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Portrait of Tracy
is a composition by bassist Jaco Pastorius. It was named after his wife, Tracy Sexton.
It appears on his landmark 1976 self-titled debut album, and has been covered by bassists such as Joe Ferry, Marcus Miller, Victor Wooten, John Myung, and Brian Bromberg. It is considered by many a bass guitar standard.
The song is played almost exclusively with natural harmonics, giving it a dreamy, unfamiliar tone for the bass, which is common in Pastorius's style.
"Portrait of Tracy" has been sampled in several songs, including SWV's "Rain", Rick Ross's "Bel Air (Black Dollar)", Cannibal Ox's "Pigeon", Amon Tobin's "Daytrip", Master P "Ghetto Love", Chingy and Tyrese's "Pullin' Me Back", Wagon Christ's "Mr. Mukatsuku", and Steve Spacek's "Hey There". Whilst it was not sampled in Childish Gambino’s Redbone, its melody has been said to pay homage to Pastorius's original bassline.
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Category:1976 songs
Category:Songs written by Jaco Pastorius
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Union Luxembourg
Union Sportive Luxembourg, usually known as Union Luxembourg, was a football club, based in Luxembourg City, in southern Luxembourg. It is now a part of Racing FC Union Luxembourg.
History
Union Luxembourg was formed in 1925 as an amalgam of US Hollerich Bonnevoie and Jeunesse Sportive Verlorenkost. Although US Hollerich had been one of the top clubs in Luxembourg, winning five titles consecutively, by 1925, its success had dried up. From the merger until the Second World War, the club would win only one trophy: the championship in 1927.
In 1940, the Nazis renamed Union, along with all other clubs as part of the process of Germanisation. Between 1940 and 1944, Union's name would be Verein für Rasenspiele 08 Luxemburg. The end of occupation and reversion of moniker did little to change Union's success (or lack thereof); a solitary Luxembourg Cup was all that Union had to show for the first fifteen years of freedom after the war.
However, that all changed very swiftly, as Union hit its stride, beginning with another cup victory in 1959. Between 1959 and 1971, Union won two league titles and the Luxembourg Cup five times. Another barren spell followed; the 1970s and 1980s saw Luxembourg finish consistently in the top four in the league, but, in seventeen years, Luxembourg reached only two cup finals and finished in the two top just once.
Another sudden spike of success came at the end of the 1980s. Luxembourg won three National Division titles back-to-back between 1990 and 1992 and returned to the habit of European qualification. Nonetheless, as with so many clubs in Luxembourg during the 1990s and 2000s, Union could not withstand the pressure to consolidate. Union arranged a merger with CA Spora Luxembourg and CS Alliance 01 to form its modern form, Racing FC Union Luxembourg, to take effect after the 2004–05 season. As it happens, Union was relegated in 2004–05 (as was Spora), marking an unfitting end to one of Luxembourg's most successful clubs.
Honours
National Division
Winners (6): 1926–27, 1961–62, 1970–71, 1989–90, 1990–91, 1991–92
Runners-up (9): 1921–22, 1947–48, 1962–63, 1963–64, 1964–65, 1965–66, 1972–73, 1992–93, 1997–98
Luxembourg Cup
Winners (10): 1946–47, 1958–59, 1962–63, 1963–64, 1968–69, 1969–70, 1985–86, 1988–89, 1990–91, 1995–96
Runners-up (10): 1922–23, 1925–26, 1932–33, 1936–37, 1960–61, 1961–62, 1966–67, 1977–78, 1982–83, 1996–97
As US Hollerich Bonnevoie
National Division
Winners (5): 1911–12, 1913–14, 1914–15, 1915–16, 1916–17
Runners-up (2): 1909–10, 1917–18
European Competition
Union Luxembourg qualified for UEFA European competition 21 times.
UEFA Champions League
Qualifying round (1): 1971–72
First round (4): 1962–63, 1990–91, 1991–92, 1992–93
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
Qualifying round (2): 1996–97, 1997–98
First round (8): 1963–64, 1964–65, 1969–70, 1970–71, 1978–79, 1984–85, 1986–87, 1989–90
UEFA Cup
Qualifying round (1): 1998–99
First round (5): 1965–66, 1966–67, 1973–74, 1988–89, 1993–94
Without having won a tie, Union won two matches against European opponents. The first came in 1970–71, against Turkish side Göztepe in the Cup Winners' Cup. Göztepe had won the first leg 5–0, but Union managed a 1–0 victory in the home leg (this was very limited revenge, as Göztepe had knocked Union out the previous year, too). Their second victory was over Bodø/Glimt of Norway, by one goal to nil, having losing the first leg 4–1. Union also managed draws against Botev Plovdiv and Djurgårdens IF in 1984–85 and 1989–90 respectively.
Managers
Bill Berry (1961–65)
René Noerdinger (1973–79)
Alex Pecqueur (1989–92)
Roland Schnit (1992–93)
Heinz Maas (1993)
Alex Pecqueur (1994–95)
Rachid Belhout (2001–03)
Jeannot Reiter (2003–05)
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Category:Association football clubs disestablished in 2005
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Category:2005 disestablishments in Luxembourg
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Atelopus palmatus
Atelopus palmatus (common name: Andersson's stubfoot toad) is a species of toad in the family Bufonidae. It is endemic to the Cordillera Oriental of eastern Ecuador and is known from the Napo and Pastaza Provinces at elevations of above sea level. Its type locality is "Rio Pastaza".
Description
Males measure and females in snout–vent length.
Habitat and conservation
Its natural habitats are humid montane forests. It is a diurnal species. Males have been observed during the night on dry leaves by a marsh, and during the day between rocks and sand by water. A female has been observed during the day in flooded leaf litter on a swamp. Gravid females carrying about 80 eggs have been found between March and July.
It is most threatened by chytridiomycosis which causes dramatic decline and affects other species of its genus. Other threats include habitat loss through agriculture (both crops and livestock), logging, planned mining and wood plantations.
References
palmatus
Category:Amphibians of Ecuador
Category:Endemic fauna of Ecuador
Category:Amphibians described in 1945
Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Category:Taxa named by Lars Gabriel Andersson
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Allen S. Baker
Allen S. Baker (January 12, 1842 near what is now Evansville, Wisconsin – January 1916), was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly.
During the American Civil War, he served with the 2nd Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment. He died of influenza.
His son, John Baker, would also become a member of the Assembly.
Assembly career
Baker was a member of the Assembly during the 1905 and 1907 sessions. He was a Republican.
References
Category:People from Evansville, Wisconsin
Category:Members of the Wisconsin State Assembly
Category:Wisconsin Republicans
Category:People of Wisconsin in the American Civil War
Category:Union Army soldiers
Category:American Congregationalists
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Category:1916 deaths
Category:Deaths from influenza
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R. spectabilis
R. spectabilis may refer to:
Reithrodontomys spectabilis, the Cozumel harvest mouse, a rodent species
Rubus spectabilis, a flowering plant species
Synonyms
Redtenbacheria spectabilis, a synonym of Redtenbacheria insignis, a fly species
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San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus
The San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus (SFGMC) is the world's first openly gay chorus, one of the world's largest male choruses and the group most often credited with creating the LGBT choral movement.
The chorus was founded by gay music pioneer Jon Reed Sims. The group does not require that members identify as gay or bisexual. The eligibility requirements for SFGMC are to be at least 18 years of age, to self identify as a man, and to pass the audition process defined by the Artistic Director. Today, with a membership of over 300 voices, the SFGMC continues to present a wide range of music and perform for many different kinds of audiences.
Background
Early challenges
The SFGMC came into existence during the Gay Rights Movement, which rose to national prominence after the Stonewall Riots in New York City in 1969. In 1977, openly gay candidate for San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk began traveling around the United States to present what came to be known as the Hope Speech. Speaking as an openly gay elected public official, he urged gay people to come out of the closet to oppose anti-gay efforts such as the Briggs Initiative and Anita Bryant's Save Our Children campaign. Sims responded by forming the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Marching Band and Twirling Corps, the world's first openly gay and lesbian performing arts group, early in 1978 and the SFGMC later that year. The chorus held its first rehearsal on October 30, 1978.
However, the first public performance of the SFGMC took place exactly four weeks later, on November 27, at an impromptu memorial at San Francisco City Hall for Milk and Mayor George Moscone, who had been assassinated earlier that day by former Supervisor Dan White. The SFGMC performed "Thou, Lord, hast been our refuge" ("Herr Gott, du bist unsre Zuflucht") by Mendelssohn at the event, which was attended by at least 25,000–40,000 mourners who had marched to the City Hall from Castro Street, which was represented by Milk in the Board of Supervisors.
Sims, who specialized in conducting bands and orchestras, soon appointed Dick Kramer (1927–2007) as SFGMC conductor. The two men co-directed SFGMC's first official concert, which took place on Dec. 20, 1978, at Everett Middle School, where the 115-voice chorus presented an eclectic program to a capacity crowd.
Despite the precedent set by the band, chorus members debated whether to use the word "gay" in its name:
Being an openly gay organization presented certain challenges beyond the reluctance of some gay men to join because of the name. In 1981, the SFGMC lost a controversial court battle when Superior Court Judge Ira Brown ruled that the Jesuits at the University of San Francisco could refuse to allow the chorus to sing at St. Ignatius Church. A civil suit several months later awarded damages to the SFGMC.
National tour
Musically, the chorus was an instant success. Kramer's commitment to musical excellence was rewarded with many reviews praising the group's ability. That success allowed the chorus to reach out to a wider audience with a 1981 national tour and a companion LP recording, The San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus Tours America 1981. During that tour, the chorus performed in nine cities: Dallas, Minneapolis (Orchestra Hall), Lincoln, Detroit, New York City, Boston, Washington D.C. (Kennedy Center), Seattle (Seattle Opera House), then returned to San Francisco for a triumphant performance at Davies Symphony Hall where San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein awarded SFGMC the key to the city—the first time that honor had been bestowed on a gay organization. Although the tour was a critical and artistic success, it left SFGMC with a debt of US$200,000, which was covered in part by the mortgages on the homes of three members. The final payment on the debt was made in 1991, just a few months short of the tour's tenth anniversary.
LGBT choral movement
The tour and recording helped spark the formation of many LGBT choruses in the United States and around the world, including the Gay Men's Chorus of Washington, D.C., Boston Gay Men's Chorus, Vancouver Men's Chorus in Canada, and the Melbourne Gay and Lesbian Chorus in Australia. By 1982, choruses were performing in many cities across the US, Canada, Europe (for instance, Stockholms Gaykör, Sweden). and a global LGBT choral movement had begun to take shape. SFGMC founding member Jay Davidson helped create the Gay and Lesbian Association of Choruses (GALA Choruses) and served as its first board president. LGBT singers in other parts of the world created similar organizations, including LEGATO, an association for lesbian and gay choirs and ensembles in Europe established in 1997, and SING OUT! – the Association of Lesbian and Gay Choirs in the UK and Ireland. There are now more than 250 LGBT choruses worldwide.
New music
In the late 1970s, gay choral music was virtually nonexistent. Because the SFGMC wanted to perform music relevant to its members and audience, the group commissioned many works, slowly building a new repertoire for men's choruses as well as for the LGBT community. In 1979, SFGMC member Tad Dunlap composed what is possibly the first-ever gay-specific choral piece, "I Understood," with lyrics from one of Harvey Milk's inspirational speeches. The SFGMC's 1986 commission, Invocation and Dance by David Conte, was one of the earliest pieces to deal with AIDS, and is now considered a standard of American TTBB choral literature. NakedMan, a song suite by Philip Littell and Robert Seeley commissioned by the SFGMC in 1996, instantly became one of the most important works in gay choral literature and is still widely performed by LGBT choruses. "Never Ever," the final movement of NakedMan, has found its way into the repertoire of high school and college choirs, especially as a graduation piece. Dr. Stan Hill, SFGMC's conductor from 1989 to 2000, was a driving force behind many commissions. In honor of its 30th anniversary in 2008, the chorus commissioned and performed new works by composers David Conte, Eric Lane Barnes, Ilyas Iliya, L. Peter Deutsch, and Steve Schalchlin.
Recent commissions
In 2011, Stephen Schwartz created Testimony, a choral work using lyrics taken from submissions to Dan Savage's It Gets Better Project. The Chorus premiered Testimony in March 2012, and it has now been performed by several other gay men's choruses.
Also in 2011, the Chorus announced plans to commission a major new work based on the life and legacy of Harvey Milk. The work, entitled I Am Harvey Milk and with music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa, premiered at Nourse Theatre on June 26, 2013—the same day on which the US Supreme Court ruled that Section 4 of DOMA and California Proposition 8 were both unconstitutional. Its Broadway premiere occurred on October 6, 2014.
In March 2014, the Chorus performed the world premiere of Tyler's Suite, dedicated to the memory of Tyler Clementi, a young gay man who committed suicide in 2010 after experiencing bullying. Co-commissioned with several other gay choruses, it features movements composed by Stephen Schwartz, John Corigliano, Jake Heggie, and Ann Hampton Callaway, all set to poetry by Pamela Stewart. Callaway joined the Chorus on stage as a soloist.
In April 2015, the Chorus presented the world premiere of #twitterlieder, a 15-song cycle with music by James Eakin, set to lyrics by Charles Anthony Silvestri. Each song is a 140-character tweet.
AIDS
From the mid-1980s through the late 1990s, the chorus focused heavily on AIDS because of the huge impact the disease was having on its members and the broader LGBT community.
Hill describes the era as "the worst of times," explaining that he spent every Wednesday and Sunday visiting members in hospitals. Members and former members who died of AIDS and other causes became known as the chorus's "Fifth Section."
In addition to commissioning and performing AIDS-related music, the chorus participated in and presented concerts and other events to raise awareness and funds for AIDS health service and research organizations.
Although SFGMC lost over 250 members to the disease,
the organization survived, grew, and continued to exhibit passion for its mission. In 1998, for example, the chorus made its first international appearances in Sydney, Australia.
Community outreach
By the late 1990s, the chorus had survived the worst of the epidemic and was ready to resume a more active role as ambassador for the LGBT community. In 2000, with the appointment of conductor Dr. Kathleen McGuire, the SFGMC expanded its community outreach. Over the next few years, appearances included: Giving Back concerts, which raised funds for women in 2000, young people in 2002, and breast cancer and AIDS in 2002; the SFGMC's first by-invitation concerts for elementary and high school students in 2002 and 2003; a performance at Vacaville prison for World AIDS Day in 2003; programming to reach out to transgender, African American, and faith-based communities in 2004; participation in Special Olympics events (2003–2005); the addition of a Spanish-language ensemble in 2005; and sponsorship of an LGBT youth chorus in 2006.
After a quarter-century of singing for gay rights, members of the SFGMC finally performed at St. Ignatius Church – this time without controversy – on Jan. 11, 2003, at a memorial for AIDS advocate and SFGMC alumnus, David Smith Fox (1952–2002). This was no minor event, with Nancy Pelosi and other dignitaries among the 600 attendees. In 2018, St. Ignatius Church invited SFGMC to hold its 40th anniversary concert there.
In January 2010, in response to the passage of Proposition 8, SFGMC launched its first California Freedom Tour with sold-out performances in Redding and Chico. To commemorate Harvey Milk's birthday in May, 2010, the chorus performed in Bakersfield and Fresno, and ended the 2010 tour with a trip to Vallejo in July. SFGMC chose these cities because they are parts of California that strongly supported Proposition 8. The second California Freedom Tour, with performances in Bakersfield, Fresno, Redding and Vallejo, took place in April through July 2011. In 2012 also SFGMC traveled to Stockton and Sacramento, California, plus Denver, Colorado and Laramie, Wyoming.
In 2017, in response to anti-gay ballot measures, SFGMC toured seven Southern states. The tour, entitled the Lavender Pen Tour, featured sold-out houses in several cities and became the subject of a 2019 documentary, Gay Chorus Deep South, which was featured at several film festivals and won an Audience Award at the Tribeca Film Festival.
In 2018, SFGMC launched its RHYTHM (Reaching Youth Through Music) program, which sends chorus members on outreach visits to elementary, middle, and high schools throughout the Bay Area.
Membership
The SFGMC is a non-profit community arts organization made up of singers and non-singers, board members, staff and alumni. The SFGMC's board of directors is officially known as Golden Gate Performing Arts, Inc.
A number of chorus members also participate voluntarily in smaller ensembles, each with fewer than 25 singers. These ensembles represent the chorus at outreach events, hold their own concerts, make recordings, and are featured regularly in concerts with the full chorus. Currently, there are three ensembles: The Lollipop Guild, founded in 1979, and best known for its a cappella and Barbershop singing; Vocal Minority, founded in 2003, which specializes in vocal jazz and show choir repertoire; and SWAG, founded in 2013, which features a more urban sound and aesthetic and tight harmonies from the jazz and R&B genres. A larger, ad hoc group called the Ambassadors also represents the chorus at outreach performances.
According to data gathered by the SFGMC Alumni Assoc., more than 1,800 men have been chorus members since 1978. Two founding members still sing with the group, along with several others who went on the 1981 tour. Auditions for new SFGMC members are held semi-annually, in January and August. In order to be eligible for membership, singers must pass an audition, be at least 18 years old and self-identify as male. Identifying as gay is not a requirement, but members are expected to abide by the organization's mission.
The appellation "Fifth Section" is reserved primarily for former members who died from various causes, including AIDS/HIV. Former Air Force Technical Sergeant Leonard Matlovich, who was never a formal member of the chorus but donated $6000 of his discrimination settlement with the Air Force to the Chorus' 1981 national tour, was inducted into the Fifth Section following his 1989 death from AIDS.
Performances
SFGMC presents an annual subscription concert series that includes holiday concerts in December; a spring concert at Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall — home of the San Francisco Symphony; an Annual Pride Concert with other San Francisco LGBT organizations; plus a concert featuring the chorus's small ensembles and a cabaret featuring its soloists. In addition, one of the most popular of San Francisco's annual holiday events, Home for the Holidays, has been presented by the SFGMC annually since 1990 on Christmas Eve at the historic Castro Theatre.
Through its SingOut Program, SFGMC also makes up to 50 community appearances each year, including ones that directly benefit local nonprofit and healthcare organizations. In recent years, SFGMC has helped to raise more than US$430,000 for organizations such as the AIDS Foundation, AIDS Emergency Fund, STOP AIDS, Face to Face – Sonoma County AIDS Network, Stanislaus Community Assistance Project, Santa Cruz Assistance Project, Napa Solano Health Project, Lyon Martin Women's Health Services, Breast Cancer Fund, American Cancer Society, Special Olympics, Larkin Street Youth Services, Lavender Youth Recreation and Information Center, the Matthew Shepard Foundation, and Make-A-Wish.
Achievements
SFGMC has received many awards and honors, including several Cable Car Awards in the 1980s, official recognitions from San Francisco and California elected officials, the Circles of Hope Award from the Metropolitan Community Foundation in 2003, and Absolutely Fabulous Awards for floats in the San Francisco Pride Parade, most recently in 2011. In 2009, the Chorus was voted "Best Of The Bay" by the San Francisco Bay Guardian in the category "Best Music Organization" in the "Readers Poll – Classics" section. The Chorus is featured in the award-winning documentary films Singing Positive in 1995 (with a sequel in 2009) and Why We Sing in 2006. SFGMC is featured in many recordings (see Discography below), including the 2005 and 2006 winners of the Out Music Awards for Outstanding New Recording: Chorus or Choir. In June 2007, eMusicUK's Getting Started in Classical Music webpage listed the CD San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus Tours America 1981 as one of 12 essential recordings considered Best of the Best. SFGMC was heard around the world singing at San Francisco City Hall during the same-gender marriage ceremonies of February and March 2004, including for comedian and talk show host Rosie O'Donnell. In May, 2008, SFGMC performed "Oh, Happy Day" at the 37th Academy of Gospel Music Awards, becoming the first gay chorus to appear at this event. On May 4, 2009, SFGMC ensemble The Lollipop Guild performed at the Various Voices festival in London, marking the organization's debut in Europe.
In June 2014, it was announced that SFGMC's recording of I Am Harvey Milk had won the 13th annual Independent Music Award for Best Soundtrack / Cast Recording.
SFGMC has performed in Australia, Canada and across the United States, in such venues as Carnegie Hall in New York City, Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., the Sydney Town Hall, Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Chicago and Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier in Montreal. The Chorus has appeared and collaborated with numerous celebrities and arts organizations, including: San Francisco Symphony, Berkeley Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Opera, Marin Opera, Opera By The Bay (Sausalito), San Francisco Ballet, The Women's Philharmonic, the Community Women's Orchestra, the Bay Area Rainbow Symphony, Holly Near, Deborah Voigt, Lisa Vroman, Carol Channing, Michael Feinstein, Florence Henderson, Nell Carter, Megan Mullally, Sir Ian McKellen, Alan Cumming, Kristin Chenoweth, Sharon Gless, BD Wong, Cris Williamson, Joan Rivers, Nichelle Nichols, Barbara Cook, Julie Newmar, Armistead Maupin, Jennifer Holliday, Stephen Schwartz, Deke Sharon, Mark Etheredge, Beach Blanket Babylon, Matt Alber, Andrew Lippa, Laura Benanti, and Patti LuPone.
In January 2011, with the appointment of new Artistic Director Dr. Tim Seelig, SFGMC has seen a significant increase in its membership ranks, audiences, and non profit size. For the first time in several years, the chorus sold out Davies Symphony Hall for its April 2011 concert: Words. Subsequent 2012 and 2013 concerts at Davies and other venues also saw very strong attendance numbers. In December 2013 the chorus returned to the War Memorial Opera House after a long absence. SFGMC was invited to Los Angeles in the summer of 2014 as guests of the Gay Men's Chorus Of Los Angeles for a special joint performance of I Am Harvey Milk at Walt Disney Concert Hall.
Following the performance of I Am Harvey Milk in Los Angeles, SFGMC launched its 37th season, "Journey," which included three sold-out holiday shows at the Nourse Theater (Dancers, Prancers & Vixens), two nights at Davies Symphony Hall (Passion) and three Pride weekend concerts (Elton: The Sing-Along). For Dancers, Prancers & Vixens, the Chorus premiered a new work titled "New Year's Carol," with music by Ola Gjeilo and words by Charles Anthony Silvestri. Passion included the Bay Area premiere of Jake Heggie's "For a Look or a Touch" opera and the world premiere of James Eakin's "#twitterlieder: 15 Tweets in 3 Acts," with words by Charles Anthony Silvestri. A recording of Passion was released on July 7, 2015.
In January 2019, the Chorus announced that it was purchasing the former Baha'i Center at 170 Valencia Street, and intends to turn it into the National LGBTQ Center for the Arts.
In June 2019, to mark the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, sparking the start of the modern LGBTQ rights movement, Queerty named The SFGMC one of the Pride50 trailblazers “who actively ensure society remains moving towards equality, acceptance and dignity for all queer people.
Leadership: Artistic Directors and Conductors
Jon Reed Sims (Oct. 1978)
Dick Kramer (Nov. 1978 – Jan. 1982)
Robin Kay (guest conductor, Feb. – Mar. 1982)
Robert Erickson, Dale Richard, Claude Zetty (interim conductors, 1982)
Ernie Veniegas (1982–1984)
Charles Baker, Dennis Coleman, Vance George (guest conductors, 1985)
Gregg Tallman (Aug. 1985 – June 1989)
Dr. Stan Hill (July 1989 – July 2000; Conductor Laureate July 11, 2012)
Joseph Jennings (guest conductor, Sept. – Dec. 1998)
Dr. Kathleen McGuire (Aug. 2000 – Dec. 2010; Conductor Laureate Jan. 3, 2011)
Dr. Timothy Seelig (January 2011 – present; also served as guest conductor, Feb. – June 2009)
Discography
Tours America '81 (Golden Gate Records LP 1981, CD 1992)
How Fair This Place (1991)
Brahms, Bernstein, & the Boys! (1993)
Our Gay Apparel (September 1995, December 2003)
NakedMan (July 1996)
ExtrABBAganza! (April 1997)
Q (1998)
Our Boys Will Shine (1998)
Misbehavin' with Nell Carter (May 1999)
Sing Me to Heaven (July 2000)
Exile (June 2000)
Best of SFGMC (June 2001)
I Dream of a Time (November 2001)
SFGMC Does Queen (June 2002)
Closer Than Ever, 25th Anniversary Concert (May 2004)
Oh, Happy Day! (July 2004)
Home for the Holidays – Live at the Castro Theatre (June 2005)
Divas' Revenge: Opera & Broadway Our Way (November 2005)
Cowboys, Boas and Bears! Oh, My! (June 2006)
Why We Sing (DVD June 2007)
USS Metaphor (DVD, May 2008)
Creating Harmony: 30th Season Highlights and New World Waking (double CD, Dec. 2008)
A Few Licks (February 2009)
Tune In, Turn Up, Sing Out (June 2009)
California Freedom Tour 2010 (May 2010)
Words (April 2011)
Testimony (March 2012)
Enchantingly Wicked (June 2012)
I Am Harvey Milk (October 2013)
Illuminate: Live at 35 including "Tyler's Suite" (June 2014)
Passion including Jake Heggie's "For a Look or a Touch" (July 2015)
Festive: Four Years of Favorites including "New Year's Carol" (October 2015)
40 (October 2017)
Unbreakable (February 2019)
For more information, see catalogue at the SF Gay Men's Chorus official website.
See also
Moscone-Milk assassinations
San Francisco 2004 same-sex weddings
Timeline of HIV/AIDS
LGBT culture in San Francisco
Notes and references
Further reading
Harmanci, Reyhan. A NOTE ON CHANGE: 'Why We Sing!' Documentary explores choral music's appeal and how it fosters community. San Francisco Chronicle, August 24, 2006
Hilliard, Russell E. "The San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus A Historical Perspective on the Role of a Chorus as a Social Service." Journal of Gay & Lesbian Social Services: Issues in Practice, Policy, and Research. The official journal of the Caucus of the LGBT Faculty & Students in Social Work. Volume: 14, October 29, 2002. Issue . The Haworth Press, Inc.
External links
San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus official website
San Francisco Gay Men's chorus historic timeline
Category:Choirs in the San Francisco Bay Area
Category:History of San Francisco
Category:Musical groups established in 1978
Category:Gay men's choruses
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Triviola
Triviola is a genus of moths in the family Lecithoceridae. It contains the species Triviola puiensis, which is found in Thailand.
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Category:Monotypic moth genera
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Edward Pierce
Edward Pierce (or Edward Pearse) (1630 or 1631–1694) was a Welsh Anglican priest and writer.
Life
Pierce was born in Wales in 1630 or 1631 (the location and date is uncertain) and was educated at Jesus College, Oxford from 1650 to 1657 before his ordination in 1659. He ministered in various parishes in Northamptonshire (at St Sepulchre's, Northampton, 1660 to 1663; Duston, 1662 to 1663; All Saints, Aldwincle and Cottesbrooke, 1663 to 1694) under the patronage of a Northamptonshire landowner, Sir John Langham, who was from Cottesbrooke. Pierce died in the rectory of Cottesbrooke on 2 September 1694 and was buried in the chancel of the church. His eldest son, John, succeeded him as rector of Cottesbrooke.
Writings
In 1675, Pierce described the Great Fire of Northampton and continued to write thereafter, with anonymous works in the 1680s criticising persecution of dissenters such as The Conformists Plea for the Nonconformists (1681), which went through three editions. His viewpoint attracted criticism and some church leaders saw him as dangerous. In his ministry, he endeavoured to keep dissenters within the Church of England through his tolerance and his refusal to insist on following all the requirements of the rites of the Church. His last work, published in 1691, was a sermon preached to the prisoners sentenced to death at the Assizes in September 1690, entitled Christ Alone our Life.
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Category:1694 deaths
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List of judges of the Supreme Court of South Australia
Of the judges of the Supreme Court of South Australia, , 14 had previously served in the Parliament of South Australia Edward Gwynne, Sir Richard Hanson, Randolph Stow, Sir Samuel Way, Sir James Boucaut, Richard Andrews, Sir William Bundey, Sir John Gordon, Robert Homburg, Sir Angas Parsons, Sir Charles Abbott, Leo Travers, Len King and Robin Millhouse. In addition, Sir John Jeffcott served as a member of the South Australian Legislative Council concurrent with his brief tenure as a judge in South Australia.
See also
Judiciary of Australia
Notes
References
Judges of the Supreme Court
South Australia
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Steffy Van Den Haute
Steffy Van Den Haute (born 29 November 1993) is a Belgian professional racing cyclist. She rides for the Topsport Vlaanderen-Etixx-Guill d'Or team.
See also
List of 2015 UCI Women's Teams and riders
References
External links
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Category:Living people
Category:Belgian female cyclists
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Alex Finney (footballer, born 1996)
Alex Connor Finney (born 8 June 1996) is an English footballer who plays as a centre-back for Aldershot Town. He previously played for Bolton Wanderers, Queens Park Rangers and Maidstone United.
Career
Bolton Wanderers
Finney began his career with Bolton Wanderers. He started in the youth ranks at Leyton Orient before joining Bolton in 2014. He made his debut for the club on 19 September 2015 when he came on as a late substitute for Stephen Dobbie in Bolton's 4–1 defeat to Huddersfield Town. He left the club by mutual consent on 12 August 2016, three days after appearing in a League Cup defeat at Blackpool.
Queens Park Rangers
After being without a club for 3 months Finney signed for Queens Park Rangers on 18 November 2016.
He left the club at the end of the 2017/18 season, failing to make a senior appearance.
Maidstone United
On 3 August 2017, it was announced that Finney would play for Maidstone United on loan until 6 January 2018, he was ruled out of the final few weeks of his loan after breaking his jaw in two places on Boxing Day 2017. On 22 January it was announced that Maidstone United would be extending Finney's loan until the end of the 2017/18 season. Finney was named Maidstone United's Player of the Season. . On 18 June 2018 it was announced that Finney had signed a two-year deal to stay at Maidstone
Aldershot Town
On 21 December 2018, Aldershot Town announced the signing of Finney from Maidstone United.
Career statistics
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GalleryBeat TV
GalleryBeat TV was a public access television show covering the art scene in New York City from 1993 to 2003. The show was hosted by Paul Hasegawa-Overacker (also known as Paul H-O). The show, which produced over 130 episodes, covered art openings in Manhattan art galleries by speaking with gallery-goers and talking to artists, including Julian Schnabel, who said on camera that the show was "idiotic." The show also featured cooking segments, an interview with The New York Times art critic Roberta Smith, Brice Marden, Spencer Tunick, recorded street protests by the Guerrilla Girls and a visit to the Gramercy Art Fair. The show was noted for having "a gonzo, nobody’s-watching-anyway spirit" and one of the goals of GalleryBeat TV was to question the art beyond "whatever’s in the press release." New York artist Walter Robinson was also a correspondent for the show.
Documentary
The show was turned into a documentary film made in 2008 called Guest of Cindy Sherman, where Paul H-O documents his life as the boyfriend of New York artist Cindy Sherman. The film has been called "a requiem for a time before big money ruined the art world."
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Barany, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship
Barany () is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Lipno, within Lipno County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland. It lies approximately south-west of Lipno and south-east of Toruń.
The village has a population of 220.
Prior to World War I, the village was mostly German settlers. A map from 1930 shows 40 families.
References
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Socialist Party of the People of Ceuta
The Socialist Party of the People of Ceuta (Spanish: Partido Socialista del Pueblo de Ceuta, abbreviated to PSPC) is a political party in Ceuta, an autonomous city of Spain, in north Africa. The PSPC was founded in 1985, amongst its members were defectors from Spanish Socialist Workers' Party and the Communist Party.
A major demand of the PSPC is that Ceuta be made into an Autonomous Community, like other regions of Spain.
The youth wing of the PSPC is called Alternativa 21.
In 2009, the PSPC merged with the Ceutan Democratic Union (UDCE) to form the Caballas Coalition.
External links
PSPC website
PSPC election video at YouTube
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Gao Jian (diplomat)
Gao Jian () is a People's Republic of China diplomat.
Gao was born in Shanghai, and is married with one son.
From 2007 to 2009 she was the People's Republic of China Ambassador to Norway.
From August 2009 till October 2012 she was Chinese Ambassador to Hungary.
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T Microscopii
T Microscopii is a semiregular variable star in the constellation Microscopium. It ranges from magnitude 6.74 to 8.11 over a period of 352 days. Located around 700 light-years distant, it shines with a luminosity 7708 times that of the Sun and has a surface temperature of 2856 K.
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Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes
The Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes is a journal dedicated to the study and use of medieval manuscripts. It was founded in 1839 and continues to provide bi-annual issues with articles and abstracts in French, English, and German. Starting in 1995, one issue each year is devoted to a particular theme. It is published by the Société de l’École des chartes (Association of the Archive Training School) and distributed by Librairie Droz. As of 2016, the director is Michelle Bubenicek.
Scholars often cite this journal with the abbreviation BEC. Historical works on the Crusades, for example, often refer to medieval documents as published in the Bibliothèque.
See also
Victorian societies for text publication
Bibliothèque des Écoles françaises d'Athènes et de Rome
External links
Official website
Persée provides access to back issues from 1961-2007 of the Bibliothèque de l'École des chartes
Gallica provides access to back issues from 1839-1936
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Union station
A union station (also known as a union terminal and, in Europe, a joint station) is a railway station at which the tracks and facilities are shared by two or more separate railway companies, allowing passengers to connect conveniently between them. The term 'union station' is used in North America and 'joint station' is used in Europe.
In the U.S., union stations are typically used by all the passenger trains serving a city, although exceptions exist. For example, in Chicago, the Illinois Central and Chicago & North Western depots coexisted with Union Station, and although most Metra commuter trains (and all Amtrak services) continue to use Union Station today, some lines depart from other terminals, such as Ogilvie Transportation Center or Millennium Station.
The busiest station to be named "Union Station" is Toronto Union Station, which serves over 72 million passengers annually. The first union station building was Columbus Union Station in 1851, though Indianapolis Union Station, planned in 1848 and built in 1853, had more elements of a cooperative union station.
Europe
In most countries in Europe, throughout much of the 20th century, railways have been owned and operated by state enterprises. Where only one railway company exists, there is no need for a "joint station". However, before nationalisation many companies existed and sometimes they had "joint stations". In some cases this persists today. "Joint stations" are often found near borders where two state-owned railway companies meet.
Austria, Germany, and Switzerland
In German-speaking countries, the similar term Gemeinschaftsbahnhof is used in administrative language only; it applies for stations with joint facilities as well as for stations with side-by-side facilities; some border stations also fall under that term. The general public often call them "Hauptbahnhof" (main station), but this is a misnomer, as stations administratively classified as "Hauptbahnhof" need not be served by multiple operators.
Many major stations in Germany are served by various trains operated by incumbent Deutsche Bahn and other railways that operate local passenger trains, sometimes also by railway companies of neighbor states that operate trans-border connections; a special term like union station is usually not used. The stations are generally owned and operated by DB Station&Service.
As another example, Leipzig Hauptbahnhof, the main station of Leipzig, originally consisted of side-by-side parts that were used by the Prussian and Saxonian Railways until the federal Deutsche Reichsbahn was founded in 1920, but were essentially two stations operated separately by the two neighbors.
Bohemia and Moravia
In Bohemia (part of the territory of the Czech Republic today) some stations were called the "společné nádraží" (the common station) before the state took over the private railway companies. "Praha-Smíchov společné nádraží" is to this day the functional name of the second station built in 1872 by the same investor near the first station Smíchov of the Pražská západní dráha (Prague Western Railroad). The new station served as the main marshalling yard of Prague. Three routes flowed into it: Pražská spojovací dráha (the Prague Connecting Railroad, 1872), the extension of Buštěhradská dráha from Hostivice (1872) and Pražsko-duchcovská dráha (the Railroad Prague – Duchcov, 1873). Nowadays the "společné nádraží" forms an unremarkable separate platform of the station Praha-Smíchov, known in timetables as "Praha-Smíchov severní nástupiště" (the northern platform).
"Společné nádraží" was built 1845–1848 at Brno.
"Společné nádraží" was at Železná Ruda as well, station at border Bavaria – Austro-Hungarian Empire. It was in operation 1878–1938.
Nowadays the largest stations are called "hlavní nádraží" (main station).
United Kingdom
In the United Kingdom, before the railways were nationalised in 1948, stations shared by multiple operators were referred to as "joint stations". This term has occasionally been revived since the railways were returned to the private sector in the 1990s, but is not as familiar or as well understood as "union station" is in the United States.
North America
In North America, a union station is usually owned by a separate corporation whose shares are owned by the different railways which use it, so that the costs and benefits of its operations are shared proportionately among them. This contrasts with the system of trackage rights or running rights, where one railway company owns a line or facility, but allows another company to share it under a contractual agreement. However, the company that owns the union station and associated trackage does assign trackage rights to the railroads that use it. Many of the jointly owned stations were built by terminal railroads. Examples include the Ogden Union Railway & Depot Company, jointly owned by Southern Pacific and Union Pacific to manage the Ogden Union Station in Ogden, Utah, and the Denver Terminal Railway Company, representing the Denver & Rio Grande Western, Chicago Burlington & Quincy, Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe, Colorado & Southern and Chicago Rock Island & Pacific and the Union Pacific railways, which managed the station in Denver, Colorado.
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Mack's Apples
Mack's Apples (also known as Moose Hill Orchards) is an American farm and orchard in Londonderry, New Hampshire. It is the oldest family-run farm in the state, having been run by the Mack family for eight generations.
History
The farm was founded in 1732 when John Mack emigrated from Londonderry, Ireland, to Londonderry, New Hampshire. In the 1800s, the family began to concentrate on growing apples, and the farm was formally registered as a business in 1962. The farm eliminated its wholesale operations in the early 2000s. In 2015, Andy Mack Sr. transferred ownership to his son, Andy Mack Jr., and his daughter-in-law, Carol Mack.
Operations
Mack's Apples operates on approximately of land in the center of Londonderry, with devoted to apples. The farm store sells numerous varieties of apples, as well as peaches, pumpkins, squash, maple syrup, and honey. The farm also runs a pick-your-own apples offering and an ice cream stand.
The town of Londonderry has purchased conservation easements to help preserve the farm.
The farm is a frequent stop for liberal politicians visiting Londonderry, including Barack Obama on three occasions. Andy Mack Sr. often places signs on the property supporting progressive issues.
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Donax
Donax is the scientific name of two genera of organisms and may refer to:
Donax (bivalve), a genus of clams in the family Donacidae
Donax (plant), a genus of plants in the family Marantaceae
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Sogelau Tuvalu
Sogelau Tuvalu (born 5 June 1994) is a Samoan track and field athlete who represented American Samoa at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics, in the 100 meters, despite being trained as a shot putter.
2011 World Athletics Championships
Having not qualified to compete at shot put, Tuvalu was entered into the 100 meters, which had no qualification standard for smaller nations. Running in the fourth heat of the preliminary round in Daegu, South Korea of the 100 meters, Tuvalu finished over 5 seconds slower than that of the winner Malaysian Mohd Noor Imran Hadi, finishing in 15.66s, the second slowest in world championship history.
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Marree Man
The Marree Man, or Stuart's Giant, is a modern geoglyph the circumstances of whose creation have not been ascertained. It appears to depict an indigenous Australian man hunting with a boomerang or stick. It lies on a plateau at Finnis Springs west of the township of Marree in central South Australia. It is just outside the Woomera Prohibited Area. The figure is tall with a perimeter of , extending over an area of about . Although it is one of the largest geoglyphs in the world (arguably second to the Sajama Lines), its origin remains a mystery, with no one claiming responsibility for its creation nor any eye-witness having been found, notwithstanding the scale of the operation required to form the outline on the plateau floor. The description "Stuart's Giant" was used in anonymous faxes sent to media as "Press Releases" in July 1998, in a reference to the explorer John McDouall Stuart. It was discovered fortuitously by a charter pilot in an overflight on 26 June 1998.
Shortly after its discovery, the site was closed by the South Australian government following legal action taken in late July by native title claimants, but flights over the site were not forbidden as native title fell under federal government jurisdiction.
Work
The Marree Man geoglyph depicts a man holding either a woomera (a throwing stick once used to disperse small flocks of birds) or a boomerang (but see Plaque section below).
By December 1998, it had been noted that the outline matched, in reverse, that of the Artemision Zeus bronze raised from the bottom of the Adriatic Sea in 1928.
The lines outlining the figure were deep at the time of discovery and up to wide.
The image was gradually eroded through natural processes, but because the climate is extremely dry and barren in the region, the image was still visible in 2013. While there is a layer of white chalk material slightly below the red soil, the figure was not defined to this depth.
The creation of Marree Man occurred between May 27, 1998 and June 12, 1998. By comparing images collected on those dates from NASA'a Landsat-5 satellite, the desert area where Marree Man was found goes from undisturbed to the completed figure. See image below:
Left image from May 27, 1998 Right image from June 12, 1998
In August 2016, work was carried out to redefine the geoglyph using a grader assisted by GPS. The work resulted in an outline clearly visible from the air, matching the original. Two decades after its creation it was speculated that the work itself could not have been created without GPS technology, then in its infancy.
Discovery
Trec Smith, a charter pilot flying between Marree and Coober Pedy in the remote north of South Australia, spotted the figure from the air on 26 June 1998. The discovery of the geoglyph fascinated Australians due to its size and the mystery surrounding how it came to be there.
Shane Anderson from the William Creek Hotel, located north-west of the town of Marree, claimed the hotel received an anonymous fax describing the location of the artwork.
Anonymous press releases
Several anonymous press releases sent to media and local businesses in July and August 1998 led to the suggestion that the Marree Man was created by people from the United States. The releases said "your State of SA", "Queensland Barrier Reef" and mentioned Aborigines "from the local Indigenous Territories", terms not used by Australians. The press releases also mentioned the Great Serpent in Ohio, which is not well known outside the US. It was also conjectured that these features of the press releases may have been red herrings, inserted to provide an illusion of American authorship.
Preservative bottle
On 16 July 1998, it was reported that a small glass jar had been found in a trough freshly dug at the site containing a satellite photo of Marree Man together with a note bearing a U.S. flag and references to the Branch Davidians and "Stuart's Giant".
Plaque
In January 1999, a fax sent to officials described a dedication plaque buried south of the nose of the figure. The plaque bore an American flag, long by wide, with an imprint of the Olympic rings and bore the words,
In honour of the land they once knew. His attainments in these pursuits are extraordinary; a constant source of wonderment and admiration.
which come from Hedley H. Finlayson's 1946 book The Red Centre, in a section describing the hunting of wallabies with throwing sticks and with photographs of hunters without loincloths and other details seen in the "Marree Man". The book deals with hunters of the Pitjantjatjara tribe.
Suggested creator
Bardius Goldberg, a Northern Territory artist who died in 2002 and lived at Alice Springs, has been suggested as the creator of the work. Goldberg, who was known to be interested in creating a work visible from space, refused when questioned to either confirm or deny that he had created the image.
Others have suggested that members of either the Australian Army or American soldiers stationed in Woomera are responsible.
Reactions
Much of the public and media reaction to the discovery of the figure was positive. The Advertiser, the state's only daily newspaper, called for the figure to be made permanent by excavating the outline down to the white chalk layer.
At the time of discovery, the area was part of a Federal Court lawsuit through the National Native Title Tribunal to determine the traditional owners. The area was claimed by both the Arabunna people and the Dieri Mitha who had been in dispute for several years. The Dieri Mitha publicly complained of harm and exploitation of the Dreamtime, calling for the image to be erased and for the artist to be prosecuted. As native title claimants, the Dieri Mitha took legal action to stop charter flights and vehicles visiting the site, prompting the state government to close the area to the public shortly after discovery. The Arabunna replied, through a solicitor, that the area covered points of archaeological interest and that the artist could be prosecuted. In May 2012, the Federal Court handed native title to the Arabunna people.
The artwork was called environmental vandalism by the former Environment Minister, Dorothy Kotz, and graffiti by the South Australian chief of Aboriginal affairs, David Ruthman.
In June 2018, adventurer Dick Smith revealed that he had had a team working on investigating the origins of Marree Man for two years to no avail and was offering a A$5,000 reward for information leading to identifying its creators. The South Australian state government subsequently formally stated that they would not pursue any legal proceedings against the creators if identified.
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Audio Interviews with Brad Thompson, Marree-based pilot: Centenary of Federation - Connecting the Continent
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2001–02 Serbian Hockey League season
The 2001-02 Serbian Hockey League season was the 11th season of the Serbian Hockey League, the top level of ice hockey in Serbia. Five teams participated in the league, and HK Vojvodina Novi Sad won the championship.
Regular season
Playoffs
Semifinals
HK Vojvodina Novi Sad 21 Spartak Subotica 0
KHK Crvena Zvezda 9 Partizan Belgrade 5
Final
HK Vojvodina Novi Sad – KHK Crvena Zvezda (9–3, 5–3)
3rd place
Partizan Belgrade – Spartak Subotica (7–5, 7–7 (3–0 SH)
External links
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Breynat, Alberta
Breynat is a hamlet in northern Alberta in Athabasca County, located west of Highway 63, northeast of Edmonton.
See also
List of communities in Alberta
List of hamlets in Alberta
References
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Plunge
Plunge may refer to:
Plunge (American football), a play in American football
Plunge (geology), the inclination of a surface or axis of an anticline to the horizontal
The Plunge, a historic swim center in Richmond, California
Plunge Creek, a river in Alaska
Plungė, a city in Lithuania
Plunge, the former name for the American rock band Cinder Road
Plunge, a type of waterfall
Plunge (gambling), sudden support for a horse in a race
A swim center in Belmont Park (San Diego), California
Plunge for distance, a former diving event
Plunge (album), a 2017 album by Fever Ray
See also
Plunger, a common device used to release stoppages in plumbing
Plunger (disambiguation)
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Amar Osim
Amar Osim (born 18 July 1967) is a Bosnian professional football manager and former player who is the manager of Bosnian Premier League club Željezničar. He is regarded as one of the most successful Bosnian football managers.
Osim was a talented player during his teens. However, he did not transfer his talent after getting called up to the Željezničar first team. Apart from Željezničar, Osim also played in France for Saint-Dié and Strasbourg. He ended his career while at Željezničar at the age of only 30 in 1997.
He decided to stay in football, becoming a manager. Osim is the most successful manager in Željezničar history, winning five Bosnian Premier Leagues, four Bosnian cups and one, now disabled, Bosnian Supercup in his three stints with the club. He won many awards while being Željezničar's manager. Osim has also won one J.League Cup with J2 League club JEF United Chiba in 2006. He also managed Qatar Stars League club Al Kharaitiyat, making mediocre results.
Osim was also a two time candidate for the Bosnia and Herzegovina national team head coach position in 2014 and 2018. He was closest to becoming national team head coach in January 2018, but at the end "lost" to Croatian football legend, Robert Prosinečki.
Playing career
Born and raised in Sarajevo, Osim started playing football in hometown club Željezničar. After playing for the youth team, he entered the senior squad in 1986. In 1991, he left for France where he played for lower division clubs Saint-Dié and Strasbourg. In 1996, he returned to his home country. Osim played one more season for his favourite Željezničar before he retired from professional playing career.
Although a talented player, with good technical skills, Amar never managed to match the success or renown of his father, Ivica Osim's playing career.
Managerial career
Željezničar
Osim's managerial career started in Željezničar's youth squad which he guided to success in domestic competitions. After Hajrudin Đurbuzović was sacked in the spring of 2001, club officials promoted him to the place of the first team manager.
He immediately led the club to two Bosnian Premier League titles in 2001 and in 2002, being runner-up in 2003.
In August 2002, Osim led Željezničar to the 2002–03 UEFA Champions League third qualifying round, where the club lost 0–5 on aggregate (0–1 in Sarajevo, 4–0 in Newcastle) to English Premier League club Newcastle United F.C. That is so far, the club's biggest post-war European competition result.
He also claimed two national cup titles in 2001 and 2003, being the runner-up in 2002. Osim claimed the Bosnian Super Cup in 2001 as well, after he claimed the double that year. In 2002, he got the award for Bosnia and Herzegovina Manager of the Year.
Osim was sacked at the beginning of the 2003–04 season, allegedly because of the poor results.
JEF United Chiba
Amar's father Ivica Osim invited him to Japan to be his assistant at JEF United Chiba. After Ivica was named the head coach of the Japanese national team, Amar got promoted.
He guided JEF United to win the J.League Cup in 2006. But after a poor finish to the 2007 season, in which JEF United finished in 13th place in the J1 League, Osim got sacked.
Return to Željezničar
After his Japanese adventure, Osim returned to his hometown and in June 2009, he returned to Željezničar for his second spell as the club's manager.
In his first season as manager, Osim immediately guided the club to win the league title and finished as national cup runners up. In the following season he won the national cup, losing the league title just one round before the end of the season and ending third. In 2012, he claimed once more the league title, with three rounds left to play, breaking many records on the way and also defended the national cup, bringing after 11 years the double back to Željezničar.
He left the managerial position of the club in August 2013, becoming only the sporting director of the club. In December 2014, he completely left the club.
While at Željezničar, Osim won many individual managerial awards after his success with the club. In 2010, he won the Bosnian Premier League Manager of the Year award. In 2012, Osim won the 2011–12 Bosnian Premier League Manager of the Season award and the 2012 Manager of the Year award, while in 2013 he won the best in the season award for the 2012–13 season.
Al Kharaitiyat
In December 2014, Osim was named the new manager of Qatar Stars League club Al Kharaitiyat.
In his first season he made a club record of a 7-game unbeaten run in the league, 9 games in all competitions (including the league). In that season's league, Al Kharaitiyat finished on a descent 9th place. In March 2015, Osim was named Qatar Stars League Manager of the Month for February 2015.
In his second season as the club's manager, Osim's Al Kharaitiyat finished on a disappointing 12th place, just narrowly missing relegation.
Finally, in November 2016, after a poor start to the 2016–17 season, Osim was sacked after almost two years as Al Kharaitiyat's manager.
Second return to Željezničar
2018–19 season
On 31 December 2018, Osim once again came back to Željezničar and signed a three and a half year contract after monthly speculations of him becoming the manager even earlier.
His first win in his third term as Željezničar's manager came on 3 March 2019, in a 2–1 home league win against Mladost Doboj Kakanj. In Osim's first Sarajevo derby after 6 years, Željezničar handled a big 0–3 disappointing home loss to fierce city rivals FK Sarajevo on 6 April 2019.
On 13 April 2019, in a 1–0 away league loss against Zrinjaki Mostar, Osim made his 300th appearance as Željezničar's manager and became the club's third manager with the most games. At the time, the first two were Milan Ribar (as of January 2020, he still is 1st) with 367 games and his father Ivica Osim with 301 games. On 20 April 2019, in his 301st managerial appearance for Željezničar, Amar tied his father Ivica's number of 301 managerial appearances and became joint 2nd people with most appearances as the club's manager. In that game, Željezničar beat Krupa 3–0 on their home stadium Grbavica, stayed on 4th place in the league and ended their three match winless run.
On 24 April 2019, in his 302nd managerial appearance for Željezničar, in which the club tied 0–0 against Široki Brijeg on their home stadium, Amar surpassed his father Ivica and became the second manager with the most appearances in Željezničar's history. In the last game of the season, Željezničar beat Tuzla City 0–3 away on 25 May 2019, putting an end to a very turbulent season.
2019–20 season
Osim's first win as Željezničar's manager in the 2019–20 season came on 27 July 2019, a 0–2 away league win against Mladost Doboj Kakanj. Željezničar won their first Sarajevo derby since Osim's second return in a thrilling 5–2 home league win against Sarajevo on 31 August 2019.
He made a new Bosnian Premier League record with the club on 28 September 2019, after a 2–2 away league draw against Tuzla City, in which Željezničar ended the game unbeaten and continued their 11-game unbeaten run in the league since the beginning of the season, surpassing the one of city rival FK Sarajevo, which was a 10 league game unbeaten run since the start of the 2006–07 Bosnian Premier League season.
On 6 October 2019, Osim's team lost 3–0 away in a league match against Borac Banja Luka, thus ending their 11-game unbeaten run in the league. On 30 November 2019, Željezničar once again beat their rivals Sarajevo, this time in a 1–3 away league win, with Osim being praised from Željezničar fans for his tactical geniusness. In that game, he also earned a yellow card for arguing with referee Haris Kaljanac.
Personal life
Amar is the son of legendary player and manager Ivica Osim. His mothers' name is Asima. He has two children and one grandchild.
Managerial statistics
Honours
Manager
Željezničar
Bosnian Premier League: 2000–01, 2001–02, 2009–10, 2011–12, 2012–13
Bosnian Cup: 2000–01, 2002–03, 2010–11, 2011–12
Bosnian Supercup: 2001
JEF United Chiba
J.League Cup: 2006
Individual
Bosnia and Herzegovina Manager of the Year: 2002
Bosnian Premier League Manager of the Season: 2011–12, 2012–13
Bosnian Premier League Manager of the Year: 2010, 2012
Qatar Stars League Manager of the Month: February 2015
References
External links
Amar Osim at Soccerway
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Steven A. Leadon
Steven A. (Tony) Leadon is a former professor of radiation oncology at the University of North Carolina.
In 2003, a university found that Leadon had fabricated and falsified data in his research on DNA repair. In 2006, the United States Office of Research Integrity came to the same conclusion, saying that "Leadon engaged in scientific misconduct by falsifying DNA samples and constructing falsified figures for experiments done in his laboratory to support claimed findings of defects in a DNA repair process that involved rapid repair of DNA damage in the transcribed strand of active genes, included in four grant applications and in eight publications and one published manuscript".
In the wake of the investigations, papers have been retracted from several journals including Science and Mutation Research, while more articles were partially retracted from journals including Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Molecular and Cellular Biology.
See also
List of scientific misconduct incidents
External links
Category:Living people
Category:Cancer researchers
Category:DNA repair
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I Miss You (Klymaxx song)
"I Miss You" is a hit single recorded by American R&B and pop band Klymaxx from their fourth album, Meeting in the Ladies Room (1984). Written and co-produced by Klymaxx keyboardist Lynn Malsby, the song was recorded and released as the album's third single. "I Miss You" eventually reached number 11 on the US Billboard R&B chart, number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and number 3 on the Billboard adult contemporary chart.
Despite peaking at #5 on the Hot 100, the song had staying power on the charts, and it ended up being the third biggest song on the year-end Billboard chart for 1986. The success of this song helped the group's Meeting in the Ladies Room album reach Platinum status.
Credits
Joyce "Fenderella" Irby: Lead vocals, bass guitar
Lorena Porter Shelby: Additional vocals
Lynn Malsby: Keyboards
Robin Grider: Keyboards
Cheryl Cooley: Guitar
Bernadette Cooper: Drums, percussion
Background vocals by Julia Tillman Waters, Maxine Willard Waters, and Oren Waters
Cover versions
In 1985, Dionne Warwick performed the song live on Solid Gold.
In 1990, Seiko Matsuda performed the song live on Music Fair.
In 2004, Boyz II Men covered the song on their Throwback, Vol. 1 album.
In 2007, Freya Lim covered the song on her Freya's Love Songs album.
In 2008, Filipino R&B singer Kyla covered the song on her album Heart 2 Heart.
Chart performance
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
References
External links
Category:1985 singles
Category:Klymaxx songs
Category:Pop ballads
Category:RPM Top Singles number-one singles
Category:Contemporary R&B ballads
Category:1984 songs
Category:MCA Records singles
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Neverware
Neverware is an American technology company that provides a service intended to make aging PCs faster and more secure.
In February 2015 the company launched its second product, CloudReady; an operating system built on Google's open-source operating system Chromium. CloudReady is supported by PCs and Macintosh hardware that can be up to 10 years old, aiming to make them behave more like a Chromebook. The company currently specializes in the education sector.
History
Jonathan Hefter began developing Neverware’s core technology in 2009 after graduating from Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania. In May 2010 Dogpatch Labs invited Hefter to work out of their Manhattan incubator, and in early 2011 Neverware officially formed, moved to General Assembly’s Manhattan location, and began operations. Hefter remains at Neverware as Chairman.
After a successful pilot program, Neverware launched in January 2013, rolling its service out around New York City.
CloudReady was released at the 2015 TCEA conference in Texas, indicating a broader national reach on the part of the company. Neverware identified Google a strategic partner/investor, as of Google's investment in Neverware in the Fall of 2017.
Technology
Neverware’s first product, now branded PCReady, revolves around their proprietary server computer, called a Juicebox, which generates thin clients – a special kind of virtual machine. The Juicebox, which is installed locally, handles all processing and computing tasks and relegates only simple display and input tasks to the user’s machine. This is at the heart of Neverware’s business model, as it allows for outdated and even some broken technology to provide full functionality.
The current model Juicebox is designed specifically for education environments, providing a solution that is less expensive than comparable enterprise services.
Neverware's second product, CloudReady, follows Google into the cloud. The CloudReady operating system was built on Google's open-source Chromium and allows schools, government organizations, non-profits and enterprises to revive their existing hardware while taking advantage of the Google Admin Console. For schools, this also means giving students and teachers greater access to the ubiquitous Google Apps for Education. CloudReady attempts to differentiate itself by enabling machines running the OS to be managed alongside Chromebooks in the Google Admin Console, support being provided for a large number of computer models, and mass deployment to many devices being possible through a variety of tools. This aims to allow school district and enterprise IT administrators control and security features in addition to providing an alternative to surplussing existing machines. The company offers 3 price tiers for education customers.
Service
Neverware’s PCReady service includes full installation and setup of the Juicebox server, and continual system maintenance and support.
CloudReady is a single time installation, from USB.
Financing
Neverware is backed by a variety of technology and venture capital firms. Investors include Google, Khosla Ventures, Upfront Ventures, Thrive Capital, General Catalyst Partners, Collaborative Fund, OurCrowd, Mark Suster and Nihal Mehta.
Rethink Education became a major investor in Neverware in October 2014.
Recognition
Neverware has received media attention for its investment from Google, young founder, noteworthy cause, and projected viability. It has also attracted interest for its potential for reducing Ewaste by extending the lifespan of aging hardware. Neverware has appeared in Forbes.com, The New York Times, TechCrunch, The Verge, Engadget, and The MIT Technology Review.
References
Category:American companies established in 2011
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You Run Away
"You Run Away" is a song by Canadian rock band Barenaked Ladies. It is the first single from their album All in Good Time. It was released January 8 for online streaming. The commercial download single was released February 2, 2010.
History
"You Run Away" was written by Ed Robertson, and was partially inspired by Steven Page's departure from the band in February 2009.
The music video for "You Run Away" was released on February 22, 2010, making it their first music video they have actually appeared in since 2003's "Testing 1,2,3". The song's video uses the radio edit of the song, which cuts half of the instrumental intro, and half of the second chorus which is a double-chorus on the album version. The two halves of the chorus are cross-mixed between "you could turn and stay" and "but you run away from me".
Charts
References
External links
Category:Barenaked Ladies songs
Category:Songs written by Ed Robertson
Category:2010 singles
Category:2010 songs
Category:Music videos directed by Phil Harder
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Religion in Louisville, Kentucky
Religion in Louisville, Kentucky includes religious institutions of various faiths; including Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Sikhism.
Christianity
Roman Catholic Church
There are 135,421 Roman Catholic Louisvillians who are part of the Archdiocese of Louisville, covering 24 counties in central Kentucky, and consisting of 121 parishes and missions spread over . The Cathedral of the Assumption in downtown Louisville is the seat of the Archdiocese of Louisville. Our Lady of Gethsemani Abbey, the monastic home of Catholic writer Thomas Merton, is in nearby Bardstown, Kentucky and also in the archdiocese. Most of Louisville's Roman Catholic population is of German descent, the result of large-scale 19th-century immigration.
Bellarmine University and Spalding University in Louisville are affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church.
Protestant denominations
One in three Louisvillians is Southern Baptist, belonging to one of 147 local congregations. This denomination increased in number when large numbers of people moved into Louisville in the early 20th century from rural Kentucky and Tennessee to work in the city's factories; some of these migrants also formed Holiness and Pentecostal churches and Churches of Christ.
German immigrants in the 19th century brought not only a large Catholic population, but also the Lutheran and Evangelical faiths, which are represented today in Louisville by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod, and the United Church of Christ, respectively.
The city is home to two megachurches. Southeast Christian Church, with its main campus in Middletown and three others in the surrounding region, is, , the seventh-largest church in the United States. St. Stephen Church is the 38th largest in the US, and has the largest African American congregation in Kentucky.
The city is home to several religious institutions: the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville Bible College, Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary and the denominational headquarters of the Presbyterian Church (USA).
Louisville is home to the oldest African-American Seventh-day Adventist congregation, Magazine Street Church.
The historic Christ Church Cathedral is the seat of the Episcopal Diocese of Kentucky, which covers the western part of the state.
Eastern Orthodox
Louisville has two Eastern Orthodox parishes: Assumption Greek Orthodox Church, and the Antiochian parish, St. Michael the Archangel (with a Chapel, St. George).
Other sects
The Louisville Kentucky Temple, the 76th temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons), is located in nearby Pewee Valley (mailing address of Crestwood), and serves members of the church in Kentucky, Southern Indiana, parts of Ohio and West Virginia.
The city is also the home of three Unitarian Universalist churches: Thomas Jefferson Unitarian Church, First Unitarian Church, and Clifton Unitarian Church.
Judaism
The Jewish population of around 8,500 in the city is served by five synagogues. Most Jewish families emigrated from Eastern Europe at the start of the 20th century; around 800 Soviet Jews have moved to Louisville since 1991. Jewish immigrants founded Jewish Hospital in what was once the center of the city's Jewish district. From 2005 to 2012, Jewish Hospital merged with two Kentucky-based Catholic healthcare systems to form KentuckyOne Health, which later in 2012 announced a partnership with the University of Louisville Hospital. A significant focal point for Louisville's Jewish community is located near Bowman Field, where there are two Orthodox synagogues (including Anshei Sfard, founded in 1893), the Jewish Community Center, Jewish Family and Career Services, and an affordable housing complex.
Islam
In 2001, there were an estimated 4,000 to 10,000 practicing Muslims in Louisville attending six local mosques. These mosques include the Westport Mosque, a part of the newly founded Muslim Community Center. The Muslim Community Center includes The Islamic School of Louisville (ISofL), an expanding school located on Old Westport Road. The ISofL is adjacent to the Westport Mosque.
Hinduism
The Hindu temple of Kentucky opened in suburban Louisville in 1999, and had about 125 members and two full-time priests in 2000. The temple was renovated and rededicated in the summer of 2011.
Buddhism
Various Buddhist sanghas and organizations exist in and around the Louisville area. These include: The Louisville Community of Mindful Living (formerly "The Sangha of Louisville"), the Drepung Gomang Center for Engaging Compassion, and the Vietnamese Buddhist Association of Louisville.
Taoism
Taoist practices in Louisville are represented by a local branch of the International Taoist Tai Chi Society.
Bahá'í Faith
The Bahá'í Faith has been present in Louisville from the 1920s, with the first Baha'i center opening in 1965. The current Baha'i center, dating to 1999, was designed to accommodate a larger active Baha'i community.
Neopaganism
Louisville is home to a strong and vibrant Pagan community, including Wicca and other neopagan religions. There are over 60 Kentucky pagan groups listed at Witchvox, including over a dozen in Louisville. (Witchvox listings are voluntary, and usually represent only a small portion of the local pagan groups. Many or most covens and other pagan groups still prefer to remain private, as a way to avoid religious persecution.) Local networking for Louisville pagans is organized in various ways, not only through local covens and groves, but also through Louisville Pagan Pride, local pagan meetups via meetup.com, local occult shops such as MoonStruck, and a CUUPS chapter at a local Unitarian church. There was a Pagan Student Union active for years at the University of Louisville, but the club is currently dormant.
Interfaith activities
Since 1996, every year, the Festival of Faiths, a multi-day national interfaith gathering, is held featuring music, poetry, film, art and dialogue with internationally renowned spiritual leaders, thinkers and practitioners. The festival is organized by the Center for Interfaith Relations and is held at The Kentucky Center for the Arts.
See also
Religion in Kentucky
References
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Garni (crater)
Garni is an impact crater on Mars, in which, according to NASA, there is evidence of liquid water. In the press release of its finding on 28 September 2015, NASA considered it "the latest of many breakthroughs" in their Mars exploration. NASA and the US Geological Survey named the crater after the Armenian village of Garni. The naming was approved and adopted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) on April 24, 2015.
Mineral analysis
According to the NASA press release, "Dark narrow streaks, called 'recurring slope lineae', emanate from the walls of Garni Crater on Mars..." Researchers, who used a spectrometer of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, have found hydrated minerals on the streaks of the crater. Dark streaks have been developed over the course of time and are believed to be a few hundred meters long.
During a warmer climate, the streaks tend to darken and flow downwards. However, in a cooler climate the streaks begin to fade. Such streaks have been discovered in numerous areas on Mars only when temperatures are above . However, they do not appear at colder times. It is estimated that the hydrated salts may have dropped the liquid brine's freezing point. Scientists believe that it is because of water that these areas of the crater have been darkened.
Garni space astronomy institute and space museum
In Garni Space Astronomy Institute under Grigor Gurzadyan have been created orbital Orion 1 and Orion 2 Space Observatories, over 40 Soviets cosmonauts have passed their pre-flight training there. In June 2001 a space museum was opened in the territory of the institute, in Garni, Armenia. The exhibit, which occurred on the 1700th anniversary of Armenia's adoption of Christianity, was dedicated to that event. In November 2015 the enriched exposition of the Space museum was reopened but in Yerevan, Armenia The museum includes various exhibits associated to the participation of Armenian scientists in space exploration.
See also
List of craters on Mars
List of places named after Armenia
Water on Mars
References
External links
The Guardian—Nasa scientists find evidence of flowing water on Mars
Planetary Names: Crater, craters: Garni on Mars
Garni Space Astronomy Institute and Space museum's site
Category:Impact craters on Mars
Category:Coprates quadrangle
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Cullen Castle
Cullen Castle was a royal castle about east of Cullen, Moray, Scotland, west of the burn of Deskford, and south of Seatown.
This is not to be confused with Cullen House or Castle of Cullen of Buchan. There is also a ruin of a Cullen Castle in County Waterford, Ireland.
History
Elizabeth de Burgh, the wife of Robert the Bruce died here, although it has been suggested this was at an earlier castle. Vestiges of the castle remained until the 19th century.
Structure
It is believed that the castle, on Castle Hill, was a motte, encircled by a wide ditch and outer rampart, except on the north where a landslip has destroyed it. The ditch is about wide and deep; the outer bank is about wide and high.
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Greensborough Plaza
Greensborough Plaza is a major regional shopping centre, located in Greensborough, Victoria in the north eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia.
The centre, also known to some locals as “Greensy”, has more than 180 stores over three levels, anchored by Coles, Kmart, Target, Aldi, JB Hi-Fi Home and Hoyts Cinemas.
History and development
Early days
First opening in 1978, the centre was known simply as Greensborough Shopping Centre. Around 1990, the centre was known as Valley Central, and the current Greensborough Plaza name was introduced in 1995. Former major tenants in the centre over the years have included: Waltons department store, Stan Cash, McEwans, Venture, Jewel Food Barn, Franklins No Frills and World 4 Kids.
Redevelopments
The shopping centre has undergone two major renovations in its lifetime. The first of these renovations took place in 1990, and the second in 1996 which included the addition of a new 13,000m² Myer store, the first new store for the chain to open within Victoria in over twenty years.
In 1998, both Harvey Norman and Rebel Sport both commenced operations at the centre. Both stores were designed as new larger concept stores which had never been tried by either retailer before.
Harvey Norman has left in 2015 and JB-Hi-Fi moved to its location becoming a much larger, JB Hi-Fi Home store.
Since 2011, the centre has undergone four stages of redevelopment. Stage one in 2011 saw new glass lifts installed in the centre court. Coles underwent a major refurbishment during this period and re-opened in 2012. In July 2011, ALDI and JB Hi-Fi opened on Level 1. As mentioned, Harvey Norman left the centre in 2015, with a much larger JB Hi-Fi Home store opening in its place later that year.
In 2014, most of the centre's interior was renovated. New lighting was installed around the centre court on levels 2 and 3, as well as through level 3. Painting of the interior walls and new seating were also carried out to give the centre a much more modern feel.
In late 2015, a new kids’ precinct opened on level 2, near the Main Street entrance to the centre. A new kids’ play space opened along with 7 new stores and new amenities.
In late 2016, a new casual dining precinct opened on Level 3 near the Hoyts cinema complex. Six new restaurants were welcomed to the centre, including well-known eateries Schnitz and The Groove Train. Hoyts itself also underwent a major refurbishment. This included new recliner seats installed in all of the cinemas, as well as an overall modernisation of the complex. A new Ben & Jerry's ice cream shop opened near the entrance, in the old ticket box space.
The latest redevelopment saw the entire Level 1 space undergo a major renovation. Many new stores opened, although a few of the stores relocated to new spaces. New seating and lighting was also added, and a few more stores all underwent renovations.
Myer controversy
In September 1997, it was announced that the Myer department store was to be converted into an outlet for Target, as a Target Home concept store. Costing A$5 million (1997), the conversion was scheduled for completion by February 1998.
The store was converted after months of evaluation and market research, on account that the store was not satisfying consumer needs. According to research undertaken by the Centre and Coles Myer at the time, customers were preferring to go to larger Myer outlets in the nearby suburbs of Preston (Northland) and Doncaster (Shoppingtown). Analysis also suggested that a Target outlet at the centre was more preferred by the centre's target market, and would boost visitors to the centre by 6%. The Greensborough Plaza location was the first Target store to be rolled out as part of the Target Home concept.
The change cause some significant controversy amongst retailers in the centre, who complained that they had rented in the centre on the key basis of Myer being an anchor tenant. Some in the centre had even considered taking legal action against then centre managers Lend Lease, particularly in light of what they felt were inflated rent prices based on the stores presence in the centre.
The situation between tenants and the centre managers continued to escalate, until a merchant group was formed in March 1998 to represent affected retailers in discussions with Lend Lease. One long-time tenant of the shopping centre claimed that his rent had increased by 110% since the naming of Myer as a new anchor tenant in 1995.
The Myer store eventually closed its doors on 17 May 1998, with Target opening in its place later the same year. Target have since discontinued the Target Home chain, but Greensborough Plaza is one of the only outlets left still sporting the old logo.
Ownership
During the 1990s, the centre was part owned by both General Property Trust and then later Lend Lease subsidiary MLC Limited. Unlisted Lend Lease managed trust, the Australian Prime Property Fund was the other joint owner during this period. During both these owners, the centre was managed by Lend Lease.
In 2000, MLC sold its stake in Greensborough to SAS Trustee Corporation (State Super), in a deal said to be valued at around A$80 million (1999).
In 2005, the centre was owned by SAS Trustee Corporation and Australian Prime Property Fund. On 26 May 2005, Australian Prime Property Fund completed the purchase of SAS's 50% share in the centre for A$160 million (2005), giving it full ownership of the centre.
Statistics
Total annual retail sales at the centre by March 2005 came to A$312 million.
Transport
Greensborough Plaza provides parking for around 2815 vehicles and is serviced by trains, 10 bus routes and taxis.
Parking
Adjoining the Plaza is a seven-level multideck carpark (six levels undercover), accessible via The Circuit. An additional three levels of parking are located above the Target store.
Public transport
Greensborough Plaza is directly serviced by SmartBus route 902 as well as 7 regular bus routes (513, 517, 518, 520, 562, 563, 566, 343), with bus stops located outside the main plaza entrance on Main Street. A taxi rank is also located adjacent to the bus stops on Main Street. The stop for bus route 293 can be reached by a 200-metre walk north east from the plaza along Main Street. Greensborough railway station is located nearby and is a 500-metre walk east from the plaza to the station. SmartBus route 901 stops outside the station.
References
External links
Category:Shopping centres in Melbourne
Category:Shopping malls established in 1978
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Dilling
Dilling may refer to:
Dilling people, an ethnic group of Sudan
Dilling language, language spoken by the Dilling people, part of the Nubian branch of the Nilo-Saharan family
Dalang, Sudan, a city in Sudan
Dilling, a village in Østfold, Norway
People with the surname Dilling include:
Walter James Dilling (1886–1950), Scottish pharmacologist
Elizabeth Dilling (1894–1966), American activist and writer in the 1930s and 1940s
Jim Dilling (born 1985), American high jumper
See also
Dill (disambiguation)
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Tia Seu Lupe
Tia Seu Lupe is a historical site at Fatuoaiga, American Samoa, which is maintained by the American Samoa Department of Parks and Recreation. The Tia Seu Lupe Historic Monument was dedicated by Governor Peter Tali Coleman in May 1990. It is located on a 0.2 ha plot of land on the Tafuna Plain which has been leased by the Government of American Samoa. The monument exhibits a stone structure which archeologists believe were platforms constructed for the chiefly sport of pigeon catching. The name "Tia Seu Lupe" literally means "earthen mound to catch pigeons".
Tia Seu Lupe is located near the Holy Family Catholic Cathedral at Ottoville, in a historical park adjacent to the Fatuoaiga Catholic Church Center. The restored pigeon-catching mound resembles in many ways that of the later marae of Eastern Polynesia. It is the most accessible of American Samoa’s star mounds. Tia Seu Lupe has a viewing platform where visitors can observe the two distinct tiers of the ancient structure. It is located behind a statue of St. Mary near the Catholic cathedral at Fatuoaiga.
The historical park is located next to the only patch of lowland rainforest still found on Tutuila Island.
References
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Smells Like Green Spirit
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Saburō Nagai, serialized in Fusion Product's Comic Be between 2011 and 2013. The series has been collected in two tankōbon volumes. A series of two Drama CDs have also been released.
Plot
Futoshi Mishima, a student at a high school in the countryside, is bullied by his classmates. The reason is that he is seemingly gay. In reality, Mishima does like guys so he does not resist their bullying, and instead, finds solace in secretly cross-dressing. One day on the rooftop of the school, Mishima finds the lipstick he had lost before in the hands of Makoto Kirino, one of the bullies. Kirino was about to put on the lipstick that Mishima used on his own lips. This is the story of these two young boys looking for a place they can really be themselves.
Characters
Mishima is a high school student who lives in a rural area with his single mother; his father died before he was born. At school he doesn't have any friends and is bullied for appearing to be gay. Whlie he doesn't openly agree to it, he does like men. He enjoys cross dressing, although he doesn't have the means to do so, he usually just applies lipstick.
One of the bullies who harassed Mishima alongside Yumeno. He secretly ends up becoming Mishima's friend after the last discovers that, just like him, Kirino is gay and likes cross dressing. Kirino has hidden this side of him because of his conservative mother, who cannot accept the true nature of her son.
Kirino's friend and classmate, with whom he constantly used to harass Mishima. Yumeno says he hates Mishima, but in reality he is in love with him and his harassment was only the result of his own conflicted feelings.
Mishima, Kirino, and Yumeno's teacher. He is gay, but has lived his entire life oppressed and was forced to marry a woman he didn't love. All this gave origin to the development of a very twisted personality. He is attracted to Mishima, whom he sexually harasses and even tries to rape.
Media
Manga
The series started its serialization on August 12, 2011 and finished on February 13, 2013. It was published by Fusion Product and two volumes have been released in Japan. The manga has been licensed for its publication in Spain by Ediciones Tomodomo.
Drama CDs
A series of two Drama CDs have been released. The first one was launched on March 28, 2014, while the second one on May 30, 2014. The Japanese voice acting cast includes; Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Mishima, Wataru Hatano as Kirino, Hiroyuki Yoshino as Yumeno, and Kōji Yusa as Yanagida.
References
External links
Smells Like Green Spirit at MyAnimeList
Category:Yaoi anime and manga
Category:Romance anime and manga
Category:Slice of life anime and manga
Category:Shōjo manga
Category:Fusion Product manga
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Zangi Bon
Zangi Bon (, also Romanized as Zangī Bon; also known as Zangīn Bon and Zangīn) is a village in Kashkan Rural District, Shahivand District, Dowreh County, Lorestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 32, in seven families.
References
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Cripps question
In patent law, the Cripps question is:
"Was it for all practical purpose obvious to any skilled chemist in the state of chemical knowledge existing at the date of the patent which consists of the chemical literature available (a selection of which appears in the Particulars of Objections) and his general chemical knowledge, that he could manufacture valuable therapeutic agents by making the higher alkyl resorcinols; ... ?"
It was posed in the 1920s by Stafford Cripps in a British patent case about n-hexyl resorcinol, Sharp & Dohme Inc v Boots Pure Drug Company Ltd and approved by the Master of the Rolls Lord Hanworth in the Court of Appeal's judgment. If the answer was yes the patent was invalid for lack of inventive step or obviousness (or, in the terminology used at the time, want of subject matter). Referred to later as the Cripps question, this way of formulating the issue of inventive step in English law was deployed for many years thereafter. The Cripps question was noted by Lord Reid in the House of Lords in Technograph Printed Circuits v Mills & Rockley, a case about a printed circuit board.
References
Category:United Kingdom patent law
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Motegi, Tochigi
is a town located in Tochigi Prefecture, Japan. As of May 2015, the town had an estimated population of 13,501, and a population density of 78.2 persons per km². Its total area is 172.69 km².
Geography
Motegi is located on the far eastern border of Tochigi Prefecture.
Surrounding municipalities
Tochigi Prefecture
Nasukarasuyama
Mashiko
Ichikai
Ibaraki Prefecture
Hitachiōmiya
Kasama
Sakuragawa
Shirosato
History
The town of Moteki, and the villages of Sakagawa, Nakagawa and Sudo were created within Haga District on April 1, 1889 with the creation of the municipalities system. The three villages were annexed by Moteki on August 1, 1954.
Economy
Education
Moteki has four primary schools , three middle schools and one high school.
Transportation
Railway
Mooka Railway – Mooka Line)
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Highway
Japan National Route 123
Japan National Route 294
Local attractions
Motegi is also the site of "Twin Ring Motegi", a complex built by Honda which hosts all types of car and go-cart racing, the Honda Collection Hall transport museum, a resort-style hotel, and the "Hello Woods" camping and nature area.
The Nissan Proving Grounds for testing off-road vehicles are also located in Motegi.
External links
Official Website
Category:Towns in Tochigi Prefecture
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Fyffe (surname)
Fyffe is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Jahmaal Fyffe (born 1990), English hip-hop rapper who has performed as Chip and as Chipmunk (rapper)
Jim Fyffe (1945–2003), American sportscaster and radio talk show host
Joseph P. Fyffe (1832–1896), American admiral
Nick Fyffe (born 1972), English musician
Will Fyffe (1885–1947), Scottish actor, singer, and songwriter
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Kimi no Uta
Kimi no Uta may refer to:
"Kimi no Uta" (song), a 2018 song by Arashi
Kimi no Uta (album), a 2004 album by Mikuni Shimokawa
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Letters from the Park
Letters from the Park () is a 1988 Cuban drama film directed by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea. The film was selected as the Cuban entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 61st Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
Cast
Víctor Laplace
Ivonne López Arenal
Miguel Paneke
Mirta Ibarra
Adolfo Llauradó
Elio Mesa
See also
List of submissions to the 61st Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
List of Cuban submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
References
External links
Category:1988 films
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New Inn Hall Street
New Inn Hall Street is a street in central Oxford, England, and is one of Oxford's oldest streets. It is a shopping street running north–south parallel and to the west of Cornmarket Street, with George Street to the north and Bonn Square at the west end of Queen Street to the south. St Michael's Street leads off the street to the east near the northern end. Shoe Lane to the east leads to the Clarendon Centre, a modern shopping centre.
St Peter's College, University of Oxford (formerly St Peter's Hall), is on the west side of the street. The college occupies the site of two of the University's oldest Inns (medieval hostels), Bishop Trellick's, later New Inn Hall (after which the street is named), and Rose Hall, both founded in the 13th century. The college chapel was built in 1874 on New Inn Hall Street, originally as the parish Church of St Peter-le-Bailey. Two previous church buildings of the same name were previously at the southern end of the street, near Bonn Square, where the graveyard used to be. The church was so named because of its proximity to Oxford Castle.
Amongst the students of New Inn Hall was John Wesley, grandfather of the John and Charles Wesley regarded as the founders of Methodism. The first Methodist Meeting House in Oxford was in the street, on a site opposite its present-day successor Wesley Memorial Church.
Brasenose College's Frewin Hall annexe is on the west side of the street.
The City of Oxford High School for Boys occupied a site on the corner with George Street until 1966. The building now houses the University's Faculty of History.
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Information on all the shops, restaurants, colleges and other businesses on New Inn Hall Street on OxfordCityGuide.com
Parish boundary of St Michael's Church, New Inn Hall Street, Oxford
Mortons cafe information from Daily Information
Morton's cafe information from the Oxford Guide
Coffee Republic, on the corner with George Street, information from the Oxford Guide
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Hind Rattan
The Hind Rattan (Hindi phrase translated to English as "Jewel of India") is one of the highest Indian diasporic awards granted annually to non-resident persons of Indian origin (NRIs) by the NRI Welfare Society of India. The award is granted at the Society's annual congress on the eve of India's Republic Day, in conjunction with national Pravasi Bharatiya Divas celebrations. The award ceremony is attended by senior members of the Government of India and of the Supreme Court of India. The number of awardees varies each year, but is generally about 25 to 30. Award selections are made among the Society leadership and awardees are invited to attend the conference in New Delhi to accept their awards. Former President of India ( Shri Pranab Mukharjee, Smt. Pratibha Devi Patil) former Prime Ministers of india ( Sri HD Devegowda, Dr. Manmohan Singh) and other eminent dignitaries were invited to give this award. Usually awarding organizations bare all the cost incurred to the awardee, but this award does not cover any cost. On the contrary, awardees are expected to arrange their travel and pay a delegation fee (USD 2100 for attending the prize ceremony and USD 4100 for attending the full event) to an event organizing company, Hospitality International Inc, which works in collaboration with the NRI Welfare Society. However, there are exceptions to this rule as well, and it is not mandatory to pay the full fee as mentioned above.
NRI Welfare Society of India
The NRI Welfare Society of India, with chapters in various countries, was founded in 1981 by Harbhajan Singh (died 2006), member of the Press Council of India (1982-1988), editor of the English fortnightly The Indian Observer, president of the All India Small & Medium Newspapers Federation, and recipient of the 2000 UNESCO Mahatma Gandhi Gold Medal. The NRI Welfare Society of India serves to link members of the Indian diaspora with the Government of India.
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Reinhard Schmitz
Reinhard Schmitz (born 9 June 1951) is a former professional German footballer.
Schmitz made a total of 28 appearances in the Fußball-Bundesliga for 1. FC Köln and Tennis Borussia Berlin during his playing career.
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Blockhouse
A blockhouse in military science is a small fortification, usually consisting of one or more rooms with loopholes, allowing its defenders to fire in various directions. It usually refers to an isolated fort in the form of a single building, serving as a defensive strong point against any enemy that does not possess siege equipment or, in modern times, artillery, air force and cruise missiles. A fortification intended to resist these weapons is more likely to qualify as a fortress or a redoubt, or in modern times, be an underground bunker. However, a blockhouse may also refer to a room within a larger fortification, usually a battery or redoubt.
Etymology
The term blockhouse is of uncertain origin, perhaps related to Middle Dutch blokhus and 18th-century French blocus (blockade).
In ancient Greece
Blockhouses existed in ancient Greece, for example the one near Mycenae.
Early blockhouses in England
Early blockhouses were designed solely to protect a particular area by the use of artillery, and they had accommodation only for the short-term use of the garrison. The first known example is the Cow Tower, Norwich, built in 1398, which was of brick and had three storeys with the upper storeys pierced for six guns each. The major period of construction was in the maritime defence programmes of Henry VIII between 1539 and 1545. They were built to protect important maritime approaches such as the Thames Estuary, the Solent, and Plymouth. Often sited in pairs, the blockhouses were not built to a common design, but usually consisted of a stone tower and bastion or gun platform, which could be semi-circular, rectangular or irregular in shape. The last blockhouse of this type was Cromwell's Castle, built in Scilly in 1651.
Coastal fortifications in Malta
Blockhouses were an ubiquitous feature in Malta's coastal fortifications built in the 18th century by the Order of St. John. Between 1714 and 1716, dozens of batteries and redoubts were built around the coasts of the Maltese Islands, while a few others were built in the subsequent decades. Almost every battery and redoubt had a blockhouse, which served as gun crew accommodation and a place to store munitions.
Many of the batteries consisted of a semi-circular or polygonal gun platform, with one or two blockhouses at the rear. The blockhouses usually had musketry loopholes, and in some cases were linked together by redans. Surviving batteries include Mistra Battery and Ferretti Battery, which both have two blockhouses, and Saint Mary's Battery and Saint Anthony's Battery, which have a single blockhouse.
Many of the redoubts consisted of a pentagonal platform with a rectangular blockhouse at the rear, although a few had semi-circular or rectangular platforms. Surviving redoubts with blockhouses include Baħar iċ-Ċagħaq Redoubt and Briconet Redoubt, both of which have a pentagonal plan. A few of the redoubts consisted of a single tower-like blockhouse without a platform, and were known as tour-reduits. Of the four tour-reduits that were built, only the Vendôme Tower survives today.
Age of exploration
Originally blockhouses were often constructed as part of a large plan, to "block" access to vital points in the scheme. But from the Age of Exploration to the nineteenth century standard patterns of blockhouses were constructed for defence in frontier areas, particularly South Africa, New Zealand, Canada, and the United States.
Blockhouses may be made of masonry where available, but were commonly made from very heavy timbers, sometimes even logs arranged in the manner of a log cabin. They were usually two or even three floors, with all storeys being provided with embrasures or loopholes, and the uppermost storey would be roofed. If the structure was of timber, usually the upper storey would project outward from the lower so the upper storey defenders could fire on enemies attacking the lower storey, or perhaps pour water on any fires. When the structure had only one storey, its loopholes were often placed close to the ceiling, with a bench lining the walls inside for defenders to stand on, so that attackers could not easily reach the loopholes.
Blockhouses were normally entered via a sturdy, barred door at ground level. Most blockhouses were roughly square in plan, but some of the more elaborate ones were hexagonal or octagonal, to provide better all-around fire. In some cases, blockhouses became the basis for complete forts, by building a palisade with the blockhouse at one corner, and possibly a second tower at the opposite corner. Many historical stone blockhouses have survived, and a few timber ones have been restored at historical sites. In New Zealand, the Cameron Blockhouse, near Whanganui, is one of the few blockhouses to survive from the New Zealand Wars.
Second Boer War
During the Second Boer War the British forces built a large number of fortifications in South Africa. Around 441 were solid masonry blockhouses, many of which stand today. Different designs were used in the construction of these blockhouses, but most were either two or three story structures built using locally quarried stone.
However the vast scale of British strategy led the British to develop cheaper, double-skinned corrugated iron structures. These could be prefabricated, delivered to site by armoured train, and then have locally sourced rocks or rubble packed inside the double skin to provide improved protection.
A circular design developed by Major Rice in February 1901 had good all round visibility, and the lack of corners did away with the need for a substructure. Failure due to wood rot and splintering when hit by bullets or shrapnel were eliminated. The steel door to the blockhouse was sheltered by another piece of corrugated iron. The Major Rice blockhouse could be erected in six hours by six trained men. With the change from square gabled roofs to a circular design, they were given the nickname "Pepperpot blockhouse". With mass production the cost to build a blockhouse dropped down to £16, compared to several hundred pounds for masonry ones.
These blockhouses played a vital role in the protection of the railway lines and bridges that were key to the British military supply lines.
Concrete blockhouses
During World War I and World War II, many types of blockhouses were built, when time allowed usually constructed of reinforced concrete. The major difference between a modern blockhouse and a bunker is that a bunker is constructed mostly below ground level while a blockhouse is constructed mostly above ground level.
Some blockhouses like those constructed in England in 1940 were built in anticipation of a German invasion, they were often hexagonal in shape and were called "pillboxes". About 28,000 pillboxes and other hardened field fortifications were constructed of which about 6,500 still survive.
In London the Admiralty Citadel is one of the sturdiest above-ground structures built during World War II. It was constructed in 1940–1941 as a bomb-proof operations centre for the Admiralty, with foundations nine metres deep and a concrete roof six metres thick. It too was intended to serve as a strongpoint in defending against the feared invasion.
In Berlin and other cities during World War II some massive blockhouses were built as air-raid shelters and anti-aircraft artillery platforms. They were called Hochbunker (literally, "high bunkers"; better translated as "above ground bunkers", to distinguish them from the usual deep i.e. underground air raid shelters) and those that functioned as anti-aircraft artillery platforms were also called Flak towers. Some were over six stories high; several survive to this day because of the high cost of demolition. The in Berlin-Schöneberg has a post-war block of flats built over it. During the Cold War the shelter was in use as a NATO foodstore.
In the Guerrilla phase of the Irish Civil War (1922–1923), a network of blockhouses was constructed to protect the railways from guerrilla attacks.
See also
Battery tower
Blockhouse No. 1, New York City
Blockhouse, Nova Scotia
Block House in Claymont, Delaware
British hardened field defences of World War II - Pillbox
Caponier
Casemate
Chartaque
Chardak
Fort King George in Darien, Georgia
Fort Pitt Blockhouse in Point State Park in Pittsburgh
Martello tower
Sangar (fortification)
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Royal Engineers Museum: Blockhouses during the Anglo-Boer War (1899–1902)
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Gettysburg and Northern Railroad
The Gettysburg and Northern Railroad is a short-line railroad located in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The railroad operates a long line running between Gettysburg in Adams County and Mount Holly Springs in Cumberland County. The Gettysburg and Northern Railroad is owned by Pioneer Railcorp.
Operations
The Gettysburg and Northern Railroad operates a long line running from Gettysburg in Adams County north to Mount Holly Springs in Cumberland County. Between Gettysburg and Mount Holly Springs, the railroad serves Biglerville, Aspers, Gardners, Peach Glen, Hunters Run, and Upper Mill. The Gettysburg and Northern Railroad interchanges with CSX Transportation in Gettysburg and the Norfolk Southern Railway in Mount Holly Springs. Among the products carried by the railroad are canned goods, pulpboard, soda ash, grain, and scrap paper. The Gettysburg and Northern Railroad is owned by railroad holding company Pioneer Railcorp.
History
The railroad was built in the late 19th century and opened in 1891 as the Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railway. The line was later leased to the Reading Railroad and operated as the "Gettysburg Branch." The bankrupt Reading Railroad became part of Conrail in 1976, however the Gettysburg Branch was left out of the Conrail system. The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation took over the branch and sold the line to a new company, the Blairsville & Indiana Railroad, in 1976; this company changed its name to Gettysburg Railroad. In 1996, the Gettysburg Railroad was sold to RailAmerica subsidiary Delaware Valley Railroad Company, which operated the line as the Gettysburg Railway. In 2001, the Gettysburg Railway was sold to Pioneer Railcorp and the Gettysburg and Northern Railroad took over operations.
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Tajabad-e Olya
Tajabad-e Olya (, also Romanized as Tājābād-e ‘Olyā; also known as Tājābād and Tājābād-e Bālā) is a village in Rudbar Rural District, in the Central District of Rudbar-e Jonubi County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 235, in 49 families.
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Leninogorsky District
Leninogorsky District (; ) is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the forty-three in the Tatarstan, Russia. It is located in the southeast of the republic. The area of the district is . Its administrative center is the town of Leninogorsk (which is not administratively a part of the district). Population: 24,232 (2002 Census);
Administrative and municipal status
Within the framework of administrative divisions, Leninogorsky District is one of the forty-three in the republic. The town of Leninogorsk serves as its administrative center, despite being incorporated separately as a town of republic significance—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.
As a municipal division, the district is incorporated as Leninogorsky Municipal District, with the town of republic significance of Leninogorsk being incorporated within it as Leninogorsk Urban Settlement.
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Pyranoflavonoid
The pyranoflavonoids are a type of flavonoids possessing a pyran group.
Cyclocommunin is another natural pyranoflavonoid.
Pyranoanthocyanins
Pyranoisoflavones
Alpinumisoflavone
Di-O-methylalpinumisoflavone
4'-methyl-alpinumisoflavone
5,3′,4′-trihydroxy-2″,2″-dimethylpyrano (5″,6″:7,8) isoflavone - has antifungal properties, and is from the plant species ficus tikoua Bur.
The enzyme monoprenyl isoflavone epoxidase produces a dihydrofurano pyranoisoflavone derivative from 7-O-methylluteone.
Pyranoflavonols
Karanjachromene
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Iron Man: The Defiant Reign of Jean Chrétien
Iron Man: The Defiant Reign of Jean Chrétien is the second volume of Lawrence Martin's two-part biography of Jean Chrétien. It covers Chrétien's career as a politician and eventually, as Prime Minister of Canada.
Summary
The biography begins with a preface on Chrétien's troubled childhood, and how it would lead to his rebellious instincts later. Martin paints Chrétien as a character with great disdain for aristocracy and authority in general; throughout Chrétien's career, he maintained such popularity because of his human flaws and his connection with the ordinary people. Chrétien is also depicted as an autocratic leader, not tolerant of criticism. According to Martin, this is because of the enormous odds Chrétien overcame in order to become Prime Minister, so he will not easily relinquish power. Martin goes into depth about critical events in Chrétien's decade-long term as Prime Minister, including the 1995 Quebec referendum, the Shawinigate scandal, his power struggle with Paul Martin, and the Iraq War. All in all, Lawrence Martin's view of Chrétien is sympathetic, but not uncritical.
See also
List of books about Prime Ministers of Canada
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Elkwood Township, Roseau County, Minnesota
Elkwood Township was formerly a township in Roseau County, Minnesota.
History
The township was dissolved in 1937 and is now part of the large unorganized territory of Roseau County. Elkwood Township once had elk roaming in its prairies, but is mostly forested.
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Vitrolles, Hautes-Alpes
Vitrolles is a commune in the Hautes-Alpes department in southeastern France.
Population
See also
Communes of the Hautes-Alpes department
References
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Keith Adamson
Keith Brian Adamson (born 3 July 1945 in Houghton-le-Spring, England) is an English former footballer.
He played for Tow Law Town, Barnsley and Scarborough.
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Tongass School of Arts and Sciences
Located in Ketchikan, Alaska, the Tongass School of Arts and Sciences (also known as TSAS) is a creative school. It has its own preschool and is available to grades K-6.
Art is taught by Loren McCue. She has facilitated public art installations by students at the Discovery Center, the Deer Mountain Hatchery, and the Ketchikan Visitors’ Center.
Brain-based learning is foundational. Highly Effective Teaching is the instructional model with a focus on promoting Life Skills and Lifelong Guidelines.
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Cryptolechia glischrodes
Cryptolechia glischrodes is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1931. It is found in Argentina.
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Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker metric
The Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker (FLRW) metric is an exact solution of Einstein's field equations of general relativity; it describes a homogeneous, isotropic, expanding (or otherwise, contracting) universe that is path-connected, but not necessarily simply connected. The general form of the metric follows from the geometric properties of homogeneity and isotropy; Einstein's field equations are only needed to derive the scale factor of the universe as a function of time. Depending on geographical or historical preferences, the set of the four scientists – Alexander Friedmann, Georges Lemaître, Howard P. Robertson and Arthur Geoffrey Walker – are customarily grouped as Friedmann or Friedmann–Robertson–Walker (FRW) or Robertson–Walker (RW) or Friedmann–Lemaître (FL). This model is sometimes called the Standard Model of modern cosmology, although such a description is also associated with the further developed Lambda-CDM model. The FLRW model was developed independently by the named authors in the 1920s and 1930s.
General metric
The FLRW metric starts with the assumption of homogeneity and isotropy of space. It also assumes that the spatial component of the metric can be time-dependent. The generic metric which meets these conditions is
where ranges over a 3-dimensional space of uniform curvature, that is, elliptical space, Euclidean space, or hyperbolic space. It is normally written as a function of three spatial coordinates, but there are several conventions for doing so, detailed below. does not depend on t — all of the time dependence is in the function a(t), known as the "scale factor".
Reduced-circumference polar coordinates
In reduced-circumference polar coordinates the spatial metric has the form
k is a constant representing the curvature of the space. There are two common unit conventions:
k may be taken to have units of length−2, in which case r has units of length and a(t) is unitless. k is then the Gaussian curvature of the space at the time when a(t) = 1. r is sometimes called the reduced circumference because it is equal to the measured circumference of a circle (at that value of r), centered at the origin, divided by 2 (like the r of Schwarzschild coordinates). Where appropriate, a(t) is often chosen to equal 1 in the present cosmological era, so that measures comoving distance.
Alternatively, k may be taken to belong to the set {−1,0,+1} (for negative, zero, and positive curvature respectively). Then r is unitless and a(t) has units of length. When k = ±1, a(t) is the radius of curvature of the space, and may also be written R(t).
A disadvantage of reduced circumference coordinates is that they cover only half of the 3-sphere in the case of positive curvature—circumferences beyond that point begin to decrease, leading to degeneracy. (This is not a problem if space is elliptical, i.e. a 3-sphere with opposite points identified.)
Hyperspherical coordinates
In hyperspherical or curvature-normalized coordinates the coordinate r is proportional to radial distance; this gives
where is as before and
As before, there are two common unit conventions:
k may be taken to have units of length−2, in which case r has units of length and a(t ) is unitless. k is then the Gaussian curvature of the space at the time when a(t ) = 1. Where appropriate, a(t ) is often chosen to equal 1 in the present cosmological era, so that measures comoving distance.
Alternatively, as before, k may be taken to belong to the set {−1,0,+1} (for negative, zero, and positive curvature respectively). Then r is unitless and a(t ) has units of length. When k = ±1, a(t ) is the radius of curvature of the space, and may also be written R(t ). Note that, when k = +1, r is essentially a third angle along with θ and φ. The letter χ may be used instead of r.
Though it is usually defined piecewise as above, S is an analytic function of both k and r. It can also be written as a power series
or as
where sinc is the unnormalized sinc function and is one of the imaginary, zero or real square roots of k. These definitions are valid for all k.
Cartesian coordinates
When k = 0 one may write simply
This can be extended to k ≠ 0 by defining
,
, and
,
where r is one of the radial coordinates defined above, but this is rare.
Curvature
Cartesian coordinates
In flat FLRW space using Cartesian coordinates, the surviving components of the Ricci tensor are
and the Ricci scalar is
Spherical coordinates
In more general FLRW space using spherical coordinates (called "reduced-circumference polar coordinates" above), the surviving components of the Ricci tensor are
and the Ricci scalar is
Solutions
Einstein's field equations are not used in deriving the general form for the metric: it follows from the geometric properties of homogeneity and isotropy. However, determining the time evolution of does require Einstein's field equations together with a way of calculating the density, such as a cosmological equation of state.
This metric has an analytic solution to Einstein's field equations giving the Friedmann equations when the energy–momentum tensor is similarly assumed to be isotropic and homogeneous. The resulting equations are:
These equations are the basis of the standard Big Bang cosmological model including the current ΛCDM model. Because the FLRW model assumes homogeneity, some popular accounts mistakenly assert that the Big Bang model cannot account for the observed lumpiness of the universe. In a strictly FLRW model, there are no clusters of galaxies, stars or people, since these are objects much denser than a typical part of the universe. Nonetheless, the FLRW model is used as a first approximation for the evolution of the real, lumpy universe because it is simple to calculate, and models which calculate the lumpiness in the universe are added onto the FLRW models as extensions. Most cosmologists agree that the observable universe is well approximated by an almost FLRW model, i.e., a model which follows the FLRW metric apart from primordial density fluctuations. , the theoretical implications of the various extensions to the FLRW model appear to be well understood, and the goal is to make these consistent with observations from COBE and WMAP.
If the spacetime is multiply connected, then each event will be represented by more than one tuple of coordinates.
Interpretation
The pair of equations given above is equivalent to the following pair of equations
with , the spatial curvature index, serving as a constant of integration for the first equation.
The first equation can be derived also from thermodynamical considerations and is equivalent to the first law of thermodynamics, assuming the expansion of the universe is an adiabatic process (which is implicitly assumed in the derivation of the Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker metric).
The second equation states that both the energy density and the pressure cause the expansion rate of the universe to decrease, i.e., both cause a deceleration in the expansion of the universe. This is a consequence of gravitation, with pressure playing a similar role to that of energy (or mass) density, according to the principles of general relativity. The cosmological constant, on the other hand, causes an acceleration in the expansion of the universe.
Cosmological constant
The cosmological constant term can be omitted if we make the following replacements
Therefore, the cosmological constant can be interpreted as arising from a form of energy which has negative pressure, equal in magnitude to its (positive) energy density:
Such form of energy—a generalization of the notion of a cosmological constant—is known as dark energy.
In fact, in order to get a term which causes an acceleration of the universe expansion, it is enough to have a scalar field which satisfies
Such a field is sometimes called quintessence.
Newtonian interpretation
This is due to McCrea and Milne, although sometimes incorrectly ascribed to Friedmann. The Friedmann equations are equivalent to this pair of equations:
The first equation says that the decrease in the mass contained in a fixed cube (whose side is momentarily a) is the amount which leaves through the sides due to the expansion of the universe plus the mass equivalent of the work done by pressure against the material being expelled. This is the conservation of mass–energy (first law of thermodynamics) contained within a part of the universe.
The second equation says that the kinetic energy (seen from the origin) of a particle of unit mass moving with the expansion plus its (negative) gravitational potential energy (relative to the mass contained in the sphere of matter closer to the origin) is equal to a constant related to the curvature of the universe. In other words, the energy (relative to the origin) of a co-moving particle in free-fall is conserved. General relativity merely adds a connection between the spatial curvature of the universe and the energy of such a particle: positive total energy implies negative curvature and negative total energy implies positive curvature.
The cosmological constant term is assumed to be treated as dark energy and thus merged into the density and pressure terms.
During the Planck epoch, one cannot neglect quantum effects. So they may cause a deviation from the Friedmann equations.
Name and history
The Soviet mathematician Alexander Friedmann first derived the main results of the FLRW model in 1922 and 1924. Although the prestigious physics journal Zeitschrift für Physik published his work, it remained relatively unnoticed by his contemporaries. Friedmann was in direct communication with Albert Einstein, who, on behalf of Zeitschrift für Physik, acted as the scientific referee of Friedmann's work. Eventually Einstein acknowledged the correctness of Friedmann's calculations, but failed to appreciate the physical significance of Friedmann's predictions.
Friedmann died in 1925. In 1927, Georges Lemaître, a Belgian priest, astronomer and periodic professor of physics at the Catholic University of Leuven, arrived independently at results similar to those of Friedmann and published them in the Annales de la Société Scientifique de Bruxelles (Annals of the Scientific Society of Brussels). In the face of the observational evidence for the expansion of the universe obtained by Edwin Hubble in the late 1920s, Lemaître's results were noticed in particular by Arthur Eddington, and in 1930–31 Lemaître's paper was translated into English and published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Howard P. Robertson from the US and Arthur Geoffrey Walker from the UK explored the problem further during the 1930s. In 1935 Robertson and Walker rigorously proved that the FLRW metric is the only one on a spacetime that is spatially homogeneous and isotropic (as noted above, this is a geometric result and is not tied specifically to the equations of general relativity, which were always assumed by Friedmann and Lemaître).
This solution, often called the Robertson–Walker metric since they proved its generic properties, is different from the dynamical "Friedmann–Lemaître" models, which are specific solutions for a(t) which assume that the only contributions to stress–energy are cold matter ("dust"), radiation, and a cosmological constant.
Einstein's radius of the universe
Einstein's radius of the universe is the radius of curvature of space of Einstein's universe, a long-abandoned static model that was supposed to represent our universe in idealized form. Putting
in the Friedmann equation, the radius of curvature of space of this universe (Einstein's radius) is
,
where is the speed of light, is the Newtonian gravitational constant, and is the density of space of this universe. The numerical value of Einstein's radius is of the order of 1010 light years.
Evidence
By combining the observation data from some experiments such as WMAP and Planck with theoretical results of Ehlers–Geren–Sachs theorem and its generalization, astrophysicists now agree that the universe is almost homogeneous and isotropic (when averaged over a very large scale) and thus nearly a FLRW spacetime.
References
Further reading
North J D:(1965)The Measure of the Universe - a history of modern cosmology, Oxford Univ. Press, Dover reprint 1990,
. (See Chapter 23 for a particularly clear and concise introduction to the FLRW models.)
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Dalla agathocles
Dalla agathocles is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.
Subspecies
Dalla agathocles agathocles (Colombia)
Dalla agathocles lanna Evans, 1955 (Ecuador)
Dalla agathocles lonia Evans, 1955 (Peru)
Dalla agathocles polydesma (Mabille, 1889) (Venezuela)
References
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La La La (Snoop Lion song)
"La La La" is a song by American rapper Snoop Lion (mainly known as Snoop Dogg), taken from Snoop Lion's twelfth studio album Reincarnated (2013). The song was written by Snoop, Ariel Rechtshaid, Ken Boothe, Thomas Pentz, Joelle Clarke and William Cole, with production handled by Major Lazer and Dre Skull. "La La La" was released on July 20, 2012 as the promotional single from the album.
Music video
The music video, directed by filmmaker Eli Roth, was released on October 31, 2012.
Charts
See also
Kâtibim
References
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Coleridge Hundred
The hundred of Coleridge was the name of one of thirty-two ancient administrative units of Devon, England.
The parishes in the hundred were:
Ashprington,
Blackawton,
Buckland-Tout-Saints,
Charleton,
Chivelstone,
Cornworthy,
Dartmouth St Petrox,
Dartmouth St Saviour,
Dartmouth Townstall,
Dittisham,
Dodbrooke,
East Portlemouth,
Halwell,
Harberton,
Sherford,
Slapton,
South Pool,
Stoke Fleming,
Stokenham, and
Totnes.
See also
List of hundreds of England and Wales - Devon
References
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Goydərə
Goydərə may refer to:
Gëydere, Azerbaijan
Goydərə, Gobustan, Azerbaijan
Göydərə, Azerbaijan
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Window Water Baby Moving
Window Water Baby Moving is an experimental short film by Stan Brakhage, filmed in November 1958 and released in 1959. The film documents the birth of the director's first child, Myrrena, by his then-wife Jane Brakhage, now Jane Wodening.
Production
Stan Brakhage's wife, Jane, had insisted that Brakhage be present at the birth of their daughter; however, Brakhage felt he would faint if he weren't focused on filming the event. The hospital initially gave permission for filming, but this was later reneged. Instead, Brakhage transferred the birth to their home, hiring a nurse and some expensive emergency equipment. Jane was originally "very, very shy" about being filmed, but eventually relented after Brakhage made "a big dramatic scene and said 'All right, let's forget it!'" Most of the film was photographed by Brakhage himself, but Jane occasionally took the camera to capture her husband's reactions. Jane Brakhage later recalled of the birth:
He [Brakhage] calls the hospital and gets the nurse who says she'll be right there... Stan starts worrying. I continue roaring and panting. Stan stops filming he's so upset. He gets nervous. He tells me to relax and pant. He needs to relax; I'm doing fine. I tell him how much I love him and ask him if he's got my face while I'm roaring and this sets him off again and reassures him, and he clickety-clackety-buzzes while I roar and pant.
Editing of Window Water Baby Moving took place in the evenings over several months. According to Brakhage, a further delay was caused when Kodak seized the film. Brakhage described the event thus: "When I sent in the film to be processed, Kodak sent a page that said, more or less, 'Sign this at the bottom, and we will destroy this film; otherwise, we will turn it over to police.' So then the doctor wrote a letter, and we got the footage back."
Brakhage later felt that Window Water Baby Moving had insufficiently captured his emotions at the birth of his child, and, during the birth of his third child, filmed Thigh Line Lyre Triangular (1961) as an improvement.
Reception
Window Water Baby Moving was often screened on a double-bill with George C. Stoney's 1953 educational film, All My Babies. Brakhage was worried that his film's frank depiction of childbirth would embroil him in legal trouble, remarking "you could definitely go to jail for showing not only sexuality but nudity of any kind - though the idea of childbirth being somehow pornographic has always been offensive and disgusting to me." Nevertheless, Window Water Baby Moving has become one of Brakhage's best-known works. Critic Archer Winsten described the film as being "so forthright, so full of primitive wonder and love, so far beyond civilization in its acceptance that it becomes an experience like few in the history of movies." Scott MacDonald credits Window Water Baby Moving with making delivery rooms more accessible to fathers, a view with which Brakhage concurs.
Preservation
The Academy Film Archive preserved Window Water Baby Moving in 2013.
See also
List of American films of 1959
List of avant-garde films of the 1950s
References
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The British Champions Sprint Stakes is a Group 1 flat horse race in Great Britain open to horses aged three years or older. It is run at Ascot over a distance of 6 furlongs (1,207 metres), and it is scheduled to take place each year in October.
History
The event was established in 1946, and it was originally called the Diadem Stakes. It was named after Diadem (foaled 1914), a winner of several of Ascot's leading races. For a period it was staged in October, and it later moved to September.
The current system of race grading was introduced in 1971, and the Diadem Stakes initially held Group 3 status. It was promoted to Group 2 level in 1996. It had a prize fund of £100,000 in 2010.
The race was given its present name and switched to October in 2011. It became part of the newly created British Champions Day, and its purse was increased to £250,000. It now serves as the sprint-category final of the British Champions Series. The race was upgraded to Group 1 status from its 2015 running.
Records
Most successful horse (2 wins):
Set Fair – 1952, 1954
Jack and Jill – 1958, 1959
Leading jockey (7 wins):
Lester Piggott – Abergwaun (1971), Home Guard (1972), Saritamer (1974), Swingtime (1975, dead-heat), Absalom (1979), Moorestyle (1981), Salieri (1983)
Leading trainer (4 wins):
Walter Nightingall – Set Fair (1952, 1954), Jack and Jill (1958, 1959)
Vincent O'Brien – Abergwaun (1971), Home Guard (1972), Saritamer (1974), Swingtime (1975, dead-heat)
Winners since 1979
Earlier winners
1946: The Bug
1947: Djelal
1948: Combined Operations
1949: Solonaway
1950: Abadan
1951: Ki Ming
1952: Set Fair
1953: Rose Coral
1954: Set Fair
1955: Pappa Fourway
1956: King Bruce
1957: Arcandy
1958: Jack and Jill
1959: Jack and Jill
1960: Zanzibar
1961: Satan
1962: La Belle
1963: Sammy Davis
1964: Ampney Princess
1965: Majority Blue
1966: Lucasland
1967: Great Bear
1968: Secret Ray
1969: Song
1970: Realm
1971: Abergwaun
1972: Home Guard
1973: Boldboy
1974: Saritamer
1975: Roman Warrior / Swingtime
1976: Honeyblest
1977: Gentilhombre
1978: Creetown
See also
Horseracing in Great Britain
List of British flat horse races
Recurring sporting events established in 1946 – this race is included under its original title, Diadem Stakes.
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The Little Devil
The Little Devil (original Italian name Il piccolo diavolo) is a 1988 Italian film directed by and starring Roberto Benigni, also starring Walter Matthau, Stefania Sandrelli, Nicoletta Braschi and John Lurie. In some European countries and in Australia, an English version of the film, with local subtitles, has been screened and circulated in VHS. In the English version, the voices of the main actors are dubbed by themselves; some scenes may have been filmed in both languages.
Plot
In the North American Pontifical College, in Rome, Father Maurice (Walther Matthau) is in deep turmoil because of Patricia (Stefania Sandrelli), a woman who loves him and expects him to make up his mind and clear out his position towards her. While he is trying to do so, he is summoned by a novice for an emergency. The emergency turns out to be a fat woman possessed by a demon. Father Maurice performs the rite of exorcism and expels the demon from the woman. The demon (Roberto Benigni), a little escaped devil named Giuditta, having nowhere else to go, starts following Father Maurice everywhere and often indulges in mischief getting Maurice in trouble. In one instance Giuditta replaces a sick Father Maurice in Mass, turning the solemn ceremony in a beauty parade. Maurice tries to get rid of Giuditta in several failed efforts. Showing signs of exhaustion, his peers advise him to take a vacation. Eventually another agent "from where Giuditta came from" appears as Nina (Nicoletta Braschi) and manages to attract Giuditta who finally leaves Maurice and follows her "elsewhere".
Cast
Walter Matthau as Father Maurice
Roberto Benigni as Giuditta, the little devil
Stefania Sandrelli as Patrizia
Nicoletta Braschi as Nina
John Lurie as Cusatelli
Paolo Baroni as Saverio
Franco Fabrizi as Prete
Annabella Schiavone as Giuditta, the woman
Awards
Roberto Benigni won the David di Donatello Award for Best Actor.
External links
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Marc Marot
Marc Marot is a UK record executive and visual artist. He spent 9 years living in Germany and 3 years in the Yemen with his family before settling in the UK.
Early years
Marot started his professional career upon leaving art college in 1978. At 19 years old he joined members of prog-rock band Van der Graaf Generator in an offshoot collective called The Pool of Sound, who for three years performed on the live music circuit but were unsuccessful in securing a record deal. He supplemented the living he made from music by working as a landscape gardener and whilst doing so picked up the physically debilitating illness toxoplasmosis which resulted in him giving up touring. He moved to London where he got a job as a counter assistant at the Hounslow branch of Our Price Records.
Early career in the music industry
Whilst he was working five days per week at Our Price Records, he also worked voluntarily at independent music publisher Eaton Music on his day off. In 1982 Terry Oates, the owner of Eaton Music gave Marot his first major break by appointing him as Professional Manager at 22 years old. In 1984, Marot was headhunted by Nick Stewart, the Island Records head of A & R who was responsible for signing U2. Marot's new position was general manager of Blue Mountain Music. In an interview with The Independent Marot described the amusing circumstances of his beginnings at Blue Mountain: "I immediately said: `Yes. It was Island and I desperately wanted to work for Island,' says Marot who, with his brother, had been a collector of the label's records for years. What he didn't know was that Blue Mountain was also the personal company of Chris Blackwell, the place where he stashed all his favourite assets like Bob Marley's catalogue, Free and U2.
'He was pissed off that they had hired someone he hadn't met and instructed the guy who did it to tell me to go. But he didn't,' Marot recalled. He was fobbed off for weeks with a 'trickle of excuses' as to why he couldn't start work. Frustrated, he eventually just turned up and asked for a telephone. 'About three days later, Blackwell summoned me to his office. My living legend was just about to fire me before I'd even started,' Marot said.
The first of Marot's signings was Colourbox, an English electronic musical group signed to the 4AD label. IN 1987 Colourbox joined forces with A.R. Kane and recorded Pump Up the Volume under the name M/A/R/R/S. The song was noted for being one of the first to be constructed almost entirely from samples from other records. Pump Up the Volume was Marot's first international number 1 single, charting in the top position in 5 countries and in the top ten in a further 6. It went on to sell well over 1 million singles worldwide.
Island Records
He went on to manage Island Music publishing UK, and fledgling film and TV production company Island Visual Arts, during which time his publishing signings included Massive Attack, De La Soul (UK only), and Marcella Detroit of Shakespears Sister amongst many others.
About eight months after Polygram's 1989 acquisition of the Island Records Group Marot was appointed MD of Island Records UK. The label went through a period of change with Marot supervising the eradication of much of the former roster and the subsequent rebuild. Artists signed and/or developed by Marot's team while at Island Records included Pulp, PJ Harvey, Stereo MCs, P. M. Dawn, The Cranberries (signed to the US label but developed in the UK), The Orb, Talvin Singh, Tricky, Nine Inch Nails, and Chaka Demus & Pliers. The Mercury Music Prize started in 1992, was dominated by Island acts in the 1990s. The company scored 12 nominations and two wins in the first eight years of the awards, and PJ Harvey has subsequent won the prize twice more since.
During this period Marot took responsibility for U2's A & R and marketing, starting with the release of Achtung Baby to just prior to the release of All That You Can't Leave Behind. In 1998 following an approach from Jubilee 2000's Jamie Drummond, Marot approached Bono to enlist his support in the campaign to eradicate third world debt. In Bono's Jubilee 2000 diary he says 'Marc Marot called me to talk about Jubilee 2000 who are organising a street protest to surround the G7 summit in Birmingham. Sounds fun, the right kind of mischief. I can sense this is the beginning of a lot of phone calls and a kind of unhipness I thought I'd shaken' On November 12, 1999 Bono credited Marot with "ruining his life" whilst receiving the MTV Free Your Mind Award at Dublin's Point Depot
In 1991 Island were charged under section 2 of the UK's obscene publication act for wilfully releasing 'efil4zaggin' by NWA in the UK. Given the chance to withdraw the album by the police and avoid prosecution Marot lead the Island records board of director into the decision to defend NWA's right of free speech. Marot was personally threatened with prosecution under section 1 of the act as the 'controlling mind' behind Island records at the time of the case. Island engaged Geoffrey Robinson QC as a barrister and were rewarded with a famous win at Redbridge magistrate court on 7 November 1991, with all charges dismissed and costs awarded against the Crown prosecution services. This was to be the last obscenity trial levelled against the UK music industry.
Marot was an early adopter of the World Wide Web and an advocate for not only the benefits it could provide but also the changes that it would bring about in the music industry. He used the Island Record's building maintenance fund to divert money into building the UK's first major label website: island.co.uk and as a result was awarded the inaugural Music Week Prize for Website Design in 1996. In 1997 island.co.uk started selling its catalogue online, sparking a short term battle with retail giants HMV, who withdrew support for all of Polygram's new artist releases in resistance to Island's decision to become an online retailer.
Island's last signing under Marot's tenure was Elbow, who were dropped by the label after his departure in 2000. The majority of the Mercury Music Prize nominated album 'Asleep in the Back' was recorded under Island's stewardship. However, it was released on the V2 label in 2001
After Island
Marot left Island records in 2000. His first task as an independent was to create the original iteration of the multi award-winning U2.com. Marot acted as producer of the site, choosing the development and editorial teams as well as the design direction.
The same year Marot formed Terra Firma Management (not to be confused with the Terra Firma that purchased EMI records in 2002). His first three clients were Paul Oakenfold, Richard Ashcroft and Lemon Jelly. He managed Oakenfold until 2010. In 2006 he was approached by Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens) with a view to helping him restart his career. Islam's first album in 28 years was An Other Cup.
Throughout his career Marot has held an active interest in working with the film industry and has credits as a music supervisor on 13 films, most notably Notting Hill and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. His most recent success was on the documentary, TT3D: Closer to the Edge
In 2006 Marot was on the judging panel for the music competition Pringles Unsung. In 2008 he merged his management company with Dutch-based Sports Entertainment Group (SEG). The company operates out of 10 countries worldwide, managing the careers of over 400 athletes and 25 musicians and artists including The Noisettes, Leftfield, Billy Ocean, Jess Mills, Breakage, Shy FX and Gabriella Cilmi. In January 2012 Marot resigned from the board of Sports Entertainment Group. On 3 March Music week magazine announced that he'd joined Crown Talent and media group in the capacity of Executive Chairman. Crown manage the careers of Maya Jane Coles and Talvin Singh amongst others. In December 2018 Marc left Crown to focus on his art career.
Digital Art and The Danger Tree
Marc's involvement with digital art began when Scarlett Raven approached him to be her manager in 2014. His first action was to secure her a one-year contract with Washington Green (print publishers) and Castle Fine Art (distribution and retail). Castle put on a major 20 painting exhibition entitled The Eleventh Hour in September 2014 at their London Bruton Street gallery.
Having seen the potential of the technology during a Blippar presentation Marc pitched Scarlett the idea of using it within her paintings and the duo formed a full creative partnership, with Scarlett handling the physical painting and Marc the digital animation side. The informal emotional reaction to the work from everyone around them gave Marot and Raven the confidence to raise funds privately to turn the Danger Tree exhibition into a fully-fledged installation which commemorates the 100 year anniversary of The Battle of the Somme. They turned to the film industry for help, commissioning the award-winning film set designer Kave Quinn to design the shell of a destroyed provincial French Art gallery on the eve of the battle, with the paintings hanging on the only walls left standing.
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Zembrzus-Mokry Grunt
Zembrzus-Mokry Grunt is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Janowo, within Nidzica County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately south-east of Nidzica and south of the regional capital Olsztyn.
The village has a population of 170.
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Spalding Hall
Spalding Hall is a building listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Bardstown, Kentucky. It was built in conjunction with the Basilica of St. Joseph Proto-Cathedral.
The hall was originally built in 1826 and named for Bishop Martin John Spalding.
It was the main building of St. Joseph's College, a Catholic college in the 19th century, which was the first Catholic college in Kentucky. The current building was built in 1839 to replace the previous building, which had been destroyed in a fire. The college was closed during the American Civil War and the building briefly served as a hospital for Union soldiers.
It served as St. Joseph's Preparatory School from about 1911 until 1968.
The building houses the Oscar Getz Museum of Whiskey History and the Bardstown Historical Museum.
See also
List of attractions and events in the Louisville metropolitan area
National Register of Historic Places listings in Nelson County, Kentucky
References
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Radek Šírl
Radek Šírl (born 20 March 1981 in Rudná) is a retired Czech football midfielder. During his career Šírl played left midfielder and left back.
Career
Club
Šírl and Zenit St. Petersburg agreed to the mutual termination of his contract on 7 September 2010. A few days later, Šírl signed a two-year contract with Mladá Boleslav.
Career statistics
Club
International
Statistics accurate as of match played 5 June 2009
Honours
Zenit Saint Petersburg
Russian Premier League Cup (1): 2003
Russian Premier League (1): 2007 Russian Premier League 2007
Russian Super Cup (1): 2008
UEFA Cup (1): 2008
UEFA Super Cup (1): 2008
Russian Cup (1): 2010
Mladá Boleslav
Czech Cup (1): 2011
References
External links
Profile at iDNES.cz
Profile at the official FC Zenit St. Petersburg website
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Martha Brown
Martha Brown may refer to:
Elizabeth Martha Brown (1811–1856), last woman to be hanged in Dorset, England
Martha Brown (figure skater), American figure skater
Martha McClellan Brown (1838–1916), major leader in the temperance movement
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Virola sebifera
Virola sebifera is a species of tree in the family Myristicaceae, from North and South America
Description
V. sebifera is a tall, thin tree which grows tall. The leaves are simple and grow up to long. The small flowers are single-sexed and are found in panicles. The fruit is reddish, oval-shaped, and about long and about in diameter. The individual Virola trees, which include 40 to 60 species, are difficult to differentiate from one another.
Vernacular names
English: red ucuuba.
Portuguese: Ucuúba-do-cerrado.
Chemical constituents
The bark of the tree is rich in tannins and also the hallucinogen dimethyltryptamine (DMT), as well as 5-MeO-DMT. The ripe seeds contain fatty acid glycerides, especially laurodimyristin and trimyristin. The bark contains 0.065% to 0.25% alkaloids, most of which are DMT and 5-MeO-DMT. The "juice or gum" of the bark seems to have the highest concentrations of alkaloids (up to 8%).
Uses
Industrial uses
Seeds from V. sebifera are processed to obtain the fats, which are yellow and aromatic. They smell like nutmeg. The fats also become rancid quickly. They are used industrially in the production of fats, candles, and soaps. This virola fat possesses properties similar to cocoa butter and shea butter.
The wood of V. sebifera has a density around .
Traditional medicine
The smoke of the inner bark of the tree is used by shamans of the indigenous people of Venezuela in cases of fever conditions, or cooked for driving out evil ghosts.
Myristica sebifera (abbreviation: Myris) is derived from the fresh, red juice from the injured bark of the tree. It is especially used for such ailments as abscesses, phlegmon, paronychia, furuncle, anal fissures, infections of the parotid gland, bacterially infected tonsilitis, and others.
References
Further reading
Christian Rätsch: Enzyklopädie der psychoaktiven Pflanzen. AT Verlag, 2007, 8.te Auflage,
Karl Hiller, Matthias F. Melzig, Lexikon der Arzneipflanzen und Drogen, 2 Bände, Genehmigte Sonderausgabe für den area verlag, 2006,
Markus Wiesenauer, Suzann Kirschner-Brouns: Homöopathie - Das große Handbuch, Gräfe & Unzer Verlag, 2007,
External links
Virola sebifera - Photo Gallery
Photos of Virola sebifera
Three photos of Talgmuskatnußbaum
Virola sebifera Aublet
Climate Change and the effects on Virola sebifera
sebifera
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Garbów, Opole Voivodeship
Garbów () is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Lubsza, within Brzeg County, Opole Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It lies approximately south-west of Lubsza, north-west of Brzeg, and north-west of the regional capital Opole.
Before 1945 the area was part of Germany (see Territorial changes of Poland after World War II).
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John D. Freeman
John D. Freeman (died January 17, 1886) was a U.S. Representative from Mississippi.
Born in Cooperstown, New York, Freeman attended the common schools. He moved to Mississippi and located in Grand Gulf. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar and practiced.
He served as district attorney. He moved to Natchez, Mississippi.
Attorney general of Mississippi from 1841 to 1851.
He was author of the first volume of reports of decisions of the Chancery Court of Mississippi published in 1844.
Freeman was elected as a Unionist to the Thirty-second Congress (March 4, 1851-March 3, 1853).
He served as attorney general. He argued Mitchell v. Wells, a case questioning whether a man could leave property to his daughter, who had been born one of his slaves. The father freed his daughter, Nancy Wells, and then tried to leave property to her. The Mississippi Supreme Court rejected his will. Later Freeman served as member of the Democratic State central committee and served as chairman. He moved to Colorado and settled in Canon City in 1882. He resumed the practice of his profession.
He died in Canon City, Colorado, January 17, 1886. He was interred in Jackson, Mississippi.
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Tomorrow, Today!
Tomorrow, Today! was a radio sitcom originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4 between 2006 and 2008. It is itself a spoof of radio science fiction dramas of the late 1950s and early 1960s. The writer is Christopher William Hill.
The action takes place in a BBC studio in 1961, where a motley crew of "bright young things" and aging actors produce a futuristic drama set in the year 2006, which of course is a world of space flight, ray guns, and contact with aliens. The show is called "Tomorrow, Today!" and is basically a soap opera. The lead roles are played by Nigel Lavery (Peter Bowles) and Sylvia Hann (Cheryl Campbell) who hate their jobs only slightly more than they hate each other. Their off-mike conversations are laced with carping comments and innuendo about each other's long-lost youth and popularity. Sylvia was once the voice of "Listen with Mother". The "comic relief" for the radio production is provided by a stereotypical Welshman, "Taffy" Jones, played by the very non-Welsh Douglas Bennings (Jon Glover).
The show is about to be terminated, much to the relief of the leads who are contractually committed to it. However the BBC decides that, thanks to the Soviet Union's apparent lead in space travel, national morale requires it to continue with a new pro-British, anti-Soviet slant. Writer and producer Hugo Kellerman (Joseph Kloska) introduces new aliens with a Communist philosophy and has them do battle with his heroes. BBC executive Godfrey Winnard (John Fortune) watches over the new production and keeps adding new elements to the mix, such as a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company (Leslie Phillips) brought in to play an android.
The series also spoofs the origins of shows such as Doctor Who. In the second series, set in 1962, Hugo is commissioned to devise a science fiction series for children's television and, thanks to a series of mishaps on the way to Television Centre, has the idea for "Professor Fabula and the Diloks", featuring a scientist who travels through time and space in a police call box, accompanied by a robotic dog. Unfortunately the idea is squelched due to salacious interpretations of the Professor's status as a single man wandering in time and space with a dog.
In the final episode of the second series, the entire production relocates to Wales as the Cuban Missile Crisis threatens to bring down a holocaust. There they discover that "Taffy" Jones, killed off and replaced by an equally stereotypical Scot (also voiced by Douglas) was immensely popular among the locals. Faced with mobs of angry Welsh fans calling him "Taffy killer", Hugo writes in a resurrection for the character, but Douglas's "more authentic" reading of the part causes the disgusted locals to cut power to the studio, which the team interprets as the arrival of Armageddon.
Both series are regularly rebroadcast on Radio 4 Extra.
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William Rydelere (fl. 1393)
William Rydelere (fl. 1393), of Horsham, Sussex, was an English politician.
Family
His father was also an MP for Horsham, William Rydelere. He had one sister; the names of his mother and sister are unrecorded.
Career
He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Horsham in 1393.
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Emily Giffin
Emily Fisk Giffin (born March 20, 1972) is an American author of several novels commonly categorized as chick lit.
Her best known works are Something Borrowed, Heart of the Matter and The One and Only.
Early life
Emily Giffin was born on March 20, 1972. She attended Naperville North High School in Naperville, Illinois (a suburb of Chicago), where she was a member of a creative writing club and served as editor-in-chief for the school's newspaper. Giffin earned her undergraduate degree at Wake Forest University, where she double majored in history and English and also served as manager of the basketball team. She then attended law school at the University of Virginia.
Career
After graduating from law school in 1997, she moved to Manhattan and worked in the litigation department of Winston & Strawn. In 2001, she moved to London and began writing full-time. Her first young adult novel, Lily Holding True, was rejected by eight publishers. Giffin began a new novel, then titled Rolling the Dice, which became the bestselling novel Something Borrowed.
Giffin found an agent in 2002 and signed a two book deal with St. Martin's Press. While doing revisions on Something Borrowed, she found the inspiration for a sequel, Something Blue. Something Borrowed was released spring 2004. It received positive reviews and made the extended New York Times bestsellers list. Something Blue followed in 2005, and in 2006, her third, Baby Proof, made its debut. She spent 2007 finishing her fourth novel, Love the One You're With.
All seven of her novels have been international bestsellers. Three appeared simultaneously on USA Today'''s Top 150 list. Something Borrowed was adapted into a major feature film (released on May 6, 2011), and its sequel novel Something Blue has also been optioned for film.
Novels
Something Borrowed (2004)
Rachel White and Darcy Rhone have been best friends since childhood. Rachel is used to being the good girl, the hard worker who exists in the shadow of flashy—often selfish—Darcy. However, on her 30th birthday, Rachel drinks too much and sleeps with Darcy's fiance, Dexter. The fling turns into an affair, and Rachel is forced to decide which is more important, friendship or true love.
Something Blue (2005)
The sequel to Something Borrowed, Something Blue tells the story of Darcy Rhone, who thought she had it all figured out: the more beautiful the girl, the more charmed her life. Never mind substance. Never mind playing by the rules. Never mind karma. But Darcy's neat, perfect world turns upside down when her best friend, Rachel White, the good girl, gets together with her ex-fiance, while Darcy finds herself alone and pregnant. Trying to recover, she flees to her childhood friend (Ethan) living in London and resorts to her tried-and-true methods for getting what she wants. But as she attempts to recreate her glamorous life on a new continent, Darcy finds that her old ways no longer apply.
Baby Proof (2006)
Claudia Parr and her perfect husband Ben agreed from the beginning of their marriage that children are not for them. When Ben changes his mind, Claudia is forced to reevaluate her reasons for not wanting children. At the same time, she wonders, is there ever a deal-breaker for true love?
Love the One You're With (2008)
Ellen and Andy’s marriage has been perfect for the first hundred days. There is no question how deep their devotion is, and how naturally they bring out the best in each other. But one fateful afternoon, Ellen runs into her former beau Leo for the first time in eight years. Although Leo brought out the worst in her and left her heartbroken with no explanation, he is also the love she could never quite forget. When his reappearance ignites long-dormant emotions, Ellen begins to question whether the life she is living is the one she is meant to live.
Heart of the Matter (2010)
Tessa Russo is the mother of two young children and the wife of a renowned pediatric surgeon. Despite her own mother’s warnings, Tessa has recently given up her career to focus on her family and the pursuit of domestic happiness. Valerie Anderson is an attorney and single mother to six-year-old Charlie, a boy who has never known his father. After too many disappointments, Valerie has given up on romance—and even to some degree, friendships—believing that it is always safer not to expect too much. Although both Tessa and Valerie live in the same Boston suburb, the two have relatively little in common aside from parenthood. However, a tragic accident causes their lives to converge.
The Diary of Darcy J. Rhone (2012)
The prequel to Something Blue and Something Borrowed, The Diary of Darcy J. Rhone'' gives readers a glimpse of Rachel and Darcy's lives before college, law school and Dex.
Where We Belong (2012)
Thirty-six-year-old Marian Caldwell is a successful television producer whose life changes when 18-year-old Kirby Rose appears on her doorstep.
The One and Only (2014)
Thirty-three year-old Shea Rigsby has a job and a relationship in a small town in Texas, but after a tragic event she wonders if there isn't more to life. She must take risks to find out if she is taking the right direction in life.
First Comes Love (2016.)
All We Ever Wanted (2018)
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Empire of Cricket
Empire of Cricket is a 2009 television series produced by the BBC. The series features four episodes profiling the histories of four leading Test cricketing nations: England, the West Indies, Australia, and India. Each episode is approximately one hour and features some of the most well-known incidents in cricket, including references to the Bodyline series, the Chappell underarm bowling incident of 1981, and the West Indies cricket team's first win at Lord's cricket ground.
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Pamela Balch
Dr. Pamela Balch Ed.D is the 18th president of West Virginia Wesleyan College in Buckhannon, West Virginia. Dr. Balch is a 1971 graduate of West Virginia Wesleyan College, and was the unanimous choice as the eighteenth president of the college by the Board of Trustees.
Balch has spent 28 years in higher education and came to Wesleyan after serving as president of Mayville State University, North Dakota. Prior to Mayville, the Uniontown, Pennsylvania, native was the Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty at Bethany College in West Virginia, Vice Provost for Academic Planning at California State University, Chico, and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at San Diego State University, Imperial Valley Campus.
She served as the director of Wesleyan’s graduate programs in education from 1985–88 and was a member of the education faculty at the college from 1978-88. Her professional career began as a public school teacher in West Virginia.
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Constituency PB-46 (Kharan-I)
PB-46 (Kharan-I) is a constituency of the Provincial Assembly of Balochistan.
See also
Balochistan
Provincial Assembly of Balochistan
References
External links
Election commission Pakistan's official website
Awazoday.com check result
Balochistan's Assembly official site
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Jan Matthys
Jan Matthys (also known as Jan Matthias, Johann Mathyszoon, Jan Mattijs, Jan Matthijszoon; c. 1500, Haarlem – 5 April 1534, Münster) was a charismatic Anabaptist leader of the Münster Rebellion, regarded by his followers as a prophet.
Matthys was a baker in Haarlem, in the Holy Roman Empire's County of Holland, and was converted to Anabaptism through the ministry of Melchior Hoffman in the 1520s. Matthys baptized thousands of converts, and after Hoffman's imprisonment, rose to prominent leadership among the Anabaptists. Matthys rejected the pacifism and non-violence theology of Hoffman, adopting a view that oppression must be met with resistance.
In 1534, an Anabaptist insurrection took control of Münster, the capital city of the Holy Roman Empire's Prince-Bishopric of Münster. John of Leiden, a Dutch Anabaptist disciple of Matthys, and a group of local merchants, summoned Matthys to come. Matthys identified Münster as the "New Jerusalem", and on January 5, 1534, a number of his disciples entered the city and introduced adult baptism. Reformer Bernhard Rothmann apparently accepted "rebaptism" that day, and well over 1000 adults were soon baptized.
They declared war on Franz von Waldeck, its expelled prince-bishop, who besieged the fortified town. In April 1534 on Easter Sunday, Matthys, who had prophesied God's judgment to come on the wicked on that day, made a sally forth with twelve followers, under the idea that he was a second Gideon, and was cut off with his entire band. He was killed, dismembered and his head stuck on a pike. Later that evening, his genitals were nailed to the city door.
Notes
Jan Matthijsz van Haarlem (d. 1534) at Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online
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Aurelia Molins
Aurelia Molins or Aurelia Florio (1582 – 1641) was an English midwife. She is known for examining Lancashire witches.
Life
Her father, John Florio, had married the sister of the poet Samuel Daniel. Her father was a language tutor in the court of James I of England. Aurelia Florio is thought to have been born in about 1582. Her siblings included Joane who was born in Oxford in 1585 and Edward who was born in 1588. A third daughter, Elizabeth, was born in 1589.
She was married before 1603 to the surgeon James Molins. He was apprenticed to William Clowes, surgeon to Elizabeth I, and it is thought that Clowes introduced him to Aurelia. She is known to have been active as a midwife as the first girl baptised with the name of Aurelia in the parish of St Andrew's church in Holborn. Ten more girls in the parish were also baptised with this name ending in 1639. Meanwhile, Molins was caring for her own fifteen children who were born between 1605 and 1622. She was allowed to have her own armorial bearings on 22 August 1614. Her husband was awarded his on the following day. Her bearings were "azure, a heliotrope or issuing from a stalk sprouting out two leaves vert, in chief the sun in splendour". In 1625 her father died and she was by then his only child. His will discusses his debts but also mentions a gold ring that he leaves to his daughter and another diamond ring which is in the possession of Aurelia's husband.
She comes to notice as a midwife when she signed on 2 July 1634 an examination that had been made of ten women who were alleged to be witches. The women had been brought from Lancashire to be examined in London. The examination was organised by William Harvey who was a sceptic about the idea of witches. The document was also signed by nine other midwives and five surgeons including her husband. The examiners reported on the women's bodies and found that they had found nothing to support the allegation against the ten women. A later confession revealed that the accusations had been invented by a man and his son.
Molins was living with her son when she died a rich widow in London on 12 July 1641.
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Advocate (Pittsburgh)
The Advocate was a newspaper published in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, under several title variants from 1832 to 1844. It was the second daily newspaper issued in the city, the first being its eventual purchaser, the Gazette. Politically, the paper supported the principles of the Whig Party.
History
On 13 August 1832, The Pennsylvanian Advocate was started by James Wilson (paternal grandfather of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson), then of Steubenville, Ohio. Wilson announced in his prospectus that as editor, he would promote protectionism, internal improvements, a sound currency, the independence of Congress and the preservation of the Union, which, at that time, was threatened by a faction in South Carolina and elsewhere in the South. Important to all of these missions, Wilson believed, was to defeat the re-election of President Andrew Jackson.
The first few issues were printed on a weekly basis at Steubenville and sent to Pittsburgh for distribution. Very soon, Wilson had a press set up in a Pittsburgh office and began turning out a tri-weekly edition. According to William Bayard Hale, the press was the first west of the Allegheny Mountains that could print a double-page form (one side of a whole sheet) at one impression.
Born during Andrew Jackson's Bank War, the paper met controversy early on when Jacksonian newspapers accused it of accepting payments from the United States Bank to publish pro-Bank propaganda. It was reported that a letter intended for James Wilson was mistakenly received by another man of the same name, who opened it and found a $580 check from Nicholas Biddle, the Bank's president. Wilson published an affidavit denying that he had been bribed or corrupted.
With the Advocate about a year old and on its feet, Wilson left the paper to be carried on by his eldest son William Duane Wilson, at first in partnership with Alfred W. Marks. Upon this change, the paper issued its first daily edition, under the name Pennsylvania Advocate and Pittsburgh Daily Advertiser. This was the second daily newspaper published in Pittsburgh, debuting just nine weeks after the Pittsburgh Gazette went daily.
In keeping with its founding political views, the Advocate became an organ of the newly formed Whig Party. In 1836 it absorbed another Whig paper, the weekly Statesman, which had been established over thirty years earlier as the Commonwealth.
Control of the paper passed in 1837 to Robert M. Riddle, who would later be Whig mayor of Pittsburgh and editor of the Commercial Journal. In 1839 George Parkin merged his weekly Western Emporium into the Advocate and joined Riddle as co-editor. Parkin assumed sole editorship when Riddle left the following year.
The last editor-proprietor of the Advocate, Judge Thomas H. Baird, who took over from Parkin in 1843, sold the paper a year later to be merged with the Gazette. The titles of the daily editions of the two papers, Pittsburgh Daily Gazette and Daily Advocate and Advertiser, were combined as Pittsburgh Daily Gazette and Advertiser ("Advocate" was dropped to avoid confusion with two religious papers known by that name). In his farewell address, Baird wrote, "Thus two of the oldest papers in the Western country will be coalesced in the support of Henry Clay and the American system. This consummation has been desired for some time, by many leading Whigs of the District, and to their wishes I have yielded."
Titles and editions
The full title of the Advocate varied over time and between editions. Because of gaps in the survival of the newspaper, the following list is not necessarily complete.
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Weldon Glacier
Weldon Glacier is a glacier entering the southeast part of Weddell Sea about 30 nautical miles (60 km) west-southwest of Hayes Glacier. The glacier was discovered in the course of a U.S. Navy LC-130 reconnaissance flight over the coast of Coats Land, November 5, 1967, and was plotted by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from photographs obtained at that time. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Don W. Weldon, U.S. Navy, photographer on that flight.
See also
List of glaciers in the Antarctic
Glaciology
References
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Sirotinskaya
Sirotinskaya () is a rural locality (a stanitsa) in Ilovlinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 892 as of 2010. There are 21 streets.
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Publius Sempronius Tuditanus
Publius Sempronius C.f. Tuditanus (fl. 3rd century BC) was a Roman Republican consul and censor, best known for leading about 600 men to safety at Cannae in August, 216 BC.
Tuditanus at Cannae
The consul L. Aemilius Paullus (who died at Cannae) had left a reserve camp of about 10,000 men on the other bank. These men who did not participate in the battle had three choices after the disastrous battle: surrender to Hannibal, attempt to break through the Carthaginian lines and escape, or stand their ground and die fighting. The smaller of the two camps was besieged by the Carthaginians.
One of the few Roman officers who survived that fatal day, Publius Sempronius C.f. Tuditanus, along with his fellow tribune Gaius Octavius, advised that the men put on their shields, form a shield-wall, and break out through the lines of the exhausted Carthaginian army. Very few men agreed to go with him, the rest deciding to surrender to Hannibal and trusting that they would be ransomed by the Senate. The 600 men led by Tuditanus cut their way out to reach the larger camp, and from thence marched to Canusium, where they obtained safe refuge. Tuditanus's reputation was thus made with the Senate and the people of Rome. (The Senate refused to ransom those who had surrendered to Hannibal or been captured alive on the field of battle, with a senior senator Titus Manlius Torquatus citing the example of Tuditanus and his group, compared to the cowardly men who had not dared to break out).
This episode recorded by Livy goes back via Lucius Coelius Antipater to the Roman poet Ennius, but it is not told by Polybius, who retells in the completely preserved third book of his historical work a reliable and detailed report of the events of the Second Punic War in the years 219 to 216 BC. Therefore there are doubts about the historicity of this episode.
Tuditanus in politics
Two years afterwards (214 BC) Tuditanus was elected curule aedile, and in the next year (213 BC) he was chosen praetor, with Ariminum as his province. He allegedly took the town of Atrinum, and was kept in the same command for the two following years (212 and 211 BC). Again there are serious doubts about the historicity of these recounted deeds of Tuditanus as praetor.
He was elected censor in 209 BC with Marcus Cornelius Cethegus, although neither he nor his colleague had yet held the consulship. These two young censors managed to complete the first lustrum (ritual cleansing) of the Roman state since the start of the Second Punic War. Other lustra had been interrupted by the death of at least one censor (sometimes in battle).
It was Tuditanus who had the right of choosing the new Princeps Senatus; Cethegus wanted the most senior censor, namely Titus Manlius Torquatus, to be chosen since he had been censor in 231 BC. However, Tuditanus preferred Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus, the "Delayer", who had been elected censor in 230 BC, and was thus "junior", to be Princeps Senatus since he was the most meritorious of the senior senators. Since Tuditanus had the right to choose, his decision prevailed. His precedent allowed Rome to break with the tradition of choosing the most senior ex-censor as Princeps Senatus; from now on, the man determined to be the most distinguished senator would be chosen, which allowed the young Scipio Africanus to become Princeps Senatus in the year of his censorship.
In 205 BC, he was sent into Greece with the title of proconsul at the head of a military and naval force, for the purpose of opposing Philip V of Macedon. Instead, he concluded a preliminary treaty with Philip, the "Treaty of Phoenice", which was readily ratified by the Romans, who were anxious to give their undivided attention to the war in Africa.
In 204 BC, Tuditanus was elected consul in his absence, again with his former co-censor Cethegus. It is not known how well the men worked together again, although Livy does not mention any unseemly fracas. Tuditanus received Bruttii as his province during the conduct of the war against Hannibal. In the neighbourhood of Croton Tuditanus experienced a repulse, with a loss of twelve hundred men, but he shortly afterwards gained a decisive victory over Hannibal, who was obliged in consequence to shut himself up within the walls of Croton. It was in this battle that Tuditanus vowed a temple to Fortuna Primigenia on the Quirinal, if he should succeed in routing the enemy. He consecrated this temple twenty years later (184 BC).
In 200 BC, Tuditanus was one of the three ambassadors sent to Greece and to Ptolemy V, king of Egypt. He is not subsequently mentioned by Livy.
Family
Tuditanus, descended from a prominent branch of the plebeian gens Sempronia, may have been a nephew or cousin of the censor Marcus Sempronius C.f. Tuditanus who had been consul in 240 BC with Gaius Claudius Centho and censor in 230 BC with Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus). His own father's name was Gaius (or Caius) according to lists of Roman consuls.
It is not clear how he is related to the other two or three prominent Tuditani:
M. Sempronius Tuditanus, one of the officers of Scipio at the capture of New Carthage in Spain. (Liv. xxvi. 48.). Possibly the same man as the consul 185 BC
C. Sempronius Tuditanus, plebeian aedile 198 BC and praetor 197 BC, when he obtained Nearer Spain as his province. He was defeated by the Spaniards with great loss, and died shortly afterwards in consequence of a wound which he had received in the battle. He was pontifex at the time of his death.
M. Sempronius M.f. C.n. Tuditanus (d. 174 BC Rome), tribune of the plebs 193 BC, proposed and carried a plebiscitum, which enacted that the law about money lent should be the same for the Socii and the Latini as for the Roman citizens. He was praetor 189 BC, when he obtained Sicily as his province, and consul 185 BC with Ap. Claudius Pulcher. In his consulship he carried on war, in Liguria, and defeated the Apuani, while his colleague was equally successful against the Ingauni. Tuditanus was an unsuccessful candidate for the consulship in 184 BC (won by Cato and Flaccus), but was elected one of the pontifices in the following year. He was carried off by the great pestilence which devastated Rome
The Sempronia Tuditani, who was mother of Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus (one of Caesar's generals and assassins), may have been descended from any one of these men.
See also
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Livy. History of Rome.
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Cape white-eye
The Cape white-eye (Zosterops virens) is a small passerine bird in the white-eye family. It is native to southern Africa.
Taxonomy
There are two subspecies:
Z. v. capensis Sundevall, 1850 – south-western South Africa, Lesotho and adjacent western KwaZulu-Natal.
Z. v. virens Sundevall, 1850 – eastern and south-eastern Botswana, eastern and northern South Africa, Swaziland, and adjacent south-western Mozambique.
These subspecies interbreed where they come into contact.
The Orange River white-eye (Z. pallidus) has been split from the Cape white-eye.
Identification
This species is about 12 cm long with rounded wings, strong legs, and a conspicuous ring of white feathers round the eyes. The upperparts are green, and the throat and vent are bright yellow. The members of the Z. v. capensis has a grey breast and belly, whereas Z. v. virens has a greenish-yellow breast and belly.
They are very vocal, and constantly keep in touch with soft trilled pee, pree or pirreee callnotes. The song consists of repeated long jerky phrases of sweet reedy notes, varying in pitch, volume and temp, usually starting off with teee teee or pirrup pirrup notes, then becoming a fast rambled jumble of notes, which may incorporate mimicked phrases of other birdcalls.
Behaviour
This is a sociable species forming large flocks outside the breeding season. It builds a cup nest in a tree and lays 2-3 unspotted pale blue eggs. The eggs hatch in 11–12 days, and fledging occurs in another 12–13 days. The peak breeding season is September to December.
The Cape white-eye feeds mainly on insects, but also soft fleshy flowers, nectar, fruit and small grains. It readily comes to bird feeders.
Distribution
It is found in a wide range of densely to lightly wooded habitats in South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland and marginally in Mozambique. Most populations are resident, but some perform minor seasonal movements.
References
Sinclair, Hockey and Tarboton, SASOL Birds of Southern Africa,
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Hlomela Bucwa
Hlomela Bucwa is a South African politician, a member of the Democratic Alliance. In 2016 she became the youngest member of parliament in South Africa.
Education
She attended the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU ) and is known to have studied Law. In 2015, she was the Student Representative Council (SRC) president of the university, the first female to be elected as president of the council.
Career
She began her career in politics while in the university but became actively involved in 2011 as an activist for the Democratic Alliance Student Association. After joining the school's SRC in 2014, she became president in 2016 and served on the university’s highest decision-making body, the NMMU Council. In August 2016, she was among three candidates selected to represent the Democratic Alliance in contesting for a seat in the National Assembly. She was sworn into parliament in November 2016 and she became the Baby of the House taking over the title from Yusuf Cassim. During her term of office at the National Assembly, she was a member of the Portfolio Committee on Higher Education and Training
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Dave Kavanagh
David Kavanagh (1 March 1887 – 5 August 1965) was an Irish hurler. His championship career with the Wexford team spanned the first two decades of the 20th century.
Kavanagh was born in Ballylucas, County Wexford to the former Mary Murphy and John Kavanagh. After a brief education he spent his working life as a farmer. Kavanagh first played competitive hurling with the Castlebridge club. Throughout his club career he won two county senior championship medals.
After impressing on the club scene, Kavanagh was quickly added to the Wexford inter-county team. He won his only All-Ireland medal in 1910. Kavanagh had earlier won a Leinster medal before winning a second winners' medal in 1918.
Kavanagh died on 5 August 1965 aged 78.
Honours
Castlebridge
Wexford Senior Hurling Championship (2): 1910, 1919
Wexford
All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship (1): 1910
Leinster Senior Hurling Championship (2): 1910, 1918
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Tidal Wave (Taking Back Sunday album)
Tidal Wave is the seventh studio album by American rock band Taking Back Sunday. During the touring cycle for Happiness Is (2014), the group worked on material for their next record. Following a holiday show in late 2015, guitarist John Nolan was expecting his second child and wished to be nearby. As a result, vocalist Adam Lazzara was informed by engineer Mike Pepe of a studio close by that he worked at, Sioux Sioux Studio in Charlotte, North Carolina. With the members living between Lazzara and Nolan's houses, they persuaded producer Mike Sapone to join them. In January 2016, the group were writing at the studio, and by March, they started recording. One change the group experienced was the ability to track every instrument, and subsequently listen to it back. This enabled the group to listen to the proceedings objectively, rather than talking solely about a single part.
In summer 2016, the band embarked on the Taste of Chaos tour. In late June, Tidal Wave was announced and a music video was also released for the title-track. In late August, a music video was released for "You Can't Look Back". In mid-September, a lyric video was released for "Death Wolf". Tidal Wave was released on September 16 through Hopeless Records. The album peaked at number 36 on the Billboard 200 and in the top 10 of several other Billboard charts. In addition, it also charted in Australia and Scotland. Following this, the group went in an intimate club tour, during which they played the album in its entirety. In February 2017, a music video was released for "Call Come Running", and the group went on a UK tour. An Australian tour in March, followed by appearances at the When We Were Young and Rock on the Range festivals in April and May, respectively. In summer, the band embarked on a co-headlining US tour with Every Time I Die.
Background
Taking Back Sunday released their sixth album Happiness Is in early 2014 through Hopeless Records. The album, which was produced by Mike Sapone, reached the top 10 in the Billboard 200. In between tours for the record, the group would meet up for two/three weeks at a time and work on ideas for their next album. In an interview with The Aquarian Weekly in early December 2015, vocalist Adam Lazzara reckoned that there would be another writing session before the group goes to record their next album. He said he can't "believe how [some of the songs] are coming out". During a holiday show in late December, Taking Back Sunday performed a new song entitled "Tidal Wave". While in preparation to record their next album, guitarist John Nolan was expecting a second child and wanted to be nearby. According to Lazzara, the group "always said it would be nice if there was a studio here we could record at", but was unaware of any.
Engineer Mike Pepe, who had been a long-time fan of the group, subsequently told Lazzara about a local studio where he worked at, Sioux Sioux Studios in Charlotte, North Carolina. Lazzara said he and Nolan were completely unaware of its existence, "It was too perfect. You never know what you’re getting when you go into a place, but Sioux Sioux had everything". The remaining band members that resided in other states – guitarist Eddie Reyes in Ohio, and drummer Mark O'Connell and bassist Shaun Cooper in New York – lived between Lazzara and Nolan's houses in Charlotte. The group then persuaded Sapone, who was based in Long Island, New York, to join them. After meeting up with the group, Lazzara said Sapone "didn't want to leave. He fell in love with it here. He would always get up early and drive around town". In early January 2016, the group posted that they were writing new material at the studio. Pepe and Ray Jeffrey worked on pre-production.
Production
In mid-March 2016, the band revealed they had begun recording. Nolan said Sapone had frequently talked about Achtung Baby (1991) by U2, how it was that group's seventh record "and it challenged people’s idea of who they were". It subsequently became a reference point for the group, in addition to INXS, Robert Palmer and the Cure, which "isn't necessarily obvious when you listen to Tidal Wave but on some level did influence it". Lazzara said ideas for songs would occur to him often while driving to the studio. Lazzara said one of the biggest changes with the album was that "we would play and track everything, and immediately go and listen to it without our instruments". It allowed the group to "look at things more objectively rather than playing a part all together in a room then talking about it". He added that it gave them "a point of reference that we could go back and listen to and that seemed to be a bit more productive for us". Lazzara said it became this "streamlined process to where we could get past the core of the song and start to add new ideas and chord changes just so the song can work better as a whole".
Lazzara said Sapone would "push you even when you don’t want to be pushed and wants to explore every possible option that your brain can come up with". The group said that during recording "we've been discovering and surprising ourselves in realizing how good of a band we've become". Nolan said that "some of the playing on this record is just the best we’ve ever done. There were times when Mark was playing and I was thinking, ‘I don’t know how he’s physically doing that'". Nolan said a lot of consideration went into how the guitars sounded "whether it was the amps or the different pedal combinations that we were trying out". Nolan said that his "instinct" when it came to lead guitar parts was to be laid back "and do things that are simple and melodic". Lazzara, who preferred guitar solos that do "something crazy and getting the tension", pushed for Nolan to do "more guitar noodling". Cooper said Reyes "had the basic riffs and [Nolan] could really explore his instrument". In early June, Lazzara said they had finished recording and were "getting the final mixes now". The NoDa Tabernacle Good Times Choir provided additional vocals on "Homecoming". Claudius Mittendorfer mixed the recordings at Atomic Heart Studio in New York City, while Stephen Marcussen mastered them at Marcussen Mastering in Hollywood, California.
Music and lyrics
Lazzara said the group had four or five working titles for the album's name, but "none of them were that good". He added that after the group "were able to take a step back, that’s when it was like, “Wait, there’s all these references to water…” and then just that phrase—those two words [Tidal Wave] take on this whole new meaning". Discussing the lyrics, Lazzara said he "lose[s] sleep over it" and said that the songs had four or different drafts of lyrics "and you just try everything until something clicks and is right". Overall, he said the album was "a bit of a departure but I don’t think its coming out of left field". Nolan added that it was "the culmination of things we’ve tried over the past two records ... We’ve freed ourselves up to go in new directions". Lazzara said he realized "this whole idea that, as a singer, to express a certain emotion you don’t have to just yell. There’s a smarter way to do it", citing "You Can't Look Back" as "a real dynamic example of that". Allie Volpe of Nylon wrote that the album "deals with the trials of homesickness as an adult and the changes that come with maturity". The album's sound has been described as alternative rock, emo, hard rock, heartland rock and pop rock, taking influences from such artists as Bruce Springsteen, the Ramones, the Gaslight Anthem, the Replacements, John Mellencamp, Tom Petty, Bryan Adams and Don Henley.
Lazzara said "Death Wolf" was "one of the faster songs" that the group has ever written and was "also unlike anything we’ve done in terms of the approach". Lazzara said the song's intro was originally placed prior to one of the choruses and that it was "almost like you were running as fast as you can someone just ripped the carpet out from under you and all of a sudden you’re just floating, or like you took flight". "Tidal Wave" was one of the first songs written for the album. Discussing the track, Nolan said he was listening to NPR, who was discussing an African dictator who "would probably be dying soon ... [and t]he interviewer asked the question, “So what’s going to happen when the old man goes?”". Nolan subsequently said this phrase to Lazzara and O'Connell who, according to Lazzara, "kind of lit up and his eyes got real big. He was like, “Man, we should make a song out of that"". However, they did not mention it for another "a month or two ... [Then one day Nolan] was like, “Hey, you know that part that I had? I made a song out of it”". He added that O'Connell "had another vision for it" in the vein of the Ramones and the Clash.
Nolan said "I Felt It Too" was one of the slower songs on the album and it "really grabs me in a certain way: it makes me feel something every time I listen to it". At the end of "Call Come Running", Nolan's son can be heard singing the chorus. Lazzara said Nolan would often drive with his son while listening to album demos. As a result, his son would become familiar with the tracks. One night when Nolan put his son to sleep he heard his son singing. He recorded it and subsequently showed the band, to which Lazzara said "alright, that’s got to be at the end of the song!" Lazzara called "Homecoming" "really beautiful but it’s also really simple" and said it evokes the spirit of Petty, one of his favorite songwriters. Lazzara said the original version of the track was "awesome", however, after stripping it down, it was "even better". He wanted the track to "feel like we’re hanging out in my backyard". O'Connel came up with the song's beat, which was then looped.
Release
In June and July 2016, the band performed on the 2016 edition of Taste of Chaos. Throughout the tour, the group played "Tidal Wave". On June 27, Tidal Wave was announced for release in September. The following day, the title-track was made available for streaming. Album pre-orders included the track as an instant grat download. Later that same day, the album's track listing and artwork were revealed. The artwork was photo of Lazzara's child, taken by his wife on the side of a road across the Florida Keys. The group became aware of all the water references in the songs' lyrics around the time the photo was taken. Cooper said O'Connell spotted the picture on Lazzara's Instagram account – "it’s one of those happy accidents type of thing". Nolan said the group "liked the juxtaposition of it being this calm serene thing but then since the album is called Tidal Wave it gives you the feeling that something might go wrong in that scenario". He added that the photo was originally "more colorful and vibrant", until the group "dulled it out and made it look like it was on an old weathered album cover". Also on the same day, a music video was released for "Tidal Wave", which consisted of concert and behind-the-scenes footage from the Taste of Chaos tour and was directed by Greg Hunter.
A music video was released for "You Can't Look Back" on August 23. It was filmed outside of Los Angeles, California in an hour and a half with director DJay Brawner. Leanne Aciz Stanton of The Aquarian Weekly said the video "revolves around a good-looking couple that goes to the beach for a campfire party" where the band members hang out, then "All of a sudden, [Lazzara] start[s] spewing blood everywhere". Discussing the video's original concept, Nolan said the group liked the idea "‘but something fucked up needs to happen at the end.’ At one point we were talking about having actual guts coming out but we didn’t want to be that overt". On September 12, the group released a lyric video for "Death Wolf". Tidal Wave was released on September 16 through Hopeless Records. In September and October, the band went on an intimate club tour in the US. They were supported by You Blew It!, Loose Talk and Mammoth Indigo. During the tour, the group performed Tidal Wave in its entirety. Lazzara said this allowed the band "to see in real time people catching onto the songs".
On February 7, 2017, a music video was released for "Call Come Running", directed by Brawner and filmed in Lazzara's neighborhood in Charlotte. Stanton said that it continued on from the "You Can't Look Back" video with Lazzara "desperately running around looking for help while everyone ignores you, until some man helps you and throws you into a bath. [Lazzara] then emerge[s] from a lake, clean, and stand before what one would assume to be [his] family". Lazzara viewed the video as social commentary on how its becoming "harder and harder to be focused on what matters most and then there's all these things pulling you in different directions". In February, the band went on a tour of the UK with Frank Iero as the main support act. Milestones, Muncie Girls and Black Foxxes also supported on select dates. In March, the band went on a tour of Australia with support from Acceptance. In April, the band performed at When We Were Young Festival, and at Rock on the Range in May. In July and August, the band went on a co-headlining US tour with Every Time I Die. They were supported for the first half by Modern Chemistry and for the second half by All Get Out. Following this, the band performed at Riot Fest in September.
Reception
Tidal Wave received generally favorable reviews, according to review aggregation website Metacritic. AllMusic reviewer James Christopher Monger called the album "their most mature and diverse -- yet seamless -- set of songs to date". Contactmusic.com's Alex Lai wrote that for most of the album, it "moves along pleasantly enough, broken up by equal measures of excellence and tedium". The Denver Post writer Ian Gassman said that the album "might be a rush of nostalgia for the band itself, but not for their fans ... Sometimes a band has to make something for themselves and not try to appease an audience who’s stuck on who they used to be". Maria Sherman of Entertainment Weekly wrote that it was "eclectic and sensitive," and "If emo is something that pigeonholes, Taking Back Sunday is making noble attempts to abandon those impulses—with Tidal Wave, the band is both emo and something else entirely".
Exclaim! reviewer Adam Feibel said that the album had a "polished sound with a slight edge" to it that was "shaped by some newly tapped influences. The results are hit and miss". He also said that it was "about time Taking Back Sunday shook things up, so the high points make Tidal Wave an effort that should please dedicated fans and appease the sceptics somewhat". Newsday Glenn Gamboa said the group managed to blend a "number of rock genres to their wills to create their most diverse album yet while still maintaining a cohesive sound". He complimented Sapone's production, saying it helped the band "prove they still have plenty to say and do". Punknews.org staff member RENALDO69 said a lot of the songs were in the vein of New Again (2009): "dramatic, scared yet looking forward in life". He said that Lazzara "surprised me with how great he sounds throughout, spitting that Johnny Cash attitude at every corner".
Rod Yates of Rolling Stone Australia wrote that the album "feels cut from the same cloth" as Happiness Is, "only it’s not quite as well tailored". Sputnikmusic staff member SowingSeason wrote that at its "core, Tidal Wave feels like a reinvention of what this band represents" and "the most complete recording" of their career. He added that none of the group's other albums have "such a varied approach without sacrificing any quality or altering the record’s comprehensive aura". Ultimate Guitar wrote that "in an album that throws plenty of new ideas at the wall, only a few stick". They said that the "glitzy production value" was "bound to leave some listeners unsatisfied". Upset reviewer Heather McDaid wrote that there was "a marked change" for the album: "the choice to take a leap into something new or stay on the same path, and they chose to evolve". She added that it was "definitely ... full of pleasant surprises".
GIGsoup contributor Simon Carline wrote that the group had "a back catalogue that most bands of their age and genre would kill for, ‘Tidal Wave’ simply adds a few more favourites to the ranks". Brenda Herrera of WPGU noted that album was a bit longer than their previous albums and, "At times the entire album does feel like becomes a bit too much for one piece of work". She added that it was "not as memorable to me as previous albums because of all the different vibes it tries to channel so some cohesion as a whole gets lost". The Daily Nebraskan Ben Buchnat also noted the album's long running time and said this was one of two problems with it – the other being that most of the tracks were not memorable. He added that there "just isn’t anything remarkable about them". The Collegian writer Jamil Oakford wrote that the album was "different from anything they’ve done previously despite some threads of similarities" to their past works.
The album charted at number 36 on the Billboard 200. In addition, it charted on a number of other Billboard charts: number 2 on Alternative Albums, number 3 on Independent Albums, number 6 on both the Top Rock Albums and Vinyl Albums, number 10 on both the Digital Albums and Tastemaker Albums, and number 16 on Top Album Sales. The album also charted at number 54 in Australia and number 94 in Scotland. Rock Sound included the album at number 42 on their list of top 2016 releases. Newsday included "Tidal Wave" at number 1 on their list of top songs of 2016 songs by Long Island artists. In a retrospective piece for Fuse.tv, writer Jason Lipshutz ranked the album as his fourth favorite Taking Back Sunday album. He said the album was "perhaps the biggest pivot in Taking Back Sunday’s career—away from the scene that made them famous and toward a more wide-ranging brand of rock".
Track listing
All songs written by Taking Back Sunday.
Personnel
Personnel per sleeve.
Taking Back Sunday
Shaun Cooper – bass guitar
Adam Lazzara – lead vocals
John Nolan – lead guitar, keyboards, vocals
Mark O'Connell – drums, percussion
Eddie Reyes – rhythm guitar
Additional musicians
The NoDa Tabernacle Good Times Choir, which provided additional vocals on "Homecoming":
Keaton Lazzara
Ryan Hurley
Ryleigh Varvaro
John John Nolan
Camille Nolan
Misha Lazzara
Elyse Hurley
Kara Urquhart
Greg Urquhart
Nathan Lazzara
Production
Mike Sapone – producer
Mike Pepe – engineer, pre-production
Ray Jeffrey – pre-production
Claudius Mittendorfer – mixing
Stephen Marcussen – mastering
Brad Filip – artwork
Brad Clifford – additional art
Misha Lazzara – cover photo, photos
Charts
Release history
Source: Amazon.com
References
Citations
Sources
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Barking station
Barking is an interchange station serving the town of Barking, east London. It is served by London Underground, London Overground and National Rail main line services. It is located on Station Parade, in the town centre.
On the Underground it is a stop on the District line and is also the eastern terminus of the Hammersmith & City line; on the National Rail network it is served by c2c services operating to and from ; and on the Overground it is the eastern terminus of the Gospel Oak to Barking Line. There is also interchange with London Buses and East London Transit routes on the station frontage.
The station was opened in 1854 by the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway as one of the first stations on the route. It was rebuilt in 1908 and again in 1959. , significant redevelopment of the station is currently proposed by Barking and Dagenham London Borough Council and the Department for Transport.
History
The station was opened on 13 April 1854 by the London Tilbury and Southend Railway (LTSR) on their new line to Tilbury, which split from the Eastern Counties Railway (ECR) at Forest Gate. A shorter route from London between Little Ilford and Gas Factory Junction in Bow, and avoiding the ECR, opened in April 1858. A "Pitsea direct" branch was completed in June 1888 giving more direct access to Southend-on-Sea via Upminster, and avoiding Tilbury. The station was rebuilt in 1889. In 1894 the Tottenham and Hampstead Junction Railway was extended by means of the Tottenham and Forest Gate Railway to join the 1854 line from Forest Gate to Tilbury. District line services initially operated over the tracks of the LTSR from 1902. In 1905 a pair of tracks was electrified as far as East Ham and the service was cut back there. It was extended back to Barking in 1908 and eastwards to Upminster, over a new set of tracks, from 1932. Hammersmith and City line, then known as the Metropolitan line, service began in 1936.
The station booking hall was completely rebuilt between 1959–61 to designs by architect H.H. Powell with Project architect John Ward of British Railways Eastern Region Architect's Department. Nikolaus Pevsner stated it was "erected to coincide with electrification of the railway" and that "it is commensurately modern in outlook and unquestionably one of the best English stations of this date". The station was reopened by the Queen in 1961. It is now a Grade II listed building.
Accidents and incidents
In November 1923, a locomotive crashed through buffers at Barking and overturned, overhanging the road below.
Design
The station has four sets of stairs from the platforms to the overbridge and the booking hall. Four ramps connected by a subway give step free access between all the platforms. The stairs/ramps access platforms: 1 and 1a, 2, 3 & 4, 5 & 6, and 7 & 8. There is a lift between the booking hall and platforms 1 and 1a. This station has two bay platforms (no 1 and 3). Platform 1 is the terminal platform for the Gospel Oak to Barking Line, and is only used by London Overground services. It was electrified in 2017 ready for the planned introduction of electric trains in 2018. Platform 3 is used by some LU trains on both lines that serve the station, but mainly the District line.
The ticket office is managed by c2c and has seven serving windows. TRIBUTE and FasTIS ticket machines are in use. Tickets are available for National Rail, as well as London Underground. Oyster Cards can also be issued at the ticket office. There are four Scheidt and Bachman ticket machines, which can issue tickets ordered on line (Tickets on Demand or 'TOD'). The S&B machines sell Oyster products. The four Shere Fastticket machines still on site as at 25 April 2018 have been taken out of service with effect from 1 April 2018, according to a sign posted on them. Seven ticket barriers and a wide ticket gate control access to all platforms. There are sidings to the east which were built to accommodate D stock, C stock and S stock, though from 2017 only S stock is in service on the route.
To the west of the station there are two railway overbridges. The westernmost carries the NR tracks to and from platforms 7 and 8 over the four tracks to and from platforms 2–6 to join the tracks to and from Woodgrange Park and beyond, facilitating c2c services to serve Stratford and Liverpool Street, and, in future, the first part of the London Overground's extension to Barking Riverside Station.
The easternmost bridge carries the westbound Underground tracks from platform 6 over the NR tracks to and from platforms 4 and 5 to the southern side of the LU tracks from platform 2. This enables eastbound cross platform changes between LU trains on platform 2 and NR trains on platform 4.
To the east of the station a subway reverses the effect of the above bridge. This enables westbound cross platform changes between LU trains on platform 6 and NR trains on platform 5.
Redevelopment
Barking and Dagenham London Borough Council has developed a Barking Station Masterplan for the redevelopment of the station, including the removal of retail units from the station concourse, expansion of ticket barriers, additional Oyster card machines, and new building work to provide replacement retail and to increase natural light within the station. In 2009, the station was identified as one of the ten worst category B interchange stations for mystery shopper assessment of fabric and environment, and it was planned to receive a share of £50m funding for improvements.
As part of the 2011 renewal of the Essex Thameside franchise it was proposed that ownership of the station could transfer to Transport for London. Following the 2010 general election the funding for planned works was withdrawn and the 2011 franchise renewal delayed until 2013. The new franchise invitation to tender proposes the transfer of building maintenance from Network Rail to the new operator, and includes an option to complete the redevelopment works. In 2012, the public space outside the station on Station Parade was re-ordered and repaved, using funding from Transport for London.
Services
On the Underground, it is served by the District and Hammersmith & City (and two early morning Circle line services) lines and forms the eastern terminus for the Hammersmith & City whilst District line services continue eastward to . The station is also served by National Rail (c2c) and London Overground services.
London Underground: Some LU services run to/from "the bay road" (platform 3). Most Hammersmith and City line trains run directly to/from the sidings to the east where some trains are stabled overnight, and therefore use through platforms 2 and 6. S7 stock trains have seen regular service to Barking since 9 December 2012.
If travelling west by Underground, it is usually best to take the first train from platform 6 and change west of Plaistow as necessary (the last opportunity to change between the District and Hammersmith-and-City lines being Aldgate East.) Not only does this avoid the walk to the bay road at Barking, but it also may allow connecting with a train that starts at Plaistow, where there is a bay road used to terminate eastbound trains short, to recover time or for other operational expediency.
London Overground: Trains to/from Gospel Oak mostly use platform 1, though some trains run to/from platform 7. This is so that drivers can maintain route knowledge. Class 710 electric trains are running here, replacing Class 378 electric trains borrowed from other Overground lines after electrification.
London Overground trains to/from Barking Riverside will use platforms 7 & 8 when the new station and branch line opens in 2021.
Westbound
, the typical off-peak trains per hour (tph) service is:
8 tph to London Fenchurch Street (c2c)
2 tph to London Liverpool Street via Stratford (weekends only; c2c)
6 tph to via (District line)
3 tph to via Tower Hill (District line)
6 tph to via Tower Hill (District line)
6 tph to Hammersmith (Hammersmith and City line)
4 tph to (London Overground)
Eastbound
12 tph to (District line)
4 tph to Shoeburyness via Basildon (c2c)
2 tph to Grays via Rainham (c2c)
2 tph to Southend Central via Ockendon (c2c)
2tph to Shoeburyness from Liverpool Street via Stratford (c2c; weekends only)
Bus station
Several bus routes connect with rail services at a designated eastbound only bus section on Station
Parade which is owned by Barking and Dagenham Council but managed by Transport for London. London Buses routes serve the station include 5, 62, 169, 238 (terminates here), 287 (terminates here), 366, 368 and night bus route N15 and school bus route 687 (terminates here) and by all East London Transit routes (EL1, EL2 and EL3) These buses provide connections to Canning Town, Stratford, Beckton, Romford, Ilford, Redbridge, Barkingside, Chadwell Heath, Goodmayes, Rainham and Dagenham.
References
External links
Station information from c2c
Station information from National Rail
Station information from Transport for London
Category:District line stations
Category:Hammersmith & City line stations
Category:Railway stations served by London Overground
Category:Railway stations in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham
Category:Tube stations in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham
Category:Former London, Tilbury and Southend Railway stations
Category:Railway stations opened in 1854
Category:Railway stations served by c2c
Category:Grade II listed buildings in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham
Station
Category:1854 establishments in England
Category:John Ward railway stations
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Alexander A. Galushkin
Alexander A. Galushkin is a well-known Russian scientist and lawyer,, permanent representative of the Russian scientific community to the United Nation in Geneva and Vienna since 2018, Doctor of Philosophy in Law, Doctor of Education and Professor, academian of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, member of the International Bar Association, International Law Association, Moscow Bar Association.
Career in Law
Started his career in law in 2005 as a junior lawyer. Worked for a number of commercial, non-for profit and governmental organizations. After passing the bar exam worked for some law firms and in 2014 became a Senior Partner of the law firm Moscow Guild of Barristers and Solicitors, which is headquartered in Moscow, Russia.
Admitted to practice law in Russian Federation, is a member of the Moscow Bar Association.
Specialize on counteraction to illegal actions of governmental officials, including bringing to the administrative liability, application of the international law.
Career in Science
Author of 5 monographs, 2 study books, 120 scientific articles (including 10 articles indexed in Scopus). Is one of the most cited scientists-lawyers in Russia as per Russian Science Citation Index.
As a professor worked and read lectures in a number of universities and academies in Russia and some other countries including RUDN University, Moscow University of Railway Engeniers and other.
Editorial Work
Founder and an owner of the Alexander Galushkin Publishing House, which publish 7 own research journals.
Prof. Dr. Alexander A. Galushkin if an Editor-in-Chief of all 10 scientific journals.
Some journals are indexed/abstracted in the FAO UN, European Reference Index for the Humanities and the Social Sciences, Directory of Open Access Journals, Russian Science Citation Index.
As an Editor and an Editor-in-Chief warked in a number of scientific journals.
Recognitions
For his work avoider Prof. Dr. Alexander A. Galushkin was awarded by Federal Drug Control Service of Russia, Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation, Russian Academy of Educational Sciences, Russian Academy of Natural Sciences and other.
Personal life
Married, has a lot if hobbies.
Main hobbies include diving and travelling.
References
Category:Living people
Category:People from Moscow
Category:Peoples' Friendship University of Russia alumni
Category:Russian lawyers
Category:Russian scientists
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
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2002 Georgia Bulldogs football team
The 2002 Georgia Bulldogs football team represented the University of Georgia during the 2002 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Bulldogs completed the season with a 13–1 record.
Schedule
Game summaries
Auburn
Source: USA Today
Georgia clinches SEC East
Roster
References
Georgia
Category:Georgia Bulldogs football seasons
Category:Southeastern Conference football champion seasons
Category:Sugar Bowl champion seasons
Bulldogs football
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Atopobium vaginae
Atopobium vaginae is a species of bacteria in the genus of Actinobacteria, in the family Coriobacteriaceae. It is a facultative anaerobic, Gram-positive rod-shaped or elliptical coccobacilli found as single elements or in pairs or short chains. It is typically isolated from 80% of women with bacterial vaginosis and it is implicated in treatment failures. Invasive infections such as bacteremia have been reported.
References
Further reading
External links
LPSN
Type strain of Atopobium vaginae at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Category:Coriobacteriaceae
Category:Bacterial vaginosis
Category:Bacteria described in 1999
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Sven Tumba
Sven Tumba (born Sven Olof Gunnar Johansson; 27 August 1931 – 1 October 2011) was one of the most prominent Swedish ice hockey players of the 1950s and 1960s. He also represented Sweden in football as well as golf and became Swedish champion in waterskiing.
Johansson first became known as "Tumba" in the 1950s since there were other players with the same last name, and he grew up in the Swedish town of Tumba. In October 1960 he married his wife Mona, and five years later he, along with Mona, legally changed his family name to Tumba.
After his retirement from ice hockey, he became an accomplished golfer, a golf course designer, creator and organizer of golf exhibitions and tournaments, as well as an ambassador to the game of golf, even officially introducing the game of golf to the former Soviet Union.
Ice hockey
Tumba played for the Swedish club Djurgårdens IF from 1950 to 1966, winning eight Swedish Championships and leading the league top goal scorer three years. He had a lengthy international career, playing for Sweden at 14 IIHF World Championships, four Winter Olympics, named best forward at the 1957 and 1962 World Championships and top scorer at the 1964 Winter Olympics. He also captained the national team. Djurgården has retired number 5 in his honor.
Tumba still holds the Swedish scoring record of 186 goals (in 245 games) for the Swedish national team.
In 1997, he was inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame and was in 1999 awarded the "Best Swedish Ice-hockey Player of All Times", outvoting prominent players such as Peter Forsberg and Mats Sundin.
Tumba was the first European player to attend an NHL training camp, with the Boston Bruins in 1957. He reportedly received a $50,000 contract offer from the Bruins after scoring a goal against the New York Rangers in a preseason exhibition game as well as making five appearance for the Rangers Quebec Aces minor league team. However, Tumba turned down the offer as he would no longer have been eligible to play amateur hockey for the Swedish national team.
As a player:
1950–63: 8-time Swedish Champion (1954, 55, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63)
1952: Olympic bronze, Oslo, Norway.
1953: World Champion, Zurich-Basel, Switzerland.
1954: World Championship Bronze, Stockholm, Sweden
1956: Olympic 5th place, Cortina, Italy.
1957: Test player for Boston Bruins. He was offered a contract, but turned it down, since he then would have become ineligible to play for the Swedish national team.
1957: World Champion, Moscow, USSR (also nominated best forward.)
1958: World Championship Bronze, Oslo, Norway.
1960: Olympic 5th place, Squaw Valley, USA.
1962: World Champion, Colorado Springs, USA (also nominated best forward.)
1963: World Championship Silver, Stockholm, Sweden
1964: Olympic Silver, Innsbruck, Austria.
1965: World Championship Bronze, Tampere, Rauma, Finland.
1989: Nominated the best Swedish ice hockey player throughout time.
Ice hockey projects:
1955: Inventor of the first hockey helmet, the SPAPS helmet.
1957: Founder of the Swedish ice hockey school on TV and the first ice hockey tournament for children, TV-pucken.
Football
In the mid-50s Tumba played for Djurgårdens IF, the team which he also became Swedish Champions with. He also represented the Swedish national team. He played one game for the national team (against Norway, 16 September 1956).
Honours
Club
Djurgårdens IF
Allsvenskan: 1959
Golf
After a successful career in ice hockey and football, Tumba dedicated himself to golf as a player, golf course designer and ambassador of the sport. Tumba is widely recognized as an important, maybe the most important, person for introducing golf as a widely spread sport in Sweden.
Having been introduced to the game of golf for the very first time, being over the age of 30, he reached a scratch handicap in 1970, at 39 years of age, when he also won the Scandinavian International Amateur Match-play Championship (one of three major amateur tournaments in Scandinavia at the time) and was selected, as one of the four best amateur players in the country, to the Swedish national team at the 1970 Eisenhower Trophy in Madrid, Spain.
He turned professional the following year and in 1974, he qualified, as one of the two best professionals in the country, to represent Sweden in the 1974 World Cup in Caracas, Venezuela.
However, concerning golf in Sweden, he is not firstly remembered for his record as a player, but for his contributions to popularizing the game and putting Sweden on the map of the world of golf. He toured around in Sweden as the main attraction in inaugurations and anniversaries at golf clubs, showing his popular golf clinic, playing exhibition matches and drawing attention in media and among people, who not formerly did know about the game. His successful efforts to organize exhibitions in Sweden with Arnold Palmer in 1968 and Jack Nicklaus in 1969, was followed by the professional invitation tournament Volvo Open, which took place in Sweden in 1970 and 1971. In 1973 the Scandinavian Enterprise Open tournament was established, with Tumba as its founder, and it soon became one of the richest ones on the European Tour.
During the period of time for Tumbas golf career, the number of members in Swedish golf clubs incresed 50 times, from around 12,000 at the beginning of the 1960s to approximately 600,000 in the middle of the 1990s.
On the 100th anniversary of the Swedish Golf Federation in 2004, he was named the most influential person in the history of golf in that country, ahead of people such as all-time women's golf great Annika Sörenstam.
Tumba also officially introduced the game of golf to the former Soviet Union.
Golf projects:
1967: Tumba Golf Center, the first indoor driving range in Sweden. Founder/Designer
1969: Founded the Colgate Cup, Swedens major golf tournament for children up to 15 years of age
1973: Founder and President (for 15 years) of the Scandinavian Enterprise Open, one of the richest tournaments on the European Tour at the time
1977: Founder and President (for 3 years) of the European Open tournament on the European Tour.
1978: Ullna Golf Club, (venue of the Scandinavian Enterprise Open 5 times, 1983–87 and the 1988 Eisenhower Trophy). Golf course designer/Project Leader.
1987: Tumba Golf Club Moscow (now called Moscow City Club) the first golf course in the former Soviet Union, located in central Moscow close to the Swedish Embassy. Founder/Designer.
1988: Österåkers Golf Club, two 18-hole courses (venue for the Ladies European Tour Compaq Open and Swedish Golf Tour tournaments)
1988: Officially introduced the game of golf in the former Soviet Union and founded the first golf school there.
1995: Founded the World Golfers Championship, a yearly amateur golf tournament in many countries, played by thousands of golfers around the world.
1998: Tumba Kävlinge Golf for All, Löddeköpinge. A new way of golf course design and management, with goal to benefit juniors and the general golf mass.
2004: Named as the most influential person in the history of golf in Sweden.
Amateur wins
1970 Scandinavian International Amateur Matchplay Championship
1970 Söderhamn 72-hole Tournament
Team appearances
Amateur
Eisenhower Trophy (representing Sweden): 1970
Professional
World Cup (representing Sweden): 1974
Miscellaneous
1957–61: Own radio program, the Tumba Hour.
1959: Held water ski shows all across Sweden.
1981: Founded the Tumba Stipendium (grant) for handicapped sportsmen, that amongst other things gave Lev Yashin a hip joint replacement in Sweden.
1987: Founder of the motto "Sport Promotes Friendship and Business", supported by eminent sportsmen, politicians, artists, etc. Examples are Pelé, Sean Connery, Seve Ballesteros and Boris Yeltsin.
1989: Received the Royal Medal from HM King Carl Gustaf for his outstanding sport achievements.
2006: Founded the Sven Tumba Education Fund, Sport for Education, a charity together with AstraZeneca aiming to eradicate illiteracy.
Tumba also wrote numerous books: Tumba says it all, Tumba's hockey school (translated into three languages), as well as My rich life (the naked truth).
Personal life
Tumba was survived by his wife Mona and their four sons, Tommie, born 1962, Johan, born 1964, Stefan, born 1970 and Daniel, born 1982. Both Tommie and Johan became golf professionals. Johan previously played on the European Tour and finished tied 13th in the 1989 Scandinavian Enterprise Open and later became a successful professional long driving competitor.
For most of his retirement, Sven Tumba and his wife lived in West Palm Beach, Florida, returning to Sweden for the summer.
Death
He died on 1 October 2011 after being on the Danderyds sjukhus hospital for three months due to an infection in the hip. At the time of his death, he was both a Swedish and an American citizen, but not registered as living in Sweden. He had the ambition to became that before his death, but quickly became to weak to manage necessary formality. He was subsequently honored prior to the Swedish hockey league Elitserien games that were played that day, with a one-minute silence. His body was buried at the Engelbrekt Church in Östermalm, Stockholm, on 20 October 2011. Approximately 500 friends and relatives arrived at the church to leave flowers and honour Sven Tumba.
References
External links
A to Z Encyclopedia of Ice Hockey
Swedish Hockey, Historical World Championships
Swedish Golf Magazine
Education Fund, About Sven Tumba
Global Golf Ltd.
Sven Tumba stats at EliteProspects.com
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Bagdad, New York
Bagdad is a hamlet in the town of Collins in Erie County, New York, United States.
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Filter (magazine)
FILTER was a seasonal American music and off-beat entertainment magazine which was founded in 2002. It featured commentary and photos of up-and-coming musicians and filmmakers ranging from actors to writer-directors. Each season's (Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall, and Holiday) issue highlighted a reasonably well-known cover artist while also taking a look at smaller artists under the heading "Getting to Know". The magazine also included reviews of forthcoming albums and DVDs.
With the tagline "Good music will prevail", the publication aimed to bring indie music to the forefront through its reporting while also highlighting established artists in long-form interviews. The magazine used to contain a "PSSST!" compilation with each issue.
FILTER was published by Alan Miller and Alan Sartirana. Its editor-in-chief was Pat McGuire, its associate editor was Breanna Murphy and its layout designer was Melissa Simonian.
FILTER also had a marketing arm which operated independently of the print publication. The magazine started a seasonal festival Culture Collide, now produced by founder Alan Miller and COLLiDE after Miller and Sartirana parted ways amicably in 2014, with Sartirana, McGuire, and Simonian going on with much of the FILTER staff to found FLOOD Magazine, a quarterly entertainment publication.
References
External links
Official website
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Hagelberg FH 50
Hagelberg FH 50 is a .50 BMG, single shot bolt-action bullpup precision rifle manufactured by Hagelberg Arms. The rifle is designed for both target shooting and law enforcement use, and comes in two lengths, variant L (Long) and variant K (Short). The rifle can also come with a sound suppressor and short range back-up sights.
See also
Firearms, List of firearms
.50 BMG
Bolt action
Single shot
References
External links
Entry on hagelbergarms.dk
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WSES
WSES, virtual channel 33 (UHF digital channel 36), is a Heroes & Icons-affiliated television station serving Birmingham, Alabama, United States that is licensed to Tuscaloosa. The station is owned by Howard Stirk Holdings, a partner company of the Sinclair Broadcast Group. WSES' advertising sales office is located on Golden Crest Drive in Birmingham, and its transmitter is located near County Road 38/Blue Creek Road, east of State Route 69 near Windham Springs.
WGWW (channel 40) in Anniston operates as a full-time satellite of WSES.
History
As an independent station
The station first signed on the air on October 27, 1965 as WCFT-TV. Originally operating as an independent station, it was the first television station to sign on in western Alabama. It was originally owned by Chapman Family Television, a consortium of eight Tuscaloosa businessmen who saw the benefits of operating a television station to serve west-central Alabama, in terms of both business and community service purposes.
However, the station did not return a profit suitable enough for its owners throughout its first two years of operation, an issue that led Chapman Family Television to sell the station to South Mississippi Broadcasting, Inc. (later Service Broadcasters) in 1967, becoming the company's second television station, after flagship WDAM-TV in the company's home market of Hattiesburg, Mississippi. The new owners rejuvenated WCFT by heavily investing in the station, purchasing new broadcasting and transmission equipment, and improving the station's image. In addition to carrying syndicated programming, WCFT-TV also aired network programs from CBS and NBC that were not cleared for broadcast in the Birmingham market by WAPI-TV (channel 13, now WVTM-TV), which WBMG (channel 42, now WIAT) did during that same timeframe.
As an exclusive CBS affiliate
On May 31, 1970, when WAPI-TV formally removed CBS programming and became the exclusive NBC affiliate for the Birmingham market, WCFT-TV became an exclusive CBS affiliate; WBMG in Birmingham (which had been affiliated with the network since it signed on October 1965, in a similar split arrangement with NBC) and WHMA-TV (channel 40) in Anniston (which had been an exclusive CBS affiliate since it debuted in October 1969) also became exclusive CBS affiliates, with each serving different portions of central Alabama.
Even though Tuscaloosa is southwest of Birmingham, CBS opted to retain its affiliation with WCFT because, at the time, WBMG suffered from a severely weak broadcast signal that did not provide adequate coverage throughout most of the eastern fringes of central Alabama. Despite Birmingham's relatively close proximity to the city, the WBMG signal barely covered Tuscaloosa, even after the station increased its transmitter power to 1.2 million watts in 1969, providing a marginal to non-existent signal in much of west-central Alabama. As such, many cable providers in the western part of the market opted to carry WCFT as the provider of CBS programming for that area of the state instead. WCFT regularly trounced WBMG in that portion of the market (even in western areas of the Birmingham metropolitan area that could receive WCFT's signal), and unlike WBMG, was often competitive with WBRC-TV (channel 6) and WAPI/WVTM, especially with its local newscasts that focused almost exclusively on western Alabama.
Although the area was only served at the time by WCFT and Alabama Public Television satellite station WIIQ (channel 41) in Demopolis, Arbitron decided to annex Tuscaloosa into its own separate television market from Birmingham in 1977, placing it at a ranking below #170. On January 1, 1978, Service Broadcasters sold WDAM and WCFT to Beam Communications (which changed its name to Beacon Communications in June 1989). On August 20, 1990, Beacon sold WCFT and WDAM to Federal Broadcasting.
As a satellite of WBMA-LP/-LD
On May 5, 1994, Great American Communications (which would be renamed Citicasters following the completion of its debt restructuring later that year) agreed to sell WBRC and three of its sister stations – fellow ABC affiliate WGHP in High Point, North Carolina, NBC affiliate WDAF-TV in Kansas City and CBS affiliate KSAZ-TV in Phoenix – to New World Communications for $350 million in cash and $10 million in share warrants. As part of a broader deal between New World and the Fox Broadcasting Company signed on May 23 of that year, New World agreed to affiliate five of its eight existing television stations and the four it had acquired from Great American with Fox, in a series of affiliation transactions that would take two years to complete due to the varying conclusion dates of their ongoing contracts with either ABC, NBC or CBS. Three weeks later, New World agreed to buy WVTM-TV and three other stations—CBS affiliates KDFW in Dallas–Fort Worth and KTBC in Austin, and ABC affiliate KTVI in St. Louis—from Argyle Television Holdings, in a purchase option-structured deal worth $717 million. Due to conflicts with FCC ownership rules of the time period, New World subsequently decided to establish and transfer the licenses of WBRC and WGHP into a trust company, with the intent to sell them to the Fox network's broadcasting subsidiary, Fox Television Stations (in the case of Birmingham, New World could not keep WBRC and WVTM since the FCC then forbade a single company from owning two television stations in the same market; the concurrent Argyle and Citicasters acquisitions also put New World three stations over the FCC's twelve-station ownership limit).
Although the sales of WBRC and WGHP were finalized on July 24, 1995, Fox Television Stations could not switch WBRC's network affiliation in the short term, as the station's contract with ABC would not expire until August 31, 1996. While this forced Fox to operate WBRC as an ABC affiliate for thirteen months after the sale's closure, it gave the latter network enough time to find a new central Alabama affiliate. ABC first approached WTTO (channel 21, now a CW affiliate)—which, along with semi-satellites WDBB (channel 17) in Tuscaloosa and WNAL-TV (channel 44, now Ion Television owned-and-operated station WPXH-TV) in Gadsden, was set to lose its Fox affiliation to channel 6—for a deal to replace WBRC as its Birmingham outlet. However, the owner of WTTO, Sinclair Broadcast Group, only expressed interest in carrying ABC's prime time and news programming. It also refused to launch a news department for WTTO, as the group did not factor local news production into its corporate budget at the time (this was despite the fact that sister station WDBB had maintained a standalone news operation at the time ABC started negotiations with WTTO, which was eventually shut down when the former switched to a full-time WTTO simulcast in December 1995).
In November 1995, Allbritton Communications purchased WCFT from Federal Broadcasting for $20 million; it concurrently signed a deal with Fant Broadcasting to assume operational responsibilities for WNAL-TV under a local marketing agreement (LMA). Then in January 1996, after it terminated the WNAL deal, Allbritton acquired the non-license assets of CBS affiliate WJSU-TV (channel 40) in Anniston from Osborne Communications Corporation for $12 million (through an LMA arrangement which included an option to eventually purchase the station outright). Allbritton wanted to relocate WJSU's transmitter facilities closer to Birmingham to provide a stronger signal within that metropolitan area and nearby Tuscaloosa; however, the relocation was prohibited under FCC regulations that required a station's transmitter site be located no more than from its city of license (Anniston is north-of-due-east of Birmingham), which would have required an application to change the city of license closer to Birmingham in order to legally allow the move.
Shortly after the WJSU purchase took place, ABC reached a unique deal with Allbritton, in which WCFT and WJSU would become the new ABC affiliates for Central Alabama, with WCFT acting as the main station. ABC had a very strong relationship with Allbritton, particularly as Allbritton's flagship station, WJLA-TV in Washington, D.C., had long been one of ABC's highest-rated affiliates. In April 1996, a few months after the Birmingham deal was struck, Allbritton's ties to ABC were sealed wholesale when Allbritton reached a ten-year affiliation agreement with ABC that renewed contracts with the group's four existing ABC affiliates (WJLA-TV, KATV in Little Rock, Arkansas, KTUL in Tulsa, Oklahoma and WHTM in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) and resulted in two of its other stations switching to the network (NBC affiliate WCIV [now Heroes & Icons affiliate WGWG] in Charleston, South Carolina) and WB affiliate WBSG-TV [now Ion Television owned-and-operated station WPXC-TV] in Brunswick, Georgia), the latter of which would become a satellite of WJXX in nearby Jacksonville, Florida when Allbritton signed that station on in February 1997).
However, under Nielsen rules, neither WCFT nor WJSU would have likely been counted in the Birmingham ratings books as it had designated Tuscaloosa and Anniston as separate markets at the time. Allbritton's solution to this issue was to purchase W58CK, a low-power independent station in Birmingham that began operations on November 18, 1994, which would serve as the primary station for the purpose of being counted in local ratings diaries (the three stations would later be collectively rated as "WBMA+"). While the purchase of channel 58 was not a condition of the deal between ABC and Allbritton, it did pave the way for Anniston and Tuscaloosa to be consolidated back into the Birmingham television market in September 1998 (at the start of the 1998–99 television season). That move benefited all of the major Birmingham stations, as it not only increased their viewership in Tuscaloosa and Anniston, but also resulted in Birmingham's placement in Nielsen's national market rankings jumping twelve spots from 51st to 39th place.
On September 1, 1996, when W58CK became an ABC affiliate, WCFT and WJSU concurrently ended separate operations as well and became full-powered satellite stations of W58CK, with Allbritton assuming control of WJSU's operations under the originally proposed LMA, which was transferred to Flagship Broadcasting upon that company's purchase of that station (Allbritton would eventually purchase WJSU-TV outright in 2008). WCFT's studio facilities near Skyland Boulevard in Tuscaloosa were converted into the Tuscaloosa news bureau for W58CK's news department; its master control operations were migrated into W58CK's new studios on Concourse Parkway in Hoover. WCFT and WJSU also ceded the CBS programming rights in central Alabama to WBMG, which had recently upgraded its transmitter to provide a much stronger full-power signal throughout much of the Birmingham market, and WNAL-TV, which took over as CBS's northeastern Alabama affiliate on the day of the WBRC/WBMA+/WTTO switch.
Even though WBMA was the official ABC affiliate for the Birmingham market, Allbritton chose instead to name the triumvirate operation "ABC 33/40", using the over-the-air channel numbers of WCFT and WJSU instead as the collective branding for the stations, making it appear as if WCFT was the primary station and WJSU was acting as its satellite. In the case of WCFT, its signal footprint covered the western portions of the Birmingham metropolitan area and outlying rural areas of western Jefferson County, stretching westward to Columbus, Mississippi (which had been served by WLOV-TV until it became a Fox affiliate in October 1995, leaving that city without an ABC affiliate until WKDH signed on in June 2001); the station's broadcast signal provided a contour of at least Grade B coverage within Birmingham's western inner ring. Cable (and eventually, satellite) providers within west-central Alabama received WBMA's programming through WCFT.
Acquisition by Sinclair
For over a decade and a half, WBMA+ maintained a strong relationship with Allbritton, with no major problems arising between the two entities and, likewise, no major changes occurring to the station's operations. On July 29, 2013, Allbritton announced that it would sell its seven television stations, including WBMA+, to the Sinclair Broadcast Group (which would purchase the stations for $985 million), in an attempt by the company to shift its focus toward co-owned political news website, Politico. As part of the deal, Sinclair had intended to sell the license assets of its existing Birmingham stations, CW affiliate WTTO and MyNetworkTV affiliate WABM (channel 68) to Deerfield Media, and retain operational responsibilities for those stations through shared services and joint sales agreements. At the time, no affiliation changes were expected.
On December 6, 2013, the FCC informed Sinclair that applications related to the deal need to be "amended or withdrawn," as Sinclair would retain an existing time brokerage agreement between WTTO and its satellite station, WDBB (channel 17); this would, in effect, create a new LMA between WBMA+ and WDBB, even though the Commission had ruled in 1999 that such agreements made after November 5, 1996 covering the programming of more than 15% of a station's broadcast day would count toward the ownership limits for the brokering station's owner. A sale of WBMA and its satellites to a separate buyer was also not an option for Sinclair, as Allbritton wanted its stations to be sold together to limit the tax rate that the company would have had to pay from the accrued proceeds, which it estimated would have been substantially higher if the group was sold piecemeal.
On March 20, 2014, as part of a restructuring of the Sinclair-Allbritton deal in order to address these ownership conflicts as well as to expedite the Allbritton acquisition because of them due to the FCC's increased scrutiny of outsourcing agreements used to circumvent in-market ownership caps, Sinclair announced that it would retain ownership of WTTO (choosing to retain the LMA between that station and WDBB, and continue operating it as a satellite station of WTTO), and form a new duopoly between it and WBMA+; WABM was to be sold to a third-party buyer with which Sinclair would not enter into an operational outsourcing arrangement or maintain any contingent interest, other than a possible transitional shared facilities agreement until WTTO was able to move its operations from its longtime home on Beacon Parkway West to WBMA's facility in Hoover.
On May 29, 2014, however, Sinclair informed the FCC that it had not found a buyer for WABM (even among the market's three existing major station owners, WBRC owner Raycom Media, then-WVTM owner Media General and then-WIAT owner LIN Media, neither of which operated an existing duopoly station in the Birmingham market, although the latter two groups were in the process of merging at the time) and proposed surrendering the licenses of WCFT and WJSU to the agency. Under the restructured plan, WBMA's programming would be added to WABM's main channel, which would result in the latter's syndicated and MyNetworkTV programming moving to its second digital channel on 68.2 (WBMA-LD itself, as a low-power station, would not be affected as FCC rules allow the ownership of low-power and full-power stations regardless of market ownership caps for duopolies). Sinclair opted to retain WABM on the basis that its transmission facilities were superior to those of WCFT and WJSU; indeed, moving ABC programming to WABM would give ABC a full-power affiliate in Birmingham itself for the first time since 1996. After nearly a year of delays, Sinclair's deal to acquire Allbritton was approved by the FCC on July 24, 2014, and was completed on August 1, 2014.
Sale to Howard Stirk Holdings
On September 18, 2014, in preparation for the planned shutdown of WCFT and WJSU eleven days later on September 29, WDBB and WABM both added simulcast feeds of WBMA-LD on their respective second digital subchannels (17.2 and 68.2).
Six days later on September 24, Sinclair filed an application with the FCC to sell the license assets of WCFT to Sinclair's partner company Howard Stirk Holdings (a group owned by conservative political commentator Armstrong Williams) for $50,000. As part of the deal, Sinclair agreed to forego any agreements with HSH to operate the station. Sinclair had reached a similar deal to sell (the original) WCIV in Charleston – another station that was set to be shut down as a result of a similar arrangement involving its MyNetworkTV affiliate in that market, WMMP, due to a grandfathered LMA that station maintained (and subsequently decided to terminate) with Fox affiliate WTAT – to Howard Stirk Holdings.
As a result of the deal, WCFT remained on the air past its scheduled September 29 sign-off date. In addition, as the near-concurrent sale of WJSU-TV to HSH in effect superseded the proposed surrender of its license, Sinclair requested that the FCC hold off on canceling the licenses until at least ten business days after acting on the proposed transaction. In order for Sinclair to continue operating WJSU and WCFT and maintain their existing licenses until the FCC ruled on the petition and the sale to HSH, the two stations began providing interim programming as affiliates of Heartland (which both stations had been carrying on their third digital subchannels as WBMA satellites since the network launched as The Nashville Network on November 1, 2012) on October 20, 2014; at that time, WJSU was essentially converted into a satellite of WCFT. The FCC approved the transfer of license of WCFT-TV and WJSU-TV to Howard Stirk Holdings on December 4, 2014.
On March 11, 2015, Howard Stirk Holdings was granted its application to change the call letters of WCFT to WSES; concurrently, WJSU became WGWW. On October 1, 2015, the station switched its primary affiliation from Heartland to Heroes & Icons.
Digital television
Digital channel
Analog-to-digital conversion
WCFT-TV shut down its analog signal over UHF channel 33 on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition VHF channel 5 to UHF channel 33 for post-transition operations.
Upon the transition, WCFT relocated its transmitter facilities to a tower near Windham Springs (located east of Alabama State Route 69, near County Road 38/Blue Creek Road); the station's original transmitter tower (located off of Interstates 20 and 59, near the Skyland Boulevard exit) continued in use as the homebase of WBMA+'s Tuscaloosa "TowerLink" camera until the tower was dismantled in early 2013.
Newscasts
When the station became an exclusive CBS affiliate in 1970, WSES – as WCFT-TV – established a small news department, with the debut of TV-33 News, featuring story content focusing on Tuscaloosa and west-central Alabama that initially consisted of half-hour newscasts at 6:00 and 10:00 p.m. each weeknight. Its newscasts were rebranded Eyewitness News in 1977, a title which continued to be used for the remainder of its tenure as an independently operated station. By the mid-1980s, newscasts were added on weekend evenings; weekday morning and 5:00 p.m. newscasts debuted on the station during the early 1990s. In sharp contrast to WBMG, WCFT-TV's newscasts were able to gain traction against two of the three established television news competitors from the nearby Birmingham market that existed prior to 1996 whose signals transmitted into the Tuscaloosa market; its newscasts were typically strong performers in the ratings in west-central Alabama for most of the 26-year run of its in-house news department, ranking ahead of WVTM and the Birmingham market's perennial first-place finisher WBRC.
As a result of Allbritton Communications' purchase of the station and subsequent announcement that the group would convert it into a full-power satellite of W58CK upon its assumption of the ABC affiliation, Allbritton announced in the spring of 1996 that it would shut down WCFT's Tuscaloosa-based news department, and convert its Skyland Boulevard studios into a news bureau for W58CK's news department, retaining a limited staff of reporters and photographers to produce story content focused on west-central Alabama that would be included within the latter's newscasts. Channel 33's news department ceased operations and aired its final in-house newscasts on August 31, 1996. W58CK launched its in-house news department the following day on September 1, when WCFT and WJSU were merged into the "ABC 33/40" trimulcast; at that time, WCFT's locally based newscasts were replaced by simulcasts of W58CK/WBMA's morning, midday and evening newscasts. Allbritton transferred certain members of WJSU's news staff to the W58CK/WBMA news department; most notably, main anchor Dave Baird – who remains with the successor news department – was among the WCFT staffers that joined the new joint operation.
As a result of the station's sale to Howard Stirk Holdings and Sinclair's decision to move WBMA-LD's programming to a subchannel of WDBB, WCFT-TV discontinued all simulcasts of WBMA's newscasts on September 29, 2014.
On-air staff
Notable former on-air staff
Daniel Corbett – meteorologist (1995–1996; later at the BBC)
Rece Davis – general assignment reporter (1987–1990; now at ESPN)
James Spann – part-time meteorologist (1978–1979; now chief meteorologist at WBMA-LD)
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Yakyū-kyō no Uta
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Shinji Mizushima. It follows Yūki Mizuhara, a young woman who wants to do veterinary medicine at college but instead she became a baseball player. It was originally serialized in the Kodansha's Japanese manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Magazine between 1972 and 1976, and has been adapted into several spin-off manga, a live-action film, an anime television series, an anime film, and a Japanese television drama. In 1973, it received the 4th Kōdansha Literature Culture Award for children's manga.
Media
Manga
The Yakyū-kyō no Uta manga series was written and illustrated by Shinji Mizushima, and originally serialized by Kodansha in Weekly Shōnen Magazine from 1972 to 1976. It was published into a single tankōbon volume on October 1, 1972, on June 16, 1974, on January 25, 1976, and on January 21, 1979. Between July 12, 1995 and October 12, 1995, it was published in 13 bunkoban. A four-shinsōban version subtitled was released between November 21, 1997 and June 23, 1998.
In 1997, a new series entitled started to be serialized by Kodansha in Mister Magazine. Later, it was collected into 3 tankōbon released between August 7, 1998 and March 9, 2000. was serialized from 2000 to 2005 in Comic Morning, and published on 11 tankōbon between January 23, 2001 and October 21, 2005.
Four bound volumes were published under Platinum Comics line between June 11, 2003 and July 23, 2003: , , , and .
A crossover manga between Yakyū-kyō no Uta and Dokaben, another Mizushima manga, was first published in 2005. On February 8, 2006, it was released by Kodansha in a bound volume under the title . Later, on September 30, 2009, a was published.
In February 10, 2009, a series entitled , that follows the story of Yūki Mizuhara, a real-life female baseball player, started to be published. Spawning three bound volumes, it was last published on April 10, 2009 by Kodansha.
Live-action film
Akira Katō directed a live-action adaptation that was released on March 19, 1977. It starred Midori Kinōuchi, was produced by Hiromi Higuchi, written by Masayasu Ōehara and Rokurō Kumagaya, and its score was composed by Shin Takada.
Anime
A 25-episode anime television series was created by Nippon Animation, and was broadcast on Fuji Television between December 23, 1977 and March 26, 1979. An anime film titled was released in theatres on September 15, 1979. It is an adaptation of chapters 13 and 14: "Kita no Ōkami, Minami no Tora" Part 1 and Part 2.
TV drama
The series was adapted into a live-action Japanese television drama broadcast on January 7, 1985 on Fuji Television. It starred Yuki Saito as Yūki Mizuhara and Shirō Itō as Tetsugorō Iwata.
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Holy Mother of God Church
Holy Mother of God Church may refer to one of the following:
Holy Mother of God Church (Kuršumlija)
Holy Mother of God Church, Tehran
Holy Mother of God Church, Vagharshapat
Holy Mother of God Church, Voskepar
Holy Mother of God Church, Yeghvard
Holy Mother of God Church of Bethlehem, Tbilisi
Sourp Astvatsatsin, Nicosia
Surb Astvatsatsin Church of Areni
Surp Astvatsatsin Church of Karbi
Zoravor Surp Astvatsatsin Church
Category:Titles of Mary
Category:Oriental Orthodox church buildings
Category:Armenian Apostolic churches
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