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Chaplin.js
Chaplin.js is an open-source client-side JavaScript web framework based on the model–view–controller (MVC) software architectural pattern. Chaplin.js uses the Backbone.js library and is intended for developing single-page applications.
History
In February 2012, Chaplin.js was created by Mathias Schäfer as a result of a project to build Movie Pilot by 9elements.
Chaplin.js received the Black Duck Open Source Rookie of the Year award for 2012
Features
Chaplin.js uses AMD for module encapsulation and lazy-loading. It is designed with strict memory management for optimal web browser performance. Chaplin.js is made available in CoffeeScript and LiveScript for easier object composition and class hierarchy management.
Chaplin.js allows a developer to define regions in the presentation of the application and dynamically load and unload content in those regions without redrawing the entire view or hiding/showing preloaded content panels.
References
External links
Category:JavaScript libraries
Category:Rich Internet application frameworks
Category:Ajax (programming)
Category:Software using the MIT license
Category:Web frameworks
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Cosmopterix ancistraea
Cosmopterix ancistraea is a moth in the family Cosmopterigidae. It was described by Meyrick in 1913. It is found in South Africa.
The wingspan is about . The forewings are bronzy-blackish with a silvery-white subcostal line from the base, not nearly reaching the band, inclined downwards posteriorly. There is a silvery-white median line from the base almost to a projection of the band, as well as a white subdorsal line from one-fourth to the projection of the band. The dorsal edge is white from the base to one-third of the wing and the costal edge is shortly white before the band. There is a rather broad light ochreous-yellowish median band, somewhat narrowed dorsally, the anterior edge marked with two golden-metallic spots, the upper wholly anterior to the lower, followed by a black dot, the edge forming a projection between these, the posterior edge marked with two opposite golden-metallic spots, the lower preceded by a black speck, between these suffusedly projecting and giving rise to a white streak which soon becomes terminal and runs to the apex. The hindwings are light grey.
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera generic names catalog
Category:Moths described in 1913
Category:Cosmopterix
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Aftab Hussain Saikia
Aftab Hussain Saikia (born 7 April 1949) is an Indian Judge and former Chief Justice of Indian High Courts.
Career
Saikia was born in 1949. He passed B.Sc. from Cotton University in 1969 and completed LL.B. and LL.M. from Guwahati University. In 1974, he started practice in the Guwahati High Court on Civil, Criminal, Constitutional and Service matters. He practised for 26 years in the Guwahati High Court and other outlying Benches in the North East India. Saikia was appointed as public prosecutor of Government of Assam for three years. He also worked as Principal as well as lecturer of J.B. Law College of Guwahati. He served as the Guest Lecturer of in the Department of Law, Guwahati University. In 1999 Saikia was designated as Senior Advocate. He was appointed as a permanent Judge of the Guwahati High Court on 15 November 2000 and became the Chief Justice of Sikkim High Court on 7 March 2009. He was awarded Ph.D in Law by the Gawhati University in December 2009. On 13 April 2010, he was transferred to the Jammu and Kashmir High Court as Chief Justice. He retired on 6 April 2011 from the post. At present Justice Saikia is serving as Chairperson of Meghalaya and Assam Human rights Commission. He was the first sitting Judge or Chief Justice of High Court to obtain Ph.D within the Country while in office.
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Category:1949 births
Category:Living people
Category:Indian judges
Category:Judges of the Gauhati High Court
Category:Chief Justices of the Sikkim High Court
Category:Chief Justices of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court
Category:Cotton College, Guwahati alumni
Category:Gauhati University alumni
Category:People from Assam by occupation
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Proeulia chromaffinis
Proeulia chromaffinis is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Chile.
References
Category:Moths described in 1995
Category:Proeulia
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Bayer 04 Leverkusen (women)
Bayer 04 Leverkusen, also known as Bayer Leverkusen, Leverkusen, or simply known as Bayer, is a German women's football club based in Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia. The club plays in the Frauen-Bundesliga, the top tier of German women's football.
History
The origin of Bayer Leverkusen women's football section lies at the SSG 09 Bergisch Gladbach, which in the 1970s and 1980s was the dominating club in German women's football. In that period Bergisch Gladbach won the national women's football championship nine times which today is still the record. They also won the DFB-Pokal three times. After the inception of the Bundesliga in 1990 their performance declined through the 1990s, eventually leading to relegation.
In 1996 the women's team moved from SSG 09 Bergisch Gladbach to TuS Köln rrh.. At Köln the team played mostly second-tier football with a few seasons in the third tier in between. Their greatest success was a semi-final appearance in the 2007–08 cup. However the team was not able to find sponsors, that would help to realize the team's ambitions of playing Bundesliga football again. Contemporaneously Bayer Leverkusen pronounced their interest to establish a women's football section of their own. On 25 June 2008 the women's football department of TuS Köln rrh. disbanded to join Bayer Leverkusen.
In their first season at Bayer Leverkusen the team finished 7th in the south group of the 2. Bundesliga. The following season Leverkusen became champions of the 2. Bundesliga and would thus play in the Bundesliga in the 2010–11 season. In its debut season the team finished 8th.
The following season the team finished 11th in the table, yet wasn't relegated as Hamburger SV announced its disestablishment of the women's section. Since the 2012–13 season, Leverkusen had been coached by Thomas Obliers, until his resignation in 2017. Leverkusen were relegated back to the 2. Bundesliga soon after.
Current squad
Former players
Seasons
Stadia
Kurt-Rieß-Anlage (2008–2011)
Ulrich-Haberland-Stadion (Amateurstadion) (2011-2015/16)
Jugendleistungszentrum Kurtekotten (since 2016/17)
References
External links
Official team site
Category:Football clubs in North Rhine-Westphalia
Women
Bayer 04 Leverkusen Women
Category:Women's football clubs in Germany
Category:2008 establishments in Germany
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1985–86 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team
The 1985–86 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team represented University of Kentucky in the 1985-86 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The head coach was Eddie Sutton and the team finished the season with an overall record of 32-4.
References
Category:Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball seasons
Kentucky
Kentucky
Kentucky Wildcats
Kentucky Wildcats
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Romeo Romanutti
Romeo Romanutti (6 August 1926 – 31 December 2007) was an Italian basketball player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1948 Summer Olympics.
References
Category:1926 births
Category:2007 deaths
Category:Italian men's basketball players
Category:Olympic basketball players of Italy
Category:Basketball players at the 1948 Summer Olympics
Category:Sportspeople from Split, Croatia
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Majlis Amanah Rakyat
The Majlis Amanah Rakyat (MARA; ), is a Malaysian government agency. It was formed to aid, train, and guide Bumiputra (Malays/Indian Muslim and other indigenous Malaysians) in the areas of business and industry. MARA was formed on 1 March 1966 under the Rural and National Development Ministry.
History and organisation
MARA was formed by an act of Parliament in 1966. It had originally begun as the Rural Industrial Development Authority (RIDA), which was established by the British colonial administration in 1951, a program to provide economic assistance and support to Malay farmers and rural inhabitants. This organisation was expanded in scope and became the MARA in 1966. Although it is an autonomous government agency, it reports to the Minister of Rural and Regional Development, who appoints all the members of the MARA Council. Besides state-level offices in the 13 states of Malaysia and the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, MARA operates three offices overseas — one in London, Washington, D.C. and another in Alexandria, Egypt.
Entrepreneurship aid
For other things, MARA offers loans to Bumiputra entrepreneurs. Such loans may be repaid either in the conventional Western manner or in the style of Islamic banking, depending on the borrower's preference. MARA also offers entrepreneurship courses, vocational training, consultancy services, and assistance in marketing for Bumiputra entrepreneurs.
MARA constructs infrastructure, such as shoplots or factories, which are rented to Bumiputra entrepreneurs at a subsidised rate. These facilities are often constructed in towns or underdeveloped areas, to encourage further development there.
Education
MARA also operates several junior colleges or boarding schools, and Universiti Kuala Lumpur. Previously, Universiti Teknologi MARA was operated by MARA; it has become its own entity under the Ministry of Higher Education. The junior colleges, referred to as Maktab Rendah Sains MARA (MARA Junior Science Colleges, often abbreviated as MRSMs), are operated by the Education & Training (Secondary) Department of MARA, whose stated mission is to "produce Bumiputra students of potential in science and technology".
Until recently, the MRSMs were only open to Bumiputra students. However, the Barisan Nasional government pledged during its campaign for the 2004 general election that the MRSMs would be opened to all. Eventually, they were opened, with a quota allocating 10% of all places in MRSMs to non-Bumiputras. In admissions, preference is given to students from low-income families, rural areas and/or those living in squatter settlements in the cities.
In addition to MRSMs and the UniKL, vocational and professional colleges are operated by MARA such as Pusat GIAT MARA and Kolej Kemahiran MARA. These vocational colleges give a second lane of higher education to students who are unable to continue their studies in universities. There are also Kolej Kemahiran Tinggi MARA, Institut Kemahiran MARA, Kolej Professional MARA and Kolej MARA.
Scholarships are offered to Bumiputra students for local and foreign institutions of higher learning. However, students must specialize in certain professions, such as engineering, medicine or accounting.
Subsidiaries
F.I.T Center Sdn. Bhd. (FITEC)
Universiti Teknikal MARA Sdn. Bhd. (Universiti Kuala Lumpur - UniKL)
Pelaburan MARA Berhad (PMB)
German-Malaysian Institute (GMI)
Yayasan Pelajaran MARA (YPM)
Pusat Pembangunan Reka Bentuk Sdn. Bhd. (DDEC)
Kolej Poly-Tech MARA Sdn. Bhd. (KPTM)
GIATMARA Sdn. Bhd. (GIATMARA)
Asia Aerotechnic Sdn. Bhd. (AAT)
MARALiner Sdn. Bhd (MLSB)
Technology Park Malaysia College Sdn. Bhd. (TPM College)
MARA Excellent Ventures Sdn. Bhd. (MEX)
UniMARA Sdn. Bhd. (UniMARA)
Rural Capital Sdn. Bhd. (RCSB)
MARA Aerospace & Technologies Sdn. Bhd (M-AeroTech)
YPM Realties Sdn. Bhd. (YPMR)
MARA Incorporated Sdn. Bhd (MARA Inc.)
Glocal Link (M) Sdn. Bhd (GLSB)
MARA Corporation Sdn. Bhd. (MARA Corp.)
See also
Te Puni Kōkiri an analogous body in New Zealand
Mara Junior Science College Kuching, Sarawak
References
External links
Category:Malaysian federal ministries, departments and agencies
Category:1966 establishments in Malaysia
Category:Government agencies established in 1966
Category:Ministry of Rural Development (Malaysia)
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Ohio State Route 362
State Route 362 (SR 362) is a north–south state highway in the western part of the U.S. state of Ohio. It serves to connect Lake Loramie State Park with SR 66. Its southern terminus is in Fort Loramie at the intersection of North Main Street (SR 66) and Elm Street. near the northern edge of Fort Loramie. SR 362 then runs about east, then turns north at its intersection with Fort Loramie–Swanders Road (which continues east). SR 362 then runs northerly along the western edge of Lake Loramie and Lake Loramie State Park before turning northwesterly then westerly and enters Minster and reaches its northern terminus at the intersection of South Main Street (SR 66) and First Street.
Route description
SR 362 runs for in Shelby County and for in Auglaize County. The highway is not a part of the National Highway System.
SR 362 begins at the northern edge of the business district in Fort Loramie. After passing the St. Michael's Catholic Church and several houses and business, the highway goes east out of town and enters farmland. After turning north at the intersection with Fort Loramie–Swanders Road, SR 362 passes a picnic area. It then crosses onto Crawford Island where the campgrounds and beach for Lake Loramie State Park are located. After leaving the island, it runs along the western edge of the main portion of Lake Loramie. SR 362 then passes fishing areas on the east side of the road and houses on the west side before turning northwest then west and entering farmland before entering Minster. Once it enters Minster, SR 362 runs west to its northern terminus with South Main Street (SR 66) with houses along the north side of the road and businesses on the south side.
History
In 1932, an unnumbered state highway following the general route of the modern-day SR 362 was established on the west side of Lake Loramie. This route started at Fort Loramie-Swanders Road (modern-day County Road 27) and traveled north to the intersection of Main Street and First Street in Minster. By 1934, the route had been formally designated SR 362. A second, unconnected segment of SR 362 was designated in 1937 on the southern side of Lake Loramie. This segment ran from Fort Loramie-Swanders Road north to the vicinity of Filburns Island. Between 1955 and 1957, the discontinuous segment to Filburns Island was removed from the route and the southern terminus was moved to downtown Fort Loramie. Since then, no major changes have occurred to the routing.
Major intersections
References
362
Category:Transportation in Auglaize County, Ohio
Category:Transportation in Shelby County, Ohio
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C/2001 OG108
C/2001 OG108 (LONEOS) is a Halley-type comet with an orbital period of 48.51 years. It was discovered on 28 July 2001 by the LONEOS telescope at Lowell Observatory.
Observations taken in January and February 2002 showed that the "asteroid" had developed a small amount of cometary activity as it approached perihelion. It was subsequently reclassified as a comet. The comet came to perihelion (closest approach to the Sun) on 15 March 2002. The next perihelion passage is calculated to be on 6 June 2050.
The comet has a rotational period of 2.38 ± 0.02 days (57.12 hr).
In 2003, the comet was estimated to have a mean absolute V magnitude (H) of 13.05 ± 0.10, with an albedo of 0.03, giving an effective radius of 8.9 ± 0.7 km. Using data from Fernandez (2004–2005) JPL lists the comet with an albedo of 0.05 and a diameter of 13.6 ± 1.0 km.
This comet probably represents the transition between typical Halley-family/long-period comets and extinct comets. Damocloids have been studied as possible extinct cometary candidates due to the similarity of their orbital parameters with those of Halley-family comets.
See also
List of Halley-type comets
References
External links
Orbital simulation from JPL (Java) / Horizons Ephemeris
Category:Halley-type comets
Category:Near-Earth comets
Category:Damocloids
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Novaya Ivantsovka
Novaya Ivantsovka () is a rural locality (a selo) in Pallasovsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 476 as of 2010. There are 7 streets.
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Category:Rural localities in Volgograd Oblast
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West Virginia University M.B.A. controversy
The West Virginia University M.B.A. controversy concerns the granting of an Executive Master of Business Administration degree (EMBA) by West Virginia University to Mylan pharmaceutical company executive Heather Bresch in 2007. An independent panel later concluded that the university changed its records, and granted the degree despite incomplete graduation requirements. West Virginia University's president Michael Garrison, its provost Gerald Lang, and its business school dean R. Stephen Sears, resigned as a result of the investigation, and the university's general counsel and the president's communications officer relinquished those roles.
Initial questions
On October 2, 2007 Heather Bresch, the daughter of then-governor (and subsequently United States Senator) Joe Manchin of West Virginia, was promoted to chief operating officer at Mylan, a Cecil Township, Pennsylvania-based generic drug maker.
On October 11, 2007 the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette contacted West Virginia University to confirm academic credentials claimed by Bresch, including an EMBA degree. Research done by the Post-Gazette indicated that Bresch's course work ceased with 22 out of the 48-credit-hour program remaining to be completed. The WVU Registrar told the newspaper that Bresch had earned an undergraduate degree, but did not finish her graduate degree. However, on October 15, 2007, a university spokeswoman announced that WVU officials had verified that Bresch had "completed all the requirements for an executive masters of business administration degree," but did not receive her diploma because she failed to pay a $50 graduation fee. The WVU official attributed the misunderstanding to the business school's failure to transfer records from nearly half of Bresch's course work.
On October 22, 2007, R. Stephen Sears, the Milan Puskar Dean of WVU's business school, sent a letter to WVU's admissions and records office retroactively granting Bresch an EMBA. Six classes were added to her record with letter grades, and two classes with "Incomplete" grades were given letter grades.
Panel
The University commissioned a report written by a panel of faculty members from WVU and other universities to look into the matter. As covered by the Post-Gazette, the panel discovered the change in Bresch's letter grades, and the University announced in April 2008 that it would rescind Bresch's degree. WVU provost Gerald Lang announced his resignation and shortly thereafter College of Business & Economics Dean Stephen Sears announced his resignation as well.
The report's panel found that high-ranking university administrators "cherry-picked" information and that grades were "simply pulled from thin air" to grant Bresch the degree nearly 10 years after she was supposed to graduate. The panel concluded administrators lacked documentation to prove Bresch's claims, relied too heavily on verbal assertions and caved to political pressure. The report did not find that the university president directly interfered, but it concluded the presence of his chief of staff in the decision-making meeting created "palpable" pressure. The panel concluded (“taking the most charitable view") that Bresch did not deliberately lie in believing that she had earned degree.
Aftermath and repercussions
On May 1, 2008, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, which first reported on the controversy, published an editorial calling for the President Michael Garrison's resignation. On the same day, WVU's student newspaper, The Daily Athenaeum held a student forum where some students called for Garrison's resignation. Garrison did not attend, and was represented by a member of the executive communications staff.
Resignations and calls for resignations
The Chairman of West Virginia University's Health Sciences Center neurosurgery department organized a faculty letter in support of President Garrison. Some faculty members felt pressured to sign the letter, which had 23 signatures.
On May 5, 2008, WVU's faculty senate passed a non-binding resolution 77-19 that stated: "The Faculty Senate of West Virginia University votes no confidence in President Garrison. For the good of the institution and for the benefit of our students, he must resign or the Board of Governors must require his resignation." One emeritus member of the faculty called the grade alterations by the WVU administration a "serious academic crime" by subverting the faculty's traditional authority.
Many WVU alumni expressed concern and anger regarding the controversy and feared damage to the university's reputation. Prominent Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania attorney and WVU alum Peter J. Kalis called for removal of Steven Goodwin, chairman of WVU's board of directors, as well as Garrison.
Garrison subsequently resigned and was replaced by interim President C. Peter Magrath. Magrath served for a year before James P. Clements was named to be the next president.
In addition, the university's general counsel stepped down as general counsel but remained vice president of legal affairs. The president's communications officer was reassigned to another job in the university.
References
Category:West Virginia University
Category:Academic scandals
Category:Résumé frauds and controversies
Category:2007 scandals
Category:2007 in West Virginia
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2014 European Parliament election in Latvia
The European Parliament election 2014 in Latvia was the election of the delegation from Latvia to the European Parliament in 2014.
Background
At the previous European Parliament election in Latvia in 2009, the country elected 8 MEPs. Upon entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty Latvia was awarded 1 additional MEP, again bringing the total number of MEPs representing Latvia to 9. Calculated from the results of the 2009 election, this MEP came from the Civic Union. For this election however, the number of MEP's representing Latvia was again reduced to 8.
Results
Elected Members of the European Parliament
See also
2014 European Parliament election
Politics of Latvia
List of political parties in Latvia
References
External links
Central Election Commission
European Parliament Election Law
Latvia
2014
Category:2014 in Latvia
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Union Mill
Union Mill or Union Mills may refer to:
British Isles
Communities
Union Mills, a village on the Isle of Man
Windmills
Union Mill, Appledore, a windmill in Kent
Union Mills, Burnham Overy, a combined wind and watermill in Norfolk
Union Mill, Beverley, a windmill in the East Riding of Yorkshire
Union Mill, Cranbrook, a windmill in Kent
Union Mill, Gainsborough, a windmill in Lincolnshire
Union Mill, Gilberdyke, a windmill in the East Riding of Yorkshire
Union Mill, Hackney, a windmill in Middlesex
Union Mill, Lynstead, a windmill in Kent
Union Mill, Onehouse, a windmill in Suffolk
Union Mill, Whitby, a windmill in the North Riding of Yorkshire
Union Mills, Thurning a windmill in Norfolk
Boreas Union Mill, Pontefract, a windmill in the West Riding of Yorkshire
Watermills
Union Mills, Burnham Overy, a combined wind and watermill in Norfolk
Textile mills
Union Mills, Milnsbridge, Yorkshire
United States
(by state)
Communities
Union Mills, California, an unincorporated community
Union Mills, Indiana, an unincorporated community
Union Mills, Maryland, an unincorporated community
Union Mill, Washington, an unincorporated community
Union Mills, Pleasants County, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
Watermills
Union Mills (Fall River, Massachusetts), listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP)
Union Mill Complex, Ballston Spa, NRHP-listed
Other
Union Mills Homestead Historic District, Westminster, Maryland, NRHP-listed
Union Mills Superintendent's House, Olympia, NRHP-listed in Thurston County
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Duncan Colquhoun
Duncan Morton Colquhoun (born 24 July 1915; died 2005) was a Scottish footballer who played as a forward.
Colquhoun trialled at several Football League clubs during the mid-1930s, including Fulham, Sheffield Wednesday and Hartlepools United, but failed to make a league appearance. He was signed by Wigan Athletic from Queen of the South, and spent three seasons at the club before joining Bristol City in November 1937.
Colquhoun returned to Wigan Athletic after the Second World War.
References
Category:1915 births
Category:2005 deaths
Category:Scottish footballers
Category:Association football forwards
Category:Fulham F.C. players
Category:Millwall F.C. players
Category:Dumbarton F.C. players
Category:Sheffield Wednesday F.C. players
Category:Hartlepool United F.C. players
Category:Queen of the South F.C. players
Category:Wigan Athletic F.C. players
Category:Bristol City F.C. players
Category:Southport F.C. players
Category:Scottish Football League players
Category:English Football League players
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Henry Mason (priest)
Henry Mason (1573? – August 1647) was an English clergyman and theological writer.
Life
He was a younger brother of Francis Mason, archdeacon of Norfolk, and was born at Wigan, Lancashire, about 1573. He entered Brasenose College, Oxford as a servitor in 1592, and was elected Humphrey Ogle's exhibitioner on 2 November 1593. He graduated B.A. in January 1594, and M.A. (from Corpus Christi College) in May 1603. He had previously taken holy orders, and became chaplain of Corpus Christi College in 1602. He proceeded to the degree of B.D. in June 1610, and in the following year was collated to the vicarage of Hillingdon, which he resigned in 1612, when he became rector of St. Matthew's, Friday Street, London.
John King, bishop of London, appointed him his chaplain, and on 14 February 1613 he was collated to St. Andrew Undershaft with St. Mary Axe, London. In 1616 he was installed prebendary of Willesden in St. Paul's Cathedral. This prebend he resigned in March 1637, retaining the rectory of St. Andrew until 1641. When the presbyterians became dominant, he resigned his rectory, and retired to Wigan, where he died early in August 1647, and was buried in Wigan churchyard; he had during his lifetime (in 1632 and 1639) bestowed £240 in trust for the relief of the poor of Wigan. He also gave his library to the grammar school, and made other benefactions to the town.
Works
His writings include:
'The New Art of Lying, covered by Jesuits under the vaile of Equivocation, discovered and disproved,' 1624, 1634.
'Christian Humiliation, or a Treatise of Fasting,' 1625, 1627.
'Epicure's Fast, or a Short Discourse discovering the Licenciousnesse of the Roman Church in her Religious Fasts,' 1626, 1628.
'Tribunal of the Conscience,' 1626; 2nd edit. 1627; 1634.
'The Cure of Cares,' 1627, 1628; 3rd edit. 1634.
'Contentment in God's Gifts,' 1630, 1634.
Letters of his appear in Dr. Thomas Jackson's Works, i, 600, and Joseph Mede's Works, p. 767, and some of his pieces occur in Samuel Hoard's God's Love to Mankind, 1653. He left a folio volume of theology in manuscript to Gilbert Sheldon.
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Category:1573 births
Category:1647 deaths
Category:People from Wigan
Category:17th-century English Anglican priests
Category:16th-century English writers
Category:16th-century male writers
Category:People of the Tudor period
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Netherlands at the 1992 Summer Paralympics
Netherlands competed at the 1992 Summer Paralympics in Barcelona, Spain. The team included 99 athletes, 72 men and 27 women. Competitors from Netherlands won 39 medals, including 14 gold, 14 silver and 11 bronze to finish 9th in the medal table.
See also
Netherlands at the Paralympics
Netherlands at the 1992 Summer Olympics
References
Category:Nations at the 1992 Summer Paralympics
1992
Summer Paralympics
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Naartjie (clothing retailer)
Naartjie is a clothing retailer founded in 1989 in Cape Town, South Africa by designer Anne Eales. The clothing is made from African cotton. The corporate office is now based out of Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. Currently, there are 22 stores located in South Africa. They also had 55 stores located in the United States. The company's American corporation filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on September 15, 2013. The Wall Street Journal reported on October 3, 2014 the American store would begin "Going out of business sales."
References
External links
Naartjie
Category:Clothing retailers of the United States
Category:Companies based in Utah
Category:Retail companies of South Africa
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1938 Irish presidential election
The 1938 Irish presidential election was the first Irish presidential election, held to fill the new office of President of Ireland.
Procedure
The office of president was established by Article 12 of the new Constitution of Ireland, which come into force on 29 December 1937. Article 57 of the Constitution provided that the president would enter office not later than 180 days after that date. Until the inauguration of the first president, the powers and functions of the office were carried out by a Presidential Commission consisting of the Chief Justice, the President of the High Court and the Ceann Comhairle.
On 14 April 1938, Minister for Local Government and Public Health Seán T. O'Kelly made an order under section 6 of the Presidential Elections Act 1937 opening nominations, with noon on 4 May as the deadline for nominations, and 31 May set as the date for a poll (if any).
Under Article 12, candidates could be nominated by:
at least twenty of the 198 serving members of the Houses of the Oireachtas, or
at least four of 31 councils of the administrative counties, including county boroughs.
All Irish citizens on the Dáil electoral register were eligible to vote.
Nomination process
The first candidate to seek a nomination was Alfie Byrne, who had been serving as Lord Mayor of Dublin since 1930, and would continue in that position until 1939.
On 21 April, representatives of the two major parties, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, met and agreed to nominate Dr Douglas Hyde for the office. The following day, Labour Party leader William Norton expressed his approval in the Dáil of the nomination of Dr Hyde and Alfie Byrne issued a statement ending his nomination campaign.
At the close of nominations, Hyde was the only nominated candidate, with two separate nomination forms received on behalf of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael Oireachtas members. Accepting the nominations and his election to office on 4 May, Hyde said, "I accept this office willingly, but with humility. I will do my best to carry out my duties in the future".
Result
Hyde was inaugurated as the first President of Ireland on 25 June 1938.
References
Category:1938 elections in Europe
Presidential election
Category:Presidential elections in Ireland
Category:Uncontested elections
Category:June 1938 events
Presidential
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1978 American Airlines Tennis Games – Singles
Brian Gottfried was the defending champion but lost in the quarterfinals to Peter Fleming.
Roscoe Tanner won in the final 6–1, 7–6 against Raúl Ramirez.
Seeds
Brian Gottfried (Quarterfinals)
Eddie Dibbs (Second Round)
Manuel Orantes (Quarterfinals)
Raúl Ramirez (Final)
Ilie Năstase (Quarterfinals)
Harold Solomon (Third Round)
Sandy Mayer (First Round)
Roscoe Tanner (Champion)
Jaime Fillol (Third Round)
Phil Dent (First Round)
Stan Smith (Third Round)
John Alexander (First Round)
Tim Gullikson (Second Round)
Cliff Drysdale (Second Round)
José Higueras (Second Round)
John Newcombe (First Round)
Draw
Finals
Top Half
Section 1
Section 2
Bottom Half
Section 3
Section 4
References
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Lissette
Lissette Álvarez Chorens, commonly known as Lissette, (born March 10, 1947) is a singer, songwriter, and record producer from Cuba. She is best known for recording a Spanish language-version of Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse of the Heart" in 1985.
Early life
Lissette was born March 10, 1947, in Lima, Peru, at a time when her parents, Cuban TV stars Olga Chorens and Tony Álvarez (Olga y Tony), were touring South America. While living with her parents in Havana, Cuba, Lissette made her first recording at age 5, the children's song "El Ratoncito Miguel", which would eventually become a hit for her.
She and her sister Olguita were sent to live in the United States when she was 14 years old (on September 13, 1961 through Operation Peter Pan, a US government sponsored program in conjunction with the Catholic Welfare Bureau, and which transported 14,000 Cuban children from Cuba to the United States. The scheme was devised for families opposed to the Cuban revolution of 1959, who feared that the government would indoctrinate their children into communism. Lissette has supported Yo No Coopero Con La Dictadura (I Do Not Cooperate with the Dictatorship).
Career
After two years in the US, Lissette and her sister were reunited with their parents in Miami and the whole family moved to Puerto Rico in 1965 where she lived until 1979 and where she worked as a singer. In 1977 she was selected by Univision, the biggest Spanish Language TV Channel of America to represent the United States in the sixth edition of the OTI Festival. Her entry, entitled "Si hay amor volverá" (If there is love, he will return) was warmly welcomed by the national juries, to the point that she ended second with eight points in a tie with the Dominican entrant Fernando Casado.
Lissette started her career in Puerto Rico as an adolescent, then later moved to Miami. She hosted her own shows in the Telemundo network in Puerto Rico for several years and did Emmy Award winning TV specials at Channel 10 and Channel 4 in Miami, Florida. Lissette had a successful recording career having more than 30 albums including 8 gold albums and 2 platinum albums. Lissette is an accomplished singer and songwriter who has produced most of her albums. She has received countless awards during her singing career, including a UNICEF award for her humanitarian work with children.
In Latin America, she is known as: "an interpreter of romantic songs influenced by the ballad" (Cuban Music from A to Z, page 12).
Family
She was first married to singer Chucho Avellanet. Together, they hosted El Show de Chucho y Lissette on Telemundo. Lissette is now married to Grammy award-winning singer and songwriter Willy Chirino. They reside in Miami.
References
Cuban Music from A to Z. By Helio Orovio. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004. xi, 235 p.
External links
Official Website
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Genevac
Genevac Ltd is a company which was founded in 1990 by Michael Cole. It used to specialize in the manufacture of vacuum pumps and centrifugal evaporators, but has since directed its attention to equipment designed for combinatorial chemistry. Following a series of mergers, it is currently a subsidiary of SP Industries.
References
External links
Official site
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Rzakta
Rzakta is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Wiązowna, within Otwock County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It lies approximately east of Wiązowna, east of Otwock, and east of Warsaw.
References
Rzakta
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1921–22 Istanbul Football League
The 1921–22 İstanbul Football League season was the 15th season of the league. Galatasaray won the league for the sixth time.
Season
References
Tuncay, Bülent (2002). Galatasaray Tarihi. Yapı Kredi Yayınları
Dağlaroğlu, Rüştü. Fenerbahçe Spor Kulübü Tarihi 1907-1957
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Istanbul
Istanbul
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Izalco
Izalco (in Nawat: Itzalku) is a municipality in the Sonsonate department of El Salvador.
Volcan Izalco is an icon of the country of El Salvador, a very young Volcano on the flank of Santa Ana volcano. From when it was born in 1770 until 1966, it was in almost continuous eruption and was known as the "lighthouse of the Pacific." Since then it has been nearly inactive.
Toponomy
According to the historian Jorge Lardé y Larin, Izalco comes from the roots itz (obsidian); cali (house), and co (place), which translates to "city of obsidian houses". It is said that the primitive name was tecupan ishatcu, which means "seat of the lords in a place of crystal waters"; or the land was also known as muchishatcu which means "kingdom of the Izalcos".
Another version states that Izalco has other meanings, such as "in the obsidian sands", "in the black sands", and "place of vigilance or penitence"; these all originate from itz (obsidian), shal (sand) co (place), and cali (house).
History
Prehispanic Era
According to the traditional story from Juan de Torquemada, the last survivor of Tula, Topilzín Acxitl Quetzalcóhuatl II moved to Central America due to the collapse of the Toltec culture in the Anáhuac valley. There, he founded Escuintla, and afterwards Tepcan-Izalco – or tecupan ishatcu – and later, Cuscatlán. However - even though the exact chronology is unknown - scientific investigations established the arrival of the nahuat people in salvadorean territory in various migrations between the years 900 AD and 1500 AD.
More precisely, the izalcans were one of the four branches of the nahuats who settled in the region, along with the cuzcatlecos, nonualcos, and mazahuas. They were also part of a group of city-states that the Spanish called Tecpán-Izalco, which comprised 15 settlements. The most notable among them were Izalco, Caluco, Nahulingo, and Tacus-calco.
The area was an important producer of cacao (cocoa beans), which was paid as tribute to the presiding authority of the city-states, and also served as money for the acquisition of goods and services such as obsidian and high-quality Guatemalan jade. The central city was named Tecuzalco or Tecuzcalco, which means "head or capital of the Izalcos". It was notable due to its dense population in the area.
Peasant uprising in 1932
Izalco was a center of the 1932 Salvadoran peasant uprising. Its native Pipil peasants were led by Feliciano Ama, who was hung by government troops on January 28. More than one fourth of the population of Izalco was killed.
Main sights
Church Dolores de Izalco
It is located in the city of Izalco, in the municipality and district of the same name, in the feet of the volcano of the same name, at 6.5 Kilometers to the northeast of the city of Sonsonate. It has an elevation of 440 meters over sea level.
It was built in year previous to 1570, because in this year the parish was very organized, according to the civil documents of Caluco. It is unknown who built it but its benefactor was Don Diego de Guzmán.
The church is surrounded by an atrium, the facade is of three bodies, but only two bodies of the church remain, the inferior and the middle one.
The inferior body has many accesses; one main and two laterals: The three accesses have the shape of an arch of half point. They have four couples of Tuscan columns and entablatures with classic decorations that divide the two bodies at the same time. In the middle body, there is an ocular and other four couples of columns. The molds or entablatures that divide the two bodies have fitomorphic decorations. The superior body or españada of recent construction is decorated with pilasters and gothic decorations in relief. In the superior part, there is a clock installed and is crowned by a small dome and a cross.
To each side of the españada, there are steeples that have the same decoration style, crowned also by a dome and a cross.
The lateral and later facades are reinforced with support columns. The walls are decorated with entablatures with classic decorations that divide the two bodies at the same time. In the middle body, there is an ocular and other four couples of columns. The molds or entablatures that divide the two bodies have fitomorphic decorations. The superior body or españada of recent construction is decorated with pilasters and gothic decorations in relief. In the superior part, there is a clock installed and is crowned by a small dome and a cross.
To each side of the españada, there are steeples that have the same decoration style, crowned also by a dome and a cross.
The lateral and later facades are reinforced with support columns. The walls are decorated with entablatures and the lateral accesses are framed with ionic columns. Another lateral access even preserves the decoration that is believed was the original one, with Baroque ornaments that look like a flower and leaves. You can observe that same decoration in a superior corner of the later facade.
The interior of the church possesses some original parts as the presbytery and the bases of the columns. The rest has been remodeled. The roof is made of tile and wood.
Church Of Asunción Of Izalco
The church is of Baroque style. The facade is of altarpiece type and it consists of two bodies. The inferior is decorated with two pairs of Tuscan columns on each side of the main access, which was built in an arch of half point and whose lateral sides look like Tuscan columns.
It has two ornamental ovals in relief, amid the couples of columns. The superior body is decorated with four pinnacles. It is framed with scrolls and crowned with a cross. A square oracle is located in the center, which provides illumination to the temple.
In the lateral sides of the church there is an access on each side and several support columns. The lateral walls are decorated with entablatures of classic style; the roof is of two wooden waters and iron sheets.
According to Monsignor Cortez y Laraz, the parish of Asunción was located in the Barrio de los indios, and by the year 1770, it did not have a parish priest. It was also destroyed by Santa Marta earthquake in 1773.
In 1580, the bell given by the Emperor Carlos I of Spain and V of Germany was consecrated.
People
Maria Teresa Tula, political activist, was born here in 1951.
Sports
The local professional football club is named C.D. Mario Calvo and it currently plays in the Salvadoran Third Division.
References
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Anthony Ryan (Treasury official)
Anthony William Ryan is a United States banker who was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Markets from 2006 to 2008 and Acting Under Secretary of the Treasury for Domestic Finance from 2008 to 2009.
Biography
Anthony Ryan was educated at the University of Rochester, receiving a bachelor's degree in 1985, and the London School of Economics, receiving a master's degree in 1986.
Ryan joined the Boston Company as a manager in 1987. The next year, he joined PanAgora Asset Management as a manager of Global Investments, working there until 1994. From 1994 to 2000, he was a principal of State Street Global Advisors. He was a partner and head of client relations at Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo & Co. LLC from 200 to 2006.
In 2006, Ryan became Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Markets, holding that office until 2008. He was Acting Under Secretary of the Treasury for Domestic Finance from 2008 to 2009.
Ryan became the Chief Administrative Officer of Fidelity Investments in 2009.
References
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Greenwich Township, Gloucester County, New Jersey
Greenwich Township is a township in Gloucester County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township's population was 4,899, reflecting an increase of 20 (+0.4%) from the 4,879 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn declined by 223 (-4.4%) from the 5,102 counted in the 1990 Census.
Greenwich Township was first formed on March 1, 1695, and was formally incorporated as one of New Jersey's initial group of 104 townships by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on February 21, 1798. Over the centuries, portions of the township were taken to form Woolwich Township (March 7, 1767), Franklin Township (January 27, 1820), Spicer Township (March 13, 1844; now Harrison Township), Mantua Township (February 23, 1853), East Greenwich Township (February 10, 1881) and Paulsboro (March 2, 1904). The township was named for Greenwich, England.
History
Nothnagle Log House is believed to be one of the oldest standing wooden structures built by European settlers in the Eastern United States. It is believed that it was built by early Finnish-Swedish settlers at some time after 1638 and before 1700, but its precise age has not been determined with scientific methods. A plaque at the house indicates that the structure was built between 1638–1643, while the National Register of Historic Places web site states: "Period of Significance: 1650-1699".
The one-room cabin is constructed of square-hewn logs with a low-beamed ceiling with a large corner fireplace in a rear corner.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the township had a total area of 12.032 square miles (31.164 km2), including 8.969 square miles (23.231 km2) of land and 3.063 square miles (7.934 km2) of water (25.46%).
Gibbstown (with a 2010 Census population of 3,739) is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) located within Greenwich Township.
Other unincorporated communities, localities and place names located partially or completely within the township include Clements, Green, Monds Island and Thompsons Point.
The township borders the municipalities of East Greenwich Township, Logan Township and Paulsboro in Gloucester County. Greenwich Township also borders the Delaware River.
Demographics
Census 2010
The Census Bureau's 2006-2010 American Community Survey showed that (in 2010 inflation-adjusted dollars) median household income was $63,817 (with a margin of error of +/- $7,652) and the median family income was $81,250 (+/- $14,406). Males had a median income of $47,927 (+/- $6,567) versus $41,750 (+/- $4,066) for females. The per capita income for the borough was $30,685 (+/- $3,226). About 8.1% of families and 8.9% of the population were below the poverty line, including 16.7% of those under age 18 and 5.9% of those age 65 or over.
Census 2000
As of the 2000 United States Census there were 4,879 people, 1,866 households, and 1,393 families residing in the township. The population density was 523.7 people per square mile (202.1/km²). There were 1,944 housing units at an average density of 208.7 per square mile (80.5/km²). The racial makeup of the township was 94.55% White, 3.32% African American, 0.10% Native American, 0.68% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 0.27% from other races, and 1.07% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.54% of the population.
There were 1,866 households out of which 31.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 58.9% were married couples living together, 10.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 25.3% were non-families. 22.1% of all households were made up of individuals and 12.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.61 and the average family size was 3.05.
In the township the population was spread out with 22.8% under the age of 18, 7.4% from 18 to 24, 27.9% from 25 to 44, 23.9% from 45 to 64, and 18.1% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 40 years. For every 100 females, there were 95.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 92.0 males.
The median income for a household in the township was $53,651, and the median income for a family was $60,565. Males had a median income of $41,875 versus $31,627 for females. The per capita income for the township was $24,791. About 1.3% of families and 3.6% of the population were below the poverty line, including 3.9% of those under age 18 and 5.3% of those age 65 or over.
Government
Local government
Greenwich Township is governed within the Faulkner Act, formally known as the Optional Municipal Charter Law, under the Mayor-Council Plan A form of New Jersey municipal government. The government consists of five members elected at-large in partisan elections to serve three-year terms on a staggered basis, with two council seats up for election in each of the first two years and the mayoral seat up for vote in the third year of a three-year cycle.
, the Mayor of Greenwich Township is Republican George W. Shivery Jr., whose term of office ends December 31, 2021. Members of the Greenwich Township Council are Council President Vincent Giovannitti (D, 2019), Tony Chila (D, 2019), William J. "Billy" Franklin (D, 2021) and Kenneth Ridinger (D, 2021).
Federal, state and county representation
Greenwich Township is located in the 1st Congressional District and is part of New Jersey's 3rd state legislative district.
Politics
As of March 23, 2011, there were a total of 3,690 registered voters in Greenwich Township, of which 2,246 (60.9%) were registered as Democrats, 444 (12.0%) were registered as Republicans and 1,000 (27.1%) were registered as Unaffiliated. There were no voters registered to other parties.
In the 2012 presidential election, Democrat Barack Obama received 53.5% of the vote (1,435 cast), ahead of Republican Mitt Romney with 45.0% (1,206 votes), and other candidates with 1.5% (39 votes), among the 2,712 ballots cast by the township's 3,711 registered voters (32 ballots were spoiled), for a turnout of 73.1%. In the 2008 presidential election, Democrat Barack Obama received 51.8% of the vote (1,564 cast), ahead of Republican John McCain with 44.8% (1,353 votes) and other candidates with 1.6% (47 votes), among the 3,022 ballots cast by the township's 3,863 registered voters, for a turnout of 78.2%. In the 2004 presidential election, Democrat John Kerry received 53.9% of the vote (1,602 ballots cast), outpolling Republican George W. Bush with 44.0% (1,308 votes) and other candidates with 0.9% (34 votes), among the 2,972 ballots cast by the township's 3,853 registered voters, for a turnout percentage of 77.1.
In the 2013 gubernatorial election, Republican Chris Christie received 62.2% of the vote (1,138 cast), ahead of Democrat Barbara Buono with 37.0% (677 votes), and other candidates with 0.8% (14 votes), among the 1,915 ballots cast by the township's 3,654 registered voters (86 ballots were spoiled), for a turnout of 52.4%. In the 2009 gubernatorial election, Democrat Jon Corzine received 49.6% of the vote (1,103 ballots cast), ahead of Republican Chris Christie with 36.8% (817 votes), Independent Chris Daggett with 8.4% (187 votes) and other candidates with 0.9% (20 votes), among the 2,222 ballots cast by the township's 3,169 registered voters, yielding a 70.1% turnout.
Education
The Greenwich Township School District serves public school students in kindergarten through eighth grade. As of the 2017–18 school year, the district and its two schools had an enrollment of 431 students and 47.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 9.2:1. Schools in the district (with 2017-18 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are
Broad Street Elementary School with 290 students in grades K-4 and
Nehaunsey Middle School with 135 students in grades 5–8.
Public school students in ninth through twelfth grades attend Paulsboro High School in Paulsboro as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Paulsboro Public Schools. As of the 2017–18 school year, the high school had an enrollment of 317 students and 39.4 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 8.0:1.
Students from across the county are eligible to apply to attend Gloucester County Institute of Technology, a four-year high school in Deptford Township that provides technical and vocational education. As a public school, students do not pay tuition to attend the school.
Transportation
Roads and highways
, the township had a total of of roadways, of which were maintained by the municipality, by Gloucester County and by the New Jersey Department of Transportation.
Only one major county, state, U.S. and interstate passes through the township. The major county road is Route 551 Spur. State Route 44 passes through the center of the township while U.S. Route 130 and Interstate 295 (multiplexed together) pass near the southern center of town, with three interchanges: Exits 15, 16 and 17 (on the border with neighboring East Greenwich Township).
Public transportation
NJ Transit bus service is available between the township and Philadelphia on the 402 route.
The Port of Paulsboro includes marine transfer operations at PBF Energy's Paulsboro Refinery in Gibbstown and at Thompson Point, and is served by SMS Rail Lines for the rail spur to the refinery and the freight rail Penns Grove Secondary.
Notable people
People who were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Greenwich Township include:
Stanley Druckenmiller (born 1953), hedge fund manager.
Lewis Earle (born 1933), member of the Florida House of Representatives from 1968 to 1974.
Sylvia Earle (born 1935), marine biologist.
Alex Silvestro (born 1988), former football tight end / defensive end who played in the NFL for the Baltimore Ravens and New England Patriots.
References
External links
Greenwich Township website
Greenwich Township School District
School Data for the Greenwich Township School District, National Center for Education Statistics
Paulsboro High School
Greenwich forum
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Mae Clouther
Mae Clouther (1917-February 1, 1997) was a female United States international table tennis player.
She won a bronze medal at the 1947 World Table Tennis Championships in the women's team and a silver medal in the women's doubles with Reba Monness.
She was inducted into the USA Table Tennis Hall of Fame in 1984.
See also
List of table tennis players
List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists
References
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Cleptometopus fuscosignatus
Cleptometopus fuscosignatus is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Breuning in 1947.
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Jason W. Briggs
Jason W. Briggs (June 25, 1821 – January 11, 1899) was a leader in the early history of the Latter Day Saint movement and was instrumental in bringing about the 1860 "Reorganization" of the church, which resulted in the establishment of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
Early membership
Jason W. Briggs was born on June 25, 1821 in Pompey, New York. In 1841 at Potosi, Wisconsin he was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints by William O. Clark. By 1842, Briggs had been ordained an elder of the church and he organized and became the head of a branch in Beloit, Wisconsin. By 1843, Briggs had organized a second branch in Waukesha, Wisconsin.
In 1844, the movement's founder, Joseph Smith, was killed and a succession crisis ensued. Brigham Young, president of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles assumed control of the church's headquarters in Nauvoo, Illinois. Briggs became convinced that Young's organization had fallen into apostasy and by 1846 he and his branches affiliated with James J. Strang who had organized a new church headquarters in nearby Voree, Wisconsin.
Briggs was a fervent opponent of polygamy, and when Strang began to practice plural marriage openly, Briggs broke with his organization. He affiliated briefly with William Smith's organization of the church before learning that William, too, had been practicing plural marriage.
"New Organization"
After these set-backs, Briggs despaired that the Latter Day Saint movement had irrevocably fallen into iniquity. He later reported that November 18, 1851, on the prairie near Beloit, he was pondering this concern when the "Spirit of the Lord" came upon him and spoke, saying:
Verily, verily, saith the Lord, even Jesus Christ unto his servant, Jason W. Briggs, concerning the church: Behold I have not cast off my people; neither have I changed in regard to Zion. Yea, verily, my people shall be redeemed, and my law shall be kept which I revealed unto my servant Joseph Smith...
According to Briggs, the Lord further explained that "in mine own due time will I call upon the seed of Joseph Smith," (i.e., one of his sons), "and will bring one forth, and he shall be mighty and strong, and he shall preside over the high priesthood of my Church..." And finally, Briggs said the Lord assured him "that which ye received as my celestial law," (i.e., plural marriage), "is not of me, but is the doctrine of Baalam."
After reporting that he received this guidance, Briggs began to coordinate with leaders of branches in Wisconsin and Illinois, including Zenos H. Gurley, Sr. who resolved with him to wait for a leader to be raised up "from the seed of Joseph." They began to establish a "New Organization" of the church and Briggs was called to preside over its first conference on June 12, 1852 in Beloit. In 1853, Briggs was called as an Apostle and sustained as President of the Quorum of the Twelve and as the "Representative President of the Church."
Important leaders including William Marks and Aaron Smith (former leader of a Strangite schismatic group) joined the movement.
On April 6, 1860 at a General Conference of the New Organization of the church in Amboy, Illinois, Joseph Smith III joined with the group and was sustained to follow in his father's role as President of the Church.
Disagreements and disfellowship
By 1885, Briggs was out of harmony with Joseph Smith III. Briggs was theological liberal and was aware of "higher criticism" of the Bible being taught at the time in German universities. Like these German scholars, Briggs believed that Scripture was contextually understood and that revelation was never a final process, but progressively revealed over time. Such views angered more conservative members. Briggs also attacked the idea of the pre-existence of souls, then a cherished doctrine; he also questioned whether the church should again attempt a gathered community due to the disastrous results in Joseph Smith's lifetime. While many of Joseph Smith III's actual positions mirrored Briggs's thoughts, Briggs presented them more stridently than Smith ever did. Furthermore, Briggs angered Joseph Smith III by his constant reminders that Joseph Smith had practiced polygamy, contrary to what Joseph Smith III believed. In addition, Briggs sparred with Smith over who should be allowed to print their views in the RLDS periodical, the True Latter Day Saints' Herald. At the 1885 RLDS conference, Briggs was not sustained in his position as Apostle and in 1886 he withdrew from the Reorganization. Briggs died on January 11, 1899.
See also
Edmund C. Briggs
Notes
References
Inez Smith Davis, The Story of the Church: A History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and of Its Legal Successor, the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 12th edition, Herald House: 1981.
Roger Launius, Joseph Smith III: Pragmatic Prophet, Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1988.
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George Jackson (baseball)
George Christopher Jackson (January 2, 1882 – November 26, 1972), known also as "Hickory" Jackson, was a professional baseball player whose career spanned 27 seasons, three of which were spent in Major League Baseball (MLB) with the Boston Rustlers/Braves (1911–13). Over his major league career, he compiled a .285 batting average with 85 runs scored, 158 hits, 24 doubles, seven triples, four home runs, 73 runs batted in, and 34 stolen bases in 152 games played. Jackson's professional career started in the minor leagues with the Jackson Senators.
The majority of Jackson's career was spent in the minor leagues. In 1911, he broke into the major leagues as a member of the Boston Rustlers. He spent parts of the next two seasons with the Boston National League club. In 1913, Jackson was sent-down the minor leagues. From there, he played with the Buffalo Bisons (1913–17), Fort Worth Panthers (1918), San Antonio Bronchos (1919), Shreveport Gassers (1920–23), Beaumont Exporters (1923), Tyler Trojans (1924–25, 1927–28), Greenville Hunters (1926), Laurel Cardinals (1929), El Dorado Lions (1930–32). Over his career in the minors, Jackson batted .297 with 2,453 hits, 443 doubles, 74 triples, and 157 home runs in 2,365 games played.
Early life
George Christopher Jackson was born on January 2, 1882 in Springfield, Missouri to George R., and Elmyra Jackson of England, and Pennsylvania, respectively. By 1900, the Jackson family was living in Hill County, Texas. George C. Jackson worked on his family farm in Blum, Texas at a young age. In his youth, Jackson recalled loving athletics. He stated that whenever he had any down-time, he would throw a baseball against his barn and catch it, or play a pick-up game with the farm hands.
According to The Washington Post, Jackson displayed a "wonderful" ability to catch the baseball in his youth. He would use a small branch as a baseball bat. Jackson played with the Blum amateur baseball team when he was young. He was given the carfare it took to get to the ballpark by his manager in exchange for playing. Jackson worked as an acrobat at the age of 18. He had five siblings; brothers William, Kennith, and Robert; and sisters Lula, and Elmyra.
Professional career
Early minor league career (1906–1911)
Jackson's professional baseball career started in 1906 as a pitcher for the Jackson Senators of the Class-D Jackson Senators. As a member of the Senators, Jackson played with past, and future Major League Baseball players Harry Betts, Orth Collins, Bill Dammann, Tom Gettinger, Billy Kinloch, Jack Ryan, and Elmer Steele. Jackson compiled a record of 1–2 with 20 hits allowed, 16 runs allowed, and eight base on balls issued that season. In 1907, Jackson was discovered by the Dallas Giants of the Class-C Texas League whose management had heard of Jackson through the local newspapers, which described him as a "wonderful ball player". The Giants signed Jackson, and farmed him out to the Lake Charles Creoles of the Class-D Gulf Coast League, where he was used as a first baseman. Jackson was the only player on the Lake Charles club to ever go on to play in the MLB. On the season, Jackson batted .281 with 43 hits, six doubles, two triples, and one home run in 44 games played.
In 1908, the Dallas Giants, who had farmed Jackson out to the Lake Charles Creoles a year prior, asked him to report to the Dallas club. That season, he was used as an outfielder. Jackson batted .242 with 53 hits, 11 doubles, three triples, and one home run in 74 games played. Jackson re-signed with the Giants in 1909. On the season, he batted .271 with 65 runs scored, 117 hits, 21 doubles, three triples, six home runs, and 53 stolen bases in 129 games played. He was tied for third in the league in triples. Jackson again joined the Dallas club in 1910. He batted .280 with 80 runs scored, 144 hits, 17 doubles, seven triples, five home run, and 55 stolen bases in 155 games played.
Towards the end of the 1910 season, Jackson was sold by the Dallas Giants to the Memphis Turtles of the Class-A Southern Association. In those games, he compiled three hits, two of which were doubles, in 18 at-bats. At the start of the 1911 season, Jackson re-signed with the Memphis Turtles. During the season, Billy Hamilton, who was working as a scout from the Boston Rustlers was dispatched to report back on Memphis' shortstop Karl Crandall, who was the brother on MLB player Doc Crandall. When Hamilton arrived in Memphis, he was not impressed by the shortstop. However, he noticed Jackson in the outfield. Hamilton followed the Memphis club for two weeks watching Jackson. Finally, Hamilton reported his finding back to Boston's front office. He was ordered to sign Jackson. With Memphis that season, Jackson batted .260 with 78 hits, 17 doubles, four triples, and two home runs in 85 games played.
Boston Rustlers/Braves (1911–13)
In exchange for allowing the Boston Rustlers to sign Jackson, the Memphis Turtles was given cash considerations, and pitcher Cecil Ferguson. Jackson made his MLB debut on August 2, against the Pittsburgh Pirates. During his debut, he played center field, and collected three hits. The Washington Post reported that when Jackson "broke in with a bang" with Boston, and that his fielding was "far above par". They also stated that Jackson had an "unassuming disposition", "has all the confidence in his ability", "is fast on his feet", and is a "good waiter". Through late-August, he led the National League in batting average, and averaged a stolen base every game. On August 24, in a game against the St. Louis Cardinals, Jackson his a sacrifice fly in the eight inning to tie the score at 6–to–6, and hit a tenth inning with a run-scoring single, giving Boston the 8–to–7 win. The Reading Eagle described Jackson as a "sensation". With Boston that season, he batted .347 with 28 runs scored, 51 hits, 11 doubles, two triples, 25 runs batted in (RBIs), and 12 stolen bases in 39 games played. Jackson played in too few of games to qualify for the 1911 batting title.
Jackson joined the Boston club, now renamed the Braves, in March 1912 for spring training. On May 30, Jackson hit his first MLB home run, which was inside-the-park, against Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Nap Rucker. Jackson hit his second career MLB home run on June 17, against Cincinnati Reds pitcher Bert Humphries. Jackson's third home run was also against the Reds, this time off of pitcher George Suggs on August 6. On August 26, during a game against the Pittsburgh Pirates, Jackson hit his fourth, and final home run of the season, which was inside-the-park off of King Cole. It was also the final home run of Jackson's MLB career. On the season, he batted .262 with 55 runs scored, 104 hits, 13 triple, five triples, four home runs, 48 RBIs, and 22 stolen bases in 110 games played. Jackson finished the season tied for third with John Titus in hit by pitches (10), and fifth in strikeouts (72). Jackson was also tied for third with Steve Evans, Josh Devore, Jay Kirke, and Mike Mitchell in errors by an outfielder (15). Jackson played with the Boston Braves again in 1913, but appeared in just three games. In those games, he compiled two runs scored, and three hits in 10 at-bats.
Buffalo Bisons, and Texas League (1913–1923)
On May 14, 1913, the Boston Braves traded Jackson to the Buffalo Bisons of the Double-A International League in exchange for Leslie Mannie. In his first season with Buffalo, Jackson batted .260 with 110 hits, 15 doubles, seven triples, and three home runs in 116 games played. He re-signed with the Bisons in 1914; and batted .269 with 84 hits, 17 doubles, four triples, and four home runs in 97 games played. Jackson spent his third season with the Buffalo club in 1915. He batted .255 with 51 hits, 10 doubles, one triple, and one home run in 78 games played. In 1916, Jackson again played with Buffalo. In 116 games played, he batted .325 with 146 hits, 34 doubles, nine triples, and two home runs. Jackson led the league in doubles. His last season with the Bisons came in 1917. Jackson batted .275 with 111 hits, 20 doubles, three triples, and three home runs in 112 games played.
Jackson joined the Fort Worth Panthers of the Class-B Texas League before the start of the 1918 season. On the season, he batted .305 with 74 hits, 16 doubles, one triple, and three home runs in 69 games played. Jackson signed with the San Antonio Bronchos of the Texas League on June 22, 1919. In September, Jackson suffered a leg injury. On the season, he batted .264 with 75 hits, 10 doubles, one triples, and three home runs in 81 games played. In 1920, Jackson signed with Shreveport Gassers of the Texas League, and played right field. He batted .333 with 164 hits, 31 doubles, nine triples, and six home runs in 133 games played.
Jackson re-signed with the Shreveport club in 1921. On May 5, Jackson hit a single in the eight inning of a game against the Fort Worth Panthers to tie the game at 3–to–3, and later hit a triple in the tenth inning to dive in the winning run, giving the Gassers a 4–to–3 victory. After 38 games that season, Jackson led the Texas League with 14 stolen bases. On August 3, Jackson hit a walk-off home run, giving the Gassers a 12–to–9 victory over the Houston Buffaloes. He batted .310 with 194 hits, 31 doubles, 11 triples, and 10 home runs in 160 games played that season. Jackson was tied for fourth with Joe Connolly in hits that season. In 1922, Jackson batted .344 with 141 hits, 28 doubles, two triples, and 10 home runs in 111 games played with the Gassers that season. He was tied for fourth with Tom Connolly in batting average that season. In 1923, Jackson played with the Shreveport Gassers, and the Beaumont Exporters, both of the Texas League. Between the two clubs, he batted .250 with 64 hits, 11 doubles, three triples, and four home runs in 82 games played.
Later career (1924–1932)
In 1924, Jackson joined the Tyler Trojans of the Class-D East Texas League. On the season, he batted .371 with 154 hits, 31 doubles, and 26 home runs in 110 games played. He finished the season third in the league in home runs, and fourth in batting average. He played with the Tyler club again during the 1925 season. In 92 games played, Jackson batted .362 with 127 hits, 28 doubles, and 16 home runs. In 1926, Jackson joined the Greenville Hunters, who were also in the East Texas League. He was also employed to manage the club. On the season, he batted .289 with 97 hits, 17 doubles, and 10 home runs in 90 games played. Jackson re-joined the Tyler Trojans, who were now members of the Lone Star League in 1927. He batted .294 with 126 hits, 21 doubles, and 21 home runs in 115 games that year. Jackson finished the season second in home runs. He returned as the player-manager for the Trojans in 1928. Jackson batted .331 with 105 hits, 17 doubles, one triples, and 13 triples in 87 games played.
In January 1929, Jackson attended a meeting consisting of managers of the Lone Star League. However, at the start of the 1929 season, he was hired as the player-manager of the Laurel Cardinals of the Class-D Cotton States League. On the season, he batted .288 with 69 hits, nine doubles, three triples, and one home run in 72 games played. In 1930, Jackson was signed as the player-manager of the El Dorado Lions. The Lions were members of the Cotton States League. Jackson batted .288 with 69 hits, nine doubles, three triples, and one home run in 72 games played. He re-signed with the Lions in 1931. He batted .296 with 37 hits, and eight doubles in 55 games played. His final season of professional baseball came in 1932 at the age of 50 with the El Dorado club. Jackson batted .230 with 20 hits, one double, and one home run in 34 games played. He was replaced as the manager for the Lions mid-season by Clyde Glass.
Later life
Jackson resided in Blum, Texas with his wife Elizabeth, and their children Finis, Jack, George E., and Evelyn. Jackson's son, George E. Jackson, worked in the oil fields of Texas. By 1900, the Jackson family was living in Hill County, Texas. Jackson died in Cleburne, Texas on November 26, 1972 at the age of 90. He was buried at Blum Cemetery in Blum, Texas.
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Kirsten Kraiberg Knudsen
Kirsten Kraiberg Knudsen is a professor of astrophysics in the department of Space, Earth and Environment at Chalmers University of Technology . Her research concerns galaxy formation and evolution.
She is a member of the Swedish Young Academy and the International Astronomical Union (IAU)
Early life and education
Knudsen studied at the University of Copenhagen, and at the University of Leiden where she received a PhD.
Research and career
Kirsten Knudsen's research focuses particularly on star forming galaxies at cosmological distances. She uses large, modern telescopes such as ALMA, VLT, IRAM PdBI, and VLA to study the properties of redshift z=2-7 (lensed) submillimeter galaxies and quasar host galaxies.
Awards and honours
2018 Birger Karlsson Award
2012 Wallenberg Academy Fellow .
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FC Smit
Frederick Christiaan 'FC' Smit (born 13 Augustus 1966 in Potgietersrus, South Africa) is a former South African rugby union player.
Early life and career
Smit finished his schooling in Cape Town, after which he started his National service, also in Cape Town. While in the Defence Force he was selected for the Western Province under–20 side. In 1987 he enrolled at the Stellenbosch University, initially playing for the second team and from 1988 for the first team. During the off-seasons Smit joined clubs in Europe, specifically in France at Hendaye Rugby Club and Wales at Ebbw Vale RFC.
Playing career
Smit made his debut for Western Province on 22 May 1990 against Northern Transvaal when he replaced the injured Gert Smal. His career with Western Province spanned seven years and 104 matches.
In 1992 the Springboks toured to France and England under the captaincy of Naas Botha. Smit was not part of the original touring squad, but received his call up as a replacement for the injured Botha Rossouw. He made his test debut for the Springboks on 14 November 1992 against England at Twickenham. He played in one test match, as well as three tour matches for the Springboks.
Test history
See also
List of South Africa national rugby union players – Springbok no. 583
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Lee Wilson
Lee Wilson may refer to:
Sportsmen
Lee Wilson (Track Coach, born 1962) NFHS Certified National Teacher / Coach
Lee Wilson (footballer, born 1972), English football player and manager
Lee Wilson (footballer, born 1993), Scottish football goalkeeper for Cowdenbeath
Others
Robert E. Lee Wilson (1865–1933), plantation owner and owner of Lee Wilson and Company
Lee Wilson (1938-2013), English comedian
See also
Leigh Wilson, American writer
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Tom Snyder (animator)
Tom Snyder (born 1949) is an American animator, writer and producer known for the Squigglevision animation technique. His first success with this method was Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist, starring Jonathan Katz.
Snyder is a graduate of Swarthmore College, and as an educator he was inducted into the Association of Educational Publishers Hall of Fame. His educational work includes the series Science Court and educational computer software, such as FASTT Math. Since stepping down as chairman of "Tom Snyder Productions" he has worked on music composition and writing.
In 2011, Snyder teamed up again with Jonathan Katz to create an animated web series, ExplosionBus.com In 2016, he released a new category of audiobook called an AudioMusical. His first AudioMusical is titled Is Anyone All Right? distributed by Audible.com.
See also
Soup2Nuts (formerly Tom Snyder Productions)
References
External links
Explosion Bus official web page
Tom Snyder game credits at MobyGames
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Sarah Nnodim
Sarah Nnodim (born 25 December 1995) is a Nigerian footballer who plays for Nasarawa Amazons in the Nigerian Women's Championship. She plays internationally for the Nigeria women's national football team, having previously been a member of the Nigeria women's national under-20 football team which reached the final of the 2014 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.
Career
Club
At a club level, she plays for Nasarawa Amazons in the Nigerian Women's Championship.
International
Nnodim has represented Nigeria at all levels, having played the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in 2010 and 2012 as well as the 2014 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup. At that final tournament, she was part of the team that reached the final but lost against Germany.
She was promoted to the senior squad following that tournament, when she was named in a 33-woman squad list for the 2014 African Women's Championship as one of four "Falconets" players who transitioned to the "Super Falcons". Coach Edwin Okon said at the time of the four, "They’re invited to come and contest for the shirts with other invited players and I strongly believe they’ll justify the invitation."
At senior level she was part of the squad at the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup. She was sent off in Nigeria's final match of the tournament, when they lost against the United States 1-0 in the third match of the group stage. Nnodim received two yellow cards, both for tackles from behind, leaving Nigeria with 10 women for the final 20 minutes of the game after she brought down American player Sydney Leroux.
Honours
Nigeria U20
Runner-up
FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup: 2014
References
External links
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Matthew Hervey
Matthew Hervey (27 January 1820 – 1 December 1874) was a politician in colonial Victoria and Commissioner of Public Works.
Hervey was born in Glasgow, Scotland, when eighteen years of age he emigrated to Sydney, New South Wales, and ultimately was largely engaged in pastoral pursuits in the Port Phillip District, which in 1851 was constituted the separate colony of Victoria.
He played two first-class cricket matches for Victoria in 1851 and 1852. Hervey was elected to the part-nominated Victorian Legislative Council on 3 June 1853 for the Murray district and sworn-in August 1853. When responsible government was achieved he was returned to the first wholly elective Legislative Council for the Eastern Province in November 1856. From March 1861 to November 1862 he was acting president of the latter body during the absence in England of Sir James Frederick Palmer. When the James McCulloch Ministry was formed in June 1863 Hervey accepted a portfolio as Vice-President of the Board of Land and Works and Commissioner of Public Works.
Hervey resigned both his office and his seat in Parliament in July 1865, owing to having met with pecuniary reverses. Misfortune still continued to pursue him, and he died in Turnbull Plains, Benalla district, Victoria, under very sudden and distressing circumstances on 1 December 1874, when a coroner's jury returned a verdict that death had resulted from insufficient nourishment.
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Karl von Schönberg
People with names Karl von Schönberg:
Charles Schomberg, 2nd Duke of Schomberg (1645-1693), British General
Karl von Schönberg (Germany) (1872-1914), German Navy Officer, Commander of the Cruiser "Nürnberg", Killed in the Battle of the Falklands
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Andreas Gal
Andreas Gal is former chief technology officer at Mozilla. He is most notable for his work on several open source projects and Mozilla technologies.
Gal was born in Szeged, Hungary and grew up in Lübeck, Germany. During high school he worked on various open source AX.25 network stacks and designed a routing protocol for ham radio network nodes (INP3) that became widely supported by AX.25 network routers.
During his graduate studies at the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg he was a codesigner of AspectC++, an aspect-oriented extension of C and C++ languages. He later went on to obtain his Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine. His thesis introduced the concept of Tracing just-in-time compilation of high-level languages using trace trees.
Gal joined Mozilla in 2008 and built TraceMonkey, the first JavaScript just-in-time compiler in a web browser, only weeks before Google announced Chrome and the V8 JavaScript engine. After his work on TraceMonkey, Gal became the Director of Research at Mozilla. A notable research project he started was PDF.js, a PDF renderer in JavaScript and HTML5, which now replaces the Adobe PDF plug-in in Firefox.
In 2011, Gal co-founded the Boot to Gecko project, which later became Firefox OS.
In 2013, Gal was appointed the Vice President of Mobile Engineering of Mozilla.
In April 2014, Gal became the CTO of Mozilla. In June 2015 he left Mozilla, co-founding the Internet of Things start-up Silk Labs with two other members of the Firefox OS team (however, Silk Labs does not use Mozilla technologies). Also in 2015, Gal became an adviser at Acadine Technologies; a startup newly founded by Li Gong (former president of Mozilla Corporation) which was to develop software based on Firefox OS. As of 2018, Gal is an employee of Apple Inc.
References
External links
Andreas Gal's Weblog
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Koshi Fujimori
is a Japanese former water polo player who competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics.
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List of number-one hits of 1994 (Mexico)
This is a list of the songs that reached number one in Mexico in 1994, according to the Notitas Musicales magazine with data provided by Radio Mil(which also provided charts for Billboard's "Hits of the World" between 1969 and 1981).
Notitas Musicales was a bi-weekly magazine that published two record charts:
"Canciones que México canta" ("Songs that Mexico sings"), which listed the Top 10 most popular Spanish-language songs in Mexico, and
"Éxitos internacionales en México" ("International Hits in Mexico"), which listed the most popular songs in Mexico that were in languages other than Spanish.
Chart history
See also
1994 in music
References
Sources
Print editions of the Notitas Musicales magazine.
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Harp Concerto (Ginastera)
The Harp Concerto by Alberto Ginastera was first performed in 1965. It was commissioned in the 1950s by Edna Phillips, the harpist of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Philips had retired by the time the work was ready to be premiered, and the solo part was played by the Spanish harpist Nicanor Zabaleta with the Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Eugene Ormandy.
2016, the centenary of the composer's birth, saw a number of performances including one by the French harpist Marie-Pierre Langlamet and the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Juanjo Mena.
Instrumentation
Woodwinds
2 flutes (Flute 2 doubling piccolo)
2 oboes
2 clarinets in B
2 bassoons
Brass
2 horns in F
2 trumpets in C
Percussion
Timpani
Tambourine
Field drum
Cymbals
Xylophone
Celesta
Various items of Latin percussion
Strings
Harp
Violin I
Violin II
Violas
Cellos
Double basses
Movements
Allegro giusto
Molto moderato
Liberamente capriccioso - Vivace
See also
List of compositions for harp
References
Sources
Ginastera, Alberto. "Harp Concerto. Op. 25." (Boosey & Hawkes, 1974).
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Grzmiąca, Łódź Voivodeship
Grzmiąca is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Brzeziny, within Brzeziny County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It lies approximately north-west of Brzeziny and east of the regional capital Łódź.
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Alfons Benedikter
Alfons Benedikter (14 March 1918 – 3 November 2010) was one of the most renowned politicians in South Tyrol. For 50 years he has been a member of the provincial parliament and for 40 years he acted as a member of the regional government of the region Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol and later the provincial government of South Tyrol. He had a decisive role in elaborating and implementing the autonomy of the province.
Career
During his youth Alfons Benedikter experienced the Italian fascist oppression and discrimination policy towards the German national minority in his home village of Schlanders. He was educated in law and Russian at the University of Naples from which he graduated in 1940. During the tragic period of the so-called “Option” in 1939 (the agreement stipulated by Hitler and Mussolini to transfer all Germans living in South Tyrol into the German “Reich”) his family decided to remain living in the province, which had been annexed by Italy in 1918. Consequently, Alfons Benedikter, served five years in the army, first in the Italian army, later in the German Wehrmacht, deployed on many battlefields between Russia and Southern Italy during World War II. At the end of the war his knowledge of the Russian language saved his life. Benedikter continued to cultivate his passion for the Russian language and culture and repeatedly visited Russia with political missions. Beginningin 1960 Alfons Benedikter lived in Frangart, (a frazione of Eppan an der Weinstraße) close to Bolzano, the capital of the province.
Politics
Benedikter was a founding member of the SVP (South Tyrolean People's Party), the main political party of South Tyrol. From 1948 he represented his party in the regional government. From 1960 until 1988 he served as a minister of the provincial government in charge of social housing, economic and urban planning and environmental protection. From 1960 to 1988 he also was the deputy Landeshauptmann (governor) under Silvius Magnago. In the 1960s Benedikter repeatedly represented South Tyrol within the UN in New York, when the issue was debated as a major international conflict between Austria and Italy. Benedikter was involved in the elaboration of the so-called “Package for South Tyrol”, but finally he refused its acceptance as a conflict solution. Nevertheless, from 1972 to 1989, as a member of the joint Italian-Tyrolean commissions for the implementation of the autonomy statute, he contributed decisively to achieve a maximum of self-governance for his province as an autonomous province of Italy. In those years Benedikter took part in approximately 60 sessions of the Italian government in Rome. At the end of the 1980s Benedikter returned to his previous scepticism with regard to the “package-solution” and opposed the official final “declaration of conflict conclusion” to be expressed by Austria before the UN. He left the SVP and, together with Eva Klotz, founded the new party, “Union für Südtirol”, vowing for self-determination. From 1989 to 1998 he represented this new opposition party within the provincial parliament. Apart from his role as an architect of the autonomy of South Tyrol, Benedikter was a strenuous defender of the environment and landscape of his home country.
Benedikter died on 3 November 2010 at the age of 92.
References
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Dublin Women's Suffrage Association
The Dublin Women's Suffrage Association was an organisation for women's suffrage which was set up in Dublin in 1874. Its first secretaries were Anna Haslam and Miss McDowell.
It changed its name several times: first to the Dublin Women's Suffrage and Poor Law Guardian Association, when women won eligibility as poor law guardians, then formally to the Dublin Women's Suffrage and Local Government Association when they gained all local government franchises and eligibility for election as district councillors, and in 1898 to the Irish Women's Suffrage and Local Government Association as the suffrage movement expanded coming up to the turn of the century.
As well as campaigning for women's suffrage, it sought to advance women's position in local government.
Prominent members of the association in the 20th century were Lady Margaret Dockrell, Bridget Dudley Edwards and Mary Hayden. Prominent supporters included Charles Cameron, Sir Andrew Reed, Willie Redmond MP, and William Field MP.
Following the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act (1919), Lady Dockrell was one of the first Women Justices of the Peace to be appointed.
See also
List of suffragists and suffragettes
List of women's rights activists
List of women's rights organizations
Timeline of women's suffrage
References
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Adama (name)
Adama is a Hebrew given name meaning earth or soil, and a Hindu surname.
People with the given name Adama
Adama "Manadja" Fanny, musician in the Ivorian musical group Magic System
Adama Ba (born 1993), Mauritanian footballer
Adama Diakhaby (born 1996), French footballer
Adama Diakhaté (born 1970), Senegalese footballer
Adama Diakité (disambiguation)
Adama Diakité (born 1978), Malian footballer in 2002 African Cup of Nations
Adama Diakité (footballer, born 1991), French footballer
Adama Diakité (footballer, born 1993), Ivorian footballer in Italy
Adama Diatta (born 1988), Senegalese wrestler
Adama Traoré (born 1996), Spanish footballer currently playing for Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C.
People with the surname Adama
Osumanu Adama (born 1980), Ghanaian boxer
See also
Adama (Battlestar Galactica), for fictional characters with the surname
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Bisher Amin Khalil al-Rawi
Bisher Amin Khalil Al-Rawi (, Bišr Amīn Ḫalīl ar-Rawī) (born 23 December 1960) is an Iraqi citizen, who became a resident of the United Kingdom in the 1980s.
Arrested in Gambia on a business trip in November 2002, he was transferred to United States military custody and held until March 30, 2007, in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camp at its naval base in Cuba.
His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 906. The Department of Defense reports that Al Rawi was born on December 23, 1960, in Baghdad, Iraq.
Bisher contends that he was on a business trip to Gambia with his friend and business associate, Jamil al-Banna, when he was arrested by the Gambian National Intelligence Agency on arrival at Banjul airport on November 8, 2002. He was turned over to US authorities, who transported him to Bagram Airbase. In detention, he helped Moazzam Begg, another British citizen, prepare meals for detainees. From there, they were shipped to Guantanamo Bay. The US contends that Bisher was held under suspicion of links with al-Qaeda. He was ultimately released without charges.
Early life
Bisher Amin Khalil al-Rawi was born in Baghdad, Iraq. He emigrated to the United Kingdom and was given legal resident status. He lived in West London, married and had a family.
Cooperation with MI5 in London
Following the September 11, 2001, attacks in the United States, Bisher was contacted by MI5 officers. He decided to cooperate with them in answering questions about the Muslim community in London, in the belief that he could help provide insight and ease tensions between the Muslims and other Britons.
Arrest in Gambia
Bisher al-Rawi and Jamil al-Banna flew to Gambia to meet a shipment of machine parts to be used to set up an edible oil factory, which was owned by Bisher's brother. The two men, along with two others, were taken into custody by the Gambian National Intelligence Agency on their arrival at Banjul airport in Gambia on November 8, 2002, purportedly on suspicion of alleged links to al-Qaeda and advice from British security authorities. At first the two men were under a kind of unofficial house arrest. They were not formally charged with any crimes under Gambian law. They were told that they would be released when their machinery had been checked to make sure it was not something that could be used for terrorism.
They were not detained in a Gambian jail, but rather in a CIA "snatch team" safe house, which was provided by American security officials. They were guarded by Gambians and interrogated by American agents.
In late December 2002, the CIA decided to transport them from Gambia. The "black team" that arrived to escort them wore black uniforms, and their faces were covered by black balaclavas. They cut the clothes from the detainees' bodies and bound them for transportation. The two men were illegally "rendered" to Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan where he was imprisoned underground in total darkness for weeks.
In March 2003, Jamil al-Banna and Bisher al-Rawi were transferred to United States military custody at Guantanamo Bay detention camp.
Combatant Status Review Tribunal
Following the United States Supreme Court decision in Rasul v. Bush (2004) that detainees had the right to habeas corpus challenge of their detention before an impartial tribunal, the Bush administration quickly set up a system of Combatant Status Review Tribunals to review each detainee's case, to be followed when warranted by military commissions to try prisoners on charges. These were intended to replace detainees' going to federal court for habeas corpus reviews.
Most of the CSRTs took place from the fall of 2004 through early 2005. They did not follow the rules for the use of hearsay and other evidence from the federal or military justice systems.
Al Rawi was among the 60% of prisoners who participated in the tribunal hearings. A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for the tribunal of each detainee. The allegations were sometimes based on hearsay or classified evidence which the detainee was not allowed to see. Detainees had no legal counsel, only military-assigned Personal Representatives.
Al Rawi's Summary of Evidence made the following allegations as justification for his detention as an enemy combatant:
The detainee is associated with al Qaida:
The detainee provided harbor in London, United Kingdom to a known al-Qaeda fugitive named Abu Qatada.
The detainee assisted Abu Qatada by locating an apartment where the fugitive hid from British authorities.
Abu Qatada has strong links to senior al-Qaeda operatives and facilitated the travel of individuals to an al Qaida guesthouse located in Pakistan.
Abu Qatada is a known al-Qaeda operative who was arrested in the United Kingdom as a danger to national security.
In addition to helping Abu Qatada evade British authorities, al-Rawi transferred funds between branches of the Arab Bank at Abu Qatada's direction in 1999 or 2000.
In November 2002, the detainee was arrested in Gambia after arriving from the United Kingdom and was later transferred to US custody at its airbase in Bagram, Afghanistan.
Requested witnesses
Al Rawi requested seven witnesses for his tribunal:
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Description totally redacted. Note: These were MI5 agents with whom he had consulted over time in London. He did not know their full or real names.
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"He can testify not arrested in Gambia, there were specifically told not arrested. From day 1 to last day in Gambia they were not given any legal status. American officials were running the show and interrogating them."
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"...can testify that they were not arrested because he was with them and let go."
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Another traveling companion, who was also released, who can testify that he was not arrested.
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His lawyer, who will testify that what he is accused of is not illegal in Britain.
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The Tribunal's President had initially ruled that witnesses were irrelevant. During the course of Al Rawi's testimony, the President decided that the testimony of Alex, Matthew and Martin was relevant after all. He directed the Tribunal's Recorder to locate them. The Tribunal's Recorder was unable to locate them. The reason the President changed his mind is redacted.
Testimony
Al Rawi's testimony contained many redacted sections.
MI5 informant
In 2006, the Justice Jed Rakoff of the US District Court for the District of Columbia filed a court order forcing the Department of Defense to release documents from detainees' Combatant Status Review Tribunals. Based on this, media reported that Bisher and some other detainees who were legal residents of Britain had served as informants for Britain's counter-intelligence agency, MI5, but were being held at Guantanamo Bay."Courted as Spies, Held as Combatants: British Residents Enlisted by MI5 After Sept. 11 Languish at Guantanamo", Washington Post, April 2, 2006 By this time, all but one of the British citizens at Guantanamo had been repatriated. The British government started to press the United States for release of British legal residents as well.
Comfort items
One of Al Rawi's lawyer's, Brent Mickum, described how comfort items were withheld from Al Rawi. Al Rawi toilet paper ration was fifteen sheets a day. However, when he tried using sheets of toilet paper to block out the 24 hours of light in his cell, his toilet paper ration was withheld. When Al Rawi was subject to extremes of temperature, and was kept in a very cold cell, his prayer rug was confiscated when he tried to use it as a blanket.
Repatriation requestThe Guardian reported, on April 20, 2006, that the British Foreign Office had formally requested that Bisher al-Rawi be released to return to Britain."UK appeals for release of 'informer' from Guantanamo" , Islamic Republic News Agency, April 20, 2006
On October 3, 2006, The Times reported that the United States had agreed, in confidential talks in June 2006, to return all nine of the British residents held in Guantanamo—but only under stringent conditions. The US stipulated that Britain should undertake round-the-clock surveillance of the detainees, which it considered too expensive to undertake, as well as unnecessary.
According to The Times, "Although the men are accused of terrorist involvement, British officials say that there is not enough evidence to justify the level of surveillance demanded by the US and that the strict conditions stipulated are unworkable and unnecessary." The Times reported that the UK government was most interested in the return of Bisher, since he had cooperated with MI5.
Release
On March 29, 2007, UK Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett announced that the UK Government had negotiated al-Rawi's return from Guantanamo. According to the Associated Press, Beckett issued a statement to Parliament which said:
We have now agreed with the U.S. authorities that Mr. al-Rawi will be returned to the U.K. shortly, as soon as the practical arrangements have been made. This decision follows extensive discussions to address the security implications of Mr. Al-Rawi's return.
Beckett's announcement didn't say anything about al-Rawi's traveling companion Jamil al-Banna, or the other remaining former UK residents who remain held in Guantanamo. Nor did she announce an exact return date. Al-Rawi's home, in Britain, is in Beckett's constituency.
Al-Rawi had been released by April 3, 2007.
According to the New Zealand Herald he said:
I am delighted to be back in England, with my family. After four years in Guantanamo Bay, my nightmare is finally at an end. As happy as I am to be home though, leaving my best friend, Jamil el-Banna, behind in Guantanamo Bay makes my freedom bitter-sweet. Jamil was arrested with me in the Gambia on exactly the same unfounded allegations, yet he is still a prisoner...
Civil suit
On August 1, 2007, Bisher al Rawi joined a civil suit filed under the United States' Alien Tort Statute, with the assistance of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
Al Rawi was joined with four other men, Abou Elkassim Britel, Binyam Mohamed, Ahmed Agiza, and Mohamed Farag Ahmad Bashmilah, in suing Jeppesen Dataplan, a Boeing subsidiary which had arranged the extraordinary rendition flights by which the men had been illegally transported.
References
External links
"UN Secret Detention Report (Part Two): CIA Prisons in Afghanistan and Iraq", Andy Worthington, June 16, 2010
A letter to the Times re: Moazzam Begg and Amnesty by Bisher al-Rawi, Andy Worthington, February 11, 2010
"How MI5 had me kidnapped and thrown into CIA's Dark Prison", Mail Online, July 28, 2007
"Tortured, humiliated and crying out for some justice", The Guardian, January 12, 2005
"UK's 'forgotten' Cuba detainees", BBC'', 25 January 2005
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Category:Living people
Category:Iraqi extrajudicial prisoners of the United States
Category:British people of Iraqi descent
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Sultanate of Damagaram
The Sultanate of Damagaram was a powerful pre-colonial state in what is now southeastern Niger, centered on the city of Zinder.
History
Rise
The Sultanate of Damagaram was founded in 1731 (near Myrria, modern Niger) by Muslim Kanouri aristocrats, led by Mallam (r. 1736–1743). Damagaram was technically a vassal state of the decaying Kanem-Bornu Empire, but quickly came to conquer all its fellow vassal states of western Bornu. In the 1830s, the small band of Bornu nobles and retainers conquered the Myrria kingdom, the Sassebaki sultanates (including Zinder). By the 19th century, Damagaram had absorbed 18 Bornu vassal states in the area.
Zinder rose from a small Hausa village to an important center of the Trans-Saharan trade with the moving of the capital of Damagaram there in 1736. The large fortress of the southeast central city (Birini) was built shortly thereafter, and became a major hub for trade south through Kano and east to Bornu. The Hausa town and Zengou, its Tuareg suburb, expanded with this trade.
Apex
Damagaram had a mixed relationship with the other major regional power, the Sokoto Caliphate to the south. While it provided aid to the animist Hausa led refugee states to its west (in what is now Niger) who were formed from the rump of the states conquered by the Sokoto Caliph, Damagaram also maintained good relations with its southern neighbors. Damagaram sat astride the major trade route linking Tripoli to Kano, one of the more powerful Sokoto sultanates, which provided the economic lifeblood of both states. An east west trade from the Niger River to Bornu also passed through Zinder, making relations with animist neighbors like Maradi or the Gobirwa as profitable, and thus important. Damagaram also covered some of the more productive of Bornu's western salt producing evaporation mines, as well as farms producing Ostrich feathers, highly valued in Europe.
In the mid 19th century, European travelers estimated the state covered some 70,000 square kilometers and had a population over 400,000, mostly Hausa, but also Tuareg, Fula, Kanuri, Arab and Toubou. At the center of the state was the royal family, a Sultan (in Hausa the Sarkin Damagaram) with many wives (an estimated 300 wives by visitor Heinrich Barth in 1851) and children, and a tradition of direct (to son or brother) succession which reached 26 rulers by 1906. The sultan ruled through the activities of two primary officers the: Ciroma (Military commander and prime minister) his heir-apparent the Yakudima. By the end of the 19th century, Damagaram could field an army of 5,000 cavalry, 30,000 foot soldiers, and a dozen cannons, which they produced in Zinder. Damagaram could also call upon forces of the allied Kel Gres Tuareg who formed communities near Zinder and other parts of the sultanate.
French conquest
When the French arrived in force in the 1890s, Zinder was the only city of over 10,000 in what is today Niger. Damagaram found itself threatened by well-armed European incursions to the west, and the conquering forces of Rabih az-Zubayr to the east and south. In 1898, A French force under Captain Marius Gabriel Cazemajou spent three weeks under the Sultan's protection in Damagaram. Cazemajou had been dispatched to form an alliance against the British with Rabih, and the Sultan's court were alarmed at the prospect of their two most powerful new threats linking up. Cazemajou was murdered by a faction at the court, and the remainder of the French escaped, protected by other factions. In 1899, the reconstituted elements of the ill-fated Voulet-Chanoine Mission finally arrived in Damagaram on its way to revenge Cazemajou's death. Meeting on 30 July at the Battle of Tirmini, 10 km from Zinder, the well-armed Senegalese-French troops defeated the Sultan and took Damagaram's capital.
With colonialism came the loss of some of Damagaram's traditional lands and its most important trade partner to the British in Nigeria.
The French placed the capital of the new Niger Military Territory there in 1911. In 1926, following fears of Hausa revolts and improving relations with the Djerma of the west, the capital was transferred to the village of Niamey.
The brother of Sultan Ahmadou mai Roumji had earlier sided with the French, and was placed on the throne in 1899 as Sultan Ahamadou dan Bassa. Following French intelligence that a rising by Hausa in the area were preparing a revolt with the aid of the Sultan, a puppet Sultan was placed in power in 1906, though the royal line was restored in 1923. The Sultanate continues to operate in a ceremonial function into the 21st century.
Economy
The wealth of Damagaram depended on three related sources: on taxes and income from the caravan trade, the capture and the exchange of slaves, and internal taxes.
Environmental policies
Damagaram was originally an area of hunting and gathering activities. As the sultanate developed, the rulers encouraged the rural population to expand farming. Most of the land, especially that surrounding the capital Zinder, belonged to the Sultan and a few notables. In all cases, people who held land were obliged to pay an annual tribute to the sultan".
In order to limit the environmental degradation of this conversion to agriculture, the sultan Tanimoune (1854–84) enforced laws to forbid the cutting of certain trees, with particular emphasis on the gawo tree (Faidherbia albida) with its fertilising properties: "He who cuts a gawo tree without authorization will have his head severed; he who mutilates it without reason will have an arm cut off." The sultan and later his successors also proceeded to plant trees, gawo trees in particular, and dispersed the seeds throughout the empire. Other protected trees were aduwa (Balanites aegyptiaca), kurna or magaria (Ziziphus spina-christi and Ziziphus mauritania), madaci dirmi (Khaya senegalensis), magge and gamji (Ficus spp.). The fallow period for land at that time was six years.
The authority that the sultan claimed on trees was a new practice, breaking with customary views on trees in the Sahel. Traditionally, trees were considered 'gifts from the gods' and could not be owned by any individual, but belonged either to the spirits of the bush or to God. The policies of sultan Tanimoune anchored a new perception: they became called the 'trees of the sultan'.
Sultans of Damagaram
The Sultanate of Damagaram has been ruled by the following sultans:
Mallam Yunus dan Ibram 1731–46
Baba dan Mallam 1746–57
Tanimoun Babami 1757–75
Assafa dan Tanimoun 1775–82
Abaza dan Tanimoun 1782–87
Mallam dan Tanimoun Babou Tsaba 1787–90
Daouda dan Tanimoun 1790–99
Ahmadou dan Tanimoun Na Chanza 1799–1812
Sulayman dan Tanimoun 1812–22
Ibrahim dan Suleyman 1822-41
Tanimoun dan Suleyman 1841-43
Ibrahim dan Suleyman (restored) 1843–51
Tanimoun dan Suleyman (restored) 1851-84
Abba Gato 1884
Suleyman dan Aisa 1884-1893
Amadou dan Tanimoun Mai Roumji Kouran Daga 1893-1899
Amadou dan Tanimoun dan Bassa 1899-1906
Ballama (regent) 1906-1923
Barma Moustapha 1923-1950
Sanda Oumarou dan Amadou 1950-1978
Aboubacar Sanda Oumarou 1978-2000
Mamadou Moustafa 2000-2011
Aboubacar Sanda Oumarou (restored) 2011–present
See also
List of Sunni Muslim dynasties
Notes
References
Columbia Encyclopedia:Zinder
James Decalo. Historical Dictionary of Niger. Scarecrow Press/ Metuchen. NJ - London (1979)
Finn Fuglestad. A History of Niger: 1850–1960. Cambridge University Press (1983)
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Illinois Department of Insurance
The Illinois Department of Insurance is the code department of the Illinois state government that regulates various facets of the insurance industries and professions of Illinois. Key insurance industries it regulates include health insurance, auto insurance, homeowners insurance, and life insurance. The department is the umbrella agency that operates the Illinois Health Benefits Exchange (IHBE), a health insurance marketplace that serves as an intermediary between Illinois residents and the health-insurance mandate requirements of the Affordable Care Act. The IHBE operates under the flag of Get Covered Illinois, the name of its navigational website.
References
External links
Insurance
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Soignies
Soignies (; , ; ) is a Walloon municipality located in the Belgian province of Hainaut.
The municipality is composed of the town of Soignies together with the villages of Casteau, Chaussée-Notre-Dame-Louvignies, Horrues, Neufvilles, Naast and Thieusies. Casteau is known worldwide because SHAPE, the military headquarters of NATO, has been based at the village since 1967.
The name of Soignies comes from the Latin word suniacum, which means "on the Senne". The spring of the Senne is near Soignies. After Soignies, the river passes through Brussels.
Soignies is also well known for its blue limestone (from the Carrières du Hainaut) and its glass industry (Durobor).
History
Saint Vincent
The history of the region starts in the second half of the 7th century. In the 670s, Madelgaire, a wealthy former governor under King Dagobert I, and his wife Waltrude decided to separate and devote themselves to a religious life. Both of them founded an abbey, Madelgaire in Soignies and Waltrude in neighbouring Mons. Madelgaire took the religious name of Vincent. Like his wife, he was canonized after his death and later became the patron saint of the city that would eventually grow around the monastery. At that time, a large forest covered the whole area, the remnants of which near Brussels are still called the Sonian Forest (French: Forêt de Soignes, Dutch: Zoniënwoud) today. The existence of the abbey of Soignies is mentioned for the first time in the Treaty of Meersen, dated August 8, 870, as one of King Charles the Bald's possessions.
The age of the canons
At the end of the 9th century, a general decline in religious life led to a chapter of powerful canons – who did not take any vow of poverty – taking the place of the monks. These canons would remain in power for eight centuries, until the French Revolution. By the 10th century, the canons started the construction of the church of Saint Vincent (Madelgaire), which was to be completed during the following century in the prevalent Romanesque style of the period. The first known charter by Baldwin IV, Count of Hainaut was granted to Soignies in 1142. The fame of the church of Saint Vincent grew in the 13th century, when the bishop of Cambrai granted a 40-day indulgence to every visitor to the church. The city itself grew to urban proportions at around the same time, coinciding with the development of the textile industry and the building of a defensive wall. The first stone quarries mentioned in the archives date from around 1400, but several clues lead to believe that local stone was already quarried much earlier. The cut-stone industry, however, started only around 1700.
1789–present
On September 1, 1796, the revolutionary council disbanded the local administration by the canons, thereby also dealing a heavy blow to the local economy. In 1812, only 92 people worked in the quarries on a total population of about 4,000 people. The industry, however, rebounded under the Dutch regime, and even more after the Belgian Revolution of 1830. Today, the cut-stone and glass industries are still active. Soignies is also the center of a vibrant service industry, especially in education and health.
Sights
The collegiate church of St Vincent is one of the earliest specimens of Romanesque churches in Belgium. The choir dates from the beginning of the 11th century while the Gothic west tower dates from around 1250. The cemetery still has tombs of the 13th and 14th century.
Near the church stands the Cloth Market (in French Halle aux Draps), dating from the 16th century.
Festivities
The origins of the Processio of Saint Vincent (Madelgaire) are not well known. It is certain, however, that it already took place as early as the 13th century. Today, every Monday of Pentecost, the reliquary of Saint Vincent is carried in a historic procession along a predetermined 11-km-long circuit around town, known as the Grand Tour Saint Vincent.
The Saturday preceding the third Sunday of October is the date of the local carnival. The festivities are known as La Simpélourd – from the contraction of two French words meaning simple and heavy – after a cuckold who lived in Soignies more than 200 years ago. This character still takes central stage in the colourful celebration.
Sport
Soignies is home to Rugby Union club RC Soignies, winners of the Belgian Cup in 2010.
People born in Soignies
Samo, Frankish merchant and later king (rex) of the 7th-century Slavic state known as Samo's Empire (Soignies is one of two presumed birthplaces, the other being Sens)
Guillaume Malbecque, Flemish composer (c. 1400–1465)
François de Cuvilliés, Rococo architect (1695-1768)
Jules Bordet, immunologist and microbiologist (1870–1961)
Paul van Zeeland, lawyer, economist, and politician (1893–1973)
Johan Walem, football player and TV consultant (born 1972)
Chris Richardson, American singer-songwriter (born 1984)
References
External links
Official website (in French)
Alternative site, with lots of further information on the city (in French)
Soignies, City of St Vincent (in French)
Category:Municipalities of Hainaut (province)
Category:Populated places in Hainaut (province)
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Mojsisovics
Mojsisovics is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Johann August Georg Edmund Mojsisovics von Mojsvar (1839–1907), Austro-Hungarian geologist and palaeontologist.
Roderich Mojsisovics von Mojsvar (1877–1953), Austrian composer
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Stonington Cemetery
Stonington Cemetery is a historic cemetery at Main Street and United States Route 1 in Stonington, Connecticut. Established as a family cemetery about 1754, it was the first formally incorporated cemetery in New London County, with the incorporation of its association occurring in 1849. Its layout is reflective of changing trends in cemetery organization, from colonial practices to those of the 20th century. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.
Description and history
Stonington Cemetery occupies a roughly rectangular parcel of north of the village of Stonington, at the southeast corner of Main Street and US Route 1. It is ringed by a combination of stone walls and fencing, each of varying ages, with the main gate facing Main Street. It is divided into generally rectangular sections, with roadways, some paved and some gravel, defining their perimeters and providing circulation. The cemetery has undergone three major expansions, all in the 19th century; the oldest sections of the cemetery are in its western third.
The cemetery was begun at least as early as 1754, the date on its oldest legible grave marker. It was at the time the family cemetery of the Chesebrough family, descendants of one of Stonington's colonial founders. The Chesebroughs sold their land to the Phelps family, excepting one acre for the burying ground, in 1787; the cemetery was sold to the Phelpses in 1792, and became locally known as the Phelps Burying Ground. The Phelpses allowed others to use the cemetery, and its use as a public cemetery was formalized with the incorporation of the Stonington Cemetery Corporation in 1849. At that time it underwent its first enlargement, with further increases occurring in 1864 and 1888. Each section was laid out according to practices that were fashionable at the time.
Some of the notable people buried in Stonington Cemetery include the writers Stephen Vincent Benet, the poets James Merrill and J.D. McClatchy, the artist Pati Hill, the civil engineer George Washington Whistler, the explorer Nathaniel Palmer, and the diplomat Coert Du Bois.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in New London County, Connecticut
References
External links
Cemetery website
Category:1754 establishments in Connecticut
Category:Buildings and structures in New London County, Connecticut
Category:Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in Connecticut
Category:Stonington, Connecticut
Category:National Register of Historic Places in New London County, Connecticut
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Swaziland at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Swaziland competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.
Athletics
Men
Track and road events
Field events
Boxing
Men
Swimming
Men
Weightlifting
Men
References
Official Olympic Reports
Category:Nations at the 1988 Summer Olympics
1988
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Province of South Sardinia
The Province of South Sardinia () is an Italian province of Sardinia instituted on 4 February 2016. It includes the suppressed provinces of Carbonia-Iglesias and Medio Campidano, great part of the old Province of Cagliari (without the 17 municipalities of the new Metropolitan City), and two other municipalities.
History
South Sardinia was instituted as a result of the reform law provinces in Sardinia (Regional Law 2/2016). Once activated will include great part of the geographic region of Campidano, the Sarrabus-Gerrei, the Trexenta and the Sulcis-Iglesiente. The provincial capital will be determined by the first provincial council, as well as the institution's statute.
Geography
Municipalities
From the Province of Carbonia-Iglesias (all 23): Buggerru, Calasetta, Carbonia, Carloforte, Domusnovas, Fluminimaggiore, Giba, Gonnesa, Iglesias, Masainas, Musei, Narcao, Nuxis, Perdaxius, Piscinas, Portoscuso, San Giovanni Suergiu, Sant'Anna Arresi, Sant'Antioco, Santadi, Tratalias, Villamassargia, Villaperuccio
From the Province of Medio Campidano (all 28): Arbus, Barumini, Collinas, Furtei, Genuri, Gesturi, Gonnosfanadiga, Guspini, Las Plassas, Lunamatrona, Pabillonis, Pauli Arbarei, Samassi, San Gavino Monreale, Sanluri, Sardara, Segariu, Serramanna, Serrenti, Setzu, Siddi, Tuili, Turri, Ussaramanna, Villacidro, Villamar, Villanovaforru, Villanovafranca
From the Province of Cagliari (54 of 71): Armungia, Ballao, Barrali, Burcei, Castiadas, Decimoputzu, Dolianova, Domus de Maria, Donori, Escalaplano, Escolca, Esterzili, Gergei, Gesico, Goni, Guamaggiore, Guasila, Isili, Mandas, Monastir, Muravera, Nuragus, Nurallao, Nuraminis, Nurri, Orroli, Ortacesus, Pimentel, Sadali, Samatzai, San Basilio, San Nicolò Gerrei, San Sperate, San Vito, Sant'Andrea Frius, Selegas, Senorbì, Serdiana, Serri, Seulo, Siliqua, Silius, Siurgus Donigala, Soleminis, Suelli, Teulada, Ussana, Vallermosa, Villanova Tulo, Villaputzu, Villasalto, Villasimius, Villasor, Villaspeciosa
From the Province of Ogliastra: Seui
From the Province of Oristano: Genoni
Government
List of Presidents of the Province of South Sardinia
References
South Sardinia
South Sardinia
South Sardinia
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Coxcatlan Cave
Coxcatlan Cave is a Mesoamerican archaeological site in the Tehuacán Valley of Puebla, Mexico. It was discovered by Richard MacNeish in the 1960s during a survey of the Tehuacán Valley. It was the initial appearance of three domesticated plants in the Tehuacan Valley (Puebla, Mexico) and allowed an evaluation to be done again of the overall temporal context of the plant domestication in Mexico. In addition to plants, Coxcatlan Cave also provided nearly 75 percent of the classified stone tools from excavation.
Overview
It was used over a span of 10,000 years, mostly during the Archaic period, as a shelter and gathering place during the rainy season for groups of foragers as large as 25-30 individuals.
It is one of a collection of cave sites in the Tehuacan Valley. Each have similar archaeobotanical remains and cultural artifacts, representing a trade community present.
These “macroband” camps, made up of “microband” family groupings, would occupy cave sites in the region during a time when food resources were especially plentiful. Evidence of large quantities of food remains contributes to the belief that these caves were used for collecting and storing plants during periods of harvest. Some of the food included were small maize cobs and fragments of squash, chile, avocado, beans, and bottle gourd. The plants only made up 2 percent of the Archaic-period macrobotanical collection compared within 45 percentage in the overlying ceramic-bearing levels dating after 2000 BC.
History
It is due to the extensive study of the site by Dr. Richard (Scotty) MacNeish that much of the historical and cultural record was established, especially from the Archaic period when the cave was most active. Coxcatlan Cave also produced domesticated plants in components dated between 5,000 and 3,400 BC, or better known as the Coxcatlan Phase. The Coxcatlan Phase was a phase were the people and animals living in Tehuacan Valley divided their time between small hunting encampments and large temporary villages.
Location
The karst-formed 7 Coxcatlán cave is located in the Tehuacan Valley highlands amidst the dry thorn forest typical of the Sierra Madre mountainous region. The site and others in close proximity, are separated by the mountains from the coastal plain where the Olmec chiefdom of Tres Zapotes was located.
Some of the excavations done on the site appeared to be identified to be at least 42 separated occupation levels within 2–3 meters of sediments. The features identified at the site include hearths, cache pits, ash satters and organic deposits.
Maize
Maize is known in archaeology of this area to be essential to sedentary life. The discovery of remains in this cave and others, then, is important to the archaeological record in this region. The development of agriculture is evidence of the Law of Least Effort and Romenʼs Rule, encouraging practices that promote higher productivity to secure and store a greater amount of food.
The maize remains found at the site were radiocarbon dated to be from 5000 BC and were originally thought to be the earliest evidence of fully domesticated maize. However a further analysis discovered the first appearance of fully domesticated maize to be from ca. 2700 BC. This discovery allows archaeologists a frame of reference for the chronology of the progression of agriculture in Mesoamerican cultures. The time period following this introduction of maize oriented agriculture is called the Coxcatlan Phase, which includes the years 5700-3825 BC. The AMS of Coxcatlan Phase cultigens has produced substantially younger dates than those obtained by the conventional radiocarbon method.
Artifacts
Some of the items of interest found in the cave include: a corn cob dated to 5000 BC; evidence of squash, beans, bottle gourds; along with an ink pen and containing vessels using pre-ceramic material.
A later, more thorough study by Bruce D. Smith of museum-held artifacts from the region established a complete description of the remains in the cave, based on radioactive dating of the material. This analysis of temporally sensitive artifact types also produced information of 42 occupations, 28 habitation zones, and seven cultural phases. As of 2005, there are 71 radiocarbon dates are available to document the history of the site.
The top seven archaeological zones of the cave contains evidence of ceramic periods of occupation in the cave. The evidence of archaeobotanical remains is also the greatest in these top layers, partially due to an obvious postdepositional disturbance of the cultural materials in the cave. Such action has been confirmed with radiocarbon dating by Smith and others.
References
Category:Cave sites in Mesoamerican archaeology
Category:Archaeological sites in Puebla
Category:Early agriculture in Mesoamerica
Category:Caves of Mexico
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List of Rugby League World Cup hat-tricks
Here is a list of players who have scored a hat-trick of tries or field goals in a Rugby League World Cup match. The feat has been achieved 61 times with tries and just once with field goals. The first player to do is was Alex Watson, who achieved the feat for Australia against New Zealand in the inaugural tournament. Australia have scored the most hat-tricks with 28 (27 tries 1 field goal), while Papua New Guinea have conceded the most with 12 (all tries).
Hat-tricks are more of a common occurrence in the group stages, as the match-ups usually place higher ranked teams against lower ranked teams. Just 9 hat-tricks have occurred in the knockout stages, 5 happening in the quarter-finals and 4 in the semi-finals. They have been scored by Bryan Fletcher and Robbie Paul in 2000, Billy Slater and Johnathan Thurston in 2008, Jarryd Hayne (twice) and Brett Morris in 2013 and Valentine Holmes (twice) in 2017.
4 players have scored hat-tricks while being on the losing side. They are Bob Fulton, Ian Schubert, Damien Blanch and Chris Taripo. 6 players have scored two hat-tricks in the tournament's history. There have been 10 four try hauls, and just once has a player scored 5 and 6 tries in a match, both instances being Valentine Holmes in the 2017 edition. Billy Smith is the only player to have scored a hat-trick of field goals, doing so for Australia against France in the 1968 tournament.
Hat-tricks
All statistics are correct as of 9 February 2020
Tries
Field Goals
Multiple hat-tricks
Player hat-tricks by their national team
References
Category:Rugby league-related lists
Category:Rugby League World Cup
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Virgil A. Lewis
Virgil Anson Lewis (July 6, 1848—December 5, 1912) was a lawyer, teacher and historian of the U.S. state of West Virginia, as well as (for one term in 1891) mayor of Mason City, West Virginia. His state history was used in West Virginia schools for five decades; Lewis was the first State Historian and Archivist of West Virginia (1905–1912).
Early and family life
Lewis was born in a log cabin in West Columbia, Virginia, Mason County, then part of Virginia, to George W. Lewis Jr. (1819-1858) and his wife, the former Lucie Edwards (1814-1885). His Scotch-Irish ancestors had settled in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, then crossed the Allegheny Mountains to settle first in Greenbrier County. His great grandfather Benjamin Lewis has fought as a patriot in the American Revolutionary War and after receiving a wound at the Battle of Point Pleasant returned to built cabins in what was then wilderness near Point Pleasant in the Kanawha Valley in 1797. The family grew to include three sons and two daughters before George Lewis died in 1858. Virgil Lewis, as the eldest male (though only nine years old), then worked to support the family on a nearby farm. He continued his education, however, at a field school in winter, then worked as a printer’s assistant and later as a shipping clerk. In 1886, he married Elizabeth Stone (1862-1941) of Mason City. They had a daughter Anna Lucy (1888-19767) and their son Hale V. Lewis was born in 1890.
Career
Lewis began teaching in his native Mason county, and also drew attention with historical sketches that were published. In 1878 he became principal of the Buffalo Academy in neighboring Putnam County. While there, Lewis also studied law under the direction of James M. Hoge and was admitted to the West Virginia bar in 1879, and also to the federal district and circuit court bars. Ultimately, Lewis decided not to practice as a lawyer, instead returning to teaching, writing and his mayoral duties.
Lewis had a passion for history, notwithstanding his extremely limited formal education. The Virginia Historical Society elected Lewis as a corresponding member in 1880, and he later became a member of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. In 1882 Lewis traveled through the southern states and decided to write a history of his native West Virginia, which was published by Hubbard Brothers in Philadelphia in 1889. Two years later, the West Virginia legislature passed a joint resolution recommending it as a standard authority and a reference work for schools across the state. In 1890 Lewis helped organize the West Virginia Historical and Antiquarian Society, and in 1892 became editor of the Southern Historical Magazine.
Although Lewis received more votes, B.S. Morgan became State Superintendent of Free Schools in 1892. Lewis received an A.M. in history from West Virginia University the following year, and also published the first state manual of primary education. His 1896 textbook History and Government of West Virginia was utilized statewide in public schools for over fifty years. In 1905, Governor William M. O. Dawson appointed Lewis first director of the Bureau of Archives and History, and he served in that position until his death.
Death and legacy
Lewis died in 1912 and was buried at Lone Oak Cemetery in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. His papers are held by Marshall University and by West Virginia University. His former home in Mason City, now known as the Shumaker-Lewis House, was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. The West Virginia Historical Society’s Virgil A. Lewis Award is named in his honor.
Works
Lewis, Virgil A. and Brock, Robert Alonzo (1884), History of Virginia from Settlement of Jamestown to Close of the Civil War Two volumes; H. H. Hardesty.
Lewis, Virgil A. (1888), Life and Times of Anne Bailey, the Pioneer Heroine of the Great Kanawha Valley
Lewis, Virgil A. and Brock, Robert Alonzo (1888), Virginia and Virginians: Eminent Virginians, Vol. I, H.H. Hardesty, Richmond.
Lewis, Virgil A. (1889), General History of West Virginia
Lewis, Virgil A. (1894), Biennial Report of the State Superintendent of Free Schools, State of West Virginia.
Lewis, Virgil A. (1894), Manual and Graded Course of Study for the Country and Village Schools of West Virginia.
Lewis, Virgil A. (1895), The Original Indiana Territory: It was in West Virginia; The Eleventh Amendment to the Federal Constitution, A Paper Read by Virgil A. Lewis, before the Fifth Annual Meeting of the West Virginia Historical and Antiquarian Society, January 17, 1895. Charleston, W.Va.: Press of Butler Printing Co.
Lewis, Virgil A. (1896), History and Government of West Virginia (Revised editions: 1904, 1912, 1916, 1922, etc.)
Lewis, Virgil A. (1903), The Story of the Louisiana Purchase
Lewis, Virgil A. (1904), Handbook of West Virginia: Its History, Natural Resources, Industrial Enterprise and Institutions; Published by West Virginia Commission of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition.
Lewis, Virgil A. (1909), How West Virginia Was Made: Proceedings of the First Convention of the People Northwestern Virginia at Wheeling May 13, 14 and 15, 1861, and the Journal of the Second Convention of the People of Northwestern Virginia at Wheeling, which Assembled...
Lewis, Virgil A. (1909), History of the Battle of Point Pleasant; Charleston, West Virginia: Tribune (Reprinted Maryland: Willow Bend, 2000. .)
Lewis, Virgil A., "A history of Marshall Academy, Marshall College and Marshall College State Normal School."
Three biennial reports (1906, 1908, 1911) of the State Department of Archives and History.
Extract of 1911 report: Lewis, Virgil A. (1911), The Soldiery of West Virginia in the French and Indian War; Lord Dunmore's War; the Revolution; the Later Indian Wars; the Whiskey Insurrection; the Second War with England; the War with Mexico. And Addenda Relating to West Virginians in the Civil War.
References
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Pachycerianthus fimbriatus
Pachycerianthus fimbriatus is a cerianthid anemone that burrows in substrate and lives in a semi-rigid tube made of felted nematocysts. The anemone is often seen in bright orange to red.
Like most anemones, the tube-dwelling anemone contains stinging cells or nematocytes along its tentacles, however, the cells are not toxic to humans.
Distribution
This species was described from Indonesia. It is considered to be synonymous with Pachycerianthus plicatus which was described from the Pacific Ocean coast of North America.
Biology
Pachycerianthus fimbriatus feeds on small crustaceans. The giant nudibranch Dendronotus iris has been documented to prey upon P. fimbriatus.
References
The Comparative Toxicogenomics Database
External links
Category:Ceriantharia
Category:Animals described in 1910
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Nelson Island
Nelson Island may refer to:
Nelson Island (Alaska)
Nelson Island (Chagos Archipelago)
Nelson Island (South Shetland Islands)
Nelson Island, Trinidad and Tobago
Nelson Island (British Columbia)
Nelson's Island, an island in Abu Qir Bay, Egypt
Nelson Island (Talbot County, Maryland), an island of Maryland
Nelson Island (Montana), an island in the Missouri River
See also
Nelson Rock (Antarctica)
Nelsons Island
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Dihammaphora binodula
Dihammaphora binodula' is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Chevrolat in 1859.
References
Category:Dihammaphora
Category:Beetles described in 1859
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Carmel College of Engineering and Technology Alappuzha
Carmel College of Engineering & Technology (CCET) is owned and managed by the St. Joseph's Carmel Educational & Charitable Trust of CMI, registered on 13-09-2012. The institution was established by a Public Charitable Trust in 2014-15 at Punnapra, Alappuzha, with the object of providing education to all in the field of engineering & technology and with a motto of molding Engineers par Excellence with Integrity, commitment and human values who are competent to meet the global standards in business, industry and research and would act as catalysts for the transformation of the society.
Carmel College of Engineering & Technology, Punnapra managed by St. Joseph's Carmel Educational & Charitable Trust of CMI, is the only engineering college offering undergraduate level courses under the Province of St. Joseph, Thiruvananthapuram. It is a self-financing college approved by AICTE and affiliated to university of Kerala, Carmel College of Engineering and Technology offers 4 year B.Tech courses in: Civil Engineering Mechanical EngineeringElectrical and Electronics Engineering Electronics and Communication Engineering Computer Science and Engineering
External links
Campus Plus 2019
References
Category:Engineering colleges in Kerala
Category:Colleges affiliated to the University of Kerala
Category:Universities and colleges in Alappuzha district
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Dryden (disambiguation)
Dryden may refer to:
People
John Dryden, poet
Dryden (surname)
Fictional
Mr. Dryden, a character in the film Lawrence of Arabia
Dryden Fassa, a supporting character in the 1996 anime series The Vision of Escaflowne
Places
Dryden (crater), a lunar impact crater on the southern hemisphere on the far side of the Moon
In Canada:
Dryden, Ontario
In the United States:
Dryden, Michigan
Dryden Township, Michigan
Dryden, Missouri
Dryden, New York
Dryden (village), New York
Dryden, Oregon
Dryden, Texas
Dryden, Virginia
Dryden, Washington
Dryden Flight Research Center, the former name of the Neil A. Armstrong Flight Research Center, a NASA installation in California
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Melinda Jacques
Melinda Jacques (born 13 October 1971) is a French handball player.
She was born in Karcag Hungary. She competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics, where France finished 4th.
References
External links
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Category:Living people
Category:People from Karcag
Category:French female handball players
Category:Olympic handball players of France
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William Swaluk
William Swaluk (born 18 June 1938) is a Canadian weightlifter. He competed in the men's heavyweight event at the 1960 Summer Olympics.
References
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Category:Living people
Category:Canadian male weightlifters
Category:Olympic weightlifters of Canada
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Rebel Award
The Rebel Award is a lifetime achievement award for a science fiction fan "who has done a great deal for Southern Fandom." The Rebel is given annually by DeepSouthCon, a bidded convention held in different states of the former Confederacy.
There is no standard shape or image for the Rebel as each host convention creates their own unique interpretation of the award. The Rebel is presented in conjunction with Phoenix Award for a science fiction professional (author, artist, editor, etc.) meeting similar criteria. The award recipients are chosen by the host convention.
List of Rebel Award winners
2015: Michael Scott & Frank Schiavo
2014: Judy Bemis
2013: Regina Kirby & M. Lee Rogers
2012: Shelby Vick, Bill Zielke, Linda Zielke, Robert Zielke, & Becky Zielke
2011: Brad W. Foster
2010: Albin Johnson
2009: Randy Cleary
2008: Kelly Lockhart
2007: Bill Payne, "Dutch" Stacy, & Mickey Kilgore
2006: Dan Caldwell
2005: Naomi Fisher
2004: Dal Coger† & Sue Thorn
2003: Mike Kennedy
2002: Julie Wall
2001: Robert Neagle & Sam Smith
2000: Lynn Harris & Toni Weisskopf
1999: Tim "Uncle Timmy" Bolgeo
1998: Tom Feller & Wilson "Bob" Tucker
1997: Teddy Harvia
1996: Gary Robe & Corlis Robe
1995: J.R. "Mad Dog" Madden
1994: Don Cook & Bob Shaw
1993: G. Patrick Molloy
1992: Steve Francis & Sue Francis
1991: Samanda B. Jeude
1990: Charlotte Proctor
1989: Steven Carlberg & Maurine Dorris
1988: Sue Phillips & mike weber
1987: Lee Hoffman & Penny Frierson
1986: John A.R. Hollis
1985: Larry Montgomery & P.L. Caruthers-Montgomery
1984: Guy H. Lillian III
1983: John Guidry & Lynn Hickman
1982: Lon Atkins
1981: Dick Lynch & Nicki Lynch
1980: Jerry Page
1979: Cliff Amos
1978: Don Markstein
1977: Cliff Biggers & Susan Biggers
1976: Ned Brooks
1975: Meade Frierson III
1974: Ken Moore
1973: Hank Reinhardt
1972: No Award Given
1971: Janie Lamb
1970: Irvin Koch
1969: No Award Given
1968: No Award Given
1967: No Award Given
1966: David Hulan
1965: Al Andrews
† = award presented posthumously
References
External links
Category:Regional and local science fiction awards
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Acadine
In Greek mythology, Acadine was a magical fountain in Sicily described by the Greek historian Diodorus Siculus. When writings were thrown into the fountain, they floated to the top if genuine, but otherwise sank to the bottom where they were devoured by Hades.
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Emmet
Emmet may refer to:
Places
Australia
Emmet, Queensland
Germany
Emmet (Upland), a mountain in Hesse
United States
Emmet, Arkansas
Emmet, Nebraska
Emmet, North Dakota
Emmet, South Dakota
Emmet, Dodge County, Wisconsin, a town
Emmet, Marathon County, Wisconsin, a town
Emmet County, Iowa
Emmet County, Michigan
Emmet Township (disambiguation)
People
Surname
A. Maitland Emmet, entomologist and school teacher
Christopher Temple Emmet, Irish barrister and poet
Devereux Emmet, golf course architect
Grenville T. Emmet, American attorney and diplomat
Katherine Emmet (1878–1960), American actress
Lydia Field Emmet, American artist
Richard S. Emmet Jr. (1871–1897), New York assemblyman
Robert Emmet, leader of the 1803 Irish rebellion
Robert Temple Emmet, US Medal of Honor winner
Thomas Addis Emmet, lawyer and politician
Thomas Addis Emmet (bishop), American-born Roman Catholic bishop in Jamaica
William Le Roy Emmet, electrical engineer
Middle name
T. Emmet Clarie (1913–1997), American judge
John Emmet French, (1886–1947) American golfer
R. Emmet Hayes (born 1951), American lobbyist and politician
John Emmet Sheridan (1877–1948), American illustrator
M. Emmet Walsh, (born 1935) American actor
Given name
Emmet Birk (1914–2000), American basketball player
Emmet Bolton (born 1985), Gaelic footballer
Emmet D. Boyle (1879–1926), American politician
Emmet Byrne (1896–1974), American politician
Emmet Byrne, Irish rugby union player
Emmet Crawford (1844–1886), American soldier
Emmet Dalton (1898–1978), Irish soldier and film producer
Emmet Densmore (1837–1911), American businessman and physician
Emmet Flood, American attorney
Emmet Fox (1886–1951), New Thought spiritual leader
Emmet Friars (born 1985), footballer
Emmet Gowin (born 1941), American photographer
Emmet Heidrick (1876–1916), American baseball player
Emmet John Hughes (1920–1982), American editor, speechwriter and author
Emmet Kirwan, Irish actor, playwright and screenwriter
Emmet Lanigan (1909–1989), Australian cricketer
Emmet Lavery (1902–1986), American playwright and screenwriter
Emmet G. Lavery Jr. (1927–2014), American producer and attorney
Emmet Malone, Irish football correspondent
Emmet McDermott (1911–2002), Australian dentist and politician
Emmet McHardy (1904–1933), New Zealand missionary
Emmet McLoughlin, amateur football player
Emmet Nolan (born 1995), Irish hurler
Emmet O'Brien (born 1981), Irish auto racing driver
Emmet O'Neal (1853–1922), American politician and lawyer
Emmet O'Neal (1887–1967), American politician and ambassador
Emmet M. Reily (1866–1954), American politician
Emmet Sargeant, musician
Emmet Stagg (1944), Irish politician
Emmet Sullivan, (1887–1970), American sculptor
Emmet G. Sullivan (born 1947), American judge
Emmet M. Walsh (1892–1968), American prelate
Emmet Wan (born 1992), football midfielder
Fictional characters
Emmet Brickowski, the protagonist of The Lego Movie
Emmet Cole, in ABC's The River
Emmet Hawksworth, a character in the sitcom Keeping Up Appearances
Emmet Otter, the protagonist of Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas
Emmet Ray, the protagonist of Sweet and Lowdown
Music
Emmet Spiceland, Irish folk band
Emmet Swimming, American rock band
Other
Emmet, an archaic English word for ant
Emmet (heraldry), the heraldic ant
Emmet (Cornish), a nickname for tourists
Emmet (software), a set of tools for HTML and CSS coders, formerly known as Zen Coding
See also
Emmett (disambiguation)
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1972 Australian Open
The 1972 Australian Open was a tennis tournament played on grass courts at the Kooyong Stadium in Melbourne in Australia and was held from 26 December 1971 to 3 January 1972. It was the 60th edition of the Australian Open and the first Grand Slam of the year.
Finals
Men's Singles
Ken Rosewall defeated Malcolm Anderson 7–6(7–2), 6–3, 7–5
It was Rosewall's 16th career Grand Slam title (his 8th in singles) and his 6th Australian title.
Women's Singles
Virginia Wade defeated Evonne Goolagong 6–4, 6–4
It was Wade's 2nd career Grand Slam title and her 1st Australian title.
Men's Doubles
Owen Davidson / Ken Rosewall defeated Ross Case / Geoff Masters 3–6, 7–6, 6–3
It was Davidson's 1st career Grand Slam title and his only Australian title. It was Rosewall's 17th career Grand Slam title and his 7th and last Australian title.
Women's Doubles
Helen Gourlay / Kerry Harris defeated Patricia Coleman / Karen Krantzcke 6–0, 6–4
It was Gourlay's 1st career Grand Slam title and her 1st Australian title. It was Harris' only career Grand Slam title and her only Australian title.
Mixed Doubles
Competition not held between 1970 and 1986.
References
External links
Australian Open official website
1972
Category:1972 in Australian tennis
Category:1971 in Australian tennis
Australian Open
Australian Open
Category:1970s in Melbourne
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Zakin
Zakin (, also Romanized as Zākīn) is a village in Siyahu Rural District, Fin District, Bandar Abbas County, Hormozgan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 610, in 144 families.
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Category:Populated places in Bandar Abbas County
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Deborah Sanderson
Deborah Sanderson is an American politician who has served in the Maine House of Representatives since 2010.
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Trinity (story arc)
"Trinity" is a comic book crossover storyline published by DC Comics that ran through a self-titled limited series and the issues of Darkstars, Green Lantern vol. 3 and L.E.G.I.O.N. '93 cover dated August and September 1993. It was written by Gerard Jones and Mark Waid from a plot by Michael Jan Friedman.
Plot
The Trinity storyline was a major event crossing over between DC Comics "outer space" titles Green Lantern Corps, L.E.G.I.O.N. and Darkstars. The three groups converge on the planet Maltus, birthplace of the Guardians of the Universe, the Controllers, and the Zamarons. They go up against a trio of cosmic-powered ancient Malthusian Gods called The Triarch (Quarra the Creator, Archor the Sustainer and Tzodar the Destroyer).
Bibliography
Part 1 - DC Universe: Trinity #1
Part 2 - Green Lantern vol. 3 #44
Part 3 - L.E.G.I.O.N. '93 #57
Part 4 - The Darkstars #11
Part 5 - Green Lantern vol. 3 #45
Part 6 - L.E.G.I.O.N. '93 #58
Part 7 - The Darkstars #12
Part 8 - DC Universe: Trinity #2
External links
DCU Guide: Trinity #1
DCU Guide: Trinity #2
The Book of OA: Maltus
Category:Green Lantern storylines
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Athletics at the 1988 Summer Paralympics – Men's 100 metres B1
The Men's 100 metres B1 was a sprinting event in athletics at the 1988 Summer Paralympics in Seoul, for blind athletes. Seven athletes took part, representing six nations. They included defending champion Winford Haynes, of the United States. Haynes was unable to retain his title, outrun by Soviet athletes who were making their Paralympic Games début.
The International Paralympic Committee's database does not record any heats, merely a final round in which the seven athletes took part.
Results
References
Men's 100 metres B1
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Institute for Clinical and Economic Review
The Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) is a Boston-based independent nonprofit organization that seeks to improve healthcare value by providing comprehensive clinical and cost-effectiveness analyses of treatments, tests, and procedures.
It was founded in about 2005 by physician-researcher Steven D. Pearson, MD, MSc, FRCP. Until 2014 it concentrated on assessing health care costs (rather than evaluating drugs). It evaluates the cost effectiveness of drugs in a similar way to the UK's NICE, and has come under some criticism from the drug industry. It has issued a number of drug evaluations since 2014. especially since July 2015.
The institution is funded by the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, drug makers, insurers, and government grants.
Threshold cost criteria
ICER estimates the amount of money available to be spent annually on new drugs and then divides that amount by the number of expected US Food and Drug Administration approvals to set an affordability benchmark.
ICER's affordability calculations adjust for drugs targeting prevalent diseases and/or those presenting a significant clinical benefit by setting the threshold at double the available funds divided by the expected number of new drugs (approved by FDA).
After discussions in 2016 ICER broadened its quality-adjusted life year threshold to $50,000 - $150,000.
Drugs evaluated - reports issued
It issued a draft report that said Sovaldi wasn’t worth the list price of about $84,000 a year.
As of May 2016 ICER published final reports on
- Multiple myeloma
- Palliative care
It has criticised the high price of drugs for osteoporosis, multiple sclerosis, PCSK9 cholesterol meds, and immuno-oncology therapies.
In 2017 it issued a controversial draft report on PARP inhibitors for ovarian cancer.
Drug evaluations planned
A preliminary list of drugs to be evaluated includes rociletinib, AZD-9291, necitumumab, nivolumab, and pembrolizumab for small-cell lung cancer; fingolimod, dimethyl fumarate, teriflunomide, alemtuzumab, and daclizumab for multiple sclerosis; and ixekizumab and brodalumab for psoriasis or psoriatic arthritis.
See also
Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy, an older US organisation that evaluates drug cost effectiveness
References
External links
ICER website
Category:Organizations established in 2005
Category:Medical and health organizations based in Massachusetts
Category:Health care management
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Incitec Pivot
Incitec Pivot Ltd. () is an Australian multinational corporation that manufactures fertiliser, explosives chemicals, and mining service. Incitec Pivot is the largest supplier of fertilisers in Australia; the largest supplier of explosives products and services in North America; and the second largest supplier of explosives products and services in the world. The company began trading on the ASX on 30 July 2003 having been formed as the result of a merger between Incitec Fertilizers and the Pivot group, and substantially expanded with the acquisition of Southern Cross Fertilisers in 2006 and Dyno Nobel in 2008.
Employing approximately 5,000 staff worldwide, Incitec Pivot has extensive operations throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Australia. In 2005, the company struck a deal with the Government of Nauru to re-develop the country's phosphate mining industry, which had fallen into disrepair. The company invested $5 million to facilities and machinery, and phosphate mining resumed in late 2006.
Incitec Pivot has based a large part of its fertilizer production on imports of phosphate rock from Western Sahara, a territory which has been occupied by Morocco since 1975. Since such imports are considered in violation of international law, Incitec Pivot has been blacklisted from portfolios of several ethical investors including the United Methodist Church, Danske Bank, Storebrand, KLP, and the national pension funds of Sweden and Luxembourg.
References
External links
Official Incitec Pivot Website
ABC Landline - Pacific Paydirt
Dyno Nobel Website
Incitec Pivot Fertilisers Website
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Category:Mining companies of Australia
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Tithe War
The Tithe War () was a campaign of mainly nonviolent civil disobedience, punctuated by sporadic violent episodes, in Ireland between 1830 and 1836 in reaction to the enforcement of tithes on the Roman Catholic majority for the upkeep of the established state church – the Church of Ireland. Tithes were payable in cash or kind and payment was compulsory, irrespective of an individual's religious adherence.
Background
Tithe payment was an obligation on those working the land to pay ten per cent of the value of certain types of agricultural produce for the upkeep of the clergy and maintenance of the assets of the church. After the Reformation in Ireland of the 16th century, the assets of the church were allocated by King Henry VIII to the new established church. The majority in Ireland who remained loyal to the old religion were then obliged to make tithe payments which were directed away from their own church to the reformed one. This increased the financial burden on subsistence farmers, many of whom were at the same time making voluntary contributions to the construction or purchase of new premises to provide Roman Catholic places of worship. The new established church was supported by only a minority of the population, seventy-five percent of whom continued to adhere to Roman Catholicism.
Emancipation for Roman Catholics was promised by Pitt during the campaign in favour of the Act of Union of 1801 which was approved by the Irish Parliament, thus abolishing itself and creating the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. The king, however, refused to keep Pitt's promises, and it was not until 1829 that the Duke of Wellington's government finally conceded to the Roman Catholic Emancipation Act, in the teeth of defiant royal opposition. However, the obligation to pay tithes to the Church of Ireland remained, causing much resentment. Roman Catholic clerical establishments in Ireland had refused government offers of tithe-sharing with the established church, fearing that British government regulation and control would come with acceptance of such money.
The tithe burden lay directly on the shoulders of farmers, whether tenants or owner-occupiers. More often than not, tithes were paid in kind, in the form of produce or livestock. In 1830, given the system of benefices in the Anglican system, almost half of the clergy were not resident in the parishes from which they drew their incomes. These issues, more often than not, were inflamed by the senior Irish Roman Catholic clergy, who were now dependent on voluntary contributions due to the discontinuation of the Maynooth grant. Incensed farmers vehemently resisted paying for the support of two clerical establishments. With the involvement of many of the Roman Catholic bishops and clergy, they began a campaign of non-payment.
After Emancipation in 1829, an organized campaign of resistance to collection began. It was sufficiently successful to have a serious financial effect on the welfare of established church clergy. In 1831, the government compiled lists of defaulters and issued collection orders for the seizure of goods and chattels (mostly stock). Spasmodic violence broke out in various parts of Ireland, particularly in counties Kilkenny, Tipperary and Wexford. The Irish Constabulary, which had been established in 1822, attempted to enforce the orders of seizures. At markets and fairs, the constabulary often seized stock and produce, which often resulted in violent resistance.
A campaign of passive resistance was proposed by Patrick "Patt" Lalor (1781–1856), a farmer of Tenakill, Queen's County, who later served as a repeal MP (1832–35). He declared at a public meeting in February 1831 in Maryborough that "...he would never again pay tithes; that he would violate no law; that the tithe men might take his property, and offer it for sale; but his countrymen, he was proud to say, respected him, and he thought that none of them would buy or bid for it if exposed for sale. The declaration was received by the meeting in various ways: by many with surprise and astonishment; by others with consternation and dismay, but by a vast majority with tremendous cheering." Lalor held true to his word and did not resist the confiscation of 20 sheep from his farm, but was able to ensure no buyers appeared at subsequent auctions.
The "war" 1831–36
The first clash of the Tithe War took place on 3 March 1831 in Graiguenamanagh, County Kilkenny, when a force of 120 yeomanry tried to enforce seizure orders on cattle belonging to a Roman Catholic priest. Encouraged by his bishop, he had organised people to resist tithe collection by placing their stock under his ownership prior to sale. The revolt soon spread. On 18 June 1831, in Bunclody (Newtownbarry), County Wexford, people resisting the seizure of cattle were fired upon by the Irish Constabulary, who killed twelve and wounded twenty; one yeoman was shot dead in retaliation. This massacre caused objectors to organise and use warnings such as church bells to signal the community to round up the cattle and stock. On 14 December 1831, resisters used such warnings to ambush a detachment of 40 Constabulary at Carrickshock (County Kilkenny). Twelve constables, including the Chief Constable, were killed and more wounded. (Other sources put the number of dead at eighteen.)
What makes the Battle of Carrickshock stand out in 'social memory' is examined in the 2004 publication "The Carrickshock Incident, 1831: Social Memory and an Irish cause célèbre" by Gary Owens of Huron University College, in Canada. What makes Carrickshock different in impact could have a much to do with what happened nearby in Ballyhale the following year, in 1832, when a gathering of c.200,000 people assembled at Ballyhale from across four counties to support those charged in aftermath of The Battle of Carrickshock, an extraordinary number for those days before cars. They were also addressed by barrister Daniel O'Connell, also known as Liberator of the Nation. That is deemed to have had a significant influence on its overall outcome for anti-tithe movement, ensuring that the event marked the beginning of the end of tithes in Ireland. This Ballyhale event is notable too in that it was the first so-called 'monster meeting' of that time. Such peaceful gatherings were to become the hallmark of the Young Ireland and Repeal Movement that was founded in 1839 and which gatherings peaked with Daniel O'Connell's oration at Tara, 1843, where c.750,000 assembled. Michael Davitt's Museum records show that the Land League campaigns, which he co-founded in 1879, followed that path too to ensure that it enabled tenant farmers to be able to own the land on which they worked.
Regular clashes causing fatalities continued over the next two years, causing the authorities to reinforce selected army barracks fearing an escalation. Taking stock of the continuing resistance, in 1831 the authorities recorded 242 homicides, 1,179 robberies, 401 burglaries, 568 burnings, 280 cases of cattle-maiming, 161 assaults, 203 riots and 723 attacks on property directly attributed to seizure order enforcement. In 1832, the president of Carlow College was imprisoned for not paying tithes.
On 18 December 1834, the conflict came to a head at Rathcormac, County Cork, when armed Constabulary reinforced by the regular British Army killed twelve and wounded forty-two during several hours of fighting when trying to enforce a tithe order reputedly to the value of 40 shillings.
The conflict had the support of the Roman Catholic clergy and the following quotation, from a letter written by the Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin, Dr. James Doyle to Thomas Spring Rice became the rallying cry for the movement:
There are many noble traits in the Irish character, mixed with failings which have always raised obstacles to their own well-being; but an innate love of justice, and an indomitable hatred of oppression, is like a gem upon the front of our nation which no darkness can obscure. To this fine quality I trace their hatred of tithes; may it be as lasting as their love of justice!
Outcome
Finding and collecting livestock chattels and the associated mayhem created public outrage and proved an increasing strain on police relations. The government suspended collections. One official lamented that "it cost a shilling to collect tuppence".
In 1838, parliament introduced a Tithe Commutation Act for Ireland. This reduced the amount payable directly by about a quarter and made the remainder payable in rent to landlords. They in turn were to pass payment to the authorities. Tithes were thus effectively added to a tenant's rent payment. This partial relief and elimination of the confrontational collections ended the violent aspect of the Tithe War.
Full relief from the tax was not achieved until the Irish Church Act 1869, which disestablished the Church of Ireland, by the Gladstone government.
See also
Tax resistance
The Carrickshock Incident
References
External links
EPPI (Enhanced British Parliamentary Papers on Ireland) subject indexes containing official documents from the Tithe War:
Church and state - Ireland/Tithes - Ireland
Church and state - Ireland/Church property - Ireland/Tithes - Ireland
Category:1830s in Ireland
Category:1830 in Ireland
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Rhys Williams
Rhys or Reece Williams may refer to:
Sportspeople
R. H. Williams (rugby player) (1930–1993), Welsh rugby union player; full name Rhys Haydn Williams
Rhys Williams (rugby player, born 1980), Welsh rugby union player
Rhys Williams (hurdler) (born 1984), Welsh athlete
Reece Williams (born 1985), Australian rugby player
Reece Williams (cricketer) (born 1988), South African cricketer
Rhys Williams (rugby player born 1988), Welsh rugby union player who plays at centre for Llanelli Scarlets
Rhys Williams (footballer) (born 1988), Australian professional association football player
Rhys Williams (rugby league) (born 1989), Welsh rugby league player
Rhys Williams (rugby player born 1990), Welsh rugby union player who plays at hooker for Cardiff Blues
Rhys Williams (soccer, born 1994), American soccer player
Actors
Rhys Williams (Canadian actor) (born 1983), actor and stunt performer
Rhys Williams (Welsh-American actor) (1897–1969), Welsh actor
Others
Rhys Rhys-Williams (1865–1955), British Liberal MP
Albert Rhys Williams (1883–1962), Welsh-American political activist
Rhys H. Williams (sociologist) (born 1955), professor of sociology
Fictional characters
Rhys Williams (Torchwood), portrayed in British science fiction series Torchwood
Reese Williams and Bianca Montgomery, lesbian couple portrayed on American drama All My Children
See also
Williams (surname)
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Edson Chagas
Edson Chagas (born 1977) is an Angolan photographer. Trained as a photojournalist, his works explore cities and consumerism. In his "Found Not Taken" series, the artist resituates abandoned objects elsewhere within cities. Another series uses African masks as a trope for understanding consumerism in Luanda, his home city. Chagas represented Angola at the 2013 Venice Biennale, for which he won its Golden Lion for best national pavilion. He has also exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art and Brooklyn Museum.
Early life
Edson Chagas was born in Luanda, Angola, in 1977. He has a degree in photojournalism from the London College of Communication and studied documentary photography at the University of Wales, Newport. As of 2015, he continues to live in Luanda and works as the image editor for Expansão, an Angolan newspaper.
Career
Chagas represented Angola at the country's first Venice Biennale national pavilion in 2013. His exhibition placed on the floor giveaway, poster-sized photographs of discarded objects positioned in relation to weathered architecture in the Angolan capital, Luanda. These poster stacks were in "stark juxtaposition" with the opulent, Catholic decorations of the host, Palazzo Cini, which had been closed for the previous two decades. The New York Times called the pavilion a "breakout star" of the Biennale, and it won the biennial's top prize, the Golden Lion for best national pavilion. The jury praised his showing of the "irreconcilability and complexity of site". Frieze wrote that the pavilion showed a "relational attitude to space, ... responsive to context and not overly concerned with diplomacy and reifying otherness", as other African nation pavilions had been. Artsy Giles Peppiatt named the series as a highlight and recommended purchase at the 2014 1:54 contemporary African art fair.
The photographs on display came from Chagas's larger series, "Found Not Taken", which included conceptually similar photographs from citiesin addition to Luandawhere the photographer had spent time: London and Newport, Wales. The curators had asked Chagas to only display the photographs from Luanda for the Biennale, which he found acceptable since it didn't take the series out of context. He found that the cities, which were each preparing to host major events, demonstrated a "sense of renewal" in its culture. Coming from Luanda, where everything was reused, Chagas noted how consumer habits have evolved over time. He photographed each object in spaces where it interacted with its environment. Some objects were shot in nearly the same space as they were found, while others had to be moved. Through this method, Chagas felt that he learned the city's rhythm. He has said that he plans to continue the series.
Chagas showed two different series in 2014. His works at the 1:54 art fair included large-format portraits that used African masks as a trope to comment on African identity. His "Oikonomo" series of self-portraits with shopping bags over his head were intended to hide his identity behind symbols of globalized capitalism and secondhand consumerism in Luandasecondhand goods permeate African consumer culture. Some of the bags include imagery such as a "World of Hope" slogan and a map of the Caribbean islands. This series, originally from 2011, was later shown at the Brooklyn Museum's 2016 "Disguise: Masks and Global African Art" exhibition. Hyperallergic highlighted the performativity in the artist wearing a Barack Obama bag over his head as kitschy, funny, and like another persona. Later in 2014, at Paris Photo, Chagas showed a portrait photograph series, "Tipo Passe", depicting models dressed in contemporary attire and wearing traditional, pre-colonial African masks. The clothes came from street markets and import retailers, while the masks came from a private collection. Hyperallergic described one such image, with its carved wood mask and plaid madras shirt a "delightfully incongruous combination". The prints were made in editions of seven.
In 2015, Chagas was chosen for the Museum of Modern Art's "Ocean of Images: New Photography 2015" contemporary photography exhibition. His selectionsfrom prior series "Found Not Taken", "Tino Passe", and "Oikonomo"focused on themes of cities and consumerism.
References
External links
Edson Chagas at Artsy
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Scrotal septum
The septum of the scrotum is a vertical layer of fibrous tissue that divides the two compartments of the scrotum. It consists of flexible connective tissue. Its structure extends to the skin surface of the scrotum as the scrotal raphe. It is an incomplete wall of connective tissue and nonstriated muscle (dartos fascia) dividing the scrotum into two sacs, each containing a testis.
Histological septa are seen throughout most tissues of the body, particularly where they are needed to stiffen soft cellular tissue, and they also provide planes of ingress for small blood vessels. Because the dense collagen fibres of a septum usually extend out into the softer adjacent tissues. A septum is a cross-wall. Thus it divides a structure into smaller parts.
The scrotal septum is used in reconstructive surgery to restore tissue and or reproductive organs injured or severed by trauma.
See also
Sebileau's muscle
Pierre Sebileau
Perineal raphe
Linea nigra
Bibliography
Books
References
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Category:Connective tissue
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Trichochrysea
Trichochrysea is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It is distributed in Asia. According to A. G. Moseyko (in 2012), the Central Asian species are significantly different from the Oriental species.
Species
South, East and Southeast Asian species:
Trichochrysea aeneipennis (Lefèvre, 1890)
Trichochrysea albopilosa Medvedev & Eroshkina, 1987
Trichochrysea annamita (Lefèvre, 1877)
Trichochrysea antennata Jacoby, 1908
Trichochrysea bhamoensis (Jacoby, 1892)
Trichochrysea bidens (Lefèvre, 1893)
Trichochrysea borneensis Jacoby, 1895
Trichochrysea brevipennis Pic, 1926
Trichochrysea cephalotes (Lefèvre, 1893)
Trichochrysea chejudoana Komiya, 1985
Trichochrysea chihtuana Komiya, 1985
Trichochrysea clypeata (Jacoby, 1889)
Trichochrysea cupreata (Baly, 1867)
Trichochrysea curta Pic, 1926
Trichochrysea evanescens (Baly, 1864)
Trichochrysea formosana Komiya, 1985
Trichochrysea fortipunctata Lopatin, 2005
Trichochrysea grisea Medvedev & Eroshkina, 1999
Trichochrysea hebe (Baly, 1864)
Trichochrysea hirta (Fabricius, 1801)
Trichochrysea hirta hirta (Fabricius, 1801)
Trichochrysea hirta viridis (Jacoby, 1892)
Trichochrysea humeralis Pic, 1928
Trichochrysea imperialis (Baly, 1861)
Trichochrysea inaequalis Pic, 1927
Trichochrysea incana Medvedev & Eroshkina, 1987
Trichochrysea jacobyi Medvedev, 2001
Trichochrysea japana (Motschulsky, 1858)
Trichochrysea lameyi (Lefèvre, 1893)
Trichochrysea lesnei (Berlioz, 1921)
Trichochrysea mandarina (Lefèvre, 1893)
Trichochrysea marmorata Tan, 1984
Trichochrysea morosa (Lefèvre, 1885)
Trichochrysea mouhoti Baly, 1861
Trichochrysea multicolor Pic, 1926
Trichochrysea nitidissima (Jacoby, 1888)
Trichochrysea nitidissima nitidissima (Jacoby, 1888)
Trichochrysea nitidissima scutellaris Pic, 1926
Trichochrysea okinawana Nakane, 1956
Trichochrysea okinawana meridiojaponica Komiya, 1985
Trichochrysea okinawana okinawana Nakane, 1956
Trichochrysea okinawana taiwana Komiya, 1985
Trichochrysea purpureonotata Pic, 1927
Trichochrysea quadrifasciata (Jacoby, 1889)
Trichochrysea quadrifasciata igneicollis Medvedev & Eroshkina, 1999
Trichochrysea quadrifasciata quadrifasciata (Jacoby, 1889)
Trichochrysea robusta Pic, 1926
Trichochrysea sakishimana Komiya, 1985
Trichochrysea sericea Pic, 1926
Trichochrysea similis Chen, 1935
Trichochrysea sinensis Chen, 1940
Trichochrysea singaporensis Medvedev, 2009
Trichochrysea speciosa (Jacoby, 1896)
Trichochrysea tarsata Achard, 1921
Trichochrysea transversicollis Medvedev & Eroshkina, 1999
Trichochrysea trapezicollis Medvedev & Eroshkina, 1999
Trichochrysea truncata Medvedev & Sprecher-Uebersax, 1999
Trichochrysea undulata Pic, 1926
Trichochrysea vestita Baly, 1861
Trichochrysea viridilabris Heller, 1923
Trichochrysea vitalisi (Berlioz, 1917)
Central Asian species:
Trichochrysea amygdali (Ogloblin in Semenov & Ogloblin, 1941)
Trichochrysea amygdali amygdali (Ogloblin in Semenov & Ogloblin, 1941)
Trichochrysea amygdali nuratavica Lopatin, 1976
Trichochrysea arnoldii (Medvedev, 1957)
Trichochrysea occidentalis (Weise, 1887)
Synonyms:
Trichochrysea bhamoensis Jacoby, 1908 (not T. bhamoensis (Jacoby, 1892)): renamed to Trichochrysea jacobyi Medvedev, 2001
Trichochrysea celebensis Jacoby, 1895: synonym of Trichochrysea hirta (Fabricius, 1801)
Trichochrysea nitida (Jacoby, 1892): synonym of Trichochrysea clypeata (Jacoby, 1889)
References
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Category:Chrysomelidae genera
Category:Beetles of Asia
Category:Taxa named by Joseph Sugar Baly
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Wizards in Winter
"Wizards in Winter" is an instrumental track by Trans-Siberian Orchestra, released on the 2004 album The Lost Christmas Eve. A clip of the band playing the first few seconds of the piece was used in a commercial for its most recent concert tour, and the song is often used to open their live shows. Its musical style incorporates progressive rock, symphonic metal, and heavy metal, with influences from classical music.
Internet phenomenon
During the 2004 Christmas season, electrical engineer Carson Williams set up a Christmas light show in the front yard, driveway, windows, and roof of his house. It took him about two months and 16,000 lights. The lights were synchronized to the music, and the show was free for anyone passing by who tuned to a specific low-power FM frequency on their car radio. It is also available to download on iTunes as a music video.
A three-minute video of the show playing circulated widely on the Internet, and also spawned many others who imitated the style of setting their Christmas lights to this and other songs. It was later adapted by Miller Brewing Company into a 30-second TV advertisement for Miller Lite that aired on U.S. stations in late 2005.
A similar animation was used in a commercial for the UK's National Lottery, although, according to a press release, the advertising campaign "was created by Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO". No mention of Carson Williams' light show was made.
The advert can be seen on the tellyads.com website.
The piece is also used in Jordan's Furniture's 2009 Christmas LITE (Laser Imagination Theater Experience) show. Tesla Motors have also used it in December 2015 in the Merry Model X-Mas teaser video for the Tesla Model X, and in December 2016 activated the show in all customer cars. Disney used the piece for a segment of World of Color: Season of Light, featuring Goofy putting up his Christmas lights to the track.
Chart positions
References
External links
Christmas lights synchronized to Wizards in Winter in Mason, Ohio
Lotto advertisement very similar to the Christmas light show above
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Hump Passage
Hump Passage () is a wide gap just southeast of Barnum Peak, through which Liv Glacier emerges from the polar plateau. It was originally referred to as the "Hump" by Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd and is the pass over which he made his historic South Pole flight of 1929. The feature was observed by the Southern Party of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (1961–62) who recommended the perpetuation of a form of the original name.
References
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Category:Dufek Coast
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Waka waka
Waka waka may refer to:
"Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)", a 2010 song by Shakira and the official song of the 2010 World Cup
"Waka Waka", a song by Yemi Alade from Mama Africa
Wakka Wakka, an indigenous Australian people of the state of Queensland
Wakawaka language, also Waga-Waga, an extinct Indigenous Australian language
Waka waka (dance), a folk dance in Bolivia and Peru
WakaWaka, an enterprise for solar products
See also
Waka (disambiguation)
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Richard Suckle
Richard Suckle (born January 1969) is an American film producer. Suckle was one of several producers nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture for the 2013 film American Hustle.
Suckle graduated from the New York University Gallatin School of Individualized Study in 1991.
Filmography
Fallen (1998) (associate)
Scooby-Doo (2002)
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004)
Yours, Mine & Ours (2005) (executive)
Extreme Movie (2008)
The International (2009)
American Hustle (2013)
12 Monkeys (2015, 25 episodes) (executive)
The Whole Truth (2016) (executive)
Suicide Squad (2016)
The Monster (2016)
Wonder Woman (2017)
Dirty John (2018)
Scoob (2020)
Wonder Woman 1984 (2020) (executive)
The Flash (2021)
Robocop Returns (TBA)
References
External links
Category:American film producers
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Category:Golden Globe Award-winning producers
Category:New York University Gallatin School of Individualized Study alumni
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Crypto Wars
The Crypto Wars is an unofficial name for the U.S. and allied governments' attempts to limit the public's and foreign nations' access to cryptography strong enough to resist decryption by national intelligence agencies (especially USA's NSA).
Export of cryptography from the United States
Cold War era
In the early days of the Cold War, the U.S. and its allies developed an elaborate series of export control regulations designed to prevent a wide range of Western technology from falling into the hands of others, particularly the Eastern bloc. All export of technology classed as 'critical' required a license. CoCom was organized to coordinate Western export controls.
Two types of technology were protected: technology associated only with weapons of war ("munitions") and dual use technology, which also had commercial applications. In the U.S., dual use technology export was controlled by the Department of Commerce, while munitions were controlled by the State Department. Since in the immediate post WWII period the market for cryptography was almost entirely military, the encryption technology (techniques as well as equipment and, after computers became important, crypto software) was included as a Category XIII item into the United States Munitions List. The multinational control of the export of cryptography on the Western side of the cold war divide was done via the mechanisms of CoCom.
By the 1960s, however, financial organizations were beginning to require strong commercial encryption on the rapidly growing field of wired money transfer. The U.S. Government's introduction of the Data Encryption Standard in 1975 meant that commercial uses of high quality encryption would become common, and serious problems of export control began to arise. Generally these were dealt with through case-by-case export license request proceedings brought by computer manufacturers, such as IBM, and by their large corporate customers.
PC era
Encryption export controls became a matter of public concern with the introduction of the personal computer. Phil Zimmermann's PGP cryptosystem and its distribution on the Internet in 1991 was the first major 'individual level' challenge to controls on export of cryptography. The growth of electronic commerce in the 1990s created additional pressure for reduced restrictions. Shortly afterward, Netscape's SSL technology was widely adopted as a method for protecting credit card transactions using public key cryptography.
SSL-encrypted messages used the RC4 cipher, and used 128-bit keys. U.S. government export regulations would not permit crypto systems using 128-bit keys to be exported. At this stage Western governments had, in practice, a split personality when it came to encryption; policy was made by the military cryptanalysts, who were solely concerned with preventing their 'enemies' acquiring secrets, but that policy was then communicated to commerce by officials whose job was to support industry.
The longest key size allowed for export without individual license proceedings was 40 bits, so Netscape developed two versions of its web browser. The "U.S. edition" had the full 128-bit strength. The "International Edition" had its effective key length reduced to 40 bits by revealing 88 bits of the key in the SSL protocol. Acquiring the 'U.S. domestic' version turned out to be sufficient hassle that most computer users, even in the U.S., ended up with the 'International' version, whose weak 40-bit encryption could be broken in a matter of days using a single personal computer. A similar situation occurred with Lotus Notes for the same reasons.
Legal challenges by Peter Junger and other civil libertarians and privacy advocates, the widespread availability of encryption software outside the U.S., and the perception by many companies that adverse publicity about weak encryption was limiting their sales and the growth of e-commerce, led to a series of relaxations in US export controls, culminating in 1996 in President Bill Clinton signing the Executive order 13026 transferring the commercial encryption from the Munition List to the Commerce Control List. Furthermore, the order stated that, "the software shall not be considered or treated as 'technology'" in the sense of Export Administration Regulations. This order permitted the United States Department of Commerce to implement rules that greatly simplified the export of proprietary and open source software containing cryptography, which they did in 2000.
Current status
As of 2009, non-military cryptography exports from the U.S. are controlled by the Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security. Some restrictions still exist, even for mass market products, particularly with regard to export to "rogue states" and terrorist organizations. Militarized encryption equipment, TEMPEST-approved electronics, custom cryptographic software, and even cryptographic consulting services still require an export license (pp. 6–7). Furthermore, encryption registration with the BIS is required for the export of "mass market encryption commodities, software and components with encryption exceeding 64 bits" (). In addition, other items require a one-time review by or notification to BIS prior to export to most countries. For instance, the BIS must be notified before open-source cryptographic software is made publicly available on the Internet, though no review is required. Export regulations have been relaxed from pre-1996 standards, but are still complex. Other countries, notably those participating in the Wassenaar Arrangement, have similar restrictions.
Export of cryptography from the UK
Until 1996, the UK government withheld export licenses from exporters unless they used weak ciphers or short keys, and generally discouraged practical public cryptography. A debate about cryptography for the NHS brought this out in the open.
Mobile phone signals
Clipper Chip
The Clipper chip was a chipset for mobile phones made by the NSA in the 1990s, which implemented encryption with a backdoor for the US government. The US government tried to get phone manufacturers to adopt the chipset, but without success, and the program was finally defunct by 1996.
A5/1 (GSM encryption)
A5/1 is a stream cipher used to provide over-the-air communication privacy in the GSM cellular telephone standard.
Security researcher Ross Anderson reported in 1994 that "there was a terrific row between the NATO signal intelligence agencies in the mid-1980s over whether GSM encryption should be strong or not. The Germans said it should be, as they shared a long border with the Warsaw Pact; but the other countries didn't feel this way, and the algorithm as now fielded is a French design."
According to professor Jan Arild Audestad, at the standardization process which started in 1982, A5/1 was originally proposed to have a key length of 128 bits. At that time, 128 bits was projected to be secure for at least 15 years. It is now estimated that 128 bits would in fact also still be secure as of 2014. Audestad, Peter van der Arend, and Thomas Haug say that the British insisted on weaker encryption, with Haug saying he was told by the British delegate that this was to allow the British secret service to eavesdrop more easily. The British proposed a key length of 48 bits, while the West Germans wanted stronger encryption to protect against East German spying, so the compromise became a key length of 56 bits. In general, a key of length 56 is times easier to break than a key of length 128.
DES Challenges
The widely used DES encryption algorithm was originally planned by IBM to have a key size of 128 bits; NSA lobbied for a key size of 48 bits. The end compromise were a key size of 64 bits, 8 of which were parity bits, to make an effective key security parameter of 56 bits. DES was considered insecure as early as 1977, and documents leaked in the 2013 Snowden leak shows that it was in fact easily crackable by the NSA, but was still recommended by NIST. The DES Challenges were a series of brute force attack contests created by RSA Security to highlight the lack of security provided by the Data Encryption Standard. As part of the successful cracking of the DES-encoded messages, EFF constructed a specialized DES cracking computer nicknamed Deep Crack.
The successful cracking of DES likely helped gather both political and technical support for more advanced encryption in the hands of ordinary citizens. In 1997, NIST began a competition to select a replacement for DES, resulting in the publication in 2000 of the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). AES is still considered secure as of 2019, and NSA considers AES strong enough to protect information classified at the Top Secret level.
Snowden and NSA's bullrun program
Fearing widespread adoption of encryption, the NSA set out to stealthily influence and weaken encryption standards and obtain master keys—either by agreement, by force of law, or by computer network exploitation (hacking).
According to the New York Times: "But by 2006, an N.S.A. document notes, the agency had broken into communications for three foreign airlines, one travel reservation system, one foreign government’s nuclear department and another’s Internet service by cracking the virtual private networks that protected them. By 2010, the Edgehill program, the British counterencryption effort, was unscrambling VPN traffic for 30 targets and had set a goal of an additional 300."
As part of Bullrun, NSA has also been actively working to "Insert vulnerabilities into commercial encryption systems, IT systems, networks, and endpoint communications devices used by targets". The New York Times has reported that the random number generator Dual_EC_DRBG contains a back door from the NSA, which would allow the NSA to break encryption relying on that random number generator. Even though Dual_EC_DRBG was known to be an insecure and slow random number generator soon after the standard was published, and the potential NSA backdoor was found in 2007, and alternative random number generators without these flaws were certified and widely available, RSA Security continued using Dual_EC_DRBG in the company's BSAFE toolkit and Data Protection Manager until September 2013. While RSA Security has denied knowingly inserting a backdoor into BSAFE, it has not yet given an explanation for the continued usage of Dual_EC_DRBG after its flaws became apparent in 2006 and 2007, however it was reported on December 20, 2013 that RSA had accepted a payment of $10 million from the NSA to set the random number generator as the default. Leaked NSA documents state that their effort was “a challenge in finesse” and that “Eventually, N.S.A. became the sole editor” of the standard.
By 2010, the NSA had developed “groundbreaking capabilities” against encrypted Internet traffic. A GCHQ document warned however “These capabilities are among the Sigint community’s most fragile, and the inadvertent disclosure of the simple ‘fact of’ could alert the adversary and result in immediate loss of the capability.” Another internal document stated that “there will be NO ‘need to know.’” Several experts, including Bruce Schneier and Christopher Soghoian, have speculated that a successful attack against RC4, a 1987 encryption algorithm still used in at least 50 per cent of all SSL/TLS traffic is a plausible avenue, given several publicly known weaknesses of RC4. Others have speculated that NSA has gained ability to crack 1024-bit RSA and Diffie–Hellman public keys. A team of researchers have pointed out that there is wide reuse of a few non-ephemeral 1024 bit primes in Diffie–Hellman implementations, and that NSA having done precomputation against those primes in order to break encryption using them in real time is very plausibly what NSA's "groundbreaking capabilities" refer to.
The Bullrun program is controversial, in that it is believed that NSA deliberately inserts or keeps secret vulnerabilities which affect both law-abiding US citizens as well as NSA's targets, under its NOBUS policy. In theory, NSA has two jobs: prevent vulnerabilities that affect the US, and find vulnerabilities that can be used against US targets; but as argued by Bruce Schneier, NSA seems to prioritize finding (or even creating) and keeping vulnerabilities secret. Bruce Schneier has called for the NSA to be broken up so that the group charged with strengthening cryptography is not subservient to the groups that want to break the cryptography of its targets.
Encryption of smartphone storage
As part of the Snowden leaks, it became widely known that intelligence agencies could bypass encryption of data stored on Android and iOS smartphones by legally ordering Google and Apple to bypass the encryption on specific phones. Around 2014, as a reaction to this, Google and Apple redesigned their encryption so that they did not have the technical ability to bypass it, and it could only be unlocked by knowing the user's password.
Various law enforcements officials, including the Obama administration's Attorney General Eric Holder responded with strong condemnation, calling it unacceptable that the state could not access alleged criminals' data even with a warrant. One of the more iconic responses being the chief of detectives for Chicago’s police department stating that "Apple will become the phone of choice for the pedophile". Washington Post posted an editorial insisting that "smartphone users must accept that they cannot be above the law if there is a valid search warrant", and after agreeing that backdoors would be undesirable, suggested implementing a "golden key" backdoor which would unlock the data with a warrant.
FBI Director James Comey cited a number of cases to support the need to decrypt smartphones. Interestingly, in none of the presumably carefully handpicked cases did the smartphone have anything to do with the identification or capture of the culprits, and FBI seems to have been unable to find any strong cases supporting the need for smartphone decryption.
Bruce Schneier has labelled the right to smartphone encryption debate Crypto Wars II, while Cory Doctorow called it Crypto Wars redux.
Legislators in the US states of California and New York have proposed bills to outlaw the sale of smartphones with unbreakable encryption. As of February 2016, no bills have been passed.
In February 2016 the FBI obtained a court order demanding that Apple create and electronically sign new software which would enable the FBI to unlock an iPhone 5c it recovered from one of the shooters in the 2015 terrorist attack in San Bernardino, California. Apple challenged the order. In the end the FBI hired a third party to crack the phone. See FBI–Apple encryption dispute.
In April 2016, Dianne Feinstein and Richard Burr sponsored an overly vague bill that would be likely to criminalise all forms of strong encryption.
In December 2019, the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary convened a hearing on Encryption and Lawful Access, focusing on encrypted smartphone storage. District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr., Professor Matt Tait, Erik Neuenschwander from Apple, and Jay Sullivan from Facebook testified. Chairman Lindsey Graham stated in his opening remarks "all of us want devices that protect our privacy." He also said law enforcement should be able to read encrypted data on devices, threatening to pass legislation if necessary: "You’re going to find a way to do this or we’re going to do this for you."
Messengers with end-to-end encryption and responsible encryption
In October 2017, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein called for responsible encryption as a solution to the ongoing problem of "going dark". This refers to wiretapping court orders and police measures increasingly becoming ineffective as strong end-to-end encryption are increasingly added to widespread messenger products. Responsible encryption means that companies need to introduce key escrow that allows them to provide their customers with a way to recover their encrypted data if they forget their password, so that it is not lost forever. According to Rosenstein's reasoning, it would be irresponsible to leave the user helpless in such a case. As a pleasant side effect, this would allow a judge to issue a search warrant instructing the company to decrypt the data, which the company would then be able to comply with. In contrast to previous proposals, the decentral storage of key recovery material by companies instead of government agencies would be an additional safeguard.
Front doors
In 2015 the head of the NSA, Admiral Michael S. Rogers suggested to further decentralize the key escrow by introducing "front doors" instead of back doors into encryption. This way, the key would be split into two halves, with one half being kept by the government authorities and the other by the company responsible for the encryption product. Thus, the government would still have to get a search warrant to obtain the other half of the key from the company, and the company would be unable to abuse the key escrow to access the user's data, since it would lack the other half of the key kept by the government. Experts were not impressed.
Lightweight encryption
In 2018, the NSA promoted the use of "lightweight encryption", in particular its ciphers Simon and Speck, for Internet of Things devices. However, the attempt to have those ciphers standardized by ISO failed because of severe criticism raised by the board of cryptography experts which provoked fears that the NSA had non-public knowledge of how to break them.
2015 UK call for outlawing non-backdoored cryptography
Following the 2015 Charlie Hebdo shooting, a terrorism attack, former UK Prime Minister David Cameron called for outlawing non-backdoored cryptography, saying that there should be no "means of communication" which "we cannot read". US president Barack Obama sided with Cameron on this. This call for action does not seem to have resulted in any legislation or changes in the status quo of non-backdoored cryptography being legal and available.
See also
Restrictions on the import of cryptography
Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act
Human rights and encryption
40-bit encryption
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Eadhelm
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Eadhelm was a medieval Bishop of Selsey.
Eadhelm attests documents from 963 to 979.
Eadhelm died between 979 and 980.
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Luzair
Luzair - Transportes Aéreos, S.A. was an airline based in Lisbon, Portugal, specializing in wet lease and ad hoc charter operations. It was founded in 1997. In 2000, Luzair developed into an airline consulting and brokerage business. It operated a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar until 2008 and a Boeing 767. Luzair suspended operations in January 2011. Plans to resume business in early 2012 did not materialize.
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Redmond Barry (sportsman)
Redmond Barry is a dual player from County Wexford. He played with both the Wexford football & hurling teams in the 2000s.
This time has been a successful one for the football team. In 2005 he helped them to a Div 1 National Football League final for the first time in over 50 years but lost out to Armagh on the day. In 2008 Wexford were back in the National League final this time in Div 3 which they won, they later made it to the Leinster Final for the first time since the 1950s and the All Ireland Semi Final for the first time since the 1940s.
He plays at club level with the St. Anne's club and has won County Championships in both football and hurling. He has also played with UCD and won a Dublin Hurling Championship with them.
In November 2013, Barry announced his retirement from inter-county football.
In 2014 he joined the Wexford Intermediate hurling team, where scored the winning goal against Kilkenny in the Leinster final.
Honours
Leinster Senior Hurling Championship (1): 2004
Fitzgibbon Cup (1): 2001
Wexford Senior Hurling Championship (1): 2000
Wexford Senior Football Championship (3): 2000, 2001, 2012
Dublin Senior Hurling Championship (1): 2000
References
’I’m staying put’ - Red - Hoganstand.com
Barry to bar one code - Hoganstand.com
Barry receives high praise - Hoganstand.com
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The Transformers: Escalation
The Transformers: Escalation is a six-issue comic book mini-series, published by IDW Publishing, based on the Transformers and following on from The Transformers: Infiltration. The series launched in November 2006 and ended in April 2007. The series is available in The Transformers: Volume 2.
Plot summary
Escalation begins by showing Prime deciding to send the humans home for their own safety. Escorted by Ironhide and Sunstreaker, they are attacked by the Machination, a shadowy organization wanting to acquire Transformer technology for themselves. Sunstreaker and Hunter are seemingly killed. The Autobots rally to find his corpse, but the Machination prove more than ready for Jazz and Wheeljack. Optimus Prime stops the truck with Sunstreaker's corpse, and they discover it is a fake.
While this has been going on, Megatron has begun his campaign, sending his troops to escalate tensions in trouble spots (with Skywarp and Thundercracker bombing a Middle Eastern power station) and activating facsimiles (loyal clones) to see that tensions rise accordingly. Megatron, having taken the form of a pistol, personally journeys to the disputed Soviet state of Brasnya, attacking both sides. The Autobots mount a response, trying to capture the facsimile and a battle breaks out, with Prowl and Hot Rod capturing the facsimile. Prime confronts Megatron, but is no match for the Ore-13-enhanced Megatron and seemingly killed. Prime survives by briefly transferring his consciousness into his trailer and alerts the Autobots to Megatron's weakness: the more he exerts himself, the faster Ore-13 will burn out. Prowl's troops distract Megatron long enough for Prime to recover and put the now severely weakened Megatron to flight. However, their mission has failed, as the facsimile is dead.
Back in America, Ratchet and Ironhide disobey orders to track down Sunstreaker, as Jimmy tracks the materials used to make the decoy to a specific garage. The Autobots are unable to enter because of the sophisticated defenses, so Verity and Jimmy go in, but are knocked out by the defense systems and trigger a self-destruct mechanism. Ironhide intervenes and manages to rescue them, but the self-destruct goes off and seemingly kills him. However, Verity has snagged something from the Machination base.
The story ends with several revelations. Megatron decides to call in Sixshot to accelerate Earth's destruction, unaware the Reapers will be following in his wake. The Machination and their backer, a shadowy, badly damaged Decepticon, have completed some sort of surgery on Hunter, and begun to produce copies of Sunstreaker's body for use in their "new world order". And it is revealed that Skywatch, a mysterious defense organization, has not only dug up the bodies of Shockwave and the Dynobots, but have in their custody Laserbeak and Ravage.
Notes
Beyond Escalation, Furman hopes to have the Headmasters and Predacons appear. He also would like to have the Japanese G1 characters appear at some point. The Transformers: Devastation introduces the multiple Sunstreaker Headmasters and the Predacons had a small role in The Transformers: Stormbringer.
Escalation picks up on several other plot threads introduced in other IDW G1 stories.
In relation to The Transformers: Spotlight
The Dinobots and Shockwave, dug up here by Skywatch, were buried in Spotlight: Shockwave after a battle between the two ended in both being buried in lava.
Laserbeak and Ravage were also discovered by Skywatch in Spotlight: Soundwave after a battle between Soundwave and Bludgeon caused the volcano they were in to explode (though only Laserbeak was shown at the time).
The story of Sixshot and the Reapers was first explored in Spotlight: Sixshot.
The mysterious face that Prime sees in the limbo realm of "infraspace" is Nova Prime, which is expanded on in the Spotlight: Optimus Prime and referred to in Spotlight: Galvatron.
Hot Rod and Nightbeat both join Optimus' crew after their perspective Spotlights. Indeed, Hot Rod still retains the alt-mode from his issue.
In relation to The Transformers: Stormbringer
Prime's method of defeating Megatron — by causing him to wear out his Ore-13 by exerting himself more — was the same method which led to Thunderwing's defeat in that story, explaining how Prime knows of this weakness.
Hardhead was part of Optimus' crew, first seen in Stormbringer.
Easter eggs
In issue 4, the name of the garage that the Machination is using is "Ideas and Design Works" — the full name of Transformers publisher IDW Publishing.
There are a host of items in the garage referencing various other Transformer lore. These include a poster bearing the words "Kiss Players", leaflets on "Seibertron cars" and the sale of "Binaltech air filters"
Characters
Autobots
Bumblebee
Hardhead
Hot Rod
Ironhide
Jazz
Nightbeat
Optimus Prime
Prowl
Ratchet
Sunstreaker
Wheeljack
Decepticons
Astrotrain
Blitzwing
Megatron
Runabout
Runamuck
Skywarp
Starscream
Thundercracker
See also
The Transformers
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Wind power in Kentucky
Wind power in Kentucky has limited potential for development within the state since there are generally low wind speeds, though there are specific locations where it can be effective. As of 2015, the state has not passed renewable portfolio standard legislation and there were no commercial-scale wind turbines. Kentucky may benefit from the development of wind power in Tennessee, an adjoining state with which it is collaborating, and from efforts by the Tennessee Valley Authority to both develop and import wind-generated electricity into the region.
Kentucky New Energy Ventures
Established in 2008, the Kentucky New Energy Ventures, was a state program to incentivize the development and commercialization of alternative fuel and renewable energy products, processes, and services. The program concluded in 2017 and has not been renewed by State. The funds could be used to stimulate private investment in Kentucky-based technology companies with high growth potential. KNEV made seed capital grants of $30,000 and investments ranging from $250,000 to $750,000+.
Mason County
In 2012 Mason County passed an ordinance which would prohibit the construction of large-scale wind farms. except in previously-designated industrial zones, but would permit mid to small scale turbines for use at a principal site, but not for sending the energy across electric transmission lines. Efforts by Duke Energy and NextEra Energy to develop a wind farm at Mays Lick were discontinued.
Tennessee Valley Authority
The Tennessee Valley Authority service area covers most of Tennessee (TN), portions of Alabama (AL), Mississippi (MI), and Kentucky (KY), and small sections of Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia. As of 2013, the agency, in addition to the Buffalo Mountain Windfarm (TN) had purchased agreements from power generated from wind farms outside its service area:
2012 - Enel Green Power, LLC - 201MW - Caney River Wind Farm, Elk County, Kansas.
2012- Invenergy - 200MW - Bishop Hill Wind Energy Center, Henry County, Illinois
2012- Invenergy - 200MW - California Ridge Wind Energy Center in Champaign County, Illinois
2012- NextEra Energy Resources - 150MW - White Oak Energy Center, McLean County, Illinois
2012- NextEra Energy Resources- 165MW - Cimarron Wind farm, Gray County, Kansas
A 2010 agreement with Iberdrola Renewables provides a potential 300MW future supply from Streator-Cayuga Ridge Wind Farm, Livingston County, Illinois
Clean Line Energy LLC is proposing 700-mile power transmission line to bring wind energy from Oklahoma and to the Tennessee Valley. The TVA would import 1,750 megawatts, about half of the power that could be transmitted. Developers begun in 2007 to seek regulatory approval for the $2 billion project, but it's expected to take at least 2020 to acquire it before construction can begin.
See also
Solar power in Kentucky
Wind power in the United States
List of wind farms
References
External links
A Guide to Small Wind for Tenn and Ky
Wind Action Kentucky
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Giuseppe Marsigli
Giuseppe Marsigli (Naples, 1795 - circa 1835) was an Italian painter and engraver.
Biography
He was a pupil of Costanzo Angelini in design, Giuseppe Cammarano in color. His brother Filippo Marsigli was also a painter. He participated in restorations in Naples. He engraved silverware.
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List of accolades received by Thani Oruvan
Thani Oruvan is a 2015 Indian Tamil-language action thriller film directed by Mohan Raja, who also co-wrote the screenplay and dialogues with the duo Subha. The film features Jayam Ravi and Nayanthara in the lead roles. Arvind Swami, Thambi Ramaiah, Ganesh Venkatraman, Mugdha Godse and Nassar play supporting roles. The film's story focuses on Mithran (Ravi), an IPS officer, who learns of the plans of scientist and businessman Siddharth Abhimanyu (Swami) to sabotage a deal to make generic medicines available at low cost for poor people. Siddharth succeeds in his plan and begins indulging in a game of cat and mouse with Mithran. The rest of the story revolves around how Mithran overcomes the obstacles set by Siddharth. Produced by Kalpathi S. Aghoram, Kalpathi S. Ganesh and Kalpathi S. Suresh under their company AGS Entertainment, the film's soundtrack and score were composed by Hiphop Tamizha. Ramji and Gopi Krishna handled the cinematography and editing respectively.
Made on a budget of ₹200 million, Thani Oruvan was released on 28 August 2015 and received positive reviews. It was commercially successful, grossing ₹1.05 billion worldwide. The film won 15 awards from 37 nominations; its direction, story, screenplay, performances of the cast members and music have received the most attention from award groups.
At the 63rd Filmfare Awards South, Thani Oruvan was nominated in six categories, including Best Film (Aghoram, Ganesh and Suresh), Best Director (Raja) and Best Actor (Ravi); it won for Best Director, Best Supporting Actor (Swami) and Critics Award for Best Actor (Ravi). The film also received six nominations at the 1st IIFA Utsavam including Best Performance in a Lead Role (Female) (Nayanthara) and Best Performance in a Comic Role (Ramaiah). It won three, Best Direction, Best Performance in a Lead Role (Male), and Best Performance in a Negative Role for Raja, Ravi, and Swami respectively. The film received thirteen nominations at the 9th Edison Awards, and won for Best Director, Best Actor, Best Character Actor (Ramaiah) and Best Villain. It garnered seven nominations at the 4th South Indian International Movie Awards ceremony, winning two awards, including Best Film and Best Actor (Critics). Among other wins, Thani Oruvan received one Ananda Vikatan Cinema Awards, Mirchi Music Awards South and Norway Tamil Film Festival Awards each.
Awards and nominations
See also
List of Tamil films of 2015
Notes
References
External links
Accolades for Thani Oruvan at the Internet Movie Database
Thani Oruvan
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Nathaniyal Murmu Memorial College
Nathaniyal Murmu Memorial College is a college at Tapan in the Dakshin Dinajpur district of West Bengal, India. The college is affiliated to University of Gour Banga . This college offers undergraduate courses in arts.
Departments
Bengali
English
History
Education
Sociology
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List of Michigan State Historic Sites in St. Joseph County
The following is a list of Michigan State Historic Sites in St. Joseph County, Michigan. Sites marked with a dagger (†) are also listed on the National Register of Historic Places in St. Joseph County, Michigan.
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Current listings
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in St. Joseph County, Michigan
Sources
Historic Sites Online – "St. Joseph" County. Michigan State Housing Developmental Authority. Accessed June 1, 2011.
Historic Sites Online – "Saint Joseph" County. Michigan State Housing Developmental Authority. Accessed June 1, 2011.
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Saint Joseph County
State Historic Sites
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Bonnyrigg White Eagles FC
Bonnyrigg White Eagles FC is an Australian semi-professional soccer club based in Bonnyrigg, Sydney, New South Wales, playing in the National Premier Leagues NSW. The club was founded in 1968 as Avala Sports Club and took its current name in 1992.
History
Established by Serbian immigrants from the Cabramatta area of south-west Sydney, their primary supporter base has been the local Serbian community. Its most famous products are former Socceroo Milan Blagojevic, current Socceroos Milos Degenek and Danny Vuković, as well as Young Socceroo and former Melbourne Heart defender David Vranković.Misha Radovic was Red Star player for 13 years and also Champion of Europe with Yugoslavia U19 in 1979. Aleksandar Janković was manager of Red Star Belgrade twice. Former Brisbane Roar defender Milan Susak played a major role in Ange Postecoglou's Premiership and Championship winning side.
The club was originally known as Riverside Rapid and played in the Marickville area, before renaming as Riverside Avala and relocating to Lansvale in 1976. The following year they dropped the "Riverside" name and were promoted to the First Division of the NSW State League as Avala.
The club was established in 1968 as the Avala Sports Club, named after the Avala mountain in Serbia. In 1977, Avala was promoted to the New South Wales Premier League and competed in the top level of New South Wales soccer until 1986.
After a two-year absence from the New South Wales Premier League which included a New South Wales Winter Super League Premiership-Championship double in 1988, Avala's strong performances in the State Leagues and their strong crowd attendances didn't go unnoticed and they were offered the opportunity to be a part of the National Soccer League; however they declined due to poor administration within the Soccer Australia sector and the large financial burden it would place on the club, with many other clubs within the league at the time financially struggling. Avala returned to top flight action in 1989, undergoing a name change to Bonnyrigg White Eagles after the 1992 season, and remained in the Top Division until 2006.
After picking up both a premiership and championship over the next three seasons in the Super League, in 2009 Bonnyrigg was once again promoted to the New South Wales Premier League, playing in the highest league in New South Wales. They quickly picked up more honours by claiming their 4th and 5th New South Wales Premier League Premierships and Club Championships in the 2010 and 2012 seasons respectively, also suffering grand final defeats in the 2005, 2010 and 2012 seasons. They won the championship for a third time in the 2013 NSW Premier League season and for a fourth time in 2015.
Whilst competing in the NSW Premier League the club has claimed five Premierships and three Championships. Under Brian Brown the club has achieved three Premierships respectively in 2010, 2012 and 2014 alongside two Championships in 2013 defeating the Rockdale City Suns at Penrith Stadium in front of over 8000 spectators thanks to a solitary goal from Former Adelaide United Striker Robbie Younis. The club continued their Championship winning feat in 2015 with a 2–0 victory of arch rivals Blacktown City at Leichhardt Oval in-front of a crowd of 3000. The club also reached the 2010 and 2012 NSW Premier League Grand Finals but lost to Blacktown City and Marconi Stallions respectively.
In 2016, Bonnyrigg White Eagles qualified for the FFA Cup round of 32 after beating Parramatta FC in the final qualification round. This was Bonnyrigg's debut appearance in the final rounds of the Cup.
After an abysmal 2018 season for the club, the Bonnyrigg White Eagles were relegated and will now compete in the NSW NPL 2 competition in 2019.
Colours and badge
Bonnyrigg White Eagles home colours have been the traditional red shirt, blue shorts and white socks since the club's inception. The away kit has seen changes from year to year and is currently white shirt, blue shorts and blue socks.
Bonnyrigg's Club Badge consists and a crowned double-headed White Eagle with a soccer ball over a boomerang in its centre. The badge is similar in design to certain elements of the Coat of arms of Serbia. This is overlaid over a red-blue-white background which mirrors the Club's main kit.
Stadium
Bonnyrigg White Eagles play their home matches at Bonnyrigg Sports Club in Bonnyrigg, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
The ground dates back to May 1966 when of land was purchased for the building of a social club and soccer grounds. Over the years the grounds were improved when in 1986 it became the permanent home ground for Bonnyrigg.
In 2001, an additional 1.2 hectares of land was purchased as part of a plan to renovate the club and expand the training grounds. This was completed in October 2005.
Rivalries
Sydney United
Bonnyrigg has a fierce rivalry with the Croatian backed Sydney United. The two clubs first met in the state leagues in the late 1970s with then Sydney Croatia dominating almost most of the games between the two clubs. Avala and Croatia met in the Ampol Cup Semi Final in 1977 in which Avala defeated Croatia one goal to nil. The last time the two clubs would meet would be in 1983 with Croatia being promoted to the National Soccer League and Avala remaining in the State leagues.
After the demise of the National Soccer League in 2005 the New South Wales Premier league was formed pitting arch rivals Bonnyrigg and Sydney United. The first game was played at the Sydney United Sports Centre in which Bonnyrigg won, the winner coming from a young Milorad Simonović
The second clash between United and Bonnyrigg was moved to Parramatta Stadium due to crowd violence. The Eagles took the game out four goals to one. Bonnyrigg was demoted to the Winter Super League due to fan violence and would not meet Sydney United again until 2009.
All time Head-to-Head NSWPL and AMPOL Cup (from 1977 to present)
Games: 38
Bonnyrigg White Eagles wins: 14
Sydney United wins: 18
Draws: 6
SSC Yugal
The club had a fierce rivalry with the Yugoslav backed SSC Yugal. This was mainly due to Avala being a Pro-Serbian club and SSC Yugal being a Pro-Yugoslav club. The games between the two clubs were at times met with fan violence.
The clubs would never meet again with SSC Yugal folding in the early 1990s
Blacktown City
Blacktown and Bonnyrigg are long time rivals with the history of both teams dating back to the 1970s where they first met. Avala met Blacktown in the 1992 Grand Final which they took out two goals to nil. The clubs would meet again in the 1998 Grand Final in which the Demons would take out.
The games between the two have always been close and fierce. In the 2010 New South Wales Premier league season Bonnyrigg would be crowned premiers only to lose out to Blacktown in the Grand Final with a late winner from former Bonnyrigg player Tolgay Ozbey
Various other important rivalries over the years included matches against Marconi Stallions FC, Bankstown City FC, FC Bossy Liverpool, Parramatta FC, Northern Tigers FC and Canberra FC.
Supporters
Bonnyrigg White Eagles generally draws support from the Serbian diaspora, especially from the south-western suburbs of Sydney such as Bonnyrigg, Liverpool and Cabramatta.
The "Avala Boys", is the name given to the actively vocal supporters group of the soccer club.
Notable players and coaches
The following Bonnyrigg White Eagles players and coaches have also represented their country at international level.
State, Schoolboy and Young Socceroos Representative Honours
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Nikodin Matic
Carlos Gutierrez
Trinity Allen
Neil Williams
Stewart Van Bentum
Javier Mancino
Vuko Tomasevic
Alen Stajcic
Vladimir Skataric
David Reid
Sasa Utjesenovic
Paul Richardson
David Harding
Peter Vukmirovic
Tony Trpcevski
Jason Mammome
Fernando Pellegrino
David Petrovic
Mark Nestorovic
Danny Vukovic
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Matthew Hunter
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Norman Tome
Steve Angelov
Michael Hawrysiuk
Robert Angievski
Jimmy Aschner
Michael Baird
Shane Knight
Wayne Cootes
Zlatko Donev
Robert Gomez
Ben Green
Milan Gajic
Martin Driene
Chris Fleming
Johnny Ghisso
Fernando Greco
David Vrankovic
Current squad
Bonnyrigg White Eagles National Premier League NSW First Grade Squad
Assistant Coach Milan Šušak
Goalkeeper Coach Dragan Pupovac
Team Manager Ian Arnott
President Nikola Jugović
Gear Steward Ratko Kajkut
Reserve Squad
Bonnyrigg White Eagles 2016 National Premier League NSW Reserve Grade Squad
Head Coach Franco Cosentino
Youth League Staff
Youth Coaches for the 2016 season
Under 18s Coach Goran Cvijanović
Under 18s Manager Doug Temmo
Under 16s Coach David Petrović
Under 16s Manager Ratko Lovrić
Under 15s Coach Rajko Mandić
Under 14s Coach Andy Klaus
Under 13s Coach Phil Pyliotis
Under 12s Coach Agas Agamemnonos
Under 12s assistant Neno Erceg
Under 11s Coach Agas Agamemnonos
Under 11s assistant Nicky Turano
Under 10s Coach Bradie Smith
Under 09s Coach Milan Šušak
Club Officials
Management
President Nikola Jugović
Secretary Siniša Kos
Public Officer Miroslav Lojanica
Treasurer Ljubiša Kos - Momčilo Medić
Media Officer Nikola Pozder
Director Milan Medić
Director Dragan Škoric
Director Olga Rnjak
Director Duško Dragaš
Director Željko Milić
Director Klaudio Djaković
Sports
Technical Director Milan Blagojević
Head Coach Milan Blagojević
Assistant Coach Milan Šušak
Under 20s Coach Franco Cossie Cosentino
Under 18s Coach Goran Cvijanović
Under 16s Coach David Petrović
Under 15s Coach Rajko Mandić
Under 14s Coach Andy Klaus
Under 13s Coach Phil Pyliotis
Under 12s Coach Agas Agamemnonos
Under 11s Coach Agas Agamemnonos
Under 10s Coach Bradie Smith
Under 09s Coach Milan Šušak
Honours
Bonnyrigg's most notable achievements include;
League:
NSW Premier League Championship (x4): 1992, 2001, 2013, 2015
NSW Premier League Premiership (x6): 1992, 1998, 1999, 2010, 2012, 2014
NSW Premier League Championship Runners Up (x6): 1997, 1998, 2000, 2005, 2010, 2012
NSW Premier League Premiership Runners Up (x4): 2000, 2001, 2002, 2005
NSW Premier League Club Championship (x3): 2005, 2010, 2012
NSW Super League Club Championship (x1): 2008
NSW Super League Championship (x3) :1976, 1988, 2007
NSW Super League Premiership (x3): 1976, 1988, 2008
NSW Super League Premiership Runners Up (x1): 2007
NSW Division One Champions (x1) : 1973
Cup
National Premier Leagues Cup Runners Up (x1): 2014
Ampol Cup Winners (x1): 1977
Waratah Cup (x2): 1992, 2004
Waratah Cup Runners Up (x1): 1991
Johnny Warren Cup Winners (x2): 2003, 2005
NSW Continental Tyres Cup Runners Up (x1): 2004
White Eagles Cup Runners Up (x1): 2012
Karadjordje Cup Winners (x4): 1992, 1993, 1995, 2000
Karadjordje Cup Runners-Up (x5): 1988, 1990, 1991, 1994, 1996
All-time league table
Below is a table listing the combined regular season and finals matches season records.
Cup matches are not included.
Current as of the end of the 2018 season.
* Note 1: From 1991 to 1995 league matches used penalty shootouts to decide drawn games at the conclusion of regulation time. As a result, the first number in the 'Drawn' column for these seasons denotes a penalty win and the second number denotes a penalty loss. Two points were awarded for a penalty victory, and one point for a penalty loss.
* Note 2: Up until the end of the 1990 season a win was only worth two points.
Club Top Goal Scorers
1999 NSW Super League – Colin Luff – 16 goals
2000 NSW Super League – Colin Luff – 27 goals
2001/02 NSW Premier League – Jimmy Aschner – 25 goals
2002/03 NSW Premier League – Aaron Burgees – 14 goals
2004/05 NSW Premier League – Tallan Martin – 16 goals
2006 NSW Winter Super League – Ivan Vojdović – 8 goals
2007 NSW Super League – Jason Kencevski – 24 goals
2008 NSW Super League – Ilkay Gurbuz and Daniel Willoughby – 7 goals
2009 NSW Premier League – Almir Dizdarić – 10 goals
2010 NSW Premier League – Brad Boardman – 15 goals
2011 NSW Premier League – Brad Boardman – 10 goals
2012 NSW Premier League – Robbie Younis – 20 goals
2013 National Premier Leagues NSW – Robbie Younis – 18 goals
2014 National Premier Leagues NSW – Robbie Younis – 17 goals
2015 National Premier Leagues NSW – Robbie Younis – 13 goals
2016 National Premier Leagues NSW – Dejan Neskovic – 44 goals
2017 National Premier Leagues NSW – Nikolaj Panic - 32 goals
2018 National Premier Leagues NSW – Moey Dw - 21 goals
The treble
Bonnyrigg's most successful year in their history came about in the 1992 season, a year their fans will never forget. A squad mixed with youth and experience, and ably led by coach Mike Johnson, won the Minor Premiership, the NSW Premier League Grand Final as well as the NSW Waratah Cup.
To top that off, Bonnyrigg also completed a "quadruple" of sorts by claiming the Karadjordje Cup for that season as well.
Many have labelled this team one of the greatest to have ever played in New South Wales and one that would certainly rival Bonnyrigg's talented 2005 squad.
2004–05 season controversy
The 2004–05 season was marred by controversy when Serbian fans of Bonnyrigg and Croatian fans of neighbouring club Sydney United engaged in riots. At the height of tensions gunshots were fired at the Bonnyrigg Sports Club and a car was fire bombed at Sydney United's King Tomislav Croatian Club at Edensor Park. The result was that the Football NSW had directed that all future games between the clubs must be held at a neutral venue.
Bonnyrigg lost 3–1 to Bankstown City Lions in the 2004/05 NSW Premier League grand final.
Despite finishing Grand Finalists in 2004/2005 and claiming the club championship, Bonnyrigg were not offered a position in the 2005/06 NSW Premier League season. The club's appeal of this decision failed and they competed in the Winter Super League for the next three seasons until promoted back to the highest level of competition in NSW for the 2009 season.
References
External links
Bonnyrigg Sports Club official website
Category:Association football clubs established in 1968
Category:New South Wales Premier League teams
Category:Serbian sports clubs in Australia
Category:National Premier Leagues clubs
Category:Soccer clubs in New South Wales
Category:1968 establishments in Australia
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Hideo Azuma
was a Japanese manga artist. Azuma made his professional debut in 1969 in the Akita Shoten manga magazine Manga Ō. He was most well known for his science fiction lolicon-themed works appearing in magazines such as Weekly Shōnen Champion, as well as children's comedy series such as Nanako SOS and Little Pollon (which both became anime television series in the early 1980s). He has been called the "father of lolicon".
In 2005 he published an autobiographical manga titled Disappearance Diary that has won several awards including the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize.
His name was also sometimes romanized Hideo Aduma.
Azuma died in hospital on October 13, 2019 due to esophageal cancer at the age of 69.
Career
Early years
While attending Hokkaidō Urahoro High School, Azuma participated in the Hokkaidō branch office of COM, along with other artists such as Monkey Punch and Fumiko Okada. In 1968, after graduating from high school, he moved to Tokyo and found employment with Toppan Printing. He left this job after three months to work as an assistant to manga artist Rentarō Itai, where he did uncredited work for Weekly Shōnen Sunday on series such as Mini Mini Manga.
Azuma made his professional debut in 1969 in Manga Ō with his work Ringside Crazy. The following year he quit working as an assistant and doing his own work. He gradually expanded his work to include both shōjo and seinen manga. His first works tended to be light gag manga, though he began to include science fiction elements influenced by his being a fan of the New Hollywood movement in American film. It was during this period that he experimented a lot with one panel manga (as opposed to four panel).
Beginning in 1972, Azuma began rising in popularity due to the off-color humor in his Weekly Shōnen Champion series Futari to 5-nin. He also married his assistant the same year, with whom he had a girl in 1980 and a boy in 1983. His wife was credited as "Assistant A" in his works, and his daughter and son were respectively credited as "Assistant B" and "Assistant C".
Boom period
Azuma began serializing in 1975 his story Yakekuso Tenshi in the semimonthly manga magazine Play Comic. He also began publishing science fiction themed works in many different niche magazines such as Kisō Tengai and Peke. Azuma, together with Jun Ishikawa, is considered part of the manga creators in the 1970s. Due to works such as science fiction novel parody Fujōri Nikki, published in Bessatsu Kisō Tengai in 1978, Azuma began to gain a large following among science fiction fans. Fujōri Nikki was awarded the 1979 Seiun Award for Best Comic of the Year.
From there, he began publishing in magazines such as Shōjo Alice, becoming a fixture in the pornographic lolicon manga business and becoming very involved in otaku culture.
In late 1980s and into the 1990s, due to stress from his hectic and demanding schedule during 20 years (to that point) as a manga artist, Azuma began drinking heavily, disappeared twice for several months to over a year, attempted suicide at least once, and was finally forcibly committed to an alcohol rehabilitation program. He published in 2005 a manga journal of this experience titled Disappearance Diary. In addition to being published in Japan, this book has been licensed and published in English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Russian and Polish.
Works
Manga
Futari to 5-nin (1974–1976, 12 volumes, Shōnen Champion Comics, Akita Shoten)
Shikkomōrō Hakase (1976, 1 volume, Sun Comics, Asahi Sonorama)
Oshaberi Love (1976–1977, 2 volumes, Princess Comics, Akita Shoten)
Olympus no Pollon (1977, 2 volumes, Princess Comics, Akita Shoten)
anime adaptation Ochamegami Monogatari Koro Koro Pollon in 1982-1983
manga reprinted in 2005-2007 by Hayakawa Shoten
Eight Beat (1977, 2 volumes, Sun Comics, Asahi Sonorama)
Kimagure Gokū (1977, 2 volumes, Sun Comics, Asahi Sonorama)
Midare Moko (1977, 1 volume, Power Comics, Futabasha)
Chibi Mama-chan (1977–1978, 2 volumes, Shōnen Champion Comics, Akita Shoten)
Chokkin (1977–1978, 4 volumes, Shōnen Champion Comics, Akita Shoten)
Yakekuso Tenshi (1977–1980, 5 volumes, Akita Manga Bunko, Akita Shoten)
Nemuta-kun (1978, 2 volumes, KC Comics, Kodansha)
Sexy Ai (1978, 1 volume, Sun Comics, Asahi Sonorama)
Fujōri Nikki (1979, Kisō Tengai Comics, Kisō Tengai)
Kyūketsuki-chan (1979, Kisō Tengai Comics, Kisō Tengai)
Parallel Kyōshitsu (1979, Kisō Tengai Comics, Kisō Tengaisha)
Animal Company (1980, My Comics, Tokyo Sanseisha)
Azuma Hideo Sakuhinshū 1: Methyl Metaphysic (1980, Kisō Tengai Comics, Kisō Tengai)
Azuma Hideo Sakuhinshū 2: Gansaku Hideo Hakkenden (1980, Akita Shoten)
Azuma Hideo Sakuhinshū 3: Kakutō Family (1980, Kisō Tengai Comics, Kisō Tengai)
Azuma Hideo Sakuhinshū 4: The Iroppuru (1980, Kisō Tengai Comics, Kisō Tengai)
Mimi (1980, Sun Comics, Asahi Sonorama)
Ningen Shikkaku (1980, My Comics, Tokyo Sanseisha)
Tobe Tobe Donkey (1980, Princess Comics, Akita Shoten)
Yadorigi-kun (1980, Shōnen Champion Comics, Akita Shoten)
Brat Bunny (1980–1982, 2 volumes, Animage Comics, Tokuma Shoten)
Hizashi (1981, hardcover, Kisō Tengaisha)
Mahō Tsukai Chappy (1981, Animage Comics, Tokuma Shoten) - manga adaptation of the 1972 magical girl anime series by Toei Animation; not an original Azuma character
Mia-chan Kannō Shashinshū (1981, Jihi Shuppan)
Paper Night (1981, Shōnen Shōjo SF Manga Kyōsaku Daizenshū Zōkangō, Tokyo Sanseisha)
Suki! Suki!! Majo Sensei (1981, Animage Comics, Tokuma Shoten)
Yōsei no Mori (1981, Torauma Shobō)
Scrap Gakuen (1981–1983, 3 volumes, Akita Shoten Manga Bunko, Akita Shoten)
Butsu Butsu Bōkenki (1982, My Comics, Tokyo Sanseisha)
Chocolate Derringer (1982, Play Comic Series, Akita Shoten)
Hyper Doll (1982, Play Comic Series, Akita Shoten)
Jinginaki Kuroi Taiyō Lolicon-hen (Lolicon Daizenshū) (1982-05-31, Gun'yūsha Shuppan)
published in Minity-Yamū (1984-12-30, Play Comic Series, Akita Shoten)
Magical Land no Ōjo-tachi (1982, Sanrio)
Umi kara Kita Kikai (1982, Kisō Tengaisha)
Yakekuso Mokushiroku (1982, Sun Comics, Asahi Sonorama)
Mia-chan Love World (1983, Best Hit Series, Akita Shoten)
Ochamegami Monogatari: Koro Koro Pollon (1983, anime version, 100-ten Land Comics, Futabasha)
Nanako SOS (1983–1986, 5 volumes, Just Comic Zōkan, Kobunsha)
anime adaptation in 1983, also known as Nana Supergirl (Italy), Supernana (France)
Majunia Eve (1984, Play Comic Series, Akita Shoten)
Hideo Collection 1: Hideo Dōwashū (1984, Action Comics, Futabasha)
Hideo Collection 2: Jūgatsu no Sora (1984, Action Comics, Futabasha)
Minity-Yamū (1984, Play Comic Series, Akita Shoten)
Hideo Collection 3: Sumire Kōnen (1985, Action Comics, Futabasha)
Hideo Collection 4: Tenkai no Utage (1985, Action Comics, Futabasha)
Hideo Collection 5: Daibōkenko (1985, Action Comics, Futabasha)
Hideo Collection 6: Taiyō wa Mata Noboru (1985, Action Comics, Futabasha)
Hideo Collection 7: Tokimeki Alice (1985, Action Comics, Futabasha)
Hideo Land 1: Amazing Marie (1985, Play Comic Series, Akita Shoten)
Maku no Machi Death Match!! (1985, , Jets Comics, Hakusensha)
Pulp-chan no Daibōken (1985, Pulp Comics, Pulp)
Oh! Azuma (1995, , Bunka Comics, Bunkasha)
Ginga Hōrō (1995–1997, 2 volumes, Mag Comics, Magazine House)
Azumania vol.1-3 (1996, Hayakawa Shoten)
Crush Okusan (1998–2002, 2 volumes, Bunkasha Comics, Bunkasha)
Azuma Hideo no Fujiyūjō (1999, Mandarake)
Futsukayoi Dandy (1999, , Mag Comics, Magazine House)
Alien Eri (2000, , Bunkasha Comics, Bunkasha)
Sanchoku Azuma Magazine 1 (2001-current, Jihi Shuppan)
Disappearance Diary (Shissō Nikki) (2005, East Press, )
Nanako SOS (2005, Hayakawa Shoten, reprint)
Benriya Mimi-chan (2006, Bunkasha, )
Tokimeki Alice Teihon (2006, Chikuma Shuppansha, )
Utsu Utsu Gideo Nikki (2006, Kadokawa Shoten, )
Yoru no Tobari no Naka de Azuma Hideo Sakuhinjō (2006, Chikuma Shuppansha, )
Neo Azumania vol.1-3 (2006–2007, Hayakawa Shoten)
Tōbō Nikki (an interview-style autobiography) (2007, Nihon Bungeisha, )
The Ward of Alcoholics (Shissō Nikki 2) (2013, East Press, )
Books
Nanako My Love: Azuma Hideo Illust Book (1983, Just Comic Zōkan, Kobunsha)
Yo no Sakana: Ohta Comics Geijutsu Manga Sōsho (1992, , Ohta Books)
Awards
2005: Grand Prize, Manga Division, 9th Japan Media Arts Awards for Shissō Nikki
2006: Grand Prize, Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize for Shissō Nikki
2008: Selection, Angoulême International Comics Festival for Shissō Nikki
References
External links
Azuma Hideo Official Homepage
Category:1950 births
Category:2019 deaths
Category:Manga artists
Category:Manga artists from Hokkaido
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USS Washington (1814)
USS Washington was a ship of the line of the United States Navy.
The ship was authorized by the United States Congress on 2 January 1813 and was laid down in May of that year at the Portsmouth Navy Yard under a contract with the shipbuilders, Hart and Badger. The ship was launched on 1 October 1814 and was commissioned at Portsmouth on 26 August 1815, Captain John Orde Creighton in command.
Service history
After fitting out, Washington sailed for Boston on 3 December 1815. In the spring of the following year, the ship-of-the-line shifted to Annapolis, Maryland, and arrived there on 15 May 1816. Over the ensuing days, the man-of-war welcomed a number of distinguished visitors who came on board to inspect what was, in those days, one of the more powerful American ships afloat. The guests included Commodore John Rodgers and Capt. David Porter, Col. Franklin Wharton, the Commandant of the Marine Corps, and President and Mrs. James Madison. The Chief Executive and his lady came on board "at half past meridian, to visit the ship, on which occasion yards were manned and they were saluted with 19 guns and three cheers."
Washington then sailed down Chesapeake Bay and embarked William Pinkney and his suite on 5 June. On 8 June, the ship of the line set sail for the Mediterranean flying the broad pennant of Commodore Isaac Chauncey, the commander of the Navy's fledgling Mediterranean Squadron. Washington reached Gibraltar on 2 July, en route to her ultimate destination, Naples.
Washington made port at Naples on 25 July, and Pickney debarked to commence his special mission—to adjust the claims of American merchants against the Neapolitan authorities. The talks ensued well into August. At the end of the month, the demands of diplomacy apparently satisfied, Washington set sail.
For the next two years, the ship-of-the-line operated in the Mediterranean as flagship of the American squadron, providing a display of force to encourage the Barbary states to respect American commerce. Dignitaries that visited the American man-of-war during this Mediterranean cruise included General Nugent, the commander in chief of Austrian forces (on 5 August 1817) and Prince Henry of Prussia (1781–1846) (on 12 August 1817).
On 1 February 1818, Commodore Charles Stewart relieved Commodore Chauncey as commander of the American Mediterranean Squadron, at Syracuse harbor, after which time Washington cruised to Messina and the Barbary Coast. She set sail for home on 23 May 1818—convoying 40 American merchantmen—and reached New York on 6 July 1818. The next day, the Vice President of the United States, Daniel D. Tompkins, visited the ship; and the warship blocked her colors at half-mast on the 8th, in honor of the interment of the remains of General Richard Montgomery, who had been killed leading the Continental assault against Quebec in 1775.
Following her return to the United States, Washington was commanded by Captain Arthur Sinclair until 1819.
Washington did little cruising thereafter, remaining at New York as Commodore Chauncey's flagship until 1820. Placed "in ordinary" that year, the ship-of-the-line remained inactive until broken up in 1843.
(The dimensions of the ship are uncertain, since no plan has survived, and there is evidence that the shipbuilder's plan was never sent to the Navy.)
References
Howard Chapelle, The History of the American Sailing Navy: the Ships and their Development (New York: Norton Press, 1949) .
Notes
Category:Ships built in Kittery, Maine
Category:Ships of the line of the United States Navy
Category:1814 ships
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Caïna (band)
Caïna is an English one-man post-black-metal band from Manchester, formed in 2004 by Andrew Curtis-Brignell (known as "A" on early releases).
History
The project was designed to become a continually evolving musical entity, combining the frigid and cold musical framework of the rawest black metal with a post-rock/ambient sound and aesthetic. Stylistically drawing from influences as disparate as black and death metal, drone, dream pop/shoegaze, neofolk and post-rock, each Caïna release is designed to be a distinct entity with its own palette and mood. Amongst the project's lyrical themes are English myths and legends, its literature, the repudiation of religion and the exultation of the individual.
The name "Caïna" refers an eternally frozen lake in Dante's Inferno (14th century); a bottomless fissure filled with blackened ice, reverberating with the lament of innumerable damned souls, from which there is no escape.
Discography
Albums
2006 – Some People Fall
2007 – Mourner
2008 – Temporary Antennae
2011 – Hands That Pluck
2011 – Will over Worlds (compilation)
2013 - Litanies of Abjection
2015 - Setter of Unseen Snares
Singles and EPs
2007 – "I, Mountain"
2007 – "The Heart of the Master"
2009 – "Caïna"
Demos
2005 – "When We Are Grown, We Will Be Strong"
2006 – "The Cold Taste of Perdition"
2006 – "The King Beneath"
Splits
2006 – "Age of Thorns (An Anti-Monotheistic Hate Monument)"
2009 – "Krieg / Caïna"
2009 – "Caïna / Process of Guilt"
2011 – "White Medal / Caïna"
2014 - Esoteric Youth / Caïna
Line-up
Current members
Andrew Curtis-Brignell (ex-Dormant) – all instruments
Laurence Taylor (Cold Fell) - Vocals
Former members
Jon Brignell – bass, double bass
See also
Culture of Manchester
List of black metal bands
List of dark ambient artists
List of doom metal bands
List of music artists and bands from Manchester
British rock music
External links
, the band's official website
Category:2004 establishments in England
Category:Heavy metal duos
Category:English black metal musical groups
Category:British industrial music groups
Category:Dark ambient music groups
Category:Drone metal musical groups
Category:Musical groups established in 2004
Category:Musical groups from Manchester
Category:Blackgaze musical groups
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Natasha Mazzone
Natasha Wendy Anita Mazzone (born 9 May 1979) is a South African politician who is currently serving as Chief Whip of the Official Opposition in the National Assembly of South Africa. She has been a Member of the National Assembly, representing the official opposition Democratic Alliance (DA), since 2009. She is the second Deputy Federal Council Chairperson of the DA and the party's spokesperson on state capture. She was previously Shadow Minister of Public Enterprises and Shadow Minister of Communications.
Early life and education
Mazzone is the child of immigrant parents and was born in Pretoria South Africa. Her father Giovanni was born in Pietrastornina in the Province of Avellino in Italy and is a chef. Her mother Valerie was born in London, England. Mazzone is the youngest of three children. She attended Sunnyside Primary School and The Glen High School.
Mazzone studied for a law degree from the University of Pretoria but did not complete the degree. She completed her legal articles at Hahn & Hahn Attorneys. Mazzone studied music and opera at the Lorraine Haverman school of music. In 2010 Mazzone was selected to attend the American Council of Young Political Leaders program.
Political career
Mazzone is a feminist advocate for equal rights, LGBTI activist and a liberal. She started her political career in 1997 at the University of Pretoria (UP) where she was the chairperson of the Democratic Party (DP) Youth branch. In 1998, she was elected as the National Federal Youth Leader of the DP. In the same year, she was elected to the Student Representative Council at UP and was the Executive member for Student Safety. In 1999, Mazzone was elected as the Speaker of the UP SRC. In 2000, the Democratic Alliance (DA) was formed and the DP formed part of this merger. She was then elected as the National Federal Youth Leader of the DA, a position she held until 2004.
In 2000, Mazzone stood for election as a city councillor in the Tshwane Metro. She was elected in December and at age 21, she was the youngest councillor in the municipality. In 2003, the DA caucus in the Metro elected Mazzone to the position of Chief Whip of the Official Opposition and she held this position until her election to Parliament in May 2009.
Mazzone was sworn in as a Member of Parliament on 6 May 2009. She was first made the Shadow Deputy Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development by Parliamentary Leader Athol Trollip. During Trollip's first Shadow cabinet reshuffle, Mazzone was made the Shadow Minister of Communications. She held this position until newly-elected Parliamentary Leader Lindiwe Mazibuko appointed her to the position of Shadow Minister of Public Enterprises.
Mazzone is a whip in the National Assembly and represents the Democratic Alliance on the Joint Standing Committee on the Financial Management of Parliament, the Disciplinary Committee, the Portfolio Committee on Public Enterprises and the Rules Committee. She is also the Democratic Alliance whip in charge of legislation.
Mazzone has also been involved in the provincial politics of Gauteng. She was elected as one of three deputy provincial chairpersons of the Democratic Alliance in October 2009. In April 2010, she ran for Provincial Leader of the DA. She faced former DA MP Janet Semple and incumbent John Moodey. Mazzone was eliminated in the first round. Semple consequently won the election.
Following the DA's 2018 Federal Congress, Mazzone was elected second Deputy Federal Council Chairperson of the party. She is currently serving alongside Thomas Walters.
On 31 October 2019, Mazzone was appointed Chief Whip of the Official Opposition, succeeding John Steenhuisen, who was elected Leader of the Opposition. She is the party's first female chief whip.
Personal life
She is a Buddhist; she married fellow Democratic Alliance MP Kevin Mileham in July 2017.
References
External links
People's Assembly profile
Profile on Twitter
Category:Living people
Category:1979 births
Category:Democratic Alliance (South Africa) politicians
Category:Members of the National Assembly of South Africa
Category:Women members of the National Assembly of South Africa
Category:People from Pretoria
Category:People from Gauteng
Category:South African politicians
Category:20th-century South African politicians
Category:21st-century South African politicians
Category:Politicians from the Western Cape
Category:University of Pretoria alumni
Category:LGBT rights activists from South Africa
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New Croton Aqueduct
The New Croton Aqueduct is an aqueduct in the New York City water supply system in Westchester County, New York carrying the water of the Croton Watershed. Built roughly parallel to the Old Croton Aqueduct it originally augmented, it opened in 1910. The old aqueduct remained in service until 1955, when supply from the Delaware and Catskill Aqueducts was sufficient to take it off line.
Waters of the New Croton Aqueduct flow to the Jerome Park Reservoir in The Bronx before entering Croton Water Filtration Plant for treatment, then out to distribution.
History
The Croton Watershed is one of three systems that provide water to New York City, joined by the waters of the Delaware and Catskill Aqueducts.
The New Croton Aqueduct opened on July 15, 1890, replacing the Old Croton Aqueduct. It runs from the New Croton Reservoir in Westchester County to the Jerome Park Reservoir in the Bronx. Water flows then proceed toward the Croton Water Filtration Plant for treatment. Treated water is then distributed to certain areas of the Bronx and Manhattan.
In the late 1990s, New York City stopped using water from the Croton due to numerous water quality issues. In 2004, a project was started to rehabilitate the New Croton Aqueduct and build a filtration plant, the Croton Water Filtration Plant in Van Cortlandt Park, which was activated in May 2015. Because of these quality problems, the Croton system is bypassed or mixed with water from the Catskill Aqueduct and/or Delaware Aqueduct during times of drought. The project is over budget and behind schedule.
See also
New York City water supply system
Water supply network
References
External links
History of NYC's Drinking Water at NYC.gov
New York City's Water Story: From Mountain Top to Tap at NYC.gov
Category:Aqueducts in New York (state)
Category:Geography of the Bronx
Category:Interbasin transfer
Category:Transportation buildings and structures in Westchester County, New York
Category:Water infrastructure of New York City
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ZCBJ Hall (Haugen, Wisconsin)
The ZCBJ Hall, also known as Community Hall, is a building in Haugen, Wisconsin, United States, that was built in 1910. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. It historically served as a meeting hall for the Czech community.
It is a single-story frame building with a stage and with a partial basement. It was built in three stages, the first believed to have been by the local members of the Zapadni Cesko Bratrska Jednota (ZCBJ), or Western Czech
Fraternal Union, around 1913. It was doubled in size the next year. A 1915 expansion added the last third of the building, including the stage and a basement, and added a new roof joining all three sections. The first has just a wooden foundation; the last section has a concrete foundation.
See also
Czech-Slovak Protective Society
References
External links
CGSI Quarterly Meeting - September 2008
Category:Zapadni Ceska Bratrska Jednota
Category:Czech-American culture in Wisconsin
Category:Clubhouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Wisconsin
Category:Buildings and structures in Barron County, Wisconsin
Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1910
Category:National Register of Historic Places in Barron County, Wisconsin
Category:1910 establishments in Wisconsin
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