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Cottonwood Lake (Grant and Stevens counties, Minnesota)
Cottonwood Lake is a lake in Grant County and Stevens counties, in the U.S. state of Minnesota.
Cottonwood Lake was named for the cottonwood trees near its banks.
See also
List of lakes in Minnesota
References
Category:Lakes of Minnesota
Category:Lakes of Stevens County, Minnesota
Category:Lakes of Grant County, Minnesota
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Taxation in New Jersey
The U.S. state of New Jersey levies a state personal income tax and state corporate income tax and a state sales tax. Property taxes are also levied by municipalities, counties, and school districts.
Income tax
The tax table below will show in detail the New Jersey state income tax rates by income tax bracket(s). There are 6 income tax brackets for New Jersey.
Tax brackets for individuals are provided below:
For earnings between $1 and $20,000, the tax rate on every dollar of income earned is 1.4%.
For earnings between $20,001 and $35,000, the tax rate on every dollar of income earned is 1.75%.
For earnings between $35,001 and $40,000, the tax rate on every dollar of income earned is 3.5%.
For earnings between $40,001 and $75,000, the tax rate on every dollar of income earned is 5.525%.
For earnings between $75,001 and $500,000, the tax rate on every dollar of income earned is 6.37%.
For earnings of $500,001 and over, the tax rate on every dollar of income earned is 8.97%.
To give an example, if you filed individually and your earned income was $50,000 your tax would be calculated the following way:
($20,000 (first bracket) x 1.4%) + ($15,000 (second bracket) x 1.75%) + ($5,000 (third bracket) x 3.5%) + ($10,000 (fourth bracket) x 5.525%) = $280 + $262.50 + $175 + $552.50 = $1,270, for an overall rate of 2.54%.
Beginning in 2019, the top marginal rate will be raised to 10.75% for incomes over $5 million, making it the second highest top marginal tax rate in the nation (after California's top rate of 13.3%).
Sales tax
New Jersey has a 6.625% state sales tax, which was cut in steps from the previous rate of 7%. All revenues are deposited in the State Treasury for general state use; nothing goes to municipalities.
In urban enterprise zones, the state sales tax is cut in half to encourage economic development, resulting in an effective tax rate of 3.3125%. A full list of urban enterprise zones is available on the State of New Jersey website.
New Jersey does not charge sales tax on most unprepared foods, household paper products, medicine, and clothing. However, medical cannabis and fur clothing are subject to sales tax. New Jersey does not charge sales tax on gasoline, but gasoline is subject to a $0.418/gallon excise tax.
Cigarettes are subject to a $2.70/per pack excise tax in addition to sales tax.
Property tax
Former governor Jon Corzine and Bergen County executive Dennis McNerney have suggested that smaller municipalities merge into larger municipalities to share services and reduce overhead.
Corporate income tax
New Jersey's current corporate income is 9% for corporation with income greater than $100,000. Companies with income up to $100,000, but greater than $50,000 pay a rate of 7.5% and companies with incomes of $50,000 or less pay a rate of 6.5%. Under a budget deal reached on June 30, 2018, New Jersey's the rate will rise to 11.5% for companies with income over $1 million for the next two years. In the third year it would be decreased to 10.5% before being returned to 9% in the fifth year. New Jersey's top rate of 11.5% will be the second highest in the nation (after Iowa's top rate of 12%).
See also
Law of New Jersey
References
http://www.state.nj.us/treasury/taxation/su_over.shtml
External links
State of New Jersey Division of Taxation
The Tax Foundation research on New Jersey
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Dorcadion albicans
Dorcadion albicans is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Chevrolat in 1862.
Subspecies
Dorcadion albicans albicans Chevrolat, 1862
Dorcadion albicans demandense Escalera, 1902
Dorcadion albicans marinae Tome & Bahillo, 1996
Dorcadion albicans palentinum Escalera, 1911
Dorcadion albicans vanhoegaerdeni Breuning, 1956
See also
Dorcadion
References
Category:Dorcadiini
Category:Beetles described in 1862
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Goniobranchus decorus
Goniobranchus decorus is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Chromodorididae.
Taxonomic history
This species was known as Chromodoris decora for many years before it was transferred to the genus Goniobranchus on the basis of molecular (DNA) evidence in 2012.
Distribution
This species was described from Hawaii. It has been confused with Goniobranchus setoensis and many records are therefore misidentifications. It occurs in the western Pacific Ocean from Hawaii to the Marshall Islands and New Caledonia. The two species are sympatric in the Marshall Islands.
Description
The body of this chromodorid nudibranch is translucent white with opaque white lines, purple spots and a sub-surface margin of orange-red. There is usually a white line around the centre of the back which can extend into patches of white running towards the midline. The midline itself is usually marked with white patches or a broad white stripe with diffuse edges. Within the white are a few purple spots and these usually form a line down the centre of the back, always with a halo of white around them. The tips of the rhinophores and the outer part of the gills is white.
EcologyGoniobranchus decorus feeds on sponges of the family Aplysillidae including Chelonaplysilla violacea''.
References
Category:Chromodorididae
Category:Gastropods described in 1860
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Rolando Araya Monge
Rolando Araya Monge (born 20 August 1947) is a Costa Rican socialist politician. He is a nephew of former president Luis Alberto Monge.
Biography
Rolando Araya went to school in Palmares, the place he was born, and at the Lincoln Park High School, Michigan. In 1970 after his university career at the University of Costa Rica, he graduated as an engineer.
Just four years later he was elected as congressman in Alajuela. Another year passing by, he became President of the Juventud Liberacionista, the youth organization of the PLN, one of the major parties in Costa Rica. In 1978 he also became Vice-President of the supranational youth organization International Union of Socialist Youth.
Only after another four years, Araya entered the cabinet of his uncle President Luis Alberto Monge as minister for public building and transportation. Two years later he left the government for becoming general secretary of his party PLN. 1993 he decided to run for presidency, but failed in the party-intern competition. 1995 he finally was elected as president of the PLN, a year later Rolanda Araya became the honor to serve as Vice-President for the Socialist International.
2002 Araya was running for presidency again, this time he succeeded in the party-intern election. Finally, Arraya lost the election.
Rolando Araya was one of the founders of the socialist movement Frente Socialdemócrata Costarricense.
References
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Category:Living people
Category:People from Palmares (canton)
Category:National Liberation Party (Costa Rica) politicians
Category:Members of the Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica
Category:University of Costa Rica alumni
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Coleophora cycnea
Coleophora cycnea is a moth of the family Coleophoridae.
References
cycnea
Category:Moths described in 1995
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Citra (drink)
Citra was a clear lemon- and lime-flavoured soda sold in India in the 1980s and early 1990s. Citra was owned by Parle Bisleri. Along with other Parle brands, Thums Up, Limca, Gold Spot and Maaza, Citra was sold to Coca-Cola in 1993 in a deal that was reportedly worth $40 million. At the time of sale, the Parle brands together had a 60% market share in the aerated water industry. The brand was strong in South India. Citra was phased out by the year 2000 to make way for Coke's international brand, Sprite.
In 1998, Coke introduced a new drink in the US market also called Citra which was later renamed Fanta Citrus. Although the brand name was similar, this was a totally different grapefruit-based formula. In February 2012, Coke announced that it was reviving the Citra brand in rural areas of Maharashtra and Gujarat on a pilot basis, on a price strategy that will be 20% cheaper than other Coke and competitor brands. The relaunch is aimed at competing with smaller regional brands.
See also
Bovonto
References
Category:Soft drinks
Category:Lemon-lime sodas
Category:Indian drink brands
Category:Coca-Cola brands
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Emily Willoughby
Emily Willoughby (born November 17, 1986) is an American paleoartist, illustrator, writer, and PhD student in behavior genetics living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Willoughby is best known for specializing in illustrating maniraptoran dinosaurs, although she has also done illustrations of ceratopsian dinosaurs and ankylosaurians for the nonprofit Institute for the Study of Mongolian Dinosaurs.
Willoughby is noted for her interest in birds, dromaeosaurids and other feathered animals. She has done illustrations of many feathered theropods for scientific papers, most notably of Dakotaraptor steini in 2015.
Willoughby, along with Jonathan Kane, T. Michael Keesey, Glenn Morton and James Comer, also authored God's Word or Human Reason?, a 2017 book detailing the relationship between religion and science, in which the authors argue that there is no need for a Christian lifestyle to be incompatible with scientific consensus. Many of the authors talk about their former creationist lifestyles and beliefs throughout the book.
Willoughby's art is mentioned and featured commonly in various programs and dinosaur books, such as Paul Barrett and Darren Naish's Dinosaurs: How They Lived and Evolved 2016.
References
External links
Category:Living people
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Thurmond Clarke
Thurmond Clarke (June 29, 1902 – February 28, 1971) was a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California and the United States District Court for the Central District of California.
Education and career
Born in Santa Paula, California, Clarke received a Bachelor of Laws from the USC Gould School of Law in 1927. He was a deputy district attorney of Los Angeles County, California from 1927 to 1929, and then a deputy city attorney of the City of Los Angeles from 1929 to 1932. He was a Judge of the Los Angeles Municipal Court from 1932 to 1935, and of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County from 1935 to 1955.
Federal judicial service
Clarke was nominated by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on June 21, 1955, to the United States District Court for the Southern District of California, to a new seat authorized by 68 Stat. 8. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on August 1, 1955, and received his commission on August 3, 1955. He served as Chief Judge in 1966. Clarke was reassigned by operation of law to the United States District Court for the Central District of California on September 18, 1966, to a new seat authorized by 80 Stat. 75. He served as Chief Judge from 1966 to 1970. He assumed senior status on September 1, 1970. His service terminated on February 28, 1971, due to his death.
References
Sources
Category:California state court judges
Category:1902 births
Category:1971 deaths
Category:Judges of the United States District Court for the Central District of California
Category:Judges of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California
Category:People from Santa Paula, California
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Paraxanthodes cumatodes
Paraxanthodes cumatodes is a species of crab found in the Red Sea and the New Caledonian Exclusive Economic Zone.
References
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Glenora
Glenora can refer to:
Places
Glenora, British Columbia, also Fort Glenora, an unincorporated settlement in British Columbia, Canada
Glenora, Ontario, a community in Ontario, Canada
Glenora, Edmonton, a neighborhood in Edmonton, Canada
North Glenora, Edmonton, a neighborhood in Edmonton, Canada
Glenora, New York, a hamlet in the town of Starkey, Yates County, New York, United States
Other
Edmonton-Glenora, a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, Canada
Glenora Distillers, a distiller based in Glenville, Nova Scotia, Canada
Glenora (ship), a vehicle ferry on Lake Ontario
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Nilandhoo
Nilandhoo as a place name may refer to:
Nilandhoo (Faafu Atoll) (Republic of Maldives)
Nilandhoo (Gaafu Alif Atoll) (Republic of Maldives)
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Tiborszállás
Tiborszállás is a village in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary.
Geography
It covers an area of and has a population of 1023 people (2015).
References
Category:Populated places in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County
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Kolbeinn Pálsson
Kolbeinn Hermann Pálsson (born 26 November 1945) is an Icelandic former basketball player and a former member of the Icelandic national team. In 1966 he became the first basketball player to be named the Icelandic Sportsperson of the Year. He served as the chairman of the Icelandic Basketball Association from 1988 to 1996.
Early life
Kolbeinn started playing basketball at the age of 14. During his youth he was an avid Handball player and played with KR in the Icelandic top-tier handball league during the 1962–1963 before focusing fully on basketball.
Playing career
Kolbeinn spent his entire career with KR, playing a total of 383 games for the club. He last played during the 1980-1981 season, appearing in 4 games. On November 18, 1966, he scored 25 points against defending champions Simmenthal Milano in the FIBA European Champions Cup (now called EuroLeague).
On December 1, 1977, Kolbeinn ruptured his left achilles tendon in a game against Valur. He managed to return before the end of the season and participated in the extra game between KR and Njarðvík where KR won the national championship.
National team
Kolbeinn played 55 games for the Icelandic national team from 1966 to 1976. He played his first game in 1966 against Poland. In 1966 he made two free throws in the final seconds of Iceland's game against Denmark, giving them victory and the bronze in the 1966 Nordic Championships.
Awards, titles and accomplishments
Individual awards
Icelandic Sportsperson of the Year: 1966
Titles
Icelandic champion (7): 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1974, 1978, 1979
Icelandic Basketball Cup (7): 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1977, 1979
Personal life
Kolbeinn is the father of former Icelandic national team player Páll Kolbeinsson. His sister, Vigdís Pálsdóttir, played handball for Valur.
References
External links
Icelandic statistics 1978-1981 at kki.is
Category:1945 births
Category:Living people
Kolbeinn Palsson
Kolbeinn Palsson
Kolbeinn Palsson
Kolbeinn Palsson
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Tanzania at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
Tanzania competed at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, United Kingdom from August 29 to September 9, 2012.
Athletics
Men’s Field Events
See also
Tanzania at the 2012 Summer Olympics
References
Category:Nations at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
2012
Category:2012 in Tanzanian sport
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Barenboim (surname)
Barenboim is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Daniel Barenboim (born 1942), pianist and conductor
(1910-1984 ), Soviet theorist and bridge building practitioner
Lev Barenboim (1906–1985), Russian pianist and musicologist
(born 1985), classical violinist
See also
7163 Barenboim, main-belt minor planet
Birnbaum (disambiguation) (German form)
Category:Jewish surnames
Category:Yiddish-language surnames
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Latrice Walker
Latrice Monique Walker is the Assembly member for the 55th District of the New York State Assembly. She is a Democrat. The district includes portions of Brownsville in Brooklyn.
Life and career
Walker was born and raised in Brownsville, Brooklyn in Prospect Plaza Houses, a NYCHA development. She attended New York City Public Schools prior to receiving her bachelor's degree at SUNY Purchase College, and her J.D. from Pace University.
Prior to her election to the Assembly, Walker served as chief counsel to United States Congresswoman Yvette Clarke, who represents much of the same area in Congress. Currently, she resides in Ocean Hill-Brownsville with her daughter, Nile.
New York Assembly
In 2014, Assemblyman William F. Boyland Jr. was found guilty of corruption and was therefore forced to resign. As a result, the seat became open and Walker as well as six others entered the race. In a seven-way primary, Walker secured the nomination with just under 40% of the vote. She would easily win the general election.
Walker was sworn into office on January 1, 2015.
References
External links
New York State Assemblywoman Latrice Walker official site
Category:Living people
Category:New York (state) Democrats
Category:Members of the New York State Assembly
Category:People from Brownsville, Brooklyn
Category:21st-century American politicians
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1992 Armenian Cup
The 1992 Armenian Cup was the first edition of the Armenian Cup, a football competition, since the Armenian independence. In 1992, the tournament had 31 participant, none of which were reserve teams.
Results
First round
Malatia received a bye to the second round.
The matches were played on 4 and 6 April 1992.
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Second round
The matches were played on 14 and 16 April 1992.
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Quarter-finals
The first legs were played on 27 April 1992. The second legs were played on 6 and 7 May 1992.
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Semi-finals
The first legs were played on 18 May 1992. The second legs were played on 22 May 1992.
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Final
See also
1992 Armenian Premier League
External links
1992 Armenian Cup at rsssf.com
Category:Armenian Cup seasons
Armenia
Armenian Cup, 1992
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Robert J. Breckinridge
Robert J. Breckinridge may refer to:
Robert Jefferson Breckinridge (1800 – 1871), politician and Presbyterian minister
Robert Jefferson Breckinridge, Jr. (1833 – 1915), Confederate Congressman and colonel in the Confederate Army
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Me Shivajiraje Bhosale Boltoy
Mi Shivajiraje Bhosale Boltoy (English: "I am Shivajiraje Bhosale Speaking") is a Marathi film released in 2009. The movie is produced by Sanjay Chhabria along with Ashwami Manjrekar and directed by Santosh Manjrekar. The film follows an underdog who fights against the evil in society, to re-instate his identity and keep his pride.
Plot
Dinkar Maruti Bhosale represents thousands of 'Marathis' who feel they have lost their identity in the cosmopolitan Mumbai. Dinkar feels Mumbai is in Maharashtra but there is no Maharashtra left in Mumbai. He always complains about the lack of respect a Marathi receives in Mumbai and feels he is victimized everywhere because he is a Marathi; little realizing that he himself has brought this situation upon himself.
In a state of sheer frustration Dinkar gets up one day cursing himself for being born a Marathi. He feels his ancestors must have committed a heinous crime for him to be born a Marathi.
These outbursts of Dinkar reach Pratapgad and the spirit of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj is aroused. Dinkar has to now face a seething Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, who is furious at him. Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj fires Dinkar for his shallow thinking and tells him he has to command respect, not demand it. He blames Dinkar’s thinking for the sorry state of Marathis. "Before blaming other communities for your short comings, look within and see if you have done anything to keep the Marathi pride intact," he roars.
Dinkar realizes his mistake but does Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaja’s thought arouse him to rectify his mistakes? The film ends with Bhonsle gladly returning the sword at the shrine of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.
Cast
Mahesh Manjrekar as Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj
Sachin Khedekar as Dinkar Bhosale
Makarand Anaspure as Raiba
Siddarth Jadhav as Usman Parker
Suchitra Bandekar as Sumitra Bhosale
Priya Bapat as Shashikala Bhosale
Abhijeet Kelkar as Rahul Bhosale
Ganesh Yadav as Nandkumar Chandekar
Pradeep Patwardhan as BMC Officer
Reema Lagoo as Jijabai
Vidyadhar Joshi as Ramniklal Gosalia
Bharat Jadhav- Special appearance as Powada presenter
Ankush Chaudhari- Special appearance in song "Masoli"
Vineet Kumar Singh as tenant to Dinkar Bhosale
Soundtrack
The song O raje marked the debut of Sukhwinder Singh in Marathi film industry.
Box Office
Me Shivajiraje Bhosale Boltoy was a huge blockbuster at the box office. It collected a total of in its full theatrical run. It held the record of highest-grossing movie for many years until the release of Duniyadari which broke its record by collecting at the box office.
Remake
The film was remade in Bengali as Ami Shubhash Bolchi (2011), directed by the original film's lead actor Mahesh Manjrekar with Mithun Chakraborty and Anindya Banerjee. But the film's main character was replaced and slightly changed with environment.
See also
Highest grossing Marathi films
References
IMDB - imdb.com
Movie Review - hollywoodreporter.com
Article Times Of India - timesofindia.indiatimes.com
External links
Official Website ( Company Store link)
Category:Indian films
Category:Marathi-language films
Category:2009 films
Category:Shivaji
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Wieldządz
Wieldządz is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Płużnica, within Wąbrzeźno County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland. It lies approximately north of Płużnica, north-west of Wąbrzeźno, and north of Toruń.
References
Category:Villages in Wąbrzeźno County
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Flowers (TV series)
Flowers is a British black comedy-drama sitcom written by Will Sharpe and starring Olivia Colman and Julian Barratt. It was commissioned by the British broadcaster Channel 4, in association with the American TV streaming service Seeso. The first series premiered in the U.K. with two episodes on 25 April 2016 and was broadcast daily during the week, ending on 29 April. In the United States, all 6 episodes were released online on 5 May 2016. The series concluded with a second series following the same pattern, premiering with two episodes on 11 June 2018, in the UK, followed by an episode daily during that week.
Synopsis
The series follows the Flowers family, consisting of depressed father and children's author Maurice (Barratt); music teacher wife Deborah (Colman), their 25-year-old twin children: inventor son Donald (Daniel Rigby) and musician daughter Amy (Sophia Di Martino); Maurice's senile mother Hattie (Leila Hoffman); and Maurice's Japanese illustrator Shun (Sharpe).
Cast
Olivia Colman as Deborah Flowers
Julian Barratt as Maurice Flowers
Will Sharpe as Shun
Colin Hurley as Barry
Daniel Rigby as Donald Flowers
Sophia Di Martino as Amy Flowers
Leila Hoffman as Hattie Flowers
Georgina Campbell as Abigail (series 1)
Angus Wright as George (series 1)
Harriet Walter as Hylda (series 2)
Episodes
Series overview
Series 1 (2016)
Series 2 (2018)
In May 2018, Channel 4 released a trailer for the second series of the show. It began broadcasting with two episodes on 11 June 2018.
DVD
The complete series 1 was released on DVD in June 2016 by Dazzler Media, while the complete second series was released on DVD in September 2018.
Reception
Reviews for the series were positive. Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes rated it 100% "fresh" based on 10 reviews. The Guardian praised the series and called it "a gloriously dark sitcom about depression and rage". The New York Times also reviewed it positively saying, "Flowers isn't really about any particular story. It's a portrait – a weird, Edward Gorey-like portrait of a family with loves, suspicions and insecurities, perhaps not all that different from yours, after all."
Reception of the second series was similarly positive, once again garnering a 100% "fresh" score on Rotten Tomatoes based on 9 reviews. Writing for The Guardian, Sam Wollaston awarded four stars out of five, stating: "The second series of Will Sharpe’s deeply imaginative comedy-drama has been serious and sensitive in its handling of difficult issues, and hilarious to boot."
Awards and nominations
References
External links
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Nane Sarma
Nane Sarma (, "Grandma Frost") is a mythical character in Iranian folklore. She is the wife of Amu Nowruz, the "Uncle Nowruz".
In 2012, the first Iranian folktale of Nane Sarma was published in English, in the book Pomegranates and Roses: A Persian Love Story.
See also
Snegurochka, a related character in Slavic countries, except that she is depicted as the grand-daughter of Grandfather Frost, the local holiday gift-bringer.
Deities and personifications of seasons
References
Category:Nowruz
Category:Iranian folklore
Category:Iranian culture
Category:Persian culture
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Korobiec
Korobiec is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Suwałki, within Suwałki County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland. It lies approximately north-west of Suwałki and north of the regional capital Białystok.
References
Korobiec
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John Barnard Bush
John Barnard Bush (born 1937) is an English farmer, landowner and Justice of the Peace. He was Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire from 2004 to 2012, having previously served as the county's High Sheriff.
Early life
The son of Barnard Robert Swanton Bush, of Norton St Philip, Somerset, and of Elizabeth Bush (née Weeks), Bush was educated at Monkton Combe School and Balliol College, Oxford, graduating BA and MA.<ref name=who>BUSH, John Barnard, in Who's Who 2009, A & C Black, 2008</ref>
Career
Bush is a career farmer, owning a mixed farm at Heywood in western Wiltshire.
He served from 1995 to 1999 as non-executive chairman of West Midland Farmers Association Ltd, a regional agricultural co-operative previously based in Melksham, Wiltshire. He oversaw its demutualisation in 1999 to become Countrywide Farmers plc, a farming, equestrian and rural supplies firm, continuing as chairman until 2004. When he retired from the post, Countrywide Farmers had 11,000 farmer shareholders and an annual turnover of £150 million. Pages 2, 9.
He was appointed a Justice of the Peace for Wiltshire in 1980, as High Sheriff of Wiltshire for 1997–1998, and as a Deputy Lieutenant of the county in 1998. He served as Chairman of the Bristol Avon Flood Defences Committee from 1981 to 2000, and of the Wiltshire Magistrates' Courts Committee from 2001 to 2005, and was a Governor of Lackham College between 1986 and 1998.
From 2004 to 2012 he was Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire, retiring at the age of seventy-five, to be succeeded by Mrs Sarah Rose Troughton, a cousin of H. M. the Queen. As Lord Lieutenant he was also custos rotulorum, and his public duties included overseeing arrangements for visits to Wiltshire by members of the Royal Family and escorting them; representing H. M. the Queen at events, and presenting awards and medals on her behalf; liaising with the Wiltshire units of the Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force; leading the local magistracy as Chairman of the Lord Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Justices of the Peace; and advising on nominations for national honours.
Bush is currently chairman of the Wiltshire Historic Buildings Trust, Patron of the Community Foundation for Wiltshire, and Swindon and Chairman of Fredericks Wiltshire. His other interests in Wiltshire have included chairing the Bobby Van Trust. He is a Trustee of the Devizes Assize Courts Trust
Honours
1997–1998: High Sheriff of Wiltshire
1998: Deputy Lieutenant of Wiltshire
2004: Officer of the Order of the British Empire (for services to the community in Wiltshire)
10 November 2004: Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire
27 July 2005: Knight of the Venerable Order of Saint John
1 January 2012: Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (2012 New Year Honours list)
Family
On 30 December 1961, Bush married Pamela Eve Irene Bagwell, the daughter of Lieutenant-Commander William Bagwell RN of Clonmel, County Tipperary and of Evelyn Irene Hamilton Wills, the only child of Sir Frederick Wills, 1st Baronet. They have two children, Alexander Hugh Barnard Bush (called Alex, born 4 October 1964) and Carolyn Louise Bush (called Carly, and born 18 July 1967).John Barnard Bush They also have four grandchildren, Jasmine, Scarlett, Thomas and Lucy.
See also
High Sheriff of Wiltshire
List of Deputy Lieutenants of Wiltshire
References
Who's Who 2007'' (A. & C. Black, London, 2007)
John Bush at wiltshire.gov.uk (accessed 2 August 2007)
Meet John ... the Queen's new man by David Andrew at thisiswiltshire.co.uk, 20 October 2004 (accessed 2 August 2007)
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Nowa Wieś, Gmina Stary Zamość
Nowa Wieś is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Stary Zamość, within Zamość County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland.
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Make It Big
Make It Big is the second studio album from British pop duo Wham!, released in 1984. It was mostly recorded at Studio Miraval in Southern France to escape the press and enable George Michael to work peacefully and mixed at Good Earth Studios in London and Marcadet Studios in Paris. In comparison to their earlier work, the duo had more control over the album's production, as Michael became the sole credited producer, a position he would subsequently hold on all future releases until the group split in 1986. The album was a critical and commercial success, hitting number one in both the UK and the US and spawning four singles, all topping the charts on both sides of the Atlantic.
Outside the US, "Careless Whisper" was credited as a George Michael solo effort upon its release as a single, while "Everything She Wants" was released as a double A-side with "Last Christmas" which would later appear on the following album Music from the Edge of Heaven.
It was certified 6× Platinum in the US within weeks of the album's tenth anniversary in 1994.
Critical reception
Make it Big received positive reviews. Christopher Connelly from Rolling Stone wrote, "George Michael's music is an unabashed rehash of Motown", adding "Make It Big is an almost flawless pop record, a record that does exactly what it wants to and has a great deal of fun doing it." Stephen Thomas Erlewine from AllMusic writes, "They succeeded on a grander scale than they ever could have imagined, conquering the world and elsewhere with this effervescent set of giddy new wave pop-soul, thereby making George Michael a superstar and consigning Andrew Ridgeley to the confines of Trivial Pursuit."
Track listing
Personnel
George Michael – lead vocals, background vocals, keyboards
Andrew Ridgeley – guitar, background vocals
Hugh Burns – guitar
Deon Estus – bass guitar
Trevor Murrell – drums, Oberheim DMX (track 1)
Tommy Eyre – keyboards
Andy Richards – keyboards
Anne Dudley – keyboards
Danny Cummings – percussion
Colin Graham – trumpet
David Baptiste – saxophone
Steve Gregory – saxophone
Pepsi & Shirlie – background vocals
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Decade-end charts
Certifications
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The Big Tour
Wham! embarked on a world tour to promote the album in December 1984, opening at Whitley Bay's Ice Rink, before going on to dates in Japan, Australia, United States, United Kingdom, the British Dependent Territory of Hong Kong and China, ending in April 1985 at the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in Canton.
See also
Wham! discography
References
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Category:Wham! albums
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William Bulkeley
William Bulkeley (ca. 1500-1575/1576), of Beaumaris, Anglesey, was a Welsh politician.
He was born before 1505, the son of Edmund Bulkeley of Conway, North Wales.
He became a well-to-do merchant based in Beaumaris, Anglesey, where he served as bailiff in 1526, 1536 and 1562. He was coroner in 1564. He was elected a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Beaumaris in November 1554 and 1571.
He married twice; firstly Jane, daughter of Nicholas Elcock, with whom he had two sons and two daughters and secondly Margaret Thickness of Beaumaris.
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Raaton Ka Raja
Raaton Ka Raja is a 1970 Bollywood drama film. The film stars
Dheeraj Kumar and Shatrughan Sinha.This is first film of Dheeraj Kumar. )
Soundtrack
External links
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Mwela Rock Paintings
The Mwela Rock Paintings are a national monument of Zambia, about east of Kasama
The rock paintings (about 700 in all) are in caves and overhangs spread over a very wide area of bush, north of the Kasama Isoka road at 10°10' S 31°13' E, where a signpost denotes the ‘Mwela Rocks National Monument’ with an entry kiosk and guides to escort visitors. The site encompasses eastwards rock outcrops of Mwankole, Sumina, Mulundu, Fwambo, Changa Mwibwe and westwards 10 km from the town Lwimbo rock outcrops. The paintings are associated with the Later Stone Age.
Archaeologists rate the Kasama rock art as one of the largest and most significant collections of ancient art in Southern Africa, though their quality is outdone in Zimbabwe and Namibia. The works are attributed to Stone Age hunter-gatherers (sometimes known as Batwa or Twa) and are up to 2000 years old. Many are abstract designs, but some of the finest pictographs show human figures and animals, often capturing a remarkable sense of fluidity and movement, despite being stylised with huge bodies and minute limbs. It is considered the most compact site of rock paintings in Africa.
The site was declared a National Monument in 1964, although it got recognition as early as 1945. As of 2017 it was reported to attract an average of 350 local and international tourists per month.
The topography of the site is generally fairly undulating and deeper soils are more frequent, where as the central part is generally flat. The outcrops form part of the boundary of the extension of the main plateau areas. The site is also incised by abundant streams and extends over 100 Km2. More than 1000 paintings have been recorded in the rock outcrops, making Mwela Rock Paintings National Monument as one of the densest concentrations of rock art sites anywhere in Africa.
The site is protected under the National Heritage Conservation Commission (NHCC) Act, Cap 173 of the laws of Zambia and was declared collectively as a National Monument under Government notice No. 255 of 1964 bearing the name of Mwela. Part of the area is further protected under the Forestry Act as it falls within the Kasama Forestry Reserve area under the traditional leadership of Senior Chief Mwamba of the Bemba people of northern Zambia.
Kasama Town falls within the extensions of the main plateau with elevation ranging from 1320 to 1535m. It consists of highlands surrounding the Lake basin area, stretching from Kasama through Mbala, Mporokoso and Kawambwa to Mansa. This plateau region forms part of the Continental divide (up warped plateau) and represents the remnants of the once extensive Miocene peneplain surface.
This site was re-added to the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List on March 10, 2009, in the Mixed category.
Notes
References
Smith, B. (1997). Zambia's Ancient Rock Art: The Paintings of Kasama. National Heritage Conservation Commission. , 9789982340007.
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Saint-Brisson-sur-Loire
Saint-Brisson-sur-Loire is a commune in the Loiret department in north-central France.
Name
The name Saint-Brisson is traditionally derived that of Saint Brice, to whom the parish church is dedicated.
Château
The Château de Saint-Brisson, built by the de Sancerre family in the early 13th century on the site of a 12th-century construction, is a tourist attraction, benefitting from its proximity to the many historic châteaux of the Loire Valley.
See also
Communes of the Loiret department
References
INSEE commune file
Saintbrissonsurloire
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Rociu
Rociu is a commune in Argeș County, in southern central Romania. It is composed of four villages: Gliganu de Jos, Gliganu de Sus, Rociu and Șerbănești.
History
The oldest relics come from the Bronze Age, from Șerbănești village. Then, much later, the village Gliganu is mentioned, on June 12, 1564. The village belonged to a boyar from Rucăr. According to the same source, all four villages are mentioned after 1830.
In the Communist period, the commune received a strong impulse for economic growth: A 25 km long irrigation canal was built to drain water from the Argeș River. Rociu received special attention because there was built a farm of the Communist Party.
Location
Rociu is situated in the southern part of Argeș County, in the Găvanu-Burdea plains. It is situated 25 to 30 kilometers from Pitești, the main town of the county. The average altitude is 240 meters.
Villages
There are 4 villages: Rociu, Gliganu de Jos, Gliganu de Sus and Șerbănești.
Geography
The Găvanu-Burdea plain is a flat region, with large and fertile valleys. Rociu is situated close to the Dâmbovnic River (sometimes called Dâmbovnic or Drâmbovnic). There are a few smaller rivers that are dry in summer, like Mozacu River and Gliganu River. There are many small lakes, used for fishing.
Climate
Rociu has a temperate climate, like all Romanian villages. Usually, summers are hot and winters have frequent winds.
Demographics
According to the 2002 census, the commune has 3014 people, of which 2968 are Romanians and 46 are Roma people. Also, the population is dramatically aged: 40% are older than 60 years, and children are only 12% of the total population. 99% are Orthodox.
Transportation
There are a few county roads that link the commune with Pitești and the nearby villages:
DJ503 links Rociu with Oarja and the A1 Motorway. It is asphalted from the motorway to Rociu. The road continues South to Giurgiu, but it is unasphalted.
DJ659 links Rociu north with Suseni, Bradu and Pitești and to the south it continues to Negrași, Videle and Giurgiu. It is asphalted.
DJ703b is unasphalted and links Rociu to Costești in the west and to Căteasca in the east.
The communal roads link the villages one to another:
DC104 links DJ659 (in Gliganu de Jos) with DJ 503 (in Rociu village) and then extends West to Căteasca. It is asphalted between Gliganu and Rociu.
DC106 links the centre of Rociu village with Șerbănești village and DJ659. It was recently asphalted.
Economy
There are no major firms in the area. The main occupation is agriculture. There are two major agricultural companies, a few mills, a small pig farm, a paper factory and a lot of small markets and pubs that provide the population with daily goods. There is a fair every Tuesday.
Since the economy is based on agriculture, the old irrigation canal might still be used. Today, it only brings water to local fishing lakes.
Institutions
The town hall is located in the Rociu village. Near the town hall are the post office and the Veterinarian and Human services. Not far away is the politic centre, of the Social Democratic Party. There is a school and a church in each village.
Environmental problems
Upstream, on the Dîmbovnic River, is an important oil refinery, the Arpechim Refinery. Since its construction, nearly all the toxic waste was released in the river. In 2005, the situation was so bad, that water in the fountains was no longer drinkable, even for animals. The only solution to provide water for the inhabitants and their animals was to use the deep freatic waters (about 200 meters deep) and to build an extensive system of water pipes to every house. Today, the river is only occasionally polluted and even fish have reappeared after more than 50 years.
Tourism
Rociu is not a tourist destination and has no hotels or camp sites. However, not far away, in Negrași is a protected area, the Negrași Daffodil Meadow.
There is an old church in Șerbănești village, that is considered a touristic objective.
Unofficial resort?
The commune has multiple access routes (see #Transportation). Being situated more than 25 km from any big city, Rociu has very clean air. The water is pumped from 150 to 200 meters deep and is of very good quality (see #Environmental problems). According to the Argeș County police, violent incidents are very rare and there are no major conflicts. Houses and terrains can be found (to buy or to rent) at very small costs. All these facts create conditions for elderly people to come and settle in Rociu and nearby villages after they retire from work. This population migration partially explains the population dynamics mentioned above, in #Demographics.
References
External links
Official site
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Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics
The Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics is an annual scientific journal published by Annual Reviews. The journal was established in 1970 as the Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics and changed its name beginning in 2003. It publishes invited review articles on topics considered to be timely and important in the fields of ecology, evolutionary biology, and systematics. According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2013 impact factor is 10.977, ranking it 3rd in the "Ecology" category and 4th in "Evolutionary Biology".
References
External links
Category:Ecology journals
Category:Publications established in 1970
Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics
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Provo, Serbia
Provo () is a Serbian village located in the Vladimirci municipality of the Mačva District, with an altitude of 86 meters. As of 2002 the population of Provo is 2,355.
External links
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RSS (disambiguation)
RSS is an abbreviation for "Really Simple Syndication" or "Rich Site Summary", a family of web feed formats.
RSS may also refer to:
Organizations
Cultural
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, a Hindu nationalist paramilitary volunteer organisation
Education
Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, an educational organization in New Delhi, India
Red Swastika School, Singapore
Riverside Secondary School (Windsor), Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Other organizations
Radio Security Service, a British signals intelligence group during World War II
Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently, a citizen journalism effort in Syria
Rashtra Sevika Samiti, a Hindu nationalist women's organisation
Red Swastika Society, a Taoist association founded in China in 1922
Regional Security System, an agreement between several countries in the Eastern Caribbean region
Remote Sensing Systems, in Santa Rosa, California
IBM Retail Store Solutions, a division of IBM
Royal Society of Sculptors, a British organisation
Royal Stuart Society, a monarchist organisation in the United Kingdom
Mathematics
Residual sum of squares in statistics
Royal Statistical Society, a scientific and professional body for statisticians in the UK
Science and technology
Biology and medicine
Russell-Silver syndrome, a form of dwarfism
Recombination signal sequences, genes used to generate antibodies and T-cell receptors in immunology
Reactive sulfur species, chemically reactive molecules containing sulfur
Computing and telecommunications
Radio Service Software, a suite of programs sold by Motorola
IBM Retail Store Solutions, a division of IBM
Received signal strength indication, referring to the strength of the signal that a receiver gets in a wireless communication
Receive-side scaling, a scaling technique for network traffic processing
Resident set size, the portion of memory occupied by a process that is held in RAM
Other uses
Radio science subsystem, on a scientific spacecraft, the use of radio signals to probe a medium such as a planetary atmosphere
Reduced Space Symbology, a family of barcodes now called GS1 DataBar
Rotary steerable system, a tool used in the drilling industry
Rotating Service Structure, part of the Space Shuttle launch tower
Other uses
Regional spatial strategy, a planning document for a region of England
Republic of Singapore Ship, commissioned Navy ships belonging to the Republic of Singapore Navy
Rockdale, Sandow and Southern Railroad, in Texas
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List of monuments in Makwanpur, Nepal
This is a list of Monuments in Makwanpur, Nepal as officially recognized by and available through the website of the Department of Archaeology, Nepal in the Makwanpur District. Makwanpur is one of the five districts of Narayani Zone and is located in Central Northern Part of Nepal. Forts and Hindu temples are the main attraction of this district.
List of Monuments
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See also
List of Monuments in Narayani Zone
List of Monuments in Nepal
References
External links
Makwanpur
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Aloe brevifolia
Aloe brevifolia (Kleinaalwyn, short-leaved aloe) is a species of flowering plant in the family Asphodelaceae. It is a tiny, compact, blue-green evergreen succulent perennial, that is native to the Western Cape, South Africa. Listed as Vulnerable on IUCN's global Red List, it is threatened in its natural habitat, but is also widely popular as an ornamental plant in rockeries and desert gardens worldwide. As it requires winter heat, in temperate regions it is grown under glass or as a houseplant.
Distribution
In the wild, this diminutive species is completely confined to the dry clay soil of “Rûens Shale Renosterveld” – a critically endangered and rapidly disappearing vegetation type. Small populations are normally found growing on inaccessible rocky slopes and cliffs, especially near the coast, but it is thought that these are merely relics of what was once a much wider distribution. There are several subspecies, which are now separated from each other by farmland and other development.
Appearance
Though only 10 cm in height, the Kleinaalwyn tends to sprout suckers from its sides that become new rosettes. Consequently, it can form large clumps. The leaves are short and fat and edged with soft, harmless, white teeth. In fact, the name "brevifolia" means "short-leaf" in Latin.
The plant is also distinctive for its gray-blue color.
In November it sends up a (relatively) tall inflorescence with bright red flowers.
Cultivation
This dwarf aloe is increasingly popular as an ornamental plant for pots and rockeries. In cultivation it should be planted in a reasonably sunny position, in well-drained soil. It requires only moderate watering and should not be kept perpetually damp. It should be remembered that it is adapted to the Mediterranean climate of the Western Cape, with its winter rainfall regime. It can be propagated easily by simply removing and replanting the branching suckers.
It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
References
External links
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Category:Flora of the Cape Provinces
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La Vida Es Un Carnaval
"La Vida Es Un Carnaval" (; English: "Life Is a Carnival") is a song performed by Cuban recording artist Celia Cruz. The song was written by Victor Daniel, produced by Isidro Infante, arranged by Isidro Infante and released as the lead single from Cruz's studio album Mi Vida Es Cantar (1998). The song won the award for Tropical Song of the Year at the 2003 Lo Nuestro Awards.
It has become one of Cruz's most popular songs, leading to the song being covered by several artists, including salsa singers Victor Manuelle and La India among others.
This song was featured in the 2000 Mexican film, Amores perros, and also in the 2002 film Antwone Fisher.
Cover versions
It was covered by reggaetón singer Mikey Perfecto on his second studio album Evolución Arrestada in 2004. The song featured guest vocals performed by Joel Dando Tra. The song combines merengue and reggaetón music and has a duration of two minutes and fifty-three seconds. It contains a verse written by Perfecto himself. Perfecto chose to cover the song because he listed Cruz as one of his many musical influences on the preceding interlude track of the album. That same year, fellow reggaetón singer Nicky Jam also covered "La Vida Es Un Carnaval". Puerto Rican singer Víctor Manuelle performed a live version of the song which was included on the live album Victor Manuelle en Vivo: Desde el Carnegie Hall. This version peaked at number 14 on the Tropical Songs chart. Manuelle also sang an acapella version of the song at Cruz' funeral in 2003, the impromptu performance ended the service. Brazilian singer Daniela Mercury included a Portuguese version of the song in her 2009 album Canibália, called "A Vida é um Carnaval". American entertainer Jennifer Lopez performed the song live as part the tribute to Cruz during the American Music Awards of 2013. Angélique Kidjo recorded a cover version and music video of the song in 2019.
Charts
References
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Mohan Lal Grero
Mohan Lal Grero is a Sri Lankan educationist and politician. He is a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka representing the Colombo District and he is the current State Minister of "University Education". He was elected as an opposition United National Party MP but crossed over to the ruling United People's Freedom Alliance in November 2011. He is the founder of the Lyceum International School.
Education
He did receive his primary education from Royal Preparatory School and moved to Ananda College for secondary education in 1966. In 1974 he entered the Katubedda Campus of the University of Sri Lanka and graduated in 1980 with an honours degree in engineering. In 1986 he gained his Pilot's license and gained an Executive Diploma in Business Administration from the University of Colombo winning the Professor Linus de Silva challenge Gold Medal.
References
External links
Mohan Lal Grero Foundation
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Category:United National Party politicians
Category:Sri Lankan Buddhists
Category:Alumni of Ananda College
Category:Alumni of Royal College, Colombo
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Sural arteries
The sural arteries (inferior muscular arteries) are two large branches, lateral and medial, which are distributed to the gastrocnemius, soleus, and plantaris muscles. Sural means related to the calf. The term applies to any of four or five arteries arising from the popliteal artery, with distribution to the muscles and integument of the calf, and with anastomoses to the posterior tibial, medial and lateral inferior genicular arteries.
References
External links
http://www.wheelessonline.com/ortho/sural_artery
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Nhandumirim
Nhandumirim (meaning "small rhea" in the Tupi language) is a genus of saurischian dinosaur from the Carnian age of Late Triassic Brazil. The type and only species, Nhandumirim waldsangae, is known from a single immature specimen including vertebrae, a , pelvic material, and a hindlimb found in the Santa Maria Formation in Rio Grande do Sul. Nhandumirim is differentiated from other Santa Maria dinosaurs such as Staurikosaurus and Saturnalia on the basis of its more gracile, long-legged proportions and several more specific skeletal features. It also possessed several unique features compared to other early dinosaurs, such as long keels on vertebrae at the base of the tail, a straight metatarsal IV, and a short brevis fossa of the ilium and dorsolateral trochanter of the femur. Several features of the tibia led the describers of the genus and species to consider Nhandumirim waldsangae the earliest theropod, but some analyses offer alternative positions within Saurischia.
Discovery
Nhandumirim is known from a single partial skeleton, LPRP/USP 0651, which includes several vertebrae, a right ilium, and most of a right hindlimb. This skeleton was found at the site of Waldsanga (also known as Cerro da Alemoa or Sanga do Mato) in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul. Waldsanga is a historically important Triassic site which also preserved the type specimens of Saturnalia, Rauisuchus, Gomphodontosuchus, and Alemoatherium. The site preserves Carnian-age sediments of the Santa Maria Formation, and LPRP/USP 0651 specifically comes from the top of the Alemoa member on that site. The generic name Nhandumirim roughly translates to "small rhea" in the Tupi-Guarani language. The specific name refers to Waldsanga.
Description
The dorsal vertebrae have spool-shaped centrae which are about 1.4 times longer than high, making them more elongated than those of herrerasaurids. Several areas on the dorsals are incised, such as the sides of the centrum (which each have a shallow depression) and the rear of the neural arch (which has postzygapophyseal centrodiapophyseal and centrodiapophyseal fossae). There were likely three sacral vertebrae, with at least the first one articulating with the hip akin to the "primordial" first sacral of other reptiles. This contrasts with Saturnalia in which the first sacral vertebra is an incorporated dorsal vertebra without the hallmarks of a primordial sacral. The sacral vertebrae were thick and wide, but not fused to each other or their respective sacral ribs. The most complete sacral rib was fan shaped when seen from above and has a cross section which gradually curves upwards towards the front, also unlike Saturnalia which has a more L-shaped cross section. The caudal vertebrae increase in length and gradually reduce the size of their transverse processes from the base of the tail to the tip. Caudals at the base of the tail have pronounced midline keels along their entire lower edge. This characteristic is seemingly unique to Nhandumirim, as the only other dinosauromorphs with ventral keels in proximal caudals are Dracoraptor (which had paired, not midline, keels) and Efraasia (in which they were restricted to the front third of the centrum). The zygapophyses of the caudals are short, unlike the longer joints of herrerasaurids and neotheropods.
The ilium is generally typical for early dinosaurs, with a perforated acetabulum, conspicuous antitrochanter, and a postacetabular process which was much longer than the preacetabular process. The ischiadic peduncle is expanded in a front-to-back direction like that of neotheropods. There is an L-shaped scar on the inner edge of the iliac blade which received the first sacral vertebra, and there was enough room for two more sacrals behind it. The outer surface of postacetabular process has two holes and a pronounced incision along its lower edge, known as a brevis fossa. In most dinosaurs which have a brevis fossa, it clearly starts at the base of the postacetabular process, according to a ridge which delineates its upper edge. However, Nhandumirim's brevis fossa only occupies the rear 3/4ths of the postacetabular process, with no clear interaction with the main portion of the ilium.
The femur is slender and thin-walled. The proximal portion possessed early dinosaurian hallmarks such as an anterior trochanter, a facies articularis antitrochanterica, well-developed medial tubera separated by a deep ligament sulcus, and an asymmetrical and pronounced fourth trochanter. The femoral head also possessed a deep and curved groove, but the appearance of this groove is known to be variable within some dinosaur species, so it is not particularly informative for Nhandumirim's classification. The trochanteric shelf was not present, but a homologous muscle attachment scar did exist in the same area, along with a more proximally-located anterolateral scar similar to that reported in some silesaurids. Unlike other early dinosaurs, the dorsolateral trochanter was characteristically short, ending quite a distance away from the femoral head like the anterior trochanter. The distal portion had a wide medial condyle and muscle scars similar to those of Herrerasaurus.
The tibia was poorly preserved but did possess several features similar to those of neotheropods. These include a tall facet for the ascending process of the astragalus and a distal tip which was wide and flattened when seen from below and boxy when seen from the front. There was also a diagonal mound-like tuberosity on the anterior surface of the tibia. Nhandumirim is the only known dinosaur to possess both these neotheropod-like traits and a diagonal tuberosity. The more complete fibula was elongated (~10% longer than the femur) and had scars for the tibial ligament and iliofibularis muscle near the knee. There was a semicircular facet for the ascending process of the astragalus on the portion of the fibula contacting the heel, a characteristic unique to Nhandumirim. Metatarsal II is straight, with a flattened proximal portion and boxy distal portion. Metatarsal IV has a more irregularly-shaped distal portion but is also straight, an unusual feature more akin to Lagerpeton and pterosaurs rather than the more curved bone of other dinosaurs. Isolated phalanges are variable in proportions, with one having a wide proximal articulation and the rest having tall, triangular proximal articulations and more well-developed joint surfaces. Unguals are triangular in cross section and curved, though not to the extent seen in more advanced theropods.
Classification
The describers of Nhandumirim tested its relations using two phylogenetic analyses focused around the origin of dinosaurs. The first one, created previously by Cabreira et al. (2016), considered it the basalmost theropod, as the sister taxon to neotheropods. This is supported by a wide ischiadic peduncle and several traits of the tibia. The Cabreira et al. (2016) analysis is notable for excluding several other traditional basal theropods from the group. These include Daemonosaurus, Tawa, Chindesaurus, and Eodromaeus, which are considered basal saurischians according to their results.
Adding Nhandumirim to the second analysis, created by Nesbitt & Ezcurra (2015), led to inconclusive results. In the strict consensus tree (average result of most parsimonious trees), Nhandumirim is part of a broad polytomy at the base of Saurischia, along with several traditional basal theropods, herrerasaurids, and Eoraptor (which, on the other hand, is frenquently considered an early sauropodomorph in most recent analyses). This is because it is a "wildcard" taxon with several equally likely positions within Saurischia. These positions may include Nhandumirim as the sister taxon to all other saurischians, as the sister taxon to Eoraptor, or as the sister taxon to all other theropods (which also includes herrerasaurids in this option). Regardless, the authors considered unlikely that Nhandumirim is particularly close to Staurikosaurus or Saturnalia.
Nonetheless, the phylogenetic position of Nhandumirim was also tested in the article describing Gnathovorax cabreirai, which recovered it as a saturnaliin sauropodomorph, close-associated with Saturnalia and Chromogisaurus.
The following is a cladogram showing Nhandumirim's placement using Cabreira et al. (2016)'s analysis:
References
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Daniel Maltzman
Daniel Maltzman (born March 9, 1963) is an American artist known for his Pop-Surrealist paintings. His work is contemporary and inspired by great artists in history including Richter and Warhol. Maltzman focuses on drippy, layered abstracts, strong female forms, and a series of shadow figures. He lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
Maltzman's works are showcased in four galleries throughout the world, including a gallery in his namesake he opened in August 2012. The gallery is located in Beverly Hills and is a constant rotation of his work, occasionally juxtaposed with the works of newer local artist Maltzman finds. His most common medium is 6 feet by 5 feet, acrylic on canvas, priced beginning at $16,000.00.
Maltzman is known for his frequent involvement with local charities. He and his art have been featured on numerous television shows filmed in the Los Angeles Area.
Works
Although each Daniel Maltzman painting is one of a kind, the artist has found subjects and motifs that over time have transformed into symbols that represent his artistic identity.
Shadow Figures
As an early painter, inspired by Giacometti, Maltzman began his Shadow Figure series with Father and Daughter (1992). Ranging from singular figures to shadow groups, he captured an illusive form, highlighting light and dark. The series moved forward to colored shadow figures and panels. More than a decade later, Maltzman's Shadow Figures expanded to include Runway Shadow Figures (2003) which merged the original figures and those of fashion illustration. The Shadow Gallery also came about at this time, while Maltzman discovered an interest in perspective.
Babe
Maltzman's interest in the female form began early in his career with The Babe (1993). This bikini clad woman encompasses Maltzman's upbringing in Southern California. The woman is carefree and sun-kissed. Although each painting is unique and original, Maltzman continues to recreate this image, redefining his understanding of what is sexy.
Marilyn
In typical Hollywood fashion, Maltzman found Marilyn Monroe as a muse early on his career. The Marilyn series continue to grow to this day and is perhaps his most successful series. Portraits of Marilyn's face overlay Maltzman's signature abstract. What Maltzman has taken from Warhol's genius is evident in this series.
Abstracts
Inspired by Richter, Maltzman layers and pulls paints creating his bright and colorful abstracts. The drips Maltzman leaves behind have become an identifying feature to the artist's entire collection, especially his abstracts. These paintings can take anywhere from a month to three years to finish, as Maltzman often re-enters his abstract work. Most of these abstracts involve textured colors seeping through a more neutral top layer. Other types of abstracts include Maltzman's cubic abstract series. These panels, occasional on wood than canvas, work singularly as thin pieces or come together as massive triptychs.
Women
Maltzman's largest series is his Women. The paintings consist of a female form overlaying a Maltzman abstract. These form range from celebrities, such as Kate Moss, to the every woman and more elusive females. Maltzman's love of women is clear as this series stretches from sexy to sophisticated.
Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
2012-PRESENT Permanent installation of new works. GALLERY-BEVERLY HILLS, CA 2008 “For A Cure”, LURIE GALLERY, Beverly Hills, CA
2004 “Women” THE FIGURATIVE GALLERY, La Quinta, CA
2003 MAGIDSON FINE ART GALLERY, Aspen, CO
2002 DON O’MELVENY GALLERY, Los Angeles, CA 2001 DENISE ROBERGE, Palm Desert, CA
2000 DESERT ART SOURCE, Rancho Mirage, CA
Group Exhibitions
2012–Present CODA Gallery, Palm Desert, CA
2010 MELISA MORGAN FINE ART, Palm Desert, CA 2009–Present AMSTEL GALLERY, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2009–Present RUSSEL COLLECTION, Austin, TX
2009–Present WEBER FINE ART, Greenwich, CT & Scarsdale, New York 2007-08 “Warhol and...” KANTOR FEUER GALLERY, Los Angeles, CA
2007-08 “Going to the Dogs” CATHERINE KELLEGHAN GALLERY Atlanta, GA
2005-08 “Pop” MODERN MASTERS FINE ART GALLERY, Palm Desert, CA
2004-08 “Shadows” SELBY FLEETWOOD GALLERY, Santa Fe, NM
2002 “Movement” BGH GALLERY, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
Museum Exhibitions
2009-13 “Incognito” SANTA MONICA MUSEUM of ART, CA
2006 “Artists Emerging” LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
2006 HUNTSVILLE MUSEUM OF ART, Huntsville, AL
Honors
2014 Official Artist of the Pebble Beach ProAm Golf Tournament
Filmography
As Himself
Art Appearances
The artwork of Daniel Maltzman has been featured on television shows such as: Don't Trust the B- in Apartment 23, Dirty Sexy Money, Dog Whisperer, MTV's Paris Hilton's New BFF, and Nip/Tuck.
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Dhhai Kilo Prem
Dhhai Kilo Prem is an Indian Hindi television series, which began airing from 3 April 2017 on Star Plus. The series is being produced by Balaji Telefilms of Ekta Kapoor and Shobha Kapoor. The series aired Mondays - Saturdays during the Star Dopahar afternoon programming block. The series ended on 30 September 2017 when the programming block was discontinued.
Plot
Cast
Main cast
Meherzan Mazda as Piyush Sharma
Anjali Anand as Dipika Piyush Sharma
Recurring cast
Kiran Karmarkar as Pankaj Sharma: Piyush's father
Manasi Joshi Roy as Madhuri Sharma: Piyush's mother
Rajendra Chawla as Dev Mishra : Dipika's father
Ritu Vij as Ragini Mishra - Dipika's mother
Himanshu Arora as Darshan Mishra : Dipika's Brother
Aly Goni as Sushant
Shireen Mirza as Rashmi
Nandini Gupta as Namrata, Piyush's sister
Udit Shukla as Inspector Kunal, Namrata's husband
Pravisht Mishra as Tushar: Piyush's brother
Alice Kaushik as Meghna Rahul Mishra (née) Sharma, Piyush's sister
Rahul Sharma as Rahul Mishra, Dipika's cousin, Meghna's husband
Vikram Singh as Kishor
Benazir Shaikh as Sarika, Dipika's Best Friend
Suraj Kakkar as Rishi, Sarika's lover
Rohan Gandotra as Aman
Kishwer Merchant as Shilpa
References
External links
Dhhai Kilo Prem Streaming On Hotstar
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Pilodeudorix tenuivittata
Pilodeudorix tenuivittata is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, from the north-eastern part of the country to the Ituri Rainforest. The habitat consists of primary forests.
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Loesser
Loesser is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Arthur Loesser (1894–1969), American classical pianist and writer
Frank Loesser (1910–1969), American songwriter
Jo Sullivan Loesser (1927–2019), American actress and singer
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Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley
Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley is a branch campus of Carnegie Mellon University located in the heart of Silicon Valley in Mountain View, California. It was established in 2002 at the NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field. The campus offers full-time and part-time professional Masters programs in Electrical And Computer Engineering, Software Engineering and Software Management, various bi-coastal (split-time between Pittsburgh and Silicon Valley) Masters programs in Information Technology, and a bi-coastal Ph.D. program in Electrical and Computer Engineering. One key differentiator between programs in the traditional Pittsburgh campus and the new Silicon Valley campus is a new focus on project-centered learning by doing approach to education.
History
After years of planning from the Pittsburgh campus, Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley opened in September 2002 under the name "Carnegie Mellon University - West Campus" to an original class of 56 students. Carnegie Mellon had always had a reputation for graduating bright students in engineering and technology, so it seemed only natural to establish a physical presence in the Silicon Valley, the epicenter of entrepreneurship, technology and innovation. James H. Morris, the Dean of the School of Computer Science at the Pittsburgh campus, was instrumental in establishing the West Coast initiative and served as the new campus' first dean. Raj Reddy, a Turing Award recipient and computer science professor at the Pittsburgh campus, was the school's first director. In 2008, the university's name was changed to Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley to better reflect the proximity and opportunity to Silicon Valley. In 2009, Dean Morris ended his appointment, and the College of Engineering (also known as Carnegie Institute of Technology or "CIT") at Carnegie Mellon University partnered with the Silicon Valley campus to bring more resources and a stronger connection to the main campus. In 2012, Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley celebrated its 10th anniversary.
Location
Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley is located on NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field. The campus (or in particular Moffett Field), is surrounded by high-tech companies such as Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, HP, and Lockheed Martin. Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley currently occupies Building 23 and since January 2011, a wing in Building 19, which provides space for full-time masters students, faculty and researchers. An extension for Building 19 has been in use since Fall 2012.
Programs
Master of Science in Software Engineering (MS-SE)
In Fall 2002, Carnegie Mellon initiated a full-time and part-time Master of Science in Software Engineering degree. This program is offered under the Electrical and Computer Engineering department, and is only offered at the Silicon Valley campus. It focuses deeply on software engineering principles, and students are required to take courses in Software Engineering and Design, Analysis, and Systems. Through ties with local companies such as Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, VMWare, IBM, Oracle, and Cisco, students often participate in internships, sponsored projects, and hackathons.
Master of Science in Software Management (MSSM)
In Fall 2008, Carnegie Mellon initiated the Software Management Masters program. The program targets senior software developers and managers that wish to pursue senior management and executive careers. The full-time MSSM program focuses on Product Management, Strategy Development, Entrepreneurship, Enterprise Innovation, and Service Management.
For several years, Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley operated a long-distance capability to Pittsburgh's Tepper School of Business.
Master of Science in Information Technology - Mobility and Information Security (MSIT-MOB and MSIT-IT)
In Fall 2009, Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley initiated bi-coastal master's degree programs in Information Technology with specializations in Mobility and Information Security through the Information Networking Institute. In the bi-coastal programs, students are required to divide their time between the campuses in Pittsburgh and Silicon Valley and also complete an approved internship.
Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering
The Masters in ECE program has equivalent course requirements between the Pittsburgh and Silicon Valley campuses. The Silicon Valley campus offers strong faculty and courses in the fields of software engineering, security, wireless sensors, mobile computing, machine learning, and wireless networking.
Master of Science in Technology Ventures (MSTV)
The bi-coastal Technology Ventures degree is an interdisciplinary program offered by the Integrated Innovation Institute. This program is aimed at entrepreneurs to gain the skills necessary to successfully launch a business or venture. Students are required to spend time at both the Pittsburgh and Silicon Valley campuses. Students gain knowledge of fundamental engineering and emerging technology at the Pittsburgh campus, and gain skills of business, entrepreneurship, venture management, and product innovation at the Silicon Valley campus.
Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
In Fall 2008, a Ph.D. program in Electrical and Computer Engineering was initiated, offering students opportunities for advanced studies and research in the fields of mobility, security, and wireless sensors and networking.
Student population
Approximately 350 students are enrolled in Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley's academic programs. With its strong technical support for long-distance learning, about 25% of the part-time student population reside outside of the Bay Area. However, with its unique location in Silicon Valley, many local students stem from prominent companies such as Yahoo, Google, IBM, Lockheed Martin, Oracle, Boeing and Microsoft, providing a vibrant environment with many diverse corporate experiences.
Over 600 alumni have graduated from the Silicon Valley campus since 2002, adding to the over 6000 Carnegie Mellon alumni working in the Bay Area.
Research
The campus has a growing research effort, which began in 2008 as a natural growth of the CyLab Mobility Research Center. The research primarily focused on software mobility, networking and security. CMUSV has now grown into a vibrant research community with groundbreaking initiatives in wireless sensors, machine learning, context area computing, security, energy technology, software and systems engineering and disaster management.
More recently, the research efforts have grown to include Disaster Management, Language Technologies, UAVs, Antannae Optimization, Health Technology systems. Cutting-edge research centers include the CyLab Mobility Research Center, the Carnegie Mellon Innovations Lab (CMIL), the Center for Open Source Investigation (COSI), the International Center for Advanced Communication Technologies (interACT) and the Intelligent Systems Lab (ISL).
The Disaster Management Initiative (DMI) was established in 2009 with the mission to provide next-generation technical solutions to disaster prediction, management and recovery.
Silicon Valley Events
Besides the educational programs, Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley has also organized software-related events in Silicon Valley, such as Carnegie Mellon's Tour de Silicon Valley, where selected Carnegie Mellon students from the Pittsburgh campus are flown to Silicon Valley for a week of networking at various software companies.
Currently, the school offers TOCS - "Talks on Computing Systems", a weekly talk given by a subject expert in various topics related to software and computing. These talks are open to the public in addition to the faculty and students.
The school has also organized in association with the UC Berkeley, regular software conferences in the outlook of the software industry. Its first incarnation took place on April 30, 2007 at the Microsoft Silicon Valley Campus and focused on The New Software Industry - Forces at Play, Business in Motion, while the second conference took place on April 22, 2008 at the Santa Clara Convention Center and focused on The Mobile Future - Technology Revolutionizing our Lives.
The campus has hosted a Disaster Management Workshop, focusing on its growing research division in Disaster Response. The 3 day event included a CrisisCamp for practitioners to come and collaborate on improving disaster relief methodologies.
The Fence
In August 2008, the graduating class of 2008 presented a gift to the university by installing their own Carnegie Mellon University fence on the Silicon Valley campus. The fence is a Carnegie Mellon tradition on the main campus where different student organizations repaint a long fence in the middle of the campus to promote a cause or spread a certain message. Members of the class of 2008 collected money to hire a contractor to build and install a 10-foot fence, that was then subsequently painted with images symbolizing the west coast (like the Golden Gate Bridge, or NASA's Hangar One). The fence was dedicated to Randy Pausch who died in 2008 (the top of the fence reads "Dedicated to Randy Pausch"). The remaining money was also donated and gift-matched to a total of $1000 to the Randy Pausch Memorial Fund.
Alumni
Many of CMUSV's alumni go on to work in nearby Silicon Valley companies including Google and Facebook. ECE PhD graduate Heng-Tze Cheng created the wide and deep learning system for recommendation system at Google. Faculty Joy Ying Zhang and research staff of Mobile Technologies (creator of Jibbigo) was acquired by Facebook.
References
External links
Official Site
Article on CMU West
CMUSV Celebrates Its 10th Anniversary
Silicon Valley
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Microlophus bivittatus
The San Cristóbal lava lizard (Microlophus bivittatus) is a species of lava lizard endemic to San Cristóbal Island in the Galápagos Islands. The species is commonly attributed to the genus Microlophus but has been attributed to the genus Tropidurus. They are currently under threat by invasive cats on the island.
Reproduction
Lava lizards have a breeding ritual where males will compete via head bobbing to avoid physical conflict. Research has found that head bobbing achieves a greater response when the response is immediate as compared to a 30-second delay. Larger males will receive greater aggression from other males and greater assertive responses from females. There is no current data that supports ecological competition is higher between same sex individuals however.
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Bill Walls
William "Bill" Thomas Walls (December 8, 1914January 1, 1993) was a professional American football End in the National Football League. He played six seasons for the New York Giants (1937–39, 1941–43).
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Lasam, Cagayan
, officially the , is a in the province of , . According to the , it has a population of people.
The town was once a part of the Municipality of Gattaran, that stretches the width of the province and bisected by the Cagayan River. The barangays west of the river was established as the separate town of Lasam in 1950 by Republic Act No. 507. The new municipality of Lasam became part of the Second Representative District of the Province of Cagayan, while Gattaran is in the First District.
Etymology
The Municipality of Lasam was named after the late Cagayan Governor Honorio Lasam.
Barangays
Lasam is politically subdivided into 30 barangays.
Aggunetan
Alannay
Battalan
Cabatacan East (Duldugan)
Cabatacan West
Calapangan Norte
Calapangan Sur
Callao Norte
Callao Sur
Cataliganan
Centro I (Poblacion)
Centro II (Pob)
Centro III (Pob)
Finugo Norte
Gabun
Ignacio B. Jurado (Finugu Sur)
Magsaysay
Malinta
Minanga Sur
Minanga Norte
Nabannagan East
Nabannagan West
New Orlins
Nicolas Agatep
Peru
San Pedro
Sicalao
Tagao
Tucalan Passing
Viga
History
Lasam was once a part of Gattaran separated from the mother town by the wide Cagayan River with no bridges connecting the communities. As the population increased, the residents of the western part of the town asked to be created as a separate municipality.
The town was established on June 13, 1950 by Republic Act No. 507 and signed by President Elpidio Quirino. Barrios (barangays) of Gattaran located west of the Cagayan River were formed into the new and regular Municipality of Lasam, with the old site of the Barrio Macatabang as the seat of the government.
The town was officially inaugurated as independent from Gattaran in January 1951. Ignacio Jurado was appointed as its first mayor whose major task was to build the infrastructure of the new independent town of Lasam.
Demographics
In the , the population of Lasam, Cagayan, was people, with a density of .
Climate
Economy
Lasam is primarily an agricultural community and its people derive their income mainly from farming and livestock raising.
References
External links
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Philippine Census Information
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Dacia Mediterranea
Dacia Mediterranea (Mediterranean Dacia; , Eparchia Dakias Mesogeiou) was a late Roman province, split off from the former Dacia Aureliana by Roman emperor Diocletian (284-305). Serdica (or Sardica; later Sradetz or Sredets, now Sofia) was the province capital.
Scholars have different opinions regarding the date and circumstances of the foundation of Dacia Mediterranea as a separate province.
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Société de l'Ouenza
The Société de l'Ouenza was an Algerian iron ore mining company founded in 1913 and nationalized in 1966.
It exploited rich deposits of high-quality ore at two sites in northeast Algeria near the Tunisian border.
The ore was sent by rail to the port of Bône, then shipped to refineries in the UK, Europe and North America.
At its peak it employed 4,000 workers who were housed in company towns.
Ore deposits
Djebel Ouenza and Djebel Bou Khadra are isolated massifs near the border between Algeria and Tunisia, Their peaks are from high.
Since ancient times it has been known that the limestone formations contain large seams of iron ore.
The iron ore was rediscovered in recent times by a prospector named Wetterlé who had migrated to Algeria after his home province of Alsace-Lorraine became part of Germany in 1871.
He was looking for copper, a much more precious metal, and had little interest in the mountain of iron ore he stumbled upon.
The Djebel Ouenza deposit, southeast of Bône (now Annaba), extends for more than from northeast to southeast, with over 100 million tons of red hematite formed by metasomatism.
Iron concentration ranges from 50% to 60%, and there is about 2% manganese.
The ore outcrops are suitable for open pit mining.
Djebel Bou-Khadra is west of Morsott and south of Djebel Ouenza.
It has similar origins, structure and composition, and extends for over with at least 23 million tons of ore.
The low-phosphorus ore from both deposits is excellent quality, with 54% iron on average.
Early disputes
Rising iron ore prices at the start of the 20th century caused interest in exploiting the Ouenza deposits.
The prospector F. R. Pascal obtained a concession to mine underground deposits of copper and iron at Ouenza in 1903.
(The iron was thrown in as an afterthought.)
Pascal did not have the resources to develop the concession, which he ceded through an intermediary to Eugène Schneider of Le Creusot.
Schneider 's main competitor was the Rotterdam-based company of W. H. Muller and Co.
Muller was mainly involved in shipping, and supplied ore to the German steel producers up the Rhine including Krupp.
In 1902 Pascal revoked his agreement with Schneider and ceded it to Muller, who created the Société concessionnaire des Mines de l'Ouenza in 1903.
Schneider then applied for a lease for the minière, or exploitation of the above-ground outcropping, which he was granted in 1903, and formed the Société d'Études de l'Ouenza, owned 2/3 by Schneider and other French steelmakers, and 1/3 by British, Belgian and German steelmakers – including Krupp.
The two rival companies thus had superimposed concessions.
There then ensued an argument over the railway to carry the iron ore to the coast.
The existing narrow-gauge Bône-Tébessa line did not have the capacity to carry the ore from Ouenza in addition to phosphates from Tébessa region.
The shortest distance and easiest terrain for a new line would be from Ouenza to Nebeur in Tunisia, which was connected by rail to the port of Bizerte.
Ships supplying coal to the French naval base there could carry the ore on the return journey.
On the other hand, Bône was nearer to Ouenza and there would no need to expand the capacity of its port.
The deciding factor was that Bône was in Algeria, and a purely Algerian (French) route was favored by the premier Georges Clemenceau and other leading politicians.
The government proposed a law to let Schneider build the railway to Bône, but ran into opposition from various sources including socialists and syndicalists.
In March 1909 the government withdrew the proposed Bône railway law, and immediately there were howls of protest from Algeria.
In the end, the initial concessions expired on 10 April 1913 before any work had started.
Concessions
The Société de l'Ouenza was created in 1913 with capital of 114 million francs to exploit the Ouenza iron deposits.
Under the convention of 16 October 1913 the Société de l'Ouenza had the right to exploit both surface and sub-surface deposits at Djebel Ouenza until completely exhausted, with a minimum annual rate of extraction of 750,000 tons of ore, in return for royalties to the state of 1 franc per ton plus 50% of profits and payment to the railway of 6 francs per ton for transport to Bône.
The articles of the Société de l'Ouenza as a Société Anonyme were approved in January 1914, and the company was granted the full concession on 28 March 1914.
A lead and zinc mining concession at Bou-Khadra was granted in 1903 to the Société Mokta El Hadid.
This expired unused on 1 April 1913.
New requests for the concession were presented in 1917, but due to the upheavals of World War I 1914–18) nothing was done.
The opening of a standard gauge railway from Oued Keberit to Souk Ahras and availability of more powerful tractors made the Bou-Khadra deposit more attractive in 1920.
Both the Société Mokta El Hadid and the Société de l'Ouenza asked for the concession.
The Société de l'Ouenza made the better offer and on 29 August 1925 was granted the concession, including iron ore, lead and zinc.
Similar royalty terms applied to the Djebel Bou-Khadra deposits.
Facilities
At both mines the ore was mostly extracted through open pit mining, and only occasionally through underground galleries.
The ore was extracted using pneumatic hammers.
It was hauled up to the railroad by electrical machinery using power supplied by the Bourbonnais Power Station at Bône.
In the port of Bône the company had a quay and room to store 450,000 tons of ore.
The ore was dumped into a hopper from which it was loaded into ships by three identical conveyors, each able to handle 600 tons per hour.
Production grew to 1,000,000 tons in 1930.
At peak operation there were 400 Europeans working as managers and technicians and 3,500 Muslim workers.
There were 20 armed guards at the Ouenza mine.
The workforce was recruited from the local people and from migrants from El Oued, Petite Kabylie and Morocco.
During World War II the company employed 230 Italian prisoners of war.
In 1943 all the unskilled workers were Muslims.
They worked an 8-hour day and received a salary, family allowances and attendance bonuses.
Managers and office workers had different salaries for 40-hour and 48-hour work weeks.
At both mines the company built small towns with workers' housing, shops, offices and schools.
In Ouenza there was a modern medical center, bank, hotel and post office.
Water was supplied from D'hala.
Both Europeans and Muslims were lodged and given access to electricity and water.
A school with six classes taught 200 pupils.
The medical center had a chief medical officer and an assistant doctor, a midwife and nurses.
There were Catholic and Protestant pastors, and a mosque for the Muslims.
The cinema played films twice a week.
There was a sports field, two tennis courts, two Moorish cafes and a cafe-hotel.
History
The government took over the Bône-Guelma line and widened it from Souk Ahras to the Ouenza and onward to Tebessa.
A narrow-gauge railway from the Djebel Ouenza mine to the Algerian railway network at Oued Keberit station was opened in March 1921 and mining began.
Production reached 225,000 tons in 1922.
A branch railway line from Bou Khadra to Ain Chenia was opened in early 1929 and mining operations began at Bou Khadra.
The Société de l'Ouenza overtook the Société Mokta El Hadid as the largest mining company in Algeria in 1927.
The Great Depression forced the Société de l'Ouenza in 1932 to ask for a delay in payments to the Algerian government.
Production fell to under 207,000 tons in 1932 and the operation at Bou-Khadra was suspended.
The state took a greater share in the company and assigned two administrators designated by the governor general.
Output began to rise again to 1,000,000 tons or more annually, but as the economic crisis continued the company asked for further revision of the concession terms, and a new agreement was made on 28 April 1937.
A combined minimum of 1,350,000 tons was to be extracted from the two mines, with revisions to the taxes and transport charges.
As of 1 January 1938 all concessionary distinctions between the two mines were eliminated.
The government share increased to almost 28% of capital, and the government was represented by three directors.
Further adjustments to taxes, royalties, transport fees and shareholding were made in the years that followed.
Output peaked at 1,866,000 tons in 1938.
In the prewar period 50% of output went to England, 28% to Germany and only 7.5% to France.
Other customers included Belgium, Italy, Poland, the USA and Canada.
During World War II (1939–45) production fell to 175,000 tons in 1941 and 198,000 tons in 1942.
The Bône port facilities were badly damaged by bombing in November 1942, but it proved possible to build a conveyor from the debris that could load 1,000 tons per hour.
Shipments stopped in 1943.
In 1944 production was 500,000 tons, in 1945 it was 900,000 tons and in 1946 it was 1,225,000 tons.
By 1946 the company employed 2,000 people.
In 1949 the Société de l'Ouenza was one of 20 French companies with capitalization over 5 billion francs.
At 7.7 billion it ranked 10th.
In 1951 the Société de l'Ouenza produced 60% of Algerian iron, 85% in Ouenza and 15% in Bou-Kadra.
That year 2,140,000 tons of ore were produced and 2,057,000 tones were exported.
By this time the company was 66% state-owned.
Algeria became independent in 1962.
The company continued to operate, and in 1963 re-registered in Algeria and declared that it was an Algerian company with headquarters in Algeria.
The company was nationalized by ordinances of 6 May 1966 and 14 July 1966 and the BAREM company was appointed administrator.
An ordinance of 11 May 1967 transferred the assets, rights and liabilities of BAREM to the Société Nationale de Recherches et d'Exploitation Minières (SONAREM).
Later there was a dispute where the former board of directors of the company claimed some sums owed to it by French, Italian and English companies.
This was successfully disputed by SONAREM on the grounds that only it could represent the nationalized company.
Notes
Sources
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2013 Shanghai shooting
On June 22, 2013, a man went on a killing spree in Shanghai, China. Six people died and four others were injured. The perpetrator allegedly beat to death a coworker at Guangyu fine chemical company in Shanghai's Baoshan District, and then shot to death one person in Pudong District. The perpetrator shot and killed one person in the Baoshan District, and then returned to the fine chemical company, where he shot to death three more people before being apprehended. The suspected perpetrator is 62-year-old Jieming Fan.
Details
The attacker allegedly beat a colleague to death at the Guangyu fine chemical company in the Baoshan district of the city. He retrieved a hunting rifle that had been hidden in his dormitory, and then asked a taxi cab driver to take him to Pudong District. When the cab stopped in the Pudong District, the attacker shot the driver to death and drove the vehicle back to Baoshan. In Baoshan, he shot and killed a soldier who was guarding the entrance to a barracks and stole his gun. The suspect then returned to the factory and shot dead three more people, including a manager who may have also been one of the factory's owners.
Suspect
The suspected perpetrator is 62-year-old Fan Jieming. According to Shanghai police, the rampage may have been motivated by an economic dispute.
References
Category:2013 crimes in China
Category:Crime in Shanghai
Category:Deaths by firearm in China
Category:Mass murder in 2013
Category:Mass shootings in China
Category:Spree shootings in China
Category:21st century in Shanghai
Category:June 2013 events
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Back of the Net
Back of the Net is a 2019 Australian feature film starring Sofia Wylie.
Plot
American teenager Cory Bailey ends up at the Harold Soccer Academy after catching the wrong bus. She then completes a semester at the soccer school, where she battles with the star soccer player Edie, who makes life difficult for Cory. However, as the school hosts the National Soccer Tournament, she is determined to beat Edie’s team in the finals.
Cast
Sofia Wylie as Cory Bailey
Tiarnie Coupland as Edie
Trae Robin as Oliver
Kate Box as Coach Smith
Christopher Kirby as David Bailey
Melissa Bonne as Rebecca Bailey
Raj Labade as Lewis
Yasmin Honeychurch as Adelle
Gemma Chua-Tran as Janessa
Ashleigh Ross as Charlotte
Caitlin Foord as Herself
Production
Disney star Sofia Wylie was cast to play the lead. Filming took place in April 2018 in Wollongong.
Release
The film was initially available in theaters in Queensland, Victoria, and Tasmania from 11 April 2019. Its nationwide theatrical release was on 18 April 2019.
The film aired in the United States on 15 June 2019 on Disney Channel, and on Disney in the United Kingdom on 2 August 2019.
References
External links
Category:2010s children's films
Category:2019 films
Category:Australian children's films
Category:Australian films
Category:Australian sports films
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Cleveland in the American Civil War
Cleveland, Ohio, was an important Northern city during the American Civil War. It provided thousands of troops to the Union Army, as well as millions of dollars in supplies, equipment, food, and support to the soldiers.
Public sentiments on the war
Prior to the Civil War, residents of Cleveland viewed the slaveholding South based on political affiliation. While a majority of Clevelanders tended to side with the abolitionist North, not all of them loathed slavery, nor were all convinced that a civil war would resolve ideological differences between North and South. As the 1860 election year approached and impending clouds of war loomed, Cleveland's newspapers reflected divisions in the city. For example, The Cleveland Herald and Gazette and The Cleveland Leader, both largely Republican papers, argued that Southern injustices had driven John Brown to raid Harpers Ferry in October 1859. The Plain Dealer, a largely Democratic publication, blamed Brown and abolitionist Republicans for the raid.
Republican leader Abraham Lincoln spoke in the city during the 1859 gubernatorial election, and won 58% of the vote in 9 of 11 wards for the Presidency in 1860. As the secession crisis loomed closer, the partisan rhetoric of Cleveland newspapers became more and more heated. The Herald celebrated Lincoln's victory as one of right over wrong, of Unionists over secession-minded southern Democrats, while the Leader dismissed threats of the South's secession. The Plain Dealer, meanwhile, warned that secession was imminent. Lincoln came through Cleveland on his way to Washington, D.C. for his inauguration. When war finally did break out with the Confederate firing on Fort Sumter in April 1861, Cleveland's Democrats and Republicans decided to end their dispute and united to form the National Union party to support Lincoln's war effort. However, this coalition did not go untested.
Economic impact of the war
The Civil War years brought an economic boom to Cleveland. The city made the transition from a small town to an industrial giant. Railroad iron and gun-carriage axles were manufactured for military use. Due to the cutoff of Southern trade, Cleveland opened its first tobacco factory, T. Maxfield & Co., in 1862. The city's garment industry also began to prosper. The German Woolen Factory (also in 1862) became the first company to manufacture wool cloth in Cleveland. By 1865, its banks held $2.25 million in capital and $3.7 million in deposits. In 1863, 22% of all U.S. warships built for use on the Great Lakes were built in Cleveland. That figure increased by 1865 to 44%.
Civilian aid to the military centered on establishment and maintenance of the Soldiers' Aid Society of Northern Ohio (1861), the U.S. General Hospital (1862), Camp Taylor (1861), and Camp Cleveland (1862). Food, blankets, and reading material were provided by citizens to recruits at both military camps until government stores and equipment could be distributed.
Memorialization and lingering issues
When the war ended, Cleveland welcomed home troops after service in the field, treating them to a meal and a short welcoming ceremony on Public Square before they marched to Camp Cleveland for payment and discharge from the army. Those Clevelanders who died in the war were honored at Woodland Cemetery with the memorials commemorating the 7th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment and the 23rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment. Another famous regiment with Cleveland ties was the 8th Ohio Infantry, which helped repel Pickett's Charge. In April 1865, the Lincoln funeral train stopped briefly in Cleveland, and his coffin was displayed on Public Square.
The issue of full emancipation still lingered. The Herald and the Leader had supported the proposed Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863, commending Lincoln "for the stalwart blow he struck for freedom and for the peace and future tranquility of the Union." The Plain Dealer, on the other hand, argued that the only purpose of the war was to preserve the Union and that making "citizens of the entire black population" would ultimately tarnish the white race.
Following the war, the Soldier's and Sailors' Monument was erected in Public Square.
See also
Ohio in the American Civil War
Cleveland Civil War Roundtable
External links
Cleveland Civil War Roundtable website
References
Condon, George E., Yesterday's Cleveland .
Miller, Carol Poh and Wheeler, Robert Anthony, Cleveland: A Concise History, 1796-1996 .
Van Tassel, David D. and Grabowski, John J. (editors), The Encyclopedia Of Cleveland History Cleveland: Cleveland Bicentennial Commission, .
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Fiskebäck
Fiskebäck is a minor locality situated in Habo Municipality in Jönköping County, Sweden. It had 130 inhabitants in 2010. (updated 8 October 2012)
References
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Women's épée at the 2013 World Fencing Championships
The Women's épée event of the 2013 World Fencing Championships will be held on August 8, 2013. The qualification was held on August 5, 2013.
Medalists
Draw
Finals
Top half
Section 1
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| RD1 = Round of 64
| RD2 = Round of 32
| RD3 = Round of 16
| RD4 = Quarterfinals
| team-width =
| RD1-seed01 = 1
| RD1-team01 = Ana Maria Brânză
| RD1-score01 = 15
| RD1-seed02 = 64
| RD1-team02 = Johanna Bergdahl
| RD1-score02 = 12
| RD1-seed03 = 33
| RD1-team03 = Beate Christmann
| RD1-score03 = 10
| RD1-seed04 = 32
| RD1-team04 = Choi Eun-Sook
| RD1-score04 = 15
| RD1-seed05 = 17
| RD1-team05 = Lauren Rembi
| RD1-score05 = 15
| RD1-seed06 = 48
| RD1-team06 = Ayaka Shimookawa
| RD1-score06 = 11
| RD1-seed07 = 49
| RD1-team07 = Sun Yiwen
| RD1-score07 = 15
| RD1-seed08 = 16
| RD1-team08 =
| RD1-score08 = 14
| RD1-seed09 = 9
| RD1-team09 = Tiffany Géroudet
| RD1-score09 = 13
| RD1-seed10 = 56
| RD1-team10 = Olena Kryvytska
| RD1-score10 = 12
| RD1-seed11 = 41
| RD1-team11 = Julia Beljajeva
| RD1-score11 = 15
| RD1-seed12 = 24
| RD1-team12 = Chang Chia-ling
| RD1-score12 = 3
| RD1-seed13 = 25
| RD1-team13 = Maria Udrea
| RD1-score13 = 15
| RD1-seed14 = 40
| RD1-team14 = Laskmi Lozano
| RD1-score14 = 7
| RD1-seed15 = 57
| RD1-team15 = Choi Hyo-joo
| RD1-score15 = 10
| RD1-seed16 = 8
| RD1-team16 = Rossella Fiamingo
| RD1-score16 = 15
| RD2-seed01 = 1
| RD2-team01 = Ana Maria Brânză
| RD2-score01 = 15
| RD2-seed02 = 32
| RD2-team02 = Choi Eun-Sook
| RD2-score02 = 10
| RD2-seed03 = 17
| RD2-team03 = Lauren Rembi
| RD2-score03 = 15
| RD2-seed04 = 49
| RD2-team04 = Sun Yiwen
| RD2-score04 = 13
| RD2-seed05 = 9
| RD2-team05 = Tiffany Géroudet
| RD2-score05 = 12
| RD2-seed06 = 41
| RD2-team06 = Julia Beljajeva
| RD2-score06 = 14
| RD2-seed07 = 25
| RD2-team07 = Maria Udrea
| RD2-score07 = 7
| RD2-seed08 = 8
| RD2-team08 = {{Nowrap| Rossella Fiamingo}}
| RD2-score08 = 12| RD3-seed01 = 1
| RD3-team01 = Ana Maria Brânză| RD3-score01 = 15| RD3-seed02 = 17
| RD3-team02 = Lauren Rembi
| RD3-score02 = 10
| RD3-seed03 = 41
| RD3-team03 = Julia Beljajeva| RD3-score03 = 15| RD3-seed04 = 8
| RD3-team04 =
| RD3-score04 = 11
| RD4-seed01 = 1
| RD4-team01 =
| RD4-score01 = 14
| RD4-seed02 = 41
| RD4-team02 = Julia Beljajeva| RD4-score02 = 15}}
Section 2
Bottom half
Section 3
{{16TeamBracket
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| RD2 = Round of 32
| RD3 = Round of 16
| RD4 = Quarterfinals
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| RD1-team01 = Shin A-Lam| RD1-score01 = 15| RD1-seed02 = 62
| RD1-team02 = Sanne Gars
| RD1-score02 = 7
| RD1-seed03 = 35
| RD1-team03 = Katharine Holmes| RD1-score03 = 15| RD1-seed04 = 30
| RD1-team04 = Maya Lawrence
| RD1-score04 = 9
| RD1-seed05 = 19
| RD1-team05 = Simona Pop| RD1-score05 = 15| RD1-seed06 = 46
| RD1-team06 =
| RD1-score06 = 13
| RD1-seed07 = 51
| RD1-team07 = Catharina Kock
| RD1-score07 = 9
| RD1-seed08 = 14
| RD1-team08 = Courtney Hurley| RD1-score08 = 15| RD1-seed09 = 11
| RD1-team09 = Violetta Kolobova
| RD1-score09 = 11
| RD1-seed10 = 54
| RD1-team10 = Joanna Guy| RD1-score10 = 15| RD1-seed11 = 43
| RD1-team11 = Emma Samuelsson
| RD1-score11 = 12
| RD1-seed12 = 22
| RD1-team12 = Julianna Révész| RD1-score12 = 15| RD1-seed13 = 27
| RD1-team13 = Raluca Sbîrcia
| RD1-score13 = 14
| RD1-seed14 = 38
| RD1-team14 = Renata Knapik| RD1-score14 = 15| RD1-seed15 = 59
| RD1-team15 = Cáterin Bravo
| RD1-score15 = 9
| RD1-seed16 = 6
| RD1-team16 = Britta Heidemann| RD1-score16 = 15| RD2-seed01 = 3
| RD2-team01 = Shin A-Lam| RD2-score01 = 11| RD2-seed02 = 35
| RD2-team02 = Katharine Holmes
| RD2-score02 = 10
| RD2-seed03 = 19
| RD2-team03 = Simona Pop
| RD2-score03 = 10
| RD2-seed04 = 14
| RD2-team04 = Courtney Hurley| RD2-score04 = 15| RD2-seed05 = 54
| RD2-team05 = Joanna Guy| RD2-score05 = 12| RD2-seed06 = 22
| RD2-team06 = Julianna Révész
| RD2-score06 = 11
| RD2-seed07 = 38
| RD2-team07 = Renata Knapik
| RD2-score07 = 13
| RD2-seed08 = 6
| RD2-team08 =
| RD3-score04 = 15'''
| RD4-seed01 = 3
| RD4-team01 = Shin A-Lam
| RD4-score01 = 13
| RD4-seed02 = 6
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Section 4
Final classification
References
Official site
Bracket
Final Classification
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Patricia Thompson (entrepreneur)
Patricia Thompson (born March 1940) is a British businesswomen and co-owner of Cheveley Park Stud, a stud farm based in the United Kingdom. Thompson is married to British entrepreneur David Thompson. They are both estimated to be worth £800 million by the Sunday Times Rich List.
Career
Cheveley Park Stud
In 1975, Thompson and her husband purchased Cheveley Park Stud in Newmarket, Suffolk, United Kingdom, and remain the owners today. It is the oldest stud farm in Newmarket. When she bought the 270-acre farm, it was in the hands of bankruptcy receivers. Now the farm has just under 1,000 acres.
Under Thompson’s leadership, Cheveley Park Stud has bred or raced the winners of 25 G1 races since early 1990s.
Horse racing
In 1992, Thompson purchased Party Politics, a thoroughbred racehorse which went on to win the Grand National that year at Aintree Racecourse.
In 2017, Thompson bought racehorses Le Mercurey and Highland Lodge a week before the annual Grand National.
In 2018, Thompson and her husband David bought SEEYOUATMIDNIGHT, a 10-year-old racehorse. It finished in 11th place in that year’s Grand National.
Personal life
Thompson is married to David Thompson, who co-founded food company Hillsdown Holdings. Together, they have one son and two daughters.
Thompson’s son, Richard Thompson, is a director at Cheveley Park Stud.
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WDIY
WDIY (88.1 FM) is a community public radio station licensed to Allentown, Pennsylvania, with studios in Bethlehem and transmitter atop South Mountain. The station is the NPR member for the Lehigh Valley of eastern Pennsylvania, and also serves parts of western New Jersey.
WDIY has an air staff of over 90 volunteers and a professional staff of six employees, including an executive director. The station is licensed to Lehigh Valley Community Broadcasters Association, Inc., a nonprofit organization whose mission "is to engage the Lehigh Valley community through a wide-ranging exchange of music, arts, news and culturally diverse information."
Background
WDIY began broadcasting on January 8, 1995 operating at 100 watts. Before then, the Lehigh Valley was one of the few areas of Pennsylvania without a locally-based NPR station. WHYY-FM in Philadelphia, provides grade B coverage to most of the Lehigh Valley, while WVIA-FM in Scranton has long operated low-powered translators in parts of the region.
Although WDIY's transmitter power was modest for a full NPR member, its antenna on top of South Mountain enabled the station to reach most of the immediate Lehigh Valley region. In 2015, the Federal Communications Commission approved a request to triple the station's power to 300 watts. As a result, WDIY's primary coverage area now includes over a half-million people, while the station's full reach extends 70 miles, providing at least secondary coverage from Clinton, New Jersey to Reading, Pennsylvania.
As a public station, WDIY depends on listener support as one of its major sources of revenue. During the past 10 years, the station's number of listener members has nearly doubled, increasing from 1,100 in 2008 to 2,000 in 2018.
Programming
WDIY's program schedule includes NPR's Morning Edition, Fresh Air with Terry Gross and All Things Considered weekdays, with classical music and adult album alternative music between the news shows. Early evening programming during the week includes locally-produced public affairs programs as well as NPR's TED Radio Hour and On the Media. Weeknights and weekends, the station features a variety of music, including folk, blues, electronic, jazz, world music, alternative rock, classical, avant-garde and ethnic music. The station also carries NPR's Weekend Edition on Saturday and Sunday mornings and Ask Me Another on Saturday morning.
Translators
WDIY began broadcasting on 88.1 FM at 100 watts. Even with its transmitter located atop South Mountain at 843 feet above average terrain, its signal was for the most part limited to Lehigh and Northampton counties. Easton, the region's third-largest city, only received a grade B signal. To boost its coverage, WDIY installed two translators. One, located at 93.9, serves the area around Easton, as well as western Warren County. The station's other translator at 93.7 serves the Trexlertown and Fogelsville areas in western Lehigh County. With its increase to 300 watts in 2015, the station not only covers the Valley but can now be heard in the surrounding regions of eastern Pennsylvania and western New Jersey.
See also
Media in the Lehigh Valley
List of community radio stations in the United States
References
External links
Category:NPR member stations
Category:Community radio stations in the United States
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Lubno, West Pomeranian Voivodeship
Lubno () is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Wałcz, within Wałcz County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland. It lies approximately north-west of Wałcz and east of the regional capital Szczecin.
References
Lubno
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Emelia Gorecka
Emelia Jane Gorecka (born 29 January 1994), is a British middle and long-distance runner. She specialises in middle and long-distance running, racing in 1500 metres, 3000 metres, 5000 metres and 10,000 metres, as well as cross country running. Górecka is the current European Junior 3000m champion and was coached by Mick Woods from 2006 up until 2015. She is now coached by Chris Thompson.
She began her athletics career with Dorking and Mole Valley Athletic Club, where even as an 11-year-old she showed much early promise, beating girls several years older than her in local races. In 2006, she moved to her current club, Aldershot, Farnham and District Athletic Club. She lives in Bookham, Surrey. After winning a number of youth titles at the national level, Górecka had her first international success at the 2010 European Cross Country Championships, where she won a bronze medal in the Junior race. She was also the best European Junior at the World Cross Country Championships that year. In the 2011 European Cross Country Championships she won the junior women's race and led Britain to victory in the team event.
At the age of 14 she topped the UK rankings chart in the 1500m for the U15 age group, in what was the third fastest ever time for someone her age. By the time she was 16 years old she had won a total of 20 national and seven international races and taken part in three World Championship events. Górecka holds the British record time for the mile race as an U15 Girl, 4:46.87, which beat the previous record by four seconds. She also holds the record for 3000m in the U15/U17 age groups.
On 8 December 2013, Górecka came 1st at the European Cross Country Championships in Belgrade, Serbia with a comfortable win over Polish athlete, Sofia Ennaoui with a time of 13:06. The race was on BBC 2 and was televised in 11 other countries.
Górecka came 3rd in her senior debut at the Great Edinburgh Cross Country on 11 January 2014, helping team GB & NI win the International team challenge. The three-time European junior cross-country champion followed Great Britain women's captain Gemma Steel for much of the race, before slipping to third place on the final lap. Afterwards, she said "There was definitely no fear... I didn’t really know what to expect; I knew I was in good shape but I just wanted to be taken around [the course] by the girls. I didn’t expect to get in the front but I felt good... the last lap was a bit of a struggle but my strength will hopefully come on in the next couple of years. It’s good platform to build on, coming third, so I’m really happy." And Górecka also said she wants one last victory as a junior before concentrating on moving up to the adult ranks: “I’m still a junior for the national cross-country, so I’d love to go there to get my eighth consecutive win... then I will go on to do some senior races, maybe some indoors, and then onto the track, but hopefully I will keep going quicker.”
Scoliosis
During her first year with Aldershot, Farnham & District AC that she was diagnosed with scoliosis – a medical condition which means that she had a curvature of the spine. This made some of her basic movements difficult including swinging her arms freely. In Górecka's case, the scoliosis is a genetic condition and is not related to running. Górecka said "This diagnosis initially meant nothing to me – it was unnoticeable and it didn't seem to affect me in the slightest".
However, in 2008 she discovered that her condition had declined and that she was now had two curves of 27 and 34 degrees, displayed as a rather distorted 'S' shape on the x-ray. Her consultant told her that she would have to wear a body brace to support her back as she completed her adolescent growth spurt. She was also told that she might not be able to spend enough time out of the brace each week to continue training. She said "This was the first time in my life where I was struck silent. In that split second I decided I would never let anyone tell me that there was anything that was out of my reach". She was ultimately able to remove the brace for 10 hours each week to train and race.
References
External links
Official website
http://www.runnersworld.co.uk/motivation/heroes-of-running-2010-the-winners/5120-2.html
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Vegard Ellefsen
Vegard Ellefsen (born 2 November 1950) is a Norwegian diplomat.
He is a cand.polit. by education and started working for the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1981.
After a period as embassy councellor at the Norwegian NATO delegation in Brussels from 1997 to 2002 he returned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Here he served as senior adviser from 2002, deputy under-secretary of state from 2004 and director of politics from 2008. From 2010 to 2014 he was Norway's Permanent Representative to NATO, before being hired as chief of cabinet for NATO's new secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg. After one year he worked as a special envoy in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for Iraq/Syria affairs. He finished his career as Norwegian ambassador to Turkey between 2016 and 2019.
References
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Beecher family
Originating in New England, one particular Beecher family in the 19th century was a political family notable for issues of religion, civil rights, and social reform. Notable members of the family include clergy (Congregationalists), educators, authors and artists. Many of the family were Yale-educated and advocated for abolitionism, temperance, and women's rights. Some of the family provided material or ideological support to the Union in the American Civil War. The family is of English descent.
Locations named after persons of this family include: Beecher, Illinois, named after Henry Ward Beecher and Beecher Island, named after Lt. Fredrick H. Beecher.
History
The American Beecher family began with John Beecher from Kent, England. Along with his wife and son Isaac, the Beechers embarked with a company of emigrants and arrived in Boston on the 26th of June, 1637. During its early days, Boston welcomed all Puritan emigrants, though many of these emigrants were not content to settle in the vicinity of Boston, owing, in part, to the difference in religious opinions. In September of that year, John was a member of an expedition party to explore the surrounding lands for plantation settlement. He was one of seven men left to winter in what would become New Haven, Connecticut. John died during that winter. His bones were discovered in 1750 in digging for a cellar of a stone house. The main body of settlers arrived in New Haven harbor in April, 1638. Isaac Beecher was then fifteen years old. From him all the New Haven families of the name are said to have descended, and from whence the name has spread throughout the surrounding country, numbering, among the direct descendants, the West Haven branch of the Beecher Family and the Lyman Beecher Family, which would become an American religious force throughout the 19th century.
Immediate family
Lyman Beecher (1775-1863)
Presbyterian minister, American Temperance Society co-founder and leader. Beecher was born in New Haven, Connecticut, to David Beecher, a blacksmith, and Esther Hawley Lyman. His mother died shortly after his birth, and he was committed to the care of his uncle Lot Benton, as W. Bray, and at the age of eighteen entered Yale, graduating in 1797. He spent 1798 in Yale Divinity School under the tutelage of his mentor Timothy Dwight.
Catharine Esther Beecher (1800–1878)
American educator known for her forthright opinions on female education as well as her vehement support of the many benefits of the incorporation of kindergarten into children's education.
William Henry Beecher (1802–1889)
American minister who was called "The Unlucky" because misfortune attended all his ventures.
Mary Foote Beecher (1805–1900)
George Beecher (1809-1843)
Harriet Elizabeth Beecher (1811-1896)
American abolitionist and author, best known for her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), which depicts the harsh conditions for enslaved African Americans. The book reached millions as a novel and play, and became influential in the United States and Great Britain, energizing anti-slavery forces in the American North, while provoking widespread anger in the South. Stowe wrote 30 books, including novels, three travel memoirs, and collections of articles and letters. She was influential for both her writings and her public stances on social issues of the day.
Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887)
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, known for his support of the abolition of slavery, his emphasis on God's love, and his 1875 adultery trial.
Henry attended Amherst College in 1834 and Lane Theological Seminary in 1837 before serving as a minister in Indianapolis and Lawrenceburg, Indiana.
Charles Beecher (1815–1900)
American minister, composer of religious hymns and a prolific author.
Isabella Beecher (1822-1907)
Leader, lecturer and activist in the American Suffragist movement.
Thomas Kinnicut Beecher (1824-1900)
American preacher and the principal of several schools. He was a traveling man, living in many places such as: Litchfield, Connecticut, Boston, Massachusetts, Cincinnati, Ohio, and Elmira, New York. There is a memorial statue built in Elmira, New York where he spent a large portion of his life. He was a close friend of Mark Twain and married him to Olivia Langdon Clemens.
James Chaplin Beecher (1828–1886)
American Congregationalist minister and Colonel for the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Notable members
Thomas Clap Perkins (1798–1870)
American lawyer and politician.
Frederic Beecher Perkins (1828-1899)
American editor, writer, and librarian.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)
American feminist, sociologist, novelist, writer of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction, and a lecturer for social reform. She was a utopian feminist and served as a role model for future generations of feminists because of her unorthodox concepts and lifestyle. Her best remembered work today is her semi-autobiographical short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" which she wrote after a severe bout of postpartum psychosis.
Family tree
The following is a brief family tree of the Beecher family, and its many notable members :
Descendants of Lyman Beecher
Lyman Beecher (1775–1863), son of David Beecher and Esther Hawley Lyman
Catharine Esther Beecher (1800–1878) was an educator and women's-rights activist
William Henry Beecher (1802–1889), a Congregational minister in Ohio, New York, and Massachusetts
Edward Beecher (1803–1895) helped organize Illinois' first anti-slavery society, Yale graduate; married Isabella Jones
Mary Foote Beecher (1805–1900), married Thomas Clap Perkins (1798–1870) in 1827; Perkins was the brother-in-law of Roger Sherman Baldwin
Frederic Beecher Perkins (1828-1899), library director in Boston, MA and San Francisco, CA, and author; married Mary Ann Fitch Westcott. They had two children including
Thomas Adie Perkins (b. 1859)
Charlotte Perkins (1860–1935), feminist; m. Charles Walter Stetson in 1884 and had one child, divorced in 1894; married her first cousin George Houghton Gilman in 1900 (see below)
Emily Baldwin Perkins (1829–1912), married Edward Everett Hale in 1852 and had eight sons and one daughter, Ellen Day Hale (1855–1940), an artist
Charles E. Perkins (b. 1832)
Catherine Beecher Perkins (b. 1836), married William Charles Gilman. They had four children, including
George Houghton Gilman
Harriet Beecher (1808–1808)
George Beecher (1809–1843) Yale graduate, m. Sarah Buckingham in 1837
Harriet Elizabeth Beecher (1811–1896), wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin; m. Calvin Stowe (1802–1886) in 1836
Harriet (Hattie) Beecher Stowe (1836-)
Eliza Tyler Stowe (1836-)
Henry Ellis Stowe (1838-1857)
Frederic William Stowe (1840-1870?)
Georgiana May Stowe (1843-1890) m. Henry Freeman Allen (1838-1914)
Samuel Charles Stowe (1848-1849)
Charles Edward Stowe (1850-) m. Susan Munroe
Lyman Beecher Stowe (1880-1963)
Leslie Munroe Stowe (1883-1887)
Hilda Stowe (1887-1969) m. James Donnelly
Henry Ward Beecher (1813–1887), married Eunice White Bullard (1812–1897) in 1837; namesake of Beecher, Illinois
Harriet Eliza Beecher (1838–1911 m. Samuel Scoville (1834-1902)
Henry Barton Beecher (1842-1916) m. Harriet Jone Benedict (b. 1841)
Kate Eunice Beecher (1864-1890)
Henry (Harry) Ward Beecher (1867–1948 m. Mary (May) Frances Beecher
Margaret Wardington Beecher (1901–1978 m. Alfred Taussig Abeles (1891-1983)
Alfred Beecher Abeles (1923-1945)
Shirley Elling Abeles (1926-2006)
John Henry Abeles (1935-2010)
Henry Ward Beecher III (1903-1986)
Lyman Beecher (b. 1905)
Margaret Humphey Beecher (1868-1949)
George Lyman Beecher (b. 1844)
Katherine Esther Beecher (b. 1846)
William Constantine Beecher (1849-1928)
Alfred Beecher (b. 1852)
Herbert Foote Beecher (b. 1854)
Charles Beecher (1815–1900) married Sarah Leland Coffin (1815–1897) in 1840.
Frederick Henry Beecher (1841-1868), died at the Battle of Beecher Island, Beecher Island being posthumously named after him.
Charles McCulloch Beecher (1843-1906)
Helen Louisa Beecher (1847-1901)
Mary Isabella Beecher (1849-1928) m. George Warren Noyes (1842-1927)
Esther (Essie) Lyman Beecher (1852-1867)
Edith Harriet Beecher (1854-1867)
Frederick C Beecher (1818–1820)
Isabella Holmes Beecher (1822–1907), m. John Hooker (1816–1901) in 1841
Thomas Kinnicut Beecher (1824–1900), a Congregational minister in Elmira, New York, married Olivia Day (1826–1853), the daughter of the president of Yale, Jeremiah Day, in 1851, and after her untimely death married her cousin Frances Juliana Jones (1826–1905), one of the granddaughters of Noah Webster, in 1857.
James Chaplin Beecher (1828–1886), colonel of the 35th United States Colored Troops.
Gallery
References
Further reading
French, Earl A. and Diana Royce. Portraits of a Nineteenth Century Family. Hartford, Connecticut: The Stowe-Day Foundation, 1976.
Hooker, John. Some Reminiscences of a long life with a few articles on moral and social subjects of present interest. Hartford, Connecticut: Belknap and Warfield, 1899.
Rugoff, Milton. The Beechers: An American Family in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Harper & Row, 1981.
Van Why, Joseph S. Nook Farm. Hartford, Connecticut: The Stowe-Day Foundation, 1975.
Caskey, Marie. Chariot of fire: religion and the Beecher family. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1978.
Stowe, Lyman Beecher. Saints, Sinners and Beechers. Indianapolis, Indiana: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1934.
External links
An American Family: The Beecher Tradition—an exhibit at the William and Anita Newman Library curated by Professor Sandra Roff, Archivist/Reference Librarian
Beecher-Stowe family Papers. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.
Category:Political families of the United States
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Bąbowo
Bąbowo is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Mogilno, within Mogilno County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland.
The village has a population of 16.
References
Category:Villages in Mogilno County
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Bramer
Bramer is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Benjamin Bramer (1588–1652), German mathematician, architect, inventor, and adviser
Leonaert Bramer, Dutch artist
Shannon Bramer, Canadian poet
See also
Jimmy Van Bramer, American politician
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Rover (log canoe)
The Rover is a Chesapeake Bay log canoe, built about 1886, probably in Chester, Maryland by the Thompson brothers. She measures 28'-1" with a 6'-4" beam. She has a longhead bow, braced back to the hull, and a sharp stern. She is privately owned and races under No. 11 in Eastern Shore competition. She one of the last 22 surviving traditional Chesapeake Bay racing log canoes that carry on a tradition of racing on the Eastern Shore of Maryland that has existed since the 1840s. She is located at St. Michaels, Talbot County, Maryland.
She was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
References
External links
, including photo in 1983, at Maryland Historical Trust
Category:Ships in Talbot County, Maryland
Category:Ships on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland
Category:National Register of Historic Places in Talbot County, Maryland
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İsa Bey Mosque
The İsa Bey Mosque (), constructed in 1374–75, is one of the oldest and most impressive works of architectural art remaining from the Anatolian beyliks. The mosque is situated on the outskirts of the Ayasluğ Hills at Selçuk, İzmir.
History
It was built by the architect, 'Ali b. Mushaimish Dımışklıoğlu, in honor of the Aydinid İsa Bey. The plans for the mosque are based on the Great Mosque of Damascus.
The mosque has two main entrances, to the east and to the west and contains a fountain court. The western wall has inscriptions and geometric shapes engraved. These walls are covered with marble, whereas the façades on the remaining sides are made of cut stone. It is built asymmetrically on a base. The rims of its domes, with diameters of and , are decorated with İznik (Nicaea) tiles. Twelve round columns stand inside its courtyard encircled with porches. Its brick minaret is built on an octagonal base, and the upper part from the balcony is ruined. The mosque had another minaret on the west, which is totally destroyed now. The mihrab (niche or altar) was moved to another mosque, due to a door opened there. There is an octagonal Seljuk türbe made of stone and bricks, with a pyramid shaped roof, right next to the mosque.
By 1829, the mosque was in ruins and by 1842 the minaret had fallen down. In the 19th century, it was also used as a caravanserai.
Gallery
See also
Aydinid dynasty
Anatolian beyliks
Islamic architecture
Islamic art
List of mosques
Timeline of Islamic history
Notes
References
Bayrak, Orhan M. (1994). p. 407, Türkiye Tarihi Yerler Rehberi (expanded 3rd edition). İnkılâp Kitabevi. .
External links
History and architecture of İsabey Mosque with lots of photos
Images of the İsabey Mosque
Over 30 pictures of the mosque
A visit to the Isa Bey Mosque - Photos Included
Category:Mosques in İzmir
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1997 Men's Hockey Champions Trophy
The 1997 Men's Hockey Champions Trophy was the 19th edition of the Hockey Champions Trophy men's field hockey tournament. It was held from in the Pines Hockey Stadium in Adelaide, Australia.
Results
Pool
Classification
Fifth and sixth place
Third and fourth place
Final
Final standings
References
External links
Official FIH website
C
1997
Category:Champions Trophy (field hockey)
Champions Trophy
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Olaf Syvertsen
Olaf Syvertsen (August 23, 1884 – June 18, 1964) was a Norwegian gymnast who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics. As a member of the Norwegian team, he won the silver medal in the gymnastics team event in 1908.
References
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National Association for Search and Rescue
National Association for Search and Rescue is a United States non-governmental, non-profit corporation started in 1972 that supports SAR by producing courseware and publications, and providing fee-based courses and individual testing of SAR responders through a network of licensed instructors and evaluators.
External links
Official website
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Michel François
Joseph-Michel François was a colonel in the Haitian army. As Haiti Chief of National Police he participated in the 1991 Haitian coup d'état, which overthrew Haiti's elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Former Haitian President candidate Michel "Sweet Mickey" Martelly is known to have associated with François.
Background
François attended US command school at Fort Bragg.
Chief of National Police (1991-94)
He helped topple Haiti's elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide. He then terrorized his country as chief of the police and secret police under dictator General Raoul Cédras; some 4,000 Haitians were killed. François fled the country in 1994 to the Dominican Republic. Though convicted in Haiti of assassinating an Aristide supporter, he was never extradited. When the Dominican Republic deported him for plotting another coup d'etat in Haiti, François landed in San Pedro Sula, Honduras.
He was convicted in absentia for his part in the 1993 murder of Antoine Izméry.
Drug charges
A convicted drug dealer told the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee that he met François in Colombia, and that François told him he was arranging a cocaine deal. United States prosecutors indicted François in March, 1997 and charged him with smuggling 33 tons of cocaine and heroin into the U.S. from his private airstrip in Haiti, while taking millions in bribes from Colombian drug lords. François denied the charges and stayed in a Honduran prison until July, 1997, when the Honduran Supreme Court turned down U.S. extradition efforts for lack of evidence and subsequently released François.
References
External links
"More from the Exile Files' - The life of ex-despots isn't all jail and frozen assets". from the Haiti Support Group
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Craugastor greggi
Craugastor greggi is a species of frog in the family Craugastoridae.
It is found in Guatemala and Mexico.
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and rivers.
It is threatened by habitat loss.
References
greggi
Category:Amphibians of Guatemala
Category:Amphibians of Mexico
Category:Amphibians described in 1955
Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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Danny "Big Black" Rey
Danny "Big Black" Rey (born Daniel Ray in 1934 in Savannah, Georgia) is an American actor, musician, and percussionist specializing in Latin and Ethnic Jazz music.
External links
Danny "Big Black" official website
Big Black Wide Hive Records (2009)
Phil Ranelin Perserverence Wide Hive Records (2011)
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Mark Cousins (writer)
Mark Cousins (born 1947) is a British cultural critic and architectural theorist. He studied Art History at Merton College, Oxford and was a research student at the Warburg Institute. Since 1993 he is the Director of General Studies and Head of the Graduate Program in Histories and Theories at the Architectural Association. He is also Visiting Professor of Architecture at Columbia University and Southeast University, Nanjing.
He co-founded the London Consortium along with Paul Hirst, Colin MacCabe, and Richard Humphreys.
He is the author of Michel Foucault, co-written with Athar Hussain (London: Macmillan, 1984); The Ugly, a series of articles published at AA Files (1995, 1996); the Introduction to the Penguin Edition of "The Unconscious" by Freud (London: Penguin:2005).
Cousins has given the Friday Lectures at the Architectural Association for over thirty years.
Selected Articles
'Technology and Prosthesis', Hurly-Burly Issue 5, March 2011, pp. 191–199. ISSN 2101-0307
Introduction, The Unconscious, Sigmund Freud. London: Penguin Modern Classics, 2005. .
'The Insistence of the Image: Hitchcock's Vertigo', in Adams, Parveen (ed.) Art: Sublimation or Symptom. London: Karnac Books. 2003, pp.3-26.
'The Ugly', AA Files, 28, Autumn 1994, pp 61–64.
'The Ugly', AA Files, 29, Summer 1995, pp 3–6.
'The Ugly', AA Files, 30, Autumn 1995, pp. 65–68.
'Lo feo', Analysart, 17. Caracas: Instituto de Estudios Avanzados, 1999. (Spanish Translation of The Ugly).
'La Arquitectura y sus Pasados', RevistArquis 2, Universidad de Costa Rica, 2012. (Spanish Translation) ISSN 2215-275X
'In the Midst of Psychoanalysis', New Formations 7, Spring 1989, pp. 77-87.
'The Logic of Deconstruction.' Oxford Literary Review, vol. 3, no. 2, 1978, pp. 70–7. ISSN 0305-1498
References
Architectural Association PhD Programme
External links
Article by Cousins on Paul Hirst and The London Consortium
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Against Perfection
Against Perfection is the debut album by British alternative rock band Adorable. It was released in 1993 on Creation Records.
In 2016, Pitchfork ranked Against Perfection at number 42 on its list of "The 50 Best Shoegaze Albums of All Time".
Track listing
UK version
"Glorious" – 4:17
"Favourite Fallen Idol" – 2:41
"A to Fade In" – 4:50
"I Know You Too Well" – 3:41
"Homeboy" – 4:30
"Sistine Chapel Ceiling" – 3:34
"Cut #2" – 4:43
"Crash Sight" – 4:02
"Still Life" – 2:37
"Breathless" – 5:18
US version
"Sunshine Smile" – 5:03
"Glorious" – 4:17
"Favourite Fallen Idol" – 2:41
"A to Fade In" – 4:50
"I Know You Too Well" – 3:41
"Homeboy" – 4:30
"Sistine Chapel Ceiling" – 3:34
"Cut #2" – 4:43
"Crash Sight" – 4:02
"Still Life" – 2:37
"Breathless" – 5:18
"I'll Be Your Saint" – 3:32
Personnel
Piotr Fijalkowski – vocals, guitar
Robert Dillam – guitar
Stephen "Wil" Williams – bass
Kevin Gritton – drums
Charts
References
Category:1993 albums
Category:Creation Records albums
Category:Adorable (band) albums
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Barda, Purba Medinipur
Barda is a census town in Sutahata CD block in Haldia subdivision of Purba Medinipur district in the state of West Bengal, India.
Geography
Location
Barda is located at .
Urbanisation
79.19% of the population of Haldia subdivision live in the rural areas. Only 20.81% of the population live in the urban areas, and that is the highest proportion of urban population amongst the four subdivisions in Purba Medinipur district.
Note: The map alongside presents some of the notable locations in the subdivision. All places marked in the map are linked in the larger full screen map.
Demographics
As per 2011 Census of India Barda had a total population of 5,155 of which 2,617 (51%) were males and 2,538 (49%) were females. Population below 6 years was 556. The total number of literates in Barda was 4,103 (89.22% of the population over 6 years).
Infrastructure
As per the District Census Handbook 2011, Barda covered an area of 3.3186 km2. It had the facility of a railway station and bus services in the town. Amongst the civic amenities it had 500 domestic electric connections. Amongst the medical facilities it had were a hospital with 15 beds 1 km away and 11 medicine shops. Amongst the educational facilities it had were 4 primary schools. The nearest middle school and secondary school were at Kesabpur close by. The nearest senior secondary school was at Bajitpur close by. The nearest degree college was at Keshabpur.
Transport
Barda is on the Haldia-Kurahati Road. Barda railway station is situated on the Panskura-Haldia line.
Education
Vivekananda Mission Mahavidyalaya at PO Chaitanyapur, located nearby, was established in 1968. It offers courses in arts, science and commerce.
References
Category:Cities and towns in Purba Medinipur district
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Amuru
Amuru may refer to:
Amuru, Ethiopia a town in Horo Gudru Welega Zone, Ethiopia
Amuru (woreda), a woreda in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia
Amuru District, a district in Northern Uganda
Amuru, Uganda, a town in Amuru District, Uganda
People
Amuru Mitsuhiro, a Russian sumo wrestler
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1997 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior women's race
The Senior women's race at the 1997 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held in Torino, Italy, at the Parco del Valentino on March 23, 1997. A report on the event was given in The New York Times, in the Herald, and for the IAAF.
Complete results, medallists, and the results of British athletes were published.
Race results
Senior women's race (6.6 km)
Individual
Teams
Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result
Participation
An unofficial count yields the participation of 147 athletes from 42 countries in the Senior women's race. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published. Although announced, the athlete from the did not show.
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See also
1997 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior men's race
1997 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior men's race
1997 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior women's race
References
Category:Senior women's race at the World Athletics Cross Country Championships
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Edward J. Hall
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Edward J. Hall, also known as Ned Hall, is an American philosopher and Norman E. Vuilleumier Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University. He is known for his expertise on philosophy of science and epistemology.
Education and career
Hall graduated from Reed College in 1987, and earned his Ph.D. in philosophy at Princeton University in 1996. He taught at MIT until 2005, when he moved to Harvard.
Books
2014. The Philosophy of Science: Metaphysical and Epistemological Foundations (Fundamentals of Philosophy), Blackwell, 2014
2004. Causation and Counterfactuals. Co-edited with L.A. Paul and John Collins. MIT Press, .
2013. Causation: A User's Guide. with L.A. Paul. Oxford University Press, .
See also
Counterfactuals
Causality
References
External links
Edward Hall at Harvard
Panel Discussion - Edward J. Hall
Laws & Lawmakers: Science, Metaphysics, and the Laws of Nature
Reality and Rationality
Category:21st-century American philosophers
Category:Analytic philosophers
Category:Philosophers of science
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Givi Berishvili
Givi Berishvili (born Tbilisi, 10 August 1987) is a Georgian rugby union player who plays as a lock.
He currently plays for RC Eemland in the Dutch Ereklasse.
He has 18 caps for Georgia, since his first game at 29 June 2011, in a 23-18 win over Namibia, in Bucharest, for the IRB Nations Cup. He still has to score his first points. He was called for the 2011 Rugby World Cup, playing in two games as a substitute but without scoring. He is still at the Georgia squad.
References
External links
Givi Berishvili International Statistics
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Arpi (disambiguation)
Arpi may refer to:
Places
Arpi, or Argyrippa, or Argos Hippium, an ancient city of Apulia, Italy
Arpi, Armenia, formerly Arpa, a town in the Vayots Dzor Province of Armenia
Lake Arpi, lake located in the Shirak Province of Armenia
People
Arpi Gabrielyan (born 1989), Armenian broadcaster, model, singer and actress
Claude Arpi, French-born author, journalist, historian and tibetologist
Ivar Arpi (born 1982), Swedish reporter, columnist and debater
Others
ARPI system, a system in the martial arts Arnis. See Arnis#ARPI
See also
Arbi (disambiguation)
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Eduard Dämel
Eduard C. F. Dämel also Damel, Daemel (1821 - 3 September 1900) was a German entomologist.
Dämel was an insect dealer in Hamburg
He spent the years 1867-1874 in Queensland, Australia where he collected insects and other natural history material (including botanical specimens for his dealership Australia and for the Museum Godeffroy.Dämel was the agent
for Jacob Boll a Swiss born entomologist who lived in Texas. Boll supplied insects from the South-west U.S.
and Northwest Mexico.
Dämel and another Hamburg entomologist working in Australia Amalie Dietrich collected the butterflies described by Georg Semper in Beitrag zur Rhopalocerenfauna von Australien. J. Mus. Godeffroy 14: 138-194, pls 8, 9 (1878)
References
Weidner, H. 1967 Geschichte der Entomologie in Hamburg. Abh. Verh. Naturwiss. Ver. Hamburg, N. F. 9(Suppl.) 5-387.
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Tim Holland
Tim Holland may refer to:
Tim Holland (backgammon) (1931–2010), backgammon world champion
Timothy Holland, geologist
Tim Holland (politician), Canadian Green Party candidate
Sole (hip hop artist) (born 1977), real name Tim Holland
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Farewell to the World
Farewell to the World is a 1996 concert by rock group Crowded House. The concert was recorded on the outside footsteps of the famed Sydney Opera House as a charity event to raise funds for the Sydney Children's Hospital. The event was originally scheduled to occur on the night of 23 November 1996; however, it was delayed one day due to rain. The concert was to be the last that the group played as the group announced their dissolution months earlier. The concert attracted a crowd of greater than 100,000 people, with some estimates of 250,000 people in attendance. Since then, several concerts have been performed there such as the Mushroom Records anniversary celebration and every Australian Idol year finale dually uses the outdoor as well as the indoor of the Opera House.
The concert was originally aired on Network Ten in Australia in November 1996 however this performance was incomplete as it did not include five songs performed from the concert due to time constraints. In December 1996, the group released the concert on VHS which included some press coverage of the band's breakup and the concert. The VHS version contained all of the same songs as the television version other than "Weather with You," which was replaced by the fan favourite song "Hole in the River".
The CD and DVD of the concert were released in November 2006 as a ten-year anniversary of the original concert. These versions were remastered and the DVD included all previous footage from the VHS but also added an interview with Neil Finn by Jana Wendt on Channel Nine's Sunday program. All of the songs were included on the DVD and CD release, including those omitted previously and the sound (and, for DVD, picture) was digitally remastered.
The concert included many of Crowded House's most famous hits and many fan favourites also. The supporting bands were Custard, You Am I and Powderfinger.
As the album was to be the final performance by the group, they called upon previous members Tim Finn and tour drummer Peter Jones to play for a small portion of the setlist. Drummer Paul Hester, though he had previously left the band while on tour, was considered a member of the band again for the performance, as he had been a member for the majority of the group's tenure.
Track listings
"Mean to Me" – 4:11
"World Where You Live" – 3:33
"When You Come" – 5:54
"Fall at Your Feet" – 3:25
"Better Be Home Soon" – 4:43
"Distant Sun" – 4:51
"Locked Out" – 3:49
"Something So Strong" – 3:51
"Italian Plastic" – 3:51
"Weather with You" – 5:22
"Fingers of Love" – 5:35
"In My Command" – 4:26
"Throw Your Arms Around Me" – 2:57
"Don't Dream It's Over" – 6:22
DVD
"Mean to Me" – 4:11
"World Where You Live" – 3:33
"When You Come" – 5:54
"Private Universe" – 5:35
"Four Seasons In One Day" – 2:54
"Fall at Your Feet" – 3:25
"Whispers and Moans" – 4:30
"Hole In the River" – 6:47
"Better Be Home Soon" – 4:43
"Pineapple Head" – 4:04
"Distant Sun" – 4:51
"Into Temptation" – 4:49
"Everything Is Good For You" – 4:09
"Locked Out" – 3:49
"Something So Strong" – 3:51
"Sister Madly" – 4:54
"Italian Plastic" – 3:51
"Weather with You" – 5:22
"It's Only Natural" – 5:07
"There Goes God" – 4:54
"Fingers of Love" – 5:35
"In My Command" – 4:26
"Throw Your Arms Around Me" – 2:57
"Don't Dream It's Over" – 6:22
Credits (within "Don't Dream It's Over" track)
Australian edition
Disc 1
"Mean to Me" – 4:11
"World Where You Live" – 3:33
"When You Come" – 5:54
"Private Universe" – 5:35
"Four Seasons in One Day" – 2:55
"Fall at Your Feet" – 3:26
"Whispers & Moans" – 4:30
"Hole In the River" – 6:48
"Better Be Home Soon" – 4:44
"Pineapple Head" – 4:04
"Distant Sun" – 4:52
"Into Temptation" – 4:50
"Everything Is Good For You" – 4:10
Disc 2
"Locked Out" – 3:49
"Something So Strong" – 3:51
"Sister Madly" – 4:54
"Italian Plastic" – 3:52
"Weather with You" – 5:22
"It's Only Natural" – 5:08
"There Goes God" – 4:54
"Fingers of Love" – 5:36
"In My Command" – 4:27
"Throw Your Arms Around Me" (Hunters & Collectors cover) – 2:58
"Don't Dream It's Over" – 6:23
Special features
The 1996 VHS release of Farewell to the World featured a twenty-minute documentary entitled Planning the Event and a white Crowded House T-shirt with an erupting volcano and an evil eye flying out of the top (the overall image resembles the Reversed USA Great Seal).
The 2006 DVD re-release did not include the T-shirt, however did include the documentary, along with a Channel Seven interview with Neil Finn, a new documentary featuring interviews with Finn and Nick Seymour, Michael Chugg, the event coordinator and many other participants.
The DVD also featured remastered audio and adaptation to 5.1 stereo surround, anamorphic 16:9 ratio widescreen display, an audio commentary with Finn, Seymour and Mark Hart, a photo gallery of the concert and a full discography listing of the band up to 1999.
Disc two also includes three demos recorded by the band at various points: "Spirit of the Stairs" (during the disc two credits), and "Italian Plastic" and "Instinct" (during the photo montage).
Personnel
Crowded House
Neil Finn – Vocals, guitar and piano
Nick Seymour – Bass guitars and backing vocals
Mark Hart – Guitars, Electric twelve-string guitar, keyboards and backing vocals
Paul Hester – Drums, percussion and backing vocals
Additional musicians
Tim Finn – Vocals and guitar ("Weather with You" and "It's Only Natural" only)
Peter Jones – Drums and backing vocals ("Sister Madly" only)
Jules Bowen – Keyboards
Production
Angus Davidson – Sound Design, Live Sound, DVD Audio Production
Noel Crombie – Set/stage design
Sharon Chai – Cover design
Reg Mombassa – Cover element design (with Seymour)
Notes
Category:Crowded House video albums
Category:Benefit concerts
Category:Crowded House albums
Category:2006 live albums
Category:2006 video albums
Category:Live video albums
Category:Albums recorded at the Sydney Opera House
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Moncagua
Moncagua is a municipality in the San Miguel department of El Salvador.
Moncagua is also a well known area of hot springs. Moncagua is known as "tierra caliente" or "hot land" in literal English translation. From the Nauathl (language of the Indians that used to live there) it literally means land of rabbits, rocks and water.
Sports
The local football club is Atlético Chaparrastique, who have spent some seasons in the Salvadoran Second Division and almost secured promotion to the top tier in 2003.
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Category:Municipalities of the San Miguel Department (El Salvador)
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Longyan Min
Longyan Min (龍巖閩語) or Longyan Minnan (龍巖閩南語), is a Southern Min language spoken in the urban city area of Longyan (eastern Longyan) in the province of Fujian while Hakka is spoken in rural villages of longyan (western part) by the peasantry. The Longyan Min people had settled in the region from southern part of Fujian Province as early as the Tang dynasty period (618–907). Although Longyan Min has some Hakka influence to a limited extent by the peasant Hakka Chinese language due to close distance of rural village Hakka peasants of the region, Longyan Min is a close dialect of the Minnan language and has more number of tones than Hakka (8 as compared to 6). Longyan Min has a high but limited intelligibility with Southern Min dialects such as Hokkien–Taiwanese. Today, Longyan Minnan is predominantly spoken in Longyan's urban district Xinluo District while Zhangzhou Minnan is spoken in Zhangping City. Hakka on the other hand is spoken in the nom-urban rest of the rural areas of Longyan prefecture: Changting County, Yongding County, Shanghang County, Liancheng County and Wuping County.
Branner suggests that the Xinluo and Zhangping dialects should be grouped with the Datian dialect as a coastal Min group separate from both Southern Min and Eastern Min.
However, he argues that the dialect of Wan'an township, in the northern part of Xinluo district, is a coastal Min variety separate from all of these.
Phonology
Longyan Min has 14 initials, 65 rimes and 8 tones.
Initials
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Rimes
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Tones
Tone sandhi
Longyan Min has extremely extensive tone sandhi rules: in an utterance, only the last syllable pronounced is not affected by the rules.
The two-syllable tonal sandhi rules are shown in the table below (the rows give the first syllable's original citation tone, while the columns give the citation tone of the second syllable):
References
Category:Fujian
Category:Southern Min
Category:Hokkien-language dialects
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Victor Alekseyevich Vaziulin
Victor Alekseyevich Vaziulin (; 20 August 1932 – 8 January 2012) was a Soviet philosopher. He became famous for his deep knowledge of Karl Marx's work as well as for further developing Marxism through the dialectical sublation of its acquis.
Biography
V. A. Vaziulin was born in Zvenigorod, Moscow on 30 August 1932 and studied philosophy at Lomonosov University (1950-55), defended his PhD thesis at 1964 and his postdoctoral thesis at 1971. At 1964 he became professor at Lomonosov University, where he taught until his retirement. He also taught at the universities of Bratislava and Prague. He died in Moscow on 8 January 2012.
Work
V. A. Vaziulin wrote a novel, distinct direction in social theory, dialectical logic and science methodology. The main scientific achievements of V. A. Vaziulin include:
Revealed the logic of Karl Marx's "Capital: Critique of Political Economy" theory by a systematic, categorical, comparative evaluation of the "Capital's" politico-economic material alongside a parallel, critical analysis of Hegel’s "The Science of Logic". This comparative cross-examination enabled him to explore the methodology of the advanced scientific research, of the mature science as an organic whole. Within the framework of this logic and methodology are revealed- in "pure form"- i) the ascent from the abstract to the concrete in its dialectical unity with the ascent from the sensual-concrete to the abstract, ii) the logical in its unity with the historical and, iii) the reasonable aspect of thinking (germ. Vernunft) in unity with the intellectual (germ. Verstand).
A concrete-historical approach of Marxism as a scientific system that is developed through the emergence and resolution of necessary contradictions. For Vaziulin, Marxism is a scientific system that consists of internally united- in their differences- components, each of which is at a certain level of its formation and development. This logical and methodological analysis of the history of Marxism paved the way for i) the discovery of the objective laws and contradictions (including the necessary fallacies) of the beginning, the emergence, the formation, and the maturity of the development of scientific research, i.e. the movement of cognitive thinking from the surface to the essence of the object (of the subject matter) and, ii) the development of the most promising components of Marxism.
Revealed the inner, systematic interconnection of laws and categories of social theory which reflect the structure of the mature society and outlined the theoretical periodization of human history (the objective laws of its "ascent" from the beginning, the emergence, the formation, to the maturity) from the perspective of the interactions of natural and social factors.
The first two achievements are internally connected to the approach of scientific thinking as a natural-historical process.
Bibliography
In Russian:
Логика «Капитала» К.Маркса, Москва 1968, 2002.
Становление метода научного исследования К.Маркса (логический аспект), Москва 1975, 2017
Диалектика исторического процесса и методология его исследования, Москва 1978, 2007
Логика истории. Вопросы теории и методологии, Москва 1988, 2005, 2016.
In German:
W.A. Wasjulin: Das Historische und das Logische in der Methodologie von Karl Marx, in: Internationale Marx-Engels-Foruschung (Marxistische Studien. Jahrbuch des IMSF 12), Frankfurt/M 1987, S.238-244
V.A. Vazjulin: Nach dem Sieg der Konterrevolution – den welthistorischen Übergang zum Kommunismus denken. Gespräch in Moskau, 1992 geführt von Gudrun Havemann, Wladimir Koschel und Manolis Dafermakis in Moskau, veröff. in Zeitschrift Marxistische Erneuerung – Z. – Nr. 14, Juni 1993
V.A.Vazjulin: Das System der Logik G.W.F.Hegels und das System der Logik des «Kapitals» von Karl Marx»
V.A. Vazjulin: Entwicklung systematisch denken, in: Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 2005/2, S. 203-218
V.A. Vazjulin: Die Logik des «Kapitals» von Karl Marx, Books on Demand GmbH, Norderstedt 2006
V.A. Vazjulin: Die Logik der Geschichte, Books on Demand GmbH, Norderstedt 2011
In Greek:
Η διαλεκτική του ιστορικού προτσές και η μεθοδολογία της έρευνάς του. «Σύγχρονη εποχή», Αθ. 1988.
Η λογική της ιστορίας. Εισαγωγή-Μετάφρ.-Σχόλια Δημήτρης Πατέλης. «Ελληνικά γράμματα», Αθ. 2004, 2η έκδ. ΚΨΜ, Αθ. 2013.
References
Moscow State University web-page
Short biography (in Russian)
Marx's Global Reception Today- Marx in Russia
The Logic of Capital: Some recent analyses
Recent Soviet works on the scientific method of Marx's Capital and related topics
Marx in Russia
Marx worldwide : on the development of the international discourse on Marx since 1965
External links
Official webpage of V. A. Vaziulin and of the International School of "Logic of History"
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Category:2012 deaths
Category:20th-century Russian philosophers
Category:21st-century philosophers
Category:Materialists
Category:Marxist theorists
Category:Russian communists
Category:Russian Marxists
Category:Soviet philosophers
Category:Moscow State University faculty
Category:Moscow State University alumni
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Some People (E. G. Daily song)
"Some People" is a song by American singer E. G. Daily, released in 1989 as the lead single from her second studio album Lace Around the Wound. The song was written and produced by Lotti Golden and Tommy Faragher. It reached No. 33 on the US Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs and remained on the charts for five weeks.
A music video was filmed to promote the single. It was directed by David Kellogg and produced by Pam Tarr for Squeak Pictures. In August, Daily appeared on American Bandstand to perform "Some People" along with "Bad Water".
Critical reception
Upon release, Billboard listed the song as a recommended dance choice, commenting: "Singer/actress returns with an appealing pop cut that surprisingly enough sports an engaging Staples Singers-ish vocal approach". Music & Media picked "Some People" as their "single of the week" on 12 August 1989 and wrote: "The debut single from Lace Around the Wound is one of the best AC pop songs this year. A cool, breezy number, that is supported by a tight production. Stylistically the song is similar to Robert Palmer's material from the late 70s and early 80s - gritty funk with a hard rock edge. The strong, sing-along chorus and sparse instrumentation add up to a subtle but genuinely radio-friendly song."
Formats
7" single
"Some People (Remix)" - 4:07
"Are You There" - 3:42
12" single
"Some People (12" Remix)" - 6:19
"Some People (7" Remix)" - 4:15
"Some People (House Mix)" - 7:06
"Some People (Dub Version)" - 5:48
Cassette single
"Some People (Remix)" - 4:07
"Are You There" - 3:42
CD single (German release)
"Some People (7" Remix)" - 4:08
"Some People (12" Remix)" - 6:23
"Some People (House Mix)" - 7:07
CD single (US promo #1)
"Some People (House 7")" - 4:26
"Some People (7" Remix)" - 4:04
CD single (US promo #2)
"Some People (Remix)" - 4:06
"Some People (LP Version)" - 5:02
Chart performance
Personnel
E. G. Daily - lead vocals, backing vocals
Lotti Golden - backing vocals on "Some People"
Tommy Faragher - keyboards, cymbal and backing vocals on "Some People"
Michael Reid - guitar on "Some People"
Danny Faragher - harmonica, trombone and trumpet on "Some People"
Chris Eminizer - saxophone on "Some People"
Davey Faragher - bass on "Some People"
Bashiri Johnson - percussion on "Some People"
Marshall Rohner, Michael Landau - guitar on "Are You There"
John Van Tongeren - keyboards on "Are You There"
Tim Landers - bass on "Are You There"
Denny Fonghiezer - drums on "Are You There"
Lenny Castro - percussion on "Are You There"
Production
Lotti Golden - producer and mixing on "Some People"
Tommy Faragher - producer, mixing, engineer and drum programming on "Some People"
Barry Rudolph, Lance McVickar, Louis Scalise - engineers on "Some People"
Michael R. Hutchinson - mixing and additional production on remixes of "Some People", mixing on "Are You There"
Peter Schwartz - additional keyboards on remixes of "Some People"
E. G. Daily - producer of "Are You There"
Csaba Petocz, Joe Borja - engineers on "Are You There"
References
Category:1989 singles
Category:1989 songs
Category:E. G. Daily songs
Category:A&M Records singles
Category:Songs written by Lotti Golden
Category:Songs written by Tommy Faragher
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Fairview (Amherst, Virginia)
Fairview is a historic home located near Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia. It was built in 1867, and is a 2 1/2-story Italian Villa style brick dwelling. It has a three-story tower set at a 45-degree angle to the primary elevation. The house features a low-pitched roof with overhanging eaves, wide frieze with decorative brackets, arched windows, and a bay window. Also on the property are the contributing late-19th century smokehouse and tenant house (c. 1920).
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.
References
External links
Owner's website
Virginia DHR listing
Category:Houses in Amherst County, Virginia
Category:Houses completed in 1867
Category:Italianate architecture in Virginia
Category:Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia
Category:National Register of Historic Places in Amherst County, Virginia
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Charles Lachman
Lachman is Executive Producer of the news magazine program Inside Edition, based in New York City. The show has been on the air for more than two decades and is consistently in the top ten-rated programs in first-run national syndication.
Prior to joining Inside Edition, Lachman served as co-Executive Producer of American Journal and Managing Editor of the nightly news broadcasts at WNYW-TV in New York City. He was also a reporter for the New York Post.
He is the author of the novel In the Name of the Law (1988), the historical saga The Last Lincolns: The Rise & Fall of a Great American Family (2008), and A Secret Life (2011), an investigative history of President Grover Cleveland. His newest book is Footsteps in the Snow (2014), a true crime saga about the coldest case in U.S. history.
Lachman is married to Nancy Glass, the television host and producer. He lives in New York City.
Notes
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:Living people
Category:20th-century American novelists
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Category:Television producers from New York City
Category:20th-century American male writers
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Darah
Darah may refer to:
Darah, India, a village in Madhepur block, Madhubani District, Bihar
Darah, Iran, a village in Zonuzaq Rural District, in the Central District of Marand County, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran
Darah, Pakistan, a village in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan
Darah District, Panjshir Province, Afghanistan
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Town Bridge
The Town Bridge is a historic truss bridge, carrying Town Bridge over the Farmington River in Canton, Connecticut. Built in 1895, it is one of only two surviving pin-connected Parker truss bridges in the state. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.
Description and history
The Town Bridge is located in a rural-residential setting of southwestern Canton, north of the village of Collinsville and about west of Connecticut Route 179 on Town Bridge Road. It is a single-span Parker truss, with a total length of about , and a height above the river of about . It has a metal deck covered in asphalt, and carries a single lane of traffic. Its entrance portals are adorned with iron cresting.
The bridge was built in 1895 for the town by the Berlin Iron Bridge Company, Connecticut's leading manufacturer of iron bridges at the time. The bridge is distinctive for a number of reasons. It is the only surviving Berlin bridge in the state that is not of lenticular truss design, which then predominated in the company's production, and is one of less than two dozen Berlin bridges left in the state (out of more than 100 originally built). It is one of only two Parker trusses with pinned connections, a method of connecting the truss members that gave way to riveted connections (also present on this structure) by about 1900. The bridge was built as part of a town program to improve all of its crossings of the swift-flowing and flood-prone Farmington River.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Hartford County, Connecticut
List of bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Connecticut
References
Category:Bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Connecticut
Category:National Register of Historic Places in Hartford County, Connecticut
Category:Bridges completed in 1895
Category:Bridges in Hartford County, Connecticut
Category:Canton, Connecticut
Category:1895 establishments in Connecticut
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GNB4
Guanine nucleotide-binding protein subunit beta-4 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the GNB4 gene.
Heterotrimeric guanine nucleotide-binding proteins (G proteins), which integrate signals between receptors and effector proteins, are composed of an alpha, a beta, and a gamma subunit. These subunits are encoded by families of related genes. This gene encodes a beta subunit. Beta subunits are important regulators of alpha subunits, as well as of certain signal transduction receptors and effectors.
References
Further reading
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The Little Woman
The Little Woman is a 1961 Australian comedy TV play written by Patricia Hooker and broadcast on the ABC. It was one of the rare Australian dramas on TV at the time.
It starred Sophie Stewart who had also been in the ABC's live play Fly by Night.
Plot
In a plush suburb on Sydney's North Shore, Marjorie, a young bride arrives home to find a series of surprises in store for her: her husband Henry, a Sydney businessman, keeps his wives instead of divorcing him, and they live together in a state of bliss; the new bride is his sixth. In the end it is Vera, his first wife, who gets him.
Cast
Sophie Stewart as Vera
Wendy Blacklock as Majorie
Brigid Lenihan as a beatnik
Background
Hooker was working as a shorthand typist in a city office in 1959 when she wrote the story at home in the evenings. She wrote it as a stage play and it was included in a night of one-act plays at the Genesian Theatre. To help it reach a wider audience, Patricia studied a book on TV technique and decided to revise the script as a TV play. The play takes place in real time.
Reception
The Sunday Sydney Morning Herald said it was "bright, breezy and well paced from start to finish. And while the theme (Henry keeps six wives)may raise a few "tut tuts" in some quarters it was handled with such racy good humour and wit that only the most straightlaced could quibble".
The Sydney Morning Herald called it "a merry little farce" in which "the plot skidded and skated a bit" but praised the "splendid" performances of Wendy Blacklock and Sophie Stewart.
See also
List of television plays broadcast on Australian Broadcasting Corporation (1960s)
External links
The Little Woman at AustLit
References
Category:Australian television plays
Category:1962 television plays
Category:Australian films
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Sanseido Kokugo Jiten
The , or the Sankoku (三国) for short, is a general-purpose Japanese dictionary. It is closely affiliated with another contemporary dictionary published by Sanseido, the Shin Meikai kokugo jiten.
The Sanseidō kokugo jiten has been revised about once a decade.
1960, 1st edition
1974, 2nd edition
1982, 3rd edition
1992, 4th edition
2001, 5th edition
2007, 6th edition
2014, 7th edition
Japanese linguist and lexicographer Kenbō Hidetoshi (見坊豪紀, 1914-1992) was chief editor of the first four editions. Among his prominent coeditors, Kindaichi Kyōsuke (金田一京助, 1882-1971), his son Kindaichi Haruhiko (金田一春彦, 1913-2004), and Yamada Tadao (山田忠雄, 1916-1996) began with the 1st edition; Shibata Takeshi (柴田武) with the 2nd; Hida Yoshifumi (飛田良文) with the 4th; and Ichikawa Takashi (市川孝) began editing with the 5th edition Sanseidō kokugo jiten. Several of these lexicographers worked together on a predecessor Sanseido dictionary, the Meikai kokugo jiten (明解国語辞典). Kenbō began working with its chief editor Kindaichi Kyōsuke on the 1st edition (1943) and was an editor on the 2nd edition (1952).
In 1959, Sanseido placed Kenbō in charge of the Sanseidō kokugo jiten, and subsequently put Yamada in charge of the comparatively larger Shin Meikai kokugo jiten (1972 … 2005). The 1st edition Sanseidō kokugo jiten (1960) had 57,000 headwords, while the 2nd-5th editions increased the numbers to 62,000 (1974), 65,000 (1982), 73,000 (1992), and 76,000 (2001) respectively.
Emphasizing contemporary usage is one of Sanseidō kokugo jiten's most significant contributions to modern Japanese lexicography. Many traditional Japanese dictionaries copy usage examples from earlier dictionaries, often taken from Classical Japanese language sources. When Kenbō Hidetoshi began compiling the 1st edition, he started collecting Japanese word usages from newspapers, magazines, and broadcasts, which he would write on cards. By the time he died, he had recorded some 1,400,000 usage example cards.
The Sanseidō kokugo jiten is known for including neologisms, katakana loanwords, and informal expressions. Tom Gally, a Japanese translator and lexicographer, gives this evaluation:
Like the other Sanseidou dictionaries, this one has a strong contemporary emphasis and shows the influence of its late editor's renowned citation collecting. The entries include many colloquialisms that were missed or ignored by other lexicographers. (1999)
References
Gally, Tom. (1999). Kokugo Dictionaries 国語辞書, review article.
Kenbō Hidetoshi 見坊豪紀 et al., eds. (2001). Sanseidō kokugo jiten 三省堂国語辞典. 5th ed., Sanseidō. .
External links
三省堂国語辞典 第7版, Sanseido's homepage for the 5th edition Sanseidō kokugo jiten''
Sanseido Kokugo Jiten
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Helena Erbenová
Helena Erbenová (née Balatková, born February 6, 1979) is a Czech cross-country skier and triathlete. She is the winner of the 2012 ITU Winter Triathlon World Championships.
Career
Cross-country skiing
Erbenová has been competing cross-country skiing since 1997. She finished fifth in the 4 × 5 km relay at the 2007 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Sapporo and earned her best individual finish of 20th in the sprint at the 2001 championships in Lahti. Erbenová's best Winter Olympic finish was 29th in the 7.5 km + 7.5 km double pursuit at Turin in 2006. She has a total of nine individual victories, all in FIS races, at distances up to the 7.5 km + 7.5 km double pursuit since 2000. Erbenová's best individual World Cup finish was 13th in a 15 km event in Russia in 2007.
Triathlon
Erbenová 2011 XTERRA Triathlon World Championships where she took 3rd place.
The next year, in 2012, Erbenová became the ITU Winter Triathlon World Championship. She also won the European Winter Triathlon champion and the 2012 and European Cross Triathlon champion.
In 2014 Erbenová placed third at the 2014 ITU Cross Triathlon World Championships.
Cross-country skiing results
All results are sourced from the International Ski Federation (FIS).
Olympic Games
World Championships
a. Cancelled due to extremely cold weather.
World Cup
Season standings
Team podiums
1 podium – (1 )
Personal life
Erbenová is the daughter of Czech skier Helena Balatková-Šikolová. She has two sisters Kateřina and Petra who also were skier. Kateřina's husband is Czech skier Lukáš Bauer.
References
External links
Mvcr.cz profile of Erbenová
page XTERRA Czech
Category:1979 births
Category:Cross-country skiers at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Category:Cross-country skiers at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Category:Czech female cross-country skiers
Category:Living people
Category:Olympic cross-country skiers of the Czech Republic
Category:Czech female triathletes
Category:People from Jablonec nad Nisou
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New Thought
The New Thought movement (also Higher Thought) is a movement which developed in the United States in the 19th century, considered by many to have been derived from the unpublished writings of Phineas Quimby. There are numerous smaller groups, most of which are incorporated in the International New Thought Alliance. The contemporary New Thought movement is a loosely allied group of religious denominations, authors, philosophers, and individuals who share a set of beliefs concerning metaphysics, positive thinking, the law of attraction, healing, life force, creative visualization, and personal power.
New Thought holds that Infinite Intelligence, or God, is everywhere, spirit is the totality of real things, true human selfhood is divine, divine thought is a force for good, sickness originates in the mind, and "right thinking" has a healing effect. Although New Thought is neither monolithic nor doctrinaire, in general, modern-day adherents of New Thought share some core beliefs:
God or Infinite Intelligence is "supreme, universal, and everlasting";
divinity dwells within each person, that all people are spiritual beings;
"the highest spiritual principle [is] loving one another unconditionally... and teaching and healing one another"; and
"our mental states are carried forward into manifestation and become our experience in daily living".
William James used the term "New Thought" as synonymous with the "Mind cure movement," in which he included many sects with diverse origins, such as idealism and Hinduism. The teachings of Christian Science are in some ways similar to Quimby's teachings. Its founder, Mary Baker Eddy, was a student and patient of Quimby's but she later disavowed his influence on her Christian Science.
Overview
William James, in The Varieties of Religious Experience, described New Thought as follows:
History
Origins
The New Thought movement was based on the teachings of Phineas Quimby (1802–1866), an American mesmerist and healer. Quimby had developed a belief system which included the tenet that illness originated in the mind as a consequence of erroneous beliefs and that a mind open to God's wisdom could overcome any illness.
His basic premise was:
During the late 19th century, the metaphysical healing practices of Quimby mingled with the "Mental Science" of Warren Felt Evans, a Swedenborgian minister.
Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science, has sometimes been cited as having used Quimby as inspiration for theology. Eddy was a patient of Quimby’s and shared his view that disease is rooted in a mental cause. Because of its theism, Christian Science differs from the teachings of Quimby.
In the late 19th century, New Thought was propelled by a number of spiritual thinkers and philosophers and emerged through a variety of religious denominations and churches, particularly the Unity Church and Church of Divine Science (established in 1889 and 1888, respectively), followed by Religious Science (established in 1927). Many of its early teachers and students were women; notable among the founders of the movement were Emma Curtis Hopkins, known as the "teacher of teachers", Myrtle Fillmore, Malinda Cramer, and Nona L. Brooks; with many of its churches and community centers led by women, from the 1880s to today.
Growth
New Thought is also largely a movement of the printed word.
Prentice Mulford, through writing Your Forces and How to Use Them, a series of essays published during 1886–1892, was pivotal in the development of New Thought thinking, including the Law of Attraction.
In 1906, William Walker Atkinson (1862–1932) wrote and published Thought Vibration or the Law of Attraction in the Thought World. Atkinson was the editor of New Thought magazine and the author of more than 100 books on an assortment of religious, spiritual, and occult topics. The following year, Elizabeth Towne, the editor of The Nautilus, published Bruce MacLelland's book Prosperity Through Thought Force, in which he summarized the "Law of Attraction" as a New Thought principle, stating "You are what you think, not what you think you are."
These magazines were used to reach a large audience then, as others are now. Nautilus magazine, for example, had 45,000 subscribers and a total circulation of 150,000. One Unity Church magazine, Wee Wisdom, was the longest-lived children's magazine in the United States, published from 1893 until 1991. Today, New Thought magazines include Daily Word published by Unity and the Religious Science magazine, Science of Mind, published by the Centers for Spiritual Living.
Major gatherings
The 1915 International New Thought Alliance (INTA) conference – held in conjunction with the Panama–Pacific International Exposition, a world's fair that took place in San Francisco – featured New Thought speakers from far and wide. The PPIE organizers were so favorably impressed by the INTA convention that they declared a special "New Thought Day" at the fair and struck a commemorative bronze medal for the occasion, which was presented to the INTA delegates, led by Annie Rix Militz. By 1916, the International New Thought Alliance had encompassed many smaller groups around the world, adopting a creed known as the "Declaration of Principles". The Alliance is held together by one central teaching: that people, through the constructive use of their minds, can attain freedom, power, health, prosperity, and all good, molding their bodies as well as the circumstances of their lives. The declaration was revised in 1957, with all references to Christianity removed, and a new statement based on the "inseparable oneness of God and Man".
Beliefs
The chief tenets of New Thought are:
Infinite Intelligence or God is omnipotent and omnipresent.
Spirit is the ultimate reality.
True human self-hood is divine.
Divinely attuned thought is a positive force for good.
All disease is mental in origin.
Right thinking has a healing effect.
Evolution of thought
Adherents also generally believe that as humankind gains greater understanding of the world, New Thought itself will evolve to assimilate new knowledge. Alan Anderson and Deb Whitehouse have described New Thought as a "process" in which each individual and even the New Thought Movement itself is "new every moment". Thomas McFaul has claimed "continuous revelation", with new insights being received by individuals continuously over time. Jean Houston has spoken of the "possible human", or what we are capable of becoming.
Theological inclusionism
The Home of Truth has, from its inception as the Pacific Coast Metaphysical Bureau in the 1880s, under the leadership of Annie Rix Militz, disseminated the teachings of the Hindu teacher Swami Vivekananda. It is one of the more outspokenly interfaith of New Thought organizations, stating adherence to "the principle that Truth is Truth where ever it is found and who ever is sharing it". Joel S. Goldsmith's The Infinite Way incorporates teaching from Christian Science, as well.
Therapeutic ideas
Divine Science, Unity Church, and Religious Science are organizations that developed from the New Thought movement. Each teaches that Infinite Intelligence, or God, is the sole reality. New Thought adherents believe that sickness is the result of the failure to realize this truth. In this line of thinking, healing is accomplished by the affirmation of oneness with the Infinite Intelligence or God.
John Bovee Dods (1795–1862), an early practitioner of New Thought, wrote several books on the idea that disease originates in the electrical impulses of the nervous system and is therefore curable by a change of belief. Later New Thought teachers, such as the early-20th-century author, editor, and publisher William Walker Atkinson, accepted this premise. He connected his idea of mental states of being with his understanding of the new scientific discoveries in electromagnetism and neural processes.
While the beliefs that are held by practitioners of the New Thought movement are similar to many mainstream religious doctrines, there have been concerns raised
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among scholars and scientists about some of the views surrounding health and wellness that are perpetuated by the New Thought movement. Most pressing is the New Thought movement’s rejection of empirically supported scientific theories of the causes of diseases. In scientific medicine, diseases can have a wide range of physical causes, from abnormalities in genes and in cell growth that cause cancer, to viruses, bacteria, and fungi that cause infections, to environmental toxins that can damage entire organ systems, human physical diseases are caused by physical issues. While it has been empirically supported that the psychological and social health of a person can influence their susceptibility to disease (e.g., stress can suppress immune function which increases risk of infection), mental states are not the cause of human disease, as is claimed by the New Thought movement.
Equally concerning is the New Thought movement’s emphasis on using faith and mental states as treatments for all human disease. While it has been supported that the use of relaxation therapy and other forms of alternative health practices are beneficial in improving the overall well-being of patients suffering from a wide variety of mental and physical health conditions (e.g., cancer, post-traumatic stress disorder), these practices are not effective in treating human disease alone, and should be undertaken in conjunction with modern medical therapies that have empirical support. This rejection of scientifically supported theories of disease and disease treatment is worsened by the New Thought movement’s assertion that mental states, attitudes, and faith in New Thought are the sole determinants of health.
The New Thought movement has received criticism akin to that levied against the holistic health movement that in claiming that sickness is caused by a person’s attitudes, mental states, and faith, it is easy to place blame on patients for not adopting a correct attitude, thought processes, and/or lifestyle. Blame can have powerful psychological effects – with stress and isolation seen in victim blaming being the largest issues that arise and the most concerning in terms of effect on patients’ health. Further, holding beliefs that health and disease is controlled by faith in a higher power can create an external locus of control (i.e., believers may feel as though they themselves cannot prevent disease, and that any illness or disorder that they encounter is an act of the higher power’s will). This external locus of control can create learned helplessness in believers which has been shown to exacerbate mental and physical health conditions via several mechanisms – including reduced incidence of help-seeking behaviour. Overall, the New Thought movement's position on the etiology and treatment of disease is not empirically supported.
Movement
New Thought publishing and educational activities reach approximately 2.5 million people annually. The largest New Thought-oriented denomination is the Japanese Seicho-no-Ie. Other belief systems within the New Thought movement include Jewish Science, Religious Science, Centers for Spiritual Living and Unity. Past denominations have included Psychiana and Father Divine.
Religious Science operates under three main organizations: the Centers for Spiritual Living; the Affiliated New Thought Network; and Global Religious Science Ministries. Ernest Holmes, the founder of Religious Science, stated that Religious Science is not based on any "authority" of established beliefs, but rather on "what it can accomplish" for the people who practice it. The Science of Mind, authored by Ernest Holmes, while based on a philosophy of being "open at the top", focuses extensively on the teachings of Jesus Christ. The American Christian Church International and its theological school, the Arnulf Seminary of Theology, are also deeply influenced by the ideology of the New Thought movement.
Unity, founded by Charles and Myrtle Fillmore, identifies itself as "Christian New Thought", focused on "Christian idealism", with the Bible as one of its main texts, although not interpreted literally. The other core text is Lessons in Truth by H. Emilie Cady. The Universal Foundation for Better Living, or UFBL, was founded in 1974 by Johnnie Colemon in Chicago, Illinois after breaking away from the Unity Church for "blatant racism".
See also
Apotheosis
Grace Mann Brown
Christian Science
Divinization (Christian)
Idealism
Iyanla Vanzant
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Emmet Fox
Charles F. Haanel
Napoleon Hill
Law of attraction
Joseph Murphy (author)
New religious movement
Panentheism
Prosperity theology
Ralph Waldo Trine
Uell Stanley Andersen
Religious Science
The Secret: 2006 film and book
Theosophy
Transcendentalism
Universalism
Wallace Wattles
Christian D. Larson
References
Bibliography
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Anderson, Alan and Deb Whitehouse. New Thought: A Practical American Spirituality. 2003.
Braden, Charles S. Spirits in Rebellion: The Rise and Development of New Thought, Southern Methodist University Press, 1963.
Judah, J. Stillson. The History and Philosophy of the Metaphysical Movements in America. Philadelphia: The Westminster Press. 1967. Review by Neil Duddy.
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Italian Institute of Human Sciences (SUM)
The Italian Institute of Human Sciences (SUM) (in Italian: Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane) is an Italian public university dedicated to post-graduate formation and high level research in human and social sciences. It promotes Doctoral, Post-Doctoral and Master programmes in collaboration with other Italian and European universities.
It is constituted by five schools and institutes within the universities of Florence, Bologna, Rome - La Sapienza, Milan - Bicocca, Siena, Naples - Federico II, Naples - Eastern and Naples - Suor Orsola Benincasa.
In association with the Central European University (CEU), the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), the École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), and the Humboldt Universität in Berlin, it has established the European Doctoral School for the Human and Social Sciences.
It has cooperation and co-tutorship agreements with the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, the École Pratique des Hautes Études, the New York University and the Georgetown University.
Schools
Istituto di Studi Umanistici, University of Florence
Scuola Superiore di Studi Umanistici, University of Bologna
Scuola Superiore di Studi Umanistici, University of Siena
Scuola di Alta Formazione nelle Scienze Umane e Sociali, University of Naples Federico II and Naples Eastern University
Scuola Europea di Studi Avanzati, University of Naples - Suor Orsola Benincasa.
European Doctoral School for the Human and Social Sciences, in association with the Central European University (CEU), the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS),the École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE) and the Humboldt Universität (HU).
PhD Programmes
Political Science
History of Ideas, Philosophy and Science
Ethics and History of Philosophy
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Law and Economy
Theoretical and Political Philosophy
Philology, history of the Italian language and literature
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Philosophy of History
European literature and culture
Semiotics
Europe and the invention of modernity
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Sociology
History of the International Relations
Contemporary History
Ancient, Medieval and Enlightenment Studies
Modern and Contemporary Philosophy
Geopolitics and culture of the Mediterrean
Linguistics and history of the linguistic thought
Contemporary History and Society
Universalization of the juridical systems: history and theory
European PhD programmes
History
curricula:
Europe and the invention of modernity
Comparative history of knowledge
The Classic tradition and its mediations in the Christian, Jewish and Muslim worlds
Social Science
curricula:
Europe in the context of globalization
The social and political bases of Europe
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Kustom
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Kustom (cars), a particular style of custom car, popularised in the 1950s
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Michie Gleason
Michie Gleason is a film director and screenplay writer who has written and directed three films – The Island of the Mapmaker's Wife (2001), Summer Heat (1987) and Broken English (1981). She was assistant to the director on the film Days of Heaven (1978).
References
External links
http://virginiafilms.net/
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Politics of Osaka Prefecture
Politics of Osaka, as in all 47 prefectures of Japan, takes place in the framework of local autonomy that is guaranteed by chapter 8 of the Constitution and laid out in the Local Autonomy Law. The administration is headed by a governor directly elected by the people every four years in first-past-the-post elections. Legislation, the budget and the approval of personnel appointments, including the vice governors, are handled by the prefectural assembly that is directly elected by the people every four years by single-non transferable vote.
Political debate in Osaka has in recent years been dominated by the Osaka Metropolis plan, a plan to transform Osaka – similarly to Tokyo – into a to, a metropolitan prefecture in which Osaka city, Sakai city and possibly other municipalities of Ōsaka are dissolved and subdivided into special wards like those of Tokyo city. The main proponent of the plan is the Osaka Restoration Association (Ōsaka Ishin no Kai, lit. "Osaka renewal assembly") of former governor and current Osaka city mayor Tōru Hashimoto; by 2012, the party controls the governorship, a majority in the Osaka assembly, and several municipal institutions including the Osaka city mayor and Osaka city assembly.
Osaka is one of the most urbanized and economically developed prefectures; with a fiscal strength index of around 0.8 its fiscal strength is well above the national average; but unlike Tokyo and Aichi which have fiscal strength indices above 1, Osaka is not able to fully cover its budget with prefectural revenues.
National representation
Osaka's directly elected delegation to the National Diet currently consists of 19 members of the Lower house of Japan (House of Representatives) and currently seven members (eight after 2016 when a reapportionment from three to four seats per election becomes effective in both halves of the chamber) of the Japanese Senate (House of Councillors). Additionally, the prefecture is part of the Kinki proportional representation block for the House of Representatives and the nationwide proportional election to the House of Councillors.
In the 2005 Representatives election, the centre-right Liberal Democratic–Kōmeitō coalition had won 17 of Osaka's districts, Democrats only held onto the 11th and 19th districts. In the 2009 election, the landslide was reversed with the centre-left Democratic-Social Democratic opposition winning 18 districts of Osaka and the Liberal Democrats only successfully defending the 13th district. In the 2012 Representatives election, the Japan Restoration Party (JRP) and New Komeito (NK) which had a regional cooperation agreement with the JRP in Kinki won a landslide victory, Liberal Democrats (L) won three seats, Democrats (D) none.
The directly elected Representatives and Councillors from Osaka are currently (as of December 16, 2012):
Representatives
1st district: Hidetaka Inoue (JRP)
2nd district: Akira Satō (L)
3rd district: Shigeki Satō (NK)
4th district: Masatoshi Murakami (JRP)
5th district: Tōru Kunishige (NK)
6th district: Shin'ichi Isa (NK)
7th district: Naomi Tokashiki (L)
8th district: Tomohiko Kinoshita (JRP)
9th district: Yasushi Odachi (JRP)
10th district: Kenta Matsunami (JRP)
11th district: Nobuhisa Itō (JRP)
12th district: Tomokatsu Kitagawa (L)
13th district: Kōichi Nishino (JRP)
14th district: Takashi Tanihata (JRP)
15th district: Yasuto Urano (JRP)
16th district: Kazuo Kitagawa (NK)
17th district: Nobuyuki Baba (JRP)
18th district: Takashi Endō (JRP)
19th district: Hodaka Maruyama (JRP)
Councillors (Osaka At-large district)
Class of 2010 (term ends 2016)
Hirotaka Ishikawa (NK)
Issei Kitagawa (L)
Motoyuki Odachi (D)
Class of 2013 (term ends 2019)
Tōru Azuma (JRP)
Takuji Yanagimoto (L)
Hisatake Sugi (NK)
Kōtarō Tatsumi (JCP)
Governor
Osaka's current governor is Osaka Restoration Association secretary-general Ichirō Matsui who defeated Kaoru Kurata (supported by Democrats and Liberal Democrats), a Communist and four other candidates in the November 2011 early election triggered by Tōru Hashimoto's resignation. Previous elected governors of Osaka were:
Bunzō Akama (JLP/LP/JDP), 3 terms, 1947–1959,
Gisen Satō (L), 3 terms, 1959–1971,
Ryōichi Kuroda (I – S, JCP; only JCP support in his second election), 2 terms, 1971–1979,
Sakae Kishi (I), 3 terms, 1979–1991,
Kazuo Nakagawa (I), 1 term, 1991–1995,
Knock Yokoyama (I), 2 terms, 1995–1999 (resigned),
Fusae Ōta (I – L, D, Kōmeitō, LP; additionally SDP support in her second election), 2 terms, 2000–2008,
Tōru Hashimoto (I – L, Kōmeitō; formed Restoration Association in 2010), 1 term, 2008–2011 (resigned).
Assembly
The Prefectural Assembly has currently 109 members, elected to four-year terms by single non-transferable vote in 62 multi- and single-member districts which correspond to the wards of designated cities, independent cities and counties of Osaka. Regular elections have been held as part of the unified regional elections (last round: April 2011) in postwar Japan; by-elections are scheduled as necessary. In the 2011 election the Osaka Restoration Association won an outright majority.
Regional cooperation
Osaka joined in the Kansai regional cooperation (Kansai kōiki rengō, "Union of Kansai Governments") together with Shiga, Kyōto, Hyōgo, Wakayama, Tottori and Tokushima in December 2010. For the time being, the cooperation is limited to few areas of administration such as tourism promotion or disaster prevention; but an expansion of responsibilities both from the prefectural level and the central government is planned. The regional cooperation is considered a one potential step towards the possible implementation of a system of larger states (dō-shū-sei) as a replacement for the current prefectures as proposed by some local and national politicians and loosely planned by the central government since the early 2000s.
External links
Osaka Prefectural Government
Osaka Prefectural Assembly
Union of Kansai Governments
References
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