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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Minaa%20Olympic%20Stadium
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Al-Minaa Olympic Stadium
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Al-Minaa Olympic Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Basra, Iraq which is used mostly for football matches and hosts the home matches of Al-Minaa SC, having replaced the club's old venue Al-Minaa Stadium. The stadium has a capacity of 30,000 spectators and was opened on 26 December 2022.
See also
List of football stadiums in Iraq
References
Football venues in Iraq
Sports venues completed in 2022
Buildings and structures in Basra
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clates%20Creek
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Clates Creek
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Clates Creek is a stream in Franklin County in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is a tributary of the Bourbeuse River.
The stream headwaters arise at and it flows to the south-southwest to its confluence with the Bourbeuse is at .
Clates Creek has the name of a pioneer citizen.
See also
List of rivers of Missouri
References
Rivers of Franklin County, Missouri
Rivers of Missouri
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jardin%C3%B3polis%2C%20S%C3%A3o%20Paulo
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Jardinópolis, São Paulo
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Jardinópolis is a municipality in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, in the outskirts of Ribeirão Preto. The population is 45,282 (2022 est.) in an area of 502 km2. It is 590 m above the sea level. Jardinópolis is known as an important distribution center of mango in Brazil. The town hosts the "Festa do Senhor Bom Jesus da Lapa" (The Kind Hearted Jesus of Lapa's celebration) religious event, which takes place every year between July 28 and August 6.
See also
Antônio da Silva Jardim
References
Municipalities in São Paulo (state)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon%20Volunteers
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Oregon Volunteers
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Oregon Volunteers may refer to:
1st Oregon Volunteer Cavalry Regiment, who served in the U.S. Civil War, 1862–1866
1st Oregon Volunteer Infantry Regiment, who served in the U.S. Civil War, 1864–1867
2nd Oregon Volunteer Infantry Regiment, who served in the Spanish–American War and Philippine–American War, 1898–1899
Oregon Mounted Volunteers, who served in the Rogue River Wars and other conflicts with Native Americans in the American West, active in the 1850s
Oregon Rangers, a short-lived militia, active 1844–1846
Oregon Rifles, a short-lived militia, formed in 1847
Regiment of Mounted Riflemen, later known as the 3rd Cavalry Regiment (United States), incorrectly (as they were regular army), when they marched to the Oregon Territory in 1849
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Camden Yards Sports Complex
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The Camden Yards Sports Complex is located in the center of Baltimore, Maryland. The complex is composed of multiple buildings and stadiums including Oriole Park at Camden Yards and M&T Bank Stadium. The two stadiums are home to the Baltimore Orioles of Major League Baseball and the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League. The Babe Ruth Birthplace and Museum is located approximately two blocks from the main entrance of Camden Yards at Eutaw Street. The complex also features the original Camden Station which formerly housed the Sports Legends Museum at Camden Yards and Geppi's Entertainment Museum. In addition to the sports facilities, it is also a location for community events such as the Dew Tour's Panasonic Open in June 2007 and 2008, the Baltimore Marathon, and the African American Festival which is held every year.
M&T Bank Stadium
M&T Bank Stadium is home to the Baltimore Ravens football franchise located at 1101 Russell Street. The Ravens franchise returned the NFL to Baltimore in 1996 when the Cleveland Browns announced their intention to move. The stadium was completed in 1998 at an estimated cost of $220 million. The stadium itself is 185 ft. high. It hosts numerous concerts and sporting events like the NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championship (2003, 2004, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2014), a Tottenham vs. Liverpool friendly (2012), the CONCACAF Gold Cup Quarterfinals (2013, 2015), U2 (2011), Jay-Z (2013, 2014), and Billy Joel (2015). The stadium is also LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Certified, being the first existing outdoor professional sports facility in the United States to do so. The stadium offers scenic views of the Baltimore city skyline. There are 71,008 available seats, much more than its sister ballpark, Oriole Park. There are also 8,196 club seats located in 128 different suites. Each suite holds between 20 and 24 people and offers VIP parking, access to club lounges, fully staffed bars, concierge services, private restrooms, personal wait staff, and scenic views of downtown Baltimore.
Babe Ruth Birthplace and Museum
Babe Ruth was born in 1895 to parents George Sr. and Catherine in a house near the site of Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore. His childhood home is located in the old Ridgley's Delight neighborhood close to the Inner Harbor. In the late 1960’s, a local group of Babe Ruth fans and Baltimore historians took action to have the city support a museum in Babe's honor, after almost being demolished. A non-profit museum opened to the public in 1974 and is governed by the Babe Ruth Birthplace Foundation, Inc.
The museum houses a collection of artifacts from Ruth's life, including some rare baseball cards and the earliest known signature of Ruth, from when he was still pitching in the schoolyard. The original museum underwent renovations to increase space, improve accessibility, and enhance the overall facility in 2015.
Camden Station
The original Camden Station was a stop on the B&O Railroad. Constructed between 1856 and 1857, this railroad stop served both passenger and freight trains. President Abraham Lincoln traveled through Camden Station on his way to his inauguration. His body traveled through the station when his funeral train made its first stop in Baltimore.
Since being closed in the 1980s, the Sports Legend Museum occupied the space starting in 2005, with the hopes of maintaining and commemorating the historic significance of Maryland's past and present sports teams. It was privately owned by The Babe Ruth Birthplace Foundation until its closure on October 12, 2015. The Sports Legends Museum is seeking a new location (in Baltimore) in order to preserve the history and legacy of Babe Ruth, the Baltimore's Orioles, Ravens, and Colts, as well as local and regional sports at the amateur, collegiate and professional levels. The museum's collection can be priced at over $3.2 million in sport memorabilia. The recent tenant in Camden Station is Geppi's Entertainment Museum, which closed on June 3, 2018. The Camden Station is currently left vacant.
Events
Dew Tour
The Dew Tour has two separate events: summer and winter. The Dew Tour gives street skiers, skaters, snowboarders, etc., the chance to participate with mainstream contenders. This is a chance that street contenders have not had before, and it gives skiers a chance to participate in the Winter Olympics. The Panasonic Dew Tour held in 2007 offered a total of $2.5 million in prizes.
Baltimore Marathon
The Camden Yards Sports Complex is home of the Baltimore Marathon, which is arguably "one of the best races on the east coast." In 2016, the event started on October 15 and featured a variety of different races. The Baltimore Marathon includes the full marathon, half marathon, team relay, 5K, kid's fun run, and the BaltiMORON-a-Thon. People of all ages can participate in specific events (according to age) and prices range from $15 to $280. The race began in 2001, and still follows the same course as the original race. It begins at Oriole Park at Camden Yards then winds its way through the streets of Baltimore passing by the Inner Harbor, Fells Point, Patterson Park, and many other sites in the city, ending in the same spot it began. The race is a total of 26.219 miles long. At the finish line in 2012, both the male and female winners received a prize of $25,000. The race has greatly evolved from the first Maryland Marathon in 1973.
African American Festival
The Camden Yards Sports Complex is also home to the African American Festival (or Afram). The African American Festival is a social gathering of the people of Baltimore where they come to celebrate African American music and culture. The festival is filled with various artists including poets, singers, rappers, entrepreneurs and other performers. The African American Festival has been taking place since 1976 and has featured appearances from people such as Ray Lewis, Vivica A. Fox, Elise Neal, Traci Braxton, the rapper Common, and much more. There is fun and games for children to participate in and everyone enjoys the family-oriented vibe. It is one of the largest cultural events on the east coast and welcomes more than 350,000 people annually every summer. There is usually more than 150 vendors and two stages for entertainment. The African American Festival is a huge attraction each year.
References
Sports venues in Baltimore
Sports complexes in the United States
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Mayschoß
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Mayschoß is a municipality in the district of Ahrweiler, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
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Ahrweiler (district)
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1833 Fractions Lottery
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The 1833 Fractions Lottery was the eight and final lottery of the Georgia Land Lotteries, a lottery system used by the U.S. state of Georgia between the years 1805 and 1833 to redistribute stolen Cherokee and Muscogee land to white settlers. The 1833 fractions lottery was authorized by the Georgia General Assembly by an act of December 24, 1832. The lottery redistributed land from the original Cherokee territory and twenty-two lots that were not placed into prize wheels during previous lotteries.
The lots varied in size, but the fractional lots left over from the 1832 Land Lottery were smaller than 100 acres and were taken from the 60 land districts and 33 gold districts in Georgia. The fractional lots resulted from irregular boundaries that had prevented measurements of square lots of land. Drawings for the lottery occurred on December 6 and 7 of 1833 for the land lots and on December 9-13 of that year for the gold lots.
See also
Cherokee removal
Georgia Land Lotteries
1805 Land Lottery
1807 Land Lottery
1820 Land Lottery
1821 Land Lottery
1827 Land Lottery
1832 Land Lottery
Gold Lottery of 1832
Georgia resolutions 1827
Indian removal
References
External links
Georgia Land Lottery Records Research Guide, Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness
1833 in Georgia (U.S. state)
Georgia Land Lotteries
Government of Georgia (U.S. state)
History of Georgia (U.S. state)
Lotteries in the United States
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Berringer Lake
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Berringer Lake is a locality in New South Wales, Australia in the City of Shoalhaven.
References
Towns in New South Wales
City of Shoalhaven
Towns in the South Coast (New South Wales)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugen%20Jakob%C4%8Di%C4%8D
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Eugen Jakobčič
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Eugen Jakobčič (23 March 1898 – 30 June 1980) was a Yugoslav fencer. He competed in the team sabre event at the 1936 Summer Olympics.
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External links
1898 births
1980 deaths
Yugoslav male sabre fencers
Olympic fencers for Yugoslavia
Fencers at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Subotica
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Motorola Homesight
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Motorola Homesight is a brand name for a range of home security and automation products marketed in the U.S. and UK, which include separate items and a product package. The latter is marketed and sold as a kit and the product range offers flexibility in choice of accessories with which the customer can expand the kit into a more complex system.
Description
As per Motorola's marketing material, the system uses a broadband Internet connection in order for the customer to stay connected to their home and its other residents through the kit owner's computer or compatible mobile phone. Sensor-detected activities
are alerted and/or notified of to the customer and up to seven other customer-designated persons by the system.
Technical disadvantages
Although the XG1000 gateway does NOT require a host PC (the system needs a PC only to be configured, not for normal steady state operations), the less expensive USB gateway system requires that its user's computer be turned on all the time, but such an always-on requirement is a disfavour in places with otherwise old electrical equipment and wiring (may be cause for fires in case of failing cables or connections) or unstable power delivery. The latter may be mitigated by the use of a UPS for the computer and some combination of backup power sources, such as diesel generator, solar panels, a wind turbine or other off-the-grid energy sources. Installation and maintenance costs may vary.
OS compatibility
The Homesight Wireless Easy Start Kit (HMEZ2000 and similar) software does not run on any variety of Macintosh or Linux/UNIX OS. Feedback received from both Motorola and the UK distributor (myhome247) is that there are no plans to provide a driver for Macintosh or Linux/UNIX OS's. The latest version of the Homesight software does run on Windows Vista and is available from www.myhome247.co.uk. The XG1000 base unit is completely stand-alone (does not require a USB internet connected host) and does not require an always-on computer but is $200 vs $100. There is currently no supported functionality for Windows 7 or Windows 8.
Homesight Remote
Homesight Remote is a FOSS-licensed web interface to Homesight and is hosted at SourceForge. Information about its licensing is conflicting, as the home page for the project links to LGPL, while the project page shows GPL as its license.
The Homesight Remote interface only runs on Windows XP.
Competing systems
AT&T Remote Monitor — Similar packaging and marketing as Motorola Homesight (through Xanboo), but controller and camera (Panasonic BL-C10) are different. The controller and camera can connect directly to a home network router (which in most cases can then be accessed through the Internet) without requiring a PC, though the list of remote automation devices seems smaller (shutoff key, alarm horn, etc. do not appear to be offered with this system).
Home Heartbeat
INSTEON and
Smarthome of SmartLabs Inc.
Z-Wave
See also
Home automation
Intelligent home
List of Motorola products
References
External links
VNUNet: Monitoring your home for intruders is made easy, accessed on July 18, 2006
Xanboo, Inc. is the source company associated with both the Motorola Homesight and AT&T Remote Monitor systems
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Kruglitsy
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Kruglitsy () is a rural locality (a village) in Nikiforovskoye Rural Settlement, Ustyuzhensky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 30 as of 2002.
Geography
Kruglitsy is located south of Ustyuzhna (the district's administrative centre) by road. Ramenye is the nearest rural locality.
References
Rural localities in Ustyuzhensky District
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Mapping L.A. is a project of the Los Angeles Times, beginning in 2009, to draw boundary lines for 158 cities and unincorporated places within Los Angeles County, California. It identified 114 neighborhoods within the City of Los Angeles and 42 unincorporated areas where the statistics were merged with those of adjacent cities.
History
The project began in February 2009 with the posting online of the first version of boundary lines for 87 Los Angeles neighborhoods. The map was then "redrawn with the help of readers who agreed or disagreed with our initial boundaries." The Times said: "After reviewing this collective knowledge, Times staffers adjusted more than 100 boundaries, eliminated some names and added others."
Sources
The Times''' database editor and the map project's coordinator, Doug Smith, along with researcher Maloy Moore, standardized the neighborhood boundaries "based on historical and anecdotal definitions, civic proclamations and reader commentary." "Thousands of city blocks" were converted "into a complete picture of Los Angeles neighborhoods, with no ambiguities, overlaps or missing pieces."
Scope
The Times said that the Mapping L.A. project became the newspaper's "resource for neighborhood boundaries, demographics, crime and schools." The results as posted are searchable by address and ZIP code or by individual neighborhood. It noted that:
The maps cover the of Los Angeles County — by far the most populous county in the nation — from the high desert to the coast. In 2009, there were an estimated 9.8 million residents, up from 9.5 million counted in the 2000 U.S. census, the basis for The Times' demographic analysis for each neighborhood and region. Unlike most other attempts at mapping L.A., this one follows a set of principles intended to make it visually and statistically coherent. It gathers every block of the city into reasonably compact areas leaving no enclaves, gaps, overhangs or ambiguities.
Methodology
The project crafted their neighborhood boundaries by merging together neighboring census tracts. However, census tract boundaries are not always consistent with traditional neighborhood boundaries. As the Times states:
Census tracts are drawn by the U.S. Census Bureau and used for tabulating demographic information, including income and ethnicity. The shapes of the tracts are frequently out of sync with the geographical, historic and socioeconomic associations that define communities. However, by using the tracts as building blocks, The Times was able to compile a statistical profile of communities, something other neighborhood boundaries do not offer.
The Times further stated that after merging tracts, they then adjusted the boundary lines by moving individual city blocks from one census tract to another. That allowed them to adjust the census data in proportion to the relocated block's population. A first draft of 87 neighborhoods was released in February 2009. As the Times received input from their readers, they shifted where the neighborhood boundaries should be nearly 100 times. A final map of 114 neighborhoods was released in June 2009.
Objections
Not everyone agreed with the neighborhood boundaries the Times ultimately settled on. Elizabeth Fuller wrote in The Larchmont Buzz that "Many people who live in and represent their neighborhoods in various ways have objected to the Times’ designations for not following city-recognized borders, and for lumping many smaller neighborhoods into larger, more indistinct areas such as “Mid-Wilshire.”
In 2017, cartographer Eric Brightwell of Pendersleigh and Sons, created a map that identified 472 neighborhoods (in comparison to Mapping LA's 114 neighborhoods).
Comparing Brightwell's map with the Mapping LA Project, Jenna Chandler, the editor of Curbed Los Angeles, wrote that Brightwell's map of 472 neighborhoods "looks more accurate than the neighborhood maps compiled by the Los Angeles Times." Additionally, Elizabeth Fuller of The Larchmont Buzz said that Brightwell's map was a much more fine-grained view of “every L.A. neighborhood.” LAist reporter Tim Loc said that while Mapping L.A. provided "plenty of insightful information about individual neighborhoods...Brightwell takes it to the next level when it comes to breaking down the territories." Of Brightwell's map, Loc noted that Downtown L.A. is parsed out as the Historic Core, Bunker Hill, Skid Row, and Gallery Row among others. Brightwell notes that in the Mapping L.A. Project, Downtown L.A. is just "downtown L.A. and Chinatown; there's no Jewelry District or any of the others."
See also
List of districts and neighborhoods of Los Angeles
References
Other reading
Nita Lelyveld, "His L.A. Map Quest: A small-town boy smitten with the city's vastness hand-draws quirky depictions of its neighborhoods," Los Angeles Times,'' June 14, 2012, image 17. Article with some of Eric Brightwell's maps.
External links
Mapping L.A. project at the Los Angeles Times
Geography of Los Angeles County, California
Los Angeles Times
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Kairiru language
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Kairiru is one of three Kairiru languages spoken mainly on Kairiru and Mushu islands and in several coastal villages on the mainland between Cape Karawop and Cape Samein near Wewak in East Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea.
Morphology
Pronouns and person markers
One remarkable feature of the pronoun system of Kairiru is that it appears to have lost the distinction between first-person inclusive and exclusive pronouns throughout its affix paradigms, but then recreated inclusive forms in its independent pronouns by combining first-person and second-person forms along the lines of Tok Pisin (< + ). The inclusive-exclusive distinction is almost universal among Austronesian languages but generally lacking in Papuan languages.
Free pronouns
Genitive pronouns
Possessive suffixes on inalienable nouns
Subject prefixes on verbs
Object suffixes on verbs
References
Wivell, Richard (1981). Kairiru grammar. M.A. thesis, University of Auckland.
External links
Kairiru Grammar
Languages of Papua New Guinea
Schouten languages
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Armenian monastery of Suceava
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The Armenian monastery of Suceava, also known as "Zamca", is a monastery of the Armenian Apostolic Church, dating from the 15th century, in the town of Suceava in northern Romania's Bukovina district.
The monastery was completed in the early 15th century, during the reign of Moldavian Hospodar Alexandru I Mușat). It was constructed as the bishop's seat for the local Armenian church in 1401 which was founded by Alexandru I. Saint Auxentius Church was designed to be the center of the complex. The church was renovated or rebuilt in 1606, when a number of other structures were added, among them the belltower, the gate, and a residential structure with a chapel to Gregory the Illuminator, all of which survive to this day. The church's interior was decorated with murals in the 18th century.
When James Louis Sobieski attempted to ascend to the Moldavian throne, the monastery was his base of operations. In 1690 it became the headquarters of the Polish Army for all of their operations in Moldavia related to Poland's participation in the War of the Holy League against the Ottoman Empire. Staying at the monastery for several years, the Poles built an extensive network of bastion fortifications which are well preserved to this day. The monastery's popular name, "Zamca", likely comes from this period; it is derived from , the Polish word for castle.
Bibliography
W. Korsak, J. Tokarski, Rumunia, Pascal 2004, s. 205-206.
Ł. Galusek, M. Jurecki, A. Dumitru, Rumunia. Mozaika w żywych kolorach, Bezdroża 2004, s. 155-156.
M. Jurecki, Bukowina. Kraina łagodności, Bezdroża 2001, s. 192-193.
R. Brykowski, T. Chrzanowski, M. Kornecki, Sztuka Rumunii, Ossolineum 1979, s. 89, 92-93.
J. Demel, Historia Rumunii, Ossolineum 1970, s. 205.
External links
Historic sites of Romanian Bucovina (in Polish).
Suceava
Buildings and structures in Suceava
Christian monasteries established in the 16th century
Historic monuments in Suceava County
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Croatian Workers Party
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The Croatian Workers Party () was a minor Croatian party without political representation. The Party had about 400 members. It was founded in 1999 in Samobor.
On 2007 parliamentary elections it was a part of the coalition led by Social Democratic Action of Croatia.
In the 2014 European Parliament election, the party received 0.35% of the vote.
Electoral history
Legislative
European Parliament
References
1999 establishments in Croatia
Labour parties
Political parties established in 1999
Political parties in Croatia
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The Racing Strain is a 1932 American film directed by Jerome Storm.
Plot summary
A race-car driver whose career is on the skids because of his drinking falls for a rich society girl. That motivates him to clean up his act and resume his career, but it may be too late for that.
Cast
Wallace Reid Jr. as Bill Westcott aka The Big Shot
Dickie Moore as Bill Westcott as a Little Boy
Phyllis Barrington as Marian Martin
Paul Fix as King Kelly
J. Farrell MacDonald as Mr. Martin
Eddie Phillips as "Speed" Hall
Ethel Wales as Aunt Judy
Otto Yamaoka as Togo
Mae Busch as Tia Juana Lil
J. Frank Glendon
Lorin Raker as Jack Westcott
Donald Reed
James P. Burtis
Kit Guard as King's Mechanic
Preservation status
This film is in the public domain, and is available for free download at the Internet Archive.
See also
List of films in the public domain in the United States
External links
1932 films
1932 drama films
American auto racing films
American black-and-white films
American drama films
Films directed by Jerome Storm
1930s English-language films
1930s American films
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A palindromic number (also known as a numeral palindrome or a numeric palindrome) is a number (such as 16461) that remains the same when its digits are reversed. In other words, it has reflectional symmetry across a vertical axis. The term palindromic is derived from palindrome, which refers to a word (such as rotor or racecar) whose spelling is unchanged when its letters are reversed. The first 30 palindromic numbers (in decimal) are:
0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 22, 33, 44, 55, 66, 77, 88, 99, 101, 111, 121, 131, 141, 151, 161, 171, 181, 191, 202, … .
Palindromic numbers receive most attention in the realm of recreational mathematics. A typical problem asks for numbers that possess a certain property and are palindromic. For instance:
The palindromic primes are 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 101, 131, 151, ... .
The palindromic square numbers are 0, 1, 4, 9, 121, 484, 676, 10201, 12321, ... .
It is obvious that in any base there are infinitely many palindromic numbers, since in any base the infinite sequence of numbers written (in that base) as 101, 1001, 10001, 100001, etc. consists solely of palindromic numbers.
Formal definition
Although palindromic numbers are most often considered in the decimal system, the concept of palindromicity can be applied to the natural numbers in any numeral system. Consider a number n > 0 in base b ≥ 2, where it is written in standard notation with k+1 digits ai as:
with, as usual, 0 ≤ ai < b for all i and ak ≠ 0. Then n is palindromic if and only if ai = ak−i for all i. Zero is written 0 in any base and is also palindromic by definition.
Decimal palindromic numbers
All numbers in base 10 (and indeed in any base) with one digit are palindromic, so there are ten decimal palindromic numbers with one digit:
{0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9}.
There are 9 palindromic numbers with two digits:
{11, 22, 33, 44, 55, 66, 77, 88, 99}.
All palindromic numbers with an even number of digits are divisible by 11.
There are 90 palindromic numbers with three digits (Using the rule of product: 9 choices for the first digit - which determines the third digit as well - multiplied by 10 choices for the second digit):
{101, 111, 121, 131, 141, 151, 161, 171, 181, 191, …, 909, 919, 929, 939, 949, 959, 969, 979, 989, 999}
There are likewise 90 palindromic numbers with four digits (again, 9 choices for the first digit multiplied by ten choices for the second digit. The other two digits are determined by the choice of the first two):
{1001, 1111, 1221, 1331, 1441, 1551, 1661, 1771, 1881, 1991, …, 9009, 9119, 9229, 9339, 9449, 9559, 9669, 9779, 9889, 9999},
so there are 199 palindromic numbers below 104.
Below 105 there are 1099 palindromic numbers and for other exponents of 10n we have: 1999, 10999, 19999, 109999, 199999, 1099999, ... . The number of palindromic numbers which have some other property are listed below:
Perfect powers
There are many palindromic perfect powers nk, where n is a natural number and k is 2, 3 or 4.
Palindromic squares: 0, 1, 4, 9, 121, 484, 676, 10201, 12321, 14641, 40804, 44944, ...
Palindromic cubes: 0, 1, 8, 343, 1331, 1030301, 1367631, 1003003001, ...
Palindromic fourth powers: 0, 1, 14641, 104060401, 1004006004001, ...
The first nine terms of the sequence 12, 112, 1112, 11112, ... form the palindromes 1, 121, 12321, 1234321, ...
The only known non-palindromic number whose cube is a palindrome is 2201, and it is a conjecture the fourth root of all the palindrome fourth powers are a palindrome with 100000...000001 (10n + 1).
G. J. Simmons conjectured there are no palindromes of form nk for k > 4 (and n > 1).
Other bases
Palindromic numbers can be considered in numeral systems other than decimal. For example, the binary palindromic numbers are those with the binary representations:
0, 1, 11, 101, 111, 1001, 1111, 10001, 10101, 11011, 11111, 100001, ...
or in decimal:
0, 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 15, 17, 21, 27, 31, 33, ...
The Fermat primes and the Mersenne primes form a subset of the binary palindromic primes.
Any number is palindromic in all bases with (trivially so, because is then a single-digit number), and also in base (because is then ). Even excluding cases where the number is smaller than the base, most numbers are palindromic in more than one base. For example, , . A number is never palindromic in base if . Moreover, a prime number is never palindromic in base if .
A number that is non-palindromic in all bases b in the range 2 ≤ b ≤ n − 2 can be called a strictly non-palindromic number. For example, the number 6 is written as "110" in base 2, "20" in base 3, and "12" in base 4, none of which are palindromes. All strictly non-palindromic numbers larger than 6 are prime. Indeed, if is composite, then either for some , in which case n is the palindrome "aa" in base , or else it is a perfect square , in which case n is the palindrome "121" in base (except for the special case of ).
The first few strictly non-palindromic numbers are:
0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 11, 19, 47, 53, 79, 103, 137, 139, 149, 163, 167, 179, 223, 263, 269, 283, 293, 311, 317, 347, 359, 367, 389, 439, 491, 563, 569, 593, 607, 659, 739, 827, 853, 877, 977, 983, 997, ...
Antipalindromic numbers
If the digits of a natural number don't only have to be reversed in order, but also subtracted from to yield the original sequence again, then the number is said to be antipalindromic. Formally, in the usual decomposition of a natural number into its digits in base , a number is antipalindromic iff .
Lychrel process
Non-palindromic numbers can be paired with palindromic ones via a series of operations. First, the non-palindromic number is reversed and the result is added to the original number. If the result is not a palindromic number, this is repeated until it gives a palindromic number. Such number is called "a delayed palindrome".
It is not known whether all non-palindromic numbers can be paired with palindromic numbers in this way. While no number has been proven to be unpaired, many do not appear to be. For example, 196 does not yield a palindrome even after 700,000,000 iterations. Any number that never becomes palindromic in this way is known as a Lychrel number.
On January 24, 2017, the number 1,999,291,987,030,606,810 was published in OEIS as A281509 and announced "The Largest Known Most Delayed Palindrome". The sequence of 125 261-step most delayed palindromes preceding 1,999,291,987,030,606,810 and not reported before was published separately as A281508.
Sum of the reciprocals
The sum of the reciprocals of the palindromic numbers is a convergent series, whose value is approximately 3.37028... .
Scheherazade numbers
Scheherazade numbers are a set of numbers identified by Buckminster Fuller in his book Synergetics. Fuller does not give a formal definition for this term, but from the examples he gives, it can be understood to be those numbers that contain a factor of the primorial n#, where n≥13 and is the largest prime factor in the number. Fuller called these numbers Scheherazade numbers because they must have a factor of 1001. Scheherazade is the storyteller of One Thousand and One Nights, telling a new story each night to delay her execution. Since n must be at least 13, the primorial must be at least 1·2·3·5·7·11·13, and 7×11×13 = 1001. Fuller also refers to powers of 1001 as Scheherazade numbers. The smallest primorial containing Scheherazade number is 13# = 30,030.
Fuller pointed out that some of these numbers are palindromic by groups of digits. For instance 17# = 510,510 shows a symmetry of groups of three digits. Fuller called such numbers Scheherazade Sublimely Rememberable Comprehensive Dividends, or SSRCD numbers. Fuller notes that 1001 raised to a power not only produces sublimely rememberable numbers that are palindromic in three-digit groups, but also the values of the groups are the binomial coefficients. For instance,
This sequence fails at (1001)13 because there is a carry digit taken into the group to the left in some groups. Fuller suggests writing these spillovers on a separate line. If this is done, using more spillover lines as necessary, the symmetry is preserved indefinitely to any power. Many other Scheherazade numbers show similar symmetries when expressed in this way.
Sums of palindromes
In 2018, a paper was published demonstrating that every positive integer can be written as the sum of three palindromic numbers in every number system with base 5 or greater.
Notes
References
Malcolm E. Lines: A Number for Your Thoughts: Facts and Speculations about Number from Euclid to the latest Computers: CRC Press 1986, , S. 61 (Limited Online-Version (Google Books))
External links
Jason Doucette - 196 Palindrome Quest / Most Delayed Palindromic Number
196 and Other Lychrel Numbers
On General Palindromic Numbers at MathPages
Palindromic Numbers to 100,000 from Ask Dr. Math
P. De Geest, Palindromic cubes
Yutaka Nishiyama, Numerical Palindromes and the 196 Problem, IJPAM, Vol.80, No.3, 375–384, 2012.
Base-dependent integer sequences
Palindromes
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Florian Gärtner
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Florian Gärtner (born 23 April 1968 in Korbach) is a German film director and author.
Life and career
Florian Gärtner grew up in Marburg and London. He studied English literature and media studies at Philipps University, Marburg and the Free University, Berlin. At age 15, Gärtner made his first home movie. He continued making shorts and eventually award-winning feature-length Super-8-films throughout his school and university years.
Gärtner's film Dragonland premiered at the Max Ophüls Film Festival in 1999, where it won the Interfilmpreis. The film also screened at the Berlin Film Festival 1999.
Florian Gärtner lives in Berlin.
Filmography
1993: aliens (director, screenplay)
1996: Niemand außer mir (director, screenplay)
1999: Dragonland (director, screenplay)
2003: Sex Up (director, screenplay)
2003: Mensch Mutter (Director, screenplay)
2005: Sex Up 2 (director, screenplay)
2007: Das zweite Leben (director, screenplay)
2008: The Lightship (director)
2008: Morgen, Ihr Luschen! Der Ausbilder Schmidt Film (screenplay)
2012: Manche mögen's glücklich (director)
2012: The Mongolettes - We want to rock! (director)
2012: Mann kann, Frau erst recht (director, screenplay)
2013: Trennung auf Italienisch (director)
2015: Tatort: Borowski und die Kinder von Gaarden (director)
2017: Black Bread in Thailand (director, screenplay)
2018: Lotta & der Ernst des Lebens (director)
2019: Ein Sommer auf Mallorca (director)
2019: Real Guys (director)
2020: Clueless in Ireland (director)
References
External links
Florian Gärtner at filmportal.de
1968 births
German film directors
Living people
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Bridges is the eighth studio album by Josh Groban, released by Reprise on September 21, 2018. It is Groban's first album since 2013's All That Echoes to include original music, and he co-wrote nine of the album's 12 tracks. The deluxe edition includes two bonus tracks.
Background
Speaking to Newsweek, Groban said that after performing on Broadway in The Great Comet from 2016 to 2017, "I didn't even want a break. I just dove into writing. There are some albums, like the last one, where I don't want to write at all, I just want to be a vocalist. Then there are some where you're pouring out idea after idea. I've had sad albums in the past and I wanted an album that had an uplifting spirit, for my psyche and also for the psyche of listeners. I think we all need that."
Commercial performance
Bridges debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200 with 96,000 album-equivalent units, of which 94,000 were pure album sales, and was kept of the tip.of that chart by the fourth studio album by American hip-hop group Brockhampton, Iridescence. It is Groban's ninth US top 10 album. On another chart, it had more success when it debuted at number one on the US Top Album Sales chart dated October 6, 2018.
Track listing
Standard Version
Charts
References
2018 albums
Josh Groban albums
Reprise Records albums
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Bode Akindele
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Chief Bode Akindele (2 June 1933 – 29 June 2020) was a Nigerian industrialist and billionaire business mogul. He was the founder and chairman of the Madandola Group, a conglomerate trading in maritime, manufacturing, real estate, financial, and flour milling industries, with headquarters in the United Kingdom.
Early life and education
Akindele was born in Ibadan, a town in the South-western part of Nigeria. His father, Pa Joshua Laniyan Akindele, was a Chief Tax Clerk for the Western Region. His mother, Rabiatu Adedigba, was a wealthy and influential trader from Ibadan. She was the first Ibadan woman who travelled to Mecca for pilgrimage.
He began his education at the Olubi Memorial School, Ibadan, and then proceeded to Lisabi Grammar School, Abeokuta for his Higher School Certificate (HSC). He initially applied to attend Abeokuta Grammar School or Baptist Boys High School with his friends, but he was denied due to his inability to pass the arm test. Upon completing his secondary school education, he travelled to the United Kingdom to study law. Akindele was interested in starting his own business instead of studying. He used the money given to him for school and passport, purchasing a sewing machine, which he later sold at a good profit.
In 1952, he received his first paid employment as secretary to an assistant district officer and later became a cadet manager with the United Africa Company (UAC), where he later rose to the rank of an Assistant to the Expatriate Manager. Akindele then left United Africa Company for the Western Nigerian Union of Importers and Exporters.
Business career
He owned Fairgate Group, a top international company that deals in real estate and property. He registered his first company at the age of 20, sourcing and selling goods across the globe, including medicine, which he procured from a pharmacy in Lagos. He later bought land in Agege, a suburb in Lagos state, and constructed an 80 ft(ca.24 m) by 350 ft(ca.101 m) warehouse where he stockpiled and graded cocoa. Later becoming a shipping agent, he chartered vessels in London using old school connections with the National Bank of Nigeria, which had opened a London office in 1956, to finance his transactions.
Akindele made his first major venture into business in 1993, when he bought a Swedish match manufacturing company, which he later shut down, and gained full control of the global match market, making him the single largest controller of over one-third of the world's matches. He also owned one of the biggest indigenous conglomerates in Nigeria, known as the Madondola Group of Companies, which operates across various sectors such as manufacturing, real estate, maritime, and agriculture. He also established Fairgate Group, a top international company, which deals in real estate and property and is headquartered in Bond Street in London, England. The company owns several properties across the country, some of which are currently rented by some of the UK’s foremost retail stores such as Asda, Walmart and Sainsbury's.
Death
Akindele died on Monday, June 29, 2020, at his residence in Apapa, Lagos at the age of 87.
References
1933 births
2020 deaths
Businesspeople from Ibadan
Yoruba businesspeople
20th-century Nigerian businesspeople
21st-century Nigerian businesspeople
Nigerian manufacturing businesspeople
Nigerian billionaires
Nigerian chairpersons of corporations
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Intergang
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Intergang is a fictional organized crime syndicate appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Armed with technology supplied by the villainous New Gods of the planet Apokolips, they consistently appear as enemies of various DC superheroes.
Intergang appears in the TV series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Supergirl, Superman & Lois, the cartoons Superman: The Animated Series, Young Justice, and My Adventures with Superman as well as the DC Extended Universe film Black Adam (2022).
Publication history
Intergang first appeared in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #133 (October 1970) and was created by Jack Kirby. Members of Intergang were first shown in the first issue of Kirby's Forever People in 1971.
Fictional organization history
Pre-Crisis
Intergang was founded in the 1920s by a gangster, Moxie "Boss" Mannheim, who was later killed by rivals. It was then revived by Morgan Edge and run by Boss Moxie's son Bruno "Ugly" Mannheim. Bruno was, however, getting orders and weaponry from Darkseid, who was using Intergang to help track down the Anti-Life Equation.
Morgan Edge was the head of the Galaxy Broadcasting System television network (which had recently purchased the Daily Planet and had Clark Kent transferred to its Metropolis affiliate WGBS-TV as its anchorman). It was later revealed that this was not the real Morgan Edge, but a clone from the "Evil Factory". When the clone could not bring itself to kill the original Edge at the order of Darkseid, the real Edge was imprisoned. The original Edge would later escape with the help of Jimmy Olsen. During an ensuing battle with Intergang, the clone was mistaken for the original by Intergang hitman Tombstone Gear and incinerated. The real Edge was soon free to resume his role as Galaxy's president.
Following the clone's death, different Intergang members had to run Intergang in Edge's absence. Joe Danton was the first to run Intergang and he was later killed by a car bomb. Then Max Danner became the new Intergang leader. He led Intergang in some criminal activities until he got apprehended. Clark Kent appeared as a key witness until he had to briefly leave to rescue Mr. Xavier. The outcome of the trial was not shown. When Intergang was dissolved, SKULL took over their territories. When a SKULL assassin was sent after Intergang crime boss Samuel Simeon, he was saved by Superman, though he was later apprehended by Superman trying to start a new mob outside of Metropolis.
Post-Crisis
In the Post-Crisis DC Universe, Morgan Edge was the leader of Intergang, until he suffered a heart attack due to stress. While he believed he was working for Darkseid, his Apokoliptian contact was actually DeSaad, whose only aim in supplying him with weaponry was to cause suffering. While he was in the hospital his legitimate businesses were taken over by his father Vincent Edge, and Intergang was taken over by Bruno "Ugly" Mannheim, who trained on Apokolips with Granny Goodness. A later retcon has it that Mannheim was the original leader of Intergang, dealing knowingly with DeSaad. How Edge took over is unrevealed.
Eventually, Intergang was brought down by Clark Kent and Cat Grant, Mannheim was arrested, but managed to escape. He attempted to disappear through a "Boom Tube" (a New Gods transporter), but it collapsed when he was halfway through.
Some time later, Mannheim's father "Boss" Moxie Mannheim, a gangster who had been in prison since the 1940s after being captured by the Newsboy Legion, was released. Discovering that the Newsboys were, seemingly, the same age as when he first fought them, he determined to find out how such a thing could be. Meeting renegade Project Cadmus geneticist Dabney Donovan, he arranged for himself and his dead gang members from the 1940s to be cloned into youthful bodies with superpowers which involved Dabney having to do some grave robbing. This led to his henchmen Ginny "Torcher" McCree, Mike "Machine" Gun, Noose, and Rough House being cloned and receiving superpowers. Using Vincent Edge to arrange a meeting between Metropolis' gang-leaders, an older clone of Moxie exploded enough to kill them all with Noose killing Vincent Edge. As Dabney Donovan went to look for fresh DNA samples to make use of, Moxie declared himself the new head of Intergang. The new Intergang spent much of their time tracking down Jimmy Olsen, whom Moxie believed knew Superman's secret identity.
Following a short-lived attempt by Morgan Edge to regain control, Lex Luthor gained control of Intergang, retaining Moxie as a figurehead. Moxie and his remaining lieutenants were later captured by Superman. When last seen, Intergang was run by a criminal cyberneticist named Frank Sixty.
Intergang is later seen in Metropolis robbing a bank during the Justice League's absence, only to be stopped and beaten by the Avengers.
Infinite Crisis
There was some suggestion that Boss Moxie (who was a member of the Secret Society of Super Villains at the time) was slain during the miniseries Infinite Crisis. The suggestion comes from a sequence during the Battle of Metropolisuring which Superboy-Prime snaps a villain's neck, killing him. In an interview DC editor-in-chief Dan DiDio confirmed that Boss Moxie did indeed die in Infinite Crisis #7 by stating that Superboy-Prime snapped his neck.
52
In the pages of 52, Intergang members Noose and Rough House visit Kahndaq and offer Adrianna Tomaz as tribute to Black Adam in exchange for safe passage for their group's smuggling activity. Both of them are killed by Black Adam.
In week 9, Question tells Renee Montoya that Intergang is preparing for an invasion of Gotham City. Two weeks later, the pair finally have a confrontation with the two operatives of Intergang in Gotham, Whisper A'Daire and Kyle Abbot, known in the public eye as the manager of HSC International Banking, an holding connected to Intergang itself, and her bodyguard. In the weeks that follow, the further investigations of Montoya and the Question reveal Intergang to be operating a mining company called Ridge Ferrick in regions such as Australia, and also having expanded into nations such as Oolong Island, Bialya, and Yemen, reorganized along quasi-religious lines, complete with a "holy" text known variously as the Book of Crime or the Crime Bible, which treats Cain as a heroic, if not semi-divine, figure for his role according to Judeo-Christian theology in creating the "most sacred" crime of murder. It has even been revealed that the original text is bound by the stone with which Cain slew Abel. In issue #25, Bruno Mannheim was revealed as the current head of Intergang, which is also behind the kidnapping of many of the world's "mad scientists", in a grand plan to take over America by the end of the year. He shows himself now acting like a cult leader, exalting the power of crime as the dominant order in the 21st century, and now becoming a cannibal, eating anyone he kills who refuses to join Intergang. At the same time, Magpie and Ventriloquist swear their allegiance to Intergang.
Bruno "Ugly" Mannheim returns as a giant wielding alien technology, claiming that someone other than Darkseid is behind Intergang's current activities.
Gotham Underground
In the storyline Gotham Underground, Intergang is in a gang war with Tobias Whale. Intergang buys him out and makes Tobias Whale the CEO of Kord Enterprises which has become a front for Intergang's criminal activities.
The New 52
In 2011, The New 52 rebooted the DC universe. Gotham City has fallen to Intergang's Religion of Crime branch. During a gunfight between his gang and the police, Mister Untouchable claimed that Intergang has cut him out of the action occurring in Metropolis by selling the location of their meth laboratory to the law enforcement.
Attackers from Intergang ambush Lois Lane and Jon Kent when she was driving him home from school. They run Lois' car off the road and into the woods. While Jon knocks out one of the attackers, Lois contacts Superman who defeats the attackers. Later at their barn, Lois and Clark figure out that their attackers are from Intergang and had followed Lois from her meeting with Cora Benning suspecting that she is "Author X". Bruno Mannheim was informed by two of his men that the attack on "Author X" has failed. He throws the two men into the swimming pool and electrifies it. Lois and Jon later visit Cora Benning's office and find a note stating that she was taken by Intergang. While leaving the office, the three of them encounter Bruno Mannheim in the hall who claims that he is asking for directions. Lois thinks to herself that Mannheim is trying to get her to lower her guard. When Lois goes to pick up Jon from school and finds him in the library, they are ambushed by Intergang agents who then trap them in a tool closet which they set on fire. Jon's superpowers manifest as he manages to break down the door. When Jon gets Lois out of the burning tool closet, they are then surrounded by Intergang thugs. Breaking off his fight with Blackrock, Superman manages to save Lois and Jon as the Intergang thugs are caught in the explosion.
Membership
Here is the known membership of Intergang:
Leaders
Moxie Mannheim - First leader of Intergang and the father of Bruno Mannheim. Known as "Boss Moxie".
Morgan Edge - Second leader of Intergang and the son of Vincent Edge.
Vincent Edge - Third leader of Intergang and the father of Morgan Edge.
Bruno Mannheim - Fourth and current leader of Intergang and the son of Moxie Mannheim. He was later retconned as the original leader of Intergang.
Lex Luthor - Fifth leader of Intergang.
Frank Sixty - A cyborg who is the sixth leader of Intergang.
Darkseid - The benefactor of Intergang.
Other members
Alistair Bendel-White - A fixer.
Aku Kwesi - A criminal who was responsible for murdering Vixen's mother.
Blackrock - Bradley Glenn with the Blackrock armor granting him super strength and leaping ability.
Chiller - Pale assassin and former member of the 1000 gang who is a foe of Booster Gold.
Dabney Donovan - A mad scientist that worked for Project Cadmus.
Doctor Moon -
Doctor Polaris -
Doctor Sivana -
Gillespie -
Ginny "Torcher" McCree - A pyrokinetic operative of Intergang and girlfriend of Mike "Machine" Gunn who Dabney Donovan cloned from one of Moxie's original henchmen. She later committed suicide following the death of one of Mike "Machine" Gunn's clones.
Hellgrammite -
Joe Danton - An Intergang operative who was a short-time leader following the death of Morgan Edge's clone. He was killed by a car bomb.
Johnny "Stitches" Denetto - A crime boss who had his face peeled off by Tobias Whale back when he used to work for him. Desaad sewed a new face onto him which was made from dead humans and animals.
Key -
Kyle Abbot - An operative for Ra's al Ghul who can turn into a wolf and a werewolf-like creature. Normally paired with Whisper A'Daire.
Magpie -
Mantis -
Mari Nichol - The daughter of the second Doctor Polaris.
Max Danner - An Intergang operative who become leader following Joe Danton's death.
Mike "Machine" Gunn - An operative of Intergang and boyfriend of Ginny "Torcher" McCree who Dabney Donovan cloned from one of Moxie's original henchmen. He can shape his hands into guns that can fire bone bullets. There were extra clones of Mike made when one of them ends up killed. One clone of Mike was later killed during a jailbreak.
Neutron -
Noose - An operative of Intergang who Dabney Donovan cloned from one of Moxie's original henchmen. He can extend his fingers to give them a tentacled appearance. He was later killed by Black Adam.
Parademons -
Pestilence - Member of the Four Horsemen of Apokolips.
Prankster -
Radion - A henchman with irradiated powers.
Rough House - A super-strong operative of Intergang who Dabney Donovan cloned from one of Moxie's original henchmen. He was later killed by Black Adam.
Samuel Simeon - An Intergang crime boss who Superman saved from an assassin sent by SKULL.
Shockwave - Chicago supervillain for hire named Arnold Pruett.
Steel Hand - An Intergang mobster with a prosthetic right hand made of steel. He was responsible for using a sniper to murder Thaddeus Brown before being brought to justice by Mister Miracle.
Thaddeus Killgrave - A mad scientist with dwarfism who worked for Intergang.
Tobias Whale - He ended up bought out by Intergang and made the CEO of Kord Industries to serve as a front for Intergang's activities.
Torque - Dudley Soames is a detective from the Blüdhaven Police Department who was secretly on Blockbuster II's side. His head was twisted 180 degrees by Blockbuster II for crossing him yet survived. Due to his head remaining at this angle, Torque uses mirrored glasses to see forward which allowed him to see all 360 degrees of the battlefield.
Toyman -
Ventriloquist -
War - Member of the Four Horsemen of Apokolips.
Whisper A'Daire - An operative for Ra's al Ghul who can turn into a snake or a half-snake creature. Normally paired with Kyle Abbott.
Other versions
Armageddon 2001
In the first probable future of Superman, seen by Waverider, Intergang takes Metropolis hostage with a nuclear bomb, which detonates due to a member of Intergang being too nervous, leading to Lois Lane's death (among others), and thus, Superman destroying every nuclear weapon that exists on Earth.
In other media
Television
Intergang appears in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, led by Bill Church Sr., his wife Mindy, and his son Bill Church Jr. of Multiworld Communications. This version of the group is not involved with Apokolips.
Intergang appears in Superman: The Animated Series, initially led by Bruno Mannheim until he is killed while preparing Earth for Darkseid's invasion and Granny Goodness takes over leadership.
Intergang appears in the Smallville episode "Stiletto", initially led by Ron Milano, head of the Ace o' Clubs, before Bruno Mannheim kills him and takes over leadership. Additionally, Mr. Freeze and Prankster appear as Intergang members in the comic book continuation Smallville Season 11.
Intergang appears in Young Justice, led by Bruno Mannheim and consisting of Whisper A'Daire, Scorpia A'Daire, and Cairo DeFrey.
Intergang appears in the Supergirl episode "Dream Weaver". They collaborate with Wyatt Kote, warden of Van Kull Prison, to use its alien prisoners to commit illegal activities under the cover of a work release program. However, Supergirl and Martian Manhunter foil the scheme, with Kote being arrested and the alien prisoners involved receiving commuted sentences.
Intergang appears in Superman & Lois, consisting of Boss Moxie, Bruno Mannheim, Thaddeus Killgrave, Elias Orr, Aleister Hook, Mike Gunn, James Distefano, and Peia Mannheim. In the episode "Haywire", Intergang breaks Killgrave out of a prison transport so he can seek revenge on Superman, only to be defeated by him and re-apprehended by the Department of Defense (DOD). In the third season, Mannheim leads Intergang in conducting revival experiments involving corpses, such as Atom Man and Bizarro's, X-Kryptonite, and Superman's blood samples.
Intergang appears in My Adventures with Superman, led by Silver Banshee and consisting of Rough House and Mist.
Film
Intergang appears in the DC Animated Movie Universe (DCAMU) films The Death of Superman and Reign of the Supermen.
Intergang appears in Black Adam. This version of the group is an international crime syndicate, with its Kahndaq sect led by the militant Ishmael Gregor, who seeks to rule Kahndaq via Sabbac's demonic power and the Crown of Sabbac.
Video games
Intergang appears in DC Universe Online, with Bruno Mannheim, Whisper A'Daire, and Kyle Abbot as prominent members.
Notes
References
External links
Intergang at DC Comics Wiki
Intergang at Comic Vine
Comics characters introduced in 1970
DC Comics supervillain teams
Fictional gangs
Characters created by Jack Kirby
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The Beloretsk constituency (No. 5) is a Russian legislative constituency in Bashkortostan.
Geography
The constituency is located in east-central Bashkiriya and stretches from eastern Ufa to the city of Beloretsk.
Beloretsk constituency was created in 2016 from parts of former Kirovsky, Oktyabrsky and Kumertau constituencies.
Members elected
Election results
2016
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! colspan=2 style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;vertical-align:top;" |Candidate
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;vertical-align:top;" |Party
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |Votes
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |%
|-
|style="background-color: " |
|align=left|Zugura Rakhmatullina
|align=left|United Russia
|155,315
|43.80%
|-
|style="background-color: " |
|align=left|Ivan Sukharev
|align=left|Liberal Democratic Party
|71,720
|20.22%
|-
|style="background-color: " |
|align=left|Gadzhimurad Omarov
|align=left|A Just Russia
|40,993
|11.56%
|-
|style="background-color: " |
|align=left|Khanif Akhmedyanov
|align=left|Communist Party
|33,773
|9.52%
|-
|style="background-color: " |
|align=left|Ildar Isangulov
|align=left|Yabloko
|27,449
|7.74%
|-
|style="background-color: " |
|align=left|Khasan Idiyatullin
|align=left|Communists of Russia
|10,636
|2.99%
|-
|style="background-color: " |
|align=left|Ramil Suleymanov
|align=left|Rodina
|5,564
|1.57%
|-
|style="background-color: " |
|align=left|Murad Shafikov
|align=left|The Greens
|5,273
|1.49%
|-
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|- style="font-weight:bold"
| colspan="3" style="text-align:left;" | Total
| 354,614
| 100%
|-
| colspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"|
|- style="font-weight:bold"
| colspan="4" |Source:
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2021
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! colspan=2 style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;vertical-align:top;" |Candidate
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;vertical-align:top;" |Party
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |Votes
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |%
|-
|style="background-color: " |
|align=left|Elvira Aitkulova
|align=left|United Russia
|228,980
|59.23%
|-
|style="background-color: " |
|align=left|Albert Gazizov
|align=left|Communist Party
|48,746
|12.61%
|-
|style="background-color: " |
|align=left|Ivan Sukharev
|align=left|Liberal Democratic Party
|45,276
|11.71%
|-
|style="background-color: " |
|align=left|Aleksandr Polyakov
|align=left|Communists of Russia
|10,235
|2.65%
|-
|style="background-color: " |
|align=left|Eliana Saitova
|align=left|A Just Russia — For Truth
|9,181
|2.37%
|-
|style="background-color: " |
|align=left|Konstantin Kulikov
|align=left|New People
|7,988
|2.07%
|-
|style="background-color: " |
|align=left|Anatoly Shulayev
|align=left|Party of Pensioners
|7,682
|1.99%
|-
|style="background-color: " |
|align=left|Radmir Burangulov
|align=left|The Greens
|7,226
|1.87%
|-
|style="background-color: " |
|align=left|Mikhail Korovin
|align=left|Rodina
|7,163
|1.85%
|-
|style="background-color: " |
|align=left|Zulfia Gaisina
|align=left|Yabloko
|5,363
|1.39%
|-
|style="background-color: " |
|align=left|Arina Fairushina
|align=left|Russian Party of Freedom and Justice
|4,485
|1.16%
|-
| colspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"|
|- style="font-weight:bold"
| colspan="3" style="text-align:left;" | Total
| 386,580
| 100%
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References
Russian legislative constituencies
Politics of Bashkortostan
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Myre
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Myre refers to the following:
Places
Mire or quagmire, a geographical wetland or metaphorical equivalent
Myre, Andøy, a village in Andøy municipality, Nordland county, Norway
Myre, Øksnes, a village in Øksnes municipality, Nordland county, Norway
Myre Church, a church in Myre, Øksnes municipality, Nordland county, Norway
Myre-Big Island State Park, a state park in Minnesota, USA, just outside the city of Albert Lea
People
Greg Myre, American journalist who reported for The New York Times from Jerusalem
Odd Myre, Norwegian marketing agent
Phil Myre, retired Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender
See also
Mire (disambiguation)
Myhre (disambiguation)
Myra (disambiguation)
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The 2016 Indiana Democratic presidential primary took place on May 3 in the U.S. state of Indiana as one of the Democratic Party's primaries ahead of the 2016 presidential election.
The Republican Party held their own Indiana primary on the same day. Other primaries were not held that day.
Opinion polling
Results
Analysis
Sanders managed a five-percentage point upset win in Indiana, despite not leading in a single poll ahead of the primary. He won men 57-43, tied women with Clinton 50-50, beat Clinton 68-32 among voters under the age of 45, and won a resounding 59-41 victory with white voters, who made up 71% of the Democratic electorate in Indiana. He also won self-identified Independents 72-28 and won across all income levels. Clinton performed best with African Americans who she won 74-26, and older voters who she won 60-40.
Sanders performed well statewide in Indiana, winning most of the rural counties. He performed well in Marion County, winning 51-49 according to exit polls. Marion contains the state capital and largest city of Indianapolis, and the Indianapolis Suburbs which he won 56-44. Sanders won Northeast Indiana, which is anchored in Allen County by Fort Wayne. Sanders carried East Central Indiana and Northern Indiana. He carried St. Joseph County which contains South Bend and University of Notre Dame by a wide margin, likely thanks to his support from younger voters. He also won Monroe County which contains the city of Bloomington which is home to Indiana University. Sanders also won Vanderburgh County which contains Evansville as well as Vigo County which contains Terre Haute.
Clinton won Lake County in Northwest Indiana (a region she won by a narrow 51-49) which contains the heavily African American city of Gary and is a part of the Chicago Metropolitan Area, and performed well in Southern Indiana along the Ohio River with neighboring Kentucky.
References
Indiana
Democratic primary
2016
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Medeski Martin & Wood (or MMW) is an American jazz fusion band formed in 1991, consisting of John Medeski on keyboards, Billy Martin on drums, and Chris Wood on bass. The band is influenced by musical traditions including funk and hip hop and is known for an unconventional style sometimes described as "avant-groove".
MMW has found moderate mainstream success, often working with guitarist John Scofield and touring on the jam band circuit.
History
The band members were introduced to each other by jazz drummer Bob Moses, who had performed with Medeski and Wood, and was Martin's instructor.
Medeski Martin & Wood's first performances together were at the Village Gate, a popular New York jazz club. Though they started out with a more-or-less straightforward piano-bass-drums jazz setup, the threesome expanded their sound with unusual configurations. Their first album, Notes from the Underground, is a record of their entirely-acoustic era, but Medeski soon added electric piano (outfitted with distortion pedals and other effects), and began switching back and forth among Hammond organ, Clavinet, Mellotron and other keyboards. Wood alternated between stand-up and bass guitar, stuck paper behind his strings for a "snare" effect and occasionally employed a drumstick as a slide. Wood entirely eschewed the electric bass for MMW's first three albums, and still relies heavily on the acoustic upright bass in recordings and during live performances. Their earlier albums reveal a Hip Hop influenced updating of classic soul jazz sounds, which is the primary theme of their well-known 1996 album, Shack-man.
The band received some of their first significant exposure outside of the New York City jazz scene by performing with Phish at their October 14, 1995 concert, which led to the association of the group as a jam band. In addition, their performance on John Scofield's 1997 album A Go Go helped to further their exposure. The band collaborated further with Scofield again in 2006, releasing the album Out Louder under the name Medeski Scofield Martin & Wood. This was the first album released on MMW's own Indirecto Records.
From 1998 to 2005, MMW were signed to jazz label Blue Note Records, and showed them delving deeper into dense, electronic funk than their earlier albums, although the band continued to experiment with free jazz and free improvisation both on their albums and in concert.
In 1999 the band performed in Toronto, Ontario.
In 2001 MMW performed several songs for the Red Hot Organization's compilation album Red Hot + Indigo, a tribute to Duke Ellington, which raised money for various charities devoted to increasing AIDS awareness and fighting the disease.
Medeski Martin & Wood's live performances are renowned for their exploratory nature. Their concerts usually involve extended improvisations, which may be both arrhythmic and atonal, an aspect of their musicianship that is rarely documented in the studio. They occasionally tour using only acoustic instruments, reverting to the instrumentation that they began their career with. Their album Tonic is an example of these more contemporary acoustic performances. They have also done short tours of entirely improvisatory performances. These shows usually consisted of two sets of improvisation, followed by an encore of a song from an album.
Side projects
Each of the trio's three members is involved in a large music community, and has participated in numerous side projects over the years.
In 2001 John Medeski collaborated with the North Mississippi Allstars and steel guitarist Robert Randolph; together, these five musicians formed The Word, a bluesy gospel instrumental jam band. They released two albums and toured extensively.
Beginning around 2005 Chris Wood formed The Wood Brothers with his brother, blues guitarist Oliver Wood. They have released several albums to date and continue to tour and record together.
In 2007 John Medeski and Billy Martin released an album as a duo, called Mago. They performed that material together at the 2007 Bonnaroo Music Festival.
In 2016, John Medeski formed supergroup Saudade with Chino Moreno of Deftones, Team Sleep, Palms, and Crosses; guitarist Dr. Know of Bad Brains; bassist Chuck Doom of Crosses and Team Sleep; and drummer Mackie Jayson of Cro-Mags and Bad Brains. In 2018 John Medeski formed John Medeski's Mad Skillet with two members of the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, releasing an album and touring under the name.
In March 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, Medeski and Martin posted on YouTube an hour-long, live in-studio video performance as "Bandemic" with John Scofield and Jesse Murphy. The performance was part of the Woodstock Sessions project, a series of performances documented at Applehead Recording Studios in Woodstock, New York.
Discography
(Artist name if not Medeski Martin & Wood)
Albums
Notes from the Underground (1992)
It's a Jungle in Here (October 18, 1993)
Friday Afternoon in the Universe (January 24, 1995)
Shack-man (October 15, 1996)
Farmer's Reserve (February 11, 1997)
(John Scofield) - A Go Go (April 7, 1998)
Combustication (August 11, 1998)
The Dropper (October 24, 2000)
Uninvisible (April 9, 2002)
End of the World Party (Just in Case) (September 7, 2004)
(Medeski Scofield Martin & Wood) - Out Louder (September 26, 2006)
Let's Go Everywhere (January 8, 2008)
Zaebos: Book of Angels Volume 11 (August 19, 2008)
Radiolarians I (September 30, 2008)
Radiolarians II (April 14, 2009)
Radiolarians III (August 4, 2009)
20 (March – December 2011)
(Medeski Martin & Wood + Nels Cline) - Woodstock Sessions Vol. 2 (April 15, 2014)
(Medeski Scofield Martin & Wood) - Juice (September 16, 2014)
Live albums
Tonic (April 25, 2000)
Electric Tonic (October 31, 2001)
The Stone: Issue Four (November 2010)
(Medeski Scofield Martin & Wood) - In Case the World Changes Its Mind (November 8, 2011)
Free Magic (September 25, 2012)
(Medeski Martin & Wood with Alarm Will Sound) - Omnisphere (September 14, 2018)
EPs
Bubblehouse (April 8, 1997)
Combustication Remix EP (April 20, 1999)
Compilations
Last Chance to Dance Trance (Perhaps) (October 12, 1999)
Note Bleu: Best of the Blue Note Years 1998–2005 (April 4, 2006)
Box sets
Radiolarians: The Evolutionary Set (December 8, 2009)
DVDs
Fly in a Bottle (October 25, 2011)
See also
The Word
The Wood Brothers
Organ trio
References
External links
Medeski Martin & Wood official website
Interview with John Poirier for Aural States (Sept 2009)
Conversation with Chris Wood Interview with Chris Wood
Jam bands
American jazz ensembles from New York City
Jazz fusion ensembles
Gramavision Records artists
Ropeadope Records artists
Blue Note Records artists
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Alex Dreier
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Alexander M. Dreier (June 26, 1916 – March 11, 2000) was an American news reporter and commentator who worked with NBC Radio during the 1940s, and later with the ABC Information Radio network in the 1960s and early 1970s. Dreier then became an actor and appeared in a number of TV series and films.
Early years
Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Dreier attended Stanford University, graduating in 1939. He then went into journalism, and was covering Berlin for United Press when he joined NBC in 1941. During his year in Berlin he was under surveillance by the Gestapo, and he left the city one day before the Pearl Harbor attack.
His commentary aired on NBC on Saturdays from 1942 to 1945 and weekdays from 1951 to 1956. Known as Chicago's "Man on the Go," Dreier was the city's top TV anchor during his years on NBC-owned WNBQ-TV, serving as a news reporter and anchor. He also handled news for NBC-TV's Today on the Farm from 1960–61. He was replaced as WMAQ anchor by Floyd Kalber in 1962; he then moved to ABC owned-and-operated WBKB-TV.
From 1959 to 1964, Dreier also co-hosted the television program Championship Bridge with Charles Goren. These can still be seen on the Arts Channel of TV4U.com.
Later years
Dreier moved to California in 1967, where he worked in Los Angeles for KTTV and also began a career as an actor in many films such as The Boston Strangler (1968), Chandler (1971), The Carey Treatment (1972), The Loners (1972), Lady Cocoa (1975) and The Astral Factor (1978), and TV shows, including Mannix, Kojak, Land of the Giants, Hart to Hart and Love, American Style between 1968 and 1979. He served as chairman of the board for the Annenberg Center for Health Sciences and as a board member of the Eisenhower Medical Center. In 1989, he was inducted into the Illinois Broadcasters Hall of Fame.
Philanthropy
Dreier served on the boards of trustees of institutions including Shimer College and the Eisenhower Medical Center.
Death
Dreier died on March 11, 2000, in Rancho Mirage, California. He is buried in Desert Memorial Park in Cathedral City, California.
Filmography
References
External links
Reaction of children listening to Alex Dreier during WWII
American broadcast news analysts
Stanford University alumni
1916 births
2000 deaths
Burials at Desert Memorial Park
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Superorganism are an indie pop band based in London, formed in early 2017. The group originally consisted of eight members: lead vocalist Orono Noguchi, as well as Emily, Harry, Tucan, Robert Strange, Ruby, B, and Soul.
Many of the group's members originally met online before forming the group, while four of their members previously performed together as the Eversons. Their self-titled debut album, Superorganism, was released on 2 March 2018 through Domino Recording Company and Hostess Entertainment.
Career
Superorganism initially started as a casual recording project with members based in multiple countries across the United Kingdom, the United States, and Australia. Most of the members of Superorganism had met online in music forums and via mutual friends over a number of years. At the time of Superorganism's formation, the majority of the members had been living in London since 2015 and decided to embark on a musical project together.
Four of the members – Mark Turner (Emily), Christopher Young (Harry), Timothy "Tim" Shann (Tucan), and Blair Everson (Robert Strange), had previously met Orono Noguchi when they were touring Japan in another band called the Eversons. Noguchi, at the time a high school student from Maine, had first discovered the Eversons via her YouTube recommendations, thereafter becoming a fan of the group. During a 2015 summer trip to Japan, Noguchi found the Eversons to be performing a gig nearby and attended. They became friends, bonding over their shared interest in internet memes.
After discovering Noguchi could sing (she had been regularly posting covers on SoundCloud), the group sent a message to Noguchi, asking if she wanted to add lyrics and vocals to a demo they had been working on at the beginning of 2017. Collaborating on their project remotely, Noguchi received a GarageBand instrumental file and sent back to the band her deadpan vocals recorded using the built-in microphone of her MacBook laptop. The demo came to be Superorganism's first single "Something For Your M.I.N.D.", which was later featured on the soundtrack of FIFA 18. It also featured during the season three premiere of Legion, in which the band portrayed themselves.
After graduating from John Bapst Memorial High School in June, seventeen-year-old Noguchi relocated to London. "Ever since I was little I had two big goals," says Noguchi, "One of them was to be a musician or an artist of some sort, and the other was to go to college in the States. That’s why I made the decision to go to Maine by myself when I was fourteen." In regards to college, she said, "[Forming Superorganism] was a really big decision but you don’t get to decide when opportunities come. So I'll do this, and I can go to college any time I want."
Robert Strange was Superorganism's original visual artist. As of late 2017, seven out of eight band members lived together in a large terraced house in the East End of London that doubles as a 24-hour studio.
South Korean New Zealand background vocalist Soul (Earl Ho), is the only member to live apart from the group, residing in Sydney, Australia. An enlarged image of Soul's face often takes his place in group photographs. Going by the project name "CHI", Soul has also released material to a Bandcamp account of his own, playing the guitar and keyboard himself.
In June 2018, Superorganism covered Hikaru Utada's as promotion for the release of her album Hatsukoi (2018).
In October 2018, Superorganism embarked on a tour of the UK and Ireland with Japanese band Chai as their support.
In January 2019, the Eversons were dumped from their record label, Lil' Chief Records, due to allegations dating from 2012 against Mark Turner (Emily), that "became common knowledge among the New Zealand indie music scene." The label released a statement saying they were against sexual misconduct and apologised unreservedly for not acting sooner. Some songs by the Eversons were controversial in New Zealand for their misogynistic and offensive content.
Superorganism contributed the song "Hello Me & You" to the soundtrack of the film The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part, released in February 2019.
On 7 March 2022, Superorganism announced their second studio album, World Wide Pop, with a 15 July release date, alongside the release of the single "Teenager". It was also announced that Ruby, Turner and Robert Strange had left the band.
Members
Current members
Orono Noguchi, also known as "OJ" – vocals, writing, painting (2017–present)
Tucan, or Dr. Tucan Taylor Michaels (Timothy "Tim" Shann) – writing, production, mixing, drums (2017–present)
Harry (Christopher Young) – writing, production, guitar (2017–present)
B – background vocals, background dancing, background musician (2017–present)
Soul (Earl Ho) – background vocals, background dancing, background musician (2017–present)
Former members
Emily (Mark David Turner) – writing, production, synths (2017–2022)
Ruby – background vocals, background dancing, background musician (2017–2022)
Robert Strange (Blair Everson) – visual arts, staging (2017–2022)
Discography
Albums
Singles
Music videos
Awards and nominations
References
External links
Domino Recording Company artists
English pop rock music groups
Musical groups established in 2017
Musical groups from London
2017 establishments in England
English indie pop groups
Musical octets
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Shpejtim Arifi (born 3 May 1979) is a former professional footballer who played as a forward or winger.
Life and career
Arifi was born in Pristina, SFR Yugoslavia. Arifi's older brother, Shqiprim (born 14 June 1976) is a politician serving as the head of the Alternative for Changes and the mayor of the Preševo municipality since 11 April 2022.
He played for FSV Oggersheim in 2008.
Arifi signed for the Iranian club Payam Khorasan at the end of the 2007–08 Iranian Pro League season. He was a regular player in 2008–09 for Payam and was one of the top scorers of the league. He moved to Persepolis in summer 2009. He appeared in 32 league matches for the club.
Honours
SSV Reutlingen
Oberliga Baden-Württemberg: 2005–06
Persepolis
Hazfi Cup: 2009–10, 2010–11
Payam
Azadegan League: 2007–08
References
External links
PersianLeague Profile
ISNA
fsv-lu-oggersheim
statistik-klein
1979 births
Living people
Footballers from Pristina
Kosovan emigrants to Germany
Men's association football wingers
Men's association football forwards
German men's footballers
Kosovan men's footballers
VfR Mannheim players
SV Sandhausen players
SSV Reutlingen 05 players
FSV Oggersheim players
Payam Khorasan F.C. players
Persepolis F.C. players
Tractor S.C. players
SVN Zweibrücken players
Borussia Neunkirchen players
Persian Gulf Pro League players
Kosovan expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Germany
Kosovan expatriate sportspeople in Germany
Expatriate men's footballers in Iran
Kosovan expatriate sportspeople in Iran
German expatriate men's footballers
German expatriate sportspeople in Iran
Persepolis F.C. non-playing staff
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Abandoned pets are companion animals that are either inadvertently or deliberately abandoned by their owners, by either dumping the animals on the streets, leaving them alone in a vacant property, or relinquishing them at an animal shelter.
Animal welfare laws in many states of the United States make it a crime to abandon a pet. The UK passed the Abandonment of Animals Act 1960 which describes the offence of cruelty as "If any person being the owner or having charge or control of any animal shall without reasonable cause or excuse abandon it, whether permanently or not, in circumstances likely to cause the animal any unnecessary suffering, or cause or procure or, being the owner, permit it to be so abandoned."
Often, when abandoned, pets are forced to fend for themselves and become stray or feral. Feral cats are said to outnumber feral dogs and can become challenging to handle and socialize enough to be re-introduced to a new human owner. In general, only some newly abandoned cats and very young feral kittens can be tamed. There is a necessity to investigate interventions to prevent companion-animal relinquishment.
Stray animals increase potential exposure to zoonotic diseases like rabies. Cat bites or scratches involving stray or feral animals are eight times more common than dog bites.
Some pets relinquished to an animal shelter will be euthanized due to a lack of space or financial resources. Millions of companion animals enter animal shelters every year in the United States. However, the number of dogs and cats euthanized in US shelters declined from approximately 2.6 million in 2011 to 1.5 million in 2018. This decline can be partially explained by an increase in the percentage of animals adopted, and an increase in the number of stray animals successfully returned to their owners.
Studies show that the majority of people who relinquish an animal also report being emotionally attached to the dog. It has been reported that when forced to abandon their animals in an evacuation, people suffer mental issues such as grief, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Recognizing the importance of pets to their owners and their role in public health is an essential first step in improving a public health problem that has been seen repeatedly in the past and is unlikely to change in the future.
Pet abandonment increased during the USA financial crisis of 2007–2008. In early 2009, the ASPCA published advice for people facing foreclosure and the loss of their pets, recommending finding a foster or adoption situation for your pet, being aware of rental property rules for pets, and checking with animal shelters and animal rescue groups.
See also
Estray
Overpopulation in companion animals
Spaying and neutering
References
Pets
Abandoned animals
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Young (2016 population: ) is a village in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan within the Rural Municipality of Morris No. 312. The economy is dominated by local agriculture and the nearby Mosaic Potash mine.
History
Young came into being with the coming of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. Young incorporated as a village on June 7, 1910. It was named for F.G. Young, a land agent.
A limestone kiln producing 1000 bushels of lime a day was established in the town at the northwest end of 2 Avenue.
It has a 3 sheet curling rink with artificial ice and hockey arena, a swimming pool, golf course, ball diamonds and playground.
A fire destroyed the village's oldest building, the former Young Hotel, on November 12, 2011. The hotel was built in 1910.
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Young had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.
In the 2016 Census of Population, the Village of Young recorded a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change from its 2011 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2016.
See also
List of communities in Saskatchewan
List of villages in Saskatchewan
References
External links
Villages in Saskatchewan
Morris No. 312, Saskatchewan
Division No. 11, Saskatchewan
1908 establishments in Saskatchewan
Populated places established in 1908
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Berkut Hockey Club (, HC Berkut) was a Ukrainian professional ice hockey team based in Brovary. While its home arena is in Brovary, within the Kyiv region, it also played in the city of Kyiv.
It was a founding member of the Professional Hockey League of Ukraine, before being expelled by the League and forfeited from the 2013 playoffs. The organization's current focus is its youth development program.
The team's name, Berkut, means golden eagle.
History
Financial dispute
The team was expelled by the League and forfeited from the 2013 playoffs for not fulfilling its financial obligations to the League and to its players. Its former captain, Serhiy Klymentiev, along with goaltender Igor Karpenko filed a lawsuit against the club at the conclusion of the season. It has since not taken part in the 2013–14 Ukrainian Hockey Championship season.
Name change
On 26 January 2014, it was announced that HC Berkut-2, a Ukrainian ice hockey team in the Amateur Hockey League would be changing so as to avoid association with Berkut forces in their role repressing Euromaidan activists.
Players
Team captains
Roman Malov 2011 – 2012
Serhiy Klymentiev 2012 – 2013
Head coaches
Dmytro Markovsky, 2011 – 2012
Miloš Holaň, 2012 – present
References
External links
Team History
Defunct ice hockey teams in Ukraine
Ice hockey clubs in Kyiv
Sport in Brovary
Professional Hockey League teams
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Ecodynamics
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Ecodynamics is a part of applied economics. It covers knowledge on monetary value, the usage of money, and the money flow. It deals with labor, and capital.
See also
Thermoeconomics
System Dynamics
External links
M. King Hubbert on the Nature of Growth. Testimony to Hearing on the National Energy Conservation Policy Act of 1974, Subcommittee on the Environment of the committee on Interior and Insular Affairs House of Representatives, June 6, 1974.
Herman E. Daly: Economics in a Full World, Scientific American, September 2005, Vol. 293, Issue 3.
System Dynamics Society
References
Monetary economics
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The Women's 200 metre freestyle competition at the 2017 Summer Universiade was held on 24 and 25 August 2017.
Records
Prior to the competition, the existing world and Universiade records were as follows.
The following new records were set during this competition.
Results
Heats
The heats were held on 24 August at 9:13.
Swim-off
Semifinals
The semifinals were held on 24 August at 19:13.
Semifinal 1
Semifinal 2
Final
The final was held on 25 August at 19:24.
References
Women's 200 metre freestyle
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Jamaica competed in the 2015 Parapan American Games.
Competitors
The following table lists Jamaica's delegation per sport and gender.
Medalists
The following competitors from Jamaica won medals at the games. In the by discipline sections below, medalists' names are bolded.
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Athletics
Men
Track
Field
Women
Field
References
2015 in Jamaican sport
Nations at the 2015 Parapan American Games
Jamaica at the Pan American Games
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Pascale Bussières (born June 27, 1968) is a French Canadian actress.
Life and work
Born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Pascale Bussières first attracted attention as a suicidal teenager in Micheline Lanctôt’s 1984 film Sonatine; however, it was Blanche, the 1993 Radio-Canada series directed by Charles Binamé that gave her star status in Quebec. After Blanche, and then a lead in Binamé’s Generation-X picture Eldorado, Bussières became the 1990s heir to Geneviève Bujold and Carole Laure – the most charismatic actress of her generation. It's a measure of Bussières's range as an actress that her follow-up to Eldorado was the role of a prim-and-proper mythology teacher who discovers her lesbian desires in Patricia Rozema's When Night Is Falling. She also gives a standout performance as an alienated fashion model who wants to conceive a child in Denis Villeneuve's debut feature, August 32nd on Earth (Un 32 août sur terre), and won both the 2004 Best Actress Prix Jutra and Genie Award for her dramatic impersonation of Quebec singing star Alys Robi in Bittersweet Memories (Ma vie en cinémascope).
In 2023 she appeared in the music video for Karkwa's single "Parfaite à l'écran".
Filmography
Film
Television
See also
List of Quebec actors
Cinema of Quebec
Culture of Quebec
References
External links
1968 births
Living people
Canadian film actresses
Canadian television actresses
Concordia University alumni
French Quebecers
Best Actress Genie and Canadian Screen Award winners
Actresses from Montreal
20th-century Canadian actresses
21st-century Canadian actresses
Best Actress Jutra and Iris Award winners
Best Supporting Actress Jutra and Iris Award winners
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Sacred Heart College, Napier (Te Kareti o Ngakau Tapu) is a state-integrated Catholic girls' secondary school located in Napier, New Zealand.
It was founded on its present site in 1867 by the Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions. For the first one hundred years of its existence, the College was staffed predominantly by the Sisters of the Missions. Sister Mary Rose who completed her term in 1998 was the last Mission Sister to hold the position of Principal. The original buildings withstood the 1931 Napier earthquake. Sacred Heart was a private school until 1982, when it along with all other Catholic schools in New Zealand integrated into the state education system.
During the 1990s new buildings were erected and existing ones upgraded. The new Barbier and Marian blocks were blessed and opened, and Ross and Dennehy blocks were updated and rededicated. On 30 June 2001 the convent building, the chapel and a section of the hostel were destroyed by fire. These have now been, or are in the process of being, replaced. The latest addition is the full-sized gymnasium named after Sister Mary Rose Holderness.
The boarding hostel attached to the college, which had accommodation for some seventy five girls, was closed in April 2010 Both the College and the hostel are administered on behalf of the Sisters by the Mission College Napier Trust Board and the Hostel Management Committee. The Board of Trustees administers government funds and governs the school.
Enrolment
As a state-integrated Catholic school in the Palmerston North diocese, Sacred Heart has a preferential enrolment scheme. In general, preferential enrolment is given to students who are baptised Catholic, or who has a baptised Catholic parent or sibling; a signed letter from the priest of the student's or their parent's parish is required to confirm preferential enrolment. The school is permitted to enrol a limited number of non-preferential (i.e. non-Catholic) students, but these students must not exceed 5% of the school's roll.
While effectively a state-run school, the school land and buildings at Sacred Heart and other state-integrated schools are still privately owned and are not funded by the Government. Land and buildings are instead funded through compulsory "attendance dues" paid by the students' parents. The amount payable is set by the diocese, and as of 2014 is set at $818 per year.
At the October 2012 Education Review Office (ERO) report, Sacred Heart College had a roll of 275 students, including two international students. 65% of students identified as being European New Zealanders (Pākehā), 22% identified as Māori, 9% as Pasifika, and 4% as another ethnicity.
The school has a socio-economic decile of 5, which means the school draws similar numbers of poorer and well-off students, if slightly to the poorer side.
Notable alumni
Jamie Curry - vlogger and comedian known for creating Jamie's World
References
Sources
And God gave the increase: Centenary in Napier of the Congregation of Our Lady of the Missions, 1865-1965, Daily Telegraph Co, Napier, 1964.
Ernest Richard Simmons, Brief history of the Catholic Church in New Zealand, Catholic Publications Centre, Auckland, 1978.
Michael King, God's farthest outpost : a history of Catholics in New Zealand, Viking, Auckland 1997.
Michael O'Meeghan S.M., Steadfast in hope : the story of the Catholic Archdiocese of Wellington 1850-2000, Dunmore press, Palmerston North, 2003.
External links
School website
Educational institutions established in 1867
Girls' schools in New Zealand
Schools in Napier, New Zealand
Catholic secondary schools in New Zealand
Secondary schools in the Hawke's Bay Region
1867 establishments in New Zealand
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The classes préparatoires aux grandes écoles (CPGE) ('Higher school preparatory classes'), commonly called classes prépas or prépas, are part of the French post-secondary education system. They consist of two years of study (extendable to three or exceptionally four years) which act as an intensive preparatory course (or cram school) with the main goal of training students for enrolment in one of the grandes écoles. The workload is one of the highest in Europe(29 to 45 contact hours a week, with up to 10 hours of guided tutorials and oral exam sessions).
Unlike most students in France who enroll in public universities directly after receiving a high school diploma, students from CPGE have to take national competitive exams to be allowed to enroll in one of the grandes écoles. These grandes écoles are higher education establishments (graduate schools) delivering master's degrees and rarely doctorates. They include science and engineering schools, business schools, the four veterinary colleges, the four écoles normales supérieures and the École Nationale des Chartes but do not include medical or law schools, nor architecture schools. Because of the competitive entrance exams, having attended one of the grandes écoles is often regarded as a status symbol, as they have traditionally produced most of France's scientists, executives and intellectuals (Écoles Normales Supérieures, École Polytechnique, Écoles des Mines, École nationale des ponts et chaussées, Télécom Paris, Écoles Centrales, HEC Paris, ESSEC Business School, ESCP Business School, Audencia Business School, Emlyon Business School, EDHEC Business School, SKEMA Business School, Toulouse Business School...).
Hence, there are three kinds of different prépas: scientific, economic and literary CPGE. Each of them prepare to pass the competitive exams of those grandes écoles.
Some preparatory classes are widely considered "elite", being extremely selective, and recruiting only the best students from each high school, if not the best student from each high school. These schools practically guarantee their students a place in one of the top grandes écoles. Among them are the Lycée Louis-Le-Grand, the Lycée Henri-IV, the Lycée Saint-Louis (these three are known as les trois lycées de la montagne), the Lycée Pierre-de-Fermat, the Lycée Stanislas and the Lycée privé Sainte-Geneviève.
Admission
The CPGE are located within high schools for historical reasons (Napoleon created them at first as fourth to sixth year of high school) but pertain to tertiary education, which means that each student must have successfully passed their baccalauréat (or equivalent) to be admitted to CPGE. Moreover, the admission to the CPGE is usually based on performance during the last two years of high school, called première and terminale. Thus, each CPGE receives hundreds of applications from around the world every April and May, and selects its new students under its own criteria (mostly excellence). A few CPGE programmes, mainly the private CPGEs (which account for 10% of CPGEs), also have an interview process or look at a student's involvement in the community.
In June 2007, 534,300 students passed the "Baccalauréat", and 40,000 (7.5%) of them were admitted to CPGE. On a given class at one of the prep schools listed above, around 1500 application files will be examined for only 40 places. Students are selected according to their grades in High school and the first part of "Baccalauréat" (equivalent to A-levels in the United Kingdom or Advanced Placement in the United States).
Degree
Preparatory classes are officially not authorized to deliver any degrees, but they give ECTS credits that can be used to fulfill university degree requirements since the 2009-2010 academic year, and students who decide to carry on their studies at a public university.
However, many prépas also establish conventions with universities to validate a full 2nd or 3rd year degree upon graduation for CPGE students who perform well, especially in literary prépas ("khâgne"). Most of the students in these classes receive part of their education at a public university, so that the teachers' council can deliver them the corresponding grade in one or two disciplines at the end of the year (only up to a bachelor's degree for 3 years of CPGE).
Organization
CPGE exist in three different fields of study: science & engineering, business, and humanities. All CPGE programs have a nominal duration of two years, but the second year is sometimes repeated once.
Scientific CPGE
The oldest CPGEs are the scientific ones, which can be accessed only by scientific Bacheliers. The different tracks are the following:
BCPST1, Biologie, Chimie, Physique, Sciences de la Terre ("biology, chemistry, physics and earth sciences") in the first year, followed by BCPST2
MPSI, Mathématiques, Physique, Sciences de l'Ingénieur ("mathematics, physics, and engineering science") in the first year, followed by either MP ("mathematics and physics") or PSI ("physics and engineering science")
PCSI, Physique, Chimie, Sciences de l'Ingénieur ("physics, chemistry, and engineering science") in the first year, followed by PC ("physics and chemistry") or PSI ("physics and engineering science")
PTSI, Physique, Technologie, Sciences de l'Ingénieur ("physics, technology, and engineering science") in the first year, followed by PT ("physics and technology") or PSI ("physics and engineering science")
TB1, Technologie, Biologie ("technology and biology") in the first year, followed by TB2
TPC1, Technologie, Physique et Chimie ("technology, physics and chemistry") in the first year, followed by TPC2
TSI1, Physique, Technologie, Sciences Industrielles ("physics, technology, industrial science") in the first year, followed by TSI2
ATS, Adaptation Techniciens Supérieurs ("Adaptation for Skilled Technicians") are specifically targeting BTS and DUT students and last only a year. They are mainly based on the curriculum of PTSI and PCSI and are subdvised into five branches : Biologie ("Biology"), Ingénierie Industrielle ("Industrial engineering"), Génie Civil ("Civil engineering"), Métiers de la Chimie ("Chemistry jobs") and Métiers de l'horticulture et du paysage ("Horticultural and landscape jobs").
The classes that especially train students for admission to the elite schools, such as or ParisTech schools, have an asterisk added to their name. For example, MP*, are usually called MP étoile ("MP star") (except for the BCPST2 and TB2 classes, which all prepare to the elite schools).
Both the first and second year programmes include as much as ten to twelve hours of mathematics teaching per week, ten hours of physics, two hours of literature and philosophy, two to four hours of (one or two) foreign language(s) teaching and two to eight hours of minor options: either SI, engineering industrial science, chemistry or theoretical computer science, biology-geology, biotechnologies. Added to this are several hours of homework, which can amount to as much as the official hours of class.
The BCPST classes prepare for exams of engineering schools of life sciences (agronomy, forestry, environmental and food sciences) but also to veterinary schools, engineering schools of earth sciences, and the three Ecoles Normales Supérieures. Compare to the other classes, it teaches biology and geology.
In scientific CPGE, the first year of CPGE is usually called the maths sup, or hypotaupe (sup for "classe de mathématiques supérieures", superior in French, meaning post-high school), and second year maths spé, or taupe, (spés for "classe de mathématiques spéciales", special in French). The students of these classes are called taupins, which is a French word for "mole", referring to the lifestyle of students in classes preparatoires whose workload obliges them to spend most of their time studying instead of going out to enjoy social life.
Literary and humanities CPGE
There are two literary and humanities CPGEs.
The first of these prépas, nicknamed "hypokhâgne" for the first year and "khâgne" for the second year, is focused on a strong pluri-disciplinary course, including all humanities: philosophy, literature, history, geography, foreign languages, and ancient languages (Latin and Ancient Greek). The students are called the "hypokhâgneux" and the "khâgneux". These classes prepare for the entrance exam of the elite schools called , which are considered among the most difficult exams of the French system. Nevertheless, the students can now also apply for many other entrance exams.
There are three types of Khâgne:
Khâgne "Ulm", which prepares more specifically for the A/L entrance exam of the ENS Paris;
Khâgne "Lyon", which prepares more specifically for the A/L entrance exam of the ENS Lyon;
Khâgne "B/L", which prepares for the B/L entrance exam of the four ENS. Its particularity is the presence of mathematics and social sciences.
Now, the grouping of many examinations make the difference between khâgnes "Lyon" and "Ulm" is slight, and many prépas have mixed classes with many students preparing for both ENS (or even the three for students specialising in English).
Khâgneux can apply to many grandes écoles, other high schools and all universities, among which are the following:
The four "": ENS Paris, ENS Lyon, ENS Rennes, ENS Paris-Saclay (the last one being only for B/L or English)
The École des Chartes
The main French business schools (through complementary examinations at the final exam): HEC, ESSEC, ESCP, EDHEC Business School, EMLYON Business School, Grenoble Ecole de Management, KEDGE, SKEMA Business School...
The main Instituts d'études politiques ("Sciences Po")
Many journalism and communication schools (such as CELSA)
Similar but distinct to Khâgne, the Classe préparatoire à l'École des chartes is the second literary and humanities CPGE. This prépa is divided into two different branches, known as "Chartes A", with an emphasis on medieval history and ancient languages, and "Chartes B", with an emphasis on contemporary history.
The followed curricula vary from year 1 to year 2:
In first year (sometimes called “hypochartes”), Chartes A students follow courses in medieval history, modern history, French literature, foreign languages, Latin to French translation (known as version), plus a choice between French to Latin translation (known as thème) and ancient Greek to French translation. Chartes B, on the other hand, follow courses in modern history, contemporary history, French literature, foreign languages, plus a choice between Latin version, art history, geography and a second foreign language.
In second year, Chartes A and B students take the same set of courses as in year 1, with the addition of contemporary history for A students, and medieval history for B students.
The CPGE Chartes curricula are specifically tailored to prepare students for the entrance exam of the Ecole Nationale des Chartes, but students can also apply to CELSA and several Instituts d'études politiques.
Economics CPGE
Those CPGEs, which are focused on economics (which prepare the admission to Top French business schools such as HEC Paris, ESSEC, ESCP, EMLYON, EDHEC Business School, etc.), are known as Prépa HEC (preparing for the Hautes Ecoles de Commerce) and are split into three parts:
ECS1 (Economics and Commercial Scientific way), followed by ECS2
ECE1 (Economics and Commercial Economics way), followed by ECE2
Since 2021, ECE and ECS classes have been merged into a single "ECG" course, the French baccalauréat having been reformed (notably, the iconic "S", "ES" and "L" filières, which until now served to divide students between ECS and ECE classes, have been abolished).
ECT1 (Economics and Commercial Technological way), followed by ECT2
Classe préparatoire ECS are for those who graduated with the general Baccalauréat S (Scientific), Classe préparatoire ECE are for those who graduated with the general Baccalauréat ES (Economics and Social sciences), while the Classe préparatoire ECT are for those who obtained a Baccalauréat Technologique.
Both the first and second year programms include ten hours of mathematics teaching per week completed by 6 hours of geopolitics, six hours of French and philosophy, and three hours of each language (2 languages) in the "ECS" section. The same applies to the "ECE" section, the difference being that students study for 8 hours Economics and Sociology with a historical focus instead of geopolitics.
Other Economics CPGE
There is also the D1 and D2 CPGE, also known as ENS Cachan CPGE:
D1 (law and economy): the students attend both university (taking courses at the law faculty) and CPGE's School. They study civil law, economics, and they choose business law, public law or mathematics; one language (mostly English, German, Spanish and Italian), but they can study a second language for the Écoles de commerce, and general culture. At university, they study constitutional law, criminal law and administrative law. At the end of the two years, students go to ENS Rennes, École de commerce, Sciences Po or some selective university of law. This CPGE is open for Baccalauréats L, ES and S.
D2 (economy and management): students attend both to university (taking courses in economics or mathematics) and CPGE's school.
D1 and D2 are very rare but offer a complete and multidisciplinary training.
ATS (Economics and Management), "Economie et Gestion", pathway is also available for BTS and DUT students who wants to go on to a business school via entry in the 4th post-baccalaureate year instead of the 3rd like most CPGE.
Life in a CPGE
The "Khôlle"
The amount of work required from the students is exceptionally high.
In addition to class time and homework, students spend several hours each week completing exams and colles (very often written "khôlles" to look like a Greek word, this way of writing being initially a literary prépa joke). The so-called "colles" are unique to the French academic education in CPGEs. They consist of oral examinations twice a week, in maths, physics, chemistry, biology and earth sciences (in BCPST classes), French and a foreign language, usually English, German or Spanish. Students, alone or in groups (generally three people), spend 20 minutes to an hour facing a professor in a room, answering questions and solving problems. Similarly, in "ECE/ECS classes", students generally undergo 2 khôlles a week, each subject being regularly tested. Weekly exams often happen on Saturday mornings and last 3 to 4 hours, depending on the subject being tested.
In "hypokhâgne/khâgne", the system of "colles" is a bit different. They are taken every quarter in every subject. Students usually have one hour to prepare a short presentation that takes the form of a French-style dissertation (a methodologically codified essay, typically structured in three parts: thesis, counter-thesis, and synthesis) in history, philosophy, etc. on a given topic, or that of a commentaire composé (a methodologically codified commentary) in literature and foreign languages; as for the Ancient Greek or Latin, they involve a translation and a commentary. The student then has 20 minutes to present part of their prepared work to the teacher, who ends the session by asking some questions on the presentation and on the corresponding topic.
"Khôlles" are important as they prepare the students, from the very first year, for the oral part of the competitive examination. They are also useful to make sure they learn and understand lessons by testing them on a regular basis.
The "cinq demis"
A student (in a scientific CPGE) who repeats the second year obtains the status of cinq demis ("five halves"). They were only trois demis ("three halves") during their first second-year and un demi ("one half") in the first year. The explanation behind these names is that the most coveted engineering school is the École polytechnique, nicknamed the "X" (as the mathematical unknown). A student who enrolls in (the word for which is "integrates" in French) this school after the second year of preparatory class is traditionally called a "3/2" because this is the value of the integral of x from 1 to 2.
The same idea is valid for cinq demis: the integral of x from 2 to 3 is "5/2".
Students in their first year of literary and business CPGEs are called bizuths and, in their second year, carrés ("squares"). Students enrolled in their "second" second year are also called "cubes" or "khübes", it being a synonym of "cinq-demi", and a few turn to bicarrés for a third and final second year. Some ambitious professors encourage their top students to avoid or postpone admittance to other prestigious schools in order to try to get a better school.
See also
Education in France
Grandes écoles
References
External links
http://www.scei-concours.fr/ - The French committee for admission exams to engineering "Grandes écoles".
http://www.concours-bce.com - The French committee for admission exams to business schools "Grandes écoles".
http://prepas.org/ - The CPGE teachers associations' Web Portal.
http://www.infoprepa.com - Information page about Business CPGE.
Education in France
Universities and colleges in France
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Electoral district of Mount Margaret
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Mount Margaret was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Western Australia from 1901 to 1930, located in the northeastern Goldfields region.
Upon its creation in 1900, the district was the largest in the colony, taking in a significant portion of Western Australia's interior. Its population was based on the Mount Margaret goldfield, including the towns of Malcolm, Murrin Murrin, Mount Leonora, Kurrajong, Woodarra, Sir Samuel, Laverton, Wiluna, and Lawlers. The district had only one member over the course of its 29-year existence. George "Mulga" Taylor was first elected as the Labor Party candidate for seat at the 1901 state election. He later left the Labor Party with several other pro-conscriptionists during World War I, eventually ending his tenure in parliament as a member of the Nationalist Party.
Members
Election results
References
Mount Margaret
Constituencies disestablished in 1930
1930 disestablishments in Australia
Constituencies established in 1901
1901 establishments in Australia
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Werner Rathmayr
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Werner Rathmayr (born 26 January 1972) is an Austrian former ski jumper.
Career
He earned six World Cup wins between 1991 and 1992. Rathmayer's best finish at the FIS Ski Flying World Championships was 18th in Harrachov in 1992. Rathmayr did not participate in the 1992 Winter Olympic Games in Albertville, despite being the World Cup leader. He is the only athlete in the history of Ski Jumping World Cup to do so, and one of only two athletes, who were the World Cup leaders during the Olympic Games, but finished without a single medal at the event (the other one is Jakub Janda, who did that in 2006). During one of the training rounds at the 1993 World Ski Championships, Rathmayr suffered a dangerous fall after which he was never able to come back to his form from 1992 and 1993. His best start after the fall was 7th place in Innsbruck in 1994.
World Cup
Standings
Wins
References
1972 births
Austrian male ski jumpers
Living people
Sportspeople from Linz
20th-century Austrian people
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Argutoridius
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Argutoridius is a genus of beetles in the family Carabidae, containing the following species:
Argutoridius abacetoides (Chaudoir, 1876)
Argutoridius bonariensis (Dejean, 1831)
Argutoridius chilensis (Dejean, 1828)
Argutoridius cubensis (Darlington, 1937)
Argutoridius depressulus Straneo, 1969
Argutoridius oblitus (Dejean, 1831)
Argutoridius pavens (Tschitscherine, 1900)
Argutoridius uruguayicus (Chaudoir, 1876)
Argutoridius zischkai Straneo, 1969
References
Pterostichinae
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Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics (Unicode block)
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Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics is a Unicode block containing syllabic characters for writing Inuktitut, Carrier, Cree (along with several of its dialect-specific characters), Ojibwe, Blackfoot and Canadian Athabascan languages. Additions for some Cree dialects, Ojibwe, and Dene can be found at the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Extended block.
Block
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block:
References
Unicode blocks
Canadian Aboriginal syllabics
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federation%20of%20the%20Three%20Classes%20of%20Steam
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Federation of the Three Classes of Steam
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The Federation of the Three Classes of Steam (Spanish: Federación de las Tres Clases de Vapor) was a labor organization that was formed in Barcelona in August 1869 with the union of the societies of the spinning machines operators, day laborers and mechanical weavers of the Barcelona textile companies. Tomàs Valls was the secretary of the interim commission and the publication El Obrero was the union's organ of expression. The "Three Classes" in the name of the organization referred to three trades and the "Steam" referred to working with steam-driven machines.
Creation
In August 1869, the union made itself known by presenting a table of wage demands of the manufacturers of Barcelona. Their force spread rapidly throughout all the manufacturing districts of the Principality and the first state workers' congress, organized by the Federal Center of Workers' Societies of Barcelona in June 1870, was attended by the unions' delegates from different towns (Sellent, Sant Andreu, Vilanova i la Geltrú). At the end of December 1870, they held their first congress in which a regulation was approved with the guidelines of the Spanish Regional Federation of the IWA (FRE-AIT). At that time they had 8,500 members, Climent Bové was president and Narcís Mas was secretary. In March 1871 they joined the FRE-AIT, with the same president and Anselm Valentí as secretary. One of the most important struggles of this period, promoted by the Three Classes Federation, was the fifteen-week strike in Villanueva y Geltrú, which affected 1,400 workers.
On February 4 and 5, 1872, they held their second congress, where they unanimously approved the regulation of strikes and the federation with the Society of Weavers by hand, to form the Union of Manufacturing Workers. Josep Bragulat was elected president and Tomàs Valls secretary. Later, between May 7 and 11, 1872, the Constituent Congress of the Union of Manufacturing Workers (or Manufacturing Union) was held in Barcelona, with the attendance of 115 delegates representing some 28,000 members. A 14-member Board of Directors format was appointed, which was established in Manresa. General Manuel Pavía's coup d'état dismantled the Three Classes of Steam and also the Manufacturing Union. At the beginning of 1881 the Three Classes of Steam were reorganized and elections were held in May for the positions of secretary and general representative, with Antoni Casulà and Joan Vidal being elected respectively.
Turn to Marxism
The Federation was distancing itself from the anarchist positions of the FRE-AIT and approaching marxist positions. This trend caused the split of the Manufacturing Union in March 1882 when it joined the Federation of Workers of the Spanish Region (FTRE), with Josep Bragulat as general representative. In May 1882 the Three Classes of Steam suffered another split by the Sabadell section, which in January 1883 joined the Manufacturing Union. In August 1882, the Three Steam Classes attended a National Workers' Congress called by the marxists, with the participation of 123 delegates representing 152 workers' societies and around 15,000 workers. The Three Steam Classes with 14 delegates and about 8,000 members was the largest delegation. It was agreed to set up the National Association of Workers of Spain, which intended to bring together workers' societies and trade federations, an idea on which the Unión General de Trabajadores (UGT) would be formed years later. However, the Three Steam Classes did not follow the Marxist guidelines either, since when the UGT was founded in 1888 they did not join and when the socialists convened in Paris the Congress that founded the Second International in July 14–21, 1889, the representatives of the Three Steam Classes went to the Congress of the Possibilists (with the English Trade-Unions, also in Paris July 15–20).
In 1890, they responded to the lockout against the Manresa workers by declaring a strike in the Barcelona sections and 22 other locations in the Principality of Catalonia, affecting more than 50,000 workers from March 22 to 31. The strike flared up again when on July 12 the representatives of the Three Steam Classes were dismissed from the Manresa factories. The protest strike that was decreed, almost unexpectedly, was supported not only by the sections of the Three Steam Classes but also by those of cotton, palettes, locksmiths, dyers, carpenters and shoemakers. But with the help of the government and police repression, this second part of the strike was a disaster for the Three Steam Classes, which gradually lost members and sections.
At the end of 1890, the Manresa and Sant Martí de Provencals sections were split. In 1895, the Union of the Cotton Industry, an organization of Mataró and its region, left the Federation and joined the UGT. In 1909, at an assembly of the Federation of the Art Industry of Catalonia in Barcelona, representatives of the Three Steam Classes of Torelló, Sant Martí de Provencals, Badalona and Manresa attended, without a clear relationship between them. The sections of the Federation were later absorbed by the UGT and the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT).
References
Organizations established in 1869
Labour movement in Spain
Socialist organizations
Marxist organizations
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How%20%27Bout%20You
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How 'Bout You
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"How 'Bout You" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Eric Church. It released in January 2006 as his debut single and the first from his 2006 debut album Sinners Like Me. The song peaked at number 14 on the US Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Church wrote this song with Brandon Church (his brother) and Brett Beavers.
Music video
The music video was directed by Scott Speer. It features Church holding the camera, and seeming to direct the video as he lets other people hold the camera from a construction worker outside, and people in a bar, to the stage of where the rest of the video is shots of him playing the song on stage, and the audience. It reached #1 on CMT's Top 20 Countdown in 2006.
Chart performance
"How 'Bout You" debuted at number 60 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs for the week of February 18, 2006.
Certifications
References
2005 songs
2006 debut singles
Eric Church songs
Music videos directed by Scott Speer
Songs written by Brett Beavers
Songs written by Eric Church
Capitol Records Nashville singles
Song recordings produced by Jay Joyce
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Light Me Up Tour
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The Light Me Up Tour is the first headline tour by the hard rock band The Pretty Reckless. In the summer of 2010 American the band set off on tour in support of their debut studio album, Light Me Up.
Background
The Light Me Up tour kicked off in London, England, at the O2 Academy Islington; following these two performances, the band appeared at the V Festival.
In February 2011, the band toured the United States extensively; then, the band set off on a festival-based European summer tour performing at twelve major international music festivals. Some of these festivals included the Download Festival in England and the Rock am Ring and Rock im Park festivals in Germany.
Throughout August 2011, The Pretty Reckless performed in Tokyo and Osaka as part of the Summer Sonic Festival. The band was scheduled to perform at the Soundwave Revolution from September 24, 2011 – October 3, 2011, before the festival series was cancelled. Some of the artists scheduled to play were invited back to Australia to perform in a replacement mini-festival tour called Counter Revolution. The Pretty Reckless were among those artists that decided to return. But they too eventually pulled out of the festival series.
It was confirmed in October 2011 that The Pretty Reckless would perform at Soundwave in 2012.
On July 26, 2011, Taylor Momsen announced via Twitter that The Pretty Reckless would tour Europe alongside Evanescence and Fair To Midland; eventually, a North American leg was announced with The Pretty Reckless and Rival Sons opening for Evanescence.
On February 9, 2012, The Pretty Reckless announced they would play two SideWaves in Sydney and Melbourne, Australia.
Opening acts
Francesqa (UK 2010)
Runner Runner (US, Spring 2011)
A Thousand Horses (US, Spring 2011 Selected Dates)
Heroes For Hire (Australian SideWaves 2012)
Tour dates
Festivals and other miscellaneous performances
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This concert was a part of "V Festival"
This concert was a private show
This a meet and greet event followed by a private performance
This concert was a part of "Rock am Ring"
This concert was a part of "Rock im Park"
This concert was a part of "Heineken Jammin' Festival"
This concert was a part of "Download Festival"
This concert was a part of "Nova Rock Festival"
This concert was a part of "Main Square Festival"
This concert was a part of "Rock Werchter"
This concert was a part of "Wireless Festival"
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This concert was a part of "Montreux Jazz Festival"
This concert was a part of "Oxegen"
This concert was a part of "T in the Park"
This concert was a part of "Tuborg GreenFest"
This concert was a part of "Lollapalooza"
This concert was a part of "Summer Sonic Festival"
This concert was a part of "Intercity Music Festival"
This concert was a part of "Tulsa State Fair"
The Pretty Reckless were supporting Evanescence at this show
The Pretty Reckless were supporting Guns N' Roses at this show
This concert was a part of "Soundwave Revolution"
Cancellations and rescheduled shows
Box office score data
References
External links
2010 concert tours
2011 concert tours
2012 concert tours
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Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie
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The Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie (MNTP) is a tallgrass prairie reserve and similarly preserved as United States National Grassland operated by the United States Forest Service. The first national tallgrass prairie ever designated in the U.S. and the largest conservation site in the Chicago Wilderness region, it is located on the site of the former Joliet Army Ammunition Plant between the towns of Elwood, Manhattan and Wilmington in northeastern Illinois. Since 2015, it has hosted a conservation herd of American bison to study their interaction with prairie restoration and conservation.
Ecology
The tallgrass prairie reserve is in the central forest-grasslands transition ecoregion of the temperate grasslands, savannas and shrublands biome.
Midewin remains the only federal tallgrass prairie preserve east of the Mississippi River, where surviving areas of that habitat are extremely rare. With the adjacent Des Plaines Fish and Wildlife Area and a number of other state and county protected areas in the immediate area, Midewin forms the heart of a conservation macrosite totaling more than 40,000 acres of protected land.
The pre-European settlement vegetation map of Midewin shows most of the site was prairie prior to the arrival of European settlers. The northwestern corner of the site along Jackson Creek was forest. Another small, forested area existed in the extreme southwest corner of Midewin along the Kankakee River and Prairie Creek.
Several not-for-profit conservation organizations have played active roles in the restoration of high-quality tallgrass prairie, dolomite prairie, sedge meadows, swales and related communities at Midewin. These include the Wetlands Initiative, Openlands, and the Illinois chapter of The Nature Conservancy and several other members of the Chicago Wilderness collaborative.
History
The name Midewin (, ) is a Potowatomi Native American word referring to the tribe's healers, who it was believed also kept the tribal society in balance. Research since the establishment of the park has found evidence of a pre-European–contact village (c. 1600) from the Oneota culture in a place on the site called Middle Creek.
Establishment
The Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie was established by federal law in 1996. Major proponents of the prairie establishment and restoration included World War II flying ace William J. Cullerton.
The Illinois Land Conservation Act (Public Law 104-106) created the Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie, designated the transfer of of land in Illinois from the U.S. Army to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Forest Service.
The Illinois Land Conservation Act mandates that Midewin be managed to meet four primary objectives:
To conserve, restore, and enhance the native populations and habitats of fish, wildlife, and plants.
To provide opportunities for scientific, environmental, and land use education and research.
To allow the continuation of existing agricultural uses of lands within Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie for the next 20 years, or for compatible resource management uses thereafter.
To provide recreational opportunities that are compatible with the above purposes.
Land
The first land transfer from the Army to the Forest Service took place on March 10, 1997, and included of land that was believed to be free from contamination. Subsequent land acquisitions place the current size of Midewin at about .
Bison
In 2015, the prairie approved the use of to establish a conservation herd of American Bison. The 20-year plan will study the relationship between the historic large grazing animal, which almost became extinct, and prairie restoration and health. In October, a herd of 27 bison were introduced. Four bulls were transferred from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Fort Collins, Colorado, and 23 cows were obtained from a ranch in Gann Valley, in Buffalo County, South Dakota. This was the first U.S. Forest Service project of its kind. By late spring 2017, births had increased the size of the herd to around 50.
Access
After a period of ecological restoration, part of the prairie opened to visitors in 2004.
Today, over of the reserve are open, with public trails for non-motorized recreation. The MNTP headquarters entrance and visitors center is located on Illinois Route 53, near the center of the preserve.
See also
Shortgrass prairie
Tallgrass prairie
United States National Grassland
List of protected grasslands of North America
Notes
References
usda.gov: Text of Illinois Land Conservation Act of 1995 — law establishing Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie.
External links
Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie, US Forest Service
"A Midewin Almanac", blog covering the restoration of the site
The National Forest Foundation: "Restoration and Conservation Plan for Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie" — (2011 plan)
Grasslands of the North American Great Plains
Geography of Will County, Illinois
National Grasslands of the United States
Prairies
Protected areas of Illinois
Protected areas of Will County, Illinois
Protected areas established in 1996
Grasslands of Illinois
1996 establishments in Illinois
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The 6th Bavarian Reserve Division (6. Bayerische Reserve-Division) was a unit of the Royal Bavarian Army, part of the German Army, in World War I. The division was formed on 10 September 1914 and organized over the next month. The division was disbanded in 1919 during the demobilization of the German Army after World War I.
6th Bavarian Reserve Division was raised and recruited from Bavaria's Ist and IIIrd Army Corps Districts. As a reserve division, it consisted mainly of recalled reservists. A considerable number of war volunteers were taken in, also. Among the latter was the division's most famous soldier, Adolf Hitler, an Austrian-born Gefreiter in the Bavarian 16 Reserve.
Combat chronicle
The division entered the war on 30 October 1914, when it entered the First Battle of Ypres, part of the so-called Race to the Sea. The division remained in Flanders thereafter, and fought in numerous actions, including the Battle of Fromelles in July 1916 and the latter phases of the Battle of the Somme in October 1916. In the Spring of 1917, the division fought in the Battle of Arras. It remained in the Flanders region until August 1917, when it was transferred to Upper Alsace for rest and then to the Chemin des Dames region. In 1918, it participated in the German spring offensive. In the Spring and Summer offensives and counteroffensives, it faced French and American troops in several battles, including on the Aisne and Champagne-Marne. The division returned to the Flanders region in August 1918, where it remained until the end of the war. Allied intelligence rated the division as a second class division, noting that while trained as an assault division, it was more often employed as a follow-on unit.
Order of battle on 8 December 1914
The order of battle of the 6th Bavarian Reserve Division on 8 December 1914 was as follows:
12. Bayerische Reserve-Infanterie-Brigade
Kgl. Bayerisches Reserve-Infanterie-Regiment 16
Kgl. Bayerisches Reserve-Infanterie-Regiment 17
14. Bayerische Reserve-Infanterie-Brigade
Kgl. Bayerisches Reserve-Infanterie-Regiment 20
Kgl. Bayerisches Reserve-Infanterie-Regiment 21
Kgl. Bayerisches Reserve-Kavallerie-Regiment 6
Kgl. Bayerisches Reserve-Feldartillerie-Regiment 6
Kgl. Bayerisches Reserve-Fußartillerie-Bataillon 6
Kgl. Bayerische Reserve-Pionier-Kompanie 6
Order of battle on 10 April 1918
Divisions underwent many changes during the war, with regiments moving from division to division, and some being destroyed and rebuilt. The 6th Bavarian Reserve Division was triangularized in January 1917, losing the 14th Bavarian Reserve Infantry Brigade headquarters and the 21st Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment. Cavalry was reduced, engineers increased, and an artillery command and a divisional signals command were created. The 6th Bavarian Reserve Division's order of battle on 10 April 1918 was as follows:
12. bayerische Reserve-Infanterie-Brigade
Kgl. Bayerisches Reserve-Infanterie-Regiment 16
Kgl. Bayerisches Reserve-Infanterie-Regiment 17
Kgl. Bayerisches Reserve-Infanterie-Regiment 20
2. Eskadron/Kgl. Bayerisches Reserve-Kavallerie-Regiment 6
Kgl. Bayerischer Artillerie-Kommandeur 18
Kgl. Bayerisches Reserve-Feldartillerie-Regiment 6
Kgl. Bayerisches Fußartillerie-Bataillon 12
Stab Kgl. Bayerisches Pionier-Bataillon 19
Kgl. Bayerische Reserve-Pionier-Kompanie 6
Kgl. Bayerische Reserve-Pionier-Kompanie 7
Kgl. Bayerische Minenwerfer-Kompanie 206
Kgl. Bayerischer Divisions-Nachrichten-Kommandeur 406
Gallery
References
6.Bayerische-Reserve-Division (Chronik 1915/1919) – Der erste Weltkrieg
Hermann Cron et al., Ruhmeshalle unserer alten Armee (Berlin, 1935)
Hermann Cron, Geschichte des deutschen Heeres im Weltkriege 1914–1918 (Berlin, 1937)
Günter Wegner, Stellenbesetzung der deutschen Heere 1815–1939. (Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück, 1993), Bd. 1
Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914–1918), compiled from records of Intelligence section of the General Staff, American Expeditionary Forces, at General Headquarters, Chaumont, France 1919 (1920)
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Infantry divisions of Germany in World War I
Military units and formations established in 1914
Military units and formations of Bavaria
Military units and formations disestablished in 1919
1914 establishments in Germany
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Taryn Suttie
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Taryn Suttie (born December 7, 1990, in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian track and field athlete competing in the shot put. She competed in the shot put event at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, where she finished 10th.
In July 2016, she was officially named to Canada's Olympic team.
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1990 births
Living people
Athletes (track and field) at the 2015 Pan American Games
Athletes from Saskatoon
Canadian female shot putters
Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Olympic track and field athletes for Canada
Athletes (track and field) at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
Commonwealth Games competitors for Canada
Pan American Games track and field athletes for Canada
21st-century Canadian women
21st-century Canadian people
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Kosewo is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Ostrowite, within Słupca County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. It lies approximately west of Ostrowite, north-east of Słupca, and east of the regional capital Poznań.
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Kosewo
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HaMidrasha – Faculty of the Arts (also known as "HaMidrasha Le'Omanut", "HaMidrasha Art School" or just "HaMidrasha") is an Israeli art and art-education school. Established in 1946 as an independent institution, it now is one of three faculties of Beit Berl College.
History
In 1946 "HaMidrasha" art school was established as an arts and crafts teacher education institution. The head of the school was Eliyahu Beiles and it was affiliated with the "Workers' Trend" in the educational system. The school then operated in the evenings in a building that served as a primary school in Tel Aviv. Later on, crafts studies were separated from "HaMidrasha" and its name was changed to "HaMidrasha for Painting Teachers."
In 1964 "HaMidrasha" was transferred to the ownership of the Ministry of Education. Two years later it began operating during days instead of evenings. Between 1966 and 1980 Ran Shehori was head of the institution, and in 1972 it moved to buildings in Herzliya, who were allotted to the Ministry of Education by the Herzliya Municipality. It was during these years that the figure of Raffi Lavie became dominant in the school. Lavie, who started to teach at "HaMidrasha" in 1965, developed a teaching method which focused on the understanding of artistic language, rather than on skills and techniques. Under his influence, a group of artists formed, who would later be known as the core of the Want of Matter movement in Israeli Art. These included Michal Na'aman, Tamar Getter and Nurit David, among others.
In 1977 the "HaMidrasha" moved again, this time to Ramat HaSharon. In the same year, the Institute for Training of Art Instructors was established as part of the institution. In 1980, Shlomo Vitkin was appointed as head of the school, serving till 1997. During his tenure, in 1987, the Midrasha merged with Beit Berl College. In 1989 a study framework called "The Open Midrasha" was created. It still exists, now known as "The Personal Study program of the Arts".
In 1995 HaMidrasha moved to Kalmania, a part of the Beit Berl campus and a former agricultural farm. In 1997 Yair Garbuz replaced Vitkin as head of the school. In 1999 "HaMidrasha" became an Academic institution and was accredited to award a BEd.F.A. bachelor's degree in arts education by the Israeli Council for Higher Education. In 2008 the school was further accredited to award a graduate degree – MEd in art education.
In 1998 the Film Department was established within HaMidrasha.
In 2008 the school was further accredited to award a graduate degree – M.Ed. in Art Education. Since 2017, HaMidrasha has also offered a Master's Degree in Art Therapy (M.A.A.T.)
In 2009 Doron Rabina was appointed as head of the school, and a bachelor's degree filmmaking program was launched. In 2011 a postgraduate studies program was established. In 2011 a preparatory program for undergraduate studies was opened, in the Arabic language. In 2014 Beit Berl College structurally transformed to a faculty based organization, and "HaMidrasha" became the institution's Faculty of the Arts. Artist Gabi Klezmer was the dean between 2015 and 2018. The current acting Dean of the Faculty is the video artist Guy Ben-Ner.
HaMidrasha Gallery
Over the years, "HaMidrasha" operated several galleries, both in the Kalmaniya campus and in Tel Aviv. Since 2014, HaMidrasha Gallery is located in 19 HaYarkon Street, Tel Aviv.
References
External links
Official Website
The exhibition "Poland ↔ Israel", HaMidrasha postgraduate program of Fine Arts at Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków, Poland, 30 June–24 September 2017. Curators: Maayan Sheleff and Agnieszka Sachar. Collaboration with Miri Segal. Catalog:
Art schools in Israel
Film schools in Israel
Beit Berl College
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Iris Corniani (born 3 December 1958) is an Italian former swimmer. She competed in two events at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
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External links
1958 births
Living people
Italian female swimmers
Olympic swimmers for Italy
Swimmers at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Mantua
Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Italy
Mediterranean Games medalists in swimming
Swimmers at the 1975 Mediterranean Games
20th-century Italian women
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Jabaleh
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Jabaleh () is a village in Dasturan Rural District, in the Central District of Joghatai County, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 718, in 188 families.
References
Populated places in Joghatai County
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Darren Oldroyd
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Darren Oldroyd (born 1 November 1966) is an English former footballer who played in the Football League for Everton and Wolverhampton Wanderers.
External links
English men's footballers
English Football League players
Everton F.C. players
Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. players
Southport F.C. players
1966 births
Living people
Men's association football defenders
People from Ormskirk
Footballers from Lancashire
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No. 671 Squadron RAF was a glider squadron of the Royal Air Force active during the Second World War.
History
671 Squadron was formed at Bikram, Patna in India as a glider squadron on 1 January 1945 by renumbering No. 669 Squadron RAF, with the intention of being used for airborne operations by South East Asia Command. It continued to train, as part of No. 344 Wing RAF, until the surrender of Japan, when it became surplus to requirements. The squadron was disbanded at Kargi Road on 25 October 1945.
Present
The original squadron is represented today by 671 Squadron of 7 Regiment, Army Air Corps.
Aircraft operated
Squadron bases
References
Notes
Bibliography
External links
Squadron history for nos. 671-1435 sqn. at RAF Web
Aircraft squadrons of the Royal Air Force in World War II
671 Squadron
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Shenden
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Shenden also known as Senden is a tourist rivers in Jepara Town, its in Mulyoharjo Village. located at 2 km eastward of the hall of Jepara Regency. Shenden is one of famous rivers in Jepara. Because, Shenden is a beautiful little river and natural and clean water that is made in a place to swim, shower, and water play. Shenden river there is also a mini waterfall.
Located
Shenden is located near to the city center Jepara because this place is located in the Village area Mulyoharjo Jepara district of Jepara Regency.
Nuance
Shenden is a place for excursions contained in Mulyoharjo village, Jepara district, Jepara regency. When we get there will be spoiled scenery are beautiful despite its place in city areas. Shenden there are many large trees, mini waterfall, and the river water is very clean.
Many visitors who travel to their usual Shenden bathing and swimming, there are also only take pictures, others just enjoy the atmosphere while a picnic with his friends, boyfriend, or family. Gurgling water and chirping birds make Shenden very reassuring to visitors.
Panorama
river water flow staircase with it being in the middle of plantation residents. When the rainy season the river Shenden deep as ±2,5 meters, from the residential area to the Shenden must be reached by walking ±200 meters. When compared with rivers in general Jepara, Senden River offers a beautiful natural scenery.
Shenden more visitors in the dry season than in the rainy season. Because when the rainy season when taking a shower in the river to be able to master the technique Shenden swim, if you can not swim then sank, because in the rainy season the river shenden depth is 2.5 meters. And that is why many visitors come Shenden River during the dry season because of the depth of the river shenden ±1 meter, making it safe for visitors who can not swim can feel bathing in the river shenden.
Tragedy
In rainy season never existed A student drowned in the river Shenden, because can not swim. Because the rainy season senden river depth reaches 2.5 meters. Therefore, it Shenden many visitors when in the dry season, as well as more secure because the water is not deep and there is no swift river currents, as well as to freshen up in the hot dry season.
See also
List of drainage basins of Indonesia
References
Tourism in Jepara
Tourist attractions in Central Java
Rivers of Central Java
Drainage basins of the North Coast of Java
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Proper palmar digital nerves of ulnar nerve
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The proper palmar digital nerves of the ulnar nerve are nerves of the hand.
The superficial branch of the ulnar nerve divides into a proper palmar digital nerve, which supplies the medial side of the fifth digit and a common palmar digital nerve which divides into two proper palmar digital nerves that supply the adjacent sides of the fourth and fifth digits.
Additional images
References
Nerves of the upper limb
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Motorola (disambiguation)
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Motorola was an American multinational telecommunications company which split in 2011.
Motorola may also refer to:
Motorola Mobility, mobile phone manufacturer
Motorola Solutions, equipment provider
Arsen Pavlov (1983–2016), known by his nom de guerre Motorola, pro-Russian separatist of the Donbass War
Binatone, electronics manufacturer using the brand name Motorola
"Motorola", a 2018 song by Gorgon City
"Motorola", a 2019 song by Da Beatfreakz, Swarmz, Deno and Dappy
"Motorola Semiconductor Components Group" became Onsemi
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International School Connection
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The International School Connection (ISC) is a non-profit education organization based in Tampa, Florida of the United States of America. It has an international Board of Directors, Officers, and Regional Hub coordinators that represent 15 countries on four continents. Over the last decade, the ISC has evolved from regional partnerships to a multi-national university cooperative, and an independent non-governmental agency. Member schools come from Russia, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Spain, Germany, Canada, USA, Colombia, Venezuela, Malaysia, China, and Singapore. Exploratory conversations are underway with educators in Brazil, Netherlands Antilles, Mexico, and New Zealand.
History
The ISC began its early formation in 1994 during a conference in Berlin. Educators from Sweden, Russia, Finland, the Netherlands and the USA met to explore ways to create international school connections. A conference was held in Sochi, Russia the following year, under the guidance of Conny Bjorkman (Sweden) and Ivan Prodanov and Irina Badayan (Russia). Many cross border school connections were made in the following years. Eventually Karolyn Snyder and Conny Bjorkman assumed leadership roles in developing a system of connections through the University of South Florida and Mid Sweden University.
In 1997, leaders from seven universities in seven countries signed an agreement, in Stockholm, to develop the International School Connection as a support system for schools and their leaders. In 2000 a three-year pilot project was launched with graduate programs and a professional development program being offered in a web-based environment. In 2003, near the completion of the pilot, the ISC became a non-profit organization in the USA, with an international Board of Directors and Officers.
Current Board of Directors
John Fitzgerald
Victor Pinedo, Jr.
Xinmin Sang
Hans-Erik Persson
Paul Senft, Jr.
Robert H. Anderson
Dan Hector
Kristen M. Snyder
Joyce Burick Swarzman
Kai Sung
Elaine Sullivan
Karolyn J. Snyder
ISC Vision
For school and college leaders and faculty members to become global educators who prepare all students during their education years for a successful life as a global citizen.
Notable Member Schools
A. Y. Jackson Secondary School
Beijing 101 Middle School
High School Affiliated to Nanjing Normal University
Corbett Preparatory School of IDS
External links
International School Connection Homepage
The Katrineholm teachers’ visit to Ottawa Canada: Promoting International School Connections
Pasco County Schools
Youth Vision 5000, a program ICS helped to create in Curaçao
The 2006 ISC Annual Global Summit
References
Educational organizations based in the United States
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Longineu Parsons
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Longineu Parsons may refer to:
Longineu Parsons II, a trumpeter and music educator
Longineu W. Parsons III, a drummer and former member of Yellowcard
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Benjamin Jaurès
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Admiral Constant Louis Jean Benjamin Jaurès (3 February 1823 – 13 March 1889) was a French Navy officer and politician. Born in Albi, Tarn, he was a senator for life and active in Japan during the 1863 Shimonoseki campaign and the Boshin War. He became Minister of the Navy and Colonies on 22 February 1889, in the government of Pierre Tirard. The famous French politician, Jean Jaurès, was his nephew.
See also
List of naval ministers of France
References
1823 births
1889 deaths
People from Albi
French republicans
Ministers of Marine and the Colonies
Members of the National Assembly (1871)
Members of Parliament for Tarn
French life senators
Ambassadors of France to the Russian Empire
Ambassadors of France to Spain
19th-century diplomats
French Navy admirals
French military personnel of the Crimean War
French military personnel of the Second Opium War
French military personnel of the Second French intervention in Mexico
French military personnel of the Franco-Prussian War
Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour
Order of Leopold (Belgium)
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This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in southern New Castle County, Delaware.
It is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on National Register of Historic Places in New Castle County, Delaware south of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map.
There are 390 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county. Of those, 87 are located south of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal and are listed here, including one site further designated as a National Historic Landmark. There are 84 sites in Wilmington, which are listed at National Register of Historic Places listings in Wilmington, Delaware. There are 220 sites in northern New Castle County outside Wilmington, which are listed at National Register of Historic Places listings in northern New Castle County, Delaware.
Current listings south of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal
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See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Delaware
List of National Historic Landmarks in Delaware
References
Buildings and structures in New Castle County, Delaware
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Joseph Roberts
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Joseph Roberts may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
Joe Roberts (actor) (1871–1923), American comic actor
Joe Roberts (artist), American artist
Joe Roberts (musician), English musician
Joe Roberts, English actor known for portraying John Webster in Shakespeare in Love
Sports
Joe Roberts (basketball) (1936–2022), American basketball player
Joe Roberts (curler), American curler
Joe Roberts (footballer) (1900–1984), English professional footballer
Joe Roberts (motorcyclist) (born 1997), American motorcycle racer
Joe Roberts (rugby union) (born 2000), Welsh rugby union player
Others
Joseph Jenkins Roberts (1809–1876), 1st and 7th President of Liberia
Joseph J. Roberts (born 1952), Speaker of the New Jersey General Assembly
Joseph Roberts (motivational speaker) (born 1966), Canadian motivational speaker and author
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DDoS attacks during the October 2011 South Korean by-election
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The DDoS attacks during the October 2011 South Korean by-election were allegedly two separate distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that occurred on October 26, 2011. The attacks, which took place during the October 2011 Seoul mayoral by-election, targeted the websites of the National Election Commission (NEC) and then-mayoral candidate Park Won-soon. Investigators assert that the attacks were carried out in hopes of suppressing young voters, to the benefit of the Grand National Party. An aide of Grand National Party legislator Choi Gu-sik was found responsible for the attacks.
The attacks
The attacks consisted of two separate denial-of-service attacks against independent National Election Commission and mayoral candidate Park Won-soon, carried out with the help of a botnet of 200 infected computers. The attacks were conducted during the morning, when citizens--particularly young voters looking to vote before work--would have been expected to look up polling station locations. It has been theorized that the attacks were conducted in the belief that they may reduce voter turnout, to the benefit of the Grand National Party's candidate Na Kyung-won. Police stated that the attack against the NEC lasted about two hours, specifically impacting the part of the website with information on polling locations; Park Won-soon's website was attacked twice that day.
The National Police Agency later revealed that an aide to Grand National Part lawmaker Choi Gu-sik, referred to in the media by only their surname "Gong," was responsible for the two attacks. The National Police Agency later arrested Gong and four other associates.
Some researchers, however, have questioned the official narrative. Doubts have been raised as to whether Gong had the technical expertise or resources to pull off the attack. Others have pointed out that under a DDoS attack, it would be unusual for parts of a website to be offline while others are online, suggesting perhaps a technical failure instead.
These events caused a collective panic amongst GNP members as they often denounce the online activities of South Korean progressives.
Political impact
The exposure of his role in the attacks led to Choi Gu-sik officially resigning his position as a lawmaker, along with several other members of the GNP.
In the wake of the scandal, reformists in the conservative Grand National Party put pressure on core members of the party who were closely affiliated with the Lee Myung-bak government; this in turn led to Park Geun-hye being brought back into the spotlight to reorganize the GNP.
Social impact
More than 30 university student associations made a joint statement calling for a thorough investigation of the attacks.
See also
2008 Grand National Party Convention Bribery Incident
Lee Myung-bak government
References
2011 in South Korea
Lee Myung-bak Government
Denial-of-service attacks
Liberty Korea Party
Cyberwarfare
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Mike McDonagh
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Michael McDonagh, a national of Ireland, is a humanitarian, and a senior United Nations official working for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
He is working as head of the OCHA office in Ethiopia. Previous to joining OCHA, McDonagh worked for the Irish NGO, Concern, for more than 20 years, including serving as country director in Laos, Somalia, Angola, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Liberia, North Korea, Honduras, Albania and Zimbabwe. He joined OCHA in 2004, coordinating Darfur specifically. In 2007, he was appointed head of that office. During his tenure, he has advocated for a strong humanitarian response to the Darfur crisis, and drew international attention to the recurrent attacks on humanitarian workers in Darfur and the impact these have on humanitarian aid. After Sudan, McDonagh was head of OCHA-Iraq and OCHA-Libya.
References
Irish humanitarians
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
20th-century Irish people
21st-century Irish people
Irish officials of the United Nations
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Haroldiataenius
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Haroldiataenius is a genus of aphodiine dung beetles in the family Scarabaeidae. There are about nine described species in Haroldiataenius.
Species
These nine species belong to the genus Haroldiataenius:
Haroldiataenius buvexus Stebnicka & Skelley, 2009
Haroldiataenius convexus (Robinson, 1940)
Haroldiataenius griffini (Cartwright, 1974)
Haroldiataenius hintoni (Saylor, 1933)
Haroldiataenius limbatus (Bates, 1887)
Haroldiataenius lucanus (Horn, 1871)
Haroldiataenius mariarum (Bates, 1887)
Haroldiataenius saramari (Cartwright, 1939)
Haroldiataenius semipilosus (Van Dyke, 1928)
References
Further reading
Scarabaeidae
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Wikala of Sultan Qaytbay
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The Wikala of Sultan Qaytbay or Wakala of Sultan Qaytbay (among other variations) is an urban caravanserai (wikala or wakala) and rab (apartment complex) built by Sultan al-Ashraf Abu al-Nasr Qaitbay in 1481 CE in Islamic Cairo, the historic medieval district of Cairo, Egypt.
Historical context and location
The structure is located next to the inner side of Bab al-Nasr, a monumental 11th-century fortified gate in Cairo's Fatimid-era walls. This location placed it at one of the main entrances to the city and at the beginning of one of the major streets leading towards its center.
Sultan Qaytbay, one of the most prolific architectural patrons in Mamluk history, had this wikala built in 1481. While the Mamluk Empire was nearing its decline, Qaytbay oversaw a period of relative stability and prosperity, and commerce was still vigorous. Many similar wikalas were built along the city's major commercial zones, such as Qaytbay's earlier Sabil-kuttab-wikala built in 1477 near al-Azhar Mosque, the later wikala built by Sultan al-Ghuri, or the various khans and wikalas built around Khan al-Khalili. Like other Mamluk buildings, this structure combines more than one function, and like some other wikalas, it was both a caravanserai for merchants and a rab''' or residential complex with rented units.
The wikala has in modern times been used as a tenement (not unlike its original function), but has suffered in part as a result of this and has lost some of its elements. It is under comprehensive restoration as of December 2015 by the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities. There are concerns regarding relocation of shops and workshops that occupy the front of the wikala.
Architecture
The structure follows a standard model of wikala buildings from the late Burji Mamluk period onwards, of which the best-preserved example today is the Wikala of Sultan al-Ghuri built in 1505 further south. Its street facade is centered around a relatively monumental stone portal with stone vaulting and ornamentation typical of Qaytbay's time, including ablaq masonry and muqarnas carving. On either side, on the ground level, are spaces for shops, still present today. On the upper floors are the limited remains of mashrabiyyas (wooden screens) which characterized the living spaces, though much of the building's ruined upper façade appears to have been filled-in by more recent and more simple construction.
The main portal entrance opens to a passage covered by a Mamluk-style groin vault, which in turn leads to the main courtyard which dominates the interior floor plan. Around this courtyard were rooms for storage on the first floor (for use by merchants and their animals), while the upper floors were occupied by living quarters. These upper floors functioned as a rab', a residential complex with apartments that were rented and whose revenues were then used for the upkeep of this building or possibly for other waqfs (charitable foundations) elsewhere. Each apartment unit was spread over two levels, with the upper level having rooms that looked onto a reception room (qa'a) on the level below, which in turn had a view onto the street outside.
External links
Wikala of Qaytbay at Discover Islamic Art (Museum With No Frontiers) (includes pictures and floor plans)
Wikala al-Sultan Qaytbay at Archnet (includes more pictures)
References
Further reading
Meinecke, Michael. Islamic Cairo: architectural conservation and urban development of the historic centre : proceedings of a seminar, 39. London: Art and Archaeology Research Papers, 1980.
Meinecke, Michael. Die Mamlukische Architektur in Ägypten und Syrien'' (648/1250 bis 923/1517), I/198, II/420-421. Glückstadt: Verlag J. J. Augustin, 1992.
Qaitbay
Buildings and structures completed in 1481
Buildings and structures in Cairo
Mamluk architecture in Egypt
Medieval Cairo
Muizz Street
15th-century establishments in Africa
Historical Monuments in Cairo
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The Swedish Board for Computing Machinery (, MMN) was a Swedish government agency which built Sweden's first computers: BARK and BESK.
A governmental study into the need for computing machinery in Sweden had been conducted in 1947 by initiative of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences and the Naval Procurement Agency. The study recommended the immediate purchase of computing machinery from the United States and a budget of 2 million SEK was allocated for the purpose.
The Swedish Board for Computing Machinery was established on November 26, 1948, to handle the purchase. The Academy of Engineering Sciences had initiated some activities already in 1947 by sending five young engineers and scientists to research groups in the United States to study the ongoing activities. Two were sent to John von Neumann at Princeton, two to Howard H. Aiken at Harvard, and one to IBM.
When it turned out that it would not be possible for Sweden to get export licences for US-built computers, the activities of MMN quickly changed into constructing rather than importing computing machinery. The relay-based BARK, operational in 1950, was built as an interim measure. This was followed by the vacuum tube-based BESK, operational in 1954, which for a short time was the fastest computer in the world.
In 1963, MMN was closed down. At that time, the Swedish government felt that there was no need for further computer development by a government agency, as computers were now an industrial product. MMN had never received funds to launch developments of a new generation of transistor-based computers, so when they were closed down, they were no longer in the forefront of computer development. Some years before, FACIT had recruited many key employees from MMN to its new division for electronic computers. FACIT EDB that were completed in 1957 was essentially a transistor-based version of BESK.
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Defunct government agencies of Sweden
Science and technology in Sweden
History of computing hardware
1948 establishments in Sweden
1963 disestablishments in Sweden
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Baptismal font at St Bartholomew's Church, Liège
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The baptismal font at St Bartholomew's Church, Liège is a Romanesque brass or bronze baptismal font made between 1107 and 1118 now in St Bartholomew's Church, Liège in Liège, Belgium. The font is a major masterpiece of Mosan art, remarkable for the classicism of its style, whose origin has been the subject of great debate among art historians. The Meuse river valley in modern Belgium and France, roughly coterminous with the Diocese of Liège, was the leading 12th-century centre of Romanesque metalwork, which was still the most prestigious medium in art.
History
The Liège font was commissioned after 1107 and completed by 1118 for the church of Notre-Dame-aux-Fonts ("Our Lady's with the font"), which abutted the old Liège Cathedral and functioned as the baptistry for the city. These dates are based on the period of office of the Abbé Hellin, parish priest of the church, known to have commissioned it, for in his obituary in the contemporary () the font is clearly described, though with no mention of the artist. Both cathedral and church were destroyed during the French Revolution, and the font was hidden for safe-keeping before being moved to its present location in 1804. The Liège chronicle describes a cover with figures of the Four Evangelists and prophets, presumably also in metal, which was lost during the Revolution, along with two of the supporting oxen. The present stone plinth and setting replaced in the 20th century a solid round stone one built in 1804. The font is still used for baptisms today; there is normally a small charge for viewing it.
Renier de Huy
The font was traditionally attributed to Renier de Huy, a 12th-century metalworker and sculptor, but this, and even the Mosan origin of the font, have been questioned and alternative theories advanced. Nothing is known of Rainer's life other than that he was mentioned in a document of 1125 as a goldsmith, but a 14th-century chronicle mentions him as the artist of the font. He may have died about 1150. Another equally shadowy figure in Mosan metalwork from the next generation, Godefroid de Huy or de Claire, also came from the small but prosperous city of Huy on the Meuse.
The only other work generally agreed to be by the same master as the font is a small bronze crucifix (Schnütgen Museum, Cologne); another in Brussels has many similarities. A censer in similar style is attributed to Renier or a follower by many.
Style and origin
The figures on the font are in very high relief, and have a remarkable classicism of style; so much so that it has also been suggested that it was in fact made in Constantinople, or by Greeks in Rome about 1000. Other explanations attribute the classicism to close Byzantine influence, though as Honour and Fleming point out, "In bodily proportions, poses, gestures and garments, they recall Classical models far beyond Byzantine, Carolingian, or even Early Christian art"; they suggest the artist might have seen ancient Greek sculptures in Constantinople when on the First Crusade. Other writers explain the style as emerging from older Mosan and Carolingian traditions, with recent Byzantine influence, and prefiguring Gothic figure style. The idealized figures are modelled in rounded forms; several nude figures are present, and one is seen from behind in a three-quarters view, a sophisticated classical pose.
Art-historical argument over the origin of the font has been vigorous and sometimes acrimonious, and in recent decades mostly conducted in French. In support of the Byzantine origin theory, analysis of the lead in 1993 has shown that it came from mines in Spain or Sardinia, whereas other Mosan works used locally sourced metal. Pierre Colman and his wife Berthe Lhoist-Colman have developed a "Roman" theory, according to which the Holy Roman Emperor Otto III commissioned the font from Greek craftsmen in Rome in about 1000, as a gift for the Basilica of Saint John Lateran there. Decades later it was carried off by Henry IV or Henry V to the Meuse. However most art historians continue to accept the traditional Mosan attribution, and relate the style to the other works mentioned above.
Description
The basin is across at the top, tapering slightly towards the base, and is variously described as of brass or bronze. It was made by lost wax casting, with the basin cast in a single piece; the size was not necessarily exceptional, as both church bells and cauldrons for large households were probably cast at comparable sizes; some church doors cast in a single piece, though flat, were much larger. The font sat on twelve oxen (two are now missing), who emerged from a stone plinth, a reference to the "molten sea... on twelve oxen" cast in bronze for Solomon's temple The five scenes shown, identified by Latin inscriptions ("tituli") on the rim above and in the image field, can be read in chronological sequence:
John the Baptist preaching to four figures, the last on the right in full military gear; followed by a fig tree.
John baptising two neophytes, with two further figures to the right, who probably represent the two disciples John told to follow Jesus (John 1:35–37). As often in Early Medieval art, the attempt to convey the River Jordan stretching away in perspective has it rise up like a mound. A palm tree follows.
The Baptism of Christ by John the Baptist, a commonly represented scene, again with the water piling up like a mound. Jesus is beardless and young, as is also typical. The angel to the right of Jesus has his hands veiled with a cloth, a mark of respect in Eastern liturgy, though it may also simply represent a cloth ready for Jesus to dry himself with. An olive tree follows.
Saint Peter baptising Cornelius the Centurion, the first gentile to be baptised (Acts 10), with a sponsor or godfather. The Hand of God appears from above to signal approval.
Saint John the Evangelist baptising the "philosopher Craton", also with a sponsor and Hand. A vine follows. The story of Craton comes from apocryphal writings such as the account of John's life by the Pseudo-Abdias.
Except for the last two the scenes are separated by trees which are stylised in typical Romanesque fashion, but whose leaf shapes are all different. A continuous undulating ground-line runs all round the basin. Other inscriptions run round the top and bottom rims of the basin. While the baptism of Jesus is very commonly depicted in Early Medieval art, those of the other figures are very rare subjects indeed, and this unusually elaborate and learned programme was no doubt composed with clerical assistance. It does not reflect Byzantine iconographic precedents; instead it matches closely the interest in typology and allegory, of which the influential contemporary Liège-born theologian Rupert of Deutz was a particular exponent (though Rupert was also a particular opponent of the bishop at the time, Otbert of Liège, who took the Emperor's side in the Investiture Controversy). The head of God the Father that appears at the top of the Baptism of Christ (identified as PATER) is an early appearance of God the Father in Western art; a Hand of God, more typical of the period, appears in the baptism scenes of Cornelius and Craton.
The baptismal font in the little village of Furnaux (Mettet), relatively far from Liège but at that time in the same diocese, has the same theological background linking Rupert de Deutz's theological vision where the Old Testament and New Testament are closely linked.
Notes
References
Beckwith, John. Early Medieval Art: Carolingian, Ottonian, Romanesque, Thames & Hudson, 1964 (rev. 1969),
Calkins, Robert G.; Monuments of Medieval Art, Dutton, 1979,
Cartlidge, David R. and Elliott, James Keith, Art and the Christian Apocrypha, Routledge, 2001, , , Google books
Henderson, George. Gothic Art, 1967, Penguin,
Henderson, George. Early Medieval Art, 1972, rev. 1977, Penguin.
Hugh Honour and John Fleming, A World History of Art, 1st edn. 1982 & later editions, Macmillan, London, page refs to 1984 Macmillan 1st edn. paperback.
Kleiner, Fred S., Christin J. Mamiya, and Helen Gardner. Gardner's Art Through the Ages. Belmont: Wadsworth, 2004
Lasko, Peter, Ars Sacra, Penguin History of Art (now Yale)
City of Liège Tourism, with good feature, and a bibliography of recent scholarship in French. Accessed 10 Jan. 2010
"Oxford": Rainer of Huy: The Oxford Dictionary of Art. Accessed 10 Jan. 2010,
Swarzenski, Hanns. Monuments of Romanesque Art; The Art of Church Treasures in North-Western Europe, Faber and Faber, 1974,
Xhayet, Geneviève and Halleux, Robert (eds), Études sur les fonts baptismaux de Saint-Barthélémy à Liège, Editions du CEFAL, 2006, , 9782871302124 google books
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Meloy (surname)
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Meloy is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Colin Meloy (born 1974), American singer-songwriter and author
Ellen Meloy (1946–2004), American writer
Francis E. Meloy, Jr. (1917–1976), American diplomat
Guy S. Meloy, Jr. (1903–1964), United States Army general
Maile Meloy (born 1972), American writer
Paul Meloy (born 1966), English writer
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List of companies in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex
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For a list of companies based within Dallas city limits, go to List of companies in Dallas
The Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex is home to over 20 corporate headquarters, making the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex one of the largest corporate headquarters concentration in the United States. This also has resulted in the growth of Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, home to American Airlines, the second largest airline in the world, largest in the U.S. and the rapid population growth of the metropolitan area, the fourth largest in the United States. In recent years, the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex has also attracted many other large companies such as Toyota, State Farm, JPMorgan Chase and Core-Mark. In 2019, Charles Schwab announced it would be relocating its San Francisco headquarters to Westlake, a suburb of Fort Worth.
Uber, based in San Francisco, will create a regional hub and hire 3,000 employees by the end of 2022 in Dallas.
The following companies are a selection of notable companies based in the metropolitan area.
Fortune 500 companies
The following are the Fortune 500 companies headquartered in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex:
9 McKesson (Irving)
13 AT&T (Dallas)
54 Energy Transfer Partners (Dallas)
114 American Airlines Group (Fort Worth)
124 DR Horton (Arlington)
126 CBRE Group (Dallas)
176 Builders Firstsource (Dallas)
181 Tenet Healthcare (Dallas)
182 Kimberly-Clark (Irving)
188 Charles Schwab Corporation (Westlake)
197 HF Sinclair (Dallas)
198 Texas Instruments (Dallas)
234 Southwest Airlines (Dallas)
248 Pioneer Natural Resources (Irving)
259 Fluor Corporation (Irving)
260 AECOM (Dallas)
262 Jacobs Engineering (Dallas)
315 Vistra Energy (Irving)
406 Celanese (Irving)
484 Commercial Metals (Irving)
485 EnLink Midstream (Dallas)
Other notable companies based in the Dallas–Fort Worth area
7-Eleven (Irving)
Acme Brick (Fort Worth)
Alcon (Fort Worth)
At Home (Plano)
Bell Textron (Fort Worth)
Ben E. Keith Company (Fort Worth)
Black-eyed Pea (Arlington)
BNSF (Fort Worth)
Borden Milk Products (Dallas)
Boston Pizza Restaurants (Dallas)
Briggs Equipment (Dallas)
Brinker International (Dallas)
Carlson Restaurants Worldwide (Carrollton)
Cash America International (Fort Worth)
Chief Oil & Gas (Dallas)
Chili's (Dallas)
Christus Health (Irving)
Cicis (Irving)
Cinemark (Plano)
Citibank (Irving)
Comerica (Dallas)
Continental Electronics (Dallas)
Copart (Dallas)
Corgan (Dallas)
Corner Bakery Cafe (Dallas)
Chuck E. Cheese (Irving)
Crossmark (Plano)
Dave & Buster's (Dallas)
Delek (Dallas)
Dickey's Barbecue Pit (Dallas)
DXC Technology (Plano)
Ericsson (Plano)
Essilor of America (Dallas)
Fairmount Food Group (Dallas)
FedEx Office (Plano)
FFE Transportation (Dallas)
Fidelity Investments (Westlake)
Fisher Investments (Plano)
Flowserve (Irving)
Fossil Group (Richardson)
Frito-Lay (Plano)
Funimation (Flower Mound)
Galderma (Fort Worth)
GAINSCO (Dallas)
GameStop (Grapevine)
Gap Broadcasting Group (Dallas)
Gartner, Inc. (Irving)
GE Capital (Arlington)
GM Financial (Fort Worth)
Goldman Sachs (Dallas)
Greyhound Lines (Dallas)
Gutterth (Denton)
Haggar Clothing (Dallas)
Half Price Books (Dallas)
Hall of Fame Racing (Dallas)
HBK Investments (Dallas)
Hitachi Consulting (Dallas)
Hilltop Holdings Inc. (Dallas)
Hoak Media Corporation (Dallas)
Hotels.com (Dallas)
id Software (Dallas)
InfoCom Corporation (Dallas)
Interstate Batteries (Dallas)
Intuit (Plano)
KidZania (USA headquarters) (Plano)
Knockouts (Irving)
Jamba Juice (Frisco)
JPMorgan Chase (Plano)
Justin Boots (Fort Worth)
La Madeleine (Dallas)
La Quinta Inns & Suites (Irving)
Lennox International (Richardson)
Liberty Mutual Insurance (Plano)
Lockheed Martin (Fort Worth)
Mary Kay (Addison)
Match.com (Dallas)
Matrix Business Technologies (Dallas)
Merit Energy (Dallas)
Metro by T-Mobile (Richardson)
The Michaels Companies (Irving)
Microsoft (Irving)
Mohr Partners (Dallas)
MoneyGram (Dallas)
Monitronics (Farmers Branch)
MumboJumbo (Dallas)
NCH Corporation (Irving)
Neiman Marcus (Dallas)
NEC Corporation of America (Irving)
Nexstar Media Group (Irving)
Niagara Conservation Corporation (Fort Worth)
Nokia (North American Headquarters) (Dallas)
NTT Data (Plano)
The Odee Company (Dallas)
TPG Sixth Street Partners
Peterbilt (Denton)
PlainsCapital Corporation (Dallas)
Pizza Hut (Plano)
Pioneer Corporation (Fort Worth)
Primoris Services Corporation (Dallas)
Raytheon (Plano)
Red Mango (Dallas)
Reddy Ice (Dallas)
Rent-A-Center (Plano)
Robinhood Markets (Westlake)
Rolex (Dallas)
Sabre Corporation (Southlake)
Salesforce (Dallas)
Sally Beauty Holdings (Denton)
Sammons Enterprises (Dallas)
ScrewAttack (Flower Mound)
Siemens Digital Industries Software (Plano)
Siemens (Grand Prairie, Texas)
Six Flags (Grand Prairie)
Skagen Denmark (Richardson)
Smoothie King (Dallas)
Solera Holdings (Westlake)
Sports Media, Inc. (Dallas)
State Farm Insurance (Richardson)
TD Ameritrade (Westlake)
Think Finance (Dallas)
Titanium Metals (Dallas)
Topgolf (Dallas)
Torchmark Corporation (Headquarters) (McKinney)
Toyota Motor North America (Headquarters) (Plano)
Travelocity (Dallas)
Trinity Industries (Dallas)
Tuesday Morning (Dallas)
Tyler Technologies (Headquarters) (Plano)
Uber Technologies (Dallas)
United Surgical Partners International (Dallas)
Verizon (Irving)
Wingstop (Dallas)
XTO Energy (Fort Worth)
ZTE (USA headquarters) (Richardson)
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International distress frequency
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An international distress frequency is a radio frequency that is designated for emergency communication by international agreement.
History
For much of the 20th century, 500 kHz was the primary international distress frequency. Its use has been phased out in favor of the Global Maritime Distress Safety System.
Use of some distress frequencies is permitted for calling other stations to establish contact, whereupon the stations move to another frequency. Such channels are known as distress, safety and calling frequencies.
Satellite processing from all 121.5 or 243 MHz locators has been discontinued. Since February 1, 2009, the U.S. Coast Guard only monitors distress signals from emergency position indicating radio beacons (EPIRBs) that broadcast using digital 406 MHz signals. Digital 406 MHz models became the only ones approved for use in both commercial and recreational watercraft worldwide on January 1, 2007.
Maritime Mobile Service frequencies
International distress frequencies, currently in use are:
2182 kHz for medium range maritime voice use. The US Coast Guard has said "beginning August 1st, 2013 the Coast Guard would no longer monitor 2182 kHz". Many other MRCCs, for example most in Northern Europe, now only have MF capabilities and no HF.
Several HF maritime voice frequencies exist for long-distance distress calls:
4125 kHz
6215 kHz
8291 kHz
12290 kHz
16420 kHz
Marine VHF radio Channel 16 (156.8 MHz) for short range maritime use
406 MHz to 406.1 MHz is used by the Cospas-Sarsat international satellite-based search and rescue (SAR) distress alert detection and information distribution system
Digital selective calling frequencies
Several maritime frequencies are used for digital selective calling (DSC), and they are also monitored for DSC distress signals:
2.1875 MHz
4.2075 MHz
6.312 MHz
8.4145 MHz
12.577 MHz
16.8045 MHz
156.525 MHz, Marine VHF radio Channel 70
Aeronautical frequencies
121.5 MHz is the civilian aircraft emergency frequency or International Air Distress frequency. It is used by some civilian emergency locator beacons; however, the Cospas-Sarsat system no longer monitors the frequency.
243 MHz for NATO military aircraft emergency frequencies
406 MHz to 406.1 MHz is used by the Cospas-Sarsat international satellite-based search and rescue (SAR) distress alert detection and information distribution system
Search And Rescue frequencies
123.1 MHz: Aeronautical Auxiliary Frequency (International voice for coordinated SAR operations).
138.78 MHz— U.S. military voice SAR on-the-scene use. This frequency is also used for direction finding (DF).
155.160 MHz
172.5 MHz— U.S. Navy emergency sonobuoy communications and homing use. This frequency is monitored by all U.S. Navy ASW aircraft assigned to a SAR mission.
282.8 MHz— Joint/combined on-the-scene voice and DF frequency used throughout NATO
406 MHz / 406.1 MHz - Cospas-Sarsat international satellite-based search and rescue (SAR) distress alert detection and information distribution system
Emergency position-indicating radiobeacon station (EPIRB)
Search and rescue transponder (SART)
Survival radio
Amateur radio frequencies
VHF, UHF calling frequencies can also be used to make emergency calls
MF and HF frequencies
Emergency Centre of Activity (ECOA) frequencies informally established by the International Amateur Radio Union regional organizations:
Emergency/Disaster Relief Interoperation Voice Channels of the amateur radio Global ALE High Frequency Network:
3791.0 kHz USB
7185.5 kHz USB
10145.5 kHz USB
14346.0 kHz USB
18117.5 kHz USB
21432.5 kHz USB
24932.0 kHz USB
28312.5 kHz USB
Other frequencies
Citizens band (CB) radio (not available in all countries)
Emergency channels 9 (27.065 MHz AM) and 19 (27.185 MHz AM)
GMRS: 462.675 MHz is a UHF mobile distress and road information calling frequency allocated to the General Mobile Radio Service and used throughout Alaska and Canada for emergency communications; sometimes referred to as "Orange Dot" by some transceiver manufacturers who associated a frequency with a color-code for ease of channel coordination, until the creation of the Family Radio Service, in 1996, "GMRS 675" or Channel 6/20 on mobile radios today. Its bandwidth can vary between 12.5, 25 and 50 kHz, and is also allocated to Ch. 20 on 22-channel FRS/GMRS "blister pack" radios. It can have a repeater input frequency of 467.675 MHz, and a tone squelch of 141.3 Hz. After FCC deregulation of simplex FRS/GMRS radios, FRS users may transmit up to 2 watts on the GMRS emergency channel 20 (462.675 MHz) with 141.3 Hz CTCSS, or channel 20-22.
MURS: 151.940 MHz (only available in the United States)
FRS: FRS channel 1: 462.5625 MHz (carrier squelch, no tone or sub-channel), channel 3: 462.6125 MHz and channel 20: 462.6750 MHz (141.3 Hz CTCSS - channel 20, code 22 or channel 20-22).
UHF CB (Australia): Emergency channels 5/35 (476.525/477.275 MHz). Channel 5 is the designated simplex and repeater output emergency channel, while channel 35 is used as the repeater input frequency for duplex operation. UHF CB is only available in Australia and New Zealand.
PMR446 (Europe): Channel 1 analog (446.00625 MHz, CTCSS 100.0 Hz, channel 1/12), Channel 8 analog (446.09375 MHz, CTCSS 123.0 Hz, channel 8/18).
PMR446 (Europe): Mountain Rescue Channel 7 analog (446.08125 MHz) , CTCSS 85.4 Hz (Channel 7/7 in most radios, not all)
CB245 (Thailand) : VHF Citizen Band Channel 1 (245.0000 MHz) and Channel 41 (245.5000 MHz)
CB78 (Thailand) : VHF-LOW Citizen Band Channel 41 (78.5000 MHz)
See also
Aircraft emergency frequency
Distress signal
Global Maritime Distress Safety System
Mayday
SOS
References
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Emergency communication
International telecommunications
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Democracy (disambiguation)
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Democracy is a political concept or form of government.
Democracy or Democracies may also refer to:
Politics
When used as a noun, the phrase "a democracy" is often used as substitute for the continental European concept of a Rechtsstaat
"The Democracy", a late-19th-century term for the U.S. Democratic Party
A Democracy Party
A management style in which employees take part in decision-making
Printed media
Democracy (newspaper), a defunct English-language newspaper published in Thailand
Democracy (novel), a 1984 novel by Joan Didion
Democracy (journal), a progressive political journal
Democracy (play), a stage play by Michael Frayn
Democracy: An American Novel, an 1880 novel by Henry Adams
Democracy: The God That Failed, a book by Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Democracy: Stories from the Long Road to Freedom, a 2017 book by Condoleezza Rice
Democracies: Patterns of Majoritarian & Consensus Government in Twenty-one Countries, a 1984 book by Arend Lijphart
Film, TV and games
Democracy (film), a 1918 British film directed by Sidney Morgan
"Democracy" (Numbers), an episode of the television series Numbers
Democracy (video game), a turn based political strategy video game
Democracy Player, later called Miro (software), an Internet TV platform developed by the Participatory Culture Foundation
Music
Democracy (album), a 1996 album by English post-punk group Killing Joke
"Democracy", a song by Leonard Cohen from his album The Future
See also
Democracy Party (disambiguation)
Democrat (disambiguation)
Democracy Now (disambiguation)
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Morton Denn
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Morton Mace Denn (born July 7, 1939) is a rheologist, chemical engineer, and the Albert Einstein Professor Emeritus of Science and Engineering at the City College of New York. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and winner of a Fulbright Lectureship award, Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Bingham Medal. He previously taught at the University of Delaware and the University of California, Berkeley and was the director of the Benjamin Levich Institute for Physicochemical Hydrodynamics from 2001 to 2015. He was also a program leader at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for 16 years.
Early life
Denn was born on July 7, 1939, in Paterson, New Jersey to Herbert, a drugstore owner, and Esther Denn. He has one sister, Dorothy. During his childhood, Denn was an active member of the Junior Congregation of Temple Emanuel of North Jersey in Paterson was part of his synagogue's Boy Scout troop, and in 1957 served as the North Jersey Regional President of the Aleph Zadik Aleph youth organization. He graduated from Eastside High School, where he was inducted into the National Honor Society, in 1957. He worked as a laboratory technician for the Linen Thread Company developing foamed plastic boat bumpers the summer before college.
While at Princeton University, he was president of Hillel and a member of the Dial Lodge, Triangle Club, and band. He wrote a senior thesis under William R. Schowalter on normal stress measurements and worked at the Dupont Engineering Research Laboratory during the summers of 1960 and 1961. He graduated magna cum laude with a BScE in chemical engineering in 1961. He pursued his PhD in chemical engineering at the University of Minnesota between 1961 and 1964 and wrote his dissertation, "The Optimization by Complex Processes," under the supervision of Rutherford Aris. After finishing his degree, he spent one year as a postdoctoral fellow in the University of Delaware's Chemical Engineering department, studying Non-Newtonian fluid mechanics with Arthur B. Metzner.
Career
Denn joined the faculty at the University of Delaware in 1965 as an assistant professor of Computer Science; only a quarter of his academic appointment at this time was in Chemical Engineering. He became an associate professor of Chemical Engineering in 1968, a full professor in 1971, and the Allan P. Colburn Professor in 1977. He moved to the University of California, Berkeley, as Professor of Chemical Engineering in 1981 and served as the department chair from 1991 to 1994. He simultaneously held an appointment at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where he was the program leader and founder of the Polymers and Composites Research Program in the Center for Advanced Materials from 1983 to 1999. He also headed the Materials Chemistry group in the Materials Science Division from 1995 to 1998.
Denn joined the faculty of City College of New York in 1999 as CUNY Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering. He also held an appointment in the physics department. In 2001, he became the Albert Einstein Professor of Science and Engineering and was appointed the third director of the Benjamin Levich Institute for Physicochemical Hydrodynamics, a role he held until 2015. He retired in 2014. Students who worked in his lab include Benny D. Freeman, Rakesh Jain, and Glenn Lipscomb.
During his career, Denn was a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1978-1985); Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (1979-1980); California Institute of Technology (1980); University of Melbourne (1985); Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1998-1999, 2009–2010); Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (2011, 2014); and University of Amsterdam (2012-2015). He worked as the sole editor of AIChE Journal between 1985 and 1991 and as the editor for the Journal of Rheology from 1995 to 2005. He also worked on the editorial boards for the Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics (1976-2019), Advances in Chemical Engineering (1984–85, 1993–2003), and Rheologica Acta (1995-2005) and as a consulting editor for AIChE Journal from 1991 to 1995.
Personal life
He married Marilyn Goldfarb in Teaneck, New Jersey on June 28, 1962 and had three children: Matt, Susannah, and Rebekah. By 1996, he had married historian Vivienne Roumani.
Selected publications
Articles
1976: "Instabilities in polymer processing." American Institute of Chemical Engineering Journal, 22(2): 209–236.
1976: "Chemical Process Control." With A.S. Foss. American Institute of Chemical Engineers Conference Proceedings (159): 232.
1987: "Wall slip and extrudate distortion in linear low-density polyethylene." Journal of Rheology, 31(8): 815–834. With D.S. Kalika.
2001: "Extrusion instabilities and wall slip." Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 33(1): 265–287. With C.J.S. Petrie.
2013: "Discontinuous shear thickening of frictional hard-sphere suspensions." Physical Review Letters, 111(21): 218301. With R. Seto, R. Mari, and J.F. Morris.
2017: "Yield stress materials in soft condensed matter." Reviews of Modern Physics, 89(3): 035005. With D. Bonn, L. Berthier, T. Diboux, and S. Manneville.
Books
1969: Optimization by Variational Methods. McGraw-Hill. . 1978 reprint by Krieger Publishing. .
1972: Introduction to Chemical Engineering Analysis with T.W.F. Russell. Wiley. .
1975: Stability of Reaction and Transport Processes. Prentice-Hall. .
1980: Process Fluid Mechanics. Prentice-Hall. .
1986: Process Modeling. Longman/Wiley.
2008: Polymer Melt Processing: Foundations in Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer. Cambridge University Press. .
2011: Chemical Engineering: An Introduction. Cambridge University Press. .
Book chapters
1979: "Modeling for Process Control" in Advances in Control and Dynamic Systems, ed. C.T. Leondes. Academic Press. Pages 148–192. .
1983: "Fibre Spinning" in Computational Analysis of Polymer Processing, eds. J.R.A. Pearson and S.M. Richardson. Applied Science Publishers Ltd. Pages 179–216. .
1986: Coal Gasification Reactors with R. Shinnar in Chemical Reaction and Reactor Engineering, eds. J.J. Carberry and A. Varna. Marcel Dekker. Pages 516–561. .
1998: "Processing, Modeling." Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Engineering, Volume 13, ed. J.I. Kroschwitz. Wiley. Page 425. Revised version in third edition, 2004, volume 11, page 263.
1991: "The Identity of Our Profession." In Perspectives in Chemical Engineering: Research and Education (Advances in Chemical Engineering, Volume 16, ed. C.K. Colton. Academic Press. Page 565.
Honors and awards
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1939 births
Living people
City College of New York faculty
People from Paterson, New Jersey
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Princeton University School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni
University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering alumni
University of Delaware faculty
American chemical engineers
20th-century American engineers
21st-century American engineers
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Engineers from New York City
UC Berkeley College of Engineering faculty
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory people
Members of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers
Fulbright alumni
Jewish American scientists
American Jews from New Jersey
American Jews from New York (state)
American Jews from California
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Operation Harrison was an operation conducted by the 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division in Phú Yên Province, lasting from 26 February to 25 March 1966.
Prelude
Brigadier General Pearson sought to use semi-guerilla tactics to locate Viet Cong and People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) units and then bring firepower and mobility to bear on enemy units once located.
Operation
On 26 February the 2nd Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment was deployed by helicopter 30km northwest of Tuy Hòa, while the 2nd Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment was landed by helicopter 10km southeast. The units were unable to locate any enemy forces.
On 4 March in the Tuy Hòa Valley, 16km southwest of Tuy Hòa City a villager approached the command post of the 1/327th which was providing rice harvest security to advise them that he had seen PAVN troops with mortars moving towards the village of Thanh Phu, 3km to the southwest. Two rifle companies were deployed towards Thanh Phu. As Company B passed the hamlet of My Phu they were hit by enemy fire. Company A proceeded to attack the hamlet across two dry rice paddies suffering heavy losses. Major David Hackworth arrived on the scene in the late afternoon and took command. The two companies made slow progress and by nightfall they disengaged. Maj Hackworth tried to establish a night cordon around the PAVN but lacked the manpower to do so, so instead positioned Tiger Force south of the hamlet and used artillery fire to cover the gaps in the cordon. The PAVN slipped away during the night, but the following morning 109 PAVN bodies were found around the hamlet. U.S. losses were 19 killed.
On 5 March 2/327th relieved 1/327th which moved further west. On 13 March 2/502nd made an unusual night assault to exploit a B-52 strike but found no enemy, a similar assault on 15 March was also fruitless. Prisoner interrogations revealed that the 95th Regiment had broken into small units and dispersed west into the mountains.
Aftermath
Operation Harrison officially concluded on 25 March, the US claiming PAVN losses were 288 killed and 35 captured, U.S. losses were 42 killed and 2 missing.
References
External links
Conflicts in 1966
1966 in Vietnam
Battles involving the United States
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Adam Kellerman (born 26 July 1990) is an Australian wheelchair tennis player. When he was thirteen years old, he was diagnosed with a form of cancer called Ewing sarcoma. He represented Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in the men's singles and doubles wheelchair tennis events. As of 21 July 2016 he is ranked Number 1 in Australia and Number 11 in the World for Men's Single Wheelchair Tennis. He competed for Australia at the 2016 Rio Paralympics.
Personal
While dealing with his cancer, he developed an infection that resulted in the removal of his right hip which resulted in limited use of his right leg. His medical condition left him in a state of depression that lasted for two years.
He attended Masada College. In 2010, he won the New South Wales Maccabi Sportsman of the Year. For a brief time, he attended the University of Arizona before leaving university to pursue his tennis career. During his time at University of Arizona, he joined Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity and was very active in his chapter. He occasionally works as a motivational speaker. , he lived in the Sydney area and was a student.
Kellerman is right handed. His father is the Northside Maccabi Football Club president.
Wheelchair tennis
Kellerman is a wheelchair tennis player. When playing, he follows the same rules as his able-bodied counterparts except the ball is allowed to bounce twice. He started playing tennis in December 2006, and took up the sport full-time in 2011.
Kellerman first represented Australia in 2007, and was a member of Australia's junior national team in 2007 and 2008. In 2008, he played some doubles matches with Ben Weekes.
At the beginning of 2012, Kellerman was ranked 61st in the world. By June 2012, he was ranked 29th in the world and number two in Australia. He had worked hard to improve his ranking over the course of the year because only the top 46 ranked players in the world qualified for the Paralympics. In the last half of 2011 and first half of 2012, he participated in 21 different competitions.
Kellerman was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, United Kingdom, in the men's singles and the doubles event where he teamed up with Ben Weekes. The Games were his first. He was twenty-one years old at the Games. Prior to competing at the 2012 Summer Paralympics, he had only played wheelchair tennis for five and a half years.
He made the round of 16 in the men's singles and doubles at the London Games.
At the 2016 Rio Paralympics, Kellerman lost to Gustavo Fernández (ARG) 0–2 (1–6, 2–6) in the Men's Singles round of 16 and in the Men's Doubles with Ben Weekes lost in the round of 16.
Recognition
2014 – Tennis Australia Most Outstanding Athlete with a Disability.
References
External links
1990 births
Living people
Australian male tennis players
Australian wheelchair tennis players
Wheelchair category Paralympic competitors
Paralympic wheelchair tennis players for Australia
Wheelchair tennis players at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
Wheelchair tennis players at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
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Tennis people from New South Wales
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James King (23 May 1851 – 28 June 1921) was an Australian cricketer. He played in eight first-class matches for South Australia between 1872 and 1885.
See also
List of South Australian representative cricketers
References
External links
1851 births
1921 deaths
Sportspeople from the Colony of South Australia
Australian cricketers
South Australia cricketers
Cricketers from Adelaide
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, born October 30, 1981 and known professionally as , is a Japanese actress and former singer. From 1998 to 2008, Nagate was part of Hello! Project as a member of the Japan-based girl group Coconuts Musume.
History
Nagate joined Hello! Project in 1999 after being discovered by , fellow Sharan Q bandmate of Tsunku, with four other girls, forming Coconuts Musume. Having lived most of her teenage years in Hawaii and attending English schools in Japan, Nagate is fluent in both Japanese and English. She is best known by foreign fans for her "Ayaka no Totsugeki Eikaiwa" (Ayaka's Surprise English Lessons) TV segment, where she would test the English skills of Morning Musume members.
On April 30, 2008, Nagate left from Coconuts Musume and Hello! Project to pursue acting. The following day, it was revealed that she had signed with Tristone Entertainment, going under the stage name of Ayaka Nagate.
Personal life
On July 14, 2008, it was announced that she and professional golfer Hideto Tanihara had married.
Photobooks
September 5, 2003 –
References
External links
Ayaka's Official Blog
1981 births
Coconuts Musume members
Petitmoni members
11Water members
Japanese television personalities
Japanese actresses
Actors from Kobe
Musicians from Hawaii
Living people
Singers_from_Kobe
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Dar Qeshlaq (, also Romanized as Dār Qeshlāq; also known as Dar Gheshlagh and Dār Kushlāq) is a village in Mehraban-e Sofla Rural District, Gol Tappeh District, Kabudarahang County, Hamadan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 266, in 57 families.
References
Populated places in Kabudarahang County
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is a Japanese mobile game. An anime television series adaptation aired from October 2019 to December 2019. An original video animation was released in May 2023.
Media
Video game
The mobile game was developed by Coly and released on iOS and Android on September 5, 2016.
Anime
An anime television series adaptation of the mobile game was announced in September 2018. It was produced by M.S.C and directed by Hideyo Yamamoto, with Sayaka Harada writing the scripts, Yuki Takayama designing the characters, and Fox Capture Plan composing the music. The cast from the original mobile game reprised their roles. The series premiered on October 7, 2019. Internationally, the series was licensed by Funimation outside of Asia. An English dub premiered one week after the original release of the first episode.
A new original video animation (OVA) was announced in May 2021. Titled Stand My Heroes: Warmth of Memories, it is directed by Hitomi Ezoe, with the main staff from the TV series returning. The OVA was released in Japan on May 24, 2023.
Reception
The anime series' first episode garnered poor reviews from Anime News Network's staff during the Fall 2019 season previews. Rebecca Silverman felt it was a poor adaptation that makes Rei come across as a "useless otoge heroine" and its only major goal was to introduce the game's fan favorite characters, concluding that she will continue to watch it but with low expectations. Nick Creamer was critical of the thin narrative only propping up the similarly designed male cast to attract female viewers and the "fairly mediocre" animation being "largely functional", concluding that: "Ultimately, Stand My Heroes just feels like a reverse harem with extra steps - the police drama framework chafes awkwardly against the quasi-dating sim tone, making for an oddly stilted experience." James Beckett gave it credit for being an adult driven plot that's outside of the fantasy and sci-fi genres but criticized Rei for being a "limp and featureless" protagonist that's barely part of her own story and felt the male love interests carried "indistinguishable characterizing features", concluding that: "If you're looking for hard-boiled investigative drama this season, stick with something like Babylon. Only diehard genre fans will be able to get much out of this one." Theron Martin found the narrative to be "painfully contrived" by dating sim standards and the character of Rei to be a bland audience stand-in with unconvincing characteristics, concluding that: "Maybe this series might work for dedicated fans of otome games, but even on that judging standard I find it quite weak." Silverman reviewed the complete anime series in 2020 and gave it a C− rating. She criticized the adaptation for having "sloppy storytelling" and a "general lack of coherency" when combining various character routes and telling its overarching drug-crime plot, a bloated male cast with similar features and "lackluster production values", concluding that: "It isn't painful to watch, but that's almost too bad, because even if it had failed spectacularly, it would still have been more memorable than it ultimately is."
References
External links
2016 video games
2019 anime television series debuts
2023 anime OVAs
Anime television series based on video games
Android (operating system) games
Crunchyroll anime
IOS games
Otome games
OVAs based on video games
Video games about police officers
Video games developed in Japan
Video games featuring female protagonists
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Number 23 Basketball Player is a sculpture by Niki de Saint Phalle.
It is from the Black Heroes Series.
It is part of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, New York Avenue Sculpture Project.
Reviews
Jacqueline Trescott (2010). "National Museum of Women in the Arts to turn D.C. corridor into sculpture alley". Style. The Washington Post. Retrieved 8 Feb 2011.
Blake Gopnik (2010). "Sculptures add color to New York Avenue, but are they art?". Style. The Washington Post. Retrieved 8 Feb 2011.
See also
List of public art in Washington, D.C., Ward 2
References
External links
NMWAs New York Avenue Sculpture Project Website
Amherst College Digital Collection
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mpcevat/2363890072/
Outdoor sculptures in Washington, D.C.
2000 sculptures
Fiberglass sculptures in Washington, D.C.
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The Scripps Institution of Oceanography (sometimes referred to as SIO, Scripps Oceanography, or Scripps), located in San Diego, California, is one of the oldest and largest centers for ocean and Earth science research in the US. Originally founded in 1903, since becoming part of the University of California system in 1912, the institution has expanded its scope to include studies of the physics, chemistry, geology, biology, and climate of Earth.
Scripps publishes explorations now, an e-magazine of ocean and earth science.
History
Scripps Institution of Oceanography was founded in 1903 as the Marine Biological Association of San Diego, an independent biological research laboratory. It was proposed and incorporated by a committee of the San Diego Chamber of Commerce, led by local activist and amateur malacologist Fred Baker, together with two colleagues. He recruited University of California Zoology professor William Emerson Ritter to head up the proposed marine biology institution, and obtained financial support from local philanthropists E. W. Scripps and Ellen Browning Scripps. They fully funded the institution for its first decade. It began institutional life in the boathouse of the Hotel del Coronado located on San Diego Bay. It re-located in 1905 to the La Jolla area on the head above La Jolla Cove, and finally in 1907 to its present location.
In 1912 Scripps became incorporated into the University of California and was renamed the "Scripps Institution for Biological Research." Since 1916, measurements have been taken daily at its pier. The name was changed to Scripps Institution of Oceanography in October 1925. During the 1960s, led by Scripps Institution of Oceanography director Roger Revelle, it formed the nucleus for the creation of the University of California, San Diego on a bluff overlooking Scripps Institution.
The Old Scripps Building, designed by Irving Gill, was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1982. Architect Barton Myers designed the current Scripps Building for the Institution of Oceanography in 1998.
Research programs
The institution's research programs encompass biological, physical, chemical, geological, and geophysical studies of the oceans and land. Scripps also studies the interaction of the oceans with both the atmospheric climate and environmental concerns on terra firma. Related to this research, Scripps offers undergraduate and graduate degrees.
Today, the Scripps staff of 1,300 includes approximately 235 faculty, 180 other scientists and some 350 graduate students, with an annual budget of more than $281 million. The institution operates a fleet of four oceanographic research vessels.
The Integrated Research Themes encompassing the work done by Scripps researchers are Biodiversity and Conservation, California Environment, Earth and Planetary Chemistry, Earth Through Space and Time, Energy and the Environment, Environment and Human Health, Global Change, Global Environmental Monitoring, Hazards, Ice and Climate, Instruments and Innovation, Interfaces, Marine Life, Modeling Theory and Computing, Sound and Light and the Sea, and Waves and Circulation.
Organizational structure
Margaret Leinen took office as the Director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Vice Chancellor for Marine Sciences, and Dean of the Graduate School of Marine Sciences on October 1, 2013.
Scripps Oceanography is divided into three research sections, each with its own subdivisions:
Biology
Center for Marine Biotechnology & Biomedicine (CMBB)
Integrative Oceanography Division (IOD)
Marine Biology Research Division (MBRD)
Earth
Cecil H. and Ida M. Green Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP)
Geosciences Research Division (GRD)
Oceans & Atmosphere
Climate, Atmospheric Science & Physical Oceanography (CASPO)
Marine Physical Laboratory (MPL)
California Sea Grant
On October 25, 1973, California Sea Grant became a college (National Sea Grant College Program) administered by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego.
Research vessels
Scripps owns and operates several research vessels and platforms:
RV Roger Revelle
RV Sally Ride
RV Robert Gordon Sproul
RP Flip
RV Bob and Betty Beyster
Current and previous vessels larger than
1906–???? – RV Loma
1907–1917 – RV Alexander Agassiz
1918–1918 – RV Ellen Browning
1925–1936 – RV Scripps
1937–1955 – RV E. W. Scripps
1955–1965 – RV Stranger (Operated as USS Jasper from 1941 to 1947 for the UC Division of War Research)
1947–1956 – RV Crest
1947–1969 – RV Horizon
1948–1965 – RV Paolina-T
1951–1965 – RV Spencer F.Baird
1955–1969 – T-441
1956–1962 – RV Orca
1959–1963 – RV Hugh M. Smith
1959–1970 – RV Argo (Official Navy name was Snatch)
1962–1976 – RV Alexander Agassiz
1962–present – RP FLIP
1962–1974 – RV Oconostota (The Oconostota was known as "The Rolling O" because of its unpleasant motion.)
1965–1980 – RV Alpha Helix (Transferred to University of Alaska, Fairbanks in 1980 (UAF sold vessel in 2007 to Stabbert Maritime)
1965–???? – RV Ellen B. Scripps
1966–1992 – RV Thomas Washington (Transferred to Chile and renamed Vidal Gormaz)
1969–2014 – RV Melville
1973–???? – RV Gianna
1978–2015 – RV New Horizon
1984–present – RV Robert Gordon Sproul
1995–present – RV Roger Revelle
2016–present – RV Sally Ride
2019–present - RV Bob and Betty Beyster
Birch Aquarium at Scripps
Birch Aquarium at Scripps, the public exploration center for the institution, features a Hall of Fishes with more than 60 tanks of Pacific fishes and invertebrates from the cold waters of the Pacific Northwest to the tropical waters of Mexico and the IndoPacific, a 13,000-gallon local shark and ray exhibit, interactive tide pools, and interactive science exhibits.
Notable faculty members (past and present)
Farooq Azam
George Backus
Ernest Baldwin
Andrew Benson
Hugh Bradner
Edward Brinton
Theodore Holmes Bullock
Ralph J. Cicerone
Robert W. Corell
Harmon Craig
Paul J. Crutzen
Russ E. Davis
Paul K. Dayton
Edward DeLong
Robert S. Dietz
Seibert Q. Duntley
Carl Eckart
Jim T. Enright
David Epel
Edward A. Frieman
Robert Garrels
Freeman Gilbert
Edward D. Goldberg
Klaus Hasselmann
Joel Hedgpeth
Walter Heiligenberg
Myrl C. Hendershott
Sam Hinton
Carl Hubbs
Douglas Inman
John Dove Isaacs
Jeremy Jackson
Martin W. Johnson
Thomas H. Jordan
Miriam Kastner
Charles David Keeling
Ralph Keeling
Charles Kennel
Nancy Knowlton
Lisa Levin
Ralph A. Lewin
Michael S. Longuet-Higgins
Edwin P. Martz
Wallace K. (Ken) Melville
Henry William Menard
Mario J. Molina
John W. Miles
B. Greg Mitchell
Judith Munk
Walter Munk
Jerome Namias
William Nierenberg
Pearn P. Niiler
Stewart Nozette
Veerabhadran Ramanathan
Roger Revelle
William Emerson Ritter
Dean Roemmich
Richard Heinrich Rosenblatt
Enric Sala
Rick Salmon
Hans Suess
Francis Parker Shepard
Cornelius Cole Smith, Jr.
Richard Somerville
Fred Spiess
Janet Sprintall
George Sugihara
Harald Sverdrup
Lynne Talley
Warren White
Klaus Wyrtki
Victor Vacquier Sr. and son
Benjamin Elazari Volcani
Lihini Aluwihare
Notable alumni
Tanya Atwater
Thomas E. Bowman III
Edward Brinton
Stephen E. Calvert
Kim Cobb
Jack Corliss
John M. Edmond
Kenneth Farley
Michael Freilich
Susan M. Gaines
Timothy Gallaudet
Eric Giddens
Susan Hough
Ancel Keys
Megan McArthur
James J. McCarthy
Marcia McNutt
Jessica Meir
Walter Munk
Wheeler J. North
Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara
Colm Ó hEocha
Joseph R. Pawlik
George Perry
S. K. Satheesh
Brinke Stevens
Christopher Stott
Brian Tucker
Popular culture
In 2014, the institution and its Keeling Curve measurement of atmospheric carbon dioxide levels were featured as a plot point in an episode of HBO's The Newsroom.
In 2008, Scripps Institution of Oceanography was the subject of a category on the TV game show Jeopardy!. Scripps has been a story element in numerous fictional works.
Controversies
In June 2023, two graduate students and one recent graduate were arrested at their homes by University of California Police and held in custody overnight. They face two felony charges of criminal vandalism and criminal conspiracy related to a May 30 protest where the accused allegedly protested low graduate student wages by writing chalk messages on a newly opened building. The University alleges $12,000 in damages related to this incident. Union leadership in UAW 2865 and 5810, the local union chapters representing the arrested workers, accuse the University of California of retaliation and reneging on the contracts signed at the conclusion of the 2022 UC academic workers' strike. On July 10, 2023, hundreds of protesters gathered at San Diego's Central Courthouse to protest the arrests, however in a written statement the San Diego District Attorney's office said the arraignment would not move forward because the case had not been submitted to its office for review. However, university officials have up to three years to file charges and on July 18, 2023 UCPD obtained a warrant and searched a fourth student's house for evidence of chalk or union affiliation in relation to the May 30 incident.
See also
Array Network Facility
RISE project
The Scripps Research Institute, a neighboring, but completely independent medical research institute
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, a private, non-profit oceanographic research center in Moss Landing, California
Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, a multi-campus marine research consortium of the California State University System
Hopkins Marine Station, a similar research facility run by Stanford University in Monterey, California
Hatfield Marine Science Center, a similar research facility associated with the Oregon State University and located in Newport, Oregon
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, a similar research facility located in Woods Hole, Massachusetts
References
Further reading
Scripps Institution of Oceanography; First Fifty Years Helen Raitt and Beatrice Moulton. Los Angeles : W. Ritchie Press, 1967.
Scripps Institution of Oceanography : Probing the Oceans, 1936 to 1976 Elizabeth Noble Shor. San Diego, Calif. : Tofua Press, 1978.
The Keeling Curve Turns 50
External links
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
explorations E-Magazine
Support Scripps
Birch Aquarium at Scripps
"How Scripps Institution Came To San Diego", The Journal of San Diego History 27:3 (Summer 1981) by Elizabeth N. Shor
Scripps Institution of Oceanography digital collection on HathiTrust Digital Library
Oceanographic organizations
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, San Diego
Organizations based in San Diego
Universities and colleges in San Diego
National Register of Historic Places in San Diego
Scripps family
Barton Myers buildings
1903 establishments in California
Culture of San Diego
Landmarks in San Diego
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Passage du Havre is one of the covered passages of Paris. Formerly geared towards fish shops and railway modelling (Hornby, La Maison du Train), the arcade was rebuilt in the late 1990s as a modern mall at the time as the construction of Paris' RER E underground railway line, to welcome new shops more in keeping with the Quartier de l'Opéra-Saint Lazare, the heart of Paris major business district.
The passage is near Gare Saint-Lazare and opposite the Hilton Paris Opera (the station's hotel). It begins at Place du Havre and leads onto Rue de Caumartin where it ends.
The shopping centre is owned and maintained by Eurocommercial Properties N.V..
See also
Passages couverts de Paris
References
Streets in the 9th arrondissement of Paris
Covered passages of Paris
Buildings and structures in the 9th arrondissement of Paris
1845 establishments in France
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Chapter 7: Executive Government. Chapter 7 of the 1997 Constitution is titled Executive Government. There are five Parts, further subdivided into thirty sections, which set out the organization, functions, and responsibilities of the executive branch of government. Modeled on the Westminster system, Fiji's constitution does not separate the Executive and Legislative branches of government as strictly as do many democracies, but despite considerable overlap, the branches of government are nevertheless constitutionally distinct.
Part 1 Executive Authority
Part 1 of Chapter 7, comprising Sections 85 through 88, establishes the offices of President and Vice-President and briefly summarizes their functions and responsibilities, on which the remainder of the chapter elaborates.
Sections 85 through 87 declare the President to be Fiji's Head of State, in whom executive authority is "vested." Later sections reveal this authority to be largely, though not entirely, symbolic. The President is further declared to be the symbol of the unity of the State, and the Commander-in-Chief of the military forces.
Section 88 establishes the office of Vice-President, who is empowered to take over the functions of the President in the event of the President being absent or otherwise unable to carry out his duties. If the President and Vice-President are both unable to perform Presidential duties, the Speaker of the House of Representatives may carry out the necessary functions.
In the event of the death, resignation, or incapacitation of the President, a new President and Vice-President must be appointed within three months. The Vice-President is authorized to exercise the functions of the presidency while the office is vacant. The Vice-President may be a candidate to fill the vacancy, but does not automatically succeed to it. This stipulation is designed to remove any vested interest a disloyal Vice-President might potentially have of producing a vacancy in the Presidency.
In practice, on the two occasions that the Presidency has fallen vacant (as of September 2004), the Vice-President has, after performing the President's functions in an interim capacity, been duly appointed to fill the vacancy. Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau died in 1993 and was succeeded by his Vice-President, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara. Mara was deposed in the Fiji coup of 2000, but after the Constitution was restored and Mara declined reappointment, his Vice-President, Josefa Iloilo was appointed to succeed him.
Part 2 President and Vice-President
Part 2 of Chapter 7, comprising Sections 89 through 95, sets out the qualifications, manner of election, and formula for removal of the President and Vice-President, and miscellaneous rules relating to the institution of the two offices.
Sections 89 through 91 stipulate that the President and Vice-President shall be appointed by the Great Council of Chiefs "after consultation with the Prime Minister." It is not clear whether or not this clause gives the Prime Minister a veto. It has never been tested.
The President and Vice-President are required to be Fijian citizens who have had a distinguished career in any aspect of national or international life, whether in the public or private sectors, and must meet the qualifications required of candidates for the House of Representatives. The offices of President and Vice-President are incompatible with any other offices; appointment to either position automatically terminates one's service in whatever other office he or she might be serving in at the time. The term of office is five years, renewable once.
Section 92 provides for the replacement of the Vice-President in the event of the office becoming vacant. The President nominates another person to complete the unexpired term of the Vice-President, subject to the approval of the Great Council of Chiefs.
Section 93 authorizes the Great Council of Chiefs to remove the President or Vice-President from office for "infirmity of body or mind... or for misbehaviour." This is not an easy process, however. First, the Prime Minister must notify the Chief Justice that he considers the President or Vice-President unable to carry out his duties or unfit to remain in office. In the event of alleged physical or mental infirmity, the Chief Justice is required to establish a medical board consisting of three qualified medical practitioners; in the event of alleged treason, felony, bribery, or other misbehaviour, a tribunal of three persons, each of whom is eligible to be a judge, is to be appointed. After makings thorough investigation, the medical board or tribunal is to present its findings to the Great Council of Chiefs, whose decision is final.
Section 94 requires that the President and Vice-President must take the Oath of Allegiance and the oaths relating to their respective offices; these are set out later in the Constitution. The oaths are to be administered by the Chief Justice.
The authorizing of only one person (namely, the Chief Justice) is designed to forestall legal recognition of any Presidential or Vice-Presidential oath administered illegally, as happened in the 2000 coup, when Ratu Jope Seniloli (an accomplice of the coup's chief instigator, George Speight) was administered the Presidential oath of office by someone other than the Chief Justice. On 6 August 2004, he was convicted of treason for swearing an unconstitutional oath.
Section 96 allows the Parliament to make laws, subject to the Constitution, "relating to the appointment, the terms and conditions of office, including pension entitlements, and the procedures for removal, of the President and Vice-President."
Part 3 Cabinet Government
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Part 3 of Chapter 7, comprising Sections 97 through 109, establishes the Cabinet as the effective government of Fiji. This follows Westminster practice: in the Cabinet, collectively, makes executive decisions and its members exercise executive authority in the name of the President.
Section 96 curtails the power of the President to act independently. In the exercise of powers, the President is to act "only on the advice of the Cabinet or a Minister or of some other body or authority prescribed by this Constitution." The Constitution does, however, go on to specify a few carefully defined exceptions to this rule.
Sections 97 through 99 declare that governments (namely, Cabinets) must have the confidence of the House of Representatives. The appointment of the Prime Minister is one of the few areas in which the President is authorized to exercise "his or her own judgement". This is immediately qualified, however: the person the President chooses must be "the member of the House of Representatives who, in the President's opinion, can form a government that has the confidence of the House of Representatives." Significantly, the clause states, not "a" member but "the" member, therefore assuming that in the normal course of events, there will be only one such candidate. In the Westminster model, this is assumed to be the leader of the political party or coalition holding a majority of seats in the House of Representatives. In cases where no legislative majority exists, however, due to party splits (as happened in 1992) or to electoral fragmentation, the President must exercise personal discretion and appoint as Prime Minister the person he or she considers most likely hold the confidence of the House of Representatives.
The Cabinet, whose members must also be members of either the House of Representatives or the Senate, is to be appointed by the President on the advice of the Prime Minister. The Cabinet must reflect the composition of the House of Representatives: every political party with eight or more seats in the House is entitled, if willing, to a proportionate number of positions in the Cabinet. If the Prime Minister wishes to include ministers from a political party or parties holding fewer than eight seats, the appointments must be at the expense of his own party, not other parties entitled to cabinet representation. In selecting minister from political parties other than his own, the Prime Minister is to consult with the leaders of those parties.
The provision for a multiparty cabinet was a departure from the usual Westminster model, which Fiji had previously followed. As political parties in Fiji have in practice represented mostly ethnic rather than ideological interests, elections tended to result in a government with little representation from outside of its ethnic power base. The Mara government (1967-1987) was supported mostly by ethnic Fijians and minority groups, but never succeeded in attracting more than a quarter of the Indo-Fijian vote. The Bavadra government, which took office following the 1987 election, was supported by no more than 9% of the ethnic Fijian electorate, although Prime Minister Bavadra was himself an ethnic Fijian. Cabinets, always drawn from the caucus of the governing party, therefore tended to be ethnically lopsided, which aroused resentment among the ethnic groups that were underrepresented. This was a leading factor in the 1987 coup: the election of the Bavadra government, which included only four ethnic Fijian ministers, had provoked a month of increasingly disorderly protests which culminated in the coup led by Lieutenant Colonel Sitiveni Rabuka. The 1997 constitutional convention decided that a multiparty cabinet would be the best way of ensuring representation of all ethnic communities, as well as of encouraging cooperation among their leaders. The concept of a Consociational state was regarded as the ideal to work for.
The constitutional convention that decided on the multiparty cabinet model coincided with a similar series of negotiations that were taking place in Northern Ireland, which culminated in the Good Friday Agreement providing, among other things, for a power-sharing Executive in which all significant willing parties were to be represented, in order to ensure the representation at Executive level of Catholic, as well as Protestant, parties. Fiji's decision to follow a similar course was another reflection of its faith in British constitutional models: while the standard Westminster cabinet model was rejected as unsuited to local conditions, alternative models rooted in British practice were studied, and one was adopted.
In practice, this constitutional requirement for a multiparty cabinet has never been strictly observed. After the 1999 election, Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry refused to include his defeated foes, the Soqosoqo ni Vakavulewa ni Taukei, in his Cabinet, despite its holding of eight seats in the House of Representatives. Following the 2001 election, Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase found pretexts for excluding the Labour Party from the Cabinet, even though it had won 28 seats, almost four times more than the constitutional requirement for automatic inclusion in the Cabinet. Court cases followed, and on 18 July 2003, the Supreme Court ruled that the exclusion of the Labour Party was unconstitutional and demanded that the situation be rectified. Negotiations, appeals, and counter-appeals stalled the resolution of the dispute, and a subsequent Supreme Court ruling in June 2004 held that the Labour Party was entitled to 14 out of 30 cabinet positions. Qarase announced that he would abide by the verdict, but his continuing refusal to include Chaudhry himself in the Cabinet has prolonged the dispute. As of September 2004, the matter is far from resolved.
Section 100 establishes the office of the Attorney-General, who is the chief legal adviser to the government. Although a member of the Cabinet, the Attorney-General's office is the only Cabinet position, apart from that of the Prime Minister, to be mentioned specifically in the Constitution. This position differs from other Cabinet posts in several important ways. Unlike other Cabinet ministers, who are not required to have any particular educational qualifications, the Attorney-General, or any person acting in that capacity, must be a barrister and solicitor qualified and registered to practice law in Fiji. The Attorney-General is also the only member of the Cabinet who, although a member of one house of Parliament, may attend and participate in the proceedings of (but not vote in) the other house. In the event of the Attorney-General's absence, their responsibilities may be taken over by another minister or member of Parliament, who must meet the qualifications for Attorney-General, or by the Solicitor-General.
Sections 101 through 106 set out the responsibilities and functions of Cabinet ministers. Ministers may have whatever functions, titles, and responsibilities the Prime Minister may determine, and are responsible for one or more branches of government. Any part of government business not specifically assigned to a particular minister is the responsibility of the Prime Minister. All ministers are individually and collectively responsible to, and must hold the confidence of, the House of Representatives.
A Minister must take the Oath of Allegiance and the oath of office, set out in a later section of the constitution, before the President. The taking of such an oath before anyone other than the lawful President, or someone authorized to act on his behalf, constitutes an act of treason, and on 6 August 2004 several defendants, including Ratu Rakuita Vakalalabure (the current Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives), were convicted of treason for having taken an illegal oath of office during the 2000 coup. (They had been sworn in by Ratu Seniloli).
Section 104 requires the Prime Minister to keep the President "generally informed about issues relating to the governance of Fiji." In addition, the Prime Minister must supply whatever specific information the President may ask for.
Section 105 specifies the circumstances in which a minister may leave office. Except in the case of the expiry or dissolution of the House of Representatives, in which case all ministers remain in office pending the appointment of a new cabinet, a minister may leave office by resignation either from the office itself or from the Parliament, membership of which is a prerequisite for membership of the Cabinet. In the event of the dismissal or resignation of the Prime Minister, the tenure of all other ministers is automatically terminated.
Section 106 provides for the appointment of "Acting Ministers" to take over the functions of any minister on an interim basis, in the event of the minister being unable to carry out their duties on account of sickness, absence from Fiji, or any other case. The appointment of an Acting Minister must be published in the government's official Gazette.
Sections 107 through 109 specify the rules for the transfer of authority from one government to another, for the organizing of premature parliamentary elections, and for dismissal of a Prime Minister. If the government is defeated in a general election, the Prime Minister must resign. If the government is defeated in a vote of no confidence in the House of Representatives (as happened in 1994), or if the House rejects "A bill appropriating revenue or moneys for the ordinary services of the Government," the Prime Minister must advise the President on whether there is another person who can command a legislative majority, and if so, resign in that person's favour.
Alternatively, the Prime Minister may advise the President to dissolve the House of Representatives and order a premature election. The President must first ascertain whether there is in fact no person able to hold the confidence of the incumbent House of Representatives, and may grant the Prime Minister's request for a dissolution only if no such person is found. Otherwise, the President is to dismiss the Prime Minister and appoint the alternate Prime Minister. If the latter subsequently fails to win a vote of confidence in the House, "the President must dismiss him or her, re-appoint the predecessor and grant that person the dissolution originally advised."
The President is not allowed to dismiss the Prime Minister except in the event the failure of the government to win a vote of confidence in the House of Representatives. The Constitution is silent on the matter of what should be done in the event of the Prime Minister being unable to perform their duties. This happened during the 2000 coup, when Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry was kidnapped and held hostage by gunmen working for the chief insurrectionist, George Speight. In captivity, Chaudhry was unable to carry out his duty of rendering the President advice, without which the President could not lawfully assume the emergency powers he believed he needed to deal with the crisis. Faced with a constitutional dilemma, President Mara dismissed Chaudhry and appointed Ratu Tevita Momoedonu, who rendered the necessary advice and then immediately resigned. Whether or not Mara's move was constitutionally allowable is open to debate. Revisions to the constitution are underway to clarify such ambiguities.
Part 4 Government Administration
Part 4 of Chapter 7, comprising Sections 110 through 114, deals with the organization of the civil, police, and military forces of Fiji.
Section 110 stipulates that every department of government shall have a permanent head, who may be styled Permanent Secretary, Secretary, Head of Department, or other appropriate title. By default the head of a department shall be called Secretary, unless another title is specifically chosen. The Secretary is responsible to the Minister in charge of the department.
This follows British, as distinct from American, practice. In the United States, the head of each department is a member of the President of the United States's Cabinet. British practice, on the other hand, is to keep the civil service separate from, but responsible to, political authority. While the Minister to whom each government department is ultimately responsible is an elected politician subject to replacement at any time, day-to-day administration of the department is in the hands of the Secretary who holds the office more or less permanently.
In this section, the term "department" specifically excludes the police and the military.
Section 111 establishes the office of Commissioner of Police. This official is appointed by the Constitutional Offices Commission, following consultation with the appropriate Cabinet Minister. The Commissioner of Police holds executive and administrative authority over the entire police force, and is answerable only to the Minister in charge. Parliament may, however, make laws regulating the police force.
Section 112 outlines the organization of the Military of Fiji, called the Republic of Fiji Military Forces. The President, on the advice of the appropriate Minister, appoints a Commander of the Republic of Fiji Military Forces, who is answerable to the said Minister. The Commander is responsible for all appointments, promotions, and demotions in the armed forces, and for all disciplinary action (including expulsion) against servicemen. In addition, Parliament may regulate the military in other ways.
Sections 113 and 114 establish the offices of Solicitor-General and Director of Public Prosecutions. Both must meet the qualifications required of judges. The Solicitor-General is appointed by the Judicial Service Commission following consultation with the Attorney-General. As specified elsewhere in this chapter, the Solicitor-General may exercise the functions of the Attorney-General in their absence. The Director of Public Prosecutions is appointed by the Constitutional Offices Commission following consultation with the Attorney-General. This official may order criminal charges to be brought against individuals and corporate entities, take over criminal proceedings instituted by another person or authority, or dismiss any charges before a judicial verdict has been rendered.
Charges brought before military courts are specifically excluded from the authority of the Director of Public Prosecutions.
Part 5 Prerogative of Mercy
Part 5 of Chapter 7, comprises a single section: Sections 115. Titled Prerogative of Mercy, it authorizes the President to issue full pardons and conditional pardons to persons convicted of any legal offence, to remit all or part of any penalty imposed, or to "grant... a respite, either indefinitely or for a specified period, of the execution of the punishment imposed for the offence." This power is not to be exercised independently but only on the advice of the Commission on the Prerogative of Mercy. This commission consists of three persons: its chairman, the Attorney-General, and two other persons appointed by the President "acting in his or her own judgement." The appointment of this commission is one of the few aspects of government in which the President has a free hand. If a person has been sentenced to death in a civilian court, the commission must consider a report on the case written by the judge who presided at the trial, or, in the event of absence of that judge, by the Chief Justice. The commission must also take into account any other relevant facts derived from the record of the case, or from any sources to which the commission has access, before advising the President on whether or not to exercise the Prerogative of Mercy.
The Prerogative of Mercy was exercised by President Ratu Josefa Iloilo in 2001, when he commuted to life imprisonment the death sentence imposed on George Speight, who was convicted of treason for his leading role in the 2000 coup.
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The Niagara Falls Public Library, located at 1425 Main Street, in Niagara Falls in Niagara County, New York. The Main Library is the largest library in the Niagara-Orleans-Genesee Library System. The Main Library in the Earl W. Brydges Building, was built in 1974 by Paul Rudolph, and the LaSalle Branch is located at 8728 Buffalo Avenue in the LaSalle District of Niagara Falls.
History
The Brydges Building opened March 9, 1974, after the library's collections had outgrown the former Carnegie Library down the street. As of 1995, the library's Centennial, more than 400,000 printed volumes, periodicals, media, and a wide variety of other publications and documents were located within the library. The third floor is home to a vibrant Local History Department, containing more the 10,000 books and thousands of pictures and other ephemera, worked to preserve the rich history of Niagara Falls. Special youth collections and services were provided in a highly functional and attractive Children's Department, and the Audio Visual Department was expanding its services to meet the high demand for video recordings and other media.
The Niagara Falls Public Library was originally built in 1814 when head man General Parkhurst Whitney and a group founded the "Grand Niagara Library" with a collection of 40 books. The library extended to 502 books in 1852 and was housed in the Third Street School. With the expansion of so many books, the library outgrew its old home and moved into the Frontier Mart on Falls Street. During this time, the library applied to the New York State Education Department for a legal charter. The library was eventually moved to two large rooms in the Arcade Building on Falls Street. The library opened its doors on February 1, 1895, and on February 28, 1895, the legal charter for the library was signed by Melvil Dewey, marking the official opening of the Niagara Falls Public Library.
In 1901, Niagara Falls was awarded a $50,000 grant from the Carnegie Foundation and a new site on Main Street was chosen for a brand new library building. The Carnegie building was opened in 1904, and was designed by E.E. Joralemon, a local architect. This building was designed to hold 50,000 volumes. By the 1950s, the building held more than 100,000 volumes, and was vacated by 1974 for the new Earl W. Brydges building.
Paul Rudolph was selected by city officials in November 1968 to design the new library building. The new building was 87,800 square feet, a much larger space compared with the previous building's 12,000 square feet. On October 26, 1970, a resolution was passed by Niagara Falls City Council naming the building in honor of Senator Earl W. Brydges. Groundbreaking took place in 1970, and completion of construction on the building occurred in 1973. The city refused to take possession of the building due to water leakage and damage that had been occurring for several years during construction. Repairs were made, and the building was rededicated in 1982. The City of Niagara Falls sued both Rudolph and the construction company, Albert Elia, for damages and the lawsuits were settled in 1984.
In 2015, The Buffalo News named the Earl W. Brydges building as one of the top ten unloved structures in the region, but an example of brutalist architecture with many fans who visit the building every year.
In 1927, the Village of LaSalle became part of the Niagara Falls area bringing with it a library, post office, police office, and a jail. The library of LaSalle became a place of joint community where kids would read picture books and adults would meet in the main reading room. The library was directed and ran by Mrs. Alfreda Walker and after Mrs. Fred Campbell. Throughout the thirty years that LaSalle was a part of the Niagara Falls library branch, many other libraries were introduced on Niagara Street, 14th Street, and Pine Avenue. In the 1950s and 60s, bookmobiles were created and the one library to survive was the LaSalle branch. The library expanded once the post office relocated in the 1950s. Thus the externalities that come with a library flourished like staff number, collection size, and in 2008 LaSalle became the sole branch of the Niagara Falls Library branch.
The Niagara Falls Public library offers online e-books, audiobooks, magazines, and videos. The library also online learning resources like tech tips, legal resources, and local attractions. Most importantly the Niagara Falls Public Library holds around 83,000 books.
In the 2005 budget of the Niagara Falls, The Niagara Falls Public Library was written to get about 2 million dollars to fund to stay open and provide the necessary expenses to allow the library to do what it needed to do for the community. Throughout the year, other amounts were placed to be given to the libraries to keep it open for the year and to be supported by Niagara Falls. The Niagara Falls Public library continued to be written in amounts due to them in further upcoming years.
References
External links
Niagara Falls Public Library - U.S. National Register of Historic Places on Waymarking.com
Buildings and structures in Niagara Falls, New York
Public libraries in New York (state)
National Register of Historic Places in Niagara County, New York
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Human trafficking in Israel includes the trafficking of men and women into the country for forced labor and sex slavery. The country has made serious efforts to reduce the problem in recent years and now ranks 90th out of 167 countries who provide data. Identification of victims, criminal justice work and efforts to co-ordinate with business and government agencies has been concerted in reducing this problem in the last decade.
Palestinians and foreign workers, primarily from South and Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe, and the Former Soviet Union, migrate to Israel for temporary work in construction, agriculture, and caregiving; traffickers exploit some of these workers in forced labor, such as unlawful holding of passports, restrictions on movement, non-payment of wages, threats, and physical intimidation. It is not known if labour recruitment agencies in source countries and in Israel require workers to pay recruitment fees- a practice that makes workers highly vulnerable to trafficking. Israel had been a destination country for women trafficked from Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, Uzbekistan, Belarus, China, South Korea and perhaps the Philippines for the purpose of sexual exploitation. In 2008, NGO had noted an increase in the internal trafficking of Israeli women for commercial sexual exploitation, and reported new instances of trafficking of Israeli women abroad to Canada, Ireland, and England. African asylum seekers entering Israel illegally were also vulnerable to trafficking for forced labour or prostitution. Large numbers of Eritreans had been trafficked into Israel.
In 2007, the government increased the number of convictions for sex trafficking offences, and conducted a campaign to prevent forced labour. Israel also continues to provide victims of sex trafficking with shelter, legal aid and protection assistance. NGOs claimed, "the shelters are insufficient to treat the scale of trafficking victims who were not officially identified in Israel, particularly among migrants and asylum seekers arriving from the Sinai." In 2012 it was reported, "the number of women affected continues to decline since the passage and implementation of Israel's 2006 anti-trafficking law`
The construction of the 245 mile Egypt–Israel barrier in 2013, is credited with further reducing human trafficking into Israel, by preventing irregular migration along the Sinai-Negev trafficking route.
U.S. State Department's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons placed the country in "Tier 1" in 2017. However, it was downgraded to Tier 2 in 2021, meaning "countries whose governments do not fully comply with all of TVPA’s minimum standards, but are making significant efforts to bring themselves into compliance with those standards." The State Department reported: "For the fifth consecutive year, the Police Anti-Trafficking Coordinating Unit (PTC), which remained the only authority to officially recognize victims of trafficking, remained severely understaffed, which further impacted the efficiency of victim identification procedures and referral of victims to protection services. Therefore Israel was downgraded to Tier 2." The State of Israel ratified the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children on 23 July 2008.
Prosecution
The Government of Israel has made progress in prosecuting and punishing trafficking offences. Israel prohibits all forms of trafficking in persons through its Anti-Trafficking Law that came into force 29 October 2006, which prescribes penalties of up to 16 years' imprisonment for sex trafficking of an adult, up to 20 years' imprisonment for sex trafficking of a minor, up to 16 years' imprisonment for slavery, and up to 7 years' imprisonment for forced labour. These penalties are commensurate with those for other grave crimes, such as rape. In 2007, the government convicted 38 individuals for sex trafficking—four more than in 2006—with sentences ranging from six months to 15 years' imprisonment and fines.
In addition, 16 prosecutions for sex trafficking were in process as of 2008, and another 15 cases were pending appeal. Israel made some efforts to investigate and punish acts of involuntary servitude; in 2007, the government prepared three indictments for forced labor and one indictment for slavery. In addition, three criminal cases of fraud/deceit of foreign workers involving five defendants were pending prosecution or appeal as of 2008. Israel reported no prosecutions, convictions, or punishments of government officials complicit in trafficking in 2007.
In February 2013 the newspaper Haaretz successfully sued the Tel Aviv District Court to reveal the name of a major sex trafficker who became a police informer, David Digmi.
Protection
The Government of Israel has improved its protection of trafficking victims, but evidence regarding the protection of victims of forced labor remains limited. The government operates a shelter largely for victims of sex trafficking with the support of a local NGO. Notably, though Israel lacks a specific shelter for victims of labor trafficking, government authorities sometimes refer victims of forced labor to the shelter for sex trafficking. Victims in this shelter receive medical treatment, psychiatric and social services, stipends, and temporary residency and work permits.
The government mandates legal aid to all trafficking victims and employs formal procedures to identify victims of sex trafficking and refer them to a shelter.
Foreign workers who file complaints regarding criminal offenses are not arrested, are generally placed in alternative employment, and are granted immigration relief. Victims of trafficking receive legal alternatives to their removal to countries in which they may face hardship or retribution, including the issuance of temporary visa extensions.
The government encourages victims of sex trafficking to assist in investigations against their traffickers, but it does not actively encourage victims of forced labor to do the same. Victims not housed in the government shelter, including victims of internal trafficking, do not receive the same level of protection services from the government as victims located in shelters.
Prevention
Israel has made efforts to prevent trafficking in persons. The Immigration Police has run a radio campaign warning employers not to exploit migrant workers. The Ministry of Education and the Authority for the Advancement of the Status of Women has also conducted awareness campaigns in the school system that included seminars for administrators and teachers on sex trafficking. This program focused on the role of the school system in reducing demand for commercial sexual services.
The 2011 documentary film "The Price of Sex" (priceofsex.org) was screened at the Jerusalem Cinematheque on 8 March 2013.
See also
Human trafficking in Palestine
Egypt–Israel barrier
Ben Gurion International Airport
Human trafficking in Egypt
Sex trafficking in Moldova
References
External links
Task Force on Human Trafficking. (current Israeli NGO, English page, visited March 2013)
Israel. Ministry of Public Security (Police), Human Trafficking, 8 January 2012
Knesset Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry on the Trafficking in Women, report summary (2004)
BBC News story on human-trafficking problem in Israel (2007)
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Human rights abuses in Israel
Crime in Israel by type
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The 1991 PBA season was the 17th season of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA).
Board of governors
Executive committee
Rodrigo L. Salud (Commissioner)
Luis Lorenzo, Sr. (Chairman, representing Pepsi Hotshots)
Wilfred Steven Uytengsu (Vice Chairman, representing Alaska Milkmen)
Lance Gokongwei (Treasurer, representing Presto Tivolis)
Teams
Season highlights
The PBA Rookie draft was aired on TV live for the first time in league history.
A PBA-China exhibition series took place during the pre-season from January 27 – February 3. The three PBA champions last year played the Liaoning basketball team which boast of three Beijing Asian Games veterans in a four-game series. Presto and Shell won over Liaoning but the Chinese cagers prevail against Purefoods in their third outing. Finally, a PBA All-Star selection won over Liaoning in their final assignment.
Vintage sports commentator Joe Cantada covered his final game on TV during the April 9 replay of the controversial Shell-Purefoods game that took place on March 17.
An era in Philippine Basketball ended on April 21 when Virgilio "Baby" Dalupan resigned as head coach of Purefoods Hotdogs. Dalupan cited his difference with management as the reason for his resignation.
On May 19, Ginebra San Miguel made history in the PBA record books as the first team to come back from a 1–3 series deficit and beat Shell Rimula-X in game 7 of the best-of-seven 1st conference championship showdown. Rudy Distrito made a difficult baseline fadeaway shot against two Shell defenders with one second remaining to give Ginebra their third PBA title.
After the contract of Alvin Patrimonio with Purefoods expired in June, Pepsi Hotshots offered Patrimonio a P 25.3 million salary and a benefits package for years, Purefoods matched Pepsi's multi-million peso contract to retain Patrimonio's services.
Due to numerous players requesting megabuck deals, the league initiated a "salary cap" starting the 1992 season. Swift, Shell, Alaska, Tivoli, Pepsi and Ginebra will have a P12 million cap while Purefoods and San Miguel will have a cap of P15 million.
Alvin Patrimonio of Purefoods won the season's Most Valuable Player award. The PBA Awards Night took place on December 19 at the ULTRA and it was billed as "Pasasalamat".
By the end of the season, Rudy Salud resigned as the commissioner of the league.
Opening ceremonies
The muses for the participating teams are as follows:
Champions
First Conference: Ginebra San Miguel
All-Filipino Conference: Purefoods Tender Juicy Hotdogs
Third Conference: Alaska Milkmen
Team with best win–loss percentage: Alaska Milkmen (31–25, .554)
Best Team of the Year: Ginebra San Miguel (1st)
First Conference
Elimination round
Semifinal round
Third place playoffs
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Best Import of the Conference: Bobby Parks (Shell)
All-Filipino Conference
Elimination round
Semifinal round
Third place playoffs
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Best Import of the Conference: Wes Matthews (Ginebra)
Awards
Most Valuable Player: Alvin Patrimonio (Purefoods)
Rookie of the Year: Eugene Quilban (Alaska)
Most Improved Player: Ato Agustin (San Miguel)
Mythical Five:
Jojo Lastimosa (Alaska)
Allan Caidic (Tivoli)
Ramon Fernandez (San Miguel)
Alvin Patrimonio (Purefoods)
Benjie Paras (Shell)
Mythical Second Team:
Ronnie Magsanoc (Shell)
Ato Agustin (San Miguel)
Jerry Codiñera (Purefoods)
Alvin Teng (San Miguel)
Elpidio Villamin (Sarsi/Swift)
All-Defensive Team:
Jerry Codiñera (Purefoods)
Glenn Capacio (Purefoods)
Alvin Teng (San Miguel)
Biboy Ravanes (Alaska)
Chito Loyzaga (Ginebra)
Cumulative standings
References
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Mirabella Imbaccari (, Latin: Imachara and Imacara) is a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Catania in the Italian region Sicily, located about southeast of Palermo and about southwest of Catania.
Mirabella Imbaccari borders the municipalities of Caltagirone and Piazza Armerina.
References
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Official website
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Super Cub may refer to:
Backcountry Super Cubs Super Cub, an American amateur-built aircraft design
Honda Super Cub, a light motorcycle, and the most produced motor vehicle in history.
Piper PA-18 Super Cub, an American light aircraft design.
Super Cub, a Japanese light novel, manga, and anime series
Supercub the lion, a foster lion cub who was adopted from a zoo in Kenya East Africa and became friends with Christian the lion and other lions being cared for by George Adamson.
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Akeyuth Anchanbutr (; ; 24 June 1954—7 June 2013) was a Thai pyramid scheme operator and political activist.
Akeyuth was the head of the controversial Charter Investment pyramid scheme, which collapsed in 1983. He fled to England in 1984 to avoid charges. Akeyuth then invested the proceeds of pyramid scheme in a chain of oriental supermarkets and is estimated to have accumulated a personal wealth of billions.
In 2004, after the 20 year statute of limitations was exhausted, he returned to Thailand and launched a campaign against Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. His Thailand Insider website was strongly critical of the Prime Minister, and was temporarily blocked by Thai authorities on June 21, 2005, and again on December 15, 2005. He also attacked the premiership of Thaksin's sister Yingluck Shinawatra, causing a scandal in 2012 when he revealed that she had a private meeting with business executives at the Four Seasons Hotel in Bangkok.
Akeyuth was murdered in June 2013. He was last seen on 6 June, and his body discovered on 11 June. His driver Santiphap Pengduang was arrested and confessed to murdering Akeyuth with financial motives. This was questioned by Akeyuth's former lawyer Suwat Apaipak, who said that Santiphap had later claimed to have been hired. However, Suwat dropped the case in August, claiming to have received death threats. Santiphap and his friend Sutthipoing Pimpisarn were sentenced in December 2014 to death commuted to life imprisonment for their confessions, while two others, who had been involved in concealing the body, received nineteen and eight months. Santiphap's parents were found guilty of keeping and hiding the stolen cash. They appealed, and the case went to the Supreme Court in 2017, which upheld their sixteen-month jail terms.
See also
2005–2006 Thai political crisis
References
External links
Thailand Insider
Akeyuth Anchanbutr
Akeyuth Anchanbutr
Thai expatriates in the United Kingdom
2013 deaths
1954 births
Akeyuth Anchanbutr
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China 3 is a variety of lychee fruit, belonging to the family Sapindaceae and tribe Nepheleae. This variety is one of the best grown in Bengal region in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent. The trees are only about 5 to 6 m tall with relatively smaller leaves. Bearing is regular if proper management and care is taken, otherwise they show an irregular bearing habit. China-3 was found to perform satisfactorily in other areas, except where rain starts earlier.
It is a late variety and fruits ripen in the last week of June. The average yield is 124 kg per tree. The round fruit is bigger with attractive red, orange skin colour. The pulp is creamy white, soft and juicy.
Description
China 3 is a variety of lychee fruit. This is a late variety and fruits ripen in the last week of June. The average yield of 124 kg per each tree. However, on a regular basis does not bear fruit. The fruit size of china-3 is bigger with attractive skin colour. Fruits are globose, with a composition of red, orange and patches of green colour. Average common weight of fruit is 25 g. Pulp is creamy white, soft and succulent. TSS 18 percent, seed small, pulp-seed ratio 15:1.
Cultivation
The planting of China-3 lychee is generally done during June–July, i.e. during the rainy season, but the best planting time is April–June when the weather is humid but not too wet or too dry. Planting may also be done after the rainy season, i.e. August–September, but regular irrigation is required for better establishment of the orchard. In old orchards lychee trees were planted 10–12 m apart both ways, i.e. in rows and between plants in rows. The spacing of 10 m is found to be adequate in areas where the soil is deep loam and fertile and when necessary care is taken during the initial stage of cultivation. In other areas 7–8 m distance was found to be sufficient. At present high density plantation has also started. In the case of high density planting the spacing is 4 m x 4 m.
Harvest
Fruit quality of china-3 is the best among the available land races, the vast majority of which are harsh in taste with low pulp:stone proportion. The recently released BARI Lichu-3 resembles China-3 in size, shape, quality and taste, but is yet to be distributed to the farmers. The yield of china-3 lychee in Bangladesh, Eastern India and Northeastern India are growing, however, the average yield of lychee is far less and it can be increased substantially.
Gallery
References
External links
Lychee production - Food and Agriculture Organization
China 3 lychee video from Md Tanvir Hossain Channel - Youtube
China 3 lychee website - Tanvir Agro Farm, Bogura
Chinese fruit
Food plant cultivars
Sapindaceae
Trees of Bangladesh
Trees of China
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Christine Arron
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Christine Arron (born 13 September 1973) is a former track and field sprinter, who competed internationally for France in the 60 metres, 100 metres, 200 metres and the 4 × 100 metres relay. She is one of the ten fastest female 100 metres sprinter of all time with 10.73 secs, which is still the European record. She set the record when winning at the 1998 European Championships, where she also won a gold medal in the 4 × 100 m relay. Also in the relay, she is a 2003 World Championship gold medallist and a 2004 Olympic bronze medallist.
Running career
Born in Les Abymes, Guadeloupe, Arron arrived in Metropolitan France in 1990 and first trained with Fernand Urtebise, who also coached the former 400 metres hurdles and 4 × 400 metres relay world champion Stephane Diagana.
On 19 Aug 1998, Arron won the 100 metres gold medal at the 1998 European Championships in Budapest by finishing the final in a new European record time of 10.73 seconds. Her time of 10.73 seconds made her then the world's second-fastest ever, female 100 metres sprinter, behind Florence Griffith-Joyner (10.49 seconds, set in 1988). She also won the 4 × 100 metres relay gold medal at the same championships. She was named the 1998 European Women's Athlete of the Year.
In 2001, after a heavy training period in the US with John Smith and the HSI group, Arron quit training for a year, saying she was physically exhausted from the experience. "It was hell. Every morning I wondered how I was going to put up with the burden of training." She had a hip injury which kept her out of the 2001 World Championships.
Arron was also the anchor runner of the French 4 × 100 relay team which upset the heavy favourites the US to win the gold medal at the 2003 World Championships in Paris. She recovered from 3 m behind the newly crowned, 100 m 2003 World Champion, Torri Edwards, to give the home crowd at the Stade de France an unexpected joy.
Arron won her only Olympic medal, a bronze medal, in the 4 × 100 m relay at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece.
In August 2005, Arron won a bronze medal in the 100 metres and
200 metres at the 2005 World Championships.
At the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, Arron competed in the 100 metres event. In her first round heat, she placed first in front of Lauryn Williams and Tahesia Harrigan in a time of 11.37 sec to advance to the second round. But in the second round, she failed to advance to the semi-finals as her time of 11.36 sec was only the fourth fastest time of her heat, behind Debbie Ferguson, Oludamola Osayomi and Vida Anim, causing her elimination from the event.
As of September 2023, Arron is the world's ninth-fastest, female 100 metres sprinter (10.73 sec) of all time. Considering the controversy surrounding the performances of the world record-holder (10.49 sec, set in 1988), Florence Griffith-Joyner, many considered Arron's time of 10.73 sec. set during the 1998 European Championships to be the 'true' world record. Besides Griffith-Joyner, only Marion Jones, Carmelita Jeter, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Elaine Thompson-Herah, Shericka Jackson, Marie-Josée Ta Lou and Sha'Carri Richardson have run faster than Arron in the 100 metres.
In December 2012, Arron announced her retirement from athletics. She was expecting her second child then. She did not rule out the possibility of returning to athletics competition after the birth of her second child.
On 9 October 2013, Arron was awarded the Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur by French President François Hollande in the Élysée Palace.
Views on doping
Arron has voiced her annoyance with Marion Jones, her fiercest rival during her career: "She has lied for years [...] She treated everyone as idiots. I'm not shocked she is going to jail. Many people criticised me because I was always the one who lost in the Jones-Arron battle, even if I had very good results. We started running together in 1997. She has stolen my best years. Everything could have been different for me."
Family
In 2002, Arron gave birth to her first child, a son by the name of Ethan. On 16 May 2013, Arron gave birth to her second child, a daughter by the name of Cassandre. Cassandre's father Benjamin Compaoré, a French triple jumper, became Arron's companion in 2009. -
Achievements
Note: Results in brackets indicate a superior time achieved in an earlier round.
References
External links
1973 births
Living people
French female sprinters
Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Olympic athletes for France
Guadeloupean female sprinters
French people of Guadeloupean descent
Olympic bronze medalists for France
World Athletics Championships medalists
European Athletics Championships medalists
Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Knights of the Legion of Honour
Olympic bronze medalists in athletics (track and field)
Mediterranean Games gold medalists for France
Athletes (track and field) at the 1997 Mediterranean Games
Black French sportspeople
European Athlete of the Year winners
Mediterranean Games medalists in athletics
World Athletics Championships winners
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Yemişli (; ) is a village in the Uludere District of Şırnak Province in Turkey. The village is populated by Kurds of the Goyan tribe and had a population of 2,405 in 2021.
The hamlet of Yekmal is attached to Yemişli.
History
Margā (today called Yemişli) was inhabited by 760 Chaldean Catholic Assyrians in 1913 and had one church and one priest as part of the diocese of Zakho. The village was destroyed by the Ottoman Army in June 1915 amidst the Sayfo and its inhabitants were later resettled at Berseve near Zakho in Iraq.
References
Bibliography
Villages in Uludere District
Kurdish settlements in Şırnak Province
Historic Assyrian communities in Turkey
Places of the Assyrian genocide
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Ras-responsive element-binding protein 1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the RREB1 gene.
Clinical significance
Mutations in RREB1 are associated to type 2 diabetes associated end-stage kidney disease.
References
Further reading
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Mbweka
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Mbweka is a settlement in Kenya's Busia County.
Approximate population for 7 km radius from this point: 91,823
References
Populated places in Western Province (Kenya)
Busia County
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Hedon Haven is a waterway that connected the Humber Estuary with the port of Hedon, in Holderness, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The waterway allowed ships to unload at the port in Hedon, which was also known as Hedon Haven and had, at its peak, three canalised arms that stretched into the town. The port at Hedon was the main port for south Holderness between the 12th and 13th centuries, and was the busiest port in Holderness before the docks at Hull were built.
The port suffered several downturns in business, first with the siltation of the waterways, then being eclipsed by the newer docks at Hull. Later with the building of the turnpike road through Hedon, and when the railway connecting Hull with Withernsea was opened, port traffic went into a decline. After the waterway kept silting up, the decision was taken in the 1970s to abandon the haven and fill parts of it in. Large swathes encircling the town are designated as a scheduled monument, including the previous areas of canalised waterways, whilst the main area of the haven to the south of the town, is designated as a conservation area.
The western end of Hedon Haven still exists as an outfall into the Humber Estuary, and this watercourse is fed by the Burstwick Drain (Humbleton Beck) and other smaller becks and stream. Ordnance Survey (OS) mapping shows Hedon Haven starting just west of the town of Hedon, whereas the county council state that the term Hedon Haven only applies to the watercourse in its tidal reach. In antiquity, the river feeding the watercourse was known as the River Hedon and the Haven, was the canalised sections around the town of Hedon used as port facilities.
A plan that was formulated in the 21st century, has proposed the revival of the haven as a pleasure waterway with a marina and a country park located at the southern end of Hedon.
Course
The Hedon Haven was essentially a drain for the River Hedon, which rose at Burstwick and travelled past Hedon westwards towards the Humber Estuary. From Hedon to the Humber was described as a "long and winding creek", that extended for . A large part of the former River Hedon east of the town, is now known as the Burstwick Drain, and is maintained by the South Holderness Internal Drainage Board. The waterway that is west of Hedon now forms the border between Salt End, Hedon and Paull in its lower reaches, and was furnished with a swing bridge on the road to Paull. Due to flooding in Burstwick and Hedon in 2007, the Environment Agency agreed to undertake a dredge of the from Salt End to Hedon.
Historically, the river/drain has had many names, with either the River Hedon, Hedon Fleet, Burstwick Drain, or Burstwick Old Drain being most common. This waterway approached Hedon from the east then turned north, then west in a horseshoe shape to enter the edge of the Medieval town from the north, picking up several smaller watercourses on the way. This ran alongside the eastern edge of town as The Fleet, and the Hedon Haven started when the watercourse turned a sharp 90° degrees to the west. The Fleet was navigable as far as the northern edge of town (though records exist of ships transiting to Burstwick), and was expanded under an 1774 Act of Parliament. Essentially, Hedon Haven referred to the tidal reach up to the port of Hedon and of the three canalised arms that encircled the town; the western haven (the Fore Bank, which curved around the town to a point where the old railway station was located), a central haven (The Fleet) which had the majority of the wharfage and was fed by the River Hedon from the north, the eastern haven, which bordered St Nicholas Church, and the southern haven, which all other sections fed into and was isolated from its headwaters in the early 1800s when a new cut of the Burstwick Drain was made through the town.
Between 1802 and 1807, the Keyingham Internal Drainage Board employed William Chapman to create a new cut in the watercourse, and it was diverted to approach Hedon from the east directly and ran alongside the very southern edge of the town. This has been suggested as at the same time as the Keyingham Drainage Board's redirection of some of the other streams, so that the Keyingham Fleet went due south to the Humber with much of the headwaters of the River Hedon being sent to sea via the Keyingham Fleet (or Drain). The result of directing much of the water away from Hedon Haven was a lack of the scouring action on the riverbed, which then allowed silt to build up.
History
The town of Hedon is not mentioned in the Domesday Book, yet by the 12th century, its port was the eleventh busiest in England. The haven, as the name suggests, was also a sheltering place for boats sitting out of the tidal estuary. Efforts were made to improve the connection between the town and the Humber Estuary, and in the 12th century, a new cut of the haven was made which extended for . This new cut provided the best route into Hedon from the west, as the land between Hedon and what is now Kingston upon Hull, was marshy and was riddled with creeks. The only overland travellers to Hedon were from the north and the east. Many writers have suggested different dates for the founding of the town, but it is believed that it was created in the early 12th century by the Earls of Aumale.
The location of the port gave immediate rise to the prominence and importance of Hedon; it returned two Members of Parliament and had four churches, St Augustines, St Mary Magdalen, St Nicholas and St James. St Nicholas was built on the left bank of the most eastern of the three canalised arms. As the fortunes of the town waned in favour of the other Humber ports, only St Augustine's Church was left, but its dockside structures were abandoned at the end of the 15th century. During the medieval period, the town's three canal arms, all reached northwards into the town from the southern haven.
The Fore Bank, encircled the western side of the town, curling westwards then turning 180° to meet some of the streams at the northern end of Hedon. The Fleet, which was fed by the Burstwick Drains, went northwards through the middle of the town and had the wharfage for loading and unloading; this was mostly timber for repair and construction of buildings and is reflected in the road named Woodmarketgate, whose eastern end was on the wharfage of The Fleet. The most eastern arm, was one that went past the church of St Nicholas, and also curved westwards at the top of the town, which gave the town a moated appearance and may have led to some historians misinterpreting this as another part of the haven or port, when both Slater and Beresford contend that this was a defensive measure.
The straight edges of the Fore Bank indicate that it was dug by humans, however, some have theorised that it was purely defensive, as opposed to part of the port. Slater points out that near its southern end, there was a road called Chain Close, which could indicate the use of a chain to close off the dock. The chaining of docks occurred elsewhere (Kingston upon Hull, Portsmouth, Dartmouth and Fowey), so this was not uncommon. It is believed that improvements to The Fleet in the 15th century, led to the abandonment of the Fore Bank in favour of The Fleet.
Up until the 14th century, vessels could navigate up the River Hedon to Burstwick, but as with Hedon Haven further downstream, siltation became a problem for those trying to navigate the river. A report to the court in Hedon in 1392 stated; "...a ditch.. .whereby from time immemorial boats laden with merchandize passed from the high sea to the Humber, then to Hedon ...and ought so to pass, has become dry for lack of repair and cleaning and because it has been stopped up, so that boats cannot pass along it.."
The haven, like other waterways leading to inland ports (such as York and Patrington), was afflicted by the silting up of its riverbed. As time went on, the port at Hedon lost business to the new port at Wyke, at the mouth of the River Hull as there was a demand for larger ships which couldn't traverse the shallower channel of Hedon Haven. Wyke was later to become the Kings Town upon the Hull, latterly, Kingston-upon-Hull. By the start of the 13th century, Hedon was the eleventh busiest port in England, and despite the importance of the port to Holderness, the newer port of Hull, was sixth busiest, (Hedon paying £60 to Hull's £345 in taxes). By 1327, petitions were being made about the Sturch and Flete (both ancient names for the waterways) being silted up. Temporary sewer commissions were enacted to remedy this, and to prevent flooding, but the problems kept reoccurring. Eventually, a Court of Sewers was established for the area to help maintain the waterways. Leland, who visited the town during the reign of Henry VIII, said "...it is evident to see that some places where the ships lay be overgrown with flags and reeds and the haven is sore decayed."{{#tag:ref|A translation from the original text: Heddon hath been a fair Haven Toun: it standith a Mile or more withyn the creke that cummith out of Humbre into it. The Se crekes parting about sayde town did insulate it, and shippis lay aboute the toun, but now men cum to it by 3 bridges, wher it is evident to se that sum places, wher the shippes lay be over growen with Flagges and Reades, and the haven is very sorely dacayid.|name=Quote1|group=note}}
Siltation of the haven (and of the haven at Patrington) worsened after both Cherry Cobb Sands and Sunk Island were reclaimed by the people of Holderness and embanked. This caused the flow of the Humber Estuary to move further south, which did not clear the silt from the two havens as efficiently as it did before all the remedial works and land reclamation had taken place. Even so, as far back as the 1720s, water from near to the village of Roos was diverted to aid in the scouring of the Hedon Haven. Due to the siltation build up and diverting of the flow of the Humber, the coastal village of Paull was moved south to an alluvial sandbank created by the haven as it entered the Humber.
By the 1760s, both the towns of Patrington and Hedon considered that their overland transport links needed improvement, and they pursued a turnpike to Hull, which they hoped would, in turn, ramp up trade in their respective havens. In 1774, a group of townsfolk in Hedon came together to form the Hedon Haven Commissioners. They successfully passed a bill through Parliament for ..recovering, improving, and maintaining, the navigation of the Haven of Hedon in Holdernesse.. This act allowed the commissioners to levy a toll on boats passing along the haven, and also to charge for items unloaded at the town's port. The act also allowed the commissioners to build a third basin which would lead up to the turnpike road between Hedon and Patrington. The commissioners were responsible for scouring the haven to prevent silting and were responsible for the installation of lock-gates and a reservoir at the point where the navigation met the turnpike road "to allow vessels to turn around." The turning reservoir was long, wide and at least in depth.
Around this time, the main basin at the south end of town between Sheriff Bridge and Thorn Road, was widened to allow for enhanced use. After these improvements in the road and the haven, the trade at the harbour increased, mostly in corn, which was shipped to London and further inland in Yorkshire. A "water-carriage" was in operation which ran twice weekly to Leeds and Wakefield, and London "occasionally". Trade continued for some time and was deemed to be of benefit to the town until the opening of the turnpike in 1833. However, even then, the haven was still seeing regular coal and lime traffic. Silting up of the haven led to only smaller craft being able to navigate the haven and so a campaign was led by farmers in south Holderness for a railway into Hull, which could guarantee them a method of reliable delivery for their produce. The Hull to Withernsea line opened to traffic in 1854.
In 1951, the westernmost of the three arms of the haven which was cut directly into the town was filled in. The last barges sailed up the haven in the 1960s with closure to watercraft in October 1969, when an order varying the 1774 Act of Parliament was made which prevented navigation upstream of the gates at Pollard Clough. The final parts of the haven that were in use up until that point, were infilled with rubble in 1974. Burstwick Drain was extended to meet the old route of Hedon Haven and provide an escape for water towards the Humber. The extreme western end of Burstwick Drain is still shown on mapping as Hedon Haven''. The area of the former haven within south Hedon was designated as a conservation area in 1992. The former canal arms of the navigation that stretched into the town are part of the Hedon Conservation Area, whilst where the former haven canalised arms encircled the town, are designated as a scheduled monument by Historic England.
In 1987, a new bridge costing £310,000 was installed on the Salt End to Paull Road. This replaced an older 1930s steel and timber swing bridge that had opened to allow barges up and down the haven. A swing bridge is shown at this location in the 19th century, though on a south-west/north-east axis, before the Paull Road was built on a north-west/south-east axis. The map also shows how the haven has been straightened in this location since the 19th century.
In 2008, the Hedon Haven Restoration Project was started which employed civil engineers with the task of evaluating a reformed haven. It is hoped the project will "breathe life into the area", add a further level of flood protection and become a marina for pleasure craft. The estimated cost of the project in 2005 was £17 million and an archaeological dig and survey was undertaken. Whilst the land immediately to the west of the A1033 Hedon bypass is part of a Local Development Order and is owned by Associated British Ports (ABP), the haven and the old course of the haven are not in the available land that can be built on. However, the western part of Burstwick Drain, can be utilised as part of a future industrial complex.
Flooding and wildlife
In 2007, Burstwick Drain, which outfalls into the Humber as Hedon Haven, swamped its banks, flooding the village of Burstwick and the town of Hedon. The riverflow at Pollard Clough was measured at a height of , which is the highest level on record. This had several causal factors; heavy rain, the siltation of the riverbed and the sluice gates at the western end which held back the water. The Pollard Clough sluice gates, located upstream of the Humber, are there to prevent tidal water passing up the Hedon Haven/Burstwick Drain and flooding the valley. Previously, the floodgates were located further upstream at Hedon Haven Clough. As the gates are operated with the rising tides, severe weather can mean that the Burstwick Drain is tide-locked for some time, thereby risking flooding in Hedon and other areas as many watercourses drain into the haven by gravity. Additionally, when the gates are locked against the tide, and the drain itself is flooded due to rainfall, the gates prevent water exiting the drain, which causes backflow and flooding upstream.
The depth of Burstwick Drain is stated to be from bed to the top of the bank; at the time of the floods, it was estimated that bottom of that was silt.
The Burstwick Drain extends for just over and drains an area of . Due to the agricultural nature of the land that it drains, the surface run-off from fields has contributed to the river's poor ecological status. The underlying geology of the region that the watercourse drains is glacial gravels, marshes and estuarine alluvium.
The extreme western end of the haven has been the subject of many studies and is part of a local development order. Associated British Ports have earmarked the land for a port extension. Development of the land from agricultural open land into industrial, has prompted many surveys which have recorded that whilst the haven is a suitable habitat for water voles and otters, there is no record of them being on the watercourse. Marine mammals are prevented from accessing the haven due to the tidal barrier at Pollard Clough.
Previous to the installation of the Pollard Clough sluice, the haven was tidal as far as Hedon. Despite the influx of freshwater from the surrounding drains, crab and plaice were able to be netted along the haven and as far as Hedon itself.
See also
Holderness Drain
List of rivers of Yorkshire
Notes
References
Sources
Further reading
External links
Hedon Navigation Trust
East and North Yorkshire Waterways Partnership, which lists the haven as Hedon Navigation
South Holderness Internal Drainage Board
Ports and harbours of Yorkshire
Ports and harbours of the Humber
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Maximiliano Ré (born 23 March 1987) is an Argentine-Italian footballer.
Biography
Re started his career at hometown club Rosario Central. In August 2007, he was signed by Siena, where he played at Primavera Team, and call-up to Torneo di Viareggio 2008.
In February 2009, he was loaned to Colligiana. His teammate Rodrigo De Lazzari also moved to the club on free transfer.
In summer 2009, he went to Spanish regional league side UD Ibiza-Eivissa.
In the winter transfer 2010 signing for the CD Izarra though he plays a few minutes.
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Argentine men's footballers
Argentine expatriate men's footballers
Rosario Central footballers
ACR Siena 1904 players
ASD Olimpia Colligiana players
CD Izarra footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Expatriate men's footballers in Italy
Expatriate men's footballers in Spain
Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Italy
Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Spain
Argentine people of Italian descent
Footballers from Rosario, Santa Fe
1987 births
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Azrat () is a village in Moallem Kalayeh Rural District, Rudbar-e Alamut District, Qazvin County, Qazvin Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 8, in 4 families.
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Populated places in Qazvin County
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Cereopsius amabilis is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius in 1913. It is known from Thailand and Borneo.
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Cereopsius
Beetles described in 1913
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Kristian Frisch
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Kristian Frisch (8 July 1891 – 7 December 1954) was a Danish cyclist. He competed in two events at the 1920 Summer Olympics.
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1891 births
1954 deaths
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Olympic cyclists for Denmark
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Chris Smith (rugby league, born 1994)
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Chris Smith (born 16 January 1994) is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays as a forward and for the Penrith Panthers in the NRL.
He previously played for the Sydney Roosters and the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs in the National Rugby League, and the Indigenous All Stars at representative level.
Background
Smith was born in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia.
He played his junior rugby league for the Nightcliff Dragons in the Darwin Rugby League and attended Casuarina High School, before being signed to a contract by the North Queensland Cowboys at age 15. At 17 years of age, he signed with the Penrith Panthers, moving to Sydney and attending Patrician Brothers' College, Blacktown.
Playing career
Early career
From 2012 to 2014, Smith played for the Penrith Panthers' NYC team. In August 2012, he played for the Australian Schoolboys.
2015
In 2015, Smith graduated to the Penrith New South Wales Cup team.
In Round 26 of the 2015 NRL season, he made his NRL debut for Penrith against the Newcastle Knights.
2016
On 6 April, Smith was released from his Penrith contract to join the Sydney Roosters effective immediately, on a contract to the end of 2017.
2017
Smith made only one first grade appearance for the Sydney Roosters in the 2017 NRL season which came against Canberra in round 12 and ended in a 16-24 loss.
2018
At the end of 2017, Smith signed a contract with Canterbury-Bankstown. Smith made only one appearance for Canterbury in the 2018 NRL season which came against Brisbane in round 21 and ended in a 36-22 victory at ANZ Stadium. Smith spent most of the year playing with Canterbury's reserve grade team. Smith played in the club's Intrust Super Premiership NSW grand final victory over Newtown at Leichhardt Oval. The following week, Smith played in Canterbury's NRL State Championship side which defeated Redcliffe 42-18 at ANZ Stadium.
2019
Smith made a total of 20 appearances for Canterbury in the 2019 NRL season as the club finished 12th on the table. Smith only missed 5 matches all season and cemented himself in the first grade squad.
On 22 November 2019, Smith signed a two-year contract extension to stay at Canterbury until the end of the 2021 season.
2020
In February, Smith was ruled out for the first three months of the 2020 NRL season after suffering a torn MCL and a partial ACL tear during the pre-season Indigenous All Stars game.
2021
On 31 August, Smith was one of twelve players who were told by Canterbury that they would not be offered a contract for the 2022 season and would be released at seasons end.
In November, Smith signed a contract to return to the Penrith Panthers for the 2022 season.
2022
Smith played six games for Penrith in the 2022 NRL season. Smith played most of the year with the clubs NSW Cup team. On 25 September, Smith played for Penrith in the clubs NSW Cup Grand Final victory over Canterbury.
On 2 October, Smith played in Penrith's 44-10 victory over Norths Devils in the NRL State Championship final.
References
External links
Canterbury Bulldogs profile
Sydney Roosters profile
NRL profile
Penrith Panthers profile
1994 births
Living people
Arrernte people
Australian rugby league players
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs players
Indigenous All Stars players
Indigenous Australian rugby league players
Penrith Panthers players
Rugby league centres
Rugby league locks
Rugby league players from Darwin, Northern Territory
Rugby league second-rows
Sydney Roosters players
Windsor Wolves players
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri%20Rouvi%C3%A8re
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Henri Rouvière
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Henri Rouvière (23 December 1876 – 26 October 1952) was a professor of anatomy born in Le Bleymard, France.
He studied in Montpellier, receiving his medical doctorate in 1903. He later became a professor of anatomy and embryology at the University of Paris. Collège Henri Rouvière in his hometown of Le Bleymard is named in his honour. Many of Rouvière's anatomical works are preserved in the Musée d'Anatomie Delmas-Orfila-Rouvière in Paris.
Rouvière is remembered for his 1932 publication of "Anatomie des Lymphatiques de l'Homme" (translated into English in 1938 as "Anatomy of the Human Lymphatic System"), an exhaustive study involving the delineation and classification of human lymph nodes and their associated drainage regions. Rouvière's work was a continuation of the seminal research of the lymphatic system done by anatomist Marie Sappey (1810-1896).
Other significant writings by Rouvière are "Anatomie humaine descriptive, topographique et fonctionnelle", "Atlas aide-mémoire d'anatomie" and "L'anatomie humaine". "Anatomie humaine descriptive, topographique et fonctionnelle" is the adopted textbook in several well known medical schools, such as Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa, in Lisbon, Portugal.
The eponymous "node of Rouvière" (sometimes called "Rouvière node") features his name; this node is the most superior of the lateral group of the retropharyngeal lymph nodes, and is found at the base of the skull.
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Carcinoma Nasopharynx (node of Rouvière featured on Slide #6)
French anatomists
1876 births
1952 deaths
Academic staff of the University of Paris
People from Lozère
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