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65707970 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rysen%20John | Rysen John | Rysen John (born December 20, 1997) is a Canadian gridiron football wide receiver for the Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League (CFL).
University career
John played college football as a wide receiver for the Simon Fraser Clan from 2016 to 2019. In his senior college season, John was selected to play in the 2020 Hula Bowl.
Professional career
John was drafted in the third round, 21st overall, by the Calgary Stampeders in the 2020 CFL Draft and was not drafted in the 2020 NFL Draft.
New York Giants
John was signed by the New York Giants as an undrafted free agent following the 2020 NFL Draft on April 30, 2020. He was waived/injured on September 2, 2020, and reverted to the team's injured reserve list the next day. He was waived with an injury settlement on September 6, 2020. He signed to the team's practice squad on October 27, 2020. He signed a reserve/future contract on January 4, 2021. He was placed on injured reserve on August 24, 2021.
He was waived on May 10, 2022.
Chicago Bears
On May 11, 2022, the Chicago Bears claimed John off the waivers. He was released on August 16, 2022.
Calgary Stampeders
On February 20, 2023, it was announced that John had signed with the Calgary Stampeders.
References
External links
Calgary Stampeders bio
1997 births
Living people
American football tight ends
American football wide receivers
Black Canadian players of American football
Players of American football from British Columbia
Chicago Bears players
New York Giants players
Simon Fraser Red Leafs football players
Canadian football people from Vancouver
Players of Canadian football from British Columbia
Vancouver College alumni |
965968 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilarie%20Burton | Hilarie Burton | Hilarie Ros Burton (born July 1, 1982), also known as Hilarie Burton Morgan, is an American actress. A former host of MTV's Total Request Live, she portrayed Peyton Sawyer on The WB/The CW drama One Tree Hill for six seasons (2003–2009). Post One Tree Hill, Burton starred in Our Very Own, Solstice, and The List. She has also had supporting or recurring roles in television series, including her role as Sara Ellis on White Collar (2010–2013), Dr. Lauren Boswell on the ABC medical drama Grey's Anatomy (2013), Molly Dawes on the ABC drama series Forever (2014), and Karen Palmer on the Fox television series Lethal Weapon (2016). Burton is currently a co-host on the Drama Queens podcast along with her former One Tree Hill co-stars, Sophia Bush and Bethany Joy Lenz.
Early life
Burton was born and raised in Sterling, Virginia. Her father is a veteran of the US Army, and her mother is a real estate agent. She is the eldest of four children with three brothers and has one older half-sister from her father's previous marriage. She graduated from Park View High School in 2000, where she was student council treasurer her sophomore year, vice-president her junior year, and captain of the cheerleading squad, student council president, and homecoming queen her senior year.
Burton attended New York University from Fordham University, graduating in 2004.
Career
Media personality
Burton's first big break came when working as a VJ for MTV's Total Request Live (TRL). She was supposed to be a guest commentator for one segment, but producers decided to offer her a permanent job. Burton went on to present at the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards and MTV's Iced Out New Year's Eve. Burton went on to portray herself on The WB (now The CW's drama series Dawson's Creek in 2002, which marked her television debut.
In October 2017, when news of the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse cases broke, Burton retweeted a 2003 video clip from TRL Uncensored in which Ben Affleck squeezed her breast on air. This was in response to a fan tweet that quipped, "[Affleck] also grabbed Hilarie Burton-Morgan's breasts on TRL once. Everyone forgot though." Burton replied, "I didn't forget [about it] ... I was a kid." Affleck, who'd just publicly criticized Weinstein, subsequently responded on Twitter to apologize to Burton. When asked about the incident a month later on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Affleck said, "I don't remember it, but I absolutely apologize for it. I certainly don't think she's lying or making it up.'"
In 2021, Burton started a podcast with One Tree Hill co-stars Sophia Bush and Bethany Joy Lenz titled Drama Queens.
Acting and producing
Burton was cast in The WB drama series One Tree Hill as Peyton Sawyer, an independent visual and musical artist and cheerleader, in April 2003. The series premiered on September 23, 2003, and went on to be the network's top rated program of the year. The role was considered Burton's breakout role and is her best known to date. For her role in the series, Burton was featured on the cover of Maxim, American Cheerleader Magazine and People. Her performance received critical praise and she earned three Teen Choice Award nominations. In May 2009, The CW announced Burton would not be returning for the show's seventh season based on her own decision not to return, contrary to rumors she left owing to salary issues.
One Tree Hill heightened Burton's public profile. In May 2007 she was ranked #77 in Maxims "Hot 100 List of 2007". She also appeared on the cover of the November 2006 edition of Maxim with One Tree Hill co-stars Sophia Bush and Danneel Harris. In previous years, Burton ranked #2 on Femme Fatales "The 50 Sexiest Women of 2005", and #12 on Much Music's "20 Hottest Women of 2003".
While still a One Tree Hill cast member, Burton made her feature film debut opposite Allison Janney and Cheryl Hines in the 2005 well-reviewed drama Our Very Own which centered on five small-town teenagers who dream of a better life. Burton and her co-stars received the "Outstanding Ensemble Acting" award at the prestigious Sarasota Film Festival. Burton appeared in the 2007 Lifetime drama Normal Adolescent Behavior which followed a group of friends who are in a six-way polyfidelitous relationship. That same year, Burton co-starred in the supernatural horror film Solstice opposite Amanda Seyfried and Elisabeth Harnois. Burton also created her own production company, Southern Gothic Production (SoGoPro) in 2007, along with Nick Gray, Kelly Tenney, James Burton, and Meg Mortimer.
In 2008, Burton appeared in both the Fox Searchlight Pictures drama The Secret Life of Bees, as the deceased mother of Dakota Fanning's character, and the limited release thriller The List. Burton was next cast in the film Bloodworth opposite Hilary Duff and Val Kilmer, an adaptation of the novel Provinces of Night by William Gay. The film premiered after her exit from One Tree Hill, at the 2010 Santa Barbara International Film Festival, but made little money in limited release. Burton won a recurring arc in the USA Network crime drama series White Collar in 2010 as Sara Ellis, an insurance investigator in the second season. She was upgraded to a series regular in 2011 for the third season, but switched back to the recurring cast in the fourth season. 2012 saw Burton guest-starring on the ABC police comedy-drama Castle (season 4, episode 13) as a reality television star who is accused of murder. Next came a recurring role in the ABC medical drama Grey's Anatomy for the final three episodes of the 2013 ninth season, as Dr. Lauren Boswell. That fall, Burton had a recurring role on the short-lived CBS drama Hostages. Burton reunited with One Tree Hill co-star Tyler Hilton for a recurring role on CBS sci-fi drama Extant in 2015. Burton appeared as the DEA agent love interest of main character Martin Riggs on Lethal Weapon from the seventh episode of the first season in 2016 through the third episode of the second season in 2017.
In November 2017, Burton spoke out in light of charges that One Tree Hill creator Mark Schwahn had sexually harassed some of the female crew, alleging that she had also been sexually harassed by Schwahn.
Burton guest-starred in the tenth season of The Walking Dead as Negan's wife Lucille, appearing alongside her real-life husband Jeffrey Dean Morgan who plays Negan.
Since 2021, Burton has been a co-host on the Drama Queens podcast along with her former One Tree Hill co-stars, Sophia Bush and Bethany Joy Lenz.
Writing
On May 5, 2020, Burton published her first non-fiction book, The Rural Diaries: Love, Livestock, and Big Life Lessons Down on Mischief Farm.
She published her memoir, Grimoire Girl: A Memoir of Magic and Mischief, on April 25, 2023.
Personal life
During her time on One Tree Hill, Burton resided in Wilmington, North Carolina, where the show was filmed.
Burton began dating Jeffrey Dean Morgan in 2009, after being introduced by Jensen and Danneel Ackles. Their first child, a son, was born in March 2010, and their second child, a daughter, was born in February 2018. Morgan and Burton married on October 5, 2019, in a ceremony officiated by Jensen Ackles.
She has been candid on social media about their struggle to conceive, stating that it took five years to successfully carry a second baby to term. Subsequently, she has spoken out publicly in support of abortion rights after the Supreme Court decision on Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization that overturned Roe v. Wade, stating:This is my child. My beloved. My daughter. It is no secret I struggled with infertility. Losing multiple pregnancies before her was traumatic. But female bodies are all different and unpredictable. Having an abortion after my fetus died allowed for my uterus to heal in a way that made it healthy enough to carry future pregnancies. It doesn't matter if you use the term D&C. The official word on the hospital paperwork is abortion. That's what it was.
Even though the show One Tree Hill was filmed in Wilmington, North Carolina, Hilarie has family there as well. Throughout the years she has been an advocate for the Wilmington community and the most recent example of that is her work in promoting and raising money for the film Wilmington on Fire.
Discography
Soundtrack
The Road Mix: Music from the Television Series One Tree Hill, Volume 3 (2007)
Filmography
Film
Television
Music video
Audiobook
Podcast
Awards and nominations
Bibliography
The Rural Diaries: Love, Livestock, and Big Life Lessons Down on Mischief Farm (2020)
Grimoire Girl: A Memoir of Magic and Mischief (2023)
References
External links
Hilarie Burton's page on CWTV.com
Hilarie Burton's SoGoPro Productions creating a stir – starnewsonline.com
SoGoPro
American film actresses
American infotainers
American soap opera actresses
American television actresses
American women television producers
Living people
Actresses from Virginia
People from Sterling, Virginia
American VJs (media personalities)
Fordham University alumni
21st-century American actresses
New York University alumni
American women film producers
Television producers from Virginia
1982 births |
21445953 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hose%27s%20mongoose | Hose's mongoose | Hose's mongoose (Herpestes brachyurus hosei) is a subspecies of the short-tailed mongoose, but it is sometimes considered a separate species instead, Herpestes hosei. It is only known from a single specimen, an adult female taken in the Baram district, Sarawak, Malaysia, in 1893. Apart from having reddish brown short hair, straighter claws and more slender, smaller skull with a less rounded coronoid process on the lower jaw, it resembles other subspecies of the short-tailed mongoose.
References
Mongooses
Mammals of Southeast Asia
Carnivorans of Malaysia
Mammals of Borneo
Endemic fauna of Borneo |
7986813 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remington%20Records | Remington Records | Remington Records was a low budget record label. It existed from 1950 until 1957 and specialized in classical music. Unfortunately, the discs suffered from considerable surface noise.
History
The earliest Remington recordings were made in Vienna. They were produced by Marcel Prawy from 1950 till 1953. In 1953 Berlin became the recording venue outside the United States.
Producer Don Gabor, recording director Laszlo Halasz and engineer Robert Blake made the very first commercial stereophonic tape recordings in the United States in 1953 with Thor Johnson and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. They included Dvořák's Symphony No. 8 (then No. 4) and symphonic and choral works by Sibelius. These stereo recordings were released as mono records in 1954.
Mono and stereo recordings were also made in Berlin with the RIAS (Radio in the American Sector) Symphony Orchestra. The recordings were supervised by Don Gabor and conductor Laszlo Halasz.
Besides the Cincinnati Symphony recordings, other recordings were made in America with various classical artists, including violinist George Enescu, pianist Jorge Bolet, and violinist Ossy Renardy, among others. Some of Remington's mono and stereo tapes were released in the late 1970s on the Varèse-Sarabande label. Producer Tom Null and his technicians applied a different equalization for the new matrices and this resulted in far better pressings and improved sound.
Thor Johnson's recordings for Remington were:
R-199-168 Dvorak: Symphony No. 4 (8th)
R-199-182 Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2 with Jorge Bolet, pianist (reissued in 1974 in stereo on Turnabout TV-S 34543)
R-199-184 Gershwin: Concerto in F with Alec Templeton, pianist
R-199-185 Ward: Third Symphony; Stein: Three Hassidic Dances.
R-199-187 Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 2
R-199-188 Brant: Concerto for Alto Saxophone, Sigurd Rascher soloist (coupled with Glanville-Hicks: Gymnopedies 1, 2 and 3; Rudhyar: Sinfonietta; performed by the RIAS Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jonel Perlea)
R-199-191 Sibelius: The Origin of Fire with the Helsinki University Chorus (coupled with Glazunov's Violin Concerto, played by André Gabriel and the RIAS Symphony conducted by Georg Ludwig Jochum)
Don Gabor produced recordings in the 1940s for his Continental label. Best known are the Continental recordings he made with George Enesco of Bach's Sonatas and Partitas. But in the 78 rpm era he recorded several jazz musicians such as Sarah Vaughan, Don Byas, Cozy Cole, and Dizzy Gillespie, as well as popular musicians on Continental. He later reissued most of these recordings on the Remington label and the other labels he had: Masterseal, Plymouth, Merit, Masque, Buckingham, Webster, and Paris.
Footnotes
See also
List of record labels
External links
Don Gabor - his profile from Soundfountain
The Remington Site from Soundfountain
American record labels
Record labels established in 1950
Record labels disestablished in 1957
Classical music record labels
Jazz record labels |
39790673 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary%20Potter | Rosemary Potter | Rosemary Potter is a former member of the Wisconsin State Assembly.
Biography
Potter was born on April 15, 1952, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She graduated from Bay View High School and the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee before serving as an intern with the United Nations. Potter was later a member of the faculty at Milwaukee Area Technical College, Alverno College and the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and spent time in Italy, India, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Chile and Japan.
Political career
Potter was first elected to the Assembly in a special election in 1989. In 1993, she became the first woman to serve as Majority Caucus Chairperson in Wisconsin. She later became Minority Caucus Chairperson in 1995 and 1997. Potter is a Democrat.
References
Politicians from Milwaukee
Democratic Party members of the Wisconsin State Assembly
Women state legislators in Wisconsin
Milwaukee Area Technical College people
University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee faculty
University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee alumni
1952 births
Living people
Bay View High School alumni
American women academics
21st-century American women |
40095954 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harpalus%20tangutorum | Harpalus tangutorum | Harpalus tangutorum is a species of ground beetle in the subfamily Harpalinae. It was described by Kataev in 1993.
References
tangutorum
Beetles described in 1993 |
1184 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athene%20%28disambiguation%29 | Athene (disambiguation) | Athene or Athena is the shrewd companion of heroes and the goddess of heroic endeavour in Greek mythology.
Athene may also refer to:
881 Athene, a main-belt asteroid
Athene (bird), a genus of small owls
Athene (Cynuria), a town in ancient Cynuria, Greece
Athene Glacier, a glacier in Antarctica
HMS Athene, an aircraft transport
USS Athene (AKA-22), an Artemis-class attack cargo ship
Bachir Boumaaza or Athene (born 1980), Belgian YouTube personality and social activist
Athene (research center), stylized as ATHENE, an IT security research institute in Darmstadt, Germany
Athene, an insurance company acquired by Apollo Global Management
People with the given name
Athene Seyler (1889–1990), English actress
Athene Donald (born 1953), British physicist
See also
Altena (disambiguation)
Atena (disambiguation)
Athen (disambiguation)
Athena (disambiguation)
Athens (disambiguation) |
26448938 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%20Superfinalen | 2009 Superfinalen | The 2009 Superfinalen was the first edition of Superfinalen, an annual football match contested by the winners of the previous season's Tippeligaen and Norwegian Cup competitions. It was played on 8 March 2009, at Telenor Arena in Bærum, between Stabæk and Vålerenga, winners of the 2008 Tippeligaen and 2008 Norwegian Football Cup respectively. A collaboration between the Football Association of Norway, Norsk Toppfotball, the incumbent league and cup champions, and the broadcaster TV 2, the match was seen as a test of the viability of a Super Cup in Norway. Modeled on the FA Community Shield, the Superfinalen is intended to be a season opener, with the net proceeds of each match going to charity. In 2009, these proceeds were donated to UNICEF.
The game was a repeat of the 2008 Norwegian Football Cup Final, in which Vålerenga had defeated Stabæk 4–1. This time, however, it was Stabæk who won the match 3–1 after goals by Daniel Nannskog, Daigo Kobayashi and Pálmi Rafn Pálmason. Mohammed Abdellaoue scored for the losing side.
The game also served as the official opening match of Telenor Arena, which became Stabæk's home ground from 2009 to 2011.
Match details
See also
2008 Tippeligaen
2008 Norwegian Football Cup
References
2009
Superfinalen
Stabæk Fotball matches
Vålerenga Fotball matches |
33615090 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene%20O%20Driscoll | Gene O Driscoll | Gene O Driscoll was a Gaelic footballer who played with Kerry, Galway, London and New York during the 1960s and 1970s.
He was on the first ever Kerry Under 21 team which contested and won the Munster Championship in Kenmare in 1962. He also played with the Kerry senior team that year and won a Munster Championship at centre forward scoring 1-01 in what was his only championship game at senior level with Kerry, he emigrated following this game. After a number of years in London in 1969 he won an All Ireland Junior Championship when London beat Wicklow. He was soon on the move once more this time to New York City where he also played with the New York intercounty team with whom he played in the 1966 National League final.
At club level he first played with Annascaul and West Kerry. When he first moved to London he played with the St Mary's club before joining Geraldine's where he won a Junior Championship. he then rejoined St Mary's and won a Senior Championship in 1963.
In 2011 he was picked on the All Star London team 1960–2010.
His sons Bingo and Johnny both also played with Kerry and New York during the 1990s and 2000s.
References
External links
http://terracetalk.com/articles/296/Honouring-Five-Kerrymen-on-the-Greatest-London-team-1960--2010
http://terracetalk.com/kerry-football/player/519/Gene-ODriscoll
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Annascaul Gaelic footballers
Kerry inter-county Gaelic footballers
London inter-county Gaelic footballers
New York Gaelic footballers |
9456782 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPOD%20%28band%29 | SPOD (band) | Spod are an Australian indie, electro band, often styled as SPOD, which formed in 1995. It is also the pseudonym of the band's mainstay member, Brent Griffin, whether he is performing solo or with other members. They have released two albums, Taste the Radness (2003) and Superfrenz (September 2008).
History
Spod were formed in Sydney as an indie, electro duo, first named Jizm, by Brent Griffin (later a.k.a. Spod) on guitar and keyboards, and Mike Rickards. They had attended the same secondary school. Griffin was a public servant in the New South Wales' Premier's Department and Rickards was a university student and sportsman.
Griffin and Richards shared a passion for Ween's "Push th' Little Daisies" (1993), Griffin later recalled, "we both confessed that we loved this 'Push Th' Little Daisies' song to each other – quite sheepishly, as everyone else reacted terribly to that news. From that moment, we clicked into a high gear, decided to borrow a four track from his uni, started looping Beastie Boys beats on my CD player."
In 1995 the duo changed their name to Spod, as an acronym for either Special Projects Organisational Division, Spinning Pizzas of Death, or Scorpion Powers of Destruction. Their recorded output was limited to home-made cassette tapes. In 1999 Andy Clockwise joined on drums and guitar and Rickards left. Griffin related how "I played some two piece shows with Andy, but put it on a back burner till I decided to keep writing songs by myself at Andy's insistence. This is what drove me to move into the solo version of SPOD. Mike and Andy were my biggest influences in making me want to create music the way I do."
On 5 October 2002 Spod headlined a concert at Thurles Castle in Chippendale. The drunk and the legless, a four-piece guitar-based rock group from Newtown, supported them. In September 2003 the group released their first album, Taste the Radness, via Architecture Label/Spod Music and distributed by Shock Records. Griffin explained the concept of Radness, "It's the beatz, it's the melodies, it's eternity, it's the diamonds that pour from rainbow drenched cloudz that house armies of unicornz that sing songz of luv and triumph, woe and hizeartbreak, p and tha izarty."
Jody Macgregor of AllMusic observed that its "mixture of electroclash, rock, and juvenilia found an audience, helped by energetic and anarchic live shows featuring the rest of the enigmatically named band." Taste the Radness included input from Spod's backup vocalists, dancers and choreographers, Krylon and A-Blade (collectively, the Scorpionz of Sex), specifically on the track, "2131 Ride Wit Me". This song was included on a 2004 edition of Australian Rolling Stones cover CD New Sounds.
Following its release, Spod toured extensively, including a position on the Sydney leg of Big Day Out in 2004. As the year progressed, Spod began to augment his live line-up with members of the metal band, Black Level Embassy. This live set-up led to the release of an extended play, Eternal Championz, in September 2004. The EP included metal re-workings of their tracks, "Country of Sweden", "Secks Party 4 Eva" and "Makin' Party". "Nerdz" was played extensively on local radio stations, such as FBi Radio. The EP was recorded in the home of Regurgitator's Quan Yeomans. Spod and Regurgitator collaborated on joint gigs in 2004 (advertised as "ReSPODutator") and they were recorded as part of Regurgitator's project, Band in the Bubble, during that year.
In March 2007 Spod played at the annual South by Southwest festival, in Austin, Texas, It was the group's first performance outside Australia. Also in that year Spod and Yeomans formed a side project, Blox, which issued a six-track EP, Quan and Spod Present Blox (8 October 2007). Back in Sydney, Griffin was relocating to a new home when his laptop and two hard drives were damaged, "shattering his work and his dreams." He had been working on material for Spod's second album, Superfrenz (September 2008).
Dom Alessio of Mess+Noise described how "[he] started picking through the musical remains, discarding some songs, canvassing old and newly-created ones, and set about re-recording his whole album all over again." Alessio felt, "[it] is ultimately a positive party album. From the playful 'Cats!' to the hip-hop drum machine onslaught of 'Time Maggots Eating the Flesh of Destiny'. Griffin’s aim is to make you forget about the darker side of life and simply have fun."
Polaroids of Androids Jonny attended Superfrenz album launch where, "[his] music sounds damn fine on record, but it is still in a live setting that it comes alive, strips down to its boxer shorts (or Ruggers) and throws streamers everywhere in a celebration of 'who gives a fuck-ness'."
During 2010 Griffin joined Richard in Your Mind alongside Richard Cartwright, Jordy Lane, Pat Torres and Conrad Richters, which recorded the group's second album, My Volcano (September 2010). BMA Magazines Katy Hall opined, "their unique blend of surf-pop and psychedelic lo-fi marks an important revival, one that not only seems to have gained gigantic momentum in recent times, but also one that clears through the often obscure genre-mixing styles of other bands of the moment." Spod reissued their first album as 'Taste the Radness: the 10 Years of Radness Edition in August 2013, with bonus material on a second disc.
The following year, Spod released Taste the Sadness''' (2014), an album that took the songs of Taste the Radness and reinvented them from the perspective of a person having a midlife crisis. Whereas the original album celebrated youthful partying and sexual excess, the updated album was about being weighed-down by the baggage of adulthood: mundane jobs, parenting, mediocre relationships. The Guardian's A.H. Cayley described Taste the Sadness as:
Jasmine Crittenden of Concrete Playground noticed, "SPOD's getting old. And slightly blue on occasion. And he's not afraid to admit it. Back in the early noughties, he thought that happiness was all about aiming champagne corks at innocent bystanders, tossing streamers around and cranking the odd slow-grind. But the combo just isn't cutting the mustard these days." She felt the album, "tells the story of rushing headfirst into the autumn of existence as though you were still a spring chicken, only to dislocate your hip and find yourself in an ultra cosy armchair. From that vantage point, you spend your time telling the world how much better everything was when you were able to enjoy it more." It was issued via Rice Is Nice Records and according to FasterLouders Darren Levin, "[he] has decided to quit being a 'computer deadshit' and record a real-life album with real-life instruments in a real-life studio with real-life producer Owen Penglis (The Straight Arrows)."
Spod issued a single, "Boys Night", in December 2016.
Discography
Albums
Taste the Radness (29 September 2003) – Architecture Label/Shock Records
Taste the Radness: the 10 Years of Radness Edition (expanded version, 22 August 2013) – Rice Is Nice Records
Superfrenz (22 September 2008) – Rice Is Nice/MGM (MGM V102)
Taste the Sadness (22 August 2014) – Rice Is Nice
Adult Fantasy (19 July 2019) – Rice Is Nice
Extended plays
Eternal Championz (September 2004) – Shock Records
Quan and Spod Present Blox (by Blox) (6 October 2007) – Valve Records
Animals'' (1 June 2008) – Rice Is Nice (RIN001)
Singles
"Couple of Drinks" (11 September 2012) – Rice Is Nice
"Boys Night" (16 December 2016) – Rice is Nice
''Becomes a Wife'' (19 July 2019)- Rice is Nice
References
External links
Interview with Brent Griffin (Spod) on Depth Perception podcast (2014)
Interview with Brent Griffin (Spod) on HearSej podcast (2017)
Australian indie rock groups |
66414701 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bring%20Your%20Own%20Brigade | Bring Your Own Brigade | Bring Your Own Brigade is a 2021 American documentary film, written, directed, and produced by Lucy Walker. It follows the aftermath of the Camp Fire (2018), the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California's history.
The film had its world premiere at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival on January 29, 2021. It was released in a limited release on August 6, 2021, prior to digital streaming on Paramount+ on August 20, 2021, by CBSN Films and Paramount Pictures.
Synopsis
The film follows the Camp Fire and the aftermath, where towns struggle to rebuild and debate on what could have prevented the fires. It also explores the history of uncontrolled fires and causes, including climate change and corporations.
Production
Lucy Walker had been making a short film about the Thomas Fire, which was California's largest wildfire to date at the time. After the Camp Fire and Woolsey Fire, Walker began collecting stories, and decided the material was important for a feature length film instead, to examine the cause of the fires and the effects of climate change. Walker and her crew filmed with firefighters fighting the fires as they occurred. Other footage of the fires were also given to Walker via AirDrop by residents and responders.
Release
The film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 29, 2021. In June 2021, CBSN acquired U.S. distribution rights to the film. It was released in a limited release on August 6, 2021, prior to digital streaming on Paramount+ on August 20, 2021, by CBSN.
Reception
Critical reception
Bring Your Own Brigade received positive reviews from film critics. It holds a 89% approval rating on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 27 reviews, with a weighted average of 7.40/10. On Metacritic, the film holds a rating of 81 out of 100, based on 5 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".
Manhola Dargis of The New York Times gave the film a positive review writing: "In “Bring Your Own Brigade,” the director Lucy Walker doesn’t simply look at the fires; she investigates and tries to understand them. It’s a tough, smart, impressive movie, and one of its virtues is that Walker, a British transplant to Los Angeles, doesn’t seem to have figured it all out before she started shooting. She comes across as open, curious and rightly concerned, but her approach — the way she looks and listens, and how she shapes the material — gives the movie the quality of discovery. (She’s also pleasantly free of the boosterism or the smug hostility that characterizes so much coverage of California.)Specific and universal, harrowing and hopeful, “Bring Your Own Brigade” opens on a world in flames. " Bob Strauss of The San Francisco Chronicle also gave the film a positive review writing: "Mixing in citizens' harrowing cellphone footage and heartbreaking emergency call recordings, Walker's teams immerse us in the flaming terror as few features have before.". The New York Times's A.O. Scott saw the film at Sundance and described it as a “relentless forensic examination of some of California’s most horrific recent wildfires. The movie’s first section is an almost unbearable immersion in terror, including 911 calls and cellphone videos that capture death and destruction in real time. Walker, a British transplant sensitive to her outsider status, is driven by an effective mixture of empathy and intellectual curiosity as she tries to understand the ecology, economics and politics of fire. As the narrative shifts from disaster to its aftermath — which is also, inevitably, the prelude to the next round of catastrophe — the scope broadens, even as the camera remains focused on local events and individual stories. In a way that I can’t quite explain but that I think will be clear when you see it, Bring Your Own Brigade” strikes me as one of the early, definitive films about the current pandemic" and added a few days later on his "best of Sundance" wrap-up that the movie was on his list of those he was "most looking forward to seeing again and writing about further. Bring Your Own Brigade: Lucy Walker’s documentary on some of the worst recent California wildfires is sprawling and intimate, an issue-driven film that is full of narrative surprise and human detail."
References
External links
2021 films
2021 documentary films
American documentary films
Documentary films about science
Documentary films about historical events
Documentary films about global warming
Documentary films about natural disasters
Topic Studios films
Paramount Pictures films
Films directed by Lucy Walker
2020s English-language films
2020s American films
Films about wildfires |
9162305 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20Barry%20%28American%20football%29 | Mike Barry (American football) | Mike Barry was an offensive line coach for the National Football League (NFL)'s Detroit Lions. While in college, Barry played at Nebraska from 1964 to 1966 and at Southern Illinois University from 1966 to 1969.
Prior to coaching the Lions, Barry coached at the college football level for Iowa State, North Carolina State, University of Tennessee, University of Colorado, and the University of Southern California.
Mike's son, Joe Barry, coached alongside him with the Detroit Lions.
Coaching timeline
1977–1980 Southern Illinois, offensive line coach
1980–1983 University of Arizona, offensive line coach
1984–1985 San Antonio Gunslingers, offensive line coach
1986 Iowa State University, offensive line coach
1987–1992 University of Colorado, offensive line coach
1993–1997 University of Southern California, offensive line coach
1998–2002 University of Tennessee, offensive line coach
2003–2005 North Carolina State University, offensive line coach
2006–2008 Detroit Lions, assistant offensive line coach
2023–present Gridiron Gang, offensive lineman coach
References
External links
https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001312/http://www.detroitlions.com/bio.cfm?bio_id=359§ion_id=15&top=21&level=2&season=1
Detroit Lions coaches
USC Trojans football coaches
Colorado Buffaloes football coaches
NC State Wolfpack football coaches
Tennessee Volunteers football coaches
Nebraska Cornhuskers football players
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Arizona Wildcats football coaches
Iowa State Cyclones football coaches |
55945786 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clostridium%20cavendishii | Clostridium cavendishii | Clostridium cavendishii is a Gram-positive, aerotolerant, anaerobic, spore-forming and motile hydrogen-producing bacterium from the genus Clostridium which has been isolated from contaminated groundwater in the United States.
References
Bacteria described in 2010
cavendishii |
65914174 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Houlihan | James Houlihan | James Houlihan is an American politician who served as Cook County assessor from 1997 to 2010 and as an Illinois state representative from 1973 to 1979.
Early life
Houlihan was born in 1942 or 1943. Houlihan was born and raised in the 19th Ward of Chicago on the far southwest side of Chicago.
Career
Houlihan was a protégé of Thomas Hynes, the Cook County assessor and 19th Ward boss.
In the 1970s he was an independent-minded Illinois state representative, elected from a district located on the northern Chicago lakefront. He had ties to prominent lakefront liberals. He was elected in 1972, and reelected in 1974. However, in 1978, he was unseated in the Democratic primary.
He served as a top aide to Chicago mayor Harold Washington. He then became a deputy assessor in Thomas Hynes' Cook County assessor office
Cook County Assessor
In March 1997, Thomas Hynes resigned from office after serving for 18 years as Cook County assessor. Houlihan was appointed by the Cook County Board of Commissioners to fill the office. Houlihan's appointment was championed by Hynes himself. Houlihan would be reelected in 1998, 2002, and 2006. He opted not run for reelection in 2010.
At the time he took office, residential properties were undervalued. Rather than remedying this, which would have led to higher taxes for many, and would be unpopular, he kept the rates artificially low, and even began to lower the rates for commercial and industrial properties. Houlihan so skewed residential values to artificially low values, that it uncalibrated the county's property tax system so severely that it may have been in violation of the Constitution of Illinois.
Houlihan, over his tenure, defied legal requirements and operated outside of professional standards.
During his tenure as assessor, Houlihan held a rivalry with Cook County Board of Review member Joseph Berrios. In 2006, behind-the-scenes, Houlihan gave his support to Brendan Houlihan (of no relation) in his effort to unseat Maureen Murphy in the Cook County Board of Review 1st district, which was successful. Murphy had been an ally on the board of Joseph Berrios.
In 2007, Houlihan spoke out against Michael Madigan's plan to cap property tax assessments, arguing that, compared to the stalled legislation supported by Houlihan, Madigan's legislation would save Chicago Loop skyscraper owners who were represented by Madigan's own law firm hundreds of thousands of dollars than they would owe under Houlihan's plan.
In 2010, he accused Joseph Berrios and Michael Madigan of hiding information from taxpayers that could affect the November general election.
In 2010, Houlihan said that he was considering running for mayor of Chicago in 2011. He ultimately did not run.
Later career
After leaving office, Houlihan went on to become a state lobbyist.
Houlihan served on the Commission on Chicago Landmarks. His tenure on the commission ended in 2019.
Electoral history
Illinois State Representative
1972
1974
1978
Cook County Assessor
1998
2002
2006
References
Cook County Assessors
Politicians from Chicago
Democratic Party members of the Illinois House of Representatives
1940s births
Living people |
74823863 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Styrax%20formosanus | Styrax formosanus | Styrax formosanus, the Taiwanese snowbell, is a species of flowering plant in the family Styracaceae, native to southeastern China, and Taiwan. Flora of China calls it a shrub; it is usually a small tree. Similar to its close relative Styrax japonicus, it blooms in profusion in April and May with scented white flowers. It is available from commercial suppliers.
Subtaxa
The following varieties are accepted:
Styrax formosanus var. formosanus – entire range
Styrax formosanus var. hirtus – southeastern China
References
formosanus
Flora of Southeast China
Flora of Taiwan
Plants described in 1901 |
41350137 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014%20MLS%20All-Star%20Game | 2014 MLS All-Star Game | The 2014 AT&T Major League Soccer All-Star Game was the 19th annual Major League Soccer All-Star Game. It took place on August 6, 2014 at Providence Park, the home of MLS club Portland Timbers. The game was televised live on ESPN2 and UniMás in the United States, TSN and RDS in Canada, and in more than 130 other countries worldwide.
Bayern Munich was the second European team from outside the United Kingdom to play in the All-Star Game, following Roma in the 2013 MLS All-Star Game, and the first German team to play in the All-Star Game. They were also the first defending FIFA Club World Champions to play in the All-Star Game after winning the 2013 FIFA Club World Cup.
The MLS All-Stars defeated Bayern Munich 2–1. After giving up a goal in the eighth minute to Robert Lewandowski, the All-Stars pulled even early in the second-half on a goal by Bradley Wright-Phillips. Landon Donovan scored in the 70th minute to put the All-Stars ahead permanently. Donovan was named the game's Most Valuable Player, and the next day, he announced that he would retire at the end of the 2014 MLS season.
The game featured many players who had seen action in the 2014 FIFA World Cup weeks earlier. On the MLS side, Clint Dempsey, Matt Besler, DeAndre Yedlin, Kyle Beckerman (United States) and Tim Cahill (Australia), among others, all got time on the pitch. Bayern saw contributions from Julian Green (USA), Javi Martínez (Spain), Dante (Brazil), Xherdan Shaqiri (Switzerland) and Arjen Robben (Netherlands). Most notably, Bayern's six members of the World Cup winning-German national team—Phillip Lahm, Manuel Neuer, Bastian Schweinsteiger, Thomas Müller, Mario Götze and Jérôme Boateng—all made appearances to much fanfare.
Following the conclusion of the game, an incident between Caleb Porter, the manager of the Portland Timbers and the MLS All-Stars, and Pep Guardiola, the manager of Bayern, drew headlines. Guardiola refused to shake hands with Porter following the match and the two exchanged words, with Guardiola walking off the pitch angrily.
Rosters
MLS All-Stars
Notes:
2014 MLS All-Star Fan XI.
Selected by All-Star coach Caleb Porter of the Portland Timbers.
Selected by MLS Commissioner Don Garber.
Injured or unable to play.
Replacement for player who is injured or unable to play, selected by coach Caleb Porter.
Bayern Munich
Notes:
Injured or unable to play.
FC Bayern Munich II
Bayern Munich Junior Team
Referee crew
On July 8, it was announced that PRO's Jair Marrufo would referee the match, with Claudiu Badea and Corey Parker assistant referees and Ismail Elfath the fourth official.
Match
Details
Aftermath
After the match, Bayern manager Pep Guardiola refused to shake the hand of MLS All-Stars manager Caleb Porter, despite Porter's multiple attempts. Guardiola seemed to be angry over rough challenges by MLS players during the exhibition match resulting in yellow cards, particularly those of Osvaldo Alonso and Will Johnson on Xherdan Shaqiri and Bastian Schweinsteiger respectively. Bayern Munich, in pre-season, had just arrived in the U.S. and had six players who played for Germany's World Cup-winning squad in July (although none started the game), whereas MLS players were halfway through the current season. Guardiola backtracked from his behavior post-game, stating, "We tried to play and we did. Congratulations to MLS for this victory. I hope they are going to invite us next year to try and make revenge and I hope to prepare a little bit better."
References
2014
FC Bayern Munich matches
Soccer in Oregon
All-Star Game
MLS All-Star Game
August 2014 sports events in the United States
Sports competitions in Portland, Oregon
2014 in sports in Oregon |
41856145 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eirado | Eirado | Eirado is a freguesia in Aguiar da Beira Municipality, Guarda District, Portugal. The population in 2011 was 230, in an area of 9.24 km2.
Demography
References
Freguesias of Aguiar da Beira |
21959880 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorsten%20Barg | Thorsten Barg | Thorsten Barg (born 25 August 1986 in Herrenberg) is a German football player, who currently is playing for TSG Wörsdorf as a playing-coach. His brother is Benjamin Barg.
Career
He made his debut on the professional league level in the 2. Bundesliga for SV Wehen Wiesbaden on 8 March 2009, when he started in a game against Rot-Weiss Ahlen.
Statistics
References
External links
Thorsten Barg on Fupa
1986 births
Living people
People from Herrenberg
Footballers from Stuttgart (region)
German men's footballers
VfL Bochum players
VfL Bochum II players
Karlsruher SC II players
SV Wehen Wiesbaden players
2. Bundesliga players
3. Liga players
Men's association football defenders |
18758568 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%20Boom%20X%20De%20Devil%20Dead | Time Boom X De Devil Dead | Time Boom X De Devil Dead is a 1987 studio album by Lee Perry and Dub Syndicate. It was re-released in 1994 by On-U Sound and in 2001 by EMI Records.
The album was something of a comeback for Perry.
Critical reception
Trouser Press wrote that "while perhaps lacking the eccentric edge of Perry’s own work, the LP is still weird and wonderful, a sample of some of the best avant-garde groove music being made today." Exclaim! called it Perry's best album of the 1980s. NME ranked it #34 on its "50 Best Albums of 1987" list.
First release
First release of the album was made in 1987.
Bass – Errol "Flabba" Holt
Drums – Lincoln "Style" Scott
Engineer – A.M. Sherwood, Derek Birket
Guitar – Bingy Bunny, Dwight Pinkney
Keyboards – Peter "Doctor Pablo" Stroud
Percussion – Bonjo Iyabinghi Noah
Piano – Steely
Saxophone – "Deadly" Headley Bennett
Artwork and sleeve concept – Lee Perry
Mastered by Kevin Metcalfe
Photography, artwork, sleeve design – Kishi
Side A
"S.D.I." (6:27)
"Blinkers" (4:58)
"Jungle" (7:33) (Bass – Evar Wellington, guitar – Martin Frederix, keyboards – Kishi Yamamoto, vocals – Akabu)
"De Devil Dead" (4:29) (Vocals – Akabu)
Side B
"Music + Science Lovers" (5:05) (Bass – Doctor Pablo, guitar – Doctor Pablo)
"Kiss the Champion" (7:13)
"Allergic to Lies" (3:53) (Keyboards – Kishi Yamamoto)
"Time Conquer" (4:31) (Guitar – Martin Frederix, keyboards – Kishi Yamamoto, piano – Kishi Yamamoto)
Second release
This release with electronic remixes was made in 1994 in On-U Sound.
Bass – Errol "Flabba" Holt
Bass, Guitar, Keyboards – Doctor Pablo
Drums – Style Scott
Guitar – Bingy Bunny, Dwight
Keyboards – Kishi Yamamoto (tracks: 3,7,8,9,10)
Percussion – Bonjo Iyabinghi Noah
Piano – Steely
Saxophone – "Deadly" Headley Bennett
Vocals – Akabu (tracks: 3,4,9,10)
"S.D.I." (6:27)
"Blinkers" (4:58)
"Jungle" (7:33) (Bass – Evar Wellington, guitar – Martin Frederix)
"De Devil Dead" (4:29)
"Music & Science Lovers" (5:05)
"Kiss the Champion" (7:13)
"Allergic to Lies" (3:53)
"Time Conquer" (4:31) (Guitar – Martin Frederix)
"Jungle (Original 7" Version)" (3:46)
"Jungle (Wall Of China)" (2:52)
"Night Train" (3:04)
References
1987 albums
Lee "Scratch" Perry albums
Albums produced by Lee "Scratch" Perry
Dub albums
On-U Sound Records albums |
16663198 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20G.%20Carter | Robert G. Carter | Robert Goldthwaite Carter (October 29, 1845 – January 4, 1936) was a US Cavalry officer who participated in the American Civil War and the Indian Wars, most notably against the Comanche during which he received the Medal of Honor for his role against a Comanche raiding party at Brazos River in Texas on October 10, 1871.
He became a successful author in his later years writing several books based on his military career, including On the Border with Mackenzie (1935), as well as a series of booklets detailing his years as an Indian fighter on the Texas frontier. Only 100 of these were published for private distribution and are considered extremely rare surviving only in selected excerpts included in On the Border with Mackenzie.
Biography
Born in Bridgton, Maine, Carter moved to Portland with his family in 1847, and again in 1857, to Massachusetts. He was preparing to enter Phillips Academy when Carter enlisted as a private in the 22nd Massachusetts Infantry at the start of the American Civil War and remained with the Army of the Potomac from August 5, 1862, until October 4, 1864. During the war, he took part in the Battle of Antietam, Gettysburg, the Wilderness and the Siege of Petersburg as well as other minor engagements.
In July 1865, he began attending West Point and was eventually commissioned a second lieutenant and assigned to the 4th U.S. Cavalry on June 15, 1870. During the next several years, Carter would participate in a number of expeditions against the Comanche and other tribes in the Texas-area.
It was during one of these campaigns that he was brevetted first lieutenant and awarded the Medal of Honor for his "most distinguished gallantry" against the Comanche in Blanco Canyon on a tributary of the Brazos River on October 10, 1871. Carter would suffer a severe injury during the battle, his left leg being shattered as his horse fell against a rock, which would eventually result in his early retirement. He would officially receive the medal on January 23, 1900.
Returning to active duty, he joined Colonel Ranald Mackenzie in several campaigns including against the Kickapoo of northern Mexico in May 1873 and awarded a brevet to captain. He did win promotion to first lieutenant on February 21, 1875, although his leg injury disqualified him from active field duty and forced him to retire on June 28, 1876.
Although he eventually recovered from his leg injury after proper treatment, his requests to return to active service were denied by the US Army; instead he was promoted to captain on the retired list in 1904. He taught school and later headed the Washington-bureau of the Public Service Publishing Company in New York City. He would also write a number of booklets and books including Four Brothers in Blue (1913) and The Old Sergeant's Story (1926). However, the most successful was his memoir On the Border With Mackenzie (1935) which was published as the age of 90. He died at Washington, D.C., on January 4, 1936, and buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
Captain Carter was a Companion of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States.
Medal of Honor citation
Rank and organization: Second Lieutenant, 4th U.S. Cavalry. Place and date: On Brazos, River, Tex., October 10, 1871. Entered service at: Bradford, Mass. Birth: Bridgeport, Maine. Date of issue: February 27, 1900.
Citation:
Held the left of the line with a few men during the charge of a large body of Indians, after the right of the line had retreated, and by delivering a rapid fire succeeded in checking the enemy until other troops came to the rescue.
Bibliography
Books
The Boy Soldier at Gettysburg (1877)
Four Brothers in Blue (1913)
The Art and Science of War Versus the Art of Fighting (1922)
The Old Sergeant's Story (1926)
On the Border With Mackenzie (1935)
Pamphlets
Record of the Military Service of First Lieutenant and Brevet Captain Robert Goldthwaite Carter, U.S. Army. (1904)
Tragedies of Canon Blanco: A Story of the Texas Panhandle (1919)
The Mackenzie Raid into Mexico (1919)
Massacre of Salt Creek Prairie and the Cowboys' Verdict. (1919)
On the Trail of Deserters: a Phenomenal Capture by Captain Robert Goldthwaite Carter. (1920)
Pursuit of Kicking Bird: a Campaign in Texas 'Bad Lands'''. (1920)
See also
List of Medal of Honor recipients
List of Medal of Honor recipients for the Indian Wars
References
Greene, Jerome A. Battles and Skirmishes of the Great Sioux War, 1876–1877: The Military View. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1993.
Thrapp, Dan L. Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography: In Three Volumes, Volume I (A–F). Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1988.
Further reading
Dykes, J.C., ed. On the Border with Mackenzie. New York: Antiquarian Press, 1961.Frontier Times'', Vol II. No. 4. (January 1934). 179–182.
External links
1845 births
1936 deaths
United States Army Medal of Honor recipients
People of the Great Sioux War of 1876
People from Bridgton, Maine
Union Army soldiers
Union Army officers
United States Army officers
American people of the Indian Wars
Burials at Arlington National Cemetery
American Indian Wars recipients of the Medal of Honor |
61561197 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khudayberdino | Khudayberdino | Khudayberdino (; , Xoźaybirźin) is a rural locality (a village) in Yalchinsky Selsoviet, Kugarchinsky District, Bashkortostan, Russia. The population was 378 as of 2010. There are 3 streets.
Geography
Khudayberdino is located 44 km northwest of Mrakovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kovalyovka is the nearest rural locality.
References
Rural localities in Kugarchinsky District |
51518339 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth%20K.%20T.%20Sackey | Elizabeth K. T. Sackey | Elizabeth Kwatsoe Tawiah Sackey (born 6 May 1958) is a Ghanaian politician and a former Member of Parliament for Okaikwei North. She was a member of the Sixth Parliament of the Fourth Republic of Ghana representing the Okaikwei North Constituency in the Greater Accra Region on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party.
She was nominated as the mayor of Accra. She was later confirmed as the mayor of Accra and she became the first female to hold that position.
Early life and education
Sackey was born in Asere in Accra, Ghana, on 6 May 1958. Sackey is a banker and an economist. She has a Certificate in Marketing which she obtained in 2003 and is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Administration degree from the University of Ghana.
Politics
Sackey is a member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP). She was first elected into the parliament to represent Okaikwei North Constituency in January 2005. She represented in the office again in the 5th parliament of Ghana following her re-election in December 2008 in the 2008 General Elections. In 2012, she contested for her third term in office on the ticket of the NPP into the sixth parliament of the fourth republic and won.
Career
Prior to becoming a Member of Parliament, Sackey worked as a Chief Clerk at Ghana Commercial Bank. She then became an Member of Parliament. She was the deputy minister for the Greater Accra region from 2017 to 2020. In September 2021, she was nominated by Nana Akufo-Addo as the Chief Executive of AMA. She is currently the mayor of Accra.
Personal life
Sackey is married with four children. She is a Christian who worships at the Church of Pentecost.
References
1958 births
Living people
New Patriotic Party politicians
University of Ghana alumni
Ghanaian MPs 2013–2017
Women members of the Parliament of Ghana
Mayors of Accra
21st-century Ghanaian women politicians
21st-century Ghanaian women |
41707526 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg%20Beals | Greg Beals | Greg Beals (born February 9, 1970) is an American college baseball coach and former catcher, who is the current head baseball coach of the Marshall Thundering Herd. Beals played college baseball at Kent State University from 1989 to 1991 for coach Danny Hall. He previously served as head coach at Ball State (2003–2010) and the Ohio State Buckeyes (2011–2022).
Playing career
Beals was a three-year letterman at catcher for Kent State, batting .306 for his career and earning honorable mention All-MAC honors. He was drafted by the New York Mets in the 21st Round of the 1991 MLB Draft and played three seasons professionally, reaching high Class-A and playing on division-winning teams in each season.
Coaching career
After ending his playing career, Beals became an assistant coach at Kent State, working primarily on recruiting. In nine seasons with the Golden Flashes, the team claimed a pair of MAC Tournament championships and made three NCAA Regional appearances. He would see 21 recruits sign professional contracts, 36 earn All-MAC honors, and 17 earned Academic All-MAC honors. He then earned his first head coaching job at Ball State. In eight seasons with the Cardinals, his teams claimed three MAC West Division championships and the school's first MAC Tournament title, leading to an NCAA Regional appearance. Only once did his team finish below third in the six-plus team division, also the only time the Cardinals failed to qualify for the MAC Tournament. This was after six starting position players and a top pitcher from the NCAA Tournament team, four of whom were drafted. Beals saw five players named All-Americans, 18 named All-MAC, and 15 Academic All-MAC, as well as 20 players drafted in the Major League Baseball Draft.
In the summer of 2010, Beals was named head coach at Ohio State. He has led the Buckeyes to the Big Ten Tournament each of his three seasons. Beals lead the Buckeyes to their first NCAA Regional in 2016, with a Big Ten Conference Tournament championship, their first postseason appearance since 2009. Beals lead the Buckeyes to another Big Ten Conference Tournament championship in 2019. On May 23, 2022, Beals was fired by the Buckeyes after finishing 12th in the 2022 season. He posted a 346–288–1 record in 11 seasons.
On July 25, 2022, Beals was introduced as the head coach of the Akron Zips.
On January 3, 2023, Beals was introduced as the head coach of the Marshall baseball team without ever coaching a game for Akron.
Head coaching record
References
External links
1970 births
Living people
Ball State Cardinals baseball coaches
Baseball catchers
Baseball coaches from Ohio
Baseball players from Ohio
Columbia Mets players
Kent State Golden Flashes baseball coaches
Kent State Golden Flashes baseball players
Marshall Thundering Herd baseball coaches
Ohio State Buckeyes baseball coaches
Pittsfield Mets players
St. Lucie Mets players
Sportspeople from Springfield, Ohio |
21935195 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dziedzice%2C%20West%20Pomeranian%20Voivodeship | Dziedzice, West Pomeranian Voivodeship | Dziedzice is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Barlinek, within Myślibórz County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland. It lies approximately west of Barlinek, north-east of Myślibórz, and south-east of the regional capital Szczecin.
For the history of the region, see History of Pomerania.
References
Dziedzice |
58986212 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poornachandra%20Tejaswi%20%28composer%29 | Poornachandra Tejaswi (composer) | Poornachandra Tejaswi (Kannada: ಪೂಣ೯ಚಂದ್ರ ತೇಜಸ್ವಿ) is an Indian film composer, lyricist and playback singer who primarily works in Kannada Film Industry. His film debut was made in Pawan Kumar's directed Lucia, where he wrote the film's background score, lyrics and songs. They received acclaims and honors both from audience and critics.
Personal life
Poornachandra Tejaswi was born (6 October 1982) into a family where both parents were teachers. He hails from the historical town of Srirangapatna in Mandya District, Karnataka. Tejaswi completed his bachelor's degree in Engineering from NIE College, Mysore and worked as a software engineer in Mysore for a few years. He belongs to a group of artists in the Kannada Film Industry who have a theatre background. He was part of the Rock band Stone Age and is an active member of the theatre group The Niranthara foundation.
Film career
Tejaswi began his film career through the critically acclaimed film Lucia (2013). He sings in the film's track "Thinbedakammi," was a huge hit when released on YouTube, with over 600 thousand views as of 2023. Tejaswi penned the lyrics and was also lead playback singer for the song. He also composed the background score for the film. The album for Lucia film was a massive hit and contributed immensely to the success of the film with a series of nominations and awards including prestigious Karnataka State Award (2014) following soon after.
Discography
Awards
Karnataka State Award 2014 - For Best music director for Lucia
Filmfare Award (2014) - Best Male Playback Singer for Lucia
Mirchi award (2014) - Upcoming Music Composer for Lucia
Big FM Award (2014) - Best Debut song for Lucia
Raghavendra Chitravani award (2014) - Best Music Director for Lucia
Santhosham Cine Award Hyderabad (2014) - Best Music Director for Lucia
Santhosham Cine Award Hyderabad (2014) - Best Playback Singer for Lucia
KIMA Award (2014) - Best Background score for Lucia
Nominations
SIIMA award (2014) - Best Music Director category
SIIMA award (2014) - Best Lyricist category
References
External links
Living people
1982 births
Singers from Bangalore
Indian male playback singers
Indian composers
21st-century Indian composers
Kannada playback singers
Kannada film score composers
21st-century Indian singers
Film musicians from Karnataka
Male film score composers
21st-century Indian male singers |
46568785 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Ioan%20Roberts | Chris Ioan Roberts | Chris Ioan Roberts (born 24 April 1985) is an Australian-born actor, writer and director working in London.
Biography
Chris Ioan Roberts is a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts (Bachelor of Dramatic Art, 2010) and is an alumnus of The Watermill Center, New York, where he worked with celebrated American avant-garde director Robert Wilson. Whilst at the VCA he was the recipient of the Friends of VCA Award for his residency in New York. He trained originally as a dancer at the Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School.
He began professional international secondment as Creative Associate under Giuseppe Frigeni at the Opéra national de Paris on Robert Wilson’s production of Madama Butterfly in 2011. He has worked as assistant to the Director of The Royal Opera, and for director Marianne Elliott.
In review, his theatre work has been noted for its subversion, shock humour and political undercurrent as well as for its highly formal and often chaotic aesthetic.
He lives in London.
Collaborators
Roberts is noted for his international focus as a theatre-maker and has most notably collaborated with London's Ovalhouse, writing, directing and performing in his play Dead Royal in 2015 as Wallis Simpson and Diana Spencer which was re-commissioned following a 2014 work-in-progress season. The work was subsequently invited to the Brisbane Festival and fortyfivedownstairs in Melbourne.
Other collaborations and appearances include work with Jia-Jen Lin (New York), MKA: Theatre of New Writing (Berlin), La Mama Theatre, Daniel Schlusser and Matt Scholten.
References
External links
http://www.chrisioanroberts.com
http://www.au.timeout.com/melbourne/theatre/events/1158/crossed?DCMP=OTC-RSS-
https://web.archive.org/web/20160326140733/https://www.stmichaels.vic.edu.au/2015/04/16/ascendant-chris-ioan-roberts/
http://www.londoncitynights.com/2015/04/dead-royal-at-ovalhouse-22nd-april-2015.html
Australian male stage actors
Living people
1985 births
21st-century Australian male actors |
44301440 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michal%20Vabrou%C5%A1ek | Michal Vabroušek | Michal Vabroušek (born 21 May 1975 in Prague) is a Czech rower.
Vabrousek started his international career rowing for Czechoslovakia at the 1992 World Rowing Junior Championships in Montreal, Canada. He competed at the 1996 and 2004 Olympics.
References
1975 births
Living people
Czech male rowers
Rowers from Prague
Olympic rowers for the Czech Republic
Rowers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Rowers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
World Rowing Championships medalists for the Czech Republic |
1633389 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Eager | Edward Eager | Edward McMaken Eager (June 20, 1911 – October 23, 1964) was an American lyricist, dramatist, and writer of children's fiction. His children's novels were largely contemporary low fantasy, featuring the appearance of magic in the lives of ordinary children.
Biography
Eager was born in and grew up in Toledo, Ohio and attended Harvard University class of 1935. After graduation, he moved to New York City, where he lived for 14 years before moving to Connecticut. He married Jane Eberly in 1938 and they had a son, Fritz. Eager was a childhood fan of L. Frank Baum's Oz series, and started writing children's books when he could not find stories he wanted to read to his own young son. In his books, Eager often acknowledges his debt to E. Nesbit, whom he thought of as the best children's author of all time. Eager died of lung cancer on October 23, 1964, in Stamford, Connecticut, aged 53.
Theatrical works
Village Barber, The: "An Operetta" with book and lyrics by Edward Eager. Music by Johann Schenk. Produced by The Columbia Theater Associates of Columbia University at Brander Matthews Hall (NYC – 1942) starring Philip Duey, Wallace House, Edith Campbell, Jan Lindermann, etc. Directed by Milton Smith.
Pudding Full of Plums (1943)
Sing Out, Sweet Land! (1944), "a salute to American folk and popular music". With Elie Siegmeister, he wrote three new numbers for the show.
Dream with Music (1944), a "musical fantasy" in which a soap opera writer dreams that she is Scheherazade in old Baghdad, where her real life acquaintances turn up as Aladdin, the Sultan, etc. Wrote lyrics to music from Schubert, Beethoven, Saint-Saens, Weber, Chopin, Wagner, Haydn and Foster as culled by Clay Warnick. Balanchine choreographed.
Beachcomber Club Revue of 1946, Books & Lyrics by Edward Eager; Music by John Frederick Coots (1946)
The Liar, New Musical Comedy, Book by Edward Eager & Alfred Drake; Lyrics by Edward Eager; Music by John Mundy (1950)
The Gambler: Book written with Alfred Drake (1952)
To Hell With Orpheus: "Comic Opera" with book and lyrics by Edward Eager (Adapted by Ring Lardner, Jr.). Music by Jacques Offenbach (Adapted by Sylvan Levin). Produced at St. John Terrell's Music Circus (Lambertville, NJ – No date) starring Jo Sullivan (Wife of Frank Loesser), Morley Meredith, Peggy O' Hara, Lulu Bates, etc. Directed by Robert C. Jarvis. Choreographed by Rex Cooper. Songs include: "Vacation", "You Can't Do That in Idlewild", "To Be or Not To Be", "The Story of My Life", "Brunswick, Maine", "The Hades Galop", etc.
NBC's The Adventures of Marco Polo, April 14, 1956
Music: Clay Warnick & Mel Pahl
Lyrics: Edward Eager
Book: William Friedberg & Neil Simon
Cast: Alfred Drake, Doretta Morrow
Those who originally led Broadway's Kismet starred in Polo, with the score contrived around themes by Rimsky-Korsakov. The story was lightly suggested by the actual exploits of the guy who opened China to the West. This production did well, and Columbia released an LP of the score
CBS Radio Workshop, May 4, 1956 The Toledo War (An Operatic Parlor Piece) Libretto by Edward Eager, Music by David Broekman (From credits on mp3 recording of episode.)
NBC's Holiday, June 9, 1956,
Music: loosely adapted from Johann Strauss
Lyrics: Edward Eager
Cast: Doretta Morrow, Keith Andes, Kitty Carlisle, Bambi Lynn, Tammy Grimes, George S. Irving, Jaques D'Amboise
Loosely organized around Elmer Rice's play The Grand Tour, the story told of a New England schoolteacher who fell for embezzling banker during a trip to Europe. In the end of the musical she uses family monies to cover his misdoings, an odd resolution even by the looser standards of modern ethics.
Miranda and the Dark Young Man Music by Elie Siegmeister, Libretto by Edward Eager (1957)
Dr. Willy Nilly with Pembroke Davenport (1959)
Gentlemen, Be Seated! Libretto by Edward Eager, music by Jerome Moross (1963?) Produced for New York City Opera, 1963 with Dick Shawn and Alice Ghostley
NBC Opera Theater, mentioned in various places as ongoing, Lyricist, 1950–1963
Call It Virtue based on play by Luigi Pirandello, translated and adapted by Edward Eager (1963).
Rugantino lyric translation by Edward Eager (1964)
Literature
Articles
Eager, Edward. "A Father's Minority Report". The Horn Book Magazine, March 1948, pp. 74 and 104–09.
Eager, Edward. "Daily Magic". Horn Book, October 1958, p. 348–58.
Standalone picture books
Red Head (1951)
Mouse Manor (1952), illustrated by Beryl Bailey-Jones
Playing Possum (1955), illus. Paul Galdone
Mouse Manor is told from the viewpoint of Miss Myrtilla the mouse, sole occupant of the manor which she has inherited from her mother. She keeps house faithfully, dusting the family portraits and baking a bag pudding for her solitary Christmas dinner.
Tales of Magic
All seven books were illustrated by N. M. Bodecker and published by Harcourt, Brace (finally Harcourt, Brace & World). The series name may date from the 2000 boxed set of books 1–4, Edward Eager's Tales of Magic (Odyssey/Harcourt Young Classic; ).
Half Magic (1954)
Knight's Castle (1956)
Magic by the Lake (1957)
The Time Garden (1958)
Magic or Not? (1959)
The Well-Wishers (1960)
Seven-Day Magic (1962)
The first book, Half Magic, comes earliest in the series' chronology. Magic by the Lake is its direct sequel, in that it features the same children in further adventures at about the same age. The second book, Knight's Castle, is set one generation later, and The Time Garden is its direct sequel. Magic or Not? features different children, and The Well-Wishers is its direct sequel. Seven-Day Magic features a fourth set of children.
Half Magic
A dull summer is improved when Katharine, Mark, Jane and Martha find a magical coin-like talisman. The catch is that it grants half of any wish made by its bearer—a wish to be on a desert island sends them to the Sahara desert, and their mother ends up halfway home when she wishes to return home during a dull visit to her relatives. That "half magic" is a challenge, sometimes comical, until the children learn to double their wishes.
Half Magic was a number one seller in America. Anthony Boucher, comparing the novel to Nesbit, described it as "gay and charming, yet rigidly governed fantasy in the Unknown manner."
Magic by the Lake
Here are the further adventures of Martha, Jane, Mark, and Katharine from Half-Magic. Their summer vacation is enlivened by an entire magic lake, channeled through a talking, and somewhat grumpy, box turtle. They are stranded on a desert island, visit Ali-Baba's cave, and end up rescued by some children the audience sees in the next book.
Half Magic and Magic by the Lake are set in the 1920s, much earlier than the other Tales. They draw on Eager’s own childhood in that period, including vacations at Hamilton Lake in northern Indiana (the setting for Magic by the Lake).
Knight's Castle
Martha's children, Roger and Ann, and their cousins, Aunt Katharine's children Eliza and Jack, find that the combination of a toy castle, Scott's Ivanhoe, and a little magic can build another wonderful series of adventures. The Tales of Magic contain many references to the children's novels of E. Nesbit (1890s to 1910s); Knight's Castle pays explicit tribute to Nesbit's The Magic City. It also refers explicitly to the cartoons of Charles Addams. (Half Magic includes a reference to a short story by Saki.) Knight's Castle won the Ohioana Book Award for Juvenile Literature in 1957.
The Time Garden
Eliza, Jack, Roger, and Ann find an herb garden where thyme grows, which lets them travel through time (until the thyme is ripe). They are assisted by the Natterjack. On one adventure they rescue their Aunt Jane, Uncle Mark and their mothers from an adventure they took as children. This gives an alternate view of one of the adventures in Magic by the Lake. This book was influenced by C.S. Lewis’s The Last Battle, where one of the children is separated from the magic land, and The Magician's Nephew, in which Uncle Andrew's attitude makes him unable to hear any but animal noises from the talking animals. This happens to Jack, who is unable to sense the magic because he has discovered a different kind of magic, in girls. Eager is more hopeful than Lewis, however: in a final picture, all the children are shown but Jack’s picture is replaced with his name and a heart drawn round it.
Magic or Not?
Laura, James, and their wonderful new neighbors, Kip and Lydia, wish up some summer adventures when the well in their new yard is more than they imagined.
Where the first four Tales of Magic and the last one feature unambiguously magical events, Magic or Not? and its sequel The Well-Wishers differ in tone. All the apparently magical events in these two novels are described ambiguously, with clues also to possible non-supernatural explanations. This and the following book are set near Eager’s own home on Silvermine Road near Stamford.
The Well-Wishers
The children return to the ambiguously magical wishing well from Magic or Not for another series of unpredictable adventures that may or may not be magical. This book is a little grittier and deeper than the others.
Seven-Day Magic
Barnaby, John, Susan, Abbie and Fredericka check out a tattered book from the library for seven days. Oddly, it carefully and correctly records every word they say. Soon they find that it not only records events, but creates new magical adventures.
Among the Magic novels only Seven-Day Magic features children who do not appear in at least one other book. It does refer to Half Magic by name, and has a chapter where the children visit the very end of Half Magic and what might have happened afterwards.
Among their adventures, the children visit the era when Laura Ingalls Wilder was a girl and John's grandmother was a school-teacher; they speculate that the time may be that of On the Banks of Plum Creek. On the other hand, as the adventure concludes with a blizzard, Edward Eager may have been dramatizing the beginning of the 1888 Schoolhouse Blizzard. The adventure is too brief and the text too unclear to be certain.
Seven-Day Magic was Eager's last book.
See also
References
External links
Neenah Public Library's Children's Classic Literature Newsletter, December 2006. Retrieved July 12, 2009.
FAS Prizes descriptions
1911 births
1964 deaths
20th-century American male writers
20th-century American novelists
American children's writers
American fantasy writers
American male novelists
Harvard University alumni
Novelists from Ohio
People from New Canaan, Connecticut
Writers from Toledo, Ohio
Deaths from lung cancer
Deaths from cancer in Connecticut |
3640858 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jelle%20Nijdam | Jelle Nijdam | Jelle Nijdam (born 16 August 1963) is a Dutch former professional road cyclist. Nijdam turned professional after the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. He participated in the Tour de France 10 times, winning six stages and wearing the yellow jersey for three days. Nijdam's father, Henk Nijdam, was a professional cyclist from 1962 to 1969, who won the 1962 world amateur track pursuit championship. He also competed in the individual pursuit and team pursuit events at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
Career achievements
Major results
1984
Olympia's Tour
1st Prologue & Stage 7b (ITT)
1985
1st Overall Tour de Luxembourg
1st Grand Prix Impanis
Tour of Sweden
1st Prologue & Stage 3
1st Prologue Tour of Belgium
3rd GP Stad Vilvoorde
4th Overall Three Days of De Panne
1986
1st Prologue Ronde van Nederland
1st Stage 3b (ITT) Tour de Luxembourg
3rd Overall Danmark Rundt
1st Young rider classification
1st Stage 1
3rd Overall Tour of Sweden
1st Prologue
7th Ronde van Limburg
9th Overall Three Days of De Panne
1987
1st Overall Tour de l'Oise
1st Prologue
1st Dwars door België
Tour de France
1st Prologue
Held & after Prologue
Held after Prologue & Stage 1
1st Prologue Ronde van Nederland
1st Prologue Danmark Rundt
1st Prologue Tour of Sweden
1st Prologue Four Days of Dunkirk
2nd E3 Prijs Vlaanderen
1988
1st Amstel Gold Race
Tour de France
1st Stage 5
Held after Stages 6–7
1st Stage 3 Vuelta Asturias
3rd Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne
4th Overall Three Days of De Panne
5th Grand Prix Eddy Merckx
8th Overall Ronde van Nederland
1st Prologue & Stage 5 (ITT)
1989
1st Paris–Tours
1st Paris–Brussels
Tour de France
1st Stages 4 & 14
1st Stage 1 Ronde van Nederland
1st Stage 1 Nissan Classic
1st Stage 3 Vuelta Asturias
1st Prologue Tour of Sweden
2nd Overall Three Days of De Panne
2nd Overall Tour de l'Oise
1st Stage 2
5th Veenendaal–Veenendaal
9th Grand Prix de la Libération
1990
1st Overall Ronde van Nederland
1st Prologue
1st Binche-Tournai-Binche
1st Stage 6 Tour de France
1st Stage 2 Vuelta a Murcia
Four Days of Dunkirk
1st Stages 5 & 6 (ITT)
2nd Grand Prix Eddy Merckx
2nd Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne
3rd Overall Tour of Sweden
1st Prologue & Stage 4
3rd Amstel Gold Race
4th E3 Prijs Vlaanderen
4th Paris–Brussels
1991
1st Overall Three Days of De Panne
1st Stages 1b (ITT) & 3
1st Stage 5 Tour de France
Tour Méditerranéen
1st Stages 2 & 3b (ITT)
3rd Circuit des Frontières
4th Grand Prix Eddy Merckx
5th Omloop Het Volk
6th Le Samyn
8th Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne
9th Overall Ronde van Nederland
1st Prologue
9th Amstel Gold Race
1992
1st Overall Ronde van Nederland
1st Prologue & Stage 2b (ITT)
1st Grand Prix Eddy Merckx
Vuelta a España
1st Stage 1 (ITT)
Held after Stages 1–2a
1st Stage 7 Vuelta a Aragón
3rd Omloop van het Houtland
5th Overall Three Days of De Panne
5th Gent–Wevelgem
5th Baden-Baden (with Frans Maassen)
6th Tour of Flanders
7th E3 Prijs Vlaanderen
8th Grand Prix des Nations
8th Veenendaal–Veenendaal
9th Amstel Gold Race
9th Omloop Het Volk
1993
1st Stage 3b (ITT) Three Days of De Panne
1st Stage 2 Vuelta Asturias
1st Prologue Tour DuPont
2nd Overall Ronde van Nederland
2nd Paris–Brussels
3rd E3 Prijs Vlaanderen
3rd Grand Prix Eddy Merckx
5th Grand Prix des Nations
6th Scheldeprijs
9th Ronde van Limburg
1994
1st Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen
1st De Kustpijl
4th Le Samyn
5th Overall Tour de l'Oise
5th Scheldeprijs
1995
1st Overall Ronde van Nederland
1st Stage 5
1st Overall Tour de l'Oise
1st Stage 1
1st Dwars door België
1st Binche-Tournai-Binche
1st Stage 6 Vuelta a Aragón
2nd Nationale Sluitingsprijs
5th Omloop Het Volk
6th Overall Danmark Rundt
7th Time trial, National Road Championships
7th Overall Étoile de Bessèges
7th Grand Prix de Wallonie
7th Omloop van het Houtland
1996
1st Ronde van Midden-Zeeland
2nd Nokere Koerse
3rd Time trial, National Road Championships
8th Omloop Het Volk
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
See also
List of Dutch Olympic cyclists
List of Dutch cyclists who have led the Tour de France general classification
References
External links
Official Tour de France results for Jelle Nijdam
CyclingNews Interview - Joe Parkin says Jelle Nijdam was the meanest rider he ever rode with.
1963 births
Living people
Dutch male cyclists
Dutch Tour de France stage winners
Cyclists from Zundert
Tour de France prologue winners
Olympic cyclists for the Netherlands
Cyclists at the 1984 Summer Olympics |
32399715 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011%20Turkish%20football%20match-fixing%20scandal | 2011 Turkish football match-fixing scandal | The 2011 Turkish Sports corruption scandal was an investigation about match fixing, incentive premium, bribery, establishing a criminal organization, organized crime and intimidation in Turkey's top two association football divisions, the Süper Lig and First League.
On 2 July 2012, a Turkish special-authorized state court sentenced many people to various prison sentences. However, on 6 March 2014, special-authorized courts were abolished in Turkey. On 23 June 2014, an earlier retrial demand was accepted. The retrial process started on 15 January 2015. After the retrial process, people who were charged were cleared of all charges pending the Supreme Court's approval.
On 9 October 2015, the courts acquitted all the people who were charged at the beginning of the investigation, pending the Supreme Court's approval. Fenerbahçe declared that after the Supreme Court's approval, they would take every action to be compensated from all of the damages that has been done to the club by this investigation and previous court rulings. Being one of the clubs which were acquitted of the accusations, Fenerbahçe demand €135 million from UEFA and TFF in the context of a claim for damages.
On 6 November 2020, the Turkish court declared all suspects innocent, including former Fenerbahce President Aziz Yildirim. The trial was held in the Istanbul 13th Heavy Penal Court after the appeals court overturned another acquittal verdict in January by a lower court for all the suspects including Yildirim. During the trial, 19 suspects, including ex-Fenerbahce executives Yildirim, Eksioglu, Sekip Mosturoglu and Alaattin Yildirim, Sivasspor chair Mecnun Otyakmaz and former Eskisehirspor manager Bulent Uygun, as well as former football players Gokcek Vederson, Ibrahim Akin, Mehmet Yildiz and Korcan Celikay, were declared innocent due to the lack of evidence.
Timeline of the investigation
In the summer of 2011, Turkish police began an investigation into 19 football matches suspected of being fixed, and by 10 July 61 individuals had been arrested, including club managers and Turkish national team players. 26 of these would later have requests for release refused by the court. By 12 July UEFA had confirmed they were monitoring the situation.
Around the same time, Istanbul BB player İbrahim Akın admitted to participating in match fixing, specifically relating to two matches: Istanbul BB's match against Fenerbahçe, and the Turkish Cup final against Beşiktaş. Following his arrest Akın withdrew his confession, claiming he had been tricked and his confession given under duress, and denied any involvement in the alleged corruption. Beşiktaş president Yıldırım Demirören later returned the Turkish Cup following match-fixing allegations levelled at his own club.
On 15 August, the report of the TFF's Ethics Committee was presented to the general assembly of the TFF. The first report of the TFF's Ethics Committee (340 pages) was completely hidden from public scrutiny and FIFA and UEFA. However, the summary section of the report (38 pages) was leaked to the press. Prof. Dr. Oğuz Atalay, chairman of the committee, confirmed that the document published in the press was the actual document.
The TFF banned Fenerbahçe from participating in the 2011–12 Champions League. UEFA announced that Trabzonspor (despite being one of the clubs under suspicion) would replace them.
Many members of the European football community voiced their concerns about the situation, with UEFA president Michel Platini saying how the match-fixing scandals had "badly tarnished the game" and that the developments were "not good for Turkish football". FIFA president Sepp Blatter also had his say, stating "We cannot intervene at the first stage; we must let the jurisdictional organization of the different states [take action], and when these people are condemned and found guilty, then we will suspend them for life... Then they will never come back to football being officials or being players, they will be banned for life".
On 31 January 2012, the President of the Turkish Football Federation Mehmet Ali Aydınlar, the Vice Presidents of TFF Göksel Gümüşdağ (chairman of Istanbul BB), and Lütfü Arıboğan (who then became a Galatasaray board member) resigned from all duties.
On 30 April 2012, the Turkish Football Federation changed article 58 of the disciplinary regulations regarding the penalization of match-fixing. In response to the TFF's decision, Trabzonspor announced that they would make a meeting with the UEFA as soon as possible. Galatasaray S.K. reacted against the TFF's decision and made a statement regarding the issue. Bursaspor also reacted against the decision.
On the same day, Turkish Football Federation added a new article to the disciplinary regulations that all punishments including relegation and point-deduction can be postponed, Article 105.
On 3 May 2012, Galatasaray applied to the TFF Arbitration Board to suspend and annul the decision regarding the amendment on Article 58 and Article 105 of disciplinary regulations of TFF.
On 4 May 2012, Trabzonspor and Bursaspor also applied to the TFF Arbitration Board to suspend and annul the decision regarding the amendment on Article 58 and Article 105 of disciplinary regulations of TFF.
On 5 May 2012, the Turkish Football Federation Arbitration Board rejected the appeals and the objections of the clubs.
On 7 May 2012, the Turkish Football Federation gave a verdict for the people involved with the case. The federation banned İbrahim Akın of İstanbul BB for three years for allegedly fixing the result of a match when his team lost to Fenerbahçe 2–0 on 1 May 2011. It also banned Serdar Kulbilge of Gençlerbirliği for two years for allegedly attempting to fix the result of a match that Fenerbahçe won 4–2.
It said that eight other people, including Fenerbahçe officials Mehmet Şekip Mosturoğlu, İlhan Yüksel Ekşioğlu, Cemil Turhan and Yavuz Ağırgöl, would receive a disciplinary measure called "deprivation of rights", which amounts to barring a person from any administrative or sports activities, including entering the stadiums. However, this disciplinary measure can be postponed according to the new article 105, which has been designed by Turkish Football Federation recently.
On 1 June 2012, specially-authorized Istanbul Public Prosecutor Ufuk Ermertcan demanded from the Istanbul 16th High Criminal Court to hand down jail sentences for the suspects as part of an investigation into the match-fixing scandal. The Istanbul 16th High Criminal Court rejected the lawyers' request to release Fenerbahçe President Aziz Yıldırım, Olgun Peker, İlhan Ekşioğlu, and Yusuf Turanlı. The court also ruled to release Ahmet Çelebi, Ali Kıratlı, Haldun Şenman, Sami Dinç, and İbrahim Bülent İşcen, who were in custody, pending trial. The court hearings were to be resumed on 26 June.
On 4 June 2012, the Arbitration Board of Turkish Football Federation reduced the penalties for three suspects in a match-fixing scandal while upholding the sentences of other suspects. The arbitration board reduced Akın's sentence from three years to two years. Kulbilge's sentence was reduced from two years to three matches. Karan was given two years deprivation of rights by the PFDK, but the Arbitration Board changed his sentence to a two-year ban from participating in future games.
On 22 June 2012, the UEFA Control and Disciplinary Body made a decision:
On 2 July 2012, the specially-authorized Turkish court convicted and sentenced Aziz Yıldırım to six years and three months in prison on match-fixing charges. Fenerbahçe Vice President Şekip Mosturoğlu was sentenced to one year, ten months and then days in prison. Another official was sentenced to 1 year and 2 months in prison.
On 10 August 2012, the Istanbul 16th High Criminal Court announced its reasoned decision regarding the match-fixing case.
Events after the investigation
On 25 June 2013, UEFA banned Fenerbahçe and Beşiktaş from European competitions over match-fixing allegations. Fenerbahçe was banned for a total of two seasons for which they qualify for either the Champions League or Europa League, with the ban for the third campaign deferred for a probationary period of five years, while Beşiktaş will miss next season's Europa League. Both clubs are to appeal against a UEFA decision to bar the two clubs from European competitions on match-fixing accusations. 5th Civil Court of First Instance temporarily suspended three Fenerbahçe officials, including chairman Aziz Yıldırım.
On 18 July 2013, CAS announced that the final decision on Fenerbahçe would be issued before 28 August and a final decision on Beşiktaş on 30 August.
On 24 July 2013, Supreme Court of Appeals Prosecutor's Office demanded upholding of the verdicts in the match-fixing trial.
On 28 August 2013, the Court of Arbitration for Sports decided to reject the Fenerbahçe's appeal against their suspension from European competition. Fenerbahçe was banned from European competitions for two years after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) opted to uphold the club's punishment for their alleged involvement in match-fixing in Turkey.
On 30 August 2013, the Court of Arbitration for Sports decided to reject the Beşiktaş JK's appeal against their suspension from European competition. Beşiktaş was banned from European competitions for one year after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) opted to uphold the club's punishment for their involvement in match fixing in Turkey.
On 17 January 2014, the Republic of Turkey Supreme Court approved decisions on match fixing.
On 6 March 2014, specially-authorized courts were abolished in Turkey.
On 26 March 2014, Gianni Infantino stated that UEFA gave his final verdict about Fenerbahçe and Beşiktaş, reminding that both clubs had been already punished by UEFA, meaning that no further punishment would be given to the clubs. After being asked about Trabzonspor's presidents earlier statements about UEFA's dealings he added, "İbrahim Hacıosmanoglu is Trabzonspor's president not UEFA's".
On 21 May 2014, UEFA launched an investigation against Sivasspor and Eskişehirspor and heard the cases on 2 and 3 June. On 6 June 2014 it was declared that Eskişehirspor and Sivasspor were not eligible to participate in the 2014/15 UEFA Europa League. Both Sivasspor and Eskişehirspor's officials announced that they would appeal to CAS to change the result of this case.
On 27 May 2014, Fenerbahçe appealed to the Swiss domestic courts, on the grounds of "the final verdict is against the public order", which is one of the situations that must happen if the accused wants to appeal to the UEFA's and CAS' final verdict. With this appeal Fenerbahçe is working to lift the "ban from the European competitions for 2 years".
On 29 May 2014, Mutlu Ekizoğlu, the chief constable of this investigation (also many others like Ergenekon trials and Sledgehammer conspiracy) was suspended from duty pending investigation.
On 7 June 2014, Abdullah Mirza Coşkun, the newly assigned prosecutor of the match-fixing scandal, demanded a retrial from the 13th High Criminal Court (the newly assigned court for the match-fixing scandal) for Aziz Yıldırım. On 23 June 2014, this demand was accepted by the courts, meaning that all the convicted people would have a retrial.
After Fenerbahçe's official complaint, on 27 June 2014, UEFA Control and Disciplinary Board launched a new investigation against Trabzonspor and would decide about the case on 17 July. UEFA asked for Trabzonspor's defense about this investigation. Fenerbahçe's official complaint is based on then-Sivasspor player Mehmet Yıldız's notary approved, detailed statements about an offer of incentive premium from Trabzonspor for the Sivasspor-Fenerbahçe game.
On 7 July 2014, CAS rejected the appeals of Eskişehirspor and Sivasspor, meaning that both clubs were not allowed to participate in any European competition for a year.
On 15 July 2014, Trabzonspor made an official objection to the 13th Istanbul High Criminal court about the accepted retrial demand.
On 18 July 2014, UEFA Control and Disciplinary board assigned an inspector to the cases of both the Turkish Football Federation (official complaint by Trabzonspor) and Trabzonspor (official complaint by Fenerbahçe).
On 24 July 2014, about an earlier application of Fenerbahçe to lift the two year European Cups ban, Swiss domestic courts gave time to Fenerbahçe until 5 August to counter the defences of both CAS and UEFA. Swiss domestic courts also rejected Fenerbahçe's suspension of execution demand for the ban from European Cups on the grounds that UEFA has guaranteed to pay any compensation if necessary.
On 30 August 2014, Trabzonspor declared that, again, they had sent letters to both UEFA and FIFA about their concerns that the corruption scandal is not handled correctly.
On 3 September 2014, Trabzonspor's earlier official objection to the 13th Istanbul High Criminal court was rejected, meaning that the retrial process would begin.
On 24 October 2014, the Swiss domestic courts rejected Fenerbahçe's application of compensation from UEFA and CAS. Fenerbahçe stated that "This decision is made because of the result of the trials before. After the retrial process, we will use every option to get our compensation."
On 21 November 2014, Trabzonspor requested recusal from the 13th Istanbul High Criminal Court, citing that the court had lost its neutrality. This request was denied on 19 December 2014.
On 15 December 2014, UEFA rejected Trabzonspor's official complaint about the Turkish Football Federation and Fenerbahçe's official complaint about Trabzonspor. Trabzonspor declared that they would continue to pursue this matter by applying to both FIFA and CAS.
Retrial
The first trial of the retrial process was made on 24 April 2015. During this trial, Fenerbahçe lawyers urged the court not to rule according to the evidence that had been presented by a chief constable who has now been expelled from his job. The trial was postponed to 8 July 2015.
On 9 October 2015, the courts acquitted all the people who were charged at the beginning of the investigation, pending the Supreme Court's approval. Fenerbahçe declared that after the Supreme Court's approval, they would take every action to be compensated from all of the damages that has been done to the club by this investigation and previous court rulings.
References
Sports betting scandals
Scandal
Scandal
Sports scandals in Turkey
Bribery scandals
2011 Turkish sports |
32036814 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snoopy%20Concert | Snoopy Concert | is the first Japan-exclusive point-and-click adventure game based on the Peanuts cartoon characters Snoopy licensed from Peanuts and United Feature Syndicate (now a part of United Media), which was released for the Super Famicom in 1995. Some English-patched ROM images has been released on the internet.
Summary
Gameplay
The game is a less of a self-contained game and more of a collection of four smaller ones, including a point-and-click segment featuring Schroeder. The player controls Woodstock and directs Snoopy as he performs all sorts of errands for different Peanuts characters. The player does a separate game for each character; some of them require him to do a little detective work, to direct Snoopy to win a race, or to get a character to some place. The ultimate goal in the game is to get everyone in shape for Snoopy's concert. Games can either be played using stereo or monoaural sound.
The music was composed by Hirokazu Tanaka and Minako Hamano, in addition to arrangements of the familiar works of Vince Guaraldi.
Characters
Rerun
Linus
Schroeder
Peppermint Patty
Charlie Brown
Snoopy
Woodstock
Reception
On release, Famicom Tsūshin scored the game a 28 out of 40.
See also
Super NES Mouse
List of Peanuts media
References
1995 video games
Japan-exclusive video games
Nintendo Integrated Research and Development games
Pax Softnica games
Video games based on Peanuts
Super Nintendo Entertainment System games
Super Nintendo Entertainment System-only games
Video games developed in Japan
Video games scored by Hirokazu Tanaka
Mitsui Fudosan
Point-and-click adventure games
Single-player video games
Video games about dogs |
64217223 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorrie%20K.%20Fontaine | Dorrie K. Fontaine | Dorrie K. Fontaine is an American educator, author, dean, and critical care nurse. She is known best for her academic leadership at the University of Virginia School of Nursing.
Biography
Fontaine was born and raised in Charlottesville. She earned a bachelor's degree in nursing from Villanova University in 1972, a master's degree from the University of Maryland in 1977, and subsequently began her career in academia before receiving a PhD from the Catholic University of America.
Fontaine served as the fifth dean of the University of Virginia School of Nursing (UVA) for over a decade before retiring in July 2018. While at UVA, she created the Compassionate Care Initiative to help train nurses on providing empathetic care to patients and implemented requirements of interprofessional education among medical and nursing students through course material and training exercises. Fontaine is a past president and member of the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses and has been a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing for over 20 years.
Bibliography
Awards
University of Maryland's Visionary Pioneer Award
2019 Elizabeth Zintl Leadership Award
AACN Pioneering Spirit Award
Presidential Citation from the Society of Critical Care Medicine
2013 Capstone International Nursing Book Award
2019 Healthy Work Environment Award
References
External links
Fontaine, Dorrie • University of Virginia School of Nursing
Nursing Dean Emerita Dorrie K. Fontaine Chosen for 2019 Zintl Leadership Award
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2486681 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trisong%20Detsen | Trisong Detsen | Tri Songdetsen () was the son of Me Agtsom, the 38th emperor of Tibet. He ruled from AD 755 until 797 or 804. Tri Songdetsen was the second of the Three Dharma Kings of Tibet, playing a pivotal role in the introduction of Buddhism to Tibet and the establishment of the Nyingma or "Ancient" school of Tibetan Buddhism.
The empire Tri Songdetsen inherited had declined somewhat from its greatest extent under the first Dharma King, Songtsen Gampo. Disintegration continued when, in 694, Tibet lost control of several cities in Turkestan and, in 703, Nepal broke into rebellion. Meanwhile, Arab forces vied for influence along the western borderlands of the Tibetan empire. Nevertheless, Tri Songdetsen became imperial Tibet's greatest ruler and an unparalleled Buddhist benefactor.
Tri Songdetsen and his support for Buddhism
Tri Songdetsen is very important to the history of Tibetan Buddhism as one of the three 'Dharma Kings' (Tibetan:chögyel) who established Buddhism in Tibet. The Three Dharma Kings were Songtsen Gampo, Tri Songdetsen, and Ralpacan.
The Skar-cung pillar erected by Sadnalegs (ruled c. 800-815) says that during the reign of Tri Songdetsen, "shrines of the Three Jewels were established by building temples at the centre and on the borders, Bsam-yas in Brag-mar and so on". The first edict of Tri Songdetsen already mentions a community of monks at Bsam-yas (Samye), consisting of the former army.
Indian traditions
Songdetsen became emperor in 755, at the young age of 13. His conversion to Buddhism took place in 762 at age 20. In post-imperial sources, is claimed to have invited Padmasambhava, Śāntarakṣita, Vimalamitra, and various other Indian teachers to come to Tibet to spread the latest understanding of the teaching. The two pandits began by establishing Samye as the first vihara in Tibet. Several Tibetans were eventually initiated as monks and a vast translation project was undertaken translating the Buddhist scriptures from Sanskrit into Classical Tibetan. Yeshe Tsogyal, previously either the consort or wife of Tri Songdetsen, became a great master after studying with Padmasambhava, and is considered the Mother of Buddhism.
Chinese traditions
The first documented dissemination of Chan Buddhism to Tibet, chronicled in what has become known as the Statements of the Sba Family, occurred in about 761 when Tri Songdetsen Detsen sent a party to the Yizhou region to receive the teachings of Kim Hwasang, a Korean Chan master, who they encountered in Sichuan. The party received teachings and three Chinese texts from Kim, who died soon after.
Tri Songdetsen patronised a second party to China in 763. This second expedition was headed by a high minister, Sba Gsalsnan. There is scholarly dissent about whom Gsalsnan encountered in Yizhou. Early scholarship considered Kim, but this had been revised to Baotang Wuzhu (714-774), head and founder of Baotang Monastery in Chengdu. Both Kim and Baotang Wuzhu were of the same school of Chan, the East Mountain Teaching.
Debates
Tri Songdetsen, hosted a famous two-year debate from 792-794, known in Western scholarship as the "Council of Lhasa" (although it took place at Samye at quite a distance from Lhasa) outside the capital. He sponsored a Dharma debate between the Chan Buddhist Moheyan, who represented the third documented wave of Chan dissemination in Tibet, and the scholar Kamalaśīla, a student of Śāntarakṣita. Effectively the debate was between the Chinese and Indian Buddhist traditions as they were represented in Tibet.
Sources differ about both the nature of the debate as well as the victor. Stein (1972: p. 66-67) holds that Kamalaśīla disseminated a "gradualist approach" to enlightenment, consisting of purificatory sādhanā such as cultivating the pāramitās. Kamalashila's role was to ordain Tibetans as Buddhist monks and propagate Buddhist philosophy as it had flourished in India. Stein (1972: p. 66-67) holds that Kamalaśīla was victorious in the debate and that Tri Songdetsen sided with Kamalaśīla.
Stupa construction
Tri Songdetsen is also traditionally associated with the construction of Boudhanath in the Kathmandu Valley in Nepal.
The role of Padmasambhava on the other hand was to establish the teaching of Buddhist Tantra in Tibet. During the reign of Tri Songdetsen the combined efforts of Padmasambhava, Śāntarakṣita and Kamalaśīla established both the Indian Buddhist philosophical interpretation and Buddhist tantra in Tibet.
Political and military activities
In 763 Tri Songdetsen sent an army of 200,000 men to the border with Tang China, defeating the forces there and then continuing on to take Chang'an, the Tang Chinese capital, forcing Emperor Daizong of Tang to flee the capital. In 783 a peace treaty was negotiated between China and Tibet giving Tibet all lands in present-day Qinghai.
The King also formed an alliance with Nanzhao in 778, joining forces to attack the Chinese in Sichuan.
Tri Songdetsen next sought to expand westward, reaching the Amu Darya and threatening the Abbasid Caliph, Harun ar-Rashid. The Caliph was concerned enough to establish an alliance with the Chinese emperor. Tri Songdetsen would be preoccupied with Arab wars in the west while taking pressure off his Chinese opponents to the east and north until his rule ended in 797.
Retirement, death and succession
Tri Songdetsen had four sons: Mutri Tsenpo, Muné Tsenpo, Mutik Tsenpo, and Sadnalegs. The eldest son, Mutri Tsenpo, died early.
Tri Songdetsen retired to live at the palace at Zungkar and handed power to his second son, Muné Tsenpo, in 797. From this point there is much confusion in the various historical sources. It seems there was a struggle for the succession after the death of Tri Songdetsen. It is not clear when Tri Songdetsen died, or for how long Mune Tsenpo reigned. The Testament of Ba, a Tibetan historical text which may date back to the 9th century, claims that Muné Tsenpo insisted that his father's funeral be performed according to Buddhist rather than traditional rites.
It is said that Mune Tsenpo was poisoned by his mother, who was jealous of his beautiful wife.
Whatever the case, both the Old Book of Tang and the Tibetan sources agree that, since Mune Tsenpo had no heirs, power passed to his younger brother, Sadnalegs, who was on the throne by 804 CE.
The other brother, Mutik Tsenpo, was apparently not considered for office as he had previously murdered a senior minister and had been banished to Lhodak Kharchu near the Bhutanese border.
References
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25386356 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick%20Wadsworth | Frederick Wadsworth | Frederick Elijah Wadsworth (March 7, 1786 in Litchfield, Connecticut – February 3, 1869 in Edinburg, Ohio) was an Ohio militia officer, businessman, banker, and politician.
Family
Frederick was born in 1786 at the family home in Litchfield, Connecticut. He was the son of Major General Elijah Wadsworth and his wife Rhoda Hopkins. Frederick was a member of the prominent Wadsworth family of Connecticut. He is a descendant of William Wadsworth, one of the Founders of Hartford, Connecticut. He moved to Ohio, at 13, with his family in 1799. In October 1802 he moved to the new family home in Canfield, Ohio where he grew to adulthood. Frederick married Statira Smith of New York and had eight children. Frederick Wadsworth's House, built 1824, located in Edinburg, Ohio is on the National Register of Historic Places (May 29, 1975 #75001520).
War of 1812
On 26 May 1812 Lieutenant Frederick Wadsworth was appointed, by his father, as the Regimental Clerk for the 2nd Regiment, 4th Brigade, 4th Division of the Ohio State Militia under Colonel John Wilson Campbell.
Business and politics
Frederick was a proprietor and partner of Stoddard & Wadsworth Co. a wool carding works in 1825. Later that year he was elected Secretary of the Portage County Agricultural Society on 9 May 1825.
Frederick was an appointed representative of Portage County during the Canal Commission on 10 March 1826 that worked for the creation of the Portage Canal. Frederick was at the Anti-Masonic Party Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on September 11, 1830. He was also elected Sheriff of Portage County, Ohio in 1834.
He formed a partnership with several investors, including Simon Perkins and Eleazer Sackett, which led to the creation of the Portage Canal & Manufacturing Co. on February 27, 1837. Frederick was also one of 5 co-owners of the Etna Iron Company on March 29, 1837. That same year Frederick was appointed a Director of the Bank of Cleveland. Later, in 1846, he was the President of the Portage County Mutual Fire Insurance Company.
Frederick Wadsworth was elected Mayor of Akron, Ohio in 1852-1853.
References
"Early History of Cleveland Ohio..." by Col. Charles Whittlesey, Cleveland, 1832 (PDF avail.)
"History of Portage County, Ohio: Containing a history of the County..." Warner, beers and Co., Chicago, 1885
"Cases of the Supreme Court of Ohio 1833-1834" by Charles Hammond, Esq., Cincinnati, 1872
"Acts of the State of Ohio", By the Ohio General Assembly, Columbus 1837
External links
http://www.raremaps.com/gallery/archivedetail/18138/Map_of_The_Town_of_North_Akron_Portage_County_and_Township_Ohio_June/Ashland.html
http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wadhams-waggy.html
1786 births
1869 deaths
Mayors of Akron, Ohio
Businesspeople from Ohio
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Anti-Masonic Party politicians from Ohio
Wadsworth family
Politicians from Litchfield, Connecticut
People from Canfield, Ohio
19th-century American businesspeople |
14832525 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudnica%2C%20Lower%20Silesian%20Voivodeship | Rudnica, Lower Silesian Voivodeship | Rudnica is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Stoszowice, within Ząbkowice Śląskie County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland.
It lies approximately west of Stoszowice, west of Ząbkowice Śląskie, and south-west of the regional capital Wrocław.
References
Rudnica |
59606217 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhythm%20Serenade | Rhythm Serenade | Rhythm Serenade is a 1943 British musical film directed by Gordon Wellesley and starring Vera Lynn, Peter Murray-Hill and Julien Mitchell.
It was shot at the Riverside Studios in Hammersmith. The film's sets were designed by the art director George Provis. It was made by the British subsidiary of Columbia Pictures. George Formby, then under contract to Columbia, served as associate producer on the film.
Plot
A teacher goes to work organising a nursery for a munitions factory. She establishes one at a cottage and has a romance with the owner.
Songs
(all performed by Vera Lynn)
Bye and Bye (Jimmy Wakely, Fred Rose and Johnny Marvin)
I Love to Sing (Paul Misraki, with English lyrics by Michael Carr and Tommie Connor)
It Doesn't Cost a Dime (Michael Carr and Tommie Connor)
So it Goes On
The Sunshine of Your Smile (Leonard Cooke and Lilian Ray)
When We’re Home Sweet Home Again (Annette Mills and Fred Prisker)
With All My Heart (Reginald King and Jack Popplewell)
Cast
Vera Lynn as Ann Martin
Peter Murray-Hill as John Drover
Julien Mitchell as Mr. Jimson
Charles Victor as Mr. Martin
Jimmy Jewel as Jimmy Martin
Ben Warriss as Ben Martin
Joss Ambler as Mr. Preston
Rosalyn Boulter as Monica Jimson
Betty Jardine as Helen
Irene Handl as Mrs. Crumbling
Lloyd Pearson as Mr. Simkins
Jimmy Clitheroe as Joey
Joan Kemp-Welch as Bit part
Aubrey Mallalieu as Vicar
Leslie Phillips as Soldier
References
External links
Rhythm Serenade at IMDb
Rhythm Serenade at Letterbox DVD
Rhythm Serenade at BFI
1943 films
1943 musical films
British black-and-white films
British musical films
Columbia Pictures films
Films shot at Riverside Studios
1940s English-language films
1940s British films |
8185866 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greyfield%20land | Greyfield land | Greyfield land is underused real estate assets or land. The term was first coined in the UK in urban design theory in the late 1990s, and later adopted in the US about a decade later, with the name coming from the "sea" of empty asphalt concrete that often accompanies these sites. The word greyfield is a relative neologism as compared to more commonly known terms such as brownfield and greenfield.
In the UK, the term applies specifically to buildings and land in towns and cities that is underused and could be intensified by the addition of rooftop developments (in the case of an existing building) or 'airspace' developments (above an existing carpark, for example).
In the US, the term has historically been applied to formerly-viable retail and commercial shopping sites (such as regional malls and strip centers) that have suffered from lack of reinvestment and have been "outclassed" by larger, better-designed, better-anchored malls or shopping sites. These particular greyfield sites are also referred to as "dead malls" or "ghostboxes" if the anchor or other major tenants have vacated the premises leaving behind empty shells. Still in the US, the "greyfield" term may also be applied more broadly to urban infill or commercial locations where underused or outdated (non-retail) uses hamper an otherwise valuable real estate asset. An example would be a formerly industrial waterfront site that is potentially valuable as a mixed use/residential site as it is being encroached upon by residential sprawl, or other economic or redevelopment pressures. In this example, the revitalization of the greyfield may require zoning changes and/or a public-private partnership of some kind to achieve the highest and best use.
Background (US)
In 2001 the Congress for the New Urbanism re-coined the term "Greyfield," which refers to ageing strips of development that once served as vital commercial corridors during the post-World War II suburban exodus but have today fallen on harder times. In contrast to contaminated brownfields and undeveloped greenfields, greyfields refer to "so-called 'dead malls,' often characterized by the vast empty asphalt parking lots that surround them."
The most conservative calculations in 1999 estimated that there would be no fewer than 203 American defunct malls with a combined outstanding debt of over $2 billion and projected redevelopment costs of over $11 billion by 2004. In 2001, of the 2,000 American regional malls, it was estimated that nearly 20% were defunct malls or in danger of becoming so.
Examples of greyfield malls in American cities are the Central City Mall in San Bernardino, California; the Prestonwood Town Center in Dallas, Texas; the Maple Hill Pavilion in Kalamazoo, Michigan; and the Lafayette Plaza in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
Characteristics (US)
An average site size of . These sites are both smaller and less connected to the regional transportation system than those housing America's best-performing malls, which average over in size, with freeway visibility and direct ramp access.
Located in established neighborhoods and shopping districts and on suburban arterials with bus service, many are already bus hubs.
They have formidable competition; on average, greyfield malls have 2.3 million square feet () million square feet of competing retail space in 22 other centers within . They are often older and smaller than the most successful malls in their region.
Conventional renovations will not be sufficient to breathe new life into many properties. A facelift will do little to help. A new anchor store, depending on the center's position in the market, may not do much either.
Factors for US mall redevelopment
Critical factors necessary for the redevelopment of a greyfield site include the following:
Market conditions
Ownership and anchor tenant status
Site and location factors
Municipal and community capacity
Developer and lender capacity
Lessons from successful US greyfield transformations are based on the case studies conducted by the Congress for New Urbanism. These sites were the Paseo Colorado development in Pasadena, California; the City Place development in Long Beach, California; the Belmar development in Lakewood, Colorado; the Downtown Park Forest development in Park Forest, Illinois; the Mizner Park development in Boca Raton, Florida; and the Winter Park Village development in Winter Park, Florida. The lessons learned in this study were:
Incorporate features that will maximize environmental benefits.
Explore major physical changes.
Use car parking carefully.
Incorporate public amenities that add value and distinguish the development.
Include civic and institutional activities.
Expect a lengthy pre-development period and prepare for complications.
Establish a high standard for urban design.
Market the new concept.
Develop mixed-uses that can thrive independently.
Patient money is the best fit for town center projects.
References
Urban studies and planning terminology
Urban decay |
21559268 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakasa-Wada%20Station | Wakasa-Wada Station | is a railway station in the town of Takahama, Ōi District, Fukui Prefecture, Japan, operated by West Japan Railway Company (JR West).
Lines
Wakasa-Wada Station is served by the Obama Line, and is located 65.7 kilometers from the terminus of the line at .
Station layout
The station consists of one side platform serving a single bi-directional track. The station is staffed.
Adjacent stations
History
Wasasa-Wada Station was elevated from a provisional stop to a full passenger station on 1 June 1934. With the privatization of Japanese National Railways (JNR) on 1 April 1987, the station came under the control of JR West.
Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2016, the station was used by an average of 136 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).
Surrounding area
A part of Wakasa Wan Quasi-National Park
Wada Marina
See also
List of railway stations in Japan
References
External links
Railway stations in Fukui Prefecture
Stations of West Japan Railway Company
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1934
Obama Line
Takahama, Fukui |
28386378 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cvr%C4%8De | Cvrče | Cvrče is a village in the municipality of Gornji Vakuf, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Demographics
According to the 2013 census, its population was 183, all Bosniaks.
References
Populated places in Gornji Vakuf-Uskoplje |
321197 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Status%20quo%20ante | Status quo ante | Status quo ante may refer to:
Status quo ante (phrase), Latin for "the way things were before"
Status Quo Ante (Hungary), Jewish communities in Hungary
See also
Status quo ante bellum, Latin for "the way things were before the war"
Status Quo Ante Synagogue (disambiguation)
Latin words and phrases |
2070569 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duplessis%2C%20Louisiana | Duplessis, Louisiana | Duplessis is an unincorporated community located in Ascension Parish, Louisiana, United States, which is located north of Gonzales.
References
Unincorporated communities in Ascension Parish, Louisiana
Baton Rouge metropolitan area
Unincorporated communities in Louisiana |
5707688 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balkundra | Balkundra | Balkundra is a census town in the Patratu CD block in the Ramgarh subdivision of the Ramgarh district in the state of Jharkhand, India.
Geography
Location
Balkundra is located at .
Area overview
Ramgarh has a vibrant coal-mining sector. The map alongside provides links to five operational areas of Central Coalfields spread across South Karanpura Coalfield, Ramgarh Coalfield and West Bokaro Coalfield. Four of the six CD blocks in the district have coal mines – Patratu, Ramgarh, Mandu and Chitarpur. The high concentration of census towns in these blocks are noticeable on the map. Only two blocks, Gola and Dulmi, are totally rural areas. Ramgarh district lies in the central part of the Chota Nagpur Plateau. The Damodar valley covers most of the district. The forested areas in highlands to the north and the south of the valley can be seen in the map (mark the shaded areas). "Chotanagpur has a charm of its own… The entire area forms one of the most charming series of views imaginable. The far-off hills in the background in exquisite tints of blue or purple as the light falls, the nearer hills picturesquely shaped and luxuriant in every shade of green with their bold escarpments in black or grey, and the brown plains below furnishing their quota of colours."
Note: The map alongside presents some of the notable locations in the district. All places marked in the map are linked in the larger full screen map.
Civic administration
Police station
Basal police station serves Patratu CD block.
Demographics
According to the 2011 Census of India, Balkundra had a total population of 3,915, of which 2,136 (55%) were males and 1,779 (45%) were females. Population in the age range 0-6 years was 484. The total number of literate persons in Balkundra was 2,533 (73.83% of the population over 6 years).
India census, Balkundra had a population of 5,369. Males constitute 54% of the population and females 46%. Balkundra has an average literacy rate of 68%, higher than the national average of 59.5%; with 61% of the males and 39% of females literate. 12% of the population is under 6 years of age.
Infrastructure
According to the District Census Handbook 2011, Ramgarh, Balkundra covered an area of 1.187 km2. Among the civic amenities, it had 8 km roads with both open and closed drains, the protected water supply involved uncovered well, hand pump. It had 684 domestic electric connections, 15 road lighting points. Among the medical facilities, it had 3 hospitals, 2 dispensaries, 2 health centres, 8 family welfare centres, 4 maternity and child welfare centres, 8 maternity homes, 5 nursing homes. Among the educational facilities it had 5 primary schools, 1 middle school, 2 secondary schools, 1 senior secondary school, the nearest general degree college at Bhurkunda 3 km away. It had 5 non-formal educational centres (Sarva Siksha Abhiyan). Among the social, recreational and cultural facilities it had 1 stadium. One important commodity it produced was steel. It had the branch offices of 1 nationalised bank, 1 agricultural credit society.
Economy
Jindal Steel and Power has set up a 0.6 million tonnes per year wire rod mill and a 1 million tonnes per year bar mill in Patratu.
Transport
Balkundra is on State Highway 2.
References
Cities and towns in Ramgarh district |
11735471 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Prentice | George Prentice | Dr. George Prentice (1871–1948) is a Scottish missionary and served as a vicar for the Free Church of Scotland. He was one of the first to conduct missionary activities in southeastern Africa (modern-day Malawi) and was known for baptizing Malawi's first president, Hastings Banda when Banda was his student from 1908 to 1914.
Biography
Prentice was born in 1871 at Mid-Greenwell, near Carnwath in Lanarkshire to James and Christine Prentice (née Elder). His father worked as a farmer and owned 58 acres of land while his mother died in 1876. He spent his childhood living with his five brothers and sisters at Craigen House, Carnwath.
He moved to Edinburgh and was a medical student at the University of Edinburgh. Three years later, he was qualified as a doctor at the university and obtained a licentiate from both Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow in 1894.
He was ordained as a minister in 1894 by the Old Free Church of Scotland and moved to Africa to conduct missionary activities.
Prentice worked with Dr. Robert Scott, a Scottish when he first settled in Africa. In 1897, during his Africa's journey, he toured the northern parts of Luangwa valley, making contact with Senga people who lived in large stockaded villages surrounded by thorn trees and visited Kamanga and seeing evidence of the Swahili dwellings among the Bisa. According to an 1898 British Medical Registration record, he stayed at Loudon, Nyasaland.
Record also indicated that Prentice was in Kasungu in 1897 but had travelled to Bandawe. He opened seven schools in Kasungu after spending time there since 1897. He also established the Chilanga missionary station and was appointed head of the mission in October 1900 during his time in Kasungu.
During World War I, he joined as a Captain with the Column 3/1 King's African Rifles and was later transferred to Column 4/1 as a medical officer. On 19 May 1917, he was appointed as temporary Captain with the Nyasaland Field Force.
On 12 February 1924, Prentice arrived in London from Beira, Mozambique on board the Royal Mail Ship of HMHS Goorkha. Later on 12 August 1927, he departed from London for Biera on a Royal Mail Ship Electrician. He returned to Scotland in 1924 and spent time staying in Kennetpans, Clackmannan until somewhere around 1931.
During the 1930s and 1940s, he stayed at Fort Jameson, During his time at Fort Jameson, George farmed tobacco on the farm named Nchere Hill in
Northern Rhodesia (modern-day Zambia) and died there in 1948. He was buried at Aylmer May Cemetery, Rhodes Park, Lusaka.
Family
Prentice married Agnes Tudhope Scott on 10 May 1900 at the St Michael and All Angels Cathedral in Blantyre, Nyasaland. The couple had four children:
Margaret Christina Prentice - born in 1902, at Kasungu, Nyasaland and 1903 British General Medical Registration for lists him as being at Kasungu, Ngara, British Central Africa
Isabel Agnes Scott Prentice - born on 26 Feb 1906 at The Orchard, Bridge of Allan, Stirlingshire, Scotland. George was present at the birth and presumably on leave from the Kasungu Mission in Nyasaland. Her British General Medical Council registration for 1907 gives his address as being Kasungu, Ngara, British Central Africa (source: Scotlands People and British Medical Registers). She died later on 17 January 1916 at the Royal Scottish Nursing Home in Edinburgh from acute peritonitis.
James Scott Prentice - born in 1908 at Kasungu, Nyasaland
Robert Scott Prentice - born on 30 July 1910 at Bridge of Allan, Stirlingshire, Scotland. His birth was registered and witnessed by a nurse which probably means that George was not in Scotland but had remained in Nyasaland.
References
Sources
Politics and Christianity in Malawi, 1875-1940: The Impact of the Livingstonia Mission in the Northern Province by John McCracken; published by African Books Collective (2008)
1871 births
1948 deaths
People from Lanarkshire
Scottish Presbyterian missionaries
Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
19th-century Scottish medical doctors
20th-century Scottish medical doctors |
7000086 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Treasure%20of%20Tranicos%20%28collection%29 | The Treasure of Tranicos (collection) | The Treasure of Tranicos is a 1980 collection of a fantasy short story and essays by American writers Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp featuring Howard's sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian; the essays by de Camp are on the title story and on Howard. The book is illustrated by Esteban Maroto.
The title story was revised by de Camp from the original version by Howard and was first published as "The Black Stranger" in Fantasy Magazine for February, 1953. It subsequently appeared in the collections King Conan (Gnome Press, 1953) and Conan the Usurper (Lancer Books, 1967).
Contents
"Introduction" (L. Sprague de Camp)
"The Treasure of Tranicos" (Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp)
"The Trail of Tranicos" (L. Sprague de Camp)
"Skald in the Post Oaks" (L. Sprague de Camp)
Plot summary
"The Treasure of Tranicos"
The title story begins with Conan in the Pictish Wilderness, fleeing native warriors who are now hunting him. To escape his pursuers, Conan climbs a nearby hill. Suddenly, he sees the Picts inexplicably abandon their chase and turn back. Soon, Conan realizes this spot must be a forbidden place to the Picts. The hill turns out to hold a treasure cave, along with the preserved bodies of a pirate captain, Tranicos, and his crew. Eventually, the treasure draws others towards the forbidden cave in their quest for it — one Count Valenso, and both Zingaran and Barachan sea reavers. But the bane of Tranicos is quite ready to take new victims, and Conan must outmaneuver all of them if he is to claim the riches.
Howard's original story pointed toward a new nautical career for Conan; one of de Camp's major changes was to make it lead instead into the revolution that would bring the Cimmerian to the throne of Aquilonia.
"The Trail of Tranicos"
The essay following the story relates the circumstances of de Camp's discovery of Howard's manuscript and his revision and publication of it.
"Scald in the Post Oaks"
The remaining essay is about Howard himself.
Sources
1980 short story collections
Conan the Barbarian books
Short story collections by L. Sprague de Camp
Fantasy short stories
Essay collections
Ace Books books |
22586492 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%20Surrender%20Dear | I Surrender Dear | "I Surrender Dear" (sometimes written as "I Surrender, Dear") is a song composed by Harry Barris with lyrics by Gordon Clifford, first performed by Gus Arnheim and His Cocoanut Grove Orchestra with Bing Crosby in 1931, which became his first solo hit. This is the song that caught the attention of William Paley, president of CBS, who signed him for $600 a week in the fall of 1931 ($12,119 in 2023).
In 1931, it was performed by Sam Lanin, as well as Ben Selvin, under the pseudonym "Mickie Alpert". It has been covered by many artists, making it a jazz and pop standard. The first jazz vocalist to record the song was Louis Armstrong in 1931.
"I Surrender Dear" inspired two motion pictures bearing that title: a 1931 Bing Crosby musical short I Surrender Dear produced by Mack Sennett, and a 1948 feature film starring one of Crosby's co-stars, singer Gloria Jean. An instrumental 1930s-esque Jazz cover of this song was recorded for the 1996 movie Kansas City as part of the soundtrack. This song was also the comical introduction to the pre-code film, The Tip Off 1931, in which actor Eddie Quillan is a window singer at a radio repair shop. He mouths the song while it is being played over a new "Human Voice Amplifier".
Renditions
Louis Armstrong recorded April 20, 1931
Sam Lanin - Recorded May 21, 1931
Ben Selvin, featuring Helen Rowland - Recorded February 6, 1931
Bing Crosby – I Surrender Dear: first recorded January 19, 1931 with Gus Arnheim and His Cocoanut Grove Orchestra; "I Surrender Dear" (Sennett short soundtrack 1931); Recorded March 31, 1939 with John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra; Recorded April 24, 1954 with Buddy Cole and His Trio for use in Bing: A Musical Autobiography.
Charlie Spivak - I Surrender Dear Okeh 6546 (1942)
Tyree Glenn – I Surrender Dear/The House of parting edited by Blue Star French label (1947)
Django Reinhardt – Django in Rome 1949/1950 (1950)
Nat King Cole – Penthouse Serenade (1952)
Herman's Norwegian Jazz group Soloist: Rowland Greenberg - Recorded on December 3, 1954 and re-released on the extended play Odeon GEON 2
Ray Charles – The Great Ray Charles (1957)
Thelonious Monk – Brilliant Corners (1957), Solo Monk (1965)
Terry Snyder and the All Stars – Persuasive Percussion (1959)
Paul Gonsalves – Gettin' Together! (1960)
Aretha Franklin – The Electrifying Aretha Franklin (1962)- This recording peaked at #87 on the US Hot 100.
Lena Horne - Lena...Lovely and Alive (1962)
Harry James - In A Relaxed Mood (MGM E-4274, 1965)
Count Basie – Basie Swingin' Voices Singin' (1966)
Julie London – Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast (1967)
Ella Fitzgerald – Jazz at Santa Monica Civic '72 (1972)
Roy Eldridge – Roy Eldridge 4 - Montreux '77 (1977)
Chet Atkins and Les Paul – Guitar Monsters (1978)
Abdullah Ibrahim – Autobiography (1978)
Madonna and Jennifer Grey – Bloodhounds of Broadway soundtrack (1989)
Howard Fishman - I Like You A Lot (2001)
Elvis Costello with Vince Giordano & the Nighthawks Orchestra - Boardwalk Empire Soundtrack - Volume 3 (2014)
Peter Brötzmann - I Surrender Dear (2019)
Popular culture
The song is referenced in the 1949 war film Battleground, which depicts the hardships of American troops attempting to hold the town of Bastogne in late December 1944, during the Battle of the Bulge. German radio is heard broadcasting the song to the entrenched American troops to demoralize them. This psychological warfare is shown to have the opposite effect on the GIs, who hum along (to the old chestnut), but prefer to hear real American radio.
See also
List of 1930s jazz standards
Notes
1931 songs
1931 singles
1930s jazz standards
Songs with music by Harry Barris
Bing Crosby songs
Aretha Franklin songs
Madonna songs
Louis Armstrong songs |
70721363 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmon%20Hall | Harmon Hall | Harmon Hall (July 22, 1818 – June 30, 1891) was an American shoe manufacturer and politician who served in the Massachusetts General Court and on the Massachusetts Governor's Council.
Early life
Hall was born on July 22, 1818, in Portland, Maine. When he was five his family moved to East Saugus, Massachusetts. He was educated in the Saugus Public Schools as well as the Lynn and New Market academies. He married Lucinda Atherton of Goffstown, New Hampshire. They had two children, Harmon and Susie.
Politics
Hall held numerous offices in Saugus, including town clerk, selectman, and town moderator. In 1861 he represented the 24th Essex District in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. That same year, Governor John Albion Andrew appointed Hall to the position of state prison inspector. In 1868 he was made a trustee of the State Reform School for Boys by Governor Alexander Bullock. He was reappointed by Governor William Claflin and served as chairman of the board for three years. In 1872 he resumed his former position as state prison inspector. In 1875 he was appointed to the Lancaster Industrial School for Girls board of trustees by Governor William Gaston. In 1876, Hall represented the First Essex district in the Massachusetts Senate. The following year he was elected to the Massachusetts Governor's Council. In 1880 and 1881 he again served in the state senate.
Business career
Hall manufactured shoes and boots from 1850 to 1874. He was associated with George Raddin from 1850 to 1852 and John W. Newhall from 1852 and 1855 before going into business solo. He was also a founder and longtime president of the Saugus Mutual Fire Insurance Company. He was successful in business and owned an estate on Chestnut Street in East Saugus. Hall died on June 30, 1891.
References
1818 births
1891 deaths
Republican Party Massachusetts state senators
Members of the Massachusetts Governor's Council
Republican Party members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
People from Saugus, Massachusetts
Shoemakers
Politicians from Portland, Maine |
18326436 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topolinek%2C%20Kuyavian-Pomeranian%20Voivodeship | Topolinek, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship | Topolinek is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Świecie, within Świecie County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland. It lies approximately south-west of Świecie, north-east of Bydgoszcz, and north-west of Toruń.
References
Topolinek |
1792388 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Yevele | Henry Yevele | Henry Yevele (c. 1320 – 1400) was the most prolific and successful master mason active in late medieval England. The first document relating to him is dated 3 December 1353, when he purchased the freedom of London. In February 1356 he was sufficiently well known as a mason that he was chosen as one of a commission of six cutting masons who were to inform the mayor and aldermen about the acts and articles of the craft.
Career
His first connection with royal building works was probably when he was contracted from March 1357 to September 1359 to remodel the Black Prince's manor at Kennington, at the cost of £221 4s. 7d. On 23 June 1360, he was appointed "disposer" of the royal works at the Palace of Westminster and the Tower of London. For this he was paid 1s. per day, although he continued undertaking other, non-royal, commissions.
At the Palace of Westminster, Yevele was responsible for refacing Westminster Hall, and for two essentially utilitarian buildings, the Jewel Tower in the Privy Palace (1365–6) and the clock tower (now destroyed), which stood opposite the north door of Westminster Hall and regulated the sittings of the royal courts of justice there (1366–7).
At the Tower of London, Yevele was responsible for the Bloody Tower, while several minor works, including the vaulting of the thirteenth-century watergate, were performed by Henry's brother, Robert. The real focus of activity in the king's works at this time, however, was Windsor Castle. The master mason there, John Sponlee (d. 1382?), walked in the funeral procession of Queen Philippa in 1369 as an esquire of greater estate, whereas Yevele ranked only as a lesser esquire. During Edward III's reign Yevele's strictly architectural work for the crown was, with one minor exception, confined to London, but he supplied materials to numerous royal building sites in Kent and Surrey as well as in London.
The most significant of Yevele's remaining works are the naves of Westminster Abbey (1362) and Canterbury Cathedral (1377–1400), the latter completed in an early Perpendicular Gothic style.
Yevele advised on repairs and new works at the castles of Southampton (1378–9), Carisbrooke (1380–85), Winchester (1390–1400), and Portchester (1384–5), and on the town walls of Canterbury (1385–6), but it is uncertain to what extent this involved him in major design work. In 1381, 1389, and 1393 Yevele's advice was sought by William of Wykeham, bishop of Winchester, who had been clerk of works at Windsor Castle from 1356 to 1361. On 29 August 1390 Yevele was made exempt from jury and other forms of service on account of his official duties and "great age".
Yevele's work for other lay patrons belonged to the 1370s and 1380s. For John of Gaunt he carried out in 1375 unspecified works at the Savoy Palace in London and, together with another mason, Thomas Wrek, he contracted for the duke's large and very sumptuous canopied tomb in Old St Paul's Cathedral. For John de Cobham, 3rd Baron Cobham, he furnished the design ("devyse") for a new south aisle at the London parish church of St Dunstan-in-the-East, although he did not take charge of its building. From 1368 he served as one of the two wardens of London Bridge. Although the wardenships were purely administrative, it is highly likely that he was the designer of the two-storeyed apsidal chapel of St Thomas, which projected eastwards from the middle of the bridge and which was under construction between 1384 and 1397. The chapel possessed a "table" or handboard containing a summary history of the bridge, which was the source of the statement by the 16th-century antiquary John Leland that "a mason beinge master of the bridge howse", built the chapel at his own expense. This notice can refer only to Yevele, whose name presumably meant nothing to Leland.
Death
Yevele died in 1400 and was buried at the church of St Magnus the Martyr by London Bridge. His monument was extant in John Stow's time (the late 16th century), but was probably destroyed by the Great Fire of London.
Work
Works that can be attributed to Yevele with a reasonable level of certainty include:
Kennington Manor (part, 1358, destroyed)
Bloody Tower of the Tower of London (1361)
Abbot's House and College Hall, Westminster Abbey (1362)
Nave and west cloister, Westminster Abbey (1362)
Palace of Westminster clock tower (1365, destroyed)
Parts of old London Bridge (destroyed)
London Charterhouse (1371)
The high altar screen of Durham Cathedral (1372–80), shipped in boxes from London to Newcastle
Savoy Palace (part, 1376, destroyed)
West Gate, Canterbury (1378)
The east and south walks of the cloister of St Albans Abbey (probably begun c.1380) (not mentioned by Harvey)
The south transept façade of Old St Paul's Cathedral (1381–8) (not mentioned by Harvey)
Old St Dunstan-in-the-East (part, 1381, destroyed)
Rochester bridge (1383, destroyed)
Canterbury city walls (1385)
Nave and south cloister of Canterbury Cathedral (1377–1400)
Westminster Hall (1395)
The tombs of
Cardinal Simon Langham (d. 1376) in Westminster Abbey (1389)
Edward III in Westminster Abbey (after 1386)
Richard II in Westminster Abbey (1395)
Edward, the Black Prince in Canterbury Cathedral (1376)
Archbishop Simon Sudbury in Canterbury Cathedral (begun mid-1380s? Died 1381 but the tomb was created in a perpendicular style, according to the Canterbury Cathedral notes, circa 1391.)
John of Gaunt and Blanche of Lancaster (1374–80; destroyed) in the choir of Old St Paul's Cathedral.
Gallery of architectural works
References
Bibliography
14th-century English architects
Gothic architects
1320 births
1400 deaths |
9590818 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle%20Sister | Middle Sister | Middle Sister can refer to:
The Middle Sister of the Three Sisters, a group of volcanic mountain peaks in Oregon
Middle Sister (California), a peak in the Sweetwater Mountains of California
Middle Sister Island, a Canadian island in Lake Erie
The Middle Sister, a 1960 novel by Lois Duncan |
40521309 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qingshuzui | Qingshuzui | Qingshuzui Town () is an urban town in Nan County, Hunan Province, People's Republic of China.
Administrative division
The town is divided into 26 villages and 1 community, the following areas: Qingshuzui Community, Jinhua Village, Weiyong Village, Yifeng Village, Liuhe Village, Quanxin Village, Dongbentang Village, Baihetang Village, Simei Village, Bayi Village, Fulitang Village, Qinghe Village, Qingshu Village, Renshou Village, Binhu Village, Xinyue Village, Xinjian Village, Xin'an Village, Xinxiang Village, Xinhu Village, Shuangzha Village, Yongkang Village, Changle Village, Weixing Village, Nongxue Village, Nongfeng Village, and Haomin Village (青树嘴社区、金华村、卫拥村、益丰村、六合村、全新村、东本堂村、白鹤堂村、四美村、八一村、福利堂村、清和村、青树村、仁寿村、滨湖村、新跃村、新建村、新安村、新湘村、新湖村、双闸村、永康村、长乐村、卫星村、农学村、农丰村、浩民村).
References
Divisions of Nan County |
3866327 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lines%20on%20the%20Antiquity%20of%20Microbes | Lines on the Antiquity of Microbes | "Lines on the Antiquity of Microbes", also known simply as "Fleas", is a couplet commonly cited as the shortest poem ever written, composed by American poet Strickland Gillilan in the early 20th century.
The poem reads in full:
Shorter poem
"Lines on the Antiquity of Microbes" is frequently said to be the shortest poem in the English language, or the shortest in the world. However, many shorter poems have since been written.
A notable example was composed by boxer Muhammad Ali. On June 4, 1975, after giving a speech at Harvard University, Ali was discussing poetry on stage with journalist George Plimpton. When asked for the shortest poem of all time, Plimpton recited "Fleas" as above, and Ali responded, "I've got one: Me? Whee!!"
According to the Guinness Book of Records, the world's shortest poem is a one-letter poem by Aram Saroyan comprising a four-legged version of the letter "m".
References
20th-century poems
American poems |
73366456 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-fentanyl%20legislation%20in%20the%20United%20States | Anti-fentanyl legislation in the United States | Beginning in 2022 and especially in 2023, the United States Congress has introduced and passed numerous pieces of legislation tackling opioids, fentanyl, and the opioid epidemic within America. Many of these bills have been introduced by members of the Republican Party, and some pieces of legislation have attracted bipartisan support from members of the Democratic Party. Most legislative efforts have arisen during the 117th and 118th Congresses.
Stop Fentanyl Border Crossings Act
The Stop Fentanyl Border Crossings Act is pending United States legislation introduced in both the 117th and 118th congresses. If enacted, the legislation would enable the Department of Health and Human Services to use Title 42 expulsion procedures and the Remain in Mexico policy to help combat the smuggling of fentanyl into the United States. to combat substantial, dangerous drug trafficking across the border. This power is allotted specifically to the Secretary of the Department.
Legislative history
The bill is most prominently sponsored by Senators Bill Hagerty of Tennessee and Roger Marshall of Kansas, and originally introduced by both senators as S.3959 with four more Republican cosponsors. In the 118th Congress, the bill was reintroduced by Tennessee Representative Scott DesJarlais and introduced as HR X.
In the 117th Congress, the bill was blocked by president pro tempore Patty Murray, on grounds related to the expiration of Title 42 expulsion procedures. The bill has been reintroduced in the 118th congress, albeit only in the house, by DeJarlais as House Resolution 1210; the legislation has presently been referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Support
The bill has received support from the Orange County Sheriff's Department in California, which stated through sheriff Don Barnes that the act "is needed legislation that will bolster the needed enforcement component [to prevent fentanyl from arriving in the United States]". Further support from California in favor of the bill was found in the Malibu Times, which ran an op-ed with the tag "From the Right" arguing not only that the bill greatly enhances the ability of law enforcement to block fentanyl from entering the country but also that the source of at least the raw materials for much of the fentanyl trade comes from enterprises based in the People's Republic of China, and that the Chinese government is potentially one of the forces behind the fentanyl influx.
Felony Murder for Deadly Fentanyl Distribution Act
The Felony Murder for Deadly Fentanyl Distribution Act is pending United States legislation originally introduced in the 117th Congress which has since been reintroduced in the 118th Congress as S.380. The bill, akin to its name, modifies Title 18 of the United States Code, specifically sections 1111, to give capital punishment or life imprisonment to individuals who distribute fentanyl. The bill defines "distributing fentanyl" as striking fentanyl within an individual.
The minimum amount of fentanyl needed to meet the bill's criteria for capital punishment is two grams or half a gram depending on the fentanyl variant, and the individual charged must have the knowledge of intentionally distributing fentanyl. The distribution of fentanyl must also result in the death of the victim.
Legislative history
The bill's leading sponsor is Florida senator Marco Rubio and has attracted sixteen cosponsors, all Republican senators. The bill has also been introduced in the House as H.R. 916 by Texas representative Tony Gonzales.
Support
The bill has received support from Louisiana locals, as WAFB ran stories of people whose family members lost their lives to fentanyl and have expressed a desire to see the bill passed. Rubio and Gonzales further argued that the Biden administration should do more to prevent illegal narcotics from entering the country, especially those which can tie their origins to mainland China. Many other Republicans in Congress issued statements supporting the passage of the legislation, such as Josh Hawley, Ted Budd, Joni Ernst, Tom Cotton, and Ted Cruz.
END FENTANYL Act
The END FENTANYL Act (Eradicating Narcotic Drugs and Formulating Effective New Tools to Address National Yearly Losses of Life) is pending legislation named for and targeting fentanyl overdoses.
The bill would require U.S. Customs and Border Protection to update its Office of Field Operations' policies and manuals every three years or more frequently on the prevention of drug and human smuggling, and report any and all changes to its manuals to House and Senate committees.
Though titled to end fentanyl specifically, the provisions within section 2 of the bill do not specifically mention fentanyl, and the legislation states it does not only target fentanyl but also other illegal substances, as well as human trafficking.
Legislative history
The bill was introduced by Republican Senator Rick Scott from Florida and Republican representative Michael Guest from Mississippi in both the 117th and 118th congresses; Scott's bill passed the Senate by unanimous consent during the 117th Congress on December 14, 2022, but never reached the House of Representatives.
In the 118th Congress, the bill was reintroduced by Scott and Guest in their respective houses of Congress; three other Republicans and four Democrats cosponsored Guest's bill, and Scott's bill was cosponsored by Republican Mike Braun and Democrats Jacky Rosen, Dianne Feinstein, and Maggie Hassan.
The bill passed the Senate by unanimous consent on June 22, 2023.
Justice Against Sponsors of Illicit Fentanyl Act of 2023
The Justice Against Sponsors of Illicit Fentanyl Act of 2023 was introduced by Republican Senator John Thune of South Dakota. The bill would enable American fentanyl survivors and civilians whose family members died or otherwise fell victim to illegal fentanyl to bring lawsuits against nations which sponsor the illegal smuggling trafficking.
Legislative history
Introduced as S.380 on February 9, 2023, the legislation highly resembles the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act, and to enable such suits, the bill would rollback judicial immunities in the American legal system against nations who engage in or enable the illegal smuggling of fentanyl into US territory.
HALT Fentanyl Act
The HALT Fentanyl Act (Halt All Lethal Trafficking) is pending legislation introduced in the House during the 118th congress by Republican Morgan Griffith from Virginia and originally cosponsored by Ohio Republican Bob Latta.
Initially introduced as H.R. 171, a second version of the bill, H.R. 467 received over 40 cosponsors. The bill, referred to the House committees on the Judiciary as well as on Energy and Commerce, would permanently designate fentanyl as a Schedule 1 narcotic under the Controlled Substances Act.
The bill is entirely cosponsored and generally supported by Republicans, and H.R. 467 of the legislation passed committees; it is due for a full house vote soon.
Public opposition
The bill has received opposition from some organizations for criminalizing chemically similar substances that potentially can be used for legitimate medical purposes or therapies; such backers of this argument include the American Civil Liberties Union and Human Rights Watch.
The latter in particular highlighted that history might repeat itself similar to the crack cocaine epidemic, in how legislation on preventing crack cocaine harmed black populations with more severe penalties compared to white populations, as more severe offenses would be held out to crack, historically affiliated with black populations, than cocaine, conversely affiliated with white populations.
See also
United States sanctions against China, which includes 2023 sanctions applied to producers of fentanyl precursors
Modernizing Opioid Treatment Access Act, proposed federal legislation to expand access to opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment
References
External links
END FENTANYL Act (118th Congress, S.206)
HALT Fentanyl Act (118th Congress, H.R. 171)
HALT Fentanyl Act (118th Congress, H.R. 467)
Justice Against Sponsors of Illicit Fentanyl Act of 2023
Fentanyl
United States federal controlled substances legislation
Substance abuse
Opioid epidemic in the United States |
12653451 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20C.%20R.%20Sheridan | William C. R. Sheridan | William Cockburn Russell Sheridan (March 25, 1917 – September 24, 2005) was the fifth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Northern Indiana and served from 1972 to 1987. He was born in New York, New York on March 25, 1917, the son of John Russell Sheridan and Gertrude Magdalen Herley Sheridan. He died September 24, 2005, at his home in Culver, Indiana and was buried in New Oakhill Cemetery, Plymouth, Indiana.
Early life and education
Sheridan grew up in Baltimore where he attended St. Paul's School Brooklandville, Maryland. He attended one year of college at the University of Virginia but due to lack of funds during the Great Depression had to drop out. He was accepted at Nashotah House Seminary in Wisconsin and attended Carroll College for his undergraduate work. He received a BA from Carroll in 1939. Bishop Sheridan would later obtain a M.Div from Nashotah House in the 1960s.
Ordination and Parish Ministry
William Sheridan was ordained to the deaconate on January 1, 1940, and to the priesthood on June 28, 1943, both in the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland. He assisted at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Towson, Maryland from 1942 to 1943. From 1943 to 1944 he assisted at St. Paul's, Hyde Park, Chicago. From 1944 to 1947, he was priest in charge of Episcopal churches in Gas City and Hartford City, Indiana while serving as rector of Gethsemane Episcopal Church in Marion, Indiana.
In 1947 Father Sheridan became rector of St Thomas' in Plymouth, Indiana and served there until he was elected bishop in 1972.
In 1959, Bishop Sheridan was presented with Plymouth Indiana's Distinguished Citizen Award for his ecumenical outreach, support for local civic developments, indigent assistance through the Ministerial Association, establishment of an Alcoholics Anonymous chapter (while in Marion, Indiana he established the first AA chapter in Indiana); he would receive the same award, again, when he retired and moved back to Marshall County. He was also awarded Indiana's highest distinction - the Sagamore of the Wabash - by the then governor of Indiana, Otis Bowen.
Episcopal Ministry
William Sheridan was consecrated as bishop on June 24, 1972, in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart on the campus of the University of Notre Dame at the special invitation of Notre Dame's former president, Fr. Theodore M. Hesburgh. The consecration service was broadcast by WNDU Television, South Bend, Indiana. Bishop Sheridan was the first non-Roman Catholic to be so honored.
Bishop Sheridan was the author of "For High School Boys Only", "Journey to Priesthood" and "Between Catholics". He remained devoted to his alma mater Nashotah House Seminary, both serving on the board of trustees and raising over $200,000 for a refectory and library addition. He was conferred the degree of Doctor of Canon Law by the seminary.
Wife and Family
William Sheridan met Rudith Treder, his future wife, when they were both attending Carroll College; they married in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on November 13, 1943. Bishop and Mrs. Sheridan raised three daughters and twin sons while living in Plymouth, Indiana. Mrs. Sheridan taught High School English and Literature.
After his retirement, Bishop and Mrs. Sheridan moved to Culver, Indiana residing in a former rural church where they both lived out their lives. They were survived by all five children, nine grandchildren and eleven great-grandchildren.
References
See also
Succession of Bishops of the Episcopal Church in the United States
1917 births
University of Virginia alumni
2005 deaths
Carroll University alumni
Nashotah House alumni
20th-century American Episcopalians
Episcopal bishops of Northern Indiana
20th-century American clergy |
38079935 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fissurella%20punctata | Fissurella punctata | Fissurella punctata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets and slit limpets.
Description
The size of the shell varies between 14 mm and 27 mm, rarely exceeding 25 mm in length. Shape of the shell is broadly oval, with both ends raised and lateral slopes slightly convex, while the posterior and short anterior are straight or slightly concave. The shell has approximately 55 radiating rounded ribs that widen towards the margin and are separated by grooves. Color is described as pale straw or white with variable red rays.
Distribution
This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off North Carolina, USA and the Bahamas; off Antigua.
References
External links
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To ITIS
To World Register of Marine Species
Fissurellidae
Gastropods described in 1943 |
6687494 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Schreder | Richard Schreder | Richard E. Schreder (25 September 1915 – 2 August 2002) was an American naval aviator and sailplane developer, responsible for design and development of the HP/RS-series kit sailplanes marketed from 1962 until about 1982. Schreder also founded and ran Airmate, a successful drafting supplies company.
Early life
At age 9 Schreder built his first airplane, a biplane hang glider that he built from plans found in a Popular Mechanics magazine. At 19 he built his first powered airplane, a single-seater powered by a Henderson Motorcycle engine.
After receiving a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Toledo in 1938, Schreder joined the United States Navy as a Naval Aviation Cadet. He served in the navy until 1948, rising to the rank of Commander.
While in the navy, Schreder was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for the sinking of the off Bermuda on 30 June 1942 while commanding a Martin PBM Mariner. Schreder's airmanship and marksmanship were such that he achieved a direct hit on the deck of the submarine with a depth charge. Schreder and his crew were initially disappointed when the depth charge did not explode on impact, and that it merely lodged itself into the teak planking of the deck. However, they continued to circle the site after the U-boat submerged, and observed that the charge detonated after the sub carried it down to its pre-set trigger depth.
After leaving the navy, Schreder founded a successful drafting supplies business in Toledo, Ohio, and later moved it to Bryan, Ohio. His fascination with flight continued unabated while nurturing this business, and he continued to experiment with small aircraft when he could. His next design, an all-metal low-wing single-seater called the Airmate 5, won the Experimental Aircraft Association's best workmanship award in 1954. A high-wing four-seater with a V-tail soon followed, but was abandoned before completion when Schreder tried soaring and was immediately hooked.
Schreder immediately bought a Bowlus Baby Albatross, and later a Schweizer SGS 1-23. The 1-23 was damaged on Schreder's first flight in it when it was drawn into a thunderstorm and pelted with golfball-sized hailstones. After a week of hasty repairs, Schreder flew this ship to a second-place finish in the 1955 National Championships in Grand Prairie, Texas.
In 1956, Schreder built the HP-7 and flew it to a fourth-place finish in that year's US National Championship contest. The HP-7 was quickly followed by the HP-8, in which Schreder flew to victory in the 1958 US Nationals in Bishop, California. Schreder also used his HP-8 to establish speed records over 100, 200, and 300 km courses.
Successful designs
After the HP-9, Schreder went on to develop the HP-10, his first attempt at developing a glider specifically for kit manufacture and construction by sailplane homebuilders. This project was handed off to Heliosoar, a company founded by Stephen DuPont to manufacture sailplane kits.
Schreder immediately started on the HP-11, completing the prototype in time to fly it to a third-place finish in the 1963 World Gliding Championships in Junín, Argentina. Upon returning to the States, Schreder refined the design slightly, added retractable landing gear, and offered it in kit form as the HP-11A.
Over the next few years, Schreder leapfrogged through the HP-series by successively developing new wings and then new fuselages for his glider designs. During this time Schreder also formalized his glider kit business, incorporating under the name Bryan Aircraft, Inc.
In 1966 Schreder flew his new HP-14 to victory in the US National Championships in Reno, Nevada, and created strong demand for HP-14 kits. This was his third national championship, having also won in 1958 and 1960.
Schreder's next design, the HP-15, was somewhat disappointing. Its high-aspect-ratio wing gave it good glider performance at high speed, but yielded too high a sink rate while at thermalling speed.
Building new wings for the HP-15 fuselage produced the HP-16. These new 15-meter wings were Schreder's first large foray into an innovative construction method featuring closely spaced PVC foam ribs (usually on 4" centers) bonded to an aluminum wing spar, to which was bonded a thin aluminum skin. The closely spaced ribs, combined with similarly-spaced foam interstitials, resulted in a cellular structure that yields great strength and stiffness with low weight. The HP-16 wing spars were made in inboard and outboard sections, each 12 feet (3.66 m) long, and each machined to an I-beam cross-section from billets of solid 7075-T6 aluminum and then spliced together to yield a 7.5m wing panel spar. The machining of these aluminum I beams would have been cost-prohibitive under normal circumstances, but was accomplished as something of a personal challenge by Schreder's friend John Mazur at his shop in Long Island, New York.
Following the HP-16, Schreder set to work on the RS-15, which combined the HP-16 wings and a new pod-and-boom fuselage. This ship was the only Schreder sailplane design to be named outside the HP nomenclature. The RS stood for Richard Schreder, and the 15 for its fifteen meters of span.
With his following design, the HP-17, Schreder developed a new, more cost-effective method for making wing spars. These spars featured a rectangular box section consisting of machined C-channels for the upper and lower caps, joined by shear web panels riveted to the flanges of the spar cap channels. These channels were again manufactured by Mazur, and were carefully made so that the floor of the channel tapers in thickness from 3/8" at the root to 1/16" at the tip.
It is not known whether the HP-17 actually flew, but the wing spars that Schreder developed for it found good use on Schreder's next and most popular kit sailplane, the HP-18.
First flown in 1974, the HP-18 was available in kit form in 1975, and in 1976 was featured in a series of six articles in Soaring Magazine that described every detail of its construction. In the spirit of the Popular Mechanics article from which Schreder built his first glider at age 9, the Soaring articles reproduced the HP-18 plans and assembly instructions in sufficient detail for a resourcful and mechanically-inclined individual to build the aircraft almost from scratch. However, most builders found it easier to purchase the HP-18 kit and its full-size plans from Bryan Aircraft.
Through the 1970s, homebuilt sailplanes including Schreder's kits fell somewhat into decline with the rise in performance and popularity of imported European composite sailplanes. Although the HP-18 was his most popular offering, it was also the last of Schreder's kit sailplanes. After the HP-18, Schreder tried his hand at manufacturing carbon-fiber composite wing spars, and abandoned it as too troublesome after making the one set, which was used by Henry Preiss to complete the one-off HP-19.
Schreder's HP-20 combined the HP-19 fuselage with an innovative new wing spar consisting of leaves of aluminum laminated and bonded together under pressure. The HP-21 was intended to be a variable-geometry self-launching sailplane based on the RS-15 fuselage and featuring retractable sailcloth wing extensions along the inboard trailing edges of its constant-chord wing, but was abandoned before completion. The HP-22 was to be a 2-seat amphibious sailplane, again self-launching, but was abandoned after the wings and most of the fuselage hull were completed.
Later years
In the period following the HP-18's heyday, Schreder also spent a great deal of time attempting to develop a lightweight jet engine for small aircraft. Schreder envisioned such a powerplant as being ideal for self-launching sailplanes. His first attempts featured pulsejet engines with their bodies contained within the blades of a propeller, and exhausting through nozzles deflected 90 degrees so as to cause the propeller to spin. Though some success was attained, Schreder found difficulty in containing the internal pressures so as to prevent the engine bodies from reverting to round cross-section. Also, these engines were quite loud and not very fuel-efficient.
Schreder died in 2002 from complications of kidney failure.
See also
Homebuilt aircraft
References
1915 births
2002 deaths
American aerospace engineers
Glider pilots
People from Bryan, Ohio
Recipients of the Distinguished Flying Cross (United States)
Lilienthal Gliding Medal recipients
People from Tecumseh, Michigan
Glider flight record holders
American aviation record holders
Glider manufacturers
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20th-century American engineers |
12274295 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott%20Rauland | Scott Rauland | Scott Marshall Rauland is an American diplomat.
He received his B.A. in European history from the University of Chicago in 1981 and his M.A. in Russian language and literature from Ohio State University in 1986. From 1982 through 1984 he studied at the University of Mainz, Germany.
Biography
Education
After graduation from university, he taught English in Wiesbaden, Germany, in the 1980s and Russian in Wisconsin from 1990 to 1993.
Career
Since 1993, he has been working in the U.S. Foreign Service. His first post there was Assistant Public Affairs Officer at Baku, Azerbaijan. From 1995 through 1998 he worked in Berlin as Program Development Officer for the new German Eastern states. Then, he took over the post Information Center Director in Islamabad, Pakistan for two years, before he was called to the American embassy in Quito, Ecuador, where he eventually took over the Public Affairs Division. From 2003 through 2005, he served as Consul General in Yekaterinburg, Russia, before returning to Germany to work in Frankfurt as Public Affairs Officer of the U.S. Consulate General. From late 2007 on, he worked in Afghanistan. He served as the U.S. Chargé d'affaires to Belarus at the American Embassy in Minsk from June 2014 to July 2016, followed by an assignment at the U.S. Helsinki Commission from August 2016 through December 2018, where he worked on human rights and security issues in Russia, Belarus, and the Baltics.
See also
List of ambassadors of the United States
References
Living people
Ohio State University Graduate School alumni
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz alumni
University of Chicago alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Ambassadors of the United States to Belarus |
55011661 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcello%20Curioni | Marcello Curioni | Marcello Curioni (born 28 May 1965) is an Italian male retired marathon runner, which participated at the 1997 World Championships in Athletics.
Achievements
References
External links
1965 births
Living people
Italian male marathon runners
World Athletics Championships athletes for Italy |
49293097 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1924%20in%20science%20fiction | 1924 in science fiction | The year 1924 was marked, in science fiction, by the following events.
Births and deaths
Births
June 6 : Robert Abernathy, American writer (died 1990)
July 20 : Thomas Berger, American writer (died 2014)
André Caroff, French writer (died 2009)
Deaths
Events
Awards
Literary releases
Novels
Berge Meere und Giganten, by Alfred Döblin.
The City of Light, a novel by Mieczysław Smolarski in genres of dystopia and catastrophism. The novel's themes include antimilitarism and pacifism, prevalent after World War I.
Stories collections
Short stories
Deux mille ans sous la mer, by Léon Groc.
Movies
Aelita, by Yakov Protazanov.
See also
1924 in science
1923 in science fiction
1925 in science fiction
References
Science fiction by year
science-fiction |
46795298 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartolom%C3%A9%20Revilla | Bartolomé Revilla | Bartolomé Revilla y San José (August 24, 1867 – May 7, 1922) was a Filipino lawyer, judge, law professor and politician.
Revilla was the first Representative of the 2nd district of Rizal during the 1st Philippine Legislature from 1907 to 1909. He also served as a judge in several Philippine provinces.
Early life
Revilla was born on August 24, 1867, in San Miguel, Bulacan in what was then the Spanish colony of the Philippines. He was one of six children born to Don Ceferino Revilla and Rosenda San Jose, Revilla spent most of his childhood in the Santa Cruz district of Manila. Revilla learned to read and write under the tutelage of his uncle, Teodoro Revilla Jr., a priest.
Revilla attended the Colegio de San Juan de Letran in Manila for his secondary education and then the University of Santo Tomas, where he completed his law degree in 1894.
According to Album Historico de la Primera Asamblea Filipina of 1907 (Worcester Philippine Collection, Library of the University of Michigan and compiled by Anthony R. Tuohy), Revilla served as Lieutenant in the legal corps of the Philippine Revolutionary Army under Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo during the Philippine Revolution against Spain.
Legal career
In 1901, the American-run Insular Government of the Philippine Islands reorganized the Judiciary system and appointed lawyers as judges. Revilla was appointed the Secretary of the Department of Public Prosecution. During this same time, he became a Professor of Law at the new Escuela De Derecho (present-day Manila Law College).
From 1901 to 1906, Revilla served as fiscal and judge of the court of first instance in several provinces (from the Report of the Philippine Commission to the US Secretary of War 1901). Revilla worked closely with future president Manuel L. Quezon in Tayabas (present-day province of Quezon), where Bartolome was Court of First Instance judge and Quezon was its governor.
Political career
It is presumed that in 1907, Quezon asked Revilla to run for the Philippine Assembly. Both men were members of the Partido Nacional Progresista, prior to the 1907 elections for the Philippine Assembly. Revilla became the Representative of Rizal's 2nd district, the first person to hold that office.
As a Representative, Revilla belonged to the following committees: Appropriation, Civil Service, Elections and Revision of Laws. Finishing his term as Representative in 1909, he chose not to run for re-election and instead went back to the judiciary.
Personal life
Revilla was married to Doña Vitaliana Revilla of Pasig and had eight children. He was also the brother of educator, Susana Revilla (co-founder of Instituto de Mujeres in Manila).
Death
Revilla died in 1922 in Manila.
Bibliography
Cullinane, Michael (1989). Ilustrado Politics: Filipino Elite Responses to American Rule, 1898-1908. Ateneo de Manila University Press.
References
External links
Escuela De Derecho
Lawlist.chanrobles.com
Archive.org on the 1st Philippine Assembly
Archive.org
Archive.org
Archive.org
Directorio biografico filipino, contiene las biografias de la intelectualidad Filipina, magistrados de la Corte suprema y jueces de primera instancia, miembros de la legislatura, altos funcionarios publicos y distinguidos, abogados y medicos Filipinos. P. Reyes y c.a, editores.
19th-century Filipino lawyers
20th-century Filipino judges
Members of the House of Representatives of the Philippines from Rizal
People from San Miguel, Bulacan
People from Santa Cruz, Manila
1867 births
1922 deaths
University of Santo Tomas alumni
Members of the Philippine Legislature |
7588425 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa%27s%20Cantina | Rosa's Cantina | Rosa's Cantina may refer to:
"Rosa's Cantina", a song by David Cassidy from his 1976 album Gettin' It in the Streets
"Rosa's Cantina", a song by Deep Purple from their 1996 album Purpendicular |
37082790 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bid%20Boland | Bid Boland | Bid Boland or Bid-e Boland () may refer to:
Bid Boland, Bushehr
Bid Boland, Khuzestan |
25257593 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20Dunning%20%28author%29 | Brian Dunning (author) | Brian Andrew Dunning (born 1965) is an American writer and producer who focuses on science and skepticism. He has hosted a weekly podcast, Skeptoid, since 2006, and he is an author of a series of books on the subject of scientific skepticism, some of which are based on the podcast. Skeptoid has been the recipient of several podcast awards such as the Parsec Award. Dunning has also created the Skeptoid.org spin-off video series, inFact, and The Feeding Tube both available on YouTube.
Dunning has produced two educational films on the subject of critical thinking: Here Be Dragons in 2008, and Principles of Curiosity in 2017.
Dunning co-founded Buylink, a business-to-business service provider, in 1996, and served at the company until 2002. He later became eBay's second biggest affiliate marketer; he has since been convicted of wire fraud through a cookie stuffing scheme. In August 2014, he was sentenced to 15 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release for the company obtaining between $200,000 and $400,000 through wire fraud.
Career
Buylink
In 1996 Dunning co-founded and was chief technology officer for Buylink Corporation. Buylink received venture capital funding from Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. In 2000 he participated in a presentation on Buylink at The Berkeley Entrepreneurs Forum called Bricks to Clicks in the New Internet Reality. He discussed the company on CNNfn's Market Call, in Rhonda Schaffler's Maverick of the Morning segment. In 2002, Dunning left his position as CTO of BuyLink.
Between 1997 and 2005 he was technical editor for FileMaker Advisor Magazine, and contributing editor of ISO FileMaker Magazine, 1996–2002, winning one of the FileMaker Excellence Awards at the 2001 FileMaker Developers Conference.
Skeptical activism
Beginning in 2006, Dunning hosted and produced Skeptoid, a weekly audio podcast dedicated "to furthering knowledge by blasting away the widespread pseudosciences that infect popular culture, and replacing them with way cooler reality." He is also the author of the book of the same title and a sequel.
Beginning in 2007, Dunning periodically released video episodes of his InFact series. Each episode is under four minutes long and covers issues similar to those explored in more depth in the Skeptoid podcast, but is intended to reach a wider audience due to its brevity and availability on YouTube.
In 2008 Dunning produced Here Be Dragons, a free 40 minute video introduction to critical thinking intended for general audiences, and received an award from the Portland Humanist Film Festival for this in November 2011.
In 2010 Dunning was awarded the Parsec Award for "Best Fact Behind the Fiction Podcast". In August 2010 he received an award recognizing his contributions in the skeptical field from the Independent Investigations Group (IIG) during its 10th Anniversary Gala.
In June 2017 Dunning's second film, Principles of Curiosity, was released. According to Dunning, this "presents a general introduction to the foundations of scientific skepticism and critical thinking... It is nonprofit, noncommercial, and licensed for free public and private screenings. It is provided with free educational materials for teachers, designed for high school through college. It is suitable for all audiences. Its 40-minute runtime should fit into most classes."
In October 2019, a special preview of the Skeptoid Media documentary, Science Friction, was shown after CSICon in Las Vegas. Through a series of interviews, the film addresses the issue of scientists and skeptics being misrepresented by the media. Produced by Dunning and directed by filmmaker and comedian Emery Emery, release of the film is scheduled for 2020.
Dunning has written articles for Skepticblog.org, published by The Skeptics Society, and was an executive producer for the unreleased network television pilot The Skeptologists.
He is a member of the National Association of Science Writers, and is the "Chancellor" of the non-accredited "Thunderwood College", a parody of unaccredited institutions of higher learning which offer "degrees" in a variety of subjects.
Wire fraud case
In August 2008, eBay filed suit against Dunning, accusing him of defrauding eBay and eBay affiliates in a cookie stuffing scheme for his company, Kessler's Flying Circus. In June 2010, based on the same allegations and following an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, a grand jury indicted Dunning on charges of wire fraud. On April 15, 2013, in the San Jose, California, U.S. District Court, as part of a plea agreement, Dunning pleaded guilty to wire fraud. The eBay civil suit was dismissed in May 2014 after the parties came to an agreement, while Dunning was sentenced in August 2014 to fifteen months in prison as a result of his company receiving between $200,000 and $400,000 in fraudulent commissions from eBay. In a statement on his website, Dunning stated that he is innocent, and that the only agreed to the settlement because he could not afford to continue the legal battle.
Skeptoid podcasts
Skeptoid is Dunning's weekly podcast. The show follows an audio essay format, and is dedicated to the critical examination of pseudoscience and the paranormal. In May 2012, Skeptoid Media became a 501(c)(3) educational nonprofit.
Along with similarly themed Point of Inquiry, Skepticality: The Official Podcast of Skeptic Magazine, and The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe, it is listed on an iTunes (US) web page of popular science and medicine podcasts. In May 2014, Skeptoid'''s website reported that the podcast had a weekly average of 161,000 downloads.
Each roughly ten-minute Skeptoid episode focuses on a single issue that is generally pseudoscientific in nature. Transcriptions of the episodes are available on line, and usually fall into one of four categories:
Quackery medical modalities: such as homeopathy, reflexology, detoxification, or chiropractic
Popular cultural misconceptions: such as organic foods, SUVs, and global warming
Urban legends: such as crop circles, the Amityville Horror, the Phoenix Lights, or the Philadelphia Experiment
Religion and mythology: such as creation legends, New Age religions, and concepts of sin
Beginning in 2007, Dunning authored a series of books based upon the Skeptoid podcast episodes.
Despite his shift away from the technology industry, Dunning continues to do computer programming, and does web development for his Skeptoid website.
From 2022, the show is distributed by public media organization PRX's Dovetail publishing platform; PRX also provides sponsorship and promotional support.
Skeptoid honorsSkeptoid was a 2009 Podcast Awards finalist in the Education category.
In 2010, Skeptoid won the Parsec Award for "Best Fact Behind the Fiction" podcast. Also in 2010, Skeptoid was recognized for "Outstanding Contribution to Science and Skepticism" by the Independent Investigations Group (IIG).
Publications
Filmography
Dunning was co-writer (with Emery Emery) of Science Friction'', a documentary on how scientists are misrepresented in the media. It was released on Amazon Prime Video in 2022 and starred Matt Kirshen, Janine Kippner, Simon Singh, Banachek, Steven Novella, Michael Shermer, Richard Dawkins, Ben Radford, Zubin Damania, and Ken Feder amongst other scientists.
References
External links
Official Website
Skeptoid Media
Skeptoid Official website
Films
1965 births
Living people
American male bloggers
American bloggers
American podcasters
American male writers
American science writers
American skeptics
Critics of alternative medicine
Critics of parapsychology
Science podcasts
American people convicted of mail and wire fraud
People from Laguna Niguel, California
American chief technology officers
21st-century American non-fiction writers
Ohlone College alumni |
57344824 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taenionema%20oregonense | Taenionema oregonense | Taenionema oregonense, the oregon willowfly, is a species of winter stonefly in the family Taeniopterygidae. It is found in North America.
References
Taeniopterygidae
Articles created by Qbugbot
Insects described in 1925 |
2907203 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew%205%3A42 | Matthew 5:42 | Matthew 5:42 is the forty-second verse of the fifth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament and is part of the Sermon on the Mount. This is the fifth and last verse of the antithesis on the command: "Eye for an eye".
Content
In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads:
Give to him that asketh thee, and from him
that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.
The World English Bible translates the passage as:
Give to him who asks you, and don’t turn
away him who desires to borrow from you.
The Novum Testamentum Graece text is:
τῷ αἰτοῦντί σε δός,
καὶ τὸν θέλοντα ἀπὸ σοῦ δανίσασθαι μὴ ἀποστραφῇς.
For a collection of other versions see BibleRef Matthew 5:42
Analysis
This verse is most often seen as a command to be charitable and it is quite similar to , but while that verse commands believers to give, this one simply states that they should not refuse requests ("lend, hoping for nothing again"). As with other parts of the Sermon on the Mount it is difficult to apply this verse literally, and no major Christian groups advocate such unrestricted charity. Luther argued the verse is restricted only to those who need assistance. Calvin states that generosity is important, but one should never be profligate.
A second interpretation of this verse is that it is not about charity, but rather against usury. The word borrow here is seen by some as a reference to the lending industry. Jesus is not stating that one should give money to anyone that asks, but rather that it is wrong to demand interest. Albright and Mann translate the last portion as "do not refuse one who is unable to pay interest."
Commentary from the Church Fathers
Jerome: If we understand this only of alms, it cannot stand with the estate of the most part of men who are poor; even the rich if they have been always giving, will not be able to continue always to give.
Augustine: Therefore, He says not, ‘Give all things to him that asks;’ but, Give to every one that asketh; that you should only give what you can give honestly and rightly. For what if one ask for money to employ in oppressing the innocent man? What if he ask your consent to unclean sin? We must give then only what will hurt neither ourselves or others, as far as man can judge; and when you have refused an inadmissible request, that you may not send away empty him that asked, show the righteousness of your refusal; and such correction of the unlawful petitioner will often be a better gift than the granting his suit.
Augustine: For with more benefit is food taken from the hungry, if certainty of provision causes him to neglect righteousness, than that food should be supplied to him that he may consent to a deed of violence and wrong.
Jerome: But it maybe understood of the wealth of doctrine: wealth which never fails but the more of it is given away, the more it abounds.
Augustine: That He commands, And from him that would borrow of thee, turn not away, must be referred to the mind; for God loveth a cheerful giver. (2 Cor. 9:7.) And every one that receives, indeed borrows, though it is not he that shall pay, but God, who restores to the merciful many fold. Or, if you like to understand by borrowing, only taking with promise to repay, we must understand the Lord's command as embracing both these kinds of affording aid; whether we give outright, or lend to receive again. And of this last kind of showing mercy it is well said, Turn not away, that is, do not be therefore backward to lend, as though, because man shall repay you, therefore God shall not; for what you do by God's command cannot be without fruit.
Pseudo-Chrysostom: Christ bids us lend but not on usury; for he who gives on such terms does not bestow his own, but takes of another; he looses from one chain to bind with many, and gives not for God's righteousness sake, but for his own gain. For money taken on usury is like the bite of an asp; as the asp's poison secretly consumes the limbs, so usury turns all our possessions into debt.
See also
Christian anarchism
Gift economy
References
Further reading
France, R. T. The Gospel According to Matthew: an Introduction and Commentary. Leicester: Inter-Varsity, 1985.
Schweizer, Eduard. The Good News According to Matthew. Atlanta: John Knox Press, 1975.
05:42 |
62996662 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20Johannis%20Adriaan%20Berger | Jan Johannis Adriaan Berger | Jan Johannis Adriaan Berger (18 September 1918 – 6 September 1978) was a Dutch politician. During WWII he hid people who were supposed to be shipped off to Germany as forced labourers. In 1946 he became a member of the Labour Party. On 15 July 1952 he became a member of the lower house. As member of the lower house he represented his party in matters of social security. He spent much effort on the creation and passing of the Algemene Ouderdomswet. The minister of social security and health care even proposed to name the bill after Berger but he refused as he feared this would alienate its Christian supporters. On 21 September 1954 Berger left the lower house. On 20 March 1959 Berger returned to the lower house, he also was a member of the party leadership in this period. He was approached for the position of parliamentary leader but refused the job. From on 1961 Berger represented the interest of the North Netherlands. On 3 July 1962 he became a member for the states-provincial, representing Groningen, he was immediately made parliamentary leader. On 1 June 1965 Berger became mayor of Groningen. On 11 May 1971 he became a member of the lower house for the third and final time, this time for DS’70, permanently leaving on 1 April 1975. He died on 6 September 1978.
Berger was married to Willy Maliepaard, this union produced two sons and a daughter.
Notes and references
1918 births
1978 deaths
20th-century Dutch politicians |
1786241 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavrilov%20%28crater%29 | Gavrilov (crater) | Gavrilov is a lunar impact crater on the far side of the Moon. It lies to the south of the heavily eroded crater Vernadskiy, and north of Vetchinkin.
This is a circular and relatively symmetric crater formation with some erosion of the outer rim. There are some small craterlets in the eastern half of the interior, and a small central rise near the midpoint.
Satellite craters
By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Gavrilov.
References
Impact craters on the Moon |
62104063 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karim%20Uddin%20Bharsha | Karim Uddin Bharsha | Karimuddin Bharsha was a Jatiya Party (Ershad) politician and the former Member of Parliament of Rangpur-1 & Rangpur-4.
Early life
Bharsha was born in Haragache, Kaunia Upazila, Rangpur District.
Career
Bharsa was elected to parliament from Rangpur-1 as a Jatiya Party candidate in September 1991. The by-elections were called after Ershad, who was elected from five constituency including Rangpur-1, chose to resign and represent Rangpur-3. Bharsha was elected to parliament from Rangpur-4 as a Jatiya Party candidate in 1996 and 2001.
Death
Bharsha died on 23 July 2022 in Evercare Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
References
Jatiya Party politicians
5th Jatiya Sangsad members
7th Jatiya Sangsad members
8th Jatiya Sangsad members
Year of birth missing
2022 deaths
People from Rangpur District
Politicians from Rangpur Division |
68668314 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro%20Arce | Pedro Arce | Pedro Arce may refer to:
Pedro Miguel Arce (born 1961), Nicaraguan actor
Pedro Arce (Mexican footballer) (born 1991), Mexican football attacking midfielder
Pedro Arce (Paraguayan footballer) (born 1991), Paraguayan football midfielder |
36113957 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line%203%20%28Suzhou%20Rail%20Transit%29 | Line 3 (Suzhou Rail Transit) | Line 3 is an east-west line of Suzhou Rail Transit. The line is 45.272 kilometers long. The line links the Wuzhong District, Suzhou Industrial Park, and the Suzhou New District.
Line 3 started trial operations from December 6 to December 10, 2019. Official operation started on December 25, 2019.
Stations
Through service
Through service between Line 3 and Line 11 will start in late 2023.
Map
Gallery
References
Suzhou Rail Transit lines
Suzhou Industrial Park
Railway lines opened in 2019 |
1040886 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIM-162%20ESSM | RIM-162 ESSM | The RIM-162 Evolved SeaSparrow Missile (ESSM) is a development of the RIM-7 Sea Sparrow missile used to protect ships from attacking missiles and aircraft. ESSM is designed to counter supersonic maneuvering anti-ship missiles. ESSM also has the ability to be "quad-packed" in the Mark 41 Vertical Launch System, allowing up to four ESSMs to be carried in a single cell.
Design
The original Sea Sparrow was an expedient design intended to provide short-range defensive fire in a system that could be deployed as rapidly as possible. The AIM-7 Sparrow was the simplest solution as its radar guidance allowed it to be fired head-on at targets and this guidance was easily provided by mounting an aircraft radar on a trainable platform. In the years after its introduction, it was upgraded to follow improvements being made in the air-to-air Sparrow models used by the US Navy and US Air Force. The ultimate version in this line of weapons was the R model, which introduced a new dual-seeker homing system and many other upgrades. After that point, the AIM-120 AMRAAM offered higher performance from a missile that was smaller and lighter, and development of the Sparrow ended in the 1990s.
This left only the Sea Sparrow using the basic platform, and it no longer had to fit on aircraft. So instead of simply using the P and R models as they were, it was decided to dramatically upgrade the weapon as the Evolved SeaSparrow. The ESSM emerged as a completely new weapon, common only in name with the original, although using all of the same support equipment allowing it to be fit to ships already mounting the older models. Compared to the Sea Sparrow, ESSM has a larger, more powerful rocket motor for increased range and agility, as well as upgraded aerodynamics using strakes and skid-to-turn. In addition, ESSM takes advantage of the latest missile guidance technology, with different versions for Aegis/AN/SPY-1, Sewaco/Active Phased Array Radar (APAR), and traditional target illumination all-the-way.
In the 2000s the NATO Seasparrow Project Office began planning an upgraded Block 2 version of the ESSM. In 2014 Canada pledged 200M CAD to underwrite their share of the Block 2's development cost. ESSM Block 2 leverages the existing Block 1 rocket motor and features a dual-mode X band seeker, increased maneuverability, and other enhancements. Block 2 features enhanced communications systems that allow for mid-course guidance correction, which makes the missiles easy to network into the Navy's emerging Cooperative Engagement Capability. Unlike Block 1, Block 2's active radar homing seeker will support terminal engagement without the launch ship's target illumination radars. The upgraded blast-fragmentation warhead was designed, developed and is being produced by Roketsan. The improved ESSM Block II will be fielded by the US Navy from 2020.
Launchers
Mk 29
The original launcher is Mark 29 Guided Missile Launching System Mod. 4 & 5 (Mk 29 GMLS Mod 4 & 5), which is developed from earlier models Mk 29 Mod 1/2/3 for Sea Sparrow. Mk 29 launchers provide on-mount stowage and launching capability for firing up to eight missiles in a self-contained environmentally controlled trainable launcher design.
Mk 41
The Mark 41 Vertical Launching System is the primary launch system for the Evolved SeaSparrow Missile. The Mk 41 is deployed aboard destroyers and frigates, primarily of the United States and allied nations. The ESSM is quadpacked within a Mk 41 cell allowing a significantly increased missile load over SM-2.
Mk 48
In addition to the Mk 29 GMLS and Mk 41 VLS, the other primary launcher is Mk 48 VLS. The 2-cell module of Mk 48 makes the system very versatile and enables it to be installed on board in spaces that otherwise cannot be utilized. The weight of a 2-cell module of Mk 48 is 660 kg (1,450 lb; including empty canisters), 330 kg (725 lb) for exhaust system, and 360 kg (800 lb) for ship installation interfaces. Each canister of the Mk 48 VLS houses a single RIM-7VL (Vertically Launched) Sea Sparrow cell or two RIM-162 ESSM cells, though, with modification, other missiles can also be launched. There are a total of four models in the Mk 48 family, with Mod 0 & 1 housing either 2 RIM-7VL or 4 RIM-162 cells, Mod 2 housing either 16 RIM-7VL or 32 RIM-162 cells. Mod 0/1/2 are usually grouped into either a 16-cell module for RIM-7VL or a 32-cell module for RIM-162. Mod 3 fits into the StanFlex modules on Royal Danish Navy ships and can house either 6 RIM-7VL or 12 RIM-162 cells; the Danes now use the latter.
Mk 56
The successor of the Mk 48 VLS is the Mark 56 Guided Missile Vertical Launching System (Mk 56 GMVLS) or simply Mk 56. In comparison to its predecessor, the Mk 56 utilizes a greater percentage of composite material, reducing the weight by more than 20%. The Mexican Navy will be one of the customers of the Mk 56, using an 8-cell launcher on their Sigma-class design frigates.
Specifications:
Mark 57 (Mk 57)
The Mk 57 Peripheral Vertical Launching System (PVLS), an evolution of Mk 41 VLS, is used on Zumwalt-class destroyers. It is designed to be installed on the ship periphery instead of centralized magazines. It comes in 4-cell launcher modules and provides backwards compatibility with existing missiles, while allowing new missiles with significantly increased propulsion and payloads.
AMRAAM-ER
The AMRAAM-ER is an Extended Range upgrade to the AIM-120 AMRAAM missile for the NASAMS ground-based air defense system, which combines ESSM rocket motor with the AMRAAM two-stage seeker head.
Operational history
US operational evaluation was conducted in July 2002 aboard . Initial operational capability did not occur until later.
In October 2003, at the USN Pacific Missile Range Facility near Hawaii, Australian frigate conducted a successful firing of an ESSM. The firing was also the first operational use of the CEA Technologies CWI for guidance.
In November 2003, approximately from the Azores, the Royal Netherlands Navy (RNLN) frigate conducted a live fire test of a single ESSM. This firing was the first ever live firing involving a full-size ship-borne active electronically scanned array (i.e. the APAR radar) guiding a missile using the Interrupted Continuous Wave Illumination (ICWI) technique in an operational environment. As related by Jane's Navy International:
During the tracking and missile-firing tests, target profiles were provided by Greek-built EADS/3Sigma Iris PVK medium-range subsonic target drones. [...] According to the RNLN, ... "APAR immediately acquired the missile and maintained track until destruction". [...] These ground-breaking tests represented the world's first live verification of the ICWI technique.
In August 2004, a German Navy completed a series of live missile firings at the Point Mugu missile launch range off the coast of California that included a total of 11 ESSM missile firings. The tests included firings against target drones such as the Northrop BQM-74E Chukkar III and Teledyne Ryan BQM-34S Firebee I, as well as against missile targets such as the Beech AQM-37C and air-launched Kormoran 1 anti-ship missiles.
Further live firings were performed by the RNLN frigate HNLMS De Zeven Provinciën in March 2005, again in the Atlantic Ocean approximately west of the Azores. The tests involved three live-firing events (two of which involved the ESSM) including firing a single SM-2 Block IIIA at an Iris target drone at long range, a single ESSM at an Iris target drone, and a two-salvo launch (with one salvo comprising two SM-2 Block IIIAs and the other comprising two ESSMs) against two incoming Iris target drones.
All ESSM launches from and Sachsen-class frigates involved ESSMs quad-packed in a Mark 41 Vertical Launching System.
The first "kill" by the RIM-162D from a United States Navy carrier's Mk 29 launcher was achieved during a training exercise by on 7 October 2008.
On 14 May 2013, the ESSM intercepted a high-diving supersonic test target, demonstrating the ability to hit high-G maneuvering, low-velocity air threats, as well as surface targets. No software changes were needed to prove the ESSM's enhanced capability.
On 30 August 2015, during the annual 'Co-operation Afloat Readiness and Training' ('CARAT') exercise, the ESSM was fired from the Royal Thai Navy Naresuan-class guided-missile frigate HTMS Naresuan and achieved a direct hit on a BQM-74E drone missile launched from the USN amphibious dock landing ship USS Germantown.
On 9 October 2016, fired one RIM-162 ESSM and two SM-2s to defend against two incoming Houthi anti-ship cruise missiles, potentially Chinese-built C-802 missiles. It is unknown if the RIM-162 was responsible for intercepting either of the missiles, but the incident marked the first time the ESSM was used in a combat situation.
In 2018, the ESSM Block 2 passed its first live fire test, successfully intercepting a BQM-74E target drone using its active guidance seeker-head.
Operators
Source: US Navy—Fact File: Evolved Seasparrow Missile
ESSM Consortium Members:
Foreign Military Sales (FMS):
See also
K-SAAM
CAMM (missile family)
HQ-16
Buk missile system
VL-SRSAM
List of missiles
References
External links
Designation Systems.net: Raytheon RIM-162 ESSM
NATO SEASPARROW Project Office
NAMMO Raufoss - Nordic Ammunition Company
RIM162 |
66007263 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20River%20Way | Big River Way | Big River Way is a road in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales that connects the Pacific Highway to the city of . It runs along a former section of the Pacific Highway that was bypassed by a newer alignment in 2020.
Route
Big River Way branches from Pacific Highway at Glenugie and follows the former Pacific Highway alignment via the city of Grafton and the town of Tyndale to Maclean, which runs along the Clarence River and South Arm.
History
Many sections of the Pacific Highway had been bypassed since 1996 as part of the Pacific Highway Upgrade. The section between Glenugie and Maclean was due to be bypassed by a new alignment in 2020. The existing alignment was proposed to be renamed when the new alignment opens, with community consultation undertaken in 2019 to obtain suggestions and feedback from the community. Originally, the route names of Gwydir Highway and Summerland Way were to be extended along the road alignment towards Tyndale and Glenugie respectively. However, this was not supported by the community and so a local name was to be given instead. The route numbers of Gwydir Highway and Summerland Way, route B76 and route B91 respectively, would still be extended along the road alignment. In December 2019, Clarence Valley Council voted to endorse Big River Way as the new name for submission to the Geographical Names Board of New South Wales (GNB), and in February 2020, the new name was approved by the GNB.
The new alignment of the highway between Tyndale and Maclean opened on 1 April 2020. On a temporary basis, the northern end of the old Pacific Highway only connected to Cameron Street, with a left-in left-out temporary access to the newly-aligned Pacific Highway located to the south. On 19 May 2020, the new alignment between Glenugie and Tyndale opened and bypassed Grafton. The old alignment was the site of the Grafton bus crash in October 1989 when a semi-trailer and a bus collided head-on, resulting in the deaths of 21 people.
A week later, on 26 May 2020, the old Pacific Highway at Grafton was realigned onto a new link road intersecting perpendicular to Iolanthe Street (Summerland Way), as part of the New Grafton Bridge project. The previous alignment of the old Pacific Highway was reduced to northbound only. Three days later, on 29 May 2020, the old alignment of Pacific Highway between Glenugie and Maclean was officially renamed and gazetted as Big River Way.
In June 2020, Transport for NSW began to propose safety improvement upgrades on the Big River Way between Glenugie and Tyndale.
In August 2020, the Maclean Interchange fully opened and the Big River Way connected to a new roundabout with connections to Cameron Street and direct on-ramp and off-ramps to Pacific Highway. The temporary access to Pacific Highway to the south was also closed. In the same month, the roundabout at the intersection of Big River Way and Charles Street (Gwydir Highway) was completed and opened to traffic, marking the completion of major works on the New Grafton Bridge project.
The section between Glenugie and Grafton is signposted as B91, the route number for Summerland Way, and the section between Grafton and Tyndale is signposted B76, the route number for Gwydir Highway.
The passing of the Roads Act of 1993 updated road classifications and the way they could be declared within New South Wales. Under this act, Gwydir Highway (as Highway 12) was officially extended east along Big River Way from South Grafton to the Tyndale North interchange, and Summerland Way (as Main Road 83) was officially extended south along Big River Way from South Grafton to the Glenugie interchange, on 5 July 2022, although the road is still known locally and sign-posted as Big River Way. Gwydir Highway and Summerland Way today, as parts of Highway 12 and Main Road 83 respectively, still retain these declarations.
Major junction list
Big River Way is entirely contained within the Clarence Valley Council local government area.
See also
Macleay Valley Way - bypassed section of Pacific Highway and the site of the Kempsey bus crash
Giinagay Way - bypassed section of Pacific Highway at Nambucca Heads and Urunga
References
Roads in New South Wales |
54873002 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20History%20of%20Comedy | The History of Comedy | The History of Comedy is a CNN documentary series, as part of CNN Original Series.
The documentary explores the underlying questions of what makes American people laugh, why, and how the laughter influenced their social and political landscape throughout American history.
The show utilizes archival footage, punctuated by contemporary interviews with comedians and scholars.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2017)
Season 2 (2018)
History of the Sitcom
In 2021, CNN followed their comedy history docuseries with History of the Sitcom, an eight-part series which traced the development of the American situation comedy show from the 1950s to the 21st Century. The show features 184 interviews with creatives, actors and directors including Norman Lear, Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner (in his last recorded interview).
References
2017 American television series debuts
CNN original programming
English-language television shows
2010s American documentary television series |
55057237 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961%E2%80%9362%20Eintracht%20Frankfurt%20season | 1961–62 Eintracht Frankfurt season | The 1961–62 Eintracht Frankfurt season was the 62nd season in the club's football history. In Oberliga Süd the club played in the Oberliga Süd, then one of many top tiers of German football. It was the club's 17th season in the Oberliga Süd.
Eintracht finished the league as runners-up. In the German Championship Qualifiers the Eagles finished as 2nd.
Matches
Legend
Friendlies
Oberliga Süd
League fixtures and results
League table
Results summary
Results by round
German football championship
League fixtures and results
League table
Results summary
Results by round
DFB-Pokal / SFV-Pokal
DFB-Pokal
SFV-Pokal
Squad
Squad and statistics
|}
Transfers
In:
Out:
Sources
German archive site
See also
1962 German football championship
External links
Official English Eintracht website
1961-62
German football clubs 1961–62 season |
51848500 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedonian%20Basketball%20Super%20Cup | Macedonian Basketball Super Cup | The Macedonian Basketball Super Cup (), is a basketball tournament held annually. It is the third most important national title in Macedonian basketball after the Macedonian First League and Macedonian Basketball Cup. Currently, MZT Skopje Aerodrom holds the record for most titles won with 6, and Rabotnički and Nikol Fert with 2.
Past champions
Performance by club
References
External links
Macedonian Basketball Federation
КУП НА МАКЕДОНИЈА
supercup
Basketball supercup competitions in Europe
2000 establishments in the Republic of Macedonia |
19313879 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterdam%20RAI%20station | Amsterdam RAI station | Amsterdam RAI (Dutch: Rijwiel en Automobiel Industrie) is a railway station situated in southern Amsterdam, Netherlands. It is located between the two directions of the A10 Amsterdam ring road. It is also a metro station at which GVB runs two lines. The station takes its name from the nearby RAI Amsterdam Convention Centre.
History
The original station opened in 1981 when it was a terminus station, with just one platform and the station had no signals. It was then possible to walk straight onto the GVB tramway line 4 (with Amsterdam Central Station as terminus) without changing platforms.
In 1988 the tram terminus moved to street level below the station. This was due to the building of Amsterdam Metro line 51 next to the railway station. This line began operating in 1990. The roof of the railway station was built in 1997. The new station was built in 1991 and Amsterdam RAI became an island platform station and then in 1993 the line was extended towards Weesp.
The design of the station is by architect Rob Steenhuis.
In 2012, an expansion of the station from 2 to 4 tracks was commenced. These works were completed in August 2016.
The station is named after the Amsterdam RAI Exhibition and Convention Centre building.
Service
Train
, the following train services call at this station:
2× per hour local Sprinter service Hoofddorp - Schiphol - Duivendrecht - Weesp - Almere
2× per hour local Sprinter service Hoofddorp - Schiphol - Duivendrecht - Weesp - Hilversum - Utrecht
During some conferences at the RAI, Intercity services stop here too.
Metro
GVB operates all Amsterdam city services and Metro lines 50 and 51 stop at Amsterdam RAI metro station which runs parallel with the NS railway.
50 Isolatorweg - Sloterdijk - Lelylaan - Zuid - RAI - Duivendrecht - Bijlmer ArenA - Holendrecht - Gein
51 Centraal Station - Amstel - RAI - Zuid - Lelylaan - Sloterdijk - Isolatorweg
Tram
GVB operates one tram service to Amsterdam RAI.
4 Central Station - Rembrandtplein - Utrechtsestraat - Ceintuurbaan - RAI
Bus
This service is operated by GVB.
62 Station Lelylaan - Slotervaart - Hoofddorpplein - Haarlemmermeerstation - Olympisch Stadion - VU - Buitenveldert - RAI - Station Amstel
This service is operated by Transdev
321 Huizen - Muiden - Amsterdam RAI - Amsterdam Zuid/VU
External links
NS website
Dutch Public Transport journey planner
RAI
Railway stations opened in 1981
Railway stations on the Zuidtak Ringspoorbaan
RAI
Tram stops in Amsterdam
Amsterdam-Zuid
Railway stations in the Netherlands opened in the 1980s |
1138158 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish%20music%20%281900%E2%80%931949%29 | Scottish music (1900–1949) |
Births and deaths
Births
Jeannie Robertson (1908–1975)
Jimmy Shand (1908–2000)
Ewan MacColl (1915–1989)
Jane Turriff (1915–2013)
Roy Williamson (1936–1990)
Hamish Imlach (1940–1996)
John Martyn (1948)
Dick Gaughan (1948)
Collections of songs or music
1911 "Folk Song in the North-East" by Gavin Greig (1856–1914)
1930 "Bothy Songs and Ballads" by John Ord
Recordings
1908 "The Music of Scott Skinner" by Scott Skinner (1843–1927)
Scottish music
20th century in Scotland
1900s in British music
1910s in British music
1920s in British music
1930s in British music
1940s in British music |
5048295 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir%20Osmond%20Esmonde%2C%2012th%20Baronet | Sir Osmond Esmonde, 12th Baronet | Sir Osmond Thomas Grattan Esmonde, 12th Baronet (4 April 1896 – 22 July 1936) was an Irish diplomat and Cumann na nGaedheal (and later Fine Gael) politician.
He was born in Ballynastragh, Gorey, County Wexford in 1896, the eldest son of Sir Thomas Esmonde. He was educated at Mount St Benedict School in Gorey; and the Downside School. He attended Balliol College, Oxford and University College Dublin, though he did not graduate from either.
After the 1916 Easter Rising, he joined Sinn Féin and campaigned at the 1918 general election for Roger Sweetman in Wexford North, even though his father was the sitting MP and Irish Parliamentary Party candidate.
Esmonde was first elected to the 4th Dáil at the 1923 general election as Cumann na nGaedheal Teachta Dála (TD) for the Wexford constituency. He did not contest the June 1927 general election, but was returned to the 6th Dáil in the September 1927 general election. He was re-elected at the 1932 general election, and again at the 1933 general election.
After his death aged 40 on 22 July 1936, the consequent by-election for his seat in Dáil Éireann was held on 17 August, and won by the Fianna Fáil candidate Denis Allen.
He never married and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his uncle Laurence Esmonde.
See also
Families in the Oireachtas
References
External links
Photographs of Sir Osmond Esmonde at the National Portrait Gallery (London)
1896 births
1936 deaths
Baronets in the Baronetage of Ireland
Cumann na nGaedheal TDs
Irish diplomats
Members of the 4th Dáil
Members of the 6th Dáil
Members of the 7th Dáil
Members of the 8th Dáil
Osmond
Fine Gael TDs
Football Association of Ireland officials |
8672731 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blouberg | Blouberg | Blouberg (literally meaning blue mountain) can refer to:
Bloubergstrand, a beach town near Cape Town named after the mountain
Blouberg (range), a rocky range in Limpopo Province
Blouberg Local Municipality, a municipality in Limpopo Province named after the range |
53540230 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parastrophius | Parastrophius | Parastrophius is a genus of spiders in the family Thomisidae. It was first described in 1903 by Simon. , it contains 2 species.
References
Thomisidae
Araneomorphae genera
Spiders of Africa
Spiders of Asia |
58328666 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abramtsevo%2C%20Sergiyevo-Posadsky%20District%2C%20Moscow%20Oblast | Abramtsevo, Sergiyevo-Posadsky District, Moscow Oblast | Abramtsevo () is a rural locality (a selo) in Khotkovo Urban Settlement of Sergiyevo-Posadsky District, Moscow Oblast, Russia. The population was 209 as of 2010. There are 44 streets.
Geography
Abramtsevo is located 22 km southwest of Sergiyev Posad (the district's administrative centre) by road. Glebovo is the nearest rural locality.
See also
Abramtsevo Colony
References
Rural localities in Moscow Oblast |
17797628 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agroetas | Agroetas | Agroetas () was an ancient Greek historian who wrote a work on Scythia (), from the thirteenth book of which the scholiast on Apollonius of Rhodes quotes, and one on Libya (), the fourth book of which is quoted by the same scholiast. He is also mentioned by Stephanus of Byzantium. He is one of the authors (= FGrHist 762) whose fragments were collected in Felix Jacoby's Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker.
Agroetas is also the name of a Roman rhetorician mentioned by the elder Seneca, but about whom nothing more is known.
References
Ancient Greek historians known only from secondary sources
Ancient Roman rhetoricians |
10725003 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalle%20Kustaa%20Paasia | Kalle Kustaa Paasia | Kaarlo Kustaa "Kalle" Paasia (28 August 1883 – 19 December 1961) was a Finnish gymnast who won bronze in the 1908 Summer Olympics.
Gymnastics
He won the Finnish national championship in team gymnastics as a member of Ylioppilasvoimistelijat in 1909.
Biography
His parents were farmer Kalle Kustaa Paasia and Amanda Kustaantytär. He was married twice:
Edit Erika Kalalahti (1917)
Helmi Elisabet Kivekäs (1922)
He completed his matriculation exam at the Hämeenlinna Lyceum in 1905 and graduated as an agronomist in 1911.
He worked as a chief executive officer of Toijala dairy, principal and teacher of Päivölä farm school, an assistant at the state butter inspection plant in Hanko and a manager at the butter inspection plant in Turku.
Sources
References
1883 births
1961 deaths
People from Valkeakoski
Sportspeople from Häme Province (Grand Duchy of Finland)
Finnish male artistic gymnasts
Gymnasts at the 1908 Summer Olympics
Olympic gymnasts for Finland
Olympic bronze medalists for Finland
Olympic medalists in gymnastics
Medalists at the 1908 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Pirkanmaa
20th-century Finnish people |
38901862 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivi%C3%A8re-de-la-Savane | Rivière-de-la-Savane | Rivière-de-la-Savane is an unorganized territory in the Mauricie, province of Quebec, Canada, part of the Mékinac Regional County Municipality. This territory includes among others the Irénée-Marie Ecological Reserve and Zec du Chapeau-de-Paille.
Geography
Located west of the Saint-Maurice River, the shape of this area resembles to the number "1" bent on 45 degrees to the northwest and its southern boundary is formed by the Matawin River. This area is located north of La Mauricie National Park. The northern boundary of this area is a straight line of south-east to north-west, from the Matawin River to Mondonac Lake which defines the northwestern boundary of the territory.
Its entire area is forested.
References
External links
Unorganized territories in Mauricie |
52376947 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly%20Hollow | Kelly Hollow | Kelly Hollow (also spelled Kelley Hollow) is a valley in Oregon County in the U.S. state of Missouri.
Kelly Hollow has the name of the local family.
References
Valleys of Oregon County, Missouri
Valleys of Missouri |
24818391 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Egerton%20%28mercer%29 | Thomas Egerton (mercer) | Thomas Egerton (by 1521 – 1590/97) was a London merchant and member of the Worshipful Company of Mercers.
He served as Under-Treasurer of the Royal Mint at the Tower of London from 1552 to 1555. In this capacity, he and John Godsalve issued the double-faced shillings of Philip and Mary. However he was held to have unduly profited from a silver-buying contract and was dismissed in December 1555; he would spend the rest of his life in debt to the Crown.
His family obtained his election as Member of Parliament for Newcastle-under-Lyme in 1558, to help him defend himself from his creditors (MPs enjoyed Parliamentary privilege against arrest for debt). However, when Parliament was prorogued he was arrested and committed to the Fleet prison. With the help of the Speaker, William Cordell, Egerton obtained his release on bond to pay off his debt.
While he never succeeded in settling his debt in full, Egerton did enjoy commercial success during the remainder of his life. He was Master of the Mercers' Company in 1587, and was a founder-member of the Russia Company.
References
Secondary sources
1521 births
1590s deaths
English MPs 1558
Members of the Parliament of England for Newcastle-under-Lyme
Businesspeople from London
16th-century merchants
Inmates of Fleet Prison
People of the Muscovy Company
People imprisoned for debt |
3511544 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCrory%20Gardens%20and%20South%20Dakota%20Arboretum | McCrory Gardens and South Dakota Arboretum | McCrory Gardens and South Dakota State Arboretum (70 acres) are botanical gardens and an arboretum located on the South Dakota State University campus in Brookings, South Dakota.
McCrory Gardens is operated and maintained by South Dakota State University and named in honor of Professor S. A. McCrory, head of SDSU's horticulture department from 1947 until his death in 1964.
McCrory Gardens has over 25 acres of formal display gardens and 45 acres of arboretum featuring hundreds of different flowers, trees, shrubs and grasses in harmonious settings to display, educate, and further the development of new varieties.
The South Dakota State Arboretum features trees and shrubs that are adapted to South Dakota's climate. In addition new selections of trees and shrubs are trialed to test their adaptability to local growing conditions.
The gardens are funded primarily by donations, memberships, admission fees, special gifts, and endowment returns. Ongoing research continues to provide new information to the scientific community and the public on the introduction, cultivation, and arrangement of native and domesticated plants. The testing and evaluation of new woody plant selections and varieties in the climate of the northern Great Plains, initiated by Niels Ebbesen Hansen almost three-quarters of a century ago, remains an integral part of research.
See also
List of botanical gardens in the United States
References
Arboreta in South Dakota
Botanical gardens in South Dakota
Flora of South Dakota
South Dakota State University
Protected areas of Brookings County, South Dakota |
26683305 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conchubhar%20mac%20Cumasgach | Conchubhar mac Cumasgach | Conchubhar mac Cumasgach or Conchobar mac Cummascaig (died 769) was King of Uí Fiachrach Aidhne, now part of Ireland.
With the death of Fergal Aidne mac Artgaile, died 696, the kingdom of Aidhne entered an era of political insignificance, its rulers been confined to their immediate homeland and reduced to the status of mere lords. Even the succession is uncertain, as Conchubhar is only listed as king upon his death in 769, over seventy years after the death of Fergal. He is only one of two rulers of the kingdoms known from the 8th-century.
Notes
References
Irish Kings and High-Kings, Francis John Byrne (2001), Dublin: Four Courts Press,
Annals of Ulster at CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts at University College Cork
Nobility from County Galway
8th-century Irish monarchs
763 deaths
Year of birth unknown |
40863700 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Farmer | Robert Farmer | Robert or Bob Farmer may refer to:
Bob Farmer (born 1947), Australian rules footballer
Robert Farmer (ice hockey) (born 1991), British ice hockey forward
Robert Farmer (Paralympian), Australian Paralympic lawn bowler
Bob Farmer, columnist for the magazine Genii
Robert Farmer (officer), commandant at Fort de Chartres, see List of commandants of the Illinois Country
Robert Farmer (American football) (born 1974), NFL player
Robert L. Farmer, member of the North Carolina House of Representatives |
74625085 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sluice%20%28musician%29 | Sluice (musician) | Sluice is the stage name of American indie rock musician Justin Morris.
History
Morris is from Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Morris attended Richard J. Reynolds High School. Morris was originally in a band with friends during college. Morris moved from North Carolina to New York, where he was living with future Sluice drummer, Avery Sullivan. All residents of the building they were living in moved out while Morris and Sullivan were living there, so they used the basement as a recording studio to make a record. Morris released his first album as Sluice in 2019. Morris released his second album as Sluice, Radial Gate, in 2023 through Ruination Record Co. The album was named one of The Guardian's "The best albums of 2023 so far". The album received a 7.2 out of 10 rating from Pitchfork. Morris opened for Indigo De Souza on her 2023 headlining tour.
References
Musicians from Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
American indie rock musicians |
43051214 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claremont%20Warehouse%20No.%2034 | Claremont Warehouse No. 34 | The Claremont Warehouse No. 34 is a historic warehouse building at Heritage Drive in Claremont, New Hampshire. Built in 1912 for the Sullivan Machine Company, it is one of the city's reminders of that company's importance as a major economic force in the region. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
Description and history
The Claremont Warehouse No. 34 is located about west of Claremont's central Tremont Square, between Main Street and Heritage Place. It is a tall building, four stories in height, with an irregular four-sided footprint about long and ranging in width from . When built, the structure had an open interior with a single floor and three mezzanine levels, with a tall three-story opening at one end, and was covered by a sawtooth roof.
The building was designed by Arthur S. Coffin and built in 1912 by the Sullivan Machinery Company, a local manufacturer of quarrying and mining equipment. It was used primarily as a warehouse until 1967, also including a welding shop for a time. A rail line ran directly into the building, facilitating the loading and unloading of materials. It was purchased in 1974 by a mattress manufacturer. A large portion of the adjacent Sullivan Company plant (located between this building and the Sugar River) was destroyed by fire in 1979. It has since been converted to residential use.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Sullivan County, New Hampshire
References
Industrial buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in New Hampshire
Buildings and structures completed in 1912
Buildings and structures in Claremont, New Hampshire
1912 establishments in New Hampshire
National Register of Historic Places in Sullivan County, New Hampshire |
74545447 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20Miller-Stephen | Arthur Miller-Stephen | Arthur Miller-Stephen is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays as a or for the Parramatta Eels in the National Rugby League.
Background
Miller-Stephen grew up in Mackay, Queensland playing for the Mackay Cutters. He played for Mackay State High School then playing for Mackay Cutters in the Mal Meninga Cup.
Being selected in the team of the year in 2021. In 2022, Miller-Stephen signed with Parramatta to join their SG Ball team, playing Fullback.
In 2023, Miller-Stephen played in NSW Cup for Parramatta. In round 23 of the 2023 NRL season, Miller-Stephen made his NRL debut for Parramatta against the St. George Illawarra Dragons, scoring a try in a 26–20 win at Commbank Stadium.
References
External links
Parramatta Eels profile
2003 births
Parramatta Eels players
Rugby league wingers
Australian rugby league players
Living people |
34588540 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemmocystis | Gemmocystis | Gemmocystis is a genus of apicomplexans.
This genus is parasitic on scleractinian corals (Agaricia agaricites, Dendrogyra cylindrus, Diploria strigosa, Meandrina meandrites, Montastraea cavernosa, Porites astreoides, Porites porites) and is found in the Caribbean. Very little is known about the species in this genus.
Gemmocystis cylindrus was isolated from within the gastrodermal cells of the mesenterial filaments of the coral. Only the oocysts and released sporozoites have been described. The parasites were isolated from bleached coral but their role if any in this sign is not known.
Taxonomy
There is one species known in this genus
References
Conoidasida
Apicomplexa genera |
57279996 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebo%20latithorax | Ebo latithorax | Ebo latithorax is a species of running crab spider in the family Philodromidae. It is found in the United States and Canada.
References
External links
Philodromidae
Articles created by Qbugbot
Spiders described in 1884 |
11346859 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obadiah%20B.%20McFadden | Obadiah B. McFadden | Obadiah Benton McFadden (November 18, 1815 – June 25, 1875) was an American attorney and politician in the Pacific Northwest. He was the 8th justice of the Oregon Supreme Court, temporarily serving on the court to replace Matthew Deady. A Pennsylvania native, he later was a legislator in the Washington Territory, and he served in Congress representing that territory.
Early life
Obadiah McFadden was born in West Middletown, Pennsylvania, on November 18, 1815. He was then educated locally in Washington County, Pennsylvania, at the public schools and at McKeever Academy. Then in 1837 he married Margaret Caldwell. By 1843 he had been admitted to the bar allowing him to practice law.
Politics
In 1853, U.S. President Franklin Pierce appointed McFadden a justice of the Oregon Supreme Court during the territorial period on a temporary assignment to replace Matthew Deady. His term ended in 1854 and he left the Oregon court. At the time he was one of three justices on the bench of the court.
In 1854, he was appointed to the Washington Supreme Court when Washington Territory was created out of Oregon Territory. While on that court he served as Chief Justice from 1858 to 1861. In 1861, he would become the president of the Washington Legislature's Council Chamber and would serve on that body until 1864 representing Thurston, Lewis and Chehalis counties. From 1855 to 1856, he fought in the Yakima War against the Yakima Indians.
Later years
McFadden then returned to private law practice, setting up office in Olympia, Washington. Then in 1872 he was elected as a Democrat to represent the territory in the 43rd United States Congress. He served as a delegate from March 4, 1873, to March 3, 1875, and was not a candidate for renomination to the position. McFadden died in Olympia on June 25, 1875, and was buried at the Masonic Cemetery.
References
1815 births
1875 deaths
Justices of the Oregon Supreme Court
Members of the Washington Territorial Legislature
Justices of the Washington Supreme Court
Delegates to the United States House of Representatives from Washington Territory
Washington (state) Democrats
People from Washington County, Pennsylvania
19th-century American politicians
19th-century American judges |
24747653 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarvadaman%20D.%20Banerjee | Sarvadaman D. Banerjee | Sarvadaman D. Banerjee is an Indian film and television actor known for his works in Hindi, Bengali and Telugu language films. He is best known for playing Krishna in Ramanand Sagar's hit television series Krishna (1993). He played the title role in films such as Adi Shankaracharya (1983), which won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film, and Swami Vivekananda. In the 1986 film Sirivennela, he played a blind flutist.
He has played the role of PKR (chief ministerI in the 2022 Telugu film Godfather.
Personal life
Banerjee was born into a Bengali Brahmin family on 14 March 1965, in Magarwara village of Unnao district in Uttar Pradesh. He went to St. Aloysius School, Kanpur and graduated from the Pune Film Institute.
Currently he teaches meditation in Rishikesh. Banerjee supports an NGO Pankh which provides free education to slum children and livelihood skills to underprivileged women of Uttarakhand.
Filmography
Film
Television
References
External links
Indian male film actors
Indian male television actors
Living people
Male actors from Uttar Pradesh
Bengali male actors
Male actors in Bengali cinema
Film and Television Institute of India alumni
1965 births
Male actors in Hindi television
20th-century Indian male actors
People from Unnao district |
58369271 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maladaptive%20daydreaming | Maladaptive daydreaming | Maladaptive daydreaming, also called excessive daydreaming, is when an individual experiences excessive daydreaming that interferes with daily life. It is a proposed diagnosis of a disordered form of dissociative absorption associated with excessive fantasy that is not recognized by any major medical or psychological criteria. Maladaptive daydreaming can result in distress, can replace human interaction and may interfere with normal functioning such as social life or work.
Maladaptive daydreaming is not a widely recognized diagnosis, and is not found in any major diagnostic manual of psychiatry or medicine. The term was coined in 2002 by Eli Somer of the University of Haifa. Somer's definition of the proposed condition is "extensive fantasy activity that replaces human interaction and/or interferes with academic, interpersonal, or vocational functioning." There has been limited research outside of Somer's.
Range of daydreaming
Daydreaming, a form of normal dissociation associated with absorption, is a highly prevalent mental activity experienced by almost everyone. Some individuals reportedly possess the ability to daydream so vividly that they experience a sense of presence in the imagined environment. This experience is reported to be extremely rewarding to the extent that some of those who experience it develop a compulsion to repeat it that it has been described as an addiction.
Somer has proposed "stimuli" for maladaptive daydreams that may relate to specific locations. The main proposed symptom is extremely vivid fantasies with "story-like features", such as the daydream's characters, plots and settings.
Somer has argued that maladaptive daydreaming is not a form of psychosis as people with maladaptive daydreaming can tell that their fantasies are not real while those with psychotic disorders have difficulty separating hallucinations or delusions from reality.
Online support
Whilst maladaptive daydreaming is not a recognized psychiatric disorder, it has spawned online support groups since Somer first reported the proposed disorder in 2002.
Research
Maladaptive daydreaming is currently studied by a consortium of researches (The International Consortium for Maladaptive Daydreaming Research or ICMDR) from diverse countries including the United States, Poland, Switzerland, Israel, Greece and Italy.
Interested researchers are continuously added to the Consortium, in order to foster collaborations in this small field of research. The ICMDR's website features all scientific studies on MD in the "publications" section.
Diagnosis
There are no official ways to diagnose maladaptive daydreaming in patients because it has not yet been recognized in any official diagnostic manual for psychiatry, such as the DSM-5. However, some methods have been developed in attempt to gauge the proposed mental disorder's prevalence.
Maladaptive Daydreaming Scale (MDS-16)
In 2015, a 14-item self-report measurement known as the Maladaptive Daydreaming Scale or MDS-16 was designed to identify abnormalities in the daydreaming of individuals. The purpose of designing this instrument was to provide a reliable and valid measurement of the existence of the proposed condition in patients, and to garner attention to the potential existence of maladaptive daydreaming as a mental disorder.
Later, an additional two items were added, assessing the use of music in fostering daydreaming. The MDS-16 has been used in several countries such as the United States, Turkey, the United Kingdom, Italy and Israel.
Potential Comorbidity
Maladaptive daydreaming has been identified to potentially have comorbidity with a number of already existing recognized mental disorder such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, anxiety disorder, major depressive disorder, and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). In one case study, a patient believed to have the condition was administered fluvoxamine, a medication typically used to treat those with OCD. The patient found she was better able to control the frequency of her daydreaming episodes.
Maladaptive daydreaming in media
Although maladaptive daydreaming has not been officially recognized as a mental disorder, it has garnered attention from numerous news and media outlets starting in 2020.
Reality shifting is a trend that appears to be a form of excessive daydreaming, which emerged as an internet phenomenon on TikTok around 2020.
See also
Avoidant personality disorder
Dissociation (psychology)
Fantasy-prone personality
Hyperphantasia
Hyperthymesia
Mind-wandering
Procrastination
References
Symptoms and signs of mental disorders |
2540145 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicole%20Perrot | Nicole Perrot | Nicole Perrot (born 26 December 1983) is a Chilean professional golfer. She is the first Chilean-born player to win on the LPGA Tour.
Perrot was born in Viña del Mar, Chile. She won the 2001 U.S. Girls' Junior and was runner-up at the U.S. Women's Amateur that same year. She turned professional the following year. She started her professional career on the LPGA's second tier Futures Tour. In 2004, she won two events on that tour and qualified to play on the main LPGA Tour in 2005 by finishing third on the money list. She won her first LPGA Tour event at the 2005 Longs Drugs Challenge.
In 2006 her best finish was a tie for 19th at the Fields Open in Hawaii. Hampered by a back injury in 2007, she played only eight events between February and early June.
Professional wins (3)
LPGA Tour (1)
Futures Tour (2)
2002 (2) The Albany FUTURES Golf Classic, GMAC FUTURES Golf Classic
Results in LPGA majors
CUT = missed the half-way cut
WD = withdrew
"T" = tied
External links
Chilean female golfers
LPGA Tour golfers
Chilean people of French descent
Sportspeople from Viña del Mar
Sportspeople from Santiago
1983 births
Living people |
3200942 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lichenin | Lichenin | Lichenin, also known as lichenan or moss starch, is a complex glucan occurring in certain species of lichens. It can be extracted from Cetraria islandica (Iceland moss). It has been studied since about 1957.
Structure
Chemically, lichenin is a mixed-linkage glucan, consisting of repeating glucose units linked by β-1,3 and β-1,4 glycosidic bonds.
Uses
It is an important carbohydrate for reindeers and northern flying squirrels, which eat the lichen Bryoria fremontii.
It can be extracted by digesting Iceland moss in a cold, weak solution of carbonate of soda for some time, and then boiling. By this process the lichenin is dissolved and on cooling separates as a colorless jelly. Iodine imparts no color to it.
Other uses of the name
In his 1960 novel Trouble with Lichen, John Wyndham gives the name Lichenin to a biochemical extract of lichen used to extend life expectancy beyond 300 years.
References
Polysaccharides
Lichen products |
53602626 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017%20City%20of%20Perth%20Ladies%20International | 2017 City of Perth Ladies International | The 2017 City of Perth Ladies International was held from March 31 to April 2 at the Dewars Centre in Perth, Scotland as part of the World Curling Tour. The event was held in a round robin format.
Teams
The teams are listed as follows:
Round robin standings
Ties in the standings are broken first by head-to-head results then by the total distance of the best four pre-game LSD ("last stone draws" - shots taken to determine hammer in the first end) from five.
Playoffs
References
External links
City of Perth Ladies International
International curling competitions hosted by Scotland
Women's curling competitions in Scotland
City of Perth Ladies International
City of Perth Ladies International
Sport in Perth, Scotland
City of Perth Ladies International |
54082359 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elymnias%20caudata | Elymnias caudata | Elymnias caudata, the tailed palmfly, is a species of satyrine butterfly found in South India. Some authors consider this as a subspecies of Elymnias hypermnestra.
Description
This butterfly species are sexually dimorphic: males and females do not look alike. Males have black upperside forewings with small blue patches and mimic Euploea species, while the females mimic butterfly species of the genus Danaus.
Both sexes have the wings longer, proportionately to their breadth, and the tail at apex of vein 4 on the hindwing longer compared to Elymnias hypermnestra.
Upperside: Male differs from E. hypermnestra as follows:
the subterminal and preapical spots on the forewing white suffused slightly with dark scales; the terminal half of the hindwing tawny, more or less suffused with dusky black, which in some specimens forms a distinct border along the termen. Female similar to the female of E. hypermnestra, but the black more extended; veins 2, 3, and 4 on the hindwing broadly bordered with black.
Underside: Female differs from E. hypermnestra in the more conspicuous broadly triangular white pre-apical patch on the forewing, and in the prominence of the broad tawny terminal half of the upperside of the hindwing, which shows through a pale, sometimes pinkish brown on the underside. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen brown, paler beneath and much paler in the female than in the male.
Range
It is endemic to South India.
Life history
Food plants
Cocos nucifera
Calamus pseudotenuis
Calamus rotang
Calamus thwaitesii
Phoenix loureiroi
Licuala grandis
Areca catechu
Arenga wightii
Livistona chinensis
Phoenix spp.
Caryota urens
Phoenix loureiroi
Licuala chinensis
Larva
"Spindle-shaped, slender, transversely rugose and clothed with short stout bristles...; head large, surmounted by two stout horns, sloping backwards, slightly branched at the ends; a pair of long straight caudal spines setose like the body; colour bright green with longitudinal yellow lines more or less distinct and two rows of large yellow spots tinged with green and sometimes tipped with black on the back; head dark brown, with a yellow cheek-stripe and frontal-line."
Pupa
"Suspended by the tail only, but in a rigidly horizontal position, regular with the exception of two small pointed processes from the head and an acute thoracic projection above them; colour bright green, beautifully ornamented with four irregular rows of large yellow spots bordered with red." (Davidson & Aitken quoted by Bingham.)
See also
List of butterflies of India
List of butterflies of Kerala
References
External links
Elymnias
Butterflies of Asia
Butterflies described in 1871
Taxa named by Arthur Gardiner Butler |
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