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Babinci () is a village in the Municipality of Ljutomer in northeastern Slovenia. The area traditionally belonged to the Styria region and is now included in the Mura Statistical Region. Name Babinci was attested in written sources 1280–1295 as villa Wakendorf. Like similar place names (e.g., Babna Brda, Babiči, Babna Gora, etc.), the name is derived from the Slovene common noun baba. In addition to the basic meaning 'old woman', baba often means 'rocky outcrop, cliff; mountain top, peak' and generally refers to a local terrain feature. Cultural heritage There is a small chapel in the centre of the village. It was built in the late 19th century. References External links Babinci on Geopedia Populated places in the Municipality of Ljutomer
The 8th annual Billboard Latin Music Awards which honor the most popular albums, songs, and performers in Latin music took place in Miami. Pop Album of the Year, Male Luis Miguel — Vivo Chayanne — Simplemente Oscar De La Hoya — Oscar De La Hoya Alejandro Fernández — Entre tus brazos Pop album of the year, female Mi Reflejo, Christina Aguilera Paulina, Paulina Rubio MTV Unplugged, Shakira Arrasando, Thalía Pop album of the year, group Mi Gloria, Eres Tu, Los Tri-OEl Sapo Azul, Azul Subir Al Cielo, MDO CD 00, OV7 Pop album of the year, new artistMi Reflejo, Christina AguileraEl Sapo Azul, Azul Oscar De La Hoya, Oscar De La Hoya CD 00, OV7 Latin Pop Track of the YearA Puro Dolor — "Son by Four" Muy Dentro de Mi, Marc Anthony Por Amarte Así — Cristian Castro Atado a Tu Amor — "Chayanne" Tropical/salsa album of the year, maleEl Amor de Mi Tierra, Carlos VivesWow! Flash, Elvis Crespo Chanchullo, Rubén González Obra maestra, Tito Puente & Eddie Palmieri Tropical/salsa album of the year, femaleAlma Caribeña, Gloria EstefanVoy a Enamorarte, Gisselle Baño de Luna, Melina León Buena Vista Social Club Presents Omara Portuondo, Omara Portuondo Tropical/salsa album of the year, groupSon by Four, Son by FourDistinto, Diferente, Afro-Cuban All Stars (Universal Latino) Masters of the Stage, Grupo Manía Sabe a Limi-T, Limi-T 21 Tropical/salsa album of the year, new artistSon by Four, Son by FourSeras Parte De Mi Mundo, Anthony Con Su Loquera, Mala Fe Buena Vista Social Club Presents Omara Portuondo, Omara Portuondo Tropical/salsa track of the yearA Puro Dolor — "Son by Four" Muy Dentro de Mi, Marc Anthony "Jurame", Gisselle "Que Alguien Me Diga", "Gilberto Santa Rosa" Regional Mexican album of the year, male"Secreto De Amor", Joan Sebastian"Lo Grande De Los Grandes", Pepe Aguilar "Por Una Mujer Bonita", Pepe Aguilar "Lobo Herido", Vicente Fernández Regional Mexican album of the year, male groupEn la Madrugada Se Fue, Los TemerariosLo Mejor de Mi Vida, Banda el Recodo Morir de Amor, Conjunto Primavera De Paisano A Paisano, Los Tigres del Norte Regional Mexican album of the year, female group or female solo artistPor Encima De Todo , Grupo LímitePrenda Del Alma, Yesenia Flores Abrázame y Bésame, Jennifer El Amor Nos Mantendra Juntos, Priscila y Sus Balas de Plata Regional Mexican album of the year, new artistAbrázame y Bésame, Jennifer100 Años de Mariachi, Placido Domingo Regional Mexican track of the year"El Liston De Tu Pelo", Los Ángeles Azules"Yo Se Que Te Acordarass", Banda el Recodo "Morir de Amor", Conjunto Primavera "Y Sigues Siendo tu", Rogelio Martínez Latin rock album of the yearMTV Unplugged, ShakiraBrujerizmo, Brujeria Uno, La Ley Hot Latin Track of the Year "A Puro Dolor", Son by Four""Muy Dentro de Mi", Marc Anthony "Que Alguien Me Diga", "Gilberto Santa Rosa" "Secreto De Amor", Joan Sebastian Hot Latin Tracks of the Year, Vocal Duo"Que Locura Enamorarme de Ti", Eddie Santiago and Huey Dunbar "Come Baby Come", Gizelle D'Cole and Elvis Crespo "Pideme", Milly Quezada and Fernando Villalona Latin jazz album of the yearLatin Soul, Poncho Sanchez¡Muy Divertido!, Marc Ribot y Los Cubanos Soul of the Conga, Poncho Sanchez Live at the Village Vanguard, Chucho Valdés Latin greatest-hits album of the yearDesde un Principio: From the Beginning, Marc AnthonyThe Remixes, Elvis Crespo The Best Hits, Enrique Iglesias All My Hits Vol. 2, Selena Latin compilation album of the year2000 Latin Grammy Nominees'', Various ArtistBillboard Latin Music Awards, Various ArtistGuerra de Estados Pesados, Various ArtistMerenhits 2000'', Various Artist Latin Dance Maxi-Single of the Year "Sólo me importas tú", Enrique Iglesias "Muy Dentro de Mi", Marc Anthony "No Me Dejes de Querer", Gloria Estefan "Shake Your Bon-Bon", Ricky Martin Latin Dance Club Play Track of the Year "Sólo me importas tú", Enrique Iglesias "No Me Dejes de Querer", Gloria Estefan "Cada Vez", Negrocan "Asi", Jon Secada The Billboard Latin 50 Artists of the year Son by Four Christina Aguilera Marc Anthony Shakira Hot Latin Tracks Artist of the Year Son by Four Marc Anthony Cristian Castro Conjunto Primavera Songwriter of the Year Omar Alfanno Estéfano Rudy Pérez Kike Santander Producer of the Year Rudy Pérez Emilio Estefan Alejandro Jaén Kike Santander Publisher of the year EMOA-ASCAP F.I.P.P, BMI Sony/ATV Latin, BMI WB, ASCAP Publishing corporation of the year Sony/ATV Music EMI Music F.I.P.P. Universal Music Spirit of Hope Los Tigres del Norte Billboard Latin Music Hall of Fame Mongo Santamaría Billboard Lifetime achievement award Los Lobos Star award Thalía References Billboard Latin Music Awards Latin Billboard Music Awards Latin Billboard Music Awards Billboard Music Awards Latin Billboard Music
Brackenbury Battery was a small coastal artillery fort located just north of Felixstowe, England,and initially known as Felixstowe Battery. It opened in October 1915 to provide fire northward from the Haven ports, replacing a battery of 10-inch guns that had previously covered this area. With their removal, only a single 10-inch gun in Landguard Fort could fire in that direction, and Brackenbury was built to address this problem. Brackenbury Battery was equipped with two of the newest 9.2-inch Mk IX guns, making it the most powerfully armed battery on the east coast at that time. The gun's carriages were set in concrete with shelters below, then surrounded by an earthen rampart and ditch. The guns were upgraded to Mk. X versions in 1929-1930. Trenches and strongpoints were added around the battery on the outbreak of World War II, and in 1941 two searchlights were placed on the beach to give the battery night fighting capability. The Battery had a role in the development of radar when, in July 1939, the guns were being test fired right as researchers at Bawdsey Manor, about to the north, were testing a new surface-scanning radar. The splashes of the shells produced strong returns on the radar displays, allowing the team to measure the distance and bearing of the fall of shot. This led to the development of Coast Artillery radar, and more generally the use of radar to guide naval gunfire. During WWII, the battery was manned by the 176 Battery of Suffolk Heavy Regiment Royal Artillery (Territorial Army), and later, 278 Battery of 515 Coast Regiment. It was put into care and maintenance in 1944, and formally stood down in 1952. The site was later redeveloped as a housing estate, and the area is now a greenspace. No sign of the battery remains. References External links 360 degree panoramic image of the site, at Atlas360 Device Forts Forts in Suffolk Felixstowe
Robert Raglan (7 April 1909 – 18 July 1985) was a British actor best known for his semi-regular role in Dad's Army as Colonel Pritchard. He also starred in a number of other television series and films such as Fabian of the Yard (1954–56) and The Haunted House of Horror (1969). He also appeared in Danger Man with Patrick McGoohan, and Scotland Yard. Partial filmography The Courtneys of Curzon Street (1947) - (uncredited) Circus Boy (1947) - Trevor Night Beat (1947) - Det. Sgt (uncredited) The Ringer (1952) - (uncredited) The Broken Horseshoe (1953) - (uncredited) Recoil (1953) - Sgt Perkins The Good Beginning (1953) - Shelley (uncredited) Gilbert Harding Speaking of Murder (1953) - Inspector McKay (uncredited) Child's Play (1954) - Police Superintendent Confession (1955) - Superintendent Beckman Portrait of Alison (1955) - (uncredited) Handcuffs, London (1955) - Det. Sgt Wyatt Private's Progress (1956) - General Tomlinson 23 Paces to Baker Street (1956) - Police Inspector (uncredited) Morning Call (1957) - Plainclothesman Brothers in Law (1957) - Cleaver There's Always a Thursday (1957) - Crosby The Crooked Sky (1957) - Senior Civil Servant Five Clues to Fortune (1957) - Mr Robson The Big Chance (1957) - Police Inspector The One That Got Away (1957) - Bystander (uncredited) Man from Tangier (1957) - Inspector Meredith Zoo Baby (1957) - Plumber Count Five and Die (1957) - Lt Miller Undercover Girl (1958) - Det. Insp. Willingdon Violent Playground (1958) - (uncredited) Gideon's Day (1958) - Henry Dawson (uncredited) A Night to Remember (1958) - Chief Engineer Johnston, SS Carpathia (uncredited) Corridors of Blood (1958) - Wilkes Hidden Homicide (1959) - Ashbury The Great Van Robbery (1959) - Surgeon The Child and the Killer (1959) - Inspector Innocent Meeting (1959) - Martin Web of Suspicion (1959) - Inspector Clark No Safety Ahead (1959) - Langton High Jump (1959) - Inspector The Heart of a Man (1959) - Policeman (uncredited) A Woman's Temptation (1959) - Police Constable Follow a Star (1959) - Policeman (uncredited) Dead Lucky (1960) - Assistant Commissioner (uncredited) Beat Girl (1960) - FO Official A Taste of Honey (1961) - Simpson Information Received (1961) - Supt Jeffcote Two and Two Make Six (1962) - Policeman (uncredited) The Traitors (1962) Jigsaw (1962) - Chief Constable (uncredited) Live Now, Pay Later (1962) The Comedy Man (1964) - (uncredited) Where the Spies Are (1966) - Sir Robert Prehistoric Women (1967) - Colonel Hammond Subterfuge (1968) - Fennimore The Haunted House of Horror (1969) - John Bradley The Magic Christian (1969) - Maltravers Loot (1970) - Doctor Toomorrow (1970) - Principal (uncredited) The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer (1970) - General Strike Dad's Army (1971) - Inspector Hardcastle To Catch a Spy (1971) - Ambassador Tomorrow (1972) - (uncredited) A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square (1979) - Judge The Mirror Crack'd (1980) - Villager (uncredited) Television appearances Educated Evans (1957, 1 episode) as Sergeant Charlesworth (1959, 1 episode) as Inspector Godfrey Francis Storm Investigates (1960, 1 episode) as Chief Inspector Bloom The Sullavan Brothers (1965, 1 episode) as Jim Fenn Dad's Army (1970-1977, 38 episodes) as The Colonel / Captain Pritchard / HG Sergeant Steptoe and Son (1970, 1 episode) as Mr Caldwell The Liver Birds (1971, 1 episode) as Manager Bless This House (1972-1974, 1 episode) as George Humphries / Sir Maxwell Are You Being Served? (1973-1974, 2 episodes) as The 40" Waist / Dr Wainwright My Name Is Harry Worth (1974, 1 episode) as Magistrate Love Thy Neighbour (1975, 1 episode) as Doctor You're Only Young Twice (1977) as Mr Whittaker Going Straight (1978, 1 episode) as Inspector George and Mildred (1978-1979, 3 episodes) as Mr Bowles / Brown / Reginald Clifton-White Robin's Nest (1979) as Carter Nancy Astor (1982, 2 episodes) as MP References External links English male film actors English male television actors 1909 births 1985 deaths People from Reigate 20th-century English male actors
Hoffenheim () is a village in Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It belongs to the municipality of Sinsheim and, as of 2020, it has a population of 3,191. History The village, settled since prehistoric times, and first mentioned in 773 as Hovaheim in the Lorsch codex, was officially incorporated on July 1, 1972 into Sinsheim. Geography Hoffenheim is located in the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region, close to the Neckartal-Odenwald nature park. It is to the west of Sinsheim, south of Meckesheim and only approximately from Heidelberg. Sport Hoffenheim is the historic home to football club TSG 1899 Hoffenheim which currently plays in the Bundesliga, Germany's top division, although the senior side now play their home games in the Rhein-Neckar-Arena, located in another Sinsheim suburb, Steinsfurt. Gallery Personalities Volker Kauder (b. 1949 in Hoffenheim), politician (CDU) Dietmar Hopp (b. 1940), Co-Founder of SAP Golineh Atai (b. 1974), German journalist and TV-correspondent References External links Villages in Baden-Württemberg Rhein-Neckar-Kreis Former municipalities in Baden-Württemberg
Sibhinis, Siobhanais or Shivinish. is one of the Monach Islands, lying between Ceann Iar and Ceann Ear. It is tidal, and connected at low tide to Ceann Iar by Fadhail Shibhinis, and to Ceann Ear by Faodhail Chinn Ear. It is at its highest point. It is said that it was at one time possible to walk all the way to Baleshare, and on to North Uist, away at low tide. In the 16th century, a large tidal wave was said to have washed this away. The island is about acres in extent and has five temples which have long remained abandoned on the island. See also List of islands of Scotland References Monach Islands Tidal islands of Scotland Uninhabited islands of the Outer Hebrides
Amorpha-4,11-diene is a precursor to artemisinin. See also Amorpha-4,11-diene synthase References Sesquiterpenes
This Is Eggland is the fifth studio album by English punk rock band The Lovely Eggs. It was released in February 2018 under Egg Records. Critical reception This Is Eggland was met with "generally favourable" reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 72, based on 12 reviews. Accolades Track listing Charts References 2018 albums The Lovely Eggs albums
William Desmond Taylor (born William Cunningham Deane-Tanner, 26 April 1872 – 1 February 1922) was an Anglo-Irish-American film director and actor. A popular figure in the growing Hollywood motion picture colony of the 1910s and early 1920s, Taylor directed fifty-nine silent films between 1914 and 1922 and acted in twenty-seven between 1913 and 1915. Taylor's murder on 1 February 1922, along with other Hollywood scandals such as the Roscoe Arbuckle trial, led to a frenzy of sensationalist and often fabricated newspaper reports. The murder remains an official cold case. Early life William Cunningham Deane-Tanner was born into the Anglo-Irish gentry on 26 April 1872, at Evington House, Carlow, County Carlow, Ireland, one of five children of a retired British Army officer, Major Thomas Kearns Deane-Tanner of the Carlow Rifles, 8th Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps, and his wife, Jane O'Brien. Taylor's siblings were Denis Gage Deane-Tanner, Ellen "Nell" Deane-Tanner Faudel-Phillips, Lizzie "Daisy" Deane-Tanner, and Oswald Kearns Deane-Tanner. One of his uncles was Charles Kearns Deane Tanner, the Irish Parliamentary Party Member of Parliament for Mid Cork. From 1885 to 1887, Taylor attended Marlborough College in England. In 1891, he left Ireland for a dude ranch in Kansas. There, Taylor became reacquainted with acting (his first experiences being at school) and eventually moved to New York City. While in New York, Taylor courted Ethel May Hamilton, an actress who had appeared in the stage musical Florodora under the name Ethel May Harrison. Hamilton's father was a broker and an investor in the English antiques store on Fifth Avenue, the Antique Shoppe, which eventually employed Taylor. The couple married in an Episcopal ceremony on 7 December 1901 at the Little Church Around the Corner, and had a daughter, Ethel Daisy, in 1902 or 1903. Taylor and his family were well known in New York society and were members of several clubs. He was also a heavy drinker, possibly suffered from depression, and was known to carry on affairs with women. Taylor suddenly disappeared on 23 October 1908, deserting his wife and daughter. After his disappearance, friends said he had previously suffered "mental lapses", and his family thought initially he had wandered off during an episode of amnesia. Taylor's wife obtained a state decree of divorce in 1912. Little is known of the years immediately following Taylor's disappearance. He traveled through Canada, Alaska and the northwestern U.S., mining gold and working with various acting troupes. Eventually, he switched from acting to producing. By the time he arrived in San Francisco, California around 1912, he had changed his name to William Desmond Taylor; in San Francisco, some New York acquaintances met him, and provided him with some money to re-establish himself in Los Angeles. Hollywood Taylor's initial film acting was in 1913 for the New York Motion Picture Company, releasing under the brands of Bronco and Kay-Bee. His earliest known screen appearance was in The Counterfeiter. He then acted for Vitagraph Studios, including four appearances opposite Margaret "Gibby" Gibson, and Balboa Amusement Producing Company. At Balboa, Taylor met actress Neva Gerber with whom he became engaged until 1919. Gerber later recalled, "He was the soul of honour, a man of personal culture, education, and refinement. I have never known a finer or better man." Taylor began directing films in 1914, beginning with The Judge's Wife for Balboa. After leaving Balboa he directed two films at Favorite Players Film Co. and then American Film Manufacturing Company, where he directed most of the 30-episode serial The Diamond from the Sky. In October 1915 he joined Pallas Pictures. A year later Pallas became a subsidiary of Famous Players–Lasky. Except for a month working at Fox Film Corporation in 1917, all of Taylor's subsequent films were directed for Famous Players–Lasky or its subsidiary companies. Around 1915, Taylor made contact with a sister-in-law, Ada Brennan Deane-Tanner, wife of Taylor's younger brother Denis. A former British Army lieutenant and manager of a New York antiques business (separate from Hamilton's), Denis had also abandoned his wife and children, disappearing in 1912. Ada and her daughters moved to Monrovia, California, where Ada could be treated at the Pottinger Sanitorium for tuberculosis. Ada's sister, Lillian Pomeroy, was married to the sanitorium's physician in charge, Dr. John L. Pomeroy. This would become public after Taylor's murder, and the press descended upon the little town of Monrovia. Towards the end of World War I, in July 1918, Taylor enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force as a private. After training for four and a half months at Fort Edward, Nova Scotia, Taylor sailed from Halifax on a troop transport carrying 500 Canadian soldiers. They arrived at Hounslow Barracks, London on 2 December 1918. Taylor was ultimately assigned to the Royal Army Service Corps of the Expeditionary Forces Canteen Service, stationed at Dunkirk, and promoted to the temporary grade of lieutenant on 15 January 1919. At the end of April 1919, Taylor reached his final billet at Bergues, France, as Major Taylor, Company D, Royal Fusiliers. Upon returning to Los Angeles on 14 May 1919, Taylor was honoured by the Motion Picture Directors Association with a formal banquet at the Los Angeles Athletic Club. After returning from military service, Taylor went on to direct some of the most popular stars of the era, including Mary Pickford, Wallace Reid, Dustin Farnum and his protégée, Mary Miles Minter, who starred in the 1919 version of Anne of Green Gables. By this time, Taylor's ex-wife and daughter were aware that he was working in Hollywood. In 1918, while watching the film Captain Alvarez, they saw Taylor appear on the screen. Ethel responded, "That's your father!" In response, Ethel Daisy wrote Taylor in care of the studio. In 1921, Taylor visited his ex-wife and daughter in New York City and made Ethel Daisy his legal heir. Murder At 7:30 on the morning of Thursday, 2 February 1922, Taylor's body was found inside his bungalow at the Alvarado Court Apartments, 404-B South Alvarado Street, in Westlake, Los Angeles, a trendy and affluent neighborhood. A crowd gathered inside, and someone identifying himself as a doctor stepped forward, made a cursory examination of the body, and declared Taylor had died of a stomach hemorrhage. The doctor was never seen again, and when doubts later arose, the body was rolled over by forensic investigators, revealing that the 49-year-old film director had been shot at least once in the back with what appeared to have been a small-caliber pistol, which was not found at the scene. Funeral Taylor's funeral took place on 7 February 1922, in St. Paul's Cathedral. After an Episcopal ceremony, he was interred in a mausoleum at Hollywood Cemetery, now named Hollywood Forever Cemetery, on Santa Monica Boulevard. The inscription on his crypt reads, "In Memory of William C. Deane-Tanner, Beloved Father of Ethel Deane-Tanner. Died 1 February 1922." Investigation In Taylor's pockets, investigators found a wallet holding US$78 in cash (modern day $), a silver cigarette case, a Waltham pocket watch, a pen knife, and a locket bearing a photograph of actress Mabel Normand. A two-carat diamond ring was on his finger. With the evidence of the money and valuables on Taylor's body, robbery did not seem to be the motive for the killing, but a large sum of cash, that Taylor had shown to his accountant the day before, was missing and apparently never accounted for. After some investigation, the time of Taylor's death was set at 7:50 pm on the evening of 1 February 1922. While being interviewed by the police five days after the director's body was found, Minter said that, following the murder, her friend, director and actor Marshall Neilan, had told her that Taylor had made several highly "delusional" statements about some of his social acquaintances (including her) during the weeks before his death. She also said that Neilan thought Taylor had recently become "insane". In the midst of a media circus caused by the case, Los Angeles Undersheriff Eugene Biscailuz warned Chicago Tribune reporter Eddie Doherty, "The industry has been hurt. Stars have been ruined. Stockholders have lost millions of dollars. A lot of people are out of jobs and incensed enough to take a shot at you." According to Robert Giroux, "The studios seemed to be fearful that if certain aspects of the case were exposed, it would exacerbate their problems." King Vidor said of the case in 1968: "Last year I interviewed a Los Angeles police detective, William Michael Cahill Sr., now retired, who had been assigned to the case immediately after the murder. He told me, 'We were doing all right and then, before a week was out, we got the word to lay off.'" Suspects and witnesses Edward Sands Edward F. Sands had prior convictions for embezzlement, forgery, and serial desertion from the U.S. military. Born in Ohio, he had multiple aliases and spoke with an affected cockney accent. Sands had worked as Taylor's valet and cook until seven months before the murder. While Taylor was in Europe the summer before in 1921, Sands had forged his name on cheques and wrecked his car. Later, Sands burgled Taylor's bungalow, leaving footprints on the film director's bed. Following the murder, Sands was never seen or heard from again. Henry Peavey Henry Peavey, who replaced Sands as Taylor's valet, was the person who found the body. Newspapers noted that Peavey wore flashy golf costumes, but did not own any golf clubs. Three days before Taylor's murder, Peavey had been arrested for "social vagrancy" and charged with being "lewd and dissolute". According to Robert Giroux: In 1931, Peavey died in a San Francisco asylum where he had been hospitalized for syphilis-related dementia. Mabel Normand Mabel Normand was a popular comedic actress and frequent costar with Charlie Chaplin and Roscoe Arbuckle. According to author Robert Giroux, Taylor was deeply in love with Normand and she had originally approached him for help to cure her cocaine dependency. Based upon Normand's subsequent statements to police investigators, her repeated relapses were devastating for Taylor. According to Giroux, Taylor met with federal prosecutors shortly before his death and offered to testify against Normand's cocaine suppliers. Giroux believed that those suppliers learned of the meeting and hired a contract killer to assassinate the director. According to Giroux, Normand suspected the reasons for her lover's murder, but did not know the identity of the triggerman. On the night of the murder, Normand claimed to have left Taylor's bungalow in a happy mood at 7:45 pm, carrying a book he had lent her. She and Taylor blew kisses to each other as her limousine drove her away. Normand was the last person known to have seen Taylor alive, and the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) subjected her to a grueling interrogation, but ruled her out as a suspect. Most subsequent writers have done the same. However, Normand's career had already slowed, and her reputation was tarnished by revelations of her addiction, which was seen as a moral failing. According to George Hopkins, who sat next to her at Taylor's funeral, Normand wept inconsolably throughout the ceremony. Ultimately, Normand continued to make films throughout the 1920s. She died of tuberculosis eight years later, on 23 February 1930. According to her friend and confidante Julia Brew, Normand asked her a few days before she died: "Julia, do you think they'll ever find out who killed Bill Taylor?" Faith Cole MacLean Faith Cole MacLean, the wife of actor Douglas MacLean and neighbor of Taylor's, is widely believed to have seen Taylor's killer. The couple was startled by a loud noise at 8 pm. MacLean opened her front door and saw someone emerging from the front door of Taylor's home who, she said, was dressed "like my idea of a motion picture burglar". She recalled the person pausing for a moment before turning and walking back through the door, as if having forgotten something, then re-emerging seconds later, flashing a smile at her before running off and disappearing between the buildings. MacLean thought that the loud noise she had heard was a car back-firing, not a gunshot. She also told police interviewers the person looked "funny" (like movie actors in white-faced makeup) and speculated that it may have been a woman disguised as a man, due to the person's height and build. Mary Miles Minter Mary Miles Minter was a former child star and teen screen idol whose career had been guided by Taylor. Minter, who had grown up without a father, was only three years older than the daughter Taylor had abandoned in New York. Love letters from Minter were found in Taylor's bungalow. Based upon those, reporters alleged that a sexual relationship between the 49-year-old Taylor and 19-year-old Minter had started when she was 17. Giroux and Vidor, however, disputed that allegation. Citing Minter's own statements, both believed that her love for Taylor was unrequited. Taylor had often declined to see Minter, and had described himself as too old for her. However, facsimiles of Minter's passionate letters to Taylor were printed in newspapers, forever shattering her screen image as a modest and wholesome young girl, and she was vilified in the press. Minter made four more films for Paramount Pictures, and when the studio failed to renew her contract, she received offers from many other producers. Never comfortable as an actress, Minter declined them all. In 1957, she married Brandon O. Hildebrandt, a Danish-American businessman. She died in Santa Monica, California, on 4 August 1984. Charlotte Shelby Charlotte Shelby was Minter's mother. Like many stage mothers before and since, she has been described as manipulative and consumed by wanton greed over her daughter's career. Minter and her mother were bitterly divided by financial disputes and lawsuits for a time, but they later reconciled. Shelby's initial statements to police about the murder are still characterized as evasive and "obviously filled with lies" about both her daughter's relationship with Taylor and "other matters". Perhaps the most compelling bit of circumstantial evidence was that Shelby allegedly owned a rare .38 caliber pistol and some unusual bullets, which were very similar to the kind which had killed Taylor. After that information became public, she reportedly threw the pistol into a Louisiana bayou. Shelby knew the Los Angeles district attorney socially and spent years outside the United States, in an effort to avoid both official inquiries by his successor, and press coverage related to the murder. In 1938, her other daughter, actress Margaret Shelby (who was by then suffering from both clinical depression and alcoholism), openly accused her mother of the murder. Shelby was widely suspected of the crime and was a favorite suspect of many writers. For example, Adela Rogers St. Johns speculated that Shelby was torn by feelings of maternal protection for her daughter and her own attraction to Taylor. Although Shelby feared being tried for the murder, at least two Los Angeles County district attorneys publicly declined to prosecute her. Almost twenty years after the murder, Los Angeles district attorney, Buron Fitts, concluded evidence was insufficient for an indictment of Shelby and recommended that the remaining evidence and case files be retained on a permanent basis. All of those materials subsequently disappeared. Shelby died in 1957. Fitts, in ill health, died by suicide in 1973. Margaret Gibson Margaret Gibson was a film actress who had worked with Taylor when he first came to Hollywood. In 1917, she was indicted, tried, and acquitted on charges equivalent to prostitution (along with allegations of opium dealing), after which she changed her professional name to Patricia Palmer. In 1923, Gibson was arrested and jailed on extortion charges, which were later dropped. She was 27 years old and in Los Angeles at the time of Taylor's murder. No record of her name was ever mentioned in connection with the investigation. Soon after the murder, Gibson got work in a number of films produced by Famous Players–Lasky, Taylor's studio at the time of his death. Shortly before she died in 1964, Gibson reportedly confessed to murdering Taylor. Lack of evidence Through a combination of poor crime scene management and apparent corruption, much physical evidence was immediately lost, and the rest vanished over the years, although copies of a few documents from the police files were made public in 2007. Various theories were put forward after the murder, and in the years since, and many books published, claiming to have identified the murderer, but no conclusive evidence has ever been uncovered linking the crime to any particular individual. Aftermath Because so many of the celebrities mentioned in the Taylor case were familiar to the public through their movie performances, this was the first American murder in which so many people felt such a personal interest. Public interest in the case resulted in stories about the Taylor murder selling more newspapers in the United States than ever before. Anti-Hollywood sentiment peaked in the weeks following the Taylor murder, with editorials comparing Hollywood to "all the licentiousness that marked the Roman times of Caligula, Claudius, and Nero," "our American Sodom and Gomorrah," and sounding the call to "Destroy Hollywood!" Other editorials characterized Taylor as a crafty, cultured villain who "got what was coming to him," and urging, "Every weapon available should be used by all the forces of law to defeat the conspiracy to cover up the Taylor case." A spate of newspaper-driven Hollywood scandals during the early 1920s included Taylor's murder, the Roscoe Arbuckle trial, the death of Olive Thomas, the mysterious death of Thomas H. Ince, and the drug- or alcohol-related deaths of Wallace Reid, Barbara La Marr, and Jeanne Eagels, all of which prompted Hollywood studios to begin writing contracts with "morality clauses" or "moral turpitude clauses", allowing the dismissal of contractees who breached them. In popular culture The murder appears in F Scott Fitzgerald's 1940 story "Pat Hobby's Christmas Wish". Hobby discovers a supposed confession to the murder from a Hollywood producer and tries to use it to blackmail him. The film Sunset Boulevard (1950), with William Holden and Gloria Swanson, features a fictional, aging silent screen actress named "Norma Desmond", whose name was taken from Taylor's middle name and Mabel Normand's last name, as a way to resonate with the widely publicized scandals of almost 30 years before. The film Hollywood Story (1951), an attempt by Universal Pictures to take advantage of the success of Sunset Boulevard, is clearly based directly on the Taylor murder. While the film reaches a fictional conclusion, it follows the circumstances of the real-life event closely. Gore Vidal's novel Hollywood (1990) features a fictionalised account of the Taylor murder. Other novels that fictionalize the case include 13 Castle Walk by DeWitt Bodeen (1975), The Man Who Died Twice by Samuel A. Peeples (1976), and Running Time by Gavin Lambert (1982). Taylor's murder was depicted in David Merrick's production of the Jerry Herman - Michael Stewart "cult" musical Mack & Mabel, which opened on Broadway at the Majestic Theatre on 6 October 1974, and ran for six previews and 66 regular performances. Directed and choreographed by Gower Champion, the production starred Robert Preston as Mack Sennett and Bernadette Peters as Mabel Normand, with James Mitchell portraying William Desmond Taylor. "Old Hollywood: Silent Stars, Deadly Secret", an episode of the A&E true crime series City Confidential, aired in 2000 and is about the Taylor murder. In 2012, to mark the 140th anniversary of his birth, The William Desmond Taylor Society, in his home town of Carlow, Ireland, established Taylorfest, an annual arts and film festival honoring Ireland's most prolific filmmaker and celebrating the contribution of the Irish to silent film. TinPot and Cleverality Productions produced, with funding from The Broadcast Authority of Ireland, a one-hour drama-documentary examining the murder of William Desmond Taylor presented in the style of a 1920s live radio show entitled Who Killed Bill? (2013). Written and directed by Marc-Ivan O'Gorman, the show combined dramatizations with interviews from experts, including Oscar-winning film historian Kevin Brownlow. In 2018, Buzzfeed Unsolved produced a video discussing "The Scandalous Murder of William Desmond Taylor". In 2020, Wondery released a six-episode podcast series "Murder in Hollywoodland" about the murder. Career as director Taylor directed more than 60 films. These include: The Diamond From the Sky (1915; co-directed with Jacques Jaccard) A Woman Scorned (1915) He Fell in Love with His Wife (1916) Ben Blair (1916) The Heart of Paula (1916; co-directed with friend Julia Crawford Ivers) Pasquale (1916) The American Beauty (1916) Davy Crockett (1916) The Parson of Panamint (1916) The House of Lies (1916) Her Father's Son (1916) Redeeming Love (1916) Happiness of Three Women (1917) Out of the Wreck (1917) The World Apart (1917) Big Timber (1917) The Varmint (1917) Jack and Jill (1917) Tom Sawyer (1917) The Spirit of '17 (1918) Huck and Tom (1918) Up the Road with Sallie (1918) His Majesty, Bunker Bean (1918) Mile-a-Minute Kendall (1918) How Could You, Jean? (1918) with Mary Pickford Johanna Enlists (1918) with Mary Pickford Captain Kidd Jr. (1919) with Mary Pickford Anne of Green Gables (1919) with Mary Miles Minter Huckleberry Finn (1920) Judy of Rogue's Harbor (1920) with Mary Miles Minter Nurse Marjorie (1920) with Mary Miles Minter Jenny Be Good (1920) with Mary Miles Minter The Soul of Youth (1920) The Furnace (1920) The Witching Hour (1921) Sacred and Profane Love (1921) Wealth (1921) Beyond (1921) Morals (1921) The Green Temptation (1922) (released posthumously) The Top of New York (1922) (released posthumously) See also List of unsolved murders References Further reading External links Taylorology Homepage Links to all issues of Taylorology (4 through 98). 1872 births 1922 deaths 1922 murders in the United States 19th-century Anglo-Irish people 20th-century Anglo-Irish people American people of Anglo-Irish descent British Army personnel of World War I Burials at Hollywood Forever Cemetery Deaths by firearm in California Irish Anglicans Irish expatriates in the United States Irish people murdered abroad Irish male silent film actors Actors from County Carlow People murdered in California Royal Army Service Corps officers Silent film directors Unsolved murders in the United States 20th-century Irish male actors Royal Fusiliers officers Canadian Expeditionary Force officers People from Carlow (town) Murder victims from County Carlow
Tanja Magdalena Schuster is a taxonomist from Austria, and the first Pauline Ladiges Plant Systematics Fellow, holding a joint position with the School of Biosciences, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, and the National Herbarium of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. Schuster also worked as curator of the Norton-Brown Herbarium at the University of Maryland, College Park. In 2011, Schuster created the genus Duma for some species previously placed in Muehlenbeckia, but which were shown by molecular phylogenetic studies to form a distinct clade. The name is derived from the Latin for "thorn-bush." Selected works Taxa authored by Schuster Schuster is listed in the International Plant Names Index as the author or co-author of 62 names, including: Duma T.M.Schust. Koenigia alaskana T.M.Schust. & Reveal (syn. Polygonum alpinum) Koenigia alpina T.M.Schust. & Reveal (syn. Aconogonon alpina) Koenigia campanulata (Hook.f.) T.M.Schust. & Reveal (syn. Persicaria campanulata) Koenigia davisiae T.M.Schust. & Reveal References External links Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Academic staff of the University of Melbourne University of Melbourne women Wake Forest University alumni Lehman College alumni
Cam Ranh International Airport () is located on Cam Ranh Bay in Cam Ranh, a provincial city in Khánh Hòa province in Vietnam. It serves the city of Nha Trang, the capital of Khánh Hòa province, which is from the airport. This airport handled 9,747,172 passengers in 2019, making it the fourth busiest airport in Vietnam, after the ones in Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi and Da Nang, and one of the fastest growing airports in the country. This is the only airport in Vietnam that handles more international passengers than domestic passengers, with international passengers accounting for 70% in 2018. It is the fourth busiest airport in Vietnam. Cam Ranh Terminal 1 is used for domestic flights and Cam Ranh Terminal 2 (managed by Cam Ranh International Terminal (CRTC) JSC) is used for international flights. History Cam Ranh Air Base Cam Ranh Airport was built by the United States Navy during the Vietnam War, and operated by the United States Air Force for military purposes as Cam Ranh Air Base. In 1972, the base was turned over to the South Vietnamese government. On 3 April 1975, North Vietnamese forces captured Cam Ranh Bay and all of its remaining facilities. From 1979 to 2002, the facility was used by the Soviet and then Russian Air Force because of a 25-year rent-free leasing treaty. Cam Ranh Airport On 19 May 2004, after major reconstruction, the airport received its first commercial flight from Hanoi. It now handles all of Nha Trang's commercial flights, which previously headed to Nha Trang Airport. In 2007, Cam Ranh was upgraded to an international airport. In December 2009, Cam Ranh International Airport was opened. The total invested capital is approximately VND 300 billion. The International Terminal (T2) was officially put into operation on 30 June 2018 after 19 months of construction with a total investment capital of 3.735 billion. Developed and managed by Cam Ranh International Terminal (CRTC) Joint Stock Company, the T2 project came about at a time to inject much needed capacity into the airport operating infrastructure. At the same time, facilities and services were upgraded to match international standards. Terminal 2 serves more than 80 flights per day at peak season, processing up to 14,500 passengers on a given busy day. CRTC has embarked on capacity enhancement works to further increase its handling capabilities to match to the phenomenal growths. In 2018, T2 serves 21 international airlines with a total of 5.2 million international passengers, the fourth largest airport in Vietnam in terms of international passenger volume. Facilities Runway The airport resides at an elevation of above mean sea level. The first runway designated 02L/20R with a concrete surface measuring . The second runway designated 02R/20L was opened in October 2019 with a concrete surface measuring . Terminal 1 A new passenger terminal of Cam Ranh International Airport started construction in 2007 and was inaugurated on 12 December 2009. The terminal covers an area of with a capacity of 800 passengers (600 domestic and 200 international) per hour. It has two aerobridges. The terminal was upgraded between 2015 and 2016, increasing its capacity from 1.5 million to 2.5 million passengers annually. Terminal 2 T2 covers a total area of , made up of dedicated levels for departure and arrival processing. The terminal building has a unique architecture inspired by the shape of a swallow's nest, native to the Khanh Hoa Province, and the waves of Nha Trang Bay - a signature representation of the South Central Coast. T2 has 4 aerobridges and 10 boarding gates, as well as advanced equipment systems supplied by prestigious international companies. Airlines and destinations Cam Ranh was the fourth busiest airport in Vietnam in 2012; it served 1.2 million passengers. Statistics Sources: Airport, ACV³ See also List of airports in Vietnam References External links Airports in Vietnam Buildings and structures in Khánh Hòa province Cam Ranh Airports established in 1965
The Four Year Plan is a documentary film directed by Mat Hodgson about London based football club Queens Park Rangers. Synopsis The film chronicles the take over of the nearly bankrupt club in 2007 by a consortium of billionaires and their effort to promote the team to the Premier League by 2011. The consortium consisted of Bernie Ecclestone, Flavio Briatore and Alejandro Agag, steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal and Amit Bhatia. It is an observational documentary that follows the club from within the boardroom. The cameras for this documentary were brought in by the new owners to create the film, and although the club gave permission for the cameras to be there, they had no say on where or when the cameras would be filming. The title derives from a statement made by Briatore in 2007 where he declared his 'target to be Premier League in four years'. Release The Four Year Plan premiered on 16 November 2011 at the IDFA Festival in the Netherlands, after which it premiered on the BBC in 2012. Reception The Guardian's Michael Hann reviewed the film favorably, calling it "a rare chance to witness the sparks that fly when business, football and machismo meet". Awards Best Documentary at the Marbella Film Festival (2011, won) See also List of association football films References External links 2011 films 2011 documentary films Documentary films about association football Queens Park Rangers F.C. Documentary films about London 2010s English-language films British sports documentary films 2010s British films English-language documentary films
Almasguda is a village in Rangareddy district Now, this village is under Badangpet Municipality in Telangana India. References Villages in Ranga Reddy district
The Billboard Hot 100 is a chart that ranks the best-performing songs in the United States. Its data, published by Billboard magazine and compiled by Nielsen SoundScan, is based collectively on each song's weekly physical and digital sales, as well as the amount of airplay received on American radio stations and streaming on online digital music outlets. During 2019, fifteen singles reached number one on the Hot 100; a sixteenth single, "Thank U, Next" by Ariana Grande, began its run at number one in November 2018. Of those fifteen number-one singles, four were collaborations. In total, eighteen acts topped the chart as either lead or featured artists, with ten—Swae Lee (as a solo artist), Bradley Cooper, Jonas Brothers, Lil Nas X, Billy Ray Cyrus, Billie Eilish, Shawn Mendes, Lizzo, Lewis Capaldi, and Selena Gomez—achieving their first Hot 100 number-one single. Lil Nas X's "Old Town Road" was the longest-running number-one of the year, leading the chart for nineteen weeks (one for the song's original version, credited solely to Lil Nas X, and eighteen for a remix featuring Billy Ray Cyrus); in doing so, it broke the record as the longest-running number one single in Billboard history - a record previously held by the sixteen-week runs of both "One Sweet Day" by Mariah Carey (who added a nineteenth number one single in 2019) and Boyz II Men (1995–96), and "Despacito" by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee featuring Justin Bieber (2017). It also topped the Billboard Year-End Hot 100 ranking as the best-performing single of 2019. Post Malone and Ariana Grande were the only acts to have multiple number-one songs in 2019, with two apiece. Chart history Number-one artists See also 2019 in American music List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of 2019 List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 2019 Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 2019 Notes References United States Hot 100 2019 Hot 100 number-one singles
is a Japanese wrestler. He competed in the men's freestyle 74 kg at the 1984 Summer Olympics. References 1961 births Living people Japanese male sport wrestlers Olympic wrestlers for Japan Wrestlers at the 1984 Summer Olympics Place of birth missing (living people) Asian Wrestling Championships medalists 20th-century Japanese people
Caño Cristales (; ) is a Colombian river located in the Serranía de la Macarena, an isolated mountain range in the Meta Department. It is a tributary of the Guayabero River, itself a part of the Orinoco basin. Caño Cristales was found in 1969 by a group of cattle farmers. The river is commonly called the "River of Five Colors" or the "Liquid Rainbow," and is noted for its striking colors. The bed of the river from the end of July through November is variously colored yellow, green, blue, black, and especially red, the last caused by Rhyncholacis clavigera (syn. Macarenia clavigera) plants on the riverbed. In recent years, the river has become a tourist destination; there were more than 16,000 visitors in 2016. Geography The quartzite rocks of the Serrania de la Macarena tableland formed approximately 1.2 billion years ago. They are a western extension of the Guiana Shield. Caño Cristales is a fast-flowing river with many rapids and waterfalls. Small circular pits known as giant's kettles can be found in many parts of the riverbed, which have been formed by pebbles or chunks of harder rocks. Once one of these harder rock fragments falls into one of the cavities, it is rotated by the water current and begins to carve at the cavity wall, increasing the dimensions of the pit. Fauna and flora The Serranía de la Macarena is located on the border of three large ecosystems, each of them with high diversity of flora and fauna: the Andes, the Llanos, and the Amazon rainforest. The representative biome of the Serrania de la Macarena is the hydrophytic rainforest: hot, warm, and cold. The tableland is home to about 420 species of birds, 10 species of amphibians, 43 species of reptiles, and eight primates. Caño Cristales is home to several species of fish (despite sometimes claimed to contain no fish), freshwater turtles and other aquatic animals. Caño Cristales river has a wide variety of aquatic plants. The water of the river is extremely clear due to the lack of nutrients and small particles. Almost unique is the bright red - pink coloration of the riverbed after the rainy period from the end of June till November. This color is caused by great quantities of plant species Rhyncholacis clavígera (often known by its former name, Macarenia clavigera). This plant is only found in found in Caño Cristales and a few others rivers in the region, such as the Caño Siete Machos. These plants, which are green when young, then turn yellowish and finally various shade of red, adhere tightly to rocks in places where the river has faster current. References External links Rivers of Colombia National Monuments of Colombia
Chrononhotonthologos is a satirical play by the English poet and songwriter Henry Carey from 1734. Although the play has been seen as nonsense verse, it was also seen and celebrated at the time as a satire on Robert Walpole and Queen Caroline, wife of George II. The play is relatively short on the page, as it relies heavily upon its songs and theatrical effects for stage time. It concerns King Chrononhotonthologos and Queen Fadladinida of Queerummania who face an invasion by the Antipodeans (who are inverted people from the other side of the world). The king defeats the entire Antipodean army, leaving behind only the Antipodean king, who is taken to prison. The Queen sees the captive king, falls deeply in love, and mourns her virginity (for the king had never consummated their marriage). She prays to Cupid and Venus, and she gets her wish to lose her virginity and her husband. Chrononhotonthologos, in camp, takes offence at a piece of pork, slaps his general, and is killed by the raging general. The general creates a bloodbath before killing himself. The Queen is thus a widow maid and is free to marry the king's courtiers. The two courtiers take offense at her preference, and so she decides merely to pay them each night for their sexual services. The play ends thereupon with all well. Parody The play is a parody of opera and of theatrical spectacle at the same time that it is itself a spectacular. The Antipodeans, who have their heads where their midsections should be, who walk upon their hands, etc., advance in columns (literally standing upon each other) rather than ranks, and the performance has a great dumbshow with them. The captured Antipodean king in his cell (the only Antipodean who would need to be in the stage foreground) was most likely a special effect himself, as he has no lines. The dances that are indicated throughout, several of which without apparent motivation, are similarly present simply for the effect on the senses. In general, the play burlesques the absurdity of operatic plots, as well as the most inexplicable habits of contemporary tragedy. Carey consistently undercuts the lofty expectations of the kingdom-in-crisis plot by having the feared enemy be the Antipodean (or Acrostic) and by having the characters travesty the repetitive verse of tragedy. When King Chrononhotonthologos visits General Bombardinian in his tent after single-handedly destroying the Antipodean army with a glare, the general orders, "Traverse from Pole to Pole; sail round the World, Bring every Eatable that can be eat: The King shall eat, tho' all Mankind be starv'd." (I v, 11–14) and then backtracks to announce that they only have pork. The King takes deadly offense at being offered pork, and so he slaps the general, and the general's heroic pride forces him to stab the king in return. When the general regrets his regicide, he calls out, in a parody of Richard III, "Go, call a Coach, and let a Coach be call'd, And let the Man that calls it be the Caller; And, in his calling, let him nothing call, But Coach! Coach! Coach! O for a Coach ye Gods!" When the doctor confirms the king's death, Bombardinian tells him to go to the next world and fetch the king's soul back (and stabs him), only to say to the air, in mock tragic grief, "Call'st thou Chrononhotonthologos?/ I come! your Faithful Bombardinian comes" and kills himself. If this arbitrary bloodbath (motivated by the king's hyperbolic vanity and the general's hyperbolic pride) is not enough of a deflation, when the Queen comes in to bewail her virginity, her lady simply says, "I'll fit you with a Husband in a Trice;/ Here's Rigdum Funnidos, a proper Man,/ If anyone can please a Queen, he can" (I. v 61–4). When Rigdum Funnidos's fellow courtier Aldiborontiphoscofornio declares that he must be king or die, the queen replies, "Well, Gentlemen, to make the Matter easy,/ I'll have you both, and that, I hope will please ye." Deciding at last that marriage is complicated (after her lady offers a formulaic complaint about marriage), the Queen concludes the play: "Gentlemen! I'm not for Marriage, But, according to your Carriage, As you both behave to Night, You shall be paid to Morrow." The parody of bad tragedy and inflated spectacular also occurs in the names involved. These tongue twisters are nonsense, but they are also parodies of the ignorantly contrived exotic names used by contemporary opera and tragedy. Where William Shakespeare and Thomas Otway had chosen foreign locations for their plays to mask the fact that they were commenting upon England, by the 1730s a strange-sounding foreign location was a generic expectation of tragedy. More important than the linguistic parody, however, is the parody in the characterization. King Chrononhotonthologos begins the play offended by sleeplessness, declaring, "These Royal Eyes thou (Somnus) never more shall close. Henceforth let no Man sleep, on Pain of Death: Instead of Sleep, let pompous Pageantry, And solemn Show, with sonorous Solemnity, Keep all Mankind eternally awake. Bid Harlequino decorate the Stage With all Magnificence of Decoration...." (I. i. 63–7). The king's overblown greatness is such that those royal eyes are enough to destroy the entire enemy army. The queen orders about the sky and stars. The general demands that the entire earth be conquered so that the king might have a meal. This repeated hyperbole is pushed to the point of absurdity to create a burlesque of opera's impossible characters. On the one hand, these parodies are superficially delightful and satirically a relief from the bombast of hack-written and alloyed tragedy, but, on the other hand, they are part of a darker political satire taking place in the play. Political satire Henry Carey was a Tory, or an anti-Walpolean, and he identified with Alexander Pope, in particular, in his stance on the 18th century's cultural polemic (see Augustan poetry for the issues behind Ambrose Philips and Alexander Pope's poison pen battle). Pope had been a consistent enemy of Ambrose Philips's, and Philips was a stand-in for an entire slate of Whig political views. Attacking Philips was attacking what Philips stood for, and Carey achieved fame first by satirizing Philips's second set of odes (which had been dedicated to Robert Walpole) with his Namby Pamby. Namby Pamby had made Carey one of the darlings of the Tory opposition to Walpole. In 1728, John Gay's The Beggar's Opera had satirized Robert Walpole and opera, both, and it had proven enormously successful. However, Walpole had Gay's follow up, Polly, suppressed. Walpole's direct intervention in the stage prompted a new round of satires, including Chrononhotonthologos. However, Chrononhotonthologos is a far more dangerously political satire than Gay's The Beggar's Opera or Henry Fielding's Tom Thumb had been. Tom Thumb (1732) had introduced a parody of operatic plots and Walpole by focusing on a mythical kingdom where the queen would fall in love with an absurd character, but Carey goes much further by having the Queen fall in love with an absurd character and then walk away with two unrelated and unmotivated characters while, at the same time, having the king die due to vanity. The real life political events that are partially encoded in the play concern Caroline of Ansbach and George II. In the 1720s, George II, then Prince of Wales, had opposed his father bitterly and aligned himself with the Tory party, while his father fostered Robert Walpole (thanks to Walpole's playing up of suggestions that the Tories disapproved of the Hanoverian succession). Because of his fears of Jacobites, George I kept Walpole in power, while George II favored anyone else. George II's mistress, Mrs Howard, was a strong Tory and a woman who favored John Gay and others of the Tory wits. Toward the end of George I's life, Caroline of Ansbach attempted a reconciliation of father with son, and when George II came to the throne, she was the one who pushed for Robert Walpole. Mrs. Howard's influence was diminished to nothing, and George II, although still disliking his wife, did not involve himself in politics, leaving the field clear for her to continue to give power to Robert Walpole. John Gay had been promised patronage by Mrs. Howard, and that doomed his chances when George II became king, for it earned him the enmity of Queen Caroline. The friends and admirers of Gay (including Alexander Pope and Henry Carey) regarded this political game as a personal and moral betrayal. Chrononhotonthologos, therefore, is not innocent in its depiction of a queen who never makes love with her husband, a husband who has no idea about politics but only wishes to be flattered, and, most particularly, of a queen who falls in love with contrariness and takes two minor ministers as her competing gigolos. These political and topical allusions are not necessary for contemporary readers and viewers of the play. The nonsense verse and the immediate parody of opera are entertaining, but the political satire hidden beneath the frivolity was one component of the play's success. Context Chrononhotonthologos occupies a central position in the development of English nonsense verse. Carey's word play appears to exist for its own sake, and the sounds of words are one source of amusement. Additionally, like other nonsense verse, the writing plays with and parodies a well identified genre of high seriousness. The nonsense achieves part of its humor by fulfilling the structural and phonetic requirements of an extant form, but substituting silly syllables for meaningful ones, thereby allowing the listener or reader to enjoy the suggestion that the usual words are empty placeholders (e.g. when Jonathan Swift's King of Lilliput has a royal title ending in "Ully Mully Goo," the nonsense sounds and weighs the same as the titles of real kings and, implicitly, is just as meaningful). Later authors, like Edward Lear, would cite Carey as a precursor. The characters' names in particular construct or perform an identity and build an expectation of character Performativity and an ongoing usage, thus Aldiborontiphoscofornio became Aldiborontiphoskyphorniostikos in an 1820s parlor game or referenced as Aldobrantifoscofornio in Norman Lindsay's The Magic Pudding (1910). The play is also one of the first examples of a parodic opera. Although The Dragon of Wantley would be more fully an opera, Chrononhotonthologos is a spectacular that is also an exaggeration of spectaculars. There had been farce spectacles before. In the era of the competing playhouses and the Restoration spectacular, the playhouses that had no capacity for special effects put on farces of the plays they could not stage. However, those plays had concentrated more specifically on effects than on the total experience of bombast, unmotivated dance, pompous music, and special effects, and Carey's play attacks not a specific rival, but an entire genre. Finally, in the context of Augustan drama, Carey's play contributed to the sentiment that led to the establishment of the Licensing Act of 1737, when the theaters would be subject to official censorship. After the successes of Tom Thumb and Chrononhotonthologos, theaters staged increasingly vicious attacks on the ministry. These satires were progressively more dangerously near an attack on the crown. See also Augustan drama Augustan literature References Carey, Henry. Chrononhotonthologos online. E-text. Retrieved 20 August 2005. Tussler, Simon, ed. Burlesque Plays of the Eighteenth Century. London: Oxford Paperbacks, 1969. pp. 209–234. External links Chrononhotonthologos online Satirical plays 1734 plays Plays by Henry Carey Works about royalty Murder–suicide in fiction Caroline of Ansbach Robert Walpole
Chestnutflat is an unincorporated rural hamlet in Walker County, in the U.S. state of Georgia. There is only a used-car business at Chestnutflat, and several homes. History A variant name is "Chestnut Flat". A post office called Chestnut Flat was established in 1841, and remained in operation until 1904. The community was named for a grove of chestnut trees near the original town site. References Unincorporated communities in Walker County, Georgia Unincorporated communities in Georgia (U.S. state)
Gypsonoma anthracitis is a moth of the family Tortricidae first described by Edward Meyrick in 1912. It is found in Sri Lanka. References Moths of Asia Moths described in 1912
FARP may refer to: Revolutionary Armed Forces of the People, originally the armed wing of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde during the struggle against Portuguese rule; the national armed forces of Guinea-Bissau since 1973 Fantasy Art Resource Project, a collection of art and writing tutorials hosted by Elfwood Forward arming and refuelling point (or forward area refueling/rearming point), a NATO/US term for an area designated for the re-arming and re-fueling of aircraft
Dølen (meaning The Dalesman in English) is a former Norwegian weekly literary magazine published in Norway between 1858 and 1870. History and profile Dølen was established by Aasmund Olavson Vinje in 1858. The first issue is dated 10 October 1858. It came out weekly, but there were shorter and longer periods when the magazine did not appear. The last issue appeared on 24 July 1870. Vinje died on 30 July 1870. Several of Vinje's literary works were first published in the magazine. He also published articles on travel, and editorial comments on art, language, and politics. He also wrote philosophical essays for the magazine. However, the most significant function of Vinje in his magazine was his help in developing a new rural variant of the Norwegian language known as New Norwegian, or Nynorsk. A facsimile edition of the magazine was issued between 1970 and 1973. References 1858 establishments in Norway 1870 disestablishments in Norway Defunct literary magazines published in Europe Defunct magazines published in Norway Literary magazines published in Norway Magazines established in 1858 Magazines disestablished in 1870 Norwegian-language magazines Weekly magazines published in Norway
Adorian Aurel Himcinschi (born 31 January 1971) is a Romanian former footballer who played as a defender. After he ended his playing career he worked as a manager at teams from the Romanian lower leagues. His son, Fabian Himcinschi was also a footballer. Honours Player Minaur Zlatna Divizia C: 2000–01 Apulum Alba Iulia Divizia B: 2002–03 Notes References External links 1971 births Living people Romanian men's footballers Men's association football defenders Liga I players Liga II players CSF CFR Timișoara players CSM Unirea Alba Iulia players Romanian football managers CSM Unirea Alba Iulia managers Footballers from Timișoara
Ballinabrackey () is a village in County Meath in Ireland. It is in the civil parish of Castlejordan. The ecclesiastical parish of Ballinabrackey is located between Kinnegad and Edenderry, and spans parts of County Meath and County Offaly. The local parish church, which was built , is in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Meath. Ballinabrackey GAA, the local Gaelic Athletic Association club, won the 2020 Meath Intermediate Football Championship. References Towns and villages in County Meath
The discography of British indie rock band The Go! Team consists of six studio albums, five extended plays, thirteen singles and twenty music videos. Studio albums Extended plays Singles Other appearances Music videos References External links Official website The Go! Team at AllMusic Discographies of British artists Rock music group discographies
Fellowship Baptist College (FBC) is a non-stock, private and sectarian institution in Kabankalan, Negros Occidental, Philippines established in 1954. History Formerly known as "Fellowship Baptist Academy", the institution was founded by Baptist lay ministers, leaders and missionaries from the Visayan Fellowship of Fundamental Baptist Churches. It is a sectarian, non-stock and non-profit educational institution. Aside from student fees, it exists mainly upon benevolent donations from Fundamental Baptist churches organization, individual Christians and later from the alumni and its organization. It opened in 1954 with an enrollment of 212 students. It faithfully carried out its mission. In 1957, Fellowship Baptist Academy was given government recognition. In June 1982, the school operated a post-secondary course in Midwifery. The following year, it opened two degree courses which are Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and Bachelor of Arts. Upon conferring the government recognition to these two courses, DECS acted favorably in school year 1989-1990 on the change of the status of the school from "Academy" to "College". Academics FBC offers pre-school, grade school, junior high school, senior high school, and undergraduate and graduate level programs. Its senior high school program has three (3) strands in the academic track, namely: Accountancy, Business and Management (ABM) Humanities and Social Sciences (HUMSS) Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) And three specialty courses for the Technological-Vocational (TECH-VOC) track, namely: Cookery Caregiving Information and Communication Technology (ICT) As of 2019, it has six academic colleges namely: College of Teacher Education, Arts and Sciences College of Business and Accountancy College of Engineering and Computer Studies College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Programs College of Criminal Justice Education College of Library and Information Sciences References External links Universities and colleges in Negros Occidental
Up the Ladder of Gold is a 1931 thriller novel by the British writer E. Phillips Oppenheim. He dedicated the work to the comedy writer P.G. Wodehouse. It represented the apex of Oppenheim's portrayal of the great man as a dynamic force. Synopsis An American investor Warren Brand attempts to corner the world market in gold in order to try and force the Great Powers to end any future prospect of war. References Bibliography Herbert, Rosemary. Whodunit?: A Who's Who in Crime & Mystery Writing. Oxford University Press, 2003. Magill, Frank Northen . Critical Survey of Mystery and Detective Fiction: Authors, Volume 3. Salem Press, 1988. Panek, LeRoy. The Special Branch: The British Spy Novel, 1890-1980. Popular Press, 1981. Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015. 1931 British novels Novels by E. Phillips Oppenheim British thriller novels Hodder & Stoughton books Novels set in London
The Epic Archive, Vol. 1 (1975–1979) is a compilation album by American rock band Cheap Trick, which was released digitally by Epic in 2015. In 2017, the compilation was released by Real Gone Music on CD and vinyl, the latter format being a limited edition release for Record Store Day. The compilation has eighteen tracks spanning from 1975 to 1979, including demos, live recordings, early studio recordings of later released songs and alternate versions. The liner notes of the 2017 Real Gone Music release include quotes on the tracks from drummer Bun E. Carlos, as well as photographs of the band taken by Robert Alford. Critical reception Mark Deming of AllMusic felt the compilation was a "powerful reminder of just how good Cheap Trick were in the '70s". He concluded, "Given the hodgepodge of material here, [it] is best recommended to loyal fans rather than casual admirers, but anyone who hears this will be hearing a great, original rock band during a time when they were firing on all cylinders." Track listing Track 14 is omitted from the digital version of the album. References Cheap Trick compilation albums 2015 compilation albums Epic Records compilation albums
Modern Church is a charitable society promoting liberal Christian theology. It defends liberal positions on a wide range of issues including gender, sexuality, interfaith relations, religion and science, and biblical scholarship. In church affairs it supports the role of laity and women ministers. Members receive the journal Modern Believing and the newsletter Signs of the Times. A substantial account of its theology is Paul Badham’s The Contemporary Challenge of Modernist Theology. From 2011-2013 it published a series of short books introducing some of its themes. It has a large website. There is a regular annual conference. The theological principles behind its liberalism are that divine revelation has not come to an end; new ideas should be judged on their merits and ideas accepted or rejected in the past can be reassessed. human rationality and creativity are not contrasted with divine revelation, but are valued as means to receiving it. Understood like this, theological liberalism is opposed to dogmatism. Its style is open and enquiring, willing to dialogue with other traditions and accept new insights from unexpected sources. It values critical scholarship of the Bible and Christian history. It expects to contribute to, and learn from, contemporary society in ways that are public, relevant and respectful. History The society was founded in 1898 as the Churchmen's Union for the Advancement of Liberal Religious Thought as a society to defend the tolerant 'middle ground' within the Church of England. At the time both Evangelicalism and Anglo-Catholicism were becoming increasingly dogmatic in reaction against secular rationalism, which seemed a threat to religious belief. After a few changes of name, the society was known as The Modern Churchmen’s Union from 1928 to 1986. The name was then changed to The Modern Churchpeople’s Union and changed again in 2010 to Modern Church. From the outset it defended belief in evolution and critical scholarship of the Bible. It promoted the ordination of women from the 1920s. During the twentieth century it was among the first voices within the Church to campaign for contraception, remarriage after divorce, the abolition of capital punishment, the decriminalisation of homosexuality and the consecration of women bishops. As part of its work in support of gay and lesbian clergy it was heavily involved in resisting the proposed Anglican Covenant. Its journal was founded in 1911. At first known as The Modern Churchman, it is now Modern Believing and is published by Liverpool University Press. Annual conferences began in 1914 and have continued with the exception of the war years. Over the years many distinguished theologians have addressed them. Its most controversial conference was 'Christ and the Creeds' in 1921. It generated so much debate that the Church of England set up a Doctrine Commission to investigate it. The Commission produced a report in 1938 exonerating the views expressed. The dominant figure in the early years was Henry Major. Major not only ran the organisation but also set up a theological college for it in Ripon. The college moved to Oxford as Ripon Hall, and in 1975 merged with Cuddesdon as Ripon College Cuddesdon. The most detailed history of the organisation is Alan Stephenson's The Rise and Decline of English Modernism. It was written in the early 1980s at a time when the society was in decline and Stephenson expected it to die out, but since then it has revived. Apart from Henry Major, leading theologians in the past are Hastings Rashdall, W. R. Inge (known as 'Dean Inge'), Charles Raven, Norman Pittenger, William Frend and Anthony Dyson. Theologians among its current members include Linda Woodhead, Martyn Percy, Paul Badham, Elaine Graham, John Barton, Alan Race and Adrian Thatcher. Leadership In July 2017, Modern Church announced that its next General Secretary would be Jonathan Draper. He took up the part-time post on 1 September 2017. List of presidents: 1898–1902: The Revd Prof George Henslow 1902–1908: The Revd William Douglas Morrison 1908–1915: Sir Charles Acland 1915–1922: Prof Percy Gardner 1923–1924: The Very Revd Hastings Rashdall 1924–1934: The Very Revd William Ralph Inge 1934–1937: The Very Revd Walter Matthews 1937–1958: Sir Cyril Norwood 1958–1966: The Rt Revd Leonard Wilson 1966–1990: The Very Revd Edward Carpenter 1990–1997: The Rt Revd Peter Selby 1997–2011: The Rt Revd John Saxbee 2011–2013: The Revd Prof John Barton 2014–2019: Prof Linda Woodhead 2019–present: Prof Elaine Graham List of secretaries: 1899–1900: The Revd William Geikie-Cobb 1900–????: The Revd William Manning 1916–1920: The Revd Cavendish Moxon 1920–1923: Philip Henry Bagenal 1923–1927: The Revd John Henry Bentley 1927–1942: The Revd Thomas John Wood 1942–1950: The Revd Robert Gladstone Griffith 1950–1954: The Revd Thomas John Wood 1954–1960: The Revd Clifford Oswald Rhodes 1960–1990: uncertain 1991–2002: The Revd Nicholas Paul Henderson 2002–2013: The Revd Jonathan Clatworthy 2013–2016: The Revd Guy Elsmore 2016 (acting): The Revd Lorraine Cavanagh 2017–present: The Very Revd Jonathan Draper References External links Church of England societies and organisations 1898 establishments in the United Kingdom Religious organizations established in 1898
George Triantis is an American lawyer focusing in bankruptcy, business and corporate law, commercial, contract and risk management, currently the Charles J. Meyers Professor at Stanford Law School and formerly the James and Patricia Kowal Professor of Law there and then also Eli Goldston Professor at Harvard Law School, and is also an Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. References Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Stanford University faculty American lawyers Harvard Law School faculty
Vacation Club is an EP by Aerosmith, released on December 10, 1988. The EP was only sold in record stores in Japan. It contains remixes of songs from Aerosmith's album, Permanent Vacation, and a previously unreleased song from the sessions entitled, "Once Is Enough". The album art uses the same cover as the Rag Doll single from 1987. Track listing "Dude (Looks Like a Lady)" (Extended Rockin' Dude Mix) – 5:46 "Dude (Dude This Way)" – 4:13 "Rag Doll" (Extended Vacation Mix) – 7:14 "Once Is Enough" (Finished Studio Version) – 5:20 "Angel" (New AOR Mix) – 5:07 Personnel Steven Tyler - lead vocals, piano Tom Hamilton - bass Joey Kramer - drums Joe Perry - lead guitar, backing vocals, pedal steel guitar Brad Whitford - rhythm guitar Production Bruce Fairbairn - Producer John Kalodner - Production Release history References 1988 EPs Aerosmith EPs Geffen Records EPs Albums produced by Bruce Fairbairn
Lawrence M. Schoen (born July 27, 1959) is an American author, publisher, psychologist, hypnotist, and expert in the Klingon language. Biography Schoen was born in Chicago, Illinois, but his family moved to Southern California when he was 18 months old, and he grew up in Culver City. In 1983, he graduated with B.S. in psycholinguistics from California State University, Northridge, having designed his own major, and then moved on to Kansas State University where he earned his M.S. and Ph.D. in psychology. In graduate school, Schoen's research focused on cognitive psychology and psycholinguistics. Doctorate in hand, he spent the next ten years in academia as an assistant professor at New College of Florida, Lake Forest College in Illinois, and Chestnut Hill College in Pennsylvania. He then moved to the private sector and served for about 17 years as the director of research and analytics for a medical center which provides mental health and addiction treatment service works throughout Philadelphia. In August 2019, Schoen was diagnosed with multiple myeloma and began treatment. The following January, he underwent an autologous bone marrow transplant and entered a new regimen of chemotherapy. As of February 2021, he was in remission. Schoen lives in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania. Author Schoen attended the 1998 session of James Gunn's two-week Writers' Workshop in Science Fiction on the campus of the University of Kansas. In 2010, he participated in Walter Jon Williams' two-week master class, the Taos Toolbox. He has been nominated for the Astounding Award for Best New Writer, the Hugo Award for Best Short Story, the Nebula Award for Best Novella three times, as well as receiving nominations for both the Nebula Award for Best Novel and the Cóyotl Award for Best Novel. Some of his more notable works as an author include the Amazing Conroy series of science fiction stories and novels, the first of which appeared in 2001, about a space-traveling stage hypnotist and his alien companion animal (a "buffalito") that can consume anything and farts oxygen. Among these, the short story "Yesterday's Taste" and the novellas Barry's Tale (2012), Trial of the Century (2013), and Calendrical Regression (2015) have received award nominations. Schoen appeared at Book Expo America in May 2015, where he was presented as one of four authors described by Tor Books as the next generation of science fiction and fantasy, based on his novel Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard, anthropomorphic SF that explores prophecy, intolerance, political betrayal, and a drug that lets one talk to the dead. From 2015 to 2018, he was part of the staff at Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show as Reprint Editor, replacing Darrell Schweitzer as the magazine's interviewer. Klingonist Schoen founded the Klingon Language Institute and has published Klingon translations of William Shakespeare's plays Hamlet (The Klingon Hamlet, ) and Much Ado About Nothing (), as well as the Epic of Gilgamesh () and the Tao Te Ching (). In the realm of Klingon nonfiction, Schoen edited and published The Grammarian's Desk (978-0964434530), a collection of essays written by Captain Krankor (Rich Yampell). He also served as the editor of HolQeD (ISSN 1061-2327), the quarterly journal of the KLI, for the entirety of its 13-year run. He was featured in Director Alexandre O. Philippe's documentary about the Klingon Language Institute, Earthlings: Ugly Bags of Mostly Water (2004). In 2011, he produced a daily Klingon language podcast called DaHjaj Hol. (See Klingon Language Institute#Publications.) Small press publisher Schoen is the publisher and chief editor for Paper Golem, a speculative fiction small press started in November, 2006. The first book it published was Prime Codex, an anthology of previously published stories by members of the Codex Writers Group, of which Schoen is a founding member. Paper Golem is Schoen's vehicle for "paying it forward," and focuses on two mains tracks: publishing single author collections by relatively new authors (e.g., Cat Rambo in 2009, Eric James Stone in 2011), and the Alembical series, which produces anthologies of original novellas (J. Kathleen Cheney's novella "Iron Shoes", from Alembical 2, received a nomination for the Nebula Award). Hypnotist In 2013, Schoen took a page from one of his fictional creations and became certified as a hypnotherapist by the International Association of Professional Conversational Hypnotists (IAPCH), with the intention of developing materials to aid other writers grappling with problems common to their field (e.g., writer's block). Bibliography The Universe of Barsk (Series) Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard (Dec 2015), Tor Books () Nebula Award Finalist, Cóyotl Award Winner. The Moons of Barsk (Aug 2018), Tor Books () Cóyotl Award Winner. Excerpts of Jorl ben Tral (March 2020) Paper Golem LLC (). Soup of the Moment (September 2020), Paper Golem LLC () Cóyotl Award Finalist. The Conroyverse The Amazing Conroy (series) In chronological story order: Buffalito Bundle, (Book 1) (July 2019) Paper Golem LLC () Buffalo Dogs, (Summer 2001) in Absolute Magnitude #16 and also appeared in Buffalogic, Inc.: Tales of the Amazing Conroy #1, SRM Publisher () Buffalogenesis (2006), in Buffalogenesis: Tales of the Amazing Conroy #2, SRM Publisher () A Buffalito Of Mars, (2007) ) in Visual Journeys: A Tribute to Space Artists, Hadley Rille Books () Requiem, (2005) in Absolute Magnitude and also appeared in Buffalogistics: Tales of the Amazing Conroy #3, SRM Publisher () Mind Din, (July 2019) first printed in Buffalito Bundle (see Omnibus Editions) Telepathic Intent, (2003) in Buffalogic, Inc.: Tales of the Amazing Conroy #1, SRM Publisher () The Matter At Hand, (2008) in Buffalogistics: Tales of the Amazing Conroy #3, SRM Publisher () Yesterdays Taste, (October 2011) in Transtories, Aeon Press () WSFA Small Press Award Finalist Barry's Tale (Book 2) (December 2012) in Buffalito Buffet, Hadley Rille Books () Nebula Award Finalist 2012 Calendrical Regression (Book 3) (November 2014), Noble Fusion Press () Nebula Award Finalist 2014 Barry's Deal (Book 4) (November 2017), Noble Fusion Press () Nebula Award Finalist 2017 Buffalito Destiny (Book 5) (June 2009) Hadley Rille Books () Trial of the Century (Book 6) (December 2013), in World Jumping, Hadley Rille Books () Nebula Award Finalist 2013 Buffalito Contingency (Book 7) (July 2011) Hadley Rille Books () Omnibus Editions Buffalito Bundle (July 2019) Paper Golem LLC () An omnibus edition of all the stories leading up to and including “Yesterdays Taste” i.e. Buffalo Dogs, Buffalogenesis, A Buffalito Of Mars, Requiem, Mind Din, Telepathic Intent, The Matter At Hand and Yesterdays Taste. Buffalito Buffet (December 2012) Hadley Rille Books (). An omnibus edition of all the stories at the time leading up to and including the first printing of Barry's Tale before it was printed separately. i.e. Buffalo Dogs, “Telepathic Intent”, “Requiem”, “The Matter at Hand”, “Introduction” essay by Howard Taylor, “Buffalogenisis”, “Barry's Tale”, “A Buffalito of Mars”, “Yesterday's Taste”. Galactic Capers of the Amazing Conroy (August 2020) Paper Golem LLC (). An omnibus edition featuring the four Novella award nominated novellas from the series: Barry's Tale (Finalist), Calendrical Regression (Finalist), Barry's Deal (Finalist) and Trial of the Century (Finalist). Command Performance (May 2020) Paper Golem LLC The complete Amazing Conroy omnibus ebook (). Freelance Courier (series) Ace of Corpses (July 2020), Paper Golem LLC () Ace of Saints (Jan 2021) Paper Golem LLC () Ace of Thralls (June 2021) Paper Golem LLC () Ace of Agency (August 2021) Paper Golem LLC (). The omnibus edition of the series so far: Ace of Corpses, Ace of Saints and Ace of Thralls. Pizza in Space (series) Slice of Entropy (February 2021), Paper Golem LLC () Slice of Chaos (Aug 2022), Paper Golem LLC () Other titles from the Conroyverse In addition to the above, the following stories include characters from or are set in the same universe as the Amazing Conroy works: Bidding the Walrus, first appeared in Low Port (2003) (eds. Sharon Lee and Steve Miller), Meisha Merlin Publishing, Inc. (). Texas Fold'em, first appeared in nanobison (Dec 2006), also in Space Westerns (2008). Conroyverse Omnibus Conroyverse: A Sampler (February 2021), Paper Golem LLC (). An omnibus sampler of the Conroyverse including the first story that launched the fictional universe and of each of the first novels of the series that share that universe: From “The Amazing Conroy” series, “Buffalo Dogs”, “Buffalo Destiny”. From “Freelance Courier” series: “Ace of Corpses” and from “Pizza in Space” series, “Slice of Entropy”. Pirates of Sol Pirates of Marz (April 2021), Paper Golem LLC () Collaborations with Jonathan P. Brazee Seeds of War (series) Seeds of War: Invasion (Volume 1) (June 2018, with Jonathan P. Brazee) Semper Fi Press (). Seeds of War: Scorched Earth (Volume 2) (July 2018, with Jonathan P. Brazee) Semper Fi Press (). Seeds of War: Bitter Harvest (Volume 3) (Sept 2018, with Jonathan P. Brazee) Semper Fi Press (). Seeds of War Trilogy (Omnibus) (October 2018, with Jonathan P. Brazee) Semper Fi Press. () Collaborations with Brian Thorne Adrenaline Rush (series) Fight or Flight (Book 1) (Aug 2022, with Brian Thorne) LMBPN Publishing (). Originally published (Jan 2020, with Brian Thorne) Paper Golem LLC (). Alien Thrill Seeker (Book 2) (Aug 2022, with Brian Thorne) LMBPN Publishing (). Originally published (Feb 2020, with Brian Thorne) Paper Golem LLC (). Anger Management (Book 3) (Aug 2022, with Brian Thorne) LMBPN Publishing (). Originally published (Dec 2020, with Brian Thorne) Paper Golem LLC (). Demon Codex (series) Soul Bottles (Book 1) (April 2022, with Brian Thorne) LMBPN Publishing (). At the Speed of a Yeti (Book 2) (May 2022, with Brian Thorne) LMBPN Publishing (). Undead Alternatives (Book 3) (June 2022, with Brian Thorne) LMBPN Publishing (). Collections and other publications Collections Aliens and A.I.s (March 2005) Eggplant Literary Productions () Sweet Potato Pie and Other Surrealities (2010) Hadley Rille Books (). Creature Academy: cautionary poems of public education (Oct 2018) Paper Golem LLC () Sweet Potato Pie: and Other Stories , 2nd Edition (Dec 2018) Paper Golem LLC (). 1st Edition was Sweet Potato Pie and Other Surrealities (2010) The Rule of Three: and Other Stories (July 2020) Paper Golem LLC () Openings without Closure (Dec 2020) Paper Golem LLC. () Eating Authors: One Hundred Writers' Most Memorable Meals (And Other Stories) (Dec 2020) Paper Golem LLC. () Transcendent Boston and Other Stories (June 2022) Paper Golem LLC () Works in other anthologies and publications Short stories: Poetry: Short story and poetry publishing history Full Publishing Histories: Edited works Prime Codex (2007, with Michael Livingston) () Alembical (2008, with Arthur Dorrance) () Cucurbital (2008, with Arthur Dorrance) () Eyes Like Sky and Coal and Moonlight: Stories by Cat Rambo (2009, with Michael Livingston) (ISBN) Alembical 2 (2010, with Arthur Dorrance) () Rejiggering the Thingamajig and Other Stories by Eric James Stone (2011, with Arthur Dorrance) () Cucurbital 2 (2011) () Cucurbital 3 (2012) () The Wizard of Macatawa and Other Stories by Tom Doyle (2012) () Alembical 3 (2014, with Arthur Dorrance) () Cats in Space (2015) () Awards and nominations 2007 - John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer (nominee). As of 2020 now known as the "Astounding Award" 2010 - Hugo Award for Best Short Story (nominee) - "The Moment" 2012 - WSFA Small Press Award (nominee) - "Yesterday's Tastes" 2013 - Nebula Award for Best Novella (nominee) - "Barry's Tale" 2013 - WSFA Small Press Award (nominee) - "Coca Xocolatl" 2014 - Nebula Award for Best Novella (nominee) - "Trial of the Century" 2015 - Nebula Award for Best Novella (nominee) - "Calendrical Regression" 2015 - Cóyotl Award for Best Novel (Winner) - Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard 2016 - Nebula Award for Best Novel (nominee) - Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard 2016 - Kevin O'Donnell Service to SFWA Award (recipient) 2018 - Nebula Award for Best Novella (nominee) - Barry's Deal 2019 - Nebula Award for Best Novelette (nominee) - The Rule of Three 2020 - Cóyotl Award Finalist - Soup of the Moment Interviews (text) Codex Blog Tour w/ Luc Reid "Marginally self-aware collections of atoms", March 01, 2011 Codex Blog Tour w/ Nancy Fulda - March 01, 2011 Michael A. Ventrella - March 14, 2011 Codex Blog Tour w/ Eric James Stone - April 13, 2011 Codex Blog Tour w/ Gray Rinehart - April 21, 2011 Lucy Pireel "All That's Written" - September 6, 2013 Bull Spec's "Coming to Town" Ada Brown - January 9, 2014 Wired.com's Geek Guide to the Galaxy "How the Klingon and Dothraki Languages Conquered Hollywood" October 4, 2014 Allium Online, "Writing, Talking Elephants, and Klingons: Lawrence M. Schoen discusses his writing process" w/ Jack Bradley, published - May 21,2021 Interviews (video) Emmett Plant "All Thumbs" - May 25, 2012 MTV Geek! "Why Learn Klingon?" - September 2, 2012 MTV Geek! "How Klingon Started" - September 2, 2012 MTV Geek! "Klingon" - September 2, 2012 MTV Geek! "Klingon Language Institute" - September 2, 2012 ConQuesT 45, Christopher J. Garcia "Themed For Your Pleasure" - May 24, 2013 References External links Lawrence M. Schoen's official website Paper Golem's official website Klingon Language Institute's official website 1959 births Living people 21st-century American novelists American fantasy writers American male novelists American science fiction writers Lake Forest College faculty New College of Florida faculty Linguists of Klingon American hypnotists American male short story writers 21st-century American short story writers 21st-century American male writers Novelists from Illinois Novelists from Florida
No. 8 Squadron RCAF was a unit of the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) that was in operation from 1936 to 1945. History No. 8 Squadron was formed on the 14 February 1936 as a General Purpose (GP) squadron at Winnipeg, Manitoba. The squadron moved to Ottawa/Rockcliffe Airport in February 1937, where it was tasked as a photographic unit, equipped with Fairchild 71, Bellanca Pacemaker and Canadian Vickers Vedette. Mobilized on the 10 September 1939 as No. 8 (GR) Squadron at Sydney, Nova Scotia, It was redesignated Bomber Reconnaissance (BR) at the end of October 1939. Equipped with Northrop Deltas and Bristol Bolingbrokes, the squadron was tasked with anti-submarine duty while serving with RCAF Eastern Air Command. In December 1941, after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor the squadron was moved to RCAF Station Sea Island on the west coast of Canada as part of RCAF Western Air Command. In June 1942 in response to the Japanese attack on the Aleutians, it was moved to Alaska flying the Bristol Bolingbroke V as part of RCAF X Wing, operating from Elmendorf Army Airfield (Anchorage), with small detachments stationed at Naval Air Station Kodiak and Marks Air Force Base (Nome). The squadron returned to RCAF Station Sea Island in March 1943. Having converted to Lockheed Ventura GR.V in May 1943, the squadron continued with anti-submarine duty based from RCAF Station Port Hardy and RCAF Station Patricia Bay. No. 8 Squadron was disbanded at Patricia Bay, B.C. 25 May 1945. Equipment Fairchild 71 (Feb 31–Aug 39) Bellanca CH-300 Pacemaker (Apr 36–Aug 39) Canadian Vickers Vedette (May 36–Aug 39) Northrop Delta (Feb 37– Nov 41) Bristol Bolingbroke I and IV (Dec 40–Aug 43) Lockheed Ventura GR.V (May 43–May 45) Two letter Squadron code was YO from Aug 39 - May 42, GA from May until the use of Squadron codes was discontinued in the RCAF HWE on the 16 Oct 1942, "for security reasons". {\| align="center" border="1" cellpadding="2" ! style="background:#efefef;" \| Aircrew and their aircraft of 8 (BR) SquadronAlaska 1942 ! style="background:#efefef;" \| Bolinbroke and personnel of 8 (BR) SquadronSea Island B.C. 1942''' \|- \| align="center" \| \| align="center" \| \|} Bases RCAF Station Winnipeg Feb 1936–Feb 1937 RCAF Station Rockcliffe Feb 1937–Aug 1939 RCAF Aerodrome - Sydney, Nova Scotia Aug 1939–Dec 1941 RCAF Station Sea Island Dec 1941–Jun 1942 Elmendorf Army Airfield Jun 1942–Mar 1943 RCAF Station Sea Island Mar–May 1943 RCAF Station Patricia Bay May 1943–May 1945 See also References Citations Bibliography Vincent, Carl Canadian Aircraft of WWII (AviaDossier No. 1)''. Kitchener, Ontario: SkyGrid, 2009. . Royal Canadian Air Force squadrons (disbanded) Military units and formations of Canada in World War II
Western Township is one of twenty-four townships in Henry County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2010 census, its population was 3,053 and it contained 1,240 housing units. Western changed its name from Orion Township on April 13, 1857. Geography According to the 2010 census, the township has a total area of , all land. Cities, towns, villages Orion Unincorporated towns Brook Lawn at Sunny Hill at Sunny Hill Estates at Warner at (This list is based on USGS data and may include former settlements.) Adjacent townships Colona Township (north) Edford Township (northeast) Osco Township (east) Andover Township (southeast) Lynn Township (south) Richland Grove Township, Mercer County (southwest) Rural Township, Rock Island County (west) Coal Valley Township, Rock Island County (northwest) Cemeteries The township contains these two cemeteries: Orion Lutheran and Western Township. Major highways Interstate 74 U.S. Route 150 Airports and landing strips Hughes RLA Airport Demographics School districts Orion Community Unit School District 223 Political districts Illinois's 14th congressional district State House District 71 State Senate District 36 References United States Census Bureau 2008 TIGER/Line Shapefiles United States National Atlas External links City-Data.com Illinois State Archives Township Officials of Illinois Townships in Henry County, Illinois Townships in Illinois 1856 establishments in Illinois Populated places established in 1856
Eubank is a surname of Old English origin in use since the 13th century, derived from the phrase yew-bank, referring to those who lived near a ridge of yew. Historical spellings include Ewbanke, Ewbanck, Ewbancke, Ewbanche, Ubank, Yuebanc, and Ewbank. 1 People with the surname Carlyle Eubank (born 1987), American writer and screenwriter Chris Eubank (born 1966), British boxer Chris Eubank Jr (born 1989), British boxer Damon R. Eubank (1959–2023), Kentucky historian Danielle Eubank (born 1968), American painter and expedition artist Harold P. Eubank (1924–2006), American physicist James R. Eubank (1914–1952), American lawyer and politician John Eubank (1872–1958), American baseball player Mark Eubank (born 1940), American television meteorologist Shari Eubank (born 1947), American actress Sharon Eubank (born 1963), American director of Latter-day Saint Charities William Eubank (born 1982), American film director, screenwriter andcinematographer Fictional characters Balph Eubank, character in 1957 novel Atlas Shrugged See also Eubanks (disambiguation) Ewbank (disambiguation) Surnames of Old English origin
Skepticon may refer to: Skepticon, an American annual skeptical conference in Springfield, Missouri. Skepticon (Скептикон), a Russian-language annual skeptical conference in Moscow, see Skeptic Society. SkepKon, a German-language annual skeptical conference in a German, Austrian or Swiss city, see Gesellschaft zur wissenschaftlichen Untersuchung von Parawissenschaften. SkeptiCalCon, an American annual skeptical conference in Oakland, California. SkepchickCon, an American annual scientific skepticism track at CONvergence. See also List of skeptical conferences
Germain Gabriel Grisez (September 30, 1929 – February 1, 2018) was a French-American philosopher. Grisez's development of ideas from Thomas Aquinas has redirected Catholic thought and changed the way it has engaged with secular moral philosophy. In 'The First Principle of Practical Reason: A Commentary on the Summa Theologiae, I-II, Q. 94, A. 2' (1965) Grisez attacked the neo-scholastic interpretation of Aquinas as holding that moral norms are derived from methodologically antecedent knowledge of human nature. Grisez defended the idea of metaphysical free choice, and proposed a natural law theory of practical reasoning and moral judgement which, although broadly Thomistic, departs from Aquinas on significant points. Grisez was Professor of Christian Ethics at Mount St. Mary's University in Emmitsburg, MD from 1979 to his retirement in 2009. See also John Finnis Robert P. George Pontifical Commission on Birth Control#Minority_report References External links The Way of the Lord Jesus Complete text of the three volumes and additional material The Making of a Moral Theologian, Russell Shaw. 1996 article on Grisez's personal and professional life, including his work for Cardinal O'Boyle of the Diocese of Washington D.C. Biotechnology and Human Dignity in the Thought of Germain Grisez, Nicholas C. Lund-Molfese. Describes the necessity of the Christian virtue of hope in choosing the good of the human person in so-called "hard cases". INFALLIBILITY AND CONTRACEPTION: A REPLY TO GARTH HALLETT 1929 births 2018 deaths American people of French descent Catholic philosophers 21st-century American Roman Catholic theologians Natural law ethicists
NumWorks is a technology company that designs, develops, and sells graphing calculators. Their calculators are source-available and have their hardware design available under a Creative Commons license. Its first calculator, the N0100, was released on August 29, 2017, in Europe and the United States and is geared towards high school classrooms and students. The calculators use Python as their programming language, rather than a proprietary language (e.g. TI-BASIC used by Texas Instruments calculators). Development Romain Goyet, the CEO of NumWorks, started the company in 2016. Before starting NumWorks, he was a software engineer at Apple who also contributed to open-source projects such as Linux. Products The NumWorks graphing calculator was the first graphing calculator to be programmable using the Python language. It features a 320x240 IPS display with a 2.8″ diagonal. Internally, it is powered by a 216 MHz Cortex-M7 processor and 8 MB of Quad-SPI Flash memory. The calculator has a 1450 mAh lithium polymer battery. The calculator weights and measures . Features The calculator was specifically designed to be modded using 3D printing. 3D models, schematics, and board layout details are available to the public under a Creative Commons license. The software on the calculator is updated on a monthly cycle. Updates can be downloaded to the calculator from its website using WebUSB or by building the operating system from its direct source. The NumWorks calculator also includes an "exam mode" which removes all Python programs, resets all apps, and disables certain features. It can be disabled by plugging the calculator into a power source and selecting disable on the popup that appears. On March 22, 2019, NumWorks released an app for iOS and Android. It features the same functionality as the physical calculator except it does not have data persistence. References External links NumWorks official site Products introduced in 2017 Graphing calculators Programmable calculators
Islamic archaeology involves the recovery and scientific investigation of the material remains of past cultures that can illuminate the periods and descriptions in the Quran, and early Islam. The science of archaeology grew out of the older multi-disciplinary study known as antiquarianism. The Egyptian "Antiquities Authority" was established in 1858 and remains a government organization which serves to protect and preserve the heritage and ancient history of Egypt. Early pioneers in Islamic archaeology included Eduard Glaser and Alois Musil. Khaled al-Asaad was principal custodian of the Palmyra site from 1963, overseeing its elevation to a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Some of the earliest areas investigated in Saudi Arabia include Al Faw Village and Madain Saleh. Jodi Magness has covered the archaeology of early Islamic settlement in Palestine. The Museum of Islamic Archaeology and Art of Iran was opened in 1972. It houses tools dating back 30,000 to 35,000 years and crafted by Mousterian Neanderthals in Yafteh. Among the oldest human artifacts are 9,000-year-old and animal figurines from the Sarab mound in Kermanshah Province. The Gaza Museum of Archaeology was opened in 2008. Objects protected from display include Aphrodite in revealing gown, images of ancient deities and oil lamps featuring menorahs. Since 2016 the Al-Qasimi Professor of African and Islamic Archaeology at the University of Exeter, Timothy Insoll, has directed the Centre for Islamic Archaeology. Insoll is on the editorial board of the Journal of Islamic Archaeology. The oldest extant Islamic monument is The Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem which contains some of the earliest extant qurānic text, dated to 692CE. They vary from today's standard text (mainly changes from the first to the third person) and are mixed with pious inscriptions absent from the Quran. During a six-week period in 1833, Frederick Catherwood produced the first known detailed survey. Pre-Islamic In-situ archaeology includes south Arabian 4th CE rock inscriptions that evidence fewer pagan expressions and the start in use of the monotheistic "rahmān". Fewer archaeological surveys have taken place in the Arabian peninsula and are considered taboo in Mecca (The Noble) and Medina (The Enlightened City). There is no architecture from the time of Mohammed in either city and the battlefields of the Quran have not been unearthed. Known settlements from the time, such as Khaybar, remain uninvestigated. Archaeologial evidence for Quranic narratives yet to be uncovered include that for the ʿĀd who built monuments and strongholds at every high point and their fate evident from the remains of their dwellings. A political dispute in the Uttar Pradesh city of Ayodhya, as noted by academic, K. K. Muhammed, has revolved around archaeological Issues: whether an archaeological plot, believed the temple birthplace of the Hindu deity Rama, was demolished or modified to create the Babri Masjid mosque. See also Archaeology of Afghanistan Archaeology of Qatar Archaeology of Iran Archaeology of Saudi Arabia References Sources Further reading Archaeological sub-disciplines
Mount Huckle is a mainly ice-covered mountain, high, near the northern end of the Douglas Range in eastern Alexander Island, Antarctica. It rises south-southeast of Mount Spivey on the west side of Toynbee Glacier and is inland from George VI Sound. Mount Huckle is the fourth highest mountain of Alexander Island, proceeded by Mount Cupola and succeeded by Mount Paris in the nearby Rouen Mountains. The mountain was possibly first seen in 1909 by the French Antarctic Expedition under Jean-Baptiste Charcot, but not recognized as part of Alexander Island. It was photographed from the air in 1936–37 by the British Graham Land Expedition under John Riddoch Rymill, and surveyed from the ground in 1948 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS). Etymology The mountain was named after John Sydney Rodney Huckle, a general assistant at Stonington Island, who aided in the FIDS survey of the west side of George VI Sound in 1949. References Mountains of Alexander Island
Provincial Road 457 (PR 457) is a provincial road in the southwest part of the Canadian province of Manitoba. Route description Provincial Road 457 is an east-west route and runs from PR 340 near Douglas to its terminus at PTH 1A (1st Street North) in Brandon. PR 457, along with PR 340, serves as the main connector route between Brandon and CFB Shilo. Because of this, and that it travels at a lower elevation than the Trans-Canada Highway, the road is known locally as the "Low Road to Shilo". PR 457 is a paved road for its entire length. The speed limit along this road is . References External links Manitoba Official Map - Southwest Official Highway Map of Manitoba - Brandon 457
Homewood School and Sixth Form Centre is an academy school in Tenterden, Kent, England. Homewood is a non-selective school, but is situated within the Kent selective system. It has been awarded specialist Arts College status. It provides education for students from the town itself and surrounding villages. It is the largest secondary school in Kent and one of the 10 largest secondary schools in the United Kingdom as of the end of 2020. The school is current rated 'Requires Improvement' by Ofsted. References External links School website Sinden Theatre website Academies in Kent Secondary schools in Kent Tenterden
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George S. Oldfield is a financial economist. He has been published extensively, and is cited for his work on the effects of a firm's unvested pension benefits on its share price published in the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking in 1977. He was the Richard S. Reynolds, Jr. Professor of Finance at the Mason School of Business at the College of William & Mary, and a faculty member at the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College and the S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. He is the 2002 recipient of the Business Week Business School Survey "Master Teacher" award. He is a consultant with The Brattle Group, and in government, has worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia and served as Economic Research Fellow at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission where he focused on employee stock option and financial derivatives pricing, disclosure rules for corporate pension funding and executive compensation and asset-backed and mortgage-backed securities. He holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and an A.B. in economics from the College of William and Mary. Publications Oldfield's other publications include: References Living people American financial businesspeople Financial economists Dartmouth College faculty Cornell University faculty Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania alumni College of William & Mary alumni Mason School of Business faculty Year of birth missing (living people)
HMS Valentine was a , built in 1917 for the Royal Navy. She fought in both world wars, serving in several capacities. She was heavily damaged by air attack and beached in 1940 near Terneuzen. Her hulk remained there until it was broken up in 1953. Construction and design In early 1916, the British Royal Navy had a requirement for a destroyer leader suitable for leading the new, fast, R-class destroyers. To meet this requirement, the Director of Naval Construction prepared the design of a new class of ships, smaller and cheaper than the existing Marksman and es, but still capable of accommodating the additional staff required to command the destroyer flotilla and carrying the same armament. Five ships of the new class were ordered in April–July 1916, with Valentine one of two ships ordered from Cammell Laird in July that year at a tender price of £218,000 per ship. Valentine was laid down at Cammell Laird's shipyard in Birkenhead on 7 August 1916, was launched on 24 March 1917 and completed on 27 June 1917. The ship's machinery was based on that of the R-class destroyers, with three Yarrow boilers feeding Brown-Curtiss geared steam turbines which drove two propeller shafts. The machinery generated , giving a design speed of . A maximum of 367 tons of fuel oil could be carried, giving a range of at a speed of . The ship's main gun armament was four 4 inch (102 mm) QF Mk V guns on CP.II mountings, with two mounts forward and two aft in superimposed positions. These guns, which were provided with 120 rounds per gun, could elevate to 30 degrees, allowing them to fire a shell a distance of . Anti-aircraft armament consisted of a single 3 inch (76 mm) QF 20 cwt gun, which was preferred to the 2-pounder "Pom-Poms" fitted to previous leaders, while torpedo armament consisted of four 21 inch (53 cm) torpedo tubes in two twin mounts. Valentine was fitted for minelaying in November 1917, but it appears that this capability was never used. Service First World War and Baltic campaign On completion, Valentine served with the Grand Fleet, as part of the 13th Destroyer Flotilla and the 6th Light Cruiser Squadron. When commissioned, Valentine was assigned the pennant number F99, which was changed to F30 in January 1918. In October 1917, Valentine was deployed as part of an elaborate anti-submarine operation, in which destroyers and submarines were to be used to drive German U-boats that were returning to port from operations and passing to the east of the Dogger Bank into a large (several miles long) array of mine nets. Valentine was one of six destroyers whose job was to escort the drifters deploying the nets. The operation lasted for 10 days, and British Intelligence believed that three U-boats were probably sunk in the operation. However, the submarines in question were almost certainly lost in other mine-fields. Later that month, Valentine formed part of the destroyer escort to the 6th Light Cruiser Squadron when it was deployed as part of a scheme to attack German minesweepers in the Heligoland Bight. This resulted in the inconclusive Second Battle of Heligoland Bight. An attempt by Valentine and the destroyer to carry out a torpedo attack on German cruisers proved unsuccessful. On 12 February 1919, Valentine was damaged in a collision with the destroyer , also of the 13th Flotilla. In March 1919, Valentine joined the 2nd Destroyer Flotilla of the Atlantic Fleet. From August to November 1919, Valentine was deployed to the Baltic Sea as part of the British intervention in the Russian Civil War, which helped to ensure the independence of the Baltic states. Peacetime service Although the Treaty of Tartu between Estonia and Soviet Russia and a ceasefire between Latvia and the Soviets, both in February 1920, ended the fighting in the Baltic, Royal Navy deployments to the region continued, with Valentine again operating in the Baltic in June 1920. Valentine continued as part of the flotilla until January 1922, when she joined the 9th Destroyer Flotilla based at Rosyth. In January 1923, she rejoined the 2nd Destroyer Flotilla, first as part of the Atlantic Fleet and from September 1924 as part of the Mediterranean Fleet. In September 1928, Valentine formed part of an Asdic-equipped anti-submarine screen of four destroyers protecting the capital ships of the Mediterranean Fleet during Exercise NX. In the 1920s, Valentines twin torpedo tubes were replaced by triple tubes, giving a torpedo armament of six 21 inch torpedoes, and the 12-pounder anti-aircraft gun was replaced by a 2-pounder "pom-pom". Valentine joined the 6th Destroyer Flotilla of the Home Fleet in July 1932, where she served until she went into reserve at Devonport in November 1934. Valentine was re-commissioned into the 21st Destroyer Flotilla in September 1935, returning to the reserve in May 1936. Conversion In 1936, the Admiralty recognised that the Royal Navy had a shortage of escort ships with good anti-aircraft armament, suitable for operations along the East coast of the Great Britain. As well as building a new class of escort destroyers designed for this role (the escort destroyers), it was decided to convert a number of old destroyers of the V and W classes, now obsolete as fleet destroyers, to perform a similar role. This programme became known as the "Wair" conversions. The conversion involved the replacement of the ship's entire armament. Two twin QF 4 inch Mk XVI naval gun anti-aircraft mounts were fitted, with a modern fire control system mounted on a new superstructure to direct their fire. Two quadruple Vickers .50 machine gun mounts provided close-in anti-aircraft armament. Modern sonar, and a relatively powerful depth-charge outfit of 30 depth charges provided the ship's anti-submarine equipment. No torpedo tubes were fitted. Valentine was selected as one of the destroyers to undergo the Wair conversion, being converted at Devonport Dockyard, Plymouth between June 1939 and 23 April 1940. Loss After completing work-up, Valentine joined the Nore Command, responsible for East coast convoys, transferring to Dover Command in May. Valentine was one of four destroyers deployed to the Scheldt estuary to support demolition operations and the evacuation of shipping from Antwerp. While providing AA cover to Allied troops, Valentine was damaged by dive bombers on 15 May 1940, and beached near Terneuzen. 31 of Valentines crew were killed, with a further 21 injured. Valentine was partly salvaged and broken up in 1953, but part of the ship's hull remains and is sometimes visible at low tide. References Footnotes References V and W-class destroyers of the Royal Navy Ships built on the River Mersey 1919 ships World War II destroyers of the United Kingdom Maritime incidents in May 1940
ObjectDock is a dock similar to that in the Aqua GUI. It is distributed by Stardock for Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, and Windows 10 and comes in Free and Plus versions. Features ObjectDock allows the user to place shortcuts to any program in a "dock." This provides Windows users functionality similar to that of Mac OS X. The program comes in two versions, free, and a paid version offering more features. The free version is no longer available from the official site, but is still available from the CNET CDN that the homepage used to redirect to. ObjectDock can be used as a program launcher, or as a complete taskbar replacement. Its functionality can be enhanced with plugins to provide features such as weather forecasts or news. Versions Version 2.0 added preliminary Vista support, resource-searching, improved drag-and-drop, and new zoom effects. The current version is 2.2 which added tabbed docks. External links ObjectDock home page Official ObjectDock Free version download Review and pictorial walkthrough of ObjectDock at zdnet.com Windows-only freeware Stardock software
Madeleine Philion (born February 21, 1963) is a Canadian fencer. She competed in the women's individual and team foil events at the 1984 and 1988 Summer Olympics. References External links 1963 births Living people Canadian female fencers Fencers at the 1984 Summer Olympics Fencers at the 1988 Summer Olympics Olympic fencers for Canada Sportspeople from Gatineau Pan American Games medalists in fencing Pan American Games silver medalists for Canada Universiade medalists in fencing Fencers at the 1987 Pan American Games Universiade bronze medalists for Canada Medalists at the 1983 Summer Universiade Medalists at the 1987 Pan American Games French Quebecers
Sovra () is a small settlement in the Municipality of Žiri in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia. It lies in the valley of Žirovnica Creek, a tributary of the Poljane Sora, south of the town of Žiri. Name Sovra was attested in written sources as Zaevr in 1318, Sewre in 1453, and Soure in 1500, among other spellings. The name of the village is originally a hydronym, sharing its name with the Sovra River, as the Poljane Sora is known in its upper course. The name is derived from the common noun *ső̜vьra with the original meaning 'flashy stream' or 'confluence'. References External links Sovra on Geopedia Populated places in the Municipality of Žiri
According to UNICEF, child marriage is the "formal marriage or informal union before age 18", and it affects more girls than boys. In Afghanistan, up to 57% of girls are married before they are 19. The most common ages for girls to get married are 15 and 16. Factors such as gender dynamics, family structure, cultural, political, and economic perceptions/ideologies all play a role in determining if a girl is married at a young age. The practice of child marriage has been linked to detrimental consequences for girls, such as the inability to obtain an education and skills to work independently. Girls may also suffer physical harm, as their bodies are often not developed for childbirth, resulting in emotional, mental, and physical trauma for both the girl and her child. Laws regarding child marriage Afghan Government Law According to Afghan Civil Law Article 40, "marriage is a contract between a male and female for the establishment of a family." Article 70 sets the legal age of marriage to be 16 for females and 18 for males; Article 71 (subsection 1) gives a girl's marriage rights to her father or guardian before the legal age of 16, and marriages for minors under the age of 15 are not allowed under any circumstance. Despite the establishment of Civil Law, regional customs take precedence over national law, as well as Sharia law. Due to shortcomings in the implementation of the Civil law, child marriages are still prevalent. While new laws are being introduced progressively, the U.N. Development Programme’s annual Gender Inequality Index still ranks Afghanistan as the sixth worst country for female equality in the world. Statistics from the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission showed that about 60–80% of the total marriages in Afghanistan are forced and/or underage marriage. In 2009, Afghanistan passed the Law on the Elimination of Violence Against Women (EVAW), which guarantees penalties for domestic violence, abuses against women, as well as forced child marriage, yet the implementation of this law has not been thoroughly enforced, as there is also opposition for the law. In 2013, the Afghan parliament passed a law preventing girls from testifying against forced marriages, and the EVAW was protested by students at Kabul University, who deemed it "un-Islamic". Sharia law In Islam, marriage represents a couple's acknowledgement of their social responsibility and an agreement to abide by the marriage contract's terms and conditions. One of the conditions in the Islam marriage contract requires the verbal and written consent of both the bride and groom, as well as the female's acceptance of the male's proposal. Sharia law, also known as Islamic law, dictates the following regulations concerning marriage: There should be adulthood and sanity of both parties intending to get married. In case of non-adulthood, guardianship of father or grandfather is required for marriage. Father and grandfather are proprietors of their children and can marry them off." Islam, particularly the Sunni school of Hanafi, is central to Afghan culture. From the mid-18th to mid-19th century, Afghan society was mostly decentralized, leaving different ethnic groups to decide how they should practice and implement Hanafi principles. However, research has shown that family judges often made rulings that ignored the rights of women outlined in Sharia. Later, from 1880 to 1901, the Afghan ruler Amir Abd al-Rahman Khan created royal decrees based on Sharia which sought to eliminate child and forced marriage. Similarly, as ruler from 1901-1919, his son Amir Habibullah Khan kept the same legislation in place in order to advance the rights of women. From 1973 to 1978, President Muhammad Daoud passed legislation related to family law, which was based on the more liberal Maliki law, and Decree Number 7 outlawed child marriage for girls under 16 and boys under 18 years of age. Punishment for violators was also implemented, which included imprisonment for up to three years. Reasons for child marriage Compensation Badal, or marriage based on exchange, happens when two families agree to exchange female members of their families, often to offset the cost of a marriage or to strengthen familial ties. Baad, or compensation, is a marriage that occurs to compensate a victim's family if a crime has been committed. Young girls are married into the victim's family, which is supposed to resolve the conflict. Girls are also placed into marriages in order to repay large debts. Rural The 2008 report "Early marriage in Afghanistan" said that regional differences accounted for a vast difference in child marriage incidence. Of the girls interviewed, 59% came from rural areas while 41% were from urban cities. Of those married at age 12, 75% resided in rural areas, as well. Socioeconomic Poverty is a common factor for child marriage; parents marry off their daughters because they have no financial resources to support them. The parents may receive a dowry from the groom at the time of the marriage. The cycle of poverty perpetuates itself, as child brides have limited future employment opportunities; in one survey, 94.3% of women who had been child brides reported that they were unemployed. The Taliban's August 2021 takeover of Afghanistan increased poverty and desperation. Two months later, over half the population suffered food insecurity, and child marriages were reported to be on the rise. According to a 2008 report, literacy rate displayed a strong correlation with child marriage, as out of 200 interviewees, 71% of parents who forced their daughters to marry, as well as 70% of the girls, and 50% of the husbands were illiterate. Effects Health Early child marriage places both the girl's health, as well as her child's health in jeopardy. Malnutrition, abuse, and HIV infection are a few of the detrimental health complications associated with early marriage. It has been reported that the risk of dying from childbirth and pregnancy is two times higher for girls between the ages of 15 and 19 than for older women. This, compounded with the fact that child marriages tend to occur in societies with poorer healthcare, results in higher rates of pregnancy complications and maternal mortality. In Afghanistan, 34.1% of mothers who married early had children that were physically weak and 8.9% have reported that their children were born with a disability, in contrast to children in the United States, where 15 percent of children have a disability. Approximately 40.4% of early wed mothers report having a gynecological disease, and 20.2% suffer from a psychological disease. UNFPA reported 531 pregnancy-related death per 100,000 births for the age group of 15 to 19 years with most children suffering from obstetric fistula. The number reduces to 257 for 20 to 24 years of women. Outside of sub-Saharan Africa, Afghanistan has the second highest incidence of maternal deaths, and 32% of all deaths for girls ages 15–19 are pregnancy-related while 47% of deaths for women who were in the age range of 20-24 were also due to pregnancy complications. Fistula is one of the detrimental health effects caused by child marriage, and the 2011 survey conducted by the Social Health Development Program found that of the 3,040 women interviewed, 67% were between the ages of 16 and 20 when they were diagnosed with an obstetric fistula. Young mothers also suffer from pregnancy-induced hypertension as well as a higher risk of HIV infection. Education Currently, the literacy rate for Afghan adolescent girls is about 21%. Once married, a child's education often comes to an end. Usually, this happens because the child undertakes domestic responsibilities, as well as childcare. However, even if the child manages to get permission to attend school, the school administrators will often deny her a place in school, which is due to a belief that having married girls in a school is detrimental to the morals of unmarried girls. Depriving girls of an education inhibits their ability to obtain sustainable economic opportunities, which limits independence and further subjects them to poverty. A lack of education also forces girls to continue living in abusive situations, as they are unaware of other options. Domestic violence Domestic violence in Afghanistan is often exacerbated due to a variety of factors, such as poverty, illiteracy, and narcotics. The international NGO Global Rights reports in a 2006 survey that "more than 85% of Afghan women reported that they had experienced physical, sexual, or psychological violence or forced marriage." Adverse health and economic impacts are linked to domestic violence, and studies indicate that approximately 2,000 girls have attempted suicide due to the unbearable conditions they were subject to. Even if girls attempt to escape from an abusive relationship, they are accused of running away, which can lead to arrest. Because they marry at a young age, girls who are child brides also have less power, which places them in a position where they may lack authority in every-day decisions, and research has shown that in time, they may even justify domestic violence. International recommendations United Nations Population Fund In their chapter "Giving Girls A Chance: An Agenda for Action", the United Nations Population Fund outlined the following strategies for improving the conditions of girls who are most vulnerable to early marriage: Create programs that develop skills and enhance social networks: When girls are allowed to interact with others and have the ability to share their interests by networking, families may find value in their abilities, which may improve their chances of a delayed marriage. Girls will also have more awareness of their rights under the law, and their knowledge concerning overall well-being will also be improved. Make formal education/economic opportunities more accessible: Because girls who are illiterate have higher chances of becoming child brides, permitting them to have an education allows them to have access to more opportunities, and the families, as well as communities, will see that this is an alternative option for early marriage. Government incentives, such as subsidies, are possible ways that can encourage families to allow girls to remain in school, as well as free supplies and a safe environment. By providing parents with loans and scholarships for school, a financial burden is lifted, and if employment opportunities are also provided, they give parents more options in regards to a girl's future. Change harmful social/cultural norms: By changing the perception of community leaders, as well as parents, in regards to a girl's value and development, child marriage can be discouraged and eventually regarded as detrimental. Community communication, education for parents, and media can all encourage a shift in attitude in order to make such a practice unacceptable. Proper implementation of legislation: The creation of laws prohibiting child marriage must be accompanied by proper implementation, particularly a strict adherence to inhibiting any marriages to occur below the age of 18. Birth registration also makes the federal government accountable for upholding such laws, as without proper registration, girls may be subject to marriage even though are not the legal age. International human rights declarations Various international conventions have outlined regulations that prohibit child marriage. The following are organizations that have taken a stance against the practice of child marriage: In 1948, Article 16 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as well as the 1966 International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the 1966 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights made provisions stating that marriage should only be entered with consent of both parties and that equal rights are to be observed in such a union. The 1956 Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery deemed any practice that prohibited women from having a voice or consent, as well as economic gain for the family to be a form of slavery. Similarly, the 1964 Convention on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage and Registration of Marriages and the 1979 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women declared that both parties should be willing to enter into the marriage and that child marriage was unacceptable under any circumstance. Related literature In her book I am Malala, Malala Yousafzai mentions the practice of child marriage within her Pashtun culture. Although she resides in the Swat District, the Pashtun people are the main inhabitants of Afghanistan. Memories of a Child Marriage by SETHULAKSHMI gives insight into a young girl's child marriage in India with emphasis on the ceremony, as well as her personal sentiments. I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced by Nujood Ali, Delphine Minou, and Linda Coverdale (translator) Opium Nation: Child Brides, Drug Lords, and One Woman's Journey Through Afghanistan by Fariba Nawa See also Polygamy in Afghanistan Women's rights in Afghanistan References Afghanistan Forced marriage Childhood in Afghanistan Marriage, unions and partnerships in Afghanistan Marriage in Asia
Jensen's skate (Amblyraja jenseni), also known as the shortail skate, is a poorly known species of fish discovered in 2004 during a study of bottom ichthyofauna aboard the Norwegian RV G.O. Sars, where four species were identified, including A. jenseni. Etymology The skate is named in honor of Danish zoologist Adolf Severin Jensen (1866–1953), of Lund University, for his contributions to the ichthyology of the North Atlantic Ocean. Taxonomy The shortail skate is a member of the family Rajidae, of which 30 genera and over 180 species are recognized. Amblyraja is the genus name of which 10 species are recognized, including A. doellojuradoi (southern thorny skate), A. frerichsi (thickbody skate), A. robertsi (bigmouth skate), etc. Description Members of the family Rajidae carry uncharacteristically similar body plans. This makes visual identification of these individuals extremely difficult. Detailed visual descriptions of A. jenseni are hard to attain, so the description below may represent several of the family Rajidae and should not necessarily be used to differentiate them. A. jenseni is a medium-sized skate. Its maximum known length is for males and for females. Its coloration is chocolate-brown to gray-brown above with scattered darker spots. Ventral on the body appears a patchy white and brown mixture, except for the pelvic fin lobes and tail, which are darker. These white patches are on the snout, upper abdomen, nostrils, mouth gill slits, and anal opening. Its underside is smooth and its dorsal surface is densely covered with prickly scales. Two or three pairs of distinctive scapular thorns are on each shoulder, usually arranged in a triangle, and a row of 24-29 median thorns occur along the back, flanked by a row of smaller lateral thorns on the tail. The tail of the shorttail skate is relatively short. Sexual dimorphism in shorttail skates is present in pelvic fin structure that the males modify to act as copulatory claspers, as well as alternate disc lengths, horizontal diameter of the orbit, height of the tail at the pelvic fin tips, length of the third gill slit, and distances from the center of the anus to the first and second dorsal fins. Distribution and habitat This species of skate is believed to only be found in the North Atlantic, off the coasts of New England, Nova Scotia, Grand Banks of Newfoundland, Iceland, Ireland, Canada, and along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge at depths of , making it one of the deepest-occurring skates known. Biology and ecology Skates represent a critical consumer of invertebrates and small fish, representing a similar role as apex predators of the ecosystem. Little is documented about their feeding behavior, but like other of its family, it presumably would eat various cephalopods, crustaceans, and small bony fish such as rattails and teleost fishers. A. jenseni is presumed to be oviparous like other skates. but no observed reproduction cycles have been reported. References Further reading External links Species Description of Amblyraja jenseni at www.shark-references.com Taxa named by Henry Bryant Bigelow Taxa named by William Charles Schroeder Fish described in 1950 Amblyraja
Madeleine Swann is a character in the James Bond films Spectre (2015) and No Time to Die (2021), played by actress Léa Seydoux. She is one of only two Bond girls to appear in two films and first in the film series to have a child with Bond. Character biography Madeline Swann is the daughter of Mr. White (Jesper Christensen), a member of the criminal organization SPECTRE. As a young child in Norway, Swann witnessed the death of her mother at the hands of Lyutsifer Safin (Rami Malek), whose entire family was assassinated by White under orders from Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Christoph Waltz). Swann shoots Safin with her father's gun in self-defense and drags him outside, but when Safin unexpectedly regains consciousness, a terrified Swann flees onto a nearby frozen lake and collapses through the ice. Safin watches her from above the ice for a moment before pulling her up and saving her life. Swann studied at the University of Oxford and at Sorbonne University, and later worked with Doctors Without Borders. By the time of Spectre she is working as a psychiatrist at a private clinic in the Austrian Alps. Dying of thallium poisoning, White tells James Bond (Daniel Craig) to protect his daughter from SPECTRE, so Bond goes to see her at the clinic. Although Swann is initially hesitant to trust Bond, she agrees to share information about SPECTRE and help Bond take the organization down. The two gradually fall in love, and Bond ultimately leaves MI6 to be with her after arresting Blofeld. In No Time to Die, Bond and Swann travel to Matera. Swann suggests Bond visit Vesper Lynd's (Eva Green) grave to get closure in his deceased lover's death. Bond does so, and while there notices a card placed by the side of the grave with the SPECTRE symbol. As he picks it up, a bomb detonates, and SPECTRE agents ambush him. Bond escapes, but hears a message from Blofeld on Swann's phone thanking her for her help setting Bond up. Believing she has betrayed him, Bond leaves her at a train station, declaring that they will never see each other again. Five years later, Swann is now serving as a psychiatrist at Belmarsh Prison, and is the only doctor Blofeld will speak to. Safin, still seeking revenge for his family, visits Swann and tries to coerce her into assassinating Blofeld with nanobot weaponry developed by rogue MI-6 scientist Valdo Obruchev (David Dencik). Swann obliged but was too scared to meet him, so she decided to leave Blofeld with Bond alone. However, she unintentionally passes the nanobots on to Bond when they reunite to track down Safin. Bond interrogates Blofeld, who confesses that he framed Swann for trying to kill him; an enraged Bond tries to strangle Blofeld, unintentionally infecting him with the nanobots and killing him. Later, Bond and Swann reconcile when he tracks her to her childhood home. Bond meets her five-year-old daughter, Mathilde, but Swann denies that she is his child. Safin, having become obsessed with Swann, kidnaps her and Mathilde and brings them to his island fortress. Bond is able to kill Safin and rescue Madeline and Mathilde, but he is infected with Safin's nanotechnology in the process. Because the nanotechnology would kill Swann and Mathilde if they were ever exposed to it, Bond decides to sacrifice himself by staying behind on Safin's island as MI-6 missiles hurtle toward it. Before he dies, Bond and Swann affirm their love for each other, and Swann confirms that he is in fact Mathilde's father. The film ends with Madeline driving Bond's black Aston Martin V8 with Mathilde in Italy and telling her the story of a man named "Bond, James Bond." Production The filmmakers originally looked for a "blonde, Scandinavian" actress to play the part of Swann, before casting their net wider to include French and German actresses as well, whereupon they chose Seydoux. Madeleine Swann's name is a tribute to Marcel Proust: Volume 1 of Proust's In Search of Lost Time is called Swann's Way, and it includes an episode in which the narrator enjoys a madeleine. Unlike most Bond girls, Madeline Swann was a full-fledged love interest for James Bond that appeared in multiple films. Prior to Swann, Bond had fallen in love with only Tracy di Vicenzo (Diana Rigg) in On Her Majesty's Secret Service, and Vesper Lynd (Eva Green) in Casino Royale. Both Tracy and Vesper die early in their relationships with Bond, and this reoccurring tragic outcome was used to create tension in No Time to Die regarding Swann's fate. Ultimately, the trope is subverted when Bond himself dies instead of Swann. Reception Lea Seydoux received positive reviews for her portrayal of Swann. British Vogue said "the French actor’s capable and complex creation was [a] perfect match" for Daniel Craig's Bond. Seydoux was nominated for a 2016 Teen Choice Awards in the "Choice Movie Actress: Action" category for her portrayal of Swann in Spectre. Screen Rant called Madeline Swann the "bravest" Bond girl in the franchise. Thomas Lethbridge suggests that Bond's relationship with Swann parallels his earlier romance with Vesper Lynd in Casino Royale: "In both films, Bond seemingly finds himself in a relatively happy relationship, before it all comes crashing down as a result of apparent betrayal." John L. Flynn and Bob Blackwood suggest that Bond's relationship with Swann is a very modern one: "Daniel Craig's interpretation of a more modern 007 may well help dissipate Bond's outmoded, chauvinistic approach to love and relationships, and establish more complicated and thus more realistic relationships with his leading ladies in the new millennium." Mary Rose Somarriba describes Swann as a "near match, if not equal, to Bond in combat, assassination know-how, and intellect." Somarriba goes on to say, Far from a one-dimensional character, Swann is remarkably multifaceted in her strength and smarts. Perhaps most striking is not her being equal to her male counterpart but instead what makes her different. There’s one way in which Swann is superior to Bond, and that is in how she sees beyond the assassin's life—she sees it as ultimately lacking and wants more. Swann is highly educated as a doctor in psychology, and despite being trained in combat by her father, she prefers to live far away from things that would tempt her back to that life, hence her station in the Austrian Alps at a private medical clinic. Notes References Bond girls Film characters introduced in 2015 Fictional psychiatrists Female characters in film Fictional female doctors Fictional French people Fictional Norwegian people Fictional University of Oxford people
The Worst Person in the World () is a 2021 romantic comedy-drama film directed by Joachim Trier. It is the third film in the director's Oslo trilogy, following Reprise (2006) and Oslo, August 31st (2011). The film premiered in competition at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival to widespread critical acclaim, with Renate Reinsve winning the award for Best Actress for her performance in the film. At the 94th Academy Awards, the film was nominated for Best International Feature Film and Best Original Screenplay. The film's score is by Ola Fløttum. Plot Julie is a medical student in Oslo who transfers to psychology and then photography. In her late 20s, she starts a relationship with Aksel Willman, a comic artist 15 years older than her. Now dabbling in writing, she spends a weekend with Aksel at his parents' house. Aksel floats the idea of starting a family with Julie, but Julie is uncertain. While walking home from a publishing event for Aksel, Julie crashes a wedding reception and meets Eivind, a barista. Though both are in relationships, they spend the night together sharing jokes and intimacies, but without sexual relations. They exchange only their first names and part ways. Julie writes a short story about feminism and oral sex. Aksel is impressed by it and encourages her to post it online, where it receives attention. She celebrates her 30th birthday at her divorced mother's home, but her father fails to attend, claiming back pain. Days later, Julie's half-sister inadvertently reveals that their father was watching her play at a football tournament on Julie's birthday. He makes excuses to decline Aksel's invitation to visit him and Julie in Oslo. While working at a bookstore, Julie encounters Eivind and his girlfriend Sunniva. At dinner with Aksel's brother and sister-in-law, Aksel complains about the sanitized cinematic adaptation of his politically incorrect comic series "Bobcat", leaving Julie feeling bored and ignored. She dreams that she goes on a date with Eivind, where they fall in love. The next day, she breaks up with Aksel. Eivind leaves the obsessively social-justice-and-climate-conscious Sunniva because of her restrictive lifestyle. Julie and Eivind move in together. He hosts a small party where one of his friends uncovers Eivind's stash of psychedelic mushrooms, which Julie consumes, leading to hallucinations. The next night, she tells Eivind that she can be herself around him. Aksel's brother happens upon Julie at work and discloses that Aksel has incurable pancreatic cancer. Some time later, Eivind finds a short story Julie wrote. When he assumes it is autobiographical, Julie angrily denies it and patronizes him. Julie learns she is pregnant and delays telling Eivind. She visits Aksel in the hospital, and he says he is afraid to die and still loves her. Julie admits that she is pregnant. Despite his assertions that she would be a good mother, she remains frightened. Returning home, Julie tells Eivind about her pregnancy, and says she needs time to decide whether she wants to keep the child. She later receives a voicemail from Aksel's brother reporting that Aksel is unlikely to survive the night. While showering, she has a miscarriage. Some time later, Julie is working as an on-set photographer at a film shoot. She photographs an actress and then sees her outside with Eivind and a baby. She returns home to edit the day's photos. Cast Release MK2 Films secured a sales deal on the film in February 2021. The film had its world premiere in competition for the Palme d'Or at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival on 7 July. A week later, the film's US distribution rights were sold to Neon, while UK and Ireland rights were acquired by Mubi. The Worst Person in the World had its North American premiere on 11 September as a Gala Presentation at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival. The film was released theatrically in France on 13 October 2021 by Memento Distribution, in Norway on 15 October 2021 by SF Studios and in Sweden on 19 November 2021 by TriArt Film. The Worst Person in the World became a part of the Criterion Collection with Blu-ray and DVD releases on 28 June 2022. Reception The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw described the film as "one of Cannes' best" and "an instant classic". Richard Lawson of Vanity Fair called it "exquisite, wistful (and downright sad)", praising the cast performances and Trier's writing. In a review for IndieWire, David Ehrlich gave the film a grade of B and commended Reinsve's performance, writing, "If Julie is less of a character than a vividly realized archetype, Reinsve didn’t get the message." Vanity Fair and The Atlantic declared The Worst Person in the World the best film of 2021. Among the negative reviews, Deborah Ross wrote, "The ‘messy young woman’ trope has become, I think, rather overdone.... It’s got to the point where a film about a woman who, say, sticks to a profession, fills in her tax return on time, has developed some certitudes about life might be the more interesting, more original option.... The two hours go by pleasantly enough but the bottom line is: I felt nothing and didn’t care." Richard Brody concludes that the film "is a sham, except for its lead performance. Joachim Trier’s drama about an intrepid and passionate young woman in Oslo reduces her to a handful of character traits. [...] Trier’s film is set up like a deck of tarot cards, with each scene and event... corresponding clearly to a character trait and pushing a button of pre-programmed emotional response. Its narrowness of dramatic form reflects the narrowness with which it views its protagonist and the narrowness of the world view that it embodies.... The movie offers no details about any conflict between domestic and artistic life.... driven by a relentless focus on Julie’s personal life, but it’s a focus that remains obliviously impersonal." Accolades See also List of submissions to the 94th Academy Awards for Best International Feature Film List of Norwegian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film References External links 2021 films 2021 independent films 2021 romantic comedy-drama films 2020s French films 2020s Norwegian-language films 2020s Swedish films Danish romantic comedy-drama films Films directed by Joachim Trier Films set in Oslo Films shot in Oslo Films with screenplays by Eskil Vogt French romantic comedy-drama films Norwegian romantic comedy-drama films Swedish romantic comedy-drama films
The Knights of Pythias Building, also known as the Knights of Pythias Hall is an historic Knights of Pythias lodge hall located in Virginia City, Nevada, United States. It was built of cast iron and stuccoed brick in 1876 by Nevada Lodge No. 1 of the Knights of Pythias, which had been formed on March 23, 1873. It was also used the city's other Knights of Pythias lodges: Lincoln Lodge No. 6 formed in 1874, and Triumph Lodge No. 11 formed in 1879. It is one of the few unaltered false-fronted buildings remaining in Virginia City. The Knights of Pythias Building is a contributing property in the Virginia City Historic District which was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1961 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1966. Like many fraternal buildings, the upper floor was used for the lodge hall while the first floor was rented out. An 1880 map shows the first floor being occupied by The Armory. References External links Buildings and structures in Virginia City, Nevada Knights of Pythias buildings Clubhouses in Nevada Cultural infrastructure completed in 1876 1876 establishments in Nevada Historic district contributing properties in Nevada National Register of Historic Places in Storey County, Nevada Historic American Buildings Survey in Nevada Victorian architecture in Nevada
Farrar is an unincorporated community in Polk County, Iowa, United States. An unused elementary school building and one church are located in Farrar and 13 houses. As a result of unicorporation all residents of Farrar now have a Maxwell, Iowa address. The mayor is Dale Higgins (Maxwell, Iowa). History Farrar owes its development to the railroad line that was developed through the area in 1902-1903 , and was consequently named in honor of one of the railroad employees involved in the creation of that line. A post office was established in 1904. Farrar's population was 42 in 1925. Education Bondurant–Farrar Community School District operates local area public schools. References External links Map of Farrar Unincorporated communities in Polk County, Iowa Unincorporated communities in Iowa
Human mail is the transportation of a person through the postal system, usually as a stowaway. While rare, there have been some reported cases of people attempting to travel through the mail. Real occurrences Henry Brown (age 42), an African-American slave from Virginia, successfully escaped in a shipping box sent north to the free state of Pennsylvania in 1849. He was known thereafter as Henry "Box" Brown. Among his many human-mail stunts in the 1890s, Austrian tailor Herman Zeitung mailed himself in a box from New York to the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, arriving on July 28, 1893. Four days earlier, another Austrian, Ignatz Lefkovitz, did the same. W. Reginald Bray mailed himself within England by ordinary mail in 1900 and then by registered mail in 1903. Suffragettes Elspeth Douglas McClelland and Daisy Solomon mailed themselves successfully to the then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, H. H. Asquith at 10 Downing Street on 23 February 1909, but his office refused to accept the parcels. Reg Spiers mailed himself from Heathrow Airport, London, to Perth Airport, Western Australia, in 1964. His 63-hour journey was spent in a box made by fellow British javelin thrower John McSorley. Spiers spent some time outside his container in the cargo hold of the plane, and suffered from dehydration when he was offloaded onto the tarmac of Bombay Airport. He arrived in Perth undetected and returned home to Adelaide. In 1965, Brian Robson posted himself from Australia to the United Kingdom; he was discovered in the United States in transit and sent back to London. The journey took four days, with the box repeatedly being stored upside down. Two men, Paul and John, assisted him in the trip by nailing the box shut. Charles McKinley (age 25) shipped himself from New York City to Dallas, Texas in a box in 2003. He was attempting to visit his parents and wanted to save on the air fare by charging the shipping fees to his former employer. However, he was discovered during the final leg of his journey, having successfully travelled by plane. An inmate (age 42) serving a seven-year drug conviction sentence in Germany escaped from a prison in 2008 by climbing into a box in the mail room, which was picked up by a courier. In August 2012, Hu Seng of Chongqing, a city in southern China, shipped himself to his girlfriend as a prank. He nearly died when the courier took three hours to deliver the package. Seng had minimal air in the box which was too thick to puncture a hole so that he could breathe. When he arrived at the destination address, his girlfriend found him unconscious and he had to be revived by paramedics. Mailing children The mailing of people weighing less than , i.e., children, was occasionally practiced due to a legal ambiguity when the United States first introduced domestic parcel post in 1913, but was restricted by 1914. The children were carried along by mail carriers, but were not put in boxes. See also Freighthopping References Henry Box Brown, b. 1816 Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Written by Himself – full text of the Narrative. Accessed 30 March 2010. (10 September 2003) "Federal charge filed against man who shipped himself in crate" at the U.S. Department of Justice. Accessed 3 January 2006. Adams, Cecil (30 December 2005) "Special Delivery: Can a live person be packed in a shipping crate and mailed?" at Straight Dope. Accessed 3 January 2006. Inmate escapes German jail in box at BBC News. Accessed 5 January 2009. Postal systems
Tom Harmon (July 20, 1937 – June 14, 1995), credited as Timothy Scott or Tim Scott, was an American actor. Personal life Scott was born in Detroit, Michigan, lived in New Mexico, and moved to Los Angeles, California, in 1959 for his acting career. He had a wife Donna Leigh Scott, one stepdaughter Marisa Scott-Windom, and two sons, Scott Harmon and Dean Swope. Scott co-founded the Met Theatre with James Gammon in Los Angeles. He lived in Woodland Hills where he was undergoing treatment for lung cancer. Career Scott appeared in nearly two dozen films and television, including many westerns. He portrayed Texas Ranger turned cowboy Pea Eye Parker in the 1989 miniseries Lonesome Dove and its 1993 sequel Return to Lonesome Dove. He was replaced by Sam Shepard as Pea Eye in Streets of Laredo (1995). He also appeared in films, like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), Fried Green Tomatoes (1991), Vanishing Point (1971), and The Electric Horseman (1979), and television, like 1966 series Batman and miniseries Ned Blessing: The True Story of My Life. Death Scott was diagnosed with advanced lung cancer in 1994. He died of a heart attack in a Los Angeles hospital at age 57 in June 1995 where he was receiving cancer treatment. Scott was commemorated in Los Angeles and Texas. He was cremated, his ashes scattered at screenwriter Bill Wittliff's ranch, Plum Creek, located between two Texas cities, Luling and Gonzales. Selected filmography Sources: In the Heat of the Night (1967) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), William "News" Carver Vanishing Point (1971), Angel Macon County Line (1974), Shagbag The Electric Horseman (1979), Leroy Lonesome Dove (1989), "Pea Eye" Parker Fried Green Tomatoes (1991), Smokey Lonesome Ned Blessing: The Story of My Life and Times (1992), Deputy Sticks Packwood Return to Lonesome Dove (1993), "Pea Eye" Parker References External links 1937 births 1995 deaths 20th-century American male actors
Relations between the Federal Republic of Central America, also known as the Central American Federation, and the United States were formally established in 1824 following the Federation's independence from Spain. Relations lasted until 1841 when the Federation dissolved and relations with the United States continued among the newly independent former member states of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua. History The United States recognized the Central American Federation following its independence from Spain on August 4, 1824. Recognition was given when President James Monroe received Antonio José Cañas, the founder of the Central American Federation, as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary. On December 5, 1825, the Federation and the United States signed the Treaty of Peace, Amity, Commerce, and Navigation. The treaty was signed in Washington, D.C. by Secretary of State Henry Clay and Central American ambassador Antonio José Cañas. The treaty was ratified by both countries and it entered into force on August 2, 1826, when ratifications were exchanged in Guatemala City. Following the Federation's collapse in 1847, the treaty lost legal force. In 1826, a legation office for the United States was established in Guatemala City. On May 3, John Williams presented his credentials after he was appointed Chargé d’Affaires by President John Quincy Adams. Today, the legation office is the current American Embassy to Guatemala. The treaty increased revenue for the Federation whose economy was drastically poor. The United States not only was the largest trading partner of the Federation but also its biggest subsidizer. Prior to the signing of the treaty, trade with the U.S. amounted to $700,000 yearly, including $200,000 in smuggled goods due to customs inspection conducted in fraudulent manners. John Williams would assist the Federation in helping its economy grow. Williams opposed implementing an increase in tariffs calling it an "injustice". To help with agriculture, agricultural implements were admitted duty-free with funds sent to Europe to purchase the knowledge and machinery. With the outbreak of the First Central American Civil War and Second Central American Civil War, the Federation was beginning to collapse and inevitably it did during the Second Civil War from 1838 to 1840. William Sumter Murphy was appointed as ambassador to the Federation under the title of Special and Confidential Agent of the United States to Central America. Murphy did not formally leave his post as ambassador until March 1842. And during the period from April 1844 to April 1853 began recognizing and establishing formal relations with the successor states of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua. The Federation formally dissolved in 1841 ending relations between the two states. See also Foreign relations of the United States Costa Rica–United States relations El Salvador–United States relations Guatemala–United States relations Honduras–United States relations Nicaragua–United States relations Greater Republic of Central America–United States relations Latin America–United States relations References United States Bilateral relations of the United States History of the Federal Republic of Central America Costa Rica–United States relations El Salvador–United States relations Guatemala–United States relations Honduras–United States relations Nicaragua–United States relations
Grèges () is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France. Geography A farming and suburban village situated in the Pays de Caux, some east of Dieppe at the junction of the D920 and the D100 roads. Heraldry Population Places of interest The church of St.Madeleine, dating from the sixteenth century. The ruins of a 15th-century presbytery. See also Communes of the Seine-Maritime department References Communes of Seine-Maritime
The following is a list of notable decisions by the Supreme Court of Canada sorted by author. Understanding what cases were authored by whom can be important. For example, in early interpretation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, it has been said there was much agreement. However, in the third year of this interpretation the judges of the Supreme Court "each had started to develop their own method of reasoning." List Decisions of the Court: By the Court decisions of the Supreme Court of Canada Current justices: Reasons of the Supreme Court of Canada by Chief Justice Wagner Reasons of the Supreme Court of Canada by Justice Karakatsanis Reasons of the Supreme Court of Canada by Justice Côté Reasons of the Supreme Court of Canada by Justice Rowe Reasons of the Supreme Court of Canada by Justice Martin Reasons of the Supreme Court of Canada by Justice Kasirer Reasons of the Supreme Court of Canada by Justice Jamal Reasons of the Supreme Court of Canada by Justice O'Bonsawin Past justices: Reasons of the Supreme Court of Canada by Justice Brown Reasons of the Supreme Court of Canada by Justice Abella Reasons of the Supreme Court of Canada by Justice Cromwell Reasons of the Supreme Court of Canada by Justice Moldaver Reasons of the Supreme Court of Canada by Justice Gascon Reasons of the Supreme Court of Canada by Chief Justice Lamer Reasons of the Supreme Court of Canada by Chief Justice McLachlin Reasons of the Supreme Court of Canada by Justice L'Heureux-Dubé Reasons of the Supreme Court of Canada by Justice Gonthier Reasons of the Supreme Court of Canada by Justice Iacobucci Reasons of the Supreme Court of Canada by Justice Major Reasons of the Supreme Court of Canada by Justice Arbour Reasons of the Supreme Court of Canada by Justice Bastarache Reasons of the Supreme Court of Canada by Justice Charron Reasons of the Supreme Court of Canada by Justice Binnie Reasons of the Supreme Court of Canada by Justice LeBel Reasons of the Supreme Court of Canada by Justice Deschamps Reasons of the Supreme Court of Canada by Justice Fish Reasons of the Supreme Court of Canada by Justice Rothstein Reasons of the Supreme Court of Canada by Justice Sopinka Decisions by Dickson Majority Solosky v. The Queen, [1980] Hunter v. Southam Inc., 1984 R. v. Therens, 1985 R. v. Big M Drug Mart Ltd., 1985 R. v. Oakes, 1986 Beauregard v. Canada, 1986 R. v. Edwards Books and Art Ltd., 1986 R. v. Morgentaler, 1988 General Motors of Canada Ltd. v. City National Leasing, 1989 Brooks v. Canada Safeway Ltd., 1989 R. v. Sparrow, 1990 (with La Forest J) R. v. Keegstra, 1990 Mahe v. Alberta, 1990 Decisions by La Forest Majority Canada v. Schmidt, [1987] 1 S.C.R. 500 United States of America v. Cotroni; United States of America v. El Zein, [1989] 1 S.C.R. 1469 R. v. Sparrow, [1990] 1. S.C.R. 1075 (with Dickson) McKinney v. University of Guelph, [1990] 3 S.C.R. 229 Douglas/Kwantlen Faculty Assn. v. Douglas College, [1990] 3 S.C.R. 570 Morguard Investments Ltd. v. De Savoye, [1990] 3 S.C.R. 1077 Eldridge v. British Columbia (Attorney General), [1997] 2 S.C.R. 624 References Author Supreme
Alain Chautems is research associate at the Geneva "Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève, Switzerland. He specialized in some of the most diverse Gesneriaceae of Brazil (the Nematanthus/Codonanthe and Sinningia/Vanhouttea/Paliavana genera complexes, respectively). Until 2016, he was researcher and curator at the Conservatory and Botanical Garden of the City of Geneva. Selected publications Arzolla, F.A.R.D.P., Paula, G.C.R., Chautems, A. & Shepherd, G. J. (2007). O primeiro registro de Sinningia gigantifolia Chautems (Gesneriaceae) no estado de São Paulo - SP (Nota científica). Biota Neotropica 7(3): 373-377 (publication online). www.biotaneotropica.org.br Chautems, A. (1984) Nematanthus australis Chautems sp.nova (Gesneriaceae): une nouvelle espèce du sud du Brésil. Candollea 39: 287–295. Chautems, A. (1984). Révision taxonomique d'un genre de Gesneriaceae endémique du Brésil: Nematanthus Schrader. Candollea 39: 297–300. Chautems, A. (1988). Révision taxonomique et possibilités d'hybridations de Nematanthus Schrader (Gesneriaceae), genre endémique de la forêt côtière brésilienne. Dissertationes Botanicae 112, 226 pp. Chautems, A. (1990). Revisão taxonômica de Sinningia Nees: primeiros resultados. Resumos, 31° Congresso Nacional de Botânica (SBB), Fortaleza: 47. Chautems, A. (1990). Taxonomic revision of Sinningia Nees: nomenclatural changes and new synonymies. Candollea 45(1): 381–388. Chautems, A. (1991). Taxonomic revision of Sinningia Nees II: new species from Brazil. Candollea 46: 411–425. Chautems, A. (1995). Taxonomic revision of Sinningia Nees (Gesneriaceae) III: new species from Brazil and new combinations. Gesneriana 1: 8-14 (1995). Chautems, A. (1997). New Gesneriaceae from São Paulo, Brazil. Candollea 52: 159-169 (1997). Chautems, A. (1999). Gesneriaceae. In: Ribeiro, J. L. S. ...[et al.] (eds.), Flora da Reserva Ducke, INPA-DFID, Manaus, Brazil: 602–605. Chautems, A. (2000). Gesneriaceae. In: Mendonça, M. P. & L. V. Lins (eds.), Lista vermelha das espécies ameaçadas de extinção da flora de Minas Gerais, Fundação Biodiversitas ed. Chautems, A. (2002). New Gesneriaceae from Minas Gerais, Brazil, Candollea 56: 261–279. Chautems, A. (2004), Flora de Grão Mogol – Gesneriaceae. Boletim de Botânica da Universidade de São Paulo 22(2): 141–142. Chautems, A. (2007). Gesneriaceae. In: Simonelli, M. & Fraga, C. N. (Org.). Espécies da Flora Ameaçadas de Extinção no Estado do Espírito Santo. IPEMA, Vitória, 144 pp. Chautems, A., Araujo, A. O. & M. Peixoto (2010). A new genus from Brazil: Chautemsia calcicola. Gesneriads 60 (3): 15–19. Chautems, A., G. S. Baracho & J. A. Siqueira Filho (2000). A new species of Sinningia (Gesneriaceae) from northeastern Brazil, Brittonia 52: 49–53. Chautems, A.(1984). Revisão taxonômica do gênero Nematanthus (Gesneriaceae). Programa e Resumos, 35° Congresso Nacional de Botânica, Sociedade Brasileira de Botânica (SBB), Manaus: 173. Leoni, L. S. & A. Chautems (2004). Flora Fanerogâmica do Parque Nacional do Caparaó: Gesneriaceae. Pabstia 15(3): 1–11. Lopes, T. C. C., Andreata, R. H. P. & Chautems, A. (2007). Distribuição e conservação do gênero Besleria L. (Gesneriaceae) no Brasil: dados preliminares (Nota científica). Revista Brasileira de Biociências (Porto Alegre) 5 supl. 2: 876–878. Perret, M., A. Chautems, M. Peixoto, R. Spichiger, & V. Savolainen (2001). Nectar sugar composition in relation to pollination syndromes in Sinningieae (Gesneriaceae). Annals of Botany 87: 267–273. Perret, M., A. Chautems, R. Spichiger, G. Kite & V. Savolainen (2003). Systematics and evolution of tribe Sinningieae (Gesneriaceae): evidence from phylogenetic analyses of six plastid DNA regions and nuclear ncpGS. American Journal of Botany 90(3): 445–460. Perret, M., Chautems, A. & Spichiger, R. (2006). Dispersal-Vicariance Analyses in the Tribe Sinningieae (Gesneriaceae): A Clue to Understanding Biogeographical History of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 93: 340–358. Perret, M., Chautems, A., Spichiger, R., Barraclough, T. & V. Savolainen (2007). Geographic Pattern of Speciation and Floral Diversification in the Neotropics: the Tribe Sinningieae (Gesneriaceae) as a Case Study. Evolution 61: 1641–1660. Rossini, J. & Chautems, A. (2007). Codonanthe gibbosa Rossini & Chautems, a new species of Gesneriaceae from the State of Espírito Santo, Brazil. Candollea 62: 215–220. References 20th-century Swiss botanists 21st-century Swiss botanists Living people Scientists from Geneva Year of birth missing (living people)
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Walter Frederic "Mike" Kelly (January 13, 1874 – March 1, 1961) was an American football player, coach of football, basketball, and baseball, and physician. He served as the head football coach at University of Texas at Austin in 1897 and at Butler University from 1899 to 1903, compiling a career college football record of 10–14. Kelly was also the head basketball coach at Butler from 1899 to 1903, tallying a mark of 6–8, and was the school's head baseball coach from 1901 to 1905 and again in 1908, amassing a record of 7–21–1. Before his tenure at Butler, Kelly served as an assistant coach to David Farragut Edwards at Texas in 1898. While coaching at Butler, Kelly pursued a medical degree at Indiana Medical College, from which he graduated in 1906. He worked as a physician in Marion County, Indiana for more than 54 years before his death on March 1, 1961, at his home in Indianapolis. Head coaching record Football References External links 1874 births 1961 deaths 19th-century players of American football 20th-century American physicians Basketball coaches from Massachusetts Butler Bulldogs baseball coaches Butler Bulldogs football coaches Butler Bulldogs men's basketball coaches Dartmouth Big Green football players Texas Longhorns football coaches Sportspeople from Haverhill, Massachusetts Players of American football from Essex County, Massachusetts People from Bradford, Massachusetts Physicians from Indiana
304 may refer to: The year 304 or the year 304 BC. Area code 304, in West Virginia 304 (number), the natural number 304 (card game), a card game popular in Sri Lanka and Tamil Nadu 304 Olga, a main-belt asteroid Peugeot 304, car known as the 304 SAE 304 stainless steel , the most common type of stainless steel, HTTP 304 304, a fictional class battlecruiser in the Stargate series. 0304 (with intentional leading zero), an album by Jewel
Novy Istochnik () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Sosnovskoye Rural Settlement, Vologodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 35 as of 2002. There are 3 streets. Geography Novy Istochnik is located 24 km west of Vologda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Striznevo is the nearest rural locality. References Rural localities in Vologodsky District
Akela Jones (born 22 April 1995) is a Barbadian track and field athlete who holds Barbadian records in the women's heptathlon, pentathlon, long jump and high jump. She won gold in the long jump at the 2014 World Junior Championships. In 2015, she was NCAA champion in the heptathlon and won bronze in the high jump at the Pan American Games. Early career Jones first competed in the CARIFTA Games as a 12-year-old in 2008, winning silver in the under-17 girls' high jump with a jump of 1.71 m. On 20 March 2009 Jones cleared 1.81 m in Bridgetown; , this remains the age 13 world best. At the 2009 CARIFTA Games she repeated her silver from the previous year, clearing 1.80 m to equal the championship record but losing to Jamaica's Petergaye Reid on countback. Jones won her first CARIFTA Games gold medal in 2010, clearing a championship record 1.85 m in the high jump; additionally, she won silver with the Barbadian team in the 4 × 100 metres relay. Later that spring, she became the first Barbadian to win a high school event at the Penn Relays, winning the girls' high jump with 1.81 m. Jones set a national youth and junior record in the women's long jump, 6.18 m, at the 2011 Barbadian CARIFTA Trials. She won two gold medals at the 2011 CARIFTA Games, winning both the high jump (1.75 m) and the long jump (5.66 m). She was selected for her first global meet, the 2011 World Youth Championships in Lille, as a long jumper; jumping 6.10 m in the qualification and 6.04 m in the final, she placed sixth. In 2012 Jones competed in the CARIFTA Games as an under-20 athlete for the first time, winning gold in the long jump (6.18 m), silver in the high jump (1.80 m) and bronze in the 4 × 100 m relay. At the CAC Junior Championships she won gold medals in both the long jump (6.36 m) and the high jump (1.81 m); her long jump mark was a new championship record and Barbadian junior record, while her high jump mark equaled the championship record. She competed in the long jump at the 2012 World Junior Championships in Barcelona, but was eliminated in the qualification. Jones enrolled in Oklahoma Baptist University, a NAIA college, after the 2012 season; she had originally intended to go to the NCAA's Kansas State University, but lacked the course credits. During the 2013 indoor season Jones set Barbadian indoor records in both the high jump (1.85 m) and long jump (6.26 m); at the 2013 NAIA indoor championships she won both events, and additionally placed second in the 60 m hurdles. Jones won four medals at the 2013 CARIFTA Games, winning gold in the under-20 long jump (6.19 m) and silver in the high jump, 100 m hurdles and 4 × 100 m relay. At the NAIA outdoor championships she won the long jump, high jump and 100 m hurdles and placed second in the flat 100 m. 2014 Jones set a Barbadian indoor record in women's pentathlon, 4194 points, in Wichita on 31 January 2014. She repeated as NAIA indoor champion in both the high jump and long jump, and also won the pentathlon and 60 m hurdles; in addition, she placed second in the flat 60 m, leading the Oklahoma Baptist women to a team championship. At her final CARIFTA Games appearance in April 2014, Jones won the under-20 women's long jump (6.32 m), high jump (1.84 m) and 100 m hurdles (13.55); she received the Austin Sealy Award as the most outstanding athlete of the meet. The following month, she repeated as NAIA outdoor champion in the long jump, high jump and 100 m hurdles; her winning mark in the long jump (6.55 m) was a new Barbadian record. At the 2014 World Junior Championships in Eugene, Oregon Jones won gold in the long jump, jumping 6.34 m into a strong headwind; she was the first Barbadian ever to win a World Junior Championship medal. She also qualified for the high jump final, but decided to skip it after the long jump gold to avoid aggravating a minor knee problem. In recognition of her achievements in 2014, Jones was named Barbadian Sportspersonality of the Year. 2015 Jones transferred from Oklahoma Baptist to Kansas State University for the 2014–15 season. She had a successful 2015 indoor season, winning the Big 12 Conference long jump title and setting Barbadian indoor records in the long jump (6.64 m) and pentathlon (4402 points); her long jump mark ranked second in the NCAA that year, behind Jenna Prandini of Oregon. At the NCAA indoor championships she placed fourth in the high jump and sixth in the long jump. Outdoors, Jones made her heptathlon debut at the Jim Click Invitational in Tucson, breaking the Barbadian record with her tally of 6049 points. At the Big 12 outdoor championships she placed second in three events – the 100 m hurdles, high jump and long jump. The second heptathlon of Jones's career was at the 2015 NCAA outdoor championships in Eugene; she won the championship with a wind-aided total of 6371 points, defeating defending champion Kendell Williams of Georgia. Jones's day one score, 4023 points, marked the first time an NCAA heptathlete had reached 4000 points after four events; her two-day total placed her fourth (behind Diane Guthrie-Gresham, Brianne Theisen-Eaton and Jackie Joyner-Kersee) on the collegiate all-time list and broke Austra Skujytė's Kansas State record. In her other event at the NCAA championships, the high jump, Jones equaled her personal best of 1.87 m and placed fourth; the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association named her Women's National Field Athlete of the Year in NCAA Division I. In July 2015, Jones represented Barbados at the Pan American Games in Toronto, clearing 1.91 m to win bronze in the women's high jump. In addition, she placed sixth in the long jump with 6.60 m; both marks were new Barbadian outdoor records. 2016 Outdoors, Jones made her heptathlon debut at the Mt SAC Relays winning with a score of 6307 in April. Akela Jones won long jump with a jump of at Big 12 Conference in May. At Akela's second heptathlon at 2016 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, she placed third scoring 6063. In July, Jones won high jump at NACAC U23 Championships and placed 2nd and 4th in long jump and 100 m Hurdles. In August, Jones competed in the Olympic heptathlon and high jump. She placed 20th in the heptathlon and did not make the finals for the high jump. She was chosen to serve as flag bearer for Barbados in the Olympic closing ceremonies. Personal bests Outdoor 100 metres hurdles – 12.94 (2016) High jump – 1.95 m (2016) Shot put – 14.85 m (2015) 200 metres – 23.28 (2016) Long jump – 6.75 m (2016) Javelin throw – 42.00 m (2016) 800 metres – 2:21.62 (2015) Heptathlon – 6371 pts (2015) Indoor 60 metres hurdles – 8.00 (2016) High jump – 1.98 m (2016) Shot put – 14.16m (2014) Long jump – 6.80 m (2016) 800 metres – 2:25.63 (2016) Pentathlon – 4643 pts (2016) Other bests 100 metres – 11.64(2015) References External links Akela Jones of Barbados All-Athletics Profile "Jones ready to make Barbados proud in Rio" at World Athletics 1995 births Living people Sportspeople from Bridgetown Barbadian long jumpers Barbadian high jumpers Heptathletes Female long jumpers Female high jumpers Kansas State Wildcats women's track and field athletes Oklahoma Baptist Lady Bison track and field athletes Pan American Games bronze medalists for Barbados Pan American Games medalists in athletics (track and field) Athletes (track and field) at the 2015 Pan American Games World Athletics Championships athletes for Barbados Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Barbados Medalists at the 2015 Pan American Games
Good Deeds Global was an Internet-based social business, and social movement organization structured around the "pay it forward" and "good deeds" concept. Business model The Good Deeds Global company had a unique hybrid business model utilizing the philanthropy aspect of a charity organization integrated into an online business that was supported by a grassroots social movement spearheaded by its founders. The Good Deeds Global website offered a variety of free services to its users that included a social networking service called "Your Life", and a wish granting out-reach service called "Request A Good Deed". Impact Social movement The Founder of Good Deeds Global Corey Shoblom Davis along with Co-Founder Ken Melancon have been seen in a variety of cities throughout the United States handing out various amounts of free money to people in an effort to promote and encourage the pay it forward philosophy, in addition to supporting the random act of kindness concept. References External links Online companies of the United States American social networking websites
Bhandardara is a holiday resort village near Igatpuri, in the western ghats of India. The village is located in the Akole tehsil, Ahmednagar district of the state of Maharashtra, about from Mumbai and from Ahmednagar. Bhandardara sits by the Pravara River, and the natural environment, waterfalls, mountains, Wilson dam, Arthur lake and Randha falls are tourist attractions. Bhandardara attractions include Wilson Dam and Arthur Lake. Since late 2010sattraction in this place is Fireflies camp in the Purushwadi area. There are number of historic and natural places of interest near the dam. From Bhandardara, visitors can climb up to see the Ratangad and Harishchandragad forts. Or visitors can follow the trails that lead to Ajoba and Ghanchakkar peaks. The highest peak in Maharashtra, Mount Kalsubai is 1646 m, and the starting point for this trek is Bari Village, located 12 km away from Bhandardara. Atop, there is a small temple located at the summit, with views of Sahyadris and Bhandardara. The toughest trio-forts in Sahyadri namely Alang Fort, Madangad fort and Kulang gad (also called A-M-K) located on the southern side. A very narrow Sandhan valley is on the Western side of the dam. Places of interest Bhandardara is home to Mount Kalsubai, the highest peak () in Maharashtra. Another tourist attraction is the Wilson Dam on the Pravara River, which was built in 1910. The Umbrella Falls also draw visitors, although it can be seen only during the monsoons between July and October. About 10 km away from Shendi Village is the Randhaa Waterfalls. The Ratangad fort is around 22 km from Shendi/ Bhandardara, and is connected by both roadway, and ferry across the Lake Arthur. On the Kalsubai side, at the far end of a 22 km roadway across forests and tribal villages, is Konkankada from where there are views of the plains. Harishchandragad is another nearby mountain hiking spot with an ancient temple on top. Bhandardara has a number of treking and hiking routes, including a trek to Ratangad fort, which is reached by boat over a small lake near the village Ratanwadi. Ratangad is a fortress situated at the edge of ghats with a number of water cisterns and caves. It also commands views all around and is said to be the favourite fort of the Maratha king, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj. Attractions Ratangad (Fort) Agasti Rishi Ashram Amruteshwar Temple Sandhan Valley Randha Fall Necklace Fall Harishandragad (Fort) Kokankada (Ghatghar) Reverse Fall Nhani Fall Umbrella Fall Fire Flies Nilwande Dam Other attractions Wilson Dam: Built in 1910 across River Pravara, Wilson Dam is situated at a height of 150 m above sea level. It's one of the oldest dams in the country. The opening of sluice gates creates two 60 to 80 feet cascades of water that plummet to the rocks below. Arthur Lake: The clear and placid lake is bounded by thick canopied forests of the Sahyadri hills. The Lake gets its water from the Pravara River. A narrow road encircles the lake forming a roughly 50 km loop the gives access to views, campsites and hiking trails in the hills surrounding the lake. Randha Falls: At Randha Falls, the River Pravara descends down from a height of 170 ft into a gorge. However the waterfalls are best viewed during monsoons and are not so great in other seasons. Ghatghar: Located 22 km from Bhandardara, Ghatghar is a viewpoint in the area. It offers views of the Sahyadri ranges. Mount Kalsubai: from Bhandardara, the highest peak of the Sahyadri range, Mount Kalsubai, can be seen. Kalsubai with its height and view is popular for trekking and so are the hills near Kalsubai. Reaching it requires a physically demanding trek, as Bhandardara is on a hill. Ratnagad : Ratnagad fort was captured by Shivaji. The fort lies near the Maharashtra tourism resort and has ample of grounds to interest trekkers. The fort commands views of the surrounding areas. Sandhan Valley Located 25 km from Bhandardara, behind Samrad village. There is also reversing water falls nearby but it's active during monsoon only. Angling:This is popular place for angling. Tourists can spot a number of large fish over here. Tourists can go angling, but boats are not allowed. Location State: Maharashtra Taluka: Akole Exact Location: A holiday resort village Bhandardara is located on the western coast in Ahmednagar. Nearest Town: Akole. Distance from Akole: 45 km. Transportation Bhandardara is easily accessible by road also from Mumbai which is around 185 km far and Pune which is around 191 km far. Please be careful with the narrow roads while driving on the ghats towards bhandardara. The nearest airport is in Nashik around 90 km, while Igatpuri Railway Station, 45+ km away, has the nearest railhead. One can board a state transport bus from Igatpuri to reach Bhandardara. Regular buses are available from both the cities to reach Bhandardara, or you can also hire a taxi to reach the destination. References External links MTDC, Bhandardara Bhandardara Bhandardara City Guide Tourist attractions in Ahmednagar district Cities and towns in Ahmednagar district Hill stations in Maharashtra
Colyer Meriwether (8 April 1858 – 26 August 1920) was an American historian, educator, and writer. Early life Meriwether was born in Clark’s Hill, South Carolina. He earned an undergraduate degree at Johns Hopkins University in 1886; and the university awarded him a Ph.D. in 1893. Career In 1889-1892, Meriwether was employed by the Japanese government in Sendai. He was elected a member of the Asiatic Society of Japan and the American Historical Association. He was secretary and treasurer of the Southern History Association. Selected works History of Higher Education in South Carolina, 1889 Date Masamune and His Embassy to Rome, 1892 See also Foreign government advisors in Meiji Japan References 1858 births 1920 deaths Foreign advisors to the government in Meiji-period Japan Foreign educators in Japan Johns Hopkins University alumni American expatriates in Japan
The men's 400 metre individual medley event at the 1996 Summer Olympics took place on 21 July at the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center in Atlanta, United States. Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows. Results Heats Rule: The eight fastest swimmers advance to final A (Q), while the next eight to final B (q). Finals Final B Final A References External links Official Report USA Swimming Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics Men's events at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Live in the Studio 1979 is a live album by English gothic rock band Bauhaus. It was released in 1997 by record label Nemo, included with the Andrew Brooksbank book Bauhaus: Beneath the Mask. Background and critical reception Months after its formation, the band then known as Bauhaus 1919 inadvertently recorded eight tracks that would make up Live in the Studio 1979. Predating their debut studio album, the songs during this 25-minute rehearsal were performed live in one take with no overdubs, after the band had finished their official recording duties. The recording of this session was distributed in 1997 by Nemo Records (Beggars Banquet), included with the Andrew Brooksbank book Bauhaus: Beneath The Mask. Since 2010, it has been available through the Beggars Archive website. Author Dave Thompson called the recording "raw, rough, and blistered by the shattered promise of punk's sordid dream, it captures Bauhaus before anything else got its claws in them." Thompson described the track "Honeymoon Croon" as "a psychotic 'My Sharona'". Tom Schulte of AllMusic said the album "is a fascinating document exhibiting the forbidding goth birth from the body of its parent and antipode." Schulte remarked that it featured the group's "hallmark sound: attenuated pop guitar lines played low and hauntingly to frame Peter Murphy's dungeon vocals." Track listing References External links Bauhaus (band) albums 1999 live albums
Louis Lamothe (1822–1869) was a French academic artist born in Lyon. He is remembered today primarily as the teacher of several more renowned artists, notably Edgar Degas, Elie Delaunay, Henry Lerolle, Henri Regnault, and James Tissot. Lamothe was a pupil of Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres and Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin. Art historian Jean Sutherland Boggs describes him as a history painter "in a pious Christian tradition", and likens his "correct, moral, bourgeois, and even sanctimonious portraits" to those of Flandrin, whom Lamothe assisted in the decoration of the church of St-Martin-d'Ainay in 1855. Notes References Baumann, Felix; Karabelnik, Marianne, et al. 1994. Degas Portraits. London: Merrell Holberton. Thomson, Richard. 1988. Degas, the nudes. New York, N.Y.: Thames and Hudson. Getty Union List of Artist Names 1822 births 1869 deaths 19th-century French painters French male painters 19th-century painters of historical subjects 19th-century French male artists
Sergiu Toma (born 29 January 1987) is a Moldovan-born Emirati judoka. He competed for the United Arab Emirates in the 81 kg category at the 2016 Olympic Games and defeated Takanori Nagase to enter the semi-finals. He lost his semi-final match to Khasan Khalmurzaev, but then beat Matteo Marconcini in the bronze medal match. At the 2008 and 2012 Olympics he competed for Moldova but was eliminated in the early rounds. Toma has a law degree from the Moldova State University. In 2008, he considered retiring from sport due to financial problems. He stayed, and in 2011 was named Moldovan Athlete of the Year. After the 2012 Olympics he moved to the United Arab Emirates, together with five other Moldovan judoka and the national coach Vasile Colta. References External links 1987 births Living people Emirati male judoka Moldovan male judoka Olympic judoka for Moldova Olympic judoka for the United Arab Emirates Judoka at the 2008 Summer Olympics Judoka at the 2012 Summer Olympics Judoka at the 2016 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Chișinău Olympic bronze medalists for the United Arab Emirates Olympic medalists in judo Universiade medalists in judo Judoka at the 2018 Asian Games Universiade bronze medalists for Moldova Asian Games competitors for the United Arab Emirates Medalists at the 2007 Summer Universiade
```forth > \brief \b ZPOT01 * =========== DOCUMENTATION =========== * * Online html documentation available at * path_to_url * * Definition: * =========== * * SUBROUTINE ZPOT01( UPLO, N, A, LDA, AFAC, LDAFAC, RWORK, RESID ) * * .. Scalar Arguments .. * CHARACTER UPLO * INTEGER LDA, LDAFAC, N * DOUBLE PRECISION RESID * .. * .. Array Arguments .. * DOUBLE PRECISION RWORK( * ) * COMPLEX16 A( LDA, ), AFAC( LDAFAC, * ) * .. * * > \par Purpose: ============= > > \verbatim > > ZPOT01 reconstructs a Hermitian positive definite matrix A from > its LL' or U'U factorization and computes the residual > norm( LL' - A ) / ( N norm(A) * EPS ) or > norm( U'U - A ) / ( N * norm(A) * EPS ), > where EPS is the machine epsilon, L' is the conjugate transpose of L, > and U' is the conjugate transpose of U. > \endverbatim * Arguments: * ========== * > \param[in] UPLO > \verbatim > UPLO is CHARACTER1 > Specifies whether the upper or lower triangular part of the > Hermitian matrix A is stored: > = 'U': Upper triangular > = 'L': Lower triangular > \endverbatim > > \param[in] N > \verbatim > N is INTEGER > The number of rows and columns of the matrix A. N >= 0. > \endverbatim > > \param[in] A > \verbatim > A is COMPLEX16 array, dimension (LDA,N) > The original Hermitian matrix A. > \endverbatim > > \param[in] LDA > \verbatim > LDA is INTEGER > The leading dimension of the array A. LDA >= max(1,N) > \endverbatim > > \param[in,out] AFAC > \verbatim > AFAC is COMPLEX16 array, dimension (LDAFAC,N) > On entry, the factor L or U from the L * LH or UH * U > factorization of A. > Overwritten with the reconstructed matrix, and then with > the difference L LH - A (or UH * U - A). > \endverbatim > > \param[in] LDAFAC > \verbatim > LDAFAC is INTEGER > The leading dimension of the array AFAC. LDAFAC >= max(1,N). > \endverbatim > > \param[out] RWORK > \verbatim > RWORK is DOUBLE PRECISION array, dimension (N) > \endverbatim > > \param[out] RESID > \verbatim > RESID is DOUBLE PRECISION > If UPLO = 'L', norm(L L*H - A) / ( N norm(A) * EPS ) > If UPLO = 'U', norm(UH U - A) / ( N * norm(A) * EPS ) > \endverbatim * Authors: * ======== * > \author Univ. of Tennessee > \author Univ. of California Berkeley > \author Univ. of Colorado Denver > \author NAG Ltd. * > \ingroup complex16_lin * ===================================================================== SUBROUTINE ZPOT01( UPLO, N, A, LDA, AFAC, LDAFAC, RWORK, RESID ) * * -- LAPACK test routine -- * -- LAPACK is a software package provided by Univ. of Tennessee, -- * -- Univ. of California Berkeley, Univ. of Colorado Denver and NAG Ltd..-- * * .. Scalar Arguments .. CHARACTER UPLO INTEGER LDA, LDAFAC, N DOUBLE PRECISION RESID * .. * .. Array Arguments .. DOUBLE PRECISION RWORK( * ) COMPLEX16 A( LDA, ), AFAC( LDAFAC, * ) * .. * * ===================================================================== * * .. Parameters .. DOUBLE PRECISION ZERO, ONE PARAMETER ( ZERO = 0.0D+0, ONE = 1.0D+0 ) * .. * .. Local Scalars .. INTEGER I, J, K DOUBLE PRECISION ANORM, EPS, TR COMPLEX16 TC .. * .. External Functions .. LOGICAL LSAME DOUBLE PRECISION DLAMCH, ZLANHE COMPLEX16 ZDOTC EXTERNAL LSAME, DLAMCH, ZLANHE, ZDOTC .. * .. External Subroutines .. EXTERNAL ZHER, ZSCAL, ZTRMV * .. * .. Intrinsic Functions .. INTRINSIC DBLE, DIMAG * .. * .. Executable Statements .. * * Quick exit if N = 0. * IF( N.LE.0 ) THEN RESID = ZERO RETURN END IF * * Exit with RESID = 1/EPS if ANORM = 0. * EPS = DLAMCH( 'Epsilon' ) ANORM = ZLANHE( '1', UPLO, N, A, LDA, RWORK ) IF( ANORM.LE.ZERO ) THEN RESID = ONE / EPS RETURN END IF * * Check the imaginary parts of the diagonal elements and return with * an error code if any are nonzero. * DO 10 J = 1, N IF( DIMAG( AFAC( J, J ) ).NE.ZERO ) THEN RESID = ONE / EPS RETURN END IF 10 CONTINUE * * Compute the product U*H U, overwriting U. * IF( LSAME( UPLO, 'U' ) ) THEN DO 20 K = N, 1, -1 * * Compute the (K,K) element of the result. * TR = DBLE( ZDOTC( K, AFAC( 1, K ), 1, AFAC( 1, K ), 1 ) ) AFAC( K, K ) = TR * * Compute the rest of column K. * CALL ZTRMV( 'Upper', 'Conjugate', 'Non-unit', K-1, AFAC, $ LDAFAC, AFAC( 1, K ), 1 ) * 20 CONTINUE * * Compute the product L * L*H, overwriting L. ELSE DO 30 K = N, 1, -1 * * Add a multiple of column K of the factor L to each of * columns K+1 through N. * IF( K+1.LE.N ) $ CALL ZHER( 'Lower', N-K, ONE, AFAC( K+1, K ), 1, $ AFAC( K+1, K+1 ), LDAFAC ) * * Scale column K by the diagonal element. * TC = AFAC( K, K ) CALL ZSCAL( N-K+1, TC, AFAC( K, K ), 1 ) * 30 CONTINUE END IF * * Compute the difference L * LH - A (or UH * U - A). * IF( LSAME( UPLO, 'U' ) ) THEN DO 50 J = 1, N DO 40 I = 1, J - 1 AFAC( I, J ) = AFAC( I, J ) - A( I, J ) 40 CONTINUE AFAC( J, J ) = AFAC( J, J ) - DBLE( A( J, J ) ) 50 CONTINUE ELSE DO 70 J = 1, N AFAC( J, J ) = AFAC( J, J ) - DBLE( A( J, J ) ) DO 60 I = J + 1, N AFAC( I, J ) = AFAC( I, J ) - A( I, J ) 60 CONTINUE 70 CONTINUE END IF * * Compute norm(LU - A) / ( N norm(A) * EPS ) * RESID = ZLANHE( '1', UPLO, N, AFAC, LDAFAC, RWORK ) * RESID = ( ( RESID / DBLE( N ) ) / ANORM ) / EPS * RETURN * * End of ZPOT01 * END ```
The Dayton Agreement ended the Bosnian War and created the federal republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), which consists of the Bosniak and Croat-inhabited Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FBiH) and the Serb-inhabited Republika Srpska (RS). Although the Bosnian Serbs were viewed as "anti-Dayton" during the first years after the war, since 2000 they have been staunch supporters of the Dayton Agreement and the preservation of RS. Bosniaks generally view RS as illegitimate, and an independence referendum from BiH has been proposed in RS. The 2006 Montenegrin independence referendum and Kosovo's 2008 declaration of independence have raised the possibility of a referendum and unification with Serbia. In 2015, after a judicial and police crisis, the governing Alliance of Independent Social Democrats said that it would hold an independence referendum in 2018 if RS's autonomy was not preserved. Background During the Yugoslav Wars, the aim of Republika Srpska (a Serb-controlled territory in the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina) was unification with the rest of what were considered Serb lands — the Republic of Serbian Krajina (RSK, in Croatia), Republic of Serbia and Republic of Montenegro – in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia). The United Serb Republic was a project to unify of RS and RSK before annexation by the "mother-state of Serbia". The Serb and Croat political leadership agreed on a partition of BiH with the 1991 Milošević–Tuđman Karađorđevo meeting and the 1992 Graz agreement, leading to a tripartite division of the country. Serb-Croat negotiations also resulted in the Croat forces turning against the Bosnian Army in the Croat–Bosniak War (1992–1994). A Bosniak republic was part of the proposed Graz agreement. The November–December 1995 Dayton Agreement ended the war and created the federal republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, consisting of the Bosniak and Croat-inhabited Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FBiH) and the Serb-inhabited Republika Srpska. According to Niels van Willigen, "Whereas the Bosnian Croats and Bosnian Serbs could identify themselves with Croatia or Serbia respectively, the absence of a Bosniak state made the Bosniaks firmly committed to Bosnia as a single political entity." History After the war On 12 September 1996, Republika Srpska president Biljana Plavšić called for its secession and unification with the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia; since that contravened the Dayton Agreement, however, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe compelled her to retract her recommendation. 2000s Although the Bosnian Serbs were viewed as "anti-Dayton" shortly after the war, they have been staunch supporters of the Dayton Agreement and RS preservation since 2000. The Bosniak Party for Bosnia and Herzegovina has called for the abolition of RS. In 2003, Aleksandar Jokic wrote that an international policy partitioning Kosovo and joining Republika Srpska with Serbia and Montenegro offered "long-term security and stability for the region". On 15 June 2006, a demonstration was held in Banja Luka supporting a Republika Srpska independence referendum if Kosovo became independent. The following year, an open letter demanding an independence referendum was presented to the Republika Srpska National Assembly. In 2007, the Bosniak and Bosnian Croat members of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina called for the abolition of their ethnic entities. In 2007, according to Walid Phares, Republika Srpska should have the same status as Kosovo. Since Kosovo's 2008 declaration of independence, Bosnian Serb nationalists have called for Milorad Dodik to keep his promise to hold a referendum. Dodik has since said that he would hold a referendum only if Republika Srpska's autonomy is threatened. Bosnian Serb lawmakers passed a resolution on 21 February 2008 calling for an independence referendum if a majority of UN members, especially members of the European Union (EU), recognise Kosovo's declaration of independence. After the resolution was passed, the U.S. cut aid to the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD) and the resolution was condemned by the EU. According to the Peace Implementation Council (PIC) overseeing Bosnia and Herzegovina, the country's entities have no right to secede. High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina Miroslav Lajčák said that RS has "absolutely no right" to secede, and he would use his Bonn Powers "if there are threats to peace and stability" or to the Dayton peace agreement: "Republika Srpska does not have the right to secede from BiH, at the same time no one can unilaterally abolish Republika Srpska." Dodik said in an interview that if most countries recognise Kosovo's self-proclaimed independence, this would legitimise the right to secession: "We do not see a single reason why we should not be granted the right to self-determination, the right envisaged in international conventions." Serbian President Boris Tadić said that Serbia does not support a breakup of Bosnia and Herzegovina and, as a guarantor of the Dayton Agreement which brought peace to Bosnia, supports Bosnia's territorial integrity. 2010s According to a November 2010 poll of Bosnian Serbs by the Brussels-based Gallup Balkan Monitor, 88 percent would support a referendum on Republika Srpska's independence from Bosnia and Herzegovina. RS proposed a 2011 referendum on possibly leaving Bosnian institutions, which was defused by the EU. In 2012, Dodik predicted Republika Srpska's independence. In 2013, there were discussions on the matter. Former CIA Balkans chief Steven Meyer said in 2013 and 2014 that he believed that Republika Srpska would become independent in time, that Bosnia and Herzegovina exists only on paper, and the people should decide for themselves. The Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD), the largest Serb party in Bosnia and Herzegovina, adopted an April 2015 resolution that the RS assembly would call a 2018 referendum to break from the FBiH if RS could not increase its autonomy. Bosnian legal experts said that although the referendum (on the state court and prosecution) "would not weaken the state judiciary", it "would destabilise the country". The Party of Democratic Action (SDA), Bosnia's largest party, adopted a May 2015 resolution in which the country would be reorganized into five regions (without RS). Milorad Dodik said in November 2015 that if the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina was not reformed as he wished, the country was in danger. Pravda reported in January 2016 that Dodik said that American lobbyists asked for 1 billion in return for independence in 10 to 15 years. Analysts at Mic said that RS would become independent by 2025. According to a BMI Research analysis, "Bosnia's Serbian entity, Republika Srpska (RS), is unlikely to achieve formal independence over the next five years, owing to widespread opposition on the part of the EU and US, which do not wish to see a redrawing of Balkan borders. RS could conceivably declare independence regardless, but it would risk being diplomatically and economically isolated." In February 2016, the RS court referendum was indefinitely postponed. US Balkan analyst Daniel Serwer said in May 2015 that RS would never become independent. On 31 May of that year, Dodik said that RS was in danger of disappearing. In December 2016, High Representative Valentin Inzko said that "separatism" (an RS independence referendum) would force international "intervention". According to Inzko, the international community would never recognize an independent RS; although he had the power to replace Dodik, those "times have passed. Today we need domestic solutions and responsibility". In May 2017, Steven Meyer (considering the possible creation of Greater Albania) said that Bosnia and Herzegovina was "far from a united country" and predicted a deteriorating relationship with RS. In July, he reiterated that "it remains a country in name only; a fiction that is real only in the minds of outdated, mostly mid-level American—and some European—diplomats." In June and September 2017, Dodik said that plans for a 2018 independence referendum had been dropped. Presidency member Bakir Izetbegović threatened war in November of that year if Republika Srpska opted for independence, saying that Bosnia and Herzegovina should recognize the independence of Kosovo. On 22 November 2017, the issue was examined on RTV BN's Globalno. Polls See also Republika Srpska–Serbia relations Proposed Bosniak republic Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia Kosovo independence precedent Partition of Kosovo Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation Proposed Croat federal unit in Bosnia and Herzegovina Greater Serbia References Further reading External links Politics of Republika Srpska Partition (politics) Serbian nationalism in Bosnia and Herzegovina Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina Proposed countries Public policy proposals
Doagh railway station may refer to the following two stations in Doagh, County Antrim, Northern Ireland: Doagh railway station (Ballymena and Larne Railway) (open from 1884 to 1930) Doagh railway station (Belfast and Ballymena Railway) (open from 1848 to 1970)
Ken Pryor (December 12, 1924 – August 31, 2010) was an American basketball player. He is known both for his college career at the University of Oklahoma and his play in the Amateur Athletic Union during an era when it was seen as a viable alternative to professional basketball. Pryor was a three-sport star at Capitol Hill High School in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He went to the University of Oklahoma to play for future Hall of Fame coach Bruce Drake. While there, he was a first team All-Big Six Conference pick in the 1943–44 season. Pryor also played on the baseball team. After taking time off to serve in the United States Navy during World War II, Pryor returned to the Sooners. In his final season of 1946–47, Pryor was a member of the Oklahoma's 1947 Final Four team. Pryor hit one of the biggest shots in Sooner basketball history as his jump shot with ten seconds remaining lifted the team over Texas and into the national championship game. Oklahoma lost to Holy Cross in the contest. Following his college career, Pryor went to play for the AAU power Phillips 66ers. He earned AAU All-American honors in 1951 and 1952. He later worked for the oil company and ran his own insurance agency. References 1924 births 2010 deaths American men's basketball players Guards (basketball) Oklahoma Sooners baseball players Oklahoma Sooners men's basketball players People from Carter County, Oklahoma Phillips 66ers players Basketball players from Oklahoma City United States Navy personnel of World War II
The splendid fairywren (Malurus splendens) is a passerine bird in the Australasian wren family, Maluridae. It is also known simply as the splendid wren or more colloquially in Western Australia as the blue wren. The splendid fairywren is found across much of the Australian continent from central-western New South Wales and southwestern Queensland over to coastal Western Australia. It inhabits predominantly arid and semi-arid regions. Exhibiting a high degree of sexual dimorphism, the male in breeding plumage is a small, long-tailed bird of predominantly bright blue and black colouration. Non-breeding males, females and juveniles are predominantly grey-brown in colour; this gave the early impression that males were polygamous as all dull-coloured birds were taken for females. It comprises several similar all-blue and black subspecies that were originally considered separate species. Like other fairywrens, the splendid fairywren is notable for several peculiar behavioural characteristics; the birds are socially monogamous and sexually promiscuous, meaning that although they form pairs between one male and one female, each partner will mate with other individuals and even assist in raising the young from such trysts. Male wrens pluck pink or purple petals and display them to females as part of a courtship display. The habitat of the splendid fairywren ranges from forest to dry scrub, generally with ample vegetation for shelter. Unlike the eastern superb fairywren, it has not adapted well to human occupation of the landscape and has disappeared from some urbanised areas. The splendid fairywren mainly eats insects and supplements its diet with seeds. Taxonomy and systematics The splendid fairywren is one of eleven species of the genus Malurus, commonly known as fairywrens, found in Australia and lowland New Guinea. Within the genus it is most closely related to the superb fairywren. These two "blue wrens" are closely related to the purple-crowned fairywren of north-western Australia. Specimens were initially collected at King George Sound, and the splendid fairywren then described as Saxicola splendens by the French naturalists Jean René Constant Quoy and Joseph Paul Gaimard in 1830, three years before John Gould gave it the scientific name of Malurus pectoralis and vernacular name of banded superb-warbler. Though he correctly placed it in the genus Malurus, the specific name of the former authors took priority. The specific epithet is derived from the Latin splendens, which means "shining". Like other fairywrens, the splendid fairywren is unrelated to the true wren. It was first classified as a member of the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae by Richard Bowdler Sharpe, though it was later placed in the warbler family Sylviidae by the same author, before being placed in the newly recognised family Maluridae in 1975. More recently, DNA analysis has shown the family Maluridae to be related to the family Meliphagidae (the honeyeaters), and the family Pardalotidae within a large superfamily, Meliphagoidea. The splendid fairywren is also alternatively named the splendid blue wren. Subspecies Initially, three of the subspecies were considered separate species as they were each originally described far from their borders with the others. However, as the interior of Australia was explored, it became apparent there were areas of hybridisation where subspecies overlapped. Thus in 1975, they were then reclassified as subspecies of the splendid fairywren. There are four subspecies currently recognized: Banded fairywren (M. s. splendens) - (Quoy & Gaimard, 1830): Also named the banded wren or banded blue wren. This is the nominate subspecies and is found in much of central and southern Western Australia. Turquoise fairywren (M. s. callainus) - Gould, 1867: Originally collected by ornithologist Samuel White and described as a separate species by John Gould. Although the taxonomy is not yet settled, it is now considered to include the former subspecies musgravei described in 1922 by amateur ornithologist Gregory Mathews from the Lake Eyre Basin in central Australia. Also named the turquoise wren. It is found in mulga and mallee country across much of South Australia and the southern Northern Territory. It has lighter blue or turquoise upperparts than the splendid fairywren, as well as a black rump. Black-backed fairywren (M. s. melanotus) - Gould, 1841: Originally described as a separate species. Also named the black-backed wren, it is found in the mallee country of South Australia (Sedan area north-east of Adelaide) through western Victoria, western New South Wales and into south-western Queensland. It differs from the nominate subspecies in having a black back and whitish lower belly. M. s. emmottorum - Schodde & Mason, IJ, 1999: Named after Angus Emmott, a farmer and amateur biologist from western Queensland. Found in south-western Queensland. Evolutionary history In his 1982 monograph, ornithologist Richard Schodde proposed a southern origin for the common ancestor of the superb and splendid fairywrens. At some time in the past it was split into southwestern (splendid) and southeastern (superb) enclaves. As the southwest was drier than the southeast, once conditions were more favourable, the splendid forms were more able to spread into inland areas. These split into at least three enclaves which subsequently evolved in isolation in the following drier glacial periods until the current more favourable climate saw them expand once again and interbreed where they overlap. This suggests the original split was only very recent as the forms had insufficient time to speciate. Further molecular studies may result in this hypothesis being modified. A 2017 genetic study using both mitochondrial and nuclear DNA found the ancestors of the superb and splendid fairywrens diverged from each other around 4 million years ago, and their common ancestor diverged around 7 million years ago from a lineage that gave rise to the white-shouldered, white-winged and red-backed fairywrens. Description The splendid fairywren is a small, long-tailed bird long. Exhibiting a high degree of sexual dimorphism, the breeding male is distinctive with a bright blue forehead and ear coverts, a violet throat and deeper rich blue back wings, chest and tail with a black bill, eye band and chest band. The blue breeding plumage of the male is often referred to as nuptial plumage. The non-breeding male is brown with blue in the wings and a bluish tail. The female resembles the non-breeding male but has a chestnut bill and eye-patch. Immature males will moult into breeding plumage the first breeding season after hatching, though this may be incomplete with residual brownish plumage and may take another year or two to perfect. Both sexes moult in autumn after breeding, with males assuming an eclipse non-breeding plumage. They will moult again into nuptial plumage in winter or spring. Some older males have remained blue all year, moulting directly from one year's nuptial plumage to the next. Breeding males' blue plumage, particularly the ear-coverts, is highly iridescent due to the flattened and twisted surface of the barbules. The blue plumage also reflects ultraviolet light strongly, and so may be even more prominent to other fairywrens, whose colour vision extends into this part of the spectrum. The call is described as a gushing reel; this is harsher and louder than other fairywrens and varies from individual to individual. A soft single trrt serves as a contact call within a foraging group, while the alarm call is a tsit. Cuckoos and other intruders may be greeted with a threat posture and churring threat. Females emit a purr while brooding. Distribution and habitat The splendid fairywren is widely distributed in the arid and semi-arid zones of Australia. Habitat is typically dry and shrubby; mulga and mallee in drier parts of the country and forested areas in the southwest. The western subspecies splendens and eastern black-backed fairywren (subspecies melanotus) are largely sedentary, although the turquoise fairywren (subspecies musgravei) is thought to be partially nomadic. Unlike the eastern superb fairywren, the splendid fairywren has not adapted well to human occupation of the landscape and has disappeared from some urbanised areas. Forestry plantations of pine (Pinus spp.) and eucalypts are also unsuitable as they lack undergrowth. Behaviour and ecology Like all fairywrens, the splendid fairywren is an active and restless feeder, particularly on open ground near shelter, but also through the lower foliage. Movement is a series of jaunty hops and bounces, with its balance assisted by a proportionally large tail, which is usually held upright and rarely still. The short, rounded wings provide good initial lift and are useful for short flights, though not for extended jaunts. However, splendid fairywrens are stronger fliers than most other fairywrens. During spring and summer, birds are active in bursts through the day and accompany their foraging with song. Insects are numerous and easy to catch, which allows the birds to rest between forays. The group often shelters and rests together during the heat of the day. Food is harder to find during winter and they are required to spend the day foraging continuously. Groups of two to eight splendid fairywrens remain in their territory and defend it year-round. Territories average in woodland-heath areas; size decreases with increasing density of vegetation and increases with the number of males in the group. The group consists of a socially monogamous pair with one or more male or female helper birds that were hatched in the territory, though they may not necessarily be the offspring of the main pair. Splendid fairywrens are sexually promiscuous, each partner mating with other individuals and even assisting in raising the young from such trysts. Over a third of offspring are the result of an 'extramarital' mating. Helper birds assist in defending the territory and feeding and rearing the young. Birds in a group roost side-by-side in dense cover as well as engaging in mutual preening. Major nest predators include Australian magpies (Gymnorhina tibicen), butcherbirds (Cracticus spp.), laughing kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae), currawongs (Strepera spp.), crows and ravens (Corvus spp.), shrike-thrushes (Colluricincla spp.) as well as introduced mammals such as the red fox (Vulpes vulpes), cat (Felis catus) and black rat (Rattus rattus). Like other species of fairywrens, splendid fairywrens may use a 'rodent-run' display to distract predators from nests with young birds. While doing this, the head, neck and tail of the bird are lowered, the wings are held out and the feathers are fluffed as the bird runs rapidly and voices a continuous alarm call. Courtship Several courtship displays by splendid fairywren males have been recorded; the 'sea horse flight,' so named for the similarity of movements to those by a seahorse, is an exaggerated undulating flight where the male, with his neck extended and his head feathers erect, flies and tilts his body from horizontal to vertical and by rapidly beating wings is able to descend slowly and spring upwards after alighting on the ground. The 'face fan' display may be seen as a part of aggressive or sexual display behaviours; it involves the flaring of the blue ear tufts by erecting the feathers. Another interesting habit of males of this and other fairywren species during the reproductive season is to pluck petals (in this species, predominantly pink and purple ones which contrast with their plumage) and show them to female fairywrens. Petals often form part of a courtship display and are presented to a female in the male fairywren's own or another territory. Outside the breeding season males may sometimes still show petals to females in other territories, presumably to promote themselves. It is notable that fairywrens are socially monogamous and sexually promiscuous: pairs will bond for life, but regularly mate with other individuals; a proportion of young will have been fathered by males from outside the group. Young are often raised not by the pair alone, but with other males who also mated with the pair's female assisting. Thus, petal-carrying might be a behaviour that strengthens the pair-bond. Petal carrying might also be a way for extra males to gain matings with the female. In either case, the data does not strongly link petal-carrying and presenting to a copulation soon thereafter. Researchers at Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago published a paper in Behavioral Ecology in 2010 showing that male splendid fairywrens sing display-like vocalizations (Type II song) in response to predator calls. The trills "hitchhike" on the predator's vocalization and the female splendid fairywrens, which have become more alert due to the predator calls, also respond more strongly to this type II song than when it's given without a predator call preceding it. Breeding Breeding occurs from late August through to January, though heavy rain in August may delay this. The nest is built by the female; it is a round or domed structure made of loosely woven grasses and spider webs, with an entrance in one side close to the ground and well-concealed in thick and often thorny vegetation, such as Acacia pulchella or a species of Hakea. One or two broods may be laid during the breeding season. A clutch of two to four dull white eggs with reddish-brown splotches and spots, measuring 12 × 16 mm (½ × ⅝ in), are laid. Incubation takes about two weeks. The female incubates the eggs for 14 or 15 days; after hatching, nestlings are fed and their fecal sacs removed by all group members for 10–13 days, by which time they are fledged. Young birds remain in the family group as helpers for a year or more before moving to another group, usually an adjacent one, or assuming a dominant position in the original group. In this role they feed and care for subsequent broods. Splendid fairywrens also commonly play host to the brood parasite Horsfield's bronze cuckoo (Chalcites basalis), with the shining bronze cuckoo (Chalcites lucidus) also recorded. Feeding The splendid fairywren is predominantly insectivorous; its diet includes a wide range of small creatures, mostly arthropods such as ants, grasshoppers, crickets, spiders and bugs. This is supplemented by small quantities of seeds, flowers, and fruit. They mostly forage on the ground or in shrubs that are less than two metres above the ground; this has been termed 'hop-searching'. Unusually for fairywrens, they may also occasionally forage in the canopy of flowering gums. Birds tend to stick fairly close to cover and forage in groups as this foraging practice does render them vulnerable to a range of predators. Food can be scarce in winter and ants are an important 'last resort' option, constituting a much higher proportion of the diet. Adult fairywrens feed their young a different diet, conveying larger items such as caterpillars and grasshoppers to nestlings. Cultural depictions The bird was intended to be illustrated on an Australia Post 45c pre-stamped envelope released on 12 August 1999; however, a superb fairywren was mistakenly illustrated instead. References Cited text External links Splendid fairywren on Birdpedia. Includes soundfile of their call. Meliphagoidea – Highlighting relationships of Maluridae on Tree Of Life Web Project. splendid fairywren Endemic birds of Australia splendid fairywren Taxa named by Jean René Constant Quoy Taxa named by Joseph Paul Gaimard
Tsepelovo () is a village in the Zagori region (Epirus region). It stands at a height of 1,200 meters in a panoramic location on the mountain range of Tymfi. It is the biggest of the 45 villages of Zagori and it was the seat of Tymfi municipality. Its name is of Slavic origin. It lies in the middle of the Vikos–Aoös National Park, 48 km from Ioannina. Nearest places Skamneli, east (distance: 4 km) Vradeto, west (distance: 7 km) Population History Founded in the 16th century, Tsepelovo became from the 18th century onwards the administrative center of Zagori. It remained relatively prosperous until the end of the Ottoman occupation (1912). The village was a local trade center, and remains so especially because of the trade of timber. In 1820, before the outbreak of the Greek Revolution and the defeat of Ali Pasha, the poet Ioannis Vilaras and the famous Epirote scholar Athanasios Psalidas came from Ioannina to prepare the people for the great national revolt. Psalidas also taught for 2 years at the local school. The traditional stone architecture is visible in every building, in the village paths, dwellings and churches. The historical church of Agios Nikolaos was renovated at 1753 and decorated with unique wall paintings by exceptional painters of nearby Kapesovo. Two kilometers out of the village, in the Vikaki (Greek: small Vikos) canyon lies the monastery of St John Rogovou. It was founded at 1028 by the sister of Emperor Romanos III Argyros of Byzantium. It was rebuilt in 1749, possibly after it was damaged by fire, and the frescoes were painted by iconographers from Kapesovo. Neofytos Doukas wanted to establish there the Higher School of Epirus (), a high level educational institution. Because of the outbreak of the Greek War of Independence and the military conflicts the idea could not become reality. The village has historically also been settled by Christian Orthodox Albanians, who largely came after the 15th century, later assimilating into the local population. Sarakatsani have settled at the beginning of the 20th century. The people of Tsepelovo used to emigrate within Greece to Macedonia, Thrace and to areas of southern Greece. Outside Greece, they mainly migrated to Asia Minor and the U.S. Today, the village is a popular destination for tourists during the winter season. Notable people Konstantinos Rados, merchant and member of Filiki Eteria. Dimitrios Kotopoulis, actor. Marika Kotopouli (1887–1954), actress. Dimitrios Myrat, actor. Gallery See also Zagori Vikos–Aoös National Park References Bibliography External links Official website of Tsepelovo Prefecture of Ioannina. Tourist department of Greece Populated places in Ioannina (regional unit) Zagori
James Giles may refer to: James Giles (porcelain decorator) (1718–1780) James Giles (painter) (1801–1870), Scottish painter James Giles (politician), Australian politician James Giles (philosopher) (born 1958), Canadian philosopher and psychologist James Bascom Giles (1900–1993), American politician James LeRoy Giles (1863–1946), mayor of Orlando James T. Giles (born 1943), U.S. federal judge See also Jim Giles (disambiguation)
Enterprise is the cross-border inter-city train service between in the Republic of Ireland and in Northern Ireland, jointly operated by Iarnród Éireann (IE) and NI Railways (NIR). It operates on the Belfast–Dublin railway line. History The Great Northern Railway (Ireland) (GNR(I)) introduced the service as the "Enterprise Express" on Monday 11 August 1947 in an attempt to compete with air and road transport which were challenging the railways. In particular, business travel was and is an important market. Customs checks were limited to the Belfast and Dublin terminals to reduce journey times by ensuring that journeys were non-stop, and advance booking was available. The name of the train comes from the "enterprising" approach that the GNR(I) took to make journeys more convenient for passengers despite the requirement for customs checks. The initial service ran between and Dublin Amiens Street Junction (renamed in 1966). Locomotives of GNRI Class V were initially used, followed in 1948, by GNRI Class VS. In October 1950 the service was extended to Glanmire Road station (renamed to Cork Kent in 1966) in Cork. This proved unsuccessful and ceased in September 1953 when the governments of the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland nationalised the GNR as the Great Northern Railway Board (GNRB). The Cork service's unpopularity may also have been due to the six-and-a-half-hour journey time. On 1 October 1958 the GNRB was dissolved and its assets and liabilities were split between Córas Iompair Éireann (CIÉ) and the Ulster Transport Authority (UTA) — the predecessors of Iarnród Éireann (IÉ) and Northern Ireland Railways (NIR) respectively. Following the completion of the Belfast Central Line Project, which involved the relaying of track along the route of the former Belfast Central Railway, the Belfast terminal moved to the newly constructed Belfast Central station in April 1976. The new station was named after the former railway and was located some distance from Belfast City Centre, adjacent to the city's markets. (The name was a source of confusion to tourists and was eventually renamed to in 2018). The service was upgraded in September 1997 with a new timetable and new coaching stock from French train makers De Dietrich Ferroviaire (now Alstom DDF). At this point the service, which had operated under either the IÉ or NIR brands, was branded separately as Enterprise. The service has suffered disruption, particularly during the Troubles when it was regularly halted by bomb threats. These became so frequent and caused such considerable disruption to the service that a campaigning group, the Peace Train Organisation was formed in 1989. Since the Northern Ireland peace process however, such disruption has diminished. Renewed investment in recent years has seen the line upgraded to continuously welded track capable of running along the southern part of the route, as part of Iarnród Éireann's rail network upgrades. The Northern Ireland section of the line was also upgraded to 90 mph running on many sections of the line. Journey times vary between 2 hours 5 minutes (with four intermediate stops) and 2 hours 20 minutes (with six intermediate stops), with an average speed of respectively. The Railway Preservation Society of Ireland runs a steam Enterprise in the summer months to exchange its Dublin-based engine with its Whitehead-based engine. Autumn 2009 disruption On Friday 21 August 2009 of the Broadmeadow estuary viaduct, north of Malahide, collapsed, causing serious disruptions to Enterprise services. During the disruption the Enterprise operated between Belfast Central and Drogheda, with buses connecting Drogheda with Dublin Connolly. The line reopened on Monday 16 November with full services resumed. Mid-life refurbishment The Enterprise underwent a face-lift during 2009, with the carriages being resprayed in silver with green livery, some of which could be seen at Translink's York Road Maintenance Depot. In 2014, a mid-life refurbishment programme was announced for the Enterprise service. Rotating refurbishment involved substituting non-Enterprise trainsets on an individual basis which began in November 2014 with 5-car IE 22000 Class Trains Numbered 22036-22039 working the 07:35,10:35,13:20,16:05,19:00 and 21:35 (retimed 21:15 in June 2015) with a return to service of the first revamped coaches in November 2015. Refurbishment provided new mechanical running gear, in coach electronics and modernised interiors. The first refurbished set, consisting of DVT 9002 and Locomotive 206, operated a trial service from York Road Depot in Belfast to Dublin Connolly and back, on Thursday 15 October 2015 departing York Road at 10:27 and departing Dublin at 13:05. The same set operated its first official passenger service after its refurbishment on Monday 16 November 2015 working the 08:00 Belfast Central (Now Lanyon Place) To Dublin Connolly. The first set: 9002 Entered Service on Monday 16 November 2015, 9001 then entered service on 5 February 2016, working the 18:05 Belfast Central to Dublin Connolly, 9003 entered service on 1 April 2016 working the 08:00 Belfast to Dublin, And 9004 entered service on 20 June 2016, By the time the first 3 DD Sets were in service, The refurbishment was officially completed on Sunday 10 April 2016, to coincide with the introduction of an enhanced Enterprise timetable. From Sunday 10 April 2016, The following changes occurred: 06:50 Belfast to Dublin was retimed 06:45. 09:35 Dublin to Belfast was retimed 09:30. 11:00 Dublin to Belfast was retimed 11:20. Also from Monday 11 April 2016 onwards, the 21:15 Belfast to Dublin was withdrawn and replaced by the 20:05 Belfast to Dublin. Services Passengers can travel "First Plus" or "Enterprise Class". Additional to a trolley service there is a "Café Bar" serving alcohol, soft drinks, tea & coffee and hot and cold snacks. The seating in the Cafe Bar is the same as the other rail seats, with the same tables. First Plus comes with more leg room, reclining seats, tinted windows with blinds, complimentary newspapers (on most services the two main Belfast papers but on occasion the Irish Independent and Irish Times are available). Food is available for purchase in First Plus with a full three-course menu serving breakfast (before 12pm), lunch and dinner (after 12pm). Tea and Coffee from this menu come with complementary refills. First Plus is also significantly quieter as it is rare for either First Plus carriage to be full to capacity. A member of the train crew checks passengers tickets at the door to the First Plus carriages, since many people are unaware there are two classes of carriage on the train. Both classes have air conditioning vents designed into the rim of the window frames and free WiFi supplied by NI Railways. The WiFi is limited to 150MB of data each day per device. A glass display is atop the door of every carriage showing an analogue clock face with the current time, the destination station, the next station, and any other information may be scrolled down the bottom of the display. Approximately 3 minutes from every stop the computer will announce "we are now approaching (station name)" to give passengers enough time to gather their belongings before disembarking. Since the Enterprise brand aims to be politically neutral, there are no Irish Rail or NI Railways logos inside or outside the train (with the exception of the alcohol consumption policy poster, which includes the logos of both operators), only Enterprise specific branding, all announcements are made only in English and not in Irish, and all items available for purchase are dual priced in Pounds Sterling as well as in Euros (exchange rate of €1.30-€1.40 per £1 depending on product regardless of actual exchange rate). Payments made by card are charged in Pounds Sterling. Both classes include dedicated areas for wheelchair users. Rolling stock Current fleet Each push-pull trainset consists of seven coaches and a 201 Class locomotive. The 28 carriages were delivered as four sets of seven but entered service as three sets of eight, with two locomotives from each operator. The coaches were manufactured by De Dietrich Ferroviaire, while the locomotives are from GM-EMD; ownership of the rolling stock is shared between both operators, with carriage maintenance by NIR and locomotives maintained by IE. The coaching stock is based on the Class 373 EMU stock used by Eurostar, with the interiors identical. The EMU stock is articulated and permanently coupled, but the Enterprise is ordinary coaching stock. The service had suffered from a lack of reliability of the locomotives, which provide head end power to the train. Unlike IÉ's Dublin-Cork services, which operate with the locomotive operating with a generator control car that provides power for lighting and heating the train, the Enterprise fleet was only equipped with an ordinary control car, which had no power generating capability. This meant that the locomotive had to provide all the power for the train, both motive and generating. Extended operation in this mode caused damage, so four further locomotives were allocated to Enterprise from the IÉ fleet. However, this still required locomotives to be used in HEP mode, so in May 2009 the Minister for Regional Development in Northern Ireland requested an estimate for the provision of generator functions for the existing rolling stock so that head-end power mode would no longer be needed. In order to avoid further problems, a modified Mark 3 Generator van, formerly 7604, was introduced on Monday 10 September 2012. Three further such generator vans have since entered service. If an Enterprise set is unavailable, either a NIR or an IÉ set can be used. Both NIR and IÉ have equipped six each of their newest DMUs (3000 and 29000) and ten 22000 Class DMUs to each other's specifications so they may be used in the event of a breakdown. Formation The formation of the train is: DVT with First Plus, First Plus, buffet carriage, four standard carriages, a Mark 3 Generator Van and a 201 Class locomotive, with the locomotive at the Belfast end and the control car at the Dublin end. Driving Van Trailer First All trains have a driving trailer, numbered 9001–9004, containing a driving cab, a luggage area and 29 First Plus seats. It weighs 42 tonnes and has a wheelchair space. The cab is only used for services from Belfast, as the locomotive goes south. Trailer First Plus The second carriage in the Enterprise train set, numbered 9101–9104, is an additional First Plus coach with 47 seats (no wheelchair space or luggage area). It weighs 40 tonnes. Trailer Buffet Next coach, numbered 9401–9404 is a buffet coach. Trailer Standard Disabled Space Coach four, numbered 9213–9216, is standard class with a wheelchair space. Trailer Standard Coaches five to seven, numbered 9201–9212, are standard class (no wheelchair space). Trailer Generator Van Since 2012 electric power for the train is no longer delivered from the locomotive but from a separate generator van. Their final numbers are 9602, 9604, 9606 and 9608. Future fleet Both IÉ and NIR have an ambition to introduce hourly services, but it would be necessary to procure new, faster rolling stock to achieve the required improvements in frequency and speed. In 2005, they investigated procuring new rolling stock when seven capable Class 222 DEMUs built for the British network became available as one of the possible options, which also included the procurement of additional 22000 Class DMUs as part of IÉ's order. New rolling stock would most likely be a multiple unit rather than locomotive-hauled, similar to IÉ's plans for Dublin-Cork services. Future developments Press reports from 2007 have stated that NIR & IÉ plan to introduce a new hourly service. This was reiterated in a statement by Conor Murphy, the then Northern Ireland Minister for Regional Development, who stated that the two companies had made a presentation to the North/South Ministerial Council in October 2007 putting forward the case for improvements in the frequency and speed of the service. Any improvements to the service would require significant investment in track and signalling, as well as new rolling stock. In April 2008, the then Minister for Regional Development stated that the major improvements to the infrastructure and rolling stock required by Enterprise would be in the region of £500 million. However, the introduction of an hourly timetable remains an ambition for NIR and IÉ. The line south of the border was upgraded to continuous welded rail in the 1990s, while NIR has also made track improvements to allow an increase in speed. Enterprise would require a minimum of seven trains to operate an hourly service – until 2013, IÉ had a significant number of stored Mark 3 rolling stock available, of which five sets were push-pull capable. However, all of IÉ's Mark 3 carriages were scrapped during 2013 and 2014. NIR also withdrew its "Gatwick" set in June 2009 and it has been preserved by the RPSI. The introduction of the 22000 Class could potentially be used to enhance the frequency of the Enterprise which has led to a surplus of locomotives that could be utilised. The major issue remains the capacity at , which is stretched. Plans have been mooted to transfer Enterprise's northern terminus from to Belfast Great Victoria Street, which is more centrally located and is co-located with Europa Buscentre, providing an integrated rail/bus journey to all parts of the island. Criticism In November 2007 the cross-border IBEC-CBI Joint Business Council, in a submission to the North/South Ministerial Council, stated that Enterprise was falling behind compared to the improvements of other international rail providers, with delays "often up to an hour" and serious reliability problems and an uncompetitive journey time against making the journey by road. With the faster road journey to Dublin and the Enterprise's unreliability and infrequency, it has faced a loss of revenue as passengers switch to much cheaper and faster alternatives. Gallery References External links "Iarnród Éireann" page on the Enterprise "Translink/Northern Ireland Railways" page on the Enterprise International named passenger trains Named passenger trains of the United Kingdom Named passenger trains of Ireland Great Northern Railway (Ireland) Railway services introduced in 1947
Senator Marvin may refer to: Charles Marvin (Connecticut politician) (1804–1883), Connecticut State Senate Nathaniel C. Marvin (1826–1895), New York State Senate
Robert Dick (born January 4, 1950) is a flutist, composer, teacher and author. His musical style is a mix of classical, world music, electronic and jazz. 2014, the National Flute Association awarded Dick its Lifetime Achievement Award. The New York Times said his “technical resources and imagination seem limitless" while JazzTimes called him “revolutionary.” Dick invented the "glissando headjoint" a custom flute modification allowing the player to achieve effects similar to the whammy bar of an electric guitar. Early life and history Robert Dick was born and raised in New York City. He began playing the flute in the fourth grade, after hearing the piccolo on the radio in the Top 40 hit “Rockin’ Robin". His primary teachers were Henry Zlotnik, James Pappoutsakis, Julius Baker and Thomas Nyfenger. As a teenager, Dick wanted to become an orchestral flutist, and played first flute in the Senior Orchestra at the High School of Music and Art and also the New York All-City High School Orchestra. “Studies with him (Julius Baker) were geared toward becoming an orchestral player, and that was my dream at the time. But as I grew out of that dream, I realized that my training really hadn’t provided a look at music from the inside, which is what I needed—particularly the idea that music is generated from hearing within and recognizing what you are hearing.” He became a soloist and composer. At Yale College, Dick earned a BA degree, and met Robert Morris, a composer and theorist, who mentored him as he wrote his first compositions. While at Yale, Dick wrote his first book: THE OTHER FLUTE: A Performance Manual of Contemporary Techniques, and then earned his master's degree in composition, studying with Morris as well as electronic music with Bulant Arel and Jacob Druckman. While attending Yale's graduate school, Dick composed “Afterlight,” a flute piece that used multiphonics as its basis. “Afterlight” received a BMI Oliver Daniel Prize. Career After leaving school in Spring 1973, Dick lived in New Haven, Connecticut until September 1977, when he moved to Buffalo, New York to join the contemporary music group, the Creative Associates. Dick was a member of the group until June 1980. While in New Haven, he wrote his second book Tone Development through Extended Technique and began to develop himself as an improviser and composer. Dick spent six months in Paris from July - December 1978 working at I.R.C.A.M. (Institute of Research and Coordination, Acoustics and Music) developing his idea for a new flute mechanism. The first prototype was made by Albert Cooper in London in 1984. This design remains unfinished. From Fall 1980 until Spring 1992, Dick lived in New York City, developing his compositions, improvisations and wrote Circular Breathing for the Flutist. In this period, he self-published The Revised Edition of THE OTHER FLUTE: A Performance Manual of Contemporary Technique and his later books, compositions and instructional recordings through his Multiple Breath Music Company. In 1986, he left the role of concert soloist in contemporary music to perform his own music and the music of composer-performer collaborators exclusively. Dick performed a recital of his own works as part of the New York Philharmonic’s Horizons 84 Festival at Avery Fisher Hall in 1984. In May 1992, he moved to Switzerland for ten years, continuing his career as a composer-performer. He returned to the US in 2002, as Visiting assistant professor of Flute at the University of Iowa. In July 2003, he returned to New York City. Since July 2013, Dick has been dividing his time between New York City and Kassel, Germany, where his children Sebastian (born 2006) and Leonie (born 2008) live with their mother, composer-pianist Ursel Schlicht. Dick's recitals today primarily consist of his compositions and improvisations, occasionally incorporating the influences of Paul Hindemith, Georg Philipp Telemann and Jimi Hendrix into his repertoire. As an instructor, Dick created a method and practice of teaching for flutists that he documented in his books: Tone Development through Extended Techniques, and Circular Breathing for the Flutist and the two volumes of FLYING LESSONS: Six Contemporary Concert Etudes. He teaches masters classes at hundreds of international universities. Dick is the inventor of the Glissando Headjoint, a trademarked telescoping flute mouthpiece which allows the flutist to slide and extend notes. As a composer, Dick's work has been recognized by a Koussevitzky Foundation Commission, a Guggenheim Fellowship and two NEA Composers Fellowships, among many grants and commissions. Dick has composed a new work for the National Flute Association Young Artist Competition. He has recorded over 20 albums and appeared as a guest on many other recordings. Discography As Leader Three Weeks in Cincinnati in December 2017 (New World ) Robert Dick performs the flute work of William Hellermann. Our Cells Know 2016 (Tzadik 4015) Solo improvisations on the contrabass flute. The Galilean Moons 2016 (NEMU 017) Robert Dick on flutes and Ursel Schlicht on piano. Flutes and Voices 2010 (Mutable Music17541-2) Robert Dick, flutes and piccolo and Thomas Buckner, baritone. Doh Tala 2008 (Epoch Music) Free improvisation by Robert Dick, Steve Baczkowski and Ravi Padmanabha. Photosphere 2006 (NEMU 002) Robert Dick and Ursel Schlicht are flute-piano duo. IS 2004 (Caliente 245 360 ) King Chubby are Robert Dick, flutes; Ed Bialek, samplers and keyboards; Will Ryan, percussion and handmade instruments; Mark Egan, electric bass; Michael D’Agostino, drums and percussion. Columns of Air 2003 (Future Tickle Music) Jaron Lanier, multiple instrumentalist, Robert Dick on flute with singer Alan Kushanon in two pieces. Vindonissa 2003 (ECM 1836) Violinist Paul Giger, flutist Robert Dick and drummer Satoshi Takeishi on an album released only in Europe. Other Times 2002 (KC1) King Chubby album The Twelve Fantasies for Flute Alone by G.P. Telemann 2001 (Callisto Records CLS0101, Italy) Disc 1: Robert Dick on flute and piccolo; Disc 2: Lorenzo Cavasanti on period instruments, traversi and recorders; Disc 3: Multimedia disc with scores, photos, interviews. Sic Bisquitus Disintegrat (That’s the Way the Cookie Crumbles) 2000 (Enja Records , Germany) The A.D.D. Trio is Robert Dick, flutes; Christy Doran, electric guitar and delay devices; and Steve Argüelles, drums. GUDIRA 1999 (Nuscope Records 1003, USA) Gudira is Robert Dick, flutes, piccolo; Barry Guy, contabass; Randy Raine-Reusch, Asian Zithers, Asian and Middle Eastern winds, percussion. In Full Armour 1998 (UNIT Records UTR 4107, Switzerland) OSCURA LUMINOSA features Robert Dick, flutes; Petia Kaufmann, harpsichord; Dorothea Schürch, vocals; Conrad Steinmann, recorders; Alfred Zimmerlin, cello. Jazz Standards on Mars 1997 (Enja Records , Germany) Robert Dick with Dave Soldier and the Soldier String Quartet plus rhythm section guests. Potion 1997 (Les Disques Victo 053, Canada) New Winds are Robert Dick, flutes; Herb Robertson, trumpet; Ned Rothenberg, alto sax, bass clarinet and clarinet. Aurealis 1997 (Les Disques Victo 052, Canada) As Trio Aurealis, Robert Dick plays flutes; John Wolf Brennan piano; and Daniele Patumi, contrabass. Irrefragable Dreams 1996 (Random Acoustics, Germany 018) Flutist Robert Dick with violinist Mari Kimura Instinct 1996 (Bellaphon, Germany LR 45104) The ADD Trio. Worlds of IF 1995 (Leo Records, England CD LR 224) Robert Dick with flutes, piccolo, and a duet with Ned Rothenberg played various woodwind instruments Digging it Harder From Afar 1994 (Les Disques Victo, Canada cd 028) New Winds perform Third Stone from the Sun 1993 (New World/CounterCurrents, U.S.A. #80435-2) with Dave Soldier and the Soldier String Quartet Steel and Bamboo 1993 (O.O. Discs, U.S.A. #12) The duo of Robert Dick, flute, and Steve Gorn, Indian bansuri bamboo flute. Tambastics 1992 (Music and Arts Programs of America, CD 704) The ensemble Tambastics which features Robert Dick, flutes; Denman Maroney, piano; Mark Dresser, bass; and Jerry Hemingway, drums. Venturi Shadows 1991 (O.O.Discs, U.S.A. #7) Robert Dick, flutes, with Ned Rothenberg, shakuhachi; Steve Gorn, bansuri; Neil B. Rolnick, electronics and Mary Kay Fink, flute. Ladder 5 of Escape 1991 (Attacca Records, Netherlands #9158 - Robert Dick on flutes. Traction 1991 (Sound Aspects, Germany #044) New Winds perform. The Cliff 1989 (Sound Aspects, Germany #025) New Winds performs. The Other Flute 1986 (GM Recordings, U.S.A. #2013 - CD) Robert Dick on flutes. Whispers and Landings 1981 (Lumina Records, U.S.A., #007) Cassette-only recording of Robert Dick on flutes. Original compositions on compilations "everyone@universe.existence" and "Sliding Life Blues" American Modern Ensemble - Mavericks 2015 (AMR 2041) "On Simak Pond" 60x60 2008 (Vox Novus Productions) "Delayed Reason" Irving Stone Memorial Concert 2004 (Tzadik ) Molecular Motion" Subtropics, Vol. 1 - Breath 2000 (Elegua Records 005) "Untitled Improvisation" Radio Days 1999 (WIM Werkstatt für Improvisierte Musik) Robert Dick, Alfred Zimmerlin, Jochen Bohnes, Günter Miller "Afterlight" Flute Possibilities 1979 (CRI 400) Performances of other composers Source 2015 (Liminal Music) SLM Ensemble music by Sarah Weaver, Mark Dresser Dark Forces 2011 (Creative Sources CS 195) Robert Dick's bass flute improvisations mixed into music Almost New York 2010 (Pogus ) For contrabass flute and electronics "Shakugo" 2010 (Motema MTM 31) For also flute and kugo music by Robert Lombardo Live from Roulette 2008 (DiPietro Editions) Music of Rocco DiPietro Third Eye Orchestra 2008 (Innova 225) Music by Hans Tammen "Little Andre" Dave Soldier: Chamber Music 2007 Solo bass flute by Dave Soldier The Secret Miracle Fountain 2006 (Locust 76) Robert Dick's sampled and processed recordings are mixed into music "Plum/Dream Sequence II" Solos, Solo Works of Daniel Asia 2005 (Summit DCD 422) Music by Daniel Asia "Music for Berlin" Celestial Voices 1998 (OO Discs 42) For Flute and piano by Orlando Jacinto Garcia "Tchong" Living Tones 1995 (OO Discs 24) For bass flute and daegum by Jin Hi Kim Time Fragments 1994 (Enja ) The Klaus König Orchestra "A Breaking of Vessels, Becoming Song" Musical Elements 10th Anniversary Recording 1987 (CRI Records digital re-release 2016) For flute solo and chamber ensemble by Malcolm Goldstein The Desert Music 1985 (Nonesuch 79101) Robert Dick is principal flutist of the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra music by Steve Reich "Blowing" Electricity 1984 (1750 Arch Records and OO Discs 8 re-release 1992) Solo flutist music by Neil Rolnick "Conspiracies" Bresnick/Mumford (1982) For solo flute and four other flutists music by Martin Bresnick "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" The Face on the Barroom Floor/Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird 1982 (CRI 442) For soprano, flute, percussion and piano music by Lukas Foss "Archery" Archery 1981 (Parachute Records re-released 1997 on Game Pieces Tzadik 7316) For large ensemble music by John Zorn "Tenzone" Flute Possibilities 1979 (CRI 400) For two flutes and piano music by Chester Biscardi Flute Instruction 2006–present City University of New York Graduate Center – Adjunct Faculty 2003–present Adjunct Instructor of Flute, New York University 2003-2006 Adjunct Instructor of Flute, Aaron Copland School of Music, Queens College, City University of New York 2002-2003 Visiting assistant professor of Flute, University of Iowa 1990-1992 Aaron Copland School of Music, Queens College, City University of New York - Adjunct Faculty 1990-1992 New York University, Adjunct Faculty 1988-1990 Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, Visiting professor of Flute 1988-1988 State University of New York at Stony Brook, Visiting professor of Flute 1978-1979 Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, Adjunct Faculty Orchestral Position 1982-1985 Principal Flutist, Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra, Lukas Foss, Music Director 1980-1982 Principal Flutist for the Brooklyn Philharmonic’s “Meet the Moderns” Series 1975-1977 Piccolo, New Haven Symphony Professional Affiliations 2009-2011 Board of Directors, New York Flute Club 2007-2009 Board of Directors, National Flute Association (NFA) 2002-2010 Member, Contemporary Music Advisory and Long Range Planning Committees; Publications Review Board, National Flute Association 1985-2001 Member, Board of Advisers, Flute Talk'' Magazine 1986-1989 Chair, Contemporary Music Advisory Committee, National Flute Association 1986-1988 Music Panelist, New York State Council on the Arts 1986-1987 Board of Directors, National Flute Association 1984-1987 Member, Repertoire Committee, Composers’ Forum, New York 1976–present Member, National Flute Association References External links Robert Dick at New York University site Robert Dick corner 'Ep. 100: Robert Dick, revolutionary composer and flutist' Interview by Tigran Arakelyan 'Ep. 43: Robert Dick, flutist and composer' Interview by Tigran Arakelyan American flautists American male composers 21st-century American composers Yale School of Music alumni Musicians from New York City 1950 births Living people 21st-century American male musicians Yale College alumni 21st-century flautists
Arthur Ernest Elliott Mann (26 July 1889 – 2 January 1949) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Essendon Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Notes External links 1889 births 1949 deaths Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Essendon Football Club players
Eucalyptus urnigera, commonly known as urn tree, is a species of small to medium-sized tree that is endemic to Tasmania. It has smooth bark, lance-shaped or elliptical leaves, flower buds in groups of three, white flowers and urn-shaped fruit. Description Eucalyptus urnigera is an evergreen tree that typically grows to a height of , although specimens up to have been recorded in sheltered lower altitude positions. The spread of the tree is typically to . The tree has a lignotuber and often a gnarled appearance in exposed areas, however, in more sheltered and lower altitude sites it grows tall and straight. The bark is smooth, mottled grey, orange-tan to olive green over cream and is shed in flakes and the branchlets are often glaucous. Young plants and coppice regrowth have leaves that are sessile, heart-shaped to round, long and wide, arranged in opposite pairs with stem-clasping bases and finely notched or scalloped edges. The leaves range from being dark green in sheltered environments to glaucous in exposed areas. Adult leaves are arranged alternately, the same shade of green on both sides, lance-shaped to broadly lance-shaped or elliptical, long and wide, tapering to a petiole long. The lateral veins diverge at angles of 25-60 degrees. The flower buds are arranged in leaf axils in groups of three on a down-turned peduncle long, the individual buds on pedicels long. Mature buds are cylindrical or urn-shaped and often glaucous, long and wide with a flattened hemispherical, slightly beaked operculum that is wider than the floral cup at the join. Flowering occurs in most months with a peak from April to July, and the flowers are white. The fruit is a woody, urn-shaped capsule long and wide with the valves below rim level. Variation in leaf colour Unlike many eucalypts, E. urnigera displays a morphological unity across the species with one important exception. There is a significant variation in the level of glaucicity (waxiness) between E. urnigera in lower altitude shady forest and those trees in the more exposed higher altitude sites. This was studied by Barber and Jackson in 1957 and followed up in later studies. E. urnigera at lower altitudes (560–670 m) and in sheltered sites are uniformly green whereas at higher altitude (950–1050 m), E. urnigera is uniformly glaucous. The transition from one phenotype to the other is most clearly seen on a steep section of walking track below the Chalet on the Pinnacle Road. Within 200 m altitude the transition is made. It is believed that the lower light conditions of the relatively closed sub-alpine forest favours the green leaved phenotype, being able to more efficiently photosynthesize in lower light conditions than the glaucous phenotype. However, at the more exposed higher altitude where there is more direct sunlight the glaucous phenotype is favoured. The wax coating reflects infra redlight and probably assists in protecting the tree from frost. Further research has explored reflectance of ultraviolet and photosynthetically active radiation. Taxonomy The species was first formally described by the nineteenth century English botanist, Joseph Hooker, in William Jackson Hooker's London Journal of Botany in 1847, from specimens collected by the colonial botanist Ronald Campbell Gunn from Mount Wellington and Lake Echo. The specific epithet (urnigera) comes from the Latin urna, meaning "urn" and gero, meaning "to bear". It relates to the distinctive urn shaped buds and seed capsules. Distribution and habitat Eucalyptus urnigera is an endemic Tasmanian alpine eucalypt of the sub genus Symphomyrtus and is the dominant eucalypt species at altitudes from on moist but well drained dolerite slopes and talus. It is restricted to the mountains of south eastern Tasmania, the Mount Wellington range, Mount Field and isolated pockets from Tylers Hill near Southport, south of Hobart, north to Alma Tier near Interlaken and Mount Seymour east of Oatlands in central Tasmania and a small population on the eastern side of Maria Island off the east coast. Typically, it is found below the range of E. coccifera (snow gum) and above the mixed and wet sclerophyll forests of the lower slopes although it will grow within both vegetation types. Ecology The flowers of E. urnigera are pollinated by birds such as yellow-throated honeyeater (Lichenostomus flavicollis), black-headed honeyeater (Melithreptus affinis) and strong-billed honeyeater (Melithreptus validirostris). Use in horticulture Eucalyptus urnigera does not have any commercial use as a timber tree in Tasmania but it is prized as a specimen tree in cooler regions of the United States of America and in the British Isles. Grafton Nursery in Worcestershire (UK) considers it superior to E.gunni, a eucalypt commonly grown in the UK. Its colourful bark and foliage make it a valuable as a garden ornamental. Its lignotuber enables coppicing and is proposed as one of the varieties for United Kingdom firewood production. See also List of Eucalyptus species References Footnotes Williams, K.J, and Potts, B.M., The Natural Distribution of Eucalyptus Species in Tasmania, Cooperative Research Centre for Temperate Hardwood Forestry, Department of Plant Science, University of Tasmania, Hobart 7001,p 115, based on description in Curtis, W. M., & Morris, D. L., The Students Flora of Tasmania, Part 1, second edition 1975, Hobart, p 217 Reid, J.M., Hill,R.S., Brown, M.J., Hovenden, M.J. Eds, Vegetation of Tasmania, Hobart, 2005, p 203 quoting work of Savva, M., Potts, B. M., Reid, J.B. (1988). The breeding system and gene flow in Eucalyptus urnigera. In ‘Pollination’ ‘88’. (Eds R.B. Knots, M.B. Sing and J.L. Troiani) pp 176–182 (Plant Cell Biology Research Centre: Melbourne.) Close, D.C., Davidson, N.J., Shields, C.B., and Wiltshire, R., Reflectance and Phenolics of green and glaucous leaves of Eucalyptus urnigera, Australian Journal of Botany 55(5) 561-567 Barber, H.N., and Jackson,.W. D. (1957), Natural Selection in Eucalyptus, Nature 179, pp 1267–1269, cited in Vegetation of Tasmania. Birdlife of Wellington Park Trees of Australia urnigera Myrtales of Australia Endemic flora of Tasmania Plants described in 1847 Taxa named by Joseph Dalton Hooker
The 2017 Soeratin Cup (also known as the Pertamina Soeratin Cup for sponsorship reasons) season is a football competition which is intended for footballers under the age of seventeen and fifteen. The national round started on 14 October 2017. Persab Brebes are the defending champion for U-17. PKN Penajam Utama won the title of U-17 on 28 October 2017 after defeating Persita Tangerang 3–2 at the final. Askot Bandung won the title of U-15 on 28 October 2017 after defeating PSSA Asahan 4–1 at the final. Format Each Provincial Association only given one representative to the national round. 30 teams will perform in the national round of under-15 and 32 teams in under-17, consist of teams of provincial competition winners. National round took place in Magelang, Central Java and Special Region of Yogyakarta. Teams U-17 U-15 National Round National round took place in Magelang, Central Java and Special Region of Yogyakarta. Two teams from each group will advance to the knockout round. U-17 Group stage 32 teams from each provincial association will compete. Matches for the Group Stage will be played from 14 October 2017. All group will play half season round-robin. Group A This group will be held in Sultan Agung Stadium, Bantul. \|} Group B This group will be held in Sultan Agung Stadium, Bantul. \|} Group C This group will be held in Maguwoharjo Stadium, Sleman. \|} Group D This group will be held in Maguwoharjo Stadium, Sleman. \|} Group E This group will be held in Moch. Soebroto Stadium, Magelang. \|} Group F This group will be held in Moch. Soebroto Stadium, Magelang. \|} Group G This group will be held in Gemilang Stadium, Magelang Regency. \|} Group H This group will be held in Gemilang Stadium, Magelang Regency. \|} Knockout stage Round of 16 \|} Quarter-finals \|} Semi-finals \|} Third-place As Persiter Ternate disqualified from the tournament, PSS Sleman won third-place position automatically. Final \|} U-15 Group stage 30 teams from each provincial association will compete. Matches for the Group Stage will be played from 15 October 2017. All group will play half season round-robin. Group A This group will be held in Dwi Windu Stadium, Bantul. \|} Group B This group will be held in Dwi Windu Stadium, Bantul. \|} Group C This group will be held in Abu Bakrin Stadium, Magelang. \|} Group D This group will be held in Abu Bakrin Stadium, Magelang. \|} Group E This group will be held in Tridadi Stadium, Sleman. \|} Group F This group will be held in Tridadi Stadium, Sleman. \|} Group G This group will be held in Yogyakarta State University Stadium, Yogyakarta. \|} Group H This group will be held in Yogyakarta State University Stadium, Yogyakarta. \|} Knockout stage Round of 16 \|} Quarter-finals \|} Semi-finals \|} Third-place \|} Final \|} See also 2017 Liga 1 2017 Liga 2 2017 Liga 3 2017 Indonesia President's Cup 2017 Liga 1 U-19 References Soeratin Cup 2017 in Indonesian football leagues 2017 in Indonesian sport
Helena Falls is a waterfall in the Fiordland National Park in New Zealand that empties into Doubtful Sound. A walking track from the road end at Doubtful Sound goes to the base of the waterfall. They are named after Helene Fels (1882–1914). See also Waterfalls of New Zealand References External links Helena Falls Track at the Department of Conservation Waterfalls of Fiordland
is a manga series by Leiji Matsumoto which was serialized from 28 January 1980 through 11 May 1983 in both the Sankei Shimbun and Nishinippon Sports newspapers. The manga series was adapted into a 42-episode anime television series by Toei Dōga and broadcast on the Fuji TV network from 16 April 1981 through 25 March 1982. An anime film was released on 13 March 1982 shortly before the TV series ended. The anime series was combined by Harmony Gold and Carl Macek with episodes from the 1978 Matsumoto series, Space Pirate Captain Harlock, and shown from 1985 to 1986 in the United States as the 65-episode Captain Harlock and the Queen of a Thousand Years. The series was broadcast in Germany on Tele 5 during 1992, and on New Channel in Greece in 1997 and on Mangas in France in 2004. Plot The series takes place in the (then) futuristic year 1999. Professor Amamori discovers a 10th planet in the Earth's solar system, which he names La-Metal, while at his observatory in Tokyo. Its diameter is 9 times that of Earth. Amamori notes the planet has a highly eccentric orbit and, as it emerges behind the distant Pluto, Amamori realizes that La-Metal is on a collision course with Earth. He calculates that the planet will impact Earth on 9 September 1999, at 9 o'clock, 9 minutes and 9 seconds. It turns out that La-Metal orbits the Solar System every 1,000 years, but only this time it is fated to come dangerously close to Earth. While damage to the giant ice-covered La-Metal would be minimal, Earth would be destroyed by the planet's massive gravitational pull. La-Metal is inhabited by a subterranean humanoid species ruled by a mysterious Holy Queen, Larela. She plans to abduct a large number of humans before the destruction of Earth, and enslave them with the help of her operatives already on Earth. These operatives are led by Andromeda Promethium, a woman known as a Millennial Queen who goes by the Earth name, Yukino Yayoi. She has been living on Earth for almost 1,000 years, like many such Millennial Queens before her, with the intention of establishing a colony for her home planet. Promethium, who comes to care for her Earthling foster parents and friends, begins to question the La-Metalians' plans. As Yayoi, she begins working for Professor Amamori and decides to offer her help when Amamori discovers that La-Metal is heading for Earth. The professor's young nephew Hajime, whose parents are killed while designing a spaceship to help a small group of humans escape from Earth, also joins their fight to save the planet. They are soon confronted by a sabotage campaign initiated by a group of La-Metal generals against Earth. As the two planets come closer to colliding, Yukino finds out that a black hole is to blame for La-Metal's orbital deviation. A desperate plan is undertaken to destroy the black hole and save both their worlds. Sources: Characters Every 1000 years, a woman called a Millennial Queen is sent from the planet La-Metal to secretly rule over the Earth and lead an underground organization that secretly controls the entire planet. Promethium, known to Earthlings as Yukino Yayoi, is the current Millennial Queen. Some early movie promotional material identified her as Promethium II, and indicated that she was the daughter of the Queen Promethium of the Machine Empire of Galaxy Express 999 (another of Matsumoto's works). This idea (and the suffix, II) was later dropped, however, and Millennial Queen Promethium/Yayoi was considered to be the person who would eventually become the Machine Queen (see Maetel Legend). While shown with rounder eyes in the anime television series, she is shown with almond-shaped eyes in both the manga and the anime film and looks just like Maetel from Galaxy Express 999. While Yayoi is Professor Amamori's private secretary in all three versions of the story, there are the following differences: In the anime television series and manga, Yayoi lives on the second floor of a ramen shop run by an older couple who have adopted her as their daughter. She has a tiger-striped cat. In the anime film, in addition to being Professor Amamori's private secretary, she also teaches at a school and lives in a high-class apartment. Hajime is the main character in the manga and is in junior high school. He looks just like the character Tetsurō Hoshino from Galaxy Express 999, only wearing a gakuran. He has a keen interest in space, and is somewhat infatuated with Yayoi. While he doesn't get good grades in school, he is a very honest and kind person. At first he wants revenge on the people who are responsible for his parents' deaths, but he decides it is fruitless to hold a grudge and abandons that plan. There are a few differences between the various versions of the story: In the anime film, he is introduced as a student of Yayoi. In order to protect the Earth from La-Metal's troops, he uses a Zero from a museum. In the anime television series, he tries to act as a peacemaker between La-Metal and the people of Earth, and tries to work out a compromise between them. In the end, he tries to help people escape from the approaching La-Metal by using a helicopter. In the manga, he receives a cybernetic implant which increases his intelligence and allows him to fly space ships extremely well. Professor Amamori is the head scientist at the Tsukuba Observatory. He is Hajime's uncle, though Hajime's father is his younger brother in the TV series and his older brother in the film. He became Hajime's guardian after his parents were both killed in an explosion. Amamori discovered the 10th planet, La-Metal, and determined it would collide with the Earth. At first, he had plenty of hair, but the discovery caused him to begin losing hair (though in the TV series, he keeps all his hair). Larela is the Holy Queen and absolute ruler of planet La-Metal. She appears in the film as a small girl with glowing body and eyes, and energy halos at her head and feet. She is cold-hearted, and it is her plan to allow Earth to be destroyed when her planet passes it for its final time. Sources: Media Manga The manga was originally serialized in from 28 January 1980 through 11 May 1983 in both the Sankei Shimbun and Nishinippon Sports newspapers. There have been multiple releases in book form. A planned ten volume B5-sized set released under Sankei Shuppan's "Wakuwaku Comics" label had the first 10 pages of each volume in color, and an appendix with cel images from the TV series and interviews with Matsumoto and the creators of the TV series. The series was only published through volume 5, however. Volume 1, 203 pages, August 1981 Volume 2 Volume 3, 205 pages, April 1982 Volume 4 Volume 5, 205 pages, November 1982 A shinsōban series of five volumes was released by Sankei Shuppan. Each volume had approximately 200 pages. Shogakukan released the series in both B6-sized hardcover and bunkoban formats under the shorter title. They also released the series in two volumes under their "My First Wideban" label, marketed to convenience stores. Shogakukan bunkoban reprints Volume 1, 346 pages, , June 1991 Volume 2, 340 pages, , August 1991 Volume 3, 330 pages, , August 1991 Novels A two volume novelization by Kaeko Iguchi and Leiji Matsumoto was released by Sankei Shuppan under their "Junior Shōsetsu" label. , 181 pages, December 1980 , 180 pages, August 1981 Light novel adaptations were written by Keisuke Fujikawa, who also wrote many of the teleplays for the anime television series as well as the screenplay for the anime film adaptation. A film adaptation was also written. They were published by Shueisha under their Cobalt label. Volume 1, 241 pages, , January 1981 Volume 2, 239 pages, August 1981 Volume 3, 233 pages, March 1982 Film version, 1982 Bunka Publishing Bureau published a three volume "Pocket Mates" light novel series by Ken Wakasaki. Volume 1, 315 pages, June 1981 Volume 2, 256 pages, September 1981 Volume 3, 290 pages, March 1982 Film comics Film comics based on the anime television series were released by Sankei Shuppan under their "Wakuwaku" label. Volume 1, 156 pages, 15 June 1981 Volume 2, 156 pages, 15 July 1981 Volume 3, 156 pages, 15 August 1981 Volume 4, 156 pages, 15 September 1981 Volume 5, 156 pages, 25 October 1981 Volume 6, 156 pages, 15 November 1981 Volume 7, 156 pages, 1 January 1982 Volume 8, 156 pages, 15 February 1982 Anime television series The Queen Millennia anime television series aired on the Fuji TV network from 16 April 1981 through 25 March 1982 in the 7:00pm to 7:30pm time slot. It replaced Galaxy Express 999 in that time slot, and was replaced by Patalliro! at the end of its run. The series was animated by Toei Dōga. The series was originally scheduled to have 52 episodes, but due to having lower ratings than the previous Galaxy Express 999, the series ended after 42 episodes. Staff Planning: Tokio Tsuchiya, Kenji Yokoyama, Yoichi Kominato Production Supervisor: Masahisa Saeki Teleplay Writers: Keisuke Fujikawa, Shigemitsu Taguchi, Hiroyasu Yamaura, Toyohiro Andō Chief Director: Nobutaka Nishizawa General Animation Director / Character Designer: Yoshinori Kanemori Mechanical Designer: Katsumi Itabashi Chief Designer (Art Direction): Isamu Tsuchida Music: Ryudō Uzaki, Tomoyuki Asakawa Production: Fuji TV, Toei Animation Music Queen Millennia had music composed and arranged by Ryōdō Uzaki and Tomoyuki Asakawa. The opening theme song, , was sung by Masaki Takanashi. The ending theme song, , was sung by Manami Ishikawa. Both songs had lyrics by Yoko Aki, were composed by Ryudo Uzaki, and were arranged by Motoki Funayama. Ishikawa was selected from 1,898 applicants to work with Takanashi on the image song . The song was performed by the Queen Millennia Grand Orchestra and arranged by Nozomi Aoki. A second image song, , was sung by Keiko Han and Slapstick, and was arranged by Motoki Funayama. The lyrics for both image songs were written by Yōko Aki and composed by Ryudō Uzaki. Animated film The 1982 film serves as a retelling of the anime series. The 1999 setting is designed as more futuristic in appearance than in the TV series. In addition, the film provides an alternate ending to the story leaving no room for the events of the Maetel Legend OVA. The music score for the film was written and performed by Kitaro, while the end-credits music was sung by American singer Dara Sedaka. Maetel Legend The 2001 OVA Maetel Legend serves as a prelude to Galaxy Express 999. It is clearly established that Maetel is the daughter of Yayoi and that Yayoi becomes the Queen Promethium of the Mechanized Empire. References External links 1980 Japanese novels 1980 manga 1981 anime television series debuts 1981 Japanese novels 1982 anime films 1982 films Animated space adventure television series Animated films based on manga Fuji TV original programming Japanese mythology in anime and manga Leiji Matsumoto Light novels Science fiction anime and manga Shueisha franchises Space adventure films Toei Animation television Toei Animation films
In computing, the producer-consumer problem (also known as the bounded-buffer problem) is a family of problems described by Edsger W. Dijkstra since 1965. Dijkstra found the solution for the producer-consumer problem as he worked as a consultant for the Electrologica X1 and X8 computers: "The first use of producer-consumer was partly software, partly hardware: The component taking care of the information transport between store and peripheral was called 'a channel' ... Synchronization was controlled by two counting semaphores in what we now know as the producer/consumer arrangement: the one semaphore indicating the length of the queue, was incremented (in a V) by the CPU and decremented (in a P) by the channel, the other one, counting the number of unacknowledged completions, was incremented by the channel and decremented by the CPU. [The second semaphore being positive would raise the corresponding interrupt flag.]" Dijkstra wrote about the unbounded buffer case: "We consider two processes, which are called the 'producer' and the 'consumer' respectively. The producer is a cyclic process and each time it goes through its cycle it produces a certain portion of information, that has to be processed by the consumer. The consumer is also a cyclic process and each time it goes through its cycle, it can process the next portion of information, as has been produced by the producer ... We assume the two processes to be connected for this purpose via a buffer with unbounded capacity." He wrote about the bounded buffer case: "We have studied a producer and a consumer coupled via a buffer with unbounded capacity ... The relation becomes symmetric, if the two are coupled via a buffer of finite size, say portions" And about the multiple producer-consumer case: "We consider a number of producer/consumer pairs, where pairi is coupled via an information stream containing ni portions. We assume ... the finite buffer that should contain all portions of all streams to have a capacity of 'tot' portions." Per Brinch Hansen and Niklaus Wirth saw soon the problem of semaphores: "I have come to the same conclusion with regard to semaphores, namely that they are not suitable for higher level languages. Instead, the natural synchronization events are exchanges of message." Dijkstra's bounded buffer solution The original semaphore bounded buffer solution was written in ALGOL style. The buffer can store N portions or elements. The "number of queueing portions" semaphore counts the filled locations in the buffer, the "number of empty positions" semaphore counts the empty locations in the buffer and the semaphore "buffer manipulation" works as mutex for the buffer put and get operations. If the buffer is full, that is number of empty positions is zero, the producer thread will wait in the P(number of empty positions) operation. If the buffer is empty, that is the number of queueing portions is zero, the consumer thread will wait in the P(number of queueing portions) operation. The V() operations release the semaphores. As a side effect, a thread can move from the wait queue to the ready queue. The P() operation decreases the semaphore value down to zero. The V() operation increases the semaphore value. begin integer number of queueing portions, number of empty positions, buffer manipulation; number of queueing portions:= 0; number of empty positions:= N; buffer manipulation:= 1; parbegin producer: begin again 1: produce next portion; P(number of empty positions); P(buffer manipulation); add portion to buffer; V(buffer manipulation); V(number of queueing portions); goto again 1 end; consumer: begin again 2: P(number of queueing portions); P(buffer manipulation); take portion from buffer; V(buffer manipulation) ; V(number of empty positions); process portion taken; goto again 2 end parend end As of C++ 20, semaphores are part of the language. Dijkstra's solution can easily be written in modern C++. The variable buffer_manipulation is a mutex. The semaphore feature of acquiring in one thread and releasing in another thread is not needed. The lock_guard() statement instead of a lock() and unlock() pair is C++ RAII. The lock_guard destructor ensures lock release in case of an exception. This solution can handle multiple consumer threads and/or multiple producer threads. #include <thread> #include <mutex> #include <semaphore> std::counting_semaphore<N> number_of_queueing_portions{0}; std::counting_semaphore<N> number_of_empty_positions{N}; std::mutex buffer_manipulation; void producer() { for (;;) { Portion portion = produce_next_portion(); number_of_empty_positions.acquire(); { std::lock_guard<std::mutex> g(buffer_manipulation); add_portion_to_buffer(portion); } number_of_queueing_portions.release(); } } void consumer() { for (;;) { number_of_queueing_portions.acquire(); Portion portion; { std::lock_guard<std::mutex> g(buffer_manipulation); portion = take_portion_from_buffer(); } number_of_empty_positions.release(); process_portion_taken(portion); } } int main() { std::thread t1(producer); std::thread t2(consumer); t1.join(); t2.join(); } Using monitors Per Brinch Hansen defined the monitor: I will use the term monitor to denote a shared variable and the set of meaningful operations on it. The purpose of a monitor is to control the scheduling of resources among individual processes according to a certain policy. Tony Hoare laid a theoretical foundation for the monitor. bounded buffer: monitor begin buffer:array 0..N-1 of portion; head, tail: 0..N-1; count: 0..N; nonempty, nonfull: condition; procedure append(x: portion); begin if count = N then nonfull.wait; note 0 <= count < N; buffer[tail] := x; tail := tail (+) 1; count := count + 1; nonempty.signal end append; procedure remove(result x: portion) ; begin if count = 0 then nonempty.wait; note 0 < count <= N; x := buffer[head]; head := head (+) 1; count := count - 1; nonfull.signal end remove; head := 0; tail := 0; count := 0; end bounded buffer; The monitor is an object that contains variables buffer, head, tail and count to realize a circular buffer, the condition variables nonempty and nonfull for synchronization and the methods append and remove to access the bounded buffer. The monitor operation wait corresponds to the semaphore operation P or acquire, signal corresponds to V or release. The circled operation (+) are taken modulo N. The presented Pascal style pseudo code shows a Hoare monitor. A Mesa monitor uses while count instead of if count. A programming language C++ version is: class Bounded_buffer { Portion buffer[N]; // 0..N-1 unsigned head, tail; // 0..N-1 unsigned count; // 0..N std::condition_variable nonempty, nonfull; std::mutex mtx; public: void append(Portion x) { std::unique_lock<std::mutex> lck(mtx); nonfull.wait(lck, [&]{ return !(N == count); }); assert(0 <= count && count < N); buffer[tail++] = x; tail %= N; ++count; nonempty.notify_one(); } Portion remove() { std::unique_lock<std::mutex> lck(mtx); nonempty.wait(lck, [&]{ return !(0 == count); }); assert(0 < count && count <= N); Portion x = buffer[head++]; head %= N; --count; nonfull.notify_one(); return x; } Bounded_buffer() { head = 0; tail = 0; count = 0; } }; The C++ version needs an additional mutex for technical reasons. It uses assert to enforce the preconditions for the buffer add and remove operations. Using channels The very first producer-consumer solution in the Electrologica computers used 'channels'. Hoare defined channels: An alternative to explicit naming of source and destination would be to name a port through which communication is to take place. The port names would be local to the processes, and the manner in which pairs of ports are to be connected by channels could be declared in the head of a parallel command. Brinch Hansen implemented channels in the programming languages Joyce and Super Pascal. The Plan 9 operating system programming language Alef, the Inferno operating system programming language Limbo have channels. The following C source code compiles on Plan 9 from User Space: #include "u.h" #include "libc.h" #include "thread.h" enum { STACK = 8192 }; void producer(void v) { Channel ch = v; for (uint i = 1; ; ++i) { sleep(400); print("p %d\n", i); sendul(ch, i); } } void consumer(void v) { Channel ch = v; for (;;) { uint p = recvul(ch); print("\t\tc %d\n", p); sleep(200 + nrand(600)); } } void threadmain(int argc, char *argv) { int (mk)(void (fn)(void), void arg, uint stack); mk = threadcreate; Channel ch = chancreate(sizeof(ulong), 1); mk(producer, ch, STACK); mk(consumer, ch, STACK); recvp(chancreate(sizeof(void), 0)); threadexitsall(0); } The program entry point is at function threadmain. The function call ch = chancreate(sizeof(ulong), 1) creates the channel, the function call sendul(ch, i) sends a value into the channel and the function call p = recvul(ch) receives a value from the channel. The programming language Go has channels, too. A Go example: package main import ( "fmt" "math/rand" "time" ) var sendMsg = 0 func produceMessage() int { time.Sleep(400 time.Millisecond) sendMsg++ fmt.Printf("sendMsg = %v\n", sendMsg) return sendMsg } func consumeMessage(recvMsg int) { fmt.Printf("\t\trecvMsg = %v\n", recvMsg) time.Sleep(time.Duration(200+rand.Intn(600)) * time.Millisecond) } func main() { ch := make(chan int, 3) go func() { for { ch <- produceMessage() } }() for recvMsg := range ch { consumeMessage(recvMsg) } } The Go producer-consumer solution uses the main Go routine for consumer and creates a new, unnamed Go routine for the producer. The two Go routines are connected with channel ch. This channel can queue up to three int values. The statement ch := make(chan int, 3) creates the channel, the statement ch <- produceMessage() sends a value into the channel and the statement recvMsg := range ch receives a value from the channel. The allocation of memory resources, the allocation of processing resources, and the synchronization of resources are done by the programming language automatically. Without semaphores or monitors Leslie Lamport documented a bounded buffer producer-consumer solution for one producer and one consumer: We assume that the buffer can hold at most b messages, b >= 1. In our solution, we let k be a constant greater than b, and let s and r be integer variables assuming values between 0 and k-1. We assume that initially s=r and the buffer is empty. By choosing k to be a multiple of b, the buffer can be implemented as an array B [0: b - 1]. The producer simply puts each new message into B[s mod b], and the consumer takes each message from B[r mod b]. The algorithm is shown below, generalized for infinite k. Producer: L: if (s - r) mod k = b then goto L fi; put message in buffer; s := (s + 1) mod k; goto L; Consumer: L: if (s - r) mod k = 0 then goto L fi; take message from buffer; r := (r + 1) mod k; goto L; The Lamport solution uses busy waiting in the thread instead of waiting in the scheduler. This solution neglects the impact of scheduler thread switch at inconvenient times. If the first thread has read a variable value from memory, the scheduler switches to the second thread that changes the variable value, and the scheduler switches back to the first thread then the first thread uses the old value of the variable, not the current value. Atomic read-modify-write solves this problem. Modern C++ offers atomic variables and operations for multi-thread programming. The following busy waiting C++11 solution for one producer and one consumer uses atomic read-modify-write operations fetch_add and fetch_sub on the atomic variable count. enum {N = 4 }; Message buffer[N]; std::atomic<unsigned> count {0}; void producer() { unsigned tail {0}; for (;;) { Message message = produceMessage(); while (N == count) ; // busy waiting buffer[tail++] = message; tail %= N; count.fetch_add(1, std::memory_order_relaxed); } } void consumer() { unsigned head {0}; for (;;) { while (0 == count) ; // busy waiting Message message = buffer[head++]; head %= N; count.fetch_sub(1, std::memory_order_relaxed); consumeMessage(message); } } int main() { std::thread t1(producer); std::thread t2(consumer); t1.join(); t2.join(); } The circular buffer index variables head and tail are thread-local and therefore not relevant for memory consistency. The variable count controls the busy waiting of the producer and consumer thread. See also Atomic operation Design pattern FIFO Pipeline Channel Implementation in Java: Java Message Service References Further reading Mark Grand Patterns in Java, Volume 1, A Catalog of Reusable Design Patterns Illustrated with UML C/C++ Users Journal (Dr.Dobb's) January 2004, "A C++ Producer-Consumer Concurrency Template Library", by Ted Yuan, is a ready-to-use C++ template library. The small template library source code and examples can be found here Ioan Tinca, The Evolution of the Producer-Consumer Problem in Java Articles with example Java code Concurrency (computer science) Edsger W. Dijkstra Problems in computer science
```java package com.dianping.zebra.filter.wall; import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException; import com.dianping.zebra.util.StringUtils; import junit.framework.Assert; import org.junit.Test; public class SqlFlowIdGenerator { @Test public void test() throws NoSuchAlgorithmException { String token = String.format("/%s/%s", "dianpingm3-m1-write", "SwitchsInfo.getAllSwitchsInfo"); String resultId = StringUtils.md5(token).substring(0, 8); Assert.assertEquals("f14b190b", resultId); } } ```
Choanocotyle is a genus of flatworms in the family Choanocotylidae. Species infect freshwater turtles. References External links Plagiorchiida genera
John Lattimore House is a historic home located near Polkville, Cleveland County, North Carolina. It is a vernacular one-story-with-raised-attic dwelling consisting of a one-room, half-dovetailed log structure dated to the early 19th century, with a frame addition, full-length porch, and rear shed rooms added in the 1820s or 1830s. It has a gable roof and sits on a fieldstone pier foundation. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. References Log houses in the United States Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Houses in Cleveland County, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Cleveland County, North Carolina Log buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina
William Edward Noxon (November 26, 1929 – February 24, 2016) was an American football coach. He served as the head football coach at Western State College of Colorado—now known as Western Colorado University—from 1971 to 1984, compiling a record of 87–45–2. Noxon died on February 24, 2016, at HopeWest Hospice in Grand Junction, Colorado, from injuries he sustained in a fall the previous September. Head coaching record College References 1929 births 2016 deaths American football ends American football halfbacks Colorado State Rams football players Fort Lewis Skyhawks football players Fort Lewis Skyhawks men's basketball players Western Colorado Mountaineers football coaches High school football coaches in Colorado Junior college football players in the United States Junior college men's basketball players in the United States Sportspeople from Denver Players of American football from Denver Basketball players from Denver
Mysterious Galaxy is an independent bookstore located in San Diego, California. It was founded in 1993 and caters mostly to fans of genre fiction such as mystery, fantasy, science fiction, and horror. It is noted for hosting book signings and readings by numerous authors of the genres. History On May 8, 1993 Terry Gilman, Maryelizabeth Hart, and Jeff Mariotte hosted the grand opening of Mysterious Galaxy with prominent authors such as Ray Bradbury, David Brin, and Robert Crais in attendance as well as many fans of genre fiction. With the tagline "Books of Martians, Murder, Magic and Mayhem" Mysterious Galaxy has filled the niche of San Diego's most prominent genre bookstore. Mysterious Galaxy opened a second location in Redondo Beach in mid-2011, which closed in 2014. In 2019, Mysterious Galaxy sought a new owner and new location and was subsequently purchased by Matthew Berger and Jenni Marchisotto. References Further reading External links Buildings and structures in San Diego Bookstores in California 1993 establishments in California American companies established in 1993 Retail companies established in 1993 Independent bookstores of the United States
Ledothamnus is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Ericaceae. Its native range is Northern South America to Northern Brazil. In 2012, the new tribe Bryantheae was proposed based on genetic analysis, containing the genera Bryanthus and Ledothamnus. Species: Ledothamnus atroadenus Ledothamnus decumbens Ledothamnus guyanensis Ledothamnus jauaensis Ledothamnus luteus Ledothamnus parviflorus Ledothamnus sessiliflorus References Ericaceae Ericaceae genera
Arthur Lowe (22 September 1915 – 15 April 1982) was an English actor. His acting career spanned 37 years, including starring roles in numerous theatre and television productions. He played Captain Mainwaring in the British sitcom Dad's Army from 1968 until 1977, was nominated for seven BAFTAs and became one of the most recognised faces on UK television. Lowe began acting professionally in England in 1945, after army service in the Second World War. He worked in theatre, film and television throughout the 1950s but it was not until he landed the part of Leonard Swindley in the television soap Coronation Street in 1960 that he came to national attention. He played the character until 1966, while continuing theatre and other acting work. In 1968 he took on his role in Dad's Army, written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft. The profile he gained from the role led to further character roles. Despite increasingly poor health in his final years, he maintained a busy professional schedule until his death from a stroke on 15 April 1982, aged 66. Early life Lowe was born in Hayfield, Derbyshire, the only child of Arthur Lowe (1888–1971) and his wife, Nan ( Mary Annie Ford; 1885–1981). Lowe's father, a tall man known as "Big Arthur", worked for the Great Central Railway, which was absorbed into the London and North Eastern Railway in 1923. In 1916, Big Arthur took up a job as clerk at London Road Station, Manchester, shortly before being called up for First World War service. The family rented a house in Hemmons Road, in the Manchester suburb of Levenshulme, where Little Arthur (as he was known) attended Chapel Street School. From about 1927 he went to Alma Park School, where one of his first stage performances was in a school production of The Grand Cham's Diamond in December 1929. Lowe's intention to join the Merchant Navy was thwarted by his poor eyesight. His first job after leaving school was as a barrow boy for the Manchester Branch of motor accessory company Brown Brothers. After progressing to the role of clerk within the firm he took up a job at the aircraft factory of Fairey Aviation in 1936. He described his job of progress chaser as "a sort of time and motion man chivvying the fellows along and seeing that they produced a certain amount of work each day". He also had to check that the parts for building the planes were where they needed to be on the production line. War service In February 1939 Lowe joined the Territorial Army, which meant several months later he was among the first men called up to serve in the Second World War. He served with the Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry. Initially training with horses, the regiment soon became a mechanised unit of the Royal Artillery. Lowe was medically regraded due to his poor eyesight and after training in wireless and as a radar technician transferred to the Royal Army Ordnance Corps. After working on searchlights in Lincolnshire he was sent out to Egypt in 1942, where he soon transferred to the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. He was a good horseman and learned to speak Arabic. After a period in the Suez Canal Zone he was stationed at the REME's 15th Radio Repair Workshops at Rafah. Lowe soon found outlets for developing his talents in entertainment. He was known among the troopers for his impressions of officers and crooners, and when radio equipment was stolen, he read the BBC News over his camp's Tannoy system. In January 1943 he called a meeting to form an amateur dramatics group, the REME No. 1 Welfare Club Dramatic Society. "It was sheer bloody boredom that did it", he said later, "and after that I was hooked". He took his first appearance on stage in The Monkey's Paw on 8 February 1943 and continued both to organise and act in plays, as well as a Christmas revue. His efforts led to a posting with the No. 2 Field Entertainment Unit, promoted to the rank of sergeant major. In this role he helped outlying units to produce their own shows. He assisted Martin Benson in establishing the Mercury Theatre in Alexandria, including in production and management, but not as an actor. Following the end of the war, Lowe returned to Britain in November 1945, although he was not officially demobbed until March 1946. Acting career Early career In 1945, Lowe's father was organising special railway trips and excursions, including private trains for circuses and theatre companies. He arranged an audition for Lowe with Eric Norman for the Frank H. Fortescue Famous Players repertory company. Lowe was immediately offered a trial in the comedy play Bedtime Story, in which he took the part of Dickson. In this role he made his professional acting debut at the Manchester Repertory Theatre on 17 December 1945. He was paid £5 per week for twice-nightly performances. In eight months with Fortescue's he appeared in 33 plays and gave 396 performances. During this time Lowe began a romantic relationship with Joan Cooper (1922–1989), a married actress in the company whose husband also began an affair at about the same time. Arthur and Joan were engaged in June 1946 and lived together from August. After Joan's divorce came through they married at a registry office in Robert Adam Street, The Strand, London, on 10 January 1948. Joan had a son, David Gatehouse, from her first marriage. Another son, Stephen Lowe, was born on 23 January 1953. The couple remained together until Lowe's death. Lowe worked with repertory companies around the country. After a year at the County Theatre, Hereford, 1946-1947, he moved to London in 1948 and for the next three years mostly worked in South London theatres. An early brief film role was as a reporter for the Tit-Bits magazine, near the end of the Ealing Studios dark comedy classic Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949). His first West End role came in 1950, as Wilson the butler in Guy Bolton's Larger Than Life. Lowe became known for his character roles, which in 1952 included a breakthrough part as Senator Brockbank in the musical Call Me Madam at the London Coliseum. Other roles in musicals included a part in the 1954 London revival of Pal Joey and eighteen months as the salesman in the first West End production of The Pajama Game, from 1955 to 1957. His name first appeared in lights in 1957, at the Piccadilly Theatre, with the part of Bert Vokes in the murder melodrama A Dead Secret. This also brought his first West End reviews. Lowe made his first television appearance in 1951, in an episode of the BBC series I Made News. He would work in television every year afterwards, until his death. 1950s roles included various minor parts in dramas, including the crime series Murder Bag. He played the role of the gunsmith in Leave It to Todhunter (1958), appeared in the comedy series Time Out for Peggy, and played a fussy, nervous character in an episode of Dial 999. His first regular television part was as ship steward Sydney Barker in the ABC-TV series All Aboard (1958-1959). In 1960 Lowe took up a regular role as draper and lay preacher Leonard Swindley in the northern soap opera Coronation Street, in which he appeared until 1965. He negotiated a contract through which he only had to work six months of the year, three months on and three months off. During the months he was not playing Swindley, he remained busy on stage or making one-off guest appearances in other TV series such as Z-Cars (1962) and The Avengers (1967) (episode entitled "Dead Man's Treasure"). His most acclaimed stage roles during this period included pompous north-country alderman Michael Oglethorpe in Henry Livings's Stop It, Whoever You Are at the Arts Theatre (1961), and Sir Davey Dunce in The Soldier's Fortune at the Royal Court Theatre (1966). Lowe did not relish work on Coronation Street and was happy to give it up, but viewer responses to his character led to him reprising Swindley for starring roles in the spin-off series Pardon the Expression (1966) and its sequel Turn Out the Lights (1967). Stardom In 1968, Lowe was cast in his best remembered role, as Home Guard platoon leader Captain Mainwaring in the BBC sitcom Dad's Army (1968–1977). Some colleagues on the show later remarked that the role resembled him: pompous and bumbling. Frank Williams said he felt this perception was unfair: "He certainly didn't suffer fools gladly and always knew his own mind, but he also had an ability to laugh at himself. Personally, I found him to be a most kind and generous man". David Croft said Lowe had to be treated with kid gloves. He had firm ideas on what he was willing to do and never took his script home, which resulted in uncertainty over his lines. He could be pompous and over time his part was written so there was a blurring of the line between actor and character. An oddity of his contract was that he would never have to remove his trousers. Lowe held conservative political views and disapproved of the left-wing politics of his co-star Clive Dunn. Dunn, in turn, described some of Lowe's opinions as outrageous, but as an actor rated him "ten out of ten in his field". Despite some tensions, Jimmy Perry described the cast as a "marvellous bunch of pros" with "no sort of volatile animosity between anybody". Lowe also played Mainwaring in a radio version of Dad's Army, a stage play and a feature-length film released in 1971. He played Mainwaring's drunken brother Barry Mainwaring, in the series' 1975 Christmas episode "My Brother and I". While Dad's Army was not in production, Lowe's work continued to include stage roles. In 1968, he was invited by Sir Laurence Olivier to join the National Theatre at the Old Vic, to play divorce solicitor A.B. Raham in Somerset Maugham's Home and Beauty. He returned to the company in 1974 to play Stephano in Peter Hall's production of The Tempest, starring Sir John Gielgud. In the same year he appeared as Ben Jonson alongside Gielgud's Shakespeare in Edward Bond's Bingo at the Royal Court Theatre. Lowe also had prominent parts in several films directed by Lindsay Anderson, including if.... (1968) and O Lucky Man! (1973), for which he won a BAFTA for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. His other film parts during this period included Spike Milligan's surreal The Bed Sitting Room (1969), in which he mutates into a parrot. He played a drunken butler in The Ruling Class (1972) with Peter O'Toole, and theatre critic Horace Sprout in the horror film Theatre of Blood (1973), in which the character is murdered by a deranged actor played by Vincent Price. On television, Lowe appeared twice as a guest performer on The Morecambe and Wise Show (1971 and 1977), alongside Richard Briers in a series of Ben Travers farces for the BBC, as the pompous Dr Maxwell in the ITV comedy Doctor at Large (1971) and as Redvers Bodkin, a snooty, old-fashioned butler, in the short-lived sitcom The Last of the Baskets (1971–72). Between 1971 and 1973 Lowe joined Dad's Army colleague Ian Lavender, on the BBC radio comedy Parsley Sidings and he played Mr Micawber in a BBC television serial of David Copperfield (1974). He employed a multitude of voices on the BBC animated television series Mr. Men (1974), in which he was the narrator. In 1972, Lowe also recorded the novelty songs "How I Won The War" and "My Little Girl, My Little Boy". While touring at coastal theatres with his wife, Lowe used his 1885 former steam yacht Amazon as a floating base. He bought Amazon as a houseboat in 1968, but realised her potential and took her back to sea in 1971; this vessel is still operating in the Mediterranean. The ship had a bar with a semicircular notch cut halfway along, to enable both the portly figure of Lowe and his wife to serve behind the bar at the same time, acting as hosts during the parties they threw on board. In an interview for a Dad's Army retrospective on BBC television in 2010, Clive Dunn described him sitting at the bar in the evenings when they were filming on location, consuming a drink which Lowe named 'Amazon' after his yacht. Dunn described the drink as comprising "gin and ginger ale, with a single slice of cucumber". Lowe seldom made public political statements, but his face appeared on posters and other advertising in support of the "Voting Yes" campaign for the 1975 United Kingdom European Communities membership referendum. He also appeared at a Conservative Party fundraising bazaar in Edward Heath's constituency Declining health and later career By the mid-1970s Lowe suffered from narcolepsy, which caused him to fall asleep during rehearsals, performances, and at other unintended times - sometimes in the middle of a sentence. Stephen Lowe said that although he was often mistaken for drunk, he very rarely was. While both biographies of Lowe acknowledge his high consumption of alcohol, neither claim it extended to alcoholism. Lowe was also unfit, a smoker, and increasingly overweight. In 1979, he suffered a minor stroke. Despite his generally declining health, including worsening narcolepsy, he maintained a busy professional life. Derek Benfield described him as a workaholic. When Dad's Army ended in 1977, Lowe remained in demand, taking starring roles in television comedies such as Bless Me, Father (1978–1981), as the mischievous Catholic priest Father Charles Clement Duddleswell and in Potter (1979–80) as the busybody Redvers Potter. In 1980 he toured Australia and New Zealand with a production of Derek Benfield's play Beyond a Joke. Around this time Lowe was making many television commercials, with no fewer than nineteen in 1981 alone. His later stage career mainly involved touring the English provinces with his wife. He seldom took on a stage play unless it included a role for Joan and this saw some opportunities fall through. Lowe's agent Peter Campbell said the last ten years of his theatre career were "blown" by this condition, and Stephen Lowe thought his mother placed unreasonable pressure on his father to find her roles. Frank Williams said the couple shared a great love story, and if the arrangement held Lowe back it was only because he chose to be held back. Ian Lavender thought Lowe's narcolepsy led him to pull back from his range and choose safer roles. In 1981 Lowe reprised his role as Captain Mainwaring for the pilot episode of It Sticks Out Half a Mile, a radio sequel to Dad's Army. At Christmas that year he and Joan appeared in the pantomime Mother Goose at Victoria Palace, London. In January 1982, Richard Burton had his private aeroplane fly Lowe to Venice to film a cameo role in the television miniseries Wagner. Death and last released works On 14 April 1982, Lowe gave a live televised interview on Pebble Mill at One. At just after 6 p.m. the same day, he collapsed from the onset of a stroke in his dressing room at the Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham. This was before a performance of Home at Seven in which he was due to appear with his wife, Joan. He was taken, unconscious, to Birmingham General Hospital, where he died at about 5 a.m, at the age of 66. Lowe was cremated and his ashes were scattered at Sutton Coldfield Crematorium, following a small funeral of which few people were notified and fewer than a dozen attended. Joan did not attend, as she refused to miss a performance of Home at Seven and was appearing in Belfast at the time. According to her friend Phyllis Bateman, the couple had a pact that neither would go to the other's funeral. Stephen said his parents were not sentimental or religious and Joan's coping mechanism was summed up in the adage, "the show must go on". A memorial service was held on 24 May 1982 at St Martin-in-the-Fields, attended by Lowe's wife and family, former colleagues and many friends. Lowe's final film and television performances premiered after his death. His last feature film was Lindsay Anderson's Britannia Hospital (1982). In his final sitcom, (1982), he starred as a boys' preparatory school master. Wagner was Lowe's last screen role, released in December 1983. Recognition Tom Cole wrote in the Radio Times: "There are few actors who charmed viewers both young and old with such ease, and fewer still who could be trusted with the task of bringing classic literary characters like Charles Pooter and A.J. Wentworth to life." Graham Lord wrote, in his 2002 biography, that "almost every actor who worked with Arthur considered him to be outstanding". He gave as an exception Martin Benson, who said Lowe did not have a lot of vocal skill in his rep days, "and I don't think he had afterwards either...A lot of his success came from this oddball personality that he had and the fact that later in his career he had some very good writers." In 2002, Paul Scofield described Lowe as a rare talent and "seriously brilliant actor", and said it was his timing that set him apart. Jimmy Perry agreed about his timing: "It was faultless. He could get huge laughs with such simple lines as 'Just a moment,' 'how dare you,' and 'you stupid boy'" - all catchphrases from Dad's Army. Perry also described Lowe as a kind man who went out of his way to help actors less fortunate than himself. Approach to acting In the 1970s, Lowe said he had “simply wanted to be the best character actor going” and it was only television that brought him stardom. Of his preferred style of comic acting he said: “Anybody could get a laugh if they pissed into the pit. But it wouldn’t be the right laugh.” He claimed to treat every comic part as a straight part, saying: “The more seriously you play the part, the funnier it is. You see, people are only funny to other people, never to themselves.” Biographies Two biographies of Arthur Lowe have been published: Arthur Lowe – Dad's Memory by his son Stephen, in 1997; and Arthur Lowe by Graham Lord in 2002. In 2000, The Unforgettable Arthur Lowe was part of The Unforgettable series of TV biographies of comedy performers. Memorials In December 2007 plans were announced for a statue of Lowe to be erected in Thetford, Norfolk, where the outside scenes for Dad's Army were filmed. Series co-writer David Croft unveiled the statue on 19 June 2010. It depicts Lowe in the character of Captain Mainwaring, sitting upright on a simple bench in Home Guard uniform, with his swagger stick across his knees. The star has also had two blue plaques unveiled, one at Maida Vale and one at his birthplace in Hayfield, Derbyshire. Portrayals Robert Daws portrayed Lowe in the BBC Radio 4 drama Dear Arthur, Love John by Roy Smiles, first broadcast in 2012. The play charts the relationship between Lowe and John Le Mesurier. John Sessions played him in the 2015 television movie We're Doomed! The Dad's Army Story. Filmography Television & Radio Films Record Releases Long Player's:- ' Bless 'em All ', 1969 . World Record Club (ST108) label, with the ' Richmond Orchestra & Chorus ' under Malcolm Lockyer. Produced by Bob Barrett. The fifteen songs, were:- Who Do You Think You Are Kidding Mr. Hitler? This Is The Army, Mr. Jones Kiss Me Goodnight, Sargeant Major I'll Be Seeing You Lili Marlene Mairzy Doats And Dozy Doats (Mares Eat Oats And Does Eat Oats) The Army The Navy And The Air Force Bless 'Em All Run, Rabbit, Run! (We're Gonna) Hang Out The Washing On The Siegfried Line That Lovely Weekend Underneath The Arches Alouette Waltzing Matilda Now Is The Hour 45 rpm's:- ' Home Town ', (1975). B side to, ' A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square '. Warner Brothers Records: (K16670). Awards BAFTAs References Bibliography External links BBC Desert Island Discs episode – 14 December 1970 Performances in the Theatre Archive University of Bristol 1915 births 1982 deaths Best Supporting Actor BAFTA Award winners British male comedy actors English male film actors English male stage actors English male soap opera actors English male voice actors Male actors from Derbyshire People from Hayfield, Derbyshire British Army personnel of World War II 20th-century English male actors People with narcolepsy Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry soldiers British novelty song performers Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers soldiers Royal Army Ordnance Corps soldiers Military personnel from Derbyshire
Chris Porter may refer to: Chris Porter (basketball) (born 1978), American professional basketball player Chris Porter (comedian) (born 1979), American comedian Chris Porter (footballer, born 1885) (1885–1915), English amateur football inside forward Chris Porter (footballer, born 1979), English football goalkeeper and coach Chris Porter (footballer, born 1983), English footballer for Oldham Athletic Chris Porter (ice hockey) (born 1984), Canadian professional ice hockey left winger Chris Porter (producer) (active from 1976), British record producer, engineer and narrator See also Christopher Porter (disambiguation)
Scar Peak () is a peak ( high) surmounting the northern wall of Taylor Valley immediately east of the Lacroix Glacier in Victoria Land. It was named by the New Zealand Geographic Board in 1998 after the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). References Mountains of Victoria Land
Boris Gujić (, born 9 July 1986) is a Bosnian footballer who plays for Las Vegas Legends professional team in Major Arena Soccer League in USA. Club career Born in Zenica, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia, he started his career at FK Bratstvo from Bratunac. In 2006, he joined Serbian side FK Senta, and between 2006 and 2008 he played for FK Senta tier. In 2008, he moved to Hungary where he played the following 4 seasons in the Nemzeti Bajnokság I with Kaposvári Rákóczi FC. In summer 2012 he returned to Bosnia and Herzegovina and joined Premier League side FK Sarajevo. However, during the winter break of the 2012–13 season, he returned to Serbia to his former club FK Senta now playing in the Serbian third level, the Serbian League Vojvodina. In summer 2013 he joined newly promoted Bosnian Premier League side FK Mladost Velika Obarska. From Avgust 2014 Boris is playing in Major Arena Soccer League in USA for Las Vegas Legends from Las Vegas. He was also part of Serbia national team, which participated in Indoor Soccer World Cup played 2015 in USA. References 1986 births Living people Footballers from Zenica Men's association football midfielders Bosnia and Herzegovina men's footballers FK Senta players Kaposvári Rákóczi FC players FK Sarajevo players FK Mladost Velika Obarska players Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina players Nemzeti Bajnokság I players Bosnia and Herzegovina expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Serbia Bosnia and Herzegovina expatriate sportspeople in Serbia Expatriate men's footballers in Hungary Bosnia and Herzegovina expatriate sportspeople in Hungary
Roya Rahmani (born May 1978) is an Afghan diplomat who served as Afghanistan's first female ambassador to the United States and non-resident ambassador to Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, and the Dominican Republic from December 2018 to July 2021. She is currently the Chair of the international advisory company in development finance — Delphos International LTD. She is also a distinguished fellow at the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace, and Security, a senior advisor at the Atlantic Council's South Asia Center, and a senior fellow for international security at the New America Foundation. From 2016 to 2018, she served as Afghanistan's first female ambassador to Indonesia, first ever ambassador to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, and non-resident ambassador to Singapore. Previously, she worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as the first Director General of Regional Cooperation (2012-2016). Before entering government, she worked for several nonprofits that primarily focused on women's rights and education. She received a bachelor's degree in software engineering from McGill University in 2003 and a master's degree in public administration and international law at Columbia University in 2009. Early life and education Rahmani was born in Kabul in 1978, a year before Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan. After the Soviets left in 1989, the country descended into civil war. Her school was closed for months at a time due to the missiles hitting the city. In 1993, her family fled to Pakistan. She recalls “Starting in the ’90s, there was famine and drought, and during the 1992-96 civil war, we were literally pushed out of our homes. I remember our family hugging each other, thinking this would be the last night of our lives”. Once in Peshawar, she attended a Saudi-funded school for refugees, where she later recalled studying on the roof for an entire school year due to overcrowding. Rahmani commented on her experiences saying that "As an Afghan woman, very early on, like the rest of my cohort, we learned that you have to try to make the best out of what you have. So uncertainty was what dominated most of our lives." She says the experiences of her youth led her to the lifelong motto of "doing the best with what you have". Rahmani returned to Kabul in 1998, but refused to leave the house rather than put on a burqa as the Taliban required. In 1999, she received a scholarship from the World University Service of Canada and went to McGill University, where she completed a bachelor's degree in software engineering. After graduating in 2004, Rahmani returned to Afghanistan and worked for various nonprofits, eventually deciding to alter her career focus and return to school. She says "It became like a mission in my life that if I could do anything, anything, to stop a bomb from going off and killing people, or even a person, if I could do that, my mission in life is completed." In 2009, she completed a master's degree in public administration and international law at Columbia University in New York. She was a Fulbright scholar. Career Nonprofit Work After graduating with her bachelor's degree in 2004, Rahmani returned to Afghanistan and worked for several Canadian nonprofits focusing on human rights, women's empowerment, and education. She also worked part-time as a subject matter expert with the NATO Joint Forces Training Center, and a consultant to the New York Department of Education, the United Nations Secretariat in New York, the Department of Trade and International Affairs of Canada, Canadian Women for Women in Afghanistan, Women Living under Muslim Laws, and other INGOs. During this time Rahmani worked on a marriage document that secured equitable rights for the family and contributed to data collection at a national level. She received the Best Human Rights Activist Award from the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission in 2007 for her work on this document. Government Work Rahmani joined the Afghan government, first in the Ministry of Education, then as a senior advisor to the Deputy Foreign Minister in 2011. From 2012 to 2016, she served as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director General for Regional Cooperation. In this role she initiated and promoted important regional cooperation initiatives, like the Heart of Asia-Istanbul Process. Ambassador to Indonesia From June 2016-December 2018, Rahmani served as Afghanistan's first female ambassador to Indonesia, non-resident ambassador to Singapore, and first ever ambassador to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. She was the second woman appointed as an ambassador by President Ashraf Ghani, after he vowed to give women more leadership positions. She said Muslim women could introduce a narrative of a "dynamic Muslim", proving that religion is not a static force. Ambassador to the United States On 14 December 2018, Rahmani was appointed Ambassador to the United States by President Ghani, the first woman to hold the position. She took up the post just as President Trump announced his intention to withdraw troops from her country. She said, "women have been treated like a minority, but they are not a minority. Together, the women and the youth are actually a majority, and they are not willing to give up their rights. They are not willing to compromise their human rights and go back to the old days." She replaced Hamdullah Mohib, who had resigned three months earlier to become National Security Advisor. Ambassador Rahmani also served as Afghanistan's non-resident ambassador to Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, and the Dominican Republic. Issues Women's rights Rahmani spent several years working at nonprofits that focused on women's rights and education. At this time, her work focused particularly on family law reform in the Muslim context. She worked with Musawah to reform a marriage contract in Afghanistan to ensure more equitable family rights. Rahmani and Musawah "decided to prioritise the marriage contract because it seemed to be a feasible and practical remedy to secure the rights of women within families. Amending the family law required complex procedures, whereas the marriage contract only needed the Supreme Court’s approval”. Rahmani also took part in the inaugural Indonesian Congress of Women Ulama while serving as ambassador to Indonesia. She encouraged the formation of more women's ulamas, saying "It's time to get angry about violence committed in the name of our religion that we practice every day to seek refuge and peace." After becoming ambassador to the United States, she continued to advocate for women's rights, especially women's role in the peace process. She has consistently said that a peace deal that ignores half of the population will not work. She argues the essential role of women in the peace process makes women's rights not just an ethical issue, but a matter of national security. After the taliban's comeback to power in August 2021 and the following worsening of women's rights in the country, Roya Rahmani has been especially vocal about this situation. Women who protest for their rights in the streets of Kabul and other cities are “basically committing suicide,” Rahmani said. Peace process In May 2019, Rahmani criticized the Trump government after Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad engaged in direct talks with the Taliban, who have rejected engaging in talks with the Afghan government, saying "They are not our government, they are not our representatives" and that ending the war "should be decided by the people who are most affected by the process." TIME Magazine referred to Rahmani as "a fierce advocate for peace on Afghan terms". She has spoken repeatedly on the need for the Taliban to directly engage with Afghan society and government if they are to become a part of it. According to Rahmani, "if [the Taliban] want peace, they would have to sit with the government." Awards and Recognitions In 2007, Rahmani was awarded the Best Human Rights Activist Award by the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission for her work on a marriage document that secured equitable rights for the family and contributed to data collection at a national level. In 2017, her work in Indonesia led her to be named “The People’s Ambassador” by Tatler Indonesia. In 2019, she was included on TIME Magazine's "100 Next List" because she was a “fierce advocate of peace on Afghan terms.” In 2019, she was recognized by the Alliance for Peacebuilding for her efforts to create an inclusive peace process. Controversies Pajhwok Afghan News has released a series of media reports making accusations against Rahmani, including regarding a construction project at the DC embassy. The Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a full rejection of their claims, addressing specific accusations made by Pajhwok. Rahmani released an article via Afghan media platform 8AM denying the accusations and calling for a full investigation. In the article, she said the Pajhwok report was biased, their conclusions contradicted the documents they had published, and that it had been published in order to destroy her personally because she was a woman. She also alleged that she has experienced repeated unfounded attacks from local news agencies. Indictment documents leaked to TOLOnews show that the Attorney General has accused two former officials and Rahmani of corruption in the construction of a 70-meter wall in Afghanistan’s embassy in Washington, DC. However, TOLOnews reported that there were "a number of contradictions in the text of the indictment paper" and that the Attorney General's Office and case prosecutors were not willing to respond to questions about the contradictions. The documents also show that the appellate court of the Anti-Corruption Justice Center (ACJC), Afghanistan's primary anti-corruption court, has been asked to try the accused officials on charges of embezzlement of $790,000 from the project. However, the ACJC has said it rejects the allegations and returned the indictment papers to the Attorney General's Office, citing technical and investigative shortcomings. On 31 July 2021, the Washington Post published an investigative report demonstrating that it was a politically motivated case against Rahmani. All this intervened in a context of violent repression of women rights. In 2014, the government rejected recommendations from UN member countries to abolish prosecution of women for so-called moral crimes. Other setbacks for women’s rights in 2014 included a continuing series of attacks on, threats toward, and assassinations of, high-profile women, including police women and activists, to which the government failed to respond with meaningful measures to protect women at risk. After the taliban's comeback to power in August 2021, situation regarding women's rights has even worsened. The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan, Richard Bennett, appointed in April 2022, undertook his first visit to the country from 15th to 26th May 2022. Bennet also said the erasure of women from public life was especially concerning, citing measures such as the suspension of girls’ secondary education, severe barriers to employment and limits on freedom of movement, association and expression. Publications Personal life Rahmani is married and has one daughter, born in 2014. She is a Muslim. She is a fluent speaker of Dari, Pashto, and English, and has a basic understanding of Urdu and French. References External links Embassy biography Living people 1978 births People from Kabul Afghan expatriates in Pakistan Afghan Tajik people McGill University Faculty of Engineering alumni School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University alumni Ambassadors of Afghanistan to Indonesia Ambassadors of Afghanistan to the United States Ambassadors of Afghanistan to Argentina Ambassadors of Afghanistan to Colombia Ambassadors of Afghanistan to Mexico Ambassadors of Afghanistan to the Dominican Republic Ambassadors of Afghanistan to Bolivia Afghan women ambassadors Ambassadors of Afghanistan to Singapore 21st-century diplomats 21st-century Afghan women Fulbright alumni
The Velvet Trail is the twentieth solo studio album by the British singer/songwriter Marc Almond. It was released by Strike Force Entertainment / Cherry Red Records on 9 March 2015. Background The Velvet Trail is Almond's first album of original material since Varieté in 2010. It was produced by Christopher Braide and features a duet with Beth Ditto of indie rock band Gossip on the track "When the Comet Comes". Almond had previously stated that he would no longer record albums of original material following Varieté. He subsequently recorded a number of albums outside of the pop genre which mostly featured songs written by others. During this time he was approached by Braide, known for his work with pop artists such as Lana Del Rey, David Guetta and Britney Spears, who urged Almond to make "the ultimate Marc Almond album" Braide was a longtime fan of Almond and had in fact worked with Almond before, unbeknownst at that point to the singer. Almond explained the situation to Simon Price of The Quietus, stating "it was only afterwards that I realised where I knew Chris Braide from: he'd sung backing vocals on the Soft Cell reunion album Cruelty Without Beauty, and I'd passed him in the corridor". Braide lured Almond back into songwriting by sending him three instrumental tracks, "hoping to change his mind about retirement", a plan that worked when "all three were met with resounding enthusiasm". They continued to work in this manner until the album was completed. The 'Velvet Trail' of the album title refers to a beach walk in Southport, Almond's home town. The walk is a local tourist spot and is part of the Wetlands Regional Park maintained by Lancashire County Council. The album was released in a standard one disc jewel case CD, a limited edition two disc digipak UK only version and a limited edition double vinyl version. The limited CD edition includes a DVD containing videos to four of the tracks on the album. The double vinyl version comes with a poster and has alternative takes of two of the songs as bonus tracks, including a solo version of "When the Comet Comes". The artwork for each version is slightly different; the standard CD features blue colouring, the limited double CD has red, different, colouring and the vinyl version is a negative image. The Velvet Trail was supported by a UK tour from 16 April to 1 May 2015. Critical reception On the Metacritic website, which aggregates reviews from critics and assigns a normalised rating out of 100, the album received a score of 79. This is based on 11 reviews in total, 10 of which were positive and one which was mixed. Record Collector gave the album full marks in their review, stating ""Marc's distinctive vocals have rarely sounded richer and warmer" and that The Velvet Trail is "a release up there with Almond's best". The Guardian calls the album "straight-ahead pop, with big choruses and melodies" and comments that "Almond's voice....is still enthralling" The review in The Observer states that Almond's "first set of original material in five years is an impressive affair" and adds that "Almond is at his best on the compelling torch songs that have long been his stock in trade" The PopMatters review site states that "The Velvet Trail is a complete and coherent artistic statement" and that it is "only more special for its rarity" On MusicOMH they find it a "strong and often stirring album, and the voice sounds fantastic". Track listing All tracks written by Chris Braide and Marc Almond "Act One (Instrumental)" – 0:50 "Bad to Me" – 4:22 "Zipped Black Leather Jacket" – 3:57 "Scar" – 3:42 "Pleasure's Wherever You Are" – 4:27 "Act Two (Instrumental)" – 0:48 "Minotaur" – 4:29 "Earthly" – 4:22 "The Pain of Never" – 4:14 "Demon Lover" – 3:25 "Act Three (Instrumental)" – 1:08 "When the Comet Comes" – 3:40 featuring Beth Ditto "Life in My Own Way" – 4:08 "Winter Sun" – 4:00 "The Velvet Trail" – 5:50 "Finale (Instrumental)" – 1:09 Bonus tracks (vinyl release only) # "When the Comet Comes (full length solo version)" – 4:06 "The Velvet Trail (radio edit)" – 3:27 Personnel Marc Almond – lead vocals, backing vocals Christopher Braide - synths, grand piano, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, programming Neal X – electric guitar Martin McCarrick – strings Kimberlee McCarrick – strings Louise Marshall – backing vocals Kelly Barnes – backing vocals Armen Ra – theremin Chart performance References 2015 albums Marc Almond albums Cherry Red Records albums
Justice Matthews refers to Stanley Matthews (judge) (1824–1889), associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. Justice Mathews or Matthews may also refer to: George Mathews (judge) (1774–1836), justice of the Superior Court of the Territory of Mississippi, justice of the Superior Court of the Territory of Orleans, and Presiding judge of the Louisiana Supreme Court Henry Matthews (judge) (1789–1828), puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Ceylon Hugh Matthews, Lord Matthews (born 1953), judge of Scotland's Supreme Courts John E. Mathews (1892–1955), associate justice of the Florida Supreme Court John A. Matthews (1876–1966), associate justice of the Montana Supreme Court Warren Matthews (born 1939), associate justice and chief justice of the Alaska Supreme Court See also Matthew Justice (born 1988), American professional wrestler Judge Matthews (disambiguation)

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