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Imieni
Imieni is a settlement in the administrative district of Gmina Studzienice, within Bytów County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately east of Studzienice, east of Bytów, and south-west of the regional capital Gdańsk.
For details of the history of the region, see History of Pomerania.
The settlement has a population of 2.
References
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Goriakothi
Goriakothi is a community development block and a town in district of Siwan, in the Bihar state of India. It is one of six blocks in the Maharajganj Subdivision. The headquarters of the block is in Goriyakothi town.
The total area of the block is , and the total population of the block as of the 2011 census of India is 223,709.
The block is divided into many Gram Panchayats and villages.
Gram Panchayats
The Gram Panchayats in the Goriyakothi block are:
Ageyan
Barhoga pursotim
Bhithi
Bindawal
Dudhara
Goriyakothi
Hariharpur kala
Harpur
Hetimpur
Jamo
Karnpura
Lilaru aurangabad
Mahamadpur
Majhawaliya
Mustafabad
Sadipura
Saidpura
Sani Basantpur
Sarari dakshin
Sarari uttar
Satwar
Sisai
See also
Maharajganj Subdivision
Administration in Bihar
References
Category:Community development blocks in Siwan district
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Stiff equation
In mathematics, a stiff equation is a differential equation for which certain numerical methods for solving the equation are numerically unstable, unless the step size is taken to be extremely small. It has proven difficult to formulate a precise definition of stiffness, but the main idea is that the equation includes some terms that can lead to rapid variation in the solution.
When integrating a differential equation numerically, one would expect the requisite step size to be relatively small in a region where the solution curve displays much variation and to be relatively large where the solution curve straightens out to approach a line with slope nearly zero. For some problems this is not the case. Sometimes the step size is forced down to an unacceptably small level in a region where the solution curve is very smooth. The phenomenon being exhibited here is known as stiffness. In some cases we may have two different problems with the same solution, yet problem one is not stiff and problem two is stiff. Clearly the phenomenon cannot be a property of the exact solution, since this is the same for both problems, and must be a property of the differential system itself. It is thus appropriate to speak of stiff systems.
Motivating example
Consider the initial value problem
The exact solution (shown in cyan) is
We seek a numerical solution that exhibits the same behavior.
The figure (right) illustrates the numerical issues for various numerical integrators applied on the equation.
One of the most prominent examples of the stiff ODEs is a system that describes the chemical reaction of Robertson:
If one treats this system on a short interval, for example, there is no problem in numerical integration. However, if the interval is very large (1011 say), then many standard codes fail to integrate it correctly.
Additional examples are the sets of ODEs resulting from the temporal integration of large chemical reaction mechanisms. Here, the stiffness arises from the coexistence of very slow and very fast reactions. To solve them, the software packages KPP and Autochem can be used.
Stiffness ratio
Consider the linear constant coefficient inhomogeneous system
where and is a constant, diagonalizable, matrix with eigenvalues (assumed distinct) and corresponding eigenvectors . The general solution of () takes the form
where the κt are arbitrary constants and is a particular integral. Now let us suppose that
which implies that each of the terms
as , so that the solution
approaches asymptotically as ;
the term will decay monotonically if λt is real and sinusoidally if λt is complex.
Interpreting x to be time (as it often is in physical problems)
it is appropriate to call
the
transient solution and the steady-state solution.
If is large, then the corresponding
term will decay quickly as
x increases and is thus called a fast transient; if
is small, the corresponding term
decays slowly and is
called a slow transient. Let be defined by
so that is the fastest
transient and the
slowest. We now define the stiffness ratio as
Characterization of stiffness
In this section we consider various aspects of the phenomenon of stiffness. "Phenomenon" is probably a more appropriate word than "property", since the latter rather implies that stiffness can be defined in precise mathematical terms; it turns out not to be possible to do this in a satisfactory manner, even for the restricted class of linear constant coefficient systems. We shall also see several qualitative statements that can be (and mostly have been) made in an attempt to encapsulate the notion of stiffness, and state what is probably the most satisfactory of these as a "definition" of stiffness.
J. D. Lambert defines stiffness as follows:
If a numerical method with a finite region of absolute stability, applied to a system with any initial conditions, is forced to use in a certain interval of integration a steplength which is excessively small in relation to the smoothness of the exact solution in that interval, then the system is said to be stiff in that interval.
There are other characteristics which are exhibited by many examples of stiff problems, but for each there are counterexamples, so these characteristics do not make good definitions of stiffness. Nonetheless, definitions based upon these characteristics are in common use by some authors and are good clues as to the presence of stiffness. Lambert refers to these as "statements" rather than definitions, for the aforementioned reasons. A few of these are:
A linear constant coefficient system is stiff if all of its eigenvalues have negative real part and the stiffness ratio is large.
Stiffness occurs when stability requirements, rather than those of accuracy, constrain the steplength.
Stiffness occurs when some components of the solution decay much more rapidly than others.
Etymology
The origin of the term "stiffness" seems to be somewhat of a mystery. According to Joseph Oakland Hirschfelder, the term "stiff" is used because such systems correspond to tight coupling between the driver and driven in servomechanisms.
According to Richard. L. Burden and J. Douglas Faires,
Significant difficulties can occur when standard numerical techniques are applied to approximate the solution of a differential equation when the exact solution contains terms of the form eλt, where λ is a complex number with negative real part.
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Problems involving rapidly decaying transient solutions occur naturally in a wide variety of applications, including the study of spring and damping systems, the analysis of control systems, and problems in chemical kinetics. These are all examples of a class of problems called stiff (mathematical stiffness) systems of differential equations, due to their application in analyzing the motion of spring and mass systems having large spring constants (physical stiffness).
For example, the initial value problem
with m = 1, c = 1001, k = 1000, can be written in the form () with n = 2 and
and has eigenvalues
. Both eigenvalues have negative real part and the stiffness ratio is
which is fairly large. System () then certainly satisfies statements 1 and 3. Here the spring constant k is large and the damping constant c is even larger. (Note that "large" is a vague, subjective term, but the larger the above quantities are, the more pronounced will be the effect of stiffness.)
The exact solution to () is
Note that () behaves quite nearly as a simple exponential x0e−t, but the presence of the e−1000t term, even with a small coefficient is enough to make the numerical computation very sensitive to step size. Stable integration of () requires a very small step size until well into the smooth part of the solution curve, resulting in an error much smaller than required for accuracy. Thus the system also satisfies statement 2 and Lambert's definition.
A-stability
The behaviour of numerical methods on stiff problems can be analyzed by applying these methods to the test equation subject to the initial condition with . The solution of this equation is . This solution approaches zero as when If the numerical method also exhibits this behaviour (for a fixed step size), then the method is said to be A-stable. (Note that a numerical method that is L-stable (see below) has the stronger property that the solution approaches zero in a single step as the step size goes to infinity.) A-stable methods do not exhibit the instability problems as described in the motivating example.
Runge–Kutta methods
Runge–Kutta methods applied to the test equation take the form , and, by induction, . The function is called the stability function. Thus, the condition that as is equivalent to . This motivates the definition of the region of absolute stability (sometimes referred to simply as stability region), which is the set . The method is A-stable if the region of absolute stability contains the set , that is, the left half plane.
Example: The Euler methods
Consider the Euler methods above. The explicit Euler method applied to the test equation is
Hence, with . The region of absolute stability for this method is thus which is the disk depicted on the right. The Euler method is not A-stable.
The motivating example had . The value of z when taking step size is , which is outside the stability region. Indeed, the numerical results do not converge to zero. However, with step size , we have which is just inside the stability region and the numerical results converge to zero, albeit rather slowly.
Example: Trapezoidal method
Consider the trapezoidal method
when applied to the test equation , is
Solving for yields
Thus, the stability function is
and the region of absolute stability is
This region contains the left-half plane, so the trapezoidal method is A-stable. In fact, the stability region is identical to the left-half plane, and thus the numerical solution of converges to zero if and only if the exact solution does. Nevertheless, the trapezoidal method does not have perfect behavior: it does damp all decaying components, but rapidly decaying components are damped only very mildly, because as . This led to the concept of L-stability: a method is L-stable if it is A-stable and as . The trapezoidal method is A-stable but not L-stable. The implicit Euler method is an example of an L-stable method.
General theory
The stability function of a Runge–Kutta method with coefficients and is given by
where denotes the vector with ones. This is a rational function (one polynomial divided by another).
Explicit Runge–Kutta methods have a strictly lower triangular coefficient matrix and thus, their stability function is a polynomial. It follows that explicit Runge–Kutta methods cannot be A-stable.
The stability function of implicit Runge–Kutta methods is often analyzed using order stars. The order star for a method with stability function is defined to be the set . A method is A-stable if and only if its stability function has no poles in the left-hand plane and its order star contains no purely imaginary numbers.
Multistep methods
Linear multistep methods have the form
Applied to the test equation, they become
which can be simplified to
where z = hk. This is a linear recurrence relation. The method is A-stable if all solutions {yn} of the recurrence relation converge to zero when Re z < 0. The characteristic polynomial is
All solutions converge to zero for a given value of z if all solutions w of Φ(z,w) = 0 lie in the unit circle.
The region of absolute stability for a multistep method of the above form is then the set of all for which all w such that Φ(z,w) = 0 satisfy |w| < 1. Again, if this set contains the left-half plane, the multi-step method is said to be A-stable.
Example: The second-order Adams–Bashforth method
Let us determine the region of absolute stability for the two-step Adams–Bashforth method
The characteristic polynomial is
which has roots
thus the region of absolute stability is
This region is shown on the right. It does not include all the left half-plane (in fact it only includes the real axis between z = −1 and z = 0) so the Adams–Bashforth method is not A-stable.
General theory
Explicit multistep methods can never be A-stable, just like explicit Runge–Kutta methods. Implicit multistep methods can only be A-stable if their order is at most 2. The latter result is known as the second Dahlquist barrier; it restricts the usefulness of linear multistep methods for stiff equations. An example of a second-order A-stable method is the trapezoidal rule mentioned above, which can also be considered as a linear multistep method.
See also
Condition number
Differential inclusion, an extension of the notion of differential equation that allows discontinuities, in part as way to sidestep some stiffness issues
Explicit and implicit methods
Notes
References
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External links
An Introduction to Physically Based Modeling: Energy Functions and Stiffness
Stiff systems Lawrence F. Shampine and Skip Thompson Scholarpedia, 2(3):2855. doi:10.4249/scholarpedia.2855
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414 (disambiguation)
414 is the English ordinal four hundred and fourteen
414 may refer to:
414 (number)
Dates
414 CE (CDXIV), a year in the Western calendar, "A.D. 414"
414 BC, a year in the Western calendar, "414 BCE"
Places
414 Liriope (asteroid 414), main belt asteroid
Route 414, see List of highways numbered 414
Area code 414
Computing
The 414s, a group of hackers
HTTP 414, WWW status code
Aviation
Cessna 414 Chancellor, a pressurized light-twin-prop sub-10 passenger plane.
Breguet 414, interwar bomber of France
See also
414th (disambiguation)
1.414
Gum arabic (E414) food additive
Tan-Sahsa Flight 414
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Ittervoort
Ittervoort is a village in the Dutch province of Limburg. It is located in the municipality of Leudal.
Ittervoort was a separate municipality until 1942, when it was merged with Hunsel.
References
External links
Map of the former municipality in 1868.
Category:Populated places in Limburg (Netherlands)
Category:Former municipalities of Limburg (Netherlands)
Category:Leudal
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Guadiana-class destroyer
The Guadiana class was a class of four destroyers employed by the Portuguese Navy (Marinha Portuguesa) between 1913 and 1942. This class is often alternatively referred as the Douro class.
Note, that, in Portugal, there is a later Douro class of destroyers used by the Portuguese Navy between 1933 and 1967, usually referred to as the Vouga class.
Construction and design
The design of the four ships of the class were derived from the British River Class and were built by Yarrow in the United Kingdom. They were assembled in the Arsenal of the Navy in Lisbon, between 1913 and 1924, with design assistance and engines and boilers from Yarrow. The armament came from Armstrongs (Elswick Ordnance Company) in the UK.
Service history
The first two ships of the class, together with NRP constituted the Portuguese destroyer force during World War I.
NRP Vouga sank in 1931, during the amphibious operation to suppress a military rebellion on the island of Madeira.
From 1933, the ships were replaced by the five destroyers of the .
Ships
Citations
References
Navios Portugueses: Classe Douro at Navios de Guerra Portugueses
Brassey's Naval and Shipping Annual 1923.
Gardiner, Robert & Gray, Randal, eds. (1985). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships: 1906–1921. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. .
External links
Category:Guadiana-class destroyers
Category:Military history of Portugal
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Fort Supply, Oklahoma
Fort Supply is a town in Woodward County, Oklahoma, United States, northwest of the city of Woodward, Oklahoma, the county seat. The population was 330 at the 2010 census.
History
The United States Army post of Fort Supply was established in 1868 as a "Camp of Supply" for the winter campaign that General Philip Sheridan led against the Southern Plains Indians.
People established the town of Fitzgerald three miles west-southwest of the site of the former Fort Supply in 1902, but this town quickly failed.
Rancher H. H. Halsell sold the land one mile west of Fort Supply to territorial legislator James P. Gandy. Gandy hired surveyors to plat the land for a town site and founded the town of Supply in 1903. He moved most of the original buildings of Supply from the recently failed town of Fitzgerald. The Government established the first post office for the town of Supply on 12 May 1903. In the early years, area farmers and ranchers centered their economic trade around the town.
In 1908, the State of Oklahoma transformed Fort Supply, the derelict army post, into Western Oklahoma State Hospital, also known as Western State Hospital or Fort Supply State Hospital, the first state-operated mental institution of Oklahoma.
The Flood Control Act of 1936 provided for construction of a dam and reservoir one mile southeast of the town in the valley of Wolf Creek. Work began on the largest earthen dam in the United States of America in October 1938 and Fort Supply Lake was completed in May 1942. The United States Army Corps of Engineers administers Fort Supply Lake and the adjacent wildlife and recreation area.
On 1 May 1943, the people changed the name of the post office and town of Supply to Fort Supply.
On 6 December 1988, the State of Oklahoma located a new prison, William S. Key Correctional Center, on the grounds of nearby former Fort Supply. Western State Psychiatric Center also has operations on the grounds. Agriculture and employment at these state institutions form the economic base of the community of Fort Supply.
Geography
Fort Supply is located at (36.572271, -99.573856).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all of it land.
Climate
Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there were 328 people, 136 households, and 98 families residing in the town. The population density was 1,458.4 people per square mile (575.6/km²). There were 171 housing units at an average density of 760.3 per square mile (300.1/km²). The racial makeup of the town was 95.73% White, 0.30% African American, 1.83% Native American, 0.61% from other races, and 1.52% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.91% of the population.
There were 136 households out of which 25.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 61.8% were married couples living together, 7.4% had a female householder with no husband present, and 27.9% were non-families. 27.2% of all households were made up of individuals and 14.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.41 and the average family size was 2.91.
In the town, the population was spread out with 24.4% under the age of 18, 7.0% from 18 to 24, 23.5% from 25 to 44, 27.4% from 45 to 64, and 17.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 41 years. For every 100 females, there were 86.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 86.5 males.
The median income for a household in the town was $30,893, and the median income for a family was $37,500. Males had a median income of $28,333 versus $20,833 for females. The per capita income for the town was $15,836. About 5.8% of families and 6.8% of the population were below the poverty line, including 13.4% of those under age 18 and none of those age 65 or over.
References
External links
Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture - Fort Supply (town)
Category:Towns in Oklahoma
Category:Towns in Woodward County, Oklahoma
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Ignatius Elias III
Saint Ignatius Elias III (1867 – 13 February 1932) was the Patriarch of Antioch, and head of the Syriac Orthodox Church from 1917 until his death in 1932.
Biography
Nasri was born in 1867 in the city of Mardin, son of Chorepiscopus Abraham and Mary, and had four brothers and three sisters. He was cared for by his eldest sister Helena upon the death of his mother, and as a teenager he worked as a goldsmith. He also worked for the Ottoman government for three months. Following the direction of Patriarch Ignatius Peter IV, Nasri joined the Forty Martyrs Seminary, and in 1887, he joined the Monastery of Mor Hananyo near Mardin and was ordained deacon by Peter IV. The following year, Nasri became a novitiate before becoming a monk in 1889, upon which he assumed the name Elias.
Elias was ordained priest in 1892 by Peter IV, and during the Massacres of Diyarbakır in 1895, Elias gave refuge to approximately 7000 Armenian refugees in the Monastery of Mor Quryaqos. After this, Elias was appointed Chief of the Monastery of Mor Quryaqos and Monastery of Mor Hananyo. In 1908, Elias was consecrated bishop of Amid by Patriarch Ignatius Abded Aloho II, upon which he took the name Iwanius.
In 1912, he was transferred to Mosul where he served until his elevation to the patriarchate in 1917. After the death of the Patriarch Abded Aloho II in 1915, Mor Iwanius was elected Patriarch and assumed the throne in 1917. The decree was issued by the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed VI and was confirmed in Elias' visit to Constantinople in 1919, during which he also received the Ismania medal. Elias travelled extensively in 1919 to visit surviving Syriac Orthodox communities in the Middle East in the aftermath of the Assyrian genocide. As a result of the end of the Turkish War of Independence in 1922, Elias was forced to flee the traditional patriarchal residence at the Monastery of Mor Hananyo to Jerusalem where he resided for three months. During this time Elias established a printing press for the church, and in 1925, Elias travelled to Aleppo and Mosul to establish printing presses there also.
Elias held a synod in 1930 at the Monastery of Mar Mattai, near Mosul, to restructure the organisation of the church and its dioceses. Later that year, on 1 December, Elias received a request from Lord Irwin, Viceroy of India, to help resolve a schism within the Malankara Church. Despite cautions from his doctor and eldest sister, Elias left Mosul on 6 February 1931, accompanied by Mor Clemis Yuhanon Abbachi, Rabban Quryaqos, Rabban Yeshu Samuel, Zkaryo Shakir, and Elias Ghaduri, despite his cardiac problems.
Elias and his entourage left from the city of Basra on 28 February and arrived at Karachi on 5 March 1931 where they were received by Patriarchal Delegate Mor Yulius Elias Qoro, Mor Athanasius Paulos of Aluva, as well as other clergymen. Elias then proceeded to Delhi the following day and arrived on 8 March. He met with Lord Irwin in Delhi before leaving to Madras where he was received as a guest of the governor, Sir George Frederick Stanley. Elias arrived in Malankara on 21 March and held meetings between the two factions within the church at Aluva, Karingachira, Panampady and Kuruppumpady for the remainder of the year.
Despite failing to end the schism, Elias remained in India until February 1932 when he died at the Church of St. Stephen in Manjanikkara, near Omallur on 13 February. The remains of the patriarch were interred in Manjanikkara.
55 years after his death, in 1987, his successor Patriarch Ignatius Zakka I officially declared him a Saint. His feast day is observed on 13 February.
See also
Manjanikkara Dayara
Jacob Baradaeus
Malankara Jacobite Syriac Orthodox Church
Ignatius Zakka I Iwas
Ignatius Afram I Barsoum
Polycarpus Eugene (Augin) Aydin
References
External links
Biography from Margonitho: Syriac Orthodox Resources
Syriac Orthodox Church
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Category:Syrian Oriental Orthodox Christians
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Avo Sõmer
Avo Sõmer (born 1934) is an American musicologist music theorist, and composer, of Estonian birth.
Avo Sõmer was born in Tartu, Estonia. He emigrated from Estonia with his parents in 1944, when he was ten years old, first to Germany and then to the United States. He had already begun playing the piano as a child in Pärnu. In Germany he took some piano lessons and instruction in theory, and began to compose, but systematic instruction in music came only later. He majored in music education, piano performance, and composition at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, followed by graduate studies at the University of Michigan where, in 1957, he earned an M. A. with a thesis on Monteverdi's madrigals, and then, in 1963, a PhD with a dissertation "The Keyboard Music of Johann Jakob Froberger" . In 1962 he joined the faculty of the University of Connecticut, where he remained until his retirement in 2000. Since that time he has increased his activity as a writer, and has spoken at conferences in Estonia on the music of Eduard Tubin, twentieth-century music in general, and the theories of Heinrich Schenker.
He is best known for his analytical publications on early twentieth-century music, especially that of Debussy and the Estonian symphonist, Eduard Tubin, though his unpublished Ph. D. dissertation remains a respected work among Froberger researchers.
As a composer, Sõmer participated in Karlheinz Stockhausen's composition studio at the Darmstädter Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik in 1967, contributing the oboe part to Ensemble . He says this was a "significant moment" for him, but "mainly in a negative sense," because it made him realize he did not wish to continue with avant-garde music. Instead, he adopted a style close to that of the late works of Béla Bartók, with just a glimpse of the string quartets of Elliott Carter .
Musicological and analytical works
1957. "The Madrigals of Monteverdi: A Study of Changing Styles and Forms." M. A. Thesis. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan.
1963. "The Keyboard Music of Johann Jakob Froberger." Ph. D. diss. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan.
1995. "Chromatic Third-Relations and Tonal Structure in the Songs of Debussy." Music Theory Spectrum 17, No. 2. (Autumn,): 215–41.
1999. "Imagery, digression, and coherence in Etude pour les agréments of Debussy." In A Composition as a Problem 2, edited by Mart Humal, 93–108. Tallinn: Eesti Muusikaakadeemia.
2000. "Süntaktilised kujundid Debussy sonaatides" [Syntactical structures in Debussy's sonatas]. In Töid muusikateooria alalt 1, edited by Mart Humal, 61–90. Tallinn: Scripta Musicalia.
2001. "'Leinalaulu teisenemised': Tonaalsed kujundid atonaalsel heliväljal Eduard Tubina Kaheksandas sümfoonias" ["Metamorphoses of Grief": Tonal Figures in an Atonal Field in the Symphony No. 8 of Tubin]. Rahvusvahelise Eduard Tubina Ühingu aastaraamat 1.
2003. "Orpheus ja Pierrot: 20. sajandi algusaastate uue muusika tahke" [Orpheus and Pierrot: Aspects of Early Twentieth-Century Music]. Akadeemia no. 3:565–86.
2003. "Lyricism and sentence formation in the earlier symphonies of Eduard Tubin." Rahvusvahelise Eduard Tubina Ühingu Aastaraamat/ Yearbook of the International Eduard Tubin Society 3, pp. 49–58. Tallinn: International Eduard Tubin Society.
2004. "Fantasque, ironique: An interpretation of the "Serenade" of Debussy's Cello Sonata." In A Composition as a Problem 4, no. 1, edited by Mart Humal. Tallinn: Eesti Muusikaakadeemia.
2004. "Muusika loomise ja analüüsi seostest" [Relationships between composing and analyzing the music] . In Mõeldes muusikast: Sissevaateid muusikateadusesse [Thoughts on music: Insights into musicology], edited by Jaan Ross and Kaire Maimets, 191–207. Tallinn: Varrak.
2005. "Musical Syntax in the Sonatas of Debussy: Phrase Structure and Formal Function". Music Theory Spectrum.27, no. 1 (Spring): 67–96. abstract
2006. "Interpreting Thematic Reprise and Transformation in Late Debussy." Paper presented at the Fifth International Conference on Music Theory, Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, September 28–30.
Compositions (selective list)
Concertino, for flute, clarinet, bassoon, piano, percussion, violin, and cello (1964)
Refrains: Light and air, for flute and clarinet (1966)
Ensemble, oboe part in a collaborative composition, supervised by Karlheinz Stockhausen, for 12 instruments, tapes, and live electronics (1967)
Elegy II, for string quartet and piano (1969)
Eight Preludes, for piano (1974)
Four Preludes, for piano (1975)
Tableau I, for flute and piano (1975)
Tableau II, for flute and piano (1975)
Sources
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Category:American people of Estonian descent
Category:People from Pärnu
Category:Estonian musicologists
Category:Estonian World War II refugees
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1979 Irish constitutional referendums
Two referendums were held together in Ireland on 5 July 1979, each on a proposed amendment of the Irish constitution. Both proposals were approved by voters.
Sixth Amendment
The Sixth Amendment to the constitution provided that orders made by the Adoption Board could not be declared unconstitutional because they were not made by a court.
Seventh Amendment
The Seventh Amendment to the constitution allowed the state to determine by law which institutions of higher education would be entitled to elect members of the Senate.
See also
Constitutional amendment
Politics of the Republic of Ireland
History of the Republic of Ireland
Amendments to the Constitution of Ireland
References
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Ian Firth
Ian Firth FREng FICE, FIStructE, Hon FRIBA is a British structural engineer and bridge designer.
Early life and education
Born in Sussex into a Royal Navy family, Firth was a chorister at Winchester Cathedral before going to Marlborough College and then to the University of Bristol where he secured a First Class Honours degree in Civil Engineering in 1979.
Career
Firth joined specialist consulting engineers Flint & Neill in London upon graduation, and initially worked on a variety of projects including tall radio masts and towers, chimneys and steel buildings, as well as the aerodynamic stability of box girder bridges. He then attended Imperial College and obtained a further degree in Structural steel Design in 1982. Returning to Flint & Neill, he worked on the complex strengthening and upgrading of the Wye Bridge, a steel box girder cable-stayed bridge and part of the M48 Severn crossing. Since then he has directed several other similar projects involving strengthening of such structures, including the Erskine Bridge in Scotland and the West Gate Bridge in Australia. His other work on major long span bridges includes the independent design checks and investigations for the Tsing Ma Bridge, Kap Shui Mun Bridge and Ting Kau Bridge, all in Hong Kong. He was appointed as special advisor to the client for the longest span of them all, the Strait of Messina Bridge in Italy, which when built will have a main span of 3,300m.
Firth led the team which won the Poole Harbour Crossing bridge design competition in 1997, working with Danish architects Dissing+Weitling, and has subsequently won many other bridge design competitions. These include Lockmeadow Bridge in Maidstone, the Bridge of Aspiration for the Royal Ballet School in London, the River Oise bridge in Compiègne, France, the Pont Schuman in Lyon, France, and Inderhavnsbroen in Copenhagen.
He became partner in Flint & Neill in 1990, and when the firm joined COWI in 2008 he was appointed a director. He retired from full time employment in 2018 and now works as a consultant, continuing to provide bridge design and engineering advice, training and education.
Firth was President of the Institution of Structural Engineers in 2017 and is Chairman of the British Group of the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering. He is also a Trustee of bridge building charity Bridges to Prosperity.
Awards and honours
Firth is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects.
Selected projects
Lockmeadow Bridge, 1999
Halgavor Bridge, 2001
Swansea Sail Bridge, 2003
River Oise Bridge, Compiègne, 2011
Third Way Bridge, 2011
Inderhavnsbroen Copenhagen, 2009 – 2016
References
External links
Ian Firth
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Raycroft
Raycroft is an English surname.
People with the surname Raycroft include:
Andrew Raycroft, Canadian NHL goalkeeper
Jordan Raycroft, Canadian singer and member of the band Raycroft
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List of Rutgers University presidents
The President of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (informally called Rutgers University) is the chief administrator of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Rutgers was founded by clergymen affiliated with the Dutch Reformed Church in 1766 as Queen's College and was the eighth-oldest of nine colleges established during the American colonial period. Before 1956, Rutgers was a small liberal arts college and became a full university in 1924 with the offering of graduate degree programs and the establishment of professional schools. Today, Rutgers is a public research university with three campuses in the state located in New Brunswick and Piscataway, Newark, and Camden. The state's flagship university with approximately 65,000 students and employing 20,000 faculty and staff members, Rutgers is the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey.
Since 1785, twenty men have served as the institution's president, beginning with the Reverend Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh, a Dutch Reformed clergyman who was responsible for establishing the college. Before 1930, most of the university's presidents were clergymen affiliated with Christian denominations in the Reformed tradition (either Dutch Reformed, Presbyterian, or German Reformed). Two presidents were alumni of Rutgers College—the Rev. William H. S. Demarest (Class of 1883) and Philip Milledoler Brett (Class of 1892). The current president is Dr. Robert L. Barchi (born 1946), a neuroscientist and physician who has served in this position since 2012. In July 2019, Dr. Barchi announced that his eighth year as university president would be his final year and that he intends to step down from the position in the summer of 2020. In January 2020, Rutgers announced the selection of Dr. Jonathan Holloway as the university's twenty-first president. Dr. Holloway will assume the position on July 1, 2020, after Dr. Barchi's resignation. Dr. Holloway, who is African American, will be the first person of color to lead Rutgers University.
The president serves in an ex officio capacity as a presiding officer within the University's 59-member board of trustees and its eleven-member board of governors, and is appointed by these boards to oversee day-to-day operations of the University across its three campuses. He is charged with implementing "board policies with the help and advice of senior administrators and other members of the university community." The president is responsible only to those two governing boards—there is no oversight by state officials. Frequently, the president also occupies a professorship in his academic discipline and engages in instructing students.
Presidents of Rutgers University
The following twenty individuals have served as president of Rutgers University from the creation of the office in 1785 to the present. Those marked with their names in bold had graduated from Rutgers. Those marked with "↑" died in office. Where years don't overlap there was a gap of a few months while a suitable candidate was found, this usually occurred when someone died in office, or left unexpectedly to accept another position.
Presidents of Queen's College (1785–1825)
Rutgers was founded as Queen's College on November 10, 1766, and is the eighth-oldest college in the United States and one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution. The university is one of only two colonial colleges that later became public universities.
In the early days of Queen's College, the trustees wrote to the church's leadership in Amsterdam and at the University of Utrecht to seek candidates for the position of president. In their correspondence, they expressed a wish that a prospective college president possess the following characteristics:
(1) he was to fill the office of professor of theology,
(2) to oversee the instruction in languages through tutors until professors could be secured,
(3) to do more or less the work of a minister on the Lord’s Day,
(4) to be a man of tried piety,
(5) to be attached to the Constitution of the Netherlands Church,
(6) to be a man of thorough learning,
(7) to be good natured,
(8) to be free and friendly in conversation,
(9) to be master of the English language, and
(10) to be pleased to lecture on Marckii Medulla Theologiae Christianae.
Its early history, Rutgers was closely allied with the Dutch Reformed Synod of New York which oversaw financial transactions and early selections of professors for Queen's College and the New Brunswick Theological Seminary. The Rev. John Henry Livingston (1746–1825), who served as the college's fourth president and was responsible for establishing the New Brunswick Theological Seminary, was instrumental in raising funds to support the school after several years of being closed resulting from economic difficulties. Just before his death, Livingston raised enough donations and support to place the school on more stable financial footing, including arranging for a generous donation in 1825 from Colonel Henry Rutgers (1745–1830), a wealthy landowner and former Revolutionary War officer from New York City. The trustees of the school renamed the school in honour of Colonel Rutgers in that year.
Presidents of Rutgers College (1825–1924)
Presidents of Rutgers University (1924–1945)
Presidents of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (1945–present)
References
Notes
Citations
External links
Rutgers University
Office of the President of Rutgers University
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Zeno de Beauge
Zeno de Beauge (: 1603–1687) was a French Capuchin missionary, who spent his later life in India.
Missionary career
Zeno de Beauge was born in 1603 in Angers in the region of Pays de la Loire, France. He was first sent as missionary to the Middle East countries in 1637. When the Propaganda Fide was created in 1622, Pope Urban VIII asked the newly ordained first Indian Bishop Matheus de Castro to take the French Capuchin missionaries from Syria to Indian Missions. Three French Capuchin missionaries from Alep, the French Capuchin custody headed by Zeno de Beaugé, traveled with Matheus de Castro and reached Goa on 26 December 1639. The Padroado clergy of Goa opposed the Propaganda missionaries in India, so Zeno de Beaugé proceeded to Surat and founded the first Capuchin Mission in India under the protection of the English in 1639. When Father Ephrem de Nevers was arrested by the Portuguese Inquisition in 1649, he went to Madras Capuchin mission to take steps for his release. Zeno remained there with him as his companion during the development of the first Christian Mission in Madras. He died at the age of 84, on 21 January 1687 and was buried at St. Andrew, Fort St. George, the first church of Madras.
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2007 Little League World Series qualification
Qualification for the 2007 Little League World Series took place in eight United States regions and eight international regions in July and August 2007.
One change from the 2006 Qualification is the configuration of the Asia-Pacific region. Japan was detached from the Asia region to form its own region and the remainder of the Asia region was added to the Pacific region to form the new Asia-Pacific region.
United States
Great Lakes
The tournament took place in Indianapolis, Indiana from August 2–11.
Mid-Atlantic
The tournament took place in Bristol, Connecticut from August 3–13.
Midwest
The tournament took place in Indianapolis, Indiana from August 3–11.
Note: The Dakotas are organized into a single Little League district.
New England
The tournament took place in Bristol, Connecticut from August 3–13.
Northwest
The tournament took place in San Bernardino, California from August 4–12.
Southeast
The tournament took place in St. Petersburg, Florida from August 4–9.
Southwest
The tournament took place in Waco, Texas from August 4–10.
West
The tournament took place in San Bernardino, California from August 3–11.
International
Asia-Pacific
The tournament took place in Hong Kong from July 8–14.
Canada
The tournament took place in Regina, Saskatchewan from August 4–11.
Caribbean
The tournament took place in Yabucoa, Puerto Rico from July 21–28.
Europe, Middle East & Africa
The tournament took place in Kutno, Poland from August 1–8.
Japan
The first two rounds of the tournament were held on July 7, and the remaining two rounds were played on July 21. All games were played in Tokyo.
Latin America
The tournament took place Panama City, Panama on July 8–14.
Mexico
The tournament took place in Mexico City from July 13–22.
Phase 1
Phase 2
Phase 3
Transatlantic
The tournament took place in Kutno, Poland from July 23–29.
External links
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Sundre/Goodwins Farm Airport
Sundre/Goodwins Farm Airport, , is located south of Sundre, Alberta, Canada.
See also
Sundre Airport
References
External links
Page about this airport on COPA's Places to Fly airport directory
Category:Registered aerodromes in Alberta
Category:Mountain View County
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Montello
Montello may refer to the following things:
Companies
Montello Bridging Finance, a real estate bridging finance company based in London.
Places
Australia
Montello, Tasmania, the home ground of Burnie United FC
Italy
Montello, Lombardy, a comune in the Province of Bergamo
Montello (hill), a historic hillock in the Province of Treviso
United States
Montello, Nevada
Montello, Wisconsin
Montello (MBTA station), a railway station in the City of Brockton, Massachusetts
See also
Montella (disambiguation)
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Julian Waters
Julian Waters is a presenter for Sky Sports News, but has presented other sports on Sky Sports. He goes by the nickname “Jules” on Sky Sports News.
After two-years in the Midlands, he moved to Capital Radio where he covered the 1992 European Championships in Stuttgart, the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona and the 1994 World Cup for Capital Gold Sport.
He became a regular presenter on Sky Sports News and is a keen fan of Everton FC.He plays sports in his spare time.
Sources
https://tvnewsroom.org/biography-images/julian-waters-1307/
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Jondaryan Woolshed
Jondaryan Woolshed is a heritage-listed shearing shed at Evanslea Road, Jondaryan, Queensland, Australia. It was built in 1859-60 to replace an earlier, smaller woolshed on the former Jondaryan pastoral station, which was at one stage the largest freehold station in Queensland. The woolshed was the scene of significant labour conflict in the late 1880s and early 1890s, as the station became a test case for the new Queensland Shearers Union in the lead-up to the 1891 Australian shearers' strike.
In 1946, Jondaryan Estates, the pastoral company which owned Jondaryan Station, was liquidated. The station's remaining lands, apart from adjoining the homestead, were subdivided and sold, and the woolshed passed into separate ownership. In 1972, the then owner of the property offered the woolshed and of land to the people of Jondaryan. The Jondaryan Woolshed Historical Museum and Park Association was formed in 1976, and the site was subsequently developed into a tourist attraction. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.
The Jondaryan Homestead site also largely survives, although the original house was destroyed by fire in 1937. It is separately listed on the Queensland Heritage Register.
History
The Darling Downs was visited in 1827 by botanist and explorer Allan Cunningham. A demand for land was growing as free settlement increased and Cunningham reported favourably on the potential of the area for grazing. European settlement was delayed for some years, however, because the presence of the penal colony at Moreton Bay restricted access to the area. In the 1830s pastoral settlement in New South Wales pushed northwards as graziers looked for new land and in 1840 the first sheep run was established on the Downs, to be rapidly followed by others. Henry Dennis chose land between Oakey Creek west to Myall Creek as a pastoral run in 1840. Although he had come to the Downs looking for suitable land for others, he failed to register this run, which he had reputedly wanted for himself, and in 1842 Charles Coxen took it up. Coxen sent his nephew Henry to run the property and it was he who named the place "Jondaryan", thought to be a corruption of an Aboriginal name for a large lagoon. Henry Coxen established the first simple homestead in 1844, but built a new one later that year on the site of the present homestead, now separated from the woolshed by Evanslea Road, to avoid the lightning strikes experienced at the first location. He also constructed other buildings including a small shearing shed.
In 1845, the Coxens gave up the property and for some years southern investors owned it. The run originally consisted of but land was added and by 1855 it comprised . Robert and Edwin Tooth, who were also founders of the Tooth and Co. brewery, the Colonial Sugar Refining Company and the Bank of New South Wales, purchased Jondaryan for in 1856. The Tooths began to buy large sections of the run under their pre-emptive rights to purchase their leased land. In 1858 the partnership of Kent and Weinholt, which owned adjoining properties, sub-leased Jondaryan, managed by James C White.
It was an era when wool prices were high and the pastoral industry was buoyant. Kent and Weinholt began a program of extending and improving facilities on Jondaryan. Between 1859 and 1861, 7 men worked for a total of 40 weeks cutting slabs and shingles. Large quantities of timber was also pit sawn into planks. A considerable amount of building was undertaken including that of a small church to serve the station community, called St Anne's (), shearers' quarters (1860), a new station store (1862), a butchers shop, a hide and tallow house and a stable and coach house (1862).
J. C. White, who had at one time worked as a Clerk of Works for the Colonial Architect's office in New South Wales Government, designed the new woolshed. T. Jones, a carpenter, carried out the construction, which was commenced in 1859. The roof was originally intended to be shingled, but in 1860 it was decided to use imported corrugated iron sheeting instead. The building was T shaped, comprising a short central section for baling and loading the wool, with two long wings set at right angles to this. Sheep moved into the building from each end, processing through pens to a shearing board with 52 stands on the perimeter and thence to counting out pens. The first shearing was conducted in 1861 and after this alterations were made to improve the design by builders Charles Hines & Co. These included excavating under the woolshed, gutting and refitting the building, and levelling and paving the yards with cobblestones. In 1863, Kent and Wienholt purchased the property for . The partnership had interest in other pastoral properties and also acquired adjoining stations to Jondaryan using it as a head station responsible for the distribution of pay, equipment and rations. Stations at the time had small "village" communities for employees, there being a considerable number of people living on Jondaryan apart from the manager and his family. Accommodation for workers and their families and facilities such as a store, blacksmiths and other trades essential for running stations in an isolated area were built.
In 1867 the Western railway line passed through Jondaryan land and reached Dalby in 1868. A settlement developed around the railway station at Jondaryan, taking on the same name, and by the 1870s had about 100 inhabitants. A Divisional Board was formed in 1879 and the Shire of Jondaryan in 1903, the importance of Jondaryan station to the area being reflected by the participation of its managers as Chairmen.
Sheep from other stations were sent to be sheared at Jondaryan woolshed. In the 1873 season, 24,000 sheep shorn were from other properties. In 1891 machine shearing was brought in at Jondaryan and the number of stands reduced to 36.
Jondaryan continued to expand with the acquisition of land and reached a maximum size of . It was at one time the largest freehold station in Queensland with of freehold land. It played a part in the struggle for improved wages and conditions in the pastoral industry that culminated in the 1891 Australian shearers' strike. The owners and managers of such large stations as Jondaryan had considerable power to dictate terms to an itinerant workforce recruited for the shearing season. In 1887 the Queensland Shearers Union was formed at Blackall. Within a year it had 1300 members, indicating a perceived need for collective bargaining to obtain fair pay and working conditions.
Jondaryan became an early test case because in 1888 its management used non-union labour and the union shearers refused to sign on for the following season. In 1889, the graziers banded together in response to union demands and moved to reduce pay rates. Jondaryan manager, Charles Williams, was a foundation member of the United Graziers Association. Many workers now joined the unions, pushing membership of the Shearers' Union over 3000 and the Labourer's Union to 2,250. At Jondaryan, no union members were employed for the 1889 season and in retaliation the shed was placed under union ban in 1890. The sheep were sheared by non-union labour but the clip was held up at each stage of its shipment, as members of other unions would not handle it. Bales of Jondaryan wool stood on the wharves until a compromise was negotiated. It was the first occasion on which unions had worked in federation, leading to the Barcaldine strike of 1891 and the subsequent formation of the Labor party.
In 1894 the Kent and Weinholt partnership was dissolved and a new company called Jondaryan Estates Company of Australia (Pty) Limited was formed, comprising Jondaryan and other properties. From the 1890s much of the leasehold land was resumed for agricultural use and wheat and lucerne was grown on Jondaryan for its own use. In 1906, the sale of the freehold portions was compelled by new land regulations, although by the early 1920s it was still one of the biggest of the Darling Downs properties and still shearing sheep for other stations.
In 1937 the homestead building burnt down and was rebuilt, but in the 1940s land sales continued to reduce the property. It was decided to voluntarily sell land directly, giving preference to former employees and men with previous farming experience, rather than allow the land to be disposed of through government ballot. From 1 January 1946, Jondaryan ceased to exist as a station and the company was wound up, though the homestead and on the southern bank of the creek were retained. It was at this time that the block containing the woolshed was sold and it is thought that part of the western wing was removed to be used as farm machinery shed. One of original blocks of shearers' quarters remained to the rear of the woolshed.
In 1972, following the success of celebrations held at the Jondaryan woolshed to mark the centenary of the Jondaryan State School, the owner of the property offered the woolshed and of land to the people of Jondaryan. As a result, the Jondaryan Woolshed Historical Museum and Park Association was formally established in October 1976 and since that time the place has been developed as a tourist attraction. Considerable renewal and reconstruction work has been carried out on the woolshed including the reconstruction of the western wing. From 1977 an annual Australian Heritage Festival has been held at the woolshed and the remaining shearers' quarters were adapted in 1978 to provide backpacker accommodation.
A considerable number of buildings from the surrounding district have been moved onto the site. Some were built on Jondaryan or its outstations, but have been relocated, such as an 1850s blacksmith's shop (relocated 1977); a shepherd's hut from Mt Moriah (relocated 1978); the 1880s Lagoon Creek homestead (relocated 1982) and a shepherds hut (relocated 1978);
There are also a number of buildings from other places such as the Woodleigh Cheese factory (relocated 1994); the Jondaryan Railway Station (relocated 1998), a shepherd's hut from Cecil Plains (relocated 1994); a police lockup from Peranga (relocated 1980); the Evanslea bagged grain shed (relocated 1979); the Oakey Bank of New South Wales (relocated 1986) and a railway building from Bongeen, now used as a 'barber's shop'.
An array of buildings has also been constructed including a dairy, sulky shed, hayshed, sawmill, barn, and shepherd's hut, together with various display pavilions, machinery sheds and yards. In addition a number of sheds have been erected for storage purposes. There is a large collection of farm machinery and tractors on the site. The new and relocated buildings are not included in the Queensland Heritage Register entry.
Description
The Jondaryan Woolshed is located about south of the town of Jondaryan on a flat area close to Oakey Creek. It is now a focal point within the Jondaryan Woolshed Historical Museum and Park. In addition to the woolshed and associated shearers' quarters (now separated from the remains of the original Jondaryan Homestead by Evanslea Road), the complex is home to a number of relocated buildings from the district.
The woolshed is a large T-shaped building consisting of a main section running approximately east west, with a short stem of the T facing north. It is constructed of timber with a gabled roof clad in corrugated iron and is set within a system of timber yards.
The main section of the building houses the pens, board and wool classing areas. It has a central space with side aisles and timber trusses support the roof. The walls are clad with timber slabs, both original and recent replacements for the vertical corrugated iron sheeting which clad the walls of the west wing. The floors are timber with spaced boards in the pens to allow sheep droppings to fall through. The wool classing area has a rolling table for the fleeces, and has been extended over time.
The central section to the north has a small projecting gable formed by an extension of the roof which houses the pulleys of the wool-bale loading hoist. This area was a wool storage area that led from the classing bins and the wool presses in the same wing.
The shearers' quarters is a rectangular timber framed building to the rear of the woolshed. It has a gabled roof clad in corrugated iron and walls clad in vertical corrugated iron sheeting. It has a verandah running the length of one side supported on timber posts. Doors open onto this. At the rear are top hinged corrugated iron shutters. It is used for accommodation.
Heritage listing
Jondaryan Woolshed was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992 having satisfied the following criteria.
The place is important in demonstrating the evolution or pattern of Queensland's history.
Jondaryan station, established in the early 1840s, was one of the earliest and largest pastoral enterprises on the Darling Downs. It preceded the settlement of towns and acted as a catalyst for closer settlement by providing employment and facilities for a large number of employees and their families in the area. The woolshed, which was erected in 1859-60 as part of a programme of expansion on Jondaryan, reflects the growth and prosperity of the wool industry in the decade between the mid 1850s and 60s. In its materials, construction methods and the way in which it has been designed to facilitate rapid processing of sheep to be shorn, it illustrates a number of aspects of the Australian wool industry in the nineteenth century. Changes, such as the extension of the wool table to accommodate fleeces from larger breeds of sheep, are also important in demonstrating changes within the industry. Jondaryan played a part in the early stages of the conflict between owners and labour in the pastoral industry that culminated in the Barcaldine Shearers' Strike of 1891 and the formation of the Labor party.
The place demonstrates rare, uncommon or endangered aspects of Queensland's cultural heritage.
The Jondaryan Woolshed is rare as a large and early woolshed in Queensland and is believed to be one of the earliest surviving woolsheds in this state.
The place has potential to yield information that will contribute to an understanding of Queensland's history.
The area surrounding the Jondaryan woolshed is important for its potential, as an archaeological site, to reveal information about the way in which the shed was used and therefore on the early operation of the pastoral industry in Queensland.
The place is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a particular class of cultural places.
The Jondaryan woolshed retains much of its form and fabric and provides good examples of the design, construction methods and materials used for this type of building in the mid 19th century.
The place is important because of its aesthetic significance.
Its large scale and position on a flat plain make it a striking building in the landscape. Its form and materials as a vernacular building of a type characteristic of the Australian countryside have aesthetic qualities demonstrably well liked by the community.
The place has a strong or special association with a particular community or cultural group for social, cultural or spiritual reasons.
Its importance to the people of the local area is shown by community efforts to preserve it as the centrepiece of a complex presenting the history of the area.
References
Attribution
External links
The Woolshed at Jondaryan - official site
— 1946 newspaper article on the history of Jondaryan
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Kim Chwa-chin
Kim Chwa-chin or Kim Chwa-jin (December 16, 1889 – January 24, 1930), sometimes called by his pen name Baekya, was a Korean general, independence activist, and anarchist who played an important role in the early attempts at development of anarchism in Korea.
Kim was born to a wealthy family of the Andong Kim lineage in Hongseong County, Chungcheong province. His father was Kim Hyeong-gyu. When Kim was 18, he released 50 families of slaves when he publicly burned the slave registry and provided each family with enough land to live on. This was the first emancipation of slaves in modern Korea.
Biography
Born in 1889 as the second son of Kim Hyeong-gyo, the 12th grandson of Seonwon, Kim Sang-yong, Kim was described as a broad-minded and intelligent child. He moved to Seoul in 1905 in order to attend an Army Military Academy, later establishing the Namyeon School in 1907, where modern academic disciplines were taught.
Kim also organized branches of the Korea Association and the Association for the Performing Arts in Hongseong to spread the ideology of Korean national liberation. In 1909, he served as a director of the Hansung-Sik Company. He established a northwestern academic institution with An and Yi Kap, and established the Oh Sung-sung School as its affiliated educational institution to serve as vice president. He also helped establish a youth student association.
In 1911, he visited Jokdol Kim Jong-geun in Donui-dong, a fund-raising institution, to establish the Independence Military Academy in northern Gando.
In 1916, he joined the Liberation Corps, which was formed by Park Sang-jin and Chae Ki-joong, together with Nobalin and Shin Hyun-dae. In 1918, he went to Manchuria to escape the Japanese rule of Korea, and there signed the Muo Declaration of Independence together with 39 other Korean representatives, a prelude to the March 1st Independence Movement.
He joined the Korea Justice Corps, which focused on Senol, took military responsibility, reorganized the definition group into the military department, and was recommended as the commander. In 1919, he, on the recommendation of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea, took up the position of general commander of the Northern Military Administration Office Army (Bungnogunjeongseo in Korean). His first action was to install a military center in the mountains of Wangcheonghyeon, where he himself became an educator on military leadership. Training under him was strict, and the tasks given to most of the troops under his command was focused on acquiring weapons. In September 1920, 298 people graduated from the First Military Academy.
When the Japanese military unit was sent to Manchuria in October to eliminate the Korean independence forces, it met with Japanese troops in Cheongsan-ri, while moving its independence forces to Mount Baekdu. On October 21, the Battle of Cheongsan-ri took place after the Battle of Godonghae, starting with Baegun-ri, Baegung, on October 26. In particular, the Northern Korean military regime led by General Kim Jwa-jin contributed greatly to the victory in Cheongsan-ri by winning a great victory in the Battle of Baegun Pyeongjoon, Gonjeongjeon, and Eorang Village. This victory, where Kim's forces caused around 1200 casualties to the 3000 Japanese soldiers, was a landmark in the battle for independence.
Later that year, he went through the office Northern Korean army and arrived at the North Manju Milsan Mountain near Russia. About 10 groups of independence fighters united and took office as vice president of the Korean Liberation Army. When many people moved to northern Russia on a silver lining to support the independence of small ethnic groups, Kim crossed the red river.
But it had thought that he returned to Manchuria to reunite and wait for the scattered comrades, and in March 1925, he founded Sinminbu and became vice chairman of the military and commander of the army. In addition, the school was established as the first place to teach and train elite military officers. At that time, the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea appointed him as a member of the Cabinet. Kim did not take office and instead concentrated only on leading the independence forces.
When many officials were captured by the Japanese government in 1927, the new administration was reorganized to lead the new administration as chairman of the Central Committee of the Commission. In 1929, when the Korean General Association was established as the successor of the new people, it was designated as the President. On January 24, 1930, Kim Jwa-jin was assassinated by Park Sang-sil, an agent of the Japanese colonial government.
Acts
Kim Chwa-chin had recognised and fought against Japanese imperialism from an early stage. In 1919 Kim established the Northern military administration office army (북로군정서군, 北路軍政署軍). General Kim leads the Korean Independence Army in the Battle of Cheongsanri.
Afterward General Kim was appointed as the chairman of an executive committee at the age of 38 and attempted to integrate the Independence Movement groups in China and Manchuria. When anarchist and nationalist groups founded a rebel community in Manchuria in the province of Shinmin in 1929, Kim Chwa-chin was chosen to lead its armed forces. He was charged with organizing and leading guerrilla attacks on the Japanese. Though the Japanese soldiers were far more experienced and better armed than Chwa-chin's band, Kim's attacks were successful both in defending the young anarchist community of Shinmin, and in encouraging other groups in northeast Asia to resist the occupiers.
Kim was assassinated in 1930 while repairing a rice mill the Korean Anarchist Federation had built in Shinmin. Although his assassin was never found, the assassin's handler was caught and executed.
Shinmin after Kim Chwa-chin
After the assassination of Kim Chwa-chin, the anarchist movement in Manchukuo and Korea became subject to massive repression. Japan sent armies to attack Shinmin from the south, while the former allies, the Chinese Soviet Republic, attacked from the north. By the summer of 1931, Shinmin's most prominent anarchists were dead, and the war on two fronts was becoming untenable. The anarchists went underground and anarchist Shinmin was no more.
As a leader of the Korean independence movement, Kim is remembered in both North and South Korea. In 1991, the town of Hongseong restored his birthplace. A festival is now held in his honor every October.
Family
Father: Kim Hyeong-Gyu
1st Wife: Lady Oh (오씨 부인)
2nd Wife: Lady Kim (김씨 부인)
Son: Kim Du-han
Grand daughter: Kim Eul-dong
Great-grandson: Song Il-gook
2nd Great-grandchildren: Song Dae-han, Song Min-guk, Song Man-se
Popular culture
Kim was portrayed by Choi Dong-joon in the 2002-2003 SBS TV series Rustic Period.
See also
Korean independence movement
References
Bibliography
External links
Profile by the Hongseong County government
Kim Jwa-jin Memorial League
KoreanDB profile
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Category:Gim clan of Andong
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Amandine Bouillot
Amandine Bouillot (born 14 March 1984, Nancy, France), is a French athlete who competes in compound archery. She has represented the French national team since 2006. Her achievements include gold medals at the 2005 Summer Universiade and 2006 World University Championships, individual medals at the two major World Archery compound events the World Archery Championships and World Cup, and becoming the world number one ranked archer in May 2008.
References
Category:1984 births
Category:Living people
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Category:World Archery Championships medalists
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1921 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles
Brian Norton defeated Manuel Alonso 5–7, 4–6, 7–5, 6–3, 6–3 in the All Comers' Final, but the reigning champion Bill Tilden defeated Norton 4–6, 2–6, 6–1, 6–0, 7–5 in the Challenge Round to win the Gentlemen's Singles tennis title at the 1921 Wimbledon Championships.
Tilden was the last men's champion at the original Wimbledon location at Worple Road, and was also the last men's champion under the challenge round system. From 1922 onward the reigning champion, like every other player, would have to play from the beginning of the tournament instead of playing a single Challenge Round match against the winner of the all-comers tournament.
Draw
Challenge round
All-Comers' Finals
Top half
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Bottom half
Section 5
Section 6
Section 7
Section 8
References
External links
Men's Singles
Category:Wimbledon Championship by year – Men's Singles
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Albert Goodwin (disambiguation)
Albert Goodwin (1887–1918) was a Canadian trade unionist.
Albert Goodwin may also refer to:
Albert Goodwin (historian) (1906–1995), English historian
Albert Goodwin (artist) (1845–1932), English landscape painter
See also
Goodwin (surname)
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Jack Fountain
John Fountain (27 May 1932 - August 2012) was an English former footballer who played in the Football League as a wing half for Sheffield United, Swindon Town and York City. He received a prison sentence in 1964 for his part in the betting scandal which shook British football in the early 1960s.
References
External links
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Category:2012 deaths
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Makaryevka, Topchikhinsky District, Altai Krai
Makaryevka () is a rural locality (a selo) in Topchikhinsky District, Altai Krai, Russia. The population was 482 as of 2013. There are 10 streets.
References
Category:Rural localities in Altai Krai
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4 Square (pinball)
4 Square is a pinball machine designed by Ed Krynski and produced by Gottlieb in 1971. 4 Square is an electro-mechanical pinball machine and there were 2,200 units produced. 4 Square features 2 flippers, 3 pop bumpers, 2 slingshots and 8 standup targets. The maximum point score displayed is 9,999 points.
References
External links
Category:1971 pinball machines
Category:Gottlieb pinball machines
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Night Raid
Night Raid (foaled 1918 in England) was a Leading sire in Australia of Thoroughbred racehorses. He sired two leading racehorses, namely Phar Lap and Nightmarch.
Background
He was sired by the Doncaster Cup and Goodwood Cup winner, Radium and his dam Sentiment was by The Derby winner and good sire, Spearmint. Radium was the sire of several stakes winners including Clarissimus, who won 2,000 Guineas Stakes. Sentiment's only stakes winner was Night Raid. He was line-bred to Galopin in the 4th and 5th generation (4m x 5f).
Racing career
Although well bred, Night Raid was only moderately successful on the racecourse, not winning any of his six starts in England, but he did finish third in a Nursery Selling Plate. In Australia he had twenty-nine starts for one win and a dead heat.
Stud record
Night Raid served one season at stud in Australia during 1923 and then resumed racing. He was retired to stud in New Zealand in 1924. His legacy as a sire is outstanding. Night Raid sired two great racehorses, namely Phar Lap and Nightmarch, victors in the successive Group One, Melbourne Cup in 1929 and 1930.
In all Night Raid sired 13 stakeswinners that had 75 stakeswins, including:
Blixten (won RRC Rosehill Guineas etc.)
Nightbeam (won AJC The Metropolitan etc.)
Nightly (winner of seven Principal Races in Australia and New Zealand including CJC New Zealand Derby Stakes, MVRC Moonee Valley Cup, CJC Canterbury Cup)
Nightmarch (RRC Rawson Stakes, New Zealand Cup, Melbourne Cup, WS Cox Plate, New Zealand Derby Stakes and AJC Epsom Handicap
Phar Lap (Australian Derby, VRC Melbourne Cup, Victoria Derby, WS Cox Plate [twice] and 1932 Agua Caliente Handicap,
plus Aesulus, Lady Graceful, Pillow Fight, Peter Jackson and The Cardinal all of which were good horses in their own right.
See also
Thoroughbred racing in New Zealand
Thoroughbred racing in Australia
References
Category:Racehorses bred in the United Kingdom
Category:Racehorses trained in the United Kingdom
Category:Racehorses trained in Australia
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Tiverton Town F.C.
Tiverton Town Football Club are an English football club based in Tiverton, Devon. The club are currently members of the and play at Ladysmead.
History
The club was established in 1913 as Tiverton Athletic, and initially played at the Athletic Ground. They joined the East Devon League, winning the Senior Division in 1924–25, 1925–26, 1926–27 and 1927–28. They then joined the North Devon League, winning it in 1931–32, after which they transferred to the Exeter & District League, which they won in 1933–34.
In 1951–52 the club won the league's Senior Division, and in 1956 won the Devon Senior Cup for the first time. They won the league again in 1964–65 and 1965–66, a season in which they also won the Senior Cup for a second time.
In 1973 the club joined the Western League. They were relegated to Division One at the end of the 1980–81 season after finishing bottom of the league. After finishing as runners-up in 1988–89, they were promoted back to the Premier Division. Following two fourth-placed finishes, the club finished third in 1991–92, second in 1992–93 (a season in which they also won the League Cup for the first time), and won the league and League Cup double in 1993–94. They won the league again the following season, and after finishing as runners-up in 1995–96, a season in which they also picked up the League Cup, achieved back-to-back titles again in 1996–97 (a double season) and 1997–98. They also won the FA Vase in 1998, beating Tow Law Town 1–0 in the final.
In 1998–99 the club won the FA Vase again, beating Bedlington Terriers 1–0, and finished second in the league, earning promotion to Division One West of the Southern League. In 2000–01 they finished second, and were promoted to the Premier Division, where they remained until 2011. In 2006–07 they won the Southern League Cup.
On 18 April 2012 it was announced in the national press that Tiverton had appointed 27-year-old internet entrepreneur Matthew Conridge as their new chairman. Believed to be one of the youngest football chairman in the UK ever Conridge was quoted as saying, "I'm not here to chuck thousands of pounds into a black hole, I'm here to pull everyone together and work with a good team......This club will not spend more than it can afford to chase a dream......If we can't afford a budget to go to Blue Square Bet South we won't pay it".
On 30 April 2013 Tiverton Town released a press release as follows "Tiverton Town can confirm that Matthew Conridge has stepped down as Chairman of Tiverton Town to pursue other business interests. The club would like to place on record its gratitude for all his hard work whilst in the position. Former Tivvy chairman Dave Wright is taking over the position of chairman for the time being. The club also wishes to confirm the departure of interim manager Jamie Ward together with his assistant Paul Short."
In May 2013 Tiverton town released the following press release to announce the arrival of John Clarkson as their new manager "John Clarkson was tonight introduced to the media and Tivvy fans at a press conference at Ladysmead. Clarkson has arrived from Spain where he was manager of Ontinyent in Segunda B. He had been managing in Spain for the last six years".
In May 2014, Tiverton Town manager John Clarkson stepped down from the position following the teams disappointing 2–0 Devon Bowl Final defeat to Plymouth Parkway who were playing in the league below Tiverton. He had led the side to the play-off's, where they lost to 9-man Paulton, and two Cup finals but cited the last couple of months as the reason he was going, "The last couple of months have really taken it out of me, three or four games a week was just too much" He added,"I'm off to take my coaching badges during the summer and once I've completed them I will decide on what I'm going to do"
Despite a much higher wage budget than other teams in the league (due to John Clarkson's financial input) the club could not reach its aim of promotion in its centenary season.
At the end of the season many of the club's higher profile players left following John Clarkson's resignation and the reduction of the wage budget.
Yellows legend Martyn Rogers was named as Clarkson's replacement and given the task of rebuilding the squad on a much more restricted wage budget.
In the 2016/17 season Tiverton Town gained promotion to the Southern League Premier Division. They beat Salisbury 0–2 with goals from Michael Landricombe and Tom Bath in the playoff final in front of over 2,000, returning them to the Southern League Premier after being relegated in 2011.
In the 2017/18 season following promotion from the 8th teir Tivvy finished in a highly respectable position of 6th. Especially considering the low budget and crowds compared to the top 5 and most of the league. However despite this Tivvy managed to beat 4 of the top 5 with playoff hopes ending due to poor away form.
Stadium
The club currently play at The Ian Moorcroft Stadium, Ladysmead, Bolham Road, Tiverton, Devon, EX16 6SG.
Opened in 1946, the ground has a capacity of 3,500, of which 520 is seated.
As Tiverton Athletic, the club played its home games at the Athletic Ground, now known as Amory Park. The ground boasted a huge wooden pavilion with a seated veranda, which was quite extravagant for a non-league club in the 1910s. In 1921, Athletic were effectively evicted from their ground and moved to a local rugby pitch, Elm Field (aka "The Elms"), with the reformed rugby club taking their place at their old ground. The Elms housed a wooden 150-seat stand on one side, with grass banks behind the goals being the only other spectator zones.
The Elms was virtually destroyed during World War II, meaning the club had to move, eventually relocating to Ladysmead. The club's record attendance of 3,000 came in the FA Cup first round, against Leyton Orient on 12 November 1994.
Players
As of 15 July 2019.
Current squad
(captain)
(vice-captain)
Players on loan
from Exeter City
from Exeter City
from Exeter City
Management and coaching staff
Joint Managers: Martyn Rogers, Scott Rogers
Assistant Manager: Colin Nation
Physio: Mathew Thresher
Club Doctor: Dr Gavin Haig
Club officials
Chairman: Peter Buxton
Vice-Chairman: Wally Burke
President: Dr Gavin Haig
Directors: Dave Graham, Mike Bargery, John Clarkson, Pete Buxton, Ian Moorcroft, Dave Wright, Jeremy Smith
Club Secretary: John Smith
Football Secretary: Ramsay Findlay
Treasurer: Kimm Smith
Commercial Manager: Jamie Gibson
Head Groundsman: Gordon Curtis
Assistant Groundsmen: Mike Hawkins, Brian Whiting
Programme Editors: Simon Ellis, Jay Richardson
Press Officer: Jay Richardson
Kit Man: Jay Richardson
Honours
FA Vase
Winners 1998, 1999
Runners-up 1993
Southern League
South & West Division One Play-Off Winners 2016–17
League Cup winners 2007
Western League
Champions 1993–94, 1994–95, 1996–97, 1997–98
League Cup winners 1992–93, 1993–94, 1995–96, 1996–97, 1997–98
Amateur Trophy Winners 1977–78, 1978–79
Exeter & District League
Champions 1933–34, 1964–65, 1965–66
North Devon League
Champions 1931–32
East Devon League
Senior Division champions 1924–25, 1925–26, 1926–27, 1927–28
East Devon Senior Cup
Winners 1929, 1936, 1938, 1953, 1961, 1963, 1967
Devon Senior Cup
Winners 1956, 1966
Devon St. Luke's Cup
Winners 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2017
Club records
Highest League Position: 4th in Southern League premier Division 2002–03
F.A Cup best Performance: First round 1990–91, 1991–92, 1994–95, 1997–98, 2001–02, 2002–03, 2004–05
F.A Trophy best Performance: Fifth round 2000–01
F.A. Vase best performance: Winners 1997–98, 1998–99
League victory: 14–1 v University College SW, 11 February 1933
League defeat: 0–10 v Dawlish Town, 27 December 1969
Record attendance: 3,000 v Leyton Orient, 12 November 1994
Top goalscorer: Phil Everett, 378
Former players
Players that have played/managed more than 15 times in the football league or any foreign equivalent to this level (i.e. fully professional league).
Players with full international caps.
Players that hold a club record or have captained the club.
Craig Alcock
Kwame Ampadu
Elliot Benyon
Steve Book
Simon Bryant
Paul Buckle
Sean Canham
Steve Collis
Matt Villis
Chris Curran
Steve Flack
Ben Foster
George Friend
Matthew Hewlett
Scott Hiley
Kevin Hill
Chris Holloway
Chris Vinnicombe
Ian Hutchinson
John Impey
Scott Laird
Ryan Leonard
Sam Malsom
Nicky Marker
Barry McConnell
Kurt Nogan
Phil Walsh
Mark Ovendale
Richard Pears
Graeme Power
Stephen Reed
Jason Rees
Nathan Rudge
Mark Saunders
Danny Seaborne
John Wilkinson
A list of Tiverton Players former and current can be found, including those that do not meet the criteria above here::Category:Tiverton Town F.C. players
References
External links
Official website
Youth Development & Academy
Tivvy Archive
Official Twitter Page
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Category:Tiverton, Devon
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Category:1913 establishments in England
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Khomitsky
Khomitsky () is a Slavic masculine surname; its feminine counterpart is Khomitskaya (). It may refer to:
Sergey Khomitsky (born 1974), Belarusian boxer
Vadim Khomitsky (born 1982), Russian ice hockey defenceman
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Yuka Kanematsu
is a Japanese rugby sevens player. She competed in the 2016 Summer Olympics for the Japanese women's rugby sevens team. She was also part of the squad that won a silver medal at the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea.
References
External links
Japan Player Profile
Category:1982 births
Category:Living people
Category:Olympic rugby sevens players of Japan
Category:Japanese rugby sevens players
Category:Japan international women's rugby sevens players
Category:Rugby sevens players at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Category:Sportspeople from Aichi Prefecture
Category:Asian Games silver medalists for Japan
Category:Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games
Category:Asian Games medalists in rugby union
Category:Rugby union players at the 2014 Asian Games
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Jirau Dam
The Jirau Dam is a rock-fill dam with an asphalt-concrete core, currently under construction on the Madeira River in the state of Rondônia, Brazil. The dam's hydroelectric power stations will have 50 turbines each 75 MW resulting total installed capacity of 3,750 MW. The power plant's first unit was commissioned in September 2013, the 16th in November 2014, 24th in February 2015, the 41st in December 2015, and the last in December 2016. Most of the power is designed to be exported to south-eastern Brazil via the Rio Madeira HVDC system.
The dam is part of a planned four power plant Madeira river hydroelectric complex, which will consist of two dams in Brazil (3,580 MW Santo Antonio Dam at the city of Porto Velho and Jirau), a third on the border of Brazil and Bolivia, and a fourth station inside Bolivia. Two of these, Santo Antonio and Jirau, are currently under construction, while the smaller upstream dams are still in the planning stages. In part due to the 2001–2002 power shortage in Brazil, construction of both dams was accelerated in 2009. The total estimated cost of the two facilities currently under construction is $15.6 billion ($8 billion for Jirau), including about $10 billion for the civil engineering and power plants, and $5 billion for ship locks, transmission lines, and environmental re-mediation. The Madeira river hydroelectric complex is part of the Initiative for the Integration of the Regional Infrastructure of South America, an effort by South American governments to integrate the continent's infrastructure with new investments in transportation, energy, and communication. Construction on the project was temporary halted in March 2011, February 2012 and April 2013 due to worker riots or strikes.
The Brazilian Development Bank approved an additional US$1.6 billion for the project in September 2012. The extra funding will add six more 75 MW bulb turbine-generators to the power station (a total of 50) and pay for transmission lines.
Design
The Jirau Dam is a combination embankment dam with concrete sections for the power stations and spillway. The length of the entire dam is while the embankment section is . The embankment dam is arched, tall and has an asphalt-core. Its structural volume is of which is asphalt. The dam's spillway consists of 21 gates and has a maximum discharge of . The run-of-the-river dam's power station contain 50 x 75 MW bulb turbines for a total installed capacity of 3,750 MW. The reservoir created by the dam has a surface area of of which is the original riverbed. Bulb turbines are a variation of the Kaplan turbine, with the main differences being that bulb turbines are installed horizontally and are generally considered to be slightly more efficient. The power plant is constructed by the French utility GDF Suez SA and Brazilian company Camargo Correa SA.
Impacts
Brazilian law requires water impoundments to undergo a very thorough approval process to ensure that each project meets environmental, social, political, and safety criteria. However, critics of the Jirau and Santo Antonio dam claim that many legal criteria were rubber-stamped before all questions from impacted groups had been addressed. The dam's social impacts received the majority of substantive criticism (see below). However, environmental groups noted that the fast track approval for the Madeira dams sets a dangerous precedent. Brazilian law allows for expedited licensing for eco-friendly projects described by the Worldwatch institute as "kindler, gentler dams with smaller reservoirs, designed to lessen social and environmental impacts." The Worldwatch Institute insists that no project should "fast-track the licensing of new dams in Amazonia and allow projects to circumvent Brazil's tough environmental laws".
Social
The most frequent objection is that the dam builders failed to adequately consult with indigenous peoples, as required by law. The Brazilian government indigenous protection foundation FUNAI predicts that there may be un-contacted indigenous populations in the region that will be affected by the Madeira complex. Most of the affected populations are nearest to the Jirau dam. The threat to uncontacted Indians has motivated both internal and external criticism of GDF Suez, the contractor responsible for building the Jirau dam. A coalition of non governmental organizations called for dam construction to be halted, and questions were raised during annual meeting of GDF Suez.
Moreover, federal prosecutors are suing ESBR (Energia Sustentável do Brasil), the company responsible for the dam, the Brazilian Institute of Environment (IBAMA) and the Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES) for the non-accomplishment of some of the conditions previewed by the environmental license and for the indemnification for losses on the traditional fishers' revenues.
Environmental
Because both the Jirau and Santo Antonio dams are run-of-the-river projects, neither dam impounds a large reservoir. Both dams also feature significant environmental re-mediation efforts. As a consequence, there has not been strong environmental opposition to the implementation of the Madeira river complex. However, critics point out that if the fish ladders fail, "several valuable migratory fish species could suffer near-extinction as a result of the Madeira dams."
Jirau's environmentally friendly design earned the plant registration under the "Clean Development Mechanism" (CDM) program of the United Nations. Jirau is the largest renewable energy plant to earn the CDM, which is awarded to innovative projects that help to solve environmental problems such as climate change.
Labor
Construction on the dam was halted on 18 March 2011 as workers rioted; setting fire to buses and destroying part of the worker housing. Wages and the treatment by security officials was attributed to the rioting. Additional security personal had to be sent to the site and construction was halted. Workers went on strike at Jirau and Santo Antonio in April 2013 after a salary increase proposal was rejected.
Opportunities for Bolivia
Bolivia has been a landlocked country since it lost its coastline to Chile in the war of the pacific in 1884. Many Bolivians feel a deep and lasting bitterness due to this loss, and the Bolivian military continues to build and maintain an open ocean navy in Lake Titicaca, awaiting an eventual recovery of access to the sea. The Madeira river complex presents an opportunity for Bolivia because all of the hydroelectric dams would feature ship locks capable of raising and lowering oceangoing vessels. If the project is completed, "more than 4,000 km of waterways upstream from the dams in Brazil, Bolivia, and Peru would become navigable."
Hence, if the project is completed, both Bolivian commercial vessels and the Bolivian navy would have access to the open ocean, and lucrative sea lanes, for the first time in 120 years.
Killing of an environmental activist
The body of the Brazilian environmental activist Nilce de Souza Magalhães, also known as Nicinha, was found on 21 June 2016 in the hydro-power dam's lake of Jirau. Nicinha, leadership of MAB in Rondônia was missing since 7 January 2016. Her body was found only 400 meters away from where she used to live. Her body was found by the workers of the dam, her hands and feet were tied by a rope and tied to a rock.
She was known in the region for the struggle in defense of the affected populations, denouncing human rights violations committed by the consortium responsible for the Jirau power plant, called Energia Sustentável do Brasil (ESBR). Nicinha was daughter of rubber extractors who came from the Brazilian state of Acre to the city of Abuna (near Porto Velho) in Rondonia, where she lived almost fifty years and was evicted along with other fishers due to the construction of the dam. The encampment where they had lived had no access to clean water or electricity.
Nicinha made several complaints over the years, attending public hearings and events, including, pointed out the serious impacts of predatory fishing activity on the Madeira River. The complaints generated two civil investigations being conducted by the Federal Prosecutor's Office and the State Prosecutor's Office on the non implementation of the Program of Support to Fishing Activity and another of criminal character, because of data manipulation in monitoring reports.
His killer, Edione Pessoa da Silva, who was is prison after confessing to murder Nicinha, escaped from the State Penitentiary "Edvan Mariano Rosendo", located in Porto Velho (RO) on April 2016.
See also
List of power stations in Brazil
Jirau and Santo Antônio: tales of an Amazonian war (video documentary)
References
Category:Dams in Rondônia
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Josh Levi
Joshua Timothy "Josh" Levi (born 14 July 1979) is a professional rugby union player from New Zealand.
Career
Levi attended Auckland Grammar School. He first played rugby union for the Marist under 6's Counties Manukau. He also played in the Manurewa Rugby Union under 19 team winning the under 19's championship in 1998. Levi is a utility backline player, he has played halfback, first five eighths, second five eighths, centre, fullback and wing.
He played for Counties Manukau, Auckland Blues colts (1998–1999), Waikato Chiefs colts (1999), Highlanders Colts (2000-?), Northland Rugby Union (2003–2007), Venezia Mestre Rugby Union Italy club (2006–2009) and Yamaha Jubilo Japan since 2009 where he tends to play second five eighths or centre positions. His father is a pastor of a mission church Providence Presbyterian part of the Grace Presbyterian Church of New Zealand denomination.
References
External links
Player Profile (In Japanese)
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Consolidated Pastoral Company
The Consolidated Pastoral Company (CPC) is a large, privately owned, Australian Agrifood business which operates 20 cattle stations covering over 5.8m hectares, managing more than 370,000 cattle, in Western Australia, the Northern Territory and Queensland. Its direct sales channels primarily involve selling cattle and beef to Asian consumer markets, domestic feedlots or processors, and exporting live cattle.
History
CPC was formed in 1983 with the purchase of various holdings in the Northern Territory, including Newcastle Waters Station, from Ashburton Pastoral Company. The Company acquired Isis Downs Station in 1987 at which time the property occupied an area of for an estimated 10 million. The Company acquired Nockatunga Station in 1990.
Consolidated placed Isis Downs on the market in 2003 following a decision by Kerry Packer to focus on beef cattle and meat processing operations. At the time the was stocked with 80,000 merino sheep and 10,000 mixed cattle and was offered for an estimated 20 million. The sale was not successful and in 2004 the company decided to remove all sheep from the property and introduced cattle instead.
In April 2009 a majority share in CPC was acquired by private equity firm Terra Firma.
Keith Warren resigned as Chief Executive Officer of the company in 2014 citing family reasons after less than one year in the position. Troy Setter took over after joining the company only four months earlier from Australian Agricultural Company.
The company acquired Bunda Station, adjacent to Kirkimbie, in the Victoria River District in the Northern Territory for approximately 15 million in 2014. The property had been passed in at auction two years earlier for 10 million.
Cattle stations
Allawah, Queensland
Argyle Downs, Western Australia
Auvergne, Northern Territory
Bunda, Northern Territory
Carlton Hill, Western Australia
Comely, Queensland
Cooinda, Queensland
Humbert River, Northern Territory
Isis Downs, Queensland
Gowan, Queensland
Kirkimbie, Northern Territory
Manbulloo, Northern Territory
Mimong, Queensland
Mt Marlow, Queensland
Newcastle Waters, Northern Territory
Dungowan, Northern Territory
Ucharonidge, Northern Territory
Newry, Northern Territory
Nockatunga, Queensland
Wrotham Park, Queensland
References
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Perth Amboy Refinery
The Perth Amboy Refinery is a refinery built in 1920. It is between Convery Boulevard and State Street in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, adjacent to the Outerbridge Crossing. Via rail it is served by Conrail's Chemical Coast and the former Perth Amboy and Woodbridge lines. Oil tankers and lighter can reach the refinery along the Arthur Kill.
History
The refinery opened in 1920.
Chevron Corporation acquired the Perth Amboy Refinery in 1945.
In 1983 the refinery stopped production of gasoline and heating oil and concentrated on asphalt refining.
A spill occurred in 2006 that resulted in approximately 31,000 gallons of oil released. Approximately 119,448 gallons of oil-water mixture were recovered and stored. Approximately 477,234 pounds of oil absorbents and other contaminated solids were removed during the cleanup.
At the end of 2008 the refinery had an asphalt refining capacity of .
In 2012 the refinery was sold to Buckeye Partners for $260 million. Buckeye planned to again produce multiple petroleum products at the site.
References
External links
Category:Oil refineries in the United States
Category:Energy infrastructure in New Jersey
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Pima hardyhead
The Pima hardyhead (Craterocephalus pimatuae) is a species of silverside in the family Atherinidae which is endemic to Papua New Guinea. This species was described in 1991 by Walter Ivantsoff, Lucy Crowley and Gerald R. Allen with the type locality given as the junction of Pima and Tua rivers. It has not been recorded since the collection of the types.
References
Category:Craterocephalus
Category:Freshwater fish of Papua New Guinea
Category:Fish described in 1991
Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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Little Fish (2005 film)
Little Fish is a 2005 Australian film directed by Rowan Woods and written by Jacquelin Perske. It was filmed in and around Sydney, in Cabramatta and in Fairfield. The film was developed and produced by Vincent Sheehan and Liz Watts of Porchlight Films, with Cate Blanchett and her husband Andrew Upton's production company Dirty Films receiving an Associate Producer credit.
Little Fish was released on 8 September 2005 in Australia. It received positive reviews from critics.
Plot
Little Fish is about Tracy Heart (Cate Blanchett), a former heroin addict who is desperately trying to escape her past and achieve her goals and dreams. Tracy lives with her mother (Noni Hazlehurst) and brother in the Little Saigon area (Cabramatta) in Sydney, where heroin is readily available.
She is in need of money to become a partner in the video store that she works in, but her loan applications are repeatedly rejected by finance providers, as a result of her past criminal record, poor repayments of credit card debt, history of drug use and lack of collateral. Tracy lies to both her mother and her boss at the video store, pretending she has received the loan. This is one of the recurring themes of the movie, the casual ways people lie to each other for convenience.
Tracy is trying to help her drug addicted stepfather and former NRL star Lionel (Hugo Weaving) to kick his heroin addiction.
After a four-year absence in Vancouver, her former boyfriend Jonny Nguyen (Dustin Nguyen), also a former heroin addict, has come back into her life. Jonny, who now dresses in business suits, claims to have employment as a stockbroker at a large firm and suggests he may be able to obtain the money
Tracy desires through share trading. The romance between Tracy and Jonny is rekindled.
Upon visiting Jonny's alleged workplace, Tracy discovers Jonny has lied to her and is not in fact employed as a stockbroker. Jonny has become involved in a drug deal with her brother Ray, and Tracy also chooses to become involved in the deal as she sees this as the only means of providing the finance she needs to become a partner in the video store.
Tracy, Ray and Jonny set out to execute the deal, which ends in tragedy. Tracy's courage and deep love for those she cares about are notable in the climactic scenes of the film.
Cast
Cate Blanchett as Tracy Louise Heart
Hugo Weaving as Lionel Dawson
Sam Neill as Brad "The Jockey" Thompson
Martin Henderson as Ray Heart
Noni Hazlehurst as Janelle Heart
Dustin Nguyen as Jonny Nguyen
Joel Tobeck as Steven Moss
Lisa McCune as Laura
Susie Porter as Jenny Moss
Frannie Cutrupi as the Local Girl
Release
Reception
Little Fish received positive reviews from critics. The film has an 89% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 27 reviews. Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 77 (out of 100), based on 9 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Critics admired the film for its screenplay and the actors' performances. The critic Liz Braun said "Little Fish has beautifully understated performances and a script that emphasizes the mundane and the manipulative in the addict's world." Owen Gleiberman from Entertainment Weekly praised it mostly for its acting performances, saying "The actors are terrific, especially Weaving, who plays bottoming out as a tragedy spiked with gallows humor, and Blanchett, who digs deep into the booby-trapped nature of recovery. The revelation, however, is Rowan Woods, a major filmmaker in the making."
Awards
The film was nominated for 13 Australian Film Institute Awards in 2005, and won five awards including Best Actor (Hugo Weaving), Best Actress (Cate Blanchett), Best Supporting Actress (Noni Hazlehurst), and Best Editing. It also won several Inside Film Awards, including Best Actress (Cate Blanchett) and Best Actor (Hugo Weaving).
Box office
Little Fish grossed $2,719,751 at the box office in Australia.
Home media
Little Fish was released on DVD apart of the Dendy Collection by Icon Entertainment. A Blu-ray edition was released in August 2010.
Soundtrack
Cover versions of the Cold Chisel song "Flame Trees" appear more than once during the film and on the soundtrack. One version is sung by The Sacred Heart School Choir from Cabramatta, New South Wales, the other by singer Sarah Blasko. The soundtrack also features original songs composed by Nathan Larson.
Track listing
"Flame Trees" - Sarah Blasko
"Little Fish Theme"
"A Place in the Sun" - Hoodoo Gurus
"Pool Love"
"Con Mua Ha" - Mylinh Dinh
"Half Speed Love"
"Something's Gotten Hold of My Heart" - Bic Runga
"I Can't Score For You"
"Flame Trees" - The Sacred Heart School, Cabramatta
"Little Fish Theme" (Redux)
"Ban Toi" - The Enterprise Band featuring Hoang Son
"Lionel Requiem"
"End Credits"
" Tinh Xot Xa Thoi".... Hong Anh Singer ( Le Quang)
See also
Cinema of Australia
References
External links
Little Fish at the National Film and Sound Archive
Category:Australian films
Category:2005 films
Category:Australian drama films
Category:2000s drama films
Category:English-language films
Category:Vietnamese-language films
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The Unconscious God
The Unconscious God () is a book by Viktor E. Frankl, the Viennese psychiatrist and founder of Logotherapy. The book was the subject of his dissertation for a Ph.D. in philosophy in 1948.
The Unconscious God is an examination of the relation of psychology and religion.
Key ideas
The term "the unconscious God" refers to a "hidden relationship with the hidden God".
In his work, Frankl advocates for the use of the Socratic dialogue or "self-discovery discourse" to be used with clients to get in touch with their "Noetic" (or spiritual) unconscious.
Human religiousness is a deeply individual decision; it cannot be derived from a collective type (as Jung would argue).
In comparing Protestant ministers and parishioners, Frankl contends that a mature involvement with a religious group increases the sense of purpose in life.
Published editions
Frankl's book was originally published as Der Unbewußte Gott by Ehrlich Schmidt in 1943; the English language version was published by Simon & Schuster in 1975 under the title The Unconscious God: Psychotherapy and Theology.
References
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Khizra Rasheed
Khizra Rasheed (born 24 February 1988) is a Pakistani badminton player. She was the bronze medalist at the 2016 South Asian Games in the women's doubles event, and the champion at the 2017 Pakistan International tournament.
Achievements
South Asian Games
Women's doubles
BWF International Challenge/Series
Women's doubles
BWF International Challenge tournament
BWF International Series tournament
BWF Future Series tournament
References
External links
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Bugs Bunny in Double Trouble
Bugs Bunny in Double Trouble is a Looney Tunes video game developed by Atod AB for the Sega Genesis and Game Gear, released in 1996. The game stars Bugs Bunny and features pre-rendered 3D graphics.
Plot
One night, Bugs Bunny is fast asleep in his bed, as he starts to drift off into a dream. In his dream, he sees Yosemite Sam experimenting on a "giant carrot serum", but before he could take action, Sam orders Gossamer to fetch the rabbit's brain for his robot, prompting chase. Bugs soon came across a "Televisor" and is transported to many of his times from older cartoons, in which he must complete several objectives in each level.
After finishing all 4 levels, Bugs Bunny attempts to escape the haunted castle and defeat both Gossamer and Yosemite Sam in the laboratory. He eventually succeeds and exits the castle to escape inside a rocket ship. Bugs soon found himself stranded in outer space after the launch, as he spots a nearby space scooter which he uses to travel across the galaxy and face a new threat: Marvin the Martian and his trusty pet dog K-9. Upon reaching Marvin's home planet, Mars, Bugs comes across some levers and switches them around, foiling Marvin's plans, and upon leaving back to Earth, he tosses the dynamite stick he previously rescued over to Marvin, resulting in the destruction of Mars itself. Eventually, Bugs wakes up back in his bed, only to find a giant carrot sitting right in front of him, much to his shock.
Gameplay
Similarly to 1994's Mickey Mania: The Timeless Adventures of Mickey Mouse, the levels are mainly based on individual Bugs Bunny cartoons from Warner Bros.' Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series, stringing them together by having Bugs trapped in a "Televisor" created by Yosemite Sam as a mad scientist. Seven of the levels are based on the Bugs Bunny cartoons Duck! Rabbit, Duck!, Bully for Bugs, Knighty Knight Bugs, Hare-Abian Nights, Spaced Out Bunny, Mad as a Mars Hare, and Hare-Way to the Stars, while the other level, entitled Haunted Hare, is based on elements of Bewitched Bunny and Hair-Raising Hare. On the Game Gear version, the Bully for Bugs level is altered to instead be named and based on the cartoon Roman Legion-Hare, though similar gameplay is maintained. The Spaced Out Bunny level is absent in the Game Gear version as well.
Each level features objectives, designs, and opposing characters based on the source cartoon(s), though some levels include plot elements, weapons, and obstacles that weren't present in the original cartoons. For example, the Hare-Abian Nights level features a duel with Yosemite Sam over a genie's lamp, and Spaced Out Bunny is essentially a race against Marvin the Martian to Mars. As well, the Duck! Rabbit, Duck! level does not have the snow present in the original cartoon.
Reception
The Genesis version received mediocre reviews. Critics widely praised the bright, colorful graphics and usage of old Warner Bros. cartoons and characters, though some criticized that the controls make navigating certain areas frustrating. However, reviews generally concluded that while the game is competent in most respects, it lacks any major innovation to draw the interest of anyone but hardcore Warner Bros. fans.
GamePro gave the Game Gear version a brief negative review, criticizing the gameplay, music, and particularly the difficult-to-see graphics, commenting that "Signs, enemies, and items are so tiny you'll need a magnifying glass."
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Jordan House (West Des Moines, Iowa)
The Jordan House is an historic building located in West Des Moines, Iowa, United States. It was built by abolitionist James C. Jordan and was a station on the Underground Railroad in Iowa. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1973.
James C. Jordan
Jordan was a cattle farmer from Virginia, although the area is now in West Virginia, who settled in central Iowa in 1846. As a businessman he organized the State Bank of Des Moines and was involved in bringing the railroad to Des Moines. He platted Valley Junction and raised $70,000 to create a railhead there, which was also near his cattle operation. Today the area is the city of West Des Moines. As a civic leader he served on the Polk County Board of Supervisors, and was elected to both the Iowa Senate and the Iowa House of Representatives. While in the state legislature he led the effort to move the state capital from Iowa City to Des Moines. Jordan was married twice. He and his first wife Melinda had six children. After her death, he married Cynthia Adams and the family grew to eleven children.
History
James Jordan's first dwelling in Polk County was a lean-to tent that he replaced with a log cabin in 1848. Two years later construction started on the present house. They moved into the basement when it was completed. It was divided into a kitchen and a bed/sitting room. In 1851 the first phase of the upper floors was completed. The white frame house is two stories tall. The first phase of the house featured an elegant entrance, two large rooms on the first floor and a walnut staircase that led to two large bedrooms on the second floor. The kitchen remained in the basement.
Before the American Civil War the house was a station on the Underground Railroad. Jordan, who was a staunch abolitionist, was considered the chief conductor in Polk County. John Brown stayed in the house at least two times, and one of those times he was leading 12 slaves to freedom. The house was also a place where travelers stopped on their journeys to the American West. It was also a gathering place for local businessmen and politicians.
The house was expanded in 1870. The addition provided space for another parlor, a dining room, library, and kitchen. Porches were added to the east and south sides of the house. A second entrance was also added with another black walnut staircase to the six additional bedrooms on the second floor.
The Jordan family continued to live in the house until 1947 when it was sold to the Church of the Nazarene who used the house as a part of their summer campground. The West Des Moines Historical Society bought the house in 1978. They renovated it as a period house and use it as a museum.
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Lothar Stark
Lothar Stark (1876–1944) was a German film producer. Stark was originally a journalist, but was brought into the film industry by the tycoon Paul Davidson. Stark worked as a distributor and worked then as an independent producer during the Weimar Republic, founding his own company Lothar Stark-Film. Following the Nazi takeover in 1933, he faced increasing difficulties. In 1933 when evidence of his Jewish background was discovered, Stark went into exile in Copenhagen. Later he also went to London. He tried to produce new films there, but was unable to secure funding. Then he returned to Denmark, which was then invaded by Germany in 1940. In 1943 Stark, along with the majority of the Danish Jewish population, managed to escape to Sweden.
Selected filmography
Wrath of the Seas (1926)
The False Prince (1927)
The White Slave (1927)
The City of a Thousand Delights (1927)
The Carousel of Death (1928)
Orient (1928)
Their Son (1929)
Only on the Rhine (1930)
The True Jacob (1931)
The Unfaithful Eckehart (1931)
Scampolo (1932)
The Violet of Potsdamer Platz (1936)
Across the Desert (1936)
References
Bibliography
Weniger, Kay. 'Es wird im Leben dir mehr genommen als gegeben ...' Lexikon der aus Deutschland und Österreich emigrierten Filmschaffenden 1933 bis 1945: Eine Gesamtübersicht. ACABUS Verlag, 2011.
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Jim Pugh
Jim Pugh (born February 5, 1964 in Burbank, California) is a former professional tennis player from the United States. He grew up in Palos Verdes, California and at age 10 began taking tennis lessons from John Hillebrand. He played tennis at UCLA. He became a doubles specialist on the ATP Tour and won three Grand Slam men's doubles titles (two Australian Open, one Wimbledon) and five Grand Slam mixed doubles titles (three Australian Open, one Wimbledon, one US Open). Pugh reached the World No. 1 doubles ranking in 1989.
Career
Pugh was a member of the U.S. team that won the Davis Cup in 1990. Partnering with Rick Leach, he won the doubles rubbers in all four of the rounds which the U.S. played in that year and clinched the team's victory in the final with a win over Pat Cash and John Fitzgerald of Australia. Pugh has a 6–0 career record in Davis Cup play.
Pugh won 27 doubles titles (22 men's doubles and 5 mixed doubles). He also won one top-level singles title at Newport, Rhode Island in 1989, reaching a career-high singles ranking of World No. 37 in 1987. Pugh won his last career doubles title at Los Angeles in 1992.
Pugh was inducted into the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Hall of Fame in 2008.
Career finals
Doubles (22 titles, 15 runners-up)
Doubles performance timeline
A = did not attend tournament
NH = tournament not held
References
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Asymphyla
Asymphyla is a genus of moths belonging to the family Tineidae.
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Darline Nsoki
Darline Nsoki (born November 9, 1989 in Clermont-Ferrand, France) is a French basketball player who plays for club Tarbes of the League feminine de basket, the top league of basketball for women in France.
Career
After a year in Ligue Féminine de Basketball (Women's Basketball League), she returned to Ligue féminine 2 in Toulouse. However, due to a road accident before the start of the championship, her season (6 points and 3.1 rebounds) is truncated, hence the decision to resume in 2013-2014 in Ligue 2 in Strasbourg.
With 11.1 points and 7.6 rebounds in 2014-2015, she extended another season in Alsace.
References
Category:French women's basketball players
Category:1989 births
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Frederick II of Saxony
Frederick II of Saxony may refer to:
Frederick II, Elector of Saxony (1412–1464), Elector of Saxony between 1428 and 1464
Frederick Augustus II of Saxony (1797–1854), king of Saxony between 1836 and 1854
See also
Frederick II (disambiguation)
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Mary Watson
Mary Watson may refer to:
Mary Watson (author) (fl. 2000s), South African author
Mary Watson (folk hero) (1860–1881), Australian folk heroine
Mrs Watson (Mary Morstan), Mary, wife of Dr Watson, Sherlock Holmes character
Mary Jane Watson, Spiderman character
See also
Mary Watson Whitney, astronomer
Mary Gordon-Watson, equestrian
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Amelia S. Givin
Amelia Steele Givin (October 31, 1845 – October 5, 1915) (later Mrs. Amelia S. Beall) was a businesswoman, philanthropist, and world traveler from Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. Although her philanthropic ventures were numerous and spanned her lifetime, Givin's most discernible contribution was her funding of the Amelia S. Givin Free Library in her hometown of Mount Holly Springs, Pennsylvania.
Early life and family
Givin grew up with her family near Mount Holly Springs, Pennsylvania, where her father, Robert Givin, and her uncle owned a paper mill. However, in 1865, when Amelia was about age 20, the Givin's house burned down and they moved to Carlisle, PA. Robert Givin was a respected and prosperous businessman and banker, acting as president of both the Mount Holly Paper Mill and the Farmers' Bank in Carlisle. Besides Amelia, Robert and his wife Sara (Gibson) Givin bore four sons, David, James, Samuel, and Robert. When her father died in 1879, thirty-three-year-old Amelia took over his role in running the family mill business. Less than a decade later in 1887, Amelia's mother died and Amelia inherited from her father's large fortune.
Community involvement
Besides meeting the needs of her business, Givin spent much of her time traveling and participating in social pursuits. She and her family were often mentioned in the Carlisle's local newspaper, and Amelia and her mother were both members of Carlisle's Second Presbyterian Church. After Carlisle's Cumberland County Chapter was organized in 1895, Givin became a member of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
In her later years, Givin frequented the library she had helped to form.
In addition to, and as part of, her social activities, Givin dedicated a significant portion of her life and funds to charitable pursuits. In particular, Givin supported the Carlisle Hospital, the Female Benevolent Society of Carlilse, as well as the Second Presbyterian Church of which she was a member. She included in her will $30,000 for the maintenance of Carlisle Hospital. Givin also left provisions for her household employees and many family members and friends after her death.
Amelia S. Givin Free Library
When Givin was in her late forties, she provided funding for building a free public library in Mount Holly Springs. For members of late 19th-century charitable women's organizations, libraries in particular were seen as important institutions for bringing edification to needful communities. To bring improvement to populations with little access to books, free public libraries, often traveling libraries or other informal libraries, such as those located in women's clubhouses, abounded between 1870 and 1930 through the work of civic-minded women. The library of Ms. Givin was far from informal, however. Begun in 1889 and dedicated on January 2, 1890, it had the modern conveniences of electric lights and hot water heating, as well as a fashionable Romanesque Revival structure and ornate interior design. The library took close to $500,000 to build and Givin also provided an endowment.
Marriage
On June 2, 1892, a few years after the library opened, the 46-year-old Givin married Walter Beall of Cumberland, Maryland. To start off their honeymoon, they rode a special car on the Cumberland Valley Railroad on the first leg of their trip to Europe together. They never had any children. Walter died in 1905 and Amelia close to ten years later at age 69. They were both buried at Ashland Cemetery in Carlisle.
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ASRA
ASRA or Asra may refer to:
Organizations
Aberdeen Schools Rowing Association
Alberta Science and Research Authority
American Show Racer Association
American Sportbike Racing Association
Association for the Study of Reptilia and Amphibia
Auckland Service Rifle Association
Australasian Sound Recording Association
Australian Sport Rotorcraft Association
Legislation
Agricultural Services Reorganization Act
American Sovereignty Restoration Act
Fish
Benthophiloides turcomanus, a species of goby sometimes placed in its own genus Asra
Others
Austrian Sustainability Reporting Awards, ASRA
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Pak Protector
Pak Breeders and Pak Protectors are two developmental stages of fictional life in Larry Niven's Known Space universe. The Pak first appeared in "The Adults," which appeared in Galaxy in 1967; this story was expanded into the novel Protector by Larry Niven (1973). The Pak also appear in several of Niven's later novels, notably those set in the Ringworld.
Destroyer of Worlds depicts a confrontation between the Pak and the Puppeteers.
Narrative purpose
Niven has written that he invented the Protectors as a thought experiment to explain the common effects of aging on humans and to create a fictional evolutionary explanation for humans' long lives after females have passed reproductive age. Accordingly, most of the positive attributes of Protectors are based on negative human aging effects: swollen joints, decreased muscle-fat ratio, weakening heart, invariant diet, decreasing height, facial atrophy, leathery skin, hair loss, lack of sex drive, and tooth loss are all turned to advantage during the shift from Breeder to Protector.
The Pak species
In Protector, we learn that humans are descended from the Pak. Pak Children and Breeders appear in Earth's fossil record as Homo habilis; the few Pak Protectors to make it to Earth apparently are not found in the fossil record.
The Pak species goes through three stages of development: Child, Breeder and Protector.
Pak Child is analogous to a human child: sexually immature and dependent upon adults for survival.
Pak Breeder is analogous to a human adult: sexually mature, self-sufficient (in later writings) and provides immediate care for the children. To the Pak, the Breeder stage, though capable of space travel, is not deemed fully sentient; Breeders, to a large extent, rely on Protectors for long-term survival. Earlier Niven stories describe the breeder as "just intelligent enough to swing a club or throw a stone."
Pak Protector is not analogous to any human form. It is described as a 'fighting machine,' with armor-like skin, super-human strength and super-human intelligence. Niven's stories that focus on the Pak mostly concentrate on the unique Protector-stage.
Niven explained the evolution of the Pak as resulting from high radiation levels on their home world near the core of the galaxy. The high radiation near the star-dense core caused severe mutations that can destabilize the evolutionary process. As a result, the Pak evolved a mechanism to eliminate dangerous mutations from the population. That mechanism is the protector stage.
Protectors are highly sensitive to the smell of their close relatives and "weed out" those that smell wrong, which may indicate a potentially dangerous mutation. This weeding also suppressed positive mutations, essentially halting Pak evolution. Protectors are fully sentient, and are far more intelligent than ordinary humans. This "superior" intelligence, however, serves only a Pak Protector's instincts to protect its bloodline at any costs. The Pak have no drive toward the collection of "abstract knowledge," have no concept of "art," and do not even possess enough of an "artistic impulse" to understand the purpose of making sketches and paintings for reasons not directly useful.
The change from Breeder to Protector is the result of a peramorphic transformation brought about by the plant known as Tree-of-Life. As humans (and all primates) are descended from the Pak, Tree-of-Life can create a Protector-stage human.
Tree-of-Life
Tree-of-Life is the mechanism by which a Breeder becomes a Protector. The term originally is used to refer to a specific plant which, when consumed, triggers the transformation. The term "Tree-of-Life virus" is used to describe the symbiotic virus which actually governs the transition.
Niven took the name Tree-of-Life from the Book of Genesis; specifically to the fruit of the "Tree of Life" that could make Adam and Eve immortal (Genesis 3:22-24), which is quoted as the foreword to the novel Protector, and also mentioned by Brennan within the novel.
Tree-of-Life (the plant) is a bush native to the Pak homeworld. When a Breeder reaches the proper age (early 40s for humans), the smell of the root becomes irresistible; the Breeder gorges on the Tree-of-Life root, infecting itself with the Tree-of-Life virus and transforming into a Protector. The age window for the metamorphosis is relatively narrow (between 42 and 50 Earth years). Tree-of-Life is common on the Pak world, so there is almost no risk of a Breeder living past this window without being exposed to the roots.
The transition from Breeder to Protector involves reconfiguration of the anatomy. Skin thickens, becoming similar to leather armor, strong enough to turn a copper knife. Joints swell until the creature becomes "a parody of the human form done in cantaloupes and coconuts". This increases leverage available to muscles by increasing the force of the moment arm, the result being that a protector can lift ten times its own weight. Genitalia and gonads vanish, and a second two-chambered heart forms in the groin at the fusion of the femoral veins. The arms lengthen. Fingernails turn into retractable claws. Teeth fall out and the lips and gums fuse, the mouth forming a horny beak (flat in protectors transformed from humans, non-flat in protectors transformed from Pak). All the breeder's hair falls out and the head acquires a bony ridge to protect the newly expanded cranium. The expanded skull allows the brain to grow to an enormous size; the resulting mind, even starting from something as "unintelligent" as a chimpanzee, becomes far more intelligent than a typical human. Pak Protectors also acquire an extended lifespan, and can live tens of thousands of Earth years (a common element in Niven's stories).
Once the transformation is complete, a Pak Protector must periodically consume more Tree-of-Life root to maintain the virus in its body. Without the virus, a Protector will weaken and die as its DNA is degraded; the virus supplies replacement DNA.
The Tree-of-Life crop on Earth failed due to there being insufficient thallium oxide in the Earth's soil; the plants grew but didn't support the virus. As a result, the Protectors that led the colony to Earth died of starvation when their store of roots ran out.
Protector behavior
Pak Protectors have an innate need to protect close relatives. When a Pak Protector has no bloodline to protect, it usually stops eating and starves; some childless Protectors can adopt the entire Pak race as their family.
Niven states that Protectors on the crowded Pak homeworld would constantly war against each other to gain advantage for their family and that alliances would last only until one ally sees advantage in betrayal. Human Protectors, and those on the Ringworld, seem to be less warlike and better able to work for the betterment of the entire species (or all of the Ringworld hominids) rather than just their bloodline, though this may simply be a function of how few protectors with families encounter each other.
Protectors typically die from starvation (from lack of will to live, e.g. if the Protector's bloodline has died out) or violence. Although Protectors have a vastly extended lifetime, it is not infinite; during the original half million year journey to Earth some protector colonists did die from old age.
Because of their enormous intelligence and instinctive need to protect their family (or their species, etc.), Protectors are efficient, ruthless and quite amoral. It is observed several times that this intelligence combined with instinct also compels action so completely that Protectors often have little "free will". Niven uses this trait as a plot device several times as characters set up circumstances where Protector characters will react in a specific manner. In Protector, Jack Brennan (a human turned into a Protector) commits genocide by exterminating the Martian race ("Aliens were dangerous, or might be, and Pak were not interested in anything but Pak") and also releases a genetically modified Tree-of-Life virus on the colony world Home, turning everyone middle aged into a Protector (and killing all other humans on the planet) in order to create an army of childless Protectors with which to fight the invading Pak fleet. It is indicated throughout Niven's works that humans (Homo sapiens) that have turned into protectors are far more intelligent than their Pak (Homo habilis) counterparts (in much the way that humans are more intelligent than the primates they evolved from).
Niven explains much of Protector behavior in his Future History, by revealing in Ringworld's Children that the ARM may be run by at least one Protector and that Boosterspice (which dramatically prolongs human lifespan) is derived from Tree-of-Life.
The Pak and Humanity
In Protector, Niven explains that humans (and all of Earth's primates) are descended from a colony of Pak breeders that were stranded on Earth 2.5 million years ago. The protectors that built the colony ship died when their Tree-of-Life crops failed. The original Pak Breeder population (known to us as Homo habilis) bred and mutated wildly, evolving into modern humans as well as all other Earth primates. All Terran primates would transform into the Protector stage if exposed to Tree-of-Life root (or, more accurately, the symbiotic virus it contains).
In The Ringworld Engineers, the characters find evidence that the Ringworld was built by Pak Protectors (confirmed by the statements of a character in Ringworld's Children who claims to be one of the original builders) and populated by Pak breeders. The Pak Protectors dwindled in numbers until they were no longer able to maintain the genetic purity of the breeder forms and the breeders eventually evolved into all the other hominids of the Ringworld that one sees in Larry Niven's novels.
In Destroyer of Worlds (co-written by Niven and Edward M. Lerner), a human world (and the Pierson's Puppeteers of the Fleet of Worlds) confronts a Pak Protector war fleet. The trailing edge of that Pak fleet, carrying the primary Pak Library, also figures prominently in Betrayer of Worlds, by the same authors.
See also
Protector
Ringworld
The Ringworld Engineers
The Ringworld Throne
Ringworld's Children
Man-Kzin Wars XI
Destroyer of Worlds
Betrayer of Worlds
References
External links
Larry Niven Known Space site
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Karia Peak
Karia Peak (, ) is the rounded ice-covered peak rising to 1650 m in the west foothills of Bruce Plateau on Loubet Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica. It has steep and partly ice-free west and south slopes, and surmounts Erskine Glacier to the south and a tributary to that glacier to the west and north.
The peak is named after the ancient town of Karia in Northeastern Bulgaria.
Location
Karia Peak is located at , which is 5.6 km south-southeast of Mount Lyttleton, 10 km southwest of Purmerul Peak and 13.2 km north-northeast of Mount Bain. British mapping in 1976.
Maps
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.
British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 66 64. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1976.
References
Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
Karia Peak. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.
External links
Karia Peak. Copernix satellite image
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Michalis Souyioul
Michail Sougioultzoglou ( ; 1 August 1906 – 16 October 1958), known professionally as Michalis Souyioul ( ) was a prominent Greek composer of light music in the early 20th century.
Biography
He was born in Aydın, in the Ottoman Empire on 1 August 1906. His family were wealthy skinners. They emigrated to Athens in 1920. He was a relative of well-known Greek photographer Nelly's.
He initially worked as a self-employed pianist and later went to Marseille to study music. From 1931, he toured Europe with an Argentinian orchestra.
During the Interwar period and the 1950s, he was extremely prolific, writing over 700 songs in different styles (tango, waltz, serenades, folk, laiko, romances amongst others).
He composed also music for the Greek theatre (45 productions) and for Greek movies (ten films). His compositions were among some of the most popular pieces of the time. He co-worked with some of the most well-known lyricists (such as Alekos Sakellarios) and singers (Sofia Vembo, Nikos Gounaris, Tony Maroudas, Kalouta sisters) of the time.
Souyioul had four children: daughters Maria, Iro and Aliki and son Thanos. Thanos (born 1942) was an actor (who worked alongside famous actress Aliki Vougiouklaki in films such as Maiden's Cheek and Alice in the Navy) and musician in a well-known Greek pop band of the early 1960s, The Juniors. Thanos was killed in a car accident on 10 October 1965, along with fiancée, the manager of The Juniors and the manager's wife.
Souyioul died of a stroke in Athens on 16 October 1958. Many mourners in Athens turned out for his funeral and burial in the First Cemetery of Athens.
References
External links
Μιχάλης Σουγιούλ: λήμμα στην Μεγάλη Μουσική βιβλιοθήκη της Ελλάδος
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Lê Thanh Bình
Lê Thanh Bình (born 8 August 1995) is a Vietnamese footballer who plays as a forward for Thanh Hóa.
International goals
Honours
International
Vietnam U23
Third place : Southeast Asian Games: 2015
External links
Home page VPF
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Category:Living people
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Category:Association football forwards
Category:V.League 1 players
Category:FLC Thanh Hóa F.C. players
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Damien Delaney
Damien Finbarr Delaney (born 20 July 1981) is an Irish former professional footballer who played as a defender.
Delaney began his career at Cork City. He later played for Leicester City, Hull City and Queens Park Rangers before moving to Ipswich Town in 2009. He became a free agent after leaving the club in August 2012. He then signed for Crystal Palace and was a vital player in the centre of defence in their promotion season. He played for the club for six seasons and rejoined former club Cork City on 1 July 2018, after his contract expired. He departed Leeside at the end of the 2018 season and on 3 January 2019 it was announced that he had signed a one year deal with Waterford.
Delaney announced his retirement on Twitter on 4 July 2019.
Early life
Born in Cork, Delaney attended Coláiste Chríost Rí and began his career at local club Avondale United at schoolboy level before moving on to Cork City.
He also played Gaelic football with the Cork minor team. Delaney was a Munster minor football winner with the team in 1999 and shone for his club, St Michael's. He struck 2–2 in an All-Ireland semi-final defeat to Mayo that year, before he committed fully to soccer.
Club career
Leicester City and Hull City
He was brought to England by Peter Taylor at Leicester City, where he made eight FA Premier League appearances. He had spells on loan at Stockport County, Huddersfield Town and Mansfield Town. Whilst at Stockport, he scored his first career goal in a match against Rotherham United. Taylor later made Delaney his first signing for Hull City, on 16 October 2002, for a fee of £50,000.
After a rocky start to his career at Hull, during which time he was tried in midfield and at left-back, Delaney was played regularly at centre back and began to grow in stature and consistency. He was voted Player of the Year in the 2003–04 promotion-winning season, additionally his strike against Rochdale was voted Goal of the Season.
In the 2005–06 season in the Championship, he played mainly at centre back, but also at left-back when two players in that position were injured, and in midfield when the manager felt that more height and solidity were required. This versatility made him a key asset to the Tigers squad.
Delaney was the last Hull City player to score a goal at their old ground Boothferry Park, prior to their move to the KC Stadium.
Queens Park Rangers
On 18 January 2008 Delaney signed for Queens Park Rangers on a three-and-a-half-year contract. On 8 March 2008 Delaney scored his first goal for QPR in a 2–1 away defeat to Sheffield Wednesday.
Ipswich Town
On 2 July 2009, Delaney signed for Ipswich Town on a two-year contract for a fee of £750,000, £250,000 if Ipswich reached the play-offs and an extra £100,000 after he has made 50 appearances for the club. He suffered a freak injury in the following year's pre-season which almost cost him his life. A blood clot in his thigh resulted in him potentially losing a leg but he was rushed to an emergency surgery procedure that resolved the issue. He scored his first goal for the club in the East Anglian derby in November 2010, before being sent off following a straight red card. He left the club by mutual consent in August 2012.
Crystal Palace
On 31 August 2012, following his departure from Ipswich, Delaney signed for Crystal Palace on a short-term contract until January 2013. He scored his first goal for the club in Palace's 4–3 comeback against Burnley on 6 October. Due to Delaney's impressive start to his Palace career, he signed a new contract on 22 November 2012, which expired summer 2014.
He scored his first ever goal in the Premier League in a 3–3 draw against Liverpool, with his initial 25-yard shot deflected slightly into the net by Glen Johnson. Palace were 3–0 down at the time, but Delaney's goal combined with two goals from Dwight Gayle made it 3–3. Delaney was a regular for Palace for their first four seasons back in the Premier League and stayed at the club until the end of the 2017–18 season, making a total of 193 appearances in all competitions, scoring seven goals.
Return to Cork City
After the end of the 2017–18 Premier League season, Cork City announced that Delaney had signed with the club, and returned on 1 July 2018 after his contract with Palace expired and the Irish transfer window opened. He made 14 appearances, scoring one goal, before leaving the club at the end of the season.
Waterford
At the start of 2019, Delaney signed for Waterford for the 2019 season.
International career
On 13 May 2008, Delaney was called up to the Republic of Ireland squad for the first time by the new manager Giovanni Trapattoni. On 4 May 2011, he was called into the Irish squad for the 2011 Nations Cup games against Northern Ireland and Scotland. On 24 May 2011, he started and played the full 90 minutes against Northern Ireland as Ireland beat them 5–0. On 11 October 2013, he made a belated competitive debut in a World Cup qualifier against Germany.
Career statistics
A. The "Other" column constitutes appearances and goals in the Football League play-offs.
Honours
Cork City
League of Ireland Cup: 1998–99
Hull City
Football League Third Division runner-up: 2003–04
Football League One runner-up: 2004–05
Crystal Palace
Football League Championship play-offs: 2013
FA Cup runner-up: 2015–16
Republic of Ireland
Nations Cup: 2011
References
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Mestawet Ethiopian Newspaper
Mestawet Ethiopian Newspaper is one of the monthly magazines for the Ethiopian immigrant community in the United States. It started with 150 copies on April 1, 2001 in the Twin Cities and now distributes 80,000 copies it to audiences nationwide. Cities the newspaper can be found are Los Angeles, Seattle, Washington DC, Dallas, Denver, Atlanta, Columbus, South Dakota, Minneapolis & Saint Paul and Portland.
The Editor in Chief of the newspaper is Moges Kebede.
The newspaper is primary language is in the Amharic language, the official language of Ethiopia.
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1940 Washington Huskies football team
The 1940 Washington Huskies football team was an American football team that represented the University of Washington during the 1940 college football season. In its 11th season under head coach Jimmy Phelan, the team compiled a 7–2 record, finished in second place in the Pacific Coast Conference, was ranked #10 in the final AP Poll, and outscored its opponents by a combined total of 169 to 54. The Huskies' only two losses came to Minnesota and Stanford teams that were ranked #1 and #2, respectively, in the final AP Poll. Bill Marx was the team captain.
Schedule
NFL Draft selections
Three University of Washington Huskies were selected in the 1941 NFL Draft, which lasted 22 rounds with 204 selections.
References
Washington Huskies
Category:Washington Huskies football seasons
Washington Huskies football team
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Valiante
Valiante is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Joseph Valiante, known as Joe Val, (1926–1985), American bluegrass musician
Michael Valiante (born 1979), Canadian racing driver
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Pyrausta pilatealis
Pyrausta pilatealis is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by William Barnes and James Halliday McDunnough in 1914. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from California and eastern Washington.
The wingspan is about 20 mm. The forewings are grayish white, slightly sprinkled with brown scales. The hindwings are pale smoky, darker along the outer border. Adults have been recorded on wing from April to July and in September.
References
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pilatealis
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Anthony Storr
Anthony Storr (18 May 1920 – 17 March 2001) was an English psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and author.
Background and education
Born in London, Storr was educated at Winchester College, Christ's College, Cambridge, and Westminster Hospital. He was in the first cohort of medics to train in Jungian analysis at the Society of Analytical Psychology in London.
Oxford
In 1974, Storr moved from private practice to a teaching appointment at the Warneford Hospital in Oxford, until his retirement in 1984.
Personal
Storr was, as one of his obituarists observed, "no stranger to suffering". He married twice, to Catherine Cole (who became a children's writer under her married name) in 1942 and writer Catherine Peters in 1970 after the first marriage ended in divorce.
Distinctions
Emeritus Fellow of Green College (1984)
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (1990)
Honorary FRCPsych (1993)
Publications
The Integrity of the Personality (1961)
Human Aggression (1968)
Sexual Deviation (1970)
Jung (1973)
The Essential Jung (1983)
The School of Genius (1988)
Solitude: A Return to the Self (1988) — paperback retitling of The School of Genius
Freud: A Very Short Introduction (1989)
Art of Psychotherapy (1990)
Churchill's Black Dog, Kafka's Mice, and Other Phenomena of the Human Mind (1990)
Music and the Mind (1993)
The Dynamics of Creation (1993)
Feet of Clay; Saints, Sinners, and Madmen: A Study of Gurus (1996)
The Essential Jung: Selected Writings (1999)
See also
Mental health of Jesus
Richard Webster
Sadism and masochism in fiction
Sexual abuse by yoga gurus
The Assault on Truth
References
Further reading
Obituary, The Times, 20 March 2001.
External links
Obituary, Psychiatric Bulletin.
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Donji Meljani
Donji Meljani is a village in Croatia. It is connected by the D2 highway.
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Richard Adelbert Lipsius
Richard Adelbert Lipsius (February 14, 1830 in Gera, Thuringia – August 19, 1892 in Jena, Thuringia) was a distinguished German Protestant theologian.
Biography
Richard Adelbert Lipsius was the son of K. H. A. Lipsius (d. 1861), who was rector of the school of St. Thomas at Leipzig, was born at Gera on the 14 February 1830. He studied at Leipzig, and eventually (1871) settled at Jena as professor ordinaries. He helped to found the "Evangelical Protestant Missionary Union" and the "Evangelical Alliance", and from 1874 took an active part in their management. He died at Jena on 19 August 1892.
Works
Lipsius wrote principally on dogmatics and the history of early Christianity from a liberal and critical standpoint. A Neo-Kantian, he was to some extent an opponent of Albrecht Ritschl, demanding
This, in part, is Lipsius's attitude in Philosophie und Religion (1885). In his Lehrbuch der evangelisch-protestantischen Dogmatik (1876; 3rd ed., 1893) he deals in detail with the doctrines of "God", "Christ", "Justification" and the "Church".
Herausgeber:
From 1875 Lipsius assisted Karl August von Hase (1800-1890), Otto Pfleiderer (1839-1908) and Eberhard Schrader (1836-1908) in editing Jahrbücher für protestantische Theologie, and from 1885 until 1891 he edited the Theologische Jahresbericht.
His other works include:
Die Pilatusakten (1871, new ed., 1886)
Dogmatische Beiträge (1878)
Die Quellen der ältesten Ketzergeschichte (1875)
Zur Quellenkritik des Epiphanios. Wien, Braumueller, (1865)
Die apokryphen Apostelgeschichten (1883-1890)
Hauptpunkte der christl. Glaubenslehre im Umriss dargestellt (1889)
and commentaries on the Epistles to the Galatians, Romans and Philippians in H.J. Holtzmann's Handkommentar zum Neuen Testament (1891-1892)
Notes
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Further reading
External links
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Manzelabad
Manzelabad () may refer to:
Manzelabad, Ardabil
Manzelabad, Kerman
Manzelabad, Razavi Khorasan
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Insurance Hall of Fame
The Insurance Hall of Fame, occasionally referred to as the International Insurance Hall of Fame, honors exceptional members of the insurance field. It was created in 1957 and is administered by the global nonprofit International Insurance Society (IIS), which was founded in 1965 and is based in New York City.
The Insurance Hall of Fame's museum and portrait gallery at the University of Alabama houses a collection of portraits and memorabilia of the laureates. A multimedia collection of laureate portraits, videos, and biographies are also housed in a gallery at St. John's University in New York City.
To qualify for inclusion in the Insurance Hall of Fame, nominees must be adjudged to have made a lasting contribution to the insurance industry. They also may have shown creative thinking and imaginative actions – starting trends, discovering new products or methods, or uncovering and resolving problems.
Each year a selection of candidates deemed to fulfill the Insurance Hall of Fame awards criteria is nominated by the Honors Committee of the International Insurance Society. The nominees are then voted on by the IIS membership through a secret ballot certified by an independent public accounting firm. The International Insurance Society may also elect an individual posthumously.
History
The Insurance Hall of Fame was conceived and organized in 1957 by John S. Bickley, who was then professor of insurance at Ohio State University. It was sponsored by the Griffith Foundation for Insurance Education, which had its headquarters on the OSU campus. The Griffith Foundation for Insurance Education is a nonprofit educational corporation founded in 1947 at Ohio State University in memory of a young Columbus, Ohio insurance agent, Charles W. Griffith, who was killed in World War II; the foundation was affiliated with OSU until 1992.
Bickley, who continued to spearhead the Insurance Hall of Fame as its Chairman, later moved to the University of Texas, and then to the University of Alabama, where he had started his academic career.
In 1965 the Insurance Hall of Fame became international, appointing electors from 32 countries and voting on candidates from anywhere in the world. That year Bickley founded the International Insurance Society (IIS), based in New York City, as a forum where people involved in insurance could share their ideas and interests. The IIS encourages networking, academic pursuits, and education; it sponsors annual meetings, and funds research projects and awards. A committee of insurance industry leaders at IIS annually elects the inductees to the Insurance Hall of Fame – those who have made notable contributions to the insurance industry worldwide. As of 2019 the IIS includes electors from over 90 countries.
In 1987 the Insurance Hall of Fame's museum and portrait gallery moved to the University of Alabama, where Bickley taught. Space at the New York City-based International Insurance Society is too limited to display any but the current year's inductees. By 2010 the museum in Alabama had drawn over 250,000 visitors. The facility includes a portrait gallery of inductees through the years, a museum of insurance, and a lecture hall.
In 2003 an additional gallery was opened at St. John's University in New York City, which hosts a multimedia collection of laureate portraits, videos, and biographies. In 2004 the Insurance Hall of Fame launched its website, with lists and profiles of all inductees since its inception.
Nominees for the Insurance Hall of Fame are submitted by the IIS membership and evaluated for selection by the IIS Honors Committee, a body of senior insurance executives and academics. The nominees are then voted on by the IIS membership by secret ballot, which is tabulated and conducted by an independent auditing firm.
Insurance Hall of Fame laureates
Data is from Insurance Hall of Fame Laureates by Year of Induction.
1950s
1957
Elizur Wright - USA
Solomon S. Huebner - USA
Benjamin Franklin - USA
1958
Charles Evans Hughes - USA
Ralph H. Blanchard - USA
1959
Frederick H. Ecker - USA
Albert F. Dean - USA
1960s
1960
M. Albert Linton - USA
John A. Diemand, Sr. - USA
1961
Clarence Arthur Kulp - USA
Louis I. Dublin - USA
1962
John Marshall Holcombe, Jr. - USA
Alfred M. Best - USA
1963
Julian S. Myrick - USA
Sheppard Homans - USA
1964
William Leslie, Sr. - USA
1965
Ernst Froelich - Switzerland
Haley Fiske - USA
James Dodson - United Kingdom
Johan DeWitt - Netherlands
James G. Batterson - USA
Nicholas Barbon - United Kingdom
1966
Alfred Manes - Germany
Holgar J. Johnson - USA
Cuthbert Eden Heath - United Kingdom
1967
William David Winter - USA
Georges Tattevin - France
Edmond Halley - United Kingdom
Alfred N. Guertin - USA
Leighton Foster - Canada
1968
Arthur Hunter - USA
Joseph Arnould - India
Zachariah Allen - USA
1969
Charles J. Zimmerman - USA
Harry J. Loman - USA
Max E. Eisenring - Switzerland
1970s
1970
Tsuneta Yano - Japan
James Scott Kemper, Sr. - USA
Kenkichi Kagami - Japan
Hendon Chubb - USA
John Julius Angerstein - United Kingdom
1971
John F. Dryden - USA
Paul F. Clark - USA
Alios Alzheimer - Germany
1972
David McCahan - USA
Walter Arnold Dinsdale - United Kingdom
1973
Maurice Picard - France
Albert Henry Mowbray - USA
1974
Richard Price - United Kingdom
Cecil Edward Golding - United Kingdom
Harald Cramer - Sweden
Eugenio Artom - Italy
1975
Cornelius V. Starr - USA
Murray D. Lincoln - USA
J. Roger Hull - USA
Jacques Basyn - Belgium
1976
Otto von Bismarck - Germany
Edwin W. Patterson - USA
Gen Hirose - Japan
1978
Taizo Abe - Japan
1979
Herbert W. Heinrich - USA
Henry S. Beers - USA
1980s
1980
Joseph B. Maclean - USA
Andre Besson - France
1981
Antigono Donati - Italy
1982
Haruo Murase - Japan
1983
Ikunoshin Kadono - Japan
1984
B. K. Shah - India
Benjamin Rush - USA
1985
S. Bruce Black - USA
1986
Robert E. Dineen - USA
Jean-Baptiste Colbert - France
1987
Victor Dover - United Kingdom
Jorge Bande - Chile
1988
Alex Möller - Germany
John S. Bickley - USA
Robert A. Beck - USA
1989
Edwin S. Overman - USA
Maurice R. Greenberg - USA
1990s
1990
Douglas A. Barlow - Canada
1991
Alfred H. Pollard - Australia
Horst K. Jannott - Germany
1992
John E. Fisher - USA
1993
C. Arthur Williams - USA
Kenneth Black - USA
1994
Davis W. Gregg - USA
1995
Ronald M. Hubbs - USA
Willem de Wit - Netherlands
1996
Yong Ho Shin - South Korea
Robert F. McDermott - USA
1997
Alfonso Yuchengco - Philippines
Saburo Kawai - Japan
1998
Thomas Bassett Macaulay - Canada
Jose Maria De Delas Y Miralles - Spain
Hans Buhlmann - Switzerland
1999
George J. Mecherle - USA
Edwin A. G. Manton - USA
Claude Bebear - France
2000s
2000
Jose Pinera - Chile
Hans Gerling - Germany
2001
Josei Itoh - Japan
Leo Goodwin, Sr. - USA
James C. H. Anderson - USA
2002
Lutgart Van den Berghe - Belgium
Aad Jacobs - Netherlands
Edison L. Bowers - USA
2003
Edmund Tse - Hong Kong
Clemente Cabello P. - Mexico
2004
Kees J. Storm - Netherlands
Takeo Inokuchi - Japan
Per M. Hansson - Norway
2005
William Meredith - Canada
Walter Kielholz - Switzerland
Ignacio Hernando de Larramendi - Spain
2006
Siegfried Sellitsch - Austria
Orio Giarini - Italy
2007
Frederic Reiss - Bermuda
José Manuel Martínez - Spain
Robert Clements - USA
2008
Patrick G. Ryan - USA
Professor G. S. Diwan - India
Dominic D'Alessandro - Canada
2009
Sir David Rowland - United Kingdom
Jack Byrne - USA
2010s
2010
Frank O'Halloran - Australia
William C. Greenough - USA
2011
Brian Duperreault - USA
Guy Carpenter - USA
2012
Ikuo Uno - Japan
Manuel Povoas - Brazil
2013
Robert Benmosche - USA
2014
Robert Kiln - United Kingdom
Denis Kessler - France
2015
Stephen Catlin - United Kingdom
2016
Donald Kramer - USA
2017
Nikolaus von Bomhard - Germany
2018
Shuzo Sumi - Japan
2019
Michael A. Butt - Bermuda
References
External links
Official website
Insurance Hall of Fame at Vimeo
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List of 1995 Seattle Mariners draft picks
The following is a list of 1995 Seattle Mariners draft picks. The Mariners took part in the June regular draft, also known as the Rule 4 draft. The Mariners made 77 selections in the 1995 draft, the first being outfielder José Cruz, Jr. in the first round. In all, the Mariners selected 37 pitchers, 20 outfielders, 8 catchers, 6 shortstops, 3 first basemen, 2 third basemen, and 1 second baseman.
Draft
Key
Table
References
General references
Inline citations
External links
Seattle Mariners official website
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Disco interacting protein 2 homolog c
Disco interacting protein 2 homolog C is a protein that in humans is encoded by the DIP2C gene.
Function
This gene encodes a member of the disco-interacting protein homolog 2 family. The protein shares strong similarity with a Drosophila protein which interacts with the transcription factor disco and is expressed in the nervous system. [provided by RefSeq, Oct 2008].
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Oregon Route 138
Oregon Route 138 is an Oregon state highway that runs between the city of Elkton and a junction with U.S. Route 97 at Diamond Lake Junction. The highway has several distinct stretches, and is the main east–west highway through Roseburg, and provides access to Crater Lake National Park from the north. The highway is signed east–west.
Route description
Elkton-Sutherlin Highway
Oregon Route 138 begins (at its western terminus) at a junction with Oregon Route 38 in Elkton. It heads due south from there, running alongside the Umpqua River. Approximately south of Elkton, the highway departs from the river, and heads east-southeast until it reaches the city of Sutherlin. This section is the Elkton-Sutherlin Highway No. 231 (see Oregon highways and routes). In Sutherlin, OR 138 intersects with Interstate 5, and joins it, heading south. OR 138 and I-5 remain joined until the city of Roseburg. This section is part of the Pacific Highway No. 1. OR 138 exits from I-5 at Harvard Avenue, and heads east into downtown Roseburg. The downtown Roseburg section comprises part of Harvard, Oak, and Washington Avenues, and then part of the Oakland-Shady Highway, which is no longer a state highway.
North Umpqua Highway
OR 138 leaves Roseburg on the North Umpqua Highway No. 138 as it follows the Umpqua River's north fork. It heads due east out of Roseburg, ascending into the Cascade mountains, and turning northeast. Eventually, the highway turns south and reaches Diamond Lake, passing by the lake to the east. Just south of there is an intersection with Oregon Route 230, which bypass Crater Lake National Park to the west. South of there lies the north entrance to the park. OR 138 continues east from the entrance, descending into Central Oregon, and terminates at an intersection with U.S. Route 97 at Diamond Lake Junction, south of the town of Chemult.
The portion of the highway between Roseburg and Diamond Lake is part of the Rogue-Umpqua Scenic Byway. The portion between former Route 209 and US 97 is part of the Volcanic Legacy Scenic Byway.
Intersections with other highways
Oregon Route 38, in Elkton
Interstate 5 between Sutherlin and Roseburg
Oregon Route 99 in Roseburg
Oregon Route 230 south of Diamond Lake
U.S. Route 97 at Diamond Lake Junction
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In Angel City
In Angel City is an album by the American jazz bassist Charlie Haden's Quartet West recorded in 1988 and released on the Verve label.
Reception
The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4 stars, stating, "An excellent showcase for Haden in a straight-ahead setting and for Watts, whose passionate sound perfectly fits the band. Highly recommended".
Track listing
All compositions by Charlie Haden except as indicated
"Sunday at the Hillcrest" - 6:21
"First Song" - 6:57
"The Red Wind" (Pat Metheny) - 4:55
"Blue in Green" (Miles Davis, Bill Evans) - 7:16
"Alpha" (Ornette Coleman) - 6:27
"Live Your Dreams" (Ernie Watts) - 6:32
"Child's Play" - 3:06
"Fortune's Fame" (Vince Mendoza) - 8:09
"Tarantella" (Alan Broadbent) - 3:15 Bonus track on CD
"Lonely Woman" (Coleman) - 13:41 Bonus track on CD
Recorded at Producers 1 & 2 in Los Angeles, California on May 30-June 1, 1988
Personnel
Charlie Haden – bass
Ernie Watts - tenor saxophone, shaker, synthesizer
Alan Broadbent - piano
Larance Marable - drums
Alex Cline - drums, percussion (track 3)
References
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Saitek
Saitek is a designer and manufacturer of consumer electronics founded in 1979 by Swiss technologist Eric Winkler. They are best known for their PC gaming controllers, mice, keyboards, and their numerous analogue flight controllers such as joysticks, throttles, and rudder pedals.
History
Saitek (originally called SciSys until 1987) was founded in 1979 by Swiss technologist Eric Winkler as a manufacturer of electronic chess games. By the 1990s the company had distribution and design offices in the United States, Germany, France and the United Kingdom, as well as a factory in China. In 1994, Saitek acquired Hegner & Glaser's successful Mephisto line of chess computers. Saitek diversified into PC peripherals, focusing on game controllers for flight simulation, driving and first-person gaming. Saitek has also expanded into PC peripherals, with an emphasis on input, connectivity and multimedia. In 2005, Saitek launched a high fidelity audio product line for PC & iPod.
On November 14, 2007, Mad Catz announced that they had purchased Saitek for $30 million.
On September 15, 2016, Logitech announced that they had purchased the Saitek brand and assets from Mad Catz for $13 million in cash.
Products
Pro Flight Controllers
Pro Flight Yoke System
Pro Flight Throttle Quadrant
TPM System
Pro Flight Panels
Pro Flight Backlit Information Panel
Pro Flight Multi Panel
Pro Flight Radio Panel
Pro Flight Switch Panel
Pro Flight Instrument Panel
Pro Flight Sticks
X-56 Rhino H.O.T.A.S. System (2016)
X-55 Rhino H.O.T.A.S. System (2014)
X-65F Flight Combat Control System (2008)
X52 Pro Flight Control System (2007)
X52 Flight Control System (2005)
X45 Digital Joystick and Throttle (2001)
X36 Flight Control System (1999), consisting of the X36F Control stick and X35T throttle
Flight Sticks
Aviator for PS3, Xbox 360 and PC
Cyborg F.L.Y.9 Wireless Flight Stick for Xbox 360/PS3
Cyborg F.L.Y 5 Flight Stick for PC
Cyborg 2000 Flight Stick for PC
Cyborg Evo Flight Stick for PC (2003)
ST290 Flight Stick for PC
Pro Flight Rudder Pedals
Pro Flight Rudder Pedals
Pro Flight Combat Rudder Pedals
Accessories
Pro Flight Headset
Cessna Controllers
Pro Flight Cessna Yoke System
Pro Flight Cessna Trim Wheel
Pro Flight Cessna Rudder Pedals
Farming Equipment
Heavy Equipment Bundle for PC
Heavy Equipment Side Panel for PC
References
External links
Saitek
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Răzvan Lucescu
Răzvan Lucescu (; born 17 February 1969) is a Romanian professional football coach and former player who is the manager of Saudi Arabian club Al-Hilal.
Playing career
Born in Bucharest, Lucescu made 240 appearances in the Divizia A for Sportul Studențesc, Național București, Brașov, Rapid București and FCM Bacău.
Coaching career
Brașov
He began his coaching career with FC Braşov in the 2003–04 season spanning 15 matches in the first league.
Rapid București
In June 2004, he was named coach of Rapid București. In his first season, he qualified for the UEFA Cup, finishing third in the domestic league.
In the 2005–06 season, he had a dramatic start of the season, being dismissed for one night, before the owner of the club, George Copos, decided to take him back. Lucescu and his side managed to defeat teams such as Feyenoord Rotterdam, Shakhtar Donetsk (his father's team), Hertha Berlin and Hamburger SV, reaching to the quarter-finals of the UEFA Cup. Rapid was taken out by city rivals Steaua Bucharest after two draws. In the league, he finished as runners-up, after being sixth at the half of the season.
The 2006–07 season was not as good. Rapid got eliminated from the UEFA Cup group stages after 4 draws, finishing fourth.
However, in 2007 Lucescu decided not to continue with Rapid, after a fallout with some of the supporters and several disagreements with the club owner. He opted to return to Braşov.
Răzvan won the Romanian Cup with Rapid in 2006 and 2007, both leading Rapid into the UEFA Cup.
Return to Brașov
Lucescu decided to start all over and, instead of accepting to manage bigger clubs from abroad, he decided to coach FC Braşov, who relegated two years before and finished 10th in the last season of the second division. He didn't disappoint and won promotion from the first place. Bringing Braşov back in the first league.
Romania national team
On 29 April 2009, he was appointed head coach and general manager of Romania, leaving Braşov after a ninth-place finish in the first division and replacing Victor Piţurcă in this position. After two years in control he gave up the national team, following the 3–0 victory over Bosnia and Herzegovina, leaving it with chances of qualifying to the UEFA Euro 2012.
Return to Rapid București
In June 2011, Lucescu returned to Rapid București for a second spell as coach. Lucescu's Rapid side defeated Polish champions Śląsk Wrocław 4–2 on aggregate in the play-off round to qualify for the UEFA Europa League group stage. The club finished fourth in Liga I and reached the finals of the 2011–12 Romanian Cup.
El Jaish
On 31 May 2012, he was appointed at the helm of Qatari side El Jaish on a two-year deal. In his first season in charge Lucescu won the 2012–13 Qatari Stars Cup and led his side into the knockout stages of the AFC Champions League. His contract with El Jaish was terminated in January 2014 and he was replaced by coach Nabil Maâloul who led the club to the runner-up spot in the Qatar Stars League.
Petrolul Ploiești
In March 2014, he was named the head coach of Liga I side Petrolul Ploiești replacing Cosmin Contra. He was sacked six months later, Petrolul finished third in the domestic league and were knocked out in the semi-finals by Astra Giurgiu in the Romanian Cup and also eliminated in the play-offs of the Europa League.
Xanthi
On 24 September 2014, Lucescu signed a one-year contract with Greek Super League club Skoda Xanthi. He guided them to their first Greek Cup final in their history. Lucescu went on to extend his contract with the Akrites for a further two seasons.
PAOK
On 11 August 2017, Lucescu would return to the benches of Superleague Greece as he signed a three year contract with PAOK. His tenure at the club started against Ostersund for the play-off round of 2017–18 UEFA Europa League. PAOK went to win the first leg in Thessaloniki, 3–1, but a 0–2 defeat in Sweden in the second leg eliminated them from the competition, as they failed to reach the Europa League group stages for the first time in 5 years. At the home front, PAOK had a turbulent season, as they found themselves fighting for the league title with real chances. However, the derbies came to disastrous outcomes, with PAOK losing to Olympiacos due to an awarded 3–0 win, as the match was suspended for fan behavior. Against rivals AEK Athens, the president of the team, Ivan Savvidis, stormed onto the pitch with a pistol in his holster after a late PAOK goal was overturned after protests from AEK, causing the league to be suspended. PAOK was later punished with a reduction of 3 points and the awarding of the game to AEK by 0–3. The awarded derbies, as well as the court deduction, played a big role in PAOK losing the league title to AEK, as they finished the championship 2nd, 6 points behind their double-headed eagle rivals. Afterwards, PAOK won the Greek Cup after defeating AEK 2–0 in the Cup final in OAKA, Athens, which was viewed as a consolation prize for the lost championship.
In the 2018–19 season, PAOK begin their European adventure in the Second Qualifying Round of the UEFA Champions League, eliminating Basel and Spartak Moscow, before losing in the play-offs against Benfica and dropping to the UEFA Europa League group stages. PAOK finished fourth in a group with Chelsea, BATE Borisov and Videoton, only winning 4–1 against BATE in Barysaw and losing all the other matches.
Despite the early European exit, the team enjoyed a great domestic season. On April 21, 2019, PAOK won their third league title and their first in 34 years after beating Levadiakos at home with 5-0. Lucescu led his side to league triumph without a single defeat, a milestone last reached by Panathinaikos 55 years before, and finished the season with a record-breaking 80 points.
Al-Hilal
On 28 June 2019, Lucescu parted ways with PAOK after receiving an offer to manage Saudi Arabian club Al-Hilal. The club reportedly paid PAOK the manager's €2M release clause, while both Lucescu and PAOK chairman Ivan Savvidis agreed that the contract offer was too good to refuse. He brought the club to its third AFC Champions League-era title and first continental title in 17 years on 24 November 2019.
Personal life
He is the son of former football player and manager Mircea Lucescu.
Managerial statistics
Honours
Player
Național București
Cupa României: Runner-up 1996–97
Rapid București
Liga I: 2002–03
Manager
Rapid București
Cupa României: 2005–06, 2006–07
Brașov
Liga II: 2007–08
El Jaish
Qatari Stars Cup: 2012–13
Skoda Xanthi
Greek Cup: Runner-up 2014–15
PAOK
Superleague Greece: 2018–19
Greek Cup: 2017–18, 2018–19
Al-Hilal
AFC Champions League: 2019
Individual
Romania Coach of the Year: 2018
Super League Greece Manager of the Season: 2018–19
References
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Cheshmeh Gah
Cheshmeh Gah (, also Romanized as Cheshmeh Gāh and Chashmehgāh) is a village in Atrak Rural District, Maneh District, Maneh and Samalqan County, North Khorasan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its existence was noted, but its population was not reported.
References
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Dieter Welsink
Dieter Welsink is a former West German slalom canoeist who competed from the mid-1970s to the early 1980s. He won two medals in the C-2 event at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships with a gold in 1979 and a silver in 1981.
References
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Mohamed Gharib Bilal
Mohamed Gharib Bilal (born 1945) is a Tanzanian politician who was Chief Minister of Zanzibar from 1995 to 2000. He was Vice President of Tanzania from 2010 to 2015. He is a nuclear scientist by profession and also served as Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education from 1990 to 1995.
Early life and career
Dr Bilal completed his primary education at Makunduchi, Zanzibar in 1958 and attended his secondary education at Beit-el-Ras in 1962 and later joined Lumumba Secondary School in Zanzibar.
Before completing Form Five, Dr Bilal received a scholarship to study physics at Howard University in Washington, graduating in physics and mathematics in 1967. He earned an MA in physics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1969, and a PhD in physics in 1976. Later the same year he joined the University of Dar es Salaam as a lecturer in physics. In 1983 he was elected head of the Department of Nuclear Physics.
In 1983 he participated to establish a national organization of radiation and contribute professional the preparation of draft of legislation which led to the law of use and control of the nuclear radiation in Tanzania.
In 1988 he was appointed head of the Faculty of Science at the University of Dar es Salaam and continue in office until 1990 when he was appointed Permanent Secretary in the new Ministry of Science Technology and Higher Education in 1990–1995.
As secretary-general he was involved in starting the process of sharing the costs of higher education and the introduction of credit. Also, the ministry introduced the Open University, along with establishing control over higher education institutions (accreditation council).
In 1988 Dr Bilal was a project initiator in Zanzibar's science camp aimed at motivating young people studying science and to help all secondary schools in Zanzibar (Unguja and Pemba) Getting equipment to facilitate testing of students to understand science more practical.
The project eventually was adopted by the Ministry of Education in Zanzibar. The project encouraged many young people to study science and give them the challenge of learning many different topics about Zanzibar environment.
As a teacher of the University Dr Bilal was able to participate in a board far away, such as the Commission of Science and Technology (COSTECH), Commission of radiation (NRC), chairman of the science panel of the Inter University Council of East Africa and also participated pioneering studies on environmental science (1990).
Mohammed Gharib Bilal got an opportunity to attend seminars and short courses in various professions, for example, seminars of [atomic agency] ([IAEA]) in 1980 Kwabena, Ghana. 1984/85. Fellowship University of Singapore. Also attended sessions each year with the organization of Atomic. Currently he sits on the board of the International Science Programme.
Political career
In 1995 Dr. Mohammed Gharib Bilal was appointed Chief Minister of the Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar until 2000.
Dr Bilali has been serving in various positions at Chama Cha Mapinduzi such as a main Board member of National Executive Committee since 1995 and has been Lord of Regional and Urban West Coast Region.
Since 2010 he has been Vice President of Tanzania, assisting President Jakaya Kikwete.
References
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Ludwikówko
Ludwikówko is a settlement in the administrative district of Gmina Luzino, within Wejherowo County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately south of Luzino, south-west of Wejherowo, and north-west of the regional capital Gdańsk.
For details of the history of the region, see History of Pomerania.
References
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Blăgești
Blăgeşti may refer to several places in Romania:
Blăgești, Bacău, a commune in Bacău County
Blăgești, Vaslui, a commune in Vaslui County
Blăgeşti, a village administered by Paşcani town, Iaşi County
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Caryedon
Caryedon is a genus of pea and bean weevils in the beetle family Chrysomelidae. There are about 11 described species in Caryedon.
Species
These 11 species belong to the genus Caryedon:
Caryedon acaciae Gyllenhal, 1833
Caryedon angeri Semenov, 1896
Caryedon germari Kuster, 1845
Caryedon gonagra (Fabricius, 1798)
Caryedon kizilkumensis Ter-Minassian, 1977
Caryedon lagonychii Motschulsky, 1873
Caryedon lisaeae Southgate, 1971
Caryedon mesra Johnson, Southgate & Delobel, 2004
Caryedon prosopidis Arora, 1977
Caryedon serratus (Olivier, 1790) (groundnut bruchid)
Caryedon yemenensis Decelle, 1979
References
Further reading
External links
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Debashish Chaudhuri
Debashish Chaudhuri (born 14 October 1975) is an Indian symphonic conductor of Western classical music. Since 2000 he is based in the Czech Republic. He serves on the governing body of The Antonín Dvořák Music Festival and is part of PETROF ART Family. In 2016 he led the concert tour of the Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic as the first Czech orchestra in India after 57 years.
Background
Chaudhuri was born into a Bengali family in Calcutta to Samir and Sadhona Chaudhuri. As a result of his father's frequent postings, Chaudhuri studied in Delhi, Mumbai and Calcutta as well as in the United States and Singapore.
Conducting career
In 1995 he was appointed as music teacher at St. James' School. He conducted their four choirs. He founded the St. James' School Orchestra and the Calcutta School of Music Chamber Orchestra. In 2000 he moved to Prague, and was the first Indian to have studied at the Prague Conservatory. It is there his close contact with the family of Antonín Dvořák started. Under maestro Gianluigi Gelmetti he studied symphonic conducting at Chigiana Academy of Music in Siena, Italy.
Chaudhuri has worked with various orchestras, including Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic Orchestra, Brno Philharmonic, Pilsen Philharmonic, Moravian Philharmonic Olomouc, Janacek Philharmonic Ostrava, Prague Philharmonia, Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice, The South Czech Philharmonic, The Camerata Moravia, The Imperial College Sinfonietta, etc. He is invited to conduct their seasonal concerts with a repertoire ranging from Elgar, A. Roussel, Rachmaninov, Ravel, Schubert, Dvořák, Vanhal, V. Blodek, Liszt, Rimskij-Korsakov etc. to John Mayer, Jean-Michel Jarre and Blatny.
He serves on the governing body of Antonín Dvořák Music Festival and is part of PETROF ART Family.
Special projects
In 2006 he initiated a special annual concert for The Lions Club Bohemia, honoring visually handicapped people, which he conducted for 10 seasons. Among many others, he invited soloists like Václav Hudeček, Igor Ardašev, Jana Chaudhuri and Pavel Sporcl.
His passion for the search of symphonic music that is either inspired by India and Asia or written by Asian composers has enabled him to premiere several original works. He was invited by the Indian ambassador in 2012 to conduct a special symphonic concert for 150th anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore as well as a symphonic concert for 150th anniversary of Swami Vivekananda one year later. In 2006 and 2013 he created orchestral concerts entitled Asian Inspirations showcasing Asian inspired works. The Namaste India philharmonic project he envisaged in 2013 brought together the sitar and the tabla as solo instruments with the Pilsen Philharmonic Orchestra in addition to the Czech premiere of John Mayer's Shiva Nataraj. In June 2015 he conducted a concert at The Antonín Dvořák Music festival introducing the premiere of Mayer's Hiawatha's Song based on Dvořák's 9th Symphony. In 2016 he led the concert tour of the Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic as the first Czech orchestra in India after 57 years
Personal life
He is married to Czech pianist Jana Chaudhuri. His brother Rajat Chaudhuri is an artist in Denver, USA, and his parents live in Kolkata, India.
References
External links
Antonín Dvořák Music Festival
Rajat Chaudhuri
Jana Chaudhuri
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Ahotsak
Ahotsak (Voices) is a women's platform for peace in the Basque Country created in March 2006 following the announcement of the ETA ceasefire, with the aim of delegitimizing violence and demanding dialogue and the development of political projects by exclusively peaceful and democratic means.
Impellers
It was promoted by a group of women parliamentarians and politicians including Gemma Zabaleta (PSE), Jone Goirizelaia (Batasuna), Kontxi Bilbao (EB), Ainhoa Aznárez (PSN), Nekane Alzelai (EA), Elixabete Piñol (PNV), Gemma González de Txabarri (PNV) and Itzíar Gómez (Aralar).
During 2006, the platform held different events with the aim of bringing together women of different ideologies and sensitivities from Euskadi, Navarre and the French Basque Country and met with groups from the Basque feminist movement and political women's groups from other Spanish autonomous communities. In May 2006, the Plataforma Dones Catalanes per Ahotsak (Catalan Women for Ahotsak Platform), made up of 300 women, including jurist Gemma Calvet and politicians such as Lourdes Muñoz (PSC), Imma Mayol (ICV), Carme Porta (ERC), Mercè Pigem (CiU), was presented in Catalonia to support the Basque women's initiative.
Philosophy and Manifesto
The collective's philosophy was embodied in a document signed by more than 5,000 women presented at a public ceremony at the Palacio Euskalduna in Bilbao on 2 December 2006 in which, in addition to accepting the political nature of the conflict, they demanded the participation of women in its resolution, insofar as they also form part of the conflict and proclaimed the need for a political and democratic solution, as well as the right of Basque citizens to decide.
They acknowledged that the process open in Euskadi was not going through its best moment, they advocated looking for meeting points, recognizing in the other the part of truth that assists them and assuming the gender perspective as an unavoidable premise. Women constitute half of the whole community, therefore, we must also be half of the solution, pointed out the document that called for an active role, full and equal with men, as the only way to lay the foundations of a lasting peace and contribute to the creation of a more just, more democratic and more egalitarian society.
Ahotsak presented its proposal as the one that had so far achieved the greatest political, trade union, social and territorial consensus. However, they did not have the support of PP or UPN members.
The position of the socialist women members of the platform within their own formations was not easy, despite the fact that they supported the peace process initiated by the then president of the government, José Luís Rodríguez Zapatero. Sectors of their party criticized them for "appearing accompanied by prominent figures from the world of Batasuna" and showing themselves to be in favor of a dialogued solution to the Basque conflict.
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1934–35 Maltese Premier League
Statistics of Maltese Premier League in season 1934/1935.
Overview
It was performed in 7 teams, and Floriana F.C. won the championship.
League standings
References
Malta - List of final tables (RSSSF)
Category:Maltese Premier League seasons
Malta
Football
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National Highway 116 (India, old numbering)
National Highway 116 (NH 116) starts from Tonk (junction with NH 12) and ends at Sawai Madhopur, both places in the state of Rajasthan. The highway is long and runs only in the state of Rajasthan.
Route= Tonk, Chandlai, Kakor, Uniara, Kushtala, Sawai Madhopur.
See also
List of National Highways in India (by Highway Number)
List of National Highways in India
National Highways Development Project
References
External links
NH network map of India
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Vince Redd
Vincent Edward "Vince" Redd (born September 1, 1985) is a former American football defensive lineman. He was signed by the New England Patriots as an undrafted free agent in 2008. He played college football at Virginia and Liberty.
Redd has also been a member of the Kansas City Chiefs, Calgary Stampeders and Hartford Colonials.
Early years
Redd attended Elizabethton High School in Elizabethton, Tennessee, and was listed as the No. 12 defensive end nationally. He was named to the Orlando Sentinel All-Southern team after he tallied 104 tackles in his career. Redd was also a standout on the basketball team and also lettered in track and finished fourth in the state championship in the shot put as a junior.
College career
In 2007, Redd had 63 tackles, 6.5 sacks and two interceptions at Liberty. He redshirted for the 2006 season after transferring from UVA. In 2005, played playing time in 10 out of 12 games at the University of Virginia and finished with 16 tackles and three TFL. In 2004 with the Cavaliers, played in all 12 and saw time at linebacker and on special teams return units.
Professional career
New England Patriots
Redd was signed by the New England Patriots as an undrafted free agent on May 1, 2008 following the 2008 NFL Draft. He was waived by the team on August 30, 2008, and signed to the team's practice squad on September 1, 2008. He was then promoted to the team's active roster on November 22, 2008. He was waived on August 2, 2009 after the team signed linebacker Rob Ninkovich.
Kansas City Chiefs
A day after being waived by the New England Patriots, Redd was claimed off waivers by the Kansas City Chiefs on August 3, 2009. He was waived on August 24. The same day, it was revealed was suspended four games by the NFL for violation of the league's drug policy.
Calgary Stampeders
Redd signed a practice roster agreement with the Calgary Stampeders on October 8, 2009, after his NFL suspension ended.
Alabama Vipers
Redd signed with the Alabama Vipers of Arena Football 1 on December 15, 2009.
New Yorker Lions
Redd signed with the New Yorker Lions of the German Football League on February 17, 2013.
References
External links
Kansas City Chiefs bio
Liberty Flames bio
New England Patriots bio
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The Pay-Off
The Pay-Off is a 1930 American pre-Code crime drama film directed by Lowell Sherman, who also starred in the film along with Marian Nixon and Hugh Trevor. The screenplay was adapted by Jane Murfin, along with Samuel Shipman and John B. Hymer, based on Shipman and Hymer's 1927 play, Crime.
Plot
Gene Fenmore is a suave gentleman, safely ensconced in the upper crust of society. Unbeknownst to his society acquaintances, he is also the leader of the largest mob in the city. But it is a mob with scruples, thanks to Fenmore, and they only prey on dishonest businessmen, and never shoot or kill anyone. However, there is a power struggle developing between Fenmore and his number two man, Rocky, who disagrees with the moral constraints put on the gang by Fenmore. The tension between the two men is exacerbated by the fact Rocky has taken Fenmore's girlfriend, Dot away from him.
As he starts to exert his influence on the other gang members, Rocky holds up a young engaged couple, Nancy and Tommy, of their last few dollars for the fun of it. When Fenmore hears of the robbery, he gives them back their money and takes them under his wing, offering the both of them jobs on the legitimate side of his business. When Rocky sees that Fenmore has taken a liking to the couple, he develops a plan to use them in order to take over Fenmore's gang. Even though Fenmore has given explicit orders not to involve the couple in the illicit activities of the gang, Rocky takes them along when he goes to hold up a jewelry store. When the robbery goes wrong, Rocky ends up shooting and killing the owner of the store, after which he frames Tommy and Annabelle for the crime.
In order to set things right, Fenmore orchestrates a confrontation with the police, wherein he confesses to the jewelry store robbery, and in the ensuing melee, Rocky is killed. As he is led off in handcuffs, Fenmore turns to the police officer and says, "If it wasn't for men like me, they wouldn't need men like you."
Cast
Lowell Sherman as Gene Fenmore
Marian Nixon as Nancy
Hugh Trevor as Rocky
William Janney as Tommy
Helene Millard as Dot
George F. Marion as Mouse
Walter McGrail as Emory
Robert McWade as Frank
Alan Roscoe as District Attorney
Lita Chevret as Margy
Bert Moorhouse as Spat
(Cast list as per AFI database)
Notes
The film is based on the play Crime by Shipman and Hymer, which was performed at the Eltinge 42nd Street Theatre (currently the Empire Theatre) in New York City from February to August 1927. In 1938, RKO would remake the film, under the title, Law of the Underworld.
In 1958, the film entered the public domain in the United States because the claimants did not renew its copyright registration in the 28th year after publication.
References
External links
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Category:American films
Category:1930s crime drama films
Category:English-language films
Category:American black-and-white films
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Faisal Saeed Al Mutar
Faisal Saeed Al Mutar (; born 1991) is an Iraqi-born human-rights activist, writer, and satirist who was admitted to the United States as a refugee in 2013. He is founder of Global Conversations and Ideas Beyond Borders and formerly worked for Movements.org to assist dissidents in closed societies worldwide.
Biography
Faisal Saeed Al Mutar was born in Hillah, Iraq, in 1991. He later moved to Baghdad. Al Mutar grew up in a religiously moderate Muslim family in Iraq, though he remained nonreligious throughout his upbringing. He described growing up under Saddam as being exposed to the "motherlode of misinformation".
Al Mutar's writings and secular lifestyle made him a target for threats and attacks by al-Qaeda. He survived three attempted kidnappings. His brother and cousin were also killed by al-Qaeda in sectarian violence there. Al Mutar visited Lebanon and then Malaysia where he founded the Global Secular Humanist Movement in September 2010 "with the mission of addressing the absence of recognition and legal protections for secular humanists." As a result of his activism, Al Mutar received death threats from religious militias such as the Mahdi Army and elements tied to al-Qaeda.
Due to his conflicts with Islamists over his secular identity and the deaths of his brother and cousin in sectarian violence, Al Mutar fled Iraq and received refugee status in the U.S. in 2013. After first living for a number of months in Houston, Al Mutar moved to New York City., where he lives and continues to operate Ideas Beyond Borders with the broader aim of making Wikipedia pages, academic articles and seminal works covering science, literature and philosophy available to Arabic speakers in attempt to confront lies with logic and pit critical thinking against propaganda and fake news. He also served as a community manager for Movements.org, a platform which "allows activists from closed societies to connect directly with people around the world with skills to help them."
In 2017 Al Mutar founded Ideas Beyond Borders, a nonprofit that works to: "promote the free exchange of ideas and to defend human rights ... to counter extremist narratives and authoritarian institutions."
"Less than 1% of internet content is available in Arabic, rendering much of Wikipedia’s trove unusable. In 2017 Mr. Mutar, then a refugee living in New York, wanted to change that. He founded the nonprofit Ideas Beyond Borders (IBB) and has since hired 120 young people across the Middle East to translate Wikipedia pages into Arabic, starting with subjects they thought were most needed: female scientists, human rights, logical reasoning, and philosophy." The effort is referred to as House of Wisdom 2.0 and is organized by the I Believe in Science group: "I Believe in Science has more than 300 volunteers and has translated over 10,000 articles. Its founder, Ahmed al-Rayyis, now organizes the translation team for IBB, and many of those volunteers have since been hired as Bayt al-Hikma translators."
Personal views
Al Mutar describes being an atheist in Iraq "like being the only sober person in a car filled with drunk people, and you're not allowed to drive."
He criticizes those like Noam Chomsky who attribute unrest in the Middle East in part due to United States foreign policy.
Al Mutar attributes the rise of al-Qaeda, ISIS and the Taliban to Islamism which he says will make terrorism difficult to eradicate by U.S. military force alone. He cites the easy availability of funding as a compounding factor. Al Mutar believes that the Middle East is responsible for enforcing peace in their region. He says the West's inflated sense of moral responsibility, which he calls “the racism of lower expectation,” erodes the Middle East's imperative to address its own issues, such as the Syrian refugee crisis.
Al Mutar is a critic of the term "Islamophobia." He says use of the term has been broadened by some on the left to include legitimate criticism of Islam. He differentiates between criticizing ideas and criticizing people. Al Mutar criticizes what he sees as an "unholy alliance" of the regressive left and the Muslim right against the secular or liberal Muslims, which he says applies different moral standards to Muslims.
Al Mutar criticized President Donald Trump's executive order suspending admission of immigrants for putting refugees "in harm's way."
Al Mutar is a columnist for Free Inquiry.
Awards
In 2016 Al Mutar received the gold President's Volunteer Service Award from President Barack Obama for his volunteer service in the United States and around the world.
See also
Maajid Nawaz
References
External links
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Category:Living people
Category:Iraqi atheists
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United States Youth Cricket Association
The United States Youth Cricket Association (USYCA) is the largest organization in the United States devoted to the promotion of the game of cricket among young people and is an Associate Member of United States of America Cricket Association. USYCA promotes cricket in America by donating cricket sets and instruction to schools, at no cost to the schools, through its Schools Program. USYCA has 60 member organizations: 21 Affiliates, which are organizations that are primarily engaged in youth cricket activities, and 39 Associates, which are organizations that support the USYCA mission, but are primarily engaged in other activities. USYCA is a program partner with the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, and is a tax-exempt organization under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
History
USYCA was founded in April 2010 by Jamie Harrison, Edward Fox and Rakesh Kallem. The previous month, DreamCricket.com, a US-based cricket website and online retailer, had agreed to donate ten cricket sets for placement in American schools under a pilot program directed by Harrison.
After receiving an invitation from Physical Education instructor Charles Silberman, Highland Park Elementary School in Prince George's County, Maryland became the first school to receive a cricket set from USYCA in May 2010. In June and July, summer camps were the beneficiaries of USYCA donations, as schools were no longer in session. By the end of the summer, however, the Prince George's County school system had extended a welcome to USYCA, as had schools in Baltimore City. In the Fall of 2010, other jurisdictions in Maryland signed on, such as Kent and Queen Anne's counties on Maryland's Eastern Shore.
On 24 June it was announced that the C.C. Morris Cricket Library Association had agreed to fund the organization's infrastructure expenses, such as liability insurance and fees associated with the securing of federal tax-exempt status, up to a maximum of $5000. This was followed on 13 July with the announcement that DreamCricket.com had raised its pledge to 100 sets, ensuring USYCA of a useful supply of high-quality children's sets with which to approach school systems. This allowed the organization to break free of the time-consuming process of placing sets in one school at a time.
Another key development that summer was the introduction to USYCA of Maria Grossi, and DTY Pty Ltd., an Australian firm that was the supplier of cricket sets and apparel to Cricket Australia's MILO In2Cricket program. The referral came by way of Rebecca Mulgrew of CA, who first came into contact with Harrison in 2009 while he was coaching the cricket team at Cardinal Gibbons School in Baltimore. By August, DTY was in discussions with USYCA that would result in the donation of 500 custom-made cricket sets, designed especially for the USYCA Schools Program. These sets would eventually be named the American Cricket Champ, and was the first set ever produced specifically for the American market.
Also that summer, USYCA produced its constitution, which was largely based upon the USACA document, and in August the organization elected its first office holders.
Shortly thereafter, Michael Thomas of Maryland, a member of the British Officers Cricket Club and the C.C. Morris group, was appointed as USYCA's first treasurer.
During these early months, individuals were volunteering to lead state youth cricket organizations for USYCA, so that by the end of August, USYCA was represented in 16 US states.
In September, the first three USYCA standing committees were established: membership, finance and constitution/by-laws.
In the Fall of 2010, USYCA began placing cricket sets in schools in Maryland, and international cricket celebrities, such as Australia's Nathan Bracken and Damien Martyn, posed for photos wearing USYCA tee shirts. Bracken included his son, Chase (also in a USYCA shirt), in his portrait. Also that fall, a USYCA instructional video was produced by Rohit Kulkarni and City Lights Films, and was added to the USYCA YouTube page. This three-part video, "Introducing Cricket To Children In The United States," was viewed thousands of times in its first year online, and became key in delivering the USYCA formula to those spreading cricket to new demographics.
In November, USYCA was granted Associate Member status by USACA, and made itself eligible for recognition and support from the International Cricket Council. This eligibility soon paid off handsomely, as the USYCA Schools Program was awarded the top prize in the Junior Participation Initiative category by the ICC America's region in the 2010 Pepsi ICC Development Programme Awards.
This award in January 2011 came only days after Mike Young, the American fielding coach for the Australian national cricket team, had come out in public support for USYCA, modeling the organization's apparel at a photo shoot on the banks of the Yarra River in Melbourne, only hours before the Aussies were to take on the English in a One Day International match.
In February, American Cricket Champ sets began to arrive at USYCA headquarters in Maryland, and were quickly redistributed to schools across the country.
On 14 April 2011, USYCA held its first-ever Annual General Meeting.
In June, USYCA donated cricket sets to sixteen Alabama schools that had suffered severe tornado damage two months prior. In July, USYCA announced that 136 elementary and middle schools in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools system in North Carolina were adding cricket to their PE curriculums, and the schools would also be offering students opportunities to play the game in other venues.
In December, the USYCA purchased the USYCA Foxfire Field, one of the country's best cricket grounds, for $1 per year and will be the venue for countless youth cricket tournaments and development of youth cricket in the United States. The field is located centrally 20 miles south of Wichita, Kansas, and it had been the vision of USYCA vice-president Edward Fox, who personally funded the construction at a total cost of $120,000.
USYCA announced the opening of its first national headquarters, and a dedicated phone line, in January 2012. The headquarters building is located in Glen Burnie, Maryland, near Baltimore-Washington International Airport.
In July 2013, the first state championship was held in Maryland. The match was played between Germantown and Cockeysville, Germantown being the victor. The third place match was played between Bowie and Timonium, Bowie being the victor. Maryland Deputy Secretary of State, Rajan Natarajan, attended the matches, and presented awards following it.
In April 2016, USYCA has its third election and Ranjeet Singh from St. Louis, Missouri was elected as the President. In March 2017, a new chapter opened in history of USYCA, when NYCL, the largest youth cricket event in USA became part of USYCA. NYCL in 2017 featured 45 Teams and was held in Connecticut and New Jersey, hosted by New England Youth Cricket Academy, DreamCricket and CricMax.
Association With Reebok
In March 2012, USYCA announced a three-year sponsorship deal with Reebok Cricket, the first of its kind for an international sports brand in the United States cricket market.
Partnership With American Cricket Federation
On May 6, 2013, USYCA announced its partnership with the American Cricket Federation. The agreement gives USYCA the lead role in cricket development in age groups up to 13-Under, while ACF will coordinate the transition to older age groups. The partnership anticipated a substantial sharing of resources, communications, facilities and volunteer networks.
National Youth Cricket Day
USYCA established 24 March as National Youth Cricket Day. This day was selected because it was on that day in 2010 that Venu Palaparthi wrote to Harrison on behalf of DreamCricket.com, making the initial offer of donated cricket sets:
"We would like to support any initiative in Maryland that involves putting basic cricket kits in the hands of Phy Ed teachers. Our max budget is 10 kits – each costing $1000. So let us get this going." (The $1000 figure was a typo; he meant $100.)
Logo
The USYCA logo, unveiled on 5 May 2010, was designed by Jamie Harrison and produced by his 17-year-old son, Zachary. It reflects the mission of USYCA through its depiction of a young girl bowling and a young boy batting; its color scheme of red, white and blue marks it as clearly American.
See also
Cricket in the United States
History of United States cricket
Major League Cricket
NYPD Cricket League
United States national cricket team
External links
Official site
United States of America Cricket Association
International Cricket Council
References
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Category:Cricket in the United States
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In Action (EP)
In Action is the second EP from rock band We Are Scientists. The album was released in October 2003.
Track listing
"Selective Memory"
"Coming Clean"
"That One Pop Gem"
"Riffmaster B"
"Secret Handshake"
"Bomb Inside the Bomb"
External links
Official website
What's The Word
Category:2003 EPs
Category:We Are Scientists albums
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The Sandy Duncan Show
Funny Face and The Sandy Duncan Show are two American sitcoms aired by CBS starring Sandy Duncan as part of its 1971 and 1972 fall lineups, respectively. Both series were created and produced by Carl Kleinschmitt.
In the spring of 1971, after having appeared in numerous television commercials and having a great success on Broadway in the 1970 revival of The Boy Friend (which won her a Tony Award nomination for Best Actress In a Musical), Sandy Duncan's show business career was quickly ascending. She had just completed her first major motion picture - The Million Dollar Duck for Walt Disney and was about to start on her second film - the screen adaptation of the Neil Simon play Star Spangled Girl which was to be produced and released by Paramount Pictures. Duncan was also signed by Paramount to film a television pilot loosely based on the 1957 film musical Funny Face which they hoped would be picked up by CBS to be part of their 1971–1972 fall television schedule. A pilot was filmed in the spring of 1971 and CBS executives were very enthusiastic. As a result, Duncan was already being touted by the network as the brightest new star of the 1971 fall season.
Funny Face
In Funny Face, Sandy Stockton is a young UCLA student from Taylorville, Illinois, majoring in education and making ends meet by working part-time as an actress in TV commercials for the Prescott Advertising Agency. In the pilot for the series, the supporting cast included Nita Talbot as Maggie Prescott, Sandy's modeling agent and best friend, and Frank Aletter as Dick, a photographer for the agency, who also happened to be Maggie's ex-husband. After screening the pilot, CBS picked up the show for the 1971 fall season, however the network requested there be some changes made in terms of cast and format. As a result, the character of Sandy Stockton, instead, became a student teacher who supported her education through professional acting and modeling. Talbot and Aletter were dropped from the cast and replaced by Valorie Armstrong as Sandy's best friend and neighbor Alice McRaven (Armstrong and Duncan in real-life are close friends) and Henry Beckman and Kathleen Freeman as Pat and Kate Harwell, Sandy's friends and landlords. Beckman, in fact, had been featured in the pilot as a telephone repairman. The show was scheduled to air Saturday nights at 8:30 pm on CBS in the fall of 1971 between All in the Family and The New Dick Van Dyke Show. Unlike sitcoms that were recorded with live studio audiences, Funny Face was filmed with a laugh track. During the summer of 1971, excerpts of the pilot of the series were extensively used by CBS in their commercials of the new fall season to promote the program. However, when Funny Face premiered on September 18, 1971, the pilot was discarded as the first installment in favor of a later episode filmed entitled "The Used Car". Many critics dismissed the series as being insipid, including John J. O'Connor of The New York Times, who wrote: ‘Funny Face’ is constructed as a showcase for Sandy Duncan, an attractive performer whose particular brand of cuteness monopolized the reviews in a recent Broadway revival of “The Boy Friend.” The TV problem is how to harness that cuteness without falling into the sticky Doris Day pit, how to make Sandy a cutely gutsy version of 'real people'. The opening episode, with Miss Duncan's bachelor girl selling used cars in television commercials, didn't succeed. Sandy just looked tired, or perhaps a bit bored." (The New York Times TV Review by John J. O'Connor - September 20, 1972, p.53) However, other critics liked Duncan, especially Cleveland Amory, the critic of TV Guide, who called her "a wonderful comedienne." Despite ranking #8 in the Nielsen ratings for the 1971–72 season, obtaining a 23.9 rating tying it with Adam-12, CBS suspended production on Funny Face less than three months after its premiere. One fact that truly caused Funny Face to leave the air in 1971 was that Sandy developed headaches during the filming and was discovered to have a tumor behind her left eye. So, it was impossible for her to continue, although she did finish the first half of a full season before having an operation which resulted in the loss of her sight in that eye. At that time, only 12 episodes had been filmed so, in order to complete the first 13-episode cycle, the pilot was dusted off and finally shown as the last show of the series on December 11, 1971.
CBS announced that the series would return the following fall, thereby giving Duncan time to recover from her surgery, but also providing the network time to retool the program. In the spring of 1972, Duncan was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Continued Performance By An Actress In a Leading Role In A Comedy Series for Funny Face.
The Sandy Duncan Show
When the series returned in the fall of 1972, it underwent a major renovation. This included renaming the program from Funny Face to The Sandy Duncan Show, as well as having new cast members, an additional producer, different writers, a slightly revised format, as well as filming it with three cameras in front of a live audience. In The Sandy Duncan Show, Sandy now worked for the advertising firm of Quinn & Cohen, where her supervisor was one of the partners, Bert Quinn (Tom Bosley); the other partner was Leonard Cohen (Alfie Wise). Two of her neighbors, Kay Fox (Marian Mercer) and Alex Lembeck (M. Emmet Walsh) were also close friends. Motorcycle police officer Alex constantly worried about Sandy's status as a single woman living alone, which he saw as being inherently dangerous; and as such, appointed himself as her chaperone/protector. Sandy had a very sweet and slightly naive nature and was prone to try to help anyone who she felt needed help, including total strangers, so Alex's fears were not totally misplaced.
Despite these changes, The Sandy Duncan Show was not successful. Although the critics generally liked Duncan, many of them did not find the show greatly improved or vastly different from Funny Face. Once again, television critic John J. O'Connor, of The New York Times, panned the series. O'Connor wrote: 'The Sandy Duncan Show' is supposed to be an altered version of 'Funny Face', a series that was cut short last season as Miss Duncan underwent eye surgery. The new series, though, is almost completely new and, with Miss Duncan as the bachelor girl with kooky neighbors and kooky co‐workers, it is trying desperately, somewhat pathetically, to repeat the style and content of 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show'. Let's just say it doesn't. Any details might verge on unnecessary cruelty." (The New York Times "TV: C.B.S. Still Serious About Series Comedies" by John J. O'Connor, p. 62) Also, moving the show to Sunday nights did not help in terms of viewership. The series attracted a much smaller audience on Sunday nights than Funny Face had the previous year on Saturday nights, especially when it had the strong lead-in of All In The Family. The Sandy Duncan Show was scheduled to air Sundays at 8:30 pm for the fall of 1972 between M*A*S*H and The New Dick Van Dyke Show, forcing it to compete with ABC's The F.B.I. and the NBC Mystery Movie. As a result, it was also canceled at midseason, with the last episode (#13) airing on New Year's Eve, 1972.
Theme song and opening titles
Both Funny Face and The Sandy Duncan Show used the same theme song and opening titles. The opening titles consist of a photo album with pictures of Sandy Stockton as she was growing up from infancy to a young woman (presumably real-life photos of Duncan, used for the montage). Included were pictures of Sandy at various young ages; also pictures of her doing tap and ballet dancing; at various school functions; being a cheerleader for her high school; wearing her cap and gown, and posing by the Taylorville sign saying good bye as she was boarding her bus.
However, in The Sandy Duncan Show's opening, most of the pictures of a baby Sandy were eliminated, as there was now a second verse of the song, and that second verse was sung whilst showing Sandy on her bus trip from Taylorville to Los Angeles (which was actually footage of Duncan from her 1971 Paramount film 'Star Spangled Girl'). In Funny Face, the theme song "The Kind of Girl She Is" was sung by Jack Jones and later on in The Sandy Duncan Show, a more up-tempo version of the theme was sung by an unknown group of men and women. The theme was written by Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman and Dave Grusin.
Episodes
Funny Face
The Used Car - September 18, 1971
A Lesson in Courage - September 25, 1971
No Music, Maestro, Please? - October 2, 1971
The Repairman Cheateth - October 9, 1971
Drive? Who Said? - October 16, 1971
A Star is Born on a Stretcher - October 23, 1971
The Marrying Kind - October 30, 1971
What's in a Mouth - November 6, 1971
Four Sided Triangle - November 13, 1971
Don't Worry, I'll Manage - November 20, 1971
A Crush on Sandy - November 27, 1971
Captain Wonderful - December 4, 1971
Pilot - December 11, 1971
The Sandy Duncan Show
Hooray for Harriet - September 17, 1972
Richer Third - September 24, 1972
For the Man Who Has Almost Anything - October 8, 1972
The Importance of Being Ernestine - October 15, 1972
Knock on Any Door - October 22, 1972
Play it Again Samuelson - November 5, 1972
The Seven Hour Itch - November 12, 1972
Big Little Man - November 19, 1972
Hold Your Hoarse - November 26, 1972
Doctor New - December 10, 1972
Write On - December 17, 1972
From Rags to Riches to Rags - December 24, 1972
Dream a Recurring Dream of Me - December 31, 1972
References
Brooks, Tim and Marsh, Earle, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows
External links
Funny Face
Funny Face
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Galechugaon
Galechugaon is a town in Sarpang District in southern Bhutan.
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Category:Populated places in Bhutan
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Clothes and the Woman
Clothes and the Woman is a 1937 British romance film directed by Albert de Courville and starring Rod La Rocque, Tucker McGuire and Constance Collier. It was made at Elstree Studios. While enjoying a holiday in the resort of Cannes, a young woman meets and falls in love with a man. However, worried that she is too plain she decides to dress more fashionably.
Cast
Rod La Rocque as Eric Thrale
Tucker McGuire as Joan Moore
Constance Collier as Eugenia
George E. Stone as Count Bernhardt
Dorothy Dare as Carol Dixon
Alastair Sim as Francois
Mona Goya as Cecilie
Mary Cole as Marie Thrale
Jim Gérald as Enrico Castigliani
Renee Gadd as Schoolmistress
References
Bibliography
Low, Rachael. Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927-1939. British Film Institute, 1986.
External links
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Category:British romance films
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Frederick Loring
Frederick Loring may refer to:
Frederick Wadsworth Loring (1848–1871), American journalist, novelist and poet
F. G. Loring (Frederick George Loring, 1869–1951), English naval officer, wireless expert, and writer
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Eleanor
Eleanor (usually pronounced in North America but elsewhere; short form Leonor and variants) is a feminine given name, originally from a Provençal name Aliénor. It is the name of a number of women of the high nobility in western Europe during the High Middle Ages.
In modern times, the name was popular in the United States in the 1910s to 1920s, peaking at rank 25 in 1920. It declined below 600 by the 1970s, but rose above 150 in the early 2010s.
Common hypocorisms include Elle, Ella, Ellie, Elly, Leonor, Leonora, Leonore, Nell, Nella, Nellie, Nelly, Nora, etc.
Origin
The name derives from the Provençal name Aliénor which became Eléanor or Eleonore in the northern Langue d'oïl and from there also to English.
The origin of the name is somewhat unclear; one of the earliest bearers appears to be Eleanor of Aquitaine (1120s–1204). She was the daughter of Aénor de Châtellerault, and it has been suggested that having been baptized Aenor after her mother, she was called alia Aenor, i.e. "the other Aenor" in childhood and would have kept that name in adult life. The name Aénor itself may be a Latinization of an unknown Germanic name.
Eleanor of Aquitaine, the most powerful woman in 12th century Europe, was certainly the reason for the name's later popularity. However, the name's origin with her, and the explanation of alia Aenor is uncertain; there are records of possible bearers of the name Alienor earlier in the 12th, or even in the 11th or 10th centuries,
but the records of these women post-date Eleanor of Aquitaine, at a time when Alienor had come to be seen as an equivalent variant of the name Aenor (so that presumably, these women during their own lifetime used the given name Aenor):
Alienor, the wife (married 935) of Aimery II, Viscount of Thouars, and mother of Herbert I (born 960).
Alienor, the grandmother of Aénor of Châtellerault, and thus Eleanor of Aquitaine's own great-grandmother, born c. 1050 as a daughter of Aimery IV of Thouars. Her name is also recorded as Ainora, and may have been corrupted to Alienor in genealogies only after the 12th century.
Eleanor of Normandy, aunt of William the Conqueror, was so named by the 17th-century genealogist Pierre de Guibours, but de Guibours' sources for this remain unknown and the application of this name may be a mistake of his.
Eleanor of Champagne (1102–1147), in 1125 became the first wife of Ralph I, Count of Vermandois, who was displaced by Eleanor of Aquitaine's sister Petronilla of Aquitaine, leading to a war (1142–44) in Champagne.
Notable people
Medieval
Eleanor of Normandy (b. 1011/1013, d. after 1071), daughter of Richard II of Normandy.
Eleanor of Aquitaine (ca. 1122–1204), wife of Louis VII of France and Henry II of England, mother of Richard I and King John
Eleanor of England, Queen of Castile (1161–1214), daughter of Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine; wife of Alfonso VIII of Castile
Eleanor, Fair Maid of Brittany (1184–1241), daughter of Geoffrey, Duke of Brittany
Eleanor of Castile (1202-1244) (1202–1244), wife of James I of Aragon
Eleanor of England, Countess of Leicester (1215–1275), daughter of King John of England, wife of Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester
Eleanor of Provence (1222–1291), wife of Henry III of England, mother of Edward I
Eleanor of Castile (1241–1290), wife of Edward I of England, mother of Edward II
Eleanor of England, Countess of Bar (1269–1298), daughter of Edward I, betrothed to Alfonso III of Aragon, and wife of Henry III of Bar
Eleanor of Anjou (1289-1341), daughter of Charles II of Naples and Mary of Hungary, and wife of Frederick III of Sicily
Eleanor of Castile (1307-1359) (1307–1359), wife of Alfonso IV of Aragon
Eleanor of Woodstock (1318–1355), daughter of Edward II, wife of Reynold II, Count of Gelderland
Eleanor of Arborea (1347 – 1404), Sardinian judge
Eleanor of Sicily (1349-1375), wife of Peter IV of Aragon
Leonor Telles de Menezes (1350–1386), wife of Ferdinand I of Portugal
Eleanor of Castile (d. 1416) (136x–1416), wife of Charles III of Navarre
Eleanor of Aragon, Queen of Portugal (1402–1445) wife of Edward I of Portugal
Eleanor of Viseu (1458–1525), wife of John II of Portugal
Eleanor of Austria (1498–1558), Queen consort of Portugal (1516–1521) and of France (1530–1547)
Eleanor of Toledo (1522–1562), Spanish noblewoman and Duchess and Regent of Florence (1539)
John/Eleanor Rykener, a 14th-century transvestite prostitute
Modern
Eleanor Anne Porden (1795–1825), English poet
Ellinor Aiki (1893–1969), Estonian painter
Eleanor Audley (1905–1991), American actress
Eleanor Boardman (1898–1991), American actress
Eleanor Bodel (born 1948), Swedish singer
Elinor Glyn (1864–1943), British novelist
Eleanor Gwynn (known colloquially as "Nell") (1650-1687), Restoration actress and mistress of Charles II of England
Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden, its reigning queen 1719-1720
Eleonora, three 17th century Swedish queens consort
Countess Palatine Eleonora Catherine of Zweibrücken, Swedish princess
Eleanor Maria Easterbrook Ames (1831-1908), American writer, publisher
Eleanor Marx (1855–1898), British writer and daughter of Karl Marx
Eleanor Porter (1868–1920), American novelist
Eleanor Rathbone (1872–1946), British politician
Elinore Pruitt Stewart (1876–1933), American homesteader in Wyoming and memoirist
Eleanour Sinclair Rohde (1881-1950), British garden designer
Eleanor Farjeon (1881–1965), British writer
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962), First Lady of U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt
Elinor Wylie (1885–1928), American writer
Elinor Fair (1903–1957), American actress
Eleanor Hibbert (1906–1993), British novelist
Elinor Smith (1911–2010), American aviator
Eleanor Powell (1912–1982), American tap dancer and actress
Eleanor Ruggles (1916-2008), American biographer
Eleanor Parker (1922-2013), American actress
Eleanor Helin (1932–2009), American astronomer
Elinor Ostrom (1933–2012), American political scientist and Nobel prize winner
Elinor Donahue (born 1937), American actress
Eleanor Duckworth (born 1935), Canadian psychologist and educator
Eleanor Holmes Norton (born 1937), American politician
Eleanor Bron (born 1938), British actress and author
Eleanor Montgomery (1946–2013), American high jumper
Eleanor McEvoy (born 1967), Irish musician, singer/songwriter
Eleanor Friedberger (born 1976), American musician
Eleonora Dziekiewicz (born 1978), Polish volleyball player
Eleanor James (born 1986), English actress
Eleonora "Ellen" van Dijk (born 1987), Dutch road and track cyclist
Elinor Joseph (born 1991), Israeli soldier
Eleanor Tomlinson (born 1992), English actress
Eleonore von Habsburg (born 1994), Austrian model
Eleanor Laing (born 1958), British politician
Eleanor Lansing Dulles (1895–1996), American economist and diplomat
Eleanor Lee (born 1999), Singaporean actress, singer and model
Eleanor Worthington Cox (born 2001), English actress
Elleanor Eldridge (1784/85 - ca. 1845), African American/Native American entrepreneur
Eleanor Smith (born 1957), British politician
Ellie Reeves (born 1980), British politician
Fictional characters
Eleanor Butterbean, in the television series The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy
Eleanor Douglas, in the 2013 young adult novel Eleanor & Park, written by Rainbow Rowell
Eleanor "Ellie" Arroway, in the 1985 novel Contact by Carl Sagan
Eleanor Hume, a main character from the videogame Tales of Berseria
Eleanor Lamb, one of the main protagonists of BioShock 2 by Irrational Games
Ellie Nash, in Degrassi: The Next Generation
Eleanor Savage, love interest, therapeutic friend, and conversational other to protagonist Amory Blaine in F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise
Eleanor Shellstrop, the protagonist of American fantasy sitcom The Good Place
Eleanor of Tristain, in the novels and anime The Familiar of Zero
Eleanora, principal woman's role in Strindberg's 1901 play Easter
Elenore Baker, supporting character in the anime Madlax
Eleanor Waldorf, the mother of one of the protagonists, Blair Waldorf, in the TV series Gossip Girl
Elinor Dashwood, in the 1811 novel Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Eleanor Tilney, in the 1803 novel Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Elinor Tyrell, handmaid to Margaery Tyrell in the A Song of Ice and Fire series.
Ellie Bishop, in the television series NCIS
Ellie Woodcomb, in the television series Chuck Princess Eleanor Matilda Henstridge, in the television series The RoyalsEleanor, supporting character in the video game The Walking Dead: A New FrontierElanor Gardner, daughter of Samwise Gamgee in J.R.R Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
Music
"Elenore," a 1968 song by The Turtles.
"Eleanor Rigby," a 1966 song by The Beatles.
"Lady Eleanor," a 1971 song by Lindisfarne.
"Eleanor Put Your Boots On", a 2006 song by Franz Ferdinand.
See also
References
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Youssef Gamal
Youssef Gamal () is an Egyptian Football Striker who plays for Egyptian Premier League side El Geish. He joined El Geish in July 2010 as he penned a two-seasons contract.
References
External links
Youssef Gamal at footmercato.
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Furthermore: From the Studio, from the Stage
Furthermore: From the Studio, From the Stage is the fifth album of Christian band Jars of Clay. It was released in 2003 by Essential Records. The album consists of two discs, one containing a live performance, and the other featuring re-recorded versions of songs from previous albums and three songs not previously on Jars of Clay albums.
History
Furthermore was conceived as an alternative means of putting out a greatest hits project. The band chose to re-release a number of their most popular songs in re-recorded acoustic versions (disc one) and live versions (disc two). The only song to appear twice is "The Eleventh Hour", the title track of the prior album, and it appears as track five on both studio and stage discs.
The first disc also features three new songs: "The Valley Song (Sing Of Your Mercy)", a cover of "Dig" (originally by pioneering Christian alternative band Adam Again), and "Redemption". "Needful Hands" was not from one of the group's albums; they recorded it in 1998 for the worship collection Exodus.
The second disc featured audio of most of the songs from the group's DVD, 11Live: Jars of Clay In Concert, which documented their tour for The Eleventh Hour. All of the songs on this disc originally appeared on the band's first four albums, except for "This Road", which comes from the first of a series of multi-artist worship albums called City on a Hill.
Charts and certifications
Track listing
Disc One (From the Studio)
"Overjoyed" - 3:40
"Something Beautiful" - 3:57
"The Valley Song (Sing Of Your Mercy)" - 4:11
"Liquid" - 3:38
"The Eleventh Hour" - 4:09
"Dig" (Adam Again cover) - 3:14
"Redemption" - 3:10
"Love Song for a Savior" - 4:49
"Frail" - 4:15
"Needful Hands" - 2:47
Disc Two (From the Stage)
"Disappear" - 4:41
"Like a Child" - 4:43
"Crazy Times" - 3:56
"I Need You" - 3:35
"The Eleventh Hour" - 4:18
"This Road" - 4:29
"Fly" - 3:46
"I'm Alright" - 5:14
"Revolution" - 3:43
"Flood" - 3:59
"Worlds Apart" - 10:52
References
Category:Essential Records (Christian) albums
Category:Jars of Clay live albums
Category:Jars of Clay compilation albums
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Matt Mays (album)
Matt Mays is the self-titled debut album by Matt Mays, released in 2002.
Track listing
All songs written by Matt Mays, except as noted.
Category:2002 albums
Category:Matt Mays albums
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Julie Walking Home
Julie Walking Home is a 2002 drama film directed by Agnieszka Holland. It stars Miranda Otto and William Fichtner. It won an award at the 2003 Method Fest.
Plot
Julie finds her husband Henry in bed with another woman when she returns home early from a trip with their twins, Nicholas and Nicole (who have an amazing bond, believe in magic and even have their own language). When she discovers that her son has lung cancer, Julie seeks help from a faith healer in Poland. A romantic relationship develops between Julie and Alexei (the healer). After Nicholas is cured, Alexei pays Julie a visit in Canada and they begin a relationship. Nicholas gets sick again and Alexei is unable to cure him. By choosing love, Alexei has lost his gift. Julie is pregnant (from Alexei) and she and her husband reunite, both resigned about the tragic fate of their son and trying to make the best out of the situation for their daughter's sake. In the twins' magical world, death is certainly not the end, we find out in the last scene.
Cast
Miranda Otto as Julie Makowsky
William Fichtner as Henry
Lothaire Bluteau as Alexei
Ryan Smith as Nicholas
Bianca Crudo as Nicole
Mark Day (actor) as Priest Harper
References
External links
Category:2002 films
Category:2000s drama films
Category:German films
Category:Films directed by Agnieszka Holland
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Manuel Colom Argueta
Manuel Colom Argueta (8 April 1932 – 22 March 1979) was mayor of Guatemala City and an important progressive leader of the opposition in Guatemala.
Born in Guatemala City, Colom studied at the El Rosario school, the Liceo Infantil and Escuela Nacional República de Costa Rica (1940–1946), completing his secondary schooling at the Instituto Nacional Central para Varones (INCV) where he became student association president. He graduated as one of the top students. He entered the College of Law at the University of San Carlos of Guatemala in 1950, again becoming a student leader there. He became involved in national campaigns for democracy and against the dictatorships during his studies and in 1955 was one of 33 citizens to publicly oppose the plebiscite aimed at confirming Carlos Castillo in power. He was targeted in the armed break-up of a student protest on 25 June 1956 which left several students dead.
Colom graduated as a lawyer and notary in 1957. He was granted a scholarship to continue his studies in Florence, Italy, having helped to found the Partido Revolucionario (Revolutionary Party), later leaving the party claiming it had abandoned its democratic ideals. He returned from Italy in 1960.
Back in Guatemala, Colom became involved in the '13 de Noviembre' movement backed by army officers against the government of Miguel Ydígoras, soon leaving after differences over tactics. In 1961, he was one of the founders of the Unidad Revolucionaria Democrática (URD), which led opposition to Ydígoras and Enrique Peralta. In March–April 1962, students and workers rose up against the government; student and political leaders were sought. In the same year, he married an Italian, Anna Borghini, in Florence. Then together, returned to live in Guatemala and they had three children (Lorena, Mónica and Rodolfo). On 25 January 1963, Colom and other leaders were detained, later forced into exile in El Salvador, where he worked at the National University.
In 1964, Colom was named Secretary General of the URD. In 1970, the URD, as the 'Civic Committee' proposed him as candidate for Mayor of Guatemala City, and he won the election comfortably. The Presidency was won by General Carlos Arana with Dr. Adolfo Mijangos López elected deputy for the Central District. Colom rolled out a wide municipal programme and worked as President of ANAM, the national association of Guatemalan municipalities. In 1973 he fought to have FURD – the Frente Unido Revolucionario Democrático – approved by the electoral commission so that it could fight the 1974 general election. The move was blocked by several delaying tactics, apparently as Colom would have had a good chance of winning the presidency. He was proposed as a candidate by members of other parties, but these moves were blocked by traditionalists. The opposition parties eventually backed Efraín Ríos Montt as candidate and claim to have won the elections. However, Kjell Laugerud became President after alleged massive electoral fraud. In 1965, Colom returned to Florence on another scholarship where he studied urban planning.
In 1976, Colom returned and once again tried to form and register a political party – the Frente Unido de la Revolución (FUR). The same year there was an attempt on his life that left Colom injured and reliant on bodyguards after further attempts and threats. He continued his academic work at San Carlos University, combining this with politics.
On 15 March 1979, FUR was finally registered as a political party after several years. However, a week later on 22 March, Colom was assassinated, receiving 45 bullet wounds, having been the target of a carefully planned military operation led by Major General Cancinos, that included army helicopters and several military resources (Cancinos was assassinated 3 months later). This assassination, under the military-dominated and repressive regime of General Fernando Romeo Lucas (President 1978-1982), was one of several, including Social Democrat Party founder Alberto Fuentes Mohr.
On 22 March 2009 the Government of Guatemala granted to Manuel Colom Argueta, post mortem, the Order of the Quetzal in the grade of the Grand Cross, as part of the 30th anniversary of his murder. The Order of the Quetzal was delivered to Manuel Colom Argueta's children by president Alvaro Colom Caballeros.
See also
Álvaro Colom, nephew of Manuel Colom, placed second in the 2003 presidential election; in the next election, held on 4 November 2007, he was elected President of Guatemala, defeating former general Otto Pérez Molina by five percentage points.
References
Bibliography
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Category:People of the Guatemalan Civil War
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St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church (Springfield, Ohio)
St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church is a historic Lutheran church in downtown Springfield, Ohio, United States. Founded as a German-speaking parish in Springfield's early days, it grew rapidly during its first few decades, and its present large church building was constructed in the 1890s under the direction of one of Springfield's leading architects. The congregation remains in the landmark church building, which has been named a historic site.
Early history
Springfield's First Lutheran congregation was organized in May 1841, and a separate group of German Lutherans began meeting soon afterward. After a period of worshipping in the county courthouse and in various rented properties, the group was formally organized in 1845 with a charter membership of seventy-five. A number of short-tenured ministers served the congregation, with six in succession over forty years, but by the 1880s the congregation's roll had approximately four hundred names, and its property was valued at $20,000. As the congregation continued to grow, the present church building was erected; the cornerstone was laid on November 3, 1895, and the finished building was consecrated on April 26, 1897. By 1908, the church property was valued at $50,000, and the membership had grown from four hundred individuals to four hundred and fifty families. This growth was accompanied by linguistic change: many members still worshipped in German, but English services had also begun by this time, facilitated by a minister who was fluent in both languages.
Architecture
Designed by Charles A. Cregar, one of Springfield's most prominent architects, St. John's is a Romanesque Revival structure with a prominent corner tower. Although built primarily of brick, the walls also feature copious amounts of limestone and other types of stone. Asphalt is used for the roof, while the foundation is composed of a mix of sandstone and other types of stone. The main entrance is placed at the base of the tower, which features narrow arched windows on three stories below the tall louvering that shelters the belfry. Because the church sits on a street corner, two different sides of the building include massive gabled sections, each rising above groups of small windows. The building's two largest windows are found in these gables; both are far taller and broader than any door and any other window in the structure.
Recent history
St. John's remains an active congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, conducting activities such as ministry to the poor, inter-church events, and day care service out of its 1897 church building. In 2006, the church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying because of its historically significant architecture. It is one of six Cregar-designed buildings listed on the Register, along with St. Joseph's Catholic Church, the former Arcade Hotel, the former Municipal Building, the former Third Presbyterian Church, and St. Raphael's Catholic Church.
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Koh Sotin District
Koh Sotin District () is a district (srok) located in Kampong Cham Province, Cambodia. The district capital is Chi Haer town located around 10 kilometres south of the provincial capital of Kampong Cham by water, but some 42 kilometres by road. The district borders on the southern bank of the Mekong River and includes the islands of Koh Sothin and Koh Mitt in its area.
The district is easily accessed by boat from Kampong Cham. Road access however, is via 12 kilometres of secondary road to National road 11 and then a further 18 kilometres to the intersection with National Highway 7. From this intersection in Tbong Khmom District is it a further 12 kilometres west to the provincial capital. This small relatively narrow district follows the south bank of the Mekong for about 25 kilometres. As the district is low lying, much of the land area of the district is inundated when the Mekong rises during the wet season.
An unusual birth
On 11 November 2004, Koh Sotin was home to an unusual birth. A two headed calf was born to a local farmer and a rumour quickly spread that it was a miracle that might help students pass their upcoming exams. Hundreds of students flocked to burn incense and make offerings to the dead calf, hoping that the miracle might increase their brainpower. The farmer who owned the animal packed the dead body in ice to slow decomposition and take advantage of the windfall. Hopeful pilgrims were willing to pay anything from a few cents to a few dollars for an audience with the deceased bovine.
Location
Koh Sotin district is in southern Kampong Cham Province. The Mekong runs along the northern border of the district and the district boundary includes the river itself to midstream. Reading from the north clockwise, Koh Sotin shares a border with Kang Meas and Kampong Siem districts to the north and the district of Kampong Cham to the north east. Tbong Khmom and Ou Reang Ou districts are to the east. To the south is Sithor Kandal district of Prey Veng Province and Srei Santhor district lies on the western boundary.
Administration
The Koh Sotin district governor reports to His Excellency Hun Neng, the Governor of Kampong Cham. The following table shows the villages of Koh Sotin district by commune.
Demographics
The district is subdivided into 8 communes (khum) and 85 villages (phum). According to the 1998 Census, the population of the district was 70,672 persons in 14,187 households in 1998. With a population of over 70,000 people, Koh Sotin has one of the smallest populations for districts in Kampong Cham province after Dambae and Kampong Cham districts. The average household size in Koh Sotin is 5.0 persons per household, which is slightly smaller than the rural average for Cambodia (5.2 persons). The sex ratio in the district is 89.6%, with significantly more females than males.
References
External links
update 23-09-2019 by yim marin
Kampong Cham at Royal Government of Cambodia website
Kampong Cham at Ministry of Commerce website
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Nigel Howard Croft
Nigel Howard Croft (born 1956 in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, UK) was appointed as Chairman of ISO’s Technical Committee TC 176/SC 2 in February 2010, with overall responsibility for the ISO 9001 standard, used worldwide as a basis for certification of quality management systems, and the ISO 9004 guidelines standard aimed at improving organisational performance, among others. His third and final term as Chairman expired at the end of 2018. He has subsequently been appointed to lead the revision of "Annex SL" of the ISO Directives, that forms the basis for over 40 management system standards including those on environmental management (ISO 14001), Occupational Health and Safety (ISO 45001), Information Security (ISO 27001), Anti-bribery (ISO 37001), Food Safety (ISO 22000) and many more.
Education
Nigel Croft attended Oakwood Comprehensive School, Rotherham from 1967–1972 and subsequently Thomas Rotherham College (formerly Rotherham Grammar School). First in his family to go to university, he graduated with First Class Honours in Natural Sciences and with an Honorary Senior Scholarship from Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge in 1977. After a short period in industry, he returned to academia to carry out postgraduate research in Metallurgy and Materials Science at Sheffield University under the tutelage of Prof Sir Graeme Davies. He received a PhD in 1981 for his work on the fracture characteristics and mechanisms in cast steel, and was awarded the Brunton Medal for Research Excellence. In 1981, he received a Harkness Fellowship from the Commonwealth Fund, to conduct post-doctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley, on the low temperature impact strength of welds in microalloyed steel after induction bending for use in high pressure gas pipelines.
Career
Following a family tradition, Nigel Croft began his career in the local South Yorkshire steel industry, at British Steel Corporation’s Special Steels Division in Rotherham. He began work in the quality control department in 1974, first as a student apprentice, and later as a Graduate Metallurgist. After returning from post-doctoral research work in the USA, he joined J.P. Kenny and Partners as a Senior Metallurgist, working on supplier evaluations for high pressure gas pipelines in the North Sea and elsewhere. In 1984 he married Naila Diniz (also a PhD metallurgist from Sheffield University), and emigrated to Brazil. The two worked in the Diniz family-owned specialty steel company Eletrometal S.A. until the company was sold in the mid-1990s, and is now known as Villares Metals, part of the Voest-Alpine Group of companies. Nigel’s interest in Quality Management began during this time, when he coordinated the adaptation of Eletrometal’s quality management system to meet the requirements of the ISO 9002 standard (now superseded), in 1992.
Nigel Croft currently sits on the Board of a number of organizations around the world, and in 2011 he was appointed Visiting Professor at the Business School of UUM (University of Northern Malaysia)
Contribution to International Standards
As a member of the Brazilian delegation to ISO/TC176, the ISO Technical Committee responsible for Quality Management and the ISO 9000 family of standards, Nigel Croft was responsible for coordinating the implementation of and transition to the year 2000 revision of those standards. After over 15 years of active involvement with ISO/TC 176, he was appointed as Chairman of its Subcommittee SC 2 in 2010, with responsibility for the ISO 9001 requirements standard and the ISO 9004 guidelines standard, among others. ISO/TC 176/SC 2 has participation from over 80 countries represented via their National Standards Bodies, as well as liaison organisations representing industry groups and other interested parties. There are now over 1,000,000 organisations worldwide that are certified as meeting ISO 9001, which sets out requirements for organisations to be able to demonstrate their ability to consistently provide their customers with conforming products. During his tenure, he provided overall leadership for the major revision of ISO 9001, published in 2015, the ISO Technical Specification ISO/TS 9002:2016 (Guidance on the Application of ISO 9001:2015), the ISO guide "ISO 9001:2015 for small enterprises - What to do?", also published in 2016 and ISO 9004:2018 ("Quality of an organisation — Guidance to achieve sustained success").
ISO 9001 was the first of many management system standards published by ISO. Others include ISO 14001 (Environmental Management), ISO 22000 (Food Safety Management), ISO 27001 (Information Security Management), ISO 37001 (Anti-Bribery Management) and ISO 45001 (Occupational Health & Safety Management). In order to ensure alignment and consistency of these standards, and to facilitate their implementation in an integrated manner by all kinds of organizations, in 2012 ISO published a set of rules ("Annex SL" to the ISO Directives ) to apply to all new management system standards and revisions to existing ones. After completing his term of office as chair of ISO/TC 176/SC 2 in December 2018, Nigel Croft has been appointed as convener of the ISO Joint Technical Coordination Group Task Force responsible for the revision of these rules. The work is expected to be complete by mid-2021.
Awards
In 2017, Croft was awarded the American Society for Quality’s Freund-Marquardt medal, with a citation that reads “For his passion, dedication and leadership in the application of quality management principles to the development, promotion and implementation of quality management system standards on a global scale, for over twenty years”, and in 2018 an Honorary Award from the UK's Chartered Quality Institute. According to the CQI website : "This award recognises those who have moved the quality profession or the quality discipline forward over a number of years. Nigel won this award for his substantial contribution to the evolution of the ISO 9000 family – the world’s most popular set of quality management standards. His leadership on the development of ISO 9001, among other major standards, has given companies worldwide the tools to drive improvement and embed quality across all aspects of the business".
Publications
“Supply Chains and ISO 9001 – What to expect and How to get it” ISO Focus (April 2010)
“ISO 9001:2008 – Small Changes, Big Opportunities”, , published by Sustainable Success Alert (USA)
“Preserving the credibility of ISO 9001:2000 certification” (with R. Dougherty) ISO Management Systems (Sept/Oct 2007)
“ISO 9001:2000 – What does it mean in the Supply Chain?” ISO Management Systems (April/May 2005)
“Credibility and Integrity of the ISO 9000 Standards” – ISO Management Systems (March/April 2003)
“The ISO 9000:2000 standards – some common misconceptions”, EOQ 46th Congress, Harrogate, UK, Oct 2002
American Society for Quality ISO 9000 Handbook (Author of Chapters 19 and 42), 2001
“Revving up Health Care, US Style”, Quality World, July 2001
“ISO 9000:2000 – A lesson in peace processes” Quality World, Dec 2000
References
External links
ISO Official website
Harkness Fellowships Official website
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Category:ISO/TC 176
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Windham Township, Pennsylvania
Windham Township is the name of two separate towns in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania:
Windham Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania
Windham Township, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania
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Swingin' at the Gate
Swingin' at the Gate is a live album led by American jazz vibraphonist Johnny Lytle which was recorded in 1967 at the Top of the Gate, an upper-story performance space above The Village Gate, for the Pacific Jazz label.
Reception
The Allmusic review by Craig Lytle states "Lytle has always made good music, and this outing is enhanced by the admirable rapport he establishes with the audience. This is an excellent piece".<ref name="Allmusic">{{Allmusic|first=Craig |last=Lytle |class=album |id=mw0000887689 |title=Swingin' at the Top of the Gate' – Review |accessdate=April 14, 2015}}</ref>
Track listingAll compositions by Johnny Lytle except as indicated''
"Minor Soul" - 4:47
"Gonna Get That Boat" - 5:45
"Cherish" (Terry Kirkman) - 5:41
"Mongo" - 4:18
"Blues Time" - 5:30
"Just a Feelin' Good" - 4:25
"When I Fall in Love" (Victor Young, Edward Heyman) - 5:12
"Jugee Boogie" - 4:31
Personnel
Johnny Lytle - vibraphone, xylophone, beer bottle, narration
Jimmy Foster - organ
Larry Gales - bass
Jozell Carter - drums
Carlos "Patato" Valdes - congas
References
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Happy Together (song)
"Happy Together" is a song by American rock band The Turtles from their third studio album Happy Together (1967). The song was written by Garry Bonner and Alan Gordon, arranged by Chip Douglas, and produced by Joe Wissert.
Released as a single in February 1967, the song knocked the Beatles' "Penny Lane" out of the number one slot on the US Billboard Hot 100 and remained atop the chart for three weeks. It was the group's only chart-topper in the United States. "Happy Together" also reached number 12 on the UK Singles Chart in April 1967 and number 2 on the Canadian Top Singles chart in Canada.
Background
The song was written by Garry Bonner and Alan Gordon, former members of the Magicians. It had been rejected a dozen times before it was offered to the Turtles, and the demo acetate was worn out.The song was arranged by Chip Douglas. Turtles singer Mark Volman said, “Chip was, besides being a really fine bass player and excellent singer, also a great arranger, who did most of the arrangements on ‘Happy Together.’ He is very instrumental in what would be thought of as the production.”
Composition
"Happy Together" was originally published in the key of F#m in common time with a tempo of 120 beats per minute. Kaylan's vocals span from B3 to F#5 in the song.
Critical reception
Denise Sullivan of Allmusic called the song "serious, Beatles/Beach Boys conceptual pop" with a "sparse, acoustic guitar and handclap arrangement". She felt that the Turtles had combined their "pop, folk, psychedelia, and Zombies-style harmony expertise into one song", and noted the song's contradiction of being a "rock & roll song with a martial beat" but which came very close to "bubblegum" pop (yet "rises above it"). She concluded that the song is "pop perfection" and "a most sublime slice of pop heaven".
Personnel
Howard Kaylan – lead vocals
Mark Volman – vocals
Al Nichol – lead guitar, piano, backing vocals
Jim Tucker – rhythm guitar, backing vocals
Chip Douglas – bass guitar, orchestra arrangement, backing vocals
John Barbata – drums, percussion
Additional personnel
Andy Cahan – organ
Alan Gordon – songwriting
Gary Bonner – songwriting
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
All-time charts
Certifications
In popular culture
Jim Bessman reported for Billboard that the "key usage in the acclaimed movie" Adaptation. is "as a means of juxtaposing a soundtrack song against the story's mood, à la 'As Time Goes By' in Casablanca". Bessman goes on to say that "the song's inclusion in Adaptation has also spurred the solo side of Kaylan's career."
Bessman also notes the use of the song in Freaky Friday (2003; featured both the Turtles version and a cover by Simple Plan) and two episodes of The Simpsons ("The Way We Weren't" and "Trilogy of Error").
In 1999, This song was used for a commercial for Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 64.
It was performed on the show American Idol on February 19, 2008, by David Cook, and on February 20, 2008, by Brooke White: both performances were released as live singles on the iTunes Store in 2008. On May 5, 2011, it was sung in a group performance by the top 5 contestants on the show's tenth season. On January 21, 2015, the song was featured on the TV series Stalker arranged and performed by the band SPiN. On Season 4, Episode 7 of the Showtime show Billions aired on April 28th, 2019, it was mentioned by Taylor Mason that the song is not in fact a love song, but rather a song about a relationship that never actually happens - the key to unlocking this realization being the word "imagine" in the very beginning.
The song was featured in the first trailer for the 2019 film, Pokémon: Detective Pikachu.
In Stephen King's novel Gerald's Game, the psychotic burglar, necrophile, and cannibal Raymond Andrew Joubert is described to the protagonist Jessie Burlingame as singing this song in the back of a police cruiser after being apprehended breaking into a mausoleum.
"Happy Together" is the official song of football club Melbourne City FC. The song is also played at Belmont University Men's Basketball home games during a 2nd half timeout break.
In July of 2019, the song was used in juxtaposition to the "guns and murder" in a trailer for the game Borderlands 3.
The films Happy Together and Imagine Me & You are both named after the song.
Cover versions
"Happy Together" has been covered by artists as diverse as Hugh Montenegro (US AC #29, 1969), Tony Orlando and Dawn (US #79, 1972), T.G. Sheppard (who would take his version into the country Top 10 in early 1979), the Nylons (US #75, AC #16, 1987), and the most successful cover by Captain & Tennille (US #53, AC #27, 1980), Jason Donovan had the most successful cover version in the UK reaching #10.
Non-charting versions include those by Mel Tormé, the Piano Guys, Weezer, Petula Clark, Simple Plan, Caterina Valente, the Dollyrots, Blue Meanies, Donny Osmond, Odyssey, Tahiti 80, Filter, Flobots, Tally Hall, and Johnny Panic whose version samples the original. Frank Alamo covered the song in 1967 in a French version entitled "Heureux Tous Les Deux (Happy Together)". In 1967 the Quelli covered the song in an Italian version entitled "Per vivere insieme". Spanish flamenco duo Las Grecas made a cover called "Los dos tan felices" (We both so happy) in their album "Tercer Album" (1976) and there is also a Spanish cover, sung by Roberto Jordán, called "Juntos y Felices". In 1999, BMI named "Happy Together", with approximately five million performances on American radio, the 44th most-performed song in the United States of the 20th century, placing it in the same league as "Yesterday" by the Beatles and "Mrs. Robinson" by Simon and Garfunkel. Frank Zappa's performance on Fillmore East – June 1971 included Turtles vocalists Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman and bassist Jim Pons.
Florence Henderson performed the song in season 1 of The Muppet Show in 1976. Miley Cyrus covered the song on the Backyard Sessions YouTube series.
Norwegian comedy group Prima Vera recorded a version with altered lyrics titled "Så Lykkelig I Sverige" (So Happy in Sweden) from their album Brakara (1978).
Kaylan and Volman also did a reggae remake of the song for the last Flo & Eddie album Rock Steady with Flo & Eddie (1981).
Hugo Montenegro's cover version was released as a single in 1969 from his album Good Vibrations, and reached number 29 on the Billboard Easy Listening chart.
The song has been covered by B. E. Taylor for his album, Love Never Fails (2006).
The song has also been sung by the Red Army Choir and the Leningrad Cowboys.
In 2007 the song was used as a sample on the song "Ooh Ooh Baby" from Britney Spears' album Blackout.
In 2014, Wim Leys, a Belgian Flemish Singer released a Dutch version: Vannacht Zijn We Samen on his Album Peper & Zout (Pepper & Salt).
In 2002 and 2018, American rock band Weezer performed a cover version of the song live at several of their concerts. The cover was described by Doug MacCash of The Times-Picayune as "fierce yet faithful", taking "that chunk of 50-year-old bubblegum and chew[ing] it into grungy rock n roll glory". In January 2019, the song was included on their surprise cover album
In 2019, American artists Gerard Way and Ray Toro recorded a cover version for the Netflix Original series The Umbrella Academy. Also, Mark Ronson and King Princess together released a version of the song on August 30th.
Copyright lawsuit
Flo & Eddie, legal successors to the Turtles, filed a lawsuit in the New York Court of Appeals against Sirius XM Radio to establish common law copyright on their original recording of "Happy Together." As the song was recorded in 1967, five years before federal sound copyright was established, the group sought to establish that such recordings were covered under common law copyright, a nebulous form of copyright held at the state level, in the hopes of earning royalties from Sirius XM (as they did not write the song, they could only receive performance royalties). The Court of Appeals had previously ruled that such a common law copyright may exist for the sale of recordings in New York in the 2005 ruling Capitol Records, Inc. v. Naxos of America, Inc..
On December 20, 2016, the Court ruled that no such common law copyright exists in New York for public performances of a sound recording, and that Flo & Eddie could not claim royalties.
References
External links
[ Allmusic.com Happy Together]
The Turtles Official website
Singer Howard Kaylan's website
Bonner-Gordon songs website
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Category:Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles
Category:1967 songs
Category:The Turtles songs
Category:Hugo Montenegro songs
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Category:Petula Clark songs
Category:Caterina Valente songs
Category:Songs written by Alan Gordon (songwriter)
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Udon North mine
The Udon North Mine is a large potash mine in northern Thailand in Udon Thani Province. The project is approximately 15-20 kilometres southeast of the city of Udon Thani. The project area, including Udon South Mine, covers five sub-districts including Non Sung, Nong Phai, and Nong Khon Kwang of Mueang Udon Thani District together with Huai Sam Phat and Na Muang Sub-districts of Prachaksinlapakhom District.
Operations
Mining operations occupy an area of about 26,446 rai or 42.3 km2 which consists of the processing plant area of 1,250 rai (2 km2) and an underground mine. The mine is an underground room and pillar mine projected to reach depths of 350–380 metres.
Udon North and South represent one of the largest potash reserves in Thailand, having estimated reserves of 665 million tonnes of ore grading 16 percent potassium chloride extracted from sylvite ore. With a construction budget of more than 30 billion baht, the project is slated to have a maximum capacity of two million tonnes of potash a year.
Local opposition
mining had not begun at at least some sites due to local opposition. Concerns include questions about the disposal of mine tailings, a waste rock by-product and projected land subsidance. New mining legislation in the form of a minerals act to be enacted 29 October 2017, has increased fears among activists that its intent is to dampen public participation in mining decisions while expediting mining projects.
References
External links
New push for potash mining hits opposition in Isaan
Category:Potash mines in Thailand
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