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Bart Schilperoord (born 11 November 1982) is a Dutch former first-class cricketer.
Schilperoord was born at Schiedam. A club cricketer for Hermes DVS, He made a single appearance in first-class cricket for the Netherlands against Canada in the Intercontinental Cup at Rotterdam in July 2009, replacing retired wicket-keeper Jeroen Smits. Batting twice in the match, he was dismissed for 15 runs in the Dutch first innings by Zameer Zahir, while in their second innings he was dismissed for 27 runs by the same bowler. As wicket-keeper, he took one catch and one stumping. He was later selected in the Dutch squad for their Intercontinental Cup fixture against Scotland in June 2010, but did not feature in the starting eleven.
References
External links
1982 births
Living people
People from Schiedam
Dutch cricketers |
Eperua falcata, the bootlace tree, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, native to northern South America. Capable of growing in pure white sand, its timber is valued for its resistance to decay and is used for shingles, telephone poles, and similar applications.
References
Detarioideae
Flora of Colombia
Flora of northern South America
Flora of North Brazil
Plants described in 1775 |
Iceland's Bell or The Iceland Clock () is an outdoor art piece by Kristin E. Hrafnsson at the University of Akureyri in northern Iceland. It was commissioned by the city of Akureyri and it references the "vigilance that characterizes good university people". The artwork was Hrafnsson's contribution to a competition held by the city of Akureyri in 2000 on to commemorate the millennium advent of Christianity in Iceland and Leif Erikson's first colonization of North America. Ownership of the piece was transferred to the university by the city in 2001 and has been incorporated into the university logo. On August 24, 2012, The bell was rung 150 times to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Akureyri's regaining of municipal status and the 25th anniversary of University of Akureyri.
Iceland's Bell is a 1943 historical novel of the same name by Nobel prize-winning Icelandic author Halldór Kiljan Laxness. Arguably the most important Icelandic painter, Jóhannes Kjarval, depicts the "cutting down the bell" scene from the Íslandsklukkan book in a painting with the same title that currently hangs in the Kjarvalstadir museum, in Reykjavík. Thus the imagery of a bell clock has an important place in Icelandic art.
References
Akureyri
Icelandic art
Buildings and structures in Akureyri |
Osarhieme Osadolor is a Nigerian professor of history and International studies. He was the former Dean of student affairs at the University of Benin and was appointed the acting vice-chancellor of the Ambrose Alli University on May 10, 2021.
References
See also
List of vice chancellors in Nigeria
Ambrose Alli University
Living people
Vice-Chancellors of Nigerian universities
People from Edo State |
The 2022 Lucknow Municipal Corporation election is an upcoming election for the members of
Lucknow Municipal Corporation which governs Lucknow, the capital and the largest city of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The 2022 LMC election is likely to be held in Late November.
Schedule
Background
After the 2017 LMC elections, Sanyukta Bhatia of Bharatiya Janata Party who got about 41.94% of total votes cast in the election became the first female mayor of Lucknow with the absolute majority of NDA in the house.
There are 14 candidates who won independently from their wards in 2017 LMC elections.
See also
2022 elections in India
2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election
Lucknow Municipal Corporation
References
Lucknow
Lucknow
Lucknow |
Kinabalu Jaguar Football Club or KJFC is a Malaysian football club, based in Sepanggar, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah that played in the Malaysia M3 League.
History
The Kinabalu Football Club formed by businessman and former footballer of Sabah in 2021. Verdon Bahanda
Honours
Liga Carino-SAFA Bandaraya Kota Kinabalu
Winners (1): 2011–12
Players
First-team squad
Club captains
Head coach
Team managers
Management team
Club personnel
2022 Kinabalu Jaguar Football Club
Team manager: Adzhar b. Mohamad
Assistant manager: Asri Abdul Mali
Head coach: Mohd Aiyyman Shah Johny Abdullah
Assistant Head coach: Sueli Apin
Assistant coach: Michael Wong @ Jime
Goal Keeper coach: Dante S Tipay
Fitness coach: Muhamadin b. Abdul Ajid
Team Doctor: Firdaus b. Ahmayuddin
Physiotherapist: Kelvin Chong Han Vui
Security: Roning b. Mulut
Kitman: Jamal b. Damin
Team secretary: David Toru
Assistant secretary: Clerence George
Media officer: Hanif b. Ismail
References
External links
Football clubs in Malaysia
1991 establishments in Malaysia |
Khalifa Ababacar Sall (born 1 January 1956) is a Senegalese politician. He is a former government minister and a former mayor of Dakar.
He is the leader of Manko Taxawu Sénégal in the 2022 Senegalese parliamentary election.
References
Living people
1956 births
Mayors of Dakar
Socialist Party of Senegal politicians
Government ministers of Senegal
Members of the National Assembly (Senegal) |
The 2022 Tournoi de France was the 3rd edition of the Tournoi de France, an international women's football tournament, consisting of a series of friendly games, that was held in France from 16 to 22 February 2022. The four national teams involved in the tournament registered a squad of 23 players.
The age listed for each player is on 16 February 2022, the first day of the tournament. The numbers of caps and goals listed for each player do not include any matches played after the start of tournament. The club listed is the club for which the player last played a competitive match prior to the tournament. The nationality for each club reflects the national association (not the league) to which the club is affiliated. A flag is included for coaches that are of a different nationality than their own national team.
Squads
Brazil
Coach: Pia Sundhage
The 23-player squad was announced on 1 February 2022. Two weeks later, Júlia and Bia Zaneratto withdrew from the squad due to COVID-19 and Ludmila, Ana Vitória, and Lauren were called-up to replace them.
Finland
Coach: Anna Signeul
The 22-player squad was announced on 8 February 2022. Two days later, Vilma Koivisto, Heidi Kollanen, and Amanda Rantanen were added to the squad. On 15 February 2022, Katariina Kosola was added to the squad. Two days later, it was confirmed that Emmi Alanen withdrew from the squad due to illness.
France
Coach: Corinne Diacre
The 25-player squad was announced on 8 February 2022.
Netherlands
Coach: Mark Parsons
The 27-player squad was announced on 8 February 2022. The following week, Dominique Janssen, Jill Roord, Lynn Wilms, and Renate Jansen withdrew from the squad due to COVID-19 protocols and were replaced by Lisa Doorn, Chasity Grant, Kayleigh van Dooren, and Janou Levels.
Player representation
By club
Clubs with three or more players represented are listed.
By club nationality
By club federation
By representatives of domestic league
References
Tournoi de France (Women) |
Carlina involucrata is a species of perennial herb in the family Asteraceae. They have a self-supporting growth form and broad leaves.
Source
References
Carlina |
Landore Low Level railway station served the district of Landore, in the historical county of Glamorganshire, Wales, from 1881 to 1954 on the Morriston Branch.
History
The station was opened on 9 May 1881 by the Great Western Railway. The services were suspended on 9 May 1921 to save coal from the trains due to a coal strike. They resumed on 20 June 1921.l The station closed on 4 January 1954.
References
Disused railway stations in Swansea
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1881
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1954
1881 establishments in Wales
1954 disestablishments in Wales |
Claude Pouteau (born August 14, 1724, in Lyon, and died February 10, 1775, in the same city) was a French surgeon and inventor.
Biography
Claude Pouteau was the son of a surgeon, from whom he received his first medical education. He then studied in Paris, where he had as masters Jean-Louis Petit, Henri François Le Dran and Sauveur François Morand. Once his thesis was defended, he returned to Lyon, where he was appointed junior surgeon at the Hôtel-Dieu in 1744. He succeeded Pierre Grassot as major surgeon at the Hôtel-Dieu and continued, like the latter, to promote vaccination against smallpox. In 1753 he turned to private practice, where he was very successful.
In 1755 he was made a member of the Academy of Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts de Lyon.
Pouteau was a very human doctor. For example, he put an end to the lithotomy operations performed in a row (the spectators saw several operations, but the patients were waiting amidst the cries of those who preceded them). Yet it was Pouteau who, for his use of fire, was accused of cruelty by its competitors.
He died of a skull fracture following a fall.
Contributions
Observations
Pouteau made numerous observations on cancer, on fire in the treatment of rheumatism and other diseases, on the properties of the pores of the skin, on pulmonary tuberculosis and on the rickets.
Asepsis before the letter
A century before Ignaz Semmelweis, Pouteau understood that, in hospitals, infection was not transmitted only through the air, but through direct contact with the surgeon's hands, dressings and instruments. and he deduced asepsis measures.
It's not just the unsanitary air that he blames for cases of gangrene or "pourriture d'hôpital" ("hospital rot") (which often turned minor injuries into serious disabilities). Against what he calls the "gangrenous virus", he prescribes:
that the hands of surgeons and caregivers are washed;
that single-use paper or cardboard be used in dressings;
that the linen used for dressings is no longer reused for this purpose;
that the lint be made outside the hospital by clean hands and brought in gradually.
Forearm fractures
Pouteau described a wide variety of forearm fractures. It is sometimes said that he was the first to describe the Colles' fracture (which is sometimes called the Pouteau-Colles fracture), but, according to P. Liverneaux, it is not the case.
Achievements
Inventions and processes
Lithotome at the level ("taille au niveau").
Incision through the inside of the eyelid (to avoid visible scars) in the case of obstruction of the lacrimal passages.
"Modifications in various operating areas: ligatures of the :fr:omentum in strangulated hernia, dressings of fistulas in the anus, arterial ligatures in amputations, reduction of joint dislocations etc."
Works
Publications
Mélanges de chirurgie, Lyon, Geofroy Regnault, 1760, online.
Essai sur la rage, 1763, online.
La taille au niveau. Mémoire sur la lithotomie par l'appareil latéral, circonstances et dépendances, avec addition de quelques nouveaux instruments pour cette opération, Avignon, 1765, online.
Œuvres posthumes, edited and enlarged by Jean Colombier, 1783: t.1 online ; 2 online; t. 3 online.
Claude Pouteau and Georg Ludwig Rumpelt, Vermischte Schrifften von der Wundarzneykunst, Dresden and Warsaw, 1764.
Manuscript
At Duke University.
Bibliography
Avis d'un serviteur d'Esculape, sur les Mélanges de chirurgie : aux citoyens de Lyon, 1761, online. (Hostile to Pouteau.)
L. J. Bégin, "“Pouteau (Claude)", in Nicolas Philibert Adelon, Dictionnaire des sciences médicales, t. 6, Paris, Panckoucke, 1812, p. 490, online.
Louis Paul Fischer et Khadija Touil, "Claude Pouteau (1725-1775), chirurgien de l'Hôtel-Dieu de Lyon : son asepsie au moyen de l'eau, du feu et du linge propre", in Histoire des sciences médicales, 1998, vol. 32, no. 1, p. 27–37, online.
:fr:Charles Ozanam, article "Pouteau (Claude)", in Louis-Gabriel Michaud, Ancient and modern universal biography, t. 34, Desplaces, p. 250, online.
Khadija Touil, Contribution à la biographie de Claude Pouteau (1725–1775), chirurgien-major de l'hôtel-Dieu de Lyon, thesis under the supervision of Louis Paul Fischer, 1996.
Pierre Crépel and Jean-Pierre Hanno Neidhardt, "Claude Pouteau", in Dominique Saint-Pierre (dir.) Dictionnaire historique des académiciens de Lyon 1700-2016, Lyon, Éditions de l'Académie (4, rue Adolphe Max, 69005 Lyon), 2017, p. 1071-1074.
(Mainstream press) "Claude Pouteau, un pionnier de la chirurgie lyonnaise", Le Progrès, August 31, 2014, online.
Iconography
Bust by Jean-François Legendre-Héral, a sculptor from Montpellier, at one of the corners of the dome of the Hôtel-Dieu de Lyon.
Engraving by Augustin de Saint-Aubin.
Notes and references
French surgeons
1724 births
1775 deaths
Accidental deaths from falls |
Carlina lanata is a species of plants in the family Asteraceae.
Source
References
Carlina |
Sall is the surname of the Lam Toro dynasty (King of Toro) of Senegal in the 15th century.
Moustapha Bayal Sall (born 1985), Senegalese football central defender
Abdou Sall (born 1980), Senegalese footballer
Khalifa Sall (born 1956), Senegalese politician
Marieme Faye Sall, Senegalese engineer and public figure who has served as the First Lady of Senegal since 2012
Ralph Sall, American record producer, music supervisor, composer, songwriter, and screenwriter
Surnames of African origin |
Carthamus caeruleus is a species of plants in the family Asteraceae.
Source
References
Carthamus |
Lowden Building is a historic building in Savannah, Georgia, United States. Located in Savannah's Historic District, the addresses of some of the properties are West Bay Street, above Factors Walk, while others solely utilize the former King Cotton warehouses on River Street. As of February 2022, these are Land & Sea Wear, The Black Dog, Perkins & Sons Chandlery and Earthbound Trading Company.
George W. Lowden
The property was built in 1910 for George W. Lowden, an oyster merchant. In his first year of business, his Bluffton and Savannah Line sailed from his wharf, in front of his property on River Street, to Bluffton, South Carolina, on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays. It made the return journey on Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays.
In 1912, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee filed a lawsuit against Lowden in the District Court of the United States for libel in the seizure of 150 cases of oysters, dispatched to Chastain, Davis & Vestal Co. in Knoxville, Tennessee, each containing two dozen cans that had allegedly been misbranded, a violation of the Food and Drugs Act. The shipment, made on or around September 15, 1911, was labeled on the cases as being "2 Doz. No. 1 Cove Oysters Venus Point Brand" and on the cans as being "Venus Point Brand Cove Oysters, Packed by Geo. W. Lowden, Main Office, Savannah, Georgia, Factories Georgia and South Carolina." Adulteration of the product was alleged, the reason being that the water had been "mixed and packed therewith and substituted for oysters, thus reducing their quality and strength." The pertinent point raised was that the product's labels did not state the presence of added water, nor bore any "statements that the product was other than oysters and oyster liquor."
On April 23, 1917, Lowden claimed his wharf was damaged by lines of wire rope from the pipeline dredge Morgan that passed along the Savannah River. He received damages of $39.95 from the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
Lowden died on July 7, 1920, in Hot Springs, Arkansas, where he been for treatment on a health issue. He is buried in Savannah's Bonaventure Cemetery. In 1929, his relative Harry Oliver Lowden filed a trademark registration for the canned oysters, canned shrimp and canned prawns business.
Architectural detail
See also
Buildings in Savannah Historic District
References
Commercial buildings in Savannah
Commercial buildings completed in 1910
Savannah Historic District |
Joseph Bonnnaire (Saint-Chef, 9 August 1842 – 4 August 1910, Lyons) was a French rose breeder who is recognized for his work in Lyons, France, in the development of Hybrid tea roses and Tea roses. He opened his own nursery in 1878 in Monplaisir, at this time a suburb of Lyons.
He especially creates varieties with pastel and refined tones. His rose 'Madame Joseph Bonnaire' (1891), dedicated to his wife, is still present in contemporary international catalogs.
Among the forty of his creations, we can distinguish:
'Souvenir de Victor Hugo' (1884)
'Dr. Grill' (1884)
'Madame Ernest Piard' (1887)
'Mademoiselle Jeanne Guillaumez' (1889)
'Souvenir d'Auguste Legros' (1889)
'Elisa Fugier' (1890)
'Madame Joseph Bonnaire' (1891)
Mademoiselle Joséphine Marot (1894)
Notes
Bibliography
Nathalie Ferrand, Les Rosiéristes de la région lyonnaise : élaboration des variétés, études des marchés (1873-1939) read online, in Ruralia, 2007
1842 births
1910 deaths
Rose breeders
French gardeners |
Stsiapan Putsila (; born July 27, 1998) or Stepan Aleksandrovič Putilo () is a Belarusian journalist, blogger, film director and TV presenter, mostly known as founder of the media outlet Nexta. The Telegram channel NEXTA Live he founded was at times the biggest Russian-language channel in the world.
He currently lives in exile in Poland.
Life
Putsila is the son of Aliaksandr Putsila, a sports journalist and commentator for Belsat TV. According to his own words, Putsila had been interested in video content since his childhood.
Putsila graduated from the Belarusian Humanities Lyceum in Minsk where he shot his first video clips and where be began to engage in journalism by publishing an own newspaper.
Foundation of NEXTA
In October 2015, Putsila founded the YouTube channel NEXTA, originally as a music channel. The first video that was uploaded was a video clip under title ‘No Way Out’, dedicated to the 2015 Belarusian presidential election and massive falsifications. The KGB immediately demonstrated interest in Nexta. In that time Putsila was still going to school, the law enforcement made visits to find information about him.
In 2017 the music band broke up and Putilo started using the channel to ‘accumulate the trash happening in Lukashenko’s Belarus’, making weekly reviews of state news. In that time independent media with video were scarce and Nexta soon became popular.
From 2016 to 2019, Putsila attended the University of Silesia in Katowice to study the production of film and television content.
Political persecution and role in the 2020 protest movement
In autumn 2018, he created the Telegram channel NEXTA Live which was subscribed by 2,000 people on the first day. In the same year, Putsila was charged with “insulting the president” because of two YouTube videos. The house of his mother was searched, but a few months later, the case was closed.
In October 2019, Putsila published his documentary film “Lukashenko. Criminal materials”, which gained around 3 million views. In December of the same year, the film was included in the list of extremist materials of the Belarusian Ministry of Information.
During the 2020–2021 Belarusian protests, his Telegram channel NEXTA became the leading platform covering and coordinating the opposition demonstrations. The media outlet quickly transformed from a reporting tool into a de facto coordinator of the protests. The channel content included calls for help, police maps, as well as contacts between lawyers and human rights activists. In August 2020, the main criminal investigation department of criminal police of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus initiated a criminal case against Putsila. He faces up to 15 years in jail for organizing “mass riots, accompanied by violence against an individual, pogroms, arson, destruction of property or armed resistance to representatives of the authorities” and other accusations.
On November 5, 2020, the Investigative Committee of Belarus put Putsila along with Roman Protasevich, the former editor-in-chief of NEXTA on the international wanted list. On November 19, 2020, the KGB included Putsila and Protasevich in the list of persons involved in terrorist activities.
In November 2020, Belarus applied to Poland for the extradition of Stsiapan Putsila. In January 2022, the Warsaw district court declared that Putsila's extradition would be "legally impermissible". Judge Dariusz Łubowski commented on the demands of the Belarusian government, by saying: “This country demands the extradition of a completely innocent citizen just because he has different views than the psychopathic dictator--a dictator who isn’t recognised by any civilised state”. As a result of that, the Prosecutor General's Office of Belarus initiated criminal proceedings against judge Dariusz Łubowski.
Awards and Recognitions
2019: National Victar Ivashkevich Human Rights Prize by Charter 97
2020: Award "Profesion — Journalist" by the initiative Open Russia (was awarded to the collective NEXTA as a whole)
2020: Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought by the European Parliament (one of the awarded representatives of the democratic opposition in Belarus)
2020: Among the Top-5 nominees of the Polish Award
2021: Nominee for the "30 Most Promising Russians Under 30" according to Forbes magazine in the category "New Media"
References
1998 births
Living people
Belarusian democracy activists
Belarusian dissidents
Belarusian expatriates in Poland
Journalists from Minsk |
The 2022 World Cadets Wrestling Championships (U17) will be World Cadets Wrestling Championships of combined events, and took place from July 25 to 31 in Rome, Italy.
Medal overview
Men's freestyle
Greco-Roman
Women's freestyle
References
External links
Database
World Cadet Championships
World Cadet Championships
International wrestling competitions hosted by Italy
Sport in Rome
Wrestling in Italy
World Cadet Wrestling Championships
Wrestling
World Wrestling Championships |
Ion Vidu National College of Art is an arts high school in Timișoara, founded in 1906. It has 18 classrooms, 54 instrumental study rooms and the 340-seat Mihai Perian Concert Hall.
History
The college has its origins in 1906 when, on 30 October, the City Hall approved the establishment of a music school – Communal Conservatory – at 1 Emanoil Ungureanu Street. Starting with 1946, the Communal Conservatory was transformed into a Conservatory of Music and Dramatic Arts and then into an Art Institute with two faculties: music and theater. The musical tradition of the Art Institute, abolished in 1950, was taken over in the same year by the Technical High School of Music. From the autumn of 1957, in addition to the music department, a plastic arts department will also function here, the high school changing its name several times.
In 1968 the two sections split, and the Ion Vidu Music High School moved to the headquarters designed by the couple of architects and Aurelia Fackelmann at 12 Cluj Street, where it still functions today. A year later, the 340-seat Mihai Perian Concert Hall was inaugurated, considered by some specialists to be "the hall with the best acoustics in Southeastern Europe". In 1977, the two schools merge again. With the Revolution of 1989, the two separated definitively, and a new section was added to the Music High School, the choreography section, named after its founder, choreographer Ștefan Gheorghe. In 2000, 50 years after the establishment of the first music school, the Ion Vidu Music High School was transformed into the Ion Vidu National College of Art, where the two existing sections, music and choreography, will function. A third section – theater – was created later by film director Diogene Bihoi.
References
Schools in Timișoara
Music schools in Romania
National Colleges in Romania |
The Bavarian CL Bay 06b was a short open coach for branch line services with the Royal Bavarian State Railways (k.Bay.Sts.B.). It was listed in their 1913 fleet register under Design Sheet No. 570.
Development
With the growth of the branch line network in the Kingdom of Bavaria, there was a need for suitable coaches on the so-called Lokalbahnen or local railway lines. Since the only available locomotives were tank engines with low tractive power, such as the Class PtL 2/2, passenger coaches of a particularly light design were required. These coaches were not suitable for military transport.
Procurement
Between 1905 and 1911 a total of 281 wagons of classes BL, BCL, CL and PPostL were procured, all of which - except for the wagons of Class PPostL - had a uniform floor plan, open platforms at each end with Dixi gates on the steps and gangways only protected by a single iron railing. Large window panes were fitted instead of the composite windows that had been usual up to that point. They are sometimes referred to as 'the shorts' or 'the short ones' (Die Kurze).
Between 1906 and 1909, 74 of these wagons, built to the specifications of Design Sheet 570, were procured in a total of five batches from the company of Waggonfabrik Josef Rathgeber in Munich. In contrast to the CL based on Sheet 569, these had a service compartment for the guard.
Career
Four coaches were retired by 1939. After the end of the Second World War in 1945, the location of other new coaches could no longer be ascertained. Of the vehicles delivered, 51 entered DB service, where they were decommissioned by 1960.
Design features
Underframe
The underframe of the coach was made entirely of rivetted structural steel. The outer longitudinal beams were U-shaped with outward facing flanges. The crossbeams were also made of U-profiles and not cranked. The wagons had screw couplings of VDEV design. The drawbar ran the length of the vehicle and was spring-loaded in the middle. As buffing equipment, the wagons had slotted cylindrical buffers with an installation length of 612 millimetres, the buffer plates had a diameter of 370 millimetres.
Running gear
The coaches had riveted half-timbered axle boxes of the short type, made of sheet steel. The axles were housed in sliding axle bearings. The wheels were spoked. Due to the long wheelbase of 5,000 millimetres, standard VDEV radial axles were used.
In addition to a screw brake, which was located on one of the platforms at the end of the coach, the coaches also had air brakes of the Westinghouse system.
Body
The frame of the coach body consisted of wooden posts. This was covered with sheet metal on the outside and wood on the inside. The joints of the sheets were covered by cover strips. The roof was gently rounded and extended beyond the open end-platforms. The coaches had folding branch line steps, which were later replaced by normal ones.
Facilities
The coach was 3rd class only and had a total of 31 seats and a toilet. A total of 20 standing places were designated for the two end-platforms.
The coaches were lit by paraffin lamps and had steam heating. They were ventilated by static ceiling ventilators.
Coach numbering
See also
The following coaches were also built for the Lokalbahn branch line network:
BCL Bay 09, long passenger coach
CL Bay 11a, long passenger coach
GwL, branch line goods van
PwPost Bay 06, mail/luggage van
References
Literature
Railway coaches of the Royal Bavarian State Railways |
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HMSAS Protea was the first hydrographic survey ship used by the South African Naval Service (which later became the South African Navy). The ship was laid down as a minesweeper to be named HMS Ventnor in 1917 but was renamed HMS Verwood in 1918 before she was launched. She was again re-named and launched as HMS Crozier on 1 July 1919. The vessel was converted from a minesweeper to a hydropraphic survey vessel in 1921 and transferred to the South African forces in 1922, where she was commissioned as HMSAS Protea. She served as a survey vessel until 1933 when she was returned to the Royal Navy. Protea was eventually sold by the Royal Navy and renamed MV Queen of the Bay where she went on to operate as a pleasure craft out of Blackpool. She was subsequntly sold to the Spanish Navy and renamed Lieutenant Captain Remigio Verdia, and used as supply vessel to run blockades, smuggling supplies to the anti-fascists in Spain during the civil war. She ran aground and sunk off Cartagena in Spain in 1939.
Royal Navy history
Whilst named HMS Crozier (and commanded by Cdr D.E. St M. Delius OBE) the ship was re-assigned from the Royal Navy to the South African Naval Service and was to sail to South Africa, together with two minesweeper trawlers (HMS Eden and HMS Foyle). They ships became the first vessels of what was later to become the South African Navy. and these three ships were to be transferred to South Africa under the terms of an Imperial Conference held in London in 1921. Under these clauses, South Africa would assume responsibiity for hydrographic survey of its own waters, create a permanent sea-going navy, and expand the dockyard in Simonstown. To assist the South Africans, the British Givernment agreed to donate a survey ship and two minesweepers to South Africa, with Crozier, Eden and Foyle being the nominated ships. They sailed from Devonport, Plymouth on 15 December 1921
The three ship convoy reached Madeira on 23 December 1921 and stopped in Sierra Leone to take on coal, drinking water and provisions. They next called at Lagos and Luanda and then Walvis Bay in South West Africa after a 14 day voyage and reached Simon's Bay on 11 January 1922, after a voyage of 50 days. There was no official welcome for the first ships of the new navy, but there was a report in the Cape Times that read "His Majesty's Surveying Vessel Crozier, which with the trawlers Eden and Foyle, have been acquired by the Union Government to form the nucleus of the South African Navy, arrived here last night from England, calling en route at Gibraltar, Las Palmas, Sierra Leone, Lagos, St Paul de Loanda and Walfisch Bay. SM."South African Naval Service history
Although being commissioned on 1 April 1922, she retained the name Crozier for a year after arriving in South Africa and was renamed HMSAS Protea on 2 December 1922.
Image of HMSAS Protea after being refitted as a pleasure craft and renamed SS Queen of the Bay'' circa. 1935.
Notes and references
Notes
Citations
Bibliography
Hunt-class minesweepers (1916)
Ships of the South African Navy
1918 ships
Ships built in Scotland |
Vicky Dombroski is a former coach of the New Zealand women's national rugby union team. She was also a selector and manager of the team. To date, she is the only woman to have coached the Black Ferns. She played for Taranaki.
In the late 1980s, the women's rugby movement was emerging but recognition and assistance from the New Zealand Rugby Football Union wasn't available. In frustration, Dombroski wrote a letter to the NZRFU in 1988 requesting permission to have a club competition in Taranaki. She received a letter from former All Blacks coach, John Stewart on behalf of the NZRFU stating that they were in favour of women taking an active role in the game.
Dombroski could have attended the 1991 Women's Rugby World Cup, but could not raise the needed $5000. Her national involvement has been as selector (1992–1997), coach (1994–1995) and manager (1998–2000).
References
Living people
New Zealand rugby union coaches |
Sevinj Stories, Azerbaijan historical drama mini-series about the Khojaly massacre.
Synopsis
The main theme of the mini-series is the experiences of 9-year-old "Instagram" blogger Sevinj, who lived in Khojaly during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, in February 1992, on the eve of the Khojaly massacre. Sevinj lives in Khojaly with her grandparents and blogs daily. At that time, Armenian forces attacked the city, and during the shootings, his grandfather Hikmet used phrases such as "Don't be afraid, my daughter it is firework." Although the characters in the series are imaginary, the filming is based on the testimonies of the victims of the Khojaly massacre.
Cast and characters
Characters
Sevinj, the main character of the mini-series, was played by Nazakat Heydarova. Sevinj's friend Asifi was played by Kenan Ikidag. Mirza Aghabeyli played the role of Sevinc's grandfather.
Cast
The project was implemented by 8 people. The head of the project was Alikhan Rajabov, director Vusal Ahmadzade, screenwriters Alikhan Rajabov, Togrul Eminli and Vusal Ahmadzade, artist Elturan Mammadov, cameraman and editor Natig Husiyev, sound operator and technician Farid Ismayilzade, producer and coordinator Ibrahim Heydarov and makeup artist Sevda Zeynalova. The filming of the mini-series took place in the village of Vendam, Gabala region, usually on weekends or holidays.
Broadcasting
A trailer was shared before the mini-series was released. After that, the series of the project was published on February 1, on the Instagram platform, on the page "sevinj.stories".
References
Works about Khojaly Massacre
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Steven Thijs de Bruin (born 5 September 1988) is a Dutch former first-class cricketer.
de Bruin was born at Amstelveen in September 1988. A club cricketer for Amstelveen Cricket Club, He was selected in the Dutch squad for their Intercontinental Cup fixture against Scotland in June 2010 at Deventer, with de Bruin making his first-class debut in the match. After a period playing for the Netherlands A side, which included a series against Jersey in June 2012. He returned to the Dutch side for their Intercontinental Cup fixture against the United Arab Emirates at Deventer in July 2012. In his two first-class matches in the Intercontinental Cup, he scored 48 runs at an average of 16.00, with a highest score of 32.
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1988 births
Living people
People from Amstelveen
Dutch cricketers |
Snowbug is an album by the Anglo-Irish band the High Llamas, released in 1999. It was a commercial failure.
The album's first single was "Cookie Bay".
Production
The album was produced by the High Llamas, and engineered by John McEntire. Mary Hansen and Laetitia Sadier sang on "Cookie Bay". Unlike previous albums, Snowbug was mainly improvised in the studio, with frontman Sean O'Hagan deciding to sing on fewer tracks. O'Hagan also decided to mostly steer away from electronic sounds in favor of acoustic ones.
Critical reception
Salon wrote that "the album's crystalline production and understated mid-tempo gait make it a near Adult Contemporary exercise in musical pleasantry, but the studied sweep of its craftsmanship clearly has other, more ambitious designs." The Birmingham Post thought that "if there's a chink in the Lamas' armour it's O'Hagan's fragile, insubstantial vocals which frequently fail to do justice to his elaborate Brian Wilsonesque arrangements." The Orange County Register stated that the "recycling is so beguiling."
The Herald opined that "in 'Cut The Dummy Loose', the band may have recorded the theme for a kids' TV show so weird that only David Lynch could film it." The Guardian concluded that "the chief problem with this electroid whimsy, however, isn't that it doesn't come from the heart; it's that it doesn't make any discernible attempt to reach it." The Chicago Tribune determined that Snowbug "plays like a batch of singles instead of a suite, making it not only a perfect introduction, but a solid disc of individual, well-constructed ideas."
AllMusic wrote that "at one point, there was charm and invention to his music, even if it was merely an homage, but now that it's become the patented High Llamas sound, it's clear that he's boxed himself into a corner, and worse, he doesn't seem that concerned about it."
Track listing
References
The High Llamas albums
1999 albums
V2 Records albums |
This is a list of notable people of Bugis descent.
Indonesia
Andi Mappanyukki, 32nd King of Bone, declared a National Hero of Indonesia in 2004
Andi Abdullah Bau Massepe, National Hero of Indonesia and son of Andi Mappanyukki
Andi Mallarangeng, former Indonesian Minister of Youth and Sports in the Second United Indonesia Cabinet (2009–2012)
Amir Syamsuddin, former Minister of Justice and Human Rights of Indonesia (2011–2014).
Andi Muhammad Ghalib, Attorney General of Indonesia (1998–1999), Ambassador to India (2008–2013)
Erna Witoelar, former Minister of Human Settlements and Regional Development of Indonesia.
Jusuf Kalla, Vice President of Indonesia.
Opu Daeng Risaju, Indonesian independence activist.
Once Mekel (born Elfonda Mekel), stage name of Indonesian singer.
Raja Ali Haji, a 19th-century historian, poet and scholar.
Outside Indonesia
Malaysia
Abdul Razak Hussein, 2nd Prime Minister of Malaysia and father of Najib Razak and Nazir Razak
Sultan Salehuddin Shah ibni Almarhum Daeng Chelak, the 1st sultan of the sultan of Selangor in Malaysia.
Abu Bakar of Johor, the 21st sultan of the Johor Sultanate in Malaysia.
Ma'mun Sulaiman, Malaysian Politician.
Lisa Surihani, Malaysian actress, model, television host and commercial model.
Muhyiddin Yassin, current president of Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia party and former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia and member of United Malays National Organisation party.
Najib Razak, 6th Prime Minister of Malaysia.
Nazir Razak, Malaysian banker.
Daeng Sanusi Daeng Mariok, Malaysian Politician.
Ziana Zain, Malaysian singer.
Andi Muhammad Suryady Bandy, Sabah State Assistant Minister of Youth and Sports.
Manuel Godinho de Eredia, 16th century explorer, born in Portuguese Malacca
Singapore
Taufik Batisah, Singaporean singer.
Other countries
Pierre Coffin, French voice actor, animator and film director.
References
Bugis
Bugis |
The Swedish Public Freedom Service or in Swedish:Frihetsförmedlingen is an art project that considers itself a "self-organising authority", run since 2014 by the artists Lars Noväng and John Huntington. Frihetsförmedlingen claims to be Sweden's largest provider of freedom.
The website is a clear paraphrase of the Swedish Public Employment Service. Lars Noväng even stated that the Freedom Agency sees itself as a sister organization to the Public Employment Service. According to Noväng, the Freedom Service reflects the approach to work: freedom must be provided at all costs, without any reflection on why this should be so. The message of the Freedom Service comes through because of our relationship with bureaucracies. Noväng also argues that changes in the last 200 years or so have always been shifts in power, while not much that is fundamental to the construction of society has changed. We are largely marinated in the belief that wage labour must be central.
The freedom Service has also provided freedom brokers to the public. Something they have done in a number of places such as Gothenburg, Kalmar, Varberg and Norrköping.
References
External links
The Swedish Public Freedom Service
Conceptual art
Swedish art |
Top Hit Music Awards is a Russian/Ukrainian annual music awards ceremony established by TopHit in 2013. Russian artists, authors and producers are honored for outstanding achievements in popular music and record business, based on the data of song rotation on air of the radio stations. Ceremonies are held annually in Moscow.
There is a Top Hit Hall of Fame as a part of the award. Every year 10 nominees are announced by partnering radio stations, determined by voting. Then past Hall of Fame members elect 2 of them.
Evaluations
Yolka singer, one of the most popular Russian singers, honors Top Hit Music Awards as a tool for determining artists by their real statistical popularity, not by decisions of some jury. This also emphasizes professional nature of the award. Yolka was awarded multiple times, including "Artist of the decade award", as Top Hit measurements show that she is extremely popular among Russian-speaking listeners with over 19 million of airplays in 10 years.
TimeOut showbiz magazine coined the ceremony a metaphor of "Unbiased Prize of Numbers which is based exceptionally on statistics and is not subject to objections" .
Nomination structure
Main awards for singers
Local Russian artists and groups most played on Russian radio in the past year
Foreign artists and groups most played on Russian radio in the past year
Local Russian artists most played at YouTube Russia in the past year
Foreign artists most played at YouTube Russia in the past year
Local Russian artists most played at Spotify Russia in the past year
Foreign artists most played at Spotify Russia in the past year
Other awards for singers (artist of decade, takeoff, breakthrough, comeback and other special nominations).
Nominations for songs
Russian hits most played on Russian radio over the year
Foreign hits most played on Russian radio over the year
Russian hits most played and watched on YouTube Russia over the year
Foreign hits played and watched on YouTube Russia over the year
Russian hits most played at Spotify Russia in the past year
Foreign hits most played at Spotify Russia in the past year
Professional nominations
Local Russian composers and poets most played on Russian radios during past year
Local Russian producers whose artists were most played on Russian radios during past year
Local Russian record labels whose artists were most played on Russian radios during past year
Foreign record labels whose artists were most played on Russian radios during past year
Local Russian composers and poets most played and watched on YouTube Russia during past year
Local music video makers whose music videos were most played on YouTube Russia over the year
Local record labels whose artists were most played on YouTube Russia over the year
References
Russian music awards |
Ashin Abhijātābhivaṃsa (, ; 29 September 1968 – 7 February 2022), also known as Sagaing Tipiṭaka Sayadaw (, ), was a Burmese Buddhist monk. He was chief abbot of Saddhamma Mānitāyon Monastery in Yangon and abbot of Saddhamma Jotaka Subodhāyon Monastery in Monywa. Being awarded the titles of Tipiṭakadhara and Tipiṭakakovida in 2007 and 2010 respectively, Ashin was the 12th recipient of the title of Tipiṭakadhara Dhammabhaṇḍāgārika.
Early life and education
Abhijātābhivaṃsa, the third of seven siblings, was born on 29 September 1968 (8th waxing day of Thadingyut, 1330 M.E.) in Hsinnin Village, Wetlet Township, to Tin Ya and Nyunt Khin. He was ordained as a novice on 29 November 1979 (11th waxing day of Nadaw, 1341 ME), under the presiding sayadaw of Zabumingala Shweyattha Kyaung, and sent to Mahā Subodhāyon Monastery in Sagaing on 14 December. Ashin received the titles of Sāsanālaṅkāra Thamanegyaw and Sāsanadhaja Dhammācariya since he was a novice.
Monkhood career
On 4 January 1988 (1st waning day of Pyatho, 1349 ME), Ashin was ordained as a monk under the patronage of Ashin Nārada, chief abbot of Mahā Subodhāyon.
Ashin passed all five-level 8026 recitation contents for the Tipiṭakadhara Tipiṭakakovida Selection Examinations, in which he had to show his memory of Tipiṭaka by reciting the Canon without being prompted more than five times in a day, in 2007 and was awarded the title of Tipiṭakadhara (). After completing all five levels of ideology written exam, he became the holder of the title of Tipiṭakakovida (), in 2010. In 2016, Ashin was offered the title of Tipiṭakadhara Dhammabhaṇḍāgārika by the Burmese government, and was thereafter known as its 12th recipient in history. In 2012, Ashin was appointed by Ashin Nandamālābhivaṃsa as presiding abbot of Saddhamma Jotaka Subodhāyon Monastery, a monastery, in Monywa, under the governance of Mahā Subodhāyon.
Ashin died of leukemia at Bumrungrad Hospital in Bangkok, on 7 February 2022, at the age of 53. During his years of monkhood, Ashin won a total of 47 achievements, including 10 Dhammācariya and 3 Pali Pāragū degrees.
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1968 births
2022 deaths
20th-century Buddhist monks
21st-century Buddhist monks
Buddhist abbots
Burmese Buddhist monks
People from Sagaing Region
Deaths from leukemia
Deaths from cancer in Thailand |
The Sarrai Group of Companies, commonly referred to as the Sarrai Group, is a privately owned conglomerate in East Africa and Southern Africa. The group maintains its headquarters in Kampala, Uganda, with subsidiaries in Kenya and Malawi. The group is headed by the executive group chairman, Sarbjit Singh Rai
Overview
As of February 2022, the Sarrai Group comprises 10 subsidiary companies as outlined in the table below:
History
The father of Sarbjit Singh Rai, the current chairman of the group, migrated from his native India and established businesses in Kenya. The father's brother, one Tarlochan Singh Rai, who either came with him or followed him to Kenya, also established his own chain of businesses. After the two brothers died their sons expanded and diversified the businesses, which operate separately. Sarbjit Singh Rai moved to Uganda and started the Sarrai Group. His cousin Jaswant Rai, stayed in Kenya, where he operates three sugar plantations; (a) West Kenya Sugar Limited (b) Sukari Industries Limited and (c) Olepito Sugar Limited.
Mumias Sugar Lease
In December 2021, the Sarrai Group controversially won a tender to lease Mumias Sugar Company Limited in neighboring Kenya for the purpose of rehabilitating the sugar manufacturer. Mumias Sugar, was at one time the largest sugar manufacturer in the country. The announcement of the lease award was successfully challenged in Kenya high court leading to immediate suspension of the lease on December 29th, 2021 by Justice Kenneth Ndung'u of Nairobi high court. The judge cited a petition by one of the bidders alleging fraud, mistakes and illegalities in the leasing process.
Mumias Sugar was at one time the largest sugar manufacturer in the country. Due to mismanagement and neglect, the company had gone into receivership and was unable to meet its financial obligations. A total of 8 bidders submitted the bids with Sarrai Group offering one of the lowest bids. The Receiver manager for Mumias Sugar Company said Sarrai Group was selected due to its performance record in Uganda, where its three sugar mills are operated profitably, but the lease award has faced a barrage of lawsuits from bidders, creditors, farmers and shareholders of Mumias Sugar effectively blocking Sarrai Group from taking over Mumias.
Controversy and Suspension of Mumias Sugar Lease
On 29 December 2021, the Kenya High Court in Nairobi, suspended the Mumias lease offer to Sarrai Group after one of the bidders filed a case against a lease award, with Sarrai group and Mumias Sugar receiver manager named as defendants. The bidder, Tumaz and Tumaz Enterprises, which had placed the highest bid of Kshs. 27.6 billion against Kshs. 11.5 billion for Sarrai Group, alleged fraud, mistakes and illegalities in the bidding process, which was headed by Kenya commercial bank (KCB)'s receivership manager P V Rao. Mumias Sugar was placed under receivership in 2018 by KCB, which was one of its creditors. Justice Kenneth Ndung'u of Milimani High Court in Nairobi suspended the lease award and ordered KCB's receiver manager and Sarrai Group not to interfere with Mumias Sugar until the case was heard and determined.
In January 2022, other bidders including West Kenya Sugar Company were enjoined in new cases filed against Sarrai Group and P V Rao. A group of Mumias sugar farmers filed another lawsuit challenging the lease award. They protested that KCB's receiver manager had erred in awarding the lease to the lowest bidder. West Kenya Sugar company told the court that it was the highest bidder, and yet the lease was awarded at a cost of Kshs. 5.8 billion to Sarrai Group. They contested that Sarrai Group was the lowest bidder out of 8 bidders who had submitted their bids. The Nairobi high court judge Okwany issued a second lease suspension until March 14, 2022, when the case will heard and determined. The farmers had sued Sarrai group, P V Rao, the attorney general, competition authority, Kakamega County government among others. In its reply to the suit, the Competition Authority of Kenya told the court that the lease award was fraudulent, because the KCB receiver manager and Sarrai group failed to get its approval before taking over the lease.They said it was a criminal act as per the Competition Act of the 2010 Kenyan Constitution.
In early February, 2022 another round of lawsuits were filed by creditors including the law firm of Kimeto, which is owed Kshs. 76 million. The law firm claimed that the leasing process was fraudulent because KCB's receiver manager had filed documents in court showing that KCB collected over Kshs. 1.5 billion from running Mumias Sugar since 2018. They argued that KCB's Mumias Sugar debt of Kshs. 570 million should already have been credited from the collections which were 3 times the debt KCB was owed. They wanted KCB receiver manager to be fired by the court and a new tender process to be announced and administered by the court. They argued that the previous tendering process had virtually collapsed after a barrage of lawsuits were filed,and effectively stopped the operations of Mumias Sugar.
In February 2022, 500 former employees of Mumias Sugar who occupied the company's houses claimed that they were served with eviction orders by Sarrai Group, despite court orders stopping the eviction without their salary compensation. Sarrai Group's eviction notices were in violation of court orders. These evictions echo of another controversy involving a Sarrai Group subsidiary in neighboring Uganda, in which Sarrai Group brutally evicted 5,000 people from their ancestral lands, prompting a Commission of Inquiry.
See also
List of conglomerates in Uganda
List of conglomerates in Africa
Kampala Capital City Authority
List of wealthiest people in Uganda
References
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Companies established in 2000
Conglomerate companies of Uganda
Kampala District
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Jordan Stout (born August 4, 1998) is an American football placekicker and punter for the Penn State Nittany Lions. He previously played at Virginia Tech.
Early life and high school
Stout grew up in Honaker, Virginia and attended Honaker High School. He was a three time All-State selection at kicker. Stout was named the Tigers' team MVP as a senior after making all nine of his field goal attempts and averaging 47 yards per punt.
College career
Stout began his college career at Virginia Tech and redshirted his true freshman season after joining the team as a walk-on. As a redshirt freshman, Stout served as a kickoff specialist for the Hokies and recorded 60 touchbacks on 71 kickoff attempts. After the end of the season, Stout entered the NCAA transfer portal and committed to transfer to Penn State, who offered him an athletic scholarship.
Stout was eligible to play immediately at Penn State because he was not a scholarship player at Virginia Tech. He served primarily as the Nittany Lions kickoff specialist in his first season with the team and finished fourth in the FBS with 66 touchbacks and made two of three field goal attempts, including a school record 57-yard field goal against Pittsburgh. As a redshirt junior, Stout was named Penn State's punter in addition to kickoffs and averaged 41.5 yards per punt. He was named Penn State's kicker entering his redshirt senior season and became the first player to handle kickoffs, field goals, and punts for the team since Chris Bahr in 1975. Stout punted 67 times for 3,083 yards with a 46.0 yard average and was named first team All-Big Ten Conference and the Eddleman–Fields Punter of the Year. He also made 16 of 23 field goal attempts and 34 of 36 extra point attempts. Following the end of the season, Stout declared that he would enter the 2022 NFL Draft.
References
External links
Virginia Tech Hokies bio
Penn State Nittany Lions bio
Living people
American football punters
Penn State Nittany Lions football players
Virginia Tech Hokies football players
players of American football from Virginia
American football placekickers
1998 births |
Murat Salihov (; 1905, Ravat, Fergana Oblast - 5 November 1938, Chon Tash) was a chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Kyrgyz SSR.
Biography
Born in 1905 in the village of Ravat, Osh district (now - in the Marhamat District of the Andijan Region) in the family of a poor peasant. In 1916-1918 he was a shepherd at the bai in the Sülüktü region. Since 1919, a member of the YCL. In 1919-1922 he studied at the Kokand Pedagogical College, but did not finish the course. He graduated from the Kyrgyz Pedagogical College, according to other sources - from 1921 to 1925 he studied at the Pedagogical Institute of Education in Tashkent.
In 1925–1927, the head of the Osh district department of public education. Since 1927, a member of the CPSU (b), head of the Agitation and Propaganda Department of the Osh Canton Committee of the CPSU (b), a member of the presidium of the district executive committee and the bureau of the district committee of the party. In 1931, the chairman of the Özgön district executive committee, later in the same year the chairman of the Osh district executive committee. In 1931–1933, 1934 he studied at the Tashkent Institute of Marxism–Leninism, completed 2 courses.
For some time he worked as chairman of the executive committee of the Osh District Council, 1st Secretary of the District Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (Kirghiz ASSR) and Deputy People's Commissar of Education of the Kirghiz ASSR, but the terms of service in these positions are not precisely defined.
? - 1931 - head of the political department of the horse farm
1934 - April 1937 - 1st Secretary of the Osh District Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (Kirghiz ASSR)
April 4, 1937 - ? - Head of the Agricultural Department of the Kyrgyz Regional Committee of the CPSU (b) - CC of the CP (b) of Kyrgyzstan
June 1937 - member of the CC of the CP (b) of Kyrgyzstan, member of the Bureau of the CC of the CP (b) of Kyrgyzstan
? - September 1937 - 3rd Secretary of the CC of the CP (b) of Kyrgyzstan
September 27, 1937 - February 15, 1938 - Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Kirghiz SSR
February 15 - May 8, 1938 - Acting Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Kirghiz SSR
Arrested in 1938. In the execution list of September 12, 1938 "in the first category". Shot near the village of Tash-Döbö, Kyrgyz SSR.
Family
Wife - Azhar (?-1945) - she studied at the HCAS, after the arrest of her husband she changed her surname and left for Uzbekistan;
Son - Kuvat
Daughter - Atyrgül
References
1905 births
1938 deaths
Executed Kyrgyzstani people
Heads of government of the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic |
Yulia Tolopa (call sign "Valkyrie"), (; ), b. 1995, is a Russian-born female volunteer who fought for Ukraine in the War in Donbas. She joined the Aidar Battalion in 2014, at the age of 18. After a year she gave birth to a daughter, then returned to fighting, first with the Donbas Battalion, then with the 16th battalion of the 58th Independent Motorized Infantry Brigade of the Ukraine regular army. Her family and Russian media declared her a traitor, and Ukrainian bureaucracy for years delayed giving her Ukrainian nationality and even made her fear deportation back to Russia, where she would have been imprisoned.
Early life
Yulia Tolopa was born in 1995 and raised in Podkumok, Stavropol Krai, a rural settlement near Pyatigorsk, in southern Russia just north of the Caucasus. Her paternal grandfather and great grandfather were Ukrainian, from Zaporizhzhia. She had three brothers; their father died in 2013. She had a difficult family life, and stopped living with her mother at the age of 14.
She spent her childhood around Russian nationalists, who taught her how to fight, both with guns and unarmed, in mixed martial arts and cage fighting, in the military sports club "Yermak". She even joined the modern Don Cossack forces of "Ataman" , that would later take an active role against Ukraine. She was interested in sports and pottery. At the age of 18, she became champion of the Russian Federation in hand to hand combat (). She studied in Kislovodsk Medical College for two years, but never completed her medical education.
Fighting for Ukraine
Her nationalist mentors had raised Tolopa to believe that Ukrainians and Belarusians were her Slavic brothers, and helped each other. They even supported the EuroMaidan, but only until the 2014 Ukrainian revolution and the War in Donbas, when they turned against Ukraine. So after defending her hand to hand combat title on March 29, on April 2 Tolopa took a train to Kyiv to help, or just see the Maidan for herself. Once there, she befriended Ukrainians, and joined their side. First she participated in the remaining EuroMaidan encampment, then when Russian troops entered Sloviansk she volunteered to fight them.
Aidar Battalion
In June 2014 Tolopa joined the recently formed Aidar Battalion, and went to fight in the Donbas. She was 18 years old. Her military call sign was "Valkyrie", which she first had in Russia; she is a pagan, and she was given this name in a temple of the Slavic Native Faith. In June the Luhansk People's Militia were already distributing a poster of her photo, warning about her, a killer-sniper from Lipetsk. She denies being a sniper, saying she served first as a rifleman, then, from July, as the commander of a captured infantry fighting vehicle, a BMP-2. Until 2016, women were not formally allowed to serve in Ukrainian forces in combat positions; Tolopa was listed as a radiotelephone operator.
At least once she fought against the Don Cossack host that she had been part of, at Lutuhyne. She says she fought on the side of Ukraine for an ideal, while the so-called Cossacks that used to be her friends, fought against Ukraine for money.
Tolopa was wounded twice and suffered concussions seven times. She says one injury was light, but on July 12, 2014, she suffered a heavy concussion and three broken ribs, when the civilian car she was in hit a land mine. The driver and another passenger were killed immediately, while she was thrown clear. The last passenger died from his wounds in hospital.
In August 2014, Oleh Liashko, leader of the Ukrainian Radical Party, visited the Aidar Battalion, appeared on television with Tolopa, called her a true patriot, and said he would request Ukrainian nationality for her. This caused her harm when the video was aired on NTV Russian television. Her mother and younger brother had to temporarily leave their home due to threats. Her family and the Russian media called her a traitor. Her grandfather stopped speaking to her. Her maternal uncle, who works for the Federal Security Service (FSB), threatened to come to Ukraine and bring her back to Russia naked. The Russian authorities opened three criminal cases against her, for extremism, terrorism, and mercenaryism, with a total potential jail sentence of 36 years.
Maternal leave
Tolopa fought for almost a year at the front, then left when she realized she was pregnant, serving until her sixth month of pregnancy. The father is Ukrainian, but they didn't marry or even keep in touch. She has had many suggestions that she have a sham marriage with a Ukrainian to get nationality, but she refused to consider them as demeaning. She gave birth to a daughter, Miroslava, in Kyiv in 2015. Her mother only resumed speaking to her by phone after the birth; they avoid discussing politics. Tolopa and Miroslava lived in a Kyiv apartment with a female friend nicknamed Belka (squirrel) that Tolopa had met at Maidan, a former fashion designer from Dnipropetrovsk who followed her to the War in Donbas, and left after receiving a traumatic brain injury.
In June 2016, Tolopa appeared in a video promoting the third Kyiv Pride LGBT rights March for Equality, then walked in the march itself. She was in a relationship with a woman at the time, but says she would have attended anyway. In the summer of 2016, Tolopa was trained to fly drones by Maria Berlinska, a female Ukrainian volunteer (who also wrote the influential study that allowed women to serve in combat roles). She subsequently volunteered for regular short trips to the Anti-Terrorist Operation Zone doing aerial reconnaissance.
In December 2016, in a televised incident, Tolopa threw tomato juice on Liashko outside the Verkhovna Rada, accusing him of breaking his promise to help her get Ukrainian nationality. Liashko called her heroic, but said that only the President could grant nationality, though he did request it for her, and said she was being used by her former Aidar commander, , now a political rival. Melnichuk denied organizing the incident, but the leader of his parliamentary faction, Yaroslav Moskalenko, apologized to Liashko, and announced Melnichuk would be leaving the faction.
Back to the front
By December 2016, Tolopa had signed a contract with the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and by January 2017 she was serving as a drone operator in the "Donbas-Ukraine" battalion (reorganized from the former volunteer Donbas Battalion). She says she didn't get along with the Donbas battalion commander, so served two months there, then spent another four or five months between contracts, before signing another contract with the 16th battalion of the 58th brigade. When she went to the front, she would leave her daughter with a nanny, or alternate child care with a female military friend who lived through the annexation of the Crimea, and has two children.
In 2018, she was featured in a photo project about women fighting for Ukraine by Czech photographer David Tesinsky that received international attention. The same year she was also interviewed for a chapter telling her story in Girls cutting their locks, a book about women in the Russo-Ukrainian war published by the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance.
Applying for Ukrainian nationality
Tolopa was repeatedly refused Ukrainian nationality (sometimes colloquially called citizenship)
when she applied for it.
Her Russian passport was destroyed when she was blown up by the mine in 2014, so she was unable to provide it as part of the required paperwork in 2015. In March 2016, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko issued decree No. 120, which allowed foreigners who served in the Ukrainian armed forces under contract to apply for naturalization after a three-year residency. However Tolopa was again refused naturalization in January 2017.
In December 2017, Tolopa was denied nationality a third time, this time because she did not have a certificate of non-conviction (lack of criminal record) from Russia, which she would need to get in Russia or from the Russian consulate, where she was afraid to go for fear of detention on Russian sovereign territory. She believed this denial meant she would be deported, and the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group appealed on her behalf. The State Migration Service publicly stated that she would not be deported, and could remain in Ukraine indefinitely as a person in need of additional protection. On December 5, Tolopa was accompanied by friends, fellow soldiers, and members of parliament (Nadiya Savchenko, Ihor Lutsenko, Mustafa Nayyem, and Serhiy Melnichuk) to protect her from being detained as she went to the Russian consulate in Kyiv to request her certificate.
In June 2019, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy named her among 14 foreigners granted nationality by presidential decree for fighting for Ukraine. The decree specified that those bestowed nationality would have to provide necessary documentation to meet requirements of the migration service, but granted them the right to a two-year temporary passport. One of those requirements included that Tolopa formally renounce her Russian nationality. Russia would not allow her to renounce her Russian nationality, because she had criminal charges and a request for her extradition pending against her (for fighting for Ukraine). Because the period for the two-year temporary passport had expired, an extension of the processing period was submitted to the Rada. They kept refusing to approve the extension through July and October 2021, which, in theory, could have lost Tolopa her conferred nationality.
Tolopa went to court in October 2021 and obtained a ruling that she could submit a declaration of renunciation to the migration service because obtaining the documents for renunciation posed a threat to her well-being. Though she turned in the required documentation, the migration department appealed the decision and lost their appeal. Finally, in December 2021, Tolopa completed the nationality processes and received a Ukrainian passport.
Personal life
By 2016, Tolopa was fluent in Ukrainian. By 2017, she spoke "almost without Russianisms", and said she felt herself Ukrainian more than Russian. She taught herself Ukrainian from the poems of Sergei Zhadan and Kateryna Babkina. She wrote poems about her own life, but never about the war.
Tolopa earned multiple medals for fighting in Eastern Ukraine; the one she treasures most is called "Brother for brother", given to foreigners fighting for Ukraine. She has 13 tattoos. The first, "Heroes don't die" (ГЕРОЇ НЕ ВМИРАЮТЬ), she had put on her arm in the Maidan, in memory of the fallen. "All are equal" (כולם שווים) is on her hand in Hebrew, in support of the March for Equality for sexual minorities. She shares those two with Belka. Wings on her wrist are the sign of the Valkyrie. She had a Ukrainian trident tattoed on her back after hearing of a prisoner who had his hand cut off by the Russians for having one there.
In 2019, Tolopa quit the army, to spend more time with her daughter who otherwise barely saw her. She remained in the Ukrainian military reserve. In May 2019, after leaving the military, Tolopa was cheated of 8000 hryvnia while trying to rent a Kiev apartment. In 2021, Tolopa was studying at the Law and International Relations faculty of the Open International University of Human Development "Ukraine", while her daughter went to first grade. She isn't interested in returning to her medical education, she says she saw too much in 2014.
During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Tolopa initially planned to return to the military to defend her adopted country, but then changed her mind, to care for her daughter, and sheltered with her in western Ukraine.
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References
External links
; official page.
1995 births
Don Cossacks
Living people
People from Stavropol Krai
Russian female mixed martial artists
Ukrainian female military personnel
Ukrainian military personnel of the war in Donbas
Russian emigrants to Ukraine
Naturalized citizens of Ukraine
Russian people of Ukrainian descent |
The 1970–71 Ohio Bobcats men's basketball team represented Ohio University as a member of the Mid-American Conference in the college basketball season of 1970–71. The team was coached by Jim Snyder and played their home games at Convocation Center. The Bobcats finished with a record of 17–7 and finished second in the MAC regular season with a conference record of 6–4.
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Ohio Bobcats men's basketball seasons
Ohio
Ohio Bobcats men's basketball
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The USS Sustain (AFDM-7), (formerly YFD-63), was a AFDM-3-class floating dry dock built in 1945 and operated by the United States Navy.
Construction and career
YFD-63 was built by the Everett Pacific Shipbuilding Co., in Everett, Washington in 1945. Melucta with YFD-63 in tow departed Everett for Moore Dry Dock Co., Alameda, on 23 January 1945. She would be commissioned later in 1945 after her delivery to the Navy on 1 January.
On 1 August 1946, the dry dock was re-designated as AFDM-7.
On 28 October 1950, the dry dock would be on commercial lease. In 1956, AFDM-7 was towed through the Panama Canal and leased to Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company.
In October 1971, the Navy would reacquire the dry dock as the lease was over. AFDM-7 would be repaired and refitted by the Navy Seabees at Davisville, January 1972. Stationed at Melville from June 1972 until 1974. In December 1972, USS Nantahala (AO-60) was dry docked inside AFDM-7 at Melville. towed to Norfolk in April 1974 and later stationed at Norfolk from 1974 until 1997. On 7 June 1979, the dry dock was finally named Sustain.
In 1984, USS Arthur W. Radford (DD-968) subsequently undergone sea trials and repairs inside Sustain. From 4 September until 9 October 1984, USS Ainsworth (FF-1090) completed work inside Sustain at Norfolk.
USS Kidd (DDG-993) returned to Norfolk and conducted an emergent dry docking with floating dry dock Sustain on 30 May, staying there for over a week for an ASW groom and implementation of the combat system operational sequencing system on 4 June 1990. Sustain was decommissioned on 1 August 1997 and leased to Atlantic Marine and Dry Dock, Inc., Jacksonville on 30 November 1999.
The dry dock broke the towline in a storm off Cape Hatteras on 14 January 2000 and drifted for 300 miles in the Gulf Stream until taken under control by salvage team and towed to Bermuda. Finally arrived at Jacksonville on 24 February 2000. Sustain was struck from the Naval Register on 30 January 2007 and later sold outright to Atlantic Marine on 29 February 2008.
In May 2010, Atlantic Marine was acquired by BAE Systems renamed BAE Systems Southeast Shipyards. In 2015, the shipyard was awarded a $27,625,758 by the Navy to dry dock USS Nitze (DDG-94), for docking selected restricted availability. On 29 March 2019, Detroit was dry docked for repairs inside of the former Sustain.
Awards
American Campaign Medal
Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal
World War II Victory Medal
National Defense Service Medal
Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation
References
External links
NavSource: AFDM-7
Naval Vessel Register: Sustain (AFDM-7)
World War II auxiliary ships of the United States
Cold War auxiliary ships of the United States
Floating drydocks of the United States Navy
1945 ships
Ships built in Everett, Washington |
Joe Jonas, born 31 December 2000 in Swellendam, Boland, is a South African rugby player. He plays fullback at the Biarritz Olympique.
Playing career
After receiving a scholarship to attend the Glenwood High School in Durban, Joe Jonas first played with the Natal Sharks, in 2020 he joined the Biarritz Olympique training centre. After competing in the Supersevens, he played his first Top 14 match against the Section Paloise in November 2021 and scored his first try in Clermont during his third start. In December 2021 he extended his contract until 2024.
References
2000 births
Living people
Rugby union fullbacks
Biarritz Olympique players
South African expatriate rugby union players
South African expatriate sportspeople in France
Expatriate rugby union players in France |
220–224 West Bay Street is a historic building in Savannah, Georgia, United States. Located in Savannah's Historic District, the addresses of some of the properties are West Bay Street, above Factors Walk, while others solely utilize the former King Cotton warehouses on River Street. As of February 2022, these are Nourish, Harley-Davidson Motory Cycles, Charleston Hemp Collective and Dub's Public House.
The building was completed in 1821, for "Matthew Johnston and others," making it one of the earliest buildings in the riverfront area. The western end of the building, number 224, was damaged by fire in 1851.
In 1917, the Hecker-Jones-Jewell Milling Company of New York City had an office at number 220.
The International Milling Company was occupying numbers 220 and 222 around 1940.
River Street façade
See also
Buildings in Savannah Historic District
References
West Bay Street 220–224
Commercial buildings completed in 1821
West Bay Street 220–224 |
Estádio José Raimundo Roseno Araújo is a stadium located in Parauapebas, Brazil. It is used mostly for football matches and hosts the home matches of Atlético Paraense and Parauapebas. The stadium has a maximum capacity of 10,000 people.
References
External links
Rosenão on OGol
Rosenão on Federação Paraense de Futebol
Football venues in Pará |
The Queen of Basketball is a 2021 American documentary short film by Ben Proudfoot about basketball legend Lusia Harris. It is nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject).
Summary
She was the first and last woman to play in the National Basketball Association during the late 1970s.
Accolades
94th Academy Awards: Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) nomination
See also
WNBA
External links
The Queen of Basketball on IMDb
Official website
The New York Times video on YouTube
References
2021 documentary films
American short documentary films
Documentary films about basketball
African-American films
English-language films |
The 1968–69 Ohio Bobcats men's basketball team represented Ohio University as a member of the Mid-American Conference in the college basketball season of 1968–69. The team was coached by Jim Snyder and for the first time played their home games at the recently constructed Convocation Center. The Bobcats finished with a record of 17–9 and finished second in the MAC regular season with a conference record of 9–3. They were invited to the 1969 National Invitation Tournament. There they defeated West Texas State before losing to Tennessee in the second round.
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Ohio Bobcats men's basketball seasons
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio Bobcats men's basketball
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Leonie Gerken Schofield (born 15 February 1998) is a British freestyle skier. She competed in the 2022 Winter Olympics.
Career
Gerken Schofield won the silver medal at the 2013 FIS Freestyle Junior World Ski Championships in the moguls event. She finished 17th out of 20 competitors in the second qualifying round in the women's moguls event at the 2022 Winter Olympics, failing to qualify for the finals.
Personal life
Gerken Schofield has a twin brother Thomas and a younger sister Makayla who are also freestyle skiers. The siblings grew up in Essex before moving to France at young ages. She dedicated her Olympic runs to her grandfather who had passed away before the 2022 Olympics due to COVID-19.
References
1998 births
Living people
Freestyle skiers at the 2022 Winter Olympics
British female freestyle skiers
Olympic freestyle skiers of Great Britain
Sportspeople from Chelmsford
Twin sportspeople |
The Lexington Police Department is the primary law enforcement agency for the town of Lexington, Massachusetts. The current Chief of Police is Mark McLean, who replaced Chief Mark Corr in late 2021. It employs 50 sworn police officers, 32 of whom are patrol officers, with about one officer for every 700 people.
Programs
Youth academy
The LPD runs a youth academy for children ages 12–17, which operates in the summer as two 10-day programs. It covers first aid/CPR, team building, introduction to law enforcement/ LPD history and programs, fun and games, LPD history and programs.
Organization
Divisions
The LPD has seven divisions, each of which serves a specific purpose for the department. Personnel are equally distributed across the department for the most part.
Administration
The Administration Division contains most of the administrative staff of the department, along with the Traffic Bureau. It is managed by an Office Manager, along with an Administrative Lieutenant and Sergeant.
Patrol and enforcement
The face of the department, the PED is responsible for most patrol services of the department. It is organized into four sections, each with a Patrol Commander (Lt.) and Patrol Supervisor (Sgt.), which are further divided into 10 groups of officers. It is the largest division of the department.
Traffic Bureau
The Traffic Bureau is composed of a Traffic Bureau Supervisor, a parking enforcement officer, eight parking lot attendants for the paid town center parking lot, and the school crossing guards program.
Investigations
The Detective Bureau is led by a Bureau Commander that is a Lieutenant, as well as a Sergeant/Prosecutor. They investigate all crimes in the Town of Lexington, as well as a detective serving as the School Resource Officer for Lexington High School.
Dispatch
The Lexington Police Department and the Fire Department are jointly dispatched, though the dispatchers are civilian employees of the LPD. It has eight full-time dispatchers, and is led by Senior Dispatcher Steven Herrera.
Animal control
The LPD employs an animal control officer jointly with the Bedford Police Department, Michael Leskouski.
Crossing guards
The LPD Traffic Bureau runs a crossing guard program, which has 16 crossing guards at 14 school crossings around the town.
Ranks
References
Municipal police departments of Massachusetts
Lexington, Massachusetts |
Critique of work or critique of labor (labour in British English), or more informally antiwork refers to the critique of, and wish to abolish work as such, and not only to critique of the worst forms of what the critics of works often deem wage slavery.
Critique of work can be existential, and focus on how labor can be and or feel meaningless, and stands in the way for self-realization. But the critique of work can also highlight how excessive work may harm the productivity of society, or society itself. The critique of work can also take on a more utilitarian character in which work simply stands in the way for human happiness.
Brief history
The critique of work has been around for a long time, and many thinkers have critiqued and wished for the abolishment of the social activities that we in our own historical epoch define as labor. In fact, critiques of unnecessary human labor may be found as early as in Ancient Greece. Paul Lafargue was early to point out that the obsession society seemed to have with labor paradoxically harmed the productivity which society had as one of its primary justifications for not working as little as possible.
During 2021 and 2021 the anti work movement has experienced rapid growth online, especially on the subreddit /r/antiwork which uses the slogan "Unemployment for all, not just the rich!". The subreddit has [2022] 1.8 million members, and has aided workers in the 2021 Kellogg's strike.
Paul Lafargue
In Lafargue's book The Right To Be Lazy, he claims that: "It is sheer madness, that people are fighting for the "right" to an eight-hour working day. In other words, eight hours of servitude, exploitation and suffering, when it is leisure, joy and self-realisation that should be fought for – and as few hours of slavery as possible."
The automation, which had already come a long way in Lafargue's time, could easily have reduced working hours to three or four hours a day. Which would have left a large part of the day for the things which he would claim that we really want to do – spend time with friends, relax, enjoy life, be lazy.
The machine is the saviour of humanity, Lafargue argues, but only if the working time it frees up becomes leisure time. It can be, it should be, but it rarely has been. The time that is freed up is according to Lafargue usually converted into more hours of work, which in his view is only more hours of toil and drudgery.
Bertrand Russell
Russell's book In Praise of Idleness is a collection of essays on the themes of sociology and philosophy. Russell argues that if the burden of work were shared equally among all, resulting in fewer hours of work, unemployment would disappear. As a result, human happiness would also increase as people would be able to enjoy their newfound free time, which would further increase the amount of science and art. Russell for example claimed that "Modern methods of production have given us the possibility of ease and security for all; we have chosen, instead, to have overwork for some and starvation for others. Hitherto we have continued to be as energetic as we were before there were machines; in this we have been foolish".
Contemporary era
David Graeber
The anthropologist David Graeber has written about bullshit jobs, which are jobs that are meaningless do not contribute anything worthwhile, or even damage society. Graeber also claims that bullshit jobs are often not the worst paid ones.
The bullshit-jobs can include tasks like these:
Watching over an inbox which received emails and copy and paste it into another form.
To be hired to look busy.
Jobs where the most important thing is to sit in the right place, like working in a reception, and forwarding emails to someone who is tasked with reading them.
Frédéric Lordon
In Willing Slaves of Capital: Spinoza and Marx on Desire, the French economist and philosopher Frédéric Lordon ponders why people accept deferring or even replacing their own desires and goals with those of an organization. “It is ultimately quite strange,” he writes, “that people should so ‘accept’ to occupy themselves in the service of a desire that was not originally their own.” Lordon argues that surrender of will occurs via the capture by organizations of workers’ “basal desire” – the will to survive.
But this willingness of workers to become aligned with a company’s goals is due not only to what can be called “managerialism” (the ways in which a company co-opts individuality via wages, rules, and perks), but to the psychology of the workers themselves, whose “psyches… perform at times staggering feats of compartmentalization.” So consent to work itself becomes problematic and troubling; as captured in the title of Lordon’s book, workers are “willing slaves.”
Franco "Bifo" Berardi
Franco Berardi, an Italian Autonomist thinker, suggests in The Soul at Work: From Alienation to Autonomy, that capitalism has harnessed modern desires for autonomy and independence:"No desire, no vitality seems to exist anymore outside the economic enterprise, outside productive labor and business. Capital was able to renew its psychic, ideological and economic energy, specifically thanks to the absorption of creativity, desire, and individualistic, libertarian drives for self-realization."Knowledge workers, or what Barardi calls the “cognitariat,” are far from free of this co-option. People in these jobs, he says, have suffered a kind of Taylorization of their work via the parceling and routinization of even creative activities.
George Alliger
In the 2022 book Anti-Work: Psychological Investigations into Its Truths, Problems, and Solutions, work psychologist Alliger proposes to systematize anti-work thinking by suggesting a set of almost 20 propositions that characterize this topic. He draws on a wide variety of sources; a few of the propositions or tenets are:
Work demands submission and is damaging to the human psyche.
The idea that work is a “good” is a modern and deleterious development.
The tedious, boring, and grinding aspects of work characterize most of the time spent in many and probably even all jobs.
Work is subjectively “alienating” and meaningless due to workers’ lack of honest connection to the organization and its goals and outcomes.
Alliger provides a discussion of each proposition and considers how workers, as well as psychologists, can best respond to the existential difficulties and challenges of work.
Guy Debord
One of the founders of the Situationist International in France (which helped inspire the student revolt of 1968), Guy Debord wrote the influential The Society of the Spectacle (La société du spectacle). He suggested that since all actual activity, including work, has been harnessed into the production of the spectacle, that there can be no freedom from work, even if leisure time is increasing. That is, since leisure can only be leisure within the planned activities of the spectacle, and since alienated labor helps to reproduce that spectacle, there is also no escape from work within the confines of the spectacle. Debord also used the slogan "NEVER WORK", which he initially painted as graffiti, and henceforth came to emphasize could not be considered superfluous advice.
Anti-work ethic
The anti-work ethic states that labor tends to cause unhappiness, therefore, the quantity of labor ought to be lessened, and/or that work should not be enforced by means of withheld resources or political or otherwise normative means. This can be done both by a critique of work and by finding alternative ways of living. The ethic appeared in anarchist circles and have come to prominence with essays such as In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell, The Right to Useful Unemployment by Ivan Illich, and The Abolition of Work by Bob Black, published in 1985.
Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche presented a critique of work and an anti-work ethic. In 1881, he wrote:
The eulogists of work. Behind the glorification of 'work' and the tireless talk of the 'blessings of work' I find the same thought as behind the praise of impersonal activity for the public benefit: the fear of everything individual. At bottom, one now feels when confronted with work—and what is invariably meant is relentless industry from early till late—that such work is the best police, that it keeps everybody in harness and powerfully obstructs the development of reason, of covetousness, of the desire for independence. For it uses up a tremendous amount of nervous energy and takes it away from reflection, brooding, dreaming, worry, love, and hatred; it always sets a small goal before one's eyes and permits easy and regular satisfactions. In that way a society in which the members continually work hard will have more security: and security is now adored as the supreme goddess
The American architect, designer and futurist Buckminster Fuller presented an argument that rejected the notion of it being a necessity for people to be employed in order to earn a living, saying:
We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian Darwinian theory he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.
In art
The Swedish Public Freedom Service is a conceptual art project which has been running since 2014. One of the artists argued in relationship to the project that "changes in the last 200 years or so have always been shifts in power, while not much that is fundamental to the construction of society has changed. We are largely marinated in the belief that wage labour must be central."
See also
Critique of political economy
References
External links
Texts regarding critique of labor
Manifesto against labour
Critique of work
Criticism of work
Social movements
Social philosophy |
Chu Lam Yiu is a Chinese billionaire and the founder of Huabao International Holdings, a fragrances and tobacco flavoring company. She founded the company in 1996 and took it public on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange through a "backdoor listing" in 2006.
References
21st-century Chinese businesswomen
Chinese billionaires
Female billionaires
Living people |
Boxballet () is a 2021 Russian animated film directed by Anton Dyakov. Academy Award nominee for Best Animated Short Film.
Plot
The film contrasts between form and content between a ballerina and a boxer, shows how one affects the other, and makes an attempt to reveal the key philosophical problem, to be and to seem.
References
External links
Official trailer
Teaser on Vimeo
2021 films
Russian animated films
Melnitsa Animation Studio animated films
2020s animated short films
Russian animated short films
Boxing films
Ballet films |
is a decision of the English Court of Appeal in the long running litigation between the liquidators of SAAD Investments Company Limited and various parties relating to the alleged defrauding of the insolvent company by one of its principals.
The issues which the Court of Appeal had to determine were limited because of certain procedural irregularities in the way that the defendant, the Samba Financial Group, had conducted its defence. However, the central allegation was that the bank had knowingly received certain very valuable securities in Saudi Arabian companies which were beneficially owned by SAAD Investments Company Limited in breach of trust. However, because Saudi Arabian law did not recognise the concept of a trust, and did not have a system of conflict of laws, the defendants argued that the claim must necessarily fail. The defendants succeeded both in the High Court and in the Court of Appeal.
The court was also required to rule on whether it was appropriate to apply a 'block discount' to the valuation of the shares when assessing damages. Although the Court of Appeal expressed an opinion on this matter, because the claim failed this part of judgment did not have any effect between the parties.
Background
On or about 16 September 2009 Mr Maan Al-Sanea was alleged to have transferred a substantial number of shares and securities issued to the Samba Financial Group to discharge his liabilities to the group. However, Mr Al-Sanea held those shares in his personal name on trust for SAAD Investment Company Limited ("SICL"). On the day of the transfer they were valued at 801 million Saudi riyals (approximately US$250 million). Shortly afterwards SICL went into liquidation in the Cayman Islands.
A raft of litigation then ensued, but most importantly the liquidators brought claims against Samba alleging that the transfers by Mr Al-Sanea were void under the provisions of section 127 of the Insolvency Act 1986. The courts were asked to determine the availability of relief as a preliminary issue of law and that litigation went all the way to the Supreme Court which ruled that the transactions could not, as a matter of law, be set aside under section 127.
The liquidators of SICL amended their claim accordingly, and proceeded against Samba Financial Group, including a claim in knowing receipt, alleging that Samba Financial Group knew or ought to have known that the shares were held on trust for SICL, and so either had to restore them or pay over their value. In particular, SICL pointed out that Samba must be taken to know this because (i) Mr Al-Senea was also a director of Samba, and so his personal knowledge would be imputed to them, and (ii) because Samba had been given notice of a worldwide freezing order which been granted in relation to the relevant securities.
However, because Samba did not comply with various orders for disclosure during the litigation it was debarred from defending various issues, and those were treated as having been proved. Accordingly, when the case came back before the court for a substantive hearing, there were only three remaining issues which the court had to determine. They were referred to as:
"the Saudi Arabian Law Issue";
"the Law of Knowing Receipt Issue"; and
"the Valuation Issue".
These were all issues of pure law which the Samba Group could argue despite being debarred from disputing the underlying facts.
On 1 April 2021 all of the assets of the Samba Group were transferred to the Saudi National Bank, who was substituted as defendant in the proceedings.
High Court
The case came before Fancourt J. Before the High Court there were essentially three issues to be determined:
Firstly, was it necessary for the claimants to have an equitable interest in the relevant shares once they were in the hands of the Saudi Bank in order to sustain a claim for 'knowing receipt'.
Secondly, whether under Saudi Arabian law (as the law of the place where the shares were deemed to be located) would recognise or give effect to the equitable title of SICL in the shares after the transfer.
Thirdly, if the claimants succeeded, to what extent their damages should reflect a 'block discount' which would be applicable to the sale or purchase of such a large number of shares in one company.
The High Court held that:
A claim for knowing receipt could only succeed under English law (or Cayman law, which was accepted to be identical) if the claimants could show that they had a beneficial interest in the shares once they were in the hands of the Saudi Bank;
that the effect of the expert evidence on Saudi law was to the effect that Saudi law did not recognise their trust interest, and so it was extinguished by the transfer to the Saudi Bank, and therefore the claim failed; and
although it was no longer relevant, the judge set out the basis upon which he would have applied a partial block discount to the share valuation if he had been required to do so.
Court of Appeal
The Court of Appeal consisted of Newey LJ, Asplin LJ and Popplewell LJ. Newey LJ delivered a single judgment, but it was expressed to be the judgment of the entire court.
The 'Knowing Receipt' Issue
The court began by citing the well known dictum of Lord Selborne LC in Barnes v Addy (1874) LR 9 Ch App 244, at 251-252:
"[The responsibility of a trustee] may no doubt be extended in equity to others who are not properly trustees, if they are found either making themselves trustees de son tort, or actually participating in any fraudulent conduct of the trustee to the injury of the cestui que trust. But, on the other hand, strangers are not to be made constructive trustees merely because they act as the agents of trustees in transactions within their legal powers, transactions, perhaps of which a Court of Equity may disapprove, unless those agents receive and become chargeable with some part of the trust property, or unless they assist with knowledge in a dishonest and fraudulent design on the part of the trustees."
They then reviewed the principal legal arguments of counsel, before commencing an exhaustive review of the relevant authorities (including the decision of the Supreme Court in the earlier litigation between the parties in Akers v Samba Financial Group), as well as considerable academic commentary. They cited with approval the comments of Lord Sumption in at paragraph 31:
"The essence of a liability to account on the footing of knowing receipt is that the defendant has accepted trust assets knowing that they were transferred to him in breach of trust and that he had no right to receive them. His possession is therefore at all times wrongful and adverse to the rights of both the true trustees and the beneficiaries. No trust has been reposed in him. He does not have the powers or duties of a trustee, for example with regard to investment or management. His sole obligation of any practical significance is to restore the assets immediately" (emphasis added).
They conclude their review by upholding the decision of the High Court, that:
"While it may be legitimate to refer to knowing receipt as a species of equitable wrongdoing, it is not based exclusively on fault. For liability to arise, the defendant must also have received trust property or, as Hoffmann LJ put it in El Ajou v Dollar Land Holdings plc, "assets which are traceable as representing the assets of the plaintiff"."
They added:
"In all the circumstances, it seems to us that the Judge was right to conclude that a knowing recipient "must have held trust property, not property to which from the moment of receipt he had good title" and that "a claim in knowing receipt, where dishonest assistance is not alleged, will fail if, at the moment of receipt, the beneficiary's equitable proprietary interest is destroyed or overridden so that the recipient holds the property as beneficial owner of it". ...
In short, a continuing proprietary interest in the relevant property is required for a knowing receipt claim to be possible. A defendant cannot be liable for knowing receipt if he took the property free of any interest of the claimant."
The 'Saudi Law' issue
The court noted that in an English court Saudi Arabian law was treated as a matter of fact to be determined on expert evidence. They noted that Fancourt J had explained the reasons for his conclusions in a careful and detailed section of the Judgment running to 88 paragraphs, and they summarised his findings as follows:
"The Courts of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia do not apply foreign law. They would seek to give effect to the Six Transactions in accordance with the Saudi Arabian Courts' view of Saudi Arabian law. There is no distinction in Saudi Arabian law between legal and beneficial ownership as such. Therefore the beneficial interest of SICL under English/Cayman law would not have been recognised as such by the Saudi Arabian Courts."
They noted the general rule in relation to appeals against matters of fact, as expressed by Lewison LJ in at paragraph 114: "Appellate courts have been repeatedly warned, by recent cases at the highest level, not to interfere with findings of fact by trial judges, unless compelled to do so." They also cited the warning of Lord Reed in at paragraph 67:
"It follows that, in the absence of some other identifiable error, such as (without attempting an exhaustive account) a material error of law, or the making of a critical finding of fact which has no basis in the evidence, or a demonstrable misunderstanding of relevant evidence, or a demonstrable failure to consider relevant evidence, an appellate court will interfere with the findings of fact made by a trial judge only if it is satisfied that his decision cannot reasonably be explained or justified."
After reviewing the trial judge's findings, they concluded that the appellant's arguments:
"... do not come close to satisfying the criteria for this Court to interfere with a judge's findings of fact on foreign law in a case of this kind. The conclusions of the Judge in this case were reasonably open to him on the evidence he heard, and there is nothing in his clear and detailed reasoning which suggests he was wrong in his conclusions."
The 'valuation' issue
This was sufficient to dispose of the appeal, but (like the trial judge below) the Court of Appeal considered the valuation issue in case their decision on the previous two points was overturned on appeal.
At first instance Fancourt J had held that a 'block discount' was appropriate to assess the true value of a large number of shares in the same company being sold on the market at the same time. The Court of Appeal disagreed, and overruled him in that respect. If a person has been party to a breach of trust, then it is their obligation to restore the trust property or its value to the beneficiaries. The fact that if the beneficiaries had sold it all at once on the market they would have received a depressed price is not material - they did not want it sold at all. They wanted to retain the full market value in their portfolio and that is the basis upon which the loss to them should be assessed.
"We would not, however, wish to be taken to have endorsed the Judge's conclusions. It seems to us that there is a persuasive argument for saying that, where a trustee has elected to receive the value of an asset rather than its return in specie, the sum which is necessary to restore or re-constitute the trust fund will often at least be best determined by reference to the cost of the asset had it been purchased by the trustee rather than what the asset would have fetched on a sale. That might be said to be the measure most likely to put the trust fund back into the position it would have been in if the misappropriated asset had still been held for the benefit of the beneficiaries and, in the present case, to represent the full monetary equivalent of the trust property. It was accepted that a block discount would not apply to the market value ascertained by reference to the purchase price.
... it can be cogently contended that the Judge was mistaken in thinking the application of a block discount appropriate. Were the Judge's approach correct, the amount which a person in knowing receipt of trust property in the form of shares would be required to pay by way of compensation for breach of ancillary liability would seem to be less the greater the percentage stake that the misappropriated shares represent in comparison with the company's issued share capital."
Further Appeal
It is not yet confirmed whether the liquidators will mount a further appeal to the Supreme Court.
Reception
The decision in the High Court was commented upon at length in the Law Quarterly Review by Professor Ben McFarlane and Sinead Agnew. The authors note that the decision creates academic tension between the 'proprietary' and 'relational' views of equity; they endorse the comments of Fancourt J that the analysis has important conceptual consequences for purely domestic law. They note that this makes the fundamental distinction between knowing receipt (which requires a 'proprietary base') and dishonest assistance (which does not) critical.
Because the Court of Appeal decision is relatively recent, no significant academic commentary has yet been published. One professional commentator has summarised the decision without substantive comment.
Footnotes
English trusts case law
English conflict of laws case law
2022 in case law
2022 in British law |
Ethical.Porn is a not-for-profit online publishing platform that features essays from within the adult entertainment industry. The platform is best known for answering the two most debated questions: What is Ethical Porn and Why Ethical Porn.
Background
Ethical.Porn was founded with the aim of creating a platform that offered well-researched articles curated by industry specialists that provided relevant information on the industry based on people's statements. The goal was to bring attention to the different challenges surrounding ethical pornography and to spark a dialogue about erotica in today's world.
As a not-for-profit organization, Ethical.Porn works with a global network of partners to improve access to, production of, and use of research information and knowledge filmmakers, consumers, researchers and educators have a better understanding of what ethical porn is from the perspective of people within and associated with the adult industry. It also helps to better address development challenges and raise awareness of concepts that revolve around the concept of Ethical Porn.
The platform now has a vast collection of essays from people working in the adult industry, such as journalists, sex therapists, and sociologists, who discuss what ethical porn means to them.
References
Internet properties with year of establishment missing
Pornography
Online nonprofit organizations |
Master Gardener is an upcoming film written and directed by Paul Schrader, starring Joel Edgerton and Sigourney Weaver in the lead roles.
Cast
Joel Edgerton as Narvel Roth
Sigourney Weaver as Mrs. Haverhill
Quintessa Swindell as Maya
Eduardo Losan as Xavier
Esai Morales
Production
It was announced in September 2021 that Joel Edgerton and Sigourney Weaver had been cast in the film, written and directed by Paul Schrader. Filming began in Louisiana on February 3, 2022. At the same time, it was announced that two more actors joined the cast, Quintessa Swindell (replacing Zendaya whom Schrader originally had in mind) and Esai Morales.
References
External links
Upcoming films
American films
Films directed by Paul Schrader
Films with screenplays by Paul Schrader
Films shot in Louisiana
2020s English-language films |
Dale Atkins (born 29 August 1961) is a former coach of the New Zealand women's national rugby union team. He replaced Jed Rowlands as coach of the Black Ferns in 2007, he was Rowlands assistant coach. He was assisted by his former Canterbury teammate and former All Blacks centre Warwick Taylor. He was not reappointed in 2009 despite not losing a single game during his term as coach.
Atkins played for Canterbury and the New Zealand Maori.
References
1961 births
Living people
New Zealand rugby union coaches |
When We Were Bullies is a 2021 German-American documentary short film by Jay Rosenblatt.
Summary
The director trying to track down his 5th-grade teacher and remembering a bullying incident from 50 years ago.
Release and reception
It premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival.
Accolades
94th Academy Awards: Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) – nomination
References
External links
Official website
When We Were Bulies on IMDb
Official trailer
2021 documentary films
German short documentary films
American short documentary films
Collage film
Films directed by Jay Rosenblatt |
John Williamson Range is a historic building in Savannah, Georgia, United States. Located in Savannah's Historic District, the addresses of some of the properties are West Bay Street, above Factors Walk, while others solely utilize the former King Cotton warehouses on River Street. As of February 2022, these are
Two Cracked Eggs, Rusty Rudders Tap House, Nine Line, Black Rifle Coffee Company and 309 West.
The building was completed in 1850.
In 1921, the Shapiro Shoe Company was based at number 302. At the same time, another part of the building was occupied by J. J. Williamson & Company cotton merchants, established in 1904. Their home office was in Atlanta, but they had branches in Savannah, Augusta, Memphis, Dallas, Birmingham and Tupelo, and were members of both the New York Cotton Exchange and the New Orleans Cotton Exchange.
In 1922, the cotton firm of Inman & Howard in Atlanta dissolved its partnership. Frank Inman combined his interests with those of J. J. Williamson & Company, under the name of Williamson, Inman & Stribling.
River Street façade
See also
Buildings in Savannah Historic District
References
Commercial buildings in Savannah
Commercial buildings completed in 1850
Savannah Historic District |
The 2019 Dynamic Billard St. Johann im Pongau Open was a professional nine-ball pool tournament, the first Euro Tour event of 2021. It took place from the 17th to the 20th June 2021 in the Alpina, Wellness & Sporthotel in St Johann im Pongau, Austria. The event had a total prize pool of €38,000, with the winner of each event receiving €4,500. Since the 2020 Treviso Open there had not been any Euro Tour events, having been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The defending champion was Eklent Kaçi, who did not participate at the event. The winner of the men's event was Joshua Filler, who defeated Mario He in the final 9-8.
Format
The St. Johann im Pongau Open was played as a double-elimination knockout tournament, until the round of 32. From that point on, the event continued as a single elimination bracket. All matches were played as a -to-nine- under the format. The event had a total of 181 entrants.
Prize fund
The tournament prize fund was similar to that of other Euro Tour events; €4,500 was awarded to the winner of the event.
Knockout rounds
References
External links
Euro Tour
Sporting events in Austria
Austria Open
Austria Open
Austria Open
International sports competitions hosted by Austria |
Jander is a name. It may refer to:
Given name
Jander (footballer) (born 1988), Jander Ribeiro Santana, Brazilian football left-back
Surname
Gerhart Jander (1892-1961), German inorganic chemist
Gundula Jander (fl. 1965), German canoeist
Georg Jander (fl. 1996-present), American botanist
Caspar Jander (born 2003), German football midfielder |
Geophilus monoporus is a species of soil centipede in the family Geophilidae found in Tiba, Japan. It grows up to 18 millimeters in length; it's named for the single pore at the base of the final leg pair.
References
Geophilomorpha
Zoology |
Weidmüller Interface GmbH & Co. KG is a German company in the field of Electromechanics and manufactures a wide range of electrical connectors. The company's headquarters is in Detmold, North Rhine-Westphalia.
The company has operations in 80 countries, employing around 5,000 people worldwide. Weidmüller is mainly active in mechanical engineering, the process industry, energy generation/renewable energies, transport technology, building infrastructure and equipment manufacturing.
History
In 1850 Carl August Weidmüller founded C. A. Weidmüller, originally as a textile company in Reichenbrand near Chemnitz. Gottfried Gläsel became a partner in the company in 1931 and became the sole owner and managing director in 1937. For reasons of recognition, the company name C. A. Weidmüller was retained. In 1943, the Second World War caused the company to change their products. While searching for suitable products for his company, Gottfried Gläsel met Wilhelm Staffel, who as a development engineer at AEG was involved in the development of the first automatic machine controls (e.B. for milling machines). The collaboration with Wilhelm Staffel leads to the production of the first "Staffel-Klemme" (Terminal) for AEG in Berlin.
The resumption of contact with Wilhelm Staffel in 1947 led to a contract that formed the basis for the re-establishment of C. A. Weidmüller in Berlebecke near Detmold in 1948. In the same year, the production of the first plastic-insulated modular clamp was developed. In 1952, Weidmüller exhibited for the first time at the Hannover Messe. In the same year, the "Switchgear Clamp" (SAK) was developed from thermoset plastics as insulating material and patented steel drawbar as clamping system.
In the following years, the company expanded its international activities and established itself in Europe, America and Asia. Weidmüller is now represented in over 80 countries worldwide. These at the locations Germany, Czech Republic, Romania, China and Brazil with a production facility and at the locations Germany, Spain, Australia, China, Brazil and Singapore with a development center.
In 1959, the first foreign sales company was founded in England. This was followed in 1967 by sales companies in Austria, France and Italy. Spain was added in 1978 and Sweden and Belgium in the following years. With the founding of Thüringische Weidmüller GmbH in 1991, the company also spread to Eastern and Central Europe. The most recent country of the group in Europe is the sales office in Switzerland.
In 1975, the activities were expanded to Brazil, Canada and the USA. The presence on the American continent was supplemented in 1994 by a sales company in Mexico. After the sale of the sales companies, they were bought back by Weidmüller from the American company Rockwell Automation, Inc. in 2017.
In 1980, a sales company was founded in Japan, through which Weidmüller established its presence in Asia. Shortly thereafter, a sales company in Singapore followed. Since 1994, the company has also been continuously expanding its presence in China. Group companies and sales companies in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Malaysia complement the presence in the region. Today, around 1,000 employees work at two locations and in 16 sales offices.
References
Companies established in 1850
Companies based in North Rhine-Westphalia
Electronics companies of Germany |
Big Brother Mzansi: Beke Le Beke (also known as Big Brother Mzansi 3 or Big Brother South Africa 5) is the third season of the South African Big Brother reality television reboot series produced by Banijay and Red Pepper Pictures for Mzansi Magic. It returned after a six-year hiatus and marked 20 years since the Big Brother brand launched in South Africa.
The show premiered on 23 January 2022 on Mzansi Magic and DStv with 18 contestants initially and a new host, Lawrence Maleka. A week later, two more contestants were introduced to the house.
The winner is expected to receive R2,000,000.
Housemates
The first evening (23 January) introduced 18 housemates, equally split between male and female. After only three days in the house, QV decided to withdraw from the competition for mental health reasons. On 30 January, instead of an eviction, Vyno and Nthabii were added to the house.
Nomination History
In week 1, all housemates made their eviction nominations. On eviction night, it was revealed that all housemates were actually up for eviction, before the eviction for that week was cancelled.
In week 2 and 3, only the HoH and deputy HoH were allowed to nominate housemates for possible eviction. The HoH had to use their veto power to replace one housemate from those nominated by the deputy HoH, with a non-nominated housemate.
In week 3, under Sis Tamara and Yoli's leadership, the housemates won their first 100% wager.
For the third week in a row, only the HoH and deputy HoH were allowed to nominate, with HoH once again having the privilege to save and replace.
Week 5 was the first week that all housemates had the opportunity to nominate other housemates for possible eviction. Both the HoH and deputy HoH were immune from nomination while the HoH had to perform a save and replace in front of all the housemates.
The Conspiracy Corner was introduced where housemates could discuss who they want to nominate.
Nominations: Results
References
External links
South Africa
2022 South African television seasons |
Muqadasa Ahmadzai (born 1992/1993) is a social activist, politician and poet from Afghanistan, who ran in 2018 for election to the Afghan parliament. She is the recipient of a N-Peace Award and was named as one of the BBC's 100 Women in 2021.
Biography
Ahmadzai was 24 years old in 2017. She is a social activist and poet from Nangarhar, Afghanistan. Initially her family were opposed to her activism and she endured physical punishment when they discovered her activities. Whilst a teenager, she published a book of poetry, and it was her uncle's appreciation of this that changed her family's opinion of her work.
A former member and Deputy Speaker of the Afghan Youth Parliament, during the COVID-19 pandemic she worked to support women and communities against disinformation. She was a founder of the National Youth Council in Afghanistan. She represented the voices of Afghan women as part of the Afghanistan and Pakistan Peace Dialogues. Alongside other women she began a campaign of mural painting with women's rights messages in Jalalabad. She also established a network of 400 women who travelled the country, including into areas at the time that were controlled by the Taliban, to women who were survivors of domestic violence. She is founder and Director of the Kor Association, which aims to raise awareness of rights that women in Afghanistan have.
In 2018 she ran for election to the Afghan parliament.
Awards
Ahmadzai was awarded a N-Peace Award, given by the United Nations Development Programme. She was named as one of the BBC's 100 Women in 2021.
References
External links
Pashto new Poetry by Muqadasa Ahmadzai in Nangrahar
Living people
Afghan women's rights activists
Afghan women poets
BBC 100 Women
Afghan politicians |
Cebuano has two number systems: the native system and the Spanish-derived system. The native system is mostly used for counting small numbers, basic measurement, and for other pre-existing native concepts that deals with numbers. Meanwhile, the Spanish-derived system is mainly used for concepts that only existed post-colonially such as counting large numbers, currency, solar time, and advanced mathematics.
History
Unlike other Philippine languages, the native number system of Cebuano was derived solely from the non-human forms of Proto-Austronesian numerals instead of a combination of both human and non-human numerals, such as in Tagalog and Hiligaynon.
Types
The native numerals are categorized into three types: cardinal, ordinal, and distributive.
Cardinal
Like other Visayan languages, cardinal numbers are linked to the noun with the ligature ka.
usa ka tawo a/one person
kaluhaan ug usa ka bulan twenty-one months
Ordinal
Ordinal numbers in Cebuano are formed using the ika- prefix, except una.
Distributive
Distributive numbers in Cebuano are formed by attaching the tag- prefix to the numerical root. Irregular words may be formed depending on the number being attached to.
See also
Cebuano language
Cebuano grammar
References
Cebuano language
Numbers |
Pedro Antonio Díaz Molina was a Cuban general who was the only former slave that was a major general in the .
Origins and the Ten Years' War
Pedro was born in the town of Yaguajay, in Las Villas, Cuba, on January 17, 1850. He was the of Caesarea Regla who was a slave, he adopted the surnames of his owners, being a slave himself.
On October 10, 1868, the Ten Years' War broke out and in February 1869, the first pro-independence rebels rose up in the Las Villas Province. Having heard the news of the arrests, Pedro fled from his hacienda in April of that same year, to join the mambises.
In said war, Díaz fought under the orders of generals Salomé Hernández, Francisco Villamil, Carlos Roloff, Miguel Jerónimo Gutiérrez, Honorato del Castillo and the brothers Federico and Adolfo Fernández Cavada .
At the end of the war in 1878, Díaz was under the command of then Colonel Francisco Carrillo Morales, in the Jurisdiction of Remedios. By then, Díaz was already Commander. The Zanjón Pact, which ended that war, recognized the freedom of the slaves who had fought in the Mambí Army, which benefited Commander Díaz Molina.
Little War
In August 1879, the Little War broke out. Díaz rose in November 1879 and remained in arms until August 1880, after the war had failed. Diaz ended this war with the ranks of Lieutenant Colonel.
After this, he settled in the Villa de San Juan de los Remedios and dedicated himself to agricultural work in various mills. He became involved in the different Cuban independence conspiracies of the time.
Cuban War of Independence
On February 24, 1895, the Cuban War of Independence broke out and Lieutenant Colonel Pedro Díaz Molina took up arms on June 5 of that year and, shortly after, was appointed Chief of the "Remedies Brigade".
Díaz Molina joined Generals Máximo Gómez and Antonio Maceo during the Invasion from East to West in Cuba and took part in several of their combats, particularly in Calimete and Coliseo.
He also participated in Maceo's campaigns in Pinar del Río and was present at the Battle of San Pedro, where General Maceo lost his life, on December 7, 1896. Later, General Díaz assisted the expeditions of Colonel Francisco Leyte-Vidal and General Juan Rius Rivera in the Province of Pinar del Río .
In 1898, the United States intervened in the war against Spain and militarily occupied the island until 1902. Pedro Diaz ended the war in 1898, with the rank of Major General, along with his troops in his camp near the city of Pinar de Rio.
Later Years
After the war and once the Republic was established, General Díaz was elected representative for Artemisa, between 1902 and 1906. He then married Hilaria Bocourt and had 6 children with her.
Major General Pedro Antonio Díaz Molina died of natural causes, on May 15, 1924, in Caimito at the age of 74.
References
Bibliography
Diccionario Enciclopédico de Historia Militar de Cuba. Volume I (1510 - 1898), Tomo I Biografías, Verde Olivo Edition, Havana, 2004.
1850 births
1924 deaths
Cuban slaves
People of the Ten Years' War
Cuban soldiers
Cuban generals
19th-century Cuban military personnel
Cuban independence activists |
"That's Love" is a song by English singer Billy Fury with vocal group the Four Jays, released as a single in May 1960. It peaked at number 19 on the UK Singles Chart.
Release and reception
"That's Love" was released as the only single from Fury's debut album The Sound of Fury, yet neither single nor album were particularly successful, with both only briefly appearing on their respective charts. As with the rest of the album, "That's Love" and its B-side "You Don't Know" were written by Fury, although the latter under the pseudonym Wilber Wilberforce.
Reviewing for Disc, Don Nicholl described Fury as "rocking on a comfortable winner in "That's Love"" and that "it should register happily in all the juke areas and I am also tipping it to climb into the big selling league". He also described "You Don't Know" as "almost a talker. Extremely slow with piano and guitar behind Billy. I think he tends to over-dramatise this half".
Track listing
7": Decca / F 11237
"That's Love" – 1:48
"You Don't Know" – 2:28
Personnel
Billy Fury – vocals
Joe Brown – guitar
Reg Guest – piano
Alan Weighall – electric bass guitar
Bill Stark – bass guitar
Andy White – drums
The Four Jays (Joe McKinley, J Bretton, Johnny Morgan and Jonie Chalmers) – backing vocals
Charts
References
1960 singles
1960 songs
Decca Records singles
Billy Fury songs
Songs written by Billy Fury |
Yves Hemedinger (born 23 October 1965) is a French Republican politician who has served as Member of Parliament for Haut-Rhin's 1st constituency since 2020.
References
Living people
1965 births
21st-century French politicians
The Republicans (France) politicians
Deputies of the 15th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
People from Haut-Rhin |
Jordan Jacott (March 14, 1994) better known by his stage name, Dopebwoy is a Dutch rapper. Well known among other things from his number 1 single Guap in the Dutch Single Top 100.
Career
In April 2017, Dopebwoy released his debut album under the name Nieuw Goud, which reached 36th place in the Dutch Album Top 100. With the song Cartier, which Dopebwoy released in June 2017 together with Chivv and 3robi, he had his first hit as the song remained in the top 10 of the chart for 12 weeks. In the years that followed, Dopebwoy made several songs and collaborated with artists such as Jayh, Bizzey and Boef.
In the spring of 2020, Dopebwoy started his own label under the name Forever Lit Records, in collaboration with Warner Music Benelux. In April 2020 he released his song Christian Dior as the first song under this label. The album Hoog Seizoen soon followed, which reached 3rd place in the Dutch Album Top 100. In 2021 Dopebwoy released the single Erop Eraf, which achieved gold status.
Discography
Albums
Singles
References
Dutch rappers
1994 births
Living people |
The Tragedy of Macbeth is an American black-and-white film written and directed by Joel Coen, based on the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare. It is the first film directed by one of the Coen brothers without the other's involvement. The film stars Denzel Washington, Frances McDormand, Bertie Carvel, Alex Hassell, Corey Hawkins, Harry Melling, and Brendan Gleeson. In the film, three witches tell Macbeth a prophecy that he will become the King of Scotland. Kathryn Hunter co-stars, playing all three witches and an old man.
The Tragedy of Macbeth was released in select theaters by A24 on December 25, 2021, and began streaming on Apple TV+ on January 14, 2022. The film was critically acclaimed, with praise aimed towards Coen's screenplay and direction, Bruno Delbonnel's cinematography, the production design and score, and the performances of Washington and Hunter. The American Film Institute and National Board of Review listed it among the best films of 2021. Washington was nominated for a Golden Globe and Delbonnel received a BAFTA Award nomination for Best Cinematography. At the 94th Academy Awards, the film received three nominations for Best Actor (Washington), Best Production Design (Stefan Dechant and Nancy Haigh), and Best Cinematography (Delbonnel).
Accolades
Notes
References
External links
Tragedy of Macbeth (2021 film), The |
Space Channel 5 VR: Kinda Funky News Flash is a 2020 music video game developed and published by Grounding Inc for the virtual reality (VR) platforms PlayStation VR, Oculus Quest, Viveport and SteamVR-compatible platforms. Following a new reporter assigned to assist Space Channel 5 protagonist Ulala during an alien threat covered by the titular news network, players engage in rhythm-based combat by mimicking the actions of rivals in time to musical tracks.
Space Channel 5 VR began production following positive feedback of a VR demo created by Grounding in collaboration with KDDI using the series characters and gameplay. Several original staff returned including Yumiko Miyabe as a lead artist, original writer Takumi Yoshinaga, Minoko Okamura as producer and the voice of Ulala, and Naofumi Hataya as sound director. The game met with mixed reviews from video game journalists.
Synopsis and gameplay
In the virtual reality (VR) music video game Space Channel 5 VR: Kinda Funky News Flash, players take on the role of novice reporters for the titular news channel in a 1960s-styled science fiction future filled with competing news channels; the player's mentor is series protagonist Ulala. Initially drawn to a repeat invasion by the Morolians, and competing with other reporters and channels along the way, the player (playing as Roo or Kie) and Ulala end up facing off against Glitter, a powerful alien being who wants to consume all the galaxy's dance energy.
The game is split between the story mode, a training mode, and a 100-stage endurance mode. Including the tutorial, there are five stages in the story campaign. As with previous entries, gameplay focuses on mimicking the movements and vocalisations of opponents (compared by journalists to the game Simon Says). Players perform actions by physically moving their body in time to instructions. Actions are performed in time to music tracks playing in each section of a stage. Character actions carried over from the original games are up, down, left, right and actions accompanied by the vocalization "Chu". A new action is "Pose", where the player must match the enemy's body pose.
Development
Space Channel 5 (1999) and its sequel Part 2 (2002) were produced by Sega's internal United Game Artists studio for the Dreamcast. The games were created by Tetsuya Mizuguchi as a title aimed at a wide gaming demographic that would experiment with existing gameplay of the time for the music game genre. Following the merger of United Game Artists during Sega restructuring in 2003, many of its developers left the company; Mizuguchi founded Q Entertainment in 2003, while a number of others formed Grounding Inc. in 2007 with staff from the Panzer Dragoon series. A notable staff member of Grounding was Minoko Okamura, who was an assistant producer on the original game and provided the voice of Ulala.
While concepts existed for a third game in the series and pitches were made for the Wii and Kinect, the team felt they had exhausted their ideas, and Sega showed little interest in a new entry. At one time, Mizuguchi and Q Entertainment were in discussions with Sega about reviving the series for HD consoles. Discussions about a new Space Channel 5 game were revived following the Game Symphony Japan 14th Concert SEGA Special in 2015, which featured a performance of the series theme "Mexican Flyer" and the second game's ending theme "This is my Happiness". Okamura met up with other former staff members at the concert, and saw there was a wish in the gaming industry for a new Space Channel 5 project. Another inspiration for returning to the series was the mainstream success of the 2016 musical La La Land. While it was considered to simply make a Part 3, Okamura instead opted for a VR project.
Okamura pitched the concept to Sega, who greenlit an experimental VR prototype created in collaboration with KDDI. This prototype, Space Channel 5 VR: Ukiuki Viewing Show, was shown off in 2016 at that year's Tokyo Game Show. Due to positive fan reaction, a full virtual reality game was approved. Most of the original staff, who had stayed in touch over the years, reunited to develop Space Channel 5 VR. Okamura acted as producer, former graphic designer Noboru Hotta was director, Takumi Yoshinaga returned as story game design consultant, and composer Naofumi Hataya was sound director. Newcomer Naoya Kurihara acted as lead programmer. Yoshinaga, who was still with Sega, helped the team obtained Sega's permission to use the licence. Okamura contacted Mizuguchi to see if he was interested in joining, but while he gave the game his approval he was unable to join due to other commitments.
Full production began in 2018. It was designed using the Unity game engine. Because of the staff's familiarity with each other and the series, production went smoothly. During early prototyping, a version was tried where players could control the game using the DualShock 4, but this did not provide much immersion so the controls were tailored to the PlayStation Move. The first prototype also required far more precision with the player's movements, resulting in testers getting very low scores, so the requirements were relaxed. One of the most stressful elements was timing the effects and music with the player's movements, especially as the game progressed and corrections to music timing became more difficult. They also needed to make environments and displays while accounting for potential motion sickness in players. The team also incorporated a caloric counter with help from the Virtual Reality Institute of Health and Exercise, as they felt the dance moves would double as a workout for players.
Original artist Yumiko Miyabe returned to designed the characters. She had left the gaming industry, but was able to return due to her continuing friendship with former staff at Grounding. A notable artistic change was Ulala's outfit, which was made a neon yellow to represent the series's shift into virtual reality. So as to appeal to the series' large female fan base, the team consulted with Miyabe and other female staff to design the new characters so they would be appealing without being sexualised. Despite the change in platform and increased hardware, the team wanted to keep the established "retro sci-fi" aesthetic. When creating the character models, the team went through a repeated process of "destroying and " the models until they fitted into the game's world while remaining true to the series. Some of the planned graphical effects had to be toned down for the final release as they caused the frame rate to drop.
The aim for the narrative was to be nostalgic, blending established characters with newcomers. The new player protagonists who work under Ulala were chosen so players could continue to see and admire Ulala, while also encouraging a feeling of supporting her reports. The game's title in Japanese was intended to reference that participation. The team managed to bring back the original motion actors for characters, and some of the original voice cast. Among returning voices were Okamura as Ulala, Show Hayami and Tom Clarke-Hill as rival reporter Jaguar, and Kae Īda as Pudding. For Ulala's English voice, the team tried to bring back original voice actress Apollo Smile, who had retired from the industry. Smile was uninterested in returning, so the part was recast with Cherami Leigh. Okamura described her voice as fitting best with Ulala's personality and appearance.
Release
Space Channel 5 VR was announced in February 2019, where it was said development was 40% complete. When it received a demo at the 2019 Tokyo Game Show in September, it was reported to be 70% complete. Space Channel 5 VR was the first game Grounding both developed and published in-house. Originally scheduled for release on PlayStation VR, SteamVR, HTC Vive and Oculus Quest during December 2019, the game was delayed into Spring of the following year to improve its quality. It was released for PlayStation VR on February 25, 2020. This release received downloadable content in July featuring vocaloid mascot Hatsune Miku, including a new level and Miku as a costume option for Ulala. It released for Oculus Quest systems on October 12. It released for HTC Vive's Viveport device on November 20. The Steam version released on December 8. The Oculus and SteamVR versions came bundled with the Hatsune Miku DLC.
Reception
Space Channel 5 VR: Kinda Funky News Flash was deemed a commercial success, but was met with "mixed or average" reviews. On PlayStation 4, the game scored 54 out of 100 on review aggregator Metacritic based on fifteen reviews.
References
Notes
External links
Official website (English)
Official website (Japanese)
2020 video games
VR
Music video games
Video games featuring female protagonists
PlayStation VR games
Oculus Quest games
Windows games
Video games developed in Japan |
Élisa de Gamond, born in Brussels on 3 April 1804 and died in Ixelles on 3 March 1869, was a Belgian painter known for her neo-classical works in the field of mythology.
Biography
Coming from a wealthy liberal family, his father, Pierre-Joseph de Gamond, was also a barrister-at-law at the Brussels Bar and ended up as a counsellor at the Brussels Court of Appeal. Pierre-Joseph de Gamond also taught the course entitled "Code de la procédure civile et ordre des Juridictions" at the Université libre de Bruxelles. His mother, Isabelle-Angélique de Lados, of noble origin, held political and philosophical salons in the 1820s. She died in 1829.
Elisa's career as a painter began around 1820. In 1823, she took part in the exhibition competition of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent as a pupil of Joseph Paelinck. The work presented is close to the historical genre. Her works cover the field of historical painting and mythological subjects.
In August 1826, his painting “Sleeping Nymph” won the Ladies' Prize in Ghent, awarded by the leading artists of the kingdom, which consisted of a wreath of myrtle and roses, a medal of honour and an allowance of two hundred florins.
On 26 April 1827, she married Auguste Théodore Giron, a professor at the . The couple then had four children, born between 1828 and 1838. Around 1830, she and her family settled in Ixelles. According to the art historian , her marriage put an end to a promising career.
Her younger sister, Zoé de Gamond, became a renowned teacher and feminist. She and Élisa held salons, learning about politics at a time when women were excluded, notably by participating in the salons held by their mother. This beginning of political life was in line with the revolutionary events of 1830. Later, the two sisters held salons twice a week, as their mother had done in the past.
Works
References
1804 births
1869 deaths
19th-century Belgian painters
People from Brussels
Belgian women painters
Mythological painters
Salon-holders |
Shi'r (Arabic: مجلة شعر; Poetry in Arabic) was a literary magazine with a special reference to poetry. The magazine was published in Beirut, Lebanon, between 1957 and 1970 with a three-year interruption. The founders were two leading literary figures: Yusuf al-Khal and Adunis.
History and profile
Shi'r was started in Beirut in 1957, and the first issue appeared in January. The founders were Yusuf al-Khal and Adunis. Their goal in establishing Shi'r which was an avant-garde monthly journal was to present a non-political version of poetry. This version of poetry is called Al Shi'r al Hurr (Free Poetry in Arabic).
Al-Khal was the editor-in-chief of Shi'r. Adunis served in different positions: at the beginning he was the editor and from 1958 he began to function as the secretary of the editorial board. He became the managing editor in 1961 and co-owner and co-editor-in-chief of Shi'r in 1963. However, he left the magazine soon after these roles.
The contributors were part of the Shi'r school, and the magazine was an organ of this movement. The magazine was significantly affected from Ahmed Zaki Abu Shadi's the Apollo Poet Society founded in Cairo, Egypt, in 1932. Salma Khadra Jayyusi argues that Shi'r is, in fact, the successor of Apollo which was an organ of this society. Sargon Boulus, an Iraq-born Assyrian poet, started his career in the magazine in 1961.
Although both were avant-garde publications and supported free verse movement, Al Adab, a literary magazine established in Beirut in 1953, was the main adversary of Shi'r. Because the contributors of Shi'r opposed the movement of committed literature (al-adab al-multazim in Arabic), a dominant approach in the 1950s and 1960s in the Arab world which was also supported by Al Adab.
Shi'r was banned in some countries due to its alleged support for the cultural war against Arab nationalism and its being funded by the CIA and French intelligence. It was temporarily shut down in 1964 and restarted in Spring 1967. In the second phase al-Khal also served as the editor-in-chief of the magazine of which the scope was expanded to cover other literary subjects in addition to poetry. Shi'r ceased publication in Autumn 1970.
Studies on Shi'r
Kamal Kheir Beik, a Syria-born dissident and poet, analysed Shi'r in his PhD thesis which was completed at the University of Geneva in 1972. Another comprehensive study on Shi'r is a book by Dounia Badini published in 2009.
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1957 establishments in Lebanon
1970 disestablishments in Lebanon
Defunct magazines published in Lebanon
Magazines published in Beirut
Magazines established in 1957
Magazines disestablished in 1970
Monthly magazines published in Lebanon
Poetry literary magazines
Defunct literary magazines
Literary magazines published in Lebanon
Avant-garde magazines |
Philippe Benassaya (born 4 August 1964) is a French Republican politician who has served as Member of Parliament for Yvelines's 11th constituency since 2020.
References
1964 births
Living people
The Republicans (France) politicians
Paris-Sorbonne University alumni
French essayists
Mayors of Yvelines
People from Pantin
21st-century French politicians
Deputies of the 15th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
French people of Algerian descent |
The Divnogorsk constituency (No.56) is a Russian legislative constituency in Krasnoyarsk Krai. The constituency covers southern Krasnoyarsk Krai. 2015 redistricting saw several changes to the constituency, including trade off of Achinsk to Central constituency in exchange for Divnogorsk from Krasnoyarsk constituency.
Members elected
Election results
1993
|-
! colspan=2 style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;vertical-align:top;" |Candidate
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;vertical-align:top;" |Party
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |Votes
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |%
|-
|style="background-color:"|
|align=left|Vasily Zhurko
|align=left|Liberal Democratic Party
|
|32.09%
|-
|style="background-color:#019CDC"|
|align=left|Anna Shurshakova
|align=left|Party of Russian Unity and Accord
| -
|22.10%
|-
| colspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"|
|- style="font-weight:bold"
| colspan="3" style="text-align:left;" | Total
|
| 100%
|-
| colspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"|
|- style="font-weight:bold"
| colspan="4" |Source:
|
|}
1995
|-
! colspan=2 style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;vertical-align:top;" |Candidate
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;vertical-align:top;" |Party
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |Votes
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |%
|-
|style="background-color:#2C299A"|
|align=left|Valery Sergiyenko
|align=left|Congress of Russian Communities
|
|32.56%
|-
|style="background-color:"|
|align=left|Valery Kolmakov
|align=left|Independent
|
|25.74%
|-
|style="background-color:"|
|align=left|Vasily Zhurko (incumbent)
|align=left|Liberal Democratic Party
|
|13.43%
|-
|style="background-color:"|
|align=left|Lilia Skolkova
|align=left|Independent
|
|11.93%
|-
|style="background-color:#000000"|
|colspan=2 |against all
|
|14.38%
|-
| colspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"|
|- style="font-weight:bold"
| colspan="3" style="text-align:left;" | Total
|
| 100%
|-
| colspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"|
|- style="font-weight:bold"
| colspan="4" |Source:
|
|}
1999
|-
! colspan=2 style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;vertical-align:top;" |Candidate
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;vertical-align:top;" |Party
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |Votes
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |%
|-
|style="background-color:"|
|align=left|Sergey Generalov
|align=left|Independent
|
|23.12%
|-
|style="background-color:"|
|align=left|Oleg Pashchenko
|align=left|Independent
|
|18.25%
|-
|style="background-color:"|
|align=left|Valery Sergiyenko (incumbent)
|align=left|Independent
|
|16.72%
|-
|style="background-color:"|
|align=left|Valery Barmin
|align=left|Independent
|
|11.56%
|-
|style="background-color:#FF4400"|
|align=left|Anatoly Nazeykin
|align=left|Andrey Nikolayev and Svyatoslav Fyodorov Bloc
|
|3.26%
|-
|style="background-color:"|
|align=left|Vasily Zhurko
|align=left|Independent
|
|2.04%
|-
|style="background-color:#000000"|
|colspan=2 |against all
|
|23.05%
|-
| colspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"|
|- style="font-weight:bold"
| colspan="3" style="text-align:left;" | Total
|
| 100%
|-
| colspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"|
|- style="font-weight:bold"
| colspan="4" |Source:
|
|}
2003
|-
! colspan=2 style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;vertical-align:top;" |Candidate
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;vertical-align:top;" |Party
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |Votes
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |%
|-
|style="background-color:"|
|align=left|Aleksandr Klyukin
|align=left|United Russia
|
|30.12%
|-
|style="background-color:"|
|align=left|Yevgeny Vasilyev
|align=left|Independent
|
|23.24%
|-
|style="background-color:"|
|align=left|Oleg Pashchenko
|align=left|Agrarian Party
|
|9.97%
|-
|style="background-color:"|
|align=left|Vladimir Dmitriyevsky
|align=left|Liberal Democratic Party
|
|5.99%
|-
|style="background-color:"|
|align=left|Valery Kolmakov
|align=left|Independent
|
|2.05%
|-
|style="background-color:#7C73CC"|
|align=left|Anatoly Sidorov
|align=left|Great Russia – Eurasian Union
|
|1.50%
|-
|style="background-color:#000000"|
|colspan=2 |against all
|
|22.74%
|-
| colspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"|
|- style="font-weight:bold"
| colspan="3" style="text-align:left;" | Total
|
| 100%
|-
| colspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"|
|- style="font-weight:bold"
| colspan="4" |Source:
|
|}
2016
|-
! colspan=2 style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;vertical-align:top;" |Candidate
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;vertical-align:top;" |Party
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |Votes
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |%
|-
|style="background-color: " |
|align=left|Viktor Zubarev
|align=left|United Russia
|
|40.95%
|-
|style="background-color:"|
|align=left|Dmitry Nosov
|align=left|Communist Party
|
|17.31%
|-
|style="background-color:"|
|align=left|Roman Ulskikh
|align=left|Liberal Democratic Party
|
|9.85%
|-
|style="background-color:"|
|align=left|Gennady Semigin
|align=left|Patriots of Russia
|
|8.71%
|-
|style="background:"|
|align=left|Irina Ivanova
|align=left|Communists of Russia
|
|6.15%
|-
|style="background-color:"|
|align=left|Maksim Zolotukhin
|align=left|A Just Russia
|
|4.87%
|-
|style="background-color: " |
|align=left|Yaroslav Pitersky
|align=left|Yabloko
|
|2.59%
|-
|style="background-color:"|
|align=left|Sergey Yerbyagin
|align=left|The Greens
|
|2.23%
|-
|style="background-color: "|
|align=left|Valentina Ulyanova
|align=left|Civic Platform
|
|1.59%
|-
| colspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"|
|- style="font-weight:bold"
| colspan="3" style="text-align:left;" | Total
|
| 100%
|-
| colspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"|
|- style="font-weight:bold"
| colspan="4" |Source:
|
|}
2021
|-
! colspan=2 style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;vertical-align:top;" |Candidate
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;vertical-align:top;" |Party
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |Votes
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |%
|-
|style="background-color: " |
|align=left|Viktor Zubarev (incumbent)
|align=left|United Russia
|
|34.38%
|-
|style="background-color:"|
|align=left|Boris Melnichenko
|align=left|Communist Party
|
|28.42%
|-
|style="background-color: " |
|align=left|Vladimir Katsaurov
|align=left|New People
|
|7.82%
|-
|style="background:"|
|align=left|Oleg Lyutykh
|align=left|Communists of Russia
|
|7.78%
|-
|style="background-color:"|
|align=left|Yaroslav Khavron
|align=left|Liberal Democratic Party
|
|6.98%
|-
|style="background-color:"|
|align=left|Sergey Kornyushkin
|align=left|A Just Russia — For Truth
|
|5.47%
|-
|style="background-color: "|
|align=left|Leonid Fedotenko
|align=left|Party of Pensioners
|
|4.17%
|-
| colspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"|
|- style="font-weight:bold"
| colspan="3" style="text-align:left;" | Total
|
| 100%
|-
| colspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"|
|- style="font-weight:bold"
| colspan="4" |Source:
|
|}
Notes
References
Russian legislative constituencies
Politics of Krasnoyarsk Krai |
Ashford-in-the-Water is a civil parish in the Derbyshire Dales district of Derbyshire, England. The parish contains 62 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, two are listed at Grade II*, the middle of the three grades, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The parish contains the village of Ashford-in-the-Water and the surrounding countryside, which includes two country houses, Ashford Hall and Thornbridge Hall. These are both listed, together with associated structures and items in their grounds. The River Wye passes through the parish, and four bridges crossing it are listed. Most of the other listed buildings are houses, cottages and associated structures, and the others include a church, a churchyard cross, a former watermill, two public houses, a farmhouse, farm buildings, a vicarage, a well, a dovecote, and a milepost.
Key
Buildings
References
Citations
Sources
Lists of listed buildings in Derbyshire |
Pelatantheria woonchengii is a species of epiphytic or lithophytic orchid occurring in Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar, and Malaysia. It may be easily misidentified as Pelatantheria ctenoglossum.
Description
The plants are creeping, epiphytic herbs with occasionally branched, slightly compressed, up to long stems bearing aerial roots. The distichously arranged, fleshy, unequally bi-lobed leaves are channeled along the midvein. One to two yellow flowers with red striations on the sepals and petals are produced on a short, axillary racemes, which do not exceed the length of the leaves. The spurred, immobile, three-lobed labellum bears a long apical appendage with tufted hairs. Glandular hairs arise from the base of the column, similar to Pelatantheria bicuspidata and Pelatantheria ctenoglossum. However, Pelatantheria woonchengii only bears one tuft of hairs on each side of the column. Also, the callus on the midlobe is large and yellow and the disk is thickened and cushion-like.
Ecology
Flowering occurs from mid October to late November.
Conservation
This species is protected under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora CITES and thus is regarded as potentially endangered. Many wild populations were destroyed by overcollection.
References
woonchengii
Orchids of Myanmar
Orchids of Thailand
Orchids of Vietnam
Orchids of Malaysia
Aeridinae |
The Stratfield Historic District is a historic residential area on the west side of Bridgeport, Connecticut. In the late 19th and early 20th century, it was one of the highest-status and most fashionable neighborhoods in the city. At more than in size, it is one of the largest assemblages of high-status residential architecture in the state. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
Description and history
The Stratfield area is located on Bridgeport's west side, and is a roughly north–south district centered at the junction of North Avenue (United States Route 1), Clinton Avenue, and Brooklawn Avenue (Connecticut Route 59). It extends eastward in several places, including a complete city block bounded by Clinton, North, Laurel, and Beechwood Avenues. The area is mostly residential, with only six churches as exceptions. The majority of homes were built here between 1880 and 1920, in popular revival styles of the period. Earlier buildings include a Federal period house that was given a Queen Anne makeover in the late 19th century, and two Italianate houses dating to the 1850s, when the area was divided into country estates. The area also has some of the city's oldest surviving early history, in a small park that was once the site of a colonial militia training ground.
Bridgeport's economy grew rapidly in the second half of the 19th century, and earlier fashionable districts were overtaken by increasing urbanization. The Stratfield area was developed piecemeal by multiple developers, and was desirable for its balance between distance and proximity to the city's expanding urban core to the east.
See also
History of Bridgeport, Connecticut
National Register of Historic Places listings in Bridgeport, Connecticut
References
Geography of Bridgeport, Connecticut
Historic districts in Fairfield County, Connecticut
National Register of Historic Places in Fairfield County, Connecticut
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Connecticut |
The 2017 Lucknow Municipal Corporation election was an election of members to the Lucknow Municipal Corporation which governs Lucknow, capital and the largest city of Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It took place on 26 November 2017.
Total number of voters were 24,43,991 out of which 13,01,788 were male voters and 11,42,203 were female voters.
Schedule
The elections of 2017 Lucknow Municipal Corporation were announced by the Uttar Pradesh State Election Commission.
The elections of LMC were held in single phase on 26 November 2017 and the results were announced on 1 December 2017.
Results
Results of LMC were announced on 1 December 2017 the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lead NDA alliance won with absolute majority by winning 58 seats out of 110.
On 12 December 2017, the mayoral candidate of BJP, Sanyukta Bhatia sworn as the 14th and first female mayor of the LMC in last 100 years.
Corporator Election
See also
Lucknow Municipal Corporation
2017 elections in India
2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election
References
Lucknow
Lucknow
Lucknow |
Jean-Luc Poudroux (born 29 August 1950) is a French politician who has been Member of Parliament for Réunion's 7th constituency since the 2018 by-election.
References
Living people
1950 births
Deputies of the 15th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
21st-century French politicians
Mayors of places in Réunion
Members of Parliament for Réunion |
Timbre Media is an Indian Media company. It was founded and established in 2010. It is headquartered in Bangalore, India. Timbre Media had partenered with Vodafone and Saregama to set up DTH and Internet services. Later Vodafone partnered to provide Radio Stations to their customers in India.
History
In June 2011, Timbre Media partnered Saregama to re-launch the WorldSpace Radio and it re-launched at 40 radio stations all over India. However, it was only streamed through DTH, Mobile Phones and Internet. Saregama bought 10% stake in Timbre Media.
In January 2013, Vodafone and Timbre media joined hands to provide Radio stations for Vodafone customers in India.
References
2010 podcast debuts
Podcasting companies |
Frederick Webster Howe (28 August 1822 – 25 April 1891) was an American machine tool innovator and inventor. Such was his contribution to the field, he has been called 'the Henry Maudslay of America'.
References
19th-century American inventors
1822 births
1891 deaths |
The World Polonia Games are a multi-sport event held annually for the Polish diaspora (Polonia) and Polish minorities living outside of Poland. Alternating between summer and winter games each year, the first edition of the games were held in Warsaw in 1934, and they have been played regularly since their revival in 1974. The games are organized by the Association "Polish Community" and are covered by TVP Polonia.
This article lists the records set at the World Polonia Games in athletics and swimming between 1934 and 2021.
Athletics
Men
Women
Swimming
Men
Women
See also
World Polonia Games
References
Polish diaspora
Sport in Poland |
The 1974 Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football team represented Middle Tennessee State University—as a member of the Ohio Valley Conference (OVC) during the 1974 NCAA Division II football season. Led by fifth-year head coach Bill Peck, the Blue Raiders compiled a record an overall record of 3–8 with a mark of 2–5 in conference play, placing sixth in the OVC. The team's captains were Orsillo, Flippin, and Rohrdanz.
Schedule
References
Middle Tennessee
Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football seasons
Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football |
Kammathep Sorn Kol ( lit. "Tricky Love") is a Thai lakorn, the sixth drama in the series The Cupids, based on a novel series of the same name. The novel is written by Kaotam and the director is . It was aired on every Friday–Sunday from June 3, until June 17, 2017.
Synopsis
Milin (Nuttanicha Dungwattanawanich), work in the financial department of "Cupid Hut" company. She meets Saran (Phakin Khamwilaisak), a dentist at the "Cupid Hut" company with his friend, Thankrit (Ron Pattharapon ToOun). Saran doesn't believe in love, he only came because Thankrit, a friend from high school ask him to. At the company, the three meet Rarin (Pitchapa Phanthumchinda), Milin classmate from high school. Thankrit took an interest in Rarin right away, but Rarin only have her eyes on Saran. Will Milin be able to complete this task?
Cast
Main
Nuttanicha Dungwattanawanich as Mim/Milin
Phakin Khamwilaisak as Saran
Supporting
Ron Pattharapon ToOun as Tanakrit
Pitchapa Phanthumchinda as Rarin
as Lieutenant Pratchawin
as Orn
as Sarut (Saran's dad)
as Milin's grandfather
Surasak Chaiat as Rarin's father
as Motdaeng
Guest
Theeradej Wongpuapan as Peem
Araya A. Hargate as Waralee
Jarinporn Joonkiat as Hunsa
Thikamporn Ritta-apinan as Oil / Nantisa
Kannarun Wongkajornklai as Prima
as Angie
Mintita Wattanakul as Cindy
as Ben
as Man / Minnie
Oak Keerati
Original Soundtrack
References
External links
Ch3 Thailand Official Website
Ch3 Thailand Official YouTube
2010s Thai television series
Thai drama television series
2017 Thai television series debuts
2017 Thai television series endings
Thai romance television series
Thai television soap operas
Channel 3 (Thailand) original programming |
The Wild Health Genomes are an American professional baseball team based in Lexington, Kentucky. They are a member of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball, a "partner league" of Major League Baseball. The Genomes play their home games at Wild Health Field, on the northeast side of the city just inside New Circle Road, since 2022.
References
External links
Atlantic League of Professional Baseball teams
Baseball teams established in 2022
Professional baseball teams in Kentucky
Genomes
2022 establishments in Kentucky |
N. Rajagopalan Nair (10 May 1925 – 2 January 1993) was an Indian politician and leader of Communist Party of India. He represented Pathanapuram constituency in 1st Kerala Legislative Assembly.
A law graduate, he joined the Congress in 1940. He was active in student politics, later joined the Income Tax Department. However, he was soon fired and had to serve time in prison in 1949–50. He was the Punalur Grama Panchayat President and trade union leader, was above all a Harikatha artist.
References
Communist Party of India politicians from Kerala
1925 births
1993 deaths |
Schutzmannschaft Battalion 258 ( ; ) was a Lithuanian auxiliary police battalion formed on 27 April 1944. The unit was disbanded at the end of July of that same year in Tilsit.
Formation
The battalion was formed on April 27 by Order of the Day No.5 that was issued by the Ordnungspolizei leader under the SS- und Polizeiführer in Lithuania. In this order, the 258th Schutzmannschaft Battalion was formed by transforming the Training Units () of the LAD into the battalion.
History
This unit, or at least its headquarters, were deployed in Kaunas from April to mid-June, judging from the orders issued to the Training Units and the 258th Battalion. According to other sources, the battalion was located in Prienai in May 1944. At the time, two other battalions were deployed in Prienai barracks: one German, the other Lithuanian. The 258th battalion then included about 250 soldiers, whose uniform was blue Wehrmacht infantry uniforms.
On 1 April 1944, captain Albinas Lastauskas, the commander of the young soldiers' company, together with 21 other soldiers, was sent to Schutzmannschaft Battalion 259, that was forming in Prienai. Lastauskas' position was taken over by non-commissioned officer Jurgis Normantas. The young soldiers' company, in terms of training supervision, was under the training company's commander. The training company's lieutenant Nikodemas Reikalas was given special holidays for May 28-June 9. The 258th Battalion included one construction and one assembly company. The assembly company was commanded by lieutenant Petras Polekauskas. On April 1, the assembly company received lieutenant Jonas Paliulionis, 55 NCOs and soldiers from the 8th Battalion. On May 31, lieutenant Vytautas Andriuškevičius, also from the 8th Battalion, was also sent to the assembly company. On April 4, by the order of captain Antanas Ruzgys, commander of the Training Unit, 245 soldiers of the construction company were sent to the 259th Battalion.
On April 26, the Commander of the SiPo and SD ordered the arrests of Valerijonas Janulis, the 258th Battalion's staff junior non-commissioned officer, and private Antanas Plečkaitis. They were to be given over to the Gestapo.
On May 23, captain Viktoras Jarašiūnas from the 2nd Battalion, was appointed to serve in the battalion headquarters. Four days later, on May 27, captain Vladas Patašius from the 253th Battalion was temporarily appointed the Battalion commander's adjutant. For unknown reasons, the assembly company's private Antanas Strimaitis was arrested by the German police and imprisoned in the Kaunas Hard Labour Prison. On May 29, the privates Kazys Urbonas, Albertas Katilevičius, Kazys Paškevičius and Edvardas Lileika left the battalion.
At the beginning of June, the 258th Battalion was moved to Kaunas, where the soldiers guarded the military warehouses. At summer's beginning, one platoon from the battalion served at the 11th resistance point, which guarded the railway section near Kazlų Rūda, the railway station and the railway bridge. There were 16 soldiers armed with 1 light machine gun, 1 light mortar and rifles at this point of resistance. As the Red Army occupied more and more of Lithuania, the battalion retreated to Tilsit. At the end of July, the 258th Battalion was disbanded in Tilsit.
Aftermath
From Tilsit, the battalion's remnants were moved to the town of Zinkst near the Belgium–Germany border to build fortifications there. Three weeks later, Lithuanian soldiers were sent to build new power lines at the Swiss border. The battalion's former soldiers were captured by the United States Army in early May 1945. Some of the battalion's soldiers were transferred to other military units, while other were sent to a special camp on the Rügen island, where Lithuanians, Latvians, Estonians, Russians and Ukrainians were being taught military and intelligence subjects.
References
Bibliography
Lithuanian Schutzmannschaft Battalions
Military units and formations established in 1944
Military units and formations disestablished in 1944 |
Schutzmannschaft Battalion 259 ( ; ) was a Lithuanian auxiliary police battalion formed in April 1944 in Prienai. It was soon disbanded in July of that same year in Tilsit. The battalion was formed from the soldiers sent by the Training Unit () and the 3rd Lithuanian Construction Battalion. The 259th Battalion was the last Lithuanian Police Battalion to be formed.
The battalion was subordinated to the Ordnungspolizei leader under the SS- und Polizeiführer in Lithuania. However, the battalion's staffing, enforcing of discipline and economic affairs were taken care of by the LAD liaison officer's headquarters under the Ordungspolizei leader in Lithuania.
History
The battalion was stationed in Prienai between 18 April and 11 July 1944, and was then moved to Kaunas. In Prienai, the soldiers lived in the barracks, were trained and introduced to weapons.
On June 20, two platoons each from the 1st and 2nd companies fought against Soviet partisans near the village in the . The operation was led by lieutenant Balys Lukošius. Upon receiving information from a farmer about the whereabouts of the partisans, the companies hurriedly prepared to march. The policemen were armed with a machine gun and French rifles. The partisan bunker was encircled. After noticing the approaching policemen, the partisans opened fire. Later, as the partisans emerged from their bunker, they attempted to escape into the forest, located about 300 metres away. In the bunker, the policemen found two killed partisans, two submachine guns and grenades in the bunker. The Lithuanian casualties of this fight were the 1st company's junior non-commissioned officer () Jonas Chmieliauskas and private Petras Umbrasas. Private Juozas Skinkys was wounded in the head and was taken to the German military hospital in Kaunas.
During May and June, desertion rates became massive. About thirty policemen deserted from the battalion until the beginning of June. In the first half of July, the battalion was transferred to Kaunas.
It is known from the orders of the battalion's commander that the battalion, or at least its headquarters, were in Kaunas from July 13 to 25. As of April 25, the battalion had four companies and a pioneer platoon.
The soldiers guarded the railway bridge over Nemunas, the meat factory, other companies and barracks located there. At the end of the month, the battalion retreated to Tilsit. Along the way, many soldiers left the unit, preferring to remain in Lithuania. Soon, the battalion was disbanded in Tilsit.
Aftermath
Some of the battalion's troops were sent to Oldenburg and later Vienna, to work at the airports. They reached the end of the war in Austria, where they were taken prisoner by the United States Army.
Commanders
The battalion's commander was captain Albinas Lastas. On April 25, junior lieutenant Benjaminas Paulionis, who was the 4th company's commander, was temporarily acting as the battalion's adjutant commander. It is known that captain Balys Matulevičius served in the battalion, but his position is unknown.
1st company
The 1st company's commander from April 25th was lieutenant Balys Lukošius. From May 2, it was junior lieutenant Antanas Gelažėla. In July, the company commander was Lieutenant Albinas Sidaravičius.
3rd company
On April 6, lieutenant Antanas Baltrušis, from the 9th Battalion, was appointed the 3rd company's commander, replacing the previous commander, lieutenant Aleksas Grinius, who was sent to the 9th Battalion. From April 18, the 3rd company's commander was junior lieutenant Kostas Eidukonis.
4th company
As of April 25, the 4th company's commander was junior lieutenant Benjaminas Paulionis. The 3rd company's commander Eidukonis was also temporarily the 4th company's acting commander on July 8.
Pioneer platoon
Lieutenant Jonas Kupstas, transferred from the Training Unit, was made the pioneer platoon's commander on May 5, but just two days later he was sent to the Police Battalion "Lietuva". The pioneer platoon's new commander was junior lieutenant Benediktas Laibėnas.
References
Bibliography
Lithuanian Schutzmannschaft Battalions
Military units and formations established in 1944
Military units and formations disestablished in 1944 |
Russel Alexander Dixon (February 24, 1898 – January 3, 1976) was the first Black graduate and the first African American dean of Howard University College of Dentistry, and the longest serving dean in dental education, with a 35 year tenure from 1931 to 1966.
Early life and education
Russel A. Dixon was born on February 24, 1898 in Kansas City, Missouri to father, William James Dixon, and mother Lillie Belle Tribue Dixon. He attended Hampton Institute from 1919 to 1920, but switched to Ferris Institute, where he completed an undergraduate degree from 1920 to 1924. In 1929 he received his Doctor of Dental Surgery (DSS) degree from Northwestern University Dental School. Furthermore, in 1933 he became the first African American to earn a Masters of Science in Dentistry from Northwestern University.
Howard University School of Dentistry
Dixon was appointed Acting Dean of Howard Dental School in 1931 . He was later appointed and remained dean until his retirement in 1966. During his tenure he contributed greatly to the curriculum, enrolment requirements, academic preparation of the dental faculty, and planning of a new dental building. He was committed to racial integration and gender equality in dental education. By 1960, more than half of the US's 1,681 African American dentists were graduates of the Howard University College of Dentistry.
Later career
Dixon served many administrative and academic positions throughout his career.. In 1949 he was appointed president of the PanAmerican Odontological Society and the National Dental Association. He served on the Executive Council of the American Association of Dental Schools from 1953 to 1967. In 1963, President John F. Kennedy appointed him to a four-year term as a member of the Board of Regents of the National Library of Medicine. He was a member of the Board of Overseers Visiting Committee of Harvard University for the Schools of Medicine and Dental Medicine and of the Special Advisory Group of the Veterans Administration.
Death
Dixon died after suffering a heart attack on January 3, 1976 at the age of 77 in Silver Spring, Maryland.
References
1898 births
1976 deaths
Harvard University people
Scientists from Kansas City, Missouri
Dental academics
African-American dentists
American university and college faculty deans
Ferris State University alumni
Northwestern University Dental School alumni
Hampton University alumni
African-American academic administrators |
Antanas Simanas Rėklaitis (24 December 1897 – 30 April 1977) was a Lithuanian colonel, lecturer. In the interwar Lithuania, he was well known for his command of the Lithuanian cavalry units.
Personal life
Simonas, the father of Rėklaitis, was married with Teofilė and had nine children – five sons and four daughters. Simonas Rėklaitis told his children the history of his family even from the 17th century. According to his father, the Rėklaičiai family came from free peasants and never went to corvée. His parents were educated people, thus all their children graduated from studies. Three of them: Vladas Rėklaitis, Antanas, and Mikas Rėklaitis became officers.
Antanas Rėklaitis brothers colonel Vladas Rėklaitis and division general Mikas Rėklaitis also served in the Lithuanian Armed Forces, all three brothers were arrested by the Soviets following the Soviet occupation of Lithuania in 1940, however they were later liberated and emigrated.
Early years
Rėklaitis was born on 24 December 1897 in Daugirdėliai, Alytus County, Russian Empire. In 1918, he graduated from the Veiveriai Teachers' Seminary which was evacuated to Ukraine.
Interwar Lithuania
After returning to Lithuania, Rėklaitis worked as a teacher since January 1919.
In December 1919, Rėklaitis graduated from the War School of Kaunas. In 1921, he participated in the Lithuanian Wars of Independence with the Polish Armed Forces in the section of Kalvarija–Lazdijai.
In November 1921, Rėklaitis was appointed Adjutant of the First Border Regiment.
In 1923, Rėklaitis participated in the Klaipėda Revolt.
In 1924, Rėklaitis graduated from the Higher Officers' Courses of Vytautas the Great.
Following his graduation from the Academy of the General Staff of Czechoslovakia in 1933, Rėklaitis served as Commander of the Hussar Regiment, and since 1934 as Commander of the Uhlan Regiment. Since June 1934, he was Chief of the Cavalry Staff.
In October 1934, Rėklaitis was transferred to the Third (Operations) Division of the Defence Staff Board.
In 1935–37, Rėklaitis was Commander of the Dragoon Regiment.
Rėklaitis lectured at the War School of Kaunas and the High School of Military of Vytautas the Great. He drafted the Statute of Cavalry Tactics.
Occupations and World War II
Following the Soviet occupation of Lithuania in June 1940, Rėklaitis was fired from the Lithuanian Armed Forces in July 1940. He was arrested by the NKVD in 1941. He was liberated following the start of the Soviet–German War during the June Uprising in Lithuania in June 1941.
In 1941–42, Rėklaitis was Chief of the Staff of the Police Battalions.
In 1943, Rėklaitis rejected the proposal of the occupying Nazi German authorities to form a Lithuanian Legion of the Waffen-SS.
In 1944, Rėklaitis was appointed Chief of Division of the Staff of the Lithuanian Territorial Defense Force.
Emigration
In 1944, Rėklaitis departed to Germany, in 1949 he emigrated to the United States.
Rėklaitis was one of the founders of the Lithuanian Union of Freedom Fighters and the Union of Lithuanian Soldiers Veterans Ramovė, and was the Secretary of the Board of the Ramovė Center. Moreover, he mainted contacts with the Supreme Committee for the Liberation of Lithuania.
In 1963, Rėklaitis became involved in the activities of the Lithuanian Front as he was its fund secretary and executive vice-chairman.
Rėklaitis collaborated with the magazine Karys, raised funds for its publishing.
In 1962, Rėklaitis wrote a brook Lietuvių Veteranų Sąjungos Ramovės pirmasis dešimtmetis, 1950–1960.
References
1897 births
1977 deaths
Lithuanian Army officers
Lithuanian emigrants to Germany
Lithuanian emigrants to the United States |
Roger Hope Elletson (1727—28 November, 1775, Bath) was a Jamaican planter who owned one of the first sugar plantations and enslaved Africans, who supplied the labour in Jamaica. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, matriculating in 1746.
He returned to Jamaica and was elected as a Member of the House of Assembly for Port Royal. Then in 1757, he was appointed to the Royal Council. Elletson served as Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica from 1767 to 1768.
Roger Elletson owned an estate called "Merrymans Hill" in St Andrew, Jamaica, which spanned 600 acres. By 1753, he had enslaved 93 Africans.
Elletson passed away when on a visit to Bath, England in 1775.
References
1723 births
1775 deaths
Slave owners |
These are the full results of the 2003 European Athletics Indoor Cup which was held on 15 February 2003 at the Arena Leipzig in Leipzig, Germany.
Men's results
60 metres
400 metres
800 metres
1500 metres
3000 metres
60 metres hurdles
Swedish relay (200/400/600/800 metres)
High jump
Long jump
Shot put
Women's results
60 metres
400 metres
800 metres
1500 metres
3000 metres
60 metres hurdles
Swedish relay (200/400/600/800 metres)
Pole vault
Triple jump
References
European Athletics Indoor Cup
European |
The PH-tree is a tree data structure used for spatial indexing of multi-dimensional data (keys) such as geographical coordinates, points, feature vectors, rectangles or bounding boxes.
The PH-tree is space partitioning index with a structure similar to that of a quadtree or octree. However, unlike quadtrees, it uses a splitting policy based on tries and similar to Crit bit trees that is based on the bit-representation of the keys.
The reliance on bit-representation also enables the use different internal representations for nodes that provide scalability with high-dimensional data. The bit-representation splitting policy also imposes a maximum depth, thus avoiding degenerated trees and the need for rebalancing.
Overview
The basic PH-tree is a spatial index that maps keys, which are -dimensional vectors with integers, to user defined values. The PH-tree is a multi-dimensional generalization of a Crit bit tree in the sense that a Crit bit tree is equivalent to a PH-tree with -dimensional keys. Like the Crit bit tree, and unlike most other spatial indexes, the PH-tree is a map rather than a multimap.
A -dimensional PH-tree is a tree of nodes where each node partitions space by subdividing it into quadrants (see below for how potentially large nodes scales with high dimensional data). Each quadrant contains at most one entry, either a key-value pair (leaf quadrant) or a key-subnode pair. For a key-subnode pair, the key represents the center of the subnode. The key is also the common prefix (bit-representation) of all keys in the subnode and its child subnodes. Each node has at least two entries, otherwise it is merged with the parent node.
Some other structural properties of PH-trees are:
They are -ary trees.
They are inherently unbalanced but imbalance is limited due to their depth being limited to the bit width of the keys, e.g. to 32 for a -dimensional key with 32bit integers.
Insertion or removal operations cause exactly one node to be modified and potentially a second node to be added or removed. This can be useful for concurrent implementations. This also means little variation in modification cost.
Their structure is independent from insertion/removal order.
Splitting strategy
Similar to most quadtrees, the PH-tree is a hierarchy of nodes where every node splits the space in all dimensions. Thus, a node can have up to subnodes, one for each quadrant.
Quadrant numbering
The PH-tree uses the bits of the multi-dimensional keys to determine their position in the tree. All keys that have the same leading bits are stored in the same branch of the tree.
For example, in a node at level , to determine the quadrant where a key should be inserted (or removed or looked up), it looks at the 's bit of each dimension of the key. For a 3D node with 8 quadrants (forming a cube) the 's bit of the first dimension of the key determines whether the target quadrant is on the left or the right of the cube, the 's bit of the second dimension determines whether it is at the front or the back, and the 's bit of the third dimension determines bottom vs top, see picture.
1D example
Example with three 1D keys with 8bit values: , and . Adding and to an empty tree results in a single node. The two keys first differ in their 6th bit so the node has a level (starting with 0). The node has a 5bit prefix representing the common 5 bits of both keys. The node has two quadrants, each key is stored in one quadrant. Adding a third key results in one additional node at with one quadrant containing the original node as subnode and the other quadrant containing the new key .
2D example
With 2D keys every node has quadrants. The position of the quadrant where a key is stored is extracted from the respective bits if the keys, one bit from each dimension. The four quadrants of the node form a 2D hypercube (quadrants may be empty). The bits that are extracted from the keys form the hypercube address , for and for . is effectively the position of the quadrant in the node's hypercube.
Node structure
The ordering of the entries in a node always follows Z-ordering.
Entries in a node can, for example, be stored in fixed size arrays of size . is then effectively the array index of a quadrant. This allows lookup, insert and remove with and there is no need to store . Space complexity is however per node, so it is less suitable for high dimensional data.
Another solution is to store entries in a sorted collection, such as dynamic arrays and/or B-trees. This slows down lookup operations to but reduces memory consumption to .
The original implementation aimed for minimal memory consumption by switching between fixed and dynamic array representation depending on which uses less memory. Other implementations do not switch dynamically but use fixed arrays for , dynamic arrays for and B-trees for high dimensional data.
Operations
Lookup, insertion and removal operations all work very similar: find the correct node, then perform the operation on the node. Window queries and -nearest-neighbor searches are more complex.
Lookup
The Lookup operation determines whether a key exists in the tree. It walks down the tree and checks every node whether it contains a candidate subnode or a user value that matches the key.
function lookup(key) is
entry ← get_root_entry() // if the tree is not empty the root entry contains a root node
while entry != NIL && entry.is_subnode() do
node ← entry.get_node()
entry ← node.get_entry(key)
repeat
return entry // entry can be NIL
function get_entry(key) is
node ← current node
h ← extract_bits_at_depth(key, node.get_depth()}
entry ← node.get_entry_at(h)
return entry // entry can be NIL
Insert
The Insert operation inserts a new key-value pair into the tree unless they key already exists. The operation traverses the tree like the Lookup function and then inserts the key into the node. There are several cases to consider:
The quadrant is empty and we can simply insert a new entry into the quadrant and return.
The quadrant contains a user entry with a key that is identical to the new entry. One way to deal with such a collision is to return a flag that indicates failed insertion. If the tree is implemented as multi-map with a collection as the node's entry, the new value is added to that collection.
The quadrant contains an entry (user entry or subnode entry) with a different key. This case requires replacing the existing entry with a new subnode that holds the old and the new entry.
function insert(node, key, value)
level ← node.get_level() // Level is 0 for root
h ← extract_bits_at_level(key, level)
entry ← node.get_entry(h)
if entry == NIL then
// Case 1.
entry_new ← create_entry(key, value)
node.set_entry(h, entry_new)
else if !entry.is_subnode() && entry.get_key() == key then
// Case 2. Collision, there is already an entry
return ← failed_insertion
else
// Case 3.
level_diff ← get_level_of_difference(key, entry.get_key())
entry_new ← create_entry(key, value)
// new subnode with existing entry and new entry
subnode_new ← create_node(level_diff, entry, entry_new)
node.set_entry(h, subnode_new)
end if
return
Remove
Removal works inversely to insertion, with the additional constraint that any subnode has to be removed if less than two entries remain. The remaining entry is moved to the parent node.
Window queries
Windows queries are queries that return all keys that lie inside a rectangular axis-aligned hyperbox. They can be defined be two -dimensional points and that represent the "lower left" and "upper right" corners of the query box. A trivial implementation traverses all entries in a node (starting with the root node) and if an entry matches it either adds it to the result list (if it is a user entry) or recursively traverses it (if it is a subnode).
function query(node, min, max, result_list) is
foreach entry ← node.get_entries() do
if entry.is_subnode() then
if entry.get_prefix() >= min and entry.get_prefix() <= max then
query(entry.get_subnode(), min, max, result_list)
end if
else
if entry.get_key() >= min and entry.get_key() <= max then
result_list.add(entry)
end if
end if
repeat
return
In order to accurately estimate query time complexity the analysis needs to include the dimensionality .
Traversing and comparing all entries in a node has a time complexity of because each comparison of -dimensional key with takes time. Since nodes can have up to entries, this does not scale well with increasing dimensionality .
There are various ways how this approach can be improved by making using of the hypercube address .
Min & max
The idea is to find minimum and maximum values for the quadrant's addresses such that the search can avoid some quadrants that do not overlap with the query box.
Let be the center of a node (this is equal to the node's prefix) and and be two bit strings with bits each. Also, let subscript with indicate the 's bit of and and the 'th dimension of , and .
Let and . then has a `` for every dimension where the "lower" half of the node and all quadrants in it do not overlap with the query box. Similarly, has a `` for every dimension where the "upper" half does not overlap with the query box.
and then present the lowest and highest in a node that need to be traversed. Quadrants with or do not intersect with the query box. A proof is available in. With this, the above query function can be improved to:
function query(node, min, max, result_list) is
h_min ← calculate h_min
h_max ← calculate h_max
for each entry ← node.get_entries_range(h_min, h_max) do
[ ... ]
repeat
return
Calculating and is .
Depending on the distribution of the occupied quadrants in a node this approach will allow avoiding anywhere from no to almost all key comparisons. This reduces the average traversal time but the resulting complexity is still .
Check quadrants for overlap with query box
Between and there can still be quadrants that do not overlap with the query box.
Idea: and each have one bit for every dimensions that indicates whether the query box overlaps with the lower/upper half of a node in that dimension. This can be used to quickly check whether a quadrant overlaps with the query box without having to compare -dimensional keys: a quadrant overlaps with the query box if for every `` bit in there is a corresponding `` bit in and for every `` bit in there is a corresponding `` bit in . On a CPU with 64bit registers it is thus possible to check for overlap of up to -dimensional keys in .
function is_overlap(h, h_min, h_max) is
return (h | h_min) & h_max == h // evaluates to 'true' if quadrant and query overlap.
function query(node, min, max, result_list) is
h_min ← calculate h_min
h_max ← calculate h_max
for each entry ← node.get_entries_range(h_min, h_max) do
h ← entry.get_h();
if (h | h_min) & h_max == h then // evaluates to 'true' if quadrant and query overlap.
[ ... ]
end if
repeat
return
The resulting time complexity is compared to the of the full iteration.
Traverse quadrants that overlap with query box
For higher dimensions with larger nodes it is also possible to avoid iterating through all and instead directly calculate the next higher that overlaps with the query box. The first step puts ``-bits into a given for all quadrants that have no overlap with the query box. The second step increments the adapted and the added ``-bits trigger an overflow so that the non-overlapping quadrants are skipped. The last step removes all the undesirable bits used for triggering the overflow. The logic is described in detail in. The calculation works as follows:
function increment_h(h_input, h_min, h_max) is
h_out = h_input | (~ h_max ) // pre - mask
h_out += 1 // increment
h_out = ( h_out & h_max ) | h_min // post - mask
return h_out
Again, for this can be done on most CPUs in .
The resulting time complexity for traversing a node is . This works best if most of the quadrants that overlap with the query box are occupied with an entry.
-nearest neighbors
nearest neighbor searches can be implemented using standard algorithms.
Floating point keys
The PH-tree can only store integer values. Floating point values can trivially be stored as integers casting it them an integer. However, the authors of also propose an approach without loss of precision.
Lossless conversion
Lossless converting of a floating point value into an integer value (and back) without loss if precision can be achieved by simply interpreting the 32 or 64 bits of the floating point value as an integer (with 32 or 64 bits).
Due to the way that IEEE 754 encodes floating point values, the resulting integer values have the same ordering as the original floating point values, at least for positive values. Ordering for negative values can be achieved by inverting the non-sign bits.
Example implementations in Java:
long encode(double value) {
long r = Double.doubleToRawLongBits(value);
return (r >= 0) ? r : r ^ 0x7FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFL;
}
Example implementations in C++:
std::int64_t encode(double value) {
std::int64_t r;
memcpy(&r, &value, sizeof(r));
return r >= 0 ? r : r ^ 0x7FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFL;
}
Encoding (and the inverse decoding) is lossless for all floating point values. The ordering works well in practice, including and . However, the integer representation also turns into a normal comparable value (smaller than infinity), infinities are comparable to each other and is larger than . That means that, for example, a query range will not match a value of . In order to match the query range needs to be .
Hyperbox keys
In order to store volumes (axis-aligned hyper-boxes) as keys, implementations typically use corner representation which converts the two -dimensional minimum and maximum corners of a box into a single key with dimensions, for example by interleaving them: .
This works trivially for lookup, insert and remove operations. Window queries need to be converted from -dimensional vectors to -dimensional vectors. For example, for a window query that matches all boxes that are completely inside the query box, the query keys are:
For a window query operation that matches all boxes that intersect with a query box, the query keys are:
Scalability
In high dimensions with less than entries, a PH-tree may have only a single node, effectively “degenerating” into a B-Tree with Z-order curve. The add/remove/lookup operations remain and window queries can use the quadrant filters. However, this cannot avoid the curse of dimensionality, for high dimensional data with or a PH-tree is only marginally better than a full scan.
Uses
Research has reported fast add/remove/exact-match operations with large and fast changing datasets.. Window queries have been shown to work well especially for small windows or large dataset
The PH-tree is mainly suited for in-memory use.
The size of the nodes (number of entries) is fixed while persistent storage tends to benefit from indexes with configurable node size to align node size with page size on disk. This is easier with other spatial indexes, such as R-Trees.
Implementations
Java: GitHub repository
C++: GitHub repository
C++: GitHub repository
See also
Binary space partitioning
Binary tiling
Kd-tree
Octree
Quadtree
R-tree
UB-tree
Spatial database
References
Trees (data structures)
Database index techniques
Geometric data structures |
Dudley Training College for Teachers (Men and Women), later renamed Dudley College of Education, existed for 68 years in Dudley, a town once in Worcestershire, now in the West Midlands. The college opened in 1909, it was taken over by Wolverhampton Polytechnic in 1977, and the college's grand Edwardian building was demolished in 2002, 93 years after it had been built.
History
Dudley Training College for Teachers was built on 8 acres of land on Eve Hill bought in 1908 by the County Borough of Dudley from the Earl of Dudley for £8,000. The main college building was designed by a firm of architects named Crouch, Butler & Savage and was built at a cost of £10,799. The site of the new college faced King Edmund Street in Dudley and the entrance was reached up Castle View, which is about a kilometre from Dudley Castle and had no view of it. There were sports fields behind main building. The college was opened on 16 July 1909 by the President of the Board of Education, Walter Runciman.
The college initially had two students' hostels: the North Hostel, which provided accommodation for 50 female students and was situated within the college grounds, and The Mount, which accommodated 21 male students nearby, at Dixon's Green. Male students who were unable to live at home or in the Hostel, lived in rooms, which were supervised by the college. In the early 1930s the college taught 150 students a year.
In the 1930s the college offered a Certificate of Education after two years’ training, which was examined by the University of Birmingham and Midland Training Colleges Joint Board.
By 1950 the college had become a constituent of the Institute of Education of Birmingham University. In 1965 the college was renamed Dudley College of Education, a period when it trained over 600 students a year, its heyday. In 1977 the college was taken over by Wolverhampton Polytechnic, so Dudley Training College for Teachers disappeared in name. In June 2002 the college building was sold and demolished to be replaced by houses while the two halls of residence were purchased by Dudley College of Technology, which now occupies part of the site. Only the sports fields now remain.
College Principals
Ivor John (1909-1913)
Joseph Makepeace Forster (1913- 194?)
David A. Jordan (194? – 1965)
Dennis Broadhurst (1965 - ?)
Notable alumni
J.L. Carr (1931–33), teacher, publisher and author.
References
Teacher training colleges in the United Kingdom
Educational institutions established in 1909
Educational institutions disestablished in 1977
1909 establishments in England
Defunct universities and colleges in England |
E. K. Pillai (4 May 1926 – 12 July 2000) was an Indian politician and leader of Communist Party of India. He represented Pathanapuram constituency in 5th and 6th Kerala Legislative Assembly.
References
Communist Party of India politicians from Kerala
1926 births
2000 deaths
Kerala MLAs 1977–1979
Kerala MLAs 1980–1982 |
Koh-Lanta: Le Totem maudit () is the twenty-third regular season of the French reality television series Koh-Lanta. 24 contestants are split into three tribes and sent to live and survive in the Calamian Islands of the Philippines where they compete against each other for immunity and reward while also avoiding tribal council. The main twist this season is The Cursed Totem which is given to the tribe that finishes last in the immunity challenge where they'll receive a 'curse' that they must endure for their loss. The season premiered on 22 February 2022 on TF1.
Contestants
Challenges
Voting History
Notes
References
External links
French reality television series
Koh-Lanta seasons
2022 French television seasons |
Yaaro is a 2022 Indian Tamil-language horror-psycho-thriller film written and directed by Sandeep Sai. It is produced by Venkat Reddy under the banner of TakeOk Productions. The film stars Venkat Reddy and Upasana RC in lead roles; CM Bala, Durairaj, Kishore Dev, Yaaro Mari, Rajan Iyer, Samragni, Satyamurthy, Prem and Akshay play supporting roles in the film. The film's audio was launched by R. Ravindran of Trident Arts on 25 Jan 2022 and the film was released on 4 February 2022 in theatres
Plot
John (Venkat Reddy), an architect-designer, who lives all alone at his posh villa in ECR is plagued by various happenings around him. Trouble begins when a mysterious stranger enters his life. John spots him often in his house and feels that he is being followed by this man. He gets recurring dreams of some tragic incident and is disturbed by various characters that come knocking at his door. Either they disappear soon enough or are found dead, like the ghost buster sent by a friend who thought the house was haunted. His friends and colleagues seem to be conspiring against him and his girlfriend Pallavi (Upasana RC) cheating on him. He finds a hidden camera in his house that has a clip of two men and a murder being committed. John is panic-stricken and realises his life is in danger and races to unravel the truth.
Synopsis
Yaaro is an edge of the seat horror psycho thriller, that has a pattern set against the backdrops of a murder mystery. The happenings are bizarre, the characters quirky. It's a surreal world the director creates around his protagonist. There is a touch of spirituality in the finale moment.
Cast
Venkat Reddy as John Mathews
Upasana RC as Pallavi
CM Bala as Sundar
J. Durairaj as Jeeva
Rajan Iyer as Ganesh
K. Satyamurthy as Giridhar
R. Prem Kumar as Senthilnathan
Akshay as Vinod
Samragni Rajan as Maggie
Kishore Dev as Arjun
Senthil Kumar as Yaaro Mari
Soundtrack
Reception
The film received mixed reviews from critics and the audience.
Ramesh Bala
Sreedhar Pillai
Kaushik LM
“Yaaro” is an edge of the seat psycho-horror-thriller that will have a pattern set against the backdrops of a murder mystery. The film increases the curiosity of a viewer who is kept on tenterhooks for the most part, trying to figure out the direction in which the plot was travelling. But all the loose ends are neatly tied towards the end, the pieces of the puzzle put together to give a comprehensive and a satisfactory whole. Also, the director has managed to wrap up his story telling in just about 103 minutes.
Debutant director Sandeep Sai sketches a refreshing and a novel palette for the Tamil audiences in the movie Yaaro. Sandeep Sai's powerful writing in the film Yaaro is simply exceptional and laudable. An element of suspense and mystery is maintained throughout, the narrative rarely lagging in pace. A splendid piece of work from a first-time director, ‘Yaaro’ refreshing and exciting, would be a treat for lovers of the genre. Yaaro is definitely another good psycho-thriller in the history of Tamil cinema.
Debutant Venkat Reddy (the film's producer too) is splendid as John. With no image- baggage to distract, his expressions and body language in sync, Venkat captures every nuance of the role with perfect precision, belying the fact that it is his debut effort. And with John occupying most of the screen time, Venkat Reddy's is almost like a one-man show.
The scenes with Pallavi (Upasana RC), John's girlfriend, is quite interesting and manages to create a curiosity as to what they are up to. Upasana RC’s performance as Pallavi is good and some of her scenes in the second half add value to the storyline. Actors in supporting roles like CM Bala, Durairaj, Kishore Dev, Yaaro Mari, Rajan Iyer, Samragini, Sathyamurthy, Prem and Akshay lend adequate support.
Editor Anil Krish's editing is non-linear in its take. The deliberate fast cuts and abrupt ends to a scene (Anil Krish) may initially seem jerky and disjointed. But filled with bizarre images, they enhance the surreal feel of the movie. K.B. Prabu's judicious lighting and camera angles enhance the dissolving sense of reality, while Jose Franklin’s musical score helps build up the tense moments and his background score is simple yet intriguing. It resonates
with the mood of the film and adds that mystery quotient.
References
Tamil-language films
2022 films
Indian films
2022 horror films |
The Capu Tafunatu is a mountain in the department of Haute-Corse on the island of Corsica, France.
It rises to an altitude of in the Niolo piève in the northwest of the island.
Located in the Monte Cintu massif near the Paglia Orba, it rises southeast of Manso on the edge of the commune of Albertacce.
Capu Tafunatu literally means "perforated head".
The top of the mountain is pierced by an opening wide by , making it the largest natural arch in France.
Geology
Capu Tafunatu consists of alkaline rhyolite with ignimbrite facies, an igneous rock of the Monte Cinto annular volcano-plutonic complex, formed in the Permian.
The formation of the "hole" is explained by tectonics.
The inclined plane at the base of this cavity is an oblique fault which, intersecting the rocky blade of the summit, weakened it and caused it to collapse.
In popular culture
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707–1788), in Histoire et théorie de la terre (History and Theory of the Earth), hypothesizes that Corsica is a mountain peak of the sunken continent of Atlantis.
It was at this time that this legend was told:
Access
Different routes allow the ascent to the "hole" of Capu Tafunatu, at about , from the refuge of Ciottulu a i Mori.
All require great caution (risk of fatal falls) but remain practicable without special equipment for people in good physical condition and not prone to vertigo.
The normal route "ranks at the upper limit of what non-climbers can face".
It begins at the Moorish Pass and uses a system of low-sloping rocky outcrops (vires) that run on the east face of Capu Tafunatu: first to the south and then over whitish rocks, heading north to the plateau where the cavity opens.
Climbing
Access to the main summit of Capu Tafunatu, altitude , requires "PD (peu difficile) sup." climbing skills, a rate that indicates "small difficulties [...] requiring the use of the rope" ).
From the platform on the east face where the "hole" opens, a ledge crosses the north ridge, then returns to the west face towards a chimney (vertical fracture, listed II) which is climbed up to near the summit ridge, to finish with a short climb (vertical slab, grade III) to the summit.
Several climbing routes rated “AD” (Assez difficile: Fairly difficult) to “TD" (Très difficile: Very difficult) climb the east and west faces.
Their approach is respectively from the Col des Maures and the Fango valley.
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Mountains of Haute-Corse |
The Valencia de Alcántara Synagogue () is a disused synagogue in Valencia de Alcántara, province of Cáceres, Spain.
While no documentary evidence attests to the building being a synagogue, it was identified as such by academics Carmen Balesteros and Jorge Oliveira. Evidence included it dating from the late 15th century when Jews settled near the Portuguese border due to increased persecution in Castile, and its architectural similarity to the Synagogue of Tomar in Portugal. After the expulsion of Jews in 1492, it was used for various purposes, mainly as a slaughterhouse for swine.
Location and design
The building is located in what was the Jewish quarter in the Middle Ages. The nineteen streets, of Gothic influences, have formed a Bien de Interés Cultural since 1997.
The square-shaped structure measures around ten metres by ten metres, and is made of whitewashed plastered masonry. The roof disperses rain in four directions, forming a pyramidal structure The one entrance through the west side enters in to the main prayer room, where there are four granite columns with Doric bases and capitals. Linking the columns are four semi-circular arches, which support the beams and the roof. The design is similar to the Synagogue of Tomar, a Portuguese structure of the same era.
According to the historians Carmen Balesteros and Jorge Oliveira, the two doors which are no longer used due to new buildings, used to lead to a side hall and the women's prayer room. On the wall opposite the main entrance, there is a significant patch without plastering. According to the same academics, this is a tribute to the Destruction of the Second Temple by the Roman emperor Titus in 70 AD.
History of the structure
Evidence including metal remains and a 13th-century Portuguese coin indicate that the building was first used as a forge. Another Portuguese coin from the mid-15th century in the foundation of the columns indicates that it was around that time that the building was first used as a synagogue; the deteriorating political conditions for Jews in the Crown of Castile meant that a position on the border with Portugal was preferred in case of needing to flee. Its use was brief, as the Alhambra Decree was issued in 1492, expelling all Jews from the realm.
The former synagogue was deliberately burned in the 16th or 17th century. Evidence of animal bones indicates that it was then used as a slaughterhouse until the 20th century, when it was a garage, a tavern and a coal shed. Its time as a slaughterhouse would have been for the regional ham speciality, Jamón ibérico.
The identification of the structure as a synagogue by Balesteros and Oliveira was controversial in the field of Jewish medieval archaeology in the 1990s and early 2000s, as it was based entirely on material evidence, as no documentation attests that the building was used as such.
Bibliography
References
Synagogues in Spain
15th-century synagogues
Former synagogues
Buildings and structures in the Province of Cáceres
Sephardi synagogues |
The 2022 USL League One season will be the fourth season of USL League One. The regular season is scheduled to begin on April 2 and ends on October 15, 2022. The playoffs are scheduled to begin as early as October 21 and end no later than November 6.
Eleven teams will participate in the 2022 season. Four reserve teams operated by clubs in Major League Soccer that participated in the 2021 season Fort Lauderdale CF, New England Revolution II, North Texas SC and Toronto FC II will begin play in MLS's new developmental league MLS Next Pro in 2022. They will be replaced by expansion franchises Central Valley Fuego FC and Northern Colorado Hailstorm FC, and by Charlotte Independence, who decided to move from USL Championship to USL League One.
Union Omaha are the defending champions of both the regular season and playoffs, having defeated Greenville Triumph in the 2021 final
Teams
Managerial changes
League table
Results table
See also
USL League One
2022 USL Championship season
2022 USL League Two season
References
External links
USL League One official website
2022
2022 in American soccer leagues |
Laurie O’Reilly was the first coach of the New Zealand women's national rugby union team. On July 22, 1989, the first official New Zealand women's national rugby team played the California Grizzlies, a touring side from the United States at Lancaster Park in Christchurch.
Career
O’Reilly was a family lawyer in Christchurch, and he served as New Zealand's Commissioner for Children from 1994 to 1997. He was also a Law lecturer at the University of Canterbury, where he also coached the Men's team.
Rugby career
In 1988, O’Reilly coached the Crusadettes, the University of Canterbury Women's team, they toured the United States and Europe. A year later he selected the first women's team to represent New Zealand.
O’Reilly had a hand in organising RugbyFest 1990 in Christchurch. It was a two-week women's rugby festival that featured national teams from the Netherlands, the United States and USSR. He coached the Black Ferns to the inaugural 1991 Women's Rugby World Cup in Wales.
The Laurie O'Reilly Cup is named in his honour, New Zealand and Australia have competed for it annually since 1994.
Death
O’Reilly died from cancer in 1998.
References
1998 deaths
New Zealand rugby union coaches |
CLOAK is a brand of gamer-geared clothing, launched in 2018 by Internet influencers Markiplier and Jacksepticeye, with the goal to create an all-inclusive community with gaming at its core and storytelling at its heart.
History
The brand was launched in 2018 by YouTubers Seán William McLoughlin, (Jacksepticeye) and Mark Fischbach (Markiplier), along with Daylight Holding's president Ben Curtis.
The brand's partnerships has helped the brand grow by 750% with a 3900% increase from May 2019 to May 2020.
Partnerships
CLOAK Brand partnered with Minecraft Dungeons producing items including t-shirt, hoodies, and hats to coincide with the release of the game which promptly sold out.
They have partnered with The Trevor Project to create a Colors line that immediately sold out.
CLOAK brand partnered with Scott Games on the video game series Five Nights at Freddy's releasing a 15 item collection which sold out in minutes.
CLOAK brand have partnered with the videogame Elden Ring in February 2022 for 9 articles of clothing.
References
Clothing brands of the United States |
Fabrício Bento da Silva (born 1 May 1975), known as Fabrício Bento or just Fabrício, is a Brazilian professional football manager and former player who played as a central defender. He is the current manager of Avaí's under-17 team.
Playing career
Born in São Paulo, Fabrício began his career with hometown side Portuguesa. In 2002, after loans at São José-SP, Avaí and Mogi Mirim, he moved abroad with Beitar Jerusalem in Israel.
Fabrício returned to his home country in 2003, with Corinthians Alagoano, but returned to Israel in the following year after signing for Maccabi Ahi Nazareth. He then represented Anapolina for a short period before returning to Beitar Jerusalem.
After a short period back at Anapolina, Fabrício subsequently played for Juventus-SP before joining Série A side Juventude in April 2006. Initially a starter, he lost his starting spot and moved to Avaí in June 2007.
On 5 February 2009, Fabrício was presented at Catanduvense. He signed for Sendas in the following year, and retired in 2011 at the age of 35.
Managerial career
Shortly after retiring, Fabrício was appointed manager of , and won the third division of the Campeonato Catarinense. In 2013, after a period working as an assistant coach at Operário Ferroviário, he returned to Avaí and was named manager of the under-15 squad.
Fabrício worked as coach of the under-17 and under-20 squads, before being named interim manager of the main squad on 7 February 2022, after the departure of Claudinei Oliveira.
Honours
Manager
Biguaçu
Campeonato Catarinense Divisão de Acesso: 2011
References
External links
Futebol de Goyaz profile
1975 births
Living people
Brazilian footballers
Association football defenders
Campeonato Brasileiro Série A players
Campeonato Brasileiro Série B players
Associação Portuguesa de Desportos players
São José Esporte Clube players
Avaí FC players
Mogi Mirim Esporte Clube players
Sport Club Corinthians Alagoano players
Associação Atlética Anapolina players
Clube Atlético Juventus players
Esporte Clube Juventude players
Grêmio Catanduvense de Futebol players
Audax Rio de Janeiro Esporte Clube players
Israeli Premier League players
Beitar Jerusalem F.C. players
Maccabi Ahi Nazareth F.C. players
Brazilian expatriate footballers
Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Israel
Expatriate footballers in Israel
Brazilian football managers
Avaí FC managers |
The 2022 Men's European Water Polo Championship will be the 35th running of the tournament. It will be held in the Spaladium Arena in Split, Croatia from 27 August to 10 September 2022.
Venues
LEN announced on 28 August 2020 that Split, Croatia would host the 2022 edition of the competition. All games will be played at the Spaladium Arena.
Qualification
Sixteen teams are able to compete at the main event. They are broken up as follows:
The host nation
The top seven teams from the 2020 European Championship not already qualified as host nation
Final eight from the qualifiers.
Format
The sixteen teams will be split in four groups with four teams each. From there on, a knockout system is used. The first classified team of each group directly qualify for the quarterfinals, the second and third teams play each other in cross group format to qualify for the quarterfinals.
Draw
The draw will take place on 23 April 2022.
References
Men
Men's European Water Polo Championship
International water polo competitions hosted by Croatia
Men's European Water Polo Championship
European Water Polo Championship
European Water Polo Championship
European Water Polo Championship |
Maboula Soumahoro (born 1976) is a French scholar and Afro-feminist whose parents came to France from the Ivory Coast in the late 1960s. An associate professor in the English department of the University of Tours, she specializes in studies on Afro-American diaspora and has published a paper on Rastafarianism. A contributor to the French committee on the history of slavery (Comité national pour la mémoire et l'histoire de l'esclavage), Soumahoro launched the French version of Black History Month in 2011. In 2020, she published Le triangle et l’hexagone inspired by her own experiences as an anti-racist Black French Muslim.
Biography
Born on 3 February 1976 in Paris, Maboula Soumahoro was the sixth of the family's seven children. A Muslim of Ivorian origin, after spending her early childhood in the Ivory Coast, she moved to France where she and her siblings weres brought up in the working-class district of Le Kremlin-Bicêtre.
After doing well at school, she studied English at the Paris-East Créteil University where she went on to earn a masters degree in 1999 with a dissertation on The Creation of the State of Liberia. While at the Pierre and Marie Curie University, she earned a scholarship to study for a year at Columbia University, New York, where she later returned to teach. In 2008, she earned a doctorate from the University of Tours with a thesis titled La Couleur de Dieu? Regards croisés sur la Nation d'Islam et le rastafarisme 1930–1950 (The Colour of God? Overlapping Perspectives on the Nation of Islam and Rastafarianism: 1930–1950).
Over the years, Soumahoro has specialized in African and Diaspora Studies, carrying out research and teaching assignments at universities in the United States and France, including Bennington College, Barnard College, Stanford University (Paris) and Sciences Po. She has been an active member of the French committee on the history of slavery and in 2011 established the French version of Black History Month which she heads. In 2020, she published Le triangle et l’hexagone inspired by her own experiences as an anti-racist Black French Muslim. It has been translated into English as Black Is the Journey, Africana the Name.
References
1976 births
Living people
Academics from Paris
Black feminism
French women's rights activists
French Muslim activists
21st-century French women writers
University of Tours faculty
University of Tours alumni
Columbia University alumni
Columbia University faculty |
A Water Protection Zone (WPZ) is a statutory regulation imposed under Schedule 11 to the Water Resources Act 1991. The power was subsequently subsumed into The Water Resources Act (Amendment) (England and Wales) Regulations 2009 . The only example in the UK was applied to the River Dee in 1999 as the The Water Protection Zone (River Dee Catchment) Designation Order 1999 which covers the whole of the River Dee catchment from the headwaters down to the final potable water abstraction point at Chester
The creation of this protection zone gave powers to the then Environment Agency (now Natural Resources Wales) to monitor and control the use and storage of any potentially polluting substance brought into the catchment for any industrial or commercial operation - a controlled activity as defined by the order. All such controlled activities require a permit to be issued and the conditions of the permit are determined by a risk analysis mathematical model involving the nature of the substance, its quantity and the distance from any vulnerable drinking water intake.
Applications for consent are required to complete an formal application
Following a serious degradation of the quality of the River Wye, there have been calls for a new WPZ to be established for that river.
References
Rivers |
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