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7,900 | Serious Moonlight (2009 film) | Serious Moonlight is a 2009 American black comedy film directed by Cheryl Hines and starring Meg Ryan, Timothy Hutton, Kristen Bell, and Justin Long. It was released by Magnolia Pictures on 4 December 2009. Plot When Louise, a high-powered Chicago attorney (Meg Ryan), discovers that her husband Ian (Timothy Hutton) is about to leave her for another woman Sara (Kristen Bell), she prevents him from doing so by binding him to a chair with duct tape. She tries to persuade and convince him that he still loves her, but everything she says fails to change his mind. He lies and promises that he still loves her and won't run away when she frees him. When he tries to escape, she knocks him out with a flower pot and tapes him to a toilet. She then leaves the house to purchase groceries to make a "romantic meal." While she is out, a lawn service boy comes by to mow the lawn, and Ian successfully yells for help and gets his attention. The boy, realizing that there is no one else in the house, begins robbing their house. When Louise returns, the burglar attacks her and brings her into the bathroom with Ian. During their captivity, Ian realizes that he does still love his wife, and the couple makes up. The next morning, Sara (Ian's mistress) comes to the house, furious that Ian did not show up at the airport to go to Paris with her. The burglars put Sara into the bathroom with the reconciled couple, and the three discuss their love triangle situation. They manage to escape by calling the police from Sara's cell phone, which is in her back pocket. After the whole ordeal, Ian chooses to stay with Louise. Some time later, Ian and Louise have sold their house and are moving away. They have had a baby as they had tried to in the past. They decide to have lunch one last time in town before they move. While walking to the restaurant, they walk past the same burglar who robbed their house, and the burglar nods at them in recognition. Louise looks away and walks away quickly, and Ian looks stunned (implying she organized the burglary). Cast Meg Ryan as Louise Timothy Hutton as Ian Kristen Bell as Sara Justin Long as Todd Production In 2006, a year prior to filming, the screenplay's writer, Adrienne Shelly, was murdered in New York City. Her widower, Andy Ostroy, acted as a producer for the film. The film marks the feature directorial debut of Cheryl Hines, Shelly's Waitress co-star. "I feel a great sense of pride to be directing this film," Hines said. "I had such respect for Adrienne and the work she did. And I love her writing so much. That tone is really in my wheelhouse." Release The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in April 2009. On 28 July, Magnolia Pictures revealed that they had acquired the North American rights to the film. It was released via Magnolia's Ultra VOD programme, providing a platform of 50 million |
7,901 | Agrahara, Malur | Agrahara, Malur is a village in the southern state of Karnataka, India. It is located in the Malur taluk of Kolar district in Karnataka. See also Kolar Districts of Karnataka References External links http://Kolar.nic.in/ Category:Villages in Kolar district |
7,902 | Abingdon Boys School discography | The discography of Japanese rock band Abingdon Boys School includes two studio albums, eight singles, three video albums, one compilation album, eight soundtracks, and seven other appearances in releases not under its name. Abingdon Boys School (stylized as "abingdon boys school" or abbreviated "a.b.s"), was formed in 2005 by Takanori Nishikawa, or T.M.Revolution, who originally named the band ABS after Ebisu, Tokyo, Japan and later changed the band's name to Abingdon Boys School, a school formerly attended by members of Radiohead. The band plays alternative rock and is currently signed to Epic Records Japan. Abingdon Boys School has contributed to the soundtracks of numerous anime and video game series and several tribute albums. Their music has been used as opening or closing tracks for anime series, including Darker than Black, Soul Eater, and Tokyo Magnitude 8.0, and games, including Sengoku Basara. In addition, they have also contributed to tribute albums to the manga Nana and the rock bands Luna Sea and Buck-Tick. They also perform in a live DVD by Buck-Tick. Both of the band's studio albums reached number two on the Oricon charts. Abingdon Boys School's singles have all charted on the Oricon charts as well; the singles "Blade Chord" and "From Dusk Till Dawn" have peaked at number two and number three respectively. Additionally, the band's three videos have all charted, with Abingdon Boys School Japan Tour 2008 and Abingdon Road Movies both peaking at number ten. Two of the band's releases, the album Abingdon Boys School and the single "Innocent Sorrow" have been certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of Japan. Albums Studio albums Compilation albums Video albums Singles Soundtracks Other appearances Footnotes Notes References External links Abingdon Boys School's homepage Category:Discographies of Japanese artists Category:Rock music group discographies |
7,903 | 27th Lancers Drum and Bugle Corps | The 27th Lancers Drum and Bugle Corps was an Open Class (now World Class) competitive junior drum and bugle corps. Based in Revere, Massachusetts, the 27th Lancers performed in Drum Corps International (DCI) competitions and were one of the founding members of DCI. The corps was a 12-time Top 12 Finalist at the DCI World Championships but went inactive after the 1986 season. In 1993, a highly successful alumni gathering resulted in a special 27th lancer tribute corps that preformed at the 1994 DCI Championships. Playing songs from the junior corps era, the group went under the slogan "Once more in '94", the group had over 300 members on the field. This performance has long been known as the final "Farewell" amongst fans and supporters. References 27th Lancers @ DCX: The Drum Corps Xperience External links 27th Lancers Alumni webpage Category:Drum and bugle corps Category:1968 establishments in Massachusetts Category:1986 disestablishments in Massachusetts Category:DCI defunct corps Category:Musical groups established in 1968 Category:Musical groups disestablished in 1986 |
7,904 | Terenthina | Terenthina is a Neotropical genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. Species Terenthina terentia (Hewitson, 1868) Terenthina bradyae (D'Abrera, 1995) References Category:Eumaeini Category:Lycaenidae of South America Category:Lycaenidae genera |
7,905 | Jeff Reinert | Jeff Reinert is an American basketball coach and collegiate basketball player. On May 21, 2019, Reinert became the 18th head coach in program history at Southern Idaho. From Bellingham, Washington, Reinert played college basketball for the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, then transferred to Gonzaga University in Spokane in 1982 and played for the Bulldogs from 1983-85. He was a teammate of future Basketball Hall of Famer John Stockton during the 1983–84 season. In 1985–86, he played professional basketball in Australia for the Ipswich Eagles before beginning his coaching career. Nebraska (1989-91) Reinert was a graduate assistant for the University of Nebraska from 1989-91. BYU (1991-94) Reinert was assistant coach at Brigham Young University. Utah Valley (1994-2002) Reinert served as Utah Valley University's head coach between 1994 and 2002. Oregon State (2002-07) Reinert was lead assistant at Oregon State University. Fresno State (2007-11) After a stop in Corvallis, Reinert spent four seasons as the associate head coach at Fresno State. He recruited players like Paul George to the Valley. Santa Margarita Catholic High School (2012-19) Reinert spent seven seasons as the head boy's basketball coach at Santa Margarita Catholic High School in Rancho Santa Margarita, California, where he compiled a 145-75 record from 2012-19. He led SMCHS to a CIF SS title in 2014 and 2019. Head coaching record College High School References Category:Living people Category:American expatriate basketball people in Australia Category:American men's basketball coaches Category:American men's basketball players Category:Basketball coaches from Washington (state) Category:Basketball players from Washington (state) Category:BYU Cougars men's basketball coaches Category:Drake University alumni Category:Fresno State Bulldogs men's basketball coaches Category:Gonzaga Bulldogs men's basketball players Category:High school basketball coaches in the United States Category:Nebraska Cornhuskers men's basketball coaches Category:New Mexico Lobos men's basketball players Category:Oregon State Beavers men's basketball coaches Category:Sportspeople from Bellingham, Washington Category:Utah Valley Wolverines men's basketball coaches Category:Year of birth missing (living people) |
7,906 | List of Philippine Basketball Association players (A–E) | A B C D E More PBA player lists A–E F–J K–O P–T U–Z References Hardcourt: The Official Philippine Basketball Association Annual External links Official website MYPBA.com http://pba-online.net/teams/ A tl:Talaan ng mga manlalaro ng Philippine Basketball Association |
7,907 | Forbairt Feirste | Forbairt Feirste is a Belfast-based Irish language development agency that aims to utilise Belfast’s Irish-speaking community to help promote the Irish language; support Irish speakers living in and visiting the city; and support the city in general. The agency was set up in 1994. It has been successful in working with businesses in Nationalist areas of Belfast to erect Irish language or bilingual signage and are one of the main Irish language organisations who promote the Gaeltacht Quarter in West Belfast. Their director is Jake MacSiacais who has been in the position since 2004. See also Irish language Gaeilge. Gael-Taca Similar organisation based in Cork City. Gaillimh le Gaeilge Similar organisation based in Galway City. Gaeltacht Irish speaking regions in Ireland Irish language in Northern Ireland Líonraí Gaeilge Irish Language Networks Gaelscoil Irish language primary school- usually used to describe Irish language secondary schools also Gaelcholáiste Irish language secondary school List of Irish language media Ulster Irish Irish language outside Ireland List of organisations in Irish Language Movement Scottish Gaelic Gaeilge na hAlban / Gàidhlig Gàidhealtachd Scots Gaelic speaking regions in Scotland References Category:Irish language organisations Category:Culture in Belfast Category:Celtic language advocacy organizations Category:1994 establishments in Northern Ireland |
7,908 | Pat Hoed | Pat Hoed (born September 3, 1963 in Hollywood, California) is a singer, professional wrestling commentator and radio personality. He has performed under the guises of Fantasma (currently as a live vocalist/studio bassist for Brujeria), Larry Rivera (formerly a color commentator for Xtreme Pro Wrestling (XPW)) and Adam Bomb (DJ for Final Countdown, a Hardcore radio show from 1983–1990). He was also featured in the song "Edgecrusher" on the album Obsolete with Fear Factory. Discography Brujeria - Matando Güeros (1993) - Backing Vocal/Bass Brujeria - Raza Odiada (1995) - Backing Vocal/Bass Brujeria - Brujerizmo (2000) - Backing Vocal/Bass Asesino - Corridos de Muerte (2002) - Narrator/Interpreter of Brujeria newspiece video (computer-expanded bonus feature) Videography Best of Deathmatch Wrestling, Vol. 1 - Mexican Hardcore Desperados del Ring, Vol. 1 Desperados del Ring, Vol. 2 Desperados del Ring, Vol. 3 XPW After the Fall XPW Baptized in Blood XPW Baptized in Blood 2 XPW Best of the Black Army XPW Blown to Hell XPW Damage Inc. XPW Go Funk Yourself XPW The Revolution Will Be Televised XPW Retribution References Category:1963 births Category:Living people Category:American male singers Category:American singers Category:American male professional wrestlers Category:People from Hollywood, Los Angeles Category:Death metal musicians Category:Brujeria (band) members |
7,909 | Heaviest trains | The heaviest trains in the world are freight trains hauling bulk commodities such as coal and iron ore. The weight of trains generally does not include the weight of the operating locomotives; this is not considered dead weight, so is not included. If for example a train had two locomotives operating and was simply hauling a third off line, this third locomotive would be included in the payload weight. Specifications Gauge If the track and its alignment are strong, gauge is not so important. Among railways with over gross train weight, the Sishen–Saldanha railway line uses , while the others use . Most Pilbara region railways operate on pre-stressed rail, meaning that each metre of track weighs 68 kg or each yard of track weighs 137 pounds. This gives the track the strength to carry such heavy loads. Axle load The highest permitted weight per axle is: 2008 – Fortescue – Compare: 1830 – Stephenson's Rocket The track bed and the strength of the rails themselves limit the axle load. Line load Line load is the weight per metre or foot of train length. The strength of bridges is what mainly limits this. Examples: (Iron Ore Line, Sweden) Curves Curves must not be too sharp; wagons may be pulled off the track and derailed, especially with general freight trains where light and heavy wagons are intermixed, less so if all cars in a train are loaded and unloaded at the same place and equally much. The meaning of "too sharp" depends as much on experience as on a specific formula. Couplers The couplers must be strong enough in heavy trains. Janney couplers are used for the heaviest trains. The SA3 couplers handle trains of , as Russian trains limited by loop lengths, etc.; maximum load of SA3 couplers have not been tested. The standard buffers and chain couplers used in Europe can only handle train weight, but trials are made to push this limit to . Countries Australia Fortescue – gross train weight, long Glencore (load) long. These Trains have been operated by Freightliner Australia; however, with the purchase of Freightliner by Genesee & Wyoming Australia, this has most likely changed. Aurizon: bulk iron ore train to Esperance, (load); (gross) (gross weight excluding diesel locomotives) axleload) SCT Logistics; freighter from Parkes to Perth, June 2008, and with diesel locomotives / (crossing loops are ) BHP: June 2001 trial with 682 ore cars and eight distributed GE AC6000CW locomotives with a total weight of . BHP Genesee & Wyoming Australia bulk iron ore train to Whyalla - 82 wagons and long, Arrium - (4 locos, 160 wagons) - heaviest on national network. Brazil Carajás railroad, , Iron Ore typically 330-car trains, each long. Canada Bulk trains are limited to length with up to Iron ore trains on Quebec North Shore and Labrador Railway China Daqin: coal trains – , , 210 wagons France SNCF: 947 m long freight train with 67 wagons – . Train was composed of two coupled ordinary freight trains using standard buffers and chain couplers. Therefore, the locomotive of |
7,910 | Ministry of Industry, Trade and Small Industries | The Ministry of Trade and Industry is a cabinet level department in the government of Egypt. Its headquarters located in Cairo. The position of minister has been held by Tareq Qabil since 19 September 2015. Former Ministers Dr. Mustafa El-Rifai Samir El-Sayiad Hatem Saleh Mounir Fakhry Abdel Nour See also Cabinet of Egypt References External links Ministry of Trade and Industry official website Egypt's Cabinet Database Egypt Egypt Industry |
7,911 | Jorge Cerdán Lara | Jorge Cerdán Lara (23 July 1897 – 15 August 1958) was a Mexican attorney and politician who served as governor of the Mexican state of Veracruz from 1940–1944. He was a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). See also Governor of Veracruz Category:1897 births Category:1958 deaths Category:Politicians from Veracruz Category:Institutional Revolutionary Party politicians Category:Governors of Veracruz |
7,912 | Cabezabellosa de la Calzada | Cabezabellosa de la Calzada is a village and municipality in the province of Salamanca, western Spain, part of the autonomous community of Castile and León. It is from the provincial capital city of Salamanca and has a population of 87 people. It lies above sea level and the postal code is 37490. See also List of municipalities in Salamanca References Category:Municipalities in the Province of Salamanca Category:Populated places in the Province of Salamanca |
7,913 | Athletics at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's 5000 metres | The men's 5000 metres event at the 1952 Olympic Games took place July 22 and July 24. The final was won by Emil Zátopek of Czechoslovakia. Results Heats The first round was on July 22. The fastest five runners from each heat qualified for the final. Heat 1 Heat 2 Heat 3 Final Key: DNF = Did not finish, OR = Olympic record References Category:Athletics at the 1952 Summer Olympics Category:5000 metres at the Olympics |
7,914 | Chunghyeon-dong | Chunghyeon-dong is a dong, neighbourhood of Seodaemun-gu in Seoul, South Korea. See also Administrative divisions of South Korea References External links Seodaemun-gu Official site in English Map of Seodaemun-gu Seodaemun-gu Official website Category:Neighbourhoods of Seodaemun District |
7,915 | Catherine Ulbricht | Catherine (Kate) Elizabeth Ulbricht is a co-founder of the Natural Standard Research Collaboration. She is a Senior Attending Pharmacist at Massachusetts General Hospital. She serves on the editorial board of Harvard Health Publications, the Journal of the American Nutraceutical Association, and Pharmacy Practice News. She is editor in chief of the Journal of Dietary Supplements. Academic career Senior Attending Pharmacist, Massachusetts General Hospital Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacy Practice, School of Pharmacy, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences Assistant Clinical Professor, School of Pharmacy, Bouve College of Health Sciences, Northeastern University Assistant Clinical Professor, University of Rhode Island School of Pharmacy Assistant Clinical Professor, University of Florida College of Pharmacy Books Ulbricht, Catherine E. Davis's Pocket Guide to Herbs and Supplements. Philadelphia, PA: F.A. Davis Company, 2011. Ulbricht, Catherine E. Natural Standard Herb & Supplement Guide: An Evidence-Based Reference. Maryland Heights, Mo: Elsevier/Mosby, 2010. Ulbricht, Catherine E. Natural Standard Medical Conditions Reference: An Integrative Approach. St. Louis, Mo: Mosby/Elsevier, 2009. Ulbricht, Catherine E., and Erica Seamon. Natural Standard Herbal Pharmacotherapy: An Evidence-Based Approach. St. Louis, Mo: Elsevier Mosby, 2009. Basch, Ethan M., and Catherine E. Ulbricht. Natural Standard Herb & Supplement Handbook: The Clinical Bottom Line. St. Louis, Mo: Elsevier Mosby, 2005. Ulbricht, Catherine E., and Ethan M. Basch. Natural Standard Herb & Supplement Reference: Evidence-Based Clinical Reviews (English, Japanese). St. Louis, MO: Elsevier Mosby, 2005. Ulbricht, Catherine E., and Erica Rusie-Seamon. Common "Complementary and Alternative Medicine Health Systems." Handbook of Nonprescription Drugs: An Interactive Approach to Self-Care. Ed. Rosemary R. Berardi. Washington, D.C.: American Pharmacists Association, 2009. Basch, Ethan M., Ulbricht, Catherine E., Cohen, Lorenzo, and Moshe A. Frenkel. "Complementary, Alternative, and Integrative Therapies." DeVita, Hellman, and Rosenberg's Cancer: Principles & Practice of Oncology. Ed. DeVita, Vincent T., Theodore S. Lawrence, and Steven A. Rosenberg. Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2008. Ulbricht, Catherine E. "Biological Agents." Integrative Medicine for Children. Ed. May Loo. St. Louis, Mo: Saunders/Elsevier, 2009. References External links Natural Standard: The Authority on Integrative Medicine Foot Pads: A Sticky Issue interview in Wall Street Journal Herbally Yours interview (mp3) Natural Nurse interview (audio) Category:American pharmacists Category:Alternative medicine researchers Category:University of Rhode Island faculty Category:Year of birth missing (living people) Category:Living people Category:Massachusetts General Hospital people Category:Women pharmacists Category:Academic journal editors |
7,916 | Trinitarianism in the Church Fathers | Whether the earliest Church Fathers believed in the Trinity is a subject for debate. Some of the evidence used to support an early belief in the Trinity are triadic statements (referring to the Father, Son and Holy Spirit) from the New Testament and the Church Fathers. The view that the Son was 'of the substance of the Father, God of God...very God of very God' was formally ratified at the First Council of Nicaea in 325 AD. The Holy Spirit was included at the First Council of Constantinople (381 AD), where the relationship between the Father, Son and Holy Spirit as one substance (ousia) and three co-equal persons (hypostaseis) was formally ratified. Introduction Some Trinitarians say the doctrine of the Trinity was revealed in New Testament times; others, that it was revealed in the Patristic period. Nontrinitarians, on the other hand, will generally state that the traditional doctrine of the Trinity did not exist until centuries after the end of the New Testament period. Some Trinitarians agree with this, seeing a development over time towards a true understanding of the Trinity. Trinitarians sometimes refer to Christian belief about God before the traditional statements on the Trinity as unsophisticated, 'naive', or 'incipient Trinitarianism', and that early Christians were 'proto-Trinitarian, partially Trinitarian', etc. Unitarians and some Trinitarians would state that this means that those early Christians were not actually Trinitarians. Expressions which link together the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit occurred very early in the History of the Christian Church. These are sometimes taken as expressions about the Trinity. Other times, they are referred to more generally as 'triadic'. It is stated by some that 'These passages cannot immediately be taken as evidence of the belief in the co-substantial unity of God; names may be conjoined for any number of reasons (e.g. unity in greeting, unity of purpose, etc.) so even the use of a threefold formula cannot be conclusive'. Two examples appear in the New Testament: and . The context of 2 Corinthians 13:14 (verse 13 in the Vulgate and the NRSV), which is the close of a letter, suggests the church's conjunction of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit may have originated as a doxological formula; while the context of Matthew 28:19, the Great Commission, shows that the verbal conjunction of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit was used early on as a baptismal formula. Unitarians hold that 'the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are mentioned together [in the New Testament] in the same context, but not in any way that suggests they are all distinct persons who together comprise the totality of God'; a 'literary triad does not equate to an ontological triunity'. This triadic pattern is even more marked in the glimpses available of the early Church's liturgy and day-to-day catechetical practice. Even so, some have said that the 'indications from the apostolic and sub-apostolic writers are that [their] triadic formulas...do not carry the same significance as post-Nicene triadic formulas'. The oldest extant work in which the word "Trinity" itself (Greek Trias, triados) is used |
7,917 | Swimming at the 2015 African Games – 4×100 metre freestyle mixed | The 4×100 metre freestyle mixed event at the 2015 All-Africa Games took place on 7 September 2015 at Kintele Aquatic Complex. Schedule All times are Congo Standard Time (UTC+01:00) Records Results Final References External links Official website Category:Swimming at the 2015 African Games |
7,918 | Wittlaer | Wittlaer is an urban borough of Düsseldorf. It borders Stockum, Kalkum, Angermund, and the city of Duisburg. It is close to Düsseldorf Airport. Wittlaer has the lowest point in Düsseldorf, where the Schwarzbach flows into the river Rhine. It is 28 m above sea level. The history of Wittlaer started at latest in the 12th century. For a long time it was an agricultural settlement. After World War II, Wittlaer grew as a suburb of Düsseldorf and Duisburg. In 1975, Wittlaer became a part of Düsseldorf. The most prominent sight of Wittlaer is the Catholic Church St. Remigius, dating from the 13th century. Wittlaer is connected to the airport by road and bus links, the federal road B 8 goes across Wittlaer. Wittlaer has an underground line station. Wittlaer has two newer settlements, which are separated from the nucleus of Wittlaer: Froschenteich and Einbrungen This article is based on a translation of an article from the German Wikipedia. Category:Urban districts and boroughs of Düsseldorf |
7,919 | Eli Coleman | Eli Coleman is an American sexologist. He is the director of the Program in Human Sexuality at the University of Minnesota, and a professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health. In 2007, he was appointed the first endowed Chair in Sexual Health at the University of Minnesota Medical School. He has published research on sexual orientation, sexual dysfunction and compulsivity, gender dysphoria, and sex offenders. Coleman is also on the advisory board to Ro, a service for chronic health conditions. Membership in scientific societies Coleman is the founding and current editor of the International Journal of Sexual Health (formerly the Journal of Psychology and Human Sexuality). He was also the founding editor of the International Journal of Transgenderism. He is one of the past-presidents of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (formerly the Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association), the World Association for Sexual Health (WAS), International Academy of Sex Research, and the Society for Sex Therapy and Research. Views Regarding sexual addiction, Coleman has said, "I think the term 'addiction' is overused and implies that all behavioral excesses can be explained by some similar mechanism. What we know about alcohol and drug addictions cannot simply be transferred to other behavioral excesses. Sex is a basic appetitive drive that for some people becomes out of balance for a variety of reasons. For some it is a problem of impulse control. For others it is more like an obsession. For others, it is like a compulsion. And for others, it is a part of their personality structure and has nothing to do with impulse control, obsessions, or compulsions." Publications Some of his significant papers are: Coleman, E. “Developmental Stages of the Coming Out Process.” Journal of Homosexuality 7(2/3):31—43, 1981/82. Coleman, E. “Bisexual Women and Lesbians in Heterosexual Marriage.” Journal of Homosexuality 11:87-113, 1985. Coleman, E. “Bisexuality: Challenging Our Understanding of Human Sexuality and Sexual Orientation.” In Shelp. E.E. (ed.). Sexuality and Medicine, Vol. 1. pp. 225–242. New York: Reidel Publishing, 1987. Coleman, E. and Bockting, W. O. "“Heterosexual” Prior to Sex Reassignment – “Homosexual” Afterwards: A Case Study of a Female-to-Male Transsexual." Archives of Sexual Behavior 1(2): 69–82, 1988. Coleman, E. and Bockting, W. O. "A Comment on the Concept of Transhomosexuality, or the Dissociation of the Meaning." Archives of Sexual Behavior 20(4): 419–21, 1991. Coleman, E., Bockting, W. O. and Gooren, L. "Homosexual and Bisexual Identity in Sex-Reassigned Female to Male Transsexuals." Archives of Sexual Behavior 22(1): 37–50, 1993. Satcher D, Hook EW, III, Coleman E. Sexual Health in America: Improving Patient Care and Public Health. JAMA. 2015;314(8):765-766. doi:10.1001/jama.2015.6831. References External links Eli Coleman's page at the University of Minnesota Category:American sexologists Category:University of Minnesota alumni Category:University of Minnesota faculty Category:Transgender studies academics Category:Living people Category:1948 births |
7,920 | Carlos Moore (writer) | Carlos Moore (born 4 November 1942) is a writer, social scientist, and activist, dedicated to African and Afroamerican history and culture. Holding two doctorates in Human Sciences and Ethnology from the University of Paris, he has lived for various periods in France, Africa, the US, and the Caribbean. Moore is widely recognized for his outspoken rhetoric against racism and defending pan-Africanism and for writing the authorized biography of the Nigerian singer, saxophonist and activist Fela Kuti, Fela, Fela: This Bitch of a Life, which inspired the stage musical Fela! Biography Early years He was born Charles Moore Wedderburn in Camaguey, Cuba, of working-class Jamaican parents. When Moore was 16 his father and stepmother sent for him and his siblings to come to New York to pursue better opportunities, and after completing high school, Moore returned to Cuba in 1961 to work as a translator for the ministries of Communications and External Affairs. However, he became disaffected with the Castro regime, denouncing what he said were the government's attempts to ignore racism, and having fallen out of favour with the leadership he fled the island two years later. Exile and career Moore lived in exile from Cuba from 1963; he resided and worked as a journalist in France, until in 1975 he moved to Senegal at the invitation on Cheikh Anta Diop, subsequently becoming involved with the initial phase of FESTAC '77 (the Second World Black Festival of Arts and Culture) in Lagos, Nigeria. He wrote a biography of Nigerian Afrobeat musician Fela Kuti – first published in 1982 (by Allison and Busby) and reissued in 2009 – on which the Broadway musical Fela! drew, as was acknowledged in the settlement of a copyright dispute about the stage production. The 2019 documentary film My Friend Fela (Meu amigo Fela), made by Joel Zito Araújo, explores the complexity of Kuti's life "through the eyes and conversations" of Moore. Moore was a visiting professor at Florida International University, where in 1987 he was instrumental in organizing the conference "Negritude Afro cultures and Ethnicity in the Americas", featuring Aimé Césaire, Maya Angelou, Alex Haley and Leopold Senghor. From 1996 to 2002 Moore was Senior Lecturer in the Institute of International Relations, University of the West Indies at St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. In recent years he lived in Brazil with his family, taking the opportunity to write and learn more about Latin American and Brazilian culture. Personal life Moore's first wife , Shawna, was from the US, and they had a son together, Kimathi. Moore's second wife, Aeyola, whom he married in 1992, is from Guadeloupe. Selected bibliography Pichón – A Memoir: Race and Revolution in Castro's Cuba (Foreword by Maya Angelou), Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books/Chicago Review Press, 2008, . African Presence in the Americas, Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1995, . Castro, the Blacks, and Africa, Los Angeles: Center for Afro-American Studies, University of California, 1988, . Were Marx and Engels Racists? – The prolet-Aryan outlook of Marx and Engels, Chicago: Institute of Positive Education, 1972. Accessed 4 February 2013. Fela Kuti biography – editions |
7,921 | Nightwalking | Nightwalking (also known as Night Walking) is a 2008 British comedy horror short film directed by Daniel Cormack, starring Raquel Cassidy and Lloyd Woolf. In 2010, Nightwalking was selected for preservation by the British Film Institute's National Archive and was archived by the British Universities Film and Video Council as part of their Television and Radio Index for Learning and Teaching (TRILT). In 2012, the film was acquired by the British Library's Moving Image Collection. Plot Returning from a night out, Martha (Raquel Cassidy) hears footsteps behind her and becomes convinced she's being followed as she walks down a dark path on her way home. She ponders various strategies such as pretending to do up her shoes in order to let her follower overtake her or simply running away, but dismisses each idea as endangering her even more. Eventually she screws up her courage to turn around and confront the man behind her, but when she does so she sees nothing except a mobile phone glowing on the ground as it calls somebody. James (Lloyd Woolf), her follower, has actually been going out of his way to avoid the impression he is following her or is a threat, but every time he does so it somehow backfires. He tries speeding up to overtake her, but this only makes Martha walk faster. He ponders taking a different route, but there are no turnings off the path they are walking down. Eventually he decides to make a "loud non-threatening phone call" to his mum, reasoning that: "I bet rapists never call their mums." However as he is distracted with finding her number in his phone, he fails to notice a manhole in the ground and falls head over heels into it, his phone flying to the ground near Martha's feet. Release Nightwalking was originally released online as part of the inaugural Virgin Media Shorts Competition in 2008. It quickly became the most viewed film attracting over 12,300 views and hundreds of comments. The judges initially shortlisted the film for the Grand Prize. However, when the film came to be classified by the British Board of Film Classification it was given a 12a certificate, thus disqualifying it from the competition, which required that the 12 shortlisted films were certified as a PG or U. Festivals Broadcast In 2010, Nightwalking was broadcast on Channel 4 as part of "a series of short original films produced by a variety of talented writers and directors"; the first time in over 8 years that Channel 4 had acquired and broadcast independent short films. Reception Accolades Nightwalking has a rating of 6.8 out of 10 from IMDb's top 1,000 voters. See also Amelia and Michael A Fitting Tribute Make Me a Tory References External links Actaeon Films Official Production Company website Network Ireland Television Official Distributor website Nightwalking at the BBC Film Network Nightwalking at the British Council British Films Directory Nightwalking at the Complete Index to World Film Category:2008 films Category:2000s short films Category:British films Category:English-language films Category:British independent films Category:British short films Category:British comedy-drama films |
7,922 | Carmen Campagne | Carmen Campagne (September 8, 1959 – July 4, 2018) was a Canadian singer and children's entertainer. She, along with Connie Kaldor, received a Juno Award at the 1989 Award ceremony in the category Best Children's Album for Lullaby Berceuse. A Fransaskois from Willow Bunch, Saskatchewan, she was a member of the folk music band Folle Avoine in the 1970s. Her brother Paul Campagne and sisters Suzanne Campagne, Michelle Campagne and Annette Campagne, her bandmates in Folle Avoine, have also continued in music with the folk band Hart-Rouge. In 2013, she was made a Member of the Order of Canada "for her contributions as a singer, songwriter and composer enhancing music for young children and using music in French-language education". Campagne died of cancer at age 58 on July 4, 2018, in Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, Quebec. References Category:1959 births Category:2018 deaths Category:Fransaskois people Category:Canadian children's musicians Category:Canadian female singers Category:Musicians from Saskatchewan Category:Juno Award for Children's Album of the Year winners Category:French-language singers of Canada Category:Members of the Order of Canada Category:Deaths from cancer in Saskatchewan |
7,923 | Steven Lindsey | Steven Wayne Lindsey (born August 24, 1960) is a retired U.S. Air Force officer and NASA astronaut. Lindsey served as Chief of the NASA Astronaut Office from September 2006 until October 2009. Early life and education Lindsey was born on August 24, 1960, in Arcadia, California. He graduated from Temple City High School in 1978. Lindsey is an Eagle Scout from Troop 161. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering Sciences from the United States Air Force Academy in 1982, and a Master of Science degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the U.S. Air Force Institute of Technology in 1990. Military career Lindsey was commissioned a Second Lieutenant at the United States Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colorado, in 1982. In 1983, after receiving his pilot wings at Reese Air Force Base, Texas, he qualified in the RF-4C Phantom II and was assigned to the 12th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron at Bergstrom Air Force Base, Texas. From 1984 until 1987, he served as a combat-ready pilot, instructor pilot, and academic instructor at Bergstrom. In 1987, he was selected to attend graduate school at the U.S. Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, where he studied Aeronautical Engineering. In 1989, Lindsey attended the USAF Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base, California. In 1990, he was assigned to Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, where he conducted weapons and systems tests in F-16 and F-4 aircraft. While a member of the 3247th Test Squadron, Lindsey served as the Deputy Director, Advanced Tactical Airborne Reconnaissance System Joint Test Force and as the squadron's F-16 Flight Commander. In August 1993, he was selected to attend Air Command and Staff College at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. Upon graduation in June 1994, he was reassigned to Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, as an Integrated Product Team leader in the USAF SEEK EAGLE Office where he was responsible for Air Force weapons certification for the F-16, F-111, A-10, and F-117 aircraft. In March 1995, he was assigned to NASA as an astronaut candidate. Lindsey has logged over 4,500 hours of flying time in more than 50 different types of aircraft. NASA career Lindsey was selected by NASA in March 1995. He became an astronaut in May 1996, qualified for flight assignment as a pilot. Initially assigned to flight software verification in the Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory (SAIL), Lindsey also served as the Astronaut Office representative working on the Multifunction Electronic Display System (MEDS) program, a glass cockpit Space Shuttle upgrade program, as well as a number of other advanced upgrade projects. In between his first two flights, he worked as the Shuttle Landing and Rollout representative responsible for training flight crews and testing orbiter landing techniques and flying qualities. After his second flight, Lindsey served as Deputy for Shuttle Operations and Co-Chairman of the Space Shuttle Cockpit Council, responsible for designing, testing, and implementing crew interfaces and displays for the $400 million Shuttle Cockpit Avionics Upgrade. More recently, he served as the Chief of International Space Station Operations for the astronaut office, responsible for |
7,924 | Pennsylvania Road Warriors | The Road Warriors are a professional baseball team owned by the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball. The traveling team has operated intermittently throughout the league's history, usually being activated in years when the league otherwise has an odd number of teams. History The original plan was for the team to be known as the Lehigh Valley Black Diamonds, based in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, where a planned a 5,000-seat stadium called the Lehigh Valley Multi-Purpose Sport Complex in Williams Township near Easton, Pennsylvania, was slated to be completed by 1999. In the interim, the team played the league's inaugural 1998 season as the Newburgh Black Diamonds at Delano-Hitch Stadium in Newburgh, New York. However, the owners of the Lehigh Valley complex and the team filed for bankruptcy and left the stadium unfinished. Rather than stay in Newburgh, the league took over the franchise and transformed it into a traveling team. In 2000, the team played in a small ballpark in Quakertown, Pennsylvania with little to no fan support. One game had a paid attendance of two people. Former Cincinnati Reds third baseman Wayne Krenchicki managed the team from 1998 to 2000 before becoming the manager of the Camden Riversharks from 2001–2006. The Lehigh Valley Multi-Purpose Sport Complex was demolished in early 2005, without ever hosting a single baseball game. The team was renamed the Pennsylvania Road Warriors for the 2002–2004 seasons. In 2005, the Lancaster Barnstormers took the place of the Road Warriors. When the Nashua Pride left to join the Can-Am League, the league re-established the Road Warriors for the 2006 season to replace the Pride. With the move of the Atlantic City Surf to the Can-Am League for the 2007 season, the Road Warriors remained to fill the gaps in the schedule until the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs joined in 2008. The Road Warriors returned in 2011 to fill in scheduling holes left by the departing Newark Bears and in 2018 as part of the Bridgeport Bluefish's relocation to High Point, North Carolina; that relocation was scheduled to be completed before the 2019 season. They will again be activated for the 2020 season following the departure of the New Britain Bees to the Futures Collegiate Baseball League. The 2004 Pennsylvania Road Warriors finished with the worst record in Atlantic League history at 23–103. The Road Warriors' 2007 season proved to be their most successful as they finished at 43–83. Contributing to the team's disadvantage is the Atlantic League does not grant the team any "designated" home games, meaning they never receive the home field advantage other teams have, so must always hit first. (This is in contrast to Major League Baseball policy, which grants "designated home" status to teams forced to move games to their opponent's stadium.) There have been two players to make it to Major League Baseball after suiting up for the Road Warriors. Catcher Robinson Cancel appeared in 19 games for the 2003 Road Warriors before making it back to MLB in 2008 with the New York Mets. Pitcher Alberto Castillo also made it to the major leagues |
7,925 | Ultra-high-temperature metamorphism | In geology ultrahigh-temperature metamorphism (UHT) is extreme crustal metamorphism with metamorphic temperatures exceeding 900 °C. Granulite-facies rocks metamorphosed at very high temperatures were identified in the early 1980s, although it took another decade for the geoscience community to recognize UHT metamorphism as a common regional phenomenon. Petrological evidence based on characteristic mineral assemblages backed by experimental and thermodynamic relations demonstrated that Earth's crust can attain and withstand very high temperatures (900–1000 °C) with or without partial melting. Definition Metamorphism of crustal rocks in which peak temperature exceeds 900 °C, recognized either by robust thermobarometry or by the presence of a diagnostic mineral assemblage in an appropriate bulk composition and oxidation state, such as assemblages with orthopyroxene + sillimanite + quartz, sapphirine + quartz or spinel + quartz, generally at pressure conditions of sillimanite stability in metapelites [after Brown (2007) following proposal by Harley (1998)]. Identification Petrological indicators of UHT metamorphism are usually preserved in extremely Mg-Al-rich rocks which are usually dry and restitic in nature. Mineral assemblages such as sapphirine + quartz, orthopyroxene + sillimanite ± quartz, osumulite and spinel + quartz provide straight away evidence for such extreme conditions. Occasionally widespread assemblages like garnet + orthopyroxene, ternary feldspars, (F-Ti) pargasite or metamorphic inverted pigeonite are taken as typical indicators of UHT metamorphism. Global distribution UHT rocks are now identified in all major continents and span different geological ages ranging from c. 3178 to 35 million years associated with major geological events. More than 46 localities/terranes with diagnostic UHT indicators have been reported over the globe, related to both extensional and collisional tectonic environments; the two fundamental types of Earth orogenic systems. The major Archean UHT rocks are distributed in East-Antarctica, South Africa, Russia and Canada. Paleoproterozoic UHT granulites were reported from the North China Craton (during the accretion of the supercontinent Columbia), Taltson magmatic zone, northwestern Canada and South Harris, Lewisian complex, Scotland. UHT rocks from the Neoproterozoic Grenville orogeny are distributed in the Eastern Ghats Province, India. Neoproterozoic-Cambrian (Pan-African) UHT occurrences are mainly distributed in Lutzow-Holm Bay, East Antarctica, southern Madagascar, Sri Lanka and southern India. UHT rocks are also reported from younger terranes like the Triassic Kontum Massif, Vietnam, Cretaceous Higo belt, Japan and Paleogene Gruf Complex, central Alps. Three-million-year-old xenoliths erupted in Qiangtang imply that UHT metamorphism is ongoing beneath central Tibet. Recent hypothesis A correlation was proposed between the episodic formation of UHT metamorphic rocks and the episodic assembly of supercontinents in the Precambrian. However, inspection of extreme metamorphism at convergent plate margins indicates that supercontinental assembly is associated with regional HP to UHP eclogite-facies metamorphism at low thermal gradients of less than 10 °C/km, whereas continental rifting plays a crucial role in causing regional HT to UHT granulite-facies metamorphism at high thermal gradients of greater than 30 °C/km. In this regard, the episodic formation of HT to UHT granulite-facies metamorphic rocks is temporally and spatially coupled with the breakup or attempting rupture of supercontinents in the plate tectonics context. Because UHT rocks are generally characterized by low water contents, this led to an illusion for the |
7,926 | Sutton Cheney | Sutton Cheney ( ) is a village and civil parish in the borough of Hinckley and Bosworth in the county of Leicestershire, England, near the county border with Warwickshire. In addition to the village of Sutton Cheney itself, the civil parish also contains the villages of Dadlington and Shenton, a number of farms, and the location of the Battle of Bosworth. Its closest large towns are Nuneaton and Hinckley. Its closest market town is Market Bosworth. The village of Sutton Cheney is clustered around the intersection of four roads: Ambion Lane leading eastwards to the village of Shenton; Bosworth Road leading northwest to the neighbouring town of Market Bosworth; Main Street leading northeast to the villages of Cadeby or Stapleton; and Wharf Lane leading southwest to Sutton Cheney Wharf on the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Canal. The civil parish of Sutton Cheney is bordered by the civil parishes of Market Bosworth to the north; Cadeby to the northeast; Peckleton to the east; Barwell, Stoke Golding, and Higham on the Hill to the south; and Sheepy to the west. Its population at the 2011 census was 538. History The earliest written mention of the village of Sutton Cheney is in the Domesday Book of 1086 when it was named Sutone. It was mostly owned by Crowland Abbey with a minor holding in the hands of Hugh de Grandmesnil, a companion of William the Conqueror. At that time it was recorded as having four households. The manor took the name 'Sutton Chainell' during the thirteenth century on account of a rich farmer named Chainell who held the village as a tenant of Crowland Abbey but the name appears variously as Sutton, Sutton juxta Bosworth, Sutton Chenyie, and Sutton Cheynell in deeds and other official registers between the fourteenth and eighteenth centuries. The army of Richard III made camp in the village on 21 August 1485, the night before the Battle of Bosworth Field, and the battle itself took place within the civil parish, near to Dadlington. Richard died in the battle, which was the last battle of the Wars of the Roses. It ended the Middle Ages in England and ushered in the Tudor period. In 1564 there were 25 families living in Sutton Cheynell and in 1630 the freeholders were Sir William Roberts, Richard May, William Drakeley and John Swinfen. Sir William Roberts endowed six Almshouses for the village in 1612 and his tomb is still extant in the village church, with the inscriptions: 'Sir William Roberts was son of Thomas Roberts and married to his first wife Katherine, daughter of Richard Elkington, and to his second wife Elizabeth, daughter of Valentine Hartopp; but by neither had issue. He lived 79 years and died Feb 24 1633' and 'Here lyeth interred the body of Sir William Roberts, who in his life-time, being devoted both to hospitality and charity, among other memorable works erected, out of a pious mind, a hospital for six poor men adjoining the churchyard and endowed it with 30 pounds worth of land yearly for their maintenance for ever.' Between the seventeenth and |
7,927 | 40 Entre Las 2 | K-Narias first album, "40 Entre Las 2", sold 50,000 copies in the Canary Islands (the most sold in the Islands in the last ten years) in only three months. 40 Entre Las 2 is the first record work of the K-Narias, a project that is born to vindicate, in the letters of their songs, the defense of the woman, despised by some Latin interpreters. The urban rates of their music and the canary accent serve them to fight against the aggressions to the women. In this sense, Gara and Loida carry out the campaign "No a la violencia de género", against the bad treatments and directed mainly to the young people, through a song called "Todos Tenemos Que Luchar" composed and interpreted by this group and they also have a video for it realized by Eddy Cardellach. Track listing Intro Yo soy tu hombre (featuring Nicky Jam) No te vistas que no vas En este infierno (featuring Voltio) Despierta (featuring Don Chezina) Ya llegó el reggaeton Quiero que bailen (featuring Pedro Prez) Tú te entregas a mi Provocándome (featuring Mr. Phillips) Beso volando (featuring Barbero) Manos arriba Necesito decirte algo (Balada) References http://acharts.us/album/38992 http://www.rhapsody.com/k-narias/40-entre-las-2 External links Official site Category:2005 debut albums Category:Reggaeton albums Category:Albums produced by Luny Tunes Category:Albums produced by Noriega |
7,928 | Battle of Ballyshannon | The Battle of Ballyshannon may refer to a number of battles fought near Ballyshannon, Ireland: Battle of Ballyshannon (738), a battle in 738 fought between Áed Allán, High King of Ireland and Áed mac Colggen, King of Leinster Battle of Ballyshannon (1247), a battle in 1247 fought between Maurice FitzGerald, Justiciar of Ireland and Melaghlin Ó'Donnell, Lord of Tyrconnell |
7,929 | Kiełp | Kiełp () is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Kijewo Królewskie within Chełmno County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship in north-central Poland. It lies approximately north-west of Kijewo Królewskie, south of Chełmno, north-west of Toruń, and north-east of Bydgoszcz. References Category:Villages in Chełmno County |
7,930 | Billiard Congress of America | The Billiard Congress of America (BCA) is a governing body for cue sports in North America (here defined as the United States and Canada exclusively), the regional member organization of the World Pool-Billiard Association (WPA). It was established under this name in 1948 as a non-profit trade organization in order to promote the sport and organize its players via tournaments at various levels. The BCA is headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado. The voting members of the organization are mostly equipment manufacturers. The BCA publishes a rule book that includes rules merged with the WPA World Standardized Rules for games such as nine-ball, eight-ball, and straight pool, as well as rules for other games that are not presently the subject of international competition, such as cowboy pool, rotation, American snooker, and Chicago among many others. The BCA holds an annual trade show, the International Billiards & Home Recreation Expo. Also annually, it inducts great players, and those who have made great contributions to the sport, into the BCA Hall of Fame. History The origins of the BCA began with the National Billiard Association of America (NBAA), founded July 25, 1921. The organization rapidly became the de facto governing body of the sport in the United States, with 35,000 members by 1928, and was closely tied to the Brunswick-Balke-Collender company, a major equipment manufacturer. After a decline in influence in the late 1930s, in part owing to a dispute with world carom champion Willie Hoppe, the NBAA reformed in 1941 as the Billiard Association of America (BAA or BA of A). Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, and calling itself "the Governing Body of Billiards", the BAA produced a concise, portable, inexpensive rulebook of carom and pocket billiards games, that was to serve as the model for future BCA releases. The BAA in turn became the BCA, 1947–1948. The BCA formed with, and for several years shared offices with, the promotional trade association National Billiard Council (NBC), now defunct. Early BCA rulebooks were essentially identical to the 1946 BAA edition, including the cover art and the absence of the increasingly popular game nine-ball from the ruleset. (Nine-ball still did not appear in the 1963 rulebook, despite being one of the pool gambling games of choice by that era, but did appear in the 1967 and all subsequent editions.) The BCA rulebooks have remained in near-annual continuous publication to the present day. During its first thirty-two years of existence as the BCA, the organization had various addresses, including in Toledo, Ohio and Chicago. In 1980, they opened their longest-term permanent office in Iowa City, Iowa, and moved it in 1997 to Coralville, Iowa for a brief period. In 2000, the BCA relocated to its current headquarters in Colorado Springs. Also in 2000, the BCA made the major move of adopting the WPA's World Standardized Rules for eight-ball, nine-ball and other games subject to international professional competition. The BCA had by this time become the national affiliate of the WPA, the International Olympic Committee-recognized world governing body of billiards and pool. In the new edition of the rules, the |
7,931 | Schweizer SGS 1-24 | The Schweizer SGS 1-24, also referred to as the Schweizer-Burr SGS 1-24, is a United States single-seat, mid-wing, Open Class competition glider built by Howard Burr and Schweizer Aircraft of Elmira, New York. The 1-24 is a development of the Schweizer SGS 1-23 that utilized a 1-23 fuselage and a newly constructed set of 55 foot (16.9 m) span, high aspect ratio wings. The aircraft was constructed as a spare time project by Howie Burr and Ernest Schweizer to produce a competition sailplane. The aircraft first flew in 1953 and one example was completed. Design and development The early 1950s were the heyday of the SGS 1-23 design. From the time of its introduction in 1948 the production sailplane had dominated soaring contests in the USA. Schweizer Aircraft employee Howie Burr conceived of creating an improved version of the 1-23 by using the existing fuselage and building a set of 17.10:1 aspect ratio wings for the aircraft. The span wings gave the aircraft a 30:1 glide ratio and a low minimum sink speed. Those performance figures are identical to the 1-23D Burr finished the aircraft in his spare time, flying it first in early 1953. The 1-24 was ready for competition flying in time for the 1953 US Nationals, which were held at Harris Hill, New York. The 1-24 design was never certified and the sole aircraft that was built is an experimental aircraft in the "racing, exhibition" class and registered as N91888. The 1-24 is of all metal construction, including aluminum wings. The design incorporated some innovative concepts in addition to the high aspect ratio wing. It had a shuttle weight that could be moved by cable through the length of the tail that allowed the glider to be trimmed anywhere between 50 mph (80 km/h) and 80 mph (129 km/h). Operational history The 1-24 was given the name Brigadoon by Howie Burr, after the popular musical stage play and film of the same name. Burr entered the 1-24 in the 1953 US Nationals and the Snowbird meet held at Harris Hill over Thanksgiving, 1955. In the Snowbird meet, Burr flew the 1-24 to second place against a field of 25 sailplanes. The 1-24 was loaned to Paul A. Schweizer to compete in the 1957 US Nationals, which were held in Elmira, New York. Burr was unable to fly the 1-24 in that contest himself, as he was contest director. Paul Schweizer did not complete the competition as his father died during the contest and he withdrew. In 1969, the 1-24 was sold to Carl Waters and moved to California. Burr later re-purchased the aircraft from Waters and carried out a complete restoration of it, including the original name "Brigadoon". Accidents The 1-24 was substantially damaged on 25 May 1996 at landing at the Mountain Valley Airport, Tehachapi, California when it collided with two other parked gliders. Aircraft on display The 1-24 was initially loaned to the National Soaring Museum, Elmira, New York and later title was transferred to the museum. It is currently on long-term loan at the Wings Over |
7,932 | Alone Across Australia | Alone Across Australia is a 2004 Australian documentary starring adventurer Jon Muir. The film produced by Shark Island Productions and directed by Ian Darling and Jon Muir has won more than 25 awards, and has screened at over 60 international film festivals. Synopsis Jon Muir, whose adventures include climbing Mt. Everest, trekking the North and South poles, and remote sea kayaking, challenges himself to complete the first unsupported crossing of Australia. This trip stretches 1600 miles (South to North) and 128 days without navigational technology or stopping to resupply. Awards and nominations Audience Award Best Feature Documentary at San Francisco Documentary Film Festival, Crystal Heart Award Heartland Film Festival; Best Mountain Film and People's Choice Award Banff 2004, Best Adventure Feature, People's Choice Award, Flagstaff Mountain Film Festival Arizona 2005; Special Jury Prize, Santa Barbara International Film Festival; Best Adventure Film, Moscow; Voted one of the "20 Best Adventure Films of All Time" Men's journal Magazine, USA, Winner of 32 International Film Festival Awards and Official Selection in over 30 Film Festivals around the world. Production Most of the film was filmed by Muir during the trek. The long shots and high angle shots were filmed in the following year. This was not Muir's first attempt; earlier ones were ended by injury or weather. References External links Alone Across Australia at the National Film and Sound Archive Official Website for the film Jon Muir's website Category:2004 films Category:Australian films Category:Australian documentary films |
7,933 | Freyberg | Freyberg may refer to: Barbara Freyberg, Baroness Freyberg (died 1973), British peeress Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg (1889–1963), New Zealand's most famous soldier and military commander Paul Richard Freyberg, 2nd Baron Freyberg (1923–1993), British peer Valerian Freyberg, 3rd Baron Freyberg (born 1970), British peer See also Baron Freyberg Freiberg (disambiguation) Freiburg (disambiguation) Freyberg High School Freyburg (disambiguation) Friberg Fribourg (disambiguation) |
7,934 | Incubus Dreams | Incubus Dreams is a horror/mystery/erotica novel by American writer Laurell K. Hamilton, the twelfth book in the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series. Plot introduction Incubus Dreams continues the adventures of Anita Blake. In this novel, Anita's romantic life undergoes a dramatic upheaval while she simultaneously attempts to assist the police in solving a series of vampire serial murders. As with the other later novels in the series, Incubus Dreams blends elements of supernatural, detective, and erotic fiction. Explanation of the title Similar to most of the books in the Anita Blake series, Incubus Dreams is titled after a fictional location within the book. In this case, "Incubus Dreams" is the name of a strip club where some of the later events in the book occur. Plot summary Incubus Dreams apparently takes place a few weeks after the events of Cerulean Sins. As usual, Anita must juggle several problems simultaneously. First, in her job as an animator, Anita must respond to the request of Barbara and Steve Brown that Anita raise their dead son, Stevie Brown, a high school student murdered three years earlier, probably by an acquaintance. Anita explains that it is not possible to raise a murder victim and question them, because that kind of zombie has only one purpose (to kill the murderer), but agrees to assist the police in investigating the murder. Second, Anita continues to wrestle with the metaphysical problems raised by her recent increase in power. She, Jean-Claude, Richard, and Damian are all experiencing unexpected increases in their magical power, with unpredictable results. Third, Anita continues to assist Jean-Claude with vampire politics, as Jean-Claude confronts a challenge from The Dragon and her offspring, Primo and as Anita and Jean-Claude realize that the vampires in town that follow Malcolm rather than Jean-Claude have not been bound by blood oath, leaving them as essentially unrestrained predators. Fourth, Anita's personal life becomes increasingly complex, both as a result of Anita's increasing ardeur and as a result of the personal problems of the various people involved. In particular, Nathaniel has decided that his relationship with Anita should advance to a sexual relationship, Damian continues to struggle with his role as Anita's vampire servant, and Anita's love/hate relationship with Richard remains as powerful as ever. Anita also must deal with jealousy from Jessica Arnett, an RPIT detective with a crush on Nathaniel, and with increasing distrust by various police officers as a result of her close relationship with the city's vampires and shapeshifters and as a result of her increasingly sexually-based abilities. Fifth, Anita attempts to assist the police in solving a series of vampire serial killings, apparently focusing on area strip club workers or patrons. Unlike previous novels, although Anita resolves some of these issues by the end of the book, many remain unresolved. With regard to the Stevie Brown murder, although Anita agrees to investigate, she is unable to make progress on the investigation during this novel, and notes in the epilogue that she intends to review Brown's personal effects with Evans soon. (Evans is a very powerful psychometrist). With |
7,935 | Allerton and Hunts Cross (ward) | Allerton and Hunts Cross is a Liverpool City Council Ward in the Garston and Halewood Parliamentary constituency. The ward was created for the 2004 municipal election from parts of the former Allerton ward and a small part of Woolton ward. Councillors indicates seat up for re-election after boundary changes. indicates seat up for re-election. indicates change in affiliation. indicates seat up for re-election after casual vacancy. Election results Elections of the 2010s Elections of the 2000s After the boundary change of 2004 the whole of Liverpool City Council faced election. Three Councillors were returned. • italics denotes the sitting Councillor • bold denotes the winning candidate References External links Council Ward profile LiverPages - Business, Charity and Trades Directory in Liverpool Category:Wards of Liverpool |
7,936 | Sordun | Sordun is a family of archaic wind instruments blown by means of a double reed (sordone or sordun, etc.) Etymology Sordun originates from the Italian word Sordino. The primary Italian word in use in these specialised terms is a feminine noun: sordina, with plural sordine; but in international musical terminology a masculine form is much more common: sordino, with plural sordini. The Italian word is derived as a feminine diminutive of the adjective sordo ("deaf", "dull in sound"), from Latin surdus. The alternative forms given above would have as plurals sordini, sordoni, sorduni. The French version of the word is feminine, and is sometimes used in music notation also: sourdine, plural sourdines. Other languages' versions are also feminine: Spanish has sordina, plural sordinas; Portuguese has surdina, plural surdinas. Ancient instruments The sordun or sordoni family are often confused with the dolcians (Fr. courtaud, Eng. single curtail or single curtal, Ger. Kort or Kortholt), from which, however, they differed radically. This difference was not understood by Praetorius, who acknowledges his mystification. The contra-bass sordun, he says, hardly half the length of the contra-fagotto, is yet practically of the same pitch, which is astonishing since the bore is only double once upon itself as in the fagotto. The kort likewise is of the same size as the bass sordun, and yet in pitch it is but a tenor. The following description of the construction and acoustic properties of the sordoni will clear up the mystery. The body consisted of a cylinder of wood in which were cut two parallel channels of narrow cylindrical bore, communicating with each other at the bottom through a bend, but not with ambient air. At the top of the cylinder was fitted a double-reed mouthpiece giving access to the column of air at one end of the bore, while the other was vented through a small hole in the side, similar to the finger-holes; in the tenor, bass and contra members of the family, the reed was attached to a curved brass crook similar to that of the fagotto. So far the description would almost apply to the dolcian also, but in the latter there is the radical difference that the bore of the channels is conical, so that it has the acoustic properties of the open pipe. The sordun, however, having a cylindrical bore, has the acoustic properties of the stopped pipe, i.e. the sound waves are twice the length of the pipe, so that to produce a sound of any given pitch, for instance for C, the bore need only be half the length, i.e. 4 ft. long. Overblowing, on the sordoni, moreover, produced as first harmonic (the only one required for reed-blown instruments in order to produce the diatonic scale for the second octave) not the octave, but the twelfth, or number 3 of the series. This accounts for the fact that instruments of the fagotto and dolcian type require but six or seven holes to give the diatonic scale throughout the compass, whereas the sordoni require 11 or 12 holes. Praetorius states that those figured |
7,937 | Nina Marković | Nina Marković is a Croatian-American physicist. Her work focuses on quantum transport in low-dimensional systems, superconductivity, nanostructures, and quantum computing. She received a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2004. Marković worked at Delft University of Technology, Harvard University, and Johns Hopkins University before joining the Goucher College Department of Physics and Astronomy in 2015. Education In 1993, Marković earned a Bachelor of Science in Physics from University of Zagreb under advisor Boran Leontić. At University of Minnesota in 1998, she earned a doctorate in physics. She completed her thesis titled Transport properties and quantum phase transitions in ultrathin films of metals under her doctoral advisor Allen Goldman and received the Aneesur Rahman Award for best thesis. From 1998–2000, Marković conducted postdoctoral research at Delft University of Technology with Herre van der Zant and Hans Mooij (de). She was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University where she conducted research with Michael Tinkham from 2000–2002. Career Marković joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins University as an assistant professor of physics and astronomy in 2003. She was awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2004. In August 2004, she was awarded $99,999 from the National Science Foundation to conduct a study on quantum entanglement of electrons. She won a $500,000 National Science Foundation CAREER Award to pursue research on electrical properties in nanometer scale materials in 2006. Marković was promoted to associate professor at Johns Hopkins in 2009. In August 2011, she was awarded $360,000 from NSF to conduct a study on Spin Control in One-Dimensional Quantum Dots. In the fall of 2015, Marković joined the Goucher College Department of Physics and Astronomy as an associate professor in 2015. In August 2015, she was awarded $430,371 from NSF to conduct a study on Designing Quantum Matter with Superconducting Nanowires. She is a fellow of the American Physical Society and member of the Materials Research Society. References External links Category:20th-century Croatian scientists Category:21st-century Croatian scientists Category:21st-century American women scientists Category:20th-century American women scientists Category:Croatian expatriates in the United States Category:Croatian physicists Category:Fellows of the American Physical Society Category:Delft University of Technology faculty Category:Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb alumni Category:Goucher College faculty and staff Category:Harvard University faculty Category:Johns Hopkins University faculty Category:Living people Category:Place of birth missing (living people) Category:Scientists from Zagreb Category:Sloan Research Fellows Category:University of Minnesota alumni Category:Croatian women physicists Category:Year of birth missing (living people) Category:American people of Croatian descent |
7,938 | Herbert Spaugh | Walter Herbert Spaugh (30 September 1896–22 November 1978) was a U.S. Bishop of the Moravian Church. By the 1960s he was one of the most prominent clergymen in North Carolina, as well as in the Southern Province of the Moravian Church. Spaugh was born in Salem (now Winston-Salem), North Carolina, the eldest of three sons of Rufus Armenius Spaugh (1865–1953) and Anna Louise (Hege) Spaugh (1872–1933). Spaugh graduated from Tinsley Military Institute in Winston-Salem in 1913, and from Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in 1916 (he had earned extra credits at Tinsley, enabling him to graduate from college in three years). He earned a Bachelor of Divinity degree from Moravian Theological Seminary in 1924, and a Master of Arts degree from Davidson College in 1931. During World War I Spaugh served in the United States Army. He was stationed at Fort Jackson (South Carolina). Spaugh married Ida Brown Efird (28 November 1893–10 December 1978) in Winston-Salem on 21 April 1920, his mother's forty-eighth birthday. Herbert and Ida had two sons and a daughter: Earle Frederick, Herbert, Jr., and Carolyn. In 1924, Spaugh became the first full-time minister of the Little Church on the Lane in Charlotte, North Carolina. He held that position for forty-two years. He was consecrated a Bishop of the Moravian Church on 27 December 1959 at Charlotte by Bishops John Kenneth Pfohl, Kenneth Gardiner Hamilton, and Carl John Helmich. He was a syndicated newspaper columnist whose work was carried in newspapers across the South. He also served as a trustee of Salem College and Moravian College, and was active in a number of ecumenical and civic organizations. Spaugh died in Charlotte, North Carolina. Books The Pathway to Contentment (1945) Everyday Counsel for Everyday Living, The Dowd Press, Inc. (1951) (Online version) The Pathway to a Happy Marriage (1953) Sources The Boy, The Man, and the Bishop, by Barbara Harding Note (J. Murrey Atkins Library) History of the Moravian Church: The Renewed Unitas Fratrum, 1722-1957, by J. Taylor Hamilton and Kenneth G. Hamilton (Bethlehem, PA, and Winston-Salem, NC: Interprovincial Board of Christian Education, Moravian Church in America, 1967). Little Church on the Lane, Moravian Archives External links A Short Introduction to the History, Customs and Practices of the Moravian Church, by Herbert Spaugh, Episcopus Fratrum Category:1896 births Category:1978 deaths Spaugh, Walter Herbert Spaugh, Walter Herbert Category:20th-century bishops Category:American bishops Category:People from Winston-Salem, North Carolina Category:American military personnel of World War I |
7,939 | Perri (film) | Perri is a 1957 film from Walt Disney Productions, based on Felix Salten's 1938 Perri: The Youth of a Squirrel. It was the company's fifth feature entry in their True-Life Adventures series, and the only one to be labeled a True Life Fantasy. In doing so, the Disney team combined the documentary aspects of earlier efforts with fictional scenarios and characters. The story's title character is a young female squirrel who learns about forest life, and finds a mate in Porro, a male squirrel. In the film, there are seasons called the Time of Learning, Time of Beauty, Time of Peace, and Together Time. Instead of the European forest in which Salten set his work, a nine-man camera crew led by Paul Kenworthy and Ralph Wright shot Perri in Utah's Uinta National Forest and Jackson Hole, Wyoming (for the winter sequences). Some 200,000 feet were shot during production; only 8,000 were used in the finished product. True Life regular Winston Hibler not only continued as the series narrator, but for this film also served as a screenwriter, songwriter and producer. Upon its release, Perri was generally well received by critics and audiences. Along with all of the other True-Life Adventures, it premiered in December 2006 on Disney DVD as part of the Legacy Collection. It was also one of the titles available on Disney+ when the subscription streaming service launched on November 12, 2019. Production Parts of the film were shot in Salt Lake City and the Uinta National Forest in Utah. See also List of American films of 1957 References Literature Maltin, Leonard (2000). The Disney Films, 4th ed., p. 142–144. Disney Editions. . External links Category:1957 films Category:American films Category:Disney documentary films Category:English-language films Category:Films about squirrels Category:Documentary films about nature Category:Films produced by Winston Hibler Category:Films scored by Paul Smith (film and television composer) Category:Walt Disney Pictures films Category:Films shot in Utah Category:Films shot in Salt Lake City Category:Films based on works by Felix Salten |
7,940 | University College of Engineering, Kakatiya University | § The University College of Engineering, Kakatiya University public engineering institute located in kothagudem, India. Formerly known as the Kothagudem School of Mines(KSM). It is the First mining college in Telangana and the second in India. History The first of all UCE, UCE(KU)] erstwhile KSM, started functioning in 1956 with single department Mining Engineering Established in 1976, the University College of Engineering, Kakatiya University, is the oldest institution for mining in Telangana. It was formerly known as Kothagudem School of Mines, originally established under osmania University. It was later made a college under Kakatiya University under which many names were changed for the institute now settling with the name University college of engineering. The college moved to its present permanent building in 1996( except the mining department). Today it is the biggest among the campus colleges of Kakatiya University. There are 103 non teaching staff members, and around 20 regular professors. The college offers undergraduate B.Tech in CSE, EEE, Mining ECE,IT courses. Academics The college admits undergraduate students through the statewide EAMCET exam conducted every year. It offers Bachelor of Engineering (BE) courses in multiple disciplines. The institution boasts good academic performance, which would have been much better if the institution was made autonomous or made as a separate technical University, independent of the great Ku. Departments Computer Science and Engineering Electrical and Electronics Engineering Mining Engineering Information Technology Electronics and Communication Engineering Computer Science and Engineering Kakatiya University embarked in 1996 on the Computer Science and Engineering Programme, when the UGC identified the University for its manpower development Programme. The Department offers B.E. and MCA programs. Placement Cell for Computer Science and Engineering Students are placed in companies like CA Inc., Teradata, Infosys, Syntel, Mahindra Satyam, Accenture Electrical and Electronics Engineering The department started in 1996 as a part of the Electrical Engineering Department. The department has well experienced faculty and has the following labs. It is the fully staffed and highly experienced departments of the institution. The staff are highly experienced. 1. Basic Electrical Lab 2. Electrical Machines 3. Power Systems 4. Digital Electronics 5. Control Systems Mining Engineering The Mining Engineering Department was established in 1957 at Osmania University, Hyderabad, to offer a four-year degree course in Mining Engineering, with an intake of 30 students. This is the only mining department in Telangana. Students of mining will be taken to mine surveys and mine visits . The department has a team of experienced and well qualified faculty which leads the students to acquire knowledge and meet the industry standards. Students of Mining will be taken to different mine surveys and mine visits The department has established the following laboratories for practical training. The department has established the following laboriousness for practical training: Rock Mechanics Lab Mine ventilation Lab Mine surveying Lab Mine environment Hazards Strength of Materials Mechanical Technology CAD/CAM lab with 30 computers Rock Excavation Lab survey The department faculty members are on National Committees as well as in mining projects in the region. The department has organized eleven National Seminars/Conferences/Workshops/Short-term programs in areas such as CAD/CAM, stress |
7,941 | Athletics at the 1993 Summer Universiade – Women's 1500 metres | The women's 1500 metres event at the 1993 Summer Universiade was held at the UB Stadium in Buffalo, United States on 18 July 1993. Results References Category:Athletics at the 1993 Summer Universiade Category:1993 in women's athletics 1993 |
7,942 | Kawle Górne | Kawle Górne is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Przodkowo, within Kartuzy County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately north-west of Przodkowo, north-east of Kartuzy, and west of the regional capital Gdańsk. For details of the history of the region, see History of Pomerania. The village has a population of 130. References Category:Villages in Kartuzy County |
7,943 | King Cotton (disambiguation) | King Cotton was a phrase used to illustrate the importance of cotton to the Confederate economy. King Cotton may also refer to: King Cotton (play), a musical written by Jimmy McGovern and directed by Jude Kelly King Cotton (march), a military march composed in 1895 King Cotton (performer), stage name of Dicky Sony King Cotton Classic, a national level high school basketball tournament King Cotton, an album by Northern English folk band Fivepenny Piece |
7,944 | Tatyana Zakharova | Tatyana Zakharova (; born April 18, 1969) was a professional sprinter from Russia. She won a silver medal in the 4x400m relay at the 1995 World Championships in Athletics by virtue of running for her team in the preliminary rounds. She also won a silver medal in the 4x400m at the 1994 Goodwill Games, this time running in the final. International competitions References Category:Living people Category:1969 births Category:Russian female sprinters Category:European Athletics Championships medalists Category:World Athletics Championships athletes for Russia Category:World Athletics Championships medalists Category:Goodwill Games medalists in athletics |
7,945 | Glyn Gilbert | Major General Glyn Charles Anglim Gilbert CB MC (15 August 1920 – 26 September 2003) was a 20th-century British military officer who saw active service during the Second World War. In 1970 he became the highest ranking Bermudian military officer when he was promoted to the rank of Major General in the British Army. Early life Gilbert was born into a family with its roots in the 17th century settlement of Bermuda. His father, Major Charles Gray Gosling Gilbert, OBE, MC, was the long-time head of the Colony's education department (1924–56) (the school of Gilbert Institute, in Paget, is named for him). Charles Gilbert, a Bermuda Rhodes Scholar from 1913, had been studying at Brasenose College, Oxford, in England when the Great War began. He left the university and was commissioned into the Royal West Kent Regiment, before serving on the Western Front in the Machine Gun Corps. Other Bermudian students in Britain similarly left their studies to serve in the British Army, including another Bermudian Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, Lennock de Graaf Godet, killed in action while serving in the Royal Flying Corps. During the Second World War, Gilbert was also in charge of cable censorship in Bermuda. Glyn Gilbert was born in England, where his father worked briefly after leaving the Army following the end of the Great War. Raised in Bermuda, he was sent to Eastbourne College in England. After leaving school the year before the start of the Second World War, and anticipating the coming conflict, Glyn Gilbert returned briefly to Bermuda before enrolling at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. The 1939 class of officer cadets was hurried through its training, and Gilbert was commissioned into the Lincolnshire Regiment. Two contingents from the Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps had served with the Lincolnshire Regiment on the Western Front, during the Great War. Since the 1920s, the affiliation between the two units had been given official sanction, with the Lincolns taking a paternal relationship towards the BVRC, akin to that it had with its own Territorial battalions. The BVRC would send drafts to the Lincolns again, in 1940 and 1944. Service in Second World War In 1944, Major Gilbert, as Officer Commanding "C" Company, 2nd Lincolns, was one of only two Bermudians to land on the beaches of Normandy. He later earned the immediate award of the Military Cross in the crossing of the Escaut Canal, part of a larger operation to cross the Rhine. He, and another Company Commander involved, was decorated with the medal by Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, personally. As Gilbert put it, 'later that day [of the crossing], the ribbon was pinned on while we were still in the field. The next day we were relieved by a contingent of Bermudians', which included his cousin, Lieutenant Ambrose Gosling. The Bermudians were part of a draft of Lincolns sent from England, under the command of Bermudian Major Anthony W. F. "Toby" Smith, who was killed in action shortly thereafter. Glyn ended the War in Northern Germany, where 2 Lincolns had taken part in the capture of Bremen. |
7,946 | Fabyan House | Fabyan House was a grand hotel in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, constructed by Sylvester Marsh who also built the Mount Washington Cog Railway. The hotel burned during construction in 1868 and was rebuilt in 1873. It was destroyed by fire in 1951. In 1841, Horace Fabyan bought outright the Old Moosehorn Tavern, which he had been leasing since 1837. It had previously been owned and run by Ethan Allen Crawford after being initially created by his grandfather, Eleazar Rosebrook. He renamed the inn as Mount Washington House and both upgraded and extended it. It burned down in a fire in 1853 and the derelict site was bought by Sylvester Marsh in 1864. Marsh's first attempt to build a hotel on the site came to nothing when the part-complete building burned in 1868 during construction. After transferring the property to the Mount Washington Hotel Company, in which he was a partner, it was possible to raise 200,000 for construction and Marsh eventually managed to open a hotel there in 1873, called Fabyan House. The construction was not without controversy because such a large enterprise necessitated the levelling of a well-loved local feature called Giant's Grave, which was a prominent mound on the site. The 500-person hotel had a livery stable, post office, bowling alley, and billiard hall. Its parlour measured and its dining room was . In particular after 1878, when it was leased by the Barron family, the hotel gained a reputation for its hospitality. It provided views of Mount Washington. A fire destroyed it in 1951. The area was served at Fabyan Station by the Boston, Concord & Montreal Railroad from 1874 and the Portland & Ogdensburg Railroad the following year. The place name "Fabyan" is still in use at the location of the hotel in the town of Carroll, New Hampshire, one mile northwest of Bretton Woods; the location is now the junction of U.S. Route 302 and the Base Station Road leading to the Cog Railway. The Conway Scenic Railroad now offers rail excursions from North Conway through Crawford Notch as far as Fabyan Station. The Fabyan was one of many grand hotels built during the second half of the 19th century in the area. See also Glen House, a grand hotel near the base of Mount Washington Mount Pleasant House (New Hampshire), built in 1875 and demolished in 1939 Mount Washington Hotel, built in 1902 and still in use References Category:Defunct hotels in New Hampshire Category:Hotel buildings completed in 1872 Category:Buildings and structures in Coos County, New Hampshire Category:Carroll, New Hampshire |
7,947 | 51st Brigade | 51st Brigade or 51st Infantry Brigade may refer to: 51st Indian Brigade of the British Indian Army in the First World War 51st Indian Infantry Brigade of the British Indian Army in the Second World War 51st Mechanized Brigade (Ukraine) 51st Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom) See also 51st Division (disambiguation) |
7,948 | Actors of the Comédie-Française | Coquettes qui pour voir is the name commonly given to an oil on panel painting in the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, by French artist Jean-Antoine Watteau, the leading painter of the Régence era and a pioneer of the Rococo style. Completed in the 1710s, it forms a half-length group portrait, possibly the rarest case in Watteau's body of work, and has been given various interpretatons; some scholars believe it to be a depiction of commedia dell'arte masks, while some others believe it to be a depiction of members of the Comédie-Française. Because of that, the painting has been known under a number of various titles; its traditional naming in Western scholarship, Coquettes qui pour voir, is derived from anonymous verses which the painting was featured with in Jean de Jullienne's four-volume collection of engravings after Watteau's works. By the middle of the 18th century, Coquettes belonged to , a nephew of the Parisian merchant and art collector Pierre Crozat; after his death in 1770, the painting, along with a most part of the collection he owned, was acquired for Catherine II of Russia in 1772. Since then the painting was held among the Russian imperial family collections in the Hermitage and, after the 1850s, in the Gatchina Palace; in 1920, it was transitioned in the Winter Palace, where it currently remains as part of the Hermitage Museum permanent exhibition. In Russian literature, the painting is currently known as Actors of the Comédie-Française, following studies of Watteau's drawings that established a possible identity. Description Composition Actors ... is an oil on panel painting upholstered in wood, and measures approximately 20 × 25 cm. In the painting, Watteau depicts five figures in half-length, standing around a stone balustrade. To the right, an outwardly old man stands upon a stick and holds a mushroom hat, dressed in a skullcap. By the balustrade's other side, a young girl is shown in a light-colored striped dress with high standing collar, standing behind a black boy in green-striped clothes. Over the girl's shoulder, a man's head appears in a large motley beret. To the left side, a young woman turned to the right in profile, appears in a Polish-styled red dress and white chipper, leaning on the balustrade and holding a black mask in the right hand. Defects found on the panel include a restored crack to the right of the old man's cape; gaps in shadows, more importantly at the bottom edge and around the girl's head; chippings painted over the girl's left shoulder. An X-ray analysis published by Soviet scholars in 1973 revealed changes in the composition showing that in the early stages the woman at the left was bareheaded, wore a different costume, and had placed her mask on the balustrade. The several differences between the painting and the engraving, notably in the coiffure of the central female figure, are considered relating to the state of the painting, which has been somewhat damaged and restored in the past. Identity of subjects Until the middle of the 20th century, sources and studies on Watteau variously |
7,949 | Kap Stanton Formation | The Kap Stanton Formation is a geologic formation in Greenland. It preserves fossils dating back to the Cambrian period. See also List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Greenland References Category:Cambrian Greenland Category:Cambrian southern paleotropical deposits |
7,950 | Ching Ching | "Ching Ching" is the second single by rap artist Ms. Jade. The song is also found on track four of her debut album, Girl Interrupted, released in 2002. The album version is the clean version, despite Girl Interrupted having a parental advisory sign. There is an explicit version of the song. It can be found on the song's promotional use only vinyl single as "LP" Version. The promotional vinyl single was published before the decision to put the clean version on the album. The reason for putting the clean version on the album is unknown. "Ching Ching" features artists Timbaland and Nelly Furtado, and contains a sample of Furtado's song "Baby Girl" from her 2000 debut album, Whoa, Nelly!. The title of "Ching Ching" comes from an improvised nonsensical lyric in "Baby Girl". The "Ching Ching" music video was shot in Los Angeles, California at night on September 18 and September 19, 2002, and was directed by Marc Klasfeld. The video features Ms. Jade as a woman who is chased in her Hummer by her boyfriend (played by Timbaland) after she catches him with three other women in his Hummer at an intersection. After they leave their respective SUVs, Ms. Jade argues with Timbaland on the street. Furtado joins Jade in the dispute as a crowd gathers, and at the end of the video Ms. Jade takes a handful of cash from Timbaland's pocket and throws it into the air to the delight of the crowd. Other versions "Ching Ching" (Radio Edit) (Clean Version, also serves as Album Version) (3:56) "Ching Ching" (Instrumental Version) (4:35) "Ching Ching" (Alternative Version) (Explicit version) (4:18) "Ching Ching" (Acapella) (Explicit version) 4:39 Charts References External links Category:2002 singles Category:Music videos directed by Marc Klasfeld Category:Nelly Furtado songs Category:Song recordings produced by Timbaland Category:Timbaland songs Category:Songs written by Timbaland Category:Songs written by Nelly Furtado Category:Songs written by Gerald Eaton Category:Songs written by Brian West (musician) |
7,951 | Marlyn Glen | Marlyn Glen (born 30 September 1951) is a Scottish Labour Party politician, and was Member of the Scottish Parliament for the North East Scotland region from 2003 to 2011. Glen was born in Dundee and educated at Kirkton High School. She attended the University of St Andrews and the University of Dundee, and has also completed several Open University degree courses. Prior to her election to Holyrood, she worked as a teacher in Liverpool, Ayr, Irvine and Dundee and is a member of the Educational Institute of Scotland trade union. She was also a Dundee District Council councillor. Her husband, Neil Glen, was also a councillor and died in 2004. She was also an Honorary Vice President of English-Speaking Union Scotland. Glen is on the left of the Scottish Labour Party and remains a supporter of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. She is also a member of Campaign for Socialism that backed John McDonnell's then Jeremy Corbyn's bids for the leadership of the UK Labour Party. References External links Marlyn Glen Personal website Marlyn Glen MSP Old blog Category:1951 births Category:Living people Category:Alumni of the Open University Category:Alumni of the University of St Andrews Category:Alumni of the University of Dundee Category:Scottish schoolteachers Category:Politicians from Dundee Category:Labour MSPs Category:Councillors in Dundee Category:Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Category:Female members of the Scottish Parliament Category:Members of the Scottish Parliament 2003–2007 Category:Members of the Scottish Parliament 2007–2011 Category:Scottish Labour Party councillors |
7,952 | Eugene Current-Garcia | Eugene Current-Garcia (1908-1995) was a professor at Auburn University and became Auburn's Hargis Professor Emeritus of American Literature. He was a founding editor of the Southern Humanities Review and a noted scholar of Southern literature. He was named the first Phi Kappa Phi American Scholar in 1994, the first year of that biennial award. Education Eugene Current-Garcia received his A.B. in 1930 and M.A. in 1932 at Tulane University and a Ph.D. in American literature at Harvard University in 1947. Academic career He taught at the University of Nebraska from 1936 to 1939 and Suffolk University from 1939-1942. He taught at Louisiana State University from 1944 to 1947 and Auburn University from 1947 to 1993. He was a Fulbright lecturer at the University of Salonika, Greece during 1956-1958. He wrote the Bibliographical Guide to the Study of Southern Literature published by the Louisiana State University Press in 1969. The Eugene Current-Garcia Award The Eugene Current-Garcia Award for Alabama's Distinguished Literary Scholar is awarded annually at the Monroeville Literary Festival. Winners are selected by the Association of College English Teachers of Alabama, and include: 2018 Dr. David Cowart, 2017 Kirk Curnutt, 2016 Frye Gaillard, 2015 Eric Sterling, 2014 Wayne Flynt, 2013 Sue Brannan Walker, 2012 William A. Ulmer, 2011 David Sauer, 2010 Ralph Voss, 2009 John H. Hafner, 2008 Norman MacMillan, 2007 Elaine W. Hughes, 2006 Nancy Grisham Anderson, 2005 Robert Halli (Dr. Bob Halli), 2004 Benjamin Buford Williams, 2003 J. William Hutchings, 2002 Trudier Harris, 2001 Bert Hitchcock, 2000 Don Noble, 1999 Philip Beidler, and 1998 Claudia Durst Johnson. Publications Books by Current-Garcia include: O. Henry in 1965 and O. Henry: A Study of the Short Fiction in 1993, part of Twayne's Studies in Short Fiction. As part of the same series he wrote American Short Stories; 1820 to the Present in 1952, and in 1985 he wrote The American Short Story before 1850: A Critical History. Other books include Realism and romanticism in fiction : an approach to the novel, published in 1962, and the joint publication, What is the Short Story? in 1961. Twayne publishing was acquired by Gale (publisher) in 1999 and is one of the imprints of Gale and its parent company Cengage Learning. Eugene Current-Garcia, Hargis Professor Emeritus of American Literature at Auburn University, first entered the pages of Alabama Heritage Magazine in spring 1987, when he published "Mr. Spirit and His Alabama Wits," an article about Southwestern humorists Johnson J. Hooper and John Barr. In his second article for Alabama Heritage Magazine, Current-Garcia focused his attention on nineteenth-century Alabama wit Joseph Glover Baldwin. Professor Current-Garcia was especially interested in Southern humorous writers. He wrote "Newspaper Humor in the Old South, 1835-1855" for The Alabama Review. "Southern literature is greatly indebted to these humorists," said Current-Garcia. "The foremost writer we have in modem fiction is William Faulkner, who drew a great deal from Southwestern humor." Current-Garcia was also co-editor of American Short Stories, for several decades the preeminent short story anthology used in colleges and universities. First published in 1952 by Scott, Foresman & Company, American Short |
7,953 | Morris B. Chapman | Morris B. Chapman (1919–February 18, 2007) was an American lawyer from Madison County, Illinois and a prominent plaintiffs' trial lawyer. Biography Chapman graduated from Saint Louis University School of Law in 1942. Chapman "was instrumental in developing trial rules that require parties to disclose their evidence to each other" before trial and "served as a mentor to many ... prominent lawyers and judges" in the Metro East region of Illinois. He served as a president of the Madison County Bar Association and the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association, was an Illinois state committeeman for the Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA), and was a member of the Inner Circle of Advocates. Chapman argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1954, and was at the time the youngest attorney ever to do so. Chapman participated in the civil rights movement in the 1960s and 1970s; he did volunteer work with the American Civil Liberties Union in Mississippi, marched with Martin Luther King, Jr. in Chicago in 1966, and was a lifetime member of the NAACP. Chapman practiced law for over 63 years, and tried his last case, a medical malpractice matter, just months before he died. During his life, Chapman did volunteer work for the poor and was an amateur pilot. He also enjoyed collecting watches, flying airplanes, and raising horses. Chapman died at his home at age 87 on February 18, 2007, of prostate cancer. He lived in Granite City, Illinois. Chapman was the father of Justice Melissa Chapman of the Illinois 5th District Appellate Court. Notes Category:1919 births Category:2007 deaths Category:Illinois lawyers Category:People from Granite City, Illinois Category:Saint Louis University School of Law alumni |
7,954 | Leontius (usurper) | Leontius (, Leòntios; died 488) was a general of the Eastern Roman Empire and claimant to the throne who led a rebellion against emperor Zeno in 484–488. Biography Leontius was of Syrian origin, coming from Dalisandus. Under Zeno he became magister militum per Thracias (Commander-in-chief of the Imperial army in Thrace). In 484, the Roman general Illus broke off his relationship with emperor Zeno. The Emperor sent Leontius with an army against Illus, but Illus managed to persuade Leontius to go over to his side. Zeno was not popular with the people of Constantinople, a crucial part of Eastern Romans politics, because he was an Isaurian and as such he was considered a barbarian (which is why he had suffered an usurpation in 475/476 by Basiliscus); Illus, who also was an Isaurian, decided not to take it for himself but to raise Leontius to the throne. Leontius's coronation took place in Tarsus on July 19, 484 - the day was chosen, following the advice of some astrologers, as a favourable day - at the hands of the empress dowager Verina, who then sent a letter to the Governors of the Diocese of the East and of the Diocese of Egypt suggesting they accept the usurper as Emperor. Leontius was recognized in Antioch, where he entered July 27, and in some other places; he even had time to nominate officers and to mint coins, before facing the reaction of Zeno. Zeno's army, composed of Roman and Ostrogothic troops under the command of Theodoric the Amal and John the Scythian, defeated the rebel army near Antioch (August 8). Illus and Leontius were forced to take refuge inside the fortress of Papurius, where the insurgents held out for four years. In 488 the fortress fell through treachery; Leontius was put to death, beheaded at Seleucia on the Calycadnus, and his head was sent to Zeno. Since Illus and Leontius were both Chalcedonians, they gained the support of Callandion, Patriarch of Antioch, but otherwise had little support. Also some Pagans supported the revolt, among whom was the poet, philosopher, and soothsayer Pamprepius. Notes References Hugh, Elton, "Leontius (AD 484-488)", De Imperatoribur Romanis Smith, William, "Illus", Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Trombley, Frank R., and John W. Watt, The Chronicle of Pseudo-Joshua the Stylite, Liverpool University Press, 2000, , p. 14. Williams, Stephen, The Rome That Did Not Fall: the survival of the East in the fifth century, Routledge, 1999, , p. 195. Category:5th-century births Category:488 deaths Category:Byzantine generals Category:Byzantine usurpers Category:Executed Byzantine people Category:5th-century executions by the Byzantine Empire Category:5th-century Byzantine people Category:5th-century Christians Category:People executed by decapitation |
7,955 | Special Corps of Gendarmes | The Special Corps of Gendarmes () was the uniformed security police of the Imperial Russian Army in the Russian Empire during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Its main responsibilities were law enforcement and state security. The responsibilities of the Gendarmes also included the execution of court orders, pursuit of fugitives, riot control, and detainment of "unusual" criminals. Gendarmes could also be assigned to assist local police and officials. History Establishment The precursors of the Corps were the Imperial Army Gendarmerie regiment (formed in 1815 and based on the Borisoglebsk Dragoon Regiment) and Gendarmerie units of the Special Corps of the Internal Guards (raised 1811). Following the 1825 Decembrist revolt, the new Russian Emperor, Nicholas I, established the office of the Chief of Gendarmes in July 1826 and appointed General Count Alexander Benkendorf to it; all of the gendarmes were subordinate to the Chief. Benkendorf was also appointed Executive Director of the newly-formed Third Section of the Imperial Chancellery, although the office of the Head of the Third Section did not formally merge with that of the Chief of Gendarmes until 1839. Organisation In 1836, the Gendarmerie of the Internal Guards was transformed into the Special Corps of Gendarmes, under the Chief of Gendarmes. The Commander of the Corps and Chief of Staff of the Corps were also Directors of the Third Section under the Executive Director. The Corps was divided into seven territorial Districts, six of them located in Russia and one in the Kingdom of Poland, each having a Directorate. The Main Directorate, along with additional Gubernial Directorates, was also created. The Army's Gendarmerie regiment joined the Corps in 1842. As of 1867 statute, the Corps consisted of: Main Directorate Surveillance staff Caucasus, Warsaw and Siberia Districts Gubernial Directorates (56) Uyezd Directorates (50) Railroad Directorates St. Petersburg, Moscow and Warsaw divisions Mounted units (13) Expanded role In 1871, the Gendarmes acquired the right to investigate both political and criminal cases, as the judicial investigators were dismissed. Only the most competent of those Army officers holding noble ranks could be appointed to the Corps of Gendarmes. In August 1880, both the Third Section and the Special Corps of Gendarmes came under the authority of the Minister of Internal Affairs, at the proposal of Count Loris-Melikov. The Minister of Internal Affairs took up the office of Chief of Gendarmes, and the Commander of the Corps became his Deputy. Many Gendarme officers were transferred to the newly created Department of Police. Following the 1902 assassination of MVD Minister Sipyagin, the state security authorities of the Gendarmerie Directorates was transferred to the Okhrana and counter-intelligence units of the General Staff and the Department of Police. Disbandment 1917 During the Russian Revolution of February 1917, gendarmes stationed at Kronstadt remained loyal to the Tsarist regime, firing on demonstrators and subsequently being imprisoned for trial. On the Corps of Gendarmes was formally abolished by order of the Provisional Committee of the State Duma, along with the regular Tsarist police. Directors Alexander von Benckendorff (1826–1844, its founder and first chief) Vasily Andreyevich Dolgorukov (?–?) Aleksandr Potapov (1861–1864) |
7,956 | 1967–68 CPHL season | The 1967-68 Central Professional Hockey League season was the fifth season of the Central Professional Hockey League, a North American minor pro league. Eight teams participated in the regular season, and the Tulsa Oilers won the league title. Regular season Playoffs First round (N1) Tulsa Oilers - (S1) Oklahoma City Blazers 4:3 (N2) Kansas City Blues - (N3) Memphis South Stars 3:0 (S2) Fort Worth Wings - (S3) Dallas Black Hawks 3:2 Second round (N1) Tulsa Oilers - bye (S2) Fort Worth Wings - (N2) Kansas City Blues 3:1 Final (N1) Tulsa Oilers - (S2) Fort Worth Wings 4:0 External links Statistics on hockeydb.com CPHL Category:Central Professional Hockey League seasons |
7,957 | Sri Prakash Lohia | Sri Prakash Lohia (born 11 August 1952) is an Indian-born-Indonesian billionaire businessman, and the founder and chairman of Indorama Corporation, a diversified petrochemical and textile company. Lohia hails from India but has spent the majority of his professional life in Indonesia since 1974. In 2013, Forbes ranked him as the 6th richest person in Indonesia with a net worth of US$3 billion. Early life Lohia was born in Kolkata on 11 August 1952 to Mohan Lal Lohia and Kanchan Devi Lohia. He has three brothersOm, Ajey (original name Ajay Prakash), and Aloke (original name Alok or Anil Prakash)and one sisterAruna. He graduated from the University of Delhi in 1971, with a bachelor's degree in commerce. Career In 1973, Lohia moved to Indonesia with his father Mohan Lal Lohia and started Indorama Synthetics, which began to manufacture spun yarns in 1976. The company was divided in the late 1980s by Mohan Lal Lohia between his three sons to avoid family disputes in the future. Lohia's elder brother Om Prakash moved to India and set up Indorama Synthetics. Aloke, Lohia's younger brother, went to Thailand to found Indorama Holdings, which is a wool yarn producer. In 1991, Indorama Synthetics diversified into the manufacture of polyester fibers and then polyester bottle-grade (PET) resins in 1995. In 2006, Lohia acquired an integrated olefin plant in Nigeria, which is today the largest petrochemical company in West Africa and the second largest olefin producer in Africa. Indorama Corporation is Lohia's principal holding company, which is based in Singapore. Wealth In 2013, Lohia was ranked 395 in Forbes list of Billionaires with a net worth of $3.4 billion. In 2015, the Lohia family was one of the 50 wealthiest families in Asia. Personal life Lohia rarely gives interviews or makes public appearances. Lohia and his wife, Seema Mittal (sister of Lakshmi Mittal), have two children, Amit and Shruti. Amit graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business. He is the Managing Director of Indorama Corporation and a director in various Indorama companies. Lohia's daughter, Shruti Hora, graduated from Babson College and currently resides in Singapore.Lohia is brother-in-law of Lakshmi Mittal, currently the second richest Indian with a net worth of $14.6 billion. Lohia is one of the world's largest collectors of old books and lithographs. He has the world's second largest collection of colored lithographs. He is working to digitize all his lithographs and those at other leading libraries around the world. They are being uploaded on . Awards In 2012, Lohia was given the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman award (Overseas Indian award) by the President of India. See also List of Indonesians by net worth References Category:1952 births Category:Living people Category:Indian chief executives Category:Indonesian people of Indian descent Category:Businesspeople from Kolkata Category:Rajasthani people Category:Indian billionaires Category:Indonesian billionaires Category:Indonesian Hindus Category:Mittal family |
7,958 | Agdistis morini | Agdistis morini is a moth in the family Pterophoridae that is endemic to Italy. References Category:Agdistinae Category:Endemic fauna of Italy Category:Moths described in 2001 Category:Moths of Europe |
7,959 | Chionodes veles | Chionodes veles is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, Ontario and Yukon. References Category:Chionodes Category:Moths described in 1999 Category:Moths of North America |
7,960 | Suvali Beach | Suvali Beach was previously known as Suwally or Swally (anglicised version of Suvali) or Swally Beach. Suvali Beach is an urban beach along the Arabian Sea situated near the village of Suvali in the Hazira suburb of Surat in Gujarat State, India. The black sand beach lies from the centre of Surat and is the cleanest beach in India. History Suvali Beach was the gateway from where the East India Company made inroads into India. in 1612, Captain Thomas Best encountered and defeated the Portuguese at the Battle of Swally. Suvali Beach is also known as the birthplace of the modern Indian Navy See also List of tourist attractions in Surat References Category:Beaches of Surat Category:Beaches of Gujarat Category:Surat Category:History of Surat Category:Tourist attractions in Surat district |
7,961 | WSMH | WSMH, virtual channel 66 (UHF digital channel 16), branded on-air as Fox 66, is a Fox-affiliated television station licensed to Flint, Michigan, United States and serving the Flint/Tri-Cities television market. The station is owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group, which also operates Saginaw-licensed NBC affiliate WEYI-TV (channel 25, owned by Howard Stirk Holdings) and Bay City-licensed CW affiliate WBSF (channel 46, owned by Cunningham Broadcasting) through separate shared services agreements (SSAs). However, Sinclair effectively owns WBSF as the majority of Cunningham's stock is owned by the family of deceased group founder Julian Smith. WSMH's studios–which also house master control and some internal operations for WEYI and WBSF–are located on West Pierson Road in Mount Morris Township (with a Flint mailing address), and its transmitter is located on Amman Road (near Gary Road) near St. Charles, Michigan. On cable, the station is available on channel 8 on most systems in the market. History Flint Broadcasting Limited Partnership requested a station with the call letter WSMH, which were assigned on September 27, 1984. WSMH first went on the air on January 13, 1985 as an independent station with Frederick (Fritz) Mills as general manager. Mills was formerly director of national sales, UPI Media in Chicago. A fire at the transmitter in April 1985 forced the station to go off the air for about one month until repairs could be made. Flint Broadcasting sold the station to Gerald J. Robinson by July 1986. On October 9, 1986, it became a charter Fox affiliate. Sinclair Broadcast Group bought the station in 1996. From 1990 to 1997, WSMH was the Mid-Michigan affiliate of the now defunct syndication package The Disney Afternoon. On October 28, 2002, the station launched its first newscast, News at Ten, the first using a centralization model for all Sinclair stations. On September 30, 2006, WSMH began broadcasting The Tube on its secondary subchannel. Channel 66 dropped its local news staff in 2006, opting instead to contract with WNEM to replace its 10 p.m. newscast. The retransmission agreement between the Sinclair Broadcast Group and Comcast was set to expire on February 5, 2007. An extension was granted twice so the sides could negotiate. During the talks, Comcast stated that it would not pay cash for retransmission rights but was willing to give free commercial time to WSMH in exchange for carriage. On March 9, Sinclair and Comcast signed a new deal to extend retransmission rights for four years to expire on March 1, 2011. Per a new five-year affiliation agreement reached between Sinclair and Fox on May 15, 2012, WSMH would remain a Fox affiliate until at least December 31, 2017, although currently, it's Fox affiliation remains to this day. In late 2010 and early 2011 with new carriage deals by owner Sinclair, WSMH added two music video networks to its digital subchannels, TheCoolTV on 66.2 and The Country Network on 66.3. In late August 2012, TheCoolTV was dropped from all 32 Sinclair stations that carried the channel, including WSMH, with no replacement due to non-renewal of affiliation. Sinclair signed an agreement on June |
7,962 | Claudia Linnhoff-Popien | Claudia Linnhoff-Popien is a German computer scientist. Professional career Linnhoff-Popien finished her graduate studies in mathematics with focus informatics 1989 at Leipzig University. That followed a teaching and research work at Technical University, Magdeburg. Beginning in 1991 she worked as a research assistant at Aachen University of Technology, where she earned her Ph.D. in 1994. From 1995 to 1997 she did different lectureships at University of Essen. 1997 she worked as a research visitor at the Applied Research Institut of Washington University in St. Louis. In 1998, she finished her habilitation at Aachen University of Technology and joined the faculty of Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich as an associate professor. Since 2003 she is full professor there for mobile and distributed computing. Linnhoff-Popien is member of more than 50 programme committees of international conferences organized by IFIP, ACM, IEEE, Gesellschaft für Informatik, VDE and further organizations. She is expert witness for Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany) and German Academic Exchange Service. She works on several research projects supported by industry and government including distributed computing and ubiquitous computing as well as service discovery and context awareness. Publications (extract) with Ralf Schneider, Michael Zaddach: Digital Marketplaces Unleashed. Springer 2017 with Thomas Strang: Location- and Context-Awareness. Springer 2005 with Heinz-Gerd Hegering: Trends in Distributed Systems: Towards a Universal Service Market. Springer 2000 with Otto Spaniol: Trends in Distributed Systems: CORBA and Beyond. Springer 1996 with Alexander Schill, Christian Mittasch, Otto Spaniol: "Distributed Platforms", Proceedings of the IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Platforms: Client Server and Beyond. Springer 1996, References Category:1966 births Category:Living people Category:German computer scientists Category:German women computer scientists Category:Leipzig University alumni Category:RWTH Aachen University alumni Category:Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich faculty |
7,963 | Rancho El Rincon | Rancho El Rincón was a Mexican land grant in present-day San Bernardino County and Riverside County, California given in 1839 to Juan Bandini by Governor Juan Alvarado. El rincón means "the corner" in Spanish. The grant, located south of present-day Chino, was bounded on the east by Rancho Jurupa, on the south by the Santa Ana River, on the west by Rancho Cañón de Santa Ana, and extending northerly from the river one league. The rancho lands include Prado Regional Park. History Rancho El Rincon The one square league Rancho El Rincón was granted to Juan Bandini by Governor Alvarado in 1839. Juan Bandini sold the rancho to Bernardo Yorba. Bernardo Yorba was the grantee of Rancho Cañón de Santa Ana and Rancho La Sierra. With the cession of California to the United States following the Mexican-American War, the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo provided that the land grants would be honored. As required by the Land Act of 1851, a claim for Rancho El Rincon was filed with the Public Land Commission in 1853, and the grant was patented to Bernardo Yorba in 1879. Rincon and Prado A village called Rincón developed near the river crossing on the Santa Ana River, near the upper mouth of the canyon cut by the river between the Chino Hills and the mountains to the south. It had a post office from December 12, 1870 to August 24, 1874 and from November 19, 1887 to April 11, 1907. At the request of the Santa Fe Railway, which already had stops in several towns also named Rincón, the name of the town and post office was changed to Prado ("meadow") in 1907. This new post office operated until May 31, 1935 when it was consolidated with Corona. Following the destruction of much of the town and local farms in the Flood of 1938, the village of Prado was removed during the building of Prado Dam in 1941. Historic sites of the Rancho Yorba-Slaughter Adobe. Bernardo Yorba's son, Raymundo (also spelled Raimundo) built the first house at the Yorba Slaughter Adobe site in 1851. The structure burned and was replaced by the present structure in 1852-53. The property was purchased in 1868 by Fenton M. Slaughter, an American born in Virginia in 1826, a veteran of the Mexican-American War of 1846, and later a blacksmith, surveyor, and sheep and cattle broker in the Los Angeles area. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places listings in San Bernardino County, California, it is San Bernardino County Landmark 191. See also David W. Alexander, 19th century Los Angeles, California, politician and sheriff, lived on the Rancho References Rincon, El El Rincon El Rincon |
7,964 | Bromus pubescens | Bromus pubescens, the hairy woodland brome or hairy wood chess, is a grass species found across much of the eastern and central United States, as well as in Arizona, Québec and Ontario. Bromus pubescens is a perennial herb up to 1.2 m (4 feet) tall. Leaf blades are up to 30 cm (12 inches) long and 15 mm (0.6 inches) across. Spikelets are drooping, up to 3 cm (1.2 inches) long, lacking awns on the glumes. References pubescens Category:Flora of the United States Category:Flora of Quebec Category:Flora of Ontario |
7,965 | Camulus | Camulus or Camulos was a theonym for a deity of the Celts that the Romans equated with Mars in the interpretatio Romanum. Camulus was an important god of early Great Britain and Gaul, especially among the Belgae and the Remi, a Gaulish people living in the region that is now modern Grand Est around Reims. Evidence Evidence of Camulus' popularity can be seen in several place-names, notably Camulodunum. Camulus is named in combination with Mars in inscriptions coming from Reims, Arlon, Kruishoutem, Rindern, Mainz, Bar Hill Fort near the Antonine Wall, Sarmizegetusa, and Southwark, London. The town Camulodunum (now Colchester) in Essex may have been named after him (and is the conjectured basis for the legendary city Camelot). Camulodunum is a Latinised form of the Brittonic Camulodūnon from Camulos plus dūnon "(hill)fort, stronghold", a reference to the town's extensive Iron Age earthwork defences. Other proposed connections Attempts from the 20th century and earlier to link the name Camulus with the nursery rhyme character Old King Cole, and with Irish mythological Cumhall, the hero Fionn's father, have been rejected by contemporary scholars. References Category:Gaulish gods Category:War gods Category:Roman Colchester |
7,966 | City Airport | The City airport is an umbrella term used to refer to airports - international, regional or otherwise - that are extremely close - generally walking distance - to the city centre. This discounts any airport that has "city" in the name, like Kansas City Airport, however an airport like Lennart Meri International Airport is a prime example of a city airport. Brasil Rio de Janeiro-Santos Dumont Airport Canada Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport Estonia Lennart Meri Tallinn Airport Germany Mannheim City Airport Moldova Bălți City Airport South Africa Wonderboom Airport Sweden Göteborg City Airport Linköping City Airport United Kingdom City Airport & Heliport, Barton-upon-Irwell, Greater Manchester George Best Belfast City Airport London City Airport Plymouth City Airport (closed) Sheffield City Airport (closed) United States Detroit City Airport (now known as Coleman Young Airport) Washington Reagan National Airport Zambia Lusaka City Airport |
7,967 | Health Partners Plans | Health Partners Plans (HPP) is a non-profit hospital-owned health maintenance organization which provides Medicaid and Medicare to central and southeastern Pennsylvania residents. Health Partners Plans has over 262,000 members throughout Pennsylvania and provides healthcare to low income residents in the counties of Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Lancaster, Lehigh, Montgomery, Northampton and Philadelphia. History Health Partners Plans was founded in 1984 and is one of the few hospital-owned health maintenance organizations. The organization is owned by Jefferson Health Northeast, Albert Einstein Healthcare Network and Temple University Health System. In 2019, Health Partners Plans CEO, Bill George, retired as CEO and was replaced by Denise Croce. George joined the company in 1991 as CFO and became CEO in 2006. HPP opened a new building, the Community Wellness Center, in West Philadelphia with the goal of "encouraging community members to take charge of their health". Health Partners Plans filed a lawsuit against Reading Health Partners LLC that year. In 2019, Health Partners Plans began offering a medically tailored meal delivery program which improved both the outcome and lowered the cost of supporting clients with chronic disease. See also Keystone First References External links Category:1984 establishments in Pennsylvania Category:Health care companies based in Pennsylvania |
7,968 | William Watson (writer) | William Hugh Charles Watson was a Scottish author, playwright and newspaper editor. He was initially Literary and then Features editor of the Scotsman newspaper. Born in Edinburgh on 30 April 1931, he attended Edinburgh Academy and then entered Edinburgh and Oxford universities but did not complete either course. He commenced writing novels in 1969 with Better than One and then wrote two historical novels. The first, titled Beltran in Exile (1979) was about the Knights Templar after the end of the Crusades in Palestine. The Knight on the Bridge (1982) is about the Cathars. These two latter books are generally regarded as his best works. Between 1970 and 1972 he wrote three plays; Footstool for God, set in Rosslyn Chapel,The Larch and Dodwell's Last Trump. He also co-wrote Sawney Bean with Robert Nye in 1970, and, with Nye, Stanley Eveling, Alan Jackson, Clarisse Eriksson, John Downing and David Mowat an adaptation of Dracula which premiered in Edinburgh in 1969, and in London in 1972. He wrote six spy thrillers under the nom-de-plume of J K Mayo between 1986 and 1997 using a middle-aged, irritable, Gauloise-smoking ex-army Colonel named Harry Seddall as his hero for these popular books. An interesting aside is his apparent enjoyment of using little-known and obscure words to enhance his excellent descriptions of places and intelligent conversations throughout the books. He died in an Edinburgh nursing home on 5 December 2005 after a long illness. He left a wife Catherine Robins. Selected works 1 Published under the pseudonym of J.K. Mayo. References Category:Scottish novelists Category:1930 births Category:2005 deaths Category:Scottish dramatists and playwrights Category:People educated at Edinburgh Academy Category:Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Category:20th-century Scottish novelists Category:Scottish male novelists Category:20th-century British dramatists and playwrights Category:20th-century British male writers |
7,969 | Kalu Khan | Kalu Khan is a village located between Shawwa-Adda and Adina village on the main Mardan–Swabi road in Khyber–Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Kalu Khan was upgraded to the status of "Tehsil Headquarters" of District Swabi during the ANP (Awami National Party/ملي اولسي ګوند) government term in the province between 2008 and 2013. The tehsil head-quarter although located in Kalukhan is named Tehsil "Razar" and not Tehsil Kalu-Khan. The people here belong to the Mandanr-Yousafzai (Isapzi in Pashto) branch of Afghans through Mandanr and his sons. Razar was one of the four sons of Mandanr. The other three were Khazar, Mahmood and Manu. The areas falling under this Tehsil are inhabited by the sons of Razar and Khazar. The people of Kalu Khan are the children of Khazar and therefore Khazarzis of the Mandanr-Ispazis tribe of Afghans. By following the Facebook link below you can see a family tree that shows the sons of Mandanr and his ancestry. https://m.facebook.com/215341988488214/photos/a.745009945521413/745009962188078/?type=3&source=54&ref=page_internal Khazar had four sons namely Shamo, Umar, Yusaf and Ghai. Umar son of Khazar son of Mandanr also had four sons namely Munan, Mama, Bazid and Lodar. Umar and his four sons got the possession of lands of Kalu Khan sometime around the 1530s. The people of Kalukhan are therefore the children of Mandanr through his sons Khazar and Umar. Beside the Mandanr Isapzais, inhabitants include Akhundzadas, Wardaks, Syeds and Mians (considered as religious and spiritual families) who had come along with the former somewhere between 1490 and 1510 AD from the Kabul region of Afghanistan and got possession of these lands after successful tribal wars and pushing the previous local people across the river Indus. Some other families living in this and surrounding villages are Awans, Kamangars, etc who may or may not be Afghans but were allotted lands after their good performances during the old tribal wars. Some others here did not own any land but provided services to the land-owners. The name of the village is after a famous 16th-century tribal army general named Malak Kalukhan. The Malak here is an ancient pakhtun title only and is not to be confused with the Malik families of the Punjab. He is believed to have fought the Mughal Emperor of his Era who was Akbar. He fought him for freedom of his states, his tribe and nation. He got several times jailed by Akbar at his capital in Delhi but instead of punishing and torturing him he began to like him because of which he was able to escape. Like every other village in the Isapzai country, stretching from the plains of present-day Swabi and Mardan in the South to the valleys of Buner and Swat in the north, the land of Kalu-Khan village was equally divided into four families in the early 1500s. These families or khels (in Pashto) are the Munankhel, Mamakhel, Bazidkhel, and Lodarkhel. The entire village was divided into four parts or wands (ونډ) which was then further divided into four and each family received one part in every wand. Family residences, Hujras and Mosques were built at a central |
7,970 | Unicode symbols | In computing, a Unicode symbol is a Unicode character which is not part of a script used to write a natural language, but is nonetheless available for use as part of a text. Many of the symbols are drawn from existing character sets or ISO or other national and international standards. The Unicode Standard states that "The universe of symbols is rich and open-ended." This makes the issue of what symbols to encode and how symbols should be encoded more complicated than the issues surrounding writing systems. Unicode focuses on symbols that make sense in a one-dimensional plain-text context. For example, the typical two-dimensional arrangement of electronic diagram symbols justifies their exclusion. (Box-drawing characters are a partial exception, for legacy purposes, and a number of electronic diagram symbols are indeed encoded in Unicode's Miscellaneous Technical block.) For adequate treatment in plain text, symbols must also be displayable in a monochromatic setting. Even with these limitations monochromatic, one-dimensional and standards-based the domain of potential Unicode symbols is extensive. (However, emojis ideograms, graphic symbols that were admitted into Unicode, allow colors although the colors are not standardized.) Symbol block list There are , including the following symbol blocks: Alphanumeric variants (based on Latin characters in Unicode) Currency Symbols (U+20A0–U+20CF) General Punctuation (U+2000–U+206F) Letterlike Symbols (U+2100–U+214F) Number Forms (U+2150–U+218F) Phonetic symbols (including IPA) (various blocks) Superscripts and Subscripts (U+2070–U+209F) Enclosed variants Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement (1F100–1F1FF) Enclosed Alphanumerics (U+2460–U+24FF) Enclosed Ideographic Supplement (1F200–1F2FF) Arrows Arrows (U+2190–U+21FF) Dingbat arrows (U+2794–U+27BF) Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows (U+2B00–U+2BFF) Supplemental Arrows-A (U+27F0–U+27FF) Supplemental Arrows-B (U+2900–U+297F) Supplemental Arrows-C (U+1F800-U+1F8FF) Mathematical Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols (U+1D400–U+1D7FF) Mathematical Operators (U+2200–U+22FF) Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A (U+27C0–U+27EF) Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B (U+2980–U+29FF) Symbols and Pictographs Extended-A (U+1FA70–1FAFF) Supplemental Mathematical Operators (U+2A00–U+2AFF) Technical Control Pictures (U+2400–U+243F) Miscellaneous Technical (U+2300–U+23FF) Optical Character Recognition (U+2440–U+245F) Musical Ancient Greek Musical Notation (U+1D200–U+1D24F) Byzantine Musical Symbols (U+1D000–U+1D0FF) Musical Symbols (U+1D100–U+1D1FF) Games Chess Symbols (U+1FA00–1FA6F) Domino Tiles (U+1F030–U+1F09F) Mahjong Tiles (U+1F000–U+1F02F) Playing Cards (U+1F0A0–U+1F0FF) Emoji and emoticons Dingbats (U+2700–U+27BF) Emoticons (U+1F600–U+1F64F) Miscellaneous Symbols (U+2600–U+26FF) Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs (U+1F300–U+1F5FF) Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs (U+1F900–1F9FF) Symbols and Pictographs Extended-A Transport and Map Symbols (U+1F680..U+1F6FF) Additional emoji can be found in the following Unicode blocks: Arrows, Basic Latin, CJK Symbols and Punctuation, Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement, Enclosed Alphanumerics, Enclosed CJK Letters and Months, Enclosed Ideographic Supplement, General Punctuation, Geometric Shapes, Geometric Shapes Extended, Latin-1 Supplement, Letterlike Symbols, Mahjong Tiles, Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows, Miscellaneous Technical, Playing Cards, and Supplemental Arrows-B. Miscellaneous Alchemical Symbols (1F700–1F77F) Arabic Mathematical Alphabetic Symbols (1EE00–1EEFF) Block Elements (U+2580–U+259F) Box Drawing (U+2500–U+257F) CJK Compatibility (U+3300–33FF) Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols (U+20D0–U+20FF) Common Indic Number Forms (U+A830–A83F) Counting Rod Numerals (U+1D360–1D37F) Enclosed CJK Letters and Months (U+3200–32FF) Geometric Shapes (U+25A0–U+25FF) Geometric Shapes Extended (U+1F780-U+1F7FF) Indic Siyaq Numbers (U+1EC70–1ECBF) Mayan Numerals (U+1D2E0–1D2FF) Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows (U+2B00–U+2BFF) Ornamental Dingbats (U+1F650-U+1F67F) Ottoman Siyaq Numbers (U+1ED00–1ED4F) Religious and political symbols (various blocks) Rumi Numeral Symbols (U+10E60–10E7F) Supplemental Punctuation (U+2E00–2E7F) Symbols for Legacy Computing (U+1FB00–1FBFF) Tai Xuan Jing Symbols (U+1D300–1D35F) Yijing Hexagram Symbols (U+4DC0–4DFF) See also Special characters Universal Character Set characters References External links Unicode character code charts Draft |
7,971 | Tony Takezaki | is a Japanese comic book artist born on July 15, 1963 in Osaka. Selected bibliography Comic books A.D. Police (1989–90) Dr Kishiwada's Scientific Affection (1992–98) Genocyber (1993) Space Pinchy (2002) Tony Takezaki no Gundam Manga (2004) Tony Takezaki no Evangelion (2010) External links Tony's (Tony Takezaki's original website) Review of Dr. Kishiwada Category:1963 births Category:Manga artists Category:Living people |
7,972 | Kneeslappers | Kneeslappers is the fourth studio album by rock band Huffamoose. It was released digitally in 2004. Track list Category:2004 albums Category:Huffamoose albums |
7,973 | Terry Newton | Terry Newton (7 November 1978 – 26 September 2010) was an English professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s and 2000s. He played at representative level for Great Britain, England and Lancashire, and at club level for the Leeds Rhinos (Heritage No. 1278), the Wigan Warriors (Heritage No. 931), Bradford Bulls (Heritage No. ) and Wakefield Trinity Wildcats (Heritage No. 1275), and was one of a handful of players to feature in each of the first 15 seasons of Super League. In February 2010, he was given a two-year ban after being one of the first sportsmen to have tested positive for human growth hormone. He was found hanged in his home seven months later. Playing career Leeds Rhinos Newton joined the Leeds Rhinos after a protracted transfer from amateur team Wigan St Judes, after Warrington had claimed they had also signed the young Newton. Terry missed his first year of Academy rugby due to the problem however when he finally joined in March 1996 he made an immediate impact. He made his début for the Leeds Rhinos against the Sheffield Eagles at Headingley in April 1996 and by 1997's Super League II, he was a regular in the team making 26 appearances in 1997 and scoring 2-tries. His progression continued in 1998, despite going on loan to Bramley for a month, he still played in the Grand Final team at Old Trafford before playing his best season at the club in 1999. The Leeds Rhinos had signed Great Britain Lee Jackson, and Newton's opportunities looked limited, however coach Graham Murray came up with a game plan that used both to their maximum potential. Newton, with his no nonsense direct play would start games with Jackson coming on off the bench to carve teams open. He played for Leeds Rhinos at in their 1998 Super League Grand Final defeat by Wigan Warriors. Newtown gained two caps in the 1998 Great Britain v New Zealand test series whilst at Leeds Rhinos. Newton won international honours with two caps for England against France in October 1999. He played 83 times for Leeds Rhinos and scored 6-tries. Wigan Warriors Newton joined the Wigan Warriors, and he made his début on Boxing Day 1999 against St. Helens. He was a prolific try scorer for the Wigan Warriors, scoring over a dozen tries in each of his first two seasons. Newton played for the Wigan Warriors at in their 2000 Super League Grand Final loss against St. Helens. He played for England in 2001 against Wales. He also played for the Wigan Warriors at in their 2001 Super League Grand Final loss to the Bradford Bulls. Terry would surely have represented Great Britain in the 2001 Ashes series had it not been for a broken arm suffered in the Wigan Grand Final defeat by Bradford Bulls at Old Trafford. Newton signed a 4-year extension to his Wigan Warriors contract during August 2002. Newton won caps for Great Britain while at the Wigan Warriors in 2002 against Australia (sub), in 2003 against Australia (3 matches), in |
7,974 | Ostwind | The Flakpanzer IV "Ostwind" (East Wind in English) was a German self-propelled anti-aircraft gun based on the Panzer IV tank. It was developed in 1944 as a successor to the earlier Flakpanzer IV/2 cm Vierling Wirbelwind. The Panzer IV's turret was removed and replaced with an open-top, hexagonal turret that housed a 3.7 cm FlaK 43. In addition to its intended role as an anti-aircraft weapon, the fast-firing gun was highly effective against light vehicles and minor fortifications. A closed-top design would have been preferable, but this was not possible due to the heavy smoke generated by the gun. The Ostwind's main improvement over the Wirbelwind was the FlaK 43's increased range and stopping power over the 2 cm Flakvierling 38 and slightly better armor on its turret. Although an order for 100 vehicles was placed in August 1944, only 44 vehicles were completed (37 converted from existing Panzer IVs and 7 new production vehicles) from December 1944 to March 1945, all work being carried out by Ostbau Werke in Sagan, Silesia. Comparable vehicles Möbelwagen 40M Nimród M19 Multiple Gun Motor Carriage Crusader Mk. III Anti-Aircraft Tank Mk. I ZSU-37 External links Panzerworld Ostwind specifications Achtung Panzer article on Flakpanzer IV Category:World War II self-propelled anti-aircraft weapons of Germany de:Flakpanzer IV#Ostwind |
7,975 | L'Écho taurin | L'Écho taurin was a publication from Béziers, France which called for support to 'bull-fighting and southern freedoms'. It was founded as a weekly newspaper in 1882. In 1932 it became a seasonal publication. In the 1930s, its director was J. Rodriguez. References Category:1882 establishments in France Category:Bullfighting Category:Mass media in Béziers Category:Publications established in 1882 Category:Defunct newspapers of France |
7,976 | Canton of Saint-Vallier, Drôme | The canton of Saint-Vallier is an administrative division of the Drôme department, southeastern France. Its borders were modified at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Saint-Vallier. It consists of the following communes: Albon Andancette Anneyron Beausemblant Claveyson Fay-le-Clos Laveyron La Motte-de-Galaure Mureils Ponsas Saint-Barthélemy-de-Vals Saint-Rambert-d'Albon Saint-Uze Saint-Vallier References Category:Cantons of Drôme |
7,977 | Tad Lucas | Tad Lucas (September 1, 1902–February 23, 1990) is a ProRodeo Hall of Fame cowgirl inductee. Life Tad Lucas was born Barbara Inez Barnes on September 1, 1902. She was born the youngest of 24 children on a pioneer ranch in Cody, Nebraska in the sandhills country. Lucas starting riding at an early age. By the age of 20, she was a professional cowgirl. She soon met cowboy James Edward "Buck" Lucas and married him. She started competing in trick riding, soon reaching the top. When World War II arrived, many women's events were ended. In 1948, the Girls Rodeo Association (GRA) (now the Women's Professional Rodeo Association) was created and stepped in to restore women's roles. Lucas's charter membership and fame assisted. Career During World War I, she rode bulls in main streets in Cody to raise money for the Red Cross. In 1921, she was a bronc rider with California Frank's Rodeo Company in Mexico. After she had learning trick riding, she performed with the Tex Austin Rodeo in the Wembley Stadium in London, England. Then she spent many years performing in several events with C.B. Irwin's rodeos. She also performed at Cheyenne Frontier Days, winning the trick riding there eight consecutive times. In 1933, at the Chicago World Fair, she crushed her arm while trick riding. Her arm was in a cast for three years. It did not stop her from performing permanently. She was 62 years old when she rode her last bucking horse in 1964. After that, she sat on the boards of the PRCA board of directors and the Rodeo Historical Society board of directors. During the 20s and 30s, Lucas was widely known, winning in events such as bronc riding, trick riding, relay racing, and all-around cowgirl at major rodeos. She toured with some Wild West shows. She also assisted with the GRA and the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA) by serving on their Board of Directors. The Rodeo Historical Society had the assistance of having her on their board. Honors 1968 Rodeo Hall of Fame of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum 1978 National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame 1997 Texas Trail of Fame Tad Lucas Award - The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum created an award named after her in her honor 2002 Cheyenne Frontier Days Hall of Fame 2007 Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame References External links Women's Professional Rodeo Association Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association Category:1902 births Category:1990 deaths Category:People from San Angelo, Texas Category:Sportspeople from Fort Worth, Texas Category:Bronc riders Category:All-Around Category:Trick riding Category:American female equestrians Category:Cowgirl Hall of Fame inductees Category:ProRodeo Hall of Fame inductees |
7,978 | Mitsuma Matsumura | Mitsuma Matsumura (January 8, 1894 – April 10, 1970) was a Japanese politician who served as governor of Hiroshima Prefecture from Aug. 1, 1944 to Apr. 21, 1945. He was also governor of Tochigi Prefecture (1936–1937) and Kanagawa Prefecture (1940–1942). References Category:Governors of Hiroshima Category:1894 births Category:1970 deaths Category:Governors of Tochigi Prefecture Category:Governors of Kanagawa Prefecture |
7,979 | Liucija Vaitukaitytė | Liucija Vaitukaitytė (born 24 April 2000) is a Lithuanian professional footballer who currently plays as a midfielder in Segunda Division Pro in Spain (Reto Iberdrola) for Real Racing de Santander. Liucija debuted for Lithuania women's national team in 2015. Career Vaitukaitytė has been capped for the Lithuania national team, appearing for the team during the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualifying cycle. References External links Liucija Vaitukaitytė - Youtube Liucija Vaitukaitytė at Sevilla FC Liucija Vaitukaitytė at Lietuvos Futbolas Liucija Vaitukaitytė at Kauno Žalgiris Liucija Vaitukaitytė FK ,,Gintra-universitetas'' Category:2000 births Category:Living people Category:Lithuanian women's footballers Category:Lithuania women's international footballers Category:Women's association football midfielders |
7,980 | Jean-Luc Vayssière | Jean-Luc Vayssière (born in 1956) is a French professor, specializing in genetics and cell biology. He has been president of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University from April 2012 to 2016. Biography Training Jean-Luc Vayssière was trained in biochemistry at Paris Diderot University. He received his doctorate in the molecular biology of eukaryotic organisms in the same university. On 9 April 2001, he qualified to manage research, cellular and molecular aspects of apoptosis, at Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University. Academic career He was hired as assistant at the Collège de France in 1990. In 1994, he became lecturer at the Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University. In 2001, he is appointed head of training at the École pratique des hautes études before entering in 2006 as teacher at the Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University. Alongside his teaching activities, he is a researcher at the Laboratory of Genetics and Cell Biology, responsible of the "stress and cell death" team. Political activities He was a member of the Conseil national des universités (National Council of Universities) (section 65) from 2003 to 2007, and chief of staff at UVSQ from 2004 to 2008. He was Vice Chairman of the Board of directors of the University from 2008 to 2012. President of the Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University In April 2012, he became president of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University, succeeding Sylvie Faucheux. He was replace by Didier Guillemot in May 2016. Distinction Legion of Honour References Category:Living people Category:1956 births Category:Heads of universities in France Category:Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University faculty Category:Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur |
7,981 | Testament of Youth (TV series) | Testament of Youth is a 1979 BBC television drama based on the First World War memoir of the same name written by Vera Brittain. It was transmitted on BBC2. The series stars Cheryl Campbell as Vera Brittain, an independent young woman from Buxton, Derbyshire, who abandons her studies at Somerville College, Oxford University to become a volunteer nurse. It features Peter Woodward as Roland Leighton, Joanna McCallum as Winifred Holtby and Emrys James and Jane Wenham as Vera's parents. The series won five British Academy Television Awards (BAFTA). As well as her BAFTA, Campbell received a Best Actress awards from the Broadcasting Press Guild. References External links Category:BBC television dramas Category:1970s British drama television series Category:1979 British television series debuts Category:1979 British television series endings Category:English-language television programs Testament of Youth (TV series) |
7,982 | 2009 Challenger DCNS de Cherbourg | The 2009 Challenger DCNS de Cherbourg was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Cherbourg, France between 2 and 8 March 2009. Singles main draw entrants Seeds Rankings are as of February 23, 2009. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: Jonathan Eysseric Benoît Paire Stéphane Robert Guillaume Rufin The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: Richard Bloomfield Jean-Christophe Faurel Romain Jouan Thomas Oger Eric Gomes (as a Lucky Loser) Alex Kuznetsov (as a Lucky Loser) Champions Men's singles Arnaud Clément def. Thierry Ascione, 6–2, 6–4 Men's doubles Arnaud Clément / Édouard Roger-Vasselin def. Martin Fischer / Martin Slanar, 4–6, 6–2, [10–3] External links Challenger DCNS de Cherbourg Category:Challenger La Manche |
7,983 | Dubuque Intermodal Transportation Center | The Dubuque Intermodal Transportation Center (DITC) is a passenger transit hub located in Dubuque, Iowa, that serves as the new transfer center for Dubuque's bus system, between Jule buses and intercity buses serving Dubuque, and as a transfer point between other modes of land transportation. It is eventually hoped that the center will serve as the terminus for a new Chicago-Rockford-Dubuque Amtrak route that was expected to begin operation in late 2014 or early 2015., but has since been placed on indefinite hold due to Illinois' budget woes. The city of Dubuque has received an $8 Million FTA state of good repair grant in addition to grants from several area institutions to go towards phase 1 of the center's construction. Phase 2 was planned to be funded by a TIGER V grant. That grant application failed, but alternative funding came from several other sources. On April 10, 2014, a new proposal for Amtrak service to terminate in Rockford was announced following the inability of the state of Illinois to reach a deal with the Canadian National Railway for use of their tracks. Due to the new proposal, the train station component of the center is on hold until a deal can be reached with the CN. The city of Dubuque broke ground on the rest of the DITC project in May 2014. The center, except for the train station portion, opened on August 17, 2015. References Category:Amtrak stations in Iowa Category:Transportation in Dubuque, Iowa Category:Transportation buildings and structures in Dubuque County, Iowa |
7,984 | Schoharie Reservoir | The Schoharie Reservoir is a reservoir in the Catskill Mountains of New York State that was created to be one of 19 reservoirs that supplies New York City with water. It was created by impounding Schoharie Creek. Portions of it lie in the towns of Conesville and Gilboa in Schoharie County, Roxbury in Delaware County, and Prattsville in Greene County. History Even after the Ashokan Reservoir was created as New York City's thirteenth reservoir and the Kensico Reservoir was completed soon after to store its water, the water supply was still insufficient for the city's high population. A search for a new location led to the village of Gilboa, New York, which was purchased and its residents evacuated through condemnation. Site preparation destroyed most of the area's trees and buildings up to the water line. The dam was built during the early 1920s out of stone bricks. Flooding was completed in 1924 and the reservoir put into service. The village of Gilboa was relocated to the west; traces of it can still be seen during a drought. The resulting reservoir, the northernmost of the New York City system, is located 36 miles (58 km) southwest of Albany and roughly 110 miles (180 km) northwest of New York City. It lies at the southern end of Schoharie County, the northeastern end of Delaware County, and at the northwestern end of Greene County. It neighbors such towns as Gilboa, Prattsville, and Conesville. It is an impounded portion of the Schoharie Creek, a tributary of the Mohawk River, itself a tributary of the Hudson River. The resulting reservoir consists of a single 6-mile (9.6-km) basin, and holds of water at full capacity, making it one of the smaller New York City reservoirs. Put into service in 1926, the Schoharie Reservoir provides nine million people with approximately 15-16 percent of their annual water supply needs. It is also the smaller of the two reservoirs which, along with the Ashokan Reservoir, in Olive, New York, make up the New York City Catskill Water System. Overflow from the Schoharie Reservoir tops the Gilboa Dam and runs back into Schoharie Creek, ultimately flowing into the Hudson River. Water from the Schoharie Reservoir flows to New York City through the -long Shandaken Tunnel, and empties into the Esopus Creek at Shandaken. Another 11 miles (18 km) down the Esopus it empties into the Ashokan Reservoir. From there water enters the 92-mile (147 km) Catskill Aqueduct to the Kensico Reservoir, thence to New York City. Gilboa Dam The high concrete and stone brick Gilboa Dam in Schoharie County was completed in 1926. Over time the dam eroded to where it posed a potential threat to those living downstream. In December 2005, the New York City Department of Environmental Protection began a $24 million project to bring the dam up to New York State safety standards. Beginning in December 2006 eighty post-tensioned anchoring cables were installed through holes drilled in the dam into bedrock below, bringing it up to New York State safety standards. During this overhaul, residents nearby complained that their |
7,985 | Lofthus | Lofthus may refer to: Places Lofthus, Hordaland, a village in Ullensvang municipality in Hordaland county, Norway Lofthus, Oslo, a borough in the city of Oslo in Norway People Anne Lofthus, a Norwegian ceramic artist and art teacher Christian Jensen Lofthuus, a prominent farmer from Risør, Norway Hege Lofthus, the former president of EGTYF (European Good Templar Youth Federation) Herbrand Lofthus, a Norwegian wrestler who competed in the Olympics Torstein Lofthus, a Norwegian drummer and composer Other Lofthus (shipwreck), a Norwegian shipwreck (which sank in 1898) near Boynton Beach, Florida, United States |
7,986 | Dodge Charger Daytona | Dodge, an American automobile brand, produced three separate vehicles with the name Dodge Charger Daytona, all of which were modified Dodge Chargers. The name is taken from Daytona Beach, Florida, which was an early center for auto racing and still hosts the Daytona 500, one of NASCAR's premier events. The first use of the Daytona name on a car was on a version of the Studebaker Lark. The Daytona was the performance model of the compact Lark and it was produced from 1963–1966. The Dodge Charger was made to beat the competition in NASCAR, Americas Premier Racing Series. 1969 With the racing failure of the previous limited edition 1968 Dodge Charger 500 in NASCAR and Plymouth's superstar Richard Petty leaving them for Ford, the 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona was created. It was intended to be a high-performance, limited-edition version of the Dodge Charger produced in the summer of 1969 for the sole purpose of winning high-profile NASCAR races. It won its first race, the inaugural Talladega 500, in the fall, although the top names had left the track on Saturday in a boycott of the race. Buddy Baker, in the No. 88 Chrysler Engineering Dodge Charger Daytona, was the first driver in NASCAR history to break the mark, on March 24, 1970, at Talladega. The 1969 Dodge Daytona won two races in 1969 and another four in 1970 for a total of six. Its successor, the 1970 Plymouth Superbird, won eight races - all in 1970. Dodge Daytonas also won on the USAC and ARCA race circuits. They set numerous race and pole records. One of the four famous aero-cars, the Dodge Daytona had featured special body modifications that included a stabilizer wing on the rear deck, a special sheet-metal "nose cone" that replaced the traditional upright front grille, a flush rear backlight (rear window area), a 'window cap' to cover the original Charger's recessed rear window, specific front fenders and hood that were modeled after the upcoming 1970 Charger, stainless steel A-pillar covers and fender mounted cooling scoops. The Daytona was built on the 1969 Charger's R/T trim specifications, meaning that it carried a heavy-duty suspension and brake setup and was equipped with a Magnum engine as standard. Of special note to collectors is the optional Hemi V8 engine, which only 70 of the 503 Daytonas carried. It had a corporate cousin in the "one year-only" 1970 Plymouth Superbird and with help of Chrysler's missile engineers, the Charger Daytona was born. The "Winged Warriors", as they were affectionately known, did not compete for long in NASCAR's top Cup series. On the next season of NASCAR, the executives ban aero specs on cars with engines bigger than 300 Cubic inches. Because of their exceptional speed and performance, NASCAR subsequently changed the rule book, effectively banning all four of the Aero Cars from Dodge, Ford, Mercury, and Plymouth from competition by the end of 1970. See also Plymouth Superbird, Ford Torino Talladega and Mercury Cyclone Spoiler II for additional information about the aero cars. The Dodge Daytona is now a very valuable collectible, |
7,987 | 2014–15 Sydney Sixers season | The 2014–15 Sydney Sixers season was the club's fourth consecutive season in the Big Bash League (BBL). Sydney Sixers came fourth overall after the regular season, qualifying for the finals series. The club reached the final at Manuka Oval in Canberra, but was defeated by 4 wickets on the last ball of the match by Perth Scorchers. The final was also the last match of Brett Lee's career as a cricketer. Players Squad Players with international caps are listed in bold. Transfers In: Out: Champions League Twenty20 As the Sydney Sixers lost in the semi-finals to the Perth Scorchers, they did not qualify for the 2014 Champions League Twenty20 tournament. Big Bash League Ladder Matches Times shown are in Australian Western Standard Time (UTC+08) for Perth, Australian Central Daylight Time (UTC+10:30) for Adelaide, Australian Eastern Standard Time (UTC+10:00) for Brisbane and Australian Eastern Daylight Time (UTC+11:00) for all remaining venues. Finals The top four teams from the group stage qualified for the semi finals. Playoff tree {{4TeamBracket |RD2=Final |score-width=100 |team-width= |seed-width= |RD1-seed1= 4 |RD1-team1= Sydney Sixers |RD1-score1= 4/181 (20 ov) |RD1-seed2=1 |RD1-team2= Adelaide Strikers (H) |RD1-score2= 94 (14.3 ov) |RD1-seed3=2|RD1-team3= Perth Scorchers (H)|RD1-score3= 7/144 (20 ov) |RD1-seed4=3 |RD1-team4= Melbourne Stars |RD1-score4=126 (19.5 ov) |RD2-seed1=4 |RD2-team1= Sydney Sixers |RD2-score1= 5/147 (20 ov) |RD2-seed2=2 |RD2-team2= Perth Scorchers |RD2-score2='6/148 (20 ov) }} Matches Player StatisticsStatistics include all finals gamesKey: Hover over heading for tooltips'' Source: Cricinfo Popularity The 2014-15 Big Bash League season saw a significant increase in crowds as well as TV viewership on Network Ten for the Sydney Sixers matches. Major statistics for the season were as follows: Total Sixers membership tally was 1915, an increase of 25% compared to 2013-14 season. The crowd of 36,487 for the derby match against Sydney Thunder on January 22, 2015 was the highest ever in NSW domestic cricket history beating the previous record crowd of 32,823 set earlier in the season between the same teams. Average home crowd of 24,023, an increase of 22% compared to 2013-14 season. The Sixers matches during the Big Bash League had an average viewership of 1,000,072 for each game on TV. These are the highest average ratings for any sports club which is based in Sydney. References External links Official site Category:Sydney Sixers seasons |
7,988 | Diego de la Vega (footballer) | Diego de la Vega (born 1 June 1979 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an Argentinean retired footballer who is last known to have played for Club Union Pigüé in his home country. Norway Turning out for Bryne of the Norwegian Premier League in 2002 despite work permit problems early on, de la Vega left Argentina mainly because of the economic imbroglios happening there, making his debut in a 7-0 cup triumph over third division Vedavåg and involved in three goals. Not extending his visa in 2003, the Argentinean left Bryne that June. References External links at Footballdatabase.eu at Soccerway Category:1979 births Category:Living people Category:Argentine footballers Category:Association football defenders Category:Argentine expatriate footballers Category:Expatriate footballers in Norway Category:Argentinos Juniors footballers Category:Club Atlético Los Andes footballers Category:Bryne FK players Category:San Telmo footballers Category:Eliteserien players |
7,989 | DisruptJ20 | DisruptJ20 (also Disrupt J20) was an organization that protested and attempted to disrupt events of the presidential inauguration of the 45th U.S. President, Donald Trump, which occurred on January 20, 2017. The group was founded in July 2016 and publicly launched on November 11 after Trump won the 2016 U.S. presidential election. DisruptJ20's inauguration protests were a part of a wider array of protests organized both locally and nationally from a more extensive initial plan. The protests included efforts to blockade one bridge and to shut down security checkpoints. James O'Keefe and Project Veritas had some success infiltrating DisruptJ20's planned inauguration efforts. Description A Washington, D.C.-based political organization, DisruptJ20 (also appearing with an inserted space before "J20") had the initial stated aim of protesting and disrupting events of the inauguration of Donald Trump as 45th President of The United States. One organizer of the DisruptJ20 protests, Alli McCracken, stated that the group is protesting Trump's views on women, undocumented immigrants and Muslims. Al Jazeera described the members of the organization as "liberal activists". Steven Nelson of the U.S. News & World Report, after interviews with organizers and representatives, described it in December 2016 as the "more radical protest-organizing network DisruptJ20, which has more than 1,700 Facebook group members." A representative of the organization has stated that it would also have demonstrated had Hillary Clinton won the 2016 presidential election. History and protest planning DisruptJ20 was founded around July 2016, about six months before Trump's inauguration. "J20" was chosen to stand for January 20, the scheduled day of the 2017 inauguration. DisruptJ20 was publicly launched on November 11, 2016 with a YouTube video and social media accounts. It and its aims were described in an interview with Legba Carrefour, "an organizer with DisruptJ20," as According to Nelson of the U.S. News, the DisruptJ20s website in December 2016 associated the organisation with the "DC Welcoming Committee [DCWC] collective" (describing it as "being assisted by" the DCWC) and Nelson reports that DisruptJ20, at this time, involved individuals from an array of progressive groups (as individuals, rather than representing their groups). Nelson quotes Carrefour, who he describes as "a local anarchist handling press" for DisruptJ20, as indicating that "more than 200 people attended an organizing meeting at a local church ... on short notice" and that photographs "show[ed] supporters representing a range of ages and interests." Regarding intent, Carrefour stated to Nelson, On January 14, 2017, about a hundred demonstrators met at the American University to plan and prepare their protests. Carrefour described their plans for inauguration week, beginning the weekend of January 14–15, 2017 ("MLK weekend"), indicating that DisruptJ20 was: holding "an Action Camp ... doing a lot of non-violent direct action trainings" on that weekend; sponsoring a "queer dance party" at the residence of Vice President Mike Pence, on Wednesday, January 18; arranging an "action" for the DeploraBall—described as an "Alt-Right Trump inaugural ball"—on Thursday, January 19, with the aim of "trying to shut that down"; having, on the 20th, inauguration day, "blockades ... at all the checkpoints around the inauguration parade route and |
7,990 | Institut européen·European Institute | The Institut européen·European Institute (CIFE IE·EI) is an international institution of graduate studies and research, based in Nice, France. It is a department of the Centre international de formation européenne (CIFE). History The Institut européen-European Institute (CIFE IE-EI) programmes mainly focus on European and international studies. The programmes were launched in 1964 with the support of the Municipality of Nice and the European Commission, formerly held by the "Institut européen des hautes études internationales". As a department of the CIFE, the Institut européen-European Institute (IE-EI) aims to perpetuate the teaching of the Master level programmes in European and higher international studies. Studies The institute cooperates with numerous universities in central and eastern Europe, especially in Germany, Italy, and Turkey. It features an international faculty, which consist of university professors, experts and an equally multicultural student body. The institute offers The Master in Advanced European and International Studies in three different branches: the trilingual studies branch, the European integration and global studies branch, and the mediterranean branch. Its aim is to give students an all-embracing, encompassing vision of the political, social, economic, and cultural problems of today’s modern world. Students who successfully complete the programme acquire 60 ECTS credits.(or 90 ECTS if they opt for the professional internship module) All programmes aim to offer university-level education oriented towards the professional world. They are open to students of all disciplines and nationalities who have completed a second cycle of higher education. The Master level programmes all award the professional title of "Policy officer in European and international organisations", recognised by the French state. The Master in Advanced European and International Studies (MAEIS) The curriculum is divided into three sections. These diplomas are structured around four basic modules oriented towards International Relations, European Construction, Democracy and Society and/or Federalism, in addition to professional workshops and specialisation modules based on the branches of study. They are all itinerant: taught in different places over one academic year. The Trilingual Studies Branch The trilingual branch of the MAEIS comprises terms in Nice and Berlin and Canterbury –at the University of Kent– which cooperates with the ' CIFE IE·EI', and a study trip to European and international organisations in Brussels, Luxembourg and Strasbourg. It is the only Master’s program in European and International Studies taught in three languages (French, English, and German). The European integration and Global Studies Branch This anglophone branch of the MAEIS contains study visits in Berlin, Nice, Rome or Istanbul. Further this branch contains a study trip to European and international organisations in Brussels, Strasbourg and Luxembourg. The Mediterranean Studies Branch This bilingual programme is taught in English and French with terms in Nice, Tunis, Istanbul and a study trip in Rome. It aims to provide academic training by developing contemporary issues and debates focusing on Euro-Mediterranean relations. Summer Academies The CIFE arranges Summer University programmes taught in English and/or French in various European countries. These are typically of short duration and organized during the summer months. In collaboration with the teaching staff of the IE-EI and local partner universities, the training courses enable researchers |
7,991 | GE Dash 8-40CW | The GE C40-8W is a 6-axle diesel-electric locomotive built by GE Transportation Systems from 1989 to 1994. Often referred to as a Dash 8-40CW, it is part of the GE Dash 8 Series of freight locomotives. This locomotive model is distinguished from the predecessor Dash 8-40C by the addition of a newer "wide" or "safety" cab. A cowl-bodied version of this locomotive, built only for the Canadian market, was the GE Dash 8-40CM. History The first Dash 8-40CW, 9356, was built for the Union Pacific railroad in December 1989. In total, GE would build 756 Dash 8-40CWs. The Dash 8-40CW was succeeded by the Dash 9-44CW in 1994. Like most GE locomotives, the Dash 8-40CW saw continuous upgrades over the course of its production. Later model Conrail units were built with split cooling systems for the turbocharger intercooler and engine cooling (previous Dash 8 series had both on the same cooling system). The later units delivered to Conrail in 1993 and 1994 were equipped with GE's Integrated Function Displays (IFD). The IFDs are LCD displays that provide the engineer with the same information previously provided by analog gauges, as well as integrating distance counter and End of Train Device telemetry functions. As of late 2017, most C40-8W locomotives are still in service, while some have been retired and/or sold to other railroads or leasing companies. Technical The Dash 8-40CW is powered by a V16 7FDL diesel engine driving a GE GMG187 main alternator. The power generated by the main alternator drives six GE 752AG or 752AH Direct Current traction motors, each with a gear ratio of 83:20 and connected to wheels which allow the Dash 8-40CW a maximum speed of . Depending on customer options, the Dash 8-40CW carries approximately 5000 US gallons (18927 L) of diesel fuel, 410 US gal (1,552 L) of lubricating oil, and 380 gallons (1,438 L) of coolant. Like most North American diesel locomotives, the Dash 8-40CW uses normal water for cooling. The Dash 8-40CW has a maximum tractive effort of at with the 83:20 gearing. Overall dimensions for the Dash 8-40CW are in length, in height and in width. Rebuilds The General Electric Dash 8-41CW or Dash 8-41W (C41-8W) is a variation with the same 16-cylinder engine upgraded to . 154 were produced between 1993 and 1994 for both the Union Pacific and Santa Fe (ATSF) railroads, and some Dash 8-40CW units were also uprated to Dash 8-41CW standard by the railroads. Since no four-axle versions of this unit were built, the "C" designation (indicating trucks with three powered axles, or C-C) is often omitted. The GE Dash 8.5-40CW is 6-axle a 4,000 hp (2,800 kW) diesel-electric locomotive rebuilt by Norfolk Southern. The first locomotive started its rebuild in 2012. Only one unit is on the active roster, and it is stored. The units will be rebuilt with the Norfolk Southern-designed wide-nose RLS cab which meets current FRA crashworthiness standards. The rebuild will also include the installation of locomotive speed limiter (LSL), and cab signals and other electronics upgrades. NS discontinued the rebuild program in April |
7,992 | Richard Coggins | Richard J. Coggins (10/6/1929 - 19/11/2017) was a British biblical commentator, notable for his contributions to The Cambridge Bible Commentaries Life Coggins was a Lecturer in Old Testament studies at King's College London. Coggins was public preacher at the Anglican Diocese of Southwark and belonged to St Matthew, Brixton.<ref name="Coggins">{{Cite book|title=Who's Who in the Bible|author= Richard Coggins|publisher= Batsford|location= London|page=Dust jacket|date=1981|ISBN= 0-7134-0144-3}}</ref> Works Cambridge Bible Commentaries: The First and Second Books of Esdras With Jin H Han, Six Minor Prophets Through the Centuries: Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi With Anthony Phillips and Michael Knibb Israel's Prophetic Tradition: Essays in Honour of Peter R. Ackroyd Introducing the Old Testament Who's Who in the Bible With W.R.F. Browning and Graham N. Stanton A Dictionary of the Bible by Sirach Nahum, Obadiah, Esther: Israel among the Nations'' References Category:Year of birth missing (living people) Category:Living people Category:Bible commentators Category:Academics of King's College London |
7,993 | Tori Junction railway station | Tori Junction, station code TORI, is the railway station serving the city of Chandwa which is the connecting point of Latehar and Hazaribag districts. It also connects Lohardaga Station belongs to the South Eastern Railway zone of the Indian Railway. History Now the distance between Ranchi and New Delhi got shorter via Lohardaga. It is 90 KM less distance between Ranchi to Delhi as compare to via Barkakana and Muri. One passenger train is running between Ranchi and Tori via Lohardaga. This is one of the major junctions that will connect Ranchi and Hazaribag districts of Jharkhand. The ongoing construction work of Tori- Balumath-Shivpur-Kathotia (Hazaribagh)railway line which section is falling under the South Eastern Railway (Ranchi Division) and East Central Railway (Dhanbad Division) jurisdictions, would be completed, till Balumath .After completing this line Tori will be the major junction connecting Ranchi,Barkakana, Hazaribagh and Medininagar. Facilities The major facilities available are waiting rooms, retiring room, computerized reservation facility, reservation counter, vehicle parking, etc. Platforms The platforms are interconnected with foot over bridge (FOB). Tori Junction have 5 Platforms Trains Several electrified local passenger trains also run from Barwadih to neighbouring destinations on frequent intervals. Nearest airports The nearest airports to Tori Station are: Birsa Munda Airport, Ranchi Gaya Airport, Gaya Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Airport, Patna Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport, Kolkata See also Lohardaga railway station Barwadih Junction railway station Barwadih Latehar Palamau References External links Latehar District Category:Railway stations in Latehar district Category:Railway junction stations in Jharkhand |
7,994 | Tithonia diversifolia | Tithonia diversifolia is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae that is commonly known as the tree marigold, Mexican tournesol, Mexican sunflower, Japanese sunflower or Nitobe chrysanthemum. It is native to Mexico and Central America but has a nearly pantropical distribution as an introduced species. Depending on the area they may be either annual or perennial. It has shown great potential in raising the soil fertility in soils depleted in nutrients. Originating in Mexico; research has shown its potential in benefiting poor African farmers. This plant is a weed that grows quickly and has become an option as an affordable alternative to expensive synthetic fertilizers. It has shown to increase plant yields and the soil nutrients of nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), and potassium (K). Description Tithonia diversifolia is in height with upright and sometimes ligneous stalks in the form of woody shrubs. The large, showy flowers are yellow to orange colored and 5–15 cm wide and 10–30 cm long. Leaves are sub-ovate, serrate, acute, 10 to 40 cm long, simply or mostly 3-7 lobed, somewhat glandular, and slightly grayish beneath. The seeds are achenes, 4-angled, and 5mm long. The seeds are spread by wind. The leaves of the plant alternate in sides they grow on, which is where the plant gets the name diversifolia. This is accompanied by flowers which are yellow in colour and range from 6–13 cm in length. It can grow throughout the year and its seeds are spread through way of wind, water, and animals. History and geography This plant was originally domesticated in Mexico and spread to other parts of Central and South America and north into the United States. It was brought over to parts of Africa and Asia as an ornamental plant and has become an invasive weed that is widely spread. It is most commonly found in areas with an altitude between 550m and 1950m. It is commonly found scattered among rivers and roadsides. In Asia and Latin America this plant is also referred to as kembang bulan (Indonesian and Javanese), jalacate (Spanish), buatong (Thai) and dã quỳ (Vietnamese). Symbolism and uses In Japan, towards the end of the Meiji Period, they were imported as ornamental plants although seldom cultivated there. Having a characteristic bitter taste, they were used to induce a fever to help fight poisoning, although not used for direct medicinal purposes. There is also the story of the species being introduced to Japan by Nitobe Inazo, hence its Japanese name, the Nitobe chrysanthemum (ニトベギク; Nitobegiku). They are sold in herbal medicine markets in Taiwan. It is the provincial flower of Mae Hong Son Province, Thailand. It is the unofficial symbol of Da Lat city, Vietnam. T.diversifolia can be used as a green fertilizer for farmers. It can also be used as chicken feed, fuelwood, soil erosion control, and building materials. For fertilization, it is used as a mulch which can be spread on top of the soil or buried beneath it. The advantages here is that using the plant as a fertilizer has proven to increase crop yields. T. |
7,995 | Edwin Scharff Prize | The Edwin Scharff Prize () has been awarded annually by the city of Hamburg since 1955, named after sculptor Edwin Scharff. The prize is awarded to artist who shaped the cultural life of Hamburg. The winners are chosen by a seven-member jury, which is appointed by the Senate. List of recipients 1955 Erich Hartmann and Hans Martin Ruwoldt 1956 Arnold Fiedler and Fritz Husmann 1957 Karl Kluth and Herbert Spangenberg 1958 Fritz Kronenberg and Richard Steffen 1959 Willem Grimm and Eylert Spars 1960 Tom Hops and Martin Irwahn 1961 Fritz Flinte and Karl August Ohrt 1962 Ivo Hauptmann and Alfred Mahlau 1963 Joachim Albrecht and Ursula Querner 1964 Werner Reichold and Gustav Seitz 1965 Horst Janssen and Paul Wunderlich 1966 Fritz Fleer and Hans Sperschneider 1967 Friedrich Ahlers-Hestermann 1968 Gisela Bührmann and Diether Kressel 1969 Volker Detlef Heydorn and Hans Kock 1970 Werner Bunz and Harald Duwe 1971 Knud Knabe and Jörn Pfab 1972 Armin Sandig and Manfred Sihle-Wissel 1973 Volker Meier and Hans Hermann Steffens 1974 Almut Heise and Karin Witte 1975 Edgar Augustin and Anna Oppermann 1976 Ingrid Webendoerfer and Wilhelm M. Busch 1977 Kai Sudeck 1978 no recipient 1979 Dieter Glasmacher 1980 Detlef Birgfeld 1981 Christa Lühtje and Holger Matthies 1982 Klaus Kröger 1983 Ulrich Rückriem 1984 Claus Böhmler 1985 Hanne Darboven 1986 Gudrun Piper and Max Hermann Mahlmann 1987 Jan Meyer Rogge 1988 Gustav Kluge 1989 Franz Erhard Walther 1990 Stanley Brouwn 1993 Jürgen Bordanowicz 1994 Rolf Rose 1995 Hyun-Sook Song 1996 Anna and Bernhard Blume 1997 Klaus Kumrow 1998 Andreas Slominski 1999 Gisela Bullacher 2000 Nicola Torke 2001 Bogomir Ecker 2002 Wiebke Siem 2003 Daniel Richter 2004 Till Krause 2005 Jochen Lempert 2006 Michael Dörner 2007 Anna Gudjónsdóttir 2008 Jeanne Faust 2009 Linda McCue 2010 Frank Gerritz References Category:German awards |
7,996 | John Somers-Smith | John Robert Somers-Smith MC (15 December 1887 – 1 July 1916) was an English rower who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics. He was killed in action during the First World War. Somers-Smith was born at Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, the son of Robert Vernon Somers-Smith and his wife Gertrude. His father ran for Oxford against Cambridge in 1868 and 1869 and was twice the AAA half-mile champion. Somers-Smith was educated at Eton College, where he was 'Captain of the Boats', and Magdalen College, Oxford University, where he rowed for his college. Although he did not row for Oxford, his brother, Richard Somers-Smith took part in the Boat Race in 1904 and 1905. The Magdalen College Coxless four that John rowed with won the Wyfold Challenge Cup and the Visitors' Challenge Cup in 1907, with another double win in the Stewards' and the Visitors' at the Henley Royal Regatta in 1908, and was selected to represent Great Britain in rowing at the 1908 Summer Olympics, Somers-Smith was stroke of the four along with Collier Cudmore, James Angus Gillan and Duncan Mackinnon. This crew won the gold medal for Great Britain, defeating another GB Leander crew, and crews from Canada and the Netherlands. Somers-Smith had been elected a member of Leander Club in 1906, after winning the Ladies' Challenge Plate with Eton College, but at no time did he ever represent Leander on the water. He subsequently became a lawyer by profession. Somers-Smith served with the 5th London Regiment (London Rifle Brigade), part of the Territorial Force of the British Army during the First World War, and was awarded the Military Cross for gallantry in action as a captain in 1915 at the 2nd Battle of Ypres. He fell in action at the opening of the Battle of the Somme offensive on 1 July 1916 aged 28, during the assault by the 56th (London) Division at Gommecourt. His body was not recovered from the field and his name is engraved on the gateway for the missing of the Somme at Thiepval. See also List of Olympians killed in World War I References External links The Fallen of the 1/5th London Regt. (London Rifle Brigade), 1 July 1916 Category:1877 births Category:1916 deaths Category:People educated at Eton College Category:Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford Category:English male rowers Category:British male rowers Category:Olympic rowers of Great Britain Category:Rowers at the 1908 Summer Olympics Category:English Olympic medallists Category:Olympic gold medallists for Great Britain Category:London Regiment officers Category:British military personnel killed in World War I Category:Olympic medalists in rowing Category:Members of Leander Club Category:Medalists at the 1908 Summer Olympics |
7,997 | James Daughton | James Daughton (born June 27, 1950) is a film and television actor who is best known for his role as Gregg Marmalard in National Lampoon's Animal House (1978). Daughton's portrayal of Gregg Marmalard has become iconic in American popular culture as a quintessential brown nosing, snobbish, phony, WASP. Raised in San Diego, Daughton had roles early in his career on Marcus Welby, MD, Room 222, Planet of the Apes (TV Series) (as Mikal in the episode "The Tyrant"), Happy Days (as the man who challenges Fonzie to water ski over the shark), and the 1972 western The Revengers (as William Holden's son). Many do not know that James Daughton appeared in Barnaby Jones, playing a character named Willie Grand; episode titled, "The Murdering Class"(03/04/1973). He also appeared in the 1982 film The Beach Girls, in which he was noted primarily for stripping naked and running into the sea. His other film appearances include Malibu Beach (1978), Swim Team (1979), Blind Date (1984), Spies Like Us (1985), Girlfriend from Hell (1989) and Sorority Boys (2002). Filmography Notes External links May 1973 Star Magazine pictorial featuring Jim Daughton from Animal House featuring Daughton as "Gregg" Demetria Fulton previewed James Daughton in Barnaby Jones; episode titled, "The Murdering Class"(03/04/1973). Category:1950 births Category:Living people Category:American male film actors Category:American male television actors Category:People from San Diego Category:Male actors from San Diego |
7,998 | Washington Township, Miami County, Ohio | Washington Township is one of the twelve townships of Miami County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 1,803 people in the township. Geography Located in the northern part of the county, it borders the following townships: Washington Township, Shelby County - north Orange Township, Shelby County - northeast Springcreek Township - east Staunton Township - southeast Concord Township - south Newton Township - southwest Newberry Township - west Loramie Township, Shelby County - northwest Name and history Washington Township was established in 1814. It is one of forty-three Washington Townships statewide. Government The township is governed by a three-member board of trustees, who are elected in November of odd-numbered years to a four-year term beginning on the following January 1. Two are elected in the year after the presidential election and one is elected in the year before it. There is also an elected township fiscal officer, who serves a four-year term beginning on April 1 of the year after the election, which is held in November of the year before the presidential election. Vacancies in the fiscal officer or on the board of trustees are filled by the remaining trustees. References External links County website Category:Townships in Miami County, Ohio Category:Townships in Ohio |
7,999 | Juliane Elisabeth von Wallenstein | Juliane Elisabeth von Wallenstein née von Uffeln (1618-1692) was a Danish courtier, Overhofmesterinde to the queen of Denmark, Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel, from 1677 to 1692. She married the German chamberlain and nobleman Gottfried von Wallenstein in 1636. She served as chief lady-in-waiting to Margravine Hedwig Sophie of Brandenburg in 1667-69, and to queen Charlotte Amalie in 1677-92. She is described as a confidante of the queen, who reportedly loved and trusted her. References Leonora Christina, Jammers Minde: Med forord af Dorrit Willumsen Louis Bobé, Charlotte Amalie: reine de Danemark, princesses de Hesse-Cassel, et les origines des églises réformées allemande et franc̦aise de Copenhague, 1940 Category:1618 births Category:1692 deaths Category:17th-century Danish people Category:Danish ladies-in-waiting |
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