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12686553 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen%20Rae | Allen Rae | Allen Rae (December 26, 1932 – August 20, 2016) was a Canadian basketball referee. He refereed in the 1964 Olympics, 1968 Olympics, 1972 Olympics (including a semi-final game in each of those) and 1976 Olympics. He also refereed the final of the 1975 European Championship. He was the Technical Commissioner in 1984 Olympics, 1988 Olympics, 1992 Olympics, 1990 World Championship and 1983 Pan American Games. From 1984 to 1994, he served as Vice President of the Technical Commission of the FIBA. He also served as the President of the Dr. James Naismith Basketball Foundation & Museum since 2003. In 1997 Rae was awarded FIBA Order of Merit, and in 2007 he was enshrined in the FIBA Hall of Fame (also inducted to Canada Basketball Hall of Fame in 2000).
References
External links
FIBA Hall of Fame page on Rae
1932 births
2016 deaths
Basketball people in Canada
FIBA Hall of Fame inductees
Sportspeople from Weyburn
Basketball people from Saskatchewan
Basketball referees |
46242831 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Royal%20Hangover | A Royal Hangover | A Royal Hangover is a 2014 documentary film written and directed by Arthur Cauty and co-produced by Silver Levy-So that explores alcoholism in Britain, examining why the country faces such severe problems relating to alcohol and the taboo issues relating to it.
Development
Cauty originally got the idea for the film when visiting the United States in 2012, and seeing how different the attitude to alcohol there was to that in the UK. On one night of filming, Cauty and Levy-So were attacked by around four or five people but they continued rolling. Law enforcement would also occasionally interrupt the shooting process. The involvement of Russell Brand helped the film to become more widely noticed. Other interviewees included Government Drugs Advisor Professor David Nutt, BBC TV and Radio personality Dr Sarah Jarvis, and leading British charities Alcohol Concern, Alcohol Research and Druglink.
Brand came on board after parts of the film were shot at the rehabilitation centre Focus 12, which Brand attended. Other filming locations included London, Liverpool, Bristol, Wales, Los Angeles, Paris and Devon (where the filmmakers are from).
Total development on the film lasted around one and a half years. Cauty and Levy-So themselves are non-drinkers but are fascinated by drinking culture, particularly, by the huge role that it plays in British society, which motivated Cauty to make the film. A Royal Hangover is his feature debut. He hopes that after watching the film people will "see alcohol as a drug not as just a beverage or a form of entertainment".
Research for the film began in November 2012, which is when fellow filmmaker, "soberist" and friend Silver Levy-So came on board as associate producer and camera operator, filming then began in April 2013.
A trailer for the film was released on 15 September 2014. It received huge response and support from just weeks after release.
Release
The film premiered on 12 October 2014 at the Sunscreen Film Festival in Los Angeles. Other screenings occurred at the Reel Recovery Film Festival in Florida, the Cleveland International Film Festival in Ohio and the Piccadilly Cinema in Adelaide, Australia. It was also the opening film for the Cape Town Recovery Film Festival in 2015.
It was picked up by Journeyman Pictures and released on iTunes.
The film is also available on Amazon Prime.
Critical reception
A Royal Hangover received positive reviews from critics. The Huffington Post said "if you understand alcohol abuse, or want to understand. Then give it a go...Because it really is the only documentary on drinking worth watching." Recovery Rocks said "A Royal Hangover is a film that is long over due. With wit and insight it creates an alarming and frank portrait of Britain's binge drinking problem".
References
External links
2014 films
2014 documentary films
British documentary films
Documentary films about alcoholism
Alcohol abuse in the United Kingdom
2010s English-language films
2010s British films |
45198816 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night%20of%20the%20Ninja%20%28role-playing%20game%29 | Night of the Ninja (role-playing game) | Night of the Ninja is a role-playing game published by IIE Games Corporation (Canada) in 1986.
Description
Night of the Ninja is a modern system of oriental martial arts. The simple rules cover character creation, skills, weapons, running the games, etc., but the main emphasis is on combat, featuring unusual weapons such as scythes, whips, spikes, and blowpipes.
Publication history
Night of the Ninja was designed by Tom Wall and Sandford Tuey and published by IIE Games Corporation in 1986 as a 54-page book.
Reviews
White Wolf #8 (Dec./Jan., 1987)
References
Canadian role-playing games
Espionage role-playing games
Martial arts role-playing games
Role-playing games introduced in 1986 |
7712763 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangkok%20Fashion%20City | Bangkok Fashion City | Bangkok Fashion City was a campaign under the Ministry of Industry of Thailand. This 1.8-billion-baht program's purpose was to establish Bangkok as a regional fashion hub and eventually as a world fashion leader on the level of New York, Paris, and Milan. The project was initiated by the Thaksin administration in 2003. It was scrapped in 2006.
References
External links
http://www.listen77.com/mp3.php?mp3=73b3272f-8473-4386-8fc2-a5733c91e99c&nom=Hooligans-Félember.mp3
Culture of Bangkok
Economy of Thailand
Fashion organizations
Government programmes of Thailand |
8738978 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globe%20University%20and%20Minnesota%20School%20of%20Business | Globe University and Minnesota School of Business | Globe University and Minnesota School of Business (Globe/MSB) was a private for-profit education network based in Washington County, Minnesota, providing specialized training programs in business, accounting, medical, legal, information technology, massage, veterinary technology, and design fields. The large network had multiple campuses in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and South Dakota.
In September 2016, the state of Minnesota stopped the business from operating in the state. All Globe/MSB locations were permanently closed by 2017 because they lost their federal student aid funding.
History
Minnesota School of Business
Minnesota School of Business was founded in 1877 by Professor Alexander R. Archibald, previously of Dartmouth College. He and an assistant taught classes in bookkeeping, shorthand, English, and penmanship in a three-room school in Minneapolis, Minnesota. For 12 years the school was called Archibald Business College. In 1890 the school was purchased by Charles T. Rickard and Grove A. Gruman and moved to larger facilities in the Jewelers’ Exchange Building in Minneapolis.
In 1929, the school was sold to the Correll and Kamprath families and was relocated to 24 South Seventh Street. In 1979 the School was moved again to the Chamber of Commerce Building in Minneapolis.
In 1969 ITT Educational Services Inc. purchased the school. Terry L. Myhre purchased the school in January 1988.
All Minnesota School of Business locations were permanently closed as of 2017.
Globe University
Globe College was founded in 1885 by Frank A. Maron, who was born and educated in Germany. An accomplished scholar, he received a classical education in his native country. Recognizing a need for a practical education for young men and women, he established Globe College in Minnesota. From its inception, the university stressed the teaching of business as it is practiced.
In October 1972, Helmer Myhre and Terry Myhre purchased the college. In June 2007, it was renamed Globe University.
All Globe University locations were permanently closed as of 2017.
Lawsuit leading to closure
In 2011, Heidi Weber, a former dean, filed a whistleblower-wrongful termination lawsuit against Globe/MSB. In 2013, her case went to jury trial in the Washington County Courthouse. After a seven-day trial, a jury found in her favor and awarded $395,000 plus interest to the former dean. This is now called the first whistleblower case/trial of a for-profit institution of higher education.
Globe/MSB appealed the ruling; however, the Minnesota Supreme Court upheld Weber's verdict. A judge ruled that Globe/MSB must additionally pay in excess of $995,000 (including attorney costs for Weber) for wrongful termination after she reported the school's unethical practices and was retaliated against by being fired.
In July 2014, Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson announced that the state was suing Globe/MSB. The lawsuit "[alleges that] the for-profit schools misled criminal justice program students about their career prospects." The suit contends that the school used high pressure sales tactics and misled students regarding the acceptance of their degrees and credits for the careers the students wanted.
In 2013, the schools were sued by former students making similar allegations.
Globe/MSB disputed the allegations.
In 2016, Globe/MSB closed several campuses which it attributed to the lawsuit and a "three-year negative publicity campaign." The following year, the Minnesota Supreme Court found that student loans offered by the school, which carried interest rates as high as 18 percent, were illegal and that the schools issued the loans without the proper license.
In June 2018, the Minnesota Court of Appeals held that the "schools in this matter engaged in wrongful conduct in violation of the MCFA" but upheld damages only for those students who testified at trial. However, in November 2019, the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled that any of the students who attended the criminal justice programs since 2009 can request reimbursement for tuition, fees, and other education-related expenses, including interest. A couple of weeks after the ruling, Globe/MSB filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, saying they owe many millions of dollars in connection with the awards against the school.
Academics
Globe University and Minnesota School of Business awarded Doctor of Business Administration, Master of Science in Management, Master of Business Administration, bachelor of science and associate in applied science degrees, diplomas, and certificates.
Campus locations
The Minnesota School of Business-Richfield also housed the Minnesota School of Business-Online Division and Globe University-Online Division.
Affiliations
The Minnesota School of Business and Globe University were part of the now defunct Globe Education Network.
Educational affiliates had included:
Broadview University; campus located in West Jordan, Utah
Duluth Business University; closed in June 2018
Benchmark Learning; closed in September 2016
Minnesota School of Cosmetology; campus located in Woodbury, Minnesota
Institute of Production and Recording; campuses located in Minneapolis, Minnesota and Edina, Minnesota
Broadview University, Minnesota School of Cosmetology, and the Institute of Production and Recording are now part of the Broadview Education Consortium which is owned by Terry Myhre and his family, who had previously owned the Globe Education Network.
References
Defunct universities and colleges in Minnesota
Former for-profit universities and colleges in the United States
Universities and colleges established in 1877
Colleges accredited by the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools
1877 establishments in Minnesota
Educational institutions disestablished in 2017
2017 disestablishments in Minnesota |
52415016 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20W.%20Applebee | Frank W. Applebee | Frank W. Applebee (1902–1988) was an American painter and educator. He was a co-founder of the Dixie Art Colony and the head of the art department at Auburn University.
Early life
Frank Woodberry Applebee was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He studied art at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design.
Career
Applebee was a co-founder of the Dixie Art Colony in Alabama in 1933. By 1937, he was an instructor at the colony.
Applebee was subsequently the head of the art department at Alabama Polytechnic Institute, later known as Auburn University. He helped pick the permanent collection of the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art. He became professor emeritus in 1969.
Applebee was a regionalist painter. He was elected as one of five vice presidents of the Alabama Art League in 1947. Two years later, in 1949, he won a prize from the league at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts.
Death
Applebee died in 1988.
References
1902 births
1988 deaths
Painters from Boston
Massachusetts College of Art and Design alumni
Auburn University faculty
20th-century American painters
20th-century American academics |
5566334 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renegades%20%281930%20film%29 | Renegades (1930 film) | Renegades is a 1930 American pre-Code film directed by Victor Fleming for Fox Film. It stars Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy, and Noah Beery. Jules Furthman based his script on André Armandy's novel Le Renégat. Fleming shot in the Mojave Desert (with immense sets and hundreds of extras) where the extreme heat proved a severe impediment to the production. Bela Lugosi has a relatively small role as the Marabout, a Rif sheik whom Loy's character manipulates, but his character is important to the story. An uncredited Victor Jory in his film debut plays a Legion officer. Critics mostly acclaimed the film as "a great action picture" and "a box office hit" that had to be held over.
Plot
Morocco during the Rif War. Four unruly French Foreign Legionnaires (Warner Baxter, Noah Beery, Gregory Gaye, George Cooper), each with dishonorable pasts, are awarded medals for bravery in recapturing a fort. At the ceremony in Casablanca, one of them, Jean Deucalion (Baxter), recognizes Eleanore (Myrna Loy) in the reviewing stand. When he was a French officer during the Great War, she was Deucalion’s lover, worming military secrets from him to sell to the enemy. He was court-martialed and was about to be executed, when a German shell killed the firing squad, he escapes. Deucalion searched years for Eleanore, finally stumbling on her in Casablanca.
The four medal-winners celebrate, drunkenly crashing an officer’s ball. Eleanore happens to be there squired by Captain Mordiconi (C. Henry Gordon), their commandant. Deucalion catches her alone, confronts her, and tries to strangle her. Ball attendees interrupt, Deucalion’s three pals help him escape, and they end up deserting.
Deucalion and his pals turn renegade, forming an army of black natives and allying with a Rif sheik, Muhammed Halid (Bela Lugosi). Captain Mordiconi has investigated Eleanore and uncovered her treacherous past. When he confronts her to turn her in, she gets a pistol from her bedroom to kill him, but suddenly Rifs overpower and kidnap her, taking her to Deucalion’s desert headquarters camp.
Deucalion orders that she is to be treated as an ordinary camp follower. Scheming for revenge, Eleanore eventually becomes Halid’s mistress and creates bad blood between the sheik and Deucalion.
When Deucalion’s native army besieges his old regiment in a desert fort without water, he is unwilling to order a final attack. Eleanore convinces Halid that Deucalion is double-crossing him, and the sheik attacks with his Rifs. Deucalion orders his men to turn their guns on the Rifs, and the legionnaires also counter-attack from the fort.
In the battle, Halid and Deucalion’s pals are killed. Eleanore directs machine-gun fire which badly wounds Deucalion, but he fatally wounds Eleanore. She calls to him, and they crawl to each other. Grinning, she shoots and kills him with a pistol.
Cast
Warner Baxter as Jean Deucalion
Myrna Loy as Eleanore
Noah Beery as Thurman Machwurth
Gregory Gaye as Dmitri Vologuine
George Cooper as Harry A. Biloxi
Bela Lugosi as Sheik Muhammed Halid, the Marabout
C. Henry Gordon as Captain Mordiconi
Colin Chase as Sgt. Major Olson
Victor Jory as Officer Belonge
Fred Kohler Jr. as young Legionnaire
Noah Beery Jr. as young Legionnaire
References
External links
1930 films
1930 adventure films
Fox Film films
American black-and-white films
1930s English-language films
Films based on French novels
Films directed by Victor Fleming
Films set in Africa
Films set in deserts
Films about the French Foreign Legion
Films with screenplays by Jules Furthman
American adventure films
1930s American films |
35730384 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Game%20of%20Scouting | The Game of Scouting | The Game of Scouting is a Canadian informational television series which aired on CBC Television in 1967.
Premise
The series was produced to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Boy Scouts movement. Each episode featured a scout troop who would demonstrate various outdoors skills such as constructing a rope bridge across a ravine, filling a backpack for overnight hike or using topographical maps.
Scheduling
This half-hour series was broadcast on Thursdays at 5:30 p.m. (Eastern) from 6 July to 28 September 1967.
References
External links
CBC Television original programming
1967 Canadian television series debuts
1967 Canadian television series endings
Television shows filmed in Edmonton |
211475 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old%20World%20oriole | Old World oriole | The Old World orioles (Oriolidae) are an Old World family of passerine birds.
Taxonomy and systematics
The family Oriolidae comprises the piopios, figbirds, pitohuis and the Old World orioles. The piopios were added 2011, having been formerly placed in the family Turnagridae. Several other genera have been proposed to split up the genus Oriolus. For example, the African black-headed species are sometimes placed in a separate genus, Baruffius. The family Oriolidae is not related to the New World orioles, despite their similar size, diet, behaviour and contrasting plumage patterns. Rather, these similarities are an example of convergent evolution.
Extant genera
There are three extant genera in the family Oriolidae:
Extinct genera
There are at least two extinct genera in the family Oriolidae:
Genus Turnagra – piopios (2 extinct species)
Genus Longmornis – Longmornis robustirostrata
Description
The orioles and figbirds are medium-sized passerines, around 20–30 cm in length, with the females only slightly smaller than the males. The beak is slightly curved and hooked, and, except in the figbirds, as long again as the head. The plumage of most species is bright and showy, although the females often have duller plumage than the males do. The plumage of many Australasian orioles mimics that of friarbirds (a genus of large honeyeaters), probably to reduce aggression against the smaller orioles.
Distribution and habitat
The family is distributed across Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia. The few temperate nesting species are migratory, and some tropical species also show seasonal movements.
Behaviour and ecology
Breeding
Orioles are monogamous, breeding in territorial pairs (although the Australasian figbird, and possibly also the other figbirds, breed in loose colonies). Nesting sites may be chosen near aggressive species such as shrikes, drongos or friarbirds, which confer a degree of protection. The nest is a deep woven cup suspended like a hammock from a branch. They usually lay two or three eggs, but as many as six have been recorded.
Food and feeding
Orioles are arboreal and tend to feed in the canopy. Many species are able to survive in open forests and woodlands, although a few are restricted to closed forest. They are opportunistic omnivores, with the main components of their diet being fruit, berries, arthropods, and nectar.
References
Further reading
External links
Internet Bird Collection.com: Oriole videos
Orioles on a feeder
Passeri
Taxa named by Nicholas Aylward Vigors |
54001399 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kadhirur%20Gurukkal | Kadhirur Gurukkal | Kadhirur Gurukkal, also known as Mathiloor Gurukkal, was a martial artist of medieval India. He came from Kadirur, near to Thalasserry in the North Malabar region of present-day Kerala. He operated the Mathiloor Kalari, where Thacholi Othenan trained in Kalaripayattu.
Gurukkal is mentioned in the Northern Ballads (Vadakkan Pattukal), which say he belonged to the Kaniyar caste who were traditionally astrologers. Despite being an excellent master, Gurukkal was killed by a trainee called Thacholi Othenan in a duel.
References
Indian male martial artists
People from Kannur district
Kalarippayattu practitioners |
993600 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep%20%28Peter%20Murphy%20album%29 | Deep (Peter Murphy album) | Deep is the third solo studio album by English musician Peter Murphy. Produced by Simon Rogers, the album was released on 19 December 1989 through Beggars Banquet Records in the UK and RCA/Atlantic Records in the US. The album features contributions from Murphy's backing band, The Hundred Men.
The album spawned three singles: "The Line Between the Devil's Teeth (And That Which Cannot Be Repeat)", "Cuts You Up" and "A Strange Kind of Love". The track "Cuts You Up" became a modern rock hit in 1990, spending seven weeks at the top of the U.S. charts and crossing over to Billboard Hot 100, where it peaked at number 55. The other singles also charted on the Modern Rock Tracks chart, peaking at numbers 18 and 21, respectively.
Critical reception
Ned Raggett of AllMusic praised the album, stating that "Deep showed Murphy balancing mass appeal and his own distinct art with perfection," and also wrote that "Murphy simply sounds like he's having the time of his life, singing both for the sheer joy of it and for the dramatic power of his commanding voice."
Track listing
Personnel
Peter Murphy – vocals, lyrics, mixing, design
The Hundred Men
Terl Bryant – drums, percussion
Eddie Branch – bass
Paul Statham – guitar, keyboards
Peter Bonas – guitar
Other musicians
Gill Tingay – harp
Jim Williams – guitar
Technical personnel
Simon Rogers – production, acoustic guitar; mixing
Ian Grimble – engineering
Steve Rooke – mastering
Nick Rogers – mixing
Paul Cox – photography
Alastair Johnson – recording
Roland Herrington – recording
Charts
Weekly charts
Singles
References
External links
Peter Murphy (musician) albums
1989 albums
Beggars Banquet Records albums
RCA Records albums
Albums recorded at Rockfield Studios |
43415627 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bla%C5%BE%20Zbi%C4%8Dajnik | Blaž Zbičajnik | Blaž Zbičajnik (born 24 July 1995) is a Slovenian football midfielder who plays for Dravinja on loan from Celje.
References
External links
NZS profile
PrvaLiga profile
1995 births
Living people
Footballers from Celje
Slovenian men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
NK Celje players
FC Drava Ptuj players
Slovenian PrvaLiga players |
9489089 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte%20Kemp%20Muhl | Charlotte Kemp Muhl | Charlotte Kemp Muhl (born August 17, 1987), also known as Kemp Muhl, is an American singer, writer, model and director from Atlanta, Georgia. She is best known as a model for Maybelline.
Muhl has been in a relationship with Sean Ono Lennon since 2007 and performs with him in the musical duo The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger. She is also the bassist for the group UNI and The Urchins, which released their debut album in January 2023.
Career
Music
Muhl is a singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, playing guitar, bass, keyboard, and the accordion. Muhl has stated that she uses funds earned from her modeling career to produce her music. Muhl and Sean Lennon formed the record company Chimera Music.
In 2017, Muhl founded the band Uni, currently including vocalist Jack James and guitarist David Strange. On November 17, 2017, with their original vocalist Nico, they released their debut 7" single What's the Problem b/w Adult Video. Both songs on the single had a music video, directed by Muhl, produced for them. "Mushroom Cloud", their second 7" single, was released March 23, 2018, with a video debuted on Rolling stone.
Modeling
Muhl has a successful modeling career. She was under contract with Maybelline for 10 years, and has been featured in campaigns for Tommy Hilfiger, Sisley, D&G, Donna Karan, Swarovski, and Jennifer Lopez’s brand J.Lo. She has worked with Ellen Von Unwerth, Terry Richardson, Greg Kadel, Gilles Bensimon, and Steven Klein. From 2002–2005, Muhl was the spokesmodel of Vidal Sassoon in Asia, appearing in commercials and films across the continent.
Music videos appeared in
Imbranato music video by Tiziano Ferro (2002)
Purple music video by Whirlwind Heat (2003)
Just Feel Better music video by Carlos Santana (2005)
Music video for Lolita (song by Elefant) (2006)
Music video for "Find A New Way (Terry Richardson Version)" (song by Young Love) (2007)
Music videos directed
"Debris", by Uni
"DDT", by Uni
"Electric Universe", by Uni
"American F*g", by Uni
"Act One", by Invisible Familiars
"Black Hanz", by The Moonlandingz
"Blood and Guts", by Mark Stoermer
"What's The Problem?", by Uni
"Adult Video", by Uni
"Donna Marijuana", by Uni
Personal life
Muhl met Sean Ono Lennon at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in 2005, and the two have been in a relationship since 2007. In an interview, Lennon stated that he discovered Muhl was musically talented over a year after they had started dating. Muhl and Lennon are involved in a number of musical endeavours, and much of their work is written at their own home-based studio in Greenwich Village.
References
External links
Chimera Music
1987 births
Living people
American accordionists
Women accordionists
American women guitarists
Female models from Georgia (U.S. state)
American rock keyboardists
American multi-instrumentalists
American rock bass guitarists
Women bass guitarists
Singers from Atlanta
Guitarists from Georgia (U.S. state)
21st-century accordionists
21st-century American women musicians
21st-century American singers
21st-century American women singers
21st-century American bass guitarists
The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger members
Elite Model Management models |
68903712 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1799%20French%20legislative%20election | 1799 French legislative election | Legislative elections were held in France between 9 and 16 April 1799 to elect one-third of the members of the Council of Five Hundred and the Council of Ancients, the lower and upper houses of the legislature.
Background
Following the Coup of 11 May 1798 (22 Floréal year VI in the Republican calendar), the small Jacobin minority led by Generals Jean-Antoine Marbot and Jean-Baptiste Jourdan harassed the Directory, with the occasional support of directorial deputies exasperated by the encroachments of the executive. The opposition to the Jacobins continues to grow with the deteriorating situation of the War of the Second Coalition. In messidor, they manage to form a small coalition government, forming a majority in the Council of the Five Hundred to refuse the Directory to complete the court of cessation, even if the Council of Elders voted in their prerogative.
After the loss of Italy, the Minister of War, Barthélemy Louis Joseph Schérer, was accused of (what would be considered corruption today) and was brought before a commission of inquiry. It was on this occasion that Lucien Bonaparte asserts himself in the political scene and a leader of the opponents of the left, though not a devoted Jacobin.
In this context, the Director does not dare to organise and election under the same pressure it had felt in the 1798 election. If the council was to be seen as promoting the election of candidates of the government, the policy of appeasement and peace could continue.
Results
During the electoral processes, 27 departments experienced splits from the 25 in the 1798 election, and the assemblies were less troubled than the last election. Participation in the election however, fell to just 11.5% of the national vote, against 20% of the vote in 1798. In Alsace for instance, the vote fell from 30% to just 15%. Of the 79 members supported by the government, 43 are beaten. This also the case for the 39 of the 64 new official candidates for government. In addition, out of 44 candidates recommended by one or other directors, only 6 were elected.
Unlike the 1798 election, the Council validates majority assemblies in the departments which have experienced a split, except in Deux-Nèthes, where the elections are cancelled because the required turnout is not met. This "non-election" also occurs in Bouches-du-Rhône, where many irregularities are noted by the local assemblies.
The 1799 election ended with a massive victory for the left-wing republican Montagnards. However, the Royalist parties, the Clichy Club (moderate constitutionalists) and Ultra-Royalists (absolute monarchists) won almost half of the seats within the council. The Extreme Left Group (Groupe de Extrême-Gauche) also won their first group of seats in the election.
The 1799 election would end up being the last parliamentary election in France until the May 1815 legislative election.
Footnotes
References
1799 events of the French Revolution
18th-century elections in Europe
18th-century elections in France
French Directory
Legislative elections in France |
8806162 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch%20Gainor | Dutch Gainor | James Norman "Norm, Dutch" Gainor (April 10, 1904 – January 16, 1962) was a Canadian ice hockey professional forward. Gainor was most notable for playing on the Boston Bruins' 1928 "Dynamite Line" with Cooney Weiland and Dit Clapper, one of the earliest "named" forward lines in National Hockey League (NHL) history.
Gainor started his NHL career with the Boston Bruins, later playing for the Ottawa Senators, New York Rangers and Montreal Maroons. His career started in 1927 and he retired after 1935. He was a member of two Stanley Cup-winning teams in his career, once with Boston in 1929 and again with the Maroons in 1935.
Gainor scored his first NHL goal on November 29, 1927. It occurred in Boston's 4-0 victory over the Montreal Maroons.
Career statistics
Regular season and playoffs
External links
1904 births
1962 deaths
Boston Bruins players
Calgary Tigers players
Canadian ice hockey centres
Duluth Hornets players
Montreal Maroons players
New York Rangers players
Ottawa Senators (1917) players
Ottawa Senators (original) players
Portland Buckaroos players
Saskatoon Sheiks players
Ice hockey people from Calgary
Springfield Indians players
Stanley Cup champions |
8326014 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim%20Lee%20Carter | Tim Lee Carter | Tim Lee Carter (September 2, 1910 – March 27, 1987) was an American politician serving as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives for the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1965 until 1981.
Background
Congressman Carter was born in Tompkinsville, Kentucky. He attended Western Kentucky State College (now Western Kentucky University) in Bowling Green, having pursued a pre-med curricula. Carter went on to earn his medical degree from the University of Tennessee in 1937. He served in the United States Army Medical Corps in World War II, traveling with the Thirty-Eighth Infantry for over three and a half years. He became a captain. Later Carter returned to practice medicine in Tompkinsville.
Election
In 1964, Carter sought the Republican nomination for Congress, following the retirement of Representative Eugene Siler. Carter won the election over Democrat Frances Jones Mills and served in the U.S. House of Representatives until his retirement in 1981. He was one of the few bright spots in a disastrous year for the GOP. However, he represented one of the few ancestrally Republican districts south of the Ohio River. Voters in this region identified with the Republicans after the Civil War, and continued to support the GOP through both favorable and challenging times. Carter often joked that his congressional district stretched from "Fountain Run to Kingdom Come," a state park in Harlan County, at the eastern end of his district.
Vietnam war
In 1966, Congressman Carter was sent by President Johnson to Vietnam along with ten other war-veteran congressmen on a "Speaker's Committee." Upon his return, he was asked by Johnson about his opinion of the state of the war. Carter went against the nine other delegates, stating: "No, Mr. President, you are not winning the war,". Carter later came to be known as the first Republican Congressman to call for the end of the Vietnam War. Rising before the U.S. House of Representatives on August 28, 1967, Carter stated "Let us now, while we are yet strong, bring our men home, every man jack of them. The Vietcong fight fiercely and tenaciously because it is their land and we are foreigners intervening in their civil war. If we must fight, let us fight in defense of our homeland and our own hemisphere."
Policies
Carter was considered as a moderate-progressive Republican in Washington. Carter voted in favor of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Civil Rights Act of 1968. As reported in a 1977 issue of Time magazine, Carter put forth the first Republican plan for national health insurance. Carter was appointed by President Nixon to the Shafer Commission, charged with making policy recommendations concerning drug abuse. The Shafer Commission recommended decriminalizing simple marijuana possession, a policy that President Nixon flatly refused.
Family
Tim Lee Carter's sister, Pearl Carter Pace was the first elected woman sheriff in Kentucky. Pearl's and Tim Lee's father, James C. Carter Sr., served for 48 years as Circuit Judge in four counties of South Central Kentucky. His son, James C. Carter Jr., served for 46 years as judge following his father. Numerous other Carters have served in a wide range of public offices, both elective and appointive.
Pearl's son, Stanley Carter Pace, was taken as a prisoner of war of the German Army during World War II. He later rose to the Chairmanship of TRW, and, came out of retirement to return the giant defense contractor General Dynamics to viability. The extended Carter family is still active in state and local politics in Monroe County, Kentucky.
Retirement
In 1980, Carter did not seek re-election. On his retirement, he returned to live in Tompkinsville, Kentucky, and remained active in local, state, and national politics until his death in 1987.
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Tim Lee Carter
1910 births
1987 deaths
United States Army personnel of World War II
People from Tompkinsville, Kentucky
Physicians from Kentucky
Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Kentucky
United States Army Medical Corps officers
University of Tennessee alumni
Western Kentucky University alumni
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12063332 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss%20USA%201990 | Miss USA 1990 | Miss USA 1990 was the 39th Miss USA pageant, televised live from the Century II Convention Center in Wichita, Kansas on March 2, 1990. At the conclusion of the final competition, Carole Gist of Michigan was crowned by outgoing titleholder Gretchen Polhemus of Texas. Carole became the first African American winner ever and the first woman from Michigan to be crowned as Miss USA, ending the streak of "Texas Aces" from 1985.
For the first time, each judge's score was displayed to every audience, adding transparency to the process.
A major format change in 1990 transformed the Miss USA competition for the next decade: the delegates would face an extra round of elimination on finals night: the top six judges' questions.
Instead of reducing the top twelve to the usual final five, the judges would pick an intermediate top six. Those six finalists would answer questions from the judges and the field was reduced to a final three, who would face the traditional final question, adding unpredictability to the competition after five Texan Miss USA winners from GuyRex Associates, which would lose its Miss Texas USA franchise the next year.
The pageant was hosted by Dick Clark for the second of five times, with color commentary by Leeza Gibbons and Laura Harring, Miss USA 1985.
This was the first time the pageant was held in Wichita, where it would be staged for the next three years.
Results
Placements
Special awards
Judges
Eileen Fulton
Kerry Gordy
Rebecca Brandewyne
Robin Cousins
Barbara Peterson
Dan Isaacson
Dr. Irene Kassorla
Jackie Joyner Kersee
Randy Stone
Judi Sheppard Missett
Gordon Cooper
References
External links
Official website
1990
March 1990 events in the United States
1990 beauty pageants
1990 in Kansas
1990 |
5220658 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuscomys | Cuscomys | Cuscomys is a genus of rodents found in the Andes of Cusco in southern Peru. These relatively large chinchilla rats are dark grey with a distinct white line running from the crown to the nose. The genus was coined in 1999 when C. ashaninka was scientifically described, but later it was discovered that C. oblativus, a species traditionally placed in the genus Abrocoma, actually belonged in Cuscomys. They are very poorly known, as C. ashaninka only is known from the holotype, while C. oblativus usually has been considered extinct, as it was only known from remains found in 1912, buried alongside people in ancient Inca tombs at the Machu Picchu ruins. However, photos of a rodent taken at the ruins in late 2009 likely show this species. It is unclear if the Cuscomys truly are extremely rare, as they may be easily overlooked due to their remote distributions and arboreal habits.
Species
Cuscomys ashaninka – Asháninka Arboreal Chinchilla Rat
Cuscomys oblativus – Machu Picchu Arboreal Chinchilla Rat
References
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33912861 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Witcher | The Witcher | The Witcher (, ) is a series of six fantasy novels and 15 short stories written by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski. The series revolves around the eponymous "witcher", Geralt of Rivia. In Sapkowski's works, "witchers" are beast hunters who are given supernatural abilities at a young age to battle wild beasts and monsters. The Witcher began with a titular 1986 short story that Sapkowski entered into a competition held by Fantastyka magazine, marking his debut as an author. Due to reader demand, Sapkowski wrote 14 more stories before starting a series of novels in 1994. Known as The Witcher Saga, he wrote one book a year until the fifth and final installment in 1999. A standalone prequel novel, Season of Storms, was published in 2013.
The books have been described as having a cult following in Poland and Central and Eastern European countries. They have been translated into 37 languages and sold over 15 million copies worldwide as of December 2019. They have also been adapted into a film (The Hexer), two television series (The Hexer and The Witcher), a video game series, and a series of comic books. The video games have been even more successful, with more than 50 million copies sold as of May 2020.
Overview
Production
Short stories
In 1985, Andrzej Sapkowski was a 38-year-old traveling fur salesman with an economics degree and a love of fantasy literature. He decided to enter a short story competition, limited to 30-pages, held by Polish science fiction and fantasy magazine Fantastyka. He did so at the urging of his son Krzysztof, who was an avid reader of the magazine. Sapkowski submitted "The Witcher" (1986), which was conceived as a retelling of a Polish fairy tale where a princess turned into a monster as punishment for the incest of her parents. He had to wait about a year for the results of the contest, and came in third place. Sapkowski felt that his work was the best in the competition, but the jurors relegated it to third because fantasy was considered to be for children at the time in Poland. However, reaction from readers was overwhelmingly positive and Sapkowski wrote more stories, about one or two a year, in response to their demand.
He based "A Question of Price" (and later "Sword of Destiny") on the universally known fairy tale in which a monster or sorcerer saves somebody's life and then demands payment. The first four stories dealing with the witcher Geralt of Rivia were collected into a 1990 short story collection titled The Witcher — now out of print — by publisher Reporter. It includes 1988's "The Road with No Return" ("Droga, z której się nie wraca"), which is set before The Witcher stories and features Geralt's mother-to-be.
After what he called a chance meeting, Sapkowski made a deal in 1990 with SuperNowa to publish the series. They released the second short story collection, Sword of Destiny, in 1992. The Last Wish was published by SuperNowa in 1993 to replace The Witcher as the first book, and includes all of its stories except "The Road with No Return" (the only story without Geralt). Although new short stories were also added to The Last Wish, they chronologically take place before those in Sword of Destiny.
"Something Ends, Something Begins" ("Coś się kończy, coś się zaczyna") is an alternate ending to The Witcher Saga about Geralt and Yennefer's wedding that was written in 1992 as a wedding gift for Sapkowski's friends. It and "The Road with No Return" are included in some Polish editions of The Last Wish or Sword of Destiny.
The Witcher Saga and Season of Storms
With the positive reader reception to his short stories, Sapkowski decided to write a fantasy saga. He claimed that Polish publishers at the time believed only Anglo-Saxon fantasy authors were worth publishing and that Polish writers of the genre were too risky. SuperNowa were the only publisher willing to take the risk, and "Now everybody envies" them. For the saga, the author expanded on the story he used for "A Question of Price" and "Sword of Destiny". Blood of Elves, the first novel in The Witcher Saga, was published in 1994. The story focuses on Geralt of Rivia and Ciri, who are linked by destiny. Ciri, princess of a recently conquered country and a pawn of international politics, becomes a witcher-in-training. Geralt is drawn into a whirlwind of events in his attempts to protect her.
Three more novels quickly followed at a pace of one a year; Time of Contempt (1995), Baptism of Fire (1996), and The Tower of the Swallow (1997). The fifth and final installment, The Lady of the Lake, was published in 1999.
After 14 years, Sapkowski released Season of Storms in 2013. Set between short stories included in The Last Wish, it is a standalone prequel to The Witcher Saga. In 2020, Sapkowski stated that he had "some plans" for a new entry in The Witcher, but "My future plans are vague, nothing is fixed yet".
Non-Witcher anthologies
Coś się kończy, coś się zaczyna (Something Ends, Something Begins) is a 2000 collection of short stories by Sapkowski, including two from The Witcher: "The Road with No Return" and "Something Ends, Something Begins". Published in 2012, Maladie i inne opowiadania (Maladie and Other Stories) is another Sapkowski short story collection that includes "The Road with No Return" and "Something Ends, Something Begins".
Chosen by Fate: Zajdel Award Winner Anthology is a 2000 English anthology by SuperNowa, in cooperation with the Silesian Club of Fantasy Literature, that includes a translation by Agnieszka Fulińska of "The Witcher" short story entitled "The Hexer". 2010's A Polish Book of Monsters is an English anthology edited and translated by Michael Kandel that includes a translation of "The Witcher" entitled "Spellmaker". Maladie and Other Stories (not to be confused with the above Polish book of the same name) is a 2014 English e-book sampler with translations of "The Witcher", "The Edge of the World", and the first chapters of Blood of Elves and Baptism of Fire.
Spin-offs
With Sapkowski's permission, the Polish publishing house Solaris published a collection of eight short stories entitled (Tales from the World of The Witcher). Written by Russian and Ukrainian fantasy writers (including Andrei Belyanin and Vladimir Vasilyev), they are set in the world of The Witcher and feature its characters;
Vasilyev story is part of his The Witcher of Grand Kiev universe. Szpony i kły (Claws and Fangs), a similar collection of eleven short stories by authors chosen through a 2016 competition by the Polish magazine Nowa Fantastyka, was published in 2017 by SuperNowa.
Setting
When he first created The Witcher, Sapkowski had not thought up any background on the world of the series, "I began with short stories; you don't create universes in short stories, there is—literally and metaphorically—no place for them". But when he switched to writing full novels, "the necessity of some coherent background became imminent. And slowly, step by step, something resembling a universe started to emerge. But it's only in the background, so it plays a secondary role in the story". Although admitting to using Slavic mythology often due to it being "very rich" and abundant, Sapkowski said he does not have any preferred mythologies, folklores or bestiaries that he draws on for monsters in The Witcher; "The story dictates the necessity. And, mostly, I put aside existing mythologies and invent something myself". He said that the monsters in the series can be put into one of three categories. First, those that already "exist" with established names, appearances, habits and habitats, such as dragons. Second are those that he invents but gives names that can be found in nature, mostly insects because they are "horrible and scary". Third are those that are completely original creations, some of which are only named, because, "When it has no importance as far as the storyline is concerned whatsoever, why bother?" The author has also stated that he personally abhors politics and considers his books to be politically neutral.
Background
The stories are set on an unnamed Continent, which was settled several thousand years earlier by elves from overseas. When they arrived, the elves encountered gnomes and dwarves. After a war between the elves and dwarves, the dwarves retreated into the mountains, and the elves settled in the plains and forests. Human colonists arrived about five hundred years before the events in the stories, igniting a series of wars. The humans were victorious and became dominant; the non-human races, now considered second-class citizens, often live in small ghettos within human settlements. Those not confined to the ghettos live in wilderness regions not yet claimed by humans. Other races on the Continent are halflings and dryads; werewolves and vampires appeared after a magical event known as the Conjunction of the Spheres.
During the centuries preceding the stories, most of the Continent's southern regions have been taken over by the Nilfgaard Empire; the north belongs to the fragmented Northern Kingdoms. The Witcher Saga takes place in the aftermath of the first major war between the Nilfgaard Empire and the Northern Kingdoms, with a second war beginning in the middle of the series.
Major characters
Geralt of Rivia (Polish: Geralt z Rivii), also known as Gwynbleidd (Elder Speech: "White Wolf") and the Butcher of Blaviken, is the protagonist of the series and its adaptations, a witcher who travels the Continent and makes a living hunting monsters that plague the land. He is linked to Ciri by destiny. Kacper Pobłocki argues that he embodies the "neo-liberal anti-politics" spirit of the Polish popular culture of the 1990s. Geralt has been played by Michał Żebrowski in the Polish shows and movies. Currently he is played by Henry Cavill in the Netflix series The Witcher.
Cirilla Fiona Elen Riannon (known as "Ciri", from the name Zireael in Elder Speech (meaning "Swallow"; Polish: Jaskółka)), also known as the Lion Cub of Cintra, Child of the Elder Blood, Falka, and the Lady of Time and Space. Cirilla is the princess of Cintra, daughter of Pavetta and Duny (also known as the Urcheon of Erlenwald) and granddaughter of Queen Calanthe. She is also Geralt's destiny and adopted daughter, and the focus of much of the plot. Ciri is a descendant of Lara Dorren and has the Elder blood, which gives her access to powers that allow her to cross space and time. Ciri has ashen grey hair and green emerald eyes, a trait that runs in her family. In the Polish 2002 film and 2002 TV series, she was played by .
Yennefer of Vengerberg (Polish: Yennefer z Vengerbergu) first appeared in the collection of short stories, The Last Wish, featuring in the short story of the same name. She is a powerful sorceress, is a mother figure to Ciri, and becomes Geralt's lover. As an avid reader of fantasy, Sapkowski said he was sometimes bored and disgusted with stories in which the hero could easily have sex with any woman he wished, so he created Yennefer to "complicate things a little" as a woman character who refuses to be a fantasy cliché. In the Polish 2002 film and 2002 TV series, she was played by Grażyna Wolszczak and by Anya Chalotra in the Netflix series.
Dandelion (Polish: Jaskier) is a poet, minstrel, bard and Geralt's best friend. The Polish word jaskier refers to the Buttercup flower (Ranunculus). Some of his more famous ballads were about the relationship between Geralt and Yennefer. By the time of the saga, he is already in his 40s though it is said that he appears to be in his 30s and is sometimes mistaken for an elf. He accompanies Geralt in many short stories and ends up joining his hansa while searching for Ciri. He is played by Joey Batey in The Witcher TV series. In the 2001 Polish Wiedźmin film, he was played by Zbigniew Zamachowski.
Triss Merigold is a sorceress and a friend of Geralt and Yennefer. She took care of Ciri for some time and is like an older sister to her. She was a member of the Lodge of Sorceresses. Triss is in love with Geralt. The image of Triss Merigold from The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings appeared as cover girl in the Polish edition of Playboy in May 2011. She also appeared in a live model calendar for the game in Russia.
Geography
Although no map of the universe created by Sapkowski has been released, fans have created several maps. According to Sapkowski, the existing maps are "mostly accurate", and he uses a version created by Czech translator Stanislav Komárek.
The Continent can be divided into four regions. The Northern Kingdoms (where most of the saga occurs) consists of Aedirn, Cidaris, Cintra, Hengfors League, Kaedwen, Kerack, Kovir and Poviss, Lyria and Rivia, Redania, Temeria and Verden and several minor duchies and principalities such as Bremervoord or Ellander. The Nilfgaard Empire occupies most of the area south of the Northern Kingdoms. The eastern part of the Continent, such as the Korath desert, Zerrikania, Hakland and the Fiery Mountains, is mostly unknown. The book series mentions overseas countries with whom the Northern Kingdoms trade, including Zangvebar, Ofir, Hannu and Barsa.
Language
Sapkowski created a language for the series known as Elder Speech, based on Welsh, English, French, Irish, Latin and other languages. Dialects are spoken on the Skellige Islands and in Nilfgaard. In an interview, Sapkowski explained that he wanted the language to be reasonably legible to a reader, to avoid footnotes. As he said: "In my book, I do not want for an orc telling to another orc 'Burbatuluk grabataluk!' to be supplied with a footnote: 'Shut the door, don't let the flies in!'"
Chronology
"The Road with No Return" – untranslated
"A Grain of Truth"
"The Lesser Evil"
"The Edge of the World"
"The Last Wish"Season of Storms"A Question of Price"
"The Witcher"
"The Voice of Reason"
"The Bounds of Reason"
"A Shard of Ice"
"Eternal Flame"
"A Little Sacrifice"
"Sword of Destiny"
"Something More"Blood of ElvesTime of ContemptBaptism of FireThe Tower of the SwallowThe Lady of the LakeEpilogue to the Season of Storms"Something Ends, Something Begins" (alternative ending) – untranslated
Translations
The stories and novels have been translated into 37 languages worldwide. Sapkowski denied having any involvement in the English translations, explaining, if the translator "is polite enough, sometimes he asks me questions, sometimes he presents me with a fragment of the first page, but it is his own will – I have nothing to do with it". When asked his opinion on the quality of the translation, the original author stated, "We Poles, we say, 'Translations are like women: if they are beautiful, they are not true; if they are true, they are not beautiful.' I speak some 15 languages so for me it's very easy to read the translations and see if they are good or not. Sometimes it's terrible; sometimes I'm very happy because the spirit, the spirit, is in the translation".
The name "Witcher"
Sapkowski chose wiedźmin as the male equivalent of the Polish word for witch (wiedźma). In his book 2005 book-interview Historia i fantastyka, Sapkowski noted that the word "witcher" is a natural male version of the English word "witch", and implied that the similarity between those two words, as well as between the German terms, was the inspiration coining wiedźmin as a new Polish word. Polish video game designer Adrian Chmielarz claimed to have invented the translation of wiedźmin into English as witcher around 1996–1997.
Although wiedźmin is now usually translated into English as "witcher", an earlier translation of the title was "hexer" (the title of the 2001 film adaptation and the first official English translation in the 2000 short story collection Chosen by Fate: Zajdel Award Winner Anthology); Hexe and Hexer are the German words for female and male 'witch' respectively. CD Projekt used "witcher" for the title of its 2007 English release of the video game, and Danusia Stok used it in her translation of Ostatnie życzenie that was published the same year. Michael Kandel however used "spellmaker" in his 2010 translation of the "Wiedźmin" short story for A Book of Polish Monsters anthology.
ReceptionThe Witcher series has been described as having a cult following in Poland and Central and Eastern European countries. They have been translated into 37 languages and sold over 15 million copies worldwide as of December 2019. Two weeks after the Netflix TV adaptation was released in 2020, revenue from the books was reportedly up 562% compared to the same period in 2018. Entries in The Witcher series have earned Sapkowski the Janusz A. Zajdel Award three times; "The Lesser Evil" (1990), "Sword of Destiny" (1992), and Blood of Elves (1994). The Last Wish won the 2003 Premio Ignotus for Best Anthology in Spain. In the United Kingdom, Blood of Elves won Best Novel at the first David Gemmell Awards for Fantasy in 2009. Sword of Destiny won the 2012 Tähtifantasia Award in Finland.
In October 2018, Sapkowski's hometown of Łódź officially renamed a garden square Witcher Square (Skwer Wiedźmina) and announced plans to add benches, swings and other installations based on the series to the area. In October 2021, a mural of Geralt was painted on the side of a skyscraper in Łódź. Spanning three 70-meter-high walls and covering almost 2,000 sq/m, it is the largest mural in Poland and one of the largest in the world.
Adaptations
Comic books
From 1993 to 1995, Sapkowski's stories were adapted into six-issue comic books The Witcher by Maciej Parowski and Sapkowski (story), Bogusław Polch (art).
In 2011, Egmont released a 2-part comic book, titled Reasons of State, containing an original story. It was written by Michał Gałek, illustrated by Arkadiusz Klimek, and colorized by Łukasz Poller.
In 2013, Dark Horse Comics announced a comic book series likewise called The Witcher, based on the video-game series and made in collaboration with CD Projekt Red. It began publishing in 2014. Most of the stories are based on original plots not written by Sapkowski, with different writers and artists working on different issues.
In October 2015, a one-shot webcomic titled Matters of Conscience was released by CD Projekt Red to expand on the events following their second video game.
Video games
In 2007, a video game The Witcher developed by CD Projekt Red was released. A sequel, The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, was released in 2011 by the same team. The final game of the trilogy, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, was released in 2015. Sapkowski had no involvement with the video games, giving the studio license to create a completely new story using his characters. All three games were positively received, with Metacritic giving them an 81, an 88, and a 93 out of 100 respectively. They were also extremely successful commercially, selling more than 50 million copies as of May 2020, over 30 million copies being from The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt alone.
CD Projekt Red developed a card game named "Gwent" that was included in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt as an in-game activity. They have created two stand-alone video games based on it, titled Gwent: The Witcher Card Game and Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales, both released in 2018.
A remake of The Witcher was announced in October 2022, which was formerly first teased under the codename "Canis Majoris". Entitled The Witcher Remake, it will be developed using Unreal Engine 5, the same engine in use for the planned second trilogy. Fool's Theory will mainly develop the remake with full creative supervision from The Witcher series staff and CD Projekt Red.
Film and televisionThe Witcher was adapted into a 2002 TV series and a shorter 2001 film version, both titled The Hexer (Wiedźmin) and directed by Marek Brodzki. Michał Żebrowski portrayed Geralt. In several interviews, Sapkowski has criticized these screen adaptations: "I can answer only with a single word, an obscene, albeit a short one."
In 2015, Platige Image planned an American film adaptation of the novel series to arrive in 2017. In May 2017, they announced that they would be producing a The Witcher TV series in cooperation with Netflix and Sean Daniel Company, with Tomasz Bagiński as one of the directors and Sapkowski as a creative consultant. Created by Lauren Schmidt Hissrich, it stars Henry Cavill as Geralt. On October 10, 2018, it was announced that Freya Allan and Anya Chalotra had been cast as main female characters, Ciri and Yennefer. The first season was released on December 20, 2019, with all eight episodes available. A second season was announced on November 13, 2019. All eight episodes were released on December 17, 2021, featuring many of the same characters and some new stars. In September 2021, Netflix renewed the series for a third season. Starting in the show's fourth season, Liam Hemsworth is scheduled to replace Cavill as Geralt.
Netflix released an animated film, The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf, on August 23, 2021, with their TV series showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich as producer and writer BeAu DeMayo, and animation provided by Studio Mir.
A live-action prequel series, The Witcher: Blood Origin, was released by Netflix, set 1200 years before Geralt's time to show the origin of the Witchers developed by Hissrich.
Tabletop RPGs
A tabletop role-playing game based on Sapkowski's books, Wiedźmin: Gra Wyobraźni (The Witcher: A Game of Imagination), was published by MAG in 2001.
Another tabletop RPG based on the video games, produced by R. Talsorian Games, was planned for release in 2016 but was delayed and finally released in August 2018.
Board games
CD Projekt Red and Fantasy Flight Games released The Witcher Adventure Game, a board game designed by Ignacy Trzewiczek, in 2014 in physical and digital forms. The digital version is available on Windows, OS X, Android and iOS.
The board game The Witcher: Old World was announced in February 2021. Designed by Łukasz Woźniak and produced by Go on Board in partnership with CD Projekt Red, the game is set prequel to the main video game series with deck building and role-playing elements. In May 2021, the game raised more than $3 million on Kickstarter and was planned to be shipped in June 2022.
Card games
In 2007, Kuźnia Gier developed two card games based on CD Projekt's The Witcher video game. One, Wiedźmin: Przygodowa Gra Karciana (The Witcher: Adventure Cardgame), was published by Kuźnia Gier; the other, Wiedźmin: Promocyjna Gra Karciana (The Witcher Promo Card Game) was added to the "Collector's Edition" of The Witcher in some countries.
Rock opera and musical
A rock opera and a musical entitled The Road of No Return'' based on the series were produced by Russian symphonic rock band ESSE in 2009 and 2011–2012 respectively.
Notes
References
External links
Novel series
Official website of Andrzej Sapkowski
Video game series
Official website
Book series introduced in 1986
Family saga novels
Polish fantasy
Polish novels
Polish short stories
Novels adapted into comics
Novels adapted into video games
Polish novels adapted into television shows
Polish novels adapted into films
Slavic mythology in popular culture |
27739117 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Welsh%20Premier%20League%20seasons | List of Welsh Premier League seasons | The Welsh Premier League is the top division of Welsh football. This is the list of the league's seasons.
History
Seasons
Notes
Providing that the league champions have qualified for Europe by winning the league, these are the clubs who have qualified to play in Europe through the league only.
Includes only goals scored in the League of Wales/Welsh Premier League.
Caernarfon Town gained League of Wales membership prior to the 1994-95 season and subsequently left the Northern Premier League Division One.
Ton Pentre withdrew from the league at the end of the 1996–97 season after finding to continue was proving to be financially difficult.
Ebbw Vale were expelled from the league before the 1992–93 season began due to financial difficulties, and promptly went out of business.
Graham Evans was awarded the Golden Boot after Andy Moran was tested positive for a banned substance.
Rhyl were denied the domestic licence for competing in the 2010–11 Welsh Premier League and were therefore relegated to the second tier. Welsh Premier League aspirants Llangefni Town (Cymru Alliance) and Afan Lido (Welsh Football League Division One) were also denied licences meaning that no team from the second tier was promoted. Since these three teams failed to obtain licences, the best three teams originally to be relegated, with all three obtaining their licences, were spared from relegation (Bala Town, Haverfordwest County and Newtown AFC).
Clubs that have gained promotion from the Cymru Alliance.
Clubs that have gained promotion from the Welsh Football League Division One.
References
Premier |
38285939 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimravinae | Nimravinae | The Nimravinae are a subfamily of the Nimravidae, an extinct family of feliform mammalian carnivores sometimes known as false saber-toothed cats. They were endemic to North America, Europe, and Asia from the Middle Eocene through the Late Miocene epochs (Bartonian through Tortonian stages, 40.4—7.2 mya), spanning about . Centered in North America, the radiation of the Nimravinae from the Eocene to Oligocene was the first radiation of cat-like carnivorans.
References
Nimravidae
Prehistoric mammals of North America
Eocene carnivorans
Oligocene feliforms
Bartonian first appearances
Tortonian extinctions
Taxa named by Edward Drinker Cope
Fossil taxa described in 1880 |
36336285 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist%20Party%20USA%20%28disambiguation%29 | Communist Party USA (disambiguation) | The Communist Party USA is a Marxist–Leninist political party in the United States.
Communist Party USA may also refer to:
Communist Party USA (Marxist–Leninist), a Maoist organization
Communist Party USA (Opposition), a defunct political party
Communist Party USA (Provisional), a clandestine communist group
Revolutionary Communist Party, USA, a Marxist–Leninist-Maoist organization
See also
The Communist Party USA and African Americans
Communist Party (disambiguation) |
58481836 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equestrian%20at%20the%202020%20Summer%20Olympics%20%E2%80%93%20Team%20jumping | Equestrian at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Team jumping | The team show jumping event at the 2020 Summer Olympics took place on 6–7 August 2021 at the Baji Koen. Like all other equestrian events, the jumping competition was open-gender, with both male and female athletes competing in the same division. 60 riders (20 teams of 3) from 20 nations competed. The event was won by team Sweden, which included Peder Fredricson, the silver medalist in the individual event. The United states were second, and Belgium third.
In the final, after two jumpers from every team completed, all eight team were still in the competition, France was leading with two penalties, and Sweden, the United States, and Belgium were all tied for the second with four penalties each. These four teams jumped last. Grégory Wathelet from Belgium received eight penalties, and subsequently McLain Ward for the United States and Fredricson received four penalties each and remained tied for the jump-off. Pénélope Leprevost from France, the defending Olympic champion, was jumping last and was eliminated after her horse twice refused to jump. Thus Belgium became third, and in the jump-off there were no penalties but Sweden were faster and took gold.
Background
This was the 25th appearance of the event, which has been held at every Summer Olympics since its introduction in 1912.
The reigning Olympic Champion is France (Philippe Rozier, Kevin Staut, Roger-Yves Bost, and Pénélope Leprevost). The reigning (2018) World Champion is the United States (Devin Ryan, Adrienne Sternlicht, Laura Kraut, and McLain Ward).
Qualification
A National Olympic Committee (NOC) could enter a team of 3 riders in the team jumping event. A total of 20 team quota places were available.
The 20 NOCs that qualified teams (and received automatic entries for 3 riders each in the individual competition) were:
The host, Japan
6 from the World Equestrian Games: the United States, Sweden, Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Australia
3 from the European Jumping Championships: Belgium, Great Britain, and France
1 each from the Groups C1 and C2 qualification events: Israel (C1) and the Czech Republic (C2, replacing Ukraine, which failed to submit its NOC Certificate of Capability)
3 from the Pan American Games: Brazil, Mexico, and Argentina
2 each from the Groups F and G qualification events: Egypt and Morocco (F) and New Zealand and China (G)
1 at-large place at the Jumping Nations Cup Final: Ireland
Because qualification was complete by the end of the calendar year 2019 (the ranking period ended on December 31, 2019), qualification was unaffected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Competition format
For the first time since 1992, the show jumping competition format is seeing significant changes. The five-round format (three-round qualifying, two-round final) has been eliminated, with single rounds for each of the qualifying and final. The top 10 teams advance from the qualifying round to the final. The number of team members per NOC has been reduced from four to three, with no drop scores. The score for the team is the sum of the 3 individual scores. In the qualifying round, if one team member did not finish, the team would still be scored based on the 2 finishing members, but would automatically be ranked behind all teams with 3 finishers.
The qualifying round will feature a course with a minimum distance of 500 metres and a maximum of 650 metres. The speed required is 400 metres per minute, though the Technical Delegate may reduce this to 375 metres per minute. There will be between 12 and 14 obstacles, including 1 or 2 double jumps and 1 triple jump, with a maximum of 17 possible jumps (that is, if there are 14 obstacles, only 1 double jump is permitted). The height of obstacles is between 1.40 metres and 1.65 metres, with spread of up to 2 metres (2.20 metres for the triple bar). In general, ties are not broken; however, for the last advancement place, any tie will be broken by combined time. Only if tied on both faults and time will more than 10 teams advance.
Scores do not carry over from the qualifying to the final. The final will feature a course with a minimum distance of 500 metres and a maximum of 700 metres, with the same speed provisions as the qualifying. The number of obstacles will be from 12 to 14, again with 1 or 2 double jumps and 1 triple jump, with a maximum of 18 possible jumps (14 obstacles with 2 doubles and a triple). The height and spread rules remain the same. Ties are generally broken by time (the round is "against the clock"), but a tie on faults for first place will be broken by a jump-off. A tie for second or third place will only be broken by a jump-off if the faults and time are the same.
The jump-off, if necessary, will feature a six-obstacle course.
Schedule
All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)
Results
Qualification
The best 10 teams (including all tied for 10th place) after the team qualifier progress to the team final.
Final
Jump-off
*WD = Withdrawn
*RT = Retired
*EL = Eliminated
References
Team jumping |
8076870 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadley%20%28non-profit%20organization%29 | Hadley (non-profit organization) | Hadley is a non-profit serving adults with vision loss offering practical help, connection, and new ways to approach everyday tasks made more difficult with changing vision.
Workshops, Call-in Discussion Groups, and the Hadley Presents Podcast explore topics of daily living, adjusting to vision loss, tech tools useful for those with vision loss, learning braille, and adaptive techniques for recreation and working with a visual impairment.
Hadley's help comes in many forms – online, on the phone, and through the mail.
Hadley is a partner of the National Eye Institute (NEI) and the National Eye Health Education Program (NEHEP).
History
Background
Hadley was founded in 1920 by William A. Hadley.
When he lost his sight at the age of 55, William Hadley faced many challenges. A former high school teacher with a lifelong passion for reading, Hadley wanted to learn braille. He was frustrated, however, in his search for a teacher. So, he taught himself braille instead.
Founding
Hadley's dream was to share his newfound skills with others like him, empowering them to thrive as much as he. Together with Dr. E.V.L. Brown, an ophthalmologist and neighbor, Hadley found a way to reach others from around the corner and across the globe.
The Hadley Correspondence School and the "braille by mail" curriculum were launched in 1920. The very first student, a woman in Kansas, had lost her sight later in life, too, and she was desperate to continue reading. She mailed her lessons to Hadley. He corrected and returned them along with notes of help and encouragement. This was the beginning of the close instructor-learner relationship that is a hallmark of Hadley learning even today.
Dr. Brown was also critical to the founding and success of Hadley. He worked to build and manage an organization that could sustain itself while offering education free of charge. In 1922, Dr. Brown was appointed to be Hadley's first President of the Board of Trustees and would serve in this role until his death in 1953.
Emerging Technology
By the early 1960s, Hadley was exploring new approaches to distance learning, producing plastic braille books and audio recordings all from its building in downtown Winnetka, for distribution to a growing population of visually impaired across the country. In the ensuing decades, Hadley added film and video production to its array of media channels to enhance the learning experience.
Hadley Today
In July 2020, Hadley launched its new online learning platform, Hadley.edu. Built on many months of research and development addressing the needs of visually impaired older adults, the learning hub offers free how-to short workshops on a variety of practical topics. Workshops are delivered online or through the mail in audio or print. Hadley's call-in discussion groups offer live support from experts and a chance to connect and learn from peers. Hadley's popular podcast Hadley Presents: A Conversation with the Experts offers listeners extraordinary access to top names in their fields.
Notable Faculty and Leadership
Richard Kinney
Geraldine Lawhorn
Dr. E.V.L. Brown
References
External links
Distance Education Accreditation Commission
Winnetka, Illinois
Schools for the blind in the United States |
58150382 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearts%20Are%20Trumps | Hearts Are Trumps | Hearts Are Trumps may refer to:
Hearts Are Trumps (1920 American film), a silent drama by Rex Ingram
Hearts Are Trumps (1920 German film), a silent film by E. A. Dupont
Hearts Are Trumps (1934 film), a German comedy by Carl Boese
See also
Darts Are Trumps, a 1938 British comedy film by Maclean Rogers
Hearts Are Thumps, a 1937 Our Gang short |
1604706 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20B.%20Goodenough | John B. Goodenough | John Bannister Goodenough ( ; July 25, 1922 – June 25, 2023) was an American materials scientist, a solid-state physicist, and a Nobel laureate in chemistry. From 1996 he was a professor of Mechanical, Materials Science, and Electrical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. He is credited with
identifying the Goodenough–Kanamori rules of the sign of the magnetic superexchange in materials, with developing materials for computer random-access memory and with inventing cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries.
Goodenough was born in Jena, German Reich (Weimar Republic), to American parents. During and after graduating from Yale University, Goodenough served as a U.S. military meteorologist in World War II. He went on to obtain his Ph.D. in physics at the University of Chicago, became a researcher at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, and later the head of the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory at the University of Oxford.
Goodenough was awarded the National Medal of Science, the Copley Medal, the Fermi Award, the Draper Prize, and the Japan Prize. The John B. Goodenough Award in materials science is named for him. In 2019, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry alongside M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino, and, at 97 years old, became the oldest Nobel laureate in history. From August 27, 2021, until his death, he was the oldest living Nobel Prize laureate.
Personal life and education
John Goodenough was born in Jena, Germany, on July 25, 1922, to American parents, Erwin Ramsdell Goodenough (1893–1965) and Helen Miriam (Lewis) Goodenough. His father was working on his Ph.D. at the Harvard Divinity School at the time of John's birth and later became a professor in the history of religion at Yale University. John's brother, the late Ward Goodenough, was a University of Pennsylvania anthropologist. The brothers attended boarding school at Groton in Massachusetts. John Goodenough suffered from dyslexia, when it was poorly understood by the medical community and went untreated. He could not read at Groton and did not do well in his classes. Instead he found interest in exploring Nature, plants and animals.
John also had two half-siblings from his father's second marriage, Ursula Goodenough, who is an emeritus professor of biology at Washington University in St. Louis, and Daniel A. Goodenough, emeritus professor of biology at Harvard Medical School. In 1944, John Goodenough received a BS in mathematics, summa cum laude from Yale University, where he was a member of Skull and Bones.
After serving in the U.S. Army as a meteorologist in World War II, Goodenough went to the University of Chicago to complete a master's degree and was awarded a Ph.D. in physics in 1952. His doctoral supervisor was Clarence Zener, a theorist in electrical breakdown, and he worked and studied with physicists, including Enrico Fermi and John A. Simpson. While at Chicago, he met Canadian history graduate student Irene Wiseman. They married in 1951. The couple had no children. Irene died in 2016. He was a Protestant Christian.
Goodenough turned 100 on July 25, 2022. He died at an assisted living facility in Austin, Texas, on June 25, 2023, one month shy of what would have been his 101st birthday.
Career and research
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
After his studies, Goodenough was a research scientist and team leader at MIT's Lincoln Laboratory for 24 years. During this time he was part of an interdisciplinary team responsible for developing random access magnetic memory. His research efforts on RAM led him to develop the concepts of cooperative orbital ordering, also known as a cooperative Jahn–Teller distortion, in oxide materials, and subsequently led to his developing the rules for the sign of the magnetic superexchange in materials, now known as the Goodenough–Kanamori rules (with Junjiro Kanamori).
Tenure at the University of Oxford
During the late 1970s and early 1980s, he continued his career as head of the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory at University of Oxford. Among the highlights of his work at Oxford, Goodenough is credited with significant research essential to the development of commercial lithium-ion rechargeable batteries. Goodenough was able to expand upon previous work from M. Stanley Whittingham on battery materials, and found in 1980 that by using LixCoO2 as a lightweight, high energy density cathode material, he could double the capacity of lithium-ion batteries.
Although Goodenough saw a commercial potential of batteries with his LiCoO2 and LiNiO2 cathodes and approached Oxford University with a request to patent this invention, Oxford refused. Unable to afford the patenting expenses with his academic salary, Goodenough turned to UK's Atomic Energy Research Establishment in Harwell, which accepted his offer, but under the terms, which provided zero royalty payment to the inventors John B. Goodenough and Koichi Mizushima. In 1990, the AERE licensed Goodenough's patents to Sony Corporation, which was followed by other battery manufacturers. It was estimated, that the AERE made over 10 mln. British pounds from this licensing.
The work at Sony on further improvements to Goodenough's invention was led by Akira Yoshino, who had developed a scaled up design of the battery and manufacturing process. Goodenough received the Japan Prize in 2001 for his discoveries of the materials critical to the development of lightweight high energy density rechargeable lithium batteries, and he, Whittingham, and Yoshino shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their research in lithium-ion batteries.
Professor at University of Texas
From 1986, Goodenough was a professor at The University of Texas at Austin in the Cockrell School of Engineering departments of Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering. During his tenure there, he continued his research on ionic conducting solids and electrochemical devices; he stated that he continued to study improved materials for batteries to help promote the development of electric vehicles and help to reduce human dependency on fossil fuels. Arumugam Manthiram and Goodenough discovered the polyanion class of cathodes. They showed that positive electrodes containing polyanions, e.g., sulfates, produce higher voltages than oxides due to the inductive effect of the polyanion. The polyanion class includes materials such as lithium-iron phosphates that are used for smaller devices like power tools. His group also identified various promising electrode and electrolyte materials for solid oxide fuel cells. He held the Virginia H. Cockrell Centennial Chair in Engineering.
Goodenough still worked at the university at age 98 as of 2021, hoping to find another breakthrough in battery technology.
On February 28, 2017, Goodenough and his team at the University of Texas published a paper in the journal Energy and Environmental Science on their demonstration of a glass battery, a low-cost all-solid-state battery that is noncombustible and has a long cycle life with a high volumetric energy density, and fast rates of charge and discharge. Instead of liquid electrolytes, the battery uses glass electrolytes that enable the use of an alkali-metal anode without the formation of dendrites. However, this paper was met with widespread skepticism by the battery research community and remains controversial after several follow-up works. The work was criticized for a lack of comprehensive data, spurious interpretations of the data obtained, and that the proposed mechanism of battery operation would violate the first law of thermodynamics.
In April 2020, a patent was filed for the glass battery on behalf of Portugal's National Laboratory of Energy and Geology (LNEG), the University of Porto, Portugal, and the University of Texas.
Advisory work
In 2010, Goodenough joined the technical advisory board of Enevate, a silicon-dominant Li-ion battery technology startup based in Irvine, California. Goodenough also served as an adviser to the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR), a collaboration led by Argonne National Laboratory and funded by the Department of Energy. From 2016, Goodenough also worked as an adviser for Battery500, a national consortium led by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and partially funded by the U.S. Department of Energy.
Fundamental investigations
On the fundamental side, Goodenough‘s research focused on magnetism and on the metal–insulator transition behavior in transition-metal oxides. Along with Junjiro Kanamori, Goodenough developed a set of semi-empirical rules to predict magnetism in these materials in the 1950s and 1960s, now called the Goodenough–Kanamori rules, forming the basis of superexchange, which is a core property for high-temperature superconductivity.
Distinctions
Professor Goodenough was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1976 for his work designing materials for electronic components and clarifying the relationships between the properties, structures, and chemistry of substances. He was also a member of the National Academy of Sciences, French Academy of Sciences, the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences, and the National Academy of Sciences, India. He authored more than 550 articles, 85 book chapters and reviews, and five books, including two seminal works, Magnetism and the Chemical Bond (1963) and Les oxydes des metaux de transition (1973). Goodenough was a co-recipient of the 2009 Enrico Fermi Award for his work in lithium-ion batteries, alongside Siegfried S. Hecker of Stanford University who received the award for his work in plutonium metallurgy.
In 2010, he was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society. On February 1, 2013, Goodenough was presented with the National Medal of Science by President Barack Obama of the United States. He was awarded the Draper Prize in engineering. In 2015 he was listed along with M Stanley Whittingham, for pioneering research leading to the development of the lithium-ion battery on a list of Clarivate Citation Laureates for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry by Thomson Reuters. In 2017 he received the Welch Award in Chemistry and in 2019 he was awarded the Copley Medal of the Royal Society.
The Royal Society of Chemistry granted a John B. Goodenough Award in his honor.
Goodenough received an honorary C.K. Prahalad award from Corporate EcoForum (CEF) in 2017. CEF's founder Rangaswami commented, "John Goodenough is evidence of imagination being put to work for the greater good. We're thrilled to recognize his lifetime of achievements and are hopeful that his latest discovery will have major implications for the future of sustainable battery storage."
Goodenough was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on October 9, 2019, for his work on lithium-ion batteries, along with M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino. To date he is the oldest person ever to have been awarded the Nobel Prize.
Works
Articles
Lightfoot, P.; Pei, S. Y.; Jorgensen, J. D.; Manthiram, A.; Tang, X. X. & J. B. Goodenough. "Excess Oxygen Defects in Layered Cuprates", Argonne National Laboratory, The University of Texas-Austin, Materials Science Laboratory United States Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, (September 1990).
Argyriou, D. N.; Mitchell, J. F.; Chmaissem, O.; Short, S.; Jorgensen, J. D. & J. B. Goodenough. "Sign Reversal of the Mn-O Bond Compressibility in La1.2Sr1.8Mn2O7 Below TC: Exchange Striction in the Ferromagnetic State", Argonne National Laboratory, The University of Texas-Austin, Center for Material Science and Engineering United States Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, Welch Foundation, (March 1997).
Goodenough, J. B.; Abruna, H. D. & M. V. Buchanan. "Basic Research Needs for Electrical Energy Storage. Report of the Basic Energy Sciences Workshop on Electrical Energy Storage, April 2–4, 2007", United States Department of Energy, (April 4, 2007).
Books
See also
Junjiro Kanamori
Koichi Mizushima (scientist)
Rachid Yazami
References
Further reading
External links
Faculty Directory at University of Texas at Austin
Array of Contemporary American Physicists
History of the lithium-ion battery, Physics Today, Sept. 2016
by The Electrochemical Society, October 5, 2016
Are Solid State Batteries about to change the world?, Joe Scott, November 2018, Goodenough and team research on more energy dense solid state Li-ion chemistry featured 3:35–12:45.
Pr John Goodenough's interview GOODENOUGH John B., 2001–05 – Sciences : histoire orale on École supérieure de physique et de chimie industrielles de la ville de Paris history of science website
including the Nobel Lecture, "Designing Lithium-ion Battery Cathodes" (December 8, 2019)
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54445963 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get%20Nice%21 | Get Nice! | Get Nice! may refer to:
Get Nice! (EP), an EP by Spoon
Get Nice! (album), an album by Zebrahead |
139724 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor%2C%20Wisconsin | Meteor, Wisconsin | Meteor is a town in Sawyer County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 170 at the 2000 census.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 35.2 square miles (91.3 km2), of which, 34.4 square miles (89.2 km2) of it is land and 0.8 square miles (2.1 km2) of it (2.33%) is water.
Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there were 170 people, 62 households, and 44 families residing in the town. The population density was 4.9 people per square mile (1.9/km2). There were 128 housing units at an average density of 3.7 per square mile (1.4/km2). The racial makeup of the town was 95.88% White, 1.76% Native American, 0.59% from other races, and 1.76% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.59% of the population.
There were 62 households, out of which 33.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 66.1% were married couples living together, and 29.0% were non-families. 25.8% of all households were made up of individuals, and 8.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.74 and the average family size was 3.32.
In the town, the population was spread out, with 32.9% under the age of 18, 2.4% from 18 to 24, 27.6% from 25 to 44, 26.5% from 45 to 64, and 10.6% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 38 years. For every 100 females, there were 120.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 147.8 males.
The median income for a household in the town was $30,625, and the median income for a family was $49,375. Males had a median income of $30,139 versus $30,750 for females. The per capita income for the town was $12,487. None of the families and 7.8% of the population were living below the poverty line.
References
Towns in Sawyer County, Wisconsin
Towns in Wisconsin |
54088953 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugues%20Pagan | Hugues Pagan | Hugues Pagan (born 1947) is a French detective writer and television writer.
Early life
Hugues Pagan was born in 1947 in Orléansville, French Algeria (now Algeria). His father was a postman who also served in the Military reserve forces of France, and his mother was a school principal. He earned bachelor's degrees in sociology, psychology and philosophy, followed by a master's degree.
Career
Pagan taught philosophy in Gérardmer from 1967 to 1970. He became a policeman in Nancy in 1972; he later worked in Belfort. By 1988, he was an investigator in the 1988 Gare de Lyon rail accident. He resigned in 1991.
Pagan is the author of detective novels. His first novel, La Mort dans une voiture solitaire, was published in 1982. He won the Prix Mystère de la critique for Dernière station avant autoroute in 1998. In 2017, he used the same protagonist as the one in his first novel, Charles Schneider, in Profil perdu.
Pagan is also a television writer; he has written for Police District Un flic, Mafiosa and Nicolas Le Floch.
Personal life
Pagan resides in Charente-Maritime.
Works
References
Living people
1947 births
People from Chlef
People from Charente-Maritime
20th-century French non-fiction writers
21st-century French non-fiction writers
French detective fiction writers
French television writers |
12529301 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartram%20%26%20Sons | Bartram & Sons | Bartram & Sons was a shipbuilder on Wearside, North East England, that specialised in building cargo ships. It was founded in 1837, taken over in 1968, nationalised in 1977 and closed in 1978.
Early decades
George Bartram and John Lister founded the business in Hylton in 1837–38. In 1852–54 their partnership was dissolved and Bartram's son Robert Appleby Bartram was taken into the business.
On his father's retirement in 1871, Robert went into partnership with George Haswell as Bartram, Haswell and Company and they moved the business to South Dock in Sunderland. They began to build iron-hulled ships and in 1876 they built their last sailing ship, a four-masted barque.
In 1889 Haswell retired, Robert Appleby Bartram's sons, George and William, joined the firm and the name was changed to Bartram & Sons. Between 1902 and 1914 it built 10 cargo liners for Ben Line. In 1914 it employed 600 people.
In the First World War the company built ships mostly to private order, but including 10 tramp ships to the Shipping Controller's standard "War B" design for ships long and beam.
In 1922 the firm became a limited company. George's sons, Robert Appleby Bartram and George Hylton Bartram took over in 1925. From 1921 to 1930 Bartram's built at least 17 tramp steamers.
The Depression
The Great Depression that began in 1929 caused a worldwide slump in shipping. Bartram & Sons completed its last order in September 1930 and had no more for six years. In that time it built only one ship, the Eskdene. That was a speculative venture in 1934, without an order, to create work for the yard.
In 1935 the UK Government introduced a "scrap and build" scheme to encourage shipowners to order new ships and sell old ones for scrap. Evans and Reid of Cardiff ordered two tramp ships from Palmer & Sons, and Nailsea Meadow, which were launched in 1936. Further orders from Evan Thomas, Radcliffe and Company, Evans and Reid and others kept Bartram & Sons in production until November 1938, when it again ran out of orders.
Revival
The Second World War revived demand and in November 1939 Bartram & Sons launched the first of a series of tramp ships to replace tonnage lost to enemy action. In the war the company built 24 cargo ships, 18 of them to standard Ministry of War Transport designs.
The enlistment of men in the armed forces forced civilian employers to admit women to jobs that only men had been allowed to do. In 1943 Bartram & Sons employed its first woman welder, a Mrs Collard.
Bartram and Sons remained productive after the Second World War, and many of its ships were exported to overseas buyers. In 1952 its South Dock yard was enlarged and one of its berths was extended. In 1961 it had 1,200 employees and in 1964 it took over the fitting-out quay of Short Brothers' yard at Pallion.
Takeover and closure
In 1965 the Geddes Report recommended that Bartram and Sons should merge with other shipbuilders. In 1968 Austin and Pickersgill (A&P) took over Palmer & Sons. In 1977 A&P was nationalised. In 1978 A&P closed Bartram's shipyard and moved all work to its own yard at Southwick.
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Shipbuilding companies of the City of Sunderland |
10878551 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laborer%27s%20Love | Laborer's Love | Laborer's Love () is a classic silent comedy short film produced in China during the Republican Era, which officially premiered on October 5, 1922 at the Olympic Theater in Shanghai. It is also known as Romance of a Fruit Peddler or Romance of a Fruit Pedlar (). Even though filmmaking in China began in the 1890's, Laborer's Love is the earliest complete film from China's early cinematic history that is available today. The film was also one of the earliest productions of the soon-to-be prolific Mingxing Film Company and was directed and written by Mingxing co-founders Zhang Shichuan and Zheng Zhengqiu. Notably, the film has both Chinese and English intertitles, indicating that at this early point in Shanghai cinema history, films were tailored to both Chinese and Western audiences. In addition to the English intertitle cards, the short film further showcased Western influence in Chinese filmmaking, such as taking inspiration from American silent film comedians Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd. A subtitled version of the film, which represents differences between the Chinese and English text of the intertitles, is available on YouTube.
Director
Zhang Shichuan (1889-1953 or 1890-1954)
A founding father of Chinese Cinema
Directed approximately 150 films in his career
Cast
Zheng Zhegu as Carpenter Zheng (the fruit peddler)
Zheng Zhengqiu as Doctor Zhu
Yu Ying as Miss Zhu (the daughter of Doctor Zhu)
Plot
As the film begins, a man named Carpenter Zheng from the Guangdong Province has just come back to Shanghai after living in Nanyang in Southeast Asia. Upon his return, he decides to change professions, becoming a fruit peddler. His business attracts a lot of attention from neighborhood children and Carpenter Zheng is kept busy by his work, in contrast to the struggling medical clinic across the street. The clinic is run by Doctor Zhu and his daughter Miss Zhu, and a romantic attraction quickly develops between the young woman and Zheng. The platonic duo communicates with each other by connecting the fruit stand to the medical clinic via a string, along which they transport baskets filled with objects back and forth to each other, which is also known as the fruit-throwing connection (). Later, Miss Zhu visits Zheng's fruit stand and he helps her to get rid of a few local ruffians who have been harassing her. Eventually, Miss Zhu and Zheng fall in love, but Doctor Zhu opposes the relationship because of Zheng's lower socioeconomic status. However, in the face of his financial hardships, Doctor Zhu agrees to let Zheng marry his daughter if the younger man can help revive his failing medical business. Zheng is dismayed, believing this to be an impossible task, but soon he comes up with the idea to modify the staircase of a gambling club near the doctor's office. He alters the staircase so that he can transform it into a sliding ramp at will; after this, he merely has to wait for unsuspecting customers to leave the club and promptly slide to the bottom of the staircase, injuring themselves at the bottom. He repeats this numerous times, creating a huge new client base for Doctor Zhu to the point where the old man can barely keep up with the demand, requiring Zheng to step in and provide his services as well. With the medical clinic prospering once again, Doctor Zhu gladly approves the marriage between Miss Zhu and Zheng.
Title
As the earliest surviving film from the last century in China, "Romance of a Fruit Peddler" also known as "Laborer's Love," although a silent film, would still be interesting to watch today. In Chinese, "Romance of a Fruit Peddler" means gaining a relationship by throwing fruits. One would not understand the meaning of throwing fruit until one watched the film. "Romance of a Fruit Peddler" or《掷果缘》is not the wrong name, but Carpenter Zheng who is turning to the fruit business, falls in love with the daughter of Doctor Zhu. Carpenter Zheng uses a string that connects with a basket to throw the fruit to Miss Zhu to express his love.
Film Background
Laborer’s Love is considered the earliest complete, Chinese-made film but is not cited as the first Chinese film. Since the 1890s, China had already experimented with and produced actualités and staged vignettes. However, these earlier films were lost as a result of material degradation, domestic unrest and war—notably the January 28 incident of 1932, in which Japan bombed the city of Shanghai, hitting Mingxing and other film studios. Besides, while Laborer’s Love completely survived, it is not perfect with margins cut off, celluloid poorly preserved, as well as frames missing.
In the making of this film, Director Zhang Shichuan takes from the cinema and social movements of Modern China.
In 2007, the Australian ensemble Blue Grassy Knoll composed a new score for Laborer’s Love and performed it live in Shanghai and Beijing as a part of the Australian Theatre Festival.
Social Influence
Laborer's Love's survival is a product of luck, as many films made during the same period did not survive or were severely damaged due to social unrest and war. As a result of these unfortunate events, Laborer's Love is now the earliest complete film to come out of China, essentially making it a historic document and a representation of early Chinese Films. The Star film industry, the commercial pass event, the movie theatre department, the Shanghai film and television company, and the Hong Kong Guangya company have used Laborer's Love as a model for short comedy films and were able to release a vast amount of such films.
The ideological change from old ideas to new brought on by the May Fourth Movement in 1919, influenced Laborer's Love. In the film, Carpenter Zheng asks Miss Zhu to marry him, an action that was incompatible with the traditional thought process regarding marriage practices at the time. In light of the social changes, filmmakers sought to navigate the boundary between traditional and moral values through the concept of arranged marriage, while also advocating the modern ideas about free, inconsequential love.
Cultural References
One of the alternative titles of the film, zhì guǒ yuán, meaning "fruit-throwing love connection," is a reference to an old Chinese folktale that is referenced through how the film balances old traditions with innovations in social norms. The film's narrative adapts this traditional motif in the lovers' use of a string to send objects back and forth to each other in a distinctly modern love story.
What is unique about Laborer's Love is that it does not contain the demeanour that is common in early Chinese slapstick comedies, and even uses a connecting device between Carpenter Zheng and Miss Zhu, to allude to the equality between men and women. Compared with previous comedies in China's male-dominated society, it is rare for Chinese love stories in this period to apply this kind of "friendly" drama to the love between a man and a woman. Moreover, the fruit basket which was made by the Carpenter Zheng, contains two functions: one is that it is used as a connection device for the doctor's daughter and the carpenter/vendor to communicate love with one another. The second function is that the basket adds a comedic element, as a mischievous device to fool the doctor.
Laborer's Love contains additional references to traditional Chinese culture; for example, the scene where Carpenter Zheng breaks open a watermelon. This is a reference to an old Chinese idiom called 破瓜之年(pò guā zhī nián), meaning that the girl is at an age where she is "ripe" or mature enough to marry and bear children.In the film, Miss Zhu, who is the love interest, is at an age where she is ready for marriage, this is implied when the watermelon is broken in two or split by Carpenter Zheng. The significance of the splitting of the watermelon alludes to Carpenter Zheng's sexual desire for Miss Zhu.
The function of Carpenter Zheng's staircase outside the nightclub raises debate regarding moral principles. The carpenter's actions are considered immoral due to the injurious consequences that occur to innocent people for his benefit. However, as an element of comedy, it is normal to see these actions toward those who are considered as bad in society as a form of "moral justification."
The thick pair of glasses worn by the Doctor is a status symbol of his professional respectability and paternal authority, in addition to a sign of his laughable pedantry and senility. It implicitly reflects that the modern cultural views aim to abandon the old “pedantry and senility” in China.
The theme of parental objection to marriage is uniquely depicted in the film. It draws on struggle based on gender and social class, through Carpenter Zheng, a man of low socioeconomic status wanting to marry a doctor's daughter. Carpenter Zheng and Miss Zhu resist normative marriage practices while also complying with social expectations by way of Carpenter Zheng finding ways to gain acceptable work to gain paternal approval. Despite the trickery, the young laborer becomes accepted by the father when he helps in the clinic, which consequently alters his social identity: from a laborer to a doctor, thus making him suitable for marriage. By making their marriage possible, they directly undermine Miss Zhu’s father's authority, which speaks to modernism, patriarchy, gender, and socio-economic differences. The marriage of a tradesman and a doctor's daughter is significant as it calls out socially constructed bounds that are upheld by cultural norms and values to limit the movement of individuals' socioeconomic status.
Influence From Western Films
While Laborer's Love is now canonized as the earliest surviving complete Chinese film, short comedy films were looked down upon by 1920s Chinese audiences and did not do well at the box office, meaning that the film is not an accurate representation of the film culture at this point in Chinese history. In the 1920s, 90% of the films released in China were American films, which greatly influenced both Chinese filmmakers and the Chinese film market. Many of the jokes and visual themes in the work were inspired by American silent film comedians Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton, who are among the most famous comedians in the silent film field.
For instance, Doctor Zhu wears glasses in a similar style to the ones characteristically worn by Harold Lloyd. One scene has Carpenter Zheng come into possession of the glasses and try them on in a shot that imitates the iconic image of this popular actor. This results in a blurry point-of-view shot that emphasizes the difference in perspective between the two characters, with Carpenter Zheng representing modern social views and Doctor Zhu representing traditional ones. The film's romantic narrative provides further commentary on how traditional Chinese values were changing in the shift to the modern era, from its depiction of increasing social mobility to the negotiation of marriage and family through feudal and patriarchal codes.
Another Lloyd-style motif is from the scene where Carpenter Zheng and Miss Zhu communicate using a container in a line. This scene is similar to Harold Lloyd's Never Weaken (1921).
Along with referencing Harold Lloyd, the film incorporates the surprise slide staircase, which was a gag popularized by American silent comedian Buster Keaton in his film The Haunted House (1921). This appears in the film when Carpenter Zheng modifies the staircase to a nightclub into a slide that he can activate at will.
Evidently, Mingxing Film Company had its roots in part in the United States, and its English title suggests that Chinese films also exist in the culture of English-speaking audiences.
In early 20th-century Shanghai, Western influence became more prevalent, and this film represents the mixing of culture as Western and Eastern skills and technologies collided. This film shows how China was becoming more open to foreign technologies that are displayed on-screen, such as the alarm clock, table lamp, Western-style furniture and the appearance of the night club.
Laborer's Love came into being during the transition period from short films to long films. According to statistical information, there were nearly 30 short films made in China from 1918 to 1928. The subjects of these short films were primarily marketable slapstick dramas with exaggerated actions and simple plots, while still retaining the traditional mode of civilized drama.
The Chinese-English Bilingual Intertitles
To begin, the Chinese film industry did not start by filming itself, but by the screening of foreign films. Hence, Chinese filmmakers were inevitably influenced by foreign films. Importantly, Laborer's Love was intended for the international market—the film is not only a national film but also an international film, as it targeted both the Southeast Asian market and the English-speaking world. There were a large number of foreign audiences in the concession area, and English subtitles were intended for foreign audiences. As a tool to help the audience understand the film, subtitles can enable foreign audiences and Chinese audiences to obtain the same aesthetic experience and cultural identity when watching movies. For example, at the beginning of the film, it has the subtitles to explain the storyline: 粤人郑木匠，改业水果，与祝医女结掷果缘，乃求婚于祝医，祝云：能使我医业兴隆者，当以女妻之，木匠果设妙计，得如祝愿，有情人遂成了眷属。(A doctor in needy circumstances, whose daughter is much admired by a fruit shop proprietor [formerly a carpenter] who sticks to the tools of his trade).
However, Chinese culture is profound and some vocabulary has multiple meanings. Under such circumstances, it is difficult to find a corresponding vocabulary for translation in English. Therefore, the translator of Laborer's Love used the method of "demolition" in the face of such differing vocabulary. For instance, the Chinese subtitles were "老伯伯！这是我孝敬你的" which in English translates to "Respected sir, I am not asking you to buy, please accept a humble gift." The point of transmission and the difficulty of translation is the word "孝敬". The word "孝敬" has two meanings here. One is to show the relationship of honor and the other is to give a gift. The English interpretation of the word would be to "give a present; use as a token of respect for one’s elders or superior." Evidently, the translator cannot find a word in English that can contain these two meanings. Therefore, in the English translation, the translator uses "respected" and "humble" to show a status of humility and uses "not asking you to buy" and "gift" to reflect the meaning of giving gifts. Although the translation here does not reach lexical and syntactic equivalence, it achieves the telling of the story. The two meanings contained in "孝敬" itself are vividly displayed. The Western audience can get the same aesthetic experience as the Chinese audience when watching the film.
Due to the large cultural differences between the Western and Eastern (mostly China), the ability of subtitle translators is limited. Many lines of the film seem ordinary to our audience, but they all have cultural connotations. In the process of translation, even if a variety of translation methods such as “demolition” are adopted, the lack of cultural information is inevitable. For example, in the Chinese language, one line goes, "(病人)：不是！我有一只乾隆窑的古瓶，请先生…… （祝医）：我也有一只康熙窑的笔筒，请你买了去吧!" In English, it goes, "(Patient): …swelling is a nice Chien Loong vase. I will sell it cheap. (Doctor Zhu): I also have an antique ink spill for sale." The importance of the translation here are the words 乾隆，康熙, and 古瓶. "乾隆" and "康熙" are both the Emperor from the Qing Dynasty, and the word "古瓶" means the old vase that the Emperor owned. Facing the liar holding the so-called "Antiquity" of the Chien Loong period to sell to Doctor Zhu, Doctor Zhu uses the same method of the liar to send him away—pointing out that he has more valuable antiquity (Kangxi's 康熙 pen container) than the liar. But unfortunately, in the English subtitles, this is not reflected. Instead, the translator translated the "乾隆窑" into “Chien Loong," which is still accurate. However, the translation of "康熙窑" into "antique" has weakened the contrast that Chinese characters have between the generation, and weakened the comedy of Doctor Zhu treating the liar the same way as the liar did the Doctor. The word "康熙" could be translated into "Kangxi," but if translated into "Chien Loong's grandfather," would be more able to show the contrast between the generations. Western audiences, even if they don't know Chien Loong and Kangxi, would still understand the meaning of comparing these two emperors. Thereby, Western audiences can reach the same extent to which Chinese audiences understood and appreciated the film.
Production
Black and white
Silent film
Short film
Genre: romance film & comedy film: slapstick comedy, romantic comedy, mischief comedy, happy (comic) ending—a modern twist on a traditional custom
Editing
The film's use of various special effects in the film adds both narrative and comedic effects to the film. Such special effects include superimposition, undercranking, out-of-focus shots. Particularly, undercranking, often used in slapstick comedy, is used in Laborer’s Love to create gags by enhancing the rhythm of the film through fast play. This effect is achieved through hand-cranking the film at a slower rate while filming, thus when cranking at the regular rate when screening, would create sped-up imagery. In the film, these fast-forward scenes turn trick cinematography into a motif of its own.
For instance, a fast-motion sequence is featured when Carpenter Zheng utilizes his trick staircase to injure the customers leaving the club, acting as a disassembly line. This sequence is later followed by another fast-motion sequence of injured bodies being treated perfunctorily at Doctor Zhu’s clinic at the end of the film, acting as an assembly line. Overall, the fast-forwarded, upbeat scenes make for a creative and humorous effect.
This film also makes use of a type of superimposition called matte shots to convey Carpenter Zheng's daydreams of both Miss and Doctor Zhu. This effect is achieved through the filming of two images, which are then combined in postproduction.
Furthermore, out-of-focus shots are utilized when Carpenter Zheng puts on Doctor Zhu's glasses, which the audience can see in first-person, through the eyes of Zheng. This shot is framed through the literal frame of the glasses and the lenses blur out the scene.
The Creativity Standard of Early Chinese Films
While the shooting of Laborer's Love involved limitations in the number of scenes and space, it is not merely a form of imitating stage play. In fact, the film plays on conventions of both cinema of attraction(s) as well as narrative cinema. Cinema of attraction(s), coined by Tom Gunning, involves the use of display—gags, props, special effects—to grab the attention of the audience. Narrative cinema allows for the audience to be drawn into the diegesis or fictional story world as it unfolds.
In an early scene, Carpenter Zheng and Miss Zhu communicate through a container on a string. This prop not only visualizes the connection between the two characters but also allows for their romantic interest to be revealed and unfolded. Carpenter Zheng shares his affection by gifting Miss Zhu fruit while she sends back her handkerchief as a token of affection, as well as Doctor Zhu's glasses. Connection devices such as these appeared often in the Rube Goldberg comics and Charlie Chaplin films of the 1910s.
Aside from alluding to Harold Lloyd's iconic character, the blurry point-of-view shot of Carpenter Zheng wearing Doctor Zhu's glasses puts the audience in the position of looking in first-person, immersing them in the story world. The blurry vision hints at the idea that Dr. Zhu is literally blind and blind in his priorities in life, putting the profit of his business over the happiness of his daughter.
The trick staircase used at the end of the film is another borrowed motif from American cinema, specifically Buster Keaton's The Haunted House (1921).
In a later scene, Carpenter Zheng is seen overjoyed, then bitter, as a matte shot appearing in the upper-left corner of the frame reveals his daydreams of Miss Zhu and Doctor Zhu. Double- and/or multiple-exposure photography was a popular novelty in 20th-century China, which was known as "split-self photography" (Chinese: 分身像; pinyin: fēnshēn xiàng) or "two-me's photo" (Chinese: 二我图; pinyin: èrwǒ tú).
Furthermore, Zheng's skill and enjoyment in carpentry mirrors Director Zhang Shichuan's skill and enjoyment in the making of this film. Many events of the film combine tricks of Zheng's carpentry and Director Zhang's special effects, such as the trick staircase combined with undercranking. Both Carpenter Zheng and the film's director fulfill their desire of pleasing an audience as well as enjoying their trade.
Overall, it is evident that early Chinese cinema not only often takes inspiration from American cinema but already had a high standard of creativity. As a film itself, Laborer’s Love creates a new form of love between male and female, which differs from traditional Chinese expectations of love. However, while straying away from notions of arranged love and allowing the two characters to decide their romantic fate, the film revisits the Chinese traditions through Carpenter Zheng asking the permission of Doctor Zhu to court Miss Zhu.
Reception
Laborer's Love was hailed for its breakthrough from the theatrical model of filmmaking, particularly in terms of cinematography, as the film uses techniques like panoramic photography, close-up, cross-cutting, superimposition, downscale photography and subjective shots. This film, along with quite a number of other Mingxing films, have been treated as "classics" and analyzed textually and artistically. However, as the film was considered as unsuccessful and unprofitable during its theatrical run, some criticized the film to be "full of poor taste," and "made from the purpose of appealing to the petty bourgeois." However, it was also pointed out that the degree of attention paid to the fact of the film's preservation has caused most scholarship to ignore what the film was intended to be: a comedy. In fact, the film director, Zhang Shichuan later had similar argument over the choice of film theme with the writer, Zheng Zhengqiu. Zheng suggested on his artistic idea to "improve and educate society," while Zhang replied that "[w]hat matters are audiences' interests and to win their laugh" and that "there is no place for doctrine yet."
The film was included in the list of China's 100 Film Classics of the Century made by China's Film Critics Society in 2005.
Further reading
Xinyu Dong, The Laborer at Play: Laborer's Love, the Operational Aesthetic, and The Comedy of Inventions. Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, vol. 20, no. 2 (Fall 2008), pp. 1–39.
Christopher Rea, Chinese Film Classics, 1922-1949, chapter 1: Laborer's Love (1922). Columbia University Press, 2021.
Zhang Zhen, An Amorous History of the Silver Screen: Shanghai Cinema, 1896-1937. University of Chicago Press, 2005.
References
External links
Laborer's Love (1922) with English subtitles on YouTube
Chinese Film Classics online course, Module 1: Laborer's Love: translated film, with two video lectures and related film clips and materials (chinesefilmclassics.org)
Laborer's Love in supchina.com
Walking into and out of the spectacle: China’s earliest film scene
Chinese silent short films
1922 films
Films directed by Zhang Shichuan
Articles containing video clips
Chinese black-and-white films
1922 short films |
40715914 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruhe%20%28song%29 | Ruhe (song) | Ruhe (English: Silence or peace) is the third single from the 1999 Schiller debut album Zeitgeist with vocals by an unknown woman and an unknown man and spoken word passages by German actor and voice actor Benjamin Völz (born 13 May 1960), who became famous in the German-speaking countries as the voice of FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder from the American television series The X-Files. The song is titled internationally as "Peace". The trance music single was officially released on 29 November 1999 in Germany and was peaking at number 24 on German Singles Chart in 1999 and at number 69 in Switzerland. The cover art work shows a graphic of an empty box.
The album version (Langspiel-Fassung) and the single and TV version (Fernseh-Fassung) of Ruhe are unlike versions with completely different music. Only the spoken words are the same. The spoken words of the song are including the poem "Über die Einsamkeit" by Swiss philosophical writer Johann Georg Zimmermann (1728-1795). The poem is:
Translation from German: "Peacefulness, the greatest happiness on earth, comes very often only through solitude into the heart."
Ruhe was featured in the 2009 German cinema movie Zweiohrküken and was included on the Official Sound Track of Zweiohrküken.
Track listing
Maxi single
Vinyl
Credits and personnel
Composed and produced by Christopher von Deylen and Mirko von Schlieffen
Bass and rhythm guitar by Tissy Thiers
Voice by Benjamin Völz
Recorded and mixed at the Sleepingroom in Hamburg
Voice recorded by Stefan Knauthe at the Kokon Studio in Berlin
Music video
The official music video for "Ruhe" has a length of 3:45 minutes. The video features three couples with people of different ethnic origin, who are walking and strolling through an inner courtyard of an office building in the style of a Japanese garden. The video was aired and was shown for example on German music television channel VIVA in 1999.
Charts
References
External links
Official music video of Ruhe
The music video of Ruhe
Ruhe live
The single on Discogs
Lyrics of this song - Ruhe
Schiller (band) songs
1999 singles
Songs written by Christopher von Deylen
1999 songs |
31447775 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hovet%2C%20Agder | Hovet, Agder | Hovet is a village in Valle municipality in Agder county, Norway. The village is located just east of the river Otra, about north of the village of Rysstad and about east of the village of Brokke. There is a bridge over the river Otra at Hovet which connects to the Norwegian National Road 9 highway which runs along the west side of the highway.
References
Villages in Agder
Valle, Norway |
16617947 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonne%20of%20Armagnac | Bonne of Armagnac | Bonne of Armagnac (19 February 1399 – 1430/35) was the eldest daughter of Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac and Constable of France, and his wife Bonne of Berry.
Marriage
On 15 April 1410 at the age of 11, she married Charles, Duke of Orléans (left an orphan by his father Louis's assassination in 1407). This marriage made the constable not only Charles's father-in-law but also his natural defender. The Orléans party, left without a leader by Louis's death, thus became the Armagnac party, the name it held up to the treaty of Arras in 1435.
Following the French defeat at the Battle of Agincourt on 25 October 1415, Charles was taken prisoner by the English. Bonne had not borne any children prior to his imprisonment. She died sometime between 1430 and 1435 while her husband was still in captivity.
In literature and art
Bonne appears in the critically acclaimed historical novel Het woud der verwachting (1949) by Hella Haasse, (translated into English in 1989 under the title "In a Dark Wood Wandering"). The novel portrays the life of Bonne's husband Charles.
Charles and Bonne's marriage at the Chateau de Dourdan is thought to be depicted in the elaborate illuminated manuscript entitled Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry (Very Rich Hours of the Duke of Berry) in the illustration for April.
Ancestry
References
Sources
Duchesses of Orléans
1430s deaths
1399 births
15th-century French women
15th-century French people |
68857410 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan%E2%80%93P%C3%B3lya%20number | Jordan–Pólya number | In mathematics, the Jordan–Pólya numbers are the numbers that can be obtained by multiplying together one or more factorials, not required to be distinct from each other. For instance, is a Jordan–Pólya number because Every tree has a number of symmetries that is a Jordan–Pólya number, and every Jordan–Pólya number arises in this way as the order of an automorphism group of a tree. These numbers are named after Camille Jordan and George Pólya, who both wrote about them in the context of symmetries of trees.
These numbers grow more quickly than polynomials but more slowly than exponentials. As well as in the symmetries of trees, they arise as the numbers of transitive orientations of comparability graphs and in the problem of finding factorials that can be represented as products of smaller factorials.
Sequence and growth rate
The sequence of Jordan–Pólya numbers begins:
They form the smallest multiplicatively closed set containing all of the factorials.
The th Jordan–Pólya number grows more quickly than any polynomial of , but more slowly than any exponential function of . More precisely, for every , and every sufficiently large (depending on ), the number of Jordan–Pólya numbers up to obeys the inequalities
Factorials that are products of smaller factorials
Every Jordan–Pólya number , except 2, has the property that its factorial can be written as a product of smaller factorials. This can be done simply by expanding and then replacing in this product by its representation as a product of factorials. It is conjectured, but unproven, that the only numbers whose factorial equals a product of smaller factorials are the Jordan–Pólya numbers (except 2) and the two exceptional numbers 9 and 10, for which and . The only other known representation of a factorial as a product of smaller factorials, not obtained by replacing in the product expansion of , is , but as is itself a Jordan–Pólya number, it also has the representation .
References
Integer sequences
Factorial and binomial topics
Algebraic graph theory
Trees (graph theory) |
25341168 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20Van%20Der%20Veken | Jan Van Der Veken | Jan Van Der Veken (born 10 April 1975) is a Belgian illustrator. Born in Ghent, he studied graphic design and typography at the Sint-Lucas School of Architecture in Ghent, where he studied under Ever Meulen (Eddy Vermeulen) and other instructors.
Van Der Veken developed his own artistic style, inspired by the atoomstijl (Atomic style), a 1980s "relaunch" of the Ligne claire. He launched his own design company, Fabrica Grafica.
Van Der Veken specializes in book covers and posters, but also creates illustrations for various newspapers and magazines. He illustrated the covers for the 7 December 2009 and 11 January 2010 issues of The New Yorker.
External links
Fabrica Grafica website
Drawn and Quarterly biography
Comichouse biography
Belgian illustrators
1975 births
Living people |
11569746 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%20Bank%20Jazz%20%26%20Blues%20Festival | Red Bank Jazz & Blues Festival | The Red Bank Jazz & Blues Festival, also sometimes known as Red Bank Riverfest, was a music festival that took place the first weekend in June each year in Red Bank, New Jersey. Sited at Marine Park along the Navesink River, the festival was in operation between 1987 and 2016. Organized during some of this time by the non-profit Jersey Shore Jazz & Blues Foundation, the festival typically ran from Friday late afternoon through Sunday late afternoon, and according to varying estimates attracted some 80,000 to 150,000 people over the three days. It was said to be the largest free event of its kind in the Northeast United States.
History
Music was presented on the main Marina Stage as well as the smaller Harbor Experience or Riverfront Stage. Beginning in the late 2000s, a third stage showcased local and youth artists. Numerous vendors of foods and wares surrounded the music area, which was a short stroll from Red Bank's Broad Street center. The event grew out of, and then somewhat co-existed with, the International Food Festival, which had been in operation since around 1980 with the purpose of showcasing the efforts of local restaurants while featuring some music as well.
In 2007, the festival was sponsored by Washington Mutual; area smooth jazz radio station CD 101.9 always had a presence as well. In 2008, the festival lacked a title sponsor for the first time since 2003; organizers said the festival's existence was in financial jeopardy for 2009. The festival did go forward in 2009 despite the ongoing late 2000s recession and even further diminished sponsorship, with organizers stressing the need for attendees to contribute and some second stage performers foregoing being paid. Due to construction in Marine Park, the 2010 festival relocated inland to Monmouth Park under the name Jersey Shore Jazz & Blues Festival.
For 2011, the Red Bank Riverfest reclaimed its old spot in the first weekend of June in the park, featuring local, often rock-oriented bands, while the Jersey Shore Jazz & Blues Festival scheduled itself for single days each in Middletown, Long Branch, and Asbury Park across July, August, and September. Relations between the two organizations had been poor for a while, and the two events continued to go their separate ways over the next few years.
As of 2017, however, Riverfest stopped happening, due its organizers said to costs having become prohibitive.
Typical headlining acts for the Festival included John Pizzarelli (2010), Houston Person (2009), Big Bill Morganfield (2007), Eddie Palmieri (2005), Rod Piazza and the Mighty Flyers (2002), and Bernie Worrell and the Woo Warriers (1999).
See also
List of blues festivals
List of jazz festivals
References
External links
Jersey Shore Jazz & Blues Festival 2011
Red Bank Riverfest 2011
Music festivals established in 1987
Blues festivals in the United States
Folk festivals in the United States
Jazz festivals in the United States
Music festivals in New Jersey
Music of Red Bank, New Jersey
Defunct festivals in New Jersey |
73139643 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick%20Gold | Nick Gold | Nick Gold is a British record producer, multi-instrumentalist and music executive. He is the CEO of World Circuit Records and the organiser of Buena Vista Social Club, a Cuban musical ensemble which he established in 1996. Gold is a two time Grammy Award winner. In 2006, The New York Times described him as a "Musical Matchmaker".
Biography
Gold graduated from the University of Sussex with a degree in African history, his father was a TV producer, prior his graduation he started his career working in a jazz record store in London where he discovered about Arts Worldwide, an organization ran by Anne Hunt and Mary Farquharson that puts up British concerts tours for musicians from Latin America and Africa. The organization would go on and created a record company to produce recordings after high demand from audiences who wanted records. Preceding the creation of the label, the organization hired Gold as the pantologist of the label and was given first appointment to find a recording studio and a producer for Kenyan musical group, Shiratti Jazz. According to the New York Times, that was his first time in a recording studio and the first time he saw a mixing console.
Around early 90s, Gold bought the organization and took over. Prior that, Gold invited American musician Ry Cooder and Malian singer Ali Farka Touré in london where they passed a guitar to and fro and came to an agreement to work together in the future. In 1996, he intended to bring two Malian guitarists to Cuba for sessions with Ry Cooder and a group of Cuban musicians, as an inspection in Afro-Cubanism but the guitarists didn't make it to Cuba because they were not given visas. Gold would go on and congregated more Cubans of varying ages and performing styles and founded Beauna Vista Social Club.
Gold produced 1984 Grammy award-winning studio album by Ali Farka Touré, Cherie, he co-produced Buena Vista Social Club's 1996 debut studio album Buena Vista Social Club. Gold is also noted for his production, engineering and coordination credits on Toumani Diabaté, London Symphony Orchestra, Afro-Cuban All Stars, Afel Bocoum, Tony Allen, Orchestra Baobab, Djeli Moussa Diawara, Fatoumata Diawara, Cheikh Lô, Oumou Sangaré and Hugh Masekela.
In 2018, Gold sold World Circuit Records to Bertelsmann Music Group.
References
External links
Nick Gold Credits at AllMusic
Living people
British record producers
Music industry executives
Year of birth missing (living people) |
34699362 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%20Crane%20%28disambiguation%29 | Martin Crane (disambiguation) | Martin Crane is a character of the television series Frasier.
Martin Crane may also refer to:
Martin Crane (bishop) (1818–1901), of the Diocese of Sandhurst, Australia
Martin McNulty Crane (1855–1943), American politician in Texas
Martin McNulty Crane, singer-songwriter and frontman of the band Brazos
Martin Crane, a character in Skylark of Valeron
Martin Crane, a character in The Masked Marvel |
21730224 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasarnia | Pasarnia | Pasarnia is a settlement in the administrative district of Gmina Bartoszyce, within Bartoszyce County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland, close to the border with the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia.
References
Pasarnia |
64350066 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhythmic%20gymnastics%20at%20the%202001%20World%20Games%20%E2%80%93%20Clubs | Rhythmic gymnastics at the 2001 World Games – Clubs | The clubs event in rhythmic gymnastics at the 2001 World Games in Akita was played from 22 to 23 August. The competition took place at Akita City Gymnasium.
Competition format
A total of 24 athletes entered the competition. The best eight athletes from preliminary round advances to the final.
Results
Preliminary
Final
References
External links
Results on IWGA website
Clubs |
30859685 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9%20V.%20Dawis | René V. Dawis | René V. Dawis is an American psychology professor.
He taught at University of Minnesota and is currently an emeritus professor. His work focused on individual differences, work adjustment, and human potential. He received the American Psychological Associations's Leona Tyler Award in 1999.
Career
Dawis received his MA in 1955 and his PhD in 1956.
At the University of Minnesota he was director of the Counseling Psychology Program from 1975 to 1985. Since 1997, he has been emeritus psychology at the same university.
In 1995, he was a signatory of a collective statement in response to The Bell Curve titled "Mainstream Science on Intelligence", written by Intelligence editor Linda Gottfredson and published in the Wall Street Journal.
He was a principal investigator into several projects at the Industrial Relations Center at the Carlson School of Management.
Publications
Dawis RV (1989). Psychology: Human relations and work adjustment. Gregg Division, McGraw-Hill; 7th ed edition .
Lubinski D, et al. (1995). Assessing Individual Differences in Human Behavior: New Concepts, Methods, and Findings. Davies-Black Publishing; 1st edition. .
Dawis RV (1984). A psychological theory of work adjustment: An individual-differences model and its applications. University of Minnesota Press. .
Dawis RV et al. (1988). Psychology: Behavior, Motivation, and Work Adjustment. Paradigm Publishing 7th edition. .
Fruehling RT, Dawis RV (1995). Psychology: Realizing Human Potential. Paradigm Publishing. .
Lofquist LH, Dawis RV (1991). Essentials of Person-Environment-Correspondence Counseling. University of Minnesota Press. .
References
21st-century American psychologists
1928 births
Living people
University of Minnesota faculty
20th-century American psychologists |
17722351 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyn%20Spencer | Lyn Spencer | Lyn Spencer (born 24 October 1951) is a former British broadcaster, best known for her work at Tyne Tees Television.
Education
Born in Newcastle upon Tyne, she attended the Newcastle College of Further Education and the Canley College of Education in Coventry.
Career
During the early 1970s, Spencer was a youth worker at the Camden Youth Project in North London and an English & drama teacher at Heworth Grange Comprehensive School in Felling, Gateshead.
Then in 1975, at the age of 23, Spencer joined the presentation department at Tyne Tees and became popular with viewers as the duty announcer on Saturday mornings, when on-air links often featured competitions, interviews and birthday greetings. A year later, the continuity links were relaunched into a new Saturday morning children's programme entitled Lyn's Look In, for which Spencer was the presenter, researcher and producer. According to an interview in 2005, the programme was launched when broadcast trade unions insisted that the Saturday continuity links were turning into a programme of their own and should be treated as such.
Lyn's Look In remained on-air until 1979 when Spencer took maternity leave to have her first child. She returned to Tyne Tees later in the year to present Check It Out, a local teenage magazine show, alongside future Top of the Pops producer Chris Cowey. The series, which ran until 1982, is best remembered for an appearance by punk group Public Image Ltd., during which John Lydon walked out.
In 1981, Spencer became co-presenter (alongside Alistair Pirrie) for the networked children's pop programme, Razzmatazz. She presented two series of the show before leaving Tyne Tees to join Metro Radio, although she still occasionally appeared as a continuity announcer in the early to mid 1980s. Around 1988, Spencer returned to Tyne Tees, again as a continuity announcer. During what was her second stint at the station, Spencer presented various regional programmes including The End of the Eighties Show and The Really Useful Guide.
Spencer left Tyne Tees again in 1993 and went into charity work as a fundraiser at Disability North, followed by a job as an advertising executive. Between 1995 and 1997, she presented the Breakfast Show on the now-defunct Great North Radio. During that time, she set up a public relations company.
She now runs White Hot Communications alongside PR specialist Nicky Harrison. She has two children from her first marriage to former Tyne Tees Television presenter Roger Tames. In 1988, she married BBC Radio Newcastle presenter Paddy MacDee, and they have one son.
References
1951 births
Living people
Radio and television announcers
English television presenters |
25320779 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaveri%20Express | Kaveri Express | Kaveri Express is a daily train running between Mysuru and Chennai. This train is also known as the Mysuru–Chennai Express. Numbered 16021/22, this train belongs to Southern Railway and is maintained at Chennai.
History
This train was earlier a daily train running between Bengaluru and Mysuru in the opposite direction to that of Chamundi Express. To provide connectivity to Chennai from Mysuru, this train was extended in 1998.
Coach composition
This train has 14 Sleeper classes, two 3 tier AC, two 2 tier AC, 3 unreserved Bogies and 2 second Sitting cum luggage van from Mysuru which sums to 23. Previously, there was an engine change at Bengaluru City, the engine changes from diesel to electric for 16022 and the opposite for 16021. After the electrification of the Bangalore–Mysore line, the train runs with an electric loco from Chennai to Mysore all the way.
Routing
It runs, from MGR Chennai Central via Arakkonam, Katpadi, Jolarpettai, Bangarapet, Krishnarajapuram, KSR Bengaluru, Ramanagaram, Maddur, Mandya to Mysuru Jn.
Loco link
It is hauled by a Royapuram or Lallaguda electric loco shed-based WAP-7 locomotive on its entire journey.
References
External links
16021 Kaveri Express at India Rail Info
16022 Kaveri Express at India Rail Info
Transport in Chennai
Transport in Mysore
Railway services introduced in 1980
Named passenger trains of India
Rail transport in Tamil Nadu
Rail transport in Karnataka
Express trains in India |
68810183 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyakusai-ji | Hyakusai-ji | is a Buddhist temple in the Hyakusaiji neighborhood of the city of Higashiōmi, Shiga Prefecture, Japan. It belongs to the Tendai school of Japanese Buddhism, and together with Kongōrin-ji and Saimyō-ji is regard as one of the "Three Great Temples" east of Lake Biwa. It was designated a National Historic Site in 2008.
History
Hyakusai-ji is located on the western flank of the Suzuka Mountains, east of Lake Biwa. According to the temple, Prince Shotoku erected this temple in 606 AD after his tutor from Goguryeo, the monk Hyeja, found a cedar tree in the mountains glowing with a mysterious light. The prince carved an image of an eleven-faced Kannon Bosatsu directly into the living wood of the tree and had a hall built around it. Although Hyeja was from Goguryeo, the temple is named after the Korean kingdom of Baekje as the layout of the temple was patterned after the temple of Ryuun-ji in that kingdom. However, the first appearance of the temple in the historical documentation is from 1089 AD, so it is uncertain to what extent the temple legend of its connection with Prince Shotoku reflects actual historic facts. During the Heian period, as with many temples in Ōmi Province, it came under the influence of Enryaku-ji and Hyakusai-ji became a temple of the Tendai sect. Through the Kamakura period, the temple was a huge establishment, with over 1000 chapels spread across numerous mountain valleys. The temple suffered from a severe fire in 1498, and only a few years later, in 1503, it was almost razed completely during a conflict between the Ōmi shugo Rokkaku Takayori and the shugodai Iba Tadataka. These two fires destroyed all of the ancient buildings and Buddhist statues, but also all of the temple's records and documents of its founding.
The temple eventually recovered, and the Jesuit missionary Luis Frois commented about the temple's prosperity during a visit. In 1573, the temple was again the center of a conflict, this time between Rokkaku Yoshikata and Oda Nobunaga and its main hall was again destroyed. This hall was rebuilt in 1584 by Hori Hidemasa. In 1602, with the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate, the temple was awarded a kokudaka of 146 koku for its upkeep. This was increased by another 100 koku in 1617 by Shogun Tokugawa Hidetada. From 1634 through 1650 most of the buildings of the temple were reconstructed by Ryosuke, a disciple and younger brother of the archpriest Tenkai, with the assistance of Hikone Domain, and many of these structures survive to this day, including the current Hondō, which is a National Important Cultural Property.
The temple is approximately ten minutes by car from Yōkaichi Station on the Ohmi Railway.
Gallery
See also
List of Historic Sites of Japan (Shiga)
References
External links
Higashiomi city home page
Shiga-Biwako Visitor's Guide
Buddhist temples in Shiga Prefecture
Historic Sites of Japan
Tendai temples
Higashiōmi
Ōmi Province
7th-century Buddhist temples
Prince Shōtoku
Buddhism in the Asuka period |
30274698 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee%20House%20%28Maysville%2C%20Kentucky%29 | Lee House (Maysville, Kentucky) | The Lee House facing front street was built as a hotel by Peter Lee in 1844. It was considered one of the finest inns of the day and hosted a number of prominent guests including Henry Clay and Governor John Chambers. The inn became a popular stop on the way for summer tourists destined for the Blue Licks Spring. A number of parties and masked balls were held in its generous rooms.
The complex consists of an original structure facing Sutton Street (circa 1790), the building facing Front Street (1844) and a three-story addition of 16 hotel rooms (circa 1850). Most of the design elements are Greek Revival and the brickwork is Flemish bond. Construction of the floodwall in the early 1950s protected the structure from flooding, but blocked the river view from the lower two stories.
The structure was bought in 1863 by Charles B. Hill and was known for some time as the Hill House. In 1977, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
References
National Register of Historic Places in Mason County, Kentucky
Houses in Maysville, Kentucky
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Kentucky
Greek Revival architecture in Kentucky
Hotel buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Kentucky
Hotel buildings completed in 1844
1844 establishments in Kentucky |
1422364 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionysos%20%28Canadian%20band%29 | Dionysos (Canadian band) | Dionysos was a French Canadian progressive rock band based in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Quebec, Canada. The band members were Phil Bech, Éric Clement, Fern Durand, Robert Lepage and Paul-André Thibert. They had a hit with their 1970 single "Suzie".
History
In 1969, the members of the group composed the music for the play Simon neige, presented by the Cégep de Valleyfield theater troupe. Dionysos made a name for themselves during the summer of 1970 by playing at the Galerie Café du Vieux-Montréal. In January 1971, they released their first album, Le Grand Jeu, which was co-produced by singer Donald Lautrec. It was released under the Jupiter record label and sold 6,000 copies.
On June 13, 1971, Dionysos took part, representing Canada, in the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland. The group's performance was a resounding success; the newspaper La Presse even compared singer Paul-André Thibert to Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones. Following this event, the group performed regularly in Canada.
Their second album, Le Prince Croule, was released in November 1971 under the Zodiac record label. Following a conflict with Jean-Pierre Legault, Paul-André left the band for a short period, and his return to the lineup coincided with the arrival of the new bassist Fernand Durand.
In 1974 the Zodiac record company released Collection Dionysos, which turned out to be a compilation of the first two albums. In retaliation for the commercial failure of the album Le Prince Croule, this album still refused them the budget necessary for the production of their third album. Deprived of the prospect of releasing this new album, the group ceased all activity in April of the same year.
18 months later, in September 1975, Dionysos released their 3rd album Changé d'adresse, an album they produced themselves thanks to an advance on royalties from a distribution contract got with the Duram record label. The group, then a sextet, separated definitively during the year 1977 after a last tour on the North Shore.
Post-separation
Paul-André Thibert pursued a solo career, and in 1978 published a solo album entitled Musique de mes amis Dionysos. The album brings together former members of Dionysos: Éric Clément, Fernand Durand, André Mathieu, Jean-Pierre Forget, as well as other musicians such as Alain Paquette (guitar), Michel Lefrançois (guitar) who also orchestrated, arranged and produced the album, Richard Perotte (drums), Serge Réhaume (flute) and Robert Turmel (bass).
Dionysus made a comeback in 1994 with the release of Pionnier 1969–1994.
Discography
Singles
1970: Suzie
1972: J'ai Jamais
Albums
Studio
1971: Le Grand jeu
1972: Le Prince Croule
1976: Dionysos (Changé d'addresse)
1977: Musique de mes amis Dionysos
Compilation
1974: Collection Dionysos
1994: Pionniers 1969–1994
See also
Music of Canada
Canadian rock
List of bands from Canada
References
External links
http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=3004
Musical groups established in 1969
Musical groups disestablished in 1974
Musical groups from Quebec
Canadian progressive rock groups |
2791746 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateway%20Motorway | Gateway Motorway | The Gateway Motorway (M2 to Eight Mile Plains and M1 to Pine River) is a major tolled motorway in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia which includes the Sir Leo Hielscher Bridges (former Gateway Bridge). The motorway is operated by toll road operator Transurban.
It bypasses Brisbane in order to provide easier access between the Gold Coast and the Sunshine Coast. It runs from the M2 Logan Motorway in Drewvale (near Browns Plains) to the Gympie Arterial Road in Bald Hills. At the interchange with the Pacific Motorway at Eight Mile Plains (Pacific Motorway exit 16), its original terminus pre-1997, the route number changes from M2 (Logan Motorway – Pacific Motorway) to M1 (Pacific Motorway – Bruce Highway (Gympie Arterial Road)). The Sir Leo Hielscher Bridges are part of the Gateway Motorway and the Motorway provides access to the Port of Brisbane, Brisbane Airport and Brisbane Entertainment Centre.
According to Transurban the motorway was used by 125,000 vehicles per day in 2023.
Background
The motorway was constructed to connect the then-recently opened Gateway Bridge to the Bruce Highway in the north and the Pacific Motorway in the south. Construction on the road commenced in March 1985 and it was opened to traffic in four stages between August and December 1986.
Originally, the route was called the Gateway Arterial Road because the road was not at motorway status, the road passing through three large roundabouts north of the Brisbane River. Therefore, to cope with the heavy traffic, the government began upgrading the road in 1987. Duplication to four lanes and grade-separation was completed in several stages between 1989 and 1996.
In 1995, construction began on a southern extension to the Logan Motorway, creating the Southern Brisbane Bypass. The road was opened to traffic by Vaughan Johnson, then-Minister for Transport and Main Roads, on 13 May 1997. Following this work, the road was renamed Gateway Motorway.
In 2007, construction began on the Gateway Upgrade Project, which duplicated the Gateway Bridge, added a deviation between Eagle Farm and Nudgee and upgraded the motorway south of the river. The duplicate Gateway Bridge was opened on 24 May 2010 and both bridges were renamed the Sir Leo Hielscher Bridges. The original bridge was refurbished to match the new structure and was finished on 28 November 2010. The northern deviation was routed east from its old alignment (the old alignment is now named Southern Cross Way) and added a second access road, Moreton Drive, to Brisbane Airport. The deviation opened on 19 July 2009 whilst Moreton Drive opened on 3 December 2009. South of the bridges, the motorway was expanded to 9 lanes up to the Wynnum Road interchange, and 8 lanes to the Old Cleveland Road interchange. From that point the motorway is six lanes up to the Pacific Motorway Merge. The upgrades between Lytton Road and Mount Gravatt-Capalaba Road were completed on 28 January 2010, while the final stage between Mount Gravatt-Capalaba Road and Pacific Motorway (also the final stage of the entire Gateway Motorway Upgrade) was opened to traffic on 30 July 2011.
Upon its original opening, the road did not have a route number. However it gained the Metroad 1 shield in March 1994, before being replaced with M1 in 2005. Manual toll booths were removed and replaced with electronic toll gates (which require vehicles to have a transponder attached to the windscreen) in 2010.
Tolls
The motorway has three toll points, the Murrarie, Kuraby and Compton Road toll points. The Murrarie toll point is located immediate south of the Sir Leo Hielscher Bridges and charges all vehicles travelling on the bridges. The Kuraby toll point is located north of Compton Road and charges vehicles between the Logan Road / Pacific Motorway and Compton Road / Logan Motorway. The nearby Compton Road toll point is located on the northbound exit and southbound entry ramps to/from Compton Road, which opened in 2019. The sections north of Brisbane Airport and between Port of Brisbane Motorway and Logan Road are toll-free.
The Murrarie toll point was introduced in 2005 to fund the duplication of the Sir Leo Hielscher Bridges. At the time, the Murrarie tolls were proposed to expire in 2041.
In 2011, tolls on the Gateway (Kuraby toll point) and Logan Motorways were extended from 2018 to 2051, as well as the Murrarie tolls, as a result of the transfer of Queensland Motorways' tollways to the Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC).
The motorway is operated by Transurban Queensland. The state continues to own the road and bridge infrastructure.
Construction history
1986 – Gateway Bridge and associated approach roads (Lytton Road to Airport Drive) officially opened by QLD Premier Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen on 11 January 1986.
1986 – Stage 1 Gateway Arterial Road (Airport Drive to Toombul Road). Two-lane arterial road and extension of Toombul Road officially opened by Federal Minister for Transport Peter Morris on 8 August 1986.
1986 – Stage 2 Gateway Arterial Road (Depot Road to Bruce Highway). Two-lane arterial road and connections to Deagon Deviation officially opened by Minister for Main Roads and Racing Russ Hinze on 17 October 1986.
1986 – Stage 3 Gateway Arterial Road (South-East Freeway to Lytton Road). Two-lane arterial road including interchange at Wynnum Road officially opened by Minister for Main Roads and Racing Russ Hinze on 17 November 1986.
1986 – Stage 4 Gateway Arterial Road (Toombul Road to Depot Road). Two-lane arterial road and extension of Bicentennial Road officially opened by Minister for Main Roads and Racing Russ Hinze on 11 December 1986.
1989 – Airport Drive to Cannery Drain duplication. Duplication to four lanes including interchange at Airport Drive officially commissioned by Deputy Premier and Minister for Main Roads Bill Gunn on 26 July 1989.
1990 – Mt Gravatt-Capalaba Road Interchange.
1991 – Cannery Drain to Bicentennial Road duplication and Bulimba Viaduct duplication. Duplication of two sections to four lanes and Nudgee Road interchange concurrently commissioned by Federal Minister for Transport Bob Brown on 19 September 1991.
1992 – Old Cleveland Road interchange. Overpass bridges officially opened by Federal Minister for Transport Bob Brown on 4 February 1992.
1992 – Bicentennial Road to Depot Road duplication. Duplication to four lanes commissioned by Federal Minister for Transport Bob Brown on 3 December 1992.
1993 – Bicentennial Road interchange. Overpass bridges officially opened by Federal Minister for Transport Bob Brown on 12 February 1993.
1993 – Toombul Road interchange. Four-lane overpass bridge officially opened by MP Wayne Swan on 25 October 1993.
1993 – Miles Platting Road to Mount Gravatt-Capalaba Road duplication. Duplication to four lanes completed in November 1993.
1995 – Miles Platting Road interchange. Completed January 1995.
1996 – Depot Road to Bruce Highway duplication. Duplication to four lanes and southbound Deagon Deviation overpass completed April 1996.
1997 – Southern Brisbane Bypass (South–East Freeway–Logan Motorway). Southerly extension of Gateway Motorway officially opened by Minister for Main Roads Vaughan Johnson on 13 May 1997.
2010 – Eight Mile Plains to Nudgee – Widening to three lanes in each direction. Also duplicating the Gateway Bridge. Including variable speed limits.
March 2019 – Nudgee to Bracken Ridge. Widening to three lanes in each direction. Including smart motorway technologies.
August 2019 – Logan Enhancement Project. Widening to three lanes in each direction from Compton Road to Logan Motorway, and new south-facing ramps at Compton Road.
December 2020 – Heavy vehicle restrictions eased on Gateway flyover of Gympie Arterial Road.
Upgrade projects
A project to plan and construct upgrades to the Gateway Motorway and the Bruce Highway, at a cost of $2.1 billion, was in planning in July 2022 with finalisation of business cases expected in 2023. Major components are:
Upgrading the Gateway Motorway (Bracken Ridge to Pine River).
Upgrading the Bruce Highway (Gateway Motorway to Dohles Rocks Road).
Upgrading Gympie Arterial Road (Strathpine Road to Gateway Motorway).
Delivering north-facing ramps (northern connections) at Dohles Rocks Road interchange to the Bruce Highway.
Building the North South Urban Arterial corridor between Dohles Rocks Road and Anzac Avenue.
Interchanges
The kilometres shown below are subject to change as upgrades to the road are implemented.
The entire motorway is in the City of Brisbane local government area.
Southern Cross Way
Southern Cross Way is a , 4 lane motorway which branches from the Gateway Motorway at Eagle Farm before merging back with it at Nudgee. Prior to 2010, Southern Cross Way formed part of the Gateway Motorway before the Gateway Upgrade Project constructed a shorter route (and additional Brisbane Airport access road, Moreton Drive), between those two suburbs. The old, longer motorway section was preserved, connected to the deviation and renamed Southern Cross Way, after the aircraft flown by aviator Charles Kingsford Smith, to allow motorists to distinguish between the routes. Southern Cross Way (also colloquially called the 'Old Gateway Motorway') thus follows the previous alignment of the Gateway Motorway between Eagle Farm and Nudgee and has three exits.
Interchanges
The entire motorway is in the City of Brisbane local government area.
See also
Freeways in Brisbane
M1, Queensland
Sir Leo Hielscher Bridges
Notes
References
Highways in Queensland
Roads in Brisbane
Highway 1 (Australia)
1986 establishments in Australia |
12899378 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miliusa%20amplexicaulis | Miliusa amplexicaulis | Miliusa amplexicaulis is a species of plant in the family Annonaceae. It is a tree endemic to Peninsular Malaysia, between Kedah and Perak.
References
amplexicaulis
Endemic flora of Peninsular Malaysia
Trees of Peninsular Malaysia
Least concern plants
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot |
28146367 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertie%20Loel | Bertie Loel | Bertram Benjamin Loel (5 November 1878 – 19 July 1957), known as Bertie Loel, was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
He was the younger brother of Herb Loel who played for Carlton in the Victorian Football Association (VFA) and West Perth in the West Australian Football Association (WAFA).
Loel served in the Boer War, World War I and World War II.
References
External links
1878 births
1957 deaths
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state)
Fitzroy Football Club players |
1263765 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1906%20in%20rail%20transport | 1906 in rail transport |
Events
January events
January 3 – At the annual stockholder's meeting, the charter for the Cleveland Short Line Railway is amended to specify Collinwood, Ohio and Rockport, Ohio as the terminals of the railroad.
January 17 – Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway fully acquires its subsidiary Southern California Railway.
January 27 – Rail line completed to the Red Sea at Port Sudan from Atbara.
February events
February 2 – The Cairo Electric Railways and Heliopolis Oases Company is formed.
March events
March 10 – The Baker Street and Waterloo Railway opens in London.
April events
April – The Great Western Railway of England turns out the prototype of its 4-cylinder GWR 4000 Class steam locomotive, designed by George Jackson Churchward, from its Swindon Works.
April 18 – The great 1906 San Francisco earthquake strikes, damaging the Southern Pacific Railroad's headquarters building and destroying the mansions of the now-deceased Big Four. Also destroyed are many cable car routes, which will be replaced with electric streetcars.
April 19 – Lygten Station opens in Copenhagen, Denmark, as the terminus of the Copenhagen–Slangerup Railway.
May events
May 8 – A special train carrying E.H. Harriman makes a run from Oakland CA to New York in 761 hours and 27 minutes. This record will stand until October 1934, when it will be broken by Union Pacific Streamliner M-10000.
May 19 – The Simplon Tunnel between Italy and Switzerland, the world's longest tunnel until 1979, opens to rail traffic.
July events
July 1 (1:57 am) – 24 passengers and 4 railwaymen die as the result of the 1906 Salisbury rail crash on the London and South Western Railway of England when an express train passes through Salisbury railway station at excessive speed.
July 7 – Completion of the Tauern Tunnel () in Austria.
July 22 – The State Street Line, Chicago's last cable car route, ends operations.
August events
August 1 – The Green Bay and Western acquires a majority interest in the Ahnapee and Western Railway in Wisconsin.
September events
September 8 – Ottawa's Bank Street subway is opened as streetcar number 253 of the Ottawa Electric Railway traverses the tunnel.
September 19 – 14 die as a result of the Grantham rail accident on the Great Northern Railway (Great Britain) when a sleeping car train is derailed passing through Grantham railway station at excessive speed.
September 21 – A Grand Trunk Railway passenger train hits a stopped freight train at a crossover in Napanee, Ontario; the engineer stays at the controls trying to slow his train as much as possible and becomes the only fatality. The train's passengers later erect a monument in the engineer's honor.
October events
October 1 – Karawanks Tunnel is opened to provide a through route between Klagenfurt and Trieste in Austria-Hungary.
October 10 – Valdresbanen is completed from Oslo to Fagernes, Norway.
November events
November 13 – Shinpei Goto begins his term as the first president of South Manchuria Railway.
November 12 – Dunedin railway station in New Zealand is officially opened.
November 29 – Samuel Spencer, president of the Southern Railway (US), is killed in a railroad accident; he will be succeeded by William Finley.
November – The last locomotive built by the Portland Company is completed for the Bridgton and Saco River Railroad.
December events
December 2 - Construction begins on Santa Fe's Rocky Ford, Colorado, station; the station is completed and occupied by the end of March 1907.
December 7 – The Southern Pacific Railroad and Union Pacific Railroad jointly form the Pacific Fruit Express Company (PFE) refrigerator car line.
December 14 – John D. Spreckels announces he will form the San Diego & Arizona Railway Company and build a 148-mile (238-kilometre) line between San Diego and El Centro, California. Spreckels has an agreement with the Southern Pacific Railroad to silently fund the project.
December 15
The Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway opens in London.
The SEPTA trolley subway opens as Route 34 is routed underground in Philadelphia.
December 28
Elliot Junction rail accident in Scotland: 22 killed in a collision during a blizzard.
After his death, Alexander J. Cassatt is succeeded as president of the Pennsylvania Railroad by James McRea.
December 30 – A train wreck at Terra Cotta near modern-day Fort Totten in Washington, D.C., kills 52; the accident leads to the Interstate Commerce Commission banning future wooden body passenger car construction.
Unknown date events
Prussian S 6 Class 4-4-0 steam locomotives introduced; 584 are eventually built to this design.
Births
Deaths
June deaths
June 4 – Francis Webb, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London and North Western Railway (born 1836).
December deaths
December 28 – Alexander J. Cassatt, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad 1899–1906 (born 1839).
References |
5639549 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Follow%20Me%20into%20Madness | Follow Me into Madness | Follow Me into Madness is the second album by Finnish metal band Tarot, released in 1988 by Bluelight Records. A remastered version was released in 2006 by Spinefarm Records. Rose On The Grave was released as a single in 1988. This is also the last album with Mako H., as he is replaced by Janne Tolsa, the current keyboard player.
Track listing
All music written by Marko and Zachary Hietala, all lyrics by Marko Hietala.
Side one
"Descendants of Power" – 3:50
"Rose on the Grave" – 4:31
"Lady Deceiver" – 3:38
"Follow Me into Madness" – 5:40
"Blood Runs Cold"/"Happy End" – 3:52
Side two
"No Return" – 4:30
"I Don't Care Anymore" – 3:48
"Breathing Fire" – 3:12
"I Spit Venom" – 3:14
"Shadow in My Heart" – 5:34
Remastered CD edition bonus tracks
"I Don't Care Anymore" (1995 Version) – 4:09
"Shadows in My Heart" (live) – 6:45
"Descendants of Power" (live) – 3:30
"In My Blood" (demo) – 4:00
"Born into the Flame" (demo) – 4:00
Personnel
Tarot
Marko Hietala – vocals, bass
Zachary Hietala – guitars
Mako H – guitars
Pecu Cinnari – drums
Production
Dan Tigerstedt – engineer, mixing
Kassu Halonen – executive producer
Mika Myyryläinen – reissue producer with Tarot
Janne Tolsa – reissue producer, bonus track engineer and mixing
Mikko Tegelman – bonus track engineer and mixing
Mikko Karmila – bonus track engineer
References
1988 albums
Tarot (band) albums |
47361599 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010%20NPF%20Draft | 2010 NPF Draft | The 2010 NPF Senior Draft is the seventh annual NPF Draft. It was held February 10, 2010 8:00 pm EST in Kissimmee, FL at the Hermitage Key Resort for the 2010 season. It was streamed live on the Major League Baseball's website MLB.com. The first selection was Alabama's Charlotte Morgan, picked by the USSSA Florida Pride. Athletes are not allowed by the NCAA to sign professional contracts until their collegiate seasons have ended.
2010 NPF Draft
Position key:
C = Catcher; UT = Utility infielder; INF = Infielder; 1B = First base; 2B =Second base SS = Shortstop; 3B = Third base; OF = Outfielder; RF = Right field; CF = Center field; LF = Left field; P = Pitcher; RHP = right-handed Pitcher; LHP = left-handed Pitcher; DP =Designated player
Positions are listed as combined for those who can play multiple positions.
Round 1
Round 2
Round 3
Round 4
Round 5
References
2010 in softball
National Pro Fastpitch drafts |
74525959 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily%20Weir | Emily Weir | Emily Weir is an Australian actress best known for playing Mackenzie Booth on Seven Network's soap opera Home and Away since 2019.
Early life
Emily Weir was born and raised in Brisbane, Queensland and attended Queensland University of Technology. She has one brother, Tom. She was a dancer for over 15 years and also took up piano and singing lessons, before deciding to pursue a career in acting.
Career
Weir's first acting role was in the stage production Tartuffe, playing Dorine, the maid. For this role, she went on to win both Best Emerging Artist and Best Supporting Actress at the 2017 Matilda Awards, which recognise achievement in the performing arts industry in Queensland.
In 2019, it was announced that Weir would be joining the cast of the Australian soap opera series Home and Away on the Seven Network, after landing the role of new character Mackenzie Booth. She made her debut on the show on 13 June 2019.
In May 2023, Weir was announced as a contestant for the twentieth season of Dancing with the Stars Australia. She was partnered with Lyu Masuda. On 23 July 2023, the season wrapped and Weir was announced as the runner-up, behind winner Phil Burton.
Personal life
Weir has previously spoken openly about her struggles with crippling anxiety which lead to an alcohol addiction. In 2020, she revealed that she had completely given up alcohol.
Filmography
References
External links
1990s births
Living people
Actresses from Brisbane
21st-century Australian actresses
Australian soap opera actresses
Australian television actresses
Queensland University of Technology alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
53799225 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysgonomonas%20oryzarvi | Dysgonomonas oryzarvi | Dysgonomonas oryzarvi is a Gram-negative, short-rod-shaped, anaerobic and non-motile bacterium from the genus of Dysgonomonas.
References
External links
Type strain of Dysgonomonas oryzarvi at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Bacteroidia
Bacteria described in 2012 |
75023754 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burket%20Shale | Burket Shale | The Burket Shale is the lowest member of the Harrell Shale/Genessee Group.
The Burket is an organic-rich black shale that rests just above the Tully Limestone member of the Mahantango Formation. The geographical extent of the formation includes southern New York, Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio, and West Virginia. The Burket is also known as the Geneseo in New York and parts of Northern Pennsylvania. In 1918 the Burket and Harrell were described by Charles Butts, from outcrops located in Blair County, located in southwestern Pennsylvania. In 1920, C. H. Chadwick described the Genesee and Geneseo formations in New York. The usage of the different names is just a matter of personal preference.
References
Shale formations of the United States
Devonian System of North America
Devonian Pennsylvania
Devonian Ohio
Devonian West Virginia |
73446150 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances%20M.%20Hollingshead | Frances M. Hollingshead | Frances Murdoch Hollingshead (June 30, 1876 – February 28, 1963) was an American physician and public health official. She was director of the Buffalo Foundation. She went to France with the American Red Cross during World War I.
Early life and education
Hollingshead was born in Cincinnati, the daughter of Marcus (Mark) Hollingshead and Rosalie Gilbert Murdoch Hollingshead. Her grandfather was actor James Edward Murdoch. She earned a medical degree from Miami Medical School in Ohio in 1904, and was the first woman to serve an internship at Christ Hospital in Cincinnati.
Her sister Lily Hollingshead James was an elocutionist.
Career
Hollingshead was trained as an anesthetist. She was a public health physician, and director of the Division of Child Hygiene in the Ohio State Department of Health. "She is considered the chief promoter of Baby Week in Ohio," noted an Ohio newspaper in 1916. She served on the Board of Directors of the American Child Hygiene Association. During World War I she went to France to do child welfare work for the American Red Cross.
In 1920, Hollingshead was appointed the first executive director of the Buffalo Foundation, a community trust organization now known as the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo. Under her leadership, the Foundation funded the construction of Kleinhans Music Hall, established a child guidance clinic, improved pre-natal programs, and published a directory of social services. She resigned from the Foundation in 1932. In her later career she helped to establish the Visiting Nurses program and the Babies' Milk Fund in Cincinnati.
Hollingshead was a member of the Zonta Club. She often spoke on child development and other subjects to women's clubs and other community organizations. "Nagging, untruthfulness and threats or the buying of obedience usually fail and we must impress on the young mind the fact that we are rational and truthful guardians," she said in one such lecture in 1929. "A mother solicitous of the welfare of her child never will allow emotion to reign."
Publications
"Personal Hygiene for Office Workers" (1913)
"The Connection Between Tuberculosis and Women Office-Workers" (1913)
"The Ohio School Child in 1917" (1917)
"Junior Health Leagues" (1917)
"Ohio's New Registration Bureau for Mothers" (1917)
"Physical Education in Ohio Schools" (1918)
"Proposed Children's Welfare Program" (1918)
"Maternity Hospitals as a Rural Need" (1918)
"To Buffalo Again" (1926)
"The Present Status of Preschool Hygiene in the United States" (1927)
Personal life
Hollingshead died in 1963 in Loveland, Ohio, at the age of 86.
References
1876 births
20th-century American women physicians
20th-century American physicians
American women in World War I
Miami University alumni
1963 deaths |
2115250 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enzo%20Fiermonte | Enzo Fiermonte | Enzo Fiermonte (17 July 1908 – 22 March 1993), sometimes credited as William Bird, was an Italian actor and boxer.
Early life
Vincenzo "Enzo" Fiermonte was born on 17 July 1908 in Casamassima, a rural village near Bari, in southern Italy to Donato and Lucrezia Fiermonte.
Career
From 1925 to 1934, he was a professional boxer, with a lifetime record of 47 wins (11 by knockout), 17 losses (10 by knockout), and 2 draws. On June 22, 1943, he announced his permanent retirement from boxing.
In 1937, he entered his Maserati in the Vanderbilt Cup auto race in Westbury, New York, but was not allowed to participate because he had no formal auto racing experience.
Acting career
In 1940, he starred as a boxer in Dino De Laurentiis' first film, L'ultimo Combattimento (The Last Fight), directed by Pietro Ballerini. Between the 1940s and the 1980s, he had acting roles in at least 116 films.
Personal life
Fiermonte was married to Tosca Manetti. In June 1933, Fiermonte's wife announced that he was seeking a divorce so he could wed Madeleine Talmage Force (1893–1940), the former wife of John Jacob Astor IV, who died aboard the RMS Titanic.
Fiermonte married Madeleine on 27 November 1933 in New York City, shortly after her divorce from her second husband, William Dick, on 21 July 1933. In 1935, they bought the former Dixie Plantation, a 600-acre estate in Charleston, South Carolina overlooking the Stono River.
They were divorced on 11 June 1938. He was only four years older than his stepson, John Jacob Astor VI, during the marriage. In 1944, he allegedly got engaged in Italy to Princess , but they never married.
Fiermonte died in March 1993 in Mentana, Italy.
Selected filmography
L'ultimo combattimento (1941) - Bruno Dal Monte
Beatrice Cenci (1941) - Olimpio Calvetti
Il chiromante (1941) - Paolo
Il mercante di schiave (1942) - Alì
The Adventures of Fra Diavolo (1942) - Michele Pezza / Fra' Diavolo
Spie fra le eliche (1943) - L'ispettore Enzo Massa
The Champion (1943) - Massimo
The Last Wagon (1943) - Roberto Pinelli, l'autista
Finalmente sì (1944) - Il conte Alberto
Nessuno torna indietro (1945) - Mario Ponte
L'abito nero da sposa (1945) - Giuliano de Medici
Non canto più (1945) - Il tenore Guido Revi
Tehran (1946)
Uno tra la folla (1946) - Marco
L'atleta di cristallo (1946) - Franco Adami - pugile
Buried Alive (1949) - Bruno
Buffalo Bill a Roma (1949) - Buffalo Bill
Son of d'Artagnan (1950) - Visconte di Langlass
Hawk of the Nile (1950) - Sceicco Rachid
The Two Sisters (1950) - Barone Enrico
Quo Vadis (1951) - Mounted Captain (uncredited)
O.K. Nerone (1951) - Gladiator
The Small Miracle (1951) - Sergeant of Swiss Guards
The Mistress of Treves (1952) - Il barone Drago
When in Rome (1952) - Harbor Policeman (uncredited)
Lieutenant Giorgio (1952) - Antonio Esposito (uncredited)
The Shameless Sex (1952)
Milady and the Musketeers (1952)
I Piombi di Venezia (1953)
It Was She Who Wanted It! (1953) - Fiermonte
Lasciateci in pace (1953)
I misteri della giungla nera (1954) - Sergeant Claridge
Black Devils of Kali (1954) - Sgt. Claridge
Cose da pazzi (1954) - Paolo
The Last Race (1954) - Filippo
Romeo and Juliet (1954) - Tybalt
Angela (1954) - Sgt. Collins
Loves of Three Queens (1954) - (Segment: The Face That Launched a Thousand Ships) (uncredited)
I cavalieri della regina (1954) - Prince of Condé
Barrier of the Law (1954)
Sultana Safiyè (1955)
Altair (1956)
The Knight of the Black Sword (1956) - Mario
The King's Musketeers (1957) - Brissac
La spada imbattibile (1957) - Brissac
The Goddess of Love (1957)
Amarti è il mio destino (1957) - Juan
Il cocco di mamma (1958) - Michele, Vasco's father
Il cielo brucia (1958)
The Naked Maja (1958) - Navarra (uncredited)
Herod the Great (1959)
Head of a Tyrant (1959)
Poveri milionari (1959) - Vittorio, Alice's Chauffeur (uncredited)
Ben-Hur (1959) - Galley Officer (uncredited)
Hannibal (1959) - Announcer in Senate
The Cossacks (1960) - Shamil's Confident
Conspiracy of Hearts (1960) - Italian Soldier #2
Rocco and His Brothers (1960) - Boxer
Pirates of the Coast (1960) - Mascella
The Pharaohs' Woman (1960)
The Bacchantes (1961) - Policrates (uncredited)
Revolt of the Mercenaries (1961) - Cizzania
Damon and Pythias (1962)
The Slave (1962) - Gulbar - slave wrestling Randus
Eva (1962) - Enzo
Sodom and Gomorrah (1962) - Eber
The Avenger (1962) - Acate
Catherine of Russia (1963) - general Munic
Sandokan the Great (1963) - Sergente Mitchell
Temple of the White Elephant (1964) - Sgt. Major (uncredited)
Messalina vs. the Son of Hercules (1964)
The Lion of Thebes (1964) - Ufficiale di Tutmès
The Triumph of Hercules (1964) - Reto
The Two Gladiators (1964) - Gen. Ottavio Cratico
The Secret Invasion (1964) - Gen. Quadri
Triumph of the Ten Gladiators (1964) - Rizio
Spartacus and the Ten Gladiators (1964) - Gladiator Rizio
Kidnapped to Mystery Island (1964)
I due toreri (1964) - Capitano Nave
I predoni del Sahara (1965) - James Stanton
Wild, Wild Planet (1966) - General Fowler
War of the Planets (1966) - Gen. Halstead
War Between the Planets (1966) - Gen. Norton
After the Fox (1966) - Raymond
The Ugly Ones (1966) - Novak
Grand Prix (1966) - Guido
Snow Devils (1967) - General Norton
Halleluja for Django (1967) - Sheriff Martin Cooney
Fantabulous Inc. (1967) - General Van Pelt
A Long Ride from Hell (1968) - Baldy Morris
Beyond the Law (1968) - Sheriff John Ferguson
A Minute to Pray, a Second to Die (1968) - Dr. Chase
A Black Veil for Lisa (1968) - Siegert
The Magnificent Tony Carrera (1968) - Arnaldo
Candy (1968) - Al Pappone
I quattro del pater noster (1969)
Camille 2000 (1969) - Gambler
The Forgotten Pistolero (1969) - Friar (uncredited)
Boot Hill (1969) - Sharp
Chuck Moll (1970) - Sheriff
L'asino d'oro: processo per fatti strani contro Lucius Apuleius cittadino romano (1970) - Proconsul
Strogoff (1970) - Colonel with general Dubelt
Defeat of the Mafia (1970) - Count Torreguardia
The Tigers of Mompracem (1970) - Sergeant
La califfa (1970) - L'operaio sindacalista
Les Aveux les plus doux (1971)
Vengeance Is a Dish Served Cold (1971) - George Bridger
Scipio the African (1971) - senatore Quinto
Trinity Is Still My Name (1971) - Perla's Father
My Dear Killer (1972) - Jib crane owner
Lo chiamavano Verità (1972)
Man of the East (1972) - Frank Olsen
The Mechanic (1972) - The Mark
Those Dirty Dogs (1973) - Doctor Adams
Dagli archivi della polizia criminale (1973) - Inspector Vernon
Anche gli angeli tirano di destro (1974) - Joe Bendaggio (uncredited)
The Beast (1974) - Matteo Zaghi
Mannaja (1977) - Government Agent
A Spiral of Mist (1977) - Mr. Marinoni
California (1977) - Father of northern soldier
Il prefetto di ferro (1977)
6000 km di paura (1978)
The Iron Commissioner (1978) - Engineer
Life Is Beautiful (1979) - Zhozo (final film role)
References
External links
1908 births
1993 deaths
Italian male film actors
Male Spaghetti Western actors
20th-century Italian male actors |
73824265 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara%20Lundberg | Sara Lundberg | Sara Caroline Lundberg (born 18 May 1971) is a Swedish illustrator and writer.
Biography
Sara Lundberg was educated at McDaniel College in Westminster, Maryland, where she earned a bachelor's degree in theatre and art in 1994, at Konstfack in Stockholm and at the Royal Institute of Art. She has been a member of the Swedish Academy for Children's Books.
In 2009, she won the August Prize for children's and young adult literature for the book Skriv om och om igen, together with Ylva Karlsson, Katarina Kuick and Lilian Bäckman. In the same year, she published the picture book Vita streck. Vita streck och Öjvind was nominated for the August Prize for children's and young adult literature in 2011, and she won the August Prize for children's and young adult literature in 2017 for Fågeln i mig flyger vart den vill.
Works
2009 – Vita streck
2009 – Skriv om och om igen
2010 – Sommar
2011 – Emblas universum
2011 – Vita Streck och Öjvind
2013 – Öjvind och världens ände
2015 – Vita, Öjvind och Ingenting
2017 – Fågeln i mig flyger vart den vill
2019 – Dyksommar (with Sara Stridsberg)
2019 – Jag och alla (with Ylva Karlsson)
2021 – Glömdagen
Awards
2009 – August Prize
2012 – Elsa Beskow Plaque
2013 – Expressens Heffaklump
2017 – August Prize
2017 – Snöbollen - årets bilderbok
References
Living people
1971 births
Swedish writers
Swedish children's writers
Swedish women children's writers |
3822199 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omaha-class%20cruiser | Omaha-class cruiser | The Omaha-class cruisers were a class of light cruisers built for the United States Navy. They were the oldest class of cruiser still in active service with the Navy at the outbreak of World War II, being an immediate post-World War I design.
History
Maneuvers conducted in January 1915 made it clear that the US Atlantic Fleet lacked the fast cruisers necessary to provide information on the enemy's position, deny the enemy information of the fleet's own position, and screen friendly forces. Built to scout for a fleet of battleships, the Omaha class featured high speed () for cooperation with destroyers, and guns to fend off any destroyers the enemy might send against them. Displacing , they were just over long.
The Omaha class was designed specifically in response to the British subclass of the . Although from a modern viewpoint, a conflict between the US and Great Britain seems implausible, US Navy planners during this time, and up to the mid-1930s, considered Britain to be a formidable rival for power in the Atlantic, and the possibility of armed conflict between the two countries plausible enough to merit appropriate planning measures.
The Omaha class mounted four smokestacks, a look remarkably similar to the s (a camouflage scheme was devised to enhance the resemblance). Their armament showed the slow change from casemate-mounted weapons to turret-mounted guns. They carried twelve /53 caliber guns, of which four were mounted in two twin turrets, one fore and one aft, and the remaining eight in casemates; four on each side, at the corners of the superstructure. This gave them a broadside of eight guns. Launched in 1920, (designated C-4 and later CL-4) had a displacement of 7,050 long tons. The cruisers emerged with a distinctly old-fashioned appearance owing to their World War I-type stacked twin casemate-mount cannons and were among the last broadside cruisers designed anywhere.
Additional torpedo tubes and hydrophone installation was ordered. As a result of the design changes placed on the ship mid-construction, the vessel that entered the water in 1920, was a badly overloaded design that, even at the beginning, had been rather tight. The ships were insufficiently insulated, too hot in the tropics and too cold in the north. Sacrifices in weight savings in the name of increased speed led to severe compromise in the habitability of the ship. While described as a good ship in a seaway, the low freeboard led to frequent water ingestion over the bow and in the torpedo compartments and lower aft casemates. The lightly built hulls leaked, so that sustained high-speed steaming contaminated the oil tanks with sea water.
A serious flaw in these ships' subdivision was the complete lack of watertight bulkheads anywhere above the main deck or aft on the main deck.
These drawbacks notwithstanding, the US Navy took some pride in the Omaha class. They featured improved compartmentalization; propulsion machinery was laid out on the unit system, with alternating groups of boiler rooms and engine rooms, to prevent immobilization by a single torpedo hit. Magazines were the first to be placed on centerline, below the waterline. These were also the first U.S. Navy cruisers designed after the switch from coal to oil-fired boilers.
Originally designed to serve as scouts, they served throughout the interwar period as leaders of fleet flotillas, helping them resist enemy destroyer attack. Tactical scouting became the province of cruiser aircraft, and the distant scouting role was taken over by the new heavy cruisers spawned by the Washington Naval Treaty. Thus, the Omaha class never performed their designed function. They were relegated to the fleet-screening role, where their high speed and great volume of fire were most appreciated.
Armament changes
During their careers the Omahas went through several armament changes. Some of these changes were to save weight, while others were to increase their AA armament. On 8 September 1926, the Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Edward W. Eberle, along with the Commanders in Chief of the United States Fleet and Battle Fleet, and their subordinate commanding officers, the Secretary of the Navy, Curtis D. Wilbur, ordered that all mines and the tracks for laying the mines be removed from all of the Omaha-class cruisers, as the working conditions had been found to be very "wet". In 1933–1934, their 3-inch AA guns were increased from two to eight, all mounted in the ship's waist. The lower torpedo tube mounts, which had also proved to be very wet, were removed and the openings plated over before the start of World War II. After 1939, the lower aft 6-inch guns were removed from most of the Omahas and the casemates plated over for the same reason as the lower torpedo mounts. The ships' AA armament was first augmented by three quadruple /75 gun mounts by early 1942, however, these did not prove reliable and were replaced by twin Bofors guns later in the war. At about the same time they also received Oerlikon cannons.
World War II service
Both and were at Pearl Harbor during the Japanese surprise attack, with Raleigh being torpedoed. Detroit, along with and , were the only large ships to get out of the harbor during the attack.
The ships of the Omaha class spent most of the war deployed to secondary theaters and in less vital tasks than those assigned to more recently built cruisers. The Omaha class were sent to places where their significant armament might be useful if called upon, but where their age and limited abilities were less likely to be tested. These secondary destinations included patrols off the east and west coasts of South America, convoy escort in the South Pacific far from the front lines of battle, patrols and shore bombardment along the distant and frigid Aleutians and Kuril Islands chains, and bombardment duty in the invasion of Southern France when naval resistance was expected to be minimal. The most significant action that any of the ships of the class saw during the war was s participation in early war actions around the Dutch East Indies (most notably, the Battle of Makassar Strait), and s engagement in the Battle of the Komandorski Islands.
None of the ships were wartime losses. Raleighs torpedo damage at Pearl Harbor and Marbleheads damage at Makassar Strait were the only significant wartime combat damage suffered by the class.
The ships of the class were considered obsolete as the war ended, and were decommissioned and scrapped within seven months of the surrender of Japan (with the exception of , which had been loaned to the Soviet Navy, and was scrapped when returned to US Navy control in 1949).
Ships in class
The following ships of the class were constructed.
Omaha alternatives
Two other Omaha versions were also designed. The first, intended to function as a monitor, had two 14-inch guns in 2 single turrets, while the other design had four 8-inch guns in two twin turrets. The second design eventually evolved into the .
See also
List of cruisers of the United States Navy
Citations
References
External links
http://www.avalanchepress.com/OmahaAlternatives.php
http://www.avalanchepress.com/AmericanCruisers.php
Cruiser classes |
63712897 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Mercado | Joseph Mercado | Joseph Mercado (, born July 2, 1972) is a Filipino statistician, professor, businessperson and university administrator who served as dean and vice president at the Polytechnic University of the Philippines from 2006 to 2018.
Mercado has co-authored scientific publications involving pharmaceutical sciences, economic analysis, and sociological analysis and received the Distinguished Research Award from the Academic International Consortium of Indonesia for his work in 2016. At present, Mercado is a member of the Philippine Statistical Association, the National Research Council of the Philippines, and the Royal Institution, Singapore as a fellow.
Early life and education
Mercado finished a Bachelor of Applied Statistics degree in 1993, a Master of Applied Science degree in 2000 and a Doctor of Educational Management degree in 2003, all at the Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP).
In 2011, Mercado completed a Criminology PhD at the Philippine College of Criminology. After becoming a university vice president, he attended an Executive Development Program held by the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) with other university administrators to further his knowledge on higher education management.
Career
Polytechnic University of the Philippines (2005–2018)
In 2004, Mercado first sat as the acting director of PUP Ragay. Consequently, in 2006, he was appointed as the director of PUP Sto. Tomas Batangas branch and then designated as the dean of the College of Science. At the same time, he was also the assistant director of the Center for Data and Statistical Analysis. Three years later, he became the executive director for branches and campuses. After a short five-month stint as executive director, Mercado then served as the vice president for branches and campuses for three years. In late 2015, Mercado was then appointed by Emanuel de Guzman, the university's president, to be the vice president for research, extension, planning and development. To pursue personal endeavors, Mercado resigned from office in mid-2018. However, he still serves as an expert advisor to the university, specializing in applied statistics.
Notable works
Scientific publications
Mercado has authored and co-authored several scientific publications that have been recognized in national and international journals.
Among them are, but not limited to; "Mathematical Model for Estimating Income Tax Revenues in the Philippines through Regression Analysis using Matrices" "Predicting Spousal Physical Violence in the Philippines: a Binary Logistic Regression Analysis” for the European Academic and Research Network; and “Modeling the Philippines Real Gross Domestic Product: A Normal Estimation Equation For Multiple Linear Regression” for the American Institute of Physics’ Journal.
See also
List of Polytechnic University of the Philippines people
Calapan
Notes
External links
Official ResearchGate profile
Living people
Academic staff of Polytechnic University of the Philippines
Filipino academic administrators
21st-century Filipino businesspeople
21st-century Filipino scientists
Polytechnic University of the Philippines alumni
Tagalog people
Filipino people of Chinese descent
1972 births |
8455186 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN-M8%20smoke%20grenade | AN-M8 smoke grenade | The AN-M8 HC Smoke Grenade designated as the Army/Navy Model 8 HC Smoke Grenade (AN-M8 Smoke HC) is a US military grenade used as a ground-to-ground obscuring or screening device or a ground-to-air signaling or target-marking device.
History
Developed in the 1940s, using a sheet-steel cylinder body that can emit a dense cloud of white smoke that would last from 105 to 150 seconds.
The AN-M8 was used extensively by American or other allied forces throughout World War II to the 1990s. As of the September 2000 version of FM 3-23.30 Grenades and Pyrotechnic Signals, the AN/M8 was listed as obsolete.
Details
It is used for smoke screening, target marking, and signalling, although the M18 colored smoke grenades are mainly used for the latter.
Warning
The AN-M8 hand grenade produces harmful hydrochloric fumes that irritate the eyes, throat, and lungs. It should not be used in closed-in areas unless the users are wearing protective masks.
Both the AN-M8 and the M18 risk starting a fire if used in a dry area. The steel casing, heated by the smoke-generating chemical reaction, can ignite flammable materials like trash or dry vegetation.
Field Instructional Use
When employing the M18 or AN-M8 HC hand grenade, it may be desirable to use one of these grenades without the fuze. To do this, the following procedure should be used in combat only:
Remove the tape from grenade bottom to expose the filler.
Remove the fuze by unscrewing it from the grenade.
Ignite starter mixture with open flame.
Immediately throw the grenade to avoid burn injury.
Toxicity
The HC smoke of the M8 is more toxic than that of the M18 grenade. The fumes comprise an acidic smoke of zinc chloride (ZnCl2), which produces hydrochloric acid on contact with water.
See also
M18 colored smoke grenades
M83 White Smoke Grenade
References
Smoke grenades
Hand grenades of the United States |
4367435 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawkhead | Hawkhead | Hawkhead (, ) is an area near Paisley in Renfrewshire, Scotland.
The village is on the Hawkhead Burn and White Cart Water, crossed via Hawkhead Bridge. It is near Dykebar, Hunterhill and Blackhall neighbourhoods and is the source of the name of Hawkhead railway station on the Paisley Canal Line, although the station is some distance to the north of the residential area, on the opposite side of a cleared industrial zone (formerly a BASF plant) and a large cemetery, also named Hawkhead.
History
The area's name is recorded as Halkhead in some older maps and in the historical title of Lord Ross of Halkhead, with the family owning the estate from the 14th century. Their seat was Hawkhead House, constructed in the 17th century and part of Leverndale Hospital from 1914 until it was demolished in 1953. Its nearby associated farm dating from the late 18th century still exists and is Category C listed since 1997, although its owner in the early 21st century was using the property as a scrapyard (having been banned from keeping animals due to neglect).
Following the death in 1754 of William, the 14th and last Lord Ross, the Halkhead estates devolved upon his sisters and passed eventually into the family of the Earls of Glasgow. John Boyle, 3rd Earl of Glasgow had married Elizabeth Ross (16 April 1725 – 9 October 1791), the younger daughter of George Ross, 13th Lord Ross. In 1815 George Boyle, 4th Earl of Glasgow was created Baron Ross of Hawkhead,
The 1930s former Hawkhead Hospital (separate from Hawkhead Asylum), which was designed by the modernist architect Thomas S. Tait, has been redeveloped as "Hawkhead Village". A secondary school, St Andrew's Academy is located a short way south of the hospital grounds, near the junction of Hawkhead Road and Barrhead Road (A726).
References
External links
Lords Ross of Halkhead:
Barons Ross of Hawkhead:
Areas in Paisley, Renfrewshire |
72460471 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993%20Balochistan%20Provincial%20Assembly%20election | 1993 Balochistan Provincial Assembly election | Elections to the Provincial Assembly of Balochistan were held in 1993.
Results
Further reading
References
Elections in Balochistan
1993 elections in Pakistan |
34893571 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitney%20Jensen | Whitney Jensen | Whitney Jensen (born May 4, 1992) is an American ballet dancer who is currently a principal dancer with the Norwegian National Ballet in Oslo, and was previously a principal with the Boston Ballet.
Early life and education
Jensen was born in Sandy, Utah, and raised in Park City. Her mother was a professional dancer and later a teacher, and her two sisters are Broadway dancers. She started dancing at age 6, in ballet, jazz, tap and hip hop, and focused on ballet two years later. At age 11, when competing at the Youth America Grand Prix, she met Valentina Kozlova, a former Bolshoi Ballet principal, then began travelling between Utah and New York to train with Kozlova. At age 13, Jensen moved to New York, to train with Kozlova privately while completing her school work online.
Career
At ages 11 and 12, she performed in the Radio City Christmas Spectacular as Clara.
In 2008, Jensen won the special distinction prize at the junior division of the Varna International Ballet Competition in Bulgaria. She was the first American to win this award. She then danced with the Hungarian National Ballet as the Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker. In 2009, she was listed as one of Dance Magazine's "25 to Watch". That year, at age 17, she joined the Boston Ballet. She was promoted to second soloist months later, then to soloist in 2011. In 2014, at age 22, she was promoted to principal dancer, making her one of the youngest principals in the company's history. She was cast in contemporary works more often.
In 2015, Jensen left the Boston Ballet. She later said of her departure, "I loved the company and the people there. I felt it was time for me to take a breather and reflect on what I wanted and how I can progress in my own way—and not measure roles or promotions as success." She said she took a six month hiatus, but continued to practice during that time. She then contacted Norwegian National Ballet's director Ingrid Lorentzen, who offered her a contract, and relocated to Oslo in February 2016. She is currently a principal at NNB, where her repertoire includes full-length classics and works by George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Jiří Kylián, William Forsythe and Alexander Ekman.
In 2020, Jensen danced The Swan in Misty Copeland's fundraiser, Swans for Relief, a response to the impact of the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic on the dance community, with funds going to participating dancers' companies and other related relief funds.
Personal life
Jensen studied at the Northeastern University through a special program for Boston Ballet dancers.
References
1992 births
Living people
American ballerinas
People from Park City, Utah
Boston Ballet principal dancers
American expatriates in Norway
Dancers from Utah
21st-century American ballet dancers
21st-century American women |
41195232 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret%20Altmann | Margaret Altmann | Margaret Altmann (1900–1984) was a German-American biologist focusing on animal husbandry and psychobiology. She was one of the first women to work in the psychobiology, ethology and animal husbandry fields, with a focus on livestock.
Early life and education
Margaret Altmann was born in Berlin, German Empire. She worked in farm management. She attended the University of Bonn for rural economics. She received her PhD from Bonn in 1928. After graduation, she stayed in Germany and worked in the government farm industry, focusing on the breeding of dairy animals. In 1933, she relocated to the United States. She attended Cornell University. In 1938, Altmann received her second PhD from Cornell, with a degree in animal breeding from the psychobiology department. In the same year she became a citizen of the United States.
Career
Altmann started working at the Hampton Institute, where she was associate professor, and then professor. She taught animal genetics and animal husbandry. Eventually, she started working on large wild mammals and relocated to Colorado. From 1948 until 1956 she lived in Colorado, working at a biological research center. During this time, she started studying psychobiology. She taught at Kenyon College. From 1959 until 1969 she taught at the University of Colorado. In 1969, she retired, and became professor emerita. She wrote papers about moose, elk and packs. Larry Squire worked under her while doing bison research in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Squire described Altmann as an "interesting character". While in Wyoming, she researched elk, riding horseback, and teaching others to ride, to follow packs.
She was a twenty-year member of the American Society of Mammalogists and published work in the Journal of Mammalogy. She was also a member of the Genetics Society of America and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Later life and legacy
In 1986, the University of Arizona held a symposium about ungulates in honor of Altmann.
Published works
Altmann, Margaret. "A study of behavior in a horse-mule group." Sociometry. 14.4 (1951), pp. 351–354.
Chiszar, D. and Wertheimer, M. (1988), Margaret Altmann: A rugged pioneer in rugged fields. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 24: 102–106. doi: 10.1002/1520-6696(198801)24:1<102::AID-JHBS2300240121>3.0.CO;2-O
References
Animal breeders
1900 births
1984 deaths
Ethologists
20th-century German women scientists
Scientists from Berlin
Emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States
University of Bonn alumni
Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences alumni
Hampton University faculty
Kenyon College faculty
University of Colorado faculty
Women ethologists
20th-century German zoologists
20th-century American zoologists |
73382133 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaparral%202C | Chaparral 2C | The Chaparral 2C is a sports prototype race car designed and developed by both Jim Hall and Hap Sharp, and built by American manufacturer Chaparral in October 1965, to compete in a few non-championship sports car races that same year.
References
Sports prototypes
Chaparral racing cars
Sports racing cars |
21469918 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan%20Kj%C3%B8lstad | Johan Kjølstad | Johan Kjølstad (born 9 March 1983) is a Norwegian cross-country skier who has competed since 2002.
Born in Levanger, he represents the sports club Skogn IL.
Competing in two Winter Olympics, he earned his best finish of seventh in the individual sprint event at Turin in 2006. He finished sixth overall in the Sprint Cup at the 2007-08 Cross-country Skiing World Cup, and won one of the races.
At the 2009 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, Kjølstad won the sprint prologue before American Andrew Newell and Russian Alexei Petukhov. In the quarter-finals, Kjølstad progressed alongside Swiss World Cup leader Dario Cologna. Then, Kjølstad defeated Nikolay Morilov in the semi-final and went to the final heat, being a medal favourite. Here, he fought with Ola Vigen Hattestad for the gold, having broken free from the other four competitors. At the sprint final, Vigen Hattestad defeated Kjølstad who grabbed the silver medal. The following day, Kjølstad teamed up with Vigen Hattestad to win gold in the team sprint event.
Cross-country skiing results
All results are sourced from the International Ski Federation (FIS).
Olympic Games
World Championships
2 medals – (1 gold, 1 silver)
World Cup
Season standings
Individual podiums
3 victories – (2 , 1 )
7 podiums – (6 , 1 )
Team podiums
2 victories (2 )
4 podiums (4 )
References
External links
1983 births
Cross-country skiers at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Cross-country skiers at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Living people
Norwegian male cross-country skiers
Olympic cross-country skiers for Norway
Sportspeople from Levanger
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in cross-country skiing
Skiers from Trøndelag |
59785770 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percussive%20Arts%20Society | Percussive Arts Society | The Percussive Arts Society (PAS) is a non-profit organization for professional percussionists and percussion educators. It was founded in 1961 in the United States and has over 5,000 members in 40 American chapters, with another 28 chapters abroad. It is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Since 1976, the organization hosts the annual Percussive Arts Society International Convention (PASIC) which is the largest convention for drummers and percussionists in the world.
PAS developed an influential list of drum rudiments called the PAS 40 International Snare Drum Rudiments, which are considered to be the current standard reference on the subject.
The Percussive Arts Society publishes Percussive Notes, a bimonthly academic journal started in 1963, and previously published the magazine Rhythm! Scene from 2014 until it became the official blog of the organization starting in 2020. It also previously published Percussionist (later renamed Percussive Notes Research Edition) until its functions were combined with Percussive Notes.
Rhythm! Discovery Center
The Percussive Arts Society owns and manages the Rhythm! Discovery Center at its downtown Indianapolis headquarters. Opened in 2009, the museum houses an 800-piece collection, with rotating exhibits and interactive programming.
Hall of Fame
The PAS Hall of Fame recognizes percussionists for their body of work, achievements, and/or service to the organization. It was founded in 1972.
See also
List of music museums
List of attractions and events in Indianapolis
References
External links
Music organizations based in the United States
Music education organizations
Non-profit organizations based in Indianapolis
Percussion organizations
Museums in Indianapolis |
35457220 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Vok%20of%20Rosenberg | Peter Vok of Rosenberg | Peter Vok of Rosenberg () (1 October 1539, Český Krumlov – 6 November 1611, Třeboň) was a Czech nobleman of the House of Rosenberg, descended from the Vítkovci. Rožmberk was a leading Protestant in the unsettled years before Battle of White Mountain.
Life
Peter Vok was born in Český Krumlov, the son of Jošt III of Rosenberg, then head of the house of Rožmberk, and his wife Anna of Rogendorf. Fourteen days after Peter's birth, his father died. Peter came under the guardianship of first his uncle Petr V of Rosenberg and later Albrecht of Gutnštejn, Oldřich Holický of Sternberg and Jeroným Schlick.
He received his early education at home in the castle at Český Krumlov. Even as he reached adulthood, Peter lived in the shadow of his older brother William. While William was a life-long Catholic, Peter sympathised with Utraquism and eventually joined the Unity of the Brethren. William died in 1592, and Peter inherited the Rosenberg holdings.
Aged forty, Peter married the much younger Kateřina of Ludanice. Initially an idyllic marriage, with the young Kateřina appreciating the attention paid her by her aging husband, the union began to break down, in part because of Kateřina's worsening mental illness. The couple had no children, and the Rosenberg line ended with Peter Vok. He died, aged 72, in 1611 and was buried in a Rosenberg tomb in the Vyšší Brod Monastery. Shortly after Peter's death, his nephew Jan Zrinský of Seryn also died, and as such the whole Rosenberg dominions passed to the Švamberk family.
In popular culture
After his death, Peter Vok became the subject of popular legends which characterized him as a generous benefactor and an exemplary Renaissance cavalier. In the modern imagination, he is thought of above all as a lovable rake.
His romance with the miller-knight's daughter Zuzana Vojířová is the subject of several stories and the opera Zuzana Vojířová by Jiří Pauer.
References
1539 births
1611 deaths
Medieval Bohemian nobility
People from Český Krumlov
Peter |
15688492 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longcochon | Longcochon | Longcochon () is a commune in the Jura department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France.
Population
See also
Communes of the Jura department
References
Communes of Jura (department) |
12094283 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wareham%20Gatemen | Wareham Gatemen | The Wareham Gatemen are a collegiate summer baseball team based in Wareham, Massachusetts. The team is a member of the Cape Cod Baseball League (CCBL) and plays in the league's West Division. The Gatemen play their home games at Clem Spillane Field in Wareham.
The Gatemen most recently won the CCBL championship in 2018 when they defeated the Chatham Anglers two games to none to win the best of three championship series. The title was the eighth in team history, including back-to-back championships in 2001–2002.
History
Pre-modern era
The early Cape League era (1923–1939)
In 1923, the Cape Cod Baseball League was formed and included four teams: Falmouth, Chatham, Osterville, and Hyannis. This early Cape League operated through the 1939 season and disbanded in 1940, due in large part to the difficulty of securing ongoing funding during the Great Depression.
Wareham was the first new team added to the league, joining for the 1927 season to bring the number of teams to five. In Wareham's inaugural 1927 season, the team was led by player-manager and CCBL Hall of Famer Danny Silva. Silva had played briefly for the Washington Senators in 1919, and after his playing days became a longtime umpire in the CCBL. In the early 1960s when a knowledgeable and universally respected figure was needed to unify the newly reorganized Cape League, Silva was chosen and served as the first commissioner of the league's modern era, a position he held from 1962 to 1968. Silva's 1927 Wareham team finished with a respectable 17–18 record, good for third among the five clubs. Wareham was forced to drop out of the league for the 1929 season due to lack of funds, but returned to the league in 1930 and remained in the league through the 1932 season.
Wareham won the Cape League championship in 1930, finishing two games ahead of Chatham to take the pennant. The town celebrated its champions in grand style with a "motor parade" through downtown Wareham led by the town band, followed by a banquet given by the town's chamber of commerce. Dignitaries including United States Representative Charles L. Gifford and Massachusetts Senator Donald W. Nicholson were on hand to pay tribute to the Wareham nine.
Wareham's player-manager in 1930 and 1931 was Georgetown University pitcher Harry Noznesky. Noznesky had played for Falmouth in 1928 and 1929, and brought several key players with him to Wareham from the 1929 pennant-winning Falmouth team, such as ex-Falmouth all-CCBL catcher Gene Connell of the University of Pennsylvania, who went on to catch for the Philadelphia Phillies. Upon leading Wareham to the 1930 Cape League title, it was noted that Noznesky "has the college connections to select the best players obtainable and is also on friendly terms with managers and officials of several big-league teams who turn over likely looking prospects to him." Another of the first Wareham players to go on to play major league baseball was pitcher Al Blanche, a Somerville, Massachusetts native who played for Wareham in 1931, and went on to play for the major league Boston Braves. 1932 Wareham twirler Emil "Bud" Roy went on to play briefly for Connie Mack's Philadelphia Athletics.
The Upper and Lower Cape League era (1946–1962)
After a hiatus during the years of World War II, the Cape League was reconstituted in 1946. Wareham first fielded a team in the new league in 1952. In June of that year, the league's Barnstable Barons had impulsively withdrawn from the league after a disputed forfeit ruling, and the league voted to admit Wareham to replace Barnstable for the second half of the season. Wareham has been a member of the Cape League ever since.
Wareham made a deep playoff run in 1957, beginning with a first round defeat of Otis Air Force Base, two games to one in the Upper Cape playoffs. In the series, Wareham rode the stellar pitching of Tom Eccleston, who threw a two-hit shutout in Game 2, and Bruce Reed, who gave up just five hits and helped himself with a homer in the decisive Game 3 victory. The win sent Wareham to the Upper Cape finals against the heavily favored Cotuit Kettleers. Led by the hitting of brothers Bruce and Glenn Reed, Wareham routed Cotuit, 14–2, in Game 1 at Lowell Park, then with Bruce on the mound at home in Game 2, Wareham completed the sweep with a 3–0 shutout of the Kettleers. The win was Wareham's only Upper Cape Division championship of the era. Wareham went on to face the Lower Cape champion Orleans Red Sox in the Cape League finals, but Orleans prevailed in two straight.
Modern era (1963–present)
The 1960s and Wareham's "Mr. Baseball"
In 1963, the CCBL was reorganized and became officially sanctioned by the NCAA. The league would no longer be characterized by "town teams" who fielded mainly Cape Cod residents, but would now be a formal collegiate league. Teams began to recruit college players and coaches from an increasingly wide geographic radius.
The league was originally composed of ten teams, which were divided into Upper Cape and Lower Cape divisions. Wareham joined Falmouth, Cotuit, Bourne and Sagamore in the Upper Cape Division. Wareham's team was skippered by Wareham's "Mr. Baseball", CCBL Hall of Famer Steve Robbins. Robbins had played baseball for Wareham High School and later in the Wareham Twilight League, and served at various times as the field manager, general manager, and league representative for the Gatemen.
Wareham qualified for the playoffs in 1963, and defeated the Bourne Canalmen in the first round series before being bounced by Cotuit. In 1965, Clem Spillane Field hosted the CCBL All-Star Game, which was won by the Upper Cape Division, 10–9.
CCBL Hall of Famer Jim Prete joined the Gatemen in 1966. Prete, a '66 graduate of Bourne High School where he was a star infielder, hit .319 for the Gatemen on the season. Prete returned to Wareham in 1967, but played for Bourne in the 1968 season, and missed the 1969 season due to injury. He returned to the Gatemen in 1970, when he had his best year, batting .336 and being named the league's MVP.
The 1970s and Wareham's first modern era title
In the early 1970s, Wareham was piloted by CCBL Hall of Famer Ed Lyons. Lyons managed four different Cape League franchises over his long career, and retired as the league's all-time winningest manager. In six years with Wareham, Lyons' teams finished atop the league in first place twice, and qualified for the playoffs four times. Lyons' 1971 Wareham team featured league MVP Joe Barkauskas and the league's Outstanding Pitcher, Bob Majczan. Wareham again boasted the league MVP in 1973 and 1974 with Steve Newell and Phil Welch, making it four years out of five that Gatemen took home the award. Newell, an outfielder from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, batted .340 and led the CCBL with 11 homers in 1973. He was inducted into the CCBL Hall of Fame in 2017.
CCBL Hall of Fame skipper Bill Livesey took the helm at Wareham in 1976. Livesey had previously managed Falmouth to five league titles, including four consecutively from 1968 to 1971, and he promptly brought his winning ways to Wareham. The 1976 Gatemen featured future major leaguers Joe Lefebvre and CCBL Outstanding Pro Prospect Bobby Sprowl. Wareham finished third in the league, and disposed of second place Cotuit in a two-game semi-final series sweep, putting an end to defending champ Cotuit's run of four consecutive titles.
In the best-of-five title series, the Gatemen faced first place Chatham, who had posted an impressive 30–11–1 record in the regular season. Chatham took the opener, 3–2, in ten innings, but Wareham answered in Game 2 as Bangor, Maine native Brian Butterfield came through with a key RBI to propel the Gatemen to victory and even the series. The Gatemen sent Sprowl to the mound for Game 3 and came away with a 4–3 victory, but could only manage three hits in Game 4 as Chatham shut out the Gatemen, 5–0, to knot the series again. Wareham took the exciting back-and-forth Game 5, with Sprowl coming on in relief on short rest to close out the A's and secure Wareham's first CCBL title of the modern era.
The 1980s and another championship squad
CCBL Hall of Famer John Morris starred for Wareham in 1981. The league MVP batted .410 with a .527 on-base percentage and 17 stolen bases, and set a league record with 50 runs scored. The Gatemen featured the CCBL's Outstanding Pitcher in 1983 and 1984 in Dennis Livingston, the winning pitcher of the 1983 CCBL All-Star Game at Fenway Park, and 1984 recipient Bill Cunningham. The 1984 Gatemen were skippered by a young Mike Roberts, who went on to manage Cotuit throughout the 2000s and 2010s. Behind the play of future major league all-star and World Series champion Walt Weiss, who set a CCBL record with 19 doubles on the season, Roberts led the Gatemen to the league title series where they were downed by Cotuit. In 1986, Wareham again boasted the league's Outstanding Pitcher, future major league all-star Jack Armstrong, who was the winning pitcher at the CCBL All-Star Game at Shea Stadium.
The 1988 CCBL season boasted perhaps the greatest single-season aggregation of future major league talent in league history. Manager Stan Meek's Gatemen had more than their share of the talent, and rode it to another league title. In addition to CCBL Hall of Famer John Thoden, who posted a 9–1 record and was the league's Outstanding Pitcher, Wareham featured future major league all-star infielder Chuck Knoblauch and future Boston Red Sox fan favorite and American League MVP slugger Mo Vaughn. Amid the glut of high-level prospects in the league that year, Knoblauch was judged tops, receiving the Outstanding Pro Prospect Award. Knoblauch batted .361, and he and Vaughn tied for the league lead in doubles with 17. Vaughn and Knoblauch went on to be inducted to the CCBL Hall of Fame as part of the hall's inaugural and second classes respectively.
The Gatemen finished the 1988 regular season with the league's top record, and disposed of Hyannis in the semi-final playoffs. The title series was a match-up of the Gatemen and the Orleans Cardinals. Orleans starred future Baseball Hall of Famer Frank Thomas, a powerful long-ball hitter who had slammed three home runs in one game at Wareham in the regular season. Wareham took Game 1 at home, 5–3, but the Cardinals took Game 2 by the same score at Eldredge Park to set up the decisive game. In the finale, Thoden tossed a complete game four-hitter at Clem Spillane Field, Rich Samplinski knocked in the go-ahead run, and the Gatemen overcame two potentially disastrous fielding errors in the ninth to edge out the Cards and claim the crown by a tally of 3–2. Thoden shared playoff MVP honors with Vaughn, who went 11-for-20 at the plate in the postseason.
The 1990s: A long streak of success
Wareham made the playoffs every year from 1990 to 2002, a 13-year streak that remains the league record. During the streak, Wareham reached the championship series seven times, winning four times, including back-to-back championships in 2001 and 2002.
In 1990, the Gatemen reached the CCBL finals, but were ousted by the Yarmouth-Dennis Red Sox. Wareham was led by the league's Outstanding Pro Prospect, Doug Glanville, and CCBL Hall of Famer Mark Smith, who led the league with a .408 average and hit six homers on his way to being named league MVP. For the Red Sox, it was their second consecutive title under CCBL Hall of Fame manager Don Reed. After defeating the Gatemen for the 1990 title, Reed switched sides and became Wareham's field boss in 1991. Reed continued to pilot the Gatemen through 1999, winning another pair of league titles to match his two with Y-D.
Reed's first title with Wareham came in 1994. The Gatemen earned a spot in the finals by defeating Falmouth in the semi-final series via consecutive shutouts, 1–0 and 2–0. Wareham faced Brewster in the championship series, and continued its shutout streak in Game 1 at Clem Spillane Field by blanking the Whitecaps, 7–0, behind a complete game gem by Brian McNichol. Brewster put up a better fight in Game 2 and the teams went into the 13th inning knotted at 3–3. Wareham put across two runs in the top of the frame and allowed just one in the bottom to escape with the 5–4 victory and complete the title series sweep.
Reed's boys were champs again in 1997, led by CCBL Hall of Fame slugger Carlos Peña. The sure-handed first baseman won the league MVP and Sportsmanship awards, and led the CCBL in homers (8) and RBI (33) while batting .318. The team also featured future major league all-star and Cy Young Award winner Barry Zito. The Gatemen finished the regular season first in the West Division, and after a two-game semi-finals sweep of Bourne, faced Harwich for the title. In the championship series, Wareham took Game 1 at home, 9–4. The Gatemen completed the title sweep in Game 2 at Whitehouse Field by a tally of 6–2, with playoff MVP Kevin Hodge's three-run blast in the sixth sealing the victory.
Other notable 1990s Gatemen included Roy Marsh, who set a league record with 48 stolen bases, and was West Division All-Star Game MVP for Wareham in 1993. Wareham's 1996 team boasted league MVP Kevin Nicholson, saves co-leader Clint Chrysler, and CCBL Hall of Famer Lance Berkman, who led the league in batting with a .352 mark. The 1998 Gatemen featured a pair of star moundsmen in CCBL Hall of Famer Ben Sheets and the co-winner of the league's Outstanding Pitcher Award, Phil Devey.
The 2000s: back-to-back titles and the passing of a Wareham legend
In 2000, skipper Mike Roberts, who had managed the team sixteen years earlier, returned to Wareham and led the team to a first-place finish in the West Division. Roberts' squad starred league MVP Mike Fontenot, Harvard fireballer Ben Crockett, who was co-recipient of the league's Outstanding Pitcher Award, and ace reliever Jonathan Gonzalez, who posted a microscopic 0.43 ERA. As in 1984, Roberts' second stint with the team lasted only a year, as Cooper Farris took over in 2001 and piloted the club for 14 years, the team's all-time longest-tenured manager.
In his first year with the team, Farris' Gatemen club was loaded with talent, and finished the 2001 regular season in first place atop the West Division. The team featured league MVP and CCBL Hall of Famer Matt Murton, and the league batting champ, Eric Reed (.365), who also swiped 22 bags on the season. The Gatemen dominated on the mound as well, boasting the CCBL Outstanding Pitcher Chris Leonard, who posted a 6–0 record with an 0.98 ERA. Ben Crockett, who returned from the 2000 club, was the inaugural winner of the league's Outstanding New England Player Award, recording 74 strikeouts and a 1.67 ERA. The Gatemen defeated Bourne in the semi-final playoff series, and went on to face Chatham for the title.
Game 1 of the 2001 finals at Clem Spillane Field featured no shortage of controversy. A's skipper John Schiffner and shortstop Drew Meyer were tossed in the fifth by CCBL Hall of Fame umpire Nick Zibelli in the aftermath of a disputed fair ball call on Murton's long fly down the left field line. The Gatemen prevailed, 8–3, and headed to Chatham for Game 2 eyeing a sweep, but Chatham stifled the Wareham offense and knotted the series with a 2–1 victory. The decisive Game 3 in Wareham went to the ninth even at 3–3. Gatemen closer and future major league all-star Pat Neshek set down the A's in order in the top half of the frame. In the home half, Keith Butler led off with a single and advanced to third on a sacrifice bunt and ground out. With two down and two strikes, Gatemen shortstop Paul Henry chopped a spinner along the third base line that A's pitcher Zane Carlson bobbled as Butler slid home with the series-winning run. Wareham second baseman Aaron Hill, who batted .400 in the postseason, took home playoff MVP honors.
Farris' 2002 Gatemen returned 2001 MVP Murton, who was out with a broken hand during the first half of the season. He returned to hit .400 in 16 games in the second half, and also won the league's All-Star Game Home Run Derby. In the playoffs, Wareham disposed of Cotuit in the semi-final series and met Orleans in the championship round. The star of Game 1 was 6-foot-4 Gatemen righty Kevin Guyette, who tossed a five-hit complete game and allowed just one run in Wareham's 5–1 victory at Eldredge Park. The late-inning fireworks in Game 2 began when Cards manager Carmen Carcone and pitching coach Kelly Nicholson were tossed in the eighth for arguing a balk call. The game went to the bottom of the ninth with the Cardinals clutching a slim 2–1 lead. It looked as though the series would be headed back to Orleans for Game 3 after the first two Gatemen made outs, but Murton poked a single that started a championship rally. Murton moved to third on a David Murphy single, and came home on an Orleans error to tie the score. With the Clem Spillane crowd in a frenzy, Brown University's Matt Kutler promptly thumped the game-winner off the left-field fence, bringing in Murphy and securing Wareham's second consecutive league crown. For his title-clinching poke, Kutler was named playoff MVP.
Wareham's 2003 team featured pitchers Wade Townsend, the league's Outstanding Pro Prospect, and CCBL Hall of Famer Jeremy Sowers, who posted a 1.20 ERA with 64 strikeouts in 67.1 innings. Along with their wealth of pitching, the 2003 Gatemen boasted the league's hits leader in CCBL Hall of Fame third baseman Warner Jones. Jones returned to Wareham in 2004 and led the league again in hits, as well as in doubles and extra-base hits. CCBL Hall of Fame closer Justin Masterson went 3–1 for the 2005 Gatemen, recording 10 saves with a 1.15 ERA and 39 strikeouts in 31.1 innings. The team experienced a playoff drought from 2003 to 2009, qualifying for postseason play only once in seven seasons when the 2006 team reached the finals and was downed by Y-D.
Longtime Gatemen President and General Manager John Wylde died in February 2009 after a battle with liver cancer. The Cape Cod Baseball League Hall of Famer was the force behind the Gatemen for 25 years. In the early 80s, the Wareham Gatemen franchise was in financial trouble with very little local support and was on the verge of collapse. Wylde stepped in as president and General Manager and turned the Gatemen into a model franchise. On June 13, 2008, the Cape Cod Baseball League and the Wareham Gatemen honored him during special ceremonies. In 2007, Wylde was inducted into the Cape Cod Baseball League's Hall of Fame.
Two more titles highlight the 2010s
The 2012 Gatemen won only seven of their 22 home games, but finished second in the West Division. The team starred CCBL Hall of Fame slugger Tyler Horan, a Middleborough, Massachusetts native who crushed 16 homers in the regular season, tying the CCBL wood bat record, and took home the league's Outstanding New England Player Award. In the postseason, Wareham swept Falmouth in the first round, then swept Bourne in the West Division final. In the championship, the Gatemen met Y-D in a rematch of the 2006 title series. The Gatemen took Game 1 in Yarmouth by a score of 5–4 on a go-ahead ninth inning home run by catcher Tyler Ross. Y-D pitching shut down Wareham's attack in Game 2 at Spillane Field, and the Red Sox emerged with a 5–1 win to even the series. The decisive Game 3 at Y-D was an all-time classic. The Red Sox looked to be closing in on a championship, leading 5–2 as the game moved to the final frame, but CCBL Hall of Famer Kyle Schwarber had other ideas. Schwarber smashed a homer in the ninth and the Gatemen pushed across two more to tie the game. With the Red Sox crowd in stunned disbelief, Schwarber came up again in the tenth and belted a two-run dinger as Wareham struck for three more runs to go ahead, 8–5. Y-D managed a solo homer in the bottom of the tenth to make it 8–6, but Wareham held on to claim the crown with Schwarber taking home playoff MVP honors.
Clem Spillane Field hosted the CCBL All-Star Game festivities in 2015, and the hosts took home top honors as Gatemen Logan Sowers was home run derby champ, and hurler Ian Hamilton was named West Division co-MVP in the West's tight 1–0 loss. Wareham boasted the league's batting champ in three consecutive years from 2015 to 2017. Andrew Calica's lofty .425 mark in 2015 is among the tops in league history. Cole Freeman took the crown in 2016, and Tanner Dodson in 2017.
In 2018, the Gatemen won their first 4 games and never lost more than two games in a row, finishing the regular season atop the West Division for the first time since 2001. In the postseason, Wareham swept Cotuit in the first-round series and did the same to Falmouth in the semi-final round. In the championship, the Gatemen faced off against East Division champion Chatham. Game 1 at Spillane Field was a back-and-forth battle between aces Ryan Garcia for Wareham and Austin Bergner for Chatham, but the Anglers' defense faltered and was responsible for three unearned Wareham runs that propelled the Gatemen to a 5–3 victory. Game 2 at Veteran's Field was played in two parts due to a Chatham fog-out, but Wareham's timely hitting and a clutch home run robbery by Gatemen right fielder Isaac Collins led Wareham to the title-clinching 9–3 victory. Third baseman Austin Shenton hit .522 with three home runs and 12 RBI to claim postseason MVP honors, and the video of Collins' grab made national headlines and was the top play on ESPN's SportsCenter. The crown was Wareham's eighth in the modern era, and the team was the first to sweep the CCBL postseason since the playoffs expanded to three rounds.
The 2019 Gatemen featured the league's Outstanding Pitcher, Ian Bedell, who posted an 0.58 ERA in 30.2 innings, striking out 36 while walking only two. Bedell was the West Division All-Star Game starter, but it was Gatemen teammate Matt McLain who took home All-Star Game MVP honors for the West, having hit a homer and single with three RBIs.
The 2020s
The 2020 CCBL season was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic. Following the 2021 season, CCBL Hall of Famer Harvey Shapiro took the helm as the club's field manager.
CCBL Hall of Fame inductees
The CCBL Hall of Fame and Museum is a history museum and hall of fame honoring past players, coaches, and others who have made outstanding contributions to the CCBL. Below are the inductees who spent all or part of their time in the Cape League with Wareham.
Notable alumni
Brian Anderson 1991–1992
Marlon Anderson 1994
Max Anderson 2022
Shaun Anderson 2015
Jeff Andra 1996
John Andreoli 2010–2011
Jack Armstrong 1985–1986
Barrett Astin 2011–2012
Scott Atchison 1996
Mark Bailey 1981
Paul Bako 1992
Scott Bankhead 1982–1983
Travis Banwart 2006
Daniel Bard 2005
Matt Barnes 2009–2010
Joey Bart 2016
Lance Berkman 1996
Tanner Bibee 2019
Larry Bigbie 1998
Bruce Billings 2005
Al Blanche 1931
Matt Blank 1996
Jeremy Bleich 2006–2007
Brett Boretti 1992–1993
John Bormann 2014
Jed Bradley 2010
Troy Brohawn 1993
Jaime Bubela 1999
Randy Bush 1979
Todd Butler 1986
Brian Butterfield 1976
Willie Calhoun 2014
Paul Carey 1987
Cade Cavalli 2018
Chris Clapinski 1990–1991
Stan Clarke 1980
Brad Clontz 1991
Kyle Cody 2014
Gene Connell 1930
Lance Cormier 2000
Tom Cosgrove 2016
Darron Cox 1988
José Cuas 2014
Pat Daneker 1995–1996
Chase Davis 2022
Ike Davis 2007
Tommy Davis 1993
Blake Dean 2007
Adrian Del Castillo 2019
Rich DeLucia 1984
Phil Devey 1998
Alex Dickerson 2009–2010
Derek Dietrich 2009
Tanner Dodson 2017
Jarren Duran 2017
Ed Easley 2005
Scott Effross 2014
Brett Eibner 2008–2009
Bryce Elder 2019
John Ely 2006
Matt Erickson 1996
Jorge Fábregas 1989
Jim Farr 1976–1977
Luke Farrell 2011
Johnny Field 2011
Nelson Figueroa 1994
Jake Fishman 2016
Richard Fitts 2021
Mike Fontenot 2000
Mike Frank 1995
Robert Garcia 2016
Frank German 2017
Doug Glanville 1990
Robbie Glendinning 2016
Tom Grant 1978
Kendall Graveman 2012
Cole Green 2009
Charlie Greene 1990
Jeremy Griffiths 1998
Jerry Hairston Jr. 1997
Ian Hamilton 2015
Hogan Harris 2016
KJ Harrison 2016
Shawn Haviland 2005–2006
Mike Henneman 1983
Aaron Hill 2001
Jonathan Holder 2012
Mike Hollimon 2003
Justin Holmes 2003
Craig House 1998
Zac Houston 2015
Chris Howard 1985
Kevin Howard 2000
J. P. Howell 2003
Bobby Hughes 1991
Pete Incaviglia 1983
Daulton Jefferies 2015
Jake Kalish 2014
Anthony Kay 2014–2015
Sean Kazmar 2003
Dallas Keuchel 2007–2008
Dean Kiekhefer 2009
John Kiely 1987
Kevin King 1988
Andrew Knizner 2014–2015
Chuck Knoblauch 1988
Ryan Kreidler 2018
Matt Krook 2015
Steven Kwan 2017
Ryan LaMarre 2009
Matt Langwell 2007
Andy LaRoche 2003
Jalal Leach 1989
Wade LeBlanc 2005
Joe Lefebvre 1976–1977
Jake Lemmerman 2008–2009
Adam Lind 2003
Easton Lucas 2018
David MacKinnon 2015
Paul Mainieri 1978
Jim Mann 1993
Nick Margevicius 2016
John Marzano 1982
Justin Masterson 2005
Adam Mazur 2021
L. J. Mazzilli 2010–2011
Allen McDill 1991
Collin McHugh 2007
Andrew McKirahan 2010
Matt McLain 2019
Brian McNichol 1994
Wade Miley 2007
Drew Millas 2018
Matt Miller 1994–1995
Casey Mize 2016
Dustan Mohr 1996
McKinley Moore 2018
Yohandy Morales 2021
John Morris 1981
Scott Mullen 1995
Max Muncy 2010–2011
David Murphy 2001–2002
Tommy Murphy 1999
Matt Murton 2001–2002
Pat Neshek 2001
Sean Newcomb 2012–2013
Kevin Nicholson 1996
Mike Nickeas 2002
Andy Oliver 2007
Daniel Palka 2011–2012
Mike Parisi 2002
Jeff Parrett 1982
Carlos Peña 1997
Lance Pendleton 2003
Brandon Pfaadt 2019
Josh Phegley 2007
Jeff Pickler 1997
Chris Pittaro 1980
Zach Plesac 2015
Jeff Plympton 1985
John Poff 1972–1973
Tristan Pompey 2017
Zach Pop 2016
Luke Putkonen 2006
Brian Raabe 1989
Corey Ray 2014
Robert Ray 2004
Eric Reed 2001
Robert Refsnyder 2011
Mike Remlinger 1987
Griffin Roberts 2017
Kramer Robertson 2014–2015
Matt Rogelstad 2002
Emil "Bud" Roy 1932
Matt Ruebel 1988
Nick Rumbelow 2012
Kevin Russo 2005
Blake Sabol 2017
Kyle Schwarber 2012–2013
Gary Scott 1987
Bob Sebra 1981
Ben Sheets 1998
Gavin Sheets 2016
Danny Silva 1927
Tony Sipp 2003
Paul Skenes 2021
Ethan Small 2016
Mark Smith 1990
Earl Snyder 1996
Jeremy Sowers 2002–2003
Scott Spiezio 1992
Shea Spitzbarth 2015
George Springer 2009–2010
Bobby Sprowl 1976
Steve Stanicek 1981
Denny Stark 1995
Nick Stavinoha 2003
Brock Stewart 2013
Bryson Stott 2018
Colby Suggs 2012
B. J. Surhoff 1983
Brent Suter 2011
Bill Swaggerty 1978
Nick Swisher 2000
Brian Tallet 1997–1998
Mickey Tettleton 1980
Bob Tewksbury 1979–1980
Duane Theiss 1974
Ryan Theriot 2000
Wade Townsend 2003
Tommy Troy 2021
Spencer Turnbull 2013
Andrew Vaughn 2018
Mo Vaughn 1987–1988
Konner Wade 2011–2012
Ken Waldichuk 2018
Andrew Walters 2021
Matt Watson 1998
Walt Weiss 1984
Mike Welch 1992
Kevin Whelan 2004
Brendan White 2018
Robbie Wine 1982
Brad Woodall 1990
Stephen Woods Jr. 2015
Brandon Workman 2008–2009
Noah Zavolas 2017
Lance Zawadzki 2005
Barry Zito 1997–1998
Tyler Zombro 2015
Yearly results
Results by season, 1927–1932
* There were no postseason playoffs during the period 1927–1932. The regular season pennant winner was simply crowned as the league champion.
Results by season, 1952–1962
* Regular seasons split into first and second halves are designated as (A) and (B).
Results by season, 1963–present
League award winners
(*) - Indicates co-recipient
All-Star Game selections
Italics - Indicates All-Star Game Home Run Hitting Contest participant (1988 to present)
No-hit games
Managerial history
Media
All 44 Gatemen games, in addition to any preseason and postseason games, are broadcast online on YouTube, which can be accessed through the Gatemen's website. All home games feature live video/audio broadcasts, while away games consist of only live audio. All home games are also broadcast on Wareham Community Television. The Gatemen play-by-play broadcasters for the 2023 season are Aiden Blanc and Jack Hunter.
The New Bedford Standard Times ("SouthCoastToday"), The Cape Cod Times and Wareham Week (warehamweektoday.com) cover the Wareham Gatemen regularly.
See also
Wareham Gatemen players
References
External links
Rosters
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2021
2022
2023
Other links
Wareham Gatemen official site
CCBL Home Page
Cape Cod Baseball League teams
Amateur baseball teams in Massachusetts
Wareham, Massachusetts
Sports clubs and teams in Plymouth County, Massachusetts |
26948329 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky%20Jones | Rocky Jones | Burnley Allan "Rocky" Jones (August 26, 1941 – July 29, 2013) was an African-Nova Scotian and an internationally known political activist in the areas of human rights, race and poverty. He came to prominence first as a member of the Student Union for Peace Action (SUPA) during the 1960s and then as a civil rights activist, community organizer, educator, and lawyer.
Family
Rocky Jones was born to Elmer and Willena Jones in Truro, Nova Scotia as one of 10 children. His grandfather, Jeremiah Jones, was a hero during the Battle of Vimy Ridge in World War I. Jones was a fifth-generation African Canadian and could trace his Canadian roots back to the Black Refugees of the early 19th century. He grew up in a close-knit working-class neighborhood with white and black families. He did not face overt racism until he was old enough to attend junior high school. After leaving school, he went into the Canadian army and then spent some time "on the road and in the streets" and held a number of jobs. In Toronto he came under the influence of local leaders in the black community, including Harry Gairey and Leonard Johnston. He was also influenced by Eugene Bonner, whom he recalled as "very political, very aware of Black issues and foreign issues. He was a real nationalist, a union man too." He met Bonner through his daughter, Joan, who also encouraged Jones's political development and reading interests. Joan and Rocky married in 1961.
Civil Rights Movement
In March 1965, Rocky and Joan and their daughter joined a demonstration organized by the Canadian group, Friends of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), outside the American Consulate in Toronto, Ontario. The protest was in support of the Selma to Montgomery, Alabama march for voting rights. Almost at once, the media began to refer to Jones as "Canada's Own Stokely Carmichael." He also joined the Student Union for Peace Action (SUPA), and together with Joan, moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia to engage in a community organizing effort known as the Nova Scotia Project. They formed Kwacha House, the first inner-city self-help program for youth in the culturally diverse, lower socio-economic area of the city's North End. In 1968, Jones was responsible for inviting Carmichael and members of the Black Panther Party to visit Halifax. This attracted police and media attention but also led shortly afterwards to the formation of a coalition of activist groups, including more conservative older organizations, as the Black United Front of Nova Scotia. Jones also helped establish the Afro-Canadian Liberation Movement and was sometimes referred to in the media at this time as "Rocky the Revolutionary." As a student at Dalhousie University, in 1970 he helped establish the Transition Year Program (where he taught for 10 years). He organized the Black Historical and Educational Research Organization (HERO Project), a pioneering oral history project on Black culture. He also helped create the Dalhousie Law School Indigenous Blacks and Mi'kmaq Program.
Prisoner rights
A strong advocate of prisoner rights, Jones was involved in the establishment of the Black Inmates Association and the Native Brotherhood of Dorchester Penitentiary and Springhill Institution. Jones developed programs for women in the Kingston Prison for Women, Halifax County Correctional Centre and in the community. He developed a wilderness experience program for ex-inmates and oversaw two production companies also staffed by ex-inmates. Jones was the executive director of Real Opportunities for Prisoner Employment (ROPE), a self-help organization for ex-inmates.
Politics
Jones joined the New Democratic Party in Nova Scotia in 1965 and remained active as an organizer and supporter in the following decades. In 1980, he ran unsuccessfully in a Nova Scotia by-election for Halifax Needham. At that time, he was one of the few known Black Canadian politicians. In 1995, Jones was co-chair of the People's Summit, an alternative assembly that took place during the G7 meetings in Halifax. In 2009 he helped Lenore Zann win her successful campaign to be elected as NDP member of the legislative assembly for the Truro area.
Legal career
Jones received his law degree from Dalhousie University in 1992 and spent several years working with Dalhousie University Legal Aid before forming his own law firm, B.A. "Rocky" Jones & Associates. While at Dalhousie, he provided legal services and taught law students. Jones' firm concentrated on human rights cases, criminal, prisoner rights and labour law. Jones was particularly interested in human rights issues involving Black people and people of colour. He worked closely with the Aboriginal community on land claims, justice and educational issues and was a Canadian expert on environmental racism. In 1997 he successfully argued the groundbreaking case of R. v. R.D.S. before the Supreme Court of Canada. This case set a precedent for race related litigation and contextualized judging. Guelph University bestowed an Honorary Doctorate of Laws to Jones in 2004.
Death
Jones died of heart failure on July 29, 2013, at the age of 71.
Legacy
In August 2016, Fernwood Publishing released the autobiography Burnley “Rocky” Jones Revolutionary. The book was written by James W. St. G. Walker and Rocky Jones, and includes an afterword by George Elliott Clarke.
In September 2018, a petition was started by Angel Panag, a Halifax resident, requesting Cornwallis Street in North End, Halifax be renamed to honour Rocky Jones. The petition was signed by over 1,700 people, and presented to Halifax City Council by the area's City Councillor. The same petition was again presented to Halifax Regional Council in October 2021, after having garnered 9,330 signatures.
Awards
Order of Nova Scotia
Meritorious Award of Excellence: The *Black United Front of Nova Scotia
Distinguished Service Award: The Canadian Association of Black Lawyers
H.Carl Goldenberg, Q.C. Award: Dalhousie University Law School
Hon. G.I. Smith Trust Award: Dalhousie University Law school
Founders Award: The Transition Year Program, Dalhousie University
Graduate Scholarship: Dalhousie University
Community Involvement Award: The National Black Coalition of Canada
Race Relations Committee Award: The Nova Scotia Barristers Society
Apex Community Award: Town of Truro
Honorary Doctorate of Laws: Guelph University
Wall of Honour: Nova Scotia Black Cultural Centre
See also
Black Nova Scotians
References
External links
Five Awarded Order of Nova Scotia
Watch the 1967 documentary film Encounter at Kwacha House - Halifax, National Film Board of Canada
1941 births
2013 deaths
Black Canadian politicians
Black Nova Scotians
Candidates in Nova Scotia provincial elections
Schulich School of Law alumni
Dalhousie University alumni
Members of the Order of Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia New Democratic Party politicians
People from Truro, Nova Scotia
Black Canadian activists
Canadian civil rights lawyers
Lawyers in Nova Scotia
Black Canadian lawyers |
69903087 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Fox%20%28painter%29 | Edward Fox (painter) | Edward Fox (1788–1875) was a British landscape painter, active from 1813 to 1854.
References
1788 births
1875 deaths
British landscape painters |
17168666 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukimi%20Nagano | Yukimi Nagano | Yukimi Eleanora Nagano (born 31 January 1982) is a Swedish-Japanese singer and songwriter. She is the vocalist for the Swedish electronic group Little Dragon.
Career
Early career
Nagano first made a record at the age of 18 with Andreas Saag (Swell Session). She then worked with Swedish nu jazz duo Koop on the songs "Summer Sun" and "Bright Nights" (both from 2001's Waltz for Koop) and joined the duo on tour, which she says "opened a lot of doors for me both life and collaboration wise". She collaborated with Koop again on "Come to Me", "I See a Different You", and "Whenever There Is You" for the 2006 release Koop Islands. Nagano also contributed significant vocal work to the 2004 album Moving On by Hird, including the song "Keep You Kimi" and the title track "Moving On".
Little Dragon
Nagano is the vocalist of Gothenburg-based electronic band Little Dragon, which she established with her close high school friends Erik Bodin (drums) and Fredrik Wallin (bass) in 1996 while they were in high school. Håkan Wirenstrand (keyboards) joined the group later. Nagano and her bandmates each applied to music college but were denied entrance, and instead continued to make music together while working side jobs. In 2007, Little Dragon released their first single, "Twice", which led to the group being signed to the record label Peacefrog Records. The band released their self-titled debut album on September 3, 2007, to favorable reception. This was followed by Machine Dreams in 2009.
Little Dragon was featured in Gorillaz's 2010 album Plastic Beach on the songs "Empire Ants" and "To Binge", both of which Nagano co-wrote, and she performed in the "Escape to Plastic Beach Tour" the same year.
Little Dragon's third studio album, Ritual Union, was released in July 2011 and the band went on tour in North America, Europe, and Australia.
The band's fourth studio album, Nabuma Rubberband, was released in May 2014 in the United Kingdom via Because Music and in the United States via Loma Vista Recordings. It received a nomination for Best Dance/Electronic Album at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards. The album was supported by tours in Europe and North America.
In 2015, Nagano was featured, along with Little Dragon, on electronic music duo ODESZA's 2015 single "Light". Also in 2015, Nagano and Little Dragon were featured on Mac Miller's GO:OD AM album on the last track titled "The Festival".
In 2016, Little Dragon collaborated with De La Soul on the track "Drawn" and a music video for the song was released in 2017. Season High, Little Dragon's fifth studio album, was also released in 2017.
Other work
She and Erik Bodin have played live with fellow Gothenburg artist, José González.
In 2011, Nagano was featured on SBTRKT's eponymous debut album with her vocals on the song "Wildfire".
She is also featured on Raphael Saadiq's 2011 album Stone Rollin' on the song "Just Don't".
She also provided vocals for "Scale It Back" on DJ Shadow's 2011 album The Less You Know, the Better and for "Descending", "Higher Res", and "Thom Pettie" from Big Boi's 2012 album Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors. Nagano additionally co-wrote "Mama Told Me" and sang on the song's original version.
Personal life
Nagano was born and raised in Gothenburg, Sweden, to Japanese father Yusuke Nagano and Swedish-American mother Joanne Brown. She has a son, Jaxon, who was born in 2016. Nagano's sister is the musician Sandra Sumie Nagano, whose eponymous album was released by Bella Union in December 2013.
References
External links
– official site
1982 births
English-language singers from Sweden
Living people
Musicians from Gothenburg
Swedish electronic musicians
Swedish women singer-songwriters
Swedish singer-songwriters
Swedish people of American descent
Swedish people of Japanese descent
Swedish women in electronic music
21st-century Swedish singers
21st-century Swedish women singers
Chill-out musicians |
47808636 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited%20Snowboards | Limited Snowboards | Limited Snowboards was a Canadian snowboard brand founded in Toronto in 1993 by Perry Gladstone and Ricardo Camargo. Limited Snowboards Inc. and its successors distributed snowboards bindings, boots, clothing and accessories under the brands Limited and LTD.
Backstory
In 1989 and 1990 Perry produced his first snowboards under the Fishlips brand, a Canadian skateboard company he owned and operated. The line was discontinued and then restarted in 1991 as a collaboration with H-Street Skateboards' co-founder Tony Magnusson. In the winter of 1992, Perry recruited Ricardo to help him with the project until a former H-street investor challenged the brand ownership and Perry, Ricardo and Tony chose to abandon the project and create new brands of their own.
First year
The first year of Limited's operations were run from Perry's kitchen desk, where he negotiated a manufacturing agreement with the upstart snowboard factory Surf Politix of Sainte Anne de Beaupré, Quebec. Two models were produced based on designs by Ricardo, graphic designer Todd De Koker and Limited's first team rider, Emanuel Krebs. Production was financed by a $30,000 Letter of Credit provided in advance by Japanese distributor Car Mate Manufacturing Ltd.,$15,000 in personal loans to the company by Perry and Ricardo and a matching $15,000 government-backed young entrepreneur loan from the Bank of Montreal. Approximately 300 boards were made the first season and, following delivery, Perry bought out Ricardo for his initial loan amount plus nominal goodwill and became the sole director of the company.
Big in Japan
Although Canadian stores were slow on the uptake, Car Mate was very successful with the Limited brand and sales in Japan increased. In year two just under 1000 boards were produced. To advertise the Limited brand in Canada, Perry founded Vehicle Magazine, a quarterly action sports publication, which featured Limited products and advertisements alongside articles about local skateboarders and snowboarders. By year three the brand became popular in both Canada and the US and sales exceeded the one million dollar mark. To accommodate increasing demand for lower price points, production of the Limited brand was moved to the Pale Ski & Sport factory in Austria and a higher-end series of LTD branded boards were contracted to Industries Esthete Inc., in Chicoutimi, Quebec.
Largest Canadian brand
By 1996 Limited was the largest Canadian snowboard brand worldwide with distributors in 14 countries. Micah Kornberg joined the company in the summer of 1996 as partner and COO and, in 1997, facilitated a series of investments in the company by labor-sponsored venture corporation, Sport Fund. With Sport Fund's support, Limited sought out potential acquisitions but was unable to close a deal before heavy industry consolidation forced the company to entertain offers from other suitors. In 1998, Limited Snowboards Inc. wound down its Canadian operations and sold the assets to the Volant Ski Company, LLC of Denver Colorado for an undisclosed amount. To facilitate the sale and integrate operations, Perry moved to Colorado as Volant's Director of Snowboarding. Micah also left Toronto to run competitor Sims Snowboards in Seattle, Washington.
American engineering
The Volant Ski Company was famous for its stainless steel cap technology, which, while heavy, produced very responsive handling. To replicate this effect in a snowboard the Volant engineering team created the Powerband, a flat figure-eight band of stainless steel laminated above and below the wooden core. A series of limited boards ‘Powered by Volant’ were produced by Volant for the 1998/99 season while manufacturing of the LTD premium line remained with Industries Esthete in Canada.
Due to the labour-intensive construction and high cost of manufacturing in the United States, Volant had never turned a profit. One year after acquiring Limited, the Volant board of directors, led by angel investor Mike Markkula, decided to get out of snowboarding and invest in opposite season products. In 2000 Perry left Volant to pursue other interests after facilitating the sale of the Limited brand and all its assets to the Authentic Brands Group. Shortly after, the Authentic Brand Group also acquired Sims Snowboards, prompting Micah to leave the industry as well.
References
Further reading
Snowboarding companies
1993 establishments in Ontario |
6592750 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City%20of%20Hawkinsville%20%28shipwreck%29 | City of Hawkinsville (shipwreck) | City of Hawkinsville was a paddle steamer constructed in Georgia in 1886. Sold in 1900 to a Tampa, Florida company, it delivered cargo and lumber along the Suwannee River. Eventually rendered obsolete by the advent of railroads in the region, it was abandoned in the middle of the Suwannee in 1922.
It became the third Florida Underwater Archaeological Preserve when it opened to the public in 1992. On May 31, 2001, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places as City of Hawkinsville (shipwreck). It is located in Dixie County, 100 yards south of the Old Town railroad trestle (which is part of the Nature Coast State Trail).
History
Georgia
In 1886, the Hawkinsville (Georgia) Deepwater Boat Lines had the wooden-hulled City of Hawkinsville built for them in Abbeville, Georgia.
After 14 years of service, they sold it to the Gulf Transportation Company of Tampa.
Florida
The largest ( long by wide) steamboat stationed on the Suwannee, City of Hawkinsville transported lumber and supplies from Branford to Cedar Key for the next two decades. Supplies included construction materials for the railroads that would end the need for the steamboat.
In 1922, the steamboat was abandoned in the Suwanee near what is now the railroad trestle built across the river, reducing the need for a boat to cross the river at that point. It remains at this location, preserved as one of the Florida Underwater Archaeological Preserves.
Today
The wreck of the steamboat has become part of the river's ecosystem, and was added to the Florida Underwater Archaeological Preserve system in 1992. Most of it is remarkably intact, and rests on a ledge in the middle of the Suwannee, visible from the river's surface. Diving is allowed, but only for those with advanced open water certification; venturing within the wreck itself is not permitted.
References
External links
Dixie County listings at National Register of Historic Places
City of Hawkinsville at Florida's Shipwrecks - 300 Years of Maritime History
Museums in the Sea City of Hawkinsville
Archaeological sites in Florida
Protected areas of Dixie County, Florida
Shipwrecks in rivers
Shipwrecks on the National Register of Historic Places in Florida
Florida Underwater Archaeological Preserves
National Register of Historic Places in Dixie County, Florida |
22360315 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dom%20Costa | Dom Costa | Dominic J. Costa (born 1951) is a Democratic politician. He was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, and was the Chief of the Pittsburgh Police in 2006, and was a 27-year veteran of the force. He is a member of the Costa political family in Pittsburgh.
Career
Law enforcement
He began his police career in suburban East McKeesport in 1977 and in 1979 became an officer with Pittsburgh. In 1981 he became a negotiator with the force eventually being promoted to Commander. He was injured by a shooter in a February 2002 standoff in the Homewood neighborhood, and briefly retired from the force. From January 2, 2006 – September 28, 2006 he was Pittsburgh Police Chief appointed by Pittsburgh mayor Bob O'Connor. He retired again from the PBP after then Mayor Luke Ravenstahl's administration took over City Hall and for a time became the Police Chief of suburban Penn Hills before going into elected office as a State representative.
Politics
Costa was first elected in 2008, receiving 78% of the vote. He defeated Dan Mahon and Jonah Yon McAllister-Erickson. Costa ran unopposed through 2016. However, in the 2018 Democratic Primary election, Costa faced a challenge from Democratic Socialists of America-endorsed member Sara Innamorato. In the election, Costa lost to Innamorato, who ran unopposed in the general election. Costa also failed to secure the Republican nomination in a last-minute write-in campaign.
Education
He graduated from the Indiana University of Pennsylvania criminal justice training center.
See also
Allegheny County Police Department
Pittsburgh Police
References
External links
Pennsylvania House of Representatives – Dom Costa (Democrat) official PA House website
Pennsylvania House Democratic Caucus – Dom Costa official Party website
Living people
Democratic Party members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Indiana University of Pennsylvania alumni
Chiefs of the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police
21st-century American politicians
1951 births |
57637823 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suaman%20%28district%29 | Suaman (district) | Suaman District is one of the nine districts in Western North Region, Ghana. Originally it was formerly part of the then-larger Aowin/Suaman District in 1988, which was created from the former Aowin-Amenfi District Council, until a small northwest part of the district was split off to create Suaman District on 28 June 2012; thus the remaining part has been renamed as Aowin District (which it was later elevated to municipal district assembly status on 16 November 2017 (effective 15 March 2018) to become Aowin Municipal District). The district assembly is located in the southern part of Western North Region and has Dadieso as its capital town.
References
Districts of the Western North Region |
16846594 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bienal%20de%20Flamenco | Bienal de Flamenco | The Bienal de Flamenco is celebrated in Seville, Spain, in different theatres of the city. This festival features dancers, vocalists, and guitarists in a display ranging from flamenco puro to innovative new works.
The festival was first celebrated in 1980, with Jose Luis Ortiz Nuevo as the director and with a poster designed by Joaquín Sáenz. The Giraldillo (the festival award) was won by Calixto Sanchez.
References
External links
Official site of Bienal de Flamenco
Canal Sur Television, the official TV site of Bienal de Flamenco
Spanish music
Andalusian music
Spanish folk music
Spanish dances |
2039039 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical%20astronomy | Spherical astronomy | Spherical astronomy, or positional astronomy, is a branch of observational astronomy used to locate astronomical objects on the celestial sphere, as seen at a particular date, time, and location on Earth. It relies on the mathematical methods of spherical trigonometry and the measurements of astrometry.
This is the oldest branch of astronomy and dates back to antiquity. Observations of celestial objects have been, and continue to be, important for religious and astrological purposes, as well as for timekeeping and navigation. The science of actually measuring positions of celestial objects in the sky is known as astrometry.
The primary elements of spherical astronomy are celestial coordinate systems and time. The coordinates of objects on the sky are listed using the equatorial coordinate system, which is based on the projection of Earth's equator onto the celestial sphere. The position of an object in this system is given in terms of right ascension (α) and declination (δ). The latitude and local time can then be used to derive the position of the object in the horizontal coordinate system, consisting of the altitude and azimuth.
The coordinates of celestial objects such as stars and galaxies are tabulated in a star catalog, which gives the position for a particular year. However, the combined effects of axial precession and nutation will cause the coordinates to change slightly over time. The effects of these changes in Earth's motion are compensated by the periodic publication of revised catalogs.
To determine the position of the Sun and planets, an astronomical ephemeris (a table of values that gives the positions of astronomical objects in the sky at a given time) is used, which can then be converted into suitable real-world coordinates.
The unaided human eye can perceive about 6,000 stars, of which about half are below the horizon at any one time. On modern star charts, the celestial sphere is divided into 88 constellations. Every star lies within a constellation. Constellations are useful for navigation. Polaris lies nearly due north to an observer in the Northern Hemisphere. This pole star is always at a position nearly directly above the North Pole.
Positional phenomena
Planets which are in conjunction form a line which passes through the center of the Solar System.
The ecliptic is the plane which contains the orbit of a planet, usually in reference to Earth.
Elongation refers to the angle formed by a planet, with respect to the system's center and a viewing point.
A quadrature occurs when the position of a body (moon or planet) is such that its elongation is 90° or 270°; i.e. the body-earth-sun angle is 90°
Superior planets have a larger orbit than Earth's, while the inferior planets (Mercury and Venus) orbit the Sun inside Earth's orbit.
A transit may occur when an inferior planet passes through a point of conjunction.
Ancient structures associated with positional astronomy include
Arkaim
Chichen Itza
The Medicine Wheel
The Pyramids
Stonehenge
The Temple of the Sun
See also
References
Robin M. Green, Spherical Astronomy, 1985, Cambridge University Press,
William M. Smart, edited by Robin M. Green, Textbook on Spherical Astronomy, 1977, Cambridge University Press, . (This classic text has been re-issued)
External links
Software
NOVAS is an integrated package of subroutines for the computation of a wide variety of common astrometric quantities and transformations, in Fortran and C, from the U.S. Naval Observatory.
jNOVAS is a java wrapper for library developed and distributed by The United States Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command (NMOC) with included JPL planetary and lunar ephemeris DE421 binary file published by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Course notes and tutorials
Professor Vincent's course notes at the University of St. Andrews
From Stephen Tonkin's Astronomy tutorials
From Professor Kirkman's tutorials at College of Saint Benedict + Saint John's University
Astrometry
Astrological aspects |
542683 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%20Nyoman%20Windha | I Nyoman Windha | I Nyoman Windha is one of the leading musicians and contemporary composers of Balinese gamelan music. He was born at Banjar Kutri, Singapadu, Gianyar, Bali. A graduate of the National Institute of Arts (ISI) in Denpasar, Bali, Windha has been a member of the faculty since 1985. He has composed dozens of compositions for Balinese gamelan in many genres but primarily in kebyar style. His compositions, such as Puspanjali (1989), have been incorporated into the standard repertoire of Balinese performing groups and many have won awards at Bali's annual gamelan competition.
Windha's music is known for his beautiful melodies, incorporation of forms and styles from Javanese gamelan, and other innovations such as use of 3/4 time. He has traveled and taught extensively around the world.
External links
I Nyoman Windha homepage
Indonesian composers
Gamelan musicians
Indonesian Hindus
Balinese people
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Male composers
20th-century composers
20th-century male musicians
21st-century composers
21st-century male musicians
Musicians from Bali |
36806366 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan%20Amboyer | Dan Amboyer | Dan Amboyer (born December 28, 1985) is an American actor, known for his starring roles on the Darren Star series Younger and the NBC spin-off series The Blacklist: Redemption, and for starring as Prince William of Wales in the television film William & Catherine: A Royal Romance. He also plays Luke on the Netflix comedy series Uncoupled opposite Neil Patrick Harris.
Life and career
Amboyer was born in Detroit to Claudia and Dr. Donald Amboyer. He attended The Roeper School and arts high school Interlochen Arts Academy. Amboyer subsequently continued his studies at the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama, where he was offered early admittance following his junior year of high school. After graduation, he relocated to New York City.
Amboyer has appeared in numerous television shows and films and worked extensively in theatre. Amboyer is a founding member of the theatre company Exit, Pursued by a Bear. In 2019, he made his directorial debut helming the world premiere of Whirlwind Off-Broadway, which Elisabeth Vincentelli of The New Yorker called a "delightful 80 minutes."
He starred on the Darren Star hit series Younger and the NBC spin-off series The Blacklist: Redemption. He also starred as Prince William of Wales in the TV movie William & Catherine: A Royal Romance.
He can be seen as Luke on the hit Netflix comedy series Uncoupled opposite Neil Patrick Harris.
Personal life
On October 7, 2017, Amboyer publicly came out as gay and announced that he had married his long-term partner, Eric P. Berger. Amboyer's coming out sparked national attention with televised coverage on Access Hollywood, E! News and Entertainment Tonight.
Filmography
Films
Television
Video games
Off-Broadway
Orange Lemon Egg Canary by Rinne Groff — 2006 (PS 122)
As You Like It — 2007 (HERE Arts Center)
The Play About the Naked Guy — 2008 (Baruch Center for the Performing Arts)
Bash'd — 2008 (The Zipper Factory)
For the Love of Christ — 2009 (Cherry Lane Theatre)
Dido, Queen of Carthage — 2010 (Exit, Pursued by a Bear)
The Great Unknown by William Hauptman and Jim Wann — 2010 (The American Place Theatre)
Restoration Comedy by Amy Freed — 2010 (Exit, Pursued by a Bear)
These Seven Sicknesses — 2011 (Exit, Pursued by a Bear)
Friends and Relations — 2011 (Abingdon Theatre)
Remembrance of Things Past by Harold Pinter and Di Trevis, US premiere with Richard Armitage — 2014 (92nd Street Y)
Squash by AR Gurney, world premiere — (The Flea Theater) — 2016
Directed the premiere of Whirlwind by Jordan Jaffe — 2019 (The Wild Project)
Regional theatre
Cabaret, directed by Alan Paul - Clifford Bradshaw (Barrington Stage Company)
The Importance of Being Earnest, directed by Matt Lenz — Jack 'Earnest' Worthing (The Cape Playhouse)
The Metromaniacs, world premiere by David Ives directed by Michael Kahn — Dorante (Shakespeare Theatre Company)
As You Like It, directed by Adrian Noble — Orlando (Old Globe Theatre)
Richard III, directed by Lindsay Posner — Henry VII (Old Globe Theatre)
Inherit the Wind, directed by Adrian Noble — Bertram Cates (Old Globe Theatre)
Le Grand Meaulnes, directed by Di Trevis — Augustin Meaulnes (Quantum Theatre)
The Eclectic Society — Tom Rockwell (Walnut Street Theatre)
Grease — Kenickie (The Muny)
Crazy for You — Lank Hawkins (North Shore Music Theatre)
Doctor Faustus — (Utah Shakespearean Festival)
Henry IV — (Utah Shakespearean Festival)
Romeo and Juliet — (Utah Shakespearean Festival)
Speak to Me, Annie — (Utah Shakespearean Festival)
My Fair Lady — (Utah Shakespearean Festival)
Camelot — Utah Shakespearean Festival
Godspell — Jesus (Meadow Brook Theatre)
A Christmas Carol — (Meadow Brook Theatre)
Swan Lake — (American Ballet Theatre)
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat starring Donny Osmond — National Tour
Urinetown, directed by John Carrafa — Officer Lockstock (Carnegie Mellon University)
As You Like It, directed by Di Trevis — Jaques (Carnegie Mellon University)
Compleat Female Stage Beauty — Ned Kynaston (Carnegie Mellon University)
References
External links
Instagram Page
Dan Amboyer at The Hollywood Reporter
Dan Amboyer Shakespeare Feature at San Diego U—T
Dan Amboyer Photo Gallery at San Diego U-T
Dan Amboyer at Deadline.com
Dan Amboyer at Access Hollywood
Dan Amboyer on The Hallmark Channel
Dan Amboyer at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
1985 births
21st-century American male actors
American gay actors
American male film actors
American male stage actors
American male television actors
Carnegie Mellon University College of Fine Arts alumni
Interlochen Center for the Arts alumni
LGBT people from Michigan
Living people
Male actors from Detroit |
31141612 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical%2070 | Radical 70 | Radical 70 or radical square () meaning "square" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 92 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
is also the 94th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
Evolution
Derived characters
Sinogram
The radical is also used as an independent Chinese character. It is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan. It is a second grade kanji
References
Literature
External links
Unihan Database - U+65B9
Kyōiku kanji
070
094 |
55189629 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017%E2%80%9318%20Mizoram%20Premier%20League | 2017–18 Mizoram Premier League | The 2017–18 Mizoram Premier League is the sixth season of the Mizoram Premier League, the top-division football league in the Indian state of Mizoram. The league began on 31 August 2017 with eight teams competing.
Teams
Aizawl
Bethlehem Vengthlang FC
Chanmari
Chanmari West FC
Chhinga Veng
Dinthar FC
Mizoram Police
Ramhlun North FC
Standings
Finals
Bracket
Semi-finals
Leg 1
Leg 2
Final
Awards
After the league final, the following awards and respective winners were announced:
Goalscorers
3 Goals
Malsawmfela (Chhinga Veng)
2 Goals
Fanai Lalrinpuia (Mizoram Police)
1 Goal
Lalrammawia (Bethlehem Vengthlang)
Vanlalthanga (Bethlehem Vengthlang)
H Lallianzama (Chanmari West)
Lalliansanga (Ramhlun North)
Jonathan Lalrawngbawla (Aizawl)
Laldampuia (Chhinga Veng)
Malsawmtluanga (Chhinga Veng)
Jacob Vanlalhlimpuia (Chanmari)
Rosangliama (Ramhlun North)
PC Lalthanthuanma (Dinthar)
PC Laldinpuia (Bethlehem Vengthlang)
Vanlallawma (Chhinga Veng)
R Malsawmtluanga (Chhinga Veng)
Lalmuanzuala (Chanmari)
David Lalrinmuana (Aizawl)
References
External links
Mizoram Premier League on facebook
Mizoram Premier League
2017–18 in Indian football leagues |
63481861 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20Almaty%20peak | Big Almaty peak | The Big Almaty peak or big Almaty peak is a mountain peak of the Northern slope of the Tian Shan range of the Zailiysky Alatau.
The peak is located in the mountain spur of the Almaty-Alagir massif directly the North of the Tourist peak just 15 km from the Almaty city. There is a Large Almaty lake in the East of the peak; from the West are skirting slopes of the Almarasan gorge through which the Prokhodnaya River flows.
The Tien-Shan astronomical Observatory is on the slopes of the peak.
There are meteorological post and high-altitude scientific station of cosmic rays (SCL) of the Institute of Physics and technology (more commonly known among the local population as "Cosmo station") to the South of the summit on the pass Dzhusaly-Kezen.
The peak is the last elevation in the eponymous spur. The height of the peak is 3680 meters. Big Almaty Lake is located at the level of 2,511 meters. The peak shaped like a pyramid. The ridge covered with scree in the lower part, and has a rocky terrain in the upper part. From the top of the peak, you can see the pass and Tourist peak.
Pyramid Peak is perfectly visible in clear weather from almost any point of the city.
Source and links
Вуколов В. Н.. По Северному Тянь-Шаню. Горные туристские маршруты по Заилийскому Алатау и Кунгей-Алатау. — Москва, «Профиздат», 1991 г.
Photo album
References
Landforms of Almaty Region
Mountains of Kazakhstan |
16344390 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20of%20Quest | World of Quest | World of Quest is a sci-fi comedy animated television series based on the graphic novel series of the same name by Jason T. Kruse. The series was produced by Cookie Jar Entertainment, in association with Teletoon and Kids' WB!. It appears to be a parody of the fantasy genre that blends swords, sorcery and technology, in the vein of Masters of the Universe. The show premiered on March 15, 2008, on Kids' WB on The CW in the U.S. and in Canada on Teletoon on August 10, 2008, as a preview, with regular airings starting on September 1, 2008. The CW4Kids removed it from its schedule after airing the first-season finale "Search For Power" on June 14, 2008. It's also the last series to be produced for the Kids' WB block.
Premise
The show that focuses on young Prince Nestor on a mission to save his parents, with his amazing muscled protector Quest by his side.
Characters
Heroes
Quest: A strong, 1,900 year old warrior with an odd past. Previously, he was assigned as a nurse for baby Nestor. Quest first appears in Episode 1 when Prince Nestor arrives because his parents have been captured and he needs to find the Shatter Soul Sword so he can rescue them. Quest refuses until Nestor tricks him into activating an allegiance spell that binds him to the prince. His best-known catchphrase is mostly. "I hate..." 'e.g. theme songs, suckers, allegiance spell, etc.'
Nestor: The Prince of Odyssea, son of the King and Queen of Odyssea, who have been captured. Even though he orders Quest around and calls him his "bodyguard", Quest usually ends up interpreting his orders to suit his needs.
Graer: A thieving griffin with an appetite, Graer usually carries Anna Maht when traveling with the others. Originally he was Nestor's companion and seems to be old friends with Quest.
Gatling: A cyborg with a slight British accent, Gatling first appeared in Episode 1.2, when Nestor, Quest and Graer travel to the town of Effluvium seeking him. Quest disliked Gatling because Gatling suggested to the queen that Quest be banished in lieu of execution. Gatling can chew bits of metal and spit them out like bullets, which comes in handy during a fight.
Way: A shape-shifting female being with odd patterns on her body resembling circuits, Way always speaks in enigmatic riddles, although she is helpful. She has an intricate knowledge of the world of Odyssea, and often functions as both map and guide to Quest, Nestor, and company. She is found by Nestor in Episode 2.2 when they find the Dagger of Way. Way often travels inside the dagger later on.
Anna Maht: A young sorceress, Anna has red hair and tattoos on her face and arms. She is a huge fan of Quest and adores the warrior, despite him not caring for her affections at all. Anna often boasts to be capable of casting a variety of spells, but they usually fail or have different results than intended. The one spell she can cast to great effect, though, is one that brings inanimate objects or plants to life. While these living tools often prove useful, they annoy Quest a great deal.
Albert: A gigantic green creature resembling a cross between an armadillo and an ankylosaur with purple armor, Albert is used as a method of transportation by the team. Nestor and Quest usually travel in the 'mace' at the end of Albert's tail, which functions as a sort of cockpit. Albert can roll into a ball to escape hairy situations, but this leaves his passengers quite dazed. He is the only thing Quest likes and calls him the most important member of the group. He is over 73 feet tall.
Villains
The Guardian - The one who protects the Shattersoul Sword, the Guardian is reawakened when Nestor brought the tooth (which held the five swords in it) to the tower and got shocked by a green light. In another episode, he battles Egon, whom is then saved by Nestor who in turn loses the Fire Sword to the Guardian but realize they can "easily" (not really "easily") get the Earth and Air Sword from Lord Spite, but when they get there they find a sign that leads to the swords. Quest thinks it's a trap but they find the swords. However, when they go outside, they find The Guardian. Nestor tries to use the swords but finds out they're fake. In another episode, Quest challenges the Guardian to a duel for the Shattersoul Sword but loses and is forced to hand over Albert. However, Quest refuses to let his foe take his best friend and secretly hides underneath Albert while the Guardian unwittingly leads him to his lair, this leads to a second battle which Quest wins by smashing the Guardian's precious snow globe collection, giving him a massive advantage. The Guardian, however, refuses to surrender the Shattersoul Sword and they both run for it. During their struggle, the sword winds up splitting back into five and although Quest succeeds in taking some, the Guardian manages to get the rest. After the mountain incident, the race for the swords starts again.
Lord Spite - The main villain of the show, "Lord Cornelius Evil Spite" ('Yes, "Evil" IS in fact his middle name!') is an evil overlord who has plans of world domination, but always fails due to his bumbling underlings as well as his own incompetence and cowardice. He looks vaguely reptilian with green skin and a large horn on his head. Spite has a flair for dramatics, and spends more time coming up with puns to use against Quest than on actual plans. Besides having a huge army of Growls and Grinders as well as commanding the living fortress of Mollox, he is a sorcerer of no small power and can also remove his right eye to use as a scrying ball. He plans to collect the Five Swords of Power and use them to release Shadowseed, he is also the one responsible for kidnapping Nestor's parents.
Ogun - Spite's loyal Death Knight, Ogun was a former Rouster like Quest before turning evil. General Ogun turned evil because he felt unappreciated by the royal family, with the last straw being denied the title of Nestor's nanny, a position he wanted for a time. He wears armour resembling a skull with a skull-like head/helmet. The skull-like torso of the armour is actually alive. In one story, a tooth was chipped and it was restored by the following segment. Ogun often eats minions Lord Spite discards by sucking them into the black hole inside the mouth. No-one has demonstrated knowledge of where it leads, though on occasion people have come back from it. Ogun is loyal to Spite and harbours a great hatred for Quest.
The Katastrophy Brothers: Khaos, Kalamity and Konfusion - Lord Spite's three henchmen: Khaos the Minotaur, Kalamity the Vulture, and Konfusion the Lizard. Whilst on their own, they are quite harmless, whenever they come in contact with water, the Katastrophy Brothers merge into a giant hybrid creature known as "Katastrophy"; the only way to change them back is to pull his plug (i.e. the ponytail in the back of his head). The three are quite useless, and normally rather try to shirk their duties and come up with explanations on why they could not capture the Prince to Lord Spite, or which one of them should be to blame for their failures, rather than even try. Khaos is the oldest and most sensible of the brothers, Kalamity is quite sarcastic, while Konfusion is notorious for being an idiot who never shuts up.
Deceit - A witch in service to Lord Spite, Deceit hovers above the ground and has a hat with a living snake on it. Spite often summons her to help him in his plans to capture the swords, although Deceit (as she points out, it's in her name) has a tendency to double-cross him. Spite is always freaked out by her sudden appearances when she magically teleports in.
Creatures
Grinders: Large, green, four-legged, rhino-like creatures with four eyes, one horn, and a huge mouth full of teeth, who can become alive if separated from their body.
Growls: Small, grey, goblin-like creatures that run on two legs and have fangs, a Mohawk tuft of hair (colours may vary), and pierced ears.
Sea Squawkers: Small critters with nasty-biting beaks that live in Quest's moat as well as in small ponds throughout Odyssea.
Stumps: Sawed-off logs with arms and legs and glowing red eyes. They hurl balls of tree sap.
Swampy Crabby Swamp Creatures: Large, green, crab-like creatures that live in the swamps that Quest and Nestor pass through. Graer likes the taste of them, especially with butter.
Loberman Pinchers: Green, dog-like creatures with purple shells on their backs and scorpion tails with a big, pinching claw at the end.
Lucky: Quest's tiny, but extremely vicious dog. It is a pure-bred, grinder-spaniel, really just a ball of green fur with a giant toothy mouth and four stick-like legs. He was given as a gift by Quest for Lord Spite. (Episode 107.1)
Lipsuckers: Large, slug-like creatures with giant kissing lips. (Episode 107.2)
Super Hopasaurus Rex: A cross between a Tyrannosaurus and a Kangaroo, bred by Spite to destroy Quest, but ends up treating Quest like a mother to a son. (Episode 107.2)
Tremordites - Giant, horrible-smelling, sand worms that protect Dust Devil Ravine. They're totally blind and use the hair on their bodies to see. (Episode 108.2)
Gatling's Adopted Mother: A half-cat/kangaroo woman with cat ears and whiskers, and a woman's chest and arms.
Croc-a-Doodle-Doo A purple-coloured, troll-like creature with a tuft of hair protruding forwards from its forehead; the group tracks down this creature to learn how to activate the Earth Sword. (Episode 104.1)
The Toe-Jamemers of the Fjord of Fowl Funky Fungus Fowl-Smelling Feet creatures that inhabit the Fjord. They also have serious problems with Foot Infections (particularly Athlete's Foot)
Ding Bats Large, purple-coloured, bat-like creatures with long legs, big green eyes, and big fangs seen attacking a caravan holding Gatling's parents, Butt-headius, Amazing Claud, and a giant green furry hand. Quest uses Prince Nestor as bait for the Ding Bats in order to save the caravan after being told to 'make a distraction'.
Suckers Small, insect-like creatures who prove hard to hit. They are blood-sucking, little flying scorpions, whose bodies are of a bluish colour, whom Gatling defeats by spraying with a can of what seems to be 'sucker-repellent'.
Wall of Insults A mean, rock wall whom we can defeat by out-insulting. Gatling continuously insults the walls 'family' by calling them rubble, or something to that point. As it is insulting more and more, its face shrinks (like how Graer did when he was insulted several times by the talking wall) and eventually the wall crumbles allowing the crew to pass through where the wall once stood.
Acorn A certain, greedy, acorn-looking for riches, who rats out on Quest and the others by telling Lord Spite where they are and where they're going. It basically looks like a giant acorn, but the darker brown bit at the top with the stem takes the same shape of a beret, and the creature's teeth are jagged and popping out of its mouth in all kinds of places. The acorn is soon destroyed by Ogun after informing Spite of Quest's whereabouts.
Siamese Uberilla A giant, two-headed gorilla, both heads having one eye, giving it a sort of cyclops like appearance. A Siamese Uberilla is also the champion of the 'Grand Master', who Nestor and Quest, whose eyes where swollen from the horse-like guard's 'dander' fought to obtain the Fire Sword in the tournament of punishment.
Mountain A mountain who is very much alive after being wide awake by Quest and his company. The grumpy old mountain seals up Quest, Nestor, Gatling, Ahna, Way, Graer, Spite, Ogun, Deceit, and the Guardian. They all split up and eventually end up escaping through the mountain's 'throat'. Unfortunately, the mountain gives one last boom and scatters all the five swords all over Odyssea.
Craggy-Tongue Toe-Lickers Furry, green-winged creatures with large tongues and huge eyes. They also have small bird-like feet. Though they aren't actually seen at any time 'licking' anyone's toes, but at one point Graer mention that his toes feel 'ticklish'...
Sprowls Small, horned, grey-coloured creatures that sound like and somewhat have the same appearance of Lord Spite. They're seen at the start of the episode, 'The War of the Griffins'. They are said to be as heavy as bowling balls. They have a tuft of hair on the top of their head by the horn that looks like Lord Spite's, that can be mixed in colours of purple, green, yellow, red and blue.
Spinders/Grintes A fusion of Lord Spite's appearance, (and cowardliness) with a grinder. Created by Deceit, these strange-looking creatures are green with a lighter-shaded tuft of hair around their horn (a horn just like Spite's) and feet, adding a pony-like tail. They're created from grinders and one of Spite's nose hairs.
Giant Frog-Bat Huge, long-tongued monsters with webbed wings, clawed feet, and a mouth like Nintendo's Birdo. In many episodes, Nestor falls into Frog-Bat guano, which is a purple colour. They have small eyes protruding from its head, and use their tongues to attack.
Shriek A frilled lizard-like sentient species. They are called Shrieks because they are known to produce high-pitched shrieks. Their society considers themselves quite civilized, yet they quickly blame even minor inconveniences on witches, whom they toss down to a pit as a test for.
Locations
Odyssia - The fictional world or land where the story takes place. Magic and highly sophisticated technology coexist in Odyssia, making it similar to Eternia from He-Man. It also has more than two Suns, which can be seen even at night. Odyssia, like Quest, derives its name from a type of journey, in this case an odyssey.
Deludium - A town wrought with gambling that Quest says is filled with hoodlums. (Episode 107.1)
Dust Devil Ravine - Inhabited by Termordites (Episode 108.2)
Forest of the Unforgiven - Filled with mirror trees. (Episode 107.1)
Lake of Little - A lake that shrinks anyone who falls into it (Episode 107.2)
Crater of Mockery- A Volcanic cave with Walls that read the minds of those who pass through it, and uses their thoughts to insult them repeatedly (Episode 106.1)
Cave of Oddly Big Creatures That Drool - The cave that has the crystal needed to activate the air sword. It is also home to a giant two-headed, pancake-loving monster.
Effluvium A town built upon a Massive Monster (Heat Vision Included). They have developed a society that is based on a number of crazy laws, so prisoners are in fresh supply to keep the monster from eating/destroying the town.
The Swamp of Weirds - A swamp where weird things are located.
The Swamp of Really Icky Things -A swamp where there are really icky things (Episode 112.1)
The Great Great Great Mountain so Great that Great Doesn't Serve it Justice -A large snowy mountain and the location of the Energy Sword
The Swords of Power
Earth Sword - A sword made of rock and surrounded by green mist, it's activated by plunging it into the ground. The Earth Sword can control the movement of rock and stone around it as well as disintegrate its blade into small fragments, which can be levitated and controlled in midair.
Fire Sword - A sword made of flames which burn in an upwards direction, it's activated by placing it in the lava in the Chamber of Fire. The Fire Sword can manipulate not only fire but molten lava as well, however, its hilt can sometimes become too hot for the user to hold.
Water sword - A sword made of water flowing towards the tip, it's activated by placing the Aqua Diamond inside its hilt. The Water Sword, besides allowing the user to unleash water, also possesses the power of temperature adjustment, enabling the user to create ice fields.
Air Sword - A sword made from a flat helix of air, it's activated by "breaking wind" on the sword. The Air Sword can summon and control air and wind, allowing the user to fly as well as create tornadoes.
Energy Sword - A sword with patterns resembling those on Way, it's activated by taming a thunder dragon. The Energy Sword, also known as the "Power Sword", can launch burst of electricity as well as bring inanimate objects to life.
Shattersoul Sword - A sword that will form when the five other swords are combined, it'll allow the Group to defeat Spite and rescue Nestor's parents. Spite wants to obtain it so that he can resurrect Shadowseed. It is possible that it can control all the elements of the 5 swords that initially form it.
Cast
Ron Pardo as Quest, Graer, Shadowseed, Khaos, additional voices
Landon Norris as Nestor
James Rankin as Lord Spite, Kalamity, additional voices
Kedar Brown as Gatling, General Ogun, Konfusion, additional voices
Krystal Meadows as Anna Maht
Melissa Altro as Way, Deceit
Crew
Michelle Melanson - Producer
Ria Westaway - Producer
Jane Crawford - Producer
Paul Brown - Director
Jamie Whitney - Director
Stephen Sustarsic - Executive Producer, Writer
Jason Kruse - Creator, Creative Consultant, Writer
Shannon Eric Denton - Associate Producer, Writer
Steve Cuden - Writer
Mark Zaslove - Writer
Charleen Easton - Writer
David Silverman - Writer
Dean Stefan - Writer
Susan Hart - Voice Director
Jessie Thomson - Voice Director
Episodes
Season 1 (2008)
Season 2 (2009)
Telecast and home media
World of Quest premiered on March 15, 2008, on Kids' WB on The CW in the U.S. and in Canada on Teletoon on August 10, 2008, as a preview, with regular airings starting on September 1, 2008. The CW4Kids removed it from its schedule after airing the first-season finale "Search For Power" on June 14, 2008.
The series aired on Teletoon in Canada and Cartoon Network in the United Kingdom. It was also being shown on Disney XD in Poland and Latin America, and on Jetix in Central and Eastern Europe. In mid-September 2015, Disney XD Canada was airing repeats of the series. Since the rebranding of Disney XD Canada, from 2015 to 2016, it aired repeats on Family Chrgd.
In March 2010, Cookie Jar Entertainment announced a deal with Mill Creek Entertainment to release their shows, including World of Quest on the home entertainment market in the U.S.
On July 27, 2010, Mill Creek Entertainment released a 10-episode Best-of collection entitled The World of Quest: The Quest Begins on DVD in Region 1 which includes a bonus episode of Super Duper Sumos.
Currently, the show is now streaming on Tubi and available for purchase on Apple TV.
Awards
The series was nominated for Best Children's and Youth Program or Series by the Canadian Film and Television Production Association for their 2009 Indie Awards.
See also
The World of Quest
References
External links
at DHX Media
World of Quest news and info @ Comics2Film
Kids' WB original shows
Disney XD original programming
2000s American animated television series
2000s American comic science fiction television series
2008 American television series debuts
2009 American television series endings
2000s Canadian animated television series
2000s Canadian comic science fiction television series
2008 Canadian television series debuts
2009 Canadian television series endings
American children's animated action television series
American children's animated adventure television series
American children's animated comic science fiction television series
American children's animated science fantasy television series
American flash animated television series
Canadian children's animated action television series
Canadian children's animated adventure television series
Canadian children's animated comic science fiction television series
Canadian children's animated science fantasy television series
Canadian flash animated television series
Television series by Cookie Jar Entertainment
CW4Kids original programming
The CW original programming
Teletoon original programming
Jetix original programming
Television shows based on webcomics
English-language television shows
Television series by DHX Media |
52799716 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken%20People | Chicken People | Chicken People is a 2016 documentary film about people who breed and raise chickens for exhibition. It is focused primarily on three subjects who compete in the Ohio National Poultry Show in Columbus, Ohio.
A number of reviewers compared it to the mockumentary Best in Show.
Synopsis
After an overview of people who have a passion for raising poultry, the film focuses on three main characters — Brian Caraker, a musical theater performer from Branson, Missouri; Brian Knox, an engineer of high performance race engines from New Hampshire; and Shari McCollough, a homemaker from Crawfordsville, Indiana.
Release
Critical response
Chicken People has received positive reviews from critics. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gives the film an approval rating of 100% based on 20 reviews, with an average rating of 7.23/10. On Metacritic, the film has a score of 81 out of 100 based on 4 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".
Writing for The New York Times, Helen T. Verongos stated that "these chicken people, with deep connections to their birds, make for a fun and at times astonishing film." In a review for the Los Angeles Times, Katie Walsh wrote that "the film proves to be more than just a glimpse into a world that's easy to titter at. Haimes delves into the larger issues and psychological motivations that drive the kind of obsession that allows one to breed award-winning poultry." Joe Leydon, in a review for Variety, called it an "illuminating and amusingly entertaining look at the thriving subculture of competitive poultry breeders", and wrote that the film "generates a fair amount of suspense, [... but] it also abounds in moments of ineffably charming comic relief".
A review for The Village Voice criticized the filmmaker for not probing deep enough with some of the subjects and their "larger failure [...] in never finding much of a compelling reason for us to care about this subculture beyond surface geek-show intrigue."
References
External links
Chicken People at the distributor's website
Chicken People at the International Documentary Association
2016 films
2016 documentary films
American documentary films
Films set in Ohio
Films shot in Ohio
Documentary films about agriculture in the United States
Documentary films about competitions
Documentary films about Ohio
2010s English-language films
2010s American films |
45482185 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy%20Hunt | Percy Hunt | Percy Stanley Hunt (12 November 1922 – 9 March 1985) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Geelong in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Prior to his VFL career, he served in the Australian Army in World War II.
Notes
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1922 births
1985 deaths
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state)
Geelong Football Club players
Ballarat Football Club players
Australian Army personnel of World War II
Australian Army soldiers |
17070479 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%20Come%20with%20the%20Rain | I Come with the Rain | I Come with the Rain is a 2009 neo-noir thriller written and directed by Vietnamese-born French director Tran Anh Hung, starring American actor Josh Hartnett.
After making three movies about Vietnam, Tran Anh Hung intended to make a baroque action film, a passionate thriller, both intense and poetic, haunted by three characters from the mythology of film and the Western world: the serial killer, the private investigator, and the Christ figure.
The action takes place in Los Angeles, Mindanao and Hong Kong and brings together American and Asian actors.
The film score is written by the Argentine Academy Award Winner Gustavo Santaolalla and the English alternative rock band Radiohead. The filmmaker also makes heavy use of post-rock music, including songs by Explosions in the Sky, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, and A Silver Mt. Zion.
The film premiered in Tokyo at Toho Cinemas Roppongi Hills on May 27, 2009.
Synopsis
Two years after killing Hasford, a serial killer, in the line of duty, Kline now works as a private detective, but he is still haunted by the ghosts of his past. A powerful pharmaceutical conglomerate boss hires Kline to find his only son Shitao who has mysteriously disappeared in the Philippines where he had been helping in an orphanage.
Kline follows the trail left by the ethereal Shitao to the jungles of Mindanao, and then to the urban jungle of Hong Kong, where he enlists the help of Meng Zi, an old police officer friend. The search leads Kline to cross paths with local organized crime syndicate boss Su Dongpo, who is making trouble for the underworld, triggered by an overriding passion for his drug-addicted girlfriend Lili.
Caught in the crossfire between the Hong Kong police and Su Dongpo's mafia drug ring which is also hunting for Shitao, Kline finds himself alone, in this unknown city, when Meng Zi is victim of an assassination attempt and is hospitalised.
Leaving behind his 5-star hotel for a shabby murder scene apartment in order to get inside the mind of Shitao, Kline gradually loses himself in the terrifying memories of Hasford, whose speciality was dissecting his victims' limbs while they were still alive, then reassembling them into installation sculptures.
After a few weeks immersed in his haunted memories, torn between good and evil, Kline is about to leave Hong Kong when he finds Shitao, who has become a mysterious vagrant with healing powers.
Cast
Main cast
Josh Hartnett as Kline
Elias Koteas as Hasford
Lee Byung-hun as Su Dongpo
Takuya Kimura as Shitao
Shawn Yue as Meng Zi
Trần Nữ Yên Khê as Lili
Supporting cast
Eusebio Poncela as Vargas
Sam Lee as The Monk Artist
Carl Ng as The Dead Sack Man
William Chow Tze Ho as Mi Fu
Bo-yuan Chan as Dai Xi
Russ Kingston as Felix Sportis
Jo Kuk as The 9mm Lover
David Tang as Wang Wei
Thea Aquino as The Erotic Dancer
Alvaro Longoria as The Psychiatrist
Benito Sagredo as The Male Nurse
Festival screenings
6th Fresh Film Fest
Section: Contemporary World Cinema
Location: Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic
Screening dates: August 13, 2009 - August 15, 2009
14th Busan International Film Festival
Section: Gala Presentation
Location: Busan, South Korea
Screening dates: October 9, 2009 - October 13, 2009 - October 15, 2009
15th Lund International Fantastic Film Festival
Section: International Competition (nominated: The Siren Best Film)
Location: Lund, Sweden
Screening date: September 19, 2009
3rd Empire Open Cinema
Section: Selection
Location: Moscow, Russia
Screening dates: September 2, 2010
References
External links
archive
I Come with the Rain at Box Office Mojo
International Sales (TF1 International)
2009 films
2000s crime drama films
2009 independent films
2009 psychological thriller films
French neo-noir films
English-language French films
French independent films
Films set in Hong Kong
Films set in Los Angeles
Films set in California
Films set in the Philippines
Films directed by Tran Anh Hung
Films shot in the Philippines
Films scored by Gustavo Santaolalla
2009 drama films
2000s English-language films
2000s French films |
31806320 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future%20of%20Families%20and%20Child%20Wellbeing%20Study | Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study | The Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCWS) is a longitudinal birth cohort study of American families. Formerly known as the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, the study’s name was changed in January 2023.
Core aims of the study are to learn about the capabilities and relationships of unmarried parents and how children and parents in these families fare using various health, economic, and social measures over time. The FFCWS uses a stratified random sampling technique and oversampled non-marital births. Baseline data collection ran from 1998 to 2000, featuring interviews with both biological parents shortly after children's births as well as the collection of medical records. Follow-up interviews were conducted when the children were 1, 3, 5, 9, and 15 years old; as of the time of writing, 22-year interviews are currently being fielded. In addition to parent interviews, the follow-up waves included in-home assessments, child care or teacher questionnaires, and interviews with the child.
Most data for the FFCWS is available for free with the opportunity for users to access restricted contextual data through a contract data process. Some key findings of the study include that unmarried parents and their children face a host of social challenges and tend to have loving but ultimately unstable relationships. Additionally, most fathers are active in their children’s lives, contributing emotionally and materially. The FFCWS has also been utilized for reflections on data quality and survey methodologies. The study is run by Princeton University and Columbia University.
Research topics
The FFCWS is a unique dataset providing a wealth of information on contemporary families. Originally designed to understand and provide data on children who were born to unmarried parents, the FFCWS acknowledged that these children were not born to single mothers but to families, though the parental bonds may have been fragile. While, in the 1990s, it was known that children living with single mothers after a divorce fared worse than children living in two-parent married households, until the FFCWS, little data was available about children born to unmarried parents – a rapidly growing demographic at the time. The FFCWS is a critical source of data on the wellbeing of children born to unmarried parents, parents’ relationships with each other, father involvement, and how parents’ roles have changed over time. The FFCWS aims to better understand the underlying causes of social problems associated with unmarried families and study the impact of policies on family formation and child development.
The FFCWS’s initial research questions focused on gathering information on four domains: (1) socioeconomic background of unmarried parents, especially fathers; (2) relationship patterns between unmarried parents; (3) life outcomes of children in these families; and (4) the impact of policies and environmental conditions on families and children. Some of the major topic areas covered are as follows.
Household characteristics: roster of family members, family members' demographic information, child's living arrangements, employment and income, housing and neighborhood characteristics, religion
Incarceration: current status and history of parents and new partners
Family relationships: relationship between the biological parents, new partnerships, social support, church attendance, civic participation
Parental health and cognitive ability: physical health, mental health, cognitive ability
Parenting: nurturance, discipline, cognitive stimulation, relationship with child, Child Protective Services involvement
Child health and development: child use of medical care, child health, child nutrition, daily routines, cognitive development, child behavior, child relationships
Child care/kindergarten: child care use, child care provider characteristics
Elementary school: school characteristics, classroom characteristics, teacher characteristics, child's behavior, special education services, comparative academic performance, parental involvement
Genetic analysis: mother and child, genetic predisposition, gene-environment interaction
Program participation: Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, food stamps, Medicaid, Earned Income Tax Credit, child support enforcement, housing assistance
Survey process
Sampling
The 4,898 children in the FFCWS were born in hospitals in 20 large cities across the United States between 1998 and 2000. These cities all had populations above 200,000 and were selected for diversity in child support enforcement, labor market conditions, and welfare generosity. Instead of drawing simple random samples directly from the cities' newborn populations, the researchers used a stratified model, first sampling hospitals within each city and then sampling births from each hospital.
The study oversamples births to unmarried parents by 3 to 1. The use of an oversample of unmarried couples made survey participants disproportionately low-income and thus especially relevant for studying various social disadvantages. The FFCWS public data files include weights for each wave of data collection that can be used to make the sample representative of urban births nationwide.
Survey administration
After informed consent was obtained from the focal children's parents, baseline data collection consisted of an interview with the biological mother and biological father, usually in-person at the hospital shortly after the child's birth or conducted by phone. Birth hospitalization records for the mother and infant were also collected when possible.
The parents were each interviewed in a follow-up wave after roughly one year. For most interviewees, the study occurred over the telephone. For those not directly reachable by phone, researchers sent out local field interviewers to encourage participants to either call the interview administrators back or partake in at-home interviews.
When the child was three, the parents were interviewed again by phone. There was also a visit to the child's home and an in-person interview with the child's primary caregiver. The primary caregiver was usually the mother, but it could also be the father or someone else who spent the most time with custody over the child in a family setting, like a grandparent. If present, the mother and the child would complete cognitive assessments, and their heights and weights were collected. The interviewer also gathered observational data on the home environment, the appearance and behaviors of the family, and the neighborhood. In 15 of the 20 cities, the non-familial child care setting--a child care center or an informal child care arrangement--was also observed, and a caretaker at these institutions completed a survey.
The Year 5 interview contained the same components as the Year 3 interview, except that in Year 5 the child's kindergarten teacher also completed the Kindergarten Study Teacher Survey. Through this survey, the teacher provided information about themselves, their observations of the child's academic skills and behavior, and data on the school climate, school resources, and classroom characteristics.
Around the child's ninth birthday, both parents were interviewed by phone. Again, a home visit included a primary caregiver interview and physical and cognitive assessments of the child. The primary caregiver also filled out a paper survey. This wave included the first in-person interview with the child and the collection of saliva samples by the mother and child for DNA analysis. The children themselves were asked for informed assent before the study. All families with home visits were then asked for contact information for the child's elementary school teacher, who was mailed a survey.
An age 15 follow-up included interviews with the primary caregiver and the teen and DNA collection for teens. Home visits were conducted for a subset of the sample. Collaborative projects included a sleep and physical activity study from the in-home sample, an adolescent brain development study in three cities, and a mobile phone diary study of adolescent relationships.
In late 2020, the seventh wave of data collection started for 22-year-olds and their families. This wave contains interviews for the 22-year-olds and their primary caregivers from the Year 15 survey. In addition to survey data, DNA data, brain data, sleep data, cardiovascular health data, administrative data, and data on the 22-year old's partners as well as their own children are also being collected through collaborative studies.
Data sharing
Public data for the Baseline-Year 15 waves of FFCWS are available for free. They contain 17,000+ variables and are hosted in the Office of Population Research's data archive. Some of these variables are constructed variables that combine information from several directly collected variables to more reliably measure social concepts. Examples of these constructed variables include scores for the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test and the Woodcock-Johnson Comprehension Test. More sensitive information, such as certain geographic identifiers and contextual Census data, may be obtained on a contract basis. Data protection requirements of a contract agreement help to protect participant confidentiality because the multi-domain nature of the FFCWS's data increases the risk for participants to be personally identified.
Metadata, or descriptions of the data, are freely available for the FFCWS. By 2018, the FFCWS had undergone a major redesign of metadata presentation system. Now, the metadata available are not only in the form of human-readable documents but also in the form of machine-readable data tables and an interactive Metadata Explorer website.
Findings
Nearly 1,300 peer-reviewed articles, books and book chapters, and dissertations or theses have been written using data from the FFCWS.20 Together with sociologists Ron Haskins and Elisabeth Donahue, Sara McLanahan, Garfinkel, and Mincy summarized in 2010 that the FFCWS had four major findings. Firstly, despite earlier conceptions, a large majority of unmarried parents had intimate and loving relationships when their children were born. Over 50% of the unwed couples surveyed in the baseline were living together, and another 36% were dating each other. Secondly, unmarried parents faced numerous challenges regarding career opportunities, family life, and child rearing. Unmarried mothers were on average six years younger than married mothers but were three times more likely to have had another child with another partner. The presence of multiple father figures inside and outside the family increased the likelihood of significant social tensions. In addition, unwed parents reported lower incomes, poorer health, and higher rates of substance abuse. Unmarried fathers were five times more likely to have a prison record, and incarceration was shown to have darkened employment prospects and disrupted family relations. Perhaps as a result, the FFCWS's third major finding suggested that despite initial closeness, families with unwed parents proved relatively unstable, with only 35% of the couples staying together when the child reached the age of 5. Finally, births to unmarried parents were associated with poorer test performance and increased behavioral problems for children.
In addition to these findings, researchers have used the data to examine the importance of fathers in young adults’ lives, childhood sleep, adolescent relationships, child protective service contact, exposure to deadly gun violence, eviction prevalence, and law enforcement exposure, among many other topics. A complete bibliography of publications using FFCWS is available at the FFCWS website.
Data quality
The timing of the in-hospital baseline interview was conceptualized as a “magical moment” that allowed researchers to enroll people who would have been unable to participate under other circumstances. According to sociologist Kathleen Kiernan's review of large-scale studies on Western families, the FFCWS differs from most other studies starting between the mid-1990s and mid-2010s because of the project's diligence in tracking non-custodial parents, generally fathers living outside the household.
However, the project has several limitations. The research team excluded births in hospitals where less than 10% of the births were to unmarried parents. The researchers also excluded parents who planned to put their children up for adoption or who were below the age of 18 and were prohibited from giving interviews per hospital policy. Such exclusions create selection bias and render the sample less representative of the US population. Even within the selected sampling frame, non-response bias occurs. Many parents did not participate in the study because they could not complete the interviews in English or Spanish, and many fathers could not be contacted for interview. Finally, social desirability bias may cause respondents to underreport some measures such as substance abuse and domestic violence. Survey weights are available to address some of these concerns.
In 2017, a team of scholars led by sociologist Matthew J. Salganik organized a Fragile Families Challenge, which invited 160 teams from across the world to apply machine learning algorithms to data from Years 0 to 9 to predict six outcomes in Year 15. None made very accurate predictions. Salganik, along with a team of other researchers including Ian Lundberg, Kathryn Edin, Tim Nelson, and Susan Clampet-Lundquist subsequently conducted qualitative interviews with a subset of the FFCWS sample to try and understand the limits to these predictive models.
Funding and management
The FFCWS is a joint project of Princeton University and Columbia University and is funded by a consortium of private foundations and government agencies. At Princeton, the project is actively managed through the Bendheim-Thoman Center for Research on Child Wellbeing. Princeton's Institutional Review Board oversees ethical considerations related to the study. At Columbia, this project is managed by the Columbia Population Research Center. The project was founded by Princeton sociologist Sara McLanahan and Columbia sociologists Irwin Garfinkel and Ron Mincy. The current principal investigators of the project are sociologist Kathryn Edin from Princeton and social economist Jane Waldfogel from Columbia. Previous principal investigators include McLananhan, Garfinkel, and Mincy, plus Princeton economist and public health expert Christina Paxson and Columbia psychologist Jeanne Brooks-Gunn.
Data collection for Year 9, Year 15, and Year 22 of the FFCWS was predominantly administered by the research service provider Westat. The previous four waves of data collection were conducted by Mathematica Policy Research, and the first wave was also conducted by the National Opinion Research Center.
See also
Early Childhood Longitudinal Program
Family structure in the United States
Millennium Cohort Study
National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health
References
External links
Fragile Families official website
Fragile Families Challenge
Bendheim-Thoman Center for Research on Child Wellbeing
Center for Health and Wellbeing
Columbia Population Research Center
National Center for Children and Families
Works about families
Sociology of the family
American families
Longitudinal sociological studies |
58547386 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearing%20World%20%28TV%20series%29 | Disappearing World (TV series) | Disappearing World is a British documentary television series produced by Granada Television, which produced 49 episodes between 1970 and 1993. The episodes, each an hour long, focus on a specific human community around the world, usually but not always a traditional tribal group.
Series title
The title of the series invokes salvage ethnography, and indeed, some of the early episodes treat small societies on the cusp of great changes. However, later the series tried to escape the constraints of the title and already in the 1970s produced several episodes about urban, complex societies. In 1980, Peter Loizos characterized the series title as "something of an albatross"; some filmmakers had suggested alternatives they saw as less problematic, but Granada declined to change it. David Wason, the series producer in the 1990s, observed, "We recognise that the series title can be misleading. Our films more often reflect a changing world than a disappearing one."
Filming of episodes
Each episode was filmed on 16 mm film, on location, usually over the course of about four weeks. They were then edited in the Granada studios in Manchester, usually allowing three months, for the process. Each episode was made in consultation with an anthropologist, working with the producer from the episode's conception, and building off of their personal relationships with the featured community.
In the United States, some of the episodes were re-edited as part of the PBS series "NOVA" (1974), and Odyssey (1980-1981), indeed, they made up a quarter of the first season. Later, episodes from the original Disappearing World ran but received little publicity.
Broadcasts
The series was made available outside of broadcasts early, and proved themselves successful for teaching undergraduate anthropology. Already in 1980, Granada Television had made the series available on videocassettes for educational purposes. Most of the films are held in the Royal Anthropological Institute film library. Much of the series is now available on DVD. The Network imprint issued a 4-DVD set of the first 15 episodes in 2010.
History
In the 1960s, Denis Forman, the chairman of Granada Television, saw an amateur film made in the Amazon and became convinced that well-researched and well-made ethnographic films could have a broad appeal. He sought out its producer, Brian Moser, and had him train professionally at Granada, in exchange for backing for a series of documentaries about indigenous people in South America. The show debuted in 1970 with A Clearing in the Jungle, and Moser remained the series editor until 1977, when, despite its success, the series went on hiatus due to production disputes.
Production resumed in the early 1980s, producing three episodes most years, under a succession of series editors including André Singer, Leslie Woodhead, and David Wason.
Reception
The series received unusually high ratings for a documentary. In 1978, it was voted the best commercial series in that year.
The series was largely well-received by anthropologists. Of its initial run in the 1970s, Gregory A. Finnegan said: "The series has brought an unprecedented wide awareness of anthropological subjects and, arguably, anthropology to the British public." Peter Loizos wrote that the series had had "the most positive influence in the British mass media on public views both of 'primitive people' and of social anthropology." Among anthropologists, it led to a great deal of writing, discussing documentary film style, working conditions, cooperation between filmmakers and anthropologists, and accounts of films; assessments had been both positive and negative.
Upon the broadcast of the series in the United States, John Corry in The New York Times characterized its approach as a "throwback" to "the old days of educational television," with an "austere ethos" that allows viewers to make their own judgments.
After reviewing The Last of the Cuiva, Pia and David Maybury-Lewis, Cultural Survival Inc. and Harvard University said, "We saw the film twice because we had to, but I would recommend that anyone else should do the same for enjoyment, awe, sorrow, and time to contemplate what is going on in the indigenous world, if one can use such a term. The Last of the Cuiva is first and foremost an anthropological film that tries to tell “how it was” and “how it is now.” One hopes against hope that the latter is overdone, but of course, if one reads the newspapers, one knows that the film is right."
Awards
It was nominated for the BAFTA award for Factual Series every year from 1975 to 1978, winning in 1976. It was nominated again in 1991. The episode We Are All Neighbors won an International Emmy Award for Best Documentary at the 21st International Emmy Awards, sharing the honor with Monika and Jonas – The Face of the Informer State.
Episodes
Sources:
At the request of the Mongolian government, the episodes filmed in Mongolia during the 1970s were not distributed under the title Disappearing World'', but should be considered in essence part of the series.
References
External links
1970 British television series debuts
1993 British television series endings
1970s British documentary television series
1980s British documentary television series
1990s British documentary television series
ITV documentaries
Television series by ITV Studios
Television shows produced by Granada Television
English-language television shows
Anthropology |
21393863 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irene%2C%20Texas | Irene, Texas | Irene is an unincorporated community in Hill County, Texas, United States. It is located approximately twelve miles southeast of Hillsboro, near the intersection of FM 308 and FM 1946.
Irene had an estimated population of 170 in 2000. Area students attend school in the nearby town of Bynum's supporting school district. It has a post office and its ZIP code is 76650.
References
External links
Irene, Texas – Texas Escapes Online Magazine.
Unincorporated communities in Hill County, Texas
Unincorporated communities in Texas |
1156513 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albin%20Julius | Albin Julius | Albin Julius (born Albin Julius Martinek, 16 October 1967 – 4 May 2022) was an Austrian martial music and industrial artist; his primary musical project was called Der Blutharsch. His ancestors came to Austria from Bohemia, where they came from the city of Jihlava.
Julius founded the history-themed, folk-based ensemble, The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath a Cloud. His first release as Der Blutharsch was a self-titled picture disc, limited to 250 copies.
Julius released all Der Blutharsch music on his own record label, Wir Kapitulieren Niemals (WKN, which translates: We Never Surrender). Julius founded the HauRuck! music label, which releases albums by several Neofolk and industrial groups.
References
External links
Albin Julius at Discogs
1967 births
2022 deaths
Austrian male musicians
Austrian record producers
Austrian people of Czech descent |
1781210 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quakers%20in%20Latin%20America | Quakers in Latin America | Latin America contains approximately 17.5% of the world's Quakers. Latin American Friends are concentrated in Bolivia and Central America. Most of these Friends are evangelical and are affiliated with Evangelical Friends Church International. Friends World Committee for Consultation organizes among them through the Comité de Amigos Latinoamericanos CoAL del Comité Mundial de Consulta de Los Amigos CMCA FWCC.
Bolivia and southern South America
There are about 30,000 Friends in Bolivia. Quakerism came to Bolivia in 1919 through a Navajo man, William Abel, who sold Bibles and preached in the capital city of La Paz. Bolivian Juan Ayllón became convinced of the truth of the preacher's message and went to study at the Friends' Biblical Institute in Guatemala. After graduating in 1924 he returned and began the Evangelical Friends Church. This yearly meeting, now INELA-BOLIVIA, Iglesia Nacional Evangélica de Los Amigos, consists of 192 congregations throughout Bolivia and sponsors several schools.
Also during 1919 the Holiness Friends Mission, an association of independent Indiana Friends, established meetings in Bolivia's northern Andes surrounding Sorata village. When the mission reorganized as Central Friends Mission in 1952 the Bolivian meetings divided into two Yearly Meetings— (Bolivian Friends YM), and Holiness Friends ().
At first, Bolivian Yearly Meetings consisted only of members of Aymara heritage. Aymara Friends are now working among Quechua, Moseten, Chimane, and other indigenous groups. Yearly Meetings include Iglesia Evangélica Amigos Central (semi-programmed congregations in the Friends Church related to Central YM), Iglesia Evangélica Unión Boliviana "Amigos" (Bolivian Union Evangelical Friends Church), Iglesia Nacional Evangélica Los Amigos de Bolivia (National Evangelical Friends Church of Bolivia) or INELA-Bolivia, and Iglesia Evangélica Misión Boliviana de Santidad Amigos (Bolivian Evangelical Mission of Holiness Friends Church).
In Peru there are about 5,000 Friends; they are a part of INELA-Perú Iglesia Nacional Evangélica Los Amigos del Perú (National Evangelical Friends Church of Peru), an outgrowth of INELA-Bolivia. This church has grown through extensive youth outreach. Bolivian Friends are also supporting missions in northwest Argentina, especially among indigenous people there.
Two other small Friends groups exist in Bolivia: Iglesia Nacional Evangélica 'Estrella de Belén, Iglesia Nacional Evangélica 'Seminario Bíblico are beginning to cooperate with the other Yearly Meetings.
Central America and other Latin American countries
There are approximately 20,000 Friends in the nation of Guatemala. Missions from California and Oregon YM early in the 20th century led to the founding of Central America Yearly Meeting, with headquarters at Chiquimula. Due to the closing of borders because of war conditions, and because of theological distinctions, the Chiquimula Yearly Meeting formed daughter Yearly Meetings: Iglesia Nacional 'Los Amigos' de Guatemala (National Evangelical Friends Church of Guatemala), the official successor, Iglesia Evangélica Embajadores Amigos (Friends Ambassadors Evangelical Church) (a Monthly Meeting with several preparative meetings that functions as a Yearly Meeting), and (Holiness Friends Yearly Meeting). There is also Guatemala Monthly Meeting, a small unprogrammed meeting affiliated with Pacific Yearly Meeting (meetings alternating between Guatemala capital and Guatemala Antigua), which operates PROGRESA (formerly Guatemala Friends Scholarship Program), an educational program at the high school and university level serving primarily highlands indigenous communities. (This last was laid down in 2018.)
Honduras Yearly Meeting of the Friends Church was formed from the eastern missions of CA YM. In the 1950s an agreement among North American missionaries abandoned Tegucigalpa and nearby meetings and is concentrated around San Pedro Sula, Santa Rosa de Copán and San Marcos Ocotepeque, where there is a school/seminary. Tegucigalpa Friends Church has returned to the YM.
In El Salvador there are about 550 Friends, members of (Friends Evangelical Church YM in El Salvador). They have a number of congregations and YM offices in Soyopango, a suburb of San Salvador. Recently the YM has taken on the project of promoting "Proyecto Alternativas a la Violencia" PAV (AVP - the Alternatives to Violence Project)
There are also about 72 Friends in Costa Rica. Monteverde Monthly Meeting was founded as a colony by a group of young Conservative Friends families in 1952, trying to find a place that was not militaristic. Many of the men in the group had been incarcerated in the United States as conscientious objectors and they were attracted when Costa Rica abolished its army. El Centro de Los Amigos para la Paz, with a small hostel, was founded as a community center and a home for San José Quakers' unprogrammed silent worship in the 1980s.
Mexico has about 800 Friends in two meetings—the Asociación Religiosa de las Iglesias Evangélicas de los Amigos (the yearly meeting of the Religious Association of the Friends Evangelical Churches EFCI) and the Reunion General de los Amigos en México (General Meeting of Friends in Mexico), which meets sesquiannually (every 18 months), comprising several churches around Ciudad Victoria monthly meeting (founded by missions from FUM), and Mexico City Monthly Meeting, affiliated with Pacific Yearly Meeting, an open worship, liberal meeting in the Mexican capital. They manage the Casa de Los Amigos in Mexico DF, which has numerous programs, including refugee support. There are similar groups in Sonora as well. A new evangelical mission is forming as .
There are about 373 Friends in Cuba. They are members of Cuba Yearly Meeting (""), which is affiliated with Friends United Meeting. The first MMs in Banes and Gibara were begun in 1904. All but one of the 11 monthly meetings are in former Oriente province, around Holguín. Also in Cuba there was a small unprogrammed group in Havana starting in 1994, which spread silent worship across the Island; there were unprogrammed groups in Holguin for two years, one in Santiago de Cuba and in Santi Spiritus for a while, but all have been laid down. Looking at their missionary heritage and developing their Quaker roots while seeking to develop a Cuban Quakerism in the rapidly changing national environment, the YM founded the Cuban Quaker Peace Institute, "Instituto Cuáquero Cubano de Paz" in Gibara in 2013, with courses promoting the Quaker Testimonies and peace-building.
After the Conference of Friends in the Americas in 1977, Latino Friends got to know each other and FWCC began an effort to help them organize. This led to the founding of CoAL in Mexico City in 1982. EFCI also began trying to bring all the Evangelical mission church YMs of the region into a region of their denomination, as well as other programmed Quakers. Today pastoral and Evangelical Friends in Latin America are in regular contact, but they are only slowly constructing links to one another.
There have been unprogrammed worship meetings and groups in Latin America for several years, the oldest and most permanent in Costa Rica and Mexico; the majority of the others are expatriates' worship groups plus about 20 in Colombia, Bogotá Monthly Meeting. Unprogrammed Friends in Latin America had their first meeting in November 2006 in Monteverde, Costa Rica.
References
External links
Statistics by country
List of Yearly Meetings in the Americas
Latin America
Protestantism in South America
Protestantism in Central America
Protestantism in Bolivia
Protestantism in Cuba
Protestantism in Peru
Protestantism in Mexico
Protestantism in El Salvador
Protestantism in Costa Rica
Protestantism in Colombia |
32451397 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%20Hodges%20%28academic%29 | Walter Hodges (academic) | Walter Hodges D.D. (died 14 January 1757) was an English academic administrator at the University of Oxford.
Hodges was elected Provost (head) of Oriel College, Oxford, on 24 October 1727, a post he held until his death in 1757.
During his time as Provost of Oriel College, he was also Vice-Chancellorof Oxford University from 1741 until 1744.
References
Year of birth missing
1757 deaths
Provosts of Oriel College, Oxford
Vice-Chancellors of the University of Oxford |
3780850 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strom%20Lake | Strom Lake | Strom Lake is a lake in Blue Earth County, Minnesota, in the United States.
Strom Lake was named for Andrew Strom, an early settler.
References
Lakes of Minnesota
Lakes of Blue Earth County, Minnesota |
57878190 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stradisphere%20Festival | Stradisphere Festival | Stradisphere Festival is an annual music festival held in Stradbroke, Suffolk, England, in July. It celebrated its 5th year in 2018 with headliners Badly Drawn Boy and Sam and the Womp.
The festival was founded by Brett and Jo Baber in 2014. Until 2018 the festival mostly had smaller and tribute bands performing, but has expanded and aspires to be 'a premier family music festival'.
To advertise the 2018 festival, organisers promoted the festival across Suffolk using a person dressed as a spaceman who visited local businesses and posed for photos in well-known locations.
References
Music festivals in Suffolk
Stradbroke |
25110680 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesislav%20Ilchev | Vesislav Ilchev | Vesislav Ilchev (born 27 May 1977) is a Bulgarian football defender who currently plays for Master Burgas in the Bulgarian V Football Group.There's a wife and child Rosica and Simona.
External links
Player Profile at Burgas24
Bulgarian men's footballers
1977 births
Living people
Men's association football defenders
FC Chernomorets Burgas players
First Professional Football League (Bulgaria) players
Footballers from Burgas |
9059021 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynthia%20Daniel | Cynthia Daniel | Cynthia Lynn Daniel (married name: Cynthia Hauser) is an American photographer and actress. She is the twin sister of actress Brittany Daniel and is best known for her role as Elizabeth Wakefield in the 1990s syndicated teen drama Sweet Valley High.
Early life
Born in Gainesville, Florida, Cynthia is five minutes younger than her twin sister, Brittany. They have an older brother, Brad. Their parents are Carol and Charlton B. Daniel, Jr. (who died of cancer in 2008). Cynthia was named Homecoming Queen of her high school.
At age 11, the girls began modelling and were signed to the Ford Agency, and appeared in YM and Sassy. They also appeared in ads for Doublemint gum as the Doublemint Twins.
Career
Both twins made their television acting debut in a 1987 episode of The New Leave It to Beaver. In 1994, Daniel won the role of Elizabeth Wakefield in the television series Sweet Valley High, based on the book series by Francine Pascal (sister Brittany played Elizabeth's twin, Jessica Wakefield). During Sweet Valley High's run, the girls made their film debut in the 1995 drama The Basketball Diaries.
After Sweet Valley High was canceled in 1997, Daniel retired from acting and became a photographer. She has since made only one acting appearance, in a 2002 episode of That 80s Show, which also starred twin sister Brittany. In 2022, she and Brittany starred in the 2022 remake of Cheaper by the Dozen, marking her first acting role since 2002.
Personal life
Daniel has two sons, Ryland and Colt and daughter, Steely Rose, with her husband, actor Cole Hauser.
Filmography
Awards
References
External links
Five Arrows Photography
Actresses from Florida
American child actresses
American film actresses
American television actresses
Identical twin actresses
Living people
Actresses from Gainesville, Florida
American twins
20th-century American actresses
21st-century American actresses
Female models from Florida
Photographers from Florida
Warner family
21st-century American women photographers
21st-century American photographers
Year of birth missing (living people) |
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