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17994711 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapel%20of%20Saint%20Helena%2C%20Slovakia | Chapel of Saint Helena, Slovakia | The Chapel of Saint Helena in Považská Bystrica, Slovakia, was built in 1728 in the Baroque style by Count Peter Szapáry. After it was built, it was robbed and badly damaged more than once, which led to a massive restoration effort in the 1990s. Today the chapel is located on a housing estate and is currently holding regular church services.
Footnotes
External links
Photos and 3D model of Chapel of Saint Helena
Churches completed in 1728
Churches in Trenčín Region
18th-century churches in Slovakia
1728 establishments in the Habsburg monarchy
18th-century establishments in Hungary |
17994721 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Texas%20A%26M%20Aggies%20football%20seasons | List of Texas A&M Aggies football seasons | This is a list of seasons completed by the Texas A&M Aggies college football program since the team's inception in 1894. The list documents season-by-season records, bowl game results, and conference records from 1915 to the present.
Seasons
Notes
References
Texas AandM
Texas AandM Aggies football seasons |
17994731 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spore%20%281987%20video%20game%29 | Spore (1987 video game) | Spore is an action puzzle game for the Commodore 64, Commodore 16, and ZX Spectrum, released by Mastertronic in 1987. Its title screen credits Jim Baguley with writing it, although Paul Rogers claims to have written it and its unreleased sequel, Mutant Zone. The music was composed by David Whittaker.
The game includes a level editor for users to create their own maps.
Reception
Zzap!64 gave the Commodore 64 version 97% and a silver medal; Crash gave the ZX Spectrum version 67%.
References
External links
1987 video games
Commodore 16 and Plus/4 games
Commodore 64 games
Maze games
ZX Spectrum games
Video games scored by David Whittaker
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Video games with user-generated gameplay content
Mastertronic games
Single-player video games |
17994756 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusty%20Blakey | Rusty Blakey | Thurston "Rusty" Blakey (December 12, 1911 – October 11, 1986) was a pioneering Canadian aviator and bush pilot.
Biography
The Ravenna, Ontario born Thurston Blakely (December 12, 1911) grew up in Bruce Mines with an aunt and uncle after being orphaned in childhood. He went to work in 1935 for Austin Airways, a charter service and flyings school at Ramsey Lake, becoming a licensed pilot in March 1938. Commonly known as "Rusty", Blakey flew for almost 50 years, with over 30,000 hours in single-engine aircraft, without mechanical aid. Over a third of those hours were logged in Austin Airway's Noorduyn Norseman, CF-BSC. He continued piloting until October 10, 1986, the day before he died.
An aerial photographer whose work included medical evacuation flights and deliveries—not only miners and their equipment, but also supplies and mail to the James Bay Inuit—Blakey is particularly notable for his role in aerial firefighting. In 1948, he became the first pilot to drop dry ice, which would become a major technique in wildfire suppression.
Honours and legacy
Blakey was honored multiple times before and after his death. In 1985, he became a Member of the Order of Canada. In 1986, he was bestowed an Honorary Life Membership in the Canadian Owners and Pilots Association (C.O.P.A.). In 1992, he was inducted into Canada’s Aviation Hall of Fame.
In his honour, a monument was erected at Science North, Ramsey Lake, by the Rusty Blakey Heritage Aviation Group. It is the site of an annual Rusty Blakey Air Show.
References
Oswald, Mary, They Led the Way, Wetaskiwin: Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame, 1999.
External links
Hall of Fame site
1911 births
1986 deaths
Canadian aviators
People from The Blue Mountains, Ontario |
17994775 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatra%2057 | Tatra 57 | The Tatra 57 are a series of two-door compact cars, built by Czechoslovakian company Tatra from 1932. They are popularly known by the nickname "Hadimrška".
Tatra updated the model as the 57A in 1936, and as 57B in 1938. A military adaptation, the 57K, (for Kübelwagen) was introduced in 1941. Through 1945, more than 5,000 Tatra Kübelwagens were built.
All versions have a characteristic Tatra backbone chassis, with the drive-shaft running encased in its central structural tube.
Tatra ended production of the 57K in 1947, and of the 57B in 1949. With that the company altogether withdrew from making compact cars; from 1948 its smallest model was the 2 litre Tatra 600.
History
Tatra 57
The Tatra type 57, introduced in 1931, succeeded the Tatra 12. Styling continued the same streamlined, closed nose front as its predecessors – Type 11 and 12. It has a 1,155 cc overhead valve flat-four engine that produces . Its fuel consumption is between eight and 10 litres per 100 km. Bodies offered included a four-seat saloon, four-seat convertible and two-seat convertible. All were two-door.
Tatra 57A
In 1935 Tatra replaced the Type 57 with the 57A – changing to a more conventional open front grille design. The 1,155 cc engine's power output was increased to . The body was restyled, and given a radiator grille similar to that of the larger Tatra 75. A commercial van version was offered.
Tatra 57B
In 1938 Tatra replaced the Type 57A with the 57B. For the new model Tatra enlarged the engine to 1,256 cc and increased its power to .
Tatra 57K
In 1941, Tatra added the 57K Kübelwagen, which was a military four-door convertible for the German Wehrmacht in World War II, officially designated as "Leichter Personenkraftwagen" (le. Pkw.) Tatra 57K. It was constructed on the Germans' specifications, with increased ground clearance and a 1,256 cc engine, detuned to .
From 1941 to 1945, Tatra manufactured 5,415 units of the Tatra T 57 K, which were frequently used by Nazi police forces. Production of this model further continued through 1947.
See also
Tatra V570
References
Bibliography
External links
1940s cars
Automobiles with backbone chassis
Cars powered by boxer engines
Cars introduced in 1936
Coupés
Rear-wheel-drive vehicles
57
Cars introduced in 1932
Cars discontinued in 1949 |
17994778 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain%20B%C3%A9langer | Alain Bélanger | Alain "Bam-Bam" Bélanger (born January 18, 1956) was a Canadian professional hockey player. He played 9 games with the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League during the 1977–78 season, recording one assist. The next two seasons, he played in the American Hockey League with the New Brunswick Hawks, racking up 12 goals and 40 points in 76 games. He then retired for two years before returning for the 1982–83 season to play with the Sherbrooke Jets; however, he accrued no points in 21 games.
Career statistics
Regular season and playoffs
International
References
External links
1956 births
Living people
Calgary Cowboys draft picks
Canadian ice hockey right wingers
Dallas Black Hawks players
Ice hockey people from Chaudière-Appalaches
New Brunswick Hawks players
Sherbrooke Castors players
Sherbrooke Jets players
Toronto Maple Leafs draft picks
Toronto Maple Leafs players
20th-century Canadian sportsmen |
17994786 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic%20A.%20Potts | Frederic A. Potts | Frederic Augustus Potts (April 4, 1836 – November 9, 1888) was an American businessman and Republican party politician who was the Republican nominee for Governor of New Jersey in 1880.
Potts was born in 1836 in Pottsville, Pennsylvania to George Alexander Henry and Emily Dilworth (Gumming) Potts. His father was the head of the New York branch of the wholesale coal and iron firm of Lewis Audenried & Company. Potts followed in his father's footsteps, working in the coal and iron business in New York City. He controlled an extensive business as a coal merchant.
Potts had a farm in Pittstown, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, and from this base he was recruited to become the Republican candidate for the House of Representatives in New Jersey's 4th congressional district. He was defeated, although by a narrower than usual margin in a district that was known as "the Democratic Gibraltar." He was elected to the New Jersey Senate in 1873 as a Republican, breaking a long succession of Democratic victories in the Hunterdon County stretching "since the days of the Jackson." He ran for the House of Representatives seat again in 1878 and lost by only 620 votes.
In 1880 he was the Republican nominee for Governor of New Jersey and was defeated by the Democratic nominee, George C. Ludlow, by a margin of 651 votes of some 250,000 ballots cast.
Prior to 1880, Potts was a director of the Central Railroad of New Jersey. In 1880 he reorganized the New Jersey Midland Railroad, which merged with other railroads to form the New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway. He was elected president of the railway and remained in this position until his death. He died in 1888 at his family residence in New York at the age of 52.
References
1836 births
1888 deaths
Republican Party New Jersey state senators
Politicians from Pottsville, Pennsylvania
Politicians from Hunterdon County, New Jersey
19th-century American businesspeople
19th-century members of the New Jersey Legislature |
17994817 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mianwal%20Ranjha | Mianwal Ranjha | Mianwal Ranjha is a village and union council of Mandi Bahauddin District in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It is located at 31°52'60N 73°5'60E and has an altitude of 183 metres (603 feet). Mianwal Ranjha is the largest village of Mandi Bahauddin. Read More
Mianwal Ranjha is a historic village in Mandi Bahauddin Punjab. The majority of people are engaged with agriculture sector. This village has historic religious background. Before 1300 AD two tribes Ranjha and Makhdoom came there and dominated this fertile peace of land. Later on many other Jutt tribes Gondal, Tarar, Warrich came there. Other non-cultivator tribes are also living there. The majority of this village is engaged with different professions like Law, medical,and education.
References
Union councils of Mandi Bahauddin District
Villages in Mandi Bahauddin District |
17994831 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passalus%20affinis | Passalus affinis | Passalus affinis is a beetle of the Family Passalidae.
Passalidae |
17994836 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Red%20Menace%20%28film%29 | The Red Menace (film) | The Red Menace (reissue title Underground Spy) is a 1949 anti-communist film noir drama film directed by R. G. Springsteen starring Robert Rockwell and Hannelore Axman.
Plot
An ex-GI named Bill Jones (Robert Rockwell) becomes involved with the Communist Party USA. While in training, Jones falls in love with one of his instructors. At first true followers of communism, they realize their mistake when they witness party leaders murder a member who questions the party's principles. When they try to leave the party, the two are marked for murder and hunted by the party's assassins.
Cast
Production
The film was originally planned to be made by Irving Allen and James S. Burkett as an independent film. Republic Pictures chose unknowns for the cast and many made their film debuts. Republic Pictures' president Herbert Yates was named as executive producer but no producer was named.
As well as playing Inspector O'Toole, Lloyd G. Davies was also the film's narrator.
Release
The film opened in the Los Angeles district on June 9, 1949. In two theaters in Los Angeles it grossed a dull $22,000 in its first week. The film performed poorly at the box office and was withdrawn from release after several months. The film was re-edited and re-released in 1953 as Underground Spy.
See also
List of American films of 1949
References
External links
1949 films
1949 drama films
American anti-communist propaganda films
American drama films
Cold War films
Films directed by R. G. Springsteen
Films scored by Nathan Scott (composer)
Republic Pictures films
Films shot in Los Angeles
American black-and-white films
1940s English-language films
1940s American films |
17994838 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/177th%20Information%20Warfare%20Aggressor%20Squadron | 177th Information Warfare Aggressor Squadron | The 177th Information Warfare Aggressor Squadron is a unit of the 184th Intelligence Wing of the Kansas Air National Guard stationed at McConnell Air Force Base, Wichita, Kansas. The 177th is a non-flying squadron which trains in cyber warfare.
Overview
The mission of the squadron is to attack American military networks, to discover vulnerabilities before a real enemy does.
The Information Warfare Aggressor role is similar to the "tiger teams" commercial firms hire (and the air force pioneered) to test the defenses of corporate networks. The two aggressor squadrons have increased the quality and quantity of attacks that can be launched against U.S. systems, to see how well the defenses hold up. Members of the squadron then analyze the results of their attack. Finally, the aggressor hackers tell the sysadmins and other concerned personnel of the target unit what they did wrong, and why.
History
On 1 February 1984, the 177th Tactical Fighter Training Squadron was established with the unit flying McDonnell F-4 Phantom IIs as a formal training unit. It conducted its first student training class the same year. The squadron converted to the General Dynamics F-16A Fighting Falcon in 1990 and the F-16CC and F-16Din 1992. It was inactivated on 1 August 1994 when the F-16s were withdrawn from McConnell and its parent group became a bomber unit flying B-1B Lancers.
Lineage
Constituted as the 177th Tactical Fighter Training Squadron and allotted to the National Guard on 1 February 1984
Activated and extended federal recognition on 8 February 1984
Redesignated 177th Fighter Squadron on 16 March 1992
Inactivated on 1 August 1994
Redesignated: 177th Information Warfare Aggressor Squadron and activated on 30 August 2002
Assignments
184th Tactical Fighter Group (later 184th Fighter Group), 1 February 1984 – 1 August 1994
184th Regional Support Group, 30 August 2006 – 2018
184th Cyber Operations Group, 2018 - Present
Stations
McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas, 1 February 1984 – 1 August 1994
McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas, 1 August 2002 – present
Aircraft
McDonnell F-4D Phantom II, 1984–1990
Block 1/5 F-16A and F-16B Fighting Falcon, 1990–1992
Block 25 F-16C and F-16D Fighting Falcon, 1992–1994
See also
List of cyber warfare forces
References
Squadrons of the United States Air National Guard
Information Aggressor 0177
Military units and formations in Kansas
Military units and formations established in 1984
1984 establishments in Kansas |
17994845 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%20Pinter%20Archive | Harold Pinter Archive | The Harold Pinter Archive in the British Library is the literary archive of Harold Pinter, which Pinter had first placed "on permanent loan" in the British Library in September 1993 and which became a permanent acquisition in December 2007.
Acquisition
On 11 December 2007 the British Library announced that it had purchased Pinter's literary archive for £1.1 million (approx. $2.24 million), augmenting its current "Harold Pinter Archive" of 80 boxes ("Loan 110 A"). It now comprises "over one hundred and fifty boxes of manuscripts, scrapbooks, letters, photographs, programmes, and emails," constituting "an invaluable resource for researchers and scholars of Pinter's work for stage, cinema, and poetry."
Highlights
Among its "highlights" are "an exceedingly perceptive and enormously affectionate run of letters from Samuel Beckett; letters and hand-written manuscripts revealing Pinter's close collaboration with director Joseph Losey; a charming and highly amusing exchange of letters with Philip Larkin; and a draft of Pinter's unpublished autobiographical memoir of his youth, 'The Queen of all the Fairies'," as well as "especially touching" letters from Pinter's "inspirational" Hackney Downs School English teacher and friend, Joseph Brearley.
BL press release
According to the official BL press release, citing its head of Modern Literary Manuscripts, Jamie Andrews, the "extensive collection of correspondence" of "over 12,000 letters" in its expanded Pinter Archive "encompasses the personal, professional and political aspects of the legendary writer, whose career has covered directing, acting, screenwriting, poetry and journalism, as well as his original work for the theatre" and documents Pinter's "key role in post-War theatre and film ... through his extensive correspondence with [other] leading playwrights and literary figures such as Simon Gray, David Hare, David Mamet, Arthur Miller, John Osborne, and [Sir] Tom Stoppard, as well as actors and directors including Sir John Gielgud [corrected] and Sir Peter Hall." This collection also "documents all international performances of Pinter's plays, as well as exchanges with academics that highlight Pinter's engagement with the global scholarly community. There is also extensive material relating to Pinter's commitment to human rights, covering his journalism, poetry and direct action."
"His Own Domain"
From 10 January through 13 April 2008, the British Library exhibited a "small temporary display, 'His Own Domain: Harold Pinter, A Life in Theatre', featuring a range of unique manuscripts, letters, photographs, and sound recordings from the archive charting Pinter's life in the theatre as an actor, director, and writer of some of the most significant and celebrated plays of the twentieth-century."
British Library responses to Pinter's death
After Pinter's death, the British Library updated its official Harold Pinter Archive Blog, posting a memorial notice on 29 December 2008, stating that "Harold was a formidable and generous champion of the Library and its work, and the British Library was immensely proud to have added the Pinter archive to our Manuscript Collections in 2007," and promising that "more detailed tributes" would be appearing there soon. On 6 January 2009, Jamie Andrews, Head of Modern Literary Manuscripts at the British Library and custodian of Pinter's Archive, posted " 'Tender the dead, as you yourself would be tendered...' ", alluding to Hirst's monologue about the faces of the dead in his photograph album from No Man's Land which Pinter had requested that Michael Gambon read at his funeral, which took place on 31 December 2008.
Andrews begins by relating his experience as an invited panellist in the Allied Organization Program arranged by the Harold Pinter Society at the 2008 MLA Convention, on 28 December. Having seen Rupert Goold's production of No Man's Land (with Gambon as Hirst) "just a few days before news of Harold's passing" on the 24th, and "Already carrying the lines and images around" in his head when he "read of the use of Hirst's monologue as part of the funeral," he concludes: "As always with Pinter, there's a certain ambiguity to [Briggs's] swift response 'They're blank, mate, blank. The blank dead'. Personally, I'm with Hirst who, after a trademark 'silence', ripostes quite simply: 'Nonsense'."
Catalogue
Having catalogued the expanded Harold Pinter Archive (Add MS 88880), comprising 504 volumes, the British Library (BL) reopened it to qualified scholars for research in the Modern Literary Manuscripts room, where it is housed, on 2 February 2009. The Harold Pinter Archive catalogue went on-line on Monday 2 February 2009 and became fully visible on Tuesday 3 February.\
See also
The Lady Antonia Fraser Archive in the British Library
Notes
Further reading
Harold Pinter Archive Blog: British Library Curators on Cataloguing the Pinter Archive. BL, London, 17 March 2008 – the present. Web. 11 March 2009. (Hosted for the British Library (BL) by Typepad. Provides updates about the cataloguing process by Pinter Archive cataloguer Kate O'Brien and the other BL curators, including Jamie Andrews, director of Modern Literary Manuscripts, where the Archive is housed.)
"Manuscripts: Recent Acquisitions: The Pinter Archive". BL, London, 2007. Web. 11 March 2009. ("Information about major new manuscript and archive acquisitions. Recent acquisitions include the Ted Hughes and Harold Pinter archives and the Dering Roll … The archive of Britain's leading playwright and writer, the 2005 Literature Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter, has been acquired by the British Library. It comprises over 150 boxes of manuscripts, scrapbooks, letters, photographs, programmes, and emails offers an invaluable resource for researchers and scholars of Pinter's work for stage, cinema, and poetry.") [Includes hyperlinks to the National Heritage Memorial Fund, which funded the acquisition, and The UK Literary Heritage Working Group.]
External links
British Library – Official Website
British Library Manuscripts Catalogue (Search facility: To find the Harold Pinter Archive by type and number (previously Loan No. 110A), select "Additional Manuscripts" in drop-down menu; enter collection number: 88880 ["Add MS 88880"]; the Lady Antonia Fraser Archive [uncatalogued] is still Loan No. 110B.)
"Manuscript Collections: Copyright Guidance" in "Help for Researchers" at the British Library.
Archives in the London Borough of Camden
Manuscripts in the British Library
Archive
Manuscript collections |
17994847 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advie%20railway%20station | Advie railway station | Advie railway station served the village of Advie, Morayshire, in Scotland.
History
Opened by the Strathspey Railway (GNoSR), it was absorbed by the Great North of Scotland Railway. Then station passed on to the London and North Eastern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. Passing to the Scottish Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948, it was then closed by the British Railways Board.
The site today
References
External links
Station on navigable O.S. map
Disused railway stations in Moray
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1863
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1965
Beeching closures in Scotland
Former Great North of Scotland Railway stations |
17994856 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political%20party%20strength%20in%20Nevada | Political party strength in Nevada | The following table indicates the party of elected officials in the U.S. state of Nevada:
Governor
Lieutenant Governor
Secretary of State
Attorney General
State Treasurer
State Controller
The table also indicates the historical party composition in the:
State Senate
State Assembly
State delegation to the U.S. Senate
State delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives
For years in which a presidential election was held, the table indicates which party's nominees received the state's electoral votes as well as whether the nominees won the election.
1861–1982
1983–present
See also
Politics in Nevada
Elections in Nevada
List of Nevada state legislatures
References
Politics of Nevada
Government of Nevada
Nevada |
17994862 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elastix | Elastix | Elastix is a unified communications server software that brings together IP PBX, email, IM, faxing and collaboration functionality. It has a Web interface and includes capabilities such as a call center software with predictive dialing.
The Elastix 2.5 functionality is based on open source projects including Asterisk, FreePBX, HylaFAX, Openfire and Postfix. Those packages offer the PBX, fax, instant messaging and email functions, respectively.
As of Elastix 5.0 all functionality is provided through 3CX, a software based private branch exchange (PBX) based on the SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) standard. It enables extensions to make calls via the public switched telephone network (PSTN) or via Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services. Elastix 5.0 is an IP business phone system that supports standard SIP soft/hard phones, VoIP services and traditional PSTN phone lines.
Elastix 2.5 is free software, released under the GNU General Public License.
Elastix 5.0 is Proprietary released under the terms of the 3CX license.
Support for telephony hardware
Elastix 2.5 has a good support for telephony hardware. It includes drivers for the major manufacturers like Dinstar, OpenVox, Digium, Khomp, Sangoma Technologies Corporation, Rhino Equipment, Xorcom, and . The most of these drivers are supported through the zaptel project or modified versions of it. Other drivers are supported by the mISDN project and other projects.
Elastix 2.5 also supports other phone brands thanks to the SIP and IAX protocols that Asterisk implements. These protocols are based on public available standards. For this reason any manufacturer can build a product that supports them. Some certified manufacturers are Ascom, Snom and Yealink.
Call center module
Elastix 2.5 was the first distribution that included a call center module with a predictive dialer, released entirely as free software. This module can be installed from the same web-based Elastix interface through a module loader. The call center module can handle incoming and outgoing campaigns. It can also optionally be made more powerful by adding common third party modules like QueueMetrics and
WombatDialer.
History of the project
Elastix was created and maintained by PaloSanto Solutions, an Open Source support company based in Ecuador. Elastix was released to the public for the first time in March 2006. It was not a complete distribution but a Web interface for CDR (Call Detail Records) reporting. It was not until late December 2006 that Elastix was released as a Linux distribution with Asterisk, Zaptel and a number of other packages which were easily administrated via a user friendly Web interface that caught the community's attention.
The Elastix 2.5 Linux distribution is based on CentOS, which has binary compatibility with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
From its initial release until now the Elastix distro has grown in popularity. The project was nominated for two straight years (2007 and 2008) as finalist in the SourceForge Community Choice Awards.
In 2016 the Elastix project was acquired by 3CX. With this acquisition the Elastix Distro versioned at 5.0 was switched to a proprietary software on top of Debian with the 3CX platform. Open-source forks of pre-version 5 Elastix are being maintained by the Issabel project.
Similar software distributions
Issabel – A project to maintain and advance an open-source fork of Elastix.
FreePBX Distro – FreePBX's official distribution maintained by Sangoma Technologies Corporation
PBX in a Flash – Originally used FreePBX, later versions use 3CX
AsteriskNOW – Merged into FreePBX
trixbox – Now end-of-life, uses forked version of FreePBX. Was maintained by Fonality.
References
External links
Free VoIP software
Telephone exchanges
Free business software
Communication software
2006 software
Asterisk (PBX)
FreePBX
Formerly open-source or free software |
17994883 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nain%20Ranjha | Nain Ranjha | Nain Ranjha is a village and union council of Mandi Bahauddin District in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It is located at an altitude of 201 metres (662 feet).
References
Union councils of Mandi Bahauddin District
Villages in Mandi Bahauddin District |
17994920 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhyssomatus%20lineaticollis | Rhyssomatus lineaticollis | Rhyssomatus lineaticollis, also known by its common name milkweed stem weevil is a species of weevil whose adults feed on the stems of the common milkweed, Asclepias syriaca. It is also destructive to the rare and threatened milkweed species Asclepias meadii.
References
Molytinae
Beetles of North America
Beetles described in 1824 |
17994927 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passalus%20caelatus | Passalus caelatus | Passalus caelatus is a beetle of the Family Passalidae.
References
Passalidae |
17994948 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delf%C3%ADn%20Chamorro | Delfín Chamorro | Delfin Chamorro (December 24, 1863 – August 15, 1931), was a special educator. He was the creator of a method of teaching the Spanish language.
Childhood and studies
Chamorro was born in the village of Caaguazú. His parents, both guaireños, were Don Jose de la Cruz Chamorro, fighter of the war and Juana Ines Martinez. These were confined in that location, shortly before the beginning of the War of the Seventy.
He studied in primary Villarrica. The population exhausted by the hardships of war, like the rest of the country, is struggling to overcome their woes with stoicism and courage of the survivors. Leaving school, to complete the cycle, he joined the National College of Asuncion, to attend high school, which by economic constraints and family for some sentimental disappointment - says one of his biographers - was unable to complete it by interrupting with his study in the fourth year of high school.
He was forced to work for the sustenance of the house. He was a passionate reader and curious observer, thus self-taught, gained a wealth of knowledge. He liked to write very romantic poems appropriate to his youth, which despite his opposition were rescued by the Paraguayan promoters of the letters.
Chamorro is a classic of the letters. His poems have a soft Virgilian accent. He referred to his friend Daniel Codas an epistle with a tender elegy to which the beloved Villa Rica, inspired, it is considered a literary gem. From classical inspiration were his teachers Fray Luis de Leon and Andrés Bello. He was a passionate reader the theorists of free humanism Tolstoy Kropotkin and others.
Vocation
His true vocation was teaching. He began as a public school teacher in San Juan Bautista de las Misiones, in 1887, at the request of his fellow citizens "guaireños" he was back to Villarrica to continue his career in a "school of the motherland", title which then gave the first public educational institutions.
With an iron will and strong educational structure - without holding any academic title - was fortunate to receive the support of dedicated teacher Ramon Indalecio Cardozo, who had the vision of a glimpse into his protégé virtues sufficient for the exercise of the magisterium . So, 1892, Chamorro took over the chairs of Castilian Rhetoric and Poetics at the Colegio Nacional Villarica.
Forty years after his exemplary life devoted to the study and teaching of Spanish grammar. He is considered the first grammarian in Paraguay. He left unfinished a "Grammar Castellana", whose first volume was published after his death.
Disciple Andrés Bello, in many ways perfected the lessons of the wise Venezuelan.
Among the honorable suite of grammarians and teachers trained in his classrooms, it is worth to distinguish Inocencio Lezcano, his brilliant continuation.
Master
Teacher Chamorro was privileged to be learned from contemporary letters guaireñas. They include his friend Ramon Indalecio Cardozo, Simeon Carísimo, Atanasio Riera, Nicholas E. Sardi, Carlos Ventura and Virgilio De Permian Barrios among others, names that left a trail of wisdom in the cultured city.
Cardozo wrote: Chamorro was a teacher, reformer and a real character. He taught by example in his chair and replaced the ancient method of illogical grammar for the rational and logical. He persisted throughout his life in implementing his reform, a personal method known as "Chamorro Method."
Delfin Chamorro himself explained that "The analysis is to explain the grammatical structure of language decomposing reasoning in units called sentences, and they in their constituent members, to the simplest and less complex way. As the reasoning is almost always extremely complicated, should be taken at the beginning the most simple and explain the parts that comprise and the role that each plays in all. "
He felt an irrepressible attraction to journalism. In 1902, accompanied by maestro Ramon I. Cardozo founded in Villa Rica newspaper "El Libre" in which he published his grammar lessons. In 1903, he created another called "The Guairá" of short existence.
Recent years
The president Manuel Gondra, knowing the qualities of the guaireño teacher, whose fame had transpired, appointed him professor at the National College of Asuncion. He was nominated times after honorary professor and benefited with a fair retirement.
Natalicio Gonzalez believes that in 1905, after the defeat of the government of Colonel Escurra, Chamorro joined the Colorado Party. He felt a profound abhorrence towards liberal ideology prevalent in the direction of "coloradismo" and took advantage of his nomination as candidate for senator to resign from his party and refuse the post that he offered his friends.
He was president of the Paraguayan delegation that attended the Second International Congress of the American Magisterium, held in Montevideo in 1930.
Death and legacy
Chamorro died in Asuncion.
Carlos Zubizarreta wrote about it: His former student Jose Patricio Guggiari, then president of the nation funded his funeral. The work of teaching of Delfin Chamorro was never published in a systematized book. The thick notebooks in summarizing his lessons, so familiar to several generations of disciples, disappeared with his death. "
References
"History of the letters Paraguayan." Carlos R. Centurion
"One hundred Paraguayan lives." Carlos Zubizarreta
"Lyrics Paraguayan." Natalicio Gonzalez
"Professor Dolphin Chamorro." Ramon I. Cardozo
"Indicates the Paraguayan poetry." Sinforiano divers Gomez
External links
American Masters
Literature Paraguayan
1863 births
1931 deaths
Politics of Paraguay |
17994957 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxeutotaenius%20elfriedae | Toxeutotaenius elfriedae | Toxeutotaenius elfriedae is a South American Betsy beetle of the family Passalidae.
References
External links
Passalidae
Beetles of South America
Beetles described in 1931 |
17994960 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuthiala%20Sheikhan | Kuthiala Sheikhan | Kuthiala Sheikhan is a town and union council of Mandi Bahauddin District in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It is located at an altitude of 217 metres (715 feet).
References
Union councils of Mandi Bahauddin District
Villages in Mandi Bahauddin District |
17994963 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20Isle%20of%20Gletness | North Isle of Gletness | The North Isle of Gletness is one of the Shetland Islands. It is east of the Shetland Mainland, near Gletness in Nesting parish, and is so called in contradistinction to the South Isle of Gletness. It is 33m at its highest point.
There are several small skerries surrounding it.
References
Shetlopedia
Uninhabited islands of Shetland |
17994968 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muckle%20Holm%2C%20Yell%20Sound | Muckle Holm, Yell Sound | Muckle Holm is a small island in Shetland. It is in Yell Sound, near the Northmavine. It is at its highest point.
There is a lighthouse, first lit in 1976.
See also
List of lighthouses in Scotland
List of Northern Lighthouse Board lighthouses
References
External links
Northern Lighthouse Board
Close-up of Muckle Holm Lighthouse
Uninhabited islands of Shetland
Lighthouses in Shetland |
17994969 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunna%20Holm | Lunna Holm | Lunna Holm is a small island near Lunna Ness (Mainland, Shetland), in the Shetland Islands. It is at its highest point.
Lighthouse
Lunna Holm Lighthouse is an active lighthouse located on Lunna Holm at the east entrance of Yell Sound. It was built in 1985 in fiberglass, it is fully automated and run by solar power; it emits three white, red or green flashes every 15 seconds depending from the direction.
See also
List of lighthouses in Scotland
List of Northern Lighthouse Board lighthouses
References
External links
Shetlopedia
Northern Lighthouse Board
Uninhabited islands of Shetland |
17994971 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%20Linga | Little Linga | Little Linga is a small island in the Shetland Islands. It is near West Linga and Vidlin on Mainland, Shetland. It is at its highest point. It measures from north to south.
Little Linga is an important colony for the Atlantic grey seal, with approximately 500 pups being born on the island each autumn. In addition the island has a breeding population of around 80 pairs of cormorants on raised nests of seaweed and 200 pairs of fulmars.
Surrounding islands include the Calf of Little Linga, Score Holm, and Beilla Skerry.
On 21 June 2016 it was acquired by the Scottish Wildlife Trust.
See also
List of islands of Scotland
References
Shetlopedia
Uninhabited islands of Shetland |
17994977 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian%20%28horse%29 | Victorian (horse) | Victorian (1925–1934) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse that was bred in Kentucky. He was bred and raced by Harry P. Whitney and is best known as the winner of the 1928 Preakness Stakes in which he was ridden by future Hall of Fame jockey Sonny Workman.
New owners
In April 1929 the Warm Stable racing partnership of Silas Mason and Arnold Hanger purchased Victorian from Harry Whitney as part of a three-horse deal. A four-year old at the time, he was acquired primarily for breeding purposes. For the Warm Stable, Victorian raced into 1930 under trainer J. Thomas Taylor. Among his wins, he captured the 1929 W. P. Burch Memorial Handicap at Bowie Race Track and in 1930 the Agua Caliente Handicap in Tijuana, Mexico, which carried a guaranteed purse of $100,000, an amount second only to that offered to the winner of the Belmont Futurity Stakes.
When his racing career ended, Victorian proved reasonably successful as a sire while standing at Silas Mason's Duntreath Farm in Lexington, Kentucky. His best runners included 1937 Junior Champion Stakes winner Can't Wait, and the 1936 Santa Anita Derby winner He Did. Victorian was the broodmare sire of 1948 Kentucky Oaks winner Challe Anne.[4] His stud career was cut short when he died on July 30, 1934, from an intestinal obstruction having sired less than three full crops.
Breeding
References
External links
Pedigree for Victorian
1925 racehorse births
1934 racehorse deaths
Racehorses bred in Kentucky
Racehorses trained in the United States
Preakness Stakes winners
Thoroughbred family 21-a
Whitney racehorses |
17995008 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yutaka%20Inagawa | Yutaka Inagawa | Yutaka Inagawa (b. 23 Feb 1974) is a Japanese artist trained in painting, line drawing, and photography who specialises in exploiting digital photomontage.
Biography
Born in Tokyo, Japan, he grew up in the Ikebukuro district. In 1997, he graduated first in his class at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, then went on to gain a master's degree in fine arts in 2004 from Chelsea College of Art and Design in London, England. Since then he has lived and worked in London.
His art blends the delicate and the grotesque, juxtaposing photographic fragments, line art and painting to produce complex abstract works. His work is inspired by the uneasy lack of harmony between tradition and modernity in the fast-paced, constantly changing urban world. He sees parallels between his work and the way in which his home city, Tokyo, has absorbed western conventions into Japanese culture without any proper synthesis or reconciliation. He builds his organic-looking images from bizarre collections of carefully cut out photographic elements - including machinery, fish, road signs, leaves, weapons, furniture - the everyday alongside the unusual - the threatening with the benign - but skillfully intertwined so that the original forms are almost indiscernible.
Inagawa's work has been on display in numerous exhibitions throughout the world. He was shortlisted for the Celeste Art Prize in both 2006 and 2007.
Exhibitions
1996: "Sanyou-Ten", Myu Gallery, Kanda, Tokyo, Japan
2004: XHIBIT 04, The Arts Gallery, London
2004: MA fine art show, Chelsea College of Art and Design
2005: Galerie Suty, Coye-la-Forêt, France
2005: St'Art, Strasbourg Art Fair, Strasbourg, France
2005: "Hybrid", Style Cube Zandari, Seoul, South Korea
2005: Summer Exhibition 2005, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2006: "Synchro-Tron", Aqffin Gallery, London
2007: New Art Center, New York City
2008: "Cosmopolis", Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London
2008: "Around the Clock", I-MYU, London
2008: "Nonplace overlay", Bodhi Gallery, London
2009: "Sensory Cocktails", Gallery Zandari, Seoul, Korea
2009: "Crazytokyo", Galerie Suty, France
2013: "Slow Life: Generation in Exchanges", Yachiyono Oka Museum of Art, Akitakata, Hiroshima
2016: "OTAK JEPUN", Lorong Kekabu, Kuala Lumpur
2014–15: "Yutaka Inagawa: The Invasion of Cyberspace", curated by Christina Mitrentse, Unit 24 Gallery, London
2017–18: "Floating Urban Slime/Sublime", presented and directed by Yutaka Inagawa, Art Gallery Miyauchi, Hiroshima
External links
References
Japanese artists
Living people
Artists from Tokyo
University of Tokyo alumni
1974 births |
17995061 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhikhi%2C%20Pakistan | Bhikhi, Pakistan | Bhikhi Sharif is a village and union council of Mandi Bahauddin District in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It has an altitude of .
The economy is largely agrarian and the main crops of the village are cereals, rice, and wheat.
References
Union councils of Mandi Bahauddin District
Villages in Mandi Bahauddin District |
17995070 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armstrong%20MT500 | Armstrong MT500 | The Armstrong MT500 is a British military motorcycle made by Armstrong-CCM Motorcycles in Bolton, Greater Manchester, who acquired the rights to the Rotax engine enduro motorcycle SWM XN Tornado from the Italian owners and developed the MT500 for use by the British Army. Electric start models were built for the Canadian and Jordanian armed forces.
In 1987, the design and production rights were sold to Harley-Davidson, who in 1993 released the MT350E. The MT500 is used by Canada, Jordan and the United Kingdom.
Users
Notes
References
See also
Can Am Bombardier
Peugeot SX8
External links
MT350 and MT500 resources at milweb
Motorcycles of the United Kingdom
Military motorcycles
Harley-Davidson motorcycles
Motorcycles introduced in 1983 |
17995078 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forse%20Castle | Forse Castle | Forse Castle is a ruined building dating from 1200 in the hamlet of Forse in the Caithness region in the Scottish council area of Highland. It is protected as a scheduled ancient monument.
The castle stands on a peninsula about 50 metres above sea level. It is surrounded on all sides by steep rocks and is cut off from the mainland by a natural ditch at the neck of the peninsula.
Forse Castle was the stronghold of the Sutherland of Forse family, a cadet branch of the Clan Sutherland. They lived in it until around 1600.
References
Forse
Clan Sutherland
Ruined castles in Caithness
Scheduled monuments in Highland |
17995088 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhikhi | Bhikhi | Bhikhi may refer to:
Bhikhi, Pakistan, a Union Council of Mandi Bahauddin District.
Bhikhi, India, a nagar panchayat of Mansa district. |
17995094 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GR%2059 | GR 59 | The GR 59 Grande Randonnée long-distance footpath in France connects two mountain ranges across relatively low-lying terrain. In the north, it begins at Ballon d'Alsace in the Vosges at a height of over 1000m. It loses height rapidly, and runs south-south-west through the département of the Haute-Saône to Besançon on the river Doubs, in the département of the same name. It then follows a circuitous route, partly along the river Loue (a tributary of the Doubs) to Lons-le-Saunier in the département of Jura. At St-Amour just south of Lons, the GR 9 splits from the GR 59 and takes a more easterly route, near the Swiss border, while the GR59 continues into the regions of Bugey and Revermont in the département of Ain, finally rejoining the GR 9 near Yenne on the banks of the Rhône; the GR 9 then continues to the Mediterranean at St-Tropez.
Towns and villages that the path passes through, with approximate heights and distances from the northern end of the path, include:
Ronchamp, 340m, 34Km
Saulnot, 370m, 52Km
Abbenans, 325m, 80Km
Hyèvre-Paroisse, 285m, 104Km
Baume-les-Dames, 291m, 112Km (plus 1Km off the path)
Roulans, 327m, 130Km
Besançon, 247m, 155Km (plus 3.5Km off the path)
Quingey, 265m, 181Km
Salins-les-Bains, 331m, 226Km
Arbois, 306m, 242Km
Poligny, 332m, 270Km
Passenans, 320m, 286.5Km
Château-Chalon, 450m, 296.5Km
Baume-les-Messieurs, 305m, 319Km
Perrigny, 350m, 333Km
Lons-le-Saunier, 250m, 356Km
St-Amour
Saint-Laurent-la-Roche
Treffort
Ambérieu-en-Bugey
Yenne
Detailed guides to the path (in French) are available from the Fédération Française de la Randonnée Pédestre in two sections: No. 510, "Des Vosges au Jura", and No. 901, "Tours et traversées dans l'Ain".
External links
Fédération Française de la Randonnée Pédestre
Online guide to the GR59
Hiking trails in France |
17995105 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution%20in%20Albania | Prostitution in Albania | Prostitution in Albania is illegal.
Prior to the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, prostitution in Albania was virtually unknown. Migration from rural areas to cities, and the economic problems following the Soviet collapse, caused some women to turn to prostitution.
Street prostitution occurs near the centre of the capital, Tirana, mainly by Roma men and women. Some students work as prostitutes from hotels or motels in Tirana and other large cities, where brothels are also found.
The NGO Aksion Plus provides sex workers with advocacy, education and support.
Legislation
Three articles of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Albania outlaw prostitution and related activities:
Article 113, Prostitution (buying and selling of sex)
Article 114, Exploitation of prostitution ("encouragement, mediation, or receipt of compensation for exercising prostitution")
Article 115, Use of premises for prostitution ("managing, utilizing, financing, or renting premises for purposes of prostitution")
Articles 110(a) and 128(b) prohibit sex and labour trafficking and prescribe penalties of eight to 15 year's imprisonment.
Sex trafficking
Human traffickers exploit domestic and foreign victims in Albania, and traffickers exploit victims from Albania abroad. Albanian women and children are subject to sex trafficking and forced labor within the country, especially during tourist season. Traffickers use false promises such as marriage or employment offers to force victims into sex trafficking. Albanian victims are subject to sex trafficking in countries across Europe, particularly Kosovo, Greece, Italy, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, North Macedonia, Norway, the Netherlands, and the UK. Foreign victims from European countries and the Philippines were subjected to sex trafficking and forced labour in Albania. Middle Eastern, Central Asian and African migrants who transit Albania to reach Western Europe are also vulnerable.
In 2018, the Albanian State Police arrested 20 suspected sex traffickers on behalf of Italian and Greek authorities
The United States Department of State Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons ranks Albania as a 'Tier 2' country.
References
External links
Aksion Plus
Society of Albania
Albania
Albania |
17995113 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian%20Mannarino | Adrian Mannarino | Adrian Mannarino (born 29 June 1988) is a French professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 17, attained on 29 January 2024. He has won five ATP Tour singles titles, three on hardcourt and two on grass. He is currently the No. 7 French player.
Tennis career
2007–2011
Mannarino made his Grand Slam singles debut at the 2007 French Open, where as a wildcard, he lost in the first qualifying round to Marin Čilić in straight sets.
Mannarino received a wildcard for the singles main draw of his home Grand Slam tournament, the 2008 French Open, where he lost to Argentine qualifier Diego Junqueira in the first round in straight sets. He also received a wildcard for the 2008 French Open men's doubles (it was his Grand Slam men's doubles debut), losing in the first round.
Mannarino played at the 2008 Open de Moselle in France, entering the singles main draw as a qualifier; he reached the semifinals, defeating sixth seed Andreas Seppi in the first round, Rik de Voest in the second round, Marc Gicquel in the quarterfinals, before losing to Paul-Henri Mathieu in the semifinals
in two tiebreaks. As a wildcard, he lost in the main draw singles first round of the 2008 Paris Masters to Dmitry Tursunov. In November 2008, he played in an ATP Challenger Tour tournament in Jersey, where, seeded fourth, he won the singles event, defeating Andreas Beck in two tiebreaks in the final. He participated in the inaugural Masters France in December 2008, an exhibition tournament, along with a number of top French players, but lost his three round-robin matches in straight sets to Paul-Henri Mathieu, Michaël Llodra and Arnaud Clément.
He received a main draw singles wildcard for the 2009 Australian Open, where he lost to 14th seed Fernando Verdasco in the first round.
In 2011, he lost in the main draw singles second round of the Australian Open and Wimbledon, falling to six-time champion Roger Federer in the latter in straight sets.
2013–2016: First Major singles fourth round, semifinal & Masters quarterfinal in doubles
At the 2013 Wimbledon Championships, Mannarino beat Pablo Andújar in the first round, losing only six games. He then reached the singles third round of a Grand Slam for the first time, after his second round opponent John Isner was forced to retire at 1–1 in the first set due to a knee injury. He then beat qualifier Dustin Brown, who had just beaten Lleyton Hewitt to reach the fourth round. He pushed veteran Łukasz Kubot to five sets in his fourth-round match, but ultimately lost, setting up an all-Polish quarterfinal between Kubot and up-and-coming player Jerzy Janowicz.
At the 2015 Miami Open, Mannarino was the 28th seed and thus received a bye into the second round where he defeated Albert Ramos Viñolas. He beat 7th seed and the 2014 Australian Open singles champion Stanislas Wawrinka in the third round but lost to unseeded Dominic Thiem in three sets in the fourth round.
Mannarino reached his first career Masters 1000 doubles quarterfinal at the 2015 Mutua Madrid Open. He and his partner Juan Sebastián Cabal were defeated in the quarterfinals by the Indian-Romanian pair and eventual champions Rohan Bopanna and Florin Mergea.
At the 2016 Australian Open, the unseeded pair of Mannarino and Lucas Pouille defeated three seeded pairs (including the top-seeded pair of Horia Tecău and Jean-Julien Rojer in the quarterfinals) to reach the semifinals, where they lost to Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares. That was Mannarino's first career Grand Slam doubles semifinal appearance.
2017: First Masters 1000 quarterfinal & ATP 500 singles final
The unseeded Mannarino reached his third career ATP World Tour singles final at the 2017 Antalya Open; he defeated two seeded players Borna Ćorić (in the first round) and Fernando Verdasco (in the quarterfinals) to advance to the final, where he lost to Yūichi Sugita in straight sets.
At the Wimbledon Championships one week later, Mannarino upset no. 19 seed Feliciano López in the first round and no. 15 seed Gaël Monfils in the third round before losing to no. 2 seed Novak Djokovic in the fourth round.
He reached his first career ATP World Tour Masters 1000 singles quarterfinal at the 2017 Rogers Cup, where he upset no. 6 seed and world no. 10 Milos Raonic in the second round before losing to Denis Shapovalov in the quarterfinals.
The unseeded Mannarino defeated top seed and world no. 5 Marin Čilić (the biggest singles win of his career and his first career win over a member of the Top 5 in the ATP singles rankings) in the semifinals of the Japan Open to reach his first career ATP World Tour 500 Series singles final, where he lost to fourth-seeded David Goffin. In October, Mannarino reached his third ATP World Tour singles semifinal of 2017 at the Kremlin Cup, where he lost to Ričardas Berankis. The following week, the 7th seeded Mannarino lost in the quarterfinals of the Swiss Indoors to top seed Roger Federer in three sets.
2018: Australian Open third round & top 25 singles debut
Mannarino played his first tournament of 2018 at the Sydney International. Seeded fifth, he reached the quarterfinals and lost to fourth seed Fabio Fognini. Seeded 26th at the Australian Open, he reached the singles main draw third round for the first time in his career where he lost to fifth seed Dominic Thiem in straight sets.
Mannarino made his Davis Cup debut in the 2018 Davis Cup World Group first round tie against the Netherlands, replacing Lucas Pouille who had withdrawn a few hours before the start of his first singles match on 2 February against Thiemo de Bakker because of torticollis. Mannarino lost his first singles match against Thiemo de Bakker (who was world no. 369 in the ATP singles rankings) in three sets but won his second singles match against Robin Haase in five sets to give the French an unassailable lead against the Dutch.
In the first week of February, the second-seeded Mannarino was upset by the unseeded Marcos Baghdatis in three sets in the second round of the Sofia Open. One week later, the fourth-seeded Mannarino lost in the semifinals of the New York Open to the second seed Sam Querrey in three tight sets. Mannarino lost before the quarterfinal round of the singles main draw of his next four ATP World Tour tournaments in Acapulco, Indian Wells, Miami and Monte-Carlo. Despite these results he reached a career-high singles ranking of No. 22 on 19 March 2018.
At the Barcelona Open, the 11th-seeded Mannarino held three match points in the final set of his third round match against the 5th-seeded Pablo Carreño Busta before the latter won the match by winning the tight final-set tie-break.
2019: Maiden ATP Tour singles title in Rosmalen
Mannarino started his 2019 season at the Qatar ExxonMobil Open. He lost in the first round to Dušan Lajović. In Sydney, he was defeated in the first round by Australian wildcard Jordan Thompson. At the Australian Open, he fell in the first round to fifth seed Kevin Anderson.
As the top seed at the Open de Rennes, Mannarino was eliminated in the second round by Jurij Rodionov. At the Sofia Open, he was beaten in the first round by German qualifier Yannick Maden. Seeded fifth at the New York Open, he lost in the first round to eventual champion Reilly Opelka. Seeded eighth at the Delray Beach Open, he got his first win of the season by beating Brayden Schnur in the first round. He ended up losing in the quarterfinals to second seed John Isner. In Acapulco, he was defeated in the first round by third seed John Isner. At the Indian Wells Masters, he made it to the second round where he was eliminated by sixth seed Kei Nishikori; he served for the match at 6–5 in the third set but failed to close out the match. At the Miami Open, he was beaten in the second round by 13th seed Daniil Medvedev.
Starting his clay-court season at the Monte-Carlo Masters, Mannarino lost in the first round to Cameron Norrie. Seeded second at the BNP Paribas Primrose Bordeaux, he reached the quarterfinals where he fell to ninth seed and eventual finalist, Mikael Ymer. In Madrid, he was defeated in the final round of qualifying by Martin Kližan. However, due to the withdrawal of Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, he was awarded a lucky loser spot into the main draw. He lost in the second round to eighth seed and eventual finalist, Stefanos Tsitsipas. As the top seed in Lisbon, he suffered a second round loss at the hands of Steve Darcis. Seeded sixth at the Geneva Open, he lost in the first round to Albert Ramos Viñolas. At the French Open, he was knocked out of the tournament in the second round by 14th seed Gaël Monfils.
At the Rosmalen Grass Court Championships, his first grass-court tournament of the season, Mannarino reached the final by beating Dutch wildcard Thiemo de Bakker, fourth seed Fernando Verdasco, fifth seed David Goffin, and second seed Borna Ćorić.
He defeated Jordan Thompson in the final to finally emerged victorious in an ATP Tour singles final after having lost all his previous six. Seeded second and two-time finalist at the Antalya Open, he reached the quarterfinals where he was beaten by eventual champion Lorenzo Sonego. At Wimbledon, he lost in the first round to 13th seed and 2017 finalist, Marin Čilić.
Seeded second at the Hall of Fame Open, Mannarino was defeated in the second round by Tennys Sandgren. In Washington, D.C., he was eliminated in the second round by lucky loser Norbert Gombos. At the Rogers Cup, he dismissed 11th seed Borna Ćorić from the tournament in the second round. He was beaten in the third round by seventh seed Fabio Fognini. Playing in Cincinnati, he lost in the third round to 16th seed and eventual finalist, David Goffin. At the US Open, he was defeated in the first round by Dan Evans.
Seeded seventh at the St. Petersburg Open, Mannarino fell in the second round to qualifier Egor Gerasimov. At the first edition of the Zhuhai Championships, he reached his second final of the season after wins over Chinese wildcard Ze Zhang, top seed Stefanos Tsitsipas, qualifier Damir Džumhur, and eighth seed Albert Ramos Viñolas. He lost in the championship match to seventh seed Alex de Minaur. In Tokyo, he was defeated in the first round by qualifier and eventual finalist, John Millman. At the Rolex Shanghai Masters, he fell in the first round of qualifying to Vasek Pospisil. Seeded seventh at the Kremlin Cup, he reached his third singles final of the season. He ended up losing to sixth seed and Russian Andrey Rublev. At the Vienna Open, he was beaten in the first round by Sam Querrey. His final tournament of the year was the Paris Masters. He defeated qualifier Casper Ruud in the first round. He lost in the second round to second seed Rafael Nadal.
Mannarino ended the year ranked 43.
2020: Top 35 year-end ranking
Mannarino began his 2020 season at the Qatar ExxonMobil Open. Seeded seventh, he lost in the first round to Alexander Bublik. Seeded seventh at the Auckland Open, he was defeated in the first round by Andreas Seppi. At the Australian Open, he was eliminated in the first round by fifth seed and eventual finalist, Dominic Thiem.
After the Australian Open, Mannarino played at the Open Sud de France in Montpellier, France. He beat Alexei Popyrin in the first round to get his first win of the season. He was then beaten in the second round by top seed and eventual champion, Gaël Monfils. In Rotterdam, he lost in the first round to Pablo Carreño Busta. Seeded seventh at the Delray Beach Open, he suffered a first round defeat at the hands of Kwon Soon-woo. Competing in Acapulco, he failed to convert match points in the third set and was eventually eliminated by the seventh seed and 2014 champion, Grigor Dimitrov, in their second round three-set thriller. As the top seed at the Monterrey Challenger, he won the title beating Aleksandar Vukic in the final. The ATP tour canceled all tournaments from March through July due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
When the ATP resumed tournaments in August, Mannarino competed at the Cincinnati Open. He was beaten in the first round by John Millman. Seeded 32nd at the US Open, he made it to the third round where he lost to fifth seed and eventual finalist, Alexander Zverev.
In Rome, Mannarino was defeated in the first round by 13th seed Milos Raonic. At the Hamburg Open, he fell in the first round to Dušan Lajović. At the French Open, he suffered a first round loss to Albert Ramos Viñolas.
At the St. Petersburg Open, Mannarino was eliminated in the first round by qualifier Ilya Ivashka. Seeded eighth at the first edition of the Bett1Hulks Championship, he reached the quarterfinals where he lost to top seed and eventual champion, Alexander Zverev. Seeded third at the first edition of the Astana Open, he reached the final where he was defeated by fourth seed John Millman. In Paris, he made it to the third round where he fell in a tight three-set match to fourth seed and eventual finalist, Alexander Zverev. Playing his final tournament of the season at the Sofia Open, he reached the semifinal where he lost to Jannik Sinner, who would end up winning the title.
Mannarino ended the season ranked 35.
2021: Second Masters 1000 doubles quarterfinal
Mannarino started his 2021 season at the Delray Beach Open. Seeded third, he lost in the second round to Cameron Norrie. Seeded 10th at the first edition of the Murray River Open, he was defeated in the second round by Marcos Giron. Seeded 32nd at the Australian Open, he reached the third round where he was eliminated by sixth seed Alexander Zverev.
As the top seed at the Singapore Open, Mannarino made it to the quarterfinals where he was beaten by sixth seed Radu Albot. In Rotterdam, he lost in the first round to Hubert Hurkacz; he led 4–1 in the second set and held two set points at 5–4, but he ultimately lost the set and the match. At the Mexican Open, he retired during his first-round encounter against fifth seed Grigor Dimitrov. Seeded 25th at the Miami Open, he was defeated in the third round by fifth seed Diego Schwartzman.
Starting the clay-court season at the Monte-Carlo Masters, Mannarino lost in the first round to qualifier Federico Delbonis. Seeded 17th at the Barcelona Open, he was eliminated in the second round by Albert Ramos Viñolas. In Madrid, he was beaten in the first round by Spanish wildcard Carlos Alcaraz. At the Italian Open, he was defeated in round one by qualifier Hugo Dellien. In doubles, he and Benoît Paire reached the quarterfinals where they lost to second seeds and eventual champions, Nikola Mektić/Mate Pavić. Seeded eighth at the Geneva Open, he was beaten in the first round by compatriot, Arthur Cazaux. Seeded fourth at the Belgrade Open, he lost in the second round to Fernando Verdasco. At the French Open, he was defeated in his first-round match by Aljaž Bedene.
Seeded seventh at the Stuttgart Open, his first grass-court tournament of the season, Mannarino fell in the first round to qualifier James Duckworth. Competing at the Queen's Club Championships in London, he was eliminated in the second round by sixth seed Dan Evans. At the first edition of the Mallorca Open, he won his first-round match over Jan-Lennard Struff. He advanced to the quarterfinals when his opponent, second seed Dominic Thiem, retired during their second round encounter due to a right wrist injury. He ended up getting beaten in his semifinal match by Sam Querrey. At Wimbledon, he retired during his first-round match against eight-time champion and former World Number 1, Roger Federer, due to slipping behind the baseline and injuring his right knee.
Mannarino returned in August at the US Open. He lost in the second round to third seed Stefanos Tsitsipas.
Seeded sixth in Sofia, Mannarino was defeated in the first round by Gianluca Mager. At the Indian Wells Masters, he fell in his first-round match to Andy Murray. After Indian Wells, he competed at the Kremlin Cup. He stunned top seed Andrey Rublev in the second round in a rematch of the 2019 final. He ended up losing in his quarterfinals match to lucky loser Ričardas Berankis. At the St. Petersburg Open, he was defeated in the first round by sixth seed Karen Khachanov. In Paris, he won his first-round match over Nikoloz Basilashvili. He lost in the second round to 15th seed Gaël Monfils. At the Stockholm Open, he fell in his first-round match to seventh seed Márton Fucsovics.
2022: Major fourth round, second ATP title & maiden doubles final, French No. 1
At the 2022 Australian Open Mannarino defeated the World No. 11 and tenth seed Hubert Hurkacz to advance to the third round for a second year in a row. He defeated 18th seed Aslan Karatsev to reach his first fourth round at this Major. He lost to 6th seed Rafael Nadal in straight sets with a first set tiebreak that went to 16–14 points and lasted nearly 30 minutes.
At the Rosmalen Grass Court Championships he reached his first semifinal of the season defeating Andreas Seppi, fourth seed Alex de Minaur and Brandon Nakashima before losing to top seed Daniil Medvedev.
At the 2022 Atlanta Open he reached his fifth quarterfinal of the season as a lucky loser defeating Peter Gojowczyk and debutant wildcard American Andres Martin (tennis).
At the 2022 Winston-Salem Open he reached the semifinals defeating fourth seed Maxime Cressy. Next he defeated second seed Botic van de Zandschulp to reach his first final since 2020. He won his second title defeating Laslo Djere in the final becoming the oldest champion at this tournament. As a result, he returned to the top 50 at world No. 45 in the rankings on 29 August 2022 becoming the French No. 2 player.
At the 2022 Astana Open he reached his seventh quarterfinal of the season defeating Stan Wawrinka, and lucky loser David Goffin. At the same tournament he also reached his maiden doubles final with compatriot Fabrice Martin defeating top seedsTim Pütz/Michael Venus (tennis), and Polish duo Hubert Hurkacz/Jan Zieliński in the semifinals. They lost to Croatian duo and second seeds Nikola Mektić/Mate Pavić in the final. He became French No. 1 at world No. 42 on 17 October 2022 ahead of Gaël Monfils.
2023: Best season: Three titles, fifth Masters fourth round, tenth top 10 win, back to career-high, fifteenth ATP final
Mannarino started his 2023 season by representing France at the United Cup. France was in Group F alongside Argentina and Croatia. Against Argentina, he beat Federico Coria. France won the tie over Argentina 5–0. Against Croatia, he lost to Borna Gojo in three sets. Croatia won the tie over France 3–2. In the end, France ended second in Group F. Seeded eighth at the ASB Classic in Auckland, he was defeated in the first round by J. J. Wolf. At the Australian Open, he lost in the second round to 22nd seed and world No. 24, Alex de Minaur.
After the Australian Open, Mannarino represented France in the Davis Cup tie against Hungary. He won his match over Márton Fucsovics. France won the tie 3–2 over Hungary to advance to the Davis Cup Finals. Seeded eighth at the Dallas Open, he reached the quarterfinals where he lost to eventual champion Wu Yibing. In Delray Beach, he beat ninth seed, J.J. Wolf, in the second round. He was defeated in the quarterfinals by top seed, world No. 7, and eventual champion, Taylor Fritz. As the top seed at the Monterrey Challenger, he lost in the first round to Aleksandar Kovacevic. At the Mexican Open, he was beaten in his first-round match by lucky loser Elias Ymer. At the Indian Wells Masters, he beat 2019 champion, Dominic Thiem, in the first round in three sets. He then knocked out 19th seed and world No. 21, Lorenzo Musetti, in the second round. He lost in the third round to 11th seed and world No. 13, Jannik Sinner, in straight sets despite having a set point at 6–5 in the first-set tie-break. In Miami, he beat 32nd seed and American, Ben Shelton, in the second round. In the third round, he stunned eighth seed, world No. 9, and 2021 champion, Hubert Hurkacz, in the third round to reach the fourth round for the third time in his career at this Masters 1000 tournament. He lost in the fourth round to American qualifier Christopher Eubanks.
Mannarino started his clay-court season at the Monte-Carlo Masters. He fell in the first round of qualifying to Ivan Gakhov. As the top seed at the Open de Oeiras, he lost in the second round to Kimmer Coppejans. In Madrid, he was defeated in the first round by Tomás Martín Etcheverry. Seeded third at the Open Aix Provence, he lost in the second round to compatriot Luca Van Assche. At the Italian Open, he was eliminated from the tournament in the first round by Thiago Monteiro. Seeded fourth at the BNP Paribas Primrose Bordeaux, he lost in the second round to Albert Ramos Viñolas. Seeded eighth at the Geneva Open, he was defeated in the second round by Ilya Ivashka. At the French Open, he lost in the first round to compatriot, Ugo Humbert, in straight sets.
Starting his grass-court season at the Libéma Open, Mannarino upset top seed, world No. 3, and previous year finalist, Daniil Medvedev, in the second round in three sets. This was his ninth career Top 10 win. At the next tournament, the 2023 Queen's Club Championships he defeated third seed Taylor Fritz also in the second round for his tenth Top 10 win. At the 2023 Mallorca Championships he reached his twelfth final but lost to first time champion Christopher Eubanks.
In July, Mannarino won his third title at the 2023 Hall of Fame Open in Newport, defeating Alex Michelsen in the final. He moved back into the Top 30 as a result.
In August, Mannarino reached the quarterfinal in Cincinnati, reaching a quarterfinal at an ATP Masters 1000 for the second time of his career. As a result, he was seeded 22nd at the US Open, where he reached the third round for the fifth time in his career.
At the start of the Asian swing, Mannarino won his fourth career title at the 2023 Astana Open defeating Sebastian Korda in the final, becoming the first Frenchman to win two titles in the same season since 2020. As a result, he returned to the top 25 at world No. 23 in the singles rankings on 2 October 2023.
At the 2023 Sofia Open he recorded his 200th hard court career win and also 40th season win for the first time in his career becoming the first Frenchman to record this since Gael Monfils (44) in 2016, with a win over Albert Ramos Vinolas. He reached his fifteenth final defeating seventh seed Sebastian Ofner and Pavel Kotov and returned to his career-high ranking of No. 22 achieved six years earlier in 2018. He won his fourth title defeating Jack Draper and became the first Frenchman to win three titles in a season since Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (4) and Lucas Pouille (3) in 2017.
2024: United Cup debut, top 20, Major fourth round
Following reaching the semifinals at the 2024 United Cup as the No. 1 ATP player from team France, Mannarino reached the top 20 in the singles rankings on 8 January 2024.
At the 2024 Australian Open, he reached his second fourth round at this Major defeating 16th seed Ben Shelton, before losing to world No. 1 Novak Djokovic in straight sets. As a result he reached a new career high of world No. 17 in the singles rankings.
He defeated James Duckworth to reach the semifinals at the Dallas Open where he lost to Marcos Giron.
Mannarino reached the quarterfinals at the Chengdu Open with a wins over qualifier Terence Atmane and wildcard Zhou Li, before losing in the last four to top seed Lorenzo Musetti.
Playing style
Mannarino is a defensive baseliner and counterpuncher. He is a master at redirecting pace and putting his opponents in uncomfortable positions. He often makes use of his lefthanders' serve to create angles and run his opponents from side to side. His other main strengths are his speed around the court and his consistency from the baseline, but he also actively goes for winners and comes to the net when he sees a chance. Apart from his serve, he doesn't possess a dominant weapon, but combines his skills to wear down and outsmart his opponents.
Performance timelines
Only main-draw results in ATP Tour, Grand Slam tournaments, Davis Cup/ATP Cup/Laver Cup and Olympic Games are included in win–loss records.
Singles
Current through the 2025 Australian Open.
ATP Tour finals
Singles: 15 (5 titles, 10 runner-ups)
Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)
ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals
Singles: 32 (20 titles, 12 runner–ups)
Doubles: 5 (4 titles, 1 runner–up)
Wins against top-10 players
Mannarino has a record against players who were, at the time the match was played, ranked in the top 10.
References
External links
1988 births
Living people
People from Soisy-sous-Montmorency
French sportspeople of Italian descent
French male tennis players
Sportspeople from Val-d'Oise
21st-century French sportsmen |
17995116 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child%20of%20Manhattan%20%28play%29 | Child of Manhattan (play) | Child of Manhattan is a 1932 play by Preston Sturges, his fifth to be produced on Broadway and his last for almost twenty years as his career took him to Hollywood. It was adapted into a film of the same name, released in 1933 by Columbia Pictures, the second play of Sturges' to make it to the silver screen, after 1929's Strictly Dishonorable.
Broadway production
Sturges wrote Child of Manhattan in 16 days. The out-of-town tryout took place at the Broadstreet Theatre in Newark, New Jersey, where the play received very good audience response.
The Broadway production opened at the Fulton Theatre on March 1, 1932, and logged 87 performances, closing in May of that year. It was produced by Peggy Fears and A. C. Blumenthal and directed by Howard Lindsay.
Critical response was poor, and included such assessments as "Sheer trash," "deeply offensive," and commented on its "bathos and sweetish bosh." Time magazine said that the play was "as silly as it is trite."
Broadway cast
The opening night cast included:
John Altieri as John Tarantino
Franz Bendtsen as Lucinda, Limited
Alexander Campbell as Doctor Charley
Douglass Dumbrille as Panama C. Kelly
Dorothy Hall as Madeleine McGonegal
Jackson Halliday as Buddy McGonegal
Maude Odell as Mrs. McGonegal
Reginald Owen as Otto Paul Vanderkill
Jessie Ralph as Aunt Minnie
Joseph H. Roeder as Eggleston
Harriet Russell as Luthy McGonegal
Ralph Sanford as Spyrene
Helen Strickland as Miss Sophie Vanderkill
Elizabeth Young as Adelaide Vanderkill
References
Notes
External links
Plays by Preston Sturges
1932 plays
American plays adapted into films |
17995123 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcaeus%20of%20Messene | Alcaeus of Messene | Alcaeus of Messene (; Greek: ) was an ancient Greek poet, who flourished between 219 and 196 BC. Twenty-two of his short poems or epigrams survive in the Greek Anthology, from some of which his date may be fixed at around the late 3rd/early 2nd century BC. Some of his poems are on literary themes, but most are political.
Alcaeus was contemporary with Philip V, king of Macedon and son of Demetrius II of Macedon, against whom several of his poems are pointed, apparently from patriotic feelings. One of these, however, gave more offense to the Roman general Flamininus than to Philip, as Alcaeus ascribed the victory of the battle of Cynoscephalae to the Aetolians as much as to the Romans. Philip contented himself with writing an epigram in reply to that of Alcaeus, in which he gave the Messenian a very broad hint of the fate he might expect if he fell into his hands. This reply was enough to lead French classical scholar Claudius Salmasius to suppose that Alcaeus was actually crucified by Philip. In another epigram, in praise of Flamininus, the mention of the Roman general's name, Titus, led John Tzetzes into the error of imagining the existence of an epigrammatist named Alcaeus under the emperor Titus. Those epigrams of Alcaeus which bear internal evidence of their date were written between the years 219 and 196.
Of the 22 epigrams in the Greek Anthology which bear the name of Alcaeus, two are written "Alcaeus of Mytilene"; but most scholars take this to be the addition of some ignorant copyist. Others bear the name of "Alcaeus of Messene," and some of Alcaeus alone. But in the last class there are several which must, from internal evidence, have been written by Alcaeus of Messene, and there seems no reason to doubt his being the author of all twenty-two.
Notes
References
External links
Alcaeus of Messene: translation of all surviving epigrams at attalus.org; adapted from W.R.Paton (1916-18)
Epigrammatists of the Greek Anthology
3rd-century BC Greek people
3rd-century BC poets
Ancient Messenians |
17995130 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leader%27s%20Challenge | Leader's Challenge | Leader's Challenge was a Colorado, USA, based nonprofit organization that provided leadership training to high potential students through experiential education programs. Their mission was to create civic and service minded youth by developing leadership skills, inspiring purpose, and developing engagement in their communities. As of October 28, 2009, Leader's Challenge was shut down due to financial difficulties.
Leader's Challenge operated three programs, serving around 750 high school students annually.
History
Leader's Challenge was founded in 2000 by American author Tommy Spaulding, who serves as President/CEO of Up with People. The organization initially offered one program serving 60 eleventh grade students at 10 high schools in metro Denver and Boulder.
In 2006, the organization expanded, with the introduction of a program aimed at high school seniors, and the absorption of the long-established Colorado Close Up program.
Programs
IGNITE
The flagship program, IGNITE is a year-long experience for high school juniors focusing on leadership development, service learning and civic engagement. Beginning with a four-day Summer Academy, students develop knowledge, skills and behaviors related to leadership and active citizenship, including self-confidence, team building, conflict management, critical thinking and problem solving skills.
Throughout the year, teams of students at 35+ schools along Colorado's Front Range participate in monthly Challenges and service projects designed to involve them in their local communities while exploring topics such as community building, the role of media in society, leadership in the workplace, and state and local government.
IGNITE culminates with each school team identifying a need in their community and partnering with an outside organization to implement a project that helps that need.
Global Challenge
Global Challenge is a yearlong experience for high school seniors designed to expand students’ worldview and explore leadership in a global context, beginning with a 3-day Summer Academy.
Throughout their senior year, students participate in monthly seminars centered on issues related to global leadership, including intercultural communication, diplomacy, economics and development. In addition, they examine topics such as indigenous cultures, historic and current conflict, the role of women, human rights, and policies concerning the environment, health, and service.
The cornerstone of Global Challenge is an international trip over Spring Break, in which students live and work with citizens of either Costa Rica or Slovakia, and have the opportunity to experience their culture and customs firsthand while making a difference in the community.
Colorado Close Up
Colorado Close Up has been the state's largest civic education initiative since 1979, bringing students from across Colorado to the state Capitol for three days. While visiting Denver, students have the opportunity to observe the state legislature and courts, meet with elected officials from each branch of government, and work with lobbyists and business leaders to discuss how they can impact their communities.
Participants return home from Colorado Close Up with the knowledge and skills to identify problems and draw on local resources to create change in their communities. Colorado Close Up was absorbed by Leader's Challenge in 2006.
Fees
Each Leader's Challenge program requires a fee that covers all costs associated with participation, including materials, staffing, facilities, accommodations, meals, and honorariums. The program fee for each program is as follows:
IGNITE: $875
Colorado Close Up: $250
Global Challenge: $475/$2000 (the program fee and trip fee respectively)
Leader's Challenge is able to provide financial assistance to families in need for all three programs.
References
External links
Leadership Coaching
Leadership training
Youth organizations based in Colorado
Educational organizations based in the United States |
17995144 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spore%20%281991%20video%20game%29 | Spore (1991 video game) | Spore is an MS-DOS video game developed by Mike Snyder and published by Flogsoli Productions that fused Breakout with a text adventure, and included spreadsheet puzzles.
Plot
The game takes place in the future about a group of intergalactic settlers who colonized a world they named Spore. The settlers and all life on Spore were mysteriously wiped out, and Earth received an S.O.S. from the planet twelve days after the disaster. The player is a lone explorer who sets out to uncover the mystery of the vanishing creatures.
References
External links
1991 video games
DOS games
DOS-only games
Adventure games
Breakout clones
Video games developed in the United States
Single-player video games |
17995149 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aperiodic%20finite%20state%20automaton | Aperiodic finite state automaton | An aperiodic finite-state automaton (also called a counter-free automaton) is a finite-state automaton whose transition monoid is aperiodic.
Properties
A regular language is star-free if and only if it is accepted by an automaton with a finite and aperiodic transition monoid. This result of algebraic automata theory is due to Marcel-Paul Schützenberger.
In particular, the minimum automaton of a star-free language is always counter-free (however, a star-free language may also be recognized by other automata that are not aperiodic).
A counter-free language is a regular language for which there is an integer n such that for all words x, y, z and integers m ≥ n we have xymz in L if and only if xynz in L. For these languages, when a string contains enough repetitions of any substring (at least n repetitions), changing the number of repetitions to another number that is at least n cannot change membership in the language. (This is automatically true when y is the empty string, but becomes a nontrivial condition when y is non-empty.) Another way to state Schützenberger's theorem is that star-free languages and counter-free languages are the same thing.
An aperiodic automaton satisfies the Černý conjecture.
References
— An intensive examination of McNaughton, Papert (1971).
— Uses Green's relations to prove Schützenberger's and other theorems.
Finite automata |
17995166 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Only%20A%20Theory | Only A Theory | Only A Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America's Soul is a 2008 book by the American cell biologist and Roman Catholic Kenneth R. Miller. In the book, Miller examines the battle between evolution and intelligent design (ID), and explores the implications of the battle for science in America. The title of the book references the common misconception of what "theory" means in the context of science and evolution.
Reception
Glenn C. Altschuler reviewed the book saying "Though I.D. trumpets its connections to information theory, biochemistry and molecular biology, Miller concludes, as did Judge John Jones in Kitzmiller v. Dover, it rests, ultimately, on ignorance. Extending an olive branch to religious Americans, Miller suggests that evolution and faith aren't really in conflict because all of nature is part of God's providential plan."
Biologist PZ Myers wrote "Miller is a fine writer who sharply addresses the details of the arguments about intelligent design creationism. When tackling old chestnuts such as the 'only a theory' complaint, or Michael Behe's argument for a maximum limit for the number of genetic mutations, or William Dembski's rehash of William Paley's watchmaker argument for complexity, Miller discusses the contemporary biological explanations while refuting the errors."
A number of reviewers had pointed out a factual inaccuracy in the book: on page 149, Miller referred to the Dingo as a marsupial, when in fact Dingos are feral dogs. In his list of errata, published online, Miller gave a correct reading of the passage: "It produced hunter-predator marsupials like the dingo and the Tasmanian tiger," should read "It produced hunter-predator marsupials like the tiger quoll and the Tasmanian wolf."
On June 16, 2008, Miller was interviewed on The Colbert Report discussing the book.
References
External links
On Colbert Report
2008 non-fiction books
Books about evolution
Books by Kenneth R. Miller
Intelligent design books
Criticism of intelligent design |
17995216 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAI%20Scout | IAI Scout | The IAI Scout (known in Israel under its Hebrew name זהבן - "Oriole") is a reconnaissance unmanned air vehicle developed in Israel in the 1970s by Israel Aircraft Industries as a competitor to the Tadiran Mastiff. The project was led by Charley Attali, David Harari, and Michael Shefer who were all awarded the 1981 Israel Defense Prize.
During the 1970s, the Israeli military was becoming increasingly interested in battlefield UAVs, and in response IAI management finally decided that they were interested in the concept as well. The Scout had a similar configuration as the Mastiff, with a pusher propeller and a twin-boom tail.
Design and development
In 1981, the IAI Scout drone, was first operated in combat missions by the South African Defence Force against Angola during Operation Protea.
Operational history
During the 1982 Lebanon War, the Israelis were confronted by Syrian surface-to-air missiles (SAMs), which were heavily sited in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. All 28 SAM sites in the Bekaa were destroyed, however, partly through the use of Samson decoys to get them to reveal their presence, and partly through reconnaissance information obtained by the Mastiff and Scout UAVs.
Israeli battlefield UAVs had proven a great success, and soon came to the attention of the US military, particularly after the American intervention in Lebanon in 1983. This led to the US Navy's request for a battlefield UAV in 1984, and Tadiran and IAI decided, or were told to, join forces to submit a proposal for the American requirement. The result was an IAI division named "Mazlat" (the Hebrew acronym for Miniature UAV), now "Malat" (Hebrew acronym of UAV).
The US military is reluctant to buy from foreign sources, so foreign companies usually team up with an American company to invite sales. AAI had already worked with Tadiran to sell the Mastiff in the US, so AAI was a logical choice, and Mazlat and AAI developed the Pioneer, which won the competition. Since then, Malat has developed more advanced battlefield UAVs, and has collaborated on battlefield UAV developments with partners such as AAI.
After consolidating production of the Mastiff and Scout, the Malat company continued to sell them in slightly refined versions for over a decade. Both aircraft have fixed landing gear and are generally operated from runways, performing short landings using an arresting-wire hook, though they may be launched using a hydraulic catapult off the back of a truck, and recovered by a net. They both carry imaging sensors in a turret underneath the fuselage.
The Mastiff and Scout remained in service with the Israeli Army and the Republic of Singapore Air Force until the early 1990s, when they were replaced by the IAI Searcher.
Operators
Israeli Air Force
Israeli Army
Republic of Singapore Air Force
Specifications
See also
References
This article contains material that originally came from the web article Unmanned Aerial Vehicles by Greg Goebel, which exists in the Public Domain.
External links
IAI Scout drone
1970s Israeli military reconnaissance aircraft
Scout
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Twin-boom aircraft
High-wing aircraft
Aircraft with fixed tricycle landing gear
Single-engined piston aircraft |
17995218 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huna%2C%20Caithness | Huna, Caithness | Huna is a small remote crofting township, located 1 mile northeast of Canisbay and 1.5 miles west of John o' Groats in Caithness, in Scotland. It is currently part of the Highland Council area.
History
Huna is likely to have been an important sheltered port from Norse times and it has been suggested that it equates to Hofn, the burial place in 980 of Hlodvar Thorfinnsson, the Norse Jarl of Orkney. In The Place-Names of Canisbay, Caithness, Huna is described as:
A crofting township two miles west from John o' Groat's, situated at the foot of the Mool Hill. Bordered on the west side by the burn of Huna, and on the east side by the Ness of Huna, a small crest–like peninsula which terminates in a beach. On Huna links are the remains of a Picts' village and several burial cairns. It is supposed to be the burial place of earl Hlǫðver, who, the saga states, was buried at Hǫfn in Katanes, about 975. The haven of Huna is a sandy beach. O.N. hǫfn > ham in Orkney and Shetland, and there is a Ham in Dunnet adjoining an earth-house. Myrkkol, now Murkle, where Hlǫðver’s brother, earl Arnfinnr, lived, is much nearer Ham than Huna. In Caithness charter, 1574, Hwnaye; 1777 Houna. Cf. Huney in Shetland, O.N. Húna-ey, the island of a man Húni. O.N. *Húna-á, the burn of Húni. Cosmo Innes in Orig. Par. Scot. suggested, "Huna appears to be the Hofn where earl Hlodver was buried" — a suggestion which apparently arose from an impossible derivation.
John o' Groat (Jan de Grot) ran a ferry from Huna to Orkney c. 1500 and a mail service between Huna and South Ronaldsay began in 1819.
Archaeology
The following sites are recorded on Highland Council's Historic Environment Record (HER)
MHG 1735 and MHG 39848 Site of Norse building and midden at ND 3592 7357 Drystone walling and midden material within a sand mound
MHG 2525 Mound, boat burial at ND 3599 7363 Recorded by Curle in 1935 as eroding out of the sand at the top of the bank, and containing wood, rivets, chain and metal objects.
MHG 1742 Mound, boat burial at ND 3610 7360. Probably an incorrect location and confused with the above site, now overlaid by recent building work and landscaping (1982)
MHG 1743 Mound, Norse walling at ND 3603 7365. Mound measuring 15m by 9.8m with exposed walling, but now obscured by modern rubbish dumping (1982)
MHG 1739 Banked enclosure at ND 3623 7352. Cropmark measuring 25m in diameter but no visible evidence on the ground
The first four of these sites occupy the crest of the rise from the shoreline to the west of Huna House, while the last is in the field to the NE of the field in which the present development is located.
Property ownership
Over the last 2000 years Huna has been owned as a part of the greater area of Caithness under wider ownership such as the Pictish Kingdoms and later the Estates of Mey. The possibility of individual ownership of land and property within Huna and nearby townships didn't occur until 1952 when the estates of Mey were broken up and sold by Captain Fredrick Bouhier Imbert-Terry, including the sale of individual crofts within Huna.
Sources
External links
Official website
Populated places in Caithness |
17995229 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mieczys%C5%82aw%20Mackiewicz | Mieczysław Mackiewicz | Mieczysław Mackiewicz (9 May 1880 – 6 August 1954) was a Polish general.
Biography
In partitioned Poland, Mackiewicz joined the Imperial Russian Army and fought in the Russo-Japanese War (1904–1905), reaching the rank of a captain. In 1913 he secretly joined the Polish pro-independence organization Związek Strzelecki, and worked with Józef Piłsudski. During the First World War, he fought in the Russian Army against the Germans, and was captured in 1915. He formed a Polish school for NCOs in prisoner-of-war camps. In 1918 he joined the Polish Army. He took part in the Polish-Lithuanian negotiations in Suwałki and fought in the Polish-Soviet War, where he commanded infantry divisions and operational groups; He was wounded in 1920, and promoted to general in 1927. He retired in 1935, but joined the Polish Army again during German invasion of Poland in 1939 as a volunteer. Eventually he joined the Polish Armed Forces in the West. After the war he settled in the United Kingdom, where he died in 1954.
He was also a member of the first chapter of the Virtuti Militari Order. By Order No. 11 of May 6, 1922, he was awarded the Cross of Valor for the 2nd, 3rd and 4th time. From January 1921 to May 1926, he commanded the 30th Infantry Division and then, until March 1935, he was the commander of the 26th Infantry Division (in in the meantime, on January 1, 1927, he was promoted to the rank of brigadier general). On September 30, 1935, he retired. He settled on the estate of Żydomla near Grodno, which he received for his war services as part of a military settlement.
Honours and awards
Order of Virtuti Militari
Order of Polonia Restituta, Officer's Cross
Cross of Independence
Medal of Independence
Cross of Valour – four times
Gold Cross of Merit
References
1880 births
1954 deaths
People from Alytus District Municipality
People from Suwałki Governorate
Polish generals
Imperial Russian Army officers
Polish Military Organisation members
Russian military personnel of the Russo-Japanese War
Russian military personnel of World War I
World War I prisoners of war held by Germany
Polish people of the Polish–Soviet War
Polish military personnel of World War II
Recipients of the Virtuti Militari
Officers of the Order of Polonia Restituta
Recipients of the Cross of Independence
Recipients of the Medal of Independence
Recipients of the Cross of Valour (Poland)
Recipients of the Gold Cross of Merit (Poland) |
17995238 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidio%E2%80%93Ojinaga%20International%20Bridge | Presidio–Ojinaga International Bridge | The Presidio–Ojinaga International Bridge, also known simply as the Presidio Bridge and Puente Ojinaga, is an international bridge that crosses the Rio Grande (Río Bravo) between the cities of Presidio, Texas, and Ojinaga, Chihuahua, on the United States–Mexico border. It connects U.S. Route 67 to the north with Mexican Federal Highway 16 to the south. The bridge is privately owned and is tolled. It was completed and opened in 1985. The bridge is two lanes wide and long.
Border crossing
The Presidio Texas Port of Entry is located at the Presidio–Ojinaga International Bridge. The original, privately-owned wooden bridge was built in the early 1900s, and the port of entry was established by executive order in 1917. The bridge was most recently replaced in 1985. The current border inspection station was completed about two years later.
See also
Presidio–Ojinaga International Rail Bridge, the parallel rail bridge
List of crossings of the Rio Grande
References
International bridges in Texas
International bridges in Chihuahua (state)
Toll bridges in Texas
Bridges completed in 1985
Buildings and structures in Presidio County, Texas
Transportation in Presidio County, Texas
Road bridges in Texas
U.S. Route 67
Bridges of the United States Numbered Highway System
Toll bridges in Mexico
1985 establishments in Mexico
1985 establishments in Texas |
17995256 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widespread%20Depression%20Orchestra | Widespread Depression Orchestra | The Widespread Depression Orchestra was a nine-piece jazz ensemble founded in 1972 at Vermont's Marlboro College.
Initially, the group played 1950s style R&B and early rock and roll with guitars, piano, sax, bass guitar, drums, and a vocalist, but by the middle of the 1970s was operating as a big band revival group, in the style of the bands of Jimmie Lunceford, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, and Lionel Hampton. The unit moved to New York City in 1978 under the leadership of Jon Holtzman, when it recorded the first of several full-length albums. In 1980 five of its members also played on their own as a bebop group.
Holtzman - better known as The Bronx Nightingale, left the group around 1982 to start his own band and recorded his first solo album - Let's Do It. John Hammond Sr., a big fan of Jon's, graciously volunteered to write the liner notes. After Holtzman left Michael Hashim, the group's alto saxophonist, was named leader, and the musicians broadened their repertory to include swing and bop, featuring original arrangements by band members. Manager Michael Caplin renamed the group the Widespread Jazz Orchestra. WJO played at premier jazz clubs across America and around the world, and appeared at major music festivals including North Sea, Pori, Antibes, New Orleans, Montreal, Montreux + Taormina. Their 1985 Columbia Records album Paris Blues, was produced by Dr. George Butler.
Discography
Widespread Depression Orchestra
Downtown Uproar, Stash (1979);
Boogie in the Barnyard, Stash (1980);
Rockin' in Rhythm, Phontastic (nl) (Swd) (1980);
Time to Jump and Shout, Stash (1981);
Widespread Jazz Orchestra
Swing is the Thing, Adelphi (1982);
Paris Blues, Columbia Col (1984);
Members
At large
Jordan Sandke, trumpet
Tim Atherton, trombone
Michael Hashim, soprano and alto sax, leader (1982 onwards)
Dean Nicyper, tenor sax
David Lillie, baritone sax
Patrick Baron, piano
Mike LeDonne, piano
Roy Gerson, piano
James Wimpfheimer, double bass
Bill Conway, double bass
Mark Minkler, double bass
Bill Eldridge, drums
John Ellis, drums, arrangement
Charlie Braugham, drums
Jon Holtzman, vocals, vibraphone, drums, leader (to 1982)
Dan Barrett, trombone
Tad Shull (de) (born 1955), tenor Sax
Ronnie Wells, vocals
Judy Niemack, vocals
Bob Zuck, guitar, vocals
Jeanne Holtzman, bass, vocals
Nick McDougal, alto sax, guitar
Diego Francesco Donaldo Bianco, tenor sax
Michael Caplin, manager
Paul Suihkonen, trumpet
Jake Epstein, clarinet, sax, arranger
Billy Grey, trumpet, vocals
Jim Masters, trombone, vocals
Randy Sandke, trumpet
Joel Helleny, trombone
Peter Ecklund, arranger
John Dwight, arranger
By record
References
Gary W. Kennedy, "Widespread Depression Jazz Orchestra". Grove Jazz online.
Further reading
W. R. Stokes: "Uplifting Depression", Washington Post (19 April 1979)
W. R. Stokes: "The Little Big Band", Washington Post (2 March 1980)
J. S. Wilson: "Jazz: Depression Quintet", New York Times (26 Dec 1980)
C. Cioe: "Backbeat: Widespread Jazz – No Longer Depressed!", High Fidelity, vol. 33 no. 7 (1983), p. 84 (with discography)
J. S. Wilson: "A New Big Band Identity", New York Times (19 May 1988)
American jazz ensembles
Musical groups from Vermont
Musical groups established in 1972
Big bands |
17995268 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PeekYou | PeekYou | PeekYou is a people search engine that indexes people and their links on the web. Founded in April 2006 by Michael Hussey, PeekYou claims that they have indexed over 250 million people, mostly in the United States and Canada. The search results consist of publicly available URLs, including Facebook, LinkedIn, Wikipedia, Google+, blogs, homepages, business pages and news sources.
See also
Information broker
Further reading
"PeekYou - Spock has Competition" at Techcrunch
"PeekYou Makes People Search Worthwhile with Google Integration" at Mashable
"PeekYou’s Hussey Offers Glimpse Into Data Practices" at Adotas
"'Scrapers' Dig Deep for Data on Web" at Wall Street Journal
References
External links
Internet search engines
American companies established in 2006
2006 establishments in New York City
Companies based in New York City
Data brokers
Internet properties established in 2006 |
17995291 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look%20Out%20Sunshine%21 | Look Out Sunshine! | "Look Out Sunshine!" is a song by Scottish rock band the Fratellis and the second single from their second album Here We Stand. The song was released on 18 August 2008 and peaked within the UK Singles Chart top 100 at number 70, marking the band's seventh single to appear in the UK top 75, but it fell off the chart the next week. On the Scottish Singles and Albums Chart, "Look Out Sunshine!" became the band's first (and to date only) number-one single and sixth top 10 hit, spending seven weeks in the top 100.
The money raised from the album went to the Teenage Cancer Trust to help build a new unit in Glasgow. The B-Side called "The Good Life" is bassist Barry Fratelli's first published song. The music video was uploaded to YouTube by Island Records on 22 July.
Critical reception
Alex Fletcher of Digital Spy called it "a four-minute arm-swaying belter that The Kooks would have loved for their recent album". AllMusic's Heather Phares put it alongside "Babydoll" as the album's "bright, lively songs" being "not as catchy as they could be." Jon Young of Spin felt the track could "pass for early Bowie in bubblegum mode", but was critical of the "cautiously calculated" performance. Martin Robinson of NME wrote that it was "basically [just] one big chorus, complete with a rabble-rousing key change for wedding discos."
Track listing
This is listed on the iTunes Store as Look Out Sunshine! - EP.
This is listed on the iTunes Store as Look Out Sunshine! - EP with faded artwork.
Charts
References
2008 singles
2008 songs
The Fratellis songs
Island Records singles
Number-one singles in Scotland
Songs written by Jon Fratelli |
17995294 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%E2%80%93Chile%20relations | Canada–Chile relations | Canada and Chile established diplomatic relations in 1892. Both nations are members of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, Cairns Group, Organization of American States, and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
History
In 1818, Chile declared its independence from Spain and their independence was recognized in 1844. In 1892, Chile opened a consulate in the Canadian city of Vancouver due to the presence of Chilean sailors in the city. Chile would continue to open consulates in other Canadian cities such as in Quebec City (1885), Brantford (1907) and in Montreal (1923). At the time, Canada did not have a diplomatic presence in Chile as it was still part of the British Empire and all of its international affairs were conducted via London. Canada assumed full control of it diplomatic relations after the passing of the Statute of Westminster in 1931.
During World War II, Canada began to establish diplomatic relations with Latin American nations. In 1941, a Canadian commercial mission headed to Chile and signed a commercial treaty. Chile, a member of the ABC countries (which also included Argentina and Brazil) was seen as an important member nation within the region and Canada established diplomatic relations with Chile in 1941. In July 1942, Chile opened a diplomatic legation office in Ottawa. That same year, Canada also opened a legation office in Santiago. In June 1944, both nations upgraded their legation offices to embassies, respectively.
On 11 September 1973, democratically elected Chilean President Salvador Allende was removed from power in a coup d'état by General Augusto Pinochet. Soon after the coup, several Chilean nationals fled to the Canadian embassy in Santiago for asylum. Canadian first secretary Marc Dolgin and David Adam allowed entry to the Chilean asylees and housed them at the embassy and at the Canadian ambassador's residence (at the time, the ambassador was in Argentina). Some 16 people were admitted to the embassy. After a month of hosting the Chileans, Canada (and the Chilean government) allowed for all 16 people to be sent to Canada for resettlement. From 1973 to 1990, Canada would receive approximately 7,000 Chilean nationals as refugees.
In 2016, both nations celebrated 75 years of diplomatic relations. Air Canada operates direct flights between Toronto and Santiago.
In June 2022, Chilean President Gabriel Boric paid a visit to Canada and met with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in what was described by CTV News as a wide-ranging bilateral meeting.
High-level visits
Prime Ministerial visits from Canada to Chile
Prime Minister Jean Chrétien (1998)
Prime Minister Paul Martin (2004)
Prime Minister Stephen Harper (2012)
Presidential visits from Chile to Canada
President Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle (1997)
President Michelle Bachelet (2008)
President Sebastián Piñera (2013)
President Gabriel Boric (2022)
Trade
In 1996, Canada and Chile signed a free trade agreement. In 2017, trade between Canada and Chile totaled $2.9 billion Canadian dollars. Canada's exports to Chile include: machinery, chemicals, cereals fats and oils, and mineral products. Chile's exports to Canada include: copper, precious stones and metals (mostly gold and silver), fruits, fish and seafood (salmon), and beverages (wine). According to Chile's Central Bank, in 2022, Canada had U$ 36 billion worth of investments (stock) and is the largest investor in Chile above the United States, Netherlands,United Kingdom and Spain. Canadian multinational companies such as Barrick Gold and Scotiabank invest in Chile. Chilean wines can be found throughout Canada.
Resident diplomatic missions
Canada has an embassy in Santiago.
Chile has an embassy in Ottawa and consulates-general in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver.
See also
Chilean Canadians
Canada–Chile Free Trade Agreement
References
Chile
Canada |
17995296 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisuke%20Suzuki%20%28musician%29 | Daisuke Suzuki (musician) | is the songwriter of J-Pop group Girl Next Door. He debuted as Rubii in 1998.
1978 births
Japanese composers
Japanese male composers
Japanese male musicians
Living people
Musicians from Kanagawa Prefecture |
17995322 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atascosa%2C%20Texas | Atascosa, Texas | Atascosa ( ) is an unincorporated community located in southwestern Bexar County, Texas, United States. According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had a population of 300 in 2000. The community is part of the San Antonio Metropolitan Statistical Area.
History
The community's name means "boggy" in Spanish and was first settled sometime after the American Civil War. The Atascosa post office opened in 1872. In 1885, the community had a Baptist church, a general store, a saloon, two blacksmiths, and a population of 180. A coal mine and pottery were in operation by 1900. Atascosa then had a church, a lodge, and several stores that served 300 inhabitants in the mid-1930s. Its population remained steady throughout this period and had four businesses in the early 1990s. 47 businesses were in the community in 2000 and its population remained the same.
Geography
Atascosa is located 14 miles southwest of downtown San Antonio. It is located between Von Ormy and Lytle off I-35 and on Old Pearsall Road at Jarratt Road.
Demographics
As of the 2010 U.S. Census, there were 8,735 people residing in this populated place. The racial makeup of this area is 63.66% White, 0.54% African American, 0.63% Native American, 0.42% Asian, 0.11% Pacific Islander, and 34.63% from other races. The Hispanic population is 7,167, which is 82.05% of the total Atascosa population.
Education
Atascosa is included in the Southwest ISD. McNair Middle School and Elm Creek Elementary are located in Atascosa off Old Pearsall Road. The high school serving Atascosa is San Antonio's Southwest High School. Before that time, Atascosa had schools in 1885 and the mid-1930s.
Agriculture
According to the National Agricultural Statistics Service 2007 census, there are more than 70 crop operations in Atascosa with three operations that are valued at more than $250,000 each. There are more than 125 animal operations in Atascosa. Many people in the area raise cattle, horses, goats, pigs, peacocks, and other poultry.
Utilities
Electricity is provided to the area by CPS Energy. The water is supplied by the Atascosa Rural Water Supply, located off Jarratt Road and Pearsall.
Notable person
Augustus McCloskey, a former U.S. Representative, who went to school in Atascosa.
References
Unincorporated communities in Bexar County, Texas
Unincorporated communities in Texas
Greater San Antonio |
17995333 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20D.%20Sheafer%20Jr. | Edward D. Sheafer Jr. | Rear Admiral Edward David Sheafer Jr. (November 27, 1940 – June 27, 2016) was an officer of the United States Navy.
Naval career
Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Sheafer graduated from the Shady Side Academy in 1958. After graduating from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1962, Sheafer served as a surface warfare officer for ten years, including command at sea of the USS Persistent (MSO-491), an oceangoing minesweeper. Following a tour in Vietnam, Sheafer attended graduate school at Georgetown University, where he received a master's degree in Foreign Service.
Sheafer's career includes assignments such as Chief Intelligence Officer (J-2) for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff with Admiral William J. Crowe and General Colin Powell, and Deputy Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency during Desert Storm. Sheafer served as Director of Naval intelligence from August 1991 to September 1994, commanding an organization of 2,500 people, with a budget of more than $2 billion. Sheafer pioneered a number of efforts in the intelligence world and is known as the father of the Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System (JWICS).
Other positions Sheafer has held include:
Fleet Intelligence Officer for Commander Seventh Fleet (Pacific/Indian Ocean)
Officer-in-Charge (OIC) Fleet Ocean Surveillance Information Center (Hawaii)
OIC Fleet Ocean Surveillance Information Facility (Japan)
Soviet Submarine Analyst, Commander US Naval Forces Europe (London)
Later career
Having served more than 35 years, Admiral Edward D. Sheafer Jr. retired from the Navy in 1995. Following his retirement, Sheafer served as an advisor at senior levels in the defense and intelligence communities.
Personal
Sheafer was the son of Edward David Sheafer Sr. (February 2, 1900 – June 6, 1972) and Frances Spraggon Sheafer (April 18, 1907 – May 18, 1997). They were married in Pittsburgh on December 22, 1939. His father was a veteran of World War I.
Sheafer Jr. was married to Enid Suzanne Sheafer. The couple had two daughters and three grandchildren.
After his first marriage ended in divorce, Sheafer married divorcee Patricia Loughrey (Ganson) Westine in 1982.
Sheafer was interred at Arlington National Cemetery on March 24, 2017.
References
1940 births
2016 deaths
Shady Side Academy alumni
United States Naval Academy alumni
Military personnel from Pittsburgh
United States Navy personnel of the Vietnam War
Walsh School of Foreign Service alumni
United States Navy admirals
Directors of the Office of Naval Intelligence
Burials at Arlington National Cemetery |
17995340 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma%20Today | Oklahoma Today | Oklahoma Today is the official magazine of the State of Oklahoma, United States, published in cooperation with the Oklahoma Department of Tourism and Recreation. It provides its readers the best of the state's people, places, travel, culture, food and outdoors in six issues a year.
Oklahoma Today has been in constant publication since January 1956. It is the state's longest-running magazine, and is the fourth-oldest regional magazine in the country.
Oklahoma Today'''s base circulation is 38,000 and is the state's third-largest paid circulation publication, coming behind only The Oklahoman and Tulsa World. It is the only statewide magazine and it is the only magazine with a paid circulation. Oklahoma Today subscribers live in all 77 counties of the state, other state's and many other countries. The magazine can be found on newsstands throughout the state and region.Oklahoma Today'' received the "Best Magazine" award from the Oklahoma Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists in 2007.
External links
Oklahoma Today homepage
Oklahoma Today Archives at Oklahoma State University
Bimonthly magazines published in the United States
Lifestyle magazines published in the United States
Local interest magazines published in the United States
Magazines established in 1956
Magazines published in Oklahoma
Tourism magazines |
17995343 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Geremia | Paul Geremia | Paul Geremia (born April 21, 1944) is an American blues singer and acoustic guitarist.
Geremia was born in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. He recorded his first album in 1968, having been significantly influenced by both the rural blues tradition and the folk music revival of the 1960s. Geremia has never recorded with electric guitar, cleaving steadfastly to a traditional ethic with his acoustic playing.
Discography
Just Enough (Folkways Records, 1968)
Paul Geremia (Sire Records, 1971)
Hard Life Rockin' Chair (Adelphi Records, 1973)
I Really Don't Mind Livin' (Flying Fish Records, 1982)
My Kinda Place (Flying Fish, 1986)
Gamblin' Woman Blues (Shamrock Records, 1992)
Self Portrait in Blues (Shamrock Records, 1994)
Live From Uncle Sam's Backyard (Red House, 1997)
The Devil's Music (Red House, 1999)
Love, Murder and Mosquitos (Red House, 2004)
Love My Stuff (Red House, 2011)
Achievements
Geremia's rendition of Fred McDowell's "Get Right Church" was the opening track on Preachin’ the Blues: The Music of Mississippi Fred McDowell (Telarc), which earned a Grammy nomination in 2002.
Two of his Red House releases, Gamblin’ Woman Blues and Self Portrait in Blues, were both nominated for W.C. Handy Awards.
Inducted into the Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame, 2013.
References
1944 births
Living people
American blues singers
American blues guitarists
American male guitarists
Singers from Rhode Island
Guitarists from Rhode Island
20th-century American guitarists
20th-century American male musicians
Red House Records artists
Flying Fish Records artists |
17995348 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union%20Pacific%20International%20Railroad%20Bridge | Union Pacific International Railroad Bridge | The Union Pacific International Railroad Bridge is the only railway international bridge that crosses the U.S.-Mexico border between the cities of Eagle Pass, Texas, and Piedras Negras, Coahuila. The U.S. portion is owned and operated by Union Pacific Railroad, with BNSF Railway having trackage rights. The Mexican portion is owned by the Mexican federal government, with operation concessioned to Ferromex. It is also known as the Eagle Pass-Piedras Negras International Railway Bridge. The bridge is the second busiest international rail crossing between the U.S. and Mexico.
See also
Brownsville & Matamoros International Bridge
References
International bridges in Texas
International bridges in Coahuila
Buildings and structures in Maverick County, Texas
Railroad bridges in Texas
Railway bridges in Mexico
International
Southern Pacific Railroad
Transportation in Maverick County, Texas
Metal bridges in the United States
Truss bridges in the United States |
17995350 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulrossie | Pulrossie | Pulrossie is a farm in Sutherland, in the Highland council area of Scotland. It is situated on the northern shore of the Kyle of Sutherland, 8 km west of Dornoch. Skibo Castle is 1.5 km to the north-east, while Meikle Ferry is 1.5 km south-east.
History
The estate was held by the Murray of Pulrossie family. The former manor house has been demolished. The Murray family of Pulrossie was a branch of the Murray family of Culbin House, Moray, being descended from the second son of Alexander Murray of Culbin, descendant of Richard de Moravia (Richard Murray, d. 1245). Alexander Murray of Culbin had two sons, Thomas, who was described as a "hero of Harlaw" in 1411 and Angus who succeeded his brother Thomas. In 1430, the estate of Thomas Neilson Mackay was divided up between Angus Murray of Pulrossie and Mackay's two brothers after he had murdered Mowat of Freswick and burnt the St Duthus Church in Tain. Angus Murray had been given the lands of Pulrossie from the Crown for his services in capturing Mackay who was then executed at Inverness. (See: Battle of Drumnacoub). In 1464, John of Islay, Earl of Ross disposed of Pulrossy to his brother Celestine of the Isles. In 1467, the Earl of Sutherland received the lands of Pulrossie from the Crown.
In the 16th century, Gilbert Murray the laird of Pulrossie married a daughter of John Mackay, 11th of Strathnaver, and was later killed at the Battle of Pinkie in 1547. Another of Mackay's daughters married Murray of Aberscross.
In 1550 or 1551, William Murray of the family of Pulrossie murdered John Sutherland of Killipheder on the Nether Green in the west corner of the garden at Dunrobin Castle and this was in revenge for an attack on Alexander Gordon, brother of John Gordon, 11th Earl of Sutherland. However, William Murray of Pulrossie was later killed in revenge for this by Sutherland, the laird of Clyne.
In 1618, Sir Robert Gordon, 1st Baronet, who was tutor to the Earl of Sutherland, wrote to Murray of Pulrossie instructing him to remove the red and white lines from his men's tartan in order to make their dress similar to the other septs of the Clan Sutherland. Pulrossie was chief of the Murrays in Sutherland, but was a "branch chief" under the Earl of Sutherland.
In 1623, the laird of Pulrossie held joint command of the centre of Sir Robert Gordon, 1st Baronet's army that marched into Caithness and took the surrender of George Sinclair, 5th Earl of Caithness, who had been declared a rebel.
After the Scottish Civil War of the mid-17th century, the Murray laird of Pulrossie was fined for having sided against the Royalists.
Etymology
The name Pulrossie may be of Pictish origin meaning "promontory peninsula". The first element may be *pul meaning "a pool", and the second *ros meaning "promontory".
References
Populated places in Sutherland |
17995377 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.%20A.%20Agulhas | S. A. Agulhas | S. A. Agulhas is a South African ice-strengthened training ship and former polar research vessel. She was built by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in Shimonoseki, Japan, in 1978. S. A. Agulhas was used to service the three South African National Antarctic Programme research bases, Gough Island, Marion Island in the Southern Ocean and SANAE IV in Antarctica, as well as various research voyages.
S. A. Agulhas retired from Antarctic service in April 2012 when the replacement vessel, S. A. Agulhas II, was commissioned. She was transferred to the South African Maritime Safety Authority as a training ship.
History
Rudder damage
In December 1991, S. A. Agulhas suffered rudder damage while in the Antarctic. The German icebreaker Polarstern assisted her and by February 1992 S. A. Agulhas had been freed from the pack ice. Once freed, the SAS Drakensberg towed the stricken vessel back to Cape Town for repairs.
Rescue of the Magdalena Oldendorff
S. A. Agulhas participated in a multinational rescue of Magdalena Oldendorff in 2002.
The ice-strengthened cargo ship had become stuck in the ice during severe weather conditions while en route from a Russian Antarctic base to Cape Town. S. A. Agulhas and the Argentine icebreaker Almirante Irízar were dispatched to render assistance. On 27 June 2002, S. A. Agulhas was from Magdalena Oldendorff, close enough for its two Oryx helicopters, operated by 22 Squadron, to reach the stricken vessel. By 1 June the Oryx had transferred 89 Russian Antarctic expedition members and Magdalena Oldendorff crew members to S. A. Agulhas and have transferred of supplies to the remaining crew. The crew remaining on Magdalena Oldendorff were to await the arrival of Almirante Irizar and attempt to free the ship.
Deaths at sea
On 27 September 2007, Ordinary Seaman Edward Hudley was stabbed and killed while S. A. Agulhas was near Gough Island. Two crew members were accused of murder. The environmental protection vessel Sarah Baartman was dispatched and took custody of the two accused and the deceased's body on 3 October 2007. Both accused were charged with murder on arrival in Cape Town, but all charges were dropped on 6 April 2009.
On the ship's first ever voyage to Marion Island, a member of the crew was killed by another crew member, using a fire axe. On arrival back in Cape Town, the suspected killer could not be found on board the vessel. It was speculated that he jumped over the side of the vessel before arrival in Cape Town.
Mission
The mission of S. A. Agulhas included regular visits to South Africa's base on Antarctica, and to research stations on Gough Island and Marion Island.
Retirement from polar mission and new role
S. A. Agulhas retired from polar supply missions in March 2012, when its replacement, S. A. Agulhas II, arrived.
The Oceans and Coasts Branch of the
Department of Environmental Affairs announced in 2011 that several other government agencies had requested the vessel's transfer, noting that, unlike the new vessel, the first was not designed to carry out scientific research, just icebreaking and that the capability to perform scientific research had been added later. It was also reported that the vessel could be insured for a further two years.
In July 2012 the S. A. Agulhas was recommissioned as a training ship operated by the South African Maritime Safety Authority, the ship will continue to provide facilities for scientific research while training up to seventy merchant marine cadets.
Having undertaken a brief "shakedown" cruise from 4 July 2012, the ship left Cape Town on 2 November 2012 on the first full cruise as a training vessel. Included in the itinerary were visits to Tema and Abidjan to take on additional cadets from Cameroon, Gambia, Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire, while en route to London, UK. After returning to Cape Town, the ship then visited Antarctica. During the cruise various scientific experiments and observations were completed for the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research and the Departments of Science and Technology and Environmental Affairs. In 2013, the vessel delivered The Coldest Journey team, which was an Antarctica winter crossing expedition led by Sir Ranulph Fiennes in support of the charity "Seeing is Believing".
See also
References
External links
South African Maritime Safety Authority - The present owners (Official website).
South African National Antarctic Programme - The previous owners (Official website).
Ships of South Africa
Agulhas
Maritime history of South Africa
South African National Antarctic Programme
1977 ships
Research vessels
Training ships
Ships built by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries |
17995396 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison%20Legal%20News | Prison Legal News | Prison Legal News (PLN) is a monthly American magazine and online periodical published since May 1990. It primarily reports on criminal justice issues and prison and jail-related civil litigation, mainly in the United States. It is a project of the Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC), a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.
Prison Legal News is the longest running newspaper produced by and for current and former prisoners in U.S. history.
PLN covers all aspects of the criminal justice system, including court access, prison conditions, privatization, disciplinary hearings, excessive force, mail censorship, jails, wrongful convictions, crime labs, visitation, prison phone services, immigration detention, religious freedom, free speech, prison rape, abuse of women prisoners, retaliation, the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA), medical treatment, HIV and hepatitis C, prison slave labor, disenfranchisement, the death penalty and control units/supermax facilities. However, the mainstay of PLNs coverage from the beginning has been the issue of conditions of confinement.
Origins and function
Prison Legal News was inspired by the need for prisoners and their families to have a voice in criminal justice policy and to provide timely, accurate news about justice-related issues and progressive reform efforts. PLN has been admired and disliked for its strong advocacy of prisoner rights, including its extensive litigation involving jails and prison systems.
As of February 2017, PLN had an average circulation of over 9,000 hardcopy issues per month. The Human Rights Defense Center estimates that about 70% of PLN's subscribers are state and federal prisoners, and PLN has incarcerated subscribers in all fifty states. Based on PLNs media pack, each subscriber's magazine is read by an average of almost 10 people, so monthly readership is around 90,000. As of February 2017, subscriptions were $30/year for prisoners, $35/year for non-incarcerated individuals and $90/year for attorneys, government agencies and corporations.
The PLN website has over 18,000 news and law articles in its database. The publication section has more than 5,600 reports, audits and other documents related to criminal justice topics, and the brief bank contains over 7,500 assorted legal pleadings - including complaints, motions, appeal briefs, verdicts, judgments and settlements in prison and jail cases. The site receives over 150,000 visitors each month and also functions as a resource for media and community outreach as well as a platform for public education on criminal justice issues. A website subscription is $149.95/year and gives full access to all of PLNs online content.
Prison Legal News also publishes and distributes legal reference and self-help educational books, ranging from their own in-house-published The Habeas Citebook: Ineffective Assistance of Counsel by Brandon Sample and the Prison Education Guide by Christopher Zoukis, to the Nolo legal how-to series, the Prisoners' Self-Help Litigation Manual, and the Federal Prison Handbook. PLN also distributes (free upon request) the Prisoner Diabetes Handbook, and is the exclusive distributor of Protecting Your Health & Safety: A Litigation Guide for Inmates, a book published by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
In addition to the monthly magazine and website, PLN has published three anthologies related to mass incarceration: The Celling of America: An Inside Look at the U.S Prison Industry (Common Courage Press, 1997); Prison Nation: The Warehousing of America's Poor (Routledge) (2003); and Prison Profiteers: Who makes Money from Mass Imprisonment (2008).
Litigation
PLN has been involved in litigation concerning First Amendment and censorship issues in the prison and jail context since 1994. Co-editor Ed Mead was prevented from assisting in publishing Prison Legal News due to a condition of his parole prohibiting association with other felons – a policy specifically enacted to prevent him from further involvement with PLN.
In 1997, PLN, represented by the ACLU of Washington, joined with other publishers and prisoner plaintiffs in a suit challenging the state of Washington DOC's wide-ranging censorship of incoming mail, publications and mail classifications, among other issues. The lawsuit was settled in 2000, with the state agreeing to change its censorship policies and pay the plaintiffs' attorney fees and costs.
Prison Legal News obtained a preliminary injunction against the Nevada DOC's statewide ban on PLN, followed by a consent decree in which the DOC agreed to pay damages and change its policies concerning mail and publications. The matter was settled in September 2000.
ADX Florence, run by the federal Bureau of Prisons, enacted a policy banning all books related to prisons and prisoners. PLN filed suit in 2003 and withdrew the lawsuit in 2005 after the ADX mooted the claim by changing its unconstitutional policy.
In 2006, PLN and the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) settled the magazine's claims that CDCR mail policies violated a number of federal and state rights, under precedents established by PLN. As a result of the settlement, CDCR ordered five-year subscriptions to PLN for all of its facilities and is being monitored by PLN for compliance.
In 2012, PLN settled with the State of New York, reversing a statewide ban on the magazine in New York prisons. That year, it also settled with Berkeley County, South Carolina, reaching the largest ever jail-related censorship settlement in the United States, totaling almost $600,000 in damages and attorney fees. The U.S. Department of Justice joined PLN in its lawsuit against the unconstitutional mail policies enacted by Berkeley County.
In 2015, PLN settled a case with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security after PLN filed a FOIA request for records related to telephone services and other documents concerning the ability of immigration prisoners to communicate with people outside the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington; this is operated by the GEO Corporation, a private for-profit company.
In addition to battling unconstitutional censorship through litigation (see the May 2010 issue of PLN for a full listing of cases), Prison Legal News has also filed numerous lawsuits related to public records and Freedom of Information Act requests in order to pursue its investigative reporting on detention facility issues.
These cases have led to landmark rulings. including PLN v. Washington Department of Corrections, 115 P.3d 316 (Wash. 2005). At the time it was the largest penalty and attorney fee payout in a Washington state public records case in history and disclosed serious misconduct among Washington prison doctors.
PLN v. Lappin held that PLN was entitled to fee waivers in Freedom of Information Act requests where the information sought would educate the public about government operations. PLN v. Lappin, 436 F. Supp.2d 17 (D DC 2006). Additional cases include: PLN v. The GEO Group, Inc., Circuit Court of the 15th Judicial Circuit of Florida, Case No. 50 2005 CA 011195 AA; Friedmann v. CCA, Chancery Court for Davidson County (TN), Case No. 01-1105-I; and PLN v. EOUSA, USDC (D. Col.), Case No. 1:08-cv-01055-MSK.
Developments and advocacy
Founded as Prisoners Legal News, in 2009 PLNs parent organization was renamed as the Human Rights Defense Center. It is a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting the human rights of people held in U.S. detention facilities. HRDC also supports Prison Legal News in national campaigns in coordination with other advocacy groups to lower prison phone rates and demand transparency and accountability of private prison contractors, and is involved with numerous other activities related to the human rights of prisoners.
PLNs managing editor is a former prisoner. The magazine features contributions from nationally recognized scholars and activists involved in criminal justice reform or advocacy efforts. Contributors include Mumia Abu-Jamal, Noam Chomsky, Marie Gottschalk, Prison Policy Initiative Director Peter Wagner, Prison Law Office Director Donald Specter, ACLU National Prison Project Director David Fathi, and Christopher Zoukis, founder of PrisonEducation.com and PrisonerResource.com. The bulk of PLNs content is written by current and former prisoners. As of 2017, Prison Legal News has published continuously for 27 years.
References
Magazines established in 1990
Monthly magazines published in the United States
Prison-related organizations
Criminal justice reform in the United States
Prison reform
Legal magazines
Human rights in the United States
1990 establishments in Florida
Magazines published in Florida |
17995398 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WMCB-LP | WMCB-LP | WMCB-LP (107.9 FM) is a radio station licensed to serve Greenfield, Massachusetts. The station is owned by Greenfield Community Television, Inc. It airs a community radio format. The station first aired in May 2008.
WMCB-LP previously shared the 107.9 MHz frequency with religious broadcaster WLPV-LP (now at 97.3), with WMCB-LP broadcasting from noon to midnight and WLPV-LP broadcasting from midnight to noon. This ended in the winter of 2020, when WLPV-LP moved to its own frequency and began full 24-hour operations.
The station was assigned the WMCB-LP call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on July 7, 2006.
See also
List of community radio stations in the United States
References
External links
WMCB-LP official website
MCB-LP
Community radio stations in the United States
MCB-LP
Mass media in Franklin County, Massachusetts
Greenfield, Massachusetts
Radio stations established in 2008
2008 establishments in Massachusetts |
17995403 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proncycroy | Proncycroy | Proncycroy Farm () otherwise known as Mill Farm, is in the Sutherland region of the Scottish council area of Highland located less than two miles from Dornoch.
References
Populated places in Sutherland |
17995431 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preston%2C%20Nevada | Preston, Nevada | Preston is a census-designated place in White Pine County, Nevada, United States.
Description
Preston was established by Mormon settlers in 1876, and named after William B. Preston, the fourth Presiding Bishop of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints between 1884 and 1907. The community's economy is based on agriculture and ranching. In the 2010 census Preston had a population of 78.
Demographics
See also
List of census-designated places in Nevada
References
External links
Census-designated places in Nevada
Census-designated places in White Pine County, Nevada
Great Basin National Heritage Area |
17995443 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatra%2075 | Tatra 75 | The Tatra 75 is a Czechoslovak mid-size car that Tatra introduced in 1933 as the successor to the Tatra 54 and was Tatra's last front-engined car.
The front-mounted 1,688 cc air-cooled OHV air-cooled boxer engine produces . This gives a top speed of and fuel consumption of 12 or 13 litres per .
Attention was paid to weight reduction, with light alloy used for the cylinder head castings. In common with other Tatras of this time, the 75 had four-speed transmission and rear-wheel drive.
The car was offered with a range of bodies including two- and four-door sedans and convertibles and a six-seat limousine with a longer wheelbase. In its nine-year production run 4,501 Tatra 75s were built. After the Second World War, in 1947, the model was belatedly replaced with the radically different Tatra 600.
Notes
Sources
1940s cars
Cars powered by boxer engines
Automobiles with backbone chassis
Cars introduced in 1933
75
Cars discontinued in 1942 |
17995449 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadot%2C%20Israel | Gadot, Israel | Gadot () is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located in the Korazim Plateau, it falls under the jurisdiction of Upper Galilee Regional Council. In , it had a population of .
History
Kibbutz Gadot (originally Hagovrim) was founded in 1949 on the site of the destroyed moshava of Mishmar HaYarden by Nahal youth from HaNoar HaOved VeHaLomed and Holocaust survivors, members of HaKibbutz HaMeuhad. It was renamed to Gadot in 1955 due its proximity to the banks of the Jordan River.
During the 1950s and 1960s, the kibbutz suffered from several assaults by the Syrian Army and was hit by many artillery bombardments. On 7 April 1967, when 6 Syrian MiG 21s were shot down, the kibbutz suffered a severe bombardment during which almost all of its buildings were hit. Two months later, during the Six-Day War, the kibbutz was once again bombarded and most of its buildings were destroyed or badly damaged. The state of the kibbutz and the turning-point of the war are evoked in a song performed by Hava Alberstein - "My daughter, are you laughing or crying?" During the Yom Kippur War, the kibbutz was hit once again, although to a lesser extent.
Due to the fact it was situated in the Israel-Syria DMZ under the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Gadot has been claimed by Syria as its own sovereign territory in the 1990s during negotiations for a peace agreement. The Israeli side rejected these claims, as it would have led to Syria having territory west of the 1923 border between Mandatory Palestine and the French Mandate of Syria.
Economy
The kibbutz's local industries are: crops, avocado, citrus, chickens, hostessing, and a plastics factory for wrapping materials.
References
External links
The Quaternary of Israel: Gadot Formation
Gadot tomb
Kibbutzim
Kibbutz Movement
Populated places established in 1949
1949 establishments in Israel
Populated places in Northern District (Israel) |
17995455 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macdona%2C%20Texas | Macdona, Texas | Macdona is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Bexar County, Texas, United States. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 559. Macdona lies along the Union Pacific rail line near Loop 1604 in southwest Bexar County. It is part of the San Antonio Metropolitan Statistical Area.
History
Macdona was named for George Macdona, an Englishman, who owned the townsite. The first recorded sale of town lots was dated July 7, 1886. The Macdona post office (78054) opened in 1886. On September 1, 1909, the Artesian Belt opened a line between Macdona and Christine. In 2000, Macdona was reported to have 297 persons. The town is part of the 210 and 726 area code districts.
Demographics
Macdona first appeared as a census designated place in the 2010 U.S. Census.
Climate
The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers and generally mild to cool winters. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Macdona has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps.
2004 train derailment and chlorine gas poisoning
On June 28, 2004, a crash between BNSF and Union Pacific Railroad trains in Macdona resulted in the release of of liquid chlorine, which immediately vaporized into a cloud of chlorine gas that spread over a radius of at least . Three people, the UP train conductor and two residents, died and at least 40 others were injured.
References
Census-designated places in Texas
Census-designated places in Bexar County, Texas
Unincorporated communities in Texas
Unincorporated communities in Bexar County, Texas
Greater San Antonio
Populated places established in 1886
1886 establishments in Texas |
17995485 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food%20Empowerment%20Project | Food Empowerment Project | Food Empowerment Project (F.E.P.) is a volunteer-based non-profit organization focused on veganism and food justice. Its mission statement is "to create a more just and sustainable world by recognizing the power of one's food choices." The organization was founded in 2006 by lauren Ornelas, who continues to lead it. Based in San Jose, California, the F.E.P. opened an additional chapter in Seattle, Washington, in 2016.
Organization and mission
The organization is composed of a team of activists from various animal rights, environmental and social justice organizations. They work on encouraging healthy food choices that reflect a more compassionate society by spotlighting the abuse of animals on farms, the depletion of natural resources, unfair working conditions for produce workers, and the lack of access to healthy foods in low-income areas. In January 2011, the organization began researching companies that make vegan products containing chocolate to find out if they source their cocoa beans from countries where child labor and slavery can still be found. The frequently updated list of companies is available on the F.E.P. web site.
In 2024, Food Empowerment Project (F.E.P.) transitioned to a collective operational model, reflecting its commitment to shared leadership, horizontal decision-making, and community empowerment. This shift aligns with the organization's values of equity and justice, allowing all team members to participate equally in decision-making processes, fostering a more inclusive and cooperative structure for achieving its mission of food justice and animal rights advocacy.
Reports
In April 2008, the Food Empowerment Project supported California Senate Bill 1443 which would require that a written contract between a retail food facility and a purchaser include an option that allows the purchaser to direct the facility to donate leftover food to a non-profit food bank or provide it to the purchaser.
In March 2009 the F.E.P. began surveying supermarkets, convenience stores and other retail businesses that sell food in Santa Clara County. The resulting 2010 report, "Shining a Light on the Valley of Heart's Delight", found that higher-income areas had more than twice as many large supermarkets per capita than lower-income areas, while lower-income communities have nearly twice as many liquor stores and 50 percent more markets that sell an abundance of meat products. Neither of these latter store types offers a variety of healthy food options, like fresh fruits and vegetables.
Campaigns
F.E.P.'s first corporate campaign targeted Clif Bar, maker of energy bars and drinks, for not disclosing the source of their chocolate. This worried F.E.P. because two West African countries, Ghana and the Ivory Coast, which supply 75 percent of the world's cocoa market were documented by a handful of organizations and journalists to employ child labor and in some cases, slavery on cocoa farms. On December 2, 2014, F.E.P. declared victory with Clif Bar & Company publicly disclosing that its cocoa sources included both suspect countries.
F.E.P. holds an annual school supply drive for the children of farm workers.
Beginning in January 2022, F.E.P. launched a boycott against Amy's Kitchen, maker of organic convenience and frozen foods, after workers reported widespread injuries, low wages, and unreliable healthcare. Workers also cited unreasonable and unsafe workplace conditions, including defective equipment, blocked fire exits, workloads that led to repetitive-stress injuries, a lack of bathroom breaks and access to clean water, and being expected to roll 10 to 12 burritos per minute, while an understaffed line was expected to assemble as many as 72 plates of food per minute. The boycott, which was called for by the workers and was also supported by the group Veggie Mijas, ended on June 12, 2024, after eight months of discussions with Amy's executives. Gains made by workers include increased wages, increased workplace safety measures, a commitment to having bilingual representatives to help workers navigate company benefits, and that the company will not use labor relations consultants, which often force workers into captive audience meetings.
Accolades
F.E.P. received the 2012 Top-Rated Award from GreatNonprofits.
See also
Human rights
Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition
References
External links
American food and drink organizations
Vegan organizations
Animal rights organizations
Veganism in the United States |
17995530 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996%20Moldovan%20presidential%20election | 1996 Moldovan presidential election | Presidential elections were held in Moldova on 17 November 1996, with a second round on 1 December. Whilst incumbent President Mircea Snegur received the most votes in the first round, he was defeated in the second by Petru Lucinschi.
Results
References
Moldova
Presidential
Presidential elections in Moldova |
17995535 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jes%C3%BAs%20Rabanal | Jesús Rabanal | Jesús Giancarlos Rabanal Dávila (born December 25, 1984) is a Peruvian footballer who currently plays as a left back for Unión Huaral.
Club career
Rabanal made his league debut with Universitario de Deportes in the 2004 Torneo Descentralizado season. He managed to score his first goal in the Torneo Descentralizado in the 2007 season.
In January 2012, Rabanal left Universitario and joined their rivals Alianza Lima for the start of the 2012 season.
International career
Rabanal made his debut with the Peruvian national team on 4 September 2010 in a friendly match away to Canada, which finished in a 2–0 win for Peru.
Honours
Club
Universitario de Deportes
Apertura: 2008
Torneo Descentralizado: 2009
References
External links
1984 births
Living people
Footballers from Lima
Men's association football fullbacks
Peruvian men's footballers
21st-century Peruvian sportsmen
Peruvian expatriate men's footballers
Peru men's international footballers
Club Universitario de Deportes footballers
Club Alianza Lima footballers
FC Kairat players
Club Deportivo Universidad César Vallejo footballers
Alianza Atlético footballers
Sport Rosario footballers
Unión Comercio footballers
FC Carlos Stein players
Unión Huaral footballers
Peruvian Primera División players
Peruvian Segunda División players
Kazakhstan Premier League players
Expatriate men's footballers in Kazakhstan |
17995538 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%20FIRS%20Men%27s%20Inline%20Hockey%20World%20Championships | 2008 FIRS Men's Inline Hockey World Championships | The FIRS Men's Inline Hockey World Championships XIV is held in Germany between July 6 and July 12, 2008. It is the 14th such event hosted by the International Roller Sports Federation. Teams representing 17 countries will participate in four pools. The competition will also serve as qualifications for the 2009 competition as well as selection of the five top placing teams for the 2009 World Games.
Participating teams
Group 1
Pool A
Pool B
Group 2
Pool C
Pool D
Rules
For standing purposes, points shall be awarded as follows:
2 points for a win
1 point for a tie
No points for a loss
If teams are tied in a standing based on points, the following tie-breakers are applied:
1) The most points earned in direct games involving tied teams.
2) The best goal differential in direct games involving tied teams.
3) The most goal scored in direct games involving tied teams.
4) Follow steps 1, 2 and 3 with games involving the highest non-tied team in the same group.
5) Repeat step 4 with games involving the second highest non-tied team in the same group.
6) Continue this process with all non-tied team games.
Group 1
The top eight inline hockey nations were placed in the following two pools. After playing a round robin, the top three teams in each pool advance to the World Championship while the last team in each pool are relegated to the National Team World Cup.
Pool A
All times are local (UTC+2).
Pool B
All times are local (UTC+2).
Group 2
The remaining inline hockey nations were placed in the following two pools. After playing a round robin, the top team in each pool advance to the World Championship while the rest of the teams in each pool are relegated to the National Team World Cup.
Pool C
All times are local (UTC+2).
Pool D
All times are local (UTC+2).
World Championship
Draw
Quarterfinals
All times are local (UTC+2).
Semifinals
All times are local (UTC+2).
Bronze-medal game
All times are local (UTC+2)
Gold-medal game
All times are local (UTC-4)
5th-8th placement round
Draw
Qualifying round
All times are local (UTC+2).
7th-8th-place game
All times are local (UTC+2).
5th-6th-place game
All times are local (UTC+2).
National Team World Cup
Draw
Quarterfinals
All times are local (UTC+2).
Semifinals
All times are local (UTC+2).
Bronze-medal game
All times are local (UTC+2)
Gold-medal game
All times are local (UTC-4)
Placement Round Robin
All times are local (UTC+2).
Ranking and statistics
Tournament Awards
Best players selected by the FIRS:
Best Goalkeeper:
Best Defenseman:
Best Forward:
Most Valuable Player:
All-Tournament Team:
Goalkeeper:
Defense:
Forward:
Final standings
The final standings of the tournament according to FIRS:
Scoring leaders
List shows the top 10 skaters sorted by points, then goals. If the list exceeds 10 skaters because of a tie in points, all of the tied skaters are left out.
GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/- = Plus/minus; PIM = Penalties in minutes; POS = Position
Leading goaltenders
Only the top 5 goaltenders, based on save percentage, who have played over 40% of their team's minutes are included in this list.
TOI = Time On Ice (minutes:seconds); SA = Shots against; GA = Goals against; GAA = Goals against average; Sv% = Save percentage; SO = Shutouts
See also
FIRS Inline Hockey World Championships
List of FIRS Senior Men's Inline Hockey World Championships medalists
2008 in inline hockey
2008 in German sport
July 2008 sports events in Germany
Inline hockey tournaments
International sports competitions hosted by Germany
Inline hockey in Germany |
17995540 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale-Cady%20Octagon%20House%20and%20Yale%20Lock%20Factory%20Site | Yale-Cady Octagon House and Yale Lock Factory Site | The Yale-Cady Octagon House and Yale Lock Factory Site is a private residence at 7550 North Main Street in Newport, New York, comprising an historic octagonal house and the adjoining site of the lock factory of Linus Yale, Sr. and his son Linus Yale, Jr., the inventor of the cylinder lock and the founders of the Yale Lock company.
Linus Yale, Sr., built the house in 1849 as a gift for his daughter, Chlothilda, who had married Ira L. Cady on July 8, 1839, father of architect Merton Yale Cady. Currently, the house is a private residence and the Yale Lock Factory is in ruins.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.
It is a property with several interesting details, including overhanging eaves with pairs of curvilinear brackets, cupola and bay windows which are typical of the Italianate style.
See also
Yale & Valor
References
External links
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state)
Octagon houses in New York (state)
Houses completed in 1849
Houses in Herkimer County, New York
1849 establishments in New York (state)
National Register of Historic Places in Herkimer County, New York
Industrial buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state)
Locksmithing
Yale family |
17995542 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20purity%20movement | Social purity movement | The social purity movement was a late 19th-century social movement that sought to abolish prostitution and other sexual activities that were considered immoral according to Christian morality. The movement was active in English-speaking nations from the late 1860s to about 1910, exerting an important influence on the contemporaneous feminist, eugenics, and birth control movements.
The roots of the social purity movement lay in early 19th-century moral reform movements, such as radical utopianism, abolitionism, and the temperance movement. In the late 19th century, "social" was a euphemism for "sexual"; the movement first formed in opposition to the legalization and regulation of prostitution, and quickly spread to other sex-related issues such as raising the age of consent, sexually segregating prisons, opposing contraception, preventing white slavery, and censoring pornography. Activists in the movement used a white cross for their symbol.
Influences
The rapid changing in American society was evident in temperance, women's rights, evangelical revivalists, and workers rights movements. Born out of a few debatable movements was the “Social Purity Movement” that has left a lasting legacy on sexual ethics and female bodily autonomy in the United States. Although this movement was mainly focused on the specific task of eliminating prostitution, its advocates had varying agendas and the results of this movement were skewed from the original task. Evangelism and a general moral panic around venereal diseases fueled the movement into gaining widespread support across the American public, including the support of some feminists and conservatives alike. Leading up to the social purity movement, the prevalence of prostitution was growing and conversations were being had around legalizing prostitution and regulating its commerce. With the focus being on white women, even more specifically newly immigrated Eastern European white women, it was crucial that the popularity of prostitution be diminished to preserve the purity of white women (hence social purity). Prostitution was never legalized, yet the social purity movement had already begun and was breaking ground in other avenues to dampen prostitution and other products of lust.
Social purity as a movement took roots in the mid 1800s in England and was prominently led by an evangelical woman Jane Ellice Hopkins. She spent her early childhood and early adulthood on the east coast of America and her transformative social work began in the United Kingdom. She was responsible for a multitude of organised support groups for the movement and became successful in her appeal to male involvement in ways that other social puritists were not. Her deep dedication to the church not only gave her helpful connections in the spreading of this movement in Europe, but also gave her a characteristic drive and passion for this work. She was able to make changes in very practical ways, such as raising the legal age of consent for women to 16, and in individual moral ways, such as asking "good" Christian men to pledge themselves to respecting women and dismantling hypocrisy in sexual standards. Her work set a precedence for what was to be done in the United States. There was a gray area in this movement where feminists, eugenicists, and social purists could agree. Feminists were concerned about the sexual exploitation of women as an act of violence against them and eugenicists were concerned with the preservation of the ‘fittest’ citizens, needing white female chastity to achieve these aspirations. There was some intersection of goals with the social purists in this sense, and they inevitably influenced one another. Religion, feminism, and eugenicists found common ground in the control and/or protection of women's bodies as something sacred and necessary, but only white women's bodies were included in this protection.
Mann Act
The Social Purity Movement came to fruition under the United States federal Mann Act passed in 1910, otherwise known as the White Slavery Traffic Act, named after politician James Mann. This Act originally intended to restrict the transportation of women by men across state lines for the purpose of ‘prostitution or debauchery’ but was later amended to include 'any other immoral purpose', which was interpreted in wildly different ways. The Mann Act was made possible through the use of regulating foreign commerce which could have its own philosophical discussion regarding the agency of women in the early 1900s. Under the revised Act under Section 3, it was stated that any man transporting a woman across state borders "with the intent and purpose of such person that such woman or girl shall engage in the practice of prostitution or debauchery, or any other immoral practice, whether with or without her consent...shall be deemed guilty of a felony."
The calling to action of the public came in the form of newspaper articles featuring "white slave narratives" that revealed the tragic, and "common", situation that women who left home found themselves in. Historians have referred to this as a part of a 'moral panic' that was sweeping across the United States during the Progressive Era, as activists and organizations were popping up in all different sections of American life demanding the government intervention on spreading corruption. These white slave narratives re-enforced assumptions that male sexuality was virtually uncontrollable, to the point of coercing and kidnapping women into prostitution. The level to which some women were choosing prostitution versus those who were forced into it is unclear, but the numbers that were estimated are overestimated enough to lead scholars to believe much of this panic was ill-informed.
See also
Sexual Politics
Social hygiene movement
Birth control movement in the United States
Comstock law
Notes
Citations
Bibliography
Further reading
Anti-prostitution activism
Reform movements
History of eugenics |
17995544 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAI%20Searcher | IAI Searcher | The IAI Searcher (also known by the Hebrew name מרומית Meyromit - "Marsh tern", or officially in Israel as the חוגלה Hugla - "Alectoris") is a reconnaissance UAV developed in Israel in the 1980s. In the following decade, it replaced the IMI Mastiff and IAI Scout UAVs then in service with the Israeli Army.
Design
The Searcher looks almost identical to the Scout and Pioneer, but is in fact scaled up and is well over twice the size of the Scout. The Searcher is powered by a piston engine. The new design features updated avionics and sensor systems with greater flight endurance as well as increased redundancy for improved survivability. In addition to Israel, the system had been exported and is or was in use by Singapore and Turkey, as well as Thailand, Russia, India, South Korea, and Sri Lanka.
Service history
Around 100 Searcher UAVs are being operated by the Indian Armed Forces. While the Indian Army operates at least 25 units of Mk-I and Mk-II variant, the Indian Air Force and the Indian Navy operates the Mk-II variant only. On 11 December 2024, the Indian Navy de-inducted 8 Searcher Mk-IIs from INAS 342 and INAS 343 at Kochi.
It took part in the large-scale Russian-Belarusian exercise Zapad in September 2021.
On March 13, 2022, the Russian Ministry of Defence released video of the use of the updated Russian version in Ukraine.
Crashes
10 June 2002 – Searcher Mark-II, operated by Indian Air Force for reconnaissance, was shot down by a Pakistan Air Force F-16B using AIM-9L Sidewinder at an altitude of 13,000 ft, after it was spotted by the mobile observation units.
21 November 2017 – A Searcher Mk-II of the Indian Navy crashed in the north of INS Garuda, Kochi just after take-off at 10:25 am IST during routine surveillance mission. The crash occurred due to technical issues.
11 July 2018 – A Russian "Forpost" UAV was found on 12 July in a field close to the village of Barqah, about 12 kilometres from the Israeli side of the Golan Heights (Syria) but none of the belligerents claimed the shot-down nor the loss.
11 March 2022 – a Russian "Forpost" UAV was shot down in Zhitomir Oblast.
18 March 2024 – a Searcher Mk-II drone of the Indian Navy crashed while landing after a routine training sortie at INS Garuda. The UAV touched the ground about one mile short of the runway at 5 pm IST. No injuries or damage to property has been reported. A team was immediately dispatched to render the UAV safe.
Operators
Current operators
Canadian Security Intelligence Service
- as (Форпост) licensed copy with a 250 km range. 30 systems with 3 UAVs each. The fully domestic version Forpost-R made its first flight in late August 2019. 10 Forpost-R systems were ordered. Deliveries of the modified UCAVs with reconnaissance and strike capabilities started in 2020. Russia has decided to continue domestic production of the Forpost-R.
(retired; replaced by IAI Heron-1 in 2011)
(operated as Forpost-R UCAV)
Former operators
: 8 Searcher Mk-IIs operated by INAS 342 and INAS 343 from 2002 to 2024.
Specifications
Searcher II MK3
Forpost-R
The Forpost-R is the designation for the Russian developed UCAV based on the IAI Searcher. In 2008, Russia had approached Israel to import drones following the Russo-Georgian War, with Israel refusing to provide armed drones, an agreement was made to provide IAI Searchers MKII.
According to a YouTube video and information published by the Russian Ministry of Defense on March 13, 2022, Russian armed forces have used an armed version of the Forpost-R Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) to destroy a multiple launch rocket system from the Ukrainian army from an altitude of 3,000 m using guided missiles.
According to a video surfaced online and information published by the Russian Ministry of Defense on June 21, 2024, Russian armed forces used a strike version of the Forpost-R unmanned aerial vehicle to destroy militants in Syria.
Armaments (Forpost-R)
X-BPLA anti tank missile
See also
References
This article contains material that originally came from the web article Unmanned Aerial Vehicles by Greg Goebel, which exists in the Public Domain.
Searcher
1980s Israeli military reconnaissance aircraft
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Twin-boom aircraft
High-wing aircraft
Aircraft with fixed tricycle landing gear
Single-engined piston aircraft |
17995549 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nag%27s%20Head%20Island | Nag's Head Island | Nag's Head Island is an island in the River Thames in Oxfordshire, England at Abingdon. It sits in the middle of the two Abingdon Bridges on the reach above Culham Lock.
The part of the island on the upstream side of the bridge is occupied by the Nag's Head public house, which gave the island its name, a nag being a useless horse.
From the top of the island here a daily river boat service to runs to Oxford.
The frontage downstream of the bridge is occupied by a riverside cafe, chandlers and navigation stores, and boat hire facilities. Behind this is an extensive public open space.
See also
Islands in the River Thames
References
Islands of Oxfordshire
Islands of the River Thames |
17995582 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduardo%20X%20Arroyo | Eduardo X Arroyo | Eduardo X Arroyo (born 1953, Quito, Ecuador) is an Ecuadorian painter.
He studied at Escuela de Artes Decorativas in Madrid and obtained his degree in Interior Design in 1977.
Exhibitions
1981 Galería Altamira, Quito.
1993 Posada de las Artes Kingman, Quito
1996 Galería González Guzmán, Quito
1997 Galería González Guzmán, Quito
1998 Ara Gallery Cultural Center, Coral Gables, USA. Group Exhibition
1999 Galería González Guzmán, Quito
2001 Galería González Guzmán, Quito. Group Exhibition
2002 Posada de las Artes Kingman, Quito
2002 Galería Imaginar, Quito. Homenaje a la amiga Inés Maria Flores. Group Exhibition
2002 No-Salón de Arte Contemporáneo y Descontemporáneo, Quito. Group Exhibition
2002 Galería González Guzmán, Quito. ¨24 Artistas acolitan a Stornaiolo¨. Group Exhibition
2004 Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Quito. Muestra de Arte Erótico. Group Exhibition
2004 Sala del Cafelibro, Quito
2005 Galería González Guzmán, Quito
2006 Salón de la Plástica Mexicana, “La Plástica Ecuatoriana en México”, México Distrito Federal. Group Exhibition
2006 Mina Álvarez Taller Galería Arte, Quito. “Confluencias I”. Group Exhibition
2006 Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Salas Kingman, Guayasamín y Miguel de Santiago, Quito. Retrospective Exhibition 1981–2006.
2007 Casa San Lucas, Ramiro Jácome, Eduardo X. Arroyo, Pilar Bustos, José Unda. Group Exhibition
2007 Banco Central del Ecuador, Museo Nahim Isaias, Guayaquil. Retrospective Exhibition 1980–2007.
2007 Galeria de las Artes, Quito. Group Exhibition
2007 Museo Municipal de Arte Moderno, Cuenca. Retrospective Exhibition 1980-2007
References
Ecuadorian painters
Living people
1953 births |
17995589 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20Linda%20International%20Bridge | La Linda International Bridge | La Linda International Bridge (also known as the Gerstaker Bridge, Hallie Stillwell Memorial Bridge, Big Bend Crossing Bridge, Puente La Linda, and Heath Crossing is an international bridge which crosses the Rio Grande (Río Bravo del Norte) on the United States–Mexico border in the Big Bend region of Texas. The southern terminus of Ranch to Market Road 2627 in Heath Canyon, it connects Brewster County with the village of La Linda in Acuña Municipality, Coahuila.
History
The one-lane international bridge was constructed in 1964 by Dow Chemical to transport fluorspar from mines in Coahuila to the United States. The unmonitored international bridge was shut down in 1997 by U.S. and Mexican authorities because of suspected smuggling. According to other reports, the killing of a Mexican customs inspector at the bridge resulted in its closure. The bridge's closure created the longest stretch of the Mexico–United States border without a border-crossing station, nearly between the Presidio–Ojinaga and Del Rio–Acuña crossing stations. A number of individuals have advocated reopening the bridge, citing increased revenue for the area from ecotourism, improved access for those conducting business in both countries, and a need for a crossing based on cultural and familial ties on either side of the border.
In 1998, the National Parks and Conservation Association and the Andrew Kurie and Kurie Family (the owners) were granted a three-year suspension of the U.S. Coast Guard removal order, affirmed by an exchange of diplomatic notes. After the U.S.–Mexico Binational Bridges and Border Crossings Group Meeting in April 2002, a diplomatic note was exchanged between the U.S. and Mexican governments extending the moratorium on the bridge's removal by the U.S. Coast Guard through June 2003. Subsequent notes and negotiations allowed discussion by the U.S. and Mexico to continue. Support for the bridge's reopening from the State of Texas was asserted in HCR 164, enacted and signed by Governor Rick Perry in January 2008.
In 2003, the 78th Texas State Legislature passed a resolution supporting the reopening of the La Linda Bridge, noting that the bridge remained in good condition and local governments in the United States and Mexico supported its reopening as a border crossing.
June 2009 reopening proposal
A proposal for the future of La Linda was introduced at the June 3, 2009 Bridges and Border Crossings meeting in Brownsville. To formalize its proposal, COLINDA secured input from sources including Customs and Border Protection, TxDOT and Coahuila Obras Publicas and Turismo, Big Bend National Park, Comision Nacional de Areas Protegidas, El Carmen conservation groups, secondary schools and colleges in the U.S. and Mexico, Texas Parks and Wildlife, IBWC/CILA, private property owners and the Kurie family.
U.S. permits and Mexican approvals
U.S. presidential permits are not required for bridges built before 1972. La Linda was built and is authorized to operate as a toll facility under Public Law 87-525, Army Corps of Engineers Permit DA-N-005-41-PERMIT-9 dated October 30, 1962. COLINDA’s June 2009 request for the renewal of permits and approvals is being formalized by its attorneys.
References
Buildings and structures in Brewster County, Texas
International bridges in Texas
International bridges in Coahuila
Bridges completed in 1964
Transportation in Brewster County, Texas
Road bridges in Texas
Former toll bridges in Texas
Former toll bridges |
17995594 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese%20embroidery | Chinese embroidery | Chinese embroidery refers to embroidery created by any of the cultures located in the area that makes up modern China. It is some of the oldest extant needlework. The four major regional styles of Chinese embroidery are Suzhou embroidery (Su Xiu), Hunan embroidery (Xiang Xiu), Guangdong embroidery (Yue Xiu) and Sichuan embroidery (Shu Xiu). All of them are nominated as Chinese Intangible Cultural Heritage.
History
Chinese embroidery has a long history since the Neolithic age. Because of the quality of silk fibre, most Chinese fine embroideries are made in silk. Some ancient vestiges of silk production have been found in various Neolithic sites dating back 5,000–6,000 years in China. Currently the earliest real sample of silk embroidery discovered in China is from a tomb in Mashan in Hubei province identified with the Zhanguo period (5th–3rd centuries BC). After the opening of Silk Route in the Han dynasty, the silk production and trade flourished. In the 14th century, the Chinese silk embroidery production reached its high peak. Several major silk brocade styles had been developed, like Song Jin (宋锦 Song brocade) in Suzhou, Yun Jin (云锦 Cloud brocade) in Nanjing and Shu Jin (蜀锦 Shu brocade) in Sichuan.
Today, most handwork has been replaced by machinery, but some very sophisticated production is still hand-made. Modern Chinese silk embroidery by hand is still common in southern China.
Genres
Major styles
Su Xiu (苏绣) – Suzhou embroidery is crafted in areas around Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, having a history dating back 2,000 years. It is famous for its beautiful patterns, elegant colours, variety of stitches, and consummate craftsmanship. Its stitching is meticulously skillful, coloration subtle and refined. Suzhou artists are able to use more than 40 needlework and a 1,000 different types of threads to make embroidery, typically with nature and environment themes such as flowers, birds, animals and even gardens on a piece of cloth.
A rare subset is Su double-sided embroidery which requires ultimate skill and artistry. The front and back of the piece may have different designs, but the ends are not knotted but woven in so the back can't be distinguished.
Xiang Xiu (湘绣) – Hunan embroidery comes from areas around Changsha, Hunan Province. It is distinct for its starkly elegant black, white and gray colouration. Its emphasis is on contrasts of light and shade that highlight the pattern texture to give a three-dimensional effect. Xiang embroidery composition combines void and solid imagery, utilizing empty space in the same way as Chinese ink and wash paintings.
Yue Xiu/Guang Xiu (粤绣/广绣) – Guangdong embroidery is crafted in Chaozhou, Guangdong Province. It is composed of intricate but symmetrical patterns, vibrant colours, varied stitches and a defined weave. Its use of primary colors, light and shade are reminiscent of western paintings.
Shu Xiu (蜀绣) – Sichuan embroidery comes from areas around Chengdu, Sichuan Province. It is among the oldest known embroidery styles in Chinese embroidery history. Its raw materials are satin and colored silk, its craftsmanship painstaking and refined. The emphasis is on even stitching, delicate coloration, and local flavor. Sichuan embroidery is used to decorate quilt covers, pillowcases, garments, shoes and painted screens.
Other styles
Gu Xiu (顾绣) – Gu embroidery is rather a family style than a local style originated from Gu Mingshi's family during the Ming Dynasty in Shanghai. Gu embroidery is also named Lu Xiang Yuan embroidery after the place where the Gu family lived. Gu embroidery is different from other styles as it specialized in painting and calligraphy. The inventor of Gu embroidery was a concubine of Gu Mingshi's first son, Gu Huihai. Later, Han Ximeng, the wife of the second grandson of Gu Mingshi developed the skill and was reputed as "Needle Saint" (针圣). Some of her masterpieces are kept in the Forbidden City. Today Gu embroidery has become a special local product in Shanghai.
Ethnic styles
Other Chinese ethnic groups, like Bai, Miao, Zhuang and Tibetan people also have their own style of embroidery, which usually depicts a mythical or religious topic.
Common forms of stitches
Pekin knot - a knotted stitch which originated in China
Satin stitch - a common form of stitch used in Chinese embroidery
See also
History of silk
Suzhou Silk Museum
Chinese ornamental gold silk
Chinese auspicious ornaments in textile and clothing
References
External links |
17995597 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon%20MacLaren | Leon MacLaren | Leon MacLaren, born Leonardo da Vinci MacLaren (24 September 1910 – 24 June 1994), was a British philosopher and the founder of the School of Economic Science (SES). MacLaren was inspired by Henry George, Socrates, Francis Roles, Pyotr Ouspensky, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, and finally the philosophy of Advaita Vedānta through the Shankaracharyas of Jyoti Math.
Early life
MacLaren was born in Glasgow on 24 September 1910, but from the age of four grew up in the London suburb of Wimbledon. He was the son of Andrew MacLaren, a Labour Member of Parliament who was a staunch advocate of Henry George.
Schooled at Rutlish School in Wimbledon, MacLaren later became attracted to the law and trained as a barrister.
Maclaren said he was grateful to have inherited from his father three things: no religion, no education, and a strong desire to distrust experts.
At the age of sixteen, MacLaren contemplated how his life could best be put to the service of mankind, a one-word answer came to his mind, the word was "School". Describing the experience when he was siting by a lake in Wimbledon Park when he says:It became very clear to me that there was such a thing as truth, and there was such a thing as justice, and that they could be found and, being found, could be taught. It seemed to me that that was the most valuable thing that one could pursue. So I resolved to pursue this when I was twenty-one.Years later, in 1936, aided by his father Andrew MacLaren, he began an economic study group based on the Socratic method of inquiry that became The School of Economic Science.
MacLaren believed that the practical problems of the world could best be solved by transforming the nature of human beings.
Career
MacLaren's influences include his father Andrew MacLaren, Shantanand Saraswati, Henry George, Georges Ivanovich Gurdjieff, P. D. Ouspensky, Francis Roles and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. According to the Henry George Foundation, MacLaren joined the Henry George movement in London in 1931, serving on the executive committee from 1933 until 1937. At the 1936 International Conference of Georgist Organisations held in London, a contingent from the US presented a question-based method of teaching Henry George's ideas. MacLaren created a similar method and taught the course in London. In 1937 MacLaren left the Henry George movement and founded the School of Economic Science (SES) with the support of his father. In 1938 he was called to the bar and practised in Chambers at 2 Paper Buildings in the Inner Temple. In 1939 he was nominated to stand for Parliament against Winston Churchill, when war was declared the election was cancelled.
Some sources say MacLaren's father founded the school, while others state it was Leon. According to the SES web site, MacLaren introduced and developed philosophy courses to complement his economics courses. Over time the philosophy courses became SES's principal area of teaching. According to the group's literature, from the mid-1960s onwards, MacLaren presented, in addition to some of the ideas of P. D. Ouspensky, the philosophy of Advaita Vedanta, a philosophical theology of absolute non-duality as taught by the eighth-century Indian philosopher-theologian Śaṅkara.
He later stood as the Liberal candidate for Yeovil at the 1950 election and then at Hendon South in 1951 without any success. According to the SES web site, MacLaren studied Advaita Vedanta philosophy in 1965 with Shantanand Saraswati the Shankaracharya of Jyotir Math. MacLaren attended a lecture by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi at the Albert Hall in London in 1959 and became a student of the Maharishi. On commentator states that in the 1950s, MacLaren met and was deeply inspired by an Indian guru, Sri Shantanand Saraswati, and henceforth the School of Economic Sciences curriculum combined Platonic and Neoplatonic mysticism with Eastern Vedic philosophy. Meditation classes were taught alongside Socratic group dialogues.
According to Practical Philosophy's (founded by MacLaren) web site MacLaren spent three months in the early 1970s traveling around the world visiting the SES affiliated schools. MacLaren's illness came during his final world tour. He was brought back to England from South Africa and died in a London hospital on 24 June 1994. According to his foundation web site, MacLaren wrote a book called The Nature of Society. In 2009 MacLaren's former personal assistant, Dorine Tolley, published a biography of MacLaren's life called The Power Within: Leon MacLaren, A Memoir of His Life and Work.
In conjunction with Frances Roles, MacLaren founded the School of Meditation in London.
MacLaren was an enthusiast of the Sanskrit language, stating "The grammatical rules of Sanskrit are also the rules of creation". He began Sanskrit courses at School of Economic Science. Today SES represents the largest body of Sanskrit students in the UK.
MacLaren said on teamwork "The first quality of a leader of people – always the first quality – is a devotion to truth." and on praise "From praise comes joy, from joy – strength, from strength – virtue, from virtue – purity and from purity comes realization of one’s full potential."
Leon MacLaren is described as one of three men responsible for meditation being practised so widely in the west due to his early adoption of the practice and propagation of it globally via the School of Economic Science, the other two men being Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and Dr Francis C. Roles of The Study Society.)
He also established the St James Independent Schools, consisting of the St James Junior's, Senior Girls' and Senior Boys' School.
He taught until the last week of his life. In 1994, though ill, he flew from London to South Africa to lead a study week with the School's senior students. His visit was cut short when his health failed. He was flown back to London, where he died.
Personal life
According to MacLaren's foundation web site he married twice, had two daughters and lived in Hammersmith and later Hampstead and Oxfordshire. MacLaren had two unsuccessful marriages, both with Study Society members. Neither woman ever joined the School of Economic Science, preferring to stay with Roles, even after MacLaren officially split from Roles and his group.
He had a keen interest in music, he played the saxophone in a jazz band in his early life and also played the piano. He also composed several pieces inducing: "In The Beginning", "Isha Upanishad" and "Rig Veda", based on a seven-tone scale described as the "natural octave", based on Gurdgieff and Ouspensky's teachings.
Published works
Nature of Society ()
Music: The Foundations of Harmony ()
"Reminders": Extracts from the Lectures of Leon MacLaren ()
The Science of Economics: The Economic Teaching of Leon MacLaren ()
References
External links
MacLaren Foundation Official Web Site
School of Economic Science Official Web Site
Leon MacLaren and the origins of SES
1910 births
1994 deaths
People from Wimbledon, London
Liberal Party (UK) parliamentary candidates
Georgists
Advaitin philosophers
20th-century British philosophers
Transcendental Meditation exponents
cs:Škola ekonomické vědy |
17995644 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiraj%20College%20for%20Women | Ethiraj College for Women | Ethiraj College for Women is an arts and science college for women in Chennai, India, managed by the Ethiraj College Trust. It was founded in 1948 by the barrister V. L. Ethiraj of Vellore.
History
Chairmen
Source:
V. L. Ethiraj (1948–60)
V. T. Rangaswami (1960–72)
N. Mahalingam (1972–80)
Justice S. Natarajan (1980–98)
Justice S. Jagadeesan (1998-2008)
A. M. Swaminathan, IAS (Retd.) (2008–13)
V. M. Muralidharan (2013–19)
Chandra Devi Thanikachalam (2019–22)
V. M. Muralidharan (2022–present)
Principals
Source:
Subur Parthasarathy (1948–49, 1950–52)
Mona Hensman (1953–60)
Evangeline Matthew (1960–76)
K. Vasanthi Devi (1976–84)
N. A. Qadir (1984–85)
Keser Chander (1985–88)
Yasodha Shanmugasundaram (1988–94)
Indhrani Sridharan (1994-2005)
M. Thavamani (2005–11)
Jothi Kumaravel (2011–14)
A. Nirmala (2014–18)
S. Kothai (2019–22)
S. Uma Gowrie (2023-present)
Ranking
The college is ranked 79th among colleges in India by the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) in 2024.
Notable alumni
Trisha Krishnan, actress
Aishwarya Rajesh, actress
Chandini Tamilarasan, actress
Sreethu Krishnan, Actress
Dhivyadharshini, TV host
Dhivya Suryadevara, economist, former CFO of both the General Motors, and Stripe.
Dipika Pallikal, Indian squash player
Jayanthi Natarajan, politician
Joshna Chinappa, Indian squash player
Kanimozhi Karunanidhi, politician and Thoothukudi Constituency Member of Parliament (LS)
Latha Rajinikanth, film producer and singer
Leesha Eclairs, TV actress
Raveena Ravi, Dubbing artist and Actress
Madhumila, TV actress
Meenakshi Chitharanjan, Indian classical dancer and choreographer
Molly Easo Smith, Indian-American professor
Padma Subrahmanyam, Indian classical dancer and musician
Preetha Krishna, businesswoman
Sudha Ragunathan, singer
Sudha Shah, former Indian cricketer and national coach
Sujata Sridhar, former Indian cricketer
Sriya Reddy, actress
Shvetha Jaishankar, model, entrepreneur, author, beauty pageant title holder
Tamilisai Soundararajan, doctor, politician, and the Governor of Telangana
Thamizhachi Thangapandian, South Chennai Constituency Member of Parliament (LS)
J. Vijaya, India's first woman herpetologist
Srinisha Jayaseelan, singer
Priyanka Deshpande, television anchor and actress
Devaki Vijayaraman, television cook and the winner of MasterChef India – Tamil (season 1)
Roshini Haripriyan, television actress
Vibha Batra, author, poet, adperson
Aparna Gopinath, Indian film actress
Description
References
External links
Official website
Women's universities and colleges in Chennai
Universities and colleges established in 1948
1948 establishments in India
Colleges affiliated to University of Madras
Universities and colleges in Chennai |
17995659 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie%20Munro | Charlie Munro | Charles Robert Munro (22 May 1917, in Christchurch – 9 December 1985, in Sydney) was a jazz reedist and flautist born in New Zealand but based chiefly out of Australia.
Munro moved to Sydney when he was 21, and played in the bands of Myer Norman and Wally Parks in addition to work as a sideman on various nightclub, theater, and ship gigs. He served in the military during World War II, then worked with Wally Norman at the Roosevelt nightclub in Sydney. He played with Bob Gibson in 1950, then joined the Australian Broadcasting Commission's dance band in 1954, continuing to work with the group through 1976 as a composer, performer, and arranger. He worked extensively with Bryce Rohde in the 1960s, participating in many of Rohde's Australian jazz experiments. He led his own bands toward the end of his career, and also worked with Georgina de Leon.
Discography as leader
Eastern Horizons (1967)
Count Down (1969)
Integrations (1981)
References
Bruce Johnson/Roger T. Dean, "Charlie Munro". Grove Jazz online.
Further reading
Andrew Bisset: Black Roots, White Flowers: a History of Jazz in Australia (1979; revised 1987)
B. Johnson: The Oxford Companion to Australian Jazz (1987)
J. Clare: Bodgie Dada and the Cult of Cool (1995)
W. Bebbington: The Oxford Companion to Australian Music (1997)
J. Whiteoak: Playing ad lib: Improvisatory Music in Australia, 1836–1970 (1999)
1917 births
1985 deaths
Australian jazz flautists
New Zealand emigrants to Australia
20th-century Australian musicians
20th-century flautists |
17995669 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One%20Wisconsin%20Now | One Wisconsin Now | One Wisconsin Now is a liberal issue advocacy organization based in Wisconsin that focuses on advancing "progressive leadership and values." Created in 2006, One Wisconsin Now rose to prominence in 2006 when the group unsuccessfully opposed the election of Annette Ziegler to the Wisconsin Supreme Court. The group has called for investigations of a number of candidates for public office, including Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman. Isthmus, a Madison alternative weekly newspaper, called One Wisconsin Now "[one of] the most prominent players" in the 2006 Wisconsin Supreme Court elections. One Wisconsin Now is an affiliate of ProgressNow.
References
External links
One Wisconsin Now web page
Political organizations based in the United States
Progressive organizations in the United States
Organizations established in 2006
Political advocacy groups in the United States |
17995722 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mari%20Fasting | Mari Fasting | Mari Fasting (born 1 March 1985) is a Norwegian orienteering competitor and ski mountaineer. She is a two-time Junior World Orienteering Champion. She represents the club NTNUI of Trondheim, and is related to the ski mountaineer Ola Berger.
Junior career
Mari Fasting competed at the 2005 Junior World Orienteering Championships in Tenero, where she received a gold medal in the long distance and a gold medal in the relay event.
Senior career
Fasting participated at the 2006 World Orienteering Championships in Aarhus, where she finished 6th in the middle distance. She was injured for a large part of the 2007 season, and missed the world championship. At the 2008 European Orienteering Championships in Ventspils she finished 4th in the relay event with the Norwegian national team.
She competed at the 2013 World Orienteering Championships, and won a gold medal in the relay with the Norwegian team, together with Heidi Bagstevold and Anne Margrethe Hausken Nordberg.
Ski mountaineering
2011:
8th, World Championship relay, together with Ingvild Ryggen Carstens and Malene Haukøy
10th, World Championship vertical race
References
External links
1985 births
Living people
Norwegian female orienteers
Norwegian foot orienteers
World Orienteering Championships medalists
Norwegian female ski mountaineers
World Games bronze medalists for Norway
World Games medalists in orienteering
Junior World Orienteering Championships medalists
Medalists at the 2009 World Games
21st-century Norwegian sportswomen |
17995725 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort%20Hancock%E2%80%93El%20Porvenir%20International%20Bridge | Fort Hancock–El Porvenir International Bridge | The Fort Hancock–El Porvenir International Bridge () is an international bridge which crosses the Rio Grande connecting the United States–Mexico border cities of Fort Hancock, Texas and El Porvenir, Chihuahua. The two-lane international bridge was constructed in 1936 and is long. The Fort Hancock Port of Entry is located on the Texas side of the bridge and connects to Farm to Market Road 1088.
Border crossing
The Fort Hancock Port of Entry was established when the first bridge was built by the International Boundary and Water Commission in 1936.
See also
List of crossings of the Rio Grande
References
International bridges in Texas
International bridges in Chihuahua (state)
Bridges completed in 1936
Buildings and structures in Hudspeth County, Texas
Transportation in Hudspeth County, Texas
Road bridges in Texas
1936 establishments in Mexico
1936 establishments in Texas |
17995745 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smithereens%20%28film%29 | Smithereens (film) | Smithereens is a 1982 American drama film directed by Susan Seidelman and starring Susan Berman, Brad Rijn (billed as "Brad Rinn"), and Richard Hell. The film follows a narcissistic, young woman from New Jersey who comes to New York City to join the waning punk subculture, only to find that she's gravitated towards Los Angeles; in order to pay her way across country, she engages in a number of parasitic relationships, shifting her allegiances to new "friends" in an ongoing effort to ultimately endear herself to someone who will finance her desired lifestyle.
Smithereens marked the debut of Oscar-nominated screenwriter Ron Nyswaner (Philadelphia) and features a score by The Feelies. It was the first American independent film invited to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival. Smithereens is a precursor to Desperately Seeking Susan, Seidelman's next film; both films share similar themes of female identity and self-reinvention.
Plot
Wren is a runaway from New Jersey who has come to New York City in the hopes of becoming a figure in the punk rock scene, only to find that the movement is now centered in Los Angeles. Wren finds herself relegated to sneaking into the city's remaining punk hot spot, the Peppermint Lounge, to ingratiate herself with the bands that play there, in the hopes that one of them will take her on as a groupie. She also engages in a campaign to litter the city with photocopied pictures of herself bearing the legend "WHO IS THIS?" in an attempt to generate mystique. Although she works part-time at a Xerox shop by day, Wren nominally uses her position there surreptitiously to print her fliers, and she supplements her lifestyle by mugging women in the subway.
Wren runs across Paul, a young man from Montana in the middle of a road trip who has briefly taken up residence in the city before heading to New Hampshire. Although he sleeps in the back of his dilapidated van, Paul has saved enough money to otherwise live comfortably. When Paul expresses interest in Wren, she agrees to date him, but she’s emotionally abusive and makes it clear to Paul that she’s more interested in the stability he can offer her.
On a date, the couple meet Eric, former member of Smithereens, a one-hit-wonder punk group from one decade earlier. Although he's now unemployed and living in the apartment of another punk named Billy, Eric professes to be putting together a new group that will be headed to Los Angeles. Wren leaves Paul to move in with Eric, but she’s forced to leave after a confrontation with a nameless, blonde woman who also lives in the apartment.
Returning to her apartment, Wren discovers that her roommates have fled in her absence and that her landlady has locked her out. Wren visits her brother and sister-in-law in an attempt to get a loan, but they decline on the grounds that Wren has cheated them in the past. With nowhere to go, Wren returns to Paul and coaxes him into helping her break into her old apartment to retrieve her things. The two resume an uneasy relationship, and Paul allows Wren to sleep in the back of his van at night.
Eric finds Wren and tells her that they are set to go to Los Angeles, but that they need money to afford transportation and food en route. With Wren’s help, Eric robs a wealthy man, Ed, at gunpoint after trapping him in a taxi. Finding that they've made enough money to go to Los Angeles, Eric sends Wren to collect her things from Paul's van. Returning to Eric's apartment, Wren learns from Billy that Eric has taken all of their money and gone to Los Angeles by himself. Confronting the nameless, blonde woman in the stairwell, Wren learns that she is Eric's wife and that he has a history of picking up vulnerable women to exploit for his own financial gain. Attempting to reunite with Paul, Wren learns that he sold his van to a local pimp and used the money to continue his road trip. Looking inside the van, Wren discovers that Paul left behind a watercolor portrait he'd done of her.
Now homeless, Wren wanders the city until she's propositioned by a man in a convertible. Although she initially dismisses the man's advances, his admonishment that she has nowhere else to go causes her to stop and look back toward his car.
Cast
In addition, Chris Noth, in his second credited film role, makes a brief appearance playing a prostitute.
Production
Susan Berman fell off a fire escape on the 44th floor during rehearsal on the fifth day of filming. She broke her ankle and was in a plaster cast for four months, during which filming was delayed.
The police were called after a pedestrian saw Susan Seidelman handing the script supervisor a prop gun and the script supervisor was arrested.
Reception
Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote "Smithereens gets off to a fast start, thanks to Susan Berman's feisty performance and the vitality with which her story is told...Although willful inactivity seems a crucial part of the characters' way of life, it's carried too far; everyone here stays put a little longer than is believable, particularly Paul, who remains parked by the highway for what feels like weeks, with nothing to do but wait for Wren to appear."
Dave Kehr of the Chicago Reader wrote "Wren, in her self-delusion, manipulativeness, and superficiality, easily ranks as one of the most obnoxious characters in film history, and she exerts a strange fascination."
Film critic Emanuel Levy wrote "Susan Seidelman's feature debut, the first American indie to be shown at the Cannes Film Festival, put New York's East Village sensibility onscreen by examining issues of identity, desire and self-fulfillment from a distinctly female perspective."
On Metacritic it has a score of 72 out of 100 based on reviews from 7 critics, which indicates "generally favorable reviews".
Home media
Before the Criterion Collection DVD/Blu-ray edition, it was released on VHS by Merlin Video in the UK.
See also
1982 in music
1982 in film
DIY culture
References
Works cited
External links
Smithereens: Breakfast at the Peppermint Lounge an essay by Rebecca Bengal at the Criterion Collection
1982 films
1982 drama films
American independent films
Films directed by Susan Seidelman
Films with screenplays by Ron Nyswaner
Films set in New York City
Films shot in New York City
Punk films
1982 independent films
1982 directorial debut films
New Wave
1980s English-language films
1980s American films
English-language independent films |
17995765 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Horler | John Horler | John Douglas Horler (born 26 February 1947) is an English jazz pianist. He is the younger brother of jazz musician David Horler and the uncle of Natalie Horler, lead singer in the band Cascada.
Horler was born in Lymington. He began on piano at age six, and learned jazz from his father, a trumpeter. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music (1963–67), then played with the big bands of Bobby Lamb, Ray Premru, BBC Radio, Dave Hancock, and Maynard Ferguson. He worked with Tommy Whittle for much of the 1970s, Tony Coe later in the decade, Ronnie Ross for several years in the 1980s, Peter King in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and Jimmy Hastings around the same time as King. He led small groups intermittently and accompanied John Dankworth and Kenny Wheeler on record.
References
Mark Gilbert, "John Horler". Grove Jazz online.
Further reading
John Chilton, Who's Who of British Jazz.
External links
Living people
1947 births
British jazz pianists
Alumni of the Royal Academy of Music
21st-century English pianists |
17995775 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fault%20%28law%29 | Fault (law) | Fault, as a legal term, refers to legal blameworthiness and responsibility in each area of law. It refers to both the actus reus and the mental state of the defendant. The basic principle is that a defendant should be able to contemplate the harm that his actions may cause, and therefore should aim to avoid such actions. Different forms of liability employ different notions of fault, in some there is no need to prove fault, but the absence of it.
In criminal law, the mens rea is used to decide if the defendant has criminal intent when he commits the act and, if so, he is therefore liable for the crime. However, this is not necessary for strict liability offences, where no particular state of mind is required to satisfy the burden of proof.
Actus reus element
Most requirements for a successful actus reus require a voluntary act, or omission, for evidence of fault. There is also a requirement for a clear causation, there is no liability or fault if the defendant was not actually the sole cause of the act, this is so if there was an intervention of a third party, an unexpected natural event, or the victim's own act. Either of these can remove the legal blame from the defendant and remove the fault.
Automatism
If the criminal act is caused by an act of automatism, it means the act was caused by an involuntary movement of the limbs, and not controlled by neuron stimulation, removing the blameworthiness from the defendant. This was seen in the case of Hill V. Baxter (1958) where the defendant injured a person by crashing his car into them. He argued that his action was not voluntary because he was unaware of what happened. However, he was found guilty because the judge held that sleepiness or drowsiness when driving does not amount to automatism.
Duress
In the case of duress, the defendant has committed the act in response to a threat of death or serious personal injury to himself or a loved one, or someone towards whom he feels responsible. Therefore he is removed of fault as his actions were done to prevent such harm being done. It would be considered unfair to place the defendant at fault of a criminal action which he committed under duress.
Liability
In such cases of a "state-of-affairs" crimes, the defendant may be found liable even if he or she did not purposefully or voluntarily commit a criminal act. This is seen in R v Larsonneur (1933), where the defendant was French and entered the UK. She then tried to marry a British citizen, after which she would have gained British citizenship, which she could never be subsequently deprived of. However, the marriage was refused and she was ordered to leave the UK that day (March 22). Instead, she went to the Irish Free State seeking a priest there to marry her and the man, George Drayton. No priest could be found and the Irish police ordered her to leave by April 17 under the Irish Constitution. Larsonneur still did not leave and on April 20 was taken into custody by Irish police where they were forced to deport her back from whence she had come, the UK. On arrival in the UK, she was arrested for being an 'illegal alien'. The defendant was not at fault as she did not intentionally re-enter the UK under the Alien Act; however she was still liable for the crime under Alien Act, as there was no need to prove the act was voluntary. This was also seen in the case of Winzar v Chief Constable of Kent (1983) where the defendant was admitted to hospital by a friend who was worried for his health. However when the hospital realized he was merely drunk to the point of being semi – unconscious, they discharged him from the hospital. The defendant, because of his intoxicated state, could not get home, and was liable for drunk and disorderly conduct. Even though he did not have intention for the crime, nor was he at fault, because the crime been one of state of affairs he was liable and charged as such.
Causation
There is also an issue of causation, in this the courts look at both factual causation and legal causation. Factual causation uses the 'but for' test, asking: 'but for the defendant's act, would the result still have occurred?' If it would have occurred regardless of the defendant's acts, there is no factual causation and the defendant is not guilty. Factual causation was effectively established in the legal case of Pagett [1983]. However, in the case of White [1910] the result would still have occurred 'but for' the defendant's actions, so there was no criminal liability. Legal causation uses the 'operative and substantial' test. The defendant's acts must be the 'operative and substantial' cause of the result, as seen in the case of Smith [1959].
Mens rea element
The mens rea involves the different states of mind which demonstrate the relationship between degree of fault and liability. Depending on the different state of mind of the defendant at the time of committing the unlawful act, different sentences will be given.
Murder
A specific intent offense, such as murder, seen in the case of R v Vickers (1957), requires intention to cause a specific result. The mens rea of murder is the intention to kill or to cause grievous bodily harm. Intention is the most serious of states of mind the defendant can have, and this high level of fault is reflected in strict and long sentencing. Murder carries a mandatory life sentence, though the judge can impose a recommended minimum number of years as to which the defendant must serve before being eligible for release.
However, if murder is done with a specific intent in the name of a religion, ideology, etc., or to particularly vulnerable groups of people such as children, or is done so continuously (such as terrorism or serial killing) then it may be that the defendant is given a whole life tariff (never sees daylight again) to reflect his level of fault.
Recklessness
There is also subjective recklessness, such as in the case of R v Cunningham (1957), where the defendant is not required to intend the consequence to come from his actions, but the defendant realized the risk that this consequence would occur and took the risk anyway. Such a state of mind is required in most non–fatal offenses, such as
common assault (see section 39 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988)
The assault element of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, contrary to section 47 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861
inflicting grievous bodily harm, contrary to section 20 of that Act.
In all of these offenses, the defendant is liable for the offense and at fault if he commits the offense intending for the damage to be done, or being subjectively reckless as to whether the damage occurs. For this recklessness is sufficient to prove fault in the defendant.
Gross negligence
The defendant can also be grossly negligent, which is the mens rea required by involuntary manslaughter offences, such as seen in the case of R v Adomako (1994), where the defendant was held to be negligent as he had "breached a duty of care".
Defenses
Some defenses work by showing lack of fault through the involuntary nature of the defendant's conduct. Others, such as insanity and intoxication, work by establishing a lack of mental control or awareness on the part of the defendant. Still others, such as Duress and self–defense, operate by establishing that the defendant's conduct was justified or should be excused. Finally, the partial defenses to murder, such as loss of self-control (previously provocation), diminished responsibility, and suicide pact demonstrate a lesser degree of fault, resulting in conviction for the lesser offense of manslaughter.
Intoxication
The use of intoxication as a defense is based on whether the offense is one of basic intent or specific intent, and also whether the intoxication was voluntary or involuntary. For example, getting voluntarily intoxicated and committing actual bodily harm (a crime of basic intent) will result in the defense of intoxication failing, as getting voluntarily intoxicated is viewed as reckless by the courts, which is sufficient for basic intent offenses. Specific intent crimes demand proof of intention, and if the defendant did not form that mens rea, he cannot be guilty of the specific intent offense. However, often there is a basic intent offense as a fallback in such cases, e.g. if the defendant is charged with grievous bodily harm or wounding under s18 Offences against the Person Act 1861 but did not form the specific intent, he can be charged under s20 of that act, which has the same actus reus, but requires only intention or recklessness as to 'some harm' (making it a basic intent offense). However, there are some crimes that do not have this fallback position (e.g. theft).
Consent
The defense of consent is often only available to smaller offenses, such as Common Assault and, possibly, Actual bodily harm (S.47). The Attorney General's Reference [No. 6 of 1980] set s47 as a watershed, above which consent is unlikely to function as a defense as it is not reasonable to foresee that a person would consent to having serious harm done to them. However, cases are decided on an individual basis, and case law shows that a victim may effectively consent to even grievous bodily harm (e.g. in sport, in the case of Barnes [2004]).
Sentencing
Both the type of sentence imposed, and its severity, is in large part determined by the degree of fault shown by the defendant. This can also be seen in the impact of both aggravating and mitigating factors. This is why some people are opposed to the use of minimum and mandatory sentences, as they break the relationship between the degree of fault present in the offence committed and the sentence imposed. A guilty plea can have an effect on the sentence, depending on when it is made. Making a guilty plea before the start of the trial can reduce the sentence imposed by up to one third but changing the plea to guilty once the trial has started can only reduce it by one tenth. This is because admitting fault after the trial has begun has wasted court time and money (for jury and judge etc.), so this is reflected in the sentence. Tariffs and minimum sentences also illustrate that fault is relevant to the sentencing process, whether the defendant pleads guilty or is found guilty in court.
Types of sentences
Types of sentences will also reflect level of blameworthiness:
Custodial sentence
Suspended sentence
Curfew
Extended sentence
Community sentence
Fine
Conditional discharge or Absolute discharge
Strict liability
There is a role for strict liability in criminal law, in relation to both regulatory offences and offences of social danger. It can be argued that the interests of society as a whole can sometimes justify the imposition of liability without fault. Nevertheless, it should be pointed out that the degree of fault still plays an important part in determining the sentence following a conviction
Conditions for strict liability
Only actus reus needs to be established
No blameworthiness is required on the part of the defendant
It normally applies to regulatory offences (health and safety, minor traffic offences etc.)
The advantages and disadvantages must be considered
Cases include
Sweet v Parsley (1969) – where the defendant was found guilty of allowing her property to be used for cannabis smoking. Even though she had no knowledge of the offence, it was on her property so she was liable without fault. This conviction was later quashed by the House of Lords on the grounds that knowledge of the use of the premises was essential to the offence. Since she had no such knowledge, she did not commit the offence.
Harrow London Borough Council v Shah and another (1999) - relating to the sale of a lottery ticket to a person who had not attained the age of 16 years.
Advantages of strict liability
Many strict liability offences concern the running of a business, and if the business runs properly the actus reus will never occur. This means that many strict liability offences keep many businesses in line
A person or company taking a risk in order to make a profit ought to be liable if the risk causes problems to others
Certain activities must be prohibited for the public good and, so long as the penalty is not too severe, the public interest in, for example, preventing pollution outweighs the public interest in not convicting those who are without special fault
For some offences, it would be impossible to secure a conviction if guilty knowledge had to be proved, particularly where the defendant was a company rather than an individual.
References
Criminal law legal terminology
Legal terminology |
17995836 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Horler | David Horler | David Ronald Horler (born 10 September 1943) is an English jazz trombonist. He is the older brother of John Horler and the father of Cascada’s lead singer Natalie Horler.
Biography
Horler was born in Lymington, Hampshire. His father was a professional trumpeter. David studied piano from age five and trombone from age 14, and attended the Royal Academy of Music from 1963 to 1966. Following his graduation he played with the BBC Radio Orchestra (1967–70), then played freelance in London orchestras, including those conducted by Leonard Bernstein, Quincy Jones, and Michel Legrand. He moved to Cologne in 1980, playing in the WDR Big Band, also composing and arranging for the group. As a sideman, he has played with Maynard Ferguson, Stan Getz, Tony Bennett, Bob Brookmeyer, Mike Gibbs, Clark Terry, Kenny Wheeler, Carmen McRae, and Jim McNeely. He was made an associate of the Royal Academy of Music in 1992.
Personal life
Of his five children, one of his four daughters is Natalie Horler, the lead singer in the Eurodance band Cascada.
Discography
As leader
Rolling Down 7th with Ludwig Nus (Mons, 2006)
As sideman
With WDR Big Band Koln
Caribbean Night (BHM, 1997)
NiedeckenKoeln (Capitol/EMI, 2004)
Blues & Beyond (BHM, 2007)
The World of Duke Ellington Vol. 1 (BHM, 2008)
The World of Duke Ellington Vol. 2 (BHM, 2008)
The World of Duke Ellington Vol. 3 (BHM, 2008)
Celebrating Billie Holiday (CMO Jazz, 2008)
Christmas Revisited (Jazzline, 2013)
With Kenny Wheeler
Song for Someone (Incus, 1973)
Music for Large & Small Ensembles (ECM, 1990)
Kayak (Ah Um, 1992)
The Long Waiting (CAM Jazz, 2012)
With others
Patti Austin, For Ella (Playboy, 2002)
Bob Brookmeyer, Electricity (ACT, 1994)
Tony Coe, Allan Ganley, Malcolm Creese, Blue Jersey (ABCDs, 1995)
Phil Collins, Live at Montreux 2004 (Eagle/Montreux 2012)
Karen Cheryl, Karen Cheryl (Ibach, 1978)
John Dankworth, Full Circle (Philips, 1972)
John Dankworth, Movies 'n' Me (RCA, 1974)
Peter Dennis, Back to the Bands (Telefunken, 1974)
Peter Dennis, Peter Dennis Presents Big Band Boogie Woogie (Telefunken, 1975)
Peter Erskine, Behind Closed Doors Vol. 1 (Fuzzy Music, 1998)
Bill Evans, Vans Joint (BHM, 2008)
Albert Finney, Albert Finney's Album (Motown, 1977)
Michael Gibbs, Michael Gibbs (Deram, 1970)
Michael Gibbs, Tanglewood 63 (Deram, 1971)
Michael Gibbs, Directs the Only Chrome-Waterfall Orchestra (Bronze, 1975)
Paul Gonsalves, Humming Bird (Deram, 1970)
George Gruntz, Cosmopolitan Greetings (MGB, 1993)
Eddie Harris, The Last Concert (ACT, 1997)
Tubby Hayes, 200% Proof (Master Mix, 1992)
Tubby Hayes, Rumpus (Savage Solweig, 2015)
Peter Herbolzheimer, Bigband Bebop (Koala, 1984)
Peter Herbolzheimer, Music for Swinging Dancers Vol. 3 (Teldec, 1984)
Abdullah Ibrahim, Bombella (Intuition/Sunnyside, 2009)
Joachim Kuhn, Daniel Humair, Carambolage (CMP, 1992)
Bireli Lagrene, Djangology (Dreyfus, 2006)
Syd Lawrence, At Your Request Vol. 2 (Beech Park, 1980)
Michel Legrand, Suites from Umbrellas of Cherbourg and Go-Between (CBS, 1979)
Heike Makatsch, Hilde (Warner, 2009)
The Manhattan Transfer, Live (Atlantic, 1978)
Mendoza & Mardin Project, Jazzpana (ACT, 1993)
Airto Moreira, Gil Evans, WDR Big Band, Misa Espiritual Airto's Brazilian Mass Deutsche (Harmonia Mundi, 1983)
New York Voices, Live (Palmetto, 2012)
Maceo Parker, Roots & Grooves (Intuition, 2007)
Brian Protheroe, I/You (Chrysalis, 1976)
Bernard Purdie, Bernard Purdie's Soul to Jazz (ACT, 1996)
Daryl Runswick & Tony Hymas, Big Bands 1974–1978 (ASC, 2019)
Helen Schneider, Right as the Rain (Tomato, 1995)
John Scofield, Jim McNeely, Marc Johnson, East Coast Blow Out (Lipstick, 1991)
Lalo Schifrin, Gillespiana in Cologne (Aleph, 1998)
Lalo Schifrin, Latin Jazz Suite (Aleph, 1999)
Marc Secara, Now and Forever (Silver Spot, 2011)
Gary Shearston, The Greatest Stone On Earth and Other Two-Bob Wonders (Charisma, 1975)
Markus Stockhausen, Jubilee (EMI, 1996)
Clark Terry, Clark After Dark (MPS, 1978)
Gianluigi Trovesi, Dedalo (Enja, 2002)
Caterina Valente, Kurt Weill American Songs (Bear Family, 2000)
Sunny Wheetman, The Best of the Woman in Me (Young, 1979)
Jiggs Whigham, Bill Holman, Mel Lewis, The Third Stone (Koala, 1982)
Phil Woods, I Remember (Gryphon, 1979)
Michael Zager, Life's a Party (Private Stock, 1979)
Joe Zawinul, WDR Big Band, Brown Street (Intuition, 2006)
References
1943 births
Living people
People from Lymington
Alumni of the Royal Academy of Music
English jazz trombonists
British male trombonists
English expatriates in Germany
21st-century trombonists
21st-century English male musicians
English male jazz musicians |
17995852 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders%20Skarholt | Anders Skarholt | Anders Skarholt is a Norwegian orienteering competitor and Junior World Orienteering Champion.
Junior career
Anders Skarholt competed at the 2006 Junior World Orienteering Championships in Druskininkai, where he received a gold medal in the long distance.
He participated on the Norwegian team in the relay event, together with Erik Sagvolden and Olav Lundanes, and received a bronze medal. Skarholt was running the first leg and developed a heart flutter, and finished his leg two and a half minutes behind the lead.
References
External links
1986 births
Living people
People from Asker
Sportspeople from Akershus
Norwegian male orienteers
Norwegian foot orienteers
20th-century Norwegian people
Junior World Orienteering Championships medalists
21st-century Norwegian sportsmen |
17995856 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life%20with%20Father%20%28film%29 | Life with Father (film) | Life with Father is a 1947 American Technicolor comedy film adapted from the 1939 play of the same name, which was inspired by the autobiography of stockbroker and The New Yorker essayist Clarence Day.
It tells the true story of Day and his family in the 1880s. His father, Clarence Sr., wants to be master of his house, but finds his wife, Vinnie, and his children ignoring him until they start making demands for him to change his life. The story draws largely on Clarence Sr.'s stubborn, sometimes ill-tempered nature and Vinnie's insistence that he be baptized. It stars William Powell and Irene Dunne as Clarence Sr. and his wife, supported by Elizabeth Taylor, Edmund Gwenn, ZaSu Pitts, Jimmy Lydon, and Martin Milner.
Plot
Stockbroker Clarence Day is the benevolent curmudgeon of his 1880s New York City household, striving to make it function as efficiently as his Wall Street office but usually failing. His wife Vinnie is the real head of the household. In keeping with Day's actual family, all of his children are redheaded boys. The anecdotal story encompasses such details as Clarence's attempts to find a new maid, a romance between his oldest son Clarence Jr. and pretty out-of-towner Mary Skinner, a plan by Clarence Jr. and his younger brother John to make easy money selling patent medicines, Clarence's general contempt for the era's political corruption and the trappings of organized religion, and Vinnie's push to get him baptized so he can go to heaven.
Cast
Production
The movie was adapted by Donald Ogden Stewart from the 1939 play by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, based on the 1935 autobiography by Clarence Day, Jr. Day had worked as a stockbroker and was an author and cartoonist for The New Yorker. It was directed by Michael Curtiz.
Due to the Motion Picture Production Code standards of the day, the play's last line (in response to a policeman asking Mr. Day where he is going) "I'm going to be baptized, dammit!" had to be rewritten for the film, with the final word omitted. Mr. Day's frequent outbursts of "Oh, God!" were changed to "Oh, gad!" for the same reason.
Reception
Leading film critics in 1947 gave Life with Father high marks, especially with regard to the quality of Warner Bros.' screen adaptation of the popular Broadway play and the quality of the cast's performances. The New York Times in its review directed special attention to William Powell's portrayal of Clarence Day:
Film Daily summarized Life with Father as "one of the finer examples of film making in Technicolor" that provides "a delightfully different insight into the human comedy of another day." Variety complimented Irene Dunne's restrained performance as Vinnie as well as the work of the film's supporting players and the production's cinematography and overall direction:
Box office
According to Warner Bros., the film earned them $5,057,000 in the U.S. and $1,398,000 in other markets, for a total of $6,455,000 against a production budget of $4,710,000.
Awards
Life with Father was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role (William Powell), Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color (Robert M. Haas, George James Hopkins), Best Cinematography, Color and Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture.
Copyright status
Through a clerical error, Life with Father was not renewed for copyright and fell into the public domain in 1975.
Warner Bros. (or United Artists, the former owner of pre-1950 Warner Bros. films) still owns the theatrical distribution and music rights to the film, but other companies have been able to release non-theatrical, public-domain versions.
References
External links
1947 films
1940s historical comedy films
American historical comedy films
1940s English-language films
Films scored by Max Steiner
Films about families
Films directed by Michael Curtiz
Films set in the 1880s
Films set in New York City
Warner Bros. films
Films with screenplays by Donald Ogden Stewart
1947 comedy films
1940s American films
American films based on plays
English-language historical comedy films |
17995868 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anica%20Nonveiller | Anica Nonveiller | Anica Lazin Nonveiller (Serbian Cyrillic: Аница Лазин Нонвеје; born 1957) is a Serbian Canadian journalist, writer and producer. She is the sister of a Parisian theatre director Miloš Lazin. In 1991 she was fired from a state-owned Radio Belgrade for broadcasting a Croatian war song during the Yugoslav wars. After receiving death threats in 1992 she took refuge in France and latter moved with her family to Canada. Since 1996 she published political articles, essays and Tisza an autobiographical novel. She's the founder and director of the production house Aria that produces plays in Montreal that incorporates theatre, classical singing and political engagement.
Life
Anica Lazin was born in Kikinda and raised in Belgrade by a half-German mother, Rakila Blat, and a Serbian agronomist David Lazin. Under Josip Broz Tito's regime, her father has spent two years in prison for political activism. She graduated in 1979 in classical singing and got a job as a musical director for Radio Belgrade. She won two prizes for radio dramas in 1985 on Marlene Dietrich and in 1987 on the anti-Stalinist Bulat Okudzhava, which was censored but gave her a large following in the Belgrade's underground culture.
In 1991 Lazin broadcast a Croatian war song "E, moj druže beogradski" (Oh, my Belgrade Comrade) by Jura Stublić and was suspended. After engaging in legal action and losing, she appeared on television, published articles in the oppositional newspaper, Borba, and joined the anti-war resistance in the early 1990s. In 1992, she was discovered to be on a "liquidation list" by an independent journalist and was given political asylum from French government. In December of that year she moved to Paris and Valognes with her mother and children and later with her husband to Montreal, Canada.
Lyrical protest art
From 1997 to 2008, she directed a musical production house Aria that promoted rigorous Eastern European educational methods and political debate. The company re-adapted 19th century Opera classics by borrowing from their original literary inspiration in form of theatre dialogue and superimposing it with current events. The work on Bizet's Carmen (2004) was revisited by Mérimée's original text. Verdi's La traviata (2005) was restructured by going back to La Dame aux camélias by Alexandre Dumas, fils. Rigoletto (2007) was brought back to Le roi s'amuse by Victor Hugo.
References
External links
At La Scene Musicale
At Fringe fest
At Journe internationale de la musique
Radio-Canada
Éditions Trois-Pistoles
1957 births
Living people
People from Kikinda
Serbian journalists
Serbian people of German descent
Serbian emigrants to Canada |
17995875 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%20Saba | Joe Saba | Joe Saba (born 1940) is an Australian fashion designer and fashion business owner of Lebanese descent.
Saba started his fashion business in 1965 with the opening a store in 287 Flinders Lane Melbourne called the Joseph Saba Shirt and Sweater Shop. The Saba store was opened later in Collins Street, Melbourne. In 1969, he established a label for Jeans called "Staggers". The Saba label established in 1974, also was used on men's and women's clothing. Up to 17 stores had the Saba title. In the 1980s, he sold the designs of Japanese designers such as Rei Kawakubo and Yohji Yamamoto in Australia. In 1996, he won the Australian Fashion Menswear Award.
In 2002, he sold his fashion business to Daniel and Danielle Besen. The Saba label is now owned by The Apparel Group.
Recently he has started a new set of designs called "Nine by Joseph Saba".
He is married to Marita Saba. His garments are on display in the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney.
In 2005, he was honoured on a commemorative Australian postage stamp, along with other Australian fashion designers.
References
1940 births
Living people
Australian fashion designers
Australian people of Lebanese descent
Australian company founders |
17995877 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%E2%80%9309%20Liga%20Artzit | 2008–09 Liga Artzit | The 2008–09 Liga Artzit season started on 5 September 2008 and ended on 29 May 2009.
Two teams from Liga Alef were promoted at the end of the previous season: Hapoel Umm al-Fahm and Maccabi Ironi Bat Yam along with two teams relegated from Liga Leumit: Hapoel Nazareth Illit and Hapoel Rishon LeZion.The two teams relegated to Liga Alef were Hapoel Kfar Shalem and Maccabi HaShikma/Ramat Hen.
It was scheduled to be the last season before the league closing, as the top two divisions are both expanded to 16 clubs. As a result of the restructuring, the top seven clubs were promoted to Liga Leumit, whilst the eight-placed club played in a play-off against the 11th-placed club in Liga Leumit for a place in that division. The losers of that match and the bottom four clubs in Liga Artzit were relegated to Liga Alef, which has regained its status as the third tier of Israeli football.
League table
Positions by round
Results
The schedule consisted of three rounds. During first two rounds, each team played each other once home and away for a total of 22 matches. The pairings of the third round were then set according to the standings after first two rounds, giving every team a third game against each opponent for a total of 33 games per team.
First and second round
Third round
Key numbers for pairing determination (number marks position after 22 games):
Promotion playoff
Maccabi Kafr Kanna as the 8th-placed team faced the 11th-placed Liga Leumit team Ironi Ramat HaSharon for a two-legged playoff, Maccabi Kafr Kanna lost both games and were relegated to Liga Alef.
Season statistics
Scoring
First goal of the season: Wajdi Abu Yones for Bnei Tamra against Maccabi Tirat HaCarmel, 2nd minute (5 September 2008)
Widest winning margin: 8 goals: Hapoel Umm al-Fahm 0–8 Hapoel Marmorek (29 May 2009)
Most goals in a match: 8 goals: Hapoel Umm al-Fahm 0–8 Hapoel Marmorek (29 May 2009)
Discipline
First yellow card of the season: Roshdi Soph for Bnei Tamra against Maccabi Tirat HaCarmel, 13th minute (5 September 2008)
First red card of the season: Moshe Ben Haim for Ironi Bat Yam against Hapoel Rishon LeZion, 73rd minute (29 August 2008)
Top scorers
See also
List of Israeli football transfers 2008–09
2008–09 Toto Cup Artzit
References
Liga Artzit seasons
3
Israel |
17995886 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007%E2%80%9308%20Liga%20Artzit | 2007–08 Liga Artzit | The 2007–08 Liga Artzit season began on 17 August 2007 and 24 May 2008. Hapoel Jerusalem won the title and were promoted to Liga Leumit alongside runners-up Maccabi Ironi Kiryat Ata. Maccabi HaShikma Ramat Hen and Hapoel Kfar Shalem were relegated to Liga Alef
Final table
Results
First round
Second round
Third round
Top goalscorers
See also
List of Israeli football transfers 2007–08
2007–08 Toto Cup Artzit
Liga Artzit seasons
3
Israel |
17995892 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political%20party%20strength%20in%20the%20District%20of%20Columbia | Political party strength in the District of Columbia | The following table indicates the party of elected officials in the United States federal district Washington, D.C.
With the enactment of the 23rd amendment to the Constitution in 1961, the district has been permitted to participate in presidential elections. It is part of the "blue wall", having voted for all Democratic nominees since 1964.
The majority of residents want the district to become a state and gain full voting representation in Congress, which was confirmed with a 2016 referendum. To prepare for this goal, the district has been electing shadow congresspeople since 1990. The shadow senators and shadow representative emulate the role of representing the district in Congress and push for statehood alongside the non-voting House delegate. All shadow congresspeople elected have been Democrats.
Party strength, 1875–present
Notes
References
See also
Voting rights debate in Washington, D.C.
Elections in the District of Columbia
Politics of Washington, D.C.
Government of the District of Columbia |
17995896 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyler%20Scott%20%28Canadian%20football%29 | Tyler Scott (Canadian football) | Tyler Scott (born September 21, 1985) is a Canadian former professional football wide receiver who played in the Canadian Football League (CFL) for the Toronto Argonauts and Edmonton Eskimos. He attended the University of Western Ontario as a geography major with an intention to pursue teaching. He was drafted in the 2008 CFL Draft by the Argonauts.
Professional career
Scott's first game in the CFL was a pre-season game against the Montreal Alouettes on June 12, 2008, where he had two receptions for 20 yards for the Argonauts. Assistant General Manager Greg Mohns was impressed with his dedication, size, and movement. "He studied the playbook and he has not made a lot of mental mistakes," Mohns said following the first game. "He has a chance to make the final roster."
On May 27, 2010, Scott was released by the Toronto Argonauts. Scott was picked up by the Edmonton Eskimos on July 27, 2010, signing a two-year deal.
On June 8, 2012, during training camp, Scott collided with defensive back Rico Murray and was hospitalized. Scott was placed on the 9-game injured list.
References
External links
Edmonton Eskimos profile
1985 births
Living people
Canadian football wide receivers
Edmonton Elks players
Players of Canadian football from Ontario
Canadian football people from Windsor, Ontario
Toronto Argonauts players
Western Mustangs football players |
17995901 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulock%20Glacier | Mulock Glacier | The Mulock Glacier () is a large, heavily crevassed glacier which flows into the Ross Ice Shelf south of the Skelton Glacier in the Ross Dependency, Antarctica.
Name
The Mulock Glacier was named by the New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee (e NZAPC) in association with Mulock Inlet for Lieutenant George Mulock, Royal Navy, surveyor with the expedition.
Glaciology
The main trunk of the Mulock Glacier is about long and drops about from the edge of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet to its grounding line at its mouth.
It has the largest catchment area between David Glacier and Byrd Glacier, and drains about 5.23±0.59 gigatonnes of ice per year into the Ross Ice Shelf.
Its discharge rate is roughly in balance with the accumulation rate in its catchment area.
Velocities vary along its course, probably due to changes in the ground slope below the glacier.
In 1960–61 ice velocities along the grounded center line were about per year.
In 2001–02 these had risen to about per year, and in 2006–07 to about per year.
This increase in velocities, if real, should be resulting in thinning along the glacier's length.
Mulock Glacier is the second-largest contributor of ice from East Antarctica to the Ross Ice Shelf. The largest is Byrd Glacier, not far to the south past Darwin Glacier.
Mulock Glacier enters the Ross Ice Shelf from the west, so its flow opposes West Antarctic ice streams flowing from the east into the Ross Ice Shelf.
Its flow interacts with the much smaller Darwin Glacier and the larger Byrd Glacier, which also resists West Antarctic ice streams.
Hughes et al. (2017) consider that the East Antarctic outlet glaciers act as "nails" holding the Ross Ice Shelf in place. If climate warming melts the sea ice along the Ross Ice Shelf calving front, the front will retreat and the glaciers will punch through it, starting with Mulock Glacier and Byrd Glacier. As the ice shelf weakens, ice streams from the West Antarctic will surge and eventually the marine part of the West Antarctic ice sheet Shelf will disintegrate.
Course
The Mulock Glacier forms on the Antarctic ice sheet to the south of the Warren Range and Boomerang Range.
Deception Glacier flow south from between these ranges into upper Mulock Glacier.
It flows southeast past Mount Marvel to the north and the Henry Mesa to the south.
Heap Glacier flows northeastward to Mulock Glacier to the east of Henry Mesa.
The Kehle Glacier joins it from Mount Speyer to the northeast in the Worcester Range.
It flows past Anthony Bluff, Buntley Bluff and Cape Lankester to the southwest, and Cape Teall to the northeast to enter the Mulock Inlet and the Ross Ice Shelf.
The Evteev Glacier enters the Ross Ice Shelf just north of Cape Teall.
Tributaries
Deception Glacier
.
Glacier between the Warren and Boomerang Ranges, flowing south into upper Mulock Glacier.
So named by the New Zealand party of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (CTAE) (1956–58) because it appears to lead directly into Skelton Névé but instead drains south ward.
Heap Glacier
.
Glacier long flowing northeastward to Mulock Glacier, to the east of Henry Mesa.
Mapped by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) from tellurometer surveys and Navy air photos, 1959–63.
Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN f)or John A. Heap, a member of the University of Michigan-Ross Ice Shelf Studies party, 1962–63.
Kehle Glacier
.
Glacier draining the west slopes of Worcester Range in the vicinity of Mount Speyer and Mount Dawson-Lambton, and flowing southwest into Mulock Glacier.
Named by US-ACAN in 1964 for Ralph Kehle, glaciologist at Little America V, 1959–60.
Evteev Glacier
.
Glacier flowing from the southeast slopes of the Worcester Range to the Ross Ice Shelf, west of Cape Timberlake.
Named by US-ACAN in 1964 for Sveneld A. Evteev, glaciologist and Soviet exchange observer at McMurdo Station in 1960.
Other features
Anthony Bluff
.
A conspicuous rock bluff along the south wall of Mulock Glacier, about NW of Cape Lankester.
Mapped by the USGS from tellurometer surveys and Navy air photos, 1959–63.
Named by US-ACAN for Capt. Alexander Anthony, USAF, in charge of science and publications on the staff of the U.S. Antarctic Projects Officer, 1963–65.
Buntley Bluff
.
Prominent rock cliff long, just northward of Cape Lankester at the mouth of Mulock Glacier.
Mapped by the USGS from tellurometer surveys and Navy air photos, 1959–63.
Named by US-ACAN for Ensign Ronald E. Buntley, CEC, USN, in charge of personnel at the air strip, Williams Field, McMurdo Sound in USN OpDFrz, 1964.
Cape Teall
.
A high, rocky cape forming the north side of the entrance to Mulock Inlet, along the west side of the Ross Ice Shelf.
Discovered by the BrNAE (1901–04).
Probably named for Sir Jethro Teall, Director of the Geological Survey and Museum of Practical Geology, of London, 1901–13. Not: Cape Teale.
Cape Lankester
.
A high, rounded, snow-covered cape at the south side of the entrance to Mulock Inlet, along the west edge of the Ross Ice Shelf.
Discovered and named by the BrNAE (1901–04).
Probably named for Sir Edwin Ray Lankester, Director of the Natural History Department of the British Museum (1898–1907) and founder of the Marine Biological Association in 1884.
Mulock Inlet
.
A re-entrant about wide between Cape Teall and Cape Lankester.
The feature is occupied by lower Mulock Glacier which drains through it to the Ross Ice Shelf.
Discovered by the BrNAE (1901–04).
Named for Lt. George F.A. Mulock, RN, surveyor with the expedition.
References
Sources
Further reading
Swithinbank, C. (1964), To the Valley Glaciers That Feed the Ross Ice Shelf, The Geographical Journal, 130(1), 32–48. doi:10.2307/1794263
S. BANNISTER, B.L.N. KENNETT, Seismic Activity in the Transantarctic Mountains - Results from a Broadband Array Deployment, Terra Antarctica 2002, 9(1),41-46
IMMEDIATE REPORT OF VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION 1989-90: VUWAE 34
MARK W. SEEFELDT AND JOHN J. CASSANO, THOMAS R. PARISH, Dominant Regimes of the Ross Ice Shelf Surface Wind Field during Austral Autumn 2005 , NOVEMBER 2007, PP 1933 – 1955
Richard Levy, David Harwood, Fabio Florindo, Francesca Sangiorgi, Robert Tripati, Hilmar von Eynatten, Edward Gasson, Gerhard Kuhn, Aradhna Tripati, Robert DeConto, Christopher Fielding, Brad Field, Nicholas Golledge, Robert McKay, Timothy Naish, Matthew Olney, David Pollard, Stefan Schouten, Franco Talarico, Sophie Warny, Veronica Willmott, Gary Acton, Kurt Panter, Timothy Paulsen, Marco Taviani, and SMS Science Team, Antarctic ice sheet sensitivity to atmospheric CO2 variations in the early to mid-Miocene, PNAS first published February 22, 2016 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1516030113
Glaciers of Hillary Coast |
17995902 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maigret%20in%20Exile | Maigret in Exile | Maigret in Exile (French: La Maison du Juge) is a 1940 detective novel by the Belgian mystery writer Georges Simenon.
Synopsis
The mysterious moves of bureaucrats have exiled Maigret to a small town in the coast of Normandy where it rains all the time and there is nothing to do except for playing billiards in the local pub and sniff the gel that the local inspector lathers into his hair. Then an old woman shows up with a story about a body in the house of a judge in the fishing village of l'Aiguillon and things get interesting. A young woman with a mysterious ailment (something to do with being over-sexed but Simenon never explains what exactly is wrong with her), a young man with a temper, a hotel waitress with a secret, and an ex-judge with taste and style.
Publication history
The book was published in France in 1940, just before the Fall of France to the Nazis. The book was first translated into English in 1978 by Eileen Ellenbogen and published by Hamish Hamilton in the United Kingdom. The First American edition appeared in 1979.
Adaptations
An episode entitled "The Judge's House" for BBC's television program Maigret aired on 26 November 1963. Rupert Davies played Maigret.
A French television version with Jean Richard as Maigret aired on 1 February 1969.
A second French television version with Bruno Cremer aired on 15 March 1992.
References
1942 Belgian novels
Jules Maigret novels
Novels set in France |
17995905 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemenite%20Songs | Yemenite Songs | Yemenite Songs () is a 1984 album by Ofra Haza, in which the Israeli pop star returned to her roots interpreting traditional Yemeni Jewish songs with lyrics coming from the poetry of 16th century Rabbi Shalom Shabazi. The album was recorded with both traditional and modern musical instruments; wooden and metal percussion, Yemenite tin and tambala, strings, brass and woodwind as well as drum machines and synthesizers.
The songs are sung in Hebrew with a Yemenite accent and in Arabic.
In US, the album was released under the title Fifty Gates of Wisdom (Yemenite Songs), having a slightly different track order.
Composition
The opening song "Im Nin' Alu"'s a cappella intro would eventually become the starting point of Haza's international career as it was sampled by a number of European and American rap and dance acts like Eric B. & Rakim on their "Paid In Full" and M|A|R|R|S on "Pump Up the Volume" which led to Haza releasing a dance remix of her own recording in 1988 (subtitled Played In Full) which became a pop chart hit in many parts of the world. Remixes of both "Im Nin' Alu" and "Galbi" were included on the first international album Shaday.
Track listing
Side A:
"Im Nin'alu" (Shabazi) - 5:18
"Yachilvi Veyachali" (Shabazi) - 3:27
"A 'Salk" (Shabazi, Traditional) - 4:45
"Tzur Mentati"/"Se'i Yona"/"Sapri Tama" (Ben-Amram, Shabazi, Traditional) - 5:44
Side B:
"Galbi" (Amram, Shabazi) 4:14
"Ode Le-Eli" (Shabazi, Traditional) - 3:31
"Lefelach Harimon" (Shabazi, Traditional) 5:08
"Ayelet Chen" (Shabazi) - 6:30
Personnel
Ofra Haza - lead vocals
Benny Nagari - arranger, conductor, music producer
Lesli Lishinski, Marvin Feinshmit - bassoon
Ilan School - clarinet, bass clarinet
Eli Magen - double bass
Iki Levy - drums, congas, metal and wooden percussion, timbales
Abigail Erenheim, Benny Nagari - flute, piccolo
Shlomo Shochat - French horn
Meril Grinberg, Herman Openstein - oboe, English horn
Chaim Gispan - percussion (Yemenite tin & tambala)
Strings: Avraham Rosenblatt, Elchanan Bregman, Israel Berkowitch, Israela Wisser, Rima Kaminkowski, Yigal Tuneh, Yitzchak Markowetzki, Yuval Kaminkowski
Production
Bezalel Aloni - record producer
Benny Nagari - music producer/arranger
Yoav Gera - Audio recording and mixing
Recorded at Triton Studios, Tel Aviv between August and September 1984.
Aharon Amram - artistic advisor
References
1984 albums
Ofra Haza albums
Music of Yemen |
17995916 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavinia%20R.%20Davis | Lavinia R. Davis | Lavinia Riker Davis (1909–1961) was an American author of picture books, teenage novels, and mysteries for children and adults. She wrote over forty books, mostly under her own name, but sometimes using the pseudonym "Wendell Farmer".
She also wrote short stories, some published in The American Girl, The American Boy, St Nicholas and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.
One of her illustrators, Hildegard Woodward, was twice awarded the Caldecott Honor for her illustrations to books written by Lavinia R. Davis, Roger and the Fox in 1948, and The Wild Birthday Cake in 1950.
Selected bibliography
Hobby Horse Hill (1939) (illus. Paul Brown)
Buttonwood Island (1940) (illus. Paul Brown)
We All Go Away (1940) (illus. Dorothea Warren)
We All Go To School (1941) (illus. Dorothea Warren)
Plow Penny Mystery (1942) (illus. Paul Brown)
Stand Fast and Reply (1943)
A Sea Between (1945)
Roger and the Fox (1947) (illus. Hildegard Woodward)
The Wild Birthday Cake (1949) (illus. Hildegard Woodward)
Danny's Luck (1953) (illus. Hildegard Woodward)
Donkey Detectives (1955) (illus. Jean MacDonald Porter)
Island City: Adventures in Old New York (1961) (Peter Spier)
The Journals of Lavinia Riker Davis (1964)
Crime Club
Evidence Unseen (1945)
Barren Heritage (1946)
Threat of Dragons (1948)
As "Wendell Farmer"
The Surprise Mystery (1943) (illus. Alice Harvey)
Bicycle Commandos (1944) (alt. title Bicycle Detectives) (illus. Alice Harvey)
Fish Hook Island Mystery (1945) (illus. Ninon Macknight)
References
1909 births
1961 deaths
American children's writers
Pseudonymous women writers
American women children's writers
20th-century American women writers
20th-century pseudonymous writers |
17995930 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youssef%20Dahha | Youssef Dahha | Youssef Dahha (born 9 August 1972), is the official goalkeeper trainer for the Canadian soccer team, the Vancouver Whitecaps FC in British Columbia, Canada.
Career
Dahha played pro soccer in Morocco, and played for Morocco during the 1988 Olympic qualification rounds.
Coaching career
Dahha coached the goalkeepers of the Trois-Rivières Attak and second tier Montreal Impact from 2004 to 2011. He continued with the Montreal Impact upon their entry into Major League Soccer until 2017. He has contributed in Canadian goalkeeper Greg Sutton's development and then helped Matt Jordan, Troy Perkins and Evan Bush to become dominant goalkeepers again. He was goalkeeper coach for Ottawa Fury FC in 2018. He was hired as the Vancouver Whitecaps FC goalkeeper coach on 7 December 2018.
References
1972 births
Living people
Soccer people from Quebec
CF Montréal non-playing staff
Ottawa Fury FC non-playing staff
Vancouver Whitecaps FC non-playing staff |
17995952 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice%20O%27Fredericks | Alice O'Fredericks | Alice O'Fredericks (born Mitzi Otha Alice Frederiksen; 8 September 1899 – 18 February 1968) was a Danish actress, screenwriter, and film director. She is best known for directing the series of Far til Fire (Father of Four) comedies and the series of family dramas based on Morten Korch novels. Having written 38 produced screenplays and directed 72 feature films, O'Fredericks was one of the most prolific directors in Danish cinema. O'Fredericks also directed the first Danish films which highlighted women's rights. The Alice Award, presented annually to the Best Female Director at the Copenhagen International Film Festival, is named in her honor.
Early life
Alice O'Fredericks was born Mitzi Otha Alice Frederiksen on 8 September 1899 in Gothenburg, Sweden, the daughter of Danish parents. Her parents divorced when she was a young girl, after which she moved with her mother to Copenhagen. She was educated at a secretarial school then landed a job in 1918 as a script girl for Danish director, Benjamin Christensen. At this time she adopted the stage name of Alice O'Fredericks.
Career
Acting career
In 1920, O'Fredericks stepped in front of the camera, making her film debut as a nun in Christensen's controversial silent film Häxan (The Witches). Through the 1920s, she performed in several films including Gudmundur Kamban's drama Hadda Padda, and the comedy Pas Paa Pigerne for the popular Danish duo of Ole & Axel (Carl Schenstrøm and Harold Madsen). She created the Tumling Film production company with actor Johannes Meyer, played the starring role in two movies for Nordisk Film, and finished her acting career in George Schnéevoigt's 1929 Norwegian production of Laila.
Screenwriting and direction career
O'Fredericks debuted as a screenwriter in 1928 after winning a contest sponsored by the B.T. newspaper. Her manuscript became the Ole & Axel film Filmens Helte (The Heroes of the Movies). Thereafter she was employed with Palladium Film as a screenwriter and became a director's assistant to Lau Lauritzen Sr. Through Lauritzen's mentoring, O'Fredericks learned the craft of filmmaking which laid the groundwork for her long and successful career as a director.
She began directing films in 1934 in partnership with Lauritzen's son, Lau Lauritzen Jr. Their first effort was the farce Ud i den kolde sne (Out in the Cold Snow). The O'Fredericks-Lauritzen partnership flourished and they made 27 films together during the 1930s and 1940s. In 1950, she took a solo turn in the director's chair at ASA Film with the filmatization of the Morten Korch novel De røde heste (The Red Horse). Korch's novels about rural life were very popular in Denmark but until then had never been transferred to the screen. The Red Horses was a huge success, and with 2.3 million viewers, became the most watched film in Danish history. O'Fredericks went on to film six more Korch novels.
She also made several films in partnership with Jon Iversen and Robert Saaskin. During the same period, O'Fredericks created her popular series of Far til Fire (Father to Four) family comedies. Between 1953 and 1961, she wrote and directed eight of them. During her later years O'Fredericks suffered from rheumatism that confined her to a wheelchair. Nonetheless, she continued to write and direct, and she often employed two men to carry her around the set.
In the mid-1960s she wrote and directed a series of three rural dramas, the Næsbygaard films. These became her final films. O'Fredericks died of rheumatism on 18 February 1968 in Hellerup, Denmark. With a total of 72 films directed and 38 produced screenplays, O'Fredericks is one of Denmark's most productive filmmakers ever. Although film critics of her day gave her folk comedies only faint praise, her films were some of the most popular in Danish cinema.
O'Fredericks is noted as a pioneer for women filmmakers. She wrote and directed some of the first Danish films which focused on women and women's rights. These include her 1946 drama Så mødes vi hos Tove (We Meet at Tove's) about eight women who meet ten years after their graduation to discuss their lives; and 1943's Det Brændende spørgsmål (The Burning Question) about abortion and its consequences. In 2003, the Copenhagen International Film Festival created the Alice Award, named in her honor, to be given annually to the Best Female Director.
Personal life
O'Fredericks was married to Danish businessman and wholesaler Oskar Klintholm from 1927 until his death in 1959.
Filmography
Director
Brødrene på Uglegaarden (1967)
Krybskytterne på Næsbygård (1966)
Næsbygårds arving (1965) ... a.k.a. The Heir to Næsbygaard
Kampen om Næsbygård (1964)
Sikke'n familie (1963)
Der brænder en ild (1962)
Far til fire med fuld musik (1961)
Det skete på Møllegården (1960)
Far til fire på Bornholm (1959)
Vagabonderne på Bakkegården (1958)
Far til fire og ulveungerne (1958)
Verdens rigeste pige (1958) ... a.k.a. The Richest Girl in the World
Far til fire og onkel Sofus (1957)
Flintesønnerne (1956)
Far til fire i byen (1956)
Far til fire på landet (1955)
Min datter Nelly (1955)
Arvingen (1954)
Far til fire i sneen (1954)
Fløjtespilleren (1953)
Far til fire (1953)
Det Store løb (1952)
Husmandstøsen (1952)
Det Gamle guld (1951)
Frihed forpligter (1951)
Fodboldpræsten (1951)
Mosekongen (1950)
I gabestokken (1950)
Den Opvakte jomfru (1950)
De røde heste (1950) .. a.k.a. The Red Horses
Vi vil ha' et barn (1949) ... a.k.a. We Want a Child!
Det Gælder os alle (1949) ... a.k.a. It Concerns Us All
Hr. Petit (1948)
Stjerneskud (1947)
Lise kommer til Byen (1947)
Når katten er ude (1947)
Jeg elsker en anden (1946) .. a.k.a. I Love Another
Så mødes vi hos Tove (1946) ... a.k.a. We Meet at Tove's
Onsdagsväninnan(1946)
De kloge og vi gale (1945)
Klingende toner (1945)
Panik i familien (1945)
Affæren Birte (1945)
Bedstemor går amok (1944)
Elly Petersen (1944)
Teatertosset (1944)
Hans Onsdagsveninde (1943)
Det Brændende spørgsmål (1943) ... a.k.a. The Burning Question
Tyrannens Fald (1942)
Frk. Vildkat (1942)
Frøken Kirkemus(1941)
Tag til Rønneby Kro (1941)
Tror du jeg er født i Gaar! (1941)
En ganske almindelig pige (1940)
Pas på Svinget i Solby (1940)
Västkustens hjältar (1940)
Familien Olsen (1940)
I dag begynder livet (1939)
De tre måske fire (1939)
Blaavand melder Storm (1938)
Livet paa Hegnsgaard (1938) ... a.k.a. Life on the Hegn Farm
Julia jubilerar (1938)
Alarm (1938)
Der var engang en Vicevært (1937)
Frk. Møllers jubilæum (1937)
En Fuldendt gentleman (1937)
Cirkusrevyen 1936 (1936)
Panserbasse (1936)
Snushanerne (1936)
Week-end (1935)
Kidnapped (1935)
Ud i den kolde sne (1934)
Hotel Paradis (1931)
Writer
Brødrene på Uglegaarden (1967) ... a.k.a. The Owlfarm Brothers
Krybskytterne på Næsbygård (1966)
Næsbygårds arving (1965) ... a.k.a. The Heir to Næsby Farm
Kampen om Næsbygård (1964)
Sikke'n familie (1963)
Der brænder en ild (1962)
Far til fire med fuld musik (1961)
Det skete på Møllegården (1960)
Far til fire på Bornholm (1959)
Vagabonderne på Bakkegården (1958)
Far til fire og ulveungerne (1958)
Far til fire og onkel Sofus (1957)
Det Gamle guld (1951)
Hr. Petit (1948)
Klingende toner (1945)
Bedstemor går amok (1944)
Tror du jeg er født i Gaar! (1941)
Västkustens hjältar (1940)
De tre måske fire'''' (1939)Blaavand melder Storm (1938)Julia jubilerar (1938)Alarm (1938)Der var engang en Vicevært (1937)Frk. Møllers jubilæum (1937)Panserbasse (1936)Snushanerne (1936)Week-end (1935)Kidnapped (1935)Barken Margrethe (1934)Ud i den kolde sne (1934)Københavnere (1933)Med fuld musik (1933)Han, hun og Hamlet (1932)I kantonnement (1932)Krudt med knald (1931)Pas paa pigerne (1930)Filmens helte (1928)Kraft og skønhed (1928)
ActressLaila (1929) .... IngerFlickorna på Solvik (1926) .... Young GirlDet Store hjerte (1925)Solskinsdalen (1925) .... KariHadda Padda (1924) .... KristrunSmil og Tåre (1923) .... BessBlandt byens børn (1923) ... a.k.a. The Lodgers of the seventh heavenHäxan (1922) .... Nun ... a.k.a. Witchcraft Through the Ages or The WitchesHan, hun og Hamlet (1922)Film, flirt og forlovelse'' (1921)
References
Further reading
External links
Film in Denmark (In Danish)
Dansk Kvindebiografisk Leksikon
1899 births
1968 deaths
Danish silent film actresses
20th-century Danish actresses
Danish film actresses
Danish women film directors
Danish women screenwriters
20th-century Danish screenwriters
Burials at Hellerup Cemetery |
17995954 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20Rock%20Halt%20railway%20station | Black Rock Halt railway station | Black Rock Halt was a railway station in Gwynedd, located between Criccieth and Porthmadog on the former Aberystwith and Welsh Coast Railway. It served the popular beach at Black Rock Sands beyond the headland it is named after.
History
The halt, which could be accessed by a path from the foot of the Black Rock (), consisted of a wooden platform and was opened on 9 July 1923 by the Great Western Railway, which saw itself as the 'holiday line'. It closed on safety grounds in August 1976, but was not officially closed until 27 June 1977. No trace of the wooden platform now remains.
The site today
Trains on the Cambrian Line pass the site of the former station, which is just about discernible on modern aerial photography. The site of the halt can be seen from the Wales Coast Path.
References
Sources
Disused railway stations in Gwynedd
Criccieth
Former Great Western Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1923
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1976
1923 establishments in Wales |
17995963 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod%20Levitt | Rod Levitt | Rodney Charles Levitt (September 16, 1929 in Portland, Oregon – May 8, 2007 in Wardsboro, Vermont) was an American jazz trombonist, composer, and bandleader.
Levitt studied composition at the University of Washington, where he took his BA in 1951. He was in the orchestra at Radio City Music Hall from 1957 to 1963, and played with Dizzy Gillespie (1956–57), Ernie Wilkins (1957), Kai Winding (1958), and Sy Oliver (1959-60), and also worked with Gil Evans in 1959 when his orchestra accompanied Miles Davis. In 1960, he played with Gerry Mulligan and Mundell Lowe, with Quincy Jones in 1961, and with Oliver Nelson in 1962. He recorded four albums as a leader of an octet in 1963-6,6 and continued to work with this combination into the 1970s, when he also played with bassist Chuck Israels. Later in his career he worked with Cedar Walton and Blue Mitchell, and wrote music for commercials with a company he ran from 1966-1989. In the late 1970s he taught at Fairleigh Dickinson, Hofstra University, CUNY, and Hunter College.
He died of Alzheimer's in Wardsboro, aged 77.
Discography
As leader
The Dynamic Sound Patterns - Riverside RLP 471 (1963)
Insight - RCA Victor LPM 3372 (1964)
Solid Ground - RCA Victor LPM 3448 (1965)
42nd Street - RCA Victor LPM 3615 (1966)
As sideman
With Dizzy Gillespie
World Statesman (Norgran, 1956)
Dizzy in Greece (Verve, 1957)
Birks' Works (Verve, 1957)
With Mundell Lowe
Themes from Mr. Lucky, the Untouchables and Other TV Action Jazz (RCA Camden, 1960)
With Cedar Walton
Beyond Mobius (RCA, 1976) - arranger and conductor
With Kai Winding
Dance to the City Beat (Columbia, 1959)
Footnotes
References
"Rod Levitt", Grove Jazz online.
1929 births
2007 deaths
American jazz trombonists
American male trombonists
Musicians from Oregon
People from Wardsboro, Vermont
Riverside Records artists
20th-century American trombonists
20th-century American male musicians
American male jazz musicians |
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