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53789977 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017%20Supercopa%20de%20Espa%C3%B1a | 2017 Supercopa de España | The 2017 Supercopa de España was the 34th edition of the Supercopa de España, an annual two-legged football tie contested by the winners of the previous season's La Liga and Copa del Rey competitions.
The tie was played in August 2017 between the winners of the 2016–17 Copa del Rey and holders of the Supercopa, Barcelona, and the champions of the 2016–17 La Liga, Real Madrid. This was the first time since the 2012 edition that the Supercopa featured El Clásico.
Real Madrid won the Supercopa de España 5–1 on aggregate for their 10th title.
Match details
First leg
The first half of the match ended goalless. Five minutes into the second half, Marcelo fired a ground cross that deflected off Piqué's foot, resulting in an own goal. Four minutes later, Real Madrid had a great opportunity to score when Benzema did a stepover and evaded Pique's tackle, then sent a cross to Dani Carvajal across the goal and Carvajal shot but Jordi Alba cleared it on the goal line. In the 70th minute, Cristiano Ronaldo scored after a pass from Casemiro but it was ruled offside. Seven minutes later, Luis Suárez was brought down in the box by Keylor Navas, resulting in a penalty, which was subsequently converted by Messi.
Messi's strike marked his 25th goal in the fixture. Three minutes later, in the 80th minute, Real scored their second through a counter attack when Isco assisted Ronaldo with a long ball who shot into the top right corner from the edge of the box. Ronaldo was booked for removing his shirt as part of the celebration. Two minutes later he was booked again by the referee for allegedly diving when he collided with Samuel Umtiti in the box, which resulted in a second yellow card to become a red card, therefore getting suspended for the second leg. Ronaldo was later given a five-match suspension after replays showed him push the referee in frustration for the red card. Real's last goal was scored in the 90th minute in similar fashion to the second, when Asensio shot into the top left corner following an assist from Lucas Vázquez.
Summary
Second leg
The first goal came quite early in the second leg through a Real throw-in the fourth minute following a poor clearance from Samuel Umtiti which resulted in the ball landing in the young Marco Asensio's feet who scored from 30+ yards out with his left foot. In the 32nd minute, Benzema stole the ball from Javier Mascherano and passed it to Lucas Vazquez in the center of the box who then hit the left post.
Eight minutes after the half-hour mark, Marcelo sent a ground cross in for Benzema who controlled it backwards with his right foot and finished with a left foot half-volley straight into the bottom corner of the net which was enough for the victory. Six minutes after the start of the second half, Raphaël Varane made a poor pass to Mateo Kovačić to let Suarez recover the ball and pass it to Messi who then hit the crossbar inside the box. In the 70th minute, Andre Gomes took a throw in and played it to Suarez who then made a body feint and dribbled past Dani Carvajal. Suarez then played a through ball to Sergi Roberto on the left side of the box who toe poked the ball, which was saved by Navas. Varane's header fell to Ivan Rakitic a few yards outside the box who then passed the ball to Messi who took a shot, which was saved by Navas, and the deflection fell in the path of Suarez who performed a diving header that bounced off the right side post and went out of play.
There was lesser action for the last 20 minutes, although Théo Hernandez, Dani Ceballos and Nélson Semedo came on to make their official debuts respectively.
Summary
See also
El Clásico
References
2017–18 in Spanish football cups
2017
August 2017 sports events in Europe
FC Barcelona matches
Real Madrid CF matches
El Clásico matches |
23635243 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dami%C3%A1n%20Akerman | Damián Akerman | Damián Emilio Akerman (born March 25, 1980 in Morteros, Córdoba Province) is an Argentine football striker who currently plays for Deportivo Morón in the Primera B Nacional.
Nicknamed "El Cabro", Akerman began at the youth sector of club Newell's Old Boys. He made his debut in 2000 with Argentino de Rosario in the Primera B Metropolitana. In 2003, he relocated to Chile to play for first division club Deportes La Serena, but after five months he returned to Argentina and signed with Deportivo Morón, which he eventually would spend most of his career with.
After four stints at Morón, Akerman became the all-time leading scorer in the club's history with 141 goals altogether in both, second and third division. He also had a brief spell in the Argentine Primera with Gimnasia de La Plata in 2005. Moreover, he spent some time with Ferro Carril Oeste between 2006 and 2007. In July 2009, Akerman was loaned to Bolivian side Blooming. He made his debut in the Liga de Fútbol Profesional Boliviano on August 8, 2009 against Nacional Potosí. With the help of his goals in crucial games Blooming obtained the 2009 Clausura title, the first in his career. After a year in Bolivia, Akerman returned to Morón once again.
Club titles
References
External links
Argentine Primera statistics
BDFA profile
1980 births
Living people
Footballers from Córdoba Province, Argentina
Argentine expatriate men's footballers
Argentine men's footballers
Men's association football forwards
Ferro Carril Oeste footballers
Deportivo Morón footballers
Club de Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata footballers
Club Blooming players
Deportes La Serena footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Bolivia
Expatriate men's footballers in Chile
Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Chile
Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Bolivia
Argentine people of German descent
Argentino de Rosario footballers |
64695899 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%20Gallagher | Harry Gallagher | Henry Thomas Gallagher (13 April 1880 – 15 March 1975), known as Harry Gallagher, was an Irish solicitor and proprietor, a nationalist associate of Éamon de Valera, and founder of Urney Chocolates, the quintessential confectionary company of 20th century Ireland.
Early life
Henry Thomas Gallagher was born in Strabane, County Tyrone on 13 April 1880. He was the son of Edward Gallagher, a farmer from County Donegal who had emigrated to America in the 1860s before returning to Ireland and establishing a lingerie factory in Strabane, and his wife Harriet (Anne) Thomas, a milliner from County Tipperary. Gallagher attended Castleknock College, Dublin. He then worked in the family factory for a year after school, but his father deemed him too stupid for business and he was sent to study law in Dublin. He was admitted to the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland in 1902, and returned to Strabane to enter practice.
Family
In 1906, Gallagher married Eileen Cullen, who was born in Rosbercon, County Wexford and grew up in Dublin, the daughter of John Baptist Cullen and Mary Redmond, a cousin of John Redmond. The Gallaghers went to live at Dunwiley House, Stranorlar, County Donegal. They had three children, including Helen, who went on to become a children's author, and Redmond, who was a motor-racing enthusiast and later took over as chairman of Urney in 1958.
Career
Gallagher was a staunch Irish republican and deeply involved in the local nationalist party, serving as secretary of the North Tyrone Nationalist Association in 1909. Due to his training as a solicitor, he was particularly involved in the revising sessions which sought to have unionist voters eliminated from the electoral register and nationalist voters retained or placed on the register. He worked to oppose unionists trying to do the opposite. During World War I, he branded Sinn Féin supporters cowards for not enlisting to fight with the British, despite never enlisting himself. In November 1915, he was appointed crown solicitor for County Donegal. However, following the 1916 Easter Rising, both Gallagher and his father maintained a lower profile. When military tribunals took the place of court proceedings in the period 1919 to 1921, Gallagher was spared from such cases.
Founding Urney
The Gallaghers bought a large former Church of Ireland rectory on five acres in Urney in 1918. From there, his wife started a market garden to create employment, as the area was suffering from high rates of emigration. Her first output was gathering bundles of snowdrops and ivy leaves to export to Covent Garden, London, which later developed into a fruit farm. The produce was sold fresh or in bottles. Having unsuccessfully applied for a sugar quota for jam making, she was offered a sugar quota to make chocolate. The Gallaghers accepted, attending the Glasgow Confectionery Exhibition in 1920, and consulted with an owner of a Dundee sweet factory on machinery. They purchased machinery for a small chocolate factory and determined they would produce assorted chocolates using a Dutch technique known as couverture. They hired a Dutch expert to train the employees, and incorporated as Urney Chocolates Ltd. The company had 40 employees by 1924. His wife worked as the company's first commercial traveller, developing a client base for the new company.
Gallagher lost his position as crown solicitor in January 1923 when the Irish Free State dismissed all such solicitors. He petitioned the Irish State for compensation for loss of office as a prominent nationalist, and the British State for similar compensation, claiming to be "a loyalist in distress"; he was successful in both. He maintained a practice, but became more engaged in the running of the factory and eventually retired from legal practice to focus on the business. The Gallaghers' company was the only chocolate manufacturer based in Ireland, which led to it not being popular in what would become Northern Ireland. When Ireland was partitioned, the new Irish border was at the end of their garden. Their business was greatly impacted by the two new jurisdictions, with difficult new customs regulations and disruption to transport across the new border. The Urney factory was destroyed by fire twice, first in March 1921, and then again in February 1924. In 1924, the Irish Free State had imposed duties on imported confectionery, so the Gallaghers wanted to use this insurance money to move the company further south. At first, no Irish banks would lend them further funds, so the Gallaghers resolved to emigrate to Canada. Before this, Gallagher lobbied W. T. Cosgrave, the Irish head of government, for support. Cosgrave wanted to develop Irish enterprise, and arranged a loan and lease of an decommissioned British aerodrome at Tallaght, County Dublin, which the Gallaghers later bought.
The factory and the Gallaghers relocated with 20 employees from Urney to Tallaght in summer 1924 and opened the new factory in November. Gallagher oversaw the production, while Eileen took care of the administration and development of the packaging facility. There was a competitive nature to the couple's relationship and she remained active in the business, but Gallagher largely took over running the company. The couple lived beside the factory in Urney House. Gallagher was a progressive employer, paying his employees well, providing recreational facilities and uniforms. He stressed the importance of a clean and caring environment, capitalising on Tallaght's rural location. He refurbished the barracks into a garden, which became a popular attraction for visitors from Dublin. Gallagher invoked the 1891 papal encyclical, Rerum novarum, which advocated for a Catholic ethos in industry. He was critical of other Irish Catholic businessmen who did not draw their faith into their business and instead oversaw "sweating" labour in poor factory conditions. Although, he was probably influenced by the Cadbury family and their business, the Cadburys were Quakers. Urney Chocolates enjoyed a favourable economic market in Ireland, particularly in comparison to their British contemporaries.
Gallagher lobbied the Cumann na nGaedheal government to protect the Irish chocolate industry, and was initially shrugged off by Patrick McGilligan, the minister for industry and commerce. He had greater success cultivating a friendship with Éamon de Valera, who favoured protectionist economic policies. This relationship resulted in Gallagher being appointed a director of what would become The Irish Press newspaper in December 1927. He was a member of the Knights of Columbanus, but probably owing to de Valera's distrust of the Knights, he left the society. When Fianna Fáil entered government in 1932, Urney Chocolates benefited hugely from the elimination of chocolate imports, but Cadbury and Rowntree circumvented this by establishing Irish subsidiaries. Gallagher worked closely with Seán Lemass, using Urney Chocolates as an example of how Irish industry could benefit from protectionist policies. McGilligan criticised their products as poor imitations of British chocolate products, citing their inferior products as proof of the failure of protectionism.
Gallagher was a leading Irish advocate for social credit, arguing that the Irish government needed to invest capital in Ireland to generate a technically developed and sustainable Irish manufacturing base. He argued for the declaration of Irish monetary independence and a break from the Bank of England with the Irish State taking over the Irish banking sector. This would allow for the extension of credit to Irish industry, which Gallagher had experienced was not forthcoming for Irish businesses from British banks. He asserted that Irish industry would never develop so long as Irish banking was still integrated with the British system. His business and political contemporaries did not share his views. When it became clear that de Valera was not persuaded, Gallagher stopped his lobbying. Disillusioned by the lack of support for monetary reform, from the 1950s he began to withdraw some of the facilities he developed for his employees, and instead allowed their use by his grandchildren.
The company had prospered during The Emergency from 1940 to 1945, being granted an extra sugar quota. This allowed Gallagher to illegally export sugar at huge profits to Britain. He evaded many of the profit and price controls. When his source of West African cocoa beans was cut off during World War II, as chairman-director of the Chocolate Manufacturers Association, and its only Irish member, he arranged new supplies from Canada and Brazil for glucose and cocoa. During this period, with no other market competitors, demand for Urney Chocolates grew hugely. Despite difficulties in sourcing machinery from Europe, they were able to continue and expand production using secondhand machines with modification. They suffered a marked decline in their market share after the war, when imports of chocolate resumed, but continued to supply the British market which was struggling to recover in the post-war period.
Later life and death
Gallagher retired as managing director of Urney Chocolates in 1950, but continued to serve as chairman until 1958. Based on his success, the family maintained a staff of seven at farm and seven in the gardens of Urney house. He would often be seen by the factory workers. On his farm he bred cattle as well as hunting and show ponies for his grandchildren. In the 1960s he had started breeding racehorses, with John Oxx training his yearlings. In 1962, his horse Aithne won three races. The Gallaghers were disappointed when their son Redmond sold the Gallagher stake in Urney Chocolates in 1963, seeing the company taken over by foreign owners. They remained in Urney House, beside the factory, as it slowly encroached on their gardens from the mid 1960s. Gallagher encouraged his grounds staff to insult and defy Thomas Headon, Urney Chocolate's new chief executive, with a series of tit-for-tat encounters. Gallagher died at Urney House on 15 March 1975, and was buried at St Maelruan's churchyard, Tallaght.
References
Further reading
Nolan, Karen (2010) Sweet Memories: The Story of Urney Chocolates, Blue Rook Press.
1880 births
1975 deaths
Businesspeople from County Donegal
People educated at Castleknock College
Irish solicitors
Irish nationalists
Fianna Fáil politicians
20th-century Irish businesspeople
Businesspeople from County Tyrone
Lawyers from County Donegal
20th-century Irish lawyers
Businesspeople from County Dublin
People from Tallaght
Businesspeople in the food industry |
40670581 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash%20Bolagh%2C%20Meyaneh | Dash Bolagh, Meyaneh | Dash Bolagh (, also Romanized as Dāsh Bolāgh) is a village in Owch Tappeh-ye Sharqi Rural District, in the Central District of Meyaneh County, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 141, in 26 families.
References
Populated places in Meyaneh County |
3800646 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Best%20of%20Donovan | The Best of Donovan | The Best of Donovan may refer to
The Best of Donovan (1969 album)
The Best of Donovan (1982 album) |
49357744 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blimpliza | Blimpliza | Blimpliza is the first known Turkish Trip-hop band formed in 2004 by Seda Turan. Band supports various social themes and working with groups of independent activities.<
Band members
Seda Turan – Singer
Discography
Alenen (2009)
Particles (2011)
Sessions (2015)
References
External links
blimpliza official page
blimpliza on spotify
blimpliza on Myspace
blimpliza on Last.fm
Turkish musical groups
Musical groups established in 2004 |
46296870 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996%20in%20Brazil | 1996 in Brazil | Events in the year 1996 in Brazil.
Incumbents
Federal government
President: Fernando Henrique Cardoso
Vice President: Marco Maciel
Governors
Acre: Orleir Messias Cameli
Alagoas: Divaldo Suruagy
Amapa: João Capiberibe
Amazonas: Amazonino Mendes
Bahia: Paulo Souto
Ceará: Tasso Jereissati
Espírito Santo: Vitor Buaiz
Goiás: Maguito Vilela
Maranhão: Roseana Sarney
Mato Grosso: Dante de Oliveira
Mato Grosso do Sul: Wilson Barbosa Martins
Minas Gerais: Eduardo Brandão Azeredo
Pará: Almir Gabriel
Paraíba: José Maranhão
Paraná: Jaime Lerner
Pernambuco: Miguel Arraes
Piauí: Mão Santa
Rio de Janeiro: Marcello Alencar
Rio Grande do Norte: Garibaldi Alves Filho
Rio Grande do Sul: Antônio Britto
Rondônia: Valdir Raupp de Mattos
Roraima: Neudo Ribeiro Campos
Santa Catarina: Paulo Afonso Vieira
São Paulo: Mário Covas
Sergipe: Albano Franco
Tocantins: José Wilson Siqueira Campos
Vice governors
Acre: Labib Murad
Alagoas: Manuel Gomes de Barros
Amapá: Antônio Hildegardo Gomes de Alencar
Amazonas: Alfredo Pereira do Nascimento
Bahia: César Borges
Ceará: Moroni Bing Torgan
Espírito Santo: José Renato Casagrande
Goiás: Naphtali Alves de Souza
Maranhão: José Reinaldo Carneiro Tavares
Mato Grosso: José Márcio Panoff de Lacerda
Mato Grosso do Sul:
Braz Melo (until 3 May)
Vacant (starting 3 May)
Minas Gerais: Walfrido Silvino dos Mares Guia Neto
Pará: Hélio Mota Gueiros Júnior
Paraíba: vacant
Paraná: Emília de Sales Belinati
Pernambuco: Jorge José Gomes
Piauí: Osmar Antônio de Araújo
Rio de Janeiro: Luiz Paulo Correa da Rocha
Rio Grande do Norte: Fernando Freire
Rio Grande do Sul: Vicente Joaquim Bogo
Rondônia: Aparício Carvalho de Moraes
Roraima: Airton Antonio Soligo
Santa Catarina: José Augusto Hülse
São Paulo: Geraldo Alckmin
Sergipe: José Carlos Machado
Tocantins: Raimundo Nonato Pires dos Santos
Events
January
8 January: President Fernando Henrique Cardoso issues Decree 1775, which creates a framework for the clear demarcation of indigenous territories. However, as part of the process, this opens indigenous territories to counterclaims by adjacent landowners.
20 January: Varginha UFO incident in Minas Gerais.
March
2 March: A Learjet 25 carrying the Brazilian satirical rock band Mamonas Assassinas attempts a go-around at São Paulo–Guarulhos International Airport in São Paulo, Brazil, but crashes in the Serra da Cantareira mountain range. All eight people on board are killed, including all five members of the band.
April
17 April: Nineteen landless farmers who were squatting at a private ranch are shot dead by military police.
20 April: Launch of the Fiat Palio, a car model that would become the country's sales leader.
June
23 June: Paulo César Farias and his girlfriend are found dead in their house on Guaxuma beach, in Maceió, Alagoas.
October
31 October: A fokker 100 jet, departing for Rio de Janeiro, crashes into houses in the Jabaquara neighborhood, south of São Paulo, leaving 99 dead.
November
25 November: Darci Alves Pereira, one of the murderers of rubber tapper leader Chico Mendes, is recaptured by the Federal Police in Guaíra, Paraná.
Births
January
January 11: Baco Exu do Blues, rapper
January 19: Rodrigo Becão, footballer
January 28: Kim Kataguiri, politician and co-founder of the Free Brazil Movement.
February
February 8: Isadora Williams, figure skater
March
March 22: Everton Soares, professional footballer
May
May 6: Valesca Machado, mixed martial artist
July
July 9: Rafael Miguel, actor (d. 2019)
August
August 12: Arthur Melo, professional footballer
August 30: Gabriel Barbosa, professional footballer
December
December 14: Raphinha, professional footballer
Deaths
January
18 January: Alberto Ruschel, actor (b. 1918)
June
23 June: Paulo Cesar Farias, politician (b. 1945)
September
September 12: Ernesto Geisel, 29th President of Brazil (b. 1907)
October
October 11: Renato Russo, singer (b. 1960)
December
December 16: Dondinho, professional footballer and father of Pelé (b. 1917)
See also
1996 in Brazilian football
1996 in Brazilian television
References
1990s in Brazil
Years of the 20th century in Brazil
Brazil
Brazil |
16798129 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACEC%20Cobra | ACEC Cobra | The ACEC Cobra is a tracked armored personnel carrier with amphibious capabilities, similar in concept to the BTR-50. It was developed by Ateliers de Constructions Electriques de Charleroi (ACEC) along with the Belgian Army. The Cobra was the fifth vehicle prototype of an experimental project to create a vehicle with an electric transmission. The electric transmissions made the vehicle lighter and have more room than previous vehicles. The vehicle was completed in October 1985, but never made it into active service because the Cold War ended in 1989/1990.
When the Cobra went through performance training in Detroit, the test drivers stated that the electric transmission gave the Cobra equal, if not better, performance and maneuverability than vehicles with mechanical transmissions.
The vehicle provided its passengers with protections from small arms fire, small armour piercing projectiles, and shell splinters.
Variants
Of the Cobra, several versions have been developed, using identical automotive components:
Cobra APC: has a crew of two and carries up to 10 fully equipped infantrymen. Armed with a roof-mounted 12.7mm M2HB machine gun. Optionally, the .50cal machine gun could be replaced by cannons up to 25mm. Some versions had a bow-mounted 7.62mm machine gun MAG. This version could also be used as the basis for a mortar carrier.
Cobra AFV: with a crew of three and fitted with a turret for cannons up to 90mm. One prototype was equipped with an AK 90 E two-man electrical turret, armed with Cockerill's KEnerga 90/46 gun and fitted with the OIP LRS-5 fire control system with ballistic computer, day/night sight and a laser rangefinder. Another version had the Cockerill C-25 two-man turret with Oerlikon KBB 25mm gun and 7.62mm coax machine gun.
It was also possible to fit the MILAN MBT turret.
Cobra LAU97: with a FZ 70 mm multiple locket launcher, tested in 1985.
Cobra 120:fitted with a Thomson-Brandt 120 mm mortar firing to the rear
External links
History and Development
Photo
Armoured personnel carriers of Belgium
Armoured personnel carriers of the Cold War
Military vehicles introduced in the 1980s
Tracked amphibious vehicles
Tracked armoured personnel carriers |
74762357 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoascus%20yaguchii | Thermoascus yaguchii | Thermoascus yaguchii is a species of fungus in the genus Thermoascus in the order of Eurotiales.
References
Thermoascaceae
Fungi described in 1995 |
16139915 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night%20of%20the%20Bloody%20Apes%20%28album%29 | Night of the Bloody Apes (album) | Night of the Bloody Apes is the debut, unreleased album by R.A. the Rugged Man. After it was shelved by Jive, he would later unofficially release it under the moniker Crustified Dibbs. The album significantly helped establish R.A. the Rugged Man's musical career. It also features a guest appearance from Biggie Smalls.
Track listing
Samples
Toolbox Murderer
"Let a Woman Be a Woman - Let a Man Be a Man" by Dyke & the Blazers
Every Record Label Sucks Dick
"Capricorn" by The Cannonball Adderley Quintet
"School Boy Crush" by Average White Band
Bloody Axe
"Papa Was Too" by Joe Tex
"Ain't No Half-Steppin'" by Big Daddy Kane
R.A. Be Down (Aww Baby Now)
"Goodbye Love" by Guy
Back To The Rubber-Room
"It's a New Day" by Skull Snaps
"FX & Scratches (Vol. 5)" by Simon Harris
"The Assembly Line" by Commodores
Bloodshed Hua Hoo
"Nobody Knows De Trouble I've Seen" by Harry T. Burleigh
"Get Out of My Life, Woman" by Lee Dorsey
"Think (About It)" by Lyn Collins
Bloody Body Parts in Da Fruit Punch Bowl
"Funky President (People It's Bad)" by James Brown
Bloodshed (Nigga Niles Crusty Remix)
"Funky Drummer" by James Brown
References
East Coast hip hop albums
1994 albums
Jive Records albums
Unreleased albums |
19051303 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich%20Hacker | Rich Hacker | Richard Warren Hacker (October 6, 1947 – April 22, 2020) was a Major League Baseball player, base coach and scout. Hacker played 16 games for the Montreal Expos in the 1971 season as a shortstop. He had a .121 batting average, with four hits in 33 at-bats. Hacker attended Southern Illinois University. After his playing career Hacker became a coach.
Coaching
Hacker was a base coach in the Major Leagues from 1986 to 1993, coaching for the St. Louis Cardinals from 1986 to 1990 and the Toronto Blue Jays from 1991 to 1993. Hacker coached first base for the Cardinals from 1986–87 and third base from 1988–90. He was the third base coach for the Blue Jays from 1991–93. He coached in two World Series (1987 and 1992) and was on the Blue Jays bench for a third (1993). He also coached in the 1988 Major League Baseball All-Star Game.
Hacker was seriously hurt in a car accident on the Martin Luther King Bridge in St. Louis in July 1993, when he collided with a driver who was racing. The accident ended his career. During his recovery from injury he remained a member of the Blue Jays coaching staff, but was transferred to off-field work such as creating hitting charts of opposing teams. He was replaced as third base coach by Nick Leyva.
Personal life
Hacker and his wife Kathryn lived in Belleville, Illinois, and had three grown children. He remained an active hunter and amateur baseball scout. He was a member of the New Athens High School Hall of Fame. Hacker's uncle was former Major Leaguer, Warren Hacker. Hacker died on April 22, 2020, in Fairview Heights, Illinois, due to leukemia.
See also
List of St. Louis Cardinals coaches
References
External links
1947 births
2020 deaths
Amarillo Gold Sox players
American expatriate baseball players in Canada
Baseball coaches from Illinois
Deaths from cancer in Illinois
Deaths from leukemia
Major League Baseball first base coaches
Major League Baseball shortstops
Major League Baseball third base coaches
Mankato Mets players
Memphis Blues players
Montreal Expos players
Peninsula Whips players
St. Louis Cardinals coaches
San Diego Padres scouts
Southern Illinois Salukis baseball players
Sportspeople from Belleville, Illinois
Baseball players from St. Clair County, Illinois
Toronto Blue Jays coaches
Toronto Blue Jays scouts
Visalia Mets players
Winnipeg Whips players |
68641350 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombia%20Tierra%20Querida | Colombia Tierra Querida | "Colombia Tierra Querida" (translation "Colombia dear land") is a song written by Lucho Bermúdez in the Colombian cumbia genre. It is also the name of the 1970 album by Bermúdez, released on CBS Records, that introduced the song.
The song was popularized in 1970 with a version of the song recorded by Bermúdez and his orchestra with vocals by Matilde Diaz. Since its release, the song has been covered by many artists and is one of the most widely recognizes songs of Colombian folk music. It has been described as a "second national anthem" by multiple Colombian media.
The song has been listed as one of the greatest Colombian songs of all time by multiple media outlets:
In its list of the top ten Colombian songs, El Heraldo rated Colombia Tierra Querida at No. 2.
In its list of the ten most iconic Colombian songs, El Nuevo Siglo, rated Colombia Tierra Querida at No. 2.
In its list of the 50 best Colombian songs of all time, El Tiempo, Colombia's most widely circulated newspaper, ranked the song at No. 4.
Viva Music Colombia also rated the song No. 2 on its list of the 100 most important Colombian songs of all time.
Juan Carlos Coronel covered the song in 1994. In December 2020, Disney announced that its upcoming animated film Encanto, set in Colombia, would feature Coronel's version of the song.
Other artists covering the song include Checo Acosta, Andrés Cabas, Carolina la O, and the Bogotá Philharmonic Orchestra. It was also performed in 2015 on the Colombian version of "The Voice" by Fanny Lu, Cepeda, and Maluma, the official YouTube video of which has received over 7 million views. In 2019, the song was used as the opening of the so-called "Plantón Sinfónico" during the 2019 protests in Colombia.
References
External links
Colombia, tierra querida at Spanish Wikipedia
Original by Lucho Bermúdez
Colombian songs |
18925716 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moz%2C%20Kalbajar | Moz, Kalbajar | Moz (also known as Mozkənd) is a village in the Kalbajar District of Azerbaijan.
References
Populated places in Kalbajar District |
41656121 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isnard | Isnard | Isnard can refer to:
Achille-Nicolas Isnard (1748-1803), French economist
Maximin Isnard (1755-1825), French revolutionary politician
Jean-Esprit Isnard (1707–1781), French organ builder
Jean-Baptiste Isnard (1726-1800), French organ builder (nephew of Jean-Esprit)
Joseph Isnard (1740-1828), French organ builder (nephew of Jean-Esprit)
Antoine-Tristan Danty d'Isnard (1663–1743), French botanist
Clemente Isnard (1917–2011), Brazilian bishop |
33823250 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CodeBook | CodeBook | CodeBook is an interoperable CAD overlay Building information modeling (BIM) software suite for Microsoft Windows. The software is currently developed by UK company, Codebook International Ltd.
The software allows the user to design using the conventional design tools (for example: Autodesk Revit, Bentley Microstation, Graphisoft ArchiCAD) and elements, and to create and interrogate a separate BIM database. CodeBook's BIM database contains information gathered during the building's full life cycle, from scoping and concept stages through detailed design and construction to CMMS/FM handover.
External links
CodeBook International.
Revit
Building information modeling
Computer-aided design software |
35194116 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopulu | Gopulu | S. Gopalan, pen-name Gopulu (18 June 1924 – 29 April 2015), was a Tamil illustrator and cartoonist, known for his work for the Tamil humour magazine Ananda Vikatan.
Born in Tanjore in 1924, Gopulu spent his early years in the city. He studied at the Kumbakonam School of Art. In 1941, he came to Chennai looking for a job in Ananda Vikatan. There, he met cartoonist 'Mali', who commissioned a number of paintings for the magazine's Deepavali special. It was not till December 1944, however, that Mali offered Gopulu a job at the magazine. (Mali was also the one who gave Gopulu his pen-name). In the course of the next twenty or so years, till 1968, Gopulu did political cartoons, cover designs and illustrated columns for the magazine.
As an illustrator, Gopulu worked on popular serials such as Thillana Mohanambal and Washingtonil Thirumanam. He is known for his work with the writer Devan for whom he illustrated the serial Thuppariyum Sambu in comics form. Devan's bumbling detective is remembered in the form in which Gopulu first drew him. Gopulu also traveled with the writer Saavi in 1953–54, to Ajanta, Ellora, Delhi, Jaipur, Calcutta for a travel series.
In 1972, Gopulu started his own ad agency, Ad Wave Advertising. He designed the logo of the Tamil magazine Kungumam, and that of Sun TV too. Later, he quit advertising and began to work as a freelance illustrator for magazines such as Kalki, Amudhasurabhi, Vikatan and Kungumam.
Gopulu was given the ‘Kalaimamani' award by the Government of Tamil Nadu on 26 November 1991. He is a recipient of the Murasoli Award and the M. A. Chidambaram Chettiar Award. In 2001 he was honoured with the lifetime achievement award as part of the inaugural function of the Indian Institute of Cartoonists in Bangalore.
Bibliography
Washingtonil Thirumanam, written by Saavi, illustrated by Gopulu (Narmadha Pathipagam, 1999).
Gopulu's cartoons have been published in books by Vikatan Prasuram.
References
External links
Profile of Gopulu at Indian Institute of Cartoonists
Gallery of illustrations by Gopulu
Gopulu: A fan's tribute
Illustrations by Gopulu (Page in Tamil)
1924 births
2015 deaths
Indian editorial cartoonists
Indian comic strip cartoonists
Indian comics artists |
30634026 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint%20Base%20Myer%E2%80%93Henderson%20Hall | Joint Base Myer–Henderson Hall | Joint Base Myer–Henderson Hall is a Joint Base of the United States military that is located around Arlington, Virginia which is made up of Fort Myer (Arl), Fort McNair (SW DC), and Henderson Hall. It is the local residue of the Base Realignment and Closure, 2005 process. It is commanded by the United States Army but has resident commands of Army, Navy, & Marines. Most conspicuous is the Arlington National Cemetery Honor Guard.
The two eponymous bases are co-located along the west boundary of the cemetery, and Fort McNair is across the Potomac River, in Washington, DC, on the Anacostia River.
On Fort McNair sits Grant Hall which is the location of the 1865 military tribunal of the conspirators of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Each quarter the Hall is open to the public where people can visit the courtroom and learn more about the trials.
Operations
Fort Myer is headquarters to service personnel working throughout the National Capital Region. The post provides housing, support, and services to thousands of active-duty, reserve, and retired military, members of the U.S. Coast Guard, and their families stationed in the United States Army Military District of Washington. The JBMHH's mission is to operate the Army's community and support Homeland Security in the nation's capital.
Stationed here are The First and Fourth battalions of the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard); since August 2011, 'A' Company (Commander in Chief's Guard), which was stationed at Fort McNair, D.C; and The U.S. Army Band "Pershing's Own". The gravesite of Black Jack, the riderless horse in the state funerals of General of the Army Douglas MacArthur and U.S. Presidents John F. Kennedy, Herbert Hoover, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Lyndon B. Johnson, is located on Summerall Field, northeast of the parade ground's flagpole.
Due to its proximity to Arlington National Cemetery, this is also the base of operations for most Honor Guards services and burial teams. A large percentage of burials in Arlington National Cemetery originate from Old Post Chapel, one of the two chapels on Fort Myer. Visitors are also given access to the caissons, stables and the Old Guard Museum.
The military's largest child development center, named the Cody Child Development Center (CDC), is located here.
The Pentagram is written and produced here. It is a weekly newspaper that is delivered to the joint base and the Pentagon.
References
External links
Joint Base Myer–Henderson Hall website
Joint bases of the U.S. Department of Defense
Military installations in Virginia |
41368761 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaerophyllum%20procumbens | Chaerophyllum procumbens | Chaerophyllum procumbens, known by the common names spreading chervil and wild chervil, is an annual forb native to the eastern United States and Canada, which produces small white flowers in spring.
Description
Chaerophyllum procumbens is 15 to 50 centimeters tall. Several slender branching stems emerge from the base of the plant. The stems are shiny, but have a line of fine hairs running up them. The mostly hairless triangular compound leaves are doubly pinnate, with leaflets that are themselves pinnatifid. The lower leaves are borne on petioles, the upper leaves are smaller and nearly sessile. The upper stems terminate in compound umbels consisting of approximately 2 to 6 umbellets, each with 1 to 7 small white flowers with 5 petals. The flowers often bloom before the umbels have fully expanded. The fruit is an oblong capsule, 4 to 6 millimeters long, with longitudinal ridges.
Distribution and habitat
Chaerophyllum procumbens is widely distributed in the eastern United States, although local distribution may be spotty. It has been recorded in Alabama, Arkansas, Washington, D.C., Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Mississippi, North Carolina, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Wisconsin, and West Virginia. It has also been recorded in the Canadian province of Ontario. Chaerophyllum procumbens is listed as an endangered species by the state of New York. In Virginia, it grows in habitats including floodplain forests and alluvial clearings. The presence of this species is dependent on appropriate habitat, and it may be eliminated from an area by development, changes in land use, or competition with invasive species.
References
External links
USDA Plants Profile for Chaerophyllum procumbens (spreading chervil)
procumbens
Flora of the Northeastern United States
Flora of the North-Central United States
Flora of the Southeastern United States
Flora of Ontario
Flora of the Appalachian Mountains
Flora of the Great Lakes region (North America)
Plants described in 1767
Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus
Flora without expected TNC conservation status |
53855350 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association%20of%20Norwegian%20Editors | Association of Norwegian Editors | The Association of Norwegian Editors (, NR) is an interest group for editors and middle managers in the various Norwegian media. The organization is not a professional organization in the traditional sense, but it is intended to "protect freedom of expression and freedom of expression as the pillars of the rule of law and democracy."
The association was established in 1950 and has about 720 members. It is headquartered in Oslo. It is a member of the Norwegian Press Association.
The association's general secretary is Arne Jensen, who succeeded Nils E. Øy on September 1, 2013. Reidun Kjelling Nybø is the deputy general secretary.
Current board (2015–2017)
Harald Stanghelle (chair), political editor for Aftenposten
Hanna Relling Berg (vice chair), chief editor of Sunnmørsposten
Hilde Garlid, chief editor of Jærbladet
Thor Gjermund Eriksen, head of broadcasting at NRK
Britt Sofie Hestvik, chief editor and CEO of Kommunal Rapport
Kjersti Mo, chief editor for Egmont Publishing, Oslo
Jan Ove Årsæther, news editor for TV2
Deputies
Eirik Hoff Lysholm, chief editor and CEO of Dagsavisen
John Arne Moen, chief editor of Trønder-Avisa
Espen Stensrud, chief editor of Autofil, Oslo
Vibeke Madsen, news editor for Avisa Nordland
Kristin Monstad, chief editor of Drammens Tidende
References
External links
Official website
Norwegian journalism organisations
Professional associations based in Norway
Organizations established in 1950
Organisations based in Oslo |
13106661 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirlingia%20simplex | Stirlingia simplex | Stirlingia simplex is a plant endemic to Western Australia.
Description
A woody perennial, S. simplex can grow as a shrub or as suckering herb with short-lived stems arising from a perennial rootstock. Stems may be up to ten centimetres long, and the plant as a whole grows to a height of from ten to 60 centimetres, rarely to one metre. It has soft leaves that bifurcate repeatedly into lobes, with the final lobes measuring from two to twenty millimetres long. Flowers are cream or yellow, and occur in dense heads from ten to 15 millimetres in diameter, atop scapes up to 60 centimetres tall.
Taxonomy
The species was first published by John Lindley in his 1839 A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony, based on unspecified material. Lindley commented that it "resembles a Sanicula".
Since that time, it has had a fairly straightforward taxonomic history. It has only two synonyms:
Carl Meissner published S. capillifolia in 1855, but this was declared a taxonomic synonym of S. simplex by Alex George in 1995.
In 1884 Ferdinand von Mueller proposed to transfer Stirlingia to Simsia, the original, albeit illegal, name for the genus. His transfer was not accepted, and Simsia simplex is now a nomenclatural synonym of Stirlingia simplex.
Distribution and habitat
It occurs throughout much of the Southwest Botanic Province of Western Australia, from Eneabba in the north, south to Waroona and east to Hyden. It grows in a variety of soils, amongst proteaceous-myrtaceous heath and eucalypt woodland, and prefers seasonally wet areas.
Ecology
It is not considered threatened.
References
External links
Eudicots of Western Australia
simplex
Proteales of Australia |
6738487 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Biggest%20Loser%20%28season%203%29 | The Biggest Loser (season 3) | The Biggest Loser (season 3) is the third season of the NBC reality television series entitled The Biggest Loser. The third season premiered on September 20, 2006 with fifty overweight contestants (one from each US state), each competing to lose the most weight. However, first, the group would be narrowed down to 14 after the trainers each selected seven competitors for their teams. The show was hosted by comedian Caroline Rhea. Bob Harper and Kim Lyons were the two personal trainers, with Bob leading the blue team and Kim leading the red team. The show's opening theme song was "Proud" by Heather Small. The opening credits showed each contestant in turn, and displayed his or her starting weights. Guest appearance in the season featured Fitness personal trainer Clark Shao.
Each week of the show, one contestant was voted off by the others. Midway through the show, the two at-home participants who lost the most weight came back on the ranch. Ultimately, a set of four finalists were determined before the show began airing. On the final episode, aired live, those finalists reunited for a weigh-in to determine the winner. At the finale, it was revealed that Heather would not weigh in to compete for the prize money because she was five months pregnant. Of the three other finalists, Erik had the largest percentage of weight loss, with 214 lbs, which was 52.58% of his starting body weight. He received $250,000 for this feat. Poppi from New Jersey, who lost the most of the 36 who did not make it to the regular season won $50,000, and the individual who lost the most out of the remaining 14 (including Jaron and Adrian, the two at-home players who returned to the ranch) who were on the show, but not finalists, won $100,000. This player was Brian from California, who lost 50.65% of his weight.
Participants
Weigh-ins and eliminations
Teams
Member of Kim's team
Member of Bob's team
Game
Last person eliminated before finale
The two 36 at home people who entered the ranch in Week 8
The result of the two at-home 36 that made to the ranch in Week 8
Winners
$250,000 Winner (among the finalists)
$100,000 Winner (among the eliminated contestants)
BMI
Normal (18.5 - 24.9 BMI)
Overweight (25 - 29.9 BMI)
Obese Class I (30 - 34.9 BMI)
Obese Class II (35 - 39.9 BMI)
Obese Class III (greater than 40 BMI)
Weigh-in figure history
Weigh-in percentage history
Overall percentage of weight loss (Biggest Loser on Campus)
Bold denotes who has the overall highest percentage of weight loss as of that week
Thirty-six at home
36 people were eliminated in the first episode. However, the male and female with the highest percentage of weight lost after 8 weeks returned to the ranch. This turned out to be Jaron and Adrian (see chart above). Both were eliminated before the finale.
At the finale, host Caroline Rhea revealed that the at-home contestant who lost the highest percentage of weight would be awarded a $50,000 prize. The two players who lost the most were weighed live on the finale. Poppi Kramer from New Jersey narrowly edged out Matthew McNutt from Maine to win the $50,000, losing 50.43% of her start weight, versus Matthew's 48.09% loss. (Note: Jaron and Adrian were counted as players eliminated from the ranch, and thus did not compete for the at-home $50,000.)
In the table below, entries highlighted in yellow lost a percentage of weight commensurate with the least of those remaining at the ranch (in week 8, 17%), according to the latest data. The contestants who returned to the ranch as of week 8 are highlighted in orange.
Voting history
Immunity
Below yellow line, unable to vote
Not in elimination, unable to vote
Vote not revealed
Eliminated or not in house
Last person eliminated before finale
Valid vote cast
In Week 3, there was a tie between the red team, so Erik (for the blue team) cast a vote to send Nelson home.
In Week 7, Kai and Erik decided to use the free pass that Kai earned at a temptation. That pass keep both Kai and Eriksafe from elimination, which meant that the votes were not revealed, and Pam and Brian were automatically eliminated.
Episodes
Week 1
A new trainer, Kim Lyons, is brought onto the ranch to replace Jillian. 50 contestants are brought onto the ranch, one from each state; all of them work out while Bob and Kim watch. The two trainers select seven contestants each for their Blue and Red teams. The remaining 36 return home to work out; the man and the woman with the greatest percentage of weight lost will return to the ranch.
The Red Team wins the first challenge (an obstacle course), though the Blue Team wins the first weigh-in, with Brian being the Biggest Loser of the week. Jen (Minnesota) of the Red Team is the first contestant voted off the ranch.
Week 2
After the vote, the Red Team says they are "dysfunctional", in contrast to the Blue Team, which is "united". Ken learns his 19-year-old son is in the critical care unit in the hospital.
The teams go to the beach, where they work out, eat, and sleep in tents. The contestants all resist the temptation to dig up sand castles and uncover either immunity or a high-calorie treat. The reward challenge involves teams building sand piles large enough for them to remove a flag hanging from a pole. The Red Team wins and is rewarded with letters from home and the right to choose which Blue Team member will sit out the next weigh-in.
The Red Team wins the weigh-in, and Marty is the week's Biggest loser. The Blue Team votes off Tiffany (Texas).
Week 3
The teams go on a cruise on the Sapphire Princess. The reward challenge calls for contestants to deliver meals to different parts of the ship. As a surprise, family members are there to meet them, and the winning team gets to spend time with their family. The Red Team wins the challenge. Given the timing, it is likely that Heather Hansen became pregnant on this cruise, as she was five months pregnant at the finale.
The Blue Team handily wins the weigh-in., and Heather is the Biggest Loser for her team. The vote results in a tie, with the three men voting as a bloc for Pam, and the three women voting as a bloc for Wylie. The Blue Team therefore breaks the tie by voting off Nelson (Massachusetts).
Week 4
Red Team morale is at a low point due to Nelson's eviction, and members refuse to work out. Instead, they sit around crying together while Kim tries to snap them out of it.
Kai wins an immunity challenge, receiving an immunity free pass for herself to use whenever she wants. The challenge had involved contestants eating plates of food, then stacking the plates in a pile, with the winner having their plate on top when the challenge ended.
The Red Team wins the next challenge, involving team members walking up "down" escalators until only one team is left. Pam is ultimately the last person standing, and wins $10,000 in addition to the right to select one member of the Blue Team to sit out the weigh-in.
The Red Team wins the weigh-in. Brian is the Biggest Loser for the week. The Blue Team votes off Melinda (Alabama).
Week 5
The gym is "closed" this week, so contestants must exercise using makeshift materials and miscellaneous locations. Erik in particular is struggling this week, and spends some one-on-one time with Bob.
The Blue Team wins the reward challenge, which involves the two teams doing "The Wave" all the way around the stadium. That is, each team sits in a row, does a wave together, then each person moves one seat over, and the actions are repeated, for a total of 510 waves. Winners win $2500 in Starter Performance Gear. In the middle of the challenge, Ken stops due to pain. This is the first challenge the Blue Team wins.
The Red Team wins the weigh-in, and Brian is once again the Biggest Loser of the week. Amy (Maryland), the final woman on the Blue Team, is voted off to her surprise — her team members had told her they were going to vote off Erik, who had consistently not been losing a very large percentage of his weight.
Week 6
The Red Team wins a 'guess the calories' challenge, and earn the right to pick which members of the Blue Team must train without a trainer for 72 hours (Erik and Bobby) and must eat out for 72 hours (Brian and Marty). The nine remaining contestants meet with Dr. Rob Huizenga and learn that their health has improved tremendously.
The Blue Team wins a reward challenge that involves three team members hoisting a fourth in a harness to hang each member's flag, in turn. The teams were neck-and-neck until the Red Team makes several errors. The Blue Team gets the right to pick a Red Team member to sit out the weigh-in, and also gets to choose if they want a gourmet meal from the BelAge hotel, or a workout in their pool. They choose the meal, while the Red Team works out in the pool.
The Blue Team wins the weigh-in, and Kai is the week's Biggest Loser. The Red Team votes off Ken (Washington).
Week 7
The contestants are informed that the Red Team and Blue Team will be split up into duos made up of one Red and one Blue member. In a contest, Wylie wins the right to decide how to split up the teams. The duos are: Wylie/Marty; Brian/Pam; Kai/Erik; and Bobby/Heather. Wylie asks to be trained by Bob.
Brian and Pam win the reward challenge, which involves holding up a long metal pole. Dropping the pole ignites a ring of fire. Their reward is a satellite phone call home.
At the weigh in, Brian/Pam and Kai/Erik fall below the yellow line. Erik gained three pounds in order to force the use of Kai's immunity pass, since he could only take advantage of it while partnered with Kai. At the elimination, no vote is necessary as Kai uses the immunity pass, forcing the elimination of Brian/Pam (California/Indiana). The two depart amidst many tears from the other contestants.
The contestants are informed of a twist — the men and women who had not been chosen by the trainers in the first episode have been training at home and the man and woman with the highest percentage of weight loss will be returning to the ranch. This is greeted with anger by the contestants who have been on the ranch.
Week 8
This week was shown in a 2-hour episode.
Three women and three men come back to the ranch to be weighed, with the man and woman who have lost the greatest percentage returning to the ranch as a duo: Jaron and Adrian win, with Adrian having lost the greatest percentage of anyone, including those on the ranch, and Jaron being the second biggest loser. All of the other contestants make a pact to get Jaron and Adrian out as soon as they can. Adrian is assigned to train with Kim and Jaron with Bob. Adrian has a problem with the way Kim trains and complains about it, while Bob tests Jaron's strength and Jaron decides that Kim might be a better trainer.
Part 1 of the challenge is to guess how many calories a plate of food is, and the winner of the challenge gets to assign one ton of something (water jugs, dumbbells, bricks, and tires) to each team and they must transfer the ton from one platform to another. Wylie and Marty win the first part, and assigned weights to Bobby and Heather, bricks to Jaron and Adrian, and tires to Erik and Kai, leaving water for themselves. Wylie and Marty win the challenge and get a 42-inch plasma TV and a year's subscription to Netflix. The other teams decide to finish the challenge, with the exception of Adrian and Jaron, who have the most difficult things to move.
At the weigh-in Heather gains 4 pounds, causing her and Bobby to fall below the yellow line. Heather reveals that she threw the weigh-in because she thought that Bobby was a threat and was banking on the other players eliminating Bobby. Bob tries to tell Bobby to stay in, but Bobby seems to still be leaning towards wanting to go home. Jaron and Adrian vote for Bobby and in a surprise twist Kai and Erik vote for Bobby. Bobby (Tennessee) is eliminated.
Week 9
Adrian, frustrated that she and Jaron would be chosen to be lowered on their bikes first because they joined later on, took the old tone with Caroline. Kai wins immunity.
Votes came down to Erik's to reveal the tie breaker. Seeing Marty as his biggest threat, and wanting to win the grand prize, Erik shocked everyone when he voted off the only other remaining member of Bob's blue team. Marty (Missouri) was eliminated
Week 10
Bob found out that Erik voted off Marty and he was very angry, saying that he worked so hard to build up a team and it meant nothing to Erik. Erik explained how it is a game and at first it was only about losing weight, but now he sees the finish line.
In the challenge, the contestants competed in the first ever Biggest Loser Derby. They had to carry weights with the exact pounds they lost each week on their bodies, and drop them off one by one onto color-coded barrels representing their weeks on the ranch. Once rid of all the weights it became a foot race to the finish. Wylie took an early lead, but one of his weights fell off his barrel and he had to go back, causing him to lose his lead. The race came down to Adrian and Jaron, with Jaron winning by a hair. The prize was a trip for his wife of 7 years to come to the ranch for a day and night.
At the weigh in, everyone pulled large numbers except a defeated Adrian who lost 2 pounds. She had a breakdown over the frustration that she was having trouble getting over the same hump as when she tried to lose weight in high school, and then her friends told her that she would probably always be a "chunky" person. Kim pulled Adrian aside and tried to instill hope, saying that is not true and she has built a very athletic body and she will continue to drop the pounds in time if she continues with the hard work.
The original ranch contestants finally got to rid of a "newcomer" when they voted to keep Heather and Adrian (North Dakota) was eliminated. Jaron was the only one not to vote for Adrian, staying true to the gray team. Wylie's vote was not revealed because even if he voted for Heather it would bring it to a tie and Adrian would automatically be eliminated because she had the lowest percentage of weight loss for the week.
Week 11
Kim tells Heather that she is not working as hard as she can, and Heather curses her out and says she is trying her best and cannot do more. They storm away from each other, and Kim returns to the gym. Kim pulls Kai aside to give her a pep talk about pushing as hard as possible all the way to the end, and congratulating on already significantly changing her life. Kai promises to give Kim her all for the duration of her time at the ranch. Bob goes for a run with his only remaining contestant, telling Erik that he inspires him as well as others, and he can definitely win the whole game.
The contestants get to train Bob and Kim for a day, and try to push them to the limits in cardiovascular and strength exercises, then the trainers face off in a gymnastics competition out on the lawn. Suzy and Matt Hoover returned to the ranch to talk to the contestants about their experiences after the ranch when they rejoin their regular lives.
The contestants compete in their last challenge of the season, the first ever Biggest Loser triathlon. They did a 200-yard swim across the lake, a 5-mile bike ride around the dam, and a 1.5-mile foot race to the finish line. Wylie fell behind early on, but all the contestants slowed their speed and waited in the water for him to catch up. The blue team then did the bike ride as a team, cheering each other on the whole way. Bob bikes with Erik, and the trainers also joined the contestants for the final run. Heather power-walked the race, showing Kim she was working hard, and they were able to patch things up. Wylie led the contestants to give Caroline a big hug even though they were all soaking wet from the triathlon.
Dr. Huizenga returned with test results for Erik. He is no longer diabetic and has no need for insulin or constant blood sugar testing
At the weigh-in, Kai and Jaron fell below the yellow line, even though they lost 4 and 6 pounds respectively. Jaron (Arkansas) is eliminated. He says he understands they voted to be loyal to Kai, and it is exactly how it is supposed to be. Friends and family come first, above all else.
The final four is set: Kai, Wylie, Heather (all Red) and Erik (Blue)
Week 12 (Finale)
Updates from the at-home players are announced: 9 lost over 100 pounds, Linda Houseman from Idaho got married, and Nikki Meyers from Ohio completed a half-marathon. The two finalists out of the 36 at-home players are Poppi Kramer from New Jersey and Matthew McNutt from Maine. Poppi started at a size 22 and is now a size 2. She took the at-home prize of $50,000 awarded by 24-hour fitness with a 50.43% weight loss, and ending at 115 lbs. Matthew had a weight loss of 48.09%, coming in a close second. Amy went from size 22 to a size 10.
Jennifer kicked off the eliminated players' weigh-ins with a 100-pound loss. Tiffany, Nelson, and Melinda fell significantly short, and then Amy came in 1 pound shy of taking the lead from Jennifer. Ken weighed-in next and passed her with a 44.97% loss, only to be quickly passed by Brian who came in at 50.65% loss. Bobby, Marty, Adrian, and Jaron were not able to pass him, although Jaron fell only a few pounds shy. Brian wins the $100,000 prize for the eliminated contestants awarded by thebiggestloserclub.com.
The Final 4 contestants return after 3 months away from the ranch. Erik was tempted with fast food and cigarettes at home, but overcame promising he would cross the finish line for once in his life. Heather worked hard at home, but gained weight occasionally and had to stay focused to overcome the frustration. Wylie avoided temptations completely because he was afraid that indulging at all could lead to a snowball effect, and he would end up eating entire pizzas, for example. He made it down to a size 32 pants and excited to show off his new body at home on Miami beach. Kai was tempted to go out drinking and partying with her friends, and it took a big toll on her workouts. After nights of partying she was not able to properly work out, and decided it was best to sacrifice all that for her overall weight loss goals. She fit into a size 8 jeans, the first time she can remember in her life fitting into a single digit size. Heather announces she is 5 months pregnant and therefore had to withdraw from the competition and will not be weighing in at the finale. She is gifted a dream nursery. Erik's friend John Baker was in the audience. His wife met John online and Erik has been helping and motivating John to lose weight on his own at home.
All 50 contestants initially weighed in at a total of 14,384 pounds. Their goal was to lose 4,000 pounds as a whole. They lost 4,281 total, surpassing their goal. Having been the biggest loser the final week on the ranch, Erik got to choose the weigh-in order. He had Kai go first, Wylie go second, and saved himself to weigh-in last. The third place prize of $25,000 went to Wylie with a total loss of 129 pounds, 42.02% of his starting weight. The second place prize of $50,000 went to Kai with a total loss of 118 pounds, 45.04% of her starting weight. She lost more than any other female in the history of The Biggest Loser. The Biggest Loser of the season is Erik Chopin, who wins the grand prize of $250,000 awarded by Jello. Erik started at 407 pounds, and ended at 193, netting a total loss of 214 pounds. He won by losing 52.58% of his starting weight. Erik's wife and two daughters celebrated by joining him on stage.
Aftermath
Before Season 4, a special episode revisited past contestants to see if they kept the weight off. Except for Season One's Andrea, none had. Poppi, the at-home winner, gained the least, at 9.4% of her lost weight.
Marty regained 21 of the 146 pounds he lost to weigh in at 240. He had also gained a fiancée, when he proposed to fellow contestant Amy on-air. They are now married and their first child was born in July 2009.
Erik, the Biggest Loser of Season Three, regained 122.
Pam regained 8 of 68 pounds to weigh 187.
Poppi regained 11 of 117 pounds to weigh 126.
Wylie regained 32 of 129 pounds to weigh 210.
Brian, although not featured on the show, was included in the official Biggest Loser website. Having regained 47 of the 156 pounds originally lost, his 30.1% regain was the largest of those shown.
Erik, the biggest loser of season 3, appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show to confess to the world that he gained back 122 pounds and now weighs 315 lbs.
A second "Where Are They Now" special aired on November 25, 2009. It featured contestants from the first seven seasons. Contestants Marty & Amy, and winner Erik were featured. Erik, who lost a record-breaking 214 pounds by the finale, was revealed to have gained 175 pounds back. But, Erik is aiming to lose this weight and Bob has invited him to the season 9 finale to weigh-in.
Poppi Kramer, winner of the thirty-six at home prize died July 26, 2018.
References
External links
NBC: The Biggest Loser
Biggest Loser Fan Site
Biggest Loser 3 Fan Voting Site
Heather Hansen Audition Video
The Biggest Loser
2006 American television seasons |
12124294 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian%20Mesrobian%20School | Armenian Mesrobian School | The Armenian Mesrobian School is a K-12 Armenian school located in Pico Rivera, California, in the Los Angeles metropolitan area.
The board of trustees of the school includes officials from the school itself and the Holy Cross Armenian Apostolic Cathedral in Montebello. The school is affiliated with the church. The school serves the Armenian community east of Downtown Los Angeles, including those in Pico Rivera, Montebello, and Whittier.
Mesrobian offers a comprehensive educational program, accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, to students ranging from early childhood education through twelfth grade. The college preparatory high school classes are certified to the University of California, and honors or Advanced Placement classes are offered in Armenian, English, mathematics, science, and social sciences. David Ghoogasian is the school's principal.
Academics and curriculum
Armenian current events, history, and literature are elements of the classes taught at this school. Current events and history classes are taught in the Armenian language. Even students not of Armenian origins are required to take Armenian classes.
Demographics
As of 1993 there were 370 students. Of the students 359 were of Armenian origin, and 11 were not of Armenian origin.
As of 1993 there were 31 teachers. 25 were of Armenian origin and 6 were not of Armenian origin.
Athletics
Mesrobian Varsity teams have been recognized for their athletic prominence. Mesrobian is a member of the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) and plays in the International League of the CIF Southern Section. Before joining the International League in 1999, Mesrobian played in the Valley League. Mesrobian has won league championships in boys' and girls' basketball, girls' volleyball, and boys' soccer. Mesrobian, the first Armenian High School in the United States, has won dozens of academic and sportsmanship accolades since its opening in 1965.
The school's physical education program includes Armenian folk dance.
See also
History of the Armenian Americans in Los Angeles
References
External links
Armenian-American private schools
Private K-12 schools in Los Angeles County, California
Pico Rivera, California
Armenian-American culture in California
1965 establishments in California
Educational institutions established in 1965 |
22989686 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave%20Hubbick | Dave Hubbick | David Hubbick (born 16 March 1960) is an English former professional footballer who played in the Football League for Wimbledon and Colchester United.
Career
Born in South Shields, Hubbick started his career at Ipswich Town. He began playing in the reserves in the 1976–77 season, making his reserve debut on 21 April 1977 as a substitute in a 3–1 defeat at Bristol City reserve. He signed a contract at the club in January 1978 and although he became a regular in the reserves, he never made a first team appearance. He signed for Wimbledon for £5,000 in September 1980, where he played 26 games for the club, before dropping into non-League with Gravesend & Northfleet in 1982.
After a spell with Dagenham, he returned to professional football with Colchester United in 1983. However, he made only 15 appearances for the club, and signed for Sudbury Town in 1985. Whilst at Sudbury he played at Wembley Stadium in the 1989 FA Vase final, scoring Sudbury's goal in a 1–1 draw, and was named man of the match. He later played for Cornard United and Woodbridge Town, who he managed between 1997 and 2003. He went on to manage Stowmarket Town, before resigning in January 2008.
Honours
Sudbury Town
FA Vase runner-up: 1988–89
References
1960 births
Footballers from South Shields
English men's footballers
Ipswich Town F.C. players
Wimbledon F.C. players
Ebbsfleet United F.C. players
Dagenham F.C. players
Colchester United F.C. players
Sudbury Town F.C. players
Cornard United F.C. players
Woodbridge Town F.C. players
English football managers
Woodbridge Town F.C. managers
Stowmarket Town F.C. managers
Living people
Men's association football forwards |
11452793 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS%20Panther | HMS Panther | Six ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Panther, after the panther, whilst another two were planned:
was a 54-gun fourth-rate ship of the line launched in 1703. She was rebuilt in 1716, hulked in 1743 and sold in 1768.
was 50-gun fourth rate launched in 1746 and broken up in 1756.
was a 60-gun fourth rate launched in 1758. She was used as a prison hulk from 1807, and was broken up in 1813.
was a 14-gun sloop built in 1778, and was being used as a survey vessel in 1802.
was a torpedo boat destroyer launched in 1897 and sold in 1920.
was a P-class destroyer launched in 1941 and sunk in 1943.
HMS Panther was a planned , but she was launched instead for the Indian Navy as in 1957. She was deleted from the Indian Navy Lists in 1985.
HMS Panther was a planned , ordered in 1956 but her name was changed to HMS Gloucester, before being eventually cancelled. Gloucester was subsequently reordered as a . Note, however, that no Leander-class frigate named Gloucester ever served in the Royal Navy. The name Gloucester was re-used in 1982 for a Type 42 destroyer.
References
Royal Navy ship names |
5769464 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chund%20Bharwana | Chund Bharwana | Chund Bharwana (Chund Bhaiwāna) is a town of Jhang District in Punjab Province of Pakistan. It lies at the intersection of two main highways, the Jhang–Lalian road and Jhang–Sargodha road. Chund Bharwana is situated between two rivers, the Jhehlum and the Chenab. People intending to visit towns like Shahjewan, Marri Gujjraan, Pir Kot, Salyana, Chela, Jhagar, Haveli Sheikh Rajoo, Kala Baali, and Lalian, Pind Hassan khan pass through Chund Bharwana.
References
External links
photographs of Chund Bharwana roads Panoramio
Populated places in Jhang District
Jhang District |
45347076 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sure%20As%20I%27m%20Sittin%27%20Here | Sure As I'm Sittin' Here | "Sure As I'm Sittin' Here" is a song written and originally performed by John Hiatt. Hiatt released the original version of the song as a single in February, 1974, and included it on his debut album Hangin' Around the Observatory. Hiatt's version of "Sure As I'm Sittin' Here" failed to chart.
Other Versions
Three Dog Night released the song as a single in mid 1974, where it reached #16 on the Billboard chart and #18 in Canada in 1974. Three Dog Night's version of "Sure As I'm Sittin' Here" was produced by Jimmy Ienner. It was featured on their 1974 album, Hard Labor. Though they would make the top 40 in both US and Canada with two further singles, this was Three Dog Night's final top 20 hit.
References
1974 songs
1974 singles
Songs written by John Hiatt
John Hiatt songs
Three Dog Night songs
Dunhill Records singles |
19439935 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaroslav%20Kraft | Jaroslav Kraft | Jaroslav Kraft, CSc. (April 9, 1940 – January 10, 2007) was an internationally recognised Czech palaeontologist and a prominent specialist in Ordovician dendroid graptolites.
Early life
Kraft was the son of Jan Kraft, a bookbinder and enthusiastic fossil collector. He completed his education at Charles University, Prague.
Career
Kraft became a geologistat the Geologický průzkum Praha enterprise ("Geological exploration"), branch Stříbro, following an administrative allocation. From 1965 to 1974, he worked as a research assistant in the Museum of Western Bohemia (Západočeské muzeum).
From 1974 to 1980, he worked for the N. P. Geindustria Praha company as a geologist. From 1980 to 1981, he worked in the section of Collections at the Central Geological Institute (now Czech Geological Survey). From 1982 to 1988, he worked as geologist and palaeontologist in the county branch of the State Institution for Cultural Heritage and Nature Conservation in Plzeň.
In the Dr. Bohuslav Horák Museum, Rokycany, he worked as an external specialist from 1963 to 1988, and from 1988 to 1994 as an internal curator. Kraft held Dr. B. Horák in high esteem, a situation that motivated his activities. Kraft completed his RNDr. degree in 1973 and after prolonged delays due to political reasons he attained a CSc. degree in 1984. Kraft was appointed assistant professor at the University of Western Bohemia in Plzeň in 1998, though he had been an external assistant there since 1994.
Kraft changed employment numerous times. This was primarily because the communist regime considered Kraft to be politically unreliable, as he actively practiced Protestantism. Though he experienced harsh treatment by the political and state administration, he achieved numerous highlights and professional success. He published numerous papers. Kraft significantly contributed to improving the professional standards of the Dr. B. Horák Museum in Rokycany. His major contribution was in meticulous, curatorial documentation and processing of palaeontological collections, including computer documentation, that made the finds of the local museum one of the most important collections of Ordovician fossils worldwide.
After many years of working in the Rokycany museum, Kraft had to resign from his post as curator. He returned to collections of the Museum of Western Bohemia in Plzeň, continuing his activities as a curator and paleontologist.
Kraft's son, Petr, became a competent collaborator. Together, they co-authored dozens of publications in Czech and international journals. Jo inly with other colleagues, they completed a large project on the Ordovician in Bohemia as an international standard for the Mediterranean region. In 1999, they, with colleagues from Prague, organised the ninth International Symposium on Ordovician System in Prague. Kraft dedicated much of his energy to establishing protection status for important palaeontological and geological sites in Plzeň and Rokycany.
Publications
Kraft published more than one hundred professional papers. The following brief list is but a sampling of papers from later period:
Kraft J. (1975): Dendroid graptolites of the Ordovician of Bohemia. Sbor. Nár. Muz. (Praha), Ř. B 31, 211–238.
Kraft J., Kraft P. (1993): The Arenig/Llanvirn boundary (Ordovician) in the Prague Basin (Bohemia). J. Czech Geol. Soc. 38, 3/4, 189–192.
Kraft J., Kraft P. (1994): The Azygograptus ellesi – Tetragraptus (reclinatus group) Biozone (Klabava Formation, Ordovician of the Prague Basin). Folia Mus. Rer. Natur. Bohem. Occident., Geol. 40, 1–36.
Kraft J., Kraft P., Seidl R. (1993): New dendroid graptolites from the Lower Ordovician of Bohemia. J. Czech Geol. Soc. 38, 1–2, 89–94.
Kraft, J., Kraft, P. (2000): Das untere Ordovicium bei Rokycany, Tschechische Republik – In: Pinna, G. – Meischner, D (eds.): Europäische Fossillagerstätten. – EPA, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 24–27, 243, obr. 4–9.
Kraft, P., Kraft, J., Prokop, R. J. (2001): A possible hydroid from the Lower and Middle Ordovician of Bohemia. – Alcheringa, 25: 143–154.
Kraft, P., Kraft, J. (2003): Middle Ordovician graptolite fauna from Praha – Cervený vrch (Prague Basin, Czech Republic. – Bulletin of Geosciences, 78(2): 129–139.
Kraft, P., Kraft, J. (2003): Facies of the Klabava Formation (?Tremadoc – Arenig) and their fossil content (Barrandian area, Czech Republic). – In: Albanesi, G. L., Beresi, M. S., Peralta, S. H. (eds.): Ordovician from the Andes. – INSUGEO, Serie Correlación Geológica, 17: 309–314.
Kraft, P., Kraft, J., Marek, J., Seidl, R. (2001): Graptolitová fauna zóny Didymograptus clavulus (šárecké souvrství) ordoviku pražské pánve. – Zprávy o geologických výzkumech v roce 2000, Ces. geol. Úst.: 32–35.
References
Budil, P. – Fatka, O. (2009): Jaroslav Kraft died. Bulletin of Geosciences 84, 1, 1–5. Budil, P. (2008): Doc. RNDr. Jaroslav Kraft, CSc. In Budil, P. – Fatka, O. – Pšenička, J. (eds) Palaeontological workshop held in honour of Doc. RNDr. JAROSLAV KRAFT, CSc.(9. 4. 1940 – 10. 1. 2007), Plzeň, 17 th and 18 November 2008, pp. 1–3. Published by Czech Geological Society,
Czech version of this page is available on :cs:Jaroslav Kraft
Obituary (in Czech) in the Zpravodaj 5/2007 of the Czech Geological Society
1940 births
2007 deaths
Charles University alumni
Czech paleontologists |
16035607 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1764%20in%20Norway | 1764 in Norway | Events in the year 1764 in Norway.
Incumbents
Monarch: Frederick V
Events
Porsgrunn prestegjeld (parish) was separated from the ancient rural parishes of Eidanger, Solum, and Gjerpen.
The old city (original core) of Fredrikstad burns down.
Arts and literature
Births
3 March – Jens Stub, politician (died 1819)
5 April – Hans Jacob Grøgaard, priest and writer (died 1836).
22 August - Mathias Sommerhielm, politician (died 1827)
31 August – Johan August Sandels, soldier and politician (died 1831)
2 December - Peter Olivarius Bugge, bishop (died 1849)
Full date unknown
Anders Olson Lysne, leader of a farmer rebellion (died 1803)
Deaths
References
See also |
7872037 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida%20Underwater%20Archaeological%20Preserve | Florida Underwater Archaeological Preserve | The Florida Underwater Archaeological Preserves are a system of underwater parks in the state of Florida, US. They consist of shipwrecks of historic interest, both off the coast and inland, and are open all year round, free of charge. Similar programs have been created in California, Maryland, Michigan, New York, North Carolina, and Vermont.
There are eleven preserves in the Florida system:
Urca de Lima
San Pedro
City of Hawkinsville
USS Massachusetts (BB-2)
SS Copenhagen
SS Tarpon
Half Moon
Lofthus
Vamar
Regina
Georges Valentine
References and external links
The Underwater Archaeological Preserves
"The Spanish Treasure Fleets of 1715 and 1733: Disasters Strike at Sea", a National Park Service Teaching with Historic Places (TwHP) lesson plan
Museums in the Sea
Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Florida
Shipwrecks of the Florida coast
Shipwrecks on the National Register of Historic Places in Florida |
22499428 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010%20United%20States%20House%20of%20Representatives%20elections%20in%20Kentucky | 2010 United States House of Representatives elections in Kentucky | The 2010 congressional elections in Kentucky were held on November 2, 2010, and determined who would represent the Commonwealth of Kentucky in the United States House of Representatives. Kentucky has six seats in the House, apportioned according to the 2000 United States Census. Representatives are elected for two-year terms; the elected served in the 112th Congress from January 3, 2011, until January 3, 2013. As of 2021, this is the last time the Democrats won more than one congressional district in Kentucky.
Overview
By district
Results of the 2010 United States House of Representatives elections in Kentucky by district:
District 1
Running for his ninth term in this conservative district based in western Kentucky, incumbent Republican Congressman Ed Whitfield faced a trivial challenge from Democratic candidate Charles Hatchett. As expected, Congressman Whitfield was overwhelmingly re-elected to another term in Congress.
Results
District 2
Though incumbent Republican Congressman Brett Guthrie was elected by a slim margin in 2008, he did not face a serious challenge in his bid for a second term from Democratic candidate Ed Marksberry. As was expected, Congressman Guthrie was re-elected in a landslide in this conservative district based in west-central Kentucky.
Results
District 3
Campaign
Two-term Democratic incumbent Congressman John Yarmuth has represented this liberal-leaning district based in metro Louisville since he was first elected in 2006. Yarmuth defeated Republican Congresswoman Anne Northup in 2006, and defeated her again in a rematch in 2008, but she declined to run again in 2010. Instead, Congressman Yarmuth faced Republican candidate Todd Lally, an airline pilot and a failed State House candidate.
Lally attacked Yarmuth for being a "liberal follower" of Nancy Pelosi who voted with her "San Francisco agenda 99 percent of the time," charges that Yarmuth called "ignorant and irresponsible." The Courier-Journal, the largest newspaper in the district, strongly endorsed Congressman Yarmuth in his bid for re-election, and in the end, Yarmuth was able to best Lally by a surprisingly wide margin.
Polling
Results
District 4
Campaign
This conservative district based in northern Kentucky, including some of metropolitan Cincinnati, has been represented by Republican Congressman Geoff Davis since he was first elected in 2004. Seeking a fourth term, Congressman Davis faced Democratic candidate John Waltz, an Iraq War veteran in the general election, who was not given much of a chance given the conservative nature of the district. As expected, Davis was overwhelmingly re-elected.
Results
District 5
Campaign
Republican Congressman Hal Rogers, the dean of the Kentucky congressional delegation, has represented this conservative district based in eastern Kentucky, faced Democratic candidate Jim Holbert in his bid for a sixteenth term. Holbert had previously run against Congressman Rogers in 2008 as an independent candidate. However, Holbert was defeated by Rogers in a landslide for the second time in the general election.
Results
District 6
Campaign
This conservative district based around the Lexington metropolitan area has been represented by incumbent Democratic Congressman Ben Chandler since he was first elected in a 2004 special election. This year, Chandler faced a serious threat to bid for a fifth term in Congress from Republican attorney Andy Barr.
In the general election, both candidates started releasing television ads in August 2010, with Barr attacking Chandler for being part of "politics as usual" while Chandler countered by proclaiming his independence, saying, "If the Republican Party is going to suggest that I'm a tool of somebody else, there is no basis in fact for that." As election day grew nearer, both sides ramped up attacks, with the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee releasing an ads slamming Barr for his criminal record and plans to privatize Social Security. Barr, meanwhile, attacked Chandler for supporting gun control, even though Chandler was endorsed in his bid for re-election by the National Rifle Association of America. Polls predicted a tight race, and on election night, those polls were vindicated; no media organization called the race that night because Chandler led Barr by only a few hundred votes. It was only a few days later that Chandler was proclaimed the winner.
Polling
Results
References
External links
Kentucky State Board of Elections
U.S. Congress Candidates for Kentucky at Project Vote Smart
Kentucky
2010
2010 Kentucky elections |
34850522 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerda%20Johner | Gerda Johner | Gerda Johner (born 20 July 1944) is a Swiss former pair skater. Competing with Rüdi Johner, she was a nine-time gold medalists at the Swiss Figure Skating Championships from 1957 to 1965. The pair finished sixth at the 1964 Winter Olympics, and the following year, they won the silver medal at the European Figure Skating Championships and finished fourth at the World Figure Skating Championships.
Results
(pairs with Rüdi Johner)
References
External links
Swiss female pair skaters
1944 births
Figure skaters at the 1964 Winter Olympics
Olympic figure skaters for Switzerland
Living people
European Figure Skating Championships medalists
FISU World University Games gold medalists for Switzerland
Universiade medalists in figure skating
Competitors at the 1962 Winter Universiade |
36209953 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glendale%20%28community%29%2C%20Monroe%20County%2C%20Wisconsin | Glendale (community), Monroe County, Wisconsin | Glendale is an unincorporated community in the town of Glendale, Monroe County, Wisconsin, United States.
History
A post office called Glendale was established in 1856, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1926. The name Glendale was selected by an early settler from a book he had read.
Notes
Unincorporated communities in Monroe County, Wisconsin
Unincorporated communities in Wisconsin |
2809441 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Nichols%20%28film%20critic%29 | Bill Nichols (film critic) | See also Bill Nichols (disambiguation).
Bill Nichols (born 1942) is an American film critic and theoretician best known for his pioneering work as founder of the contemporary study of documentary film. His 1991 book, Representing Reality: Issues and Concepts in Documentary, applied modern film theory to the study of documentary film for the first time. It has been followed by scores of books by others and by additional books and essays by Nichols. The first volume of his two-volume anthology Movies and Methods (1976, 1985) helped to establish film studies as an academic discipline.
Nichols is Professor Emeritus in the Cinema Department at San Francisco State University and Chair of the Documentary Film Institute advisory board.
Nichols has lectured in numerous countries, served on film festival juries on different continents, consults regularly on a variety of filmmaking projects, and has published over 100 articles.
He is former president of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, a former advisor to the American Film Institute and has served as Department Chair in Canada and the United States. Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film describes his place within film studies as "the most significant documentary scholar in the world". His early work shared with other film scholars a degree of difficulty as it tried to apply elaborate theories to popular films but, as with the field generally, the intensity of theoretical investigation diminishes in his later work as the emotional impact of specific works takes on greater importance. Not a film historian in the traditional sense, Nichols has offered fresh views of historical assumptions but his main contribution has been to offer a conceptual framework for the study and production of documentary film.
Writings
Author
Newsreel: Documentary Filmmaking on the American Left, New York : Arno Press, 1980.
Ideology and the Image: Social Representation in the Cinema and Other Media, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1981.
Blurred Boundaries: Questions of Meaning in Contemporary Culture, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994.
Representing Reality: Issues and Concepts in Documentary, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991.
Introduction to Documentary, 3rd edition. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 2017.
Engaging Cinema: An Introduction to Film Studies. W. W. Norton & Company, 2010.
The Cinema’s Alchemist: The Films of Péter Forgács (co-editor Michael Renov). University of Minnesota Press, 2011.
Speaking Truths with Film: Evidence, Ethics, Politics in Documentary, University Of California Press, 2016
Editor
Movies and Methods: An Anthology, University of California Press, 1985. Vol. 1 , Vol 2
Maya Deren and the American Avant-Garde, University of California Press, 2001.
See also
Paul Rotha
Documentary mode
References
External links
Bill Nichols Bio at personal page
Living people
21st-century American historians
21st-century American male writers
Film theorists
Documentary film people
1942 births
San Francisco State University faculty
American film critics
American male non-fiction writers
Presidents of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies |
44564307 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ra%C3%BAl%20Cuadra%20Garc%C3%ADa | Raúl Cuadra García | Raúl Gerardo Cuadra García (born 10 June 1953) is a Mexican politician from the National Action Party. From 2009 to 2012 he served as Deputy of the LXI Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Aguascalientes.
References
1953 births
Living people
People from Aguascalientes City
Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico)
National Action Party (Mexico) politicians
21st-century Mexican politicians
Politicians from Aguascalientes
Autonomous University of Aguascalientes alumni |
12459686 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Avraham%20Spector | David Avraham Spector | David Avraham Spektor, also spelled Schpektor (9 Av 5715 – 12 Tishrei 5774) (9 August 1955 – 16 September 2013) was a Dutch–born Israeli rabbi. He was born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and emigrated to Israel in 1973, after the Yom Kippur war. Spektor studied at several yeshivas for ten years, primarily at Yeshivat Mercaz HaRav and the Meretz Kollel. He was ordained by the Chief Rabbinate of Israel as both a neighbourhood rabbi (Rav Shechunah) and city rabbi (Rav Ir).
Career
Spektor positions included being an army chaplain with the rank of lieutenant in artillery, a rabbi at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, rabbi of the Nokdim community in Gush Etzion, and a lecturer in Michlelet Emunah college for women in Jerusalem.
In 1998 Spektor was appointed the Ashkenazic rabbi of the Givat Sharett neighborhood of Beit Shemesh. He was also a local rabbinate in Beit Shemesh.
Spektor died on 12 Tishrei 5774 (16 September 2013) after having cancer for two years.
Publications
Spektor's books include:
El-David Responsa on Halachic questions
Tahorat Eretz Yisrael on ritual purity in halacha and thought
Torat Eretz Yisrael on the weekly portion
Sefer HaGabbai
Beit Shemesh, the Biblical town
Herodian Responsa
Drama, Art and Graphic Design Responsa
His wife, Rabbanit Chaya Spektor has also published a book:
The Value of Childbirth in Jewish Sources
References
1955 births
2013 deaths
Israeli Orthodox rabbis
Mercaz HaRav alumni
Israeli people of Dutch-Jewish descent
Rabbis from Amsterdam
Place of death missing
People from Beit Shemesh |
40933555 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalu%2C%20Behshahr | Chalu, Behshahr | Chalu (, also Romanized as Chālū) is a village in Ashrestaq Rural District, Yaneh Sar District, Behshahr County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 55, in 21 families.
References
Populated places in Behshahr County |
27487807 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poughkeepsie%20Yacht%20Club | Poughkeepsie Yacht Club | The Poughkeepsie Yacht Club (PYC) is a small private yacht club based in the Hudson River Valley in upstate New York. The club is one of the earliest yachting institutions in America and founded in 1892. The club is located on the eastern shore in the heart of the Hudson Valley, on a part of the Hudson River about halfway between New York City and Albany. It shares a close proximity to the Hyde Park historic sites and the town of Rhinebeck. Its officers include a Commodore, Vice-Commodore, Rear-Commodore, Measurer, Secretary, and Treasurer.
History
The Poughkeepsie Yacht Club was founded on 1892 by a small group of working sailors and yachtsmen.
It now has approximately one-hundred twenty "active" (boat owning) and "social" (non-boat owning) members.
During the early years of the club's history, rowing played an important role fostering interest and membership. This led to the negotiations securing the first race of the "University Eights" (Intercollegiate Regatta) in June 1895. In addition to racing, yachting, and rowing, iceboating was popular with club members as well. The club field had as many as seven ice yachts, generally storing four in the boat house.
Traditionally the Poughkeepsie Yacht Club has been a "working club," where members take part in maintaining the club facilities and grounds. Participation hours include activities such as the "all hands on deck" docks in and docks out as well as working on the annual events hosted at the club. Members may choose the committee with which they wish to be affiliated (i.e., docks, membership, house, grounds, moorings, entertainment, etc.)
Clubhouses
In 1892, the club's first clubhouse was established in a modest, building in Poughkeepsie, New York, on what is now the water front of lower Main Street in Poughkeepsie. The club leased a dock known as the "Sand Dock" from the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad company at a rate of $25 per year. The first clubhouse was built by May of the following year. The location was on the site of the old Revolutionary Ship Yard (or Continental Shipyard) at Ship Yard Point, now known as Fox's Point in Poughkeepsie. The first club house was a wooden structure twenty by twenty feet, and two stories high. With money in short supply, unusual fund raising methods were employed. For example, in 1897, the veranda in front of the house was added using the proceeds of the "Autumn Carnival". The club has always been a "working man's club" and today aims to uphold the humble tradition.
In 1905, the club's second clubhouse was erected at a new location. The club largely had an untroubled history until the Fall of 1904 when the club had to move due to a land deal. After a great deal of effort and negotiation, a deal was made just south of the present Mid-Hudson Bridge, at the end of Union Street.
In 1974, the club's third clubhouse was built. Due to frustration with the Poughkeepsie Urban Renewal project, and the lack of land for winter storage and launching, the club moved location to its present location in Staatsburg, New York.
The current clubhouse is a two-storied building offering an unobstructed panoramic view of the Hudson River from its East shore location. Although the name (“Poughkeepsie”) comes from the club's origins in the late 19th century (founded in 1892), it is now located in Staatsburg New York, on historic Route U.S. 9. Nearby attractions include the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Hyde Park Home, FDR Library and Museum, the Eleanor Roosevelt Home, the Vanderbilt Estate and grounds (including hiking trails), the Ogden Mills Estate, Norrie State Park, and the Culinary Institute of America.
Commodores
Gallery
Notes
References
Minute Books for the years 1892 - 1975 located at the Local History Room of the Adriance Memorial Library, Market Street, Poughkeepsie, NY
The Poughkeepsie Yacht Club, Copyright 1992, Arthur E. Scott
External links
Official Website
1892 establishments in New York (state)
Buildings and structures in Dutchess County, New York
Hudson River
Sports organizations established in 1892
Gentlemen's clubs in New York (state)
Sailing clubs in New York (state) |
31453339 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentina%20Battler | Valentina Battler | Valentina Battler , also known as Valentina Arina and Valentina Alieva (born November 18, 1946, Astrakhan, Russia) is a Russian-Canadian poet and artist, working in the genre of Chinese painting (Indian ink on Xuan paper).
Personal life
Battler was born in the city of Astrakhan into a Ukrainian-Russian family. Her father, Vladimir Petrovich Barannik, was a major in the militia (police). Her mother, Tatiana Nikolaevna Barannik, was a homemaker. In 1962–1966 Valentina studied at the Mussorgsky Music College of Astrakhan, where she graduated with honours. In 1966 she entered the Leningrad (currently St.-Petersburg) Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory – the piano department (class of Prof. N. E. Perelman) and graduated in 1971 with the qualification of soloist, ensemble player and instructor. Subsequently, she worked for many years at the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music. In 1993 she emigrated to Canada where she changed her name officially to Valentina Battler and now has dual citizenship. Since 2001 she lived in Oxford (United Kingdom), and later in Paris (France). At present she resides in New York City (United States). She has been married since 1970 to Alex Battler (Oleg Arin). They have two children: son Guerman and daughter Ulyana.
Shows
2011 , New York
2007 The Russian Cultural Center, Paris, France
2006 Show Title: Symphony of Ink, Stella Art Gallery, Paris, France
2006 The Russian Cultural Center, Paris, France
2004 State Museum for Oriental Art, Moscow, Russia
2004 Ardena Foundation for educational and Cultural Programs, Moscow, Russia
2003 State Arts Museum, Shanghai, China
2003 Show Title: Rhymes and Images, Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
2001 International Centre of the Roerichs, Moscow, Russia
2000 Show Title: The Soul of Mine, Central House of Artist, Moscow, Russia
Books
Battler has co-authored two books with her husband, Oleg Arin:
Valentina Battler. Art of Ink Painting. Second Edition. USA: Charlestone, 2012 (). Book review.
Valentina Battler (Wang Liushi). Music of Silence. (In Russian) Moscow, 2011 ().
Between Titi and Caca. Impressions of a Tourist...but not only. (in Russian) Moscow: Aliyans, 2001.
Immigration to the North America. (in Russian) Moscow: Infomdinamo, 1997.
References
External links
1946 births
Living people
20th-century Russian painters
21st-century Russian painters
Russian women poets
20th-century Canadian painters
21st-century Canadian painters
21st-century Canadian poets
Canadian women poets
Russian emigrants to Canada
21st-century Canadian women writers
20th-century Canadian women artists
21st-century Canadian women artists
20th-century Russian women |
10596638 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycling%20at%20the%201988%20Summer%20Olympics%20%E2%80%93%20Men%27s%20points%20race | Cycling at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's points race | The men's points race was an event at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, for which the final was held on 24 September 1988. There were 34 participants from 34 nations, with 24 cyclists competing in the final. Each nation was limited to 1 cyclist in the event. The event was won by Dan Frost of Denmark, with Leo Peelen of the Netherlands taking silver and Marat Ganeyev of the Soviet Union bronze. It was the first medal in the men's points race for each of the three nations.
Background
This was the third appearance of the event. It was first held in 1900 and not again until 1984; after that, it was held every Summer Games until 2008 when it was removed from the programme. The women's version was held from 1996 through 2008.
Three of the 24 finalists from the 1984 Games returned: silver medalist Uwe Messerschmidt of West Germany, bronze medalist José Youshimatz of Mexico, and fifth-place finisher Juan Curuchet of Argentina. The reigning World Champion (1987) was Marat Ganeyev of the Soviet Union; Messerschmidt had been runner-up. Dan Frost of Denmark had won the World Championship in 1986. Ganeyev and Frost were favored in Seoul.
Barbados, Bolivia, Chinese Taipei, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Iran, Liechtenstein, Malaysia, Poland, South Korea, the Soviet Union, Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela each made their debut in the event. France and Italy both competed for the third time, the only nations to have competed in all three Olympic men's points races.
Competition format
The contest consisted of two rounds: semifinals and a final. The distance varied by round, with 30 kilometres in the semifinals and 50 kilometres in the final. The top 12 in each of the two semifinals advanced to the 24-man final. Placement in each race was determined first by how many laps behind the leader the cyclist was and second by how many sprint points the cyclist accumulated. That is, a cyclist with more sprint points but who was lapped once would be ranked behind a cyclist with fewer points but who had not been lapped. Sprint points could be gained only by cyclists who had not been lapped.
In the semifinals, there were 20 sprints—one every 1.5 kilometres. Points were awarded based on the position of the cyclists at the end of the sprint. Most of the sprints were worth five points for the leader, three to the second-place cyclist, two to third, and one to fourth. The 10th (halfway) and 20th (final) sprint were worth double: ten points, six, four, and two.
The final featured 30 sprints—one every 1.67 kilometres. As in the semifinals, most sprints were worth 5/3/2/1 points, with the halfway (15th) and final (30th) sprints worth 10/6/4/2.
Schedule
All times are Korea Standard Time adjusted for daylight savings (UTC+10)
Results
Semifinals
Semifinal 1
Semifinal 2
Final
Ganeyev led the scoreboard for most of the race, but near the end was lapped by Frost and Peelen. He took bronze despite having the most points. Frost had scored more between the lead pair, so took gold.
Results summary
References
External links
Official Report
Track cycling at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Cycling at the Summer Olympics – Men's points race
Men's events at the 1988 Summer Olympics |
74681114 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor%20Stevens | Taylor Stevens | Taylor Stevens (born circa 1973) is an American author of mystery novels. She grew up in the Children of God.
Early life
Circa 1973, Stevens was born in upstate New York as part of the Children of God, her parents having joined the cult in 1969 and 1970, respectively. She has four younger siblings, all of whom were also born into the cult. Due to the cult's beliefs regarding familial bonds, at age 12, Stevens was separated from her biological family. She was also denied access to education beyond the sixth grade. Instead of attending school, much of her childhood was spent on city streets, as she was forced to beg by cult leaders, or care for the commune and the people living there. Before reaching the age of 14, she lived in communes in Mexico, Germany, Austria, France, Switzerland, Japan, and South Korea. At age 15, Stevens began writing stories, which group leaders punished her for, separating her from her peers and calling her "a witch and full of devils."
Following the death of cult leader David Berg in 1994, Stevens and her husband, who was also a member of Children of God, moved to a commune in Kenya, then set out on a successful mission in Equatorial Guinea. With increased confidence from their success away from the Children of God, Stevens to Germany with her husband and toddler. In her late twenties, Stevens broke away from the Children of God, marking a significant turning point in her life.
As of 2011, Stevens's father was still involved with the Children of God, though her parents had divorced; she had developed a strong relationship with her mother.
Awards and honors
The Informationist reached the top ten of The New York Times Best Seller list.
Personal life
As of 2012, Stevens lived near Dallas with her two daughters.
Publications
A Jack and Jill Thriller series
Vanessa Michael Munroe series
References
External links
Living people
1970s births
21st-century American women writers
Members of The Family International |
4361849 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorraine%20Lang | Lorraine Lang | Lorraine Lang (born October 8, 1956, Port Arthur, Ontario as Lorraine Edwards) is a Canadian curler from Thunder Bay, Ontario. Lang is a two-time Tournament of Hearts champion and World Champion.
Curling career
In 1981, Lang won the Canadian Mixed Curling Championship playing lead for her future husband Rick Lang.
Lang played in her first Scott Tournament of Hearts in 1983 as a third for Anne Provo. The team finished 4–6. She returned to the Hearts in 1988 as Heather Houston's third. At the 1988 Hearts, the team had to win two tie-breakers before winning two playoff games to claim the championship. They defeated the defending champion Pat Sanders.
At the 1988 World Championships, the team won the silver medal, losing to Germany's Andrea Schöpp in the final. The Hearts victory gave them a berth at the 1989 Scott Tournament of Hearts. The team would go on to win that as well. They had to win three playoff games before beating Chris More of Manitoba in the final.
At the 1989 World Championships, they avenged their silver medal by defeating Trine Trulsen of Norway in the final. Their Hearts victory in 1989 qualified them for the 1990 Scott Tournament of Hearts. They were not able to win for a third straight year, however as they lost to Alison Goring of Ontario in the semi-final. The team returned to the Hearts in 1991 as Team Ontario. The team lost to Heidi Hanlon of New Brunswick in the semi-final. It would be Lang's last Hearts until 2006 when she played lead for Krista McCarville. At the 2006 Scott Tournament of Hearts, the team finished with a 4–7 record, out of the playoffs. She returned with McCarville to the 2007 Scotties Tournament of Hearts where the finished with a 6–5 record and lost in a tie-breaker. She played in her last Scotties in 2009. After the McCarville rink won the bronze medal at the 2009 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials, Lang retired from curling.
Personal life
Lang works as a medical radiation technology program coordinator at Confederation College. She is married to Rick Lang and has two children, including Sarah Potts.
References
External links
Lorraine Lang at the Canadian Curling Hall of Fame
Curlers from Northern Ontario
Curlers from Thunder Bay
Living people
1956 births
World curling champions
Canadian women curlers
Canadian women's curling champions
Canadian mixed curling champions
Canadian curling coaches |
71411782 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Najlaa%20Eltom | Najlaa Eltom | Najlaa Osman Eltom (, born 1975) is a Sudanese writer, poet and translator writing in Arabic. She also has translated short stories by other Sudanese literary writers into English. Since 2012, she has been living in Sweden.
Biography
Eltom became part of the literary scene in Sudan during the early 2000s. In 2001, she participated at the International Book Fair in Abu Dhabi, and in 2007 at the Cairo Book Fair and the British Council's Writers Encounter. She published her first poetry collection, whose title translates in English as The Doctrine of Thinness, in Cairo in 2006. In 2016, her second poetry collection was published in Istanbul. The English translations for her poems were published in Banipal magazine 55: Sudanese Literature today. Some of her poems were also published in the anthology Modern Sudanese Poetry by translator and editor Adil Babikir, who commented: “As a female writer in a literary tradition dominated by male figures, Najlaa had to deal with the complex questions of voice, individuality, taboos, image, and performance of a female writer.”
Among other literary texts, Eltom co-translated the Sudanese short stories Isolation by Sabah Sanhouri, Conjunctions by Nagi Al-Badawi and A Condition by Adil Al-Qassas from Arabic into English. In 2018, she published two volumes of short stories in Arabic. The same year, her story The Struggle Is Patriarchal was translated by Yasmine Haj and published in The Babel Review of Translations.
Eltom took a master's degree in English literature at Stockholm University in 2015, studying with a scholarship from the Swedish Institute. In 2019, she received a one-year work grant from Sweden's Writers' Fund.
Works
منزلة الرمق [The Doctrine of Thinness], Cairo 2006, poetry, OCLC 681602925
الجريمة الخالدة ذات الأقراط [The Eternal Crime with the Earrings], Juba, 2018, short stories, ISBN 9789776597358
ألحان السرعة [Melodies of Speed] Juba, 2018, short stories, OCLC 1261768475
See also
Contemporary Sudanese literature
List of Sudanese writers
References
Further reading
Babikir, Adil (ed.) (2019). Modern Sudanese Poetry: An Anthology. Lincoln, NE, USA.
Cormack, Ralph and Shmookler, Max (eds.) (2016) The Book of Khartoum. A City in Short Fiction.
1975 births
Sudanese women short story writers
Sudanese short story writers
Living people
21st-century Sudanese writers
21st-century women writers
Sudanese women writers
Sudanese poets
Sudanese women poets
Stockholm University alumni |
11178640 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why%20Worry%3F%20%28Clannad%20song%29 | Why Worry? (Clannad song) | "Why Worry?" is a single by Irish group Clannad. It was released in 1991 and was the second single from their 1990 album Anam.
Track listing
7" vinyl, 12" vinyl, cassette & 5" compact disc
"In Fortune's Hand"
"Gaoth Bearra" (Live from the Royal Albert Hall)
External links
Lyrics
Clannad songs
1991 singles
1990 songs
RCA Records singles
Songs written by Ciarán Brennan |
5456882 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Preljubovi%C4%87 | Thomas Preljubović | Thomas Preljubović (; ) was ruler of the Despotate of Epirus in Ioannina from 1366 to his death on December 23, 1384. He also held the title of Albanian-slayer (Greek: Αλβανοκτόνος/Αλβανιτόκτονος) after torturing Albanian prisoners in order to terrify his enemies.
Thomas is remembered for presenting several outstanding icons to the monastery of the Transfiguration at Meteora and in Cuena, in Spain. He also made gifts to the Athonite monasteries of Great Lavra, Vatopedi and Hilandar. Preljubović was particularly attached to his namesake the apostle Thomas. In one of the icons at Meteora, a composition of Doubting Thomas includes Thomas' wife, Maria-Angelina, among the apostles. It is possible that he was responsible for having the frescoes painted in the Hilandar parekklesion of the Holy Archangels, where in the lower zone, the apostle Thomas and the warrior St. Procopius occupy a prominent place.
Ancestors
Thomas was the son of caesar Gregorios Preljub (), the Serbian governor of Thessaly, who died in late 1355 or early 1356. His mother Irene Nemanjić was a daughter of Stephen Uroš IV Dušan of Serbia and Helena of Bulgaria.
Life
After the violent death of his father, Thomas' claim to Thessaly was asserted by his mother Irene, but they were forced to flee to Serbia by the advance of Nikephoros II Orsini in 1356. Here, Irene married Radoslav Hlapen, the ruler of Vodena, who took Thomas under his wing.
During the absence of Thessaly's new ruler, Simeon Uroš Palaiologos, in the Despotate of Epirus in 1359–1360, Hlapen invaded Thessaly, attempting to win it for his stepson. Although Simeon Uroš managed to contain the invasion, he was forced to cede Kastoria to Thomas and to marry him to his daughter Maria. Over the next several years, Simeon Uroš recognized that he could not assert effective authority over most of Epirus and delegated power in Arta and Angelokastron to local Albanian chieftains. In 1366 the citizens of Ioannina, the last major fortress to remain under Simeon Uroš's control, sent him a petition to appoint a governor who could protect them from the raids of Albanian clansmen.
Simeon Uroš responded by designating Thomas as his governor and forwarding the Ioanninan and Vagenetian (Thesprotian) embassy to him. Thomas entered Ioannina sometime in 1366 or 1367. Thomas' reign in Epirus is reflected in most detail in the so-called Chronicle of Ioannina, which is deeply prejudiced and hostile against Preljubović. It represents him as a cruel and capricious tyrant. Thomas seized various properties of the Church of Ioannina and awarded them to his Serbian retainers. In 1382 a new appointee to the local archbishopric, Matthew, was sent out from Constantinople, and invested Thomas with the title of despotes on behalf of the Byzantine Emperor John V Palaiologos. Nevertheless, later Thomas quarreled with the archbishop and exiled him from Ioannina.
Thomas was also accused of persecuting the local nobility, which inspired a series of revolts against his rule. In addition to seizing ecclesiastical and private property, Thomas established new taxes and monopolies on various commodities, including fish and fruit. In addition to relying on his military forces to enforce these imposts, Thomas waged a continuous war against the Albanians of Arta and Angelokastron.
Soon after taking possession of Ioannina, Thomas was unsuccessfully besieged by Albanian nobleman, Pjetër Losha of Arta. Thomas betrothed his daughter to Losha's son in 1370, satisfying the Albanians and ending conflicts. In 1374, Pjetër Losha died of the plague in Arta, after which Gjin Bua Shpata took over the city. At this time he was not bound by agreement to Thomas; he laid siege to Ioannina and ravaged the country-side. Thomas brought peace when he betrothed his sister Helena to Gjin Bua Shpata the following year. Attacks on Ioannina continued, however, by the Malakasioi, who were finally defeated by Thomas (1377 and 1379). In May 1379, Gjin Bua Shpata devastated the country-side of Ioannina.
After repeated failure, Thomas turned for help to his Frankish and then his Ottoman neighbors. The latter responded promptly and dispatched an auxiliary force in 1381. Thomas put this force to good use and conquered many fortresses from his enemies in 1381–1384. He was given the epithet "Albanian-Slayer" (Αλβανοκτόνος, Albanoktonos). However, the Albanians under Gjin Bua Shpata, together with the Mazarakii tribe held their defensive positions and ultimately defeated Thomas once again.
Nevertheless, Thomas had come to be on bad terms with his wife Maria, who participated in the subsequent conspiracy against her husband. On December 23, 1384, Thomas was assassinated by his guards. the population of Ioannina swore allegiance to Maria and invited her brother John Uroš Doukas Palaiologos to come and advise her in the government.
Assessment
Preljubović is generally treated in a negative outlook in contemporary sources. The Chronicle of Ioannina, written about his rule in Ioannina, regularly describes him as "wicked", a "merciless sadist" and a "murderer". In the Chronicle, Preljubović is described as "greedy and avaricious" and special mention is made to his tyrannical actions towards the church, the nobility and regular citizens of Ioannina.
Issue
By Tsarevna Princess Jerina (daughter of Tsar Dusan), Thomas II Preljubović had at least one daughter:
Irene, who married Gjin Bua Shpata, and died in 1374–5.
By his wife Maria Angelina Doukaina Palaiologina Thomas II possibly had a son:
Preljub (Prealoupes), who must have died young.
References
Bibliography
1384 deaths
14th-century Serbian nobility
14th-century Byzantine people
14th-century despots of Epirus
Assassinated Byzantine people
Year of birth unknown
14th-century monarchs in Europe
Medieval Ioannina
Boyars of Stefan Dušan
14th-century murdered monarchs |
36838698 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Making%20Social%20Science%20Matter | Making Social Science Matter | Making Social Science Matter: Why Social Inquiry Fails and How It Can Succeed Again is a 2001 book by Bent Flyvbjerg, published by Cambridge University Press. The author is critical of social sciences to the extent they try to emulate natural science. First, he argues that social sciences have failed as science, that is, in producing predictive theory. Second, he develops an argument that in order to matter again, social sciences must model themselves after phronesis (as opposed to episteme, which is at the core of natural science). Finally, he develops methodological guidelines and shows practical examples of how a phronetic social science may be employed for research purposes.
Flyvbjerg rejects the natural science model as an ideal for the social sciences and suggests that social sciences are more relevant to people, e.g., ordinary citizens and policy makers. Flyvbjerg argues that to gain relevance, social science must inform practical reason; accordingly, this is best done by a focus on values and power. In terms of philosophy and history of science, Flyvbjerg is influenced by Aristotle rather than by Socrates and Plato.
Flyvbjerg's book Rationality and Power: Democracy in Practice is an example of the methodology and theory developed in Making Social Science Matter employed in practice. Flyvbjerg has also explained how he uses the methodology in his studies of megaprojects.
Reception
Science Magazine, which almost never reviews social science books, published a full-page review of Making Social Science Matter, by Clifford Geertz of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study. Geertz commented: "Bent Flyvbjerg has been one of the leading figures in the now widespread movement against the idea that the social sciences should model themselves on the natural ones ... [Making Social Science Matter] clearly demonstrates that there are models more appropriate to the social sciences ... Flyvbjerg's suggestive, well-written little book both reviews most of the apparent possibilities and establishes standards (practical and political, ethical and methodological) by which to measure their progress."
In Choice magazine, W. P. Nye wrote: "This is a bold manifesto calling for a radical reorientation of social science research ... Flyvbjerg offers a strong case for his main thesis and, therefore, this work deserves wide and serious attention among social scientists and social policy planners and implementers."
According to Caterino and Schram, "The special thing about Flyvbjerg's challenge to social science is the way it bridges theory and practice in a way that unites philosophical and empirical subdivisions in the social sciences." In this manner, the book transgresses disciplinary boundaries to make a more compelling call for a social science that people could use to make a difference in their lives.
Readership
Making Social Science Matter is widely read and cited, with almost 8,000 citations on Google Scholar, which makes it the most cited current book in the philosophy and methodology of social science.
References
Sociology books
Political science books
2001 non-fiction books |
55840653 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balidan%20Stambh | Balidan Stambh | Balidan Stambh (Hindi: बलिदान स्तंभ "sacrificial pillar") is a memorial situated in Jammu in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. It was constructed to commemorate the heroic deeds of the soldiers and policemen who died in the fight to protect the sovereignty of the frontiers and during the ongoing Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir.
The country’s first of its kind was built by the Indian Army at the cost of Rupees 130 million in 2009. It is sixty meters high in the shape of a soldier’s gun. The names of 4877 martyrs are inscribed on 52 pillars around the country. Some of the pillars are dedicated to 543 soldiers who were martyred in the Kargil War. Of these martyrs, 71 were from different districts of Jammu and Kashmir.
Later, the personnel from the military, paramilitary and police who died during the ongoing militancy in Jammu & Kashmir, numbering 15,000 were honored in the memorial.
Architecture
The pillar is shaped like a bayoneted rifle. The height of the pillar is approximately 60 metres from the base with the sun rays filtering through its baffles. At the base is an eternal flame. The martyrs flame is placed within the butt of the rifle. The design of the memorial revolves around a 5.56 mm INSAS rifle. At the entrance, 6 metre tall INSAS bullets are erected on both sides. The memorial is exclusively dedicated to the soldiers martyred during wars and counter-insurgency operations within Jammu and Kashmir region. It encompasses the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947-1948, Sino-Indian War of 1962, Indo-Pakistani War of 1965,Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, Kargil War of 1999 wars and the anti-militancy operations since 1990. These names are inscribed on pillars built around the circumference of the memorial as also on the walls around the Amar Jawan Jyoti. One half of the circumference has the Murals of Param Vir Chakra and Ashok Chakra awardees.
References
Monuments and memorials in India |
73055829 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryant%20Y%20Yang | Bryant Y Yang | Bryant Y Yang (born 1981/1982) is an American state court judge who serves as a judge of the Los Angeles County Superior Court.
Education
Yang graduated with High Honor earning a Bachelor of Arts in 2004 and Juris Doctor in 2007 from the University of California, Berkeley.
Career
Yang worked as an Associate at Morrison & Foerster LLP from 2007 to 2010. In 2010, Yang served as Special Prosecutor at the Burbank City Attorney's Office and as Special Counsel at the Glendale City Attorney's Office. In 2012, Yang was the deputy director for Voter Protection for Nevada for Organizing for America. Yang was an Associate at Irell & Manella LLP from 2012 to 2016. He has been a Lecturer and adjunct professor at Harvey Mudd College in 2009, 2015 and 2020. Yang was an Assistant United States Attorney for the United States Department of Justice from 2016 - 2020.
Yang was the President & Program Director of the Asian Pacific American Advocates - Greater Los Angeles Chapter (2008 - 2011), President, Vice President and Treasurer of the Asian Pacific American Bar Association of Los Angeles County (2007 - 2016), Chair and Vice-Chair of California State Bar / California Lawyers Association (2012 - 2018), Vice Chair of the Los Angeles County Bar Association State Appellate Judicial Evaluation Committee since 2013 and Chair of the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Legal Aid and Indigent Defense since 2016.
Governor Gavin Newsom appointed Yang to the Los Angeles Superior Court on November 13, 2020, to replace Yvonne T. Sanchez. He is the vice-chair of the Criminal Justice Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association. Yang is the first Burmese American judge in the United States.
Personal life
Yang was the president of the Asian Pacific American Bar Association (APABA) in 2016. He also spent time working with Burmese refugees at the Myanmar-Thailand border.
References
UC Berkeley School of Law alumni
Asian-American people in California politics
1980s births
Living people
Year of birth uncertain
People from Los Angeles County, California
University of California, Berkeley alumni |
66428613 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue%20of%20Tadeusz%20Ko%C5%9Bciuszko | Statue of Tadeusz Kościuszko | Statue of Tadeusz Kościuszko may refer to:
Equestrian statue of Tadeusz Kościuszko (Milwaukee)
Kosciuszko's Monument (West Point)
Statue of Tadeusz Kościuszko (Boston)
Statue of Tadeusz Kościuszko (Washington, D.C.)
Tadeusz Kościuszko Monument (Chicago)
Tadeusz Kościuszko Monument, Kraków
Tadeusz Kościuszko Monument, Warsaw |
13375040 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great%20Bear%20Recreation%20Park | Great Bear Recreation Park | Great Bear Recreation Park, more commonly referred to as Great Bear, is a small ski hill in the northeastern section of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, in the United States. It is owned by the City of Sioux Falls, and co-managed by Great Bear Recreation Park Inc.
History
Great Bear Ski Area was established in 1965 by Ron Clifford and later sold to Dennis Finke and Jerry Dirks in 1969. Great Bear started out as an old gravel pit with one rope tow and two runs. One longer run to the left of the rope tow and one shorter run to the right. Dennis and Jerry built the first chalet at the ski area. In the early days Great Bear was open Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday expanding hours in the 1970s to every day. By the early 1970s Great Bear had expanded to three rope tows and seven runs. Great Bear began expanding into a year-round recreation park in the summer of 1998. The renovation of the Chalet at Great Bear was completed December 2001 and offers a 270-degree panoramic view of the surrounding area. The 2002 completion of the Ralph and Doris Wallin Nature Trail System marked the completion of the Great Bear Expansion Project and officially opened the park to four-season use.
Facilities
Great Bear Ski Valley, eastern South Dakota's largest ski resort, features over 220 acres of outdoor fun just minutes from downtown Sioux Falls. In the winter, the park features 14 downhill ski trails with 3 lifts (quad chairlift, magic carpet, and handle tow) and a terrain park. The Kirby Family Tubing Park has 8 to 12 lanes with a magic carpet lift. Both the ski and tubing hills have snowmaking. The park also has 4 miles of cross country and snow shoeing trails that provide. Great Bear offers lessons and complete equipment rentals.
The park also features a chalet offering a selection of food and beverage and ample seating. Great Bear does not offer onsite lodging.
In the summer, The Ralph and Doris Wallin Nature trail system, nearly 4 miles of trails, provides 3 distinct trail loops through hills and valleys with scenic views. Bicycling is not allowed on the trails. The lodge is also rented out for private events during the spring, summer and fall months including company retreats and weddings.
External links
Great Bear's web-site
Geography of Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Ski areas and resorts in South Dakota
Tourist attractions in Sioux Falls, South Dakota |
3391038 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great%20Lake%20Swimmers | Great Lake Swimmers | Great Lake Swimmers is a Canadian folk rock band from Wainfleet, Ontario, and currently based in Toronto.
The current touring line-up is Tony Dekker on lead vocals, acoustic guitar and harmonica, Erik Arnesen on banjo, electric guitar and harmonium, Ryan Granville-Martin on drums and backing vocals, Bret Higgins on upright bass and Kelsey McNulty on keyboards and backing vocals. Past members included Julie Fader on backing vocals, Sandro Perri on guitar, and Greg Millson and Colin Huebert on drums.
The band's style has been compared to Red House Painters, Nick Drake, Iron & Wine and Neil Young, as well as Will Oldham (Bonnie "Prince" Billy) and Sufjan Stevens. Dekker has cited influences including Gram Parsons and Hank Williams.
History
The band released two albums, Great Lake Swimmers in 2003 and Bodies and Minds in 2005, on the independent label (Weewerk) before signing to the larger Nettwerk in 2007.
The band released its third full-length album, Ongiara, on March 27, 2007 in Canada and in May for the rest of the world. Although signing to Nettwerk early in 2007, Great Lake Swimmers continue to be managed by (Weewerk). In September 2007, (weewerk) released a limited edition vinyl version of Ongiara. It was available in Australia through native indie label Speak N Spell.
Their fourth album, Lost Channels, was released on March 31, 2009. It was shortlisted for the 2009 Polaris Music Prize, and was nominated for a Juno Award, in the category of Roots & Traditional Album of the Year – Group, and a Canadian Folk Music Award.
In 2009 Great Lake Swimmers took part in an interactive documentary series called City Sonic. The series, which featured 20 Toronto artists, had Tony Dekker talk about his daily underground commute along Toronto’s subway system. In 2011, Dekker participated in the documentary series National Parks Project, visiting Cape Breton Highlands National Park in Nova Scotia with filmmaker Keith Behrman and musicians Daniela Gesundheit and Old Man Luedecke.
The band's fifth studio album, New Wild Everywhere, was released on April 3, 2012. The band also composed an instrumental soundtrack for photographer Ian Coristine's One in a Thousand, an e-book of photography from the Thousand Islands region of Ontario, also released in April 2012.
Dekker released a solo album, Prayer of the Woods, in October 2013. The album includes eight original songs as well as covers of Gordon Lightfoot's "Carefree Highway" and Human Sexual Response's "Land of the Glass Pinecones". In 2014 he followed up with Sings 10 Years of Zunior, an album of covers of other Canadian artists — including Old Man Luedecke, Chad VanGaalen, Christine Fellows, Ohbijou, Rae Spoon, Matt Mays, Martin Tielli, Jennifer Castle and Cadence Weapon — released to mark the 10th anniversary of Canadian web music store Zunior.
The sixth studio album by the full band, A Forest of Arms, was released on April 21, 2015. In 2017 they followed up with the Christmas-themed EP They Don't Make Them Like That Anymore.
In February 2018, the band released the single "Falling Apart"/"The Talking Wind", as an advance preview of the forthcoming album The Waves, the Wake.
Their eighth album, Uncertain Country, was released on April 28, 2023.
Discography
Studio albums
Great Lake Swimmers (weewerk, 2003)
Bodies and Minds (weewerk, 2005)
Ongiara (Nettwerk, 2007)
Lost Channels (Nettwerk, 2009)
New Wild Everywhere (Nettwerk, 2012)
A Forest of Arms (Nettwerk, 2015)
The Waves, the Wake (Nettwerk, 2018)
Uncertain Country (2023)
Acoustic albums
The Waves, the Wake (Acoustic) (Nettwerk, 2019)
Cover albums
When Last We Shook Hands: Cover Songs, Vol. 1 (2020)
EPs
Hands in Dirty Ground (weewerk, 2006)
Swimming Away (2016)
They Don't Make Them Like That Anymore (2017)
Side Effects (2018)
Live albums
Live at the Church of the Redeemer (Nettwerk, 2007)
The Legion Sessions (Nettwerk, 2009)
Live in Ottawa at the 27 Club, October 3, 2019 (2020)
Live at the Redeemer 2007 (Weewerk, 2021)
Singles
Compilations
See You on the Moon! (2005): "See You on the Moon!"
The Sound the Hare Heard (2006): "Where in the World Are You"
Borrowed Tunes II: A Tribute to Neil Young (2007): "Don't Cry No Tears"
Peace on Earth (2007): "Gonna Make It Thru This Year"
Northern Songs: Canada's Best and Brightest (2008): "Your Rocky Spine"
(weewerk) is 6! (2008): "Song for the Angels (Miracle Version)", "Gonna Make It Thru This Year". (Dekker also appears as a guest musician on tracks by Audiotransparent, Julie Fader and United Steel Workers of Montreal.)
Friends in Bellwoods II (2009): "Send Me a Letter"
Introducing Townes Van Zandt via the Great Unknown (2009): "Our Mother the Mountain"
A Country Blues Christmas: The 2010 Zunior Holiday Album (2010): "When the Snow Starts to Fall"
Paint it Black: An Alt-Country Tribute to the Rolling Stones (2011): "Before They Make Me Run"
Have Not Been the Same - Vol. 1: Too Cool to Live, Too Smart to Die (2011): "What Was Going Through My Head" (The Grapes of Wrath cover)
My Name Is Mathias (2014): "The Things That People Make (Part 3)"
Soundtrack
This is not like home (Silver Road, 2007)
Your Rocky Spine (Weeds, 3x06 Grasshopper, 2007)
Passenger Song (Numb3rs, 5x08 Thirty-Six Hours, 2008)
Song Sung Blue (original film score, weewerk, 2008)
There Is a Light (The Light of Family Burnam, 2008)
I Could Be Nothing (Personal Effects), 2010)
Leave It Behind (Personal Effects), 2010)
Imaginary Bars (Out of Place: a Portrait of Surfing in Cleveland, Ohio, 2010)
Other
In 2006, the band released a "digital box set" on Zunior, consisting of their first two albums, the limited edition Hands in Dirty Ground EP, several digital tour photos and the video for their song "To Leave It Behind" on a 512 MB USB flash drive.
In 2008, Dekker appeared on Jenny Omnichord's album Charlotte or Otis: Duets for Children, Their Parents and Other People Too, performing a duet vocal on the song "Do You Know Karate".
In 2009 the band released a limited double 7" vinyl split single with the Dutch band Audiotransparent. This release includes a cover of the Elvis Presley classic "Don't Be Cruel" and the original song "Send Me a Letter". Dekker and Arnesen also appear on the Audiotransparent song "You Are a Movie".
In 2010, the band contributed four tracks to the online music community Swim Drink Fish Music, including live versions of their songs "Your Rocky Spine", "I Could Be Nothing" and "Everything Is Moving So Fast" and a previously unreleased track, "Ballad of a Fisherman's Wife".
The songs “I Became Awake” and “Various Stages” are heard in the 2010 independent Canadian horror film The Corridor.
The song "Moving Pictures Silent Films" was featured in the August 8, 2011 episode of Warehouse 13, entitled "3...2...1..."
In 2012 the band contributed the Christmas song "Hang a String of Lights" to Paste magazine's annual online Holiday Sampler music collection.
Awards
Canadian Indie Awards
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References
External links
Great Lake Swimmers official website
Great Lake Swimmers on (weewerk) Records
Musical groups established in 2003
Musical groups from the Regional Municipality of Niagara
Musical groups from Toronto
Canadian folk rock groups
2003 establishments in Ontario
Canadian indie folk groups
Nettwerk Music Group artists |
19621167 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luy%20de%20B%C3%A9arn | Luy de Béarn | The Luy de Béarn (, literally Luy of Béarn; ) is a left tributary of the Luy, in the Southwest of France. It is long.
Geography
The source of the Luy de Béarn is at the base of the plateau of Ger, east of Pau. It flows north-west through the Chalosse region and joins the Luy de France to form the Luy below the castle of Gaujacq.
Départements and towns
The Luy de Béarn flows through the following departments and towns:
Pyrénées-Atlantiques: Montardon, Sauvagnon, Sault-de-Navailles
Landes: Amou
Main tributaries
(L) Aïgue Longue, from the moor of Pont-Long in the north of Pau.
(L) Uzan, in Uzan, also from Pont-Long.
(L) Aubin.
(L) Oursoû, from the nord of Orthez.
References
Rivers of France
Rivers of Landes (department)
Rivers of Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Rivers of Nouvelle-Aquitaine |
53236118 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudomogrus%20mirandus | Pseudomogrus mirandus | Pseudomogrus mirandus is a jumping spider (family Salticidae) that is found in Turkmenistan. The species was first described by Wanda Wesołowska in 1996 and placed in the genus Yllenus but was transferred to the genus Logunyllus in 2016, and to Pseudomogrus when Logunyllus was synonymized with Pseudomogrus.
References
Spiders described in 1996
Salticidae
Spiders of Asia
Taxa named by Wanda Wesołowska |
24593728 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colquhoun%20Grant%20%28British%20cavalry%20general%29 | Colquhoun Grant (British cavalry general) | Lieutenant General Sir John Colquhoun Grant (177220 December 1835) was a British soldier.
Military career
Sir Colquhoun Grant joined the 36th Foot as an ensign in 1793, exchanging (some years later) to the cavalry (25th Light Dragoons), with which he served at Seringapatam, but returning to the infantry in 1802 to command the 72nd Foot, which he led for six years. In 1806, at the head of his regiment he joined Sir David Baird's expedition to the Cape of Good Hope and on 8January was wounded in action against the Batavian army at the Battle of Blaauwberg. On announcing the victory of the British in despatches Baird remarked: "Your lordship will perceive the name of Lt.-Col. Grant among the wounded ; but the heroic spirit of this officer was not subdued by his misfortune, and he continued to lead his men to glory as long as an enemy was opposed to the 72nd Regt."
He exchanged to the 15th Hussars in 1808, and took part in Sir John Moore's expedition to the Peninsular, being wounded at Sahagún fighting the French. He returned to Spain in January 1813, in command of a cavalry brigade, which saw action at the Battle of Morales. He continued to serve in this capacity, with one interruption, until the end of the Peninsular campaign. Wellington was less than impressed with the performance of Grant's hussar brigade at the Battle of Vitoria and Grant was eventually replaced in command. However, Grant's political influence meant that he soon returned to the Peninsular to take over command of the light dragoon brigade of Robert Ballard Long. He was appointed KCB in 1814. At Waterloo, Grant commanded the 5th Cavalry Brigade, consisting of the 7th and 15th Hussars with the 13th Light Dragoons attached, which was stationed in the centre of the allied position; during the battle he had five horses shot under him. Grant was promoted to lieutenant-general in 1830, and he served as a Tory Member of Parliament (MP) for the rotten borough of Queenborough from 1831 until the borough was disenfranchised under the Reform Act 1832.
Grant was a groom of the bedchamber to Prince Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, later King of Hanover. He was reputed to have been the strongest man in the British Army, and was given the nickname "The Black Giant." He was appointed colonel of the 12th (The Prince of Wales's) Royal Regiment of (Light) Dragoons (Lancers) in 1825. He transferred to the 15th (The King's) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons (Hussars) in 1827, succeeding the Duke of Cumberland, a post he held until his death.
Personal life
Grant died in 1835. He had married Marcia, daughter of the Reverend J. Richards, of Long Bredy, Dorset. Their only surviving child, Marcia, eloped with Whig politician Richard Brinsley Sheridan in May 1835.
Notes
References
Bibliography
External links
1764 births
1835 deaths
British Army personnel of the Napoleonic Wars
Tory MPs (pre-1834)
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Queenborough
UK MPs 1831–1832
Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath
Recipients of the Waterloo Medal
Recipients of the Order of St. Vladimir, 3rd class
Knights Third Class of the Military Order of William
12th Royal Lancers officers
15th The King's Hussars officers |
47857586 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%20Mullens | Bob Mullens | Robert Joseph Mullens (November 1, 1922 – July 22, 1989) was an American professional basketball player. An All-American at Fordham University, Mullens played one full season in the Basketball Association of America (which merged with the National Basketball League in 1949 to create the National Basketball Association), splitting the 1946–47 season between the New York Knicks and the Toronto Huskies.
Mullens played high school basketball at Brooklyn Prep, where he was a prodigious scorer, setting the New York City Catholic League scoring mark. Upon graduation, Mullens chose hometown Fordham. At Fordham, Mullens led the Rams to the 1943 National Invitation Tournament semifinals and at the close of the season was named an All-American by Sporting News magazine and the Helms Athletic Foundation.
Mullens later was a player in the inaugural season of the BAA. He started the season with the New York Knicks, averaging 2.9 points in 26 games. He was traded to the Toronto Huskies for fellow Fordham alumnus Bob Fitzgerald on January 21, 1947. With the Huskies, he averaged 8.5 points per game in 28 contests.
Following the close of his professional basketball career, Mullens became a bond specialist in New York City. He died on July 22, 1989, in Staten Island, New York.
BAA career statistics
Regular season
References
1922 births
1989 deaths
All-American college men's basketball players
American expatriate basketball people in Canada
American men's basketball players
Brooklyn Preparatory School alumni
Fordham Rams men's basketball players
Guards (basketball)
New York Knicks players
Basketball players from Brooklyn
Toronto Huskies players |
69750965 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamome-class%20submarine%20chaser | Kamome-class submarine chaser | The Kamome-class submarine chaser was a class of submarine chasers of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force after the Second World War, in the mid-1950s.
Development
In the 1950s, although there were some new innovations such as the spread of underwater high-speed submarines and the appearance of nuclear-powered submarines, the world's submarines were still in a state of being unable to escape from their appearance during World War II. In addition, new technologies such as anti-submarine missiles (SUM) and patrol helicopters (HS), which will significantly change the aspect of anti-submarine warfare, have just begun to emerge. Therefore, submarine chasers with appropriate anti-submarine search and attack capabilities were considered to be influential in anti-submarine defense in harbors, straits, or nearby seas.
For this reason, when the Ministry of Finance approved the allocation of defense contributions to ship construction costs when formulating the budget for 1954, the National Safety Agency's security forces had eight 300-ton and 60-ton class submarine chasers. Three submarine chasers (torpedo boats) were included. For technical and military comparisons, these eight 300-ton class submarine chasers have three variations depending on the main engine, four are Kawasaki Heavy Industries' high-speed lightweight diesel main engines, and three are made by Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding. A medium-speed robust diesel main engine, one of which will be equipped with a high-speed lightweight diesel main engine manufactured by Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding and a gas turbine main engine manufactured by Mitsubishi Shipbuilding. Of these, this model was said to be equipped with a high-speed, lightweight diesel main engine manufactured by Kawasaki Heavy Industries. The gas turbine-equipped boat was classified as a 26-knot class high-speed test boat as a B-type submarine chaser, and the other seven boats were classified as a 20-knot class practical boat as an A-type submarine chaser.
Design
The basic design was done by the Ship Design Association, as was the case with the destroyers of the same period, and the plan number was K101B. In designing, as with the other submarine chasers planned for the same year, the Imperial Japanese Navy's CH-4 and No.13-class submarine chasers would be used as the basis for the design, and this would adapt the US Navy's weaponries.
The ship type has a flush deck similar to the CH-4 and No.13-classes, but in order to improve stability, seakeeping and habitability, a strong shear was provided to make the bow larger and toward the stern. The weight was reduced by gradually lowering the freeboard. Aluminium alloy was used for the mast and superstructure to reduce the weight of the upper part. For the hull, SM41W thin steel plate (4.5 mm thick even under the waterline, 2.9 to 3.2 mm thick at the bow, etc.) was used to reduce the weight, and high-strength steel were also introduced in some parts. In addition, the bridge and deck chamber were separated in order to reduce the area on the wind pressure side as the center of gravity descended, and the bridge was moved as close to the center as possible to suppress acceleration due to longitudinal sway. This had drawbacks such as the inability to communicate with the ship in stormy weather and the inability to secure sufficient space inside the ship, so the design was revised for the Mizutori-class and Umitaka-class after the 1957 plan.
As the main engine, a diesel engine with a V8 V22 / 30 type 4-cycle single-acting V-type 16-cylinder exhaust turbocharger produced by Kawasaki Heavy Industries under a license agreement with MAN was installed. It does not have a self-reversing mechanism and is connected to the propeller via a fluid coupling and a reducer. Due to this, the shaft system became longer, and because the main engine room was located in front of the auxiliary equipment room, the funnel was installed on the rear deck room, but it was designed to keep the height low. At first glance, it seemed that there was no funnel.
Equipment
As for the sensor, a sensor of almost the same type as the escort ship of the same period was installed, but the air-search radar was omitted. As a seaplane search radar, the X-band AN/SPS-5B was installed on the mast, and as a sonar, a 25.5 kHz class scanning AN/SQS-11A was installed on the bottom of the ship directly under the Bofors 40 mm gun.
Regarding armament, the US Navy generally follows the PC-461-class submarine chaser that was maintained during World War II, with a twin Mk.1 Bofors 40mm gun on the front deck and a hedgehog launcher just before the bridge structure behind it. A Hog Mk.10 anti-submarine slamming gun was placed, and a 55-type depth charge projector (Y-gun) and two 54-type depth charge rails (6 depth charges for 1 row) were placed on each side of the rear deck. The Mk.1 40mm twin gun was commanded by the Mk.63 fire control system, the director was on the bridge top, and the Mk.34 fire control radar was on the gun side. In addition, the ammunition for hedgehog is 96 shots for 4 simultaneous shots, and 36 depth charges are installed. A warehouse was set up. As part of the measures to lower the center of gravity, the tip of the depth charge drop rail was made embedded.
Ships of class
Citations |
2429464 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babur%20%28cruise%20missile%29 | Babur (cruise missile) | The Babur (Urdu: بابر; Military designated: Hatf-VII, Translit: Target–7), is an all-weather, subsonic cruise missile developed and designed by the National Defence Complex (NDC) of Pakistan.
Codenamed as named Babur, its development came as a surprise to the U.S. intelligence in 2005 as they had not expected the Pakistan being able to produce such a capable system, according to United States-based CSIS.
After series of various data acquisition and validation trials, Babur entered first in military service of Pakistan Army in 2010, and evolved into able to launch from submarine, which saw its deployment with the Pakistan Navy in 2018.
According to Pakistani military, SLCM-variant of Babur has provided Pakistan a long-sought "credible sea-based second-strike capability, augmenting existing deterrence."
Development history
Development on Babur came at the tense atmosphere between India and Pakistan in 1998. At that time, India was on pursuit of establishing a missile defense program, that included the acquisition of S-300 Grumble from Russia and Patriot PAC-3 from the United States, had adversely affected its deterrence mechanism.
These development triggered the Pakistani war strategists to introduced a complex cruise missile technology to evade and penetrate Indian defenses in an event of Pakistani military losing ground against approaching Indian Army. The development on cruise missile was codenamed after Zahir-ud-Din Babur– the first Mughal Emperor of India– and delegated this program to civilian contractor, the National Defence Complex.
It is now documented that the Babur's cruise missile technology comes from the U.S. Tomahawk when Pakistani intelligence successfully retrieve the unknown number of Tomahawks from Afghanistan when these system malfunctioned during their mission in Afghanistan in 1998.
Origins
Pakistan's engineering feat on successfully developing and deploying of Babur quickly attracted the speculation regarding its origins and development. In 2005, Pakistan's test of Babur surprised the United States as they had not expected that the country could produce such weapon system.
The U.S.-based analysts leveled serious allegations on China of helping Pakistan when they pointed out the similarities of the missile with Chinese and American designs, namely the DH-10 and Tomahawk.
In 2012, Gen. Mirza Aslam Beg– former program manager and an army chief in 1991– rebuffed and dismissed the U.S. allegations on Chinese help, giving credits to Pakistani scientists who mastered the technology.
In 2020, former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (who was Prime Minister in 1998) confessed in stating that Pakistani scientists had reverse-engineered the American Tomahawk missile to make the Babur missile, when one fell in Pakistan's territory during the American cruise missile attack in Afghanistan.
Design
The Babur's airframe is made up of a tubular fuselage, with a pair of folded wings attached to the middle section and the empennage at the rear along with the propulsion system. Propelled by a jet engine (turbojet), the Babur has a maximum speed of approximately 550 mph. Launched from ground-based mobile transporter erector launchers (TELs), the Babur can be armed with both conventional and nuclear warheads and has a reported range of . On launch, a booster provides additional thrust to accelerate the missile away from the launch vehicle. After the launch the wings unfold, the booster rocket is jettisoned and the jet engine started. The missile is stated to have a high degree of maneuverability, allowing it to "hug" the terrain, and "near-stealth" capabilities. Terrain-hugging ability helps the missile avoid enemy radar detection by utilizing "terrain masking", giving Babur the capability to penetrate enemy air defence systems undetected.
The Babur's guidance system uses a combination of inertial navigation systems (INS), terrain contour matching (TERCOM) and GPS satellite guidance. The guidance system reportedly gives the missile pinpoint accuracy. GPS access is not guaranteed under hostile conditions so the latest production models have also reportedly incorporated the Russian GLONASS. Future software and hardware updates could include the European Union's GALILEO and China's BeiDou Navigation Satellite System. An upgraded variant tested on the 14 December 2016 included upgraded avionics where now the missile is able to accurately hit land and sea based targets without the aid of GPS. Also the missile is able to hit targets more accurately.
Enabling Babur being launched from a submarine was quite difficult for Pakistan because the Agosta-class submarines (both 70A and 90B) of Pakistan Navy do not have vertical launching system. Over the several decades, Pakistan worked towards quietly converting and engineering its traditional Agosta-90B class submarines into cruise-missile submarines. While deployed in the submarine, Babur uses air-water controlled, advanced guidance/controls system and is designed to launched cold and horizontally through submarine torpedoes in the absence of vertical launch systems. Within the vertical system, it is impossible to keep weapons in knockdown assembly form but with horizontal launch system Pakistan has made this option possible for herself.
Operational history
On 12 August 2005, Pakistan publicly announced that it had successfully test-fired a nuclear-capable cruise missile with a range of 500 km. The missile was launched from a land-based transporter erector launcher (TEL). Pakistan did not notify India of its test-firing as the existing notification agreement is limited to ballistic missile testing only.
On 22 March 2007, Pakistan test-fired an upgraded version of the Babur with an extended range of 700 km.
On 6 May 2009, Pakistan conducted another test-firing but did not announce the event until 9 May 2009, citing political reasons.
On 28 October 2011, Pakistan successfully test-fired its Babur cruise missile which has a range of 700 km. The ISPR said Babur was capable of carrying conventional and atomic warheads. A special feature of this launch was the validation of a new multi-tube missile launch vehicle (MLV) during the test. The three-tube MLV enhances manifold the targeting and deployment options in the conventional and nuclear modes. With its shoot-and-scoot capability, the MLV provides a major force multiplier effect for target employment and survivability.
On 6 June 2012, Pakistan conducted a successful test-fire of the multi-tube, indigenously developed cruise missile Hatf-VII (Babur), which can carry both nuclear and conventional warheads with stealth capabilities. It was the third test-fire conducted by Pakistan in the recent past, of different capacity and load. “It can carry both nuclear and conventional warheads and has stealth capabilities”, said an official announcement of the ISPR. “It also incorporates the most modern cruise missile technology of Terrain Contour Matching (Tercom) and Digital Scene Matching and Area Co-relation (DSMAC), which enhances its precision and effectiveness manifolds.” A new variant of the missile, termed Babur-1B, was test fired on 14 April 2018.
On 14 December 2016, Pakistan conducted a successful launch of an enhanced version of the Babur II missile. Enhancements include upgraded aerodynamics and avionics where now the missile is able to accurately hit targets without the aid of GPS, and also target sea-based targets as well land based targets.
On 9 January 2017, Pakistan conducted a successful launch of the Babur III missile from an underwater mobile platform. The Babur-III has a range of 450 km and can be used as a second-strike capability. It has been speculated that the missile is ultimately designed to be incorporated with the Agosta 90B-class submarine which has been reported to have been modified. On 29 March 2018, Pakistan reported that the missile had again been successfully tested.
On 11 February 2021, Pakistan conducted successful launch of Babur-1A cruise missile having upgraded avionics and navigation systems and capability to hit the ground based and sea based surface targets with the range of 450 km.
On 21 December 2021, Pakistan conducted a successful test of an enhanced range version of the indigenously developed Babur-1B that had a range of more than 900 km.
Variants
The Babur weapons system was developed over a series of variants by the Pakistan military.
Babur-1: Initial variant developed with the range of 700 km first tested on 22 March 2007.
Babur-2: The second variant of the Babur missile series, it boasts an enhanced range of 750 and was developed to hit ground and naval targets without using a GPS. The variant was first tested on 14 December 2016.
Babur-3: Submarine launched variant with a range of 450 km. It was first tested on 9 January 2017 and provides second strike capabilities.
Babur-1A: Enhanced avionics and navigation systems with a range of 450 km. It can hit ground and naval targets with high accuracy. It was first tested on 11 February 2021.
Babur-1B: Enhanced range variant which can hit targets more than 900 km, the first test being conducted on 21 December 2021.
Sea-based deterrence
Babur-III and Harbah
On 9 January 2017, Pakistan conducted a successful launch of the Babur-III missile from an underwater mobile platform, with a targeted range of ; Babur-III can carry nuclear warheads and it affectively established Pakistan's second-strike capability from sea. It is not known which submarine Pakistan had launched but it has been speculated Agosta 90B-class submarine have been engineered towards cruise missile submarines. After first test of Babur-III, India was of the view that this is a bluff and its military establishment believed that Pakistan was bluffing which India could easily call any time. On 29 March 2018, Pakistan Navy conducted another successful tested for validation and assurances, which negated India's claim of bluff.
During the same time, the Pakistan Navy revealed the Harbah, which is an anti-ship missile non-nuclear version of Babur. The ISPR, media wing of the Pakistan Armed Forces, reported that the missile was test fired on 3 January 2018 from PNS Himmat, an missile boat.
Harbah export variant
A variant of the Harbah Missile for export, this variant has a range of 290 km. According to NDS, The salient features of this missile are a mid-course/terminal guidance system, fire and forget capabilities and an all weather operational capability.
See also
Related developments
Hatf-VIII (Ra'ad)
Similar missiles
Tomahawk (missile)
CJ-10 (missile)
Hyunmoo-3
Nirbhay
Related lists
List of missiles
List of missiles by country
References
External links
Jane's Information article on Hatf 7 (Babur)
Jane's Information article on Hatf 7 (Babur)
www.PakMilitary.net - Babur - Pakistan's Cruise Missile
Surface-to-surface missiles of Pakistan
Cruise missiles of Pakistan
Military equipment introduced in the 2010s
Nuclear cruise missiles
Naval cruise missiles
Anti-ship missiles of Pakistan
Anti-ship cruise missiles of Pakistan
Submarine-launched cruise missiles
Nuclear missiles of Pakistan |
30033493 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under%20a%20Cruel%20Star | Under a Cruel Star | Under a Cruel Star: A Life in Prague 1941-1968 was published first under this title by Plunkett Lake Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1986. The memoir was written by Heda Margolius Kovály and translated with Franci and Helen Epstein. It is now available in a Holmes & Meier, New York 1997 edition (), in a Plunkett Lake Press 2010 eBook edition and in a Granta, London 2012 edition (). Prague Farewell was the book title in the UK in previous editions. The memoir was originally written in Czech and published in Canada under the title Na vlastní kůži by 68 Publishers, a well-known publishing house for Czech expatriates, in Toronto in 1973. An English translation appeared in the same year as the first part of the book The Victors and the Vanquished published by Horizon Press in New York. A British edition of the book excluded the second treatise and was published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson under the title I Do Not Want To Remember in 1973. The book is also available in Chinese (), Danish (), Dutch (), French (), German (), Romanian (), Spanish (), Italian () and the original Czech editions (). Additional background information to the book is available in Heda Margolius Kovály and Helena Třeštíková: Hitler, Stalin and I: An Oral History, DoppelHouse Press 2018, Los Angeles, (), ().
Summary
Heda Margolius Kovály (1919-2010) was born in Prague. Of Jewish ancestry, she spent the years of the Second World War in the Łódź Ghetto and then in concentration camps Auschwitz and Gross Rosen sub-camps including Christianstad. After her camp was evacuated, she escaped from a death march and made her way back to Prague, where many of her friends refused to take her in due to the Nazis' harsh punishments for those sheltering camp escapees. Kovály took part in the Prague uprising against the Nazis in May 1945. The only member of her family to survive the war was her husband, Rudolf Margolius.
Kovály's memoir describes in detail the continuing antisemitism that Jews returning from concentration camps faced. It also depicts the growing interest in communism among many Czechoslovaks, including her husband, who later became Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade. In January 1952 her husband was arrested and in November 1952, he was convicted in the Soviet-staged Slánský trial and executed on December 3, 1952. In the wake of her husband's trial, Kovály became a social pariah, barely able to survive and stay out of imprisonment as few would hire her for work, as at that time unemployment was illegal under the Czechoslovak constitution.
The book ends with the Warsaw Pact armies invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968 as a response to the Prague Spring. After the invasion, Kovály emigrated to the United States.
Reception
In his book Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts (2007), Clive James admired Kovály's "psychological penetration and terse style" and stated: “Given 30 seconds to recommend a single book that might start a serious student on the hard road to understanding the political tragedies of the 20th century, I would choose this one."
In their book Thinking the Twentieth Century: Intellectuals and Politics in the Twentieth Century (2012) Tony Judt and Timothy Snyder recommend Under a Cruel Star.
Writing for The New York Times, Anthony Lewis said: "Once in a while we read a book that puts the urgencies of our time and ourselves in perspective, making us confront the darker realities of human nature."
San Francisco Chronicle-Examiner called Kovály's memoir "a story of human spirit at its most indomitable … one of the outstanding autobiographies of the century."
Josef Škvorecký, a fellow Czech writer and expatriate, stated that the book was "written with the sophistication of a litterateur and the immediacy of a survivor."
Music Interpretation
Jan Margolius' 'Under a Cruel Star' music interpretation, of his grandmother's, Heda Margolius Kovály's book, was judged as the best in the Composition category of the 2021 Trinity Laban Conservatoire Gold Medal Showcase.
See also
Cultural Amnesia (book)
Heda Margolius Kovály
Ivan Margolius, Kovály's son, who also wrote a memoir, Reflections of Prague: Journeys through the 20th century
Rudolf Margolius
Slánský trial
References
Margolius Kovály, Heda (1997): Prague Farewell, London: Indigo, (Kindle edition on Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk also available)
Margolius Kovály, Heda (1997): Under A Cruel Star: A Life in Prague 1941-1968, New York: Holmes & Meier, (Kindle edition on Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk also available), in Czech: Na vlastní kůži, Academia, Praha 2003
Margolius Kovály, Heda (2010): Under A Cruel Star: A Life in Prague 1941-1968, eBook
Margolius Kovály, Heda (2012): Under A Cruel Star: A Life in Prague 1941-1968, London: Granta,
Margolius, Ivan (2006): Reflections of Prague: Journeys through the 20th Century, Wiley. London, , in Czech: Praha za zrcadlem: Putování 20. stoletím, Argo, Praha 2007,
External links
Margolius website
Personal accounts of the Holocaust
Memoirs about Soviet repression
1986 non-fiction books |
6041949 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malim%20Nawar | Malim Nawar | Malim Nawar is a small town in Kampar District, Perak, Malaysia.
References
Kampar District
Towns in Perak |
62418040 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabiola%20Herrera | Fabiola Herrera | Fabiola Johana Herrera Zegarra (born 18 June 1987) is a Peruvian footballer who plays as a centre back for Club Universitario de Deportes and the Peru women's national team. She is also a futsal player, who appeared at the 2017 Copa América Femenina de Futsal for Peru. Besides Peru, she has played in Colombia.
Club career
Herrera is a former player of Sport Girls.
International career
Herrera played for Peru at senior level in the 2006 South American Women's Football Championship. She also appeared in a 0–12 friendly loss to Chile on 28 May 2017.
References
1987 births
Living people
Peruvian women's footballers
Women's association football central defenders
Peru women's international footballers
JC Sport Girls players
Millonarios F.C. (women) players
Peruvian expatriate women's footballers
Peruvian expatriate sportspeople in Colombia
Expatriate women's footballers in Colombia
Peruvian women's futsal players |
36149029 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudargynnis | Pseudargynnis | Pseudargynnis is a monotypic butterfly genus. The single species Pseudargynnis hegemone, the false fritillary, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in eastern Nigeria, Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, Angola, the southern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, southern Sudan, Uganda, Burundi, western Kenya, western Tanzania, Malawi, northern Zambia, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. The habitat consists of open grassy and marshy habitats in tropical savanna and open forests.
The larvae feed on Dissotis species (including D. denticulata) and possibly Antherotoma naudinii.
References
Limenitidinae
Monotypic butterfly genera
Taxa named by Ferdinand Karsch
Nymphalidae genera |
67393660 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepenthes%20latiffiana | Nepenthes latiffiana | Nepenthes latiffiana is a pitcher plant species from Peninsular Malaysia described in the year 2020 (the other two being N. domei and N. malayensis). It has been published in Webbia Journal of Plant Taxonomy and Geography in the first issue, volume 75, and made as the cover page for that issue. This species was described by Mohd Norfaizal Ghazalli (Ph.D), Amin Asyraf Tamizi and Dome Nikong, and name after a retired Professor of Botany from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (the National University of Malaysia) - Emeritus Professor Dato' Dr. Abdul Latiff Mohamad. The description was based on materials collected from a restricted area at the type locality in Setiu, Terengganu. Nepenthes latiffiana is characterized by a combination of green-yellowish-brown (peachy) coloration and several red blotches on its lower pitchers and light green upper pitchers that have 'flap-like' structures at the sides of the mouth due to expanded structure on the lateral sides of the peristomes.
Plant characteristics
Nepenthes latiffiana differs from N. sanguinea in peristome morphology which is considerably developed, loosely cylindrical, with expanded outer margin part towards both sides (lateral) of the mouth forming flap-like structure which is especially prominent in upper pitchers (vs. simple, expanded, outer margin usually markedly sinuate where the peristome is widest); climbing stem with simple hairs, cross section cylindrical (vs. glabrous, sharply angular) and lid margin slight wavy to wavy that retains it morphology in dried and wet specimens.
This species is a terrestrial climber that grows as understorey plants on the hill slopes with rocky substratum at about 1000–1100 m above sea level. The vegetation of the locality consisted of various montane species dominated by Dicranopteris linearis (Gleicheniaceae), Dipteris conjugata (Dipteridaceae) and Machaerina maingayi (Cyperaceae), thriving together with rattans, Pandanus sp. and Leptospermum flavescens.
References
latiffiana
Carnivorous plants of Asia |
44319257 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014%E2%80%9315%20Namibia%20Premier%20League | 2014–15 Namibia Premier League | The 2014–15 Namibia Premier League is the 26th season of top-tier football in Namibia. The season started on 11 October 2014. Black Africa S.C. are the defending champions, coming off their fourth consecutive title.
Teams
A total of 16 teams will contest the league, which expanded from 12 clubs in the 2013-14 season. Rundu Chiefs and Blue Boys F.C. were both relegated to First Division after finishing 11th and 12th, respectively, the previous season while Ramblers F.C. also dropped out from the previous year's league. Benfica F.C., Citizens F.C., Julinho Sporting F.C., Mighty Gunners F.C., Rebels F.C., Touch & Go F.C. and University of Namibia are all new additions to the competition this year.
Stadiums and locations
League table
References
2014 in African association football leagues
Seasons in Namibian football leagues |
12939378 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wales%20Challenge | Wales Challenge | The SWALEC Wales Challenge was a golf tournament on the Challenge Tour. It run annually from 2003 to 2010.
Winners
Notes
External links
Coverage on the Challenge Tour's official site
Former Challenge Tour events
Golf tournaments in Wales |
33792333 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BCrsu%2C%20Ta%C5%9Fova | Gürsu, Taşova | Gürsu is a village in the Taşova District, Amasya Province, Turkey. Its population is 324 (2021).
References
Villages in Taşova District |
16810106 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deckerville%20High%20School | Deckerville High School | Deckerville High School is a public secondary school located in Deckerville, Michigan. The school serves about 250 students in grades 7 to 12 in the Deckerville Community Schools district.
References
External links
Deckerville Community Schools
Public high schools in Michigan
Public middle schools in Michigan
Education in Sanilac County, Michigan
Buildings and structures in Sanilac County, Michigan |
30326243 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco%20Geisler | Marco Geisler | Marco Geisler (born 18 January 1974, in Cottbus) is a German rower.
References
External links
1974 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Cottbus
Rowers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Rowers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for Germany
Olympic rowers for Germany
Olympic medalists in rowing
German male rowers
World Rowing Championships medalists for Germany
Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics |
56644118 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017%20Eastern%20Province%20Kings%20season | 2017 Eastern Province Kings season | In 2017, the participated in the Currie Cup First Division and the Rugby Challenge competitions. The team played in the Under-21 Provincial Championship and the team in the Under-19 Provincial Championship.
Currie Cup
Squad
The Eastern Province Kings squad for the Currie Cup was:
Standings
Round-by-round
Matches
Player statistics
The appearance record for players that represented the Eastern Province Kings in the 2017 Currie Cup First Division is as follows:
(c) denotes the team captain. For each match, the player's squad number is shown. Starting players are numbered 1 to 15, while the replacements are numbered 16 to 22. If a replacement made an appearance in the match, it is indicated by . "App" refers to the number of appearances made by the player, "Try" to the number of tries scored by the player, "Kck" to the number of points scored via kicks (conversions, penalties or drop goals) and "Pts" refer to the total number of points scored by the player.
Tango Balekile, Eben Barnard, Brandon Brown, Quewin Gawie, Gerrit Huisamen and Lindokuhle Welemu did not make any appearances.
Rugby Challenge
Squad
The Eastern Province Kings squad for the Rugby Challenge was:
Standings
The final log for the 2017 Rugby Challenge was:
Round-by-round
Matches
Player statistics
The appearance record for players that represented the Eastern Province Kings in the 2017 Rugby Challenge is as follows:
(c) denotes the team captain. For each match, the player's squad number is shown. Starting players are numbered 1 to 15, while the replacements are numbered 16 to 22. If a replacement made an appearance in the match, it is indicated by . "App" refers to the number of appearances made by the player, "Try" to the number of tries scored by the player, "Kck" to the number of points scored via kicks (conversions, penalties or drop goals) and "Pts" refer to the total number of points scored by the player.
Matt Howes, Vaughen Isaacs, Thapelo Molapo, Sibusiso Ngcokovane, Mabhutana Peter and Janse Roux did not make any appearances.
See also
Eastern Province Elephants
Notes
References
2017
2017 Currie Cup
2017 in South African rugby union |
5575882 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnouphis | Arnouphis | Arnouphis or Harnouphis was an Egyptian who, according to Dio Cassius, saved the Roman legion XII Fulminata during a campaign against the Quadi in about AD 172 by calling up a rainstorm. Dio Cassius calls Arnouphis a magos, originally a term for Zoroastrian priests. David Frankfurter says that Arnouphis was an Egyptian priest, but he was called a magos because Romans regarded priests from many Near Eastern cultures as fitting a single stereotype of exotic magicians.
In popular culture
In the series 20s A Difficult Age created by Marcus Orelias, the main protagonist, Harnuphis is named after Arnouphis.
Citations
Further reading
2nd-century Egyptian people
Ancient Roman priests
Ancient Egyptian priests
Magi
Zoroastrian priests |
62224634 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thuliswa%20Nkabinde-Khawe | Thuliswa Nkabinde-Khawe | Thuliswa Winlove Nkabinde-Khawe (4 January 1973 – 1 November 2019) was a South African politician and a party member of the African National Congress (ANC). She was elected a Member of the Gauteng Provincial Legislature in May 2009 and was a long-serving member of the Social Development committee in the legislature, prior to her appointment as Gauteng MEC (Member of the Executive Council) for Social Development in May 2019. She was an MEC until her death just over five months later.
Early life and career
Nkabinde-Khawe was born on 4 January 1973 in the now-dissolved Transvaal Province. She became involved in politics at a young age, joining ACTSTOP, a civic organisation, in the 1980s where she held multiple leadership positions. She was part of the formation of the South African National Civic Organisation (SANCO) and was a senior leader in the structure. She was SANCO's provincial secretary at the time of her death.
She took office as a Member of the Gauteng Provincial Legislature in May 2009 and became a member of numerous committees including the Standing Committee of Public Accounts (SCOPA), Public Transport and Social Development. She was designated as the head of the Public Transport Committee in August 2012. She was the head of the Social Development Committee for the fifth provincial legislature from 2014 to 2019.
In May 2019, Nkabinde-Khawe was named MEC for Social Development by Premier David Makhura. She succeeded Nandi Mayathula-Khoza and took office as an MEC on 30 May 2019. She held the post for just over five months.
Death
Nkabinde-Khawe died on 1 November 2019 in the Mulbarton Hospital in Alberton, Gauteng. She died following a short illness. The Gauteng ANC said that her death "will leave void in social development sector". The opposition Democratic Alliance also sent their condolences to the family. She is survived by her husband, Jacob Khawe, a senior ANC politician in the province, and their six children. Panyaza Lesufi was named her acting successor. Nkabinde-Khawe received a category 1 provincial funeral that was held on 8 November 2019. She was buried at the Meyerton Cemetery in Meyerton.
References
External links
Thuliswa Nkabinde – People's Assembly
1973 births
2019 deaths
21st-century South African politicians
African National Congress politicians
Members of the Gauteng Provincial Legislature
Politicians from Gauteng
21st-century South African women politicians |
312566 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea%20Org | Sea Org | The Sea Organization (also known as the Sea Org) is a core group of Church of Scientology staff members who have signed a billion-year pledge of service to Scientology. All Scientology management organizations are controlled exclusively by members of the Sea Org. David Miscavige, the de facto leader of Scientology, is the highest-ranking Sea Org officer, holding the rank of captain.
The Sea Org has been described as a paramilitary organization and as a private naval force, having operated several vessels in its past and displaying a maritime tradition. Some ex-members and scholars have described the Sea Org as a totalitarian organization marked by intensive surveillance and a lack of freedom.
In a 1992 memorandum by the Church of Scientology International, the following information was provided to the Internal Revenue Service with regards to nature of the Sea Org:
History
The Sea Org was established on August 12, 1967, by L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Dianetics and Scientology, initially on board three ships, the Avon River, the Enchanter, and HMS Royal Scotsman. Hubbard later rechristened the three vessels to the Diana, the Athena, and the Apollo. The Apollo served as the flagship, or simply called "Flag", and Hubbard was referred to as Commodore.
In 1971, the Sea Org assumed responsibility for the church's ecclesiastical development, and in particular the delivery of the upper levels of its auditing and training, known as the Operating Thetan or "OT" levels. In 1981, under the aegis of the Commodore's Messenger Organization led by David Miscavige, Sea Org members dissolved the Guardian's Office (GO) and assumed full responsibility for the church's international management, later reassigning the GO's duties to the Office of Special Affairs in 1983 during the corporate restructuring of the Church.
It moved to land-based organizations in 1975, though maritime customs persist, with many members wearing naval-style uniforms and addressing both male and female officers as "sir". In 1985, the church purchased a motor vessel, the Freewinds, which docks in Curaçao in the southern Caribbean and is used as a religious retreat and training center, staffed entirely by Sea Org members. Sea Org members make a lifetime commitment to Scientology by signing a billion-year contract officially described as a symbolic pledge. In exchange, members are given free room and board, as well as a small weekly allowance. Sea Org members agree to strict codes of discipline, such as disavowing premarital sex, working long hours (on average at least 100 hours per week) and living in communal housing called berthing. They are allowed to marry, but must leave the Sea Org if they have or want to raise children.
Background
According to Hubbard, much of the galaxy, including Earth (known as "Teegeeack"), was ruled tens of millions of years ago by the Galactic Confederacy. The confederacy was controlled by a tyrant named Xenu, who was eventually overthrown by a group within the Galactic Confederacy known as the "Loyal Officers". Religious scholar Hugh Urban writes that the Sea Org is modeled after these Loyal Officers. Urban also describes the Sea Org, with the naval uniforms and ranks, as an idealized re-creation of Hubbard's own World War II military career. He also states that the Sea Org is reminiscent of the "Soldiers of Light" in Hubbard's science fiction story collection Ole Doc Methuselah. The publicized goal of the Sea Org is to "get ethics in on the planet".
Academic Stephen A. Kent has argued that at least part of the reason for the establishment of the Sea Org was that the Church of Scientology's practices encountered resistance from the American Food and Drug Administration and the Internal Revenue Service, as well as from the governments of the United Kingdom, Australia, and Rhodesia. Sailing on the high seas meant the church could escape their attention.
In 2000 the number of Sea Org members was listed at around 5,800. Most Sea Org members reside in church complexes in Los Angeles, Clearwater, Copenhagen, London, Saint Hill, and Sydney, with some at smaller centers or on assignment elsewhere. According to reports filed with the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission in 2022, the Church of Scientology Religious Education College Incorporated, Scientology's UK arm, claimed to have a total of 700 "volunteers" (including Sea Org) across Saint Hill, London, Manchester, Birmingham and other UK organizations.
According to scholar Susan Raine, Hubbard created the Sea Org as a "kind of space navy, melding SF space ideas with Earthbound naval ones." Hubbard biographer Jon Atack recalled a confidential Sea Org executive directive that claimed that governments of the world were on the verge of collapse: "The Sea Org would survive and pick up the pieces."
Structure
Sea Org Day is August 12th, during which ceremonies are held to commemorate the achievements and contributions of Sea Org members, and when rank and promotion ceremonies take place.
High Winds is the magazine of the Sea Org. The first issue was released on Sea Org Day 1980.
Estates Project Force
All new recruits are required to complete compulsory novitiate before they are allowed to join the Sea Org, which has been described as a boot camp. During this phase, known as the Estates Project Force (EPF), recruits are not considered to be full Sea Org members. They are required to address all members as "sir", regardless of rank, and must run everywhere instead of walking. Married couples are separated for the duration of the EPF and are not allowed to have private or intimate contact with each other.
While on the EPF, recruits are assigned an intensive daily regimen divided between five hours of manual labor and five hours of study and indoctrination known as "Product Zero". Scientology courses that are required to complete the EPF include:
Basic Study Manual, an introductory course in Study Technology, a simplified version of the Student Hat course.
Introduction to Scientology Ethics, a basic course in Scientology ethics and justice.
Basic Sea Org Member Hat, a course on the basics of membership in the Sea Org and what is expected.
Welcome to the Sea Org, a series of taped lectures originally given by L. Ron Hubbard in October 1969 to new recruits.
Personal Grooming Course, a course on personal hygiene.
The EPF does not have a definite schedule. A recruit graduates the EPF as soon as all the required courses have been completed and upon successfully undergoing a mandatory "7A Security Check", they are then allowed to join the Sea Org as full members. Sea Org recruits verbally agree to an 18-point code or pledge as part of a swearing in ceremony. Members formally reaffirm their acceptance of this code annually on August 12, the day when the organization was founded.
Ships and land bases
In 1967, the Church of Scientology purchased HMS Royal Scotsman which they renamed the Apollo, which was used as the Sea Org's flagship. In 1975, the church sold the Sea Org's ships and moved the organization to land bases around the world, which as of 2003, were operating in Clearwater, Copenhagen, London, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Saint Hill Manor in the UK, and Sydney, with smaller offices in Budapest, Johannesburg, Madrid, Milan, Moscow, and Toronto. In 1987, they purchased a ship, La Bohème, which they renamed Freewinds. OT VIII, the highest auditing level of Scientology currently available, is exclusive to the Freewinds and can only be undertaken there. The ship also hosts various courses, seminars, conventions and events throughout the year, including the annual Maiden Voyage celebration.
Billion-year commitment
According to Hubbard, the Sea Org's mission is "an exploration into both time and space". Sea Org members act as goodwill representatives and administrators of Scientology; all policy and administrative posts in the church's key organizations are held by Sea Org members. Most members are given room, board and a weekly allowance of about $75.
In accordance with Scientology beliefs, members are expected to return to the Sea Org when they are reborn; the Sea Org's motto is "We Come Back". Members must therefore sign a symbolic billion-year commitment, pledging to "get ethics in on this planet and the universe". The church contends that the agreement is not a legally binding contract and is merely a symbolic demonstration of the dedication members are expected to give to the organization, and that they are free to leave if they wish. After signing, members report to the Estates Project Force, the Sea Org's induction program; J. Gordon Melton writes that members may take several years between signing the commitment and attending the induction. Once induction is completed, the final decision to join is made.
Members who leave the Sea Org are issued a "freeloader's bill", retroactively billing them for any auditing or training they have received. Although the bill is not legally enforceable, these Scientologists may not receive services at any Scientology organization until they pay the bill and perform an amends program.
Marriage and family
From the early 1970s to the start of the 21st century, the children of Sea Org members were often placed in the Cadet Org. Sea Org members may marry one another, but are not permitted to marry outside the organization; extra-marital sex is also prohibited. Couples with children must leave the Sea Org and return to other staff positions within the church until the child is six years old; thereafter the children are raised communally and allowed to visit their parents in the Sea Org on weekends or about an hour a day. Children of members have themselves joined the Sea Org when they came of age. Several former members have said they were advised (or even forced) to have an abortion when they became pregnant to avoid being sent to lower organizations. Scientology presents itself as opposed to abortion and actively speaks out against it in its publications.
Rehabilitation Project Force
The Rehabilitation Project Force (RPF) was created in January 1974 as a system of work camps set up by the Sea Org, intended to isolate and rehabilitate members who have not lived up to the church's expectations, have failed security checks, or have violated certain policies. RPF groups are located within Sea Org facilities, and there are no locks on the doors.
Many ex-Sea Org members have reported gruelling treatment. On the RPF, one works eight hours of physical work six days a week, such as painting, plumbing, and upkeep of grounds. The work may involve teaching the member a skill such as carpentry. Members also spend five hours a day studying with an auditing partner. Former Scientologist Jon Atack argued, in A Piece of Blue Sky (1990), that treatment of Sea Org members in the RPF was a "careful imitation of techniques long-used by the military to obtain unquestioning obedience and immediate compliance to orders, or more simply to break men's spirits ..." One former member, Gerry Armstrong, said that during his time in the Sea Org in the 1970s he spent over two years banished to the RPF as a punishment:
Ranks
Analysis
Several scholars, writers and former members have compared the Sea Org to a paramilitary group. In Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography (2008), Andrew Morton described it as a "fraternal paramilitary organization", and wrote that members are instructed to read The Art of War by General Sun Tzu, and On War by General Carl von Clausewitz. He wrote that Scientology leader David Miscavige created an elite unit within the Sea Org called the "SEALs", named after the United States Navy SEALs, who receive better lodging, sustenance, and uniforms than other Sea Org members.
Lawrence Wright wrote in The New Yorker in 2011 that the Sea Org used small children drawn from Scientology families for what the article described as forced child labor. The article described extremely inhumane conditions, with children spending years in the Sea Org, sequestered from mainstream life.
See also
List of Scientology organizations
References
Scientology organizations
Religion in Riverside County, California
Religious orders
Religious organizations established in 1967
Paramilitary organizations based in the United States |
39963714 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin%20Myo%20Myat | Shin Myo Myat | Shin Myo Myat (, ; c. 1490s – c. 1520s) was the mother of King Bayinnaung of Toungoo Dynasty of Burma (Myanmar), and the wet nurse of King Tabinshwehti. In 1516, she and her husband Mingyi Swe were hired to the household staff responsible for the royal infant Tabinshwehti. Although the Royal Chronicles proclaim her as a fifth generation descendant of King Thihathu of Pinya (r. 1310–1325) and his chief queen Mi Saw U of Pagan Dynasty, oral traditions insist that she and her husband were commoners from either Pagan (Bagan) or Toungoo (Taungoo) regions.
Despite Chronicles' posthumous proclamation of her royal descent, Myo Myat died in the 1520s as a royal servant and did not see her children enter the highest ranks of Toungoo royalty. Her eldest child Khin Hpone Soe became a principal queen of Tabinshwehti in 1530, and her second child Ye Htut (Bayinnaung) married the king's half-sister Princess Thakin Gyi in 1534. Her husband, who remarried after her death to her younger sister, became viceroy of Toungoo between 1540 and 1549. During Bayinnaung's reign, her other two sons became viceroys of Martaban (Mottama) and Prome (Pyay) with the respective styles of Minye Sithu and Thado Dhamma Yaza II in 1552, and her brother Sithu was appointed governor of Pagan (Bagan) in 1551.
References
Bibliography
Toungoo dynasty
Burmese royalty
Wet nurses
Deaths in childbirth |
533771 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Crittenden%20Sr. | John Crittenden Sr. | John Crittenden (1754 – 1809) was a Major in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War and a member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 1790 to 1805. He was the scion of a powerful family of politicians and military officers who played key roles in the politics of several southern states through the end of the 19th century.
Crittenden was born in New Kent, Virginia, to Henry Crittenden and Margaret Butler. On August 21, 1783, he married Judith Harris, daughter of John Harris and Obedience Turpin. John and Judith had nine children including the statesmen John Jordan Crittenden and Robert Crittenden. He was an original member of the Virginia Society of the Cincinnati. He died in Kentucky.
References
familysearch.org Accessed August 24, 2008
https://www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org/soldiers-and-sailors-of-the-revolutionary-war/officers-represented-in-the-society-of-the-cincinnati/
Continental Army officers from Virginia
1754 births
1809 deaths
Crittenden family
Members of the Virginia House of Delegates
People from New Kent County, Virginia
18th-century American politicians
19th-century American politicians |
50785379 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanky | Stanky | Stanky is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Eddie Stanky (1915–1999), American baseball player
Walt Stanky (1911–1978), American basketball player
See also
John Stankey (born 1962), American businessman |
16569028 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20ITV%20journalists%20and%20newsreaders | List of ITV journalists and newsreaders | As the oldest commercial television network in the UK, ITV has employed many journalists and newsreaders to present its news programmes as well as to provide news reports and interviews during its history.
Since the ITV network began, Independent Television News Limited (ITN) has held the contract to produce national and international news for it. Meanwhile, the regional ITV stations have provided local news programmes tailored for regional audiences.
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Christa Ackroyd – presenter on Calendar during the 1990s; she left to join the BBC's Look North.
Kaye Adams – journalist on Central Television; later presenter on Scottish TV.
Jonathan Aitken – presenter on Yorkshire Television's Calendar from 1968 until 1970: he was the first person to be seen on screen when the station launched. He later participated in the relaunch of TV-am in 1983, but he is best known as a Conservative politician, originally for Thanet from 1974 and later for South Thanet.
Antoine Allen – presenter for ITV News London late bulletins, Good Morning Britain London early bulletins, ITV News reporter
Sameena Ali-Khan – presenter on ITV Central; presented the ITV Weekend News on occasions in 2006
Eamonn Andrews – main presenter of Thames Television's 'Today' programme during the 1960s and 1970s. He was also a sports presenter and commentator, and was the first-ever presenter of ITV's 'World of Sport', but he was best known as the host of This Is Your Life, Crackerjack and What's My Line? He died in 1987.
Jo Andrews – former political correspondent and Deputy Political Editor at ITN
Fiona Armstrong – presenter for Border Television's regional news programme Lookaround; later a newscaster on ITN's News at Ten
Pamela Armstrong – ITN newscaster, 1983–1986.
Toni Arthur – occasional presenter on TV-am during the 1980s. She is best known as a presenter on the BBC children's series Playschool and Play Away during the 1970s.
Mark Austin – former main presenter of ITV Evening News and ITV News at Ten; since joining ITN (on ITV) in 1986, having previously worked on BBC news programmes; has specialised in a variety of roles including sports reporter, foreign correspondent, and then newscaster for Channel 4 News
Lisa Aziz – former co-presenter for ITV Westcountry and news presenter on TV-am
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Zeinab Badawi – first presenter of the ITV News at 5:30 and co-presented Channel 4 News for several years, before joining BBC News
Llewella Bailey
Faye Barker – main newscaster for ITV News London at 5:30, January 2009 – December 2012; continues to work with ITN across ITV London and ITV News output
Carol Barnes – worked for ITN, 1975–2004, as both reporter and newscaster; died in March 2008
Gaynor Barnes – presenter and journalist employed by ITV Yorkshire since 1991
Felicity Barr – first female sports correspondent for ITV News in 2001
Martin Bashir – left BBC in 1999 to join ITV, working on special documentary programmes and features for Tonight. He rejoined the BBC in 2016 as their Religious Affairs Correspondent.
Seán Batty – meteorologist, currently working for STV
Andrea Benfield – journalist and presenter, ITV News: Wales at Six
Alex Beresford - weather presenter and journalist on ITV Breakfast programme Daybreak and later on Good Morning Britain
Sangeeta Bhabra – journalist and presenter, ITV Meridian
Sally Biddulph – reporter and newsreader at ITV News Central and political correspondent for Thames Valley Tonight in Westminster; joined ITN in 2009 as news correspondent, political correspondent and presenter on ITV News at 5:30, ITV News at 1:30 and ITV News Saturday prime-time bulletins; newsreader for ITV News London since 2014.
David Bobin – sports presenter and reporter for Westward Television, TVS and Meridian Television. He was also a main anchor on TVS's Coast To Coast. He died in 2017.
Reginald Bosanquet – best known for presenting ITN bulletins in the 1970s; joined ITN at its start in 1955 as a sub-editor; later reported from many parts of the world and was the diplomatic correspondent for four years; held the 'head anchor' title at ITN between 1974 and 1976, in the absence of Alastair Burnet; died in 1984; son of the cricketer Bernard Bosanquet, who famously invented the 'googly'.
Adam Boulton – political editor for TV-am during the 1980s. He later joined Sky News
Tom Bradby – ITV News political editor, July 2005 – October 2015; joined ITN as an editorial trainee in 1990 and subsequently became producer for Michael Brunson, ITN's political editor, in 1992; Ireland correspondent 1993–1996; Asia correspondent 1999–2001; then Royal correspondent for ITV News; subsequently became UK editor before taking up the post of political editor; gave up his position as political editor in October 2015 to become sole anchor of ITV News at Ten
Colin Brazier – reporter on ITV
Fern Britton – television presenter, former co-anchor of the Southampton edition of TVS local news programme Coast To Coast, best known as co-presenter for ITV magazine programme This Morning, 1999–2009
Antony Brown (born 1922) – newsreader in the 1950s and 1960s. Announced the assassination of President Kennedy. Co-author of historical fiction with Norman MacKenzie under the joint pseudonym 'Anthony Forrest'. He died in 2001. He was the father of the BBC News presenter Ben Brown.
Michael Brunson – Washington correspondent and diplomatic editor of ITN; best known for serving as the political editor between 1986 and 2000 and as an occasional ITN newscaster..
Lynda Bryans – weekend newscaster on UTV Live, 2001–2005
Kay Burley – newsreader, reporter and occasional main presenter on TV-am from 1985 until 1988. She left to join the then-fledgling Sky News.
Sir Alastair Burnet – main presenter of News at Ten and ITN election programmes from the early 1960s until his retirement in 1991; held the 'head anchor' title at ITN from 1967 (the year News at Ten was launched) until 1991, except between 1972 and 1976 when he presented for the BBC and became editor of the Daily Express; knighted as a Knight Bachelor in early 1984; died in July 2012.
Gordon Burns – joined Ulster Television in his native Belfast in 1967 as a sports presenter, later presenting the station's flagship programme UTV Reports. He then moved to Granada Television, where he presented Granada Reports and also worked on World In Action in the 1970s, but he is best known as the long-serving host of Granada's prestigious quiz The Krypton Factor from 1977 until 1995. He joined BBC North West in 1997, becoming the main anchor on North West Tonight until his retirement in 2011.
Andrea Byrne
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Andrea Catherwood – former main presenter for ITV's weekend news bulletins; joined ITN in April 1998, starting as a newscaster and senior reporter; in these early years, she also presented the ITN Morning News and filed special reports for News at Ten; became medical correspondent; left ITN in September 2006 to front the short-lived political programme The Sunday Edition
David Chater – award-winning former ITN international correspondent; joined Sky News in 1993
Christopher Chataway
Ros Childs
Paul Clark – UTV Live presenter
Paul Coia – first-ever continuity announcer on Channel 4 in 1982. He had previously been a continuity announcer for Scottish Television, and has since presented a number of TV and radio programmes, including the BBC's Pebble Mill At One and Catchword. He is married to fellow-broadcaster Debbie Greenwood.
Stephen Cole – reporter for Central Television, Anglia Television's About Anglia and ITN
Brian Connell – ITN newscaster during the late 1950s and early 1960s. He died in 1999.
Dominic Cotton
Bob Crampton – long-serving presenter and weather forecaster on ITV1 West, formerly HTV West, from 1983 until his retirement in 2018
Sarah Cullen – former ITN Home Affairs correspondent
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Anne Dawson
Robin Day – worked for ITN from 1955, the first British journalist to interview Egypt's President Nasser after the Suez Crisis. Later moved to the BBC. He died in 2000.
Jamie Delargy
Katie Derham – former media/arts editor and newscaster for ITV News; presented the ITV Lunchtime News and London Tonight, both produced by ITN; relief presenter for the ITV Evening News and ITV News at Ten; left ITN in June 2010
Anne Diamond – hosted Good Morning Britain for TV-am, which lost its license in 1992; began her television career starting with ATV Today and Central News
Fred Dinenage – television host and newsreader, based in the south of England; has appeared as presenter of many British television programmes, including World of Sport, and quiz shows, such as Tell The Truth, Gambit and Pass The Buck, and the children's series How. Most of these were produced by Southern Television and its successors TVS and Meridian Broadcasting; however, Dinenage has also worked for the BBC on occasions. He was a presenter on ITV Meridian between 1983 and 2021.
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Stephen Douglas
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Tom Edwards (broadcaster) – presenter and announcer on Thames Television during the 1980s. He was also an announcer on HTV West and ATV during this period.
Julie Etchingham – co-presenter of ITV News at Ten from January 2008
Sherrie Eugene – regular presenter and sign language interpreter on HTV News West, and later The West Tonight, 1982–2001
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Peter Fairley – science editor for Independent Television News and TV Times magazine in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He died in 1998.
Mimi Fawaz – former presenter and producer at ITV News
Judy Finnigan – originally a researcher at Granada Television from 1971, she joined Anglia Television in 1974 as its first female reporter. She returned to Granada in 1980 as a reporter and presenter on Granada Reports. She is best known for presenting This Morning from its inception in 1988 until 2001, then Richard and Judy on Channel 4 from 2001 until 2008, both of these alongside her husband, Richard Madeley.
Anna Ford – initially worked as a researcher, news reporter and later newsreader at Granada Television; became a newsreader with ITN, and later helped launch ITV's first breakfast television service, TV-am
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Matt Frei – Europe editor for Channel 4 News, and former presenter of BBC World News America
David Frost – one of the original presenters of TV-am on its launch in 1983. He then presented 'Frost on Sunday' until 1992, before moving to the BBC to present Breakfast with Frost, which ran from 1993 until 2005. He died in 2013.
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Sandy Gall – former ITN foreign correspondent and news presenter
Andrew Gardner – presented the first News at Ten with Alastair Burnet in 1967; following his retirement from ITN, he worked on Thames Television during the 1980s; died in 1999
Kate Garraway – currently presents Good Morning Britain; previously Daybreak and GMTV
Neil Garrett
Martin Geissler – Africa correspondent for ITV News since May 2006; joined ITV News in April 2002 from STV Central's regional news programme Scotland Today, where he was a news reporter and presenter.
Shiulie Ghosh – senior correspondent, Home Affairs Editor and presenter for ITV News, 1998–2006.
Elinor Goodman – long-serving reporter for Channel 4 News. She joined the programme as a political correspondent on its inception in 1982, later becoming the programme's Political Editor, a role she held from 1988 until 2005. She also occasionally reported for ITN.
Bob Greaves – long-serving presenter, reporter and producer for Granada Television. He originally joined the company in 1964 as a reporter on 'Scene', then as the main anchor for 'Newscene' and Granada Reports until his retirement in 1999. He died in 2011.
Mary Green
Anne Gregg – reporter and presenter on Ulster Television's Roundabout; also worked for Anglia Television; later co-presented the BBC's Holiday programme during the 1980s; died in 2006
Bill Grundy
Krishnan Guru-Murthy – presenter for Channel 4 News and new presenter for ITV News for 2016
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Will Hanrahan – presenter of Serve You Right for Meridian TV
Gerry Harrison – in 1985 took over as Head of Sport at Anglia TV; left in 1993
Andrew Harvey – presenter on the ITN News Channel with Lucy Alexander; moved on to his own programme after breakfast, Live with Andrew Harvey
Julian Haviland – ITN political editor, 1975–1981, before becoming the political editor for The Times. He died in 2023.
Barbara Blake Hannah – Barbara Blake-Hannah is a Jamaican journalist, politician, author, film maker, festival organiser and cultural consultant
Dominic Heale – former presenter of Central News East, later moved to the BBC to present East Midlands Today.
Alistair Hignell – sports presenter and reporter on HTV News West during the 1990s.
Gerald Hine-Haycock – known by his then-broadcasting name Gerald Haycock; left ITN in 1981, to report for and present HTV News at HTV West, followed by BBC Points West at BBC West
Derek Hobson – ATV continuity announcer and presenter of ATV Today during the 1970s; hosted quizzes, such as New Faces, That's My Dog and Jeopardy!
Alison Holloway – worked initially as an announcer for Westward Television before joining HTV West, where she worked as an announcer and main presenter on HTV News during the 1980s.
Eamonn Holmes – presenter on Ulster Television's Good Evening Ulster, 1982–1986; presented GMTV, 1993–2005; hosted a number of quiz and game shows; currently a regular presenter on This Morning
Gordon Honeycombe – newscaster at ITN, 1965–1977; twice voted the most popular newscaster in Britain, by readers of the Daily Mirror and of The Sun; returned to regular newsreading, 1984–1989, as chief newsreader at TV-am, becoming Britain's longest-serving ITV newscaster; died in 2015
Nina Hossain – main newscaster on ITV Lunchtime News and ITV News London since 2010; regular relief newscaster on all main ITV News bulletins since 2004
Robin Houston – main newscaster of lunchtime and late Thames News bulletins, 1978-1992
Gloria Hunniford – presenter on Ulster Television's Good Evening Ulster, 1979–1982; became a chat show host with her own Sunday Sunday, and a quiz show host and panellist; now presents Rip Off Britain for the BBC; mother of the late Caron Keating, a presenter on Blue Peter and This Morning
Alex Hyndman – freelance newscaster and reporter on ITV News London and ITV News weekend bulletins
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John Irvine – ITN's Washington correspondent; before joining ITN in 1994 as a Northern Ireland correspondent, worked for UTV News.
Jayne Irving – worked on Good Morning Britain from 1983 until 1986, originally reading the news bulletins, then as a main anchor. She left to join the BBC, where she presented Open Air from 1986 until 1990.
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Catherine Jacob – editorial trainee at ITN from September 2000; news presenter for Granada Reports and ITV News Tyne Tees in 2013
Becky Jago – news presenter at ITV Anglia
Peter Jay – main presenter of Weekend World from 1972–77, he then became the founding chairman of TV AM in 1983. He later joined the BBC.
Sally Jones (journalist) – reporter for Westward Television, later becoming a main co-presenter on Central News during the early 1980s – she also reported for ITN during this period. She left to join BBC Breakfast in 1986 and became a Real Tennis world champion in 1993 – she also won the British and US Open Championships
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Natasha Kaplinsky – joined ITV to present ITN News in 2011
Robert Kee – anchor for ITN's first lunchtime bulletin First Report, 1972–1976. He was also one of the first presenters of TV-am in 1983. He died in 2013.
Chris Kelly (TV presenter) – joined Anglia Television in 1963 as a continuity announcer - he later became a narrator and co-presenter on World In Action. He is best known as a presenter on Wish You Were Here...? alongside Judith Chalmers, on the BBC's Food and Drink and on the children's film review series Clapperboard.
Lorraine Kelly – started as a reporter for Scottish Television; came to national attention by reporting on the Piper Alpha oil rig disaster in 1988. She has since presented Good Morning Britain, GMTV and Daybreak, and continues to host her own show Lorraine to this day.
Martin Kelner
Kenneth Kendall – presenter on Southern Television's flagship news programme 'Day By Day' from 1961 until 1969: he also occasionally worked for ITN during this period. He had originally worked for the BBC, having been their first-ever in-vision newsreader in 1955, and he returned there in 1969, continuing in the same role until his retirement in 1981. He later became the main presenter on the Channel 4 quiz Treasure Hunt and he also presented the BBC's Songs of Praise. He died in 2012.
Ludovic Kennedy – newscaster and reporter during ITN's early years. He was knighted for his services to journalism in 1994. He died in 2009. He was married to the actress and dancer Moira Shearer.
Richard Keys – presenter on TV-am from 1984 until 1990. He left to join Sky Sports as a presenter and commentator and has worked in sports broadcasting ever since.
Lucy Kite – news presenter and producer on Central Tonight for ITV Central from 2002; entertainment correspondent from January 2006; from November 2008, appointed relief presenter on West Midlands edition of Central.
Redvers Kyle – long-serving continuity announcer, originally for Associated-Rediffusion, from 1956 until 1968: he then worked as Chief Announcer for Yorkshire Television from 1968 until 1993. He continued to work as a freelance announcer for YTV, as well as Tyne Tees Television, until 1998. He died in 2015.
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Alastair Layzell – produced and directed documentaries for ITV network including Summer 1940, the story of the German occupation of the Channel Islands
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Jan Leeming – presenter and reporter for Westward Television during the 1960s and a presenter on HTV News West during the 1970s, before becoming a newsreader for the BBC
Martyn Lewis – news presenter for HTV and then ITN, where he was a regular presenter for News at Ten; joined the BBC in 1986 to front the new One O'Clock News.
Peter Lewis (announcer) – continuity announcer for London Weekend Television from its inception in 1968 until his departure in 1997: he became their chief announcer in 1977. He was also an announcer for Yorkshire Television and HTV West, and he was a regular newsreader on 'London News Headlines' for LWT from 1982 until 1988.
Terry Lloyd – Middle East reporter; killed by US troops in 2003 while covering the 2003 Invasion of Iraq
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Hamish MacDonald – reporter for ITV
Donal MacIntyre – presenter on ITV's London Tonight
Robert MacNeil
Richard Madeley – reporter on Border Television's Lookaround and presenter on Yorkshire Television's Calendar during the 1970s, before moving onto Granada Reports in the early 1980s. He is best known for presenting This Morning from its inception in 1988 until 2001, then Richard and Judy on Channel 4 from 2001 until 2008, both of these alongside his wife, Judy Finnigan.
Joanne Malin
Marc Mallett
Barbara Mandell – first female newsreader in Britain, presenting ITN bulletins from 1956 to the late 1960s; died in 1998
Penny Marshall – ITV News Africa Correspondent, September 2019 – Present. ITV News Social Affairs Editor until September 2019.
Peter Marshall (UK broadcaster) – long-serving continuity announcer, originally for Ulster Television during the late 1960s. He then worked for Anglia Television, Southern Television, HTV West, ATV, and for Thames Television in particular: he began announcing for the latter company in 1976 and remained with them until their final day of broadcasting in 1992.
James Mates – ITV News Europe Editor; relief newscaster for ITV News at 1:30, ITV News at 6:30 and ITV News at Ten; main newscaster for ITV News on Sundays
Daisy McAndrew
Jodie McCallum - presenter of FYI Daily
Helen McDermott – television presenter, best known for her work at Anglia Television
Trevor McDonald – ITN newscaster, 1973–2008; first black news anchor in the UK; joined ITN as a reporter in 1973 and rose to become a newscaster by the late 1970s; in the mid-1980s was diplomatic editor for Channel 4 News; main newscaster for News at Ten, 1992–1999 and 2001–2005; during this period he also hosted Granada Television's current affairs programme Tonight with Trevor McDonald; retired from newscasting in 2005, but returned to ITN to present the revived News at Ten for eleven months in 2008; knighted in 1999
Mark McFadden
Lawrence McGinty – former Science and Medical Editor for ITN.
Rachel McTavish
Lucy Meacock – presenter of Granada Reports
Guy Michelmore – reporter on Anglia TV's About Anglia, 1983–1993; son of the late Cliff Michelmore.
Lucrezia Millarini – presenter and reporter
Austin Mitchell – main presenter on Yorkshire Television's Calendar from 1969 until 1977. He then became best known as the Labour MP for Great Grimsby, a role he held from 1977 until 2015. He died in 2021.
Ed Mitchell – reporter on ITN News
Frank Mitchell
Leslie Mitchell – senior announcer for Associated-Rediffusion from 1955 until 1958. He had previously been the first-ever announcer on the then-fledgling BBC Television in 1936. He died in 1985.
Saima Mohsin
Kristina Moore
Diana Moran – former newsreader and announcer for HTV News West. She is best known as 'The Green Goddess', the resident fitness expert on BBC Breakfast Time from 1983 until 1987.
Chris Morgan (journalist) – reporter for Thames News and TV-am during the 1990s, having previously been a main presenter on the BBC's Wales Today. He died in 2008.
Emily Morgan (journalist) – health and science editor at ITV News. She died in 2023.
Jonathan Morrell
Mike Morris – main anchor on Good Morning Britain during the 1980s and early 1990s; previously worked for Thames News; later worked on GMTV; main anchor on Calendar, 1996–2002; died in 2012
Tony Morris – presenter of Granada Reports for more than 10 years from 2003. He died in 2020.
Dermot Murnaghan
Emma Murphy – correspondent. Served as Europe Correspondent for ITV News and then Foreign Correspondent. In September 2020 it was announced that Murphy would take over as US Correspondent in early 2021.
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Jennifer Nadel – ITN's Home Affairs Editor, 1994–1999
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Nina Nannar
Melissa Nathoo - presenter of FYI Daily
Bill Neely – joined ITN in 1989, was Washington Correspondent for 6 years, Europe Correspondent for 5, International Editor for 12; covered many events including the fall of the Berlin Wall, break-up of the Soviet Union, both Gulf Wars, and September 11 attacks; left in 2014 to join NBC News
Mike Neville – joined Tyne Tees Television in 1959 as a young reporter; later became presenter of regional news programme before leaving for the BBC; returned to ITV in 1996 with his own programme on Tyne Tees until 2005. He died in 2017.
Gary Newbon
Jonny Nelson - presenter of FYI Daily
Jeremy Nicholas
Michael Nicholson – former ITN senior foreign correspondent and newscaster; original host of ITN News at 5:45 when it was introduced in 1976; died in December 2016
Nicol Nicolson
Mary Nightingale – main newscaster on ITV Evening News; joined ITV News in January 2001 and has since presented both the 6:30 pm bulletin as well as special ITN programmes on ITV
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Rageh Omaar – joined ITV News in 2013 after being a newsreader on Al Jazeera English and a columnist for BBC News
Lucy Owen
Nicholas Owen – joined ITN in 1984 as Channel 4 News''' business and economics correspondent; ITN's royal correspondent, 1994–2000; in 2003, he became the main presenter of ITV News at 1:30; left ITN in 2006 for the BBC, where he is currently a relief presenter for the BBC News at Six, as well as a main presenter on the BBC News Channel, and a radio presenter on Classic FM.
Nick Owen – presenter on TV-am and Good Morning Britain during the 1980s. He had previously worked for ATV as a presenter and sports reporter. He later hosted Sporting Triangles and Good Morning with Anne and Nick, the latter with his former TV-am co-presenter Anne Diamond. He is now the main anchor for the BBC's Midlands Today.
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Shahnaz Pakravan – presenter on Channel 4 News and The Channel Four Daily during the 1980s and 1990s.
Leonard Parkin – reporter and newscaster with ITN from circa 1973 to 1987; between 1976 and 1987 he was one of the main presenters for ITN's News at One; often hosted the News at 5:45 in the early 1980s; occasionally presented News at Ten; and retired in 1987; subsequently presented documentaries for Yorkshire Television until his death in 1993.
Michael Parkinson – one of the original presenters of TV-am on its inception in 1983. He is best known as a chat show host, having hosted his own BBC show Parkinson from 1971 until 1982: he later presented a revival, from 1998 until 2007. Other shows he has presented have included Give Us A Clue and Desert Island Discs. He was knighted in 2008.
Matthew Parris – former Conservative MP, who presented Weekend World from 1986 to 1988.
Roger Parry
Andrew Pate - journalist and presenter, ITV Meridian
Ian Payne – lead news anchor of ITV News Border
Kylie Pentelow
Robert Peston – ITV News' Political Editor since January 2016, replacing Tom Bradby; formerly BBC News' Business and Economics Editor.
Karen Petch – continuity announcer for Yorkshire Television and Tyne Tees Television during the 1990s. She then became a main presenter and reporter on Yorkshire's Calendar. She died from cancer in 2019.
Fiona Phillips – main anchor on GMTV, presented GMTV Today, 1997–2008
Ronke Phillips – senior correspondent, newscaster
John Pilger – journalist on World In Action, 1969-1971.
Amanda Piper – journalist and presenter, ITV Meridian
Eve Pollard
Mike Prince – continuity announcer for ATV and its successor, Central Independent Television, during the 1970s and 1980s.
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Gaby Rado – journalist who died in Iraq during the 2003 invasion; joined BBC News as a radio reporter, then ITN in 1985 as a writer for ITV bulletins, before transferring to ITN's Channel 4 News in 1988.
Jeff Randall – produced television documentaries for ITV.
Andrew Rawnsley – co-presenter of 'A Week In Politics', alongside Vincent Hanna, during the 1990s.
Phil Reay-Smith – general correspondent for ITV News until August 2010; now Consumer Editor on ITV Breakfast show Daybreak since its launch in September 2010
Pam Rhodes – presenter of Anglia Television's About Anglia during the 1970s and 1980s. She is now best known as a long-serving presenter of the BBC's Songs of Praise.
Steve Rider – sports presenter and anchorman of ITV's football coverage, having previously been a long-serving main anchor on the BBC's Grandstand Angela Rippon
Dan Rivers – international correspondent for ITV News Sue Robbie – continuity announcer for Granada Television during the late 1970s and early 1980s. She also presented a number of children's series during the 1980s, including 'Hold Tight' and 'First Post', and she was the original host on the Granada quiz Connections (1985–88).
Graham Roberts – continuity announcer for Yorkshire Television until his retirement in 1993: he was also an announcer for Grampian Television. He died in 2004.
Nick Robinson – political editor for ITV News, 2002–2005
Chris Rogers – presented and reported for ITV News
Peter Rowell – continuity announcer and daytime newsreader for HTV West from the late 1980s until he left in 2010 to join BBC Radio Bristol. He was jailed in 2012 on historical sexual assault charges.
Pam Royle – lead news anchor on ITV News Border.
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Brent Sadler – joined ITN in 1981 as a news reporter, before being promoted to the position of Middle East Correspondent. He left to join CNN in 1991.
Annie St John – announcer for HTV West, Tyne Tees and LWT during the 1980s, and later a main presenter on HTV News West. She died from a drugs overdose in 1990.
Angus Scott – regular sports presenter for HTV during the 1980s and 1990s: he frequently presented sports news on HTV News. He is the brother of Steve Scott.
Mike Scott – reporter and presenter on World In Action and Granada's local news programmes: he was the company's programme controller from 1979 until 1987. He was probably best known for hosting The Time, The Place from 1987 until 1993, in rotation with John Stapleton. Scott died in 2008.
Selina Scott – presenter of Grampian Today; in 1980 moved to ITN to replace Anna Ford on News at Ten; left to present the BBC's Breakfast Time; later co-hosted The Clothes Show Steve Scott – sports editor and newscaster for ITV News from ITN; began his television career as Industrial Correspondent with West Tonight on ITV West; joined ITN in 1993. He is married to the former HTV News presenter Patricia Yorston, and is also the brother of Angus Scott.
Ben Shephard – main presenter on Good Morning Britain since 2014. He was previously a presenter on GMTV and GMTV Today from 2000 until 2010, and he has also hosted quiz shows, including The Krypton Factor, Tipping Point and 1 vs. 100.
Chris Ship – Royal Editor for ITV News and occasional weekend news presenter
Peter Sissons – joined ITN in 1964 and became their Industrial Editor after being wounded covering the Nigerian Civil War; became alternate presenter of the News at One in 1976; presented the first edition of Channel 4 News in 1982; left in 1989 to join BBC News. He died in 2019.
Penny Smith – long-serving newsreader on GMTV, from 1993 until 2010. She had previously been a newsreader on Border Television's Lookaround, on Thames News, and on Sky News at its inception in 1989. She also co-hosted the last series of The Krypton Factor alongside Gordon Burns.
Jon Snow – journalist and presenter for ITN, best known for presenting Channel 4 News since 1989; cousin of fellow-journalist Peter Snow.
Peter Snow – joined ITN as a newscaster in 1962, later working as a foreign correspondent and Defence and Diplomatic Correspondent during the 1960s and 1970s. He was also a regular analyst and co-presenter on ITN's election programmes during this period. He joined the BBC in 1979 as the first main anchor of Newsnight, which he presented from 1980 until 1997. During this time, he became especially famous for his use of the Swingometer during the BBC's election coverage. He later co-presented Tomorrow's World and also a number of history programmes, the latter normally with his historian son, Dan Snow. He is also the cousin of fellow-journalist Jon Snow.
Julia Somerville – joined ITN in 1987 to co-present the Lunchtime News; presenter of ITV News at Ten until it ended in 1999; remained at ITN until October 2001, presenting the ITV News at 1:30 and was the launch newscaster for the ITN News Channel
Judi Spiers – regular presenter and announcer, initially for Westward Television, then TSW, from 1977 until 1991, when she left to join the BBC.
Alastair Stewart – main newscaster on ITV Lunchtime News, relief newscaster on ITV Evening News and relief newscaster on ITV News at Ten Ian Stirling (broadcaster) – long-serving announcer and presenter on Westward Television, TSW and Westcountry Television. He died in 2005.
Edward Stourton (journalist) – joined ITN in 1979: he was a founder-member of Channel 4 News and worked in various roles on the programme, including copywriter, producer, duty home news editor and chief sub-editor. He joined the BBC in 1988 as their Paris Correspondent, before returning to ITN as their Diplomatic Editor in 1990. He rejoined the BBC in 1993 to present the One O'Clock News and he later presented the 'Today' programme, to which he still contributes to this day.
Janet Street-Porter – joined LWT in 1975; reporter on The London Weekend Show from 1975 until 1979
John Suchet – newsreader for ITN, 1972–2004; reporter, 1972–1982, when he became a weekend news presenter; main lunchtime presenter, 1987–1992; best known for his presenting the ITV News at 6:30, 1992–1999; during these years he was also a relief presenter for News at Ten; retired from ITN in 2004; brother of the actor David Suchet
Jonathan Swain – senior news correspondent, Good Morning Britain. Previously a correspondent for GMTV from 2001 and then Daybreak before it was relaunched as Good Morning Britain. From 1996 until 1998 reporter and presenter at Westcountry Television in SW England before joining Central Television.
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Chris Tarrant – presenter and reporter on ATV Today from 1964 until 1982. He is best known for having hosted the children's series Tiswas from 1974 until 1981 and the quiz Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? from 1998 until 2014.
Kathy Tayler – former pentathlete, who presented Good Morning Britain from 1989 until 1992. She was also a regular presenter on the BBC's Holiday for twelve years.
Alan Taylor (television presenter) - continuity announcer for TWW in his native Cardiff: he began in 1959 and continued in this role throughout the 1960s. He later presented a number of programmes for HTV Wales during the 1970s, as well as quiz shows such as Three Little Words and Mr. & Mrs.. He died in 1997.
Shaw Taylor – continuity announcer on ATV during its early years. He was best known for presenting the long-running series 'Police 5' and 'Junior Police 5', which appealed to members of the public to watch out for criminals at work, from 1962 until 1992. He died in 2015.
Matt Teale – currently presents ITV News Meridian and formerly presented ITV News London and ITV News Central.
Gary Terzza – continuity announcer for Central Independent Television during the early 1980s: he was also a presenter for Children's ITV in 1987 and 1988. He then became a continuity announcer for Channel Four in 1991 and has continued to work there ever since.
Joan Thirkettle – joined ITN in 1974 as one of their first female reporters; died in 1996
Huw Thomas – Joined ITN in 1956
Owen Thomas – worked for many years at ITN, presenting the now defunct ITV News Channel, the networked ITV Morning News and the regional ITV programme London Tonight.
Alex Thomson (journalist) – long-serving main presenter and reporter on Channel Four News. He joined the programme in 1988 and has worked in various roles, covering more than 20 wars and conflicts and many major news events. He currently works as the programme's Chief Correspondent and Newsreader.
Glen Thompsett – presenter on ITV region Meridian in the South East England and London Weekend
Debbie Thrower – presented ITV Meridian's news programme Meridian Tonight (southern edition) from its inception in 1993 to 2009; also a BBC newsreader and a presenter on Songs of Praise Philippa Tomson – joined ITV News Central as newsreader in 2002; co-presenter of ITV News Tyne Tees from 2006; joined Good Morning Britain in 2010, where she is a news reporter and occasional newsreader
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Brian Trueman – former reporter and presenter on Granada Reports. He also wrote and narrated various children's cartoon series, including Jamie and the Magic Torch, and he was the presenter on the BBC's children's quiz Screen Test from 1979 until 1983.
Denis Tuohy – reporter and newscaster for ITN during the 1990s
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Geraint Vincent – political correspondent for HTV's Wales Tonight; joined ITN in April 2002 as a news correspondent for ITV News; presented ITV News at 6:30 and ITV News at Ten; Middle East Correspondent for ITV NewsW
Brian Walden – former Labour MP; presented many current affairs shows such as Weekend World, Walden and The Walden Interview during the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. He died in 2019.
Neville Wanless – long-serving continuity announcer and newsreader for Tyne Tees Television from 1971 until 1991. He had previously worked for the BBC's Home Service and he was a stand-in announcer for Border Television during the early 1970s. He died in 2020.
Bob Warman – long-serving main anchor on ITV's news programmes in the Midlands, including ATV Today and Central News. He also worked as a presenter for Yorkshire Television from 1976 until 1979.
Mark Webster – former ITN Moscow Correspondent, Business Editor, Political Correspondent and Industrial Correspondent; joined five news in 2004 (when the programme was produced by Sky News).
Romilly Weeks – employed by ITN to cover events worldwide for ITV News.
Charlene White – ITV News presenter.
Stewart White – continuity announcer and presenter on ATV and its successor, Central Independent Television, during the late 1970s and early 1980s. He then became the main presenter on the BBC's Look East in 1984, continuing in this role until his retirement in 2021.
Richard Whiteley – reporter and presenter for Yorkshire Television's Calendar, 1968–1995; best known for his 23-year stint as presenter of Countdown; died in 2005 following a short illness.
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Keith Wilkinson – reporter and correspondent for ITV since 1984.
Tim Willcox – worked for ITN News for many years as a presenter and correspondent.
Jonathan Wills – in late 2007, joined ITV Anglia to present the East edition of Anglia Tonight; in 2009, he became the main presenter of ITV News Anglia.
Richard Wyatt – HTV news anchor; presented BBC Radio Bristol's breakfast show, 2007–2009
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Yao Chin – video journalist reporting on the ITV Morning News, 2009–12; joined ITN as an Assistant News Editor and Westminster Producer, having won a scholarship from ITV News for his post-graduate journalism qualification.
Patricia Yorston – main co-presenter on HTV News West during the late 1980s and early 1990s. She is married to Steve Scott.
Kirsty Young – joined STV in 1992 to present the main evening news programme, Scotland Today; moved to join ITV in 1999 and briefly became a co-presenter of the ITV News at 6:30 with Dermot Murnaghan in 2001, as well as the Channel 5 News; she later presented Desert Island Discs'' on BBC Radio 4 from 2006 until 2018.
Muriel Young – announcer for Associated-Rediffusion on the first-ever night of ITV, 22 September 1955. She also worked as a presenter and interviewer for regional programmes on Granada Television and Southern Television, but she was probably best known for her work on ITV children's programmes. She was a presenter on 'Lucky Dip', 'Tuesday Rendezvous' and 'The Five O'Clock Club', among others, from 1959 until 1968, then she became a staff producer for Granada Television, producing pop shows such as Lift Off with Ayshea, Get It Together and Shang-a-Lang. She also devised the children's film series Clapperboard. She died in 2001.
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601579 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuji%20District%2C%20Shizuoka | Fuji District, Shizuoka | (Japan > Shizuoka Prefecture > Fuji District)
was a district located in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. The district covered the entire area of the city of Fujinomiya and parts of the city of Fuji.
Until the day before the dissolution, the district had only one town.
town of Shibakawa(芝川町; -chō)
Timeline
April 1, 1889 - Establishment of local municipalities: Ōmiya Town (大宮町), Yoshiwara Town (吉原町) and 20 villages were formed within Fuji District. (2 towns, 20 villages)
August 1, 1929 - Kajima Village (加島村) was elevated to town status and renamed to become Fuji Town (富士町). (3 towns, 19 villages)
January 1, 1933 - Takaoka Village (鷹岡村) was elevated to town status to become Takaoka Town (鷹岡町). (4 towns, 18 villages)
April 1, 1940 - Shimada Village (島田村) was merged into Yoshiwara Town.(4 towns, 17 villages)
April 3, 1941 - Denbō Village (伝法村) was merged into Yoshiwara Town.(4 towns, 16 villages)
June 1, 1942 - Ōmiya Town and Tomioka Village (富丘村) were merged to create Fujinomiya City(富士宮市). (3 towns, 15 villages)
June 14, 1942 - Imaizumi Village (今泉村) was merged into Yoshiwara Town.(3 towns, 14 villages)
April 1, 1948 - Yoshiwara Town becomes Yoshiwara City(吉原市).(2 towns, 14 villages)
March 31, 1954 - Fuji Town absorbed Tagoura Village (田子浦村) and Iwamatsu Village (岩松村) to create Fuji City(富士市). (1 town, 12 villages)
February 11, 1955 - Motoyoshiwara Village (元吉原村), Sudo Village (須津村), Yoshinaga Village (吉永村), and Harada Village (原田村) were merged into Yoshiwara City. (1 town, 8 villages).
April 1, 1955(1 town, 6 villages)
Ōbuchi Village(大淵村) was merged into Yoshiwara City.
Fujine Village (富士根村) was merged into Fujinomiya City.
September 30, 1956 - Shibatomi Village (芝富村) was merged with Utsubusa Village (内房村) and Ihara District, to create the village of Tomihara (富原村).(1 town, 6 villages)
March 31, 1957 - Yuno Village (柚野村) and Tomihara Village were merged to create the town of Shibakawa (芝川町).(2 towns, 4 villages)
April 1, 1958 - Kitayama Village (北山村), Kamiide Village (上井出村), Shiraito Village (白糸村), and Ueno Village (上野村) were merged into Fujinomiya City. (2 towns)
November 1, 1966 - Takaoka Town was merged with the cities of Fuji and Yoshiwara to create the new city of Fuji. (1 town)
March 23, 2010 - The town of Shibakawa was merged into the expanded city of Fujinomiya. Fuji District was dissolved as a result of this merger.
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List of provinces of Japan > Tōkaidō > Suruga Province > Fuji District
was a district located in Suruga Province.
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1954210 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco%20da%20Sangallo | Francesco da Sangallo | Francesco da Sangallo (1494–1576) was an Italian Renaissance sculptor, the son of the architect and sculptor Giuliano da Sangallo.
Sangallo was born in Florence. His father took him at the age of ten to Rome where, in 1506, he was present at the identification of the Laocoön group, an event he described in a letter written in 1567, towards the end of his life. Francesco da Sangallo was a pupil of Andrea Sansovino. The earliest dated sculpture attributed to him is the "Virgin and Child with St. Anne" in Orsanmichele, Florence.
Sangallo was active in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome around 1542 and became Capomaestro and architect of the Duomo in Florence the following year. Among works by him in the church of Santa Maria Pimerana in Fiesole are a self-portrait in relief dated 1542 and his last work, a relief of Francesco del Fede. Other works include the effigy of Bishop Leonardo Bonafede, which lies on the pavement of the church of the Certosa near Florence, and the group of the Virgin and Child and St Anne, executed in 1526 for the altar of Orsanmichele. He was named a member (Accademico) of the prestigious Accademia delle Arti del Disegno of Florence, founded by Cosimo I de' Medici in 1563.
References
External links
European sculpture and metalwork, a collection catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Francesco da Sangallo (see index)
Italian Renaissance architects
Italian Renaissance sculptors
1494 births
1576 deaths
Sculptors from Florence
Architects from Florence
16th-century Italian architects
16th-century Italian sculptors
Italian male sculptors |
51555418 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantinsborg | Constantinsborg | Constantinsborg is a manor in Aarhus Municipality, Denmark which has existed since at least 1400. It is situated on the southern shore of Årslev Engsø, a newly created nature reserve and shallow lake extension of Brabrand Lake, in Viby J 10 km. south-west of Aarhus. The manor and estate are privately owned today and ran as a farm. Constantinsborg was originally known as Stadsgaard but was later renamed after Constantin Marselis who owned the estate in the 1600s. In the 1800s the Pontoppidan family owned the estate and came to have a large impact on Danish agriculture and the transformation of the Jutland moors into agricultural land. The current main manor building was constructed in the early 1800s while adjoining farm buildings date back to 1870 and the 20th century.
History
Present day Constantinsborg dates back to around 1400 when it was owned by Erik Jensen Munk and known as Stadsgaard. In 1210 there was a forest named Stad in the area and is mentioned in the records of the Ancient See of Aarhus which owned the forest at the time. It is therefore possible the original farm dates back to an even earlier time. When Erik Jensen Mun died, his son Peder Lykke, inherited the estate and managed it until his death in 1464. The manor stayed in the Lykke family until 1583 when Valdemar Parsberg sold it to King Frederik II.
King Frederik II bought the manor in order to expand his hunting grounds around Skanderborg Palace. When Constantinsborg became crown land it was made a part of Havreballegård fiefdom. In 1661 the fiefdom - and Constantinsborg - were given to the Dutch merchant Gabriel Marselis in part-payment for debts incurred by the Danish state during the Second Northern War. In 1667 Gabriel Marselis' son, Constantin Marselis, moved to Denmark to manage his father's many new estates. He moved into Constantinsborg which he named after himself. In 1683 Constantinsborg was officially recognized as a manor with privileges which indicates it was a substantial estate at the time.
In 1699, Constantin Marselis died and his widow Sophie Elisabeth Charisius took over the manor and had it turned into a fee tail. She married Peder Rodsteen who was made a Baron. When Rodsteen died in 1714 the manor passed to Sophie Elisabeth Charisius' nephew Christian Charisius who was married to Dorothea Cathrine Rosenlund. He died in 1724 and she the following year, after which the manor was inherited by their son Constantin August Charisius. Constantin dedicated himself to the administration of Constantinsborg during the 52 years he owned it. He managed to expand the estate, although it left him heavily in debt at this death in 1776.
In 1787, Hans Frederik Fædder-Charisius took over Constantinsborg and was given permission to divide and sell the manor estate provided all profits were set aside for his descendants. The manor was auctioned in 1799. Fædder-Charisius himself bought the main building and lands while most of the attached farms and lands were sold off. When Fædder-Charisius died the manor was sold to Peder Jacob Møller in 1832 who in turn sold it in 1867 to Hendrik Pontoppidan.
After purchasing Constantinsborg Hendrik Pontoppidan became heavily involved in agriculture and Hedeselskabet. He had become wealthy through his trading in Manchester and Hamburg. In the 1840s Hendrik Pontoppidan was a representative for the National Bank of Denmark. In 1851 he was made Consul of the Danish state and he co-founded Aarhus Privatbank which eventually became one of the largest banks in Denmark. Hendrik Pontoppidan died in 1901 but he had already passed the manor on to his son Alfred Pontoppidan who had studied agriculture in Scotland and Hannover. Alfred Pontoppidan's management of Constantinsborg was a success and it became a centre for agricultural education in the area.
In 1999, a Pontoppidan descendant sold Constantinsborg to Bestseller founder, Troels Holch Povlsen.
Architecture
The present main building was constructed in 1801 in Neoclassical style and consists of a single, long brick structure. It has one storey above a deep basement and is characterized by a large frontispiece of two floors with richly decorated portals. The north end of the frontispiece is finished with a low wall in Attic style. The previous building had been constructed by Constantin Marselis in 1677. It is recorded as having been expensive and detailed and about three times larger than the present manor house. It had been designed in the Baroque style with a three-winged main building facing three-winged stables. The middle section of the main building was a two-storey house, inspired by Dutch styles.
The farm buildings at Constantinsborg are situated directly in front of the main building forming a large complex. The oldest part was built by Hendrik Pontoppidan Constantinsborg in 1870 and now stands next to a number of modern buildings from the 2000s, used for offices and administration. The remodelling of 1677 also involved new farm buildings. They have since been replaced using the original basic outline.
The garden was probably created by Constantin Marselis in Baroque style with hedges, boulevards and ponds spread out across three terraces. When Hendrik Pontoppidan took over Constantinsborg in 1867 the garden was altered in the English style with free standing trees and large lawns, although the terraces were preserved.
Owners
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Houses completed in 1801
Neoclassical architecture in Aarhus
Buildings and structures of the Lykke family |
27177335 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletics%20Ontario | Athletics Ontario | Athletics Ontario is the governing body of track and field in Ontario, Canada. Athletics Ontario was founded in 1974 under the name Ontario Track and Field Association to replace several regional bodies under Athletics Canada. In 2008 its name was formally changed. Athletics Ontario is based in Toronto, Ontario.
History
Athletics Ontario is a branch of Athletics Canada. Until 1974, Ontario was split into three governing bodies, Southwestern, Northwestern, and Central. However, there was an interest in establishing a more efficient means of developing the sport while maintaining a system which would still enable regions to have a voice regarding major decisions in the province. As a result, a new provincial association, composed of six newly defined regions was formed in 1974, and in October 1977 the Ontario Track and Field Association became an incorporated body.
Athletics Ontario is governed by its board of directors whose Chair was Dean Hustwick as of 2020-2021.
See also
Sports in Canada
Athletics Canada
Other Provincial Organizations Governing Athletics
References
External links
Athletics Ontario
Athletics (track and field) in Canada
Athletics organizations
Track
1974 establishments in Ontario
Sports organizations established in 1974 |
44741868 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015%20Richmond%20Raiders%20season | 2015 Richmond Raiders season | The 2015 Richmond Raiders season was the sixth season for the American indoor football franchise, and their fourth in the Professional Indoor Football League (PIFL).
Schedule
Key:
Regular season
All start times are local to home team
Standings
Postseason
Roster
References
Richmond Raiders
VCU Rams Virginia
Richmond Raiders |
59841030 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015%E2%80%9316%20PAS%20Giannina%20F.C.%20season | 2015–16 PAS Giannina F.C. season | The 2015–16 season is PAS Giannina F.C.'s 21st competitive season in the top flight of Greek football, 6th season in the Super League Greece, and 50th year in existence as a football club. They also compete in the Greek Cup.
Players
updated:30/6/2016
International players
Foreign players
Personnel
Management
Coaching staff
medical staff
Academy
Transfers
Summer
In
Out
For recent transfers, see List of Greek football transfers summer 2015
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In
Out
For recent transfers, see -
Pre-season and friendlies
Competitions
Super League Greece
League table
Results summary
Fixtures
Greek cup
PAS Giannina will enter the Greek Cup at the Group stage.
Group A
Matches
Round of 16
Statistics
Appearances
Super League Greece
Goalscorers
Super League Greece
Clean sheets
Best goal and MVP awards winners
Disciplinary record
Awards
Nomination for Best Manager in Greece:Giannis Petrakis
References
External links
Official Website
PAS Giannina F.C. seasons
Greek football clubs 2015–16 season |
2748096 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longton%2C%20Staffordshire | Longton, Staffordshire | Longton is one of the six towns which amalgamated to form the county borough of Stoke-on-Trent in 1910, along with Hanley, Tunstall, Fenton, Burslem and Stoke-upon-Trent. It is in the ceremonial county of Staffordshire, England
History
Longton ('long village') was a market town in the parish of Stoke in the county of Staffordshire. The town still has a market housed in an attractively renovated market hall.
Coal miners in the Hanley and Longton area ignited the 1842 general strike and associated Pottery Riots.
In March 1865, Longton and Lane End were incorporated as the Borough of Longton. On 1 April 1910, the town was federated into the county borough of Stoke-on-Trent.
Arnold Bennett referred to Longton as Longshaw, one of the "five towns" featured in his novels set in the Staffordshire Potteries.
Industry
The district has a long history as a base for the pottery industry, such as Paragon China and Aynsley, and several major manufacturers still have a presence, along with Gladstone Pottery Museum. Roslyn Works, which adjoins the latter, is now home to several small-scale manufacturers of ceramics.
Florence colliery, which opened in the 19th century, was one of the pits of the North Staffordshire Coalfield. It was connected underground to another pit at Hem Heath. It was closed in the 1990s.
Landmarks
Public buildings
Longton Town Hall, which was completed in 1844 and was the local seat of government until 1910, was being stripped out by contractors when it was saved from demolition in 1986.
Industrial buildings
There are fewer than 50 surviving bottle ovens in the city of Stoke-on-Trent (and only a scattering elsewhere in the UK). The kilns of the Gladstone Pottery Museum, along with others in the Longton conservation area represent a significant proportion of the national stock of the structures. The bottle ovens of Longton have been promoted as a tourist attraction.
In the 21st century, the condition of some of the bottle ovens has given cause for concern. A Stoke-on-Trent Ceramic Heritage Action Zone was created with the double function of regenerating Longton and surviving bottle ovens throughout the city.
Transport
In 1997 Longton's one-way system was bypassed when a new section of the A50 was opened. It runs from Blythe Bridge to Queensway (a section of the A500), going through Longton in a cutting.
Longton is served by a railway station on the Crewe–Derby line. It was opened by the North Staffordshire Railway on 7 August 1848. A new bus interchange was opened adjacent to it in 2003 on the site of a former Co-op supermarket.
Education
Secondary schools in the area include St Thomas More Catholic Academy and Stoke Studio College.
Together with Rochdale, then in Lancashire, Longton was host to the first Workers' Educational Association tutorial classes. R. H. Tawney, known as "the patron saint of adult education", taught the classes for three years starting in January 1908.
Retail
A new shopping precinct, the Bennett Precinct, opened in 1962. It is now named Longton Exchange.
In 2003 a Tesco Extra hypermarket was built (there are other Tesco stores at Meir). Since then, other major retailers such as Argos, Next, Pizza Hut, Matalan, Wilko and B & M have opened new premises.
Building firm St. Modwen's opened an £8 million retail complex in April 2012. The stores there include McDonald's, Pets at Home, Smyths and Currys.
Other local businesses like Hylands and Bevans have also thrived in the area.
Nightlife
Jollees Cabaret Club was a very popular nightspot in the 1970s, attracting some of the biggest names in entertainment. In the early 1990s, Shelley's Laserdome became widely known throughout the Midlands as a rave venue, but it was forced to close in 1992.
Notable people
Sir John Edensor Heathcote (c.1757–1822) Stoke-on-Trent industrialist, owner of Longton Hall, which he rebuilt in 1778.
John Aynsley (1823–1907) English potter who established the Portland Works in Longton
Percy Shelley (1860-1937) was a major force in developing Shelley Potteries, born in Longton.
Frederick Arthur Challinor (1866–1952), was a British composer.
Ernest Albert Egerton (1897–1966) English recipient of the Victoria Cross
William Thomas Astbury (1898–1961) English physicist and molecular biologist who made pioneering X-ray diffraction studies of biological molecules.
Gordon Mons Higginson (1918-1993) British purported spiritualist medium.
Charles Tomlinson (1927–2015) English poet, attended Longton High School
Freddie Jones (1927–2019) actor; his many roles on film and television included Sandy Thomas in Emmerdale.
Andrew Evans (born 1950s) a soldier from Longton, stationed at Whittington Barracks, was wrongfully convicted and served 25 years in custody after confessing to the 1972 murder of Judith Roberts, a 14-year-old schoolgirl from Tamworth.
Sport
William (Billy) Weston (1847-1935) Australasian billiards player, emigrated from Longton aged 3.
George Arthur Gallimore (1886–1949) English professional footballer who made 77 appearances for Stoke City F.C.
Henry "Harry" Colclough (1888–1955) English international footballer, who made 83 appearances for Crystal Palace F.C.
William Wootton (1904–2000) English footballer, made 56 appearances for Port Vale F.C.
Norman Henry Hallam (1920–1997) was an English footballer, made 63 appearances for Port Vale F.C.
Philip Adrian "Phil" Heath (born 1964) former professional English footballer, made 297 appearances.
Trivia
Longton is the birthplace and home of Alan Povey's character Owd Grandad Piggott
Black Country folk singer/songwriter, Neil Morris, now lives near Longton
Gallery
References
External links
Make it Stoke-on-Trent – Longton Regeneration (listings of local amenities and regeneration projects)
Longton – Stoke-on-Trent
Longton
Gladstone Pottery Museum
Use interactive maps to find historic photographs and artefacts of old Longton
Town profile at The Sentinel (local newspaper)
Longton South Community Blog (local blog)
www.hylands.tv
Areas of Stoke-on-Trent
Towns in Staffordshire
Former civil parishes in Staffordshire |
9474100 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku%27erle%20Licheng%20Airport | Ku'erle Licheng Airport | Ku'erle (Korla) Licheng Airport () is an airport serving Korla, a city in the autonomous region of Xinjiang in the People's Republic of China.
Facilities
The airport resides at an elevation of above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 04/22 which measures .
Airlines and destinations
See also
List of airports in the People's Republic of China
References
External links
Airports in Xinjiang
Airport
Airports established in 2007 |
62983470 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann%20Leopold%20Hay | Johann Leopold Hay | Johann Leopold Hay (22 April 1735, Fulnek – 1 June 1794, Chrast) was Bishop of Hradec Králové from 11 December 1780 until his death.
References
1735 births
1794 deaths
People from Fulnek
Czech Roman Catholic bishops |
27056759 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapman%27s%20zebra | Chapman's zebra | Chapman's zebra (Equus quagga chapmani), named after explorer James Chapman, is a subspecies of the plains zebra from southern Africa.
Chapman's zebra are native to savannas and similar habitats of north-east South Africa, north to Zimbabwe, west into Botswana, the Caprivi Strip in Namibia, and southern Angola. Like the other subspecies of plains zebra, it is a herbivore that exists largely on a diet of grasses, and undertakes a migration during the wet season to find fresh sources of food and to avoid lions, which are their primary predator. Chapman's zebras are distinguished from other subspecies by subtle variations in their stripes. When compared to other equids in the region Chapman's zebras are relatively abundant in number, however its population is now in decline largely because of human factors such as poaching and farming. Studies and breeding programs have been undertaken with the hope of arresting this decline, with a focus on ensuring zebras bred in captivity are equipped for life in the wild, and that non-domesticated populations are able to freely migrate. A problem faced by some of these programs is that captive Chapman's zebra populations experience higher incidence of diagnosed diseases than non-domesticated populations due to the fact that they live longer, and so are less likely to die in the wild from predation or a lack of food or water.
Description
Chapman's zebras are single-hoofed mammals that are a part of the odd-toed ungulate order. They differ from other zebras in that their stripes continue past their knees, and that they also have somewhat brown stripes in addition to the black and white stripes that are typically associated with zebras. The pastern is also not completely black on the lower half. Each zebra has its own unique stripe pattern that also includes shadow stripes. When foals are born, they have brown stripes, and in some cases, adults do not develop the black colouration on their hides and keep their brown stripes.
In the wild Chapman's zebra live on average to 25 years of age, however that can live to be up to 38 years of age in captivity. Males usually weigh and stand at tall. Females weigh about and stand as tall as the males. Foals weigh 25-50 kg (55-88 lb) at birth. Adult zebras can run at up to 56 kilometres per hour (35 miles per hour) and have strong eyesight and hearing which are essential evolutionary defence mechanisms.
Ecology
Diet
Chapman's zebras have been observed to spend a large portion of their day feeding (approximately 50%), and primarily consume low-quality grasses found in savannas, grasslands, and shrublands, however they occasionally eat wild berries and other plants in order to increase protein intake. While they show a preference for short grasses, unlike some other grazing animals they also eat long grasses and so play an important role by consuming the upper portion of long grass that has grown in the wet season to then allow for other animals to feed. Young foals are reliant on their mothers for sustenance for approximately the first 12 months of their lives as their teeth are unable to properly breakdown the tough grasses that the adults eat until the enamel has sufficiently worn away.
Migration
During the dry season Chapman's zebras tend not to stray too far from a water source as they frequently have to drink. During the wet season however, the zebras will join together in large herds consisting of many harems and migrate in order to find abundant food sources to feed on after the relatively sparse dry season They also try to avoid other animal migrations so as to lower competition for food. As they only require lower-quality foraging, Chapman's zebras prefer to migrate to areas with a greater density of food, and will prioritise quantity ahead of quality. By optimising foraging density and avoiding other foraging species, Chapman's zebras are able to sustain large populations which rapidly deplete foraging areas forcing them to continue migrating. In addition, Chapman's zebras also exhibit a cyclical daily movement whereby they prefer grasslands during the day and woodlands during the night so as to avoid lions, which are their main predator. They frequently move around and actively avoid areas where they recently observed lion activity.
Social behaviour
Chapman's zebras are highly sociable animals that live in herds of up to tens of thousands of individuals. The larger herd is composed of harems with permanent members; consisting of one herd stallion, one to six females, and their offspring. They rarely exhibit aggressive behaviour towards each other or other species. Males without a harem have also been observed to form long term cliques of their own with other bachelor males which has been shown to improve their social skills. Stallion-stallion groups are uncommon, and in the cases where they do form they are short-lasting. The females stay in the same harems all of their lives.
Chapman's zebras spend time resting during the day but are more active at dusk. This is most likely a defensive behavioural trait as predators are more prevalent at this time of day, and so it is beneficial for members of the herd to be more vigilant at these times. On occasion a small group will rush at a potential predator in an attempt to deter them from attacking, however in general Chapman's zebras prefer to avoid any such conflicts.
Within their harems there has been observed hierarchical social structures which dictate things such as the movements of the group, through to how they care for their offspring. High-ranking mares in particular exert pressure on the group in order to promote the survival of their own foals. When foraging, Chapman's zebras rely on the dominant member of the harem to lead them to water and food sources. The success of high-ranking harem members at leading the group to food and water determines whether they maintain leadership into the future, and shows how the zebras value stability in their respective groups. Leadership roles can change over time however. Older mares often have a higher social rank than younger harem members. Lactating females are also able to initiate movement within a harem which in turn can sometimes influence the movements of the whole herd. When a pregnant mare gives birth her foal assumes the same social status within the harem as her.
From a young age foals are able to recognise the scent and sound of their mother and form bonds together that last into adulthood. This ability to recognise other zebras does not diminish into adulthood where they are able to differentiate amongst other group members. This is essential for creating stability within groups, which lowers inter-group competition for resources and thus improves survival. In captivity has been shown that Chapman's zebras form unique relationships with different keepers and that they repeatedly alter their behaviour depending on which keeper is interacting with them.
Reproduction
Males will typically fight one another in front of a group of females before they mate with them, with the highest-ranking mare in the harem the first to mate. The gestation period for Chapman's zebras is around 12 months, after which time the female will give birth to a single foal. The foal is quickly able to walk with the rest of the group which is essential for its survival, as it ensures that the mother doesn't have to leave it behind for the good of the other members of the harem. Each subsequent pregnancy has a shorter inter-birth period than the one before it as the mare become more adept at raising her foals. Male zebras that are members of the harem but not the father of the foal have been reported to practice infanticide. This has been observed in particular in captivity where zebras from different social groups are kept in close proximity. It is also possible for Chapman's zebras to be bred via an equine surrogate, as was first done in 1984.
Conservation
While not considered a threatened species, Chapman's zebras are extinct in Burundi and Lesotho, and possibly also in Somalia. Total numbers have declined approximately 25% in recent years due to human activities including farming, hunting, poaching, and droughts exacerbated by climate change. Human settlements also impact population sizes by interrupting migratory patterns and thus limiting the availability of dense food sources necessary for the sustenance of large herds. This diminishes the ease at which the zebras migrate and so they cannot find food as readily. There is evidence that wildlife corridors could be used to re-establish migratory patterns by linking up ecosystems, and that the zebras would be able to adapt to these new migration paths.
Other conservation efforts have taken place in an attempt to stabilise the population. A program at the Majete Wildlife Reserve undertook a captive breeding and reintroduction program, however it is unknown whether the zebras have the abilities required to survive, in the wild having been raised in captivity. Research at the Werribee Zoological Park aimed to create a more realistic environment for the zebras so that they can be more seamlessly reintroduced, and to then provide guidance for other breeding programs around the world. However, one particular issue in breeding programs is how to safely replicate the threat of predators so that the zebras are prepared for the wild. This threat impacts a number of aspects of their lives, such as when they eat, when they rest, and when they move. As yet no solution has been found.
Diseases
Like other herbivores Chapman's zebra are susceptible to hydatidosis, a parasitic disease, but it is not often attributed as a cause of death. Infected zebras can live undiagnosed for many years without symptoms and it is not considered a serious threat. Chapman's zebras are also carriers of nematode parasites which reside in their large intestine and cause an infection called helminthiasis, which can be fatal if left untreated.
In captive populations where life expectancy is longer, pituitary pars intermedia dysfunction (PPID) or equine Cushing's disease causes excessive hormone production in zebras which commonly leads to other painful chronic conditions. A growing body of research is finding ways for zoos to better identify and treat PPID so as to improve the life expectancy and quality of life of no just Chapman's zebras, but all equids. Captive populations can also uniquely develop flexure deformity of the distal interphalangeal joint, or club foot, a condition not observed in non-domesticated populations and one that is best treated through surgery.
References
Zebras
Mammals of Botswana
Mammals of South Africa
Mammals of Namibia
Mammals of Angola
Mammals of Zimbabwe
IUCN Red List near threatened species |
3448801 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20districts%20of%20Uttarakhand | List of districts of Uttarakhand | A district of Uttarakhand state is an administrative geographical unit, headed by a District Magistrate (earlier called District Collector), an officer belonging to the Indian Administrative Service. The district magistrates are assisted by a number of officers (such as deputy collector, assistant collector, additional district magistrate, sub-divisional magistrate, tehsildar, naib tehsildar belonging to the Uttarakhand Civil Service and other Uttarakhand state services.
A Superintendent of Police, an officer belonging to the Indian Police Service, heads the police in the district and is entrusted with the responsibility of maintaining law and order and related issues. He is assisted by the officers of the Uttarakhand Police Service.
A Deputy Conservator of Forests, an officer belonging to the Indian Forest Service, is responsible for managing the Forests, environment and wild-life related issues of the district. He is assisted by the officers of the Uttarakhand Forest Service and other Uttarakhand forest officials and Uttarakhand wildlife officials.
Sectoral development is looked after by the district head of each development department such as Public works, Health, Education, Agriculture, Animal husbandry, etc. These officers belong to the various Uttarakhand state services.
Four new districts are proposed in Uttarakhand: Didihat, Kotdwar, Ranikhet and Yamunotri.
List of districts
Proposed districts
In November 2000 when uttarakhand was created as a new state it had inherited 13 districts. As of november 2022, since then no new districts have been created even though other newly created states have almost doubled the number of new districts for rapid development.
2011 BJP plan for 5 new districts:
BJP had planned the following for districts which did not matter last due to the change in the government.
2016 INC plan for 10 new districts (including 4 districts from earlier 2011 BJP plan):
Kashipur, from Udham Singh Nagar district.
Roorkee, from Haridwar district.
Gairsain, from Chamoli district.
Rishikesh, from Dehradun district, Tehri Garhwal district, and Pauri Garhwal district.
Narendra Nagar or Pratapnagar, from Udham Singh Nagar district with headquarter at either of the two places.
Ramnagar, from Nainital district.
Additional demands for new districts:
From time to time, several chief ministers and elected representatives, such as MLAs and MPs, have proposed the following new districts:
Chakrata, from Dehradun district.
Dharchula, from Pithoragarh district.
Gangotri and Purola, from Uttarkashi district.
Haldwani, from Nainital district.
Karnaprayag and Tharali, from Chamoli district.
other proposed are Ghastoli, Meelam (Milam), Dugtu, Gunji, Munsiari (Munsyari), Niti, Tyuni, Thalisain, Syaldey/Ataliya, etc
See also
Administrative divisions of Uttarakhand
List of parganas of Uttarakhand
List of tehsils of Uttarakhand
List of community development blocks of Uttarakhand
List of districts in India
References
External links
More about Uttarakhand at state
Districts
Uttarakhand |
55414695 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petersham%20Town%20Hall | Petersham Town Hall | The Petersham Town Hall is a heritage-listed town hall located at 107 Crystal Street in Petersham, a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney, Australia. It was built in 1937–38 in the Inter-War Stripped Classical architectural style by architects Rudder & Grout, and replaced the first Petersham Town Hall on the site, which was designed in the Victorian Renaissance Revival style by Thomas Rowe in 1880–1882. The Town Hall was the seat of Petersham Municipal Council from 1938 to 1948 and from 1948 to 1974 was the seat of the Municipality of Marrickville, which absorbed Petersham. When the council moved to new offices across the street in 1974, the town hall has primarily been used as a meeting hall, community centre, filming location and archival office.
First Town Hall, 1880–1937
The foundation stone for the town hall was laid by mayor M. McMahon on 18 December 1880, with W. H. Pigott MLA opening proceedings. The Italianate structure was designed by Thomas Rowe, and the completed building was officially opened by the mayor, John Gelding, on 19 April 1882. The building, of brick on stone foundations, was completed in eighteen months, and included a library, masonic meeting room, caretaker's residence and on the upper floor a hall capable of seating 700 people, with a large stage and various ante-rooms, approached by three staircases. Its cost was estimated at £4000. The hall was demolished in 1937 as a cheaper alternative to remodelling.
The hall is of interest to aficionados of Gilbert and Sullivan, as the site of Australia's first production of Ruddigore, by the Petersham Choral Society, on 4–7 August 1908. It was not until 23 June 1927 that it was staged professionally, at the Theatre Royal, Adelaide by James Hay for J. C. Williamson's.
Second Petersham Town Hall
The town hall's distinctive architecture and largely intact Art Deco interiors has made it a popular filming location for film and television, including Baz Luhrmann's Strictly Ballroom (1992), A Place to Call Home, 60 Minutes and Paper Giants.
Heritage listing and conservation
The Town Hall was first listed in 2001 under the Marrickville Local Environment Plan (updated 2011) as "a good example of Art Deco civic architecture of the late 1930s. The strong vertical elements and exposed brickwork make it a dominant element within the area which developed as the municipal centre of Petersham from the 1880s. The Town Hall has been associated with a stream of influential people and continues to be an actively used and recognised resource to the local community. It is considered by the NSW RAIA to be an important twentieth century civic building. [...] Its stately Art Deco design, its location opposite the Marrickville Council administration building and Council Chambers make the Petersham Town Hall building an identifiable and actively used landmark within the municipality."
Gallery
See also
List of town halls in Sydney
Architecture of Sydney
References
External links
Petersham Town Hall – Inner West Council
Government buildings completed in 1882
1882 establishments in Australia
Renaissance Revival architecture in Australia
Buildings and structures demolished in 1937
Demolished buildings and structures in Sydney
Government buildings completed in 1938
1938 establishments in Australia
Town halls in Sydney
Art Deco architecture in Sydney
Inner West
Thomas Rowe buildings |
2323324 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riprap | Riprap | Riprap (in North American English), also known as rip rap, rip-rap, shot rock, rock armour (in British English) or rubble, is human-placed rock or other material used to protect shoreline structures against scour and water, wave, or ice erosion. Riprap is used to armor shorelines, streambeds, bridge abutments, foundational infrastructure supports and other shoreline structures against erosion. Common rock types used include granite and modular concrete blocks. Rubble from building and paving demolition is sometimes used, as well as specifically designed structures called tetrapods.
Riprap is also used underwater to cap immersed tubes sunken on the seabed to be joined into an undersea tunnel.
Environmental effects
Sediment effects
Riprap causes morphological changes in the riverbeds they surround. One such change is the reduction of sediment settlement in the river channel, which can lead to scouring of the river bed as well as coarser sediment particles. This can be combatted by increasing the distance between the pieces of riprap and using a variety of sizes.
The usage of riprap may not even stop erosion, but simply move it downstream. Additionally, the soil beneath the riprap can be eroded if the rock was just placed on top without any buffer between the layers such as a geotextile fabric or smaller riprap (crushed stone).
Changes in organic material and the ecosystem
Riprap affects the amount of organic material in a waterbody by acting as a filter, catching wood and leaves before they can enter the water. Riprap also covers and prevents plants from growing through, which can reduce shade over the water.
Introducing ripraps creates a rocky environment which can affect the ecology of a waterbody by making the ecosystem more heterogeneous. While it can negatively affect some organisms by removing shoreline vegetation, the rock can provide important refuge for invertebrates and small fish. By preventing woody plants from growing and shading the water, riprap can also increase the amount of algae and hydrophytes.
Gallery
See also
Debris
Rubble
References
Ciria-CUR (2007) - Rock Manual - The use of rock in hydraulic engineering.
N.W.H. Allsop (2002) - Breakwaters, coastal structures and coastlines.
US Dept. of Transportation (2004) - Trail Construction and Maintenance Notebook
External links
Ohio Dept. of Natural Resources riprap guide
US Bureau of Reclamation publication on riprap for dam overtopping
Minnesota DNR
USGS Minerals Yearbook: Stone, Crushed
Building stone
Types of wall
Earthworks (engineering)
Coastal construction |
63246706 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ala-Palo | Ala-Palo | Ala-Palo is a village in Rõuge Parish, Võru County in southeastern Estonia. The population has been 3 since 2021.
References
Villages in Võru County |
25210400 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamundi%20Express | Chamundi Express | Chamundi Express is a daily commuter train between Mysore and Bangalore. This train leaves Mysore at 7 AM to reach Bangalore City at 9:30 AM. Returning it leaves Bangalore City at 6:25 PM and reaches Mysore at 9:05 PM.
Post the restoration after Covid-19, the train is being run using MEMU rake instead of conventional rake.
Relevance
This train traces its name to mythology. Chamundeshwari is an incarnation of Adi Parashakti who destroyed the demon Mahishasura. At the spot believed to be the place where Chamundeshwari killed Mahishasura, a temple was constructed there, currently located in Chamundi Hills in Mysuru. The Maharaja of Mysore and the Royal family of Mysore worshipped Chamundeshwari as their patron deity. The temple is believed to be a Shakti Peetha as the hair of Goddess Sati fell there
References
Transport in Bangalore
Transport in Mysore
Named passenger trains of India
Rail transport in Karnataka
Express trains in India |
74558370 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miyan%20Ab%20District | Miyan Ab District | Miyan Ab District () is in Shushtar County, Khuzestan province, Iran. Its capital is the village of Arab Hasan.
At the latest census in 2016, the district had 32,177 inhabitants in 8,395 households.
References
Shushtar County
Districts of Khuzestan Province
Populated places in Khuzestan Province
Populated places in Shushtar County |
26388554 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshine%20%28Twista%20song%29 | Sunshine (Twista song) | "Sunshine" is the fourth single released from American rapper Twista's fourth album, Kamikaze. The song did not find success in the United States, but in the United Kingdom, "Sunshine" peaked at number three on the UK Singles Chart. "Sunshine" features R&B singer Anthony Hamilton and was produced by Red Spyda.
Composition
"Sunshine" heavily samples Bill Withers' 1977 hit, "Lovely Day." The Twista track begins with a lengthy sample of "Lovely Day"; additionally, the chorus is a reworded version of the original Withers chorus.
Track listings
Australian CD single
"Sunshine" (album version featuring Anthony Hamilton)
"Front Porch" (featuring Danny Boy)
"Legit Ballers"
European CD single
"Sunshine" (explicit album version featuring Anthony Hamilton)
"Legit Ballers" (LP version with the Speedknot Mobstaz)
UK CD1
"Sunshine" (edited album version featuring Anthony Hamilton) – 3:44
"Front Porch" (featuring Danny Boy) – 5:20
UK CD2
"Sunshine" (explicit album version featuring Anthony Hamilton) – 3:44
"Sunshine" (instrumental) – 3:44
"Overnight Celebrity" (remix featuring Bump J and Cam'ron—explicit) – 3:29
"Sunshine" (album version video) – 3:44
"Slow Jamz" (video) – 3:34
UK 12-inch single
A1. "Sunshine" – 3:44
A2. "Sunshine" (instrumental) – 3:44
B1. "Overnight Celebrity" "Overnight Celebrity" (remix featuring Bump J and Cam'ron—explicit) – 3:29
B2. "Legit Ballers" – 5:18
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Certifications
Release history
References
Twista songs
2004 singles
2004 songs
Anthony Hamilton (musician) songs
Atlantic Records singles
Songs written by Bill Withers
Songs written by Twista |
35477832 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leland%20Hawes | Leland Hawes | Leland Mosley Hawes Jr. (June 18, 1929 – May 18, 2013) was an American newspaper reporter for the Tampa Tribune. He had a long tenure at the paper and was involved in various projects after leaving the paper, including serving on the committee that selected the first six historical figures to be immortalized in bronze busts along the Tampa Riverwalk. The Hillsborough County Bar Association awarded him with its Liberty Bell Award in 1989.
Hawes was born in Tampa on June 18, 1929. He graduated from Plant High School and the University of Florida. He began working at the Tampa Times in 1950 and joined the Tampa Tribune in 1952
His tenure at the Tribune included 20 years as writer and editor of the "History & Heritage" section of the Sunday edition. He collaborated on the production of a book of W. Paul Cook's stories. He was a long time hobbyist at amateur journalism since he was 12, the age in which he printed his own neighborhood newspaper. He also published two private journals as an adult.
The Tampa Bay History Center and the University of South Florida established the Leland Hawes Prize, a juried essay competition for graduate and undergraduate students in the humanities. He served for many years as a trustee of the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Society, an organization dedicated to promoting the work of Florida's emblematic novelist.
He conducted an interview with the University of Florida in 2002.
References
1929 births
American newspaper reporters and correspondents
American newspaper editors
2013 deaths
Writers from Tampa, Florida
20th-century American journalists
American male journalists |
31800111 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sproxil | Sproxil | Sproxil is an American venture capital-backed for-profit company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts that provides a consumer product verification service (called Mobile Authentication Service or MAS) to help consumers avoid purchasing counterfeit products. The service was the first Mobile Authentication Service (MAS) to launch in Nigeria.
Sproxil has operations in Nigeria, Mali, Ghana (serving West Africa), Tanzania, Kenya (serving East Africa), India and Pakistan (Asia).
Activity
Sproxil's service places a security label with a scratch-off panel on all protected products. Consumers scratch off the panel at a point of purchase to reveal a unique one-time use code. This is a form of mass serialization. The code is sent via SMS or mobile app to a country-specific short code, and the consumer receives a reply almost instantly indicating that the product is genuine or suspicious. The company also has a 24/7 call center to provide support during the verification process and take in anonymous reports of suspicious counterfeiting activity.
Recent activity
In 2010, NAFDAC, the Nigerian government agency overseeing food and drugs, endorsed the Sproxil platform and the service has been widely deployed throughout Nigeria. In April 2011, CNN published a video discussing the role Sproxil played in the fight against counterfeit drugs in Nigeria.
In February 2011, Sproxil announced that it had received $1.8 million in funding from Acumen Fund. Funding is being used to help the company expand into India.
Johnson & Johnson and GSK (GlaxoSmithKline) are using Sproxil services in Africa as is the Nigerian distributor of Merck KGaA named Biofem.
In June 2011, Sproxil launched operations in India and in July 2011 Kenya's Pharmacy and Poisons Board (PPB) also adopted similar text message-based anti-counterfeiting systems. As of early 2012, Sproxil announced that more than one million people in Africa had checked their medicines using the text-message based verification service developed by Sproxil.
In February 2013, Sproxil signed on East African Cables to protect their electric cables through the Zinduka Initiative. The initiative utilizes the MPA solution to help consumers verify that their electrical cables are genuine before purchase. This partnership marked Sproxil's further expansion into non-pharmaceutical markets. Other industries that uses Sproxil's solution is textile and clothing (underwear).
In 2014, the company expanded its Mobile Authentication services, originally available to consumers by SMS and call center, by adding mobile apps to their solution suite. The same year, Sproxil became ISO-27001 (for information security controls) and ISO-9001 (for quality management systems) certified after a comprehensive review of its internal processes. Soon after, Kenya-based agribusiness company Juanco SPS officially launched a consumer-facing project that protects pesticide Bestox 100EC with MPA technology.
Awards
2017 Unilever Global Development Award
2016 Innovative Healthcare Service Provider Of The Year
2015 Interface Health Excellence (IHX) Challenge
2015 Frost & Sullivan's Enabling Technology Leadership Award
2014 Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award
2013 USPTO Patents for Humanity Award
2013 #1 in health care and #7 overall in Fast Company Magazine World's 50 Most Innovative Companies
2012 ISMP Cheers Award - George DiDomizio Industry Award
2012 ICC World Business and Development Award
2010 Honorable Mention Global Finals, IBM Entrepreneur SmartCamp Competition
2010 MassChallenge Finalist
2010 Mobile Infrastructure Award, MITX
2010 People's Choice Award at Accelerate Michigan
2010 Prize Winner, African Diaspora Marketplace
2010 Audience Choice Award Life Sciences at Xconomy Xsite
2009 Outstanding Commitment Award in Global Health, Clinton Global Initiative University
See also
Mass serialization
World Customs Organization
Millennium Development Goals
References
External links
Companies based in Massachusetts
Telecommunications companies of the United States
Business software
Authentication methods |
29306053 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Insurance%20Act%201946 | National Insurance Act 1946 | The National Insurance Act 1946 (9 & 10 Geo. 6. c. 67) was a British Act of Parliament passed during the Attlee ministry which established a comprehensive system of social security throughout the United Kingdom.
The act meant that all who were of working age were to pay a weekly contribution. If they had been paying National Insurance, mothers were to be entitled to an allowance (of 18 weeks) for each child as well as a lump sum when the child was born. The act however excluded married women. The weekly contributions meant that benefits including sickness benefit and unemployment benefits were able to be offered. Pensions were to offered to men and women at ages 65 and 60 respectively.
Background
Attlee had campaigned hard in his campaign leading up to the 1945 election for the creation of the welfare state. When elected, he and his administration and adopted Beveridge proposal from 1944 to keep to his manifesto promise.
Significance
According to the historian Kenneth O. Morgan, the Act constituted "a measure which provided a comprehensive universal basis for insurance provision that had hitherto been unknown".
See also
UK labour law
Welfare state
National Insurance Act 1911
National Insurance Act 1965 (c 51)
Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992
Timeline of pensions in the United Kingdom
References
External links
Hansard
United Kingdom Acts of Parliament 1946
Social security in the United Kingdom
National Insurance |
22551858 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIEV%2036 | SIEV 36 | SIEV 36 (Suspected Illegal Entry Vessel 36) was a vessel from Indonesia that exploded and sank off Ashmore Reef, Australia on 16 April 2009. The vessel, carrying 47 refugees and two crew, was intercepted by the Royal Australian Navy patrol boat early on 15 April. A boarding party secured the vessel, but failed to locate two canisters of petrol. Although it was intended to take the crew and passengers to Christmas Island for processing, a notice informing the crew that their vessel may be returned to Indonesia was presented, and the passengers were kept in the dark about their destination. While waiting for transportation to arrive, Albany and SIEV 36 sailed in a holding pattern, with the Indonesian boat taken in tow overnight. A second patrol boat, , arrived that evening, and was directed to provide a boarding party and take care of the vessel starting at 06:00 on 16 April.
Childers boarding party arrived aboard SIEV 36 at 06:15. Shortly after, the passengers found the notice, and, assuming that they would be sent back to Indonesia, became agitated. Salt was poured into the boat's diesel engine, stalling it, and one of the petrol canisters was spread on the deck. Reinforcements were sent from Childers to restore control, and boarded shortly before the petrol was ignited; the resulting explosion tore the boat apart. RHIBs from the two patrol boats focused on recovering the nine Australian Defence Force personnel first, then began recovering others. Five passengers were killed, and many of the survivors were heavily burned; the two patrol boats sailed to the tanker Front Puffin, from where the wounded were heli-lifted to hospitals ashore.
An investigation by the Northern Territory Police concluded in October 2009, finding that one or more of the refugees had spread and ignited the petrol, but charges could not be laid as there was no enough evidence to identify the individuals responsible. A separate investigation by the Northern Territory Coroner criticised the RAN for not finding the petrol canisters, failing to confiscate ignition sources, and the lack of information provided about the refugee's destination, although praised the actions of several Australian personnel in the aftermath of the explosion. The coroner found the crew as the cause of the sabotaged engine and the passengers as starting the fire, but was unable to identify individuals because of collusion by those involved to hide the information from the inquiry. Commendations were issued to all military personnel involved in the incident. One refugee was charged with obstructing the actions of two sailors trying to confiscate a lighter from him shortly before the explosion, and the two Indonesian crew were imprisoned for five years on people-smuggling charges.
Events
Leadup
Early on 15 April, the RAN patrol boat intercepted the diesel-powered fishing boat off Ashmore Reef. A boarding party was sent at 09:43, and boarded the vessel, designated "Suspected Illegal Entry Vessel 36" (the 36th vessel to enter Australian waters while carrying asylum seekers or other unauthorised arrivals since the 2001 Tampa Affair), without incident. The boat was carrying 46 Afghans, an Iraqi, and two Indonesian crew: all male adults. One of the passengers was able to serve as an interpreter, and spent the day helping the Australians by translating instructions and directions, and explaining the actions of the navy boarders. Although sabotage was a risk with SIEVs (in previous incidents, unauthorised arrivals had damaged their vessels or threatened to do so in an attempt to force authorities to take them to Australia), the passengers were allowed to keep cigarette lighters and matches, as removing peoples' ability to smoke would cause unnecessary agitation. The boarding party searched the vessel, but failed to identify a petrol-fuelled bilge pump and its fuel can, or a spare petrol canister in the bow hold.
The leader of the boarding party gave one of the Indonesian crew a K-6-4 notice, a mandatory notice stating the penalties for people smuggling, and which included text advising the crew to "consider immediately returning to Indonesia with your passengers". Although the passengers were to be taken to Christmas Island for processing, standard procedure was to only tell them that they would be taken to "Australian authorities". Albanys commander was advised that the amphibious warfare ship would arrive to collect those aboard SIEV 36 in about three days; anchoring the two vessels in Ashmore Lagoon or using the patrol boat to deliver them to Christmas Island were both ruled out, so a steaming party was embarked and the two vessels began sailing in a holding pattern. That evening, SIEV 36 was taken in tow by Albany, in order to provide better surveillance and support during the night. Around the same time, arrived to provide support: the two captains agreed that Childers would spend the night on anti-fishing patrols, then return around 06:00 to relieve Albany on close surveillance of SIEV 36.
The handover occurred on schedule, although officers aboard Childers were concerned that this was occurring almost two hours before sunrise. The replacement boarding party reached SIEV 36 at 06:15, and by 07:10, the towline to Albany had been dropped, and the vessel was following Childers under its own power. Although the leader of the new boarding party had been informed that there was an interpreter aboard, he did not use the man to relay directions or explain actions.
Explosion
Shortly after the Childers boarding party arrived, the interpreter found the K-6-4 notice and told the others that this meant they would be forced back to Indonesia. The situation quickly deteriorated, with passengers shouting abuse at the Indonesian crew and the Australian steaming party. The military personnel aboard began indicating that SIEV 36 would be heading to Christmas Island, not Indonesia, but a few minutes later, the boat's engine stopped.
As the engine died the head of the boarding party began to smell petrol, and at 07:29, he radioed Childers for assistance. Shortly after the engine stopped, one of the passengers took the petrol canister from the forward hold and spread its contents over the deck. Another passenger began waving a cigarette lighter around, and two Australians grabbed him. A reinforcement boarding party arrived from Childers at 07:44, bringing the number of Australian personnel aboard SIEV 36 to nine.
Rescue
Shortly after the explosion, Childers began dropping life rafts and flotation devices into the water, and lowered nets to assist anyone climbing aboard. However, most of the passengers were unable to swim the short distance to the floats or the patrol boat, and stayed on the burning wreck until one of the Australians began urging them into the water.
In the water, the RHIBs' priority were the Australian military personnel, to the point where while trying to pull a Royal Australian Air Force medic from the water, a member of the boat crew kicked at an Afghani man to stop him from preventing her rescue. By 07:58, all nine personnel had been recovered. Both Indonesian crew were rescued, along with 42 of the passengers. Three bodies were recovered, with another two never found.
At 09:58, Childers left the scene to transport the worst-burned survivors to Darwin. Shortly after, the ship was told to divert to Front Puffin, a tanker permanently moored in the Timor Sea as a gas processing platform, where helicopters would relay the wounded to hospitals ashore: cutting a 25-hour voyage down to 4 hours. The patrol boat reached Front Puffin at 14:14, with the first burn victims lifted aboard the tanker about 20 minutes later, a helicopter bearing eight doctors arriving around sunset. Albany, which had remained at the explosion site for another hour before departing, arrived later.
Aftermath
The 42 surviving passengers were all found to be legitimate asylum seekers, and granted permanent protection visas in October 2009.
On 6 May 2009, the Commander Joint Operations, Lieutenant General Mark Evans, AO, DSC, appointed Brigadier Don Higgins, AM, as an Inquiry Officer, pursuant to the provisions of the Defence (Inquiry) Regulations 1985, to inquire into the circumstances surrounding the arrival, apprehension and boarding of SIEV 36, and the response of ADF personnel to the explosion in SIEV 36 (but not the cause or circumstances of the explosion itself). Brigadier Higgins was assisted by two Assistant Inquiry Officers, Commander Bob Heffey, CSM, RAN, the then Commanding Officer, HMAS CAIRNS, who had significant patrol boat experience, and Lieutenant Commander Paul W. Kerr, RANR, a Navy legal officer with significant inquiry experience. Brigadier Higgins' Report contained nine Findings and 59 Recommendations, including recommendations for recognition of particular personnel. The Report concluded:
The rapid response by ADF personnel to the mass SOLAS situation caused by an explosion and fire onboard SIEV 36 also demonstrated compassion and concern for the sanctity of human life. That there was not a greater loss of life is a direct consequence of this skilful, determined and compassionate response b the ADF personnel at the scent, in particular the ASSAIL TWO and ARDENT FOUR crews, and their attached personnel.
Northern Territory Police investigation concluded in October 2009. They concluded that one or more of the passengers spread petrol and ignited it, causing the explosion. Charges could not be laid because there was not enough evidence to identify individuals, with the possibility that the perpetrator(s) were among those killed, or alternately, those who knew the truth were concealing it. The two Indonesian crew were sentenced to five years imprisonment on people-smuggling charges, while the passenger who fought with the Australians trying to confiscate his lighter was charged with obstructing the sailors' actions.
Most of the passengers denied or made claims of forgetfulness about what they had told the police shortly after the incident, hampering the efforts of the following inquiry. The Northern Territory Coroner concluded that the Australian personnel failed in their duties on several counts, by not finding and securing the petrol canisters, not confiscating ignition sources, and not informing the passengers of their intended destination. He believed that the K-6-4 notice was inflammatory, and its presentation was inappropriate in the situation (despite it being mandated for all SIEVs). The inquiry found that those aboard the SIEV had planned to incapacitate the boat: the crew by pouring salt into the diesel engine, and the passengers by spreading and igniting petrol, but the coroner was unable to identify individuals responsible for the petrol ignition because the passengers "colluded with each other and decided as a group to lie to this Inquest". The coroner recommended that three of the Australian personnel be recognised for their actions during the explosion's aftermath and the voyage to Front Puffin; the Australian Defence Force took it a step further, with six personnel awarded individual commendations, and both ships' companies receiving group commendations.
Citations
REPORT. ADF ...at the scene ...
References
External links
SIEV 36, Australian Department of Defence website detailing the incident and its aftermath
Political controversies in Australia
International maritime incidents
Shipwrecks in the Indian Ocean
Maritime incidents in 2009
Maritime incidents involving migrants
Suspected Illegal Entry Vessels |
20302863 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freethinking%20Atheist%20and%20Agnostic%20Kinship | Freethinking Atheist and Agnostic Kinship | The Freethinking Atheist and Agnostic Kinship or FAAK is a Capistrano Valley High School club. The club, created in 2007, has stirred controversy within the Orange County, California community.
Purpose
Surveys show that atheists, agnostics and freethinkers are the least trusted group of people. The primary purpose of Freethinking Atheist and Agnostic Kinship is to improve this image through activism and community service.
Media attention
The Freethinking Atheist and Agnostic Kinship has been featured in the Orange County Weekly, Orange County Register and national TV's The O'Reilly Factor. In addition, the club has organized several rallies each drawing over 200 picketers. These rallies have landed on the front pages of Orange County Register and Los Angeles Times.
Accomplishments
FAAK has brought a local college professor to Capistrano Valley High School.
FAAK was named Club of the Year in 2007-2008 for its activism and excellence in community service.
Notes and references
Agnosticism
Atheist organizations |
18210766 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saunalahti%2C%20Espoo | Saunalahti, Espoo | Saunalahti (Finnish) or Bastvik (Swedish) is one of the newest apartment building districts in Espoo, Finland, located by the Kummelivuori hill between Kivenlahti and Kurttila, west of the Kauklahdenväylä road, on the coast of the Espoonlahti bay. The bay at Saunalahti is named Bastvikfjärden. The area also contains original detached house residence from old Saunalahti and agriculture. Saunalahti is separated from Kivenlahti by the Länsiväylä highway, continuing to Kirkkonummi as Jorvaksentie.
The Bastvik manor, dating back to the 19th century, has long since fallen into disrepair. In 2005, the city has started renovating it, and it is planned to host the office of the renovation project architects (Arkkitehtitoimisto Okulus Oy), a café, and a home. The Bastvik projekt includes research of old construction and manufacturing techniques. At some point, Bastvik was planned as a remote facility of the apartment fair held in Kauklahti in summer 2006. However, the plan was abandoned.
The Bastvik manor had a significant sawmill in the 19th century, and because of this, Sågholmen (formerly an island, currently the Sahaniemi peninsula) has been a stopping place for large ships. In the late 1910s, the manor building suffered from lack of management, but in 1923 the farm was bought by Claes Nordstedt, the founder of the Kauklahti glass works, who renovated the building. When the Kauklahti glass works went into bankruptcy, Nordstedt sold the farm to banker Antti Hiltunen and his family in 1928. Hiltunen had the manor building renovated again, this time also architecturally. By the plans of architect Väinö Toivio, the building got a neo-classical, villa-style look. The current 2000s renovation project of the manor building aims to preserve this 1920s spirit.
The Espoo rantaraitti route is planned to extend all the way to Saunalahti. At this moment, the coast of Saunalahti is, except for a few small exceptions, not accessible to the public.
Construction
The houses in Saunalahti are built to preserve the original nature as much as possible. The houses are built at different heights, so that most have a view to the Gulf of Finland. All houses fit in with each other despite not looking exactly alike.
Saunalahti will be the home of 5000 new inhabitants. The first of these moved into the area in autumn 2003. The new district will mostly be finished in 2010.
Services
Saunalahti School was opened in 2012. It began in 2008, when 13 architects at Verstas started designing the school. Construction commenced in 2010 and was completed in 2012. The building also houses the Saunalahti library.
Traffic connections
Regional traffic
The regional bus line 150A goes to Kamppi in Helsinki. The ending stop of line 150A is in Tillinmäki and it goes through Saunalahti.
The regional bus line 150K goes to Kamppi in Helsinki. The ending stop of line 150K is in Saunalahti.
The regional bus line 165/165N goes through Saunalahti along the Vanha Saunalahdentie road to Kamppi in Helsinki. The ending stop of line 165/165N is in Kauklahti.
Espoo internal traffic
The line 65K goes from Espoonkartano via Kauklahti and Saunalahti to Espoonlahti. 65 also goes through the Kauklahti industrial area.
Exchange points
The nearest exchange point to Espoo internal lines is in Kivenlahti.
The exchange point to train traffic is in Kauklahti.
Stores
The Lippulaiva shopping centre is only a short bicycle distance away.
There are services in nearby Kivenlahti: Alepa, K-market, pharmacy, library, Valintatalo.
The centre of Kauklahti is a short distance away by car.
Beaches
Saunalahti does not currently have its own beach. The nearest beach is in Kivenlahti, a short walking or bicycle distance away.
External links
A map of Saunalahti at Google Maps
The names of places in Saunalahti describe its colourful history, city of Espoo
Pictures of Saunalahti
Districts of Espoo |
1937560 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad%20Rutter | Brad Rutter | Bradford Gates Rutter (born January 31, 1978) is an American game show contestant, TV host, producer, and actor. With over $5.1 million in winnings, he is currently the second-highest-earning American game show contestant of all time, behind Ken Jennings, and still the highest-earning contestant (primarily from special tournament events) on the U.S. syndicated game show Jeopardy! (with over $5 million).
Until the Greatest of All Time Tournament in 2020, Rutter had never lost a Jeopardy! match against a human opponent (though he twice trailed at the end of the first game of a two-day tournament match before coming back to win). This streak consisted of his original 5-day run in 2000 (after which he retired undefeated) as well as 17 matches in five tournaments (including one as part of a team)—all of which he won. Rutter finished third in the match—both his first defeat overall and the first time he finished behind a human opponent.
Early life
Rutter is a 1995 graduate of Manheim Township High School in Neffsville, Pennsylvania, where he was on the quiz bowl team. The team won second place at the 1994 Texaco Star National Academic Championship. He is one of the 19 people to have been named to the National Academic Championship Hall of Fame in its 25-year history. At the 2005 Manheim Township High School graduation ceremony, he announced the start of a scholarship fund in memory of his late high-school quiz bowl coach, Anne Clouser.
Rutter described himself as a slacker in school and a Johns Hopkins dropout (while there, he studied English). Before his success on Jeopardy!, he worked at the Lancaster Coconuts record store.
Jeopardy! winnings
Rutter first appeared on Jeopardy! on October 30, 2000, when the rules stipulated that a contestant who won five consecutive days retired undefeated and was guaranteed a spot in the Tournament of Champions. Rutter retired as an undefeated five-day champion, with $55,102 in winnings. He was also awarded a choice of Chevrolet cars; he picked two Chevrolet Camaros. At the time, Jeopardy! awarded new cars to five-day undefeated champions. The rules were changed in 2003, before Ken Jennings' run of 74 consecutive days in 2004, which made Jennings the largest overall Jeopardy! money winner.
As a five-day champion, Rutter was invited to the 2001 Tournament of Champions, where he defeated other five-day champions and won the $100,000 main prize. He was invited back for the 2002 Million Dollar Masters Tournament, where he won the $1,000,000 main prize and became the largest overall money winner in Jeopardy! history.
Rutter returned for the 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions, winning the tournament and $2,115,000. After his 2005 tournament win, in which he defeated Jennings and Jerome Vered in the finals, Rutter surpassed Jennings as the highest money-winner ever on American game shows. Jennings later regained his record by 2008 after appearing on various other game shows. There is a minor discrepancy between sources as to Rutter's total Jeopardy! winnings stemming from the prize structure of the Ultimate Tournament of Champions. Players who won in the first round earned $15,000, but Rutter was among nine top winners who received a first round bye. While some analysts suggest that Rutter's money totals should include $15,000 for a first round 'win' in this tournament, the official Jeopardy.com website does not count it (when stating that Rutter's winnings were $3,255,102 after the completion of this tournament).
From February 14–16, 2011, the Jeopardy! IBM Challenge featured IBM's Watson facing off against Rutter and Jennings in a two-game, cumulative-total match aired over three days. It was the first ever man-versus-machine competition in Jeopardy!'s history. The computer program, equipped with a precisely timed mechanical "thumb", won handily, finishing with a $77,147 score, while Jennings took second place with a score of $24,000 over Rutter's $21,600 score. IBM donated its $1 million purse to two charities. Jennings and Rutter did likewise with half of their respective winnings of $300,000 and $200,000. Rutter donated $100,000 to the Lancaster County Community Foundation. Because this man-versus-machine matchup was an exhibition, Rutter's winnings and loss did not count towards official records.
Rutter participated in the Jeopardy! 2014 Battle of the Decades, pitting top champions from throughout the previous 30 years of Jeopardy!. He appeared in the 1990s week of the tournament. He won the March 7, 2014, game against Mike Dupee and Jill Bunzendahl Chimka. He then appeared in the quarterfinals of the tournament on May 7, 2014, against Dan Pawson and Mark M. Lowenthal and won the game in a lock. On May 13, 2014, he defeated Leszek Pawlowicz and Tom Cubbage in the semifinals. On May 16, 2014, he won the tournament and $1,000,000, defeating Ken Jennings and Roger Craig in the finale after the former missed the Final Jeopardy! clue. With this win, Rutter regained the record as the highest money-winner on American game shows, which Jennings had held since 2008.
In 2019, Rutter teamed with fellow Jeopardy! champions Larissa Kelly and Dave Madden to win the Jeopardy! All-Star Games. Rutter was team captain and they split the top prize of $1,000,000.
Rutter competed in the Jeopardy! The Greatest of All Time event in January 2020 against Jennings and James Holzhauer, and ended up winning $250,000 with a third-place finish.
Other game show appearances
He appeared on the U.S. game show 1 vs. 100 (as a member of "the Mob") on December 1, 2006, and again on December 8, 2006. He answered every question correctly and was one of only seven mob members to survive to the next show, as was Annie Duke. He would be eliminated on the December 15 episode on a question about Jewish reggae musician Matisyahu. He appeared again on February 9, 2007, and was eliminated late in a winner-takes-$250,000 "last man standing" competition, but before Ken Jennings was. Rutter was the top seed in Grand Slam, but lost in the second round to Ogi Ogas, a former Who Wants to Be a Millionaire contestant.
Rutter competed in the 2010 World Quizzing Championship, where he finished 140th. He was also a contestant on the 6th episode of Million Dollar Mind Game (aired on November 27, 2011), where his team won $600,000. In May 2012, he did a pilot episode as a "Chaser" for an American version of the British game show The Chase. Fox network ordered two pilots for consideration in its lineup. The Chaser in the other pilot was Mark Labbett, one of the five Chasers on both the British and Australian versions of the show. Despite the show not being picked up by Fox, it was later aired by GSN, with Labbett (the Beast) as the only Chaser. Rutter was one of three chasers hired in 2020 for the ABC revival of The Chase, along with Jennings and Holzhauer.
In May 2020, Rutter appeared on a revival of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire as an in-person lifeline for celebrity contestant Catherine O'Hara. On the show, celebrities playing for charity were allowed to have an expert assist them in answering the first 10 questions—Rutter served as O'Hara's expert and helped her answer each of the 10 questions correctly. After this point, O'Hara made the decision to trade her 50:50 lifeline for the opportunity to consult Rutter once more on any of the remaining questions. She took this opportunity on the $125,000 question, which he once again helped her answer correctly. O'Hara's final total on the show was $250,000, as she chose to walk away from the $500,000 question. He was one of two Jeopardy! contestants to appear on the show as a lifeline, the other being Buzzy Cohen, who was a lifeline for Hannibal Burress.
Personal life
Until 2009, Rutter lived in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where he hosted InQuizitive, a local broadcast quiz show for high school students. He has also been a reader and judge for the high school National Academic Championship. He now lives in Los Angeles where he is pursuing acting.
Rutter is a lifelong fan of the Philadelphia Eagles. He gave the Eagles a shout-out during the Final Jeopardy! round of the third Jeopardy! Greatest of All Time Tournament game in 2020, where he wagered 4,133 points (a reference to the final score of Super Bowl LII, where the Eagles won their first Super Bowl in franchise history by defeating the New England Patriots 41–33) on a question about 21st century Oscar winners.
See also
American game show winnings records
List of notable Jeopardy! contestants
Strategies and skills of Jeopardy! champions
References
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1978 births
Living people
American people of German descent
American game show hosts
Jeopardy! contestants
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The Sanctuary has preserved 75 acres on Lake Talaquega. The property contains a colonial house dating from 1759, which now serves as a nature center containing "[n]ative turtle species, invertebrates, and other exhibits." The land was formerly home to a casino and hotel. The Sanctuary has "wooded trails and boardwalk winding through a red maple swamp, upland forest, and freshwater marsh, and around the lake’s perimeter."
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39840080 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OK%20Theatre | OK Theatre | The OK Theatre, at 208 W. Main Street in Enterprise, Oregon, is a historic building that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.
It was built in 1918 and featured—new for its area and time—a sloped seating section so that theatre-goers would have unobstructed views.
It was renamed to the Vista Theater in about 1933. It was bought in 2001 by new owners who restored its original name, and who operated it until 2008. After 90 years of operation the OK Theatre was closed in 2008, leaving Wallowa County, Oregon without a single open theatre. The building was offered for sale, together with two businesses and apartment rentals, for $240,000 Part-time locals Bill and Melisa Bush, along with their son Gabriel bought The OK in 2009. During their four years with this institution, they brought back up to date movies, foreign and art movie nights, special needs movie screenings, theatre productions, charity events, high school events and much more. The Ruby Peak 48 Hour Film Festival was established during this time. The building was also placed on the Historic Register.
In 2013, the Bushes returned to international teaching and sold the theatre.
The theatre was purchased in the fall of 2013 and has returned to its roots as primarily a music and theater hall. The theatre has hosted such acts from blues to bluegrass, indie to experimental with bands such as The Infamous String Dusters, Rick Estrin and the Nightcats, and Mount Eerie as well various children's theater production and community events.
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Theatres completed in 1918
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