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76497493 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024%20Tuva%20Great%20Khural%20election | 2024 Tuva Great Khural election | The 2024 Great Khural of the Republic of Tuva election will take place on 8 September 2024, on common election day. All 32 seats in the Great Khural will be up for reelection.
Electoral system
Under current election laws, the Great Khural is elected for a term of five years, with parallel voting. 16 seats are elected by party-list proportional representation with a 5% electoral threshold, with the other half elected in 16 single-member constituencies by first-past-the-post voting. Seats in the proportional part are allocated using the Imperiali quota, modified to ensure that every party list, which passes the threshold, receives at least one mandate.
Candidates
Party lists
To register regional lists of candidates, parties need to collect 0.5% of signatures of all registered voters in Tuva.
The following parties were relieved from the necessity to collect signatures:
United Russia
Communist Party of the Russian Federation
A Just Russia — Patriots — For Truth
Liberal Democratic Party of Russia
New People
Single-mandate constituencies
16 single-mandate constituencies were formed in Tuva. To register candidates in single-mandate constituencies need to collect 3% of signatures of registered voters in the constituency.
See also
2024 Russian elections
References
Tuva
Politics of Tuva
Regional legislative elections in Russia |
76497500 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcophagus%20of%20Princess%20Olga | Sarcophagus of Princess Olga | The sarcophagus of Princess Olga from the Tithe Church is a carved slate sarcophagus from the 11th century, found during excavations of the Tithe Church in Kyiv in 1826. Kept in the St. Sophia Cathedral. Some researchers believe that Princess Olga, who is known to have been reburied in the Church of the Tithes by her grandson Prince Vladimir around 1007, was buried there. The sarcophagus is exhibited in Sofia of Kyiv as the “Sarcophagus of Princess Olga”. However, this attribution is questioned by most researchers, although the possibility that Princess Olga could have been buried in the sarcophagus is not completely ruled out.
The sarcophagus is covered with detailed carvings in the Byzantine style, similar to those found on the marble sarcophagus of Yaroslav the Wise and on the slate slabs of the choir of St. Sophia Cathedral.
Description
The sarcophagus is made of seven slabs of red slate (pyrophyllite slate), 4 cm thick, probably mined near Ovruch. The plates are connected internally by two iron brackets. The shape of the lower part is a rectangular parallelepiped, and the upper part (lid) is gable. The length of the sarcophagus is 198 cm, width 60 cm, height 96 cm.
The composition of the sarcophagus is like a house, made of seven individual slabs fastened together, covered with a gable roof. The relief treatment of its sides is different: one longitudinal side, apparently intended to be moved towards the wall, is decorated with only six identical simple crosses with trapezoidally expanded ends of the branches. Three of them are on the half of the lid and three, respectively, on the side wall. The front side of the sarcophagus is richly decorated with relief, as is the half of the lid covering it. Three crosses and three cypress trees alternate on the wall, placed in six identical spans of the arcature belt. There are four rosettes on the lid, connected by wires to each other and to the frame. The weaving tape has a wide central roll and is profiled along the edges with deep grooves. The end walls of the sarcophagus are decorated with a flourished cross and a cross “on a sphere” of the same shape. Thus, the sarcophagus is an excellent example of wickerwork from the Middle Byzantine period.
Discovery and exploration
The sarcophagus was first found in 1826 during excavations conducted by architect Nikolai Efimov. It was located outside the main foundation of the Church of the Tithes at the northern wall between the lysens, walled up on the right side of the entrance to the 12th-century plinthic tomb. The sarcophagus was studied in more detail during repeated excavations by Dmitry Mileev in 1908 (in the interim, the sarcophagus remained buried at the discovery site).
The sarcophagus contained a preserved complete skeleton, on which, according to Efimov's initial report, there were the remains of women's clothing: a brocade bedspread and women's shoes. A 1908 study revealed that the skeleton was in poor condition, it was reported that the remains of clothing and leather from boots were then stored on it, and the presence of traces of purple oxides on the bones indicate that metal objects were not preserved. The sex of the buried person was not clearly established for the skeleton, although the relatively small size indicated a woman or teenager.
After Mileev's excavations, the sarcophagus was filled up again. In 1918, it was excavated for the third time and moved to the Historical Museum. Later, the sarcophagus was moved to St. Sophia Cathedral.
Dating
Researchers date the sarcophagus mainly to the beginning or the first half of the 11th century, but there are also hypotheses regarding the 10th or 12th century.
The carving is made in the same Byzantine style as on the marble sarcophagus of Yaroslav the Wise, in particular similar images of cypress trees and crosses are used. This type of decoration is common in Byzantine reliefs from the 11th century. A. N. Grabar noted that similar decoration (in particular, rows of arches) is found on some sarcophagi depicted in the miniatures of the Minology of Basil II, and associated the slate sarcofan, like the sarcophagus of Yaroslav the Wise, as an example of Constantinople sculpture of the first third of the 11th century.
According to N. E. Makarenko, the difference in the design of the walls indicates that the sarcophagus was made by two masters at the end of the 10th-11th centuries in different manners and is the result of Byzantine influence coming through the Balkans. V. G. Putsko agrees with him, believing that at least two craftsmen worked on the sarcophagus. But he explains the difference in decor by the fact that the masters did not copy entire compositional schemes, but only individual elements. M. K. Karger believes that by the 11th century there were local stone-cutters in Kiev who made sarcophagi for the Kyiv nobility. “Among them, along with smooth-walled ones, sarcophagi are also known, completely covered with bas-relief carvings.”
Although the carving motifs on the sarcophagus are traditional for Byzantine sculpture of the 11th century, they are also found on monuments of the 12th-13th centuries, for example, on reliefs from Smyrna from the late 11th-12th centuries or Thessalonica from the 12th-13th centuries. This extends the dating of the slate sarcophagus to the 11th-12th centuries.
Attribution
The Church of the Tithes was built as a cathedral at the princely court and from the very beginning became the grand ducal tomb. Vladimir moved the tomb of Princess Olga to the church, then in 1011 one of his wives, the Byzantine Anna, was buried there, and in 1015 Vladimir himself was buried next to her. In 1078, the coffin of Prince Izyaslav Yaroslavich was placed in the Tithe Church. In addition, in 1044, Yaroslav the Wise posthumously baptized his uncles, princes Yaropolk and Oleg Svyatoslavich, and moved their burials to the Tithe Church.
The chronicles mention only two women buried in the Church of the Tithes—Princesses Olga (1007) and Anna (1011). Anna, like Vladimir, was buried in a marble sarcophagus, but there was no mention of Olga's sarcophagus. Therefore, immediately after its discovery, the slate sarcophagus began to be attributed to Princess Olga. Archaeological studies of the Church of the Tithes revealed a large number of fragments of at least one, completely destroyed, marble monolithic sarcophagus, which in shape, size and carving was very similar to the sarcophagus of Yaroslav the Wise in the St. Sophia Cathedral. This confirms that there were marble sarcophagi in the Church of the Tithes, as the chronicles report, and at least Prince Vladimir was buried in such a sarcophagus, which means that the reports of the burial of Princess Anna in a marble sarcophagus are plausible. That is, it is unlikely that the slate sarcophagus from the Church of the Tithes could have belonged to Princess Anna.
However, most researchers believe that the slate sarcophagus was discovered in its original location. Therefore, it is unlikely that Princess Olga could have been buried outside the Tithe Church near its wall, instead of being buried inside the temple. The appearance of this sarcophagus does not coincide with the chronicle description of the sarcophagus of Princess Olga, according to which there was a window in the upper part of the sarcophagus through which the body of the princess could be seen. However, even if we accept the chronicle description of the sarcophagus as accurate, this does not exclude the possibility of reburying the princess in another sarcophagus or changing the lid slab.
In 1824, Kondrat Lokhvitsky, a rival of Efimov, was the first to attempt to excavate the Church of the Tithes. Among other things, he found three slate sarcophagi, but their further fate is unknown. Also on the territory of the church, in addition to fragments of a marble sarcophagus, fragments of at least five slate ones were found. Not all burials of the Church of the Tithes were mentioned in the chronicles, and perhaps this was one of such burials. It is also not completely ruled out that the skeleton could have been male, and the remains of clothing and shoes were mistakenly interpreted as female. In general, the question of the attribution of the sarcophagus remains unresolved, but it is accepted that a member of the family of Kyiv princes was buried in it.
References
Kyiv
Sarcophagi |
76497508 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory%20palace%20%28disambiguation%29 | Memory palace (disambiguation) | The memory palace is a common term for the memory recall technique method of loci. It may also refer to:
Memory Palace: Vernacular Culture in the Digital Age, a documentary website from Clarke Mackey
Memory Palace, a novella by Hari Kunzru
The associated exhibition at London's Victoria and Albert museum
Memory Palace (2008 album), an album from Scottish musicians Paul Haig and Billy Mackenzie
Memory Palace (2024 album), the forthcoming fifth album from progressive metal band Intervals
Memory Palace, a track on the album Coma Ecliptic from metalcore band Between the Buried and Me
Memory Palace, a track on the album Automatic (Mildlife album) from Australian psychedelic jazz fusion group, Mildlife.
Memory Palace, a 1990 flute composition by Elizabeth Brown
"Memory Palace", a 1992 performance show featuring La Fura dels Baus, with text by William Gibson
The Memory Palace, a historical podcast hosted by Nate DiMeo
The Memory Palace, a clarinet–cello–piano trio by Ann Callaway
The Memory Palace, a 2011 baritone and piano work by Gabriel Kahane |
76497514 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burial%20Stone | Burial Stone | A Burial stone is a method of blocking burial caves and other narrow openings
Blocking stones in burial caves
The stone's purpose is to prevent from unwanted visitors and animals enterring the burial system.
In the Land of Israel, square blocking stones are common in burial systems from the First Temple period, adapted as a cork for the opening of the rock-cut tomb system. Even when the blocking stone is not present in the area, it is visible that the burisal cave was sealed with a stone by the chippings of the edge of the cave opening. Burial caves of this type can be seen on the slopes of Kfar Shiloh, in front of the City of David.
In Second Temple period burial systems, round blocking stones that move on a rail and seal the opening, can be found. The stone was intencially large and heavy, it needed a joint effort of several people to move it, making it difficult for grave robbers and vagabonds opening or breaking in. Tombs with such blocking stones can be found in the Hurvat Midras, in a preserved burial cave on the "Jo'ara road" (6954), near its intersection with road 66 and in the Tombs of the Kings in Jerusalem. There are common legends about special mechanisms for rolling the heavy blocking stones, but no evidence of such mechanisms has been found.
Apart from a physical barrier preventing the entry of men and pests, the blocking stone had another purpose that was to prevent ṭumah (impuriity) exiting the cave. The Mishnah, Tractate Oholot, Chapter 15, Mishniyot 8 - 9 teaches that various objects can be used as a blocking stone in order to prevent impurity from leaving, but the main advantage of the stone is that it does not receive ṭumah, (see also Mishna Torah to Rambam, Book of Taharah, Laws of Dead Impurity, Chapter 6).
Blocking stones for security purposes
Evidence of the use of blocking stones for security purposes can be found during the Roman period in the Land of Israel. During the Bar Kokhba revolt, blocking stones were used to seal the rebels' hiding systems.
In many excavation sites in the Land of Israel, especially sites in the mountain area from the Byzantine period, large rolling stones and rails for rolling them were discovered at the entrances of public buildings (such as synagogues). The courtyard of the building was surrounded by a solid wall and had a single and relatively narrow opening. At the opening threshold a rail was installed and on the sides of the opening niches were designed in the wall and in them was placed the blocking stone. This made it possible to safely close the place when not in use and store valuables inside. Only a joint effort could open the building's blocking stone, this prevented a single man enterring the place. It also made it possible to create a safe gathering place for the settlements' population, who could escape to a public house and shut themselves inside fortifying themselves against enemies.
References
Catacombs
Webarchive template wayback links
Jewish burial
Israel
Bronze Age |
76497528 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024%20Khabarovsk%20Krai%20Legislative%20Duma%20election | 2024 Khabarovsk Krai Legislative Duma election | The 2024 Legislative Duma of Khabarovsk Krai election will take place on 8 September 2024, on common election day. All 36 seats in the Legislative Duma will be up for reelection.
Electoral system
Under current election laws, the Legislative Duma is elected for a term of five years, with parallel voting. 12 seats are elected by party-list proportional representation with a 5% electoral threshold, with the other half elected in 24 single-member constituencies by first-past-the-post voting. Seats in the proportional part are allocated using the Imperiali quota, modified to ensure that every party list, which passes the threshold, receives at least one mandate.
Candidates
Party lists
To register regional lists of candidates, parties need to collect 0.5% of signatures of all registered voters in Khabarovsk Krai.
The following parties were relieved from the necessity to collect signatures:
United Russia
Communist Party of the Russian Federation
A Just Russia — Patriots — For Truth
Liberal Democratic Party of Russia
New People
Communists of Russia
Single-mandate constituencies
39 single-mandate constituencies were formed in Khabarovsk Krai. To register candidates in single-mandate constituencies need to collect 3% of signatures of registered voters in the constituency.
See also
2024 Russian elections
References
Khabarovsk Krai
Politics of Khabarovsk Krai
Regional legislative elections in Russia |
76497531 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024%20IIHF%20Women%27s%20World%20Championship%20rosters | 2024 IIHF Women's World Championship rosters | Each team's roster consisted of at least 15 skaters (forwards, and defencemen) and two goaltenders, and at most 20 skaters and three goaltenders. All ten participating nations, through the confirmation of their respective national associations, had to submit a roster by the first IIHF directorate.
Ages are as of 3 April 2024, the first day of the tournament.
Group A
Canada
The roster was announced on 7 March 2024.
Czechia
The roster was announced on 13 March 2024.
Head coach: Carla MacLeod
Finland
The roster was announced on 11 March 2024.
Head coach: Juuso Toivola
Switzerland
The roster was announced on 5 March 2024.
Head coach: Colin Muller
United States
The roster was announced on 31 March 2024.
Head coach: John Wroblewski
Group B
China
Denmark
The roster was announced on 11 March 2024.
Head coach: Björn Edlund
Germany
The roster was announced on 22 March 2024.
Head coach: Jeff MacLeod
Japan
The roster was announced on 21 March 2024.
Head coach: Yuji Iizuka
Sweden
The roster was announced on 21 March 2024.
Head coach: Ulf Lundberg
References
External links
Official website
rosters
IIHF Women's World Championship rosters |
76497538 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024%20in%20korfball | 2024 in korfball | This article lists the main korfball events and their results for 2024. This includes international championships and league competitions.
Beach korfball
World championships
April 26–28: 2024 World Beach Korfball Championship in Pattaya
Korfball
International competitions
March 1 – 5: 2024 IKF Asia U19, U16 & U14 Korfball4 Championship in Kuala Lumpur
March 29 – 31: 2024 IKF U19 (Open) European Korfball Championship in Vilanova i la Geltrú
July 6 – 13: 2024 IKF U21 World Korfball Championship in Kemer
July 29 – 30: 2024 U17 Korfball World Cup in Eindhoven
Club competitions
January 18 – 20: 2024 IKF Korfball Champions League Satellite Final in Antalya
Winners: Schweriner KC
January 26 – 28: 2024 IKF Korfball Champions League Challenger Final in Papendrecht
Winners: KK Brno
February 7 – 10: 2024 IKF Korfball Champions League Final in Papendrecht
Winners: PKC/Vercom
Domestic league seasons
References
Korfball
2024 in sports
2024 sport-related lists |
76497565 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edna%20Shaw | Edna Shaw | Edna Mary Anna Jane Shaw OBE (7 June 1891 – 25 January 1974) was an Australian hospital matron. She was called the "Mother of 100,000 babies".
Life
Shaw was born in Murrumburrah, New South Wales. Her parents were Mary Emillia (born Druitt) and her husband the Rev. Augustus Rutherford Shaw. They had both been born in Australia. She was their first child and they would have five more. She trained as a nurse at Marrickville Hospital in the suburbs of Sydney during the war years of 1914 to 1917. She qualified as a midwife in the following year at what became the Royal Hospital for Women. She volunteered for the military but the armistice was soon agreed.
In January 1919 Shaw joined Crown Street Women's Hospital as deputy matron and was appointed matron in 1936.
From 1938 until the end of her career she was a member of the Australasian Trained Nurses' Association's council.
In 1951 she was still organising the nursing at Crown Street Hospital when she was lauded for arranging what was called a "Baby Bureau". Previously expectant women had to go from hospital to hospital in Sydney to find a bed where they could give birth. Shaw's Maternity Booking Office for Metropolitan Hospitals (aka Baby Bureau) took on this task giving mothers a one-stop shop where they would be told of a hospital that had a free bed for them. The booking also benefitted the hospitals as mothers would reserve beds in several hospitals to ensure that they had a space.
Shaw retired as a matron in 1952 having been identified as "the mother of 100,000" babies. A public appeal raised a thousand pounds for her. She had been made an OBE in 1950 for her services to nursing.
She died in Waverley in 1974.
References
External links
Biography at ADB
1891 births
1974 deaths
Australian nurses
People from New South Wales
Australian Members of the Order of the British Empire |
76497566 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024%20Antalya%20mayoral%20election | 2024 Antalya mayoral election | As part of the 2024 Turkish local elections, mayoral elections were held in Antalya, a province of Turkey that has 19 districts.
Candidates
For the metropolitan municipality, 27 candidates have registered for the role. The most popular candidates in Antalya are the incumbent Mayor Muhittin Böcek and Hakan Tütüncü, the candidate of the largest party in Turkey. The other candidates include:
Nesrin Ünal, Candidate of the Good Party (İYİ)
Oğuz Ersöz, Candidate of the Victory Party (ZP)
Ümit Özkurt, Candidate of the New Welfare Party (YRP)
Kemal Bülbül, Candidate of the DEM Party
Opinion Polls
Alanya
Döşemealtı
Kaş
Kepez
Konyaaltı
Results
The main opposition party won the metropolitan municipality and 16 district municipalities. The ruling party on the other hand only won 2 districts. Democrat Party only won in Kumluca. MHP, DSP and İYİ failed to win any municipalities.
References
2024 Turkish local elections
March 2024 events in Turkey
Mayoral election |
76497568 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep%20Chand%20Kaswan | Deep Chand Kaswan | Deep Chand Kaswan was a freedom fighter and reformer from Rajasthan. He served as a member of Rajasthan Legislative Assembly representing Sadulpur assembly in Churu district. He was born in the family of Kaswan Jats in Kalri village, Rajgarh tehsil, Churu district of Rajasthan. He actively participated in the National movement in Bikaner state. His son Ram Singh Kaswan is a prominent leader of Bharatiya Janata Party, who served as four-term member of Lok Sabha from Churu, Rajasthan.
The Kangar Movement
In 1945-46 Rajasthan witnessed another agrarian struggle at Kangar in Bikaner State. Deep Chand Kaswan played a significant role in the Kangar movement. As a freedom fighter and reformer, he took part in the peaceful demonstrations in Kangar village against the Jagirdars' harsh tax collection methods. Along with other leaders, Kaswan hoped that higher authorities would intervene and resolve the conflict rather than resorting to violence in reaction to the Jagirdars' threats against the farmers. By making this decision, the farmers avoided potential violence and showed their unwavering opposition to feudal control.
References
Rajasthani people
Year of death missing
Indian social reformers
People from Churu district
Year of birth missing |
76497571 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024%20Bryansk%20Oblast%20Duma%20election | 2024 Bryansk Oblast Duma election | The 2024 Bryansk Oblast Duma election will take place on 8 September 2024, on common election day. All 60 seats in the Oblast Duma will be up for reelection.
Electoral system
Under current election laws, the Oblast Duma is elected for a term of five years, with parallel voting. 30 seats are elected by party-list proportional representation with a 5% electoral threshold, with the other half elected in 30 single-member constituencies by first-past-the-post voting. Seats in the proportional part are allocated using the Imperiali quota, modified to ensure that every party list, which passes the threshold, receives at least one mandate.
Candidates
Party lists
To register regional lists of candidates, parties need to collect 0.5% of signatures of all registered voters in Bryansk Oblast.
The following parties were relieved from the necessity to collect signatures:
United Russia
Communist Party of the Russian Federation
A Just Russia — Patriots — For Truth
Liberal Democratic Party of Russia
New People
Civic Platform
Rodina
Communists of Russia
Single-mandate constituencies
30 single-mandate constituencies were formed in Bryansk Oblast. To register candidates in single-mandate constituencies need to collect 3% of signatures of registered voters in the constituency.
See also
2024 Russian elections
References
Bryansk Oblast
Politics of Bryansk Oblast
Regional legislative elections in Russia |
76497580 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave%20Ramsay%20%28rugby%20union%29 | Dave Ramsay (rugby union) | David Ramsay (born December 23, 1977) is a Canadian former international rugby union player.
Ramsay grew up in Vancouver, attending Reynolds Secondary School.
Standing at 6 ft 7 in, Ramsay played his rugby in the forward line and was capped once by the Canada national team, playing lock in a 2005 Test match against the United States in Tokyo. He captained Victoria-based club James Bay and was an integral part of a side that won three successive Rounsefell Cup titles.
Ramsay's younger brother is former CFL offensive lineman Brian Ramsay.
See also
List of Canada national rugby union players
References
External links
1977 births
Living people
Canadian rugby union players
Canada international rugby union players
Rugby union players from Vancouver
Rugby union locks
James Bay Athletic Association players |
76497584 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoenis%20Tellez | Yoenis Tellez | Yoenis Tellez is a Cuban professional boxer. He currently competes in the super welterweight division.
Amateur career
Tellez won national youth titles in 2017 and 2018 before turning pro in 2020.
Professional career
Tellez features on the undercard of Terence Crawford vs Errol Spence where he faced Sergio Garcia. Tellez produced hsi best performance yet stopping the Spaniard in the 3rd round.
Professional boxing record
References
External links
https://boxrec.com/en/box-pro/940048
2000 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Santiago de Cuba
Cuban male boxers
Light-middleweight boxers |
76497585 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024%20in%20rugby%20union | 2024 in rugby union | The following were rugby union and rugby sevens events during 2024 throughout the world.
Rugby union
2024 Six Nations Championship
February 2 & 3: Round 1
vs. at Stade Vélodrome
vs. at Stadio Olimpico
vs. at Millennium Stadium
February 10 & 11: Round 2
vs. at Murrayfield Stadium
vs. at Twickenham Stadium
vs. at Aviva Stadium
February 24 & 25: Round 3
vs. at Aviva Stadium
vs. at Murrayfield Stadium
vs. at Stade Vélodrome
March 9 & 10: Round 4
vs. at Stadio Olimpico
vs. at Twickenham Stadium
vs. at Millennium Stadium
March 16: Round 5
vs. at Millennium Stadium
vs. at Aviva Stadium
vs. at Stade Vélodrome
2024 Women's Six Nations Championship
March 23 & 24: Round 1
vs. at Stade Marie-Marvingt
vs. at Cardiff Arms Park
vs. at Stadio Sergio Lanfranchi
March 30 & 31: Round 2
vs. at Edinburgh Rugby Stadium
vs. at Ashton Gate
vs. at RDS Arena
April 13 & 14: Round 3
vs. at Edinburgh Rugby Stadium
vs. at Musgrave Park
vs. at Stade Jean-Bouin
April 20 & 21: Round 4
vs. at Twickenham Stadium
vs. at Stadio Sergio Lanfranchi
vs. at Cardiff Arms Park
April 17: Round 5
vs. at Millennium Stadium
vs. at Ravenhill Stadium
vs. at Stade Chaban-Delmas
Rugby Europe
February 3 – March 17: /////// 2024 Rugby Europe Championship
February 3 – April 12: /// 2024 Rugby Europe Women's Championship
October 28, 2023 – April 13: ///// 2023–24 Rugby Europe Trophy
Club competitions
December 8, 2023 – May 25: ///// 2023–24 European Rugby Champions Cup (final in London)
December 8, 2023 – May 24: /////// 2023–24 EPCR Challenge Cup (final in London)
WXV
September 27 – October 13: 2024 WXV in , &
Domestic league seasons (incomplete)
First division
Rugby sevens
2023–24 SVNS
December 2–3, 2023: Dubai Sevens in Dubai
Men's Winners:
Women's Winners:
December 9–10, 2023: South Africa Sevens in Cape Town
Men's Winners:
Women's Winners:
January 26–28: Australia Sevens in Perth
Men's Winners:
Women's Winners:
February 23–25: Canada Sevens in Vancouver
Men's Winners:
Women's Winners:
March 2–3: USA Sevens in Los Angeles
Men's Winners:
Women's Winners:
April 5–7: Hong Kong Sevens in
May 3–5: Singapore Sevens in
May 31 – June 2: Spain Sevens in Madrid
2024 World Rugby HSBC Sevens Challenger
Men's tour
January 12–14: Event#1 in Dubai
Winners:
March 8–10: Event#2 in Montevideo
Winners:
May 18–19: Event#3 in Munich
Women's tour
January 12–14: Event#1 in Dubai
Winners:
March 8–10: Event#2 in Montevideo
Winners:
May 18–19: Event#3 in Kraków
References
Rugby union by year |
76497591 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raisa%20Kyrychenko | Raisa Kyrychenko | Raisa Opanasivna Kyrychenko (née Korzh; ; 14 October 1943 – 9 February 2005) was a Ukrainian mezzo-soprano singer and music teacher who is a recipient of the Hero of Ukraine and Order of Princess Olga. The singer's vast repertory included compositions by modern artists as well as traditional songs from Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine.
Early life and education
Born on 14 October 1943, in the Ukrainian village of Koreshchyna. Conflicting sources stated her birthday on 14 November. Raisa participated actively in the community and received her first singing lesson at the Zemlyankiv school. Although she was employed in a communal farm, she continued to sing in a chorus that she and other girls had founded. She sang as a soloist in the school choir when she studied in middle school. She later graduated frorm the Kharkiv National Kotlyarevsky University of Arts in the late 1980s.
Career
The Kremenchuk Automobile Plant's house of culture's district choir leader, Pavlo Ochenash, brought notice to her distinctive voice. He was the one who assisted the young Raisa in obtaining the approval of the authorities of the communal farms to relocate to the city and join the choir.
She spent her 19 years in Cherkasy, right on the brink of her eventual heyday in Poltava. She started having asthma attacks after the construction of the Azot chemical plant, which had a negative impact on her career. Fedir Morgun, the first secretary of the Poltava Oblast Council at the time, fell in love with her profession, and doctors recommended her to leave the city. To bring her back home, he dispatched his colleagues Herman Yurchenko and Hryhoriy Levchenko. A new chapter in her artistic life as well as the life of Poltava the artist opened.
Raisa joined the Poltava Philharmonic's Raiselka group in 1962. She came to Zhytomyr and started singing with the ensemble Lyonok in 1964 after receiving an invitation from its leader. She sang solos with the Kherson Philharmonic at that time. She joined the Cherkasy Folk Choir in 1968. Although a folk group Rosava was made for her in Cherkasy in 1983, she returned to Poltava in 1987 due to disagreements with the Philharmonic leadership. She then joined the Churaivna group there.
Hleb Kudryashov, her biographer, further claims that not many people are aware that Raisa donated her Shevchenko National Prize to the Chernobyl charity. It so happened that in April of 1986, following her receipt of this prize in March, the Chernobyl disaster occurred. She gave a sizable donation as she was unable to turn away from the incident.
Other hits follow the song I'm your Cossack in Poltava. In Ukraine, Raisa achieves a significant achievement in media. She left the traditional folk tunes behind and made her way onto the main stage. The lyrics to the Mr. Colonel, nevertheless, sparked controversy since it used the term "Mr. Colonel" rather than "comrade." Years later, the address "Mr. Colonel" was to become customary for the Ukrainian Ground Forces, even if not everybody appreciated it at that point.
After Mr. Colonel became popular, she began to release an increasing number of pop successes. The vocalist performs at the Freestyle band's studio. The Cherry Bloomss and The Fate of My Village are the two CDs that Raisa has released. She has been employed as a vocal instructor at the Poltava Mykola Lysenko College of Arts in 1994.
Following her Canadian tour in 1995, Raisa started experiencing renal issues. Funds were raised by Ukrainians for the procedure, which involved her flying to Germany in November 1996 to get treatment and be ready for a surgery in Kyiv. The singer had a transplant of her kidneys in Kyiv on 2 June 1998. Her life was prolonged by this procedure by eight years. She performed overseas, notably in the United States. Baltimore, an American city, has made her an honorary citizen in 1983. Other countries she toured included Germany, Bulgaria, Poland, Algeria, India, Tunisia, Malaysia, the Philippines.
From September 1999 until October 2001, Raisa served on the committee for the Shevchenko National Prize. She had her coronary arteries operated on at the National Institute of Surgery and Transplantology on 1 February 2005. The damage was caused by the operation she was receiving for renal treatment. But the surgery was ineffective and she passed away from cardiac illness on 9 February 2005. As directed by Raisa, she was buried close to her mother's tomb in the village of Koreshchyna, in the Poltava Oblast.
Personal life
Raisa met her future husband, Mykola Kyrychenko, a accordionist, composer, and arranger, in Poltava. The husband outlived her by 8 years during their 43-year happily ever after. In 2000, she relocated her residence to Kyiv.
Awards and recognitions
In honor of Raisa, a memorial plaque was inaugurated at her parents' home on 13 October 2005, and a church was constructed in the village of Koreshchyna. The home at 40 Sichovykh Striltsiv Street in Kyiv, where she resided from 1997 to 2005, has a memorial plaque placed on its exterior. In Cherkasy, a bust was built in 2018 close to the Regional Philharmonic building. In addition to the sculpture of her placed on Raisa Kyrychenko Street outside the Public Poltava administration building on 13 October 2012, a memorial plaque was also placed on the home where she resided in Poltava on 13 October 2005. The Raisa Kyrychenko Museum in Poltava, which is housed within the Poltava V.G. Korolenko National Pedagogical University, preserves her legacy. The singer's records, outfit, shoes, and old pictures are all shown on different cassettes in the museum.
Raisa has received awards and recognitions such as:
Hero of Ukraine Order of the State (31 October 2003)
Order of Princess Olga First Class (3 March 2001)
Order of Princess Olga Second Class (4 March 1999)
Order of Princess Olga Third Class (3 March 1998)
Shevchenko National Prize (1986)
People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1979)
Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1973)
Honorary Citizen of Baltimore (1983)
Gallery
References
External links
1943 births
2005 deaths
Ukrainian women singers
Ukrainian women educators
People from Poltava Oblast
Recipients of the Order of State
Recipients of the Shevchenko National Prize
Recipients of the Order of Princess Olga, 1st class
Recipients of the Order of Princess Olga, 2nd class
Recipients of the Order of Princess Olga, 3rd class
Recipients of the title of Merited Artist of Ukraine
Recipients of the title of People's Artists of Ukraine |
76497605 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu%C4%81fale%20Tanoa%E2%80%99i | Tuāfale Tanoa’i | Tuāfale Tanoa’i AKA Linda T is a DJ, photographer, documentary maker and performance video installation artist of New Zealand. She is often known as DJ Linda T. Through her art she documents often misrepresented communities including Māori, Pasifika and LGBTQI+ communities which she is connected to.
Early life and education
Tanoa'i grew up in Kingsland, a suburb of Auckland, New Zealand's largest city. Her parents were both migrants to New Zealand from Sāmoa. Tanoa'i is Sāmoan.
Tanoa'i has a Masters in Art and Design from Auckland University of Technology (AUT) with First Class Honours. Her exegesis was called Storytelling as koha: consolidating community memories. It explored a 'fusion of Tangata Whenua and Pacific perspectives within a performance installation framework'.
Career
Tanoa'i has worked in local radio, TV and on short films. Since the early 1980s Tanoa'i has been documenting small communities in Aotearoa, New Zealand. An exhibition in 2018 called Storytelling as koha: consolidating community memories based on her university Masters at Corbans Estate Arts Centre in Auckland presented decades of work and the installation was described as an archive, 'from the political to personal, pertaining to Pacific, Māori, and LGBTQI communities'. In this exhibition Tanoa’i's were interviews, photographs and a soundscape providing visibility to people and communities often misrepresented. Of her work Tanoa'i says, "“What I do is unique, I’m not into capitalism or mainstream movie-making. Much of the work I do I gift back to the communities that feature in the works.”
Tanoa'i was a founding member of D.A.N.C.E. Art Club (Distinguished All Night Community Entertainers Art Club) formed in 2008 while she was studying. Other founders were Ahilapalapa Rands, Vailmaila Urale and Chris Fitzgerald. They created events to disrupt what 'fine arts' was presented as, events included pool nights and a radio station. One event was a 'noho' (a group stay-in event) to brig together collaborative and collective artists 'indigenous to Moana-nui-a-Kiwa'.1. Groups included Mata Aho Collective, FAFSWAG, Oceania Interrupted, SaVAge Klub and others.
One of the projects was an exhibition called Welcome curated by Ahilapalapa Rands and it included a Guinness World Record attempt to hold the longest DJing marathon in a public space. Tanoa'i was the DJ, and the event went for three days but did not break the record.
An ongoing installation artwork from Tanoa'i is titled LTTV (2009-). Arts-writer Iona Gordon-Smith describes viewers of the exhibition being invited on-stage and their interviews become part of the exhibition. Tanoa'i targets people under-represented on TV including 'Māori, Moana and queer peoples'. This exposes the process and presents the outcome of a media process and is inclusive of viewers removing the usual separation.
Tanoa'i was the 2019 Pacific Artist in Residence at the University of Canterbury supported by Creative New Zealand and the Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies. During the residency she presented work at the Physics Room. It was called, Spontaneous Intentionality.
The group exhibition at Dunedin Public Art Gallery From the Shore (2021) included work by Tanoa'i alongside others such as Tracey Mofatt, Tanu Gogo and Lisa Reihana, reference points for the art was from Mereta Mita and Barry Barclay. Tanoa'i presented LTTV (2009-) and participants spoke about Mita and Barclay.
In 2017 and 2020 Tanoa'i was programmed as a DJ in Music In The Square, at Aotea Square, Auckland. In 2020 Tanoa'i created a documentary about a month travelling in the USA watching women musician concerts called Chasing Chaka 2018: A Healing Adventure. Tanoa'i was on a NZ On Air Music panel in 2022 selecting NewMusic Pasifika recipients.
As a political statement Tanoa'i says: "Capitalism doesn’t have to be the foundation of our present human reality. I’m not suggesting anarchy. I’m suggesting Pacific Peace."
Awards
In 2008 Tanoa'i received the Emerging Pacific Artist award at the Creative New Zealand Arts Pasifika Awards.
References
Footnotes
Moana-nui-a Kiwa is the oceans of Kiwa, and is the Pacific Ocean in its broadest sense.
Living people
Samoan women
21st-century New Zealand women artists
Artists from Auckland
New Zealand DJs
Auckland University of Technology alumni
New Zealand documentary filmmakers
New Zealand people of Samoan descent |
76497640 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camille%20Berlin | Camille Berlin | Camille Berlin (6 February 1866 - ?) was a French painter.
Early life and education
Camille Berlin was born on 6 February 1866 in the 4th arrondissement of Paris to Félicie Léontine Esmieu and Étienne Napoléon Berlin. Her parents married in 1863 and her older sister, Berthe Antoinette Félicie, was born nine months later. Her father, a primary school teacher, was headmaster of the local school at the time of her birth.
Camille Berlin studied painting with Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant and Jean-Paul Laurens at the Académie Julian, and with Henri-Jean Guillaume Martin.
Career
Camille Berlin exhibited at the Salon des artistes français from 1889 and her work was awarded a honorable mention in 1900. She won a silver medal at l'exposition internationale d'Angers in 1895. She exhibited works in exhibitions in Troyes, Nantes, Angers and Montauban.
Her painting studio was at 65, rue de Malte, in the 11th arrondissement of Paris.
Berlin joined the Union of Women Painters and Sculptors in 1892.
In 1901, Berlin was appointed Ordre des Palmes académiques then Officier de l'instruction publique in 1912.
In 1914, her painting Autoportrait dans l'atelier (Self-portrait in the studio) was exhibited at the 3rd Salon of the Union of Women Painters and Sculptors.
Later life
Berlin moved to Toulon around 1920, and lived at 1 impasse Jeanne, faubourg du Mourillon. She later moved to villa Clair Logis, on avenue Frédéric-Mistral, La Seyne-sur-Mer around 1928. After selling her property on 5 June 1930, by 1931 she was living at 14 quai du Port in Marseille. She disappears from the public record after this date.
Works in public collections
Fillette aux cerises, 1907, huile sur toile, 46 × 55 cm; Musée Saint-Nazaire de Bourbon-Lancy.
Autoportrait dans l'atelier, huile sur toile, 100 × 80 cm; Musée d'Art de Toulon.
Legacy and commemoration
Berlin's painting La lecture sous la lampe, (1899) was sold in the 1990s. Un soir, (1902) was sold in Chicago in 2023.
In 2016, the Musée d'Art de Toulon exhibited her Autoportrait dans l'atelier (Self-portrait in the studio) as part of the Elles s'exposent exhibition, which featured a hundred works by women artists held in its collections. An article in the regional newspaper Var-Matin celebrated Camille Berlin as "une Toulonnaise" (a woman from Toulon).
Awards
Officier d'Académie (1901).
Officier de l'Instruction publique (1912).
References
1866 births
Place of death unknown
French women painters
Académie Julian alumni
20th-century women painters
19th-century women painters
19th-century French painters
20th-century French painters
19th-century French women artists
20th-century French women artists
20th-century French artists
19th-century French artists
People from Paris
Painters from Paris
Articles with authority control information
Date of death unknown |
76497644 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024%20in%20squash%20sport | 2024 in squash sport | This topic lists the squash events for the 2023–24 season.
European Squash Federation calendar 2024 here.
World Championships
May 9–17: 2024 World Squash Championships in Cairo
Continental Championships
March 23–26: 2024 ESF European U19 Squash Championships in Bucharest
Winners: Jonah Bryant (m) / Amelie Haworth (w)
2023–24 PSA World Tour
World Finals
June 24–28: 2023-24 PSA World Tour Finals in TBC
Platinum
August 27 – September 2, 2023: 2024 Paris Squash in Paris
Winners: Ali Farag (m) / Nour El Sherbini (w)
September 9–16, 2023: 2024 Qatar Classic in Doha
Winners: Ali Farag (m) / Hania El Hammamy (w)
October 7–14, 2023: 2024 U.S. Open in Philadelphia
Winners: Paul Coll (m) / Nour El Sherbini (w)
November 27 – December 3, 2023: 2024 TTI Milwaukee HK Open in
Winners: Paul Coll (m) / Hania El Hammamy (w)
January 17–25: 2024 J.P. Morgan Tournament of Champions in New York City
Winners: Ali Farag (m) / Nour El Sherbini (w)
February 21–28: 2024 Windy City Open in Chicago
Winners: Ali Farag (m) / Nour El Sherbini (w)
April 19–26: 2024 El Gouna International in El Gouna
June 2–9: 2024 British Open in Birmingham
External links
World Squash
References
Squash by year |
76497664 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004%20Chester%20City%20Council%20election | 2004 Chester City Council election | The 2004 Chester City Council election took place on 10 June 2004 to elect members of Chester City Council in Cheshire, England. This was on the same day as other local elections.
Summary
Election result
Ward results
Blacon Hall
Blacon Lodge
Boughton Heath
City & St. Annes
College
Dodleston
Farndon
Handbridge & St. Marys
Hoole Groves
Lache Park
Malpas
Newton Brook
Newton St. Michaels
Saughall
Tarvin
Tattenhall
Upton Grange
Upton Westlea
Vicars Cross
Waverton
References
Chester City Council elections
Chester
June 2004 events in the United Kingdom
2000s in Cheshire |
76497671 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switch%20mode | Switch mode | Switch mode, switched mode or switching mode may refer to:
Switch-mode amplifier
Switch-mode converter
Switch-mode power supply
Switch-mode regulator
See also
Mode switch (computing)
Switch (disambiguation)
Mode (disambiguation)
Linear mode (disambiguation) |
76497679 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024%20in%20badminton | 2024 in badminton | This article lists the badminton events for 2024.
2024 BWF Tour Calendar here.
2024 BWF season
International Championships
February 12–15: 2024 All Africa Men's and Women's Team Badminton Championships in Cairo
Men's: ; ; ;
Women's: ; ; ;
February 12–15: 2024 Oceania Badminton Championships in Geelong
Singles winners: Edward Lau (m) / Tiffany Ho (f)
Doubles winners: Lukas Defolky & Tang Huaidong (m) / Setyana Mapasa & Angela Yu (f)
Mixed Doubles winners: Kenneth Choo & Gronya Somerville
February 13–18: 2024 Badminton Asia Team Championships in Shah Alam
Men's: ; ; ;
Women's: ; ; ;
February 14–18: 2024 European Men's and Women's Team Badminton Championships in Łódź
Men's: ; ; ;
Women's: ; ; ;
February 15–18: 2024 Pan Am Male & Female Badminton Cup in São Paulo
Men's: ; ;
Women's: ; ;
February 16–18: 2024 All Africa Individual Championships in Cairo
Singles winners: Anuoluwapo Juwon Opeyori (m) / Kate Foo Kune (f)
Doubles winners: Koceila Mammeri & Youcef Sabri Medel (m) / Amy Ackerman & Deidre Laurens (f)
Mixed Doubles winners: Koceila Mammeri & Tanina Violette Mammeri
February 16–18: 2024 Oceania Men's and Women's Team Badminton Championships in Geelong
Men's team: ; ;
Women's team: ; ;
References
2024 in sports
2024 sport-related lists
Years in badminton |
76497714 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serhat%20Guler | Serhat Guler | Serhat Guler is a Turkish professional boxer. He currently competes in the super middleweight division.
Amateur career
Guler started his boxing career in 2014 and after racking up some big wins he quickly became the biggest prospect in Turkish boxing.
Professional career
Guler turned pro in 2022 and picked up the WBC International Silver Light Heavyweight Title in just his third fight.
Professional boxing record
References
External links
https://boxrec.com/en/box-pro/852647
Living people
Sportspeople from Istanbul
Turkish male boxers
Super-middleweight boxers |
76497729 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear%20mode | Linear mode | Linear mode may refer to:
Linear address mode
Linear amplifier
Linear mode (FET)
Linear mode (JFET)
Linear mode (MOSFET)
Linear power supply
See also
Linear system
Normal mode
Linear (disambiguation)
Mode (disambiguation)
Switch mode (disambiguation) |
76497738 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024%20Tula%20Oblast%20Duma%20election | 2024 Tula Oblast Duma election | The 2024 Tula Oblast Duma election will take place on 8 September 2024, on common election day. All 36 seats in the Oblast Duma will be up for reelection.
Electoral system
Under current election laws, the Oblast Duma is elected for a term of five years, with parallel voting. 12 seats are elected by party-list proportional representation with a 5% electoral threshold, with the other half elected in 24 single-member constituencies by first-past-the-post voting. Seats in the proportional part are allocated using the Imperiali quota, modified to ensure that every party list, which passes the threshold, receives at least one mandate.
Candidates
Party lists
To register regional lists of candidates, parties need to collect 0.5% of signatures of all registered voters in Tula Oblast.
The following parties were relieved from the necessity to collect signatures:
United Russia
Communist Party of the Russian Federation
A Just Russia — Patriots — For Truth
Liberal Democratic Party of Russia
New People
Russian Party of Pensioners for Social Justice
Communists of Russia
Single-mandate constituencies
24 single-mandate constituencies were formed in Tula Oblast. To register candidates in single-mandate constituencies need to collect 3% of signatures of registered voters in the constituency.
See also
2024 Russian elections
References
Tula Oblast
Politics of Tula Oblast
Regional legislative elections in Russia |
76497753 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VINAStech | VINAStech | VINAStech is a full-service Information Technology firm based in Uganda, founded in 2018. The company started by offering software development services and has since expanded to encompass a wider range of IT solutions to support businesses in the digital age. The IT sector in Uganda has been one of the fastest growing sectors that has greatly contributed to the economy.
History
VINAStech was founded in 2018 and later on 16 August 2019, fully incorporated under VINAS Business Technicians Ltd, a duly registered company in Uganda.
The company was started by Nashaba Victor and Twahirwa Atwine while students at Makerere University.
VINAStech and EFRIS
VINAStech played a key role among other IT Companies in Uganda in rolling out the Electronic Fiscal Receipting and Invoicing System (EFRIS) under Uganda Revenue Authority. The EFRIS first faced backlash from the some companies that sought to block it from operation.
Notable Clients
Notably, VINAStech has served various clients such as Uganda Media Women's Association, Senatus of Uganda, Sustainable Development Goals - Office of the Prime Minister (Uganda), Uganda National Catholic Council of Lay Apostolate, Woolworths Uganda, Finance Literacy Improvement Program and Ecoconcrete among others.
See also
Nashaba Victor
Makerere University
References
2018 establishments in Uganda
Companies based in Kampala
Technology companies of Uganda
Technology companies established in 2018 |
76497763 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024%20Volgograd%20Oblast%20Duma%20election | 2024 Volgograd Oblast Duma election | The 2024 Volgograd Oblast Duma election will take place on 8 September 2024, on common election day, coinciding with 2024 Volgograd Oblast gubernatorial election. All 38 seats in the Oblast Duma will be up for reelection.
Electoral system
Under current election laws, the Oblast Duma is elected for a term of five years, with parallel voting. 19 seats are elected by party-list proportional representation with a 5% electoral threshold, with the other half elected in 19 single-member constituencies by first-past-the-post voting. Seats in the proportional part are allocated using the Imperiali quota, modified to ensure that every party list, which passes the threshold, receives at least one mandate.
Candidates
Party lists
To register regional lists of candidates, parties need to collect 0.5% of signatures of all registered voters in Volgograd Oblast.
The following parties were relieved from the necessity to collect signatures:
United Russia
Communist Party of the Russian Federation
A Just Russia — Patriots — For Truth
Liberal Democratic Party of Russia
New People
Russian Party of Pensioners for Social Justice
Single-mandate constituencies
19 single-mandate constituencies were formed in Volgograd Oblast. To register candidates in single-mandate constituencies need to collect 3% of signatures of registered voters in the constituency.
See also
2024 Russian elections
References
Volgograd Oblast
Politics of Volgograd Oblast
Regional legislative elections in Russia |
76497776 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaunpagasts | Jaunpagasts | Jaunpagasts (also known as Virbi) is a village in the Virbi parish of Talsi Municipality in Latvia. Jaunpagasts is the center of the parish. Located on the left bank of the Virbu River, along Ventspils—Tukums II railway (Sabile station), it is 16 km away from the municipality center Talsi and 105 km from Riga, the national capital.
Jaunpagasts is home to the parish administration, Virbu primary school, cultural center, kindergarten, library, family doctor's practice, and the Neivakene Old Believers Church (built in 1928). The largest companies are SIA "Jaunpagasts Plus" (Brūzī) and SIA "Jaunalko".
History
Jaunpagasts is mentioned in historical sources for the first time in 1237 in the feudal book. The present-day settlement was established on the land of the former Jaunpagasts (Neuwacken) manor (now the inhabited place Brūzis on the right bank of the Virbu River) near the railway station. In 1909–1911, with the financial support of the Don Agrarian Bank, approximately 120 families settled in the vicinity of Jaunpagasts. In the post-war years, Jaunpagasts became the central village of the Soviet collective farm "Virbi".
Population
According to the 2022 census, the population of the village is 392 people.
References |
76497792 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah%20Galt%20Elwood%20McKee | Sarah Galt Elwood McKee | Sarah Galt Elwood McKee (1842–1934) was a Canadian social reformer and temperance leader. For many years, she worked actively in several fields of philanthropic work. McKee served as president of the Ontario Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU).
Early life and education
Sarah Galt Elwood was born at Dundas, Ontario, January 21, 1842. Her parents were James Galt and Mary (Caldwell) Elwood.
After the family moved to Kemptville, she was educated in the local public and high schools.
In 1858, the family moved to Brockville, Eastern Ontario.
Career
McKee worked as a social reformer in several branches of philanthropic work.
Interested in the temperance reform movement from early adulthood, McKee identified herself with the Independent Order of Good Templars (IOGT), the Sons of Temperance, the WCTU, as well as the Dominion Alliance for the Total Suppression of the Liquor Traffic on which she served for 22 years as a member of its executive committee.
Her connection with the WCTU began in Simcoe County, Ontario, where she served for 25 years as local and county president. In 1900, she was elected president of the Ontario WCTU, which office she held for ten years; he was made honorary president of that Union in 1910. She served for 12 years as vice-president of the Dominion of Canada WCTU. She was for 24 years on the publication board of Canada's White Ribbon Tidings. McKee was for many years superintendent of the Department of Work Among Miners and Lumbermen for the World's WCTU. She twice represented the Dominion at World Conventions of the WCTU.
McKee favored equal suffrage, total Prohibition of the liquor traffic, and independence in politics. During World War I, she engaged in temperance work among the Canadian soldiers and sailors.
Personal life
In religion, McKee was Presbyterian.
On May 20, 1864, she married the Rev. Thomas McKee, J.P.S., inspector of schools at Brockville. The couple had five sons and three daughters. Rev. and Mrs. McKee removed to North Bay, Ontario, in 1913. He died there the following year, and she died there on March 24, 1934.
References
1842 births
1934 deaths
People from Dundas, Ontario
Canadian temperance activists
Canadian suffragists
Woman's Christian Temperance Union people
Social reformers |
76497817 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minisode%203%3A%20Tomorrow | Minisode 3: Tomorrow | Minisode 3: Tomorrow is the sixth Korean-language extended play (EP) by South Korean boy band Tomorrow X Together. It was released on April 1, 2024, through Big Hit Music and Republic Records. It consists of five tracks, including the lead single "Deja Vu", and marks the third installment of their Minisode EP series, following Minisode 2: Thursday's Child (2022).
Background and release
At the "2024 TXT Fanlive Present X Together" event in Seoul on March 2, 2024, which celebrated their fifth anniversary as a group, the band members announced EP and revealed the logo. The following day, Big Hit Music announced that Tomorrow X Together would release their third installment of the Minisode series on April 1. In a statement, Big Hit stated that the EP "seamlessly weaves in elements of past albums", including The Chaos Chapter: Freeze (2022) and The Name Chapter: Freefall (2023). The announcement arrived alongside a clip with fireworks and a trademark radar noise that captures the transition from The Name Chapter: Freefall (2023) to Minisode 3: Tomorrow as well as a new logo. The label also shared release details on Weverse. On March 25, the band took to their social media to reveal the tracklist through Polaroid-like images, consisting of six original tracks and one remix.
Track listing
Notes
signifies an remixer
References
2024 EPs
Hybe Corporation EPs
Korean-language EPs
Republic Records EPs
Tomorrow X Together albums |
76497824 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal%20Standard | Equal Standard | Equal Standard is a 2020 American crime drama film written by Taheim Bryan and directed by Brendan Kyle Cochrane. The film stars Ice-T, Maurice Benard, Tobias Truvillion, Syleena Johnson, Robert Clohessy, Chris Kerson and Jules Willcox. The film follows New York City Detective Chris Jones (Tobias Truvillion) who get shot by a white detective, returns fire and kills him.
The film was released in selected theatres on May 7, 2021, by Mutiny Pictures. Film writer Taheim Bryan was shot to death in New York City in August 2021 sitting in his Mercedes-Benz.
Cast
Reception
Film critic Tomris Laffly from Variety gave it a mixed review writing: "Trying to be The Wire of the BLM era, Brendan Kyle Cochrane's haphazardly edited New York-based drama of shifting perspectives feels too unfocused and overstuffed for a feature." and same time praised Truvillion's performance writing: "Thankfully, Truvillion in one of the leading parts is an exception to this overarching shortcoming. As Chris, a good cop in a barrel of bad apples, he puts forth a performance that is in equal parts authentic and tender."
Sandie Angulo Chen from Common Sense Media gave it 3 of 5 stars writing: "Relevant themes and Truvillion's stand-out performance rescue this drama from preachy dialogue and oversimplification of the tensions between Black communities and law enforcement."
References
External links
Films shot in New York City
Films set in New York City
2020s English-language films
2020 independent films
Films about racism in the United States
2020 drama films
African-American drama films
Films about police brutality
Fictional portrayals of the New York City Police Department
Mutiny Pictures films |
76497898 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennia%20%28video%20game%29 | Millennia (video game) | Millennia is a 4X turn-based strategy video game developed by C Prompt Games and released by Paradox Interactive on March 27, 2024.
Upon release, the game received mixed reviews, with criticism mostly focused on the limitations of expanding in the game and critics comparing it to Sid Meier's Civilization VI, from which Millennia drew inspiration.
Reception
Millennia received mixed reviews apon release from both players and critics.
The game have been criticized for drawing inspiration from Sid Meier's Civilization VI without building a strong foundation. Critics have also pointed out the lack of a proper combat system and few ways to expand cities.
However, the game's variant age system, which allows different ages to be chosen based on the player's achievements, has been praised for its uniqueness and playability.
References
Paradox Interactive games
4X video games
2024 video games |
76497901 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bukit%20Sri%20Bintang | Bukit Sri Bintang | Bukit Sri Bintang is forested twin hill in Kepong, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It is actually part of a more extensive forested area which extends south as far as Bukit Kiara and is separated from this area by the E1 New Klang Valley Expressway. The twin peaks of the hill, highest point at 212 metres above sea level.
References
Hills of Malaysia
Geography of Kuala Lumpur |
76497908 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osher%20Cohen | Osher Cohen | Osher Cohen (Hebrew: אושר כהן; born 15 December 1998) is an Israeli musician, lyricist, and composer.
Biography
Cohen was born on 15 December 1998 on Kiryat Bialik to a Masortim family.
At the age of five, he began studying in Kiryat Bialik's Music school and learnt to play on varius instruments including: keyboard, Piano, Baglamas, Guitar, Clarinet and Violin. At the age of eleven, he started performing as a keyborder.
In December 2023, Cohen engaged to his girlfriend than Sahar Noam, after a month the engagement they canceled the engagement.
Career
In 2018, Cohen released his first album Nizkar Be'einea (Remembering her eyes), later, In September 2018 he released his single Ba'Regaim She'at Holechet (At the moments you go) which reached 2nd place on Media Forest weekly chart.
Cohen also wrote and composed songs to many singers including: Omer Adam, Eyal Golan, Kobe Peretz and more.
Over the years his songs reached high on weekly and annual charts for example: Ahava (1th place on weekly Mako HitList and Galgalatz), Ba'Regaim She'at Holeche (2nd place on weekly Media Forest) and more.
In March 2024, Cohen hosted American boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. on stage as an act of respect.
Awards and nominations
Discography
Studio Albums
2018 Nizkar Be'einea (Remembering her eyes)
2020 Chikiti Lch (I waited for you)
Mini Albums
2023 Osher
2023 Part II
2024 The Last Episode
Singles
2011 Od Rega (One More Moment)
2013 Katavti lach (I wrote you)
2015 Lichiot Be'nifrad (To live separately)
2015 Nizkar Be'einea (Remembrs her eyes)
2015 Rak Itach VeDie (Just you and that's it)
2016 Holem Otach (Dreaming you)
2016 Izvi Et Chay (Leave my life)
2017 Boi Nivrah (Let's run away)
2017 HaMerchak Mimech (The distance from you)
2018 Ba'Regaim She'at Holechet (At the moments you go)
2018 Mami Mami
2018 Mi Amor
2018 Ir Tachtit (Underground city)
2018 Bali Bali (I feel like, I feel like)
2018 Yadaim Ohavot (Loving hands)
2018 Lev Shavur (A broken heart)
2018 Trio Bario (with The Allstars)
2019 Ani Soneh Otach (I hate you)
2019 Boi Nedaber (Let's Talk)
2019 Ma At Osa Li (What you do to me)
2019 Margish Shelach (Feels like I'm yours)
2019 Atzabim BaGuf (Skin Crawl from Anger)
2019 Tzipralex
2019 Ma Hu Yodeah (What does he know; with The Allstars)
2020 Bye
2020 Herini Mekasher
2020 Kol Hazman Omeret (You always say)
2020 Mi Od Yechabek (Who else will hug)
2020 Tachzeri Maher (Come Back Soon)
2021 Ani Ohev Otach (I love you)
2021 Kacha Bli Shalom (Like this without a goodbye; with Sarit Hadad)
2021 Omer's songs
2021 Hene at Bocha (Here you cry again)
2021 Ose Li Balagan (Make a mess for me)
2021 Kafe etzel Berta (Coffee at Berta; with Nathan Cohen)
2021 Reashim (Noises; with Noa Kirel)
2021 Zugot Kaele (Couples like this)
2022 Mekabel al Atzmi (Take upon myself)
2022 Shomer Alaich (Keep you safe; with Subliminal)
2022 Ahuvi Lev Adom (My love red heart)
2022 Hamishi, Shishi (Thursday, Friday)
2022 Tmunot Shelcha (Your photos)
2022 Nirkod Basof (We will dance in the end; with Shahar Seol)
2022 Biglalech (Because of you; with Odeya)
2022 Beshvilech (For you)
2022 Ohevet Otcha (love you; with Sarit Hadad)
2022 Ahuvi (My love; with Nasrin Kadri)
2023 Latet Ve'Lakachat (To give and take)
2023 Dance (7.10.2023)
2023 Kavim LiDmuto
2024 Ratziti Ledaber Itcha (I wanted to talk to you; with Nasrin Kadri)
References
External links
Osher Cohen on Spotify
Osher Cohen on Apple Music
1998 births
21st-century Israeli male singers
Israeli male singer-songwriters
Israeli singer-songwriters
21st-century Mizrahi Jews
Israeli pop singers
Jewish Israeli singers
Jewish songwriters
People from Kiryat Bialik
Mizrahi singers
Israeli Sephardi Jews
Israeli composers
Israeli male composers
21st-century Israeli composers
Living people |
76497915 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IndExs%20-%20Index%20of%20Exsiccatae | IndExs - Index of Exsiccatae | IndExs - Index of Exsiccatae is an online biological database, documenting the more than 2,200 historical and currently running exsiccatae and exsiccata-like series by their more than 1,300 editors, titles and bibliographic information on exsiccatal numbers, publication time span, ranges, preceding and superseding series and publishers. It is run by the Botanische Staatssammlung München in München , .
IndExs is launched on the internet in 2001 and is continuously expanded regarding the scientific content related to the needs of herbaria, fungaria and digitisation initiatives there. It is categorising the exsiccatae with the distributed specimens following recognized subdomains of botany. Images of examplary specimen labels as found in more than 70 herbaria are included , .
IndExs is using the DiversityExsiccatae module of the Diversity Workbench framework as database management system. In recent times it is going to align its technical infrastructure with Wikidata concepts .
References
Herbaria
Botany
Lichenology
Bryology
Mycology
History of mycology
Phycology
History of botany
Botanical literature |
76497930 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024%20A-League%20Women%20finals%20series | 2024 A-League Women finals series | The 2024 A-League Women finals series will be the 16th annual edition of A-League Women finals series, the playoffs tournament staged to determine the champion of the 2023–24 A-League Women season. The series will be played over four weeks culminating in the 2024 A-League Women Grand Final.
Qualification
Western United, Central Coast Mariners and Newcastle Jets all confirmed their spots in the elimination-finals. Semi-finalists Melbourne City and Sydney FC were confirmed in finishing the top two spots. Melbourne Victory qualified for the elimination-finals through a 4–0 win over Premiership seeking Sydney FC, as Melbourne City claimed the premiership in a 2–1 win over Perth Glory to finish two points clear ahead of second-placed Sydney FC.
Venues
Matches
The system used for the 2024 A-League Women finals series is the modified top-six play-offs by the A-Leagues. The top two teams enter the two-legged semi-finals receiving the bye for the elimination-finals in which the teams from third placed to sixth place enter the elimination-finals with "third against sixth" and "fourth against fifth". Losers for the elimination-finals are eliminated, and winners qualify for the two-legged semi-finals.
First placed team in the semi-finals plays the lowest ranked elimination-final winning team and second placed team in the semi-finals plays the highest ranked elimination-final winner. Home-state advantage goes to the team with the higher ladder position.
Elimination-finals
Semi-finals
|}
Grand Final
References
External links
A-Leagues official website
Finals series |
76497945 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line%206%20%28Changchun%20Rail%20Transit%29 | Line 6 (Changchun Rail Transit) | Line 6 of the Changchun Rail Transit () is a rapid transit line running from west to east in southern Changchun.
History
Construction of line 6 started on 30 September 2019.
In 2023, construction of tunnels completed in 30 April, tracks completed in 26 May and power supply started in 29 May, after check and accept of engineering, test run started in 8 December.
On 28 March 2024, line 6 started its official operation.
Opening timeline
Service routes
—
Stations
References
Changchun Rail Transit lines
2024 establishments in China
Railway lines opened in 2024 |
76497951 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024%20T1%20League%20playoffs | 2024 T1 League playoffs | The 2024 T1 League playoffs is the postseason tournament of the T1 League's 2023–24 season. The semifinals series starts on May 4 and is scheduled to end on May 15. The finals series starts on May 24 and is scheduled to end on June 7.
Format
Four teams will participate in the playoffs. The top four seeds, based on winning percentage of regular season, play the best-of-five semifinals series, which is in a 2-2-1 format. The winners of the semifinals series play the best-of-seven finals series, which is in a 2-2-1-1-1 format.
Playoff qualifying
On March 16, 2024, the New Taipei CTBC DEA became the first team to clinch the semifinals series.
Bracket
Bold Series winner
Italic Team with home-court advantage
Semifinals
(1) 1st seed in regular season vs. (4) 4th seed in regular season
(2) 2nd seed in regular season vs. (3) 3rd seed in regular season
T1 League Finals: (TBD) High rank of Semifinals vs. (TBD) Low rank of Semifinals
Statistical leaders
References
External links
Playoffs
T1 League playoffs
2024 in Taiwanese sport
T1 League
T1 League |
76497963 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhitoni%20railway%20station | Bhitoni railway station | Bhitoni railway station is a railway station in Shahpura town of Madhya Pradesh. Its code is BHTN. It serves Shahpura town. The station consists of two platforms. Passenger, Express and Superfast trains halt here.
Location
Bhitoni railway station is located in Shahpura Jabalpur. Its average elevation is 340 m. There are a Total of two platforms in this station.
Major Trains
Vindhyachal Express
Narmada Express
Itarsi Express
Katni Bhusawal Express
Prayagraj Chhioki passanger
Katni Itarsi passanger
References
Railway junction stations in Madhya Pradesh
Jabalpur railway division
Transport in Jabalpur
Railway stations in Jabalpur district
Buildings and structures in Jabalpur |
76497964 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh%20Hepburne-Scott%2C%206th%20Lord%20Polwarth | Hugh Hepburne-Scott, 6th Lord Polwarth | Hugh Hepburne-Scott, 6th Lord Polwarth (10 April 1758 – 29 December 1841) was the MP for Berwickshire from 1780 till 18 March 1781 and 12 April 1781 till 1784.
Hugh was born 10 April 1758, the oldest surviving son of Walter Scott. On 29 September 1795, he married Harriet, the daughter of Hans Maurice, Count Brühl. He established his claim as the 6th Lord Polwarth on 25 June 1835.
Political career
In 1779, soon after becoming of age, Hugh Hepburne-Scott offered himself as a candidate for Berwickshire. In April 1779, Sir John Paterson, 3rd Baronet, Scott's uncle by marriage was returned on his grandfather's interests, Hugh Hume-Campbell, 3rd Earl of Marchmont. Scott's father, Walter Scott was opposed to Marchmont in local politics. So, when Scott informed his grandfather of his intention to run for Berwickshire, he bitterly resented Scott's intervention and a violent family quarrel ensued.
He therefore looked for the support of the rival interests of the Earl of Home and the anti-Marchmont independent voters. He also counted upon the Duke of Buccleuch's influence.
The election included a third candidate, Alexander Renton. An agreement was signed between him and Scott wherein Scott would serve for four sessions and Renton would serve for the remainder of the Parliament, and their combined votes defeated Paterson.
Paterson brought a petition which claimed that the contract between Scott and Renton was illegal. The select committee agreed that the election was void but they refused to declare in Paterson's favour and issued a new writ. Scott was re-elected, apparently unopposed. In Parliament, he consistently supported the North ministry and on 18 February 1783, voted against the William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne's peace preliminaries. On 27 November 1783, he voted for Charles Fox's East India bill and on 27 November 1783, opposed William Pitt's administration.
On 14 January 1784, after Pitt took office, charges were made claiming that the late ministry bribed Scottish members to win their support, Scott rose in defense of his friends. He did not stand for re-election in the 1784 general election.
Hugh's grandfather never forgave him and when his only surviving son, Alexander Hume-Campbell died in 1781, Scott was excluded from succession. Scott, nevertheless established his claim on 25 June 1835 as the 6th Lord Palworth.
He died on 29 December 1841.
References
1758 births
1841 deaths
British MPs 1780–1784 |
76498031 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farida%20El-Sherif | Farida El-Sherif | Farida El-Sherif (born 7 October 1998) is an Egyptian basketball player who plays for the Egyptian women's basketball team and also Sporting Club in Egypt.
International career highlights
National Team Senior
In the 2023 FIBA Women's AfroBasket, she played 1 game, with no points, rebounds, assists, and an efficiency rating of -1.
During the 2023 FIBA Women's AfroBasket qualifiers, she participated in 4 games, averaging 1.3 points, 1.3 rebounds, 0.8 assists, and an efficiency rating of 1.5.
At the 2021 FIBA Women's Afrobasket - Qualifiers - Zone 5, she played 5 games, averaging 3.4 points, 1.8 rebounds, 1 assist, and an efficiency rating of 6.
Overall, her total averages for the national team senior level are 1.9 points, 1.2 rebounds, 0.7 assists, and an efficiency rating of 2.8.
References
Living people
1988 births
Egyptian women's basketball players |
76498036 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024%20Coventry%20City%20Council%20election | 2024 Coventry City Council election | The 2024 Coventry City Council election is scheduled to be held on Thursday 2 May 2024, alongside the other local elections across the United Kingdom being held on the same day.
Background
The Local Government Act 1972 created a two-tier system of metropolitan counties and districts covering Greater Manchester, Merseyside, South Yorkshire, Tyne and Wear, the West Midlands, and West Yorkshire starting in 1974. Coventry was a district of the West Midlands metropolitan county. The Local Government Act 1985 abolished the metropolitan counties, with metropolitan districts taking on most of their powers as metropolitan boroughs. The West Midlands Combined Authority was created in 2016 and began electing the mayor of the West Midlands from 2017, which was given strategic powers covering a region coterminous with the former West Midlands metropolitan county.
Coventry Council has variously been under Labour control, Conservative control and no overall control since it was established. Labour most recently gained control of the council in the 2010 election, when they gained six seats at the expense of the Conservatives and Socialist Alternative. Labour continued to make gains to consolidate its majority on the council in the 2011 and 2012 elections, since when the party's position has remained stable. In the most recent election in 2023, Labour won 13 of the seats up for election with 50.4% of the vote, the Conservatives won four seats with 29.5% of the vote, and the Greens won one seat with 9.3% of the vote. Labour maintained its majority on the council.
Seats up for election in 2023 were last elected in 2021. This election was originally scheduled for 2020, but was delayed by a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In that election, Labour won thirteen seats and the Conservatives won six seats.
Electoral process
The council elects its councillors in thirds, with a third being up for election every year for three years, with no election in the fourth year. The election will take place by first-past-the-post voting, with wards being represented by three councillors, with one councillor elected in each ward each election year to serve a four-year term.
All registered electors (British, Irish, Commonwealth and European Union citizens) living in Coventry aged 18 or over will be entitled to vote in the election. People who live at two addresses in different councils, such as university students with different term-time and holiday addresses, are entitled to be registered for and vote in elections in both local authorities. Voting in-person at polling stations will take place from 07:00 to 22:00 on election day, and voters will be able to apply for postal votes or proxy votes in advance of the election. People voting in this election in Coventry only vote for a councillor in the ward they reside.
Previous council composition
Changes:
8 September 2023: Becky Getting (Labour) resigns to stand as the Labour candidate for Clwyd East at the 2024 general election. A by-election is scheduled for 26 October 2023.
26 October 2023: The Earlsdon by-election is won by Lynette Kelly; Labour holds the seat.
References
Coventry City Council elections
Coventry |
76498077 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yatha%27%20Amar%20Watar | Yatha' Amar Watar | Yatha' Amr Watar bin Yakarib Malik (d. 695 BC) was one of the ancient Mukarrib of Saba, who ruled in the last two decades of the eighth century BC.
He is the author of the oldest and most important ancient historical documents related to news of the establishment of the state of Saba, which later turned into a kingdom, during the reign of King Karib'il Watar in the seventh century BC.
According to a special archaeological inscription by the Assyrian king Sargon II and the records of Dur-Sharrukin, Itamra of the Saba paid tribute to Sargon II during the seventh year of his reign, that is, approximately the year 715 BC.
In Assyrian records
The Sabaean ruler “Yatha Amr Watar” was mentioned during the reign of Sargon II in the year 715 BC, this is in the following phrases:
From Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and “Šamši,” queen of Arabia, and Atamra of Saba’i, and the kings of the coast and the gold desert, special mountain plants, precious stones, ivory, and maple seeds, And various kinds of aromatic herbs, horses, and camels, and they delivered them to me as tribute.”
“From Pharaoh, king of Egypt, Šamši, queen of Arabia, and Atamra of Saba, give me raw gold from the mountains, and horses and camels.”
References
Middle Eastern kings
Mukaribs of Saba |
76498078 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahir%20Raj | Shahir Raj | Shahir Raj (Bengali: শাহীর রাজ) is an actor who works in Bengali films. He made is his big-screen debut as David Paul under Shree Venkatesh Films in the 2021 Bengali movie Mukhosh (2021 film) by Birsa Dasgupta starring Tota Roy Chowdhury, Anirban Bhattacharya, Chandrayee Ghosh, and Payel De among others.
Following this, he gained much popularity from major roles in movies and web series like that of Abar Proloy, Pariah (2024 film) , and Haami 2 among others.
Works
Filmography
Web series
References
External links
1994 births
Living people
Male actors from West Bengal
Male actors in Bengali cinema
21st-century Indian male actors
Indian male film actors |
76498084 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela%20Reif | Pamela Reif | Pamela Leonie Reif (born: 9 July 1996 in Karlsruhe) is a German web video producer and influencer. She covers topics such as
nutrition, fitness and lifestyle. She has authored a few books on the subject and owns a food brand Naturally Pam, which sells snacks and health supplements. In 2020, she was ranked in first place on the Forbes list of “30 Under 30 DACH”.
Life and career
Pamela Leonie Reif was born on 9 July 1996 in Karlsruhe, Germany. In 2014, she obtained her high school diploma from the Heisenberg-Gymnasium. She has been active on Instagram since 2012, where she first published photos of landscapes and food and then of sports and fitness exercises. As of August 2022, she had around 8.9 million subscribers in Instagram. Reif makes her living by promoting fitness products and clothing fashion. On her YouTube channel, which has been running since 2013, she has more than 9.38 million subscribers (as of February 2023). In 2020, she was ranked in first place on the Forbes list of “30 Under 30 DACH”.
In 2017, Reif published her first book titled Strong & Beautiful which covered topics such as nutrition, fitness and lifestyle. In May 2019, she published her second book titled You Deserve This. She has also been publishing the podcast Schaumermal since March 2020.
At the beginning of 2021, Reif founded a food brand Naturally Pam and sells various protein bars, muesli and other snacks in partnership with Goodlife Company GmbH.
Criticism and accusations
In January 2019, Reif was convicted in one of the three Injunctions previously brought against Reif by the Association of Social Competition on the accusation of surreptitious advertising was heard at the Karlsruhe Regional Court. The Karlsruhe Higher Regional Court confirmed the judgment in September 2020. The judgment was put on hold as a revision petition was filed to the Federal Court of Justice (BGH) which was admitted. The Association of Social Competition later withdrew the lawsuit before the Federal Court of Justice in January 2022 after a fundamental decision of the Federal Court in September 2021 in the trial against influencers Cathy Hummels, Leonie Hanne and Luisa- Maxime Huss was decided on the labeling of advertising in favor of influencers. The association bore the costs of the legal dispute against Reif.
Publications
Strong & Beautiful. Community Editions, Cologne 2017, ISBN 978-3-96096-001-0.
You Deserve This: Simple & natural recipes for a healthy lifestyle. Bowl cookbook. Community Editions, Cologne 2019, ISBN 978-3-96096-074-4.
You Deserve This: Simple & natural recipes for a healthy lifestyle. Snack cookbook. Community Editions, Cologne 2021, ISBN 978-3-96096-189-5
Weblinks
References
Social media influencers
German women
1996 births
Living people |
76498085 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024%20Torneig%20Internacional%20de%20Tennis%20Femen%C3%AD%20Solgiron%C3%A8s%20%E2%80%93%20Singles | 2024 Torneig Internacional de Tennis Femení Solgironès – Singles | Arantxa Rus was the reigning champion, but did not participate this year.
Seeds
Draw
Finals
Top half
Bottom half
Qualifying
Seeds
Qualifiers
Lucky loser
Qualifying draw
First qualifier
Second qualifier
Third qualifier
Fourth qualifier
References
External links
Main Draw
Qualifying Draw
Torneig Internacional de Tennis Femení Solgironès |
76498096 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misericordia%20University%2C%20Pennsylvania%20%28CDP%29 | Misericordia University, Pennsylvania (CDP) | Misericordia University is a census-designated place (CDP) in Dallas Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania United States. It is located on the campus of Misericordia University, approximately north of the borough of Dallas. As of the 2020 census, the population was 1,064 residents.
Demographics
References
Census-designated places in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania |
76498101 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aya%20El-Fiky | Aya El-Fiky | Aya El-Fiky (born 29 March 2003) is an Egyptian basketball player who plays for the Egyptian women's basketball team and also Al Ahly Sporting Club in Egypt. She is 5 ft 10 in tall. And plays as a forward in her basketball career.
Career Details
National Team Senior
In the 2023 FIBA Women's AfroBasket, she played 2 games, averaging 0.5 points, 0.5 rebounds, 0 assists, and an efficiency rating of 0.
Overall, her total averages for the national team senior level are 0.5 points, 0.5 rebounds, 0 assists, and an efficiency rating of 0.
National Team Youth
In the 2021 FIBA U19 Women's Basketball World Cup, she played 7 games, averaging 1.9 points, 4.4 rebounds, 1 assist, and an efficiency rating of 0.9.
During the 2020 Afrobasket U18 Women, she played 5 games, averaging 5.4 points, 8 rebounds, 1.8 assists, and an efficiency rating of 10.2.
In the 2019 FIBA U16 Women’s African Championship, she played 5 games, averaging 8.4 points, 12.2 rebounds, 1.2 assists, and an efficiency rating of 15.
Overall, her total averages for the national team youth level are 5.2 points, 8.2 rebounds, 1.3 assists, and an efficiency rating of 8.7.
References
Living people
2003 births
Egyptian women's basketball players |
76498114 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic%20Party%20of%20Australia | Democratic Party of Australia | The Democratic Party of Australia (DPA), sometimes referred to as the Australian Democratic Party, was an Australian political party that was active in the mid-1950s.
Ahead of the 1953 Senate election, the party merged with the Queensland-based Independent Democratic Party (IDP). However, they split following the election. The party was also separate from the North Queensland Democratic Party, which had itself been formed just weeks after the DPA.
History
The party was formed in Sydney on 17 February 1953 by a group who had organised the campaign of independent candidate Martin Hardie at the 1952 Bradfield by-election. It was chaired by former Willoughby mayor A. R. Baldwin. According to its secretary, the party opposed the Liberal Party's policy on taxation and the Labor Party's policy on socialisation.
The party merged with the Independent Democrats several months before the 1953 Senate election, with the DPA's Charles Russell (a former Country Party MP) saying the decision was made because both parties had similar aims and ideologies. The party endorsed public health administrator Raphael Cilento (of the IDP) as its lead candidate in Queensland.
At the Senate election, the party's ticket was unsuccessful, winning 6% of the vote. Shortly after, the party opened nominations for candidates for the next federal election.
The party endorsed Thomas Brosnan as its candidate for the 1953 Lang by-election. However, Brosnan was disendorsed after the close of nominations as he had not been a resident of Australia for three years.
Following the by-election, several members of the party's New South Wales executive resigned, including organising secretary Douglas Maxwell in October 1953. Around this time, the DPA split from the IDP.
On 6 June 1954, the party's New South Wales branch disbanded, thus dissolving the party entirely.
Leaders
President
References
1953 establishments in Australia
1954 disestablishments in Australia
Political parties established in 1953
Political parties disestablished in 1954 |
76498117 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curriculum%20learning | Curriculum learning | Curriculum learning is a technique in machine learning in which a model is trained on examples of increasing difficulty, where the definition of "difficulty" may be provided externally or discovered automatically as part of the training process. This intended to attain good performance more quickly, or to converge to a better local optimum if the global optimum is not found.
Approach
Most generally, curriculum learning is the technique of successively increasing the difficulty of examples in the training set that is presented to a model over multiple training iterations. This can produce better results than exposing the model to the full training set immediately under some circumstances; most typically, when the model is able to learn general principles from easier examples, and then gradually incorporate more complex and nuanced information as harder examples are introduced, such as edge cases. This has been shown to work in many domains, most likely as a form of regularization.
There are several major variations in how the technique is applied:
A concept of "difficulty" must be defined. This may come from human annotation or an external heuristic; for example in language modeling, shorter sentences might be classified as easier than longer ones. Another approach is to use the performance of another model, with examples accurately predicted by that model being classified as easier (providing a connection to boosting).
Difficulty can be increased steadily or in distinct epochs, and in a deterministic schedule or according to a probability distribution. This may also be moderated by a requirement for diversity at each stage, in cases where easier examples are likely to be disproportionately similar to each other.
Applications must also decide the schedule for increasing the difficulty. Simple approaches may use a fixed schedule, such as training on easy examples for half of the available iterations and then all examples for the second half. Other approaches use self-paced learning to increase the difficulty in proportion to the performance of the model on the current set.
Since curriculum learning only concerns the selection and ordering of training data, it can be combined with many other techniques in machine learning. The success of the method assumes that a model trained for an easier version of the problem can generalize to harder versions, so it can be seen as a form of transfer learning. Some authors also consider curriculum learning to include other forms of progressively increasing complexity, such as increasing the number of model parameters. It is frequently combined with reinforcement learning, such as learning a simplified version of a game first.
Some domains have shown success with anti-curriculum learning: training on the most difficult examples first. One example is the ACCAN method for speech recognition, which trains on the examples with the highest signal-to-noise ratio first.
History
The term "curriculum learning" was introduced by Yoshua Bengio et al in 2009, with reference to the psychological technique of shaping in animals and structured education for humans: beginning with the simplest concepts and then building on them. The authors also note that the application of this technique in machine learning has its roots in the early study of neural networks such as Jeffrey Elman's 1993 paper Learning and development in neural networks: the importance of starting small. Bengio et al showed good results for problems in image classification, such as identifying geometric shapes with progressively more complex forms, and language modeling, such as training with a gradually expanding vocabulary. They conclude that, for curriculum strategies, "their beneficial effect is most pronounced on the test
set", suggesting good generalization.
The technique has since been applied to many other domains:
Natural language processing:
Part-of-speech tagging
Intent detection
Sentiment analysis
Machine translation
Speech recognition
Image recognition:
Facial recognition
Object detection
Reinforcement learning:
Game-playing
Graph learning
Matrix factorization
Further reading
Curriculum Learning: A Survey
A Survey on Curriculum Learning
Curriculum Learning for Reinforcement Learning Domains: A Framework and Survey
Curriculum learning at IEEE Xplore
References
Machine learning algorithms |
76498125 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uddingston%20F.C.%20%281898%29 | Uddingston F.C. (1898) | Uddingston Football Club was an association football club from Uddingston in Lanarkshire.
History
The club was the third senior club from the town ; its first record is of its joining the Scottish Football Association in August 1898. It was set up at a difficult time for clubs given the rise of the Scottish Football League and other similar league competitions. A Lanarkshire Football League was founded in October 1898, which required a £10 guarantee for visiting clubs, well beyond the capabilities of the smaller clubs. A smaller Second League was held in the second half of the 1898–99 season, with Uddingston as one of the five members, but it seems to have fizzled out by the end of April.
Uddingston was duly without any level of success. It entered the Lanarkshire Cup three times, from 1898–99 to 1900–01, as well as the Consolation Cup for clubs eliminated before the final; it played five times in the competition, losing four matches, with the exception being a 1–1 draw with Wishaw Thistle in the 1898–99 Consolation - a match which was both "fluky and uninteresting" and in which Uddingston had a goal disallowed.
It also entered the Scottish Qualifying Cup in 1898–99 and 1899–1900. In the former year, the club walked over Longriggend in the first round, and only lost 2–1 at Carfin in the second. In the latter, the club gained its only competitive victory, with a 7–1 win at Glengowan, despite the home side being ranked slight favourite, but the club lost again in the second round, this time 3–1 at Wishaw, hindered by one of its better players (Crichton) having to cry off after an injury received against Carfin Emmet. A protest against the Wishaw goalkeeper for being an "irregular" member was dismissed, Uddingston not learning from a failed protest by Wishaw Thistle against the same player after the first round.
The club was struck off the Scottish FA roll in August 1900. The club still technically existed, as it was entered in the Lanarkshire Cup and was drawn to receive a bye in the first round, and paired with Motherwell in the second, but the tie did not take place. The next Uddingston club was set up in 1910, but it was not a senior club, and the 1898 club remains the last senior club from the town.
Colours
The club played in white.
Ground
The club played at Meadowbank Park, as had its predecessor club.
References
Defunct football clubs in Scotland
Association football clubs established in 1898
Association football clubs disestablished in 1901
1898 establishments in Scotland
1901 disestablishments in Scotland
Football in South Lanarkshire
Bothwell and Uddingston |
76498129 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995%20XL%20Bermuda%20Open | 1995 XL Bermuda Open | The 1995 XL Bermuda Open was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts in Paget in Bermuda and was part of the World Series of the 1995 ATP Tour. It was the second edition of the tournament and was held from 17 April through 22 April 1995. Unseeded Mauricio Hadad won the singles title.
Finals
Singles
Mauricio Hadad defeated Javier Frana 7–6(7–5), 3–6, 6–4
It was Hadad's only singles title of his career.
Doubles
Grant Connell / Todd Martin defeated Brett Steven / Jason Stoltenberg 7–6, 2–6, 7–5
It was Connell's 4th doubles title of the year and the 15th of his career. It was Martin's 1st doubles title of the year and the 3rd of his career.
References
External links
ITF tennis tournament edition
XL Bermuda Open
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76498134 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Araripe%20Geopark | Araripe Geopark | Araripe Geopark is a geological park, located in Ceará, Brazil. It is the first geological park in Brazil, recognized by UNESCO (global geopark).
It is located across six municipalities in Ceará: Barbalha, Crato, Juazeiro do Norte, Missão Velha, Nova Olinda, and Santana do Cariri. With a total area of 3,796 km², the park presents a vast biological, geological, and paleontological heritage.
Initially, part of its territory was recognized as the Environmental Protection Area of Chapada do Araripe since 1997, on the plateau between 700 and 900 meters high, located near the border of Ceará with the states of Piauí and Pernambuco.
It holds one of the largest deposits of fossils from Lower Cretaceous in Brazil and in the world. This includes the largest concentration of pterosaur remains in the world, as well as 20 different orders of fossilized insects, approximately 110 million years old. It also contains preserved fossils of the earliest flowering plants, which demonstrate primitive interactions between insects and plants. Since September 2006, it has been integrated into the Global Geoparks Network and is recognized by UNESCO as a relevant geological and paleontological heritage of the world. It was the first geological park recognized in the Americas.
One of the objectives of the geological park is to preserve the natural wealth of Chapada do Araripe.
Geosites
In Araripe UNESCO Global Geopark there are nine geosites. Each geosite characterizes a diferent period of this region’s geological time.
Colina do Horto
Cachoeira de Missão Velha
Floresta Petrificada do Cariri
Batateira
Pedra Cariri
Parque dos Pterossauros
Riacho do Meio
Ponte de Pedra
Pontal de Santa Cruz
In pop culture
Several dinosaurs, pterosaurs, fish, and plants from the Geological Park of Araripe appear in the Brazilian science fiction work Hidden Reality ().
References
Global Geoparks Network members
Geoparks in Brazil
Geology of Brazil
Protected areas of Ceará
External links
Araripe geopark on UNESCO website |
76498149 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Revolutions | American Revolutions | American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750–1804 is a 2016 history book by Alan Taylor.
Bibliography
External links
2016 non-fiction books
English-language books
W. W. Norton & Company books
History books about the 18th century
History books about the American Revolution |
76498151 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing%20of%20David%20Ben%20Avraham | Killing of David Ben Avraham | On the morning of 21 March 2024, David Ben Avraham, a 63-year old Palestinian Jewish convert, was shot and killed by an Israeli reservist near the Israeli settlement of Elazar in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. When Ben Avraham got out of a taxi, an Israeli reservist approached and pointed his gun at him, questioning if Ben Avraham was Jewish, to which Ben Avraham responded affirmatively. Ben Avraham complied with the Israeli reservist's orders by raising his hands and stepping away from his personal bag, but was then nevertheless shot and killed.
A knife was later found in Ben Avraham's bag, but The Times of Israel reported that there was no evidence that he posed a threat. The Israeli military opened an investigation into what it called a "grave" incident. The Israeli Interior Ministry posthumously approved an Israeli residence status that Ben Avraham had been seeking.
Born Sameh Zaytoun, Ben Avraham had converted to Judaism a number of years ago in honor of his grandfather, who had saved 25 Jews during the 1929 Hebron massacre. Zaytoun's attempts to formalize his conversion were rebuffed several times by the Israeli authorities until he succeeded in the Israeli city of Bnei Brak, changing his name to David Ben Avraham. After conversion, Ben Avraham's attempts to apply for Israeli citizenship were rejected due to him being a Palestinian.
David Ben Avraham
Born Sameh Zaytoun, he reportedly converted to Judaism in honor of his grandfather, who had saved 25 Jews during the 1929 Hebron massacre. His attempts at conversion were rebuffed several times by the Israeli authorities until he was successful in the Israeli city of Bnei Brak, thus changing his name to David Ben Avraham. After conversion, he tried to apply for Israeli citizenship several times, but was rebuffed due to him being Palestinian. Ben Avraham lived in Hebron.
In 2019, Ben Avraham was arrested and jailed in Hebron by the Palestinian Authority for 58 days, where he was reportedly tortured, as well as attacked and beaten by inmates. Palestinian religious figures would visit him to convince him to retract his conversion, which he declined.
Killing
According to available CCTV and bodycam footage reported on by The Times of Israel, Ben Avraham exited a taxi on the morning of 21 March 2024 near the settlement of Elazar in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. An Israeli reservist then approached and pointed his gun at him, asked him if he was Jewish, to which he responded affirmatively. The reservist, who seemed unconvinced, proceeds to ask about his name, to which he responded: "David Ben Avraham, idiot." After Ben Avraham tries to reach for his bag, the soldier tells him to put his hands up saying: "Touch that and I’ll kill you, do you understand me?" Ben Avraham complies, raising his hands and stepping away from the bag. The reservist again says "Jew," before killing him. The Jerusalem Post reported that Ben Avraham did not do anything suspicious other than get off at a bus location near Jewish residence that Palestinians did not typically use.
Later it was found that there was a knife in Ben Avraham's bag, but The Times of Israel reported that there was no evidence that he posed a threat and the Israeli military opened an investigation into what it called a "grave incident". The Israeli Interior Ministry then posthumously approved an Israeli residence status that Ben Avraham had been seeking.
The reservist's attorneys opined that "we do not doubt that the investigation will clarify the chain of events and the case [of David Ben Avraham] will end with an additional excellence award awarded to the soldier". The attorneys also said that the soldier "recently was honored for his bravery in thwarting the ramming attack that took place about three weeks ago in Gush Etzion."
Over 350 Palestinians had been killed by Israeli soldiers or settlers in the occupied West Bank since the start of the Israel-Hamas war on 7 October 2023. The Jerusalem Post said this killing joins a series of "wrongful mistaken killings" of Jewish-Israelis and Arab-Israelis that have occurred since 7 October, "in which, to date, the prosecution and courts have been extremely lenient on the killers".
See also
Killing of Eyad al-Hallaq
References
2024 deaths
Police brutality in the 2020s
2024 scandals
2024 in Jerusalem
March 2024 events in Asia
Jerusalem in the Israel–Hamas war
Deaths by firearm in the West Bank
People killed by Israeli security forces
Killings by law enforcement officers in Israel
Civilians killed in the Israel–Hamas war |
76498180 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shailer%20Park%20State%20High%20School | Shailer Park State High School | Shailer Park State High School is a public, co-educational high school located in Shailer Park, Queensland, Australia. It is administered by the Department of Education, with an enrolment of 1115 students and a teaching staff of 95, as of 2023.
History
It was the first school to operate in Shailer Park, being established on 29 January 1980. In 2009, Shailer Park was one of 32 schools to take part in a welfare scheme. In 2019, A 12-year-old student had been charged for allegedly stabbing a 13-year-old classmate in the back.
References
Schools in Logan City
Educational institutions established in 1980
1980 establishments in Australia
Public high schools in Queensland |
76498181 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20F.%20Stevens | Andrew F. Stevens | Andrew F. Stevens was a banker and politician in Pennsylvania who served as a state legislator. He was African American. He was elected in 1919.
He was the junior partner in Brown & Stevens, which invested in the Quality Amusement Co.
John C. Asbury also elected to Pennsylvania's legislature that year.
He lived in Philadelphia. He was a Republican.
He helped pass an anti-lynching bill supported by Mossell Griffin, chair of the legislative department of the National Association of Colored Women.
See also
List of African-American officeholders (1900–1959)
References
Year of birth missing
Year of death missing
Businesspeople from Philadelphia
African-American history in Philadelphia
African-American state legislators in Pennsylvania
African-American bankers
American bankers
Pennsylvania Republicans
Negro Republican Party politicians
20th-century Pennsylvania politicians
20th-century African-American politicians
20th-century American legislators
20th-century African-American businesspeople |
76498182 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Harper%20%28administrator%29 | John Harper (administrator) | John Harper (1851 – 1 July 1932) was a railways administrator, Chief Commissioner of New South Wales Railways 1914–1917
History
Harper was born in Parramatta and educated at Newington College and King's School. He spent several years in literary employment, then in 1871 started with the Railways as a clerk in John Whitton's office.
In 1877 he was appointed clerk supervising goods staff at Redfern railway station. In 1887 he succeeded G. T. Evans as goods superintendent, then in 1897 he succeeded David Kirkcaldie as Chief Traffic Manager, then following the death of Kirkcaldie was promoted to Assistant Commissioner for Railways.
Harper was Acting Commissioner while T. R. Johnson was on three months' leave from April 1910, then was elevated to the substantive position when Johnson retired in 1914.
Harper was not in robust health, however. He was obliged to take leave, and at its expiry he tendered his resignation. The post of Chief Commissioner was then filled by James Fraser, who had been acting during Harper's absence.
Harper died at his home at 29 Prince Albert Street, Mosman. His remains were buried at Rookwood Cemetery.
Personal
Harper married Sarah (c. 1853 – c. 10 October 1929) Their children include:
Walter Harper
Ethel Mary Harper (born 27 March 1875) married Stanley Macleay Rudder (also rendered "Rutter") of "St Elmo", Mudgee, on 26 March 1904
Emily Harper married L. J. Berkelman
References
1851 births
1932 deaths
Railway commissioners of New South Wales |
76498218 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maikey%20Houwaart | Maikey Houwaart | Maikey Houwaart (born 27 January 2006) is a Dutch professional footballer who plays for ADO Den Haag as a forward.
Career
Houwaart began his career with ADO Den Haag, turning professional in September 2022 on a contract until 2025. In January 2024, he stopped his carpentry training to join a first-team training camp.
References
2006 births
Living people
Dutch men's footballers
ADO Den Haag players
Eerste Divisie players
Association football forwards |
76498269 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024%E2%80%9325%20in%20English%20football | 2024–25 in English football | The 2024–25 season will be the 154th competitive association football season in England.
National Teams
England men's national football team
Fixtures
2024–25 Nations League
Group B2
England women's national football team
No fixtures are yet confirmed for the 24–25 season for the national women's team.
League competitions (Men's)
Premier League
Cup competitions (Men's)
Community Shield
League competitions (Women's)
Cup competitions (Women's)
Community Shield
Managerial changes
Retirements
May 2024: Joe Hart, 37, former England, Shrewsbury Town, Manchester City, Tranmere Rovers, Blackpool, Birmingham City, West Ham United and Burnley goalkeeper.
References |
76498274 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Fraser%20%28administrator%29 | James Fraser (administrator) | James Fraser (20 August 1861 – 28 July 1936) was an Australian-born Chief Commissioner of New South Wales railways from 1917 to 1926. He has been credited with inauguration of Sydney's railway electrification.
History
Fraser was born in Braidwood, New South Wales, and educated at Sydney Grammar School.
He joined the railways as a cadet draftsman or civil engineer, and in 1903 succeeded Thomas Rhodes Firth, his father-in-law, as engineer-in-chief for existing lines.
In 1914 he was appointed Assistant Commissioner, and in 1917 became Chief Commissioner, in place of Harper, who was in poor health. The roles of Assistant Commissioners was reformed:
Edward Milne, Assistant Commissioner, traffic
John Henry Cann, Assistant Commissioner, construction
Henry Fox, Assistant Commissioner, staff matters
He resigned in 1929 and was succeeded by W. J. Cleary.
1931 he was appointed to the Transport Coordination Board, which was dissolved in 1932 after the collapse of the Lang Government.
He died at his home "Arnprior", Avon Road, Pymble, at the age of 74 after a year suffering from tuberculosis.
Family
Fraser married Maria Elizabeth "Bessie" Firth (c. 1866 – 30 August 1929) on 11 November 1891. They had four sons:
Keith Aird Fraser (9 January 1893 – 1952) was born at "Burenda", Wycombe-road, Neutral Bay. He adopted a railways career, became Commissioner of Railways in 1952 but died 23 August the same year.
James Firth Fraser (21 September 1896 – 26 August 1927) Son served overseas in WWI and completed his medical degree, but died from tuberculosis shortly after.
Noel Fraser (6 February 1903 – ) born at at "Arnprior", Neutral Bay
Ian Fraser (7 October 1911 – )
Other interests
Fraser was known to play the occasional game of bridge.
References
1861 births
1936 deaths
Railway commissioners of New South Wales |
76498277 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytomyza%20aconitella | Phytomyza aconitella | Phytomyza aconitella is a species of fly in the family Agromyzidae.
Distribution
Austria.
References
aconitella
Diptera of Europe
Leaf miners
Taxa named by Friedrich Georg Hendel
Insects described in 1934 |
76498298 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%BDtt%20L%C3%ADf%20%28magazine%29 | Nýtt Líf (magazine) | Nýtt Líf () is a glossy monthly women's magazine which has been in circulation since 1978 in Iceland. It is one of the earliest Icelandic periodicals featuring lifestyle-related topics.
History and profile
Nýtt Líf was established in 1978. The magazine is published on a monthly basis. It covers topics related to women such as fashion and publishes interviews. The magazine also features news on sexual harassment against women, including a 2012 incident about Jón Baldvin Hannibalsson.
One of the former editors-in-chief of Nýtt Líf is Hjördís Rut Sigurjónsdóttir.
Nýtt Líf has awarded the Woman of the Year prize.
References
1978 establishments in Iceland
Magazines established in 1978
Lifestyle magazines
Women's magazines
Women's fashion magazines
Monthly magazines |
76498301 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heide%20Keller | Heide Keller | Heide Keller (15 October 1939-27 August 2021) was a German actor and screenwriter. She became known to a wide audience primarily through her portrayal of the head hostess Beatrice von Ledebur in around 80 episodes in the ZDF series Das Traumschiff and in 27 episodes of the spin-off Cruise into Happiness.
Life and career
Heide Keller was born on 15 October 1939 in Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. She grew up in Düren, where she attended the Higher Commercial School. After her acting training in Düsseldorf, she received her first theater engagement in 1962 at the Theater am Niederrhein in Kleve, where she played Juliet in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet among other roles. Through piece contracts or guest appearances, she then appeared at numerous other stage theaters such as Wuppertaler Bühnen in Düsseldorf, Theater am Dom in Cologne, Little Comedy in Hamburg, Contra-Kreis Theater and Small Theater Bad Godesberg in Bonn, Komödie im Marquardt in Stuttgart, Komödie im Bayerischen Hof in Munich and Theater am Kurfürstendamm in Berlin.
Keller made her television debut in 1965 as Fräulein Barsig under the direction of Walter Davy in the crime film Interrogation in the Afternoon. In 1968, she was part of the broadcast of Schwank's The Master Boxer in the Millowitsch Theater in Cologne alongside Willy and Lucy Millowitsch. After a few less prominent roles, from 1981 she played in the ZDF television series Das Traumschiff, first as hostess, and later as chief hostess Beatrice von Ledebur. From 2007 she was also seen in the role in a total of 27 episodes of the spin-off Cruise into Happiness. Keller also wrote scripts for individual episodes under the pseudonym Jac(ques) Dueppen. At the end of January 2017, it was announced that she would be leaving the television series at her own request. At the end of December 2017, her departure was discussed for the first time in the episode The Dream Ship: Uruguay. Her last appearance on the Dream Ship was in the following 80th episode The Dream Ship: Los Angeles, which aired on 1 January 2018. In November 2004, she published The Dream Ship: The Wanderlust Book for the Television Series together with Peter Bischoff in Henschel-Verlag. At the beginning of October 2018, Keller's autobiography was published by Knaur Verlag under the title Dream Time and Other Days: Memories.
Personal life
Heide Keller's first marriage was to the actor Thomas Härtner, son of Georg Thomalla. Her second marriage was to the actor Hans von Borsody for ten years; her stepdaughters were Suzanne von Borsody and Cosima von Borsody. She lived in a retirement home in Bonn, where she died of leukemia on 27 August 2021 at the age of 81. Heide Keller was buried in the cemetery of the Bonn district of Muffendorf.
Selected Filmography
1965: Interrogation in the Afternoon (TV film)
1968: The Master Boxer (TV film)
1977: Crime Scene: Lilac for Jaczek (TV film)
1977: Three are one too many (TV series, three episodes)
1978: Klimbim (TV series, episodes 5×03–5×04)
1978: Ripped away! What now? (TV series)
1981: Sextet (television recording comedy Berlin)
1982: Manni, the Libero (TV series, 13 episodes)
1983: Derrick (TV series, episode 10×01 Via Genoa)
1989: Berlin White with a Shot (TV series, episode 1×13)
1992: A Home for Animals (TV series, episode 8×04 Danger of Infection)
1997: Gynecologist Dr. Markus Merthin (TV series, episode 2×16 The Accident)
1999: Großstadtrevier (TV series, episode 9×07 Hard Bandages)
2003: Rosamunde Pilcher – Shooting Stars in August (TV film)
2006: Inga Lindström – Emma Svensson and Love (TV film)
2007–2017: Cruise to Happiness (TV series)
2013: Rosamunde Pilcher – The Woman on the Cliff (TV film)
2013: Emergency Call Hafenkante (TV series, episode 8×01 Einmal Traumschiff, crossover episodes with Das Traumschiff)
The Dream Ship Series
As head hostess Beatrice von Ledebur, Keller appeared in 80 episodes of the television series Das Traumschiff from 1981 to 2018.
Radio plays
1991: Horst Hensel, Heinrich Peuckmann: Murder at kick-off - Director: Klaus Wirbitzky
1996: Horst Bosetzky: Burn out - Director: Klaus Wirbitzky
References
Further reading
Hermann J. Huber: Langen Müller's contemporary actor lexicon. Germany. Austria. Switzerland. Albert Langen • Georg Müller Verlag GmbH, Munich • Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-7844-2058-3, p. 484.
Heide Keller, Peter Bischoff: The dream ship: The wanderlust book for the television series. Henschel Verlag • November 2004, ISBN 978-3-894-87501-5.
Heide Keller: Dream time and other days: memories Knaur Verlag • October 2018, ISBN 978-3-426-21444-2.
External links
Film actors
Stage actors
Screenwriters
Radio people
People from Düsseldorf
German actors
1939 births
2021 deaths
German women |
76498318 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humlum | Humlum | Humlum is a small railway town, with a population of 838 (1 January 2023), located about 5 km north of Struer and 2 km south of the Oddesund Bridge in Struer Municipality, Central Denmark Region in Denmark.
Humlum is served by Humlum railway station on the Thisted-Struer Line.
Humlum Church stands on a high ground 1 km south of the town and was earlier used as a navigation mark by the mariners on the Limfjord.
References
Cities and towns in the Central Denmark Region |
76498334 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024%20Gateshead%20Metropolitan%20Borough%20Council%20election | 2024 Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council election | The 2024 Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council election is scheduled to be held on Thursday 2 May 2024, alongside the other local elections across the United Kingdom being held on the same day.
Background
The Local Government Act 1972 created a two-tier system of metropolitan counties and districts covering Greater Manchester, Merseyside, South Yorkshire, Tyne and Wear, the West Midlands, and West Yorkshire starting in 1974. Gateshead was a district of the Tyne and Wear metropolitan county. The Local Government Act 1985 abolished the metropolitan counties, with metropolitan districts taking on most of their powers as metropolitan boroughs.
Gateshead Council has continuously been under Labour control since its creation. The Liberal Democrats have generally been the main opposition. In the most recent election in 2023, Labour won 15 seats on 50.3% of the vote and the Liberal Democrats won 7 seats on 27.5% of the vote. The Conservatives received 12.5% of the vote and the Green Party received 7.5% of the vote, but neither party won any seats.
Positions up for election in 2024 were last up for election in 2021. In that election, Labour won 19 seats and the Liberal Democrats won five seats.
Electoral process
The council elects its councillors in thirds, with a third being up for election every year for three years, with no election in the fourth year. The election will take place by first-past-the-post voting, with wards generally being represented by three councillors, with one elected in each election year to serve a four-year term.
All registered electors (British, Irish, Commonwealth and European Union citizens) living in Gateshead aged 18 or over will be entitled to vote in the election. People who live at two addresses in different councils, such as university students with different term-time and holiday addresses, are entitled to be registered for and vote in elections in both local authorities. Voting in-person at polling stations will take place from 07:00 to 22:00 on election day, and voters will be able to apply for postal votes or proxy votes in advance of the election.
Previous Composition
References
Gateshead
Gateshead Council elections
2020s in Tyne and Wear |
76498336 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish%20Energy%20Authority | Finnish Energy Authority | The Finnish Energy Authority () is an expert authority within the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment in Finland. It was initially named Electricity Market Center (SMK) and before the most recent name change, Energy Market Authority (EMV).
The Energy Authority's tasks include monitoring the pricing of the electricity transmission grid and natural gas markets, and maintaining Finland's national emission trading registry. The agency also provides information on electricity prices to consumers to support the competition of electricity suppliers. Additionally, the Energy Authority oversees the implementation of electricity origin guarantees, ensuring that the amount of energy sold to consumers by energy companies, such as wind energy, is produced by wind power. The Energy Authority also administers the renewable energy feed-in tariffs that came into effect in 2011.
Electricity transmission in Finland is a natural monopoly, managed by regional transmission companies. The Energy Authority oversees these companies to ensure they do not abuse their monopoly position and overcharge their customers.
Regarding emissions trading, the Energy Authority grants and monitors emissions permits, oversees the implementation of emissions trading, approves emissions verifiers, and acts as the auctioneer of emission allowances in Finland.
In early 2014, the Energy Authority adopted its current name and assumed tasks related to energy efficiency and the promotion of renewable energy from the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment. At that time, the Energy Authority employed 70 people. Simo Nurmi has been the Director-General since April 2015.
See also
European Union Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators
References
External links
Energy Authority
Government agencies of Finland
Electric power
Energy production |
76498345 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teddy%20Oetomo | Teddy Oetomo | Teddy Oetomo is Indonesian equity market analysts who has served as the President of Bukalapak since July 20, 2020. He joined Bukalapak in July 2018, initially serving as Chief Strategy Officer (CEO) for two years before assuming the role of President, succeeding Muhammad Fajrin Rasyid, who resigned.
Teddy earned his bachelor's to Ph.D. degrees in economics from the University of Sydney. Prior to his career at Bukalapak, he specialized in equity market analysis and asset management. He began his career in 2002 at the financial services company Capital Markets CRC Limited in Sydney. At the same time, he also taught as a lecturer at his alma mater, the University of Sydney.
In January 2006, he moved to work at the global financial services company Credit Suisse. He worked there for eight years, with his final position being Head of Equity Research for Indonesia in 2014. Afterward, he took a one-year hiatus from his financial career to assist his family business before joining the asset management company Schroders as Head of Intermediary Business from 2015 to 2018.
During his three years at Bukalapak, Teddy Oetomo has been part of various milestones in the company's journey, especially its listing on the Indonesia Stock Exchange with the largest IPO in Indonesian capital market history. He has connected Bukalapak with potential investors through his expertise in the capital market world.
References
Indonesian businesspeople
Living people |
76498376 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listed%20buildings%20in%20Brafferton%20and%20Helperby | Listed buildings in Brafferton and Helperby | Brafferton and Helperby is a civil parish in the Hambleton District of North Yorkshire, England. It contains 34 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, one is listed at Grade II*, the middle of the three grades, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The parish contains the adjacent villages of Brafferton and Helperby, and the surrounding countryside. Most of the listed buildings are houses, cottages and associated structures, farmhouses and farm buildings, and the others include a church, public houses, three dovecotes, a bridge and a well.
Key
Buildings
References
Citations
Sources
Lists of listed buildings in North Yorkshire |
76498382 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctioning%20Evil | Sanctioning Evil | Sanctioning Evil is an 2022 American action-thriller film written by Kyle Travis Sharp and directed by Ante Novakovic. The film stars Tobias Truvillion, Zach McGowan and Taryn Manning. The film follows Staff sergeant Reginald Barnes (Truvillion), a recently discharged Army veteran who finds his way back into society via congressman Ambrose (McGowan). The film was shot in New York and New Jersey in late 2020.
The film was released on October 7, 2022, by Vertical Entertainment.
Cast
Reception
Film critic Jim Morazzini from Voices from the Balcony gave in 1 of 5 stars writing: "Talky and dull with a plot that relies on coincidence Sanctioning Evil is an overlong mess that could have been a solid revenge-based action film. Or an interesting conspiracy film. Or a thriller about political corruption. Instead, it incorporates bits of all three and comes out with a mess complete with a sanctimonious quote from the Bible to justify it all.”
Nelson Acosta from Fiction Horizon gave it 8/10 and praised the performances writing: "when the film gets going, it ends up becoming this fascinating exploration of morals in a world that doesn’t want anything to do with them. The film also goes for an ending that feels the complete opposite of what other films are doing. Some might find it anticlimactic, but Sanctioning Evil goes for it and makes the film worth watching."
References
External links
2020s English-language films
2022 action thriller films
American action thriller films
Vertical Entertainment films
2022 independent films
Films shot in New York City
Films shot in New Jersey |
76498404 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compositional%20game%20theory | Compositional game theory | Compositional game theory is a branch of game theory and computer science, which aims to present large complex games as a composition of simple small games.
Motivation
A major theme in computer science is the ability to construct simple building-blocks (e.g. functions or procedures in a programming language), and compose them into larger structures (e.g. more complex functions or programs). This principle is also called modularity.
In contrast, in classic game theory, even complex games are treated as single, monolithic objects. This makes the analysis of games hard to scale.
Compositional game theory (CGT) aims to apply the modularity principle to game theory. The main motivation is to make it easier to analyze large games using software tools.
Higher-order game
A higher-order simultaneous game is a generalization of a Simultaneous game in which players are defined by selection functions rather than by utility functions. Formally, a higher-order simultaneous game for n players contains the following elements:
A set R of outcomes.
For each player i, a set Xi of choices (possible actions).
We define Σ as the Cartesian product of all Xi, and call it the set of strategy profiles.
An outcome function, from Σ to R. This function determines, for each combination of actions of the players, what the outcome will be.
For each player i, there is a selection function denoted di. The selection function takes as input a context, which is a function from Xi to R; and returns a set of best-responses, which is a subset of Xi.
The term "higher-order" comes from the latter element. The best-response correspondence of each player is a higher-order function, as is input is itself a function. Every strategy-profile s1 in Σ, defines for each player i a function from Xi to R: the function maps each possible action xi in Xi to the outcome that would result if all players except i play as in s1, whereas player i switches his action to xi. In other words, s1 defines the context in which player i operates.
Given two strategy-tuples s1 and s2 in Σ, we say that s2 is a best-response to s1 if, for each player i, s2,i is contained in the output of di on the context generated by s1. The best-response relation is a binary relation contained in Σ x Σ, denoted by B.
In a standard game, instead of the selection function, there is a utility function ui for each player i. A utility function takes as input an outcome from R, and returns a real number. Such a game can be represented as a higher-order game as follows. For each player i, the selection function returns the set of actions from Xi that maximize the utility of agent i, given the context.
Open games
The main object of study in CGT is the open game. An open game has the following elements:
A set X of observations;
A set Y of outcomes;
A set Σ of strategy profiles.
A play function P, which is a function from Σ x X to Y;
A coplay function C, which is a function from Σ x X x R to S;
A best-response function B, which is a function from X x (Y -> R) to a relation in Σ x Σ.
It is an abstraction of a higher-order game.
Open games can be decomposed in two ways:
In sequence - yielding a sequential game;
In parallel - yielding a simultaneous game.
See also
Bayesian open games.
External links
Open game engine - Haskell code for constructing and analyzing open games.
References
Game theory
Category theory |
76498412 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20Ng | Jack Ng | Jack Ng Wai Lun (; born 1976) is a Hong Kong film director and screenwriter. Ng started his career as a screenwriter, best known for collaborating with Dante Lam in action thriller films. He received four nominations for Best Screenplay in the 28th, 30th, 33rd, and 36th Hong Kong Film Awards for his contributions to Beast Stalker (2008), The Stool Pigeon (2010), Unbeatable (2013), and Cold War 2 (2016) respectively. In 2023, Ng made his directorial debut with the crime comedy film A Guilty Conscience. The film earned him nominations for Best Director in the 42nd Hong Kong Film Awards and Best Directorial Debut in the 36th Golden Rooster Awards, and made him the first and only director to produce a Hong Kong domestic film with over HK$100 million of box office.
Biography
Ng was born in 1976. He attended St Joseph's College, and graduated from the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts in 2000 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film and Television, majoring in directing. After completing his studies, he entered the film industry as a script supervisor, which included working on Dante Lam's 2000 crime comedy film Jiang hu: The Triad Zone. Ng befriended Lam and went on to collaborate as a screenwriter in his subsequent projects and Runaway in 2001. Ng continued to write for Lam in the 2003 comedy horror film The Twins Effect and served as the writer for the 2005 action thriller film SPL: Sha Po Lang. In 2008, Ng once again collaborated with Lam, writing the screenplay for the action thriller film Beast Stalker, which garnered him a nomination for Best Screenplay in the 28th Hong Kong Film Awards. He earned another nomination for Best Screenplay in the 30th Hong Kong Film Awards for the 2010 action thriller film The Stool Pigeon, also directed by Lam.
Ng continued to collaborate with Lam as a screenwriter in several films. In 2012, he worked on Lam's action film The Viral Factor and the 2013 sports film Unbeatable. His screenplay for The Viral Factor earned him a nomination for Best Screenplay at the 19th Hong Kong Film Critics Society Award, while he received nominations for Best Screenplay in both the 20th Hong Kong Film Critics Society Award and the 33rd Hong Kong Film Awards for his work on Unbeatable. In 2015, Ng wrote the screenplay for the action thriller film That Demon Within, for which Ng was nominated for Best Screenplay in the 21st Hong Kong Film Critics Society Award. In 2017, he collaborated with directors and on the action thriller film Cold War 2, earning another nomination for Best Screenplay in the 36th Hong Kong Film Awards. He then co-wrote Monster Hunt 2 with his fellow APA classmate Sunny Chan in 2018, and contributed as a screenwriter for the biographical film Anita in 2021.
In 2023, Ng made his directorial debut with the film A Guilty Conscience. The film received critical acclaim and became the highest-grossing domestic film in Hong Kong, making Ng the first and only director to achieve a box office record of over HK$100 million for a local film. His directorial debut earned him a nomination for Best Director in the 42nd Hong Kong Film Awards and Best Directorial Debut in the 36th Golden Rooster Awards.
Filmography
Film
Awards and nominations
References
External links
1976 births
Living people
Alumni of The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts
Hong Kong film directors
Hong Kong screenwriters |
76498414 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiona%20Lortan | Fiona Lortan | Fiona Lortan is a South African national who is the Deputy Special Representative of the AU Commission Chairperson (DSRCC) for Somalia and Deputy Head of Mission. She assumed this office in February 2022.
Early life and education
Fiona was born in South Africa. She had her Bachelor's degree in Literature from University of Kwa-Zulu Natal in Durban, South Africa and a Master of Philosophy degree in Social and Political Theory from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Career
She started her career wirh the African Union Commission from May 2002. She held various positions to ensure peace and security on the continent. She was recently acting director of Conflict Management in the Department of Political Affairs, Peace and Security (PAPS) and worked on AMISOM. She previously worked in Khartoum, Sudan, as a member of the AU High Level Panel on Implementation for Sudan and South Sudan, led by former South African President, Thabo Mbeki.
She is currently the Deputy Special Representative of the AU Commission Chairperson (DSRCC) for Somalia and Deputy Head of Mission.
References
Living people
African Union
South African women
South African women activists
South African Africanists
South African human rights activists
South African diplomats |
76498416 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Native%20Ground | The Native Ground | The Native Ground: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent is a 2006 book by Kathleen DuVal on Native Americans in the Arkansas River Valley from the mid-16th century to early 19th century.
Bibliography
External links
2006 non-fiction books
English-language books
University of Pennsylvania Press books
History books about the United States
Books about indigenous peoples |
76498417 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidous%20Yakubu | Fidous Yakubu | Fidous Yakubu is a Ghanaian footballer who specializes as a midfielder.
Club Football
Yakubu played for Ghana Women's Premier League side Ashtown Ladies FC (Kumasi Ghana) from 2015 to 2022. In 2021/2022 she scored 10 goals for the club, helping lead the Ashtown Ladies to the semifinals of the Women’s FA Cup. They lost in a 2-0 defeat to Hasaacas Ladies Football Club. In 2022 she signed for Sekondi Hasaacas Football Club (Ghana).
References
Living people
Ghanaian women's footballers
Hasaacas Ladies F.C. players
2000 births |
76498423 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dali%20Liluashvili | Dali Liluashvili | Dali Ladovna Liluashvili (, born 5 May 1999) is a female Russian judoka. 2022 Russian national champion and 2024 Antalya Grand Slam runner-up.
Background
Liluashvili was born in Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk oblast, Russia. She started judo at the age of seven. Her first coach was Sergey Shcherbinin.
Career
Age-group
Liluashvili has some successful results on the international circuit. In cadet level, during 2016, Dali finished at the third place at the European cups in Coimbra, Portugal, Tver, Russia and junior European cup in A Coruña, Spain in 2018. In 2019, she took the silver medal from the junior European cup in Lignano Sabbiadoro, Italy and won the junior European cup in Poznan, Poland. At the 2019 junior world championships in Marrakesh, Morocco she was runner-up as a Russian team member. Dali has also distinction in national competition. She is twice Russian junior national champion (2017, 2018). She was with gold medals from the U23 Russian national championships in 2020 and 2021.
As a senior athlete
Dali competed at the 2017 European cup in Orenburg, Russia and won the bronze medal. In 2019, she won Russian national cup at 70 kilos. In 2021, she won the Asian cup in Aktau, Kazakhstan, European cup in Orenburg, Russia and the CIS Games in Kazan, Russia. At the World Championships in Budapest, Hungary she was 5th in the team competition. In 2022, she won the Russian national championships, held in Yekaterinburg. At the 2024 Judo Grand Slam Antalya Liluashvili finished at the second place.
Achievements
Personal life
She is of Georgian ethnicity. She lives and trains in Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia.
References
External links
1999 births
Living people
Russian female judoka
21st-century Russian people |
76498437 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleksandr%20Kapinos | Oleksandr Kapinos | Oleksandr Anatoliyovych Kapinos (; 10 March 1984 – 19 February 2014) was a Ukrainian farmer and political activist who is posthumously awarded the Hero of Ukraine in 2014. He is a member of the Svoboda party and took part in the clashes of Revolution of Dignity which resulted in his death.
Early life and education
Born on 10 March 1984, in the Ukrainian village of Dunaiiv. Kapinos graduated with a major in carpentry technique at the Ukrainian State Forestry University in Lviv (now the Ukrainian National Forestry University) in 2006, after completing his hometown school. One of the top pupils, he served a Polish internship. Working in Vinnytsia, he was the leader of the nationalist group Skolota in the area from 2008 to 2009. He went back to Ternopil Oblast in 2009 and started farming there.
Career
Kapinos supported Ukrainian culture, restoration of customs, and was an engaged member of the community. He was the leader of the Patriot Volyn advocacy group. Together with starting sports organizations in the community, organizing musical groups, and leading local choirs, he was also an organizer of cultural and creative events for youth. Volunteered in summer camps for the underprivileged. He was the first to call for the removing of Soviet emblems from his hometown village and started the process of erecting a memorial honoring Taras Shevchenko.
Additionally, Kapinos was the driving force behind the first memorial in the region to be built in the village of Kulikiv, honoring those who fought for Ukraine's independence. He attended Ukrainian Insurgent Army marches and traveled to Kyiv annually for the Feast of the Intercession. He actively participated in the Orange Revolution in 2004. He took part in the Maidan Nezalezhnosti demonstration in Kyiv in 2012, when he was among the first to declare an indefinite hunger strike in opposition to a bill that intended to suppress the Ukrainian language.
Early in 2012, Kapinos stood up for the liberties of the locals and stopped a development that would have devastated the Kremenets Mountains' ecosystem from being built on his native Danube. He later took part in the Revolution of Dignity. He landed in Kyiv at the end of November 2013, just as Euromaidan was getting underway. He joined the 35th hundred Volynska Sich under the pseudonym Flint when Maidan Self-Defense was established. Against overwhelming odds, he and his team held the Trade Unions Building on 18 February 2014, during the evening attack on the Maidan.
It was around 10 p.m. when he sustained a head wound, severing an artery. After being transported to the Kyiv City Clinical Emergency Hospital, he underwent surgery there. The wound proved to be too serious, and he passed away at 09:37 on 19 February 2014. On 20 February, the Holy Liturgy was conducted at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Ternopil on the day of sorrow in honor of those who were killed during the protests in Kyiv; including Kapinos and Ustym Holodnyuk. He was later buried in his village of Danube in Ternopil Oblast.
Personal life
Kapinos was a bandura, accordion and guitarist. Following the Revolution of Dignity, his marriage to his girlfriend Olena Kotlyar was arranged. She stated that he died with the hope that his objectives will be met and that Ukraine will be pleased with its sons.
Awards and recognitions
A memorial plaque honoring Kapinos was formally opened on 10 March, at Kulykiv, Kremenets Raion. On 24 August 2014, Independence Day, a monument in Dunaiv honoring the Hero of the Heavenly Hundred was unveiled, featuring his statue. 2014 saw the naming of a Dunaiiv street in his' honor. On 10 March 2016, his birthday, a commemorative plaque in Vinnytsia was unveiled. On his close friend and regional council deputy Volodymyr Bartsyos's suggestion, it was put in his household. A memorial plaque was also erected at the building no. 2 of the Ukrainian National Forestry University.
Kapinos has received awards and recognitions such as:
Hero of Ukraine Order of the Golden Star (posthumously; 21 November 2014)
Medal "For Sacrifice and Love for Ukraine" (posthumously; 4 July 2015)
Honorary Diploma of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Kyiv (posthumously; 8 May 2016)
References
External links
1984 births
2014 deaths
Ukrainian farmers
Ukrainian activists
People of the Euromaidan
People from Ternopil Oblast
Deaths by firearm in Ukraine
Recipients of the Order of State
People shot dead by law enforcement officers |
76498468 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crenilabium | Crenilabium | Crenilabium is a genus of small predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Acteonidae, the barrel bubble snails.
Species
Species within the genus Crenilabium include:
† Crenilabium aciculatum (Cossmann, 1889)
† Crenilabium austropsomum Stilwell & Zinsmeister, 1992
Crenilabium birmani Simone, 2006
† Crenilabium elatum (Koenen, 1855)
† Crenilabium elongatum (J. De C. Sowerby, 1824)
Crenilabium exile (Jeffreys, 1870)
Crenilabium orientalis (Thiele, 1925)
Crenilabium pacificum (Kuroda & Habe, 1961)
† Crenilabium pourcyense (Cossmann, 1907)
† Crenilabium starboroughense (L. C. King, 1934)
† Crenilabium suromaximum Stilwell & Zinsmeister, 1992
† Crenilabium terebelloides (R. A. Philippi, 1844)
† Crenilabium zelandicum P. Marshall, 1918
Synonyms
Crenilabium exilis [sic]: synonym of Crenilabium exile (Jeffreys, 1870) (incorrect gender ending)
† Crenilabium obsoletum Marwick, 1965: synonym of † Crenilabium starboroughense (L. C. King, 1934)
References
Valdés, Á. (2008). Deep-sea "cephalaspidean" heterobranchs (Gastropoda) from the tropical southwest Pacific. In: Héros, V. et al. (eds) Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos 25. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. 196: 587-792.
External links
Monterosato, T. A. di. (1890). Conchiglie della profondità del mare di Palermo. Il Naturalista Siciliano. 9(6): 140-151
Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213.
Acteonidae |
76498476 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979%20Liberty%20Baptist%20Flames%20football%20team | 1979 Liberty Baptist Flames football team | The 1979 Liberty Baptist Flames football team represented Liberty Baptist College (now known as Liberty University) as an independent during the 1979 NAIA Division I football season. Led by third-year head coach Tom Dowling, the Flames compiled an overall record of 9–1–1.
Schedule
References
Liberty Baptist
Liberty Flames football seasons
Liberty Baptist Flames football |
76498484 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%20Korea%E2%80%93Latin%20America%20relations | South Korea–Latin America relations | South Korea–Latin America relations are relations between South Korea and the countries of Latin America.
Overview
South Korea began diplomatic relations with Latin America in 1959 after establishing diplomatic ties with Brazil. After establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba in 2024, South Korea established diplomatic relations with all Latin American countries. Entering the 21st century, cooperation in various fields such as human and cultural exchanges between Korea and Latin America has been further strengthened.
Relations with particular Latin American countries
See also
Foreign relations of South Korea
Indo-Pacific Strategy of South Korea
References
Latin America
Latin America |
76498492 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renata%20Lusin | Renata Lusin | Renata Lusin (born 16 June 1987 in Kazan, Tatar ASSR, Soviet Union) is a Russian dancer and dance sports trainer.
Life and career
Renata Busheyeva was born on 16 June 1987 in Kazan, Tatar ASSR, Soviet Union. Her mother is Tatar and her father is Ukrainian. Lusin started dancing when she was 11 years old. At the age of 13, she moved with her grandfather from Kazan to Moscow to pursue professional training. She danced with Valentin Rechetnikov for a few months in 2002, with Evgeni Grigorov in early 2003 and with Ivan Anichkhin later. When she was 16, her mother advertised for a dance partner for her. The parents of Valentin Lusin from Düsseldorf came across the advertisement and Renata Lusin moved to Germany to partner Valentin.
Since 2003, she has been dancing with Valentin Lusin in the TD Tanzsportclub Düsseldorf Rot-Weiss. From 2006, she studied business administration at the Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf. In May 2014, Renata and Valentin Lusin married and they live in Düsseldorf.
The couple became multiple national champions in the main group S-standard and S-Latin and won various ranking tournaments. They also won the German Ten Dances championship twice and took top places in national and international championships. They belonged to the federal A squad and took first place in the ranking list of the main group standard of the German Dance Sports Association (most recently on 28 February 2017). In autumn 2017, the couple switched to the professional dancing as a part of the German Dance Sports Association. After winning the title at the World Championships Showdance Standard of Professionals in October 2021, the couple announced the end of their active dance career. Renata Lusin works as a trainer at the TD Tanzsportclub Düsseldorf Rot-Weiss, at the Meerbuscher Tanzsport-Club and at TTC Schwarz-Gold Moers.
Let’s Dance
In 2018, Lusin took part in the RTL dance show Let's Dance for the first time. Her dance partner Jimi Blue Ochsenknecht had to give up in the fifth episode due to injury. A year later she and Jan Hartmann were the first couple to be eliminated. In 2020 and 2022, she reached second and third place in the final with Moritz Hans and Mathias Mester, and in 2021 she achieved victory with Rúrik Gíslason. In the spin-off The Big Professional Challenge, she took third place in 2019 and 2020 and won the competition in 2021 and 2022. In 2023 and 2024 she did not participate due to pregnancy.
Filmography
2018: Just a few words (short film)
2018-22: Let's Dance (TV show, RTL)
2020: Ninja Warrior Germany – The Strongest Show in Germany (TV show, RTL)
2020: Ramon Roselly: Infinite (Music Video)
2021: The RTL Summer Games (TV show, RTL)
2021: Who knows something like that? (quiz show, ARD)
2023: Inga Lindström: The Sweetness of Life (TV series)
Achievements
2006: 2nd place at the German Championships over 10 dances
2007: 3rd place at the German Championships over 10 dances
2009: 1st place German Championship over 10 dances
2010: 1st place German Championship over 10 dances
2011: 2nd place at the German Championship over 10 dances
2013: 2nd place German championship over 10 dances
2013: 2nd place World Championship Showdance Standard
2013: 3rd place German Championship Standard
2014: 2nd place German Championship Hgr combination
2015: 3rd place World Championship Showdance Standard
2015: 3rd place German Championship Hgr-S-Standard
2016: 2nd place World Championship Showdance Standard
2016: 3rd place German Championship Hgr-S-Standard
2017: 3rd place World Championship Showdance Standard
2017: 3rd place World Championship Showdance Professionals Standard
2018: 1st place German Championship over 10 professional dances
2018: 2nd place German Championship Showdance Professionals Standard
2019: 2nd place WDSF World Championship Showdance Professionals Standard
2019: 1st place WDSF Open Professionals Standard
2019: 1st place German Championship Professionals Standard
2021: 1st place World Championship Showdance Professionals Standard
References
External links
Website des Tanzpaars Lusin
Profil von Renata Lusin und Valentin Lusin, World DanceSport Federation
German dancers
People from Düsseldorf
Russian dancers
Russian women
1987 births
Living people |
76498505 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asf%20Dine | Asf Dine | Asf Dine, or simply Asf, pseudonyms of Anssafidine Youssouf, born November 11, 2001 in Nkourani Sima, is a Comorian rapper and singer-songwriter. He started playing music in a group called Black Style. Asf Dine released its first project entitled Ridjiri Mbali on August 20, 2019, a mixtape of 9 tracks, then the EP Wakati Uka Uni Hibi on January 1, 2021, and finally on January 25, 2022 its third project Djirumé was released.
Beginning and childhood
Asf Dine, born November 11, 2001 in Nkourani Sima in Bandjini in the South-West of Ngazidja, is a Comorian rapper, songwriter and performer. He is the youngest of three children. In 2006, his mother decided to settle in Moroni in the Mboueni district before settling permanently in Mtsamboudjou where Asf Dine's family will stay there until the latter obtains his baccalaureate in 2021. He is his studies at the private school G.S. AVENIR where he will be expelled in 2018 for driving problems. From then on, he lived between Moroni and Nkourani Sima, without school. Rap becomes his escape.
Career
Coming from a family of musicians, she sang toirab and was also a member of traditional associations. At the age of 14, Asf Dine began writing lyrics and rapping in his bedroom. It was only during his first public performance that he was noticed by his childhood friend Abdjokayl, who included him in the group Black Style. A group from the neighboring neighborhood of young Asf Dine, and Abdjokayl was the founding rapper. With the latter, they co-wrote Washili Na Mdro, the first track from Asf Dine released in November 2017. In 2018, he collaborated with Mh Cruz on the song Makolza, it was with him that he founded Cruz Boy's music, Nkourani Sima's first rap group. A year later, on August 20, 2019, he released his first solo project and at the same time he officially announced that he was leaving Cruz Boy's for a solo career. According to his statements, being a member of Cruz Boy's music is something that closed doors for him. “I had nothing left to lose. I had talent, and stayed there making music that I didn't agree with myself, I looked like a fake because they didn't have the same ideas as me. » This is how he launched into a solo career. He declares: “I started with egotrip then I discovered conscious rap, something dirty which reflects what happens in daily life but at the same time, it allowed others to discover me , since Djirani, extract from my first mixtape meant that I had my first manager.»
Revealed to the general public
In November 2020, he participated in a competition for the Comorian talent of the year “Udjuzi” and performed “Mkomori” a song written by the best Comorian rapper Victorious Awax which will make him known nationally, allowing him to receive a certificate of deserves in the final, the winner of which is Elzaid.
On June 30, 2021, in collaboration with Lz Gvng, the rapper sees himself building a community. On December 25, 2021, Asf Dine released “Roho Ndzidu”. On February 11, 2023, the music video for it was released, in collaboration with Bilwiz. By releasing his third project “Djirume” featuring artists such as Killamen, Bilwiz, Hoosligo, Aliyano and Tay's, he attracted the attention of Jeez who became his manager and offered him a fourth project, released scheduled for 2024. Building on its new success, Asf Dine unveils the song TRAKA, appears in the album of the compilation of director Soifaoui.y, YKWG on the eponymous songs YKWG and YKWG II or even unveils the song Wako Roneya in collaboration with Kissimani Family taken from the Kissimani compilation vol.1. Asf Dine, is today one of the Comorian rappers of his generation known abroad, is ranked 2nd in the Playlist of the French rapper Menzo of the group Fonky Family, and one of the best Comorian lyricists according to AST.
References |
76498547 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumaiya%20Akter | Sumaiya Akter | Sumaiya Akter (born 15 October 2005) is a Bangladeshi cricketer who plays for the Bangladesh women's national cricket team as a right-arm off-break bowler and right-hand batter.
In December 2022, she was selected to Bangladesh women's under-19 cricket team for the 2023 Under-19 Women's T20 World Cup. She scored 65 runs with the average of 21.66 and scored 31* against Australia women's under-19 team in that tournament.
International career
In October 2023, Sumaiya was earned maiden call-up for national team of Bangladesh to ODI and T20I squad for the series against Pakistan. She made her Twenty20 International (T20I) debut against Pakistan on 29 October 2023. In November 2023, she was named in ODI and T20I squad for their series against South Africa.
In March 2024, she was again selected to the national team for the ODI and T20I series against Australia. She made her One Day International (ODI) debut against Australia on 27 March 2024.
References
External links
2005 births
Living people
Bangladeshi women cricketers
Bangladesh women One Day International cricketers
Bangladesh women Twenty20 International cricketers |
76498556 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah%20Reuben | Hannah Reuben | Hannah Reuben is a wrestler and corporal in the Nigerian Army who won a silver medal at the 2015 African Games. She bagged a gold medal at the 2024 African/Oceania Olympic qualifiers and secured a place in the Paris 2024 Olympics after defeating Ivory Coast's Amy Youin in the 76 kg women's final.
Career
Before going fully into wrestling, she has participated in other sports such as boxing, swimming and judo.
Hannah started wrestling in 2008. Since the beginning of her wrestling career, she has
competed in 69 kg at the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics in Brazil, African Championship in Hammamet, Tunisia.
She has won several awards including gold medal in the 69 kg category at the Governor Dickson National Classics, her silver medal in the 2015 edition of the quadrennial championship which took place at Brazzaville.
In 2023, she represented the Armed Forces of Nigeria at the 36th World Military Wrestling Championship, Azerbaijan where she won the gold medal in the women's 76 kg category.
References
Living people
African Games gold medalists for Nigeria
Nigerian female sport wrestlers
Commonwealth Games medallists in wrestling
African Wrestling Championships medalists |
76498557 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O.%20C.%20Gray | O. C. Gray | O. C. Gray (October 10, 1871-June 21, 1955) was a politician in Ohio. He served as Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives.
He was born in Belmont County, Ohio. He attended Scio College and the University of Michigan. A Republican and a Methodist he served as auditor and tax assessor. First elected in 1922, he served four terms in the Ohio House. He lived in Cadiz, Ohio. He was succeeded as Speaker by Arthur Hamilton.
References
1871 births
1955 deaths |
76498584 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crenilabium%20exile | Crenilabium exile | Crenilabium exile is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Acteonidae.
Description
The length of the shell varies between 6 mm and 11 mm.
(Described as Acteon exilis)The oblong or somewhat spindle-shaped shell is semitransparent and glossy. The sculpture consists of numerous spiral strisa or impressed lines, which are quite smooth or plain, instead of being punctate as in other species of this family. The color is clear white. The spire is elongated, with a blunt apex. There three moderately convex whorls. The body whorl occupies three-fourths of the spire. The first whorl is mammiform. The suture is distinct and margined. The aperture is rather narrow, irregularly pear-shaped and expanded at the base. Its length is three-fifths of the shell. The outer lip is gently curved,
and folds inwards. The inner lip is folded back on the lower part. The columella is flexuous. The fold in the columella is strong and conspicuous.
Distribution
This marine species has a wide distribution. It occurs off the Atlantic Ocean off USA (from Massachusetts to Florida); Iceland; Azores; Bay of Biscay; Portugal, West Africa; Mediterranean Sea off Spain, Malta, Italy; in the Caribbean Sea off East Mexico, Cuba, Costa Rica, Grenada, Martinique and Guadeloupe
References
Abbott, R. T. (1974). American seashells. The marine Mollusca of the Atlantic and Pacific coast of North America. ed. 2. Van Nostrand, New York. 663 pp., 24 pls.
Rosenberg, G.; Moretzsohn, F.; García, E. F. (2009). Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas
External links
Jeffreys J.G. (1870). Mediterranean Mollusca. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. ser. 4, 6: 65-86
ordan, H. K. (1895). On some new species of British Mollusca, from the "Triton" Expedition, with a list of other species new to the Faroe Channel. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 1(6): 264-269, pl. 16
Bell, A. (1870). On some new or little-known shells &c. of the Crag Formations. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (4) 6: 213-217
Dall, W. H. (1927). Small shells from dredgings off the southeast coast of the United states by the United States Fisheries Steamer "Albatross", in 1885 and 1886. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 70(2667): 1-134
Verrill, A. E. (1882). Catalogue of marine Mollusca added to the fauna of the New England region, during the past ten years. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. 5(2): 447-587, pls 42-44, 57-58
Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213
exile
Gastropods described in 1870 |
76498598 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%20Vella | Harry Vella | Harry Vella (born 7 March 2001) is an Australian rugby union player, who plays for the . His preferred position is prop.
Early career
Vella is from Nambour and attended St Joseph's College, Nudgee, before playing his club rugby for Canberra Royals. He had previously been a member of the Queensland academy, and represented Australia Schools. He previously worked in a warehouse, where he earned the nickname 'The Forklift' due to his ability to lift heavy objects.
Professional career
Vella was named in the squad ahead of the 2024 Super Rugby Pacific season. After a 16-month lay off due to injury, he made his debut in Round 5 of the season against .
References
External links
itsrugby.co.uk Profile
2001 births
Living people
Australian rugby union players
Rugby union props
ACT Brumbies players
People educated at St Joseph's College, Nudgee
People from Nambour, Queensland |
76498610 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%27madi%20Kapachiya | M'madi Kapachiya | M'madi Kapachiya (born Nkourani Sima) is a Comorian politician from Grand Comoros. From 2016 to 2019, he was Secretary of State before being renamed Director General of the Road Fund
References |
76498664 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024%20North%20Kosovo%20referendum | 2024 North Kosovo referendum | A referendum on the dismissal of four mayors of municipalities in the north Kosovo will be held on April 21, 2024, in the region of northern Kosovo with a majority Serbian population. The municipalities where the referendum for the replacement of the mayor will be held are: Zubin Potok, Zvečan, Leposavić and North Mitrovica. In order for the referendum to succeed, it is necessary that 50+1% of registered voters vote for the replacement of the mayor in each municipality. The referendum comes after a petition organized by citizens of municipalities in the north for the removal of 4 mayors in the north.
References
2024 elections in Europe
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2024 in Kosovo |
76498680 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datuopu%20Subdistrict | Datuopu Subdistrict | Datuopu Subdistrict () is a subdistrict in Tianxin District of Changsha, Hunnan, China. As of the 2021 census it had a population of 15,920 and an area of .
Administrative division
As of 2023, the subdistrict is divided into four villages:
Huanghe Village ()
Guijing Village ()
Xinglong Village ()
Datuo New Village ()
History
The region was known as Datuo Township/ Town () and belonged to Changsha County in history. It came under the jurisdiction of Tianxin District in 1996. In 2012, Tianxin District abolished Datuo Town and separated it into Heishipu Subdistrict, Datuopu Subdistrict, and Xianfeng Subdistrict.
Geography
Datuopu Subdistrict is surrounded by Heishipu Subdistrict on the north, Xiang River on the west, Heishipu Subdistrict and Xianfeng Subdistrict on the east, and Nantuo Subdistrict on the south.
The Xiang River flows through the west of Datuopu Subdistrict.
Economy
The local economy is primarily based upon agriculture and local industry.
Demographics
The 2021 census reported the town had a population of 15,920.
Transportation
The Xiang River South Road () passes across the subdistrict north to south.
The County Road X055 () is a north–south road in the subdistrict.
The Changsha Ring Expressway () runs west–east along the north side of Datuopu Subdistrict.
Datuopu railway station () serves the town, which originally built in 1911.
Datuopu Airport () was built in the 1950s.
References
Divisions of Tianxin District
Subdistricts of Changsha |
76498703 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranjan%20Saju | Ranjan Saju | Ranjan Saju is an Indian actor, known for his work in the Kannada movie Sarkari Hi. Pra. Shaale, Kasaragodu, Koduge: Ramanna Rai which also marked his feature film debut.
Filmography
As actor
References
External links
Ranjan at IMDb |
76498709 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason%20Gordon%20%28rugby%20union%29 | Mason Gordon (rugby union) | Mason Gordon (born 9 March 2003) is an Australian rugby union player, who plays for the . His preferred position is fly-half or fullback.
Early career
Gordon is from Brisbane and attended Brisbane Boys' College. He signed his first contract out of school, but represented Wests at club level. He represented the Junior Wallabies in both 2022 and 2023. He is the brother of Australia international Carter Gordon.
Professional career
Gordon was named in the squad ahead of the 2024 Super Rugby Pacific season. He made his debut in Round 5 of the season against the .
References
External links
itsrugby.co.uk Profile
2003 births
Living people
Australian rugby union players
Rugby union fly-halves
Rugby union fullbacks
Melbourne Rebels players
People educated at Brisbane Boys' College
Wests Rugby players
Rugby union players from Brisbane |
76498716 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heneage%20Finch%2C%207th%20Earl%20of%20Aylesford | Heneage Finch, 7th Earl of Aylesford | Heneage Finch, also known as Joseph Heneage Finch (1849-1885), 7th Earl of Aylesford, was a British aristocrat, a Member of the House of Lords and friend of Edward the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII). Finch enjoyed many outdoor pursuits, and in his social circle was nicknamed "Sporting Joe."
The Aylesford Scandal, a British Society scandal of 1876, as well as financial difficulties, led to Finch leaving the U.K. to become a cattle rancher in Big Spring, Texas.
Family
Finch's parents were The Right Hon. Heneage Finch, 6th Earl of Aylesford (1824-1871), and Jane Wightwick Knightley (1827-1911) the only daughter of John Wightwick Knightley of Offchurch Bury: they were married on 7 May 1846. Finch's family had a residence in Upper Brook Street, Mayfair and Finch was born in St George Hanover Square Parish, a historical Parish that included the Mayfair district, on 21 February 1849. Finch was baptised at St George's Hanover Square church on 15 March 1849. Finch had five siblings: Charles Wightwick Finch (1851-1924), Anna Francesca Wilhelmina Finch (later Murray, 1853-1933), Daniel Harry Finch (1858-1890), Clement Edward Finch (1861-1895) and George Cecil Moyle Finch (1864-1865) In his youth Finch was styled Baron Guernsey, the traditional title for the oldest son of the Earls of Aylesford. Finch was educated at Eton.
On the death of his father on 10 January 1871, Finch succeeded to the title of Earl of Aylesford. He had married Edith Peers Williams (1842-1897) only two days before, on 8 January 1871. Edith was the third daughter of the Member of Parliament Thomas Peers Williams (1795-1875) and his wife Emily (née Bacon), who had married on 27 August 1835.
Edith and Finch had two daughters: Hilda Johannah Gwendolen Finch (1872-1931) who married Sir Malcolm Donald Murray (c.1850-1938), and Alexandra Louise Minna Finch (1875-1959) who married Philip Samuel Danby (c.1854-1909), was widowed and then later married Robert Emmet (c.1872-1933).
"Sporting Joe"
Despite his public position, Finch did not participate in politics to any major extent: In the 14 years in which he was a Member of the House of Lords, Hansard does not record Finch as contributing to any debates. [note: Hansard does not have comprehensive coverage before 1909]. Finch was a Captain of the Warwickshire Yeomanry Cavalry. Finch was also a County Magistrate, but rarely presided over cases.
Much of Finch's participation in public life involved outdoor pursuits, including fox hunting as a member of the North Warwickshire hounds and athletic feats such as challenging local tradesmen in Warwickshire to running races, sometimes giving the winnings to charity: Finch took part in a 100-yard race on 5 June 1874 against a Master Butcher of Leamington which took place at 3. a.m. in Warwick High Street, the prize being two bottles of champagne. Finch was once described as "as fine a specimen of manhood as one often encounters," a well built man, standing 6 feet 2 inches tall in his stockings [=about 1.88 metres]. Finch was skilled at boxing, and was particularly interested in horse racing and breeding (see sections below).
Boxing
Finch had received boxing training from a retired pugilist and he reportedly boasted that he could "handle the daddles" [daddles = fists]. On an occasion at the Packington Steeplechases a gang of thieves attempted to steal some ancestral silver tableware from Finch's tent, and Finch fought them off largely single handed.
Horse racing
Finch was elected a member of the jockey club in 1875, and sometimes rode or sponsored horses under the name "Mr. Gillman." Finch ran a racing stud from 1871, which was managed by Captain Octavius Machell. Finch's racing colours were yellow and violet sleeves. Many of Finch's horses were sold by auction in 1873 for less than what he had paid for them. Some well-known horses that were at one time owned by Finch include Acropolis, Algérie, Bonnie Dundee, Butress, Chandos, Chausseur, Claremont (came second in the 1875 Derby, which was won by Gusztáv Batthyány's stallion Galopin), Colonel Crockett, Creon, Dhawalgirl, Flash, Glenorchie, Hermitage, Killingholme, Knight of the Garter, Lady Hilda, Leveret, Lillington (a winner at Birmingham), Little Retty, Lord Darnley, Lord of the Mines, Lowlander, Marfiori, Mexborough, Noyre Tauren, Pain Killer, Petrel, Queensland, Redivivus, Regal (on whom Finch won a private sweepstake at Stockbridge in 1875), Reugny (winner of the Grand National in 1874 after passing out of Finch's ownership), Rose of Athol (won the Great Yorkshire Stakes in 1871), St. Pancras, Sir George, Soapsuds, Vanderdecken (Vanderdecken won the Liverpool Cup in 1872), Violetta, and Wentworth.
Pranks and public altercations
Finch was reported upon in newspapers on several occasions for prankish and sometimes violent behaviour. Circa July 1871, shortly after succeeding his father as Earl, 22-year old Finch was fined 40 shillings by Richmond Magistrates for throwing flour over people in the streets of Richmond. Finch then switched to throwing flour at the citizens of Hammersmith and was fined another 40 shillings.
Finch reportedly wished to witness an execution and petitioned the Governor of Warwick Prison to be allowed to attend one, but was refused, the Governor saying that an exception could not be made even for an Earl [public executions had been abolished in the U.K. after the Capital Punishment Amendment Act 1868]. Finch ordered six Brougham carriages to wait outside the Prison for the journalists who had been allowed to witness the execution, to drive them back to Warwick town in state.
In 1874 Finch was said to have committed 'an indiscretion' towards officials at Leamington railway station, and it was stated that he had made a payment to apologise. The Birmingham Daily Post reported that while Queen Victoria's train had been waiting at Leamington station on Wednesday 20 May 1874, Finch had arrived with his local Yeomanry Company to give the Queen an Honour Guard. The Company arrived at Leamington station at around 10 p.m., and Finch had been refused entry by station porters due to the Queen's wish for privacy. Finch had dismounted his horse to try to gain admittance and 'an unseemly hand to hand struggle ensued.' The Kenilworth Advertiser reported that one witness claimed to have seen a Yeomanry member with a sword drawn threatening to cut down a station porter, though the Advertiser's reporter hoped this was an exaggeration. The incident was discussed In the House of Commons on 4 June 1874: MP Lewis Dillwyn raised a question about reports of the event. The Minister of War Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy explained that enquiries had been made of the parties concerned, and that Finch's Yeomanry had waited 'perfectly quiet' outside the station while Finch had tried to gain admittance, but Finch had resisted when physically restrained by station staff. Finch had extricated himself, and then spoke with the Queen's Private Secretary General Ponsonby though the station's railings, who told him: "Her Majesty did not wish to hurt his feelings at all, but wished that her stay in the station should be quite private," after which Finch and his company had withdrawn. An obituary for Finch asserted that the compensation payment made at the time was because Finch had punched the Station Master [note: the original Leamington railway station buildings were demolished in the 1930s: the modern Leamington Spa railway station is now on the same site].
In January 1879 Finch appeared at Bow Street Police Court charged with assaulting two officials named Richards and Campbell at the Royal Italian Opera House, Covent Garden, when the officials would not admit him to his box without a ticket. Finch had pushed Campbell to the ground; Richards escaped serious injury as Finch had knocked off his hat rather than directly striking his head. Finch was fined £5 for assaulting each man (£10 total).
In June 1879 Finch was summoned to Police Court at Ascot Heath for 'a jocose attempt' to hit a police officer on the helmet from his barouche carriage on the way out of Ascot Races: Finch had missed his aim and struck the officer on the cheek. As Finch had not intended injury, the summons was withdrawn.
On a brief return back to England from Texas, on 28 May 1884, Finch attended the Epsom Derby and broke a leg on his railway journey back to London Bridge. Accounts as to exactly what happened vary: St Louis Post Dispatch reported that Finch had assaulted a railway porter by striking the porter on the head with his cane when asked to show his ticket, the altercation leading to a fall and Finch's leg being broken in two places. The Yorkshire Post gave an account from London Bridge railway station officials: that a man travelling on the 11.40 p.m. train from Epsom had refused to show his ticket, and had instead attempted twice to strike a Ticket Inspector on the head; the Inspector had warded off the passenger's blows and pushed him down, after which the injured man was assisted to a Cab and had given the name 'Lord Aylesford' which they had thought at the time was an assumed name. Alternatively, Finch had perhaps fallen asleep on the train and his unconscious frame had blocked a female passenger's exit from their carriage: in that version of events Finch met his accident while a porter tried to help the woman get out of the train. Finch contended that he had been assaulted by a railway official, and through his solicitor appealed for witnesses. Finch was attended by Dr Alfred Cooper while he recovered.
Financial problems
Finch was known throughout his life for his personal generosity, but this was coupled with youthful "folly and extravagance" and he had accrued substantial debt against future income from his family's estates before reaching the age of majority: In 1873 Finch went to the Lord Chancellor's Court seeking legal assistance concerning an unfavourable loan agreement he had made before reaching the age of 21, with a money-lender named Morris: Finch had borrowed £8,000, partly to repay a £4,000 debt which he owed to a solicitor named Mr. Graham. Finch's debt had subsequently increased to £11,000. Finch had concealed his debt problems from his father due to his father's terminal illness, and he found he could not make any further promises against future income from family estates without alerting the family solicitor who held the title deeds. The Court decided that Finch should still repay the debt, but at an interest rate of 4% rather than Morris' previous interest rate of 60%.
In December 1880 Finch instigated legal action at Coleshill Police Court against a man named Cox who said that Finch owed him money, as Cox had arranged for Bailiffs to visit Packington Hall on 24 November 1880 and Finch felt the Bailiffs had caused a breach of the peace, though a defence of the house had been undertaken by his staff. The summons against Cox was ultimately dismissed.
Towards the end of his life Finch was described as 'financially embarrassed' and a Private Act was passed to settle his affairs. By 1884 The Liverpool Mercury reported that Finch at one time had the reputation of being "the greatest spendthrift in Europe." Another newspaper noted that the Aylesford family estates had yielded about £30,000 a year when Finch inherited them, but that he had been in a dire financial situation by the time he emigrated to the U.S.A. The Yorkshire Gazette summed up Finch's contradictory attitude to his finances: "Ever impulsive and headstrong, he was yet generous to a fault, and the embarrassments in which he became involved, and which eventually crushed him down so completely that he was compelled to leave England, were probably due more to his open-handed liberality and reckless consideration for other interests than his own than to base profligacy and ruinous wantoness. Now and again he threw about money as though it were mere trash, though sometimes he was remarkably careful in financial affairs, and betrayed a shrewdness and thrift which struck his friends with amazement."
Friendship with Edward, Prince of Wales and Tour of India, 1875-1876
Finch had been presented by his father to Edward, Prince of Wales at a levée at St James's Palace on 19 June 1869. In 1874 Edward, Prince of Wales and Princess Alexandra visited Packington Hall and were lavishly entertained. Finch may have borrowed a lot of money to fund his hospitality for the Royals and one later commentator noted that "after the festivities Lord Aylesford was simply broken."
Finch was selected to accompany Prince Edward on a goodwill visit to India in 1875-1876, and was listed in a contemporary publication by Sir William Howard Russell as acting as an Equerry to the Prince. Prince Edward regularly hunted while he was in India, and Russell implied the presence of Finch and Charles Wynn-Carington, as competent huntsmen, would have added a degree of protection for Edward: "to the anticipation of similar enjoyment in the chase Lord Aylesford and Lord Carington had superadded a task imposed by their personal attachment, which happily had no need for its exercise."
Finch himself partook in the hunting activity: e.g. on Valentine's Day, 14 February 1876 (cited as an "off-day") Finch killed several animals including two mongooses, a para [a deer species, Axis porcinus], one partridge, and three plover. Finch also shot a bear at Tandah.
The Aylesford Scandal
While he was in India, Finch's wife Edith wrote him a letter to say that she had left home and intended to divorce him to marry George Spencer-Churchill, then the Marquess of Blandford (1844-1892), who was also already married. Finch telegraphed his mother Jane the dowager Countess of Aylesford to remove his and Edith's daughters from Edith's care: "send for the children and keep them until my return: a great misfortune has happened". Finch left the royal tour and returned to the U.K.
Edith wrote to her mother-in-law in March 1876 to explain why she had left home: "I do not attempt to say a word in self-defence, but you can imagine I have suffered much before I could have taken such a step: how much it would be impossible to tell you, but it is the only reparation I can make to Guernsey, and he will now have the opportunity of getting rid of one he has long ceased to care for."The Dowager Countess was reluctant to remove her grandchildren from their mother before receiving the full facts of the situation. but afterwards took Hilda and Alexandra to live with her, and they were not permitted to see Edith again. In 1885 Jane said: "they have never seen their mother since then, and they do not know that she is alive." Edith petitioned at Chancery to gain access to her daughters, but was refused.
Edith had left her most valuable diamond jewellery behind for her children, not feeling she was entitled to take it, an assertion that was corroborated by James James, Finch's House Steward, who had seen Edith depositing items in Packington Hall's strong room before she left.
Edith and George Spencer-Churchill spent some time living together at the Hotel de Rivoli in Paris, assuming the disguise of a married couple named Spencer.
To avoid the scandal of divorce, Randolph Spencer-Churchill (1849-1895) attempted to defend his brother George's honour. Randolph believed that Prince Edward had also been conducting an affair with Countess Edith, and threatened to make public affectionate letters that Prince Edward had sent to Edith and subpoena him in potential Aylesford divorce proceedings if Prince Edward did not try to prevent the divorce. An angry Prince Edward wanted to duel Randolph, but ultimately referred the matter to his mother Queen Victoria, who with Benjamin Disraeli's assistance appointed Randolph to a political role in Ireland (considered to be a form of exile) and urged the Finches to reconcile, although the Queen had a poor opinion of Edith's family.
Finch went to the Divorce Section of the High Court to secure a divorce from Edith on the grounds of adultery, but Edith's representatives argued that Finch himself had also committed adultery, and a team including the Attorney General John Holker intervened on behalf of the Queen's Proctor to detail the countering case: that Finch had committed adultery with a married woman named Mrs Dilke (the Dilke family having been Finch's near neighbours at Maxstoke Castle in Warwickshire), and the distress of the situation had contributed to her husband Mr Dilke's depressive illness, intemperance and suicide. Finch was also accused of compromising his marriage vows early in his union with Edith, by going to the Alhambra or Cremorne Gardens and "supping there with loose women or forming vulgar amours with them."
Edith's representatives did not contest that she had cohabited with George Spencer-Churchill - indeed the couple may have cohabited to create public evidence for a divorce - and although Finch and Mrs Dilke testified in the witness box that they had not engaged in any misconduct, the Jury concluded that Finch had also committed adultery, and that also The Marquess of Blandford and Finch had colluded with each other regarding the divorce case, so a divorce was not granted. Finch and Edith remained married but separated until Finch's death.
A son born to Edith in Paris was registered with the French authorities as Guy Bertrand of unnamed parents. Guy Bertrand (born 4 November 1881, died 31 March 1950) was christened on 29 June 1883 in London as Guy Bertram Finch, however despite being baptised as a child of the Earl of Aylesford, Guy was assumed based on various witness testimony to be the son of the Marquess of Blandford and the House of Lords refused Guy Bertrand the inheritance of the title Earl of Aylesford.
George Spencer-Churchill and his first wife Lady Albertha Frances Anne Hamilton (1847-1932) divorced in 1883 shortly after George became Duke of Marlborough, but once single, George did not marry Edith - instead he married Jane Lillian Warren Price (1854-1909, widow of Louis Hammersley of New York), and she became Countess of Marlborough. Edith had confided in her baby nurse Mrs Brittain that she had suffered physical difficulties from 'mysterious pain' after the birth of Guy Bertrand. Edith remained single, living later in life at an estate named Honeys near Waltham St. Lawrence, and died in Welbeck Street, London on 24 June 1897 after a short illness.
The Earl's new career in America
After Finch and Edith had separated, Finch began a new life in the United States as a rancher in Texas. Finch purchased land and a cattle interest for $75,000 at Wild Horse Creek, about ten miles from the town of Big Spring. Finch initially traveled to Texas with his brothers Daniel and Clement, and although Clement returned to England fairly quickly, Daniel stayed to help Finch in his new vocation.
Finch and Daniel were described as popular with the local cowboys, despite some initial teasing, with Finch being nicknamed "The Judge" and Daniel being nicknamed "The Kid." Finch was described as generally well-liked in Texas; and British gossip about Finch did not have influence upon his American neighbours, as frontiersmen did not tend to pry. Newspapers with stories of Countess Edith and her son Guy Bertrand had reached as far as Big Spring by April 1884, but Finch did not read them. Finch stayed out of trouble, although on one occasion he tried to intervene in a bar fight and was hit on the head with a bottle, knocking him flat.
In 1883 Finch built a meat market at Big Spring, which was the town's first permanent masonry building. The building had survived to at least 2018 as the Lone Star Barber Shop, with a later brick frontage, at South Main Street, and it was given a commemorative plaque from the Howard County Historical Commission. The plaque details how Finch was remembered for being very particular about how his meat was prepared, travelling with his own personal butcher named Von Paussen, and being a big fan of mutton.
In April of 1884 Finch's ranch house at Big Spring burned to the ground in a fire that had begun as a result of a servant mishandling kerosene. Finch and his brother Daniel escaped the house without injury, but Finch regretted the loss of 20 guns in the fire, including one that had been gifted to him by the Prince of Wales. Finch rode into Big Spring town the next day and obtained permission to occupy the empty property belonging to his neighbour Denmark, until a new cabin could be built for him. An unnamed neighbouring rancher, feeling sorry for the Englishmen, helped with efforts to rebuild their home. Later, Finch purchased and lived in the Cosmopolitan Hotel.
The Texas Historical Commission set a plaque in 1980 on a building on East 3rd Street in Big Spring, at the former site of the Cosmopolitan Hotel, to commemorate Finch's purchase of the hotel and his contribution to the City's history [the former hotel site was a bar named Mezcal in 2021]. In all Finch spent about three years in Texas.
Death and succession
Finch had grown increasingly ill during the last year of his life, and he was described as looking more like a man aged 50 than 35.
Finch died at his ranch at Big Spring at 9.30 p.m. on 13 January 1885. His cause of death was described variously as dropsy [Edema] and hardening or cirrhosis of the liver, inflammation of the bowels, peritonitis or the effects of a severe cold. Finch had taken out an £80,000 insurance policy on his own life and a rumour circulated in America that he might have faked his death - however Finch's mother and his personal physician Alfred Cooper identified Finch's embalmed body when it was conveyed back to England and confirmed that the deceased was indeed Finch.
Finch's body had been brought back to the U.K. by the White Star Line steamship SS Britannic and met at Liverpool by Charles Wightwick Finch and Daniel Harry Finch, who escorted their brother's coffin back towards Great Packington on the railway. Finch's funeral took place on 3 February 1885. Finch's funeral cortege was headed by 200 of his estate tenants, and he was buried in a private ceremony attended by his family at St James' Church, Great Packington. The Prince of Wales sent a representative, Lord Sefton, to the service.
Finch's younger brother Charles Wightwick Finch succeeded to the Earldom.
External links:
A portrait photograph of the 7th Earl of Aylesford taken circa 1875-1876 by Bourne and Shepherd, at the The Royal Collection Trust.
A portrait photograph of Joseph Heneage Finch, 7th Earl of Aylesford, at UTSA Libraries Special Collections: Digital Collections.
A version of the 1875 photograph "The Prince's First Tiger" by Bourne and Shepherd, with the sitters identified, at The Royal Collection Trust.
The memorial of Joseph Heneage Finch (1849-1885) at Find a Grave.
References
References
1849 births
1885 deaths |
76498732 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980%20Liberty%20Baptist%20Flames%20football%20team | 1980 Liberty Baptist Flames football team | The 1980 Liberty Baptist Flames football team represented Liberty Baptist College (now known as Liberty University) as an independent during the 1980 NAIA Division I football season. Led by fourth-year head coach Tom Dowling, the Flames compiled an overall record of 7–3.
Schedule
References
Liberty Baptist
Liberty Flames football seasons
Liberty Baptist Flames football |
76498760 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bezor%20Doul | Bezor Doul | Bezor Doul or Bez Doul is a historical monument located at Bezor pothar in the Dhemechi area of Dibrugarh district. It is situated about 5 km from Dimow town of Sivasagar district. The Bezor Doul is a Vishnu Doul and is built with an octagonal sanctuary and a steep gap. It is an example of late medieval brick temple architecture from the Ahom period. During the Ahom era, a traditional medicine practitioner of Chung Khel received the title of Bezbarua for his efficiency. He was granted vast lands by the Ahom kings in the present-day Bezor pothar area. The doul was constructed by the Ahom king Rudra Singha in his memory. The walls of this small doul are quite thick. Various flower jali works adorned the walls of the doul, but they are no longer present. There are no idols in this doul, but Vishnu is still worshipped here. The Archaeological Department of the Government of Assam has recognized the Bezor Doul as a State Protected Monument.
Location
Bezor Doul, also known as Bez Doul, is located in Bezor p othar in the Dhemechi area of Dibrugarh district. It is an ancient monument from the Ahom era, situated about 5 km from Dimow in Sivasagar district.
History
In the Ahom era, a traditional medicine practitioner (Bez) of the Chung Khel promoted and received the title of Bezbaruah for his excellent medical treatment to the Royal family. He was granted vast tracts of land in the area of present-day Bezor Pathar (Fields of the Bez) by the Ahom kings. The Bez Daul was built by Swargadeo Rudra Singha in memory of that Bezbarua. Some believe that Bezbarua built the doul himself. Later, the doul became known as Bez Doul or Bezor Doul.
Architecture
At present, the Bezor Doul and a large area around it are protected by concrete walls. The doul is very beautiful in appearance, and its walls are quite thick. This doul is identified as a Vishnu Doul from its top of its peak. Although there are no idols inside the doul, lord vishnu is still worshipped here. The Bezor Doul is an octagonal sanctuary with a steep background. It is a late medieval brick monument from the Ahom dynasty.
The entrance to the Jagmohan of Bezor Doul is on the west side. The canopy of Jagmohan is bow-shaped, with a cap in the middle and the top in the shape of a Majubandhani. The canopy is connected by two roofs up to the jangha. Antarala is built with an inverted U shaped entrance. The walls of the doul are quite thick, with a gabaksha on the wall and one kundraksha on top of the gabaksha. The inner area is conical and well-structured. There are no sculptures here.
The doul was formerly decorated jali works with flowers and leaves from bottom to top. The carvings were iroded away from the body of the temple over time. The middle part of the jangha is shaped like a slightly swollen drum from the outside. The shikhara of the doul is in the shape of a banana flower and slightly elevated to the north. The Kalasha at the top resembles a lotus flower bud, and the Sri Chakra is placed on the Kalasha as a weapon.
Location
Bezor Doul, also known as Bez Doul, is located in Bezor p othar in the Dhemechi area of Dibrugarh district. It is an ancient monument from the Ahom era, situated about 5 km from Dimow in Sivasagar district. It is well-connected by transportation from Moranhat and Dimow town. Maranhat railway station is about 21 km away and Dibrugarh Airport is about 60 km away from it.
References
Hindu temples in Assam
Tourist attractions in Assam
Dibrugarh district |
76498796 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina%20Henry | Christina Henry | Christina Henry (born August 13, 1974 in New York, USA) is an American novelist working in the horror and dark fantasy genre. "Christina Henry" is a pseudonym of Tina Raffaele, based on her name (Tina), and the names of her husband (Chris) and son (Henry). She lives in Chicago, Illinois with her husband & son. Her Black Wings series, is a national bestseller. She is also noted for her retelling of classic children's tales, such as the three works in The Chronicles of Alice series (based of the Alice books of Lewis Carroll), Lost Boy (2017) from J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan, and The Girl in Red (2019) based on Little Red Riding Hood.
Henry had always wanted to be a writer and commented that "I always wanted to be a writer, even when I was very young. I spent most of my time living inside books and I wanted to stay there for the rest of my life."
Works
The Black Wings Books
Black Wings (2010). Penguin US, ISBN 978-0-441-01963-2
Black Night (2011). ACE, ISBN 978-1-937007-06-5
Black Howl (2012). ACE, ISBN 978-1-937007-33-1
Black Lament (2012). ACE, ISBN 978-0-425-25657-2
Black City (2013). ACE, ISBN 978-0-425-25658-9
Black Heart (2013). Ace Books, ISBN 978-0-425-25659-6
Black Spring (2014). ACE, ISBN 978-0-425-26678-6
The Chronicles of Alice Books
Alice (2015). Ace, ISBN 978-0-425-26679-3
Red Queen (2016). Ace, ISBN 978-0-425-26680-9
Looking Glass (2020). Ace, ISBN 978-1-9848-0563-8
The Dark Chronicles
Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook (2017). Berkley Publishing Group, ISBN 978-0-399-58402-2
The Mermaid (2018). Berkley Publishing Group, ISBN 978-0-399-58404-6
The Girl in Red (2019). Berkley Publishing Group, ISBN 978-0-451-49228-9
Standalone Novels
The Ghost Tree (2020). Berkley Books, ISBN 978-0-451-49230-2
Near the Bone (2021). Titan Books Ltd, ISBN 978-0-593-19976-3
Horseman (2021). Titan Publ. Group Ltd., ISBN 978-0-593-19978-7
Into the Forest: Tales of the Baba Yaga (2022). Black Spot Books, ISBN 978-1-64548-123-2
Good Girls Don't Die (2023). Random House N.Y., ISBN 978-0-593-63819-4
The House That Horror Built (2024). Random House N.Y., ISBN 978-0-593-63821-7
Short Stories
in Kicking It (2013) by Rachel Caine, Chloe Neil, Rob Thurman, Christina Henry and others. Roc Trade, ISBN 978-0-451-41900-2
in As Red As Blood, As White As Snow in Cursed: An Anthology (2020) by Neil Gaiman, Charlie Jane Anders, M. R. Carey, Christina Henryand others. Titan Books, ISBN 978-1-78909-150-2
in Pretty Maids All In a Row in Twice Cursed (2023) by Neil Gaiman, Joe Hill, Joanne Harris, M. R. Carey, Katherine Arden, Christina Henry und anderen. Titan Books, ISBN 978-1-80336-122-2
Awards
Several works of Henry have been nominated for multiple awards.
Alice (2015) was among the best-selling science fiction and fantasy novels at Barnes & Noble in 2015. Near the Bone (2021) was nominated for the RUSA Awards - Horror Award in 2022.
Goodreads Choice Award Nominations
Alice (2015) for Best Horror genre, second place
Lost Boy (2017) for Best Horror genre, sixth place
The Girl in Red (2019) for Best Horror genre, third place
The Ghost Tree (2020) for Best Horror genre, 17th place
Near the Bone (2021) for Best Horror genre, 14th place
References
External links
Official website
Living people
1974 births
21st-century American novelists
Pseudonyms
American women novelists
Novelists from Chicago |
76498820 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay%20Anderson%20%28American%20football%2C%20born%201970s%29 | Jay Anderson (American football, born 1970s) | Jay Anderson (born ) is an American former college football coach. He was the head football coach for Buena Vista University from 2006 to 2016.
Career
Anderson was native of St. Charles, Iowa, and graduated from Interstate 35 High School. He played college football for Drake as a quarterback.
Anderson began his coaching career as an assistant for Simpson. He served as the passing game coordinator for their 1996 team that went 10–1. In 1997, he was joined Buena Vista as a graduate assistant working with wide receivers and defensive backs under head coach Joe Hadacheck. In 2000, he was promoted to offensive coordinator under first-year head coach Steve Osterberger. In 2006, following Osterberger being hired as the Loras head coach, Anderson was promoted to head football coach for Buena Vista. In eleven years as head coach he led the team to a 42–68 record and was named Iowa Conference Coach of the Year in 2008 after finishing the season 7–3 overall. He resigned following the 2016 season.
Head coaching record
References
External links
Buena Vista profile
Year of birth uncertain
1970s births
Living people
American football quarterbacks
Buena Vista Beavers football coaches
Buena Vista University alumni
Drake Bulldogs football coaches
Simpson Storm football coaches
Coaches of American football from Iowa
Players of American football from Iowa |
76498824 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinah%20Shelton | Dinah Shelton | Dinah Shelton is an American lawyer. She has been a university professor and served as commissioner for the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights between 2010 and 2013.
Education
Shelton studied law at the University of California, Berkeley, as well as at the University of Edinburgh, in the United Kingdom.
Career
She has worked as an international law consultant for the World Health Organization, the United Nations Environment Programme, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the United Nations Institute for Training and Research, and the European Council, among other international organizations. Shelton was also the director the Office of Staff Attorneys at the United States Court of Appeals of the Ninth Circuit and, at the International Institute of Human Rights, Director of Studies.
Shelton was elected as commissioner for the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in June 2009 for a four-year term, starting on 1 January 2010.
She is a professor emeritus of International Law at the George Washington University Law School, has been a law professor at the University of Notre Dame Law School, and a visiting professor at several universities both in the United States and France.
She has written, co-written, or edited at least nineteen books, as weell as authored dozens of book chapters and articles, about human rights and international law.
References
American lawyers
University of California alumni
George Washington University Law School faculty
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights commissioners |
76498826 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melgunov%20Kurgan | Melgunov Kurgan | Melgunov Kurgan (), also known as Lyta Grave (), is one of the oldest Scythian kurgans (burial mounds) from 7th century BC.
History
The kurgan was excavated in September of 1763 near the village of Kopani (nowadays located in Kropyvnytskyi Raion, Kirovohrad Oblast). The work was carried out on the instructions of Oleksiy Melgunov (after which the kurgan was named), who would later become the general governor of Novorossiya Governorate. It was investigated by Vladimir Yastrebov in 1892 and Ninel Bokiy in 1990. Excavations were also done by Y. Boltryk in 2019. Information about the excavations is fragmentary and contradictory.
It was established that the kurgan was built in 7th century BC and modified in 4th century BC. The mound is about 10.5 m tall. The kurgan consists of burnt slagged soil with the remains of melted metals, burnt bones, stones, earth, and clay mixed with coal. The use of fire was a part of the funeral rite.
Golden jewelry and sword decorations were found in the kurgan, and they are currently stored in Hermitage Museum and Kharkiv Historical Museum (although a large part of the collection was destroyed during World War II bombings). At the depth of 2 m, multiple items were found under stone slabs: an acinaces with a golden hilt and a gold-plated wooden scabbard decorated with images of fantastic animals, a golden diadem, silver details of an Assyrian palace stool, 17 gold plates depicting an eagle with hinges on the back, a plate with images of monkeys and birds, a bronze clasp with images of lion heads, 40 bronze arrowheads, rings, and other objects. The items did not have any traces of fire.
Significance
The site has outstanding significance, as it is the only known Scythian royal mound of the time in the Northern Black Sea region. In 2020, the kurgan's mound was restored and a memorial sign was installed. The image of the eagle from the golden plates found in the kurgan is depicted on the coat of arms of Kirovohrad Oblast.
Gallery
References
Archaeological sites in Ukraine
Kurgans
Scythians |
76498828 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006%20Chester%20City%20Council%20election | 2006 Chester City Council election | The 2006 Chester City Council election took place on 4 May 2006 to elect members of Chester City Council in Cheshire, England. This was on the same day as other local elections.
Summary
Election result
Ward results
Blacon Hall
Blacon Lodge
Boughton
Christleton
City & St. Annes
College
Curzon & Westminster
Elton
Handbridge & St. Marys
Hoole All Saints
Kelsall
Lache Park
Mollington
Newton St. Michaels
Saughall
Tarvin
Tilston
Upton Grange
Upton Westlea
Vicars Cross
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Chester
May 2006 events in the United Kingdom
2000s in Cheshire |
76498841 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomb%20of%20Xu%20Guangqi | Tomb of Xu Guangqi | The tomb of Xu Guangqi is the burial site of Xu Guangqi (April 24, 1562 – November 10, 1633), a prominent late Ming dynasty statesman, scholar, and leader of the Catholic community, as well as some of his relatives. It is located north of Xujiahui, Shanghai, in the present-day Guangqi Park, covering an area of 3,000 square meters and standing 2.2 meters tall. The tomb is elliptical in shape.
In the seventh year of the Chongzhen era (1634), he was posthumously granted the privilege of burial with the rank of a first-rank official, and a special envoy was dispatched to escort his coffin back to Shanghai for burial. Due to the unsettled situation at the time, the coffin was temporarily placed outside the Da'nan Gate of Shanghai (Old City) in the Shuangyuan Villa. In the fourteenth year of the Chongzhen era (1641), he was finally buried in the southwest corner of Gaochang Township, Shanghai County, Songjiang Prefecture.
In the twenty-ninth year of the Guangxu era (1903), the Catholic Vicariate of Kiang-nan renovated and expanded the tomb. It was once abandoned, even turned into a vegetable garden. In 1957, it was briefly rebuilt. During the Cultural Revolution, it became an open-air warehouse and was severely damaged. It was once again restored in 1983. In 2003, it was reconstructed according to the tomb's design from 1903 and has since been well-maintained.
On May 26, 1959, and December 7, 1977, the tomb of Xu Guangqi was declared a cultural relic protection unit of Shanghai. On January 13, 1988, it was announced as a national major cultural relic protection unit by the State Council.
History
Ancient times
Xu Guangqi, a native of Shanghai County, Songjiang Prefecture, Nanzhili, in the late Ming dynasty, passed the imperial examination in the 32nd year of the Wanli era (1604) and held the highest official position as the Director of the Ministry of Rites and concurrently the Grand Secretary of the Hall of Literary Profundity. He studied astronomy, calendar, mathematics, and firearms with the Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci. He presented several astronomical and mathematical works to the Ming Emperor, along with contributions in military strategy, salt administration, land reclamation, and hydraulic engineering. Xu Guangqi's significant contributions to East-West cultural exchange earned him the title "the first person in China to truly open his eyes to the world", as described by Professor Mao Peiqi. In the sixth year of the Chongzhen era (1633), Xu Guangqi passed away at the age of 72. A special guard was dispatched by the Ming government to escort Xu Guangqi's remains back to Shanghai, arriving in his hometown in the second month of the seventh year of the Chongzhen era (1634). Eventually, Xu Guangqi was buried at the junction of Zhaojiabang and Fahuajing, known as the Tomb of Xu Guangqi. One of his descendants later settled near the tomb, and the area was named "Xujiahui" ("property of the Xu family at the junction of two rivers").
Modern times
Originally covering more than 20 mu, Xu Guangqi's tomb had two huabiao (ornamental columns) in front of it, as well as a stone archway. Stone statues of sheep, horses, and elderly figures were placed on both sides of the tomb path. In the 29th year of the Guangxu era (1903), the huabiao of Xu Guangqi's tomb had disappeared. Due to Xu Guangqi's Catholic faith during his lifetime, the Catholic Church erected a cross in commemoration of the 270th anniversary of Xu Guangqi's passing. Inscriptions in Chinese and Latin on the base of the cross describe Xu Guangqi's achievements, and the tomb was renovated simultaneously. In 1933, to commemorate the 300th anniversary of Xu Guangqi's passing, different communities raised funds to build an iron fence around the cross, as well as stone railings and cement roads around the cemetery. After the War of Resistance Against Japan, the trees in the vicinity were heavily felled, the soil was excavated, and the cemetery was turned into vegetable fields.
Present
In 1956, eight influential figures from the direct lineage of Xu Guangqi and the Xu clan wrote to the Shanghai People's Committee expressing their willingness to entrust Xu Guangqi's tomb to the state for safekeeping. Subsequently, Xu Guangqi's tomb was placed under the management of the Shanghai Cultural Bureau. In 1957, the tomb underwent restoration, and residents who had been cultivating vegetables in the cemetery were relocated elsewhere. Apart from the portion of land occupied by the Shanghai Meteorological Bureau staff area, the rest of the area was restored to its original state, with trees replanted within the cemetery. The surrounding area was transformed into the Nandan Park. During the Cultural Revolution, most of the landmark buildings in the cemetery were destroyed, including the rebuilt huabiao, stone archway, and stone statues, all of which were smashed, and the cemetery was converted into an open-air warehouse. In 1975, the cemetery was reclaimed by the Shanghai Municipal Gardens Department in collaboration with the Shanghai Municipal Cultural Relics Management Committee and underwent renovation.
In 1980, mathematician Su Buqing inscribed a tombstone for Xu Guangqi, which was erected in front of Xu Guangqi's tomb. In 1981, the burial mound was reconstructed, and dragon cypress and evergreen trees were planted on both sides. In 1983, Xu Guangqi's tomb was again restored. Approximately 15 meters in front of the tomb, a granite statue of Xu Guangqi wearing the robes of a first-rank official, half bust, 1.2 meters high, with a pedestal 1.6 meters high, was erected. A new stele corridor was built on the east side, and a 150-square-meter granite tomb platform was constructed on the small road in front of the tomb. A large number of trees were planted around the tomb, and several stone benches were placed. In April 2012, two commemorative stone tablets were erected at Xu Guangqi's tomb, each inscribed with articles commemorating Xu Guangqi by Ruan Yuan and Chu Coching; in addition, two sculptures related to Xu Guangqi were also erected at the same time.
Structure
The tomb of Xu Guangqi is located on the north side of Guangqi Park, covering an area of 3000 square meters. There are a total of 10 tombs in the cemetery. The main tomb houses Xu Guangqi and his wife, Madam Wu, while his four grandsons and their wives are buried on both sides. After the 1983 renovation, the height of the burial mound reached 2.2 meters with an area of 300 square meters, elliptical in shape, surrounded by granite paving. Green grass is planted on the burial mound, while large camphor trees, dragon cypresses, cedar trees, and oleanders are planted in front of the tomb. A tombstone stands in front, inscribed with "Tomb of Xu Guangqi" in the handwriting of mathematician Su Buqing. Stone benches are placed on both sides, and on the right side of the tomb, a Qing Dynasty stone horse is preserved.
Additionally, there is another stone horse, as well as pairs of stone sheep, stone elephants, and stone dogs, and a cross. On the east side of the tomb, there is a stele corridor built in 1983. Originally a resting pavilion in the park, it was renovated to have a wall in the middle, with 12 inscribed stone tablets, featuring Xu Guangqi's portrait, the biography of Xu Guangqi written by Zha Jizuo at the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the first sentence of Xu Guangqi's handwriting preface to the "Introduction to Geometry", and a poem by the Tang Dynasty poet Li Qi handwritten by Xu Guangqi. In front of the tomb, there is a memorial archway with three bays and four columns, with the inscription "Tomb of the Late Great Scholar and Prince Tutor, Posthumously Honored as Grand Guardian and Further Honored as Grand Guardian, Minister of Rites, and Concurrent Grand Secretary of the Hall of Literary Profundity, Xu Wending's Tomb". The archway also has couplets inscribed, with the upper couplet reading "Master of Calendar and Agriculture for Hundreds of Generations, Guiding Heaven and Earth", and the lower couplet reading "From General to Minister, an official devoted to military affairs and scholarly pursuits".
Commemoration
On May 26, 1959, and December 7, 1977, the tomb of Xu Guangqi was successively declared a cultural heritage site in Shanghai. On January 13, 1988, the tomb of Xu Guangqi was announced by the State Council as one of the third batch of nationally major protected cultural relics. In 2003, the tomb of Xu Guangqi was designated as a patriotism education base in Shanghai. Since then, the Education Bureau, Cultural Bureau, and other units of Xuhui District in Shanghai have organized memorial ceremonies at the tomb of Xu Guangqi every Qingming Festival. Sometimes there are offerings of flower baskets and speeches on related commemorative themes.
In 2003, the South Chunhua Hall, a cultural heritage site in Meilong, Xuhui District, was converted into the Xu Guangqi Memorial Hall. The memorial hall covers an area of more than 400 square meters, with an exhibition area of over 220 square meters. It features four exhibition themes, displaying valuable materials such as portraits, manuscripts, and documents related to Xu Guangqi.
In 2006, the contents of the lost epitaph of Xu Guangqi's tomb were discovered in a magazine published in 1920. Based on the Latin content of the epitaph on the tombstone, it was inferred that Xu Guangqi had indeed converted to Catholicism and had taken the baptismal name "Paul". In 2007, the tombstone of Xu Guangqi's tomb was accidentally discovered buried under the soil of the tomb, with an area of about 1 square meter and some damage in the upper right corner. After this discovery, the tombstone was placed in a flower bed in Guangqi Park.
See also
Tomb of Lu Xun
Roman Catholic Diocese of Shanghai
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Xu Guangqi
Major National Historical and Cultural Sites in Shanghai
Cemeteries in Shanghai
Burial sites of the Ming dynasty |
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