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3969715 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma%27an%20Governorate | Ma'an Governorate | Ma'an () is one of the governorates of Jordan, it is located south of Amman, Jordan's capital. Its capital is the city of Ma'an. This governorate is the largest in the kingdom of Jordan by area.
History
The land of the Governorate of Ma'an hosts many historic sites. The land of Ma'an Governorate was under the Edomite rule, which had its capital in Busaira in neighboring Tafilah Governorate. The Edomites were then replaced by the Nabateans who built one of the most significant archaeological and historical sites in the Middle East, the ancient city of Petra. After succeeding in repulsing Macedonian and Roman invasions, Petra finally fell to the Roman Empire in 103 A.D. Near Petra is Jebel Harun or Jebel Nebi Harun (lit. 'Mountain of Prophet Aaron'), a strong candidate for biblical Mount Hor where Aaron, the brother of Moses, died and was buried. There is a mosque at the top of the mountain, built at the traditional site of Aaron's tomb.
Evidence for human settlement in Ma'an Governorate dates back to at least , when the Neolithic village of Basta was founded. Basta was one of the first settlements in the world to have agriculture and domesticated livestock.
In the 7th century A.D. the lands of Ma'an were annexed to the Islamic Khaliphate following the 629 Battle of Mu'tah. With the coming of the Crusaders in the 11th century, The Crusaders took control of the highlands of Shoubak, at an elevation of more than 1300 meters above sea level, the Crusaders built the castle of Montreal in the city of Shoubak.
Ma'an was the capital of the Arab state declared by Emir Abdullah for a short period of time in 1920 before moving the capital to Amman. The first newspaper in the modern day Jordan was issued in Ma'an and was named Alhaqqu Ya'lu (الحق يعلو ).
In Autumn 1996 and Spring 1997 the Al-Jafr-desert, located near Al-Jafr in the eastern part of the governorate, was the location of extensive tests of the ThrustSSC, the British-built currently fastest land vehicle in the world, which was the first land vehicle to break the sound barrier in October 1997 in the Black Rock Desert, Nevada, United States. The ThrustSSC was thus therefore the fastest land vehicle ever driven in an Arab country.
Geography
Although Ma'an Governorate has the largest area of the 12 governorates that constitute the Kingdom of Jordan, it has the lowest population density: less than 4 persons per square km. It has international borders with Saudi Arabia from the east and south, and borders Aqaba, Tafilah, and Karak governorates from the west, and Amman Governorate from the north.
The climate in Ma'an is mostly desert climate, but the western highlands have a Mediterranean climate. The average annual rainfall ranges from 50 mm in the desert regions to 250 mm in the western highlands, and exceeds 500 mm in the Sharah mountains.
Demographics
The population of districts according to census results:
Administrative divisions
The ministry of Interior divides Ma'an Governorate into four departments under Article 7 of the Administrative Divisions System of the year 2000. The capital department is further subdivided into five subdivisions:
Gallery
References
External links
Photos of Ma'an at the American Center of Research
Photos of Ma'an Fort - Ma'an at the American Center of Research
Governorates of Jordan |
29294117 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tajikistan%20at%20the%202010%20Asian%20Games | Tajikistan at the 2010 Asian Games | Tajikistan participated in the 16th Asian Games with 76 Athletes.
Medalists
Nations at the 2010 Asian Games
2010
Asian Games |
111834 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockwood%2C%20Illinois | Rockwood, Illinois | Rockwood is a village in Randolph County, Illinois, United States. The population was 32 at the 2020 census. It is the headquarters of the Middle Mississippi River National Wildlife Refuge.
Geography
Rockwood is located at (37.839069, -89.696740).
According to the 2010 census, Rockwood has a total area of , all land.
Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there were 41 people, 11 households, and 7 families residing in the village. The population density was . There were 13 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the village was 100.00% White.
There were 11 households, out of which 27.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 54.5% were married couples living together, 18.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 27.3% were non-families. 27.3% of all households were made up of individuals, and 9.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.73 and the average family size was 4.50.
In the village, the population was spread out, with 36.6% under the age of 18, 4.9% from 18 to 24, 31.7% from 25 to 44, 19.5% from 45 to 64, and 7.3% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 32 years. For every 100 females, there were 95.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 116.7 males.
The median income for a household in the village was $61,250, and the median income for a family was $38,750. Males had a median income of $21,563 versus $23,750 for females. The per capita income for the village was $9,387. None of the population and none of the families were below the poverty line.
References
External links
Randolph County Herald Tribune, local newspaper
Villages in Randolph County, Illinois
Villages in Illinois
Illinois populated places on the Mississippi River |
25513576 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010%20SEAT%20Le%C3%B3n%20Eurocup | 2010 SEAT León Eurocup | The 2010 SEAT León Eurocup was the third season of the SEAT León Eurocup, a one-make racing series supporting the World Touring Car Championship.
Teams and drivers
Race calendar and results
A calendar was announced by the series on 17 December 2009. An FIA press release confirmed three dates the following day.
Championship standings
Half points were awarded for the second race at Brands Hatch as a result of an accident involving Francisco Carvalho on the seventh lap.
References
External links
SEAT León Eurocup seasons
SEAT Leon Eurocup
SEAT Leon Eurocup |
54571167 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977%E2%80%9378%20Galatasaray%20S.K.%20season | 1977–78 Galatasaray S.K. season | The 1977–78 season was Galatasaray's 74th in existence and the club's 20th consecutive season in the Turkish First Football League. This article shows statistics of the club's players in the season, and also lists all matches that the club have played in the season.
Squad statistics
Players in / out
In
Out
1. Lig
Standings
Matches
Turkiye Kupasi
Round of 32
Round of 16
1/4 final
Friendly Matches
Kick-off listed in local time (EET)
Friendly match
TSYD Kupası
Attendance
References
Tuncay, Bülent (2002). Galatasaray Tarihi. Yapı Kredi Yayınları
1979–1980 İstanbul Futbol Ligi. Türk Futbol Tarihi vol.1. page(121). (June 1992) Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu Yayınları.
External links
Galatasaray Sports Club Official Website
Turkish Football Federation – Galatasaray A.Ş.
uefa.com – Galatasaray AŞ
Galatasaray S.K. (football) seasons
Turkish football clubs 1977–78 season
1970s in Istanbul
Galatasaray Sports Club 1977–78 season |
32781840 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20DeCastro | David DeCastro | David William DeCastro (born January 11, 1990) is an American former professional football player who was a guard for nine seasons with the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Stanford Cardinal, earning unanimous All-American honors. He was selected by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the first round of the 2012 NFL Draft, and he was considered one of the best guard prospects available. He was a six-time Pro Bowl selection with the Steelers.
Early years
DeCastro was born in Kirkland, Washington. Of South African descent, DeCastro grew up in Bellevue and attended Bellevue High School, where he was teammates with Stephen Schilling. He grew up a Seattle Seahawks fan, idolizing Steve Hutchinson.
Also a standout athlete, DeCastro competed for the school's track and field team as a shot putter. He got a top-throw of 17.93 meters at the 2008 Washington 3A-4A State T&F Championship, winning the event. He also competed in the discus (top-throw of 37.24 meters).
Considered a three-star prospect by Rivals.com he was listed as the No. 11 center in the class of 2008. He chose Stanford over offers from Washington, Washington State, and Oregon State.
College career
DeCastro attended Stanford University in Stanford, California, where he was a member of the Stanford Cardinal football team from 2008 to 2011. He did not play in any games as a freshman in 2008. As a redshirt freshman in 2009 he started all 13 games at right guard. He was an honorable mention All-Pac-10 selection and a first-team freshman All-American by College Football News. As a sophomore in 2010, he started all 13 games and was a first-team All-Pac-10 selection. Following his junior season in 2011, he was again a first-team Pac-12 selection, and was recognized as a unanimous first-team All-American. Under head coach David Shaw, the Cardinal finished 11–2 in DeCastro's final season. Afterward, he decided to forgo his final season of college eligibility and enter the NFL Draft.
Professional career
In October 2011, Sports Illustrateds Tony Pauline ranked him as the No. 17 prospect on his mid-season draft board. As the season progressed, he solidified his status as a first-round draft pick. He attended the NFL Combine and was said to have "excellent movement skills" and was able to complete all the drills and positional workouts. Although he participated Stanford's pro day, he decided to only do positional drills, as he was satisfied with his combine numbers. He was ranked the best offensive guard by Mike Mayock and NFLDraftScout.com.
2012
The Pittsburgh Steelers selected DeCastro in the first round (24th overall) of the 2012 NFL Draft. He was the first offensive guard taken in the first round by the Steelers since Kendall Simmons in 2002 and was one of four Stanford players taken in the first two rounds of the 2012 NFL Draft.
On June 23, 2012, the Pittsburgh Steelers signed DeCastro to a four-year, $7.81 million rookie contract that also includes $6.35 million guaranteed and a signing bonus of $4.12 million.
He entered training camp competing for a starting guard position with veterans Willie Colon, Ramon Foster, and Trai Essex.
In the Pittsburgh Steelers' third preseason game against the Buffalo Bills, DeCastro suffered an injury and was forced to leave the game. After DeCastro was carted off the field, Steelers' head coach Mike Tomlin stated that the injury was a "potentially severe" right knee injury. The injury occurred when he was engaged with Bills' defensive tackle Marcell Dareus and had his teammate, offensive tackle Marcus Gilbert, accidentally fell on his right leg. It was discovered that he had suffered a torn collateral lateral ligament and a dislocated kneecap. On November 26, DeCastro was returned to the active roster, while Gilbert was placed on injured reserve. On December 9, 2012, he made his professional regular-season debut in a 24–34 loss at the San Diego Chargers. The next week, he earned his first career start during a Week 15 contest against the Dallas Cowboys. He finished his rookie year starting the last three games of the 2012 NFL season.
2013
With the departure of Willie Colon and Trai Essex, DeCastro entered the season as the Pittsburgh Steelers' de facto starter at right guard. He earned the start for the Steelers' season-opening 16–9 loss to the Tennessee Titans. During the tenth play of the game, DeCastro accidentally whiffed during a cut block and fell down onto the back of Maurkice Pouncey's right knee. Pouncey tore his ACL and was placed on injured-reserve for the remainder of the season. He was replaced by Guy Whimper during the Steelers' Week 9 matchup with the New England Patriots after suffering an ankle injury. He finished the season starting 15 games and was ranked the fifth best right guard by Pro Football Focus, as the Steelers finished 8–8 for the second year in a row.
2014
DeCastro returned in 2014 to complete his first full season after starting all 16 games of the regular season as the Pittsburgh Steelers finished 11–5. On January 3, 2014, he played in his first career postseason game as the Steelers lost in the AFC Wildcard to the Baltimore Ravens.
2015
On April 9, 2015, the Pittsburgh Steelers exercised the fifth-year option on DeCastro's rookie contract, paying him a salary of $8.07 million for 2016. He also received a $3.20 million signing bonus for 2016.
In his fourth season with the Steelers in 2015, DeCastro started in all 16 regular-season games and was elected to his first Pro Bowl. Pro Football Focus gave him an overall grade of 83.4 and ranked him the 15th-best offensive guard in 2015. He was ranked the ninth best offensive guard by Sports Illustrated after he surrendered only 1.5 sacks in 590 pass blocking attempts and was flagged for three penalties (all false starts) all season.
2016
On September 8, 2016, the Steelers signed DeCastro to an additional five-year, $50 million extension. The contract includes a signing bonus of $16 million. Together, both extensions bring his present contract to a six-year, $58.07 million deal including a total signing bonus of $16.00 million and signs him throughout 2021.
He started all 16 regular season games and brought his consecutive games played streak to 56 in-a-row. The Pittsburgh Steelers finished first in the AFC North after achieving an 11-5 record in 2016. They went on to defeat the Miami Dolphins in the AFC Wildcard, the Kansas City Chiefs in the AFC Divisional, and lost the AFC Championship to the New England Patriots. The Pittsburgh Steelers offensive line was ranked the third best by Pro Football Focus, with DeCastro being ranked as the Steelers' top run blocker. He was named to his second-straight Pro Bowl for the 2016 season. He was also ranked 97th on the NFL Top 100 Players of 2017.
2017
On December 19, 2017, DeCastro was named to his third-straight Pro Bowl along with fellow Steeler offensive linemen Alejandro Villanueva and Maurkice Pouncey. He was ranked 44th by his peers on the NFL Top 100 Players of 2018.
DeCastro started and played in the first 15 games of the season and skipped week 17's game against the Cleveland Browns because the Steelers' had clinched a playoff berth.
2018
In week 1 against the Cleveland Browns, DeCastro fractured his right hand and was forced to miss the next two games against the Kansas City Chiefs and Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He was able to play again in week 4 against the Baltimore Ravens.
DeCastro started and played in 14 games during the regular season.
On December 18, 2018, DeCastro was selected to play in his fourth straight Pro Bowl.
He received an overall grade of 71.7 from Pro Football Focus in 2018, which ranked as the 11th highest grade among all qualifying offensive guards.
2019
In week 11 against the Cleveland Browns, Browns' defensive end Myles Garrett hit Steelers' quarterback Mason Rudolph on the head with Rudolph's helmet. Afterwards, DeCastro grabbed Garrett, pushed him onto the ground, and laid on top of him to prevent an even larger fight from escalating. After the game, Garrett himself praised DeCastro for his actions. The next day, it was announced that DeCastro would not be suspended for his actions in the brawl.
DeCastro started and played in all 16 games during the regular season.
On December 17, 2019, DeCastro was selected to play in his fifth straight Pro Bowl.
DeCastro was released by the Steelers on June 24, 2021.
References
External links
Pittsburgh Steelers bio
1990 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Bellevue, Washington
Players of American football from King County, Washington
American people of South African descent
All-American college football players
American football offensive guards
Stanford Cardinal football players
Pittsburgh Steelers players
Unconferenced Pro Bowl players
Sportspeople from Kirkland, Washington
American Conference Pro Bowl players |
30128964 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junyo | Junyo | Junyo (sometimes written Dyunyo) may refer to either of the Japanese ships:
, a Japanese cargo ship that was sunk in 1944
Ship names |
35022115 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgi%20Bradistilov | Georgi Bradistilov | Georgi Delchev Bradistilov (Bulgarian: Георги Делчев Брадистилов; 25 October 1904 [12 October 1904 O.S.] – 18 June 1977) was a Bulgarian mathematician.
Biography
Georgi Bradistilov, the fourth and youngest child in the family of the high-ranked civil servant at Bulgarian Ministry of Finance, Delcho Petkov Bradistilov (1866 – 1927), and teacher Nona Georgieva Bradistilova () (1876 – 1958), was born on 12 October 1904 OS in Panagyurishte. He attended 3rd Sofia gymnasium and in 1922 entered Sofia University to study physics and mathematics. In 1927 he graduated with honors and the same year was appointed as assistant professor in mathematics. In the 1930s he studied at the University of Paris and the University of Munich. Bradistilov was one of the last students to take Arnold Sommerfeld's course in theoretical physics before his retirement.
In 1938, he defended his doctorate, with Oskar Perron as advisor, at the University of Munich.
Upon his return to Bulgaria Dr Bradistilov taught as private docent at his alma mater Sofia University. In 1943 he joined as extraordinary professor and later as full professor the newly established Higher Technical School in Sofia, which after the Second World War was renamed the State Polytechnic. Apart from his teaching duties, he wrote the basic mathematics textbooks used for many years by future Bulgarian engineers.
He was rector of the State Polytechnic in Sofia from 1947 to 1948 and rector of the Technical University of Sofia from 1962 to 1966. In 1958 he was awarded Doctor of Mathematics and Physics Science Degree. In 1966 he was elected corresponding member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
Georgi Bradistilov's contributions to applied mathematics are related to nonlinear differential equations and their applications to mechanics and electrotechnics, to electrostatic potential, to nonlinear oscillations.
He was notorious for his sense of humour and openness, for his love of arts and nature as well as for his refined taste, his wife being an artist educated in Florence.
Honors
During his lifetime Georgi Bradistilov received many Bulgarian state decorations and awards. Recently a street in Sofia near the Technical University was named after him.
Selected bibliography
Notes
References
Elena Vurbanova (2004), Academic Speech Delivered on the Occasion of the 100 Anniversary from the Birth of Professor Georgi Bradistilov, Sofia: Technical University. (in Bulgarian).
Georgi Gemidzhiev (2009), History of Panagyurishte (1878–1944), Sofia: Bogianna, at 537, . (in Bulgarian).
External links
1904 births
1977 deaths
Corresponding Members of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
20th-century Bulgarian mathematicians
People from Panagyurishte
Burials at Central Sofia Cemetery
Technical University, Sofia |
74968350 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meera%20%282023%20film%29 | Meera (2023 film) | Meera is a 2023 Gujarati movie, this film written and directed by Dilip Dixit, starring Heena Varde in titular role of Meera along with Sanjay Parmar, Chetan Daiya, Maulik Chauhan and others. The film is produced by Khushanu Dixit.
The film won three awards (Best Feature Film, Best Actress Feature Film, Best Director Feature Film) at the 2023 Boden International Film Festival.
Plot
Meera is a girl growing up in a traditional village in Gujarat that is bogged down by Patriarchal practices. The film's narrative delves into her entrepreneurial success, which serves as a beacon of hope and inspiration for her fellow villagers. Her journey becomes a powerful symbol of women's empowerment and self-reliance, challenging the oppressive mindset deeply entrenched within their community.Meera's journey transcends her personal struggle. Her success prompts traditionalist in her community to confront their oppressive mindset.
Cast
Heena Varde
Sanjay Parmar
Chetan Daiya
Maulik Chauhan
Magan Luhar
Reeva Rachh
Parmeshwar Sirsikar
Kinnal Nayak
Harshida Pankhaniya
Dharal Shah
Atul Lakhani
Jiya Bhatt
Neel Joshi
Production
The movie has been produced by Khushanu Dixit under the banner of Intellifilx Productions LLP and Directed by Dilip Dixit. The music of the film has given by Aalap Desai. Aditya Gadhvi, Aishwarya Majumdar & Alap Desai has given their voices for the song. The entire movie has been shoot at different part of Gujarat.
Soundtrack
Tracklist
The soundtrack of the album is composed by Alap Desai with lyrics written by Dilip Rawal. The soundtrack album consists of Five tracks.
Release
The teaser of the film was released on 2 August 2023. The Audio Juke box of the film was released on 22 September 2023. The trailer of the film was released on digital platforms on 29 September 2023, which explores the theme of woman empowerment and entrepreneurial success. The film is set to release in theatres on 27 October 2023.
See also
List of Gujarati films of 2023
References
External links
2023 films
Films shot in Gujarat |
57348018 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasychira%20leucophaea | Dasychira leucophaea | Dasychira leucophaea, the pale-banded tussock moth, is a species of tussock moth in the family Erebidae. It is found in North America.
The MONA or Hodges number for Dasychira leucophaea is 8301.
References
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Moths described in 1797 |
37865617 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Hollat | George Hollat | George Hollat (b. April 11, 1845, d. January 26, 1912) was a Union Navy sailor in the American Civil War and a recipient of the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions at the Battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip.
Born in 1846, Hollat was living in New York when he joined the Navy. He served during the Civil War as a third class boy on the . At the Battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip near New Orleans on April 24, 1862, Varuna was rammed twice by the Confederate steamer (formerly known as the Charles Morgan) and eventually sunk. Hollat "remained steadfast and courageous at his battle station" throughout the close-range fight. For this action, he was awarded the Medal of Honor a year later on April 3, 1863, however his medal remained unclaimed and in the possession of the Department of the Navy as of 1898.
Hollat's official Medal of Honor citation reads:
Hollat served as third class boy on board the U.S.S. Varuna during an attack on Forts Jackson and St. Philip, 24 April 1862. He rendered gallant service through the perilous action and remained steadfast and courageous at his battle station despite extremely heavy fire and the ramming of the Varuna by the rebel ship Morgan, continuing his efforts until his ship, repeatedly holed and fatally damaged, was beached and sunk.
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Year of death unknown
People of New York (state) in the American Civil War
Union Navy sailors
United States Navy Medal of Honor recipients
American Civil War recipients of the Medal of Honor |
18627940 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randall%20G.%20Holcombe | Randall G. Holcombe | Randall Gregory Holcombe (born June 4, 1950) is an American economist, and the DeVoe Moore Professor of Economics at Florida State University. He is a Senior Fellow at The Independent Institute, a Senior Fellow and member of the Research Advisory Council at The James Madison Institute, and past president of the Public Choice Society. From 2000 to 2006 he served on Governor Jeb Bush's Council of Economic Advisors.
Holcombe is the author of several books on economics and American politics. In libertarian theoretical discourse, he has argued that private defense agencies could form cartels and oppress people, more or less as governments, with little fear of competition.
Holcombe is a musician and licensed pilot.
Bibliography
Holcombe, Randall G. Political Capitalism: How Economic and Political Power is Made and Maintained. Cambridge University Press, 2018. .
Holcombe, Randall G. Coordination, Cooperation, and Control: The Evolution of Economic and Political Power. Springer International Publishing, Cham 2020. , .
References
1950 births
Living people
American book editors
American economics writers
Economists from Florida
American essayists
21st-century American historians
21st-century American male writers
American libertarians
21st-century American philosophers
American political philosophers
Austrian School economists
Florida State University faculty
Historians of the United States
Libertarian historians
American male essayists
21st-century American economists
American male non-fiction writers |
32416289 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerim%20Frei | Kerim Frei | Kerim Frei Koyunlu (born 19 November 1993) is a footballer who plays as a winger for Manisa. Born in Austria, he represents the Turkey national team. He previously played club football for Fulham, Cardiff City, İstanbul Başakşehir, Beşiktaş, Birmingham City and Maccabi Haifa, and represented Switzerland up to under-21 level.
Early life
Frei was born in Feldkirch, Austria, to a Turkish father and a Moroccan mother and was raised in Switzerland.
Career
Fulham
Frei made his first team début on 7 July 2011 in Fulham's Europa League first qualifying round, second leg match against NSÍ Runavík of the Faroe Islands, where he came on as a substitute in the 72nd minute replacing Andrew Johnson. Following his debut, Huw Jennings gave his thoughts about Frei debut to Fulham.com:
Frei then went on to make his first start for Fulham, playing on the right wing in the Europa League second qualifying round, first leg match against Crusaders in Belfast on 14 July 2011, receiving a yellow card in the 62nd minute.
He made his first start in English competition in a League Cup third round fixture away to Chelsea on 21 September 2011 and made his Premier League début on 10 December 2011, coming on a substitute for Mousa Dembélé in an away match against Swansea City. Fulham lost the match 2–0. Frei scored his first senior goal for Fulham in the Europa League 2–2 draw against Odense BK at Craven Cottage, side footing home from a Dembélé through ball.
On 16 March 2012, Frei signed a contract extension with Fulham, lasting until the summer of 2015.
A week later, Frei started in Fulham's 1–0 defeat at Old Trafford against Manchester United. He was replaced by Bryan Ruiz in the 67th minute.
On 9 April 2012 in a 1–1 draw against Chelsea, Frei received the Man of the Match award from Sky Television for his performance.
On 26 October 2012, Frei joined Cardiff City on loan until 2 December. His first appearance was against Burnley, coming on in the 83rd minute for Craig Noone. On 22 November, Frei was recalled to Fulham after 3 appearances.
Beşiktaş
Frei joined Turkish club Beşiktaş on 6 September 2013, signing a five-year deal. He made his league debut on 22 September 2013 in a 3–0 loss to Galatasaray, coming on in the 80th minute for Veli Kavlak. He scored his first league goal for Besiktas over a year later in a 3–2 loss to Kayseri Erciyesspor. He scored a brace in this game, one goal in the 70th minute, the other in the 85th, coming after he had come on for an injured Olcay Şahan in the 37th minute.
Birmingham City
On 20 January 2017, Frei returned to English football, signing for Birmingham City on a three-and-a-half-year contract. The fee was an initial €2.25 million, potentially rising to €3.5M. He made his debut in the EFL Championship the following day, as an 82nd-minute substitute in a 1–1 draw away to Blackburn Rovers, but never established himself in the team. He finished the season with 13 league appearances, only 3 of which were in the starting eleven, and was an unused substitute 16 times. He scored once, with a free kick away to Rotherham United on 14 April; Frei "stepped up and arrowed the ball straight and dipping beyond [Rotherham's goalkeeper]" to win the club's Goal of the Season award but not the match.
İstanbul Başakşehir
After just six months with Birmingham City, Frei returned to Turkey. He signed a four-year contract with İstanbul Başakşehir on 21 July 2017. He made his league debut for his new club on 19 August 2017 in a 3–1 loss to Kardemir Karabükspor.
Loans to Maccabi Haifa and FC Emmen
He spent the second half of the 2018–19 season on loan at Maccabi Haifa. After returning to his parent club and having little playing time, Frei joined Dutch Eredivisie club Emmen in January 2020 on loan with an option to purchase.
Emmen
On 16 January 2021, Frei joined Eredivise club Emmen permanently, signing a one-and-a-half contract.
Manisa FK
On 4 July 2023, Frei joined Turkish 1.Lig side Manisa FK on a 2-year deal, with a 1-year option.
International career
Frei switched national team allegiances from Switzerland to Turkey in June 2012. He represented Turkey at the 2013 FIFA U-20 World Cup.
Career statistics
Honours
Beşiktaş J.K.
Süper Lig: 2015–16
References
External links
1993 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Feldkirch, Vorarlberg
Swiss men's footballers
Turkish men's footballers
Citizens of Turkey through descent
Austrian emigrants to Switzerland
Switzerland men's youth international footballers
Switzerland men's under-21 international footballers
Turkey men's youth international footballers
Turkey men's under-21 international footballers
Turkey men's international footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Fulham F.C. players
Cardiff City F.C. players
Beşiktaş J.K. footballers
Birmingham City F.C. players
İstanbul Başakşehir F.K. players
Maccabi Haifa F.C. players
FC Emmen players
Fatih Karagümrük S.K. footballers
Manisa F.K. footballers
Premier League players
English Football League players
Süper Lig players
Israeli Premier League players
Eredivisie players
TFF First League players
Turkish expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in England
Expatriate men's footballers in Israel
Expatriate men's footballers in the Netherlands
Turkish expatriate sportspeople in England
Turkish expatriate sportspeople in Israel
Turkish expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands
Swiss people of Turkish descent
Swiss people of Moroccan descent
Turkish people of Moroccan descent |
25666603 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998%20Worcester%20City%20Council%20election | 1998 Worcester City Council election | The 1998 Worcester City Council election took place on 7 May 1998 to elect members of Worcester City Council in Worcestershire, England. One third of the council was up for election and the Labour Party stayed in overall control of the council.
After the election, the composition of the council was:
Labour 22
Conservative 10
Liberal Democrat 2
Independent 2
Background
Before the election the council had 22 Labour, 9 Conservative, 3 Liberal Democrat and 1 independent members with 1 seat vacant. 13 seats were for up for election with the expectation before the election that no change in control of the council was likely.
The run up to the election saw controversy over the mayor Margaret Layland who had admitted to having an affair with her chauffeur. She was suspended by the Labour party but refused to stand down. Her husband Colin Layland, also a councillor, was suspended as well leading to him standing as an independent in St John ward and being opposed by an official Labour party candidate.
Election result
The results saw Labour hold on to their majority on the council after winning 8 of the 13 seats contested. The Conservatives won 3 seats, while the Liberal Democrats and Independents won 1 each. Colin Layland was defeated in St John ward by the Labour candidate.
References
1998 English local elections
1998
1990s in Worcestershire |
23558420 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20Beames | Jack Beames | John Robert Beames (1 March 1890 – fourth ¼ 1970) was a Welsh rugby union, and professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1910s and 1920s. He played club level rugby union (RU) for Newport RFC, and representative level rugby league (RL) for Great Britain, Wales and Other Nationalities, and at club level for Halifax and Bradford Northern, as a .
Background
Jack Beames was born in Aberbeeg, Wales, and he died aged 80 in Halifax, West Riding of Yorkshire, England.
Rugby union playing career
Beames, who was born in Aberbeeg, originally played rugby union for Newport RFC, his most notable match being the club's victory over the touring South African team in 1912. In the 1912/13 season at Newport he played in 38 games scoring a single try.
Rugby league playing career
International honours
Jack Beames won a cap for Other Nationalities (RL) while at Halifax, won 2 caps for Wales (RL) in 1914–1921 while at Halifax, and won caps for Great Britain (RL) while at Halifax in 1921 against Australia (2 matches).
Challenge Cup Final appearances
Jack Beames played left- in Halifax's 0-13 defeat by Leigh in the 1920–21 Challenge Cup Final during the 1920–21 season at The Cliff, Broughton on Saturday 30 April 1921, in front of a crowd of 25,000.
Club career
Jack Beames changed code from rugby union to rugby league when he transferred from Newport RFC to Halifax for £100 (based on increases in average earnings, this would be approximately £37,430 in 2016), he made his début for Halifax on Saturday 6 September 1913, and he played his last match for Halifax on Monday 11 December 1922.
Honoured at Halifax
Jack Beames died in Halifax, and is a Halifax Hall Of Fame Inductee.
References
External links
Image "Jack Beames - Another player tempted out of retirement by the ailing Birch Lane club was Jack Beames who played for a season aged 33 in 1923. - Date: 01/01/1923" at rlhp.co.uk
1890 births
1970 deaths
Bradford Bulls players
Footballers who switched code
Great Britain national rugby league team players
Halifax R.L.F.C. players
Newport RFC players
Other Nationalities rugby league team players
Rugby league players from Caerphilly County Borough
Rugby league second-rows
Rugby union players from Aberbeeg
Wales national rugby league team players
Welsh rugby league players
Welsh rugby union players |
34731034 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waynesboro%20Historical%20Society | Waynesboro Historical Society | The Waynesboro Historical Society, Incorporated is an historical society founded in 1963 and based in Waynesboro, Pennsylvania. The Society's headquarters are housed in the Oller House. The society works for the preservation of landmarks and structures in the Waynesboro area and holds regular meetings, open to the public, which feature speakers on topics of local interest.
Donation of the building
J.J. and Myrtle (Funk) Oller eldest child, Rello Oller (1895-1992), never married and in 1990 she leased the house to the Society for U.S. $1.00 a year with the understanding that on her death the property would inure to the Society. She had two younger brothers, both of whom married but had no children.
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.
Collections
The Society's collections include a number of different types of materials:
Books and pamphlets: ranging from limited-edition and out-of-print volumes to current reference works and scholarly monographs.
Manuscripts: materials such as letters, diaries, account books, deeds, minutes, and scrapbooks. Manuscript collections include personal papers created by individuals and families, and records created by organizations and businesses.
Graphics: prints, watercolors, and other works of art on paper, architectural drawings, photographs, broadsides, maps, posters, and other images.
Printed ephemera: such as event programs, brochures, invitations, advertisements, trade cards, certificates, and menus.
Genealogical resources include many 3 ring binders with material on local family names, cemetery burial lists, undertakers records and other original local history in addition to published books and pamphlets.
Publications
In addition to the Society's quarterly newsletter, the Society has published two volumes of a cookbook Culinary Traditions: A Taste of Waynesboro and has back issues of Antietam Ancestors a former journal published by the Society.
Properties
The Society holds title to and maintains 5 properties in the Waynesboro area:
Oller House
Harbaugh Church
Historic Marker at the birthplace of the Reverend Dr. Henry Harbaugh
Welty's Bridge
Zullinger School
References
External links
History organizations based in the United States
History of Pennsylvania
Historical societies in Pennsylvania
Libraries in Pennsylvania
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania
Queen Anne architecture in Pennsylvania
Houses completed in 1892
Houses in Franklin County, Pennsylvania
1963 establishments in Pennsylvania
National Register of Historic Places in Franklin County, Pennsylvania |
24254989 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendly%20%28musician%29 | Friendly (musician) | Friendly (Andrew Kornweibel) is a breaks' producer and DJ. Originally from Australia he is now based in London.
Friendly's debut album, Hello Bellybutton (released on his own Gulp Communications label), was nominated for Best Dance Release at the 1998 ARIA Music Awards. The follow-up album, Akimbo debuted at #20 on the Australian albums chart.
Discography
Studio albums
Compilation albums
Extended plays
Singles
Awards
ARIA Music Awards
The ARIA Music Awards is an annual awards ceremony that recognises excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres of Australian music. They commenced in 1987. Friendly were nominated for four awards.
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References
Australian DJs
Living people
Musicians from London
Year of birth missing (living people) |
9193532 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B6dra%20Bankohuset | Södra Bankohuset | Södra Bankohuset (Swedish: "The Southern [National] Bank Building") or Gamla Riksbanken ("The Old National Bank") is a building in Gamla stan, the old town of Stockholm, Sweden, together with Norra Bankohuset the location of the Bank of Sweden until 1906. Since December 2018, the building is housing Embark Studios, a Stockholm-based games studio.
It is facing the square Järntorget on its west side and Skeppsbron on its east, while two alleys passes north and south of it, Norra Bankogränd and Södra Bankogränd.
The western quarter of the building including the façade, built in 1675-1682, was designed by Nicodemus Tessin the Elder (1615–1684); the western court and its two wings were built in 1694-1712 under the son of the latter, Nicodemus Tessin the Younger (1654–1728); while the eastern half and façade were designed by Carl Hårleman (1700–1753) and built during the period 1733-1737.
Coherently designed as elongated block-size palace, Södra Bankohuset unites the prestigious line-up along Skeppsbron with the narrow urban conglomeration of the old town. The plain architraves and original Renaissance design of the western façade is repeated around the building, and is in the eastern façade supplemented with pediments, channelled rustication up to the mezzanine, and a rocaille over the entrance pouring out bank notes and coins. The western portal is a quotation of Vignola's portal at Villa Farnese in Caprarola.
History
The Scales House and The Iron Square
From at least the reign of King Magnus Eriksson (1316–1377) the official scales of the city meant an important source of income for the city and the king alike. From no later than the 15th century the scales were located at the city's southern square, and subsequently the building housing the scales and preceding the present building was called Våghuset ("Scales House" or Weigh house). As the city introduced more scales, probably in 1637, the southern scales were being used exclusively for the weighing of iron, copper, and other metals, which eventually gave the square next to it its present name Järntorget ("The Iron Square"). Given a depiction in an etching from 1660, and the location of the water front and city wall at the time, the Scales House is likely to have been located somewhere in the middle of the present site. It is depicted as having gables facing west and east with rows of six windows facing the alleys; probably occupying an area of 18×18 metres.
During the second half of the 15th century, Stockholm was being transformed into a city built in stone and the Scales House present in Vädersolstavlan, a painting depicting an event in 1535 and the oldest known colour image of the city, was probably built in the 1460s, an assumption confirmed both by historical records and dendrochronological samples. It is depicted as a one-storey brick building with a stepped gable and white blind windows, a crane hanging over the round arched portal facing the square. A clock was added in the mid-16th century together with a shed for foreign merchants to keep their goods. As two stories were added to the Scales House in 1596-1603, the shed was enlarged into a warehouse and the entire structure transformed into a Renaissance building furnished with an elaborated stone portal, horizontal sandstone fillets, volutes and finials, and a ridge turret covered in copper. Stone tables on the front gable were painted in blue and furnished with gilded crowns and the inscription "1603". One of these can still be found in the entrance facing Skeppsbron.
Tessin the Elder
During the 17th century, both the Crown and the city encouraged merging minor plots into larger, thus allowing private stone palaces to replace medieval buildings, small alleys, and parts of public spaces. Accordingly, the scales were relocated in 1662, why another institutional function was considered for the site. The ground works for a new stock exchange led by Nicodemus Tessin the Elder the following year were however interrupted by financial difficulties.
Now, the Bank of Sweden was established in 1668 as an institution not controlled by the king but by the Diet of the Estates, Riksens Ständer bank, thus securing strength and reliability - Hinc robur et securitas. When a bank building on the present site was requested by the bank authority in 1675, the city accepted the responsibility to ensure its accomplishment, thus initiating one of the first bank buildings in Northern Europe. In 1676, Tessin the Elder presented a scaled-down version of his original stock exchange design; restricting the new structure to the working site between the old Scale House and the square. Tessin the Elder was old and weak in health however, why his two sons, Nicodemus Tessin the Younger and Abraham Winandt, had a considerable influence on the design. As both returned from theirs Grand Tours at this time, they left their impressions from Italy clearly readable in the building.
The façade is made of bright fair-faced plaster and sandstone supporting a Swedish manor-house roof (a Mansard-like roof) with an 'Italian' mezzanine. This 'Roman Renaissance' composition originating from France and Italy, depending on abstract geometry with bricks hidden by plaster, was to become the predominant style in the architecture of Stockholm until the 1870s. The central axis symmetrically passing through the vaulted and richly elaborated lobby, dissolving the contrast between interior and exterior, is clearly inspired by Andrea Palladio, the stairwells being very close to Palladio's both in construction and dimensions. Over and under the two 3,5 metres tall main floors are two mezzanine used for storage, a composition topped by an elaborated roof cornice.
The work force for the project had to be brought in from Central Europe; the master builder Hans Buchegger from Switzerland bringing a number of German journeymen with him. The foundation works were started in 1676 and the roof was covered with copper three years later. Stonemason Anders Brokamp, originally from Bremen, was employed for both exterior and interior decorations, while the stuccoer Simon Necleus and the carpenter Daniel Heinssler were paid in 1679. After cocklestoves had been installed and the paving in front of the building were finished the following year, the building was finally inhabited in 1680.
In the board's assembly room, centred on a six metres long desk, was a ceiling painted in grisaille stucco-imitations, walls covered with woven fabrics displaying a forest landscape, and doors and windows furnished with green broadcloths and curtains. The remaining spaces were left quite more modest, with white-washed walls and board floors and ceilings in the rooms, and limestone floors in the corridors and stairwell.
Tessin the Younger
Even before the inauguration of the new bank, the city was imposed to repair the adjacent old warehouse, which was probably carried through as the bank was being completed. The bank finally bought the warehouse in 1693 and invited Nicodemus Tessin the Younger, now having taken over the roll as the city architect, to propose a design for an enlargement of the bank. The latter exhorted the bank to produce a programme however, a request the bank would prove to have great difficulties in fulfilling, instead evasivingely describing the project in general terms. The fear of fire destroying valuable documents resulted in a request for a thrust water system including lead tubes in the walls, e.g. a fire sprinkler system, and, more down-to-earth, the faulty communications within the overcrowded building in a request for a bigger stairwell.
Nothing much happened before 1708, except for endless discussions over the serviceability and aesthetical benefit of various roof designs, some representatives insisted focusing on the former while others wanted to entrust Tessin with the latter. The architect finally won the dispute and produced a design with the two wings adapted to his fathers building with roofs leaning towards the court. Together with the old vestibule, the new court formed a sequence of spaces decorated with doric pilasters and mouldings. Some Baroque interior fittings from this time is still present in the building, including classical corner mouldings, fire resistant doors with six double fillings, and separate windows with original hinges, colour, and glaziers lead casements.
Hårleman
Following the endless wars and the death of King Charles XII (1682–1718) came the so-called Age of Liberty (1718–1772), a period of recovery during which discussions to extend the bank further east appeared increasingly feasible. In 1730 the bank finally appointed the task to the court intendant Carl Hårleman, at this time busy working on the construction of the Stockholm Palace. While the plans were being further worked out 1732-1737, the choice of architect was also being questioned, some arguing Hårleman was to busy for the project and promoting Adelcrantz or Carlberg instead, apprehensions which would however prove unjustified.
As the warehouse was pulled down and the piling started in 1734, the entire eastward extension of the building site, and thus the present extension of the building was settled at 92 ells (approx. 54,5 metres). Exactly where the work of Tessin the Younger ended have been disputed, but as Hårleman paid close attention to the original intentions of both his predecessors, the design is unison throughout the entire building. For the eastern façade however, Hårleman chose a more elaborated Italian Renaissance scheme, using alternatingly arched and triangular window lintels for the piano nobile, and channelled rustication up to the first mezzanine.
The Rococo interior from this period is well preserved, especially the corridors and stairwells with their limestone floors, forged railings, and sheet metal doors, adding an automatic door closer in the attic leading to what used to be the privy. Rococo doors and other details, especially in the lavish session room, are both much elaborated and well preserved.
Adelcrantz
The stairwell by Tessin the Younger was rebuilt during the 1780s after a design by Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz (1716–1796), the plans resulting from the project being the oldest preserved. At the same time additional basement walls were added, probably to adapt to the weight from the printing presses.
During the 19th and 20th centuries, minor details have been added to the historical setting, including neoclassical and empiricism interior fittings. The bank was relocated to Helgeandsholmen in 1905, and other state institutions have been accommodated in the building since. During the 1920s the foundation was reinforced. Since 1935 the building have been classified as a historical monument of national interest, and further archaeological investigations, lately in 2003, are hopefully going to unveil more details about the buildings history.
See also
Architecture of Stockholm
History of Stockholm
List of streets and squares in Gamla stan
Notes
In a historical Swedish context, banko or banco refers to Riksbanken, e.g. the Bank of Sweden, and typically coins were referred to as riksdaler banko, "rixdollar of the [National] bank". (See also Rike.)
References
Buildings and structures in Stockholm
Office buildings in Sweden |
35285002 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian%20Heights%2C%20Juneau%20County%2C%20Wisconsin | Indian Heights, Juneau County, Wisconsin | Indian Heights is an unincorporated community located in the town of Lyndon, Juneau County, Wisconsin, United States. Indian Heights is located on County Highway N near Interstate 90, Interstate 94, and U.S. Route 12, southeast of Lyndon Station. The community is part of the Ho-Chunk Nation.
References
Unincorporated communities in Juneau County, Wisconsin
Unincorporated communities in Wisconsin |
22098038 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%20Munrio | USS Munrio | USS Munrio (ID-2054) was a cargo ship that served in the United States Navy from 1918 to 1919.
SS Munrio was built as a commercial cargo ship by the Maryland Steel Company at Sparrows Point, Maryland, in 1916, for the Munson Steamship Line. The U.S. Navy acquired Munrio from Munson on 14 November 1918, assigned her the naval registry Identification Number (Id. No.) 2054, and commissioned her as USS Munrio at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the same day.
Assigned to the Naval Overseas Transportation Service (NOTS), Munrio departed Philadelphia with a cargo of 4,207 tons of United States Army supplies for France on 21 November 1918, arriving at Le Havre, France, on 10 December 1918 to unload her cargo. On 25 December 1918 she crossed the English Channel to Plymouth, England. On 27 December 1918 she got underway with a mixed U.S. Army cargo of 2,500 tons for Philadelphia, where she arrived on 12 January 1919.
Munrio was decommissioned on 3 February 1919 and transferred to the United States Shipping Board the same day for simultaneous return to Munson Steamship Line.
She returned to mercantile service as SS Munrio, operating under that name until 1937, when she was renamed SS Szent Gellert. She became SS Carola in 1940, SS Mary Louise in 1946 and SS Maria L. in 1950. She underwent two more name changes in 1950, to SS Tropic and then SS Nerina, before her long career came to an end when she was wrecked near Santa Cruz del Norte, Cuba, on 25 November 1950.
References
Department of the Navy, Naval Historical Center: Online Library of Selected Images: Civilian Ships: S.S. Munrio (American Freighter, 1916) Served as USS Munrio (ID # 2054) in 1918-1919. Later S.S. Szent Gellert, Carola, Mary Louise, Maria L., Tropic, and Nerina.
NavSource Online NavSource Online: Section Patrol Craft Photo Archive Munrio (ID 2054)
Ships built in Sparrows Point, Maryland
1916 ships
Cargo ships of the United States Navy |
90726 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My%20Disillusionment%20in%20Russia | My Disillusionment in Russia | My Disillusionment in Russia is a book by Emma Goldman, published in 1923 by Doubleday, Page & Co. The book was based on a much longer manuscript entitled "My Two Years in Russia" which was an eyewitness account of events in Russia from 1920 to 1921 that ensued in the wake of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and which culminated in the Kronstadt rebellion. Long concerned about developments with the Bolsheviks, Goldman described the rebellion as the "final wrench. I saw before me the Bolshevik State, formidable, crushing every constructive revolutionary effort, suppressing, debasing, and disintegrating everything".
Much to Goldman's dismay, only upon receiving the first printed copies of the book did she become aware that (1) the publisher had changed the title; and (2) the last twelve chapters were entirely missing, including an Afterword which Goldman felt was "the most vital part" of the book. Sympathetic to the initial Russian Revolution, the complete book is an impassioned left critique of the Bolshevik Revolution as well as Vladimir Lenin's New Economic Policy—an "all-powerful, centralized Government with State Capitalism as its economic expression". The complete book is also critical of Marxian theory, which Goldman describes as "a cold, mechanistic, enslaving formula".
After much back and forth with the publishers, the missing portions of Goldman's original manuscript were published in a second (American) volume My Further Disillusionment in Russia (also titled by the publisher) in 1924. In the preface to the second "volume" of the American edition, Goldman wryly observes that only two of the reviewers sensed the incompleteness of the original American version, one of whom was not a regular critic, but a librarian. A complete version of the complete manuscript was published in England with an introduction by Rebecca West, also with the title My Disillusionment in Russia (London: C. W. Daniel Company, 1925).
References
External links
My Disillusionment in Russia - RevoltLib Source
1923 non-fiction books
Anarchism in Russia
Anarchism in the Soviet Union
Memoirs about Soviet repression
Books by Emma Goldman |
27767311 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That%20Lucky%20Touch | That Lucky Touch | That Lucky Touch is a 1975 British-West German comedy film directed by Christopher Miles and starring Roger Moore, Susannah York and Shelley Winters.
The film was shot at Pinewood Studios, with location shooting around Brussels. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jack Maxsted. It was originally entitled Heaven Save Us from Our Friends.
Plot
An international arms dealer, at a NATO meeting to sell weaponry, becomes entangled with a female journalist from the Washington Post whose worldview is very different to his.
Cast
Roger Moore as Michael Scott
Susannah York as Julia Richardson
Shelley Winters as Diana Steedeman
Lee J. Cobb as Lt. Gen. Henry Steedman
Jean-Pierre Cassel as Leo
Raf Vallone as Gen. Peruzzi
Sydne Rome as Sophie
Donald Sinden as British Gen. Armstrong
Michael Shannon as Lt. Davis
Aubrey Woods as Viscount L'Ardey
Alfred Hoffman as Berckman
Vincent Hall as David Richardson
Julie Dawn Cole as Tina Steedman
Fabian Cevallos as Photographer
Timothy Carlton as Tank commander
Takis Emmanuel as Arab Sheik
References
External links
1975 films
West German films
English-language German films
Films directed by Christopher Miles
1975 comedy films
Films shot at Pinewood Studios
Films shot in Brussels
British comedy films
Films about journalists
Films set in Belgium
Films scored by John Scott (composer)
Films with screenplays by John Briley
1970s English-language films
1970s British films
1970s German films |
28198619 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerry%20Larkin | Kerry Larkin | Kerry Kelsall Larkin (born 22 June 1936) was a rugby union player who represented Australia.
Larkin, a prop, was born in Brisbane, Queensland and claimed a total of 2 international rugby caps for Australia. He was educated at the Anglican Church Grammar School.
References
Australian rugby union players
Australia international rugby union players
1936 births
Living people
People educated at Anglican Church Grammar School
Rugby union players from Brisbane
Rugby union props |
53006034 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pondosa | Pondosa | Pondosa may refer to the following places in the United States:
Pondosa, California, unincorporated community in Siskiyou County, California
Pondosa, Oregon, unincorporated community in Union County, Oregon |
36963925 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20McFarlane | William McFarlane | William McFarlane may refer to:
Willie Macfarlane (1890–1961), Scottish golfer
Willie McFarlane (athlete), winner of the New Year Sprint in 1933 and 1934
Willie MacFarlane (footballer, born 1930) (1930–2010), Scottish football player and manager (Hibernian)
William McFarlane (1890s footballer), played for Port Vale FC in 1893
William D. McFarlane (1894–1980), United States Representative from Texas
Willie McFarlane (1923–1998), Scottish football player (Heart of Midlothian)
See also
William McFarland (disambiguation) |
3622954 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas%2C%20West%20Virginia | Arkansas, West Virginia | Arkansaw (sometimes misspelled Arkansas) is an unincorporated community in Hardy County, West Virginia, United States. It is located on Arkansaw Road (County Route 3/2) off West Virginia Route 29.
References
Unincorporated communities in Hardy County, West Virginia
Unincorporated communities in West Virginia |
22459750 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota%20Gaia | Toyota Gaia | The Toyota Gaia is a Japanese market MPV that competed with the Nissan Prairie, Mitsubishi Chariot and the Honda Odyssey. It was replaced by the Toyota Isis. The Gaia shares a platform with the Toyota Ipsum (sister car) and Toyota Caldina (platform sharing). It was manufactured from May 1998 until September 2004 for the Japanese market. The Gaia was sold only at Japanese dealerships called Toyopet Store next to the Corona.
April 2001 saw DVD based navigation, a precursor to Toyota's G-Book navigation system added as an option, and the 3S-FE engine was upgraded to the 1AZ-FSE with AWD. The 1AZ-FSE features Toyota's D-4 direct injection system.
The vehicle was named for Gaia; the primal Greek goddess personifying the Earth.
External links
Gaia specs at amayama.com
GAZOO.com Toyota Gaia (Japanese)
2000s cars
All-wheel-drive vehicles
Cars introduced in 1998
Front-wheel-drive vehicles
Minivans
Gaia |
14094756 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broxa%2C%20North%20Yorkshire | Broxa, North Yorkshire | Broxa is a village in the Scarborough district of North Yorkshire, England, within the North York Moors National Park. The village is west of Scarborough, at an elevation of . The River Derwent is west of the village.
Whilst some 12th century documents mention Broxa (in relation to land granted by the abbot of Whitby), the village was not listed in the Domesday Book. It is thought that it was included in the manor of Hackness. The name of the village derives from a personal name Broce, meaning the enclosure of Broce's people.
To the north of the village is Broxa Forest, a woodland maintained by Forestry England which has walking and cycling trails. The Moors to Sea Cycle route passes through the village and the forest.
References
External links
Villages in North Yorkshire |
1443710 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitty%20Schram | Bitty Schram | Elizabeth Natalie Schram (born July 17, 1968) is an American actress best known for playing Sharona Fleming in the television series Monk and for playing Evelyn Gardner in the film A League of Their Own (1992).
Early life
Born in Mountainside, New Jersey, Schram attended Jonathan Dayton High School, where she was a competitive athlete. She studied at the University of Maryland on a tennis scholarship and graduated with a degree in advertising design. Having known for a number of years that she wanted to act, she pursued roles in both film and television as well as Broadway theater. Bitty was a nickname she decided to use when she became an actress. Schram adheres to Judaism.
Career
The role that initially brought her note was that of Evelyn Gardner, the Rockford Peaches' right fielder, in the Penny Marshall film A League of Their Own. Her character was the recipient of the classic admonition by manager Jimmy Dugan (Tom Hanks), "There's no crying in baseball!"
During 1993-95, she appeared in the original Broadway production of Neil Simon's Laughter on the 23rd Floor.
In 2002, Schram landed a major role opposite Tony Shalhoub on the USA Network series Monk. She was released midway through the show's third season. The network stated they had "decided to go in a different creative direction with some of its characters." The Hollywood Reporter reported that "some members of the series' supporting cast, including Schram, Ted Levine and Jason Gray-Stanford, attempted to renegotiate the terms of their contract[s]" and cited Schram's departure as evidence of the industry's "hard line against raise-seeking actors who aren't absolutely essential to the show." Levine and Gray-Stanford remained on the show. Natalie Teeger, played by Traylor Howard, replaced her character as Monk's assistant. Schram made a guest appearance on one episode of the show's eighth and final season, titled "Mr. Monk and Sharona".
Filmography
Film
Television
References
External links
1968 births
Actresses from New Jersey
American film actresses
American television actresses
Jewish American actresses
Living people
People from Mountainside, New Jersey
University of Maryland, College Park alumni
20th-century American actresses
21st-century American actresses
21st-century American Jews
Jonathan Dayton High School alumni |
29195804 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socorro%20%28district%20of%20S%C3%A3o%20Paulo%29 | Socorro (district of São Paulo) | Socorro (Portuguese for "Help") is a district in the subprefecture of Capela do Socorro, in southern São Paulo, Brazil. Between the Guarapiranga and Billings Reservoirs, lies the Autódromo José Carlos Pace.
Education
Colégio Humboldt São Paulo, a German international school, is located in Interlagos in Socorro.
Neighborhoods
Interlagos
Jardim Bessa
Vila Califórnia
Capela do Socorro
Jardim Cristina
Vila Franca
Vila Friburgo
Jardim Guarapiranga
Parque Interlagos
Jardim Ipanema
Jardim do Lago
Vila Lisboa
Jardim Mara
Jardim Marabá
Jardim Nova Guarapiranga
Jardim Paquetá
Parque Rony
Jardim Santa Helena
Jardim São Jorge
Jardim São José de Guarapiranga
Socorro
Jardim Socorro
Vila Socorro
Jardim Suzana
Jardim Tereza
Jardim Três Marias
Veleiros
Jardim Veneza
See also
Socorro (CPTM) Train Station
Roman Catholic Diocese of Santo Amaro
Line 9 (CPTM)
References
External links
Subprefecture Capela do Socorro
Interlagos News
Gazette of Interlagos
Roman Catholic Diocese of Santo Amaro
Districts of São Paulo |
57588837 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Richards%20%28British%20Army%20officer%29 | Henry Richards (British Army officer) | Henry Richards (24 July 1812 - 19 September 1864) was a lieutenant colonel in the British Army, justice of the peace, and deputy lieutenant for the county of Pembrokeshire.
References
1812 births
1864 deaths
British Army officers
Welsh justices of the peace
Deputy Lieutenants of Pembrokeshire |
1989264 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian%20Harvey | Ian Harvey | Ian Joseph Harvey (born 10 April 1972) is a former Australian cricketer. He was an all-rounder who played 73 One Day Internationals for Australia and was named as one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Year for 2004 for his performances in county cricket.
International career
Australian squad
Harvey started his first-class cricket career with Victoria in the Sheffield Shield in 1993 as an all-rounder. He was called up to the Australian one day cricket team in 1997 and played 73 One Day Internationals. Harvey bowled tightly at the end of games, equipped with a well disguised slower ball, as well as being a big hitting late order batsman, however he did not hit an ODI half-century.
2003 ICC Cricket World Cup
Harvey played in the 2003 World Cup in South Africa as a replacement for the injured Shane Watson. He played in Australia's group game against Pakistan, scoring 24 at better than a run-a-ball, supporting Andrew Symonds who made a match-winning 143 not out. Defending 310, Harvey was the best bowler picking up 4 wickets, including one with his first ball, as Australia won comfortably. Harvey lost his place when Darren Lehmann and Michael Bevan returned from injury. He featured in one more group game against the Netherlands where he picked up three more wickets.
He played in the first Super Six game against Sri Lanka making a brief 5 not out at the end of Australia's innings. He did not take a wicket when he bowled but he was economical. Against New Zealand he failed with the bat making just 2 but he bowled economically again, taking 1/11 in 6 overs. In the final Super Six stage against tournament surprise package Kenya he bowled tightly without reward. However, in the run chase of 175, after Australia stuttered, he and Symonds were involved together in a 50-run partnership as they saw Australia home carrying on their unbeaten run through the tournament. Harvey finished on 24 not out. Because of an injury to Damien Martyn, he played in the semi-final against Sri Lanka.
In the tournament he played 6 games, scored 66 runs at 22.00 and took 8 wickets at 19.62.
Domestic career
Australia
Harvey played for Victoria between 1993–94 and 2004–05.
England
Harvey played for Gloucestershire from 1999 to 2003 in the English County Championship and domestic one-day competitions. He was an integral part of the team that won a number of one-day trophies, including four one-day finals in a row. Harvey also scored the first Twenty20 cricket century in 2003, and scored three T20 centuries in all. In 2004 he switched counties to play for Yorkshire for whom he played until 2005.
For 2006, he returned to play for Gloucestershire in the County Championship and Victoria in the Pura Cup. He signed to play for Derbyshire in 2007, but did not play a full season as his clearance to play as an English-qualified player was not received from the Home Office. Approval was delayed as a result of a drink-driving conviction, a decision which upset Derbyshire chief executive John Sears. Derbyshire allowed Harvey to play for Middleton Cricket Club for a weekend as a temporary replacement for their professional.
South Africa
For the 2005–06 season, Harvey played with the South African provincial side Nashua-Western Province Boland, where he also coached and commentated, sometimes doing two or all three at once.
Twenty20
Harvey excelled in the Twenty20 format, initially for Gloucestershire and Victoria. He also played in the first Indian Cricket League Twenty20 competition in 2007 for Chennai Superstars. He played in the Chennai team that won the inaugural league. He won both the man of the match award for the final and the player of the tournament award.
Being a specialist Twenty20 player, he signed short-term deals especially for the Twenty20 with Hampshire Hawks in 2008 and Northamptonshire Steelbacks in 2009. On his debut for Northants, he scored 12 with the bat but starred with the ball taking 4 for 18 off 4 overs to help them to a 17-run win against Warwickshire Bears. Harvey contracted swine flu, which kept him out of the quarter-finals which Northamptonshire won. He returned to play in the finals day of the competition.
In February 2010, Harvey signed to play T20 and first-class matches for Zimbabwean franchise Southern Rocks.
Coaching career
Harvey was appointed assistant to head coach Richard Dawson at Gloucestershire County Cricket Club in the 2015 county season.
Personal life
Harvey is uncle of Mackenzie Harvey.
References
External links
1972 births
Living people
Australia One Day International cricketers
Victoria cricketers
Gloucestershire cricketers
Yorkshire cricketers
Derbyshire cricketers
Hampshire cricketers
Northamptonshire cricketers
Cape Cobras cricketers
Wisden Cricketers of the Year
Chennai Superstars cricketers
ICL World XI cricketers
Australian cricketers
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Australian cricket coaches
People from Wonthaggi |
66205851 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortinarius%20subsaniosus | Cortinarius subsaniosus | Cortinarius subsaniosus is a species of webcap mushroom known from north and central Europe, where it grows on sandy soil in association with willows. It produces small yellowish brown mushrooms. The species was described in 2020 by Kare Liimatainen and Tuula Niskanen. Its name refers to its affinity to C. saniosus, to which it is closely related. Along with five other British webcaps, C. subsaniosus was selected by Kew Gardens as a highlight of taxa described by the organisation's staff and affiliates in 2020.
Taxonomy
Cortinarius subsaniosus was described in a 2020 research note in the journal Fungal Diversity by Kare Liimatainen and Tuula Niskanen. The description was based on a collection made by S. E. Evans in 1999 at Sandscale Haws, a nature reserve near Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England. The specific name refers to the affinity the mushrooms have to C. saniosus. Phylogentic analysis places the species in sect. Saniosi of the genus Cortinarius, along with C. saniosus, C. aureovelatus, C. chrysomallus, and C. aureomarginatus. It has been described as part of the Cortinarius sansiosus species complex in Cortinarius subgenus Telamonia.
Cortinarius subsaniosus was one of over 150 botanical and mycological taxa described by staff or affiliates of Kew Gardens in 2020. In a year-end round-up, Kew scientists selected ten highlights, one of which was six newly described British Cortinarius species: C. subsaniosus described from Cumbria; C. britannicus from Caithness; C. scoticus and C. aurae from the Black Wood of Rannoch; C. ainsworthii from Brighton; and C. heatherae from Heathrow Airport. In a press release, Kew identified Cortinarius species as "ecologically important in supporting the growth of plants, particularly trees such as oak, beech, birch and pine" and playing "a key role in the carbon cycling of woodlands and providing nitrogen to trees".
Description
Cortinarius subsaniosus has a cap that is wide, at first cone-shaped to somewhat convex, later convex to planoconvex (flat on one side, convex on the other) with a pointed umbo. The caps are yellowish brown, often dark brown at the centre, and are hygrophanous. The gills are brown and medium spaced. The stem is long, thick at the apex. They are cylindrical, and yellowish brown. The flesh is generally yellowish brown, though dark brown at the base of the stem. There is a yellow universal veil forming distinct complete and incomplete girdle-like structures on the stem. There is no distinct odour.
Microscopic characteristics
The ellipsoid to almond-shaped basidiospores are 9.5 to 11 by 6 to 7 micrometres (μm), averaging 10.2 by 6.1 μm. The spores are very warty, especially at their apices. The spores are moderately dextrinoid, meaning that they stain a reddish brown when tested with Melzer's reagent or Lugol's solution. The club-shaped basidia are 25 to 35 by 9 to 11 μm, sporting four sterigmata. The hyphae in the flesh of the gills are golden and are mainly smooth with a few spot-like encrustations. The pileipellis is rusty brown. It consists of more or less parallel hyphae that are 5 to 8 μm wide, densely encrusted with zebra-striped incrustations.
Similar species
Cortinarius subsaniosus is reminiscent of C. saniosus, though the latter has somewhat smaller spores, measuring 8.5 to 10 by 5 to 6.5 μm.
Ecology
Cortinarius subsaniosus associates with trees, including at least willows (Salix), but perhaps others. Collections have been made in the United Kingdom, Denmark, Estonia, Norway, Sweden, and Finland. It appears to be rare inland.
References
subsaniosus
Fungi described in 2020
Fungi of Europe |
51344085 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontal%20horn%20cyst | Frontal horn cyst | A frontal horn cyst or connatal cyst is a cystic area in the brain. It is sometimes found in newborn babies with an incidence rate of 0.4-6%. It is adjacent to the superolateral margin of the body and frontal horn of the lateral ventricles, and is believed to represent a normal variant with no effect on neurological development. On ultrasound imaging, the outward most part of the ventricles has rounded appearance, giving the cystic appearance.
References
Cysts |
2127868 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%20Reno%20%28DD-303%29 | USS Reno (DD-303) | USS Reno (DD-303) was a built for the United States Navy during World War I.
Namesake
Walter Elsworth Reno was born on 3 October 1881 in Davis County, Iowa. He entered the United States Naval Academy in 1901 and graduated in 1905. While a junior officer, Reno served primarily in battleships. He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant in 1910 and during the next four years was stationed on the battleships and . From early 1914 until early 1916 he was Officer in Charge at the Chicago, Illinois, Navy Recruiting Station.
He Reno then went out to the Philippines, where he took command of the destroyer . In mid 1917, after United States had entered World War I, Reno brought his ship from the Far East to the European war zone. While on convoy escort duty west of Gibraltar during the night of 19 November 1917, Chauncey was rammed by British merchantman Rose and sank, taking with her Lieutenant Commander Reno and twenty of his ship's officers and men.
Reno was awarded the Navy Cross "for exceptionally distinguished service in the line of his profession in command of the U.S.S. Chauncey in making the trip of 11,000 miles from Manila, P. I., to Gibraltar, under very unfavorable weather conditions".
Description
The Clemson class was a repeat of the preceding although more fuel capacity was added. The ships displaced at standard load and at deep load. They had an overall length of , a beam of and a draught of . They had a crew of 6 officers and 108 enlisted men.
Performance differed radically between the ships of the class, often due to poor workmanship. The Clemson class was powered by two steam turbines, each driving one propeller shaft, using steam provided by four water-tube boilers. In Renos case four Yarrow boilers supplied steam to Curtis turbines. The turbines were designed to produce a total of intended to reach a speed of . The ships carried a maximum of of fuel oil which was intended gave them a range of at .
The ships were armed with four 4-inch (102 mm) guns in single mounts and were fitted with two 1-pounder guns for anti-aircraft defense. In many ships a shortage of 1-pounders caused them to be replaced by 3-inch (76 mm) guns. Their primary weapon, though, was their torpedo battery of a dozen 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes in four triple mounts. They also carried a pair of depth charge rails. A "Y-gun" depth charge thrower was added to many ships.
Construction and career
Reno, named for Walter E. Reno, was laid down by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Union Iron Works, San Francisco, 4 July 1918; launched 22 January 1919; sponsored by Miss Kathryn Baldwin Anderson, daughter of former Lieutenant Governor of California Alden Anderson, and commissioned 23 July 1920. Reno's mother, Mrs. L. D. Reno, of Eldon, Iowa was approached to sponsor the ship, but declined due to her health. Reno's widow, Beatrice Tracy Reno, daughter of former assistant secretary of the Navy Frank Tracy, was also considered as a potential sponsor.
Attached to the Pacific Fleet, Reno operated along the west coast until January 1921 when she joined other fleet units in a cruise to Valparaíso, Chile. Resuming west coast operations on her return, she ranged between Washington and Lower California, with occasional runs to Hawaii or the Panama Canal Zone. On the morning of September 8, 1923, while accompanying the destroyers that would become involved in the Honda Point disaster of the same day, Reno found and rescued the survivors of the steamship SS Cuba, who had run aground on a reef just off San Miguel Island off the coast of Santa Barbara County, California. In April 1927 she came as far east as Guantanamo, Cuba, and in July of that year she was at Prince Rupert, British Columbia, to participate in the celebrations of the Canadian Diamond Jubilee.
Decommissioned at San Diego 18 January 1930, Reno was struck from the Navy list 8 July 1930. She was scrapped in 1931, in accordance with the terms of the London Treaty limiting naval armament.
Notes
References
External links
Destroyer Photo Index DD-303 USS RENO at www.navsource.org
Clemson-class destroyers
Ships built in San Francisco
1919 ships |
7575341 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Elliott%20Huger | Daniel Elliott Huger | Daniel Elliott Huger (June 28, 1779August 21, 1854) was a United States senator from South Carolina. Born on Limerick plantation, Berkeley County (near Charleston), his father was Daniel Huger, a Continental Congressman and U.S. Representative from South Carolina. Daniel Elliott pursued classical studies in Charleston and graduated from the College of New Jersey (later Princeton University) in 1798. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1799, beginning practice in Charleston. In 1800 he married Isabella Johannes Middleton-daughter of Declaration of Independence signer Arthur Middleton. He was a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1804 to 1819 and from 1830 to 1832, and was a brigadier general of State troops in 1814. He was judge of the circuit court from 1819 to 1830, and was a member of the South Carolina State Senate from 1838 to 1842. He was an opposition member of the State nullification convention in 1832.
Huger was elected as a State Rights Democrat to the U.S. Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John C. Calhoun and served from March 4, 1843 to March 4, 1845, when he resigned. He was a delegate to the state-rights convention in 1852, where he urged moderation. Huger died on Sullivan's Island; interment was in Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston. A son was Colonel John Middleton Huger (1809–1894) whose son married a daughter of CS General Leonidas Polk (who was related by marriage to US Presidents Andrew Jackson and James Knox Polk. Daniel Elliott Huger's grandson-in-law was CS General Arthur Middleton Manigault.
In 1818, he bought the Daniel Elliott Huger House in Charleston. He owned slaves.
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1854 deaths
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Burials at Magnolia Cemetery (Charleston, South Carolina)
United States senators who owned slaves
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6040119 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson%20Independent%20School%20District | Jefferson Independent School District | Jefferson Independent School District is a public school district based outside the city limit's of Jefferson, Texas.
In 2009, the school district was rated "academically acceptable" by the Texas Education Agency.
Schools
Jefferson High (Grades 9-12)
Jefferson Junior High (Grades 5-8)
Jefferson Elementary (Grades 1-4)
Jefferson Primary (Grades PK-K)
References
External links
Jefferson ISD−Independent School District website
School districts in Marion County, Texas
Jefferson, Texas |
29284648 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harapan%20Rainforest | Harapan Rainforest | Harapan Rainforest is a 98,555-hectare area of rainforest in the province of Jambi, Sumatra, Indonesia. The British Royal Society for the Protection of Birds is campaigning to plant one million new trees to renew the forest because of its rich wildlife, which is vulnerable to the logging industry.
Flora and fauna
Despite having been selectively logged in the 1970s, the forest is still considered among the most biodiverse on the planet, containing about 20% of the remaining lowland forests of Sumatra. It provides habitat to over 300 species of bird, as well as the critically endangered Sumatran tiger and Sumatran elephant.
Conservation
The Harapan Rainforest is managed under a 95-year license by a group of NGOs comprising Burung Indonesia, Birdlife International and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.
Threats
A proposed 51 km long and 50-m-wide highway through the area that would enable 850 truckloads of coal a day to pass is considered by environmental groups as a major threat to the wildlife. The proposal would remove an estimated 154 hectares of rainforest, would ease access for illegal hunters and loggers and would fragment the habitat of the Sumatran tigers.
Small holder conversion of the forest to oil palm is another major threat to the forest and the objectives of ecosystem restoration.
References
External links
Official Website
Gallery of images by the Kew Botanical Gardens
Ecosystem Restoration: Another Way To Sustainably Manage Forests
Tropical rainforests of Indonesia
Geography of Jambi
Sumatra
Nature conservation in Indonesia
Tourist attractions in Jambi
Protected areas of Sumatra |
58559435 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geraldine%20Traina | Geraldine Traina | Geraldine Traina (June 27, 1936 – April 28, 2011), also known as Gerri Traina, was an American feminist. She co-founded and edited Quest: A Feminist Quarterly, ran the Washington Area Women's Center in 1973, and helped to establish the Washington Area Women's Fund and the Washington Area Feminist Federal Credit Union. She appears in Feminists Who Changed America, 1963–1975 by Barbara J. Love.
Biography
Early life and education
Geraldine Traina was born to Peter Traina, a postal examiner, and Marie Catalano, a seamstress in Brooklyn, New York. She received her B.A from Hunter College in New York City and her M.A. from NYU.
Traina was one of the first Peace Corps volunteers, serving in the Philippines in 1962.
Career
Geraldine Traina discovered the women's movement in the 1960s, attending consciousness raising groups in New York City with anti-Vietnam war activists. As an adult, she moved to Washington, D.C. where she founded and ran the Washington Area Women's Center, which housed courses in home and auto repair, a rape crisis center, a legal defence fund, abortion counselling, therapy, and health classes for women. In the 1980s, she founded the Washington Area Feminist Federal Credit Union and the Washington Area Women's Fund, where she eventually served as executive director, to give women access to loans. She was co-director of the D.C. chapter of the National Congress of Neighborhood Women.
She came out as a lesbian in 1971, at the age of 35.
Death
Geraldine Traina died of ovarian cancer on April 28, 2011 in Port Charlotte, Florida.
Political views
Geraldine Traina was a radical feminist and supported women's, environmental, anti-nuclear, and anti-imperialist causes.
See also
Second-wave feminism
Feminist businesses
References
External links
Geraldine Traina's unpublished works
Quest: A Feminist Quarterly co-founded and edited by Geraldine Traina
Radical feminists
American feminists
1936 births
2011 deaths
Deaths from ovarian cancer
Deaths from cancer in Florida |
28977119 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farthest%20neighbor | Farthest neighbor | Farthest neighbor may refer to:
Farthest neighbor graph in geometry
The farthest neighbor method for calculating distances between clusters in hierarchical clustering.
See also
Nearest neighbor (disambiguation) |
70510432 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto%20Wiegand | Otto Wiegand | Otto Wiegand may refer to:
Otto Wiegand (gymnast), German gymnast
Otto Oscar Wiegand, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly |
72828157 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9C%C3%A7kubbe%2C%20O%C4%9Fuzeli | Üçkubbe, Oğuzeli | Üçkubbe is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Oğuzeli, Gaziantep Province, Turkey. Its population is 105 (2022). The village is inhabited by Turkmens of the Elbegli tribe and Abdals of the Kurular tribe.
References
Neighbourhoods in Oğuzeli District
Turkoman settlements in Gaziantep Province |
64279942 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse%20Blackadder | Jesse Blackadder | Jesse Blackadder (June 196410 June 2020) was an Australian novelist, screenwriter and journalist. She authored short stories and novels for children and adults. The Raven's Heart: A Story of a Quest, a Castle and Mary Queen of Scots (2011) won the Benjamin Franklin House annual literary prize and Golden Crown Literary Society awards for 2013. Blackadder was the second person and first woman to have been awarded two Australian Antarctic Arts Fellowships, in 2011 and 2018, about which she wrote a number of essays.
Personal life
Blackadder grew up on Sydney's north shore. She completed a Bachelor of Arts in Communication at the University of Technology in Sydney and a Master of Applied Science in Social Ecology and a Doctor of Creative Arts from Western Sydney University. When she was 12, her two-year-old sister Lucy drowned, a tragic incident about which Blackadder said, "I feel like it formed the rest of my life." She lived in Byron Bay in NSW with her partner Andi for many years, where she died on 10 June 2020 from pancreatic cancer.
Career
Blackadder's first novel, After the Party (2005), appeared on the Australian Book Review's 2010 list of favourite Australian novels of the 21st century.
Her second, novel, The Raven's Heart: A Story of a Quest, a Castle and Mary Queen of Scots (2011), is a work of historical fiction written partly because she decided to investigate the origins of the Blackadder surname, having been repeatedly asked if she was related to Rowan Atkinson (who created and starred in the BBC comedy series Blackadder). The Raven's Heart won the Benjamin Franklin House annual literary prize and Golden Crown Literary Society awards for 2013, and an Independent Publisher Book Awards Historical Fiction bronze medal.
In 2011, Blackadder received an Australian Antarctic Arts Fellowship to visit Davis Station (on Ingrid Christensen Land in Antarctica) for six weeks. Using her research there, she explored the issue of using historical figures in fiction to obtain her Doctorate in Creative Arts, awarded in 2014, from Western Sydney University. From this came her historical novel, Chasing the Light (2013), about Ingrid Christensen, the first woman to see Antarctica, and the women who accompanied her. The trip also resulted in a children's book called Stay: The Last Dog in Antarctica (2013), featuring Stay, a fibreglass guide dog that kept Blackadder company during one her field trips.
In 2016 Blackadder was instrumental in founding StoryBoard, a mobile writing program for children under the banner of the Byron Bay Writers Festival. At the time of her death, the StoryBoard bus had received about 27,000 visitors.
Having previously shelved a manuscript about her childhood experiences when her two-year-old sister drowned in her family's backyard swimming pool, she eventually wrote the novel Sixty Seconds (2017) to explore the grief and guilt felt by a family in similar circumstances, as well as the issue of personal responsibility and the possible criminal repercussions of such accidents. The book was published in the United States in 2019 under the title In the Blink of an Eye.
In 2018, Blackadder again was a successful recipient of an Australian Antarctic Arts Fellowship, this time won jointly with screenwriter Jane Allen. The two writers visited Mawson Station from November 2018 to February 2019, during which time they prepared a draft of an Antarctic adventure novel for young readers and the structure for the first season of a television series about life on an Antarctic research station. These two works were still in development at the time of Blackadder's death.
As a freelance journalist, Blackadder published many articles, including "The first woman and the last dog in Antarctica", which won the 2012 Guy Morrison Prize for Literary Journalism from the Australasian Association of Writing Programs.
She also wrote extensively about agriculture and sustainability; deliberative democracy; and landcare and the environment.
Frankie, co-written with Laura Bloom, was shortlisted for the 2019 Children's Peace Literature Award.
Books
Adult fiction
After the Party (2005)
The Raven's Heart: A Story of a Quest, a Castle and Mary Queen of Scots (2011)
Chasing the Light (2013)
Sixty Seconds (2017) – Published as In the Blink of an Eye (2019) in the USA
Children's fiction
Dexter: The Courageous Koala (2015)
Paruku: The Desert Brumby (2014)
Stay: The Last Dog in Antarctica (2013)
Frankie (Dream Riders #1) (2019) – written with Laura Bloom
Storm (Dream Riders #2) (2019) – written with Laura Bloom
References
External links
1964 births
2020 deaths
21st-century Australian women writers
Australian women short story writers
Writers from Sydney
Australian children's writers
21st-century Australian novelists
Australian women children's writers
Deaths from cancer in New South Wales
Australian women novelists
University of Technology Sydney alumni
Deaths from pancreatic cancer in Australia
21st-century Australian short story writers
Western Sydney University alumni |
43831168 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General%20Electric%20Co.%20v.%20Joiner | General Electric Co. v. Joiner | General Electric Co. v. Joiner, 522 U.S. 136 (1997), was a Supreme Court of the United States case between Robert Joiner and General Electric Co. that concerned whether the abuse of discretion standard is the correct standard an appellate court should apply in reviewing a trial court's decision to admit or exclude expert testimony. The case is notable for helping articulate the Daubert standard.
Facts
Joiner had worked around transformers as an electrician since 1973. During his electrical work, the dielectric fluid used as a coolant for the transformers got into his eyes and mouth, and stuck to his arms and hands. In 1983, it was discovered that the fluid in some of its transformers contained toxic PCBs. Later, in 1991, Joiner was diagnosed with small cell lung cancer. He sued General Electric, the manufacturer of the transformers and dielectric fluid. Joiner had been a smoker for eight years and there was a history of lung cancer in his family. Joiner alleged that his exposure to PCBs "promoted" his cancer. He claimed that, had it not been for his exposure to these substances, his cancer would not have developed for many years, if at all. General Electric claimed there was no evidence that Joiner suffered significant exposure to PCBs and that there was no admissible scientific evidence that PCBs promoted Joiner's cancer.
Holding
General Electric removed the case to federal court and then moved for summary judgment. The district court ruled that there was no evidence that Joiner had been exposed to PCBs. The district court also held that testimony of Joiner's experts failed to show that there was a link between exposure to PCB and small cell cancer. The case was dismissed. Joiner appealed the ruling and the court of appeals reversed. The Supreme Court of the United States granted certiorari and, after review, reversed the appellate court's ruling and affirmed the district court's ruling.
References
External links
1997 in United States case law
United States Supreme Court cases
United States Supreme Court cases of the Rehnquist Court
General Electric litigation |
27097844 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspella%20schroederi | Aspella schroederi | Aspella schroederi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.
Description
Distribution
References
Gastropods described in 1996
Aspella |
22949955 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristhian%20Mart%C3%ADnez | Cristhian Martínez | Cristhian A. Martínez Mercedes (born March 6, 1982) is a Dominican former professional Major League Baseball pitcher. He pitched for the Florida Marlins and the Atlanta Braves in his five season career.
Career
Detroit Tigers
Martínez signed as an international free agent with the Detroit Tigers in 2003. He remained with the Tigers organization through the 2006 season, pitching for the Gulf Coast Tigers, Oneonta Tigers, West Michigan White Caps and Lakeland Tigers, never rising above Class-A.
Florida Marlins
The Florida Marlins selected Martínez in the minor league phase of the Rule 5 draft on December 7, 2006.
Martínez made his Major League debut with the Marlins on May 21, 2009. On June 1, 2009 he collected his first win in the Majors after tossing 1.2 innings of scoreless relief against the Brewers. He was sent down to AAA New Orleans Zephyrs immediately after the game. Overall, he pitched in 15 games that season, owning a 1–1 win–loss record with a 5.13 earned run average.
Atlanta Braves
He was claimed off waivers by the Atlanta Braves on April 8, 2010. He was optioned to AAA Gwinnett Braves, where he pitched in 23 games, and was later called up to Atlanta in the beginning of September.
After qualifying as a Super Two earlier in the offseason, on January 18, 2013, Martinez agreed to a one-year, $750,000 deal to avoid arbitration with the Braves. On April 12, 2013, Martinez, who suffered from a shoulder strain was placed on the disabled list in order to make room for recently acquired reliever Luis Ayala. He pitched in two games that year, giving up two runs to the Philadelphia Phillies in his first appearance and pitched two scoreless innings against the Chicago Cubs on April 6. On July 9, Martinez underwent shoulder surgery and was ruled out for the rest of the 2013 season and missed the entirety of the 2014 season. On December 2, 2013, Martinez, along with shortstop Paul Janish and infielder Elliot Johnson was non-tendered by the Braves, making them a free agent.
See also
Rule 5 draft results
References
External links
1982 births
Living people
Atlanta Braves players
Dominican Republic expatriate baseball players in the United States
Florida Marlins players
Greensboro Grasshoppers players
Gulf Coast Braves players
Gulf Coast Tigers players
Gwinnett Braves players
Jacksonville Suns players
Jupiter Hammerheads players
Lakeland Tigers players
Major League Baseball pitchers
Major League Baseball players from the Dominican Republic
Mississippi Braves players
Oneonta Tigers players
West Michigan Whitecaps players |
7915545 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dougie%20Gray | Dougie Gray | Douglas Herbert Gray (4 April 1905 – 1972) was a Scottish footballer who spent his entire senior career with Rangers and is the longest serving player in the Glasgow club's history.
Career
Club
Born in Alford, Aberdeenshire, Gray joined the Ibrox club from Aberdeen Mugiemoss in June 1925. A right back, he played for the club 555 times in competitive matches between 1925 and 1946, earning ten league championship and six Scottish Cup winner's medals. Taking into account his appearances in war-time matches and friendlies, he made 940 appearances for the club in all, wearing the shirt more times than any other player, though John Greig is the record holder for appearances in official matches. After leaving Rangers, he acted as a coach at Clyde.
Gray is a member of the Rangers Hall of Fame.
International
Gray won ten international caps for the Scotland national football team and made six appearances for the Scottish League representative side.
References
1905 births
1972 deaths
Date of death missing
Scottish men's footballers
Scotland men's international footballers
Rangers F.C. players
People from Alford, Aberdeenshire
Scottish Football League players
Clyde F.C. non-playing staff
Scottish Football League representative players
Men's association football fullbacks
Dyce F.C. players
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Scottish Junior Football Association players
Scotland men's junior international footballers |
24127793 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bla%C5%BEim%20%28Louny%20District%29 | Blažim (Louny District) | Blažim () is a municipality and village in Louny District in the Ústí nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 200 inhabitants.
Blažim lies approximately north-west of Louny, south-west of Ústí nad Labem, and north-west of Prague.
References
Villages in Louny District |
66612480 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Drmota | Michael Drmota | Michael Drmota (born 17 July 1964 in Vienna) is an Austrian mathematician and professor at TU Wien.
He studied Mathematics at TU Wien and finished his PhD in 1986 under the supervision of Robert F. Tichy.
At the same university he acquired habilitation in 1990 and is now
full professor at the Institute of Discrete Mathematics and Geometry, where he also served as head of institute from 2004 to 2012.
He had visiting professor positions at UVSQ, University Paris VI, and University of Provence (Marseille).
From 2013 until 2019 he was dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Geoinformation,
from 2010 to 2013 president of the Austrian Mathematical Society. Since 2013 he is corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
In 1992 he won the Edmund und Rosa Hlawka-Preis of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and 1996 the Prize of the Austrian Mathematical Society. In 2023, he got awarded the Flajolet Lecture Prize.
His research areas are number theory, enumerative combinatorics, analysis of algorithms and stochastic processes on combinatorial structures.
Selected publications
References
External links
Drmota's website at TU Wien
20th-century Austrian mathematicians
21st-century Austrian mathematicians
Academic staff of TU Wien
1964 births
Living people |
46596400 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jovan%20Kursula | Jovan Kursula | Jovan Petrović (, 1768–16 August 1813), known as Jovan Kursula (Јован Курсула), was a Serbian vojvoda (commander) that participated in the Serbian Revolution.
Biography
Petrović was born in Donja Gorevnica, in the Rudnik okrug, near Čačak, at the time part of the Sanjak of Smederevo (now Serbia). Both his parents, Velimir and Magdalena, had ancestry from Drobnjaci in what is today Montenegro. After his father's death his mother remarried in the village of Cvetke near Kraljevo, bringing Jovan with her. Kursula had brown hair, light skin, full cheeks, youthful looks, broad shoulders and was slow-witted. He did not carry his sabre from his waist, as did most others, but "over his shoulder, as it was easier to pull out", as he was a master of swordsmanship. He was one of the Rudnik nahija commanders, alongside Lazar Mutap, Arsenije Loma, Milić Drinčić and Milan Obrenović. At the Battle of Varvarin he had a duel against an Ottoman commander known as the "Black Arab" (Crni arapin). He died from wounds from the Battle of Deligrad.
Legacy
A Yugoslav Partisan detachment in Kraljevo named after him was established in 1941. He has several primary schools named after him throughout Serbia, as well as streets in Čačak, Vračar, Niš, Užice, Gornji Milanovac, Zaječar and Zrenjanin.
See also
List of Serbian Revolutionaries
References
Sources
19th-century Serbian people
Serbian revolutionaries
People of the First Serbian Uprising
Military personnel from Čačak
People from Kraljevo
Swordfighters
1768 births
1813 deaths
Deaths from bleeding
Serbian military leaders
Serbian people of Montenegrin descent |
60744757 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars%20Ljungman | Lars Ljungman | Lars Manfred Ljungman (1 April 1918 – 19 April 1962) was a Swedish ice hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1948 Winter Olympics.
References
External links
1918 births
1962 deaths
AIK IF players
Ice hockey people from Stockholm
Ice hockey players at the 1948 Winter Olympics
Olympic ice hockey players for Sweden
Swedish ice hockey players |
71953969 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20I%20T%C3%A9t%C3%A9ny | Peter I Tétény | Peter (I) from the kindred Tétény (; died after 1233) was a Hungarian noble in the first half of the 13th century, who administered counties during the reign of Andrew II of Hungary.
Family
Peter (I) was born into the gens (clan) Tétény as the son of Marcellus I (or Ambrose). His brothers were Marcellus II, an influential baron in the court of Andrew II, Fabian, Demetrius and Abraham. Of the five brothers, only Peter had descendants. Through his only known son Benedict, he was forefather of the noble Pekri family (also known as Pekry), which rose to prominence in the 16th century, during the Ottoman–Habsburg wars.
Career
Along with his brothers, Peter was a confidant of King Andrew II. In contemporary documents, he was usually styled as "frater Marcelli" or "germanus Marcelli", which reflects his brother Marcellus' influence in the royal court during that time. Peter is first referred to as ispán of Temes County in 1221. Whether Peter is identical with those namesake office-holders, who held ispánates in various parts of the kingdom in the 1220s, is unknown. Prior to 1228, Peter was involved in a lawsuit with the Vajk kindred over a possession called Keresztúr, which laid between Peker (or Pukur) and Toplica (present-day a borough of Daruvar in Croatia). During the trial, certain Arnold, son of Peterd and Leucus, son of Deschen were mentioned as Peter's relatives (possibly by his marriage). The court ruled against Peter in 1228.
Peter served as count (head) of the court of Queen Yolanda of Courtenay from 1229 to 1230. Beside that, he also administered Abaúj County (or Újvár) in 1230. According to a non-authentic charter, he held the latter position in 1232 too. He functioned as ispán of Nyitra County in 1233. In this capacity, he was among those barons of the realm, who swore to the Oath of Bereg – the agreement of Andrew II and the Holy See – in September 1233. Still in 1233, Peter was replaced as ispán by Sebes Hont-Pázmány. It is possible that neither Marcellus nor Peter outlived Andrew's death, which occurred in 1235.
References
Sources
13th-century Hungarian people
Peter 01 |
1842917 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunder%20Bay%20%28electoral%20district%29 | Thunder Bay (electoral district) | Thunder Bay was an electoral district in the northwestern part of the province of Ontario, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1968 to 1979, and the Legislative Assembly of Ontario until 1975.
Federal district
This riding was created in 1966 from parts of Fort William, Kenora—Rainy River and Port Arthur ridings.
It consisted of the eastern part of the territorial district of Rainy River; (b) the territorial district of Thunder Bay excluding the Cities of Fort William and Port Arthur and the Townships of Aldina, Blake, Crooks, Devon, Fraleigh, Gillies, Hartington, Lismore, Lybster, Marks, Neebing, O'Connor, Paipoonge, Pardee, Pearson, Scoble, Strange, Adrian, Blackwell, Conmee, Forbes, Fowler, Goldie, Gorham, Horne, Jacques, Laurie, MacGregor, McIntyre, McTavish, Oliver, Sackville, Sibley and Ware; the southeastern part of the territorial district of Kenora; part of the Patricia Portion of the territorial district of Kenora; and the western part of the territorial district of Algoma.
The electoral district was abolished in 1976 when it was redistributed between Cochrane North, Kenora—Rainy River, Thunder Bay—Atikokan and Thunder Bay—Nipigon ridings.
Provincial district
The district was abolished in 1975 and became Lake Nipigon.
Electoral history
|-
|Liberal
|B. Keith Penner
|align="right"| 9,540
|New Democratic
|Douglas M. Sly
|align="right"| 6,081
|Progressive Conservative
|George C. Wardrope
|align="right"|4,904
|-
|Liberal
|Keith Penner
|align="right"|11,048
|New Democratic
|Ike Mutch
|align="right"| 6,309
|Progressive Conservative
|Harvey Smith
|align="right"| 5,095
|-
|Liberal
|Keith Penner
|align="right"| 11,435
|New Democratic
| Carson Hoy
|align="right"| 5,475
|Progressive Conservative
|Berek Kadikoff
|align="right"| 4,021
See also
List of Canadian federal electoral districts
Historical federal electoral districts of Canada
External links
Website of the Parliament of Canada
Former federal electoral districts of Ontario
Politics of Thunder Bay |
59524732 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lezhnevo%2C%20Ivanovo%20Oblast | Lezhnevo, Ivanovo Oblast | Lezhnevo () is an urban-type settlement and the administrative center of Lezhnevsky District, Ivanovo Oblast, Russia. Population:
Gallery
References
Notes
Sources
Urban-type settlements in Ivanovo Oblast
Vladimir Governorate |
68696838 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheng%20Wen-tang | Cheng Wen-tang | Cheng Wen-tang (; born 1958) is a Taiwanese director and producer. He got his start creating documentaries on social movements in 1980s Taiwan. He began creating narrative films in the 1990s and has gone on to collaborate with his daughter, singer Enno Cheng, on several projects.
He has served president of the Kaohsiung Film Festival and is a part-time assistant-professor level teacher at National Chengchi University.
Early life
Cheng was born in Yilan County, Taiwan in 1958 and grew up in Luodong. He graduated from Chinese drama school of the Chinese Culture University.
Career
Cheng got his start in filmmaking making documentaries, with a focus on social movements in 1980s Taiwan. He made his first television film debut with Lanyang River Youth (1998).
Cheng's first collaboration with his daughter, Enno Cheng, was on Badu's Homework. The short film was her writing debut at 16 and won Best Short at the 2003 Golden Horse Awards.
Cheng began serving as president of the Kaohsiung Film Festival in 2004.
The National Palace Museum commissioned Cheng to produce a short film with a budget. Given the size of the budget, he convinced the museum to turn the project into a feature length film that could be released commercially; Cheng brought in another for the budget. The Passage later earned at the box office and was entered into the Tokyo Film Festival.
His second feature Somewhere Over the Dreamland (2002) is about two Aboriginal Taiwanese men's adventure in urban Taipei. It was screened at the 59th Venice International Film Festival as part of the International Critics' Week section.
Cheng has taught at National Chengchi University's College of Communications as an assistant-professor level contracted teacher since 2012.
Cheng and Chang Yih-feng collaborated on the music video for "Supreme Pain for the Tyrant", Chthonic's song from their 2013 album Bu-Tik.
Style and themes
Cheng has expressed an admiration for realism, specifically the works of authors Huang Chun-ming and Chen Yingzhen and director Ken Loach.
Personal life
Cheng is the father of singer-songwriter Enno Cheng.
Filmography
Awards and nominations
References
Taiwanese film directors
Chinese Culture University alumni
People from Luodong, Yilan County, Taiwan
1958 births
Living people |
59117900 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KORKUT | KORKUT | The KORKUT is a Turkish all-weather-capable 35 mm self-propelled anti-aircraft gun (SPAAG) developed by Aselsan.
Designed to replace to aging M42A1 Duster systems of the Turkish Armed Forces, each Korkut system compromises of 1 command and control vehicle and 3 weapons platforms. Each weapon platform carries a twin 2×35 mm Oerlikon KDC-02 cannon, manufactured under licence by MKEK. Each weapons system can fire up to 1100 rounds a minute up to a range of 4 km. The command and control vehicle has an effective radar range of 70 km. The Weapon System Vehicle and Command-and-Control Vehicle configurations designed under the Korkut Project are based on the FNSS ACV-30 and is fully amphibious and have the capability of propelling themselves in deep water and rivers.
The Turkish Armed Forces has ordered 40 weapons systems, deliveries are scheduled to complete in 2022.
Ammunition
The cannons can fire different types of 35×228 mm ammunitions including Aselsan made ATOM 35mm airburst ammunition.
ATOM 35mm airburst ammunition ejects tungsten pellets at a predetermined distance. It is a smart ammunition which has a base fuse. Together with the ability of precise time counting and the capability of being programmed during firing by taking muzzle velocity into consideration automatically sets the fuse to detonate the round as it approaches a pre-set distance from the target. Whilst a single pellet is too small to do major damage in itself, the accumulation of damage from multiple strikes is designed to destroy wings and control surfaces, sensors and aerodynamics, causing the target to crash. According to Aselsan, the ammunition is resistant against electromagnetic jamming.
See also
35 mm Oerlikon GDF
Comparable systems
Flakpanzer Gepard
K30 Biho
M247 Sergeant York
Marksman anti-aircraft system
PZA Loara
Skyranger 35
Tunguska-M1
Type 95 SPAAA
Type 87 self-propelled anti-aircraft gun
ZSU-23-4 Shilka
References
35 mm artillery
Armoured fighting vehicles of Turkey
Self-propelled anti-aircraft weapons
Post–Cold War weapons of Turkey
Military vehicles introduced in the 2010s
Aselsan products |
39076485 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Siteman%20Garland | David Siteman Garland | David Siteman Garland is an American author and host of the popular online business show "The Rise to the Top."
Career
In 2008, Garland founded The Rise To The Top. Since its inception, the show has featured over 300 business and marketing experts and specialists, including Tim Ferriss, Patti Stanger, Seth Godin, and Robert Greene. Within two years the show attracted over 100,000 viewers and currently broadcasts to over 250,000 people.
He is also the author of the 2010 marketing book Smarter, Faster, Cheaper published by Wiley Publishing. The book emphasizes using online communities and online content to improve marketing efforts. Seth Godin, Brian Solis, and Zappos' founder Tony Hsieh wrote the blurbs for the book.
References
External links
The Rise To The Top
David Garland on Twitter
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
55929077 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20%28footballer%2C%20born%20June%201999%29 | Arthur (footballer, born June 1999) | Arthur Henrique Vieira Araújo (born 17 June 1999) is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a central defender for Maltese Premier League club St. Lucia.
Club career
Born in Belo Horizonte, Arthur finished his graduation from Cruzeiro academy. On 8 August 2017, he was promoted to the senior squad and signed a contract which would keep him at the club till the end of December 2020.
On 31 August 2017, Arthur made his debut for the club in a Primeira Liga match against Grêmio. He signed a contract extension in October, committing him to the club till March 2021.
On 10 January 2019, Arthur was loaned out to Tombense. He was then loaned out to Portuguese club G.D. Estoril Praia in August 2019 until the next summer. However, he was recalled by Cruzeiro on 8 January 2020 to compose the squad in the 2020 season.
Career statistics
References
External links
1999 births
Living people
Men's association football defenders
Brazilian men's footballers
Brazilian expatriate men's footballers
Footballers from Belo Horizonte
Cruzeiro Esporte Clube players
C.D. Nacional players
Tombense Futebol Clube players
G.D. Estoril Praia players
Campeonato Brasileiro Série A players
Campeonato Brasileiro Série B players
Campeonato Brasileiro Série C players
Primeira Liga players
Expatriate men's footballers in Portugal
América Futebol Clube (MG) players |
20988925 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanka | Joanka | Joanka may refer to the following places:
Joanka, Kalisz County in Greater Poland Voivodeship (west-central Poland)
Joanka, Kępno County in Greater Poland Voivodeship (west-central Poland)
Joanka, Poznań County in Greater Poland Voivodeship (west-central Poland) |
67643986 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil%20Mustafayev | Emil Mustafayev | Emil Ramil oğlu Mustafayev (; born 24 September 2001) is a professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Polissya Zhytomyr. Born in Ukraine, he has represented Azerbaijan at international level.
Career
Mustafayev is a product of the different youth sportive school systems from Kirovohrad Oblast and was playing a football from age 5 years old.
He also played a one season in a futsal FC Tarasivka and in August 2018 Mustafayev signed a deal with the Ukrainian Premier League club FC Oleksandriya and made his debut in the Ukrainian Premier League on 9 May 2021, playing as the second half-time substituted player in an away losing match against FC Zorya Luhansk.
International career
Mustafayev was born in Ukraine, but because he is of Azerbaijani descent, was called up to the Azerbaijan national under-21 football team in November 2021.
References
External links
2001 births
Living people
Azerbaijani men's footballers
Ukrainian men's footballers
Azerbaijani people of Ukrainian descent
Ukrainian people of Azerbaijani descent
FC Oleksandriya players
FC Polissya Zhytomyr players
Ukrainian Premier League players
Men's association football midfielders
Azerbaijan men's under-21 international footballers
Ukrainian men's futsal players |
25663418 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange%20Universe%20%28album%29 | Strange Universe (album) | Strange Universe is the third studio album by Canadian rock band Mahogany Rush, led by Frank Marino. It was released in 1975.
Track listing
All songs by Frank Marino.
"Tales of the Spanish Warrior" - 4:57
"The King Who Stole (...the Universe)" - 3:57
"Satisfy Your Soul" - 3:17
"Land of 1000 Nights" - 4:44
"Moonlight Lady" - 4:08
"Dancing Lady" - 3:11
"Once Again" - 3:34
"Tryin' Anyway" - 3:45
"Dear Music" - 4:19
"Strange Universe" - 6:58
Personnel
Frank Marino – guitars, keyboards, vocals
Paul Harwood – acoustic and electric bass
Jimmy Ayoub – drums, percussion
Charts
References
1975 albums
20th Century Fox Records albums
Mahogany Rush albums |
21335975 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camilla%20Huse | Camilla Huse | Camilla Huse (born 31 August 1979) is a Norwegian former footballer. She made her debut on the Norway women's national football team in 2005.
In the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup in China, Huse played in all of the Norwegian team's matches — the team finished in fourth place behind USA, Brazil and Germany.
Huse played with the club Kolbotn, which won the Norwegian league in 2002, 2005 and 2006. She announced her retirement at the end of 2007 and missed most of the 2008 season through pregnancy, but then joined the League and Cup champion club Røa IL at the beginning of 2009. She was with the Norway team at the UEFA Women's Euro 2009 played in Finland between Europe's top twelve footballing nations.
Huse is the mother of two girls and works as a teacher.
References
External links
1979 births
Living people
Norwegian women's footballers
Norway women's international footballers
Toppserien players
Kolbotn Fotball players
Athene Moss players
Røa IL players
Vålerenga Fotball Damer players
Women's association football defenders
Norwegian schoolteachers
2007 FIFA Women's World Cup players |
56307896 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arfa%20Siddiq | Arfa Siddiq | Arfa Siddiq Kakar (, ; born 28 January 1987), also spelled Arifa Siddique, is a Pakistani politician and human rights activist from the town of Muslim Bagh in northern Balochistan, Pakistan. She is a supporter of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM). From 2013 to 2018, she was a member of the Provincial Assembly of Balochistan as a candidate from the Pashtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PMAP). She comes from the Kakar tribe of Pashtuns.
Early life and education
Siddiq was born on 28 January 1987 in Muslim Bagh in the Killa Saifullah District of Balochistan, Pakistan. She has done Bachelor of Science in Information Technology and Master of Arts in Political Science.
Political career
Siddiq was elected to the Provincial Assembly of Balochistan as a candidate of Pashtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PMAP) on a reserved seat for women in 2013 Pakistani general election.
Detention in Loralai
On 9 February 2020, just before PTM's public gathering in Loralai to mark the first death anniversary of Arman Loni, security forces arrested Arfa Siddiq, Wranga Loni, Sanna Ejaz, and other female PTM activists as they were on their way to the gathering site. The security forces released them, however, when political activists gathered outside the police station to protest for them.
References
Living people
Pashtun women politicians
People from Killa Saifullah District
Pashtunkhwa Milli Awami Party politicians
1987 births
Balochistan MPAs 2013–2018
Pashtun Tahafuz Movement politicians
Pakistani prisoners and detainees
Women members of the Provincial Assembly of Balochistan
21st-century Pakistani women politicians
Pashtun politicians |
4637144 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman%20Park%2C%20Queensland | Norman Park, Queensland | Norman Park is a suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Norman Park had a population of 6,842 people.
Geography
Norman Park is located by road east of the CBD. It borders East Brisbane, Coorparoo, Camp Hill, Morningside and Hawthorne, and is mostly residential.
Toponymy
Norman Park is likely named after an early estate in the area. The estate is thought to have derived its name in the 1890s from the nearby Norman Creek, and the contemporary Governor of Queensland Henry Wylie Norman.
History
Norman Park began taking in the first settlers in 1853. One of the early Deeds of Grant was in 1854 to Louis Hope of land totalling about 40 acres. Hope was a grazier and Ormiston Sugar Mill owner.
Initially, development in Norman Park was slow and almost ceased after the 1893 Brisbane floods. Industries in Norman Park at the time included dairying, leather and brooms.
Norman Park State School opened on 9 July 1900.
Between 1912 and 1926 a steam tram service to Belmont connected with the Queensland Government Railway at Norman Park. Initially the service was operated by the Belmont Shire Council. The service was suspended in 1924. The service was reinstated by the Brisbane City Council in 1925, but was again suspended in 1926. In 2006 remnants of the tramway's right of way could still be seen close to the railway station.
A major subdivision of 364 housing lots occurred in 1922 of the land formally owned by Louis Hope, however Norman Park remained a largely rural area until after World War II, when rapid development took place as the result of the construction of public housing.
In the 1940s and 1950s, extensive reclamation of land in the low-lying areas created parks and playing fields.
On 13 July 1924, Archbishop Gerald Sharp laid the foundation stone for the new brick Anglican Church of the Transfiguration at 40 Agnew Street to replace an earlier timber church. On 26 October 1924 Archbishop Sharp officially opened the church, dedicating it as a World War I memorial. Its final service was held on 25 February 2010. As the church was heritage listed, it could not be demolished so it was sold for $2.4M and redeveloped with an extension as a private home.
The Baptist Sunday school and hall in Norman Park were officially opened on Saturday 4 April 1936 by Reverend George Haughan (President of the Queensland Baptist Union). The buildings were built at the rear of the block of land to allow a church to be built at the front at a later time. It was an initiative of the younger members of the Jireh Baptist Church in Fortitude Valley.
Our Lady of the Assumption Primary School opened on 3 February 1948 and closed on 9 December 1973.
Norman Park Uniting Christian School opened on 1981 and closed on 1983.
Agnew School opened in Agnew Street on 3 February 2003. The school relocated to Wakerley in 2008 and, as at 2020, is known as the Brisbane campus of One School Global. It is associated with the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church.
Demographics
In the , Norman Park recorded 6,003 people, of whom 50.7% were female and 49.3% were male. The median age of the population was 33; four years younger than the Australian median. 77.2% of people living in Norman Park were born in Australia, compared to the national average of 69.8%. The other most common countries of birth were England (3.8%), New Zealand (3.4%), South Africa (0.8%), Germany (0.7%), and Ireland (0.7%). 87.4% of people only spoke English at home, while the next most commonly spoken languages were Greek (0.8%), German (0.6%), French (0.5%), Italian (0.5%), and Japanese (0.4%).
In the , Norman Park had a population of 6,287 people.
In the , Norman Park had a population of 6,842 people.
Heritage listings
Norman Park has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:
68–88 Agnew Street: Norman Park State School
75 McIllwraith Avenue: Eulalia
97 Wynnum Road: former Brisbane City Council Tramways Substation No 9
Education
Norman Park State School is a government primary (Prep–6) school for boys and girls at 68–88 Agnew Street (). In 2017, the school had an enrolment of 457 students with 36 teachers (29 full-time equivalent) and 16 non-teaching staff (11 full-time equivalent). Coorparoo State School in Coorparoo and Seven Hills State School in Seven Hills also enrol students from the southern part of Norman Park.
There are no secondary schools in Norman Park. The nearest secondary school is Coorparoo Secondary College in Coorparoo.
Public transport
Three radial bus corridors pass through the suburb. The Wynnum Road corridor in the suburb's north is serviced by three bus routes that travel between the Brisbane central business district and eastern suburbs. These routes when combined offer frequent service with a long span, particularly on weekdays. The Stanley Street East-Canara Street-Crown Street-Bennetts Road corridor through the centre of the suburb is serviced by one all-stops bus route that travels between the Brisbane central business district and Carindale Shopping Centre bus station. This route has limited frequency and span. This corridor is also serviced by two alternating express bus routes between the Brisbane central business district and Cannon Hill Shopping Centre bus station and eastern suburbs, observing Norman Park and Norman Park North express stops. These two routes when combined provide frequent service with a relatively long span. The Stanley Street East-Milsom Street-McIlwraith Avenue corridor in the suburb's south is serviced by one all-stops route that travels between the Brisbane central business district and Cannon Hill Shopping Centre bus station. This route has limited frequency and span, but is supplemented during peak periods by a limited stops route that runs express along Stanley Street East.
The Cleveland railway line passes through the suburb, with Norman Park station located centrally. Trains operate at a 15-minute off-peak frequency and higher peak period frequency during weekdays, and a lower 30-minute frequency on weekends. This line has a long service span.
Norman Park Ferry Terminal is located off Wynnum Road in the suburb's north. The cross-river ferry service was ended in 2020 by the Brisbane City Council due to low passenger numbers.
Despite the suburb being well serviced by three modes of public transport, no formal coordination exists between them aside from the Translink fare structure and relatively high frequency standards. The suburb is situated within Translink Zone 2, which makes it attractive to city commuters with respect to relatively cost-effective transit travel.
Walking and cycling
The suburb's terrain varies from flat on the Norman Creek floodplain in the suburb's south and west towards Coorparoo and East Brisbane, to hilly in the suburb's north towards Hawthorne and Morningside, and east towards Seven Hills and Camp Hill. Traffic conditions are busy along its major roads including Canara Street-Crown Street-Macrossan Avenue, Bennetts Road, and Wynnum Road. Recreational cycling opportunities are consequently limited on the north and east sides of the suburb. However, the presence of parkland between Norman Avenue and Norman Creek, including the Norman Creek Cycleway, provides for good opportunities on its south and west sides. As at February 2016 several citywide cycle routes pass through the suburb. This includes Wynnum Road, which has a shared pedestrian/bicycle path due to narrow traffic lanes, Canara Street-Crown Street-Macrossan Avenue, which is line-marked as a Bicycle Awareness Zone (yellow stencil stylized bicycle marked on edge of vehicle travel lane), and Bennetts Road, which has formal bicycle lanes south of Agnew Street. Packs of cyclists are commonplace along these routes early on weekend mornings.
The hilly terrain in the suburb's north and east sides, busy traffic conditions and bisection by the Cleveland railway line also impose some impediment to local walking opportunities. However, the semi-grid structure of the road and street network and the presence of urban borders (verges) on almost all roadways promote relatively direct and safe walking conditions. The higher order local streets and the major roads mostly have paved footpaths on one or both sides. The major roads contain numerous signalised intersections with pedestrian control, which are typically located adjacent to bus stops. Refuge islands support safe crossing of certain other roads and streets. In addition to local pocket parks, nearby recreational walking attractions include parkland and sporting fields along both banks of Norman Creek, rugby fields at C.P. Bottomley Park, Norman Park Ferry Terminal and Canning Bridge reserves on the south bank of the Brisbane River, and Balmoral Park in Morningside. Seven Hills Bushland Reserve is also located within walking distance of the eastern side of Norman Park.
Notable people
Kevin Rudd, former Australian prime minister, owned a property in Norman Crescent, Norman Park while he was in office. He has since sold it.
Wally Lewis once owned a property in Power Street, Norman Park
See also
List of tramways in Queensland
References
Further reading
External links
Suburbs of the City of Brisbane |
2257970 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everybody%20Loves%20a%20Lover | Everybody Loves a Lover | "Everybody Loves a Lover" is a popular song which was a hit single for Doris Day in 1958. Its lyricist, Richard Adler, and its composer, Robert Allen, were both best known for collaborations with other partners. The music Allen composed, aside from this song, was usually for collaborations with Al Stillman, and Adler wrote the lyrics after the 1955 death of his usual composing partner, Jerry Ross.
Background and Doris Day recording
The song's genesis was a comment made to Adler by his lawyer: "You know what Shakespeare said: 'All the world loves a lover.'" (In fact, this was a misattribution of a quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson.) Adler and Allen quickly wrote "Everybody Loves a Lover" in New York City. Doris Day and Adler knew each other through Day's having starred in the film version of The Pajama Game whose songs Adler and Ross had written (originally for the stage musical version of The Pajama Game), and Day had mentioned to Adler that she was looking for a new novelty song to record and Allen on a visit to Los Angeles presented "Everybody Loves a Lover" for consideration by Day, her husband-manager Marty Melcher, and Mitch Miller, who headed Columbia Records, for which company Day recorded. Although Day, Melcher and Miller all saw the song's potential as a hit for Day, Melcher made Day's recording of "Everybody Loves a Lover" conditional on the song's copyright being granted to Artists Music, the publishing firm he owned with Day – a condition to which Allen was not agreeable. However, after a few days, Melcher phoned Allen to say that Day would record the song without her and Melcher acquiring its publishing rights.
Day recorded "Everybody Loves a Lover" in May 1958 with Frank DeVol producing and Earl Palmer on drums. Issued as Columbia catalog number 41195, "Everybody Loves a Lover" first reached the Billboard magazine charts on July 21, 1958. On the Disk Jockey chart, it peaked at number 6; on the Best Seller chart, at number 17; and on the Hot 100 composite chart, it reached number 14. The Doris Day version is noteworthy for the third verse, in which, through overdubbing, the first four lines of verse 2 are superimposed on the first four lines of verse 1, creating a counterpoint duet. The two segments end on the same word, "Pollyanna", sung in harmony. The song was Day's last big charting hit in the US, although she would hit number 4 in 1964 in the UK with the title song of her then-current movie Move Over, Darling. The Doris Day version of "Everybody Loves a Lover" was used in the soundtrack for the BBC's period drama Call the Midwife.
The Shirelles version and rock and roll remakes
"Everybody Loves a Lover" was remade by the Shirelles in 1962, reaching #19 in January 1963: this version, the group's final collaboration with producer Luther Dixon, replicates the backbeat and instrumentation of the Barbara George hit "I Know (You Don't Love Me No More)".
Cash Box described it as "a contagious New Orleans-styled shuffle showcase," saying that "the gals (and the instrumentalists) polish it off in sparkling style."
Besides concurrent covers for the UK market by both the Undertakers and Cliff Bennett, the Shirelles' version of "Everybody Loves a Lover" was also the template for the Sandie Shaw version recorded for her 1965 Sandie album, and also the Peaches and Herb version recorded for their 1967 album For Your Love. Also a live performance by Beryl Marsden of "Everybody Loves a Lover" with the Shirelles' version's arrangement was recorded at the Cavern Club in June 1963 and released on the multi-artist album At The Cavern released 1964. Checkmates, Ltd. released a version of the song as part of a medley on their 1967 debut album, Live! At Caesar's Palace. Guy Mitchell also recorded the song in 1960.
Remakes - pop music
In its original traditional pop format, "Everybody Loves a Lover" has also been recorded by The Angels (whose 1962 version bubbled under the Hot 100 with a #103 peak), Alice Babs (as "Den som glad är" Swedish), Chisu (as "Kellä Kulta, Sillä Onni" Finnish), Sacha Distel (as "Dis! O Dis!" French), Nana Gualdi (as "Junge Leute Brauchen Liebe" German), Jan Howard, Laila Kinnunen (as "Kellä Kulta, Sillä Onni" Finnish), Lill-Babs (as "Den som glad är" Swedish), Angélica María (as "Vivaracho" Spanish), Guy Mitchell, Jane Morgan, Line Renaud (as "Dis! O Dis!" French), and Keely Smith. In 2010 Australian singer Melinda Schneider recorded the song for her Doris Day tribute album Melinda Does Doris. Instrumental versions have been recorded by Joe Loss and Shirley Scott.
On 19 November 2015 a remake of "Everybody Loves a Lover" by Scott Dreier and Jane Monheit was made available for download at the Doris Day Animal Foundation website in return for a $5 donation, all donations thus raised going in their entirety to the Doris Day Animal Foundation, the song's publishers as well as the artists having waived any royalties. Recorded at EastWest Studios, the track is a preview of Dreier's upcoming tribute CD The Doris Day Project.
References
1958 songs
1958 singles
1962 singles
1963 singles
Songs written by Richard Adler
Songs with music by Robert Allen (composer)
Doris Day songs
The Shirelles songs
Guy Mitchell songs
The Angels (American group) songs
Checkmates, Ltd. songs
Scepter Records singles |
124627 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birchdale%20Township%2C%20Todd%20County%2C%20Minnesota | Birchdale Township, Todd County, Minnesota | Birchdale Township is a township in Todd County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 814 at the 2000 census and grew to 931 for the 2020 census.
Birchdale Township was organized in 1869.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of , of which is land and (8.57%) is water.
Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there were 814 people, 318 households, and 221 families residing in the township. The population density was . There were 568 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the township was 99.26% White, 0.12% Asian, and 0.61% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.12% of the population.
There were 318 households, out of which 33.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 61.9% were married couples living together, 2.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 30.5% were non-families. 27.0% of all households were made up of individuals, and 10.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.56 and the average family size was 3.14.
In the township the population was spread out, with 28.3% under the age of 18, 5.3% from 18 to 24, 26.8% from 25 to 44, 25.2% from 45 to 64, and 14.5% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 40 years. For every 100 females, there were 108.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 113.1 males.
The median income for a household in the township was $33,750, and the median income for a family was $47,667. Males had a median income of $30,139 versus $24,688 for females. The per capita income for the township was $22,056. About 5.2% of families and 10.9% of the population were below the poverty line, including 13.7% of those under age 18 and 11.7% of those age 65 or over.
References
Townships in Todd County, Minnesota
Townships in Minnesota |
270174 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tap%20and%20die | Tap and die | Taps and dies are tools used to create screw threads, which is called threading. Many are cutting tools; others are forming tools. A tap is used to cut or form the female portion of the mating pair (e.g. a nut). A die is used to cut or form the male portion of the mating pair (e.g. a bolt). The process of cutting or forming threads using a tap is called tapping, whereas the process using a die is called threading.
Both tools can be used to clean up a thread, which is called chasing. However, using an ordinary tap or die to clean threads generally removes some material, which results in looser, weaker threads. Because of this, machinists generally clean threads with special taps and dies—called chasers—made for that purpose. Chasers are made of softer materials and don't cut new threads. However they still fit tighter than actual fasteners, and are fluted like regular taps and dies so debris can escape. Car mechanics, for example, use chasers on spark plug threads, to remove corrosion and carbon build-up.
History
While modern nuts and bolts are routinely made of metal, this was not the case in earlier ages, when woodworking tools were employed to fashion very large wooden bolts and nuts for use in winches, windmills, watermills, and flour mills of the Middle Ages; the ease of cutting and replacing wooden parts was balanced by the need to resist large amounts of torque, and bear up against ever heavier loads of weight. As the loads grew ever heavier, bigger and stronger bolts were needed to resist breakage. Some nuts and bolts were measured by the foot or yard. This development eventually led to a complete replacement of wood parts with metal parts of an identical measure. When a wooden part broke, it usually snapped, ripped, or tore. With the splinters having been sanded off, the remaining parts were reassembled, encased in a makeshift mold of clay, and molten metal poured into the mold, so that an identical replacement could be made on the spot.
Metalworking taps and dies were often made by their users during the 18th and 19th centuries (especially if the user was skilled in tool making), using such tools as lathes and files for the shaping, and the smithy for hardening and tempering. Thus builders of, for example, locomotives, firearms, or textile machinery were likely to make their own taps and dies. During the 19th century the machining industries evolved greatly, and the practice of buying taps and dies from suppliers specializing in them gradually supplanted most such in-house work. Joseph Clement was one such early vendor of taps and dies, starting in 1828. With the introduction of more advanced milling practice in the 1860s and 1870s, tasks such as cutting a tap's flutes with a hand file became a thing of the past. In the early 20th century, thread-grinding practice went through significant evolution, further advancing the state of the art (and applied science) of cutting screw threads, including those of taps and dies.
During the 19th and 20th centuries, thread standardization was evolving simultaneously with the techniques of thread generation, including taps and dies.
The largest tap and die company to exist in the United States was Greenfield Tap & Die (GTD) of Greenfield, Massachusetts. GTD was so vital to the Allied war effort from 1940–1945 that anti-aircraft guns were placed around its campus in anticipation of possible Axis air attack. The GTD brand is now a part of Widia Products Group.
Tap
A tap cuts or forms a thread on the inside surface of a hole, creating a female surface that functions like a nut. The three taps in the image illustrate the basic types commonly used by most machinists:
Bottoming tap or plug tapThe tap illustrated in the top of the image has a continuous cutting edge with almost no taper — between 1 and 1.5 threads of taper is typical. This feature enables a bottoming tap to cut threads to the bottom of a blind hole. A bottoming tap is usually used to cut threads in a hole that has already been partially threaded using one of the more tapered types of tap; the tapered end ("tap chamfer") of a bottoming tap is too short to successfully start into an unthreaded hole. In the US, they are commonly known as bottoming taps, but in Australia and Britain they are also known as plug taps.
Intermediate tap, second tap, or plug tapThe tap illustrated in the middle of the image has tapered cutting edges, which assist in aligning and starting the tap into an untapped hole. The number of tapered threads typically ranges from 3 to 5. Plug taps are the most commonly used type of tap. In the US, they are commonly known as plug taps, whereas in Australia and Britain they are commonly known as second taps.
Taper tap The small tap illustrated at the bottom of the image is similar to an intermediate tap but has a more pronounced taper to the cutting edges. This feature gives the taper tap a very gradual cutting action that is less aggressive than that of the plug tap. The number of tapered threads typically ranges from 8 to 10. A taper tap is most often used when the material is difficult to work (e.g., alloy steel) or the tap is of a very small diameter and thus prone to breakage.
Power taps The above taps are generally referred to as hand taps, since they are manually operated. During operation, the machinist must periodically reverse a hand tap to break the chip (also known as swarf) that forms from cutting. This prevents the cut material from crowding and breaking the tap.
The most common type of power driven tap is the "spiral point" plug tap, also referred to as a "gun" tap, whose cutting edges are angularly displaced relative to the tap centerline. This feature causes the tap to continuously break the chip and eject it forward into the hole, preventing crowding. Spiral point taps are usually used in holes that go all the way through the material, so that the chips can escape. Another version of the spiral point plug tap is the spiral flute tap, whose flutes resemble those of a twist drill. Spiral flute taps are widely used in high speed, automatic tapping operations due to their ability to work well in blind holes.
Forming tap A quite different kind of tap is a forming tap. A forming tap, aka a fluteless tap or roll tap, simply forcefully displaces the metal into a thread shape upon being turned into the hole, instead of cutting metal from the sides of the hole as cutting taps do. A forming tap closely resembles a cutting tap without the flutes, or very nearly just like a plain thread. There are lobes periodically spaced around the tap that actually do the thread forming as the tap is advanced into a properly sized hole. The threads behind the lobes are slightly recessed to reduce contact friction. Since the tap does not produce chips, there is no need to periodically back out the tap to clear away chips, which, in a cutting tap, can jam and break the tap. Thus thread forming is particularly suited to tapping blind holes, which are tougher to tap with a cutting tap due to the chip build-up in the hole. Forming taps only work in malleable materials such as mild steel or aluminum. Formed threads are typically stronger than cut threads. Note that the tap drill size differs from that used for a cutting tap as shown in most tap drill tables, and that an accurate hole size is required because a slightly undersized hole can break the tap. Proper lubrication is essential because of the frictional forces involved, therefore a lubricating oil is used instead of cutting oil.
Holes
Whether manual or automatic, the processing of tapping begins with forming (usually by drilling) and slightly countersinking a hole to a diameter somewhat smaller than the tap's major diameter. The correct hole diameter is listed on a drill and tap size chart, a standard reference in many machine shops. The proper diameter for the drill is called the tap drill size. Without a tap drill chart, you can compute the correct tap drill diameter with:
where is the tap drill size, is the major diameter of the tap (e.g., ⅜ inch for a ⅜"-16 tap), and is the thread pitch (16 in the case of a ⅜"-16 tap). For a ⅜"-16 tap, the above formula would produce as a result, which is the correct tap drill diameter for a ⅜"-16 tap. The above formula ultimately results in an approximate 75 percent thread.
The correct tap drill diameter for metric-sized taps is computed with:
where is the tap drill size, is the major diameter of the tap (e.g., 10 mm for a M10×1.5 tap), and pitch is the pitch of the thread (1.5 mm in the case of a standard M10 tap) and so the correct drill size is 8.5 mm. This works for both fine and coarse pitches, and also produces an approximate 75 percent thread.
Tap sequence
With soft or average hardness materials, such as plastic, aluminum or mild steel, common practice is to use an intermediate (plug) tap to cut the threads. If the threads must extend to the bottom of a blind hole, the machinist uses an intermediate (plug) tap to cut threads until the point of the tap reaches bottom, and then switches to a bottoming tap to finish. The machinist must frequently eject chips to avoid jamming or breaking the tap. With hard materials, the machinist may start with a taper tap, whose less severe diameter transition reduces the torque required to cut threads. To threads to the bottom of a blind hole, the machinist follows the taper tap with an intermediate (plug) tap, and then a bottoming tap to finish.
Machine tapping
Tapping may either be achieved by a hand tapping by using a set of taps (first tap, second tap & final (finish) tap) or using a machine to do the tapping, such as a lathe, radial drilling machine, bench type drill machine, pillar type drill machine, vertical milling machines, HMCs, VMCs. Machine tapping is faster, and generally more accurate because human error is eliminated. Final tapping is achieved with single tap.
Although in general machine tapping is more accurate, tapping operations have traditionally been very tricky to execute due to frequent tap breakage and inconsistent quality of tapping.
Common reasons for tap breakage are:
Tap-related problems:
Wearing of tap cannot be easily quantified (use of worn-out taps)
Use of tap with improper tap geometry for a particular application.
Use of non-standard or inferior quality taps.
Clogging with chips.
Misalignment between tap and hole.
Over- or under-feeding the tap, causing breakage in tension or compression.
Use of improper and/or insufficient cutting lubricant.
Absence of a torque limiting feature.
Improper or zero float for use with screw machines (recommended feed .1 slower to establish float for 40 tpi or higher and .15 slower for 40 tpi or finer)
Improper spindle speed.
To overcome these problems, special tool holders are required to minimize the chances of tap breakage during tapping. These are usually classified as conventional tool holders and CNC tool holders.
Tool holders for tapping operations
Various tool holders may be used for tapping depending on the requirements of the user:
Aids for hand-tapping (simple jigs and fixtures)
The biggest problem with simple hand-tapping is accurately aligning the tap with the hole so that they are coaxial—in other words, going in straight instead of on an angle. The operator must get this alignment close to ideal to produce good threads and not break the tap. The deeper the thread depth, the more pronounced the effect of the angular error. With a depth of 1 or 2 diameters, it matters little. With depths beyond 2 diameters, the error becomes too pronounced to ignore. Another fact about alignment is that the first thread cut or two establishes the direction that the rest of the threads will follow. You can't correct the angle after the first thread or two.
To help with this alignment task, several kinds of jigs and fixtures can be used to provide the correct geometry (i.e., accurate coaxiality with the hole) without having to use freehand skill to approximate it:
Hand-tapper: A simple fixture analogous to an arbor press in its basic shape. Its spindle is thus held accurately perpendicular to the work. Standard taps are held in the spindle, and the operator turns the spindle manually via a handlebar. This fixture obviates the need for the operator to carefully and skillfully approximate perpendicularity, which even for a skilled operator can easily result in a 2–5° error.
Tapping guide, or "tap and reamer aligner/holder", a simple conical guide slipped over a tap when using a regular tap handle. As with a hand-tapper, the basic principle is simply that of a jig or fixture to provide the correct alignment.
Heads for machine tool spindles
Tapping attachments: these may be normal (available in a range of tap sizes) or quick-change
Quick-change drilling and tapping chucks (variations available for both CNC and manual-control tools)
Rigid tapping attachments (for CNC)
Generally the following features are required of tapping holders:
Twin chucking: tap is held at points of both its circular and square cross-section. Gripping the circular section assures concentricity to the machine spindle, and gripping the square produces positive rotational drive.
Safety clutch: The built in safety mechanism operates as soon as the set torque limit is attained to save the tap from breakage.
Float radial parallel: small misalignments are taken care of by this float.
Length compensation: built in length compensation takes care of small push or pull to the spindle or feed difference.
Tapping case studies with typical examples of tapping operations in various environments are shown on source machinetoolaid.com
Tapping stations
Tapping stations are worktables with a tapping head attached to the end of a pantograph-style arm similar to that of a balanced-arm lamp. The operator guides the tapping head to each (already-drilled) hole and quickly taps it.
Drilling and tapping centers, whose name sounds similar to that of tapping stations, are actually light-duty, affordable machining centers of 2, 2.5, or 3 axes that are designed for a life of mainly drilling and tapping with limited milling use.
Double-lead taps and insert taps need different speeds and feeds, and different starting hole diameters than other taps.
Tap drill sizes
Die
A die cuts an external thread on cylindrical material, such as a rod, which creates a male threaded piece that functions like a bolt. Dies are generally made in two styles: solid and adjustable.
An adjustable die may be adjusted either by an integrated screw or by a set of screws set in to the die holder (termed a "die stock").
Integral adjusting screws may be arranged to work axially, where the movement of the adjusting screw into a threaded hole in the die forces the slit section of the die open, or tangentially where a screw threaded in to one side of the slit bears against the opposite side of the slit.
Dies without integrated screws are adjusted inside the die stock by radially-arranged screws. Two screws in the stock bear in to indentations on either side of the slit, tending to squeeze the slit closed, whilst a third screw with a tapered tip screws in to the slit forcing it open. Working these three screws against each other adjusts the die.
Integrated screws appear to be common in the US but are almost unknown in the UK and Europe.
The dies shown in the image to the right are adjustable:
top left: an older split die, with top adjusting screw
bottom left: a one piece die with top adjusting screw
center: a one piece die with side adjusting screw (barely visible on the full image)
right: two dies without integrated adjusting screws
Solid dies cut a nominal thread form and depth, whose accuracy is subject to the precision the die was made with, and the effects of wear. Adjustable dies can be slightly compressed or expanded to provide some compensation for wear, or to achieve different classes of thread fit (class A, B and more rarely, C). Adjustable taps also exist but are not common. These have a tip that is split through the flutes and an axial screw which forces the cutting edges slightly apart.
The work piece (blank) to be threaded, which is usually slightly smaller in diameter than the die's major diameter, is given a slight taper (chamfer) at the end that is to be threaded. This chamfer helps center the die on the blank and reduces the force required to start the thread cutting. Once the die has started, it self-feeds. Periodic reversal of the die is often required to break the chip and prevent crowding.
s, also known as rethreading dies, are dies made for cleaning up damaged threads, have no split for resizing and are made from a hexagonal bar so that a wrench may be used to turn them. The process of repairing damaged threads is referred to as "chasing." Rethreading dies cannot be used to cut new threads as they lack chip forming teeth. However the external profile of a die does not strictly map to its function. Manufacturers of dies have produced models in a hex form which are intended for the creation of new threads. These appear identical to solid dies in all aspects besides the external shape. Hexagonal thread cutting dies are used with a die stock with hexagonal holding features.
Lubricants
The use of a suitable lubricant is essential with most tapping and threading operations. Recommended lubricants for some common materials are as follows:
Carbon (mild) steel Petroleum-based or synthetic cutting oil.
Alloy steel Petroleum-based cutting oil mixed with a small amount (approximately 10 percent) of kerosene or mineral spirits. This mixture is also suitable for use with stainless steel.
Cast iron No lubricant. A low velocity air blast should be used to clear chips.
Aluminum Kerosene or mineral spirits mixed with a small amount (15–25 percent) of petroleum-based cutting oil. In some cases, products such as WD-40, CRC 5-56 and 3-In-One Oil are acceptable substitutes.
Brass Kerosene or mineral spirits.
Bronze Kerosene or mineral spirits mixed with a small amount (10–15 percent) of petroleum-based cutting oil.
References
Bibliography
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Photo of a hand-tapper
Metalworking hand tools
Screws
Threading (manufacturing) |
30659676 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel%20Donne | Gabriel Donne | Gabriel Donne or Dunne (died 1558) was an English Cistercian monk and was the last Abbot of Buckfast Abbey in Devon, before the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
Origins
He was a son of Sir Angel Donne (d.1505/6), an Alderman of the City of London, resident in 1506 in Bassishaw ward. His London house was notable for a belvedere tower of brick, which was mentioned by Stow in his Survey of London (1598). His will was dated 21 October 1505, in which he describes himself as a Citizen of London, a Grocer and a merchant of the Staple of Calais. He desired to be buried in "Our Lady Chapel, St. Margaret Patens, London" and left 200 marks to found a chapel for St. John in the churchyard, whence his body was to be removed. He bequeathed his wife "Anne Dune" one-third of his estate, as was usual for widows, and an additional £100 and household stuff. He gave another third to his minor children Edward, Francis and Elizabeth. The two sons were given an additional £100. Later on in his will he left his son Gabriell £10 to be used to school him at Cambridge or Oxford." Probate was granted on 9 December 1506.
Donne is said by some sources to be descended from the family anciently called "Downe", seated at the manor of "Doune Raph" or "Downe-Ralph", etc. later called "Rowsedown", today called Rousdon near Axminster in Devon. However the arms used by the family of "Doune of Doune Raph" given by the Devon historian Pole (d.1635) are: Paly of six argent and azure on a fesse gules three mullets or, not the same as the Wolf arms of Gabriel Donne visible on the roof of Trinity Hall, Cambridge.
Career
He was admitted a member of St Bernard's College, Oxford, a house for student monks of his order, and proceeded M.A. He afterwards entered the Cistercian house of Stratford Langthorne, Essex. On 26 October 1521 he presented himself before his university as a supplicant for the degree of B.D., but was apparently not admitted.
In 1524 his sister, Elizabeth, widow of Thomas Murfyn (d. 1523), married Sir Thomas Dennis, whose stepdaughter, Donne's niece Frances Murfyn, married, by March 1534, Thomas Cromwell's nephew, Richard. Donne was a student, pretended or real, at Leuven in 1535, he went to Antwerp in the disguise of a servant to Henry Phillips, and there planned with the latter the arrest of William Tyndale, which took place in the city on 23 or 24 May in the same year. He assisted in preparing the case against Tyndale. On his return to England he obtained by the influence of Cromwell, then secretary of state, the abbacy of the house of his order at Buckfastleigh in his native Devon, at that time in the patronage of Vesey, bishop of Exeter, a bitter persecutor of the reformers. He appeared as abbot of that house in the convocation of June 1536, and subscribed the articles then agreed upon. Within two years of his election he alienated much of the monastic property, and on 25 Feb 1538-9, despite the solemn oaths he had taken, he, with nine others of his religious, surrendered his abbey into the hands of Henry VIII. On the following 26 April he was rewarded with the large pension of £120, which he enjoyed till his death. The site of the abbey was granted by the king to his brother-in-law, Sir Thomas Dennis, of Holcombe Burnell in the same county. Donne became prebendary of Mapesbury in St. Paul's Cathedral on 16 March 1540-1 and was instituted to the sinecure rectory of Stepney, Middlesex, 25 October 1544. On the deprivation of Bonner, Bishop of London, in September 1549, Donne, then one of the canons residentiary of St. Paul's Cathedral, was appointed by Archbishop Cranmer to be his official and keeper of the spiritualities, to exercise all manner of episcopal jurisdiction in the City and Diocese of London, which office he continued to fill until Ridley became bishop in April 1550. In making such an appointment Cranmer was probably acting to his own advantage, for he had all along been kept well informed of the part Donne had taken in the betrayal of Tyndale (see letter of Thomas Tebolde to the archbishop, dated 31 July 1535, in 'Letters and Papers of the Reign of Henry VIII,' Cal. State Papers, viii. 1151).
Death and burial
Donne died on 5 December 1558 and was buried on the 9th of that month in St. Paul's Cathedral, near the high altar.
Bequests
His will, dated 5 February 1557-8, with a codicil dated 5 December 1558, was proved on 14 December 1558. He owned the advowson of Grantham Church, Lincolnshire. He gave 'to the late Barnard Colledge in Oxforde soche nomber of my bookes as myne executors shall thinke god.' 'The residue of my goodds and chattells (yf any shalbe) I require myne executors to bestowe at theire discretions to the advauncemente of poore maidens marriages, releef of scolleres and students, specially to soche as myne executors shall thinke metest as shal be towarde lerninge disposed to be preestes and ministers of Christis Churche.' One of his executors was Henry Harvey, LL.D., precentor of St. Paul's (1554), and afterwards master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge (1559).
Donne Scholarship, Trinity Hall
At his instance £120 was received under this bequest by Trinity Hall, Cambridge, which was applied to the foundation of a scholarship and feast. The "Gabriel Downe Scholarship" still exists, and his arms, Azure, a wolf rampant argent a chief of the last, are visible as one of 15 oval escutcheons of various benefactors of the college on the coffered ceiling of Trinity Hall Chapel. The arms of Sir John Donne (died 1503), a Welsh courtier, diplomat and soldier, a notable figure of the Yorkist party, were Azure, a wolf rampant argent, as visible on the Donne Triptych (c.1470) by Hans Memling in the National Gallery, London.
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1558 deaths
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Clergy from Devon
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1939311 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodnite%2C%20Sweetheart%2C%20Goodnite | Goodnite, Sweetheart, Goodnite | "Goodnite, Sweetheart, Goodnite" is a popular song that was a hit during the mid-1950s. It was written by Calvin Carter and James "Pookie" Hudson in 1951, and was first recorded by The Spaniels in 1953. It has also been released by some artists as "Goodnight, Well It's Time to Go".
The Spaniels version
The song was originally released by the R&B doo-wop group The Spaniels in March 1954. The original version peaked at No. 5 on Billboards "Rhythm and Blues Records" chart of "Best Sellers in Stores", No. 5 on Billboards "Rhythm and Blues Records" chart of "Most Played in Juke Boxes", and No. 3 on Cash Boxs Rhythm & Blues Top 15.
The Spaniels' version was ranked No. 20 on Billboards ranking of "1954's Top R&B Records according to Retail Sales" and No. 15 on Billboards ranking of "1954's Top R&B Records according to Juke Box Plays". It was also ranked No. 16 in Cash Boxs ranking of "1954's Top R&B Records as Voted in the Cash Box Poll".
The McGuire Sisters version
The best-selling version of the song was recorded by The McGuire Sisters in 1954. Under the title "Goodnight, Sweetheart, Goodnight", their version reached No. 8 on Billboards chart of "Best Sellers in Stores", No. 7 on Billboards chart of "Most Played in Juke Boxes", and No. 9 on Billboards chart of "Most Played by Jockeys". A million copies of the McGuire Sisters' single were sold.
The McGuire Sisters' version was ranked No. 21 on Billboards ranking of "1954's Top Popular Records according to Juke Box Plays". It was also ranked No. 33 in Cash Boxs ranking of "1954's Top Pop Records as Voted in the Cash Box Poll".
Johnnie & Jack version
It was also recorded in 1954 by country music duo Johnnie & Jack, whose version reached No. 3 on Billboards "Country & Western Records" chart "Most Played by Jockeys", No. 4 on Billboards "Country & Western Records" chart "Best Sellers in Stores", No. 4 on Billboards "Country & Western Records" chart "Most Played in Juke Boxes", No. 4 on Cash Boxs chart of "The 10 Top Folk & Western Best Sellers", No. 4 on Cash Boxs chart of "The Ten Folk and Western Disk Jockeys Played Most This Week", and No. 4 on Cash Boxs chart of "Hillbilly, Folk & Western Juke Box Tunes".
Johnnie & Jack's version was ranked No. 20 on Billboards ranking of "1954's Top C&W Records according to Retail Sales" and No. 21 on Billboards ranking of "1954's Top C&W Records according to Juke Box Plays". It was also ranked No. 17 in Cash Boxs ranking of "1954's Top Country Records as Voted in the Cash Box Poll".
Other versions
Sunny Gale also released a version in 1954, which reached No. 27 on Billboards chart of "Best Sellers in Stores".
The song reached No. 8 on the Cash Box Top 50, in a tandem ranking of the McGuire Sisters, Sunny Gale, the Spaniels, Johnnie & Jack, Ella Mae Morse, and Gloria Mann & Carter Rays' versions, with the McGuire Sisters and Sunny Gale's versions marked as bestsellers, while reaching No. 5 on Cash Boxs Top Ten Juke Box Tunes chart, and No. 7 on Cash Boxs chart of "The Ten Records Disk Jockeys Played Most This Week", in a tandem ranking of the McGuire Sisters and Sunny Gale's versions. The song also reached No. 8 on Billboards "Honor Roll of Hits", with the McGuire Sisters, the Spaniels, and Sunny Gale's versions listed as best sellers.
Later use
The Spaniels re-recorded the song in 1969 for Buddah Records; however, the title was shown as "Goodnight Sweetheart" and the songwriting misattributed to Ray Noble, Jimmy Campbell, Reg Connelly and Rudy Vallee, implying they covered the 1930s standard.
The song became well known again in the late 1970s as the closing song performed by Sha Na Na on their weekly variety show, as well as because of its appearance in the 1973 movie American Graffiti.
In 1975, Australian band Ol' 55 released a version as their debut single. The song peaked at number 95 on the Kent Music Report.
In the late 1980s it was used again as a lullaby in the major hit film Three Men and a Baby.
For many years, Dick Biondi played the song at the end of every show on Chicago's 94.7 WLS-FM.
The Johnnie & Jack version was used by NTV in Tokyo, Japan from 2000 to 2001 when the broadcasting in a day ended and not having the NNN24.
References
1954 songs
1954 singles
1975 singles
Vee-Jay Records singles
Coral Records singles
RCA Victor singles
The McGuire Sisters songs
Johnnie & Jack songs
Ol' 55 (band) songs |
10953440 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multinational%20Brigade%20South-East%20%28Romania%29 | Multinational Brigade South-East (Romania) | The Multinational Brigade South-East (MN BDE SE) is an infantry brigade of the Romanian Land Forces. Until April 2017 the brigade was named 2nd Infantry Brigade "Rovine", but has since become one of Romania's contributions to NATO. The "Rovine" was deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq for peacekeeping missions.
History
The brigade was formed on 1 April 1883. It participated in both World Wars. In 1916, the Brigade was composed of the 1st and the 31st Infantry Regiment, and was part of the 1st Infantry Division. It took part in the Romanian Campaign of World War I, and in the Hungarian–Romanian War of 1919.
In 1970, the 2nd Infantry Brigade Craiova was formed. It was named after the Battle of Rovine, which took place in 1395. Starting from 1995, the brigade began participating in international exercises. Troops from the brigade were also deployed in international missions in Angola, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Iraq, and Afghanistan. During the deployment to Angola, the 26th Infantry Battalion took the nickname "Red Scorpions". During the multinational deployments, the name of the unit was registered as such by an American commander, thus becoming the first Romanian unit with an official nickname. Following the 26th Battalion example, the other battalions of the brigade also received a "scorpion" nickname.
Multinational Brigade
During the 2016 Warsaw summit, NATO secretary general Jens Stoltenberg announced that a Romanian Army brigade was going to be transformed into a NATO Multinational Brigade. Following a meeting of the Romanian Supreme Council of National Defence in September 2016, the President of Romania announced that the 2nd Infantry Brigade was to take the role of the multinational brigade. The Multinational Brigade was declared fully operational by the Deputy Commander of the Allied Land Command in 2018 following the evaluation exercise Scorpions Fury 2018. The brigade is currently subordinated to the Headquarters Multinational Division Southeast from Bucharest.
On 10 August 2023, structures of the Multinational Brigade participated at the establishment ceremony of the newly created 24th Infantry Battalion. The new battalion, named after Ecaterina Teodoroiu, is to be subordinated to the brigade and has its headquarters in Târgu Jiu.
Organization 2022
Multinational Brigade South-East (HQ MN BDE-SE), in Craiova
20th Infantry Battalion "Dolj" ("Black Scorpions"), in Craiova
22nd Infantry Battalion "Romanați" ("Green Scorpions"), in Caracal
Portuguese Contingent (Força Nacional Destacada - FND), in Caracal
24th Infantry Battalion "Ecaterina Teodoroiu", in Târgu Jiu
26th Infantry Battalion "Neagoe Basarab" ("Red Scorpions"), in Craiova
Polish Motorized Company, in Craiova
116th Logistic Battalion "Iancu Jianu" ("Golden Scorpions"), in Craiova
205th Air Defense Battalion "General Gheorghe Pârvulescu" ("Blue Scorpions"), in Craiova
325th Artillery Battalion "Alutus" ("Fire Scorpions"), in Caracal
Battle Group Forward Presence (BGFP), in Cincu
Army of North Macedonia Contingent, in Caracal
References
External links
Official Site of the Romanian Land Forces
Headquarters Multinational Brigade South East official Facebook page
Brigades of Romania
Military units and formations established in 1970
Military units and formations of NATO |
3894378 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radoy%20Ralin%20Peak | Radoy Ralin Peak | Radoy Ralin Peak (, ) is a 720 m peak in the Levski Ridge in Tangra Mountains on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica surmounting Iskar Glacier to the east and the Huron Glacier terminus to the north-northwest. It was named after the Bulgarian writer Dimitar Stoyanov, who used Radoy Ralin as a pseudonym.
Location
The peak's highest point is located at , which is 2.25 km south-southeast of Yana Point, 620 m east of Intuition Peak and Cherepish Ridge, 1.47 km north of Helmet Peak and 1.86 km northwest of Shishman Peak (Bulgarian topographic survey Tangra 2004/05, and mapping in 2005).
Maps
L.L. Ivanov et al. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, 2005.
L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.
L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Smith Island. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2017.
A. Kamburov and L. Ivanov. Bowles Ridge and Central Tangra Mountains: Livingston Island, Antarctica. Scale 1:25000 map. Sofia: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2023.
References
Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
External links
Radoy Ralin Peak. Copernix satellite image
Mountains of Livingston Island |
38008756 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C5%8Dhei | Yōhei | Yōhei, Yohei, Youhei or Yohhei is a masculine Japanese given name.
Possible writings
Yōhei can be written using different combinations of kanji characters. Some examples:
洋平, "ocean, flat/peace"
洋兵, "ocean, soldier"
瑶平, "precious stone, flat/peace"
陽平, "sunshine, flat/peace"
陽兵, "sunshine, soldier"
容平, "contain, flat/peace"
燿平, "shine, flat/peace"
燿兵, "shine, soldier"
葉平, "leaf, flat/peace"
庸平, "common, flat/peace"
The name can also be written in hiragana ようへい or katakana ヨウヘイ.
Notable people with the name
, Japanese voice actor
, Japanese professional wrestler
, Japanese footballer
, Japanese footballer
, Japanese footballer
, Japanese footballer
, Japanese professional wrestler
, Japanese politician
, Japanese sumo wrestler
, Japanese footballer
, Japanese politician
, Japanese footballer
, Japanese footballer
, Japanese footballer
, Japanese footballer
, Japanese baseball player
, Japanese footballer
, Japanese footballer
, Japanese activist
, Japanese footballer
, Japanese judoka
, Japanese footballer
, Japanese footballer
, Japanese footballer
, Japanese footballer
, Japanese footballer
Fictional characters
Yohei Sunohara (春原 陽平), character in the visual novel Clannad
Yohei Hama (浜 洋平 Hama Yōhei) - Blue Turbo (ブルーターボ Burū Tābo), character in Kousoku Sentai Turboranger
Yohei Yamada (山田 ヨウヘイ), character from the anime and manga Chi's Sweet Home. Yohei is a little boy who finds Chi when she gets lost. He is cheerful, kind, obedient, and fond of toy trains.
Japanese masculine given names
Masculine given names |
3489578 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulk%20transfer | Bulk transfer | Bulk transfer may refer to:
Bulk sale, an ownership transfer of inventory to another company
Bulk transport, the transportation of bulk cargo |
38627615 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay%20Andrijic | Jay Andrijic | Jay Andrijic (, ; born 3 October 1995) is an Australian tennis player. Andrijic along with Bradley Mousley won the 2013 Australian Open – Boys' doubles title defeating Maximilian Marterer and Lucas Miedler 6–3, 7–6(7–3) .
Andrijic made the ATP top 1000 after reaching the semi-finals of the Australian Futures (F10) in October 2013.
ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals
Doubles: 4 (2–2)
Junior Grand Slam finals
Doubles: 1 (1–0)
References
External links
1995 births
Living people
Australian male tennis players
Tennis players from Sydney
Australian Open (tennis) junior champions
Grand Slam (tennis) champions in boys' doubles
Sportsmen from New South Wales |
1947073 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainer%20Knopff | Rainer Knopff | Rainer Knopff is a writer, professor of political science at the University of Calgary, Canada, and member of a group known as the Calgary School. He especially well known for his views about the influence of judicial decisions on Canadian public policy. In 2010, Knopff was appointed by the then Prime Minister Stephen Harper to the Governor General Consultation Committee, a special committee to recommend a successor to Governor General of Canada Michaëlle Jean. The panel recommended David Johnston who was installed as viceroy on October 1, 2010.
Affiliations
Rainer Knopff is often described as a member of the Calgary School, which includes a group of conservatively inclined professors at the University of Calgary, such as Barry Cooper, F.L.(Ted) Morton, Tom Flanagan (political scientist) and history professor David Bercuson who are strongly committed to strategic and direct influence on public affairs with a long term vision.
By 1998, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a public policy research institution based in Washington, DC had already observed the ascendancy of the role of Calgary-based academics on Canadian public policy, specifically the Calgary School of political science (Rovinsky 1998:10).
The Calgary School are clever strategists who chose to write about contentious, controversial and current topics that "people care about" by simplifying and polarizing complex and sensitive issues giving them dramatic interest and mass appeal. Their role is not to clarify public policy alternatives available to help political leaders make informed choices.
Criticism of Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Rainer Knopff writes on constitutional and judicial politics (Knopff 2008:44) and since 1982, has been particularly active in challenging the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, often with F. L. Morton,
In their book entitled The Charter Revolution & the Court Party Morton and Knopff (2000) argue that "the advent of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms has drastically increased the power of judges in Canadian society. In deciding to use their new powers in an activist way, judges have been urged on by what Morton and Knopff call "the Court Party," a loose coalition of feminists, civil libertarians, government lawyers, Supreme Court clerks, law professors, and social activists, many funded principally by government (Morton and Knopff 2000:55).".
Controversy
Knopff entered a highly-controversial debate to defend a Calgary School colleague whose career ended abruptly when his comments on the consumption of child pornography were publicized. In a statement from Elizabeth Cannon, President of the University of Calgary, regarding remarks made by Tom Flanagan, the university sought to distance itself from Flanagan's comments by declaring that they "absolutely do not represent the views of the University of Calgary. In the university's view, child pornography is not a victimless crime. All aspects of this horrific crime involve the exploitation of children. Viewing pictures serves to create more demand for these terrible images, which leads to further exploitation of defenseless children" (Cannon 2013)"
In his criticism of the university, the CBC, and the Manning Institute, Knopff cited the "famous Sharpe case" in which "both the trial judge and the B.C. Court of Appeal struck down Canada's criminal prohibition of possessing child pornography" in what was called a "courageous" act in the face of a "hallmark of tyranny." Rainer agreed with the possession offence but also with his colleague's statement that the demand-side consumption of child pornography is one of personal liberty and suggested that as opposed to the production side, which is a more harmful crime, it could be addressed by treatment, not incarceration.
References
Sources
Canadian political scientists
Canadian non-fiction writers
Knopff, Ranier
McMaster University alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
14584806 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dzerzhinsky%20Political-Military%20Academy%20in%20Warsaw | Dzerzhinsky Political-Military Academy in Warsaw | The Felix Dzerzhinsky Political-Military Academy () – was a Soviet style military academy, established by the communist government, in the People's Republic of Poland. It operated in Warsaw from 1951 until 1990, and was an institution with high school status, founded for indoctrination of higher command of military forces of Communist Poland. The alumni of the Political-Military Academy became political commissars in the Army.
History
The academy was opened on March 22, 1951, in the campus that had been used by the Academy of Political Officers at Rembertow. On July 18, 1951, it was named after Felix Dzerzhinsky. Soon afterwards, it was moved to former Europejski Hotel in the center of Warsaw, and in 1954 it was moved again, to the campus of Academy of Polish Army Headquarters, located on Opaczewska Street.
The academy's structure was based on Moscow's V.I. Lenin Political-Military Academy, as its founder, Colonel Jan Hoffman was its graduate. Most of its staff were officers of the former Academy of Political Officers, as well as a group of Red Army political officers. Among lecturers were Jerzy Wiatr, Tadeusz Kotarbinski, Stefan Michnik, and Stanislaw Kania.
In the first years of existence, the academy had eight faculties:
History of Poland and Polish Workers’ Movement,
History of the World and International Workers’ Movement,
History of Wars and Warfare,
History of Tactics and Headquarters,
History of War Geography,
History of Political Economics,
History of Marxism–Leninism,
History of Party and Political Work.
In 1954, the Military-Legal Faculty was added. In December 1958, the faculties of History and Pedagogy were added, and in early 1961, the Military Legal Institute was opened within the academy. In 1966, the Center of Social Studies was opened.
The academy was dissolved on May 21, 1990, and most of its campus was transferred to Warsaw University.
Structure
Command
Teaching units
Faculty of Education and Politics
Historical and Political Department
Economic and Military Department
Military Institute of Law
Foreign Language Center
Center for Social Research
Branch of Organization and Training Planning
Science and Research Department
HR Department
Finance Department
school Divisions
Security Sub-units
Commanders
Michał Stankiewicz (1951-1954)
Jan Hoffman (1954-1956)
Adam Uziembło (1956-1958)
Józef Urbanowicz (1958-1960)
Eugeniusz Kuszko (1960-1965)
Edward Braniewski (1965-1969)
Henryk Koczara (1969-1972)
Władysław Polański (1972-1989)
Mieczysław Michalik (1989-1990)
Notable Professors
Czesław Madajczyk
Julian Polan-Haraschin
Stanisław Herbst
Jerzy Wiatr
Jan Szczepański
Notable alumni
Janusz Bojarski
References
1951 establishments in Poland
Educational institutions established in 1951
1990 disestablishments in Poland
Polish People's Republic
Defunct universities and colleges in Poland
Universities and colleges in Warsaw
Stalinism in Poland
Military education and training in Poland |
16792092 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girolando | Girolando | The Girolando is a breed of dairy cattle created in Brazil by crossing Gyr cattle, a Bos indicus breed which is resistant to hot temperatures and tropical diseases, with Holstein cows, a Bos taurus breed. Coat colors vary from black to black-and-white
Approximately 80% of the milk production in Brazil is produced from Girolando cows. A Girolando is 3/8 Gir and 5/8 Holstein.
References
External links
Girolando calves in heat stress research
Cattle breeds originating in Brazil
Dairy cattle breeds |
43236799 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil%20%28film%29 | Oil (film) | Oil is a 2009 documentary film directed by Massimiliano Mazzotta. It explores the Italian energy provider Saras S.p.A., operating in the area of oil refining and the production of electricity, located in the island of Sardinia, near Cagliari and the impact of oil development on the land and lives of the local population.
Awards
Best Documentary – Section Italian Documentaries Italian Environmental Film Festival, 2009
External links
Il Documento Oil. Documentario sulla Saras English subtitles
2009 films
2009 in the environment
2009 documentary films
Documentary films about environmental issues
Documentary films about petroleum
Films shot in Sardinia
Italian documentary films
2000s Italian-language films
2000s Italian films |
9499251 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antinaturalism%20%28politics%29 | Antinaturalism (politics) | Antinaturalism, or anti-naturalism, is a movement arguing against naturalist and essentialist ideology; it is associated with antispeciesism, anti-racism, and feminism. Its philosophy is closely linked to the French animal rights movement and is also supported by xenofeminists, who advocate for a form of feminism holding that if nature is unjust, it should be changed, as well as transhumanists. Notable advocates include David Olivier and Yves Bonnardel.
Philosophy
Antinaturalists defend the inherent and absolute moral permissibility of abortion, body modification, divorce, contraception, sex reassignment surgery, and other means by which they believe human beings can assume control of their own bodies and their own environments.
Antinaturalism stands in contrast to some radical environmentalist movements, which state that nature itself is sacred and should be preserved for its own sake; instead it advances the idea that all human acts are natural and that ecological preservation is important inasmuch as it is necessary for the well-being of sentient beings, not because of some inherently sacred attribute of nature as a whole. Yves Bonnardel argues that naturalist ideology "goes hand in hand with and legitimises speciesist oppression of non-human sentient beings", and that using natural law to justify the reintroduction of predatory animals to control populations of other animals is a form of speciesism.
See also
Appeal to nature
Gender essentialism
Morphological freedom
Predation problem
Wild animal suffering
References
Stéphane Haber (2006). Critique de l'antinaturalisme. Études sur Foucault, Butler, Habermas ("Critique of Antinaturalism. Studies on Foucault, Butler, Habermas"). France University Press (1, 2).
Animal rights movement
Feminist movements and ideologies
Transhumanism |
40973849 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey%20Polyanskiy | Sergey Polyanskiy | Sergey Polyanskiy (born 29 October 1989) is a Russian athlete who specialises in the long jump. His best result to date is the 8th place at the 2015 World Championships and the fourth place at the 2013 Summer Universiade in Kazan. He also competed at the 2013 World Championships in Moscow without reaching the final.
He has personal bests of 8.16 metres outdoors (2013) and 7.92 metres indoors (2011).
Competition record
References
1989 births
Living people
Russian male long jumpers
World Athletics Championships athletes for Russia
Competitors at the 2009 Summer Universiade
Competitors at the 2013 Summer Universiade |
20965027 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chord%20bible | Chord bible | Chord Bible is the generic name given to a variety of musical theory publications featuring a large number of chord diagrams for fretted stringed instruments. The subject matter applies exclusively to chordophones, stringed musical instruments capable of playing more than one note at a time. Members belonging to the chordophone family include the guitar, banjo, mandolin, ukulele, charango, balalaika, bajo sexto and many other stringed instruments. With the chord bible, the format only tends to apply to fretted or keyboard instruments where a clear diagram can be illustrated to show the musician where to place his or her fingers on the fingerboard or keyboard.
Allied publications will alternatively be labelled chord dictionaries or chord encyclopaedias, but are essentially laid out in a similar way, albeit in a sometimes truncated format.
Selection of currently available publications
Bouzouki
Guitar
Mandolin
Piano & Keyboard
Ukulele
Publishers external links
Apple Press
Fretted Friends Music/Cabot Books
IMP/Faber Music
Music publications |
16059179 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General%20Isidoro%20Resqu%C3%ADn | General Isidoro Resquín | General Isidoro Resquín is a city & district in the San Pedro department of Paraguay. Named after Francisco Isidoro Resquín it was established in 1981 by decision of Alfredo Stroessner.
It has about 22,350 inhabitants who engage in agriculture and trade in the capital of the department (San Pedro del Ycuamandyyú).
It is separated from the Canindeyú, (formerly called Canendiyú) by the river Jejuí Guazú.
Hydrography
Apart from the Paraguay River department's major rivers are tributaries of the same:
Aguara Guazu
Jejuì Guazú, .
It has also streams Tajhekil, and the stream Cartei Cué which are tributaries of the river Aguara Guazu.
The district has the following ports: Puerto San Vincente and Puerto San Jose both on the river Jejuí Guazú.
Climate
It is wet and rainy; the relative humidity is 70 to 80%. The average temperature is 23 °C, the highest in summer (in January) is 35 °C and the minimum is 10 °C.
Roads
This district is accessible by Route 3 General Elizardo Aquino.
Its routes are without pavement, roads have all types of paving.
This district has public transport services with interdistrict services and newspapers until Asunción Ciudad del Este Pedro Juan Caballero Argentina, Brazil and Chile.
In terms of telephone communication, most services have dialups and now with satellite systems.
Geography
Bordered on the north by the District Santa Rosa del Aguaray, it is separated by the river Aguaray Guazú.
To the south are districts: Guayaibí and Choré; two districts of the river separating the Jejui Guazú.
At the west lies the district of Lima (San Pedro).
By This is the XIV Canindeyú Department and XIII Department of Amambay.
Indigenous communities
Within indigenous communities that exist in the district include the following:
Santa Carolina (Yvy Ju).
Ka´a Poty - San Vicente.
Naranjito - San Vicente.
Tahekyi – San Luis.
Yvoty Hu.
Economy
Its soil is suitable for agriculture as for the livestock. The city is a major centre of activity that includes livestock production of cattle, horses, sheep and pigs.
In agriculture, the following crops are produced in the district: mate, cotton, snuff, sugarcane, cassava, sesame, Paraguayan cedar, soy, potato, alfalfa, citrus, peanuts, oranges, (sweet and sour), sunflower.
Despite being a department rich in agricultural production and especially cattle, the dominant feature of it is the marked deficiency in terms of infrastructure and human development.
Much of the district's population, or 69.4% is poor and although the rest of the population is not considered poor, the gaps are very marked, the average monthly income per family corresponds to the sum of only 409,151 Guarani, which represents an income per person monthly average of 78,764 Guarani.
The population of the District of General Isidoro Resquín also engages in commercial river fishing.
Education
The educational level of the vast majority of the employed population (more than two-thirds) is very low, less than the first six years of basic instruction. The working population of the department itself lacks a reasonable level of qualification, which conspires against the development of the area.
The illiteracy, due to extreme poverty, which makes it difficult to send their children to school, particularly affects women.
The indigenous bias also has access to primary education, albeit with little notice.
In the area the town has Mennonite schools Jesuit and Dominican.
For the tertiary level and / or University, it has a specialized school, which is the " St. Vincent
Agricultural School "
Language
Predominant language Guarani that approximately 80% of the people speak, and the Spanish-Guarani (yoparà) is spoken by 20% of the remaining population.
Demographics
The General District Resquín, has a total population of 22,350 inhabitants in the urban area is the amount of 1,936 inhabitants, and in the area Rural is 24,543 inhabitants.
Its rural population is 91.33% of the total population.
The total households in the district amounts to the amount of 4,046, of which corresponds to households in urban areas the number of 407, and in rural areas the number of 3,639 households, representing 89.94% of the households are living in rural areas.
As for the main socio-demographic indicators, General Resquín district, we have the following details:
Population less than 15 years 48.2%.
Average of 3.6 children per woman.
Illiterate 9.4%.
Employed by the primary sector 77.7%.
Employed by the secondary sector 5.4%.
Employed in the tertiary sector 16.6%.
Occupied work in the agricultural 76.8%.
Homes with electricity 75.1%.
Homes with running water 55.3%.
Bibliography
Fascicules Journal of Ultima Hora "Paraguay Tourist"
Fascicles of the Journal News "Che Retà Paraguay"
Sources
World Gazeteer: Paraguay – World-Gazetteer.com
External links
National Secretary of Tourism
Populated places in the San Pedro Department, Paraguay |
101628 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus%20Erlendsson%2C%20Earl%20of%20Orkney | Magnus Erlendsson, Earl of Orkney | Saint Magnus Erlendsson, Earl of Orkney, sometimes known as Magnus the Martyr, was Earl of Orkney from 1106 to about 1117.
Magnus's grandparents, Earl Thorfinn and his wife Ingibiorg Finnsdottir, had two sons, Erlend and Paul, who were twins. Through Ingibiorg's father Finn Arnesson and his wife, the family was related to the Norwegian Kings Olav II and Harald II.
Sources
Magnus's story is told in three Norse sagas: Orkneyinga saga (chapters 34–57); Magnús saga skemmri; and Magnús saga lengri.
The Orkneyinga Saga was first written down around the year 1200, some 80–90 years after the death of Magnus, by an unknown Icelandic author. An abridgement of the Magnús saga skemmri (the "Shorter Saga of Magnus") makes up chapters 39–55 of the Orkneyinga Saga. Magnús saga lengri (the "Longer Saga of Magnus") contains additions to the original by a "Meistari Roðbert" ("Master Rodbert") dated to the period 1136–70. Robert of Cricklade is believed to be the original Latin author of these additions. Of the three texts Vigfusson (1887) considers the shorter saga to be the "best authority", noting that it is "of ecclesiastical origin" and "composed with pious intent" rather than to "satisfy a love of good tales". As is commonly the case for medieval saints' tales a short book of miracles is appended to both the shorter and longer lives, although they contain somewhat different material. There is also a surviving Latin account of Magnus's life, the Legenda de sancto Magno, and other material in the Brevarium Aberdonense of 1509/10, no doubt based on the missing Vita by the above magister Rodbert - part of which is included in the Magnús saga lengri.
Biography
Family background
Magnus was the first son of Erlend Thorfinnsson, Earl of Orkney (who ruled jointly with his brother Paal) and Thora, a daughter of Sumarlidi Ospaksson. They had one other son, Aerling, and two daughters, Gunnhild and Cecilia. Erlend also had a natural daughter called Jaddvor. Paul and Erlend remained on friendly terms until their children grew to adulthood, due to the rivalry between Haakon Paulsson and Aerling Erlendsson. Both are described as talented but also quarrelsome and arrogant. Magnus, by contrast, was "a quiet sort of man".
Haakon believed himself to be the most highly-born of the cousins and wanted to be seen as the foremost amongst his kin, but Aerling was not one to back down. The fathers did their best to reach a settlement but it became clear that they were both favouring their own offspring and eventually the earldom was divided into two distinct territories.
Norwegian influence
Haakon Paalsson went on a long journey to Scandinavia, with his cousin Ofeig, latterly staying with his kinsman, Magnus Barefoot the king of Norway. Whilst there he heard that his father Paal had largely handed over control of Orkney to Earl Erlend and his sons and that after a substantial period of peace the people of Orkney were not keen to see Haakon returning. He therefore asked King Magnus for help in the hope of obtaining the earldom for himself. Haakon suggested to the king that he take back direct control of Orkney as a base for raiding further afield. Magnus was persuaded and in 1098 he launched a major campaign, taking his 8-year-old son Sigurd with him. However, King Magnus had designs that were not envisaged by Haakon. He took possession of the islands, deposing both Erlend and Paal Thorfinsson who were sent away to Norway as prisoners, Haakon and his cousins Magnus and Aerling Erlendsson were taken by King Magnus as hostages and Sigurd was installed as the nominal earl. Sigurd's rule was aided by a council, with Haakon as a member of this group.
From Orkney, King Magnus then set out on a raiding expedition along the west coast of Scotland and into the Irish Sea.
Battle of Menai Straits
According to the Orkneyinga Saga, Magnus had a reputation for piety and gentleness, which the Norwegians viewed as cowardice. He refused to fight in a Viking raid in Anglesey, Wales, because of his religious convictions, and instead stayed on board the ship during the Battle of Menai Straits, singing psalms. His brother Aerling died while campaigning with King Magnus, either at that same battle or in Ulster.
Magnus was obliged to take refuge in Scotland, but returned to Orkney in 1105 and disputed the succession with his cousin Haakon. Having failed to reach an agreement, he sought help from King Eystein I of Norway, who granted him the earldom of Orkney and he ruled jointly and amicably with Haakon until 1114.
Execution
Eventually however, the followers of the two earls fell out, and the sides met at the Thing (assembly) on the Orkney mainland, ready to do battle. Peace was negotiated and the Earls arranged to meet each other on the island of Egilsay at Easter, each bringing only two ships. Magnus arrived with his two ships, but then Haakon treacherously turned up with eight ships.
Magnus took refuge in the island's church overnight, but the following day he was captured and offered to go into exile or prison, but an assembly of chieftains, tired of joint rule, insisted that one earl must die. Haakon's standard bearer, Ofeigr, refused to execute Magnus, and an angry Haakon made his cook Lifolf kill Magnus by striking him on the head with an axe. It was said that Magnus first prayed for the souls of his executioners.
According to the sagas, the martyrdom took place after Easter, on 16 April. The year is often given as 1115, but this is impossible as 16 April fell before Easter that year. Sigurd Towrie follows Orkney Historian Gregor Lamb in placing the death of Magnus in 1118. The best authorities now give the date at 1117 and his 900th anniversary was commemorated in his Cathedral in Kirkwall in Orkney in 2017.
Burial
Magnus was first buried on the spot where he died. According to his legend, the rocky area around his grave miraculously became a green field. Later Thora, Magnus' mother, asked Haakon to allow her to bury him in a Church. Haakon gave his permission and Magnus was then buried at Christchurch at Birsay.
There were numerous reports of miraculous happenings and healings. William the Old, Bishop of Orkney, warned that it was "heresy to go about with such tales" and was then struck blind at his church but subsequently had his sight restored after praying at the grave of Magnus, not long after visiting Norway (and perhaps meeting Earl Rognvald Kolsson).
In 1136 Bishop William of Orkney sanctified the murdered Earl Magnus, making him Saint Magnus. It is thought probable that St Magnus Church, Egilsay, was constructed on the island shortly afterwards, at or near the supposed site of the murder. This may have replaced an earlier church which could have already been there at the time of the murder of Magnus.
Magnus's nephew, Rognvald Kali Kolsson, laid claim to the Earldom of Orkney, and was advised by his father Kol to promise the islanders to "build a stone minster at Kirkwall" in memory of his uncle, the Holy Earl, and this became St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall. When the cathedral, begun in 1137, was ready for consecration the relics of St Magnus were transferred. On 31 March 1919, during restoration work, a hidden cavity was found in a column, containing a box with bones including a damaged skull. These are held without (much) doubt to be the relics of St Magnus. The remains were replaced in the pillar in 1926, with the site marked with a cross.
Interpretations
At the time the Orkneyinga saga was first written down Haakon Paalsson's grandson, Harald Maddadsson, was Earl of Orkney and the writer of the saga clearly had some difficulty in portraying the kin-slaying of Magnus Erlendsson. Thomson (2008) concludes that the "assembly" that sentenced Magnus was either invented or heavily emphasised in order to "divert some of the blame from Hakon". Furthermore, in reporting on Earl Haakon's death the saga reports that this was "felt to be a great loss, his later years having been very peaceful".
The beatification of members of the nobility who met a violent death was a common tendency in medieval Scandinavian society. In the case of Earl Magnus it also had a political purpose in that it enabled the surviving descendants of Erlend Thorfinsson and their family to turn this death to their advantage in portraying him as a peaceful martyr. Ultimately they succeeded in maintaining their prominent position in Orkney when Rognvald Kali Kolsson, the son of Magnus's sister Gunnhild became earl in 1136.
In literature and the arts
Saint Magnus is the subject of the novel Magnus by Orcadian author George Mackay Brown, which was published in 1973, St Magnus, Earl of Orkney by John Mooney, and "Saint Magnus, the Last Viking" a novel for young adults by Susan Peek, published in 2016. In 1977 Peter Maxwell Davies wrote a one-act opera, The Martyrdom of St Magnus, based on Mackay Brown's novel. In 1989 the English composer Clive Strutt who lives on the Orkney island of South Ronaldsay composed THREE HYMNS In Praise of Saint Magnus based on a 12th-century theme existing in Uppsala University, Sweden. The song "Higher Ground" by Rasmussen, which represented Denmark at the Eurovision Song Contest 2018, is based on the legend of Magnus Erlendsson.
Affiliations
In the Faroes, the St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkjubøur was built around 1300 A.D., at the time of Bishop Erlendur. It is quite sure that the church was used for services (though it never was finished, or has been destroyed later), for estimated relics of Saint Magnus were found here in 1905. Kirkjubøur is one of the most important Faroese historical sites and expected to become a World Heritage Site. In total there are 21 churches in Europe dedicated to St Magnus.
St Magnus the Martyr is a church near the north end of London Bridge in London originally dating to the 12th century, which was reconstructed under the direction of Christopher Wren in the 17th century.
Other affiliations include:
TS Magnus, Australian Navy Cadets
Magnus House, a day house at the Anglican Church Grammar School, Brisbane.
Anglican Church Grammar School, Patron Saint Magnus, Brisbane.
References
Notes
Citations
Bibliography
Orkneyinga Saga, Íslensk fornrit nr. 34, Hið íslenska fornritafélag, Reykjavik, 1965.
External links
Orkneyjar - St Magnus of Orkney
Norwegian Roman Catholic saints
Earls of Orkney
1080 births
1115 deaths
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Medieval Scottish saints
Mormaers of Caithness
12th-century mormaers
Scottish Roman Catholic saints
Lutheran saints |
47053052 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%20E.%20Goldstein | Raymond E. Goldstein | Raymond Ethan Goldstein (born 1961) FRS FInstP is Schlumberger Professor of Complex Physical Systems in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP) at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge.
Education
Goldstein was educated at the West Orange Public Schools and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa with double major Bachelor of Science degrees in Physics and Chemistry in 1983. He continued his education at Cornell University where he was awarded a Master of Science degree in Physics in 1986, followed by a PhD in 1988 for research on phase transitions and critical phenomena supervised by Neil Ashcroft.
Research
Goldstein's research focuses on understanding nonequilibrium phenomena in the natural world, with particular emphasis on biophysics and has been funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and the European Union 7th Framework Programme on Research & Innovation (FP7). His research has been published in leading peer reviewed scientific journals including Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Physical Review Letters, and the Journal of Fluid Mechanics.
Career
Goldstein has held academic appointments at the University of Chicago, Princeton University and the University of Arizona. He was appointed Schlumberger Professor at the University of Cambridge in 2006.
Awards and honours
Goldstein was awarded the Stefanos Pnevmatikos International Award in 2000. He was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2002, Fellow of the Institute of Physics (FInstP) in 2009 and the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (FIMA) in 2010. With Joseph Keller, Patrick B. Warren and Robin C. Ball, Goldstein was awarded an Ig Nobel Prize in 2012 for calculating the forces that shape and move ponytail hair.
Goldstein was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2013. His nomination reads:
He was awarded the 2016 Batchelor Prize of the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics for his research into active matter fluid mechanics., and the Institute of Physics Rosalind Franklin Medal and Prize for revealing the physical basis for fluid motion in and around active cells.
Personal life
Goldstein married Argentine mathematical physicist Adriana Pesci.
References
1961 births
Living people
People from West Orange, New Jersey
Cornell University alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni
American biophysicists
Academics of the University of Cambridge
Fellows of the Royal Society
Fellows of the Institute of Physics
Fellows of the American Physical Society |
18946030 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postcode%3A%20The%20Splintering%20of%20a%20Nation | Postcode: The Splintering of a Nation | Postcode: The Splintering of a Nation is a book by Australian politician Wayne Swan published in 2005. Swan was the Federal Treasurer from November 2007 to June 2013.
Reception
Swan's concerns were criticised when his government payment reforms were made known to the public. It was alleged, in an article by Jessica Irvine in The Sydney Morning Herald, that restriction of access to family benefits for upper-middle income earners, less than half of whom have any children to provide for, was unjust given the loss of the "baby bonus", worth $5,000 per infant, was not applied in equal measure to those who didn't run a household.
Reviews
Frank Bongiorno noted that the book frames the socialist ideas of "reducing poverty and disadvantage, with education and training to play a key role both in achieving this goal and in lifting the country's economic performance more generally; phasing out private debt and consumption; and creating a more rational interaction between the welfare and tax systems" in a circumspect manner. There was a discernably more nuanced take on the evolution of "disadvantage" than in similar critiques but it then proposes languid (dated) and politicised (apersonal) solutions to such a crisis, thus disengaging the reader, early in the discourse.
References
The World Today: A Divided Nation. Linked file is an audio recording of The World Today program for 15 June 2005.
Australian non-fiction books
2005 non-fiction books |
11277632 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archbishop%20O%27Hara%20High%20School | Archbishop O'Hara High School | Archbishop O'Hara High School was a Catholic high school in Kansas City, Missouri. It was located in the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph. The school was also associated with the De La Salle Christian Brothers, and was one of the ministries of the Midwest District of the Brothers.
Background
Archbishop O'Hara High School was established in 1965. It was named after Archbishop Edwin Vincent O'Hara, former Bishop of the diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph.
O'Hara was a college preparatory high school offering AP courses and university credit through Rockhurst University and the University of Missouri–Kansas City. 100% of its students attended post secondary education with approximately 75% enrolling in four year colleges and universities. O'Hara had great success in sports since its beginnings with state championships in a variety of sports. Sports offered included football, basketball, swimming, soccer, tennis, golf, wrestling, track, cross country.
History
November 2013 saw a Catholic brother at Kansas City's O'Hara High School fired after police confirmed an investigation of suspicious photographs on a school computer that he used. Investigators said that a student had borrowed the brother's computer to print a document. When the student was finished, they closed the application and a suspicious file popped up. The student reported what they saw to the principal and the brother was placed on administrative leave.
The school was closed following the 2016–2017 school year. A new high school, St. Michael the Archangel High School, opened in Lee's Summit in 2017, and some of the faculty moved to the new school. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021.
External links
School Website
Notes and references
Roman Catholic Diocese of Kansas City–Saint Joseph
Defunct Catholic secondary schools in Missouri
High schools in Kansas City, Missouri
Catholic secondary schools in Missouri
Educational institutions established in 1965
1965 establishments in Missouri
National Register of Historic Places in Jackson County, Missouri |
7458159 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne%20Thomas%20%28ice%20hockey%29 | Wayne Thomas (ice hockey) | Robert Wayne Thomas (born October 9, 1947) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Montreal Canadiens, Toronto Maple Leafs, and New York Rangers between 1972 and 1981. He also held several positions in coaching and management in the NHL and the minor leagues, including 22 years in management with the San Jose Sharks.
Playing career
Thomas played junior hockey from 1963 to 1967 with the Ottawa Capitals of the Central Canada Hockey League (CCHL), and was the league's top goaltender in 1965–66. Thomas then played three years of varsity hockey at the University of Wisconsin under coach Bob Johnson. Thomas recorded a shutout in his first game with Wisconsin in 1968, an 11–0 victory against Pennsylvania. He was with the team in its first appearance in the Frozen Four tournament in Lake Placid, New York in 1970. Thomas ranks in the top 10 all-time for Wisconsin goaltenders in save percentage (.909 – 9th all-time) and goals against average (2.84 – 10th all-time) as of the 2019–20 season.
Thomas's National Hockey League rights were originally held by the Toronto Maple Leafs, who traded him to the Los Angeles Kings in 1968, and who in turn traded him to the Montreal Canadiens in 1970.
Thomas played two seasons with the Montreal and Nova Scotia Voyageurs, the American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate of the Montreal Canadiens. With the Voyageurs he won the Calder Cup, the AHL championship trophy, in 1972. The following year, he became the tenth goalie to record a shutout in his NHL debut, with a 3–0 Canadiens victory against the Vancouver Canucks. He won his first seven consecutive home starts, and overall recorded an 8–1 regular season record, but did not play in the playoffs; Thomas was the number 3 goalie behind Ken Dryden and Michel Plasse. In 1973–74, with Dryden sitting out the season to complete his bar exam, he shared duties with Plasse and Michel Larocque, playing 42 games and sporting a 2.76 goals against average, but again was not used in the playoffs. On March 10, 1974, Thomas set a Canadiens record with 53 saves in a 5–4 victory against the Pittsburgh Penguins; the record has since been tied by Carey Price. Thomas's goals against was the fourth-best average in the NHL, and was Montreal's winner of that year's Molson Cup. He then spent the entire 1974–75 season as Montreal's number 3 goalie, but did not see action in a single game as Dryden returned with Larocque as his backup. Thomas was frustrated, but appeased when Montreal general manager Sam Pollock advised him that the team intended to not utilize him but would trade him to a "good situation" in the off season.
After three seasons in Montreal he was traded to the Toronto Maple Leafs in June 1975 for a first-round draft pick. He played in the 1976 All Star game and recorded the win. After two years in Toronto, he became expendable upon the emergence of Mike Palmateer, and the New York Rangers acquired him in the 1977 NHL Waiver Draft, to use him as the backup to John Davidson. When Davidson got injured, Thomas took over as the starter, playing in 41 games that season. Thomas played four seasons with the Rangers and retired in 1981.
Coaching and management career
After retiring as a player, he was hired by the New York Rangers as a goaltending coach, one of the first in professional hockey. By January 1981, Thomas was third on the Rangers' goalie depth chart behind John Davidson and Doug Soetaert, and was seen by coach and general manager Craig Patrick to be more useful to the team as a coach; Thomas was announced to be coaching the team's goalies on January 28. He remained in that position until the end of the 1984–85 season.
In 1985 Thomas became the head coach of the Salt Lake Golden Eagles of the International Hockey League (IHL), a Rangers affiliate. In his second year in Salt Lake City, the Golden Eagles won the Turner Cup and Thomas was awarded the Commissioner's Trophy as the IHL's Coach of the Year.
In 1986, he returned to the NHL as assistant coach of the Chicago Blackhawks, a hiring based in part on his work with goalies such as Mike Vernon with the Golden Eagles, and Glen Hanlon and John Vanbiesbrouck with the Rangers. Under head coach Bob Murdoch, Thomas focused on Chicago's goalies and was involved in the development of Jimmy Waite and Ed Belfour. During the 1989–90 season, Thomas served as head coach of the St. Louis Blues' IHL affiliate, the Peoria Rivermen. In January 1990, the Blues temporarily brought him to St. Louis as a de facto goaltender coach to consult on the development of Blues prospects Vincent Riendeau and Curtis Joseph. That summer Thomas was officially named a Blues assistant coach, with specialty in goaltending, and was specifically hired by head coach Brian Sutter for his experience. Thomas stayed on as an assistant coach in 1992 when St. Louis replaced Sutter with Bob Plager.
In 1993, Thomas left the Blues to join the San Jose Sharks as assistant to the general manager and assistant coach. He remained in that role until the 1995–1996 season, when he was named assistant general manager. He was named vice president of the Sharks in 2001. He remained vice president and assistant general manager until his retirement in 2015.
Personal life
Thomas has a bachelor's degree in physical education from the University of Wisconsin. He and his wife, Barb, have two daughters, Gretchen and Abby, and three grandchildren, Erik, Elsje, and Harrison.
Career statistics
Regular season and playoffs
Awards and honors
References
External links
1947 births
Living people
Canadian ice hockey coaches
Canadian ice hockey goaltenders
Chicago Blackhawks coaches
Ice hockey people from Ottawa
Montreal Canadiens players
Montreal Voyageurs players
New Haven Nighthawks players
New York Rangers coaches
New York Rangers players
Nova Scotia Voyageurs players
St. Louis Blues coaches
San Jose Sharks coaches
San Jose Sharks executives
Stanley Cup champions
Toronto Maple Leafs players
Wisconsin Badgers men's ice hockey players |
54448406 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%86azim%20Sijari%C4%87 | Ćazim Sijarić | Ćazim Sijarić was a commander of a detachment of Muslim militia from Bijelo Polje (in Sandžak) during the Second World War. Sijarić was one of the commanders of the Muslim militia, who was especially in favor of the annexation of the eastern part of Sandzak into the Kingdom of Albania.
Moslem militia in Bijelo Polje was founded by Ćazim Sijarić, Vehbo Bučan and Galjan Lukač. It was under control of Italian division Venezia. A deputy of Sijarić was Smajo Trubljanin. With other commanders of Muslim militia (including Osman Rastoder, Sulejman Pačariz, and Husein Rovčanin) Sijarić participated in a conference in village of Godijeva, and agreed to attack Serb villages near Sjenica and other parts of Sandžak. In early January 1943 the unit under command of Sijarić distinguished itself during attack of Chetniks led by Pavle Đurišić. In November 1943 German Hauptsturmführer Karl von Krempler ordered Muslims and Chetniks in Sandžak to cease their hostilities and to cooperate united under the German command. On 15 November he ordered to Sijarić to establish communication with local Chetnik detachments, as well as to end pillaging and attacks on Serb villages and return stolen livestock, and together with them and Muslim militia commanded by Galijan, to attack communist forces in Bijelo Polje. On 17 November Sijarić replied to Krempler informing him that he intend to follow his orders.
References
Sources
Sandžak Muslim militia
Place of death missing
Date of birth missing
Albanian collaborators with Fascist Italy
Albanian collaborators with Nazi Germany
Albanian nationalists |
69135527 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral%20district%20of%20Ashwood | Electoral district of Ashwood | The electoral district of Ashwood is an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Assembly in Melbourne, Australia. It was created in the redistribution of electoral boundaries in 2021, and came into effect at the 2022 Victorian state election.
Ashwood covers areas of the abolished districts of Burwood and Mount Waverley with its boundaries being Burke Road to the west, the Monash Freeway to the south, Burwood Highway and Toorak Road to the north, and Blackburn Road to the east. The seat contains the suburbs of Ashburton, Ashwood, Chadstone, Glen Iris, Mount Waverley, and parts of Burwood, Burwood East, and Camberwell.
The abolished seats of Burwood and Mount Waverley were held by Labor MPs Will Fowles and Matt Fregon respectively.
Members for Ashwood
Election results
See also
Parliaments of the Australian states and territories
List of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
References
Ashwood, Electoral district of
2022 establishments in Australia
City of Boroondara
City of Whitehorse
City of Monash
Electoral districts and divisions of Greater Melbourne |
72365025 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorubim%20lima | Sorubim lima | Sorubim lima is a species of fish of the Pimelodidae family in the order Siluriformes.
Morphology
Males can reach in total length and in weight. Their body is devoid of scales and covered with bone plaques. It has an irregular gray list from the head to the caudal fin. The head is long and flat. The mouth is round and the upper jaw is larger than the jaw. The eyes are located laterally. Its back is dark brown on the front, yellowish and then whitish below the side line. Its fins are reddish to pink.
Diet
It eats mainly fish and crustaceans.
Habitat
It is a freshwater fish living in a tropical climate .
References
Bloch, M. E. & J. G. Schneider. 1801. M. E. Blochii, Systema Ichthyologiae: i-lx + 1-584, Pls. 1-110.
Zaniboni Filho, E., S. Meurer, O.A. Shibatta i A.P. by Oliverira Nuñer, 2004. Illustrated catalog of fish from the high Uruguay River. Florianópolis: Editora da UFSC : Tractebel Energia. 128 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 25 cm.
IGFA, 2001. Database of IGFA fishing records until 2001. IGFA, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States.
Sorubim lima (Bloch & Schneider, 1801); FishBase.
Peixes de água doce do Brasil - Jurupensém (Sorubim lima); CPT Courses (in Portuguese). Accessed on September 19, 2016.
Bibliography
Eschmeyer, William N., ed. 1998. Catalog of Fishes. Special Publication of the Center for Biodiversity Research and Information, no. 1, vol. 1-3. California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco, California, United States. 2905.
Fenner, Robert M.: The Conscientious Marine Aquarist. Neptune City, New Jersey, United States: T.F.H. Publications, 2001.
Helfman, G., B. Collette and D. Facey: The diversity of fishes. Blackwell Science, Malden, Massachusetts, United States, 1997.
Moyle, P. and J. Cech.: Fishes: An Introduction to Ichthyology, 4th edition, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, United States: Prentice-Hall. Year 2000.
Nelson, J.: Fishes of the World, 3rd edition. New York, United States: John Wiley and Sons. Year 1994.
Wheeler, A.: The World Encyclopedia of Fishes, 2nd edition, London: Macdonald. Year 1985.
Pimelodidae |
22675396 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan%20Pettersson | Johan Pettersson | Johan Pettersson may refer to:
Johan Pettersson (athlete) (1884–1952), Finnish Olympic track and field athlete
Johan Pettersson (footballer, born 1980), Swedish footballer
Johan Pettersson (footballer, born 1989), Dutch-born Swedish footballer
See also
Johan Petersson (disambiguation) |
13232622 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NativityMiguel%20Network%20of%20Schools | NativityMiguel Network of Schools | The NativityMiguel Network of Schools was a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization providing a middle school education to low-income families across the nation. The Network operated 64 schools that served over 5,000 middle school age boys and girls across 27 states. It closed in June 2012.
Though the Nativity Miguel Network Central Office formally dissolved in June 2012, there are still over fifty former network schools in operation around the United States and Canada.
Background
In 1971, a group of Jesuits opened a middle school in the Lower East Side of Manhattan to serve the waves of Dominican and Puerto Rican immigrants settling in the area. The Nativity Mission Center provided their middle school-aged boys with an educational program in which they could excel academically, socially, and spiritually.
The extended school day almost doubled that of the local public school, a low student-to-teacher ratio ensured time for one-on-one instruction, and a summer academic program extended learning year round. They made a commitment to support their graduates through high school and guide them on to college.
The Nativity Mission Center flourished, and by the 1980s had attracted the attention of Catholic educators nationwide. Replications followed creating the Nativity Network of Schools. In 1993, the Christian Brothers opened the first San Miguel School in Providence, Rhode Island. Its replication led to the formation of the Lasallian Association of Miguel Schools. In 2006, these two networks merged to form the NativityMiguel Network of Schools, allowing for a more efficient way to lead member schools to excellence in education for the underserved.
Overview and Mission
The Mission of the NativityMiguel Network was to empower middle schools to provide a unique, faith-based education that breaks the cycle of poverty in underserved communities across America. The NativityMiguel model included an extended day averaging 9.6 hours and an extended year of up to 11 months. The average total enrollment at a member school was 71 students with an average class size of 19 students.
See also
Jesuits
Serviam Girls Academy
Notre Dame Mission Volunteers - AmeriCorps
External links
Nativity Prep of Wilmington
References
Catholic schools in the United States
Associations of schools |
56247172 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member%20and%20Employee%20Training%20and%20Oversight%20On%20Congress%20Act | Member and Employee Training and Oversight On Congress Act | The Member and Employee Training and Oversight On Congress Act, abbreviated as the Me Too Congress Act, was a bill put forward to Congress on 15 November 2017 by Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.). It was in response to the Weinstein effect being felt in the political sphere of America. On November 29, the bill was passed by the United States House of Representatives. On December 7, 2017, Speier announced that the bill had 110 co-sponsors.
References
Proposed legislation of the 115th United States Congress |
9102710 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlil-nasir%20I | Enlil-nasir I | Enlil-nasir I was the king of Assyria from 1497 BC to 1485 BC. In the List of Assyrian kings appears the following entry (king # 62): Enlil-nasir, son of Puzur-Ashur (III), ruled for thirteen years. His name is present on two clay cones from Ashur. He is mentioned in the Synchronistic King list, but the name of the Babylonian counterpart is illegible.
References
15th-century BC Assyrian kings
Year of birth unknown
Year of death unknown |
25571621 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen%20Accord | Copenhagen Accord | The Copenhagen Accord is a document which delegates at the 15th session of the Conference of Parties (COP 15) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change agreed to "take note of" at the final plenary on 18 December 2009.
The Accord, drafted by, on the one hand, the United States and on the other, in a united position as the BASIC countries (China, India, South Africa, and Brazil), is not legally binding and does not commit countries to agree to a binding successor to the Kyoto Protocol, whose round ended in 2012.
Summary
The Accord:
Endorses the continuation of the Kyoto Protocol.
Underlines that climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our time and emphasises a "strong political will to urgently combat climate change in accordance with the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities"
To prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system, recognizes "the scientific view that the increase in global temperature should be below 2 degrees Celsius", in a context of sustainable development, to combat climate change.
Recognizes "the critical impacts of climate change and the potential impacts of response measures on countries particularly vulnerable to its adverse effects" and stresses "the need to establish a comprehensive adaptation programme including international support"
Recognizes that "deep cuts in global emissions are required according to science" (IPCC AR4) and agrees cooperation in peaking (stopping from rising) global and national greenhouse gas emissions "as soon as possible" and that "a low-emission development strategy is indispensable to sustainable development"
States that "enhanced action and international cooperation on adaptation is urgently required to... reduce vulnerability and build.. resilience in developing countries, especially in those that are particularly vulnerable, especially least developed countries (LDCs), small island developing states (SIDS) and Africa" and agrees that "developed countries shall provide adequate, predictable and sustainable financial resources, technology and capacity-building to support the implementation of adaptation action in developing countries"
For mitigation purposes, agrees that developed countries (Annex I Parties) would "commit to economy-wide emissions targets for 2020", to be submitted by 31 January 2010, and agrees that these Parties to the Kyoto Protocol would strengthen their existing targets. Delivery of reductions and finance by developed countries will be measured, reported and verified (MRV) in accordance with COP guidelines.
Agrees that developing nations (non-Annex I Parties) would "implement mitigation actions" (Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions) to slow growth in their carbon emissions, submitting these by 31 January 2010. LDS and SIDS may undertake actions voluntarily and on the basis of (international) support.
Agrees that developing countries would report those actions once every two years via the U.N. climate change secretariat, subjected to their domestic MRV. s seeking international support will be subject to international MRV
Recognizes "the crucial role of reducing emission from deforestation and forest degradation and the need to enhance removals of greenhouse gas emission by forests", and the need to establish a mechanism (including REDD-plus) to enable the mobilization of financial resources from developed countries to help achieve this
Decides to pursue opportunities to use markets to enhance the cost-effectiveness of, and to promote, mitigation actions.
Developing countries, especially these with low-emitting economies should be provided incentives to continue to develop on a low-emission pathway
States that "scaled up, new and additional, predictable and adequate funding as well as improved access shall be provided to developing countries... to enable and support enhanced action"
Agrees that developed countries would raise funds of $30 billion from 2010–2012 of new and additional resources
Agrees a "goal" for the world to raise $100 billion per year by 2020, from "a wide variety of sources", to help developing countries cut carbon emissions (mitigation). New multilateral funding for adaptation will be delivered, with a governance structure.
Establishes a Copenhagen Green Climate Fund, as an operating entity of the financial mechanism, "to support projects, programme, policies and other activities in developing countries related to mitigation". To this end, creates a High Level Panel
Establishes a Technology Mechanism "to accelerate technology development and transfer...guided by a country-driven approach"
Calls for "an assessment of the implementation of the Accord to be completed by 2015. This would include consideration of strengthening the long-term goal", for example to limit temperature rises to 1.5 degrees.
Emissions pledges
To date, countries representing over 80% of global emissions have engaged with the Copenhagen Accord. 31 January 2010 was an initial deadline set under the Accord for countries to submit emissions reduction targets, however UNFCCC Secretary Yvo De Boer later clarified that this was a "soft deadline". Countries continue to submit pledges past this deadline. A selection of reduction targets is shown below. All are for the year 2020.
Compared to 1990:
EU: 20% – 30%
Japan: 25%
Russia: 15% – 25%
Ukraine: 20%
Compared to 2000:
Australia: 5% – 25%
Compared to 2005:
Canada: 17%
US: 17%
Compared to business as usual:
Brazil: 36.1% – 38.9%
Indonesia: 26%
Mexico: 30%
South Africa: 34%
South Korea: 30%
Carbon intensity compared to 2005:
China: 40% – 45%
India: 20% – 25%
China also promised to increase the share of non-fossil fuels in primary energy consumption to around 15% by 2020, and increase forest coverage by 40 million hectares and forest stock volume by 1.3 billion cubic meters by 2020 from the 2005 levels.
Responses
The G77 said that the Accord would only secure the economic security of a few nations.
Australia was happy overall but "wanted more".
India was "pleased", while noting that the Accord "did not constitute a mandate for future commitment".
United States said that the agreement would need to be built on in the future, and that "We've come a long way but we have much further to go."
United Kingdom said "We have made a start" but that the agreement needed to become legally binding quickly. Gordon Brown also accused a small number of nations of holding the Copenhagen talks to ransom.
China's delegation said that "The meeting has had a positive result, everyone should be happy." Wen Jiabao, China's premier, said that the weak agreement was due to distrust between nations: "To meet the climate change challenge, the international community must strengthen confidence, build consensus, make vigorous efforts and enhance co-operation."
Brazil's climate change ambassador called the agreement "disappointing".
Representatives of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (mainly Venezuela, Bolivia, and Cuba), Sudan, and Tuvalu were unhappy with the outcome.
Bolivian president, Evo Morales said that, "The meeting has failed. It's unfortunate for the planet. The fault is with the lack of political will by a small group of countries led by the US."
Analysis
US Embassy dispatches released by whistleblowing site WikiLeaks showed how the US 'used spying, threats and promises of aid' to gain support for the Copenhagen Accord. The emergent US emissions pledge was the lowest by any leading nation.
The BBC immediately reported that the status and legal implications of the Copenhagen Accord were unclear. Tony Tujan of the IBON Foundation suggests the failure of Copenhagen may prove useful, if it allows us to unravel some of the underlying misconceptions and work towards a new, more holistic view of things. This could help gain the support of developing countries. Lumumba Stansilaus Di-Aping, UN Ambassador from Sudan, has indicated that, in its current form, the Accord "is not sufficient to move forward on", and that a new architecture is needed which is just and equitable.
Effect on emissions
In February 2010, a panel discussion was held at MIT, where Henry Jacoby presented the results of an analysis of the pledges made in the Accord.
According to his analysis, assuming that the pledges submitted in response to the Accord (as of February 2010) are fulfilled, global emissions would peak around 2020. The resultant stock of emissions was projected to exceed the level required to have a roughly 50% chance of meeting the 2 °C target that is specified in the Accord. Jacoby measured the 2 °C target against pre-industrial temperature levels. According to Jacoby, even emission reductions below that needed to reach the 2 °C target still had the benefit of reducing the risk of large magnitudes of future climate change.
In March 2010, Nicholas Stern gave a talk at the London School of Economics on the outcome of Copenhagen conference.
Stern said that he was disappointed with the outcome of the conference, but saw the Accord as a possible improvement on "business-as-usual" greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In his assessment, to have a reasonable chance of meeting the 2 °C target, the preferred emissions level in 2020 would be around 44 gigatons. The voluntary pledges made in the Accord (at that date) would, according to his projection, be above this, nearer to 50 gigatons. In this projection, Stern assumed that countries would fulfil the commitments they had made. Stern compared this projection to a "business-as-usual" emissions path (i.e., the emissions that might have occurred without the Accord). His estimate of "business-as-usual" suggested that without the Accord, emissions might have been above 50 gigatons in 2020.
A study published in the journal Environmental Research Letters found that the Accord's voluntary commitments would probably result in a dangerous increase in the global average temperature of 4.2 °C over the next century.
The International Energy Agency (IEA) publication, World Energy Outlook 2010, contains a scenario based on the voluntary pledges made in the Copenhagen Accord.
In the IEA scenario, it is assumed that these pledges are acted on cautiously, reflecting their non-binding nature. In this scenario, GHG emission trends follow a path which is consistent with a stabilization of GHGs at 650 parts per million (ppm) CO2-equivalent in the atmosphere. In the long-term, a 650 ppm concentration could lead to global warming of 3.5 °C above the pre-industrial global average temperature level.
World Energy Outlook 2010 suggests another scenario consistent with having a reasonable chance of limiting global warming to 2 °C above the pre-industrial level. In the IEA's scenario, GHG emissions are reduced so as to stabilize the concentration of GHGs in the atmosphere at 450 ppm CO2-eq. This scenario sees countries making vigorous efforts to cut their GHG emissions up to the year 2020, with even stronger action taken thereafter.
A preliminary assessment published in November 2010 by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) suggests a possible "emissions gap" between the voluntary pledges made in the Accord and the emissions cuts necessary to have a "likely" (greater than 66% probability) chance of meeting the 2 °C objective.
The UNEP assessment takes the 2 °C objective as being measured against the pre-industrial global mean temperature level. To having a likely chance of meeting the 2 °C objective, assessed studies generally indicated the need for global emissions to peak before 2020, with substantial declines in emissions thereafter.
Criticism
Concerns over the Accord exist; some of the key criticisms include:
The Accord itself is not legally binding.
No decision was taken on whether to agree a legally binding successor or complement to the Kyoto Protocol.
The Accord sets no real targets to achieve in emissions reductions.
The Accord was drafted by only five countries.
The deadline for assessment of the Accord was drafted as 6 years, by 2015.
The mobilisation of 100 billion dollars per year to developing countries will not be fully in place until 2020.
There is no guarantee or information on where the climate funds will come from.
There is no agreement on how much individual countries would contribute to or benefit from any funds.
COP delegates only "took note" of the Accord rather than adopting it.
The head of the G77 has said it will only secure the economic security of a few nations.
There is not an international approach to technology.
The Accord appears to "forget" fundamental sectoral mitigation, such as transportation.
It shows biases in silent ways such as the promotion of incentives on low gas-emitting countries.
See also
2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference
2010 United Nations Climate Change Conference
350.org
Anote Tong
Bali Road Map
Carbon footprint
Climate change
Climate debt
Global warming
Kyoto Protocol
Measurement, reporting and verification (MRV)
Net Capacity Factor
Paris Agreement
Post–Kyoto Protocol negotiations on greenhouse gas emissions
References
External links
NGO Copenhagen treaty – narrative (Vol. 1), Narrative
NGO Copenhagen treaty – legal text (Vol. 2), Legal text
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), September 15, 2009
From Copenhagen Accord to Climate Action: Tracking National Commitments to Curb Global Warming, Natural Resources Defense Council, 2010.
United Nations documents
Treaties concluded in 2009
United Nations treaties
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
2009 in the environment
2009 in Denmark
Environmental treaties |
54360466 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon%20Spinks%20vs.%20Muhammad%20Ali%20II | Leon Spinks vs. Muhammad Ali II | Leon Spinks vs. Muhammad Ali II, was a professional boxing match contested on September 15, 1978, in New Orleans for the WBA and The Ring heavyweight championships.
Background
After his shock win over Ali to become Heavyweight champion, Leon Spinks was stripped of the WBC belt for not facing its number one ranked contender Ken Norton; instead he agreed to a rematch with Ali. Ali entered the rematch as a 2½ to 1 favorite. The fight was held at the Louisiana Superdome, with ringside seats costing $200 (). The card contained three other world title fights: WBA Bantamweight Champion Jorge Luján vs. future WBC champion Alberto Davila; WBC Featherweight Champion Danny Lopez vs. Juan Malvarez; and WBA Light Heavyweight Champion Víctor Galíndez vs. Mike Rossman.
ABC paid $5.3 million ($22.24 million in 2021 dollars) for the rights to televise the fight live in the United States. The broadcast was blacked out in the entire state of Louisiana and markets within 200 miles of the Superdome, which included Jackson, Mississippi, Mobile, Alabama, and Pensacola, Florida.
Fight
Pat Putnam of Sports Illustrated wrote: The plan was simple. Ali would jab, jab, throw a right and grab. When Spinks came flailing in, Ali would hook his left hand around the back of Spinks' head and pull him into an embrace, effectively limiting Spinks to one or two punches or pulling him off balance. And Ali would dance, baby, dance. He would tie up Spinks and then dance away from him on the break, circling to the right, circling to the left. And the fight went as plotted. Referee Lucien Joubert took the fifth round away from Ali for holding. The Associated Press scored the fight 12–3 for Ali, while the three judges had the bout 11–4, 10–4–1 and 10–4–1 all in favor of Ali giving him a unanimous decision win.
Attendance and viewership
The Superdome attendance was 63,352, which, at the time, was the largest indoor attendance ever for a boxing match. Ticket sales of $4,806,675 ($20.168 million in 2021 dollars) was the highest live gate for a sporting event at the time. The average ticket price was $75.87 ($318.34 in 2021 dollars).
An estimated audience of 90million viewers watched the main event in the United States, with 46.7% of TV sets in the nation tuned in—a record for the time. The fight was estimated to have been watched by a record 2billion viewers worldwide.
Aftermath
Ali regained the WBA heavyweight title and avenged his split decision loss to Spinks from seven months prior. He also became the first man to win the World Heavyweight Championship three times.
In June 1979, Ali sent an official letter of retirement to the WBA. Promoter Bob Arum said he paid Ali $300,000 to announce his retirement because Ali's reluctance had delayed the scheduling of a fight between John Tate and Gerrie Coetzee for the vacant WBA title. "We knew Muhammad Ali was going to retire", Arum said, "but as long as he delayed, I couldn't make definite plans." However, in October 1980 Ali returned to face WBC Champion Larry Holmes but was stopped by TKO in the 10th round. He then retired for good after a lackluster loss to Trevor Berbick in December 1981, the final fight of Ali's career.
References
Spinks II
World Boxing Association heavyweight championship matches
Boxing in New Orleans
Boxing
1978 in boxing
1978 in sports in Louisiana
September 1978 sports events in the United States |
43265959 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep%20Spring%20Formation | Deep Spring Formation | The Deep Spring Formation is a geologic formation in Nevada. It preserves fossils dating back to the Cambrian period.
See also
List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Nevada
Paleontology in Nevada
References
Cambrian geology of Nevada
Cambrian California
Cambrian southern paleotropical deposits |
12210254 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butyl%20nitrate | Butyl nitrate | Butyl nitrate is a colorless oil. It is often confused with butyl nitrite, which is sometimes used as a recreational inhalant.
Safety
Butyl nitrate is an explosive. It reacts explosively with Lewis acids such as boron trifluoride and aluminium chloride. When heated to decomposition, it emits fumes of nitrous oxide.
References
"Nitric Acid, Butylester." Butyl Nitrate (928-45-0),Butyl Nitrate (928-45-0) Manufacturers & Suppliers,Synthesis,MSDS. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Oct. 2012.
Alkyl nitrates
Butyl compounds |
43044797 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Ballard%20%28politician%29 | Chris Ballard (politician) | Christopher Ballard is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 2014 to 2018 who represented the riding of Newmarket—Aurora. He was a member of cabinet in the government of Kathleen Wynne.
Background
Attended King City Secondary School where upon graduation had aspirations of becoming a Marine Biologist.
Ballard was a journalist with the Newmarket Era, the Aurora Banner, the Orillia Packet and Times, Canadian Press and the Toronto Star. He has run his own business consultancy firm CSB Communications with clients in the business, education, association sectors in Ontario. He was also the Executive Director for a consumers advocacy group. He lives in Aurora with his wife Audrey where they raised three children.
Ballard was presented with an honorary lifetime member award by Speaker of the Ontario Legislature, Michael A. Brown, on behalf of the Public Affairs Association of Canada. Ballard is a former president of the association and was recognized for his years of dedication to the association.
Politics
Ballard was elected as a town councillor in Aurora in 2010 and vacated his council seat before finishing a full term.
He ran in the 2014 provincial election as the Liberal candidate in the riding of Newmarket-Aurora, a long-time PC held riding north of Toronto. In a surprising upset, he defeated Progressive Conservative candidate Jane Twinney by 3,432 votes. Ballard's win was part of a strong showing by the Ontario Liberals in the York Region, where the party had a historically strong showing in many traditionally PC and swing ridings.
He previously served as parliamentary assistant to the Minister of Government and Consumer Services. In June 2016, he was appointed to cabinet as Minister of Housing and Minister Responsible for the Poverty-Reduction Strategy.
After the resignation of Glen Murray as Minister of Environment and Climate Change on July 31, 2017, Ballard was appointed his successor by Premier Kathleen Wynne.
While MPP Ballard moved bill 42 to directly elect the chair of the Region of York. This was never realized as it was reversed in July 2018.
He ran for re-election in the 2018 provincial election and was defeated soundly, coming in 3rd in the riding of Newmarket-Aurora with less than 23% of the vote. Ballard's loss was part of a weak showing by the Ontario Liberals who retained only 7 seats and lost official party status.
He ran in the 2018 municipal election for Mayor of the Town of Aurora and was soundly defeated, coming in 3rd with less than 20% of the vote.
Ballard exited politics in 2019 to be the CEO of Passive House Canada.
Cabinet positions
Election results
References
External links
21st-century Canadian politicians
Canadian columnists
Canadian newspaper reporters and correspondents
Living people
Members of the Executive Council of Ontario
Ontario Liberal Party MPPs
Ontario municipal councillors
People from King, Ontario
Toronto Star people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
21442858 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow%20Institute%20of%20Oriental%20Studies | Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies | Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies (, abbreviated МИВ (MIV)) was a university-level educational institution that operated in Moscow, Russia, from 1920–1954. It was created as a result of merging Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages and the Oriental studies departments in Moscow's other higher educational institutions. When the institute was closed in 1954, its Department of Indian Languages and Department of the Languages of the Near and Middle East were transferred into the Moscow State Institute of International Relations.
Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies
Universities and colleges established in 1921
Universities and institutes established in the Soviet Union
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