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David et Jonathan was a 1980s vocal duet composed of David Marouani (born 1969) and Jonathan Bermudes (born 1968). The Pair is best known for their hits, "Bella Vita", "Gina" and "Est-ce que tu viens pour les vacances ?", which achieved huge success in France in 1987 and 1988 and earned Silver and Gold certifications. Several of their songs were written by Didier Barbelivien. When the band split up in 1990, both singers began solo careers, neither successfully.
Discography
Albums
1990s : Fais pas semblant (David Marouani)
Singles
1986 : "Bella Vita" - #2 in France, Gold disc
1987 : "Gina" - #18 in France, Silver disc
1988 : "Est-ce que tu viens pour les vacances ?" - #3 in France, Gold disc
1988 : "Cœur de gosse" - #26 in France
1989 : "Pour toi Arménie" (charity single)
1990s : "Envie de pleurer" (David Marouani)
1990s : "Mes Nuits au soleil" (Jonathan Bermudes)
References
French musical duos
Musical groups established in 1986
Musical groups disestablished in 1990
1986 establishments in France
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Sobantu Shootings Stars, is a South African football club based in the Sobantu township, which is a small suburb situated 4 km from the city centre of Pietermaritzburg. The club currently play in the KwaZulu-Natal province of Vodacom League.
External links
SAFA Official Website -database with results of Vodacom League
SAFA Second Division clubs
Soccer clubs in KwaZulu-Natal
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sobantu%20Shooting%20Stars
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Gérald Forschelet (born 19 September 1981 in Papeete, Tahiti) is a Tahitian-French professional football player who plays as defensive midfielder.
Career
Cannes
Forschelet started his career at Cannes on 1998, debuting for the team on 17 February 2001 in a Ligue 2 match against Montpellier. He played in other 6 matches in that season when the club was relegated to Championnat National. Playing at the 3rd tier of French football, Forschelet caught the attention of English club Bolton Wanderers and signed for the Premier League team in February 2002.
Bolton Wanderers
Forschelet never managed to get first team football at Bolton Wanderers after facing competition with players like Kevin Nolan, Per Frandsen, Iván Campo and Jay-Jay Okocha. Playing only for the reserve team during the whole 2002–03 season, the Tahitian left the club on loan for the whole 2003–04 season.
Neuchâtel Xamax
Arriving at Neuchâtel Xamax on loan, Forschelet managed to break into the first team with 24 appearances and 6 goals at Axpo Super League being used as right-midfielder and even as an attacking midfield. Upon his return, he was released from Bolton Wanderers and signed for French club FC Istres. Having limited play time due to injuries, Forschelet grabbed only two Ligue 1 appearances against Nantes and Lille before being released and returning to Neuchâtel Xamax where injuries once again hit the Tahitian midfielder who played the 90 minutes in only one of his 11 appearances.
Charleroi
Forschelet was transferred to Belgian Charleroi on 2005, after the club has finished 5th on 2004-05 Belgian First Division. He played 14 times for the Zèbres, scoring once.
Assyriska
In January 2007, Forschelet moved to Assyriska, which was recently relegated to Division 1, the 3rd tier of Swedish football, winning the competition the same year. However, his contract was not renewed after the club's promotion.
AFC Tubize
Forschelet signed on mid-2008 for AFC Tubize to play at the Belgian First Division. Forschelet appearance 16 times during AFC Tubize's first and only season at the top flight but could not avoid relegation. The Tahitian midfielder was released after the end of his contract.
Non-professional football
Forschelet had unsuccessful trials with Swedish clubs Åtvidabergs FF and Ljungskile SK before signing with Belgian low tier Cité Sport.
References
1981 births
Living people
French Polynesian men's footballers
French men's footballers
French Polynesian expatriate men's footballers
Bolton Wanderers F.C. players
Royale Union Tubize-Braine players
FC Istres players
Neuchâtel Xamax FCS players
R. Charleroi S.C. players
AS Cannes players
Men's association football midfielders
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Harvey Leslie Hyde (born July 13, 1939) is an American sports journalist and former football coach. He served as the head football coach at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) from 1982 to 1985.
Early career
Hyde was born in Pasadena, California. He started his college head coaching career at Pasadena City College. He graduated from the University of Redlands.
Coaching career
The Rebels improved under Hyde's tenure. In 1983, they went 7–4, a four win improvement from the last season. The following year, they had unprecedented success in the 1984 season; with star quarterback Randall Cunningham, UNLV went 11–2, won their conference title and defeated Toledo in the California Bowl. It was UNLV's only 11-win season. Hyde was at one point a candidate for the vacant head coaching position at Arizona State.
However, it was later discovered the Rebels had used ineligible players and the Pacific Coast Athletic Association (now Big West Conference) had the Rebels forfeit all the wins from the 1983 and 1984 seasons, though the wins were not stricken from NCAA and UNLV records. Although none of the ineligible players were used in the bowl game, the California Bowl was among the games forfeited. The issue erupted at the same time the university president, Robert Maxson, was in the middle of an hostile relationship with the school's famous head basketball coach, Jerry Tarkanian, over similar off-the-court issues with players. The athletic director at the time, Brad Rothermel, noted in later years that Maxson wanted to fire Hyde because of the coach's friendship with Jerry Tarkanian's brother, Myron, stating "When President Maxson discovered (that friendship), he did what he could to level the legs of the football program. We didn't recover from that." During the 1985 season, one of Hyde's players was Marion "Suge" Knight. Among his coaching staff was future Fresno State head coach Pat Hill.
Things became more difficult for the embattled coach, as nine of his players got involved in various scrapes with the law ranging from theft to assault. Finally, on April 23, 1986, Hyde was fired by Maxon with three years left on his $62,500-a-year contract, which the university said it would honor. One of his assistant coaches, Wayne Nunnely, was named interim head coach through the 1986 season, before being chosen as his permanent successor. His firing marked a period of decline for the Rebels that lasted for over three decades.
Hyde coached football one last time in 1990, as George Allen's associate head coach, recruiting coordinator and running backs coach at Long Beach State. During that year, Hyde recruited future National Football League star Terrell Davis. Their tenure would only last one season as Allen died just after the end of the regular season, in part due to weak health after his players drenched him with ice water to celebrate a season-ending victory over UNLV. In interviewing to be the permanent head coach of Long Beach State, a program which was under financial duress, Hyde offered radical ideas of having the team play only road games, recruit only junior college players and use only one set of uniforms; he was not selected and the program only lasted one more season before finally shutting down.
After coaching
After football, Hyde went on to do sports radio for KSHP-AM 1400 in Las Vegas, and working as part of the USC football pregame show for ESPN Radio 710 in Los Angeles.
Head coaching record
* Entire 1983 and 1984 seasons, including the 1984 California Bowl, forfeited due to ineligible players. On-field record for 1983 is 7–4 (4–2 PCAA), official record for 1984 is 11–2 (7–0 PCAA).
#On-field record is 26–19–1 (16–9–1 PCAA) if forfeited games are included.
References
1939 births
Living people
Long Beach State 49ers football coaches
Pasadena City Lancers football coaches
Sportspeople from Pasadena, California
University of Redlands alumni
UNLV Rebels football coaches
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Ernest Kombo (March 27, 1941 – October 22, 2008) was a Congo-Brazzaville religious official born in 1941 in Pointe-Noire, French Equatorial Africa. He was ordained a Catholic priest for the Society of Jesus (S.J.) on July 6, 1973. On December 5, 1983, he was appointed the third bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Nkayi and he was consecrated bishop on January 6, 1984 by Pope John Paul II assisted by Cardinals Eduardo Martínez Somalo and Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy, inside St. Peter's Basilica. Following the appointment of Msgr. Georges-Firmin Singha as Bishop of Pointe-Noire, Bishop Kombo was transferred to the Diocese of Owando on July 7, 1990 as the second bishop of that diocese from the Republic of the Congo. He was very direct in his manner.
From 1991 to 1992, he was elected to head Congo's interim legislature, the Conseil Superieur de la Republique (CRS). In October 1994, at the General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, at the Vatican, Bishop Kombo proposed that some Roman Catholic nuns be made members of the College of Cardinals, because of their mission to the Roman Catholic Church.
Msgr. Kombo died in Paris, France, at the Val-de-Grâce Hospital of stomach cancer, on Wednesday, October 22, 2008, aged 67, where he was recovering from his poor health. According to his will, his body was repatriated to his native Congo for interment inside the small Catholic Cemetery adjoining the Metropolitan Cathedral Sacre-Coeur of Brazzaville.
Notes
1941 births
2008 deaths
Presidents of the National Assembly (Republic of the Congo)
Republic of the Congo Jesuits
20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in the Republic of the Congo
21st-century Roman Catholic bishops in the Republic of the Congo
Jesuit bishops
Roman Catholic bishops of Owando
Roman Catholic bishops of Nkayi
Republic of the Congo Roman Catholic bishops
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The 2003 Atlantic hurricane season was an active Atlantic hurricane season with tropical activity before and after the official bounds of the season – the first such occurrence in 33 years. The season officially began on June 1, 2003 and ended on November 30. However, a pre-season storm, Tropical Storm Ana, led to the season starting on April 20, and storm activity continued through December 11. The timeline includes information which was not operationally released, meaning that information from post-storm reviews by the National Hurricane Center, such as information on a storm that was not operationally warned upon, has been included. This timeline documents tropical cyclone formations, strengthening, weakening, landfalls, extratropical transitions, as well as dissipations during the season.
This season had 21 tropical depressions, of which, 16 became named storms. Of these, 7 strengthened into hurricanes with 3 intensifying into major hurricanes. Hurricane Fabian, Hurricane Isabel, and Hurricane Juan had their names retired due to the impact caused in Bermuda, the eastern United States, and Nova Scotia respectively. Both Fabian and Juan were the worst hurricanes to hit their respective areas, causing $450 million in damages and 16 fatalities. Hurricane Isabel was the strongest, deadliest, and costliest storm of the season. Isabel peaked as a Category 5 hurricane over the open waters of the Atlantic; however, it weakened to a Category 2 before impacting the east coast of the United States, causing $3.6 billion in damages and 51 fatalities.
Timeline
April
April 20
2 a.m. EDT (0600 UTC) – Subtropical Storm Ana develops out of an extratropical low 250 miles (400 km) west of Bermuda.
8 p.m. EDT (0000 UTC April 21) – Subtropical Storm Ana gains tropical characteristics and becomes Tropical Storm Ana.
April 24
2 a.m. EDT (0600 UTC) – Tropical Storm Ana loses tropical characteristics and becomes extratropical.
June
June 1
The Atlantic hurricane season officially begins.
June 10
8 p.m. AST (0000 June 11) – Tropical Depression Two forms 1,145 mi (1,840 km) southwest of Brava, Cape Verde.
June 11
8 p.m. AST (0000 June 12) – Tropical Depression Two dissipates over open waters.
June 29
1 a.m. CDT (0600 UTC) A Tropical Depression forms 210 mi west-northwest of Cancun, Mexico.
7 a.m. CDT (1200 UTC) – The Tropical Depression strengthens into Tropical Storm Bill.
June 30
2 p.m. CDT (1900 UTC) – Tropical Storm Bill makes landfall near Cocodrie, Louisiana with winds of 60 mph (95 km/h).
July
July 1
1 a.m. CDT (0600 UTC) – Tropical Storm Bill is downgraded to a tropical depression.
July2
7 p.m. CDT (1800 UTC) – Tropical Depression Bill loses tropical characteristics and becomes extratropical.
July 8
8 p.m. AST (1800 UTC) – Tropical Storm Claudette develops out of a tropical wave located 150 mi (240 km) north of Aruba.
July 10
8 a.m. EDT (1200 UTC) – Tropical Storm Claudette intensifies into a hurricane in the western Caribbean Sea.
2 p.m. EDT (1800 UTC) – Hurricane Claudette weakens back to a tropical storm.
July 11
5 a.m. CDT (1000 UTC) – Tropical Storm Claudette makes landfall near Puerto Morelos, Mexico with winds of 60 mph (95 km/h).
July 15
1 a.m. CDT (0600 UTC) – Tropical Storm Claudette re-intensifies into a hurricane in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico.
10:30 a.m. CDT (1530 UTC) – Hurricane Claudette makes landfall near Matagorda Island, Texas with winds of 90 mph (145 km/h).
7 p.m. CDT (0000 UTC July 16 UTC) – Hurricane Claudette weakens to a tropical storm.
July 16
8 a.m. AST (1200 UTC) – Tropical Depression Four forms 635 mi (1,020 km) east of Bermuda.
7 p.m. CDT (0000 UTC July 17 UTC) – Tropical Storm Claudette weakens to a tropical depression.
8 p.m. AST (0000 UTC July 17 UTC) – Tropical Depression Four strengthens into Tropical Storm Danny.
July 17
1 a.m. CDT (0600 UTC) – Tropical Depression Claudette degenerates into a remnant low-pressure area.
July 18
2 p.m. AST (1800 UTC) – Tropical Storm Danny strengthens into a hurricane.
July 19
2 p.m. AST (1800 UTC) – Hurricane Danny weakens to a tropical storm.
2 p.m. AST (1800 UTC) – Tropical Depression Six forms 1035 mi (1675 km) east of the Lesser Antilles.
July 20
2 p.m. AST (1800 UTC) – Tropical Storm Danny weakens to a tropical depression.
July 21
2 a.m. AST (0600 UTC) – Tropical Depression Danny degenerates into a remnant low-pressure area.
2 p.m. AST (1800 UTC) – Tropical Depression Six dissipates over open waters.
July 25
8 p.m. EDT (1200 UTC) – Tropical Depression Seven forms 60 mi (95 km) east of Daytona Beach, Florida.
July 26
2 a.m. EDT (0600 UTC) – Tropical Depression Seven makes landfall near St. Catherines Island, Georgia with winds of 30 mph (45 km/h).
July 27
2 a.m. EDT (0600 UTC) – Tropical Depression Seven dissipates inland.
August
August 14
8 p.m. EDT (1800 UTC) – Tropical Storm Erika develops out of an area of low pressure about 85 mi (140 km) west-southwest of Fort Myers, Florida.
August 16
5:30 a.m. CDT (1030 UTC) – Tropical Storm Erika strengthens into a hurricane and makes landfall near Boca San Rafael in northeastern Tamaulipas with winds of 75 mph (120 km/h)
1 p.m. CDT (1800 UTC) – Hurricane Erika weakens to a tropical storm.
7 p.m. CDT (0000 UTC August 17) – Tropical Storm Erika weakens to a tropical depression.
August 17
1 a.m. CDT (0600 UTC) – Tropical Depression Erika dissipates over the mountains of northern Mexico.
August 21
8 a.m. AST (1200 UTC) – Tropical Depression Nine forms about 260 mi (415 km) south of San Juan, Puerto Rico.
August 22
2 p.m. AST (1800 UTC) – Tropical Depression Nine dissipates over open waters.
August 27
2 p.m. AST (1800 UTC) – Tropical Depression Ten forms 420 mi (675 km) west of the Cape Verde Islands.
August 28
8 a.m. AST (1200 UTC) – Tropical Depression Ten strengthens into Tropical Storm Fabian.
August 29
8 p.m. AST (0000 UTC August 30) – Tropical Storm Fabian intensifies into a hurricane.
August 30
8 a.m. AST (1200 UTC) –Hurricane Fabian strengthens into a Category 2 hurricane.
7 a.m. CDT (1200 UTC) – Tropical Depression Eleven forms 335 mi (540 km) east-southeast of Corpus Christi, Texas.
2 p.m. AST (1800 UTC) – Hurricane Fabian strengthens into a major hurricane—a storm with winds of 111 mph (178 km/h) or higher.
1 p.m. CDT (1800 UTC) – Tropical Depression Eleven strengthens into Tropical Storm Grace.
August 31
6 a.m. CDT (1100 UTC) – Tropical Storm Grace makes landfall near Galveston Island, Texas with winds of 40 mph (65 km/h).
2 p.m. AST (1800 UTC) – Hurricane Fabian strengthens into a Category 4 hurricane.
1 p.m. CDT (1800 UTC) – Tropical Storm Grace weakens to a tropical depression.
September
September 1
2 p.m. AST (1800 UTC) – Hurricane Fabian reaches its peak intensity with winds of 145 mph (230 km/h) while located 310 mi (500 km) northeast of Barbuda.
September 2
7 a.m. CDT (1200 UTC) – Tropical Depression Grace dissipates as it gets absorbed by a frontal system.
September 3
2 a.m. AST (0600 UTC) – Hurricane Fabian weakens to a Category 3 hurricane.
2 p.m. EDT (1800 UTC) – Tropical Depression Twelve forms 300 mi (480 km) west of Tampa, Florida.
8 p.m. AST (0000 UTC September 4) – Hurricane Fabian re-intensifies into a Category 4 hurricane.
September 4
2 a.m. AST (0600 UTC) – Hurricane Fabian weakens to a Category 3 hurricane again.
8 p.m. AST (0000 UTC September 5) – Hurricane Fabian re-intensifies into a Category 4 hurricane.
September 5
2 a.m. AST (0600 UTC) – Hurricane Fabian weakens to a Category 3 hurricane once more.
2 a.m. EDT (0600 UTC) – Tropical Depression Twelve strengthens into Tropical Storm Henri.
4 p.m. AST (2000 UTC) – Hurricane Fabian makes its closest approach to land, passing 14 mi (23 km) to the west of Bermuda with winds of 120 mph (180 km/h).
8 p.m. EDT (0000 UTC September 6) – Tropical Storm Henri weakens to a tropical depression.
8 p.m. AST (0000 UTC September 6) – Tropical Depression Thirteen forms 470 mi (755 km) west-southwest of Brava, Cape Verde.
September 6
2 a.m. AST (0600 UTC) – Tropical Depression Thirteen strengthens into Tropical Storm Isabel.
5 a.m. EDT (0900 UTC) – Tropical Depression Henri makes landfall near Clearwater, Florida with winds of 35 mph (55 km/h).
8 p.m. AST (0000 UTC September 7) – Hurricane Fabian weakens into a Category 2 hurricane.
September 7
8 a.m. AST (1200 UTC) – Hurricane Fabian weakens to a Category 1 hurricane.
8 a.m. AST (1200 UTC) – Tropical Storm Isabel strengthens into a hurricane.
September 8
2 a.m. AST (0600 UTC) – Hurricane Isabel strengthens into a Category 2 hurricane.
2 a.m. AST (0600 UTC) – Tropical Depression Fourteen forms 290 mi (465 km) southeast of the southernmost Cape Verde islands.
8 a.m. AST (1200 UTC) – Hurricane Isabel strengthens into a major hurricane.
2 p.m. AST (1800 UTC) – Hurricane Fabian loses tropical characteristics and becomes extratropical, while retaining hurricane-force winds, over the open waters of the north Atlantic Ocean.
2 p.m. EDT (1800 UTC) – Tropical Depression Henri loses tropical characteristics and becomes extratropical shortly before dissipating.
8 p.m. AST (0000 UTC September 9) – Hurricane Isabel strengthens into a Category 4 hurricane.
September 9
8 p.m. AST (0000 UTC September 10) – Hurricane Isabel weakens to a Category 3 hurricane.
September 10
8 a.m. AST (1200 UTC) – Hurricane Isabel re-intensifies into a Category 4 hurricane.
2 p.m. AST (1800 UTC) – Tropical Depression Fourteen dissipates.
September 11
2 p.m. AST (1800 UTC) – Hurricane Isabel strengthens into a Category 5 hurricane, becoming the strongest storm of the season; winds peak at 165 mph (270 km/h) and the minimum pressure is 915 mbar (hPa; (27.03 inHg). At this time, Isabel is located 560 mi (900 km) northeast of Guadeloupe.
September 12
8 p.m. AST (0000 UTC September 13) – Hurricane Isabel weakens to a Category 4 hurricane.
September 13
2 p.m. AST (1800 UTC) – Hurricane Isabel re-intensifies into a Category 5 hurricane.
8 p.m. AST (0000 UTC September 14) – Hurricane Isabel weakens to a Category 4 hurricane again.
September 14
2 p.m. AST (1800 UTC) – Hurricane Isabel re-intensifies into a Category 5 hurricane for the third and final time.
8 p.m. AST (0000 UTC September 15) – Hurricane Isabel weakens to a Category 4 hurricane once more.
September 15
8 p.m. EST (0000 UTC September 16) – Hurricane Isabel weakens to a Category 3 hurricane.
September 16
8 a.m. (1200 UTC) – Hurricane Isabel weakens to a Category 2 hurricane.
September 18
1 p.m. EST (1700 UTC) – Hurricane Isabel makes landfall near Drum Inlet, North Carolina with winds of 105 mph (165 km/h).
8 p.m. EST (0000 UTC September 19) – Hurricane Isabel weakens to a Category 1 hurricane.
September 19
2 a.m. EST (0600 UTC) – Hurricane Isabel weakens to a tropical storm.
8 a.m. EST (1200 UTC) – Tropical Storm Isabel loses tropical characteristics and becomes extratropical.
September 24
8 a.m. AST (1200 UTC) – Tropical Depression Fifteen forms 345 mi (555 km) southeast of Bermuda.
8 p.m. AST (0000 UTC September 25) – Tropical Depression Fifteen strengthens into Tropical Storm Juan.
September 25
2 p.m AST (1800 UTC) – Tropical Depression Sixteen forms 920 mi (1,480 km) west-southwest of the Cape Verde Islands.
September 26
8 a.m. AST (1200 UTC) – Tropical Storm Juan strengthens into a hurricane.
September 27
2 p.m. AST (1800 UTC) – Hurricane Juan strengthens into a Category 2 hurricane.
2 p.m. AST (1800 UTC) – Tropical Depression Sixteen strengthens into Tropical Storm Kate.
September 28
11 p.m. AST (0300 UTC September 29) – Hurricane Juan makes landfall near Halifax, Nova Scotia with winds of 100 mph (160 km/h).
September 29
2 a.m. AST (0600 UTC) – Hurricane Juan weakens to a Category 1 hurricane as it passes over Prince Edward Island with winds of 75 mph (120 km/h).
8 a.m. AST (1200 UTC) – Hurricane Juan weakens to a tropical storm.
2 p.m. AST (1800 UTC) – Tropical Storm Juan is absorbed by a large extratropical low.
2 p.m. AST (1800 UTC) – Tropical Storm Kate strengthens into a hurricane.
September 30
2 a.m. AST (0600 UTC) – Hurricane Kate weakens to a tropical storm.
October
October 1
2 p.m. AST (1800 UTC) – Tropical Storm Kate re-intensifies into a hurricane.
1 p.m. CDT (1800 UTC) – Tropical Storm Larry develops out of an extratropical gale while located 300 mi (483 km) east-southeast of Tampico, Mexico.
October 3
2 a.m. AST (0600 UTC) – Hurricane Kate strengthens into a Category 2 hurricane.
2 p.m. AST (1800 UTC) – Hurricane Kate strengthens into a major hurricane.
October 4
2 p.m. AST (1800 UTC) – Hurricane Kate reaches its peak intensity with winds of 125 mph (205 km/h) with a minimum pressure of 952 mbar (hPa; 28.12 inHg) while located 645 mi (1,040 km) southeast of Bermuda.
October 5
2 a.m. AST (0600 UTC) – Hurricane Kate weakens to a Category 2 hurricane.
5 a.m. CDT (1000 UTC) – Tropical Storm Larry makes landfall near Paraíso in the Mexican state of Tabasco with winds of 60 mph (95 km/h).
8 p.m. AST (0000 UTC October 6) – Hurricane Kate weakens to a Category 1 hurricane.
October 6
1 a.m. CDT (0600 UTC) – Tropical Storm Larry weakens to a tropical depression.
7 a.m. CDT (1200 UTC) – Tropical Depression Larry degenerates into a remnant low-pressure area.
October 7
2 a.m. AST (0600 UTC) – Hurricane Kate weakens to a tropical storm.
8 p.m. AST (0000 UTC October 8) – Tropical Storm Kate loses tropical characteristics and becomes extratropical over the northern Atlantic Ocean while located several hundred miles northeast of Newfoundland.
October 10
2 p.m. AST (1800 UTC) – Tropical Storm Mindy forms 80 mi (130 km) northeast of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
October 12
2 a.m. AST (0600 UTC) – Tropical Storm Mindy weakens to a tropical depression.
8 p.m. AST (0000 UTC October 13) – Tropical Depression Nineteen forms 1,030 mi (1,660 km) west-southwest of the Cape Verde islands.
October 14
2 a.m. AST (0600 UTC) – Tropical Depression Mindy dissipates.
2 p.m. AST (1800 UTC) – Tropical Depression Nineteen strengthens into Tropical Storm Nicholas.
October 22
8 p.m. AST (0000 UTC October 23) – Tropical Storm Nicholas weakens to a tropical depression.
October 23
8 p.m. AST (0000 UTC October 24) – Tropical Depression Nicholas degenerates into a broad area of low pressure while located 605 mi (975 km) northeast of Barbuda.
November
November 30
The Atlantic hurricane season officially ends.
December
December 4
8 a.m. AST (1200 UTC) – Tropical Depression Twenty forms about 345 mi (560 km) south of Kingston, Jamaica.
2 p.m. AST (1800 UTC) – Tropical Depression Twenty strengthens into Tropical Storm Odette.
December 6
7 p.m. AST (2300 UTC) – Tropical Storm Odette makes landfall near Cabo Falso, Dominican Republic with winds of 60 mph (95 km/h).
December 7
2 p.m. AST (1800 UTC) – Tropical Storm Odette loses tropical characteristics and becomes extratropical.
2 p.m. AST (1800 UTC) – Subtropical Storm Peter forms 835 mi (1,340 km) south-southwest of the Azores.
December 9
2 a.m. AST (0600 UTC) – Subtropical Storm Peter acquires enough tropical characteristics to be classified a tropical storm.
December 10
8 a.m. AST (1200 UTC) – Tropical Storm Peter weakens to a tropical depression.
December 11
2 a.m. AST (0600 UTC) – Tropical Depression Peter loses tropical characteristics and becomes extratropical shortly before being absorbed by a frontal system.
Notes
References
External links
2003 Tropical Cyclone Advisory Archive, National Hurricane Center and Central Pacific Hurricane Center
Hurricanes and Tropical Storms – Annual 2003, National Centers for Environmental Information
Timeline
2003 Atlantic hurricane season
Articles which contain graphical timelines
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Coming Down from Red Lodge is an album by American musician Peter Ostroushko, released in 2003.
All the songs were written for performance on A Prairie Home Companion. Guests include Pat Donohue and Greg Leisz.
Reception
Sing Out! stated in its Summer 2003 review: "Ostroushko, like Antonín Dvořák and Aaron Copland before him is able to grasp the kernel of music at the center of "the American experience", and transform it into a larger, more colorful whole... Coming Down from Red Lodge is destined to become one of Ostroushko's most popular recordings."
Writing for Allmusic, music critic Chris Nickson wrote the album is "a perfect illustration of his breadth and instrumental virtuosity on both fiddle and mandolin... The only track that doesn't really work is "Hymn: Page 9/11", perhaps because the emotions involved remain too fresh to be put into notes. With that caveat, this is one of Ostroushko's best releases — and that statement alone is no small praise, given his stature as one of the American greats."
Track listing
All songs by Peter Ostroushko.
"Coming Down from Red Lodge" – 2:26
"(Peter's Most Excellent) Trip to Donegal" – 4:35
"Teelin Bay Waltz" – 3:29
"President George W. Bush's Hornpipe" – 2:30
"New Smyrna Serenade" – 3:50
"Cashdollar Blues" – 3:15
"East Texas Waltz" – 4:20
"Topanga Canyon Strut" – 4:30
"Reel Medley: The Four-Faced Liar/Baggett Street/The Witches' Kitchen" – 4:50
"Hymn: Page 9/11" – 4:42
Personnel
Peter Ostroushko – mandolin, fiddle, mandola
Marc Anderson – percussion
Gary Raynor – bass
Joel Sayles – bass
Andy Stein – fiddle, saxophone
Diane Tremaine – cello
Pat Donohue – guitar
Dirk Freymuth – bouzouki, guitar
Arnie Kinsella – drums, cowbell, percussion
Dan Newton – accordion
Greg Leisz – guitar, lap steel guitar
Production notes
Peter Ostroushko – producer, liner Notes, mixing
Eric Peltoniemi – executive producer
Rick Cunha – engineer
Sam Hudson – engineer, mixing
David Glasser – mastering
Carla Leighton – design
Ann Marsden – photography
References
2003 albums
Peter Ostroushko albums
Red House Records albums
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The Survivors were an Australian punk rock band that originally formed in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, in 1976 as Rat Salad, a party band. The Survivors attained cult status in Australia by their acknowledged popular live performances and contribution to the Lethal Weapons punk compilation album. Original band members were Greg Williamson on guitar and vocals, Jim Dickson on bass guitar and vocals, Bruce Anthon on drums and vocals. David Nichols, from the Mess And Noise website, commented that, "The Survivors were legends in their home town of Brisbane, a highly popular and adept band whose sets were mainly cool ’60s covers."
The Survivors were a group behind Brisbane's original punk scene during 1976 to 1977. According to music historian, Ian McFarlane, Brisbane produced "some of the most anarchistic bands of the Australian punk rock era and that it was a city nationally renowned for its ultra conservatism." The band released one single called "Baby Come Back", on the Real label in 1977, which was later reissued on the Suicide label in 1978. A live vinyl album called Worse than Perfect was released in 1988.
History
The Survivors, a southern suburbs Brisbane band, had a mutual admiration for 1960s music but originally they named their band Rat Salad after the Black Sabbath song. They changed their name in 1977 to The Survivors still mostly playing parties or occasionally hiring a hall, where they had to "watch out for the noise vigilant cops", "until the Curry Shop venue began supporting local punk acts in the heart of Brisbane on Sundays."
Whilst known for their energetic versions of other group’s songs, they managed to release one stamped sleeve seven inch single on the Real label. The A-side Baby Come Back flirted with 1960s music but also had a strong stylistic sense of original New York City punk. They encountered condemnation from punk circles for being to close to Sixties covers music as Jim Dickson recounts, "Criticism was often levelled at the Survivors for their lack of original material. The band were able to exist in those punksnobbery times because their energy was equal to anyone's and purely dedicated to the music which transcended the transient social commitments of the time."
Mushroom Records subsidiary label Suicide Records reissued the seven inch single and added both songs onto the Lethal Weapons compilation album in 1978. This was the extent of their output when they were still in existence. The band broke up in late 1978 but did manage to do shows in Sydney later on including a show with The Visitors. The band members Jim Dickson and Bruce Anthon formed The Sleepers and then The Shakers.
In 1979 Jim Dickson went on to record with Sydney act The Passengers, whose singer was Angie Pepper later known for The Angie Pepper Band and the single Frozen World. Jim Dickson also went on to play for profile bands that included The Barracudas, The Deniz Tek Group and Radio Birdman amongst many others. According to Jim Dickson, "Bruce and Greg had been busy in '79 with the Credits, who recorded a single, It's You / Fazed Dazed, for the Rocking Horse Record Shop label". Drummer, Bruce Anthon, went on to play with numerous other groups, including bands that did jazz or blues.
Legacy
In 1988 the band managed to retrospectively release an album recorded live in August 1978 at the Rex Hotel, Kings Cross, Sydney, called Worse than Perfect. The original recording of Baby Come Back had also been included as part of the 2015 CD Compilation called "Stranded, The Chronicles Of Australian Punk". This CD was a wide retrospective of Australian punk, officially released by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Four by Four label.
Personnel
Bruce Anthon – Drums, vocals
Jim Dickson – Bass, vocals
Greg Williamson – Guitar, vocals
Discography
Albums
Worse Than Perfect – 1988
Grown Up Wrong – WRONG3
Singles
"Baby Come Back" / "Mr Record Man" – 7 inch 1977, Real – RR100
"Baby Come Back" / "Mr. Record Man" – 7 inch 1978, Suicide – 103181
References
External links
Lethal Weapons 30 years on - David Nichols, 2007
The Survivors - Jim Dickson
Australian punk rock groups
Musical groups from Brisbane
Musical groups established in 1976
Musical groups disestablished in 1978
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The British Fashion Council (BFC) is a non-profit organization that aims to enable sustainable growth of British fashion in the global fashion economy. Founded in 1983, the BFC organizes biannual womenswear and menswear showcases, London Fashion Week (LFW) and London Fashion Week Men's (LFWM) to promote "the best of British design" to an international audience.
Leadership and activities
Based in London, the British Fashion Council (BFC) is currently chaired by David Pemsel. Pemsel was appointed in September 2022, succeeding Stephanie Phair who held the position for four and a half years from May 2018. Since 2009, Caroline Rush CBE has been the organization's chief executive officer. Previous Chairs of the BFC have included Natalie Massenet, Edward Rayne, Nicholas Coleridge CBE, Harold Tillman, and Sir Stuart Rose.
In May 2018, BFC appointed former England football team captain, David Beckham, as its new Ambassadorial President.
2020 saw a number of organizational changes within the BFC, including four new appointments to its board of directors on 4 September. The newly appointed directors; Jamie Gill, June Sarpong, Scott Morrison and Sian Westerman joined the remaining board membership of Stephanie Phair (chairperson), Dylan Jones, Caroline Rush, Laura Strain, and David Pemsel.
The Council created a new committee entitled the Diversity and Inclusion Steering Committee on 16 September 2020.
In November 2020, the BFC presented Indian actress Priyanka Chopra Jonas with the new title of ambassador for Positive Change. The new BFC role was created with the aim to use fashion as a ‘source for good’, to raise awareness of best practices within the industry including affirming principles that support inclusivity and positive ethics.
Joining other technology companies and fashion brands, Rakuten added its name to the list of BFC Patrons in 2021.
Development of the organization
The British Fashion Council (BFC) was established in 1983 as a non-profit limited company. Prior to the establishment of a single body to promote the interests of the British fashion industry, there were a number of organizations that existed to promote different interests within British fashion. These included:
Incorporated Society of London Fashion Designers (founded 1941/2)
London Model House Group (1950)
Fashion House Group of London (1958)
Clothing Export Council (1965)
London Designer Collections (1965)
Fashion Industry Action Group (1981)
Events
The BFC's primary event is London Fashion Week, a bi-annual London-based fashion show held routinely each February and September. The trade show typically showcases the work of over 250 international designers and engages a worldwide audience. The fashion week is organized by the BFC alongside other organizations.
In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the BFC announced that its 2020 February trade show would be held as a digital-only event. All event attractions, from the launch of the week on Friday 14 February 2020, were presented to a global audience online. The event production crews, designers, models, and teams were assisted by Westminster Council with rapid Covid testing to ensure the success and safety of the event. Princess Anne followed in the Queen’s footsteps to present a special award at the event. The Queen Elizabeth II Award for British Design was awarded to Rosh Mahtani who was commended for the craftsmanship of her jewellery.
During the February 2020 Fashion Week, the BFC announced its scheme to enable one young designer to show their collection before a virtual audience. The new initiative was made possible in collaboration with MTV.
Following its February virtual showcase event, the BFC announced that it was to merge the Men’s Fashion Week into a new and single, "gender-neutral" event.
Coronavirus Foundation Fashion Fund
In response to the global pandemic restrictions and its move to showcasing fashion virtually, the BFC began to advocate increased support for fashion freelancers experiencing hardship and business disruption. The British government were encouraged to put further policies in place to protect those being negatively affected.
Later in March 2020, the council launched its first coronavirus relief fund, committed to supporting those in the industry. The crisis relief fund aims to raise £50 million for struggling designers.
In May 2020, the Foundation Fashion Fund announced its first recipients of the £1,000,000 emergency fund. The fund was split between 37 different UK recipients.
The Black in Fashion Council
In response to the global reaction to the George Floyd tragedy and the Black Lives Matter protests, the British Fashion Council chief called upon the industry to take further action against racism.
The fashion industry was called to account for its longstanding cultural appropriation and lack of diversity, which led to a partnership of 38 organizations generating the Black in Fashion Council, including the British Fashion Council.
As part of its individual response to the Black Lives Matter movement, the British Fashion Council launched its own project celebrating Black British culture and fashion. The project included a variety of programmed events, concluding with an exhibition showcasing the work in the summer of 2022.
Awards, nominations and prizes
16 November 2016 – The British Fashion council awarded Gucci’s New Creative Director, Alessandro Michele, the International Designer Award.
2 September 2020 – As part of its £500,000 grant scheme, the British Fashion Council distributed grants to 30 British labels, including Emilia Wickstead, Preen by Thornton Bregazzi, Rokh and Charles Jeffrey Loverboy.
5 October 2020 – The University of Salford and the Central Saint Martins Royal College of Art has announced recipients of the British Fashion Council MA Scholarship. The recipients of the scholarships were selected from these institutions based on financial need and aptitude.
15 October 2020 – The British Fashion Council announced 2020 Fashion Awards would be held as a virtual event on 3 December. As part of the ceremony, 20 winners were celebrated for their resilience during the pandemic, and their determination to see change within the industry. Awards for Community were presented by Priyanka Chopra Jonas, awards for People presented by Lewis Hamilton, awards for Environment presented by Aja Barber and Maisie Williams, and awards for Creativity were presented by Rosalía.
18 February 2021 – The BFC announced the shortlist of designers in line for receiving the prestigious BFC/Vogue Designer Fashion Fund. From the shortlisted 11, Bethany Williams was named as the winner.
16 February 2022 – A shortlist of 8 designers was announced for the 2022 BFC/Vogue Designer Fashion Fund. The 2022 winner was Richard Quinn.
See also
Arab Fashion Council
Council of Fashion Designers of America
Fédération française de la couture
National Chamber of Italian Fashion
References
External links
British Fashion Council Website
BFC History
London Fashion Week Website
Indymedia coverage
British fashion
Business organisations based in London
Fashion organizations
Organisations based in the City of Westminster
1983 establishments in the United Kingdom
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Coelbren () is a small rural village within the community of Tawe Uchaf in southernmost Powys, Wales. It lies on the very northern edge of the South Wales Coalfield some six miles north-east of Ystradgynlais and just outside the southern boundary of the Brecon Beacons National Park. It is known for Henrhyd Falls, a 27m high waterfall which serves as a National Trust-managed visitor attraction on the Nant Llech. To the east of the village flows the Afon Pyrddin which plunges over two more spectacular falls.
As first edition Ordnance Survey maps of the area show, the name 'Coelbren' applied to a farmhouse and chapel before the modern village developed and is recorded in the name Tyre y Kolbren in 1503 where it signifies the sharing of land (modern Welsh 'tir') by means of drawing lots, a 'coelbren' being translated amongst other things as an 'inscribed piece of wood' or 'omen-stick'.
History
The Roman road of Sarn Helen runs close to the village on its eastern side. Its remains and that of a Roman fort are now much degraded. The Brecon Forest Tramroad was constructed through the village in the 1820s. Of note to the east of Coelbren is the site of Banwen Ironworks, whose partial survival is owed to its early failure. It was constructed in the 1840s by speculators from London but may have produced only 80 tons of pig iron, the whole exercise being enveloped in a financial scandal.
From the 1873, Coelbren was the location of a significant junction on the Neath and Brecon Railway whence a 7-mile branch diverged leading to the Swansea Vale Railway at Ynysygeinon. The contractor John Dickson had a terrace of houses constructed quite possibly for navvies working on the line and known originally as Dickson's Row though now known as Price's Row. The lines closed in 1962 though the trackbed can still be seen almost encircling the eastern part of the village. The route to Swansea Vale has now been converted into a cycleway as Route 43 of the National Cycle Network linking the village with Ystradgynlais; it is planned that the trackbed northwards towards Brecon should also form part of Route 43.
A school was opened in the village in 1894, housed at first in the vestry of Moriah Baptist Chapel. It was transferred to a new purpose-built site further west on Heol Eglwys in 1898 and in 1912 it was greatly expanded. The original Coelbren Welfare and Memorial Hall was built towards the top of Station Road in 1925 and served until the 1990s when the current building was constructed.
The A4221 road linking Abercraf with the A4109 Inter Valley Road (Glynneath to Aberdulais) near Dyffryn Cellwen passes to the immediate south of the village, its construction later in the 20th century rendering the village less isolated than it had been hitherto.
References
External links
Photos of Coelbren and surrounding area on geograph.org.uk
History of Coelbren Church (Capel Colbren)
History of Moriah Baptist Chapel, Coelbren
Villages in Powys
Fforest Fawr
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Philip Stuart Brady (born 16 June 1939) is an Australian media personality, radio and television identity and voiceover artist born and raised in Kew, Victoria. Apart from a brief period in the 1970s when he worked for a Victorian travel agent, Brady has been employed in the media all his adult life. In 2018, he celebrated 60 years in the industry.
Television
Born on 16 June 1939, to Wilfred Brady, a psychiatrist and composer, Brady became involved in television in the very early days, just two years after its start in Australia. He left school at the age of 18 and started working at Channel Nine in 1958 firstly as a booth announcer (voice-overs).
Brady appeared with Graham Kennedy on In Melbourne Tonight in commercials and comedy sketches as well as compering the show on occasions. He occasionally appeared on The Tarax Show as Prince Philip. He stayed at Channel 9 until 1971 when he was one of many to lose their job when Nine cancelled its variety shows.
In the 1960s and 1970s Brady hosted many television shows including Concentration and Everybody's Talking for the Nine Network and Moneymakers, Junior Moneymakers, Casino Ten, Get the Message and Password for the 0–10 Network.
Brady made guest appearances on television in the 1990s with a regular nostalgia segment on Good Morning Australia with Bert Newton as well as guest appearances on Seven's Tonight Live with Steve Vizard and ABC's The Late Show.
Radio
Brady hosted shows on radio 3AK at various times during the 1960s and 1980s and also did shifts on radio 3AW in the 1970s.
He worked as producer for Bert Newton's morning show on radio 3UZ in the early 1980s.
In 1986, Brady moved to the Gold Coast and for nearly five years hosted a daytime radio show on Easy Listening 97 Tweed Heads.
Brady came back to Melbourne in 1990 and began a long-lasting partnership with Bruce Mansfield on talkback radio 3AW. Initially they presented the Sunday night nostalgia program Remember When and some months later the duo took over the weeknight show Nightline as well.
Newspaper column
In the 1980s Brady wrote a weekly column in the show business newspaper TV Scene.
Awards
In 2003, Brady, with on-air partner, Bruce Mansfield, won the Australian Commercial Radio Award for Best Networked Program (Nightline). In 2018 Brady was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for services to the broadcasting industry.
Community work
Philip is a member of the Patrons Council of the Epilepsy Foundation of Victoria and an Australia Day Ambassador.
Further reading
Remembering when: Philip Brady’s brilliant career by Sarah Patterson.
References
Radio personalities from Melbourne
3AW presenters
Australian television personalities
Living people
People educated at Xavier College
1939 births
Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia
Television personalities from Melbourne
People from Kew, Victoria
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Swedish submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film are handed out annually by representatives from the Guldbagge Awards jury.
Sweden has submitted films for consideration in the Best Foreign Language Film category since the inaugural award in 1956. The Swedes have sent more films than any other country, except for France, Italy, Japan and Spain, and have only failed to submit a film one time in the past thirty years.
16 films from Sweden have been nominated for the Academy Award: The Virgin Spring (1960), Through a Glass Darkly (1961), Raven's End (1964), Dear John (1965), Ådalen '31 (1969), The Emigrants (1971), The New Land (1972), Flight of the Eagle (1982), Fanny and Alexander (1983), The Ox (1991), All Things Fair (1995), Under the Sun (1999), Evil (2003) and As It Is in Heaven (2004), A Man Called Ove (2016), The Square (2017 film) (2017). Three Swedish films have won the Oscar: The Virgin Spring (1960), Through a Glass Darkly (1961) and Fanny and Alexander (1983). All the winners have been directed by Ingmar Bergman, who represented Sweden a record nine times. However, his film Scenes from a Marriage was disqualified in 1974 because it had previously aired on Swedish television. According to Robert Osborne, the country did not enter in 1975 as a protest. In 1978, however, the country did not submit his film Autumn Sonata and made no entry. Other prominent directors include Bo Widerberg and Jan Troell, both who have had three of their films nominated. The 1988 winner Pelle the Conqueror was a Swedish-Danish co-production, but was submitted by Denmark. In 2002 there was a bit of controversy as Sweden's submission Lilja 4-ever had most of its dialogue in Russian and not Swedish. Eventually it was accepted as eligible, but did not receive a nomination.
Submissions
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has invited the film industries of various countries to submit their best film for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film since 1956. The Foreign Language Film Award Committee oversees the process and reviews all the submitted films. Following this, they vote via secret ballot to determine the five nominees for the award. Below is a list of the films that have been submitted by Sweden for review by the Academy for the award by year.
Shortlisted Films
Each year since 2019, the Swedish Oscar selection committee has announced a three-film shortlist prior to announcing the official Swedish Oscar candidate. The following films were shortlisted by Sweden but not selected as the final candidate:
2023: Paradise Is Burning, Together 99
2022: I Am Zlatan, Nelly & Nadine
2021: Clara Sola, The Emigrants
2020: About Endlessness, I Am Greta
2019: Aniara, The Perfect Patient
See also
List of Academy Award winners and nominees for Best Foreign Language Film
List of Academy Award-winning foreign language films
Cinema of Sweden
Notes
References
External links
The Official Academy Awards Database
The Motion Picture Credits Database
IMDb Academy Awards Page
Sweden
Academy Award
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Louis Tiercelin (Rennes, 1846 - Paramé, 1915), was a French writer, poet and playwright associated with the Breton cultural renaissance of the early 20th century.
He debuted at the age of 18 with two plays performed at the theatre of Rennes. He founded and edited for a period the newspaper La Jeunesse (Youth). In 1889 he published with Guy Ropartz Le Parnasse breton contemporain (The Modern Breton Parnassus), an anthology of Breton poetry of the 2nd half of the nineteenth century. In October 1890, he founded the Revue L’Hermine (Ermine Revue), the ermine being the symbol of Brittany. He led this for 22 years and brought together many Breton poets and writers, including François-Marie Luzel, Anatole Le Braz and Charles Le Goffic.
Notes
1846 births
1915 deaths
Writers from Rennes
Breton Regionalist Union members
19th-century French poets
20th-century French poets
19th-century French dramatists and playwrights
20th-century French dramatists and playwrights
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A chambre de bonne is a type of French apartment consisting of a single room in a middle-class house or apartment building. It is generally found on the top floor and only accessible by a staircase, sometimes a separate "service staircase". Initially, these rooms were intended as the bedroom for one of the family's domestics, and the name originates from the colloquial name for such maids: a "bonne à tout faire". Today, chambres de bonne are usually the cheapest rung on the Parisian letting market, and are primarily rented by less well-off workers and students. They are also in high demand among workers who wish to maintain a small room or postal address in a big city, especially Paris.
Due to the social level of the envisaged occupants, chambres de bonne are characterised by their tight proportions. The rooms usually have a floor area of around , which is sometimes accentuated by being in a garret. They tend to offer minimal facilities: toilets are usually shared with the neighbouring rooms, and located on the landing.
Chambres de bonne have nevertheless been the object of legislation to preserve their occupants' quality of life and health. In the twentieth century, the French government stipulated that all rental properties must have a minimum floor area of , a volume of , and openings (windows, doors, etc.) equivalent to an eighth of the surface area.
In recent years, landlords have attempted to rebrand their chambres de bonne by advertising them as studettes, a hitherto-unknown category of housing for smaller studios (broadly, those of or less). Since most listings agencies do not recognise a firm distinction between "studios" and "studettes", chambres de bonne may also simply be advertised as studios. Parisian apartment-hunters are, nevertheless, often able to infer that a studio is a chambre de bonne from its listing, due to the distinctive features described above.
References
See also
List of house types
Loi Carrez
Studio apartment
The L-Shaped Room (novel)
Single room occupancy
Bedsit
Maison Mattot
Real estate in France
Apartment types
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The Union Station in Owensboro, Kentucky, is a historic railroad station, built in 1905. Built mostly for the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, the station is made of limestone and slate, and currently is home to several businesses.
Description
The Union Station, unlike most urban railroad stations, was situated in a "more spacious area". In the west end was a waiting area, and the east end featured a two-story freight section. The station gains a Gothic look with wooden barge boarding and brackets on its gabled entrance.
The L&N used the second floor of the building for support services and administration.
History
The first railroad company in Owensboro was the Owensboro and Russellville Railroad, in operation from 1867 to 1876. After the O&R went bankrupt, the Owensboro and Nashville Railroad took over the assets, and were in control until purchased by the L&N in 1879.
The station was a joint effort between the L&N, the Louisville, Henderson and St. Louis Railroad, and the Illinois Central Railroad, building over an older depot of the Louisville, Henderson and St. Louis. The plans were designed by Henry F. Hawes and John B. Hutchings and constructed by Walter Brashear. The initial work was completed in 1906.
At its height in the 1920s, the station daily served eighteen passenger trains. In 1946, early in the postwar years, two unnamed L&N trains on St. Louis – Evansville – Owensboro – Louisville itineraries made stops at Owensboro. The trains bypassed the south Kentucky rail hub of Bowling Green.
In 1958, the station stopped being used for passenger traffic, as the L&N claimed annual losses of $130,000 for continuing the passenger service. Since then it has seen several different uses. In the 1970s it was used as a discothèque and then a pizza parlor, but both were unsuccessful, leaving the station empty for a time. Major overhauls of the station occurred in 1982 and 1988, with the latter seeing a two-story atrium and office added to its eastern side. Current tenants include a preschool, an architectural design group, an adult day care, and a Hilliard Lyons office.
Notes
References
Owensboro
Owensboro
National Register of Historic Places in Daviess County, Kentucky
Buildings and structures in Owensboro, Kentucky
Railway stations on the National Register of Historic Places in Kentucky
Railway stations in the United States opened in 1905
1905 establishments in Kentucky
Former railway stations in Kentucky
Transportation in Daviess County, Kentucky
Victorian architecture in Kentucky
Railway stations in the United States closed in 1958
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is a member of the Supreme Court of Japan.
References
Supreme Court of Japan justices
1940 births
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
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The Ateneo de Manila College Glee Club (ACGC), simply known as the Ateneo Glee Club, is a choir based in the Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines. It is distinguished as the oldest university chorale in the Philippines, celebrating its 98th season in 2018. It has held concerts internationally, and has released several albums with songs genres ranging from Classical, Negro spiritual, Sacred choral works, as well as Pop, and OPM. The Glee Club remains active internationally through the performances it stages and choral festivals it participates in.
History
The Glee Club was started in 1921, the year the American Jesuits took over the administration of Ateneo Municipal de Manila. Its primary function was providing liturgical music at the San Ignacio Church in old Intramuros. Jose Mossesgeld Santiago, a 1911 graduate of the Ateneo who became the first Filipino to sing at La Scala de Milan, was appointed conductor.
Following a three-year hiatus, James B. Reuter restarted the Glee Club. In 1974, when the university turned co-educational, the choir became mixed.
In 1979 Joel Navarro joined up with the ACGC. A string of performances of the choir, including the Concert in Your Homes, TV and hotel shows and the 1980 National Music Competition for Young Artists (NAMCYA) where they won the First Prize in the College Division, followed. When the second International Choral Festival (ICF) was held in the Cultural Center of the Philippines the year after, the Glee Club was top-rated among the Philippine choirs that participated for "opening the gates of heaven with their moving rendition of Thompson's Alleluia" as a critic wrote.
In 1989, they went on a brief European tour and were cited Best Choir in the international festivals in Loreto, Italy and Nancy, France. A year later, Navarro took a 3-year leave due to the pressure of work from the University of the Philippines (UP), and the Asian Institute of Liturgy and Music (AILM). Eudenice Palaruan, Navarro's friend and replacement as the conductor, began North American and Guam concert tours, a national tour, and a concert with Lea Salonga in Manila.
Navarro's determination to eschew the lure of European tilts and steer his group toward a niche in the recording arena paid off in 1996 when the GC snared a couple of Katha awards: for Best rendition of a Traditional song "Lagi kitang Naaalala" and for Best Traditional Music Album for "Lahi". It was a first for any university-based chorale, and more importantly, Lahi became the first and by far the only classical, choral or traditional recording to be nominated Album of the Year competing against the country's mainstream commercial recordings. Then, he led them in successful concert tours in Guam and North America (1997), in a national tour (1998), and in Guam again (1999).
At the turn of the millennium, the glee club did very well. Under Navarro and Jonathan Velasco, they swept all the competitions they joined in two months in Slovenia, Italy, Ireland and France - and reached the apex by winning the Grand Prix in Tours, France. In less than a year they added more laurels to their credentials - top prizes in Tolosa, Spain. In 2001, they won First Prize in Marktoberdorf, Germany, under the leadership of Velasco.
The following year, the Glee Club embarked on a new paradigm in choral singing after Ramon Acoymo, alumnus of the Philippine Madrigal Singers, accomplished tenor soloist, and vocal pedagogue, took over as Musical Director. He led the new batch of the Glee Club and honed the raw but promising skills of the Katipunan-based singers. He culminated his term by commissioning new compositions of Marian songs set into choral idiom.
In 2002 the Glee Club had its first female conductor in the person, Ma. Lourdes Hermo, an alumna of the Philippine Madrigal Singers and the Philippine Youth Orchestra. Under Hermo, the choir went on a concert tour of the United States and Guam in 2004, performed in festivals, had a live recording in 2005, and celebrated its 85th year with a European competition-concert tour where they won all awards in Miltenberg, Germany and top prizes in Arezzo, Italy in 2006.
In celebration of its 90th year in 2011, the group embarked on another European Tour. It won in the 33rd International May Choir Competition in Varna, Bulgaria, earning them the distinction to compete in the European Grand Prix for Choral Singing (GPE) in Maribor, Slovenia in April 2012.
Notable music directors
Eudenice V. Palaruan
Joel Magus P. Navarro
James B. Reuter, S.J.
Antonio J. Molina
Discography
Langit: The Filipino Sings Of Faith (1994)
Lahi: The Filipino Sings From The Heart (1995)
An Offering (1999)
European Tour 2000
European Tour 2001
ACGC Anthology (2004)
Tagumpay Nating Lahat (2006)
Tayo'y Mga Pinoy (2008)
In Excelsis (2012)
References
External links
Ateneo Glee Club Page - Ateneo de Manila University Website
Ateneo de Manila University
Musical groups from Metro Manila
Musical groups established in 1921
University choirs
1921 establishments in the Philippines
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Heini is both a given name and a surname. It is mainly a masculine given name in German-speaking countries, but a feminine given name in Finland. However, in Wales, it is a both masculine and feminine given name, meaning 'healthy and spirited'. Currently, in Wales, it is more commonly recognised as a female given name. Notable people with the name include:
People with the given name
Heini Adams (born 1980), South African rugby union player
Heini Becker (born 1935), Australian politician
Heini Bock (born 1981), Namibian rugby union player
Heini Brüggemann, German sprint canoeist
Heini Dittmar (1911–1960), German glider pilot
Heini Halberstam (1927–2014), British mathematician
Heini Hediger (1908–1992), Swiss biologist
Heini Hemmi (born 1949), Swiss alpine skier
Heini Klopfer (1918–1968), German ski jumper and architect
Heini Koivuniemi (born 1973), Finnish strongwoman competitor
Heini Lohrer (1918–2011), Swiss ice hockey player
Heini Meng (1902–?), Swiss ice hockey player
Heini Müller, Swiss footballer
Heini Müller (footballer, born 1934), German footballer
Heini Otto (born 1954), Dutch footballer
Heini Salonen (born 1993), Finnish tennis player
Heini Vatnsdal (born 1991), Faroese football player
Heini Walter (1927–2009), Swiss racing driver
Heini Wathén (born 1955), Finnish female model
Heini Gruffudd (born 1946), Welsh Author
People with the surname
Riku Heini (born 1990), Finnish footballer
See also
Heinis, French automobile
Heine (surname)
Heinrich (given name)
Finnish feminine given names
Feminine given names
German masculine given names
Masculine given names
Swiss masculine given names
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is a member of the Supreme Court of Japan.
References
1942 births
Living people
University of Tokyo alumni
Japanese prosecutors
Supreme Court of Japan justices
Place of birth missing (living people)
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"U Want Me 2" is a song by Sarah McLachlan and the lead original single from her 2008 greatest hits album, Closer: The Best of Sarah McLachlan. It is also included on her 2010 album Laws of Illusion. The song was produced by her longtime collaborator, Pierre Marchand.
"U Want Me 2" was included in the Les Mills International BodyBalance (BodyFlow in the US/Canada) fitness program as Track 5 - Hip Openers for Release 47.
In the music video that was released and directed by Sophie Muller, she performed underwater.
Nettwerk first released an alternate version of "U Want Me 2" for digital download. It starts with a Hi-Hat and has a slightly different Instrumentation.
"U Want Me 2" (Alternate Version aka Canadian Version) 3:59
"U Want Me 2" (Album Version) 4:07
"U Want Me 2" (Radio Mix) 4:09
Charts
References
External links
Billboard single review
Chart positions
2008 singles
2008 songs
Sarah McLachlan songs
Arista Records singles
Nettwerk Records singles
Songs written by Sarah McLachlan
Songs written by Pierre Marchand
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Duo is an album by fiddle and mandolin player Peter Ostroushko with guitarist Dean Magraw, released in 1991.
Track listing
All songs by Peter Ostroushko unless otherwise noted.
"The Whalebone Feathers" – 4:33
"Musette in a Minor" – 3:36
"Three Brazilian Melodies: Index One/Index Two/Index Three" – 8:21
"The Nightingale Medley: Index One/Index Two" – 5:38
"Unknowingly She Walked With Grace Amongst Tall Men" – 9:14
"The Prairie Suite" – 8:55
"Waltz for Hana" – 4:19
"Bukavina" – 3:35
"When You and I Were Young, Maggie" (James Austin Butterfield, George Washington Johnson) – 5:26
"Fiddle Tunes: Mesa de Esoeranza/The Edinburgh Jigs/Sarah Breaky's House, The London Road Jig, Clive Palmer's, The Easter Road)" – 8:44
Personnel
Peter Ostroushko – mandolin, fiddle, guitar, vocals
Dean Magraw – guitar
Production notes
Produced and mixed by Peter Ostroushko
Bob Feldman – executive producer
Tom Mudge – engineer, mixing
Craig Thorson – assistant engineer
Linda Beauvais – artwork, design
Dan Corrigan – photography
References
1991 albums
Peter Ostroushko albums
Red House Records albums
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The List of RAF aircrew in the Battle of Britain is a summary regarding the lists of those who flew during the Battle of Britain, and were awarded the Battle of Britain Clasp to the 1939–45 Star by flying at least one authorised operational sortie with an eligible unit of the Royal Air Force or Fleet Air Arm during the period from 0001 hours on 10 July to 2359 hours 31 October 1940. (There are a few names missing from this list; check on The Battle of Britain Society web site.)
History
In 1942, the Air Ministry made the decision to compile a list from records of the names of pilots who had lost their lives as a result of the fighting during the Battle of Britain for the purpose of building a national memorial. This became the Battle of Britain Chapel at Westminster Abbey, which was unveiled by King George VI on 10 July 1947. The Roll of Honour within the Chapel contains the names of 1,497 pilots and aircrew killed or mortally wounded during the Battle.
Nothing was done officially, however, to define the qualifications for the classification of a Battle of Britain airman until 9 November 1960. AMO N850, published by the Air Ministry, stated for the first time the requirements for the awarding of the Battle of Britain clasp to the 1939-1945 Star, and listed the 71 units which were deemed to have been under the control of RAF Fighter Command.
In 1955 Flt Lt John Holloway, a serving RAF officer, began a personal challenge to compile a complete list of "The Few". After fourteen years of research Flt Lt Holloway had 2,946 names on the list. Of these airmen, 537 were killed during the Battle or later died of wounds received.
The Battle of Britain Memorial Trust, founded by Geoffrey Page, raised funds for the construction of the Battle of Britain Memorial at Capel-le-Ferne near Folkestone in Kent. The Memorial, unveiled by Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother on 9 July 1993, shares the site with the Christopher Foxley-Norris Memorial Wall on which a complete list of "The Few" is engraved.
More recently, the Battle of Britain Monument on the Victoria Embankment in London was unveiled on 18 September 2005 by Charles, Prince of Wales and his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall. The idea for the monument was conceived by the Battle of Britain Historical Society which then set about raising funds for its construction. The outside of the monument is lined with bronze plaques listing all the Allied airmen who took part in the Battle.
Lists of names
See also
Non-British personnel in the RAF during the Battle of Britain
List of World War II aces from the United Kingdom
List of World War II aces by country
List of World War II air aces
Notes
References
Bibliography
Ramsay, Winston, ed. The Battle of Britain Then and Now Mk V. London: Battle of Britain Prints International Ltd, 1989. .
Ringlstetter, Herbert (2005). Helmut Wick, An Illustrated Biography of the Luftwaffe Ace And Commander of Jagdgeschwader 2 During The Battle of Britain. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing. .
Remembering the Battle of Britain
Robert Dixon, '607 Squadron: A Shade of Blue'. The History Press 2008.
Robert Dixon, 'A Gathering of Eagles' PublishBritannica 2004,
RAF aircrew
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Diaphragmatic paradox or paradoxical diaphragm phenomenon is an abnormal medical sign observed during respiration, in which the diaphragm moves opposite to the normal directions of its movements. The diaphragm normally moves downwards during inspiration and upwards during expiration. But in diaphragmatic paradox, it moves upwards during inspiration and downwards during expiration.
Causes and associated conditions
Diaphragmatic paradox may be caused by weakening of inspiratory muscles due to injury, pyopneumothorax (collection of pus and excess air inside pleural cavity) or hydropneumothorax (collection of watery fluid and excess air inside pleural cavity). Also caused due to phrenic nerve injury caused during cardiac surgery, radiation, trauma, etc. Viral infections like Herpes zoster and poliomyelitis can also cause this. In newborns this condition is seen in spinal muscular atrophy.
See also
Flail chest (or Paradoxical breathing).
References
Symptoms and signs: Respiratory system
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Manana Doijashvili, OSI (; 5 November 1947 – 17 January 2023) was a Georgian pianist and professor of piano.
She was trained at the Tbilisi State Conservatory under Tengiz Amirejibi. She won prizes at the 1970 Enescu (Bucharest) and the 1974 Smetana (Plzeň) competitions, and ranked 6th at the inaugural edition of the Sydney Competition.
From 2000 to 2012, Doijashvili was the rector of the Tbilisi State Conservatory, and the founder of the Tbilisi International Piano Competition. She had been named a People's Artist of Georgia was awarded the Order of the Star of Italy in 2010. She had been awarded the Zakharia Paliashvili prize (2003) and the Russian Performing Art Fund prize (2004).
Doijashvili served on the Jury of numerous other piano competitions, including the Aram Khachaturian competition, the Rhodes international piano competition, the Sydney competition, the Busoni competition, and the Horovitz competition.
Doijashvili died on 17 January 2023, at the age of 75.
References
External links
1947 births
2023 deaths
Classical pianists from Georgia (country)
Women pianists from Georgia (country)
Women classical pianists
Chevaliers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
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21st-century classical pianists
21st-century women pianists
20th-century classical pianists
20th-century women pianists
Tbilisi State Conservatoire alumni
20th-century musicians from Georgia (country)
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Mootz may refer to:
Mootz Candies, in Pottsville, Pennsylvania
Mathis Mootz (born 1976), German electronic musician and DJ
Mónica Spear Mootz (1984–2014), Venezuelan model
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is a former member of the Supreme Court of Japan. He was appointed to the court on May 25, 2006, and reached mandatory retirement age in 2012. He was succeeded by Masaharu Ōhashi.
References
Supreme Court of Japan justices
1942 births
Living people
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Thomas Fairfax, 9th Lord Fairfax of Cameron (1762–1846), was an American-born Scottish peer, who along with his father, on 11 December 1799, was among the last guests at Mount Vernon before Washington died.
Early life and family
Thomas Fairfax was born in 1762. He was the son of Bryan Fairfax, 8th Lord Fairfax of Cameron (1736–1802) and his wife, Elizabeth Cary, daughter of Colonel Wilson Cary and Sarah Cary. His brother was Ferdinando Fairfax (1766–1820), whose godparents were George Washington and Martha Washington.
Plantation
In 1802, he succeeded his father to the title of Lord Fairfax of Cameron after his father's death. He lived the life of a country squire overseeing his , lived at Belvoir, Ash Grove, and Vaucluse, where he died.
Personal life
He married three times: Mary Aylett, Laura Washington, Margaret Herbert. Fairfax birthed children with Mary Aylett, a Native Indian woman. He had seven children by his third wife Margaret:
Albert Fairfax (1802–1835), who married Caroline Eliza Snowden (1812–1899)
Henry Fairfax (d. 1847), who fought and died in the Mexican–American War, at Saltillo, Mexico.
Orlando Fairfax
Reginald Fairfax
Eugenia Fairfax
Aurelia Fairfax
Monimia Fairfax (1820–1875), who married Archibald Cary (1815-1854), the son of the son of Wilson Jefferson Cary (1783–1823) and Virginia Randolph (1786–1852).
He maintained a winter home at 607 Cameron Street, Alexandria, Virginia, which he built in 1816.
Thomas Fairfax was a follower of Swedenborg. Because of these religious beliefs, he manumitted his slaves (including the great-great-great grandfather of Virginia Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax), some of whom he taught a trade and sent to Liberia. This is consistent with the thinking of the American Colonization Society.
Descendants
His grandson, Charles Snowdown Fairfax, 10th Lord Fairfax of Cameron (1829–1869), succeeded him as the 10th Lord Fairfax of Cameron as Fairfax's eldest son, his father, predeceased him. Another grandson, John Fairfax, 11th Lord Fairfax of Cameron (1830–1900), a physician, became the 11th Lord Fairfax of Cameron as his brother Charles died without issue. His granddaughter was the writer Constance Cary (1843–1920).
In popular culture
Thomas Fairfax was referenced by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson on rap musician Logic's 2017 album Everybody on the song "Waiting Room."
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1762 births
1846 deaths
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WGSF was an educational television station in Newark, Ohio, which operated from 1963 to 1976. The station was founded by The Licking County Fund for Public Giving, on behalf of the Newark City School District. Studios were originated at Newark High School.
In the early years of the station, WGSF broadcast on UHF channel 28, programming a mix of local programming, with additional programs from National Educational Television (via film and videotape), and from WOSU-TV in Columbus (via an off-air pickup). Equipment and cameras were lent to WGSF by WCET, Cincinnati's educational station. In 1966, WCET took back the cameras, when WGSF was unable to buy them; soon after this, Cleveland’s then CBS affiliate WJW-TV donated two cameras to WGSF.
The station broadcast on channel 28 until 1970, when the Ohio ETV Network Commission, The Ohio State University (owners of WOSU), and Nationwide Broadcasting requested that the station move to channel 31, with Nationwide providing funds for the move. In 1970 WGSF became a member station of PBS, and was soon connected to the national feed, ending reliance of WOSU for networked programming.
WGSF signed off on June 30, 1976, not only due to aging equipment, but due to opportunities for Newark City Schools to operate a channel on cable TV (due to laws mandating cable systems to devote a channel for educational television use), as well as opportunities for Ohio's PBS affiliates to expand to underserved communities. The following day after the station's closedown, WOSU opened W31AA, a low-powered repeater operating on the former WGSF's channel. (W31AA would close down in 2009 following WOSU-TV's conversion to digital.) Newark City School's cable channel would open in 1977, after the local cable franchise provided a cable link to Newark High.
The channel 28 frequency would be reallocated to Columbus as a commercial frequency; this channel would be reactivated when WTTE signed on in 1984.
In 2003, Newark High School's Brad Philhower and Nick Iannitto produced a documentary on the 40th anniversary of WGSF titled Ruby Waves. The documentary can be viewed on the Facebook page of Newark City School's news program, “The Wildcat Network”, formerly known as “Wildcat News Net” The Facebook page also hosts numerous historical pictures of WGSF.
See also
List of television stations in Ohio
References
External links
Facebook: Wgsf-TV & WNN historical
oldgleaner.com -- WGSF memorial website
Early Television Foundation: WGSF live remote van
"Ruby Waves" Documentary on Facebook
Wildcat News Net photo albums including WGSF on Facebook
Television channels and stations established in 1963
Television channels and stations disestablished in 1976
1976 disestablishments in Ohio
Defunct television stations in the United States
Newark, Ohio
GSF (TV)
1963 establishments in Ohio
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The Plaza Theatre is a historic theater located at 128 South Palm Canyon Drive in Palm Springs, California. It is an anchor of La Plaza (a.k.a. Palm Springs Plaza), a streetside collection of shops, one of the first planned shopping centers in Southern California, opened in 1936. From 1990 through 2014 the theatre housed The Fabulous Palm Springs Follies which was featured on ABC's 20/20, The Today Show, the New York Times, NPR and other media since its founding. There is currently a fundraising campaign to raise money to restore the historic building to its former glory and make it a theater that meets theatrical needs for today and tomorrow.
History
It was December 12, 1936 that the historic Plaza Theatre opened with the Greta Garbo and Robert Taylor premiere Camille. The theatre's owner at the time, Earle C. Strebe, sold the very first ticket to Annette Freeman.
In the early days of Palm Springs began the "Desert Circus" for which an annual show was staged by Melba Bennett called the "Village Insanities". Originally performed on the grounds of the Desert Inn, the "Insanities" would later perform at the Plaza Theatre under the name of the Village Vanities during the 1940s.
The Plaza Theatre remained active for many years, finally becoming dormant in 1989. It was at this time that television producer Riff Markowitz (The Hitchhiker), decided to renovate the cinema and create a "Broadway-caliber celebration of the music, dance, and comedy of the 30s, 40s, and 50s with a cast old enough to have lived it!".
Follies era
The Fabulous Palm Springs Follies ran late October through May from 1990 to 2014. The Managing Director and MC of the show, Riff Markowitz, is known for his cult classic television series The Hilarious House of Frightenstein and the HBO TV series The Hitchhiker. Among the theatre's stars were Dorothy Kloss, "the World's Oldest Showgirl", Leonard Crofoot, often remembered for his roles on Star Trek The Next Generation and Star Trek Voyager, and Markowitz himself.
The Plaza Theatre was the subject of a documentary, through the Follies, entitled Still Kicking: The Fabulous Palm Springs Follies, directed by Mel Damski, which was nominated for an Oscar in 1998.
The Follies held their last show in May 2014.
Restoration project
Plans have been in the works to restore and reopen the Plaza Theater for several years. An official campaign, Save The Plaza Theatre, was launched in 2019, but was paused during the initial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In October 2021, former Frasier producer David Lee announced a $5 million donation to the fund drive. An anonymous donor also contributed an additional $2 million to the project.
The Plaza Theatre is owned by the City of Palm Springs and the restoration project is managed by the Palm Springs Plaza Theatre Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization headed by JR Roberts. Restoration of the iconic building is set to begin in the summer of 2023.
References
Theatres in California
Event venues established in 1936
Buildings and structures in Palm Springs, California
Tourist attractions in Palm Springs, California
Culture of Palm Springs, California
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California Proposition 4 may refer to:
California Proposition 4 (1911)
California Proposition 4 (2008)
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Ermenegildo "Gildo" Arena (25 February 1921 – 8 February 2005) was an Italian water polo player and freestyle swimmer who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics and in the 1952 Summer Olympics.
In 1948 he was part of the Italian team which won the gold medal. He played six matches and scored eleven goals. Four years later he was a member of the Italian team which won the bronze medal in the Olympic tournament. He played in all eight matches.
See also
Italy men's Olympic water polo team records and statistics
List of Olympic champions in men's water polo
List of Olympic medalists in water polo (men)
References
External links
1921 births
2005 deaths
Italian male water polo players
Italian male freestyle swimmers
Water polo players at the 1948 Summer Olympics
Water polo players at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for Italy in water polo
Olympic bronze medalists for Italy in water polo
Swimmers from Naples
Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1948 Summer Olympics
Water polo players from Naples
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Michaelstein Abbey (Kloster Michaelstein) is a former Cistercian monastery, now the home of the Stiftung Kloster Michaelstein - Musikinstitut für Aufführungspraxis ("Michaelstein Abbey Foundation - Music Institute for Performance"), near the town of Blankenburg in the Harz in Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany.
History
In a deed of Emperor Otto I dated 956 giving property to Quedlinburg Abbey is mentioned the cave church dedicated to Saint Michael, also known as the Volkmarskeller (as it is still called) near the Eggeröder spring. The same deed also mentions the cell of the revered anchorite Liutbirg, which traditionally was held to have been sited in or near the cave church. The holiness of the site proved attractive, and a religious community formed round it.
In 1139 Beatrix II, abbess of Quedlinburg, founded a Cistercian monastery here, which was settled in 1146 by monks from Kamp Abbey. A few years later the new monastery was transferred away from the cave church to form Michaelstein Abbey on the present site. The abbey's growing property brought it great wealth, but it never settled any daughter houses of its own.
The monastery was sacked in 1525 by rebellious mobs during the German Peasants' War. The church was ruined beyond repair, and was never rebuilt; religious services were held from then on in the former chapter house. In 1533 the remaining buildings were ransacked and devastated by Wilhelm von Haugwitz. In 1543 the last Roman Catholic abbot resigned, and the abbey and its assets passed into the hands of the Counts of Blankenburg, who acted as abbots. Under their rule the now Protestant community began a school in 1544.
After the death of the last count in 1599, Blankenburg and its possessions, including Michaelstein Abbey, came to the Duke of Brunswick, who appointed his brother Christian abbot of Michaelstein. He relinquished the position in 1624, after which the Dukes instead appointed Protestant theologians.
From 1629 to 1631 and from 1636 to 1640, during the Thirty Years' War, short-lived communities of Cistercian monks again occupied the monastery.
In 1690 Michaelstein passed into the possession of the Dukes of Brunswick-Lüneburg. Under abbot Eberhard Finen a seminary for Protestant preachers was established in 1717, which operated alongside the school until 1721, when the school was closed, leaving the abbey as a seminary and a Protestant men's collegiate foundation. At this period substantial building works were carried out, including the conversion of part of the west wing as a Baroque church.
In 1808, under French occupation, the abbey was closed down. Thereafter the buildings were used only for farming purposes, largely the accommodation of farm workers, and so began many years of deterioration.
Stiftung Kloster Michaelstein
In 1945, as part of the land reforms of the Communist government of East Germany, the abbey estates were split up and redistributed. Some Work on the abbeys buildings took place from 1956, but it was in 1968 that the main restoration scheme began, on the initiative of the Telemann Chamber Orchestra and its director Dr. Eitelfriedrich Thom. In 1977 was founded the culture and research facility that formed the basis of the later Institut für Aufführungspraxis der Musik des 18ten Jahrhunderts ("Institute for the Performance of the Music of the 18th Century").
In 1988 a museum was created, with a collection of predominantly historical musical instruments. In the same year a group was formed from among the musicians of the Telemann Chamber Orchestra who played on historical musical instruments as the "Barockensemble des Telemann-Kammerorchesters".
In 1995, for lack of funds, the full Telemann Chamber Orchestra was wound up, but the Baroque Ensemble continued, playing on historical instruments, and took over the name of the Telemann Chamber Orchestra. In 1997 the Institute was changed into the Stiftung Kloster Michaelstein - Musikinstitut für Aufführungspraxis. From 2001 the Landesmusikakademie of Sachsen-Anhalt has also been based here.
From 2000 the orchestra was gradually separated from the Institute and urged towards independence. Some time afterwards there was a split between the musicians: one part continues to play on historical instruments as the "Telemannisches Collegium Musicum", while the other part, under the leadership of the widow of Dr. Eitelfriedrich Thom, continues under the old name as the "Telemann-Kammerorchester", but without any connection to Michaelstein Abbey.
The former monastic buildings, now accommodating both the Foundation (Stiftung) and the Sachsen-Anhalt Music Academy (Landesmusikakademie Sachsen-Anhalt), host various musical events, particularly the series of concerts known as the Michaelsteiner Klosterkonzerte, often featuring the Michaelstein Chamber Choir (Kammerchor Michaelstein) and the Telemanisches Collegium Michaelstein Orchestra. Guided tours of the abbey complex, including the herb- and vegetable gardens, laid out according to historical sources, and of the musical instrument display, are conducted throughout the year. A music library is located in the west wing, and is often accessible to the public. A highlight of the year is the annual Michaelstein Abbey Festival (Michaelsteiner Klosterfest).
In addition the Foundation organises conferences and seminars at a European level and supports ongoing research.
Other structures
In the external wall of the Baroque church created in the west wing of the surviving monastery precinct, are immured the remains of Beatrice of Gandersheim (d. 1061), daughter of Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor, and abbess of Gandersheim and Quedlinburg. Formerly buried at Quedlinburg Abbey, Beatrice's remains were displaced after the church there burnt down in 1070, and were apparently finally laid to rest in Michaelstein in the 1160s.
The nearby Mönchemühle ("monks' mill") on the Goldbach brook was once the monastery's oil mill.
Notes
External links / Sources
Kloster Michaelstein website
history of the Abbey
Kammerchor Michaelstein website
www.telemann-michaelstein.de
Telemann-Kammerorchester website
Gesellschaft der Freunde Michaelstein e.V. (Friends of Michaelstein Abbey)
References
Diestelkamp, Albert, 1934: Die Anfänge des Klosters Michaelstein, in: Sachsen und Anhalt 10 (1934), pp. 106–118.
Geyer, Albert, nd: Geschichte des Cistercienserklosters Michaelstein b. Blankenburg a. Harz. Leipzig: Bernhard Franke, O.J.
Monasteries in Saxony-Anhalt
Cistercian monasteries in Germany
1130s establishments in the Holy Roman Empire
1139 establishments in Europe
Lutheran monasteries in Germany
Romanesque Road
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Religious museums in Germany
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A European political foundation, formally a political foundation at European level, informally a Eurofoundation, is a research and advocacy organization close to, but independent from a Europarty. They are funded by the European Parliament. Their purpose is to act as platforms aiming at developing forward-looking ideas and concepts for their respective political family and providing a forum where those ideas can be widely debated. There are nine Eurofoundations as of 16 March 2009.
Timeline
2003
Regulation (EC) No 2004/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 November 2003 defined what a Europarty, or political party at European level, was and tightened up their regulation.
2007
That regulation was later heavily amended by Regulation (EC) No 1524/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2007. That amendment provided for the earlier-floated concept of a political foundation at European level, a legally separate affiliate to a Europarty created to help them disseminate their principles to a wider audience.
An initial one million euros was allocated for pilot proposals, and Call For Proposals DG/EAC/29/2007 went out with a deadline of 28 September 2007. Ten organizations were picked (one for each Europarty) and money was allocated with an expiry date of 31 August 2008.
Regulations
As of 1 November 2008, the regulation governing Eurofoundations is Regulation (EC) No 2004/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 November 2003, as later amended under codecision (see above). That regulation's European Commission factsheet is given here.
Funding
Their total allocated funding for 2008 is €5,000,000.
The Eurofoundations
Ten pilot Eurofoundations were set up in 2007/8, nine of which are still in existence as of 16 March 2009. They are as follows:
Proposed Eurofoundations
It was reported on 1 November 2008 that Declan Ganley had registered a company in Dublin called the Libertas Foundation Ltd and that it was intended "to act as a European Political Foundation for the Libertas Party". Ganley attempted to get EU recognition and funding of €111,000 for the Libertas Foundation in February 2009, but the attempt was rejected because its board members were all from one member state and the foundation name was the same as the aspirant Europarty also founded by Ganley. The same meeting of the Bureau of the European Parliament that rejected the Libertas foundation but (momentarily) recognised the Libertas party also defunded the Alliance of Independent Democrats in Europe (AIDE).
The foundation affiliated to the newly created Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists is New Direction.
See also
European political party
References
External links
Martens Centre website
Foundation for European Progressive Studies website
European Liberal Forum blog
Institute of European Democrats website
Transform Europe website
Coppieters Foundation website
European Union-related lists
Pan-European political parties
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Lucio Ceccarini (13 December 1930 – 14 July 2009) was an Italian water polo player who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics.
He was born in Rome.
In 1952 he was part of the Italian team which won the bronze medal in the Olympic tournament. He played one match.
See also
List of Olympic medalists in water polo (men)
References
obituary
External links
1930 births
2009 deaths
Italian male water polo players
Water polo players at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for Italy in water polo
Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics
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The women's 52 kg powerlifting event at the 2008 Summer Paralympics was contested on 10 September at the Beihang University Gymnasium in Beijing, China. This event was the fourth-lightest of the women's powerlifting weight classes, limiting competitors to a maximum of of body mass.
As with all Paralympic powerlifting events, lifters competed in the bench press. Each athlete was allowed three attempts to bench press as much weight as possible. Athletes attempting to break a record were allowed a fourth attempt. For the attempt to be valid, the competitor must have lowered the weighted bar to her chest, held it motionless for a moment, then pressed the bar upwards until her arms were fully extended. If the competitor failed to meet these requirements or any other rule infraction was committed, the attempt was declared invalid by a team of three referees and the result struck from the record.
Results
Key: PR=Paralympic record; NMR=No marks recorded
References
Women's 052 kg
Para
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Renato De Sanzuane (March 5, 1925 – June 23, 1986) was an Italian water polo player who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics.
He was born in Venice and died in Mestre.
In 1952 he was part of the Italian team which won the bronze medal in the Olympic tournament. He played seven matches.
See also
List of Olympic medalists in water polo (men)
External links
1925 births
1986 deaths
Italian male water polo players
Water polo players at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for Italy in water polo
Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Venice
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Resettlement in Newfoundland and Labrador terms refers to an organized approach to centralize the population into growth areas. It is used in the current context when referring to a voluntary relocation initiated from isolated communities themselves.
Three attempts of resettlement were initiated by the Government between 1954 and 1975 which resulted in the abandonment of 300 communities and nearly 30,000 people moved. Government's attempt of resettlement has been viewed as one of the most controversial government programs of the post-Confederation Newfoundland and Labrador.
In the 21st century, the Community Relocation Policy allows for voluntary relocation of isolated settlements. From 2002 to 2020, nine communities relocated.
Background
The history and commerce of Newfoundland and Labrador was built on the fishery and thus many small communities were established throughout the entire coastal region. Some of these communities were seasonal fishing stations and some eventually grew into communities which were very much isolated from much of the country except for water transportation or overland hiking trails. In many communities the seasonal inshore cod fishery provided both sustenance and the vast majority of employment opportunities.
In the early 20th century, settlement patterns and population distribution were changing due to a number of factors. Newfoundlanders began moving to larger centres such as St. John's. For example, in 1874 the population of St. John's was 30,574 and the major Conception Bay districts had a combined population of 41,368. By 1935 the population of the Conception Bay districts had increased by over 4,500 people, while the population of St. John's had more than doubled to 65,256 people.
Other parts of the island and Labrador went through major changes in resource development that affected areas outside the Avalon Peninsula. The construction of paper mills in both Grand Falls and Corner Brook drew many people from coastal towns and villages. These areas contributed to growth in other areas such as Botwood and Deer Lake. Mineral discoveries at places such as Wabush and Labrador City, St. Lawrence, Baie Verte and Buchans also contributed to the movement of people away from the outports. World War II also had a part to play when air force bases were built at Stephenville, Argentia and Goose Bay, and the booming international airport in Gander.
The 1992 cod moratorium especially affected Newfoundland's rural outports, where the loss of an important source of income caused widespread out-migration. Some communities have tried to compensate by fishing shellfish, crab and shrimp, but their stocks are faltering in recent years. The moratorium is still in effect, but it has been slightly loosened to allow for some fishing. However, the stocks remain critical according to industry experts.
The ever-shrinking communities are struggling with an aging population that needs access to essential services. As of October 2017, the province's marine transportation system costs $76 million annually. It is often cited as a burden to the economy, requiring spending millions of dollars to guarantee frequent transport from communities with no more than a hundred residents.
Prior to 1954
Prior to the start of the government sponsored resettlement program many communities were abandoned for various reasons including disease, lack of work and natural disaster. One of the earliest examples of this is the community of Garia. The community lost 3/4 of its inhabitants after they decided to move to Anticosti Island for work in 1873. The remaining residents slowly moved away and the community was abandoned in the 1910s.
Between 1946 and 1954, it is estimated that 49 communities were abandoned without government intervention. Government officials had long petitioned for a greater concentration of the population, citing many benefits. In 1953 the Newfoundland Department of Welfare offered small amounts of financial assistance to residents of 110 communities to accelerate the process which had come naturally. This became the beginning of the government assisted resettlement program for the province.
Labrador on a much smaller scale was experiencing a resettlement when the Moravian Church in the northern part of Labrador was relocating the Inuit to centres such as Hebron and Nain. Dr. Wilfred Grenfell, in his efforts to provide health and educational benefits to the people of southern Labrador and the northern coast of the Great Northern Peninsula, also helped to the centralization of populations in areas such as St. Anthony and Charlottetown.
First Resettlement Program (1954-1965)
In 1954 the provincial Department of Welfare introduced a program to encourage residents of small coastal communities to move to larger "growth centres". The government would pay for the relocation of all of a family's belongings as well as their house to the new community. This was changed to a cash payment of $150 per family at the start of the program and gradually increased to $600 per family by the end of the program. This was a significant amount of money as a fisherman working in the inshore fishery was generally earning under $500 per year. In order for a community to be eligible for assistance every member would have to agree to relocate. By 1965 the program had helped resettle 115 communities with a combined population of 7500.
Second and Third Resettlement Programs (1965-1975)
In 1965 the provincial and federal governments partnered in a new resettlement program. The new program was administered by the Department of Fisheries. Under the new program the assistance was increased to $1000 per family plus $200 for each dependant in addition to moving costs. The proportion of residents who needed to agree to the move decreased to 90% and later to 80%. A second federal-provincial agreement was started in 1970, with responsibility being shared by the federal Department of Regional Economic Expansion (DREE) and the provincial Department of Community and Social Development. Between 1965 and 1975 some 148 communities were abandoned, involving the relocation of an additional 20,000 people.
Community Relocation Policy (2010s)
State-assisted relocation is still practiced in Newfoundland and Labrador, but the requests must come from the communities themselves. The modern Community Relocation Policy clearly states that the government cannot encourage or "initiate any actions" to promote resettlement. Essential services, including electricity, are terminated in the communities where the vote reaches a threshold of 90-per-cent. In 2013, the compensation was boosted from $100,000 to $270,000 per household.
Despite a community voting in favor, state-assisted relocation has been refused in some settlements, where the cost for compensation exceeds the amount saved in services cut. Even if Nippers Harbour voted with a majority of 98%, the government has declared that the consequences to the economy would outweigh the benefits.
Since 2000, eight communities have relocated — Great Harbour Deep (2002), Petites (2003), Big Brook (2004), Grand Bruit (2010), Round Harbour (2016), William's Harbour (2017), Snook's Arm (2018) and Little Bay Islands (2019). In 2019, Little Bay Islands became the most recent settlement to resettle.
In 2021, the provincial government's Community Relocation Policy was changed lowering the vote required for relocation from 90 percent to 75 percent.
Following the policy change, in 2021 François voted against resettlement. In 2023, Gaultois voted against resettlement.
In art
The social change caused by resettlement has appeared in some works of literature and music. The song The Government Game by the Newfoundland writer Al Pittman describes the issue, with lyrics such as "It's surely a sad sight, their movin' around,/ A-wishin they still lived by the cod-fishin' ground;/ But there's no goin' back now, there's nothing to gain,/ Now that they've played in the government game." The song Out From St Leonards also describes the resettlement, noting how residents left "with their houses in tow" by physically shipping buildings to their new homes. His best-known play West Moon is set in a resettled outport, where the ghosts of the dead lament the abandonment of their home.
The resettlement of an outport community is a focal point of Newfoundland author Michael Crummey's 2014 novel Sweetland, and its theatrical feature film adaptation Sweetland.
Newfoundland-based photographer April MacDonald has extensively documented the legacy of homes and villages abandoned by resettled Newfoundlanders.
See also
History of Newfoundland and Labrador
Collapse of the Atlantic northwest cod fishery
Newfoundland outport
References
Populated coastal places in Canada
Populated places in Newfoundland and Labrador
Settlement schemes in Canada
Rural society in Canada
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Raffaello Gambino (April 18, 1928 – August 26, 1989) was an Italian water polo player who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics.
He was born in Rome.
In 1952 he was part of the Italian team which won the bronze medal in the Olympic tournament. He played seven matches as goalkeeper.
See also
Italy men's Olympic water polo team records and statistics
List of Olympic medalists in water polo (men)
List of men's Olympic water polo tournament goalkeepers
External links
1928 births
1989 deaths
Italian male water polo players
Water polo goalkeepers
Water polo players at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for Italy in water polo
Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Water polo players from Rome
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The J.A. Sweeton Residence was built in 1950 in Cherry Hill, in Camden County, New Jersey, United States. At , it is the smallest of the four Frank Lloyd Wright houses in New Jersey. This Usonian scheme house was constructed of concrete blocks and redwood plywood.
The Sweeton House is sheltered by a dramatically pitched roof that comes within four feet of the ground. An impressive cantilevered carport extending about from the house provides a dramatic visual element to the entrance. Wright loved the automobile but thought garages were a relic of the "livery-stable mind," according to his revised autobiography.
The compact horizontal plan reflects a standard Usonian scheme. Three bedrooms and one bathroom are arranged on a linear axis like cabins of an ocean liner. With its prominent living room defined by six glass doors, mitered glass corners and cathedral ceiling, the home seems larger than its .
The Sweeton House remains a private residence and is not accessible by the public. The larger original site has been subdivided and is isolated from major roadways.
The homes address is actually 373 Kings Highway. 375 is Princeton Behavioral Center, house is behind the Center.
See also
List of Frank Lloyd Wright works
References
Storrer, William Allin. The Frank Lloyd Wright Companion. University of Chicago Press, 2006, (S.325)
External links
Exploring Art - Frank Lloyd Wright - JA Sweeton Residence
Frank Lloyd Wright Houses - Bernardsville, Cherry Hill, Glen Ridge, Millstone
PrairieMod: One Couple "Sweeton's" Their Life Style
J A Sweeton House photos on Flickr
J A Sweeton House, Cherry Hill NJ 1950 - Frank Lloyd Wright Designed Buildings on Waymarking.com
Cherry Hill Historical Commission
"On the Trail of Frank Lloyd Wright," The New York Times, 2001
Houses completed in 1950
Cherry Hill, New Jersey
Frank Lloyd Wright buildings
Houses in Camden County, New Jersey
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William R. Stall (February 21, 1937 – November 2, 2008) was a reporter and staff member of the Los Angeles Times who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2004.
Biography
Stall was born on February 21, 1937, in Philadelphia to parents Sidney J. and Helen R. Stall. He and his two siblings moved with his parents in 1942 to Big Horn, Wyoming, to operate a small ranch. Stall's father worked part-time at the Sheridan Press, later owning a weekly newspaper.
Stall majored in journalism at the University of Wyoming and was sports editor, and later covered city-county government, for Laramie Daily Bulletin while still in college. He also attended Northwestern University and Johns Hopkins University, and served in the National Guard. He was hired by the Associated Press in Cheyenne, Wyoming, later working as the AP's Reno correspondent before a move to the agency's Sacramento, California, bureau, where he was bureau chief from 1966 to 1974.
He served in the administration of Governor Jerry Brown as press secretary and director of public affairs in 1975 and 1976. He was hired in 1976 by The Los Angeles Times reporting in the Metro section. He later covered energy policy and was assistant Metro editor before becoming a staff writer in the paper's Washington, D.C., bureau. He took a position as Washington bureau chief for the Hartford Courant.
In 1980, he shared the Gerald Loeb Award for Large Newspapers for his coverage of the U.S. energy crisis.
Stall was awarded the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing for a series of editorials written in October, November and December 2003 on California's troubled state government. The Reinventing California editorials included "How the Engine Derailed", "Primed for Fiscal Overhaul", "Yank the 'For Sale' Sign", "A Legislature at War" and concluded with "Seize the Political Moment". The Pulitzer board noted that Stall's series of editorials "prescribed remedies and served as a model for addressing complex state issues."
Stall was also proud of a 2001 series of editorials he wrote supporting Senate Bill 221, a measure submitted by State Senator Sheila Kuehl that would require real estate developers of projects with 500 or more units to demonstrate that the homes would have access to a long-term water supply. A lobbyist for the East Bay Municipal Utility District said that Stall's editorials helped make the case for the legislation, overcoming opposition from the building industry. After ten years of unsuccessful efforts to pass such a bill, the proposal passed in the legislature and was signed into law by Governor Gray Davis, making California the first state in the Western United States to enact such a law.
Stall died of complications from pulmonary disease on November 2, 2008, at his home in Sacramento, California. He had been in failing health much of the year.
References
1937 births
2008 deaths
American newspaper editors
American reporters and correspondents
Journalists from Philadelphia
Respiratory disease deaths in California
Deaths from lung disease
Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing winners
Gerald Loeb Award winners for Large Newspapers
20th-century American journalists
American male journalists
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Operation North () was the code name which was assigned by the USSR Ministry of State Security to the massive deportation of Jehovah's Witnesses and their families to Siberia in the Soviet Union on 1 and 8 April 1951.
Background
There were almost no Jehovah's Witnesses in the Soviet Union until its annexation of the Baltic States, Western Belarus, Western Ukraine, Bessarabia, and Northern Bukovina; most of them were living in the Moldavian SSR and Ukrainian SSR. Jehovah's Witnesses came into the conflict with the Soviet government, primarily because they refused to join the military. Their teachings were soon regarded as anti-Soviet. Members of religious groups, including Jehovah's Witnesses, qualified as religious elements which were considered a potential source of danger by the communist regime. In November 1950, Viktor Abakumov reported a plan to deport them to Stalin, and Stalin suggested that the deportation should occur in March–April 1951.
Implementation
On February 19, 1951, Abakumov delivered a secret notice to Stalin, detailing plans for the deportations of Jehovah's Witnesses to Tomsk Oblast and Irkutsk Oblast. It said, in particular, that during 1947–1950, 1048 Jehovah's Witnesses leaders and activists had been arrested, 5 underground print houses had been uncovered, and large amounts of printed matter confiscated. The deportees were permitted to take a maximum of 150 kilograms of property, packed within two hours; the remaining property was to be confiscated "to cover the obligations of the deportees before the state". Abakumov's notice listed the following planned numbers of deportees:
Total number: 8576 persons (3048 families), including:
Ukrainian SSR — 6140 persons (2020 families);
Byelorussian SSR — 394 persons (153 families);
Moldavian SSR — 1675 persons (670 families);
Latvian SSR — 52 persons (27 families);
Lithuanian SSR — 76 persons (48 families);
Estonian SSR — 250 persons (130 families).
On March 3, 1951, the USSR Council of Ministers issued the corresponding decree (no. 667-339ss), followed by an order of the Ministry of State Security (no. 00193) of March 5, 1951. On March 24, the Moldavian SSR Council of Ministers issued the decree on the confiscation and selling of the property of the deportees. Operation North started at 4 a.m. on April 1, 1951, and round-ups ended on April 2. The deportees were classified as "special settlers". From the Moldavian SSR, there were 2,617 persons (723 families) deported on the night of March 31 to April 1, 1951. In total, 9,973 persons were deported from the whole country.
Amnesty and exculpation
On September 30, 1965, a decree (no. 4020-1U) of the Presidium of the USSR Council of Ministers cancelled the "special settlement" restriction for members of the four deported religious groups and their family members. However, this decree signed by Anastas Mikoyan stated that there would be no compensation for the confiscated property, and that return to their previous places of residence was subject to the approval of the local administrations. Though released, Jehovah's Witnesses remained the subject of legal persecution due to their ideology classified as anti-Soviet. The organization was legalized in the Soviet Union in 1991 and re-banned by Russia in 2017. The deported and convicted Jehovah's Witnesses (and other religion-related convicts) were rehabilitated as victims of Soviet political repressions by the ukase no. 378 of President of the Russian Federation of March 3, 1996, "On the Measures for Rehabilitation of the Priests and Believers who had become Victims of Unjustified Repressions" (О мерах по реабилитации священнослужителей и верующих, ставших жертвами необоснованных репрессий).
Notable deportees
Family of Zinaida Greceanîi, former prime Minister of Moldova
See also
Persecution of Christians in the Soviet Union
Persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses in other places
Persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia
Commission for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Moldova
References and notes
External links
April 1951 events in Europe
Anti-religious campaign in the Soviet Union
Forced migration in the Soviet Union
Political repression in the Soviet Union
1951 in the Soviet Union
Religious persecution by communists
Persecution of Christians in the Eastern Bloc
Persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses
Anti-Christian sentiment in Russia
Persecution by atheist states
1951 in Christianity
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Mfundo Shumana (born 17 December 1985, in Cape Town) is a South African association football midfielder who played in the Premier Soccer League.
Personal
He hails from Nyanga on the Cape Flats.
References
1985 births
Living people
Soccer players from Cape Town
South African men's soccer players
Men's association football midfielders
Cape Town Spurs F.C. players
Moroka Swallows F.C. players
Chippa United F.C. players
South African Premier Division players
National First Division players
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Salvatore Gionta (born 22 December 1930) is an Italian water polo player who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics and in the 1960 Summer Olympics.
Biography and career
He was born in Formia. In 1952 he was part of the Italian team which won the bronze medal in the Olympic tournament. He played two matches. Eight years later he won the gold medal with the Italian team in the 1960 Olympic tournament. He played two matches and scored two goals.
See also
Italy men's Olympic water polo team records and statistics
List of Olympic champions in men's water polo
List of Olympic medalists in water polo (men)
External links
1930 births
Living people
Italian male water polo players
People from Formia
Water polo players at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Water polo players at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for Italy in water polo
Olympic bronze medalists for Italy in water polo
Medalists at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from the Province of Latina
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The women's 56 kg powerlifting event at the 2008 Summer Paralympics was contested on 10 September at the Beihang University Gymnasium in Beijing, China. This event was the fifth-lightest of the women's powerlifting weight classes, limiting competitors to a maximum of of body mass.
As with all Paralympic powerlifting events, lifters competed in the bench press. Each athlete was allowed three attempts to bench press as much weight as possible. Athletes attempting to break a record were allowed a fourth attempt. For the attempt to be valid, the competitor must have lowered the weighted bar to her chest, held it motionless for a moment, then pressed the bar upwards until her arms were fully extended. If the competitor failed to meet these requirements or any other rule infraction was committed, the attempt was declared invalid by a team of three referees and the result struck from the record.
Results
Key: PR=Paralympic record; WR=World record
References
Women's 056 kg
Para
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Maurizio Mannelli (January 1, 1930 – May 22, 2014) was an Italian water polo player who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics.
He was born in Rome.
In 1952 he was part of the Italian team which won the bronze medal in the Olympic tournament. He played all eight matches.
See also
List of Olympic medalists in water polo (men)
References
External links
1930 births
2014 deaths
Italian male water polo players
Water polo players at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for Italy in water polo
Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Water polo players from Rome
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Slüz Düz Music is the debut album by American multi-instrumentalist Peter Ostroushko, released in 1985.
"Sluz Duz" is an Old World sound developed by Ostroushko that combines the dance music of the Ukraine and other European countries with American blugrass, ragtime and swing. The bluegrass band Hot Rize is also featured on the album.
Reception
Writing for Allmusic, music critic Steven Thomas Erlewine wrote of the album "... the result is quite intriguing, even if his ambition sometimes doesn't match his grasp"
Track listing
All songs by Peter Ostroushko.
"The Last Stand" – 3:45
"Friedrich Polka" – 3:23
"Marjorie's Waltz" – 4:55
"Fiddle Tune Medley:" – 4:19
"My Love, I Miss Her So"
"Farewell to Calgary"
"Burnt Biscuit Breakdown" – 4:55
"Sleepy Jesus Rag" – 3:44
"Slüz-Düz Polka " – 3:45
"Katerina's Waltz" – 4:28
"Christian Creek" – 4:00
"Co. Kerry to Kiev Medley:" – 7:01
"McIntyre's Hornpipe"
"The Mist on the Lake"
"McIntyre's Reel"
Personnel
Peter Ostroushko – mandolin, fiddle, mandola, guitar, mandocello
Norman Blake – guitar
Bruce Calin – bass
John Angus Foster – bass, piano
Tim Hennessy – guitar
Red Maddock – drums
Mick Moloney – banjo, tenor banjo
Paddy O'Brien – accordion
Tim O'Brien – fiddle
Charles Sawtelle – guitar
Daíthí Sproule – guitar
Butch Thompson – piano
Pete Wernick – banjo, fiddle
Bruce Allard – violin
John Anderson – bodhrán
Nancy Blake – cello
Production notes
Peter Ostroushko – producer, liner notes, mixing
Tom Mudge – engineer
Lynne Cruise – engineer, mixing
John Scherf – assistant engineer
Jonathan Wyner – mastering
Nancy Given – reissue design
References
1985 debut albums
Peter Ostroushko albums
Rounder Records albums
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Reese Williams and Bianca Montgomery are fictional characters and a lesbian couple from the ABC daytime drama All My Children. Reese was portrayed by Tamara Braun, and Bianca was portrayed by Eden Riegel. On Internet message boards, the pairing is commonly referred to by the portmanteaus "Rianca" (for Reese and Bianca) and "Breese" (for Bianca and Reese). The couple debuted in October 2008 and is groundbreaking for featuring the first same-sex marriage proposal, as well as the first legal same-sex wedding and marriage, on an American soap opera. In addition, the pairing's family is the first onscreen family made up of same-sex parents in the history of American daytime television.
The couple's wedding took place on February 13, 2009. Though the wedding received praise for being the first on an American soap opera, it also received criticism. The couple's romance was the subject of controversy, from writing and development to fan dissatisfaction and creator commentary.
Background
Writing and portrayals
Eden Riegel was cast in 2000 as Bianca Montgomery, the lesbian daughter of Erica Kane. Riegel left the role and returned several times, before permanently retiring from the role in 2010. She attributed her 2008 return to the wishes of her fans. Through the web presence she created for herself during her web series Imaginary Bitches, fans let her know how much they wanted her back on the show. "I definitely wanted to fulfill that desire if I could," she said. Riegel then let the show know she was willing to come back. "[The] next thing I knew I got a call and they said, 'Okay, we've got something for you,'" she said. The story the All My Children writers came up with involved a new love interest for Bianca, Reese Williams, who would be portrayed by daytime alumni Tamara Braun. Riegel addressed specific reasons she made the return. "It was the storyline that got me excited," she said. "I always want to come back. I love All My Children, and they're my family. I barely need an excuse—it's usually just about timing." Riegel added that "this time it was the fact that they were going to have Bianca in a committed relationship". She stated, "It was very, very important to me, and I was so glad to hear that. In the context of that, there's some pretty exciting story line plot points that I'm aware of that are dramatic and fun to play and enticing as an actress." In addition, Riegel was enthused about playing opposite Braun. "It means so much [that Braun was cast] because it shows how committed AMC is to this pairing," Riegel said in an interview with Soap Opera Weekly. "We're going to have some serious stuff to play- they aren't going to waste her talents."
After portraying Ava Vitali on the NBC soap opera Days of Our Lives, Tamara Braun did not expect to appear on another daytime drama so soon. "I didn't want to do another soap, I was ready to do other things," Braun said in an interview with TV Guide. "But this was an opportunity I couldn't pass up." All My Children head writer Charles Pratt, Jr. was creating the role of Reese with Braun in mind when he offered her the role. The story he presented her convinced Braun to take the part. "[T]his is a story that's groundbreaking and over due," Braun said. "Two female soap characters having a baby together is unprecedented. I wanted to be part of something that could have a strong and positive impact and help give same-sex couples their rightful place in the world of daytime drama."
Since coming out as a lesbian, Bianca's romantic entanglements have consisted of sexual confusion, unrequited love, bad timing, and betrayal, including a short-lived romance with Lena Kundera (Olga Sosnovska) and an on-but-mostly-off-screen romantic relationship with Maggie Stone (Elizabeth Hendrickson). The pairing of Reese and Bianca finally allowed the character to be scripted into an on-screen committed relationship. The show had been criticized in the past for not giving Bianca a full-fledged on-screen romance. When asked by The Advocate if she felt Bianca's pairing with Reese, especially by bringing on a recognized name (Braun), would make a difference, Riegel replied, "I think there has to be a difference." She responded to the criticism about Bianca's lack of onscreen intimacy with past romantic partners. "I don't know if the criticism is entirely warranted," she asserted. "I know I was glad that the show's priority was in giving me good stories, and I thought that they did go further than anyone else had ever gone, so I always thought that they should be commended." Riegel added, however, that she knows the lack of onscreen intimacy between Bianca and the character's past romantic love interests left fans and herself unsatisfied. "She never really got to have the kind of relationship that she deserved," stated Riegel. Riegel said of Bianca's return this time, "you’ll see a couple of things you haven’t seen in a while".
The writers characterized Reese as "very warm and real and very expressive with her feelings". Her relationship with Bianca is also "very" affectionate. In the past whenever a kiss was written in for Bianca, significant soap opera press usually focused in on the moment as an event and another kiss usually took a year or longer to happen following the immediate shift of making her romance more physically reserved than heterosexual relationships on the show. The atmosphere was different for Reese and Bianca's relationship. Braun said in an interview with Shewired.com that she would not have been able to portray the character as well back then because Reese is so affectionate. "This character is warm and open and for me to play a woman who's in love, it's important for me to be able to express that," she said. "Perhaps that's one of the reasons they wanted me to play this." Braun and Riegel have portrayed their characters as in love and committed to each other. Reese was also scripted early on as the love of Bianca's life, negating Bianca's previous true love Maggie.
When asked how she felt Bianca and Maggie (BAM) fans would respond to the Reese and Bianca pairing, Riegel stated, "I'm pretty sure BAM fans will never be entirely satisfied until they have their two favorite girls together forever. But Lizzie's [Elizabeth Hendrickson] been so successful on Y&R [as Chloe Mitchell ], and is so obviously happy there, I am hoping they are able to embrace this pairing for the time being."
Wardrobe
All My Children's wardrobe director, David R. Zyla, collaborated with Braun in creating the wardrobe for the Reese Williams character. The two had worked together before when Braun portrayed Carly Corinthos on General Hospital. While bringing their ideas together, they tried to make sure they did not make Reese into too much of a cliché. "I like that she goes from really strong pants with a buttoned shirt and tie, which is so on trend but is also just great style, to wearing dresses," Braun said. Reese's wardrobe goes back and forth between the two different types of style which allows Braun and Zyla to play with her fashion. "She's an architect, so to me, I would think she has a real eye for lines," said Braun. "She appreciates form and beauty, and the look we came up with I would describe as 'streamlined with a flair'."
For Reese and Bianca's wedding, the dresses of the brides were chosen to complement each other by featuring "a long, lean, Grecian flowy feeling". As Bianca, Riegel was dressed in a Monique Lhuillier one shoulder sari-inspired dress with gold beading. Her shoes were gold Aldos. Reese's dress was designed to fit her style as an architect. Her dress was designed by Andrew Gn. It was "a fit to flair" which featured center beading applique and the shoes she wore were off white.
The characters' family, including their daughter Gabrielle, were "dressed in the wedding's color palette: deep red." Haley Evans, who portrays the flower girl and Bianca's daughter Miranda Montgomery, wore a red velvet Lucy Sykes dress. Bianca's mother, Erica's red dress was designed by Gustavo Cadile.
Storylines
Most of Bianca and Reese's relationship takes place offscreen in Paris, where they live with Bianca's daughter Miranda Montgomery. They decide they want to expand their family with another baby. Zach Slater comes to Paris and meets Reese. He agrees to be their sperm donor, and none of them tell Bianca's sister and Zach's wife, Kendall Hart Slater, for fear that she will say no. When Bianca is close to delivering her and Reese's baby, she returns to Pine Valley to tell Kendall. Before she can, a tornado hits and Kendall is injured. After an ambulance takes Kendall to the hospital, Bianca goes into labor and Zach helps her deliver their baby, a girl. Bianca and Zach later find out that Kendall is comatose. Bianca worries for Kendall but also fears how she would react to the news of Zach fathering her second child.
Reese comes to Pine Valley not long after the tornado with Miranda. She proposes marriage to Bianca, and Bianca accepts. Reese and Bianca decide to have a commitment ceremony in Pine Valley and to get married later in Paris, since gay marriage is not yet legal in Pennsylvania where Pine Valley is located. Those plans change as they plan to legally marry in Connecticut. They set their wedding date on Valentine's Day. Bianca's cousin, Greenlee Smythe, also plans to marry her former husband, Ryan Lavery, on that same day. The two couples arrange for a double wedding.
Bianca finds out that Reese was once engaged to a man and that she is Reese's first lesbian partner. She is hurt Reese did not tell her this. She also becomes increasingly insecure in their relationship as she sees her fiance getting closer with Zach. Bianca decides to test Reese's love for her. She tells Zach and Reese that she will be leaving town, but she secretly stays to spy on them. When Bianca witnesses Zach and Reese in an embrace as Zach gives Reese a kiss to the forehead, she believes Reese is cheating on her and flees. She ends up in a car accident soon afterward, but suffers no serious injuries. Zach and Reese rush to the hospital to see Bianca, and Bianca explains that she saw them embracing. She asks if they are in love. Zach and Reese say no. Despite this, Bianca is furious with Reese and does not want to talk with her. Reese frustratedly leaves the hospital and sends Bianca a note saying she plans to leave. After reading the note, Bianca hurries home to convince Reese to stay; she says that she loves her and knows that she is not romantically interested in Zach. Reese says that she would not have left, regardless.
Zach and Reese continue to bond, and Reese and Bianca continue planning their wedding. However, tragedy strikes when Kendall and Bianca's brother, Josh Madden, is killed by Zach after Josh has taken Reese and his family members hostage. Zach is determined to have Josh's heart be donated to Kendall, who needs a heart transplant to save her life. Erica, the siblings' mother, makes the painful decision to take Josh off life support and donate his heart to Kendall.
Kendall awakes from her coma days after her transplant. She is told of having been recently comatose, about her heart transplant, that Josh is dead and she has his heart, and of Bianca's engagement to Reese. Kendall is naturally overwhelmed by all the news, but handles it well. When she is told of Zach having fathered Bianca's second child, she seems numb to this news also. Her family had thought she would take this particular news badly, but Kendall seems okay with it. Greenlee (Kendall's best friend) and Erica, however, are the only ones to believe that Kendall is not okay with Zach being the father.
Kendall moves back home not long after being awake from her coma. Reese can sense that Kendall is uneasy with her and Bianca living there. She talks with Kendall alone, but it is apparent that Kendall is distant. After their conversation, Reese leaves the room and Zach comes in. Kendall tells Zach that she wants Reese and Bianca out of their home. Zach later obliges Kendall's wishes and sets Reese and Bianca up at his casino to stay. Reese and Bianca get into a fight while there, but later reconcile.
The day before Reese and Bianca's wedding, Kendall refuses to attend the ceremony. Zach tries to convince her to change her mind, saying that she is acting childish, but Kendall explains that he and Bianca betrayed her. Bianca receives word that Kendall will not be coming to her wedding and immediately rushes to Kendall's home to insist she attend. Kendall says that she will only come to the wedding as long as Bianca promises to leave for Paris soon afterward and take Reese and baby Gabrielle with her. Bianca reluctantly agrees. Later that night, Reese and Bianca have a wedding rehearsal. Kendall picks up a wine glass and makes a snarky toast to Reese and Bianca but particularly to Reese. Reese becomes upset; she grabs a bottle of wine, a glass, and walks off. Bianca follows her, but Reese wants to be alone. Zach later finds Reese and consoles her. He pulls her into a hug and then kisses her passionately; Reese kisses back. After a few moments, with Ryan having witnessed their kiss, unknown to them, they agree that the kiss never happened and that they already have people they are deeply in love with. Ryan later confronts Zach about the kiss, but Zach says it was nothing and nonchalantly walks away from Ryan.
On their wedding day, Reese and Bianca are blissfully happy before the ceremony. Bianca feels that maybe she should stay in Pine Valley. She later tells her mother this and says that she will stay, which Kendall overhears and subsequently decides not to attend the wedding after all.
Without Kendall, Reese and Bianca exchange wedding vows on February 12, 2009. Ryan, however, has called off his wedding with Greenlee after seeing Zach and Reese kiss. He tells Greenlee that he knows Zach and Reese have been sleeping together and that he does not want to be married next to them, but he promises her that he will give her the wedding of her dreams. Greenlee then tries to get in touch with Zach; she wants to know if he has really been having an affair with Reese. When Greenlee cannot get in touch with Zach, she drives off on her motorcycle in search of him. Also on the road are Zach and Kendall in a car arguing. Kendall ends up in the wrong lane and nearly hits Greenlee. Both try to swerve out of the other's way, leaving Greenlee to drive off the road. When Greenlee's body is not found, she is presumed dead. Reese, Bianca and others soon find out about Greenlee being missing. Ryan tells Bianca that Zach and Reese have been engaging in a sexual relationship with each other. Bianca goes to Reese to tell her that their relationship and marriage is over. She later sends Reese annulment papers, and returns to Paris with Miranda and Gabrielle.
On April 24, 2009, Bianca comes back to Pine Valley after having discussed with Zach the reasons she left. After later talking over her and Reese's relationship problems with Zach and Kendall, the couple reconcile and hope that they can work their relationship out. They return to Paris together with their children, and later remarry. In 2010, Bianca returns to Pine Valley for a family emergency, and soon wants to stay. After Reese decides that she is not coming back to Pine Valley, Bianca decides to end their marriage for good and now is single.
Reception and impact
First same-sex marriage and critical praise
Reese and Bianca are the first same-sex couple to become engaged for marriage on an American soap opera. On October 31, 2008, AfterEllen.com founder Sarah Warn stated, "Bianca (Eden Riegel) and Reese's (Tamara Braun) much-anticipated engagement finally took place on ABC's daytime drama All My Children today (the first lesbian marriage proposal on daytime TV), and for once, the AMC writers didn't disappoint." In addition, the couple has been allowed the type of physical intimacy not previously allowed between same-sex couples within the series. Their kiss following the marriage proposal was seen as a change in the show's attitude about portraying homosexual relationships. "...They had an actual kiss—a real one, not a peck on the cheek," stated Warn. She added that the kiss was significant due to romantic kisses, explicit or otherwise, between two women on All My Children or on any daytime drama being rare.
Reese and Bianca's wedding on February 13, 2009 marked a first-time event for a daytime drama; the couple exchange vows in the first legal same-sex marriage in American daytime history. (Within the show, the wedding took place on February 12, 2009, Valentine's Day.) Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) president Neil G. Giuliano released a statement in honor of the milestone:
In addition, All My Children was nominated for a GLAAD Award in January 2009. The wedding event was featured on CNN on February 16, 2009 following the continuation of the February 13, 2009 episode. The CNN report featured positive and negative thoughts about the wedding. The View discussed the wedding the following day, and relayed that angry letters had been sent to them about the wedding. Regardless of this, they applauded ABC for featuring the ceremony.
Criticism and controversy
Gabrielle Montgomery
In October 2008, with Bianca's return to the series during a series of tornadoes striking fictional town Pine Valley, Bianca was reported to be pregnant with her second child. Fans immediately began speculating on who the sperm donor was, which caught the attention of soap opera press, LGBT press, and other media outlets. TV Guide reported that "nobody knows [Bianca's] in town until her brother-in-law finds her under the rubble". SOAPnet.com stated, "The physical affects [sic] of the tornado are miniscule [sic] compared to the ripples Bianca's presence creates." Another soap opera website sensationalized the story by stating, "When Bianca returns to town this time, she will have a brand new 'someone special' in her life and a big surprise—Bianca is pregnant! And wait until everyone finds out who the 'father' is."
Fans, aware that Miranda Montgomery, Bianca's first child, was the result of rapist Michael Cambias, speculated Zach Slater as the child's biological father. Zach was Michael's older brother. Fans theorized that Bianca wanted a baby closely related to Miranda and asked Zach to father the child. If Bianca were already pregnant when she got to Pine Valley, then Zach could have "donated" last time Bianca was in town, even though the timing within the series did not correlate with this. Another theory concluded Bianca's former love Zarf/Zoe, a pre-op MTF transsexual, as the father; the argument arose over a website putting "father" in quotations. The "father" is really a "mother" trapped in a "father's" body, the theory entailed.
Zach was eventually confirmed as the father of the child through an article in Soap Opera Digest. Bianca's reasons for asking Zach to be the donor and doing so without informing her sister and Zach's wife, Kendall Hart Slater, infuriated viewers. They reasoned that neither Bianca nor Zach would do this to Kendall. AfterEllen.com writer/co-founder Sarah Warn stated of the explanation behind how Bianca conceived Gabrielle, "This storyline is all kinds of wrong—and not just because it makes me feel like I need a shower. Bianca and Kendall have a strong, very close relationship." Warn further expressed in the article that she could not fathom that Bianca would make "a move like this" without discussing it with Kendall first. Bianca's reason, however, was that she did not want to give Kendall a chance to say no.
Bianca wanting her children closely related was seen by viewers as unneeded, since the children would still be closely related through Bianca. Warn, in the forememtioned AfterEllen article, relayed, "...Bianca wanting a baby closely related to Miranda, whose father was a rapist and whose grandfather was a mass murderer. I’m no geneticist, but propagating that DNA seems risky at best." The choice for Zach as the father made Miranda and the new child not only half-siblings but cousins as well, which some found "icky".
Reese being introduced as Bianca's love interest was the first time an American soap opera would showcase same-sex partners having decided to create a child together. Riegel set up the Reese and Bianca storyline and what the couple's introduction entailed to the New York Daily News, "Zach is looking for Kendall [in the immediate aftermath of the tornado]. He is shocked to find Bianca. Nobody knew she was coming to Pine Valley. Zach discovers Kendall's lifeless body and resuscitates her. Paramedics come, but they only have room in the vehicle for one person. Zach convinces them to take the kids, as well. He and Bianca wait." This gave the series a chance to explain Bianca's return to the audience, as they saw Bianca, clearly pregnant, sit beside Zach. "Zach agreed to be Bianca's [sperm] donor, but she failed to tell him that the pregnancy took," explained Riegel. "The reason she was not forthcoming is that Kendall was not told. Bianca came halfway across the world from France in the Cambias private jet—the only jet that can fly into a tornado—and didn't even get to tell Kendall the truth."
The writers detailed Bianca and Zach talking only briefly before Bianca was seen going into labor. Zach delivers the baby, a girl. "If there's a giant storm, Bianca will give birth," joked Riegel, referring to how Bianca's first pregnancy (with Miranda) went. Riegel clarified that the baby "is actually" Reese and Bianca's, while Zach is the sperm donor. "After Zach delivers Bianca's baby," she said, "Reese tries to get to Pine Valley, but the roads are closed. She and Miranda fly to New York to surprise Bianca." Bianca's second child is soon named Gabrielle Montgomery, with Reese's blessing. Reese and Bianca are the first same-sex partners on an American soap opera to raise a family onscreen. Bianca had previously raised Miranda with character Maggie Stone, but the interaction takes place offscreen.
Romance, sexual confusion, and the wedding
Viewers of the series noted what they considered "the many failings" of the Reese and Bianca love story. LGBT viewers were especially vocal about their discontent regarding the storyline. There were complaints that Reese was not "sufficiently integrated" into the Pine Valley canvas for the audience to invest in her relationship with Bianca, as well as complaints about the budding relationship between Reese and Bianca and their sperm donor Zach. The couple's wedding was heavily criticized. While there were viewers who felt that the wedding ceremony was a "joyous and celebratory" landmark, others were left feeling that the show missed an opportunity to make the union memorable when it cut to other story points during the wedding as Reese and Bianca exchanged vows.
Following Reese and Bianca's arrival to the series as a couple in October 2008, the writers started building a Zach and Reese friendship. To viewers, the friendship soon became somewhat sexual in nature in what they described as Reese "giving off a sexual vibe" whenever around Zach. This perception was intensified once Reese was revealed by the series to have been engaged to a man just a couple of months before becoming romantically involved with Bianca. Viewers who speculated Reese as bisexual suggested that she may be after Zach. The writers played this angle with ambiguity; they added in hug and kiss "teasers" such as Zach giving Reese a lingering peck on the cheek/neck.
Viewers became frustrated and angered by what seemed to be the writers situating a man into a lesbian love story, as well as Reese seeming to share more screentime and secrets with Zach than Bianca, and a lack of Reese and Bianca truly knowing each other. The audience had experienced sexual confusion storylines before with other former love interests of Bianca's, most notably Maggie, and were hoping that this love story would be without such confusion. At one point, Reese confesses to Zach her ambiguous feelings for him and asks him if he feels the same way for her just as "the phone [rings]" and "[saves] the day".
When asked by The Advocate in a February 12, 2009 interview about viewer concern among the LGBT community that Reese would leave Bianca for Zach and likely has romantic feelings for him, All My Children executive producer Julie Hanan Carruthers responded, "First of all, it's not true. I think what's confused in Reese's head is she has misinterpreted a friendship. Zach is one of the [few] people who have not kicked her to the curb, so to speak, in Pine Valley." Carruthers said that Reese is a confused and insecure person. "She has never wavered in her commitment to Bianca," she said. "It's solid, Reese has just had a lot of emotional stuff hit. Her family is rejecting and judging her... in both her family and Bianca's." In specific response to viewers being upset at the appearance that Reese was considering leaving Bianca for Zach, Carruthers stated, "She is not considering it. That's the audience rewriting what's there. It's not being written that way at all. Reese has never wavered in what she wants." Carruthers acknowledged that Reese leaving Bianca for a man would upset viewers, but that "it's never been about that". "I don't know how to stress this more," she said. "Never has she played a moment of, 'I want Zach more than I want Bianca,' or 'I would leave Bianca for Zach.' He has literally just been a friend. Look, we tantalize in this genre. We do it whether we do it with heterosexual or homosexual couples. It’s what the genre is."
Despite Carruthers comments about the Zach and Reese relationship, Reese passionately engages in a kiss with Zach the same day of The Advocate February 12, 2009 interview, the night before Reese and Bianca's wedding. Carruthers explained, "The night before the wedding when Kendall, Zach’s wife, nails her with a backhanded toast, Reese gets a little drunk, and the person who consoles her is Zach." Carruthers described it as a moment where she kisses him and then realizes, "Oh, my god, what the heck am I doing? The person I love is Bianca, and the person you love is Kendall. What just happened?" That moment, said Carruthers, is what unravels Reese's world and "where someone tells somebody and it grows bigger than it ever was".
In addition to viewers being upset by Reese's actions, AfterEllen.com was frustrated by Reese's ambiguous involvement with Zach and stated, "ABC touting the wedding as a 'historic daytime event' just ticks [them] off". Carruthers said, "[Reese] may not be the poster child to represent the lesbian women in the world. But at the same time, she is very responsible, as are the writers portraying a woman dealing with a crisis and trying to ground herself in her identity." She relayed that though Reese and Bianca would break up due to the Zach and Reese kiss, Bianca would return in the spring to give resolution to the story. "The journey Reese has to take to earn Bianca’s trust again is significant," said Carruthers.
On February 16, 2009, in response to the February 12, 2009 interview by The Advocate, television program Soap's Up from Canada's A-Channel criticized Carruthers for insulting the audience's intelligence by saying that the audience had been rewriting the storyline. The program stated that while "it is good" for All My Children to feature a same-sex wedding, they have not been impressed by the love story and that a show's producer should have more control over the way a character behaves.
On February 27, 2009, Warn, who had previously praised the series in her AfterEllen October 31, 2008 column for the portrayal of the couple's onscreen physical affection, criticized the structure and overall writing of the romance. "...many queer and straight viewers began heading for the door when it became clear that the kisses and the wedding plans were just new ways to dress up the same old depressing and boring lesbian storylines about sperm donors, custody battles, and sexually confused lesbians," she said. "From an entertainment perspective, some of the conflict between Reese and Bianca at the end was interesting, but overall, their storyline became boring and predictable pretty quickly."
Warn said that the February 12, 2009 statements by Carruthers regarding Reese insulted the audience's intelligence. The statements were not supported by what the audience saw, she said. "There is validity to the argument Carruthers is making—that there simply aren't enough romantic-pairing options for long-running lesbian characters unless you're willing to change the general makeup of the established cast of characters," said Warn. "This logic is frequently used by TV writers and showrunners to justify minimal lesbian visibility, bad lesbian storylines, and the growing trend towards adding bisexual characters to their shows instead of lesbians." Warn said that while this may be an understandable decision for an individual show, when it is happening on various shows, the viewer is "left with a television landscape populated by lesbians who sleep with men, or no lesbians at all, only bisexual characters (who also primarily sleep with men)" and that All My Children "fed right into" this with the Reese and Bianca storyline.
On March 23, 2009, The Advocate interviewed Braun about her portrayal of Reese and the Reese and Bianca storyline. "From my point of view, Reese is not in love with Zach and she never has been," said Braun. "As far as the kiss, any doubt she may have had about her relationship with Bianca dissolved immediately after it happened. It was a moment of needing a connection. It was not about being in love with Zach. She was drunk, upset, and it was unfortunate. It was a terrible mistake. As far as I am concerned, Reese has always been in love with Bianca."
Braun said Reese's feelings toward Zach can be summed up as a "dear, dear friendship and connection on an intimate but not sexual level". She said that Reese has never had a clear point of view. "One minute I think I am playing a storyline that is going one way, and then there is a detour. So I have to make it clear in my head. Yes, it’s not fun playing the outsider who has nobody, and no strong leg to stand on," said Braun. "Reese has been under a microscope since she came to town and doesn't have any family to support her. There is no one around who knows the essence of who she really is."
Braun clarified that, in some ways, this was "not the story" [she] came on to play but that it was in other ways. "We were getting married, which is why I wanted to do the role," she said. "I thought that we were going to show what it’s like to be a same-sex couple in a loving, committed relationship dealing with what life throws at them and the outside world and how they are treated. There are a lot of story points and ideas I thought we were going to hit upon, but they decided to take it another route."
In response to the LGBT community being left "very disgruntled" with the Reese and Bianca storyline, Braun said, "I am sorry they were not happy, because one of my main reasons for taking this role was to be able to give a positive voice to same-sex couples." Braun agreed that "the issues" went "off-point" and that she understood why it was difficult for viewers to root for the Reese and Bianca couple. She thanked the viewers who supported the pairing despite the way the romance was told. "I was shocked by [the positive feedback] because I know it was not the story they wanted," she said, "but they were so happy to be represented on TV and on a soap."
"Blame" and fan retaliation
On April 13, 2009, Charles Pratt, Jr., head writer of the series, was interviewed by TV Guide about the Reese and Bianca relationship. After saying he felt he had longer to tell the love story and that it could have been better told if not for Riegel temporarily departing as Bianca, Pratt was viewed by fans and critics as blaming Riegel for the failure of the storyline. "I was led to believe we had her for longer than we really did—suddenly I got word that Eden is leaving now," stated Pratt. "We got to play everything we wanted to with Bianca and Reese but not in the time we'd hoped for—in my mind, it was a two-year story. I guess I could have rushed to the wedding earlier so that they’d have had more time together as a married couple and then had them break up, but I think the fans would have been even more unsatisfied with that."
Despite earlier comments by Carruthers that "Reese never wavered in her commitment to Bianca" and was not bisexual, Pratt admitted that they were considering on "turning" Reese bisexual. "...if Tamara decided to stay, keeping her on the show as an angry lesbian—with no other lesbian characters on the canvas—would be kind of insane," said Pratt. "So we thought about making Reese bisexual—kind of an Anne Heche who bounces back and forth—and maybe make her an opportunistic black widow, a real bad girl. And Tamara would have been really great at that. But, ultimately, we decided to stick with the message."
Pratt's comments to TV Guide about Riegel and the storyline angered viewers and critics, who felt Pratt was being dishonest about not knowing how long Riegel was signed on for and did not admit to what they consider the true flaws of the love story. They reasoned that it was known from the beginning, to even fans of the series, that Riegel had only signed on for a four-month contract to portray the Reese and Bianca storyline and that her four-month contract should not mean that the story could not have been better written. In early 2009, Riegel briefly exited the show to focus her attention on pilot season. She had said that if the story was well written, she would extend her contract. She ultimately declined extending, but agreed to return to "tie up" the Reese and Bianca storyline for a spring 2009 "happy" ending.
Fans "retaliated" against Pratt's comments about Riegel and the storyline. Two fans created an animated online series called Pratt Falls to "skewer" the show's executives about the love story. In Season 1, Episode 1 of the parody, viewed on YouTube, a fictional Carruthers has to tell Pratt that there are "fans" who become emotionally invested in the show. The fictional Pratt asks, "Who are Bianca and Reese?" and "We have lesbians on our show?" The series, described as tongue-in-cheek, concludes its first episode with the animated Pratt announcing that he has devised a plan to blame the failed storyline on Riegel as he urges Carruthers to call TV Guide to arrange an interview.
See also
Bianca Montgomery and Maggie Stone
Lena Kundera and Bianca Montgomery
List of supercouples
References
External links
Bianca Montgomery @ Soapcentral.com
Reese Williams @ Soapcentral.com
All My Children characters
Fictional lesbians
Soap opera supercouples
Fictional LGBT characters in television
Female characters in television
Fictional LGBT couples
Fictional married couples
Fictional characters in a same-sex marriage
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is a 1933 Japanese silent drama film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. It is based on the story of the same name by Kyōka Izumi.
Plot
Tomo, called "Shiraito", is a "mizugei" (water arts presented by a performer) artist touring with a circus troupe based in Kanazawa. After an encounter with coachman Kinya, she falls in love with him and decides to finance his law studies, which he can't afford himself. Kinya takes up his studies in Tokyo, regularly receiving money with Shiraito's letters, who hopes that some day they will be reunited.
Two years later, the troupe has gone broke after the Winter season and the present audience being too small to pay for their expenses. As the troupe's bookkeeper, Shiraito gives the last money to young couple Nadeshiko and Shinzō to help them elope from the schemings of knife thrower Minami, who sold Nadeshiko to loan shark Iwabuchi. Shiraito goes to Iwabuchi herself and manages to borrow 300 yen from him in return for sexual services. On her way back, she is robbed by a group of men. As one of the men left behind a knife used by Minami in his act, she realises that the robbery was a set-up by Minami and Iwabuchi. She returns to Iwabuchi to confront him and, when he tries to rape her, stabs him to death. Seizing the money which Minami's men had taken from her, she escapes.
Shiraito flees to Tokyo to see Kinya once again, but he is not at home when she shows up at his address. When she is finally arrested and taken to court for murder in Kanazawa, the prosecutor sent from Tokyo is none other than Kinya. After he learns of the circumstances of the crime and that Shiraito had wanted the money for him, he offers to resign and stand in trial for her. Yet Shiraito insists that he does his duty, as his becoming a respected lawyer was all she had lived for in the past years. After her hearing in court, she commits suicide by biting off her tongue, and Kinya shoots himself with a pistol.
Cast
Irie Takako as Tomo Mizushima/Taki no shiraito
Tokihiko Okada as Kinya Murakoshi
Suzuko Taki as Nadeshiko
Ichirō Sugai as Gozo Iwabuchi
Kōju Murata as Minami
Mimyo Bontarō as Shinzō
Kumeko Urabe as Ogin
Kōji Ōizumi as Gonji
Minoru Ōhara as Tanjirō
Nobuo Kosaka as Takamura
Etsuji Oki as Old detective
Kōji Kawase
Background
The Water Magician was the second film adaptation (after 1915) of Kyōka Izumi's story, and one in a series of dramatisations of his work by director Mizoguchi. It was produced by Takako Irie's own production company, Irie Production, the first female star film production company. It premiered in Japan on 1 June 1933.
Legacy
In his review for the online edition of Sight and Sound magazine, film scholar Alexander Jacoby called The Water Magician an "extraordinary" film, which "already reveals the director's skill with the camera" and benefits from actress Irie Takako's "magnetic performance".
The Water Magician is still occasionally being shown with live benshi narration by Midori Sawato, Ichirō Kataoka, Komura Tomoko, and others.
Notes
References
External links
1933 films
Japanese silent films
Japanese black-and-white films
Films directed by Kenji Mizoguchi
Japanese drama films
1933 drama films
Silent drama films
Films based on short fiction
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Geminio Ognio (13 December 1917 – 28 October 1990) was an Italian water polo player who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics and in the 1952 Summer Olympics.
He was born in Recco and died in Rome.
In 1948 he was part of the Italian team which won the gold medal. He played six matches and scored four goals.
Four years later he was a member of the Italian team which won the bronze medal in the Olympic tournament. He played four matches.
See also
Italy men's Olympic water polo team records and statistics
List of Olympic champions in men's water polo
List of Olympic medalists in water polo (men)
External links
1917 births
1990 deaths
Italian male water polo players
Water polo players at the 1948 Summer Olympics
Water polo players at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for Italy in water polo
Olympic bronze medalists for Italy in water polo
Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1948 Summer Olympics
Water polo players of Marina Militare
Sportspeople from the Province of Genoa
20th-century Italian people
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The women's 60 kg powerlifting event at the 2008 Summer Paralympics was contested on 13 September at the Beihang University Gymnasium in Beijing, China. This event was the fifth-heaviest of the women's powerlifting weight classes, limiting competitors to a maximum of of body mass.
As with all Paralympic powerlifting events, lifters competed in the bench press. Each athlete was allowed three attempts to bench press as much weight as possible. Athletes attempting to break a record were allowed a fourth attempt. For the attempt to be valid, the competitor must have lowered the weighted bar to her chest, held it motionless for a moment, then pressed the bar upwards until her arms were fully extended. If the competitor failed to meet these requirements or any other rule infraction was committed, the attempt was declared invalid by a team of three referees and the result struck from the record.
Results
Key: WR=World record
References
Women's 060 kg
Para
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James P. Lucier (born 1934 or 1935) is an author and a former staff member of the United States Senate.
Early life and education
Lucier has a bachelor's degree in radio and television journalism from the University of Detroit, where he co-founded the educational station WDET, and a doctoral degree in English literature from the University of Michigan.
Career
After completing his doctorate, Lucier was associate editor of the Richmond News Leader, in Virginia; he caused controversy by writing critically of President Kennedy shortly after his assassination. Also in 1963 he wrote for American Opinion, the magazine of the right-wing John Birch Society, accusing African leaders of embracing socialism as "abundance without necessitating the earning of it".
Lucier was a Senate staff member for 25 years. After working for South Carolina Southern Democrat and later Republican Senator Strom Thurmond, he joined the staff of North Carolina Republican Senator Jesse Helms, initially as coordinator of domestic legislative policy, then as chief legislative aide for foreign affairs. He became minority staff director for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee when Helms became its ranking minority member in February 1987. A leader of the hard-line faction among Republican staffers, he was relieved of his position in a general shake-up by Helms in 1992, being replaced by James "Bud" Nance, a retired admiral and friend of Helms'.
In 1972, Lucier established Capitol Information Services, for which he worked part-time at the beginning of his employment with Helms; in 1986 the Charlotte Observer raised questions about the ethics of a Senate aide running such a business. While working for Helms, he and another aide to Helms, John Carbaugh, were criticized for profiting from private foundations they had set up with Helms, and were accused of meddling in foreign policy on Helms' behalf, particularly when both attended and attempted to influence the Lancaster House talks between Britain and Rhodesia.
He subsequently became senior editor of the news weekly Insight, and has also served as chairman of the advisory commission for the Thomas Balch Library and a member of the board of the James Monroe Museum and Senior Fellow of the Monroe Foundation.
In 2006 he was appointed head of the Program on the Middle East and the Iran Information Center at the Institute on Religion and Public Policy.
Publications
In 2001 he published The Political Writings of James Monroe, one of a series on presidential writings commissioned by the publisher. For his work on the book, he was appointed one of six scholars in the Congressional Reading Room at the Library of Congress.
References
1930s births
Living people
American male writers
University of Detroit Mercy alumni
Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies alumni
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Carlo Peretti (March 5, 1930 – June 1, 2018) was an Italian water polo player who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics. He was born in Florence. In 1952 he was part of the Italian team which won the bronze medal in the Olympic tournament. He played five matches.
See also
List of Olympic medalists in water polo (men)
References
Carlo Peretti's obituary
External links
1930 births
2018 deaths
Sportspeople from Florence
Italian male water polo players
Water polo players at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for Italy in water polo
Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics
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Vincenzo "Enzo" Polito (born 29 October 1926) is an Italian water polo player who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics. He was born in Naples. In 1952 he was part of the Italian team which won the bronze medal in the Olympic tournament. He played six matches.
See also
List of Olympic medalists in water polo (men)
External links
1926 births
Possibly living people
Italian male water polo players
Water polo players at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for Italy in water polo
Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Water polo players from Naples
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The Believers is a 2008 novel by Zoë Heller. It depicts the family of a controversial lawyer in New York after a stroke renders him comatose. Each member of the Litvinoff family must confront the hypocrisies underlying their patriarch's political profile, and make difficult choices about their own values and ideological commitments.
The motto of the book—"The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned"—is a quotation from Antonio Gramsci. It has been noted that The Believers, Heller's third novel, bears no resemblance to her previous book, the successful Notes on a Scandal (2003).
Plot summary
At a party in 1962, 18-year-old typist Audrey Howard meets Joel Litvinoff, an American lawyer involved with the civil rights movement. Although Joel is fourteen years older, Audrey is impressed when Joel puts her pompous date in his place. In turn, Joel is intrigued by Audrey's aloofness. Joel later finds Audrey's number in a telephone book and insists on accompanying Audrey to visit her dreary, rural parents the next day. Audrey and Joel spend the night together, and Joel half-seriously suggests that Audrey marry him and follow him to the United States. Bored with her unstimulating life in Britain, Audrey takes him up on his offer.
Forty years later, Joel and Audrey live together in Greenwich Village. Joel is now famous, successful, and controversial for his radical legal activism. Audrey has become a fiery, antagonistic woman who finds fault in all things and defends her husband's causes with zealous conviction. Joel and Audrey have three adult children living elsewhere in New York City. Lenny, the eldest, was adopted at age seven as part of Joel's belief in collective, "tribal" child-rearing. Lenny's parents were eco-terrorists, with their last campaign killing his biological father and landing his biological mother in jail. Since then, Joel has grown frustrated with Lenny's addiction issues and repeated petty crimes, while Audrey dotes on Lenny and constantly excuses his delinquency. Karla, the middle child, is a hospital social worker. Karla struggles with low self-esteem after years of demeaning treatment from her family about her weight and intelligence. Karla is unhappily married to Mike, a union organizer, who desperately wants children. Rosa, the youngest, chaperones an after-school program for underprivileged girls. Once a firm socialist, Rosa tried to join the socialist revolution in Cuba but returned disillusioned after four years of witnessing Fidel Castro's oppression. However, by the time she is introduced, Rosa has had a positive experience in a synagogue and discovered an interest in Orthodox Judaism.
While defending an Arab American man against terrorism charges in the wake of the September 11 attacks, Joel has a stroke and enters a coma. At the hospital, Audrey lashes out at the doctors, causing a fight with Rosa that ends with Audrey kicking Rosa from the hospital. Audrey's long-suffering confidant, Jean, tries to help distract her by taking her to activist social functions, but Audrey is offended at the activists' lack of concern for Joel and preoccupation with public figures. Audrey receives a letter from a woman named Berenice Mason, who claims to be Joel's lover and the mother of his illegitimate child. Audrey dismisses the claim.
Rosa spends a weekend with an Orthodox rabbi's family in Monsey. Rosa is at first put off by the family's insularity, but is intrigued by the rabbi's willingness to discuss his faith rationally with her. Later, Rosa witnesses a girl's mother strike her child during a parent-teacher conference, and confides in her fellow chaperone Raphael that she believes they cannot help the girls escape their lower-class neighbourhoods.
Karla attempts to help her melancholic neighbour, Ms. Mee, write a letter against Ms. Mee's employer, who is taking all her tips. At work, Karla is saved from an aggressive patient by Khaled, the man who runs the newspaper stand outside the hospital. Karla is surprised by Khaled's genuine kindness, enjoyment of simple pleasures, and lack of concern for politics and appearances - so unlike her parents.
Berenice confronts Audrey at her home, but Audrey sends her away in anger. After Joel's former staff and Jean confront her with proof that Berenice is telling the truth, she agrees to meet with Berenice. Jean warns her to wait until she is ready, but Audrey presses ahead, and the meeting goes poorly. Andrey angrily refuses Berenice's request for their children to have a relationship. Halfway through her tirade, she realizes everyone in the room is afraid of her and loses her energy. She agrees to pay Joel's child support in his stead on the condition that Berenice immediately leave and avoid further contact with her or her three children. Afterwards, Jean watches Audrey cry for the first time.
The Litvinoff family gathers for Audrey's birthday. Mike argues with Audrey over his union's decision to support a Republican governor, and both of them mock Rosa for entertaining Orthodox faith. Lenny's girlfriend Tanya obliviously tries to join the conversation as Audrey mocks her too. Lenny goes to the bathroom, but stays inside so long that Rosa becomes concerned. The family knocks down the bathroom door to find him in a drug-induced stupor. Audrey and Tanya treat the overdose as an excusable mistake, horrifying Rosa and causing her to leave.
Rosa attends lessons on religion at her local Jewish community centre. The experience makes her feel conflicted. She instinctively dislikes the blind obedience of the Orthodox women and their insistence that her skepticism towards misogynistic religious rules is something to be overcome, but also wonders if her skepticism is human weakness holding her back from supernatural truth. Rosa also realizes that her international, upper-class upbringing has alienated her from the sensibilities and concerns of average suburban Americans, like her roommate. Rosa feels guilty for looking down on "normal" girls, at least until she finds her roommate cheating on her fiance with Lenny. Back at work, Rosa vetoes a dance routine at the after-school program for being too explicit, and Raphael and the girls make fun of her prudishness and suggest it is because she is Jewish.
Audrey takes Lenny to visit his biological mother, Susan, in prison. She is jealous of Lenny's natural love for Susan, especially since she finds Susan unrefined. Audrey despairs that Lenny does not return her love so freely. Jean encourages Audrey to cut Lenny off unless he takes serious action to deal with his addiction issues. Jean even suggests that she take Lenny with her to work on a farm by her vacation home in another state. Audrey refuses at first, but eventually agrees with Jean. Lenny at first reacts angrily, but when Audrey stands her ground, he gives in.
Mike decides that he and Karla have tried for children naturally long enough, and moves to adopt. During the pre-adoption courses, Karla is embarrassed at her inability to express sincere desire for children, whereas Mike's answers flow readily. Meanwhile, she continues to spend time with Khaled at work, and their relationship evolves into a sexual affair. Karla questions how Khaled can care nothing for politics despite the systemic injustices against Arabs in America and the important accomplishments of past activists. Khaled replies that America is better than the Middle East and that politics are boring and pointless. Karla decides what they are doing is wrong and ends the affair.
Audrey visits Joel with Karla and Rosa. She is approached by Joel's doctors, who inform her that now would be the appropriate time to turn off Joel's life-sustaining equipment. Audrey is furious and does not give her consent, accusing the doctors of opportunism and malpractice. At the same time she realizes her hypocrisy, as she and Joel had mutually agreed to pull the plug if one of them became unable care for themselves and scorned the pro-life lobby. Berenice accidentally visits at the same time and Audrey causes a scene.
Rosa attends excursions to various Jewish sites with her classmates, but when a classmate suggests that Rosa's hesitations are rooted in being uncomfortable with her womanhood, Rosa becomes angry and disavows the religion lessons. She sets up a one-night stand with a college acquaintance, Chris, to prove to herself that she is done with Orthodox rules. Afterwards, she decides that she still feels a connection to Orthodox Judaism, and decides to continue visiting Monsey.
When the after-school program girls perform the dance she vetoed at a public event, Rosa leaves without congratulating them. When Raphael confronts her, she repeats that their work is futile and she cannot stand to watch the girls meet their class destiny. Raphael angrily tells her that the girls deserve better than someone who sees them as lost causes, and Rosa realizes that he is correct and takes steps to quit.
When Audrey visits Lenny in the countryside, he is doing well. He has positive relationships with his Alcoholic Anonymous sponsor, works hard on the farm, and has cut ties with Tanya and his addict friends in New York City. Audrey reacts skeptically and sourly, but Jean bluntly tells her that Audrey must be afraid Lenny will leave her if he does not have to depend on her. Audrey confides in Jean that she believes Joel never loved her. Audrey acknowledges out loud for the first time that she accepted continuous infidelity from Joel, but she can tell Joel saw Berenice as more than a sexual fling, and that he loved Berenice in a way that he had never loved her.
Rosa and Karla decide to visit Berenice. Berenice tells the girls that Joel got her the apartment illegally through connections. She shows them photographs of her genitals and books on the occult, and asks them to have a relationship with their half-sibling even if it has to be kept secret from Audrey. Rosa expresses anger to Karla after they leave, upset that Berenice would ask them to conspire against their mother. Rosa also condemns their father for giving Berenice love that was meant for them, and for compromising his principles for a kooky artist. Karla, however, personally understands that Joel would have had less energy to love his children had he limited himself to an unsatisfying marriage. She reflects on the perpetual unhappiness of her neighbour Ms. Mee, and wonders if she and Mike will also come to define their lives by mundane unhappiness.
Rosa takes the after-school program girls on one last excursion to a rally held by [Susan Sarandon] against the Iraq War. Audrey and Jean show up to assist her. While Jean fetches candies and souvenirs for the girls, Rosa speaks with her mother about Judaism. She tells Audrey that she now supports the right of the Israeli state to defend itself, to Audrey's disgust. Rosa asks Audrey what she would do if the truth struck her undeniably and inexplicably, even if she could not make sense of it and it contradicted everything she was raised to believe. Audrey bitterly replies that this would never happen, and if it did she would reject it.
Eventually, Joel contracts an infection. The doctors tell the family that they need to come urgently. Mike is upset because the infection came on the same day as the election campaign he had run for his union, and he wanted to see the results. Karla is disturbed that Mike seems to view Joel's passing as both an irritation and an exciting source of drama. At the hospital, Audrey, Lenny, Karla, Mike, Rosa, and Joel's mother visit him for the last time. Joel's mother gives him a brief and definitive goodbye, then asks to leave. Mike focuses on the election results until his candidate is declared the winner, then shows a tabloid article to Audrey about rumors regarding an affair by Joel. Karla sternly asks her husband to leave, to his displeasure. Rosa reflects on all the times she chastised her father for compromising his values for small comforts, and regrets that she wasted time trying to call out his hypocrisy instead of enjoying his company. In the hallway, Audrey surprises Karla by telling her that she does not have to stay with Mike if she is unhappy. Joel dies while they are speaking. The children silently join Audrey as she weeps over Joel's corpse, then leave one by one to let Audrey be with their father.
Joel's funeral is held in a cathedral almost immediately after his death. Audrey's sister and brother-in-law accompany Jean to the ceremony. They are struck by the wide variety of mourners in the crowd. Audrey delivers a eulogy from the pulpit. She speaks of Joel as a principled defender of civil rights and social progress. To everyone's surprise, she unexpectedly calls Berenice to join her from among the crowd of mourners, along with Berenice's son Jamil. Audrey declares that Berenice and Jamil are a testament to Joel's commitment to collective tribal child-rearing and expanded families, and that she sees them as family too. She also announces a new scholarship for progressive causes in Joel's name. After the funeral, Jean approaches Audrey in shock, but Audrey rebuffs her questions. Jean realizes that Audrey gone back to coldly hiding her feelings to safeguard Joel's legacy as a man of principle.
Lenny attends the funeral reception with Tanya, apparently having relapsed. Rosa tells her mother of her plans to go to Jerusalem, and to study the Torah at a yeshiva. Mike looks for Karla, but cannot find her at the reception. Across town, Karla boards a subway and texts Khaled to let him know she will join him soon.
Reviews
The Believers was published to almost unanimously positive reviews. It has been called a "cruelly clever new novel", "an observant and unsentimental family drama that pits rationalism against faith", "at heart an American novel: a larger, more considered, layered and utterly assured study of a family driven by political passion whose personal lives refuse to comply with prescribed ideology". Critics agree that it defies comparison with Notes on a Scandal and that it is rich in character development.
Reviewers and critics have suggested that Heller has a "penchant for unlikeable characters" which may be seen as interesting or annoying. Heller has retorted by stating that
Lionel Shriver notes that the character of Joel Litvinoff may be modelled on William Kunstler.
References
External links
Skirmishes in the Family Garden Cathleen Schine review from The New York Review of Books
Family saga novels
2008 British novels
Fiction set in 2002
Novels set in New York City
Penguin Books books
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Renato Traiola (19 December 1924 – 18 January 1988) was an Italian water polo player who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics. He was born in Naples. In 1952 he was part of the Italian team which won the bronze medal in the Olympic tournament. He played one match as goalkeeper.
See also
Italy men's Olympic water polo team records and statistics
List of Olympic medalists in water polo (men)
List of men's Olympic water polo tournament goalkeepers
External links
1924 births
1988 deaths
Italian male water polo players
Water polo goalkeepers
Water polo players at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for Italy in water polo
Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Water polo players from Naples
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Louis Cardwell (20 August 1912 – 23 April 1986) was an English professional footballer. A defender, he spent six years at Blackpool in the 1930s, making over 100 the Football League appearances for the club, and helping them to win promotion out of the Second Division in 1936–37. He later played for Manchester City, Netherfield, and Crewe Alexandra.
Career
Blackpool
After starting his career with South Shore and Imperial Hydro, Cardwell made his debut for Blackpool on 17 January 1931, in a 5–1 defeat at Middlesbrough. It was his only league appearance of the 1930–31 season; he did, however, appear in the club's two FA Cup ties. He missed the entire 1931–32 campaign due to injury, and only returned with ten games of the following 1932–33 season remaining, appearing in six of them. Sandy MacFarlane succeeded Harry Evans as Blackpool manager prior to the 1933–34 season, and the Scot only gave one start to Cardwell, in a 3–0 Boxing Day defeat at Hull City. The following season, however, he selected him in 29 of the club's 42 league games.
Cardwell served under his third Blackpool manager (this time Joe Smith) for the 1935–36 term, and he went on to be ever-present for the season. He also scored five goals. The first three came in consecutive games: against Bradford City on 7 March, Plymouth Argyle a week later, and then against Barnsley on 21 March. The remaining two were both from the penalty spot: against Hull City on 11 April, and against Newcastle United on 22 April, in the penultimate game of the league campaign.
Cardwell was also ever-present the following season, 1936–37, as Blackpool were promoted to the First Division as runners-up of the Second Division. In 1937–38, Cardwell started in eleven of the first twelve league games (and scored in one of them) before being sold to Manchester City. His final game for the "Seasiders" came on 16 October, a 2–0 defeat to Chelsea at Bloomfield Road.
Manchester City and beyond
Cardwell played 39 League games for Manchester City. The "Citizens" were relegated out of the top-flight in 1937–38, and finished fifth in the Second Division in 1938–39 – they were five points behind promoted Sheffield United.
He joined Port Vale as a wartime guest in January 1945, making his debut in a 5–0 defeat at Wrexham on 20 January. He scored one goal in seven further games before departing in March 1945. He also guested for Blackpool, Fulham, Millwall, Portsmouth and West Ham United.
Cardwell moved on loan to Netherfield, and then left Maine Road permanently on a transfer to Crewe Alexandra in 1947. The "Railwaymen" finished tenth and 12th in the Third Division North in 1947–48 and 1948–49 under the stewardship of Frank Hill and Arthur Turner. He played 25 league games during his two seasons at Gresty Road.
Career statistics
Source:
Honours
Blackpool
Football League Second Division second-place promotion: 1936–37
References
1912 births
1986 deaths
Footballers from Blackpool
English men's footballers
Men's association football defenders
Blackpool F.C. players
Manchester City F.C. players
Port Vale F.C. wartime guest players
Blackpool F.C. wartime guest players
Fulham F.C. wartime guest players
Millwall F.C. wartime guest players
Portsmouth F.C. wartime guest players
West Ham United F.C. wartime guest players
Kendal Town F.C. players
Crewe Alexandra F.C. players
English Football League players
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The women's 67.5 kg powerlifting event at the 2008 Summer Paralympics was contested on 13 September at the Beihang University Gymnasium in Beijing, China. This event was the fourth-heaviest of the women's powerlifting weight classes, limiting competitors to a maximum of of body mass.
As with all Paralympic powerlifting events, lifters competed in the bench press. Each athlete was allowed three attempts to bench press as much weight as possible. Athletes attempting to break a record were allowed a fourth attempt. For the attempt to be valid, the competitor must have lowered the weighted bar to her chest, held it motionless for a moment, then pressed the bar upwards until her arms were fully extended. If the competitor failed to meet these requirements or any other rule infraction was committed, the attempt was declared invalid by a team of three referees and the result struck from the record.
Results
Key: WR=World record; NMR=No marks recorded
References
Women's 067.5 kg
Para
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Davka Corporation is a software company specializing in applications related to Jewish history, customs and traditions and the Hebrew language. Founded in 1982, Davka is notable as the publisher of several early games for the Apple II series of computers including The Lion's Share (1983 video game) by Robert Aaron and The Philistine Ploy by Robert Aaron and Alan Rosenbaum. The company has published numerous software titles for the PC, Macintosh and Palm platforms including the ubiquitous Davkawriter Hebrew/English Word processor.
Name
The name Davka comes from a Hebrew word that is difficult to translate. At times the intent is to say "exactly so"; often, the word "specifically" can be used as a synonym, but it has many other translations.
About
In the late 1990s and somewhat beyond, its major competitor was
Jerusalem-based Torah Educational Software.
Davkawriter
DavkaWriter is a Hebrew-English word processing program for Windows. (A Mac version is available as well.)
Its built-in tools include a dictionary, a thesaurus, and a translating tool. It comes with the complete Hebrew texts of the Bible and many other volumes of Jewish literature. Its spellchecker recognizes both English and Hebrew words.
DavkaWriter Platinum was reviewed in 2002, 2004 and 2006 issues of The Jewish Press, referring to updated versions.
CD-ROM - Soncino Classics Collection
Davka also released a CD-ROM named Soncino Classics Collection that contains:
Hebrew and English of Tanach
Aramaic and English of the Soncino Talmud
Soncino Midrash Rabbah
Soncino Zohar
In addition to The New York Times ' 9 paragraph 1998 review, a full page was devoted in The Jewish Press to this CD in 2003.
See also
Torah Educational Software
Jewish Nonviolent video games
References
External links
DavkaWriter website
"Jewish software runs the gamut, from educational games to printing programs to advanced research tools for the scholar" : a JTA comparative overview
Companies based in Chicago
Hebrew language
Jewish media
Jewish printing and publishing
Judaism software
Privately held companies based in Illinois
Video game companies of the United States
Windows word processors
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Pierre-Michel Nguimbi (born 1957) is a Congolese politician who served in the government of Congo-Brazzaville as Minister of Technical and Vocational Education from 2002 to 2009. Previously, he briefly served as Minister of Scientific and Technological Development in 1992, and he was Ambassador to Israel and Ambassador to France during the mid-1990s. After leaving the government, he was Ambassador to Senegal from 2012 to 2017.
Political career
Nguimbi was born at Dolisie in 1957. Under President Pascal Lissouba, he was Minister of Scientific and Technological Development and Technical and Vocational Education from September 1992 to December 1992 as part of the short-lived government of Prime Minister Stéphane Maurice Bongho-Nouarra. After that government lost its parliamentary majority and was replaced, Nguimbi served as President Lissouba's Science and Technology Adviser from 1993 to 1994. He was subsequently posted as Congo's Ambassador to Israel from 1994 to 1995 and as Ambassador to France from 1995 to 1997.
Presented as the undisputed leader of the south of Congo, he does not hide his ambitions to replace one day his Master in politics Denis Sassou Nguesso at the head of the country
In 2002, when the Club 2002 was formed, Nguimbi became a member of its National Executive Bureau. After the May–June 2002 parliamentary election, Nguimbi was appointed as Minister of Technical and Vocational Education on 18 August 2002. He succeeded André Okombi Salissa at the head of that ministry on 23 August 2002. Nguimbi eventually left the Club 2002 and joined the Congolese Labour Party (PCT).
In the June–August 2007 parliamentary election, Nguimbi was elected to the National Assembly as the PCT candidate in the first constituency of Dolisie. He was retained as Minister of Technical and Vocational Education in the government appointed on 30 December 2007.
After nine years as Minister of Technical and Vocational Education, Nguimbi was dismissed from the government on 15 September 2009. He subsequently returned to his seat in the National Assembly.
As of 2010, Nguimbi is the President of the Circle for the Renaissance of Dolisie, an organization promoting local development in Dolisie.
In the July–August 2012 parliamentary election, Nguimbi was re-elected to the National Assembly as the PCT candidate in Louvakou constituency. He won the seat in the second round of voting, receiving 54.38% of the vote against 45.62% for UPADS candidate Auguste Boussoukou. However, soon afterward he took up the post of Ambassador to Senegal, presenting his credentials to Senegalese President Macky Sall in December 2012. He additionally presented his credentials as Ambassador to the Gambia on 5 November 2012, and he had a meeting with Gambian Vice-President Isatou Njie-Saidy on 6 November. Aside from Senegal and the Gambia, Nguimbi was also accredited as ambassador to several other West African countries: Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, and Cape Verde.
On 11 November 2013, Nguimbi was awarded the medal for the rank of Commander of the National Order of Peace, an honorary order in Congo-Brazzaville.
As part of a restructuring of Congolese diplomacy, Nguimbi was one of 16 ambassadors who were dismissed from their posts and recalled on 25 January 2017.
References
1957 births
Living people
Members of the National Assembly (Republic of the Congo)
Congolese Party of Labour politicians
Club 2002 – Party for the Unity of the Republic politicians
Ambassadors of the Republic of the Congo to Israel
Ambassadors of the Republic of the Congo to France
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The Sheremetev Sh-5 (Шереметьев Ш-5) was a two-seat sailplane designed by Boris Nikolayevich Sheremetev and produced in the Soviet Union in the 1930s. It was an unorthodox design, with a pod-and-boom layout and a cruciform tail that had its horizontal stabiliser mounted atop the boom with a large ventral fin extending below it. The monoplane wing was mounted high, on a pylon above the fuselage pod, and braced to the fuselage with V-struts. Two open cockpits were provided in tandem, with the rear cockpit located beneath the wing. The landing gear consisted of a single sprung skid under the fuselage and a small tailwheel on the ventral fin.
The Sh-5 was used to establish several records during the decade, including distance records of and in 1933, and an altitude record set by Dmitri Aleksandrovich Koshits in 1935. On May 11 the same year, Koshits made a long-distance flight through the Caucasus mountains in a Sh-5 towed behind a Polikarpov R-5, covering at altitudes up to in 34 hours of flight.
The Sh-5 was also produced in Turkey as an unlicensed copy by THK as the THK-9 and subsequently by MKEK as the MKEK-7 when the latter company took over the production facilities of the former in 1952.
Specifications
Notes
References
1930s Soviet sailplanes
Sheremetev aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1933
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Heinrich Werner (2 October 1800 – 3 March 1833) was a German composer.
Biography
Werner was born into a musical family in Kirchohmfeld in the Eichsfeld district of Thuringia. Initially trained at home, he played the organ for the local church at the age of 11 and became a choral singer at Sankt Andreasberg at 15. His older brother in Braunschweig had him study music and attend the Gymnasium there. Starting in 1821, he studied in Erfurt and took the teaching examination the next year; he then led the chorus at the city's opera house and taught music students. From 1825, he was choral director at the court theatre at Braunschweig.
He is said to have written 84 compositions, mostly songs, including a setting of Goethe's poem Heidenröslein. It was first publicly performed in 1829, under his direction, and bore as title the first line, "Sah ein Knab' ein Röslein stehn" ("A boy saw a little rose standing"). It was seen as superior to all the roughly 100 versions that had preceded his, and became the outstanding popular-song version (although the Schubert art-song setting, published in 1821, has outlasted it).
He died at the age of 32 in Braunschweig in 1833, having become ill with tuberculosis the previous year.
References
External links
1800 births
1833 deaths
19th-century classical composers
19th-century German composers
19th-century German male musicians
German male classical composers
German Romantic composers
People from Leinefelde-Worbis
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The women's 75 kg powerlifting event at the 2008 Summer Paralympics was contested on 14 September at the Beihang University Gymnasium in Beijing, China. This event was the third-heaviest of the women's powerlifting weight classes, limiting competitors to a maximum of of body mass.
As with all Paralympic powerlifting events, lifters competed in the bench press. Each athlete was allowed three attempts to bench press as much weight as possible. Athletes attempting to break a record were allowed a fourth attempt. For the attempt to be valid, the competitor must have lowered the weighted bar to her chest, held it motionless for a moment, then pressed the bar upwards until her arms were fully extended. If the competitor failed to meet these requirements or any other rule infraction was committed, the attempt was declared invalid by a team of three referees and the result struck from the record.
Results
References
Women's 075 kg
Para
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John Contee Fairfax (September 18, 1830 – September 25, 1900) was an American citizen and heir to a Scottish peerage.
Early life
John Contee Fairfax was born at Vaucluse, Virginia, the second son of Albert Fairfax (April 15, 1802 – May 9, 1835) and Caroline Eliza Snowden (April 21, 1812 – December 28, 1899), who were married on April 7, 1828. His elder brother was Charles S. Fairfax, 10th Lord Fairfax of Cameron.
Personal life
He married Mary Brown Kirby, daughter of Col. Edward Kirby (US Army), in 1857. They had the following children:
Caroline Snowden Fairfax
Josephine Fairfax, who married Tunstall Smith
Albert Fairfax, 12th Lord Fairfax of Cameron (1870-1939), who married Maude Wishart McKelvie.
He died at age 70 in his country home Northampton, in Prince George's County, Maryland. At the time of his death he was the only American citizen to be considered a member of the British peerage.
See also
Lord Fairfax of Cameron
References
1830 births
1900 deaths
19th-century American Episcopalians
American people of English descent
American people of Scottish descent
John
People from Fairfax County, Virginia
People from Prince George's County, Maryland
Lords Fairfax of Cameron
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Alirajpur is one of the 52 districts of Madhya Pradesh state in India. It was created from Alirajpur, Jobat and Bhabra tehsils of the former Jhabua district on 17 May 2008. It is the least literate district in India as per Census 2011. Alirajpur is the administrative headquarters of the district. The district occupies an area of , and at the 2011 census had a population of 728,999. It includes the city of Alirajpur.
Origin of name
The district is named after its headquarters, Alirajpur, which was the capital of the former princely state of Ali Rajpur. The name of this town is derived by conjoining Ali (the fortress town and the former capital of the princely state founded by Anand Deo in 1437) and Rajpur (the latter capital).
According to the 2011 census Alirajpur district has a population of 728,677, roughly equal to the nation of Bhutan or the US state of Alaska. This gives it a ranking of 498th in India (out of a total of 640). The district has a population density of 229 inhabitants per square kilometre (590/sq mi). Its population growth rate over the decade 2001–2011 was 19.4 per cent. Alirajpur has a sex ratio of 1,009 females for every 1,000 males, and a literacy rate of 37.22 per cent, the lowest in India.
Divisions
This district comprises five tehsils: Alirajpur, Jobat, Sondwa Chandra Sekhra Ajad Nagar and Kathiwada.
Presently, there are two Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha constituencies in this district: Alirajpur and Jobat. Both of these are part of Ratlam Lok Sabha constituency.
Demographics
According to the 2011 census Alirajpur district has a population of 728,999, roughly equal to the nation of Bhutan or the US state of Alaska. This gives it a ranking of 498th in India (out of a total of 640). The district has a population density of . Its population growth rate over the decade 2001–2011 was 19.45 per cent. Alirajpur has a sex ratio of 1,009 females for every 1,000 males, and a literacy rate of 37.22 per cent, the lowest in India. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes make up 3.69% and 88.98% of the population respectively.
Almost 90% of the population speaks different Bhili dialects. At the time of the 2011 Census of India, 53.68% of the population in the district spoke Bhilali, 35.42% Bhili, 7.27% Hindi and 1.87% Gujarati as their first language.
See also
Jambukheda
References
External links
Official website
Districts of Madhya Pradesh
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Kyriak Kostiantynovych Kostandi (; – 31 October 1921) was a prominent painter and an art scholar from the Russian Empire. A member of the Russian realist artistic movement Peredvizhniki (lit. Itinerants) he also authored several Impressionist paintings.
Most of Kostandi's life and work is connected with the city of Odesa (now in Ukraine) in the southwest of the Russian Empire where he lived most of his life. His paintings are displayed in the museums of Odesa, Kyiv, Moscow and St. Petersburg.
Life
Kostandi was born in 1852 in Dofinovka, close to the city of Odesa, in a family of Greek descent.
Kostandi graduated from the Odesa Drawing School in 1874, and then the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts in 1882. He then returned to Odesa, where he painted and taught at the drawing school. In 1897 he joined the Peredvizhniki. Kostandi played an important part in introducing the ideology of the Peredvizhniki to Ukraine. He was one of the founders of the Society of South Russian Artists, serving as the society's president from 1902 to 1920. In 1907 he was elected a full member of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts. From 1917 he served as director of the Odesa City Museum.
Kostandi was a strict realist, and was opposed to every formalist trend. He was mainly a genre painter, but also did some landscape painting and portrait painting. After his death, his followers started the Kostandi Society of Artists .
Characteristics of art
Kostandi is an artist whose canvases are built at the junction of high craftsmanship and an understanding of tragic existence. They are characterized by a wide range of social problems, which cannot but concern him. At the end of the 1880s, a change occurs in Kostandi's work. He remains committed to the genre of life but fundamentally changes the artistic approaches and his view of the essence of painting. At that time, he considers the problems of sunlight and plain air to be the most important ones. In a sense, inheriting the masters of Impressionism, for which the importance of temporal and psychological unity, Kostandi, in his small paintings tries to stop time and moment of feeling. His contemporaries have pointed out that Kostandi was a philosophical artist. From the 1890s all his paintings have the peculiarity of a small plotline, almost minimalism in the image, combined with a high poetic mood. It is the transmission of feelings and moods that becomes the artist's main aim.
Gallery
References
Кириак Константинович Костанди, Энциклопедиа Кругосвет
Кириак Константинович Костанди Энциклопедия живописи и графики art-catalog.ru
Kyriak Kostandi. Drawings and Watercolors from the Odessa Art Museum. Catalogue. Odessa, Optimum, 2010.
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1852 births
1921 deaths
Artists from Odesa
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Portuguese is the third most spoken language of the Americas, and the second most spoken language in South America. It is the sole official language of Brazil and is a co-official language of several regional organizations, notably Mercosul, UNASUL, ACTO, CELAC, the Rio Group, and ALADI.
The main varieties of Portuguese spoken in South America are Brazilian Portuguese (spoken by the vast majority), Uruguayan Portuguese and a mixed variety known as Portuñol/Portunhol.
Geographic distribution
Brazil is the largest country in which Portuguese is spoken in all of the Americas, with a population of approximately 220 million people, almost all of whom are native speakers of Portuguese. The size of this population renders Portuguese an important regional and world language. Research in regional and social variation in the Brazilian dialects of Portuguese, known together as Brazilian Portuguese, reveals the diversity of this language. The country also received settlers from Portugal and white settlers from former Portuguese African colonies, Eurasian settlers from Macau and East Timor.
Argentina was the first Spanish-speaking member state of Mercosur to participate in the Frontier schools project. It involves the exchange of language teachers with Brazil. Secondary schools are now required to offer Portuguese as a foreign language. The same goes for primary schools in provinces bordering Brazil.
Uruguay, born out of conflict first between the Spanish and Portuguese empires and then Brazil and Argentina, has Portuguese speakers in its northern region. The acronym DPU (Dialectos Portugueses del Uruguay) is used to describe the varieties of Portuguese spoken in this region. DPU is not standardized and so Brazilian Portuguese serves as the primary model for Uruguayan speakers of Portuguese, native and non-native speakers alike. Instruction in Portuguese has now been increased in the Uruguayan education system. In the northern departments bordering Brazil, education has become bilingual combining Spanish and Portuguese as languages of instruction.
Paraguay has been receiving waves of Brazilian immigrants for decades, known as Brasiguaios. Unlike in Uruguay, the Brasigaios are a result of more recent immigration and, as such, are more markedly Brazilian in speech and cultural identity. These immigrants tend to settle in the eastern regions of the country and most originate from the Brazilian state of Paraná. Estimates of the size of this community range from 200,000 to 500,000.
Venezuela has a large and prominent Portuguese immigrant community, one of the largest in northern South America. Its membership in MERCOSUR is pending and, towards that end, the Venezuelan government has begun to encourage the teaching of Portuguese as a second language. Portuguese is to be made available in the public school system.
The importance of Brazilian Portuguese
In South America, Brazilian Portuguese is the standard form of Portuguese for learners and non-native speakers. P.l.e. (Português como língua estrangeira) is the acronym used to describe the learning and instruction of Portuguese as a second or foreign language; a term comparable to ESL. Brazil's growing international profile and the adoption of Portuguese as an official language of Mercosur have created a demand for non-native fluency in Portuguese in the Hispanic member states. This has accompanied a growth in the private language instruction in Portuguese in said countries.
The Museum of the Portuguese language (the second language museum in the world) is located in São Paulo, Brazil.
The Brazilian Ministry of education has developed a proficiency test in Portuguese specifically for Brazil and based on the Brazilian norm: CELPE-Bras
The latest orthographic agreement was ratified first by Brazil and while it requires adjustments in spelling, hyphenation and accentuation from all CPLP member states, the agreement favours the Brazilian norm.
Media and popular culture
Portuguese-speaking communities in South America outside of Brazil form the primary audience for Brazilian and Portuguese satellite television in their respective countries. Such programming be it football matches, telenovelas or variety shows allow lusophones outside of Brazil to access media and cultural content in Portuguese and stay informed and connected to events in Brazil. Rede Globo and RTPi are available throughout all of the Americas.
See also
Brazilian Portuguese
Angolan Americans
Portuguese Canadians
Papiamento
Cape Verdean Argentine
CELPE-Bras
MERCOSUL
Treaty of El Pardo (1778)
History of the Lusophone Americans in Newark, New Jersey
Portuguesa (state)
Portuguese Americans
Uruguayan Portuguese
Lusophone
Portuguese colonization of the Americas
References
External links
Governo uruguaio torna obrigatório ensino do português
Brasil estenderá a Paraguai e Uruguai projeto Escolas Bilíngües de Fronteira
Regional Blocs as a Barrier against English Hegemony? The Language Policy of Mercosur in South America
Americas
Portuguese diaspora in South America
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The Flintstones: The Surprise at Dinosaur Peak is a platform game for the Nintendo Entertainment System released by Taito in 1994. The game was never released in Japan unlike its predecessor The Flintstones: The Rescue of Dino & Hoppy.
Gameplay
The player can switch playable characters between both Fred and Barney, and they both have different attacks and abilities. Barney, a friend of Fred's, has a slingshot that he can employ at a specific range to assault adversaries, while Fred can use a club to pound opponents. Some parts of the game require different strategies often cases where you will have to swap one to another automatically in order to get past certain obstacles or jump onto certain platforms. Fred can also throw an item that will stun or completely kill an enemy or boss.
Development and release
The Flintstones: The Surprise at Dinosaur Peak is believed to have been released in North America exclusively to Blockbuster Video as a rental title. Though despite constantly being cited as such in modern online reviews and websites, no evidence has been found. Some have even refuted the claim by saying that the game was sold in regular stores. Despite this, it remains one of the rarest games for the NES due to its late release during the console's production cycle and a low number of copies produced. As of 2017 copies of the game available on eBay and other similar sites usually sell for over $800 USD to as high as $1,500 as of 2016. In Europe, the game is slightly more common and cheaper but still typically sells for over US$1,000.
Reception
Allgame gave a review score of 4 out of 5 stars criticized the recycled animation from previous Flintstones game and noting the polished graphics and praising the ability to switch between Fred and Barney and both characters have different weapons and abilities.
References
1994 video games
Nintendo Entertainment System games
Nintendo Entertainment System-only games
Platformers
Taito games
Video games based on The Flintstones
Video game sequels
Cartoon Network video games
Video games developed in Japan
Single-player video games
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The women's 82.5 kg powerlifting event at the 2008 Summer Paralympics was contested on 14 September at the Beihang University Gymnasium in Beijing, China. This event was the second-heaviest of the women's powerlifting weight classes, limiting competitors to a maximum of of body mass.
As with all Paralympic powerlifting events, lifters competed in the bench press. Each athlete was allowed three attempts to bench press as much weight as possible. Athletes attempting to break a record were allowed a fourth attempt. For the attempt to be valid, the competitor must have lowered the weighted bar to her chest, held it motionless for a moment, then pressed the bar upwards until her arms were fully extended. If the competitor failed to meet these requirements or any other rule infraction was committed, the attempt was declared invalid by a team of three referees and the result struck from the record.
Results
Key: WR=World record; NMR=No marks recorded
References
Women's 082.5 kg
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Meeting on Southern Soil is an album by Norman Blake and Peter Ostroushko, released in 2002.
Reception
Writing for Allmusic, the music critic Chris Nickson wrote of the album, "Albums like this renew the roots of American music, bringing new blood (tunes and songs) into what is really a flowing river of history. To hear these two together is a sheer joy and a triumph of musical skill and love."
Track listing
All songs Traditional unless otherwise noted.
"Blackberry Blossom" – 3:37
"Rise When the Rooster Crows " – 3:14
"President Richard Milhous Nixon's Hornpipe" (Ostroushko) – 3:17
"Blake's Railroad Blues" (Blake) – 8:45
"Muddy Creek" – 2:59
"Little Bessie" – 6:03
"Chickamauga" (Ostroushko) – 4:03
"Only a Bunch of Violets" – 4:33
"Oklahoma Redbird" – 2:44
"I Cannot Call Her Mother" – 3:46
"Marjorie's Waltz #3" (Ostroushko) – 6:52
"The Old Hickory Cane" – 3:19
"Oh Death" – 4:53
"Mandolin Medley: Caperton Ferry/Ruins of Richmond/Valley Head" (Blake) – 4:58
"The Little Log Hut in the Lane" – 2:40
"Christmas Eve Is Coming, Anna" (Ostroushko) – 3:04
Personnel
Peter Ostroushko – guitar, mandolin, fiddle, mandola, vocals
Norman Blake – guitar, mandolin, vocals
Nancy Blake – cello
Production notes
Norman Blake – mixing
Peter Ostroushko – mixing
Jim Emrich – engineer
David Glasser – mastering
Carla Leighton – art direction, design
Billy Pierce – assistant engineer
Lane Brown Taylor – photography
References
2002 albums
Norman Blake (American musician) albums
Peter Ostroushko albums
Red House Records albums
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The 110th Pennsylvania House of Representatives District is located in Bradford County and Wyoming County and includes the following areas:
Bradford County
Albany Township
Asylum Township
Athens
Athens Township
Herrick Township
Le Raysville
Litchfield Township
New Albany
Orwell Township
Pike Township
Rome
Rome Township
Sayre
Sheshequin Township
South Waverly
Standing Stone Township
Stevens Township
Terry Township
Towanda
Tuscarora Township
Ulster Township
Warren Township
Wilmot Township
Windham Township
Wyalusing
Wyalusing Township
Wysox Township
All of Wyoming County
Representatives
References
Government of Bradford County, Pennsylvania
Government of Sullivan County, Pennsylvania
Government of Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania
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Mathematically Alive: A Story of Fandom is a 2007 documentary film about fans of the New York Mets directed by Katherine Foronjy and Joseph Coburn.
Awards
Best Documentary - 2007 - New Jersey Film Festival, NY
Official Selection - 2007 - Coney Island Film Festival, NY
Official Selection - 2008 - Trenton Film Festival, NJ
Official Selection - 2008 - Westchester Film Festival, NY
Official Selection - 2008 - New Filmmakers Series, NY
Official Selection - 2008 - Baseball Film Festival - National Baseball Hall of Fame, NY
Official Selection - 2008 - Sport Psychology Institute Conference - The University of Southern Maine
Official Selection - 2008 - Queens Museum of Art, NY
Official Selection - 2008 - Queens International Film Festival, NY
External links
2007 films
2007 documentary films
2000s sports films
American sports documentary films
Baseball culture
Documentary films about baseball
Documentary films about fandom
New York Mets
2000s English-language films
2000s American films
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The women's +82.5 kg powerlifting event at the 2008 Summer Paralympics was contested on 14 September at the Beihang University Gymnasium in Beijing, China. This event was the heaviest of the women's powerlifting weight classes, allowing competitors with over of body mass.
As with all Paralympic powerlifting events, lifters competed in the bench press. Each athlete was allowed three attempts to bench press as much weight as possible. Athletes attempting to break a record were allowed a fourth attempt. For the attempt to be valid, the competitor must have lowered the weighted bar to her chest, held it motionless for a moment, then pressed the bar upwards until her arms were fully extended. If the competitor failed to meet these requirements or any other rule infraction was committed, the attempt was declared invalid by a team of three referees and the result struck from the record.
Results
Key: PR=Paralympic record; DNS=Did not start
References
Women's 82.5 kg
Para
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The Mizpah Hotel is a historic hotel in Tonopah, Nevada, U.S. It is a member of Historic Hotels of America, the official program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
The Mizpah and the nearby Belvada Building, both five stories high, shared the title of tallest building in Nevada until 1927. The hotel was named after the Mizpah Mine and was the social hub of Tonopah. The hotel was pre-dated by the Mizpah Saloon, which opened in 1907, and was the first permanent structure in Tonopah. The hotel was financed by George Wingfield, George S. Nixon, Cal Brougher and Bob Govan and designed by George E. Holesworth of Reno, Nevada (other sources state that the architect was Morrill J. Curtis). Brougher in particular was involved with the Belmont, Tonopah, Midway and Tonopah Mining Company and the Tonopah Divide Mining Company. Brougher owned the Tonopah Banking Corporation, which had an office in the lobby of the 1905 building, and was a director of the Bank of Italy in San Francisco.
The reinforced concrete hotel was faced with stone on the front and brick on the sides and rear. The neighboring three-story Brougher-Govan Block, with rooms on the upper floors, served as the first Mizpah and remains connected. Cast iron columns were used in the windows and fire escapes. The three and five story buildings are joined with a wood stairway crowned with a skylight. Steam heat was provided, along with the first elevator in Tonopah.
According to legend, Wyatt Earp kept the saloon, Jack Dempsey was a bouncer, and Howard Hughes married Jean Peters at the Mizpah. But Wyatt Earp left Tonopah before the Mizpah was built, Hughes was married in Tonopah, but not at the Mizpah, and Dempsey asserted he was never a bouncer. The hotel nevertheless features the Jack Dempsey Room and the Wyatt Earp Bar.
The hotel is said to house a ghost deemed the Lady in Red by hotel guests who have experienced her presence. Legend says that the Lady in Red is the ghost of a prostitute who was beaten and murdered on the fifth floor of the hotel by a jealous ex-boyfriend. Another widely accepted description of the events is that The Lady in Red had been caught cheating by her husband at the hotel after he had missed a train, who then proceeded to kill her in a jealous rage. The Lady in Red haunting of the Mizpah was featured in season 5, episode 2 of Ghost Adventures on the Travel Channel.
The Mizpah changed hands several times through the years until Frank Scott of Las Vegas (who also built the Union Plaza Hotel) bought it in 1979. Scott updated the hotel with “all the modern conveniences,” acting as a bridge to the modern day, all the while preserving the antiquated romance that had first drawn him to the hotel. In all, the work took 2.5 years and cost almost $4 million.
The hotel had been shuttered since 1999, but in early 2011, the hotel was purchased by Fred and Nancy Cline of Cline Cellars, Sonoma, California, who renovated and reopened the building to the public in August 2011. The newly renovated hotel has 47 rooms, a bar, and two restaurants; The Pittman Cafe and the Jack Dempsey Room. There are plans to renovate further rooms in the hotel annex and to add a small casino to the property.
See also
Goldfield Hotel designed by Curtis and Holesworth
References
External links
Mizpah Hotel
Hotels in Nevada
Tonopah, Nevada
Buildings and structures in Nye County, Nevada
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National Register of Historic Places in Tonopah, Nevada
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The RBC Waterside Centre is a commercial development in the downtown core of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada built by local real estate developer Armour Group. The project involves demolishing six heritage buildings and replacing them with a nine storey retail and office building, clad at ground level with the reconstructed facades of most of the former heritage buildings.
Site
The original six buildings occupy a downtown block facing the Halifax waterfront bounded by Upper Water Street, Duke Street, Hollis Street and the Cogswell Interchange. Along with the adjacent waterfront buildings of Historic Properties and the Victorian commercial buildings of the Granville Mall, the site is one of the only intact blocks of 19th-century buildings in Downtown Halifax. It includes the oldest storefront in Halifax and the site of the famous 18th-century tavern “The Great Pontack”, where James Wolfe planned the siege of Louisbourg and Quebec. The buildings have housed commercial and retail tenants, but Armour group has said that the buildings are no longer economical and their replacements by facades should be seen as restoration. The buildings on the block include the 1820 Harrington MacDonald-Briggs Building the oldest remaining commercial building in Halifax, the 1861 Fishwick & Company Building, the 1926 Imperial Oil Building as well as the 1840 Sweet Basil Building, the last wooden "sailortown" building on Halifax's Water Street.
The only building on the historic block not facing demolition by Armour group is the Morse’s Tea Building owned by another developer who has converted the 1841 structure for office use and retained its interior and exterior structure.
Debate
The proposed development has split municipal politicians in Halifax. Those opposed, such as the Heritage Trust of Nova Scotia, say that Halifax is losing its small and dwindling number of heritage buildings which are a resource for culture and tourism. Supporters like the Downtown Halifax Business Commission say that developers should be given a free rein to promote economic activity. The debate also led Nova Scotia's Conservative Premier Rodney MacDonald to intervene in the city's politics in support of the development and demolition.
Almost all of the presenters at public hearings in September 2008 opposed the project, including officials in the province's tourism industry.
A signature with over 690 names opposing the development was presented to Halifax City Council in October 2008 Possible solutions have been suggested include a land swap or a compromise development but to date all have been rejected by Armour Group except for an offer to reduce the office tower by two stories if given large property tax breaks.
The heritage buildings on the block were saved from demolition in the 1970s when heritage advocates stropped a planned Harbourfront expressway promoted by city traffic engineers and developers which would have demolished all older buildings on the waterfront. The move was seen as key to reviving the Halifax waterfront and Halifax's downtown tourism. Heritage proponents have argued that the pending demolition underscores Halifax's weak heritage laws. Unlike most older North American cities, Halifax has no heritage districts preserving blocks of heritage buildings but only has individual building designation which may easily be overturned by developers seeking demolition.
Rejection, appeal and demolition
The development was rejected by the council of Halifax Regional Municipality in a tie vote on October 21, 2008. The head of Armour Group, Ben McCrea, initially said he would not appeal as it would create bad publicity. However Doug MacIsaac of Armour Group announced on October 31 that his company would appeal council's decision to Nova Scotia’s Utility and Review Board, the same day as his company began demolition of the first of the six buildings, the former Sweet Basil restaurant. The Board overturned Halifax council's decision on March 26, 2009, and Halifax council voted on April 7 not to appeal the Board's decision.
Completion and occupancy
The development was substantially completed by early 2014. The Royal Bank of Canada committed to occupying four floors of the building, including the ground level, in order to house their Atlantic Canada regional headquarters and flagship downtown branch, both relocated from their current premises on George Street. Royal Bank held a competition open to students and recent graduates of the adjacent Nova Scotia College of Art and Design seeking a "signature artwork" for the development.
RBC moved to the Waterside Centre from their old George Street location over a weekend in August 2014. An opening ceremony for the new building was held on 11 September 2014.
The building achieved LEED Gold certification in February 2016.
References
External links
Project profile at Armour Group website
Buildings and structures in Halifax, Nova Scotia
Office buildings in Canada
Royal Bank of Canada
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USS War Bug (SP-1795) was a motorboat in commission in the United States Navy as a patrol vessel from 1917 to 1918.
War Bug was built as the wooden-hulled motorboat Herreshoff 320 at Bristol, Rhode Island, in 1917 by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company for a private owner, and probably was designed with possible naval service in mind. The U.S. Navy purchased Herreshoff 320 from Felix Warburg of New York City on 6 November 1917 for use as a patrol vessel in World War I. Armed and designated SP-1795, she was commissioned as USS War Bug on 17 November 1917.
War Bug was assigned to the 1st Naval District and served in waters near Boston, Massachusetts, through the end of World War I.
Due to an urgent need for craft such as War Bug at Brest, France, an order dated 14 October 1918 went out from Washington, D.C., to Boston directing the Commandant of the 1st Naval District to ready six section patrol boats -- USS Commodore (SP-1425), USS Cossack (SP-695), War Bug, USS Sea Hawk (SP-2365), USS Kangaroo (SP-1284), and USS SP-729—to be shipped to France as deck cargo along with spare parts to keep them operational. However, this proposed movement appears to have been cancelled, probably because of the armistice with Germany of 11 November 1918 that ended World War I and eliminated the need for more U.S. Navy patrol craft in Europe.
Decommissioned on 28 December 1918, War Bug was sold on 30 June 1919 to E. Atkins and Co., of Boston.
References
for War Bug
for SP-729 (ex-Apache)
External links
Patrol vessels of the United States Navy
World War I patrol vessels of the United States
Ships built in Bristol, Rhode Island
1917 ships
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Gotham Writers Workshop, established in 1993, offers classes in creative writing and business writing, along with writing conferences and one-on-one services, including consults on publishing guidance with literary agents.
Gotham classes are offered in-person in New York City, on Zoom, and asynchronously Online. They offer courses in types of writing (fiction, memoir, screenwriting, etc.) and also in specific elements of writing (character, plot, grammar, etc.). Gotham also offers fiction classes in collaboration with Zoetrope: All Story, the literary magazine founded by Francis Ford Coppola.
Gotham also offers free events, including free Write-Ins every Friday on Zoom.
Gotham Writers Workshop has produced three books, edited by school President Alexander Steele: Writing Fiction, Fiction Gallery, and Writing Movies. Writing Fiction is available in several foreign language editions: Escribir ficcion (Spanish); Lezioni di scrittura creativa (Italian); Romane und Kurzgeschichten schreiben (German); and Kezdő írók kézikönyve (Hungarian). Writing Movies is available as Escribir Cine (Spanish).
Faculty
Gotham faculty are all working writers, published or produced in their fields, as well as experienced teachers.
Gotham’s current faculty members include:
NY Times bestselling novelist Tatjana Soli
Romance novelist Leigh Michaels
Romance novelist Kristin Rockaway
Mystery novelist Carole Buggé
Joyland editor-in-chief Michelle Lyn King
Graphic memoirist Teresa Wong
Children’s book author Kody Keplinger
Newbery medalist, children’s book author Erin Entrada Kelly
Gotham’s former faculty members include:
NY Times bestselling novelist Ann Napolitano
NY Times bestselling novelist Laura Dave
Booker Prize winner, novelist Marlon James
NY Times bestselling nonfiction author Ada Calhoun
Newbery medalist, children’s book author Matt de la Peña
Oscar winning screenwriter and director Jennifer Lee
Pulitzer Prize winner, poet Tracy K. Smith
Hugo and Nebula Award winner, science fiction author Ken Liu
Bram Stoker Award winner, horror author Sarah Langan
Students
Gotham draws approximately 8,000 students per year, from practically every country in the world. Most Gotham classes are for students age 18 or over, with the exception of the teen courses, for ages 13-17.
Notable alumni of Gotham include:
National Book Award finalist, novelist Min Jin Lee
Novelist Daisy Alpert Florin
Novelist, essayist, and poet Melissa Broder
National Book Award finalist, memoirist Grace M. Cho
Memoirist T Kira Madden
Mystery novelist Sally Andrew
Edgar Award winner, mystery novelist Angie Kim
NY Times bestelling children’s book author Adam Silvera
Emmy nominated TV writer Debora Cahn
Playwright, screenwriter, and TV writer Wendy Riss Gatsiounis
References
External links
Gotham books
Gotham podcast, Inside Writing, 2020-2022
Creative writing programs
Educational institutions established in 1993
Education in New York City
1993 establishments in New York City
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This is a complete list of the operettas of the Austrian composer Karl Michael Ziehrer (1843–1922).
List
References
Lamb, Andrew (1992), 'Ziehrer, C M' in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. Stanley Sadie (London)
Some of the information in this article is taken from the related Dutch Wikipedia article.
External links
Ziehrer Foundation (in English and German)
Lists of operas by composer
Lists of compositions by composer
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The Kugaryuak River is located in the Canadian Arctic territory of Nunavut in the southwest Kitikmeot Region. It forks into two entities, the Western Kugaryuak () and the Eastern Kugaryuak () and flows into Coronation Gulf.
Arctic charr abound in the Kugaryuak.
History
In 1928, a Hudson's Bay Company trading post was moved to Kugaryuak (Post Number: B.429) from Tree River.
The Kugaryuagmiut were a Copper Inuit subgroup that lived along the shores of the Kugaryuak. In 1990, three archaeological sites of tent rings were found along the Kugaryuak from precontact Inuit period.
See also
List of rivers of Nunavut
References
External links
Photo, strandplain near the mouth of the river
Photo, raised marine delta along the river
Photo, bedrock gorge and marine beach plain, near the river
Photo, delta at the river
Rivers of Kitikmeot Region
Hudson's Bay Company trading posts in Nunavut
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The 1935–36 Montreal Canadiens season was the team's 27th season of play. The Canadiens slipped to last place in the Canadian division and did not qualify for the playoffs.
Regular season
This was a season of numerous changes. Leo Dandurand sold his share of the team and gave up the general manager and coach positions. Ernest Savard became general manager and Sylvio Mantha was made playing coach for the season. Johnny Gagnon returned to the club from Boston. Hector Blake made his debut for the Canadiens. Nels Crutchfield had to retire after an auto accident, and a benefit game was held for him in January 1936. Wildor Larochelle was traded to Chicago.
Final standings
Record vs. opponents
Schedule and results
Playoffs
The Canadiens did not qualify for the playoffs.
Player statistics
Regular season
Scoring
Goaltending
Awards and records
Wilf Cude – NHL First All-Star team
See also
1935–36 NHL season
References
Notes
Montreal Canadiens seasons
Montreal Canadiens
Montreal Canadiens
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Brandon Tate (born October 5, 1987) is a former American football wide receiver. He was selected by the New England Patriots in the third round of the 2009 NFL Draft. He played college football at North Carolina.
Early years and family
Tate attended Hugh M. Cummings High School in Burlington, North Carolina, where he played football as a wide receiver, kick returner, and defensive back and basketball as a guard. In basketball, he won a state title in his junior season. In his 2004 senior football season, Tate had 66 receptions and 18 touchdowns, earning All-Conference honors.
Tate's brother, Barry, was a four-year letterwinner for Lenoir-Rhyne University in football.
College career
After high school, Tate attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Tate was one of seven true freshman to see game time. Tate played in all eleven games as a kick returner. In the Tar Heels game against the Utah Utes, Tate returned the opening kickoff 96 yards for a touchdown. Tate finished the season with 21 kick returns for 542 yards, and 29 punt returns for 267 yards. Tate finished 22nd in the country in kick off returns. In his freshman season, Tate finished second in the Atlantic Coast Conference in kick returns and third in punt returns.
In his sophomore season, Tate was one of only three players in the country to return two kickoffs for touchdowns. Brandon Tate caught his first pass from Cameron Sexton, in the Tar Heels game against the Virginia Tech Hokies. The pass was for 13 yards, with the catch happening just before the end of the first half. In the Tar Heels' game against Notre Dame, Tate returned a kick off 90 yards for a touchdown. Tate faked a pitch to teammate Quinton Person, and bolted down the field into the end zone. In the final game of the Tar Heels season, against Duke, Tate performed very well. With seventeen seconds remaining in the first half of the game, Tate returned a kick off 97 yards for a touchdown. That 97-yard return tied third longest return in North Carolina's history. Early in the fourth quarter, Tate returned a punt 54 yards for a touchdown. Tate became the third person in North Carolina football history and the ninth player in NCAA history to return a kickoff and a punt for a touchdown in the same game. Tate caught his first pass, a 17-yard reception, from Cameron Sexton.
In the opening game of Tate's junior season against James Madison, he caught his first touchdown pass of his career. Tate caught a 28-yard pass for his first catch of the season, as well as his first touchdown of his career. When North Carolina squared off against East Carolina, Tate returned a punt 58 yards for a touchdown. This was Tate's fifth career return for a touchdown, which tied the school record; which was held by Charlie Justice. In North Carolina's game against NC State, Brandon Tate recorded 168 all-purpose yards. He caught a 50-yard touchdown pass from Bobby Rome, a fullback, off of a flea flicker. In the Tar Heels' games against Wake Forest and Miami, Tate had over 200 all-purpose yards. In the Heels' game against Miami, Tate scored a 54-yard rushing touchdown off of a reverse. Tate set the ACC records for most all-purpose yards (2,382 yards) and most kick off returns (98) during his junior season. Tate saw more time at wide receiver in his junior season in 2007. Tate finished the season first in the ACC with 1,765 all-purpose yards; he also led his team with seven touchdowns. Tate caught 25 passes for 479 yards, averaging 19.2 yards per catch. In addition to that, Tate caught five touchdown passes. Tate averaged 24.1 for kick off returns and 9.4 yards for punt
In Tate's senior year, the Tar Heels were pitted against the McNeese State for their opening game of the collegiate football season. Tate dominated the game. In the first quarter of the game, Tate returned a punt 82 yards for a touchdown. Shortly after the start of the second quarter, Tate rushed 54 yards, being tackled just three yards shy of the end zone. In the third quarter of the game, Tate caught a 57-yard pass from T. J. Yates and ran for a touchdown. Tate ended up rushing for 106 yards, becoming the first North Carolina wide receiver to have a hundred-yard rushing game. Tate set a school record for most all-purpose yards in a game with 397 yards on just eleven touches. Tate also set the school record for highest punt return average in a game, with 47.3 yards per return (3 returns for 142 yards). In the Tar Heels' game against Miami, Tate set the NCAA record for most combined kick off and punt return yards in a career. He would finish the season with 3,523 total career return yards to his name. Before the Tar Heels' game against Notre Dame, Tate needed only 165 yards to become the eleventh player in NCAA history to reach 1,000 kick off return yards and 1,000 punt return yards. Tate returned a single punt for 9 yards, before leaving the game with a knee injury. Tate ended up tearing his ACL and MCL in his knee and missed the final seven games of the season. Tate also the ACC's all-time leader in kickoff returns (109) and kickoff return yardage (2,688).
Professional career
New England Patriots
2009 season
Tate was selected by the Patriots in the third round (83rd overall) of the 2009 NFL Draft. On July 16, he was signed to a four-year contract with a $755,000 signing bonus. He began the 2009 season on the non-football injury list, still recovering from his knee injury from the prior season. He was activated on October 24, in Week 7. He played that week against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers as a reserve, recording one rush (an end-around) for 11 yards. Two weeks later, following the team's bye week, Tate started against the Miami Dolphins but did not have any catches in the game. Tate suffered another knee injury in the game and was placed on injured reserve on November 14, ending his season. He finished the season with 106 kickoff return yards.
2010 season
On September 12, 2010, in the Patriots' season-opening game against the Cincinnati Bengals, Tate ran the opening second-half kickoff back 97 yards for a touchdown. On October 4, 2010, Tate repeated the feat against the Miami Dolphins, this time returning the ball 103 yards. Tate scored his first career receiving touchdown on a 65-yard catch against the Minnesota Vikings in Week 8.
Tate played in 16 games, of which he started 10. He caught 24 passes for 432 yards and three touchdowns, and had 41 kick returns for 1,057 yards (25.8 yard average) and two touchdowns.
On September 3, 2011, the New England Patriots released Tate.
Cincinnati Bengals
On September 4, 2011, the Cincinnati Bengals claimed Tate off waivers. On October 30, 2011, Tate returned a punt for a 56-yard touchdown against the Seattle Seahawks, his first touchdown with the Bengals. On March 11, 2014 Tate re-signed with the Bengals.
Tate was re-signed by the Bengals on April 1, 2015, on a one-year contract. He recorded his first reception as a Bengal in a Week 1 loss to the Baltimore Ravens, he subsequently recorded his first receiving touchdown as a Bengal on a 44-yard reception from Andy Dalton in a Week Two 34–27 victory against the Cleveland Browns. The Bengals re-signed Tate to another one-year contract on March 4, 2016. During the season, Tate surpassed Mike Martin to become the Bengals all-time punt return yard leader.
Tate was released by the Bengals on August 30, 2016, having been beaten out for the primary return man role by undrafted rookie Alex Erickson. He left the team as the all-time leader in combined kick and punt return yards with 4,928 yards.
Buffalo Bills
Tate signed with the Buffalo Bills on September 6, 2016.
On March 20, 2017, Tate re-signed with the Bills.
New Orleans Saints
On July 31, 2018, Tate signed with the New Orleans Saints. He was released on September 1, 2018, as part of final roster cuts. He was re-signed on September 26, 2018, but was released six days later.
References
External links
Cincinnati Bengals bio
North Carolina Tar Heels bio
1987 births
Living people
Players of American football from Burlington, North Carolina
African-American players of American football
American football wide receivers
American football return specialists
North Carolina Tar Heels football players
New England Patriots players
Cincinnati Bengals players
Buffalo Bills players
New Orleans Saints players
21st-century African-American sportspeople
20th-century African-American people
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John Adams Jackson (November 5, 1825 – August 30, 1879) was a noted American sculptor.
Life
Jackson was born November 5, 1825 in Bath, Maine, and apprenticed to a machinist in Boston, where he gave evidence of talent by modelling a bust of Thomas Buchanan Read. There he studied linear and geometrical drawing and produced crayon portraits. Going abroad in 1853, he visited Florence, where he created several portrait busts in marble, then went to Paris in 1854, where he studied academic life drawing at the Académie Suisse. In 1858 he went to New York City, remaining until 1860, when he moved to Florence, Italy, which was afterward his home. Jackson died in Pracchia in Tuscany on August 30, 1879.
Works
Jackson's portrait busts include those of Daniel Webster (1851); Adelaide Phillips (1853); Wendell Phillips (1854); "Eve and the Dead Abel" (1862); "Autumn"; "Cupid Stringing his Bow"; "Titania and Nick Bottom"; "The Culprit Fay" (many times repeated); "Dawn" (repeated); "Peace"; "Cupid on a Swan"; "The Morning Glory" (a medallion repeated fourteen times); "Reading Girl" (1869); "Nusidora" (Vienna Exposition, 1873); "Hylas" (1875); and "Il Pastorello," an Abruzzi peasant-boy with his goat. He designed a statue of Dr. Elisha Kane, the arctic explorer, for the Kane monument association (1860); a group intended for the southern gate-house of the former Croton Lower Reservoir in Central Park, New York (1867, not installed); and the Civil War soldiers' monument at Lynn, Massachusetts (1874).
References
Sources
Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography, edited by James Grant Wilson and John Fiske, New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1887–1889
External links
AskArt description
ArtNet entry
1825 births
1879 deaths
19th-century American sculptors
19th-century American male artists
American male sculptors
People from Bath, Maine
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"Little Bit O' Soul" is a song written in 1964 by British songwriters John Carter and Ken Lewis. It was originally recorded by Coventry band The Little Darlings, and released in 1965 on Fontana Records in the UK.
The Music Explosion version
In 1967, the song was popularized in the United States by garage band The Music Explosion, whose version went to No. 1 on the Record World 100 Top Pops chart. and reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100. It was the only hit for The Music Explosion. In Canada the song also reached No. 1, and the follow-up single "Sunshine Games" reached No. 42.
The single was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America for sales of one million copies. It appeared on an album of the same name released in August 1967.
"Little Bit O' Soul" has been subsequently covered by several bands including The Ramones and 2 Live Crew, who sampled the song’s melody. The hit single’s flip side, "I See The Light" (featuring a surf guitar bridge), was covered by The Fourth Amendment and had a resurgence on some radio stations in the Midwest in 1971.
References
1964 singles
1967 singles
Songs written by John Carter (musician)
Songs written by Ken Lewis (songwriter)
The Music Explosion songs
Laurie Records singles
1964 songs
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, also titled The Downfall of Osen, is a 1935 Japanese silent film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi starring Isuzu Yamada. It is based on a short story by Kyōka Izumi.
Plot
While waiting for a delayed train at a train station, Sōkichi Hata, a medical professor, overhears other travelers talking about a courtesan in their midst. He reminisces his past when he was about to commit suicide and saved by Osen, a young woman acting as a decoy for a gang of traffickers led by Kumazawa. Osen convinces Kumazawa to take Sōkichi in as a servant, later learning that Sōkichi came to Tokyo to study medicine but failed due to his shortage of money. Outraged both at the gang's misdeeds and their repeated maltreatment of Sōkichi, she finally gives them away to the police and decides to help Sōkichi to take up his studies. When Sōkichi and Osen, who sees her solely as an elder sister, run out of money, she turns to prostitution and theft to help him finish his exams. After Osen is arrested by the police, Sōkichi's professor sees to his wellbeing.
Back in the present, the train personnel look for a doctor after one of the waiting travelers has collapsed. Sōkichi offers his help, only to find out that the collapsed person is none other than Osen. At the hospital, Sōkichi tries to make her recall their time together, but Osen, having lost her sanity, is unable to recognise him, stuck in memories of Sōkichi, whom she blames for having forgotten her.
Cast
Isuzu Yamada as Osen
Daijirō Natsukawa as Sokichi Hata
Ichirō Yoshizawa as Ukiki
Shin Shibata as Kumazawa
Genichi Fujii as Matsuda
Eiji Nakano as Professor
Legacy
Orizuru Osen was one in a series of adaptations of Izumi's stories directed by Mizoguchi, a writer he admired.
Film scholar Chika Kinoshita noted that the film occupies a special place within the critical reception of Mizoguchi's oeuvre and that it has been singled out as one of the earliest embodiments of his style in the late 1930s. In his Critical Handbook of Japanese Film Directors, Alexander Jacoby wrote that Orizuru Osen "displayed in embryo [its] director's capacity for rich atmospheric detail and his abiding concern with the oppression of women".
Orizuru Osen has repeatedly been screened with live benshi narration by Midori Sawato.
References
External links
Further reading
1935 films
Films directed by Kenji Mizoguchi
Japanese silent films
Japanese black-and-white films
Japanese drama films
1935 drama films
Silent drama films
Films based on short fiction
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Intelligent Verification, including intelligent testbench automation, is a form of functional verification of electronic hardware designs used to verify that a design conforms to specification before device fabrication. Intelligent verification uses information derived from the design and specification(s) to expose bugs in and between hardware IPs. Intelligent verification tools require considerably less engineering effort and user guidance to achieve verification results that meet or exceed the standard approach of writing a testbench program.
The first generation of intelligent verification tools optimized one part of the verification process known as Regression testing with a feature called automated coverage feedback. With automated coverage feedback, the test description is automatically adjusted to target design functionality that has not been previously verified (or "covered") by other tests existing tests. A key property of automated coverage feedback is that, given the same test environment, the software will automatically change the tests to improve functional design coverage in response to changes in the design.
Newer intelligent verification tools are able to derive the essential functions one would expect of a testbench (stimulus, coverage, and checking) from a single, compact, high-level model. Using a single model that represents and resembles the original specification greatly reduces the chance of human error in the testbench development process that can lead to both missed bugs and false failures.
Other properties of intelligent verification may include:
Providing verification results on or above par with a testbench program but driven by a compact high-level model
Applicability to all levels of simulation to decrease reliance on testbench programs
Eliminating opportunities for programming errors and divergent interpretations of the specification, esp. between IP and SoC teams
Providing direction as to why certain coverage points were not detected.
Automatically tracking paths through design structure to coverage points, to create new tests.
Ensuring that various aspects of the design are only verified once in the same test sets.
Scaling the test automatically for different hardware and software configurations of a system.
Support for different verification methodologies like constrained random, directed, graph-based, use-case based in the same tool.
"Intelligent Verification" uses existing logic simulation testbenches, and automatically targets and maximizes the following types of design coverage:
Code coverage
Branch coverage
Expression coverage
Functional coverage
Assertion coverage
History
Achieving confidence that a design is functionally correct continues to become more difficult. To counter these problems, in the late 1980s fast logic simulators and specialized hardware description languages such as Verilog and VHDL became popular. In the 1990s, constrained random simulation methodologies emerged using hardware verification languages such as Vera and e, as well as SystemVerilog (in 2002), to further improve verification quality and time.
Intelligent verification approaches supplement constrained random simulation methodologies, which bases test generation on external input rather than design structure. Intelligent verification is intended to automatically utilize design knowledge during simulation, which has become increasingly important over the last decade due to increased design size and complexity, and a separation between the engineering team that created a design and the team verifying its correct operation.
There has been substantial research into the intelligent verification area, and commercial tools that leverage this technique are just beginning to emerge.
See also
Formal verification
Functional verification
Vendors offering Intelligent Verification
Logic Refinery, Inc.
Mentor Graphics
Synopsys (acquisition of NuSym)
Breker
Springsoft (acquisition of Certess)
Valtrix Systems
Footnotes
References
"Mentor offers 'intelligent' testbench generation tool", SDCSource, Feb 18, 2008.
"Nusym focuses on intelligent verification" EETimes, May 2008.
"Lifting the Fog on Intelligent Verification", SCDSource, May 2008.
Electronic circuit verification
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Brandon Lewis Gibson (born August 13, 1987) is a former American football wide receiver. He played college football and basketball at Washington State and was drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles in the sixth round of the 2009 NFL Draft. He also played for the St. Louis Rams and Miami Dolphins.
Early years
Gibson grew up in Puyallup, Washington and went to Stahl Jr High School then graduated from Governor John R. Rogers High School in 2005.
College career
Gibson finished his college career at Washington State as the school's all-time leading receiver with 2,756 yards and 182 receptions along with 17 touchdowns. He also played for the Washington State basketball team during the 2005-06 season, but decided to focus his attention on football.
In 2007, as a junior, Gibson started 11 games and was named to Phil Steele's Third-team All-America. Also, he was voted First-team All-Pac-10 honors. He set the WSU single-season record for receiving yards in a season with 1,180 on 67 receptions. He also led the team with nine touchdowns, a tie for third most touchdowns in a single season by a WSU Cougar. In 2006, he played in 12 games with no starts. He led the Cougars with 731 yards and was second on the squad in both receptions (49) and touchdowns (four). As a freshman, he earned a varsity letter after playing in 10 of the Cougars' 11 games during his debut season. Gibson ended the season with 9 catches for 172 yards (19.2 yard average) and 2 touchdowns.
Gibson seriously considered leaving Washington State to declare for the 2008 NFL Draft due to the team switching coaches, however, the new coaching staff convinced him to stay.
As a senior in 2008, Gibson earned the fourth varsity letter of his career after starting in each of WSU's 13 games. He was named honorable mention All-Pacific-10 Conference and the team Offensive Most Valuable Player. In 2008, he caught 57 passes for 673 yards and two touchdowns. After the season, he received an invitation to play in the Senior Bowl.
Professional career
Pre-draft
Gibson pulled his hamstring during the 2009 Senior Bowl in Mobile, Alabama.
Philadelphia Eagles
Gibson was drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles in the sixth round of the 2009 NFL Draft. He signed a four-year deal with Philadelphia on June 6, 2009.
After being inactive through the first two games of the 2009 season, Gibson played in his first NFL game on September 27 against the Kansas City Chiefs.
St. Louis Rams
Gibson was traded from Philadelphia to the St. Louis Rams on October 20, 2009 along with a fifth round draft pick in 2010 in exchange for linebacker Will Witherspoon. In his Ram debut, on November 15, 2009, he caught 7 passes for 93 yards, both Ram records for a rookie playing in his first game. The 93 yards was the most by any Ram receiver in 2009. His seven receptions in the game was also remarkable, as only teammate Danny Amendola had achieved that many receptions in a single game that season.
Miami Dolphins
On March 15, 2013, Gibson signed with the Miami Dolphins.
New England Patriots
On March 10, 2015, the New England Patriots signed Gibson to a one-year, $825,000 contract. Gibson was placed on injured reserve on August 24, 2015.
Gibson participated in The Spring League in 2017.
References
External links
St. Louis Rams bio
Philadelphia Eagles bio
Washington State Cougars bio
1987 births
Living people
Players of American football from Puyallup, Washington
American football wide receivers
Washington State Cougars football players
Philadelphia Eagles players
St. Louis Rams players
Miami Dolphins players
New England Patriots players
The Spring League players
Cal Poly Mustangs football coaches
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Montrose, also known as Sibley City, is an unincorporated community in Baldwin County, Alabama, United States along the eastern shore of Mobile Bay.
Montrose is part of the Daphne–Fairhope–Foley Micropolitan Statistical Area. Montrose has two sites included on the National Register of Historic Places, the Henry Stuart House and the Montrose Historic District.
History
The community was originally known as Sibley City in honor of Cyrus Sibley, an early landowner in the area. The name was then changed to Montrose, in honor of Montrose, Scotland. A post office first opened under the name Montrose in 1879.
Notable people
Miller Reese Hutchison (1876–1944), electrical engineer and inventor credited with developing some of the first portable electric devices, such as the vehicle horn and hearing aid.
Eric Yelding, former Major League Baseball player for the Houston Astros and Chicago Cubs.
See also
Eastern Shore
References
Unincorporated communities in Alabama
Unincorporated communities in Baldwin County, Alabama
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Artyom Olegovich Mikheyev (; born 28 October 1987) is a Russian former footballer.
Club career
He made his debut in the Russian Premier League for Luch-Energiya on 2 November 2008 in a game against FC Amkar Perm.
External links
Player page on the official FC Luch-Energia Vladivostok site
1987 births
Living people
Russian men's footballers
FC Luch Vladivostok players
Russian Premier League players
Men's association football midfielders
FC Smena Komsomolsk-na-Amure players
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Evisceration Plague is the eleventh studio album by American death metal band Cannibal Corpse. Released on February 3, 2009 by Metal Blade Records, the album was produced at Mana Recording Studios by Hate Eternal guitarist Erik Rutan.
The album entered the US Billboard 200 at number 66, selling 9,600 copies its first week.
Background
Bassist Alex Webster said about the record:
In another interview with Terrorizer magazine, drummer Paul Mazurkiewicz stated his thoughts on the album saying: "I think working with Erik again has definitely brought things up a little for us. I mean all the band were involved in the writing process of this album along with Rutan and so I think this one's a tad more individual than Kill."
Release and promotion
The cover art was released December 14 and samples were made available through Amazon.com. The album was released with a bonus track in Europe and DVD as a deluxe edition. An autographed version of the album is now available for pre-order on the Metal Blade Records website.
It is the fifth Cannibal Corpse album to contain a title track (following Butchered at Birth, The Bleeding, Gallery of Suicide and The Wretched Spawn) and a video was produced for the song.
They also released a comic book where each song has its own comic.
A video for the song "Evisceration Plague" was released on May 9, 2009 on the YouTube account of Metal Blade Records.
A video was produced for the song "Priests of Sodom". The video was released on March 25, 2010.
Reception
Track listing
Credits
Writing, performance and production credits are adapted from the album liner notes.
Personnel
Cannibal Corpse
George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher – vocals
Pat O'Brien – lead guitar
Rob Barrett – rhythm guitar
Alex Webster – bass
Paul Mazurkiewicz – drums
Guest musicians
Erik Rutan – guitar solo on "Unnatural"
Production
Erik Rutan – production, engineering, mixing
Shawn Ohtani – additional engineering
Brian Elliot – additional engineering
Mike McCracken – studio drum assistant
Alan Douches – mastering
Neil Kernon – production, mixing only "Skull Fragment Armor"
Justion Leeah – engineering only "Skull Fragment Armor"
Artwork and design
Vincent Locke – cover art
Brian Ames – design
Alex Solca – photography
Studios
Mana Recording Studios, St. Petersburg, FL, USA – recording, mixing
West Westside Music – mastering
Sonic Ranch, Tornillo, TX, USA – recording only "Skull Fragment Armor"
Charts
References
External links
Evisceration Plague at Metal Blade Records
2009 albums
Albums produced by Erik Rutan
Cannibal Corpse albums
Metal Blade Records albums
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Richard Henry Park (also Richard Hamilton Park; February 17, 1838—November 7, 1902) was an American sculptor who worked in marble and bronze. He was commissioned to do work by the wealthy of the nineteenth century. He did a marble bust of John Plankinton, an astute businessman who founded the meat industry in Wisconsin and was "Milwaukee's foremost citizen."
Park did a sculptor of George Washington as Milwaukee's first piece of public art. He made a bronze monument statue of the 21st Vice President of the United States. He did a sculpture of Milwaukee's first white settler, its first mayor, and created sculptures for the Chicago World's Fair of 1893.
Life and career
Park was born on February 17, 1838, in Hebron, Connecticut. He was inspired by a Hiram Powers exhibition to become a sculptor. From 1855, Park worked in the Albany, New York studio of Erastus Dow Palmer, the foremost neoclassical sculptor of his time, starting out as a marble cutter's apprentice making marble copies of Palmer's work. He stayed until 1861, working as an assistant to Palmer, alongside other future sculptors Launt Thompson, and Charles Calverley. He moved to New York City to establish an independent career before moving to Florence, Italy around 1871. Park's early work was in marble, later changing to the medium of bronze for natural sculptures, in line with the American trend for late nineteenth century sculptures.
During his time in Florence, Park was commissioned to prepare a marble bust of John Plankinton, an astute businessman who founded the meat industry in Wisconsin and was respected as "Milwaukee's foremost citizen". Plankinton was known for religious convictions, his success from a modest upbringing, and for his regular philanthropic public deeds; he became known as "A Merchant Prince and Princely Merchant". Plankinton's daughter, Elizabeth, travelled to Europe in 1879, and met Park in Florence. On return to Milwaukee, Elizabeth convinced her father to let her commission Park to sculpt the first piece of public art for Milwaukee, a monument to George Washington. Park worked on the monument to Washington in Florence, and it was completed and shipped to Milwaukee for its dedication in November 1885; Elizabeth donated it to the city of Milwaukee as a philanthropic gesture. At some point, Park and Elizabeth Plankinton became engaged, and in 1886 John Plankinton commenced construction on a mansion to be a wedding gift for his only daughter. On 18 September 1887, Park married another woman, a dancer from Minneapolis, shortly after his Juneau Monument (in recognition of Milwaukee's first Mayor, Solomon Juneau) was dedicated. When Elizabeth learned of Park's marriage, she left on a long trip to Europe. On her return, she took her only look at the mansion her father had built, and is said never to have set foot in it again.
Park made an over-life-size bronze monument statue as a tribute to the 21st Vice President of the United States, Thomas A. Hendricks. It was unveiled in 1890 on the grounds at the Indiana State House in Indianapolis. After this he moved his studio to Chicago to get commissions in the sculptural programs for the Chicago World's Fair of 1893. He met Lee Lawrie in Chicago and Lawrie went on to work as Park's apprentice and assistant from 1891 to 1894. One of the monuments they worked on was an over-life-size all silver monument statue for the state of Montana titled Justice that was exhibited in the Mines and Mining Building. It was rumored to have been melted down later for the silver. There is an 1893 medal showing the model that posed for the statue on its reverse side. It has been suggested by art historian William H. Gerdts that Park's most enduring legacy may be his role as mentor and teacher to Lawrie.
Park was associated with the Plankinton family for some time so was commissioned by William Plankinton, Elizabeth's brother, to spend six months in Chicago working on a statue of John Plankinton following his 1891 death. Described as a "handsome bronze statue", it was unveiled on 29 June 1892 and "viewed by hundreds of people, the great majority of whom pronounced it one of the most lifelike statues of Uncle John Plankinton possible to be executed." It stood in the Plankinton House Hotel until the location was redeveloped in 1915 into a shopping district, Plankinton Arcade, which incorporated a rotunda in which the statue was placed. The statue underwent several months of restoration work in 2012, before returning to its place in the rotunda that is now a part of The Grand shopping plaza.
One of the bronze statues Park made for the Fair was of Benjamin Franklin and it was three years later reinstalled at Lincoln Park in downtown Chicago. An 1895 review of the public monuments in Milwaukee listed five existing pieces, two sculpted by Park. He is known for his Actor's Monument to Edgar Allan Poe of 1884 in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York city, and for Christopher Columbus drinking from the Drake Fountain in Chicago of 1892.
Author and art historian Lauritta Dimmick records that Park died in 1902 in Battle Creek, Michigan, although there are others who believe he died in New York City. Dimmick's view is confirmed by his obituary in the Chicago Tribune dated November 8, 1902, which states he died at the Battle Creek Sanitarium.
Works by Park
Washington monument, 1885
Motivated by her love for Milwaukee, Elizabeth Plankinton commissioned Park to prepare a monument to George Washington as Milwaukee's first piece of public art, at a cost of around $20,000, (equivalent to $,000 in ). It was unveiled and dedicated in November 1885. Washington is portrayed in uniform as the 43-year-old commander-in-chief of the Continental Army, and stands tall on a granite base. The bronze figures of a mother and child at the base of the monument were included at the request of Plankinton. With substantial immigration to Milwaukee occurring, Plankiton wanted a child being shown the father of the United States portrayed to symbolise the importance of history. As one speaker at the dedication put it, "during the coming generations when other men shall walk these streets, this monument will stand a text for the old and a lesson for the young." The monument was described in 1895 in The Monumental News as "classical to the verge of conventionality." The statue was moved to Illinois in mid-2016 for restoration work due to ongoing corrosion. In line with a report prepared for the Westown Association in 2014, restorer Andrzej Dajnowski discovered major cracking in one of the legs due to rust and that the sculpture's sword might not be the original. The restoration cost around $100,000, $60,000 of which came from the Westown Association, and the restored monument was returned to Milwaukee in January 2018. The monument now was a dark bronze color rather than the previous green and Mayor Tom Barrett watched as it was craned back into place and observed that "our first piece of public art is in pristine condition."
Juneau Monument, 1887
Solomon Juneau was a key figure in the early history of Milwaukee, having been the area's first white settler and the city's first Mayor. Park's Juneau Monument is the most prominent object in the Milwaukee park built in Juneau's honour, where it stands on a bluff overlooking Lake Michigan. The monument cost around $25,000 (equivalent to $,000 in ), and was gifted to the city by Charles T. Bradley and William H. Metcalf on behalf of their shoe company. It was unveiled on 6 July 1887, and was described by the Milwaukee Sentinel newspaper as "a credit to the artist and the city, as well as a monument to the public spirit of the donors." The bronze statue is over-life-sized, standing tall above a base of red granite, and depicts Juneau "clothed in the habit of the pioneer," and carrying a rifle. Two sides of the pedestal feature bronze bas-relief scenes from Juneau's life while the other two sides feature inscriptions. Monumental News art journal notes that there are strong similarities between the sculpture's visage and that of Park's Washington statue. Accentuating this similarity is the relief scene of Juneau's inauguration as Mayor – described as perhaps the monument's best feature – where a bust of Washington is placed behind the Mayor's chair.
Gallery
See also
Hendricks Monument
References
Sources
Books and journals
specifically the following chapters:
Newspaper and web
which is also available from the Wisconsin Historical Society website.
United States Gross Domestic Product deflator figures follow the Measuring Worth series.
External links
Sculpture works by Richard Henry Park
Edgar Allan Poe monument
19th-century American sculptors
19th-century American male artists
American male sculptors
Sculptors from New York City
1832 births
1902 deaths
People from Hebron, Connecticut
Sculptors from Connecticut
Sculptors from New York (state)
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Fradkin () is a Yiddish family name. It may refer to one of the following persons:
Barbara Fradkin, a Canadian writer
Eduardo Fradkin, an Argentinian-American physicist
Efim S. Fradkin, a Soviet/Russian physicist
Judith Fradkin, American physician-scientist
Les Fradkin, an American musician
Lucy Fradkin, an American artist
Mark Fradkin, a Soviet composer
Philip L. Fradkin, an American environmentalist
Shneur Zalman Fradkin, a Chabad rabbi
Fradkin Brothers Furniture, a furniture retailer in Baltimore County, Maryland
Surnames of Jewish origin
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was a city located in eastern Shizuoka Prefecture. On November 1, 1966, Yoshiwara was merged with the city of Fuji.
During the Edo period, Yoshiwara was a post town known as Yoshiwara-juku on the Tōkaidō (road). At the time of its merger, the town had an estimated population of 90,224 and a density of 516.86 persons per km2. The total area was 174.56 km2. The town was served by both the Tōkaidō Main Line and the Gakunan Railway.
History
April 1, 1889 – Due to the municipal status enforcement, Yoshiwara-juku, Fuji District becomes Yoshiwara Town.
April 1, 1940 – The village of Shimada (島田村) merged into the city of Yoshiwara
April 3, 1941 – The village of Denbō (伝法村) merged into the city of Yoshiwara
June 14, 1942 – Imaizumi Village (今泉村) merged into Yoshiwara.
April 1, 1948 – The town of Yoshiwara becomes the city of Yoshiwara.
February 11, 1955 – The city merged with the villages of Motoyoshiwara (元吉原村), Sudo (須津村), Yoshinaga (吉永村), and Harada (原田村) to form the city of Yoshiwara.
April 1, 1955 – Ōbuchi Village (大淵村) merged into the city of Yoshiwara.
April 1, 1956 – Funazu, Nishifunazu, and Sakai neighborhoods in the village of Hara in Suntō District merge into the city of Yoshiwara.
November 1, 1966 – The city merged with the city of Fuji and the town of Takaoka (鷹岡町) to form the city of Fuji.
See also
List of dissolved municipalities of Japan
Notes
Yoshiwara
Fuji, Shizuoka
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MindRover is a video game for PC, developed by CogniToy.
Gameplay
The game, which can be thought of as a successor to the Learning Company's Robot Odyssey, revolves around three activities:
Assemble virtual robots from a library of stock parts.
Programming robots using a special graphical interface (referred to in the game as "wiring") with a paradigm more based on multicomponent circuitry construction than on traditional programming.
Participate in events such as robot battles and racing games with newly programmed robot.
Availability
The game was developed for Microsoft Windows. Add-ons were available to control Lego Mindstorms robots.
The game was ported to Linux by Loki Software and Linux Game Publishing and to the Mac by MacPlay.
Development
The game had a budget of $500,000. In October 2000, CogniToy signed a contract with Tri Synergy to distribute the game.
Reception
The game received mostly positive reviews. Carla Harker reviewed the PC version of the game for Next Generation, rating it five stars out of five, and stated that "A truly amazing title for anyone looking for something unique and challenging."
References
External links
BattleSpot
Mindrover Home
2000 video games
Linux games
Windows games
Classic Mac OS games
Programming games
Robotics simulation software
Strategy video games
Loki Entertainment games
Tank simulation video games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in outer space
Linux Game Publishing games
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The Eugeneodontida, sometimes also called Eugeneodontiformes, is an extinct and poorly known order of cartilaginous fishes. They possessed "tooth-whorls" on the symphysis of either the lower or both jaws and pectoral fins supported by long radials. They probably lacked pelvic fins and anal fins. The palatoquadrate was either fused to the skull or reduced. Now determined to be within the Holocephali, their closest living relatives are ratfish. The eugeneodonts are named after paleontologist Eugene S. Richardson, Jr. The Eugeneodontida disappeared in the Early Triassic. The geologically youngest fossils of the group are known from the Sulphur Mountain Formation (western Canada), Vardebukta Formation (Svalbard, Norway) and Wordie Creek Formation (Greenland).
Members of the Eugeneodontida are further classified into different families, the most well-preserved members that have been discovered are commonly placed within the families Helicoprionidae ("spiral saws"), and Edestidae ("those which devour"), the former containing the genera Helicoprion, Sarcoprion, and Parahelicoprion, and the latter containing the genera Edestus, Lestrodus, and Metaxyacanthus. All eugeneodonts are thought to have been obligate carnivores, with each genus having specialized feeding behaviors, territory ranges, and specific prey.
Taxonomy
The list below shows taxa included within Eugeneodontida.
Superfamily Caseodontoidea
Family Caseodontidae
Genus Caseodus
Genus Erikodus
Genus Fadenia
Genus Ornithoprion
Genus Pirodus
Genus Romerodus
Family Eugeneodontidae
Genus Bobbodus
Genus Eugeneodus
Genus Gilliodus
Family incertae sedis
Genus Campodus
Genus Chiastodus
Genus Tiaraju
Superfamily Edestoidea
Family Helicoprionidae
Genus Agassizodus
Genus Arpagodus
Genus Campyloprion
Genus Helicoprion
Genus Parahelicoprion
Genus Sarcoprion
Genus Toxoprion
Family Edestidae
Genus Edestus
Genus Helicampodus
Genus Lestrodus
Genus Parahelicampodus
Genus Syntomodus
Genus Protopirata
Genus Euctenius
Genus Prospiraxis
Genus Spiraxis
Genus Metaxyacanthus
Family incertae sedis
Genus Paredestus
References
External links
Palaeos Vertebrates 70.100 Chondrichthyes: Eugnathostomata at paleos.com
JSTOR: Journal of Paleontology Vol. 70, No. 1 (Jan., 1996), pp. 162-165
More about Chondrichthyes at Devonian Times
Mississippian first appearances
Mississippian taxonomic orders
Pennsylvanian taxonomic orders
Cisuralian taxonomic orders
Guadalupian taxonomic orders
Lopingian taxonomic orders
Early Triassic taxonomic orders
Early Triassic extinctions
Prehistoric cartilaginous fish orders
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Vibhavadi Rangsit Road (, ) or Highway 31, often informally called Vibhavadi Road (), is a highway in Thailand.
The road begins at Phaya Thai district in Bangkok and crosses Chatuchak, Lak Si, and Don Mueang districts before merging with Phahonyothin Road (Highway 1) at Khu Khot subdistrict, Lam Luk Ka district, Pathum Thani Province.
Vibhavadi Rangsit Road is a superhighway through Bangkok with no traffic lights. It is a divided highway, with each side further divided into a main road and a frontage road. Major roads that Vibhavadi Rangsit Road intersects are Din Daeng Road (its point of origin), Sutthisan Road, Lat Phrao Road, Phahonyothin Road, Ngamwongwan Road (Highway 302), and Chaengwatthana Road (Highway 304).
It is named in honor of HRH Princess Vibhavadi Rangsit (1920–1977), a well-known Thai novelist who dedicated the final decade of her life to developing rural Southern Thailand, and was killed in an attack by insurgents while trying to rescue injured Border Patrol police. Prior to the renaming of Highway No. 31 as Vibhavadi Rangsit Road, it was commonly known as "Superhighway Road" (, Thanon Superhighway).
The section between Chaeng Watthana Road and Don Mueang Airport is also part of the former local road Si Rap Suk Road, which runs from Lak Si Monument to the airport.
Vibhavadi Rangsit Road between Din Daeng Intersection and Khlong Bang Sue forms the border between Din Daeng and Phaya Thai districts in Bangkok.
The Uttaraphimuk Elevated Tollway, better known as Don Mueang Tollway runs high above the road and is a toll expressway in Bangkok.
National highways in Thailand
Streets in Bangkok
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Colored gold is the name given to any gold that has been treated using techniques to change its natural color. Pure gold is slightly reddish yellow in color, but colored gold can come in a variety of different colors by alloying it with different elements.
Colored golds can be classified in three groups:
Alloys with silver and copper in various proportions, producing white, yellow, green and red golds. These are typically malleable alloys.
Intermetallic compounds, producing blue and purple golds, as well as other colors. These are typically brittle, but can be used as gems and inlays.
Surface treatments, such as oxide layers.
Pure 100% (in practice, 99.9% or better) gold is 24 karat by definition, so all colored golds are less pure than this, commonly 18K (75%), 14K (58.5%), 10K (41.6%), or 9K (37.5%).
Alloys
White gold
White gold is an alloy of gold and at least one white metal (usually nickel, silver, or palladium). Like yellow gold, the purity of white gold is given in karats.
White gold's properties vary depending on the metals used and their proportions. As a result, white gold alloys can be used for many different purposes: while a nickel alloy is hard and strong, and therefore good for rings and pins; gold–palladium alloys are soft, pliable, and good for white-gold gemstone settings, sometimes with other metals, like copper, silver, and platinum, added for weight and durability (although this often requires specialized goldsmiths). The term white gold is used very loosely in the industry to describe karat gold alloys with a whitish hue. The word white covers a broad range of colors that borders or overlaps pale yellow, tinted brown, and even very pale rose. The jewelry industry often conceals these off-white colors by rhodium plating; thus it is a common misconception that the color of the rhodium plating, which is seen on many commercial pieces, is the actual color of white gold.
A common white gold formulation consists of 90% wt. gold and 10% wt. nickel. Copper can be added to increase malleability.
The strength of gold–nickel–copper alloys is caused by formation of two phases: a gold-rich Au–Cu, and a nickel-rich Ni–Cu, and the resulting hardening of the material.
The alloys used in the jewelry industry are gold–palladium–silver and gold–nickel–copper–zinc. Palladium and nickel act as primary bleaching agents for gold; zinc acts as a secondary bleaching agent to attenuate the color of copper.
The nickel used in some white gold alloys can cause an allergic reaction when worn over long periods (also notably on some wristwatch casings). This reaction, typically a minor skin rash from nickel dermatitis, occurs in about one out of eight people; because of this, many countries do not use nickel in their white gold formulations.
Gold is rarely pure gold, even before another metal is added to make a white gold alloy, and often contains a mercury alloy from its production; mercury can also cause an allergic reaction.
Yellow gold
Examples of the common alloys for 18K yellow gold include:
18K yellow gold: 75% gold, 12.5% copper, 12.5% silver
18K yellow (darker) gold: 75% gold, 15% copper, 10% silver
Rose, red, and pink gold
Rose gold is a gold–copper alloy widely used for specialized jewelry. Rose gold, also known as pink gold and red gold, was popular in Russia at the beginning of the 19th century, and was also known as Russian gold, although this term is now obsolete. Rose gold jewelry is becoming more popular in the 21st century, and is commonly used for wedding rings, bracelets, and other jewelry.
Although the names are often used interchangeably, the difference between red, rose, and pink gold is the copper content: the higher the copper content, the stronger the red coloration. Pink gold uses the least copper, followed by rose gold, with red gold having the highest copper content. Examples of the common alloys for 18K rose gold, 18K red gold, 18K pink gold, and 12K red gold include:
18K red gold: 75% gold, 25% copper
18K rose gold: 75% gold, 22.25% copper, 2.75% silver
18K pink gold: 75% gold, 20% copper, 5% silver
12K red gold: 50% gold and 50% copper
Up to 15% zinc can be added to copper-rich alloys to change their color to reddish yellow or dark yellow. 14K red gold, often found in the Middle East, contains 41.67% copper.
The highest karat version of rose gold, also known as crown gold, is 22 karat.
Amongst the alloys made of gold, silver and copper, the hardest is the 18.1 K pink gold (75.7% gold and 24.3% copper). An alloy with only gold and silver is the hardest at 15.5 K (64.5% gold and 35.5% silver).
During ancient times, due to impurities in the smelting process, gold frequently turned a reddish color. This is why many Greco-Roman texts, and even many texts from the Middle Ages, describe gold as "red".
Spangold
Some gold-copper–aluminium alloys form a fine surface texture at heat treatment, yielding an interesting spangling effect. At cooling, they undergo a quasi-martensitic transformation from body-centered cubic to body-centered tetragonal phase; the transformation does not depend on the cooling rate. A polished object is heated in hot oil to 150–200 °C for 10 minutes then cooled below 20 °C, forming a sparkly surface covered with tiny facets.
The alloy of 76% gold, 19% copper, and 5% aluminium yields a yellow color; the alloy of 76% gold, 18% copper and 6% aluminium is pink.
Green gold
Green gold was known to the ancient Persians as long ago as 860 BC under the name electrum, a naturally occurring alloy of silver and gold. However, electrum was used even thousands of years before that, by both the Akkadians and Ancient Egyptians (as evidenced by the Royal Cemetery at Ur). Even the tops of some Egyptian pyramids were known to be capped in thin layers of electrum. It actually appears as greenish-yellow rather than green. Fired enamels adhere better to these alloys than to pure gold.
Cadmium can also be added to gold alloys to create a green color, but there are health concerns regarding its use, as cadmium is highly toxic. The alloy of 75% gold, 15% silver, 6% copper, and 4% cadmium yields a dark-green alloy.
Grey gold
Grey gold alloys are usually made from gold and palladium. A cheaper alternative which does not use palladium is made by adding silver, manganese, and copper to the gold in specific ratios.
Intermetallic
All the AuX2 intermetallics have the fluorite (CaF2) crystal structure, and, therefore, are brittle. Deviation from the stoichiometry results in loss of color. Slightly nonstoichiometric compositions are used, however, to achieve a fine-grained two- or three-phase microstructure with reduced brittleness. Another way of reducing brittleness is to add a small amount of palladium, copper, or silver.
The intermetallic compounds tend to have poor corrosion resistance. The less noble elements are leached to the environment, and a gold-rich surface layer is formed. Direct contact of blue and purple gold elements with skin should be avoided as exposure to sweat may result in metal leaching and discoloration of the metal surface.
Purple gold
Purple gold (also called amethyst gold and violet gold) is an alloy of gold and aluminium rich in gold–aluminium intermetallic (AuAl2). Gold content in AuAl2 is around 79% and can therefore be referred to as 18 karat gold. Purple gold is more brittle than other gold alloys (called the "purple plague" when it forms and causes serious faults in electronics), as it is an intermetallic compound instead of a malleable alloy, and a sharp blow may cause it to shatter. It is therefore usually machined and faceted to be used as a "gem" in conventional jewelry rather than by itself. At a lower content of gold, the material is composed of the intermetallic and an aluminium-rich solid solution phase. At a higher content of gold, the gold-richer intermetallic AuAl forms; the purple color is preserved to about 15% of aluminium. At 88% of gold the material is composed of AuAl and changes color. The actual composition of AuAl2 is closer to Al11Au6 as the sublattice is incompletely occupied.
Blue gold
Blue gold is an alloy of gold and either gallium or indium. Gold–indium contains 46% gold (about 11 karat) and 54% indium, forming an intermetallic compound AuIn2. While several sources remark this intermetallic to have "a clear blue color", in fact the effect is slight: AuIn2 has CIE LAB color coordinates of 79, −3.7, −4.2 which appears roughly as a greyish color. With gallium, gold forms an intermetallic AuGa2 (58.5% Au, 14ct) which has slighter bluish hue. The melting point of AuIn2 is 541 °C, for AuGa2 it is 492 °C. AuIn2 is less brittle than AuGa2, which itself is less brittle than AuAl2.
A surface plating of blue gold on karat gold or sterling silver can be achieved by a gold plating of the surface, followed by indium plating, with layer thickness matching the 1:2 atomic ratio. A heat treatment then causes interdiffusion of the metals and formation of the required intermetallic compound.
Surface treatments
Black gold
Black gold is a type of gold used in jewelry. Black-colored gold can be produced by various methods:
Patination by applying sulfur- and oxygen-containing compounds.
Plasma-assisted chemical vapor deposition process involving amorphous carbon
Controlled oxidation of gold containing chromium or cobalt (e.g. 75% gold, 25% cobalt).
A range of colors from brown to black can be achieved on copper-rich alloys by treatment with potassium sulfide.
Cobalt-containing alloys, e.g. 75% gold with 25% cobalt, form a black oxide layer with heat treatment at 700–950 °C. Copper, iron and titanium can be also used for such effect. Gold–cobalt–chromium alloy (75% gold, 15% cobalt, 10% chromium) yields a surface oxide that is olive-tinted because of the chromium(III) oxide content, is about five times thinner than Au–Co and has significantly better wear resistance. The gold–cobalt alloy consists of gold-rich (about 94% Au) and cobalt-rich (about 90% Co) phases; the cobalt-rich phase grains are capable of oxide-layer formation on their surface.
More recently, black gold can be formed by creating nanostructures on the surface. A femtosecond laser pulse deforms the surface of the metal, creating an immensely increased surface area which absorbs virtually all the light that falls on it, thus rendering it deep black, but this method is used in high technology applications rather than for appearance in jewelry. The blackness is due to the excitation of localized surface plasmons which creates strong absorption in a broad range in plasmon resonance. The broadness of the plasmon resonance, and absorption wavelength range, depends on the interaction between different gold nanoparticles.
Blue gold
Oxide layers can also be used to obtain blue gold from an alloy of 75% gold, 24.4% iron, and 0.6% nickel; the layer forms on heat treatment in air between 450 and 600 °C.
A rich sapphire blue colored gold of 20–23K can also be obtained by alloying with ruthenium, rhodium and three other elements and heat-treating at 1800 °C, to form the 3–6 micrometers thick colored surface oxide layer.
See also
Corinthian bronze
Crown gold
Electrum
Hepatizon
List of alloys
Mokume-gane, a mixed-metal laminate
Orichalcum
Panchaloha, alloys used for making Hindu temple icons
Pyrite, often referred to as Fool's Gold
Shakudō, copper with 4–10% gold
Tumbaga
References
External links
Gold
Precious metal alloys
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A proposal theme statement is a technique used in a business proposal to call attention to benefits offered by the vendor to the customer. The concise benefit statement normally precedes discussion of any section of the proposal where the vendor thinks the proposal contains a significant advantage to the prospective customer.
Example
"Low-risk, commercially available software" might introduce a vendor's solution for meeting a customer's need to buy technology that enables quick, relatively cheap authorization for people trying to use a credit card.
The theme statement is set apart from the text it introduces:
Low-risk, commercially available software
"XYZ Corporation proposes to use ID-Check…"
The theme statement always ties the feature of the offer (i.e., ID-Check) to the primary benefit(s) of that feature (i.e., low-risk and commercially available). Other benefits are implied—e.g., low-risk implies lower long-term cost because of the software is proven and commercially available implies lower initial cost because the software is mass-produced.
Theory behind a theme statement
The use of theme statements in proposals is based on a reading comprehension technique called an "advance organizer", developed by learning theorist David Ausubel. The advance organizer serves as the launch point for a deductive logic string, where the primary idea is introduced first, followed by supporting detail in descending order of importance. Ausubel's research demonstrated the technique was particularly effective if the reader had little prior knowledge of the subject material.
Drawbacks of theme statements in proposals
Theme statement in proposals must be carefully constructed. If the assumed customer benefit in the theme statement is not perceived as a benefit to the customer, then credibility is lost. If the theme statement introduces a benefit, but the following discussion does not directly support that benefit, then more credibility is lost. Finally, in concert with Ausubel's findings, theme statements should not be used to introduce sections in a proposal customers already know well. The chances of seeming patronizing or disingenuous are too high.
See also
Government contract proposal
Proposal (business)
References
Procurement
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PEARL iZUMi (パールイズミ) is a company that produces sports apparel, primarily focusing on road cycling, track cycling, mountain biking, and triathlon.
It was founded in 1950 in Tokyo. PEARL iZUMi USA, Inc., is its U.S. distributor.
Ownership and distribution
DASH America (trading as PEARL iZUMi USA) purchased the trademark from Dave Jacobs (founder of Spyder, and the original distributor of PEARL iZUMi in the USA). Originally held by a group of private investors, the company was sold to Nautilus Inc. in 2005, who then sold it to Shimano in 2008. Shimano sold the company to United Sports Brands in 2022. USB holds the rights to distribute the product everywhere in the world except Asia.
Sponsorships
PEARL iZUMi has sponsored many cycling teams, including the 1984 USA Olympic team. Other sponsored athletes include:
Mark Matthews (Mountain Bike)
Marley Blonsky (Road & Gravel)
Lael Wilcox (Ultra-distance)
Jeff Lenosky (Mountain Bike)
Brice Shirbach (Mountain Bike)
Macky Franklin (Mountain Bike)
Syd Schulz (Mountain Bike)
Dillon Caldwell (Gravel)
Angela Naeth (Triathlete & Gravel)
Hannah Shell (Road & Gravel)
Jake Magee (Road & Gravel)
References
External links
Official link
Sporting goods manufacturers of the United States
Shoe brands
Sportswear brands
American companies established in 1984
Clothing companies established in 1984
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Never Enough may refer to:
Albums
Never Enough (Patty Smyth album), 1987
Never Enough (Melissa Etheridge album), 1992
Never Enough (Public Access T.V. album), 2016
Never Enough (Daniel Caesar album), 2023
Never Enough (Parker McCollum album), 2023
Never Enough: The Best of Jesus Jones, a 2002 album by Jesus Jones
Never Enough EP, a 2015 EP by Wild Adriatic
Songs
"Never Enough" (Loren Allred song), 2017
"Never Enough" (The Cure song), 1990
"Never Enough" (Boris Dlugosch song), 2001
"Never Enough" (Five Finger Death Punch song), 2008
"Never Enough" (Kiss song), 2009
"Never Enough" (Koda Kumi song), 2017
"Never Enough" (Six60 song), 2019
"Never Enough" (Tarja song), 2013
"Never Enough", a song by Dream Theater from 2005 album Octavarium
"Never Enough", a song by Eminem, featuring Nate Dogg and 50 Cent, from his album Encore
"Never Enough", a song by Epica for their 2007 album The Divine Conspiracy
"Never Enough", a song by Jesus Jones, from their 1989 album Liquidizer
"Never Enough", a song by L.A. Guns, 1989 from the album Cocked & Loaded
"Never Enough", a song by The Monkees, from their 1996 album, Justus
"Never Enough", a song by Mudvayne from The New Game
"Never Enough", a song by One Direction from their 2015 album Made in the A.M.
"Never Enough", a song by Papa Roach from Infest
"Never Enough", a song by Poisonblack from the album Lust Stained Despair
"Never Enough", a song by This Condition, 2009
"Never Enough", a song by Toto from Kingdom of Desire
"Never Enough", a song by Wage War from Deadweight
Books
Never Enough: Donald Trump and the Pursuit of Success, a biography of Donald Trump by Michael D'Antonio
Never Enough: The Story of The Cure, a book by Jeff Apter; see
Never Enough by Joe McGinniss, about the life and murder of Robert Kissel
Never Enough by Mike Hayes, A Navy SEAL Commander on Living a Life of Excellence, Agility, and Meaning
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Joseph Mary Marling, C.PP.S. (August 31, 1904 – October 2, 1979) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the first bishop of the Diocese of Jefferson City in Missouri from 1956 to 1969. He previously served as an auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Kansas City in Missouri.
Biography
Joseph Marling was born on August 31, 1904, in Centralia, West Virginia. He was ordained as a priest of the Society of Precious Blood by Archbishop John McNicholas on February 21, 1929.
After a period of academic and pastoral work, he was elected provincial director of the Society's American province in 1938. During his tenure, Marling expanded St. Joseph's College and built a minor seminary in Canton, Ohio.
Auxiliary Bishop of Kansas City
On June 7, 1947, Marling was appointed auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Kansas City, Missouri and titular bishop of Thasus by Pope Pius XII. He received his episcopal consecration on August 6, 1947, from Archbishop Edwin O'Hara, with Bishops Joseph Albers and John Bennett serving as co-consecrators, at St. Peter in Chains Cathedral. Marling chose as his episcopal motto, Per Sanguinem Crucis, meaning “Through the Blood of the Cross." In an address to the Guild of Catholic Psychiatrists, he suggested that the clergy should receive psychiatric treatment.
Bishop of Jefferson City
Marling was later named the first bishop of the Diocese of Jefferson City on August 24, 1956. During his tenure, he oversaw the construction of a new cathedral, twenty-five churches, twenty-nine schools, thirty rectories, sixteen convents, and a Carmelite monastery. The Bishop also established the diocesan newspaper and missions in Peru. He attended the Second Vatican Council from 1962 to 1965.
Retirement and legacy
On July 2, 1969, Pope Paul VI accepted Marling's resignation as bishop of Jefferson City and appointed him as titular bishop of Lesina, a post which he gave up on January 16, 1976.
Joseph Marling died in Kansas City, at age 75. His remains were interred in the Precious Blood Community Cemetery on the seminary grounds in Carthagena, Ohio.
References
External links
Diocese of Jefferson City
1904 births
1979 deaths
Participants in the Second Vatican Council
People from Braxton County, West Virginia
Roman Catholic Diocese of Kansas City–Saint Joseph
Roman Catholic bishops of Jefferson City
20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in the United States
Catholics from West Virginia
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Eastern Shores is a neighborhood within the city of North Miami Beach in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. It is located about north of Miami, just south of the city of Aventura.
Geography
It is located on a peninsula located in the city of North Miami Beach. Eastern Shores is made up of 9 named streets:
NE 35th Ave (Eastern Shores Blvd)
NE 164th St, NE 165th Street
NE 166th Street
NE 167th Street
NE 168th Street
NE 169th Street
NE 170th Street
NE 171st Street.
The avenues go from 29th Avenue to 40th Avenue.
The neighborhood is made up of man-made canals, except the natural canal on the north side of NE 171st Street. Eastern Shores is bounded by Sunny Isles Blvd to the south, Maule Lake to the west, The Intracoastal Waterway to the east, and Dumfoundling Bay to the northeast. Eastern Shores is located next to Sunny Isles Beach.
The right side of Eastern Shores (East Side) is full of condominiums and townhouses. Eastern Shores is a gated community. This guardhouse and guard gates were created in 1997. Eastern Shores operates Eastern Shores Fire Rescue station that is located next to the guardhouse. Eastern Shores is located next to the Intracoastal Mall.
History
Eastern Shores was a mangroves wetland, until it was landfilled in the late 1950s.
Education
Eastern Shores is within the Miami-Dade County Public Schools system.
Students attend Norman S. Edelcup/Sunny Isles Beach K-8 in Sunny Isles Beach for elementary and K-8. Residents who want a standard comprehensive middle school instead of a K-8 enroll at a separate middle school, Highland Oaks Middle School. Alonzo and Tracy Mourning Senior High Biscayne Bay Campus is the senior high school. Prior to its opening in 2009, Dr. Michael M. Krop Senior High School served Eastern Shores.
References
Neighborhoods in North Miami Beach, Florida
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