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Kamba
Kamba may refer to:
Kamba people of Kenya
Bena-Kamba, a community in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Khampa, also spelled Kamba, Tibetan people of Kham
See also
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The New Ten Commandments
The New Ten Commandments is a feature-length documentary film which premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2008. This documentary film is from a Scottish perception.
The film was produced by Nick Higgins from Lansdowne Productions and Noémie Mendelle from the Scottish Documentary Institute and has 10 film-chapter directors for each of the 10 chapters of the film - Kenny Glenaan, Douglas Gordon, Nick Higgins, Irvine Welsh, Mark Cousins, Sana Bilgrami, Alice Nelson, Tilda Swinton, Doug Aubrey, David Graham Scott and Anna Jones.
The film's unifying theme is human rights in Scotland with each chapter illustrating one of the "New Ten Commandments" - 10 articles chosen from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The 10 film chapters of The New Ten Commandments
The Right to Freedom of Assembly - Director, David Graham Scott
The Right not to be enslaved - Director, Nick Higgins
The Right to a fair trial - Director, Sana Bilgrami
The Right to freedom of expression - Director, Doug Aubrey
The Right to life - Director, Kenny Glenaan
The Right to liberty - Directors, Irvine Welsh & Mark Cousins
The Right not to be tortured - Director, Douglas Gordon
The Right to asylum - Director, Anna Jones
The Right to privacy - Director, Alice Nelson
The Right to freedom of thought - Directors, Mark Cousins & Tilda Swinton
The film was scheduled for its first television broadcast as The New 10 Commandments in Scotland on BBC Two Scotland in December 2008.
References
External links
The New Ten Commandments webpage.
The New Ten Commandments at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.
The New 10 Commandments] as a [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes BBC Programme.
Category:British documentary films
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Category:English-language films
Category:2000s documentary films
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Category:Documentary films about human rights
Category:Human rights in Scotland
Category:British anthology films
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Ole Morten Geving
Ole Morten Geving (born 6 August 1974) is a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party.
Born in Nord-Trøndelag, he moved to Hølen at a young age and became a member of the Centre Youth there. He presided the Nordic organization of Centrist youth wings from 1999 to 2001. From 1999 to 2003 he was a member of Flatanger municipal council. Professionally, he worked as a secretary and advisor in the Centre Party, having graduated as cand.polit. from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in 2000.
In 2006 he was hired in Gambit Hill & Knowlton, and in 2007 he was elected to the municipal council of his native Vestby. In October 2007 he was appointed State Secretary in the Norwegian Ministry of Finance. He left in 2010. In 2011 he was hired as director of trade policy in the Norwegian Savings Banks Association.
References
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Bethlehem Steel F.C. (disambiguation)
Bethlehem Steel F.C. may refer to:
Bethlehem Steel F.C. (1907–30), a five-time cup-winning American soccer club.
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2016 New Year Honours
The New Year Honours 2016 were appointments by some of the 16 Commonwealth realms to various orders and honours to recognise and reward good works by citizens of those countries. The New Year Honours are awarded as part of the New Year celebrations at the start of January. The official lists of the 2016 New Year Honours for civilians and military were announced on 31 December.
The recipients of honours are displayed as they were styled before their new honour and arranged by the country (in order of precedence) whose ministers advised The Queen on the appointments, then by honour with grades i.e. Knight/Dame Grand Cross, Knight/Dame Commander etc. and then divisions i.e. Civil, Diplomatic and Military as appropriate.
United Kingdom
Below are the individuals appointed by Elizabeth II in her right as Queen of the United Kingdom with honours within her own gift and with the advice of the Government for other honours.
1,196 people were awarded honours.
The majority of the recipients (1,044) received OBE (243), MBE (472) or British Empire Medal (329) awards.
578 of the honorees are women, representing 48% of the total.
5.7% of the recipients are ethnic minorities.
The youngest recipient is 13-year-old Jonjo Heuerman, who was awarded the British Empire Medal for raising more than £235,000 (~USD$350k) for cancer research.
Member of the Order of Merit (OM)
The Right Honourable The Lord Darzi of Denham , for medicine
Dame Ann Dowling , for engineering
Sir James Dyson , for design
Order of the Companions of Honour (CH)
Sir Roy Strong – For services to Culture.
Knight Bachelor
Henry Bellingham , Member of Parliament for North West Norfolk. For political and parliamentary service.
Matthew Bourne , Choreographer. For services to Dance.
Colin Callender , Television, film and theatre producer. For services to the British creative industries, promoting British film, theatre and television in international markets.
Dr. David John Collins , Further Education Commissioner. For services to Further Education.
Clive Cowdery, Philanthropist and Founder, Resolution Foundation. For services to Children and Social Mobility.
Lynton Crosby , Lately Campaign Director, Conservative Party. For political service.
Prof. Paul James Curran, Vice-Chancellor, City University London. For services to Higher Education.
The Right Honourable Ed Davey. For political and public service.
Jon Day , Lately Chair, Joint Intelligence Committee, Cabinet Office. For public service.
William Robert Fittall. For services to the Church of England.
The Honourable Judge Nicholas James Forwood , Judge of the General Court, Court of Justice of the European Union. For services to European justice
Paul Edward Grice, Clerk and Chief Executive, Scottish Parliament. For services to the Scottish Parliament and voluntary service to Higher Education and the community in Scotland.
Dr. Michael Graham Jacobs, Clinical Lead in Infectious Diseases, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. For services to the Prevention and Treatment of Infectious Diseases.
Harpal Kumar, Chief Executive, Cancer Research UK. For services to Cancer Research.
Steve Lancashire, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, REAch2 and Executive Headteacher, Hillyfield Primary Academy, London Borough of Waltham Forest. For services to Education.
Martyn Lewis . For services to the Voluntary and Charitable Sectors particularly the Hospice Movement.
Prof. David MacKay, Regius Professor of Engineering, Cambridge University Engineering Department. For services to Scientific Advice in Government and Science Outreach.
Tony McCoy . For services to Horse Racing.
Harvey McGrath. For services to Economic Growth and Public Life.
David Ronald Norgrove, Chair, Low Pay Commission and Chair, Family Justice Board. For services to the Low Paid and the Family Justice System.
Jack Petchey . For services to Young People in East London and Essex through the Jack Petchey Foundation.
Norman Kelvin Stoller . For philanthropic service.
Robert Talma Stheeman , Chief Executive Officer, Debt Management Office. For services to UK Government Debt Management.
Michael Uren . For philanthropic service.
Alan Yarrow, lately Lord Mayor of London. For services to International Business, Inclusion and the City of London.
Order of the Bath
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB)
Military
Royal Navy
Admiral Sir George Zambellas – First Sea Lord
Royal Air Force
Air Chief Marshal Sir Andrew Pulford – Chief of the Air Staff
Knight / Dame Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB / DCB)
Military
Army
Lt Gen James Rupert Everard – Late The Queen's Royal Lancers.
Civilian
Robert Devereux – Permanent Secretary of the Department for Work and Pensions and lately of the Department for Transport; for services to Transport and welfare and for voluntary service in Kilburn, London.
Lin Homer – Lately Chief Executive, HM Revenue and Customs; for public service, particularly to Public Finance.
Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)
Military
Royal Navy
Rear Admiral James Anthony Morse – Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (Capability) and Controller of the Navy
Army
Lt Gen Timothy Paul Evans – Late The Light Infantry.
Maj Gen Jeremy Francis Rowan – Late Royal Army Medical Corps.
Royal Air Force
Air Vice-Marshal Timothy Lawrence John Bishop – Air Officer Commanding 38 Group
Air Vice-Marshal Martin Adrian Clark – Director (Technical) Military Aviation Authority
Civilian
Susan Jane Baldwin – Director, Academies and Maintained Schools Group, Department for Education. For services to Education.
Professor Paul Anthony Cosford – Director for Health Protection and Medical Director, Public Health England. For services to Public Health.
Stephen Gooding – Lately Director-General, Roads, Traffic and Local Group, Department for Transport. For public service to Transport.
Dr. Ruth Hussey – chief medical officer for Wales and Medical Director, NHS Wales. For services to Healthcare.
Prof. Nick Jennings – Chief Scientific Adviser for National Security and Regius Professor, University of Southampton. For services to Computer Science and National Security Science.
Dr. Carl Niel Kempson – Director, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. For services to British foreign policy
Clare Moriarty – Lately Director-General, Rail Executive, Department for Transport. For services to Transport.
Order of Saint Michael and Saint George
Knight / Dame Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG)
Sir Simon Fraser – Former Permanent Under Secretary, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. For services to the FCO and the pursuit of British foreign policy interests
Knight / Dame Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG / DCMG)
Malcolm Evans – Chair, United Nations Subcommittee for the Prevention of Torture. For services to torture prevention and religious freedom
Judith Macgregor – High Commissioner, Pretoria, South Africa. For services to British diplomacy
Ivan Rogers – Permanent Representative to the European Union. For services to British European and International Policy
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG)
Dr. John Freeman – HM Ambassador, Buenos Aires, Argentina. For services to the promotion and defence of British interests in Argentina
Denis Keefe – HM Ambassador, Belgrade, Serbia. For services to British foreign policy
John James Rankin – Former High Commissioner, Colombo, Sri Lanka and the Maldives. For services to British foreign policy
Paul John Ritchie – Director, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. For services to enhancing Diplomacy and National Security
Caroline Elizabeth Wilson – Consul General, Hong Kong and Macao. For services to British foreign policy
Royal Victorian Order
Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO)
Jean Douglas Tulloch – Lord Lieutenant of Dumfries.
Gerrard Tyrrell – Solicitor, Harbottle and Lewis.
Professor Howard John Williamson – formerly Trustee, The Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme.
Brian Leslie Davies – formerly Official Secretary to the Governor of New South Wales, Australia.
Jeremy Patrick Bagwell Purefoy – Assistant Secretary (Insignia), Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood.
Alexander Matheson – Lord-Lieutenant of the Western Isles.
Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order (LVO)
Christopher John Adcock – chief financial officer, Duchy of Lancaster.
Lucinda Katharine Elizabeth Baker – Deputy Private Secretary to The Duchess of Gloucester.
Sophia Louisa Densham – Assistant Private Secretary to the Duchess of Cornwall.
Allison Sharaon Patricia Derrett – Assistant Archivist, Royal Archives.
Dr. Timothy Hugh David Evans – Apothecary to The Queen and to the Royal Households.
Commodore John Rowland Hance – formerly Gentleman Usher to The Queen.
Major General Alasdair Ian Gordon Kennedy – formerly Gentleman Usher to The Queen.
David Kim Parry – Director, Outward Bound Trust.
David Paul Pogson – Senior Communications Officer, Royal Household.
Sarah Squire – Head of HR Services, Royal Household.
Dr. Richard Charles David Staughton – Consultant Dermatologist.
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Columbia University Partnership for International Development
The Columbia University Partnership for International Development (CUPID), is a student-led initiative across Columbia University to facilitate multidisciplinary dialogue, awareness and action in the field of international development and relief.
History
In the Fall of 2004, two social work students from the Columbia University School of Social Work began generating interest for a Columbia-wide conference on multidisciplinary perspectives on issues pertaining to international development. This resulted in the 2005 conference titled "Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Armed Conflict and Forced Migration". The conference was coordinated by a multidisciplinary team of student leaders from the Columbia University School of Social Work, Columbia University Law School, and the Mailman School of Public Health.
This collaboration led to the inception of the Columbia University Partnership for International Development. Student representatives across the ten Columbia graduate schools were recruited in order to establish an academic partnership across fields that would continue to inform their work as they became professionals. The underlying hypothesis of this assumption was that the experience would better equip students to develop and implement effective, innovative, and holistic approaches to challenges faced in international development.
Within a year, CUPID organized twelve multidisciplinary forums, co-sponsored six events, facilitated a conference on "Urbanization in the Developing World", sent five students to Central America as part of a multidisciplinary community development team, and coordinated 20 internships with the United Nations Development Programme.
Influential organizations that helped found the Columbia Partnership for International Development included: The Earth Institute, The Africa Institute, The Columbia Alumni Association, The President and Provost's Student Event Fund, and the Open Society Foundations.
Activities
Online Journal
The CUPID Online Journal is a creative space for students to publish original poetry, photographs, scholarly articles, blog-style posts, opinion pieces and field notes pertaining to international development.
Development Dialogues
Monthly events hosted by various Columbia graduate schools and colleges on rotation with the purpose of encouraging collective awareness, understanding and action. The Development Dialogues are informal and stimulating conversations regarding contemporary issues. The events usually take place in the form of an expert panel, followed by conversation between panelists and students, practitioners, professors and members of the community.
Annual Conference
Each Spring, CUPID coordinates a multidisciplinary conference pertaining to important and timely topics in the field of international development. The conference gathers professors, practitioners, students and others and provides a space to discuss important perspectives, lessons learned, best practices, and ways forward.
Upcoming Conference March 2014
"Reframing "Freedom": A Critical Approach to Modern Slavery"
Previous Conference Topics:
2013: "Millennium Development Goals. Mission Impossible?"
2012: "In a State of Transition. Locating the Role of the International Community."
2011: "Internal Displacement. Unsettled. Uncertain. Unseen."
2010: "Health. A Universal Dialect(ic)? Access to Health in the Developing World"
2009: "Development Without Borders. Is Migration Good for Development?"
2008: "Beyond Polar Bears. Looking Past the Environmental Impacts of Climate Change."
2007: "Philanthropy, Profits and Progress. The Role of Private Actors in International Development."
2006: "Urbanization and the Developing World. Perspectives on the Individual."
2005: "Armed Conflict and Forced Migration. Push and Pull Factors of Resettlement."
Community Initiatives
Each summer, CUPID collaborates with organizations around the world to provide students with an opportunity to participate in international development partnerships.
Previously, CUPID fellows have worked on projects in:
China
Dominican Republic
Guatemala
New York City
Nicaragua
Networking and Social Events
Alumni Networking Event: An opportunity for CUPID members to meet with Columbia alumni currently working in the field of international development.
External links
Columbia CUPID
Institute for the Study of Human Rights
The President and Provost's Student Event Fund
The Earth Institute
Columbia University School of Social Work
Open Society Foundations
References
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Kerdyom
Kerdyom () is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Zhemkonsky 2-y Rural Okrug of Khangalassky District in the Sakha Republic, Russia, located from Pokrovsk, the administrative center of the district. Its population as of the 2010 Census was 1,015; up from 867 recorded in the 2002 Census.
Geography
Kerdyom is located by the mouth of the Lyutenge on the right bank of the Lena River.
References
Notes
Sources
Official website of the Sakha Republic. Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic. Khangalassky District.
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Stronger Than That
"Stronger Than That" is a 1990 single by English singer Cliff Richard. It was the fourth song from his 1989 album Stronger to reach the top twenty in the UK, peaking at #14 on the UK Singles Chart.
Track listing
7-inch vinyl and cassingle
"Stronger Than That" [Remix]
"Joanna"
7-inch vinyl and CD Single
"Stronger Than That" [Extended Version]
"Joanna"
"Stronger Than That" [Remix]
Charts
References
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2015 ITF Women's Circuit – Hong Kong
The 2015 ITF Women's Circuit – Hong Kong was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the first edition of the tournament which is part of the 2015 ITF Women's Circuit, offering a total of $50,000 in prize money. It took place in Hong Kong, on 5–11 January 2015.
Singles entrants
Seeds
1 Rankings as of 29 December 2014
Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
Eudice Chong
Ki Yan-tung
Ng Man-ying
Wu Ho-ching
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
Han Na-lae
Hsu Chieh-yu
Jang Su-jeong
Makoto Ninomiya
Champions
Singles
Misaki Doi def. Zhang Kailin, 6–3, 6–3
Doubles
Han Xinyun / Hsu Chieh-yu def. Varatchaya Wongteanchai / Varunya Wongteanchai, 3–6, 6–4, [10–8]
External links
2015 ITF Women's Circuit – Hong Kong at ITFtennis.com
Official website
Category:2015 ITF Women's Circuit
Category:2015 in Hong Kong women's sport
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Lara Mussell Savage
Lara Mussell Savage is a two time world champion in Ultimate, earning a gold medal in both 2000 and 2004, as well as bronze medals in 1998 and 2008. Leading up 2010, Lara was a part of the Vancouver Organizing Committee (VANOC) as Project Manager for Aboriginal Sport and Youth, and helped run the Air Canada PGA Tour. Adding to her resume, in 2015 Mussell Savage became an ambassador for viaSport’s Gender Equity #LevelTheField campaign promoting gender equity in sport and became a Trustee for the British Columbia (BC) Sports Hall of Fame & Museum. Mussell Savage is also a member and elected Councillor of Skwah First Nation, and was awarded the Tom Longboat Award as Canada’s Female Aboriginal Athlete of the Year in 2005.
Lara Mussell Savage was raised on the Skwah First Nation territory in Chilliwack. and completed her bachelor's degree (BKin - Sport Management) at the University of British Columbia and master's degree (MBA) at Simon Fraser University. Since her retirement from Ultimate in 2008, Lara has continued to be an active advocate for Indigenous sport. Mussell Savage was inducted into the Chilliwack Sports Hall of Fame in 2016 for her achievements in and contribution to sport and is the first female and first Indigenous inductee. Mussell Savage currently resides in Chilliwack, BC, on the Skwah Reserve, with her husband, Kirk Savage (also a World Champion Ultimate athlete and hall of famer), and their two children.
Early life and education
Lara Mussell Savage was raised in the Skwah First Nation of Stόlō territory in Chilliwack, British Columbia. As an amateur athlete she competed in several sports such as track & field, golf, basketball, curling, gymnastics, and Ultimate. Lara graduated from the University of British Columbia as a Wesbrook Scholar with a degree in Human Kinetics, Leisure & Sport Management (2001) and recently completed her MBA at Simon Fraser University (2019). Her father is Sxela':wtxw till, the late Chief Roy Mussell and her grandmother was the first female Chief of Skwah First Nation, elected in 1959. Her cousin, Kaila Mussell, was the first professional female saddle-bronc rider in North America.
Career
Mussell Savage was first exposed to Ultimate in 1992, when she was in her senior year of high school. During university, Mussell Savage and her classmates entered a team in the Vancouver Ultimate League and later went on the play for the University of British Columbia varsity-club team. In 1997, Mussell Savage took the next step in her career by joining a national team that played in both American and Canadian tournaments. In 1998, her team went on to win the national club championship, earning the chance to represent Canada at the World Championship in Minnesota. She went on to help Canada achieve a bronze medal in 1998, and a gold medal in 2000. As one of the national team captains, Mussell Savage lead the undefeated team to their second gold medal in 2004. She went on to win a bronze medal once more in 2008.
After her 2008 season Mussell Savage required neck surgery, which eventually ended her athletic career. Since retirement she has been involved with the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, serving on the organizing committee (VANOC) as Project Manager for Aboriginal Sport and Youth. Mussell Savage has helped run the Air Canada PGA TOUR Championship in British Columbia, and has also been employed by the University of British Columbia in their athletics department. Since 2010, she has been a part of the Indigenous Sport, Physical Activity and Recreation Council (ISPARC) and Chef de Mission for the Aboriginal Team BC and has become an ambassador for ViaSport’s #LeveltheField campaign promoting gender equity in sport. Mussell Savage currently sits on the board trustees for the BC Sports Hall of Fame and was recently featured in the Women in Sport Spotlight, ViaSport BC’s monthly series featuring inspirational female athletes, coaches, officials, volunteers, and leaders in British Columbia.
References
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Edivoxetine
Edivoxetine (INN; code name LY-2216684) is a drug which acts as a selective norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor and was under development by Eli Lilly for attention-deficit disorder (ADD) and as an antidepressant treatment. It was in phase III clinical trials, in 2012, for major depressive disorder, but failed to get approval.
Effectiveness
In a study published in 2010, edivoxetine succeeded to prove superiority over placebo, as measured by Hamilton Depression Rating Scale. However, effectiveness could be observed using the Self-Rated Quick Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology.
In a study published in 2011, using the Montgomery–Åsberg Depression Rating Scale and the Sheehan Disability Scale, edivoxetine showed superiority over placebo, with higher response and remission rates.
In December 2013, Eli Lilly announced that the clinical development of edivoxetine will be stopped due to lack of efficacy compared to SSRI alone in three separate clinical trials.
Side effects
Side effects significantly associated with edivoxetine are headache, nausea, constipation, dry mouth and insomnia.
The above-mentioned studies report increases of the cardiac rhythm, and one also increases of diastolic and systolic blood pressures.
See also
Esreboxetine
References
Category:Abandoned drugs
Category:Tertiary alcohols
Category:Antidepressants
Category:Eli Lilly and Company brands
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Category:Norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors
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Chris Perone
Christopher R. Perone is a five-term Democratic member of the Connecticut House of Representatives, representing the 137th District since 2005. He previously served as a member of the Norwalk Common Council from 2001 to 2003. He is a graduate of Syracuse University with a degree in advertising.
Early life and family
Perone was born in Bedford, New York and attended Fox Lane High School.
Political career
Perone was elected to the Norwalk Common Council from District D. He has served on the board of the Southwestern Regional Planning Association, (S.W.R.P.A.) and on the committees of several groups including the Norwalk Education Foundation, the Lockwood Matthew’s Mansion restoration committee and the Norwalk Land Trust.
Perone was elected to Connecticut House of Representatives representing the 137th District in 2004. He has been re-elected 2006, 2008, 2010, and 2012. In 2012, he defeated Republican challenger Joanne T. Romano in the race for the 137th District seat.
Perone is current the chair of the Commerce Committee.
External links
Office website
References
Category:Connecticut Democrats
Category:Connecticut city council members
Category:Members of the Connecticut House of Representatives
Category:People from Bedford, New York
Category:Politicians from Norwalk, Connecticut
Category:Syracuse University alumni
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Category:21st-century American politicians
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List of songs recorded by Imagine Dragons
This is a comprehensive list of every song recorded by the American pop rock band Imagine Dragons. This includes singles, albums, covers, soundtrack songs, and extended plays.
List of songs
References
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Burke County Courthouse (Georgia)
Burke County Courthouse in Waynesboro, Georgia is a "carpenter Romanesque" (perhaps a vernacular Romanesque Revival) building completed in 1857. It is one of just four courthouses in Georgia that were built in the 1850s and still serve as courthouses. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. L.F. Goodrich is credited as the building's architect (likely for renovations or redesign work) and he also designed the Jenkins County Courthouse in Millen, Georgia.
It is a two-story structure built of red brick that is covered with a gritty cement-like mixture "scored to look like very perfect brick"; this treatment does not appear on any other Georgia courthouse but does appear on the Hay House in Macon, Georgia. It has a clock tower that rises in five stages to a pyramidal roof with pedimented clocks. A two-story annex was built in 1940 and joined by an open bridge on two levels at the rear of the building.
References
External links
University System of Georgia libraries listing for Burke County Courthouse
Burke County Courthouse historic postcard Georgia Info
Category:Courthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Georgia (U.S. state)
Category:County courthouses in Georgia (U.S. state)
Category:Government buildings completed in 1856
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Warrumbungle Shire
The Warrumbungle Shire is a local government area in the central western region of New South Wales, Australia. The Shire is traversed by the Newell Highway. The Warrumbungle mountain range and Warrumbungles National Park are major tourist attractions for the Shire. Its capital is Coonabarabran, a city in the southwest.
The Mayor of Warrumbungle Shire Council is Cr. Denis Todd, who is unaligned with any political party.
Main towns and villages
The Shire incorporates the towns of Binnaway, Coolah, Coonabarabran, Dunedoo, Baradine and Mendooran.
Heritage listings
The Warrumbungle Shire has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:
Coolah, 74 Binnia Street: Old Police Station and Courthouse
Coonabarabran, Oxley Highway: Burra Bee Dee Mission
Dunedoo, Wallerawang-Gwabegar railway: Dunedoo railway station
Kenebri, Old Wooleybah Road: Wooleybah Sawmill and Settlement
Demographics
Council
The Shire was created in 2004 by the amalgamation of Coolah and Coonabarabran Shire councils. Following amalgamation, the Shire was run by an administrator, until elections were held in March 2005.
Current composition and election method
Warrumbungle Shire Council is composed of nine Councillors elected proportionally as a single ward. All Councillors are elected for a fixed four-year term of office. The most recent election was held on 10 September 2016, and the makeup of the Council is as follows:
The current Council, elected in 2016, alphabetically, is:
The Mayor is elected by the Councillors every two years. At the last Mayoral election held 20 September 2018, Cr Todd was elected at Mayor and Cr Iannuzzi elected as Deputy Mayor.
See also
List of local government areas in New South Wales
References
Category:Local government areas of New South Wales
Category:Newell Highway
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Luigi Cornaro (cardinal)
Luigi Cornaro (12 February 1517 – 10 May 1584) was an Italian Roman Catholic cardinal and bishop.
Biography
A member of the House of Cornaro, Luigi Cornaro was born on February 12, 1517, the eldest of the ten children of Giovanni Cornaro, Venetian senator and Procurator of San Marco, and Adriana Pisani. His younger brother Federico Cornaro also became a cardinal. He was the grand-nephew of Catherine Cornaro, Queen of Cyprus, and the nephew of Cardinals Francesco Pisani, Marco Cornaro, and Francesco Cornaro. His cousin Andrea Cornaro also became a cardinal.
As a young man, he joined the Knights Hospitaller, becoming Grand Prior of Cyprus, an office he later resigned in favor of his younger brother Federico Cornaro.
Pope Julius III made him a cardinal deacon in the consistory of November 20, 1551. He received the red hat and the deaconry of San Teodoro on December 4, 1551.
On June 25, 1554, he was elected Archbishop of Zadar and was subsequently consecrated as a bishop. He resigned the government of Zadar on July 17, 1555 in favor of his secretary, Muzio Callini.
He was a participant in the papal conclave of April 1555 that elected Pope Marcellus II, the papal conclave of May 1555 that elected Pope Paul IV, and the papal conclave of 1559 that elected Pope Pius IV.
Under Pope Pius IV, he headed the commission charged with dealing with the riots fomented by the Carafas during the pontificate of Paul IV. He was named administrator of the see of Bergamo on March 13, 1560. He resigned the administration of Bergamo in favor of his nephew Federico on January 15, 1561, at which time he became administrator of the see of Trogir. He resigned that post on April 18, 1567. On February 26, 1561, he opted for the order of cardinal priests, and on June 21, 1564 received the titular church of San Marco.
He participated in the papal conclave of 1565-66 that elected Pope Pius V.
He opted for the titular church of San Vitale on June 2, 1568. He was Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church from May 10, 1570 until his death, having purchased the office from the pope for 70,000 scudi that the pope wanted for war against the Ottoman Empire. Cardinal Cornaro was a fervent supporter of that war, which culminated in the 1571 Battle of Lepanto.
He was a participant in the papal conclave of 1572 that elected Pope Gregory XIII.
He died in Rome on the Feast of the Ascension, May 10, 1584. He was buried in Santa Maria in Trivio.
See also
Catholic Church in Italy
References
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Marie Hackin
Marie Parmentier, married name Marie Hackin, (1905-1941) was an archaeologist and Resistance member who worked with her husband Joseph Hackin who also was an archaeologist, philologist, and Resistance member. Marie Hackin's father was from Luxembourg.
She died in 1941 when she was in a sea convoy trying to go from Liverpool into the Atlantic ocean en route to Africa, when the ship was sunk by a German submarine.
Works
with Joseph Hackin: Le site archéologiques de Bamyan. Guide du visiteur. Les édition d'art et d'histoire, Paris 1934.
German: Bamian. Führer zu den buddhistischen Höhlenklöstern und Kolossalstatuen. Les édition d'art et d'histoire, Paris 1939.
with Joseph Hackin: Recherches archéologiques à Begram: chantier no. 2 (1937), Mémoires de la délégation archéologique française en Afghanistan Vol. 9. Les Éditions d'art et d'histoire, Paris 1939.
with Ahmad Ali Kohzad: Légendes et coutumes afghanes, Publications du Musée Guimet. Bibliothèque de diffusion Vol. 60. Presses Universitaires de France, Paris 1953.
with Joseph Hackin: Nouvelles recherches archéologiques à Begram, ancienne Kâpici, 1939–1940, Mémoires de la Délégation archéologique française en Afghanistan Vol. 11. Presses Universitaires de France, Paris 1954.
Works about her
Joseph et Ria Hackin. Couple d'origine luxembourgeoise au service des arts asiatiques et de la France. Exposition organisée dans le cadre de l'Accord culturel franco-luxembourgeois est réalisée avec le concours du Musée Guimet, Paris. Musée d'Histoire et d'Art Musées d'État – Luxembourg. Exposition du 11 novembre 1987 au 3 janvier 1988, Luxembourg. Musée d'Histoire et d'Art, Luxemburg 1987.
Marie Hackin. In: Vladimir Trouplin: Dictionnaire des Compagnons de la Libération. Bordeaux, Elytis 2010, (Digital).
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Maulvi Nazir
Maulvi Nazir (also Maulvi Nazir Wazir; 1975 - ) was a leading militant of the Pakistani Taliban in South Waziristan. Nazir's operations were based in Wana.
He was opposed to foreigners exercising influence in Waziristan, including Americans and Uzbek Jihadists. The Pakistani military and intelligence establishment considered Nazir to be "good Taliban" as he did not have a particularly anti-government agenda or openly seek the overthrow of the Pakistani state. He was killed by a U.S. drone strike on 2 January 2013.
Background
According to The Jamestown Foundation, Nazir was a member of the Kakakhel tribe, part of the Ahmedzai Waziris. With an estimated birth year of 1975, he was a dual citizen of both Afghanistan and Pakistan and until 2010 owned property in Kandahar. He controlled large portions of South Waziristan and maintained influence in southwestern Afghan provinces of Paktika, Zabul, Helmand and into Kandahar.
Early activities
Prior to the creation of the Taliban he was affiliated with the Hezbe Islami Gulbuddin, an older conservative group supported by Pakistan's Inter-service Intelligence Directorate during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. He later joined the Taliban and aligned himself politically with Maulana Fazlur Rahman’s JUI party.
With the notable approval of Mullah Dadullah and Siraj Haqqani, Nazir enforced sharia in South Waziristan in 2006 with instructions to his supporters to avoid combating the Pakistani army.
Conflicts with Uzbek militants
After Maulvi Nazir established sharia his forces, with the support of the Pakistani military, engaged in battle with Uzbek militants of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) operating in the region under Tahir Yuldashev. Although more than 250 Uzbeks were killed in the fighting and others were forced to flee, Nazir stated in a 2011 interview that he and the IMU had reconciled after Yuldashev's death in 2009.
Unification against NATO troops
In early 2009 Nazir and two rival warlords, Baitullah Mehsud and Hafiz Gul Bahadur, agreed to put aside differences to unify efforts against NATO troops under the newly formed Shura Ittehad-ul-Mujahideen, the Council of United Mujahedeen. In a written statement circulated in a one-page Urdu-language pamphlet, the three affirmed that they would put aside differences to fight American-led forces. The statement included a declaration of allegiance to both Mullah Omar and Osama bin Laden.
Rifts within the ranks
After the death of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) leader Baitullah Mehsud, who was killed by a CIA drone on 5 August 2009, reports surfaced of infighting within the TTP. Mehsud was the leader of the loosely-knit Pakistani Taliban, a militant network comprising 13 different, and sometimes rival, factions. His death created a power vacuum that led to a power struggle within the TTP.
On 16 August 2009, an alleged group of fighters loyal to Baitullah Mehsud, armed with small arms and rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs), attacked a group of Nazir's men, killing at least 17 militants. According to Nazir's spokesman Shaheen Wazir, the attack was so sudden, that Nazir's fighters couldn't even fire back. It was also reported that Nazir himself was one of the 17 men killed. Baitullah Mehsud's camp denied the accusations. Abdul Haq, another spokesman for Nazir said he didn't know whether Mehsud's loyalists or the Pakistan Army were behind the attack.
Efforts against Nazir
In October 2011, Nazir's brother Hazrat Umar was killed along with several other militants in a US drone strike in South Waziristan. Local residents have confirmed Hazrat Umar's death.
Death
A U.S. drone strike killed Maulvi Nazir on 2 January 2013 in Angoor Adda, near the capital of Wana, South Waziristan. Bahawal Khan, also called Salahuddin Ayubi, was announced as Nazir's successor.
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Assiminea palauensis
Assiminea palauensis is a species of minute, salt marsh snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk, or micromollusks, in the family Assimineidae. This species is endemic to Palau.
References
Mollusc Specialist Group 1996. Assiminea palauensis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 6 August 2007.
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Horodok, Lviv Oblast
Horodok (, ) is a city in Lviv Oblast (region) of Ukraine. It is the administrative center of Horodok Raion. Population: .
History
First mentioned by Nestor the Chronicler in the Primary Chronicle. Also, the Galician–Volhynian Chronicle mentions that the King Daniel of Galicia came to Horodok with his forces to join Mstislav Mstislavich the Bold while they fought with Polish-Hungarians over the Galician land.
In the mid-14th century, together with whole Kingdom of Rus, the settlement was annexed by the Kingdom of Poland. Its name was changed into Gródek, and it remained in Poland for the next 400 years. In 1372, king Jagiello founded here a Roman Catholic parish, also during the reign of Jagiello, Gródek received Magdeburg rights. This was the place where King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania Jagiello died on 1 June 1434.
Until the Partitions of Poland, Gródek was part of Ruthenian Voivodeship. A battle between Ukrainian Cossack and Polish forces took place here in 1655 (see Battle of Horodok (1655)), in which Ukrainian Cossack Bohdan Khmelnytsky defeated Polish forces and than laid siege to Lviv.
In 1772, Gródek was annexed by the Habsburg Empire, as part of Austrian Galicia, where it remained until late 1918. German-speaking settlers established their own colony, called Vorderberg (1788). Austrian authorities closed local Franciscan monastery, turning it into a military depot. In 1903, a monument of Wladyslaw Jagiello was unveiled here, and in 1906, the name of the town was changed from Gródek to Gródek Jagielloński, in honour of the king. During World War I, Horodok was twice the location of fierce battles: In the Battle of Gródek (1914), the advancing Russian army captured the town from Austria-Hungary, and a year later, a combined German and Austro-Hungarian force fought the Russians in the Battle of Gródek (1915).
In the Second Polish Republic, Gródek was the seat of a county in Lwow Voivodeship. The town had three Roman Catholic churches, one Greek-Catholic, and a synagogue. It also was a military garrison, where a unit of Polish Army’s 5th Infantry Division was stationed. According to the 1921 census, Poles made 72% of the population, Ukrainians 26%, and Jews 2%.
During the Invasion of Poland, Gródek was captured by the Wehrmacht on 13 September 1939, and later taken over by the Red Army. From 1945–1991 a part of the Soviet Union, returning its historical name Horodok (Городок). Since 1991 it is part of Ukraine.
Churches and Monasteries
Gallery
Religious Buildings in Horodok, Lviv Oblast
People from Horodok
Petro Vergun – Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest, Blessed Hieromartyr
Stepan Bilak – Ukrainian politician, envoy to the Polish Sejm in the 1920s and 1930s
Franciszek Duszenko – Polish sculptor, rector of Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk
Tadeusz Kaniowski – Polish radiologist and physician
Jan Pawel Lenga – Roman Catholic bishop
Roman Lysko – Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest and martyr
Ross Martin – American actor, emigrated to the United States as an infant
Les Martovych (1871–1916), Ukrainian writer, lawyer, and community activist from 1899 to 1903
Jerzy Sawicki – Polish legal expert and law professor
Hipolit Sliwinski – Polish architect and politician, envoy to the Sejm
International relations
Twin towns — sister cities
Horodok is twinned with:
Nisko in Poland
Notes
External links
Gródek Jagielloński (in Polish)
Unofficial site
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East Preston
East Preston may refer to:
East Preston, Nova Scotia, a rural area of Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada
East Preston, West Sussex, a civil parish in Arun, West Sussex, England
East Preston Cricket Club, a village cricket club based in East Preston, West Sussex, England
East Preston F.C., a football club based in East Preston, West Sussex, England
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Gobbi
Gobbi is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Alberto Gobbi (born 1956), Italian surgeon and researcher
Alfredo Gobbi (1912-1965), Argentine violin player, composer and bandleader during the Golden Age of tango
Alois Gobbi (1842-1932), Hungarian violinist
Henri Gobbi (19th century), Hungarian classical composer and piano professor
Hilda Gobbi (1913–1988), Hungarian actress and philanthropist
John Gobbi (born 1981), Swiss ice hockey player
Luca Gobbi (born 1971), San Marino former footballer
Marina Gobbi (born 1989), female Brazilian recurve archer
Massimo Gobbi (born 1980), Italian football player
Michele Gobbi (born 1977), former Italian cyclist
Sergio Gobbi (born 1938), born as Sergio Ehrlich, Italian-French filmmaker
Stefano Gobbi (1930–2011), Italian Roman Catholic priest
Tito Gobbi (1913–1984), Italian operatic baritone
See also
29568 Gobbi-Belcredi, main-belt minor planet
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Mtatsminda Park
Mtatsminda Park is a famous landscaped park located at the top of Mount Mtatsminda overlooking the Georgian capital Tbilisi. The park has carousels, water slides, a roller-coaster, funicular, and a big Ferris Wheel at the edge of the mountain, offering a splendid view over the city.
Overview
The park is situated at the 770 metres height, the highest point of Tbilisi, on the area of more than 100 hectares. It is connected to a motorway (Tbilisi-Okrokana Direction) as well as a funicular, built in 1905.
Tbilisi Funicular is a ropeway railway connecting Chonkadze street and Mtatsminda Park. The length of the funicular road is 501 m, the angle of the tunnel is 28-33°, and the distance between the stations is 0,98 m. The upper station is at 727 m above sea level and the lower station is at 460 m above sea level.
Giant Wheel is the highest attraction in Mtatsminda Park: it is 65 m high. The Giant Wheel completes one revolution in 10–12 minutes.
History
The park was founded by the Soviet government in the 1930s and was once noted as the 3rd most visited public park in the USSR.
[In 2001] the late Georgian billionaire Badri Patarkatsishvili along with his wife, Inna Gudavadze, began transforming the park into a 21st-century theme park. Badri owned the park as a charitable project alongside a number of commercial assets in Georgia, included the Rustavi Steel Plant, Borjomi water, and Imedi TV station.
In 2007 Patarkatsishvili became a vocal opponent of the National Movement Party and as a result, fell out of favor with President Mikhail Saakashvili. On the 7 November 2007, his assets including Mtatsminda Park and the Imedi TV station were seized by the Government under claims that the company had “violated numerous times” the terms of the contract and had failed to pay a rental fee. Representatives of Patarkatsishvili immediately rejected this claims, saying that they were “baseless.”
After Patarkatsishvili's death at his home in England in February 2008, his widow Inna Gudavadze began international arbitration proceedings against the Government of Georgia, claiming that Mtatsminda Park, along with other Georgian assets, had been unfairly expropriated by the government. On the 29 October 2008, Inna Gudavadze said at a press conference in Tbilisi that Mtatsminda Park, as well as the Imedi TV station were “Badri’s personal projects for Georgia and the Georgian people" and that she had a "duty to see that these works are carried on.”
In July 2011, the Patarkatsishvili family reached a settlement with the government that saw Mtatsminda Park returned to Inna and the family in return for them renouncing all claims to the ownership of Imedi TV. Following the fall of President Mikhail Saakashvili, Imedi was also subsequently returned to Inna and her family in October 2012 under the new government.
In July 2014, the Chief Prosecutor’s Office of Georgia issued a criminal indictment to former President Mikhail Saakashvili and a group of state officials for their role in the illegal expropriation of the Georgian assets owned by the Patarkasishvili family.
See also
Mtatsminda Pantheon
Tbilisi National Park
References
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Maura
Maura may refer to:
Maura (given name), a feminine given name
Antonio Maura (1853–1925), Prime Minister of Spain
Carmen Maura (born 1945), Spanish actress
Santa Maura, a former name of the Greek island of Lefkada
Maura, Norway, a village
Maura (genus), of grasshoppers in the family Pyrgomorphidae
See also
Mauro (disambiguation)
Maurus (disambiguation)
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Obren
Obren (Cyrillic script: Обрен) is a Serbian masculine given name. It may refer to:
Obren Joksimović (born 1954), politician
Obren Petrović, politician
Obren Pjevović (1919–1991), songwriter and composer
Obren Ćorović (born 1983) carpenter
See also
Obrenović dynasty
Obrenovac
Obrenovac (Pirot)
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Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf
The Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf is an American Thoroughbred horse race for two-year-old horses, run on a grass course at a distance of one mile. It is part of the Breeders' Cup World Championships, the de facto year-end championship for North American thoroughbred racing. All Breeders' Cups to date have been conducted in the United States, with the exception of the 1996 event in Canada.
The race was run for the first time in 2007 during the first day of the expanded Breeders' Cup at host track, Monmouth Park Racetrack in Oceanport, New Jersey. The race received Grade II status in 2009. The American Graded Stakes Committee further upgraded the race to Grade I status for 2011.
Automatic Berths
Beginning in 2007, the Breeders' Cup developed "The Breeders' Cup Challenge," a series of races in each division that allotted automatic qualifying bids to winners of defined races. Each of the thirteen divisions has between two and twelve of these "Win and You're In" qualifying races.
In the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf division, runners are limited to 14, with up to five automatic berths. Note though that one horse may win multiple challenge races, while other challenge winners will not be entered in the Breeders' Cup for a variety of reasons such as injury or travel considerations.
The 2019 "Win and You're In" races are:
the Juvenile Stakes, a Group 3 race run in September at Leopardstown Racecourse in Dublin, Ireland
the Summer Stakes, a Grade 3 race run in September at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
the Royal Lodge Stakes, a Group 2 race run in Septem1ber at Rowley Mile in Newmarket, England
the Bourbon Stakes, a Grade 3 race run in October at Keeneland Race Course in Lexington, Kentucky
the Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere, a Group 1 race at Longchamp Racecourse in Paris, France
Records
Most wins by a jockey:
4 - Ryan Moore (2011, 2012, 2015, 2017)
Most wins by a trainer:
4 - Aidan O'Brien (2011, 2012, 2015, 2017)
Most wins by an owner:
4 - John Magnier / Michael Tabor / Derrick Smith (2011, 2012, 2014, 2017)
Winners
See also
Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf "top three finishers" and starters
Breeders' Cup World Thoroughbred Championships
American Thoroughbred Racing top Attended Events
References
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Guanqiao, Liuyang
Guanqiao Town () is a rural town in Liuyang City, Hunan Province, People's Republic of China. As of the 2015 census it had a population of 26,600 and an area of . The town is bordered to the north and northwest by Zhentou Town, to the east by Puji Town, and to the south by Lusong District of Zhuzhou.
Administrative division
The town is divided into four villages and one community, the following areas:
Jizhen Community ()
Sugu Village ()
Yijiang Village ()
Bajiaoting Village ()
Shihuizui Village ()
Economy
The main industries in and around the town are forestry and farming.
Geography
Liuyang River, also known as the mother river, flows through the town.
Xiashan Reservoir () is the largest body of water and the largest reservoir in the town.
Mount Daniuling () is a mountain in the town. The peak is in elevation.
Education
Guanqiao Middle School
Transportation
Railway
The Shanghai–Kunming railway passes across the town north to south.
The Hangzhou–Changsha high-speed railway, which connects Hangzhou and Changsha, running through the town north to south.
Expressway
The Shanghai–Kunming Expressway which heads south to Kunming, passing through the town.
The Liuyang–Liling Expressway is a north–south expressway in the town.
Religion
Zhong Kui Temple () is a Taoist temple in the town for worship of Zhong Kui.
References
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Burmacyrtus
Burmacyrtus is an extinct genus of small-headed flies of uncertain placement. The genus is known from Upper Cretaceous fossils in amber from Myanmar. It contains only one species, Burmacyrtus rusmithi.
The genus was originally placed in the family Acroceridae, though was later reassessed and considered not to be an acrocerid. Instead, it could possibly be a stem group acrocerid or placed in Heterodactyla.
The generic name is a combination of "Burma" (another name for Myanmar) and Cyrtus, an extant genus. The species is named in honor of R.D.A. Ru Smith, who donated the holotype to the AMNH from his personal collection.
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KESZ
KESZ (99.9 FM; "KEZ") is an Mainstream AC radio station based in Phoenix, Arizona. The station is owned and operated by iHeartMedia. Its studios are located in Phoenix near Sky Harbor Airport and its transmitter is in South Mountain Park.
History
The station signed on the air in 1982 as KNNN, a Spanish-language station. It exited the format with a sale to TransCOM in 1984, which changed the callsign to KLZI and the format to adult contemporary. It made the evolution to its current format in 1988. In 1999, Clear Channel Communications (now iHeartMedia) added the station to its Phoenix cluster.
The station was anchored by the successful "Beth and Bill Show," its Morning Drive Program since approximately 1990 (hosted by Beth McDonald and former KPNX meteorologist Bill Austin). The show was renamed Beth and Friends after Bill Austin retired in early 2010 due to his cancer. On June 2, 2010, Bill Austin (real name William Austin Waggoner) died of bladder cancer.
Traditions
Each year after Thanksgiving, the station has a tradition of playing "Non-Stop Christmas Music". Beth and Friends still air as regularly scheduled but the songs they play are strictly Christmas music. Since 2008, the music has started prior to Thanksgiving. Most recently in 2019, the station made the switch on November 6th.
Competitors
The station competes with two of its sister stations. One competitor is KMXP, which is Hot AC and excludes the 1970s' hits on KESZ. Another competitor is KYOT, which offers an adult hits format (although it was a competitor for many years with its Smooth Jazz/Smooth AC and Rhythmic AC formats).
HD Radio
KESZ's HD Radio signal is multiplexed. The main signal is a simulcast of KESZ's adult contemporary programming. The second channel initially carried KEZ's Classic Channel programmed by iHeartMedia's Format Lab classic hits format consisting of songs from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. As of April 2017, this changed to iHeart 70s. On October 1, 2017, KESZ-HD2 switched to a Christmas music format and continued to do so until November 14, 2018, when the primary station went Christmas (as planned) for the holiday season, and the HD2 moved to soft adult contemporary as "99.9 HD2 The Breeze." The move gave iHeart the right to use the "Breeze" name in the state of Arizona, preventing any other station group to use the name in the case of another station flipping to soft AC, which has seen a renewed interest in late 2018. In September 2019, KESZ added a simulcast of KGME “Fox Sports 910” to its HD2 stream, bumping The Breeze format to HD3.
References
External links
Station website
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Needham (food)
A needham is a confectionery dessert bar made from sugar, chocolate, coconut, and potato. It is chiefly associated with the U.S. state of Maine.
The needham became a common dessert in Maine in the late 19th century, and is believed by scholars to have originated from a preacher named George C. Needham, who came to Maine from Needham, Massachusetts to minister and soon became well-known. A candy manufacturer named Seavey named a new dessert he had just begun marketing after the preacher in the early 1870s. The needham includes as its distinctive ingredient the potato, a food cultivated in Maine, especially in Aroostook County. The taste is similar to the commercial Mounds bar. The needham is not widely available outside of northern New England.
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2005 WNBA Playoffs
The 2005 WNBA Playoffs was the postseason for the Women's National Basketball Association's 2005 season which ended with the Western Conference champion Sacramento Monarchs defeating the Eastern Conference champion Connecticut Sun 3-1. The Monarchs won their first ever WNBA title.
Format
The top 4 teams from each conference qualify for the playoffs.
All 4 teams are seeded by basis of their standings.
Road to the playoffs
Eastern Conference
Western Conference
Note:Teams with an "X" clinched playoff spots.
First round
- Connecticut defeats Detroit, 2-0
Connecticut 73, Detroit 62
Connecticut 75, Detroit 67
- Indiana defeats New York, 2-0
Indiana 63, New York 51
Indiana 58, New York 50
- Houston defeats Seattle, 2-1
Seattle 75, Houston 67
Houston 67, Seattle 64
Houston 75, Seattle 58
- Sacramento defeats Los Angeles, 2-0
Sacramento 75, Los Angeles 72
Sacramento 81, Los Angeles 63
Conference Finals
Eastern Conference Finals
- Connecticut defeats Indiana, 2-0
Connecticut 73, Indiana 68
Connecticut 77, Indiana 67 (OT)
Western Conference Finals
- Sacramento defeats Houston, 2-0
Sacramento 73, Houston 69 OT
Sacramento 74, Houston 65
WNBA Finals
- Sacramento defeats Connecticut, 3-1
Sacramento 69, Connecticut 65
Connecticut 77, Sacramento 70 (OT)
Sacramento 66, Connecticut 55
Sacramento 62, Connecticut 59
See also
List of WNBA Champions
References
External links
Link to WNBA Playoffs series, recap, and boxscores
2005 WNBA Playoffs Schedule - WNBA - ESPN
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Super Bass
"Super Bass" is a song by Trinidadian-American rapper and singer Nicki Minaj from the deluxe version of her debut studio album, Pink Friday (2010). It was sent to US rhythmic radio stations as the album's fifth single on April 5, 2011. The song was co-written by Minaj, along with Ester Dean, Roahn Hylton and Kane Beatz, who also produced the song along with JMIKE. According to Minaj, the song's lyrics detail the story of a playful romance between a male and a female. The song contains electronic influences, while Minaj raps over a hip hop beat.
"Super Bass" received positive reviews from music critics upon release, and has been listed as one of the 100 songs that defined the 2010s decade by Billboard. The song peaked at number three on the US Billboard Hot 100 and in New Zealand, as well as number six in Australia and Canada. It also reached number eight on the UK Singles Chart. In the United States, it has sold over five million digital downloads as of December 2014. An accompanying music video for the single was shot in March 2011 by director Sanaa Hamri. The video shows Minaj playfully taunting a group of men and makes use of multiple props, all of which are colored bubblegum pink.
Music and lyrics
"Super Bass" was co-written by Minaj, Ester Dean, Roahn Hylton, and Daniel "Kane Beatz" Johnson, who produced the song alongside JMIKE. While being interviewed by MTV News during the video shoot for the single, Minaj explained the song's concept, stating: "'Super Bass' is about the boy that you are crushing over, [...] And you kind of want to get your mack on, but you're taking the playful approach." The song utilizes electronic music and pop in its composition, while Minaj raps over a hip hop beat, while also infusing elements of J-pop combined with an upbeat hook. It uses a busy beat that is interspersed with digital rain drop sound effects and strong bass. Minaj's vocals in the song have been described as "breathy". "Super Bass" is written in the key of B major with a moderate tempo of 128 beats per minute. Despite being written in said key, the song has no B major chords. Minaj's lyrics in the song are often provocative and suggestive, with lines like "He just gotta give me that look, when he give me that look / Then the panties comin' off, off, uh" and a catchy onomatopoetic refrain: "Boom, badoom, boom, boom, badoom, boom, bass, he got dat super bass".
Brad Wete of Entertainment Weekly stated that the song describes Minaj's type of man as "one who hits the gym often and has first-class... money" as she states: "He pops bottles and he’s got the right kind of build.... He’s always in the air / But he never flies coach". Charley Rogulewski of AOL's The Boombox stated that "the uber-catchy 'boom, badoom, boom, boom' chorus makes 'Super Bass' the most pop-friendly Minaj song released to radio [sic] yet". Described as a lighter side to Minaj by Jessica Sinclair of Long Island Press, the song gets more in-depth with a little more pop and an upbeat hook that "really sticks"; however, Minaj still assists the song's pop edge with "crazy rapping skills".
Critical reception
Wesley Case of The Baltimore Sun gave the song a positive review, stating that it was an "obvious hit". He compared the song to the rest of Pink Friday, stating that it is much more potent as compared to the rest of the album. Case later added: "Pink Friday is short on memorable hooks, but 'Super Bass' is an exception". Rap-Up described the tune as "infectious". Jessica Sinclair of Long Island Press complimented Nicki Minaj for taking "center stage" on the song, due to her solo performance, and added that in doing so Minaj created a success. Sinclair additionally commented on the song as a lighter side to Minaj, and complimented the hook as upbeat and added that it "really sticks". Rosie Gray of BlackBook complimented the song as a "killer". Alex Pielak of Metro compared Minaj's "Super Bass" to Beyoncé's "Move Your Body", stating that: "Nicki wins for the sheer number of words she's managed to cram in – and therefore takes the face off".
Lewis Corner from Digital Spy gave the single four out of a possible five stars. Corner wrote that the song's chorus was "sharper than a Sherbet Dib Dab." Minaj's "eccentric rapping style" was praised in the review with Corner writing that the song was likely to become her first solo top ten hit in the United States or the United Kingdom. Claire Suddath of Time magazine named "Super Bass" one of the Top 10 Songs of 2011. As of January 2015, Billboard listed the song as one of "The 20 Best Songs of 2010s (So Far)". The Village Voices Pazz & Jop annual critics' poll ranked "Super Bass" at number three to find the best music of 2011.
Commercial performance
On the week of May 14, 2011, "Super Bass" debuted on the US Billboard Hot 100 at position 98. The following week it rose 50 spots to number 48. On the week titled May 21, 2011, "Super Bass" debuted on the Hot Rap Songs and Hot Digital Songs charts at number 25 and 31 respectively. In its 14th week, the song reached a new peak at number three on the Hot 100, while also having longevity on the charts for 39 weeks until 2012; 38 of which were in the top 50. In Canada, "Super Bass" debuted on the Canadian Hot 100 at number 92. "Super Bass" entered the UK Singles Chart at number 46 on May 21, 2011, and after nine non-consecutive weeks of moving up the chart, reached a peak of number eight on the chart for the week ending August 13, 2011. In December 2013, "Super Bass" was certified 8× platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). As of December 2014, the song has sold 5 million copies in the United States.
Music video
Background
On March 10, 2011, Minaj revealed during an interview with MTV News that she was shooting a video for "Super Bass" with director Sanaa Hamri and producers: Kimberly S. Stuckwisch, Michelle Larkin & Keith "KB" Brown. She explained the video's concept, stating that she wanted the video to be full of eye candy and that she wanted it to be colorful. On April 26, 2011, Minaj premiered a sneak peek of the music video on BET's 106 & Park. The preview showed Minaj in a pink wig with similarly-clad backup dancers gyrating to the song, wearing a uniform of white tank tops, denim shorts, and different colored work boots and the same laces.
Originally the video was set to premiere on the same show as where the preview was premiered on April 27, 2011, but instead was postponed. Minaj took to Twitter to explain that the music video has been pulled from the show and would not be premiering that date for unknown reasons. The music video instead premiered on Minaj's official Vevo account on May 5, 2011.
Synopsis
The music video begins with a close-up of Minaj as she opens her eyes and begins to blink as the song begins. As Minaj raps verses of the song, Barbie- approved props; a pink Ferrari, pink plane and a pink pool, are shown contemplating what Minaj is saying in the verse. Minaj then begins to playfully tease men as clips of ice-speakers and a motorcycle made of ice are interlaced into the scene. As the chorus begins, Minaj is seen performing choreography with five clones of herself. As the video continues, Minaj is seen in a green wig at a pool side with several well-built men, and then splashing with a man in the pool of pink water. Minaj then continues to ride the motorcycle made of ice while wearing a skintight pink bodysuit emblazoned with giraffe prints, a half-blond and pink wig, gold eye shadow and bright pink lipstick. Minaj then begins to reprise her lap dances in the dark, with black lights setting the glowing tone of the dancers, as Minaj glows in the dark with glowing lips, hair and makeup. She and her dancers play in feathers that are also glow in the dark towards the end of the video. The video closes with Safaree S.B. Samuels dancing beside her, and Minaj lit in the black lighting, biting her finger while laying across the lap of a male she gave a lapdance to in the video.
Critical reception and accolades
D.L. Chandler from Rapfix complimented the video's visuals writing, "it is a dazzling visual affair if nothing else". AOL music's Contessa Gayles reviewed the video, writing, "The highlight of the Sanaa Hamri-directed video? The glow-in-the-dark lap-dance scene." On the day of its premiere, Rap-Up complimented the video as "vibrant". Becky Bain of Idolator gave the song a positive review, comparing it to "Judas" | {
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Zajedno smo jači
Zajedno smo jači (English translation: We Are Stronger Together) is the sixth studio album of Bosnian singer Halid Bešlić. It was released in 1986.
Track listing
Prokleta je žena ta (That Woman is Cursed)
Zajedno smo jači (We Are Stronger Together)
Mnogi su je poljubili (Many Have Kissed Her)
Jabuke su bile slatke (The Apples Were Sweet)
Voljela me jedna Esma (A Lady Named Esma Loved Me)
Najlijepši dragulji (The Most Beautiful Bijoux)
Nekad sam ti bio drag (I Was Once Dear to You)
Mladost je otišla (Youth Has Gone)
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John Langstaff
John Langstaff (December 24, 1920 – December 13, 2005), a concert baritone, and early music revivalist was the founder of the Northeast United States tradition of the Christmas Revels, as well as a respected musician and educator. He attended the Curtis Institute of Music as well as Juilliard.
Langstaff's lifelong project, the Christmas Revels, began in 1957 with a show in New York. In 1971 began the longest-running Revels, at Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Revels, an eclectic mix of medieval and modern music and dance (primarily English in basis), involves the audience and the community in a continuation of pagan and older Christian traditions. Revels shows, now spread over the northeastern USA and the world, draw on local talent. Morris dancing, mummers, bagpipers and large choruses of men, women and children celebrate the turning of the Winter Solstice in a cheerful fashion.
Throughout his adult life, Langstaff was a dedicated music educator. In 1955 he became the music director at The Potomac School in Washington, DC, and later taught at Shady Hill School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He wrote twenty-five books, including the Caldecott Medal-winning Frog Went A-Courtin'. He hosted the BBC-TV Schools programme Making Music for five years, and produced a series of videos called Making Music with John Langstaff for parents and teachers. He also published songbooks, teacher's guides, and production guides for the Revels.
In the later 1970s and early 1980s, Jack, as he was addressed by some, was associated with the Young Audiences organization in the United States, which creates and presents performance arts in educational settings. Langstaff was Executive Director of Young Audiences of Massachusetts, and collaborated with many cultural, educational, health and community organizations in the Greater Boston area and New England.
Langstaff's recording career was varied and long. Beginning with English traditional music in the 1950s, he continued with the founding of Revels Records, recording primarily children's and traditional music. Several of his early recordings were made in London with noted producer George Martin.
In 1943 Langstaff married Diane Hamilton. They divorced in 1947. He was later married to Nancy Trowbridge, a pianist.
On May 17, 2006 David Nath's documentary film To Drive The Dark Away, which chronicles Langstaff's life and work with the Christmas Revels, had its world premiere in Arlington, Massachusetts.
See also
Revels
References
External links
John Langstaff Page from New York Revels site
John Langstaff page from Revels Inc. site
John Langstaff (unofficial site by Sheldon Brown)
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Catautira
Catautira (possibly from Aymara q'atawi lime, tira cradle, "lime cradle") is a mountain in the Vilcanota mountain range in the Andes of Peru, about high. It is situated in the Puno Region, Carabaya Province, Macusani District. Catautira lies northeast of Sumpiruni. This is where the Ninahuisa River originates. It flows along the southern slopes of Catautira before it turns to the northeast.
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Scrappy's – Tucson Az 11/8/05
Scrappy's – Tucson Az 11/8/05 is a live recorded CD by Greensburg, Pennsylvania indie-rock band The Juliana Theory released on February 14, 2006 on Instant Live.
Track listing
Disc 1:
Shotgun Serenade
To the Tune of 5,000 Screaming Children
If I Told You This Was Killing Me, Would You Stop?
I Love You to Death (Drive Safe)
August In Bethany
The Final Song
White Days
Leave Like a Ghost (Drive Away)
This Is a Love Song... for the Loveless
Disc 2:
Into the Dark
Do You Believe Me?
French Kiss off
This Is the End of Your Life
Constellation
This Valentine Ain’t No Saint (Encore)
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R. B. Rutherford
Richard Burr Rutherford (April 11, 1891 – February 16, 1976) was an American football and basketball coach. He served as the head football coach at Washington University in St. Louis from 1917 to 1919 and at Oregon Agricultural College, now Oregon State University, from 1920 to 1923, compiling a career college football record of 28–19–6. Rutherford was also the head basketball coach at Washington University from 1917 to 1920 and at Oregon Agricultural from 1920 to 1922, tallying a career college basketball mark of 58–41. He died in 1976 in California.
Coaching career
Football
Rutherford was the head coach of the Oregon State Beavers football team from 1920 to 1923. During his tenure there, he compiled a 13–14–6 record.
1923 Civil War
This Civil War was played at Hayward Field before 12,000 fans on November 25, 1923. It had been 15 years since Oregon State had beaten the University of Oregon in Eugene. In fact, in the 29 years the rivalry had been contested, Oregon Agricultural College had only beaten Oregon on the road on two other occasions, making this an era when most Beaver fans took it as a given that a trip "south to Lane County" was as good as a loss. OAC coach R.B. Rutherford and team captain Percy Locey felt otherwise. So did quarterback Roy Price. In the second quarter, Price took a Webfoot punt on his own 23-yard line and didn't stop until he had reached the Oregon end zone for the game's only score. Rutherford and the Beavers team won, 6–0. This game is still known as one of the greatest "Civil War" games.
Basketball
From 1920 to 1922, Rutherford also coached the Oregon State Beavers basketball team. In his two seasons as the head basketball coach, he posted a 27–19 record. He is one of three people to have coached both teams.
Head coaching record
Football
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Collix multifilata
Collix multifilata is a moth in the family Geometridae. It is found in Australia (Queensland).
Adults have grey-brown patterned wings, with a dark comma-shaped mark near the centre of the forewings. The wings have scalloped margins.
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Rosegg
Rosegg () is a town in the district of Villach-Land in Carinthia in Austria.
Neighboring municipalities
Personalities
It is the birthplace of the painter Peter Markovič, after whom the local Slovene cultural association is named. Liechtenstein's Ambassador to Germany, Prince Stefan of Liechtenstein, grew up in Rosegg.
Twin towns
Zuglio, Italia
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Ougarta
Ougarta is an oasis and a village in the commune of Béni Abbès, in Béchar Province, Algeria. It is southwest of the town of Béni Abbès and about south of Béchar, the capital of the province. Ougarta has a population of about 250 inhabitants. The village has given its name to the Ougarta Range which surrounds the village. A local road connects the village to the N6 highway near Béni Abbès.
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Ed Stofko
Albert Edward Stofko was a professional football player in the National Football League. He graduated from Johnstown Pennsylvania High School and attended Saint Francis University, Loretto, Pennsylvania.
Career
He played in the National Football League for just one season in 1945. Stofko was drafted 85th overall by the "Card-Pitt", a team that was the result of a temporary merger between the Chicago Cardinals and the Pittsburgh Steelers. The teams merger was result of the manning shortages experienced league-wide due to World War II. He played for the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1945.
He attempted 17 passes and completed 7 for a 41.2% average. He also punted for a 36.3 yards per punt average.
He died in December 1988
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Pachomius nigrus
Pachomius nigrus (syn.: Romitia nigra) is a jumping spider and the type species in the genus Pachomius (syn.: Romitia). It is found in Guyana and French Guiana.
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The Brocklesby Stakes is a flat conditions race horse race in Great Britain open to horses aged two years. It is notable as the traditional opening two-year-old race of the British Flat racing season. It is run over five furlongs at Doncaster Racecourse.
History
The Brocklesby was first run in 1849 as an all-age 12 furlong race at the now defunct Carholme racecourse in Lincoln, but became a five furlong race for two-year-olds in 1875. It moved to Doncaster in 1965, where it appears on the same card as the Lincolnshire Handicap, also previously run at Carholme. Arguably the best horse to win the race was Donovan, in 1888. Donovan went on to win The Derby and the St Leger in 1889. Other top class horses to win the race have included Semolina, Deep Diver, Provideo, The Last Lion and Hearts of Fire.
Winners since 1988
Separate divisions of the race indicated by (1) and (2).
See also
Horse racing in Great Britain
List of British flat horse races
References
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Johann Strauss I
Johann Strauss I (; also Johann Baptist Strauss, Johann Strauss Sr., the Elder, the Father; March 14, 1804 – September 25, 1849) was an Austrian Romantic composer. He was famous for his waltzes, and he popularized them alongside Joseph Lanner, thereby setting the foundations for his sons to carry on his musical dynasty. He is perhaps best known for his composition of the Radetzky March (named after Joseph Radetzky von Radetz).
Life and work
Strauss was born in Leopoldstadt (now in Vienna). Strauss's parents, Franz Borgias Strauss (October 10, 1764 – April 5, 1816) and Barbara Dollmann (December 3, 1770 – August 28, 1811), were innkeepers (). He was born a Roman Catholic.
His mother died of 'creeping fever' when he was seven and five years later his father drowned, possibly as a result of suicide, in the Danube river. Strauss' guardian, the tailor Anton Müller, placed him as an apprentice to the bookbinder, Johann Lichtscheidl; Strauss took lessons in the violin and viola in addition to fulfilling his apprenticeship. Contrary to a story later told by his son Johann II, Strauss successfully completed his bookbinder appreciation in 1822. He also studied music with Johann Polischansky during his apprenticeship and eventually managed to secure a place in a local orchestra, headed by Michael Pamer. Strauss left the orchestra to join a popular string quartet known as the Lanner Quartet, formed by his would-be rivals Joseph Lanner and the Drahanek brothers, Karl and Johann. This string quartet playing Viennese Waltzes and rustic German dances expanded into a small string orchestra in 1824.
Strauss became deputy conductor of the orchestra to assist Lanner in commissions after it became so popular during the Fasching of 1824 and Strauss was soon placed in command of a second smaller orchestra which was formed as a result of the success of the parent orchestra. In 1825, he decided to form his own band and began to write music (chiefly, dance music) for it to play after he realized that he could also possibly emulate the success of Lanner in addition to putting an end to his financial struggles. By so doing, he would have made Lanner a serious rival although the rivalry did not entail hostile consequences as the musical competition was very productive for the development of the waltz as well as other dance music in Vienna.
He soon became one of the best-known and well loved dance composers in Vienna. During the carnival of 1826, Strauss inaugurated his long line of triumphs by introducing his band to the public of Vienna at the in the suburb of Roßau where his Täuberln-Walzer (Op. 1) at once established his reputation. He toured with his band to Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and Britain. The conducting reins and management of this Strauss Orchestra would eventually be passed on to the hands of his sons until its disbandment by Eduard Strauss in 1901.
On a trip to France in 1837 he heard the quadrille and began to compose them himself, becoming largely responsible for introducing that dance to Austria in the 1840 Fasching, where it became very popular. It was this very trip (in 1837) which has proved Strauss' popularity with audiences from different social backgrounds and this paved the way to forming an ambitious plan to perform his music in England for the coronation of Queen Victoria in 1838. Strauss also adapted various popular melodies of his day into his works so as to ensure a wider audience, as evidenced in the incorporation of the Oberon overture into his early waltz, "Wiener Carneval", Op. 3, and also the French national anthem "La Marseillaise" into his "Paris-Walzer", Op. 101.
Strauss married Maria Anna Streim in 1825 in the Roman Catholic Lichtental Parish Church in Vienna. The marriage was relatively unhappy due to his prolonged absences caused by frequent tours abroad which led to a gradual alienation. They had seven children; Johann, Josef and Eduard Strauss, the last of whom had a son called Johann Strauss III. Strauss Sr. also had two daughters, Anna, who was born in 1829, and Therese, who was born in 1831. His third son, Ferdinand, born in 1834, lived only ten months.
The family home was called 'Hirschenhaus' but was better known in Vienna as the 'Goldener Hirsch' (The Golden Stag). Strauss was a strict disciplinarian and demanded that none of his sons pursue careers in music, despite their display of musical talent. Johann Junior was to study banking, likewise his brother Josef Strauss was destined for a military career, whereas the youngest Eduard Strauss was expected to join the Austrian consulate.
By 1834 Strauss had taken a mistress, Emilie Trampusch, with whom he had eight children. When her husband openly acknowledged his paternity of a daughter born to Emilie in 1844, Maria Anna sued for divorce. With the ending of the marriage Anna Strauss determined to further Johann Strauss II's musical career, allowing him to develop his skills as a composer.
Despite family problems, Strauss senior continued to tour frequently and was always prepared to write novelty pieces for numerous charitable organizations. His waltzes were gradually developed from a rustic peasant dance into one which posterity would recognize as the Viennese Waltz. They were written in three-quarter time with a short introduction; often with little or no reference to the later chain of five two-part waltz structure; usually appended with a short coda and concluded in a stirring finish, although his son Johann Strauss II expanded the waltz structure and utilized more instruments than his father. While he did not possess a musical talent as rich as his eldest son's, nor a business mind as astute, he was among the handful of early waltz composers along with Joseph Lanner to actively write pieces with individual titles — with the view to boost sales of their sheet music — which enabled music enthusiasts to easily recognize those pieces. In fact, during his performances at the Sperl-Ballroom in Vienna, where he established his name, he actively pursued the concept of collecting a fixed entrance fee from the patrons of the ballroom instead of the old practice of passing around a collection plate where income was reliant on the goodwill of the patrons.
Johann Strauss II often played his father's works and openly declared his admiration of them, although it was no secret to the Viennese that their rivalry was intense, with the press at that time fueling it. Johann Strauss I himself refused to play ever again at the Dommayer's Casino, which offered his son his conducting debut, and was to tower over his son during his lifetime in terms of career advancement, although Strauss II was to eclipse him in terms of popularity in the classical repertoire. In 1846, Johann Strauss I was awarded the honorary title of K.K. Hofballmusikdirektor (Director of Music for the Imperial and Royal Court Balls) by Emperor Ferdinand I.
Strauss died in Vienna on September 25, 1849 at the age of 45 from scarlet fever contracted from one of his illegitimate children. He was buried at the Döblinger cemetery beside his friend Joseph Lanner. In 1904, both of their remains were transferred to the graves of honour at the Zentralfriedhof. The former Döbling Cemetery is now a Strauss-Lanner Park. Hector Berlioz himself paid tribute to the 'Father of the Viennese Waltz' by commenting that "Vienna without Strauss is like Austria without the Danube".
Nita Strauss, guitarist with Alice Cooper and others, is a descendant of Johann Strauss.
Works
Waltzes
Täuberln-Walzer, Op. 1 Little Doves (1827)
Döblinger Réunion-Walzer, Op. 2 Dobling Reunion Waltz
Wiener Carneval, Op. 3 Viennese Carnival (1828)
Kettenbrücke-Walzer, Op. 4 Suspension Bridge (1828)
Gesellschafts-Walzer, Op. 5 Association’s Waltz
Wiener Launen-Walzer, Op. 6 Vienna Fancies Waltz
Tivoli-Rutsch Walzer, Op. 39 Tivoli-Slide (1830)
Das Leben ein Tanz oder Der Tanz ein Leben! Walzer, Op. 49 Life is a Dance
Elisabethen-Walzer, Op. 71
Philomelen-Walzer, Op. 82
Paris-Walzer, Op. 101 (1838)
Huldigung der Königin Victoria von Grossbritannien, Op. 103 Homage to Queen Victoria of Great Britain
Wiener Gemüths-Walzer, Op. 116 Viennese Sentiments (1840)
Loreley-Rhein-Klänge, Op. 154 Echoes of the Rhine Loreley (1843)
Galops and polkas
Strauss's galops and polkas include:
Champagner-Galopp, op. 8
Seufzer-Galopp, Op. 9 Sighing
Chineser Galopp, Op. 20 Chinese
Einzugs-Galopp, Op. 35 Entrance Galop
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Wunü Peaks National Forest Park
The Wunü Peaks National Forest Park () is a protected forest area under the administration of Tonghua City and to the north of Ji'an in Jilin Province, China. The park extends over an area of 6867 hectares, 95% of which is covered by forest.
See also
Wunü Mountain
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Martha Angélica Romo Jiménez
Martha Angélica Romo Jiménez (born 27 August 1961) is a Mexican politician affiliated with the National Action Party. As of 2014 she served as Deputy of the LX Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Jalisco.
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Brandenberg Schichten Formation
The Brandenberg Schichten Formation is a geologic formation in Germany. It preserves fossils dating back to the Devonian period.
See also
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Shaena Lambert
Shaena Lambert is a Canadian novelist and short story writer.
Born in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1959, she has lived in Toronto, New York City and the Okanagan. She currently lives in Vancouver, with her husband, political consultant Bob Penner. They have two children.
Lambert's writing has appeared in many prominent periodicals and literary journals including Ploughshares, Zoetrope: All-Story, Toronto Life and The Walrus. Her stories have been chosen three times for Best Canadian Stories, published by Oberon Press, and been anthologized in The Journey Prize Anthology.
Her first book, a collection of short stories titled The Falling Woman. was published to widespread critical acclaim. The Hamilton Spectator wrote of The Falling Woman: "In Shaena Lambert we have a writer with the ability to layer experience so that one layer comments on another, a writer with Alice Munro's understanding of the human heart and Yann Martel's gift for inhabiting the minds of vastly different characters." The Falling Woman was a finalist for The Danuta Gleed Award and was chosen as a Globe and Mail best book for 2002.
Lambert's novel, Radiance, was published in 2007 by Random House Canada, and by Virago press in the U.K, again meeting with critical acclaim, and comparisons to Canadian writers Alice Munro and Carol Shields. Radiance tells the story of Hiroshima survivor named Keiko Kitigawa, who travels to the U.S. from Japan after the end of World War II, and the complex relationship she has with a Long Island housewife. Radiance was nominated for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize in 2007; the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize in 2008; and was a Globe and Mail Best Book.
Shaena Lambert's book of stories, Oh, My Darling, was published by HarperCollins Canada in 2013.
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Ulmus × hollandica 'Fastigiata'
The hybrid elm cultivar Ulmus × hollandica 'Fastigiata' was first listed and described as Ulmus glabra fastigiata, a narrow-crowned elm with large smooth leaves, by Petzold and Kirchner in Arboretum Muscaviense (1864). C. Berndt of the Berndt Nursery, Zirlau, Schweidnitz, described an elm of the same name in Mitteilungen der Deutschen Dendrologischen Gesellschaft (1915, including a photograph), that he had received in 1903 "from a renowned nursery in Holstein" as Ulmus montana fastigiata macrophylla. A tree of that name had been listed by Dieck in 1885 without description. Berndt reported that his U. glabra fastigiata was "easy to confuse with U. montana superba", a tree "known in the Magdeburg region as Ulmus praestans", a statement confirming that, like that cultivar, his tree was a form of U. × hollandica. Karl Gustav Hartwig who received specimens of U. praestans from Kiessling of the Magdeburg city nursery in 1908, concluded (1912) that U. glabra fastigiata Kirchner was indistinguishable in leaf or habit from U. praestans. An U. campestris glabra fastigiata Arb. Musc. [ = Kirchner] was distributed by the Hesse Nursery, Weener, Germany, in the 1930s, where it was listed separately from U. praestans.
The Späth nursery of Berlin marketed an U. montana fastigiata glabra in the 1890s and early 1900s. Bean (1925) listed an U. glabra 'Fastigiata Stricta' (1925).
Not to be confused with Exeter Elm, Loudon's U. montana fastigiata (1838) and Elwes and Henry's U. montana var. fastigiata (1913).
Description
Kirchner's Ulmus glabra fastigiata was narrow-crowned, with large smoothish leaves of firmer texture than his Ulmus glabra Mill.. Berndt's Ulmus glabra fastigiata was a tree of tight narrow pyramidal growth, the leaf being dark, acuminate, irregularly veined, and often wider at the top than lower down. Berndt reported the tree as "less vigorous than Ulmus montana superba" [ = U. praestans].
Cultivation
Ulmus glabra fastigiata was cultivated in Silesia by the Berndt Nursery, Zirlau, Schweidnitz, in the early 20th century. Berndt reported that, though stocked in only a few nurseries, it was praised at the 20th Century Exhibition in Breslau. No specimens are known to survive.
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Darren Wright (footballer, born 1968)
Darren James Wright (born 14 March 1968) is an English former footballer, who played as a defender. Originally a centre-back in his youth, he played professionally at full-back. He is the current head coach of the Kernow football team in Non-FIFA football.
Playing career
Wright would get his start at Wolverhampton Wanderers, the club he supported, playing for their second team whilst still in school, however he would only make one senior appearance for the club – an away match at Plymouth Argyle.
In 1986 he would sign for Wrexham, where he would make 110 appearances in 4 years, winning Young Player of the Season in both the 1987–88 and 1988–89 seasons.
His Wrexham and fully professional career would come to an end through cruciate and cartilage damage in his knee, sustained in a match with Doncaster Rovers in a 50/50 challenge with forward Mark Rankine.
After his recovery, he would move to non-league football with Worcester City, spending a year at the Worcestershire club.
He would then move to Cheltenham Town, where, during his two-year spell there he would win promotion from the Doc Martens league to the Conference, and the FA Trophy.
After Cheltenham, he would move to Stafford Rangers before ending his career at Halesowen Town.
Coaching career
After football, Wright would hold many coaching jobs, including senior team coach at Rushall Olympic, assistant manager at Continental Star and coaching youths at Wolverhampton Wanderers. He managed Panjab in 2016, taking them to the final of the 2016 ConIFA World Football Cup. In 2018 he took charge of the first Kernow football team.
Personal life
During a charity game he played for Wrexham Veterans against Mold Alexandra on 12 July 2014, Wright suffered a heart attack. He made a full recovery and was still playing charity matches in 2015.
Honours
Individual
Wrexham
Young Player of the Season: 1987–88, 1988–89
Team
Cheltenham Town
Promotion from Southern Football League: 1996–97
FA Trophy: 1997–98
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1991 ACC Men's Basketball Tournament
The 1991 Atlantic Coast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament took place in Charlotte, North Carolina, at the second Charlotte Coliseum. North Carolina won the tournament, defeating Duke, 96–74, in the championship game. Rick Fox of North Carolina was named tournament MVP.
did not participate in the tournament because the program was on probation. Top seed Duke received a first-round bye into the semifinals. The only other times an ACC team opted out of the tournament were in 1961, Syracuse in 2015, and Louisville in 2016 for similar reasons.
Bracket
AP rankings at time of tournament
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María de los Llanos de Luna
María de los Llanos de Luna Tobarra (born 3 March 1960), is a Spanish politician and lawyer, who has been Delegate of the Spanish Government in Catalonia between 2011 and 2016.
Biography
Born in Sevilla on 3 March 1960, Llanos de Luna received a degree in Law from the University of Murcia, with a postgraduate degree in the School of Legal Practice of the same institution and a master's degree in Public Administration for INAP.
She held various positions as public speaker (1987-1993) and deputy director (1996-2003) of the National Institute of Social Security of Barcelona, president of the Commission for the Assessment of Labor Disabilities in Barcelona, and adviser of the General Treasury of the Social Security of Barcelona.
To the political plan, she was subdelegated from the Spanish Government in Barcelona (2003-2004), a Member of the Parliament of Catalonia, where she always used Spanish in his interventions, and the attached spokeswoman for the PPC parliamentary group since 2010; member of the Executive Committee and the Board of Directors of the Partido Popular de Catalunya; President of the Commission for Labor and Social Security Studies of the PPC, and Deputy Secretary of the Sector of the Popular Party of Barcelona.
In the November 2019 Spanish general election, Llanos de Luna was elected PP member of the Congress of Deputies for Province of Barcelona.
Delegate of the Government to Catalonia
With the victory of Rajoy in the 2011 elections, she was appointed Delegate of the Government in Catalonia until 2016, when was succeeded by Enric Millo. During her mandate she had to face with the first independentist political actions, beginning by denouncing the municipalities that declare "free territories". On 27 March 2013 was declared persona non grata by Girona City Hall.
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Wheelchair basketball at the 2016 Summer Paralympics – Women
The women's tournament in wheelchair basketball at the 2016 Summer Paralympics was held between 8–16 September.
Calendar
Rosters
Group stage
Group A
Group B
Knockout stage
Classification playoffs
9th/10th place playoff
7th/8th place playoff
5th/6th place playoff
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Bronze medal match
Gold medal match
Ranking
See also
Wheelchair basketball at the 2016 Summer Paralympics – Men
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2006 Zambian general election
General elections were held in Zambia on 28 September 2006 to elect a President, members of the National Assembly and local government councillors. The result was a victory for the ruling Movement for Multi-Party Democracy, which won 75 of the 150 National Assembly seats and whose candidate, Levy Mwanawasa, won the presidential vote. Voter turnout was just over 70%.
Campaign
During the campaign, Patriotic Front leader Michael Sata was strongly critical of Chinese investment in the country and suggested that he would recognize the Republic of China (Taiwan). One opinion poll in September gave Sata a considerable lead over Mwanawasa, 52% to 27%, with Hakainde Hichilema in third place at 20%, but Mwanawasa questioned these results. Another poll earlier in the month gave Mwanawasa the lead with 33% to Sata's 24%, although this marked a drop from the 45% reported for Mwanawasa by a previous poll in August, and an increase for Sata, who had been at 15%.
Former president Kenneth Kaunda backed Hichilema and expressed disapproval for Sata. Former president Frederick Chiluba urged people to vote for Sata.
The possibility was raised that Sata could be disqualified from the election for allegedly giving a false declaration of assets in August; he had claimed that a former minister in Mwanawasa's government owed him $100,000.
Results
The winner of the presidential elections was determined in one round according to the first-past-the-post system. Initial results from the election gave Sata the lead, but further results put Mwanawasa in first place and pushed Sata into third place. Interim results released after votes from 120 of 150 constituencies were counted put Mwanawasa on just over 42% of the vote; Hakainda Hichilema had 28%; and Michael Sata had slipped to 27%. When opposition supporters heard that Sata had slipped from first to third place, riots erupted in Lusaka. According to interim results Mwanawasa still held an easy lead in constituencies counted up to 16:00 on 1 October.
Late in the afternoon of 2 October, the Zambian Electoral Commission announced that Mwanawasa had officially won the election with 43% of the vote; Sata took second place with 29% and Hichilema took third place with 25%. He was sworn in for another term on 3 October.
The total electorate was 3,941,229 and 2,789,114 votes were cast of which 48,936 were spoilt. Voter turnout was 70.77%.
President
National Assembly
The elections in Lupososhi (19,230 registered voters) and Kabompo East (16,148) were postponed due to the death of candidates.
See also
List of members of the National Assembly of Zambia (2006–11)
References
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Herichthys deppii
Herichthys deppii, also known as the Nautla cichlid, is a species of cichlid native to the Nautla and Misantla rivers of Mexico. It reaches a maximum size of TL. The specific name honours the German naturalist, explorer and painter, Ferdinand Deppe, (1794-1861) who collected the type specimen.
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Debbie Watson
Debbie Watson may refer to:
Debbie Watson (actress) (born 1949), American actress
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John van Dreelen
John van Dreelen (5 May 1922 – 4 September 1992) was a Dutch-born American-based actor, who frequently performed on television from the 1960s to the 1980s.
Early years
He was born as Jacques van Drielen Gimberg and until 1950 his stage name was Jack Gimberg, at which time he changed it to John van Dreelen.
The son of Dutch actor and director Louis van Dreelen Gimberg and the Countess de Labouchere of Paris, van Dreelen was born in Amsterdam. He attended the Sorbonne and was fluent in several languages.
He escaped the Emslandlager labor camp near Papenburg by disguising himself as one of the German officers he would later play so often on both big and small screens.
Television
Though he appeared in many European films, van Dreelen is best remembered as an A-list guest star in dozens of American television shows from the early 1960s to the mid-1980s, such as 12 O'Clock High, The Twilight Zone ("The Jeopardy Room"), The Man from UNCLE, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Wild Wild West, Combat!, Blue Light, and Mission: Impossible. In 1962, he played the part of Ulrich in the episode "The Immigrants" on CBS's Rawhide. In 1964 he played a film producer (and murderer) in the Perry Mason episode, "The Case of the Bountiful Beauty." In 1965 he was again cast as the murderer in the episode, "The Case of the Feather Cloak."
Film
Never a major player in theatrical films, he nonetheless scored a few choice roles, including the Danish concert pianist who rescues and woos Lana Turner during an extended sequence in Madame X in 1966. Four episodes of Blue Light were edited together to create the theatrical film I Deal in Danger, which was released in December 1966 and included his appearance. His other film credits included roles in Von Ryan's Express (1965), Topaz (1969), Lost Horizon (1973), The Big Game (1973), The Clone Master (1978), The Formula (1980), The Money Pit (1986) and Born to Fight (1989), as well as TV miniseries such as The Rhinemann Exchange, The Word and Washington: Behind Closed Doors.
Stage
Van Dreelen had an international stage career and starred in a Dutch staging of My Fair Lady. He starred as Baron Von Trapp for 40 weeks in as the original American touring production of The Sound of Music. (According to the actor, Richard Rodgers wanted van Dreelen and Audrey Hepburn to play the film's leads.)
Filmography
Niet tevergeefs (1948)
But Not in Vain (1948) – Minor Role (uncredited)
Gigi (1949) – Bit Part (uncredited)
Brelan d'as (1952) – Lemmy Caution (segment "Je suis un tendre")
Moulin Rouge (1952) – Bit part (uncredited)
Red Roses, Red Lips, Red Wine (1953) – Hans Westhoff
Heartbroken on the Moselle (1953) – Bernd Zagler
Monte Carlo Baby (1953) – Rudy Walter
Daybreak (1954)
Ein Mädchen aus Paris (1954)
The Last Ten Days (1955) – Major Brinkmann
Bedevilled (1955) – Michel Trevelle (uncredited)
In Hamburg sind die Nächte lang (1956)
Zwei Herzen voller Seligkeit (1957) – Dieter Lorenz
A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958) – Political Officer
The Flying Fontaines (1959) – Victor Fontaine
The Leech Woman (1960) – Bertram Garvay
The Enemy General (1960) – Gen. Bruger
Beyond the Time Barrier (1960) – Dr. Bourman
13 Ghosts (1960) – Van Allen
The Wizard of Baghdad (1960) – Sultan Jullnar
Von Ryan's Express (1965) – Col. Gortz
Madame X (1966) – Christian Torben
I Deal in Danger (1966) – von Lindendorf
Die Ente klingelt um ½ 8 (1968) – Rechtsanwalt Kellermann
Topaz (1969) – Claude Martin
Nachtschatten (1972) – Jan Eckmann
Lost Horizon (1973) – Dr. Verden
The Big Game (1973) – Lee
Rufus (1975) – Marcel
Too Hot to Handle (1977) – MacKenzie Portman
The Clone Master (1978) – Salt
The Formula (1980) – Hans Lehman, Prefect of Police Berlin
The Money Pit (1986) – Carlos
Mascara (1987) – Minister Weinberger
Odyssée d'amour (1987) – Dr. Alexander De Winter
Zoeken naar Eileen (1987) – Philips vader
Born to Fight (1989) – Gen. Weber
Gummibärchen küßt man nicht (1989) – Geyer
Operation Las Vegas (1990) – Parker
(1991) – Albert
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Andrzej Alojzy Ankwicz
Andrzej Alojzy Ankwicz (; ; ) (22 June 1777 – 26 March 1838) was the Roman Catholic archbishop of Prague from 1833 to 1838.
Biography
Ankwicz was born in Kraków, Poland in 1777. He was ordained a priest on 2 September 1810. In 1815, he was appointed and ordained archbishop of Lviv in Ukraine. He remained in this capacity for 18 years until 30 September 1833 when he was appointed the archbishop of Prague. He died at the age of 60 years on 26 March 1838 to be succeeded in his archbishopric by Alois Josef Schrenk.
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Posttraumatic embitterment disorder
The posttraumatic embitterment disorder (PTED) is a pathological reaction to drastic life events and has the tendency not to stop. The trigger is an extraordinary although common negative life event as for example divorce, dismissal, personal insult or vilification. The consequence is severe and long lasting embitterment. This disorder is distinguished not by the content of the triggering event but by the temporal connection to the critical incident. Minutes before the person was healthy, minutes later they are chronically ill and severely affected. The German psychiatrist Michael Linden and others have emphasized the importance of embitterment.
Forms of embitterment
Embitterment is an emotion which is known to everybody as a negative feeling in reaction to negative life events. People understand what is meant by “embitterment” without professional knowledge, just as everyone knows what is fear or anger. Embitterment is, like anxiety, a reactive emotion towards injustice, insult or breach of trust. Embitterment is gnawing and has the tendency not to stop. In many cases, embitterment fades away, but in others it comes up again and again when the occasion is recalled. With greater intensity, it can limit the whole life and their environment with severe impairment.
Signs and symptoms
The following diagnostic criteria characterize posttraumatic embitterment disorder:
Clinically significant emotional symptoms or behavioural problems, which appear after a unique although common stressful life event.
Traumatic stress is experienced in the following way:
The patient is aware of the stressor and recognizes it as the cause of the disorder.
The event is experienced as unfair, insulting or as a breach of trust.
The reaction of the patient regarding the event include feelings of embitterment, anger and helplessness.
The patient reacts with emotional arousal when they are reminded of the event.
Symptoms are recurrent intrusions concerning the event, a dysphoric-aggressive-depressive mood, reduced drive, unspecific psychosomatic symptoms, phobic avoidance of persons or places related to the event, thoughts of revenge and fantasies of murder-suicide, suicidal ideation or fantasies of extended suicide.
There were no mental disorders prior to the event that could explain this abnormal reaction.
Daily activities and tasks are impaired
The symptoms last longer than six months.
Cause
Embitterment occurs in reaction to extraordinary but nevertheless everyday negative life events like divorce or dismissal. The question is why and under which conditions this results in a pathological reaction. Critical life events always trigger negative emotions like fear, uncertainty, disorientation, anger, or impairment in mood. There are traumatic events, which lead to pathological emotions i.e. states which are no longer under control of the affected person and develop into dysfunctional behavior with strong suffering for the affected person and his or her environment. This is the case after strong spells of panic, which can lead to a “posttraumatic stress disorder”. Another form of “traumatic” events are those that violate “basic beliefs.” Basic beliefs or cognitive schemata are a cognitive reference system which structures the perception of the world, what is seen as important or not, and what is necessary to be done. They enable us to develop a trust in ourselves, other persons and the world. They are usually not put in question and associated with positive feelings as long as the world complies with our cognitive schemata. These "basic beliefs", "cognitive schemata" or "ideology" are of great individual and social importance. Therefore it is also understandable, that people defend their basic beliefs if they are questioned through life events, i.e. an event which is in conflict with one's own values and self-concept. If an event is too important to be ignored and an “assimilation” of the event in existing schemata or basic beliefs is not possible, or a change/adaptation of these schemata (“accommodation”) is unthinkable, this can lead to an “adaptation disorder”. Embitterment arises when basic beliefs are questioned, attacked, disproved or degraded through a life event or the behaviour of others. The theory of “violation of basic beliefs” explains why events, which seem to be trivial for some people, can be of importance to others. What is seen as injustice, insult or humiliation depends on personal beliefs and values.
Diagnosis
BEI
The Berner Embitterment-Inventory (BEI) (Znoj, 2008; 2011) measures (1) emotional embitterment, (2) performance-related embitterment, (3) pessimism/hopelessness and (4) misanthropy/aggression.
PTED scale
The PTED scale is a 19 Items self rating questionnaire and can be used to identify reactive embitterment and assess the severity of PTED. Answers are given on a five point Likert scale. An average score 2,5 speaks for a clinical relevant degree of embitterment response. The interpretation of self rating scales must bear in mind that they are not able to make a diagnosis. Higher values are only indications of critical embitterment. The diagnosis of PTED is only possible through a detailed clinical assessment or standardized diagnostic interview.
Standardized diagnostic interview
The standardized diagnostic interview of PTED asks for core criteria of PTED. In the diagnostic interview it must be clarified what the patient means when they describe their experiences and feelings, so that an experienced clinician is needed.
Differential diagnosis
The posttraumatic embitterment disorder (PTED) has to be differentiated from the posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). PTSD is defined through intrusions referring to a specific "traumatic" event, which was experienced as "extraordinary threat" and acted as an “unconditional” fear and panic triggering stimulus. When re-exposed or reminding it comes to a “cognitive rehearsal” and a revival of fear and hyperarousal and at the same time the attempt to suppress the overwhelming pictures up to a state of numbing. PTSD is an anxiety disorder. In PTED there are similarly intrusions and the avoidance of situations or objects. The major difference is the quality of the prevailing emotion. In PTED this is embitterment, the feeling of vilification, injustice, and aggression towards the perpetrator. Patients often want to think about what has happened so that the world can see what one did to them. Many cases that look like PTSD are PTED cases because the problem did not start after an anxiety-triggering situation, but later in the context of injustice, humiliation by the company, insurance, police and courts.
Psychotherapy
The treatment of posttraumatic bitterness is complicated by the typical resignative-aggressive-defensive attitude of the patient, which is also directed against therapeutic offers.
One approach of treatment is wisdom therapy developed by Linden, a form of cognitive-behavioral therapy that aims to empower the patient to distance themselves from the critical life event and build up new life perspectives.
One uses the usual cognitive strategies of attitude change and problem solving are used, such as:
behavior therapeutic methods like behavioral analysis and cognitive rehearsal;
analysis of automatic thoughts and schemata;
reframing or cognitive reattribution:
exposure treatments;
increase of activities;
rebuilding of social contacts;
promotion of self-effectiveness.
As special treatment module aims at the training of wisdom competencies, which means the promotion of the following abilities:
changing perspectives;
empathy;
perception and acceptance of emotions;
emotional balance and sense of humour;
contextualism;
long-term orientation;
value relativism;
tolerance of uncertainty;
self-distance and self-relativization.
Methodically, the method of "insolvable problems" is used. In this procedure fictitious serious and insolvable conflict situations are presented, which allow the patients to train wisdom capacities and transfer them to their own situation (so-called "learning transfer.")
Epidemiology
Preliminary data suggest a prevalence of about 2–3% in the general population. Any therapists, experts in social law or lawyers know such cases. Increased prevalence rates are observed when larger groups of people are subject to social upheaval. Accordingly, Linden described this condition for the first time after the German reunification.
Criticism
The problem of embitterment reactions and also the posttraumatic embitterment disorder increasingly gain international attention.
Nevertheless there are some unsolved problems. Further research is needed to differentiate between PTED and other mental disorders. The science journalist Jörg Blech mentioned 2014 in his book Die Psychofalle - Wie die Seelenindustrie uns zu Patienten macht this disorder. It is discussed whether the introduction of PTED may make a problem out of everyday problems. However, according to the available studies, the primary problem is not the differentiation between healthy and ill persons, since patients with PTED have regularly been given a variety of diagnoses. It is about the differential diagnostic differentiation of a special type of disorder, as a precondition for a goal-oriented therapy.
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Peltre
Peltre () is a commune in the Moselle department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.
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Rupali Akhter
Rupali Akhter () is a Bangladeshi national women's Kabaddi player who was part of the team that won the bronze medal at the 2010 Asian Games and 2014 Asian Games.
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1974–75 OB I bajnoksag season
The 1974–75 OB I bajnokság season was the 38th season of the OB I bajnokság, the top level of ice hockey in Hungary. Four teams participated in the league, and Ferencvarosi TC won the championship.
Regular season
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James McArthur
James McFarlane McArthur (born 7 October 1987) is a Scottish professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for club Crystal Palace.
McArthur started his career at Hamilton Academical and was part of the team that won the 2007–08 Scottish First Division title. He made over 190 appearances for Hamilton before joining Wigan Athletic in July 2010. McArthur helped Wigan win the FA Cup in 2013. He was transferred to Crystal Palace in the summer of 2014.
McArthur made 32 international appearances for the Scotland national team between 2010 and 2017.
Club career
Hamilton Academical
Born in Glasgow and raised in the city's Barrowfield district, McArthur attended Whitehill Secondary School and supported Rangers in his youth; he played for Rangers South BC (alongside future international colleagues Robert Snodgrass and Graham Dorrans), St Johnstone pro youth, Rangers SABC and Clyde before moving to Hamilton Academical as a youth in 2003. He made his professional debut in January 2005 against Ross County. He established himself in the Hamilton team the following season and scored his first goal in April 2006 against St Johnstone.
Such was his progress that he was given the captaincy for Hamilton against Aberdeen in February 2008 for a Scottish Cup tie and nominated for the First Division Player of the Year for the 2007–08 season. In May 2008 after helping his side to the Scottish First Division, McArthur was awarded with a new three-year contract. By the time he departed from New Douglas Park aged 22, he had played in nearly 200 matches for Accies.
Wigan Athletic
In the 2009–10 season, several English Championship and Premier League clubs, including Sheffield United, West Bromwich Albion, Leeds United and Sunderland, showed an interest in McArthur. On 5 April 2010, McArthur went on a three-day visit to Premier League club Wigan Athletic with a view to a permanent move in the summer. He signed a four-year contract at the DW Stadium on 23 July for a fee of around £500,000. The move reunited him with former Hamilton teammate James McCarthy, who had made the same move at the beginning of the 2009–10 season. On 31 January 2012, McArthur scored his first goal for Wigan in a 3–1 loss to Tottenham Hotspur, and followed it up two games later with a winning goal over Bolton Wanderers at the Reebok Stadium in a game which finished 2–1 to Wigan. McArthur extended his contract with Wigan in May 2012, with the new deal due to run until 2016. On 11 May 2013 McArthur won the FA Cup, playing the whole game in a 1–0 upset win against Manchester City. However, only three days later, Wigan were relegated from the Premier League following a 4–1 defeat against Arsenal.
Wigan rejected a first offer of £5 million from Leicester City for McArthur in August 2014, but then accepted a proposed valuation of nearly £7 million. A payment schedule was not agreed and the proposed transfer collapsed, with Leicester signing Esteban Cambiasso instead. On the last day of the summer 2014 transfer window, Wigan accepted a £7 million offer from Crystal Palace for McArthur.
Crystal Palace
On 1 September 2014, McArthur signed a three-year contract with Crystal Palace after joining from Wigan Athletic for an undisclosed fee; due to a clause in his Wigan contract, his former club Hamilton received a sell-on fee from the Crystal Palace transfer, which they used to invest in the youth system through which the player had emerged. McArthur scored his first goal for Palace on 13 December, in a 1–1 draw against Stoke City.
In February 2016, McArthur tore ankle ligaments in a 2–1 loss to AFC Bournemouth. He returned in time to take part in the 2016 FA Cup Final, which Crystal Palace lost 2–1 to Manchester United after extra time.
In May 2018, having helped his club to maintain top division status for the fifth consecutive season of his spell at Selhurst Park, McArthur was recognised by the Premier League for reaching 200 appearances in the competition.
International career
He was first called up to the Scotland under-21 squad in February 2008, and he made his debut at that level against Ukraine later that month.
On 16 November 2010, McArthur made his senior international debut as a second-half substitute for Charlie Adam against the Faroe Islands. He scored his first international goal on 9 February 2011, in a Nations Cup match against Northern Ireland.
As of August 2018, McArthur had made 32 international appearances and scored four goals. At this time he advised Scotland manager Alex McLeish that he wished to be excused from international games while he managed ongoing back problems. Later that year, he announced his retirement from international football.
Career statistics
Club
International
International goals
As of match played 7 October 2017. Scotland score listed first, score column indicates score after each McArthur goal.
Honours
Hamilton Academical
Scottish Football League First Division: 2007–08
Wigan Athletic
FA Cup: 2012–13
Crystal Palace
FA Cup runner-up: 2015–16
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Gage Hill
Gage Hill is a tuya in east-central British Columbia, Canada, located in Wells Gray Provincial Park.
See also
List of volcanoes in Canada
Volcanism of Canada
Volcanism of Western Canada
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Andrarum
Andrarum is a locality situated in Tomelilla Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden. The Christinehof castle is located in Andrarum.
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Aequispirella tenuilirata
Aequispirella tenuilirata is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, unassigned in the superfamily Seguenzioidea.
Distribution
Fossils of this marine species were found in New Zealand.
References
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Jack Vallentyne
Jack Vallentyne (July 31, 1926 - June 16, 2007) was a Canadian biochemist and the 2001 recipient of the A.C. Redfield Lifetime Achievement Award.
Background
Born John Reuben Vallentyne in Toronto, Vallentyne completed his undergraduate studies in Biology and Chemistry at Queen's University (Kingston; 1945–49) and his Ph.D. in Paleo-Limnology at Yale University (USA; 1949–52) under the supervision of George Evelyn Hutchinson. From 1943 to 1945 Vallentyne served in the military. He and his wife Ann had five children: Peter, Stephen, Jane, Anne Marie and Geoffrey.
Academic positions
Vallentyne held a variety of academic positions throughout his lifetime. Between 1952 and 1955, he was a lecturer and then Assistant Professor (between 1955 and 1958) in Biology at Queen’s University. Other positions he held included: Fellow of the Carnegie Institution of Washington Geophysical Laboratory (from 1956 to 1957), Associated Professor and Full Professor of Zoology at Cornell University (from 1958 to 1966), a Guggenheim Fellow for Biogeochemical studies at the Pallanza Institute (from 1964 to 1965), Vice President of ASLO in (between 1964 and 1965), President of SIL (from 1974 to 198), and a Senior Scientific Advisor of Ocean and Aquatic Sciences, and Science Advisor to the Fisheries Research Board of Canada (between 1975 and 1977), and a senior scientist at the Department of Fisheries & Oceans in the Canadian Center for Inland Waters (CCIW) in Burlington, between 1977 and 1992, where he set up a Fisheries Research Board detachment. During his time at his last position, he held the role of Canadian co-Chairman at the International Joint Commission Great Lakes Science Advisory Board (between 1986 and 1991).
After his retirement, Vallentyne was nominated Scientist Emeritus in the Department of Fisheries and Oceans in CCIW.
Other achievements
In July 1980, Vallentyne established the Johnny Biosphere project, in light of the earth’s environmental problems, seeking to encourage future generations to take on this important role. The message to the kids Johnny Biosphere (aka Jack Vallentyne) visited was simple: "Be kind to the Earth and it will be kind to you."
Publications
Some of Vallentyne’s publications include: ‘Tragedy in Mouse Utopia: An Ecological Commentary on Human Utopia,’ (Trafford Publishers), ‘The Algal Bowl,’ (University of Alberta Press), published posthumously was translated to several languages, became a bestseller and contributed to the wake-up on the causes and consequences of lake deterioration. Vallentyne also worked on the revision of the ‘Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement’ (GLWQA) by developing and implementing the "ecosystem approach" to research and environmental conservation.
Awards and recognition
In 1992 Vallentyne received the Rachel Carson Award for raising public awareness of science from the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry.
In 2001, he received the A.C. Redfield Lifetime Achievement Award "for his exemplary research contributions in paleolimnology, biogeochemistry and eutrophication; outstanding administrative accomplishments in forming and fostering the Experimental Lakes Area; and passionate efforts in educating children in environmental, ecological and limnological issues."
Legacy
On June 16, 2007, Vallentyne died, aged 80, in Hamilton (Canada).
According to Andrew L. Hamilton, he was grateful that he was able to "watch and marvel at many of his extraordinary contributions to freshwater research and to the development and implementation of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement between Canada and the United States."
Dolors Planas said: "We will remember Jack Vallentyne with his Terrestrial Globe on his shoulders, asking to the uninitiated the question ‘Have you been good to your ecosystem today?’"
According to Charles R. Goldman, "Coupled with Jack’s natural grace and qualities of kindness and concern was his extremely interesting family that survived the year in Pallanza in a tiny apartment without a single complaint. A lot of that was of course due to his extremely level minded and talented wife." He added: "His unusual intelligence his handsome striking appearance and his subtle ever smiling sense of humor was captivating…[he had a] truly refreshing natural enthusiasm about anything he undertook."
In recognition of his contributions to world science, the Aquatic Ecosystem Health & Management Society (AEHMS) established a J. R. Vallentyne Lecture Series in 1997 at its biennial conferences which are delivered by distinguished scientists.
In 2008, the John R. (Jack) Vallentyne Award was instituted, which "recognizes important and sustained efforts to inform and educate the public and policymakers on Great Lakes issues, thereby raising awareness and support for Great Lakes protection and restoration." It is nominated by the IAGLR Outreach Committee and awarded by the IAGLR Board. Vallentyne himself received the first one posthumously.
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Shoichiro Sakai
is a Japanese mathematician.
Life
Sakai studied mathematics at the Tohoku University (Sendai). He there received the B. A. degree in 1953 and a doctorate at the same University in 1961. From 1960 to 1964, he was a faculty member of Waseda University. He then went to the University of Pennsylvania, where he became a professor in 1966 and remained until 1979. He then returned to Japan and went to the Nihon University. In 1992, he received the Japanese Mathematical Society Autumn Prize. He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
Sakai's main field is functional analysis and mathematical physics. His textbook published in the Springer series in C *-algebras and W *-algebras, in which W *-algebras as C *-algebras are introduced with a predual, is widely used. That fact the W *-algebras may be defined in this way is known as a theorem of Sakai (cf. a theorem of Kadison-Sakai.)
Works
C *-algebras and W *-algebras, Springer-Verlag 1971, Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete, Volume 60, (republished in 1998 in Classics in Mathematics)
Operator algebras in dynamical systems, the theory of unbounded derivations in C*-algebras, Cambridge University Press (1991),
References
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Sardinian people
The Sardinians, or Sards (; Italian and Sassarese: Sardi; Gallurese: Saldi), are a Romance ethnic group native to Sardinia, from which the western Mediterranean island and autonomous region of Italy derives its name.
Etymology
The ethnic origin of the Sardinians is hidden in the darkness of ante-historic ages: the ethnonym "S(a)rd" belongs to the Pre-Indo-European linguistic substratum, and whilst they might have derived from the Iberians, the accounts of the old authors differ greatly in this respect. The oldest written attestation of the ethnonym is on the Nora stone, where the word Šrdn (Shardan) bears witness to its original existence by the time the Phoenician merchants first arrived to the Sardinian shores.
According to Timaeus, one of Plato's dialogues, Sardinia and its people as well, the "Sardonioi" or "Sardianoi" (Σαρδονιοί or Σαρδιανοί), might have been named after "Sardò" (Σαρδώ), a legendary Lydian woman from Sardis (Σάρδεις), in the region of western Anatolia (now Turkey).
Some other authors, like Pausanias and Sallust, reported instead that the Sardinians traced their descent back to a mythical ancestor, a Libyan son of Hercules or Makeris (related either to the Berber verb Imɣur "to grow", to the specific Kabyle word Maqqur "He is the greatest", or also associated with the figure of Melqart) revered as a deity going by Sardus Pater Babai starting from the same areas, where the relations between the indigenous Sardinians and the Phoenician settlers had been so far peaceful, the Carthaginians proceeded to annex the Southern and Western part of Sardinia in the late 6th century BC.
After the First Punic War, the whole island was conquered by the Romans in the 3rd century BC. Sardinia and Corsica were then made into a single province;
Sardinia, with the exception of the innerlands and especially the mountainous area that would later be called Barbagia (Barbaria in Latin, due to the locals' refusal to assimilate during Roman rule), was heavily Latinized during the Roman period, and the modern Sardinian language is considered one of the most conservative Romance languages. Besides, during the Roman rule there was a considerable immigration flow from the Italian peninsula into the island; ancient sources mention several populations of likely Italic origin settling down in Sardinia, like the Patulcenses Campani (from Campania), the Falisci (from southern Etruria), the Buduntini (from Apulia) and the Siculenses (from Sicily). Roman colonies were also established in Porto Torres (Turris Libisonis) and Usellus. Strabo gave a brief summary about the Mountaineer tribes, living in what would be called civitates Barbariae, Geographica V ch.2:There are four nations of mountaineers, the Parati, Sossinati, Balari, and the Aconites. These people dwell in caverns. Although they have some arable land, they neglect its cultivation, preferring rather to plunder what they find cultivated by others, whether on the island or on the continent, where they make descents, especially upon the Pisatæ. The prefects sent [into Sardinia] sometimes resist them, but at other times leave them alone, since it would cost too dear to maintain an army always on foot in an unhealthy place.
Middle Ages
After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, Sardinia was ruled in rapid succession by the Vandals, Another study, based on the multinomial logistic regression model, suggested again a high degree of homogeneity within the Sardinian population.
The 2015 SardiNIA study showed, by using the FST differentiation statistic, a clear genetic differentiation between Sardinians (whole genome sequence of 2120 individuals from across the island and especially the Lanusei valley) and populations from the Italian peninsula (1000 genomes), and reported an even more significant amount of difference between the Sardinians from the above-mentioned Lanusei valley and the other European populations. This pattern of differentiation is also evident in the lengths for haplotypes surrounding rare variants loci, with a similar haplotype length for Sardinian populations and shorter length for populations with low grade of common ancestry.
A November 2019 study has suggested that Y-chromosome founding lineages G2-L91, I2-M26 and R1b-V88, were identified as strongly contributing to the definition of the outlying position of Sardinians in the European genetic context and marking a significant differentiation within the island. The present distribution of these lineages does not always mirror that detected in ancient DNAs.
Notable Sardinians
Gallery
See also
List of Sardinians
Sardinia
History of Sardinia
Nuragic civilization
List of Nuragic tribes
Sardinian language
Sassarese
Gallurese
Corsican people
Italian people
References
Historia de la isla de Cerdeña, por el caballero G. de Gregory, traducida al castellano por una sociedad literaria (1840). Barcelona: Imprenta de Guardia Nacional.
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Louder
Louder refers to an increase in loudness.
Louder may also refer to:
Persons
Alison Louder, Canadian actress
Earle Louder, musician specialising in playing euphonium, professor of music
Jeff Louder (born 1977), American road racing cyclist
Music
Louder (Lea Michele album)
"Louder" (Lea Michele song), single from Lea Michele album above
Louder (R5 album)
Louder Tour, 2014 concert tour by R5 to promote their album above
Louder!, an album by Sofía Reyes
"Louder" (Charice song)
"Louder" (DJ Fresh song)
"Louder" (DJ MuscleBoy song)
"Louder" (Neon Jungle song)
"Louder" (Parade song)
Louder, or Louder Sound, formerly Metal Hammer, music magazine by Future plc
See also
Louder, Louder!, debut album by American rock band Killola
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Langston Fishburne
Langston Fishburne (born February 29, 1988) is an American actor and ballet dancer.
Fishburne is the son of actor Laurence Fishburne and his first wife Hajna O. Moss, a casting director. Langston studied ballet while in New York City and began attending Boston University. Langston entered acting himself and had a recurring role in the web series Vanessa & Jan on WIGS. He appeared in the 2018 film Ant-Man and the Wasp as a younger version of Bill Foster, with the older version played by his father.
Filmography
Television
Film
References
External links
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Media in Hawaii
The state of Hawaii has the following popular media:
Newspapers
The first newspaper was Ka Lama Hawaii, printed by the students of Lorrin Andrews in 1834.
Honolulu is served by one daily Newspaper, The Honolulu Star-Advertiser, owned by Black Press of British Columbia in Canada. The Star-Advertiser began publishing on June 7, 2010 after Black Press merged Honolulu's two daily newspapers, The Honolulu Advertiser and the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. The Star-Bulletin was the primary competitor to the Advertiser until it scaled back statewide distribution. In 2010 Gannett Company sold the Advertiser to Black Press. The merger was due to a failure to find a buyer for the Star-Bulletin, which had been losing money and subscribers since the two broke off their joint operation agreement in 2001.
Maui is served by The Maui News, which is owned by Ogden Newspapers Inc.. Maui's independent weekly newspaper is Maui Time Weekly. Other locally published newspapers are available to residents of the various islands, such as the Hawaii Tribune-Herald in Hilo and West Hawaii Today in Kailua-Kona, both on The Big Island, and The Garden Island, based in Lihue on Kauai.
The Hawaiian business community is served by the Pacific Business News and Hawaii Business Magazine. The largest religious community in Hawaii is served by the Hawaii Catholic Herald. Honolulu Magazine is a popular magazine that offers local interest news and feature articles. Apart from the mainstream press, the state also enjoys a vibrant ethnic publication presence with newspapers for the Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Korean and Native Hawaiian communities. There was an alternative weekly, the Honolulu Weekly which served the urban Honolulu area until 2012. The Hawaii Independent is a new online newspaper with a statewide reach, focusing on local news and investigative journalism.
Radio
Terrestrial
Hawaii has 73 FM and 32 AM radio stations:
23 FM 20 AM in Honolulu County
22 FM, 6 AM in Hawaii County
17 FM, 4 AM in Maui County
11 FM, 2 AM in Kauai County
Honolulu is the only Nielsen Audio-rated radio market in Hawaii. Among the major companies that own stations in Hawaii include Salem Communications, Summit Media, iHeartMedia, HH Media and Ohana Family. All of these companies have offices in Honolulu. Among the non-commercial FM broadcast licence holders are KKCR - Kaua`i Community Radio - the only full-power community radio station in Hawai`i, broadcasting across the islands of Ni`ihau, Kaua`i, and O`ahu, Manao Radio, an LPFM station broadcasting on Maui, and HPR - Hawai`i Public Radio - a full-power NPR affiliate, broadcasting from O`ahu, with translators across the islands.
Satellite
The state of Hawaii was not initially serviced by satellite radio and was not receivable with the exception of certain cellular devices and the internet. This changed in 2011, when Sirius XM Radio was given a green light to place a 1.8Kw transmitter in Honolulu after receiving approval from the FCC to begin transmission to Hawaii and Alaska. Sirius XM had been trying to expand service into Hawaii since 2007 but had opposition from the Hawaii Association of Broadcasters fearing loss of local competition. The FCC rejected their petition.
Television
All of the major American broadcast television networks are represented in Hawaii through KHON-TV (Fox, The CW on DT2), KITV (ABC; Me-TV Hawaii on DT2), KGMB (CBS, This TV on DT2), KHII-TV (MyNetworkTV), KHET (PBS), KHNL (NBC, Antenna TV on DT2), and KPXO-TV (ION Television). Two independent stations, KIKU-TV and KBFD, specialize in multi-cultural programs serving Asian audiences. KHLU-CD served Honolulu's Hispanic population with Univision programming and was the only Spanish-language TV outlet in the state from 1994 until 2016; Univision’s program are available on Spectrum, Hawaiian Telcom, Dish, and DirecTV. From Honolulu, programming at these stations can be seen on the various other islands via networks of satellite transmitters and through Oceanic Time Warner Cable. Until the advent of satellite, most network programming was broadcast a week behind mainland scheduling.
There are also five stations in Honolulu that offer religious programming, the most of any US television market: KWHE (FBC), KAAH-TV (TBN), KALO (Ind.), KWBN (Daystar) and KUPU (Ind.). Another outlet, KKAI, also offered religious programming but since 2012 shifted to airing general interest shows, with KKAI dropping Faith TV for RTV. KUPU which first signed on with religious programming, joined Antenna TV in 2011 but would return to becoming an independent in May 2012 and by January 2013 transitioned to Catholic programming, which lasted until September 2017 when it affiliated with Cozi TV. KWHE, KAAH-TV, and KALO also have satellite stations across the state (except Kauai), with KWHE being the only outlet in Hawaii to air secular general-interest shows and sports programs outside its non-secular hours. KUPU offers programming from the Pacific Islands alongside their religious fare.
Of the major television stations in Honolulu, only KITV airs a midday newscast as of August 2018; KITV and KHNL had broadcast mid-morning newscasts in the past. All of the stations generally follow the 7:00 pm (6:00 pm on Sundays) to 10:00 pm primetime television schedule pattern used in the Central and Pacific time zones and air live sporting events at the same time as the mainland United States (i.e., Sunday NFL games on KHON and KGMB start at 7:00 am or 8:00 am local time, which is 1:00 pm Eastern time/10:00 am Pacific time on the mainland).
As of 2012, KITV is the only outlet in Hawaii to air as many as 27 news hours per week. They are also the only station in the state to air hour-long 6:00 pm and 10:00 pm newscasts and the first to launch a weekend morning newscast, which airs from 6:00 to 8:00 AM.
The future of television broadcasts in Hawaii took a major turn down the road on August 18, 2009, when KGMB's owner, MGC Capital Corporation, and Raycom Media, owners of KHNL and KFVE, announced a shared services agreement under which Raycom merged the three stations' operations. KGMB relocated their operations to the building that houses the KHNL/KFVE operations, and the stations' news operations were consolidated under one umbrella. Non-news programming arrangements remained in place, though KGMB and KFVE would see their channel positions in Honolulu swapped—with KFVE and its programming moving to channel 9 (under MCG ownership) and KGMB and its CBS programming moving to channel 5 (under Raycom ownership). The change took place on October 26, 2009, with all three stations' newscasts merged into one major broadcast under the banner "Hawaii News Now." In addition, all three stations' logos were retired as well. This combination allowed the Hawaii News Now group to control 45% of the market.
Raycom President/CEO Paul McTear said the SSA would "preserve three stations that provide important and valuable local, national and international programming to viewers in Hawaii." The plan, however, has met with criticism from organizations such as Media Council Hawaii, which viewed the plan as a way to circumvent FCC rules preventing one company owning two of the top four stations in any market. An estimated 68 positions from a total of 198 from the three stations would be eliminated as part of the agreement.
Beginning in 2016, the Hawaii News Now (HNN) group of KGMB, KHNL, and KFVE severed ties to the Nielsen ratings. After the November 25 sweeps, Raycom media will use other research to track KHNL and KGMB audiences. KFVE, owned by HITV, will be affected also. In Hawaii, Nielsen does not use electronic means to track audiences. Recently, only 914 of the printed Nielsen booklets, known as monthly diaries, were completed out of 11,400 diaries. On January 9, 2016, KITV, as well as its second digital channel MeTV, announced that it changed from Nielsen to Rentrak. KHON will continue to use Nielsen ratings.
The various production companies that work with the major networks have produced television series and other projects in Hawaii. Most notable were police dramas like Magnum, P.I.and Hawaii Five-O (including its 2010 remake). Although not set in Hawaii, the settings and locations for Lost was produced and filmed in the state. The Brian Keith Show, an NBC sitcom which aired from 1972–1974, was set in Hawaii. Currently, hit TV shows like Dog the Bounty Hunter and the updated Hawaii Five-0 are filmed in the Hawaiian Islands. A comprehensive list of such projects can be seen at the list of Hawaii television series.
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Catholic Church in Burundi
The Catholic Church in Burundi is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome.
There are about four million Catholics - around two thirds of the total population. There are seven dioceses, including two archdioceses.
Archdiocese of Bujumbura
Diocese of Bubanza
Diocese of Bururi
Archdiocese of Gitega
Diocese of Muyinga
Diocese of Ngozi
Diocese of Rutana
Diocese of Ruyigi
Catholic lay organizations
Xaveri Burundi
See also
Conference of Catholic Bishops of Burundi
Sources
GCatholic.org
Catholic Hierarchy
Burundi
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C2
C2 or a derivative (C-2, C2, etc.) may refer to:
Mathematics and physics
C2, one of the common notations for the cyclic group of order 2
C2 differentiability class
c2 the square of the speed of light (in the mass–energy equivalence formula)
Biology
C2 domain, a protein structural domain
C2 regulatory sequence for the insulin gene
Apolipoprotein C2, a human apolipoprotein
In human anatomy, C2 may refer to:
Cervical vertebra 2, the axis, one of the cervical vertebrae of the vertebral column
Cervical spinal nerve 2
Chlorophyll c2, a form of chlorophyll
Complement component 2
Procyanidin C2, a plant phenolic compound
Prodelphinidin C2, a plant phenolic compound
Vitamin C2, a name sometimes used for Choline
the ATC code for Antihypertensives, a subgroup of the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System
C2 fragments, one of the types of products of catabolism pathways
Chemistry
C2, Diatomic carbon, a molecule made of two carbon atoms
C2=, ethylene, a two carbon alkene
Codes or abbreviations
C2 may be a code or abbreviation for:
C2 Aquarii, a star
C2 Centauri, a star
C2 (Code Geass), an anime character
C2 error, a read error of a compact disc
C2 explosive, a form of plastic explosive
C2 (protocol), a 1985 Commodore file transfer protocol
C2 pylon, a type of high voltage pylon
C2 (radio), a Welsh language music show on BBC Radio Cymru
C2 radio class, a class in FM broadcasting in America
C2 (classification), a para-cycling classification
Group C2, the secondary class of Group C sports car racing
BRDC C2 Championship, a short lived sports car racing series which ran from 1988 to 1990
Nimrod NRA/C2, a 1982 Group C racing car
C2, an international standard paper size defined in ISO 216 (458×648 mm)
C2, a level in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages
C2, the NRS social grade between C1 and D
C2, a computer security class, defined in the Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria
Cryptomeria cipher, a cipher used in digital rights management
Command and control, the exercise of authority by a commanding officer over military forces in the accomplishment of a mission
Air Luxor IATA airline code
C2 Pictures, a film company related to Carolco Pictures
Bill C-2 from Canadian law, an act to amend the Criminal Code and the Canada Evidence Act
C2, or C2 a note-octave in music, aka Low C
Transportation and space
C2 class Melbourne tram
Bavarian C II (Ostbahn), an 1862 German steam locomotive
Bavarian C II.1, an 1857 German steam locomotive
Bavarian C II.2, an 1861 German steam locomotive
Chevrolet Corvette (C2), the generation of the Chevrolet Corvette produced between 1962 and 1967
Citroën C2, a car produced by Citroën in 2004
Cluster II (spacecraft), an ESA space mission
GNR Class C2, a British 4-4-2 steam locomotive
Kawasaki C2, a bike
London Buses route C2
LB&SCR C2 class, an 1893 British 0-6-0 steam locomotive
Circumferential Road 2 or C-2, an arterial road of Manila, Philippines
Saf-T-Liner C2, a school bus built by Thomas Built Buses
Saturn C-2, a 1960 conceptual American launch vehicle
Type C2 ship, a type of all-purpose cargo ship
C2 (yacht), a luxury motor yacht
Central Circular Route (Shuto Expressway) in Tokyo, Japan
Nagoya-Daini-Kanjō Expressway, route C2 in Nagoya, Japan
Military and aviation
C2A1, Squad Automatic Weapon variant of the FN FAL formerly in Canadian Service
C-2 Greyhound, the Grumman cargo aircraft of the United States Navy
ACAZ C.2, a Belgian prototype fighter aircraft of the 1920s
AEG C.II, a German World War II armed reconnaissance aircraft
AGO C.II, a German reconnaissance biplane of World War I
Cierva C.2, a 1921 Spanish experimental autogyro
DFW C.II, a World War I German reconnaissance aircraft
Fokker C-2, the American military version of the Fokker F.VII aircraft
, a British C class submarine of the Royal Navy
Kawasaki C-2, a military transport aircraft
LFG Roland C.II, a 1915 advanced German reconnaissance aircraft
LVG C.II, a 1910s German two-seat reconnaissance biplane
, a C-class submarine of the United States Navy
, a protected cruiser of the United States Navy
A military term for Command and control
C-2 (poison), developed in the Poison laboratory of the Soviet secret services
Other
C2, UEFA Cup Winners' Cup in football, later merged with UEFA Cup (now UEFA Europa League)
C2 Pictures, a film studio
C-2 visa, a nonimmigrant visa which allows individuals to travel to and from the headquarters of the United Nations
Coca-Cola C2, a soft drink launched by The Coca-Cola Company in 2004
C2.com or WikiWikiWeb, the first user-editable website
Haplogroup C-M217, also known as C2, a Human Y-chromosome DNA haplogroup
See also
CO2
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Rudolph Seale
Rudolph Seale (born 29 November 1966) is a South African former footballer who played at both professional and international levels as a defender. Seale last played club football for HP Silver Stars as a player-assistant coach; he also earned nine caps and one goal for the South African national side between 1993 and 1994.
Youth career
He played for Chiefs juniors U12, U14 and U18 where he was snapped up by Giant Blackpool's former Chiefs coach Eddie Lewis.
Giant Blackpool
His six-month spell at Blackpool was successful where he helped them win the OK League.
Kaizer Chiefs
Chiefs signed back their own product in 1986.
He retired in 2003 at the age of 37.
Personal life
"Mgababa" has a son, Tenasch (born 1994).
International career
Seale scored his one and only international goal on debut in the 58th minute in a 2-0 win over Botswana on 10 January 1993. He played his last international on 12 June 1994 in a 1-0 loss to Australia.
After retirement
He sends PSL stats to PA Sport in the UK on match days.
International goals
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José Antonio Rodríguez Martínez
José Antonio Rodríguez Martínez (born 26 May 1931) is a Spanish politician and former President of Cantabria between 1982 and 1984.
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2012 Green Party of England and Wales leadership election
The Green Party of England and Wales leadership election, 2012 took place in August and September 2012. The party has elections every two years for Leader and Deputy Leader roles and this was the third election since the party decided to switch from having principal speakers to having a leader and a deputy leader, or co-leaders. In May 2012, Caroline Lucas announced that she would not seek re-election.
Subsequently, four candidates announced that they would seek to take over from Lucas. These were:
Pippa Bartolotti then-leader of Wales Green Party;
Natalie Bennett, a former editor of Guardian Weekly;
Peter Cranie, a lecturer from Liverpool and European Parliamentary candidate for North-West England in 2009;
Romayne Phoenix, a former teacher & Chair of the Coalition of Resistance.
The incumbent Deputy Leader, Adrian Ramsay, who was widely expected to contest the election for Leader of the party announced that he would not stand in that election, nor for re-election as Deputy Leader.
Four candidates were successfully nominated for the election for Deputy Leader, these being Caroline Allen, a vet from Islington, London; Will Duckworth, a Dudley local councilor; Richard Mallender, a Nottingham local councilor; and Alexandra Phillips, a Brighton and Hove local Councilor.
All members of the party were sent ballot papers in the post with their copy of the party's magazine, 'Green World' at the beginning of August 2012 and had to be returned before 31 August 2012.
The result was declared at 11 a.m., Monday 3 September 2012. Natalie Bennett was elected Leader. Will Duckworth was elected Deputy Leader.
Result
The results were as follows:
Leadership Result
Deputy Leadership Result
Under the election rules operating at the time, the Deputy Leader could not be of the same gender as the Leader. Caroline Allen and Alexandra Phillips were thus eliminated and first preference votes cast for them were redistributed to the highest expressed preference for an eligible candidate. No candidate achieved the necessary quota, but the election rules required that 're-open nominations' not be eliminated, so the candidate with the highest vote was elected.
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Dečno Selo
Dečno Selo (; , in older sources also Dečna Sela, ) is a settlement in the Municipality of Brežice in eastern Slovenia. The area was traditionally part of Styria. It is now included with the rest of the municipality in the Lower Sava Statistical Region.
A small chapel-shrine in the centre of the village was built in the early 20th century.
References
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William Goate
William Goate (or Goat) VC (12 January 1836 – 24 October 1901) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross.
Details
Goate was 22 years old, and a Lance Corporal in the 9th Lancers, British Army during the Indian Mutiny when the following deed took place on 6 March 1858 at the Capture of Lucknow, India for which he was awarded the VC:
He later achieved the rank of Corporal.
Later life
Goate moved to Southsea in May 1900 having lived in Jarrow and worked for 22 years in Palmers shipbuilding firm and that for 18 years he was a member of the Jarrow Company of the Volunteers in which he held the same rank as he did in the Lancers. He died aged 64 at 22 Leopold Street, Southsea, from cancer.
Goat was buried in Highland Road Cemetery and the grave has been reused twice since. There was no headstone marking his grave, but a memorial stone was erected in October 2003.
Medal
His Victoria Cross is displayed in the Regimental Museum of the 9th/12th Royal Lancers at Derby Museum, England.
References
External links
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Chu-Bu and Sheemish
Chu-Bu and Sheemish are characters in a short story of the same name by Lord Dunsany. The tale was first published in The Book of Wonder (1912).
Plot summary
An unnamed narrator tells the following story: Chu-Bu is the accustomed resident in a temple where he is worshipped. Sheemish is a freshly carved idol added to the same temple one day—and from that moment the two deities become jealous, taunt each other and attempt to outdo the other in achieving miracles. Eventually their combined efforts result in a minor earthquake which destroys the temple. Their worshippers each claim their preferred god has caused the earthquake, but all of them stay away and do not rebuild the temple out of fear of such powerful gods. The narrator remarks that he found the demolished, abandoned temple one day and that Sheemish had been smashed but Chu-bu was intact, found on his back with his hands and feet in the air. The narrator brought Chu-bu home, keeps him in that same position on his mantle, and every so often will offer token worship to Chu-bu to keep the god's spirits up.
References
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Mary P. Carpenter
Mary P. Carpenter or Mary P.C. Cooper (1840 – 1900) was an American inventor from Buffalo, New York.
Carpenter was probably raised in a well-to-do family of Buffalo. She was educated in mechanical drawing and had a specific insight into the manufacturing process for textiles. She was probably born in the 1840s, though she was possibly a Scottish immigrant and thus no record of her birth in Buffalo has been found. She is known for 13 US patents that all have in common methods to save time among various domestic tasks. She also founded two companies, the "Carpenter Sewing Machine Needle Co." and the "Carpenter Straw Sewing Machine Co.".
Patents
Her first patent dates from 1862 for creating an ironing or "fluting" machine, meant to simplify the creation of fluted pleats in clothing that was fashionable at the time.
Her next patent dates from 1871 for "a useful Improvement in the Feed-motion of Sewing-Machines".
Her next patent dates from 1872 for "sewing-machines which are especially designed for sewing straw-braid and consists mainly in the construction of the hooked needle employed for drawing the loop through the braid, and also in the mechanism for giving certain peculiar movements to said needle". It is worth noting here that the first US patent filed by a woman was for a cost-improving innovation regarding making women's straw hats, by Mary Dixon Kies, who died before she could profit from her patent. Her original 1809 patent was burned in a fire in 1836, so this 1872 patent is possibly the first patent regarding improvements for straw hat making after that one.
She filed a patent for a coal shovel in 1885.
She also filed a patent for a mosquito-net bed canopy in 1885.
She was clearly still working on mosquito problems five years later when she was awarded a patent for a mosquito trap.
She filed a patent for a strong and effective holder for stretching and supporting thin fabrics or material during the operation of embroidering its surface with a stitched pattern, or otherwise ornamenting the same in 1893.
In 1895 she filed a patent for a device or attachment which will improve the hang of such organ-pipe or goddet skirts, causing them to hang in the desired folds and causing the material to return to the proper folds 'after being disarranged, and by which the folds will be preserved as long as the dress is worn, and which device shall render the use of hair-cloth or similar material heretofore used in such skirts unnecessary, and shall be light, inexpensive, and comfortable and convenient.
Her last known patent was for a hair comb in 1904.
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Damian Collins
Damian Noel Thomas Collins (born 4 February 1974, Northampton) is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Folkestone and Hythe since the 2010 general election.
On 10 September 2012, Collins was made PPS to Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Theresa Villiers.
Education
Collins was educated at St. Mary's [R.C.] High School, a state voluntary aided comprehensive school in the village of Lugwardine in Herefordshire, followed by Belmont Abbey School, a former boarding independent school in Hereford, where he studied for his A Levels. He then went up to St Benet's Hall at the University of Oxford, from which he graduated in Modern History in 1996. The previous year, he became President of the Oxford University Conservative Association.
Early career
Between 1999–2008, Collins worked for the M&C Saatchi advertising agency. In 2005, whilst still working at M&C Saatchi, he set up Influence Communications within the group which specialised in issues based marketing campaigns. Before joining M&C Saatchi, he worked in the Conservative Research Department. In 2008, he joined Lexington Communications, where he was Senior Counsel, before leaving to stand at the 2010 general election.
Political career
In 2002, he was the political officer of the think tank, the Bow Group and a contributor to its 2006 publication Conservative Revival (Politico's Publishing, 2006). In the September 2007 edition of Esquire magazine, he was featured along with six other Conservative parliamentary candidates, as one of the new faces of the party.
At the 2005 general election, he stood in Northampton North; where he finished in second place to sitting Labour MP Sally Keeble who was re-elected with a majority of 3,960 votes over Collins. In May 2006, Collins was included on the "A-list" of Conservative parliamentary candidates, created following the election of David Cameron as Leader of the Conservative Party.
On 13 July 2006, he was selected as prospective parliamentary candidate for the Folkestone and Hythe constituency. He was the successor as Conservative candidate for this seat to Michael Howard, a former Home Secretary and Leader of Conservative Party, who stepped down from Parliament in 2010.
In Parliament
Collins made his maiden speech in the House of Commons on 27 May 2010 in the debate on Energy and the Environment in the Queens's Speech debate. He spoke about his support for a new nuclear power station at Dungeness in his constituency.
In July 2010, he was elected as a member of the House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, of which he was later made Chair.
Collins was opposed to Brexit prior to the 2016 referendum.
In 2010, it was reported that Collins claimed £4,440.90 over three months in rent for a house in London, despite declaring that he already owned a home in the capital. In his defence, he said the property belonged to his wife and was "too small to provide accommodation for my young family, and even if that was not the case, as a new Member of Parliament I wouldn't be able to claim any accommodation allowance against the mortgage on the property."
In September 2012, he came under criticism for suggesting that jobless youths should work for less than minimum wage and for suggesting that they should busk to raise money for fares to find work.
Personal life
Collins and his wife Sarah have two children, a daughter, Claudia (born 2007), and a son, Hugo (born 2009).
Author
Collins is the author of Charmed Life: The Phenomenal World of Philip Sassoon first published in hardback in June 2016 by William Collins and republished in paperback in February 2017. Philip Sassoon was himself elected as MP for Hythe in 1912.
References
External links
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Sarah Carey
Sarah Carey is an Irish columnist and broadcaster. She writes for The Times Ireland Edition
From March 2011 until August 2017 she presented Talking Point - a PPI nominated and critically praised show "Carey a lively broadcaster" and "Carey's a good host" - on Newstalk.
The reason for her contract termination has never been explained by Newstalk Fintan O'Toole - Why I will not appear on Newstalk again
She is a former columnist for The Sunday Times,The Herald, The Irish Catholic and The Irish Times.
Education and early work
Carey has a degree in History from Trinity College, Dublin, and a post-graduate diploma in Business Studies from the Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School in University College, Dublin (U.C.D.). She has performed freelance PR/marketing work for a number of companies and the political party Fine Gael. She has also worked for Esat Digifone.
Carey has also worked in the technology industry including Cape Clear and search engine Cuil
Blogging and newspaper columns
In 2002, she began writing the blog GUBU, "An Irish woman's social, political and domestic commentary". Then Sunday Times Irish Editor Fiona McHugh, offered Carey a column after reading the blog. The Sunday Times column ended when she started writing a weekly opinion column for The Irish Times in 2008. The blog also ended in 2008. Carey revealed that in her time at The Sunday Times, opinion columnists had been forbidden from expressing views in favour of the Lisbon Treaty.
Moriarty Tribunal
Witness
Because she had worked as Marketing Coordinator for Esat Telecom, she was a witness at the Moriarty Tribunal. In 2004, she leaked information provided to her by the tribunal about political donations made by Denis O'Brien to political parties in Ireland. The information included a letter of thanks to O'Brien from Michael McDowell of the Progressive Democrats. These leaks were published by journalist Stephen Collins in The Sunday Tribune. She denied to her legal team that she had been the source of the leak. When told she would be questioned under oath, she admitted she was the source. Carey said "her motives were political" as the Tribunal had only highlighted O'Brien's donations to Fine Gael, and not those to other parties. The Tribunal judge publicly rebuked her in 2004 for wasting the tribunal's time in identifying the source of the leak, describing it as "irresponsible" and "not remotely justified".
Moriarty Tribunal report and aftermath
When the final Tribunal report was published in March 2011, she appeared on Prime Time, a national TV news analysis show, in which she defended the leak and her support for Mr O'Brien. Days later, she resigned from her job with The Irish Times. In a statement, the editor, Geraldine Kennedy, a former T.D. and Progressive Democrat colleague of Michael McDowell's, said that "her credibility as a columnist had been damaged by the findings of the report of the Moriarty tribunal and its aftermath."
She continues to write for other newspapers. and appears regularly on RTE television and radio programmes.
Personal life
Sarah lives in Enfield, County Meath, and is married with three children.
Her father William Carey, was a Fine Gael councillor for 47 years, on Meath County Council.
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2012 Fórmula Truck season
The 2012 Fórmula Truck season was the 17th Fórmula Truck season. It began on March 4 at Velopark, and ended on December 9 at Brasília after ten rounds. All ten rounds counted towards the Brazilian title, with four rounds counting towards the South American title.
Mercedes-Benz driver Leandro Totti won the South American and Brazilian Championship.
Teams and drivers
All drivers were Brazilian-registered, excepting Luis Pucci, who raced under Argentine racing license.
Notes
Calendar
All races were held in Brazil, excepting round at Autódromo Oscar Cabalén, that was held in Argentina.
Key:
Results
Championship standings
Points were awarded as follows:
Brazilian
Drivers' standings
Notes:
1 2 3 4 5 refers to the classification of the drivers on the yellow flag scheduled, where bonus points are awarded 5–4–3–2–1 and the top five drivers in race ensures a place on the podium.
Manufacturers' standings
South American
Drivers' standings
Notes:
1 2 3 4 5 refers to the classification of the drivers on the yellow flag scheduled, where bonus points are awarded 5–4–3–2–1 and the top five drivers in race ensures a place on the podium.
Manufacturers' standings
References
External links
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Formula Truck
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Gabriel de L’Aubespine
Gabriel de L'Aubespine (26 January 1579 - 15 August 1630) was a French prelate of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Bishop of Orléans from 1604 to 1630, he was made a knight in the Order of the Holy Spirit during the reign of Louis XIII on 31 December 1619. A learned man, he authored the liturgical work Veteribus Ecclesia Ritibus, printed in Paris, in 1623.
Biography
Originating from a family from Beauce, merchants and notables of Orleans, known since the middle of the fifteenth century, Gabriel de L'Aubespine was born 26 January 1579, son of Guillaume de L'Aubespine, Baron of Chateauneuf, and Marie de La Chatre; he was the brother of Charles de L'Aubespine, future Keeper of the Seals. He began his studies in Paris where he obtained his bachelorate of theology in 1604 and became socius of the Sorbonne. He was a learned man, respected by his contemporaries for his knowledge of the writings of the Fathers of the Church; Nominal subdeacon of Orleans, he was succeeded by his brother, Guillaume, around 1600. He succeeds his brother Jean de L'Aubespine and was named bishop in 1604, confirmed by the Holy See on 28 March 1604. He died in 1630.
The Duke of Saint-Simon, his grand-nephew by his mother Charlotte de L'Aubespine, drew his portrait in his Memoirs. His impartiality may have suffered.
"The bishop of Orleans, Gabriel de L'Aubespine, elder brother of M. de Chateauneuf who was Keeper of the Seals to the disgrace of the Keeper of the Seals of Marillac, at the end of 1630, which was the famous day of the Dupes. One saw his family among those of the Chancellors and Guards of the Seals of France of Louis XIV, who returned them to him, in his minority, for a short time. Our prelate was bishop of Orleans in 1604 and crowned in Rome, March 28 of the same year, by the hand of Pope Clement VIII. He held one of the first places of the clergy of France by his doctrine and his ability in business, and illustrated it by his piety and his assiduity to his episcopal foundings. He was the soul of the assemblies of the clergy and all matters of doctrine in the Sorbonne and among the bishops. Between several works he has made, his treatise on the Eucharist has made his reputation immortal. He died in Grenoble, a little advanced in age, but consumed with study and work, 15 October 1630, deputy with other prelates of the assembly of the clergy towards the King, who was at Lyons."— Saint-Simon
Works
De veteribus ecclesiasticae ritibus observationes: libri duo (1672)
L'ancienne police de l'église sur l'administration de l'Eucharistie (1629)
Observationes ecclesiasticae in epitomen redactae et annotatis illustratae a Joanne Georgio Kettenbeillio (etc.) | L'Aubespine, Gabriel de and Kettembeil, Johannes Georgius (1657)
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Regina Rage
The Regina Rage were a women's football team in the Lingerie Football League (LFL) and played in the 2012 LFL Canada season. Based in Regina, Saskatchewan, the Rage played its home games at the Brandt Centre.
The Rage were one of four charter teams to play in the LFL Canada, along with the Toronto Triumph (which played in the 2011–12 LFL season), the BC Angels, and Saskatoon Sirens. The Rage's colours are a tribute to Regina's professional football team, the Saskatchewan Roughriders.
The 2013 LFL Canada season was postponed a few weeks prior to the start of the season due to player disputes, league office scheduling, and general lack of team preparation. The LFL Canada never returned.
References
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1951–52 OB I bajnoksag season
The 1951–52 OB I bajnokság season was the 15th season of the OB I bajnokság, the top level of ice hockey in Hungary. Six teams participated in the league, and Voros Meteor Budapest won the championship.
Regular season
External links
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Hun
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Greg Fidelman
Greg Fidelman (born September 4, 1965) is an American record mixer, engineer and record producer. He is a frequent collaborator of producer Rick Rubin, and has worked with many bands in various genres, including Metallica, Slayer, High on Fire, Black Sabbath, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Bush, Audioslave, Marilyn Manson, Slipknot, and System of a Down, but has also worked on albums by U2, Johnny Cash, Neil Diamond and others.
Before going into music engineering, he was the former lead guitarist in the band Rhino Bucket, being credited by the name Greg Fields.
Notable albums worked on
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Oxyhammus scutellaris
Oxyhammus scutellaris is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Kolbe in 1894.
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Doug McIntosh
Doug McIntosh is an American former basketball player who is currently a pastor. He won two national championships playing college basketball for the UCLA Bruins.
Basketball career
McIntosh, a center from Lily High School in Lily, Kentucky, was originally planning to play college ball for Tennessee, but their coach lost his job, and the school's interest waned. McIntosh instead attended the University of California at Los Angeles, and played for the Bruins under future Hall of Fame coach John Wooden. He was a key reserve for the Bruins as they won their first national title in 1964, playing around 30 minutes in the championship game against Duke and grabbing 11 rebounds. He filled in for starter Fred Slaughter, who barely played after being injured on the game's opening tip.
McIntosh became a starter as a junior in 1964–65, replacing the departed senior Slaughter, and UCLA repeated as national champions. In the championship game against Michigan, Wooden opted to play sophomore reserve Mike Lynn over McIntosh for most of the game, much like he had favored McIntosh over Slaughter a year earlier. After the game, McIntosh expressed agreement with his coach's substitution. As a senior, McIntish appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated issue previewing the upcoming college season. For his Bruin career, McIntosh scored 543 points (6.4 per game) and 486 rebounds (5.7 per game).
Years later, Wooden said that McIntosh was one of the two players in his coaching tenure who came closest to fulfilling their potential. After seeing him as a freshman, Wooden did not believe that McIntosh would ever play much with the school's varsity. However, he was surprised that the center became a significant contributor and eventual starter. Wooden was as proud of McIntosh as any player that he ever coached.
Later years
After college, McIntosh was not selected in the 1966 NBA Draft. He attended seminary at Dallas Theological Seminary and later co-founded the Cornerstone Bible Church in Lilburn, Georgia.
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Codd's theorem
Codd's theorem states that relational algebra and the domain-independent relational calculus queries, two well-known foundational query languages for the relational model, are precisely equivalent in expressive power. That is, a database query can be formulated in one language if and only if it can be expressed in the other.
The theorem is named after Edgar F. Codd, the father of the relational model for database management.
The domain independent relational calculus queries are precisely those relational calculus queries that are invariant under choosing domains of values beyond those appearing in the database itself. That is, queries that may return different results for different domains are excluded. An example of such a forbidden query is the query "select all tuples other than those occurring in relation R", where R is a relation in the database. Assuming different domains, i.e., sets of atomic data items from which tuples can be constructed, this query returns different results and thus is clearly not domain independent.
Codd's Theorem is notable since it establishes the equivalence of two syntactically quite dissimilar languages: relational algebra is a variable-free language, while relational calculus is a logical language with variables and quantification.
Relational calculus is essentially equivalent to first-order logic, and indeed, Codd's Theorem had been known to logicians since the late 1940s.
Query languages that are equivalent in expressive power to relational algebra were called relationally complete by Codd. By Codd's Theorem, this includes relational calculus. Relational completeness clearly does not imply that any interesting database query can be expressed in relationally complete languages. Well-known examples of inexpressible queries include simple aggregations (counting tuples, or summing up values occurring in tuples, which are operations expressible in SQL but not in relational algebra) and computing the transitive closure of a graph given by its binary edge relation (see also expressive power). Codd's theorem also doesn't consider SQL nulls and the three-valued logic they entail; the logical treatment of nulls remains mired in controversy. Additionally, SQL allows duplicate rows (has multiset semantics.) Nevertheless, relational completeness constitutes an important yardstick by which the expressive power of query languages can be compared.
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Mitchel Godden
Mitchel Stuart Godden (born 13 February 1975) is an English Motorcycle rider who compete's in Longtrack and Grasstrack Racing for Solos and more recently Sidecars. He is the son of Don Godden who won the Individual Speedway Long Track World Championship.
Mitchell Godden followed in his fathers footsteps and started racing in 1992. He started on a 250cc (ex Jeremy Doncaster) Honda red Rocket and rode this for one season before using Godden works 350cc and then after a couple of seasons the 500cc. Mitch progressed to international racing becoming a specialists on German Grasstracks and Dutch Sandtracks. He often travelled to many of his European meetings with other riders, notably Trevor Banks the late Vincent Kinchin and “Super” Dave Mears among others.
In 2015 Mitchell went in to 500cc Sidecar racing and has again had massive success in the UK but especially on the continent. Along with his passenger Paul Smith they have quickly become one of the best crews in Europe. He has won events in Werlte , Ludinghausen, Berghaupten, Rastede & Angenrod, (Germany) and Roden & Eenrum in the Netherlands amongst others and with his never say die racing attitude they have delighted the European crowds with fantastic racing action. A close connection with long time friend and ex racer Gary Southgate helped and encourage the change in direction from 2 wheels to 3.
Using his track racing knowledge and engineering background Mitchel is now making and producing his own complete 500cc Sidecar machined known as Zircon Racing. Although this is not on a commercial basis if his own results are anything to go by they have already proven themselves to be world beaters. The team Godden/Smith raced to an impressive 19 podiums from 22 starts in 2017, 18 podiums from 23 starts in 2018 and 21 podiums from 23 starts in 2019, with most events being fought of foreign soil.
FIM SIDECAR European Championship
Mitchel & Paul finished an incredible 4th in their first attempt at the European title in Tayac France July 2017, 2nd in the 2018 FIME Championship in Werlte Germany July 2018, and 3rd in 2019 FIME Championship in Eenrum Netherlands August 2019.
The team have the prestigious accolade of being the only British team in history to hold 2 European championships medals and the only team in British history to win a championship medal(s) on foreign soil.
The 2020 Championship being held in Pfarrkirchen Germany on September 6th could see the boys complete the set bringing home gold!!!
Promotion
In recent year Mitchell has also turned his hand to promotion. He started the charity Kart meeting at Buckmore Park as well as promotion and running of the Invicta International Grasstrack meetings at the Hop Farm and Collier Street 'The Kings of Speed' in 2008, 2011 and 2012. In 2016 he started the Pit Bike Winter Series at Iwade Stadium.
Management
In 2013 Mitchell on behalf of the ACU took over the manager role of the Great Britain World Longtrack team. In 2013 he led the team to the bronze medal and 2015 he led the team to their only championship. His last year in the role will be 2018.
World Longtrack Championship
Individual Championship
1999 4 app (16th) 18pts
Team Championship
Rider
2007 Morizes – Second (with Paul Hurry, Andrew Appleton, Glen Phillips)
2008 Werlte – Third (with Richard Hall, Glen Phillips, Vince Kinchin)
2011 Scheeßel – Third (with Paul Cooper, Andrew Appleton, Glen Phillips)
Manager
2013 Folkestone – Third (with Richard Hall, Andrew Appleton, Paul Cooper, Glen Phillips)
2014 Forssa – Fifth (with Andrew Appleton, Richard Hall, David Howe, Glen Phillips)
2015 Mühldorf – First (with Andrew Appleton, Richard Hall, James Shanes, Glen Phillips)
2016 Marianske Lazne – Fourth (with Andrew Appleton, Richard Hall, James Shanes, Glen Phillips)
2017 Roden – Fourth (with Andrew Appleton, Richard Hall, James Shanes, Edward Kennett)
2018 Morizes – Second (with James Shanes, Chris Harris, Zach Wajtknecht, Adam Ellis)
European Grasstrack Championship
Solos Finals
2004 Eenrum (14th) 4pts
2008 Siddeburen (10th) 11pts
2010 La Reole (12th) 9pts
2011 Skegness (8th) 14pts
2012 Eenrum (14th) 6pts
2015 Staphorst (11th) 6pts
2016 Folkestone (14th) 3pts
Solos Semi-finals
2000 Semi-finalist
2003 Semi-finalist
2005 Semi-finalist
2006 Semi-finalist
2009 Semi-finalist
2014 Semi-finalist
Sidecar Finals
2017 Tayac (4th) 7pts
2018 Wertle (Second) 17pts
British Masters Grasstrack Championship
Top Ten Finishes
2005 Northiam (9th)
2006 Wadebridge (7th)
2007 Long Marston (9th)
2008 Rhodes Minnis (4th)
2010 Rhodes Minnis (5th)
2013 Uddens (7th)
2014 Swingfield (6th)
2015 Corfe Mullen (9th)
Other Appearances: 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2009, 2011, 2012.
British Sidecar Championship
2016 Frittenden (Second)
2017 Ledbury (Second)
2018 Chelmsford (Third)
British Sand Ace Championship
2006 Guernsey (Champion)
2007 Guernsey (Champion)
2008 Guernsey (5th)
2009 Guernsey (Champion)
2010 Guernsey (Champion)
2011 Guernsey (Champion)
2012 Guernsey (Third)
2013 Guernsey (18th)
2014 Guernsey (5th)
2015 Guernsey (6th)
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Philpot's and Hook Quarries
Philpot's and Hook Quarries is a geological Site of Special Scientific Interest south-west of Sharpthorne in West Sussex. It is a Geological Conservation Review site.
These quarries expose the Ardingly Sandstone Member in the Tunbridge Wells Sand Formation, which is part of the Wealden Group, dating to the Lower Cretaceous between 140 and 100 million years ago. Philpot's Quarry has many dinosaur fossils and both quarries have debris dating to the Precambrian.
The quarries are private land with no public access.
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Tanmakkerni
Tanmakkerni is a small town in Sri Lanka. It is located within Northern Province.
See also
List of towns in Northern Province, Sri Lanka
External links
Department of Census and Statistics -Sri Lanka
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Arnaud Viala
Arnaud Viala is a French politician representing the Republicans. He was elected to the French National Assembly on 18 June 2017, representing the department of Aveyron.
See also
2017 French legislative election
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Black Eye Blues
Black Eye Blues is the second studio album by the American hardcore band Lewd Acts. The album was released on September 1, 2009 through Deathwish Inc. Black Eye Blues was met with generally positive reviews. NME said the song "Night-Crawlers" is "a melodic welt to be worn proudly." The illustrations for Black Eye Blues were done by Tyler Densley, and the design and packaging were done by Jacob Bannon of Converge. The album was produced by Kurt Ballou also of Converge.
Track listing
"Know Where to Go" – 1:37
"Wide Black Eyes" – 1:28
"Night-Crawlers" – 2:16
"You Don't Need Me" – 0:42
"I Don't Need You" – 3:22
"Who Knew the West Coast Could Be So Cold" – 1:24
"Penmanship Sailed" – 5:03
"Young Lovers, Old Livers" – 2:30
"Rot Gut Charlie" – 1:19
"My Father Was a Locomotive" – 2:56
"Nowhere to Go" – 6:03
References
Category:2009 albums
Category:Deathwish Inc. albums
Category:Albums with cover art by Jacob Bannon
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Saint-Laurent-des-Vignes
Saint-Laurent-des-Vignes is a commune in the Dordogne department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France.
Population
See also
Communes of the Dordogne department
References
INSEE
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Wolford, North Dakota
Wolford is a city in Pierce County, North Dakota, United States. The population was 36 at the 2010 census. Wolford was founded in 1905.
Geography
Wolford is located at (48.497937, -99.705528).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land.
Demographics
2010 census
As of the census of 2010, there were 36 people, 17 households, and 10 families residing in the city. The population density was . There were 27 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 100.0% White.
There were 17 households of which 23.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 58.8% were married couples living together, and 41.2% were non-families. 41.2% of all households were made up of individuals and 17.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.12 and the average family size was 2.90.
The median age in the city was 51.5 years. 25% of residents were under the age of 18; 0.0% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 19.4% were from 25 to 44; 36.2% were from 45 to 64; and 19.4% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 47.2% male and 52.8% female.
2000 census
As of the census of 2000, there were 50 people, 21 households, and 14 families residing in the city. The population density was 312.8 people per square mile (120.7/km²). There were 30 housing units at an average density of 187.7 per square mile (72.4/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 100.00% White.
There were 21 households out of which 28.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 61.9% were married couples living together, 4.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 33.3% were non-families. 33.3% of all households were made up of individuals and 4.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.38 and the average family size was 3.07.
In the city, the population was spread out with 26.0% under the age of 18, 2.0% from 18 to 24, 32.0% from 25 to 44, 30.0% from 45 to 64, and 10.0% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 38 years. For every 10 females there were 10.8 males. For every 10 females age 18 and over, there were 11.7 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $37,500, and the median income for a family was $38,750. Males had a median income of $21,250 versus $13,750 for females. The per capita income for the city was $18,662. None of the population and none of the families were below the poverty line.
References
Category:Cities in North Dakota
Category:Cities in Pierce County, North Dakota
Category:Populated places established in 1905
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Gongylophis
Common name: sand boas, Kenyan sand boa
Gongylophis is a genus of non-venomous snakes in the family Boidae. The genus is endemic to Africa and the Indian subcontinent. Three species are recognized as being valid. The species are still considered a category placed in the genus Eryx.
Synonyms: Anguis colubrina, Eryx thebaicus, Eryx jaculus, Gongylophis thebaicus, Eryx thebaicus, Eryx loveridgei, Eryx rufescens, Eryx colubrinus, Eryx (Neogongylophis) colubrinus, Gongylophis colubrinus, Gongylophis colubrinus rufescens, Eryx colubrinus, Gongylophis colubrinus, Eryx colubrinus loveridgei, and Eryx thebaicus loveridgei.
Distribution and habitat
The genus Gongylophis is found in Africa from Mauritania and Senegal east to Egypt and south to Tanzania. It is also reported from the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula. In the Indian subcontinent the genus is found from eastern Pakistan, eastern India and Bangladesh southwards as far as northwestern Sri Lanka. To be more specific, the genus Gongylophis can be found in Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Chad, Niger, Yemen, Tanzania, and Somalia.
Reproduction
Viviparous; Sand boas reach sexual maturity at two to three years of age. These snakes are ovoviviparous (young develop inside egg sacs incubated inside the female's body). The young hatch live after a gestation period of four months inside the female's body. She gives birth to five to 12 offspring. The young are completely independent at birth. Sand boas are sexually dimorphic. Fully developed female sand boas can have a length of 26 to 32 inches long, while fully developed male sand boas can have a length of 15 to 18 inches long. Another important characteristic to note about their reproduction is their weight. More than their length, their weight is an indicator of good health and readiness for reproduction. The average healthy weight of a male sand boa ready to breed is 70 to 100 grams. The average weight of a healthy female sand boa ready to breed is 400-900 grams. Female sand boas give live birth from 5 to 12 offspring. The young sand boas are left to fend for themselves like most newly born reptiles.
Behavior
Contraire to common belief, sand boas do not spend most of their time buried under loose dry sand. Sand boas are nocturnal and spend most of the day, when it is the hottest, hiding in semi-humid dirt or sand, burrowing to protect itself and avoid common predators. Sand boas will climb, explore, and spend most of its time in long grass, shrubs, and bushes in hopes to catching a small rodent or small bird. Sand boas are ambush predators. They hide, strike when they are stimulated by smell and movement, and coil to constrict their prey. Like most boas, they swallow their prey whole and feed approximately once a week in captivity. Sand boas are docile small sized boas that rarely strike in an aggressive or defensive manner, preferring to dig and burrow itself as a defense mechanism.
Species
T) Type species.
Taxonomy
Boulenger (1890) used the generic name Gongylophis for the Indian species, conicus, and Eryx for the other African and Asian species.
See also
List of erycine species and subspecies
References
External links
Category:Erycinae
Category:Snake genera
Category:Taxa named by Johann Georg Wagler
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