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54320442 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy%20Hayward | Jeremy Hayward | Jeremy Thomas Hayward (born 3 March 1993) is an Australian field hockey player.
Hayward was part of the Australian team who won the 2014 Men's Hockey World Cup. The team defeated the Netherlands 6–1 in the final. Hayward was also awarded Young Player of the Tournament at this event.
Hayward was selected in the Kookaburras Olympics squad for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. The team reached the final for the first time since 2004 but couldn't achieve gold, beaten by Belgium in a shootout.
Jeremy's brother Leon Hayward is a New Zealand field hockey player. The two competed against one another at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. |
6446378 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin%20S.%20Roberts | Benjamin S. Roberts | Benjamin Stone Roberts (November 18, 1810 – January 29, 1875) was an American lawyer, civil engineer, and a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Early life
Roberts was born in Manchester, Vermont. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1835, ranking near the bottom of his class (53rd out of 56). He resigned four years later to pursue a career in civil engineering on railroads in New York and overseas in Russia. After his return from Russia, he settled in Iowa, where he practiced law.
Mexican-American War
In 1846, at the beginning of the Mexican–American War, Roberts was reappointed a first lieutenant, Mounted Rifles, in the Regular Army. He was promoted to captain in 1847, and saw action at Veracruz, Cerro Gordo, Contreras, Churubusco, and the capture of Mexico City, Matamoros and the Galajara pass. At Churubusco, he was brevetted major for leading an advance party of stormers. He received a further brevet, to lieutenant colonel in 1847 for gallantry during the war. After the close of hostilities, he served on the frontier and in Washington, D.C.
Civil War
At the outbreak of the Civil War, Roberts was major of the 3rd U.S. Cavalry. He served in Arizona and New Mexico in 1861 and 1862. He was promoted to brigadier general of Volunteers on July 16, 1862, and assigned to General John Pope's staff as Chief of Cavalry and Inspector General for the Army of Virginia during the Northern Virginia Campaign. After Pope's defeat at the Second Battle of Run, Roberts was manipulated by Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton to prefer charges of disloyalty, disobedience and misconduct against Fitz John Porter, and testified at the subsequent court-martial, which ruined Porter's career.
After Porter's court-martial, Roberts was briefly reassigned to Acting Inspector General of Pope's Department of the Northwest before being recalled to Washington in February 1863. Robert served the spring of 1863 commanding an independent brigade in West Virginia as part of the VIII Corps and the Middle Department, before being sent back to the Department of the Northwest in May, to command the District of Iowa for the remainder of the year.
In 1864, he commanded the District of Carrollton, Louisiana, as part of the XIX Corps and ended the year as Chief of Cavalry for the Union Army's Department of the Gulf. He was subsequently sent to oversee the District of West Tennessee in 1865, where on March 13, 1865, he was brevetted major general, Volunteers, for gallant and meritorious service during the war.
Later life
Roberts continued to serve in the Regular Army, as lieutenant colonel of the 3rd Cavalry, until 1868, then taught military science at Yale University until his retirement on December 15, 1870. He died in Washington, D.C., and was buried at the Oak Hill Cemetery there. He was later reinterred at Dellwood Cemetery, Manchester, Vermont. |
49521925 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaoji%20Causeway | Gaoji Causeway | Gaoji Causeway () is a 2,212-meter-long causeway in Xiamen, Fujian, China. It links Gaoqi in downtown Xiamen Island across the Xiamen Bay to Jimei District on the mainland. It used to serve as a road and rail link, as well as water piping into Xiamen Island. In order to improve the water quality around Xiamen Island, part of the causeway was blasted off and removed, replaced by bridge, and it would serve only as road link.
Completed in 1955, along with Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge, the causeway is considered one of the major construction projects in the early years of the People's Republic of China. It remained Xiamen Island's sole link with the mainland until 1991.
The Gaoji Causeway has a museum devoted to its construction and history founded in 2013.
History
In early 1950s, Xiamen was on the front line of Cold War, as the island was not far away from KMT controlled Kinmen. The Chinese Communist Party had an urgent need to build a reliable supply line to the island. In 1951, inspired by the Johor–Singapore Causeway, Tan Kah Kee from Singapore suggested to Xiamen Mayor Liang Lingguang () that a similar causeway be built to link Xiamen Island and the mainland. The suggestion was highly regarded by Chen Yi, then the Party Secretary of the CPC Central Committee East China Bureau, who wrote three letters to Mao Zedong in support of the causeway. Mao personally approved the project. Construction began in 1953, and the building site was frequently attacked by KMT aircraft. In January 1955, a boat loaded with workers was attacked with a loss of 76 lives. Due to the lack of heavy equipment, all work was done by human labor. After its completion in October 1955, a stele was erected by the causeway with the words "Move the mountain to fill the sea" () written by Zhu De in honour of the achievement. On April 12, 1957, the first passenger train left the Xiamen Railway Station, heading to the mainland along the causeway, which marked the opening of the Yingtan–Xiamen Railway. Before the completion of Xiamen Bridge in 1991, the causeway was the Xiamen Island's sole link with mainland for over thirty years.
However, the embankment cut off the flow of water in the bay, which endangered the ecosystem and the survival of many species, including lancelet. In order to protect the environment, part of the embankment was blast off in 2010, and a road bridge would be built instead.
Trademark
The trademarks of many products made by local state-own companies are "Sea Dyke" (海堤, pinyin: Hǎidì; Peh-ōe-ji: Hái-thê), which refer to the causeway, to memory the history, including tea, cigarettes and soy sauce. |
68253094 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973%20Coleraine%20Borough%20Council%20election | 1973 Coleraine Borough Council election | Elections to Coleraine Borough Council were held on 30 May 1973 on the same day as the other Northern Irish local government elections. The election used three district electoral areas to elect a total of 20 councillors.
Election results
Districts summary
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!Cllrs
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|- class="unsortable" align="center"
!colspan=2 bgcolor="" | UUP
!colspan=2 bgcolor="" | Alliance
!colspan=2 bgcolor="" | SDLP
!colspan=2 bgcolor="white"| Others
|-
|align="left"|Area A
|bgcolor="40BFF5"|51.8
|bgcolor="40BFF5"|4
|4.7
|0
|15.9
|1
|27.6
|1
|6
|-
|align="left"|Area B
|bgcolor="40BFF5"|63.4
|bgcolor="40BFF5"|5
|21.3
|2
|5.3
|0
|10.0
|0
|7
|-
|align="left"|Area C
|bgcolor="40BFF5"|56.1
|bgcolor="40BFF5"|4
|13.1
|1
|0.0
|0
|30.8
|2
|7
|-
|- class="unsortable" class="sortbottom" style="background:#C9C9C9"
|align="left"| Total
|57.2
|13
|13.2
|3
|6.8
|1
|22.8
|3
|20
|-
|}
Districts results
Area A
1973: 4 x UUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Independent Unionist
Area B
1973: 5 x UUP, 2 x Alliance
Area C
1973: 4 x UUP, 2 x Independent, 1 x Alliance |
8028506 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betts%20House%20%28Cincinnati%2C%20Ohio%29 | Betts House (Cincinnati, Ohio) | The Betts House, built in 1804, is the oldest surviving building in Cincinnati, and the oldest brick home in Ohio. This survivor of Cincinnati's period of settlement offers exhibits and programs that focus on Cincinnati history, historic preservation, and the built environment. In addition to being a house museum, the Betts House is also the headquarters of The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Ohio.
History of the Betts House
Betts Family Ownership
The Betts House, constructed in 1804, is the oldest brick home in Ohio, and the oldest remaining residential structure in downtown Cincinnati. Originally situated on , the home was once at the heart of a farm and brick yard. Over time, as the city expanded, the country landscape surrounding the home transitioned to an urban environment. Today, the Betts House is a central structure in the Betts-Longworth Historic District in Cincinnati's West End neighborhood. In 1795, the home's original owners, William and Phebe Betts, left their home in Rahway, New Jersey to pursue opportunities in the west. The first leg of their journey ended in Brownsville, Pennsylvania, where the Bettses lived for a number of years. In 1800, the family decided to resume their push westward on a flatboat, travelling down the Ohio River. Upon arriving in the region, the Betts family attempted to obtain a plot of land in Lebanon; however, the deed proved to be faulty. They then struck out for Cincinnati. There, William Betts obtained a 111-acre plot of land as repayment for a debt owed to him by a local tavern keeper. Construction quickly commenced on a two-room Federal period farmhouse that was completed in 1804.
Over the following decades, four generations of Betts family members called the Betts House home, and raised over two dozen children within its walls. To accommodate the growing family, a number of changes had to be made to the original structure. Between 1804 and 1864, the house more than doubled in size. During this period of expansion, the city of Cincinnati was also growing, and the house's surroundings became an urban neighborhood.
In 1833, the original 111-acre plot was subdivided when William's youngest daughter Eliza turned 21 (as stipulated by his will in 1815). By 1839, the neighborhood had been incorporated by the city of Cincinnati. Expansion continued until nearly every plot of land in the West End was developed, and the population increased to 30,000 people per square mile. By the 1870s, the neighborhood had become dense, while the air was polluted due to its close proximity to the meat packing industry at Mill Creek. During the following decades, many of the residents, including the last of the Betts descendants, moved to hilltop suburbs, such as College Hill.
Decline and Decay
The once densely populated West End suffered immensely from depopulation; however, it was not long before African Americans began to migrate to the neighborhood. By the beginning of the 20th-century, the area had become the cultural center for African Americans in Cincinnati, and was a major source of nightlife entertainment. The Cotton Club, a jazz establishment named after the famed Cotton Club in Harlem, called the neighborhood home.
Unfortunately, that era did not last for long. By the 1950s, the city of Cincinnati was struggling as residents once again left to nearby suburbs. In an effort to revitalize the downtown area, the City Council devised a plan centered on highway construction. The Kenyon-Barr neighborhood, home to around 25,000 low-income people, was selected for the construction of I-75. Between the late 1950s and early 1960s, almost 1,000 structures were demolished in the name of “urban renewal” leaving many of the neighborhood's African American residents homeless.
In the decades that followed, the West End fell into a state of decay. Many of its older homes, including the Betts House, lay vacant for much of the 1970s and 1980s when urban renewal plans for Queensgate failed.
Martha Tuttle
In 1988, Martha Tuttle, a descendant of William Betts, created a coalition of concerned citizens in an effort to save the house. Two years later, in 1990, they were able to secure the home, and undertook a costly renovation to restore the property to livable condition. For several years following the renovation, the Betts House served as a small apartment complex.
The National Society of Colonial Dames of America in the State of Ohio (NSCDA-OH) became the sole owners of the property in 1994. In 1996, the Betts House was opened to the public as a historic house museum, with exhibits and programs focused on the built environment and early Cincinnati history. The home also serves as the headquarters for the NSCDA-OH. |
297166 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narayana%20Guru | Narayana Guru | Narayana Guru () (20 August 1856 – 20 September 1928) was a philosopher, spiritual leader and social reformer in India. He led a reform movement against the injustice in the caste-ridden society of Kerala in order to promote spiritual enlightenment and social equality. His famous quote was "one caste one religion and one god for all men".
There was a rumor about Narayana Guru that he is a god, but in reality, he is not a god. He is an Indian social reformer. The statue of Narayana Guru cannot be treated as a deity, the Kerala High court observed.
Biography
Narayanan, né Nanu, was born on 20 August 1856 to Madan Asan and Kuttiyamma in an Ezhava family of ayurvedic physicians, in the village of Chempazhanthy near Thiruvananthapuram, in the erstwhile state of Travancore. Unlike other Ezhavas who confined their Sanskrit reading to ayurvedic works, Narayanaguru studied religious texts as well. His early education was in the gurukula way under Chempazhanthi Mootha Pillai during which time his mother died when he was 15. At the age of 21, he went to central Travancore to learn from Raman Pillai Asan, a Sanskrit scholar who taught him Vedas, Upanishads and the literature and logical rhetoric of Sanskrit. He returned to his village in 1881, when his father was seriously ill, and started a village school where he taught local children which earned him the name Nanu Asan. A year later, he married Kaliamma but soon disassociated himself from the marriage to commence his public life as a social reformer.
Leaving home, he traveled through Kerala and Tamil Nadu and it was during these journeys, he met Chattampi Swamikal, a social and religious reformer, who introduced Guru to Ayyavu Swamikal from whom he learned meditation and yoga. Later, he continued his wanderings until he reached the Pillathadam cave at Maruthwamala where he set up an hermitage and practiced meditation and yoga for the next eight years. In 1888, he visited Aruvippuram where he meditated for a while and during his stay there, he consecrated a piece of rock taken from the river, as the idol of Shiva, which has since become the Aruvippuram Shiva Temple. The act, which later came to be known as Aruvipuram Pratishta, created a social commotion among the upper caste Brahmins who questioned Guru's right to consecrate the idol. His reply to them that "This is not a Brahmin Shiva but an Ezhava Shiva" later became a famous quote, used against casteism. It was here, the Sree Narayana Dharma Paripalana Yogam (SNDP Yogam) was founded on 15 May 1903 by the efforts of Padmanabhan Palpu, better known as Dr. Palpu, with Narayana Guru as its founder president.
Guru shifted his base to Sivagiri, near Varkala in 1904 where he opened a school for children from the lower strata of the society and provided free education to them without considering their caste. However, it took him seven years to build a temple there, the Sarada Mutt was built in 1912. He also built temples in other places such as Thrissur, Kannur, Anchuthengu, Thalassery, Kozhikode, and Mangalore and it took him to many places including Sri Lanka (then called Ceylon) where he made his final visit in 1926. On his return to India, he was involved in a number of activities including the planning of the Sivagiri pilgrimage which was planned after his visit to Pallathuruthy in 1927 to attend the anniversary of the S.N.D.P. Yogam.
Soon after the meeting at Pallathuruthy, which was the last public function he attended, Guru became ill and underwent treatment at places such as Aluva, Thrissur, Palakkad, and finally to Chennai; the physicians attended to him included Ayurvedic physicians like Cholayil Mami Vaidyar, Panappally Krishnan Vaidyar and Thycauttu Divakaran Moos as well as allopathic physicians viz. . Krishnan Thampi, Panikker, Palpu and a European physician by name, Noble. He returned to Sarada Mutt and died on 20 September 1928, at the age of 72.
Legacy
Fight against casteism
Casteism was practised in Kerala during the 19th and early 20th centuries and the other backward castes such as Ezhavas and other untouchable castes like Paraiyars, adivasis and Pulayars had to suffer discrimination from the upper caste community .It was against this discrimination that Guru performed his first major public act, the consecration of Siva idol at Aruvippuram in 1888. Overall, he consecrated forty five temples across Kerala and Tamil Nadu..His consecrations were not necessarily conventional deities; a slab inscribed with the words,
Truth, Ethics, Compassion, Love, a vegetarian Shiva, a mirror and a sculpture by an Italian sculptor were among the various consecrations made by him. He propagated the ideals of compassion and religious tolerance and one of his noted works, Anukampadasakam, extols various religious figures such as Krishna, The Buddha, Adi Shankara, Jesus Christ.
Vaikom Satyagraha
The social protest of Vaikom Satyagraha was an agitation by all backward caste communities against untouchability in Hindu society of Travancore. It was reported that the trigger for the protest was an incident when Narayana Guru was stopped from passing through a road leading to Vaikom Temple by an upper caste person. It prompted Kumaran Asan and Muloor S.Padmanabha Panicker, both disciples of Guru, to compose poems in protest of the incident. T. K. Madhavan, another disciple, petitioned the Sree Moolam Popular Assembly in 1918 for rights to enter the temple and worship, regardless of the caste. A host of people including K. Kelappan and K. P. Kesava Menon, formed a committee and announced Kerala Paryatanam movement and with the support of Mahatma Gandhi, the agitation developed into a mass movement which resulted in the opening of the temple as well as three roads leading to it to people of all castes. The protest also influenced the Temple Entry Proclamation of 1936.
Sivagiri pilgrimage
Sivagiri pilgrimage was conceived by three of the disciples of Guru viz. Vallabhasseri Govindan Vaidyar, T. K. Kittan Writer and Muloor S. Padmanabha Panicker which Guru approved in 1928, with his own recommendations. He suggested that the goals of the pilgrimage should be the promotion of education, cleanliness, devotion to God, organization, agriculture, trade, handicrafts, and technical training and advised Vaidyar and Writer to organise a series of lectures on these themes to stress the need for the practice of these ideals, stating this to be the core purpose of Sivagiri pilgrimage. However, his death soon after delayed the project until 1932 when the first pilgrimage was undertaken from Elavumthitta in Pathanamthitta District.
Writings and philosophy
Guru published 45 works in Malayalam, Sanskrit and Tamil languages which include Atmopadesa Śatakam, a hundred-verse spiritual poem and Daiva Dasakam, a universal prayer in ten verses. He also translated three major texts, Thirukural of Valluvar, Ishavasya Upanishad and Ozhivil Odukkam of Kannudaiya Vallalaar. It was he who propagated the motto, One Caste, One Religion, One God for All (Oru Jathi, Oru Matham, Oru Daivam, Manushyanu) which has become popular as a saying in Kerala. He furthered the non-dualistic philosophy of Adi Sankara by bringing it into practice by adding the concepts of social equality and universal brotherhood.
Ashtalakshyangal
Vidyabhyasam
Shuchitwam
Eeshwaravishwasam
Krishi
Kaithozhil
Kachawadam
Sanghadana
Shastra sanketika Parisheelanam
All Religions' Conference
Guru organized an All Religion Conference in 1923 at Alwaye Advaita Ashram, which was reported to be first such event in India. It was an effort to counter the religious conversions Ezhava community was susceptible to and at the entrance of the conference, he arranged for a message to be displayed which read, We meet here not to argue and win, but to know and be known. The conference has since become an annual event, organised every year at the Ashram.
Notable disciples
Bodhananda Swamikal
Nataraja Guru
Kumaran Asan
Sahodaran Ayyappan
T. K. Madhavan
C. V. Kunhiraman
Padmanabhan Palpu
Muloor S. Padmanabha Panicker
Velutheri Kesavan Vaidyar
Public acceptance, honours and veneration
In 1916, Ramana Maharshi hosted Narayana Guru at his Tiruvannamalai ashram when Guru was returning from a trip to Kancheepuram where Swami Govindananda, a disciple of Guru, had established the Sree Narayana Seva Ashram. Rabindranath Tagore met Narayana Guru at the latter's ashram in Sivagiri in November 1922. Tagore later said of Narayana Guru that, "I have never come across one who is spiritually greater than Swami Narayana Guru or a person who is at par with him in spiritual attainment". Three years later, Mahatma Gandhi visited Guru during his 1925 trip to Kerala to participate in the Vaikom Satyagraha after which the Indian independence movement leader stated that "it was a great privilege in his life to have the darshan of an esteemed sage like Narayana Guru."
On 21 August 1967, Narayana Guru was commemorated on an Indian postage stamp of denomination 15 nP. Another commemorative stamp on him was issued by Sri Lanka Post on 4 September 2009. The Reserve Bank of India issued two sets of commemorative coins depicting Guru's image, each valued at 5 and 100 respectively, on the occasion of his 150th birth anniversary.
The first of the several statues of Narayana Guru was erected at Jagannath Temple, Thalassery in 1927 while he was still alive. His statues are seen in many places in Kerala which include a 24 feet statue at Kaithamukku in Thiruvananthapuram. The Government of Kerala observe the birthday, the Sri Narayana Jayanthi, and the date of death (Sree Narayana Guru Samadhi) of Narayana Guru as public holidays.
In popular media
The life of Narayana Guru has been portrayed in a number of movies starting with the 1986 film Sree Narayana Guru, made by award-winning director P. A. Backer. Swamy Sreenarayana Guru, an Indian Malayalam-language film directed by Krishnaswamy, released the same year. Almost a decade and a half later, R. Sukumaran made a film on the life of Guru, titled Yugapurushan in 2010 with Thalaivasal Vijay playing the role of Guru and the film also featured Mammootty and Navya Nair. Brahmashri Narayana Guru Swamy is a Tulu film made in 2014 by Rajashekar Kotian on Guru's life and the film was the 50th film made in the language. His life during the eight years he spent at Maruthwamala (also known as Marunnumamala) has been adapted into a docufiction, titled Marunnumamala and the film was released by Pinarayi Vijayan, the chief minister of Kerala on 9 August 2016.
Works
In Malayalam
Swanubavageethi
Aathmopadesh Shathakam
Adwaitha deepika
Arivu
Jeevakarunya Panchakam
Anukamba Dasakam
Jathi Nirnayam
Jathi Lakshanam
Chijjada Chinthanam
Daiva vichinthanam – 1 & 2
Athma Vilasam
Kolatheereshastavam
Bhadrakaalyashtakam
Gajendra moksham vanchipattu
Ottapadyangal
Sree Krishnana Darsanam
Mangalasamsakal
Subramanya Ashtakam
Sadasiva Darsanam
Samasya
Swanubhava Geethi
Indrya Vairagyam
In Sanskrit
Nirvruthi Panchakam
Slokathrayi
Vedantha Suthram
Homa Manthram
Municharya Panchakam
Asramam
Dharmam
Charama Slokangal
Homa Mantram
Chidambarashtakam
Guhashtakam
Bhadrakaliashtakam
Vinayaka Ashtakam
Sree Vasudeva Ashtakam
Janani Navaratna Manjari
In Tamil
Thevarappathinkangal
Translations
Thirukural
Isavasyo Upanishad
Ozhivil Odukkam
Translations of Guru's works into other languages
Death
Narayana guru attained samadhi at Sivagiri, Kerala. The cause of death was indigestion and prostate inflammation. He had told all the great physicians and disciples of that time who came to treat him that the Guru had approached his samadhi in advance and that the ashram should be well looked after and that everyone should live as good people.. (January 18, 1928) The special public meeting of the SNDP meeting held at Kottayam was the last public ceremony attended by Narayana guru.
In 1927, naturopathy was carried out in Mangatukodi and Kandachira on the banks of Ashtamudikayal along with Pazhavila Chattambiasan. He was bedridden for a long time suffering from senile disease but was treated by many great doctors but could not cure the disease completely. He died during meditation in the presence of devotees on 20 September 1928 (Malayalam year 1104 Kanni 5). It was just three weeks after his 72nd birthday. The body was laid to rest in Sivagiri, Kerala Mathvalap. Today there is a hall with his statue. |
14651367 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCI%20Track%20Cycling%20World%20Championships%20%E2%80%93%20Men%27s%20madison | UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Men's madison | The UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Men's madison is the world championship madison event held annually at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships. It was first held at the 1995 championships in Bogotá, Colombia. , Joan Llaneras of Spain (1997, 1999 and 2006), Mark Cavendish of Great Britain (2005, 2008 and 2016) and Michael Mørkøv of Denmark (2009, 2020 and 2021) have won the most titles.
Medalists
Medal table |
15233938 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20political%20parties%20in%20Northern%20Europe | List of political parties in Northern Europe |
List of countries
Northern Europe |
72319171 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil%20Bass | Phil Bass | Phil Michael Robert Bass (17 November 1950 in Banbury, England - 11 March 2006) was a motorcycle speedway rider in National League (speedway) and British League.
Career
Bass started his career with Scunthorpe Saints in 1972. He was the only rider to reach 200 points in what was a disappointing year for the Saints.
His next two years were with Long Eaton Speedway
He would have rides for British League teams but was never signed to ride as a full-time rider.
As the 1975 season ended, Harry Bastable and Tony Allsopp, promoters at Stoke, moved the licence to Oxford for 1976, when Oxford Rebels moved to White City Stadium when it was feared the stadium would be demolished. |
14787175 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ein%20Yahav | Ein Yahav | Ein Yahav () is a moshav in Israel. Located 100 m below sea level in the northern Arava, 12 km south of Hatzeva and between the Yahav and Nikrot streams, it falls under the jurisdiction of the Central Arava Regional Council. In it has a population of .
Etymology
Moshav Ein Yahav is named after the Yahav Spring, located southwest of the moshav.
History
In 1950, an agricultural experimentation station was set up at Ein Yahav by members of Shahal, a movement to settle arid areas of Israel. The station was abandoned and on 7 October 1953, Israel Defense Forces veterans settled there. In 1959 a Nahal settlement was established 5 km to the east of the original. In 1962 it was civilianized by senior moshavniks and in 1967 the settlement moved to its current location. Ein-Yahav has an airfield nearby (Airport Code: EIY).
Ein Yahav has developed chocolate-colored peppers that combine the nutritional benefits of red and green peppers.
Archaeology
There is an ancient copper-smelting site near Ein Yahav. A small hill with blackened slopes, covered mainly by crushed copper slag, identify the remains of the smelting devices used at the end of the Early Bronze Age for smelting copper. |
31271584 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyckman-Hillside%20Substation | Dyckman-Hillside Substation | The Dyckman-Hillside Substation, also known as Substation 17, is a historic electrical substation located at 127-129 Hillside Avenue between Sickles Street and Nagle Avenue, near the Dyckman Street station of the New York City Subway's IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line, in Inwood, Manhattan, New York City. It was one of eight substations constructed by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company in 1904–05.
The substation is a two-story, freestanding masonry building in the Beaux-Arts style. It features a hipped roof, tower-like projections, scrolled wrought iron brackets, and terra cotta decorative details.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. |
12320808 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleus%20scutellarioides | Coleus scutellarioides | Coleus scutellarioides, commonly known as coleus, is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae (the mint or deadnettle family), native to southeast Asia through to Australia. Typically growing to tall and wide, it is a bushy, woody-based evergreen perennial, widely grown for the highly decorative variegated leaves found in cultivated varieties. Another common name is painted nettle, reflecting its relationship to deadnettles (Lamium species), which are in the same family. (True nettles and their close kin are in the distant family Urticaceae.) The synonyms Coleus blumei, Plectranthus scutellarioides and Solenostemon scutellarioides are also widely used for this species.
Description
Coleus scutellarioides is an upright annual or short-lived perennial plant. It may be as much as tall, with well-branched, more-or-less four-sided stems. Shorter, more trailing forms have sometimes been described as separate species, under names such as Coleus pumilus or Solenostemon pumilus, but are all now considered part of the very variable C. scutellarioides. The species is extremely variable in the colour and shape of the leaves. They are somewhat fleshy, varying in size from long by wide, generally ovate in shape, and borne on petioles (stalks) from long. The leaf margin is divided to a variable degree. Hairs are present on both sides of the leaf.
The inflorescence is borne on the end of a stem and, like the leaves, is very variable in size; it may be up to long, with few or many flowers. The calyx is bell-shaped, initially only long, but lengthening to when in fruit. The bluish-purple petals are joined to form a typical two-lipped labiate flower, long. The stamens are joined for about half their length and are covered by the upper lip of the flower. The fruit is described as a "nutlet", and is black, about long.
Pigmentation
The leaves of the wild species may be somewhat variegated, but this has been developed to an extreme degree in cultivated varieties, whose leaves may include one or more shades of green, white, cream, yellow, pink, red, maroon and dark purple. Green coloration is due to the amount of chlorophyll present in the chloroplasts in the leaves. Red, purple, pink, and orange colors are due to anthocyanins – water-soluble, flavonoid biosynthetic pigments, found in the foliage in addition to chlorophyll. The increase in anthocyanin production is accompanied by a decrease in chlorophyll production. The production of anthocyanins and chlorophyll is affected by light levels; the more light is present, the more anthocyanins are produced, with an inverse relationship to the production of chlorophyll. Anthocyanins are created inside the cell and facilitate photosynthesis in leaves that are exposed to very intense or prolonged sunlight by providing protection from damage caused by ultraviolet light. Some coleus cultivars over-produce anthocyanins and under-produce chlorophyll to the extent that optimal growth is prevented.
Taxonomy
The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1763, as Ocimum scutellarioides. The genus Ocimum is best known for Ocimum basilicum, sweet basil. The specific epithet scutellarioides (with the suffix ) means "Scutellaria-like". Scutellaria is a genus also in the Lamiaceae; its name is derived from the Latin , meaning a small dish or bowl.
Genera and species related to Ocimum, placed in the tribe Ocimeae, have been the subject of considerable taxonomic confusion, and C. scutellarioides has been placed in several genera and been given multiple synonyms. Robert Brown transferred O. scutellarioides to the genus Plectranthus in 1810. George Bentham transferred it to the genus Coleus as Coleus scutellarioides in 1830, and in 1832 also described Coleus blumei, now regarded as just a variant of this species. Placement in the genus Coleus led to the name "coleus", still widely used by horticulturalists and gardeners, and now treated as a common name for this species. It was transferred to Solenostemon by Leslie E. W. Codd in 1975.
A major phylogenetic study of the subtribe Plectranthinae in 2018 showed that the genus Plectranthus, as then circumscribed, was not monophyletic, and the authors proposed re-instating Coleus, then wholly submerged in Plectranthus. A summary cladogram for the subtribe Plectranthinae, based on the 2018 study, was published in 2019, along with names in Coleus for all the species recognized in that genus. In the version of the cladogram below, the three genera that formed part of Plectranthus s.l. are highlighted.
Distribution and habitat
Coleus scutellarioides is native from southeast Asia through to Australia (the Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Cambodia, Southeast China, Java, Laos, the Lesser Sunda Islands, Peninsular Malaysia, Maluku, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, New Guinea, Northern Territory, Philippines, Queensland, the Solomon Islands, Sulawesi, Sumatra, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, and Western Australia). It is cultivated worldwide and may be naturalized in other tropical regions. In its native habitat, it is found at elevations of , where it flowers and fruits throughout the year. It is winter hardy to USDA Zones 10–11.
Cultivation
History
The species was first introduced into Europe from Java in 1851 by a Dutch horticulturalist. At this time, there were few leaf colors and shapes. A wider variety was available by 1877, when the American William Bull offered seeds at 43 US cents each. However, by selecting for seed production, early flowering was inadvertently favored, and leaf color also declined in intensity. Coleus breeding revived in the early 1940s, and by the 1980s, the availability of an improved range of cultivars led to coleus becoming the tenth most important bedding crop in the US. More recently, vegetative propagation has enabled cultivars with novel leaf colors and shapes to be offered for sale. Plants with trailing as well as upright habits are now available.
Cultivars
The leaves of cultivars typically show sharp contrasts between their colors; particular leaves may be several shades of green, pink, yellow, "black" (a very dark purple), maroon, cream, white, and red (somewhat resembling the unrelated Caladium). The leaf shape also varies from broadly ovate to more narrowly lanceolate. The leaf margins may have small or large teeth or be wavy, as may the whole leaf. New cultivars with different leaf shapes and color combinations are constantly being created.
AGM cultivars
The following cultivars have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit:
'Black Prince'
'China Rose'
'Combat'
'Crimson Ruffles'
'Gay's Delight'
= 'Balcenna'
'Juliet Quartermain'
'Lord Falmouth'
'Picturatus'
'Pineapple Beauty'
'Pineapplette'
'Pink Chaos'
= 'Uf0646'
'Roy Pedley'
'Royal Scot'
= 'Uf06419'
'Walter Turner'
'Winsome'
'Wisley Tapestry'
Care
In cultivation, plants grow well in moist well-drained soil, and are usually tall, though some may grow as tall as . Coleus are grown as ornamental plants. They are heat-tolerant, but they do less well in full sun in subtropical areas than in the shade. In areas without freezing temperatures, plants can usually be kept as perennials if well managed. In colder areas, they are often grown as annuals, since the plants are not hardy and become leggy with age. In bright, hot areas, the colors of the plant are typically more intense in shade than in full sun, and the plants require less water there. Coleus also make low-maintenance houseplants, and can often be propagated by clipping a piece of stem just below the leaves and putting the stem in water to root. Young inflorescences may be removed to keep plants more compact.
Propagation
There are two ways to propagate coleus. Seeds are inexpensive and easily obtainable, though named cultivars do not come true from seeds. To germinate seeds, simply sprinkle seeds on the soil surface and press down. Seeds require light to germinate, so should not be covered. They may be kept moist by growing in a container covered with plastic, or by misting seeds daily. Sprouts can show color in as little as two weeks. Alternatively, cuttings can be taken. Cuttings root readily in plain water, without the addition of rooting hormone (although it is still beneficial).
Diseases
The downy mildew Peronospora sp. makes leaves brownish and can also cause leaf curling and twisting. It is harder to control this mildew on stems compared to leaves. Another disease is impatiens necrotic spot virus which causes brown or yellow spots on leaves, rings, black or brown stem discoloration, and brown leaf veins, ultimately resulting in plant death. The disease is spread by an insect called a thrips that carries the virus from an infected plant to an uninfected one. It only takes a few of these insects to infect a whole greenhouse.
Psychoactivity
Coleus scutellarioides, under the name Coleus blumei, has been reported to have very mild relaxing and/or hallucinogenic effects when consumed. The effects of the plant have not been scientifically explored in great detail, but the plant is known to have been used by the Mazatec people of southern Mexico for its mind-altering effects.
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38394465 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarfmoor%20Burn | Scarfmoor Burn | Scarfmoor Burn is a burn (stream) in western Whalsay, Shetland Islands, Scotland. The source of the stream is on the southeastern side of Setter Hill. It flows in a northeasterly then north direction. A right tributary flows into the Loch of Houll. The stream continues north, passing the eastern side of the hamlet of Tripwell and an old mill, before curving and passing northwest, south of the village of Brough. It enters the sea, not far from Brough Head. |
40159369 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeline%20Rees%20George | Madeline Rees George | Madeline Rees George (25 May 1851 — 17 June 1931), often written M. Rees George, was a teacher in Germany and in South Australia. She was at various times proprietor of her own school, and headmistress of the Advanced School for Girls and Adelaide Girls' High School. She was one of the best known figures in education circles in South Australia.
Her sister Marian Rees George (c. 1855 – 23 July 1938) taught French at the same institutions and retired in 1936.
History
Miss George was born in Lewisham, Kent, a daughter of Francis George, a London solicitor. She was educated in England and Germany. She had teaching experience at Kissingen, Wiesbaden, and Munich and came to Australia in 1879. She joined the South Australian Education Department in 1880 as the foundation teacher of languages (German in particular) in the Advanced School for Girls. In 1885 she resigned to conduct a school of her own at North Adelaide ("Miss Woolcock's school"), but in 1886 was invited to return to the department as headmistress of the Advanced School. She held this post until 1908 when the school was merged into the Adelaide Girls High School, and she was made headmistress of the new institution, in the same Grote Street premises. She resigned from the department in 1913.
Miss George made trips to England in 1900 and 1907, when she went as a delegate to the first League of the Empire conference held in London, and again in 1913. She died at North Adelaide, aged 80. She never married.
Other interests
She was in 1904 one of the founders and first secretary of the Adelaide branch of the League of the Empire.
One of the greatest ambitions in Miss George's life was to raise £300 through the League of the Empire to enable the statue of Charles Sturt to be erected in Adelaide.
Family
Marian Rees George (c. 1855 – 23 July 1938) was her sister and French mistress at both the Advanced School and Adelaide High. She lived at Childers Street, North Adelaide.
Another sister, Ella "Nellie" Rees George (c. 1853 – 31 May 1948), married John Holland Robertson on 22 January 1878. He, with his brothers Robert and William owned Calperum and Chowilla stations. They were neighbours and friends of the Cudmore family. |
56993006 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D.Gray-man%20%28season%203%29 | D.Gray-man (season 3) | The third season of the D.Gray-man anime series, called the "2nd stage", was directed by Osamu Nabeshima and produced by TMS Entertainment. It adapts Katsura Hoshino's manga. Like the rest of the series, it follows the adventures of Allen Walker, an Exorcist that wields the power of "Innocence" to fight against the Earl of Millennium, an ancient sorcerer seeking to destroy the world with monsters called akuma.
The season initially ran from October 2, 2007 to September 30, 2008, on TV Tokyo in Japan. Thirteen DVD compilations of the second season, each containing four episodes were released by Aniplex between March 5, 2008 and March 4, 2009. In June 2016, the series was licensed by Funimation for an English-language release in North America. In August 2017, Funimation announced they would release the series' second half on home media version starting on October of the same year.
Three pieces of theme music are used for the series: one opening themes and four ending themes. The opening theme is "Doubt & Trust" by Access. The two closing themes are by Rie Fu for the first 12 episodes, "Wish" by Sowelu for the 65th through the 76th episode.
Episode list
Home media release
Japanese
English |
45664017 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malco%20Ram%C3%ADrez%20Mart%C3%ADnez | Malco Ramírez Martínez | Malco Ramírez Martínez (born 28 March 1970) is a Mexican politician from the Institutional Revolutionary Party. From 2010 to 2012 he served as Deputy of the LXI Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Puebla. |
67411552 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary%20School%20Songbooks%20%28Japanese%29 | Primary School Songbooks (Japanese) | The Primary School Songbooks (, Shōgaku Shōka Shū) are a series of songbooks compiled for school education by the Japanese Ministry of Education's Music Investigation Committee (), which was founded in 1879 by Isawa Shuji. The songbooks were published from 1881 through 1884 in three volumes. The series marks the first time staff notation was used in Japanese music textbooks.
Volume I included 33 songs; Volume II, 16 songs; and Volume III, 42 songs. They were mostly original Japanese texts set to Western melodies taken from such songs as "Hänschen klein" in Volume 1, "Alle Vögel sind schon da" in Volume II, and "The Last Rose of Summer" in Volume III. |
4638559 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakir%20Aharonov | Yakir Aharonov | Yakir Aharonov (; born August 28, 1932) is an Israeli physicist specializing in quantum physics. He has been a Professor of Theoretical Physics and the James J. Farley Professor of Natural Philosophy at Chapman University in California since 2008. He was a distinguished professor in the Perimeter Institute between 2009-2012 and is a professor emeritus at Tel Aviv University and at University of South Carolina. He is president of the IYAR, The Israeli Institute for Advanced Research.
Biography
Yakir Aharonov was born in Haifa. He received his undergraduate education at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, graduating with a BSc in 1956. He continued his graduate studies at the Technion and then moved to Bristol University, UK together with his doctoral advisor David Bohm, receiving a Ph.D. degree in 1960. Aharonov later taught at the Brandeis University from 1960 to 1961 and the Yeshiva University from 1964 to 1967, both in the United States.
Married to Nily, an educational psychologist, and father of two. His brother, Dov Aharonov, is a professor emeritus at the Faculty of Mathematics at the Technion, and his niece, Dorit Aharonov, is a professor at the School of Engineering and Computer Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Academic career
His research interests are nonlocal and topological effects in quantum mechanics, quantum field theories and interpretations of quantum mechanics. In 1959, he and David Bohm proposed the Aharonov–Bohm effect for which he co-received the 1998 Wolf Prize.
In 1988, Aharonov, David Albert, and Lev Vaidman published their theory of weak values. This work was motivated by Aharonov's long-time quest to experimentally verify his theory that apparently random events in quantum mechanics are caused by events in the future (two-state vector formalism). Verifying a present effect of a future cause requires a measurement, which would ordinarily destroy coherence and ruin the experiment. He and his colleagues claim that they were able to use weak measurements and verify the present effect of the future cause. Working with Aharon Casher, they predicted the Aharonov–Casher effect, the electrodynamic dual of the Aharonov–Bohm effect with magnetic dipoles and charges.
Timeline
1960–1961: Research Associate, Brandeis University
1961–1964: Assistant Professor, Yeshiva University
1964–1967: Associate Professor, Yeshiva University
1967–1973: Joint professorship at Tel Aviv University and Yeshiva University
1973–2006: Joint professorship at Tel Aviv University and the University of South Carolina
2006–2008: Professor at George Mason University
2008–present: Professor of Theoretical Physics and the James J. Farley Professor of Natural Philosophy at Chapman University
Awards and recognition
1978: Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society
1984: Weizmann Prize in Physics
1984: Rothschild Prize in Physics
1989: Israel Prize in exact science
1990: Elected to the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
1991: The Elliott Cresson Medal – The Franklin Institute
1992: Honorary Doctor of Science, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
1993: Elected Member of the National Academy of Sciences, USA
1993: Honorary Doctor of Science, University of South Carolina, USA
1995: Hewlett–Packard Europhysics Prize
1997: Honorary Doctor of Science, Bristol University, UK
1998: Wolf Prize in Physics with Michael Berry
1999: Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
2009: Selected Clarivate Citation laureate in Physics with Michael Berry.
2006: EMET Prize in Exact Science
In 2009, the information service Thomson Reuters named Aharonov as leading candidate for the 2009 Nobel prize in physics, based on his work's influence on quantum physics.
2010: National Medal of Science (2009), awarded and presented by President Barack Obama |
8002058 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunset%20Park%20%28Tampa%29 | Sunset Park (Tampa) | Sunset Park is a neighborhood within the city limits of Tampa, Florida. As of the 2000 census the neighborhood had a population of 3,520. The ZIP Code serving the neighborhood is 33629.
Geography
Sunset Park boundaries are Beach Park Isles to the north, Culbreath Heights to the northeast, El Prado to the south, Tampa Bay to the west, and Manhattan Avenue to the east.
Demographics
Source: Hillsborough County Atlas
At the 2000 census there were 3,520 people and 1,309 households residing in the neighborhood. The population density was 4,457/mi2. The racial makeup of the neighborhood was 98% White, less than 1% African American, 0% Native American, 5% Asian, 0% from other races, and 0% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 7%.
Of the 1,309 households 41% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 71% were married couples living together, 7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 2% were non-families. 18% of households were made up of individuals.
The age distribution was 31% under the age of 18, 10% from 18 to 34, 29% from 35 to 49, 18% from 50 to 64, and 14% 65 or older. For every 100 females, there were 92.3 males.
The per capita income for the neighborhood was $56,893. About 2% of the population were below the poverty line, 29% of those under age 18. |
30541984 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonn-Cologne%20Graduate%20School%20of%20Physics%20and%20Astronomy | Bonn-Cologne Graduate School of Physics and Astronomy | The Bonn-Cologne Graduate School of Physics and Astronomy (BCGS) is a joint venture of the Universities of Bonn and Cologne, offering a combined Master's and Doctorate program in Physics.
2007, it was selected for funding by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft as part of the excellence initiative.
Studies
The BCGS is open to excellent students from all over the world after the completion of their Bachelor's degree, scholarships are available already for the Master's course on a competitive basis (admission academy). In the BCGS, the transition from master's to PhD studies is intended to be seamless, although two separate degrees are awarded.
Two of the schools principles are an early introduction to current research (early on research) during and even before work on their masters thesis and continued learning during the PhD phase. During their entire studies, each student is mentored by two professors, one from each university.
Lectures
The BCGS allows students to attend courses in Cologne and Bonn. To facilitate this, some lectures are transmitted as video conferences. Others take place at both universities in turn.
In addition, intensive weeks take place outside of the regular lecture period. Here, students and lecturers spend one week working full-time on a specific topic.
Recurring events
During the academic year, the BCGS has several fixed events. Usually, each event alternates between Bonn and Cologne.
Shortly after the start of the winter term in early autumn, the welcome meeting introduces new students to the school. An invited speaker gives a talk about a current topic in physics. Past speakers have included Michael Berry and Walter Kutschera.
A poster session in spring is an opportunity for older students to present their research topics and results. The presenting students receive feedback and new stimuli for their work, and younger students can get an overview of the current research topics pursued at both universities.
In the summer, a physicist will talk about his career after leaving university under the heading Science meets Business. |
32288416 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laney%2C%20Georgia | Laney, Georgia | Laney is an unincorporated community located in Mitchell County, Georgia, United States.
Geography
Laney's latitude is at 31.209 and its longitude is at -84.027. Its elevation rests at 351 feet. Laney appears on the Cotton U.S. Geological Survey Map. It is located at the intersection of Lake Pleasant Church Rad and Laney Road. Georgia Highway 93, Baker Road, Mount Zion Road, and West County Line Road also lie in the area. A small creek runs through the town. |
21872492 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauryldimethylamine%20oxide | Lauryldimethylamine oxide | Lauryldimethylamine oxide (LDAO), also known as dodecyldimethylamine oxide (DDAO), is an amine oxide–based zwitterionic surfactant, with a C12 (dodecyl) alkyl tail. It is one of the most frequently-used surfactants of this type. Like other amine oxide–based surfactants it is antimicrobial, being effective against common bacteria such as S. aureus and E. coli, however, it is also non-denaturing and may be used to solubilize proteins.
At high concentrations, LDAO forms liquid crystalline phases. Despite having only one polar atom that is able to interact with water – the oxygen atom (the quaternary nitrogen atom is hidden from intermolecular interactions), DDAO is a strongly amphiphilic surfactant: it forms normal micelles and normal liquid crystalline phases. High amphiphilicity of this surfactant can be explained by the fact that it forms not only very strong hydrogen bonds with water: the energy of DDAO – water hydrogen bond is about 50 kJ/mol, but it also has high experimental partition coefficient in non-polar medium, as characterized by experimental logP 5.284 |
108530 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian%20Hills%2C%20Colorado | Indian Hills, Colorado | Indian Hills is an unincorporated town, a post office, and a census-designated place (CDP) located in and governed by Jefferson County, Colorado, United States. The CDP is a part of the Denver–Aurora–Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area. The Indian Hills post office has the ZIP code 80454. At the United States Census 2020, the population of the Indian Hills CDP was 1,474.
History
John D. Parmalee (1813–1885) came to Colorado in 1860 and settled in Mount Vernon. In 1866, he was granted a charter for a toll road between Morrison and Bradford Junction (Conifer); the Denver and Turkey Creek Toll Road
opened in 1870. Parmalee also operated sawmills and shingle mills in the area. He was later commissioned to build a road from Turkey Creek to Bergen Park, along what is known as Parmalee Gulch.
In 1885, Parmalee sold his interest in the toll road to Benjamin F. Eden (1848–1932), who became tollgate keeper from 1877 to 1883. In 1886, Eden sold the road to Jefferson County. Eden bought properties in the northern end of Parmalee Gulch, which became known as Eden Park. In time he acquired more than , attracting the interest of developers. With the Panic of 1893 and crash in silver prices, the development foundered and Eden recovered the property. He continued to farm the area, raising cattle, horses, hay, and potatoes.
George W. Olinger, son of mortuary founders John and Emma Olinger, became interested in the area in 1918, and purchased the Eden property in 1921. Olinger planned a development to be called "Indian Hills," and built a golf course on part of Eden's land. The first filing was recorded at Jefferson County in June 1923, making Indian Hills the community's official name. Filings were named to recall the association with original inhabitants: Arrowhead Park, Ute & Cherokee Village, and Shawnee Village. "Eden Park" became the fifth filing of Olinger's development, and was platted in 1926. Models of summer cabins were built of logs, and small lots were sold to Denver residents seeking summer homes in the mountains.
Geography
Indian Hills extends along the Parmalee Gulch and Myers Gulch Roads between State Highway 74 at Kittredge, Colorado, and U.S. Highway 285 at Turkey Creek.
The Indian Hills CDP has an area of , including of water.
Demographics
The United States Census Bureau initially defined the for the
Education
Indian Hills is served by the Jefferson County Public Schools. Schools serving Indian Hills include:
Parmalee Elementary School
West Jefferson Middle School
Conifer High School
Humorous sign
The sign at the Indian Hills Community Center features a changing display of humorous wordplays, and has its own Facebook page. |
43829975 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89lisabeth%20Cibot | Élisabeth Cibot | Élisabeth Cibot (born 1960 in Nantes, Pays de la Loire) is a French sculptor and art historian.
Biography
Born into an artistic family, collectors of Italian Renaissance bronzes, Élisabeth Cibot has been surrounded by sculpture ever since her birth.
She studied art form at France's major art school, the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts (ENSBA) under the direction of great sculptors such as Etienne Martin, Léopold Kretz and CESAR. From 1981 to 1983, she worked with painter Riccardo Licata at Centro Internazionale di Grafica in Venice. She was also guest artist at the Harvey Littleton Glass School at Spruce Pine, USA in 1983. Since then she has developed a strong interest in glass and mixed media furniture design.
In parallel to her artistic creation, she studied art history, presenting her first thesis, on Roman Archeology, in 1984 which was followed by a DEA (Diploma in Specialist Studies) in the History of Techniques in 1990. In 1993, she returned to bronze statuary and monumental work. Since 1997 she lives and works near Paris. She claims "Art is a support for our questioning about the world and the meaning of life, a path of self-knowledge that makes us capable of opening up to others. On this road, I seek while building."
Awards and distinctions
2017 : Conti Sculpture Award (presented by Mr Michel Poniatowsky)
2015 : Gold medal of sculpture (Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts)
2013 : Camille Claudel Sculpture Award, Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts
2009 : Grant from the Fondation Taylor
2006 : Gabriel Diana Award, Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts
2005 : Award, Fondation Taylor
2004 : Paul Belmondo Award, Salon d’Automne
2003 : Sculpture Award, Amis du Salon d’Automne
2000 : Michel Dumont Award, Salon des Artistes Français
1997 : Bronze medal, Salon des Artistes Français
Recognition
Permanent Member of the Salon d'Automne
Permanent Member of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts
List of permanent public installations
Lalbenque, "Lo Trufair" (bronze 1,20 m), City Hall
Sarrebourg : "Tellina" (bronze 1.50 M H)
Calais : "Homage to Charles de Gaulle et Yvonne Vendroux"(bronze 3 M H)
Nogent-sur-Marne: « Lady of Val Nure » (bronze 2.50 m H)
Lyon : "Homage to Pope Jean-Paul II" (bronze 3 m H)
Drancy : "Homage to Charles de Gaulle"
Nantes, Monument « Captain Nemo and Jules Verne »
Pontault-Combault : Monumental bust of François Mitterrand
Béthune : Monumental bust of François Mitterrand
Vouziers : "François Mitterrand and his dog"
Béthune : Monumental bust of Willy Brandt
Bibliography
Création et innovation chez Baccarat et Daum entre 1890 et 1990, Élisabeth Cibot-Genin - 1992
Création artistique et innovation dans l'industrie verrière en France 1880-1989, Élisabeth Cibot-Genin - 2004
Dialogues d'atelier, Élisabeth Cibot, Foreword : Julien Denoun and Jean-Philippe Ricard, Photographer : Alan Tournaille - Centro Internazionale della Grafica di Venezia - 2008 |
38879960 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%20Goodall%20%28painter%29 | Walter Goodall (painter) | Walter Goodall (6 November 1830 – 14 May 1889) was an English watercolour painter.
Life
He was youngest son of Edward Goodall, the engraver, and brother of the artists Frederick Goodall and Edward Angelo Goodall. He studied in the school of design at Somerset House and at the Royal Academy.
About fourteen years before his death Goodall had a paralytic seizure, from which he never quite recovered, and during the last few years of his life was unable to practise his art. He died on 14 May 1889, in his fifty-ninth year, leaving a widow and three children.
Works
In 1852 Goodall exhibited three drawings at the Royal Academy. In 1853 he became an associate of the (Old) Society of Painters in Water-colours, and continued to be a frequent exhibitor in Pall Mall; in 1862 he became a full member of that society. He was a constant exhibitor at the Royal Manchester Institution and all the principal watercolour exhibitions. Some of his best work was shown at the exhibition of watercolours at Manchester in 1861. His Lottery Ticket was exhibited at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition in 1876.
Goodall typically painted small subject-pictures, such as The Daydream, The Cradle Song, Waiting for the Ferry-boat, and The Tired Lace-maker. A number of these were lithographed in a series entitled Walter Goodall's Rustic Sketches. Goodall also made drawings from pictures in the Vernon Gallery for engravings published in The Art Journal.
Gallery |
7810345 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burma%20at%20the%201972%20Summer%20Olympics | Burma at the 1972 Summer Olympics | Burma competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany.
Athletics
Men
Track & road events
Boxing
Men
Football
First round
Group B
Team Roster
- 9th place
Aye I Maung
Aye II Maung
Khin Maung Lay
Maung Maung Tin
Myint Kyu
Myo Win Nyunt
San Aye
Than Soe
Tin Aung
Tin Aung Moe
Tin Sein
Win Maung
Ye Nyunt
Weightlifting
Men |
32150581 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massimo%20Sarmi | Massimo Sarmi | Massimo Sarmi (born 4 August 1948 in Malcesine) is an Italian businessman. He was the chief executive officer of Poste italiane Spa from May 2002 to April 2014.
Career
Massimo Sarmi began his career as an engineer in the Italian Air Force.
In 1995 he became the managing director of the newly established TIM, a position that he left in 1998 and took the position of codirector for the parent company Telecom Italia.
In 2001 Siemens Italia appointed him CEO, a position he left in 2002 to become CEO of the Poste Italiane Group.
Since 2002 he has been a member of the Board of Administration of the Bocconi University in Milan.
In May 2009 he was elected for the second time to the board of Ipc, International Post Corporation, the association of the largest postal operators in the world.
Since June 2010 Massimo Sarmi is also chairman of the Global Cyber Security Center (Gc-Sec), the international study and research body for digital communication security established in Rome on the initiative of Poste Italiane.
Poste Italiane
Massimo Sarmi was appointed CEO of the Poste Italiane Group in May 2002 and has been reconfirmed three times (2005, 2008 and 2011).
At the head of the Group, Massimo Sarmi has developed a strategy for strengthening the post office network, technological innovation, expansion of the range of services and entry into new business sectors, obtaining significant results on the financial level.
Poste Italiane, under the guidance of Massimo Sarmi, has established relationships with important national and international players, such as UPS, Finmeccanica, Russian Post, Microsoft, IBM, HP, Cisco, Vodafone and Ferrovie dello Stato.
Poste Italiane, under the leadership of Massimo Sarmi, has been placed in the list of the "World's Most Admired Companies" drawn up by the US magazine Fortune, for five years. In 2011 Poste Italiane has been placed in fifth position in the list of the leading global operators in the delivery sector.
From July 2011 to April 2015 he is the chairman of the board of directors of Banca del Mezzogiorno – MedioCredito Centrale, a subsidiary of Poste italiane.
Milano Serravalle – Milano Tangenziali
On 6 October 2014 Sarmi became the CEO of Milano Serravalle – Milano Tangenziali. |
28111181 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycling%20at%20the%202010%20Central%20American%20and%20Caribbean%20Games | Cycling at the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games | The cycling competition at the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games was held in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
The tournament was held from 21 to 29 July at the Ramey Air Force Base in Aguadilla.
Medal summary
Road events
BMX Events
Mountain events
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38008786 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunnys%20Gunma%20FC%20White%20Star | Bunnys Gunma FC White Star | is a women's football club playing in Japan's football league, Nadeshiko League Division 1. Its hometown is the city of Kyoto.
Squad
Current squad
Results
Transition of team name
Asahi Kokusai Bunnys: 1991–1994
Takarazuka Bunnys Ladies SC: 1995–2005
Bunnys Kyoto SC: 2006–2020
Bunnys Gunma FC White Star: 2021–present |
31678807 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011%E2%80%9312%20Belgian%20Pro%20League | 2011–12 Belgian Pro League | The 2011–12 season of the Belgian Pro League (also known as Jupiler Pro League for sponsorship reasons) was the 109th season of top-tier football in Belgium. It began on 29 July 2011 with the first match of the regular season and ended in May 2012 with the last matches of the playoff rounds. The defending champions were Genk, who this time ended in third position, while the competition was won by Anderlecht, who clenched the title after a 1–1 draw against Club Brugge with two games left to play in the Championship Playoff.
Teams
Team changes
During the previous season, on 23 April 2011, Charleroi were relegated as a result of a 2–2 draw at home to Eupen in the relegation playoff, making it impossible to overtake them in the standings. This ended a spell of 26 consecutive seasons of being at the top level of Belgian football, with only Anderlecht, Club Brugge and Standard Liège being present for more years. As winner of the relegation playoff, Eupen avoided direct relegation, but was still forced to play the Second Division final round together with second division teams Lommel United, Waasland-Beveren and Mons for the final spot in first division. However, after losing four matches in a row, Eupen was also relegated on 19 May 2011 after just one season at the top level. In the final match between Mons and Waasland-Beveren, Mons eventually came out as winner of the final round and took the place of Eupen.
On 24 April 2011, just one day after the relegation of Charleroi, Oud-Heverlee Leuven was promoted after securing the title in the Second Division and as a result, the city of Leuven now has a first division team again for the first time in 61 years.
Stadia and locations
Personnel and sponsoring
Managerial changes
Regular season
League table
Positions by round
Note: The classification was made after the weekend (or midweek) of each matchday, so postponed matches were only processed at the time they were played to represent the real evolution in standings.
Only one match has been postponed during the season:
On matchday 18: Cercle Brugge vs. Gent of 16 December because of a rain-drenched pitch, was played two days later on 18 December.
Results
Championship playoff
The points obtained during the regular season were halved (and rounded up) before the start of the playoff. As a result, the teams started with the following points before the playoff: Anderlecht 34 points, Club Brugge 31, Gent 28, Standard 26, Genk 23 and Kortrijk 23.
Playoff table
Positions by round
Below the positions per round are shown. As teams did not all start with an equal number of points, the initial pre-playoffs positions are also given.
Results
Europa League playoff
Group A contains the teams finishing the regular season in positions 7, 9, 12 and 14. The teams finishing in positions 8, 10, 11 and 13 were placed in Group B.
Group A
Group B
Europa League playoff final
The winners of both playoff groups competed in a two-legged match to play the fourth-placed team of the championship playoff, called Testmatch. The winners of this Testmatch were granted entry to the second qualifying round of the 2012–13 UEFA Europa League.
Cercle Brugge won 4–2 on aggregate.
Testmatches Europa League
Europa League playoff final winners Cercle Brugge competed with fourth placed team Gent for the final European ticket. After a 7-2 aggregate win, Gent qualified for the second qualifying round of the 2012–13 UEFA Europa League.
Gent won 7–2 on aggregate.
Relegation playoff
The teams finishing in the last two positions Westerlo and Sint-Truiden, faced each other in the relegation playoff. Westerlo started with a three-point bonus and home advantage for finishing above Sint-Truiden during the regular season. Although the teams were scheduled to play each other 5 times, Westerlo forced the decision already after four matches making the last match obsolete. Thereby, Sint-Truiden was relegated and Westerlo was allowed to play the relegation playoffs with the teams from the Second Division.
Top goalscorers
Source: sporza.be and Sport.be ''
Jesper Jørgensen (Gent)
Bernd Thijs (Gent)
Dalibor Veselinović (Kortrijk)
Reza Ghoochannejhad (Sint-Truiden)
Mohammed Tchité (Standard Liège)
Chuka (OH Leuven)
Milan Jovanović (Anderlecht)
Ibrahima Sidibe (Beerschot (6)/Westerlo (3))
Elyaniv Barda (Genk)
Ernest Nfor (Kortrijk)
Igor Vetokele (Cercle Brugge)
Thomas Buffel (Genk)
Kevin De Bruyne (Genk)
Zlatan Ljubijankič (Gent)
Steeven Joseph-Monrose (Kortrijk)
Alessandro Cordaro (Mechelen)
Ibou (Mons)
Reynaldo (Westerlo)
Sherjill MacDonald (Beerschot)
Lukas Van Eenoo (Cercle Brugge)
Elimane Coulibaly (Gent)
Daylon Claasen (Lierse)
Grégory Dufer (Sint-Truiden)
Roei Dayan (Beerschot)
Amido Baldé (Cercle Brugge)
Maxime Lestienne (Club Brugge)
Lior Refaelov (Club Brugge)
Víctor Vázquez (Club Brugge)
Björn Vleminckx (Club Brugge)
Rémi Maréval (Gent (3)/Zulte Waregem (3))
Mustapha Oussalah (Kortrijk)
Mohamed El-Gabbas (Lierse)
Boubacar Diabang (Mechelen)
Rachid Bourabia (Mons)
Giuseppe Rossini (Sint-Truiden (3)/Zulte Waregem (3))
Michy Batshuayi (Standard Liège)
Cyriac (Standard Liège)
Mbaye Leye (Standard Liège (3)/Zulte Waregem (3))
Jens Naessens (Zulte Waregem)
Oleg Iachtchouk (Cercle Brugge)
Tim Smolders (Gent)
Pablo Chavarría (Kortrijk)
Miloš Marić (Lierse)
Baye Djiby Fall (Lokeren)
David Destorme (Mechelen)
Jaime Alfonso Ruiz (Mechelen)
Jelle Van Damme (Standard Liège)
Steven De Petter (Westerlo)
Bart Goor (Westerlo)
Roland Juhász (Anderlecht)
Kanu (Anderlecht)
Sacha Kljestan (Anderlecht)
Gary Kagelmacher (Beerschot)
Vuza Nyoni (Beerschot)
Nabil Dirar (Club Brugge)
Ryan Donk (Club Brugge)
Vadis Odjidja-Ofoe (Club Brugge)
Christian Brüls (Gent)
Yassine El Ghanassy (Gent)
Nill De Pauw (Lokeren)
Mijat Marić (Lokeren)
Bjorn Ruytinx (OH Leuven)
Yoni Buyens (Standard Liège)
Luis Manuel Seijas (Standard Liège)
Shlomi Arbeitman (Westerlo)
Tom De Sutter (Anderlecht)
Patou Kabangu (Anderlecht)
Marcin Wasilewski (Anderlecht)
Guillaume François (Beerschot)
Roni Porokara (Beerschot)
Kristof D'haene (Cercle Brugge)
Kevin Janssens (Cercle Brugge)
Carlos Bacca (Club Brugge)
Thomas Meunier (Club Brugge)
Melli (Gent)
Brecht Capon (Kortrijk)
Péter Czvitkovics (Kortrijk)
Nebojša Pavlović (Kortrijk)
Ervin Zukanović (Kortrijk)
Ibrahima Gueye (Lokeren)
Benjamin Mokulu (Lokeren)
Koen Persoons (Lokeren)
Maël Lépicier (Mons)
Thomas Azevedo (OH Leuven)
Frederik Boi (OH Leuven)
Karel Geraerts (OH Leuven)
Sacha Iakovenko (OH Leuven)
Grégory Christ (Sint-Truiden)
Evariste Ngolok (Westerlo)
Teddy Chevalier (Zulte Waregem)
Davy De Fauw (Zulte Waregem)
Jérémy Serwy (Zulte Waregem)
Aleksandar Trajkovski (Zulte Waregem)
Lucas Biglia (Anderlecht)
Romelu Lukaku (Anderlecht)
Anthony Portier (Cercle Brugge)
Carl Hoefkens (Club Brugge)
Fabien Camus (Genk)
Jeroen Simaeys (Genk)
Dániel Tőzsér (Genk)
César Arzo (Gent)
Yaya Soumahoro (Gent)
Hannes van der Bruggen (Gent)
Jason Adesanya (Lierse)
Boban Grnčarov (Lierse)
Wesley Sonck (Lierse)
Ayanda Patosi (Lokeren)
Katuku Tshimanga (Lokeren)
Boris Pandža (Mechelen)
Mustapha Jarju (Mons)
Tim Matthys (Mons)
Jérémy Sapina (Mons)
Tom van Imschoot (Mons)
Radek Dejmek (OH Leuven)
Sascha Kotysch (Sint-Truiden)
Dolly Menga (Sint-Truiden)
Nils Schouterden (Sint-Truiden)
Franck Berrier (Standard Liège (1)/Zulte Waregem (1))
Felipe (Standard Liège)
Ignacio María González (Standard Liège)
Kanu (Standard Liège)
Geoffrey Mujangi Bia (Standard Liège)
Lens Annab (Westerlo)
Dieter Dekelver (Westerlo)
William Owusu (Westerlo)
Jonathan Delaplace (Zulte Waregem)
Habib Habibou (Zulte Waregem)
Brian Hamalainen (Zulte Waregem)
Thomas Matton (Zulte Waregem)
Fernando Canesin (Anderlecht)
Nathan Kabasele (Anderlecht)
Arnor Angeli (Beerschot)
Adnan Čustović (Beerschot)
Wim De Decker (Beerschot)
Conor Laerenbergh (Beerschot)
Dor Malul (Beerschot)
Tomislav Mikulić (Beerschot)
Hans Cornelis (Cercle Brugge)
Bernt Evens (Cercle Brugge)
Gregory Mertens (Cercle Brugge)
Renato Neto (Cercle Brugge)
William Carvalho (Cercle Brugge)
Jordi (Club Brugge)
Mushaga Bakenga (Club Brugge)
Niki Zimling (Club Brugge)
David Hubert (Genk)
Khaleem Hyland (Genk)
Torben Joneleit (Genk)
Anthony Limbombe (Genk)
Nadson (Genk)
Anthony Vanden Borre (Genk)
Ibrahima Sory Conte (Gent)
Mamoutou N'Diaye (Gent)
Rafinha (Gent)
Brecht Dejaeghere (Kortrijk)
Gertjan De Mets (Kortrijk)
Mohamed Messoudi (Kortrijk)
David Vandenbroek (Kortrijk)
Flávio Amado (Lierse)
Cofie Bekoe (Lierse)
Soufiane Bidaoui (Lierse)
Kris De Wree (Lierse)
Frédéric Frans (Lierse)
Stein Huysegems (Lierse)
Péter Kovács (Lierse)
Barry Boubacar Copa (Lokeren)
Laurens De Bock (Lokeren)
Alfreð Finnbogason (Lokeren)
Ivan Leko (Lokeren)
Killian Overmeire (Lokeren)
Jérémy Taravel (Lokeren)
Maxime Biset (Mechelen)
Seth De Witte (Mechelen)
Abdul-Yakuni Iddi (Mechelen)
Sérgio Oliveira (Mechelen)
Wannes Van Tricht (Mechelen)
Chris Makiese (Mons)
Zola Matumona (Mons)
Benjamin Nicaise (Mons)
Nicolas Timmermans (Mons)
Patrick Amoah (OH Leuven)
Loris Brogno (OH Leuven)
Emmerik De Vriese (OH Leuven)
Nicky Hayen (OH Leuven)
Stefan Gislason (OH Leuven)
Pieter Nys (OH Leuven)
Wim Raymaekers (OH Leuven)
Kevin Roelandts (OH Leuven)
Ludovic Buysens (Sint-Truiden)
Koen Daerden (Sint-Truiden)
Vincent Euvrard (Sint-Truiden)
Alessandro Iandoli (Sint-Truiden)
Pierre-Yves Ngawa (Sint-Truiden)
Rubin Okotie (Sint-Truiden)
Yannick Rymenants (Sint-Truiden)
Imoh Ezekiel (Standard Liège)
Serge Gakpé (Standard Liège)
Réginal Goreux (Standard Liège)
Aloys Nong (Standard Liège)
Ellenton Liliu (Westerlo)
Felix Luz (Westerlo)
Marcão (Westerlo)
Jeroen Vanthournout (Westerlo)
Stef Wils (Westerlo)
Juande (Westerlo)
Miguel Dachelet (Zulte Waregem)
Karel D'Haene (Zulte Waregem)
Ólafur Ingi Skúlason (Zulte Waregem)
Baptiste Martin (Kortrijk), scored for Mons and Genk)
Tomislav Mikulić (Beerschot, scored for Genk and Mons)
Denis Viane (Cercle Brugge, scored twice for Genk)
Samuel (Anderlecht, scored for OH Leuven)
Nuno Reis (Cercle Brugge, scored for Sint-Truiden)
Tom Høgli (Club Brugge, scored for Mechelen)
Alpha Bâ (Gent, scored for Westerlo)
Elimane Coulibaly (Gent, scored for Genk)
Alassane També (Kortrijk, scored for Lokeren)
Kristof Van Hout (Kortrijk, scored for Club Brugge)
Dalibor Veselinović (Kortrijk), scored for Gent)
Boban Grnčarov (Lierse), scored for Cercle Brugge)
Koen Persoons (Lokeren, scored for Mechelen)
Wouter Biebauw (Mechelen, scored for Standard Liège)
Xavier Chen (Mechelen, scored for Beerschot)
Kenny van Hoevelen (Mechelen, scored for Beerschot)
Kevin Roelandts (OH Leuven, scored for Club Brugge)
Peter Delorge (Sint-Truiden, scored for Mons)
Sascha Kotysch (Sint-Truiden, scored for Gent)
Wim Mennes (Sint-Truiden, scored for Mons)
Jelle Van Damme (Standard Liège, scored for OH Leuven)
Wouter Corstjens (Westerlo, scored for Club Brugge) |
4046562 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lu%20Guang | Lu Guang | Lu Guang is the name of:
Lü Guang (337–400), 3rd-century Chinese emperor
Lu Guang (painter), Yuan dynasty (1271–1368) Chinese landscape painter and poet
Lu Guang (photographer) (born 1961), Chinese photographer |
22654171 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WMC%20Mortgage | WMC Mortgage | WMC Mortgage Corporation, also known as WMC or WMC Direct, was a Woodland Hills, California
based wholesale originator of subprime residential mortgages.
The company was founded in 1955 as Pacific Western Mortgage Company. It went through several mergers and became known as Weyerhaeuser Mortgage Company (owned by Weyerhaeuser). In the late 1990s it was sold to private equity firm Apollo Global Management, and entered the subprime mortgage lending business. GE Money (formerly GE Consumer Finance), owned by General Electric, bought WMC Mortgage in 2004 for about $500 million. WMC Mortgage catered to consumers with less than perfect borrower profiles. The company was among the largest subprime lenders in the United States, ranking seventh in 2005 and fifth in 2006 in the dollar volume of subprime mortgage originations. The original domain for WMC Mortgage was www.wmcmortgage.com
GE ceased WMC's operations in late 2007 due to the subprime market collapse.
GE's WMC Mortgage unit filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. |
23859401 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handley%20Page%20H.P.43 | Handley Page H.P.43 | The Handley Page H.P.43 was a three-engined biplane bomber-transport built to an Air Ministry specification. It did not fly well and the biplane configuration was out-dated at completion; the only one constructed was later turned into a monoplane and led to the Handley Page H.P.54 Harrow.
Design and development
In 1928 Imperial Airways issued two sets of tenders, one for a large four-engined airliner and the other for a smaller, three-engined one. The first led to
the very successful Handley Page H.P.42 but the second type did not get beyond the design stage as Imperial later decided that they did not want it. Nonetheless, when Air Ministry specification C.16/28 was issued, calling for a replacement bomber-transport for the Handley Page Clive and Vickers Victoria, Handley Page offered a design which used the tri-motor's wings and engine mountings married to a new monocoque fuselage with gun positions and a revised tail. The Air Ministry ordered a prototype with the proviso that it should have a more familiar fabric covered and gauze windowed fuselage of tubular construction. This aircraft was the H.P.43. Only two other manufactures had submitted types in competition: the Vickers Type 163 was accepted as a private venture only and the Gloster TC.33 prototype was ordered after the specification had been widened to include four-engined types.
Like the H.P.42, the H.P.43 was an unequal-span biplane with unswept and unstaggered wings of constant chord. Both used a Warren girder biplane construction, with two pairs of strongly outward-leaning struts linked by an inward-leaning pair on each wing. This layout avoided the need for bracing wires. Both types had dihedral on upper and lower outer wing sections, combined with marked anhedral in the centre section of the lower wing, a feature that optimised the view from the passenger aircraft because the wing was attached to the top of the fuselage and kept the single-wheeled undercarriage legs, mounted at the end of the centre section, short and widetrack. The lower pair of engines were also mounted at this point, on top of the wing. Both types carried ailerons and leading edge slots on the upper wing only. In contrast, not only did the H.P.43 have a smaller span (114 ft compared with 130 ft on the H.P.42) but the upper and lower planes had nearly equal chord, unlike the sesquiplane H.P.42. The H.P.43's third Bristol Pegasus IM3 radial engine was mounted centrally on the upper wing with bracing to the upper fuselage longerons.
The H.P.43 fuselage was slab-sided, tapering slightly to the tail. The nose extreme housed an open gunner's position with a bomb aimer's window below, immediately in front of an enclosed, side-by-side cockpit for the pilot and navigator. There was a wireless operator's position behind them. The H.P.43 was required to be a 30-seat troop carrier, so there were seats, windows and a port side door amidships. The tail gunner sat in another open position at the end of the fuselage, aft of a twin-finned monoplane tail unit. The elevators were large and projected well beyond the fixed horizontal tail.
The H.P.43 flew for the first time at Radlett on 21 June 1932. After some modifications it went to RAF Hendon in June 1933, where it was not well received by pilots from RAF Martlesham Heath who found it lacking performance and heavy on the controls. During its construction the RAF saw the H.P.43 as outmoded and set to be replaced by monoplane bomber and transport designs; surprisingly the H.P.43 took part in this transition when its fuselage and empennage were adapted to take a high monoplane wing bearing two engines and emerge as the H.P.51, the forebear of the Harrow.
Specifications |
63764433 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020%20Taiwan%20Mulan%20Football%20League | 2020 Taiwan Mulan Football League | The 2020 Taiwan Mulan Football League season was the 7th season of the Taiwan Mulan Football League, the top division of women's football in Taiwan. The regular season began on 11 April and concluded on 7 November 2020.
Teams
Table
Results table
Mulan League Cup
Statistics
Top scorers
Top assists
Clean sheets |
23522250 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C3%A9gimont%20Castle | Wégimont Castle | Wégimont Castle () is a castle in the ancienne commune of Ayeneux, Soumagne, Liège Province, Wallonia, Belgium.
During World War II, under the name Heim Ardennen, it was one of Nazi Germany's SS operated Lebensborn maternity homes. |
63987005 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topological%20homomorphism | Topological homomorphism | In functional analysis, a topological homomorphism or simply homomorphism (if no confusion will arise) is the analog of homomorphisms for the category of topological vector spaces (TVSs).
This concept is of considerable importance in functional analysis and the famous open mapping theorem gives a sufficient condition for a continuous linear map between Fréchet spaces to be a topological homomorphism.
Definitions
A topological homomorphism or simply homomorphism (if no confusion will arise) is a continuous linear map between topological vector spaces (TVSs) such that the induced map is an open mapping when which is the image of is given the subspace topology induced by
This concept is of considerable importance in functional analysis and the famous open mapping theorem gives a sufficient condition for a continuous linear map between Fréchet spaces to be a topological homomorphism.
A TVS embedding or a topological monomorphism is an injective topological homomorphism. Equivalently, a TVS-embedding is a linear map that is also a topological embedding.
Characterizations
Suppose that is a linear map between TVSs and note that can be decomposed into the composition of the following canonical linear maps:
where is the canonical quotient map and is the inclusion map.
The following are equivalent:
is a topological homomorphism
for every neighborhood base of the origin in is a neighborhood base of the origin in
the induced map is an isomorphism of TVSs
If in addition the range of is a finite-dimensional Hausdorff space then the following are equivalent:
is a topological homomorphism
is continuous
is continuous at the origin
is closed in
Sufficient conditions
Open mapping theorem
The open mapping theorem, also known as Banach's homomorphism theorem, gives a sufficient condition for a continuous linear operator between complete metrizable TVSs to be a topological homomorphism.
Examples
Every continuous linear functional on a TVS is a topological homomorphism.
Let be a -dimensional TVS over the field and let be non-zero. Let be defined by If has it usual Euclidean topology and if is Hausdorff then is a TVS-isomorphism. |
1201164 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tours%20Cathedral | Tours Cathedral | Tours Cathedral () is a Roman Catholic church located in Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France, and dedicated to Saint Gatianus. It is the seat of the Archbishops of Tours, the metropolitan cathedral of the Tours ecclesiastical province. It was built between 1170 and 1547. At the time construction began, the church was located at the south end of the bridge over the river Loire, on the road from Paris to the south-west of France. It has been a classified since 1862. Since 1905 it has been owned by the French State, with the Catholic Church having the exclusive rights of use.
History
Three earlier cathedrals existed on the same site. The first, dedicated to Saint Maurice, was built by Bishop Lidorius from 337 to 371. It burned in 558, and was rebuilt by the Bishop Gregory of Tours and rededicated it in 590. Its location, at the south-west angle of the castrum, or old Roman walls, resulted in the cathedral entrance being part of the old Roman city wall. Beginning in about 1160 another structure was begun, in the Angevin style. It was badly damaged by a fire, and never finished.
The work recommenced with the choir in about 1220, and received financial assistance in from Louis IX, or Saint Louis. The choir and transept were rebuilt between 1240 and the beginning of the 14th century, using portions of the lower walls of the Romanesque structure. The lower portions were largely in the early Gothic style, the upper walls in the later Rayonnant style. At the end of the 14th century, the transept was completed. In 1356, the cathedral was re-dedicated to Saint Gatianus.
Further work and the construction of the towers was interrupted by the Hundred Years War (1337-1453). The nave was only finished during the 15th century by architects Jean de Dammartin, Jean Papin and Jean Durand. with financial assistance from Charles VII and the Duke of Brittany Jean V. In 1484 the lower portals were completed. The two new towers were erected just outside of the old city walls. The late-Roman surrounding wall is visible in cross section at the rear of the towers from the north. The first tower was finished in 1534 and the second in 1547, with French Renaissance features in their crowns.
The very slow construction of the cathedral led to a local saying: "... not until the cathedral is finished", to mean something particularly long and difficult to achieve. It also meant that the building presents a complex pattern of French religious types of architecture from the 13th century to the 16th.
In 1787, responding to Vatican doctrines calling for making interiors of churches more open and welcoming, the jubé, or choir screen, which separated the choir from the nave, was removed. In 1793, during the French Revolution, the Jacobins smashed the statues on the church portal. The church was nationalised and transformed into a Temple of Reason, until the reign of Napoleon I. In 1848, portions of the cathedral, including the portal sculpture, were restored.
A major restoration of the cathedral began in 1993. The organ restoration was completed in 1996, and began of the upper windows, Between 2010 and 2013 the restoration of the north transept and is rose window was completed, restored, and two hundred square meters of new windows, dedicated to Saint Martin, were added to cathedral. A new main altar was dedicated in 2018.
Architecture
The Exterior - West Front
The west front of the cathedral displays three very different styles of architecture harmoniously combined. The lower walls of the towers and the central block of the facade up to the triangular fronton date were built in sober Romanesque style, then, along with the buttresses, were covered with much more ornate and dense Flamboyant decoration.
Transepts and chevet
The sides of the cathedral are reinforced with massive flying buttresses, capped with spires to give them additional weight. The chevet of the cathedral, at the east end, is very unusual along Gothic cathedrals in not having any other structures attached to it.
The north transept of the cathedral is unusual in that it has two additional buttresses to support the north front, with its rose window. The rose window also has an unusual bar attached to its face to give it additional strength.
Towers
The two towers have heights of 69 and 70 meters. Portions of the bases of the towers date to the 12th century, The faces of the towers are covered with very elaborate tracery and decoration in the later Flamboyant style. The top sections of the two towers, which completed the structures, with heights of 69 and 70 meters, are early examples of French Renaissance architecture.
Interior
The nave has the traditional three levels; a gallery on the ground floor with large pillars supporting the ribs of the vaulted ceiling; a mid-level gallery, or triforium, with windows; and an upper level, or clerestory, with tall windows filling the upper walls with glass. The nave has a height of 29 meters, but a width less than many cathedrals, probably due to the re-use of an earlier Romanesque foundation. The vaults are covered with the original roof structure, built of wooden beams from the 13th century in the choir, and from the 15th century in the nave.
The choir still has its original fifteen 13th-century windows, which feature both scenes of the lives of Christ, Apostles and Saints, as well as windows which depict the professions of the guilds which contributed to the financing of the windows. The rose window in the north transept, built in the early 14th century, has an unusual design. It was placed into the center of a square already filled with stained glass. This later caused difficulties of stability; a buttress had to be built in the interior, across the middle of the window, which divides it into two. The window is also supported by flying buttresses on the outside.
The south transept also has a rose window, and contains the original case of the 16th century organ, It was donated by Martin de Beaune, and built by Barnabé Delanoue. It now contains an 18th-century organ built by Cliquot.
Art and Decoration
The nave contains a monumental tomb, that of the two children of King Charles VIII of France and Anne of Brittany, who died as infants. It was made in 1506 by Guillaume Regnault or Girolamo da Fiesole, and originally was located in the church of St. Martin, and was moved to the cathedral after the French Revolution. The tomb is made of Carrara marble, in the Italian style. The recumbent statues are reminiscent of the 15th-century French medieval tradition (school of Michel Colombe).
Stained glass
In the 13th century, the artists working on Tours Cathedral launched a small revolution in the design of stained glass windows. Instead of having the entire window filled a multitude of small scenes made of tiny pieces of deeply-coloured glass, the Tours artists began making windows with a mixture of types of glass; the traditional iconographic scenes with Biblical figures were surrounded by panes of clear or lightly coloured glass decorated with ornamental and vegetal themes. This served the purpose of bringing a much greater quantity of light into the interior, and also highlighted the chosen subjects, which otherwise were lost among hundreds of other images. This style of window, introduced at Tours in about 1265, was soon followed at Troyes Cathedral, and then spread quickly to other cathedrals in France and then England.
This revolution in the format of display was accompanied by an even more important revolution in technique, with the use of silver stain, a method for painting onto glass with enamel paints, which were then heated and fused onto the glass. This allowed the more expressive figures, shading and three-dimensions, closer to paintings than to mosaics. The sizes of the pieces of glass became larger, and the amount of lead bars in the window smaller. The figures in stained glass windows began to resemble those in medieval miniature paintings in realism.
Rose windows
The cathedral has three rose windows in the west front and the two ends of the transept. The most original is that of the north transept, installed in the beginning of the 14th century. The rose was installed in a square section of window already filled with glass. where the rose was installed, problems of stability appeared, and it had to be reinforced by a vertical stone bar behind the window, dividing it in two, and by additional buttresses on the exterior.
Pipe Organ
The pipe organ is located in the south transept. The case and decoration date to the 16th century. The instrument now in place was made in the 18th century by the family firm founded by Robert Clicquot.
Bells
The cathedral has four major bells located in the south tower. The bourdon, the largest and deepest-sounding, is Christus, made in 1749 and weighing 1900 kilos. It originally hung in the nearby Abbey of St. Paul in Cormery. In 1793, during the Revolution, most church bells were seized and melted down to make cannon and other armament. Towns were allowed to have only a single bell to warn of a fire. The inhabitants of Coermery resisted and rolled the bell to another town to preserve i. Finally, in 1807, it was taken to Tours and installed in the tower.
The other three bells are:
Maurice (1350 kilos, 1864);
Gatien (980 kilos, 1884),
Martin (310 kilos, 14th century
The Cloister of La Psalette and the Archbishop's Palace
To the north of the cathedral is a small cloister, built during the Renaissance, known as the cloître de la Psalette, in reference to its function as a school where the chanting of psalms was taught. It was built between 1442 and 1524. It has three galleries, placed against the north wall of the cathedral. It also has a scriptorium, where manuscripts were created, which was built in 1520, and is served by a stairway; and a library with a vaulted ceiling, where several frescoes from the 13th and 14th centuries can be seen. This was an early appearance of the French Renaissance style, which had recently been introduced in the stairway the Chateau of Blois in the nearby Loire Valley.
To the south of the cathedral is the former archbishop's palace, built in the early 18th century, which has now become the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours. It also was originally built against the GaLLO-Roman city wall of the 4th century. It contains one hall from the 11th century, and another from the 12th century. On the wall of the second hall is a balcony from which the judgements of the ecclesiastical court were announced.
Burials
Archibald Douglas, 4th Earl of Douglas, Duke of Touraine, buried with his son, Sir James Douglas in the Choir, following the Battle of Verneuil 1424.
Gallery |
28833310 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabalsmellen | Rabalsmellen | Rabalsmellen is a mountain in Øystre Slidre Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The tall mountain is located about northeast of the village of Rogne. The mountain is surrounded by several other notable mountains including Rundemellen, Kalvemellen, and Skarvemellen to the south. |
65447939 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIHOC%20Distilleries | GIHOC Distilleries | GIHOC Distilleries Company Limited was first modern distillery company to be established in West Africa. It was established by the pre-independence Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) in 1958 as the State Distilleries Corporation for the manufacture of alcoholic beverages. The managing director of GIHOC Distilleries Company Limited is Maxwell Kofi Jumah.
History
GIHOC Distilleries Company Limited was established in 1958 as the State Distilleries Corporation for the manufacture of alcoholic beverages.
After a decade of establishing GIHOC, in 1968, it became a division of the then Ghana Industrial Holding Corporation (GIHOC). In 1993, GIHOC Distilleries became and still remains a limited liability company wholly owned by the Government of Ghana.
In 2014, Mrs Kay Kwao-Simmonds who worked as the Managing Director of GIHOC distilleries company Ltd, (Apr 2010 – Jun 2017), stated that the company hope to expand into neighbouring Togo and Cote D’Ivoire by the end of the year 2015. Additionally, she said ”the company already has three of its products on the Nigeria market”.
Operations
In the opening month of the year 2020, Ghana Industrial Holding Corporation (GIHOC) has its operation in 16 regions within Ghana.
Currently, Ghana Industrial Holding Corporation (GIHOC) has its operations in Liberia, Nigeria and Cote d'Ivoire. In January 2020, the managing director of GIHOC Distilleries Company Limited, Maxwell Kofi Jumah informed the press that: "GIHOC's South Africa will become operational in the month of February 2020 as processes leading to the official commissioning of the China and USA offices near completion." |
2291159 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamyenyets | Kamyenyets | Kamyenyets or Kamenets, also known as Kamyanyets (), is a town in Brest Region, Belarus. It serves as the administrative center of Kamyenyets District. The town is located in the northwestern corner of Brest Region on the Lyasnaya River, about north from Brest. In 2002, its population was approximately 9,000. As of 2023, it has a population of 8,316. The Leśna Prawa river flows through the town.
History
It was first mentioned in the Halych-Volhynian Chronicle in 1276, when a castle with a keep, the tower of Kamyenyets, was being constructed on this spot, to protect the northern boundary of Volhynia from the raids of invaders. This site on the stony steep bank of the Liasnaja (Lysna or Leśna) River had attracted Oleksa, the prominent builder and architect of Volhynia. He showed the site to Vladimir Vasilkovich, the Prince of Volhynia, who appreciated the place and ordered Oleksa to build a castle with a keep on the spot. Later a town appeared around the fortification. The tower is often called Bielaja Vieža (alternative transliteration: Belaya Vezha), which means White Tower or White Fortress in Belarusian, because after its foundation it was tiled in white. The neighboring primeval forest of Belavezhskaya Pushcha received its name, which also means White Tower, through association with the tower. However, today the color of the castle is brick-red, having weathered through the ages, not white.
The original name of the town comes from the Polish word Kamieniec which means stone fortress in English, as it served as one of the most important fortresses of Polish Kings during the Commonwealth.
In 1366, it was incorporated into the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and in 1376 it was burnt by Teutonic Crusaders but rapidly rebuilt. In 1503, local townsfolk received a limited self-administration right (probably the Magdeburg Rights) that was used by 1795, when it was annexed by Russia. In 1588 and 1659, the town was devastated with plague.
In the 19th century and the first four decades of the 20th century, the local Jewish community was the most active part of the townsfolk. Memories of the town are included in Yechezkel Kotik's memoir, published in English as Journey To a Nineteenth Century Shtetl: The Memoirs of Yekhezkel Kotik. Yeshivas Knesses Beis Yitzchak-Kaminetz was there 1926-1939.
In the years 1921-1939 it was in Poland. In 1939, it was occupied by Soviet Union and annexed to the Belorussian SSR. From 23 June 1941 until 22 July 1944, Kamyenyets was occupied by Nazi Germany and administered as a part of Bezirk Bialystok. During the Nazi occupation, most local Jews were killed.
After World War II, the town developed as a minor center of the food processing industry (cheese and butter making, baking of bread, etc.).
Attractions
The main historical attraction is the donjon that accommodates a museum. There are also St Simeon's Orthodox church (1914); Sts Peter and Paul Roman Catholic church (1925) and Roman Catholic cemetery of the 18th - early 20th centuries. The building of a synagogue (used until 1941). Since 2009, there has been an annual historical Belaja Vezha Festival organized by local people. |
21237330 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elijah%20Isaacs | Elijah Isaacs | Elijah Isaacs (17301799) was a farmer, politician from Wilkes County, North Carolina, and militia officer in Wilkes County Regiment of the North Carolina militia during the American Revolution.
Early life
Elijah Isaacs was likely born near Berryville, Virginia where in 1771 he sold the farm inherited from his father Samuel Isaacs Jr. By September 1775 he was in Surry County, North Carolina, and a member of the Surry County Committee of Safety with Benjamin Cleveland and Joseph Winston.
He had a younger brother named Godfrey Isaacs. His wife's name may have been Mary, and their children were Jinny Isaacs, George Isaacs, Samuel Isaacs, Winny Isaacs, Abbee Isaacs, Elijah Isaacs, and Rebecca Isaacs.
In 1777, he built Fort Defiance on the Yadkin River in Caldwell County, North Carolina. William Lenoir later built a home on the site of Fort Defiance.
Military service
Military service
Captain in the Surry County Regiment of the North Carolina militia, 1776-1777
Captain in the Wilkes County Regiment of militia, 1777-1778
Major in the Wilkes County Regiment of militia, 1778-1779
Lt. Col./Colonel in the Wilkes County Regiment of militia, 1779-1783
Lieutenant Colonel Elijah Isaacs was Colonel Benjamin Cleveland’s second in command of the Wilkes County Regiment of militia during the American Revolution. In August 1780, Isaacs led the Wilkes County regiment under Brigadier General Griffith Rutherford, commander of the Salisbury District Brigade of militia in western North Carolina. Two days before the Battle of Camden (South Carolina) Isaacs’ regiment was detached from Major General Horatio Gates' army to reinforce Colonel Thomas Sumter. Elijah Isaacs was captured when Lieutenant–Colonel Banastre Tarleton defeated Sumter’s forces at the Battle of Fishing Creek on August 18, 1780.
Lieutenant Colonel Isaacs and General Rutherford, who was captured at the Battle of Camden, were held at St. Augustine, Florida until exchanged in July 1781. From October 1781 through February 1782, Isaacs led a militia regiment fighting against Colonel David Fanning's Tories in Chatham County, North Carolina and Randolph County, North Carolina.
Political career
He was a representative to the North Carolina General Assembly from Wilkes County in 1778, 1779, and 1780. He served as senator in the assembly in 1782 and 1783. In May 1778, he introduced a bill in the House of Commons to form Wilkes County, which was formed in 1779 from parts of Surry County and Washington District, North Carolina.
Death
After the American Revolution ended Elijah Isaacs bought land in Georgia and may have lived there briefly. By 1790 he was living in Anderson County, South Carolina, where he is believed to have died in 1799. |
3386214 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up%20the%20Hill%20Backwards | Up the Hill Backwards | "Up the Hill Backwards" is a song by English musician David Bowie, released on his 1980 album Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps). It was later issued by RCA Records as the fourth and final single from the album in March 1981. Originally written under the title "Cameras in Brooklyn", the song was recorded between February and April 1980 at the Power Station in New York City and Good Earth Studios in London. The recording features backing vocalists, guitar contributions from Robert Fripp and acoustic guitar played by co-producer Tony Visconti. Lyrically, the song concerns the struggles of facing a crisis, partially influenced by Bowie's divorce from his wife Angie. Musically, the song contains numerous time signature changes and a Bo Diddley-inspired beat.
The song has received positive reviews from music critics and biographers, with most praising its unusual composition. Because of this, however, the song stalled as a single, peaking at No. 32 in the UK and No. 49 in Canada. Bowie never performed "Up the Hill Backwards" live in its entirety during his concert tours, although the first verse was performed during the openings of the 1987 Glass Spider Tour. The song has appeared on compilation albums, while a demo has appeared on bootlegs. Mojo magazine later listed it as Bowie's 24th greatest song in 2015.
Recording
David Bowie originally wrote "Up the Hill Backwards" under the title "Cameras in Brooklyn". It was recorded during the sessions for Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) (1980) at New York City's Power Station in February 1980. The backing tracks for the song were completed here. The lineup consisted of Bowie, drummer Dennis Davis, rhythm guitarist Carlos Alomar and bassist George Murray, with lead guitar played by King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp and Roy Bittan, a member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, on piano. Co-producer Tony Visconti contributed acoustic guitar and backing vocals while Lynn Maitland and Chris Porter sang backing vocals. Chuck Hammer, who recorded guitar synthesiser parts for "Ashes to Ashes" and "Teenage Wildlife", recorded a part for "Up the Hill Backwards", although this was replaced by Fripp. Decades later, Hammer stated, "[It's] too bad, [as they were] perhaps the most exploratory of all the tracks recorded."
Instead of improvising lyrics and music as he had with prior releases, Bowie informed Visconti he wanted to take time composing and developing the lyrics and melodies. As such, Bowie's vocals were not recorded until April 1980 at London's Good Earth Studios, Visconti's own studio at the time. Visconti later recalled: "We asked a casual friend, Lynn Maitland, to join David and I singing a group vocal for this song. [...] [It was] another big departure for David, since he doesn't sing solo on this." Indeed, Bowie sings in unison with Visconti, Porter and Maitland, which biographer Chris O'Leary feels "gives strength and reassurance".
Composition
The lyrics of "Up the Hill Backwards" deal with the struggle of facing a crisis. Bowie misquotes Thomas Anthony Harris's 1967 self-help book I'm OK – You're OK, a guide on how to save marriage relationships; NME editors Roy Carr and Charles Shaar Murray see this as a reference to Bowie's divorce from his wife Angie, which initiated shortly before the sessions for Scary Monsters began and was finalised later in 1980. In the 2016 edition of his book The Complete David Bowie, biographer Nicholas Pegg found that the opening lines were taken verbatim from artist and filmmaker Hans Richter's 1964 book Dada: Art and Anti-Art: "...and finally the vacuum created by a sudden arrival of freedom and the endless possibilities it seemed to offer if one could grasp them firmly enough."
Musically, biographer Paul Trynka describes the song as "gospelly", while author James Perone considers it a unique form of R&B. The song features unusual time signatures throughout: the opening section is seven bars of 7/8 time and one bar of 3/8 time, while the guitar breaks pan out in 7/4 time, which Visconti had trouble recording. AllMusic's Ned Raggett considered the changing time signatures representative of the "fragmentary compositions" of Bowie's Berlin Trilogy (1977–1979) — "smoothly assembled to result in a striking new song". Similarly, author Peter Doggett noted the song's fragmentary nature, stating: "[T]he time signatures didn't marry up, there were no neat links between the separate sections of the song, and the lyrics were vaguely apocalyptic fragments."
Commentators have found the beat inspired by guitarist Bo Diddley; Bowie himself called the opening and ending sections "a high-energy Fripp quasi-Bo Diddley thing". Murray, meanwhile, compared the beat to Bowie's Aladdin Sane track "Panic in Detroit" (1973). Doggett finds the verses reminiscent of 1950s rock and roll, noting the same chord sequence as Eddie Cochran's "Summertime Blues". In the rhythm section, Murray's baseline follow the vocal harmonies and counter Fripp's soloing in the outro, while Davis's drum playing, in O'Leary's words, "drives the verses like a drill sergeant". Raggett wrote: "The inventive, decidedly non-obvious guitar soloing, the heavy, almost electronic sounding drumming and subtle use of polyrhythms and more all blend wonderfully together."
Release and reception
"Up the Hill Backwards" was released on 12 September 1980 as the second track of Bowie's 14th studio album Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps), sequenced between "It's No Game (No. 1)" and the title track. RCA belatedly released it as the fourth and final single from the album in March 1981, with the catalogue number RCA BOW 9 and "the instrumental "Crystal Japan" as the B-side. Due to its uncommercial nature, the single stalled at No. 32 on the UK Singles Chart. It also briefly charted at No. 49 in Canada. The song has received positive reviews from music critics and biographers, with most praising its unusual composition. Both Pegg and Trynka consider it "superb", while Raggett calls it one of the highlights of Scary Monsters. Marc Spitz considers the song, along with the title track and "Fashion", among Bowie's best works of the 1970s. Perone praises Bowie's ability to "create musical and lyrical conflicts" in his songs that "force listeners to grapple with their own experiences and emotions", writing that he captures that perfectly on "Up the Hill Backwards". Mojo magazine later listed it as Bowie's 24th greatest song in 2015. In a 2016 list ranking every Bowie single from worst to best, Ultimate Classic Rock placed "Up the Hill Backwards" at number 55, describing it as "a good but difficult song" that was bound for chart failure due to its musical complexity.
Live performances and subsequent releases
Bowie never performed "Up the Hill Backwards" live in its entirety during his concert tours. However, the first verse of the song was performed during the opening moments of the 1987 Glass Spider Tour. The shows began with Alomar playing a guitar solo and repeatedly told to "shut up" (in reference to "It's No Game (No. 1)"). Afterwards, the dance troupe emerged miming to pre-recorded dialogue, followed by the first verse of "Up the Hill Backwards" before segueing into "Glass Spider". Performances from the tour were released on the 1988 Glass Spider concert film and the live album Glass Spider: Live Montreal '87 (2018).
"Up the Hill Backwards" was included on the 1989 Sound + Vision box set and later on the 2007 compilation album The Best of David Bowie 1980/1987. An early demo of the track, with a duration of 3:21, has appeared on bootleg albums. According to Pegg, the demo features a funkier bass line, a "close-to-the-mike lead vocal" and different lyrics, such as "Skylabs are falling" instead of "witnesses falling", a reference to a then-recent media frenzy regarding the July 1979 dissolution of NASA's Skylab upon re-entry into Earth's atmosphere.
Track listing
All tracks written by David Bowie.
"Up the Hill Backwards" – 3:14
"Crystal Japan" – 3:10
Personnel
According to biographer Chris O'Leary:
David Bowie – vocals, keyboards, producer
Robert Fripp – lead guitar
Carlos Alomar – rhythm guitar
George Murray – bass guitar
Dennis Davis – drums
Roy Bittan – piano
Tony Visconti – acoustic guitar, backing vocals, producer
Lynn Maitland – backing vocals
Chris Porter – backing vocals
Charts |
54657635 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guess%20the%20Correlation | Guess the Correlation | Guess the Correlation is a minimalistic browser-based game with a purpose developed in 2016 by Omar Wagih at the European Bioinformatics Institute. The game was developed to study human perception in scatter plots. Players are presented with a stream of scatter plots depicting the relationship between two random variables and are asked to guess how positively correlated they are. Guesses closer to the real correlation are rewarded more points. The game features both single and two-player modes and has a retro 8-bit design and sound effects.
Collected guesses are used to better understand how humans perceive correlations in scatter plots by identifying features within scatter plots, such as outliers, that cause players to over or under estimate the true correlation.
By 1 February 2016, over 2 million guesses had been collected from 100,000 participants.
Gameplay
In the single-player mode, players are presented with a stream of scatter plots depicting the relationship between two random variables. The aim is to guess the true Pearson correlation coefficient, where the guess can range from 0 (no correlation) to 1 (perfect positive correlation). Players start out with three lives and no points. Guesses made within 0.05 of the true correlation are awarded a life and five points. Guesses made within 0.10 are awarded one point, and guesses over 0.10 are not awarded any points and a life is deducted. The game ends when the player has run out of lives.
In the two player mode, opponents challenge each other at guessing the true correlation. Once a session has been initiated between two players, both players are presented with the same scatter plot. The player with the closest guess to true correlation is awarded a point. In the event of a draw, no points are awarded to either player. The first player to reach 10 points is declared the winner. |
26030312 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welkin%20Mill%2C%20Lower%20Bredbury | Welkin Mill, Lower Bredbury | Welkin Mill, Lower Bredbury is a cotton spinning mill in Lower Bredbury/Portwood, Stockport, Greater Manchester. It was built in the early years of the 20th century for ring spinning. It was taken over by the Lancashire Cotton Corporation in the 1930s and passed to Courtaulds in 1964. Production ended in 1967. The , four-storey mill occupies a site on Welkin Road.
Location
Welkin Mill, is in the valley of the River Goyt, within the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, in Greater Manchester, England, located south east of Manchester, east of Stockport and south west of Hyde.
History
This stretch of the Goyt, shares much of its history with Stockport whose textile tradition started with the silk industry in the late 17th century. By the 18th century the manufacture of silk was dominating the economic life of the town. Large silk mills, such as Carrs Mill, Park Mill and Adlington Square Mill, became the major employers of the town. By 1769 nearly 2,000 people were employed in the town's silk trade. In 1772 the silk industry was in depression and the town turned to cotton. Stockport was very late in embracing the joint stock limited liability company boom. The first mill to be financed by that method was Vernon Mill.
Welkin was a ring mill built in the early 20th century producing 40's to 50's.
The industry peaked in 1912 when it produced 8 billion yards of cloth. The Great War of 1914–18 halted the supply of raw cotton, and the British government encouraged its colonies to build mills to spin and weave cotton. The war over, Lancashire never regained its markets. The independent mills were struggling. The Bank of England set up the Lancashire Cotton Corporation in 1929 to attempt to rationalise and save the industry. Welkin Mill, Lower Bredbury was one of 104 mills bought by the LCC, and one of the 53 mills that survived through to 1950. Ring mill producing 40's to 50's. Housing Buckleys printers (originally called Buckley & Bland), until the firm collapsed in October 2008. It was sold on the 12 March 2009 to the Sterling Property Company for £700,000. It will be marketed, either as a whole or sub-divided, for commercial storage and warehousing rental market.
Usage
Owners
Lancashire Cotton Corporation (1930s–1964)
Courtaulds (1964–1967)
Buckley and Bland Printers (1967–2002) (Name changed to Buckleys in 1989)
Tipographic Printers (2002-2009)
Sterling Property Company (2009– 2016)
K2RE Limited (2016-
Tenants
2010-2014 Printer Trader Limited let floors 1/2/32010-2012 UPS Warehouse
K2RE LTD ( 03/2015)- Property Developer.
moviESCAPE - Movie themed escape rooms (2016-) |
36173900 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italy%20at%20the%202012%20European%20Athletics%20Championships | Italy at the 2012 European Athletics Championships | Italy will be represented at the 2012 European Athletics Championships held in Helsinki by the athletes that have achieved the standard of participation fixed by FIDAL.
Medalists
Team
Are qualified the athletes who have achieved the standard set by the Italian Federation of Athletics (maximum three athletes for event). The events of race walking and marathon will be not disputed at Helsinki, because the races is too close to the 2012 Summer Olympics of London.
On June 18, after a few defections to injury, the federal technicians (particularly the manager of the national team) informed the final list of 61 participants (33 men and 28 women).
Results
Finalists (top 8) |
5964069 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supplemental%20Mathematical%20Operators | Supplemental Mathematical Operators | Supplemental Mathematical Operators is a Unicode block containing various mathematical symbols, including N-ary operators, summations and integrals, intersections and unions, logical and relational operators, and subset/superset relations.
Block
Variation sequences
The Supplemental Mathematical Operators block has eight variation sequences defined for standardized variants. They use (VS01) to denote variant symbols (depending on the font):
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Supplemental Mathematical Operators block: |
43982643 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web%20%282013%20film%29 | Web (2013 film) | Web is a 2013 documentary film directed by Michael Kleiman.
The documentary follows several Peruvian families as they gain computer and Internet access for the first time through the One Laptop per Child program. It also includes interviews with people such as author Clay Shirky, Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales, Dennis Crowley of Foursquare, Scott Heiferman of Meetup, and One Laptop founder Nicholas Negroponte. Kleiman spent ten months living in Peru, dividing his time in the towns of Antuyo in the mountains and Palestina in the Amazon rainforest.
Web premiered and won the Sundance Now Audience Award at the 2013 DOC NYC Film Festival. |
4614548 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leinster%20Senior%20Cup%20%28rugby%20union%29 | Leinster Senior Cup (rugby union) | The Leinster Senior Cup is a major rugby competition in Ireland, involving all senior rugby clubs in Leinster, i.e., clubs from Leinster competing in the All-Ireland League. From 2006 until 2016 it was known as the Leinster Senior League Cup during the period when the Leinster Senior League had been discontinued, but reverted to its traditional name for the 2016–17 season upon the revival of the Senior League. From 2011 to 2016 only the top senior teams competed and those in the lower divisions of the All-Ireland League competed for the Leinster Senior League Shield.
History
The Inaugural Leinster Challenge Cup
The Leinster Challenge Cup competition was founded in the 1881–82 season. A meeting of the Leinster Branch of the Irish Rugby Football Union took place at John Lawrence's Rooms (Sports Outfitters) at 63 Grafton Street on Monday 31 October 1881. The meeting was chaired by William Joshua Goulding, Hon. President I.R.F.U. (1880–81) and was attended by representatives of Dundalk, Dublin University, Kingstown, Lansdowne, Phoenix, Rathmines School, and Wanderers Football Clubs. During the meeting questions were posed and answers given about the proposed All-Ireland Challenge Cup competition. Arising from this discussion, W.O. Neville (Dundalk proposed, seconded by H. Morrell (Dublin University), that a Leinster Challenge Cup be established to advance and encourage rugby football in Leinster. The Leinster Challenge Cup would be open to all clubs in Leinster affiliated to the Union. The meeting decided that a circular should be sent to all Leinster clubs inviting their participation and subscriptions to the Cup Fund. A further meeting of the Leinster Branch I.R.F.U. took place on Friday 11 November 1881 to consider the rules, dates of matches, drawing of rounds and other competition details. At this meeting a Challenge Cup Committee was formed. The closing date for entries to the inaugural Leinster Challenge Cup was set for Wednesday 30 November.
The Challenge Cup Committee - C.B. Croker (Lansdowne), the first Hon. Treasurer of the Leinster Branch, G. Drought (Phoenix), F. Kennedy (Wanderers), first Hon. Secretary of the Leinster Branch, E.A. McCarthy (Kingstown), H. Morrell (Dublin University) and Richard M. Peter (Dundalk) - meet on Thursday 1 December to draw up the ties. The Committee decided on an entry fee of ten shillings per club, that all clubs entering the competition should guarantee a donation to the Cup Fund of at least two guineas, that all matches were to be played at Lansdowne Road, that the ground was to be engaged for several matches and that the proceeds of a 6d (six penny) gate were to be added to the Cup Fund. Clubs were allowed to nominate their own umpires. The Committee proposed to purchase, if possible, a Challenge Cup costing some £50. Through the press, the Committee encouraged lovers of the noble game to attend matches and to support the Cup Fund.
The names of the five clubs which had entered, each of whom had guaranteed to donate £5 to the Cup Fund, were placed in a hat and drawn as follows: Match A: Dublin University v Phoenix, on the Wanderers Club portion of the Lansdowne Road grounds; Match B: Wanderers v Kingstown, on the Lansdowne Club portion of the grounds; Match C: Lansdowne, a bye. The first round ties were played on Saturday 10 December 1891, k.o. 2.45 pm, with two forty minute halves. The winner of Match A would play Lansdowne on Saturday 25 February 1882 for a place in the final. The Winner of Match B was to get a bye to the final, which would be played on Saturday 25 March 1882. The reasons for the long interval between the first and second rounds were Christmas holidays which extended into January and the International matches on 31 January (Wales), 7 February (England) and 14 February (Scotland). In the event of a Wanderers v Lansdowne meeting in the second round, the club captains would toss for choice of ground at Lansdowne Road. In the event of a draw at any stage, the Cup Committee would fix a date for a second match to be played, so as not to alter the existing rules of the game.
The first round matches resulted in a win for Dublin University (5 goals, 2 tries) over Phoenix (nil) - a goal equals a converted try, while the Wanderers v. Kingstown match was a scoreless draw. The Wanderers v Kingstown tie was replayed on Thursday 23 February 1882. Kingstown won by a goal and a try to nil. The second round match between Dublin University v Lansdowne resulted in a win for Trinity by 2 goals (1 converted try, 1 dropped goal) and 2 tries to nil. On 18 March, in the presence of one of the largest attendances of spectators that has ever been seen on the ground, the inaugural Leinster Challenge Cup Final between Dublin University v Kingstown was won by Trinity by one goal to nil and the title of the premier club of the province for the season. Both clubs were photographed before the match by Messrs Robinson of Grafton Street. The members of the winning team were presented with silver crosses. The reports on the match do not mention presentation of the Challenge Cup to the DUFC Captain. In celebration the Trinity students living in Botany Bay in College lit an enormous bonfire with a pyrotechnic display of fireworks. The Cup appears to have been first presented to the winning captain in 1883.
Leinster Senior Cup
From 1882 through 1897 newspaper reports refer to this competition consistently as 'The Leinster Challenge Cup'. From 1898 through 2006, press reports refer to the competition as 'The Leinster Senior Cup'. How and why did this change in title come about? The change in reference title probably had more to do with semantics rather than any change(s) in the rules governing the competition. At a General Meeting of the Leinster Branch of the I.R.F.U. held in the Wicklow Hotel on 11 November 1888, a resolution was adopted to inaugurate a Leinster Junior Cup competition on the same basis as applied to the Leinster Challenge Cup. Following the Hon. Treasurer's report to the Annual General Meeting a month earlier, it had been proposed that the Leinster Branch purchase a 'Challenge Cup' for such competition. At the Leinster Branch A.G.M in October 1891, a motion that the 2nd XVs of Senior Clubs be allowed to compete in the Leinster Junior Cup was rejected. Essentially the same motion returned the Leinster Branch AGM in October 1895, but was amended to refer the matter to a subcommittee to draft rules to govern the proposed competition under which the latter might be approved and discussion adjourned to the next General Meeting. At the reconvened meeting in November 1895, delegates were informed that the original motion had been withdrawn because of intense opposition. The meeting then reconstituted itself as a special meeting to consider a new resolution "that a Cup be presented by the Leinster Branch for competition amongst Second Fifteens of senior clubs on a league basis". After much discussion and consideration of umpteen amendments and counter proposals, the final phrase of the original motion was amended to read "amongst Junior Clubs and Second Fifteens of senior clubs on a league basis". This was passed unanimously. Thus the Leinster Branch I.R.F.U. from the 1886–87 season now had a Leinster Junior Cup, the winners of which received a Challenge Cup, a Junior League Cup for Junior Clubs and the 2nd XVs of Senior Clubs, and a Leinster Challenge Cup, contested by Senior Clubs. Thus, to avoid confusion in reports of competitions, the Leinster Challenge Cup became referred to as the Leinster Senior Cup, the winners of which were presented with the original Challenge Cup.
From 1940 to 1947 Old Belvedere completed the still unrivalled feat of winning the Leinster Senior Cup 7 consecutive times, narrowly losing their 8th consecutive final to Wanderers. This broke the next longest sequence of wins by Lansdowne from 1927 through 1931, who had broken the record of four consecutive wins by Dublin University from 1895 through 1898.
Leinster Senior League Cup
In recent times the competition declined in importance due to the introduction of the All-Ireland League in the 1990–91 season and the formation of a professional provincial team, Leinster, to compete in the Heineken Cup. Following the demise of the Leinster Senior League some time around 2006, the two competitions were combined as the Leinster Senior League Cup. From 2011-12 until 2015-16 senior teams from the lower divisions of the All-Ireland League have participated in the Leinster Senior League Shield instead of the League Cup. Thus competition inaugurated in 1882 continues to be contested by the strongest clubs in the province of Leinster. While the name of the competition has changed, the original Challenge Cup trophy is still presented.
The Leinster Senior League Cup competition has evolved over the past decade. In 2006-07 the top 8 teams of 20 in the league progressed to quarter-finals. From season 2007-08 through 2010-11 there were five Pools of four teams; within each Pool the teams played each other once. The winner of each Pool plus the best three runners-up from the five pools on points (and points scored for and against difference) qualified for the quarter-finals. In seasons 2011-12 and 2012-13 there were two Sections A and B, with the winners and runners-up in each section qualifying for the semi-finals. The winner of Section A played the Runner-up of Section B in the semi-final and vice versa. In season 2013-14 the winners of the two Sections qualified directly for the final. In seasons 2014-15 and 2015-16 there were three Sections A, B and C; within each Section the clubs played each other once. The winner of each Section and the best runner-up on points (and points scored for and against difference) progressed to the semi-finals.
Leinster Senior Cup
From 2016 to 2017, the Senior League was revived, and the Senior Cup reverted to a knock-out format.
The winners of the Leinster Senior League Cup compete with the other three provincial cup winners for the All-Ireland Cup.
The Challenge Cup trophy
The report of the 1883 Leinster Challenge Cup final in the Irish Times contains a description of the Challenge Cup: The Cup, which is a solid silver, and is very massive, is in the Etruscan style. The body is elegantly ornamented in the highest style of the silversmith's art. On one side is a view of a football field and pavilion, showing a scrummage in full progress. On the top of the lid there is a beautifully modelled figure in correct football costume in the art of "dropping". The cup stands on a handsome ebony plinth, around which are slung on chains four massive silver shields on which to inscribe the names of the successful clubs. The work has been executed by Messrs Edmond Johnston of Grafton Street and is finished in the style for which the house has become so justly celebrated. Edmond Johnston achieved renown as a silversmith for two works in particular. He made the Liam MacCarthy All-Ireland Hurling Cup in 1921. He worked on the restoration of the Ardagh Chalice and was given permission to make replicas of it which were exhibited at the expositions in Chicago in 1893, Paris in 1900 and Glasgow in 1901. An EJ intertwined was his maker's mark.
Leinster Challenge Cup
1880s
1882 Dublin University 1 goal - nil Kingstown F.C.
1883 Dublin University 1 goal - nil Lansdowne (after replay)
1884 Dublin University 1 goal - nil Lansdowne
1885 Wanderers 1 try - nil Dublin University
1886 Dublin University 1 goal, 1 try to nil Lansdowne (after replay)
1887 Dublin University 2 goals - nil Wanderers (after replay & extra time)
1888 Wanderers 1 try - nil Dublin University(after replay)
1889 Bective Rangers 1 goal, 1 try - 1 goal Wanderers
1890s
1890 Dublin University 1 goal, 1 try - nil Lansdowne
1891 Lansdowne 3 goals - nil Dublin University Football Club
1892 Bective Rangers 6 - 0 Wanderers
1893 Dublin University 3 - 0 Lansdowne
1894 Wanderers 5 - 0 Dublin University (after extra time)
1895 Dublin University 15 - 0 Bective Rangers
1896 Dublin University 3 - 0 Old Wesley
1897 Dublin University 5 - 0 Old Wesley
Leinster Senior Cup
1890s
1898 Dublin University 16 - 0 Lansdowne
1899 Monkstown 8 - 0 Lansdowne
1900s
1900 Dublin University 15 - 0 Wanderers
1901 Lansdowne 8 - 3 Dublin University
1902 Monkstown 3 - 0 Lansdowne
1903 Lansdowne 5 - 3 Dublin University
1904 Lansdowne 5 - 3 Clontarf
1905 Dublin University 22 - 11 Lansdowne
1906 Wanderers 3 - 0 Monkstown
1907 Dublin University 18 - 3 Wanderers
1908 Dublin University 8 - 6 Old Wesley
1909 Old Wesley 20 - 0 Blackrock College
1910s
1910 Bective Rangers 5 - 3 Wanderers
1911 Wanderers 9 - 0 Bective Rangers
1912 Dublin University 3 - 0 Bective Rangers
1913 Dublin University 10 - 3 Bective Rangers
1914 Bective Rangers 11 - 6 Dublin University
1915 No competition - World War I
1916 No competition - World War I
1917 No competition - World War I
1918 No competition - World War I
1919 No competition - World War I
1920s
1920 Dublin University 5 - 0 Wanderers
1921 Dublin University 5 - 0 UCD
1922 Lansdowne 15 - 5 Monkstown
1923 Bective Rangers 18 - 0 UCD
1924 UCD 12 - 3 Monkstown
1925 Bective Rangers 3 - 0 UCD
1926 Dublin University 11 - 3 UCD
1927 Lansdowne 8 - 0 Dublin University
1928 Lansdowne 13 - 0 Blackrock College
1929 Lansdowne 45 - 0 Monkstown
1930s
1930 Lansdowne 9 - 0 Bective Rangers
1931 Lansdowne 17 - 5 Wanderers
1932 Bective Rangers 11 - 3 UCD
1933 Lansdowne 6 - 4 UCD
1934 Bective Rangers 8 - 3 Blackrock College
1935 Bective Rangers 10 - 6 Dublin University
1936 Clontarf 16 - 8 Blackrock College
1937 Blackrock College 9 - 8 Clontarf
1938 UCD 5 - 3 Clontarf
1939 Blackrock College 17 - 3 Clontarf
1940s
1940 Old Belvedere 9 - 0 Clontarf
1941 Old Belvedere 3 - 0 Blackrock College (after replay)
1942 Old Belvedere 11 - 0 Wanderers (after replay)
1943 Old Belvedere 7 - 3 UCD
1944 Old Belvedere 6 - 3 UCD
1945 Old Belvedere 12 - 10 Clontarf
1946 Old Belvedere 16 - 11 UCD
1947 Wanderers 8 - 4 Old Belvedere
1948 UCD 4 - 0 Dublin University
1949 Lansdowne 11 - 9 Old Belvedere
1950s
1950 Lansdowne 6 - 0 UCD
1951 Old Belvedere beat Dublin University
1952 Old Belvedere beat Old Wesley
1953 Lansdowne 16 - 3 Wanderers
1954 Wanderers 15 - 12 Lansdowne (after replay)
1955 Bective Rangers beat Old Belvedere
1956 Bective Rangers beat Lansdowne
1957 Blackrock College beat Clontarf
1958 St. Mary's College beat Blackrock College
1959 Wanderers 13 - 6 Lansdowne
1960s
1960 Dublin University 14 - 11 St. Mary's College (after replay)
1961 Blackrock College 8 - 6 UCD (after replay)
1962 Bective Rangers 19- 6 Wanderers
1963 UCD 12 - 3 St. Mary's College
1964 UCD 11 - 6 Bective Rangers
1965 Lansdowne 9 - 6 Clontarf
1966 Terenure College 11 - 8 St. Mary's College
1967 Terenure College 6 - 5 UCD
1968 Old Belvedere 11 - 6 UCD
1969 St. Mary's College 14 - 11 Dublin University (after replay)
1970s
1970 UCD 14 - 3 Terenure College
1971 St. Mary's College beat UCD
1972 Lansdowne 16 - 10 UCD
1973 Wanderers 13 - 10 St. Mary's College
1974 St. Mary's College 9 - 3 Bective Rangers
1975 St. Mary's College 10 - 9 Old Wesley (after replay)
1976 Dublin University 10 - 6 Blackrock College (replay, extra time)
1977 UCD 9 - 6 Terenure College
1978 Wanderers 9 - 4 UCD
1979 Lansdowne 24 - 3 Terenure College
1980s
1980 Lansdowne 16 - 4 Blackrock College
1981 Lansdowne 7 - 6 Old Belvedere
1982 Wanderers 12 - 0 Bective Rangers (after replay)
1983 Blackrock College 13 - 6 Greystones
1984 Wanderers 29 - 4 UCD
1985 Old Wesley 13 - 6 Wanderers
1986 Lansdowne 15 - 9 Blackrock College
1987 St. Mary's College 13 - 12 Lansdowne
1988 Blackrock College 12 - 6 Dublin University
1989 Lansdowne 29 - 0 Terenure College
1990s
1990 Wanderers 9 - 3 Monkstown
1991 Lansdowne 13 - 9 Terenure College
1992 Blackrock College 12 - 6 Old Wesley
1993 St. Mary's College 12 - 6 Old Wesley
1994 Terenure College 12 - 8 Greystones
1995 St. Mary's College 29 - 3 Greystones
1996 Terenure College 17 - 7 Lansdowne
1997 Lansdowne 40 - 8 Bective Rangers
1998 Lansdowne 23 - 17 Skerries
1999 Clontarf beat DLS Palmerston
2000s
1999-00 Blackrock College 23 - 12 Old Belvedere
2000-01 Terenure College 38 - 7 Clontarf
2001-02 Clontarf 18 - 3 County Carlow
2002-03 County Carlow 23 - 11 DLS Palmerston
2003-04 County Carlow 23 - 19 DLS Palmerston
2004-05 St. Mary's College 26 - 7 DLS Palmerston
2005-06 Clontarf 23 - 16 St. Mary's College
Leinster Senior League Cup
2000s
2006-07 Old Belvedere 19 - 16 Clontarf
2007-08 Clontarf 9 - 6 St. Mary's College
2008-09 Lansdowne 9 - 5 Clontarf
2010s
2009-10 St. Mary's College 9 - 3 Old Belvedere
2010-11 UCD 24 - 23 St. Mary's College
2011-12 Old Belvedere 16 - 3 Blackrock College
2012-13 St. Mary's College 32 - 20 Lansdowne
2013-14 UCD 23 - 18 Terenure College
2014-15 Clontarf 32 - 28 UCD
2015-16 UCD 23 - 13 Old Belvedere
Leinster Senior Cup
2010s
2016-17 Lansdowne 33 - 26 Old Belvedere
2017-18 Lansdowne 53 - 22 Terenure College
2018-19 Lansdowne 49 - 22 Dublin University
2020s
2019-20 UCD 22 - 19 Clontarf
2020-21 Not held because of COVID-19 restrictions
2021-22 Terenure College 20 - 18 Lansdowne
2022-23 Terenure College 50 - 24 Clontarf
2023-24 Lansdowne 45 - 44 Terenure COllege
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History and location
The church in Belo Polje was dedicated to the Presentation of the Virgin and was located at the foot of the mountain range Pleš-Koprivnik, on the right side of the small river Kamenica-Sušica, south of the town Peja. In the Charter of Stefan of Dečani from the 14th century there is a source claiming that on that place once stood the original church. There is also a marble tombstone with an inscription from the 14th century, subsequently incorporated into the floor of the church.
The older church was violated during the Turkish occupation of the area. A newer, current, is built with the material support of Russian Empress Maria Alexandrovna in the period 1866–1868. Its construction is supported by the efforts of Dečani Archimandrite Kiril Andrejević, residents of the city and esnaf associations from Peć and Skadar.
The destruction of the church in 1999
The church and the village were burned down in 1999, windows shattered, furniture, iconostasis and liturgical items broken. The doors were damaged on both sides. On this time, murals suffered the greatest damage, now covered with a thick layer of soot and grime. The church was partially restored at the end of 2003, but in March 2004 the church and the village were burned again. |
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26584768 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969%20in%20the%20Vietnam%20War | 1969 in the Vietnam War | The inauguration of Richard Nixon in January led to a reevaluation of the U.S. role in the war. U.S. forces peaked at 543,000 in April. U.S. military strategy remained relatively unchanged from the offensive strategy of 1968 until the Battle of Hamburger Hill in May which led to a change a more reactive approach. The U.S. and South Vietnam agreed on a policy of Vietnamization with South Vietnamese forces being expanded and equipped to take over more of the ground combat from the departing Americans which began to withdraw in late June without any reciprocal commitment by the North Vietnamese. The morale of U.S. ground forces began to fray with increasing racial tensions and the first instances of fragging and combat refusal. The antiwar movement in the U.S. continued to grow and public opinion turned increasingly antiwar when the Mỹ Lai massacre was revealed in November.
January
1 January to 31 August
Operation Rice Farmer was a U.S. 9th Infantry Division and Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) 5th Division operation in Dinh Tuong, Kien Tuong and Kien Hoa Provinces. The operation resulted in 1,860 PAVN/VC killed.
1 January to 31 December
Operation Quyet Thang II was an ARVN 7th Division, 9th Division and 21st Division clear and search operation in IV Corps. The operation resulted in 37,874 PAVN/VC killed.
3 January
A Vietcong (VC) bomb exploded in a messhall at Củ Chi Base Camp killing 15 Americans mostly from the 554th Engineer Battalion and two Vietnamese kitchen staff.
6 January
The South Vietnamese Minister of Education, Dr. Le Minh Tri, was killed when two VC on a motorcycle threw a hand grenade through the window of the car in which he was riding.
12 January to 7 February
In Operation Bold Mariner the 2nd Battalion, 26th Marines and 3rd Battalion, 26th Marines clear, search and depopulate the Batangan Peninsula a VC stronghold in Quảng Ngãi Province.
14 January
During Operation Toan Thang II a convoy of the 48th Transportation Group was ambushed in Tây Ninh Province, 122 PAVN/VC were killed and three individual and one crew-served weapons were captured; U.S. losses were seven killed.
18 January
The parties to the Paris Peace Talks came to an agreement on the shape of the conference tables and the placement of the representatives who were negotiating an end to the war. After being delayed for nearly six weeks over procedural disagreements raised by South Vietnamese Vice President Nguyễn Cao Kỳ, the parties came to an accord that "The two sides would be 'clearly separated' by two rectangular tables with a round one in the middle" and that the tables would have "no nameplates, no flags and no written minutes of the understanding" on the setup.
20 January
Richard Nixon is inaugurated as 37th President of the United States.
21 January
The White House issues National Security Study Memorandum 1 to the U.S. Ambassador in Saigon, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Military Assistance Command Vietnam (MACV) "to develop an agreed evaluation of the situation in Vietnam as a basis for making policy decisions."
22 January to 18 March
The U.S. 3rd Marine Division launched Operation Dewey Canyon to attack People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) base areas in the A Shau and Song Đa Krông Valleys of Quảng Trị Province. The operation results in 1,617 PAVN killed while 130 Marines were killed.
29-30 January
An ambush patrol of Company C, 1st Battalion, 7th Marines observed approximately 300 PAVN cross the Song Ky Lam River, 6 km west of Điện Bàn. The company called in artillery fire and then engaged the unit, with Company D, 5th Marines joining the action. A search of the area at dawn found 72 PAVN dead.
The first M551 Sheridan Armored Reconnaissance Vehicles arrived in South Vietnam and were deployed by the 3rd Squadron, 4th Cavalry Regiment and the 1st Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment.
February
4 February to 19 April
Operation Cheyenne Sabre was a 3rd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division operation in Biên Hòa Province. The operation resulted in 600 PAVN/VC killed.
10 February
Kỳ announced that South Vietnam would negotiate a political settlement with the VC once the PAVN had withdrawn from South Vietnam.
14 February
A Gallup poll showed that 35% of Americans favor an immediate withdrawal from South Vietnam, up from 21%.
17 February to 31 October
U.S. Army and ARVN forces begin the multi-division Operation Toan Thang III to keep pressure on PAVN/VC forces in III Corps. The operation results in 41,803 PAVN/VC killed and 3,299 captured, U.S. losses were 1,533 killed.
19 February
A bicycle bomb exploded in a shop in Truc Giang, Kien Hoa Province, killing six civilians and wounding 16.
22 February
The PAVN launched the Tet 1969 offensive against U.S. military targets near Saigon and Da Nang. The attacks were quickly beaten off. In the attack on Bien Hoa Air Base the PAVN lost 264 killed and 87 captured while ARVN losses were 10 killed and U.S. losses were one killed. Around Da Nang the PAVN/VC lost over 500 killed.
The PAVN attacked Tiên Phước Camp which was defended by the 5th Special Forces Detachment A-102 and Civilian Irregular Defense Group program (CIDG) forces. The base was secured the following morning for a loss of 1 U.S. and 54 CIDG killed.
23 February
A PAVN rocket attack on Da Nang Air Base destroyed a 450,000 gallon fuel tank beside the base and damaged a Marine A-6 Intruder.
PAVN sappers attacked Hill 327 and the positions of the 2nd Battalion 7th Marines northwest of the Hill, both attacks were beaten back with 18 Marines killed and 80 wounded while the PAVN lost 75 killed or captured.
A PAVN sapper attack on Dầu Tiếng Base Camp resulted in 21 U.S. and 73 PAVN killed.
The PAVN 271st and 272nd Regiments attacked Patrol Base Diamond I occupied by the U.S. 2nd Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment. The attack was repulsed with artillery and gunship fire with an estimated 118 PAVN killed and two captured.
24 February - 10 March
The ARVN 2nd Division conducted Operation Quyet Thang 22 in Quảng Ngãi Province. The operation resulted in 777 PAVN/VC casualties.
25 February
The North Vietnamese Foreign Ministry on Radio Hanoi stated that the "South Vietnamese people" could attack U.S. forces "at any place on Vietnamese territory" and denied that there was any agreement not to conduct such attacks in return for the bombing halt.
26 February
A PAVN sapper attack on Củ Chi Base Camp destroyed nine Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopters of the 242nd Assault Support Helicopter Company.
27 February
A PAVN rocket hit LCU-1500 while it was loading at the Bridge Ramp in Da Nang killing 13 crewmen.
In Paris the U.S. stated that the Tet 69 attacks, particularly against civilian targets, breached the understanding behind the bombing halt.
27 February - 20 June
Operation Quảng Nam was conducted by the ARVN 1st Ranger Group in Quảng Nam Province. The operation resulted in 688 PAVN/VC killed.
28 February - 2 March
In the Fourth Battle of Nakhang the PAVN 316th Division overran Royal Lao Army (RLA) forces at Lima Site 36 at Na Khang. The PAVN lost an estimated 250 killed and the RLA lost nine killed. The PAVN lost 26 killed while an entire RLA battalion was killed.
28 February to 8 May
The U.S. 101st Airborne Division and ARVN 1st Division launched Operation Massachusetts Striker to keep pressure on the PAVN in the southern A Shau Valley. The operation results in 223 PAVN killed and two captured while U.S. losses were 59 killed.
28 February to 28 February 1971
The 11th Light Infantry Brigade launched Operation Iron Mountain to attack PAVN/VC bases and logistics routes in southeastern Quảng Ngãi Province. The operation resulted in 4,589 PAVN/VC killed and 137 captured while U.S. losses are 440 killed.
March
1 March to 14 April
Operation Wayne Grey was conducted by the 1st Brigade, 4th Infantry Division in the Plei Trap Valley, Kontum Province. The operation resulted in 575 PAVN killed and four captured, U.S. losses were 106 killed and one missing.
1 March to 8 May
The 4th Marine Regiment launched Operation Purple Martin against three PAVN regiments operating near the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). The operation results in 347 PAVN killed and approximately 100 Marines killed.
1 March to 14 August
Operation Kentucky Jumper was a clear and search operation conducted by the 101st Airborne Division, 9th Infantry Division and ARVN 3rd Regiment, 1st Division in Thừa Thiên Province. The operation resulted in 317 PAVN/VC killed for the loss of 61 U.S. killed.
1 March to August 1971
In the DMZ Campaign (1969-71) the 1st Brigade, 5th Infantry Division (Mechanized) assumed responsibility for the defense of the DMZ from the 3rd Marine Division as it withdrew from South Vietnam.
2 March
Chinese People's Liberation Army troops attacked Soviet border guards on Zhenbao Island, marking a new low in relations between North Vietnam's principal allies.
Village and hamlet elections were held throughout South Vietnam, largely free of PAVN/VC interference.
2-4 March
Nixon met Lodge and Kỳ and Paris and subsequently stated that further attacks would not be tolerated.
3 March
Ben Het Camp was attacked by the PAVN 66th Regiment, supported by armored vehicles of the 4th Battalion, 202nd Armored Regiment. Two PT-76s and one BTR-50 were destroyed by U.S. M-48s of the 1st Battalion, 69th Armor Regiment in one of the few armored battles of the war.
3-4 March
Company A, 3rd Battalion, 8th Infantry lost 21 killed fighting a PAVN battalion at Landing Zone Brace in the Plei Trap Valley approximately 44 km west of Kontum.
4 March
The Rector of Saigon University, Professor Tran Anh, was shot by VC on a motorcycle; previously he had been notified that he was on the "death list" of the "Suicide Regiment of the Saigon Youth Guard."
5 March
South Vietnamese Prime Minister, Tran Van Huong, narrowly escaped assassination by a four man VC team as he was being driven to his home in Saigon. Huong's car was attacked by the VC who were wearing stolen Ranger uniforms, however Saigon police and ARVN troops opened fire and gave the driver time to accelerate and escape.
The PAVN/VC fired seven rockets into Saigon killing 22 civilians.
6-11 March
Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Earle Wheeler visited South Vietnam.
13 March
Kon Sitiu and Kon Bobanh, two Montagnard villages in Kon Tum Province, were raided by VC; 15 persons killed; 23 kidnapped, two of whom were later executed; three long-houses, a church and a school burned. A hamlet chief is beaten to death. Survivors said that the VC explained that: "We are teaching you not to cooperate with the government."
15 March to 2 May
The 3rd Marine Division and a regiment from the ARVN 1st Division launch Operation Maine Crag in the "Vietnam Salient" of Quảng Trị Province. The operation uncovered large amounts of supplies and resulted in 207 PAVN killed.
17 to 24 March
The 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment conducted Operation Atlas Wedge in the Michelin Rubber Plantation, resulting in 335 PAVN killed and 11 captured for the loss of seven U.S. killed.
17 March - 7 April
Operation Raindance was a USAF interdiction bombing campaign to support RLA forces fighting the PAVN/Pathet Lao on the Plain of Jars.
18 March to 28 May 1970
Operation Menu was the codename of a covert United States Air Force (USAF) Strategic Air Command (SAC) bombing campaign conducted in eastern Cambodia from 18 March 1969 until 26 May 1970. The supposed targets of these attacks were PAVN/VC sanctuaries and base areas used for resupply, training, and resting between campaigns across the border in the South Vietnam.
18 March to 28 February 1971
The 196th Light Infantry Brigade and ARVN 5th Regiment, 2nd Division launched Operation Frederick Hill to pacify the coastal areas of Quảng Tín Province. The operation results in 7,514 PAVN/VC killed and 133 captured, U.S. losses are 572 killed.
18 March to 28 February 1971
The 198th Light Infantry Brigade and ARVN 6th Regiment, 2nd Division launch Operation Geneva Park to pacify Quảng Ngãi Province. the operation results in 2,337 PAVN killed and 67 captured, U.S. losses are 231 killed.
20-31 March
Operation Quyet Thang 25 was conducted by the ARVN 4th Regiment, 2nd Division in Quảng Ngãi Province. The operation resulted in 592 PAVN/VC killed.
21 March
A Kon Tum Province refugee center was attacked for the second time by a PAVN battalion using mortars and B-40 rockets. Seventeen civilians were killed and 36 wounded, many of them women and children. A third of the center was destroyed.
22 March
A Gallup poll showed that 32% of Americans favor escalating the war, 19% favor continuing the current policy, 26% favor withdrawal and 21% had no opinion.
23 March to 3 April
The 3rd Battalion, 9th Marines and elements of the 1st Brigade, 5th Infantry Division launch Operation Montana Mauler against the PAVN 27th Regiment north of Firebase Fuller in Quảng Trị Province. The operation results in 271 PAVN killed, U.S. losses are 38 killed.
24 March
The VC attacked Tam Soc Base in Sóc Trăng Province killing two U.S. advisers from MACV Advisory team 71 and capturing another two, both of whom died in captivity.
25 March
John Lennon and Yoko Ono began their first Bed-In for Peace at the Hilton Amsterdam.
28 March
Mass graves of victims of the VC's Massacre at Huế were uncovered.
31 March to 29 May
The 1st Marine Division and ARVN 51st Regiment, 1st Division launched Operation Oklahoma Hills in southwest Quảng Nam Province. The operation resulted in 589 PAVN killed, U.S. losses were 43 killed.
April
The number of American military personnel in Vietnam peaked at 543,000.
1 April
Laird announced that B-52 bombing missions over South Vietnam would be reduced by 10% due to reductions in the defense budget.
3 April
The U.S. Department of Defense announced that the death toll for American soldiers in the war had exceeded the 32,629 who had died in the Korean War, based on 312 additional deaths during the week from March 22 to March 28 to bring the toll to 33,641.
Laird announced that the U.S. sought to "Vietnamize" the war as quickly as possible but that troop withdrawals would not take placed while the PAVN/VC was conducting attacks.
4 April
A pagoda in Quảng Nam Province was dynamited by the VC, killing four persons, wounding 14.
5 April
COSVN issued Directive 55 to all of its subordinate units, renouncing the strategy that had led to the Tet Offensive, saying: "Never again and under no circumstances are we going to risk our entire military force for just such an offensive. On the contrary, we should endeavor to preserve our military potential for future campaigns."
6-20 April
Operation Muskogee Meadows was a 5th Marine Regiment clear and search operation in Quảng Nam Province. The operation resulted in 162 PAVN/VC and 16 Marines killed.
7 April
South Vietnamese President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu announced that once PAVN forces were withdrawn from South Vietnam, former VC could participate in the political process but not as part of the VC or any other communist organization. This was rejected the next day by a VC spokesman in Paris.
9 April
VC attacked the Phu Binh refugee center, Quảng Ngãi Province and set fire to 70 houses, leaving 200 homeless. Four persons were kidnaped.
A Gallup poll found that 44% approved of Nixon's handling of the war, 26% disapproved and 30% gave no opinion.
10 April
National Security Study Memorandum 36 required an interagency plan with specific timetables for turning over the war to the South Vietnamese on the basis of four alternative timetables (18, 24, 30 and 42 months), with a starting date of 1 July 1969.
14 April
A PAVN/VC attack on Patrol Base Diamond III was repulsed with 198 PAVN/VC killed and eight captured and 40 individual and 42 crew-served weapons captured; U.S. losses were 13 killed.
15 April
A VC armed propaganda team invaded An Ky refugee center, Quảng Ngãi Province, and attempted to force out the people living there; nine were killed and ten others wounded.
15 April to 1 January 1971
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, ARVN 2nd Division and 22nd Division and Regional Force and Popular Forces launched Operation Washington Green a security and pacification operation in Bình Định Province. The operation results in 1,957 PAVN/VC killed, U.S. losses are 227 killed.
16 April
The Hoa Dai refugee center in Bình Định Province was invaded by a VC armed propaganda team. The refugees were urged to return to their former (VC dominated) village, but refused; the VC burned 146 houses.
After receiving a letter from Nixon affirming U.S. respect for the territory and sovereignty of Cambodia, Prince Norodom Sihanouk announced that he was ready to resume diplomatic relations with the U.S.
18 April
Nixon announced that prospects for peace had improved due to the political stability in Saigon and increased capabilities of the South Vietnamese forces.
18 April to 31 December
Operation Dan Thang 69 was conducted by the ARVN 22nd Division in Bình Định Province. The operation resulted in 507 PAVN/VC killed.
Operation Dan Tien 33D was conducted by the ARVN 23rd Division in Quang Duc Province. The operation resulted in 746 PAVN/VC killed.
19 April
Hieu Duc district refugee center, Quảng Nam Province, was invaded and ten persons kidnapped.
20 April
Nixon announced that he would order the withdrawal of 150,000 U.S. troops from South Vietnam over the next 12 months in a gradual policy of Vietnamization, putting more responsibility on the South Vietnamese.
21 April
In one of the first Fragging incidents of the war, a grenade was thrown into the office of K Company, 9th Marine Regiment, at Quảng Trị Combat Base, killing First Lieutenant Robert T. Rohweller. Private Reginald F. Smith pleaded guilty to the premeditated murder and was sentenced to 40 years' imprisonment; he died in custody on 25 June 1982.
22 April to 20 June
Operation Lam Son 277 was conducted by the ARVN 2nd Regiment, 1st Division in Quảng Trị Province. The operation resulted in 541 PAVN killed.
22 April to 22 September
Operation Putnam Tiger was conducted by the U.S. 4th Infantry Division in western Kon Tum and Pleiku Provinces. The operation resulted in 563 PAVN killed.
23 April
Son Tinh district refugee center, Quảng Ngãi Province, was invaded; two women were shot and 10 persons kidnapped.
25 April
Elements of the PAVN 271st Regiment attacked Patrol Base Frontier City southeast of Tây Ninh. The attack was countered with intensive fire from fixed wing and helicopter gunships and the PAVN lost 214 killed and six captured for no U.S. losses.
26 April
A firebase occupied by a unit of the 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division 20 km south of Tây Ninh was hit by 300 rounds of 82mm mortar and 107mm rocket fire and then attacked by an estimated two PAVN/VC battalions. The base was supported by artillery and helicopter and fixed wing gunships and 213 PAVN/VC were killed, six captured and 35 individual and 15 crew-served weapons captured.
27 April
An estimated battalion of PAVN assaulted a night defensive position of a unit of the 2nd Brigade, 25th Infantry Division 10 km northeast of Trảng Bàng. The attack was repulsed with 100 PAVN/VC killed and one captured and 32 individual and 23 crew-served weapons captured; U.S. losses were ten killed.
A grass fire spread to the Marines/Navy ammunition supply point 1 near Hill 327 causing a massive explosion and fire.
May
2 May to 16 July
The 3rd Marine Regiment launches Operation Virginia Ridge to engage the PAVN 27th and 36th Regiments near the central DMZ. The operation results in 560 PAVN killed and 17 captured, Marine losses were 16 killed.
5-20 May
Operation Daring Rebel was conducted by the ARVN 2nd Division, ROK 2nd Marine Brigade and U.S. forces to seek out and destroy VC rest camps on Barrier Island south of Hội An. The operation resulted in 105 VC and two U.S. killed.
6 May
At 00:35 the 2nd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment and 2nd Battalion, 19th Artillery Regiment in a night defensive position at Firebase Carolyn () south of Katum was attacked. The contact continued until 06:00 when the PAVN withdrew leaving 101 dead and 29 captured and 47 individual and 23 crew-served weapons captured; U.S. losses were nine killed.
A CH-47 carrying 83 persons crashed southwest of Phước Vĩnh Base Camp, killing 40 of those on board.
8 May
VC sappers detonated a charge outside the Saigon Central Post Office, killing an ARVN Captain and three civilians and wounding 19 civilians.
8 May to 2 July
The PAVN began bombarding Ben Het Camp and by early June it was besieged by PAVN forces. The base received extensive air and artillery support On 26 June 180 ARVN soldiers were airlifted into the camp and by 28 June the ARVN were conducting sweeps outside the camp perimeter to push back the PAVN. PAVN losses were estimated to be in excess of 1,000 killed, while Allied losses were approximately 300 killed, including approximately 30 U.S.
9 May
The New York Times carried a front page story titled "Raids in Cambodia By U.S. Unprotested" which was the first report of the secret Operation Menu bombing of Cambodia. The story would lead the Nixon Administration to try to uncover sources within the government who contributed to the article, leading to the wiretapping of journalists and eventually to the Watergate scandal.
10 May
Sappers exploded a charge of plastique in Duong Hong, Quảng Nam Province, killing eight civilians and wounding four.
10 May to 7 June
The U.S. 101st Airborne Division and ARVN 1st Division launch Operation Apache Snow in the A Shau Valley. The operation results in 977 PAVN killed and five captured while U.S. losses were 113 killed and ARVN losses were 31 killed. Most of the U.S. casualties were in the Battle of Hamburger Hill from May 13–20 where U.S. forces attacked heavily fortified PAVN positions on Hill 937. 630 PAVN, 72 U.S. and 31 ARVN were killed in the fighting for Hill 937.
11 May
An estimated 600 PAVN troops attacked Landing Zone Oasis resulting in 11 U.S. killed and three captured and over 100 PAVN killed.
11-12 May
The PAVN/VC attacked 159 cities, town and military bases by fire. In Saigon 14 civilians were killed and over 100 wounded.
12 May
A VC sapper squad attacked Phu My, Bình Định Province, with satchel charges, rockets and grenades; 10 civilians were killed, 19 wounded; 87 homes were destroyed.
12-15 May
The PAVN V-16 Sapper Battalion attacked Landing Zone Professional occupied by elements of the 1st Battalion, 46th Infantry Regiment and 1st Battalion, 14th Artillery. The attack was repulsed but the PAVN continued to mortar the base and set up heavy machine guns to prevent helicopter resupply, shooting down a CH-47B on 15 May.
13 May
The PAVN 6th Regiment and K-12 Sapper Battalion attacked the 2nd Battalion, 501st Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion, 11th Artillery and 2nd Battalion, 319th Artillery on Firebase Airborne killing 22 U.S. for the loss of 40 PAVN killed.
Units of the PAVN 7th Infantry Division attacked Firebase Gela, the assault was repulsed for the loss of three U.S. and an estimated 39 PAVN soldiers killed.
14 May
Five PAVN 122mm rockets hit the residential area of Da Nang, killing five civilians and wounding 18.
15 May to 7 June
Operation Dan Quyen 38-A was conducted by the ARVN 42nd Regiment, 22nd Division and 22nd Ranger Group in Ben Het–Đắk Tô. The operation resulted in 945 PAVN killed.
15 May to 14 August
The 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division conducted Operation Lamar Plain in Quảng Tín Province. The operation resulted in 524 PAVN/VC killed and 21 captured and U.S. losses were 116 killed and one missing.
18 May
Elements of the VC 5th Division attacked Xuân Lộc Base Camp which was defended by the 7th Battalion, 9th Artillery Regiment and the 2nd Battalion, 35th Artillery Regiment, 54th Artillery Group. The VC penetrated the perimeter but were eventually driven out airstrikes and a unit of the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment. The attack resulted in 24 VC and 14 U.S. killed.
26 May to 7 November
The 1st Marine Division, ARVN 51st Regiment and Republic of Korea Marine Corps 2nd Marine Brigade launch Operation Pipestone Canyon to pacify and clear Go Noi Island, Quảng Nam Province. The operation results in 852 PAVN/VC killed and 58 captured, U.S. Marine losses were 71 killed.
30 May
In a press conference at the end of a four day visit to South Korea, Thiệu declares that he will never accept a coalition government with the VC.
30 May to 1 July
Operation Lavarack was a reconnaissance in force conducted by the 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment/Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment (ANZAC) north of Nui Dat. The operation resulted in 102 PAVN/VC and 3 ANZACs killed.
June
1 June
During their second Bed-in for Peace at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montreal, John Lennon, Yoko Ono and friends record Give Peace a Chance which is released as a single in July 1969.
3 June
74 U.S. Navy crewmen aboard the died in a collision with the Royal Australian Navy light aircraft carrier during an exercise in the South China Sea.
5 June
U.S. aircraft bomb North Vietnam for the first time since the bombing halt in retaliation for the shootdown of a U.S. reconnaissance plane.
6-8 June
The Battle of Binh Ba, also known as Operation Hammer, was a hard-fought, but one-sided, battle. Troops from the 5th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (5RAR) fought a PAVN/VC force in the village of Binh Ba, north of Nui Dat in Phuoc Tuy Province resulting in 107 PAVN/VC killed and eight captured for the loss of one Australian killed.
7 June
Dan Bullock was the youngest U.S. serviceman to be killed in the war at age 15. Having lied about his age to join the Marine Corps he was killed in a sapper attack at An Hoa Combat Base.
Following a rocket and artillery barrage, at 04:30 two battalions of the PAVN 88th Regiment attacked Firebase Crook, but were forced back by gunship fire. PAVN losses were 323 killed without loss among U.S. forces.
8 June
Following a meeting at Midway Island between Nixon and Thiệu, Nixon announced that 25,000 American troops would be withdrawn from South Vietnam by the end of September, starting the process of Vietnamization.
First Lieutenant Sharon Ann Lane, an army nurse at the 312th Evacuation Hospital at Chu Lai Base Area, was killed in a PAVN rocket attack. She was the only U.S. servicewoman killed by hostile fire during the war.
The PAVN 90th Regiment attacked the night defensive position of the 1st Battalion, 5th Marines in the "Arizona Territory" northeast of An Hoa Combat Base. The Marines repelled the assault and pursued the PAVN throughout the day resulting in more than 185 PAVN killed.
10 June
The VC announced that it had selected leaders for its "Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam" (PRG), a "government in exile" to assume leadership if the VC and North Vietnam were successful in conquering South Vietnam. Former South Vietnamese lawyer and VC president Nguyễn Hữu Thọ was named as chairman of the advisory council to the PRG, and Huỳnh Tấn Phát was named the PRG Council President.
11 June
The PAVN 35th Sapper Battalion attacked the 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment and 3rd Battalion, 82nd Artillery on Landing Zone East killing 16 U.S. for the loss of 27 PAVN killed.
12 June to 6 July
The 1st Battalion, 9th Marines, elements of the 1st Brigade, 5th Infantry Division and the ARVN 2nd Regiment launch Operation Utah Mesa against the PAVN 24th Regiment near Khe Sanh. The operation results in 309 PAVN killed and 14 U.S. killed.
13 June
Laird announced that the first U.S. forces to leave South Vietnam would be 900 infantrymen from the 9th Infantry Division.
Prime Minister of Laos Souvanna Phouma acknowledged that U.S. aircraft regularly carried out bombing missions over Laos.
14-15 June
PAVN forces twice attacked 101st Airborne positions east of Dong Ap Bia losing 81 killed for 18 U.S. killed.
15 June to 25 September
Operation Iroquois Grove was a 1st Brigade, 5th Infantry Division (Mechanized) and 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines clear and search operation against PAVN Base Area 101 southeast of Quảng Trị City. the operation resulted in 134 PAVN and 13 U.S. killed.
16 June
Approximately 500 VC attacked the base of the Royal Thai Army Black Panther Division. The attack was repulsed with artillery and air support, resulting in 212 VC killed and six Thais killed.
18 June to 15 August
The 101st Airborne Division launched Operation Montgomery Rendezvous in western Thừa Thiên Province to interdict PAVN infiltration routes and forestall attacks on Huế. The operation results in 393 PAVN killed and 87 U.S. killed.
18-27 June
Campaign Toan Thang was the first PAVN wet season offensive of the Laotian Civil War. The PAVN 312th Division captured Muang Soui from the RLA.
19 June
The PAVN 4th Regiment attacked Firebase Tomahawk occupied by the 2nd Battalion, 501st Infantry Regiment and 2nd Battalion, 138th Artillery. The assault was repulsed for the loss of 13 U.S. (including 9 National Guardsmen from the 138th Artillery) and 23 PAVN killed.
19-21 June
The PAVN began shelling Tây Ninh Combat Base and then on 21 June launched a ground assault which was repulsed resulting in 194 PAVN and 10 U.S. killed.
20 June - September
The Green Beret Affair began when Chu Van Thai Khac, a South Vietnamese agent suspected of being a double agent, was abducted by three Special Forces soldiers, drugged, shot and his body dumped in Nha Trang bay. On learning of the murder, eight men were arrested including 5th Special Forces Group commander, Colonel Robert B. Rheault. Army defense lawyers for the eight soldiers called General Abrams and CIA officials to the witness stand. Both declined to get involved in the proceedings and testify. Finally in September 1969, Secretary of the Army Stanley Resor announced that all charges would be dropped against the eight soldiers since the CIA, in the interests of national security, had refused to make its personnel available as witnesses, making a fair trial impossible.
21-6 June
Operation Left Jab was an RLA operation to interdict the Sihanouk Trail in southern Laos. The operation succeeded in temporarily disrupting PAVN logistics routes into Cambodia.
25 June
The U.S. Navy transferred 64 Riverine Assault Craft to the Republic of Vietnam Navy.
27 June
Life magazine published the photographs of 242 Americans killed in one week in Vietnam; this is now considered a watershed event of negative public opinion toward the war.
28 June
A Gallup poll showed that 61% of Americans opposed a total withdrawal from South Vietnam, 29% favored total withdrawal and 10% were undecided.
29 June to 30 August
In Operation Keystone Eagle the initial units of the 3rd Marine Division withdrew from South Vietnam.
30 June
PAVN/VC mortar shells destroyed the Phuoc Long pagoda in Chanh Hiep, Bình Dương Province; one Buddhist monk was killed and ten persons wounded. Three members of the People's Self-Defense Force were kidnapped from Phu My, Biên Hòa Province.
Two U.S. military policemen were shot and killed by an ARVN Lieutenant colonel during a conflict at a nightclub in Saigon.
July
1-15 July
Operation Off Balance was an unsuccessful RLA offensive to recapture Muang Soui.
2 July
Democratic senator George McGovern stated that he met with North Vietnamese and VC negotiators in Paris in May and that productive negotiations would not occur without the start of unconditional U.S. withdrawal and distancing from the South Vietnamese government.
2 July
Laird asked the Joint Chiefs of Staff for "a broad and deep reassessment of our military strategy and the employment of our land, sea and air forces in SEA," noting the nation was confronted with a series of unique and important trends which make such a reassessment desirable, "perhaps even mandatory."
3 July to 21 September
Operation Arlington Canyon was a 2nd Battalion 4th Marines and 3rd Battalion 4th Marines clear and search and security operation around Vandegrift Combat Base. The operation resulted in 23 PAVN and ten Marines killed.
8 July
The first of 25,000 American troops to be withdrawn from South Vietnam arrived at McChord Air Force Base at 18:30 in a C-141 transport plane.
11 July
In a televised speech Thiệu challenged the VC to participate in elections organized by a joint electoral commission and subject to international supervision. Foreign Minister Trần Chánh Thành subsequently stated that communists could not participate in the elections or their organization.
12 July
Royal Lao Air Force Major Lee Lue was killed by PAVN/Pathet Lao antiaircraft fire in his T-28D near Muang Soui. At the time of his death he had flown over 5,000 combat sorties.
13 July to 15 August
The 2nd Brigade, 101st Airborne Division and ARVN 54th Regiment, 1st Division launched Operation Campbell Streamer in the Bạch Mã area near Huế. The operation results in 51 PAVN killed and one captured.
15 July
Kỳ criticized Thiệu's 11 July offer to the VC to participate in elections as contrary to the government's anti-communist stance.
16 July to 25 September
Operation Georgia Tar was a 4th Marine Regiment and 3rd Battalion, 9th Marines clear and search operation northeast of Khe Sanh. the operation resulted in 40 PAVN and one Marine killed.
19 July
A VC unit attacked the Chieu Hoi center in Vĩnh Bình Province killing five persons, including two women and a youth, and wounding 11 civilians.
20 July
A race riot at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune resulted in the death of one Marine.
The Navy issued the plan for Operation Duck Hook a program of massive bombing of North Vietnam commissioned by National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger.
21 July to 21 September
Operation Strangle was conducted by the U.S. 1st Infantry Division and the ARVN 8th Regiment, 5th Division in Bình Dương Province. The operation resulted in 365 PAVN/VC killed and 35 captured.
21 July to 25 September
The 3rd Marine Division and elements of the 1st Brigade, 5th Infantry Division launch Operation Idaho Canyon in north-central Quảng Trị Province. The operation results in 563 PAVN killed.
23 July to 10 March 1971
The 198th Light Infantry Brigade launches Operation Nantucket Beach on the Batangan Peninsula. The operation results in 630 PAVN/VC killed, U.S. losses are 51 killed.
25 July
What would become known as the "Nixon Doctrine" was outlined for the first time in an informal press conference with reporters who had accompanied Nixon to Guam during his Asian tour. In remarks later published, but given at the time "for attribution but not direct quotation", Nixon said, "I believe that the time has come when the United States, in our relations with all of our Asian friends, be quite emphatic on two points: One, that we will keep our treaty commitments... but, two, that as far as the problems of internal security are concerned, as far as the problems of military defense... that the United States is going to encourage and has a right to expect that... the responsibility for it taken by, the Asian nations themselves."
28 July - 17 October
Operation Junction City Jr. was mounted by the RLA in an attempt to neutralize the PAVN logistics hub at Tchepone. The PAVN lost material and an estimated 500 killed but managed to withdraw most of their forces from the area.
30 July
Nixon made his only presidential visit to South Vietnam, meeting U.S. personnel at Dĩ An Base Camp.
The PAVN/VC rocketed the refugee center of Hung My, Bình Dương, wounding 76 persons.
August
4 August
Kissinger secretly met with North Vietnam's former Foreign Minister, Xuan Thuy, to bypass the deadlocked Paris Peace Talks.
5 August
North Vietnam released three American prisoners of war to peace activist Rennie Davis, among them was U.S. Navy seaman Doug Hegdahl who had memorized the names of other prisoners.
6 August - 30 September
Operation Kou Kiet was an RLA offensive with extensive U.S. air support that succeeded in capturing the Plain of Jars from PAVN/Pathet Lao forces.
7 August
A VC sapper attack on Cam Ranh Bay penetrated the north perimeter and the sappers threw Satchel charges into the 6th Convalescent Center killing two Americans and wounding 98 and damaging 19 buildings for no VC losses.
A series of explosions was detonated outside an adult education school for Vietnamese military in Chợ Lớn, killing eight and wounding 60.
12-14 August
On the 12th the 1st Battalion, 7th Marines were attacked by the PAVN 8th and 9th Battalions, 90th Regiment and 1st Battalion, 368E Artillery (Rocket) Regiment in the "Arizona Territory". The Marines repelled the attack and killed 203 PAVN and captured two and 72 weapons in a daylong battle. On the 13th the Marines engaged a 100 strong PAVN force in a seven hour battle, killing 73 for the loss of five Marines killed. On the 14th the PAVN attacked again losing 13 killed and ten weapons.
13 August
Officials in Saigon reported a total of 17 PAVN/VC terror attacks on refugee centers in Quảng Nam and Thừa Thiên Provinces, leaving 23 persons dead, 75 injured and a large number of homes destroyed or damaged.
17-26 August
The 196th Light Infantry Brigade, 23rd Infantry Division (Americal) and ARVN 5th Regiment, 2nd Division killed more than 650 PAVN/VC from the 1st Regiment and 3rd Regiment, 2nd Division, in an operation in the Quế Sơn Valley for the loss of 60 U.S. killed. The 7th Marines conducted supporting operations in the Hiệp Đức District.
18 August
HMM-362, the last Marine squadron to operate the UH-34 helicopter held a decommissioning ceremony for the type at Phu Bai Combat Base.
21 August
Operation Camden was a 1 ATF military operation in support of the 501 Land Clearing Company, United States Army Corps of Engineers who were undertaking land clearing operations in the Hat Dich Area.
The VC infiltrated Ho Phong, Bạc Liêu Province, and killed three People's Self-Defense Force members and wounded two others.
22 August
Tran Van Huong was fired as Prime Minister by President Thiệu. ARVN General Tran Thien Khiem was appointed in his place the next day to head a new government.
24 August
The first publicized combat refusal of American soldiers in the war took place when "A" Company of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade, 23rd Infantry Division refused to obey the orders of their lieutenant. The battalion commander, Lieutenant Colonel Robert C. Bacon, traveled to the area the next day and reassigned the Lieutenant to another position.
25 August to 25 December
Operation Lien Ket 414 was conducted by the ARVN 4th Regiment, 2nd Division in Quảng Ngãi Province. The operation resulted in 710 PAVN/VC killed.
Operation Lien Ket 531 was conducted by the ARVN 5th Regiment, 2nd Division in Quảng Tín Province. The operation resulted in 542 PAVN/VC killed.
26 August
The VC attacked Hoa Phat, Quảng Nam Province; a nine-month-old baby, three children between ages six and ten, two men and a woman, a total of seven, were all shot at least once in the back of the head.
September
2 September
With the outcome of the war still in question, Chairman of the Workers' Party of Vietnam Hồ Chí Minh died on the morning of 2 September 1969, at his home in Hanoi at age 79 from heart failure.
3 September
Commandant of the Marine Corps General Leonard F. Chapman, Jr., authorized Afro haircuts and the use of the raised fist as a greeting among black Marines.
5 September
U.S. Army Lieutenant William Calley was charged with six counts of premeditated murder for the 1968 My Lai Massacre.
6 September
PAVN/VC rocket and mortar hit the training center of the National Police Field Force in Dalat, killing five trainees and wounding 26.
North Vietnam announced that Ho Chi Minh would be succeeded by a committee consisting of Lê Duẩn, Trường Chinh, Võ Nguyên Giáp and Phạm Văn Đồng, in fact Lê Duẩn had effectively led the North Vietnamese government since 1964 with Ho being largely a figurehead.
9 September
South Vietnamese officials reported that nearly 5,000 South Vietnamese civilians have been killed by PAVN/VC terror during 1969.
Funeral services for Ho Chi Minh were held in Ba Đình Square, Hanoi attended by more than 250,000 mourners. Foreign dignitaries in attendance included Alexei Kosygin, Premier of the Soviet Union, Li Xiannian, Vice Premier of China, Gustáv Husák, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, Ignacy Loga-Sowiński, Deputy Premier of Poland, Ion Gheorghe Maurer, Prime Minister of Romania, Sihanouk and Souvanna Phouma.
14 September
A shaped charge on the perimeter of Firebase Gela accidentally discharged killing eight U.S. soldiers.
14 September - 25 April 1970
Campaign 139 was a PAVN combined arms rainy season offensive to recapture the Plain of Jars. The PAVN were eventually forced back with extensive air support but they had succeeded in inflicting heavy losses on the RLA.
15 September
The PAVN 18th Regiment attacked a South Vietnamese training center north of Tri Tôn. The attack was repulsed with the PAVN losing 83 killed.
16 September
Nixon announced plans to withdraw a further 35,000 U.S. troops.
19 September
Nixon cancelled the November and December Draft calls.
20 September
74 of 75 persons on an Air Vietnam Douglas DC-4 were killed after a mid-air collision with a USAF F-4 Phantom. Both aircraft were approaching Da Nang Air Base when the F-4 clipped the wing of the DC-4 causing it to crash into a field, killing two farmers on the ground.
The PAVN/VC attacked Tu Van refugee center in Quảng Ngãi Province, killing 8 persons and wounding two, all families of local People's Self-Defense Force members. In nearby Bình Sơn District, eight members of a police official's family were killed.
20 September - 9 March 1970
Operation Diamond Arrow was an RLA operation to retain control of the strategic road intersection of Routes 16 and 23 at Thatheng in southern Laos. The RLA successfully defended Thatheng and killed an estimated 500 PAVN/Pathet Lao for the loss of 40 killed and 30 missing but ultimately abandoned the position on 4 April.
24 September
A bus hit a mine on Highway 1, north of Đức Thọ, Quảng Ngãi Province killing 12 passengers.
The trial of the Chicago Seven began.
25 September
Republican senator Charles Goodell proposed legislation requiring all U.S. forces to withdraw from South Vietnam by the end of 1970. Nixon described this attitude as defeatist.
27 September
Thiệu stated that with proper funding and equipment, South Vietnamese forces could largely take over from U.S. forces by the end of 1970.
29 September
Merle Haggard and The Strangers release Okie from Muskogee, a response to antiwar protests.
29 September to 31 December
Operation Quyet Thang 21/38 was conducted by the ARVN 32nd Regiment, 21st Division in An Xuyên Province. The operation resulted in 721 PAVN/VC killed.
30 September
The U.S. and Thai governments announced that 6,000 USAF personnel would be withdrawn from Thailand by 10 July 1970.
30 September to 27 November
In Operation Keystone Cardinal the remaining units of the 3rd Marine Division withdrew from South Vietnam.
October
Air Force Magazine published the story "The forgotten Americans of the Vietnam War" about U.S. POWs. The story was read into the Congressional Record and republished in the November issue of Reader's Digest raising the profile of U.S. POWs and MIAs.
2 October
A U.S. Navy C-2A Greyhound crashed into the Gulf of Tonkin on a flight from Naval Air Station Cubi Point to the aircraft carrier killing all 27 on board.
Hanna E. Crews a Donut Dolly died of head injuries after a vehicle accident near Bien Hoa, becoming the first of three Donut Dollies to die in the war.
8-11 October
The Weatherman faction of the Students for a Democratic Society launch the Days of Rage protests in Chicago to "bring the war home".
10 October
On the advice of Kissinger, Nixon issued secret orders to the Joint Chiefs of Staff to commence Operation Giant Lance, the sending of bombers armed with nuclear weapons toward Moscow in an effort to convince the Soviet leaders that he was not reluctant to launch a nuclear war in an effort to end the ongoing war. A squadron of 18 B-52 bombers, each carrying nuclear bombs, would be sent out on 27 October.
12 October
Anti-war protesters invaded a U.S. Army base for the first time, as an estimated 5,000 anti-war demonstrators crossed into the boundaries of the base at Fort Dix, New Jersey. The group was driven back by about 1,000 military policemen with tear gas, and there were no arrests and no injuries.
13 October
A grenade was thrown in the Vi Thanh District Chieu Hoi center, killing three civilians and wounding 46. The VC kidnapped a Catholic priest and a lay assistant, from the church at Phu Hoi, Biên Hòa Province.
15 October
Hundreds of thousands of people took part in the Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam demonstrations across the U.S. on a regular workday. Estimates of turnouts were 250,000 in Washington DC and 100,000 in Boston.
16 October
Laird announced that a residual force of 6-7,000 U.S. troops would remain in South Vietnam after the end of hostilities.
16 October to 6 January 1970
Operation Cramer White was a 1st Squadron, 10th Cavalry Regiment security operation along Route 14. The operation resulted in 52 PAVN/VC and two U.S. killed.
22 October to 18 January 1970
The 1st Brigade, 5th Infantry Division, 101st Airborne Division and ARVN 1st Division launched Operation Fulton Square in the lowlands of Quảng Trị Province. The operation resulted in 384 PAVN killed and 28 U.S. killed.
23 October
U.S. field commanders denied that there had been any changes in strategy and tactics, other than not making ground assaults on fortified PAVN/VC base areas which would be bombed instead. Many claimed to have been unaware of the concept of "protective reaction" and while the battlefield situation had reduced in intensity, it was nowhere near a ceasefire.
25-9 October
Tropical storms Kate and Joan caused the worst flooding in Quảng Nam Province since 1964, over 200 people, mostly civilians, drowned; over 240,000 temporarily or permanently lost their homes; and 55 percent of the season's rice crop was ruined.
27 October
The PAVN/VC booby-trapped the body of a People's Self-Defense Force member whom they'd killed. When relatives came to retrieve the body the subsequent explosion killed four of them.
27 October - 1 November
The PAVN besieged Landing Zone Kate occupied by the 5th Special Forces Detachments A-233 and A-236 and their Montagnard forces and elements of the 5th Battalion, 22nd Artillery and 1st Battalion, 92nd Artillery. The base was abandoned on the night of 1 November and the US and Montagnard forces evacuated towards the nearby Bu Prang Camp.
October–December
The PAVN besiege Duc Lap Camp.
November
1 November to 28 December
Operation Dan Tien 33D was conducted by the ARVN 23rd Division in Quang Duc Province. The operation resulted in 746 PAVN/VC killed.
1 November to 1 May 1970
Following the conclusion of Operation Toan Thang III, U.S. and ARVN forces begin Operation Toan Thang IV with largely the same forces and objectives. When the operation concludes on May 1, 1970 14,479 PAVN/VC have been killed for the loss of 685 U.S. killed.
3 November
Nixon addressed the nation on television and radio at 9:30 p.m., Washington time, to announce his plans to end American involvement in the war. Nixon gave his reasons for rejecting immediately removing all troops, framing that option as the "first defeat in our Nation's history" that "would result in a collapse of confidence in American leadership, not only in Asia but throughout the world." Nixon instead reiterated his plan for Vietnamization, "the complete withdrawal of all U.S. combat ground forces and their replacement by South Vietnamese forces on an orderly scheduled timetable" but added that he did not intend to announce details of the timetable. In closing, he described the people who would support his plan for a drawdown as "the great silent majority of my fellow Americans", in contrast to a "vocal minority" of protesters which, if their will prevailed "over reason and the will of the majority", would mean that the United States would have "no future as a free society." A Gallup poll the next day showed that 77% of Americans supported Nixon's Vietnam policy.
6 November
A PAVN sapper attack on Firebase St. George occupied by the 1st Battalion, 14th Infantry and 1st Battalion, 9th Artillery resulted in nine U.S. killed.
MACV announced that it was holding back on sending U.S. ground forces to reinforce Duc Lap Camp as a test of the ARVN's abilities to handle higher intensity combat.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee approved a resolution supporting Nixon's Vietnam policy.
7 November
Senior U.S. commanders in South Vietnam said that all ground combat forces could be pulled out by mid-1971.
Five VC platoons numbering some 200 men attacked Saigon's District 7 but were repulsed by National Police.
The PAVN attacked an ARVN riverine base southwest of Saigon killing 25 defenders.
12 November to 28 December
Operation Dan Tien 40 was conducted by the ARVN 23rd Division in Quang Duc Province. The operation resulted in 1,012 PAVN/VC killed.
13 November
The story of the 1968 My Lai Massacre was revealed to the public by freelance American investigative reporter Seymour Hersh, who was contributing to the Dispatch News Service. The New York Times published a similar report at the same time.
14 November
RVNAF fighter-bombers supporting ARVN forces at Bu Prang Camp hit both ARVN and PAVN forces in an airstrike killing 20 ARVN and an estimated 95 PAVN.
Police used tear gas against protesters marching on the South Vietnamese embassy in Washington D.C. and arrested 30 protesters.
15 November
In Washington, D.C., more than 500,000 protesters staged "the largest peace march on Washington in American history" for the second "Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam". The event, which was also held on a smaller scale in other American cities, included a symbolic "March Against Death".
16 November
A PAVN sapper attack on Camp Radcliff destroyed or damaged 20 U.S. helicopters.
18 November
The ARVN killed 82 PAVN/VC in a sweep south of Da Nang. U.S. helicopter gunships killed a further 124 PAVN/VC.
20 November
The Plain Dealer published Ronald L. Haeberle's photos of the My Lai massacre.
24 November
Lieutenant General William R. Peers was appointed by the Secretary of the Army and the Army Chief of Staff to conduct a thorough review of the My Lai Massacre.
26 November
A PAVN sapper attack on a U.S. armored cavalry unit near the Cambodian border destroyed more than 12 tanks in a munitions explosion.
28-9 November
The PAVN/VC ambushed a 300 man ARVN force southwest of Saigon, killing 36 ARVN. The ARVN then pursued the PAVN/VC killing 45.
29 November
Huynh Van Trong, a former aide to Thiệu and 42 others went on trial for spying for the VC in South Vietnam's largest espionage trial.
December
1 December
The first draft lottery in the United States since 1942 (and the first in peacetime) was held, and September 14 was the first of the 366 days of the year selected, with Congressman Alexander Pirnie of New York making the first selection.
3 December
The PAVN/VC attacked Tuyen Binh in the Mekong Delta, the attack was repulsed with 108 PAVN/VC and 15 civilians killed.
7 December to 31 March 1970
Operation Randolph Glen was conducted by the 2nd Brigade, 101st Airborne Division and ARVN 1st Division to engage PAVN/VC units and interdict supply lines into the lowlands of Thừa Thiên Province. The operation results in 670 PAVN killed, U.S. losses are 123 killed and four missing.
12-20 December
The Philippines Civic Action Group withdrew from South Vietnam.
13 December
The South Vietnamese released a captured PAVN/VC strategy document, COSVN Directive No 55, that outlined a return to traditional guerilla warfare and propaganda.
14 December
The U.S. 23rd Infantry Division killed 53 PAVN/VC in a six hour long battle southeast of My Lai.
15 November
Nixon announced a third phase of U.S. troop withdrawals to withdraw a further 50,000 U.S. troops by 15 April 1970.
16 December
The ARVN 21st Division supported by airstrikes killed 46 PAVN/VC in the U Minh Forest.
20 December
VPAF pilot Nguyễn Văn Cốc made his ninth kill becoming the highest-scoring VPAF ace of the war.
22 December
A bomb exploded on an Air Vietnam DC-6 descending into Nha Trang. The plane crashed into a school killing 24 at the school (most of them schoolchildren) and 10 of the 70 passengers.
24-6 December
The VC announced a three day Christmas truce, however Allied forces only observed a 24 hour truce starting at 18:00 on Christmas Day.
26 December - 5 January 1970
The SS Badger State under contract to Military Sea Transportation Service and carrying a load of munitions bound for Da Nang had a bomb explode onboard causing a fire. The crew abandoned ship with 29 crewmen killed and the ship drifted before sinking on 5 January.
28 December
The New York Times published an analysis of a series of articles by Võ Nguyên Giáp published from 14 to 20 December in Nhân Dân where he outlined a move to better trained, highly mobile forces. This was seen as being a response to North Vietnamese manpower shortages and losses during the Tet Offensive.
30 December to 1 January
The VC announced a three day New Year truce, however Allied forces only observed a 24 hour truce starting at 18:00 on 31 December.
Year in numbers |
40086538 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocryptodon | Apocryptodon | Apocryptodon is a genus of gobies native to the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean.
Species
There are currently two recognized species in this genus:
Apocryptodon madurensis (Bleeker, 1849) (Madura goby)
Apocryptodon punctatus Tomiyama, 1934
Apocryptodon wirzi Koumans, 1937 (Wirz's goby) |
34377103 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football%20Kingz%20FC | Football Kingz FC | The Football Kingz were New Zealand's first professional football club. They played in the Australian National Soccer League from 1999 until their disestablishment in 2004, when they were replaced by the New Zealand Knights as an inaugural participant in the newly established Australian A-League.
History
Football Kingz FC (promoted as Auckland Kingz within Australia) joined the Australian National Soccer League in 1999 and proceeded to play in the last five seasons of the NSL, failing to qualify for the play-offs in every season. The club was originally to use the spelling of "Kings", however this was changed to the Kingz after receiving legal threats from Australian basketball team the Sydney Kings.
The first season – 1999–2000
Their inaugural coach was OFC Player of the Century and former New Zealand international Wynton Rufer in a player-coach role, with his brother Shane as assistant coach. They played their inaugural game on the evening of 1 October 1999 at North Harbour Stadium in front of then the largest crowd to watch a club game in New Zealand. The game was played against Carlton SC and even though it resulted in a 0–3 loss was an enthralling start to the professional era in New Zealand.
This first season would end up being the club's most successful with 15 wins. The team finished eighth of sixteen teams.
Season Two – 2000–2001
After an encouraging first season the club set out to improve its performance on and off the park. There were a number of foreign signings, mostly from Brazil, that seemed good on paper but flopped on the park. One of these imports though immediately became a fan favourite, Dennis Ibrahim. The German went on to become the club's top scorer during the season, managing two hat-tricks (in a 3–2 win over the Brisbane Strikers at home on 30 March 2001 and against Sydney United in a 4–2 away win on 29 April 2001). The team's best result proved to be a 5–1 home win over the Newcastle Breakers on 27 October 2000. The team again finished in eighth place, winning 12 games.
Season Three – 2001–2002
Seasons One and Two showed the potential of the team (they would turn out to be the most successful seasons from a professional New Zealand football team until the Wellington Phoenix FC made the play-offs in 2009) and so Sky Television New Zealand became involved in the club. Their first move was to remove Wynton Rufer as coach while still wanting him to remain a player. Rufer's desire, however, was to remain as coach and to retire slowly as a player, and he immediately retired from playing. Mike Petersen was signed as the new manager and he brought with him a number of players including a young goalkeeper Michael Theoklitos to be part of the squad. His tenure lasted just five games. He started the season with a loss away to the Brisbane Strikers and three games later presided over an embarrassing 2–7 home loss to Perth Glory. The following game, a 2–2 draw away to Wollongong Wolves on 2 November 2001 was his last, walking out after it. A number of Australian players soon following him. Shane Rufer stepped in to become the club's caretaker manager. This tenure only lasted for two games but he achieved a win and draw from these games. Kevin Fallon was announced as the new manager, but the damage to the club had already been done and it ended up finishing with the "wooden spoon" in 13th place, this costing Fallon his job.
Season Four – 2002–2003
After the previous season's poor form, the club's owners drastically slashed the club's budget. Ken Dugdale was signed as the new coach. He had just finished a very successful stint as the manager of the All Whites, having won the Oceania Nations Cup and managed the team through their first involvement in the Confederations Cup where the All Whites performed very well. As he had a reduced budget he recruited from around New Zealand introducing to the team Raf de Gregorio and Jeremy Christie. While the club had some very talented young players it struggled to compete but managed to achieve a better final position in the National Soccer League than the season before, finishing 11 out of 13.
The final season – 2003–2004
The National Soccer League was in a very bad financial state and fans were losing interest across the competition. This led the Australian Government to commission a report in to Soccer Australia and the NSL. Its recommendation was to abolish both Soccer Australia and the NSL and replace them with a new governing body and a new competition (Soccer Australia was broke and the NSL was unable to break away from its Euro Ethnic roots in parts of Australia). Knowing that this was going to be the last NSL season very little was spent on improving the squad and rumours spread that the club was struggling financially. Ken Dugdale remained manager, but the season started the way the previous one had finished. The club struggled on the playing field. In mid-season an announcement was made that the club was being bought out and its debts cleared. This was to cost Ken Dugdale his job and he was replaced on a temporary basis by his assistant Tommy Mason. Mason was soon confirmed as the club's permanent manager, even though many felt that he was not up to the role. The new owners felt that the playing squad needed strengthening and brought Danny Hay in, making him the new captain at the same time. Even with this new impetus the club again finished bottom of the league having only won four games. The club's very last game was on Sunday 29 February 2004 winning 4–3 at home to the Brisbane Strikers.
All time records
Record victory: 5–1 vs Newcastle United (H), 26 October 2000
Record defeat: 0–7 vs Parramatta Power (A), 14 February 2003
Highest aggregate score: 9 goals: (2 games, both losses)
2–7 vs Perth Glory (H), 25 October 2001
4–5 vs South Melbourne (H), 15 March 2003
Record league attendance: 13,111 (vs Marconi Stallions 16 March 2001)
Lowest league attendance: 1,057 (vs Northern Spirit FC 27 February 2003)
Home attendance figures for the final season are not included
Longest winning streak: 3 games (15 November 2002 – 6 December 2002)
Longest undefeated streak: 7 games (23 February 2001 – 6 April 2001)
Longest losing streak: 7 games (15 March 2003 – 7 November 2003)
Longest winless streak: 9 games (29 November 2003 – 10 January 2004)
Most goals in a game: 4 – Harry Ngata vs Northern Spirit (H), 27 September 2002
Most goals in a season: 12 – Dennis Ibrahim 2001–2002
All-time most appearances: 129 – Harry Ngata
All-time top scorer: 29 – Harry Ngata
National Soccer League
NSL seasonal results
All-time NSL win/loss
Managers
Player records
Most appearances
Most goals
Notable players |
53601969 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice%20Premier%20of%20North%20Korea | Vice Premier of North Korea | The Vice Premier of the Cabinet assists the Premier of North Korea in guiding the work of the Cabinet of North Korea. The office is also alternatively known as Deputy Prime Minister of North Korea.
Current vice premiers
First Vice Premier
The First Vice Premier of the Cabinet is the designation for the most senior Vice Premier.
Second Vice Premier
Vice Premier of North Korea
The Premier is represented by a number of vice premiers, who act as a high-ranking executive assistant to the Premier. |
66923245 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivia%20Porter%20%28cricketer%29 | Olivia Porter (cricketer) | Olivia P Porter (born 14 November 2001) is an Australian cricketer who plays for the ACT Meteors in the Women's National Cricket League (WNCL) and the Sydney Thunder in the Women's Big Bash League (WBBL). An all-rounder, she bowls right-arm medium pace and bats right-handed.
Porter was signed by the Thunder ahead of the 2020–21 WBBL but was subsequently ruled out of the tournament due to a leg injury. However, she made her Meteors debut on 30 January 2021 in a 2020–21 WNCL match against Queensland Fire. She played six matches in the tournament, scoring 39 runs and taking one wicket. |
63957393 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%20Ridler | Anna Ridler | Anna Ridler (born 1985) is an artist and researcher who lives and works in London. She works with collections of information or data, particularly self-generated data sets, to create new and unusual narratives in a variety of mediums.
Her work has been exhibited widely at cultural institutions including the Victoria and Albert Museum, Tate Modern, Barbican Centre, Centre Pompidou, The Photographers' Gallery, ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, and Ars Electronica.
Biography
Born in London in 1985, Ridler spent her childhood raised between Atlanta, Georgia and the United Kingdom. She obtained a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and Language from Oxford University in 2007 and a Master of Arts in Information Experience Design from the Royal College of Art in 2017.
Art
A core element of Ridler's work lies in the creation of handmade data sets through a laborious process of selecting and classifying images and text. By creating her own data sets, Ridler is able to uncover and expose underlying themes and concepts while also inverting the usual process of scraping pre-classified images found in large databases on the internet. Her interests are in drawing, machine learning, data collection, storytelling, and technology.
Selected works
Some of Anna Ridler's most notable works to date fall within her ‘tulip series’ which explores the hysteria around tulip mania and compares it to the speculation and bubbles surrounding cryptocurrencies. The series is expressed in three forms: a photographic dataset in Myriad (Tulips), 2018; two iterations of machine generated videos in Mosaic Virus (2018) and Mosaic Virus (2019); and a website with an accompanied functioning decentralized application in Bloemenveiling (2019).
Myriad (Tulips) (2018)
Myriad (Tulips) (2018) is an installation of ten thousand hand-labeled photographs forming a dataset of unique tulips. The ten thousand, or myriad of, photographs were taken by Ridler over the course of three months, roughly the length of a tulip season, spent in Utrecht. Each photograph is carefully affixed one by one with magnets to a specially painted black wall in a laborious process to form a seemingly precise grid.
Myriad (Tulips) (2018) has been exhibited in AI: More than Human, Barbican Centre, London, UK (May 16 - August 26, 2019); Error—The Art of Imperfection, Ars Electronica Export, Berlin, Germany (November 17, 2018 – March 3, 2019); Peer to Peer, Shanghai Centre of Photography, Shanghai, China (December 8 - February 9, 2020).
The work was featured in Bloomberg, It’s Nice That, and Hyperallergic.
For Myriad (Tulips), Ridler was nominated for a Beazley Design of the Year award for her presentation of an alternative perspective on how to engage with artificial intelligence; demonstrating a departure from ownership and control of major corporations to a more personalized process of constructing and conceptualizing from the ground-up.
Mosaic Virus (2018, 2019)
Mosaic Virus (2018) is a single screen video installation displaying a grid of continually evolving tulips in bloom. For Mosaic Virus (2019) Ridler used three screens. The appearance of the tulips is controlled by artificial intelligence using fluctuations in the price of bitcoin. The stripes on the tulips' petals reflect the value of the cryptocurrency. Ridler draws parallels with the tulip mania of the 17th century; representing the hysteria and speculation around crypto-currencies. The work takes its name from the mosaic virus which caused stripes in tulip petals, subsequently increasing their desirability and leading to speculative prices.
Ridler trained a general adversarial network (GAN) on the set of ten thousand photographs of individual tulips from her work Myriad (Tulips). She used a technique called spectral normalization to improve the output.
The work was exhibited in Error—The Art of Imperfection, Ars Electronica Export, Berlin, Germany (November 17, 2018 – March 3, 2019).
Bloemenveiling (2019)
Bloemenveiling (2019) is an auction of artificial-intelligence-generated tulips on the blockchain in the form of a functioning decentralized application: http://bloemenveiling.bid. Ridler collaborated with senior research scientist at DeepMind, David Pfau to investigate whether blockchain could be used as a means of finding poetic substance within it. The piece interrogates the way technology drives human desire and economic dynamics by creating artificial scarcity.
In the work, short moving image pieces of tulips created by generative adversarial networks are sold at auction using smart contracts on the Ethereum network. Each time a tulip is sold, thousands of computers around the world all work to verify the transaction, checking each other's work against each other. While the artificial intelligence behind the moving image pieces has the potential to generate infinite flowers, the enormous distributed network is used, at great environmental cost, to introduce scarcity to an otherwise limitless resource.
Bloemenveiling was exhibited in Entangled Realities, HEK Basel, Basel, Switzerland in 2019. |
17954243 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koumn%C3%A9r%C3%A9 | Koumnéré | Koumnéré is a village in the Toece Department of Bazèga Province in central Burkina Faso. The village has a population of 734. |
9536575 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spetsnaz%20%28miniseries%29 | Spetsnaz (miniseries) | Spetsnaz () is a 2002 Russian TV miniseries directed by Andrei Malyukov.
Overview
The series is set mostly in Russia and follows the adventures of four (initially six) members of the Spetsnaz. The locations also switch frequently and have also included Chechnya, Afghanistan, Dagestan, and Kosovo.
Through the course of the series, the characters have done everything from rescuing shot-down pilots in Chechnya to rescuing the passengers and crew of a hijacked Aeroflot plane grounded in Afghanistan.
Cast
The following are recurring characters in the show
Aleksandr Baluyev as Major 'Klim' Platov, the hardened veteran unit commander
Aleksei Kravchenko as Captain 'Doc' Vyazemsky
Vladislav Galkin as Senior Lieutenant 'Yakut' Urmanov
Igor Lifanov as Senior Warrant Officer 'Khrust' Khrustalyov
Vladimir Turchinsky as Lt. Col. Ozornykh
Aleksandr Nosik as Senior Warrant Officer 'Zmey' Kobrin
Andrei Zibrov as Warrant Officer Aleksey 'Shakh' Shakhmametyev
Ban
In October 2014 the Ukrainian State Film Agency banned some Russian films, particularly Spetsnaz, for demonstration and distribution. According to the head of the agency Pylyp Illenko, that decision was caused by events in Ukraine which has made it "improper to show Russian films with obvious propaganda, for example, exaltation of Russian law enforcement and Russia itself, on Ukrainian TV channels now." |
57037127 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trephionus%20abiba | Trephionus abiba | Trephionus abiba, is a species of beetle belonging to the family Carabidae. It is endemic to Japan.
Etymology
The specific name abiba is an anagram of the sympatric species Trephionus babai.
Description
Body length of male is about 8.1 mm, whereas female is 9.8 mm. Head and pronotum black. Elytra blackish brown to black. Endophallus stout in shape. No hind wings. Dorso-apical lobe simple and rudimentary. Apex of aedeagus truncate. |
40152382 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lombrives | Lombrives | Grotte de Lombrives or Lombrives Cave is a large natural cavern located in Ornolac-Ussat-les-Bains, at the eastern edge of the Pyrénées Ariégeoises Natural Regional Park, in the Ariège department of Occitanie, in southwestern France.
It is still advertised as "the largest cave in Europe" on their website, but in 2017 the cave came under new management and a new website was created which removed the former's fantastically exaggerated statements, including a non-existent Guinness World Record. Those exaggerations persist online on numerous other web pages.
Location and general characteristics
The cave has a length of . It is located inside a limestone mountain named Cap de la Lesse between the Vicdessos and Ariège valley. There are three caves in this mountain, Niaux and Sabart in the Vicdessos valley, Lombrives in the Ariège valley. All three caves together are long, but while it is obvious that they belong to the same system, only the caves of Niaux and Lombrives are connected; neither is connected with Sabart. The caves are found on two main levels, the upper level around above sea level and the lower level around , which are the main stages of cave development. There is also an intermediate level at which has much fewer passages but is the entrance section of the Lombrives show cave. The three levels are connected by numerous vertical shafts.
Characteristics and history
The cave has two huge chambers which are both part of the tourist trail. The Cathedral Chamber, which is high, is on the regular tour. To make this size a little more understandable the guides compare it with the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris, which would fit into the chamber. The even bigger Salle de l’Empire de Satan ("Chamber of the Empire of Satan") is the end of the long cave trekking tour which is also offered. It is located from the entrance. A shaft in the floor of the chamber called Garrigou pit is deep. The engineer and geologist Raoul Perpère (1864–1950) constructed a bridge across the pit in 1927, while he was developing the cave as a show cave. The cave has a great variety of speleothems or formations, including stalactites, stalagmites, rimstone pools, cave pearls, helictites, and calcite crystals.
The cave has served as a refuge throughout history. The earliest excavations by Félix Régnault took place in the late 19th century and confirmed human occupation during the Neolithic. It was also used for the burial of a Bronze Age man. Between the 12th and 14th centuries the "heretic" Cathars gathered at the site. Later the cave was a hideout for Huguenots.
Today the cave is a tourist attraction, offering a selection of guided tours lasting between two and five hours.
In 2021 the Deep Time experiment took place in the cave, during which a group of 15 volunteers spent 40 days in the cave as an experiment to see how the lack of clocks, daylight and external communications would affect them.
Legends
One of the legends with which the Lombreve cave is associated is the legend of the princess of the Pyrenees. Another legend says that in 1244, Cathar treasures were hidden at the foot of the cave. The cave was also considered a refuge for spirits. Therefore, local residents were afraid to enter it. |
14345421 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%20Grimes | Don Grimes | Donald James Grimes (4 October 1937 – 20 November 2021) was an Australian politician who served as a Senator for Tasmania from 1974 to 1987, representing the Australian Labor Party (ALP). In the Hawke government he held ministerial office as Minister for Social Security (1983–1984) and Minister for Community Services (1984–1987). He was a general practitioner before entering politics.
Early life
Grimes was born on 4 October 1937 in Albury, New South Wales. He was the older of two children born to Nancy (née O'Neill) and Walter Grimes; his father worked as a fitter and turner with New South Wales Railways. He was educated at Albury High School for three years, but after his mother's death from bowel cancer he and his sister were sent to live with an aunt in Sydney. Grimes completed his education at Fort Street High School and went on to study medicine at the University of Sydney (MBBS 1962). He excelled at sport, playing inter-school rugby union for Fort Street, junior rugby league for North Sydney, and Australian football for Sydney University.
Medical career
Grimes married Margaret Schofield in 1960, with whom he had four children. He completed his clinical training at Royal North Shore Hospital and his internship at Royal Hobart Hospital in Tasmania, subsequently accepting locum positions in Hobart, New Norfolk and Launceston. From 1965 to 1966 he lived in London and was the in-house doctor for Beaverbrook Newspapers. After returning to Australia he served as district medical officer at Cygnet and then opened a general practice in the Launceston suburb of Riverside.
Politics
Grimes joined the Australian Labor Party in 1968, after previously joining the British Labour Party during his time in England.
Grimes was elected to the Senate at the 1974 federal election, taking office immediately due to the preceding double dissolution. In 1976, he was elected to Gough Whitlam's shadow cabinet with the sixth-highest number of votes. He was given the social security portfolio. In March 1980, Grimes was suspended from parliament for 24 hours for using the words "pimp" and "fascist" and accusing Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser of "setting up" a demonstration outside a nursing home at which nine people were arrested.
After the ALP won the 1983 election, Grimes was appointed Minister for Social Security in the Hawke government. He was also elected Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate. In a cabinet reshuffle in 1984 he was given the new position of Minister for Community Services. Grimes underwent a triple bypass operation in June 1985 and returned to work in August.
In October 1986, Grimes announced that he would not seek re-election. He resigned from Parliament in April 1987, but the casual vacancy was not immediately filled because the Tasmanian Parliament stalemated over the appointment of the Labor Party's nominee as replacement senator, John Devereux.
Later life
Between 1987 and 1991, Grimes was Australian Ambassador to the Netherlands. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in January 1992. In May 1992, he was announced as the chairman of the Australian National Council on AIDS. He was Chairman of South Eastern Sydney and Illawarra Area Health Service from September 1995 to February 2004.
Grimes died on 20 November 2021 at the age of 84. |
40982214 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory%20Lane%20Music%20Group | Memory Lane Music Group | Memory Lane Music Group is a worldwide independent music publishing company established in 1923 by Larry Spier Sr.
History
The company began in 1923 when Larry Spier Sr., composed "Memory Lane" with Con Conrad, and Buddy DeSylva (words). It was a huge hit, later revived in the 1944 Abbott and Costello film In Society, and was Spier's entry into the music business. In 1928, he, Sam Coslow, and Andy Britt composed the hit "Was It a Dream". With Coslow, Spier formed the music publishing company Spier and Coslow in 1928.
In 1929, the company was sold to Paramount Pictures. The two split, with Coslow becoming a movie producer, and Spier starting a successful career as general manager of Chappell Music. While at Chappell, he was involved in such Broadway hits as Oklahoma!, Bloomer Girl, State Fair, and South Pacific.
In 1938, Spier started Larry Spier Music Publishers Inc. to control "Memory Lane" and other copyrights. Among the songs it published was "In the Beauty of Tahoe" (1941) by Harold Adamson, Joe DiMaggio, and Pierce Norman. His son, Larry Spier, Jr. (1929–2003), began working at the company in 1950, and in 1955, took over as president, picking up where his father left off with The Four Lads hit "Moments to Remember", which reached No. 2 on Billboard in 1955. Larry Spier, Sr. (ne Lorenz or Lawrence Reginald Spier; born April 3, 1901, Manhattan, New York) died on November 10, 1956, at his Central Park West home.
In the 1960s, Larry Spier, Jr., started Memory Lane Music Corp. to represent songwriters affiliated with BMI. In 1979, he started Memory Lane Music Ltd., a UK-based company, to handle foreign administration and British reversionary rights. Memory Lane Music Ltd. Pty was formed in 1982 to manage copyrights in Australia and New Zealand.
The 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s were productive years for the company with several dance hits, including "Babe We're Going to Love Tonight" and "Your Love" by Lime, both certified gold in France and Benelux. "Touch Me", recorded by Cathy Dennis, was a worldwide hit, and awarded "Top Performed Song" by ASCAP in 1991.
In 1985, Memory Lane Music Corp. ventured into the record business, producing "Thinking About Your Love" by Skipworth & Turner. The song reached No. 1 on the dance charts in the United States and the UK. Many reputable catalogs were signed, including those of George Weiss, Ervin Drake, Larry Stock, and Joseph Meyer. In 2003, Larry Spier, Jr.'s, son, Mark Spier, assumed control of the company.
In 2006, Scion Three Music (BMI) and Scion Four Music (ASCAP) were formed by Mark Spier as Memory Lane's contemporary division. Scion has since signed over 30 established and up-and-coming songwriters who have written for Beyoncé, Kelly Clarkson, Jennifer Lopez, Jay Z, Rihanna, Joss Stone, Snoop Dogg, Pink, Mary J. Blige, Swizz Beatz, Koda Kumi, Craig David, and Jo Dee Messina.
In early 2009, Scion North and Scion Arctic (both SOCAN) were formed to handle the publishing of Canadian songwriters. In 2012, Memory Lane Music Group opened an office in Los Angeles, and expanded its headquarters in New York.
In November 2015, Spier Music Publishing merged with September Music to form Memory Lane Music Group.
In September 2017, the family of Haven Gillespie sued Memory Lane for $700 thousand, asking for an 85% stake in his song "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town".
In June 2020, Memory Lane signed an administration deal with Atlas Music Group, which will represent the publisher worldwide.
Operations
Memory Lane Music Group administers the publishing rights of thousands of songs, controlling the libraries of artists including The Blakes and Nola Darling.
Songs
"Touch Me (All Night Long)"
"Fancy"
Bibliography |
22645707 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhosymedre | Rhosymedre | Rhosymedre () is a village within the community of Cefn, in Wrexham County Borough, Wales.
The Anglican church, which was consecrated in 1837, is dedicated to St John the Evangelist, and is part of the Diocese of St Asaph. Former vicars include John David Edwards (vicar from 1843 to 1885), whose most famous hymn tune composition is Rhosymedre, upon which Ralph Vaughan Williams later based an organ prelude.
The quarry behind Rock Road was originally the source of stones for building the Llangollen Canal, and also the houses of the local mining community.
Rhosymedre Halt railway station served the village from 1906 to 1959.
Sport
Rhosymedre is the location of the Cefn Mawr district's local football club, Cefn Druids A.F.C. who have been based at 'the Rock' on Rock Road, Rhosymedre since 2010. They currently play in the Welsh Premier League. |
53831146 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canton%20of%20Ch%C3%A2teaurenard | Canton of Châteaurenard | The canton of Châteaurenard is an administrative division of the Bouches-du-Rhône department, in southeastern France. At the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015, it was expanded from 6 to 15 communes. Its seat is in Châteaurenard.
It consists of the following communes:
Barbentane
Boulbon
Cabannes
Châteaurenard
Eyragues
Graveson
Maillane
Mollégès
Noves
Plan-d'Orgon
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23502639 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beinn%20a%27%20Chaisteil | Beinn a' Chaisteil | Beinn a' Chaisteil is a mountain in the southern Highlands of Scotland, it is located 6.25 km north of Tyndrum on the border of Perth and Kinross and Argyll and Bute council areas. This hill is not to be confused with another Beinn a' Chaisteil, above Loch Vaich in Highland Council area.
Overview
Beinn a' Chaisteil reaches a height of 886 metres (2907 feet) making it the 39th highest Corbett and the 259th highest Marilyn in the UK. The mountain is well seen from the A82 road at Auch where its western flank is seen as huge wall standing sentinel at the entrance to the Auch Glen. The West Highland Railway travels across the base of the mountain on its western side as it loops dramatically over the Auch Glen and Glen Coralan on two viaducts. Beinn a' Chaisteil is usually climbed with the adjoining Beinn nam Fuaran to which it is joined by a col with a height of 546 metres. Strong walkers will include the mountain in the traverse of the "Auch Corbetts", an 18 km walk with almost 2000 metres of ascent which takes in the four other Corbetts of Beinn Odhar, Beinn Chaorach, Cam Chreag and Beinn nam Fuaran.
Etymology
The mountain's name translates from the Gaelic language as "Mountain of the Castle", a name which reflects the fortress like nature of its western flanks which fall steeply and rockily to the Auch Glen. The former spelling of Ben Achastle confirms that it is a name which goes well back into history. However the hills name may not just come from its physical appearance as W.J. Watson in his book "Circular Forts of North Perthshire" (1913) reveals that a circular fortification stood on one of the spurs of Beinn a' Chaisteil and the name may come from that. The fort has long since been obliterated by landslips but was the most westerly of over 20 forts which existed across northern Perthshire.Geography
Beinn a' Chaisteil is composed of two ridges which gives it a rough "L" shape, the SE ridge runs for two km to a col with a height of 419 metres which links to the adjacent Corbett of Cam Chreag. This ridge has steep crags on its western side and is scored by numerous gullies. The precipitous Coire Gaothach is situated just beneath the summit on this western side and is drained by the Allt Choire Gaothach which flows down to Glen Coralan to join the Allt Coralan. The NE ridge is broader than its counterpart and runs for 1.5 km to the Mam Lorn col (546 metres) which links to the Corbett of Beinn nam Fuaran.
The western crags of Beinn a' Chaisteil are used for Winter ice climbing with the main gully in the crag being first climbed in 1898. Another gully called Valkyrie has a Grade IV rating and there are other routes of similar difficulty. The mountain stands on the main east - west watershed of Scotland with drainage going to the west coast via the River Orchy and to the east via the River Lyon and the River Tay.
Literature
Beinn a' Chaisteil is mentioned in the work of Duncan Ban MacIntyre, the Scottish Gaelic poet who lived locally for part of his life. The mountain is mentioned in the "Song to The Gun Named Nic Coiseim"I took thee to Ben Chaisteil, and to the moor adjoining it, the Mam and Creag an Aprain, on the flank of Ben nam Fuaran.''
Ascents
The most popular starting point for the ascent of Beinn a' Chaisteil is Auch on the A82, however parking is extremely limited there and guide books recommend starting at a car park at at the head of the glen and using the West Highland Way to walk down to Auch. A direct ascent of Beinn a' Chaisteil is possible from the foot of the Auch Glen but this is a very steep climb on grass with a few crags higher up which can be avoided. A less strenuous alternative is to walk up the Auch Glen for 2.5 km to the ancient burial ground and then climb SE to the col between Beinn a' Chaisteil and Beinn nam Fuaran from where both hills can be climbed. As noted Beinn a' Chaisteil can be ascended as part of the round of the five Auch Corbetts and is the last hill of the day to be climbed. |
55036540 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meiosimyza%20decempunctata | Meiosimyza decempunctata | Meiosimyza decempunctata is a species of small flies of the family Lauxaniidae. |
37444856 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibraltar%20Creek | Gibraltar Creek | Gibraltar Creek, a perennial stream that is part of the Murrumbidgee catchment within the Murray-Darling basin, is located in the Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
There are several types of Greenhoods found along the creek's banks. Historical Aboriginal camp-sites have been also found on the creek banks.
Location and features
Gibraltar Creek rises on the eastern slopes of the Brindabella Ranges in the south-west of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), below Billy Billy Rocks in Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve, within Namadgi National Park. The creek flows generally north-east before reaching its confluence with Paddys River, south-west of Tuggeranong Town Centre. The creek descends over its course.
Gibraltar Falls are found on the Gibraltar Creek; and Gibraltar Creek Woods Reserve are located on the creek's edge.
Wildlife and vegetation
Vegetation found on the banks of the creek include threatened flora such as the Scarlet Greenhoods, Fisch's Greenhood, Faint Greenhoods, Nodding Greenhoods and Maroonhoods. E. callianassa, Banksia and B. marginata have been found in the creek.
In 1930, the Cotter River was stocked with New Zealand trout, which were expected to migrate up the tributaries including the creek.
History
Historical Aboriginal camp-sites have been found on the creek banks. In 1863, land abutting the creek was sold at auction. During late 1933 and early 1934, the river flooded several times and made it difficult to cross the creek. A motion was made to Australia's Minister for the Interior to cement over the creek bed to make crossing during the flood more feasible. By 1934, ramps had been added to assist in crossing the creek, replacing gates that had been placed there for cattle crossings.
Bushwalkers organised walks alongside the creek in the 1950s. In 1954, hikers got lost in the area and a search for them took place near the creek. In 1957, a teenager was shot while hiking near the creek. |
1500967 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seamless%20branching | Seamless branching | Seamless branching is a mechanism used on DVDs and Blu-ray Discs to allow the player to jump to a different scene after finishing one. The most common purpose is to have several versions of a scene within one film, without having to store the entire film on the disc several times.
A popular example is the Platinum Edition DVD of The Lion King, where the user can select between the original theatrical version and an extended version. The two versions differ only in one scene (the "morning report"). The DVD player is instructed to play the film normally up to this scene, then jump to the appropriate scene as selected by the user before the commencement of the film, and then jump back to play the rest of the film. The user normally does not notice this jump, hence the word seamless. Larger scale examples of the same technique are seen in the 2000 Ultimate Edition DVD of Terminator 2: Judgment Day, the 2007 DVD rerelease of Blade Runner and the Platinum and Diamond Edition DVDs of Beauty and the Beast in which three different cuts of the films are playable from the same discs.
Another possible use of seamless branching is for the localisation (translation) of on-screen visible text. The Star Wars DVDs with their opening crawl are a prime example. Normally, only the audio track of films is translated into other languages, but when text central to the plot is visible on-screen, the scene may be created once for every language, and the DVD player can be instructed to select the appropriate version of the scene depending on the user's language preference. However, for this purpose a technique called multi-angle is used more often. |
51830555 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay%2C%20Missouri | Bay, Missouri | Bay is an unincorporated community in Gasconade County, in the U.S. state of Missouri.
History
A post office called Bay was established in 1860, and remained in operation until 1963. It is not known to the State Historical Society of Missouri why the name "Bay" was applied to this community.
Notable people
Nathaniel Rateliff, folk singer and songwriter |
26591304 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratnapura%20Electoral%20District | Ratnapura Electoral District | Ratnapura electoral district is one of the 22 multi-member electoral districts of Sri Lanka created by the 1978 Constitution of Sri Lanka. The district is conterminous with the administrative district of Ratnapura in the Sabaragamuwa province. The district currently elects 10 of the 225 members of the Sri Lankan Parliament and had 734,651 registered electors in 2010.
1982 Presidential Election
Results of the 1st presidential election held on 20 October 1982 for the district:
1988 Presidential Election
Results of the 2nd presidential election held on 19 December 1988 for the district:
1989 Parliamentary General Election
Results of the 9th parliamentary election held on 15 February 1989 for the district:
The following candidates were elected:
Nanda Sydney Ellawala (SLFP), 75,645 preference votes (pv); Gamini Atukorale (UNP), 53,420 pv; Wimal Wickramasinghe (UNP), 45,680 pv; Kaluwa Devagey Nanda Mathew (UNP), 43,307 pv; Athula Kularatne Attygale (UNP), 39,809 pv; Chandrasekara Gankande (UNP), 37,875 pv; M.L.M. Aboosally (UNP), 32,133 pv; W. D. J. Senewiratne (SLFP), 29,651 pv; Udagama Liyanage Heenmahatmaya (SLFP), 28,142 pv; and Vasudeva Nanayakkara (USA), 13,013 pv.
1994 Parliamentary General Election
Results of the 10th parliamentary election held on 16 August 1994 for the district:
The following candidates were elected:
Gamini Atukorale (UNP), 82,869 preference votes (pv); Vasudeva Nanayakkara (PA), 62,989 pv; Pavithra Devi Wanniarachchi (PA), 62,979 pv; Susantha Punchinilame (UNP), 57,029 pv; Nalanda Ellawala (PA), 52,371 pv; Upatissa Silva Hiripitiyage Maithripala (UNP), 49,481 pv; Jayatissa Ranaweera (PA), 48,450 pv; Kaluwa Devagey Nanda Mathew (UNP), 47,176 pv; Udagama Liyanage Heenmahatmaya (PA), 47,122 pv; and W. D. J. Senewiratne (PA), 44,704 pv.
Nalanda Ellawala (PA) was murdered on 11 February 1997.
1994 Presidential Election
Results of the 3rd presidential election held on 9 November 1994 for the district:
1999 Provincial Council Election
Results of the 3rd Sabaragamuwa provincial council election held on 6 April 1999 for the district:
1999 Presidential Election
Results of the 4th presidential election held on 21 December 1999 for the district:
2000 Parliamentary General Election
Results of the 11th parliamentary election held on 10 October 2000 for the district:
The following candidates were elected:
Gamini Atukorale (UNP), 109,102 preference votes (pv); Pavithra Devi Wanniarachchi (PA), 108,324 pv; W. D. J. Senewiratne (PA), 86,744 pv; Susantha Punchinilame (UNP), 77,197 pv; Surangani Ellawala (PA), 54,517; Mahinda Ratnatilaka (UNP), 49,808 pv; Abeynayaka Piyadasa (UNP), 41,365 pv; Arachchige Dharmadasa Wanniarachchi (PA), 39,972 pv; Udagama Liyanage Heenmahatmaya (PA), 39,285 pv; and Jayatissa Ranaweera (PA), 38,631 pv.
2001 Parliamentary General Election
Results of the 12th parliamentary election held on 5 December 2001 for the district:
The following candidates were elected:
Gamini Atukorale (UNF), 140,054 preference votes (pv); Susantha Punchinilame (UNF), 101,033 pv; Pavithra Devi Wanniarachchi (PA), 84,173 pv; Premalal Jayasekara (PA), 79,742 pv; W. D. J. Senewiratne (PA), 64,693 pv; Mahinda Ratnatilaka (UNF), 58,265 pv; A. A. Wijethunga (UNF), 43,081 pv; Abeynayaka Piyadasa (UNF), 38,655 pv; Ashoka Jayawardhane (PA), 37,442 pv; and Achala Jagodage (JVP), 2,617 pv.
2004 Parliamentary General Election
Results of the 13th parliamentary election held on 2 April 2004 for the district:
The following candidates were elected:
Pavithra Devi Wanniarachchi (UPFA-SLFP), 125,592 preference votes (pv); Thalatha Atukorale (UNF-UNP), 113,617 pv; Achala Jagodage (UPFA-JVP), 97,083 pv; Susantha Punchinilame (UNF-UNP), 96,591 pv; W. D. J. Senewiratne (UPFA-SLFP), 84,284 pv; Deepal Gunasekara (UPFA-JVP), 76,883 pv; Premalal Jayasekara (UPFA-SLFP), 71,982 pv; Dunesh Gankanda (UNF-UNP), 42,738 pv; Jayatissa Ranaweera (UPFA-SLFP), 40,382 pv; and Mahinda Ratnatilaka (UNF-UNP), 36,289 pv.
2004 Provincial Council Election
Results of the 4th Sabaragamuwa provincial council election held on 10 July 2004 for the district:
The following candidates were elected:
Ariyadasa Gamaethige (UPFA), 33,621 preference votes (pv); Thirimadura Ranjith de Soysa (UPFA), 32,182 pv; Ellawala Mohan Saliya (UPFA), 31,182 pv; Ambagahaarawe Prabhath Bhanu Munipriya (UPFA), 28,548 pv; Janaka Wakkumbura (UPFA), 27,998 pv; A. A. Wijethunga (UNP), 25,002 pv; Mahawatta Kodithuwakkuge Sanee Rohana (UPFA), 24,392 pv; Beligaswatta Akkarak Kuruppu Mudiyanselage Ranjith Bandara (UPFA), 22,779 pv; Athula Kumara Rahubadda (UPFA), 22,531 pv; Arachchi Muthukuda Pushpa Kumara Disanayake (UPFA), 22,257 pv; Athukorala Kodithuwakkuge Sarath Kumara (UPFA), 22,215 pv; Siripala Kiriella (UNP), 20,609 pv; Arachchige Malawala Dharmasiri (UPFA), 20,536 pv; Atigala Samitha (UNP), 18,921 pv; Gonagala Manannalage Karunapala (UPFA), 17,758 pv; Elapatha Withanage Saman Priyanjith Witharana (UPFA), 17,292 pv; Wanni Arachchige Heenmahathmaya (UPFA), 16,614 pv; Panawalage Nimal Padmasiri Wijenayake (UNP), 16,223 pv; Anura de Silva Kumara Siri Alagiyawanna (UPFA), 16,128 pv; Abenayaka Piyadasa (UNP), 16,094 pv; Al Iflar Mahamad Yehiya Mahamad Iflar (UNP), 14,153 pv; Karandana Lekamlage Rathnayake (UNP), 13,180 pv; Upathissa Silva Hiripitiyage Maithripala (UNP), 13,110 pv; and Asirwadam Masilamay Denilrajan (CWC), 4,328 pv.
2005 Presidential Election
Results of the 5th presidential election held on 17 November 2005 for the district:
2008 Provincial Council Election
Results of the 5th Sabaragamuwa provincial council election held on 23 August 2008 for the district:
2010 Presidential Election
Results of the 6th presidential election held on 26 January 2010 for the district:
2010 Parliamentary General Election
Results of the 14th parliamentary election held on 8 April 2010 for the district:
The following candidates were elected:
W. D. J. Senewiratne (UPFA-SLFP), 125,816 preference votes (pv); Pavithra Devi Wanniarachchi (UPFA-SLFP), 110,220 pv; Premalal Jayasekara (UPFA-SLFP), 73,175 pv; Janaka Wakkumbura (UPFA), 70,473 pv; Thalatha Atukorale (UNF-UNP), 64,592 pv; Ranjan Ramanayake (UNF), 59,318 pv; Vasudeva Nanayakkara (UPFA-DLF), 56,493 pv; Thirimadura Ranjith De Soysa (UPFA), 47,147 pv; Sanny Rohana (UPFA), 37,902 pv; and Dunesh Gankanda (UNF-UNP), 34,219 pv. |
17655880 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Plowden | Charles Plowden | Charles Plowden (born at Plowden Hall, Shropshire, 1743; died at Jougne, Doubs, France, 13 June 1821) was an English Jesuit priest, teacher, writer and administrator.
Life
He was a descent of Edmund Plowden, and was raised in a Catholic family. Educated at the College of St Omer, he entered the Society of Jesus in 1759, and was ordained priest at Rome, in 1770.
At the suppression of the Society, in 1773, he was minister of the College of Bruges. The Austro-Belgic government, in its execution of the decree of suppression, kept him imprisoned for some months after the closing of the college. He wrote an account of its destruction.
After his release from confinement, he was for a time at the College of Liège, which the prince-bishop of Liège had offered to the English ex-Jesuits. Returning to England, he became a tutor in the family of Mr. Weld, and chaplain at Lulworth Castle, where he assisted at the consecration of Bishop Carroll, in 1790. He preached the sermon on the occasion, and published an account of the establishment of the new See of Baltimore.
Father Plowden had a large share in the direction of Stonyhurst College, founded in 1794. After the restoration of the Society of England, he was the first master of novices, at Hodder. In 1817, he was appointed Provincial, and at the same time, Rector of Stonyhurst, holding the later office till 1819.
Summoned to Rome for the XXth General Congregation (1820) and election of the Superior General of the Jesuits, he died suddenly in Jougne (France), on his journey homeward, and, through mistaken information to his mission and identity, he was buried with full military honours. His attendant had gathered the information that he had been at Rome in connection with business concerning a "general", and the town authorities, mixing things, concluded that he was a general of the British army, hence the military funeral.
Works
In addition to his many administrative activities and occupations, Plowden was a prolific writer. He was protagonist in the Catholic polemics ahead of the eventual Catholic Relief Bill.
Sommervogel gives a list of twenty-two publications of which he was the author, besides several works in manuscript which have been preserved. He was a lifelong correspondent of Bishop Carroll and wrote a eulogy on the death of his friend in 1815. A large collection of the letters which the interchanged, originals or copies, exists at Stonyhurst and Georgetown College, as also in the Baltimore diocesan archives. |
55784314 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MG%20GT | MG GT | The MG GT is a compact car produced by SAIC Motor under the MG marque.
First generation (2014)
In July 2014, MG extended its offer with a compact sedan called GT, which was developed on the basis of the MG 5 hatchback as its three-box version with a separate body styling. The car has avant-garde body styling, with aggressively shaped headlights, as well as a gently sloping roofline towards the rear, crowned by a one-piece strip of lights extending the entire width of the body. In the passenger compartment, MG applied a more subdued design than in the case of the body, led by a massive central console dominated by a centrally located multimedia system display. It is equipped with an infotainment system, as well as connectivity with 3G, the internet and satellite TV, in addition to screen control, enabling operation via a button panel.
Initially, the GT was offered only with a 154 hp 1.4 L four-cylinder petrol engine, while in 2015, the offer was also expanded by two larger 1.5-liter units with 109 hp and a more powerful, turbocharged engine, developing 129 hp.
Markets
The GT was built for the Chinese market in mind, where its sale began in November 2014. In addition, sales and production from Thailand began in 2015 under the name MG 5, while in 2016, the vehicle was exported to Chile.
The production of GT lasted for 5 years, ending in the first half of 2019. The following year, MG introduced the new compact sedan in the form of the second generation 5.
Second generation (2021)
The second-generation MG GT is a rebadged second-generation MG 5 for the Middle Eastern market. |
57189484 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young%20Woman%20with%20a%20Serpent | Young Woman with a Serpent | Young Woman with a Serpent () is a c. 1885 sculpture by Auguste Rodin, realised in several media. The artist later used the figure in his 1905 Adam and Eve.
Stolen bronze cast
A 1979 bronze cast of the work was stolen from a house in Beverly Hills in 1991 and was missing for two decades until the Comité Rodin, expert of the artist recognized the work in 2010 when a consignor brought it to Christie's to be auctioned. After a four-year legal battle between the insurer and the consignor, negotiations led by the Art Recovery Group resulted in the work being returned. It was subsequently sold at auction for $137,000 on November 13, 2015.
Casts
Another cast from 1988 is exhibited in the Musée Rodin. |
53867000 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo%20Invernizzi | Hugo Invernizzi | Hugo Invernizzi (born January 7, 1993) is a French professional basketball player for SIG Strasbourg of the French LNB Pro A. He stands 196 cm (6’5’’) tall and plays small forward position.
Professional career
Born in Mulhouse, Alsace, Invernizzi attended INSEP, the French National Institute of Sport, expertise, and performance, from 2008 to 2011.
Invernizzi signed his first professional contract with Strasbourg IG in 2011 and made his debut in the French top-flight Pro A during the 2011–12 season.
In 2013, Invernizzi joined STB Le Havre. During his first season in Normandy, he won the 3 points shootout contest of the LNB All-Star Game.
In 2015, Invernizzi joined Nanterre 92. In April 2017, he won the 2016–17 French Basketball Cup, his first title.
On July 23, 2019, he has signed with Limoges CSP of the LNB Pro A. He averaged 10.4 points, 2 assists and 3.6 rebounds per game in the 2019–20 season. On May 31, 2020, he signed an extension with the team until 2022.
On August 10, 2022, he has signed with BC Wolves of the Lithuanian Basketball League.
On January 26, 2023, he signed with Universo Treviso Basket of the LBA.
On July 5, 2023, he signed with SIG Strasbourg of the French LNB Pro A.
National team
Invernizzi played in the 2013 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship in Estonia, averaging 12.7 points, 3.8 rebounds and 3.1 assists a game.
In 2014, 2015 and 2016, he belonged to the France A' team who participated in tournaments in China.
He made his debuts with France national basketball team on June 16, 2016 against Latvia at Palais des Sports de Pau; |
72015301 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20Biodiversity%20Institute | Human Biodiversity Institute | The Human Biodiversity Institute (HBI) refers to a far-right group of scientists, academics, and others associated with pseudoscientific race theories and neo-eugenics. These theories were given the euphemism human biodiversity (HBD). Ideas about human biodiversity that originated in this group have since entered general alt-right discourse.
Origins
The Human Biodiversity Institute was founded by Steve Sailer, a journalist who has written for VDARE, an American far-right political website. Sailer has held numerous explicitly racist views. He has bemoaned a perceived lack of white identity politics, and has blamed this on a Jewish conspiracy. The Southern Poverty Law Center has described Sailer as a white supremacist. Sailer began using the term "human biodiversity" in the mid-1990's. The Human Biodiversity Institute was run by Steve Sailer as a think tank in the late 1990's through the 2000's.
Themes
The framing of "human biodiversity" discourse is meant to confer upon the movement scientific authority, and present it as empirical and rational. On this basis, advocates of HBD wish to advance social policies based on their observations. In a study on white nationalism, the authors describe "human biodiversity" as a movement to "catalog and create hereditarian ideas" about racial differences, and to then distribute them as "red pills" to transform online discourse. "Human biodiversity" materials are used by alt-right proponents to make arguments on 4chan, Reddit, and Twitter. Some proponents of HBD promote it in the alt-right blogosphere.
The "human biodiversity" movement refers to a set of ideas about scientific racism that formed in the 1990's. Sailer developed a concept of "ethnic nepotism", favoring members of one's own group. Sailer took this as a biological imperative that necessitates, "ethnocentrism, clannishness, xenophobia, nationalism, and racism," when applied to the scale of an entire society for "ethnic nepotism".
The Southern Poverty Law Center has also associated the Human Biodiversity Institute with neo-eugenics. In 1999, the Human Biodiversity Institute presented a seminar advocating for genetically modified humans. The seminar was held at the Hudson Institute and was attended by Margaret Thatcher.
Influence
Between 2007 and 2014, terminology used by Stormfront for scientific racism changed from "racialism" and "race realism", to "human biodiversity" (HBD).
The Southern Poverty Law Center has associated "human biodiversity" with the alt-right and white nationalism. The Anti-Defamation League has associated HBD with the alt-right and white supremacy. An April 2017 article in New York Magazine described HBD as a "mainstay" of the alt-right.
"Human biodiversity" was one of the main publishing subjects of Washington Summit Publishers, a white nationalist publishing company run by Richard B. Spencer. Quillette has also published work supporting "human biodiversity", leading to accusations of pseudoscience and eugenics. Contributors who have written about HBD for Quillette include Ben Winegard, Bo Winegard, Brian Boutwell, and John Paul Wright.
"Human biodiversity" has been promoted by Milo Yiannopoulos. It has also been promoted by Stefan Molyneux. HBD influenced Stephen Miller, political advisor to Donald Trump. It also influenced Dominic Cummings, political advisor to Boris Johnson.
Membership
According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, the members of the Human Biodiversity Institute consisted mainly of journalists, academics, and scientists who discussed "differences in race, sex and sexual orientation". By summer 1999, the group consisted of dozens of well-known figures from a variety of different fields. Members of the Human Biodiversity Institute communicated primarily via an invitation-only electronic mailing list. This mailing list was called the "Human Biodiversity Discussion Group" (HBDG). In the early history of the mailing list, Sailer published a roster of members on his website.
In 2003, known members of Human Biodiversity Institute included J. Philippe Rushton, Charles Murray, Kevin MacDonald, Gregory Cochran, J. Michael Bailey, and Ray Blanchard. The HBI also included several journalists who worked to popularize the theories and books of HBI members.
Steven Pinker was an early member of the Human Biodiversity Discussion Group. Pinker also published work by Steve Sailer in 2004, and quoted Sailer on his website. In 2009, Malcolm Gladwell brought attention to Pinker's ties to Steve Sailer, and Sailer's views on race and intelligence, after Pinker cited Sailer. According to a 2021 study on white nationalism by Panofsky et al., political centrists such as Steven Pinker have played a role in legitimizing the ideas of the human biodiversity movement.
The electronic mailing list eventually went defunct, and discourse moved on to right-wing blogs, in which members started writing about subjects such as race, genetics, and intelligence.
Views
Human races
"Human biodiversity" (HBD) discourse presumes that different human races have inherently different physical and mental capabilities. Charles Murray, a member of the Human Biodiversity Institute, was a writer of the 1994 book, The Bell Curve, which argued that African Americans were less intelligent than white Americans. The book argued that innate biological differences made racial equity impossible. They instead advocated for different roles for each race in society. Steve Sailer advocated for similar ideas, espousing different strengths for different races and ethnic groups, and advocating against affirmative action. Marantz describes how this idea combines with ideas about white supremacy:
Advocates of HBD may attempt to portray their views of scientific racism as being completely objective. They may then express sadness about the "reality" of differences in racial intelligence, and the implications of those differences:
Homosexuality
In an August 2003 article, the founder of the Human Biodiversity Institute, Steve Sailer, characterized homosexuality as a "disease" that may be eliminated by parents in the future. HBI member Gregory Cochran has theorized that homosexuality may be caused by a pathogen ("gay germ"). In 2008, J. Michael Bailey, another HBI member, was questioned by bioethicist Alice Dreger on whether he also viewed homosexuality as a "disease" that could be eradicated. Bailey denied that his 2001 paper, "Parental Selection of Children's Sexual Orientation", advocated for eliminating homosexuality. However, he did say that it would be morally acceptable for parents to genetically select heterosexuality over homosexuality for their own children:
According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Steve Sailer has portrayed homosexuality as something that might possibly be "cured", following Gregory Cochran's theories, and has also expressed a lack of concern about the ethics or morality of whether people would "cure" homosexuality.
Transgender people
The Southern Poverty Law Center has noted that many of the early supporters of J. Michael Bailey's book, The Man Who Would Be Queen, were members of the Human Biodiversity Institute. Ray Blanchard, the originator of the theory about transgender women promoted in the book, is also associated with the Human Biodiversity Institute. The book advances the theory by Blanchard that transgender women are men with abnormal paraphilias or sexual orientations (e.g. autogynephilia). In March 2003, Steve Sailer wrote that he was sent a pre-release copy of The Man Who Would Be Queen.
According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Blanchard's autogynephilia theory has since been promoted by anti-LGBT hate groups. These include Family Research Council (FRC), and the American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds). In a May 2018 report, the Southern Poverty Law Center referred to Ray Blanchard as an anti-trans psychologist.
According to a 2020 study reflecting on articles from Bailey and Blanchard, "Bailey and Blanchard's work has long been criticised for perpetuating stereotypes and prejudices against trans women, notably suggesting that LGBQ trans women's primary motivation for transitioning is sexual arousal." The study refers to Blanchard's theory of autogynephilia as a discredited theory.
Wikipedia
In a review of far-right editing on Wikipedia, the Southern Poverty Law Center highlighted "human biodiversity" (HBD) as one set of views that may be promoted by far-right editors: |
41068039 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zagrade%20Point | Zagrade Point | Zagrade Point (, ‘Nos Zagrade’ \'nos za-'gra-de\) is the point on the east side of the entrance to Suregetes Cove on the north coast of Krogh Island in Biscoe Islands, Antarctica.
The point is named after the historical settlement of Zagrade in Southwestern Bulgaria.
Location
Zagrade Point is located at , which is 2.47 km east-northeast of Kuvikal Point and 1.98 km northwest of Burton Point. British mapping in 1976.
Maps
British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 66 66. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, UK, 1976.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated. |
1326216 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartmut%20J%C3%BCrgens | Hartmut Jürgens | Hartmut Jürgens (March 17, 1955 - September 23, 2017) was a German mathematician, born in Bremen, Germany. He received his doctorate in 1983 from the University of Bremen. He has worked in the computer industry, and was the Director of the Dynamical Systems Graphics Laboratory at the University of Bremen. He is the co-author of both Fractals: An Animated Discussion (a video) and Chaos and Fractals: New Frontiers of Science (Springer-Verlag, ) |
1925516 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugby%20Rural%20District | Rugby Rural District | The Rugby Rural District was a former rural district in Warwickshire, England. The district covered the rural areas surrounding the town of Rugby, where the district council was based, but did not include Rugby itself which was administered separately.
The district was created in 1894. In 1932 its boundaries were significantly altered. The district was expanded to include the whole of the abolished Monks Kirby Rural District, parts of the abolished Foleshill Rural District and parts of the abolished Nuneaton Rural District. It also briefly included Bulkington, but in 1938 this merged with the Bedworth Urban District. At the same time it lost some territory as Rugby's town boundaries were expanded.
In 1953, the rural district was the second largest local authority area in Warwickshire, covering 125m2, 80,000 acres (approximately the size of the Isle of Wight). The population of the Rural District in mid-1952 was reported as 21,220, living in around 5,000 houses.
On 1 April 1974 the district was abolished and merged with the Rugby municipal borough (which covered the town of Rugby) to form the present Borough of Rugby.
Parishes
At the time of its abolition in 1974 Rugby RD consisted of the following civil parishes:
Ansty
Binley Woods
Birdingbury
Bourton and Draycote
Brandon and Bretford
Brinklow
Burton Hastings
Church Lawford
Churchover
Clifton upon Dunsmore
Combe Fields
Copston Magna
Cosford
Dunchurch
Easenhall
Frankton
Grandborough
Harborough Magna
King's Newnham (Newnham Regis)
Leamington Hastings
Little Lawford
Long Lawford
Marton
Monks Kirby
Newton and Biggin
Pailton
Princethorpe
Ryton on Dunsmore
Shilton
Stretton Baskerville
Stretton-on-Dunsmore
Stretton-under-Fosse
Thurlaston
Wibtoft
Willey
Willoughby
Withybrook
Wolfhampcote
Wolston
Wolvey |
3822961 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesecundaria | Telesecundaria | Telesecundaria is a system of distance education programs for secondary and high school students created by the government of Mexico and available in rural areas of the country as well as Central America, South America, Canada and the United States via satellite (Solidaridad 1 and Satmex 5).
Background
Telesecundaria was born on the need to service graduates of elementary education in rural areas that were unable to continue their studies for lack of secondary schools in their areas. In 1968 Telesecundaria started at 304 classrooms and a teacher for each one of these in the states of Veracruz, Morelos, Estado de México, Puebla, Tlaxcala, Hidalgo, Oaxaca and the Federal District. The initial number of students was 6 549.
Secundaria general – General studies
Secundaria para trabajadores – for working students
Secundaria tecnológica industrial – industrial technology
Secundaria tecnológica agropecuaria – agricultural technology
Secundaria tecnológica pesquera – fishing technology
Originally, Telesecundaria transmitted black-and-white live lessons through public television channels but nowadays the lessons have been pre-recorded to ensure higher quality, images are in color and transmitted via satellite. Content now includes education on values, good habits, skills and aptitudes. By the end of 1993, Telesecundaria was broadcasting to over 9,000 schools in Mexico, serving almost 600,000 students via satellite through Morelos II. In 1994, Edusat was launched, making use of the more powerful and advanced satellite, (Solidaridad 1) capable of transmitting 24 hours a day and covering more areas.
Service
Each facility has at least one television set, a satellite dish, a set-top box and a low-noise amplifier.
Telesecundaria broadcasts more than 4,000 television programs on channel 11 of the six channels of Edusat (Sistema de Televisión Educativa, "Educational Television System") of the Ministry of Public Education (SEP, Secretaría de Educación Pública) of Mexico to more than 16,000 rural facilities serving more than one million students nationwide. The programs are transmitted daily between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. (Mexico City time) and re-transmitted between 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Monday through Friday. From 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturdays programs pertaining high school education are transmitted. Programming is complemented with general-interest, continuing education, and other shows about traditions and customs of the states of Mexico. For educators, audio visual content on each area of knowledge is provided for them, as well as the Experiencias Compartidas ("Shared Experiences") show.
International expansion
Central America
In 1996, the head of the SEP and the ministers of Education of Central America agreed to start experimental projects of Telesecundarias for every country. Since this year, the following countries in Central America are served by Telesecundaria:
Source Ministry of Public Education of Mexico
United States
There are currently pilot programs available in the states of California, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Oregon and Florida. |
47372741 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solo%20Recordings%20at%20Home | Solo Recordings at Home | Solo Recordings at Home is the fourth studio album by American singer-songwriter and musician Michael Gira. It was released in 2001 through Gira's own record label, Young God Records. The album features Gira's home recordings.
The unreleased track from the home recording sessions were included in the album The Milk of M. Gira: Selected Solo Home Recordings 2001-2010, released in 2011.
Background and music
Solo Recordings at Home is primarily an acoustic album, "placing the emphasis on Gira's voice and guitar only, captured at home via one microphone." Nevertheless, the track "Irish Queen" was roughly recorded during a concert and the fully orchestrated track "God's Servant" was taken directly from the Angels of Light's New Mother (1999). The album also features reworkings of two Swans tracks, "I Remember Who You Are" and "Love Will Save You," from The Burning World (1989) and White Light From the Mouth of Infinity (1991), respectively.
The songs on the album feature lyrics on various topics. The track "Kosinsky" was described as "a fascinating contrast to the lyrical meditation on voyeurism" while the tracks "Surrogate" and "On the Mountain" were described to be "among his bluntest ever."
Critical reception
Allmusic critic Ned Raggett wrote: "In keeping with his post-Swans work, though, Gira's singing balances command with empathy, cracked and tender at once; anyone not taken with his late-'90s singing won't be convinced here, though fans will find it addictive." Raggett further wrote: "His guitar playing similarly can shift on a dime from sudden, brusque runs to gentler, steady fingerpicking, evoking everything from strung out rural blues to Nick Drake's hushed emptiness while still sounding uniquely in his own style."
Track listing
All songs written by Michael Gira.
"What You Were" – 5:36
"All Souls' Rising" – 5:55
"Love Will Save You" – 4:46
"Surrogate" – 5:45
"Kosinsky" – 4:47
"On The Mountain" – 6:31
"Waiting Beside Viragio" – 2:19
"Someone Like Me" – 4:47
"I Remember Who You Are" – 4:57
"Mosquito Coast" – 5:11
"Irish Queen" – 4:41
"God's Servant" – 4:48
"Mary Found John" – 1:13
Personnel
Michael Gira – vocals, guitar, recording, artwork |
53008513 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesonauta%20guyanae | Mesonauta guyanae | Mesonauta guyanae is a species of cichlid fish native to the Essequibo (Guyana) and Rio Negro (Brazil) basins in South America. It reaches a standard length up to . |
39195468 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeak%20the%20Mouse | Squeak the Mouse | Squeak the Mouse is an Italian adult black comedy comic strip and later comic book created by artist Massimo Mattioli. The comic depicts attempts by its title character, the anthropomorphic Squeak the Mouse, to outwit a cat who is chasing him. The comic satirizes cartoon series such as Tom and Jerry, taking the content to extreme levels, which includes gory horror violence and explicit sexual content.
Two issues of a Squeak the Mouse comic book were produced in 1984 and 1992, the first written from the perspective of the cat, who murders the title character, and the second, written from the perspective of Squeak, who murders the cat. Each issue features a zombie plotline and a pornographic section depicting one of the main characters in an orgy with several funny animal women. On April 18, 2019, a third issue was published on a new collection titled Squeak the Mouse: The Trilogy.
Overview
Squeak the Mouse is a parody of the cartoon series, Tom and Jerry. Although the style of the drawing is typical of children comics, Squeak indulges in graphic violent, gore, splatter and pornographic scenes.
The first issue of the series is written from the perspective of the cat, who is aggravated by Squeak the Mouse, and ultimately murders the title character. The cat goes to a party and unsuccessfully attempts to have sex with his girlfriend, and instead sleeps with another girl he meets at the party, Squeak the Mouse returns from the dead as a zombie and murders every one of the guests at the party, until the cat stops the mouse by murdering it with a blender. When the cat returns home, each of the party guests, revived as zombies, attempt to kill him, leading him to kill each of the undead in self-defense. The next day, the cat engages in an orgy with a number of beautiful women, but Squeak the Mouse returns once more and slaughters each of the women, leading the cat to kill Squeak once more before chasing after another mouse. The end of the issue assures readers that Squeak is really dead and will not return.
The second issue, Squeak the Mouse 2, begins with a duck who revives Squeak from the pages of the first Squeak the Mouse comic book. Squeak proceeds to read his own comic, and is horrified by his own murder, and decides to track down the cat and murder him. However, when Squeak confronts the cat at a screening of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, the cat tricks Squeak into feeling sympathy for him, which allows the cat to briefly escape before being murdered by the mouse. As Squeak boards a plane heading to a tropical island, the cat returns as a zombie and crashes the plane, killing all of the passengers except Squeak, who escapes, and swims to the nearest island, where a pair of women awaken him by performing oral sex on Squeak, leading to another orgy sequence. The cat turns up on the island and slaughters the women, and Squeak destroys the cat, leaving only its separated bones, which are found by a horror film-loving child, who brings the remains home and reassembles them. The skeleton cat slaughters the child and his family, and once again goes after Squeak, who finally gets rid of the cat for good, but decides to antagonize another cat.
Publication history
The comic was first published in the underground comics magazine Frigidaire starting from 1982. The stories were later collected in an eponymous volume in 1984 by Éditions Albin Michel and it was initially intended to be an ended series. It had a sequel (Squeak the Mouse 2) published in 1992 also by Éditions Albin Michel and Sefam, Paris. Fantagraphics released all of the stories in a collection on April 12, 2022.
Controversy
On August 1, 1985, New York harbor officials confiscated the comic publication on the grounds that it was pornographic, but a court later overturned that decision. According to Bernd Metz of Catalan Communications, the book's USA publisher, Squeak the Mouse was ruled not obscene "because it failed the third test of the law... the Miller test as it's called... in that it did not exceed the community standards."
Legacy
The comics are considered to be an apparent inspiration for Matt Groening's The Itchy & Scratchy Show. |
29227465 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balageri | Balageri | Balageri is a village in Dharwad district of Karnataka, India.
Demographics
As of the 2011 Census of India there was 1 household in Balageri and a total population of 4 consisting of 3 males and 1 female. There were no children ages 0-6. |
12240866 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynthia%20Ettinger | Cynthia Ettinger | Cynthia Ettinger is an American actress, known for her stage and television work, most notably her appearances on the TV series Carnivàle and in the unaired pilot of the TV series Smallville. She also played a recurring, albeit minor role, as a traveling actress in "Deadwood" on HBO.
Career
Ettinger was originally cast as Martha Kent for Smallville, but during filming everyone realized that she was not right for the role, including Ettinger. She turned to theater jobs, and when the opportunity for Carnivàle came up, she chose that project because of the theater-like experience. Also appeared in the episode “The Parking Garage” in the popular TV series Seinfeld and in the 2000 movie Fail Safe by Stephen Frears.In 2006, Ettinger continued the momentum, landing a ten-episode run on another HBO series: the gritty, irreverent historical drama "Deadwood," where she played Claudia. |
14811885 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budczyce | Budczyce | Budczyce is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Zawonia in Trzebnica County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship in southwestern Poland. It lies approximately north-west of Zawonia, east of Trzebnica, and north-east of the regional capital Wrocław. |
65905136 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Warren%20Rogers | Henry Warren Rogers | Henry Warren Rogers (1831-1915) was an American architect practicing during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Lynn, Massachusetts.
Early life and career
Henry W. Rogers was born November 20, 1831 in Lynn, Massachusetts, to Warren and Elizabeth (Potter) Rogers. He attended the public schools of Lynn and Marshfield, to which town his family moved in 1841. In 1846 he was apprenticed to Isaac Waterman, a shipbuilder of Medford, Massachusetts. In 1853 he instead took up housebuilding, and returned to Lynn in 1855. For some years he was employed as a foreman by Nehemiah Lee. Being responsible for the design of many of the buildings he built, he gradually turned to architecture. In 1879 he formally abandoned carpentry and opened an architect's office in Lynn. By 1882 he had associated himself with his elder son, Hamilton Everett Rogers. After the death of the elder Rogers, Hamilton E. Rogers continued to practice under his father's name until 1917. His own death occurred on December 30, 1920.
Personal life
Rogers was first married to Caroline Augusta Bates (1834-1875) in 1854. She died in 1875, and he remarried in 1880, to Olive Ann Randall (1847-1938) of North Berwick, Maine. Rogers had three children, all with Caroline Augusta: Henrietta Eunice (1855-1919), Hamilton Everett (1857-1920) and Clarence Abel Rogers (1859-1941). Both sons followed him into the architecture profession. Henry Warren Rogers died January 30, 1915.
Rogers was a descendant of one John Rogers, who immigrated to Marshfield, Massachusetts from England in 1635, aboard the Hercules.
Legacy
At least four of Rogers' works have been individually listed on the United States National Register of Historic Places, and others contribute to listed historic districts.
Rogers and his son were responsible for the design of many buildings built after the Great Fire of 1889. Two from this period, the Fabens and Woodbury Buildings, are considered to be the best examples of the Richardsonian Romanesque style in Lynn.
Architectural works |
318346 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huber | Huber | Huber is a German-language surname. It derives from the German word Hube meaning hide, a unit of land a farmer might possess, granting them the status of a free tenant. It is in the top ten most common surnames in the German-speaking world, especially in Austria and Switzerland where it is the surname of approximately 0.3% of the population.
Variants arising from varying dialectal pronunciation of the surname include Hueber, Hüber, Huemer, Humer, Haumer, Huebner and (anglicized) Hoover.
People with the surname Huber
A
Adam Huber (born 1987), American actor and model.
Alexander Huber (born 1968), German climber and mountaineer
Alexander Huber (football) (born 1985), German football player
Alyson Huber (born 1972), Californian legislator elected to the State Assembly in 2008
Anja Huber (born 1983), German skeleton racer
Anke Huber (born 1974), German tennis player
Anthony Huber (born 1994), killed in the Kenosha unrest shooting
B
Berni Huber (born 1967), German alpine skier
Bruno Huber (1930–1999), Swiss astrologer, husband of Louise Huber
C
Cheri Huber (born c. 1944), American independent Soto Zen teacher
Charles M. Huber (born 1956), German politician
Chuck Huber (born 1971), American voice actor
D
Don Huber (born 1957), American soccer (football) forward
E
Elisabeth Huber-Sannwald, Austrian researcher specializing in ecosystem ecology
Erwin Huber (born 1946), German conservative politician
F
François Huber (1750–1831), Swiss naturalist
Franz Josef Huber (1902–1975), German SS general and Generalmajor der Polizei in Austria
G
Gerold Huber (born 1969), German pianist
Gregory Huber (born 1956), American lawyer and Wisconsin Circuit Court Judge
Grischa Huber (1944–2021), German theatre and film actress
Gusti Huber (1914–1993), Austrian-American actress
H
Harold Huber (1909–1959), American character actor of the 1930s/1940s
Herbert Huber (botanist) (1931–2005), German botanist
Herbert Huber (luger), Italian luger in the 1980s
Herbert Huber (skier) (1944–1970), Austrian skier
Hermann J. Huber (1954–2009), German writer and journalist
Herta Huber (1926–2018), German writer and poet
J
Jacques Huber (1867–1914), Swiss-Brazilian botanist
Jessica Huber (born 1970), American speech scientist
Johannes Huber (born 1987), German politician
JoKarl Huber (1902–1996), German artist
Jon Huber (1979–2020), American professional wrestler better known as Brodie Lee and Luke Harper
Jon Huber (born 1981), American baseball pitcher
Justin Huber (born 1982), Australian baseball player
K
Klaus Huber (1924–2017), Swiss composer and academic teacher
Kurt Huber (1893–1943), German professor, executed by the Nazis in 1943
Kurt Huber (tenor) (born 1937), Swiss tenor
L
Larry Huber (born 1950), American television producer, writer, and animator
Lee Huber (1919–2005), American basketball player
Liezel Huber (born 1976), South African tennis player
Liza Huber (born 1975), American television actress
Lotti Huber (1912–1998), German actress
Louise Huber (1930–1999), Swiss astrologer, wife of Bruno Huber
Ludwig Ferdinand Huber (1764–1804), German writer, husband of Therese Huber
M
Max Huber (disambiguation), several people
Michael Huber (disambiguation), several people
N
Nicolaus A. Huber (born 1939), German composer
Norbert Huber (born 1964), Italian luger
O
Oscar E. Huber (1917–2017), American politician, rancher, and farmer
P
Peter J. Huber (born 1934), Swiss statistician
Peter W. Huber (1952–2021), American writer and lawyer
Pierre Antoine François Huber (1775–1832), French general
R
Robert Huber (born 1937), German biochemist
Robert Huber (engineer) (1901–1995), Swiss engineer
Robert Huber (sport shooter) (1878–1946), Finnish sport shooter
Robert J. Huber (1922–2001), U.S. Representative from Michigan
Roi Huber (born 1997), Israeli basketball player
Rupert Huber (born 1967), Austrian composer and musician
S
Sophie Huber (born 1985), French freestyle swimmer
T
Thaddäus Huber (1742–1798), Austrian violinist and composer
Therese Huber (1764–1829), German author
Thomas Huber (born 1966), German climber and mountaineer
Tomáš Huber, Czech footballer
Tytus Maksymilian Huber (1872–1950), Polish mechanical engineer, educator, and scientist
U
Ulrik Huber (1636–1694), Dutch jurist
V
Vernon Huber (1899–1967), 36th Governor of American Samoa
Victor Aimé Huber (1800–1869), German social reformer, travel writer and a literature historian
W
Wilfried Huber (born 1970), Italian luger
William Russel Huber (1903–1982), US Navy sailor, Medal of Honor awardee
Willie Huber (1958–2010), German born professional ice hockey defenceman
Wolf Huber (c. 1485–1553), Austrian painter
Wolfgang Huber (born 1940), German physician and specialist in internal and environmental medicine
Wolfgang Huber (born 1942), German bishop |
41663334 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahriz-e%20Lotfi | Kahriz-e Lotfi | Kahriz-e Lotfi (, also Romanized as Kahrīz-e Loţfī; also known as Loţfī and Lutfi) is a village in Rezvaniyeh Rural District, in the Central District of Tiran and Karvan County, Isfahan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 36, in 12 families. |
31813121 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARHGAP31 | ARHGAP31 | The Rho GTPase activating protein 31 is encoded in humans by the ARHGAP31 gene. It is a Cdc42/Rac1 GTPase regulator.
Function
ARHGAP31 encodes a GTPase-activating protein (GAP). A variety of cellular processes are regulated by Rho GTPases which cycle between an inactive form bound to GDP and an active form bound to GTP. This cycling between inactive and active forms is regulated by guanine nucleotide exchange factors and GAPs. The encoded protein is a GAP shown to regulate two GTPases involved in protein trafficking and cell growth.
Clinical relevance
ARHGAP31 mutations result in a loss of available active Cdc42 and consequently disrupt actin cytoskeletal structures, causing syndromic cutis aplasia and limb anomalies. |
8574032 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20Keay | Jack Keay | John Paul Keay (born 14 June 1960 in Glasgow) is a Scottish former footballer. Keay, a central defender, began his football career as a junior with Celtic, but never played for the first team. He moved to England where he made more than 300 appearances in the Football League, scoring 20 goals in 155 League games for Shrewsbury Town and 9 goals in 156 League games for Wrexham.
Keay joined Derry City in the League of Ireland in July 1986 and achieved status at the Brandywell by helping the club to a historic 'treble' during his captaincy in the 1988–89 season.
Honours
League of Ireland
Derry City F.C. 1988/89
FAI Cup
Derry City F.C. 1989
League of Ireland Cup
Derry City F.C. 1988/89
Player of the Year
Derry City F.C. 1986/87 |
55614130 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biotechnology%20industry%20in%20Boston | Biotechnology industry in Boston | Greater Boston, primarily Boston and Cambridge, is home to more than 1,000 biotechnology companies, ranging from small start-ups to billion-dollar pharmaceutical companies. The many universities in the area give the region a large network of scientists.
The Kendall Square area of Cambridge holds a large concentration of the life science industry, numbering over 120 companies within a mile, and has been described as the "center of the nation’s biotechnology industry". The Longwood area of Boston, about two miles from Kendall Square, is also home to many biomedical research companies.
History
The biotechnology industry in Boston dates back to the 1970s, when genetic engineering was developing. Biogen was the first company in Boston to focus on biotechnology.
In 2008, the governor of Massachusetts announced the Massachusetts Life Sciences Act, promising $1 billion to further the development of the biotech industry. Massachusetts is among the top states for biotech jobs.
In 2016, venture investment in Massachusetts biopharma companies was $2.9 billion, and more than half of the biotech companies in the state receiving venture capital were located in Cambridge. When Cambridge and Boston were considered together, they received more than 80% of the funding in the state. Seven teaching hospitals are located in Boston, contributing to the research efforts. Five of the top six NIH-funded independent hospitals in the United States are located in Boston. In September 2023, JLL released a report that found that real estate demand for biotechnology laboratory space nationally and in the Greater Boston area and San Francisco Bay Area specifically were slowing during 2021–2023 inflation surge due to declining venture capital financing for life science startup companies and rising interest rates following a building boom that began prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. In May 2022, a conference attended by Massachusetts U.S. Senator Ed Markey, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker, U.S. Representative Richard Neal from Massachusetts's 1st congressional district, and University of Massachusetts System President Marty Meehan was held at the UMass Club to launch a bid to have the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services locate the headquarters of the recently created Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) in the Greater Boston area. In September 2023, ARPA-H announced that one of its three headquarters would be located in Cambridge.
Local industry
Academic institutes
Broad Institute
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering
Mass General Research Institute
Biotechnology companies
Abcam
Addgene
Biogen
Boston Scientific
Conagen
Foundation Medicine
Genzyme
ImmunoGen
Intarcia Therapeutics
Moderna Therapeutics
NovoBiotic Pharmaceuticals
pSivida
Sage Therapeutics
Thrombolytic Science International
Thermo Fisher Scientific
Vaxess Technologies
Pharmaceutical companies
Eli Lilly & Co.
Merck & Co.
Acceleron Pharma
Akebia Therapeutics
Aderis Pharmaceuticals
Agios Pharmaceuticals
Alkermes
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals
Amgen
Alzheon
Deciphera Pharmaceuticals
Editas Medicine
Intellia Therapeutics
Ipsen
Ironwood Pharmaceuticals
Merrimack Pharmaceuticals
Novartis
Pfizer
Sanofi
Sarepta Therapeutics
Takeda Pharmaceuticals
Ultragenyx
Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Other related companies
Atlas Venture
Cytel
Fast Track Initiative
IDDI
LabCentral
Massachusetts Biotechnology Council (MassBio) |
71788979 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job%2030 | Job 30 | Job 30 is the 30th chapter of the Book of Job in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. The book is anonymous; most scholars believe it was written around 6th century BCE. This chapter records the speech of Job, which belongs to the Dialogue section of the book, comprising Job 3:1–31:40.
Text
The original text is written in Hebrew language. This chapter is divided into 31 verses.
Textual witnesses
Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter in Hebrew are of the Masoretic Text, which includes the Aleppo Codex (10th century), and Codex Leningradensis (1008).
There is also a translation into Koine Greek known as the Septuagint, made in the last few centuries BC; some extant ancient manuscripts of this version include Codex Vaticanus (B; B; 4th century), Codex Sinaiticus (S; BHK: S; 4th century), and Codex Alexandrinus (A; A; 5th century).
Analysis
The structure of the book is as follows:
The Prologue (chapters 1–2)
The Dialogue (chapters 3–31)
The Verdicts (32:1–42:6)
The Epilogue (42:7–17)
Within the structure, chapter 30 is grouped into the Dialogue section with the following outline:
Job's Self-Curse and Self-Lament (3:1–26)
Round One (4:1–14:22)
Round Two (15:1–21:34)
Round Three (22:1–27:23)
Interlude – A Poem on Wisdom (28:1–28)
Job's Summing Up (29:1–31:40)
Job's Former Prosperity (29:1–25)
Job's Former Blessings (29:1–6)
Job's Former Honor (29:7–10)
Job's Former Role in Administering Justice (29:11–17)
Job's Expectation of Ongoing Peace (29:18–20)
Job's Prominence in the Community (29:21–25)
Job's Present Suffering (30:1–31)
How Job Would Have Viewed His Mockers (30:1–8)
The Attacks of His Enemies (30:9–15)
God Is Causing His Present Sufferings (30:16–19)
Accusing God (30:20–23)
Withdrawing into Despair (30:24–31)
Job's Final Defense (31:1–40)
His Rejection of Lust (31:1–4)
His Denial of Falsehood and Deceit (31:5–8)
His Avoidance of Adultery (31:9–12)
His Care for His Servants (31:13–15)
His Righteousness in Dealing with the Poor and Marginalized (31:16–23)
His Refusal to Worship Money or Other Gods (31:24–28)
Not Guilty of a Variety of Wrongs (31:29–34)
The Call for God to Answer (31:35–37)
His Right Treatment of the Land (31:38–40)
The Dialogue section is composed in the format of poetry with distinctive syntax and grammar. At the end of the Dialogue, Job sums up his speech in a comprehensive review (chapters 29–31), with Job 29 describes Job's former prosperity, Job 30 focuses on Job's current suffering and Job 31 outlines Job's final defense. The whole part is framed by Job's longing for a restored relationship with God (Job 29:2) and the legal challenge to God (Job 31:35–27). Chapter 30 describes Job's suffering after his world was turned upside down (in stark contrast with chapter 29), from enjoying "the respect of the most respectable" (Job 29:21–25) to undergo "the contempt of the most contemptible" (Job 30:1, 9–12). Job complains to God directly about his condition as he believes God determines all aspects of his life (verses 16–23), before withdrawing in despair that no one, not even God, has shown him mercy or care (verses 24–31).
Job speaks of the attack of mockers (30:1–15)
The first part of the section describes Job's mockers from Job's point-of-view (verses 2–8. With the recurrence of "and now" (verse 9; cf. "but now" in verse 1), Job returns to the complaint about the treatment of him by his "enemies", who include the outcasts of the community. The attacks are depicted as overwhelming in its severity and persistence.
Verse 1
[Job said:] "But now those who are younger than I mock me,
whose fathers I disdained to put with the dogs of my flock."
"But now": gives a contrast between Job's past and present reality.
"Younger": literally in Hebrew: "of fewer days"
The last statement means that Job did not think highly enough of their father to put them with the dogs.
Job shows despair of God's treatment to him (30:16–31)
In this section Job reiterates his conviction that God is in total control of his life, so he complains that he was not given mercy by God. Job hopes for restoration ("good") but only faces disaster ("evil"), so he can only see bleak pictures of his future life.
Verse 31
[Job said:] "My harp is turned to mourning,
and my flute to the voice of those who weep."
The mention of the musical instruments may parallel with the naming of jackals and owls in verse 29 which are known for emitting screeching sounds (cf. Micah 1:8), instead of life-enhancing tones like lyre (harp) and pipes (flute). |
2670468 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakin%E2%80%93West%20reaction | Dakin–West reaction | The Dakin–West reaction is a chemical reaction that transforms an amino-acid into a keto-amide using an acid anhydride and a base, typically pyridine. It is named for Henry Drysdale Dakin (1880–1952) and Randolph West (1890–1949). In 2016 Schreiner and coworkers reported the first asymmetric variant of this reaction employing short oligopeptides as catalysts.
With pyridine as a base and solvent, refluxing conditions are required. However, with the addition of 4-dimethylaminopyridine (DMAP) as a catalyst, the reaction can take place at room temperature.
With some acids, this reaction can take place even in the absence of an α-amino group.
This reaction should not be confused with the Dakin reaction.
Reaction mechanism
The reaction mechanism involves the acylation and activation of the acid 1 to the mixed anhydride 3. The amide will serve as a nucleophile for the cyclization forming the azlactone 4. Deprotonation and acylation of the azlactone forms the key carbon-carbon bond. Subsequent ring-opening of 6 and decarboxylation give the final keto-amide product.
General ketone synthesis
Modern variations on the Dakin–West reaction permit many enolizable carboxylic acids – not merely amino acids – to be converted to their corresponding methyl ketones. For example, β-aryl carboxylic acids can be efficiently converted to β-aryl ketones by treatment of an acetic anhydride solution of the acid with catalytic N-methylimidazole. This reactivity is attributed in part to generation of acetylimidazolium, a powerful cationic acetylating agent, in situ. |
130642 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porter%2C%20Oklahoma | Porter, Oklahoma | Porter is a town in Wagoner County, Oklahoma, United States. It promotes itself as "The Peach Capital of Oklahoma." The population was 566 at the 2010 census, a loss of 1.4 percent, compared to 574 at the 2000 census.
Geography
Porter is located at (35.867448, -95.521818).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all land.
Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there were 574 people, 229 households, and 160 families residing in the town. The population density was . There were 253 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the town was 81.36% White, 3.83% African American, 9.58% Native American, 0.35% from other races, and 4.88% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.05% of the population.
There were 229 households, out of which 34.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 51.1% were married couples living together, 15.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 30.1% were non-families. 28.4% of all households were made up of individuals, and 13.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.51 and the average family size was 3.09.
In the town, the population was spread out, with 31.5% under the age of 18, 8.2% from 18 to 24, 25.6% from 25 to 44, 20.7% from 45 to 64, and 13.9% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 34 years. For every 100 females, there were 90.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 81.1 males.
The median income for a household in the town was $21,012, and the median income for a family was $23,875. Males had a median income of $23,750 versus $16,875 for females. The per capita income for the town was $10,718. About 16.1% of families and 19.7% of the population were below the poverty line, including 20.7% of those under age 18 and 38.0% of those age 65 or over.
Education
Students are zoned to Porter Consolidated Schools. |
1946092 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagens%20industri | Dagens industri | Dagens industri (Di) is a financial newspaper in tabloid format published in Stockholm, Sweden.
History and profile
Dagens industri was founded in 1976 with two issues per week. In 1983 it increased its periodicity to five issues per week and to six in 1990. It has since started affiliate newspapers in Austria, Estonia (Äripäev), Latvia (), Lithuania (Verslo žinios), Poland (Puls Biznesu), Russia (Delovoy Peterburg), Scotland and Slovenia (Poslovni dnevnik Finance). Dagens Industri is owned by the Swedish family-owned media group Bonnier AB and is published in tabloid format.
The stated position of the editorial page is independent liberal-conservative. The newspaper's online edition, di.se, has been voted as Sweden's "best economics online site" 20 years in a row between 1999 and 2019, in a competition held by the PR-firm Hallvarsson & Halvarsson.
In January 2016, former Managing Editor Lotta Edling succeeded Peter Fellman as the editor-in-chief of Dagens industri. Fellman returned as editor-in-chief in August 2018.
Circulation
The 1983 circulation of Dagens industri was 30,000 copies. Its circulation was 100,000 copies in 2000. It was 115,000 copies in 2003. The paper had a circulation of 117,500 copies on weekdays in 2005. Its circulation was 101,700 copies in 2010.
According to the media survey Orvesto, Dagens industri had 328,000 daily readers of their printed issue during the beginning of 2017.
In March 2020, Dagens industri reached 100,000 paying subscribers, across the printed issue and online edition. |
25900206 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apotoforma | Apotoforma | Apotoforma is a genus of moths belonging to the subfamily Tortricinae of the family Tortricidae.
Species
Apotoforma apatela (Walsingham, 1914)
Apotoforma cimelia (Diakonoff, 1960)
Apotoforma cydna Razowski, 1993
Apotoforma dolosa (Walsingham, 1914)
Apotoforma epacticta Razowski & Becker, 1984
Apotoforma fustigera Razowski, 1986
Apotoforma hodgesi Razowski, 1993
Apotoforma jamaicana Razowski, 1964
Apotoforma kakamegae Razowski, 2012
Apotoforma mayumbeana Razowski, 2012
Apotoforma monochroma (Walsingham, 1897)
Apotoforma negans (Walsingham, 1897)
Apotoforma ptygma Razowski, 1993
Apotoforma rotundipennis (Walsingham, 1897)
Apotoforma smaragdina Bippus, 2020
Apotoforma uncifera Razowski, 1964
Apotoforma viridans Razowski & Becker, 2003 |
21442885 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mule%20Bone | Mule Bone | Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life is a 1930 play by American authors Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston. The process of writing the play led Hughes and Hurston, who had been close friends, to sever their relationship. Mule Bone was not staged until 1991, when it was produced in New York City by the Lincoln Center Theater.
Characters
Jim Weston A guitarist and Methodist.
Dave Carter A dancer and Baptist. He is Jim's best friend.
Daisy Taylor A domestic servant and Methodist.
Joe Clarke The mayor, a Methodist.
Elder Simms Methodist minister.
Elder Childers Baptist minister.
Plot synopsis
The play begins in Eatonville, Florida, on a Saturday afternoon with Jim and Dave fighting for Daisy's affection. The two men come to blows, and Jim picks up a hock bone from a mule and knocks Dave out. Jim is arrested and held for trial in Joe Clarke's barn.
On Monday, the trial begins in the Macedonia Baptist Church. The townspeople are divided along religious lines: Jim's Methodist supporters sit on one side of the church, Dave's Baptist supporters on the other. The issue to be decided at the trial is whether or not Jim has committed a crime. Jim admits he hit Dave but denies it was a crime. Elder Simms argues on Jim's behalf that a weapon is necessary to commit a crime, and nowhere in the Bible does it say a mule bone is a weapon. Elder Childers, representing Dave, says Samson used a donkey's jawbone to kill 3,000 men (citing Judges 18:18), so the hock bone of a mule must be even more powerful. Joe Clarke declares Jim guilty and banishes him from town for two years.
Act III takes place some time later, with Daisy encountering Jim outside of town. She tells him she's been worried about him, but he's skeptical. She demonstrates the sincerity of her affection and Dave comes upon the couple. The two men engage in a war of words to try to show which of them loves Daisy more. The contest ends when it becomes clear that Daisy expects her man to work for the white people who employ her. Jim and Dave are reconciled, and neither remains interested in courting Daisy. The two men return to Eatonville.
Writing Mule Bone
Hughes and Hurston began writing Mule Bone in March 1930. They wanted to write a comedy about African-American life that didn't consist of racial stereotypes. They decided to base the plot on a folktale which Hurston had collected in Florida during one of her anthropological field trips. The two writers dictated their work to Louise Thompson, who typed it.
Their work was almost complete in June, when Hurston went away for the summer. She took her notes and said she would return in the fall, and they could finish the play. When Hurston came back, she would not return telephone calls from Hughes. She felt he wanted Thompson to be considered a third collaborator in the project, a proposal to which she strongly objected.
Concurrently, Hughes was in the process of severing his relationship with their common literary patron, Charlotte Osgood Mason (Mrs. Rufus Osgood Mason). Reviewers have conjectured that Hurston may have been trying to protect her own relationship with Mason by shunning Hughes.
Hurston submitted Mule Bone for copyright in October 1930, listing herself as the only author. In January 1931, Hughes learned that a copy of Mule Bone, bearing only Hurston's name, had been sent to the Gilpin Players, an all-black theater company in Cleveland, for their consideration. Hurston told Hughes that she had not sent them the play, which was true, but Hughes was furious. Hurston had sent Mule Bone to Carl Van Vechten, who sent it on to the Gilpin Players without her knowledge. Hughes sent a copy to apply for copyright under both their names.
In the meantime, the Gilpin Players wanted to stage the play. The work was still somewhat rough, but Hughes was in Cleveland, and he offered to help rewrite portions of the play. Hurston sent a telegram advising that she refused to allow the production. A day later, she sent another telegram authorizing the production on the condition that she be allowed to work with Hughes on changes. That same day, Hughes received a letter from Hurston saying that no part of the play had been written by him.
In light of all the off-stage drama, the Gilpin Players decided not to proceed with their production. The copy of Mule Bone in the Langston Hughes papers at Yale University has a hand-written notation by Hughes: "This play was never done because the authors fell out."
1991 production
Mule Bone was produced for the first time in 1991 by the Lincoln Center Theater, more than 60 years after it was written. It opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on Broadway on February 14, 1991, to generally negative reviews.
Reviewing Mule Bone for The New York Times, Frank Rich wrote that it was "an evening that can most kindly be described as innocuous". He described it as a "broad, often bland quasi-musical". Also writing in The New York Times, David Richards said of Mule Bone: "it's just not a very good play." Both critics suggested the play might have been much better had Hughes and Hurston finished their collaboration.
The production closed on April 14, 1991, after 68 performances. |
37677068 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Calver | Edward Calver | Edward Calver (fl. 1649) was an English poet, said to be a lay Puritan. Little is recorded of his life.
Works
Calver's works include:
Passion and Discretion, in Youth and Age, London, 1641. The work is divided into two books, the second of which has a prose epistle to his friend and kinsman John Strut. The work contains moral reflections on the passions, and was illustrated by Peter Stent.
Divine Passions, piously and pathetically expressed, in three books, London, 1643.
Englands Sad Posture; or, A true Description of the present Estate of poore distressed England, and of the lamentable Condition of these distracted times, since the beginning of this Civill and unnaturall Warr. Presented to the Right Honourable, Pious, and Valiant Edward Earle of Manchester, London, 1644, With portraits of the Earl of Manchester, engraved by Thomas Cross, and of the author, engraved by Hollar.
Calvers Royal Vision; with his most humble addresses to his majesties royall person, in verse, London, 1648.
Englands Fortresse, exemplified in the most renowned and victorious, his Excellency the Lord Fairfax. Humbly presented unto his Excellency by E. C., a lover of peace, a eulogy in verse, London, 1648.
Zion's thankfull Echoes from the Clifts of Ireland. Of the little Church of Christ in Ireland, warbling out the humble and gratefull addresses to her elder sister in England. And in particular to the Parliament, to his Excellency, and to his Army, or that part assigned to her assistance, now in her low, yet hopeful condition, London, 1649. |
50439640 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHGML-FM | XHGML-FM | XHGML-FM is a radio station on 92.1 FM in Guamúchil, Sinaloa, Mexico. It is owned by Grupo Chávez Radio and carries its La Maxi grupera format.
History
XHGML-FM received its concession on October 15, 1990. It was owned by Rutilio Blancarte Díaz and sold to Grupo Chávez in 2006.
The station was affiliated with Ke Buena until 2021 when Grupo Chávez Radio leased XHREV-FM in Los Mochis and XHGML to Roque Mascareño Chávez—grandson of the founder of Chávez Radio—for his Vibra Radio venture, which had also purchased XHVQ-FM in Culiacán and XHMAT-FM in Mazatlán.
On September 24, 2022, after Vibra Radio won a new station (XHCCCI-FM 95.1) in the IFT-8 radio station auction, XHGML changed to the La Maxi format, based on XHMAX-FM 102.5 in Los Mochis. |