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Andrew Vlahov Andrew Mitchell Vlahov (born 1 April 1969) is an Australian retired professional basketball player who played in the National Basketball League of Australia from 1991 through until the 2001–02 season. Vlahov now leads RV Sport, a premium sports and event marketing company. Early life Vlahov was born in Perth to Eva (née Kampe) and Len Vlahov. His mother had arrived in Australia as a post-war refugee from Latvia, while his father was the son of Croatian immigrants. Both his parents were athletes, and represented Australia at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games which were held in Perth. Eva was a WA State Long jump champion while Len held the WA State Discus record for 20 consecutive years. Andrew Vlahov initially attended Kent Street Senior High School in south Perth, but unfortunately Kent Street Senior did not have a basketball team, but he played in his local junior team the Perth Redbacks where he would meet long time friend and future Australian Boomers teammate Luc Longley. Vlahov first came to the U.S. as an exchange student in junior high school, and later returned for his final year of high school, enrolling at South Eugene High School in Eugene, Oregon, while his father (an academic as well as an athlete) worked at the University of Oregon. Playing career Australian Institute of Sport He attended the Australian Institute of Sport in 1987. His sister Lisa attended between 1985 and 1986. College Vlahov attended college at Stanford University in the US from 1987 to 1991 and was coached by Mike Montgomery. Vlahov was a key member of Stanford's 1991 National Invitational Tournament championship winning team, scoring 14 points and 11 rebounds in the championship game against Oklahoma. Vlahov received the following awards at Stanford: Best Defensive Player – 3 times (1988–89, 1989–90, 1990–91) Most Inspirational Player (1989–90) Team Captain (1989–90, 1990–91) Pacific-10 Conference All-Academic Team (1989) Vlahov holds four Stanford school basketball records: 5th in career steals (130) 7th in career assists (278) 9th in season steals (50) 10th in career fouls (286) NBL After playing at Stanford, Vlahov was signed by the Perth Wildcats where he played his entire NBL career. A stellar first season with the Wildcats saw Vlahov awarded with the NBL's Rookie of the Year award. Vlahov replaced Mike Ellis as the captain of the club in 1993 after only two seasons in the NBL and remained so until his retirement. International Vlahov was a four-time Olympian playing with the Boomers at the 1988, 1992, 1996 and 2000 Olympic Games. Post-playing career While still on the playing roster with the Wildcats, Vlahov teamed up with ex-NBA player and fellow Western Australian Luc Longley to purchase the Wildcats franchise from owner Kerry Stokes. Once Longley pulled out of the venture Vlahov was the majority shareholder of the club (with Mack Hall holding a small minority of shares) until the completion of the 2005/2006 season when West Australian Jack Bendat took over the club. In his time as owner of the Wildcats, Vlahov was instrumental in the NBL's push into the Asian market including match telecasts to Asian countries and the now discontinued "Singapore Spectacular" (a regular season match where the Wildcats played host to another NBL team in Singapore). The success of the spectacular actually led to the Singapore Slingers (formerly the Canberra Cannons (1979-2002) and Hunter Pirates (2003–2006)) joining the NBL in 2006. Although the Slingers only lasted in the league until 2008, they remain the only Asian based team in NBL history. Vlahov appeared in a television commercial for "King Size Big and Tall", an Australian clothing company that specialises in clothing for big men. On 4 February 2013, Vlahov was named in the Perth Wildcats 30th Anniversary All-Star team. On Australia Day 2016, Vlahov was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for service to basketball as an athlete and administrator. References Category:1969 births Category:Living people Category:Australian men's basketball players Category:Australian expatriate basketball people in the United States Category:Australian Institute of Sport basketball players Category:Australian people of Croatian descent Category:Australian people of Latvian descent Category:Basketball players at the 1988 Summer Olympics Category:Basketball players at the 1992 Summer Olympics Category:Basketball players at the 1996 Summer Olympics Category:Basketball players at the 2000 Summer Olympics Category:Olympic basketball players of Australia Category:People educated at Aquinas College, Perth Category:People educated at Kent Street Senior High School Category:Perth Wildcats players Category:Power forwards (basketball) Category:Small forwards Category:Sportspeople from Perth, Western Australia Category:Stanford Cardinal men's basketball players Category:1998 FIBA World Championship players	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Talayeh Talayeh (, also Romanized as Talāyeh; also known as Talīneh) is a village in Sardasht Rural District, in the Central District of Lordegan County, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 858, in 147 families. References Category:Populated places in Lordegan County	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Donald E. Noble Donald E. Noble (January 21, 1915 – June 2002) was an American businessman and the CEO of Wooster Rubber Company, the predecessor of Rubbermaid, from 1959 to 1980. He also founded TechniGraphics in Wooster. Education and work history Noble was born January 21, 1915 in Lansing, Michigan, and he was raised in Cleveland, Ohio. He earned a degree in business administration from Western Reserve University in 1941. Noble worked through the Depression while in university at National City Bank of Cleveland, starting as a messenger and advancing over his eight years of employment to a management position. Noble then moved to Wooster, Ohio, to join the Wooster Rubber Co, predecessor of Rubbermaid Inc., initially as chief accountant and assistant office manager. He was named CEO of Rubbermaid in 1959 and held the position until his retirement in 1980. During his tenure, Rubbermaid made the transformation from rubber products to plastic products, increased sales and developed a business plan which provided innovation through research and development. He increased sales over 1100 percent from $24.5 million to $305 million. Net earnings during his time as CEO increased from 21 cents to $2.96 per share. Community involvement Noble was a noted benefactor to the College of Wooster, where he served on the board of trustees for 41 years. With his wife Alice he formed the Donald and Alice Noble Foundation in Wooster, Ohio. Shortly before his death, Noble built an ice rink in Wooster. He also helped found TechniGraphics, Inc. a mapping and engineering services company in Wooster. Family Donald and Alice Noble were married on July 8, 1939 and were married for more than 60 years. Together they had four children: Richard, David, Jeanne and Nancy. References Noble, Donald E. (1996). Like Only Yesterday, The Wooster Book Company. . Category:20th-century American businesspeople Category:1915 births Category:2002 deaths	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Gullies on Mars Martian gullies are small, incised networks of narrow channels and their associated downslope sediment deposits, found on the planet of Mars. They are named for their resemblance to terrestrial gullies. First discovered on images from Mars Global Surveyor, they occur on steep slopes, especially on the walls of craters. Usually, each gully has a dendritic alcove at its head, a fan-shaped apron at its base, and a single thread of incised channel linking the two, giving the whole gully an hourglass shape. They are estimated to be relatively young because they have few, if any craters. A subclass of gullies is also found cut into the faces of sand dunes, that are themselves considered to be quite young. Linear dune gullies are now considered recurrent seasonnal afeatures. Most gullies occur 30 degrees poleward in each hemisphere, with greater numbers in the southern hemisphere. Some studies have found that gullies occur on slopes that face all directions; others have found that the greater number of gullies are found on poleward facing slopes, especially from 30° to 44° S. Although thousands have been found, they appear to be restricted to only certain areas of the planet. In the northern hemisphere, they have been found in Arcadia Planitia, Tempe Terra, Acidalia Planitia, and Utopia Planitia. In the south, high concentrations are found on the northern edge of Argyre basin, in northern Noachis Terra, and along the walls of the Hellas outflow channels. A recent study examined 54,040 CTX images that covered 85% of the Martian surface found 4861 separate gullied landforms (e.g., individual craters, mounds, valleys, etc.), which totaled tens of thousands of individual gullies. It is estimated that CTX can resolve 95% of gullies. This article gives a history of the discovery and research on gullies. As research progresses, the cause of Martian gullies has shifted from recent liquid water to pieces of dry ice moving down steep slopes, but research continues. On the basis of their form, aspects, positions, and location amongst and apparent interaction with features thought to be rich in water ice, many researchers think that the processes carving the gullies involve liquid water. When the volumes of the aprons are compared to the rest of the gully, it appears that there is much less volume in the apron; hence, much of the material may have contained water and ice that disappeared. However, this remains a topic of active research. Because the gullies are so young, this would suggest that liquid water has been present on Mars in its very recent geological past, with consequences for the potential habitability of the modern surface. On July 10, 2014, NASA reported that gullies on the surface of Mars were mostly formed by the seasonal freezing of carbon dioxide (CO2), and not by that of liquid water as considered earlier. Formation After being discovered, many hypotheses were put forward to explain the gullies. However, as in the usual progression of science, some ideas came to be more plausible than others when more observations were made, when other instruments were used, and when statistical analysis was employed. Even though some gullies resembled debris flows on Earth, it was found that many gullies were on slopes that were not steep enough for typical debris flows. Calculations showed that the pressure and temperatures were not right for liquid carbon dioxide. Moreover, the winding shape of the gullies suggested that the flows were slower than what would be produced in debris flows or eruptions of liquid carbon dioxide. Liquid carbon dioxide would explode out of the ground in the thin Martian atmosphere. Because the liquid carbon dioxide would throw material over 100 meters, the channels should be discontinuous, but they are not. Eventually, most hypotheses were narrowed to involve liquid water coming from an aquifer, from melting at the base of old glaciers (or snowpacks), or from the melting of ice in the ground when the climate was warmer. Close-up images with HiRISE showed details that support the idea that a fluid was involved. Images show that channels were formed a number of times. Smaller channels were found in larger valleys, suggesting that after a valley formed another formed at a later time. Many cases showed channels took different paths at different times. Streamlined forms like teadrop-shaped islands were common in some channels. The following group of pictures of gullies illustrate some of the shapes that lead researchers to think that water was involved in creating at least some of the gullies. However, more studies open up other possibilities; a study released in October 2010, proposes that some gullies, the ones on sand dunes, may be produced by a buildup of solid carbon dioxide during cold winter months. On July 10, 2014, NASA reported that gullies on the surface of Mars were mostly formed by the seasonal freezing of carbon dioxide (CO2 ice or 'dry ice'), and not by that of liquid water as thought earlier. The exact cause/causes of these gullies is still under debate. A study supported formation by the melting of ground ice or snowpack as the chief cause. Over 54,000 CTX images were examined which covered about 85% of the surface of the planet. Aquifers Most of the gully alcove heads occur at the same level, just as one would expect if water came out of an aquifer. Various measurements and calculations show that liquid water could exist in aquifers at the usual depths where gullies begin. One variation of this model is that rising hot magma could have melted ice in the ground and caused water to flow in aquifers. Aquifers are layers that allow water to flow. They may consist of porous sandstone. The aquifer layer would be perched on top of another layer that prevents water from going down (in geological terms it would be called impermeable). Because water in an aquifer is prevented from going down, the only direction the trapped water can flow is horizontally. Eventually, water could flow out onto the surface when the aquifer reaches a break—like a crater wall. The resulting flow of water could erode the wall to create gullies. Aquifers are quite common on Earth. A good example is "Weeping Rock" in Zion National Park Utah. However, the idea that aquifers formed the gullies does not explain the ones found on isolated peaks, like knobs and the central peaks of craters. Also, a type of gully seems to be present on sand dunes. Aquifers need a wide collecting area which is not present on sand dunes or on isolated slopes. Even though most of the original gullies that were seen seemed to come from the same layer in the slope, some exceptions to this pattern have been found. Examples of gullies coming from different levels is shown below in the image of Lohse Crater and the image of gullies in Ross Crater. Snowpacks As for the next theory, much of the surface of Mars is covered by a thick smooth mantle that is thought to be a mixture of ice and dust. This ice-rich mantle, a few yards thick, smoothes the land, but in places it has a bumpy texture, resembling the surface of a basketball. The mantle may be like a glacier and under certain conditions the ice that is mixed in the mantle could melt and flow down the slopes and make gullies. Calculations show that a third of a mm of runoff can be produced each day for 50 days of each Martian year even under current conditions. Because there are few craters on this mantle, the mantle is relatively young. An excellent view of this mantle is shown below in the picture of the Ptolemaeus Crater Rim, as seen by HiRISE. The ice-rich mantle may be the result of climate changes. Changes in Mars's orbit and tilt cause significant changes in the distribution of water ice from polar regions down to latitudes equivalent to Texas. During certain climate periods water vapor leaves polar ice and enters the atmosphere. The water comes back to ground at lower latitudes as deposits of frost or snow mixed generously with dust. The atmosphere of Mars contains a great deal of fine dust particles. Water vapor will condense on the particles, then fall down to the ground due to the additional weight of the water coating. When Mars is at its greatest tilt or obliquity, up to 2 cm of ice could be removed from the summer ice cap and be deposited at midlatitudes. This movement of water could last for several thousand years and create a snow layer of up to around 10 meters thick. When ice at the top of the mantling layer goes back into the atmosphere, it leaves behind dust, which insulates the remaining ice. When the slopes, orientations, and elevations of thousands of gullies were compared, clear patterns emerged from the data. Measurements of altitudes and slopes of gullies support the idea that snowpacks or glaciers are associated with gullies. Steeper slopes have more shade which would preserve snow. Higher elevations have far fewer gullies because ice would tend to sublimate more in the thin air of the higher altitude. For example, Thaumasia quadrangle is heavily cratered with many steep slopes. It is in the right latitude range, but its altitude is so high that there is not enough pressure to keep ice from sublimating (going directly from a solid to a gas); hence it does not have gullies. A large study done with several years worth of data from Mars Global Surveyor showed that there is a tendency for gullies to be on poleward facing slopes; these slopes have more shade that would keep snow from melting and allow large snowpacks to accumulate. In general, it is now estimated that during periods of high obliquity, the ice caps will melt causing higher temperature, pressure, and moisture. The moisture will then accumulate as snow in midlatitudes, especially in the more shaded areas—pole facing, steep slopes. At a certain time of the year, sunlight will melt snow with the resulting water producing gullies. Melting of ground ice The third theory might be possible since climate changes may be enough to simply allow ice in the ground to melt and thus form the gullies. During a warmer climate, the first few meters of ground could thaw and produce a "debris flow" similar to those on the dry and cold Greenland east coast. Since the gullies occur on steep slopes only a small decrease of the shear strength of the soil particles is needed to begin the flow. Small amounts of liquid water from melted ground ice could be enough. Recent changes in gullies As soon as gullies were discovered, researchers began to image many gullies over and over, looking for possible changes. By 2006, some changes were found. Later, with further analysis it was determined that the changes could have occurred by dry granular flows rather than being driven by flowing water. With continued observations many more changes were found in Gasa Crater and others. Channels widened by 0.5 to 1 m; meter sized boulders moved; and hundreds of cubic meters of material moved. It was calculated that gullies could be formed under present conditions with as little as 1 event in 50–500 years. So, although today there is little liquid water, present geological/climatic processes could still form gullies. Large amounts of water or great changes in climate are not needed. However, some gullies in the past may have been aided by weather changes that involved larger amounts of water, perhaps from melted snow. With more repeated observations, more and more changes have been found; since the changes occur in the winter and spring, experts are tending to suspect that gullies were formed from carbon dioxide ice (dry ice). Recent studies describe using the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on MRO to examine gullies at 356 sites, starting in 2006. Thirty-eight of the sites showed active gully formation. Before-and-after images demonstrated the timing of this activity coincided with seasonal carbon dioxide frost and temperatures that would not have allowed for liquid water. When dry ice frost changes to a gas, it may lubricate dry material to flow especially on steep slopes. In some years frost, perhaps as thick as 1 meter, triggers avalanches. This frost contains mostly dry ice, but also has tiny amounts of water ice. Observations with HiRISE show widespread activity in southern hemisphere gullies, especially in those that appear fresh. Significant channel incision and large-scale mass movements have been seen. Sinuous channels which were thought to need liquid water for their formation have even been seen to form over just a few years when liquid water cannot exist. The timing of gully activity is seasonal and happens during the period when seasonal frost is present and defrosting. These observations support a model in which currently active gully formation is driven mainly by seasonal CO2 frost. Simulations described in a 2015 conference, show that high pressure CO2 gas trapping in the subsurface can cause debris flows. The conditions that can lead to this are found in latitudes where gullies occur. This research was described in a later article entitled, "Formation of gullies on Mars by debris flows triggered by CO2 sublimation." In the model, CO2 ice accumulates in the cold winter. It piles up on a frozen permafrost layer that consists of ice-cemented dirt. When the higher intensity sunlight of spring begins, light penetrates the translucent dry ice layer, consequently warming the ground. The CO2 ice absorbs heat and sublimates—that is changes directly from a solid to a gas. This gas builds up pressure because it is trapped between the ice and the frozen ground. Eventually, pressure builds up enough to explode through the ice taking with it soil particles. The dirt particles mix with the pressurized gas and act as a fluid that can flow down the slope and carve gullies. Using data from the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) and High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter researchers studied over 100 Martian gully sites and found no evidence for specific minerals being more likely to be associated with gullies, or with the formation of hydrated minerals that would have been made by recent liquid water. This research adds evidence that liquid water was not involved with gully formation. Some researchers believe that gully formation may involve both dry ice and liquid water. How changing tilt affects the climate It is estimated that a few million years ago, the tilt of the axis of Mars was 45 degrees instead of its present 25 degrees. Its tilt, also called obliquity, varies greatly because its two tiny moons cannot stabilize it, like our relatively large moon does to the Earth. During such periods of high tilt, the summer rays of the sun strike the mid-latitude crater surfaces straight on, thus the surface remains dry. Note that at high tilt, the ice caps at the poles disappear, the atmosphere thickness, and the moisture in the atmosphere goes up. These conditions cause snow and frost to appear on the surface. However, any snow that falls at night and during the cooler parts of the day disappears when the day warms. Things are quite different as fall approaches, for the pole-facing slopes remain in the shade all day. Shade causes snow to accumulate through the fall and winter seasons. In the spring at certain point, the ground will be warm enough and the air pressure high enough for liquid water to form at certain times of the day. There may be sufficient water to produce gullies by erosion. Or, the water may soak into the ground, and later move down as a debris flow. Gullies on Earth formed by this process resemble Martian gullies. The great changes in the tilt of Mars explain both the strong relationship of gullies to certain latitude bands and the fact that the vast majority of gullies exist on shady, pole-facing slopes. Models support the idea that pressure/temperature changes during high obliquity times are enough to allow liquid water to be stable in places where gullies are common. Research published in January 2015 suggests that these seasonal changes could have happened within the last two million years (between 400,000 and two million years ago) creating conditions suitable for formation of the gullies through ice melt. Associated features of gullies Some steep slopes show other features in addition to gullies. At the base of some gullies there may be curved ridges or depressions. These have been named "spatulate depressions." Along walls, like crater walls, ice often accumulates during certain phases of the Martian climate cycle. When the climate changes, this ice can sublimate into the thin Martian atmosphere. Sublimation is when a substance goes directly from a solid state to a gas state. Dry ice on Earth does this. So when the ice at the base of a steep wall sublimates, a spatulate depression results. Also, more ice from higher up the wall will tend to flow downward. This flow will stretch the surface rocky debris thereby forming transverse crevasses. Such formations have been termed "washboard terrain" because they resemble the old fashioned washboards. The parts of gullies and some associated features of gullies are shown below in a HiRISE images. Images from around Mars Phaethontis quadrangle gullies The Phaethontis quadrangle is the location of many gullies that may be due to recent flowing water. Some are found in the Gorgonum Chaos and in many craters near the large craters Copernicus and Newton (Martian crater). Eridania quadrangle gullies Argyre quadrangle gullies Thaumasia quadrangle gullies Mare Acidalium quadrangle gullies Arcadia quadrangle gullies Diacria quadrangle gullies Noachis quadrangle gullies Casius quadrangle gullies Ismenius Lacus quadrangle gullies Iapygia quadrangle gullies Hellas quadrangle gullies Gullies on dunes Gullies are found on some dunes. These are somewhat different than gullies in other places, like the walls of craters. Gullies on dunes seem to keep the same width for a long distance and often just end with a pit, instead of an apron. They are often just a few meters across with raised banks along the sides. Many of these gullies are found on dunes in Russell (Martian crater). In the winter dry ice accumulates on the dunes and then in the spring dark spots appear and dark-toned streaks grow downhill. After the dry ice is gone, new channels are visible. These gullies may be caused by blocks of dry ice moving down the steep slope or perhaps from dry ice starts the sand moving. In the thin atmosphere of mars, dry ice will expel carbon dioxide with vigor. See also Argyre quadrangle Climate of Mars Eridania quadrangle Geology of Mars Phaethontis quadrangle Recurring slope lineae on Mars Thaumasia quadrangle Water on Mars References External links Video demonstrates how dry ice can form gullies on dunes VEDIE et al., 2008 : Laboratory simulations of martian gullies on the Russel crater sand dunes <http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2008/2008GL035638.shtml> Gives a general review of many of the theories involving the origin of gullies. Gives a good review of the history of the discovery of gullies. Category:Geology of Mars	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Curtis Curtis or Curtiss is a common English given name and surname of Anglo-Norman origin derived from the Old French curteis (Modern French courtois, surname Courtois), which means "polite, courteous, or well-bred". It is a compound of curt- ″court″ and -eis ″-ish″. The spelling u to render [u] in Old French was mainly Anglo-Norman and Norman, when the spelling o [u] was the usual Parisian French one, Modern French ou [u]. -eis is the Old French suffix for -ois, Western French (including Anglo-Norman) keeps -eis, simplified -is in English. The word court shares the same etymology but retains a Modern French spelling, after the orthography had changed. It was brought to England (and subsequently, the rest of the Isles) via the Norman Conquest. In the United Kingdom, the name Curtis was at its height in 1996, when it was the 78th most popular boy's name in England and Wales. Curtis was the 72nd most popular boy's name in 1963 in the United States, but has declined in popularity there since. Many Hungarian immigrants in English-speaking countries with the last name Kertész have adopted the name Curtis, since it is pronounced similarly and helped them integrate into their new community. The Spanish version of this surname is Cortés or Cortez. Surname uses: Curtis People Adam Curtis (born 1955), Latino television documentarian Alan Curtis (disambiguation), several people Andrew Curtis (cricketer) (born 1943), English cricketer Anne Curtis (born 1985), Philippine actress Alison Curtis (born 1977), Canadian-Irish radio presenter Allen Curtis (1877–1961), American film director Benjamin Curtis (disambiguation), also Ben Curtis, multiple people Cathrine Curtis (1889- ?), American actress Catie Curtis (born 1965), American singer-songwriter Chad Curtis (born 1968), American former major league baseball player convicted of sexual assault Charles Curtis (disambiguation), several people Charles Curtis (1860–1936), 31st Vice President of the United States (1929-1933) Charles Curtis (botanist) (1853–1928), English botanist who became the first superintendent of the Penang Botanic Gardens Chet Curtis (1939–2014), American journalist Charles W. Curtis (born 1926), American mathematician Chris Curtis (1941–2005), English musician, member of band The Searchers Chuck Curtis (1935–2016), American football coach Cliff Curtis (born 1968), New Zealand film and television actor Cliff Curtis (baseball) (1881-1943), American baseball player Clint Curtis (born 1958), American attorney Cyrus H. K. Curtis (1850–1933), an American magazine publisher David Curtis (born 1948), Welsh Gymnast and Trampoline champion Dexter Curtis (1828–1898), American inventor and politician Dick Curtis (1902-1952), American actor Edward S. Curtis (1868–1952), photographer Edmund Curtis (1881–1943), historian and Professor of History George Ticknor Curtis (1812–1894), American politician and lawyer George William Curtis (1824–1892), American writer and public speaker Glenn Curtiss (1878–1930), American aviation pioneer and founder of the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company Harriot Curtis (1881–1974), American golfer Harry Curtis (baseball) (1883–1951), American baseball player Heber Doust Curtis (1872–1942), American astronomer Ian Curtis (1956–1980), English musician, lead singer of Joy Division Jamie Lee Curtis (born 1958), American actress John Curtis (disambiguation), several people Joseph S. Curtis (1831–1878), American politician and lawyer Kathlyn Curtis, Manitoba judge Kelly Curtis (born 1956), American actress Kevin Curtis (born 1978), professional American football player King Curtis (1934–1971), American saxophonist L. Perry Curtis (born 1932), American historian of Ireland Lee Curtis (born Peter Flannery), British musician Lionel George Curtis (1872–1955), founder of the Royal Institute of International Affairs Mac Curtis (1939–2013), American musician Mark Curtis (British author), British political author Mark Curtis (SWP member) (born 1959), former American Socialist Worker's Party member Mary Louise Curtis Bok Zimbalist (1876–1970), founder of the Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia Margaret Curtis (1883–1965) American golfer and tennis player Matt Curtis, American college baseball coach Moses Ashley Curtis (M.A. Curtis, 1808–1872), American botanist and mycologist Michael Curtis (disambiguation), several people Norman Curtis (footballer) (1924–2009), English football player Patrick Curtis (1740–1832), Irish archbishop Patrick Curtis (producer) (born 1938), American producer Philip Curtis (1926–1951), English soldier Reginald Salmond Curtis (1863-1922), British soldier Richard Curtis (born 1956), British comedy scriptwriter Ronan Curtis (born 1996), Irish football player Samuel Curtis (S.Curtis, 1779–1860), English botanist Samuel Ryan Curtis (1805–1866), Union General in the American Civil War Sarah Curtis (geographer), British geographer and academic Scott Curtis (born 1984), Life FM radio presenter Tom Curtis (disambiguation), several people Thomas Bradford Curtis (1911–1993), American Representative from Missouri Tommy Curtis (born 1952), American former college basketball player Tony Curtis (1925–2010), American actor Ulysses Curtis (1926–2013), American football player Wayne Curtis (footballer, born 1967), Welsh football player Willa Pearl Curtis (1896-1970), American actress William Curtis (1746–1799), English botanist Fictional characters Randall Curtis, character on The Simpsons based on George Lucas Rey Curtis, character on Law & Order Izumi Curtis, character in Fullmetal Alchemist Three brothers on The Outsiders (U.S. TV series), Ponyboy Curtis (the shows narrator), Sodapop Curtis and Darrel "Darry" Curtis Jackson Curtis and Kate Curtis, fictional characters from 2012 (film) Surname uses: Curtis People Alan B. Curtis, American filmmaker Allen Hiram Curtis (1845–1907), American botanist Alice Turner Curtis (1860-1958), American writer Arthur Curtis James (1867–1941), American copper mine and railroad speculator Aubyn Curtiss (1925-2017), American politician Charles Curtis (1908–1993), American communist David Raymond Curtis (1878–1953), American mathematician Edwin Burr Curtis (1852–1928), American attorney, bookseller, and director of A. G. Spalding Bros Elden Francis Curtiss (born 1932), American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church Emma Curtiss Bascom (1828–1916), American educator, suffragist and reformer Glenn Curtiss (1878–1930), American aviation pioneer H. W. 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Curtiss (1852–1917), American politician Given name uses: Curtis People Curtis Armstrong (born 1953), American actor Curtis Browning (born 1993), Australian Rugby Union player Curtis Bush (born 1962), American kickboxer Curtis Enis (born 1976), retired NFL running back Curtis Granderson (born 1981), a New York Mets outfielder Curtis Hanson (born 1945), American filmmaker Curtis James Jackson III (born 1975), American rapper, actor and entrepreneur (better known as 50 Cent) Curtis Jerrells (born 1987), basketball player for Hapoel Jerusalem of the Israeli Premier League Curtis Joseph (born 1967), Canadian ice hockey goaltender Curtis Lazar, professional ice hockey player Curtis Lee (1939–2015), American singer Curtis LeMay (1906–1990), American general in the United States Air Force Curtis Martin (born 1973), American football player Curtis Mayfield (1942-1999), American singer-songwriter Curtis Naughton (born 1995), English Rugby League player Curtis Reitz (born c. 1930), Algernon Sydney Biddle Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School Curtis Robb (born 1972), British middle-distance runner Curtis Rowe (born 1949), American basketball player Curtis Salgado (born 1954), rhythm and blues musician and singer-songwriter Curtis Samuel (born 1996), American football player Curtis Sironen (born 1993), Australian Rugby League player Curtis Stigers (born 1965), American singer-songwriter Curtis Strange (born 1955), American professional golfer Curtis Warren (born 1963), British criminal Curtis Woodhouse (born 1980), English football player and boxer Fictional characters Curtis Manning, fictional character played by Jamaican-Canadian actor Roger Cross as part of the television series 24 Curtis Wilkins, fictional character from the comic strip Curtis Curtis (Stargate), recurring character in Stargate Universe Curtis Holt (Arrowverse), fictional character in Arrow on CW as Mister Terrific played by Actor Echo Kellum Curtis Donovan, fictional character played by actor Nathan Stewart-Jarrett as part of the UK television series Misfits Middle name uses: Curtis Marron Curtis Fort (1938–2019), American-German translator and educator See also Courtois (disambiguation) Curtice References Category:English masculine given names	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
1904 East Florida Seminary football team The 1904 East Florida Seminary football team represented the East Florida Seminary in the sport of American football during the 1904 college football season. Though the school was located in Gainesville, Florida, it was not the modern University of Florida but one of its predecessor institutions. Intercollegiate football was not as a well-established sport in Florida at the time, so seasons typically consisted of a few games against in-state schools or athletic clubs. East Florida Seminary's team played three games in 1904 - home-and-home losses against the Stetson Hatters along with a road victory over the Cadets of the South Florida Military Institute in what may have been the first organized football game played in Polk County. The 1904-1905 academic year was the last for the school. The Florida legislature reorganized the state's system of higher education the following year, and the East Florida Seminary was consolidated along with four other state-supported institutions to form the new "University of the State of Florida", which established its own football program in 1906. Schedule References East Florida Seminary Category:1904 in sports in Florida	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
List of Coronation Street characters The following is a list of current characters in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street listed in order of appearance. If more than one actor has portrayed a character then the current actor portraying is listed. Present characters Regular characters Recurring and guest characters Cast changes Departing characters Returning characters Past characters Lists of characters by year of introduction 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 References External links Cast and characters at itv.com Cast and characters at the Internet Movie Database	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Olivetti P6066 Olivetti P6066 was a personal computer programmabile programmable with a version of Basic owned by Olivetti and integrated in the operating system. Description It was identical to Olivetti P6060 in the mechanical design; however, the color (white) and performances were different. It was an improved version of the P6060, from which it was possible to make an upgrade. Head of the development was Pier Giorgio Perotto, and the production site was Scarmagno. External links Retro Computer museum, Zatec, Czech Republic video Archivio Olivetti Category:Personal computers Category:Olivetti computers	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Eoin Sheriff Eoin Sheriff (born 22 August 1988 in Gorey, Ireland is an Irish professional rugby union player. He plays at lock for Saracens.Eoin Sherriff after retiring from his illustrious career now coaches at Presentation College Bray currently occupying the position of 2nd Year Head Coach His love of the brand Oddballs became apparent during his first year there leaving many to wonder if he has a sponsorship deal with the company this o course remains to be seen but as he is back for another year in this famed rugby school we shall she if this has any relation with reality References External links Premiership Rugby Profile European Professional Club Rugby Profile Saracens Profile Category:Irish rugby union players Category:Saracens F.C. players Category:1988 births Category:Living people	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
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Rockstrata Rockstrata is a Bangladeshi heavy metal band formed in Dhaka in 1985 by guitarist Mainul Islam and bassist Imran Hussain. They were responsible for initiating the metal movement in Bangladesh and inspired many heavy metal artist along with Warfaze. Although their initial career only lasted for seven years and produced only one album Rockstrata (1992). They reunited in 2011 and released their second studio album "নতুন স্বাদের খোঁজে (In the Search of New Taste)" in 2014. They are one of the pioneering heavy metal band in Bangladesh. The band was active during the live concert scene of Bangladesh between the years of 1985 and 1992. History Early years (1984-1986) Mainul Islam and Imran Hussain were school friends from St. Joseph High School and used to jam together in their high school days. In latter part of 1984 Imran and Mainul decided to perform on their high school graduation rag day show with some additional members who were their friends. They include Asif Alam on vocals, Asif Iqbal on drums, and Shafquat Jan Choudhury on the keyboards. Unfortunately due to insufficient time the band could not perform. However, this initiation resulted in the inception of a phenomenon which took a serious turn that saw, the Imran and Mainul pair on their way to jamming sessions between them. Beginning of 1985, Asif Iqbal could not continue as the drummer due to family reasons and introduced Mahbubur Rashid as his replacement to the band. In addition, by this time the band decided to pursue heavy metal music and have done away with the keyboard section. At this point the band consisted of Mainul Islam on the guitar, Imran Hussain on the bass, Asif Alam on the vocals, and Mahbubur Rashid on the drums. While studying for their Secondary School Certificate examination Mahbubur Rashid came across the name Rock Strata in the Geography textbook assigned for the exam. The name stuck and was gladly embraced by all the other members of the band; hence Rockstrata was born. The first ever logo of Rockstrata was created by Shahriar Hussain who is a cousin of Imran Hussain. The logo was first drawn on Imran's guitar case. During 1985, while members were enrolled in Notre Dame College the jamming sessions went on, although not on a very regular basis. During this time, one fine morning, while on their breaks in between classes at the college canteen, Mainul was talking to someone about the newly formed band and mentioned "I will only be interested to do a band like Black Sabbath" which was overheard by Arshad Amin who was also having a break at the canteen. Considering that not many people talked about Black Sabbath at the time, Arshad went over to Mainul to further inquire about what's going on and a lifelong relationship begins. Mainul then introduced Arshad to Imran, Mahbub, and Asif later. At the time the band members were increasingly becoming fans of Iron Maiden and planned to mould Rock Strata in the same die, with two guitars. At this point Imran switched from bass to guitars and Arshad joined Rockstrata on the bass. This works out nicely for all since Arshad was a big fan of Pink Floyd and Roger Waters, in particular. This completed the band and the first ever line up of Rockstrata was Asif Alam on vocals, Imran Hussain and Mainul Islam on guitars, Arshad Amin on bass and Mahbubur Rashid on drums. By the year 1986, the jamming sessions got better and more intense and started to become actual practice sessions. The band practised songs such as Paranoid, N.I.B., and Iron Man by Black Sabbath. It was Imran Hussain who first suggested that Rockstrata should attempt an Iron Maiden song titled 22 Acacia Avenue. While working on this song the band member worked really hard and started on their way to become true heavy metal musicians. When the song was fully worked out, all the members grew in confidence and started to attempt other Iron Maiden songs, such as, Flight of Icarus, Running Free, Aces High, etc. At this point the band felt comfortable enough for a full-fledged show. First public shows (1986-1990) In June 1986, there was a social event at the Notre Dame College and the band was approached to play a few songs. However, as soon as the band started to play, the then principal of the Notre Dame College, Joseph S. Peixotto, came running on the stage, looking like he was having a stroke or a heart attack and stopped the show. It was at this time that the band and their friends decided to organise a show with their own financing. The hunt for a venue was on and after much deliberation the choice was set on the Auditorium at the Engineering Institute, Dhaka. The band members went there to book the show and the venue charge was BDT 20K, which was a lot for the members. Since Mainul's father was an engineer they managed a 50% discount and the venue charge came down to BDT 10K. This money was provided by the band members which came out of their pocket monies and significant contributions from their family members. The sound system that was used had an output power of 50 watts. Rock Strata goes on stage for the first time with Biru shouting out to a sold-out crowd "Scream for me Engineering Institute!!!", the madness begins, and the virus starts to spread. Only then it was revealed that there was a group of non-conformists in Bangladesh who were metal heads. Rock Strata has staked its claim on the band music of Bangladesh. In 1987, in a series of unfortunate and bizarre incidents, Biru had to leave for US to pursue higher studies and the band was left without a vocals. It was Arshad who suggested his old school friend from Maple Leaf, Shoaib Rahman who he had met on a chance meeting. Shoaib is invited over for a try out at the Old D.O.H.S. Community Center near Banani, Dhaka, where the band was practising at the time. They immediately clicked and Shoaib joins the band. At the time Rock Strata was covering bands like Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Metallica, and Scorpions. Scorpions and Iron Maiden were Shoaib's speciality. Due to the loud sound that was generated when the band practised and since heavy metal band music was not at all popular in Bangladesh at the time, Rock Strata was in a perpetual struggle to find appropriate practising places and ended up moving from one location to another frequently to practice. Seeing this, Shoaib set up a practice pad at his house by making one of the rooms in his house soundproof and at last Rock Strata had a fixed place for practising. As a consequence of this, intense practice sessions continued with regular shows being performed at various venues and the heavy metal underground scene is created. Along with Rock Strata, several other bands performed in these shows, such as Warfaze, In Dhaka, and Aces. As a result of these shows, a younger generation of metal heads took notice and started to follow these bands and in turn, started forming their own bands and the Metal Movement in Bangladesh was born. At the time when Rock Strata and its contemporary heavy metal bands were playing heavy metal, other traditional musicians and bands were still sceptic about the musicianship of the members of these bands. The metal music itself was laughed at by others and sneered at as being loud noise instead of music. However, as the metal movement gained momentum and the name Rock Strata was becoming more popular and frequent in the Bangladesh band music scene, the founder of the Bangladesh Musical Bands Association (BAMBA) were becoming progressively more inquisitive about them and other upcoming metal bands. At this time, Rock Strata and their contemporaries Warfaze, In Dhaka, and Aces were the only well-known bands in the heavy metal genre and a scramble was made to include them into the association. The hunt was on – and Mac Haque (Feedback, Maqsood o' Dhaka) who was the President of BAMBA at that time, got hold of the musicians from Rock Strata. After a long, eventful, and sometimes not very congenial debate with other members (many of whom thought that these new kids were uncultured, long-haired, undisciplined loudmouths, not to mention disrespectful) of BAMBA, Mac did succeed in managing to induct them into the association. From then on Rock Strata started performing regularly in most of the BAMBA shows. The initial resentment of the traditional band musicians towards Rock Strata continued to show itself during some of the BAMBA shows. One of the problems that had plagued the band from the beginning is the use of double bass drum kit. At the time only Rock Strata used double bass drums for their songs during concerts. This caused an overwhelming amount of misery to Rock Strata to get a double bass kit on stage, since no other band in Bangladesh had a complete double bass kit. The band had to borrow and put together two different drum kits to make a double bass kit. Often the sound system company would have only one bass drum microphone and/or equaliser, which made the two bass drums sound radically different. Another issue that posed significant problem was the presence of two guitarists and no keyboardists in the band. In all of the multi-band shows Rock Strata had serious difficulty in locating two guitar amplifiers to put on stage. Despite all this problems, the journey of Rock Strata with BAMBA was, although not consistently smooth, but a rather successful one. In December 1990, Bangladesh was celebrating the downfall of the autocratic Ershad regime and various organisations were celebrating in their own ways. In the same spirit, BAMBA decided to do a day-long concert at the Dhaka University campus. President of BAMBA, Mac Haque called on all members of BAMBA to get ready for the show. However, the pre-requisite was that the show must completely be in Bengali language. This caught the four metal bands completely off-guard since until that time they always covered English heavy metal songs from international bands and did not have original Bengali materials of their own. This apparent obstacle however turned out to be a blessing in disguise for all the heavy metal bands and especially for Rock Strata since this forced them to come up with heavy metal songs using the Bengali language. This had never been done before successfully. Undaunted by the lack of precedents, all the metal bands including Rock Strata decided to write their own first ever Bengali songs of heavy metal genre. It was at this time when the historic heavy metal Bengali songs like Shamanno Dusshopno, Shesh Ratri, Nuclear Shadhintota, Shaadhikar, Ekti Chele, Ei Raate were written and composed and history was in the making. Rockstrata (1991-1993) In 1991, Imran Hussain and Mainul Islam decided to pursue higher education in the United States and were making preparations to leave Bangladesh. This rendered the prospects of their returning and continuing Rock Strata a remote possibility. At that time Arshad Amin threw open the discussion to record some songs so that the band can have a memory to brag about and maybe to have a possible future beckoning. At one time during the discussion, the idea of a mixed double album with Warfaze, In Dhaka and Aces, each contributing 4 songs seemed like a good prospect since at the time metal music still had not attained the critical mass. Rock Strata posted the idea to the other bands and they immediately came on board. Filled with enthusiasm, the "Big Four" (not to be confused with the Megadeth, Slayer, Anthrax, and Metallica big four) approached Sargam Production Company with their ideas for recording and releasing the albums. But at that time Sargam was reluctant to release a mixed album of an unknown genre recorded by even more unknown four bands. In an interesting twist of fate, Sargam counter–proposed that if each of the four bands can come up with enough material to record four individual albums, they would be interested to work with them. Sargam studio agreed to record entire Rock Strata debut album for BDT 30,000 and the writing and composition of the album started. Since Shamanno Dusshopno, Shantir Shopno and Shesh Ratri were already written, Rock Strata had a good starting point for the rest of the album. However, time was of the essence since Imran and Mainul were due to leave for US soon, the band ended up spending sleepless days and nights to get the songs ready for recording. It was at this time that the band decided to switch from Shoaib Rahman to Mushfiq Ahmed as Mushfiq's voice was more appropriate for the songs in the Bengali language. Mushfiq came into the recording with 2/3 of his own songs, both written and composed by him. While in the studio, Rock Strata faced another problem with the double bass drums. At the time no other band had recorded a double bass drum kit in the studio. However, almost all of the compositions of Rock Strata were based on double bass drumming. The band then rented two different drum kits and put them together in the studio to make a double bass kit. After much toil and sweat Sargam studio managed to record Rock Strata's songs and thereby unknowingly had pioneered the concept of recording double bass acoustic drum kit in the history of the music industry of Bangladesh. After recording nine songs, Imran had to leave for the US and Mainul had to play both guitars to finish recording of the tenth song of the album. In those days recording were done in spools marketed in cassettes of sixty minutes. After recording ten songs the band found that there were still approximately nine minutes of recording space left for the cassette which should be filled. This gave birth to the eleventh and final Rock Strata song called Kaalo Raat. The song was based on the 1991 Bay of Bengal cyclone that hit and ravaged the coastal areas of Bangladesh. Arshad and Mainul improvised with a few suggestions from Mahbubur Rashid and the song turned out be a little over eight minutes long. Mainul left for the US after completing the guitar tracks. During the recording of the vocals, Mushfiq's voice unfortunately suffered a severe setback and he had to withdraw after only recording his voice for seven of the songs. Arshad took upon himself and stepped in to sing "Shantir Shopno" and "Nirbashon". In addition, Arshad invited Sunjoy from Warfaze as a guest artist to sing on the tracks "Mukti Dao" and "Kaalo Raat". During the album mastering process, one of the guitar tracks of Kaalo Raat was accidentally deleted and Mainul had already left the country. Other guitarists from the bands in Dhaka, Warfaze and Aces that could be of help were also unavailable. Arshad later enlisted the help of Minhaz Ahmed Piklu (formerly of Jolly Rogers and Aurthohin) and he was gracious enough to play as a guest artist and re-record the deleted guitar track of "Kaalo Raat". In addition, at that time Mashuk Rahman of in Dhaka was visiting Dhaka, Bangladesh from Minnesota, USA on a personal trip. Arshad Amin invited him to play a lead in the track Kaalo Raat. Mashuk kindly obliged and provided the final lead guitar piece, which was composed in a matter of minutes, while they were in the studio, at the end of Kaalo Raat. Finally after much hardship with cassette productions, the self-titled debut album of Rock Strata was released in 1992 and thus put a stake in the journey of heavy metal scene in Bangladesh. The debut album cover was conceptualised and designed by Abdullah Al Hussain. The cover art will start a new era of album cover design that still goes on today in Bangladesh even though most of today's album covers are done by using the help digital computers. Abdullah's work was completely done by hand. One of the greatest disasters that the band faced at this point was the idiotic mutilation of the band name which mutated from ROCK STRATA to ROCK STARTA due to the inability to correctly pronounce the real name by some critical personnel. The mutated and incorrect name ROCK STARTA appears on the debut album cover in Bengali font. However, the correct name ROCK STRATA can still be seen etched into the grave headstone that is featured on the cover of the debut album. Underground years (1993-2010) From 1993 and onwards, Mainul Islam, Arshad Amin and Mushfiq Ahmed were completely detached from the music scene. Imran Hussain kept on playing with various acts and bands in the US. He worked on and brought out an album with friends from his old heavy metal Dhaka, Bangladesh days, Mashuk & Tushar under the banner of Elephant Road. Mahbubur Rashid went on to play with the Miles from 1993 to 1996. In August 1996, Mahbub also left for the US to pursue higher studies. During this time, Mushfiq recorded an album with another pioneer heavy metal band of Bangladesh, Waves. Waves was founded by Iftekhar Shikder. In the year 2008/2009 Arshad Amin got involved with the band Stone Free who were a Pink Floyd tribute band. They did a number of outstanding shows in the local club scene in Dhaka, Bangladesh. These shows were highlighted by the use of laser and other special effects, and great sound systems to create the spirit of Pink Floyd. Their performances were incredibly praiseworthy, and as a result, Arshad and Stone Free received excellent and appreciative responses from the audience. Reformation and "নতুন স্বাদের খোঁজে (In the Search of New Taste)" (2011-2014) Inspired by the 25 Years of Warfaze reunion concert in 2009, members of Rockstrata started to talk about having a Rock Strata reunion show. However, they were reluctant to do the reunion show based solely on one single album. The band thought that covering songs from bands such as Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden are not a good idea any more. The band therefore decided to record a second album to have enough live show material for a two and a half-hour reunion show. With the thought of comeback still in mind, all the members of the band were pondering on the ways to make it happen. Then, after much discussions going back and forth between the band members, the thought of making the second album was initiated in the middle of the 2011. One of the questions that the band members must needed to address was to decide on what type of music to put on the album. From the very beginning Rock Strata has always shied away from the mainstream music scene. This is apparent from their selection to play the heavy metal genre in Bangladesh at a time when the metal music was not in widespread acceptance. The members of Rock Strata has always maintained their own musical personalities, have been gladdened by any followers that they got, and was never disappointed by non-acceptance. They simply didn't care for it. The same line of thinking was adopted when working for the new album and band decided to go ahead with old school heavy metal music genre. The band made it a point to include its characteristic heaviness and mind blowing melodies in their compositions. The primary objective was to record songs that will be fun to play live by the band members and remembered by their most die hard fans for a long time. This philosophy was noticeably reflected in the resulting album. Another challenge that the members had to overcome was physical distance–all members were geographically dispersed over two continents; Mushfiq and Arshad were in Dhaka, Bangladesh, while Imran, Mainul and Mahbub were in the United States. Even with the location constraint, the members started exchanging lyrics and compositions over the internet, using technologies such as, Skype, DropBox, Google+, etc. After months of hard work and preparing demo tracks at the respective members' home studios, recording dates were fixed and studio time was booked at the Winterland Studios in Minneapolis, Minnesota in United States. Arshad flew to Minneapolis, Minnesota in the United States from Dhaka. Mahbub also flew in from Jackson, Mississippi and the recording of their second album started. The drum tracks for all eleven songs of the album were recorded over two days, during 12-hour shifts on each day. In addition, the composition of the song 'Ei Boshontey' was completed while working on the drum tracks in the studio. The guitar and drum tracks for the second album were recorded in US, the bass and vocal tracks were recorded in Bangladesh with the final mixing and mastering done in USA. Album is produced and published by the G-Series Production Company. Finally, after much deliberation the much awaited album was officially launched during very festive CD launching ceremony on Friday, 7 February 2014 at the same venue where it all started about three decades back – Engineering Institute, Dhaka. The launching program was conceptualised, designed, overseen, and executed by Arshad Amin and LiveSquare Entertainment. Imran Hussain, Mainul Islam, and Mahbubur Rashid participated and interacted with the event over the internet using the Google+ video conference technology. The event was attended by Ibrahim Kamal Ahmed of Warfaze, Maqsud of Feedback, and Ayyub Bachchu of the band LRB. In addition, several bands performed several of the songs from Rock Strata debut album. The event was the first ever of its kind in Bangladesh. The album has also been made available for electronic purchases and download from iTunes and Amazon websites in MP3 format, so that expatriates who are fans of Rock Strata can have access to the new album. More information on this available at the band's official Facebook page Rockstrata Official Discography Members Final lineup Mushfiq Ahmed - lead vocals Arshad Amin - bass guitar Mainul Islam - lead guitars Imran Hussain - rhythm guitars Mahbubur Rashid - drums Past members Asif Alam - vocals Shoaib Rahman - vocals Minhaz Ahmed Piklu - guitars References External links Rockstrata on Facebook Rockstrata on Discogs Bangladesh & Kolkata – The Rock Music of Two Bangla. The Times of India Category:Bangladeshi rock music groups	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Tom Van Asbroeck Tom Van Asbroeck (born 19 April 1990 in Aalst) is a Belgian cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . He was previously a member of the team, between 2012 and 2014. He was named in the start list for the 2015 Vuelta a España. In May 2018, he was named in the startlist for the Giro d'Italia. Major results 2011 1st Omloop Het Nieuwsblad U23 3rd Grand Prix de Waregem 3rd Gilbert Memorial Letêcheur Rochefort 10th Omloop van het Waasland 2012 1st Beverbeek Classic 1st Grote Prijs Stad Geel 3rd Road race, UCI Under-23 Road World Championships 7th Ronde van Drenthe 9th Classic Loire Atlantique 9th Internationale Wielertrofee Jong Maar Moedig 10th Dwars door Drenthe 2013 4th Châteauroux Classic 6th Overall Arctic Race of Norway 8th Druivenkoers Overijse 9th Overall Tour des Fjords 9th Halle–Ingooigem 2014 1st Cholet-Pays de Loire 1st Grote Prijs Beeckman-De Caluwé 1st Mountains classification Vuelta a Andalucía 2nd Nokere Koerse 2nd Grand Prix de la Somme 2nd Grand Prix de Fourmies 2nd Grote Prijs Jef Scherens 2nd Gooikse Pijl 2nd Nationale Sluitingsprijs 3rd Druivenkoers Overijse 3rd Münsterland Giro 4th Overall Tour de Wallonie 1st Stage 4 4th Grand Prix Pino Cerami 4th Arnhem–Veenendaal Classic 4th Grand Prix d'Isbergues 6th Overall Boucles de la Mayenne 1st Points classification 6th Gent–Wevelgem 7th Dwars door Vlaanderen 7th Omloop van het Houtland 9th Grand Prix de Denain 10th Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen 2015 2nd Nationale Sluitingsprijs 3rd Binche–Chimay–Binche 4th Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne 4th Halle–Ingooigem 6th Omloop van het Houtland 2016 Tour du Poitou Charentes 1st Points classification 1st Stage 2 1st Mountains classification Arctic Race of Norway 4th Grand Prix Impanis-Van Petegem 2017 9th GP Paul Borremans Viane-Geraardsbergen 2018 1st Grote Prijs Beeckman-De Caluwé 2019 1st Binche–Chimay–Binche 2nd Paris–Bourges 3rd Grand Prix La Marseillaise 3rd Druivenkoers Overijse 3rd Omloop Mandel-Leie-Schelde 4th Tour de l'Eurométropole 5th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk 7th Ronde van Limburg 8th Grote Prijs Jef Scherens 2020 7th Trofeo Campos, Porreres, Felanitx, Ses Salines Grand Tour general classification results timeline References External links Category:1990 births Category:Living people Category:Belgian male cyclists Category:Sportspeople from Aalst, Belgium Category:Giro d'Italia cyclists Category:Vuelta a España cyclists	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Sadiqabad Railway Accident The Sadiqabad Railway Accident occurred on 11 July 2019 after the Quetta-bound Akbar Express collided with a cargo rake at the Walhar Railway Station (parked at the loop line), due to improper handling of the track switching mechanism. The accident took place around 4:30 am (Pakistan Standard Time), about south of the district headquarters of Rahim Yar Khan and the train engines were completely destroyed. Relief operations were launched immediately and a medical emergency was declared at nearby hospitals. An inquiry has been ordered and proportionate compensation for the victims were announced by the railway ministry. Whilst the unaffected coaches of the train left for its destination, regular traffic along the stretch of ML1 route was since suspended. President Arif Alvi, Prime Minister Imran Khan and other political leaders have offered their condolences; the opposition noted such accidents to be a recurring event in the recent past and sought for the resignation of the incumbent Rail Minister Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad. The death toll was listed as being 24 people, all of whom were on the passenger train. References Category:Train collisions in Pakistan Category:2019 disasters in Pakistan Category:Railway accidents in 2019	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Digital Asset Holdings Digital Asset (or Digital Asset Holdings, LLC) is a financial technology company that builds products based on distributed ledger technology (DLT) for regulated financial institutions, such as financial market infrastructure providers, CCPs, CSDs, exchanges, banks, custodians and their market participants. The company has raised $107.2 million in three rounds of funding Company Digital Asset was founded in 2014 by Sunil Hirani and Don R. Wilson. Blythe Masters was named as CEO in March 2015. It is headquartered in New York City, USA with additional offices in London, Hong Kong, Sydney, Zurich and Budapest. It currently employs over 170 people. The board is composed of Michael Bodson, Cristóbal Conde, AG Gangadhar, Peter Hiom, Sunil Hirani, Tony James, Stephan Leithner, Sallie Krawcheck, Blythe Masters, George Nunn, Sanoke Viswanathan, and Don R. Wilson. To date, over $115M in funding has been raised from fifteen investors (ABN Amro, Accenture, Australian Securities Exchange, BNP Paribas, Broadridge, Citi, CME Group, Deutsche Börse Group, Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation, Goldman Sachs, IBM, JPMorgan Chase, NEX, PNC Financial Services, and Banco Santander). The company claims strategic business relationships with Accenture, Broadridge, GFT, Google, IBM, IntellectEU and PwC. History On June 25, 2015 the Moneybeat column from The Wall Street Journal wrote that the "acquisition of HyperLedger might raise eyebrows in the bitcoin community, where there is aversion to the idea that Wall Street might co-opt blockchain technology and strip it of its decentralized nature." September 2015: Company software was used in the US$5 million initial public offering of Pivit, a gaming company. January 2016: Selected by the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) to develop solutions for the Australian market with initial focus on post-trade (clearing and settlement) services in the cash equities market. December 2017: ASX announced the decision to replace their Clearing House Electronic Subregister System, CHESS, with distributed ledger technology developed by Digital Asset. December 2018: The company announced that Blythe Masters is stepping down as CEO. March 2019: Yuval Rooz, former CTO and CFO is named CEO. Yuval was part of the founding team of Digital Asset. June 2019: Yuval Rooz announced that the company is pivoting to offer solutions focused on smart contracts rather than blockchain and DLT as such. November 2019: The ASX project to replace CHESS, its domestic settlement system, using DLT technology from Digital Asset remains on track. The Digital Asset Platform The company’s primary offering is the Digital Asset Platform, a common foundation on which financial services applications can be built using DLT to mutualize market infrastructure across distinct market participants while maintaining confidentiality and scalability. Participants in the Platform share a single source of truth which provides continuous data integrity, any desired or mandated degree of transparency and the opportunity for rapid innovation. The DA Platform enforces consistent interpretation and application of business logic, and provides a real-time, auditable log of ordered evidences of events. These evidences are cryptographically linked to private trade data that is replicated selectively among only those parties entitled to view or interact with it. By combining a network-wide, replicated DLT log and partially replicated reference data, each participant can create their subsection of the ledger with full confidence that it is consistent with that of other parties. An overview of the Digital Asset Platform can be found in a non-technical whitepaper published by the company in December 2016. Digital Asset also offers a cloud-based version of this technology, DAML Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), which is available on the Google Cloud Platform. DAML PaaS is a fully managed solution that developers can use to test and deploy DLT applications, accessible through Google Cloud’s Orbitera application marketplace. References External links Official DAML product website Official company page on Medium Category:Blockchain entities Category:Companies based in New York City	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Archibald Taylor Plantation House Archibald Taylor Plantation House is a historic plantation house located near Oxford, Granville County, North Carolina. It was built about 1840, and is a tall two-story, five bay, transitional Federal / Greek Revival style frame dwelling. It has a one-story rear ell, exterior end chimneys, and a full-height brick basement. The house is nearly identical to that built by Archibald Taylor's half-brother, the Col. Richard P. Taylor House. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. References Category:Plantation houses in North Carolina Category:Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Category:Greek Revival houses in North Carolina Category:Federal architecture in North Carolina Category:Houses completed in 1840 Category:Houses in Granville County, North Carolina Category:National Register of Historic Places in Granville County, North Carolina	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
First Day of My Life (Bright Eyes song) "First Day of My Life" is a single from the album I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning by the American band Bright Eyes, released on March 21, 2005. The song reached number 37 on the UK Singles Chart, and at least number 21 on the UK Indie Chart in 2009. The video was directed by John Cameron Mitchell. The song was listed at #266 on Pitchfork Media'''s "Top 500 Tracks of the 2000s". It can be heard in the 2007 film Elvis and Anabelle and the film The Bubble. It was also featured in an episode of NBC's Chuck (season 4, episode 23), titled "Chuck Versus the Last Details". It was also used in a 2012 Zillow commercial. James Corden selected this song as one of his favorite on Radio 4's Desert Island Discs. Furthermore, it appears in the 2017 Netflix mini series Atypical (season 2, episode 6), the Showtime series Ray Donovan (season 6, episode 12) and in the CW series Roswell, New Mexico'' (season 1, episode 6). Track listing "First Day of My Life" (Conor Oberst) "When the President Talks to God" (Oberst) "True Blue" (Oberst) Musicians Conor Oberst - voice, guitar, keyboards and piano on track 3 Jesse Harris - guitar Tim Luntzel - bass References External links Category:2005 singles Category:Bright Eyes (band) songs Category:2005 songs Category:Saddle Creek Records singles	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Epworth Forest, Indiana Epworth Forest is an unincorporated community in Tippecanoe Township, Kosciusko County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. Geography Epworth Forest is located on the shores of Webster Lake, at . References Category:Unincorporated communities in Kosciusko County, Indiana Category:Unincorporated communities in Indiana	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Harvard College Observatory The Harvard College Observatory (HCO) is an institution managing a complex of buildings and multiple instruments used for astronomical research by the Harvard University Department of Astronomy. It is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US, and was founded in 1839. With the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, it forms part of the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. HCO houses a collection of approximately 500,000 astronomical plates taken between the mid-1880s and 1989 (with a gap from 1953–1968). This 100-year coverage is a unique resource for studying temporal variations in the universe. The Digital Access to a Sky Century @ Harvard project is digitally scanning and archiving these photographic plates. History In 1839, the Harvard Corporation voted to appoint William Cranch Bond, a prominent Boston clockmaker, as "Astronomical Observer to the University" (at no salary). This marked the founding of the Harvard College Observatory. HCO's first telescope, the 15-inch Great Refractor, was installed in 1847. That telescope was the largest in the United States from installation until 1867. Between 1847 and 1852 Bond and pioneer photographer John Adams Whipple used the Great Refractor telescope to produce images of the moon that are remarkable in their clarity of detail and aesthetic power. This was the largest telescope in North America at that time, and their images of the moon took the prize for technical excellence in photography at the 1851 Great Exhibition at The Crystal Palace in London. On the night of July 16–17, 1850, Whipple and Bond made the first daguerreotype of a star (Vega). Harvard College Observatory is historically important to astronomy, as many women including Annie Jump Cannon, Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, and Williamina Fleming performed pivotal stellar classification research. Cannon and Leavitt were hired initially as "computers" to perform calculations and examine stellar photographs, but later made insightful connections in their research. Publications From 1898 to 1926, a series of Bulletins were issued containing many of the major discoveries of the period. These were then replaced by Announcement Cards which continued to be issued until 1952. In 1908, the observatory published the Harvard Revised Photometry Catalogue, which gave rise to the HR star catalogue, now maintained by the Yale University Observatory as the Bright Star Catalogue. Directors William Cranch Bond 1839–1859 George Phillips Bond 1859–1865 Joseph Winlock 1866–1875 Edward Charles Pickering 1877–1919 Solon Irving Bailey 1919–1921 (Acting Director) Harlow Shapley 1921–1952 Donald H. Menzel 1952–1953 (Acting Director); 1954–1966 (Director) Leo Goldberg 1966–1970 George B. Field 1971–1972 Irwin Shapiro 1983–2004 Charles Alcock 2004– See also Harvard Computers Sears Tower – Harvard Observatory The Minor Planet Center credits many asteroid discoveries to "Harvard Observatory." See List of largest optical refracting telescopes, for other 'great refractors' References Further reading External links HCO home page Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Harvard College Observatory Bulletins Harvard College Announcement Cards Category:Harvard University Category:Buildings and structures in Cambridge, Massachusetts Category:Astronomical observatories in Massachusetts Category:Astronomy institutes and departments Category:Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
UA Archives (Upper Arlington, Ohio) The UA Archives program provides access to materials related to the culture and history of Upper Arlington, Ohio, and is part of the Upper Arlington Public Library's digital library initiative. Free online access to these materials via the UA Archives website is provided in accordance with the Library's mission to help the community explore Upper Arlington's heritage and grow through a lifetime of learning. Through the UA Archives, the Library cultivates ongoing partnerships with the Upper Arlington Historical Society, the City of Upper Arlington, community organizations, and individuals to digitize items of historical interest and make them available to the public. By working with the Historical Society and other community groups, the UA Archives digital library initiative supports the goal of preserving Upper Arlington's history as well as the Upper Arlington Historic District's listing on the National Register of Historic Places. Mission statement The goal of the UA Archives digital library program is to preserve original documents, photographs, maps, and other media related to the history and culture of Upper Arlington, Ohio, while offering increased visibility and improved access to these valuable primary reference sources. History The Upper Arlington Public Library began preliminary work on their digitization program in November 2002. These initial preparations included researching existing digital library initiatives and standards. Digitization program management was appointed, a formal collection development plan was drafted, and potential users, partnerships, and program goals were identified. Through the UA Archives, the Library would lend their expertise to other community organizations and individuals by digitizing, cataloging, and providing access to historically and culturally significant materials related to Upper Arlington. The Upper Arlington Historical Society was a natural choice as the first community organization with which the Library would partner. The Society and its members play an active role in the community, which is also a reflection of residents' interest in the history of their city. In addition to their local history archives, the Historical Society maintains preservation guidelines; a historical home inventory; and the Upper Arlington Wall of Honor, a tribute to notable area residents. Due to the volunteer nature of the organization, however, the rich resources of the Historical Society were not always easily accessible to the community. The Library approached the Upper Arlington Historical Society in the spring of 2003 with an offer to digitize and provide online access to their holdings. In November of that year the Library penned a formal agreement with the Historical Society. The UA Archives website launched on September 15, 2004, after two years of planning and over 1,500 hours of work. At that time it included historical photographs depicting little known facts about early life in the community. One photograph shows the Marble Cliff Depot, a railroad station known originally as the Scioto Depot. This station house served the Upper Arlington area until the late 1920s and was located on the south side of Fifth Avenue just east of the Pennsylvania tracks, near the present day entrance to First Community Village. Another photograph shows the first teacher and students in Upper Arlington at a time when classes were held in the basement of the home of King Thompson, one of Upper Arlington's founders. Yet another captures a scene from Camp Willis, a military training camp located in Upper Arlington during the community's early development in 1916. Ohio Guardsmen were trained at this camp to defend the United States against cross-border attacks from Pancho Villa's Mexican troops. The debut of the UA Archives website also included approximately 2,000 pages of text and photographs from the Norwester magazine, the original community newspaper, published from November 1917 through March 1922. Among other topics, the Norwester magazine covered local residents, homes, schools, sports, and daily life. The magazine also included first-hand accounts of World War I, received from local residents stationed in Europe, and chronicled life on the home front as community members bought Liberty Bonds and war savings stamps, planted backyard war gardens, and debated the patriotic virtues of continuing to spend their money versus saving. Collection Development Upper Arlington Public Library staff select materials for the UA Archives, subject to the policies and mandates of the Library's Board of Trustees. The UA Archives program actively solicits materials relating to the history of Upper Arlington, Ohio, from local government, community organizations, businesses, and individuals. Historical materials in all formats are considered and may consist of photographs, documents, arts and crafts, and audio or video recordings. Selection criteria include historical significance and relevance of the subject or its depiction of daily life, the educational or entertainment value of the subject, and the availability of sufficient and reliable descriptions of the material. All items must either be in the public domain or have written copyright permissions granted before inclusion in the UA Archives. The UA Archives encourages the digitization of items even if a potential donor wishes to retain the original source materials. In this case, the original items remain in the ownership of the donor, and the Upper Arlington Public Library assumes ownership of the digital representations. When materials are acquired through permanent donation, the Library encourages the transfer of original items to the Upper Arlington Historical Society for permanent storage after the digitization process has been completed. In addition to the Norwester magazines and historical photographs included when the UA Archives site launched, new materials are continually incorporated. The City of Upper Arlington has provided maps depicting the community's annexation history and historic district, and the Library has added historic 1880s plat maps from its own collection. The Library has also partnered with the Upper Arlington City School District, which granted permission for digitization of the Upper Arlington High School yearbooks from 1923–present. All volumes through 1999 were added to the UA Archives site on October 7, 2009, with one subsequent volume to be added each year. Oral histories from early residents and local war veterans will also eventually be added to the UA Archives site. Technical information Photographs and most text-based items in the UA Archives collection have been scanned by Upper Arlington Public Library staff and volunteers as 600 dpi TIFF files with 24-bit color using an Epson Expression 1640XL 11" x 17" flatbed scanner. Optical character recognition (OCR) was performed using OmniPage Pro, and low-resolution JPEG files were generated for onscreen display. CONTENTdm is used as the digital collection management software for the UA Archives project, and Adobe Photoshop is used for image manipulation, rotation, and cropping. Starting in 2009, derivative lossless JPEG2000 images, OCR text (using ABBYY FineReader), and PDF files are generated via CONTENTdm. References External links UA Archives - Explore the History of Upper Arlington Upper Arlington Public Library Upper Arlington Historical Society City of Upper Arlington Upper Arlington City Schools Category:Upper Arlington, Ohio Category:History of Ohio Category:American digital libraries	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
1932 Twickenham by-election The Twickenham by-election, 1932 was a parliamentary by-election held on 16 September 1932 for the British House of Commons constituency of Twickenham in Middlesex. The seat had become vacant when the constituency's Conservative Member of Parliament (MP), Sir John Ferguson, died on 17 July 1932, aged 62. He had held the seat since a by-election in 1929. The result was a victory for the 29-year-old Conservative candidate Hylton Murray-Philipson, who died in office two years later, which caused another by-election. Votes See also Twickenham constituency Twickenham 1929 Twickenham by-election 1934 Twickenham by-election 1955 Twickenham by-election List of United Kingdom by-elections References Category:Elections in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames Category:By-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in London constituencies Category:Twickenham Category:1932 elections in the United Kingdom Category:1932 in England Category:20th century in Middlesex	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Epilichen Epilichen is a genus of lichenized fungi within the Rhizocarpaceae family. References External links Epilichen at Index Fungorum Category:Lecanoromycetes genera Category:Lichens	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Kurigram Express Kurigram Express (Train no. 797-798) is a non-stop intercity train which runs between Dhaka (capital of Bangladesh) and the northern kurigram District. The train connects more effectively capital to northern Bengal. History In October 16, 2019 The prime minister Sheikh Hasina inagurated the train through a video conference. The Train is running with the cars imported from Indonesia. The coaches are originately PT inca cars. Locomotives and Seats The train has 14 coaches with a powerful locomotive. Schedule Kurigram Express starts its journey from Kurigram in morning 7:20 and it reaches Dhaka at 5:25 pm. Reversely it leaves Dhaka at 8:45 pm and reaches Kurigram at 6:15 am. Halts The train will have stopovers at 9 stations. They are- Kurigram Railway Station Rangpur Railway Station Badargang Railway Station Parbatipur Railway Station Joypurhat Railway Station Airport railway station, Dhaka Kamalapur railway station See also Panchagarh Express References Category:Named passenger trains of Bangladesh	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Harold Milford Harold John Milford (16 August 1914 – 6 April 1944), was a British Douglas Boston medium bomber observer who was taken prisoner during the Second World War. He took part in the 'Great Escape' from Stalag Luft III in March 1944, but was one of the men re-captured and subsequently shot by the Gestapo. Pre-war Harold Milford was born in Streatham in south-west London, the son of William John Milford a railway worker and his wife Ada Frances and grew up in Medora Road in the Tulse Hill area with his parents and two sisters. In the spring of 1940 he married Marion Heather in Lambeth, London. War service At the height of the Battle of Britain he enlisted in the Royal Air Force in the summer of 1940 as an aircraftman aircrew candidate with the service number 1375447. On completion of flight training, as a leading aircraftman he was commissioned as pilot officer on 9 August 1941. From final stage training at Operational Training Unit Milford joined No. 226 Squadron RAF flying the Douglas Boston medium bomber on daylight precision bombing operations from RAF Swanton Morley against industrial targets and power stations. The medium bombers were invariably met by Luftwaffe day fighters often from the ace Jagdgeschwader 26. He was promoted to flying officer on 9 August 1942 1942. Prisoner of war At 10:50 on the morning of 22 September 1942 he took off in Douglas Boston (serial number "AL743") squadron codes MQ-F flown by Sergeant Maurice Collins, the third member of the crew was wireless operator/air gunner Sergeant GA Nicolls. They were part of a force tasked to bomb the power station at Chocques. The bombers were met by the Luftwaffes JG 26 and Klaus Mietusch shot one of the bombers down, the other (serial number "AL685") was also lost nearby. One is believed to have been the victim of Mietusch and the other possibly due to battle damage. Milford's crew bailed out, the pilot headed off alone and evaded capture to make it home while Milford and Nicholls were captured in a haystack. He was sent to Stalag Luft III in the province of Lower Silesia near the town of Sagan (now Żagań in Poland) where he quickly met Johnny Williams who he'd known earlier in his service and made friends with Tony Hayter who lived in the same accommodation block. 'Great Escape' Milford was one of the 76 men who escaped the prison camp on the night of 24–25 March 1944, in the escape now famous as "the Great Escape". Milford escaped from the exposed tunnel mouth into the woods with Sandy Gunn and John F Williams, although on the afternoon of 27 March 1944 after surviving the freezing temperatures and blizzards they were recaptured in the vicinity of Żagań and taken to the local civil prison. On 28 March they were moved to Görlitz prison. Milford's cell occupants were Cyril Swain, Mike Casey, Tom Leigh, Jack Grisman, Ian Cross, Sandy Gunn, Patrick Langford and George Wiley. Over the next few days the cells filled up as more and more escapers were recaptured and then groups of prisoners began to be removed and the numbers thinned out rapidly. While being interrogated Milford was told that his wife would never see him again. Early on the morning of 6 April 1944 Tony Bethell heard a truck arrive at the prison and then six names being called out, Denys Street, Neville McGarr, Jack Grisman, Sandy Gunn, Harold Milford and John F Williams were taken away. They were murdered by the Breslau Gestapo. His body was cremated in Breslau's crematorium. He was one of the 50 escapers executed and murdered by the Gestapo. Originally cremated and buried at Sagan, he is now buried in part of the Poznan Old Garrison Cemetery. Milford's name was amongst those in the list of the murdered prisoners which was published when news broke on or about 20 May 1944. Awards Mentioned in despatches recognizing his conspicuous bravery as a prisoner because none of the other relevant decorations then available could be awarded posthumously. It was published in a supplement to the London Gazette on 8 June 1944. Other victims See Stalag Luft III murders The Gestapo executed a group of 50 of the recaptured prisoners representing almost all of the nationalities involved in the escape. Post-war investigations saw a number of those guilty of the murders tracked down, arrested and tried for their crimes. References Notes Bibliography External links Project Lessons from the Great Escape (Stalag Luft III), by Mark Kozak-Holland. The prisoners formally structured their work as a project. This book analyses their efforts using modern project management methods. 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Alan Rudolph Alan Steven Rudolph (born December 18, 1943) is an American film director and screenwriter. Early life Rudolph was born in Los Angeles, the son of Oscar Rudolph (1911–1991), a television director and actor. He became interested in film and was a protégé of director Robert Altman. Rudolph worked as an assistant director on Altman's film adaptation of Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye and later on his original movie Nashville. Career Rudolph's films focus upon isolated and eccentric characters and their relationships, and frequently are ensemble pieces featuring prominent romanticism and fantasy. He has written almost all of his films, and repeatedly has worked with actors Keith Carradine and Geneviève Bujold, and composer Mark Isham (see List of noted film director and composer collaborations). Director Rudolph came to prominence with Choose Me (1984), the story of the sexual relationships among a handful of lonely, but charming, people – an ex-prostitute bar owner (Lesley Ann Warren), an emotionally repressed radio talk show hostess (Bujold), and a disarmingly honest madman (Carradine). Trouble in Mind (1985) featured Kris Kristofferson as well as Bujold, Carradine and John Waters icon Divine. The film was entered into the 36th Berlin International Film Festival. The Moderns (1988) was a love story, set in 1926 Paris, about an expatriate American artist (Carradine) re-igniting his love for his wife (Linda Fiorentino), despite her marriage with a sinister, philistine art collector played by John Lone. In 1990, Rudolph wrote and directed the private eye love story Love at Large, which was filmed in Portland, Oregon. After the thriller Mortal Thoughts (1991) starring Demi Moore, Equinox (1992) starred Matthew Modine as a pair of separated twins, and Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994) was a loving recreation of the Algonquin Round Table and a sympathetic biopic of Dorothy Parker, with Jennifer Jason Leigh in the title role. Breakfast of Champions (1999) was an adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's metafictional novel, with Albert Finney as the wildly prolific but terminally under-appreciated science fiction writer Kilgore Trout. The film was entered into the 49th Berlin International Film Festival. In April 2008, Rudolph presented a solo show of paintings at Gallery Fraga, Bainbridge Island, Washington. Films as director Premonition (1972) Nightmare Circus (1974, as "Gerald Cormier") Welcome to L.A. (1976) (also writer) Remember My Name (1978) (also writer) Roadie (1980) (also story) Endangered Species (1982) Return Engagement (1983) Songwriter (1984) Choose Me (1984) (also writer) Trouble in Mind (1985) (also writer) Made in Heaven (1987) The Moderns (1988) (also writer) Love at Large (1990) (also writer) Mortal Thoughts (1991) Equinox (1992) (also writer) Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994) (also writer) Afterglow (1997) (also writer) Breakfast of Champions (1999) (also writer) Trixie (2000) (also writer) Investigating Sex (2001) (also writer) The Secret Lives of Dentists (2002) Ray Meets Helen (2017) References External links Category:1943 births Category:American male screenwriters Category:Living people Category:Writers from Los Angeles Category:Film directors from Los Angeles Category:Screenwriters from California	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Joan Melchior Kemper Joan Melchior Kemper (26 April 1776 – 20 July 1824) was a Dutch jurist and politician. After studies in Amsterdam and Leiden he taught civil law in Amsterdam beginning in 1806, and natural, public and international law in Leiden beginning in 1809. A student of Cras, he was a prominent advocate of natural law in the tradition of the Enlightenment. After the French withdrawal from the Netherlands in 1813, Kemper was one of the leading figures in the establishment of the new United Kingdom of the Netherlands. He drafted various proclamations, including William I's proclamation of sovereignty, and helped write the constitution. In 1817 he was elected to the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of the States General. He led the commission that drafted a Dutch Civil Code, which was however rejected in parliament in favor of the established Napoleonic Code. References Category:1776 births Category:1824 deaths Category:Dutch jurists Category:People from Amsterdam	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Santa Maria Maddalena, Ravenna Santa Maria Maddalena is a Baroque-style, Roman Catholic church located on Via Ricci #10 in Ravenna, region of Emilia Romagna, Italy. The church was designed by Camaldolese monk Fausto Pellicciotti, and erected between 1748 and 1750, likely on the site of a church named Santa Maria in Luminibus or in Luminaria. The interior has altarpieces by Andrea Barbiani and his brother Domenico. An inventory from 1835, also lists paintings by Domenico Corvi (Magdalen walks to Calvary) and Marcello Leopardi (Deposition at Calvary. References Category:18th-century Roman Catholic church buildings Category:Roman Catholic churches completed in 1750 Category:Roman Catholic churches in Ravenna Category:Baroque architecture in Ravenna	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Con Poder Con Poder may refer to: Con Poder (Salvador album), 2003 Con Poder (Vico C album), 1996	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Akbarabad, Khonj Akbarabad (, also Romanized as Akbarābād) is a village in Tang-e Narak Rural District, in the Central District of Khonj County, Fars Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 90, in 18 families. References Category:Populated places in Khonj County	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Sydney River McDonald's murders The Sydney River McDonald's murders occurred on May 7, 1992, at the McDonald's restaurant in Sydney River, Nova Scotia, Canada. They were committed by a trio of friends who only intended to rob the restaurant, but ended up murdering three people and permanently disabling a fourth. It was one of the highest-profile murder cases in Canada at the time. Robbery and murders Derek Wood, 18, an employee of the restaurant along with two friends, Freeman Daniel MacNeil, 23, and Darren Muise, 18, broke into the restaurant after closing, planning to rob the establishment. They shot, stabbed, and beat three employees to death and left a fourth to die after shooting her in the neck. The killers claimed they had not planned on using any violence in the break and enter; it was meant to be quick and easy money. The three inched their way into the restaurant via a basement door Wood had left ajar earlier in the evening with his knapsack which he left at the crime scene. Darren Muise wore a Halloween mask. They murdered their victims with a .22 caliber pistol, several knives, and a shovel handle. Expecting to find over $200,000 in the restaurant's safe, they made off with just $2,017. Victims Killed: Jimmy Fagan, 27 Donna Warren, 22 Neil Burroughs Jr., 29 Injured: Arlene MacNeil, 20 (permanently disabled, died 2018) Community response The murders put Sydney into the spotlight as this became a news story worldwide. The restaurant was in the shopping district of Sydney River on Kings Road. It reopened two weeks later, with restaurant sales reaching former levels within a year. The location was demolished in 2000 and moved down the road to a more accessible location. The location of the former McDonald's is currently an empty lot. Trial and sentence MacNeil was sentenced to 25 years before parole eligibility and is now in a maximum-security prison in Renous, New Brunswick. Muise received 20 years before parole eligibility. Wood was given two terms of life imprisonment for first degree murder and attempted murder, as well as two ten-year terms for unlawful confinement and the armed robbery. He will be eligible for parole after serving 25 years. In March 2007, it was reported that Muise was working outside his minimum-security prison facility in Laval, Quebec. A spokeswoman with Correctional Service of Canada was unable to comment on his case because of confidentiality limitations. Parole dispositions On March 29, 2011, a National Parole Board announced their decision to grant Muise day parole. A member stated: "Given the significant and real progress you have made over the years, your case management team is of the opinion that the probability that you commit a crime after your release is low." He received full parole on November 22, 2012. On April 8, 2015, the National Parole Board rejected an application for day parole by Wood. See also San Ysidro McDonald's massacre References Category:Mass murder in 1992 Category:1992 crimes in Canada Category:History of Nova Scotia Category:History of the Cape Breton Regional Municipality Category:People murdered in Nova Scotia Category:Crime in Nova Scotia * Category:Attacks on restaurants in North America Category:1992 in Nova Scotia Category:May 1992 events in Canada Category:McDonald's Category:1992 murders in North America Category:1990s murders in Canada	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Ken Higgs (Canadian football) Ken Higgs (born January 12, 1931) is a former Canadian football player who played for the BC Lions. References Category:1931 births Category:Living people Category:Players of Canadian football from British Columbia Category:Canadian football running backs Category:BC Lions players Category:Sportspeople from Vancouver	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
1999 European Athletics U23 Championships – Women's pole vault The women's pole vault event at the 1999 European Athletics U23 Championships was held in Göteborg, Sweden, at Ullevi on 29 and 31 July 1999. Medalists Results Final 31 July Qualifications 29 July First 12 the Final Participation According to an unofficial count, 17 athletes from 11 countries participated in the event. (1) (1) (2) (3) (1) (1) (1) (1) (2) (1) (3) References Pole vault Category:Pole vault at the European Athletics U23 Championships	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
List of Los Angeles Rams broadcasters This article is a list of the Los Angeles Rams broadcasters. The Los Angeles Rams were the first National Football League (NFL) team to televise both their home and away games during the 1950 NFL season. The 1951 NFL Championship Game was the first Championship Game televised coast-to-coast. St. Louis After relocating to St. Louis, from 1995–1999 the Rams games were broadcast on KSD 93.7 FM. Preseason games not shown on a national broadcast network were seen on KTVI, Channel 2, and were also seen in L.A. on KCOP, "MyNetworkTV channel 13." Radio From 2000–2008, KLOU FM 103.3 was the Rams flagship station with Steve Savard as the play-by-play announcer. Until October 2005, Jack Snow had been the color analyst for nearly 20 years, dating back to the team's first stint in the Los Angeles area. Snow left the booth after suffering an illness and died in January 2006. Former Rams offensive line coach and former St. Louis Cardinals head coach Jim Hanifan joined the KLOU as the color analyst the year after Jack Snow's departure. They were joined by analyst D'Marco Farr and sideline reporter Malcolm Briggs. From 2009– 2015, the Rams' flagship radio station was 101 ESPN which was at the time a new sports station in St. Louis. For these broadcasts, Steve Savard was the play by play announcer, flanked by color commentator D'Marco Farr. Brian Stull served as the sideline reporter, and the pregame and postgame coverage was anchored by St. Louis coaching legend Jim Hanifan, along with hosts Randy Karraker for pregame and Cliff Saunders for postgame, among other 101 ESPN personalities. Los Angeles Radio The Los Angeles Rams flagship radio stations are KSPN (710 AM) and KCBS (93.1 FM) in the Los Angeles market. Other stations around California, including 50,000 watt AM 1090 XEPRS in Tijuana-San Diego ("The Mighty 1090") also carry the broadcasts. The announcers are Pac-12 network play-by-play announcer J.B. Long and former Pro Bowl running back Maurice Jones-Drew as the color analyst, with D'Marco Farr serving as sideline reporter. In the team's original Los Angeles stint, 710 AM (in its KMPC years) was the team's radio flagship for nearly the team's entire first tenure in the region. Television CBS affiliate KCBS-TV serves as the team's official preseason television home. Both stations, in conjunction with the Rams, also had produce ancillary team programming, with KCBS airing the Rams on 2:The Coaches Show (hosted by KCBS-TV sports anchor and director Jim Hill) on Saturday evenings during game weeks. Rams preseason games are also carried in Spanish, with Univision-owned KMEX and its sister station, KFTR (UniMas) originating the broadcasts. Univision's KABE and KBTF (UniMas) broadcast those games in the neighboring Bakersfield market. The majority of Rams regular season games are aired on Fox affiliate, KTTV, by virtue of being members of Fox having the rights to NFC games, as part of parent network Fox's NFL Sunday afternoon package. When the Rams host an AFC opponent, games air on CBS affiliate KCBS-TV as part of CBS's coverage and Sunday Night Football games that air on KNBC. Monday Night Football games are also televised in the Los Angeles area on KABC-TV when the Rams play a Monday night game. References Category:Lists of National Football League announcers by team Category:Los Angeles Rams lists	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
1993 Major Indoor Lacrosse League season The 1993 Major Indoor Lacrosse League season is the 7th season of the league that began on January 9, 1993, and concluded with the championship game on April 10. 1993 saw the only undefeated season in the history of the MILL/NLL; the Buffalo Bandits won all eight of their regular season games, then defeated Boston in the Divisional finals and Philadelphia in the Championship game to finish with a perfect 10-0 record. Team movement 1993 saw no team changes from the 1992 season. The next season to see no team changes from the previous season did not occur until 2013. Regular season All Star Game No All-Star Game was played in 1993. Playoffs Buffalo hosted the championship game. Awards All-Pro Teams First Team: Gary Gait, Philadelphia Paul Gait, Philadelphia Dave Pietramala, Pittsburgh John Tavares, Buffalo Jim Veltman, Buffalo Dallas Eliuk, Philadelphia (goalie) Second Team: Thomas Carmean, Boston Jeff Jackson, Baltimore Derek Keenan, Buffalo Rob Shek, Philadelphia John Tucker, Baltimore Sal LoCascio, New York (goalie) Statistics leaders Bold numbers indicate new single-season records. Italics indicate tied single-season records. See also 1993 in sports References 1993 Archive at the Outsider's Guide to the NLL MILL Category:Major Indoor Lacrosse League seasons	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Strauzia gigantei Strauzia gigantei is a species of tephritid or fruit flies in the genus Strauzia of the family Tephritidae. References Category:Strauzia	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Mädchen Amick Mädchen Amick ( ; born December 12, 1970) is an American actress. She is best known for her starring role as Shelly Johnson on the cult television series Twin Peaks (1990–1991), its prequel film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992) and its revival television series Twin Peaks: The Return (2017). She was also a series regular on Central Park West (1995–1996), Freddie (2005–2006), and Witches of East End (2013–2014). On the big screen she had starring roles in Sleepwalkers (1992) and Dream Lover (1993). She was also playing a minor role on the hit show Gossip Girl. She currently portrays Alice Cooper, the mother of Betty Cooper, on The CW's drama television series Riverdale (2017–present). Early life Mädchen Amick was born in Sparks, Nevada, a few miles east of Reno, the daughter of Judy (née Ross), a medical office manager, and Bill Amick, a musician. Amick's parents are of partly German descent; the name Mädchen, which means "girl" in German (literally "little maiden") was chosen by her parents because they wanted an unusual name. She is also of Norwegian, Swedish, English and Irish descent. As a young girl, Amick was encouraged by her parents to follow her creative instincts. She learned to play the piano, bass, violin and guitar and took lessons in tap, ballet, jazz and modern dance. In 1987, at the age of 16, she moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in acting. Career After moving to Los Angeles, Amick began her career with guest roles on Star Trek: The Next Generation (1989) and Baywatch (1989). Amick got her first break when director David Lynch chose her to play waitress Shelly Johnson on the television series Twin Peaks (1990-1991). Amick's character endured physical abuse at the hands of her criminal husband, Leo, and was one of the most popular characters. Amick went on to work twice more with Lynch—reprising her role as Shelly in the prequel film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992) and in 7 episodes of the 2017 Twin Peaks revival series. In 1990, Amick was cast as Mandy in Don't Tell Her It's Me and portrayed Amy in Tobe Hooper's horror film I'm Dangerous Tonight. In 1991, Amick was cast in The Borrower. In 1992, Amick portrayed the heroine Tanya Robertson in the Stephen King horror movie Sleepwalkers. The following year, she starred in the thriller film Love, Cheat & Steal (1993). In 1993, Amick was cast as Lena Mathers in the feature film Dream Lover, a thriller in which she co-starred with James Spader. In 1995, she and Spader were reunited in the TV movie The Courtyard. That same year, Amick appeared in the romantic comedy French Exit. In 1996, Amick was cast in the science fiction thriller Bombshell. Amick's return to network television came in the fall of 1995 with the much-publicized CBS primetime soap opera Central Park West. In 1997, Amick starred in the film Wounded. In 1998, Amick starred in the updated edition of Fantasy Island. After a decade of roles that failed to ignite the publicity Twin Peaks had, Amick gradually became a noticeable face in television with recurring roles on Gilmore Girls, ER, Jake in Progress, and Joey. In 2006, Amick was a regular in the sitcom Freddie which was subsequently cancelled. Amick guest-starred in a number of episodes of the serial thriller Kidnapped on NBC, playing a strange and deadly assassin. She also had a recurring role in the second season of Dawson's Creek as the lead character's substitute film studies teacher. In 2007, she had a lead role in the short-lived CBS musical series Viva Laughlin. Amick had a recurring role in season 2 of Gossip Girl as Nate Archibald's "cougar" love interest, and she also appears in the second season of the Showtime series Californication. In 2008, Amick starred as Christian Slater's wife on the NBC series My Own Worst Enemy. In 2010, Amick played Danielle Marchetti on the FX series Damages. In 2011 she appeared in the post-apocalyptic film Priest. In 2013, Amick began starring in the Lifetime supernatural drama Witches of East End opposite Julia Ormond, Rachel Boston and Jenna Dewan. Amick's character Wendy Beauchamp was originally a guest star, but she later became a permanent character after shooting the pilot episode. On August 6, 2015 Amick joined the cast of American Horror Story: Hotel as a mother whose son is ailing. Since 2017, Amick has starred as Alice Cooper, Betty Cooper's mother, on the CW television series Riverdale. Personal life David Alexis and Mädchen Amick have been married since December 16, 1992. Together they have two children, a son Sylvester Time Amick-Alexis (born July 5, 1992) and a daughter Mina Tobias (born September 2, 1993). Amick's daughter, Mina, is a musician. In 2018, Tobias released her single "Freedom" and filmed a music video paying homage to Twin Peaks. 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New England Festival of Ibero American Cinema The New England Festival of Ibero American Cinema is a film festival that takes place annually in the cities of Providence, Rhode Island, and New Haven, Connecticut, in the United States. It is the largest Latin American cinema festival in the region of New England. Held in early fall in Providence and New Haven, the festival aims to become the premier showcase for new works from Latin American and Ibero American filmmakers. The festival comprises competitive sections for feature films, documentaries and short films. A group of non-competitive showcase sections, including Desde Cuba: New Cinema and Panorama are also an important part of the festival. Panels, Art Exhibits and Discussions are the focus of the festival which every year invites and hosts Spanish and Latin American filmmakers to interact with Providence and New England audiences. History Providence/Latin American Film Festival NEFIAC began in Providence in September 2010 as a Latin American and Ibero American film festival in an effort to attract Latin American, Spanish and Portuguese filmmakers to Providence and to the New England region at large. In addition, it has the purpose of exposing the local community to different cultures and facilitating understanding and communication among residents with different ethnic backgrounds. The effort was especially felt to be of significant relevance since a large number of the residents of Providence and New Haven identify themselves as Latinos. The 2010 festival featured films such as Undertow (Peru), Memories of Overdevelopment (Cuba), The Last Summer of the Boyita (Argentina), and Celda 211 (Spain). The goal of the festival is to showcase strictly Latin American, Spanish and Portuguese-made films. The main focus of the event is to conduct a competition for the first time directors of these films, present a series of filmmaker panel discussions, address socioeconomic issues of importance to Latin America, promote the interaction of young international filmmakers with Latino students and all the residents of Providence and New England and to celebrate the Jury Awards. The Festival highlights the work of "Latin American" filmmakers who produced their films in their country of origin and are interested on sharing their experience with New England audiences. Without the New England Festival of Ibero American Cinema, most of these films would not have the opportunity to be shown in Providence and in New England. NEFIAC's Emerging Filmmakers Award Competition requires for all films to be no older than 18 months and they must also be New England Premieres. The jury of the 2010 festival was headed by Professor Ann Marie Stock (The College of William and Mary), and included filmmakers Javier Espada (Spain) and Ishtar Yaseen (Costa Rica). The festival has a strong support from some of the most important universities in the world, including Brown University, Yale University and Dartmouth College. In addition, a number of Ibero and Latin American filmmakers visited the festival, including Julia Solomonoff (Argentina), Javier Fuentes León (Perú), Cecilia Domeyko (Chile), Miguel Gomes (Portugal), Pedro Ruiz (Venezuela), Ishtar Yaseen Gutierrez (Costa Rica), Ian Padrón (Cuba), Rafi Mercado (Puerto Rico), Miguel Coyula (Cuba) and Carlos Marques Marcet (Spain). Most recently, NEFIAC hosted prominent Cuban novelist Edmundo Desnoes who is worldly known for his novel Memories of Underdevelopment immortalized by Cuban director Gutiérrez Alea in 1966. A unique feature of this Ibero and Latin American Film Festival is the program Desde Cuba: New Cinema. The segment showcases the works of award-winning young independent Cuban filmmakers and exclusively presents World Premieres. Every year, several Cuban filmmakers attend the festival and participate in seminars and panel discussions. The segment was initially presented in 2008 and it is now on its Fifth Edition. No other film festival in the United States presents such a program. In addition, NEFIAC sponsors every year other events related to the visual arts including art exhibits, and co-sponsors the presentation of Latin American films at different venues. Recent presentations have included Latinbeat (Lincoln Center of New York), Cleveland Cinematheque, the Miami International Film Festival and the Gasparilla International Film Festival in Tampa. Notability of festivals Many famous filmmakers receive their big break at international film festivals. In 2010 NEFIAC presented the New England Premieres of three films that went on to become their original countries official entry to the Oscars in the Foreign Film Category, including Contracorriente Undertow (Peru) and Miente (Puerto Rico). Awards Every year, a jury of internationally recognized academicians, filmmakers, critics and/or actors and actresses hand out awards for categories such as "Best Emerging Filmmaker" in the genres of feature film, documentary and short film. The major prize, the Best Emerging Filmmaker Award, is given to a feature-length director who is presenting an Opera Prima. The following list shows past winners: 2014 "Franco's Settlers" Best Documentary, Directors Lucia Palacios & Dietmar Post 2011 "The Water at the End of the World" (2011) Best Emerging Filmmaker Award, Director Paula Siero, Argentina 2011 "Ivan's Woman" (2011) Special Mention, Director Francisca Silva, Chile 2011 "Long Distance" (2011) Special Mention, Director Esteban Insausti, Cuba 2010 "The Last Summer of the Boyita" (2010) Best Emerging Filmmaker Award, Director Julia Solomonoff, Argentina 2010 "Undertow" (2010) Special Mention, Director Javier Fuentes Leon, Peru References Notes www.nefiac.com External links Press (September 17, 2010) Category:Film festivals in Rhode Island Category:Film festivals established in 2010 Category:Film festivals in Connecticut	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Ontario Student Classics Conference The Ontario Student Classics Conference (OSCC) is an annual event committed to the promotion and appreciation of studies in Classics. It is a four-day competition that occurs in early May at Brock University of St. Catharines, Ontario. Initially, the Conference was established as an extension of the National Junior Classical League (NJCL) but has since expanded and grown to become one of the largest and most popular conferences in Ontario, with over 500 students attending each year from 15-20 schools. The conference is dedicated to the study of Classics; students compete in over 100 academic, athletic, and creative competitions all based on aspects of Classical life. In addition to competitions, students also participate in different classically themed events, one of these being the "Pompa" (Latin for "Parade"). For this event everyone is required to dressed appropriately in classical attire, namely togas, and line up with their school to parade around the campus before attending a celebratory banquet and awards ceremony. The OSCC is not affiliated with the Ontario Classical Association (OCA). OSCC Mission Statement "The Ontario Student Classics Conference brings together students and teachers from across the province to promote and nurture a deeper understanding of the Classical World by providing opportunities to celebrate our Classical heritage through a variety of social events and competitions. While the goal of each club is the pursuit of excellence, following the philosophy 'mens sana in corpore sano,' it is an essential mandate of this Conference to promote the pursuit of this goal in a spirit of cooperation, mutual encouragement, and sportsmanship." Competitions Academic contests These competitions are designed to challenge students' knowledge of the cultures of Ancient Rome and Ancient Greece through the writing of a wide variety of contests. Most contests are offered at three different levels: Junior, Intermediate and Senior. The Greek Derivative and Greek Oral Reading tests only have two: Junior and Senior. Quaerite Summa does not have levels. Levels in some contests are determined by the years of language study while others are based on grade level or a combination of the two. The Academic Pentathlon consists of all five of the 'cursus' contests where Pentathletes' total score is determined by their total score achieved in all five contests. Athletic contests The athletic competitions are modeled on the Ancient Olympic Games of Ancient Greece. Most events are divided by age and gender. The Relay Race, Slinging, the 50 meter freestyle race and the 100 meter freestyle race are divided only by gender. Discus Ultimus and the Chariot Race are open to everyone together. Creative contests Students complete in a variety of creative events and competitions that feature the production of both ancient and modern art forms. Listed below are each of these events; the number in parentheses following the event indicates how many entries each school may submit. Also, the winner of the Best Costume event is awarded no points. Awards Listed below are the trophies for each of the various OSCC competitions, which are given in addition to ribbons recognizing the top 5 placements in each event. University of Toronto Schools has won the Phyllis Morgan Trophy — generally considered the top prize — every year since 1996 (as of 2016); York Mills Collegiate Institute had won nine straight years before 1996. Conferences by year Listed below are the locations, hosts and themes for each of the past OSCC conventions (as of 2016). References External links Ontario Classical Association National Junior Classic League American Classical League Category:Student organizations established in 1968 Category:Recurring events established in 1968 Category:Classical associations and societies Category:Competitions Category:1968 establishments in Ontario Category:Brock University	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
June Thunder June Thunder is a 28-line poem by Louis MacNeice. It was first published in book form in MacNeice's poetry collection The Earth Compels (1938). The poem begins with memories of idyllic summer days in the countryside - "the unenduring / Joys of a season" - before returning to the present and "impending thunder". June Thunder is written in a loose form of the sapphic stanza, with three lines set in falling rhythm followed by a shorter fourth line. The poem was anthologised in A New Anthology of Modern Verse 1920-1940 (1941), edited by Cecil Day-Lewis and L.A.G. Strong, and Penguin New Writing No. 2 (January 1941). Themes Jon Stallworthy, in his biography of Louis MacNeice, links June Thunder to The Sunlight on the Garden, the poem that immediately follows June Thunder in MacNeice's 1938 poetry collection The Earth Compels. The two poems show MacNeice thinking along much the same lines and using the same imagery, with "birds", "sky", "garden", "thunder" and "rain" as shared words. June Thunder begins with memories of earlier, idyllic summer days. The opening stanza, which describes "driving through tiny / Roads, the mudguards brushing the cowparsley", is similar in tone to section viii of Autumn Journal (1939), in which MacNeice recalls how he "drove around Shropshire in a bijou car" together with his first wife Mary Ezra. The second stanza, describing chalkland in summer, with beech trees and gorse, suggests the countryside close to Marlborough College, where MacNeice was a pupil. (As a schoolboy, MacNeice had indulged in "long bicycle rides into the Wiltshire countryside" with his close friend Graham Shepard.) In the third stanza the tone changes as the poem returns to the present and "impending thunder". Rain "comes / Down like a dropscene", and is followed by thunder - "clouds like falling masonry" - and lightning. The final stanza sees the poet alone and yearning for his lover's presence: "If only you would come..." Structure June Thunder is a poem of seven stanzas, each of four lines. The poem does not make use of a rhyme scheme. The poem is written in a loose form of the sapphic stanza, and is included by Grace Schulman in a list of English poems that are "sapphics-inspired". The short fourth line of each stanza is an Adonic, as in a sapphic stanza: "Joys of a season". However, the long lines vary from ten to fourteen syllables, and "make no pretence at exact adherence to the paradigm." According to Harvey Gross and Robert McDowell, "MacNeice infuses his sapphics with those qualities of yearning and wonder that characterize the great examples of the form." References Louis MacNeice, The Earth Compels. Faber and Faber, 1938. Louis MacNeice, Autumn Journal. Faber and Faber, 1939. A New Anthology of Modern Verse 1920-1940, edited by C. Day-Lewis and L.A.G. Strong. London, Methuen & Co., 1941. Jon Stallworthy, Louis MacNeice. London: Faber and Faber, 1995. Harvey Gross and Robert McDowell, Sound and Form in Modern Poetry. University of Michigan Press, 1996. An Exaltation of Forms: Contemporary Poets Celebrate the Diversity of Their Art, edited by Annie Finch and Kathrine Varnes. University of Michigan Press, 2002. Notes June Thunder	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
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2008 Speedway Grand Prix Qualification The 2008 Individual Speedway World Championship Grand Prix Qualification Meetings Top three riders qualified to 2008 Speedway Grand Prix: Niels Kristian Iversen Lukáš Dryml Bjarne Pedersen Calendar - Domestic - Quarter-finals - Semi-finals - Final Domestic Qualification Poland Golden Helmet Final (Finał Złotego Kasku) June 6, 2007 Bydgoszcz, Polonia Stadium Referee: Ryszard Bryła (Zielona Góra) Attendance: 2,500 Best Time: 61,63 s. - Wiesław Jaguś (7 heat) Only 16 heats, because was rain. Paweł Hlib was injury before Quarter-Final and was replaced by Tomasz Gapiński. Wiesław Jaguś (8th) and Sebastian Ułamek (9th) refused. Quarter-Finals Semi-Finals Grand Prix Challenge September 15, 2007 (Saturday, 19:30) Vojens Referee: Jury President: Attendance: Best Time: Stadium and track: Name: Speedway Center Capacity: ? Length: ? Heat after heat Pedersen, Baliński, Kroner, Davidsson Iversen, Bjerre, Dryml, Schlein Tomíček, Lindgren, Dobrucki, Johnston Gafurov, Gizatullin, Kasprzak, Legault (F/X) Bjerre, Baliński, Johnston, Legault Dryml, Gafurov, Lindgren, Kroner Dobrucki, Davidsson, Kasprzak, Schlein Iversen, Tomíček, Pedersen, Gizatullin Dobrucki, Dryml, Baliński, Gizatullin Bjerre, Tomíček, Kasprzak, Kroner Iversen, Johnston, Davidsson, Gafurov Pedersen, Lindgren, Schlein, Legault Tomíček, Gafurov, Schlein, Baliński (E/start) Iversen, Dobrucki, Legault, Kroner (E4) Davidsson, Lindgren, Gizatullin, Bjerre (F/X) Dryml, Kasprzak, Pedersen, Johnston Kasprzak, Iversen, Gjedde, Lindgren (F/X) Gizatullin, Schlein, Kroner, Johnston Dryml, Davidsson, Tomíček, Legault Pedersen, Bjerre, Dobrucki, Gafurov Play-off 3-4 place: Pedersen, Tomíček References See also Speedway Grand Prix 2007 Speedway Grand Prix 2008 * World Individual	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Rutsweiler am Glan Rutsweiler am Glan is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Kusel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Kusel-Altenglan, whose seat is in Kusel. Rutsweiler am Glan is one of two places in the Kusel district named Rutsweiler. The other is Rutsweiler an der Lauter, lying some 13 km to the east-northeast. Geography Location Rutsweiler am Glan lies in the Kusel Musikantenland (“Minstrels’ Land”) in the Western Palatinate at the foot of the Potzberg on the river Glan's right bank in a north-south direction along Bundesstraße 423 (Altenglan–Glan-Münchweiler–Sarreguemines). The valley floor lies at an elevation of 207.0 to 203.3 m above sea level. The ground rises steeply up towards the Potzberg's summit to the east. The hilliness and the soil's poor quality hinder any intensive use. Living in the municipality are 371 inhabitants in an area of 159 ha, of which 144 ha is woodland, cropland and meadowland. Neighbouring municipalities Rutsweiler am Glan borders in the north on the municipality of Altenglan, in the east on the municipality of Föckelberg, in the southeast on the municipality of Neunkirchen am Potzberg and in the south and west on the municipality of Theisbergstegen. Municipality’s layout As can be seen on the 1850 village map, the built-up part of Rutsweiler am Glan was once concentrated loosely around the village well in the middle of the village. Until the late 1950s, the village's expansion thrust mainly to the north and south along Hauptstraße (“Main Street”). Only when new building zones were opened did the village begin spreading towards the Potzberg. All together, 65 new buildings arose after the Second World War. Out of what was originally a workers’ village with farming as a secondary occupation has today grown into almost exclusively a residential community for commuters. History Antiquity Rutsweiler am Glan is among the Middle Glan Valley's oldest villages. Before and during Roman times, the area was settled by Celts. After the Romans withdrew, Frankish settlers came thrusting into the land. Middle Ages Rutsweiler's founding may have happened in the 7th or 8th century when territorial changes took place with the donation of the Remigiusland. The prevailing version of the story about the donation of the Remigiusland by Frankish king Clovis I to the Bishop of Reims on the occasion of Clovis's baptism and conversion along with 3,000 other Franks in 496, has been called into question by historians, and is interpreted in various different versions. Undisputed, however, is that the donation, in whatever year it took place, went into effect very early on and the formerly kingly Imperial Domain passed into ecclesiastical ownership. The river Glan thereby became a border, with all the villages on the right bank, from Rehweiler to Altenglan still held by King Charlemagne (768-814). After the division of the Carolingian Empire in the 9th century, the Rutsweiler area became German domain, whereas the Remigiusland remained under ownership of the Bishopric of Verdun. Endless disputes over succession as well as over borders led to continual friction between the secular rulers and the Church of Reims. Even the Counts of Veldenz, who from 1072 to 1444 ruled as two separate lordly families, who held considerable power in the Rutsweiler area and who bore responsibility for security in the Remigiusland as Schutzvögte, were no exception to this general rule. Their quest for broadened power eventually brought them the Schultheißerei of Reichenbach, to which Rutsweiler then belonged, in the form of an Imperial pledge. Together with the parish of Deinsberg, Rutsweiler am Glan originally belonged to the Imperial Domain (Reichsland) around Lautern (Kaiserslautern). Going by Rutsweiler am Glan's first documentary mention in 1303, it can be inferred that the village then found itself as a so-called Imperial pledged holding in the hands of the Landvogt of the Speyergau, Count Georg I of Veldenz. In 1444, the County of Veldenz met its end when Count Friedrich III of Veldenz died without a male heir. His daughter Anna wed King Ruprecht's son Count Palatine Stephan. By uniting his own Palatine holdings with the now otherwise heirless County of Veldenz – his wife had inherited the county, but not her father's title – and by redeeming the hitherto pledged County of Zweibrücken, Stephan founded a new County Palatine, as whose comital residence he chose the town of Zweibrücken: the County Palatine – later Duchy – of Palatinate-Zweibrücken. Modern times New territorial changes came by 1524, as manifested in the 1543 Treaty of Marburg, which established the Principality of Palatinate-Veldenz-Lützelstein. Among other things, this resulted in the Amt of Bosenbach, to which Rutsweiler, Mühlbach, Föckelberg, Gimsbach, Deinsberg and a number of other nearby places belonged, being incorporated into this new state, thereby making the Glan a border from Altenglan to Bettenhausen between Palatinate-Veldenz and Palatinate-Zweibrücken jurisdiction. There were border disputes, although these were resolved peacefully by a series of treaties in 1600 and 1607. Rutsweiler, together with the other places around the Potzberg, was transferred to Count Palatine Georg Gustav. With Count Palatine Leopold Ludwig's death in 1694, the family Palatinate-Veldenz died out in the male line after four generations. There was, of course, a dispute over who would inherit his “orphaned” estate, but it ended with the Settlement of Mannheim on 24 December 1733. The Schultheißerei of Reichenbach, which included Rutsweiler, would henceforth belong to the Palatinate. Recent times The rather haphazardly chosen borders, though, held true for none too long. No sooner had the French Revolution reached full swing than it spilt over into the Palatinate in 1792. In the fighting that followed, the French defeated the Austrian-Prussian alliance, and all sovereign boundaries on the Rhine’s left bank were swept away. The administration of the conquered areas was reorganized according to the French Revolutionary model. During the French occupation between 1801 and 1814, the village belonged to the Mairie (“Mayoralty”) of Neunkirchen am Potzberg, the Canton of Landstuhl, the Arrondissement of Deux Ponts (Zweibrücken) and the Department of Mont-Tonnerre (or Donnersberg in German). Under the Treaty of Paris (30 May 1814), the Palatinate passed to the Kingdom of Bavaria. The Landcommissariat of Kusel (as of 1862 the Bezirksamt of Kusel) consisted of the cantons of Kusel, Lauterecken and Wolfstein. Rutsweiler was grouped into this last canton and was administered by the Mayoralty of Neunkirchen until 1825, and then by the Mayoralty of Mühlbach from 1826 to 1853. After a petition in 1829, the municipality, together with Mühlbach and Bedesbach, was transferred out of the canton of Wolfstein on 1 January 1836 and into the canton of Kusel by reason of the better accessibility under this arrangement. Beginning in 1853 and until 1972, Rutsweiler belonged to the Mayoralty of either Godelhausen or Theisbergstegen. In 1845, the village got a schoolhouse. In 1899, it was given an upper floor and a belltower. Between 1893 and 1903, four trial bores were made on the Potzberg, two within Rutsweiler's limits, by prospectors seeking coal. On 15 May 1908, the waterworks (a cistern and a watermain) were brought into service. Electric light came to the village in 1921. On Christmas Eve 1944, the village was bombed by the Allies; two civilian villagers were killed. On 19 March 1945, United States troops took Rutsweiler am Glan. After the Second World War, the memorial at the graveyard was dedicated in 1953. A new schoolhouse was dedicated on 24 November 1962. In the course of administrative restructuring in Rhineland-Palatinate, Rutsweiler was grouped into the then newly founded Verbandsgemeinde of Altenglan in 1972. Rutsweiler was granted arms in 1978. In 1986, Rutsweiler am Glan participated in the contest Unser Dorf soll schöner werden (“Our village should become lovelier”), winning second place at the district level. Population development On 30 June 1997, the population's age breakdown in Rutsweiler am Glan was as follows: 19 or younger: 19% 20–59: 59% 60 or older: 32% The oldest known listing of the population comes from a 1594 taxation roll for the Mey Bedt, or “May tax”, which lists 13 people who were liable to taxation, suggesting a total population of 50 to 55 inhabitants. Rutsweiler's losses in the First World War amounted to four fallen, and in the Second World War, 22 fallen in battle, killed in the village's one air raid or missing in action. Despite the many new houses, the population level has been stagnant for at least 30 years, and more recently seems to have been shrinking. Underlying this may be the declining birthrate, or perhaps a drop in numbers of people moving to the village. The local dialectal speech, which included French expressions, has largely died out now, and older villagers only ever still use it now and then, or can at least interpret it. The following table shows population development over the centuries for Rutsweiler am Glan, with some figures broken down by religious denomination: Municipality’s names Rutsweiler is one of the oldest villages in the Middle Glan Valley. Ernst Christmann presumed that the name quite possibly went back to the personal name Hruod (later Ruod). This man, Ruod – whoever he was – was surely one of the first (perhaps the first) to live at what is now the village of Rutsweiler am Glan. The village's name has undergone spelling changes quite a number of times, having formerly been known as Rützweiller in 1590 and Rudtsweiler am Glan about 1835. Other forms known to history are Routzweiler, Rutzweyler and Rußwilre. In June 1303, Rutsweiler had its first documentary mention. The actual document says: “Count Georg of Veldenz (Veldentie) gives his consent for Sir Heinrich, son of the knight Godebert of Zweibrücken (de Geminoponte), to bestow upon his wife Lyse his Veldenz fief in Rußwilre and lying around the mountain Deynesperg. – Datum anno domini 1303 post octavas Trinitas.” In other words, it was a widow's estate for his wife. Unfortunately, this document has gone missing, and despite intensive searching, it has not turned up in any state archive. There also seems to be some confusion as to the spelling used therein, with another source rendering it Ruzwilre. The Potzberg may well derive its name from the word Putsch, but not in the meaning in which the Modern High German word Putsch is generally understood today. Rather, it is a form of the word Busch, cognate with the English word “bush”, and thus the name would mean a mountain with bushy growth on it. The river Glan flows through the village from south to north. Its name is likely of Celtic origin. One story, though, has it that it draws its name from the fish Silurus glanis (the wels catfish or sheatfish). Religion Rutsweiler am Glan has never had its own church. The villagers were formerly almost exclusively Protestant, and thus their religious past was always the same as for the church at Deinsberg (Theisbergstegen) on the Potzberg, whereas the Catholics always belonged to the parish of St. Remigius am Remigiusberg. The first breakdown by religion comes from the year 1802, according to which the population was made up of 9 Catholics, 99 Lutherans and 9 Calvinists. In 1837, it was 11 Catholics and 138 Protestants. According to the latest statistics from 1986 and 1997, the share of Evangelical Christians had shrunk from 82% to 76%, while the Catholic share of the population remained steady at 12%. Some 10% of the villagers now belong to another religious community besides these two, or they acknowledge membership in none. Politics Municipal council The council is made up of 8 council members, who were elected by majority vote at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairwoman. Mayor Rutsweiler's mayor is Anita Meder, and her deputy is Armin Weisenstein. Coat of arms The German blazon reads: The municipality's arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: Argent issuant from base a mount of three vert, dexter a globus cruciger and a mercury symbol in pale, both azure, and sinister a lion rampant of the same armed and langued gules. The arms group together charges representing the village's history. Rutsweiler's past as part of the Reichsland (Imperial Domain) and various Palatine lordships is symbolized by both the globus cruciger (called a Reichsapfel in the German blazon, “Imperial apple”) and the lion, both of which are shown in the tinctures borne by the County of Veldenz. The local mountain, the Potzberg, is represented by the mount of three, a charge known in German heraldry as a Dreiberg. The mercury symbol recalls the former quicksilver mining within municipal limits. The arms have been borne since 27 September 1978 when they were approved by the now defunct Rheinhessen-Pfalz Regierungsbezirk administration in Neustadt an der Weinstraße. Culture and sightseeing Buildings The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate’s Directory of Cultural Monuments: Hauptstraße 74 – former fire engine house; one-floor plastered building with jutting gable roof and ridge turret, possibly from the latter half of the 19th century Regular events Among folk festivals in Rutsweiler am Glan, the kermis (church consecration festival, held on the third Sunday in September) has survived, but is no longer considered important. Beginning in 1985 and for several years thereafter, a village festival was held on the second weekend in August. Dwindling attendance and people’s unwillingness to volunteer their help for the event brought about council’s decision to suspend the event for the time being. The municipality invites those aged 65 or older to a seniors’ celebration each year in December. Clubs Rutsweiler am Glan's club life can still be said to be lively, even though all clubs in the village suffer from the dearth of new, younger membership. The oldest club and cultural sponsor is the singing club, which was founded in 1904, and had to suspend its singing activities during both world wars. After the Second World War, the club started back up as a mixed choir. The conversation club, founded in 1950 stages theatre productions with periodic interruptions. The countrywomen's club, founded in 1973, distinguishes itself by offering activities such as cooking, sewing and handicraft courses. Economy and infrastructure Economic structure The greater part of Rutsweiler am Glan's population worked even into the 1950s at the stone quarries around the Remigiusberg. Agriculture was worked as a secondary occupation, for the scant soil never would yield up plentiful crops. Since that time, there has been a great shift in the economic base, and most villagers nowadays work in the service sector, administration and industry in Kusel and in the Kaiserslautern area. Most of the fields now lie fallow. Among independent businesses in Rutsweiler today are a bakery, a trout farming business, a building firm and an electrical installation firm. From 1893 to 1901, two deep-boring operations were undertaken on the Potzberg, whose purpose was to explore for the presence of coal. Even after two more exploratory bores in other municipalities, the results were unsatisfactory. Education In 1844, Rutsweiler am Glan got its first schoolhouse. Until then, schoolchildren had been attending denominational schools in Theisbergstegen. The building, which stood apart from others for its great size, also housed the teacher's dwelling. Even so, the thoroughly inadequate facilities forced the municipality to add an upper floor in 1897. During the Second World War, schooling was reduced bit by bit, and schoolchildren had to go to either Theisbergstegen or Godelhausen again. Rising numbers of children drove the municipality to build a new schoolhouse in 1960, this one with a separate teacher's dwelling. It was dedicated in November 1962. The forecast of having made a great investment for the future did not last very long, only ten years. With the end of the 1970/1971 school year, schooling was ended at the village school. Ever since, primary school pupils have been attending classes in Theisbergstegen while Hauptschule students have been going to Altenglan. Other types of secondary school, such as Realschule and Gymnasium, are available in Kusel. In 1988, the schoolhouse, which had stood empty for almost two decades, was converted into a village community centre. Transport Running through Rutsweiler is Bundesstraße 423 (Altenglan–Glan-Münchweiler–Sarreguemines). Besides this road, which runs along the village's length, Rutsweiler am Glan has five local streets, all of which but Wingertstraße are linked with each other as well as with Bundesstraße 423, also known locally as Hauptstraße (“Main Street”). It was also formerly known as Moorstraße, whose first syllable refers to Moor in the word's more usual German meaning of “low-lying wetland”. This old name likely owes itself to the street's lying right near the Glan, a river known for often flooding its banks, which were not secured in any way, and were boggy at the best of times. Furthermore, the peat that was cut in the Landstuhl Marsh was sometimes shipped along this road. The local streets are all named for the cadastral areas through which they pass. To the southwest runs the Autobahn A 62 (Kaiserslautern–Trier). Serving Altenglan and Theisbergstegen are railway stations on the Landstuhl–Kusel railway. References External links Municipality’s official webpage Rutsweiler am Glan in the collective municipality’s webpages Brief portrait of Rutsweiler am Glan with film at SWR Fernsehen (Hierzuland) Category:Municipalities in Rhineland-Palatinate Category:Kusel (district)	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Alpha Lambda Mu Alpha Lambda Mu (ΑΛΜ) (:Alif Laam Meem in Arabic) is the first national Muslim fraternity in America. Alpha Lambda Mu was named for three letters that start several chapters of the Quran: Alif Laam Meem. The Fraternity was created by founder Ali Mahmoud and co-founder Araf Hossain. The fraternities founding chapter was founded at the University of Texas at Dallas on February 12, 2013. As of spring 2017, the fraternity has seven chapters and five colonies. The Fraternity is the subject of the documentary “Brotherhood: America’s Favorite Muslim Fraternity" On March 23, 2013, the chapter at University of Texas at Dallas joined a protest against Domestic Violence to confront negative stereotypes of Muslim Men Chapters Alpha Lambda Mu has eight chapters: Grand Alpha - University of Texas at Dallas Beta - University of California at San Diego Gamma - Cornell University Delta - San Diego State University Epsilon - University of Texas at Arlington Zeta - The Pennsylvania State University Eta - University of Toledo Iota - Texas Tech University Additionally, Alpha Lambda Mu started colonies at the following institutions in Spring 2017: The University of California, Los Angeles East Carolina University University of California, Irvine Miami University (OH) University of Oklahoma References Category:Fraternities and sororities in the United States Category:Islamic organizations based in the United States Category:Student organizations established in 2013 Category:2013 establishments in Texas	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
2011–12 Sacramento Kings season The 2011–12 Sacramento Kings season was the 67th season of the franchise, its 63rd season in the National Basketball Association (NBA), and its 27th in Sacramento. Key dates June 23: The 2011 NBA draft took place at Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey. Possible relocation Henry Samueli, the owner of the Anaheim Ducks and Anaheim Arena Management, has hoped to bring an NBA franchise to Honda Center in Anaheim since he took control of the arena in the early 2000s. The Sacramento Kings had expressed an interest in relocating to Anaheim from their current stadium, Power Balance Pavilion (formerly ARCO Arena). On March 3, 2011, a lawyer representing the Maloof brothers (owners of the Kings) filed federal trademark applications for names for a new basketball team based in Anaheim. Those names included Anaheim Royals, Los Angeles Royals, Orange County Royals, and Anaheim Royals of Southern California. Of note, the city of Anaheim has mandated that any team playing at Honda Center must use "Anaheim" as its only geographic identifier. This requirement was made after the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim added 'Los Angeles' to their official name. On May 2, 2011, the Maloofs announced they were staying in Sacramento for at least one more season, to try to make things work with a new Sports and Entertainment Complex in Sacramento. Timeline of events July 1, 1997: Sacramento obtained a $70 million loan for the Kings. A "Team Owner's Relocation Assurance Agreement" recites that Kings agree to stay in Sacramento for 30 years or until the loan is repaid. But the contract includes a term prohibiting the City of Sacramento from preventing a relocation. November 8, 2003: As early as 2003, there had been speculation that the Kings may move to Anaheim. The Los Angeles Times reported that the Maloofs (then and current owners of the Kings) were interested in purchasing the then-Mighty Ducks of Anaheim who played (and still play) at the Arrowhead Pond/Honda Center. In that same article, Gavin Maloof was quoted as saying that "I think Anaheim would be a plus for the league. The arena is beautiful. The market is so rich. Three teams in that market, it could handle it." This, naturally, set off speculation that the Maloofs were considering a move to Orange County, however, a spokeswoman for the Maloofs quickly shot down the idea calling a possible Kings move to Anaheim "laughable." February 13, 2009: Speculation was renewed by the Orange County Register/Sacramento Bee that the Kings may be looking at Southern California as a possible new home. September 23, 2010: Anaheim Ducks and Anaheim Arena Management owner Henry Samueli renewed his interest in an NBA franchise relocating to Honda Center. December 6, 2010: ESPN, Sports Illustrated, and other news agencies were reporting that Anaheim is on the NBA's short list for a possible franchise relocation. At this time, however, speculation surrounded the New Orleans Hornets franchise and also the cities of Kansas City, Missouri; San Jose, California; Seattle, Washington; and Chicago, Illinois; along with Anaheim. January 9, 2011: Randy Youngman of the Orange County Register re-kindled the Kings to Anaheim speculation and the Register continued to publish Kings to Anaheim speculation for a week. February 10, 2011: The Sacramento city council unanimously voted to approve ICON and David Taylor to conduct a feasibility study for a new sports and entertainment center in the state capital. The Maloofs, at that time, reportedly agreed to hand over 11 years of financial/arena information documents to help in this study. February 19–22, 2011: NBA Commissioner David Stern acknowledged that there are ongoing talks between the Kings and Anaheim officials about a possible relocation during the All-Star festivities at Staples Center in Los Angeles. February 25, 2011: The Kings asked for an extension to the relocation filing deadline. The deadline is normally March 1. February 28, 2011: Kings fans organized to sell out then-ARCO Arena for a game against the Los Angeles Clippers in response to the relocation rumors. March 1, 2011: The NBA moved the relocation filing deadline back from March 1 to April 18 for the Kings. March 6, 2011: It was reported that the Taylor/ICON group would delay their report until they knew whether or not the Kings were staying in Sacramento. March 23–26, 2011: Jim Crandell reported that there is a possible "game changing" proposal that could keep the Kings in Sacramento. It was later reported, however, that the Maloofs had rejected this plan which calls for a renovation of Power Balance Pavilion. March 28, 2011: The Orange County Register reported that an official in the city of Sacramento had sent a letter to the city of Anaheim insisting that they cease negotiations with the Kings because of a $73,725,000 loan that is owed to the capital city by the Maloofs. Kings co-owner quickly shot back, saying that the letter was "below the belt" and that Sacramento should "not interfere with our business." The next day, the Los Angeles Times reported that California state senate president pro tempore Steinberg (D-Sacramento) is considering legislation that would prevent the Kings from moving until the debt is paid in full. March 29, 2011: The city of Anaheim unanimously approved a 75 million dollar bond to bring Honda Center up to modern NBA standards. April 14, 2011: The NBA Board of Governors met at the St. Regis Hotel in New York City where George Maloof, on behalf of the majority owners, made his case to the other owners that relocation was advisable. Anaheim Mayor Tom Tait, Anaheim City Manager Tom Wood, Anaheim Ducks owner Henry Samueli, and Anaheim Arena Management official Michael Schulman all attended the meetings to make the argument for relocation to their city. Sacramento mayor Kevin Johnson also attended the meetings and made the case why the Kings should remain in California's capital city or why Sacramento deserves a new team if the Kings leave. Johnson also announced during his presentation that Ron Burkle, a billionaire credited with helping keep the Pittsburgh Penguins in their home town, wanted to purchase the Kings franchise and keep them in Sacramento. Burkle's firm later sent out a press release confirming his interest in purchasing the Kings and keeping the NBA in Sacramento. The Orange County Register also reported that the fate of the Kings may be known by Friday, April 15. April 15, 2011: At an NBA Board of Governors meeting at the St. Regis Hotel in New York City, the NBA moved the relocation filing deadline for the Kings from March 18 to May 2. April 18, 2011: The Kings' second deadline to file for relocation. An extension to May 2 was granted on April 15. April 29, 2011: The Orange County Register reported that the relocation committee headed by Oklahoma City Thunder owner has suggested that the Kings remain in Sacramento. In response, Anaheim Ducks owner Henry Samueli upped his offer to the Maloofs, promising to pay for up to 70 million dollars in upgrades to Honda Center. He also reportedly secured 30 million dollars (to counter the 10 million that Sacramento mayor Kevin Johnson secured) in corporate funding and a six-year television deal that would pay out 24 million dollars annually. Samueli also upped his personal loan to the Maloofs to 75 million dollars and offered to buy a minority stake in the Kings. Following this report, the Maloofs have not filed for relocation and the relocation committee has not changed their reported suggestion. May 2, 2011: George Maloof announces that the Kings will remain in Sacramento for at least one more season. Cities considered future sites for the Kings The Kings not only looked at Anaheim in relocation plans, the team was offered deals in possible relocations to Kansas City, where the Kings once played until their move to Sacramento in 1985, Cincinnati, where the Kings used to be the Cincinnati Royals from 1961 to 1972, Pittsburgh due to a radio station report about the NHL's Pittsburgh Penguins may purchase the team, Las Vegas where the 2007 NBA All-Star Game, and Seattle the former home of the Oklahoma City Thunder (was the Seattle SuperSonics) when the team moved to Oklahoma in 2006. The Kings wanted to reuse the "Royals" namesake for Anaheim not to confuse with the NHL's Los Angeles Kings whose cross-region rival is the Anaheim Ducks, but if they move to Seattle, they will keep the "Kings" moniker and their closest opponent will be the Portland Trail Blazers in Oregon. ESPN's Basketball Editor in Chief recently told a Seattle Sports Station that Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada is the most "viable" option. Draft picks ¤:Draft rights traded to Sacramento from the Milwaukee Bucks Roster Preseason Due to the 2011 NBA lockout negotiations, the programmed preseason schedule, along with the first two weeks of the regular season, were scrapped, and a two-game preseason was set for each team once the lockout concluded. \|- bgcolor= \| 1 \| December 17 \| @ Golden State \| \| Jimmer FredetteMarcus Thornton (21) \| J. J. Hickson (7) \| Tyreke Evans (7) \| Oracle Arena16,523 \| 1–0 \|- bgcolor= \| 2 \| December 20 \| Golden State \| \| Marcus Thornton (21) \| DeMarcus Cousins (10) \| Tyreke Evans (7) \| Power Balance Pavilion12,425 \| 1–1 Regular season Standings Record vs. opponents Game log \|- bgcolor="#ccffcc" \| 1 \| December 26 \| L. A. Lakers \| \| Marcus Thornton (27) \| DeMarcus Cousins (11) \| Three players (3) \| Power Balance Pavilion17,317 \| 1–0 \|- bgcolor="#ffcccc" \| 2 \| December 27 \| @ Portland \| \| DeMarcus Cousins (16) \| DeMarcus CousinsChuck Hayes (11) \| Tyreke EvansMarcus Thornton (3) \| Rose Garden20,350 \| 1–1 \|- bgcolor="#ffcccc" \| 3 \| December 29 \| Chicago \| \| Marcus Thornton (20) \| DeMarcus Cousins (12) \| Jimmer FredetteChuck Hayes (3) \| Power Balance Pavilion17,317 \| 1–2 \|- bgcolor=#fcc \| 4 \| December 31 \| New York \| \| Marcus Thornton (14) \| Chuck Hayes (13) \| DeMarcus Cousins (4) \| Power Balance Pavilion16,175 \| 1–3 \|- bgcolor=#cfc \| 5 \| January 1 \| New Orleans \| \| Tyreke Evans (27) \| Chuck Hayes (10) \| Jimmer Fredette (5) \| Power Balance Pavilion13,628 \| 2–3 \|- bgcolor=#fcc \| 6 \| January 3 \| @ Memphis \| \| Jimmer Fredette (17) \| J.J. Hickson (10) \| Tyreke Evans (4) \| FedEx Forum12,391 \| 2–4 \|- bgcolor=#fcc \| 7 \| January 4 \| @ Denver \| \| DeMarcus Cousins (26) \| Three players (5) \| Three players (3) \| Pepsi Center14,562 \| 2–5 \|- bgcolor=#cfc \| 8 \| January 5 \| Milwaukee \| \| Marcus Thornton (27) \| DeMarcus Cousins (15) \| Tyreke Evans (5) \| Power Balance Pavilion11,813 \| 3–5 \|- bgcolor=#fcc \| 9 \| January 8 \| Orlando \| \| Tyreke Evans (28) \| J. J. Hickson (11) \| Tyreke Evans (8) \| Power Balance Pavilion14,150 \| 3–6 \|- bgcolor=#fcc \| 10 \| January 10 \| @ Philadelphia \| \| DeMarcus Cousins (17) \| DeMarcus Cousins (10) \| Francisco García (4) \| Wells Fargo Center10,255 \| 3–7 \|- bgcolor=#cfc \| 11 \| January 11 \| @ Toronto \| \| Tyreke Evans (29) \| DeMarcus Cousins (19) \| Isaiah Thomas (6) \| Air Canada Centre14,323 \| 4–7 \|- bgcolor="#ffcccc" \| 12 \| January 13 \| @ Houston \| \| Tyreke Evans (27) \| Donté Greene (8) \| Tyreke EvansIsaiah Thomas (5) \| Toyota Center12,870 \| 4-8 \|- bgcolor="#ffcccc" \| 13 \| January 14 \| @ Dallas \| \| Marcus Thornton (14) \| DeMarcus Cousins (10) \| Tyreke EvansJohn Salmons (3) \| American Airlines Center20,313 \| 4-9 \|- bgcolor="#ffcccc" \| 14 \| January 16 \| @ Minnesota \| \| Three players (12) \| Tyreke Evans (8) \| Tyreke Evans (10) \| Target Center16,159 \| 4-10 \|- bgcolor="#ccffcc" \| 15 \| January 18 \| Indiana \| \| Marcus Thornton (17) \| DeMarcus Cousins (19) \| Tyreke Evans (6) \| Power Balance Pavilion14,170 \| 5-10 \|- bgcolor="#ccffcc" \| 16 \| January 20 \| @ San Antonio \| \| Tyreke Evans (23) \| DeMarcus Cousins (13) \| Tyreke Evans (7) \| AT&T Center18,581 \| 6-10 \|- bgcolor="#ffcccc" \| 17 \| January 21 \| @ Memphis \| \| Jimmer Fredette (20) \| DeMarcus Cousins (11) \| Three players (5) \| FedEx Forum16,562 \| 6-11 \|- bgcolor="#ffcccc" \| 18 \| January 23 \| @ Portland \| \| DeMarcus Cousins (18) \| DeMarcus Cousins (13) \| Isaiah Thomas (8) \| Power Balance Pavilion20,363 \| 6-12 \|- bgcolor="#ffcccc" \| 19 \| January 25 \| Denver \| \| Jimmer Fredette (19) \| DeMarcus Cousins (15) \| Tyreke Evans (7) \| Power Balance Pavilion12,097 \| 6-13 \|- bgcolor="#ffcccc" \| 20 \| January 28 \| @ Utah \| \| Tyreke Evans (31) \| DeMarcus Cousins (9) \| Tyreke Evans (9) \| EnergySolutions Arena19,911 \| 6-14 \|- bgcolor="#ffcccc" \| 21 \| January 31 \| @ Golden State \| \| Tyreke Evans (22) \| DeMarcus Cousins (14) \| Tyreke Evans (9) \| Oracle Arena17,753 \| 6-15 \|- bgcolor="#ccffcc" \| 22 \| February 2 \| Portland \| \| Marcus Thornton (20) \| Jason Thompson (12) \| Tyreke Evans (5) \| Power Balance Pavilion11,740 \| 7-15 \|- bgcolor="#ccffcc" \| 23 \| February 4 \| Golden State \| \| Marcus Thornton (28) \| DeMarcus Cousins (20) \| Tyreke Evans (9) \| Power Balance Pavilion16,411 \| 8-15 \|- bgcolor="#ccffcc" \| 24 \| February 6 \| @ New Orleans \| \| DeMarcus Cousins (28) \| DeMarcus Cousins (19) \| Isaiah Thomas (6) \| New Orleans Arena13,222 \| 9-15 \|- bgcolor="#ffcccc" \| 25 \| February 7 \| @ Minnesota \| \| Marcus Thornton (22) \| DeMarcus CousinsJ. J. Hickson (11) \| Tyreke EvansIsaiah Thomas (4) \| Target Center14,073 \| 9-16 \|- bgcolor="#ccffcc" \| 26 \| February 9 \| Oklahoma City \| \| Tyreke Evans (22) \| Jason Thompson (10) \| Tyreke Evans (5) \| Power Balance Pavilion17,317 \| 10-16 \|- bgcolor="#ffcccc" \| 27 \| February 11 \| Phoenix \| \| DeMarcus Cousins (26) \| DeMarcus Cousins (9) \| Tyreke Evans (5) \| Power Balance Pavilion16,964 \| 10-17 \|- bgcolor="#ffcccc" \| 28 \| February 14 \| @ Chicago \| \| DeMarcus Cousins (28) \| DeMarcus Cousins (17) \| Tyreke Evans (8) \| United Center21,936 \| 10-18 \|- bgcolor="#ffcccc" \| 29 \| February 15 \| @ New York \| \| Tyreke Evans (19) \| J. J. Hickson (6) \| Tyreke Evans (5) \| Madison Square Garden19,763 \| 10-19 \|- bgcolor="#ffcccc" \| 30 \| February 17 \| @ Detroit \| \| DeMarcus Cousins (26) \| DeMarcus Cousins (15) \| Tyreke Evans (9) \| The Palace of Auburn Hills14,686 \| 10-20 \|- bgcolor="#ffcccc" \| 31 \| February 19 \| @ Cleveland \| \| Isaiah Thomas (23) \| Marcus Thornton (10) \| Isaiah Thomas (11) \| Quicken Loans Arena16,812 \| 10-21 \|- bgcolor="#ffcccc" \| 32 \| February 21 \| @ Miami \| \| Isaiah Thomas (24) \| Jason Thompson (10) \| Tyreke Evans (10) \| American Airlines Arena20,068 \| 10-22 \|- bgcolor="#ccffcc" \| 33 \| February 22 \| @ Washington \| \| Tyreke EvansMarcus Thornton (22) \| DeMarcus Cousins (16) \| Isaiah Thomas (6) \| Verizon Center17,085 \| 11-22 \|- bgcolor="#ccffcc" \| 34 \| February 28 \| Utah \| \| DeMarcus Cousins (22) \| DeMarcus Cousins (18) \| Isaiah Thomas (8) \| Power Balance Pavilion13,896 \| 12-22 \|- bgcolor="#ffcccc" \| 35 \| March 1 \| L. A. Clippers \| \| DeMarcus Cousins (23) \| DeMarcus Cousins (10) \| Isaiah Thomas (4) \| Power Balance Pavilion15,512 \| 12-23 \|- bgcolor="#ffcccc" \| 36 \| March 2 \| @ L. A. Lakers \| \| Francisco García (18) \| DeMarcus Cousins (13) \| Isaiah Thomas (6) \| Staples Center18,997 \| 12-24 \|- bgcolor="#ffcccc" \| 37 \| March 4 \| @ Phoenix \| \| Marcus Thornton (21) \| DeMarcus Cousins (14) \| Tyreke Evans (6) \| US Airways Center15,026 \| 12-25 \|- bgcolor="#ffcccc" \| 38 \| March 5 \| @ Denver \| \| Tyreke Evans, Marcus Thornton (27) \| Jason Thompson (8) \| DeMarcus Cousins, John Salmons (5) \| Pepsi Center14,823 \| 12-26 \|- bgcolor="#ccffcc" \| 39 \| March 7 \| New Orleans \| \| Marcus Thornton (25) \| Jason Thompson (8) \| Jimmer Fredette (5) \| Power Balance Pavilion13,487 \| 13-26 \|- bgcolor="#ccffcc" \| 40 \| March 9 \| Dallas \| \| Tyreke EvansMarcus Thornton (17) \| Tyreke Evans (9) \| DeMarcus CousinsIsaiah Thomas (5) \| Power Balance Pavilion16,857 \| 14-26 \|- bgcolor="#ffcccc" \| 41 \| March 11 \| Atlanta \| \| DeMarcus Cousins (28) \| DeMarcus Cousins (12) \| Tyreke Evans (7) \| Power Balance Pavilion13,976 \| 14-27 \|- bgcolor="#ffcccc" \| 42 \| March 13 \| Golden State \| \| DeMarcus Cousins (19) \| DeMarcus Cousins (12) \| Marcus Thornton (3) \| Power Balance Pavilion12,011 \| 14-28 \|- bgcolor="#ffcccc" \| 43 \| March 14 \| Detroit \| \| Tyreke Evans (23) \| Jason Thompson (15) \| Marcus Thornton (6) \| Power Balance Pavilion12,173 \| 14-29 \|- bgcolor="#ccffcc" \| 44 \| March 16 \| Boston \| \| Marcus Thornton (36) \| Jason Thompson (15) \| Isaiah Thomas (10) \| Power Balance Pavilion17,317 \| 15-29 \|- bgcolor="#ccffcc" \| 45 \| March 18 \| Minnesota \| \| Marcus Thornton (24) \| Jason Thompson (10) \| Jimmer FredetteMarcus Thornton (4) \| Power Balance Pavilion15,616 \| 16-29 \|- bgcolor="#ccffcc" \| 46 \| March 20 \| Memphis \| \| Marcus Thornton (31) \| Jason Thompson (13) \| Isaiah Thomas (7) \| Power Balance Pavilion11,105 \| 17-29 \|- bgcolor="#ffcccc" \| 47 \| March 22 \| Utah \| \| Tyreke Evans (25) \| DeMarcus Cousins (18) \| Isaiah Thomas (7) \| Power Balance Pavilion11,646 \| 17-30 \|- bgcolor="#ffcccc" \| 48 \| March 24 \| @ Golden State \| \| DeMarcus Cousins (28) \| DeMarcus Cousins (18) \| DeMarcus CousinsIsaiah Thomas (5) \| Oracle Arena19,596 \| 17-31 \|- bgcolor="#ffcccc" \| 49 \| March 26 \| @ Houston \| \| DeMarcus Cousins (38) \| DeMarcus Cousins (14) \| Isaiah Thomas (6) \| Toyota Center13,572 \| 17-32 \|- bgcolor="#ffcccc" \| 50 \| March 28 \| San Antonio \| \| Isaiah Thomas (28) \| DeMarcus Cousins (11) \| Isaiah Thomas (10) \| Power Balance Pavilion13,119 \| 17-33 \|- bgcolor="#ccffcc" \| 51 \| March 30 \| @ Utah \| \| DeMarcus Cousins (27) \| DeMarcus Cousins (14) \| Isaiah Thomas (6) \| EnergySolutions Arena19,911 \| 18-33 \|- bgcolor="#ffcccc" \| 52 \| March 31 \| New Jersey \| \| Tyreke Evans (23) \| Jason Thompson (10) \| Isaiah Thomas (6) \| Power Balance Pavilion14,370 \| 18-34 \|- bgcolor="#ccffcc" \| 53 \| April 2 \| Minnesota \| \| Tyreke Evans (24) \| Terrence Williams (12) \| Tyreke Evans (7) \| Power Balance Pavilion12,279 \| 19-34 \|- bgcolor="#ffcccc" \| 54 \| April 3 \| Phoenix \| \| DeMarcus Cousins (41) \| DeMarcus Cousins (12) \| Isaiah Thomas (7) \| Power Balance Pavilion12,462 \| 19-35 \|- bgcolor="#ffcccc" \| 55 \| April 5 \| L. A. Clippers \| \| Isaiah Thomas (17) \| Jason Thompson (16) \| Tyreke Evans (6) \| Power Balance Pavilion14,411 \| 19-36 \|- bgcolor="#ffcccc" \| 56 \| April 7 \| @ L. A. Clippers \| \| DeMarcus Cousins (15) \| DeMarcus Cousins (20) \| Terrence Williams (9) \| Staples Center19,060 \| 19-37 \|- bgcolor="#ffcccc" \| 57 \| April 8 \| Houston \| \| Terrence Williams (21) \| Hassan Whiteside (10) \| Isaiah Thomas (6) \| Power Balance Pavilion13,299 \| 19-38 \|- bgcolor="#ffcccc" \| 58 \| April 10 \| @ Dallas \| \| DeMarcus Cousins (25) \| DeMarcus Cousins (18) \| Tyreke EvansIsaiah Thomas (5) \| American Airlines Center20,241 \| 19-39 \|- bgcolor="#ffcccc" \| 59 \| April 11 \| @ New Orleans \| \| Marcus Thornton (25) \| Jason Thompson (7) \| Tyreke Evans (8) \| New Orleans Arena16,906 \| 19-40 \|- bgcolor="#ffcccc" \| 60 \| April 13 \| @ Oklahoma City \| \| Isaiah Thomas (21) \| DeMarcus Cousins (12) \| Terrence Williams (6) \| Chesapeake Energy Arena18,203 \| 19-41 \|- bgcolor="#ccffcc" \| 61 \| April 15 \| Portland \| \| DeMarcus Cousins (23) \| DeMarcus CousinsChuck Hayes (7) \| Isaiah Thomas (8) \| Power Balance Pavilion16,012 \| 20-41 \|- bgcolor="#ffcccc" \| 62 \| April 18 \| San Antonio \| \| Isaiah Thomas (21) \| DeMarcus Cousins (9) \| Isaiah ThomasTerrence Williams (8) \| Power Balance Pavilion16,954 \| 20-42 \|- bgcolor="#ffcccc" \| 63 \| April 20 \| Oklahoma City \| \| DeMarcus Cousins (18) \| DeMarcus Cousins (9) \| Chuck Hayes (5) \| Power Balance Pavilion16,882 \| 20-43 \|- bgcolor="#ccffcc" \| 64 \| April 22 \| @ Charlotte \| \| DeMarcus Cousins (29) \| Jason Thompson (11) \| Jason Thompson (7) \| Time Warner Cable Arena11,317 \| 21-43 \|- bgcolor="#ffcccc" \| 65 \| April 24 \| @ Oklahoma City \| \| DeMarcus Cousins (32) \| DeMarcus CousinsTravis Outlaw (7) \| Isaiah Thomas (9) \| Chesapeake Energy Arena18,203 \| 21-44 \|- bgcolor="#ccffcc" \| 66 \| April 26 \| L. A. Lakers \| \| DeMarcus Cousins (23) \| DeMarcus Cousins (19) \| Isaiah Thomas (7) \| Power Balance Pavilion16,281 \| 22-44 Transactions Trades Free agents See also 2011–12 NBA season References 2011-12 Sacramento Kings season Sacramento Kings Sacramento Sacramento	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Sumaya Kazi Sumaya Kazi (Bengali: সুমাইয়া কাজী, born July 17, 1982) is an American entrepreneur. At the age of 23, Kazi founded her first company The CulturalConnect. She later founded and was the CEO of San Francisco-based technology company Sumazi, a social intelligence platform used by brands, celebrities and enterprises. Kazi held one of the first social media management positions at a Fortune 500 company leading social media at Sun Microsystems until its acquisition by Oracle. Early life Kazi was born in Hollywood, California in 1982 and grew up in Moreno Valley, California. She started taking college courses at Riverside Community College at the age of 11, advancing in mathematics while attending Landmark Middle School. Kazi attended Canyon Springs High School, where she was voted "Most Likely to Succeed" by her senior class. At the age of 16, she won the title of Miss Inland Empire (California) and later was a top five finalist in the California Distinguished Young Women competition, winning her a scholarship toward college. She attended the University of California, Berkeley graduating in 2004 with a degree in Interdisciplinary Studies in Business. While a student, Kazi worked at the University Human Rights Centers on campus under the leadership of Professor Eric Stover, transcribing interviews of war-torn victims from Bosnia and Croatia. Kazi, along with her team, won first place in the Haas School of Business Cisco & Deloitte E-Business case competition, which served as a catalyst for her career in technology. Career Upon graduation, Kazi worked at Sun Microsystems where she was the senior social media manager for the Global Communications division. Kazi, one of the first social media managers at a Fortune 500 company, was responsible for developing programs to capture, expand and socialize new and evolving media, analyst and influencer communities. While working at Sun Microsystems, at the age of 23, Kazi founded her first company The CulturalConnect, an online media company for young professionals aimed at redefining what success looks like in different ethnic diasporas. The CulturalConnect was made up of five online publications including: The DesiConnect, The MidEastConnect, The AsiaConnect, The AfricanaConnect, and The LatinConnect. In April 2011, Sumaya founded Sumazi, the social intelligence platform used by brands, celebrities and enterprises. Sumazi was a finalist at the TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield, where it won the Omidyar Network award for "Startup Most Likely to Change the World." Awards, press and honors 2006: BusinessWeek Magazine, America's Best Young Entrepreneurs Under 25 2007: CNN, Young People Who Rock 2007: Brass Magazine cover story 2007: Silicon Valley Business Journal, Dynamic Super Connector 2008: ABC7 KGO-TV, Bay Area Trailblazer and Community Leader 2009: UTNE Reader, Top 50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World 2011: GenJuice, The Top 100 Most Desirable Mentors 2012: YFS Magazine, 10 San Francisco Entrepreneurs to Watch 2012: Forbes, Female Founders to Watch from UC Berkeley 2012: Reuters, Most Influential Executives on the Web 2014: British Bangladeshi Power & Inspiration 100, Top 10 Inspirational Bangladeshis Around the World Public speaking Kazi is a frequent speaker and panelist at technology conferences and educational institutions educating audiences on topics such as entrepreneurship, non-profit work, intrapreneurship, social entrepreneurship, young professional issues, social media, diversity and technology. She has presented at the World Islamic Economic Forum in Malaysia, Marketing 2.0 Conference in France, BlogWorld Expo in Las Vegas, National Society of Collegiate Scholars Conference in Florida, Google Girl Geek Dinners Panel in Mountain View, Congresswoman Jackie Speier's Job Hunter's Conference in San Mateo among many other speaking engagements. Additionally, Kazi has been a speaker at several TEDx conferences including TEDxYouth at Facebook, TEDxBayArea at Linkedin, and TEDxWomen. Personal life Kazi has practiced an Intermittent Fasting lifestyle since 2015. She has written a popular how-to guide on her Intermittent Fasting schedule and how she lost over 55 pounds as a result. She has been interviewed by Quartz Magazine, HVMN, and Inc Magazine about her success with Intermittent Fasting. Kazi is a Salsa and Bachata dancer. She was a competitive Salsa dancer with the RicaSalsa San Francisco-based dance troupe where they won 1st place at the United States Salsa Open Championships in the Amateur category. Kazi is currently performing with the Inessence Bachata dance troupe. References External links Sumazi website Personal Website TEDxBayArea: Sumaya Kazi, "What You Don't Know But Should About Young Entrepreneurs" Category:Living people Category:1982 births Category:Women in technology Category:University of California, Berkeley alumni Category:American women chief executives Category:Businesspeople from San Francisco Category:American people of Bangladeshi descent Category:American technology company founders Category:Sun Microsystems	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Tabernamine Tabernamine is a bisindole isolate of Tabernaemontana with anticancer activity. Notes Plant anticancer agents V: new bisindole alkaloids from Tabernaemontana johnstonii stem bark Category:Alkaloids found in Apocynaceae	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Hucisko, Gmina Bodzentyn Hucisko is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Bodzentyn, within Kielce County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, in south-central Poland. It lies approximately west of Bodzentyn and north-east of the regional capital Kielce. The village has a population of 240. References Hucisko	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Solomon David Sassoon Solomon David Sassoon (1915–1985) was an educator, Rabbi, philanthropist, fundraiser, and collector of Jewish manuscripts. Biography Early life Solomon David Sassoon was born in August 1915 in London. He is a member of the wealthy Sassoon family. His father was David Solomon Sassoon (1880–1942), the renowned collector of Hebrew manuscripts from Baghdad. His paternal grandmother was Flora Sassoon. As a result, his paternal great-grandfather was Albert Abdullah David Sassoon (1818–1896), and his paternal great-great-grandfather was David Sassoon (1792–1864), a leading trader of cotton and opium who served as the treasurer of Baghdad between 1817 and 1829. As b’chavruta (study partner), he studied Talmud with Rabbi Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler. Career He made original contributions to linguistic analysis, philosophy, physiology and Biblical criticism. In 1953 and again in 1964, he declined requests to put his name forward as a candidate for the position of Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel. His varied interests and literary output were maintained until his death. Death and legacy Solomon David Sassoon built a library in Letchworth, England, to house his father's collections of Jewish manuscripts and incunabula. Some of these holdings were later auctioned by Sotheby's of London in Zurich and in New York, between the years 1975 - 1994, in order to satisfy the Sassoon estate's British tax obligations. Today, what remains of this priceless collection has been transferred to University of Toronto, in Canada. He died in May 1985. His son, Isaac S.D. Sassoon, is also a rabbi. Bibliography Reality Revisited: A New Look at Computers and Minds, Physics and Evolution, Feldheim; 2nd Revised edition (1991), ''Natan Hokhma liShlomo: A Collection of Torah Commentary, Essays on the Talmud and Assorted Philosophical Writings (1989) References External links Category:English religious writers Category:Bibliophiles Category:Sassoon family Category:Sephardi rabbis Category:British Orthodox rabbis Category:1915 births Category:1985 deaths	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Chandrapur (disambiguation) Chandrapur (meaning moon city) may refer to the following places in India: Chandrapur, a city and headquarters of Chandrapur district, Maharashtra Chandrapur district, a district in Nagpur Division, Maharashtra Chandrapur, Ahmednagar, a village in Ahmednagar district, Maharashtra Chandrapur, Bagnan I, a census town in Howrah district, West Bengal Chandrapur, Bardhaman, a village in Bardhaman district, West Bengal Chandrapur, Birbhum, a village in Birbhum district, West Bengal Chandrapur, West Bengal, a census town in North 24 Parganas district, West Bengal	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Orkadiere Arrondissement Orkadiere Arrondissement is an arrondissement of the Kanel Department in the Matam Region of Senegal. Subdivisions The arrondissement is divided administratively into rural communities and in turn into villages. Category:Arrondissements of Senegal Category:Matam Region	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Allahabad district Allahabad district, officially known as Prayagraj district, is one of the largest and the most populous district of Uttar Pradesh state of India. The district headquarters is Allahabad city which was renamed Prayagraj at the same time as the district was renamed. The District is divided into blocks within tehsils. As of 2011, there are 20 blocks in eight tehsils. The Allahabad division includes the districts of Fatehpur, Kaushambi and Allahabad, with the western Pratagraj District becoming part of the new Kaushambi district. The administrative divisions are Phulpur, Koraon, Meja, Sadar, Soraon, Handia, Bara, Shringverpur and Karchana. The three rivers of India - Ganges, Yamuna and the mythical river of Sarasvati - meet at a point in the district, known as Sangam, considered holy by Hindus. Allahabad was once the capital of United Province before independence. Allahabad is one of the largest educational hubs. Demographics According to the 2011 census of India the district has a population of 5,954,391, roughly equal to the nation of Denmark or the US state of Missouri. This gives it a ranking of 13th in India (out of a total of 640). As of 2011 it is the most populous district of Uttar Pradesh (out of 71). The district has a population density of . Its population growth rate over the decade 2001-2011 was 20.74%. The district has a sex ratio of 902 females for every 1000 males, and a literacy rate of 74.41%, highest in the region and close to the all-India average of 74%. Languages At the time of the 2011 Census of India, 96.98% of the population in the district spoke Hindi and 2.69% Urdu as their first language. People in the district speak Awadhi, a language in the Hindi continuum spoken by over 38 million people, mainly in the Awadh region; and Bagheli, which has a lexical similarity of 72-91% with Hindi (compared to 60% for German and English) and is spoken by about 7,800,000 people in Bagelkhand. Religion Hinduism is majority religion in the district with 85.69% followers. Islam is second most popular religion in district of Allahabad with approximately 13.38% following it. Around 0.93% stated 'Other Religion', approximately 0.90% stated 'No Particular Religion'. Allahabad Kumbh Mela is a major Hindu event. Allahabad has a Triveni Sangam. Akshayavat is a sacred fig tree. There is a Roman Catholic Diocese of Allahabad. References External links Category:Districts of Uttar Pradesh Category:Districts of India	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Raymond J. Lill Raymond J. Lill (July 26, 1913 – April 7, 1977) was an American politician who served in the New York State Assembly from the 131st district from 1967 to 1976. He died of a heart attack on April 7, 1977, in Reno, Nevada at age 63. References Category:1913 births Category:1977 deaths Category:Members of the New York State Assembly Category:New York (state) Democrats Category:20th-century American politicians	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Servius Sulpicius Rufus Servius Sulpicius Rufus (c. 105 BC – 43 BC), was a Roman orator and jurist and the father of the poet Sulpicia, the only Roman female poet whose poetry survives. He was consul in 51 BC. Biography Early life He studied rhetoric with Cicero, accompanying him to Rhodes in 78 BC, though Sulpicius decided subsequently to pursue legal studies. In the later dialogue Brutus, Cicero praised the artistry of his legal learning as well as his eloquence. Career In 63 BC, Sulpicius was a candidate for the consulship, but was defeated by Lucius Licinius Murena, whom he subsequently accused of bribery. In Cicero's successful oration in defense of Murena against the accusations, he mocked Sulpicius' legal expertise despite their friendship. Nevertheless, in 52 BC Sulpicius successfully stood for election to be consul in 51 BC. In the Civil War, Sulpicius was a supporter of Pompey, while his son joined Caesar. Caesar made him proconsul of Achaea in 46 BC. He died in 43 BC while on a mission () from the senate to Marcus Antonius at Mutina, and was eulogized in Cicero's ninth Philippic. Sulpicius was accorded a public funeral; the people erected a statute to his memory in front of the Rostra of Augustus. Two excellent specimens of Sulpicius's style are preserved in Cicero's letters. One of these is a letter of condolence to Cicero after the death of his daughter, Tullia. It is a letter that posterity has much admired, full of subtle, melancholy reflection on the transiency of all things. Byron has quoted this letter in his Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. The other is an excellently clear account of the murder of his ex-colleague Marcus Claudius Marcellus (consul 51 BC) in Piraeus (the port of Athens) in 45 BC. Quintilian speaks of three orations by Sulpicius as still in existence; one of these was the speech against Murena, another Pro or Contra Aufidium, of whom nothing is known. It is as a jurist, however, that Sulpicius was chiefly distinguished. He left behind him a large number of treatises, and he is often quoted in the Pandects, although direct extracts are not found. His chief characteristics were lucidity, an intimate acquaintance with the principles of civil and natural law, and an unrivaled power of expression. Personal life Servius Sulpicius Rufus was married to Postumia. He had a daughter named Sulpicia, who is the only Roman female poet whose poetry is known to have survived. See also Sulpicia (gens) Notes References R. Schneider, De Servio Sulpicio Rufo (Leipzig, 1834); O. Karlowa, Römische Rechtsgeschichte, vol. i. (Leipzig, 1885). Category:100s BC births Category:43 BC deaths Category:1st-century BC Romans Category:Correspondents of Cicero Category:Roman Republican consuls Rufus, Servius Category:Roman governors of Achaea	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
William James Linton William James Linton (December 7, 1812 – December 29, 1897) was an English-born American wood-engraver, landscape painter, political reformer and author of memoirs, novels, poetry and non-fiction. Birth and early years Born in Mile End, east London, his family moved to Stratford, Essex in 1818. The young Linton was educated at Chigwell Grammar School, an early 17th-century foundation attended by many sons of the Essex and City of London middle classes. Early career Aged 15, Linton was apprenticed to the wood-engraver George Wilmot Bonner (1796–1836). His earliest known work is to be found in John Martin and Richard Westall's Pictorial Illustrations of the Bible (1833). He worked from 1834 to 1836 with William Henry Powis, another pupil of Bonner; but Powis died. Linton then worked for two years for the firm of John Thompson. After working as a journeyman engraver, losing his money over a cheap political library called the "National," and writing a life of Thomas Paine, Linton went into partnership in 1842 with John Orrin Smith. The firm was immediately employed on the Illustrated London News, just then projected. The following year Orrin Smith died, and Linton, who had married a sister of Thomas Wade, editor of Bell's Weekly Messenger, found himself in sole charge of a business upon which two families were dependent. Political education and activism For years he had concerned himself with the social and European political problems of the time, and was now actively engaged in the republican propaganda. In 1844 he took a prominent part in exposing the violation by the English post office of Mazzini's correspondence. This led to a friendship with the Italian revolutionist, and Linton threw himself with ardor into European politics. He carried the first congratulatory address of English workmen to the French Provisional Government in 1848. He edited a twopenny weekly paper, The Cause of the People, published in the Isle of Man, and he wrote political verses for the Dublin Nation, signed "Spartacus." He helped to found the "International League" of patriots, and, in 1850, with George Henry Lewes and Thornton Leigh Hunt, started The Leader, an organ which, however, did not satisfy his advanced republicanism, and from which he soon withdrew. The same year he wrote a series of articles propounding the views of Mazzini in The Red Republican. In 1852 he took up his residence at Brantwood, which afterward he sold to John Ruskin, and from there issued The English Republic, first in the form of weekly tracts and afterward as a monthly magazine "a useful exponent of republican principles, a faithful record ef republican progress throughout the world; an organ of propagandism and a medium of communication for the active republicans in England." Most of the paper, which never paid its way and was abandoned in 1855, was written by himself. In 1852 he also printed for private circulation an anonymous volume of poems entitled The Plaint of Freedom. After the failure of his paper he returned to his proper work of wood-engraving. In 1857 his wife died, and in the following year he married Eliza Lynn (afterward known as Mrs Lynn Linton) and returned to London. In 1864 he retired to Brantwood, his wife remaining in London. Emigration to the US In 1867, pressed by financial difficulties, Linton decided to try his fortune in America. He separated from his wife, with whom, however, he remained in touch. With his children he settled at Appledore, Hamden, Connecticut, where he set up a printing-press. At Hamden Linton he wrote Practical Hints on Wood-Engraving (1879), James Watson, a Memoir of Chartist Times (1879), A History of Wood-Engraving in America (1882), Wood-Engraving, a Manual of Instruction (1884), The Masters of Wood-Engraving, for which he made two journeys to England (1890), The Life of Whittier (1893), and Memories, an autobiography (1895). He died at Hamden on 29 December 1897. Legacy Linton was a singularly gifted man, who, in the words of his wife, if he had not bitten the Dead Sea apple of impracticable politics, would have risen higher in the world of both art and letters. As an engraver on wood he reached the highest point of execution in his own line. He carried on the tradition of Bewick, fought for intelligent as against merely manipulative excellence in the use of the graver, and championed the use of the "white line" as well as of the black, believing with Ruskin that the former was the truer and more telling basis of aesthetic expression in the wood-block printed upon paper. Notes References Further reading W. J. Linton, Memories; F. G. Kitton, article on "Eliza Lynn Linton" in English Illustrated Magazine (April 1891); G. S. Layard, Life of Mrs Lynn Linton (1901). External links William James Linton (1812–97), Master of Wood Engraving and Radical Republican at Victorian Web W. J. 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Gábor Dvorschák Gábor Dvorschák (born 14 September 1989) is a Hungarian Defender who is currently play for Győri ETO FC. External links Player profile at HLSZ Category:1989 births Category:Living people Category:Sportspeople from Budapest Category:Hungarian footballers Category:Association football defenders Category:Kecskeméti LC players Category:Újpest FC players Category:FC Carl Zeiss Jena players Category:Szombathelyi Haladás footballers Category:Mezőkövesdi SE footballers Category:Nyíregyháza Spartacus FC players Category:Soroksár SC players Category:Győri ETO FC players Category:Hungarian expatriate footballers Category:Expatriate footballers in Germany Category:Hungarian expatriate sportspeople in Germany	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Athletics at the 2013 Summer Universiade – Women's 800 metres The women's 800 metres event at the 2013 Summer Universiade was held on 7–9 July. Medalists Results Heats Qualification: First 3 in each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals. Semifinals Qualification: First 3 in each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals. Final References 800 Category:2013 in women's athletics	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
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Olivia-Mai Barrett Olivia-Mai Barrett (born 10 May 1996) is an English actress, singer and dancer from London, UK. Having trained at Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts, she has gone on to feature in commercials (for companies such as Amazon and VO5), music videos, theatre and film and is most notable for her role of Penny in Penny on M.A.R.S. and Alex & Co. on the Disney Channel. In 2019, she was the sole actress in the last of 8 episodes of the BBC mini-series, Soon Gone: A Windrush Chronicle, a series showcasing an account of life in the UK for successive generations of people with Caribbean heritage, as Michaela Williams. Created by Lenny Henry and Kwame Kwei-Armah and co-produced by the Young Vic and Henry's Douglas Road Productions. Her performance was singled out in The Observer with Kwei-Armah stating: "Her performance was incredible, I was amazed at how she brought such empathy and insight to the part". It was only a few days after the final episode had aired that Barrett introduced him to her mixed-race father and Jamaican grandfather, Kwei-Armah hadn't even known that Barrett was of mixed heritage and that the Windrush story was part of her family background. References External links Agency Category:1996 births Category:Living people Category:Actresses from London Category:English female dancers Category:English film actresses Category:Alumni of the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
François Pitot François Pitot was a French naval officer. He took part in the Battle of Groix commanding the frigate Républicaine française. In 1796, his ship, renamed Renommée, was captured by the 74-gun HMS Alfred. Pitot was acquitted by the court-martial for the loss of his ship. In 1800, he captained Vengeance, fighting a battle against USS Constellation. Sources and references Fonds Marine. Campagnes (opérations ; divisions et stations navales ; missions diverses). Inventaire de la sous-série Marine BB4. Tome premier : BB4 1 à 482 (1790-1826) 2953 - NYMPHE, www.archeosousmarine.net Category:French military personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars Category:French naval commanders of the Napoleonic Wars	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Flakstadvåg Chapel Flakstadvåg Chapel () is a chapel of the Church of Norway in Senja Municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. It is located in the village of Flakstadvåg on the west coast of the island of Senja. It is an annex chapel for the Torsken parish which is part of the Senja prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Nord-Hålogaland. The white, wooden chapel was built in a long church style in 1925 by the architect . The chapel seats about 150 people. History The chapel was originally located on the island of Hallvardsøya, south of Flakstadvåg in what is now part of Tranøy Municipality. The chapel was built on the island by Anton Nilsa to serve the fishermen living there. When he died in 1904, he left about to support the church there. As the population on the island dwindled and the church was deteriorating due to little maintenance, the decision was made to move it to the nearby village of Flakstadvåg on the island of Senja. After moving it to its new location, it was consecrated on 17 June 1926. See also List of churches in Troms References Category:Senja Category:Churches in Troms Category:Wooden churches in Norway Category:20th-century Church of Norway church buildings Category:Churches completed in 1925 Category:1925 establishments in Norway	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Schützenfest A Schützenfest (, marksmen's festival) is a traditional festival or fair featuring a target shooting competition in the cultures of both Germany and Switzerland. At a Schützenfest, contestants compete based on their shooting abilities, for example by shooting at a wooden representation of an eagle. The winner of the competition becomes the Schützenkönig ("king of marksmen") until the next year's competition. The commercially-organized Schützenfest of Hanover, Germany, is the largest marksmen's funfair in the world with more than 5,000 marksmen, 250 rides and inns, 5 large beer tents, and the "Marksmen's Parade". The parade, with more than 10,000 participants from Germany and all over the world and more than 100 bands, is long. It is the longest parade in the world. The landmark of the funfair is one of the highest transportable Ferris wheels in the world. It is high and can transport 420 people in 42 cabins. Medals and decorations Shooting competitions are a way of life in the Germanic regions of Europe, especially in Switzerland. The initial Swiss Federal Shooting Festival (Eidgenössisches Schützenfest) was held in 1824. Federal contests along with cantonal level, city, and club competitions have continued through to the present day.Various awards for marksmanship have been won by the competitors. Shooting medals and shooting cups are the most common forms of award. Books illustrating and listing these awards have been published in Switzerland. Swiss shooting medals were struck in a variety of metals including gold, silver, bronze, white metal, and aluminum, with silver being the most common. Mintages are very low with the average mintage of the silver being 700-800 pieces. The scarcity of medals has increased over the years due to the awards being melted for bullion, being lost, and general attrition. The size of most medals range from to with being the most prevalent. Also minted to commemorate the Shooting Festival were shooting thalers. Swiss shooting thalers began mintage in 1842, and continue being minted today. They can be distinguished from shooting medals by their uniform size and temporary legal tender status. History During the Middle Ages, many towns had to find ways to defend themselves from gangs of marauders. For this reason clubs and associations were founded, comparable to militias; these paramilitary associations were sanctioned for the first time in the Law for the Defensive Constitution of the Towns by King Henry I, and officially integrated into the towns' defense plans. Accompanying the military exercises and physical examinations of the towns' contingents, festivities were held combined with festive processions. Participants from other parishes and at times even the feudal heads of state were also invited to these Marksmen's Courts (Schützenhöfe). However, the self-confident spirit of the townsfolk that marked these festivities was not always regarded positively by the authorities. For this reason, different traditions developed in different regions. The military significance lessened over the course of the centuries and became meaningless with the creation of regular troops and garrisons for national defence. The Schützenfests however continued in the form of a regional patriotic tradition. Germany Schützenfests are celebrated mainly in Bavaria and Lower Saxony, but also in the Lower Rhine and Middle Rhine regions as well as in Westphalia (especially the Sauerland), with festive processions. Since German Reunification, Schützenfests have begun to emerge in eastern parts of Germany as well. The traditions connected to the Schützenfest can vary greatly from one region to another in Germany. These traditions include the "Blow of the Flag" (a particular way of waving a flag). The Blow of the Flag in particular, as well as the waving of the flag in general are executed according to fixed rules. Competitions are held in the discipline of flag waving. Schützenfests may range from one day to several days and may include and be accompanied by various events. They often take place in the festival room of a local public house or in a pavilion especially erected for the occasion. In the Sauerland, many towns have a special Marksmen's Hall that is used for these festivities. Many Schützenfests start with a festive procession, whereby the reigning King of Marksmen, along with the royal household, plus local dignitaries, are all escorted by the marksmen and paraded to the festive square or the festivities. This is often followed by a "royal parade" where the marksmen march past the king and the royal court, with marching bands, Corps of Drums, and fanfare bands playing along. (Goose steps are commonly done by the marksmen in the parade, especially in old towns and cities, but in other places it is not done, however, as the marksmen march in the same pace as the Bundeswehr do today.) The parading marksmen are formed in platoons or squads depending on the size of the formation, and in large towns and cities marksmen are formed in companies and in both cases of the parade color guards march along with them. In a lot of cases, the pavilion is surrounded by a funfair. The most common form of shooting competition is the Bird Shooting. Nowadays the contestants no longer shoot at actual birds but on a mock bird made of wood and mounted on a pole. The contestant who demounts the last pieces of the wooden bird is the new King of Marksmen. Varying traditions may include the shooting of wooden animals other than birds or special awards won by the shooting of certain body parts, e.g. wings, beak etc. Even a Großer Zapfenstreich and band concerts form part of the celebrations as well. The Großer Zapfenstreich done in these civil events, even through military in origin as the festival itself, are formed up of the marksmen's organizations, torch bearers, color guards and a marching band and corps of drums, with an optional fanfare band when needed. Most are done outdoors, and there's an option to have an indoor ceremony done in the same manner as the outdoor ceremony. Many of the groups that help organize these festivities celebrate German pride, as well as local community and state traditions, thus the use of the goose step, Prussian style weapon drills (sans bayonets) and the wearing of Imperial German military uniforms. The use of the military hand salute is observed in many of these events. In several places, however, the goose step is not performed and the Bundeswehr marching practice is observed where only one riflemen's association does the high step in the parade (such as in Ahrweller). Some have modern-styled marching bands, or even bands modeled on foreign militaries, and march along during the parades with different variants per region. In Neuss, for example, the Rhine Guards Drum and Bugle Corps (based on the bands of the United States Marine Corps), and the Quirinus Band and Bugle Corps (under its current Bandmaster Peter Hosking - Ex Light Division), Germany's 1st ever band and bugles in the traditions of the British Army Light Division regiments (now The Rifles), that were based in West Germany during the Cold War years, have been a part of the parades there in recent years. A re-formed band, the Kapellen-Efrt Band of the Grenadier Guards, perpetuates the traditions of the Foot Guards regiments of the British Household Division, which were deployed during the Cold War in Lower Saxony. A few corps only make use of the US-style hand-over-heart civil salute during the Großer Zapfenstreich to distinguish these associations from the Bundeswehr, which uses the military hand salute. Notable German Schützenfests include Deutsches Bundesschießen: Organised by the German Shooting and Archery Federation the first German Rifle Meeting was 1862 in Frankfurt am Main. So far the last one was 2011 in Gotha. The Hanover Schützenfest: The largest Schützenfest in the world, including rifle platoons from all over Germany and the world The Neuss Schützenfest: The largest Schützenfest in the world that is organised by a single association and does not include platoons from other cities Switzerland Schützenfeste played a central role in the Old Swiss Confederacy, during the 15th century, participants shooting the crossbow, contributing significantly to the coherence between the individual cantons. The Schützenfest of 1849 in Aarau figures prominently in Gottfried Kellers Das Fähnlein der sieben Aufrechten, where Keller portrays the shooting clubs as vital for the preservation of direct democracy in the young Swiss federal state. Today a Swiss Federal Schützenfest counts 50'000 marksmen during 4 weeks. Eidgenössische (federal) Schützenfeste are organized by the Schweizerischer Schützenverein since 1824. 1824 Aarau 1827 Basel 1828 Geneva 1829 Fribourg 1830 Bern 1832 Lucerne 1834 Zürich 1838 St. Gallen 1842 Chur 1849 Aarau 1859 Zürich 1861 Stans 1865 Schaffhausen 1867 Schwyz 1869 Zug 1872 Zürich 1874 St. Gallen 1876 Lausanne 1879 Basel 1881 Fribourg 1883 Lugano 1885 Bern 1890 Frauenfeld 1892 Glarus 1895 Winterthur 1898 Neuchâtel 1901 Lucerne 1904 St. Gallen 1907 Zürich 1910 Bern 1924 Aarau 1929 Bellinzona 1934 Fribourg 1939 Lucerne 1949 Chur 1954 Lausanne 1958 Biel 1963 Zürich 1969 Thun 1972 Biel 1977 Zürich 1985 Chur 1990 Winterthur 1995 Thun 2000 Bière 2005 Frauenfeld 2010 Aarau 2015 Raron Overseas Schützenfeste organized by German or Swiss expatriate communities overseas: Australia Adelaide, South Australia Brazil Jaraguá do Sul, Santa Catarina Canada Rural Municipality of St. Andrews, Manitoba Namibia The small southern town of Keetmanshoop had a Schützenhaus (marksmen's club house) as one of its first buildings, in 1905-07) United States Altamont, Illinois Artemas, Pennsylvania Auburn Hills, Michigan Bow Valley, Nebraska Cincinnati, Ohio Deshler, Ohio Ehrhardt, South Carolina Fredericksburg, Texas Grapetown, Texas Las Vegas, Nevada New Glarus, Wisconsin Phoenix, Arizona Raton, New Mexico (Annual International Schützenfest) References External links Video showing many aspects of a Schützenfest 2010 Aarau Newspaper article talking about Deshler, Ohio's annual Schützenfest Category:Shooting competitions Category:Shooting competitions in Germany Category:Shooting competitions in Switzerland Category:Festivals in Switzerland Category:Festivals in Germany	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Wing Commander: Privateer Wing Commander: Privateer is an adventure Space trading and combat simulator computer game released by Origin Systems in September 1993. Privateer and its storyline is part of the Wing Commander series. The player takes the role of Grayson Burrows, a "privateer" who travels through the Gemini Sector, one of many sectors in the Wing Commander universe. Unlike Wing Commander, the player is no longer a navy pilot, but a freelancer who can choose to be a pirate, a merchant, a mercenary or any of the above in some combination. The player may follow the built-in plot but is free to adventure on his own, even after the plot has been completed. Privateer had two add-ons titled Speech Pack (1993) and Righteous Fire (1994). A sequel was released in 1996, titled Privateer 2: The Darkening. The game was re-released in 2011 with Windows support on GOG.com, with MacOS support added in 2012. Gameplay Basic gameplay consists of flying and fighting with the ship in a star system, jumping from system to system via jump points, landing on bases or planets, interacting with people (mainly talking) and buying or selling equipment or commodities. The Gemini sector is divided into quadrants, each contains several star systems, most of them with planets or bases that may be visited. Unlike other games in the series, the gameplay is primarily in the sandbox style of play. When flying, the main view is a first-person-look from inside the cockpit onto the cockpit screens (HUDs) and the space before the ship. Space combat simulation is similar to the style of other Wing Commander games of its time. On planets and bases a static overview / first-person-view is used to show the rooms and interact with people. When buying or selling and taking missions from the mission computer, in-game menus are used. The Gemini sector is frequented by seven factions: merchants, bounty hunters, retros, pirates, militia, the Terran Confederation and the Kilrathi. Some of them attack the player on sight, some are allies of the player. How the members of the factions react is not only pre-set but depends also on the player's actions. The player may conduct his own business as a merchant or fight in combat for non-plot missions provided by the above factions. If playing as a merchant, the player must make a profit from price differences of commodities on different planets or stations. Alternatively, the player may choose from randomly generated non-plot missions from a mission computer. Successful completion of missions results in monetary award, which allows better ship weapons and equipment to be purchased. During the plot, the player meets fixers, often representing one of the factions above, who assign the player missions in their interest in exchange for money or helpful information. The missions usually consist of plain combat, escorting other ships while combating enemies or commodity delivery including smuggling while combating / escaping enemies. The plot itself can only be played straight, one mission after another in a preset line. But between plot missions or even while being on a mission the player can follow his own interests. Privateer features a pseudo-3D world in plain raster graphics at 320x200 with 256 colors (VGA). Plot The game begins with a mysterious drone attacking shipping in the system. When Burrows lands on the planet New Detroit, a man hires him and gives him a mysterious artifact. On his return, Burrows finds the man is dead. Burrows seeks information about the artifact, eventually meeting Dr. Monkhouse, a Xenoarchaeologist on Palan. Monkhouse tells Burrows the artifact was made by an ancient technologically advanced race, the Steltek. The artifact is half of a map; Monkhouse has the rest. Burrows agrees to explore the area in the map. Burrows locates a powerful weapon on an ancient ship and mounts it on his own. When he leaves, a mysterious drone follows him, destroying everything it encounters. Burrows is asked by the Confederation to lure the drone into an ambush, so it can be destroyed. Burrows then encounters a Steltek scout, looking for the last traces of his technology. He energizes the ancient weapon in exchange for the location of the ship where Burrows found it. It then remains for Burrows to destroy the dangerous drone. In the Righteous Fire expansion while Burrows is docked, the Steltek weapon is stolen from his ship. He travels to Oxford, where he meets someone who help him in return for flying missions against the Retros, a homicidal band of religious extremists led by a man named Mordecai Jones. The informant adds that Governor Menesch, who sells weapons and ships to the Retros and pirates, was probably behind the theft of Burrows’ weapon. A Retro defector tells Burrows the location of the Retros’ headquarters and warns they have made copies of the Steltek gun. Burrows realises he must defeat the Retro leader Jones and destroy all copies of the powerful weapon. Burrows' name was unknown to the general public for many years. During that period he was known as "Brownhair", by reference to "Bluehair", the Wing Commander I and II protagonist later known as Christopher Blair. In the CD-ROM edition which uses full speech, the characters always refer to him as "Captain" or "Privateer"; many people assume "Privateer" is his callsign. Expansions Two expansion packs were released for Privateer: the Speech Pack (1993), which added digitized speech voice-overs to the entire game; and Righteous Fire (1994), which continues the story and adds other purchasable equipment to the game. Righteous Fire differs from the original Privateer in that there is no way to "lose" by failing a mission. If the player does not successfully complete a mission, he is offered the chance to try again. In 1994, a CD-ROM edition was released that included the Righteous Fire expansion and full speech throughout the game, more than what the Speech Pack alone provides. The actor voicing the main character also changes between the Speech Pack and CD-ROM edition of the game. Sequel Another Privateer game, Privateer 2: The Darkening, was released in December 1996, helmed by Erin Roberts, the brother of Chris Roberts. However, The Darkening is not a storyline sequel, but a spin-off. The Darkening is set a century after the original Privateer and in a different region of space. This setting and the storyline of The Darkening is self-contained, never being mentioned in any other Wing Commander game. Privateer 2 uses live action sequences featuring such talents as Clive Owen, Mathilda May, Jürgen Prochnow, John Hurt, David Warner and Christopher Walken. After Electronic Arts shut down Origin, Chris Roberts created the game Freelancer which featured similar art and story to Privateer, but was set in a new universe. A television series based on Privateer was planned to debut sometime in 1997. An unofficial fan remake entitled Wing Commander: Privateer - Gemini Gold was made using the Vega Strike engine and released in 2005. Reception Privateer was very popular, appearing in second place in PC Data's list of best-selling DOS games for September 1993, and first place in Computer Gaming Worlds "Playing Lately?" reader survey for November 1993. The magazine in 1993 liked the game's less-structured storyline with Ultima-like "real moral choices", but criticized the "sophomoric" writing. Computer Gaming World recommended the "deluxe, high-end product" to those with "486 machines sporting fast video cards and vast hard drives". A 1994 survey of strategic space games set in the year 2000 and later gave the game three-plus stars out of five, calling it a "pretty exciting game" but criticizing "an unusual number of incompatibilities with sound cards and joysticks, even for such a complex product". The magazine in May 1994 approved of Righteous Fires "fun" storyline—as open-ended as Privateer while adding "new ship elements"—and its tight continuity with the original game. Despite reporting a "lack of challenge" for experienced players, the magazine recommended the expansion to "privateers who just can't get enough of life on the edge of the Wing Commander universe". Privateer was a runner-up for Computer Gaming Worlds Action Game of the Year award in June 1994, losing to Prince of Persia 2: The Shadow and the Flame. The editors wrote that Privateer "advanced the graphic look of the series somewhat and introduced a free-wheeling open-endedness for the players who chose not to follow the story line". 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Adukwei Hesse Ian Frederick Adukwei Hesse is a Ghanaian academic, physician and a Presbyterian minister. He is an associate professor at the Department of Physiology at the University of Ghana Medical School, a consultant physician and the Vice President of Accra Medical College. He was formerly Assistant Secretary and later Vice-President of the Ghana Medical Association. He is an ordained minister of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana. He is involved in prison reform in Ghana. Early life and education A member of the notable Hesse family, Hesse had his secondary education at Achimota School from 1965 to 1971, where he obtained his GCE Ordinary and Advanced Level certificates. He entered the University of Ghana Medical School directly without a pre-medical course due to his superior performance in the final examinations. He obtained his bachelor of science in physiology in 1975, and his bachelor of medicine and bachelor of surgery (MBChB) certificate in 1978. While at the University of Ghana Medical School, he served as secretary of the Ghana Medical School Students Association and actively participated in demonstrations organised by student bodies opposing the "unigov" concept of governance during the Acheampong regime. He enrolled at the University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom in 1980 and was awarded his doctorate degree (PhD) in 1983. Career Academic He returned to Ghana after his stint in the United Kingdom and joined the staff of the University of Ghana Medical School as a lecturer in the Physiology department and the department of Medicine and Therapeutics. In 1995 he was promoted to senior lecturer status at the departments of Physiology, and Medicine and Therapeutics. A year later he was made head of the Physiology department of the University of Ghana Medical School. He served in that capacity for two years. He became an associate professor of Physiology, and Medicine and Therapeutics from 2002 until 2005 when he became a chief executive of the executive health care and consult. He subsequently became a part-time lecturer (associate professor) at the Physiology, and Medicine and Therapeutics department of the University of Ghana Medical School. He is currently the Vice-President of the Accra Medical College. Medical profession He worked in various hospitals after completing his graduate studies at the University of Birmingham until 1987 when he officially became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons, London. Upon his return to Ghana in 1988 he joined the Department of Medicine at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital as a consultant physician. A year later he was made assistant secretary of the Ghana Medical Association, he served in that capacity until 1992. In 1995 he was vice-president of the association and head of the chest department at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, a position he held for three years. That same year, he joined the National Tuberculosis Program as a member of its advisory board. In 1999 he became a member of the Technical Working Group of the National Tuberculosis Control Programme. In 2005 he became the Chief Executive of the Executive Health Care and Consult. He is the founder of the Ghana Asthma Society. Ministry Adukwei trained as a pastor at the Ramseyer Training Centre in Abetifi, Kwahu. He completed his training in 1996 and was ordained a minister by the Presbyterian Church of Ghana. He is the national leader of the Prison Ministry of Ghana, He also pastors a Presbyterian church in Accra. He was a member of the Accra Ridge Church. Selected publications His research interests encompass areas of hypertension, asthma and tuberculosis and has authored and co-authored various articles that have been published in journals such as the Ghana Medical Journal and the West African Medical Journal concerning these topics. Some of his works include; (contrib.) Knowledge of asthma and its management in newly qualified doctors in Accra, Ghana, 1995 (contrib.) Impairment of renal sodium excretion in tropical residents - Phenomenological analysis, 1999 (contrib.) Characteristics of adult tetanus in Accra, 2003; (contrib.) Blood pressure response to out-patient drug treatment of hypertension in 1973 - 1993 at Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana, (2003) (contrib.) The characteristics, knowledge, beliefs and practices of parent/guardians of children with asthma in Accra, Ghana, 2004; (contrib.) A tuberculin skin test survey among Ghanaian school children., 2010 (contrib.) First Nationwide Survey of the Prevalence of TB/HIV Co-Infection in Ghana, 2018 Honours For his services to the Ghana Medical Association, the medical profession and the Ghana at large; he was made a Fellow of the Ghana Medical Association, the highest award of the association. Personal life He is married to Dr. Afua Adwo Jectey Hesse; a surgeon and a gender advocate and they have four children. She was formerly the chief executive officer of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital. Some of Adukwei's interests include music. He played viola for the Achimota School Ochestra. He was also a member of the Aggrey Memorial Chapel Choir at Achimota School, and the Accra Ridge Church Choir. 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Capricious Summer Capricious Summer () is a 1968 Czechoslovak comedy film directed by Jiří Menzel. It is based on the novel Rozmarné léto (Summer of Caprice) by the Czech writer Vladislav Vančura. It was listed to compete at the 1968 Cannes Film Festival, but the festival was cancelled due to the events of May 1968 in France. The film depicts a humorous story of three men, a major (an artillery officer), a priest and a bath-keeper, during rainy summer days. Cast Rudolf Hrušínský as Antonín Dura Vlastimil Brodský as Major Hugo František Řehák as priest / abbé / canon Roch Míla Myslíková as Kateřina Durová Jana Preissová (then Jana Drchalová) as Anna Jiří Menzel as Arnoštek (tightrope walker) Bohuš Záhorský as old man Vlasta Jelínková as housemaid (as V. Jelínková) Alois Vachek as man in a pub (as A. Vachek) Bohumil Koska as man in a pub (as B. Koska) Karel Hovorka as man in a pub (as K. Hovorka) Antonín Pražák as policeman (as A. Prazak) Pavel Bosek as Mayor (as P. Bosek) References External links Category:1968 films Category:1960s comedy films Category:Czech films Category:Czechoslovak films Category:Czech-language films Category:Films directed by Jiří Menzel Category:Crystal Globe winners Category:Czech comedy films	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
List of Gintama. episodes The episodes from the anime television series are based on the Gin Tama manga by Hideaki Sorachi. The series premiered in TV Tokyo on January 8, 2017. It is a sequel to the Gintama° anime series which aired in 2015 and ended in 2016. The studio making the new season is BN Pictures, a new subsidiary of Bandai Namco Entertainment. Chizuru Miyawaki is directing the new season with previous season's director Yoichi Fujita supervising. The series continues the story of eccentric samurai, Gintoki Sakata, his apprentice, Shinpachi Shimura, and a teenage alien girl named Kagura and their work as freelancers, who do odd jobs in order to pay the rent, which usually goes unpaid anyway. The opening theme is "Kagerou" by ЯeaL and the ending theme is "SILVER", performed by RIZE. Episode list References .	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Hard Core Logo Hard Core Logo is a 1996 Canadian mockumentary adapted by Noel Baker from the novel of the same name by author Michael Turner. The film was directed by Bruce McDonald and illustrates the self-destruction of punk rock. Released in 1996, the film documents a once-popular punk band, Hard Core Logo, comprising lead singer Joe Dick (Hugh Dillon), fame-tempted guitarist Billy Tallent (Callum Keith Rennie), schizophrenic bass player John Oxenberger (John Pyper-Ferguson), and drummer Pipefitter (Bernie Coulson). Julian Richings plays Bucky Haight, Dick's idol. Several notable punk musicians, including Art Bergmann, Joey Shithead and Joey Ramone, play themselves in cameos. Canadian television personality Terry David Mulligan also has a cameo, playing a fictionalized version of himself. In a 2001 poll of 200 industry voters, performed by Playback, Hard Core Logo was named the second best Canadian film of the last 15 years. In 2002, readers of Playback voted it the 4th greatest Canadian film ever made. A sequel, Hard Core Logo 2, premiered at the Whistler Film Festival on December 4, 2010 with the members of Die Mannequin and McDonald walking the red carpet. It had its second screening at the Victoria Film Festival on February 6, 2011. Plot The movie is about a documentary team that follows the reunion of Hard Core Logo. Joe Dick gets the band back together ostensibly for an anti-gun benefit after hearing Canadian punk rock legend Bucky Haight, and personal mentor, is shot. They begin the tour in Vancouver and travel thousands of kilometers east along the Trans-Canada Highway to Winnipeg, then northwest along the Yellowhead Highway to Edmonton. On the way the band's dark secrets are revealed, however while they travel they keep ignoring each other's darkness . John Oxenberger loses his schizophrenia medication and slowly loses his sanity. Billy Tallent finds out that by going on tour he loses his position in mainstream rock band Jenifur and with that his one shot at stardom. The band stops by Bucky Haight's reclusive estate only to find he was never shot and that Joe Dick fabricated the lie in order to get the band together. The band and documentary crew drop acid and experience hallucinations. Bucky admonishes Joe Dick for using him to get the band together. At Edmonton, Billy Tallent finds out he has another opportunity to permanently join Jenifur. Joe Dick finds out from the film crew and later attacks Billy on stage. Joe Dick destroys Billy Tallent's Fender Stratocaster, which was a gift from Bucky Haight, and the band parts ways. In the final scene Joe Dick drinks with the documentary crew members and shoots himself in the head. Cast Hugh Dillon ... Joe Dick Callum Keith Rennie ... Billy Tallent John Pyper-Ferguson ... John Oxenberger Bernie Coulson ... Pipefitter Julian Richings ... Bucky Haight Benita Ha ... Pipefitter's Girlfriend Claudia Ferri ... John Oxenberger's Girlfriend Joey Ramone ... Joey Ramone Corrine Koslo ... Laura Cromartie Production McDonald grew up in the Vancouver punk rock scene in the late 1970s and early 1980s and was drawn to Michael Turner's book about aging musicians. McDonald commented in an interview, "what I thought was really interesting is where it is 15 years later, and what are these guys doing now". He had just come off the critically acclaimed Dance Me Outside and friends warned him not to repeat himself by making another road movie. However, McDonald did not see Logo as a repeat of previous films. "On the other films, they (the anti-heroes of Roadkill and Highway 61) go down the road and meet a nutty person and things happened. Here you're with the same people throughout – and they are the nutty people!" McDonald had to persuade Dillon to do the film. "He was going 'Wow, what if the movie is shit, then I'd lose all my fans from the band, I'd lose all my credibility!'" The director auditioned 200 actors for the role but kept coming back to the musician. Dillon remembers, "as soon as he gave me freedom to make the screenplay more believable, I became interested. Bruce allowed me creative input and that's what made it a special piece for me." Dillon drew a lot on his own real life experiences of being in a band. Hard Core Logo screened at the Cannes Film Festival. McDonald remembers, "Cannes was very humbling. You're in the same arena as Bernardo Bertolucci and Czechoslovakian pornographers. It's such a bizarre spectrum." The film went on to be nominated for six Genie Awards, including Best Picture and Director. Quentin Tarantino saw Logo at a film festival and liked it so much that he bought the U.S. distribution rights under his Rolling Thunder label and even toyed with casting Dillon in Jackie Brown. Reaction Hard Core Logo was well received by Canadian film critics. In his review for the Toronto Sun, Bruce Kirkland praised the cast: "They're all so convincing it is impossible to believe they're not all the real thing". John Griffin, in his review for the Montreal Gazette, called it "a masterful exercise in edgy virtuoso film craft, subversive propaganda and exhilarating entertainment". In his review for the Toronto Star, Peter Goddard praised Noel Baker's screenplay for providing "some of the funniest and deftest writing Canadian moviemaking has heard in years but it can't hide the bitter-sweetness just below the surface". Liam Lacey in his review for The Globe and Mail, wrote, "Though the jumpy, parodic, disruptive style suits rock music, the same techniques prevent viewers from investing deeply in the characters and the story. The ride is fun, but it doesn't quite reach a destination". The film received general favorable review from American film critics. Entertainment Weekly gave it a "B-" rating and Owen Gleiberman wrote, "Most of the characters are too goofy to register. Still, there are times when Dillon's performance lays bare why, for sheer style, burning out will always have the edge over fading away". In his review for the San Francisco Chronicle, Peter Stack wrote, "Director Bruce McDonald (Dance Me Outside) has turned out a tight, fascinating on-the-road rock movie, a delicious study in mean-spiritedness as well as the gut imperatives that make punk music the unsettling, hostile experience it is". Stephen Holden, in his review for The New York Times felt that "unlike Spinal Tap, which cast a comically jaundiced eye on every nuance of the heavy-metal life style, this clever mock documentary … blends satire and sentiment in a way that keeps you emotionally off balance". Awards The film won the Genie Award for 'Best Achievement in Music – Original Song' for the track "Who the Hell Do You Think You Are?" and was nominated for 5 other awards including Best Film and Best Direction. It took the Best Canadian Feature at the Sudbury Cinéfest. At the Vancouver International Film Festival it received the $10,000 CITY-TV award for Best Canadian Film and Noel Baker won the Rogers prize for Best Canadian Screenplay. Legacy In a 2001 poll of 200 industry voters, performed by Playback, Hard Core Logo was named the second best Canadian film of the last 15 years. In 2002, readers of Playback voted it the 4th greatest Canadian film ever made. The character Billy Tallent, portrayed by Callum Keith Rennie, was the inspiration for the name of the Canadian band Billy Talent. McDonald asked Daniel MacIvor to write a My Dinner with Andre-style screenplay that would be a sequel to Hard Core Logo, with Hugh Dillon and Callum Keith Rennie playing the roles. However, scheduling (among other reasons) kept it from moving forward. After some discussion, McDonald and MacIvor decided to rewrite the screenplay for two women, with Molly Parker and Tracy Wright in mind. The film was released in 2010 as Trigger. Rennie has a cameo in the film, reprising his role as Billy Tallent. Sequel Hard Core Logo 2 premiered at the Whistler Film Festival on December 4, 2010 with the members of Die Mannequin and McDonald walking the red carpet. It had its second screening at the Victoria Film Festival on February 6, 2011. Soundtrack albums Although music figures heavily in the film, a conventional soundtrack album was not initially released; instead, McDonald had several notable Canadian bands record covers of the songs in the film, and packaged them as if they were a tribute album to a real band. That album, A Tribute to Hard Core Logo, was also released in 1996. A more traditional soundtrack album, comprising the actual music contained in the film itself, was released later in 1998 on Velvel Records. Track listing Lyrics by Michael Turner and music by Hugh Dillon and Swamp Baby, except where noted. "Who the Hell Do You Think You Are?" (2:54) "Rock & Roll Is Fat and Ugly" (1:57) "Something's Gonna Die Tonight" (3:17) "Blue Tattoo" (3:14) "Sonic Reducer" (2:54) (Dead Boys cover) "Edmonton Block Heater" (3:00) "China White (Ten Buck Fuck)" (4:45) "One Foot in the Gutter" (1:52) "Hawaii" (1:37) - (Young Canadians cover) "Bonerack" (3:35) - Teenage Head "Touring" (2:52) - Ramones "Wild Wild Women" (3:19) - Chris Spedding References External links Category:1996 films Category:Canadian films Category:English-language films Category:Canadian comedy films Category:Canadian mockumentary films Category:Punk films Category:Fictional musical groups Category:Films directed by Bruce McDonald Category:Films set in Vancouver	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Timothy syndrome Timothy syndrome is a rare autosomal-dominant disorder characterized by physical malformations, as well as neurological and developmental defects, including heart QT-prolongation, heart arrhythmias, structural heart defects, syndactyly (webbing of fingers and toes), and autism spectrum disorders. Timothy syndrome often ends in early childhood death. Signs and symptoms The most striking sign of Timothy syndrome is the co-occurrence of both syndactyly (about 0.03% of births) and long QT syndrome (1% per year) in a single patient. Other common symptoms include cardiac arrhythmia (94%), heart malformations (59%), and autism or an autism spectrum disorder (80% who survive long enough for evaluation). Facial dysmorphologies such as flattened noses also occur in about half of patients. Children with this disorder have small teeth, which due to poor enamel coating, are prone to dental cavities and often require removal. The average age of death due to complications of these symptoms is 2.5 years. Atypical Timothy syndrome has largely the same symptoms as the classical form. Differences in the atypical form are the lack of syndactyly, the presence of musculoskeletal problems (particularly hyperflexible joints), and atrial fibrillation. Patients with atypical Timothy syndrome also have more facial deformities, including protruding foreheads and tongues. Finally, one patient with atypical Timothy syndrome had a body development discrepancy wherein her upper body was normally developed (that of a 6-year-old) while her lower half resembled a 2- or 3-year-old. Children with Timothy syndrome tend to be born via caesarean section due to fetal distress. Pathophysiology There are two recognized types of Timothy syndrome, classical (type-1) and atypical (type-2). They are both caused by mutations in CACNA1C, the gene encoding the calcium channel Cav1.2 α subunit. Timothy syndrome mutations in CACNA1C cause delayed channel closing, thus increased cellular excitability. Both classical and atypical Timothy syndromes are caused by mutations in CACNA1C. These mutations are in exon 8 (atypical form) and exon 8a (classical form), an alternatively spliced exon. Exon 8a is highly expressed in the heart, brain, gastrointestinal system, lungs, immune system, and smooth muscle. Exon 8 is also expressed in these regions and its level is roughly five-fold higher than exon 8a expression. One mutation is found in patients with classical Timothy syndrome, G406R, located just past the sixth membrane-spanning segment of domain 1 (D1S6). The conserved glycine at this position seems to be vital for proper voltage-dependent inactivation, as the mutant is lacking in this respect. Atypical Timothy syndrome mutations are similar, one being the identical G406R mutation in the other splice form and the second mutation being G402S, located a few amino acids upstream. The effect of these mutations on channel function is identical to the G406R mutation in classical Timothy syndrome. The lack of proper voltage-dependent inactivation in these mutants causes prolonged inward current and depolarization during cardiac action potentials. This leads to long QT syndrome and resultant arrhythmia. Because exon 8 has greater expression in the heart versus exon 8a, patients with atypical Timothy syndrome have worsened cardiac defects compared to those with the classical form. Diagnosis Syndactyly and other deformities are typically observed and diagnosed at birth. Long QT syndrome sometimes presents itself as a complication due to surgery to correct syndactyly. Other times, children collapse spontaneously while playing. In all cases, it is confirmed with ECG measurements. Sequencing of the CACNA1C gene further confirms the diagnosis. Treatment Surgery is typically used to correct structural heart defects and syndactyly. Propanolol or beta-adrenergic blockers are often prescribed, as well as insertion of a pacemaker to maintain proper heart rhythm. With the characterization of Timothy syndrome mutations indicating that they cause defects in calcium currents, calcium channel blockers may be effective as a therapeutic agent. Prognosis The prognosis for patients diagnosed with Timothy syndrome is very poor. Of 17 children analyzed in one study, 10 died at an average age of 2.5 years. Of those that did survive, three were diagnosed with autism, one with an autism spectrum disorder, and the last had severe delays in language development. One patient with atypical Timothy syndrome was largely normal with the exception of heart arrhythmia. Likewise, the mother of two Timothy syndrome patients also carried the mutation, but lacked any obvious phenotype. In both of these cases, however, the lack of severity of the disorder was due to mosaicism. History Some of the abnormalities observed in Timothy syndrome were described in the 1990s. However, it was linked with calcium channel abnormalities in 2004, and the disorder was thence named "Timothy syndrome" in honor of Katherine W. Timothy, who was among the first to identify a case and performed much of the phenotypic analysis that revealed other abnormalities. References External links GeneReview/NCBI/NIH/UW entry on Timothy Syndrome Category:Autosomal dominant disorders Category:Channelopathies Category:Neurological disorders Category:Cardiogenetic disorders Category:Syndromes affecting the heart	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
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Joseph W. Clift Joseph Wales Clift (September 30, 1837 – May 2, 1908) was a U.S. Representative from Georgia. Born in North Marshfield, Massachusetts, Clift attended the common schools and Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts. He was graduated from the medical school of Harvard University in 1862. He entered the Union Army and was acting surgeon from July 13, 1862, to August 7, 1865. He served in the Army of the Potomac until November 18, 1866. Practiced medicine in Savannah, Georgia. He was appointed registrar of the city of Savannah by Major General Pope under the reconstruction acts. Upon the readmission of Georgia to representation was elected as a Republican to the 40th United States Congress and served from July 25, 1868, to March 3, 1869. Presented credentials as a Member-elect to the 41st United States Congress, but was not permitted to qualify. He died in Rock City Falls, New York, May 2, 1908. He was interred in the cemetery adjoining the Clift estate, North Marshfield, Massachusetts. References Category:1837 births Category:1908 deaths Category:Harvard Medical School alumni Category:Members of the United States House of Representatives from Georgia (U.S. state) Category:Phillips Academy alumni Category:Union Army officers Category:Georgia (U.S. state) Republicans Category:Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives Category:19th-century American politicians Category:Politicians from Savannah, Georgia Category:American Civil War surgeons	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
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Piz Blaisun Piz Blaisun (3,200 m) is a mountain of the Albula Alps, located north of the Albula Pass in the canton of Graubünden. Its summit is the tripoint between the Val Tuors, the Val d'Alvra (Albula valley) and the Val d'Es-cha. References External links Piz Blaisun on Hikr Category:Mountains of Switzerland Category:Mountains of Graubünden Category:Mountains of the Alps Category:Alpine three-thousanders	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Matyldzin, Masovian Voivodeship Matyldzin is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Stromiec, within Białobrzegi County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. References Matyldzin	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Nikola Jokić Nikola Jokić (; born February 19, 1995) is a Serbian professional basketball player for the Denver Nuggets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He also represents the Serbian national basketball team internationally. Standing at , he plays in the center position. Nicknamed "Joker", Jokić was selected with the 41st overall pick by the Denver Nuggets in the 2014 NBA draft. He was selected to the NBA All-Rookie First Team in 2016. In the 2018–19 NBA season, while leading the Nuggets to the Conference Semifinals, he received his first All-Star and All-NBA First Team selections. Jokić ranks among the top 10 on the all-time list of the NBA players with the most triple-doubles, becomes the leading European player, while he holds the fastest triple-double record (for 14 minutes and 33 seconds). He also won an Olympic silver medal at the 2016 Rio Games. Professional career Mega Basket (2012–2015) Jokić played youth basketball in Vojvodina Srbijagas, where he became a dominant figure and received interest from bigger teams. In the summer of 2012, Jokić signed a contract with Mega Vizura, although in the first season with the team he played mostly for their junior team in 2012–13. At the age of 17, he appeared in 5 games of the Serbian League and averaged 1.8 points and 2 rebounds in 10.2 minutes per game. In the 2013–14 season, he saw more minutes on the court for the senior team. Over 25 Adriatic League games, he averaged 11.4 points, 6.4 rebounds and 2.5 assists per game. He also played 13 games with the team in the Serbian League and had similar production, averaging 10.9 points, 6 rebounds and 3.3 assists per game. 2014–15 season Following the selection in the 2014 NBA draft and the departure of Ratko Varda, he became one of the team leaders in the 2014–15 season. In the first game of the Adriatic League, he led his team to a 103–98 win over MZT Skopje, by scoring 27 points and grabbing 15 rebounds for a total index rating of 44. He was named the MVP of Round 1. On November 3, he recorded 17 points, 12 rebounds and season-high 8 assists for a total index rating of 40, in a 90–84 victory over Zadar. For such performance, he was named the MVP of the Round 6. On February 7, he scored 27 points and grabbed 15 rebounds in a 77–88 loss to Szolnoki Olaj. He was named the MVP of the Round for the third time in a season. For his performances over the month, he was named the MVP for February, having averaged 21.7 points and 12.3 rebounds per game. On March 21, he scored a season-high 28 points and added 15 rebounds to help his team win with 100–96 over Igokea. He was named the MVP of the Round 26, his fourth Round MVP award over the season. Even though Mega Leks finished in 10th place in the Adriatic League, Jokić became one the league's most valuable players. Over 24 games played, he averaged 15.4 points, league-leading 9.3 rebounds and 3.5 assists per game, while leading the league with the index rating of 22. On March 26, he was officially named the Adriatic League regular season MVP. He was also named the ABA League Top Prospect for the 2014–15 season. After the elimination by Partizan Belgrade in the semifinals of the Serbian League, Jokić parted ways with the team to pursue an NBA career. In 14 games of the Serbian League, he averaged 18.4 points, 10.4 rebounds and 2.7 assists per game, whiled shooting 56.6% from the field. Denver Nuggets (2015–present) On June 26, 2014, Jokić was selected by the Denver Nuggets with the 41st overall pick in the 2014 NBA draft. 2015–16 season In the summer of 2015, Jokić joined the Denver Nuggets, one season after being drafted. On July 28, 2015, he signed a contract with the Nuggets after averaging 8.0 points and 6.2 rebounds in five summer league games for the team. On November 18, 2015, he had a then season-best game with 23 points and 12 rebounds in a 109–98 loss to the San Antonio Spurs. On January 10, 2016, he recorded a career-high nine assists in a 95–92 win over the Charlotte Hornets. On February 1, he recorded career highs of 27 points and 14 rebounds in a 112–93 win over the Toronto Raptors. On April 8, he set a new career high with 15 rebounds in a 102–98 win over the San Antonio Spurs. At the season's end, he finished third in the 2016 NBA Rookie of the Year Award voting and earned NBA All-Rookie First Team honors. 2016–17 season On October 29, 2016, Jokić recorded 23 points and a career-high 17 rebounds in a 115–113 overtime loss to the Portland Trail Blazers. After starting the first eight games of the season, Jokić was moved to the bench on November 12. He remained coming off the bench for the next 14 games. During that stretch as a bench player, he had a season-high 27 points and 11 rebounds in a 112–92 loss to the Dallas Mavericks on December 12. On December 19, he recorded a near triple-double with 27 points, 15 rebounds and nine assists in a 117–107 win over Dallas. He had another near triple-double on December 28, recording 16 points, a career-high 11 assists and eight rebounds in a 105–103 win over the Minnesota Timberwolves. On January 16, 2017, he scored a career-high 30 points in a 125–112 win over the Orlando Magic. He surpassed that mark three days later, scoring 35 points in a 118–104 loss to the San Antonio Spurs. On February 3, 2017, he recorded his first career triple-double with 20 points, 13 rebounds and 11 assists in a 121–117 win over the Milwaukee Bucks. On February 10, 2017, he scored a career-high 40 points to lead the Nuggets to a 131–123 victory over the New York Knicks. He went 17 of 23 from the field and added nine rebounds and five assists. Three days later, he set career highs with 12 assists and 21 rebounds to go with 17 points in his second career triple-double in a 132–110 win over the Golden State Warriors. On February 28, 2017, he recorded his third career triple-double with 19 points, 16 rebounds and 10 assists in a 125–107 win over the Chicago Bulls. The following night, he had his second straight triple-double and fourth of his career—all within 13 games. He finished with 13 points, 14 rebounds and 10 assists in a 110–98 win over the Milwaukee Bucks. On March 16, 2017, he recorded his fifth triple-double of the season with 17 points, 14 rebounds and 11 assists in a 129–114 win over the Los Angeles Clippers. On March 31, 2017, he recorded his sixth triple-double of the season with 26 points, 13 rebounds and 10 assists in a 122–114 loss to the Charlotte Hornets. Jokić finished the season with a 29-point, 16-rebound, eight-assist effort in a 111–105 season-finale win over the Oklahoma City Thunder on April 12. His six triple-doubles ranked fourth on the season behind Russell Westbrook (42), James Harden (22) and LeBron James (13). At the season's end, he finished second in the 2017 NBA Most Improved Player Award voting, as well as in the 2017 Assist of the Year voting. 2017–18 season On November 7, 2017, Jokić scored a career-high 41 points in a 112–104 win over the Brooklyn Nets. On November 13, he was named Western Conference Player of the Week for games played from Monday November 6 to Sunday November 12. He became the 17th Nugget in franchise history to earn Player of the Week honors and the first since Ty Lawson in March 2013. Jokić had a seven-game absence with a left ankle sprain in early December. On January 8, he had his first triple-double of the season with 22 points, 12 rebounds and 11 assists in a 124–114 loss to the Golden State Warriors. On February 15, in a 134–123 win over the Milwaukee Bucks, Jokić recorded 30 points, 15 rebounds and a career-high 17 assists, reaching a triple-double with 1:54 remaining in the second quarter. He recorded the quickest triple-double in NBA history in 14 minutes and 33 seconds, besting Jim Tucker's previous record of 17 minutes from 1955. On February 23, he recorded his third straight triple-double with 28 points, 11 rebounds and 11 assists in a 122–119 win over the San Antonio Spurs. On March 7, he recorded 36 points and 13 rebounds in a 113–108 loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers. On March 15, he recorded his eighth triple-double of the season with 23 points, 12 rebounds and 10 assists in a 120–113 win over the Detroit Pistons, thus setting the most triple-doubles by a Nuggets player in a season since Fat Lever had nine in 1988–89. On April 1, he had 35 points and 13 rebounds in a 128–125 overtime win over the Bucks. On April 9, he was named Western Conference Player of the Week for games played from Monday April 2 to Sunday April 8, thus earning his second Player of the Week nod for the season. Later that day, he recorded 15 points, a season-best 20 rebounds and 11 assists in an 88–82 win over the Portland Trail Blazers, thus securing his 16th career triple-double and his 10th of the season. In the Nuggets' regular season finale on April 11, 2018, Jokić recorded 35 points and 10 rebounds in a 112–106 overtime loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves. It was his seventh 30-point game of the season. The loss ruled the Nuggets out of the playoffs with a 46–36 record. It was the first final-day play-in game in the NBA in 21 years, with Minnesota also vying for a spot in the playoffs. 2018–19 season On July 9, 2018, Jokić signed a five-year, $148 million maximum contract extension with the Nuggets. On October 20, 2018, in the Nuggets' second game of the season, Jokić recorded 35 points, 12 rebounds and 11 assists in a 119–91 win over the Phoenix Suns. He joined Wilt Chamberlain as the only players in NBA history to post a triple-double with 30 or more points without missing a field goal—Chamberlain did it twice, in 1966 and 1967. He also became just the second Nugget to record a triple-double in the first two games of the season, joining Fat Lever. Jokić went on to earn Western Conference Player of the Week honors for the first week of the season, becoming the sixth player in franchise history to win the award three or more times, joining Alex English, Dikembe Mutombo, Carmelo Anthony, Allen Iverson and Chauncey Billups. On November 3, he had a season-high 16 assists and 10 rebounds to go with seven points in a 103–88 win over the Utah Jazz. On November 9, he had a season-high 37 points and tied his career best with 21 rebounds in a 112–110 loss to the Brooklyn Nets. For his efforts in 2018, he was recognized as the Serbian Player of the Year by the Basketball Federation of Serbia. On January 5, he scored a then season-high 39 points in a 123–110 win over the Charlotte Hornets. His second Player of the Week honor came for games played from December 31 to January 6. On January 8, he had his fourth triple-double of the season with 29 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists in a 103–99 win over the Miami Heat. It was his 20th triple-double of NBA career. At age 23, he became the third-youngest player to reach 20 triple-doubles; Oscar Robertson and Magic Johnson were both 22 at the time of their 20th. Two days later, he had 18 points, 14 rebounds and 10 assists in a 121–100 win over the Los Angeles Clippers. On January 13, he scored a season-high 40 points in 116–113 win over the Portland Trail Blazers. On January 19, he had his sixth triple-double of the season with 19 points, 12 assists and 11 rebounds in a 124–102 win over the Cleveland Cavaliers. It was his 22nd career triple-double, thus passing Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to move to second place on the NBA all-time triple-doubles list by a 7-footer. On January 23, he recorded 28 points and 21 rebounds in a 114–108 loss to the Jazz. On January 27, after serving a one-game suspension for leaving the bench during an on-court fracas against the Jazz, Jokić recorded his seventh triple-double with 32 points, 18 rebounds and 10 assists in a 126–110 win over the Philadelphia 76ers. On January 31, he received his first All-Star selection as a Western Conference reserve for the 2019 NBA All-Star Game, becoming the Nuggets' first All-Star since Carmelo Anthony in 2011. On February 6, he recorded his 10th triple-double of the season with 25 points, 14 rebounds and 10 assists in a 135–130 loss to the Nets. On February 13, he recorded his 12th triple-double of the season with 20 points, 18 rebounds and 11 assists, while also tipping in the game winning shot with 0.3 seconds remaining to lift the Nuggets to a 120–118 win over the Sacramento Kings. His twelve triple-doubles ranked second on the season behind only Russell Westbrook (34). On March 14, Jokic hit a rainbow hook-shot at the buzzer against the Dallas Mavericks to award Denver a 100-99 win. In Game 1 of the Nuggets' first-round playoff series against the San Antonio Spurs, Jokić became the fourth player in NBA history to record a triple-double in his playoff debut and the first since LeBron James in 2006. He had 10 points, 14 rebounds and 14 assists in a 101–96 loss. In Game 6 of the series, he scored 27 of his 43 points in the second half of the Nuggets' 120–103 loss. He also had 12 rebounds and nine assists. Those 43 points set a franchise record for most points in a playoff game. In Game 7, he helped the Nuggets win the series 4–3 with 21 points, 15 rebounds and 10 assists in a 90–86 victory. In Game 1 of the second round, Jokić scored 37 points in a 121–113 win over the Trail Blazers, becoming the first Nuggets player to score 35+ points in a conference semifinals game since Carmelo Anthony (41 points) in May 2009. In Game 3 against Portland, he had 33 points, 18 rebounds and 14 assists in a 140–137 quadruple-overtime loss. In Game 4, he had 21 points, 12 rebounds and 11 assists in a 116–112 win. In Game 5, he recorded 25 points and 19 rebounds in a 124–98 win. His 19 rebounds tied a team NBA playoff high. The Nuggets were eliminated from the playoffs following a 100–96 loss to Portland in Game 7, despite Jokić's 29 points, 13 rebounds and four blocks. In 14 playoff games, he averaged 25.1 points, 13.0 rebounds and 8.4 assists in 39.7 minutes per game, with shooting splits of 50.6%/39.3%/84.6%. Following the season, he was named to the All-NBA First Team, thus earning selection to his first All-NBA team. 2019–20 season On November 8, 2019, Jokić made a game-winning jumper against the Philadelphia 76ers with 1.2 seconds remaining, to give the Nuggets a 98-97 victory, rallying from a 21-point deficit. In the very next game, he hit yet another game-winning jumper, just two days later, in a 100-98 overtime win over the Minnesota Timberwolves. On January 6, 2020, Jokić scored a career-high 47 points against Atlanta Hawks in a 123–115 away win. On February 4, he recorded 30 points, 21 rebounds, and 10 assists in a 98-95 win over the Utah Jazz; it was the first 30/20/10 game by any NBA player in four years, and only the third since Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in 1976. On January 30, Jokić was selected to his second consecutive All-Star nod , becoming the first Nugget since Carmelo Anthony in 2011 to have back-to-back honors. National team career Jokić was a member of the Serbian U-19 national basketball team that won the silver medal at the 2013 FIBA Under-19 World Championship. Over eight tournament games, he averaged 7.1 points, 5 rebounds and 1.5 assists per game. He represented Serbia at the 2016 FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Belgrade, where he averaged 17.8 points, 7.5 rebounds and 2.8 assists per game while earning tournament MVP honors. At the 2016 Summer Olympics, Serbia won the silver medal, after losing to the United States in the final game 96–66. On May 24, 2019, Jokić announced he would play for Serbia at the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup. At the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup, the national team of Serbia was dubbed as favorite to win the trophy, but was eventually upset in the quarterfinals by Argentina. With wins over the United States and Czech Republic, it finished in fifth place. Jokić was the second-best player on the team behind Bogdanović, averaging 11.5 points, 7.5 rebounds and 4.8 assists over 8 games, while shooting 68.0% from the field. Career statistics NBA Regular season \|- \| style="text-align:left;"\| \| style="text-align:left;"\| Denver \| 80 \|\| 55 \|\| 21.7 \|\| .512 \|\| .333 \|\| .811 \|\| 7.0 \|\| 2.4 \|\| 1.0 \|\| .6 \|\| 10.0 \|- \| style="text-align:left;"\| \| style="text-align:left;"\| Denver \| 73 \|\| 59 \|\| 27.9 \|\| .577 \|\| .324 \|\| .825 \|\| 9.8 \|\| 4.9 \|\| .8 \|\| .8 \|\| 16.7 \|- \| style="text-align:left;"\| \| style="text-align:left;"\| Denver \| 75 \|\| 73 \|\| 32.6 \|\| .500 \|\| .396 \|\| .850 \|\| 10.7 \|\| 6.1 \|\| 1.2 \|\| .8 \|\| 18.5 \|- \| style="text-align:left;"\| \| style="text-align:left;"\| Denver \| 80 \|\| 80 \|\| 31.3 \|\| .511 \|\| .307 \|\| .821 \|\| 10.8 \|\| 7.3 \|\| 1.4 \|\| .7 \|\| 20.1 \|- class="sortbottom" \| style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"\| Career \| 308 \|\| 267 \|\| 28.3 \|\| .523 \|\| .345 \|\| .828 \|\| 9.6 \|\| 5.1 \|\| 1.1 \|\| .7 \|\| 16.3 \|- class="sortbottom" \| style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"\| All-Star \| 2 \|\| 0 \|\| 12.5 \|\| .625 \|\| .333 \|\| .000 \|\| 5.5 \|\| .5 \|\| .5 \|\| .0 \|\| 5.5 Playoffs \|- \| style="text-align:left;"\| 2019 \| style="text-align:left;"\| Denver \| 14 \|\| 14 \|\| 39.8 \|\| .506 \|\| .393 \|\| .846 \|\| 13.0 \|\| 8.4 \|\| 1.1 \|\| .9 \|\| 25.1 \|-class="sortbottom" \| style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"\| Career \| 14 \|\| 14 \|\| 39.8 \|\| .506 \|\| .393 \|\| .846 \|\| 13.0 \|\| 8.4 \|\| 1.1 \|\| .9 \|\| 25.1 Personal life Jokić has two older brothers, Nemanja and Strahinja. The younger of the two, Nemanja, played college basketball at the University of Detroit Mercy. Both of them are friends with former NBA player Darko Miličić. See also List of National Basketball Association career triple-double leaders List of European basketball players in the United States List of Serbian NBA players List of Olympic medalists in basketball List of foreign NBA players References External links Nikola Jokić at fiba.com Category:1995 births Category:Living people Category:Basketball players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Category:Centers (basketball) Category:Denver Nuggets draft picks Category:Denver Nuggets players Category:KK Mega Basket players Category:Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Category:National Basketball Association All-Stars Category:National Basketball Association players from Serbia Category:Olympic basketball players of Serbia Category:Olympic medalists in basketball Category:Olympic silver medalists for Serbia Category:Serbia men's national basketball team players Category:Serbian expatriate basketball people in the United States Category:Serbian men's basketball players Category:Sportspeople from Sombor Category:2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup players	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Gorica, Radovljica Gorica () is a settlement in the Municipality of Radovljica in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia. References External links Gorica at Geopedia Category:Populated places in the Municipality of Radovljica	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Shamzagh Shamzagh (, also Romanized as Shamzāgh; also known as Shamrāgh) is a village in Howmeh Rural District, in the Central District of Larestan County, Fars Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 20, in 4 families. References Category:Populated places in Larestan County	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Raymond, Indiana Raymond is an unincorporated community in Springfield Township, Franklin County, Indiana. History Raymond was platted in 1903, when the railroad was extended to that point. The town site was previously wetland. Geography Raymond is located at . References Category:Unincorporated communities in Franklin County, Indiana Category:Unincorporated communities in Indiana	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Kaliszany, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship Kaliszany is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Wojciechowice, within Opatów County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, in south-central Poland. It lies approximately west of Wojciechowice, east of Opatów, and east of the regional capital Kielce. The village has a population of 212. References Category:Villages in Opatów County	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Pre-Marxist communism While Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels defined communism as a political movement, there were already similar ideas in the past which one could call communist experiments. Marx himself saw primitive communism as the original hunter-gatherer state of humankind. For Marx, only after humanity was capable of producing surplus did private property develop. Classical period The idea of a classless and stateless society based on communal ownership of property and wealth also stretches far back in Western thought long before The Communist Manifesto. There are scholars who have traced communist ideas back to ancient times, particularly in the work of Pythagoras and Plato. Followers of Pythagoras, for instance, lived in one building and held their property in common because the philosopher taught the absolute equality of property with all worldly possessions being brought into a common store. It is argued that Plato's Republic described in great detail a communist-dominated society wherein power is delegated in the hands of intelligent philosopher or military guardian class and rejected the concept of family and private property. In a social order divided into warrior-kings and the Homeric demos of craftsmen and peasants, Plato conceived an ideal Greek city-state without any form of capitalism and commercialism with business enterprise, political plurality, and working-class unrest considered as evils that must be abolished. While Plato's vision cannot be considered a precursor of communist thinking, his utopian speculations that are shared by other utopian thinkers later on. Religious communism There are those who view that the early Christian Church, such as that one described in the Acts of the Apostles (see Christian communism), was an early form of communism. The view is that communism was just Christianity in practice and Jesus Christ as the first communist. This link was highlighted in one of Marx's early writings which stated: "As Christ is the intermediary unto whom man unburdens all his divinity, all his religious bonds, so the state is the mediator unto which he transfers all his Godlessness, all his human liberty". Furthermore, the Marxist ethos that aims for unity reflects the Christian universalist teaching that humankind is one and that there is only one god who does not discriminate among people. Pre-Marxist communism was also present in the attempts to establish communistic societies such as those made by the Essenes and by the Judean desert sect. Furthermore, Thomas Müntzer led a large Anabaptist communist movement during the German Peasants' War. Medieval period Peter Kropotkin argued that the elements of mutual aid and mutual defense expressed in the medieval commune and its guild system were the same sentiments of collective self-defense apparent in modern communism and socialism. Early modern period In the 16th century, English writer Sir Thomas More portrayed a society based on common ownership of property in his treatise Utopia, whose leaders administered it through the application of reason. Several groupings in the English Civil War supported this idea, but especially the Diggers, who espoused clear communistic yet agrarian ideals. Oliver Cromwell and the Grandees' attitude to these groups was at best ambivalent and often hostile. Criticism of the idea of private property continued into the Enlightenment era of the 18th century through such thinkers as the deeply religious Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Raised a Calvinist, Rousseau was influenced by the Jansenist movement within the Roman Catholic Church. The Jansenist movement originated from the most orthodox Roman Catholic bishops who tried to reform the Roman Catholic Church in the 17th century to stop secularization and Protestantism. One of the main Jansenist aims was democratizing to stop the aristocratic corruption at the top of the Church hierarchy. Utopian socialist writers such as Robert Owen are also sometimes regarded as communists. Age of Revolution Maximilien Robespierre and his Reign of Terror, aimed at exterminating the nobility and conservatives, was admired among some communists. In his turn, Robespierre was a great admirer of Rousseau. Francois Babeuf has both been described as an anarchist and communist by later scholars to describe his ideas. The word "communism" was first used in English by Goodwyn Barmby in a conversation with those he described as the "disciples of Babeuf". He has been called "The First Revolutionary Communist." The Shakers of the 18th century under Joseph Meacham developed and practiced their own form of communalism, as a sort of religious communism, where property had been made a "consecrated whole" in each Shaker community. The Communards and the Paris Commune are often seen as proto-communists, and had significant influence on the ideas of Karl Marx, who described it as an example of the "dictatorship of the proletariat". Non-European communism Lewis Henry Morgan's descriptions of "communism in living" as practised by the Iroquois Nation of North America. This was a primary inspiration for Marx and Engel's description of primitive communism, and has led to some believing that early communist-like societies also existed outside of Europe, in Native American society and other pre-Colonized societies in the Western hemisphere. Primitive communism meaning societies that practiced economic cooperation among the members of their tribes, where almost every member of a tribe had his or her own contribution to society and land and natural resources would often be shared peacefully among the tribe. Some such tribes in North America and South America still existed well into the 20th century. The Chachapoya culture indicated a egalitarian non-hierarchical society through a lack of archaeological evidence and a lack of power expressing architecture that would be expected for societal leaders such as royalty or aristocracy. Karl Marx and the contemporary age Marx saw communism as the original state of mankind from which it rose through classical society and then feudalism to its current state of capitalism. He proposed that the next step in social evolution would be a return to communism. In its contemporary form, communism grew out of the workers' movement of 19th-century Europe. As the Industrial Revolution advanced, socialist critics blamed capitalism for creating a class of poor, urban factory workers who toiled under harsh conditions and for widening the gulf between rich and poor. 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96.2 FM This is a list of radio stations that broadcast on FM frequency 96.2 MHz: Belarus Melodii Veka Latvia EHR Russkie Hiti in Riga Greece Argos Radio Deejay Ireland Radio Kerry New Zealand Classic Hits Southern Lakes (Wanaka frequency) Coromandel FM (Thames Coast frequency) Solid Gold (Gisborne frequency) United Kingdom Heart West KMFM West Kent (Tonbridge frequency) Mix 96 North Norfolk Radio Heart North East (Newcastle frequency) The Revolution SIBC Capital Mid-Counties Capital Midlands (Nottingham frequency) Yorkshire Coast Radio (Scarborough frequency) Category:Lists of radio stations by frequency	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
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Eldorado Mine (Saskatchewan) __NOTOC__ The Eldorado Mine, also referred to as the Beaverlodge Operation was a uranium mine in the community of Eldorado, northern Saskatchewan, Canada. Eldorado was a small community east of the community of Uranium City, Saskatchewan in the Beaverlodge Uranium District built by Eldorado Mining and Refining Limited to house the workforce and families of the mine. The mine opened in 1953, owned and operated by Eldorado Mining and Refining, a Crown Corporation of the Canadian government. The mine was permanently closed in June 1982. See also Uranium ore deposits References Category:Uranium mines in Canada Category:Mines in Saskatchewan Category:Former mines in Canada Category:Underground mines in Canada	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Richardson Lake (disambiguation) Richardson Lake may refer to: Richardson Lake, Minnesota Richardson Lakes (Maine) Richardson Lakes, Antarctica	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Theloderma laeve Theloderma laeve is a species of frog in the family Rhacophoridae. It is endemic to Vietnam. Its natural habitats are swamps, freshwater marshes, and intermittent freshwater marshes. References van Dijk, P.P. & Stuart, B. 2004. Chirixalus laevis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 23 July 2007. laeve Category:Amphibians of Vietnam Category:Endemic fauna of Vietnam Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Category:Amphibians described in 1924	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Syngamia dentilinealis Syngamia dentilinealis is a moth of the family Crambidae described by George Hampson in 1899. It is found on Sumatra and Java. References Category:Spilomelinae Category:Moths described in 1899	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Ayub Ali Ayub Ali (1887 – 1995) was a Bangladeshi educationist. He was awarded Ekushey Padak in 1976 by the Government of Bangladesh. Early life and education Ali was born in Pirojpur District to Maulavi Abdul Wahed and Abida Khatun. He earned BA Honors and MA degrees in Islamic Studies from University of Dhaka in 1943 and 1944 respectively. He obtained a second MA degree in Persian from the same University in 1950. He achieved Alamiah Diploma in 1953 and Ph.D. in 1955 from the Al-Azhar University in Cairo. Career Ali joined Dhaka College as a lecturer in 1944. He was Principal of Rajshahi Madrasa during 1958-1969. References Category:1887 births Category:1995 deaths Category:University of Dhaka alumni Category:Al-Azhar University alumni Category:Recipients of the Ekushey Padak Category:Dhaka College faculty	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Bandhan Saat Janamon Ka Bandhan Saat Janamon Ka (English: Binding Of Seven Lives) is an Indian television series which premiered on Colors on 21 July 2008. Plot The story is of an intelligent, mature, simple girl who gets married to be caught up dowry worries. First of all, she completes her dream marriage between her and Parth, when the Gupta family confront the Agarwal family about arranging 2.5 million for the release of their son Parth who was allegedly in prison. Unfortunately, in greed of money the Gupta family consistently started to harass Trilok Agarwal (Janvi's father), to arrange for the 2.5 million. Their demand began to begin a burden for Janvi's father, and he tried to sell Manohar's side of his house for rent, (which he agreed for), but Shobhna (Janvi's Aunt), refused her side of the house to be sold. This made Janvi's father suffer even more, and becoming more prone to asthma attacks, had finally found the truth about the Gupta family, that they were money-hungry, and would maltreat Janvi to make Janvi's father pay up his debt as quick as possible. Whilst this was taking place, Janvi was locked in the dark storeroom to wake up early in the morning to do morning chores. She was constantly harassed in her room, with people trying to scare her. Finally at his limit, he died of an asthma attack after Shobhna had gone over a daily row over spending and doling out costs. Janvi's father had his funeral and Janvi was given excuses that she could'tn attend the funeral. Nikita gave her false hopes and said she would take her to the hospital to meet her father, when he had already met his demise. Janvi went to the temple to offer flowers to Mata Durga's idol while Nikita stood beside her, putting on an evil smile on her face. After that, Janvi noticed her father's corpse wrapped up in the white cloth and immediately recognised her family surrounding the corpse. She rushed over, with Nikita persistently trying to push her back, and then she drove off in the car, leaving Janvi alone to see her father. Seema tells the truth of Devang's condition. She said that Devang's wife, Ritu, was burned alive because of dowry worries for the Dahejj. Devang was so unhappy, that he then went under a mental condition. His parents and family gave him medicine injections that would just worsen his condition, never to make it cure. Janvi reached home to find that she was being put through abuse and neglection. She was subjected all sorts of abuse whilst with the family. Cast Gungun Uprari as Janvi Agarwal / Janvi Parth Gupta Vishal Gandhi as Parth Gupta Anuj Thakur as Ayush Vandana Gupte as Kamini Ansha Sayed as Nikita Gupta Shailesh Datar as Trilok Agarwal Dhruv Lather as Devang References External links Official Site on IMDb.com Bandhan Saat Janamon Ka News Article on DeccanHerald.com Category:Colors (TV channel) series Category:Indian drama television series Category:2008 Indian television series debuts Category:2009 Indian television series endings	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Brickellia brachyphylla Brickellia brachyphylla (plumed brickellbush or Hinckley's brickellbush) is a North American species of flowering plant in the daisy family. It is native to the southwestern United States, in Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, western Texas, and the Oklahoma Panhandle. There are reports that it formerly occurred in southwestern Kansas, but these populations appear to be extinct. Brickellia brachyphylla is a shrub up to 100 cm (40 inches) tall, growing from a woody caudex. It produces many small flower heads with pale green disc florets but no ray florets. References brachyphylla Category:Flora of the Southwestern United States Category:Plants described in 1849	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
François Baby (legislative councillor) Charles François Xavier Baby (19 June 1794 – 6 August 1864), was the eldest son of François Baby and received his formal education at Séminaire de Québec before entering into business. Charles had a varied career in business, encountering financial difficulties on at least three occasions, one of which ended in bankruptcy. He had purchased and lost various land holdings and also participated in the timber trade. By 1851, he appears to have had the worst of his financial difficulties behind him. He was involved in building and maintaining lighthouses for the government. He became an investor in the north shore railway and specifically the towing service and tugs. His various contracts were bought out in 1860 for an amount equal to three major debts. Baby entered politics in 1861, being elected as a member of the Legislative Council of the Province of Canada, and serving until his death. The years of government contracts and behind the scenes deals had made him a man of great influence in Quebec. In August 1831, he had married Clothilde Pinsoneault, sister of Pierre-Adolphe Pinsoneault. He was the first Catholic bishop of London, Ontario. External links Category:1794 births Category:1864 deaths Category:Businesspeople from Quebec Category:Members of the Legislative Council of the Province of Canada	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Cinema Express Award for Best Actress – Tamil The Cinema Express Best Film Award is given as a part of its annual Cinema Express Awards for Tamil (Kollywood) films. Winners References Category:Film awards for lead actress	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Capital ship The capital ships of a navy are its most important warships; they are generally the larger ships when compared to other warships in their respective fleet. A capital ship is generally a leading or a primary ship in a naval fleet. William S. Lind, in the book America Can Win (p. 90), defines a capital ship as follows: "These characteristics define a capital ship: if the capital ships are beaten, the navy is beaten. But if the rest of the navy is beaten, the capital ships can still operate. Another characteristic that defines capital ships is that their main opponent is each other." There is usually no formal criterion for the classification, but it is a useful concept in naval strategy; for example, it permits comparisons between relative naval strengths in a theatre of operations without the need for considering specific details of tonnage or gun diameters. A notable example of this is the Mahanian doctrine, which was applied in the planning of the defence of Singapore in World War II, where the Royal Navy had to decide the allocation of its battleships and battlecruisers between the Atlantic and Pacific theatres. The Mahanian doctrine was also applied by the Imperial Japanese Navy, leading to its preventive move to attack Pearl Harbor and the battleships of the U.S. Pacific Fleet. The naval nature of the Pacific Theater of Operations, more commonly referred to as the Pacific War, necessitated the United States Navy mostly deploying its battleships and aircraft carriers in the Pacific. The war in Europe was primarily a land war; consequently, Germany's surface fleet was small, and the escort ships used in the Battle of the Atlantic were mostly destroyers and destroyer escorts to counter the U-boat threat. Age of Sail Before the advent of the all-steel navy in the late 19th century, a capital ship during the Age of Sail was generally understood as a ship that conformed to the Royal Navy's rating system of a ship of the line as being of the first, second, third or fourth rates: First rate: 100 or more guns, typically carried on three or four decks. Four-deckers suffered in rough seas, and the lowest deck could seldom fire except in calm conditions. Second rate: 90–98 guns. Third rate: 64 to 80 guns (although 64-gun third-raters were small and not very numerous in any era). Fourth rate: 46 to 60 guns. By 1756, these ships were acknowledged to be too weak to stand in the line of battle and were relegated to ancillary duties, although they also served in the shallow North Sea and American littorals where larger ships of the line could not sail. Frigates were ships of the fifth rate; sixth rates comprised small frigates and corvettes. Towards the end of the Napoleonic Wars and into the late 19th century, some larger and more powerful frigates were classified as fourth rates. Battleship / battlecruiser The term "capital ship" was first coined in 1909 and formally defined in the limitation treaties of the 1920s and '30s in the Washington Naval Treaty, London Naval Treaty, and Second London Naval Treaty. This applied mainly to ships resulting from the dreadnought revolution; dreadnought battleships (also known first as dreadnoughts and later as battleships) and battlecruisers. In the 20th century, especially in World Wars I and II, typical capital ships would be battleships and battlecruisers. All of the above ships were close to 20,000 tons displacement or heavier, with large caliber guns and heavy armor protection. Cruisers, despite being important ships, were not considered capital ships. An exception to the above in World War II was the . Though this class was technically similar to a heavy cruiser, albeit with considerably heavier guns, they were regarded by some as capital ships (hence the British label "Pocket battleship") since they were one of the few heavy surface units of the Kriegsmarine. The American , Dutch Design 1047 battlecruiser and the Japanese Design B-65 cruiser, planned specifically to counter the heavy cruisers being built by their naval rivals, have been described as "super cruisers", "large cruisers" or even "unrestricted cruisers", with some advocating that they even be considered as battlecruisers, however they were never classified as capital ships. During the Cold War, a Soviet large missile cruiser had a displacement great enough to rival World War II-era battleships and battlecruisers, perhaps defining a new capital ship for that era. In regard to technical design, however, the Kirov is simply a supersized guided-missile cruiser with nuclear propulsion. Aircraft carrier It took until late 1942 for aircraft carriers to be universally considered capital ships. The U.S. Navy was forced to rely primarily on its aircraft carriers after the attack on Pearl Harbor sank or damaged eight of its Pacific-fleet battleships. In the 21st century, the aircraft carrier is the last remaining capital ship, with capability defined in decks available and aircraft per deck, rather than in guns and calibers. The United States possesses supremacy, in both categories of aircraft carriers, possessing not only 11 active duty supercarriers each capable of carrying and launching nearly 100 tactical aircraft, but an additional 12 amphibious assault ships as capable (in the "Sea Control Ship" configuration) as the light VSTOL carriers of other nations. Despite their significance to modern fleets, the U.S. Navy has never named aircraft carriers after U.S. states as was the practice when battleships (e.g. ) were considered capital ships. Instead, U.S. state names are today applied to nuclear submarines while aircraft carriers are named after famous Navy personnel and presidents, such as Chester W. Nimitz and Gerald R. Ford. Nuclear submarines Ballistic missile submarines (or "boomers"), while important ships and similar in tonnage to early battleships, are usually counted as part of a nation's nuclear deterrent force and do not share the sea control mission of traditional capital ships. Nevertheless, many navies, including the Royal Navy and the United States Navy, consider these ships to be capital ships and have given some of them names previously used for battleships, e.g. Dreadnought and Vanguard. Naming Some navies reserve specific names for their capital ships. Names reserved for capital ships include chiefs of state (e.g. ), important places, historically important naval officers or admiralty (e.g. ), historical events or objects (e.g. ), and traditional names (e.g. ). However, there are some exceptions to the rule. Beginning with (the first U.S. battleship), U.S. capital ships have traditionally been named after U.S. states. Lesser vessels are named after U.S. territories (e.g. Alaska-class cruisers just before and during World War II), major U.S. cities (e.g. cruisers), or U.S. presidents (e.g. early attack submarines and late aircraft carriers). Prior to and during World War II the Imperial Japanese Navy also followed the practice of naming battleships after provinces (e.g. ). Beginning with the first class of Trident-equipped ballistic missile submarines (i.e. the ), state names have been applied to U.S. nuclear submarines, indicating their status as capital ships. Previous ballistic missile submarines (e.g. Poseidon missile-equipped submarines) had not been named for states. After the completion of the last Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine, state names were applied to attack submarines (e.g. ). Earlier attack submarines had been named for major cities (e.g. ) – as was previously the practice for cruisers (e.g. ). In fiction The term has been adopted into science fiction literature and culture to describe large spaceships used in military contexts, particularly where other naval terms have also been adopted in similar fashion; for example, sci-fi capital spaceships are often "carriers", that carry small fighters analogous to the way the real world naval equivalent carries fighter aircraft, as well as functioning as "battleships". See also Ship of the line Flagship Dreadnought Battleship Battlecruiser Aircraft carrier Nuclear submarine List of sunken battleships List of sunken battlecruisers List of sunken aircraft carriers List of sunken nuclear submarines Notes References Category:Ship types	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Shiqiu station Shiqiu station (), is a station of Line S9 of the Nanjing Metro. It started operations on 30 December 2017. References Category:Railway stations in Jiangsu Category:Railway stations opened in 2017 Category:Nanjing Metro stations Category:2017 establishments in China	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Lunca, Botoșani Lunca is a commune in Botoșani County, Romania. It is composed of five villages: Băznoasa, Lunca, Stroiești, Stănești and Zlătunoaia. References Category:Communes in Botoșani County	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Astronauts & Heretics Astronauts & Heretics, released in 1992, was the fourth studio album by Thomas Dolby. It was Dolby's last studio album until 2011's A Map Of The Floating City. Astronauts & Heretics contained the singles "I Love You Goodbye", "Close But No Cigar" and "Silk Pyjamas". The album was reasonably popular in the UK and was Dolby's last album to be released on vinyl. According to Dolby, the album went largely unnoticed in the US due to poor distribution by Giant Records and the popularity of grunge at the time. After asking Thomas Dolby for help with his studio equipment, Eddie Van Halen agreed to play guitar on two of Dolby's songs, "Eastern Bloc" and "Close but no Cigar" on Astronauts & Heretics including a Van Halen style solo on "Eastern Bloc". Track listing All tracks by Dolby unless noted "I Love You Goodbye" – 5:58 "Cruel" – 3:08 "Silk Pyjamas" – 3:38 "I Live in a Suitcase" – 5:29 "Eastern Bloc" ("Europa and the Pirate Twins Part II") – 5:19 "Close But No Cigar" – 4:27 "That's Why People Fall in Love" – 5:28 "Neon Sisters" (Dolby, Matthew Seligman) – 4:54 "Beauty of a Dream" – 5:04 Personnel Thomas Dolby – keyboards, vocals Larry Treadwell, Jon E. Love, Tommy Gutman Sanchez, Jon Klein, Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir – guitar Eddie Van Halen – guitar on tracks 5, 6 Terry Jackson, Matthew Seligman, Leland Sklar – bass David Owens, Budgie – drums Eddi Reader – vocals on "Cruel" Ofra Haza – vocals on "That's Why People Fall in Love" References Category:Thomas Dolby albums Category:1992 albums Category:Albums produced by Thomas Dolby Category:Giant Records (Warner) albums	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Charles Stevenson (actor) Charles Stevenson (October 13, 1887 – July 4, 1943) was an American film actor of the silent era. He appeared in 136 films between 1914 and 1925. He was born in Sacramento, California, and died in Palo Alto, Californi'(a. Selected filmography Luke, the Candy Cut-Up (1916) Luke Pipes the Pippins (1916) Luke's Double (1916) Luke's Late Lunchers (1916) Luke Laughs Last (1916) Luke's Fatal Flivver (1916) Luke's Society Mixup (1916) Luke Rides Roughshod (1916) Luke, Crystal Gazer (1916) Luke's Lost Lamb (1916) Luke Does the Midway (1916) Luke Joins the Navy (1916) Luke and the Mermaids (1916) Luke's Speedy Club Life (1916) Luke and the Bang-Tails (1916) Luke, the Chauffeur (1916) Luke's Preparedness Preparations (1916) Luke, the Gladiator (1916) Luke, Patient Provider (1916) Luke's Newsie Knockout (1916) Luke's Movie Muddle (1916) Luke, Rank Impersonator (1916) Luke's Fireworks Fizzle (1916) Luke Locates the Loot (1916) Luke's Shattered Sleep (1916) Luke's Lost Liberty (1917) Lonesome Luke, Lawyer (1917) Luke Wins Ye Ladye Faire (1917) Lonesome Luke's Lively Life (1917) Lonesome Luke on Tin Can Alley (1917) Lonesome Luke's Honeymoon (1917) Stop! Luke! Listen! (1917) Lonesome Luke, Messenger (1917) Lonesome Luke's Wild Women (1917) Lonesome Luke Loses Patients (1917) Pinched (1917) Birds of a Feather (1917) From Laramie to London (1917) Love, Laughs and Lather (1917) Clubs Are Trump (1917) All Aboard (1917) We Never Sleep (1917) Move On (1917) Step Lively (1917) The Tip (1918) On the Jump (1918) Follow the Crowd (1918) It's a Wild Life (1918) Hey There! (1918) The Non-Stop Kid (1918) Two-Gun Gussie (1918) The City Slicker (1918) Sic 'Em, Towser (1918) Somewhere in Turkey (1918) Are Crooks Dishonest? (1918) An Ozark Romance (1918) Kicking the Germ Out of Germany (1918) That's Him (1918) Bride and Gloom (1918) Two Scrambled (1918) Bees in His Bonnet (1918) Do You Love Your Wife? (1919) Ask Father (1919) Ring Up the Curtain (1919) Spring Fever (1919) Just Neighbors (1919) Be My Wife (1919) The Rajah (1919) He Leads, Others Follow (1919) Soft Money (1919) Count the Votes (1919) Pay Your Dues (1919) His Only Father (1919) Bumping Into Broadway (1919) Captain Kidd's Kids (1919) From Hand to Mouth (1919) His Royal Slyness (1920) Haunted Spooks (1920) An Eastern Westerner (1920) High and Dizzy (1920) Get Out and Get Under (1920) Number, Please? (1920) Now or Never (1921) A Sailor-Made Man (1921) Safety Last! (1923) Under Two Jags (1923) Kill or Cure (1923) Gas and Air (1923) Short Orders (1923) A Man About Town (1923) The Whole Truth (1923) Scorching Sands (1923) Pied Piper Malone (1924) Hot Water (1924) Isn't Life Terrible? (1925) References External links Category:1887 births Category:1943 deaths Category:American male film actors Category:American male silent film actors Category:Male actors from Sacramento, California Category:20th-century American male actors	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Lake Wakuach Lake Wakuach is a lake in northern Quebec, Canada. Category:Lakes of Nord-du-Québec	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Hararit Hararit (; lit. "mountainous") is a community settlement in Western Galilee, Israel. In it had a population of . History Hararit, located on the crest of Mount Netofa in the Lower Galilee, was established in 1980 as part of a government-sponsored project initiated by Labor party member Nissim Zvili. It was part of a plan to bring more Jewish residents to the Galilee area. Initially it was supposed to be settled by a group of Rafael employees, but they rejected it, as it was too far from their workplace, and eventually it was settled by Shahaf ("Seagull"), a group of people dedicated to the principles of Transcendental Meditation (TM). By the year 2000 the TM group was reported to be only half of its original population. In 2008, there were 95 families living in Hararit. Archaeologists have discovered three large ancient water cisterns and the remains of agricultural terraces in the vicinity of Hararit. Economy The economy is largely based on hitec, alternative medicine, tourism, with some of the residents operating bed and breakfast establishments. Notable residents Helen Doron References Category:Community settlements Category:Transcendental Meditation communities Category:Populated places in Northern District (Israel) Category:Populated places established in 1982 Category:1982 establishments in Israel Category:Hitahdut HaIkarim	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
S5 (Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn) Line S 5 is a S-Bahn line in the Rhine-Ruhr network. It is operated by DB Regio. It runs from via to . There are current plans to expand the line by building five new stations. It is operated between Dortmund and Witten at 30-minute intervals and between Witten and Hagen at 60-minute intervals using Alstom Coradia Continental type 1440.3. In the evening some connections are continued via Hagen and Wuppertal to Düsseldorf. Line S 5 runs over the Elberfeld–Dortmund railway opened by the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company on 20 December 1848. S-Bahn services commenced on the whole length of the route on 29 May 1994. References S05 ! Category:1994 establishments in Germany	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Cybernetics in the Soviet Union Cybernetics in the Soviet Union had its own particular characteristics, as the study of cybernetics interacted with the dominant ideology of the Soviet Union, and its various economic and political reforms: from its unmitigated criticism in the early-1950s, through its legitimisation up to 1961, and its total saturation in the early-1960s, as it attempted to subsume "practically all of Soviet science". Initially, from 1950–54, the reception of cybernetics, in the Soviet Union, was exclusively negative. The Soviet Department for Agitation and Propaganda had called for anti-Americanism to be intensified in Soviet media, and in an attempt to fill the Department's quotas, Soviet journalists latched on to cybernetics as an American "reactionary pseudoscience" to denounce and mock. This attack was interpreted as a signal of an official attitude to cybernetics, so, under Joseph Stalin's premiership, cybernetics was inflated into "a full embodiment of imperialist ideology" by Soviet writers. Upon Stalin's death, the wide-reaching reforms of Nikita Khrushchev's premiership allowed cybernetics to legitimise itself as "a serious, important science", and in 1955, articles on cybernetics were published in the state philosophical organ, Voprosy Filosofii, after several Soviet scientists realised the potential of this new science. Under the formerly suppressive scientific culture of the Soviet Union, cybernetics began to serve as an umbrella term for previously maligned areas of soviet science, such as structural linguistics and Lamarckist genetics . Under the headsmanship of academician Aksel Berg, the Council of Cybernetics was formed, an umbrella organisation dedicated to providing funding for these new lights of soviet science. By the 1960s, this fast legitimisation put cybernetics "in fashion" as career-minded scientists used cybernetics as a buzzword, and the Council began to take on a life of its own. Many of the original cyberneticians of the organisation began to grow disgruntled; complaints were made that Berg seemed more focused on administration than scientific research, Berg devising grand plans for the council to subsume "practically all of Soviet science". By the 1980s, cybernetics had lost relevance in Soviet scientific culture, as its terminology and political function was succeeded by those of informatics in the Soviet Union and, eventually, post-Soviet states. Official criticism: 1950-1954 The initial public reception of cybernetics in the Soviet Union, in the stifling scientific culture of Joseph Stalin, was exclusively negative. Under the plans of the Soviet Department for Agitation and Propaganda, Soviet anti-American propaganda was to be intensified, in order "to show the decay of bourgeois culture and morals" and "debunk the myths of American propaganda" in the wake of the formation of NATO. This imperative put Soviet newspaper editors in a frantic search for topics to criticise, in order to fill these propagandistic quotas. The first to latch onto Cybernetics was science journalist, Boris Agapov, following the post-war American interest in the developments in computer technology. The cover of the January 23, 1950 issue of Time had boasted an anthropomorphic cartoon of a Harvard Mark III under the slogan "Can Man Build a Superman?". On 4 May 1950, Agapov published an article in the Literaturnaya Gazeta entitled "Mark III, a Calculator", ridiculing this American excitement at the "sweet dream" of the military and industrial uses of these new "thinking machines", and criticising Wiener as an example of the "charlatans and obscurantists, whom capitalists substitute for genuine scientists". Though it was not commissioned by any Soviet authority and never mentioned the science by name, Agapov's article was taken as a signal of an official critical attitude towards cybernetics; editions of Norbert Wiener's Cybernetics were removed from library circulation, and several other periodicals followed suit, denouncing cybernetics as a "reactionary pseudoscience". In 1951, , of the Institute of Philosophy, led a public campaign against the philosophy of "semantic idealism", characterising Wiener, and cybernetics as a whole, as a part of this "reactionary philosophy". In 1952, another more explicitly anti-cybernetic article was published in the Literaturnaya Gazeta, definitively starting the campaign and leading the way for a flurry of popular titles denouncing the topic. At the zenith of this criticism, an article in the October 1953 issue of the state ideological organ, Voprosy Filosofii, was published under the pseudonym "Materialist", entitled "Whom Does Cybernetics Serve?"; it condemned cybernetics as a "misanthropic pseudo-theory" consisting of "mechanicism turning into idealism", pointing to the American military as the "god whom cybernetics served". During this period, Stalin himself never engaged in this rabid criticism of cybernetics, with the head of the Soviet Department of Sciences, Iurii Zhdanov, recalling that "he never opposed cybernetics" and made every effort "to advance computer technology" in order to give the USSR the technological advantage. Though the scale of this campaign was modest, with only around 10 anti-cybernetic publications being produced, Valery Shilov has argued it constituted a "strict directive to action" from the "central ideological organs", a universal declaration of cybernetics as a bourgeois pseudoscience to be criticised and destroyed. Few of these critics had any access to primary sources on cybernetics: Agapov's sources were limited to the January 1950 issue of Time; the Institute's criticisms were based on the 1949 volume of ETC: A Review of General Semantics; and, among Soviet articles on cybernetics, only the "Materialist" quoted Wiener's Cybernetics directly. Select sensational quotes of Wiener and speculations based "exclusively on the basis of other [Soviet] books already written on the same or similar subject", were used to characterise Wiener as both an idealist and a mechanicist, criticising his supposed reduction of scientific and sociological ideas to mere "mechanical model[s]". Wiener's gloomy speculations on the "second industrial revolution" and the "assembly line without human agents" were distorted to brand him as a "technocrat", wishing for "the process of production realised without workers, only with machines controlled by the gigantic brain of the computer" with "no strikes or strike movements, and moreover no revolutionary insurrections". According to Slava Gerovitch, "each critic carried criticism one step further, gradually inflating the significance of cybernetics until it was seen as a full embodiment of imperialist ideology". Legitimisation and rise: 1954-1961 The reformed academic culture of the Soviet Union, after the death of Stalin and reforms of the Khrushchev era, allowed cybernetics to tear down its previous ideological criticisms and redeem itself in the public view. To Soviet scientists, cybernetics emerged as possible vector of escape from the ideological traps of Stalinism, replacing it with the computational objectivity of cybernetics. Military computer scientist Anatoly Kitov recalled stumbling onto Cybernetics in the secret library of the Special Construction Bureau and realising instantly, cybernetics was "not a bourgeois pseudo-science, as official publications considered it at the time, but the opposite - a serious, important science". He joined with the dissident mathematician Alexey Lyapunov, and, in 1952, presented a pro-cybernetic paper to Voprosy Filosofii, which the journal tacitly endorsed, though the Communist Party required that Lyapunov and Kitov present public lectures on cybernetics before its publication, with 121 seminars produced in total from 1944-45. A very different academic, the Soviet philosopher and former ideological watchdog Ernst Kolman, also joined this rehabilitation. In November 1954, Kolman presented a lecture at the Academy of Social Sciences, condemning this stifling of cybernetics to a shocked audience, who had expected a lecture rehearsing previous Stalinist criticisms, and marched down to the office of Voprosy Filosofii to have his lecture published. The beginning of a Soviet cybernetic movement was therefore first signaled by two articles, published together in the July–August 1955 volume of Voprosy Filosofii: "The Main Features of Cybernetics" by Sergei Sobolev, Alexey Lyapunov, and Anatoly Kitov, and "What is Cybernetics" by Ernst Kolman. According to Benjamin Peters, these "two Soviet articles set the stage for the revolution of cybernetics in the Soviet Union". The first article - authored by three Soviet military scientists - attempted to present the tenets of cybernetics as a coherent scientific theory, retooling it for Soviet use; they purposely avoided any discussion of philosophy, and presented Wiener as an American anti-capitalist, in order to avoid any politically dangerous confrontation. They asserted cybernetics' main tenets as: (1) information theory, (2) the theory of automatic high-speed electronic calculating machines as a theory of self-organising logical processes, and (3) the theory of automatic control systems (particularly, the theory of feedback). Juxtaposingly, Kolman's defense of cybernetics mirrored its Stalinist attacks, as Kolman created a spurious historiography of cybernetics (inevitably leading back to the Soviet Union) and corrected the "deviations" of the anti-cybernetic philosophers, using Marxist quote-mongering and the labeling of his opponents as "idealists" and "vitalists" in an attempt to reconcile cybernetics with dialectical materialism. Thus, Soviet cybernetics began its journey towards legitimisation. Academician Aksel Berg, at the time Deputy Minister of Defence, authored secret reports, beleaguering the deficient state of information science in the USSR, pointing towards the suppression of cybernetics as a prime culprit. Party officials allowed a small Soviet delegation to be sent to the First International Congress on Cybernetics in June 1956, who reported back how far the USSR was "lagging behind the developed countries" in computer technology. Unfavorable descriptions of cybernetics were removed from official literature, and in 1958, Russian translations of Wiener were produced, alongside an original journal on cybernetics, Problemy Kibernetiki [Problems of Cybernetics], edited by Lyapunov. For the 1960 First International Federation of Automatic Control, Wiener came to Russia to lecture on cybernetics at the Polytechnic Museum, and met with his lecture hall being swarmed by eager scientists, some of whom sat on aisles and stairs to hear him speak; several Soviet publications, including the formerly anti-cybernetic Voprosy Filosofii, streamed in for interviews from Wiener. In the Krushchev Thaw, Soviet cybernetics had not only become legitimised, but canonised, by the Soviet administration. On 10 April 1959, Berg sent a report, edited by Lyapunov, to a presidium of the Academy of Sciences, recommending the establishment of an organisation dedicated to advancing cybernetics. The presidium determined that the Council on Cybernetics would be formed, with Berg as the chairman (due to his strong administrative connections) and Lyapunov his deputy. This council was wide-reaching, subsuming as many as 15 disciplines as of 1967, from "cybernetic linguistics" to "legal cybernetics". During Khrushchev's relaxation of scientific culture, the Council on Cybernetics served as an umbrella organisation for formerly suppressed research, including such subjects as non-Pavlovian physiology ("physiological cybernetics"), structural linguistics ("cybernetic linguistics"), and Lamarckist genetics ("biological cybernetics"). Thanks to Lyapunov, a further, 20 person Department of Cybernetics was created, in order to solicit official funding for cybernetic research. Even with these institutions, Lyapunov still lamented that "the field of cybernetics in our country is not organized", and, from 1960-1, worked with the Department to establish an official Institute of Cybernetics. Lyapunov joined forces with the structural linguists, who had been authorised to create Institute of Semiotics directed by Andrey Markov Jr., and, in June 1961, together planned to create an Institute of Cybernetics. Despite these efforts, Lyapunov lost faith in the project after Krushchev's refusal to build more Moscow scientific institutes, and the Institute never emerged, settling with the Council of Cybernetics instead gaining the formal powers of an institute, without any expansion of staff. Peak and decline: 1961-1980s Berg continued with his campaign for soviet cybernetics into the 1960s as cybernetics entered the soviet mainstream. Berg's council sponsored pro-cybernetic programmes in Soviet media; with 20-minute radio broadcasts, entitled "Cybernetics in Our Lives", a series of broadcasts on Moscow TV, detailing advances in computer technology, alongside hundreds of lectures before various party members and workers on cybernetics. In 1961, the council produced an official volume proffering cybernetics, entitled Cybernetics—in the Service of Communism. The work of the council was rewarded when, at the 22nd Party Congress, cybernetics was declared one of the "major tools of the creation of a communist society". Khrushchev declared the development of cybernetics to be an "imperative" in Soviet science. According to Gerovitch, this put cybernetics "in fashion" as "many career-minded scientists began using 'cybernetics' as a buzzword" and the movement swelled with its new membership. The CIA reported that the July 1962 'Conference on the Philosophical Problems of Cybernetics' received "approximately 1000 specialists, mathematicians, philosophers, physicists, economists, psychologists, biologists, engineers, linguists, physicians" In July 1962, Berg created a plan for the radical restructuring of the Council such that it covered "practically all of Soviet science". This was met with cold reception from many of the researchers of the Council, with one cybernetician complaining, in a letter to Liapunov, that "[t]here are almost no results from the Council. Berg only demands paperwork and strives for the expansion of the Council." Liapunov, disgruntled with Berg and the non-academic direction of cybernetics, refused to write for Cybernetics—in the Service of Communism and gradually lost his influence in cybernetics. As one memoirist put it, this resignation meant that "the center that had unified cybernetics disappeared, and cybernetics [would] naturally split into numerous branches.” While the old guard of cyberneticians complained, the cybernetics movement, as a whole, was exploding; with the council subsuming 170 projects and 29 institutions by 1962, and 500 projects and 150 institutions by 1967. According to Gerovitch, by the 1970s, the "tactical uses of cyberspeak overshadowed the original reformist goals that aspired the first Soviet cyberneticians." The ideas which were once seen as controversial, and huddled under the umbrella organisation of cybernetics, now entered the scientific mainstream, leaving cybernetics as a loose and incoherent ideological patchwork. Some cyberneticians, whose dissident styles had been sheltered by the cybernetics movement, now felt themselves persecuted; cyberneticians such as Valentin Turchin, Alexander Lerner, and Igor Mel'čuk felt the need to immigrate to escape this newfound scientific atmosphere. By the 1980s, cybernetics had lost its cultural relevance, being replaced in Soviet scientific culture with the concepts of 'informatics'. Notable Soviet cyberneticists Aksel Berg (1893-1979) Deputy Minister of Defence of the Soviet Union (September 1953–November 1957) Yuri Gastev (1928-1993) dissident who emigrated in 1981 Victor Glushkov (1923-1982) Soviet mathematician and founding father of Soviet cybernetics Anatoly Kitov (1920-2005) Leonid Kraizmer (1912-2002) Alexey Lyapunov (1911-1973) Sergei Sobolev (1908-1999) Notes References Bibliography Category:Cybernetics Category:Science and technology in the Soviet Union Category:Computing in the Soviet Union	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }

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