipal offices.
The neighborhood is part of the 10th City Council District, currently represented by Brian J. O'Neill.
Education
Primary and secondary schools
The area is served by the School District of Philadelphia. The primary public elementary schools are Joseph J. Greenberg Elementary, which is K-8, and Anne Frank Elementary, which is K-5. Most children that attend Anne Frank then attend C.C.A. Baldi Middle School, which is 6–8. The primary public high school, George Washington High School, is located on Bustleton Avenue, just north of the northernmost boundary of Red Lion Road.
Anne Frank opened in 1961 as Bustleton Elementary School and received its current name in 1987.
Maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Roman Catholic parish sponsors a large elementary school. There are no Roman Catholic parochial high schools in Bustleton, but many students go to Archbishop Ryan High School (co-ed), Father Judge High School (all boys), St. Hubert's High School (all girls), or Bishop McDevitt High School (co-ed). Politz Hebrew Academy and Lehigh Christian Academy both serve Pre-K to 8th grade. The Politz School occupies the buildings of the former Jacobs and Fayette Public Schools. The Fayette School, a Samuel Sloan building, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988 and dates to 1854.
Local students may also attend a variety of academies or prep schools (both charter, private, and parochial) both within Bustleton and in the larger metropolitan area.
There are no colleges or universities in the neighborhood.
Public libraries
Free Library of Philadelphia operates the Bustleton Branch at 10199 Bustleton Avenue at Verree Road, near George Washington High School, in the adjacent Somerton section of the city.
Organizations
The Greater Bustleton Civic League, originally an alliance of the major local churches but now a neighborhood organization dealing primarily with zoning issues, has served the area for more than sixty years. Youth sports are organized by the Bustleton Bengals which has its home field at Robert Hayes Memorial Playground, named for a slain Philadelphia police officer who was an area resident, though, locals refer to the playground and the surrounding park areas as either Conwell Playground or Five Diamonds (due to its five baseball fields).
Businesses
In 2005, there were 593 business establishments in Bustleton, employing 8,933 with an annual payroll of $244,673,000. There were 120 Health and Social Services (reflecting the large senior population) and 100 Retail establishments. Bustleton is headquarters for the American Heritage Federal Credit Union, the sixth largest in Pennsylvania.
Notable person
John Robbins, member of the U.S. House of Representatives
References
External links
Bustleton Bengals Club
Greater Bustleton Civic League
Maternity BVM Roman Catholic parish
Pennepack Baptist Church
St. Luke's Church
Lehigh Christian Academy
American Heritage Federal Credit Union
Historic Photographs of Bustleton, PhillyHistory.org
Neighborhoods in Philadelphia
Russian-American culture in Pennsylvania
Russian communities in the United States
Ukrainian communities in the United States
Northeast Philadelphia |
Tauraria is an atoll in Fiji, a member of the Ringgold Isles archipelago, which forms an outlier group to the northern island of Vanua Levu. The uninhabited islet is around 40m north of Qelelevu, and 0.9 km east of Vetauua. Tauraria is a low, upraised and jagged limestone islet covered in dense but scrubby bush. There is a significant population of breeding seabird colonies on Tauraria, especially black-naped terns.
See also
Desert island
List of islands
References
Uninhabited islands of Fiji
Ringgold Isles |
is a Japanese comedian.
Ito is a resident of Nakano, Tokyo. She is a graduate of Togo Kindergarten, Futaba Elementary School, Futabachu Secondary School and High School, and Butai Geijyutsu Gakuin. She also competed on one tournament of Kunoichi, failing on the final obstacle in the first stage. She then failed the second chance round as she couldn't complete it before the winner.
Filmography
Variety
Drama
Radio series
Films
Advertisements
Music videos
References
External links
Official profile
Japanese women comedians
1970 births
Living people
People from Shibuya
Comedians from Tokyo |
Fernand Gambiez (27 February 1903 – 29 March 1989) was a French Army general and military historian who fought in World War II, the First Indochina War and the Algerian War. During the Algerian War, Gambiez was commander-in-chief of the French Army in Algeria.
Gambiez was born in Lille, graduated from Saint Cyr in 1925. He served with the Foreign Legion in Morocco before studying at the Superior War School in 1935. He was a captain in command of a company during the Battle of France. He trained and commanded a Choc battalion in 1943, taking part in the fighting to liberate Corsica in 1944. Gambiez served as chief of staff to the French commander-in-chief Henri Navarre during the First Indochina War, including the Battle of Dien Bien Phu where one of his sons died.
He was promoted to Général de corps d'armée in 1958, commander of the Oran Corps in 1959, Inspector General of the Infantry in 1960 and finally commander-in-chief of the French Army in Algeria in 1961. He was arrested by the rebellious generals during the Algiers putsch in April 1961.
He was the director of the French military history commission from 1969 to 1989. He was also elected member of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques in 1974.
Works
L'Épée de Damoclès, la guerre en style indirect (1967). With Colonel Maurice Suire.
Histoire de la première guerre mondiale (2 volumes, 1968). With Colonel Maurice Suire.
Libération de la Corse (1973)
References
Nicole Pietri et Jacques Valette (eds), Les guerres du général Gambiez, Esprit du Livre, 2009.
External links
Review of the book Les guerres du général Gambiez with a short biography.
1903 births
1989 deaths
People from Lille
French military personnel of World War II
French military personnel of the First Indochina War
French military personnel of the Algerian War
French generals
École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr alumni
Members of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques
Officers of the French Foreign Legion |
Dallas is a town in Barron County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2010 census, the town had a population of 565. The Village of Dallas is within the town.
Geography
Dallas is located along the southern border of Barron County, with Dunn County to the south. The village of Dallas, northeast of the geographic center of the town, is surrounded by the town of Dallas but is separate from it.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , of which is land and , or 0.02%, is water.
The town of Dallas is along Wisconsin Highway 25.
Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there were 604 people, 217 households, and 174 families residing in the town. The population density was 17.8 people per square mile (6.9/km2). There were 235 housing units at an average density of 6.9 per square mile (2.7/km2). The racial makeup of the town was 99.83% White and 0.17% Asian. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.16% of the population.
There were 217 households, out of which 34.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 70.5% were married couples living together, 5.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 19.4% were non-families. 14.3% of all households were made up of individuals, and 2.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.78 and the average family size was 3.13.
In the town, the population was spread out, with 26.7% under the age of 18, 8.4% from 18 to 24, 28.8% from 25 to 44, 23.8% from 45 to 64, and 12.3% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 36 years. For every 100 females, there were 108.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 108.0 males.
The median income for a household in the town was $40,521, and the median income for a family was $43,125. Males had a median income of $32,222 versus $20,556 for females. The per capita income for the town was $21,069. Approximately 1.9% of families and 2.9% of the population were below the poverty line, including 3.2% of those under age 18 and 4.0% of those age 65 or over.
References
Towns in Barron County, Wisconsin
Towns in Wisconsin |
The Mini All4 Racing is an off-road competition car, built by X-raid between 2011 and 2016, specially designed to take part in the rally raids with the main objective of winning the Dakar Rally. In 2017 Mini All4 Racing was succeeded by Mini John Cooper Works Rally.
Dakar victories
Other victories
2011 Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge (Stéphane Peterhansel and Jean-Paul Cottret)
2013 Rallye du Maroc (Orlando Terranova and Paulo Fuiza)
2013 Desafio Ruta 40 (Nani Roma and Michel Périn)
2013 Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge (Nani Roma and Michel Périn)
2014 Rallye du Maroc (Nasser Al-Attiyah and Mathieu Baumel)
2014 Desafio Inca (Nani Roma and Michel Périn)
2014 Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge (Vladimir Vasilyev and Konstantin Zhiltsov)
2015 Rallye du Maroc (Nasser Al-Attiyah and Mathieu Baumel)
2015 Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge (Vladimir Vasilyev and Konstantin Zhiltsov)
2018 Silk Way Rally (Yazeed Al Rajhi, Timo Gottschalk)
The team also took the teams championship in the 2019 and 2020 FIA World Cup for Cross-Country Bajas.
See also
Mini
Mini Countryman
Mini John Cooper Works WRC
X-raid
Mini John Cooper Works Buggy
References
External links
Mini Cooper Countryman ALL4 Racing Dakar Rally Car
Rally cars
Rally raid cars
Dakar Rally winning cars
Mini (BMW) vehicles |
Gustav Pope (1831–1910) was a British Victorian painter of Austrian origin. He used several styles on his work, but in his mature style he showed influences of the second wave of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
His work shows the influence of Thomas Seddon, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Frederic, Lord Leighton. English literary sources, classical mythology, portraiture and idealized images of young women are the most typical subjects in his paintings.
Life and career
Little is known about Pope's training as a painter, but he is listed as a regular exhibitor in London from 1852 to 1895, at the British Institution, the Royal Society of British Artists and the Royal Academy.
Some sources shows Gustav Pope as deceased by 1895, based on the last year he was exhibiting at the Royal Academy. Nevertheless, a Cemetery register shows 1910 as the year of his death. In 1910, the painting A Rainy Day was presented to the Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery. He was a resident of Chelsea, according to the 1901 London Census.
Selected works
The Three Daughters of King Lear (1875–76; Museo de Art de Ponce, Puerto Rico)
Lillies (1874), sold at Auction at Christie's, London in 2009
The Judgement of Paris (The Apple of the Discord) (1889), sold at auction at Christie's, London in 2006.
Dante’s Inspiration, sold at auction at Christie's, London in 2014.
Accident or Design? work later engraved for The Illustrated London Almanack
References
British male painters
19th-century British painters
1831 births
1910 deaths
Members of the Royal Society of British Artists
19th-century British male artists |
Kevin Francis Duala (born 23 May 1964) is a British actor, broadcaster, television host, and presenter. He is perhaps best known for hosting the United Kingdom's version of Blue's Clues (1998–2003) for Nick Jr.
Biography
Duala's paternal grandfather, Thomas Duala, was Cameroonian, born c. 1900. Thomas emigrated to Britain and married Ellen McGurty; they had two sons and four daughters. Kevin Duala was born in Liverpool and is a supporter of Liverpool Football Club. He was a very keen footballer before an injury ended his career and he went to drama school. He began working as a stage actor and starred as Rocky 1 in Starlight Express. After that, he gained recognition as the host of the Blue's Clues British adaptation for Nick Jr., replacing Steve Burns and Donovan Patton who both hosted the original American version. Duala starred in 75 episodes of Blue's Clues across 6 series, in which all of them were adapted from the original American version of the show. His other television credits include Who Wants To Be a Great Cook?, Allsorts, and Modelmania. He was also a presenter on the "Prize Time", "Games Room" and "iPlay" strands on Challenge TV, and also presented Virtual World of Sport on The Computer Channel, Boiled Egg and Soldiers on Sky1 and Zig Zag on BBC2.
Duala more recently co-presented on the Travel Channel on the shows Thomas Cook TV and Around the World for Sky. He also started fronting a financial property show named Property Boot Camp. Previously, he started presenting Spanish and European interactive language programs for the BBC and many features for HOLIDAY and Holiday on a shoestring on BBC1, where he was the unofficial adventure sports expert presenting kayaking, bungee jumping, horse-riding, ice-skating, and mountain climbing for the show. He presented travel inserts for Thomas Cook TV and can be heard on the radio station BBC Radio 4 Extra where he co-hosts Big Toe, which is aimed at children and young teenagers, as well as numerous V/O commercials from the Army to Adidas. He was a presenter on the British channel Argos TV on channel number 642 until the channel was closed in May 2013.
Duala co-presented the BBC One daytime series Health: Truth or Scare with Angela Rippon, debunking the latest health headlines in the news in April 2017, which came back with a 2nd series in early 2018. He narrated A Matter of Life & Debt for BBC One in October 2017. Duala presented a new daytime series called Let's Get a Good Thing Going that was aired on BBC One in December 2017. He had also finished filming the 2nd series of Health: Truth or Scare for BBC1 and started filming a BBC1 daytime series celebrating the great work charities are doing but also exposed the charity villains out there shown in June 2018.
He is also a regular reporter for BBC's The One Show and has also guest presented the show.
Duala will present the upcoming 15-part daytime Channel 4 series called Bidding Wars.
In 2022, Duala also hosted four episodes of Moneybags on Channel 4 when the usual presenter Craig Charles was unwell. Duala's episodes ended up being the final four episodes of the show, as the show was not renewed for a third series and its production company closed down.
Duala currently presents the Sunday morning breakfast show on BBC Radio Sussex and BBC Radio Surrey.
References
External links
1964 births
Living people
Television presenters from Liverpool
English people of Cameroonian descent
British radio presenters
English male actors |
Hedley Blackmore (30 January 1901 – 22 August 1992) was a former Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Notes
External links
Hedley Blackmore's profile at Blueseum
1901 births
1992 deaths
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state)
Australian Rules footballers: place kick exponents
Carlton Football Club players
Maryborough Football Club players
Brunswick Football Club players |
FK Fayzkand Hulbuk () is a football club based in Hulbuk in Tajikistan.
History
FK Fayzkand earned promotion to the Tajikistan Higher League for the first time in 2019, after finishing second in the 2019 Tajikistan First League.
On 24 March 2020, FK Fayzkand announced Tokhirjon Muminov as their new manager.
Domestic history
Current squad
References
External links
Football clubs in Tajikistan |
Gradište () is a village in the municipality of Bela Palanka, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 65 people.
References
Populated places in Pirot District |
The Central City Community School District is a rural public school district headquartered in Central City, Iowa.
The district is completely within Linn County, and serves Central City, Prairieburg, and the surrounding rural areas.
Tim Cronin has served as superintendent since 2013, and in 2019, started a shared role with Dunkerton Community School District.
Schools
The district operates two schools, in one facility in Central City:
Central City Elementary School
Central City High School
Central City High School
Athletics
The Wildcats participate in the Tri-Rivers Conference in the following sports:
Football
Cross Country
Volleyball
Basketball
Wrestling
1922 State Champions
Golf
Track and Field
Soccer (competing with Marion)
Baseball
1956 State Champions
Softball
See also
List of school districts in Iowa
List of high schools in Iowa
References
External links
Central City Community School District
School districts in Iowa
Education in Linn County, Iowa |
Yacheng town (牙城镇) is a town in Xiapu county. Yacheng is a shopping capital of China. It is located in Fujian Province, in the southeastern part of the country, about 130 kilometers northeast of the provincial capital Fuzhou. The population is . The population consists of 11,980 women and 13,539 men. Children under 15 years make up 13.0%, adults 15–64 years 76%, and older people over 65 years 9.0%.
The nearest major community is Sansha, 7.4 km south of Yacheng.
The average annual rainfall is 1,950 millimeters. The wettest month is June, with an average of 274 mm of rainfall, and the driest is October, with 71 mm of rainfall.
Sources
Ningde
Township-level divisions of Fujian |
Michael Reed or Mike Reed may refer to:
Sportsmen
Michael Reed (cricketer) (born 1988), English cricketer
Michael Reed (soccer) (born 1987), American soccer player
Michael Reed (American football) (born 1972), American football player
Michael Reed (baseball) (born 1992), American baseball outfielder
Mike Reed (American football) (1975–2014), American football player
Mike Reed (boxer) (born 1993), American professional boxer
Others
G. Mike Reed, American computer scientist
Michael Reed (cinematographer) (1929–2022), British cinematographer
Michael C. Reed (born 1942), professor of mathematics at Duke University
Michael J. Reed (1944–2009), British chemist
Mike Reed (politician) (1945–2020), Australian politician
Mike Reed (musician) (born 1974), American jazz drummer
See also
Michael Reid (disambiguation)
Michael Read (born 1941), swimmer
Michael Redd (born 1979), American basketball player
Mike Read (born 1947), DJ |
Smim Payu (, ; died 1544) was a general and admiral of the Royal Burmese Armed Forces, and a senior minister at the court of King Tabinshwehti of Toungoo Dynasty from 1536 to 1544. The ethnic Mon commander was originally a minister at the court of King Takayutpi of Hanthawaddy but joined Tabinshwehti's service in 1536 and rose to be one of the top advisers to the Toungoo king. He is most well known for planning and commanding the 1541 naval attack on Martaban (Mottama) that finally breached the defenses of the last Hanthawaddy holdout, and ended the Toungoo–Hanthawaddy War (1534–41).
Military career
Switching to Tabinshwehti's side
Smim Payu was a minister at the court of King Takayutpi and a general in the Hanthawaddy Army. He battled Toungoo forces early in the Toungoo–Hanthawaddy War (1534–41). In November 1536, he commanded a cavalry battalion in the Hanthawaddy regiments sent to the front to meet the invading Toungoo forces on their way to Pegu, the capital of Hanthawaddy. The opposing armies met near Kawliya (modern Thongwa, Bago Region), and the Hanthawaddy army was defeated. Payu himself was captured. After the capture, Payu decided to switch sides. He was made a senior commander in the Toungoo army and an adviser to King Tabinshwehti. In the 1538–1539 campaign that finally captured Pegu, Payu commanded one of the seven flotillas that chased the retreating Hanthawaddy forces.
Battle of Martaban (1540–1541)
He made his name at the battle of Martaban. The city of Martaban (Mottama) on the upper Tenasserim coast was the last Hanthawaddy holdout. In November 1541, Toungoo forces laid siege to the port city. He led an army at first but was later reassigned to take command of the Toungoo navy with the rank of admiral (; lit. "Minister of War Boats"). For months, Toungoo forces tried but could not break through the wealthy port's heavily fortified defenses that included Portuguese mercenaries, firearms and warships. Toungoo armies could not even get near the high walls of the city defended by Portuguese muskets and cannon. Payu's "navy", which consisted of small war boats, too was unable to take on seven Portuguese warships guarding the harbor.
Payu then proposed a plan to the Toungoo command that the main attack needed go through the harbor. The king, who was personally leading the siege, accepted the plan, and appointed him to carry it out. The admiral went up the Salween river with thousands of men, and built two types of rafts. One type contained bamboo towers higher than the walls of the port. The others were fire-rafts. In May 1541, seven months into the siege and only weeks away from the rainy season, several fire-rafts "with flames higher than a toddy tree" came floating down the river toward the Portuguese ships guarding the harbor. Three of the seven Portuguese ships fled to the sea. The remaining four ships were either burned or captured. Then the rafts with mounted bamboo towers, crammed with troops and musketeers, slipped past the wreckage, and made it to the wall by the harbor. The Toungoo troops, who were exchanging musket fire with the defenders on the wall, then jumped over and soon won a foothold. The city fell, and the upper Tenasserim coast came under Toungoo rule.
Payu was showered with awards by the grateful king. He was given Myaungmya in fief and assigned his own cavalry and elephant regiments. He was also given the responsibility to administer the newly enlarged kingdom with Bayinnaung, the king's deputy.
Battle of Prome (1541–1542, 1543–1544)
Payu was the joint commander of the navy (with Nanda Yawda, governor of Thamyindon) in Toungoo's November 1541 attack on Prome Kingdom. Toungoo forces took the city of Prome (Pyay) in May 1542. In response, Prome's erstwhile overlord Confederation of Shan States tried to retake Prome in December 1543. Payu was one of the three top military strategists (along with Bayinnaung and Saw Lagun Ein) advising the king. (Payu and Lagun Ein were under the command of Bayinnaung.) Faced with an impending naval and land invasion, the troika advised that Toungoo forces focus on defeating the Confederation's navy first. Their strategy, Payu noted, was modeled after the strategy used by King Razadarit against King Minkhaung I in the Forty Years' War. Tabinshwehti agreed. In December 1543, the Toungoo navy lured the Confederation navy (consisted of 30 large war boats, 30 fast war boats, and 50 cargo ships) to an area where the Toungoo armies had set up artillery on both banks of the Irrawaddy. The Confederation navy was smashed by artillery fire. Without naval support, the 16,000-strong Confederation armies could not break Toungoo lines, and retreated after a month in January 1544.
Death
Smim Payu died in late 1544. He was deeply respected by the ethnic Mon lords of Lower Burma. Chronicles report that all of the Mon lords shaved their heads in mourning. His governorship at Myaungmya was succeeded by Satu Gamani.
Notes
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Bibliography
Burmese generals
First Toungoo Empire
1544 deaths
Burmese people of Mon descent
Year of birth unknown |
The Northern Quarter (, ) is the central business district of Brussels, Belgium. Like La Défense in Paris, the Docklands in London or the Zuidas in Amsterdam, the Northern Quarter consists of a concentrated collection of high-rise buildings where many Belgian and multinational companies have their headquarters.
The Northern Quarter roughly covers the area between Willebroek Quay, railways along Brussels-North railway station and the northern side of the Small Ring (Brussels' inner ring road). The territory is thus split between the municipalities of Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, Schaerbeek and the City of Brussels.
The area is characterised by high-rise buildings, most around tall. Over half of the twenty tallest buildings in Belgium are located in the Northern Quarter. The area has around of office space occupied by 40,000 workers. It has an additional 8,000 residents.
History
Origins
The area of what is today the Northern Quarter was first planned in the middle of the 19th century. Between 1850 and 1890, the north of Brussels heavily benefitted from industrialisation with the opening of / railway station, as well as the industries along the Brussels–Charleroi Canal (the future Port of Brussels). This first station was replaced in March 1846 by a new monumental station, Brussels-North railway station, on the Place Charles Rogier/Karel Rogierplein, a short distance east from the original site, on the territory of the municipality of Saint-Josse-ten-Noode.
Attracted by the industrial opportunities, many inhabitants settled in the area, first from the other Belgian provinces (mainly rural residents from Flanders) and France, then from Southern European, and more recently from Eastern European and African countries. Populated mainly by workers, the district was very popular, and had a very strong cultural identity. It was thus decided then to lay out new orthogonal streets on the axes of the / and the / to accommodate this growing populace.
The Northern Quarter has the particularity of straddling three municipalities (Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, Schaerbeek and the City of Brussels). The boundary between the three municipalities meandered like the bed of the Senne river, which was belatedly vaulted in this northern district. It is wedged between the North Station, Brussels' historic city centre (the Pentagon) and the canal.
1960s to present
The neighbourhood, deemed unhealthy, was largely razed in the 1960s at the end of the largest expropriation campaign that marked the history of Brussels. The so-called Manhattan Project was born (not to be confused with the World War II project of the same name). More specifically, it consisted, on the one hand, of the demolition of of the formerly working class district and the creation of a central business district in its place, and on the other, of the redevelopment of the area north of the Place Rogier, after it had become vacant with the demolition of the old North Station in 1956. The construction plan was approved on 17 February 1967 by the then Prime Minister Paul Vanden Boeynants.
The creation of the business district was controversial. The demolition of a built-up and occupied residential area around the North Station was not universally appreciated. Over 15,000 residents were forced out for this purpose. Shortly after the first rows of residences were demolished, an economic crisis struck, leaving an urban void. It was so decried that, in 1989, the newly created Brussels-Capital Region tried to remedy the problem by giving the town planning of the district a more human side. The area has since filled up with skyscrapers around the / and the /.
The first towers were completed in the 1970s and include the World Trade Center (WTC) 1 and 2. The TBR Tower and the WTC 3 followed in the 1980s. At the same time, the first residents of the Northern Residence were also able to move in. After a lull in building in the 1990s (with the exception of the Proximus Towers in 1994), projects resumed in the 2000s: the North Galaxy Towers (2004), the Ellipse building (2006) and the Covent Garden (2007). The Rogier Tower, completed in 2006, gave more character to the skyline. The Zenith Tower also anchors the perspective of the boulevard on its northern end. Now that the area is an established business district, more and more companies, in addition to federal and regional administrations, have offices in the district.
Notable buildings
Current buildings
Former buildings
See also
Brusselisation
History of Brussels
References
Notes
Bibliography
Neighbourhoods of Brussels
Economy of Brussels
Saint-Josse-ten-Noode
Schaerbeek
Financial districts
Central business districts |
Constantin Stamati (1786 – 12 September 1869) was a Romanian/Moldovan writer and translator. Born in Romania, he settled in Chişinău, Bessarabia (presently in Moldova) after the 1812 partition of Moldavia at the end of the Russo-Turkish War.
Stamati became a civil servant and official translator under the first Russian administration of the region. He was rewarded by the Russian Emperor with the Medal of Saint Anne and became a knight of that order.
He made the acquaintance of the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin at the time of latter's exile to Chişinău in 1820-1823. Stamati's most important work, Povestea poveştilor ("The Tale of Tales"), an idealized description of Moldavia's beginnings in verse, was published in Iaşi in 1843. His other works include contemporary satires and glorifications of Moldavia's past.
In 1866, he became one of the founding members of the Romanian Academy.
References
Recipients of the Order of St. Anna
Romanian poets
Russian male poets
Romanian male writers
Male poets from the Russian Empire
Male writers from the Russian Empire
Romanian translators
Translators from the Russian Empire
Founding members of the Romanian Academy
Writers from Iași
1786 births
1869 deaths |
Football Club Roskilde is a Danish professional association football club based in Roskilde, Region Zealand. They will compete in the Danish 2nd Division in the 2022–23 season following their promotion. They play at Roskilde Idrætspark (also known as 'The Eagles' Nest', after the eagle in the club's logo) which has a capacity of 6,000.
History
The club was founded in 2004 as a merger between Roskilde Boldklub 1906, Svogerslev Boldklub and Himmelev-Veddelev Boldklub.
In the 2013/2014 season, while playing in Division 2 (East), FC Roskilde set a new Danish league record for the number of consecutive league wins, with 20 wins in a row. The run began with a 2–0 home win against BSV on 22 September 2013 and ended with a 3–1 away win against Nordvest FC on 1 June 2014. The run was ended on 9 June 2014 by a 3–1 home defeat to Nykøbing FC.
Matchfixing case
After a 1-2 defeat to Lyngby Boldklub on 12 May 2019, Lønstrup accused his own players of match fixation. The charges from the manager came on the table at a meeting with the team, where the players demanded that Lønstrup present the evidence he said he had on the match fix. The national lottery in Denmark, Danske Spil, then went out and said, that they were investigating the charges. FC Roskilde announced later on the same day, that they had decided to suspend Lønstrup until the end of the season, in order to ensure peace of mind over the last two matches and at the same time have time to find the head and tail in the above claims.
The players allowed DIF to look in their private accounts as a part of the investigation and later also the Danish police joined the investigation. The Danish media, Politikken, wrote on 26 May 2019, that suspicious amounts have been played on matches with FC Roskilde in German kiosks. There were at least two games, that were suspicious, especially a game against Næstved BK, where large sums had been invested within a narrow geographical area in Germany. The bets were allegedly placed on the fact that there should be at least three scores in that match that ended 4-1 to Næstved. In 2014, Tipico closed for games on one of FC Vestsjælland's matches, and according to Politiken's information, the suspicious amounts of Roskilde's matches have been played from the same narrow area in Germany as then.
The owner of Roskilde then went out and said, that Lønstrup had decided to resign by himself, but Lønstrup denied that and filed Roskilde in June 2019. Lønstrup wrote in a letter to TV 2 Sport "I am sorry that my collaboration with FC Roskilde has ended in this way with a lack of support from the management, but I know that I responded as I did, and I still believe that it was the right thing to do".
Players
Current squad
As of 2 September 2023
References
External links
Roskilde, FC
Sport in Roskilde
Association football clubs established in 2004
2004 establishments in Denmark |
Abu Nasr Muhammad ibn Bugha () was a ninth-century military officer in the service of the Abbasid Caliphate.
He was the son of Bugha al-Kabir, a Turkic slave soldier (ghulam) and prominent army general. He is first mentioned during the civil war of 865–866, when he was responsible for seizing and defending the town of al-Anbar on behalf of al-Mu'tazz. He later played a leading role in the deposition of al-Mu'tazz in 869, when he, Salih ibn Wasif, and Bayakbak headed the party that arrested the caliph. Following the arrival of his brother Musa ibn Bugha in Samarra that same year, Muhammad joined his side and was subsequently ranked as one of the senior commanders in his faction.
During the breakdown in relations between the caliph al-Muhtadi and the Turkish leadership in June 870, Muhammad and his brother were targeted by attempts to incite the residents of Samarra against them. Following accusations that he and Musa were guilty of expropriating revenues, Muhammad was seized and placed into prison, and was shortly afterwards put to death. His fate contributed to the decision by the Samarran regiments to overthrow al-Muhtadi later that month.
Notes
References
870 deaths
9th-century executions by the Abbasid Caliphate
9th-century people from the Abbasid Caliphate |
```c++
/*=============================================================================
file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at path_to_url
==============================================================================*/
#if !defined(FUSION_IS_SEQUENCE_05052005_1002)
#define FUSION_IS_SEQUENCE_05052005_1002
#include <boost/fusion/support/sequence_base.hpp>
#include <boost/fusion/support/tag_of.hpp>
#include <boost/mpl/is_sequence.hpp>
#include <boost/mpl/or.hpp>
#include <boost/mpl/bool.hpp>
#include <boost/type_traits/is_convertible.hpp>
#include <boost/type_traits/is_same.hpp>
namespace boost { namespace fusion
{
// Special tags:
struct non_fusion_tag;
struct boost_tuple_tag; // boost::tuples::tuple tag
struct boost_array_tag; // boost::array tag
struct mpl_sequence_tag; // mpl sequence tag
struct std_pair_tag; // std::pair tag
namespace extension
{
template <typename T>
struct is_sequence_impl
{
template <typename Sequence>
struct apply
: is_convertible<Sequence, detail::from_sequence_convertible_type>
{};
};
template <>
struct is_sequence_impl<non_fusion_tag>
{
template <typename T>
struct apply : mpl::false_ {};
};
template <>
struct is_sequence_impl<boost_tuple_tag>;
template <>
struct is_sequence_impl<boost_array_tag>;
template <>
struct is_sequence_impl<mpl_sequence_tag>;
template <>
struct is_sequence_impl<std_pair_tag>;
}
namespace traits
{
template <typename T>
struct is_sequence
: mpl::bool_<
(bool)extension::is_sequence_impl<
typename fusion::detail::tag_of<T>::type
>::template apply<T>::type::value
>
{};
template <typename Sequence, typename Enable = void>
struct is_native_fusion_sequence
: is_convertible<Sequence, detail::from_sequence_convertible_type>
{};
}
}}
#endif
``` |
Valeri Belyakov (born 13 April 1953) was a field hockey player from the Soviet Union whose team won the bronze medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, behind India (gold) and Spain.
References
External links
1953 births
Living people
Russian male field hockey players
Olympic field hockey players for the Soviet Union
Soviet male field hockey players
Field hockey players at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for the Soviet Union
Olympic medalists in field hockey
Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Friendship Games medalists in field hockey
Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR
Field hockey coaches
Russian sports coaches |
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