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Geller I was a Modernist house in Lawrence, New York. The house was one of the first American works by architect Marcel Breuer, designed in 1945. It was demolished in 2022. It was one of the first to employ Breuer's concept of the 'binuclear' house, with separate wings for the bedrooms and for the living / dining / kitchen area, separated by an entry hall, and with the distinctive 'butterfly' roof (two opposing roof surfaces sloping towards the middle, centrally drained) that became part of the popular modernist style vocabulary.
The house was eligible for the National Register of Historic Places as a contributing property in the Rockaway Hunt Historic District.
References
Marcel Breuer buildings
Modernist architecture in New York (state)
Five Towns
1945 in New York (state)
Buildings and structures demolished in 2022
Buildings and structures completed in 1945 |
The Chevrolet Turbo Titan III was a gas turbine-powered concept cabover heavy truck designed and built as a working prototype by General Motors in 1965. It was accompanied by a matching custom trailer built in stainless steel; the Turbo Titan III was first shown to the public at the 1965 session of the 1964 New York World's Fair.
History
GM designed and built prototype trucks in the 1950s using the same gas turbine engines as the ones used in its Firebird concept sports cars, including the Turbo Titan I (GT-304 turbine, also fitted to Firebird II) and II (GT-305, Firebird III).
Rival Ford had built a similar turbine-powered Big Red concept truck, first shown at the 1964 New York World's Fair. The dual-turbine GM Bison was also exhibited at the 1964 World's Fair; under most operating conditions, the Bison would drive on its GT-309 turbine engine, using the auxiliary turbine as needed for loads, grades, or acceleration.
Reportedly, the Turbo Titan III prototype was destroyed in the late 1960s.
Design
The Turbo Titan III was built around the General Motors GT-309 gas turbine engine and featured streamlined "space-age" styling.
Styling
The cab was built using fiberglass and steel, with prominent air intakes for the GT-309 engine on either side of the front fascia. At the time, the head of design for General Motors was Bill Mitchell. The chassis was a conventional Chevrolet tilt-cab cab-over-engine, first marketed in 1960. Both the headlight units and front turn signals retracted into the body when not in use. The interior featured aircraft-like gauges and a "twin dial" steering unit.
GT-309 gas turbine
The GT-309 was derived from earlier GM gas turbine engines developed for the Firebird concept cars of the 1950s. For the GT-309, the turbine and compressor were designed to operate at 35,700 RPM, with reduction gearing used for the upper output shaft, generating at a shaft speed of 4,000 RPM. Stall torque was at idle. The GT-309 has a free-turbine turboshaft design in which the output shaft is not mechanically coupled to the compressor shaft, but to maintain a nearly-constant operating temperature and provide for engine braking, the engine was fitted with a variable clutch that coupled the gasifier (compressor turbine rotor) with the output shaft; this system was developed jointly with Allison Transmission and branded "Power Transfer". Raw exhaust gas temperature was at the gasifier inlet, but a regenerator was used to muffle noise and recover heat energy by preheating inlet air, resulting in tailpipe exhaust temperatures of . Compared to a diesel engine of similar output, the GT-309 was more compact and was only of the weight.
The GT-309 was also fitted to GM New Look bus prototypes, as the Turbo-Cruiser II and III, and other bus prototypes including the RTX and later RTS-3T that competed in the Transbus Program.
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Chevrolet concept vehicles
Gas turbine vehicles |
Tikhon Alexandrovich Yurkin (1898, Moscow, Russian Empire – 1986, Moscow, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic) was a Soviet statesman.
Biography
He was born on June 29, 1898, in the family of a water carrier. Russian. Member of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) since 1919.
From 1911 – a turner at the factories of Moscow and Petrograd;
From 1919, he served in food detachments in Valuyki and Samara;
In 1922–1924, he was the manager of the Soviet Farm "Krasny Khutor" (Kropotkin);
In 1924–1928, he was the director of the Soviet Farm "Khutorok" (Armavir);
In 1928–1930, he was the organizer and first director of the Soviet Grain Farm Gigant. In 1930 – chairman of the Board of the All–Union Union of Agricultural Collectives of the Soviet Union;
From 1930 – a candidate member of the Central Committee of the All–Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks);
In 1931 – Chairman of the State Association of Union Trusts of Grain Farms;
In 1932–1934 and 1937–1938 – People's Commissar of Grain and Livestock Soviet Farms of the Soviet Union;
In 1934–1936 – First Deputy People's Commissar of Grain and Livestock Soviet Farms of the Soviet Union;
In 1936–1937 – People's Commissar of Grain and Livestock Soviet Farms of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic;
From July 22, 1937 – People's Commissar of Grain and Livestock Soviet Farms of the Soviet Union;
In the autumn of 1938, he was accused by Beria of spying for the United States of America. Stalin did not agree with the accusations, but on November 21, 1938, Yurkin was removed from the post of People's Commissar "as having failed to do his job" and in the same year was removed from the Central Committee of the All–Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks);
In 1939–1943, he was the director of the Soviet Farm "May 1" in Balashikha. During the war, he met and began to live in a civil marriage with Lyudmila Ponomareva;
In 1948, he received a secondary education – he graduated from the Kupyansk Agricultural College (Kharkov Oblast) as an external student;
In 1949–1953, he was a member of the board and head of the Main Directorate of Soviet Livestock Farms of the Ministry of the Meat and Dairy Industry of the Soviet Union;
In 1953–1954 – Deputy Minister of Soviet Farms of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic;
In 1954–1957, he was the Minister of Soviet Farms of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic;
In 1958–1959 – Deputy Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic;
In 1959–1960 – First Deputy Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic;
In 1960–1961, he was Minister of Grain Products of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic;
In 1961–1962, he was Minister of Procurement of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic;
In 1962–1967, he was an adviser to the Council of Ministers of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic;
In 1967–1984, he was an adviser to the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union. Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union from the Novosibirsk Region;
From 1984 – a personal pensioner of union significance;
He died on August 18 (19), 1986, was buried at the Kuntsevo Cemetery (Site No. 10).
Family
Grandfather of Alexey Semyonov, Sergei Sumarokov, Asya Yurkina, Elena Stepanova.
Father of Yuri Yurkin, Olga Sumarokova, Evgenia Semyonova (Yurkina), Eleonora Yurkina.
Great–uncle (husband of grandfather's sister) of the deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Ilya Ponomarev.
Awards
He was awarded four Orders of Lenin, the Order of the October Revolution, the Order of Friendship of Peoples.
References
External links
Speech by Comrade Yurkin at the 17th Congress of the All–Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (January 30, 1934)
Yurkin Tikhon Alexandrovich
1898 births
Recipients of the Order of Lenin
Recipients of the Order of Friendship of Peoples
Burials at Kuntsevo Cemetery
People's commissars and ministers of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union candidate members
First convocation members of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
1986 deaths |
James Sholto Douglas (3 July, 1757–1833) was a Scottish diplomat who was British Consul to Tangiers.
Douglas owned the Grove estate Hanover Parish, Jamaica.
He was the son of Charles James Sholto Douglas and Basilia Dawes.
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1757 births
1833 deaths
British consuls
Slave owners |
Ognev's serotine (Eptesicus ognevi) is a species of vesper bat found in western and central Asia.
Taxonomy
Described in 1918 by Nikolay Alekseyevich Bobrinski, it was later synonymized with Botta's serotine (E. bottae) of Western Asia and Egypt. However, a 2013 genetic study found that while there were very subtle morphological differences between both taxa, mtDNA and nuclear DNA analyses supported both taxa being distinct from one another, and they were thus split as distinct species. The results of this study have been followed by the American Society of Mammalogists, the IUCN Red List, and the ITIS.
It is named after Russian mammalogist Sergey Ognev.
Distribution and habitat
It is known from the Caucasus, Central Asia, and northern South Asia, ranging from Georgia east to Kazakhstan and south to Kashmir. It is known from northern Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, northernmost India, northeastern Iran, southernKazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, northernmost Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. It inhabits arid and semiarid habitats including steppe and rocky mountains. It roosts in crevices, such as natural rock crevices, buildings, and ruins, including tombs.
Status
This species has a wide range and no major threats, so it is considered Least Concern, although it is naturally uncommon in the eastern part of its range. It may be threatened by habitat degradation across parts of its range, and as it roosts in ruins, tourism-related development activities may negatively impact populations.
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Eptesicus
Mammals of Afghanistan
Mammals of Pakistan
Bats of Asia
Mammals described in 1918 |
Sabrina Cass (born 27 March 2002) is an American-born Brazilian freestyle skier. She competed in the 2022 Winter Olympics.
Career
Cass won a gold medal at the 2019 Junior World Championships in the moguls event. She finished 21st out of 30 competitors in the first qualifying round and then 16th 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
Cass was born and raised in the United States but was eligible to represent Brazil due to having a Brazilian mother. She represented the United States until switching allegiances to Brazil in 2021. She alternated living between Cheshire, Connecticut and Park City, Utah in order to train. She also played field hockey in high school.
References
2002 births
Living people
Freestyle skiers at the 2022 Winter Olympics
American female freestyle skiers
Brazilian female freestyle skiers
Olympic freestyle skiers of Brazil
People from Cheshire, Connecticut
People from Park City, Utah |
The 2022 K3 League is the third season of the K3 League as a semi-professional league and the third tier of South Korean football league system. The regular season is from 26 February to 29 October 2022. No championship play-offs will be held in 2022 season due to 2022 FIFA World Cup in November-December 2002.
Gimpo FC, the defending champions, joined K league 2 in 2022 season.
Competition format
16 teams compete in the 2022 season. Each team plays 30 games this season. The 16th team are to be relegated to K4 League, and the relegation/promotion playoff will be held between 14th team of K3 league and 3rd team of K4 league.
Promotion and relegation
Teams relegated to the 2022 K4 League
Pyeongtaek Citizen
Teams promoted from the 2021 K4 League
Pocheon Citizen
Siheung Citizen
Dangjin Citizen
Teams
Foreign players
League table
Results
Matches 1-30
Promotion-Relegation Play-off
Promotion-Relegation Play-off will be held on TBA. The 14th position of K3 League will face winner of K4 League Play-off for reach promotion to K3 League next season.
14th of K3 League vs K4
Winner
See also
2022 Korean FA Cup
2022 K League 1
2022 K League 2
2022 K4 League
References
K3 League seasons
2022 in South Korean football |
"Hate Our Love" is a song by American singer Queen Naija and American rapper Big Sean, from Queen's upcoming second studio album. It was released as the lead single from the album on February 4, 2022.
Background
On January 22, 2020, the song was announced on Queen's Instagram account along with the link to pre-save the single. On January 28, Queen revealed that the other recording artist on the song was American rapper Big Sean and that February 4 was the song's release date.
Charts
Release history
References
2022 singles
Big Sean songs
2022 songs
Songs written by Big Sean
Capitol Records singles |
USS Resolute (AFDM-10), (formerly YFD-67), was a AFDM-3-class floating dry dock built in 1945 and operated by the United States Navy.
Construction and career
YFD-67 was built by the Chicago Bridge and Iron Co., in Chicago, Illinois in 1945. She was delivered to the Navy on 1 January 1945 and commissioned later that year. The dry dock was later re-designated as AFDM-10 and given the name Resolute.
In November 1984, commenced her Selected Restricted Availability (SRA) docked in Resolute. On 25 January 1987, began a SRA that included drydocking in Resolute at Norfolk.
Resolute dry docked Los Angeles-class submarines on 25 June 1995 and 12 April 1996. was dry docked on 12 August 1996. Later that year on 12 December, underwent repair work.
In December 2004, the dry dock was towed to the West Coast and sold to Todd-Pacific Shipyards. On 5 February 2014, was repaired on board the former Resolute. In early January 2019, was overhauled and refitted inside the dry dock. From December 2019 until mid-2021, cruisers and were dry docked for Modernization Periods (MODPRD). Other ships worked on include , and
Awards
Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation (2 awards)
Navy Battle "E" Ribbon (2 awards)
National Defense Service Medal (2 awards)
References
External links
NavSource: AFDM-10
Naval Vessel Register: Resolute (AFDM-10)
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 Chicago |
Kamali Thompson (born December 11, 1991) is an American fencer and doctor.
Early life
Thompson was born on December 11, 1991, in Los Angeles, California but was raised in Teaneck, New Jersey. Growing up in New Jersey, Thompson was originally a dancer and began Teaneck High School at the age of 12. While watching a fencing demonstration at the school, she was encouraged to learn the sport to gain a greater chance at a college scholarship. She subsequently began fencing during her freshman year and eventually joined the schools team as a junior. Prior to her junior year, Thompson entered a statewide fencing competition where she finished ninth. Following this, she was encourgaed to join a fencing club in New York called the Peter Westbrook Foundation. Throughout her high school career, Thompson helped the fencing team finish second in districts, second in the state, and win the Passaic League Championship. She also earned first-team all-county and third-team all-state honors. As she continued to fence, her younger brother Khalil also took up the sport so he would not have to sit on the sidelines during her practices.
Following high school, Thompson enrolled in the Pre-medical degree as part of her biology program at Temple University. She continued to compete in fending under head coach Nikki Franke and was a two-time winner of Temple's PNC Female Student-Athlete of the Year. She also earned All-American Honors and was a four-time NCAA Qualifier. During her senior year, Thompson was named Philadelphia Inquirer Performer of the Year and nominated for NCAA Woman of the Year.
Career
Upon graduating from Temple University, Thompson enrolled at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School for the 2013 academic year. During her first year in medical school, she helped lead Team USA to a fourth-place finish in Women's Sabre at the 2013 World University Games. Throughout her medical school career, she also established a blog, Saber & A Stethoscope, to document her educational endeavors, travel, and fitness. In 2016, Thompson narrowly missed qualifying for the 2016 Summer Olympics by placing sixth overall. Following this, she beat University of Notre Dame's Francesca Russo for the Division 1 Women's Sabre National Championship title.
In 2019, Thompson was ranked third overall as she helped Team USA win a bronze medal at the Salt Lake City North American Cup. As such, she was named an alternate for the national team as they were set to compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics. While the Games were delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, she trained at the Peter Westbrook Foundation.
References
1991 births
Living people
American female sabre fencers
People from Teaneck, New Jersey
Sportspeople from Bergen County, New Jersey
Sportspeople from Los Angeles
Teaneck High School alumni
Temple University alumni
Temple Owls fencers |
Hisonotus chromodontus is a species of catfish in the family Loricariidae. It is native to Brazil, where it occurs in the Tapajós basin. The species is usually found in shallow flat parts of creeks with clear water, low current, and sandy substrate. It reaches 3.3 cm (1.3 inches) SL.
References
Loricariidae
Fish described in 2007 |
"Closer" is a song by American rapper Saweetie from her upcoming debut studio album, Pretty Bitch Music, which does not have a confirmed release date yet. The song features a guest appearance from American singer-songwriter H.E.R., who sings the chorus and postchorus while Saweetie raps the two verses. It was released on February 11, 2022, as the fifth single from the album.
Composition and lyrics
"Closer" is a disco pop song and has been described as "a confident singles anthem for Valentine's Day". Saweetie's lyrics pair up with H.E.R.'s vocals in the chorus as the two respectively rap and sing "over a bouncy '80s-inspired beat".
Music video
The official music video for "Closer", directed by Hannah Lux Davis, premiered alongside the song on February 11, 2022. It starts with Saweetie and H.E.R. taking a group of women with her to the airport to fly. After getting their passports and COVID-19 test results checked, they start partying and Saweetie then goes on dates with three love interests.
Charts
Release history
References
2022 singles
2022 songs
Warner Records singles
Saweetie songs
H.E.R. songs
Songs written by Saweetie
Songs written by H.E.R.
Songs written by Ryan Ogren |
S. Nadim Abbas (born 1 January 1968) is a Dutch former cricketer.
Abbas was born in the Netherlands on New Year's Day in 1968. A club cricketer for Voorburg Cricket Club, he made his debut in List A one-day cricket for the Netherlands against Norfolk in England at Horsford in the 1st round of the 2002 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy (played in August 2001), an English domestic one-day tournament the Netherlands were invited to take part in. Against their minor counties opponents, the Dutch reached the Norfolk score of 245 with nine wickets down, with Abbas being run out off the final ball of the match by the combination of Stephen Livermore and Chris Rogers, resutling in a tie. He made a second List A appearance in the 2nd round of the 2003 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy (played in September 2002) against Bedfordshire, again played in England at Luton. In his two List A, he scored 15 runs with a highest score of 12 not out, in addition to bowling ten wicketless overs with his right-arm fast-medium bowling.
References
External links
1968 births
Living people
Dutch cricketers |
Yingyao Hu 胡颖尧 (born 1972) is an econometrician, a professor of economics, and currently the Chair of the Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University.
Early life and education
Hu was born in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR). His parents were among the 97,000 Shanghai zhiqing (知青), or zhishi qingnian (知识青年), “the educated youths,” mobilized by the Chinese state to migrate to the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (新疆生产建设兵团) from 1963 to 1966. Hu went to the elementary, middle, and high school in Xinjiang. He was admitted to the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University as the 14th highest scored students of Xinjiang in 1989. He graduated from Tsinghua University with a B.E. in 1994 and from Fudan University with a M.A. in 1997. He studied in the Department of Economics at Michigan State University for one year in 1998, and then transferred to the Johns Hopkins University, where he obtained his Ph.D. in economics (2003) and M.S.E. in Math Science (2001). His Ph.D. advisor is Geert Ridder.
Career
Hu was an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Texas at Austin between 2003 and 2007. He joined the Department of Economics at the Johns Hopkins University as an assistant professor in 2007, got promoted to be an associate professor in 2011, and a full professor in 2015. Starting from 2019, Hu has served as the Chair of in the Department of Economics at the Johns Hopkins University.
Hu is a Research Fellow at IZA (2008 – present), a Fellow of the Journal of Econometrics (2013 – present), and a Fellow of the Global Labor Organization (2020 – present).
Research contributions
YHu has contributed to the literature in micro-econometrics, empirical industrial organization, labor economics, and macroeconomics.
Micro-econometrics
Hu studied identification and estimation of microeconomic models with mis-measured variables or unobserved heterogeneity, or more generally, "latent variables." He proposed an innovative approach to show that models with latent variables can be nonparametrically identified and estimated given that the latent variable has two measurements and a binary indicator that is correlated with it. This approach, now known in the literature as the "eigen-decomposition method", is applicable regardless the latent variable is discrete or continuous. Specifically, if the latent variable is discrete, the identification involves eigenvalue-eigenvector decomposition of a matrix constructed by the data; if the latent variable is continuous, it involves eigenfunction decomposition of a linear operator again constructed by the data. The method has been widely used in both structural economic models (e.g., auctions, games, dynamic models) and reduced form models.
In addition to measurement error models, Hu has also worked on other important topics in econometrics such as completeness of a function and panel data models with fixed effects or unobserved covariates. His work on latent variables is summarized in the manuscript "The Econometrics of Unobservables – Latent Variable and Measurement Error Models and Their Applications in Empirical Industrial Organization and Labor Economics".
Empirical industrial organization
Hu considered structural models with unobserved heterogeneity/variables. He contributed to the literature of auctions by providing identification of auction models with auction-level unobserved heterogeneity. Moreover, he contributed to the literature of dynamic discrete choice models by allowing the presence of time-varying unobserved state variable, or that the agent has subjective beliefs. Furthermore, he studied agent's belief updating in learning models via lab experiments.
Labor economics
Hu addressed the issue of misreporting in the Current Population Survey (CPS) and found that the official U.S. unemployment rate substantially underestimated the true level of unemployment. During the period from January 1996 to August 2011, the corrected monthly unemployment rates are between 1 and 4.4 percentage points (2.1 percentage points on average) higher than the official rates, and are more sensitive to changes in business cycles. In another paper, Hu studied the impact of hurricanes on the regional fertility rate in the U.S.; this paper won the 2013 Kuznets Prize for the best published article in the Journal of Population Economics during the period 2010 to 2012. More recently, Hu published a paper uncovering a more reliable estimate of China's unemployment rate.
Macroeconomics
Hu expanded his interests into the macroeconomic space in recent years. He applied his econometric methods of latent variables to studying the GDP growth using a novel approach that relates nighttime lights with economic activities. This research has attracted much attention in media (BBC, IMF blog, IMF F&D magazine, Le Monde, The Economist, Financial Times, Bloomberg News, and The Wall Street Journal.)
He has also been actively sharing his thoughts about China's economic growth via blog posts.
Professional service
Hu has served as an associate editor of several leading economics journals, including Econometrics Journal, Econometrics Reviews, Frontiers of Economics in China, and Journal of Econometrics, and as a panelist of the National Science Foundation economics program. He is a member of editorial board of Journal of Systems Science and Systems Engineering. He was a co-editor (with Tom Wansbeek) of an Annals of Econometrics issue on measurement error models (a special issue of Journal of Econometrics), and a guest co-editor of China Economic Review (Virtual Special Issue: 2020 CES Conferences). Hu was a co-chair of program Committee for the 2019 China Meeting of the Econometric Society, a member of Scientific Committee of the International Symposium on Econometric Theory and Applications (SETA) from 2014 to 2017, a program committee member for the 2017 China Meeting of the Econometric Society, and a member of Board of Directors for the Chinese Economists Society.
Selected publications
Hu, Yingyao, 2017. "The Econometrics of Unobservables -- Latent Variable and Measurement Error Models and Their Applications in Empirical Industrial Organization and Labor Economics [The Econometrics of Unobservables]," Economics Working Paper Archive 64578, The Johns Hopkins University, Department of Economics, revised 2021.
Hu, Yingyao; Yao, Jiaxiong (forthcoming). "Illuminating economic growth". Journal of Econometrics . (reported in BBC, IMF blog, IMF F&D magazine, Le Monde, The Economist, Financial Times, Bloomberg News, Wall Street Journal). Illuminating economic growth
Hu, Yingyao; Shiu, Ji-Liang (2018). "Nonparametric identification using instrumental variables: sufficient conditions for completeness". Econometric Theory, 34 (3): 659–693. DOI: NONPARAMETRIC IDENTIFICATION USING INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLES: SUFFICIENT CONDITIONS FOR COMPLETENESS
Hu, Yingyao (2017). "The econometrics of unobservables: Applications of measurement error models in empirical industrial organization and labor economics", Journal of Econometrics, 200 (2): 154–168. The econometrics of unobservables: Applications of measurement error models in empirical industrial organization and labor economics
Feng Shuaizhang; Hu, Yingyao; Moffitt, Robert (2017). "Long run trends in unemployment and labor force participation in China". Journal of Comparative Economics, 45 (2): 304–324. Long run trends in unemployment and labor force participation in urban China - Media: Wall Street Journal (27 Oct 2016).
Hu, Yingyao; McAdams, David, Shum, Matt (2013). "Nonparametric identification of first-price auctions with non-separable unobserved heterogeneity". Journal of Econometrics, 174 (2): 186–193. Identification of first-price auctions with non-separable unobserved heterogeneity
Feng Shuaizhang; Hu, Yingyao (2013). "Misclassification errors and the underestimation of U.S. unemployment rates", American Economic Review, 103 (2): 1054–70. DOI:
Schennach Susanne; Hu, Yingyao (2013). "Nonparametric identification and semiparametric estimation of classical measurement error models without side information". Journal of the American Statistical Association, 108 (501): 177–186. Nonparametric Identification and Semiparametric Estimation of Classical Measurement Error Models Without Side Information
Hu, Yingyao; Shum, Matt (2012). "Nonparametric identification of dynamic models with unobserved state variables", Journal of Econometrics, 171 (1): 32- 44. Nonparametric identification of dynamic models with unobserved state variables
Hu, Yingyao; Ridder, Geert (2012). "Estimation of nonlinear models with mismeasured regressors using marginal information". Journal of Applied Econometrics, 27 (3): 347–385. Estimation of nonlinear models with mismeasured regressors using marginal information
An, Yonghong; Hu, Yingyao; Shum Matt (2010). "Estimating first-price auctions with an unknown number of bidders: a misclassification approach", J Journal of Econometrics, 157 (2): 328–341. Estimating first-price auctions with an unknown number of bidders: A misclassification approach
Carroll Raymond; Chen, Xiaohong; Hu, Yingyao (2010). "Identification and inference in nonlinear models using two samples with nonclassical measurement errors", Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, 22 (4): 379–399. Journal of Nonparametric Statistics 2010 Best Paper Award. Identification and estimation of nonlinear models using two samples with nonclassical measurement errors
Evans, Rick; Hu, Yingyao; Zhao, Zhong (2010). "The fertility effect of catastrophe: U.S. hurricane births". Journal of Population Economics, 23 (1): 1-36. The 2013 Kuznets Prize for the best published article in the Journal of Population Economics during the period 2010–2012. The fertility effect of catastrophe: U.S. hurricane births
Hu, Yingyao; Schennach, Susanne (2008). "Instrumental variable treatment of nonclassical measurement error models", Econometrica, 76 (1): 195–216. Instrumental Variable Treatment of Nonclassical Measurement Error Models
Hu, Yingyao (2008). "Identification and estimation of nonlinear models with misclassification error using instrumental variables: A general solution", Journal of Econometrics, 144 (1): 27–61.
Barnett, Barry; Black, Roy; Hu, Yingyao; Skeesls (2005). "Is area yield insurance competitive with farm yield insurance?". Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 30 (2): 285–301.
Awards and honors
Journal of Nonparametric Statistics Best Paper Award (2010)
The Kuznets Prize for the best published article in the Journal of Population Economics (2013)
Fellow of the Journal of Econometrics (2013-)
References
External links
Yingyao Hu's Homepage
Yingyao Hu's Google Scholar page
1972 births
Living people |
Hisonotus depressicauda is a species of catfish in the family Loricariidae. It is native to South America, where it occurs in the Tietê River basin. The species reaches 5 cm (2 inches) SL.
References
Loricariidae
Fish described in 1918 |
Fatmir Gjeka (was born 17 April 1975) is an Albanian politician in Montenegro, Mayor of Ulcinj in Ulcinj Municipality and Chairman of Democratic Party.
Life and education
He was born on April 17, 1975, in Bar, Yugoslavia. He is married and has two children. He completed his higher studies in business administration at the Faculty of Economics of University "Luigj Gurakuqi" in Shkodër in 1997. During the period 2005-2007 he attended postgraduate studies in the field of entrepreneurial economics at the Faculty Economics of the University of Montenegro.
Political activity
In the period 2002–2011 he acted as the secretary of the Secretariat for Budget and Finance of Ulcinj Municipality. He has been a member of the commission for financing local government and chairman of this commission for one term. In November 2011 he was elected director of the Municipal Public Enterprise of Ulcinj. In the Constituent Assembly of the Democratic Party, held on December 24, 2011, he was elected chairman of this party. As a representative of the Albanian Coalition (Democratic Party, Albanian Alternative and Democratic League in Montenegro) he was elected Member of the Parliament of Montenegro, in the parliamentary elections held on October 14, 2012. As an MP, he has been the chairman of the Parliamentary Club of Albanian Parties, the Croatian Civic Initiative and the Liberal Party of Montenegro. Fatmir Gjeka was elected Mayor of Ulcinj on February 24, 2014, as a candidate of the Coalition "Together for the Future of Ulcinj", FORCA and Positive Montenegro and served in this position until March 21, 2016. On June 27, 2018, he was elected as the president of the tourist organization of Ulcinj, a task which he continues to exercise.
See also
List of mayors of Ulcinj
References
1975 births
Living people |
Joaquín Messi (born 16 April 2002) is a Argentine footballer contracted to Newell's Old Boys.
Nicknamed Mono Messi (), and the The New Messi, () he has gained notoriety due to coincidentally having the same surname, being the same nationality, coming from the same hometown, having the same shirt number and starting his professional career at the same club as the world famous Lionel Messi.
This coincidence has resulted in an unprecedented amount of interest in the player and pressure, for a player of such calibre.
He debuted in the U-20 Copa Libertadores on 8 February 2022 against Paraguayan club Guaraní.
References
Living people
2002 births
Argentine footballers
Footballers from Rosario, Santa Fe
Newell's Old Boys footballers
Association football midfielders |
The Stevenson House, is a historic two-story Spanish Colonial style building located at 530 Houston Street in Monterey, California. It was a boarding house called the French Hotel, built circa 1836. The Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson lived there in 1879, writing and courting his future wife. It is now a museum and property of the Monterey State Historic Park. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 7, 1972. The building is also listed as a California historical landmark #352.
History
The original adobe was built in circa 1836 by Don Rafael Gonzalez, who was the customs administrator at the Port of Monterey. Some of the walls are of chalk rock, which were laid up in mud mortar. Other waslls are of wood frame. The exterior walls are plastered with limestone mortar. The bracketed overhanging roof has wood shingles.
From 1856 to 1870s, merchant Juan Girardin operated a general store on the first floor and lived upstairs. Some additions were made and spare bedrooms were rented, when it became the French Hotel.
In the Autumn of 1879, Scottish novelist Robert Louis Stevenson stayed at the French Hotel. Stevenson lived there while recovering from Ill health as he was crossing the United States to court his future wife Fanny Osbourne. While at the hotel, he dined at a nearby restaurant run by Frenchman Jules Simoneau which was located at what is now the Simoneau Plaza. It was at the hotel that Stevenson wrote The Amateur Emigrant; The Pavilion on the Links; Prince Otto; essays on Henry David Thoreau and the Japanese reformer Yoshida Torajiro; The Old Pacific Capitol; and inspiration for Treasure Island.
In 1937, the hotel was purchased by Edith C. van Antwerp and Mrs. C. Tobin Clark to preserve it as a memorial to Stevenson. They bestowed it to the State of California and it was restored as a home representing the Spanish Colonial period. The hotel was later named the Stevenson House in honor of Robert Louis Stevenson. It holds a large collection of Stevenson papers and Stevenson memorabilia. It features a bas relief depicting the author writing in bed.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Monterey County, California
California Historical Landmarks in Monterey County
References
External links
Robert Louis Stevenson House
Guide to the Stevenson House Collection
Buildings and structures in Monterey County, California
Monterey, California
Buildings and structures in California |
The Lubrecht State Experimental Forest is a tract of protected land located in Missoula and Granite County, Montana, owned and managed by the W.A. Franke College of Forestry & Conservation, of the University of Montana.
Land Use
Up until 1992, the W.A. Franke College of Forestry & Conservation had operated various programs that centered around spending either a quarter term or semester working within the boundaries of the forest to learn about forest management and to study the history of certain tracts of land used for logging decades prior. Today the Lubrecht Forest is used as a classroom by the W.A. Franke College to teach subjects such as forest ecology, controlled burns, and studies of surface and groundwater measurement.
Flora and Fauna
The Lubrecht Experimental Forest features four major types of trees, the Western larch, Douglas fir, Lodgepole and Ponderosa. The Forest is unique compared to other protected areas in the state in that it annually sells timber to the community to help fund the upkeep of the area.
Although the flora is the main focus of the Forest, there are still over 60 different species of wildlife in the area, including black bears, eagles, elk, and bobcats.
History
From 1864 to 1937, the Lubrecht Forest was owned by the Northern Pacific Railroad, with some small tracts being sold off to the Anaconda Copper for the purpose of providing timber to be used in their mines. On December 24th, 1937, the Andaconda Copper Company donated 19,058 acres to the state, and a further 1,210 acres two years later. The current acreage reflects small changes resulting in the buying and selling of parcels of land to and from private individuals.
See also
List of forests in Montana
References
External Links
Source Water Delineation and Assessment Report at the Montana State Official Website. Retrieved February 9th, 2022.
Protected areas of Montana
Geography of Missoula County, Montana
Protected areas established in 1937 |
The 2022 K4 League is the third season of the K4 League as a semi-professional league and the fourth tier of South Korean football league system. Pocheon Citizen are the defending champions and was promoted together with Siheung Citizen (the runner-up) and Dangjin Citizen (play-off winner) to 2022 K3 League. Pyeongtaek Citizen were relegated from 2021 K3 League and will play in the K4 League for the first time.
Competition format
The 2022 K4 League is contested by 17 teams, with no relegation system in place. Each team competes home and away, playing 32 games. The top two teams get promoted to the K3 League, while the third and the fourth placed teams qualify for the promotion play-off.
Promotion and relegation
Teams relegated from the 2022 K3 League
Pyeongtaek Citizen
Teams promoted to the 2022 K3 League
Pocheon Citizen
Siheung Citizen
Dangjin Citizen
Dissolved team from 2022 K4 League
Goyang Citizen FC (Expelled from K4 League by Korean Football Association.)
Teams
League table
Results
Matches 1 to 34
Promotion Play-off
The match will be played on TBA. The 3rd and 4th placed team from the 2020 K4 League will play for a spot in the 2023 K3 League against the team placed 14th in the 2022 K3 League.
Promotion Play-off
Promotion-Relegation Play-off
Winner
See also
2022 Korean FA Cup
2022 K League 1
2022 K League 2
2022 K3 League
References
External links
K4 League seasons
2022 in South Korean football |
M. Rifaiz R. Bakas (born 5 May 1982) is a Dutch former first-class cricketer.
Bakas was born in the Netherlands in May 1982. He was a member of the Netherlands under-19 team for the 2000 Under-19 Cricket World Cup, making five appearances in the tournament. He later made a single appearance in first-class cricket for the Netherlands senior team against Kenya in August 2008 at Amstelveen in the Intercontinental Cup. Batting twice in the match as an opening batsman, he was dismissed for an 11–ball duck in the Dutch first innings by Thomas Odoyo, while in their second innings he was dismissed for 16 runs by Peter Ongondo. Barkas played his club cricket in the Netherlands for Rood en Wit (1998–2006), Excelsior '20 (2007–2011), United Haarlem (2013–2014), and Dosti (2015).
References
External links
1982 births
Living people
Dutch cricketers |
Hisonotus depressinotus is a species of catfish in the family Loricariidae. It is native to South America, where it occurs in the Tietê River basin. The species reaches 3 cm (1.2 inches) SL. It is not to be confused with the related species Hisonotus depressicauda, which has a similar name and is found in the same river basin.
References
Loricariidae
Fish described in 1918
Fish of South America |
Bryan Cook is an American football safety who played for the Cincinnati Bearcats.
Early life and high school
Cook grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio and attended Mount Healthy High School in Mount Healthy, Ohio. As a senior, he was named first team All-Southwest Ohio Conference after recording 35 tackles, three interceptions, and a fumble recovery in nine games on defense and catching four passes for 110 yards and three touchdowns on offense. Cook was lightly recruited and committed to play college football at Howard University, which was his only scholarship offer.
College career
Cook began his collegiate career playing for the Howard Bison. He played in 21 games at cornerback over two seasons for Howard and had 93 tackles, five tackles for a loss, two forced fumbles, and two fumble recoveries, with 17 passes defended and five interceptions, one of which he returned for a 41-yard touchdown. After his sophomore season, Cook entered the NCAA transfer portal and later committed transfer to continue his collegiate career at University of Cincinnati.
Cook sat out the regular season of his first year with the Cincinnati Bearcats per NCAA transfer rules. During his redshirt year he was moved from cornerback to safety. Cook played in the 2020 Birmingham Bowl following the end of the regular season. He had 26 tackles with two passes broken up in his first full season at Cincinnati. As a senior, Cook 96 tackles, five tackles for loss, and one sack with 9 passes defended and two interceptions and was named first team All-American Athletic Conference.
References
External links
Howard Bison bio
Cincinnati Bearcats bio
Living people
Cincinnati Bearcats football players
Howard Bison football players
Players of American football from Cincinnati
American football safeties
Year of birth missing (living people) |
Leith North railway station served the area of Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland, from 1879 to 1962 on the Leith North Passenger Branch.
History
The station was opened as Leith on 1 August 1879 by the Caledonian Railway. Beyond the buffer stops was a train shed, to the west was a siding and on the south side of the line was the signal box, which was named 'Leith Passenger' when the station opened. The station's name was changed to Leith North on 7 April 1952. It closed on 30 April 1962. The signal box closed in 1964. The site is now occupied with flats and nearby warehouses.
References
Disused railway stations in Edinburgh
Former Caledonian Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1879
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1962
1879 establishments in Scotland
1962 disestablishments in Scotland |
James Bernard Lammers (July 16, 1924 – January 5, 1952) was an American mass murderer who murdered his pregnant wife and three children. On December 12, 1950, he strangled his wife, who was about seven months pregnant, to death, then set their trailer on fire, resulting in their children dying. James was convicted of two counts of first degree murder, sentenced to death, and executed in 1952.
Murders, trial, and execution
The family had moved into a trailer in Troy eight weeks before the murders after James found work as a bulldozer operator there. However, six weeks later, he was fired.
On the early of morning of December 13, 1950, the Lammers' family trailer was discovered on fire. Neighbors tried to help, but were unable to extinguish the blaze. The bodies of 23-year-old Geneva Orr Lammers, 3-year-old Laura Mae Lammers, 2-year-old Melva Jean Lammers, and nine-month-old LaVern Francis Lammers were found. The children were sleeping during the fire, and had died from carbon monoxide poisoning.
The fire was initially thought to be accidental, and the police guessed that an exploding oil stove caused it. James Lammers was nowhere to be found. He returned to town on December 14, 1950, claiming he had been out looking for work, and that someone had recognized his truck in Topeka and told him about the fire.
Suspecting that James had intentionally set the fire, the police asked him to show them where had had traveled. James took the police to Independence, Missouri, then to Kansas City, Missouri. He attempt to provide an alibi by showing them a receipt for gas supposedly purchased on December 12, but the actual date, December 13, was smudged and over it was written the number 12. James then took them to Topeka, Kansas, where he had supposedly spent the night in a hotel and mailed a letter home to his wife. The letter was dated December 14, 1950.
The group returned to Troy on December 15, and James was arrested and charged with first degree murder the next day. Upon being woken up to the news, he replied "Does it have to be as bad as that?"
James then confessed to the murders, saying he had strangled his wife to death, and then poured kerosene on her body and set it on fire to conceal the crime. Due to public anger over the allegations, James was moved to a private location for his safety. He claimed that his children had drove him crazy, and he feared having a fourth child. James took his wife to a doctor in Missouri, hoping for an abortion, but the doctor refused.
During his trial, a woman, 25-year-old Zada Spencer, said she and James had been having an affair for about a year and fathered a child together, and that he never told her he was married. According to Spencer, after learning she was pregnant, James said a friend of his, whose wife had had died, had offered him his trailer home if he would take care of the his three children. He asked Spencer if she would marry him on those conditions, but she declined. A friend of Spencer corroborated these allegations, but they were never confirmed.
The defense argued that James did not "appreciate the enormity of his act", and presented several witnesses who testified that he had a limited mental capacity. However, doctors who examined him said he was both competent and sane. On March 7, 1951, the jury found James guilty of first degree murder and recommended a death sentence, and he was formally sentenced to death.
After James's appeals failed, he was hanged at the Kansas State Penitentiary in Lansing on January 5, 1952. He declined a last meal. James's last words were "I have been treated very well." The trapdoor was sprung open at 1:01 A.M., and he was pronounced dead nine minutes later. James's parents declined to claim his body after his execution, and he was buried in Mt. Calvary Cemetery in Leavenworth, Kansas.
See also
Familicide
Capital punishment in Kansas
List of people executed in Kansas
References
1924 births
1952 deaths
20th-century executions by Kansas
20th-century executions of American people
American mass murderers
American male criminals
American murderers of children
American people convicted of murder
Executed mass murderers
Executed people from Nebraska
People convicted of murder by Kansas
People executed by Kansas by hanging
People executed for murder |
Phạm Văn Luân (born 26 May 1999) is a Vietnamese footballer who currently plays as a midfielder for Japanese side FC Ryukyu, on loan from Saigon.
Career statistics
Club
Notes
References
1999 births
Living people
Vietnamese footballers
Association football midfielders
V.League 1 players
Khanh Hoa FC players
Can Tho FC players
Saigon FC players
FC Ryukyu players
Vietnamese expatriate footballers
Vietnamese expatriate sportspeople in Japan
Expatriate footballers in Japan |
Hisonotus francirochai is a species of catfish in the family Loricariidae. It is native to South America, where it occurs in the Grande River basin. The species reaches 3.6 cm (1.4 inches) SL.
References
Loricariidae
Fish described in 1928 |
Vũ Hồng Quân (born 1 January 1999) is a Vietnamese footballer who currently plays as a midfielder for Japanese side FC Ryukyu, on loan from Saigon.
Career statistics
Club
Notes
References
1999 births
Living people
Vietnamese footballers
Association football midfielders
V.League 1 players
Than Quang Ninh FC players
Saigon FC players
FC Ryukyu players
Vietnamese expatriate footballers
Vietnamese expatriate sportspeople in Japan
Expatriate footballers in Japan |
Kassem Taher Saleh (born 1 June 1993) is a German politician who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag after the 2021 German federal election. He is affiliated with the Alliance 90/The Greens party.
He grew up in Plauen, Vogtland, Germany.
References
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Living people
1993 births
People from Zakho
21st-century German politicians
Members of the Bundestag for Alliance 90/The Greens
Members of the Bundestag 2021–2025 |
Gravel cycling, gravel biking or gravel grinding is a sport, or a leisure activity, in which participants ride bicycles mostly on gravel roads. Sometimes, specially designed gravel bikes are used; in other cases, any bicycle capable of covering the terrain can be used.
Gravel cycling bridges the gap between road and Mountain biking, combining the higher speed and efficiency of road cycling with the capability and freedom to ride on rough and loose terrain.
Gravel racing
The distinguishing features of gravel races, also called gravel grinders, include long distances, often 100 to 200 miles, mostly on gravel roads, and mass starts that include all categories of racers, similar to Gran Fondo rides.
The bicycles and courses in gravel racing vary widely, from road bicycles with wide tires used on smooth gravel roads to bicycles that are similar to mountain bikes used on courses that include technical trails.
History of gravel racing
End of 19th century - beginning of 20th century
In the early days of road bike racing, most roads were not paved, so most races were held primarily on unpaved/dirt/gravel roads.
Due to road infrastructure improving with time, road bike racing shifted almost entirely to paved roads. In America the use of paved roads was largely influenced by a group of cyclists called League of American Wheelmen, who advocated for improving road conditions. Racing bikes got narrow tires and were no longer fit for off-road usage.
20th century
Next to road bike racing, separate off-road cycling disciplines emerged. In autumn and winter in a few European countries, cyclo-cross is a popular professional sport. Cyclo-crossers ride off-road (on grass, sand, mud...) on a variant of a road bicycle, on a closed circuit during a relatively short time (1 hour), and jump or carry their bikes over obstacles or on steep climbs.
In the 1970's mountainbiking emerged.
21st century
In the 21st century, riding and racing road bikes on gravel roads has gained popularity. Gravel cycling, as a mixture of road cycling, cyclo-cross and mountain biking became a new discipline of bicycle racing.
United States
The revival started in the Mid-West of the USA, where gravel cycling evolved from cyclists riding long stretches of gravel and fire roads.
Some precursors to gravel racing in its current form include road races like the Tour of the Battenkill and Boulder-Roubaix (named after Paris - Roubaix) which are road races with gravel sections.
One of the premiere gravel races, Unbound Gravel in Emporia, Kansas (formerly called Dirty Kanza), started in 2006 and is long.
This race is a good example of how much gravel biking has grown in recent years: in 2006 there was a total of 34 riders that participated in the 200 mile race. In June 2019, 2,750 riders lucky enough to be picked from a lottery crossed the start line of the Dirty Kanza 200 and organizers had to introduce other mileage categories.
World
In 2021, the UCI announced they will sanction in 2022 both the Gravel World Series with about 18 races in 4 continents, and the Gravel World Championships.
Racing rules and culture
When taking Unbound Gravel as an example, there are checkpoints spaced about 50 miles apart for longer races, and riders must carry water and food, as well as fix their own tires and bikes.
If riders receive outside support at any location other than official checkpoints it will result in immediate disqualification. Riders may assist other riders by any means and at any time.
The culture of gravel biking has been a reason it has grown in popularity. Gravel races rarely call for a team of coaches and bicycle technicians because the courses susceptible to varying weather that is hard to train and prepare for. Gravel riders are generally focused on getting through a course rather than maintaining a pace during races. This give way to camaraderie on the trail and caters to a fun and relaxed atmosphere that is not always present in road and mountain bike races.
Other races
USA
Barry-Roubaix is an up to 100-mile road/off-road cycling race in Barry County, Michigan. The event is known as the World's Largest Gravel Road Race..
The annual Arkansaw High Country Race in June is an approximately 1,000-mile self-supported (bikepacking) gravel race through the Ouachita and Ozark National Forests, with approximately 84,000 feet of total elevation.
Other major gravel events
Europe
In the UK, the Dirty Reiver is a off-road timed cycling challenge that takes place in Hexham, England.
In Norway, Sweden and Finland, the Nordic Gravel Series are a series of gravel challenges
Gravel bicycle touring and bikepacking
Riding on gravel roads has always been a part of bicycle touring, since its start in the 20th century. Also, already before the recent popularity of gravel bikes, part of the cycle tourists were riding what we would now call gravel bikes. Before, these bicycles.were often sold as dedicated touring bicycles, and seen as variants of randonneur bicycles.
Since the 2010's, gravel cycling and gravel bikes have been widely associated with one of the variants of bikepacking. Bikepacking is a form of traveling by bike with lightweight luggage but without bicycle racks or panniers (often off-road), so it is a lightweight variant of bicycle touring.
Gravel bikes
The bicycles that cyclists use in gravel races and gravel rides can vary widely (can also be mountain bikes, cyclo-cross bicycles or racing bicycles with wider tires, depending on the conditions).
However since the 2010's, a dedicated type of bicycle is marketed as gravel bike to cover the new cycling discipline. Dedicated gravel group sets are available from three major vendors (Shimano, Sram and Campagnolo).
Gravel bikes at first glance look very similar to road bikes with their lack of suspension and drop bars.
Where gravel bikes differ from road bikes is that the bars are usually wider, geometry is adapted to be more comfortable riding offroad for long periods of time and modern gravel bikes will also feature a 1x drivetrain removing the front derailleur. Wheels are generally wider and forks and rear triangle will allow for much wider tyres to cope with the terrain and requirements of riding off-road.
The relaxed geometry of mountain bikes is the foundation of gravel bike frames but gravel bikes are lighter, faster and more responsive than a mountain bike. Gravel bikes also use characteristics of both cyclocross and road bikes for better comfort on long rides and the wheel clearance to accommodate rides done in torrential conditions.
Still, gravel bikes vary, and the different models cover a range between road racing bicycles and mountain bikes.
References
External links
Cycle sport
Gravel roads
Cycle racing by discipline |
Pelatantheria cristata is a species of epiphytic or lithophytic orchid occurring in Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia. It is similar to Pelatantheria insectifera and Pelatantheria rivesii. The stems may reach 20 cm in length and possess deflexed racemes up to 10 cm in length, bearing several flowers. The specific epithet cristata, derived from the Latin word cristatus, refers to the crested or tufted labellum.
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.
References
cristata
Orchids of Indonesia
Orchids of Thailand
Orchids of Malaysia
Aeridinae |
Firew Altaye Gebremedhin or ፍሬው አልታዬ ገብረመድህን was born on 2 August 1966. He was an Ethiopian politician and second chief administrator of Wolayita Zone, from 2002 to 2004 and he was succeeded by Amanuel Otoro. He served as member of Ethiopian parliament from 2001 to 2002.
Early life
Firew Altaye was born in Boloso Sore in Wolaita, Ethiopia, and he completed his primary education in Hembecho Saint Michael Missionary School. He also completed his secondary education in wolaita Sodo comprehensive high school. After completing his secondary education, he attended in Addis Ababa University and got first degree in 1990. He got MA degree from University of Amsterdam in International law and until his death he ruled Wolaita zone.
Political career
Frew Altaye, who was the chief administrator of Wolaytta for a short period of time and designer of everything for the development of the nation. He fought against ethnic chuavinisim which is so called Wogagoda. This event led to widespread protests by all social strata of the Wolaita population in 1998 that eventually resulted in Wolaytta having a zonal status and the recognition of its distinct language in November 2000. Firew fought corruption, Sincere and diligent, courageous and determined development man, developmentalist who put the public interest before his own. Firew Altaye mobilized Wolayita people and built the beautiful and attractive Wolayita Gutara meeting and entertainment hall.
Firew served as officer of Wolayita Zone Justice Department, Chairman of Damot Weyde Woreda Teachers Association, Chairman of the Semen Omo Zone Teachers Association and as well vice-chairman of the Ethiopian Teachers Association. He also served as member of the EPRDF and SEPDM Central Committee, a diplomat at the FDRE Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Wolayita Zone chief Administrator.
References
Wolayita
20th-century Ethiopian politicians
People from Wolayita Zone
1966 births
2004 deaths |
Cheyelle Robins-Reti (born 9 March 1997) is a New Zealand rugby union player. She debuted for the Black Ferns on 14 November 2020 against the New Zealand Barbarians at Waitākere. She made her international debut against England on 7 November 2021 at Northampton.
Early life
Originally from Taranaki, Robins-Reti relocated to Perth with her mother and attended Aranmore Catholic College. She later moved to Hamilton and studied for a Bachelor of Sport and Exercise. She is from the Ngāti Ruanui iwi.
Rugby Career
Robins-Reti debuted for Waikato in 2016 and soon after made her debut for the Black Ferns Sevens at the 2017 USA Women's Sevens in Las Vegas. She played sevens in Japan for the Hokkaido Barbarians before she returned to New Zealand in 2019. She played for the Possibles against the Probables for the Black Ferns trial match in 2020.
In 2021 she was selected for the Black Ferns tour of Europe where she eventually made her debut in the second test against England. She joined the Hurricanes for the inaugural Super Rugby Aupiki season in 2022.
References
External links
Black Ferns Profile
1997 births
Living people
New Zealand female rugby union players |
The Sierra de Guadalupe is a mountain range in Mexico. It is found between the borough of Gustavo A. Madero in northern Mexico City and the municipalities of Cuautitlán Izcalli, Tultitlán, Coacalco, Ecatepec and Tlalnepantla, in the State of Mexico. Its highest peak is at .
History
There is evidence that the Aztecs worshipped Tonantzin (Goddess of Sustenance) at Tepeyac hill. The sierra is named after Our Lady of Guadalupe, a Marian apparition that, according to oral and written colonial sources such as the Huei tlamahuiçoltica, Juan Diego saw at the Tepeyac hill.
In 1937, the El Tepeyac National Park was created in the Tepeyac hill, in the eastern portion of the sierra, by decree of the president Lázaro Cárdenas.
Geology
The sierra is a dormant volcano that is part of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt. The basement is made of andesitic and dacitic soil. The last volcanic activity in the area occurred 14 to 15 million years ago.
Ecology
Climate
The sierra has a humid subtropical climate. It rains mostly during summers with rainfall of between 700 and 800 mm (2.5 and 3.5 in) per year. The temperature ranges from 12 to 16 °C (53 to 60 °F).
Fauna
Among the species found in the sierra, it is included the Mexican pine snake, the American kestrel, the roadrunner, the opossum, and the bobcat. Introduced species include the white-tailed deer, tapirs and bisons.
Flora
In the area, quercus trees and xerophile plants are abundant.
Preservation
The area has suffered from environmental deterioration due to deforestation. Part of the eastern part of the sierra was reforested with the introduction of eucalyptus, pinus, cedrus and casuarina trees.
It is composed of the following hills:
Cerro del Sombrero or Pico Tres Padres
Cerro de los Gachupines ()
Cerro del Chiquihuite ()
Cerro del Picacho Moctezuma ()
Cerro del Picacho El Fraile ()
Cerro del Picacho El Jaral
Cerro del Tenayo
Cerro Petlecatl
Cerro de la Calavera
Cerro Gordo
Cerro Zacatenco ()
Cerro del Guerrero ()
Cerro de Santa Isabel
Cerro del Tepeyac ()
Gallery
References
External links
Coacalco de Berriozábal
Cuautitlán Izcalli
Ecatepec de Morelos
Gustavo A. Madero, Mexico City
Landforms of Mexico City
Landforms of the State of Mexico
Mountain ranges of Mexico
Tlalnepantla de Baz
Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt
Tultitlán |
The Cyrus Fogg Brackett Chair of Physics is an endowed professorship established at Princeton University in 1927 by a donation from Thomas D. Jones in honor of Cyrus Fogg Brackett (1833–1915), who was a professor of physics at Princeton University and founder of Princeton University's electrical engineering department.
Endowment
In a January 1927 letter to Princeton University's President John Grier Hibben, Thomas D. Jones wrote:
Thomas D. Jones and his older brother David B. Jones were Princeton graduates, who became wealthy lawyers in Chicago and trustees of Princeton University.
Thomas Jones donated in 1928 $100,000 to Princeton University's Alumni Fund for Faculty Salaries and in his will bequeathed $500,000 for faculty salaries at Princeton University.
History
The chair's first incumbent was Karl Taylor Compton (who received his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1912 and won the 1931 Rumford Prize). Princeton University in 1927 appointed him Director of Research at the Palmer Laboratory and Cyrus Fogg Brackett professor, but he resigned in 1930 to become the president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Perhaps the most controversial holder of the professorship was William Happer, who received many honors and awards, including 1996 election to membership in the National Academy of Sciences and the 2000 Davisson-Germer Prize. According to New York Times reporter Lisa Friedman, Dr. Happer "gained notoriety for claiming that the greenhouse gases contributing to warming the planet are beneficial to humanity" and, in a 2014 interview, for comparing efforts to curb fossil fuels to "the demonization of the poor Jews under Hitler".
Recipients
Holders of the Cyrus Fogg Brackett Chair have been:
Karl Taylor Compton (1927–1930)
Rudolf Ladenburg (1930–1950)
Walker Bleakney (1953–?)
Robert H. Dicke (1957–1975)
Val Logsdon Fitch (1976–1982)
David Todd Wilkinson (?–2002)
William Happer (2003–2014)
Lyman Page (2014–2015)
References
Professorships in physics
Professorships at Princeton University
1927 establishments in New Jersey |
Pelatantheria eakroensis is a species of epiphytic or lithophytic orchid occurring in Vietnam. The plants are endemic to southern Vietnam.
Ecology
They are found under dry conditions in southern Vietnamese dry lowland Dipterocarp forests and have obvious xeromorphic features. This species is very rare, and considered endangered. It is found on silicate and thus commonly acidic basement rock at elevations of 0 to 800 m a.s.l on other plants. Lithophytic growth has not been reported.
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.
References
eakroensis
Orchids of Vietnam
Aeridinae |
Marco Delle Monache (born 3 February 2005) is a Italian professional footballer who plays for Pescara.
Early life
Growing up in Cappelle sul Tavo, in the province of Pescara, Marco Delle Monache joined the Delfino Pescara academy in 2013, from Caldora, an amateur club in the same city.
Club career
Growing trough the youth ranks of Pescara, Delle Monache started playing with the Primavera team in , before making his professional debut for the club on 15 September 2021, replacing Eugenio D'Ursi during a 2–0 Coppa Serie C home win against Grosseto.
Having become a regular starter with the under-19, as he desplayed an important attacking contribution—notably delivering a brace of assists during a 3–1 victory to Napoli—, he played his first Serie C game on 22 January 2022, playing the last minutes of a 4–2 home win against Montevarchi.
The young player signed his first professional contract with the biggest club of Abruzzo in February 2022, making him a player of the Delfino until June 2024.-
International career
Delle Monache is a youth international for Italy, having been selected with the under-17 by Bernardo Corradi in October 2021, for the 2022 European Championship qualification. He made his debut with the team as a substitute during the 5–0 win against Albania on the 27 October.
Style of play
While still in the very early stages of his career and life, Delle Monache was already described as a player with great pace, creativity and technique. This then earned him comparaisons to the likes of Pasquale Foggia, Fabrizio Miccoli or even Lorenzo Insigne.
He is able to play both as a trequartista or an attacking winger (in Italian, an esterno offensivo), mainly on the left side of the attack.
A right-footed player, he distinguishes himself by dribbling the opponent and protecting the ball, while additionally having the ability to execute long risky passes, take free kicks and provide assists for his forwards. He also makes good use of his athleticism and tactical habilites in defense, with an effective pressing.
References
External links
2005 births
Living people
Italian footballers
Italy youth international footballers
Association football midfielders
People from the Province of Pescara
Delfino Pescara 1936 players
Serie C players |
Jean Ambrose is a British anti-racist activist. In the 1970s and 1980s she was active in Race Today, the Brixton-based collective and political journal.
Like Leila Hassan, Ambrose was a member of the Black Unity and Freedom Party, and she joined the Race Today collective soon after its establishment in 1974. After the 1981 New Cross house fire she was active in the New Cross Massacre Action Committee (NCMAC).
Ambrose wrote the script for Race Today, a 2020 documentary directed by Wayne G. Saunders. She also appeared as herself in George Amponsah's 2021 documentary Black Power: A British Story of Resistance.
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
British anti-racism activists
British women activists
Black British activists |
Taylor Lum (born April 1, 2002), also known by the Chinese name Lin Jiaxin (), is a Canadian ice hockey player and member of the Chinese national ice hockey team, currently playing in the Zhenskaya Hockey League (ZhHL) with the KRS Vanke Rays.
Lum represented China in the women's ice hockey tournament at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.
Career statistics
Regular season and playoffs
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2002 births
Ice hockey people from Ontario
Sportspeople from Etobicoke
Canadian women's ice hockey forwards
Shenzhen KRS Vanke Rays players
St. Lawrence Saints women's ice hockey players
Canadian sportspeople of Chinese descent
Olympic ice hockey players of China
Ice hockey players at the 2022 Winter Olympics
Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in China
Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in Russia
Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in the United States |
The 2022 Tour of Oman was a road cycling stage race that took place between 10 and 15 February 2022 in Oman. The race was rated as a category 2.Pro event on the 2022 UCI ProSeries calendar, and was the 11th edition of the Tour of Oman.
The race returned after a two-year hiatus and made its inaugural appearance in the UCI ProSeries. The 2020 edition was cancelled due to a national mourning period following the death of Sultan Qaboos bin Said, while the 2021 edition was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Teams
Seven of the 18 UCI WorldTeams, eight UCI ProTeams, one UCI Continental team, and the Omani national team made up the 18 teams that participated in the race. Only six teams entered a full squad of seven riders each; five teams entered six riders each, while the remaining six teams entered five riders each. With one non-starter each, was reduced to six riders, while was reduced to four. In total, 100 riders started the race, of which 86 finished.
UCI WorldTeams
UCI ProTeams
UCI Continental Teams
National Teams
Oman
Route
Stages
Stage 1
10 February 2022 — Al Rustaq Fort to Oman Convention and Exhibition Centre,
Stage 2
11 February 2022 — Naseem Park to Suhar Corniche,
Stage 3
12 February 2022 — Sultan Qaboos University to Qurayyat,
Stage 4
13 February 2022 — Al Sifah to Muscat Royal Opera,
Stage 5
14 February 2022 — Samail (Al Feyhaa Resthouse) to Jabal al Akhdhar (Green Mountain),
Stage 6
15 February 2022 — Al Mouj Muscat to Matrah Corniche,
Classification leadership table
On stage 2, Mark Cavendish, who was second in the points classification, wore the green jersey, because first-placed Fernando Gaviria wore the red jersey as the leader of the general classification. On stage 3, Gaviria wore the green jersey in place of Cavendish, who took over the lead in both classifications.
On stage 4, Denis Nekrasov, who was second in the young rider classification, wore the white jersey, because first-placed Anthon Charmig wore the red jersey as the leader of the general classification.
On stage 6, Fausto Masnada, who was second in the points classification, wore the green jersey, because first-placed Jan Hirt wore the red jersey as the leader of the general classification.
Final classification standings
General classification
Points classification
Aggressive rider classification
Young rider classification
Team classification
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2022
Tour of Oman
Tour of Oman
Tour of Oman |
Yuba Bicycles is a bicycle manufacturer based in San Juan Capistrano, California. The company is known for making pedal and electric powered cargo bikes.
History
Early history
In 2006, the company was founded by Benjamin Sarrazin in San Juan Capistrano, California. He had spent time in Africa and Latin America where he witnessed locals using bicycles to travel and carry items to remote areas. The company makes three different cargo bike types: compact, full size and front cargo. They also make an electric version of their bicycles, called a Electric Supermarché or an Mundo Electric. The bicycles are all manufactured from either steel or aluminum and they have a carrying capacity of 400 to 440 pounds.
Distribution
The company's main storage facility in the United States is in Los Angeles. In Europe the warehouses are in Heidelberg, Germany and their European headquarters in Annecy, France. Yuba sells bicycles in Norway, Germany and Belgium. In 2020 they experienced supply chain issues with drive components from Bosch and Shimano. Bicycles are sold to 150 individual bicycle dealers and then assembled by the technicians of the sales outlets.
In 2020 Yuba bicycles named Patrick Cunnane as their president of Yuba Bicycles North American operations and Chief operating officer of global business. In 2019 Cunnane was a consultant for the company.
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Cycle manufacturers of the United States
American companies established in 2006
Companies based in California
2006 establishments in California |
Anna Frances Levins (March 21, 1876 – July 15, 1941) was an Irish American photographer, publisher, author, painter and activist whose works appeared in publications including The New York Times, Vogue and The Boston Globe. She was lauded as “a pioneer woman photographer and a leader in Irish cultural pursuits.” Her portrait sitters included Pope Pius X, William Henry O’Connell, Eamon de Valera and John McCormack. The Levins Press, a company she founded and ran in New York and Dublin, published illustrated books about Irish history, literature, culture and independence battles by authors including her husband, Sir Thomas Henry Grattan Esmonde (1862-1935), an Irish baronet. She turned part of her Manhattan office into “a gallery of Irish heroes,” exhibiting her photos and paintings of Irish leaders and martyrs, including Kevin Barry, who were executed after the 1916 Easter Rising.
Biography
Levins was one of six surviving children of the builder Peter Levins (1815-September 26, 1894) and Nanno Hale (March 25, 1836 – May 13, 1929), Irish immigrants who settled on the Lower East Side and then the Bronx. Peter's brother Thomas C. Levins was an early pastor at St. Patrick's Old Cathedral whose library became a foundational core of Georgetown University's library. Anna Frances and her sisters Clare, Elizabeth (a clerk for the Board of Education), and Julia (a schoolteacher) long lived with their widowed mother Nanno. Anna Frances attended St. Brigid's school on the Lower East Side, where she studied portrait painting. By the early 1900s she had apprenticed with photographer George G. Rockwood and then traveled in Europe, taking photographs of celebrated figures including Edward VII. By 1909 she was deemed “one of the few women to have a real success of photography in all its phases.”
From 1909 until her marriage in 1924, she maintained a studio and gallery in midtown Manhattan. Her longtime address was 5 East 35th Street, where she used Irish turf as fireplace fuel and welcomed anyone interested in Irish culture, industry, history and independence campaigns. Her office was also the headquarters of the Levins Press. She hosted lectures and concerts at her office and at the Waldorf-Astoria for a group she founded, the American Daughters of Ireland, and for the Gaelic League. Performers, authors, politicians and religious leaders gathered at her office and posed for her paintings and photos. Known as “the Irish-American Image-Maker,” she developed “the reputation of having photographed more celebrities than any other woman in the business.” She had her clothing made from Irish textiles and urged Americans to support Irish independence, battling against “the whole machinery of English tyranny.” She served as the American Irish Historical Society's official photographer and its executive council's only woman. She traveled to photograph in Newfoundland and remote parts of Ireland, and on the lecture circuit for her work she was known as “the most Irish travelled woman in the world."
On September 15, 1924, she married the baronet. Participants in the ceremony included Thomas Joseph Shahan, John W. Goff and Patrick Hayes. She and Sir Thomas had homes in County Wexford and in Dublin, where the Levins Press published her husband's writings on art, history and hunting. The couple made regular trips to Rome (where he served as a papal chamberlain) and Canada, where they fished and hunted. They donated objects and artworks to American and European institutions, including the American Irish Historical Society, the Vatican Library and National Museum of Ireland. Her stepchildren unsuccessfully battled her in court for control over Sir Thomas's estate. Levins died on July 15, 1941, while visiting friends in upstate New York. Her funeral drew hundreds of people. She is buried in the Levins family plot at Calvary Cemetery in Queens. An obituary in The New York Times described her as “long prominent in church and Irish-American circles.”
Works
She photographed Catholic leaders including Pope Pius X, Giovanni Bonzano, Diomede Falconio, John Farley, James Gibbons, Patrick Hayes, John Healy, Michael Logue, Daniel Mannix, George Mundelein, William O’Connell, and Edward P. Tivnan. Among the politicians, judges and activists who posed for her were Daniel F. Cohalan, Michael Collins, William J. Corcoran, Joseph Devlin, John W. Goff, Shane Leslie, Joseph McGarrity, T. P. O’Connor, Kathleen O’Connell, Patrick Pearse, Eugene A. Philbin, John P. Redmond, Grace Strachan, Timothy Daniel Sullivan, and Eamon de Valera. Writers, scholars, artists and performers who posed for her included John J. Boyle, Joseph I. C. Clarke, Dr. Thomas Addis Emmet (descendant of Thomas Addis Emmet), Adeline Genee, Peter Golden, George Wharton James, John McCormack, and W. B. Yeats. Newspapers and periodicals that published her photos include the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Catholic Union and Times, Detroit Free Press, Ireland, Irish American, The Journal of the American Irish Historical Society, Moving Picture News, New York Times, Out West, The Spur, Theatre and Vogue. Photos that she copyrighted include portraits of Strachan (copyright J 167620), Farley (J 174559), McCormack (J 181400), Boyle (J 192402), Hayes (J 193197), Logue, Bonzano (J 218020), Gibbons (J 218018), O'Connor (J 218014), Mundelein (J 210871 and 210872), Barry (J 250598 and 250599) and Collins (J 251592). Her hand-colored views of the Irish countryside were considered America's “finest collection of Irish photographs.” She also offered photo restoration services and printed poems on greeting cards. Her paintings of martyrs of the Easter Rising including Kevin Barry drew "admiring spectators" at her studio.
She photographed historical documents, paintings and prints for books including Dr. Emmet's Memoir of Thomas Addis and Robert Emmet (New York: Emmet Press, 1915), Maurice Joy's The Irish Rebellion of 1916 and Its Martyrs: Erin’s Tragic Easter (New York: Devin-Adair Co., 1916), and Michael J. O’Brien's A Hidden Phase of American History: Ireland’s Part in America’s Struggle for Liberty (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1919). Her images for the Emmet memoir were described as "judiciously selected and sumptuously produced." Levins Press in New York published A Little Irish Gift Book (1916), Freedom! The Battle Cry of Ireland, Patriotic Poems Collection by Anna Frances Levins (1917), and Reverend John Cavanaugh's Thomas Addis Emmet, M.D. A personal tribute (1919). Freedom! was deemed “a delight to Irish eyes, a joy to Irish hearts.” In Dublin, Levins Press issued three volumes written by Sir Thomas: Gentlemen! The Queen!: An Irish Reverie (1926), which chronicles the family's history and 1923 torching of their mansion, Ballynastragh; An Irish Picture Gallery (1927), about the Esmonde art collection that was saved from the fire; and More Hunting Memories (1930).
Legacy
Institutions owning Levins's donations include the Belfast Public Library (her gift of books to Francis Joseph Bigger), Vatican Library (Sir Thomas's hunting books) and National Museum of Ireland (paintings, photographs, artifacts, ephemera). Her photos and correspondence survive in collections including the Library of Congress, Archdiocese of Boston archives, Catholic University's Thomas Joseph Strahan papers, Georgetown University's Quigley Archive, and University College Dublin's collections of de Valera and O'Connell papers.
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1876 births
1941 deaths
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Cláudia Cruz Santos (born 1971) is a Portuguese academic and politician. As a member of the Portuguese Socialist Party (PS), she has been a deputy in the Portuguese Assembly of the Republic since 2019.
Early life and education
Cláudia Maria Cruz Santos was born in Aveiro in Portugal on 25 January 1971, where she attended the José Estêvão Secondary School. She studied at the Faculty of Law at the University of Coimbra, obtaining a law degree in 1994, a master's degree in legal and criminal sciences in 2000, and a PhD in legal and criminal sciences in 2013.
Academic career
Santos is now a professor and researcher at the University of Coimbra. She is a member of the university's Instituto de Direito Penal Económico e Europeu (Institute of Economic and European Criminal Law). Between 2014 and 2019 she also worked at the Lusíada University (Universidade Lusíada) in Porto. Among many other activities, she was a member of the executive committee for the celebrations of the 150th Anniversary of the abolition of the death penalty in Portugal, which took place in 2017. Santos has also been a Portuguese representative on the Group of States against Corruption of the Council of Europe. She has published extensively on legal issues.
Political career
Santos became a member of the Assembly of the Republic in 2019, representing Aveiro District, and was re-elected in January 2022, when the PS won a majority in the Assembly. She is the Socialist Party's coordinator on the parliamentary Committee on Constitutional Affairs, Rights, Liberties and Guarantees. She has been a member of the jury for awards for Human Rights and for Science, which are given by the Assembly.
In 2020, she was appointed to head the disciplinary council of the Portuguese Football Federation, an appointment that led to some criticism, including from FC Porto, one of the country's leading clubs.
Publications
Santos has published 7 books on legal issues, some of them with co-authors, over 30 journal articles, and more than 20 chapters in books. She is also the author of two novels: Nenhuma Verdade se Escreve no Singular and A Vida Oculta das Coisas.
References
1971 births
Living people
People from Aveiro, Portugal
Socialist Party (Portugal) politicians
Portuguese socialists
Members of the Assembly of the Republic (Portugal)
University of Coimbra alumni
University of Coimbra faculty |
Exclusive Movies is an Egyptian digital video streaming platform for services that was established in 2020 / Ramadan 1441 AH, and the platform was created to display classic Egyptian artworks, films and Ramadan series in the media company in the Middle East and North Africa region. "Mohamed Mohsen" serving as the Chief Content Officer (CCO)
References
Streaming software
Middle East Broadcasting Center
2020 establishments in Egypt |
Lü Xuean (; born 26 April 1999) is a Chinese footballer currently playing as a right-back for Wuxi Wugou.
Club career
After two seasons in Japan, Lü returned to China with Wuhan Three Towns in 2019.
Career statistics
Club
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Notes
References
1999 births
Living people
People from Zhenjiang
Footballers from Jiangsu
Chinese footballers
China youth international footballers
Association football defenders
Jiangsu F.C. players
Shonan Bellmare players
Iwate Grulla Morioka players
Wuhan Three Towns F.C. players
Chinese expatriate footballers
Chinese expatriate sportspeople in Japan
Expatriate footballers in Japan |
Admiral Charles Pipon Beaty-Pownall, CMG (1 January 1872 – 17 August 1938) was a Royal Navy officer.
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1938 deaths
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Royal Navy admirals of World War I
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The number 32 is a bus route that operates from Gloucester to Newent, with some journeys continuing to Ross-on-Wye. It is run on a commercial basis.
The route previously continued to Ross-on-Wye or Ledbury on alternating hours. The Gloucester–Ledbury services were numbered 132, but shared the same route as the 32
The route previously continued to Ross-on-Wye or Ledbury on alternating hours. The Gloucester–Ledbury services were numbered 132, but shared the same route as the 32 between Gloucester and Newent. In January 2022, it was announced that the extensions to Ledbury would be withdrawn along with most extensions to Ross-on-Wye, leaving an hourly 32 service between Gloucester and Newent with two journeys per day extended to Ross-on-Wye.
On 28 January 2022, two students from John Kyrle High School started a petition for the routes to be retained and received around 1,000 signatures. However, Herefordshire Council stated that it was unlikely the route could be retained as the subsidy required would be a quarter of the council's bus subsidy budget.
The changes to the routes will come into effect on 27 February 2022.
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Bus routes in England
Transport in Gloucestershire
Transport in Herefordshire |
The Third Program of the CPSU is the main document of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, adopted at its 22nd Congress on October 31, 1961. The main goal of the program was to create a plan for the construction of communism. (It was the first and only program that was approved while the party had this name; previous programs were approved when the party was named RSDLP and VKPb.)
The core of the new approach to building communism was an attempt to replace Stalin's harsh administrative "pressure from above" with socialist self-government based on the principles of communist morality. The moral code of the builder of communism was an integral part of the Third Program, and so are the renewal of Druzhinas and Comrades' courts, and the general introduction of the moral principles of collectivism, initiative, comradely mutual assistance, and personal responsibility for the collective good. Many of these social reforms later formed the basis of understanding the 1960 in the Soviet Union (Khrushchev Thaw and early Stagnation).
History of creation
The 19th Congress came to the conclusion that fundamental changes had taken place since the adoption of the Second Program of the Party. Consequently, the congress decided to consider it necessary to rework the Party Program. At the 20th Congress, the Central Committee was instructed "to prepare a draft Program of the CPSU, based on the main provisions of Marxist-Leninist theory, creatively developing on the basis of the historical experience of our party, the experience of the fraternal parties of the socialist countries, the experience and achievements of the entire international communist and workers' movement, and taking into account the long-term plan being prepared for communist construction, development of the economy and culture of the Soviet Union".
To develop the draft program, a working group was created, which was located in the "Sosny" sanatorium retreat of the Administration of the Central Committee of the CPSU in the Moscow region, headed by Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU Boris Ponomarev. Initial work on the creation of a draft of the new Program began in mid-1958, and eventually, about 100 major scientists and specialists worked on it for three years.
In June 1958, on behalf of Otto Wille Kuusinen, one of the secretaries and a member of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the CPSU, thematic assignments were sent to scientific institutions, government departments and public organizations. Special tasks were assigned to academicians Eugen Varga and Stanislav Strumilin, and they subsequently prepared the article "On the Ways of Building Communism", which provided development prospects for 10–15 years. On July 25, 1959, the Presidium set the accents: academicians will deal with the theory, and the practical calculations, that is, how much, when and where will the industry and agriculture produce, should be submitted by the State Planning Commission (Gosplan) and the State Economic Commission.
By the spring of 1961, work on the project was completed, and its text was given to the First Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Nikita Khrushchev. In late April 1961, he formulated his comments. After the appropriate revision, the draft Program was considered on May 24 at the Presidium of the Central Committee of the CPSU and on June 19 at the Plenum of the Central Committee. On July 26, 1961, at a meeting of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the CPSU, the text of the draft program provided by the program commission was approved.
National discussion
On July 30, 1961, the text of the draft Program was published in the Pravda and Izvestia newspapers so that the population could familiarize themselves with it and express suggestions and comments. Local party cells sent reports to the capital on the discussion of the draft party program. Newspapers and magazines were supposed to collect letters from the population that came to the editors and related to the draft program, and send them for processing and analysis to specially created working groups that summarized proposals on various topics, for example, on the ethnic issues.
By September 15, 1961, 6 magazines and 20 newspapers received a total of 29,070 pieces of correspondence, of which 5,039 were published. In total, almost 44 million people attended party conferences and worker meetings dedicated to the discussion of this document. Taking into account the letters to local newspapers, party organs, radio and television, the number of published pieces was 17,080 according to data cited by the historian Alexander Pyzhikov.
Structure
Introduction
Part One TRANSITION FROM CAPITALISM TO COMMUNISM — THE PATH OF HUMANITY DEVELOPMENT
The historical inevitability of the transition from capitalism to socialism
The world-historical significance of the October Revolution and the victory of socialism in the USSR
World system of socialism
Crisis of world capitalism
International revolutionary movement of the working class
National liberation movement
Fight against bourgeois and reformist ideology
Peaceful coexistence and the struggle for universal peace
Part Two TASKS OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE SOVIET UNION TO BUILD A COMMUNIST SOCIETY
Communism the bright future of all mankind
The tasks of the party in the field of economic construction, the creation and development of the material and technical base of communism
Development of industry, construction, transport, and their role in the creation of the productive forces of communism
Development of agriculture and social relations in the countryside
Management of the national economy and planning
Tasks of the party in the field of raising the material well-being of the people
Tasks of the party in the field of state building and further development of socialist democracy
Councils and the development of democratic principles of public administration
Further enhancement of the role of public organizations. State and communism
Strengthening the Armed Forces and the defense capability of the Soviet Union
Tasks of the party in the field of ethnic relations
Tasks of the party in the field of ideology, upbringing, education, science and culture
In the field of education of communist consciousness
In the field of public education
In the field of science
In the field of cultural construction, literature and art
The building of communism in the USSR and the cooperation of the socialist countries
The party in the period of progressing construction of communism
See also
The moral code of the builder of communism
Bibliography
Full text:
References
Documents of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Ideology of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Party platforms
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The Guardiões do Estado (in English: Guardian of the State), or the acronym GDE, is a Brazilian criminal faction. It operates in the state of Ceará.
It is the 4th largest faction in Brazil and is made up mostly of poorly prepared teenagers, pre-teens and young adults. One of the main reasons would be the lack of monthly fees.
The place or date of origin of the faction is not known for sure, as some sources claim that the faction emerged in mid-2012, others claim that it emerged in 2006, 2015, 2014 or 2016, but the most accepted is that it appeared in 2017, in the community of Conjunto Palmeiras.
Faction power is decentralized, so there is no overall faction leader. Currently, it is known for burning buses, massacres and homicides in the state, the most notable being the Massacre of Cajazeiras(pt).
See also
Primeiro Comando da Capital
Comando Vermelho
Massacre of Cajazeiras(pt)
Attacks in Ceará in 2019(pt)
References
Terrorism in Brazil
Organized crime groups in Brazil
Prison gangs
Criminal organization stubs |
The multidimensional assignment problem (MAP) is a fundamental combinatorial optimization problem which was introduced by William Pierskalla. This problem can be seen as a generalization of the linear assignment problem. In words, the problem can be described as follows:
An instance of the problem has a number of agents (i.e., cardinality parameter) and a number of job characteristics (i.e., dimensionality parameter) such as task, machine, time interval, etc. For example, an agent can be assigned to perform task X, on machine Y, during time interval Z. Any agent can be assigned to perform a job with any combination of unique job characteristics at some cost. These costs may vary based on the assignment of agent to a combination of job characteristics - specific task, machine, time interval, etc. The problem is to minimize the total cost of assigning the agents so that the assignment of agents to each job characteristic is an injective function, or one-to-one function from agents to a given job characteristic.
Alternatively, describing the problem using graph theory:
The multidimensional assignment problem consists of finding, in a weighted multipartite graph, a matching of a given size, in which the sum of weights of the edges is minimum.
Formal definition
Various formulations of this problem can be found in the literature. Using cost-functions, the dimensional assignment problem (or MAP) can be stated as follows:
Given sets, and , of equal size, together with a cost array or multidimensional weight function : , find permutations : A → such that the total cost function:
is minimized.
Problem parameters
The multidimensional assignment problem (MAP) has two key parameters that determine the size of a problem instance:
The dimensionality parameter
The cardinality parameter , where denotes the number of elements in .
Size of cost array
Any problem instance of the MAP with parameters has its specific cost array , which consists of instance-specific costs/weights parameters . is the size of cost array.
Number of feasible solutions
The feasible region or solution space of the MAP is very large. The number of feasible solutions (the size of the MAP instance) depends on the MAP parameters . Specifically, .
Computational complexity
The problem is generally NP-hard. In other words, there is no known algorithm for solving this problem in polynomial time, and so a long computational time may be needed for solving problem instances of even moderate size (based on dimensionality and cardinality parameters).
Applications
The problem found application in many domains:
Scheduling (production processes)
Multi-sensor data fusion
Record linkage or multipartite entity resolution
Elementary particle physics
Fall detection in elderly with small wearable devices
References
Combinatorial optimization |
The 2005 NCAA Division III Women's Basketball Tournament was the 24th annual tournament hosted by the NCAA to determine the national champion of Division III women's collegiate basketball in the United States.
Millikin defeated Randolph-Macon in the championship game, 70–50, to claim the Big Blue's first Division III national title.
The championship rounds were hosted by Virginia Wesleyan College in Norfolk, Virginia.
Bracket
Final Four
All-tournament team
Joanna Conner, Millikin
Audrey Minott, Millikin
Lindsay Ippel, Millikin
Megan Silva, Randolph-Macon
Megan Myles, Southern Maine
See also
2005 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament
2005 NCAA Division II Women's Basketball Tournament
2005 NAIA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament
2005 NAIA Division II Women's Basketball Tournament
2005 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Tournament
References
NCAA Division III Women's Basketball Tournament
2005 in sports in Virginia |
Hernán Casanova (born 6 February 1994) is an Argentine tennis player.
Casanova has a career high ATP singles ranking of 255 achieved on 21 May 2018. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 253 achieved on 17 January 2022.
Casanova made his ATP main draw debut at the 2022 Argentina Open after entering into the doubles main draw as alternates with Sergio Galdós.
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1994 births
Living people
Argentine male tennis players
Sportspeople from Buenos Aires |
The 1952 Abilene Christian Wildcats football team represented Abilene Christian College—now known as Abilene Christian University—as a member of the Texas Conference (GCC) during the 1952 college football season. Led by third-year head coach Garvin Beauchamp, the Wildcats compiled an overall record of 6–3–1 with a mark of 4–0 in conference play, winning the Texas Conference title for the fourth consecutive season.
Schedule
References
Abilene Christian
Abilene Christian Wildcats football seasons
Abilene Christian Wildcats football |
This is the list of current, and formerly broadcast series by the Ghanaian television channel Tv3
Current broadcast
Former broadcast
Children
Series
Reality
References
Broadcasting in Ghana
Television channels and stations established in 1997
Television stations in Ghana
Mass media in Accra |
Sir Walter Badock, KBE, CSI (8 March 1854 – 28 April 1931) was a British civil servant. He was Accountant-General at the India Office from 1907 to 1919.
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1854 births
1931 deaths
Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Companions of the Order of the Star of India
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Gian Merlino is an American programmer and entrepreneur. He is a co-creator of Apache Druid and co-founder of Imply Data.
Biography
Gian Merlino is a graduate of Caltech, where he earned a BS in Computer Science in 2007.
Business career
Gian Merlino co-created Apache Druid, co-founded Imply Data, and is the Chief Technology Officer of Imply and an active member of the Apache Druid Community.
In 2011, Merlino was working at Metamarkets Group, where his team determined that existing database options would not meet their requirements for query performance and data availability in a highly concurrent environment (1000+ users). Along with Fangjin Yang, Eric Tschetter, and others, Merlino created a new database, named Druid and published Druid: A Real-time Analytical Data Store,
Seeking to expand the use of Druid, Merlino co-founded Imply Data in 2015. He has served as the company's Chief Technology Officer since its inception. Merlino continues to be an active contributor to Apache Druid, with over 1000 commits to the project and active service on the Apache Druid Project Management Committee.
References
External links
Apache Druid
Imply Data
Living people
American technology company founders
Open source advocates
American chief technology officers
California Institute of Technology alumni |
Lynette Eason is an author of Christian fiction novels within the inspirational romantic suspense genre; she has won various awards for her writing and been on the ECPA and CBA bestseller lists and published nearly fifty books.
Personal life and Education
Lynette Eason grew up in Greenville, South Carolina where she became a Christian at age eight through the influence of her parents and the Sunday school teachers at Northgate Baptist Church. An avid reader as a child, she was influenced by many writers including "Alfred Hitchcock, Carolyn Keene, Agatha Christie, Francine Pascal...Steven King and others." As an adult she enjoyed Christian fiction by "Randilyn Collins, Dee Henderson, Shirlee McCoy, Karen Kingsbury, Robert Liparulo, Terri Blackstock and Deborah Raney"
She graduated from the University of South Carolina in 1989 with a B.A. in Finance and Real Estate and then graduated from Converse University in Spartanburg, South Carolina in 1993 with an M.Ed. in Special Education and Teaching. After graduation she taught school for a period at a school for deaf and blind children, and she is fluent in American Sign Language. In 1996 she married her neighbor, Jack Eason, a Christian consultant and worship leader. Eason and her family were active at New Life Baptist Fellowship Church in Boiling Springs, South Carolina where she served as a Sunday School teacher. Lynette Eason currently resides with her husband in Simpsonville, South Carolina, and they have two adult children, Lauryn and Will.
Writing career
Eason began writing in 1999 to cope with loneliness during her husband's work travels, and she received her first book contract eight years later. She has published nearly fifty books and currently writes for Revell and for Harlequin's Love Inspired Suspense line and spends at least eight hours a day writing and generally completes her books within two to four months. The movie, Her Stolen Past, was based on Lynette's novel and premiered on the Lifetime Movie Network in 2018.
Awards
Eason has won or been nominated for various writing awards including the Inspirational Reader's (IRCC) Choice Award, the Selah Award, three ACFW Carol Awards, the Daphne, the Christian Retailing's Best 2017 Award, a top ten finish in the James Patterson 2016 co-writer contest, and others. She has also been on the Publishers Weekly, ECPA and CBA bestseller lists.
Published works
Women of Justice series
Deadly Reunions series
Code of Valor
Called To Protect.
References
External links
Official website
University of South Carolina alumni
Converse College alumni
American Christian writers
21st-century American novelists
American women novelists
21st-century American women writers
Living people
20th-century American women writers
Simpsonville, South Carolina
People from Greenville, South Carolina
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Digital sequence information (DSI) is a term used in the context of certain international policy fora, particularly the Convention on Biological Diversity, to refer to data derived from genetic resources. The term is generally agreed to include nucleic acid sequence data, and may be construed to include other data types derived from or linked to genetic resources, including, for example, protein sequence data. The exact scope of this term is an aspect of ongoing policy discussions. DSI is crucial to research in a wide range of contexts, including public health, medicine, biodiversity, plant and animal breeding, and evolution research.
The Nagoya Protocol, a component of the Convention on Biological Diversity, establishes a right for countries to regulate, and to share in benefits derived from, their nation's genetic resources by arranging Access and Benefit Sharing Agreements with users. Academic researchers, however, generally share DSI freely and openly online, following a set of principles that align with the open science movement. Open sharing of DSI is recognized to have broad benefits, and open science is a major and growing focus of international science policy. This creates a perceived conflict with benefit sharing obligations, as individuals can access and use these open data without entering into benefit-sharing agreements. Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity are currently considering a range of policy options that strike different balances between these two important international policy goals.
DSI is also an important concept in other international legally binding instruments with access and benefit-sharing obligations, including the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, the Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Framework, the Antarctic Treaty System and the Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction negotiations, a component of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
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Ganora is a village and a Panchayat in Dewas district in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. Dulwa Village is a major agricultural production area in Madhya Pradesh. In the 2011 Census of India its population was reported as 585.
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Vice-Admiral Harold Tom Baillie-Grohman, CB, DSO, OBE (16 January 1888 – 23 September 1978) was a Royal Navy officer.
Biography
Born in Victoria, British Columbia, Baillie-Grohman was the son of the writer William Adolf Baillie Grohman and of Florence, née Nickalls, daughter of Tom Nickalls.
Baillie-Grohman entered HMS Britannia as a cadet in 1903 and was promoted Lieutenant in 1909. In 1914, he was given command of the destroyer HMS Lively in March 1914, and subsequently commanded HMS Ghurka, HMS Gentian, and HMS Totnes during the First World War, serving both in the Grand Fleet and the Dover Patrol. Promoted to Lieutenant-Commander in 1917, he was appointed DSO in 1918 for his part in minesweeping operations.
After the First World War, Baillie-Grohman was employed on minesweeping operations off the coast of Belgium, then commanded the sloop HMS Crocus in the Persian Gulf. He was appointed OBE in 1923 and promoted to Commander. After commanding the 1st Minesweeper Flotilla from 1923 to 1925, he was posted to Australia as Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff at the Navy Office, Melbourne, from 1925 to 1927. In 1928, he attended the Staff College, Camberley, and was Executive Officer of HMS Tiger until 1930, when he was promoted to captain. From 1931 to 1933, he was the head of the British naval mission to China, with the rank of Commodore in the Chinese Navy.
Second World War
In April 1941, Baillie-Grohman organised the naval evacuation of the British and Commonwealth forces in Greece under difficult circumstances after the German invasion, "the outstanding achievement of his career", for which he was appointed CB. He was appointed Rear Admiral Combined Operations in 1942, but had to relinquish the appointment due to illness.
On 8 May 1945, he hoisted the White Ensign over the German naval headquarters at Kiel.
In addition to his British decorations, Baillie-Grohman also received the Belgian Order of Leopold, as well as to the Order of the Star of Ethiopia and the Chinese Order of Brilliant Jade..
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Sophie Dora Spicer Maude (, Spicer; pen name, Mrs. William Maude; 7 May 1854 – ?) was a British writer.
Early life and education
Sophie (sometimes, "Sophia") Dora Spicer was born in Esher, Surrey, 7 May 1854. Her parents were Major John William Gooch Spicer, J.P., D.L., of Spye Park, Wiltshire, and Juliana Hannah Webb (Probyn) Spicer (1823-1898). She had several siblings including, John, Juliana, Louisa, Julian, Emily, Mary, and Janet.
She was brought up in a house within an English deer park, her parents choosing to live there when she was ten years old. Here, she wrote her first stories in nursery and schoolroom days, but these never appeared in print. She was never sent away to school, but attended with her younger sisters a Belgrave Square schoolroom during successive London seasons, while the elder siblings went to balls and parties.
Career
Her first publication was a story written in aid of the Sick Children's Hospital in Great Ormond Street, brought out by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK), and called "Cyril's Hobby Horse". The proceeds went to the Children's Hospital. About the same time, when twelve years old, she ventured to send a story to Aunt Judy's Magazine, which was declined, but "Aunt Judy's" letter was treasured — a kind, sympathetic letter, beautifully worded as only Margaret Gatty knew how to write. "Two little Hearts" was her next publication.
After a few years, she was received into the Catholic Church, and lived some time abroad. She gave up writing for a while, but soon began again, and through Monsignor Nugent, then editor of The Fireside, her stories appeared from time to time in both the Catholic Times and Catholic Fireside. The Catholic Truth Society has reprinted one of these, "The Runaway Marriage", and later brought out a volume of her short stories.
Maude's book, The Child Countess, appeared in 1893. She prepared another, A Prisoner of Purgatory, but was uncertain that the title would hold. Additional publications included, A Runaway Marriage, 1894; The Duchess of York's Page, 1900; The Duchess's baby, 1908; John and Joan, 1909; A Story of St Germain; and Nancy.
Personal life
She married William Cassell Maude, of Brackenwood, Bournemouth, on 19 April 1890, at St. Mary's Church, Cadogan Street. Her husbard belonged to the old Yorkshire family of Maude. He was a barrister. The wife thought her should be called "the children's friend", his interest in the spiritual welfare of Catholic workhouse infants being so well known.
Selected works
The Child Countess, 1893
A Runaway Marriage, 1894
The Duchess of York's Page, 1900
The Duchess's baby, 1908
John and Joan, 1909
A Story of St Germain
Nancy
Short stories
"Cyril's Hobby Horse"
"Two little Hearts"
"Three Christmases"
"The Honourable"
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Alberta Santuccio (born 22 October 1994) is an Italian fencer. She earned her first Olympic bronze medal in Women's team épée at the 2020 Summer Olympics. Santuccio also won two bronze medals at the 2014 and 2018 Fencing World Cup.
Early life
Santuccio was born on 22 October 1994, in Catania, Italy. She began fencing at the age of seven after witnessing her brother Giorgio play the sport.
Career
While competing with the CS Acireale, Santuccio won a gold medal in the individual event at the European Cadet Championship and in the international under 17 circuits. As such, she was chosen to be the flag bearer in 2010 Summer Youth Olympics. During the games, Santuccio won gold in the mixed team tournament and then silver in the girls' individual Épée. Santuccio also won two bronze medals at the 2014 and 2018 Fencing World Cup. In 2015, Santuccio came back from ninth place to beat Russia 40–36 in the 2015 European Games for a bronze medal.
Santuccio was selected to represent Team Italy at the 2020 Summer Olympics where she helped them win a bronze medal in the Team épée.
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Fencers at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics
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Ghodighat is a village and a Panchayat in Dewas district in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. Dulwa Village is a major agricultural production area in Madhya Pradesh. In the 2011 Census of India its population was reported as 585.
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Mohammad Shahbaz Bashir (born 27 December 1983) is a Pakistani-born Dutch former cricketer.
Bashir was born at Lahore in December 1983. He was made his debut in List A one-day cricket for the Pakistan Cricket Board Greens against the Pakistan Cricket Board Blues at Lahore in November 2002. He later emigrated to the Netherlands, qualifying to play for them through residency in 2012. He made a single appearance in first-class cricket for the Netherlands against United Arab Emirates (UAE) in July 2012 at Deventer in the Intercontinental Cup. He became the first Dutch player to a score a century on first-class debut, making 102. Bashir also made three List A appearances for the Netherlands, the first coming against Leicestershire in the 2012 Clydesdale Bank 40, an English domestic one-day tournament the Netherlands were invited to take part in. He then made a further two appearance against the UAE following the Intercontinental Cup match. In four List A appearances, Bashir scored 35 runs with a highest score of 30. He took a wicket apiece in both first-class and List A cricket.
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Golpura is a village and a Panchayat in Dewas district in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. Dulwa Village is a major agricultural production area in Madhya Pradesh. In the 2011 Census of India its population was reported as 585.
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A Thousand Splendid Suns is an opera with music by American composer Sheila Silver and an English-language libretto by Stephen Kitsakos, based on the popular novel by Khaled Hosseini. It was commissioned by Seattle Opera, where it will premiere in February 2023. The opera tells the story of two Afghan women, from different generations and walks of life, who are forced into marriage with the same man. Enemies at first, they grow to love each other like mother and daughter, and discover that the human spirit can survive and transcend the most challenging of circumstances. The opera is in two acts and is scored for 11 singers, 1 singing child role, full orchestra (plus bansuri and tabla) and has a duration of 2 hours 30 minutes.
Creative Team
Sheila Silver became passionate about Khaled Hosseini's 2007 novel in 2009, listening to the book-on-tape narrated by Atossa Leoni. In 2012, after several letters and exchanges, Khaled Hosseini gave her his enthusiastic support and the rights to adapt the novel for the operatic stage. Charles Jarden, General Director of American Opera Projects, who had worked with Silver on the development of Beauty Intolerable, A Songbook based on the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay and had sponsored the New York City premiere screening of the film of her opera The Thief of Love, committed to helping develop the project. Stephen Kitsakos, who wrote librettos for Silver's operas The Wooden Sword (winner of the Sackler Prize in Music in 2007) and The White Rooster (commissioned by the Smithsonian's Freer Sackler Gallery) helped transform the novel into opera.
“I didn’t feel that my eastern European Jewish roots would carry me far enough into Afghanistan,” Sheila Silver told Opera America. Silver undertook a study of Hindustani music, the foundation of Afghan classical music. At first Silver studied Hindustani music long-distance with her mentor, acclaimed Hindustani musicologist Deepak Raja. Then she went to Pune in northern India to study for six months with Pandit Narayanrao Bodas and Pandit Kedar Bodas. Her ambition was to discover “how to create an authentic Afghan color (Afghan music is based on North Indian music) in my Western voice. ... I will include tabla and bansuri (bamboo Indian flute) in my otherwise Western orchestra.” Silver dedicated her opera's score to “Pandit Kedar Narayan Bodas, who invited me into the inner sanctum of his Hindustani musical family and taught me with patience and love, inspiring the sound world for A Thousand Splendid Suns.”
The world premiere production is to be conducted by Indian-American maestro Viswa Subbaraman, who grew up listening to the Carnatic music of southern India. Renowned percussionist Deep Singh, who at the age of seven became the youngest disciple of Ustad Allah Rakha (father and teacher of Zakhir Hussain) will play tabla. American bansuri master Steve Gorn will play bansuri. Silver has worked extensively with both of these musicians to incorporate what is essentially an improvisatory art form into the opera's orchestra.
The world premiere production is to be directed by Roya Sadat, who was named one of the BBC's 100 Women for 2021 for her trailblazing work as one of Afghanistan's first female film directors. Sadat calls A Thousand Splendid Suns "a universal story of self-sacrifice, fear, love, and hope that connects every human being from each corner of the world. Unfortunately, this opera has even more meaning today, in the aftermath of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, as this horrible history is being repeated once again for the women and girls of our land."
Support for the composition and creation of A Thousand Splendid Suns has come from a 2013 Guggenheim Award, a 2014 Opera America Discovery Grant for Female Composers, a NEA Development Grant (secured in partnership with American Opera Projects), and an Opera America Commissioning Grant (funded by the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation), and the Berkshire Taconic Foundation.
Workshops of A Thousand Splendid Suns, all undertaken in collaboration with American Opera Projects, involved director Leslie Swackhamer, conductor Sara Jobin, and soprano Lucy FitzGibbon as Laila. They included:
In June 2015, 1 hour from Act I was workshopped at the National Opera Center in New York. Aidan Lang, then General Director of Seattle Opera, heard and became interested in commissioning the opera at this workshop.
In January 2016 the complete Act 1 was workshopped in partnership with the Studios of Key West, Florida.
Also in January 2016, 25 minutes of Act 1 was presented with full orchestra at Opera America's New Works Forum at Trinity Church in New York City.
In November 2017, Act 2 was workshopped at the Hudson Area Library and National Opera Center in New York City.
Roles
Synopsis
Fifteen-year-old Mariam, the cast-off bastard child of a rich father, is forced to leave her rural home after her mother's suicide and marry a middle-aged shoe-maker from Kabul named Rasheed. Alone, scared and forced to wear the burqa, something unfamiliar to her, she tries her best to be a dutiful wife but is unable to conceive a child. Consequently, she lives a loveless existence with a husband who abuses her regularly for her failure to give him a son.
Years later, as competing factions of sectarian warlords secure a stranglehold on Kabul, a bomb explodes in Mariam's neighborhood killing the parents of fourteen-year-old Laila, a modern, educated, ravishing beauty. Rasheed brings the wounded girl to his home and Mariam, reluctantly, nurses her back tohealth. Rasheed, now a sixty-year-old man, schemes to get Laila to marry him by concocting a story that her beloved fiancée, Tariq, who was forced to flee to Pakistan a few weeks earlier with his parents, has been killed. Laila, secretly carrying Tariq's child, agrees to marry Rasheed, hoping to create a safe haven for the child.
At first Mariam is cold to Laila, but gradually the women bond over Laila's baby, a girl named Aziza, as well as their hatred of Rasheed, who abuses them physically and psychologically. Eventually the Taliban rise to power and life in Kabul becomes more oppressive. When the two wives and Aziza attempt a daring escape from the city they are caught at the Kabul central bus station, escalating Rasheed's abuse and anger. Although Laila eventually gives Rasheed the son he has always wanted, the violence continues.
The turning point comes when Tariq, Laila's beloved, returns to Kabul and finds her. Rasheed learns of Tariq's visit to the house and in an act of extreme rage begins to strangle Laila. Mariam, refusing to stand silent, saves Laila's life by hitting Rasheed on the head with a shovel, killing him.
Mariam convinces Laila to flee with Tariq and Laila's two children. She will remain behind to take responsibility for killing Rasheed, knowing that she will be sentenced to death. As Mariam walks to her execution, an understanding of her life brings her a sense of self-worth and spiritual peace: she has loved and been loved. She saved Laila's life and has lived a life of consequence. She knows that Allah will forgive her.
Sources
External links
https://www.sheilasilver.com/1000-splendid-suns-3/
Musical highlights, Seattle Opera, SoundCloud.com
https://stephenkitsakos.com/opera-librettist/a-thousand-splendid-suns/
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Wei Jian (; born 6 January 1991) is a Chinese footballer currently playing as a goalkeeper for Nanjing City.
Personal life
Wei is the brother of fellow professional footballer, Wei Chao.
Career statistics
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1991 births
Living people
People from Guiyang
Footballers from Guizhou
Chinese footballers
China youth international footballers
Association football goalkeepers
China League One players
China League Two players
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Shenzhen F.C. players
Sichuan Longfor F.C. players
S.U. Sintrense players
Chinese expatriate footballers
Chinese expatriate sportspeople in Portugal
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The Great Mosque of Toulouse () is a mosque in the French city of Toulouse. It opened in 2018.
The mosque is located in the Empalot neighbourhood in the south of the city and has a capacity of 3,000. The funds for the €6 million project came mainly from a 13-year campaign by the nearby Al-Nour Mosque, itself established in 1989. Additions came from the French state, Algeria (€213,000) and Kuwait (€131,000). The imam, Mohamed Tataï, turned down donations from Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2006 and 2007.
The building has three prayer halls, one of which is reserved for women, and a Quranic school. It is decorated with Tunisian marble, rugs and doors from Turkey, Egyptian chandeliers and Moroccan stucco. On the exterior, there is a gilded dome and a minaret. The architect was Christian Barthe.
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The DVV-Pokal is the national cup competition of German volleyball . The organizer is the German Volleyball Association (DVV). The finals have been held in the SAP Arena in Mannheim since 2016 . The current title holders in 2021 are the United Volleys Frankfurt.
Competition history
The DVV Cup has been held since 1973. Its East German counterpart was the FDGB Cup under the direction of the German Sports Association Volleyball of the GDR (DSVB), which was held between 1953 and 1991.
From 2006 to 2015 the finals took place in the Gerry Weber Stadium in Halle . In April 2015, the DVV announced that there was a new venue. Since February 28, 2016, the finals have been held in the SAP Arena in Mannheim . In March 2018, the German Volleyball Association, the Volleyball Bundesliga and the operators of the SAP Arena agreed to extend the two-year contract by two more years until 2020 . The contract, which expires in 2020, was again extended to at least 2025.
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The International Congress of Entomology (ICE) is the largest in-person conference for the science of entomology. It generally meets every 4 years, and has been held in locations around the world since 1910. Initially conferences were organized by entomologists from each host country. Since 1988 the conference has been organized by the Council for International Congresses of Entomology, with development of the scientific programs primarily by entomologists from the host country.
History
The first International Congress of Entomology took place in Brussels, Belgium in 1910, in large part due to the leadership of Karl Jordan of Tring, Hertfordshire. Jordan organized a series of preliminary meetings under the chairmanship of the president of the Entomological Society of London, Frederick Augustus Dixey, attracting leaders in the field including Walther Horn (Germany), Armand Janet (Paris), and Edward Bagnall Poulton (Oxford). The first Congress attracted 292 attendees from "all countries of the civilized world", who came from as far away as Alexandria, India, Montreal and Buenos Aires. Attendees determined that the second International Congress of Entomology would be held in Oxford in 1912, under the direction of E.B. Poulton.
The 3rd Congress was intended to be held in Vienna, Austria in 1915, but World War I intervened. The 3rd Congress did not occur until 1925, when it was held in Zurich, Switzerland, under the direction of Anton Schulthess-Rechberg. Although Switzerland was known for its neutrality, there was a conspicuous absence of attendees from France,
Italy, Belgium, and Russia, which may have reflected either lingering ill feeling or post-war monetary difficulties. The turnout of American entomologists was also low.
Perhaps surprisingly, the Congress accepted a proposal from Leland Ossian Howard that the next Congress be held in the United States of America. The 4th Congress was held at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, in 1928. William Jacob Holland from the Carnegie Museum of Pittsburgh obtained funding from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace to support travel for attendees from other countries, and over 600 visitors
representing 39 countries attended the event. A number of the attendees were women, although they were generally listed as associates or guests. Nonetheless, the program included a luncheon for “visiting women actively engaged in entomological work", which was sponsored by Sigma Delta Epsilon, the Graduate Women’s Scientific Fraternity.
The 5th Congress was held in Paris, France, to honor the 100th anniversary of the founding
of the Société entomologique de France. The president of the Congress was Paul Marchal.
The 6th International Congress of Entomology was held at Madrid, Spain in 1935, under the leadership of Ignacio Bolivar y Urrutia. The opening session was chaired by the President of the Spanish Republic The 6th Congress' proceedings did not appear until 1940, following the Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939. The proceedings do not include contributions from a number of Spanish entomologists were associated with the Second Spanish Republic, the government which lost power in 1939.
The 7th Congress was held in Berlin, Germany, in 1938, with over 500 attendees from 50 countries. The president of the Congress was of Hamburg, Hermann Göring was listed as a patron of the Congress and a congratulatory telegram from Adolf Hitler was read at the opening ceremonies. The 8th Congress, planned for Stockholm in 1941, was delayed until 1948, due to World War II.
The XXVI International Congress of Entomology was to be held in Helsinki, Finland in July 2020 but was delayed to July 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 2024 Congress is planned to be held in Japan. The pandemic has had a substantial impact on entomologists and their research.
Locations
A majority of the congresses have been held in Europe. Congresses have been held in the United States (Ithaca, NY, 1928; Washington, DC, 1976; Orlando, FL 2016) and Canada (Montreal, Quebec 1958; Vancouver, B.C. 1988). Congress were held in the southern hemisphere in Canberra, Australia (1972), Iguazu Falls, Brazil (2000), Brisbane, Australia (2004), and Durban, South Africa (2008). Congresses were held in Asia in Kyoto, Japan (1980); Beijing, China (1992) and Daegu, South Korea (2012).
List of Congresses
I Congress, Brussels, Belgium, 1 – 6 August 1910
II Congress, Oxford, United Kingdom, 12-17 August 1912
III Congress, Zürich, Switzerland, 19 – 26 July 1925
IV Congress, Ithaca, NY, USA, August 1928
V Congress, Paris, France, 15 – 23 July 1932
VI Congress, Madrid, Spain, 6-12 September 1935
VII Congress, Berlin, Germany, 15-20 August 1938
VIII Congress, Stockholm, Sweden, 8-15 August 1948
IX Congress, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 17-24 August 1951
X Congress, Montreal, Canada, 17-25 August 1958
XI Congress, Vienna, Austria, 17-25 August 1960
XII Congress, London, United Kingdom, 6-16 July 1964
XIII Congress, Moscow, USSR, 2-9 August 1968
XIV Congress, Canberra, Australia, 22-30 August 1972
XV Congress, Washington, DC, USA 11-27 August 1976
XVI Congress, Kyoto, Japan, 3-9 August 1980
XVII Congress, Hamburg, Germany, 20-26 August 1984
XVIII Congress, Vancouver, Canada, 3-9 July 1988
XIX Congress, Beijing, China, 28 June-4 July 1992
XX Congress, Florence, Italy, 25-30 August 1996
XXI Congress, Iguaçu Falls, Brazil, 20-26 August 2000
XXII Congress, Brisbane, Australia, 15-21 August 2004
XXIII Congress, Durban, South Africa, 6-12 July 2008
XXIV Congress, Daegu, South Korea, 19-25 August 2012
XXV Congress, Orlando, FL, USA, 25-30 September 2016
Organization
Initially, congresses were proposed and organized by volunteers from various countries. The 1988 congress in Vancouver, Canada, was the last to be largely organized by volunteers. Since 1988, congresses have been organized through the work of the Council for International Congresses of Entomology. The Council is a group of 23 scientists from national entomological societies from geographic regions around the world. The scientific program for each conference continues to be developed mainly by entomologists from the host country.
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Joe Cameron is an American Billboard-charting songwriter, composer, and playwright from Kokomo, Indiana. In 2007, he became the first unsigned signer-songwriter to perform on The Ellen Degeneres Show. Cameron's single "I’m Stuck With Me" garnered commercial and college radio play all over the Midwest while the lead track of his In Transit album, "Ungrounded", has been listed as one of independent internet radio's top 10 most requested pop songs. Cameron was nominated for a Hollywood Music in Media Award in 2020 and 2021.
Early life and education
Cameron grew up in Kokomo playing the piano and guitar since childhood. He began writing and recording songs in high school, where he was the lead singer for a rock cover band. He later attended Indiana University, where he continued writing songs, and later graduated in 2001 with degrees in criminal justice and business.
Career
Cameron moved to Los Angeles in 2003 and released his first independent album, In Transit. He won a USA Songwriting Showcase in 2004 and began performing at LA venues such as The Rainbow Room, The Cat Club, The Viper Room, and the Larchmont.
In 2005, Cameron released his 2nd independent album, I’m Stuck with Me, and began touring universities nationally with his touring band.
After sending some music to producer/guitarist Bill Bell (Jason Mraz, Tom Cochrane), Bill invited Cameron to Vancouver to record an EP of original music. In the spring of 2007, the VanCity EP, was released. In December of that same year, Cameron was invited to perform live on The Ellen Degeneres Show. Cameron performed his song "Lucky Day" which was placed in the CBS show Ghost Whisperer shortly after.
In 2009, Cameron and his touring band recorded the Laugh Until We Cry EP at Airtime Studios in Bloomington, IN. During this time, Joe also started writing songs with professional songwriters like Michael Jay (Martika), Preston Brust of LoCash, Phil Barton (Lee Brice), and Kris Bergsnes (Tyler Farr).
After placing songs on The Today Show, The Big Bang Theory, Brooklyn 99, and The Voice, Cameron recorded the independent album Encore in 2014.
Since then, Cameron has written songs for Sesame Street, Straight No Chaser (Warner), Jerome Collins (Warner), and The Rampage from Exile Tribe (AVEX). The Rampage's album, Ray of Light, debuted at #2 on the Billboard Albums Chart in Japan on Feb. 2nd, 2022.
Cameron composes music for the Netflix series’ Spycraft and Spy Ops.
Un5gettable
Cameron founded the comedy boy band Un5gettable with 4 of his friends and the comedy troupe has written original music and videos, two of which made Funny or Die’s Most Buzz list. The group has released 4 albums of original music, performed live on WGN America, and sold out its stage musical, Un5gettable The Boy Band Musical, two years in a row at the Indianapolis Fringe Festival.
Playwriting
Cameron's play Passing Notes world premiered at the 2016 Indianapolis Fringe Festival and went on to win the state and regional AACTFest competitions in 2017. The play went on to win the People's Choice Award for Best Production at the 2017 National AACTFest.
Cameron has also written two musicals for Un5gettable.
External links
Joe Cameron's website
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Living people
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Reginald Barnes Jr, aka Reggie Barnes (born c. 1961) is a retired professional freestyle skateboarder and Founder/CEO of Eastern Skateboard Supply, the largest skateboard wholesale company in North America. Known as a "virtuoso" teen amateur, Barnes skated professionally from 1980 to 1991, with the Pepsi-Cola Pro Skateboard Team, Walker Skateboards, and Dogtown Skateboards. There were three Reggie Barnes' skateboards issued, two with Walker and one with Dogtown.
Early life
Barnes is from Cary, North Carolina and attended Cary High School. He first became interested in skateboarding through Sports Illustrated. Barnes said, “I read an article about this guy [Gregg Weaver skating] barefoot in drained swimming pools and I knew it was something I wanted to do."
In 1976 when he was 14, Barnes purchased his first skateboard, a Super Surfer with clay wheels, from a neighbor for $2. That was quickly replaced with a used skateboard with metal wheels—one that he says worked better on asphalt. He became a member of the Wizard Skate Team, an amateur team supported by the Wizard Skate Park in Raleigh, North Carolina, but moved on as he progressed. Barnes says in those early days of skating, "We were constantly emulating surfing. [The style] was very different from today's street skating."
Barnes' specialty became freestyle; this form of skating with music to match his handstands, wheelies, and kick-flips suited Barnes, who said, ""I'm a show-off, but that's part of being a skater" Barnes spent "hours on end" alone with a boombox, practicing his routines. One of his favorite places to practice was the open air basketball courts at North Carolina State University.
Amateur skateboarding
Two years later, Barnes had become one of North Carolina's top skaters, taking 6th place in freestyle in his first National Skateboard Association Contest, the U.S. Open Skateboard Competition in Jacksonville, Florida in March 1978. Barnes "caught the attention of the seasoned professionals" when he skated at the Oceanside Amateur Freestyle Contest in June 1978, despite only coming in 5th place. He joined the team for Powerflex, a skateboard wheel company based in California, getting equipment and travel expenses in return for participating in demonstrations and competitions. Powerflex offered a salary, but Barnes said, "I kinda want to stay amateur and work toward the 1980 Olympic exhibition team."
In September 1978, as part of Team Powerflex, Barnes participated in the Pepsi/Nova Team Challenge. Barnes had "a dynamic freestyle routine" earning 285 points and placing 1st in the age 16-19 Freestyle contest. Rodney Mullen, generally considered the best freestyle skateboarder of all time, placed 1st in the 13-15 category with 263 points.
Barnes was known as a 'virtuoso' up and down the East Coast by the time he graduated from Cary High School" in 1979. Barnes says, "I learned to ride on my hands, and word of mouth just spread." In the spring of 1979, Pepsi called his parents and asked if their son could tour the country, giving demonstrations as part of the Pepsi-Cola Pro Skateboard Team. Although the call from Pepsi was a complete surprise, it was the era of the "cola wars," and Pepsi executives thought skateboarding was good fit to their "Pepsi Generation" ad campaign. With a just few months of his senior year remaining, Barnes decided to graduate first.
Professional skateboarding
Barnes became a professional skateboarder in June 1979. He skated with the Pepsi Pro Skateboard Team on their second tour, performing as many as five demonstrations a day and 100 demonstrations across the summer. Pepsi was among the first to pay skateboarders well, but getting paid made Barnes a pro which would keep him out of the Olympics and amateur competitions. However, Barnes says he did not feel like a "real pro" because he had yet to win money in competition."
When the summer tour ended, Barnes took the money he earned from Pepsi and moved to Huntington Beach California. Barnes says, "I was determined to compete against the 'real' pros' and try to win money." However, Barnes had picked a challenging time to go pro. Editor of the National Skateboard Review, Di Dootson explains, “By early 1979, the insurance industry had effectively closed many skateparks across the country." This negatively impacted retail shops, competitions, and company's like Barnes sponsor Powerflext which had shut down. Barnes had to wait six months before there was a flatland contest. Without Powerflex's backing, Barnes had to personally pay the $50 entry fee for his first pro competition, the Oasis Freestyle Contest in San Diego in 1980. He came in 5th place, earning $50. Barnes says, “It was not about the money, but the guys I was competing with.” The standing world champion Chris Chadwick took third. Also in his first pro event, Rodney Mullen took first. Admittedly homesick, Barnes said, “I felt like I could go home to North Carolina having accomplished what I set out to do."
Barnes signed with sponsor Walker Skateboards in 1980. Bruce Walker was a noted East Coast pro, and his company was the first of its kind to be owned and operated by a skater. Walker paid for Barnes to fly to California for competitions, allowing Barnes to live in Wilmington North Carolina where he could focus on both skateboarding and surfing in his home state.
Although he performed many demonstrations, Barnes only competed three times during his first three years as a pro because there were only a few contests. His second pro event was in 1981 at Magic Mountain where "the main attraction was the pro-freestyle event." Barnes, who came in 3rd place, told Thrasher magazine, "Good energy and crowds, back east they don't have much going on like this, so it's good fun for a change of sceneries. Lot's of fun."
The third time he competed as a pro was at the 1984 Sundeck Pro-Am Skateboard Challenge in Kona Park, Florida—Barnes came in 1st place. His won despite the fact that they played the wrong music for his first routine. Barnes said, "I just kept going." Later that year, he placed 2nd at the NSA Finals at the Del Mar Skate Ranch in California. However, according to Thrasher magazine, he almost ended up in the third place—a miscalculation of the scores by the judges was caught by Barnes' girlfriend, Chrissie, and corrected.
In 1986, a group of skateboarding magazines selected Barnes as one of the top five American freestyle skateboarders. That same year, Barnes was a featured demonstrator at Expo 86, the World's Fair held in Vancouver, Canada.
Despite owning and running Eastern Skateboard Supply and Endless Grind in 1987, Barnes continued to compete professionally. He placed 3rd in freestyle at the World Cup, Münster Monster Mastership, in Germany in 1987. In a 2010 online conversation, pro-skating superstars Joachim ‘YoYo’ Schulz and Stefan ‘Lillis’ Akesson recalled this competition with a few words: Schulz, who came in 7th, wrote, "Check out the results page—a who is who in skateboarding. Some names are still around to this day! Even Reggie Barnes made it over. Stoked!." To which Akesson replied, "4th place for me... I really like the skating of Reggie, and he is a super nice person!"
In 1989, Barnes' rank had slipped to 7th best freestyle skater in the United States. Yet, at the NSA's Savanah Slamma in May 1989, Thrasher noted, "Reggie Barnes, for a man who hadn't skated since since the Arizona finals [in December 1988], ripped." The decline in his freestyle skating was a mix of his now being a businessman and his increased interest in streetstyle, which emerged as a modified version of freestyle that was better suited for urban settings. Barnes indicated that it was difficult to complete effectively in freestyle when he was actively demonstrating streetstyle—the two styles even required different skateboards. Barnes competed professionally until 1991.
Although retired, he continued demonstrate skating, and supported new skateboarders through Endless Grind and Eastern Skateboard Supply. November 1, 2000, Barnes was one of three judges for the Freestyle World Championships Contest and Reunion, the first Pro/Am freestyle event in almost ten years, held at the Embarcadero, San Francisco, California. One outcome of this event, which also served as an reunion of former skaters, was the creation of the World Freestyle Skateboard Association.
Sponsors and skateboards
Barnes' first sponsor was Powderflex Wheels. Although their product was good, Powerflex was negatively impacted by the decline in skateboarding, closing by 1980 when Barnes became a pro. Later, Bones Wheels became his sponsor. Converse was another sponsor, and Barnes usually skated in Carolina blue, high-top Chuck Taylor All-Stars. He was also sponsored by Gotcha Sportswear.
As a professional skater signed to Walker Skateboards, Barnes endorsed a line of skateboards. The Reggie Barnes' Pro Freestyle Skateboard was available in 1985. The 1987 model featured "tailbones" or heavy plastic bumpers under both ends, and his signature Anubis graphic—an Egyptian god Anubis on a skateboard, surrounded by hieroglyphics, including a Tar Heel footprint to symbolize his North Carolina origins. The Reggie Barnes' Street Skate came out in 1989 and featured a kicked 4-inch nose and a new graphic of a mummy breaking out of a neon yellow coffin with an Anubis graphic on the lid. It was 30.25" x 9.625" compared to the 27" x 7.25" of the freestyle model. Barnes earned $1 for each skateboard purchased in his Walker line.
Later, Barnes skated for Dogtown Skateboards who also issued a Reggie Barnes model. The 1990 Reggie Barnes Skateboard graphic is of a cartoon-style trashcan with the two to hands lifting the lid from inside. At the base of the trashcan is a broken green telephone and fishbones.
Competitions
This incomplete list includes known NSA and international competitions which Barnes competed in.
Filmography
In the 1980s, Unreel Productions produced a series of videos documenting National Skateboard Association's championship competitions. Released in 1986, Skateboard: NSA '86 Summer Series Volume 4: Oceanside Street Attack showed highlights of the Oceanside, California Freestyle Contest, including Barnes' entire fifth place routine.
In 2006, Pantheon Home Video released License to Skate!, a five-part series of how-to videos that featured Reggie Barnes and other early pro skaters with Walker, including Chris Baucom, Chuck Dinkins, Joe Humeres, Jim McCall, Tim Morris, Bill Robinson, and Paul Schneider.
Barnes was a stunt double for several films produced in Wilmington, North Carolina, including David Lynch's Blue Velvet (1986), Stephen King's Maximum Overdrive (1986), and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) where he doubled for Donatello riding a skateboard.
Barnes is featured in the East Coast Motions vol 1, a 2018, a documentary that features Steve Caballero and Barnes in the 1986 Endless Grind / Bones Brigade Skateboard Showdown in Raleigh, North Carolina, along with the 1985 Record Bar Pro-Am ASP Surf Tour at Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina.
Other ventures
Eastern Skateboard Supply
In 1985, Raleigh businessmen Skip Flyth approached the 24 year-old Barnes about starting a skateboard distribution company. As the only professional skater in North Carolina, Barnes had the industry contacts, while Flyth had the line of credit. Before entering a deal, Barnes contacted his mentor Bruce Walker, who owned a small distribution business in Florida, along with his skateboard company. According to Barnes, Walker said, “Thank you for asking me, but go ahead and do it. …If you don't do it, someone else will.” Years later, when Walker decided to retire, he sold his distribution company to Barnes.
Eastern Skateboard Supply started as a 50/50 partnership in 1985, representing just one brand and gradually adding others. After eighteen months, Barnes made an offer to buy out Flyth, becoming the sole owner of Eastern in 1987. However to pay Flyth for his half of the business, Barnes had to borrow money from his parents because no bank would give him a loan. By 1990, the company grossed around $5 million. As of 2021, Eastern Skateboard Supply's annual sales are $24.64 million in the United States. The company's headquarters are in Wilmington, North Carolina, with additional warehouses in Florida and Texas.
When Tony Hawk decided to produce a "lower-priced skateboard to help keep Birdhouse and the team alive," he contacted Eastern and his "old friend Reggie Barnes" to produce and distribute Birdhouse to skate shops. Some other brands Eastern carries include Enjoi, Hook-Ups, Plan Band Zero. The company has also diversified and carries surfing supplies.
Eastern works with its brands to promote skating. In 2007, Pro-skater Pat Duffy said "Reggie Barnes wanted to do a 10 day, 6 demo tour with maybe 1 or 2 people from a couple of his brands. So it was me from Plan B, Chet Childress, Jason Adams, Kyle Berard, Adam Dyet, Mike Peterson, Willy Santos. …Reggie Barnes is the biggest distributor on the East Coast and he’s been hooking us up and selling our boards for years, so we may as well go and give a little bit back. And it was such a good tour for 10 days, and then in Wilmington, which is where the distribution is, I met up with the whole team and with that crew plus the Plan B crew, we did a huge Reggie Barnes-Eastern Skate Supply demo. It was INSANITY." This European tour included Madrid, Hamburg, Rotterdam, and Amsterdam—reflecting Eastern's expansion into the European market.
Barnes hires employees who are experienced with skateboarding, including former pro-skater Ray Underhill, once a member of the Bones Brigade with Tony Hawk. As a perk for employees, the Wilmington warehouse includes a 20,000-square foot private skatepark. Started as a half-pipe in the warehouse, Eastern's corporate skatepark has one of the biggest bowls on the East Coast, designed and built in birch by Team Pain Skateparks in 2007. To celebrate the completion of the skatepark, Barnes hosted twenty of the country's top skaters for demos and signings for more than 1,000 members of the public. Barnes says. “I wanted a place where pros can practice and film and this skate park is ideal for it.”
Endless Grind
In 1986, Barnes opened Endless Grind, a retail skateboard shop in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, with two Raleigh businessmen, Homer Croom and Skip Flyth. However, he bought out his partners in 1987. The shop's name refers to the sound the metal axel makes as a skateboarder swings around the upper edge of an empty swimming pool. Because of his connections with pro-skaters, Barnes frequently brings famous names to his store for demonstrations. He also sponsors an amateur Endless Grind team and organizes local competitions.
Scott Bourne said, "I was really fortunate in that where I grew up; we had Reggie Barnes’ shop... Because he had such influence, he brought like World Industries and lots of teams; whoever was big came through NC on tour to Endless Grind skate shop. A lot of guys came out of there—Chet Childress, Kenny Hughes, Neal Hendrix. And you had a whole younger generation too, like Lennie Kirk. But Reggie really brought the industry to the middle part of the Eastern U.S." Barnes also brought Bones Brigade member Steve Caballero to Endless Grind, turning it into an opportunity for a Bones Brigade / Endless Grind Skateboard Showdown.
Mike Sinclair of ESPN's Real Street, started as a skater for the Endless Grind Team, eventually working in the store and managing the store-sponsored team for Barnes.
Outrigger canoes
In 2015, Barnes decided to introduce Hawaii's outrigger canoe culture to Wilmington. He purchased two outrigger canoes and placed them at Wrightsville SUP, a rental facility, so he could take his family and friends canoeing. Barnes' efforts were successful—there is now an 90-member Wrightsville Beach Outriggers Canoe Club. Bernadette Burton, coach of the team, says “Reggie coined the name, and we formed a 501(c)(3). We found men’s and women’s coaches, got out into the community, and made it our goal to put together a team that could join the East Coast Outrigger Canoe Association, travel up and down the coast, and compete in races.”
Image and legacy
Although not known as an innovator like some of his contemporaries, Barnes did influence is contemporaries and many of the next-generation of East Coast skaters:
Skater Tommy Harward's first exposure to freestyle was at a school demonstration by Barnes in 1987. Barnes not only encouraged young Harward to keep skating, but also gave Harward one his personal skateboards. Later, the Tommy Haward pro model skateboard by Outlook was reportedly based on the Reggie Barnes' Freestyle model by Walker.
In the 1980s, amateur skater Bill Robinson (known today as Dr. Skateboard) decided to go to college because the skateboarding industry declined. After college, Robinson contacted "Reggie Barnes who helped resurrect his career," and soon Robinson was a pro-skateboarder signed with Barnes' own sponsor Walker Skateboards. Robinson eventually won three Masters Freestyle championships and was inducted into the Freestyle Skateboarding Hall of Fame in 2010.
In 1985, Chuck Dinkins lived in Memphis, Tennessee and worked for a skateboard shop. In conjunction with a festival at the fairgrounds, his employer arranged for pro skaters Barnes and Jim McCall to demonstrate freestyle. Dinkins says, "Jim and Reggie arrived and killed it. I had never really seen freestyle too much in person and was super stoked to have those guys come up. Both of them were super cool and professional. They even invited me to join in and I got to skate and showcase my flat land street style, plus launch ramp skills.… I was skating with pros and had to step up my game. …Reggie was smooth and stylish with Ollies, throwing in sweet G-Turns etc. …I didn’t know how impressed they were with me until a few weeks later, when I got a call at the shop from Bruce Walker offering me a full sponsorship simply based on the word of Jim and Reggie.
Former professional skater Kevin Shelton tells a similar story. Shelton was from the small town of Mars Hill, North Carolina, and went to California in an unsuccessful attempt to turn his skating hobby into a career. When he returned to North Carolina, Shelton ran into Barnes "who realized Shelton’s potential. Shelton then began to get paid [by Endless Grind] for traveling and performing street-style demonstrations throughout the East Coast." In 1986, Barnes gave Shelton his "big break," a chance to skate before Bruce Walker. Two years later, Shelton was a professional skater with a full sponsorship by Walker Skateboards.
Founder and curator of the Morro Bay Skateboard Museum Jack Smith said "I declared myself 'professional' so I could enter the freestyle event at the Trans-World Skateboarding Championship—one of the largest international tournaments in sport's history, held in conjunction with the World Exp in Vancouver, Canada. …Reggie Barnes…was amongst the first to introduce himself and encourage me during the Vancouver freestyle event."
Mike Sinclair, skating's most famous team manager who also ran ESPN's Real Street, got his start through Barnes' Endless Grind. Sinclair says, "I skated for Endless Grind skate shop for a long time when I lived in North Carolina. Reggie Barnes who owns it asked me if I could manage the team for him since Eastern Skateboard Supply was taking off and he was focusing on that. My duties were mainly keeping track of whose entry fees got paid for when we went to contests. I think everyone from our area just said they were on Endless Grind and tried to charge it to Reggie at all the local contests. Reggie paid me $100 a month to do this for him. I was beyond hyped! Later, I worked at the shop and just did it for free or until the contest scene died out in the mid 90's."
In 2006, Swedish pro-skater Stefan "Lillis" Akesson recalled attending the Münster Monster Mastership (World Cup) in 1987. He wrote, "We (me, Shane Rouse and Reggie Barnes) stayed in Christian Seewaldt's apartment. …Reggie was working on his board, putting on sho-goo [sic] on the tail and gave me some secret tips how to do it, something Shane always refused to help me with." In the competition, Rouse came in 2nd, Barnes 3rd, Akesson 4th, and Seewaldt 5th. In his pro-career, Akesson would surpass Barnes, placing 1st or 2nd at the International Freestyle Competition from 2000-2007, and earning 1st place again in 2011. Akesson wrote, "Reggie…is a super nice person!"
Personal
In the early 1980s, Barnes returned to North Carolina and attended the Cape Fear Technical Institute (now Cape Fear Community College) where he majored in business. He stayed in Wilmington after graduating, and supported his surfing and lifestyle with his own carpentry/construction business. Soon after, he opened Eastern Skateboard Supply and Endless Grind, both which continue as successful businesses.
Barnes currently lives in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, which is adjacent to Wilmington. He has two children: daughter Lindsey and son Mason who is a professional surfer. Barnes tries to surf every day, runs marathons, and competes the downhill skateboard slalom. He says, “The sport has kept me young at heart and has helped me stay in good physical condition."
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Lauterach railway station () is a railway station in the town of Lauterach in the district of Bregenz in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg. It sits at the junction of the standard gauge Vorarlberg and St. Margrethen–Lauterach lines of Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB).
Services
the following services stop at Lauterach:
Vorarlberg S-Bahn : half-hourly service between and , with some trains continuing to .
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Jennifer Morgan (born April 21, 1966) is an American environmental activist and lobbyist specializing in climate change policy. Since 2016 she has been leading the environmental protection organization Greenpeace International together with Bunny McDiarmid. As of 2022 she is a special representative for international climate policy Federal Foreign Office in Germany under minister Annalena Baerbock.
Life
Morgan was born to a bank clerk and a nurse in Ridgewood, New Jersey. After school she studied political science and German from 1988 at Indiana University Bloomington. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree. She then transferred to the School of International Service at American University in Washington, D.C. and studied International Relations there. She earned a Master of Arts.
Career
From 1994 to 1996 Morgan served as coordinator for the US section of the Climate Action Network. She then directed WWF's Global Climate Change Program from 1998 to 2006. She then worked as Global Climate Change Director for the think tank E3G (Third Generation Environmentalism) from 2006 to 2009. From 2009 to 2016, she worked as Global Director of the Climate Program at the World Resources Institute. Since April 2016 she has been managing Greenpeace International in the capacity of executive director together with Bunny McDiarmid.
In addition to these full-time tasks, Jennifer Morgan worked during the German EU Council Presidency in 2007 in the advisory board of the Federal Government under the direction of the climate researcher Hans Joachim Schellnhuber and has supported the Breaking the Climate Deadlock initiative of the former British Prime Minister Tony Blair since 2008. She also worked as a review editor on a chapter of the IPCC's Fifth Assessment Report and was a member of the German government's Council for Sustainable Development (Rat für Nachhaltige Entwicklung). From 2010 to 2017 she was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and is an honorary member of Germanwatch.
Morgan has been a regular participant at United Nations Climate Change conferences.
On February 8, 2022, it was announced that she was to be appointed to the Federal Republic of Germany's Federal Foreign Office as a special representative for international climate policy. To do this, however, she still has to acquire German citizenship. Her superior Baerbock formulated great expectations when she was appointed in February 2022, saying "as the helmsman, Jennifer Morgan will steer our climate foreign policy, expand partnerships with other countries around the world and conduct dialogue with civil society worldwide."
Bibliography
Articles (partial list)
Jennifer L. Morgan, Claudio Maretti, Giulio Volpi. Tropical deforestation in the context of the post-2012 Climate Change Regime. pp. 101–110 In: Paulo Moutinho & Stephan Schwartzman (Hrsg.): Tropical Deforestation and Climate Change. Belém: IPAM/Washington DC, Environmental Defense, 2005. ISBN 858782712X https://cmapspublic3.ihmc.us/rid=1H42JRS7V-275MYTJ-F3N/4930_TropicalDeforestation_and_ClimateChange.pdf#page=101
Jennifer Morgan. Ensuring a secure climate and energy future: Views from Civil Society. London: Chatham House (Royal Institute of International Affairs), September 2006. https://e3g.org/wp-content/uploads/Gleneagles_Views_from_Civil_Society_Sept06.pdf
Jennifer L. Morgan, Rebecca Bertram. Changing Business and Political Climates in the US and Europe: Where is Japan? London: Third Generation Environmentalism Ltd., 2007. https://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep17772
Stefan Rahmstorf, Jennifer Morgan, Anders Levermann, and Karsten Sach. Scientific understanding of climate change and consequences for a global deal. In: Hans Joachim Schellnhuber et al. (eds.): Global Sustainability: A Nobel Cause. Cambridge University Press, 2010. (pp. 67–80)
Lutz Weischer, Jennifer Morgan, Milap Patel. Climate Clubs: Can Small Groups of Countries make a Big Difference in Addressing Climate Change? In: Review of European Community & International Environmental Law (RECIEL), Vol. 21, No. 3 (November 2012), pp. 177–192. https://doi.org/10.1111/reel.12007
Jennifer Morgan, Kevin Kennedy. First Take: Looking at President Obama’s Climate Action Plan. Washington, D.C.: World Resources Institute. June 25, 2013. https://www.wri.org/insights/first-take-looking-president-obamas-climate-action-plan
Jennifer Margan. Volle Wende voraus. In: The European. June 2, 2013. https://www.theeuropean.de/jennifer-morgan/6926-globale-energiewende-und-deutsche-verantwortung
Jennifer Morgan, Lutz Weischer. The World Needs More Energiewende. Washington, D.C.: World Resources Institute, July 30, 2013. https://www.wri.org/insights/world-needs-more-energiewende
Jennifer Morgan, David Waskow. A new look at climate equity in the UNFCCC. In: Climate Policy, Vol. 14, No. 1 (October 2013), pp. 17–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2014.848096
Jennifer Morgan. 6 Functions for the International Climate Agreement. Washington, D.C.: World Resources Institute, March 17, 2014 https://www.wri.org/insights/6-functions-international-climate-agreement
Michael I. Westphal, Pascal Canfin, Athena Ballesteros and Jennifer Morgan. Getting to $100 Billion: Climate Finance Scenarios and Projections to 2020. In: Working Paper. Washington, DC: World Resources Institute, May 2015
Jennifer Morgan, Eliza Northrop. Will the Paris Agreement accelerate the pace of change? In: WIREs, Vol. 8, No. 5 (September/October 2017), https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.471
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"El Shaab" ( "The People") is a 2012 installation piece by the Egyptian artist Moataz Nasr composed of 25 painted ceramic figures representing participants in the 2011 Egyptian revolution. The figures are 27 x 6 x 10 cm each, arranged on two shelves. As of 2022, the piece is part of the Barjeel Art Foundation's collection.
Name
The title alludes to the dominant chant of the Arab Spring: ash-shaʻb yurīd isqāṭ an-niẓām (الشعب يريد إسقاط النظام " the people want to bring down the regime").
Description
The ceramic miniatures, placed in groups on two shelves, represent the cross-section of the diverse population that gathered in Tahrir Square calling for an end to despotic rule and demanding bread (life), freedom, and human dignity and social justice. Some figures are depicted bearing wounds sustained in the revolution. On a separate shelf, the violence captured in the viral video of police attacking the The Girl in the Blue Bra is recreated with painted porcelain figures. Her limp body, dragged and stomped on by the three officers of the Egyptian Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), lies on the ground, surrounded by her torn-off abaya.
El Shaab was first displayed in 2012, the year following the eruption of the revolution and the year of Egypt's first democratic presidential election.
The piece was part of the exhibition entitled "No to the Invasion: Breakdowns and Side Effects" curated by Fawz Kabra.
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Tsai Chih-chan (April 28, 1900 – April 21, 1958; ) was a Taiwanese poet and educator known for her work during the Japanese colonial period.
Biography
Tsai Chih-chan was born in 1900 on Magong in the Penghu islands, which were occupied by Japan at the time. A studious child, by age 9 she had become a devout Buddhist and a committed vegetarian. She vowed never to marry and instead to focus on her faith and on supporting her parents, who gave birth to her after a long struggle with infertility. According to biographer Wei Hsiu-ling, she likely did not obtain a formal Japanese education but instead studied Chinese literature with private tutors.
Despite her modest background, Tsai became a well-regarded poet during the Japanese colonial period, with her work appearing in various publications from 1923 to 1937. In 1933, her work was featured in the Yingzhou Poetry Anthology. Overall, she produced around 600 poems, frequently dealing with both her own struggles and experiences as a woman as well as Buddhism and Zen. She also became a painter during this period, even traveling to study traditional painting at China's Amoy College of Art, now part of Xiamen University, in 1934.
Tsai also worked as an educator, starting at the in 1924, becoming the first female Chinese teacher in the Pengu islands. Later that year, she left Pengu to teach in Changhua, aiming to "make [her] name known as a woman," as she wrote in a poem before her departure. There, she established a Confucian school, which she named Pingquanxuan (平權軒; "Equal Rights Pavilion"). She also worked as a private tutor for the women of the prominent beginning in 1927. In 1932, she moved to Hsinchu to teach there, and she lived for a period in Hsinchu's Lingyin Temple.
Tsai's economic independence and social status were unusual for Taiwanese women at the time, although her position as a celibate religious leader helped with her empowerment. She was a firm believer in women's right to education and independence; a 1932 article in a poetry journal described her as having "determination to seek equal rights and freedom for women."
After returning to Pengu in 1955, Tsai and her adopted brother sued to regain control of the Chengyuan Temple, which had been taken over by Kuomintang troops. After they won their suit in 1957, she ran the temple's operations until her sudden death of a stroke the following year.
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"Is It Because I'm Black" is a song recorded in 1969 by blues and soul singer Syl Johnson. It was co-written by Johnson, record producer Jimmy Jones (James L. Jones), and Glenn Watts. The recording, issued on the Twinight label in September 1969, reached number 11 on the Billboard R&B chart, and number 68 on the Hot 100.
Background and recording
By 1969, Johnson had achieved several modest chart successes with songs on traditional themes of romance and relationships, but his marriage had ended, his established backing band had split up, and he was increasingly motivated by the social and economic challenges of American society. Johnson later said: "After Martin Luther King got killed, I wanted to write a song.... I didn’t want to write no song about hating this people or hating that people... I really didn’t have no vendetta against people. It’s a sympathy song."
He linked up with the musicians who until then had been working for Brunswick Records under producer Carl Davis, before leaving under acrimonious circumstances, and recorded "Is It Because I'm Black" with guitarist John Bishop, bassist Bernard Reed, and drummer Hal "Heavy" Nesbitt. Together with horn players Michael Davis and alto saxist Jerry Wilson, the musicians adopted the group name The Pieces of Peace, and toured with Johnson.
Released on the Twinight label (which had changed its name from Twilight because another company already used the name), the single rose up the R&B charts and pop charts at the end of 1969. Journalist Lanre Bakare wrote: "The main lyric from this song has taken on a life of its own and is a phrase that means so much in the American context. Johnson was from Mississippi and in a similar mould to the Chicago blues men like Junior Wells. You can hear that attitude and the grit in the vocal performance on this song. It’s like he’s giving a sermon in a church and he’s describing – in metaphor and similes – what it’s like to be black in America." Johnson's obituary referred to the song as "a slow, disconsolate ballad that is among the most affecting of the civil rights era." Robert Pruter described the song as "superbly arranged and produced...[in which] Johnson's plaintive vocals evoked the moodiness of this lamentation over the struggle of being black. The song, however, strangely suggested pride rather than defeatism."
Impact
The single's success led to an extended version becoming the title track on Johnson's 1970 album, described in one source as "the first black concept album", released over a year before Marvin Gaye's What's Going On. However, the album failed to sell in large numbers, which Johnson put down to its lack of marketability to a white audience. The song "Is It Because I'm Black" was later recorded by singers Ken Boothe and Delroy Wilson in Jamaica, and Johnson's recording has been sampled by musicians including the Wu-Tang Clan.
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Liolaemus uniformis is a species of lizard in the family Iguanidae or the family Liolaemidae. The species is endemic to Chile.
References
uniformis
Lizards of South America
Reptiles of Chile
Endemic fauna of Chile
Reptiles described in 2016
Taxa named by Jaime Troncoso-Palacios |
Primal Rage is a 1988 Italian-American science fiction horror film directed by Vittorio Rambaldi.
Plot
Frank Duffy, a reporter for a local newspaper in Miami, sneaks into a research laboratory that carries out experiments on animals. Bitten by a rabid monkey, the young man falls prey to an uncontrollable fury and spreads the infection in the nearby college, where the carefree Halloween party taking place there turns into a bloodbath.
Cast
Patrick Lowe as Sam Nash
Cheryl Arutt as Lauren Daly
Sarah Buxton as Debbie
Bo Svenson as Ethridge
Mitch Watson as Frank Duffy
Doug Sloan as Lovejoy
Luis Valderrama as Chas
John Baldwin as Bryan
Turk Harley as Prof. Jenkins
Jennifer Hingel as Kimberly
Barry D. Schreiber as Oakley
Paul Bridges Thompson as Lab Assistant
Sally Carlson as Nurse
Greg Schmidt as Sam's Roommate
Mal Jones as Janitor
Kristine Loyd as Babe
Tom Kouchalakos as Rookie Cop
Brody Howell as Drunk Student
Earl Lee Simpson III as Baby Huey
Ben Stotes as Vampire
Joe Del Campo as FBI Agent
Christopher David Brown as FBI Agent
Eileen Engel as Dorm Receptionist
Julian Byrd as University Vice President
Jack McDermott as Police Chief
Darlene Wheatley as Editor
J. D. Steel as Tow Truck Driver
Tom Boykin as Fratter
R. Emmett Fitzsimmons as Campus Cop
L. R. Dutchyshyn as Cop at Halloween Party
William Cagliostro as Infirmary Student
Jay Amor as Orderly
Bill Wohtmann as Veteran Cop
Production
The film was directed by Vittorio Rambaldi (in his directing debut), the son of Italian special effects artist Carlo Rambaldi.
The film was written by Umberto Lenzi and James Justice. Lenzi would later recall that he was approached with two scripts, saying that "One was fucking awful and one wasn't bad." Lenzi "took the one [he] liked the most", "about a female scientist that has an accident in her lab and becomes genetically mutated, transforming into a tiger", and rewrote it, but by the time he arrived at the United States, he found that his backers wanted him to film the other script, which became Nightmare Beach (also known as Welcome to Spring Break). The script that Lenzi worked on, which he described as a homage to Cat People, was eventually further rewritten by Justice, and the final script that was shot was credited to "Harry Kirkpatrick", an alias Justice also used in Nightmare Beach, in which he also worked on.
The film's poster art was made by Renato Casaro.
Reception
Joseph A. Ziemba and Dan Budnik in their book Bleeding Skull!: A 1980s Trash-Horror Odyssey of the film, "Primal Rage borrows the plot and general sense of chaos from George Romero's The Crazies, gives it a shot of Cro-Magnon idiocy, and adds a "Avoid the Noid!" poster, an A.L.F. stuffed animal, and a relentless z-rate metal soundtrack. Leapfrogging over mundane hilarity (padding that involves racquetball), squirm-inducing gore (eyes ripped out) and the savoir fare of the late 80s (skull costumes from The Karate Kid), Primal Rage does not ask much from its audience. All we have to do is keep our eyes open."
References
External links
1988 horror films
American films
Italian films
1980s science fiction horror films
American science fiction horror films
Italian science fiction horror films
Films about viral outbreaks
1980s English-language films |
Ujiogba is a community located in Esan West Local Government Area of Edo State, South South Nigeria. The community is headed by an "onojie" shares boundary with Ogwa community and Ehor Village. The community is largely an agrarian society and dominated by the Ishan speaking people of Edo State.
References
Populated places in Edo State |
Dafydd Jenkins (born 5 December 2002) is a Welsh rugby union player currently playing for Premiership Rugby side Exeter Chiefs as a Lock.
Club career
Jenkins made his Exeter Chiefs debut in the Premiership Rugby Cup defeat to Bristol. On 15 January 2022, Jenkins appeared as a replacement in the Champions Cup victory over Glasgow.
Jenkins first Premiership start came in the Round 15 defeat to Wasps on 5 February 2022.
International
Jenkins was called up to the Wales under-20 squad for the first time ahead of the 2021 Six Nations Under 20s Championship, making his debut in the 25–8 victory over Italy. On 28 January 2022, Jenkins was again called into the Wales under-20 squad for the upcoming 2022 Six Nations Under 20s Championship.
References
2002 births
Living people
Rugby union locks
Exeter Chiefs players
People educated at Porthcawl Comprehensive School
Alumni of Hartpury College
Alumni of the University of Exeter
Welsh rugby union players |
Dexter Edgar Converse (1829-1899) a was a textile entrepreneur who was co-founder and namesake of Converse College. Converse was native of Vermont who had moved to Spartanburg prior to the American Civil War and had become a successful pioneer in the cotton mill industry, and served as the head of the Converse College's first board of directors and was among the school's founders and substantial donors.
Early life
Dexter Edgar Converse was born in Swanton, Vermont to Louisa Twichell and Olin Converse, a descendant of John Winthrop, and a woolen manufacturer. After his father's death in 1832, Dexter was raised by an uncle in Quebec who was also a woolen manufacturer. When he was twenty-one, Converse went to work at a mill in Cohoes, New York with another uncle, Winslow Twichell, and while there married a cousin, Helen Twichell.
Move to North Carolina
In 1854 the Converses moved to Lincolnton, North Carolina to run a mill there, but moved to Bivingsville (now Glendale, South Carolina in February 1855 but that mill failed shortly afterwards, but Converse was able to buy an ownership stake of the mill at a bankruptcy sale. At the outset of the Civil War, Converse's loyalty to the Confederacy was questioned so he and his brother-in-law, Albert Twichell, enlisted in the Confederate Army, but mill colleagues convinced Converse to remain running the mill and producing cotton products for the Confederate Army. After the War in 1866, he founded D.E. Converse Co. (Glendale Mills) and in 1880, he co-founded the Clifton Manufacturing Co. and acquired shares in the Pacolet, Whitney and Spartan Mills.
Philanthropy and death
In 1891 the Converses left Glendale and moved to Spartanburg, where in 1889 the Converses co-founded the women's college which became Converse College. The campus had a Twichell Auditorium, which was named for his in-laws. Converse died in 1899, and "he was buried in front of Main Hall, as he had requested. Later Helen Converse had her husband's body re-interred in nearby Oakwood Cemetery. Founder's Monument was placed just inside the main entrance to the college." His house, the Bivings-Converse House remains in Glendale, South Carolina and is listed the National Register of Historic Places.
References
1829 births
1899 deaths
Philanthropists from Vermont
Philanthropists from South Carolina
Converse College alumni
University and college founders
People from Swanton (town), Vermont
People of Vermont in the American Civil War
People of South Carolina in the American Civil War
American Civil War industrialists
American chief executives
19th-century American philanthropists |
Wei Chao (; born 18 March 1993) is a Chinese footballer currently playing as a forward for Qingdao Hainiu.
Club career
Having started his career in France with Metz, where he was top scorer in the under-16 league, Wei returned to China to forge a career in the lower leagues.
Personal life
Wei is the brother of fellow professional footballer, Wei Jian.
Career statistics
Club
.
Notes
References
1993 births
Living people
People from Guiyang
Footballers from Guizhou
Chinese footballers
Association football forwards
China League One players
China League Two players
FC Metz players
Chengdu Tiancheng F.C. players
Shenzhen F.C. players
C.D.C. Montalegre players
Chinese expatriate footballers
Chinese expatriate sportspeople in France
Expatriate footballers in France
Chinese expatriate sportspeople in Portugal
Expatriate footballers in Portugal |
Joni Van Ryck De Groot (born 17 October 1955) is a Jamaican former professional tennis player.
Playing for Jamaica at the Fed Cup, Van Ryck De Groot has accumulated a win–loss record of 7–34.
Career finals
Doubles: 2 (2–0)
References
1955 births
Living people
Jamaican female tennis players
Jamaican sportswomen
External links |
Sigismund von Lindenau ( – 4 January 1544) was Bishop of Merseburg from 1535 to 1544.
Sigismund came from the von Lindenau family, named after Lindenau, now a district of Leipzig. He was the last Catholic bishop of the Merseburg diocese until Michael Helding was appointed in 1549. Lindenau's successor was the Protestant administrator Augustus of Saxony, who asserted his influence as Elector of Saxony and drew the neighboring bishoprics to himself. In the diocese itself, the majority of the population embraced the new faith, and even Sigismund was open to the new faith. Just one year after Sigismund's death, Martin Luther preached in Merseburg Cathedral.
Sigismund carried out structural measures at Lützen Castle. He expanded the cathedral. In the castle of Bad Lauchstädt, his coat of arms bears witness to his building activity.
Literature
Saxonia: Museum of Saxon patriotism, Volume 3
References
1480s births
1544 deaths
16th-century German Roman Catholic bishops |
Liolaemus uptoni is a species of lizard in the family Iguanidae or the family Liolaemidae. The species is endemic to Argentina.
References
uptoni
Lizards of South America
Reptiles of Argentina
Endemic fauna of Argentina
Reptiles described in 2006
Taxa named by José Miguel Alfredo María Cei |
Abdullah Al Muharraqi () is a Bahraini painter considered a founder of modern art in the Arab Gulf.
Biography
He was born in Manama, Bahrain in 1939 and spent his childhood on its shores. His father was captain of a mail ship operating between Qatar and Saudi Arabia, and his mother was a painter. Although his parents believed that “art was not compatible with customs and traditions,” he enrolled at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cairo after creating an impressive portrait of Anwar Sadat, earning his degree in decorative arts in 1967. In addition to painting, Muharraqi has published political cartoons in the Bahraini daily newspaper Akhbar Al Khaleej.
Art
Muharraqi is a celebrated artist among collectors in the Gulf Cooperation Council, and he has an entire wing dedicated to his work at the Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art in Qatar.
References
Bahraini artists
People from Manama
Cartoonists |
Liolaemus uspallatensis, Macola's tree iguana, is a species of lizard in the family Iguanidae or the family Liolaemidae. The species is endemic to Argentina.
References
uspallatensis
Lizards of South America
Reptiles of Argentina
Endemic fauna of Argentina
Reptiles described in 1982 |
The Halcones (Falcons) were a Mexican paramilitary group created at the end of the 1960s and led by Colonel Manuel Díaz Escobar, then deputy director of General Services of the Federal District Department. The group was responsible for the Corpus Christi Massacre -also known as Halconazo- on 10 June 1971, in which nearly 120 people were killed during a student demonstration in Mexico City.
Background
The Halcones was organized in September 1968 by the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), the then dominant Mexican political party. It was considered a semi-official group, directly operating under government authority. It was composed of youths, who formed combat squads trained for the violent suppression of student protesters. They were trained in martial arts at the government's Escuela de Policia (Police Academy). Around 1,500 cadets received this training and received stipends.
The inception of Halcones was part of the overall aim of PRI to counter and repress socialism and communism.
Halconazo
By 10 June 1971, youth movements were in full swing as a reaction to the Corpus Christi Massacre. Ten thousand students marched in Mexico City. The Halcones, which allegedly operated under the direction of Federal District officials, attacked the students with wooden poles, chains, and clubs, resulting to the injury and the death of at least 35. A similar operation transpired on 4 November 1970, when members of the Halcones attacked students celebrating the victory of the Chilean socialist President Salvador Allende. Echeverría denied that Halcones was sanctioned by the government, maintaining that it was a natural outgrowth of the opposition to the left.
See also
Luis Echeverría
Mexican Movement of 1968
Brigada de Fusileros Paracaidistas
Mexican Dirty War
References
Paramilitary organizations
Political repression
1971 in Mexico
Human rights in Mexico
Massacres in Mexico |
Chen Kai (; born 20 January 1993) is a Chinese former footballer.
Club career
Having started his career in France with Metz, Chen returned to China to forge a career in the lower leagues.
Career statistics
Club
.
Notes
References
1993 births
Living people
People from Guiyang
Footballers from Guizhou
Chinese footballers
Association football defenders
China League One players
China League Two players
FC Metz players
Chengdu Tiancheng F.C. players
Nantong Zhiyun F.C. players
Chinese expatriate footballers
Chinese expatriate sportspeople in France
Expatriate footballers in France |
China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics or CAAA (in Chinese: 中国航天空气动力技术研究院) is a research and manufacturing organization for rockets, missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Headquartered in Beijing, China, it is a subsidiary of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC).
Activity
CAAA produces the popular China's military export Rainbow UAVs, as well as the PW UAVs.
History
Founded in 1956, CAAA was formerly known as Beijing Institute of Aerodynamics (BIA) and 701st Institute of CASC. Nowadays, it is also known as the 11th Academy of CASC.
See also
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC)
List of unmanned aerial vehicles of the People's Republic of China
References
External links
Official website
Aerospace companies
Research institutes in China |
Liolaemus valdesianus is a species of lizard in the family Iguanidae or the family Liolaemidae. The species is endemic to Chile.
References
valdesianus
Lizards of South America
Reptiles of Chile
Endemic fauna of Chile
Reptiles described in 1950
Taxa named by Walter Hellmich |
The name William has been used for two tropical cyclones worldwide, both in the South Pacific Ocean:
Cyclone William (1983) – late-season tropical cyclone which stayed at sea and became one of the basin's most northeasterly-forming storms.
Cyclone William (1994) – affected the Cook Islands and French Polynesia, causing notable damage.
South Pacific cyclone disambiguation pages |
Christian Worship: HYMNAL is an authorized hymnal of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS). It was published by Northwestern Publishing House, the official publisher of the WELS. The WELS Hymnal Project Executive Committee began preparations for the hymnal in 2013; the project chairman was Jon Zabell and the project director was Michael Schultz.
Editions
In addition to the pew edition, several auxiliary books are available:
Core Volumes:
Christian Worship: Hymnal
Christian Worship: Accompaniment for Hymns
Christian Worship: Accompaniment for Services
Expanded Resources
Christian Worship: Psalter
Christian Worship: Accompaniment for the Psalter
Christian Worship: Altar Book
Christian Worship: Agenda
Support Resources
Christian Worship: Foundations
Christian Worship: Musicians’ Manual
Christian Worship: Guidebook
Our Worth to Him: Devotions for Christian Worship
Preaching Resources
Commentary on the Propers, Year A
Commentary on the Propers, Year B
Commentary on the Propers, Year C
Digital
Musician's Resource
Service Builder
Christian Worship: Service Builder
The hymnal offers an application called Christian Worship: Service Builder to plan worship and produce service folders or slide presentations for use during worship. The worship planners have the options to choose a day from the lectionary calendar, choose an order of service, customized liturgical options and hymns.
See also
List of English-language hymnals by denomination
References
External links
Official site
Lutheran hymnals
21st-century Christian texts
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod |
Kamathep Prab Marn (, , lit. "Defeating Love") is a Thai lakorn, the eighth drama in the series The Cupids, based on a novel series of the same name. The novel is wrote by Nara and the director is . It was aired on every Friday–Sunday from July 7, until July 23, 2017.
Synopsis
Waralee (Araya A. Hargate), a secretary to Peem (Theeradej Wongpuapan), the boss of "Cupid Hut" company. She is the only single woman in the "Cupid Hut" company. Waralee chose to live as a modern single woman and is happy to be single! But after 5 years, she saw Kongpope (Louis Scott), Waralee's first love, and the same person that left her without a goodbye. Will Waralee be able to find herself a new boyfriend? Or will she go back to her first love?
Cast
Main
Theeradej Wongpuapan as Peem
Araya A. Hargate as Waralee
Supporting
Louis Scott as Kongpope
Sara Legge as Meaun Dao
Thanapob Leeratanakachorn as Danchon
Thassapak Hsu (Bie) as Jade
as Lookpla
as Peem's dad
as Isariya Techadamrongkul (Peem's mom)
as Mae Orn (Waralee's mom)
Anusara Wantongtak as Apol
Guest
Jarinporn Joonkiat as Hunsa
Pakorn Chatborirak as Tim Pitchayatorn
Cris Horwang as Horm Muen Lee
as Pee Mongkol
as Praweprao
Phupoom Pongpanu as Rome
Nuttanicha Dungwattanawanich as Mim / Milin
Phakin Khamwilaisak as Saran
as Karakade
as Daniel
Thikamporn Ritta-apinan as Oil / Nantisa
as Aht / Angoon
Kannarun Wongkajornklai as Prima
Teeradetch Metawarayut as Kawin / Kevin Blake
as Ben
as Angie
Mintita Wattanakul as Cindy
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 name Beti has been used for two tropical cyclones worldwide, both in the South Pacific Ocean:
Cyclone Beti (1984) – crossed over from the Australian region and struck the Loyalty Islands.
Cyclone Beti (1995) – affected Australia, New Caledonia, New Zealand and Vanuatu, killing 2 people.
South Pacific cyclone disambiguation pages |
Iguanodectinae is a subfamily of small freshwater fish in the family Iguanodectidae. They are most prominently found in the Amazon river basin and its major tributaries, but they are also known from the Tocantins, Orinoco, and Paraguay rivers. It has two genera, Piabucus and Iguanodectes. Some species in the subfamily are taken from the wild for aquariums, like the red- and green-line lizard tetras (Iguanodectes geisleri and Iguanodectes spilurus, respectively). There is minor, but ongoing, debate regarding its taxonomy.
Description
Members of Iguanodectinae are generally fairly small, none more than 13 cm in length. Members of Piabucus are slightly larger than members of Iguanodectes, reaching a maximum of 12.9 cm (5.1 in), while members of Iguanodectes only reach 10.3 cm (4.1 in). They are slender and rather elongate in body shape, comparable to minnows; ichthyologist Carl H. Eigenmann, who named the subfamily, likened them to smelt. Their scales are often brightly colored or reflective, and this, combined with their small size, makes them a potential target for the aquarium industry.
The dorsal fin is located behind the middle of the body and usually behind the start of the pelvic fin, though sometimes the dorsal and pelvic fins are on the same line of origin. All members of the subfamily have a small dorsal adipose fin. Piabucus typically have longer pectoral fins and a deeper chest than Iguanodectes (sometimes described as a more pronounced "pectoral keel"). The lateral line is complete in all species. The species Iguanodectes geisleri has some morphological differences when compared to its congeners; its dorsal fin originates in the middle of the body, as opposed to behind the middle, and its anal fin is shorter in length.
The mouth is small, terminal, and does not extend past or under the eye. The maxilla is equipped with multicuspid incisor teeth, contracted at the base and flaring outwards. The premaxilla has one or two teeth on each side in all species, except for Piabucus melanostomus, which lacks this "outer set". This dentition is primarily used for an herbivorous diet, at least in Iguanodectes, but little is known of the subfamily's ecology outside of this.
Taxonomy
When first classified in 1909 by ichthyologist Carl H. Eigenmann, Iguanodectinae was placed in the family Characidae; at the time, it had a sole representative in the genus Iguanodectes. By 1929, this definition had expanded to include Piabucus. In 1954, James Erwin Böhlke confirmed by way of morphology that Iguanodectes and Piabucus should both be in Iguanodectinae. The monophyly of the subfamily was noted by Richard P. Vari in research from the year 1977. Research by Oliviera et al., based both in phylogeny and morphology, prompted a move to the family Iguanodectidae from Characidae in 2011; this move was also done to keep Characidae monophyletic. The same research also moved the monogeneric Bryconops clade into Iguanodectidae, leaving Iguanodectinae and Bryconops as the only two taxa therein.
While Iguanodectinae is recognized by sources like OBIS and the World Register of Marine Species, other sources such as NCBI and the Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera consider it synonymous with Iguanodectidae. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes and GBIF simply don't acknowledge it, uniting the genera therein. ITIS still considers it synonymous with Characidae.
Iguanodectes is the more speciose of the two genera, with 8 members. Piabucus has 3.
Iguanodectes (Cope, 1982)
Iguanodectes adujai (Géry, 1970)
Iguanodectes geisleri (Géry, 1970)
Iguanodectes gracilis (Géry, 1993)
Iguanodectes polylepis (Géry, 1993)
Iguanodectes purusii (Steindachner, 1908)
Iguanodectes rachovii (Regan, 1912)
Iguanodectes spilurus (Günther, 1864)
Iguanodectes variatus (Géry, 1993)
Piabucus (Oken, 1817)
Piabucus caudomaculatus (Vari, 1977)
Piabucus dentatus (Kölreuter, 1763)
Piabucus melanostoma (Holmberg, 1891)
Habitat
All members of Iguanodectinae from both genera reside in South America. They can be found in the Amazon, Orinoco, Tocantins, and Paraguay rivers, as well as all major tributaries of the Amazon. Of these, the Paraguay is the least-populated; Iguanodectinae is only represented therein by a few species in the genus Piabucus. When in captivity, species from both genera have been observed to be intolerant of poor water conditions, demonstrating a preference for a well-oxygenated environment. They seem to prefer swimming near the surface of the water.
Etymology
The subfamily Iguanodectinae gets its name from the genus Iguanodectes, which used to be its sole representative. Carl H. Eigenmann noted in 1929 that the root allusion was not made clear in the original materials for Iguanodectes; modern consensus, however, agrees with the analysis he subsequently provided, that it originates in "iguana", the lizard, and the Greek word "dectes", which means "to bite" or "to devour". Drawing from this, the common name "lizard bite tetra" for the entire family Iguanodectidae has been proposed, but has not been accepted. The subfamily Iguanodectinae also has no accepted common name.
In Aquaria
Though not as popular as many other species of tetra, several members of Iguanodectinae are seen in the aquarium trade. Piabucus dentatus, sometimes called the Piabuco tetra, is taken from the wild for such purposes, but is not at risk of going extinct from it. Reports from hobbyists as recently as "the summer of 2018" show that such collection is still ongoing. It tends to form groups, so aquarists are recommended to house as many as at least 6 at a time. This goes for the other species of Piabucus as well; all three are sometimes grouped as Piabucus sp. and called "chin tetras". This is likely due to distinct markings on the lower jaw.
Fish from Iguanodectes are slightly more common than from Piabucus, but are still infrequent in the trade. I. geisleri is sold under the name "red line lizard tetra", and I. spilurus has the name "green line lizard tetra". I. adujai looks quite similar to I. geisleri, so is sometimes part of the same stock.
References
Characiformes |
The 1979 UAE President's Cup Final was the third final of the UAE President's Cup, the Emirati football cup competition. The match was contested by Sharjah and Al Ain. Sharjah was awarded the trophy for the first time after defeating Al Ain on the penalties, after 2-2.
Details
References
1979
Cup
Association football penalty shoot-outs
Al Ain FC matches
Sharjah FC matches |
Iceland's Bell or Iceland Clock () may refer to:
Iceland's Bell (novel), a 1943 book by Nobel prize winer Halldór Kiljan Laxness
Iceland's Bell (painting), by Icelandic painter Jóhannes S. Kjarval
Iceland's Bell (sculpture), by Kristin E. Hrafnsson |
Back for Everything is the fourth studio album by American rapper Kodak Black. It was released through Atlantic Records on February 25, 2022. The album features a sole guest appearance from Lil Durk, who appears on the fifteenth track, "Take You Back". It includes production from well-established record producers, such as Buddah Bless, London on da Track, Cubeatz, Pvlace, Murda Beatz, Scott Storch, Starrah, Zaytoven, Boi-1da, Vinylz, and Lee Major, as well as emerging producers, such as longtime collaborator Dyryk, Mondo, Jahaan Sweet, Snapz, Ayo B, Dr. Zeuz, Avedon, June Nawakii, SkipOnDaBeat, ATL Jacob, and Jambo, among others. The album was supported by the single "Love & War" and the promotional singles "Grinding All Season" and "I Wish". The cover art of Back for Everything pays homage to the movie franchise Back to the Future.
Release and promotion
Kodak announced the album and its release date on February 8, 2022, with the pre-order on Apple Music a few days prior to the announcement. The tracklist was revealed on February 24, 2022, the day before its release.
Singles
The lead and only single of the album, "Love & War", was released on December 15, 2021. The song "Super Gremlin", which is a part of the Sniper Gang label compilation album, Sniper Gang Presents Syko Bob & Snapkatt: Nightmare Babies (2021), is also included on the album. The first promotional single, "Grinding All Season", was released on February 8, 2022. The second promotional single, "I Wish", was released on February 22, 2022. On the day before the album's release, Kodak's mother also got a Sniper Gang tattoo in honor of her son's release, in which Kodak posted a video to Instagram with the caption: "Ma Jus Snapped & Tatted SG On Her".
Critical reception
Writing for Billboard, Jason Lipshutz felt that "new album Back for Everything showcases Kodak's ability to pluck pop-ready melodies out of ethereal beats, his signature croak sounding more nimble than before as he reflects on his fame, personal ordeals and future plans; with few guest stars, the project is intimate in a way that Kodak Black, a fascinating hip hop superstar demand". Preezy Brown of Vibe believed that the album "is a reminder of the magic the Floridian is capable of creating when fully focused and locked in", adding that "yet, the lack of contributors isn't an impediment for Back For Everything, as Kodak asserts himself well throughout the album's 19 songs".
Track listing
References
2022 albums
Kodak Black albums
Atlantic Records albums
Albums produced by London on da Track
Albums produced by Cubeatz
Albums produced by Murda Beatz
Albums produced by Scott Storch
Albums produced by Zaytoven
Albums produced by Boi-1da
Albums produced by Vinylz
Albums produced by Lee Major |
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