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Paul Schultze-Naumburg
Paul Schultze-Naumburg (10 June 1869 – 19 May 1949) was a German architect, painter, publicist and politician. He joined the NSDAP in 1930 and was an important advocate of Nazi architecture and a leading critic of modern architecture.
Life
Schultze-Naumburg was born in Almrich (now part of Naumburg) in the current federal state of Saxony-Anhalt, and by 1900 was a well-known painter and architect, first emerging as a more-conservative member of the group of artists who established the Jugendstil and the Arts and Crafts workshops in Munich. His series of books the Kulturarbeiten ("Works of Culture"), nine volumes published 1900–1917, were extremely popular and established him as a major tastemaker for the German middle class. By the First World War, he had become a major proponent of traditional architecture, an originator of the "Circa 1800" movement, and an important voice in both the Deutscher Werkbund and the nationalist German architecture and landscape preservation movement. A well-known example of his architecture from this time is the Cecilienhof Palace in Potsdam, built by order of Wilhelm II for his son, crown prince Wilhelm in 1914–1917.
On 5 January 1922 Paul Schultze-Naumburg married in Saaleck Margarete Karolina Berta Dörr (1896–1960). They were childless and divorced nastily on 7 February 1934. A couple of weeks later Margarete married the Reich Minister of the Interior Wilhelm Frick.
In response to the defeat of the First World War and of his own marginalization in the interwar architectural discourse, Schultze-Naumburg's articles and books began to take on a far harsher and less progressive character, condemning modern art and architecture in racial terms, thereby providing much of the basis for Adolf Hitler's theories in which classical Greece and the Middle Ages were the true sources of Aryan art. Schultze-Naumburg wrote such books as Die Kunst der Deutschen. Ihr Wesen und ihre Werke ("The Art of the Germans. Its Nature and Its Works") and Kunst und Rasse ("Art and Race"), the latter published in 1928, in which he argued that only "racially pure" artists could produce a healthy art which upheld timeless ideals of classical beauty, while racially "mixed" modern artists showed their inferiority and corruption by producing distorted artwork. As evidence of this, he reproduced examples of modern art next to photographs of people with deformities and diseases, graphically reinforcing the idea of modernism as a sickness.
Along with Alexander von Senger, Eugen Honig, Konrad Nonn, and German Bestelmeyer, Schultze-Naumburg was a member of a National Socialist para-governmental propaganda unit called the Kampfbund deutscher Architekten und Ingenieure (KDAI).
In September 1944, he was named as one of the first rank of artists and writers important to Nazi culture in the Gottbegnadeten list.
Schultze-Naumburg died in Jena in 1949. His ashes were placed in the mausoleum designed by him in 1909 for the poet Ernst von Wildenbruch in Weimar Historical Cemetery.
See also
Ester Claesson
Bibliography
Jose-Manuel GARCÍA ROIG, "Tres arquitectos del periodo guillermino. Hermman Muthesius. Paul Schultze-Naumburg. Paul Mebes", Valladolid (Spain), 2006, , Universidad de Valladolid, Spain
References
Notes
Sources
Adam, Peter. Art of the Third Reich (1992). New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc..
Barron, Stephanie, ed. 'Degenerate Art:' The Fate of the Avant-Garde in Nazi Germany (1991). New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc..
Grosshans, Henry. Hitler and the Artists (1983). New York: Holmes & Meyer.
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PLS (complexity)
In computational complexity theory, Polynomial Local Search (PLS) is a complexity class that models the difficulty of finding a locally optimal solution to an optimization problem. The main characteristics of problems that lie in PLS are that the cost of a solution can be calculated in polynomial time and the neighborhood of a solution can be searched in polynomial time. Therefore it is possible to verify whether or not a solution is a local optimum in polynomial time.
Furthermore, depending on the problem and the algorithm that is used for solving the problem, it might be faster to find a local optimum instead of a global optimum.
Description
When searching for a local optimum, there are two interesting issues to deal with: First how to find a local optimum, and second how long it takes to find a local optimum. For many local search algorithms, it is not known, whether they can find a local optimum in polynomial time or not. So to answer the question of how long it takes to find a local optimum, Johnson, Papadimitriou and Yannakakis introduced the complexity class PLS in their paper "How easy is local search". It contains local search problems for which the local optimality can be verified in polynomial time.
A local search problem is in PLS, if the following properties are satisfied:
The size of every solution is polynomially bounded in the size of the instance .
It is possible to find some solution of a problem instance in polynomial time.
It is possible to calculate the cost of each solution in polynomial time.
It is possible to find all neighbors of each solution in polynomial time.
With these properties, it is possible to find for each solution the best neighboring solution or if there is no such better neighboring solution, state that is a local optimum.
Example
Consider the following instance of the Max-2Sat Problem: . The aim is to find an assignment, that maximizes the sum of the satisfied clauses.
A solution for that instance is a bit string that assigns every the value 0 or 1. In this case, a solution consists of 3 bits, for example , which stands for the assignment of to with the value 0. The set of solutions is the set of all possible assignments of , and .
The cost of each solution is the number of satisfied clauses, so because the second and third clause are satisfied.
The Flip-neighbor of a solution is reached by flipping one bit of the bit string , so the neighbors of are with the following costs:
There are no neighbors with better costs than , if we are looking for a solution with maximum cost. Even though is not a global optimum (which for example would be a solution that satisfies all clauses and has ), is a local optimum, because none of its neighbors has better costs.
Intuitively it can be argued that this problem lies in PLS, because:
It is possible to find a solution to an instance in polynomial time, for example by setting all bits to 0.
It is possible to calculate the cost of a solution in polynomial time, by going once through the whole instance and counting the clauses that are satisfied.
It is possible to find all neighbors of a solution in polynomial time, by taking the set of solutions that differ from in exactly one bit.
Formal Definition
A local search problem has a set of instances which are encoded using strings over a finite alphabet . For each instance there exists a finite solution set . Let be the relation that models . The relation is in PLS if:
The size of every solution is polynomial bounded in the size of
Problem instances and solutions are polynomial time verifiable
There is a polynomial time computable function that returns for each instance some solution
There is a polynomial time computable function that returns for each solution of an instance the cost
There is a polynomial time computable function that returns the set of neighbors for an instance-solution pair
There is a polynomial time computable function that returns a neighboring solution with better cost than solution , or states that is locally optimal
For every instance , exactly contains the pairs where is a local optimal solution of
An instance has the structure of an implicit graph (also called Transition graph ), the vertices being the solutions with two solutions connected by a directed arc iff .
A local optimum is a solution , that has no neighbor with better costs. In the implicit graph, a local optimum is a sink. A neighborhood where every local optimum is a global optimum, which is a solution with the best possible cost, is called an exact neighborhood.
Example neighborhood structures
Example neighborhood structures for problems with boolean variables (or bit strings) as solution:
Flip - The neighborhood of a solution can be achieved by negating (flipping) one arbitrary input bit . So one solution and all its neighbors have Hamming distance one: .
Kernighan-Lin - A solution is a neighbor of solution if can be obtained from by a sequence of greedy flips, where no bit is flipped twice. This means, starting with , the Flip-neighbor of with the best cost, or the least loss of cost, is chosen to be a neighbor of s in the Kernighan-Lin structure. As well as best (or least worst) neighbor of , and so on, until is a solution where every bit of is negated. Note that it is not allowed to flip a bit back, if it once has been flipped.
k-Flip - A solution is a neighbor of solution if the Hamming distance between and is at most , so .
Example neighborhood structures for problems on graphs:
Swap - A partition of nodes in a graph is a neighbor of a partition if can be obtained from by swapping one node with a node .
Kernighan-Lin - A partition is a neighbor of if can be obtained by a greedy sequence of swaps from nodes in with nodes in . This means the two nodes and are swapped, where the partition gains the highest possible weight, or loses the least possible weight. Note that no node is allowed to be swapped twice.
Fiduccia-Matheyses - This neighborhood is similar to the Kernighan-Lin neighborhood structure, it is a greedy sequence of swaps, except that each swap happens in two steps. First the with the most gain of cost, or the least loss of cost, is swapped to , then the node with the most cost, or the least loss of cost is swapped to to balance the partitions again. Experiments have shown that Fiduccia-Mattheyses has a smaller run time in each iteration of the standard algorithm, though it sometimes finds an inferior local optimum.
FM-Swap - This neighborhood structure is based on the Fiduccia-Mattheyses neighborhood structure. Each solution has only one neighbor, the partition obtained after the first swap of the Fiduccia-Mattheyses.
The standard Algorithm
Consider the following computational problem:
Given some instance of a PLS problem , find a locally optimal solution such that for all .
Every local search problem can be solved using the following iterative improvement algorithm:
Use to find an initial solution
Use algorithm to find a better solution . If such a solution exists, replace by and repeat step 2, else return
Unfortunately, it generally takes an exponential number of improvement steps to find a local optimum even if the problem can be solved exactly in polynomial time. It is not necessary always to use the standard algorithm, there may be a different, faster algorithm for a certain problem. For example a local search algorithm used for Linear programming is the Simplex algorithm.
The run time of the standard algorithm is pseudo-polynomial in the number of different costs of a solution.
The space the standard algorithm needs is only polynomial. It only needs to save the current solution , which is polynomial bounded by definition.
Reductions
A Reduction of one problem to another may be used to show that the second problem is at least as difficult as the first. In particular, a PLS-reduction is used to prove that a local search problem that lies in PLS is also PLS-complete, by reducing a PLS-complete Problem to the one that shall be proven to be PLS-complete.
PLS-reduction
A local search problem is PLS-reducable to a local search problem if there are two polynomial time functions and such that:
if is an instance of , then is an instance of
if is a solution for of , then is a solution for of
if is a local optimum for instance of , then has to be a local optimum for instance of
It is sufficient to only map the local optima of to the local optima of , and to map all other solutions for example to the standard solution returned by .
PLS-reductions are transitive.
Tight PLS-reduction
Definition Transition graph
The transition graph of an instance of a problem is a directed graph. The nodes represent all elements of the finite set of solutions and the edges point from one solution to the neighbor with strictly better cost. Therefore it is an acyclic graph. A sink, which is a node with no outgoing edges, is a local optimum.
The height of a vertex is the length of the shortest path from to the nearest sink.
The height of the transition graph is the largest of the heights of all vertices, so it is the height of the largest shortest possible path from a node to its nearest sink.
Definition Tight PLS-reduction
A PLS-reduction from a local search problem to a local search problem is a
tight PLS-reduction if for any instance of , a subset of solutions
of instance of can be chosen, so that the following properties are satisfied:
contains, among other solutions, all local optima of
For every solution of , a solution of can be constructed in polynomial time, so that
If the transition graph of contains a direct path from to , and , but all internal path vertices are outside , then for the corresponding solutions and holds either or contains an edge from to
Relationship to other complexity classes
PLS lies between the functional versions of P and NP: FP ⊆ PLS ⊆ FNP.
PLS also is a subclass of TFNP, that describes computational problems in which a solution is guaranteed to exist and can be recognized in polynomial time. For a problem in PLS, a solution is guaranteed to exist because the minimum-cost vertex of the entire graph is a valid solution, and the validity of a solution can be checked by computing its neighbors and comparing the costs of each one to another.
It is also proven that if a PLS problem is NP-hard, then NP = co-NP.
PLS-completeness
Definition
A local search problem is PLS-complete, if
is in PLS
every problem in PLS can be PLS-reduced to
The optimization version of the circuit problem under the Flip neighborhood structure has been shown to be a first PLS-complete problem.
List of PLS-complete Problems
This is an incompete list of some known problems that are PLS-complete.
Notation: Problem / Neighborhood structure
Min/Max-circuit/Flip has been proven to be the first PLS-complete problem.
Positive-not-all-equal-max-3Sat/Flip has been proven to be PLS-complete via a tight PLS-reduction from Min/Max-circuit/Flip to Positive-not-all-equal-max-3Sat/Flip. Note that Positive-not-all-equal-max-3Sat/Flip can be reduced from Max-Cut/Flip too.
Positive-not-all-equal-max-3Sat/Kernighan-Lin has been proven to be PLS-complete via a tight PLS-reduction from Min/Max-circuit/Flip to Positive-not-all-equal-max-3Sat/Kernighan-Lin.
Max-2Sat/Flip has been proven to be PLS-complete via a tight PLS-reduction from Max-Cut/Flip to Max-2Sat/Flip.
Min-4Sat-B/Flip has been proven to be PLS-complete via a tight PLS-reduction from Min-circuit/Flip to Min-4Sat-B/Flip.
Max-4Sat-B/Flip(or CNF-SAT) has been proven to be PLS-complete via a PLS-reduction from Max-circuit/Flip to Max-4Sat-B/Flip.
Max-4Sat-(B=3)/Flip has been proven to be PLS-complete via a PLS-reduction from Max-circuit/Flip to Max-4Sat-(B=3)/Flip.
Max-Uniform-Graph-Partitioning/Swap has been proven to be PLS-complete via a tight PLS-reduction from Max-Cut/Flip to Max-Uniform-Graph-partitioning/Swap.
Max-Uniform-Graph-Partitioning/Fiduccia-Matheyses is stated to be PLS-complete without proof.
Max-Uniform-Graph-Partitioning/FM-Swap has been proven to be PLS-complete via a tight PLS-reduction from Max-Cut/Flip to Max-Uniform-Graph-partitioning/FM-Swap.
Max-Uniform-Graph-Partitioning/Kernighan-Lin has been proven to be PLS-complete via a PLS-reduction from Min/Max-circuit/Flip to Max-Uniform-Graph-Partitioning/Kernighan-Lin. There is also a tight PLS-reduction from Positive-not-all-equal-max-3Sat/Kernighan-Lin to Max-Uniform-Graph-Partitioning/Kernighan-Lin.
Max-Cut/Flip has been proven to be PLS-complete via a tight PLS-reduction from Positive-not-all-equal-max-3Sat/Flip to Max-Cut/Flip.
Max-Cut/Kernighan-Lin is claimed to be PLS-complete without proof.
Min-Independent-Dominating-Set-B/k-Flip has been proven to be PLS-complete via a tight PLS-reduction from Min-4Sat-B’/Flip to Min-Independent-Dominating-Set-B/k-Flip.
Weighted-Independent-Set/Change is claimed to be PLS-complete without proof.
Maximum-Weighted-Subgraph-with-property-P/Change is PLS-complete if property P = ”has no edges”, as it then equals Weighted-Independent-Set/Change. It has also been proven to be PLS-complete for a general hereditary, non-trivial property P via a tight PLS-reduction from Weighted-Independent-Set/Change to Maximum-Weighted-Subgraph-with-property-P/Change.
Set-Cover/k-change has been proven to be PLS-complete for each k ≥ 2 via a tight PLS-reduction from (3, 2, r)-Max-Constraint-Assignment/Change to Set-Cover/k-change.
Metric-TSP/k-Change has been proven to be PLS-complete via a PLS-reduction from Max-4Sat-B/Flip to Metric-TSP/k-Change.
Metric-TSP/Lin-Kernighan has been proven to be PLS-complete via a tight PLS-reduction from Max-2Sat/Flip to Metric-TSP/Lin-Kernighan.
Local-Multi-Processor-Scheduling/k-change has been proven to be PLS-complete via a tight PLS-reduction from Weighted-3Dimensional-Matching/(p, q)-Swap to Local-Multi-Processor-scheduling/(2p+q)-change, where (2p + q) ≥ 8.
Selfish-Multi-Processor-Scheduling/k-change-with-property-t has been proven to be PLS-complete via a tight PLS-reduction from Weighted-3Dimensional-Matching/(p, q)-Swap to (2p+q)-Selfish-Multi-Processor-Scheduling/k-change-with-property-t, where (2p + q) ≥ 8.
Finding the pure Nash Equilibrium in a General-Congestion-Game/Change has been proven PLS-complete via a tight PLS-reduction from Positive-not-all-equal-max-3Sat/Flip to General-Congestion-Game/Change.
Finding the pure Nash Equilibrium in a Symmetric General-Congestion-Game/Change has been proven to be PLS-complete via a tight PLS-reduction from an asymmetric General-Congestion-Game/Change to symmetric General-Congestion-Game/Change.
Finding a pure pure Nash Equilibrium in an Asymmetric Directed-Network-Congestion-Games/Change has been proven to be PLS-complete via a tight reduction from Positive-not-all-equal-max-3Sat/Flip to Directed-Network-Congestion-Games/Change and also via a tight PLS-reduction from 2-Threshold-Games/Change to Directed-Network-Congestion-Games/Change.
Finding a pure pure Nash Equilibrium in an Asymmetric Undirected-Network-Congestion-Games/Change has been proven to be PLS-complete via a tight PLS-reduction from 2-Threshold-Games/Change to Asymmetric Undirected-Network-Congestion-Games/Change.
Finding a pure pure Nash Equilibrium in a 2-Threshold-Game/Change has been proven to be PLS-complete via a tight reduction from Max-Cut/Flip to 2-Threshold-Game/Change.
Finding a pure Nash Equilibrium in Market-Sharing-Game/Change with polynomial bounded costs has been proven to be PLS-complete via a tight PLS-reduction from 2-Threshold-Games/Change to Market-Sharing-Game/Change.
Finding a pure Nash Equilibrium in an Overlay-Network-Design/Change has been proven to be PLS-complete via a reduction from 2-Threshold-Games/Change to Overlay-Network-Design/Change. Analogously to the proof of asymmetric Directed-Network-Congestion-Game/Change, the reduction is tight.
Min-0-1-Integer Programming/k-Flip has been proven to be PLS-complete via a tight PLS-reduction from Min-4Sat-B’/Flip to Min-0-1-Integer Programming/k-Flip.
Max-0-1-Integer Programming/k-Flip is claimed to be PLS-complete because of PLS-reduction to Max-0-1-Integer Programming/k-Flip, but the proof is left out.
(p, q, r)-Max-Constraint-Assignment
(3, 2, 3)-Max-Constraint-Assignment-3-partite/Change has been proven to be PLS-complete via a tight PLS-reduction from Circuit/Flip to (3, 2, 3)-Max-Constraint-Assignment-3-partite/Change.
(2, 3, 6)-Max-Constraint-Assignment-2-partite/Change has been proven to be PLS-complete via a tight PLS-reduction from Circuit/Flip to (2, 3, 6)-Max-Constraint-Assignment-2-partite/Change.
(6, 2, 2)-Max-Constraint-Assignment/Change has been proven to be PLS-complete via a tight reduction from Circuit/Flip to (6,2, 2)-Max-Constraint-Assignment/Change.
(4, 3, 3)-Max-Constraint-Assignment/Change equals Max-4Sat-(B=3)/Flip and has been proven to be PLS-complete via a PLS-reduction from Max-circuit/Flip. It is claimed that the reduction can be extended so tightness is obtained.
Nearest-Colorful-Polytope/Change has been proven to be PLS-complete via a PLS-reduction from Max-2Sat/Flip to Nearest-Colorful-Polytope/Change.
Stable-Configuration/Flip in a Hopfield network has been proven to be PLS-complete if the thresholds are 0 and the weights are negative via a tight PLS-reduction from Max-Cut/Flip to Stable-Configuration/Flip.
Weighted-3Dimensional-Matching/(p, q)-Swap has been proven to be PLS-complete for p ≥9 and q ≥ 15 via a tight PLS-reduction from (2, 3, r)-Max-Constraint-Assignment-2-partite/Change to Weighted-3Dimensional-Matching/(p, q)-Swap.
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Publius Cornelius Scipio (consul 218 BC)
Publius Cornelius Scipio (died 211 BC) was a general and statesman of the Roman Republic and the father of Scipio Africanus.
A member of the Cornelia gens, Scipio served as consul in 218 BC, the first year of the Second Punic War. He sailed with his army from Pisa with the intention of confronting Hannibal in Hispania. Stopping at Massalia (today Marseille) to replenish his supplies, he was shocked to discover that Hannibal's army had moved from Hispania and was crossing the Rhône. Scipio disembarked his army and marched to confront Hannibal, who, by now, had moved on. Returning to the fleet, he entrusted the command of his army to his brother Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus and sent him off to Hispania to carry on with the originally intended mission. Scipio returned to Italy to take command of the troops fighting in Cisalpine Gaul.
On his return to Italy, he advanced at once to meet Hannibal. In a sharp cavalry engagement near the Ticinus, a tributary of the Po river, he was defeated and severely wounded. In December of the same year, he again witnessed the complete defeat of the Roman army at the Trebia, when his fellow consul Tiberius Sempronius Longus allegedly insisted on fighting against his advice. [The earliest historical source was by the Greek historian Polybius, who became an intimate of Scipio's grandson and was seemingly biased in favour of the Scipio family. The other major account was written in the following century by the Roman historian Livy, who also expressed bias in favour of certain aristocratic families.]
Despite the military defeats, he still retained the confidence of the Roman people; his term of command was extended and the following year found him in Hispania with his brother Calvus, winning victories over the Carthaginians and strengthening Rome's position in the Iberian peninsula. He continued the Iberian campaigns until 211, when he was killed during the defeat of his army at the upper Baetis river by the Carthaginians and their Iberian allies under Indibilis and Mandonius. That same year, Calvus and his army were destroyed at Ilorci near Carthago Nova. The details of these campaigns are not completely known, but it seems that the ultimate defeat and death of the two Scipiones was due to the desertion of the Celtiberians, who were bribed by Hasdrubal Barca, Hannibal's brother.
The son of Lucius Cornelius Scipio, he was the father of Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus (the elder), and of Lucius Cornelius Scipio Asiaticus.
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Beware of Dogs
Beware of Dogs is a 2014 Indian Malayalam-language comedy-drama film written and directed by Vishnu Prasad. The plot follows four bachelors nicknamed Dogs by their house owner, Dominic, Oomen, Gautam, and Sunny. Starring Siju Wilson, Sekhar Menon, Sanju Sivram, and Sreenath Bhasi.
Plot
The movie starts off with Thulsiandan Pillai introducing himself, his wife Radhika and daughter Meera who studies in the general Engineering college in the area. When a sound comes from above, Thulsi explains it to be the "Dogs". Dominic - A boy with many offers from the US but is stuck with his girlfriend, Tina who threatens that if he dumps her she will commit suicide. He avoids her calls by saying he is in a meeting, etc. He also always says he's thinking of a business. Oomen - A boy who is a waiter at a bar. Gautam - A singer and guitarist who works at a bar. Sunny - A boy who is a women's perfume addict. He uses his knowledge in the perfume field to seduce women. This leads to Thulsi to put up a warning board saying "Beware of DOGS".
Oomen, upon receiving a job in Pondicherry, leaves. Thulsi is relieved. Soon after Oomen leaves, Gautam resigns from his job as a move because his manager does not pay him enough, but in turn loses his guitar. Gautam mourns over the loss of his guitar. So he calls Omanakuttan, a wealthy friend. He asks if he can buy a new guitar for him, Omanakuttan, in response, overloads him with money.
In the night, Gautam receives a suicide text from Omanakuttan. Going there they realise that he has eaten two bottles of sleeping pills. Hurrying him to the hospital, he is saved. Omanakuttan comes to stay with them, forcing Thulsi to draw back the "O" in beware of dogs, he also makes the "O" fat to show how fat Omanakuttan is.
During this period of time, Thulsi says to Dominic that if he does not move out or pay the rent, he will have to tell Baptist. Dominic is puzzled by who it is, but is convinced that it is a thug. He goes upstairs and narrates whatever happened downstairs. Gautam is shocked at first and says that he knows this "Thug".
A few months ago, he came to the bar he was working in. He has a drink and pays for it in "Baptist" money. When the bar waiter enquires about the person on the note, he is beaten up by his thugs. But Gautam relives the group by saying Baptist won't take these silly cases. The rest of the plot follows.
Cast
Siju Wilson as Dominic
Sekhar Menon as Omanakuttan
Sanju Sivram as Gautam
Sreenath Bhasi as Sunny
Abhirami Suresh as Meera
Jasmin Bhasin as Meghna
Aditi Ravi as Teena
Sunil Sukhada as Thulaseedharan Pillai
Manoj K. Jayan as Baptist
Bobby Simha as Amir
Koottickal Jayachandran
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Greenfield High School (Massachusetts)
Greenfield High School is located in Greenfield, Massachusetts, United States.
The school's mascot is the "Green Wave", represented by a green and white ocean wave.
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Effects of legalized cannabis
The use of Cannabis as a recreational drug has been outlawed in many countries for several decades. As a result of long-fought legalization efforts, several countries such as Uruguay and Canada, as well as several states in the US, have legalized the production, sale, possession, and recreational and/or medical usage of Cannabis. The broad legalization of Cannabis in this fashion can have numerous effects on the economy and society in which it is legalised.
Region
Canada
See Cannabis in Canada.
United States
A 2017 study found that the introduction of medical marijuana laws caused a reduction in violent crime in Americans states that border Mexico: "The reduction in crime is strongest for counties close to the border (less than 350km), and for crimes that relate to drug trafficking. In addition, we find that [medical marijuana laws] in inland states lead to a reduction in crime in the nearest border state. Our results are consistent with the theory that decriminalization of the production and distribution of marijuana leads to a reduction in violent crime in markets that are traditionally controlled by Mexican drug trafficking organisations."
Colorado
In Colorado, effects since 2014 include increased state revenues, violent crime decreased, and an increase in homeless population. One Colorado hospital has received a 15% increase in babies born with THC in their blood.
Since legalization, public health and law enforcement officials in Colorado have grappled with a number of issues, serving as a model for policy problems that come with legalization. Marijuana-related hospital visits have nearly doubled between 2011, prior to legalization, and 2014. Top public health administrators in Colorado have cited the increased potency of today's infused products, often referred to as "edibles", as a cause for concern. They have also highlighted the risk that edibles pose to children, as they are often undistinguishable from ordinary foods once they are removed from their packaging. Youth usage has also been a major aspect of the debate surrounding marijuana legalization and a concern for state officials. Overall youth usage rates have increased, although not enough to be deemed statistically significant. Looking at students in the eighth, tenth, and twelfth grades, a survey study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that usage rates had not increased among any of the different age groups in Colorado, although statistically significant increases in usage rates amongst eighth and tenth graders were reported in Washington.
Oregon
Oregon legalized Cannabis in November 2014. Effects have included an increase in cannabis-related calls to the Oregon state poison center, an increase in perception among youth that Marijuana use is harmful, a decrease in arrest rates for cannabis related offenses, stores sold $250 million in cannabis products which resulted in $70 million in state tax revenue (higher than a predicted $36 million in revenue), 10% decrease in violent crime, and 13% drop in murder rate.
Washington D.C.
Washington D.C. legalized Cannabis in 2015. Cannabis possession arrests decreased 98% from 2014 to 2015 and all cannabis offenses dropped by 85%.
Uruguay
Effects of Cannabis legalization in Uruguay since 2013 include other countries in the region loosening laws concerning cannabis and lower costs of illegal cannabis. the percentage of female prisoners has fallen.
See also
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Sawla
Sawla (also known as Felege Neway) is a town in southern Ethiopia. Located in Gamo Gofa Zone of the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' Region, this town has a latitude and longitude of with an elevation of above sea level. It is surrounded by Demba Gofa woreda.
History
The Founding of Sawla (Felege Neway).
The town was founded in 1959 during the reign of Emperor Haile Selassie. The main factors for its founding were its conducive climate and environment, fertile soil, suitability for expansion of infrastructure, the presence of an airport at that time, availability of water and different spices including coffee, and its importance as a business center. In 1963 the Gofa Awuraja was transferred to Sawla from Bulki and this played a role for the relatively fast structural development of the town.
The ancient name of Sawla is Felege Newaye. Sawla town has its present name from “Sa7a’’ ‘’wula” a Gofa word that means "the gate of land." This name was given because Sawla was serving as the center of business for the surrounding districts. In 2002/2003 the Southern Nations Nationality Peoples Regional State Works and Urban Development Bureau study has classified it as one of the city administrations in the region. Sawla is a reform and has a municipal status urban kebelle. The town got the first plan in 1965, and the current plan in 2002.
Records at the Nordic Africa Institute website provide details of the primary and secondary school in Sawla in 1968. A study to build a road to connect Sawla with Ameya in Ela woreda was conducted in 1996.
On 1 July 2008, the Ethiopian House of Peoples' Representatives voted to ratify a US$9 million loan agreement signed with the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa for the implementation of a rural electrification project linking Sawla and Key Afer in Hamer Bena woreda. The cost of this project would total US$43.89 million, of which the OPEC Fund for International Development has promised US$20 million, while the Ethiopian government will provide US$14 million.
Demographics
Based on the 2007 Census conducted by the CSA, this town has a total population of 22,704, of whom 11,546 are men and 11,158 women. The majority of the inhabitants were Protestants, with 49.12% of the population reporting that belief, 45.22% practiced Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity, and 4.63% were Muslim.
The 1994 national census reported Sawla had a total population of 15,764 of whom 7,861 were men and 7,903 were women.
Climate
Owing to its location near the equator, Sawla features a Tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw). However, it is atypical for its classification, owing to its latitude and altitude. Despite the Aw classification, which indicates a dry winter and a wet summer, Sawla has two dry seasons, one occurring in winter, and another, less pronounced dry season in the summer. Similarly, there are two rainy seasons, the strongest being in the spring and a weaker one in autumn. This occurs due to the Intertropical Convergence Zone passing over the equatorial regions in the spring and fall, which is typical of the region. Although still meeting Köppen's tropical threshold, temperatures are significantly cooler due to Sawla's altitude, thus giving the location characteristics closer to a highland climate.
Education
Educational Institutions
The first Romanwork primary school was established in 1961 E.C. which was later renamed to Felegneway junior and secondary school. Present day it is called Botre School, which was promoted and renamed to Sawla Senior Secondary school in 1976 E.C., now called Sawla Secondary and Preparatory School.
Sawla technical school was established in 1996 E.C., presently called Sawla Construction and Industrial College.
The town has nine governmental and fourteen private educational institutions. From those governmental institutions, AMU Sawla campus is a higher educational institution, and Sawla Construction and Industrial College is in TVET level.
There are ten full primary and elementary schools, five secondary schools, and one preparatory school. From those private educational institutions there are six colleges and three full primary and elementary schools, and two secondary schools.
Transport
Sawla is from Addis Ababa, southwest of Hawassa and northwest of Arba Minch. The road from Addis Ababa to Sodo is asphalt. However, from Sodo to Sawla has not been paved yet. This does not mean that there is difficult transport. There is very good road and so many vehicles are coming and going. The town is serving as exclusive transport option for seven woredas: Meloko-koza, Basketo, Geze Gofa, Oyda, Demba Gofa, Zala, and Uba Debtetsehay.
References
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Monika Kos
Monika Kos (born 19 July 1967, Perth, Western Australia) is an Australian journalist and television presenter.
Kos is best known for presenting the Western Australian edition of the Seven Network's evening current affairs program Today Tonight from 1997 until it was axed in 2019.
Kos studied at Loreto Nedlands and John XXIII College and is a graduate of the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. She worked at Perth radio station 6PR in the late 1980s in various roles including as a presenter before she joined Channel 7 in Perth as a cadet journalist in 1990.
In December 2019, it was announced Kos had joined Network Ten and would replace Narelda Jacobs as presenter of the Perth edition of 10 News First.
Personal life
Kos was born 19 July 1967, the daughter of Friedrich Anton Kos (an architect and architectural photographer) and Jane Margaret née Roper (a graphic artist and painter). Kos has an older half-brother, David, a farmer in Tasmania. Kos is of Austrian descent, her father was born in Vienna in 1926 and migrated to Australia in 1951 following World War II.
Kos is married to Grant Willesee, a camera operator and son of Terry Willesee.
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NHLRC1
NHL repeat-containing protein 1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the NHLRC1 gene.
See also
NHL repeat
References
External links
GeneReviews/NCBI/NIH/UW entry on Progressive Myoclonus Epilepsy, Lafora Type
Further reading
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Virey
Virey is a former commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the commune of Saint-Hilaire-du-Harcouët.
See also
Communes of the Manche department
References
Category:Former communes of Manche
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Dankali, Cameroon
Dankali is a village in the commune of Meiganga in the Adamawa Region of Cameroon, near the border with the Central African Republic.
Population
In 1967, Dankali contained 683 inhabitants, mostly Gbaya people
At the time of the 2005 census, there were 620 people in the village.
References
Bibliography
Jean Boutrais, 1993, Peuples et cultures de l'Adamaoua (Cameroun) : actes du colloque de Ngaoundéré du 14 au 16 janvier 1992, Éd. de l'ORSTOM, Paris
Philip Burnham, Opportunity and constraint in a savanna society : the Gbaya people of Meiganga, Cameroon, Academic Press, London, New York, 1980, 324 p.
Dictionnaire des villages de l'Adamaoua, ONAREST, Yaoundé, October 1974, 133 p.
External links
Meiganga, on the website Communes et villes unies du Cameroun (CVUC)
Category:Populated places in Adamawa Region
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Gary Coatsworth
Gary Coatsworth (born 7 October 1968 in Sunderland) is an English former footballer who played for Barnsley, Darlington, and Leicester City, for whom he played in the 1994 Football League First Division play-off Final victory over Derby County. He scored the goal that confirmed Darlington as winners of the 1989–90 Football Conference title.
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A1018 road
The A1018 is a road in North East England. It runs between South Shields, at the mouth of the River Tyne, and the A19 near Seaham, County Durham. Most of the route it follows is the old alignment of the A19, before it by-passed Sunderland to meet the Tyne Tunnel.
Route
South Tyneside section
The road begins in the centre of South Shields as Westoe Road. This single carriageway road runs to Westoe Bridges and to the roundabout with Sunderland Road and Imeary Street. The A1018 then continues on Sunderland Road becoming a dual carriageway. The road crosses the A1300 and continues to Ridgeway where it returns to a single carriageway. The A1018 then extends through Cleadon Village, becoming Sunderland Road and runs to the Sunderland border.
Sunderland section
As the A1018 enters City of Sunderland from the north, it is known as Shields Road, which then becomes Newcastle Road. This long straight section passes through the Boldons, Fulwell and Monkwearmouth towards the River Wear.
Newcastle Road ends at a large roundabout. The road runs along Roker Avenue and then Church Street North. At this point, the A1018 merges with the A183 road and become Dame Dorothy Street which crosses the Wearmouth Bridge into the centre of the City of Sunderland.
On the south side of the Wear, the A1018 heads east toward Hendon as West Wear Street and then Sans Street, and then continues through Hendon via West Wear Street, Hendon Road and Commercial Road into Grangetown as the Southern Radial Route. It bypasses Ryhope to meet Stockton Road at the Wellfield Roundabout.
Sunderland Southern Radial Route
The Southern Radial Route provides a fast and direct route from the south of Ryhope Village towards Sunderland City Centre.
The former route of the A1018, Ryhope Road, was renumbered to the B1522 and will be converted to a No Car Lane between Grangetown and Park Lane Interchange. On Ryhope Road, two of the current four lanes of road will be used for cars, and the other two for mixed traffic excluding cars.
Safety of the A19
The number of accidents on the A19 rose from 274 in 2011 to 319 in 2015, causing Easington MP Grahame Morris to call for an inquiry into the safety of the A19. In August 2017, the Hartlepool Mail, backed by Hartlepool MP Mike Hill, began a campaign to press the Department of Transport on this issue.
References
External links
Southern Radial Route
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Luís Santos
Luis Santos may refer to:
Luís Capoulas Santos (born 1951), Portuguese politician
Luis Santos (baseball) (born 1991), Dominican baseball player
Luís Santos (chess player) (born 1955), Portuguese chess player
Luís Santos (fighter) (born 1980), Brazilian mixed martial artist
Luís Santos (water polo) (born 1980), Brazilian water polo player
Luis Martín-Santos (1924–1964), Spanish psychiatrist and author
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1931 Chattanooga Moccasins football team
The 1931 Chattanooga Moccasins football team represented the University of Chattanooga during the 1931 college football season.
References
Chattanooga
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ANFA Cup
The ANFA Cup refers to a series of invitational association football knockout tournaments organised by the All Nepal Football Association. Both National football teams as well as football clubs participated in the past.
History
Although Nepal had been playing football with the teams of various neighboring countries and friendly countries but the necessity to invite countries for competitive matches in Nepal was realized only in 1979 and hence ANFA cup football match was introduced. In the first match of ANFA cup Kathmandu XI team was the winner which was held in Chaitra. To encourage young players Federation of Nepal Football Association started ANFA President shield in the year 1981 in which Three Star Club secured the first position.
Series
*Selection of Nepalese players. Effectively a full national team.
See also
ANFA
Football in Nepal
References
Category:Football cup competitions in Nepal
Category:All Nepal Football Association
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Eight-eight fleet
The was a Japanese naval strategy formulated for the development of the Imperial Japanese Navy in the first quarter of the 20th century, which stipulated that the navy should include eight first-class battleships and eight armoured cruisers or battlecruisers.
History and development
The concept of the "Eight-Eight Fleet" originated in the aftermath of the Russo-Japanese War with the 1907 Imperial Defense Policy between the Japanese government and the competing services of the Army and Navy. The policy called for the construction of a battle fleet of eight modern battleships of 20,000 tons each and eight modern armored cruisers of 18,000 tons each. These were to be complemented by the construction of several lesser warship types, including cruisers and destroyers. The plan was inspired by the Mahanian doctrine of Satō Tetsutarō who advocated that Japanese security could only be guaranteed by a strong navy. Satō argued that to ensure security, Japan should be capable of defeating the power which represented the greatest hypothetical threat. In the 1907 Imperial National Defense Policy, Japan's military focus shifted away from Tsarist Russia and towards the United States, who now became the primary hypothetical threat to Japan's future security. In 1907, no clash of fundamental interests between Japan and the United States nor was any indication that either the Japanese or the American government desired confrontation. The Imperial Defense Policy of 1907 promoted Japan's big-navy ideology in complete disregard of the realities of Japanese foreign policy. Far from providing a rationale for an eight-eight fleet by a detailed explanation of an American naval threat, the policy arbitrarily selected the United States as a likely opponent in order to justify the scale of naval strength it desired. More than Japan's most likely antagonist, the U.S. Navy became the Imperial Japanese navy's "budgetary enemy".
Based on a theoretical United States Navy strength of 25 battleships and cruisers, Japanese naval theoreticians postulated that Japan would need a fleet of at least eight first-line battleships and eight cruisers for parity in the Pacific Ocean. When Naval Minister Admiral Yamamoto Gonnohyoe presented the budget request for this fleet to the Diet of Japan, the amount was more than twice that of the entire Japanese national budget at the time.
The Eight-Eight Fleet policy was controversial because of the enormous cost of battleships, and only once was authorization given by the Diet of Japan for a building program which would have reached the "Eight-Eight Fleet" ideal. To complicate matters further, while the "Eight-Eight Fleet" plan lasted over a decade, the ships required for it changed; by 1920 the ships which had been ordered in 1910 to start to fulfill the plan were becoming obsolete.
Various alternative plans were discussed, including a reduction in the plan to "Eight-Four Fleet" program, of later to an "Eight-Six Fleet" program.
First "Eight-Eight"
The first serious attempt to build an "Eight-Eight Fleet" came in 1910, when the Naval General Staff proposed a building program of eight battleships and eight armored cruisers (by that time, they would inevitably become battlecruisers). The Navy Ministry cut back this request for political reasons, to seven battleships and three armored cruisers. The Cabinet eventually recommended one battleship and four battlecruisers, and the Diet authorized these ships in 1911. The battlecruisers became the Kongō class and the battleship was Fusō: all were technologically advanced ships.
The 1913 program saw a further three battleships authorized, making a total of "four-four". These ships, Yamashiro, Ise and Hyūga, were sister ships or cousins of Fusō.
In 1915, the Navy proposed another four battleships, to reach an "Eight-Four Fleet". This was rejected by the Diet. However, in 1916 the Diet agreed to an additional battleship and two battlecruisers. In 1917, in response to the U.S. Navy's plan to build an additional ten battleships and six battlecruisers, the Diet authorized a further three battleships; and in 1918 the Cabinet authorized another two battlecruisers. In total, the authorization existed for an "Eight-Eight Fleet".
The new ships started were the two Nagato-class battleships, the two Tosa-class battleships, and a total of four Amagi-class battlecruisers: all modern, capable ships carrying 16-inch guns. Only the two Nagato-class ships were eventually completed in their intended role. One Tosa and one Amagi were completed as aircraft carriers.
Second "Eight-Eight Fleet"
So great was the difference in capability between this generation of ships and those of five years previously that the "Eight-Eight Fleet" plan was restarted: Nagato was now regarded as Ship No.1 in the new project, and planners now began to write off the older battleships and battlecruisers. On this revised basis the Navy was back down to a "Four-Four Fleet".
A further impetus to achieve the Eight-Eight Fleet ideal came from an additional expansion of the U.S. Navy under American President Woodrow Wilson's 1919 plan to build another set of 16 capital ships (on top of the 16 already authorized in 1916). In 1920, under Prime Minister Hara Takashi, a reluctant Diet was persuaded to accept a plan to bring the "Four-Four" set of modern ships up to "Eight-Eight" strength by 1927. This would have involved augmenting the Amagi-class battlecruisers with an additional four fast battleships of the new Kii class, which were marginally slower and more powerful. A further four battleships (No. 13-16) would have been built, with 18-inch guns. If completed, this would have been an "Eight-Eight Fleet" in full; if one included the oldest ships of the navy, the Fusō and Kongō classes, then the even higher goal of an "Eight-Eight-Eight Fleet" with not two but three eight-ship battle squadrons could be realized.
Washington Naval Treaty
The Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 put an end to these construction plans. Under the terms of the treaty all the ships still being built — which meant all ships started after Nagato, the first ship of the 1916 building program — had to be broken up or converted into aircraft carriers. A special exemption was made for the battleship Mutsu, which was nearing completion and which had a special place in many Japanese hearts, with many of the funds for her construction raised by public subscription.
The treaty established a maximum tonnage for the Japanese navy as 60% of the U.S. Navy and the British Royal Navy. For this reason, it was vociferously opposed by many Imperial Japanese Navy officers, including Admiral Satō Tetsutarō. This group formed the influential Fleet Faction which later achieved Japan's withdrawal from the treaty. Ironically, the treaty probably restricted British and especially American ship building much more than Japanese due to the difference in industrial capability.
Although Japanese Navy procurement still proceeded along the lines of initial "Eight-Eight Fleet" plans for several years, changes in naval strategy and the development of naval aviation made the term an anachronism by the 1930s.
See also
Six-six fleet
Notes
Sources
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Category:Naval history of Japan
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Buena station
Buena was a station on the Chicago Transit Authority's Howard Line, which is now part of the Red Line. The station was located at the corner of Buena and Kenmore Avenues in the Uptown neighborhood of Chicago. Buena was situated north of Sheridan and south of Wilson. Buena opened on May 31, 1900, and closed on August 1, 1949, along with 23 other stations as part of a CTA service revision.
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O Salnés
O Salnés is a comarca in the Galician Province of Pontevedra. It covers an area of 275.2 sq.km, and had an overall population of 114,600 at the 2011 Census; the latest official estimate (as at the start of 2018) was 113,052.
Municipalities
The camarca is composed of the following 10 municipalities:
References
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Anthracosauria
Anthracosauria is an order of extinct reptile-like amphibians (in the broad sense) that flourished during the Carboniferous and early Permian periods, although precisely which species are included depends on one's definition of the taxon. "Anthracosauria" is sometimes used to refer to all tetrapods more closely related to amniotes such as reptiles, mammals, and birds, rather than lissamphibians such as frogs and salamanders. An equivalent term to this definition would be Reptiliomorpha. Anthracosauria has also been used to refer to a smaller group of large, crocodilian-like aquatic tetrapods also known as embolomeres.
Various definitions
As originally defined by Säve-Söderbergh in 1934, the anthracosaurs are a group of usually large aquatic Amphibia from the Carboniferous and lower Permian. As defined by Alfred Sherwood Romer however, the anthracosaurs include all non-amniote "labyrinthodont" reptile-like amphibians, and Säve-Söderbergh's definition is more equivalent to Romer's suborder Embolomeri. This definition was also used by Edwin H. Colbert and Robert L. Carroll in their textbooks of Vertebrate Palaeontology (Colbert 1969, Carroll 1988). Dr A. L. Panchen however preferred Säve-Söderbergh's original definition of Antracosauria in his Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie, 1970.
With cladistics things have changed again. Gauthier, Kluge and Rowe (1988) defined Anthracosauria as a clade including "Amniota plus all other tetrapods that are more closely related to amniotes than they are to amphibians" (Amphibia in turn was defined by these authors as a clade including Lissamphibia and those tetrapods that are more closely related to lissamphibians than they are to amniotes). Similarly, Michel Laurin (1996) uses the term in a cladistic sense to refer to only the most advanced reptile-like amphibians. Thus his definition includes Diadectomorpha, Solenodonsauridae and the amniotes. As Ruta, Coates and Quicke (2003) pointed out, this definition is problematic, because, depending on the exact phylogenetic position of Lissamphibia within Tetrapoda, using it might lead to the situation where some taxa traditionally classified as anthracosaurs, including even the genus Anthracosaurus itself, wouldn't belong to Anthracosauria. Laurin (2001) created a different phylogenetic definition of Anthracosauria, defining it as "the largest clade that includes Anthracosaurus russelli but not Ascaphus truei". However, Michael Benton (2000, 2004) makes the anthracosaurs a paraphyletic order within the superorder Reptiliomorpha, along with the orders Seymouriamorpha and Diadectomorpha, thus making the Anthracosaurians the "lower" reptile-like amphibians. In his definition, the group encompass the Embolomeri, Chroniosuchia and possibly the family Gephyrostegidae.
Etymology
The name "Anthracosauria" is Greek ('coal lizards'), because many of its fossils were found in the Coal Measures.
References and external links
Benton, M. J. (2004), Vertebrate Palaeontology, Blackwell Science Ltd 3rd ed. - see also taxonomic hierarchy of the vertebrates, according to Benton 2004
Carroll, R. L., 1988: Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution. W. H. Freeman and company, New York
Clack, J. A. (2002), Gaining Ground: the Origin and Evolution of Tetrapods Indiana Univ. Press, 369 pp.
Colbert, E. H. (1969), Evolution of the Vertebrates, John Wiley & Sons Inc (2nd ed.)
Laurin, Michel (1996) Terrestrial Vertebrates - Stegocephalians: Tetrapods and other digit-bearing vertebrates
Palaeos Anthracosauroidea
Panchen, A. L. (1970) Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie - Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology Part 5a - Batrachosauria (Anthracosauria), Gustav Fischer Verlag - Stuttgart & Portland, 83 pp., web page
Systema Naturae 2000 / Classification Order Anthracosauria
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Arkansas State Auditor
The Arkansas State Auditor (formally known as the Auditor of State) is an executive position and constitutional officer within the Arkansas government. The State Auditor serves as the accountant for the state, responsible for monitoring funds for state agencies, disbursing state funds, and managing unclaimed property.
The current State Auditor is Andrea Lea, who took office in 2015.
List of Arkansas State Auditors
Prior to Amendment 63 in 1982, the term length for constitutional offices in Arkansas, including Auditor, was two years.
References
External links
Auditor of State - Arkansas Official Website
Auditor
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Penney Ravine
Penney Ravine () is a small ravine on Ardery Island in the Windmill Islands. It is on the northern side of the island just west of center. Discovered in February 1960 by a biological field party from Wilkes Station. Named by Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) for Richard L. Penney, biologist at Wilkes Station in 1959 and 1960.
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Thrown Away
"Thrown Away" is a short story by British author Rudyard Kipling. It was published in the first Indian edition of Plain Tales from the Hills (1888), and in subsequent editions of that collection.
"Thrown Away" tells of an unnamed 'Boy', a product of the English "sheltered life system" that Kipling abhors:
"Let a puppy eat the soap in the bath-room or chew a newly-blacked boot. He chews and chuckles until, by and by, he finds out that blacking and Old Brown Windsor make him very sick; so he argues that soap and boots are not wholesome. Any old dog about the house will soon show him the unwisdom of biting big dogs' ears. Being young, he remembers and goes abroad, at six months, a well-mannered little beast with a chastened appetite. If he had been kept away from boots, and soap, and big dogs till he came to the trinity full-grown and with developed teeth, just consider how fearfully sick and thrashed he would be! Apply that motion to the "sheltered life," and see how it works."
Having been protected from all unpleasantness, the Boy has not been toughened and has not learned "the proper proportions of things". The Boy is sent to India, not having met his parents' expectations at Sandhurst, and becomes a subaltern in an Indian regiment. "This Boy — the tale is as old as the hills — came out and took all things seriously": he quarrels, and remembers disagreements; he gambles; he flirts, and is too serious; he loses money and health; he is reprimanded by his Colonel. When, finally, he is insulted (thoughtlessly) by a woman, he contemplates, and then asks for shooting leave, to go after Big Game where only partridge are to be found. He takes a revolver.
A Major (also nameless) who has taken an interest in the Boy returns from his own leave, and fearing the worst presses the narrator to go with him to visit the Boy. ("'Can you lie?'", the Major asks; "'You know best,' I answered. 'It's my profession'" says the journalist Kipling, ever self-deprecating.) After a furious drive, they find the Boy dead, by suicide — as the Major had feared. They discreetly bury him, concocting a story of cholera. They discover letters that the Boy has written to the Colonel, to the Boy's mother, and to a girl in England. They are moved to tears by reading the letters, but they burn them, and concoct a letter to the Boy's mother, telling the lie about cholera, and others about his great promise etc., which earns her undying gratitude - "the obligation she would be under to us as long as she lived." "All things considered, she was under an obligation, but not exactly as she meant." The Major reveals the cause of his concern — he too had despaired when he was young, and he sympathised with the Boy.
The story has keen psychological observations (the conspirators' combined laughter and choking fits as they prepare their lies) and telling narrative detail. For example, although they are tired, the Major and the narrator remember to "put away [the Boy's] revolver with the proper amount of cartridges in the pouch" in his room.
All quotations in this article have been taken from the Uniform Edition of Plain Tales from the Hills published by Macmillan & Co., Limited in London in 1899. The text is that of the third edition (1890), and the author of the article has used his own copy of the 1923 reprint. Further comment, including page-by-page notes, can be found here on the Kipling Society's website.
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Padornelo (Castile and León)
for other places called Padornelo, see Padornelo
Padornelo is a Spanish parish located in the municipality of Lubián in the region of Sanabria, Castile and León. It is located at a height of 1260 meters.
References
Bibliography
Cabeza Quiles, Fernando (1992) Os nomes de lugar. Topónimos de Galicia: a súa orixe e o seu significado, Edicións Xerais de Galicia, Vigo; p. 326
Moralejo Lasso, A. (1977) Toponimia gallega y leonesa, Santiago de Compostela, p. 321, note 13
External links
Lubián
Cultura de Lubián
“Medio natural y poblamiento en la toponimia mayor de Zamora”, Anuario 2000, Instituto de Estudios Zamoranos "Florián de Ocampo", Diputación de Zamora, p. 449-500
Santuario de La Tuiza
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Lilian Greenwood
Lilian Rachel Greenwood (born 26 March 1966) is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Nottingham South since the 2010 general election.
Pre-parliamentary career
Greenwood was born on the 26 March 1966 in Bolton, Lancashire. She attended Canon Slade School, a Church of England state secondary school in Bolton before attending St. Catharine's College, Cambridge. She moved to Southwell in Nottinghamshire in 1999. She worked in Nottingham for the public sector trade union, UNISON for 17 years prior to 2010.
Parliamentary career
Greenwood was selected as the Labour Party candidate for the 2010 general election after the incumbent Labour MP, Alan Simpson, announced in 2007 that he would not stand for re-election. She was elected as the MP with 37.3% of the vote, a margin of 4.4% over her closest rival.
In July 2010, she was appointed to the Transport Select Committee. She was subsequently appointed as an Assistant Whip.
In late September 2011, she was asked by Ed Miliband (Leader of the Labour Party) to take the role of Shadow Minister of Transport.
She was re-elected at the 2015 general election.
Following the election of Jeremy Corbyn as Leader of the Labour Party, on 14 September 2015 she was named as the Shadow Secretary of State for Transport. Following the Brexit referendum, Greenwood resigned, among with dozens of her colleagues, in protest against what she saw as Jeremy Corbyn's weak leadership. She supported Owen Smith in the failed attempt to replace Jeremy Corbyn in the 2016 Labour Party (UK) leadership election.
She was re-elected at the 2017 general election.
Greenwood has served on the Transport Committee, Education Committee, Regulatory Reform Committee and Liaison Committee.
On 14 February 2020, Greenwood self-quarantined herself after learning that she and Alex Sobel, another Labour MP, had attended a conference eight days earlier where a confirmed 2019–20 coronavirus outbreak case had also been in attendance.
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John Andree
John Andree may refer to:
John Andree (physician) (c. 1699–1785), British physician, father of the surgeon
John Andree (surgeon) ( 1790), English surgeon, son of the physician
See also
Andree (surname)
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Thyreus garouensis
Thyreus garouensis is a cleptoparasitic species of bee from Northern Cameroon in Central Africa. It belongs to the genus of Thyreus, whose members are often referred to as cuckoo bees, and to the family Apidae.
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Columbia-Shuswap C
Columbia-Shuswap C (South Shuswap) is a regional district electoral area in the Columbia-Shuswap Regional District, British Columbia, Canada. The electoral area is located in south-central BC between the Main Arm and Salmon Arm of Shuswap Lake. It has no governmental or administrative function and only describes voting boundaries for the election of rural representatives to the regional district board.
According to the Canada 2001 Census:
Population: 6,762 (exclusive of Indian Reserve residents)
% Change (1996-2001): 7.8
Dwellings: 4,120
Area (km².): 506.36
Density (persons per km²): 13.4
Communities
Balmoral
Bastion Bay
Blind Bay
Carlin
Eagle Bay
Notch Hill
Paradise Point
Sorrento
Tillis Landing
White Lake
Wild Rose Bay
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Delfí Abella
Delfí Abella i Gibert (; February 2, 1925 – February 1, 2007) was a Catalan psychiatrist, essayist and songwriter.
A medical psychiatrist by profession, he was head of the Department of Psychiatry at the Hospital de Santa Creu i Sant Pau, professor of psychiatry at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, and author of works on psychiatry.
In 1961, Abella became one of the earliest members of the Nova Cançó group Els Setze Jutges. He released three EPs as a member of the group, recording twelve songs in total. Abella's Catalan-language adaptations of songs by French chanson singers including Barbara, Anne Sylvestre, and Guy Béart were performed and recorded by some of the younger members of the Els Setze Jutges: Maria del Mar Bonet, Guillermina Motta, Maria Amèlia Pedrerol, and Joan Manuel Serrat. Els Setze Jutges received the Medal of Honor from the Parliament of Catalonia in April 2007. Abella's widow accepted the award in his place.
Published works
Mossèn Cinto vist del psiquiatre Anàlisi psico-patològica dels articles "en defensa pròpia", 1958
Tòtems actuals i altres assaigs (Contemporary totems and other essays). 1960
El Nostre caràcter (Our [Catalans] character), 1961
L'orientació antropològica existencial de la psiquiatria (The anthropological and existential orientation of psychiatry), 1962
Estudio clínico y fenomenológico de la hipocondría (Clinical and phenomenological study of hypochondria), 1962
Què cal saber d'higiene mental (What it is necessary to know about mental hygiene), 1963
Geni i catalanitat de Ramon Llull (Genius and Catalanism of Ramon Llull), 1964
Psiquiatria fonamental (Fundamentals of psychiatry), 1981
Trenta cançons (Thirty songs) (poetry), 1998.
Discography with Els Setze Jutges
Canta les seves cançons, 1962
Cançó del turista, 1963
Barbaritats d'avui, 1965
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Bandish Projekt
Bandish Projekt was a musical act featuring a blend of Indian elements in an electronica format. The title "Bandish Projekt" is derived from Bandish—an Indian classical composition, and "Projekt," which reflects the experimental and evolving nature of the music. Bandish Projekt was formed in 1998 by Mayur Narvekar, Udyan Sagar, and Mehirr Nath Choppra. Narvekar regularly collaborates with producers and musicians on his albums, Sagar performs as Nucleya, and Choppra is a media entrepreneur, based in Dubai.
Biography
Mayur was raised in Ahmedabad by a family of classical musicians and arts enthusiasts. His father and paternal uncle introduced him to the dholak at an early age. Through his interest and talent for percussion, he was encouraged to formally learn the tabla. Mayur studied classical tabla with his guru Shri Divyang Vakil for 20 years. He went on to win the All India Radio (AIR) competition for percussion in 2000, and was honoured with the prestigious "Pt. Nikhil Ghosh Memorial Promising Artist Award" in 2001.
Inspired by the music and producers of the West, Mayur began to add to his repertory of classical sounds. Thus, his electronic act, Bandish Projekt, was conceived. After graduating from St. Xaviers College, Ahmedabad, in 2000 with a BA in psychology, Mayur decided to pursue a full-time career in music.
Career
After several years as a live performer, composer and producer, Mayur moved to Mumbai in 2008. Bandish Projekt’s first album, Correkt, was released in October 2009, followed by the single "Brown Skin Beauty" featuring Last Mango in Paris in 2010, and the EP "Chase" in March 2011. In December 2011, Bandish Projekt released another EP, "Lover," featuring Shaa’ir (Monica Dogra of Shaa'ir and Func), which was nominated for the 2012 MTV EMA award for Best Indian Act.
Bandish Projekt released two EPs in 2012, "I Am Not Alone" and "Correkt Remixed". Bandish Projekt's Alchemy Wins Asifa India Awards For Excellence the special Jury mention in the best animation film category.2014 Bandish Projekt receives GIMA Award (Global Indian Music Award ) for the best EDM track "TRAP" from the Ep "I am Not Alone" .
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Awards
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Cycloponympha julia
Cycloponympha julia is a moth in the family Lyonetiidae. It is known from South Africa.
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Maray Ayres
Maray Ayres is a Californian actress who has acted in television and film since the mid-1960s. In 2014, she acted in and helped produce the award winning short film Traces of Memory directed by Jody Jaress. She is widely considered one of her generation's most enduring character actresses. She is best known for her performances in various independent films, such as the family drama Poe, the tense relationship drama Lost Lives and her spirited performance in the desert-set thriller Traces of Memory.
Background
Formerly known as Mary Ann Arras, Ayres was born in Santa Cruz, California. She did work at a farm when she was younger until she went on to study theater. She also worked as a singer in a Beverly Hills club for four years. Around 1968, she arrived in Hollywood. She married her husband Joel D. Nelson around 1971. According to the December 16, 1979 issue of The Victoria Advocate, her entrepreneur husband was in the Guinness Book of World Records for the longest Cadillac which was built for him by the automobile company. For a period in the 1970s, she moved away from acting to play tennis and picked up a few trophies.
Television
In 1965, she appeared in The Baileys of Balboa episode "Sam's Dream" as Helen.
Film
1970s to 1990s
She played the part of biker chick Sandy in the film The Cycle Savages. In the film she shoots the biker leader Keeg who was played by Bruce Dern. This film was released in 1969. The following year and in a similar vein she had a major role in the David L. Hewitt directed The Girls from Thunder Strip, an American General Pictures release. Also in 1970, she played the part of Belle's girl in the western Dirty Dingus Magee.
In 1991, in addition to playing a part in the Patrick Rand directed horror film Mom, she was hired as an animal trainer to train a bulldog. In 1993, she acted in Jack Reed: Badge of Honor.<ref>Variety and Daily Variety Television Reviews, 1993-1994 by Prouty [https://books.google.com/books?id=PS1g1rnX7rsC&pg=PR191&dq=%22Maray+Ayres%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjhkOOV097MAhWGL6YKHXK3AsAQ6AEIPTAG#v=onepage&q=%22Maray%20Ayres%22&f=false November 12, 1993 Jack Reed: Badge of Honor]</ref>
2000s
In 2014, she acted in the Jody Jaress directed short film Traces of Memory'' which was a film about a woman who can no longer differentiate between the truth and her own reality. In addition to her co-producing the film, it also starred Saratoga Ballantine.
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Poh Seng Song
Poh Seng Song (born January 30, 1983) is an athlete from Singapore who specialises in the 100 metres sprint and 4 x 100 metres relay.
Participating in the 2004 Summer Olympics, he achieved seventh place in his 100 metres heat, thus missing out on a placing in Round 2 of the event.
Seng Song received his education in Anglo-Chinese School. As of December 2005, he is an undergraduate at the Singapore Management University.
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Sports Reference
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Lamu Island
Lamu Island is a port, city, and island just off the shore of Kenya in the Indian Ocean approximately 150 miles from Mombasa. It is a part of the East African country of Kenya. Lamu was founded in the 12th Century. Lamu is one of the longest established, and best preserved remaining settlements of the Swahili tradition in east Africa that remains today. The island has continually been inhabited for over seven hundred years, and continues to be an important center in eastern Africa.
Swahili Culture
The island of Lamu is a Swahili settlement filled with culture. Prior to the birth of the Prophet Muhammad, people of various countries and regions migrated to the island of Lamu. Traders and sailors from the Arabian Peninsula, China, India and South-East Asia traveled across the Indian Ocean to the East African Coast to reach the island of Lamu. The diverse mixture of sailors and traders with the native people of the Lamu island created distinguishable social classes and a diverse social structure on this African Island. The Swahili language is known as Kiswahili, and has various dialects throughout the island. There are several different social classes that the people living on the island of Lamu are considered to be part of. The different social classes are separated into the following: indigenous people (Wenyeji), foreigners (Wageni), Arabs (Waarabu) and the Africans (Waafrika). These different groups of people all identity themselves differently based on their social status, but another interesting factor that makes these groups unique that is that each social status has a different dialect. The Swahili culture is not a single culture or a way of life, it is yet a mixture of traces from European, African, Arab and Asian traditions and cultures. Since the Island of Lamu was visited by many sailors and travelers in the early years of this island’s settlement it was able to become a diverse island. The Swahili culture has a rich history and embraces all parts of the society on the island of Lamu.
Because of the small winding roads on the Island, residents are forced to walk via foot or by donkey to get to wherever they are going. The use of cars for the general public is banned. The weather in this region is generally warm ranging from about 23 and 33 °C. Experiencing the warmest weather from December to April and the coldest weather from may to July
A port was founded on the island of Lamu by Arab traders at least as early as the fourteenth century, when the Pwani Mosque was built. The island prospered on the slave trade.
After defeating Pate Island in the nineteenth century, the island became a local power, but it declined after the British forced the closure of the slave markets in 1873. In 1890 the island became part of Zanzibar and remained obscure until Kenya was granted independence from Great Britain in 1963. Tourism developed from the 1970's, mainly around the eighteenth century Swahili architecture and traditional culture.
along its southern coastline the area of Lamu island is composed of mainly sand dunes, which cover the Shela Aquifier which is responsible for the islands main source of water.
Kenya, South Sudan and Ethiopia have launched the controversial LAPSSET development project to build a port, oil refinery and rail network near the island of Lamu, the Lamu Port and Lamu-Southern Sudan-Ethiopia Transport Corridor.
Settlements
Lamu Old Town
Lamu Old Town, the principal inhabited part of the island, is one of the oldest and best-preserved Swahili settlements in East Africa.. This city has had civilians living in it for over seven hundred years, while most of the other East African settlements along the coast do not have inhabitants.Due to Lamu's history in trading gold, spices, and slaves, Lamu is truly a melting pot of different cultures and Arabic, Persian, Indian, European, and Swahili traditions that are evidently on display in Lamu's Architecture. Lamu is an important center for trade because it is the most important trade center in East Africa. People migrated from various lands and from various cultures to conduct trade at the port of Lamu, the abundance of a diversity of people trading at the island of Lamu impacted the future culture of this island. Not only did the traders help the economy of Lamu grow, but it also gave the local people the opportunity to adopt different customs as their own. Because of this, Lamu is also an important cultural, technological, and religious center in Eastern Africa. Lamu has hosted major Muslim religious festivals since the 19th century, and has become a significant center for the study of Islamic and Swahili cultures which scholars from both traditions studying in Lamu. Most evident tradition in Lamu however is the Swahili. In falling characteristically with the Swahili culture, most of the town is built with coral stone and mangrove timber. The town is characterized by the simplicity of structural forms enriched by such features as inner courtyards, verandas, and elaborately carved wooden doors. It is also uniquely Swahili in that the towns is spatially organized, and is littered with narrow winding streets.
Shela
Shela is a village about south of Lamu (town). The origin of the village is unknown, but according to tradition, it was settled by people from nearby Manda Island. In 1813, the elite of Pate Island, allied with the Mazrui clan from Oman, attempted to subjugate Lamu in the Battle of Shela. This attempt failed totally, and the defeat of Pate at Shela signalled the rise of Lamu as the leading power in the archipelago. Shela's golden age was from 1829 to 1857, when 5 of its 6 mosques were constructed. It is especially known for the Friday mosque. A 3D documentation based on terrestrial laser-scanning done by the Zamani Project of the Shela Mosque (Friday Mosque) was carried out in 2006. A 3D model, a Panorama tour, plans and images can be view here.
Shela is now a centre for tourism on the island, with several guest houses featured by the coast. Shela is also home to the most spectacular beaches on Lamu island, which were damaged during the tsunami caused by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake. The appearance of the area is much more in keeping with the imagined East African coastline, with its almost pure white sand, traditional dhows, and clean appearance. It makes a sharp contrast to Lamu town (directly opposite the airstrip on Manda) which lacks a beach and functions as a relatively busy port.
Matondoni
Known for the building and repairing of dhows, Matondoni lies at the NW coast of the island, west of Lamu (town). The locals of this village are best known for building dhows. With the increasing use of speedboats, the production of dhows is starting to decrease. Now smaller dhows are created for fishing for smaller fish. There are several hundred-people living on in the village of Matondoni; the natives live in thatched huts and use mud for daily life. The village has a modern jetty.
Kipungani
This is a small village on the southwestern coast of the island. With the white sand beaches, this village is a popular tourist attraction. While staying in the village of Kipungani, tourists are given the options to engage in activities such as snorkeling, deep sea game fishing, and wandering the village for sight-seeing. Locals here create straw mats, baskets, hats and kifumbu (woven strainer), used to squeeze milk from mashed coconut.
Present day
Michael W. Smith featured a song about visiting the island called "Lamu" on his 1986 album The Big Picture. A different version is featured on Smith's 1987 live album The Live Set.
In 2001, Lamu was designated a United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization or UNESCO site. Centuries ago the island of Lamu was highly dependent on the function of slavery in its economy, since abolishment of slavery the island has looked for other ways to bring wealth back into its economy. With the diverse cultural and colorful design of Lamu, it is a place of interest for tourists drawn to the East African Coast. The economy of the island of Lamu depends on foreigners coming to the island to experience the local lifestyle and be part of the local culture.
As of recent, Lamu has entered a new phase of becoming a popular tourist location in Eastern Africa.
See also
Lamu Port and Lamu-Southern Sudan-Ethiopia Transport Corridor
Swahili culture
Kore people
Sokoke
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Bulbophyllum basisetum
Bulbophyllum basisetum is a species of orchid in the genus Bulbophyllum.
References
The Bulbophyllum-Checklist
The Internet Orchid Species Photo Encyclopedia
External links
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Culpable (disambiguation)
Being culpable, also known as culpability, is a measure of the degree to which an agent can be held morally or legally responsible for action and inaction.
Culpable may also refer to:
Culpable (film), 1960 Argentine film
"Culpable" (song), 2010 song by Mexican singer Belinda
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Terza Posizione
Terza Posizione () was a far-right political movement founded in Rome in 1978 (but already present with the name of Lotta Studentesca from 1976). The TP rejected both capitalism and communism, looking instead to found a political and economic Third Position, with its main influence being Julius Evola. The group became a front for the Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari (NAR) in 1980. It insisted on tradition, nationalism, anti-parliamentarism and militarism.
Overview
The group was founded by ex-members of previous neo-fascist groups such as Ordine Nuovo, Avanguardia Nazionale, , Fronte Studentesco, disbanded for apology of fascism. was the leader of the group, with Roberto Fiore and Gabriele Adinolfi amongst its most important ideologues. Massimo Morsello was also a member. Parallel to the official organization, an operative clandestine nucleus was formed, led by Peppe Di Mitri. The movement did not last long as Di Mitri was arrested soon after its founding. When he was arrested in the summer of 1980, the structure merged with Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari.
The group motto was Nè fronte rosso nè reazione, Terza Posizione (Ital. "Neither red front nor reaction, Third Position"). The group logo was a variation of the Wolfsangel symbol, with the central bar substituted by a fist holding a hammer.
Terza Posizione was one of the various Italian neofascist groups of the '70s (along with Lotta di Popolo, for example) that attempted to break the wall between radical left and radical right ideologies. Terza Posizione platform supported a social, corporativist state and looked with interest at both the Perón Argentina and the Vietcongs.
Terza Posizione and the NAR
On December 1979, in one of the premises of the organization, three members were arrested, having been caught while moving a box of hand grenades. After the incident, the police found several Carabinieri uniforms, false papers, arms and explosives. As a result, in September 1980, Fiore, Adinolfi and forty members of Terza Posizione received a warrant of arrest. Fiore and Adinolfi escaped abroad, leaving the leadership of the group to Giorgio Vale (a member of Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari). The NAR's Giusva Fioravanti would later accuse Fiore and Adinolfi of absconding with the movement's money. Without Di Mitri's lead, the NAR quickly took control and used TP as a front movement.
Investigations into activities
In June 1983, judge Mario Amato, who was investigating the links between the Terza Posizione and neo-fascist terrorism, was assassinated by a commando formed by Gilberto Cavallini and Luigi Ciavardini. The instigators of the killing were NAR members Francesca Mambro and Valerio Fioravanti. (Both were convicted of other terrorist killings and the 1980 Bologna massacre). The judge had been investigating in isolation from his superiors, like the chief prosecutor Giovanni De Matteo, a member of Propaganda Due, and under heavy attacks from his colleague Antonio Alibrandi, a right-wing sympathizer and father of Alessandro Alibrandi, member of Terza Posizione and NAR.
Legacy of Terza Posizione
Despite its brief life and ambiguous relationships with terrorist groups, Terza Posizione remains one of the most influential groups of the Italian and European far right. Many of its former members continued to play prominent roles in the far right politics after the disbanding of the original association.
Peppe Dimitri later joined Alleanza Nazionale and became the advisor of Gianni Alemanno. Fiore and Morsello, meanwhile, repaired to Great Britain founding the International Third Position along with Nick Griffin and other British nationalists. They then returned some of their ideals to Italian politics with Forza Nuova, albeit with less social-oriented and more strictly anti-immigration overtones. Forza Nuova web sites and manifests are still sometimes titled Forza Nuova per la Terza Posizione ("New Force for the Third Position"). Gabriele Adinolfi is not formally involved in politics but he is still active in the Italian far right scene as an ideologue and thinker.
Political ideas of the Terza Posizione are now represented in Italy by Forza Nuova, led by Fiore; and by the movement CasaPound, a network of far-right social centres.
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Paanch Qaidi
Paanch Qaidi () is a 1981 Indian Hindi-language action film directed by Shibu Mitra. and produced by Vikas-Veena Sharma. This film was released on 1 July 1981 by Manish Films.
Plot
Police Inspector Bijay takes five deadly dacoits into his personal responsibility from the prison, knowing that they are all dangerous and have a criminal past. Bijay and those outlaws settle in a village which is already terrorised by another group of dacoits. Bijay now wants to stop them with the help of his five prisoners.
Cast
Vijayendra Ghatge
Girish Karnad
Shakti Kapoor
Sarika
Amjad Khan
Ranjeet
Helen
Raza Murad
Viju Khote
Mahendra Sandhu
Daljit Kaur
Soundtrack
Reception
References
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Ram Jam (album)
Ram Jam is the debut studio album by American rock band Ram Jam in 1977. The first track on the album, the single "Black Betty", is Ram Jam's best known song. It went to #7 on the UK singles chart in September 1977. The album reached #34 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart in the United States. The band was re-christened "American Ram Jam" for the UK market to avoid confusion with a UK band with the same name.
In 1996, the album was reissued on CD as Golden Classics with a bonus track, "I Should Have Known", which was originally the B-side to the "Black Betty" single.
Track listing
"Black Betty" (Huddie Ledbetter) – 3:57
"Let It All Out" (Bill Bartlett) – 3:59
"Keep Your Hands on the Wheel" (Mike Millius, Thom Graves) – 3:34
"Right on the Money" (Bartlett) – 3:11
"All for the Love of Rock 'n' Roll" (Jeff Salen, Robert Butani) – 3:00
"404" (G.W. Kenny) – 3:44
"High Steppin'" (Bartlett) – 3:40
"Overloaded" (Joseph LaPallo, William Haberman) – 2:54
"Hey Boogie Woman" (Bartlett) – 3:09
"Too Bad on Your Birthday" (Arthur Resnick, Charles Karp) – 3:11
Golden Classics bonus track
"I Should Have Known" – 4:50 (Bartlett)
Personnel
Myke Scavone – vocals, percussion
Bill Bartlett – guitar, vocals
Howie Blauvelt – bass guitar, vocals
Peter Charles – drums
Production
Jeffry Katz – producer
Jerry Kasenetz – producer
Stanisław Zagórski – cover art
References
Category:Ram Jam albums
Category:1977 debut albums
Category:Epic Records albums
Category:Albums produced by Jeffry Katz
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Naim
Naim (also spelled Na'im, Naeem, Naeim, Naiem, Naím, Nahim, Naïm, Naheim, Noaim, Nayeem or Nuaim) (, ) is a male given name and surname. Notable persons with the name include:
Persons with the given name
Naim ibn Hammad (died 843 AD), Hadith collector
Naeem Ahmed (born 1952), Pakistani cricketer
Na'im Akbar (born 1944), American psychologist
Naïm Aarab (born 1988), Belgian football player
Naim Araidi (1950–2015), Israeli writer
Naim Ateek (born 1937), Palestinian priest
Naim Attallah (born 1931), Palestinian businessman
Naeem Ashraf (born 1972), Pakistani cricketer
Naim Bey (1872–1934), Ottoman bureaucrat
Naeem Bokhari (born 1948), Pakistani television host and lawyer
Naim Dangoor (1914–2015), British businessman
Naim Farouqi (born 1960), Afghan detainee
Naim Frashëri (1846–1900), Albanian romantic poet
Naim Frashëri (actor) (1923–1975), Albanian actor
Naeem Hashmi (died 1976), Pakistani film actor
Na'im ibn Musa, Iraqi mathematician
Na'eem Jeenah (born 1965), South African political activist
Naeem Khan (born 1958), American fashion designer
Naïm Kattan (born 1928), Jewish Iraqi-born Canadian writer
Niam Kuchi (born 1940), Afghan detainee
Naim Krieziu (1918–2010), Albanian football player
Naim Maloku (born 1958), Kosovar politician
Naeem Murr (born 1965), British novelist
Naim Popal (born 1954), Afghan musician
Naeim Saadavi (born 1969), Iranian football player and coach
Naim Süleymanoğlu (1967–2017), Turkish weightlifter
Naim Talu (1919–1998), Turkish politician and Prime Minister
Naim Terbunja (born 1984), Swedish boxer
Persons with the surname
Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im (born 1946), Sudanese lawyer and writer
Armon Ben-Naim (born 1990), Israeli football player
C. M. Naim (born 1936), American writer
Hussein Naeem (1987–2007), Lebanese football player
Mohammad Naeem (disambiguation), several people
Moisés Naím (born 1952), Venezuelan writer
Omar Naim (born 1977), Lebanese film director and screenwriter
Ra'anan Naim (born 1935), Israeli politician
Yael Naim (born 1978), Israeli singer
Yuval Naim (born 1967), Israeli former football player and manager
Yuval Naimy (born 1985), Israeli basketball player
Nicole Naim (born 2003), A legend
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Anisfield School of Business
The Anisfield School of Business is a business education institution located at Ramapo College of New Jersey. By educating students through business disciplines and liberal arts, the school has been a fixture at Ramapo College since 1979.
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Miguel Ángel Quevedo
For the architect, please see Miguel Ángel de Quevedo
Miguel Ángel Quevedo y de la Lastra (July 31, 1908 – August 12, 1969) was the publisher and editor of Bohemia Magazine, the most popular news-weekly of its day in Cuba and Latin America, known for its political journalism and editorial writing.
In May 1908, Quevedo's father, Miguel Ángel Quevedo y Pérez, first published the magazine Bohemia, which he named after his favorite opera, "La Boheme", by Giacomo Puccini. The magazine folded after a few issues but returned in 1910 and became one of Cuba's most popular weeklies within a few years. Due to failing health, Quevedo Pérez turned over the running of Bohemia to his son, Quevedo de la Lastra (then only eighteen years old), on January 1, 1927. Almost immediately, the young Quevedo became one of the principal voices of opposition to the dictatorship of Gerardo Machado, a distinction for which he was jailed several times in the early 1930s. The young Quevedo also became a vocal critic of the myriad dictatorships that gripped Latin America in the 1930s and 1940s. By the 1950s, Quevedo and Bohemia led the mainstream Cuban press in denouncing the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista and supported the insurrection and revolution against Batista's regime. On July 26, 1958 the magazine published the Sierra Maestra Manifesto, a document that purported to unify the opposition groups fighting Batista. On January 11, 1959, one million copies of a special edition of the magazine were printed, and sold out in just a few hours.
Quevedo sought political asylum in the Venezuelan embassy in Havana in the summer of 1960 and arrived in Miami on September 7, 1960. The following month he published Bohemia Libre with $40,000 monthly from the U.S. State Department until after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion in April 1961. The magazine was subsequently edited in Miami, Florida, San Juan, Puerto Rico, and Caracas, Venezuela. On August 12, 1969, weeks after his publication went bankrupt and he was heavily indebted to loan sharks and had cashed large checks without funds, the inveterate bachelor committed suicide in the Caracas apartment that he shared with his sister Rosa Margarita Quevedo. He shot himself in the right temple with a 38 caliber revolver. Next to his body was found a letter to "the competent authorities and to public opinion" saying that "absolutely no one should be blamed for his death." He "begged forgiveness from anyone he may have offended in any way." Another letter was addressed to his sister, who heard the gunshot in his bedroom while she was in the kitchen.
After his death, journalist Ernesto Montaner published in Miami an apocryphal suicide letter from Quevedo stating that Bohemia Magazine invented the 20,000 figure that is commonly cited for the number of deaths under Fulgencio Batista's regime. The original letter or its facsimile has never appeared and journalist Agustin Tamargo denounced it as a fraud by Montaner.
References
External links
https://web.archive.org/web/20081010165028/http://www.babalublog.com/archives/001452.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20120425015229/http://www.economiaparatodos.com.ar/ver_nota.php?nota=657
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Mahabalipuram Lighthouse
Mahabalipuram Lighthouse is located in Tamil Nadu, India. It has been open to tourists since 2011. It was closed in 2001 following a perceived threat from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. The first light was commissioned here in 1887. The lighthouse, with a circular masonry tower made of natural stone, became fully functional in 1904. India's oldest lighthouse, built around 640 AD by Pallava king Mahendra Pallava stands next to this modern structure. The Pallava era lighthouse is a protected monument, maintained by the Archaeological Survey of India.
Olakaneeswara Temple
This temple was dedicated to lord Siva. By the end of the eighteenth century or in the beginning of the nineteenth century, the sivalinga was possibly removed by some vandals. A granite roof was constructed atop the temple to keep the light from 1887 to 1900.
Gallery
See also
List of lighthouses in India
References
External links
Directorate General of Lighthouses and Lightships
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Pets (TV series)
Pets is an adult British puppet sitcom, produced by Fit2Fill Productions Limited. It was originally aired on Channel 4 and ran for two series, the first being broadcast in 2001, and the second in 2002. It was also sold to Fox in Australia, MTV in Italy, and the Middle East.
The series was created and written by Andrew Barclay and Brian West (pen name Brian Luff), who had previously worked together at the Edinburgh Festival, winning an award for an advert for The Jerry Springer Show, and on the sketch show We Know Where You Live.
A total of 26 episodes of Pets were aired, all approximately 11 minutes long. They were shown in the early hours of the morning, and as a result, the series was fairly unknown, although it did gain a significant cult following. There was a demand on the official website for Pets to be released on DVD. Eventually a limited edition DVD was made available to purchase via the official website. As well as the two series, the DVD included two unbroadcast episodes, a clip show named "The Trials Of Hamish", and a behind-the-scenes special named "The Making Of Pets".
Several episodes of Pets are currently available as a free podcast downloadable via iTunes. In 2010, a similar show named Mongrels aired on BBC3, sparking controversy between the two. The casts of characters in those two shows are almost similar as well, although Pets had four main characters while Mongrels had five. Also, Mongrels range of locations is more diverse (though often behind a London pub), while Pets is confined to a single flat.
Subject matter
Pets focuses on the everyday lives of four anthropomorphic domestic animals and their dysfunctional interactions with each other. They live in a filthy, rundown house, although it has working electricity and running water. There is never a human owner visible or even mentioned.
The episodes are set entirely within the house and self-contained; events from previous episodes are never referred to, but unseen ones from the past often are. Most of the situations that take place tend to be surreal, contain strong elements of black comedy and off-colour humour, and frequently make references to pop culture subjects.
Pets also follows a rather traditional sitcom technique by using a "reset button". Each of the Pets have died at least once, only to reappear alive and well in the next episode.
Characters
Hamish, voiced by Ian Angus Wilkie, is a large Red Setter. He is well-spoken and the most intellectually-minded of the Pets, often seen reading books or newspapers. On the flipside, however, he is also frequently uptight, sarcastic, has a short temper, and longs to be in more intelligent, cultured, and dignified company than the rest of the Pets household.
Trevor, voiced by Andrew Barclay, is a small, grey bulldog. He is foul-mouthed, irritable, extremely perverted and spends most of his time eating and masturbating. He has a large collection of hardcore pornography and is often seen humping items of furniture. He can be rather intelligent and eloquent at times, but does not take these traits seriously, being more content in engaging in other very crude activities, including drinking out of the toilet with a curly straw and smearing the walls with his own faeces. He speaks in a gruff Cockney accent. He has no sense of hygiene and has had the same two tapeworms in his stomach since the late 1970s. The worms, also voiced by Barclay and Luff, converse about a wide range of subjects, from ABBA to the Kennedy assassination.
Davina, voiced by Sally Elsden, is a Persian blue cat. She is cynical, sardonic, suffers from clinical depression and is addicted to her medication. She has a large collection of bloodstained plastic bags, all of which seem to contain some kind of furry animal. She puts these bags under the floorboards, or attempts to flush down the toilet. She has a boyfriend named Vince; an unseen tomcat who constantly travels alone over many parts of the world. However, he still sends her messages about his pursuits that often imply that he is cheating on her, which she bitterly discusses directly to the camera about, ultimately ending in her plotting twisted methods on how she will murder him when he returns.
JP, voiced by Petros Emmanuel, is a parrot. He has no feathers, since losing to Trevor in a card game where he bet his entire plumage on a pair of fours. He also has two different coloured eyes and can not fly. He has a pet himself, a goldfish who has obviously been dead for a long time, although he does not acknowledge this, and continues to dote on it. He is extremely eccentric, perpetually cheerful and lives in a fantasy world of his own, often rambling on directly to the camera about subjects or individuals related to the episodes' themes. He speaks in an Afrikaans accent, and has a tendency to intersperse his dialogue with (occasionally irrelevant and obscene) phrases in the language. He also enjoys drinking his own urine, a fact which he states in almost every episode, and has an unreturned infatuation with Davina.
Iestyn Evans, Mark Mander, Garry Rutter, Mandy Travis and Martin Weinling performed the puppets in Pets, swapping characters scene-by-scene. The puppets were designed and built by Iestyn Evans and Andy Heath.
Episode list
Series 1 (2001)
Series 2 (2002)
References
External links
Pets Web Site
Pets at British Comedy Guide
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Daniel Savio
Daniel Savio (born 6 April 1978), is a Swedish electronic musician, composer and DJ. He is recognized as the originator of the genre term skweee, describing the sparse electronic music style initially released on Scandinavian record label Flogsta Danshall. With their release of the single "The Bubble Bump" in 2006, the label also debuted Daniel Savio's solo material.
Early life
Born to artist parents, Daniel Savio was encouraged to embrace creativity early in life. The record collections of his uncle's and cousin's made music his starting point. While focusing entirely on DJing, his Stockholm childhood and early teenage years involved brief encounters with breakdancing and graffiti. Savings from a summer job at the age of fourteen gave him access to a sampler. The first music he produced were beats made for himself to rap to.
Career
Following high school, Daniel would go on to form the electro and Dub Techno group Hundarna Från Söder with friends Aksel Friberg and Tor Löwkrantz. As a member of Hundarna Från Söder, Savio was awarded the Swedish Grammis (Club/Dance) in 2004 for the trio's self-titled debut album. The group was also nominated at the Sveriges Radio P3 Guld awards, as well as the independent Manifest awards. After two albums, and after no real disbanding of the group (in an interview Daniel Savio stated that "it just fizzled out"), Savio continued producing and recording music as a solo artist.
While departing from making music with Hundarna Från Söder, Savio simultaneously started releasing music under his birth name – as well as under the alias "Kool DJ Dust". As Kool DJ Dust he produced the mix and re-edit concept album "The Disco Opera" using samples sourced from obscure European prog- and disco-influenced fusion. The album was released locally on label High Feelings, along with an EP called "The Space Opera". Following the wider re-release of the CD mix album on Service, Pitchfork gave plaudits to the album, comparing "The Disco Opera" to the music of Todd Terje and The Avalanches. Svenska Dagbladet proclaimed Daniel, in the guise of Kool DJ Dust, as "...a Swedish DJ Shadow in terms of the sampling of collages of vinyl, or a one-man Radio Soulwax intertwining the most remarkable combinations of tunes into a suddenly logic entity". In conjunction with the release of "The Disco Opera", Daniel cited influences like Italian composer Dario Argento. He also explained how he endured listening through piles of cheap LPs by saying "it is no worse listening to a bad record from 1972 than it is to listen to the radio on any given day".
Musical style
A technique employed by Daniel Savio is committing himself to using a single synthesizer in the making of an entire song, or even full collections of songs. Using this method, the drum sounds, melodies, bass rhythms, pads and sequencing of a track may all be done using just one piece of hardware. The original purpose of the synthesizer in use would typically be considered insufficient for the purpose of making detailed and complete songs.
Savio's music has been compared to productions by Timbaland and Neptunes, echoing early 2000s R&B to a greater degree than his skweee counterparts.
Selected discography
While Savio's solo albums have had digital releases, a longtime preferred format for his singles were 7" vinyl. Several releases on his own House Of Wisdom imprint have been 12" vinyl and have been geared more towards house music with an electronic disco influence. Other labels which released records by Savio include Flogsta Danshall, Permanent Vacation, Flora & Fauna, Romb, Dødpop, Harmönia and Losonofono.
Studio albums (as Daniel Savio)
Dirty Bomb (2009)
Nekropolis (2010)
Daniel Savio (2012)
Ill Eagle (2013)
Against All Odds (2014)
Plejjern från Plejaderna (2017)
DJ mix albums (as Kool DJ Dust)
The Disco Opera (2008)
Studio albums (as member of Hundarna Från Söder)
Hundarna Från Söder (2003)
Troika (2005)
Studio work
As a turntablist, Daniel Savio is the credited performer on Britney Spears' "Overprotected".
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Tom Swift Jr.
Tom Swift Jr. is the central character in a series of 33 science fiction adventure novels for male adolescents, following in the tradition of the earlier Tom Swift ("Senior") novels. The series was titled The New Tom Swift Jr. Adventures. Unlike the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys titles that were also products of the prolific Stratemeyer Syndicate, the original Tom Swift stories were not rewritten in the 1950s to modernize them. It was decided that the protagonist of the new series would be the son of the earlier Tom Swift and his wife, Mary Nestor Swift; the original hero continued as a series regular, as did his pal Ned Newton. The covers were created by illustrator J. Graham Kaye. Covers in the later half of the series were mostly by Charles Brey. A total of 33 volumes were eventually published.
For the Tom Swift Jr. series the books were outlined mostly by Harriet (Stratemeyer) Adams, head of the Stratemeyer Syndicate, attributed to the pseudonymous Victor Appleton II, and published in hardcover by Grosset & Dunlap. Most of the books (Titles #5-#7 and #9-#30) were written by James Duncan Lawrence, who had an interest in science and technology and was faithful to the canon of the previous Tom Swift series. Title #7, Tom Swift and His Diving Seacopter, has several references to the first series, including a visit with Mrs. Baggert, who was Tom Sr.'s housekeeper,
and other volumes feature a rocket named after the old family retainer Eradicate "Rad" Sampson, a radiation-detector (the Damonscope) named after Tom Sr.'s friend Mr. Damon,
and a planetoid named in honor of Tom Swift Sr.'s father Barton. As in the original series, the basic locale is the quaint town of Shopton, New York, on Lake Carlopa.
Typical story elements include Tom's loyal and quip-prone friend Bud Barclay, his comic-relief cook "Chow" Winkler, a spy (typically from Soviet stand-ins Brungaria or Kranjovia), use of a wonder-material called Tomasite that did anything the story needed, the amazingly versatile force-ray repelatron, and atomic-powered everything, including the atomicar. The first invention of the series and the one making the most frequent appearances in subsequent stories, the Flying Lab (named Sky Queen), was a giant VTOL research airplane the size of a Boeing 747 jumbo jet.
The Tom Swift Jr. stories had stronger science-fiction elements than the earlier series, particularly in the later volumes. One subplot, beginning on the first page of the first volume and running the length of the series, is Tom's communication, via mathematical "space symbols", with beings from "Planet X". This mystery is never completely resolved, despite the beings sending a sample of life forms from their planet in book #7 and an artificial "energy brain" to occupy a robot body built by Tom in book #17 (see illustration above).
The stories offered science that was more intriguing than accurate. Yet, the characters and titles are well-remembered and lovingly regarded, and a number of scientists, researchers, and engineers, including Apple's Steve Wozniak, profess to having been set on their courses by Tom Swift Jr.
Regular characters from The New Tom Swift Jr. Adventures series
Tom Swift Jr. — The son of Tom Swift Sr. (see below). He is 18 years of age throughout the run of the series, and is described as lanky, blond, crew-cut, possessed of deep-set blue eyes, and closely resembling his famous father. Virtuous, brave, and very very smart. Typically depicted in illustrations as wearing a blue-striped T-shirt and slacks, even under the sea.
Tom Swift Sr. — The protagonist of the previous series, now married to his longtime sweetheart, Mary. Tom Sr., unlike his own father, is still relatively young and vital at the time of Tom Jr.'s adventures and frequently assists his son from behind the scenes while operating the huge family business, Swift Enterprises.
Mary Nestor Swift — Tom Sr.'s wife and the mother of Tom Jr. and Sandra. An occasionally fretful, attractive homebody, known for her cooking. Never joins the menfolk on their adventures.
Sandra "Sandy" Swift — Tom's year-younger sister. Sandy is pert and blond, also headstrong and brave. She is not quite as scientifically focused as her famed brother, toward whom she is less than reverent, though she clearly idolizes him. A trained pilot and aircraft demonstrator.
Bud Barclay — Tom's best friend, who accompanies Tom on all his adventures. Utterly devoted, and a dependable quipster and sometimes prankster. A highly qualified pilot in his own right. He is black-haired, the same age as his pal though a bit shorter and huskier, described as a natural athlete who likes to play for fun. Bud's knowledge of science and engineering is rudimentary, prompting many an explanation by Tom (and thus helpful exposition for the reader). By dating Sandy, he keeps his social life within the world of the Swift family.
"Uncle" Ned Newton — Tom Sr.'s pal from the previous series and father of Phyllis Newton
Phyllis Newton — Daughter of Ned Newton and Tom Jr.'s customary social date. Facing death, Tom Jr. declares his love for Phyllis in Tom Swift on the Phantom Satellite.
Charles "Chow" Winkler — A comic relief character, successor to both Mr. Damon and Rad Sampson. A roly-poly "former chuckwagon cook" born in Texas, he is an older man, beloved for his gaudy western shirts, cowboy hats, bizarre culinary concoctions (like armadillo stew), and for such expressions as "Brand my space biscuits!". He accompanies all Swift expeditions — even in outer space — as the Swifts' executive chef.
The series also offers a good many recurring characters of lesser rank, in contrast to the original series. Most are Swift Enterprises employees, such as Harlan Ames, Phil Radnor, Hank Sterling, Arvid Hanson, Slim Davis, George Dilling, Art Wiltessa, and Miss Trent — the two Toms' office secretary and the lone female among recurring Swift Enterprises characters.
List of titles
Tom Swift and His Flying Lab (1954)
Tom Swift and His Jetmarine (1954)
Tom Swift and His Rocket Ship (1954)
Tom Swift and His Giant Robot (1954)
Tom Swift and His Atomic Earth Blaster (1954)
Tom Swift and His Outpost in Space (1955)
Tom Swift and His Diving Seacopter (1956)
Tom Swift in the Caves of Nuclear Fire (1956)
Tom Swift on the Phantom Satellite (1956)
Tom Swift and His Ultrasonic Cycloplane (1957)
Tom Swift and His Deep Sea Hydrodome (1958)
Tom Swift in the Race to the Moon (1958)
Tom Swift and Space Solartron (1958)
Tom Swift and His Electronic Retroscope (1959)
Tom Swift and His Spectromarine Selector (1960)
Tom Swift and the Cosmic Astronauts (1960)
Tom Swift and the Visitor from Planet X (1961)
Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung (1961)
Tom Swift and His Triphibian Atomicar (1962)
Tom Swift and His Megascope Space Prober (1962)
Tom Swift and the Asteroid Pirates (1963)
Tom Swift and His Repelatron Skyway (1963)
Tom Swift and His Aquatomic Tracker (1964)
Tom Swift and His 3-D Telejector (1964)
Tom Swift and His Polar-Ray Dynasphere (1965)
Tom Swift and His Sonic Boom Trap (1965)
Tom Swift and His Subocean Geotron (1966)
Tom Swift and the Mystery Comet (1966)
Tom Swift and the Captive Planetoid (1967)
Tom Swift and His G-Force Inverter (1968)
Tom Swift and His Dyna-4 Capsule (1969)
Tom Swift and His Cosmotron Express (1970)
Tom Swift and the Galaxy Ghosts (1971)
The first 18 titles were released in a blue tweed cloth cover with a full color paper jacket. Volumes 1–18 were also published in a blue-spined picture cover edition with Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung (in its first printing only) the only title with the picture cover imprinted directly on the "boards" and wrapping around the spine, rather than as a removable dust jacket. The "blue spine" editions lasted about a year and then the entire run of Tom Swift Jr. books was reproduced in yellow spine versions and all later titles were released in this format. The Hardy Boys books (another series from the Stratemeyer_Syndicate) was also released in a blue spine version; this may have prompted the change in color.
A few of the early titles of the Tom Swift Jr. series were re-released in the 1970s in paperback with new illustrations. In 1972, four (#14, #15, #16, and #17) were released as trade paperbacks. #14 was retitled Tom Swift in the Jungle of the Mayas and #15 was renamed Tom Swift and the City of Gold. In 1977, six (#1–4, #6, and #8) were released as mass market paperbacks. One of the stories, #6 Tom Swift and His Outpost in Space was renamed Tom Swift and His Sky Wheel and repositioned as #5.
There exist a number of foreign reprints of Tom Swift Jr. titles, including British, Japanese, Icelandic, and Dutch (#1-3, adapted by the Dutch author Willy van der Heide). There is also a Tom Swift Jr. activity/coloring book and a rare Tom Swift Jr. board game. One episode of the Tom Swift/Linda Craig Mystery hour was aired in 1983, the only one of several proposed Tom Swift versions (including an elaborate "road show" movie) to actually appear before the public. The televised "Tom Swift" was unrelated to the character as depicted in any of the published series.
Reception
Criticism similar to that of the Nancy Drew Mysteries was leveled by writers Anthony Boucher and J. Francis McComas, who found the first installments of the series "a most misguided venture, well below juvenile TV or comic book average in crudity of prose, construction, character and ideas." Nonetheless, the series sold a respectable 6 million copies in its 17-year run, spawned at least four subsequent Tom Swift series, and is remembered fondly by generations of children.
See also
Tom Swift main page
References
External links
Duntemann, Jeff. "Tom Swift, Jr.: An Appreciation." http://www.duntemann.com/tomswift.htm
The Complete Tom Swift Jr. Home Page: http://www.tomswift.info/homepage/
The Tom Swift Unofficial Home Page: http://tomswift.net/ts2.htm
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James Dudley Elliott
James Dudley Elliott is a Judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria and sits as a judge of the Commercial Court. He was admitted to practice in 1988 after completing articles with Baker & McKenzie, signing the Bar Roll in 1990 and becoming Senior Counsel in 2004. He was appointed to the Trial Division of the Supreme Court on 26 March 2013.
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Darreh Barik, Lali
Darreh Barik (, also Romanized as Darreh Bārīk) is a village in Hati Rural District, Hati District, Lali County, Khuzestan Province, Iran. In the 2006 census, it was found that the population was 73, in 15 families.
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Jan Berg (Finnish footballer)
Jan Berg (born 22 May 1985) is a Finnish retired footballer.
References
vepsu.fi
Veikkausliiga Hall of Fame
veikkausliiga.com
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Cian Darcy
Cian Darcy (born 23 April 1998) is a hurler who plays as a forward for the Tipperary senior team. He plays his club hurling with Kilruane MacDonagh's.
Career
Darcy made his senior debut for the Tipperary hurling team on 3 February 2018 in the second round of the 2018 National Hurling League against Waterford when he came on as a substitute in the second half.
Honours
All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship (1): 2018
All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship (1): 2016
Munster Minor Hurling Championship (2):2015, 2016
References
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Alexandria Water Company
The Alexandria Water Company (AWCO) is the water company of the city and the governorate (province) of Alexandria, Egypt. It was founded in 1860 as a private company and it operated as such for more than 100 years before it was nationalized under the rule of Gamal Abdel Nasser. At that time it became the Alexandria Water General Authority (AWGA), a department of Alexandria Governorate in charge of both water supply and sewerage. In 2004, through a country-wide sector reform it became a commercially oriented company under private law. The sewerage and wastewater treatment functions were transferred to a separate company, the Alexandria General Organization for Sanitary Drainage (AGOSD), later renamed to Alexandria Sanitary and Drainage Company (ASDCO). The water utility became a company under private law, reverted to its old name AWCO and gained some operational independence. Both AWCO and ASDCO are part of the government-owned Holding Company for Water and Wastewater, which owns all utilities in Egypt. AWCO serves 4.5 million inhabitants, a number that increases to 6 million during the summer season. The Alexandria water utility is one of the better-performing water service providers in Egypt, ranked fifth among 22 water utilities by the Egyptian Water Regulatory Authority in 2012/13.
Water resources
The city of Alexandria receives its water from the Nile River through the Mahmoudiyah Canal and the "Drinking Water Canal" that branches off from the Mahoudiyah Canal. Six water treatment plants draw their raw water from these two canals. The Noubaria Canal brings Nile water to the settlements in the western part of the Governorate. Two more water treatment planst are located on the Noubaria Canal. Because Alexandria is located downstream on the Nile, raw water quality is degraded, including by silt, weeds and debris. The salinity of the water is also elevated at around 600 parts per million. The water undergoes extensive treatment so that it complies with Egyptian drinking water quality standards. Each water treatment plant has its own laboratory that regularly monitors the quality of the treated water. In addition, there is a Central Laboratory that has been certified according to the ISO 17025:2005 standard. Water samples are taken on a weekly basis from the distribution network and showed a 98.4% compliance with standards in 2010-11.
Corporate governance and role of women
As of 2005, all eight members of AWCO’s Board of Directors, including its Chairperson, Nadia Abdou, were women, making it one of the few utilities in the Arab world run by women. The board of directors consists of five members who are AWCO staff, including its chairperson, as well as four external board members. Two external board members are appointed by the Governorate of Alexandria and two by the Holding Company for Water and Wastewater that owns AWCO and to which its Board of Directors reports. AWCO is free to use its operating budget in any way it wants. However, investment plans and any internal restructuring have to be approved by the Holding Company. Increases of residential tariffs are infrequent. They have to be approved by the holding company, the national water regulatory agency EWRA, the Ministry of Housing, the Cabinet of Ministers, the President of the Republic and the National Assembly. Industrial tariffs can be set by the company.
Evolution of performance
Between 2000 and 2004 the utility underwent a process of capacity development that manifested itself in the improvement of a number of performance indicators. For example, the utility introduced employee incentives. Field inspectors received five Egyptian pounds (about US$0.80) for each illegal connection they discovered. Also, meter readers and collectors received an incentive equal to up to 30% of their salary for exceeding monthly targets. Furthermore, water quality monitoring was improved and internal performance benchmarking as well as a financial forecasting tool were introduced. The utility increased its compliance with Egyptian drinking water standards from 90% to 100%; customer satisfaction improved from 60% to 82%; non-revenue water was reduced from 38% to 30% and bill collection efficiency increased from 59% to 81%. Technical assistance provided by various donors (USAID, GTZ and the Netherlands) helped in bringing about these improvements. It is not clear to what extent these improvements were sustained over time. According to one study, collection efficiency declined again to 65-70% in 2008.
Tariffs and cost recovery
In 2004 AWCO was the only water utility in Egypt generating revenue sufficient to cover all operation and maintenance costs and debt service. The ratio of revenues to operating costs was 150% in that year. This was achieved although residential water tariffs in Egypt are among the lowest in the Middle East and North Africa: In 2012, for the first 10 m3 per month the residential water tariff was only Egyptian Pound 0.23/m3 (US$0.04) and for the second block until 30m3 it was Egyptian Pound 0.31/m3 (US$0.05), and for the third block until 45m3 it was EP 0.41/m3 (US$0.06). Unmeterd residential tariffs vary between 3.50 and 6.80 Pound per month depending on the number of rooms of the apartment or house. Non-residential metered tariffs vary between 0.60 and 2.30 Pound per cubic meter. They thus are up to ten times higher than the lowest block of the residential tariff. The highest tariff categories apply to private schools and universities and to large industries. Average water consumption is around 300 liter/capita/day (45m3 per month for a family of five). It is thus higher than in other countries in the region or in Europe, which has a favorable impact on revenues. Sanitation tariffs are a surcharge of 35% to the water bill. Revenues for sanitation are passed on to the Alexandria Drainage Company after deduction of a service fee. ASDCO does not recover its operating costs.
Wastewater treatment and discharge
Until the 1980s domestic and industrial sewage from Alexandria were discharged without treatment into the Mediterranean Sea, where it caused pollution of beaches and degradation of aquatic life. Therefore, the local authorities decided to treat wastewater and discharge it into Lake Mariout, an important fishing ground and recreational area. The discharge of domestic and industrial wastewater, as well as nutrient-rich agricultural drainage, caused the degradation of the lake’s water quality and its biodiversity. Ten wastewater treatment plants are operated by ASDCO. Their total capacity is 1.4 million m3 per day. The two main plants with a combined capacity of about 1 million m3 per day provide only primary treatment. Only one third of wastewater samples were in compliance with regulations in 2007.
Challenges and perspectives
The city of Alexandria faces several environmental challenges. One is the expected long-term rise in the level that threatens to gradually inundate the city. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) expects the sea level to rise by up to 59 cm in the worst of all considered scenarios by 2100.
A 0.5-m rise in sea level would lead to estimated losses of land, installations, and tourism of more than US$32.5 billion in the Governorate of Alexandria alone, cutting off the city of Alexandria from the Delta. Another challenge is a possible decrease in the flow of the Nile, which will particularly hurt Alexandria as it is the furthest downstream on the river. Such a decrease could be caused by global warming or by increased water use from upstream countries. One option for Alexandria to respond to the latter challenges is to embark on seawater desalination, which is energy-intensive and thus not only expensive, but would further contribute to greenhouse gas emissions. Under an EU-funded research project called SWITCH, a plan for Integrated Urban Water Management has been developed. It has assessed “how Alexandria can meet a large part of its future water demand locally without depending mainly on Nile Waters”. According to the plan rainwater harvesting, stormwater usage, water reuse and water demand management could help in reaching that goal.
See also
Water supply and sanitation in Egypt
Water resources management in modern Egypt
External links
WaterWorld: Egypt's Iron Lady of Water, a 2012 interview with Nadia Abdou, Chairperson of Alexandria Water Company.
References
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AS Marsa Women's Volleyball
Avenir sportif de La Marsa Women's Volleyball Club (Arabic: نادي المستقبل الرياضي بالمرسي للكرة الطائرة النسائية, English: El Marsa Future Association Club or ASM) is a Tunisian women's Volleyball team based in La Marsa, Tunis Town. It is part of AS Marsa Women's main section since 1944 and currently playing in the Tunisian Women's Volleyball League Top Division. The club won the Tunisian Championship for 6 consecutive years from 1974 to 1979 and the Tunisian Volleyball Cup Crown 7 consecutive times (8 total).
Honours
National titles
Tunisian Volleyball League 6 :
Champions : 1973–74, 1974–75, 1975–76, 1976–77, 1977–78, 1978–79
Vice Champion :
Tunisian Volleyball Cup 8 :
Champions : 1973–74, 1975–76, 1976–77, 1977–78, 1978–79, 1979–80, 1980–81, 1981–82
Runners Up : 1971–72, 1974–75
Current squad 2017–18
See also
AS Marsa
AS Marsa (volleyball)
References
External links
Official Website
Official Facebook Page
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Dark Hollow (song)
This article is about the song. For other Dark Hollow articles, see Dark Hollow disambiguation page.
"Dark Hollow" is a folk song first recorded by folk singer-songwriter Bill Browning in 1958. It is included as the B-side of his single "Borned with the Blues". Though usually credited to Browning, the song has some lyrical similarities to the traditional "East Virginia Blues/East Virginia" and "Come All You Fair and Tender Ladies", likely Browning's inspiration.
"Dark Hollow" is considered to be the most popular of Browning's short career, but it did not reach the peak of its popularity until it was recorded by Grateful Dead in the early 1970s.They began performing acoustic covers of the song in 1970. Electric covers soon followed in 1973 followed by more acoustic covers in 1980. In total, Grateful Dead performed "Dark Hollow" around 30 times. Their version appears on History of the Grateful Dead, Volume One (Bear's Choice) and the live recording Reckoning.
Other renditions
Jimmie Skinnersingle (Dark Hollow / Walkin' My Blues Away) (1958)
Mac WisemanMac Wiseman (1967)
Ralph Stanley(1969)
Grateful Dead - History of the Grateful Dead, Volume One (Bear's Choice) (1973)
MuleskinnerMuleskinner (1974)
David BrombergMidnight on the Water (1975)
David GrismanEarly Dawg Recorded August of 1966; sung by Del McCoury
References
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Mindhola River
Mindhola River is a river in western India in Gujarat whose origin is near Doswada, Songadh. Its basin has a maximum length of . The total catchment area of the basin is .
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Aaronsburg Historic District
Aaronsburg Historic District is a national historic district located at Aaronsburg, Centre County, Pennsylvania. The district includes 277 contributing buildings, 3 contributing sites, and 1 contributing object in Aaronsburg. The district is almost exclusively residential with one grocery store and a post office. Among the types of residential building types present are the two deep / sidehall type, English "I"-type, connected or double houses, simple Gothic type, and an eclectic cubic type. Notable dwellings include the Jacob Oliver House (c. 1820), Bollinger House and Shop (c. 1806), Dr. Michael Kloepper House (c. 1803), John Donner House (c. 1816), George Hess House and Shop (c. 1812), and the George Bowersox House (c. 1806).
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
References
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Category:Georgian architecture in Pennsylvania
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Chilean ship Almirante Latorre
Several ships of the Chilean Navy have been named Almirante Latorre after Juan José Latorre:
, a dreadnought battleship laid down in Britain in 1911, acquired still unfinished for the Royal Navy in 1914 and completed and put into service as HMS Canada, she was refitted and sold to Chile in 1920, commissioned into the Chilean Navy in 1921, decommissioned in 1958, and scrapped in 1959
, a , the former HSwMS Göta Lejon, purchased from Sweden and commissioned into the Chilean Navy in 1971, decommissioned in 1984, and scrapped in 1986
, a , the former HMS Glamorgan (D19), commissioned into the Chilean Navy in 1986, decommissioned in 1998, and sunk en route for scrapping in 2005
, a , the former HNLMS Jacob van Heemskerck (F812), was sold to Chile in 2005
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Swimming at the 2010 South American Games – Men's 200 metre individual medley
The Men's 200m individual medley event at the 2010 South American Games was held on March 28, with the heats at 11:06 and the Final at 18:20.
Medalists
Records
Results
Heats
Final
References
Heats
Final
Medley 200m M
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Acacia Lodge
Acacia Lodge, also known as the Shourds-Price House, is a craftsman style home in Montecito near the City of Santa Barbara, California that is significant for its architecture and landscape design. It was built in 1917 as a rental lodge.
The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1997.
Per its nomination document, The building was constructed in 1917 by William Augustus Whittlesey Brownell, a local designer, building, and developer who developed a number of rental properties in the area of Acacia Lodge. Brownell designed each house inside and out, furnished each to the smallest detail, sited each to take advantage of mountain scenery, laid out the grounds, and choose and planted all flowers, trees, and shrubs from his own nursery. Acacia Lodge embodies the Arts and Crafts ideals of total, integrated design; unity with nature; and simple, clean, cozy, private living.
The house is distinguished as a cross between a traditional Craftsman house and a ranch, with large windows that open and close and that provide significantly more light inside than is normal for Craftsman homes.
Before its NRHP nomination, the property was nominated for listing in a local historic registry but the registry declined. The owner was subsequently invited to nominate the property for NRHP listing, which went through. The home is privately owned and not open to the public.
W.A.W. Brownell
William Augustus Whittlesey (W.A.W.) Brownell (died 1932) was a local architect and developer who practiced in Montecito for 25 years. He had earlier worked as a carpenter, including for the Southern Pacific Railroad.
His mother, Sylvia Brownell, and W.A.W. "built many of the houses in the area for investment purposes, to appeal to Easterners who were seeking the good climate year round or seasonally." At least eight houses are definitely attributed to Brownell:
Sylvia Brownell's home
W.A.W. Brownell's home (135 Miramar)
Wylbron Lodge,
Beverly Lodge,
Sylvan Lodge
Warren Lodge
"the Studio"
"the Little Home"
An additional seven are identified as likely works, because of similarities in architecture and proximity:
Acacia Lodge
Bungar Lodge (since modified significantly)
Frink Lodge
Hayes-Jaffray House
Hope Lodge
Mon Desir (since modified significantly)
Ethel M. Shaw House
Two houses, the J.N. Hull and Katenkamp houses, have been moved to other locations.
References
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Category:Montecito, California
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Rivula everta
Rivula everta is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Charles Swinhoe in 1901. It is found in Australia in Queensland and the Northern Territory.
References
"Species Rivula everta Swinhoe, 1901". Australian Faunal Directory. Archived 9 October 2012.
Category:Moths of Australia
Category:Hypeninae
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Barton Bouchier
Barton Bouchier (1794–1864) was an English religious writer.
Biography
He was born in 1794, was a younger son of the vicar of Epsom, Surrey, the Rev. Jonathan Boucher and Elizabeth James (née Hodgson). Barton changed his name from Boucher to Bouchier after 1822. He was educated at Balliol College, Oxford. In 1816 he married Mary, daughter of the Rev. Nathaniel Thornbury, of Avening, Gloucestershire. He proceeded B.A. in 1822, and M.A. in 1827. Bouchier at first read for the bar. But he afterwards took holy orders and became curate at Monmouth. A sermon preached by him at Usk in 1822 for the Christian Knowledge Society was published by request. Bouchier held curacies later at Old, Northamptonshire (Gent. Mag. supra), and (before 1834) at Cheam, Surrey, from which place he issued an edition of Bishop Andrewes's 'Prayers.' In 1836 he published 'Prophecy and Fulfilment,' a little book of corresponding texts; and in 1845 'Thomas Bradley,' a story of a poor parishioner, and the first of a series of similar pamphlets describing clerical experiences, collected and published in various editions as 'My Parish,' and 'The Country Pastor,' from 1855 to 1860.
In 1852 Bouchier commenced the publication of his 'Manna in the House,' being expositions of the gospels and the Acts, lasting, with intervals, down to 1858; in 1854 he wrote his 'The Ark in the House,' being family prayers for a month; and in 1855 he wrote his 'Manna in the Heart,' being comments on the Psalms. In 1853 he wrote a 'Letter' to the prime minister (Lord Aberdeen) against opening the Crystal Palace on Sundays, following up this appeal in 1854 by 'The Poor Man's Palace,' &c., a pamphlet addressed to the Crystal Palace directors. In 1856 he published 'Solace in Sickness,' a collection of hymns, and in the same year was made rector of Fonthill Bishop, Wiltshire. He published his 'Farewell Sermon' to his Cheam flock, having preached it on 28 Sept. In 1864 he published 'The History of Isaac.' He died at the rectory 20 December 1864, aged 70. The editorship of 'The Vision,' a humorous illustrated poem on Jonathan Boucher's philological studies, written by Sir F. M. Eden, bart., and published in 1820, has been wrongly attributed to Bouchier.
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Buck Dharma
Donald Brian Roeser (born November 12, 1947), more commonly known by his stage name Buck Dharma, is an American guitarist and songwriter, best known for being a member of Blue Öyster Cult since the group's formation in 1967. He wrote and sang vocals on several of the band's best-known hits, including "(Don't Fear) The Reaper," "Godzilla" and "Burnin' for You."
Early life
Roeser was born on Long Island, New York. His father was an accomplished jazz saxophonist, and Roeser spent a lot of time listening to jazz music as a result. Because of this, Roeser developed an interest in the melodic arts at an early age, even playing the accordion for a brief time.
Roeser was influenced greatly by the British Invasion of 1964, and decided to pursue rock-and-roll music. He first started out playing the drums, but had to stop temporarily after breaking his wrist playing basketball. While recovering, Roeser learned to play guitar, and found he enjoyed it more than the drums.
During his high-school years, Roeser played guitar in various cover bands. At this time, he started to develop his own signature sound by imitating his favorite guitarists and combining their sounds with his own style. Roeser attended Clarkson University in New York, and joined a band that included later bandmate Albert Bouchard. The two played together on and off during the rest of their college career. At the end, both musicians abandoned potential degrees (Roeser's in Chemical Engineering), and decided to pursue music full-time. They moved into a band house near Stony Brook University, where Roeser was a part-time student, and started their careers.
Career
Early career: 1967–1971
Roeser and Albert Bouchard started the band Soft White Underbelly in 1967. Members included keyboardist Allen Lanier, singer Les Braunstein, bassist Andrew Winters and former music critic Sandy Pearlman (their producer). In 1968, they were signed by Elektra Records after the company's president Jac Holzman saw them perform. The band dropped Braunstein and added new singer Eric Bloom to their lineup - and recorded under the name Stalk-Forrest Group (after a bad gig forced them to change their name) in 1970. Elektra dropped the band because of problems with the personnel, and the album was shelved (it was eventually released in 2001 under the name St. Cecilia: The Elektra Recordings).
Blue Öyster Cult: 1971–present
Roeser, along with Bouchard, Lanier, Pearlman, Bloom, and new member bassist Joe Bouchard (younger brother of Albert Bouchard) reformed with the name Blue Öyster Cult. They signed with Columbia Records in 1971, and released four albums between 1972 and 1975. By Blue Öyster Cult's fifth album Agents of Fortune in 1976, Roeser proved himself as a songwriter and vocalist with the band's signature song "(Don't Fear) The Reaper". As a result, Roeser's songwriting and vocals were more prevalent on the follow-up albums Spectres, Mirrors, Cultosaurus Erectus and Fire of Unknown Origin. Most significantly, he penned and sang on the tracks "Godzilla" and "Burnin' For You."
In 1982, Roeser recorded and released Flat Out, his first and only solo album to date. The tracks were all composed by Roeser (some co-written with Richard Meltzer, Neal Smith and Roeser's wife Sandy), with the exception of "Come Softly to Me," a song originally recorded by The Fleetwoods. The songs on the album were ones Roeser wanted to record with BÖC, but were perceived as too poppy by the other members of the band. Singles from the album were "Born to Rock" and "Your Loving Heart," both of which had music videos made but did not chart. The video for the former was part of an MTV promo along with Blotto's Metalhead clip, in which Buck made a cameo appearance, as well as playing guitar on the song.
Roeser and Blue Öyster Cult subsequently recorded several more albums that flopped commercially, but contained several of Roeser's compositions and many tracks with him on lead vocals. The band's commercial struggles, along with the loss of original members Albert Bouchard (1982) and Allen Lanier (1985), prompted Blue Öyster Cult to break up in mid 1986.
In 1985, Roeser and Bloom participated in Hear 'n Aid, a project created by Ronnie James Dio to raise money for famine relief in Africa. It included many famous heavy metal musicians. Hear n' Aid recorded the song "Stars," which includes a guitar solo by Roeser. Hear n' Aid also released a compilation album which included "Stars," as well as live outtakes from the participating artists.
In 1988 Blue Öyster Cult released Imaginos, which was recorded between 1982 and 1988. The record was originally planned to be a concept album based on Sandy Pearlman's poetry by former drummer Albert Bouchard. At the insistence of Columbia Records, it was released under the band name. Despite largely positive reviews, the album did not do well commercially, and the band was dropped by Columbia. This was the last album featuring all original members, as the Bouchards left at the end of production.
In 1988, Roeser formed The Red and the Black with John Rogers on bass and Ron Riddle on drums. The band recorded demos, but was never signed by a record company and never released an album. As a result, the band split quickly. In 1989, Roeser contributed the instrumental "Gamera is Missing" to the album Guitar's Practicing Musicians Volume 3 (later included on the CD re-release of Flat Out).
After releasing Imaginos, Roeser, Bloom and Lanier continued to tour as Blue Öyster Cult, with various musicians on bass and drums. In 1992, the band wrote the score for Bad Channels and composed two original songs for its soundtrack. In 1994, Blue Öyster Cult released Cult Classic, an album containing remakes of their greatest hits.
In the late 1990s, Blue Öyster Cult signed with Sanctuary Records, and released two studio albums and one live album between 1998 and 2002. The band was dropped by the label in 2002. Roeser continues to tour extensively with the band, and in December 2012 reunited for a final time with all of the original members for the band's 40th Anniversary Concert.
On January 1, 2015, Roeser released "Fight", an original song, on his SoundCloud account. It is his first newly released material since 2001.
Personal life
In 2002, Roeser and his wife created "The Dharmas", a web-series exclusively featured on Roeser's website. The web-series is a comical, fictionalized insight on the life and times of the Roeser family.
In 1996, Roeser heard about Ricky Browning, a 10-year-old fan of Roeser's "Godzilla" who was battling a brain tumor. Roeser organized a benefit concert to help with the family's medical costs. Roeser, his wife Sandy, drummer John Miceli and bassist Danny Miranda played the concert under the name "Buck Dharma Band". Roeser taped the concert and released a video of it, which includes the story of Browning. Browning eventually succumbed to his illness. The Roesers still have a close relationship with the Browning family.
Equipment
Roeser is notable for his use of the Gibson SG and numerous Steinberger models.
One of his Steinberger guitars has a custom body made to look like Swiss cheese (see photo at top); Dharma calls this guitar his "Cheeseberger".
His other equipment use includes: a Giuliano Balestra Vulcan, a Fender Stratocaster, a St. Blues and custom models built by Rick Kresiak, Harper Guitars and Warren Guitars. Many of his guitars were made by White Plains-based custom guitar maker, Giuliano.
In August 2015 Dharma became an endorser of Kiesel Guitars and played a headless Vader 6.
Stage name
Roeser got the stage name "Buck Dharma" in the late 1960s. Manager Sandy Pearlman came up with the idea of creating eccentric stage names for Blue Öyster Cult's members. Every member rejected their new stage name except for Roeser, who liked the name and the idea of having an alternate persona.
Discography
Studio albums
Flat Out (1982)
Singles
"Born to Rock" (1982)
"Your Loving Heart" (1982)
References
External links
Buck Dharma Dot Com, Roeser's official website
Official Blue Öyster Cult Website
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Henry Isaac Rowntree
Henry Isaac Rowntree (1837 – 1883) was the founder of Rowntree's, one of the United Kingdom's largest confectionery businesses.
Career
Having served his apprenticeship in his father's shop at The Pavement in York, and following his father's death in 1860, Henry Rowntree went to work for the Tuke family at their shop in Walmgate.
In June 1862 Henry Isaac bought out the chocolate, cocoa-making and chicory departments and ran the business himself employing around a dozen people. He followed Quaker principles and always insisted on the highest quality. In August 1864 he bought a disused foundry at Tanners Moat and built a new factory there. However, he became distracted from his chocolate business by his mission to produce, edit and print the Yorkshire Weekly Press: accordingly his chocolate business suffered and in June 1869 he took on his brother Joseph as a full partner in the business, now renamed H. I. Rowntree & Co. The brothers continued in partnership and the business went from strength to strength until Henry Isaac's untimely death in 1883.
Family
In February 1868 he married Harriet Selina Osborn in Scarborough. They had three children: Francis Henry, born 1868, Alice Mary, born 1870 and Ethel, born 1873.
References
Further reading
Rowntree and the Marketing Revolution 1862 - 1969 by Robert Fitzgerald, Cambridge University Press, 1995
External links
The Rowntree Society
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List of Marathi films of 1973
A list of films produced by the Marathi language film industry based in Maharashtra in the year 1973.
1973 Releases
A list of Marathi films released in 1973.
References
Category:Lists of 1973 films by country or language
Category:1973 in Indian cinema
1973
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List of presidents of Friuli-Venezia Giulia
This is the list of Presidents of Friuli-Venezia Giulia since 1964.
Elected by the Regional Council (1964–2003)
Directly-elected Presidents (since 2003)
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Saklan tribe
The Saklan are a tribe of the Native American Miwok community, based just south of San Pablo and Suisun Bays, in California. Their historical tribal lands ranged from Moraga, to San Leandro Creek, to Lafayette.
History
The Saklan were historically called the Sacalanes, based on historical documentation related to Spanish contact. They are mentioned under that name, and related spellings, in the records for Mission Dolores between 1794 and 1821. They were first called the Saklan, in 1797. In 1816 they were mentioned again, as the Sacalanes, in the reports of the first Kotzebue expedition in 1816.
Legacy
The former site of a Saklan village, which was possibly occupied from 1500 until 1772, is located in Tice Valley. It is a California Historical Landmark. The town of Acalanes Ridge, California was named after the community, of whom lived in the area. Today, many Saklan descendants have intermarried with the larger Chochenyo Ohlone community.
See also
Bay Miwok language
References
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Category:California Mission Indians
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Chiara e gli altri
Chiara e gli altri (Kate and the others) is an Italian television series directed by Andrea Barzini.
Cast
Alessandro Haber: Paolo Malfatti
Ottavia Piccolo: Livia Malfatti
Morena Turchi: Chiara Malfatti
Silvia Degli Espinosa: Lucilla Malfatti
Andrea Giovagnoni: Marco Malfatti
Galeazzo Benti: Grandpa Italo
Didi Perego: Grandma Lucia
Carlo Monni: Franco
See also
List of Italian television series
External links
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Jack Carroll (comedian)
Jack Carroll (born 18 October 1998) is an English comedian and actor. Carroll competed in the seventh series of Britain's Got Talent at the age of 14, finishing as the runner-up. As an actor, he appeared in two series of the CBBC series Ministry of Curious Stuff and from 2014 to 2018, he starred in the Sky sitcom Trollied. Carroll, whose cerebral palsy is often a subject of his act, won a Pride of Britain award in 2012.
Comedy career
In 2010, at the age of 12, Carroll came to comedian Jason Manford's attention when he saw a video of Carroll performing at his parents' wedding anniversary. At Manford's invitation, Carroll gave a short performance at the start of Manford's live show in front of more than 1,400 people at St. George's Hall in Bradford. The performance was featured on a segment of BBC One's The One Show. He performed with Manford again on
21 and 22 June 2013 at the Victoria Theatre in Halifax.
Acting career
In early 2012, Carroll was cast as Mr. Frazernagle in Ministry of Curious Stuff on the CBBC Channel, which starred Vic Reeves, and has appeared in two series of the show.
On 4 May 2014, it was announced that Carroll would appear in an episode of the BBC One sitcom Big School playing Dean, a new student at Greybridge School. He appeared in the fifth episode of the second series (broadcast 3 October 2014).
On 6 June 2014, Carroll was cast in the fourth series of Sky1 comedy show Trollied, in the role of Harry.
Carroll made a guest appearance in the BBC One daytime soap Doctors on 10 March 2015. He also made his acting debut on the 4 O'Clock Club as a pupil thinking of joining Ellesmere.
He plays the role of Pete in the 2019 film Eaten by Lions.
Jack's latest role was in Episode 1 of Father Brown Series 7. He plays Tim Cudlip - the young brother of two would be train robbers.
Britain's Got Talent
Carroll was a contestant on the seventh series of Britain's Got Talent in 2013. At his first audition, screened on 13 April, the judges unanimously voted him through to the next round. He was later put through to the live semi-finals. Carroll appeared on the second live semi-final on 28 May, winning the show with 42.5 percent of the public vote. He performed once again at the final on 8 June. At the end of the competition, Carroll finished in second place after receiving 20.1 percent of the vote, behind Hungarian shadow theatre group Attraction with 27 percent.
Other work
After the Britain's Got Talent final, Carroll signed a deal with Simon Cowell's company Syco to write an autobiography.
Carroll has appeared on the CBBC shows The Dog Ate My Homework and Sam & Mark's Big Friday Wind-Up. In 2015, he made guest appearances in Sunday Night at the Palladium and Jason Manford's It's a Funny Old Week. In 2016, Caroll performed a stand-up routine on the BBC Two series Live at the Apollo. In 2017, Carroll appeared on the BBC Radio 4 topical comedy show, The Now Show.
In September 2016, Carroll performed at the Keep Corbyn rally in Brighton in support of Jeremy Corbyn's campaign in the Labour Party leadership election.
Personal life
Carroll was born 11 weeks prematurely and he developed cerebral palsy. In 2012, he won a Pride of Britain Award in the "Teenager of Courage" category.
Carroll lives in Hipperholme, West Yorkshire with his parents. He is a Leeds United F.C fan and on 31 August 2013, he performed at Elland Road at the launch of the club's Families United initiative.
Filmography
References
External links
Jack Carroll on Twitter
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Fredersdorfer Mühlenfließ
Fredersdorfer Mühlenfließ is a river of Brandenburg and Berlin, Germany. It flows into the Müggelsee, which is drained by the Spree, near Rahnsdorf.
See also
List of rivers of Brandenburg
External links
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Category:Rivers of Berlin
Category:Rivers of Germany
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Grande Champagne
Grande Champagne is a French district, called a cru, known for its cognac. It produces the finest cognacs in a zone of 34703 hectares, of which 17% is dedicated to production of cognac. At its heart is the town of Segonzac, in the Département of Charente. Grande Champagne is situated entirely in this département.
Cognac regions
Cru is a French word for Growth Region. There are six different sub-regions (Cru) within Cognac. Each is graded by the French government according to the quality of the cognac produced there. The six Cru are from best to least, (1) Grande Champagne (2) Petite Champagne (3) Borderies (4) Fins Bois (5) Bons Bois and (6) Bois Ordinaires. Grande champagne is the first (and, according to many connoisseurs, the favored) cru.
A blend of Grande and Petite Champagne Cognacs, with at least half the eaux-de-vie coming from Grande Champagne, is known as Fine Champagne.
References
External links
Bureau National Interprofessionnel du Cognac.
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Salem, New Jersey
Salem is a city in Salem County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city's population was 5,146, reflecting a decrease of 711 (−12.1%) from the 5,857 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn declined by 1,026 (−14.9%) from the 6,883 counted in the 1990 Census, an overall drop of more than 25% over the two decades. It is the county seat of Salem County, the state's most rural county. The name "Salem", in both the city and county, is derived from the Hebrew word shalom, meaning "peace".
The town and colony of Salem was laid out in 1675 by John Fenwick and the community was given permission to choose officers in October 1693. It was incorporated on February 21, 1798, as part of the initial group of 104 townships established by the New Jersey Legislature. On February 25, 1858, it was reincorporated as Salem City.
History
Salem was founded by John Fenwick, a Quaker. Fenwick had been involved in a financial dispute with an Edward Byllynge, another Quaker, who had received the undivided portion of New Jersey territory that James Stuart, Duke of York had granted to Lord John Berkeley in 1664. Berkeley had sold his share to Byllynge in 1675 for 1,000 pounds, but Byllynge had become bankrupt and so had the property turned over to Fenwick to hold for Byllynge and his assigns in trust. Byllynge and Fenwick came to disagree over the property.
William Penn was asked to adjudicate the matter and he awarded 90% of the claim to Byllynge and the remaining 10% and a cash settlement to Fenwick for his share. Fenwick was dissatisfied with Penn's judgement and refused to abide by the decision; essentially Fenwick had no assurance that a previously bankrupt man would convey ten percent of the net proceeds of the future venture since he had not even paid the adjudicated cash settlement. So Fenwick organized a colony of settlers and sailed to the Delaware Bay where he settled as Patroon on the eastern shore near the abandoned Swedish settlement of Fort Nya Elfsborg and set himself up as the local governor of the fifth Tenth (approximately 20% of the original Edward Byllynge property), issuing land patents and enforcing his own laws in defiance of Byllynge and Penn. Byllynge countered by suing Fenwick, causing uncertainty in the chain of land title. The economic damages to those who controlled property within and near Salem caused many injured persons over the next decade to declare a long line of complaints and lawsuits in the colonial courts. To preserve Salem, its inhabitants and their property, Fenwick remained under arrest for months until copies of documents proving his claims were obtained from England. Fenwick ultimately proved the right of his claim in the court of Dominion Governor Andros, and returned to govern the Salem tenth by 1689. Salem remained as a settlement and continued growing.
In 1778, the British launched an assault against the local American militia in what became known as the Salem Raid. During that assault, Judge William Hancock of the King's Court who was presiding at the County Courthouse at the beginning of the American Revolutionary War, was accidentally killed by the British troops as part of the assault that became known as the Hancock House Massacre. After the war concluded, treason trials were held at the county courthouse where suspected Loyalists were put on trial for having allegedly aided the British raid of Salem. Four men were convicted and sentenced to death for treason; however, they were pardoned by Governor William Livingston and exiled from New Jersey.
Salem was formally incorporated on February 21, 1798, as one of the state's initial group of 104 townships by the New Jersey Legislature's Township Act of 1798.
The Old County Courthouse was the site of the legend of Colonel Robert Gibbon Johnson proving the edibility of the tomato. According to legend, Colonel Johnson stood upon the courthouse steps in 1820 and ate tomatoes in front of a large amazed crowd assembled to watch him do so. However, the legend did not appear in print until 1948 and modern scholars doubt the veracity of this story.
Historical buildings
The Old Salem County Courthouse serves today as the administrative offices for Salem City. It is the oldest active courthouse in New Jersey and is the second-oldest courthouse in continuous use in the United States. The Courthouse was erected in 1735 during the reign of King George II using locally manufactured bricks. The building was enlarged in 1817 and additionally enlarged and remodeled in 1908. Its distinctive bell tower is essentially unchanged and the original bell sits in the courtroom.
Geography
Salem is located along the Salem River. According to the United States Census Bureau, Salem city had a total area of 2.815 square miles (7.291 km2), including 2.343 square miles (6.070 km2) of land and 0.472 square mile (1.221 km2) of water (16.75%).
The city borders the Salem County municipalities of Elsinboro Township, Lower Alloways Creek Township, Mannington Township, Pennsville Township and Quinton Township.
Climate
The climate in the area is characterized by hot, humid summers and generally mild to cool winters. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Salem has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps.
Demographics
Census 2010
The Census Bureau's 2006–2010 American Community Survey showed that (in 2010 inflation-adjusted dollars) median household income was $25,682 (with a margin of error of +/− $5,287) and the median family income was $38,286 (+/− $5,682). Males had a median income of $47,708 (+/− $9,641) versus $32,236 (+/− $5,778) for females. The per capita income for the borough was $17,733 (+/− $2,366). About 26.5% of families and 28.4% of the population were below the poverty line, including 43.4% of those under age 18 and 10.9% of those age 65 or over.
Census 2000
As of the 2000 United States Census there were 5,857 people, 2,383 households, and 1,463 families residing in the city. The population density was 2,244.3 people per square mile (866.4/km2). There were 2,863 housing units at an average density of 1,097.0 per square mile (423.5/km2). The racial makeup of the city was 37.46% White, 56.77% African American, 0.60% Native American, 0.24% Asian, 1.38% from other races, and 3.55% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 4.88% of the population.
There were 2,383 households out of which 32.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 27.7% were married couples living together, 29.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 38.6% were non-families. 34.1% of all households were made up of individuals and 14.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.43 and the average family size was 3.10.
In the city the population was spread out with 31.0% under the age of 18, 9.1% from 18 to 24, 25.4% from 25 to 44, 20.6% from 45 to 64, and 14.0% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 34 years. For every 100 females, there were 80.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 73.6 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $25,846, and the median income for a family was $29,699. Males had a median income of $35,389 versus $24,354 for females. The per capita income for the city was $13,559. About 24.7% of families and 26.6% of the population were below the poverty line, including 35.3% of those under age 18 and 12.1% of those age 65 or over.
Government
Local government
Salem is governed under the City form of New Jersey municipal government. The government consists of a Mayor, who is elected at-large to a three-year term of office. The City Council is made up of eight members, with four members representing each of two wards, East and West. Council members are elected on a staggered basis to four-year terms of office, with one seat from each ward up for election each year. All members of the governing body are chosen on a partisan basis as part of the November general election.
, the Mayor of Salem is Democrat Charles Washington Jr., whose term of office ends December 31, 2015. Members of the City Council are Council President Karen Roots (West; D, 2019), President Pro Tempore Charles V. Hassler (West; D, 2017), Ruth Ann Carter (East; D, 2016, elected to serve an unexpired term), Earl R. Gage (West; D, 2018), Vaughn Groce (East; D, 2017), Horace Johnson (East; D, 2018), Sharon K. Kellum (West; D, 2016 - appointed to serve an unexpired term) and Lydia Y. Thompson (East; D, 2019).
Ruth Carter was named in October 2013 to fill the seat vacated in the previous month by Bob Johnson, who resigned due to family obligations. Carter served on an interim basis until the November 2014 general election, when she was elected to fill the balance of the term of office through December 2016. Vaughn Groce was chosen in January 2013 to fill the seat of Charles Washington Jr., expiring in December 2013 that was vacated when he took office as mayor.
Federal, state and county representation
Salem City is located in the 2nd Congressional District and is part of New Jersey's 3rd state legislative district.
Politics
As of March 23, 2011, there were a total of 2,975 registered voters in Salem, of which 1,502 (50.5% vs. 30.6% countywide) were registered as Democrats, 229 (7.7% vs. 21.0%) were registered as Republicans and 1,244 (41.8% vs. 48.4%) were registered as Unaffiliated. There were no voters registered to other parties. Among the city's 2010 Census population, 57.8% (vs. 64.6% in Salem County) were registered to vote, including 80.5% of those ages 18 and over (vs. 84.4% countywide).
In the 2012 presidential election, Democrat Barack Obama received 83.4% of the vote (1,674 cast), ahead of Republican Mitt Romney with 15.4% (309 votes), and other candidates with 1.2% (24 votes), among the 2,022 ballots cast by the city's 3,322 registered voters (15 ballots were spoiled), for a turnout of 60.9%. In the 2008 presidential election, Democrat Barack Obama received 1,635 votes (78.8% vs. 50.4% countywide), ahead of Republican John McCain with 390 votes (18.8% vs. 46.6%) and other candidates with 18 votes (0.9% vs. 1.6%), among the 2,074 ballots cast by the city's 3,141 registered voters, for a turnout of 66.0% (vs. 71.8% in Salem County). In the 2004 presidential election, Democrat John Kerry received 1,266 votes (70.4% vs. 45.9% countywide), ahead of Republican George W. Bush with 506 votes (28.1% vs. 52.5%) and other candidates with 16 votes (0.9% vs. 1.0%), among the 1,799 ballots cast by the city's 2,957 registered voters, for a turnout of 60.8% (vs. 71.0% in the whole county).
In the 2013 gubernatorial election, Democrat Barbara Buono received 55.3% of the vote (538 cast), ahead of Republican Chris Christie with 41.0% (399 votes), and other candidates with 3.7% (36 votes), among the 1,061 ballots cast by the city's 3,201 registered voters (88 ballots were spoiled), for a turnout of 33.1%. In the 2009 gubernatorial election, Democrat Jon Corzine received 731 ballots cast (66.3% vs. 39.9% countywide), ahead of Republican Chris Christie with 241 votes (21.8% vs. 46.1%), Independent Chris Daggett with 73 votes (6.6% vs. 9.7%) and other candidates with 35 votes (3.2% vs. 2.0%), among the 1,103 ballots cast by the city's 3,101 registered voters, yielding a 35.6% turnout (vs. 47.3% in the county).
Education
The Salem City School District serves public school students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade. The district is one of 31 former Abbott districts statewide, which are now referred to as "SDA Districts" based on the requirement that the state cover all costs for school building and renovation projects in these districts under the supervision of the New Jersey Schools Development Authority.
As of the 2011–12 school year, the district's three schools had an enrollment of 1,231 students and 131.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 9.40:1. Schools in the district (with 2011–12 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are
John Fenwick School (grades PreK–2; 399 students), Salem Middle School (3–8; 451), Salem High School (9–12; 381).
Public school students from Elsinboro, Lower Alloways Creek Township, Mannington Township and Quinton Township attend the district's high school for grades 9–12 as part of sending/receiving relationships.
Transportation
The Port of Salem was designated by the British Crown in 1682 as a port of entry on the Salem River accessible via the Delaware River. It handles a variety of bulk cargo, notably of construction aggregate, break bulk cargo, and containers for clothing, fishing apparel, agricultural produce, and other consumer goods. South Jersey Port Corporation operates the Salem Terminal on a 22-acre complex located west of downtown.
The Glass House Spur of the Salem Branch begins at the Port of Salem and is operated by the Southern Railroad of New Jersey with connections to Conrail's South Jersey/Philadelphia Shared Assets Area operations at Swedesboro.
Roads and highways
, the city had a total of of roadways, of which were maintained by the municipality, by Salem County and by the New Jersey Department of Transportation.
State highways passing through Salem include Route 45, which has its southern terminus at its intersection with Route 49. Nearby highways and structures include Interstate 295, the New Jersey Turnpike and the Delaware Memorial Bridge.
Public transportation
NJ Transit offers bus service between the city and Philadelphia on the 401 route and local service on the 468 route.
The Delaware City–Salem Ferry was a seasonal service operating between Barber's Basin and Delaware City, Delaware, until it was rerouted to Fort Mott in 2015 and became the Forts Ferry Crossing.
Notable people
People who were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Salem include:
Isaac Ambrose Barber (1852–1909), member of the United States House of Representatives from Maryland, serving from 1897 to 1899.
Ephraim Bee (1802–1888), pioneer, blacksmith, and inn-keeper of Doddridge County, West Virginia, which he represented in the West Virginia House of Delegates in 1863 and 1866–67.
Benjamin H. Brewster (1816–1888), United States Attorney General from 1881 to 1885.
A. B. Brown (born 1965), running back who played for three seasons in the NFL with the New York Jets.
Alexander G. Cattell (1816–1894), United States Senator from New Jersey.
John Chowning (born 1934), musician, inventor and professor who developed FM synthesis.
Henry T. Ellett (1812–1887), member of the United States House of Representatives from Mississippi who died while delivering a welcome address for President Grover Cleveland.
Duke Esper (1868–1910), pitcher who played for nine professional seasons in Major League Baseball.
Gene Foster (born 1942), running back who played for six seasons for the San Diego Chargers.
Johnny Gaudreau (born 1993) professional hockey player, with the NHL Calgary Flames.
Goose Goslin (1900–1971), Hall of Fame Major League Baseball player.
William J. Hughes (born 1932), represented New Jersey's 2nd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives
Lydell Mitchell (born 1949), running back in the National Football League from 1972 to 1980.
Thomas A. Pankok (born 1931), politician who served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 1982 to 1986, where he represented the 3rd Legislative District.
John R. Patrick (born 1945), business executive, author and innovative leader in the information technology industry.
Charles J. Pedersen (1904–1989), organic chemist and winner of the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
John S. Rock (1826–1866), African-American doctor, dentist, abolitionist and lawyer.
Hetty Reckless Abolitionist
Clement Hall Sinnickson (1834–1919), represented New Jersey's 1st congressional district from 1875 to 1879.
Alice Barber Stephens (1858–1932), painter and engraver, best remembered for her illustrations.
Jonathan Taylor, running back for the Wisconsin Badgers who set the New Jersey state record with 2,815 rushing yards as a senior at Salem High School.
John Test (1771–1849), member of the United States House of Representatives from Indiana who served from 1829 to 1831.
Hedge Thompson (1780–1828), represented New Jersey's at-large congressional district from 1827 until his death in 1828.
Edward Trenchard (1785–1824), captain of the United States Navy.
John A. Waddington (1911–1981), politician who served as Majority Leader of the New Jersey Senate.
Photo gallery
References
Bibliography
Shourds, Thomas (1876), History and genealogy of Fenwick's Colony, New Jersey, New Jersey: Bridgeton,
External links
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Tapwrit
Tapwrit (foaled March 28, 2014) is a retired American Thoroughbred racehorse who won the 2017 Belmont Stakes. He first attracted attention when he set a track record winning the Tampa Bay Derby, but disappointed in the Blue Grass Stakes and Kentucky Derby. Skipping the Preakness Stakes, he then became his sire Tapit's third winner of the Belmont Stakes in the previous four years. Retired in 2018, Tapwrit stands at Gainesway Farm for the 2019 season.
Background
Tapwrit is a gray colt, a color he inherited from leading sire Tapit, whose other offspring include the 2014 and 2016 Belmont Stakes winners Tonalist and Creator, and 2015 Belmont Stakes runner-up Frosted. Tapwrit's dam is Appealing Zophie, a Grade I stakes winner by Successful Appeal.
Tapwrit was bred by My Meadowview LLC, which is owned by the chairman of Barnes & Noble, Leonard Riggio. He was foaled at Three Chimneys Farm but was moved to Denali Stud with his dam. From an early age, he stood out to his handlers at Denali Stud. "He was a big, strong baby, and conformation-wise he was always really good," said farm manager Gary Bush. He was sold as a yearling at the 2015 Fasig-Tipton select yearling sale for $1.2 million to a large ownership group consisting of Bridlewood Farm, Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners and Robert LaPenta.
Tapwrit is trained by Hall of Fame member Todd Pletcher.
Racing career
2016: two-year-old season
Tapwrit made his first start on September 3, 2016 in a 6-furlong maiden special weight race at Saratoga Race Course. He chased the early pace but tired in the stretch to finish last. His owners were disappointed. "I think the general consensus that day was a severe case of nausea to be honest," said Aron Wellman of Eclipse Thoroughbreds a few months later. "We had realistic expectations in terms of knowing that he probably wasn't the type of horse that was going to fire first time out. But to say that he would show as little as he did that day, I would be lying if I said we expected that – nor would we have ever run him had we expected that."
Tapwrit made his next start on November 6 at Gulfstream Park West at a distance of one mile. He again stalked the pace then started closing ground on the turn. He dueled down the stretch with Commandeering and edged away near the wire to win by a length.
Tapwrit made his final start of the year in the Pulpit Stakes at Gulfstream Park. The race is normally run on the turf, but Tapwrit was a "main track only" entry, meaning he would not have run if the race remained on the turf. When the race was switched to a sloppy dirt course after heavy rain, Tapwrit instead became the post time favorite. This time he raced closer to the early pace then started his move on the final turn. He opened up a five length lead in mid-stretch before a late run by Master Plan decreased his winning margin to a length.
2017: three-year-old season
Tapwrit began his three-year-old campaign on February 11, 2017 in the Sam F. Davis Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs. Against a field of several leading early contenders for the Kentucky Derby, Tapwrit went off at odds of nearly 10-1. He once again stalked the early pace but was out-kicked in the stretch by McCraken, who went on the win by lengths with Tapwrit finishing in second.
Tapwrit was next entered in the Tampa Bay Derby on March 11, a race Pletcher had won four of the past five years. Tapwrit was made the heavy favorite and justified his backers' confidence with a length win while setting a track record. "He broke well and got me into a good position going down the backside, and I knew I was loaded going to the three-eighths pole," said jockey Jose Ortiz. "I didn't want to get boxed in like I did last time, so I went to the outside, and he was much the best. When he made the lead, he pulled himself up a little bit, waiting for competition. He can go a mile and an eighth, a mile and a quarter. He did it pretty easily today. I think he’s going to get much better with each race."
Tapwrit's next start was the Blue Grass Stakes on April 8, where he once again faced off with McCraken, who had missed the Tampa Bay Derby with an injury. The two highly regarded colts were upset though by the lightly regarded Irap, who raced near the early pace and held off the rest of the field down the stretch. Tapwrit was never a factor in the race and finished fifth.
In the 2017 Kentucky Derby on May 6, Tapwrit was dismissed at odds of 27-1 despite analysis that suggested his pedigree was well suited to the distance. Tapwrit (in post position 16) got a poor start when Irish War Cry, in the 17th position, ducked to the inside at the start. Tapwrit was pushed over into McCraken, who then bumped into Classic Empire. All four horses lost ground and were well back in the early running. With a quarter of a mile remaining, Tapwrit was still only in tenth place but started to close ground in the stretch, eventually finishing sixth.
Pletcher did not run Tapwrit in the Preakness Stakes, instead giving the colt five weeks of rest before the 2017 Belmont Stakes on June 10. The Belmont was considered wide open after the winners of the Derby and Preakness bypassed the race, followed by the late withdrawal of two other leading contenders due to injuries. In their absence, Tapwrit became the second favorite at odds of 5-1 behind Irish War Cry at 5-2. This time, Tapwrit broke well and settled a few lengths behind the early leaders. Turning into the stretch, he surged into second place and gradually closed ground on Irish War Cry. As the gap narrowed, Tapwrit started bearing out to the center of the track before Ortiz guided him back towards the rail. In the final strides, Tapwrit began to pull away and ultimately won by two lengths.
It was Pletcher's third win in the Belmont Stakes in the last eleven years. "(Belmont Park is) our home base, and I think that’s always an advantage," Pletcher said. "We felt like with the five weeks in between (the Derby and Belmont), and with the way this horse had trained, he had a legitimate chance."
It was the first win of a Triple Crown race for Ortiz, who regularly rides at Belmont Park. "It's an unbelievable feeling that I can't explain," he said. "The distance – I was sure he could handle it. It was a great training job by Todd. I always liked him and had a lot of faith in him. Today he showed up."
Tapwrit was given a long layoff then returned in the Travers Stakes on August 26 at Saratoga, where he was installed as the morning line favorite in a highly competitive field. He settled a few lengths off the early pace and was in good position entering the stretch but failed to close ground on the early leaders and finished fourth. He emerged from the race with an injury to the frog of his right front hoof. "It happens on deep, sandy tracks," said Aron Wellman, president of Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners. "We see it with relative frequency. If anything, it gives us a little more appreciation for his effort in the Travers." Tapwrit was sent to Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital for treatment.
2018: four-year-old season
Tapwrit finally returned to racing on June 3, 2018 after a layoff of over 9 months. He was made the second favorite in a field of six in an allowance optional claiming race at Belmont Park at a distance of miles. At the start, Tapwrit hit the side of the gate, then moved into contention with Hoffenheim for the early lead. The two horses battled around the turn and down the stretch before being passed in deep stretch by Timeline. Tapwrit finished third, beaten by lengths.
Tapwrit made three more starts in 2018, finishing fourth in the Whitney Stakes, fifth in the Suburban and eighth in the Woodward.
Statistics
Stud career
Tapwrit was retired from racing in October 2018 and will stand at Gainesway Farm for the 2019 season.
Pedigree
Tapwrit is inbred 4×4 to Seattle Slew, meaning Seattle Slew appears twice in the fourth generation of Tapwrit's pedigree.
References
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Cheryl Hole
Cheryl Hole is the stage name of Luke Underwood (born 18 October 1993), an English drag queen who is known for being one of the first contestants on RuPaul's Drag Race UK. Cheryl's act is based on former Girls Aloud singer Cheryl Cole.
Career
On 21 August 2019, Hole was announced as one of the 10 queens to be competing in the first series of RuPaul's Drag Race UK. In episode 5, she lip synched to Cheryl's Call My Name in front of guest judge Cheryl. Hole reached fourth place in the contest.
On 28 November 2019, Hole, alongside the cast of series one of RuPauls Drag Race UK, embarked on a 12-gig UK tour, hosted by Drag Race alum Alyssa Edwards.
Filmography
References
External links
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Jesuit High School (Tampa)
Jesuit High School is a private, Catholic, all-male high school located in Tampa, Florida. Established in 1899, it operates independently of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint Petersburg. The school teaches a college preparatory curriculum and has been named a Blue Ribbon School of Excellence.
The Jesuit motto is Ad Majoram Dei Gloriam which means "For the Greater Glory of God." The school encourages its students to be "Men For Others," which is a student model derived from a famous 1973 speech given by Jesuit Father General Pedro Arrupe. Fr. Arrupe led the Jesuits in the transitional years after Vatican II, from 1965 to 1983, when the Jesuit order incorporated that Council's vision into its institutions.
History
Jesuit High School was founded in 1899 as "Sacred Heart College" and affiliated with Sacred Heart Parish, then a Jesuit-run parish. This was in downtown Tampa at the corner of Florida Avenue and Madison Street.
By the mid-1950s enrollment had exceeded the capacity of the original facility. Father Michael Kennelly, S.J., who served as the school's president and rector from 1953 until 1959, spearheaded a $600,000 capital campaign and the purchase of 80 acres of rural grazing land on Himes Avenue in West Tampa, where the school moved in 1956. Kennelly had obtained the necessary permits and designed the new campus, which he centered around St. Anthony's Chapel.
Jesuit High School had an enrollment of 245 students at the time of its relocation in 1956, and as of August 2015 had approximately 775 students. Jesuit has been rated first among all-boys schools in Florida and second among Catholic schools.
Curriculum
Jesuit's curriculum includes studies in mathematics, sciences, fine arts, language arts, foreign language, social studies, physical education, and, for all students, four years of theology. Of the more than 75 members of the faculty, five are Jesuit priests. The Jesuits serve in administration, teaching, and campus ministry. Daily Masses are in the Jesuit chapel at 7:30 AM and 5:00 PM and a monthly all-school Mass in the newly-built Chapel of the Holy Cross. School years begin with the traditional Mass of the Holy Spirit. Those who are not Catholic or not Christian are welcome among the student body.
Athletics
The school won the FHSAA Boys' Athletic Program of the Year award in 1997–1998, and had the most state championships and places at state events in 1998–1999, 2000–2001, and 2005–2006. The school won the Tampa Tribune Athletic Program of the Year award in 2003–2004, and the St. Petersburg Times Athletic Program of the Year award in 2004–2005. Over the years the baseball, basketball, cross-country, football, soccer, and track teams have combined for a total of 19 state championships, with all but four of these titles occurring since the mid-1990s.
Jesuit also has a history of fielding strong wrestling and swimming teams, with numerous individual state champions in both sports, and most recently back-to-back, team state championships in swimming in 2017 and 2018. The school also won the Tampa Bay Times and the FHSAA Class 5A All-Sports Award for 2013–2014.
The Jesuit Tigers have also won two High School National Championships; baseball in 1997 and soccer in 2001. The baseball team has won five state championships and the basketball team three.
Jesuit has a tradition of talented coaches who have led their teams to post-season play and championships. These victorious coaches include "Wild" Bill Minahan, Dominick Ciao, Paul Straub, John Crumbley, Mike Boza, "Big" John Szponar, Bob Bauman, and Neal Goldman.
Jesuit's baseball stadium, Paul Straub Field at Hyer Family Park, was declared the best high school baseball field in the country by the National High School Baseball Coaches Association in 2011. The school's chief sports rival is the Crusaders of nearby Tampa Catholic High School.
Clubs and extracurricular activities
In 2013–14 Jesuit students gave more than 44,000 hours of community service as part of their mandatory service requirement.
The Speech and Debate Club has sent seven members to Chicago and a policy team to district nationals twice. Other clubs include SADD, National Honor Society, language honor societies, an award-winning Key Club, religious service group Agmen Christi, Don't Feed the Artists, "Jesuit Masque" drama troupe, and the Tiger newspaper and yearbook. There is a very active school spirit club, Blue Tide.
Facilities
To the north of the chapel are the cafeteria, fine arts building, and Jesuit residence. Classroom buildings surround the remaining sides of the chapel. The "Tiger Palace" can accommodate an audience of 1,400. The southeast portion of the campus is the home of the renovated athletic center, which was dedicated to alumnus and Major League Baseball Hall of Famer Al López, and the library dedicated to Fr. Richard Hartnett, S.J. Recently, the chapel has been replaced by a larger one and plans are complete for a comprehensive multipurpose building with cafeteria and arts and theater rooms, in a $35 million project.
Notable alumni
Jesuit has graduated many political leaders, priests, teachers, physicians, journalists, scientists, attorneys, professional athletes, writers, scholars, actors, painters, engineers, entrepreneurs, and, according to Nick Suszynski, Director of Development, 15 judges. The Alumni Association commonly refers to the high school as "Tampa's largest fraternity."
Education, science, and medicine
Michael W. Doyle, international relations scholar and Columbia University professor
John M. Kovac, astronomer at Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; led the BICEP2 team that discovered the apparent existence of primordial gravitational waves
Lt. Gen. Douglas Robb, Joint Staff Surgeon, Office of the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff at The Pentagon
Entertainment
Bert Kreischer, comedian
Lionel, nationally syndicated talk radio personality
Dean Malenko (a.k.a. Dean Simon), former pro wrestler in the WWF, WCW and ECW; son of Boris "The Great Malenko"
Joe Malenko (a.k.a. Jody Simon), former pro wrestler in the WCW, ECW and UWF; son of Boris "The Great Malenko"
Politics
Philip Agee, CIA officer
Jim Davis, US Congressman
Charles R. Wilson, circuit judge, US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Sports
Baseball
Pete Alonso, MLB player for the New York Mets
Sam Dyson, current MLB relief pitcher for the Minnesota Twins
Tommy Eveld, baseball player
Joe Hudson, former MLB catcher with the Los Angeles Angels
Al López, former MLB player, manager, all-star, and 1977 Hall of Famer
Dave Magadan, former MLB player, 1986–2001; MLB coach: 2002–19
Sam Marsonek, former MLB pitcher with the New York Yankees
Lance McCullers Jr., current MLB starting pitcher for the Houston Astros and 2017 World Series champion.
Jason Michaels, former MLB player from 2001–11
Lou Piniella, 1969 American League Rookie of the Year and 1990 World Series winning manager
Kevin Quackenbush, current MLB relief pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers
Brad Radke, former MLB pitcher with the Minnesota Twins
Shane Robinson, current MLB player with the New York Yankees
Terry Rupp, former college baseball coach and 1998 NCAA Division II Baseball Championship winner
Ken Suarez, former MLB player, 1966–73
Marc Valdes, former MLB pitcher, 1995–2001
Football
Anthony Allen, former NFL and current CFL running back
Xavier Beitia, former AFL and NFL Europe kicker
Jay Feely, former NFL kicker, 2001–14
Leonard George, first ever African-American player and football scholarship at the University of Florida
George Godsey, current NFL assistant coach and former Georgia Tech quarterback
Chris Martin, former NFL player with the San Diego Chargers
Rich McKay, current NFL executive, 1993–present
Aaron Murray, National Football League quarterback
Garrett Rivas, former AFL kicker
Garrison Sanborn, current NFL player with the San Francisco 49ers
Other sports
Joie Chitwood III, current President of the Daytona International Speedway; former President and COO of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Mark Dickson, former ATP tennis player and four-time All-American at Clemson University
Joe Donoho, former professional soccer player for FC Tampa Bay
Alberto van Gurp, soccer player for US Virgin Islands national team
Miscellaneous
Jules Dervaes, urban farmer and leader in California's urban homesteading movement
Frank Llaneza, cigar maker
C. Michael Petters, President and CEO of Huntington Ingalls Industries.
References
External links
Jesuit High School of Tampa website
History of Jesuit High School of Tampa
List of Jesuit High alumni in baseball
Jesuit High School of Tampa Athletic Program
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Category:Jesuit high schools in the United States
Category:Catholic secondary schools in Florida
Category:Jesuit New Orleans Province
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Osowiec, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship
Osowiec () is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Lubawa, within Iława County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately south-east of Iława and south-west of the regional capital Olsztyn.
References
Osowiec
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Genie Award for Best Actress (Non-Feature)
Best Performance by an Actress (Non-Feature) is a defunct Canadian award, which was presented by the Canadian Film Awards from 1969 to 1978, and by the Genie Awards from 1980 to 1981, to honour the best performance by an actress in film which was not a theatrical feature film, such as television films or short films.
1960s
1970s
1980s
References
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Lining (steamboat)
Lining was a method used by steamboats to move up river through rapids. Lining could also be used to lower steamboats through otherwise impassible falls.
Technique
Lining involved running a rope, called a line or a steel cable to a secure point on shore, typically a large tree or a bolt specially set in a rock, and then wrapping the cable around a steam-powered winch on the boat. The winch would then crank in the cable, if the vessel was going upstream, or gradually let out the cable, if the vessel was headed downstream.
Use on the Willamette River
Along the Willamette River, in the first decades of the 1900s, the most dangerous obstacles to navigation were Willamette Falls and the Clackamas Rapids. Since 1873 locks at Oregon allowed navigation around Willamette Falls, but as late as 1907, lining was still required to pass the Clackamas Rapids, which were located north of Oregon City, near the mouth of the Clackamas River.
Hazards
Lining was dangerous, as it was only the single cable that prevented the vessel from being washed downstream and likely wrecked. Any use of a cable on board a vessel was also hazardous to the crew. On October 15, 1907, at 8:30 am, while Oregona was lining through Clackamas Rapids, the lining cable became tangled in the sternwheel of a nearby steamer, the Ruth. A deckhand on Oregona, Virgil K. Pollard, was caught in a loop of the cable, which tightened around his legs, severing both legs six inches (15 cm) above the ankles. The injured deckhand brought a legal action against the Ruth.
When the case was presented to U.S. District Court Judge Robert S. Bean, he ruled that accident was held to be the fault of the Ruth, for ignoring the warning signals of the Oregona to stand away while the deckhand was engaged in coiling the cable which was still paid out from the Oregona following an unsuccessful lining attempt. Judge Bean awarded the deckhand, who was 19 years of age at the time of the accident, $12,000 in damages.
Notes
References
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Richard Langford (MP for Ludlow)
Richard Langford (died 1580), of Ludlow, Shropshire and Bristol, was an English merchant and politician.
Family
He married Elizabeth née Rogers and they had three sons and three daughters.
Career
He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Ludlow in 1563.
References
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1995–96 NCAA Division I men's basketball season
The 1995–96 NCAA Division I men's basketball season concluded in the 64-team 1996 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament whose finals were held at the Continental Airlines Arena in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The Kentucky Wildcats earned their sixth national championship by defeating the Syracuse Orangemen 76–67 on April 1, 1996. They were coached by Rick Pitino and the NCAA Basketball Tournament Most Outstanding Player was Kentucky's Tony Delk.
In the 32-team 1997 National Invitation Tournament, the Nebraska Cornhuskers defeated the St. Joseph's Hawks at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
Following the season, the 1996 NCAA Men's Basketball All-American Consensus First team included Ray Allen, Marcus Camby, Tony Delk, Tim Duncan, Allen Iverson, and Kerry Kittles.
Season headlines
Rick Pitino led the Kentucky Wildcats to its sixth National Championship, his first.
Pre-season polls
The top 25 from the pre-season AP Poll.
Conference membership changes
These schools joined new conferences for the 1995–96 season.
Regular season
Conference winners and tournaments
29 conference seasons concluded with a single-elimination tournament, with only the Big Ten Conference, Ivy League and the Pac-10 Conference choosing not to conduct conference tournaments. Conference tournament winners, with the exception of the American West Conference received an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.
Statistical leaders
Post-Season Tournaments
NCAA Tournament
Final Four – RCA Dome, Indianapolis, Indiana
National Invitation Tournament
Semifinals & Finals
Third Place – Tulane 87, Alabama 76
Award winners
Consensus All-American teams
Major player of the year awards
Wooden Award: Marcus Camby, Massachusetts
Naismith Award: Marcus Camby, Massachusetts
Associated Press Player of the Year: Marcus Camby, Massachusetts
NABC Player of the Year: Marcus Camby, Massachusetts
Oscar Robertson Trophy (USBWA): Marcus Camby, Massachusetts
Adolph Rupp Trophy: Marcus Camby, Massachusetts
Sporting News Player of the Year: Marcus Camby, Massachusetts
UPI College Basketball Player of the Year: Ray Allen, Connecticut
Major freshman of the year awards
USBWA Freshman of the Year: No Award Given
Major coach of the year awards
Associated Press Coach of the Year: Gene Keady, Purdue
Henry Iba Award (USBWA): Gene Keady, Purdue
NABC Coach of the Year: John Calipari, Massachusetts
Naismith College Coach of the Year: John Calipari, Massachusetts
Other major awards
NABC Defensive Player of the Year: Tim Duncan, Wake Forest
Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award (Best player under 6'0): Eddie Benton, Vermont
Robert V. Geasey Trophy (Top player in Philadelphia Big 5): Kerry Kittles, Villanova
NIT/Haggerty Award (Top player in NYC): Adrian Griffin, Seton Hall
References
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2013 in Oman
The following lists events that happened during 2013 in Oman.
Incumbents
Sultan: Qaboos bin Said al Said
Events
May
May 1 - Flash floods leave 16 people dead and 3 others missing in Saudi Arabia, with authorities urging citizens to avoid low-lying wadis. At least two others were killed in neighboring Oman in some of the heaviest rainfall in more than 25 years.
References
Category:2010s in Oman
Category:Years of the 21st century in Oman
Oman
Oman
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Grindelwald
Grindelwald is a village and municipality in the Interlaken-Oberhasli administrative district in the canton of Berne in Switzerland. In addition to the village of Grindelwald, the municipality also includes the settlements of Alpiglen, Burglauenen, Grund, Itramen, Mühlebach, Schwendi, Tschingelberg and Wargistal.
Grindelwald village is located at above sea level in the Bernese Alps.
History
Grindelwald was first mentioned in 1146 as Grindelwalt.
The oldest traces of a settlement in the area are scattered neolithic tools which have been discovered around Grindelwald village. Several Roman era coins have also been found in the municipality. A castle was built on the Burgbühl hill above the village during the High Middle Ages.
In 1146, King Conrad III granted estates in Grindelwald to Interlaken Monastery. In the late 12th century, the barons of the alpine valleys in what became the Berner Oberland went to war against the expansionist Duke Berthold V of Zähringen. The Duke defeated a coalition of nobles in the Grindlewald valley in 1191. His victory allowed him to expand Zähringen power into the Oberland, to expand the city of Thun and found the city of Bern. Beginning in the 13th century, Interlaken Monastery began to purchase rights and land in Grindelwald and eventually forced the local nobles out of the valley. The Monastery continued to exert influence in the village and in 1315 and again in 1332 ordered the villagers to raid Unterwalden to further the political ambitions of the Abbot's patrons. In response to the raids, in 1342, Unterwalden attacked Grindelwald. A few years later, in 1348–49, the villagers joined in an unsuccessful rebellion against ecclesiastical power. In 1528, the city of Bern adopted the Protestant Reformation and proceeded to spread the new faith in Grindelwald against the populations' wishes. Berne was able to impose its will, converted the village and secularized Interlaken Abbey and the Abbey's lands. Grindelwald became part of the bailiwick of Interlaken, under a Bernese bailiff.
The first village church was a wooden building from the mid-12th century. The wooden building was replaced with the stone St. Mary's Church in 1180. This church was replaced in the 16th century, and the present church was built in 1793.
The tourism industry began in Grindelwald in the late 18th century as foreigners discovered the scenic town. Pictures of the vistas were widely reprinted, quickly making the village internationally famous. In the 19th century many Englishmen came to the village to climb the alpine peaks around the valley. The Finsteraarhorn (), the Wetterhorn (), the Eiger (), the Schreckhorn () and the Gross Fiescherhorn () were all climbed during the 19th century. The Grindelwald road was built in 1860–72, and the Bernese Oberland railway reached the village in 1890, both of which transformed an arduous journey into a simple trip and allowed tourists to flood into the village. The first resort opened in 1888, there were 10 hotels in 1889, and by 1914 there were 33 in Grindelwald. A rack railway was built to Kleine Scheidegg in 1893, and it was expanded to the Jungfraujoch in 1912. Numerous ski lifts, cable cars, hiking trails and alpine huts were built in the late 19th and 20th centuries to allow tourists to explore the mountains. Today, almost the entire economy of Grindelwald is based on tourism.
Geography
The municipality is quite large and is divided into seven mountain communities. However the municipality is dominated by the large tourist center of Grindelwald. The village is surrounded by the mountains of the Faulhorn, Schwarzhorn, Wellhorn, Wetterhorn, Schreckhorn, Lauteraarhorn, Agassizhorn, Fiescherhorn, Mönch, Eiger, Lauberhorn and Männlichen, all of which are either within or on the border of the municipality.
Grindelwald has an area of . Of this area, or 28.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 16.4% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 1.8% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.8% is either rivers or lakes, and or 52.1% is unproductive land.
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 1.0% and transportation infrastructure made up 0.6%. Out of the forested land, 12.9% of the total land area is heavily forested, and 2.3% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 5.1% is pastures and 23.8% is used for alpine pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. Of the unproductive areas, 6.6% is unproductive vegetation, 24.0% is too rocky for vegetation, and 21.6% of the land is covered by glaciers.
On 31 December 2009, Amtsbezirk Interlaken, the municipality's former district, was dissolved. On the following day, 1 January 2010, it joined the newly created Verwaltungskreis Interlaken-Oberhasli.
Coat of arms
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Gules on a Bar Argent a Semi Chamois rampant issuant Sable between seven, 4-3, Mullets of the second.
Demographics
Grindelwald has a population () of . , 18.0% of the population are resident foreign nationals. In the period from 2000 to 2010, the population changed at a rate of −1.3%. Migration accounted for 0.2%, while births and deaths accounted for −1.7%.
Most of the population () spoke German (3,531 or 86.8%) as their first language, Portuguese is the second most common (183 or 4.5%) and French was the third (69 or 1.7%). There were 60 people who speak Italian and four people who spoke Romansh.
, the population was 50.1% male and 49.9% female. The population was made up of 1,556 Swiss men (40.9% of the population) and 354 (9.3%) non-Swiss men. There were 1,568 Swiss women (41.2%) and 331 (8.7%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality, 1,846 or about 45.4% were born in Grindelwald and lived there in 2000. There were 847 or 20.8% who were born in the same canton, while 510 or 12.5% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 679 or 16.7% were born outside of Switzerland.
, children and teenagers (0–19 years old) made up 17.5% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) made up 62.5% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 20%.
, there were 1,750 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 1,971 married individuals, 221 widows or widowers and 127 individuals who were divorced.
, there were 679 households that consisted of only one person and 82 households with five or more people. , a total of 1,581 apartments (44.9% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 1,750 apartments (49.6%) were seasonally occupied and 194 apartments (5.5%) were empty. , the construction rate of new housing units was 13.1 new units per 1000 residents.
The historical population is given in the following chart:
Heritage sites of national significance
The Jungfraubahn, a mountain railway up the Jungfrau mountain, is listed as a Swiss heritage site of national significance. The land around the Kleine Scheidegg is part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites.
Politics
In the 2011 federal election, the most popular party was the Swiss People's Party (SVP) which received 54.2% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the Conservative Democratic Party (BDP) (14.8%), the FDP.The Liberals (8.8%) and the Green Party (6.9%). In the federal election, a total of 1,194 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 44.4%.
Economy
, Grindelwald had an unemployment rate of 1.48%. , there were a total of 2,714 people employed in the municipality. Of these, there were 334 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 130 businesses involved in this sector. 393 people were employed in the secondary sector, and there were 51 businesses in this sector. 1,987 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 229 businesses in this sector. There were 2,403 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 45.4% of the workforce.
there were a total of 2,265 full-time equivalent jobs. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 165, of which 159 were in agriculture and seven were in forestry or lumber production. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 365 of which 42 or (11.5%) were in manufacturing, six or (1.6%) were in mining and 292 (80.0%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 1,735. In the tertiary sector; 241 or 13.9% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 193 or 11.1% were in the movement and storage of goods, 1,022 or 58.9% were in a hotel or restaurant, 27 or 1.6% were the insurance or financial industry, 45 or 2.6% were technical professionals or scientists, 46 or 2.7% were in education and 58 or 3.3% were in health care.
, there were 432 workers who commuted into the municipality and 265 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net importer of workers, with about 1.6 workers entering the municipality for every one leaving. Of the working population, 9.2% used public transportation to get to work, and 36.2% used a private car.
Religion
From the , 690 or 17.0% were Catholic, while 2,874 or 70.6% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, there were 31 members of an Orthodox church (or about 0.76% of the population), there were two individuals (or about 0.05% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic Church, and there were 105 individuals (or about 2.58% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There was one individual who was Jewish, and 32 (or about 0.79% of the population) who were Muslim. There were 14 individuals who were Buddhist and one individual who belonged to another church. One hundred forty-four (or about 3.54% of the population) belonged to no church, were agnostic or atheist, and 227 individuals (or about 5.58% of the population) did not answer the question.
Climate
Between 1981 and 2010, Grindelwald had an average of 145.4 days of rain or snow per year and on average received of precipitation. The wettest month was August during which time Grindelwald received an average of of rain or snow. During this month there was precipitation for an average of 14.4 days. The month with the most days of precipitation was June, with an average of 14.8, but with only of rain or snow. The driest month of the year was February with an average of of precipitation over 9.7 days.
Transport
Grindelwald railway station, in the centre of Grindelwald village, is served by trains of the Berner Oberland Bahn (BOB), which run to Interlaken, and by trains of the Wengernalpbahn (WAB), which run to Kleine Scheidegg and on to Wengen and Lauterbrunnen. At Kleine Scheidegg, a connection can be made with the Jungfraubahn, which ascends inside the Eiger to the Jungfraujoch.
Besides Grindelwald station, there are five other railway stations within the municipality of Grindelwald. These are Burglauenen and Schwendi on the BOB, and Grindelwald Grund, Brandegg and Alpiglen on the WAB.
The Gondelbahn Grindelwald-Männlichen connects Grindelwald with the Männlichen and with onward travel on the Luftseilbahn Wengen-Männlichen offers an alternative route to Wengen.
The minor summit of First is accessible by ski lift from Grindelwald.
Winter sports
Long famed as a winter tourist destination with slopes for beginners, intermediates and the challenges of the Eiger glacier for the experienced, there are activities for the non-skiers, from tobogganing to groomed winter hiking tracks. It is the usual starting point for ascents of the Eiger and the Wetterhorn. Nowadays Grindelwald is also a popular summer activity resort with many miles of hiking trails across the Alps.
The first person to ski there was Englishman, Gerald Fox (who lived at Tone Dale House) who put his skis on in his hotel bedroom in 1881 and walked out through the hotel bar to the slopes wearing them.
In the media
Many scenes of the documentary film The Alps were shot in the region of Grindelwald, particularly on the north face of the Eiger. The James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service includes a chase through a skating rink and Christmas festival in Grindelwald. Grindelwald's mountains were used as the basis for the view of Alderaan in Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith. Some of the action scenes in The Golden Compass were also shot in Grindelwald.
Education
In Grindelwald, about 1,647 or (40.5%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 302 or (7.4%) have completed additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule). Of the 302 who completed tertiary schooling, 57.9% were Swiss men, 24.5% were Swiss women, 9.3% were non-Swiss men and 8.3% were non-Swiss women.
The Canton of Bern school system provides one year of non-obligatory Kindergarten, followed by six years of primary school. This is followed by three years of obligatory lower secondary school where the students are separated according to ability and aptitude. Following the lower secondary, students may attend additional schooling, or they may enter an apprenticeship.
During the 2010-11 school year, there were a total of 341 students attending classes in Grindelwald. There were three kindergarten classes with a total of 55 students in the municipality. Of the kindergarten students, 27.3% were permanent or temporary residents of Switzerland (not citizens) and 20.0% had a mother language different from the classroom language. The municipality had 12 primary classes and 187 students. Of the primary students, 15.0% were permanent or temporary residents of Switzerland (not citizens) and 12.8% had a mother tongue different from the classroom language. During the same year, there were six lower secondary classes with a total of 99 students. There were 8.1% who were permanent or temporary residents of Switzerland (not citizens) and 5.1% who had a mother tongue different from the classroom language.
, there were 20 students in Grindelwald who came from another municipality, while 39 residents attended schools outside the municipality.
Grindelwald is home to the Bibliothek Grindelwald library. The library has () 6,144 books or other media, and loaned out 10,777 items in the same year. It was open a total of 136 days with average of 6.5 hours per week during that year.
Famous residents
Richard Wagner, nineteenth century German composer
Martina Schild, alpine skier, runner-up in the 2006 Winter Olympics women's downhill race
Hedy Schlunegger, Olympic champion 1948 in downhill skiing
Oleg Protopopov and Ludmila Belousova, 1964 and 1968 Olympic figure skating champions
In film
The 1972 movie and television series George was filmed in the village. The show was about a large St. Bernard that grew up in New York who comes for a permanent stay with his new owner in the Swiss Alps. Zsa Zsa Gabor appeared in an episode.
In the James Bond movie On Her Majesty's Secret Service, the rotating restaurant Piz Gloria on top of the Schilthorn makes an appearance as the villain′s lair.
The 1975 movie The Eiger Sanction (film) starring Clint Eastwood featured the Hotel Bellevue des Alpes at Kleine Scheidegg as the film location where the group of climbers stayed during their attempt on the summit of the Eiger. In the summer of 1974, Clint Eastwood and his cast and crew stayed at the Hotel Bellevue des Alpes during filming.
References
External links
Grindelwald official website
Webcams
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Kamalasagar
Kamalasagar is an artificial lake in Tripura, India, constructed by King Dhanya Manikya of Tripura in the 15th century and is a popular spot for picnickers. A mela is held there every October during the Navaratri festival.
Politics
Kamalasagar assembly constituency is part of Tripura West (Lok Sabha constituency).
See also
Kasbeswari Kali Mata
References
Category:Lakes of Tripura
Category:Reservoirs in India
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Officer of the United States
An officer of the United States is a functionary of the executive or judicial branches of the federal government of the United States to whom is delegated some part of the country's sovereign power. The term "officer of the United States" is not a title, but a term of classification for a certain type of official.
With a limited number of exceptions, all officers of the United States are appointed by the President and are subject to the approval of the Senate unless it chooses not to require such approval. Civilian officers of the United States are entitled to preface their names with the honorific style "the Honorable" for life; though in practice, this rarely occurs. Officers of the United States should not be confused with employees of the United States; the latter are more numerous and lack the special legal authority of the former.
Background
Establishment
Origin and definition
The Appointments Clause of the Constitution (Article II, section 2, clause 2), empowers the President of the United States to appoint "Officers of the United States" with the "advice and consent" of the United States Senate. The same clause also allows lower-level officials to be appointed without the advice and consent process.
... he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.
The Framers of the U.S. Constitution understood the role of high officers specially imbued with certain authority to act on behalf of the head of state within the context of their earlier experience with the British Crown. Day-to-day administration of the British Government was based on persons "holding sovereign authority delegated from the King that enabled them in conducting the affairs of government to affect the people." This was an extension of the general common-law rule that "where one man hath to do with another's affairs against his will, and without his leave, that this is an office, and he who is in it, is an officer."
According to an April 2007 memorandum opinion by the United States Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel, addressed to the general counsels of the executive branch, defined "officer of the United States" as:
a position to which is delegated by legal authority a portion of the sovereign power of the federal government and that is 'continuing' in a federal office subject to the Constitution's Appointment Clause. A person who would hold such a position must be properly made an 'officer of the United States' by being appointed pursuant to the procedures specified in the Appointments Clause.
The difference between an "Officer of the United States" and a mere "Employee of the United States," therefore, ultimately rests on whether the office held has been explicitly delegated part of the "sovereign power of the United States". Delegation of "sovereign power" means possession of the authority to commit the federal government of the United States to some legal obligation, such as by signing a contract, executing a treaty, interpreting a law, or issuing military orders. A federal judge, for instance, has been delegated part of the "sovereign power" of the United States to exercise; while a letter carrier for the United States Postal Service has not. Some very prominent title-holders, including the White House Chief of Staff, the White House Press Secretary and most other high-profile presidential staff assistants, are only employees of the United States as they have no authority to exercise the sovereign power of the federal government.
Military officers and secondary appointments
In addition to civilian officers of the United States, persons who hold military commissions are also considered officers of the United States. While not explicitly defined as such in the Constitution, this fact is implicit in its structure. According to a 1996 opinion by then-Assistant Attorney General Walter Dellinger of the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, "even the lowest ranking military or naval officer is a potential commander of United States armed forces in combat—and, indeed, is in theory a commander of large military or naval units by presidential direction or in the event of catastrophic casualties among his or her superiors." The officer's authority to command the forces of the United States draws its legitimacy from the president himself as "Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States"; the president cannot reasonably be expected to command every soldier, or any soldier, in the field and so delegates his authority to command to officers he commissions.
Commissioned officers of the seven uniformed services of the United States—the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Corps, and Public Health Service Commissioned Corps—are all officers of the United States. Under current law, the Senate does not require the commissions of all military officers to be confirmed, however, anyone being first promoted to major in the Army, Air Force, or Marine Corps, or lieutenant commander in the Navy does require such confirmation. This results in several hundred promotions that annually must be confirmed by the Senate, though these are typically confirmed en masse without individual hearings.
Finally, some persons not appointed by the president but, instead, appointed by persons or bodies who are, themselves, appointed by the president may be officers of the United States if defined as such under the law. Examples include United States magistrate judges, who are appointed by United States district courts, and the Postmaster General of the United States, who is appointed by the Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service, which, in turn, is appointed by the president.
Ineligibility Clause
Members of the United States Congress—the legislative branch of the United States government—are not "officers of the United States" and cannot simultaneously serve in Congress and as an officer of the United States under the "Ineligibility Clause" (also called the "Incompatibility Clause") of the Constitution (Article 1, Section 6, Clause 2). This provision states:
No Senator or Representative shall, during the Time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil Office under the Authority of the United States, which shall have been created, or the Emoluments whereof shall have been increased during such time; and no Person holding any Office under the United States, shall be a Member of either House during his Continuance in Office.
The question of whether the Ineligibility Clause bars member of Congress or civil officers of the United States from simultaneously serving in the military (especially the military reserves) has never been definitively resolved. A case involving the issue was litigated to the U.S. Supreme Court in Schlesinger v. Reservists Committee to Stop the War, but the Supreme Court decided the case on procedural grounds and did not address the Ineligibility Clause issue. Congress has enacted legislation provided that "a Reserve of the armed forces who is not on active duty or who is on active duty for training is deemed not an employee or an individual holding an office of trust or profit or discharging an official function under or in connection with the United States because of his appointment, oath, or status, or any duties or functions performed or pay or allowances received in that capacity." A 2009 Congressional Research Service report noted that "Because Congress has the power to determine the qualifications of its own Members, the limitations that it has imposed on what constitutes an employee holding an office of the United States may be significant to courts considering the constitutional limitations."
Creation and appointment
With the exception of military officers and certain court- and board-appointed officers, the method for creating an officer of the United States generally follows a set procedure. First, the Constitution must describe the office, or the U.S. Congress must create the office through a statute (though the president may independently create offices when exercising his exclusive jurisdiction in the exercise of foreign affairs, generally meaning ambassadorships). Second, the president nominates a person to fill the office and then commissions that person at which time the appointee comes to occupy the office and is an officer of the United States. However, if the office is that of ambassador, "public minister" (member of the Cabinet of the United States), judge of the Supreme Court of the United States, or if the office has not been specifically vested for filling "in the President alone" by the authorizing legislation, then an intermediate step is required before the commission can be issued, namely, the U.S. Senate must give its "advise and consent" which, in practice, means approval by vote of a simple majority.
An officer of the United States assumes his office's full authority upon the issuance of the commission. However, officers must take an oath of office before they can be paid.
Statistics
According to a 2012 study by the Congressional Research Service, there are between 1200 and 1400 civilian officers of the United States which are subject to the "advice and consent" of the Senate prior to commissioning. A further 100,000 civilian officers of the United States have been exempted from this requirement by the U.S. Congress under the "inferior officer" exemption allowed by the Appointments Clause.
Among military officers there were, as of 2012, 127,966 officers in the Selected Reserve and 365,483 officers in the United States armed forces. The NOAA Corps and U.S. Public Health Service had smaller numbers of officers.
Examples of officers of the United States
Officers of the United States in the executive branch are numerous; but some examples include: the Secretary of Defense, the Attorney General, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Director of National Intelligence, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and members of the Federal Communications Commission and Interstate Commerce Commission.
Customs and courtesies
Commission certificate
Most civilian officers of the United States are issued written commissions. Those who do not require confirmation of the Senate are provided semi-engraved commission certificates (partially printed with hand inscription of name, date, and title by a White House calligrapher) on letter-sized parchment. To this is set the signatures of the president and the U.S. Secretary of State applied by autopen. The document is sealed with the Great Seal of the United States. Those who require confirmation of the Senate are issued fully engraved certificates (certificates completely hand-written by a calligrapher) on foolscap folio sized parchment. The President and Secretary of State usually hand-sign these certificates and, like others, they are sealed with the Great Seal of the United States.
The commissions of military officers are signed under the line "for the President" by the appropriate service secretary (e.g. the Secretary of the Army, Secretary of the Navy, Secretary of the Air Force, or for the Coast Guard, the Secretary of Homeland Security), instead of the Secretary of State, and are sealed with their respective departmental seal (e.g. Army seal) instead of the Great Seal.
The presentation of commissions for civilian officers generally follows the following style, or some variation thereof:
Honorific title
Civilian officers of the United States are permitted to be titled "the Honorable" for life, even after they cease being an officer of the United States. In practice, however, this custom is rarely observed except in the case of judges. When it is invoked for non-judicial officers it is only done in written address or platform introductions and never by the official to whom it is applied in reference to him or herself.
See also
Executive Schedule
Officer of the court
References
Category:Executive branch of the United States government
Category:Federal judiciary of the United States
Category:United States Constitution
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Baltix
Baltix is an operating system for Lithuanian and Latvian people, based on Debian and Ubuntu. The main language is Lithuanian.
It uses the GNOME desktop environment (also Ubuntu Unity user interface is included since 2011) and is distributed as an installable Live CD.
The first public versions of Baltix were released in 2003 and were based on Knoppix Live CD and Debian software packages, and later, on the Morphix Live CD framework. Most recently, Ubuntu technology was chosen for Live CD. Despite of changes in startup and installation technologies, Baltix is always distributed as an installable Live CD with graphical installer.
Since 2007 separate Baltix CD/DVD images for home/business use, educational institutions (DVD version for "Science and Education") and servers are being released.
Baltix can run directly from its live-CD, without installation to a computer's permanent storage (hard disk, solid state drive, etc.), but also can be installed into a computer's Linux or Windows partition(s).
Additional software
Baltix has software packages not included in default Ubuntu CD/DVD images:
Educational software for kids and adults, including GCompris, TuxPaint, Atomix, etc.
Parental Control and Content Filtering software GNOME Nanny, Dansguardian-GUI
Possibility to run software, compiled for Windows OS Wine (software)
Vector graphic, CAD and diagram drawing software, including Inkscape, QCAD and Dia
Multimedia software - VLC, Cheese, Pitivi and additional video+audio codecs
Internet telephony (VOIP) software, compatible with Google Talk - Empathy
Lightweight Desktop Environment - GNOME-Classic (gnome-panel) and LXDE + PCManFM (older versions had IceWM as lightweight Window Manager)
Accounting software (HomeBank), Clipart, CAD and office documents templates
Lots of other packages, which are useful for Lithuanians and other Baltic people, including
- connections to Lithuanian/Latvian mobile Internet providers and drivers for popular 3G and 4G (Wimax) modems
- universal dictionary software OpenDict
- various spelling and hyphenation dictionaries, etc.
Goals
Easy and right away ready for majority of Lithuanian, Latvian and Russian home/office users (no need to install additionally software for multimedia support or office work, e.g. spelling dictionaries or templates)
Ability to run software, compiled for Windows OS
Possibility to work comfortable on older computers (starting from 128MB RAM and 700Mhz CPU), little resources consuming desktop environment is included (currently LXDE)
Comfortable for computer manufacturers (Baltix 1.x, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014) have a noninteractive automatic installation (autoinstall) feature - OS can be installed into computer in about 10 minutes without user intervention.
References
External links
Official website
Developers project
CD/DVD/USB images of the latest and older versions
CD/DVD/USB images of the latest candidate versions
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Category:Language-specific Linux distributions
Category:Ubuntu derivatives
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Désirée Pethrus Engström
Désirée Astrid Marianne Pethrus (born 19 February 1959) is a Swedish Christian Democratic politician. She was a substitute member of the Riksdag for Göran Hägglund from 2006 to 2010 and is now an ordinary member in her own right since 2010.
Her grandfather, Lewi Pethrus, was one of the founders of what is today the Christian Democrats.
External links
Désirée Pethrus Engström at the Riksdag website
Category:Christian Democrats (Sweden) politicians
Category:Members of the Riksdag
Category:Living people
Category:1959 births
Category:Women members of the Riksdag
Category:21st-century Swedish women politicians
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Dave Sisler
David Michael Sisler (October 16, 1931 – January 9, 2011) was a professional baseball pitcher who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from through . Early in his career, Sisler was a starter, then later was used as a middle reliever and occasionally as a closer. He reached the majors in with the Boston Red Sox after he completed a two-year obligation in the active military. After three-and-a-half seasons with the Red Sox, he was traded to the Detroit Tigers in and served the team through the season. Before the season, he was selected by the Washington Senators in the 1960 Major League Baseball expansion draft, for whom he played the season. He was then traded to the Cincinnati Reds in , playing one season at the major league level, and one in their minor league system.
His most productive years came with Boston, where he won 24 games from 1956 to 1958, averaging 138 innings each season. After that, he appeared strictly as a reliever and saved a career-high 11 games for the Senators. In a seven-season career, Sisler posted a 38–44 record with a 4.33 ERA in 247 appearances, including 29 saves, 12 complete games, one shutout and 656⅓ innings. Sisler retired from baseball after the 1963 season to become an investment firm executive, a career that lasted for over 30 years, retiring as a vice-chairman for A. G. Edwards.
His father, Hall of Famer George Sisler; and one of his brothers, Dick Sisler, also played baseball at the major league level; while another brother, George Sisler, Jr., was a general manager for several minor league baseball teams, and later became president of the International League from 1966 to 1976.
Early life
Sisler was born on October 16, 1931, in St. Louis, Missouri, to George Sisler, a Baseball Hall of Fame player, and Kathleen. He played baseball in high school and when he was 16 he went to work for his father who was a coach in the Brooklyn Dodgers organization. Dave kept statistics and was occasionally allowed to pitch. The Dodgers did not envision a future with him and did not pursue a contract due to his commitment to Princeton and future military obligation. Sisler was signed by the Boston Red Sox of the American League (AL) after his time with Princeton, and began his professional baseball career at the age of 21 in 1953 for the Albany Senators in the class-A Eastern League. He pitched in 21 games that season, 20 as their starting pitcher; he had a 12–7 win–loss record, an ERA of 2.60 in 135 innings pitched. He did not play professional baseball in either 1954 or 1955 due to his active military service.
Major League career
Boston Red Sox
After his military commitment, he re-joined the organization, and began the season with the Red Sox. He made his major league debut on April 26, 1956, a one-inning relief appearance against the New York Yankees. His first MLB victory came seven days later, a three-inning relief appearance against the Yankees in Boston. On August 5, in his sixth start, he pitched a seven-inning complete game 2-1 victory over the Cleveland Indians and their pitching star, future Hall of Famer Bob Lemon. In total, he appeared in 39 games his first season, 14 as their starting pitcher, had a 9–8 win–loss record with three saves, 98 strikeouts, and a 4.66 ERA in 142⅓ inning pitched. He tied for the AL league with a 1.000 fielding percentage by not committing a single error, although he had the sixth highest total of hit batsmen with seven. Following the season, Sisler was praised for his performance; he was selected by Boston area sportswriters as the "Harry Agganis Award" winner, given annually to whom they voted as the top Boston Red Sox rookie, and was named to the 1956 "Rookie All-Star Team".
On January 17, 1957, Sisler was re-signed by the Red Sox. The Red Sox expected Sisler to be a candidate for a pitching rotation slot. He impressed his coaching staff during early spring practices, manager Mike "Pinky" Higgins commented that Sisler "looks good; he's more mature and shows more confidence". When the regular season began, he was initially effective, winning three games against one defeat in his first four starts, including two complete game victories against the Yankees. At this point, he was 4–0 against the Yankees, earning him the moniker "Yankee Killer" from sportswriter Chester L. Smith of the Pittsburgh Press. Although his ERA of 4.88 was considered high, it was due in large part to his loss against the Kansas City Athletics who scored six earned runs in just two innings. On July 4, he defeated the Yankees once again, making him 5–0 against them in his career, and 7–4 overall for the 1957 season, and had lowered his ERA to 4.02. That was his last victory of the season, however, which he followed with two consecutive losses, pitching a total of four innings; he did not appear in another game until September 2. He recorded a save against the Baltimore Orioles on September 7, but closed the season with two consecutive losses against the Yankees, though he pitched well in the second game, giving up just three hits and two earned runs in eight innings. His season totals include a 7–8 record, and a 4.72 ERA in 122⅓ inning pitched.
Sisler began the 1958 spring training in spectacular form, pitching a total of nine hitless innings and allowed just one baserunner in 28 batters faced; the last 27 in order. However, he finished the spring with two consecutive losses, including one to the Pittsburgh Pirates, with whom his father was a special assistant to their manager. He opened the regular season with a complete game victory against the Yankees on April 16. On May 2, he pitched his only career complete game shutout, a 6–0 victory against the Detroit Tigers and future Hall of Famer Jim Bunning, improving his record to 3–1 for the season. Over the next two months, his average innings pitched declined during his starts, and on several occasions he entered the game in relief. He went winless from June 12 to August 9, when he defeated the Yankees. He recorded just one more victory in 1958, and completed the season with an 8–9 record, a 4.94 ERA, and 71 strikeouts in a career-high 149⅓ innings pitched.
On February 8, 1959, the Red Sox announced that they had Sisler signed for the 1959 season. After what was considered a "disappointing" season, he did not impress with his first outing in spring training, giving up two hits and five bases on balls in just two innings of work. Lack of pitching depth was a noted weakness for the Red Sox entering the season, with unpredictable youth and with hopes that Sisler could regain his previous level of success. Sisler opened the season slated as a relief pitcher with the idea that he would start in certain cases. In three relief appearances through April, he had a 6.75 ERA in 6⅔ inning pitched. Management decided that his performance along with a pitching staff that they considered inexperienced, Sisler and Ted Lepcio were traded to the Detroit Tigers on May 2 for starting pitcher Billy Hoeft.
Detroit Tigers
Hoeft, who won 20 games for the Tigers in 1956, had continually under-performed since, and was noted for being in the manager's "doghouse"; however, TimesDaily sportswriter Hap Halbrooks commented, "I can't see where they (Tigers) gained a thing in this transaction." The Tigers had lost 15 of their first 17 games of the season before the trade and decided that changes were needed. In addition to the Sisler trade they fired manager Bill Norman and replaced him with Jimmy Dykes. These moves initially proved effective, sparking a winning game streak, which began by defeating the Yankees in both games of a doubleheader on May 3. Continuing their rebound, the Tigers faced the Red Sox next, winning two of three, and Sisler pitched a scoreless one-inning relief appearance against his former team on May 6. Used exclusively in relief, Sisler pitched in 32 games for the Tigers, winning one game against three losses and collected seven saves, which was seventh most in the AL, and he did not record an error.
Sisler returned to the Tigers for the 1960 season, and manager Dykes noted that he was not confident that his bullpen could help when needed, pointing to the previous season as a reference. The Tigers bullpen had won just nine games in 1959, but began 1960 with three straight victories, with Sisler pitching a scoreless two-inning appearance on April 22. His performance was considered a surprise, due to having a poor spring training. Although he pitched well in his first game of the season, he quickly lost his form, and by May 18, his ERA had risen to 5.06 and had a 1–2 record. It was at this point in the season that he began to turn his fortunes around and regained his effectiveness, and by August 12 he had lowered his ERA to 1.90. His season totals included a 2.47 ERA and a 7-5 win-loss record, both career bests, and added six saves in 80 innings pitched.
Washington Senators
After the 1960 season, it was announced that the AL were going to create two new teams, one in Los Angeles and one in Washington, D. C. Although he was thought of as the Tigers' best reliever during the season, Sisler was listed by the Tigers as eligible for the 1960 Major League Baseball expansion draft. The draft occurred on December 14, 1960 and Sisler was selected by the Washington Senators with the fourth overall pick. The Senators received communication from several teams that were interested in Sisler, namely the Milwaukee Braves of the National League (NL) and the Athletics, but decided to trade their first pick in the expansion draft, Bobby Shantz, instead. New manager Mickey Vernon defined Sisler's role with the team before the season began, designating him as their top relief pitcher. Sisler felt slighted by the Tigers, having been left unprotected by the team, and had considered retiring from baseball, but ultimately decided to sign with the Senators.
Sisler was solid for much of the first half of the season, not allowing an earned run until May 19, and by June 5 he had an ERA of 0.74, a 1–0 record with seven saves. It was at the point that his effectiveness declined rapidly, allowing runs to score in four of his next five appearances. In a game against the Red Sox on June 18, he relieved starter Carl Mathias, and immediately gave up bases on balls to the first two batters he faced, which forced in two runs, then gave up a grand slam to Jim Pagliaroni. He followed with another base on balls, and was relieved without having recording an out. Over the course of the next couple months, with his ERA steadily rising, his playing time was lessened, making just six appearances in the month of July, and five in August. He made his last major league start on August 31 against the Tigers, giving up seven hits and six earned runs for the loss. In 45 total appearances in 1961, he had a 2–8 win-loss record and finished sixth in AL with 11 saves. On September 16, the Senators agreed to send $75,000 ($ current dollar adjustment) and a player to be named later to the Cincinnati Reds of the NL for pitcher Claude Osteen. To complete the transaction, Washington sent Sisler to the Reds as that player named on November 28.
Cincinnati Reds
The Reds were the NL champions in 1961, and with the addition of Sisler, Dave Hillman, and Moe Drabowsky to ensure stability to their pitching staff in 1962, the team's management had high hopes of a return to the World Series. Sisler, who was expected to be used as a relief pitcher, joined a Reds team that already had his brother Dick, who was their first base coach. His father, still with Pittsburgh, mentioned that he was relieved that his son did not play in a recent series between the Pirates and Reds, recalling how the mixed emotions he felt when his elder son, Dick, helped defeat the Dodgers in an important game in 1950 by hitting a home run. The younger Sisler's season did not begin well; in his ten appearances by June 5, he allowed a run in all but three, and had a 4.97 ERA. On June 19, Sisler pitched a scoreless inning in victory against the Pirates, the time first time George watched his son pitch as an opponent. Although Sisler's season was a disappointment, he completed the season well, allowing just one earned run over the course of his final eight games, as well as earning the victory on September 23, his final major league appearance. His totals for the season included a 4–3 record, a 3.92 ERA, and one save in 43⅔ innings pitched.
For the coming 1963 season, manager Fred Hutchinson envisioned the same the role for Sisler, coming out of the bullpen with the idea that he would occasionally start. The Reds announced on February 9 that Sisler had signed for the 1963 season, although he did not make the Reds' NL club and was optioned to their class-AAA team, the San Diego Padres of the Pacific Coast League (PCL). In 35 games pitched for the Padres, he started six, had a 6–9 record and a 3.40 ERA in 90 innings. On March 18, 1964, it was announced that Sisler retired from baseball to join an Investment company.
Later life
After his baseball career, Sisler became an executive with the investment firm A. G. Edwards for more than 30 years, reaching the level of vice-chairman. A. G. Edwards was a sponsor of a semi-professional baseball team located in St. Petersburg, Florida; when the "Stockbrokers" were invited to play in season-ending tournament to decide a champion, Sisler, a senior executive for the firm, denied the funding for the team, forcing them to decline if no other monies were raised. It was an unexpected decision considering that Sisler was former baseball player, but he did not feel that A. G. Edwards was benefitting, with the costs of running the team becoming more than originally agreed to by contract.
In 2004, the possibility arose of his father's record of 257 hits in a season being surpassed by Ichiro Suzuki of the Seattle Mariners. Living in Dallas, Texas at the time, Sisler and his son Dave followed Ichiro's progress throughout the season. Both had mixed feelings about the record chase; they were happy that George Sisler's name was being talked about and that people were re-discovering him as a player, but both were hoping that, if the record was not broken in 154 games, there would be an asterisk noting that it took Ichiro more games to achieve it. Ichiro finished the season with 262 hits, and the Mariners extended an invitation for the entire Sisler family to attend the celebration at Safeco Field. The younger Sisler was prevented by an emergency heart procedure from travelling to Seattle. Both remarked that the Mariners were a classy organization for extending the invitation.
Sisler died on January 9, 2011 of prostate cancer at the age of 79 in St. Louis, Missouri. He was survived by his wife Janet, son and three grandchildren.
See also
List of second-generation Major League Baseball players
References
External links
Retrosheet
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Category:2011 deaths
Category:Albany Senators players
Category:Baseball players from Missouri
Category:Boston Red Sox players
Category:Cincinnati Reds players
Category:Deaths from cancer in Missouri
Category:Deaths from prostate cancer
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Category:Major League Baseball pitchers
Category:Princeton Tigers baseball players
Category:Princeton Tigers men's basketball players
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List of Kiratto Pri Chan episodes
The following is a list of episodes of the Kiratto Pri Chan anime television series. The opening and ending themes for season one are "Kiratto Start" and "Pretty☆Channel" for episodes 1 - 26, "Go! Up! Stardom!" and "KIRA KIRA Hologram" for episodes 27-39, and "Never-Ending!!" and "SHINING FLOWER" for episodes 40-51. The opening and ending themes for season two are "Diamond Smile" and "Rock Paper Scissors Kiratto! Pri☆Chan" for episodes 52-. All season one episode titles end with Yattemita, while Damon is used for season two episode titles.
Season 1
Season 2
References
Kiratto Pri Chan
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Leslie Howard (musician)
Leslie John Howard (born 29 April 1948) is an Australian pianist, musicologist and composer. He is best known for being the only pianist to have recorded the complete solo piano works of Franz Liszt, a project which included more than 300 premiere recordings. He has been described by The Guardian as "a master of a tradition of pianism in serious danger of dying out".
Biography
Howard was born in Melbourne the eldest of four children. His brother William is a cellist.
Howard's ability to recall anything by ear, and perfect pitch, was first cited in Melbourne newspaper The Herald, when he was 5 years old. At the age of 5, he performed for Fox Movietone News, and at the age of 9 on Australian national television. His mature debut as a pianist came at the age of 13, with Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2. He learned the oboe at an early age, and has even performed Mozart’s Oboe Concerto.
He attended Monash University in Melbourne to study English, but by the end of his first year had been invited to lecture the post-graduate students on advanced counterpoint and theory. His post-graduate music studies were completed in Italy, where he studied with Guido Agosti.
He has lived in London since 1972, preferring its climate to that of his native country; he has both Australian and British nationality.
In 1987 Howard became an instructor at the Guildhall School of Music. He often gives masterclasses at the Royal College of Music and Royal Academy of Music.
He frequently appears with promising student pianists to help further their careers. Examples are performances of Liszt's arrangement for two pianos of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, with Coady Green; piano duets of Percy Grainger with Michael Brownlee-Walker; and conducting a performance of Shostakovich's First Piano Concerto in London's Wigmore Hall, and then again at the Royal Festival Hall for the Pearl Awards, with a 9-year old Chinese pianist as soloist.
Howard is also frequently invited to sit on the juries of music competitions, such as the International Franz Liszt Piano Competition and the Royal Over-Seas League's annual music competition.
He has a large repertoire of solo and chamber music, and more than 80 works with orchestra. He was a founding member of the now disbanded London Beethoven Trio, which gave regular performances for a number of years.
Liszt project
In 1986, to mark the centenary of Franz Liszt's death, Leslie Howard gave a series of ten Liszt recitals in London’s Wigmore Hall. By excluding Liszt's arrangements (fantasies and transcriptions) of other composers' works, and by selecting only the final versions of Liszt's original works for solo piano, Howard was able to represent Liszt's entire solo piano oeuvre in ten mammoth recital programmes.
The founder and Managing Director of Hyperion Records was present at these recitals, and invited Howard to record for the label. All Liszt's versions of his piano music were included, including more than 300 premiere performances and recordings, and pieces unheard since Liszt's lifetime, and also all Liszt's arrangements of other composers' works. Four discs were given to Liszt's seventeen works for piano and orchestra, about half of which were premiere recordings made from unpublished manuscripts.
The series ran at first to 94 full-length CDs, and earned Howard a place in The Guinness Book of Records for completion of the largest recording project ever undertaken by a solo recording artist (including pop artists). (The second volume of works for piano and orchestra included a bonus disc, not counted in the series numbering, which contained Ungarische Zigeunerweisen, a work for piano and orchestra by Liszt's favourite female student Sophie Menter: Liszt's exact involvement in the work is unknown, but he probably helped Menter in the composition of the solo part in the year before his death; the work was orchestrated seven years later by Menter's friend Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, who conducted Menter in the premiere the following year).
The last disc of the Liszt series was recorded in December 1998, and released on 22 October 1999, Liszt's birthday. Since completion of the project, three supplementary volumes have been released (the third of which is a double CD) as further Liszt manuscripts have come to light. The total number of CDs in the series is now therefore 99.
A boxed set containing all 99 discs has been issued by Hyperion Records in 2011 in honor of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Liszt.
Claims by other pianists to have recorded the complete piano works of Liszt are demonstrably incorrect. Such claims include those by France Clidat, whose Liszt recordings total just 28 CDs; and Gunnar Johansen, whose private home recordings number 53 LPs.
A critic in the BBC Music Magazine declared: "Howard is, by general consensus, the finest living exponent of Liszt. (He has) a formidable intellectual grasp of the music, (and) his vastly superior performances continue to carry the day". As further indication of the status he enjoys among Liszt scholars, Howard was invited to perform at the inauguration of the Istituto Liszt in Bologna, Italy, of which he is an honorary member.
He has been invited by the music publishers Edition Peters to edit the republication of some of their Liszt scores, correcting previous inaccuracies by a return to manuscript sources.
He has also edited several volumes of Liszt Society Publications for Hardie Press and Editio Musica Budapest.
With Michael Short he has published Ferenc Liszt – A List of his Musical Works (Rugginenti, 2004) and Ferenc Liszt – A Thematic Catalogue (Pendragon, 2005). He has a book in progress, The Music of Liszt (Yale University Press).
Honours related to his Liszt work
Leslie Howard has been the President of the British Liszt Society since the death of the previous president Louis Kentner in 1987, and has also been awarded the American Liszt Society's Medal of Honor.
In 2000 he was awarded the Pro Cultura Hungarica Medal and Citation by the Hungarian Government, a rare honour for a non-Hungarian. He had previously received from the Hungarian government the Ferenc Liszt Medal of Honour, and he has also been awarded France's Grand Prix du Disque six times for his Liszt recordings—all presented to him by the President of Hungary.
In 2004 he was decorated by the President of Hungary with the Medal of St. Stephen.
Composer
Howard is also active as a composer, and has written an opera (based on the Norse tale "Hreidar the Fool", with lyrics by Phillip Carrington and John Gough), a marimba concerto, chamber music, and many piano pieces. Howard's best known work is his "24 Classical Preludes for Piano, Op. 25", cycling through the major and minor keys, each written in the style of a different composer. Howard has recorded this work for Cavendish Music (Boosey & Hawkes).
In 1997 Howard was commissioned by Gramophone magazine to compose and record a short piano piece ("Yuletide Pastorale") for its Christmas Competition: a CD was given away with the magazine, and readers were asked to state in which composer's style the piece was written, and to identify the seven well-known Christmas melodies concealed within it.
Among Howard's arrangements and transcriptions are the final chorale movements of Bach's cantatas nos. 60 and 209, Glazunov's Second Concert Waltz, the aria "Ebben? Ne andrò lontana" from the opera La Wally by Alfredo Catalani, and a Concert Fantasy for Piano on themes from Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta Ruddigore.
Editor
In addition to his work editing and completing many of Liszt's scores, Howard has prepared for publication operas by Bellini, and the violin concertos of Paganini, including the first edition of Paganini's Violin Concerto No. 1 ever to be published in the correct key of E-flat (it usually played from an erroneous edition in D major, the orchestration of which is not by Paganini).
Howard's facility in completing unfinished works has resulted in commissions as diverse as a new realisation of Bach's The Musical Offering, which he orchestrated and conducted in Finland in 1990, and completions of works by composers such as Mozart (String Quartet movement, K. 464a), Scriabin (Sonata in E-flat minor: end of the slow movement, and a 3-bar hole in the finale), Shostakovich (Piano Trio No. 1 in C minor, Op. 8: providing an alternative solution to that by Lyatoshinsky), and Tchaikovsky (Piano Sonata in F minor).
In 2003, Boosey & Hawkes published Howard's "New Corrected Edition" of the 2-piano score of Rachmaninoff's 4th Piano Concerto (in collaboration with Robert Threlfall).
Recordings
In addition to his Liszt project, Leslie Howard's recordings include works by Balakirev, Bax, Beethoven, Borodin, Bridge, Rosemary Brown, Bruckner, Busoni, Chopin, Rebecca Helferich Clarke, Diabelli, Franck, Ignaz Friedman, Gade, Gershwin, Glazunov, Grainger, Granados, Grieg, Mendelssohn, Moszkowski, Mozart, Franz Xaver Mozart, Palmgren, Poulenc, Rachmaninoff, Raff, Reger, Rimsky-Korsakov, Rossini, Anton Rubinstein, Schumann, Sibelius, Smetana, Stravinsky, Tausig, Tchaikovsky, Vaughan Williams and Wagner.
Other honours
In addition to the Liszt-related honours mentioned above, Howard was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the Queen's Birthday Honours in 1999, "for service to the arts as a musicologist, composer, piano soloist and mentor to young musicians." His appointment to the Order of Australia was terminated by the Governor-General in September 2012. It has been suggested that this removal was connected to a 2007 traffic incident in the UK, which led to Howard being banned from driving for three years, given a six-month suspended jail sentence, and ordered to carry out 80 hours' unpaid work and to pay the equivalent of $2,100 costs. Howard has always maintained his innocence of the charges.
In 2001, Howard was awarded a doctorate "honoris causa" by the University of Melbourne.
In November 2009, Howard was invited by the Alkan Society in London to become their new president, a position which he now holds concurrently with his role as president of the Liszt Society.
References
Sources
Kennedy, Michael (2006), The Oxford Dictionary of Music, 985 pages,
Logan, Christine. 2001. "Howard, Leslie". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan Publishers.
list of Steinway Artists
Leslie Howard official professional biography
Music & Vision review of Leslie Howard conducting Shostakovich's First Piano Concerto in London's Wigmore Hall
Leslie Howard conducts Shostakovich's First Piano Concerto at the Royal Festival Hall for the Pearl Awards
External links
The Liszt Society
Leslie Howard's Home Page
Leslie Howard's concerto repertoire
Complete Liszt Recordings on Hyperion
Hear Leslie Howard in concert from WGBH Boston
Leslie Howard's agent's website
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Dental Historian
Dental Historian is the official journal of the The Lindsay Society for the History of Dentistry, published twice a year and free to the Society's members. It was originally established as the Occasional Newsletter in the 1970s, acquiring its current name in 1985. The journal is included in the Scopus database.
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Mary Pat Bentel
Mary Pat Bentel is a Los Angeles based independent film producer known for Amateur Night starring Jason Biggs, The Lie starring Joshua Leonard and Jess Weixler, The Midnight Swim starring Lindsay Burdge, Aleksa Palladino, and Jennifer Lafleur, Animals starring David Dastmalchian, and Austin Found starring Linda Cardellini and Skeet Ulrich. Bentel also produced This Close for Sundance Channel.
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Vijayawada Rural mandal
Vijayawada (rural) mandal is one of the 53 mandals in Krishna district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is under the administration of Vijayawada revenue division and has its headquarters at Nunna. The mandal is bounded by Ibrahimpatnam, G. Konduru, Agiripalle, Gannavaram, Kankipadu, Penamaluru and Vijayawada (urban) mandals. The mandal is also a part of the Andhra Pradesh Capital Region under the jurisdiction of APCRDA.
Demographics
census, the mandal had a population of 153,591. The total population constitute, 79,926 males and 73,665 females —a sex ratio of 922 females per 1000 males. 14,771 children are in the age group of 0–6 years, of which 7,699 are boys and 7,072 are girls. The average literacy rate stands at 80.09% with 111,181 literates. Gollapudi is the most populated village and Vemavaram is the least populated village in the mandal.
Towns and villages
census, the mandal has 18 settlements. On 23 March 2017, as per the G.O. 104 of Municipal Administration and Urban Development Department, Ambapuram, Done Atukuru, Enikepadu, Gollapudi, Gudavalli, Jakkampudi, Nidamanuru, Nunna, Pathapadu, Prasadampadu, Ramavarappadu became a part of Vijayawada metropolitan area.
The settlements in the mandal are listed below:
Note: M-Municipality, (CT)-Census town, OG-Out Growth
See also
List of villages in Krishna district
Vijayawada revenue division
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Stanislav Stanojevic
Stanislav Stanojevic is a film director, screenwriter and French actor born 27 December 1938 in Belgrade, Serbia. He lives in Paris since 1966 and is also a writer.
Filmography
Director
1971 : Le Journal d'un suicidé (with Sami Frey, Delphine Seyrig, Marie-France Pisier, Gabrielle Robinne)
1979 : Subversion
1984 : Illustres Inconnus
2007 : Mauve, le Tigre !
Screenwriter
1971 : Le Journal d'un suicidé
Acteur
1971 : Le Journal d'un suicidé
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Fantomas (1913 serial)
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Neomorphidae
In biological classification, Neomorphidae is a proposed family of birds, separating the ground cuckoos (including roadrunners) from the rest of the cuckoo family. It is traditionally nested within the family Cuculidae as the subfamily Neomorphinae.
Roadrunners
1321 Tapera naevia striped cuckoo
1322 Morococcyx erythropygus lesser ground-cuckoo
1323 Dromococcyx phasianellus pheasant cuckoo
1324 Dromococcyx pavoninus pavonine cuckoo
1325 Geococcyx californianus greater roadrunner
1326 Geococcyx velox lesser roadrunner
1327 Neomorphus geoffroyi rufous-vented ground-cuckoo
1328 Neomorphus squamiger scaled ground-cuckoo
1329 Neomorphus radiolosus banded ground-cuckoo
1330 Neomorphus rufipennis rufous-winged ground-cuckoo
1331 Neomorphus pucheranii red-billed ground-cuckoo
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Ginetta G58
The Ginetta G58 is a sports prototype developed by British car constructor Ginetta Cars. It is a development of its predecessors, the G57 P2, and the Ginetta-Juno P3-15, and can be built up from its predecessors. The car won on its race debut in 2018, at the Silverstone 12 Hours, the 4th race of the 2018 24H Proto Series.
Development
The car is a further development of the Ginetta-Juno P3-15, and the Ginetta G57 P2, and has 30% more downforce compared to its predecessors, and a more powerful in house engine, replacing the Chevrolet LS3 6.2L V8, producing 575bhp. The car also has a top speed of 306km/h. Unlike its predecessors, it was not solely envisioned as a racecar, but also as a track-day car for enthusiasts and amateurs alike. As such, it has features that were lacking on its predecessors, such as an enhanced cooling pack with air-conditioning, Anti-Lock Braking System (ABS) and a 2nd Passenger seat. The car was launched at Autosport International 2018, on 15th January 2018, alongside the G60-LT-P1 LMP1 Prototype.
Competition History
The car had its competition debut at the inaugural 12 Hours of Silverstone, as part of the 24H Proto Series. The #4 car entered by the Simpson Motorsport team, and piloted by Ginetta factory drivers Mike Simpson and Charlie Robertson, as well as Steve Tandy and Bob Berridge scored both Pole Position and the Overall Win. The car will be eligible in the P2 class of the Creventic 24H Proto Series, as well as the V de V Endurance Series.
References List
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Culex fuscanus
Culex (Lutzia) fuscanus is a species of mosquito belonging to the genus Culex. It is found in China, India, Indonesia and Sri Lanka They are natural predators of disease causing mosquito larva such as Aedes aegypti, Anopheles subpictus, and ''Culex tritaeniorhynchus.
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External links
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Anopheles indefinitus and Culex fuscanus (Diptera: Culicidae) in Saipan.
Culex fuscanus (mosquito)
A microsporidium of the predacious mosquito Culex fuscanus
fuscanus
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Lee County, Iowa
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Lee County, Iowa.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Lee County, Iowa, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in an online map.
There are 45 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county, including 1 National Historic Landmark.
Current listings
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See also
List of National Historic Landmarks in Iowa
National Register of Historic Places listings in Iowa
References
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Ligota, Ostrzeszów County
Ligota is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Kobyla Góra, within Ostrzeszów County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. It lies approximately west of Kobyla Góra, west of Ostrzeszów, and south-east of the regional capital Poznań.
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Wilder-Holton House
The Wilder-Holton House is a historic house museum at 226 Main Street in Lancaster, New Hampshire. Built in 1780, this two-story timber-frame house is believed to be the first two-story house built in the area, and to be the oldest surviving house in Coos County. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. The house is now owned by the Lancaster Historical Society, which operates it as a museum.
Description and history
The Wilder-Holton House is prominently located at the northern end of Lancaster's Main Street, on the north side of the triangular junction of United States Routes 2 and 3. It is a two-story wood frame structure, covered by a hip roof and finished in wooden clapboards. It is roughly square in shape, presenting five-bay facades in two directions. The main entrance faces east, sheltered by a single-story porch extending across three bays. There are presently three chimneys, although the remains of a large central chimney are found in the basement. The interior is presently arranged as a center-hall plan, and includes a large ballroom space on the second floor.
The house was built in 1780 by Jonas Wilder, and is believed to be the first two-story building to be erected in what is now Coos County. It is also the oldest known surviving house in the county, earlier single-story buildings having succumbed. The house was a prominent local meeting point, serving in the 1790s for religious services before a church was built, and as the site of town meetings. In the early 19th century it probably also served as a boarding house, primarily serving visitors to the nearby county courthouse. It was originally associated with a much larger agricultural land-holding, and was associated with farming until the early 20th century. It has been owned by the Lancaster Historical Society since at least the 1960s.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Coos County, New Hampshire
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Mutavdžić
Mutavdžić () is a Serbian surname. It may refer to:
Aleksandar Mutavdžić (born 1977), Serbian footballer
Miljan Mutavdžić (born 1986), Serbian footballer
Around 70 people with the surname were killed during the Second World War in the Jasenovac concentration camp by Fascist Ustashe forces.
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Naranjales, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
Naranjales (Naranjales barrio) is a barrio in the municipality of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 1109.
History
When after the Treaty of Paris (1898), the U.S. conducted its first census of Puerto Rico, the combined population of Naranjales barrio and Río Cañas Arriba barrio was 1,048.
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