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Angels of Destruction! Angels of Destruction! is an album by the band Marah. It was released by Yep Roc Records on January 8, 2008. Track listing Coughing Up Blood Old Time Tickin' Away Angels on a Passing Train Wild West Love Song Blue But Cool Jesus in the Temple Santos de Madera Songbirds Angels of Destruction Can't Take it With You Wilderness (contains a hidden track, Tippecanoe County Correctional Theme Park Blues) Personnel Dave Bielanko – vocals, guitar, banjo Serge Bielanko – guitar, vocals, harmonica Kirk Henderson – bass Dave Petersen – drums, vocals Adam Garbinsky - guitar Christine Smith - keyboards, vocals References Category:2008 albums Category:Marah (band) albums	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Rab Smith Robert 'Rab' Smith (born 29 May 1948) is a retired Scottish professional darts player. He won numerous tournaments in the late 1970s and early 80s when he was also twice a world championship quarter finalist. After a particularly successful 1977 his highest world ranking was number 4 in early 1978. He retired from professional darts at a relatively young age in 1983 to spend more time with his children. Background Smith was born on 29th May 1948 at the Dumfriesshire village of Moniaive. He is the only son of Robert (a dairyman) and Kathleen Smith and has a sister also named Kathleen. From finishing schooling at Wallace Hall Academy in 1963 he worked in forestry. Darts writer Derek Brown in 1981 described Smith as ‘only 5ft 7in (1.70m) and is wiry with a muscular build one might expect of a woodcutter.’ Smith changed his line of work in 1993 to be a crane operator. He continued with this vocation until he took early retirement in 2011. He married Doreen and had two children who share the names of his parents, Kathleen and Robert. Darts career Early years in darts Smith was introduced to darts around the age of 9 or 10 by his father. Smith told Patrick Chaplin in 2011, “The family lived in a big house in the country and I used to practice and practice.” He joined a darts team in the Dumfries pub league around the age of 16. His inspiration to improve was a local player named Joe Little at another Dumfries pub, The Hole I’ The Wa’ (The Hole in the Wall).“From the age of sixteen I would go into town to play darts. I met Joe Little in the pub and we played darts and he beat me. I kept going back and he kept beating me. I really wanted to beat him. I practiced and practiced and worked on my game, mostly on Saturday lunchtimes and at night because I worked all day. I also practiced 12 noon to 1 p.m. most days as well… practice, practice, practice. Then all the practice paid off and I beat him.” In 1973 his ability as a Dumfries county player was quickly recognised by the newly-founded Scottish Darts Association (SDA). He debuted for Scotland in the 1973 Home Internationals. Smith continued to represent Scotland until he gave up professional darts in the early 1980s. He succeeded George Nicol to captain Scotland for five of those years. Peak Smith's breakthrough on the major tournament circuit was winning the Scottish Masters in 1976 beating Dave Hill in the final. He became the NDAGB Scottish Champion that same year. 1977 was Smith's best year. He was the NDAGB British Champion playing in the final the north-west’s Eric Barlow. Barlow had pulled off the shock of the tournament in beating the then world number one, John Lowe. Smith beat Barlow 2-0. In defending the Scottish Masters he was runner-up to Bobby Semple. In March he represented Scotland in the Queen’s Silver Jubilee 3’s International Classic with team mates George Nicol and Eric MacLean in London. With the final all square between Scotland and England, Smith played Eric Bristow in the decider. Bristow was way in front after twelve darts before having ‘double trouble’. Smith described in one report ‘had stolen up like a black cat in the night’, and threw a 72 finish to clinch the trophy. Smith won the British Pentathlon beating Alan Glazier in the final. In winning the British Matchplay he beat Bill Lennard in the semi-finals and then Eric Bristow in the final. With the final all square at 3-3, Smith stood at the oche needing 36. Bristow appeared to know what would happen and put his darts down on the table. Smith initially hit single 18 but then finished on double 9. Smith had hit four maximum 180s during that final. In 1977 he also won the Golden Darts Championship. He eliminated Andre Declerq of Belgium and Wales’ Alan Evans and then beat John Lowe in the final. As well as the £1,000 first prize Smith was also presented with a set of 18ct ‘golden darts’ and a special prize of ‘a mere quarter ounce gold nugget’ for scoring 180. In 2007 Smith gave the ‘golden darts’ to his grandson Rory for his first birthday. On the announcement of the world rankings in early 1978 Smith placed at four. If he had just one more major tournament win in 1977 he would have been ranked at number one. In 1978 he represented Scotland as his team were WDF Europe Cup Team Winners.. In 1979 he was third in the British Pentathlon when John Lowe beat Eric Bristow in the final. Smith reached the final of the 1980 Winmau World Masters, beating Cliff Lazarenko, Canadian Bob Sinnaeve and USA's Nicky Virachkul to reach the final, where he lost to John Lowe. The same year he again reached the WDF Europe Team Cup Final. Paired with Alistair Forrester the Scots lost out in the final to the Swedish pair of Stefan Lord and Bjorn Enqvist. In the singles event of that year's tournament he reached the semi final. In 1981 captaining Jocky Wilson and Angus Ross for Scotland, Smith won the 1981 BDO Nations Cup beating Bristow, Lowe and Lazarenko of England in the final. Each Scot won their leg against Lazarenko. Smith also defeated Lowe and Wilson beat Bristow for a 5-4 win. Dave Lanning commentating described "The indeterminable Rab Smith" as, "A fine, fluid player on his day" and "a dapper little character, there's a lot said about the big gross darts players but Rab presents a very neat, clean cut image." Lowe beat Smith 2-1 in the News of the World Individual Darts Championship semi final at the Wembley Arena. Smith later said, “I was on double four with John back on 140 or 160. He threw and left double top. In my next throw I clipped the top wire of double four three times. Then John hit double top.” BDO World Championships Smith played in the first six successive Embassy World Darts Championships. In the first ever World Championship in 1978, Smith defeated Ireland's Patrick Clifford 6–0 in the first round but lost in the quarter finals to Sweden's Stefan Lord. In 1979, Smith beat United States's Conrad Daniels in the first round and then avenged his defeat of Lord in the previous year by beating him in the second round, he went on to bow out in the quarter final once more, losing to then-reigning champion Leighton Rees of Wales. Smith suffered a first round exit in 1980, lost to Tony Sontag. In 1981, he beat Wayne Lock in the first round, before losing to Nicky Virachkul in the second round. He then suffered two successive first round exits firstly to fellow Scot and that year's winner, Jocky Wilson in 1982. In 1983 he was eliminated by Australian Kevin White. Retirement from darts By 1983 Smith by his own admission had ‘had enough’. “The kids were young and I was never at home; sometimes being away six days a week. I didn’t want to lose my family life so I gave up.” When asked if he had regrets from giving up professional darts at a relatively young age Smith said, “Not really. There was always too much travel: hundreds of miles.” Smith also gave up playing county darts around the same time. BDO World Championship Results 1978: Quarter Finals (lost to Stefan Lord 3-6) (legs) 1979: Quarter Finals (lost to Leighton Rees 0-3) (sets) 1980: 1st Round (lost to Tony Sontag 1-2) 1981: 2nd Round (lost to Nicky Virachkul 0-2) 1982: 1st Round (lost to Jocky Wilson 0-2) 1983: 1st Round (lost to Kevin White 1-2) In popular culture In An American Werewolf in London, Smith is the player throwing the darts in match on TV in the apartment of the character played by Jenny Agutter. Smith's opponent is Cliff Lazarenko. References External links Profile and stats on Darts Database Profile and stats on Dartsmad Category:Living people Category:Scottish darts players Category:Sportspeople from Dumfries Category:1948 births Category:British Darts Organisation players	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Mick West Mick West is a science writer, skeptical investigator, and retired video game programmer. He is the creator of the websites Contrail Science and Metabunk, for which he investigates and debunks pseudoscientific claims such as chemtrails, UFOs, and conspiracy theories, and has appeared in various media as an expert analyst and science communicator. Career Neversoft West co-founded Neversoft Entertainment in July 1994 with Joel Jewett and Chris Ward. The video game development company, known for Spider-Man and the Tony Hawk's and Guitar Hero video game franchises, was acquired by Activision in October 1999, its studio merged with Infinity Ward on May 3, 2014 and was made defunct on July 10, 2014. Websites West became interested in the chemtrail conspiracy theory while studying aviation weather for his pilot’s license. He created the website “Contrail Science” with the aim of explaining contrails and debunking chemtrail theories. He believed initially that he could explain and debunk these theories quite quickly, but they were more resilient than he’d anticipated: he has now spent more than 10 years covering the topic. The discussion on the “Contrail Science” website eventually expanded to include other conspiracy theories, including that of 9/11. So West decided to create another website, “Metabunk”, to expand the discussion to other alternative beliefs. Metabunk covers such topics as pseudoscience, UFOs and the paranormal. The website also includes a forum, “Skydentify”, where West invites people to send photos and videos of UFOs and supposed ghosts. He analyses these using his background in video game programming and Photoshop, and then he and other forum members attempt to explain what the photos and videos are actually depicting. They also discuss the best way to communicate the results of their debunking investigations. Analysis from West and other experts on Metabunk has been cited in other publications, such as the Daily Express. West describes the objective of his work as attempting to get people out of the “rabbit hole” of conspiratorial thinking. “Chemtrails is a surprisingly popular theory; it’s right up there with things like the 9/11 conspiracy theories,” he says. “It all stems from a fundamental distrust of science and authority. You are always going to get a percentage of people who are true believers. My goal is to minimize that as much as possible, stop people falling for it, and help them get out as easily as possible.” He also created the online forum morgellonswatch.com to dispel the myths and misinformation surrounding the unconfirmed skin condition, Morgellons. Academic work In August 2016, West co-authored a paper with climate scientists Ken Caldeira, Christine Shearer, and Steven J. Davis published in the journal Environmental Research Letters titled Quantifying expert consensus against the existence of a secret, large-scale atmospheric spraying program (SLAP). The objective of the paper was to produce a peer-reviewed expert response to the chemtrail theory. The authors surveyed experts on atmospheric chemistry and deposition to scientifically evaluate the claims of chemtrail conspiracy theorists. Upon publication, it was recognized as the first study by a major science organization on the topic. Its conclusion reported that “76 out of 77 (98.7%) scientists that took part in this study said there was no evidence of a SLAP, and that the data cited as evidence could be explained through other factors, such as typical contrail formation and poor data sampling instructions presented on SLAP websites” Data science company Altmetric, rated the paper in the top 5% of all research, in terms of interest generated and it has been cited many times by scientific publications and news outlets. This included the New York Times, where West said the new study should help sway people who might otherwise be convinced by a chemtrails website. “You’re trying to hold back the tide to a certain degree, and hopefully have less people fall into that way of thinking.” West has written articles for the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry's journal Skeptical Inquirer, such as “Curated Crowdsourcing in UFO Investigations” where he discusses the Skydentify forum and “In Defense of Debunkers” in which he talks of the role of skepticism and of debunking and the importance of communication. In 2016, West delivered a presentation at CSICon titled “Expert Elicitation vs. Chemtrails” in which he discussed his 2016 scientific paper on climate engineering. Books In 2018, West authored Escaping the Rabbit Hole. How to Debunk Conspiracy Theories Using Facts, Logic, and Respect with the goal of helping people understand and explain conspiracy theories, and then pass those explanations onto others. In a review of the book, British actor Stephen Fry wrote “Mick West demonstrates with exquisite style, wit, and insight how those three rare and valuable species, Fact, Logic and Respect (each now on the very brink of extinction) have in harness the power to shine light into darkness and dispel the miasma of bias, superstition and balefully proud ignorance that is threatening to poison our age.” An extended excerpt from this book was published in Salon. The book was featured in an analysis released by the University of McGill Office for Science and Society in 2018. Celestia Ward points out that "Debunking conspiracy theories is a lot of work. But it's worthwhile if you are helping a loved one out of a mindset that can cause them harm. Mick West has shouldered a tremendous amount of the work himself, summarizing some conspiracy beliefs and demonstrable facts to refute those beliefs...." Podcast West started a podcast in April 2019, "Tales from the Rabbit Hole," in which he interviews "conspiracy culture" guests. Media West is often cited as an expert analyst on chemtrails and UFOs by the media. In 2010, he appeared on CBS evening news and KPCC radio news to comment on a viral video of what appeared to be a "mystery" missile launch. In September 2016, Radio New Zealand profiled West as a science writer and someone who “is dedicated to the art of debunking wild theories that circulate online and helping other people do the same, with his website, Metabunk.” In the interview he described how his passion for debunking comes from a concern that real problems are being ignored because science is ignored. In particular he talked about the harm conspiracy theorists can cause when they accuse the families of victims of gun massacres as being crisis actors. He also explained that when “dealing with conspiracy theorists the best thing is to be polite. You’ve got to be a kind of gentleman scientist. If people are polite then you will get listened to. Never misrepresent yourself, never lie, never fake evidence, never indulge in hoaxes. You’ve got to be 100% beyond reproach at all times.” He has also made a number of appearances on podcasts discussing his life and debunking career. These include being interviewed by Richard Saunders on the Skeptic Zone and Benjamin Radford on Squaring the Strange, as well as Something You Should Know. He has made several appearances on the Joe Rogan Experience to discuss various conspiracy theories. In 2013, West appeared in the documentary film "Overcast” as a rebuttal to promoters of chemtrail conspiracy theories. References External links Metabunk Contrail Science Morgellons Watch Mick West on YouTube Mick West on Twitter Podcast: Tales from the Rabbit Hole Category:Living people Category:British sceptics Category:Critics of conspiracy theories Category:UFO skeptics Category:Year of birth missing (living people) Category:People in the video game industry Category:Video game designers	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Vere Parish, Jamaica Vere Parish was one of the historic parishes of Jamaica created following colonisation of the island by the British. It was in the south of the island in Middlesex County but was abolished in 1866 when it was merged into Clarendon Parish. References External links Our Parishes. gleaner.com Category:Parishes of Jamaica Category:1866 disestablishments	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
The Man Who Lost Himself (1941 film) The Man Who Lost Himself is a 1941 film starring Brian Aherne and Kay Francis. Aherne plays a man who encounters his exact double and is later mistaken for the other man (now deceased). The film is based on the novel of the same name by Henry De Vere Stacpoole. The novel was also adapted to film in 1920. Plot Department store mogul Malcolm Scott escapes from a mental institution. At a bar, he encounters lookalike John Evans and they get drunk together. John wakes up in Malcolm's home, where butler Paul and others mistakenly believe him to be Malcolm. As he attempts to persuade them otherwise, the real Malcolm is killed in a subway accident. Malcolm's estranged wife Adrienne has been romantically involved with Peter Ransome, while it appears Malcolm had been seeing a Mrs. Van Avery while also embezzling from his store with a man named Mulhausen who now wants to buy it from Adrienne. John foils the scheme, and when a grateful Adrienne finally realizes who he really is, she decides she would like to marry her dead husband's dead ringer. Cast Brian Aherne as John Evans / Malcolm Scott Kay Francis as Adrienne Scott Henry Stephenson as Frederick Collins S. Z. Sakall as Paul Nils Asther as Peter Ransome Sig Ruman as Dr. Simms (as Sig Rumann) Dorothy Tree as Mrs. Van Avery Janet Beecher as Mrs. Milford Marc Lawrence as Frank DeSoto Henry Kolker as Mulhausen Sarah Padden as Maid Eden Gray as Venetia Scott Selmer Jackson as Mr. Green William Gould as Mr. Ryan Russell Hicks as Mr. Van der Girt Frederick Burton as Mr. Milford Margaret Armstrong as Mrs. Van der Girt External links Category:American films Category:American black-and-white films Category:Films based on Irish novels Category:Films directed by Edward Ludwig Category:Films based on works by Henry De Vere Stacpoole Category:1940s comedy films Category:American comedy films Category:Films scored by Hans J. Salter	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Houma Houma can refer to: Houma, Louisiana, city in the United States Houma, Shanxi, city in China Houma people, a Native American group Houma, meaning cape, the name of some capes in Tonga and villages near them such as: Houma (Tongatapu) Houma ('Eua) Houma (Vava'u) See also The Houmas, an 18th-century plantation in Louisiana, named for the Houma people Homa (disambiguation), which has several different meanings Huma (disambiguation), which has several different meanings	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Gaston La Touche Gaston La Touche, or de La Touche (24 October 1854 – 12 July 1913), was a French painter, illustrator, engraver and sculptor. Biography His family originally came from Normandy. He was born in Saint-Cloud. His passion for art began at a very early age and he finally persuaded his parents to give him drawing lessons, which he took for ten years from a local instructor at the rate of three Francs per month. His lessons had to be cancelled at the start of the Franco-Prussian War, when his family returned to Normandy to ensure their safety. This would be all the formal art training he ever received. Nevertheless, in 1875 he was able to make his début at the Salon with a bas-relief portrait medallion of François Jules Edmond Got, an actor at the Comédie-Française, and several etchings. Between 1877 and 1879, he made the acquaintance of Edgar Degas and Édouard Manet, who he met with frequently at the Café de la Nouvelle Athènes. It was there that he was introduced to Émile Zola, some of whose works he would later illustrate. Beginning in 1880, he produced dark toned works of social realism in the style of the Dutch Masters. His first painting was shown at the Salon the following year. Félix Bracquemond, a friend and associate, suggested that he might be more successful if he brightened his color palette and chose different subjects, recommending Antoine Watteau and François Boucher as models. He also painted landscapes and portraits in the style of Puvis de Chavannes, which brought him his first major successes at the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts. In 1891, he burned most of his earlier paintings. Later, he received commissions to provide decorations for the Town Hall in Saint-Cloud and the reception hall at the Ministry of Justice (), although the latter were never installed there and are now at the Palais du Luxembourg. In 1900, he was one of several artists who provided decorations for Le Train Bleu, a famous restaurant near the Gare de Lyon. In his later years, he divided his time between his studio in Saint-Cloud and his family's properties in Champsecret. In 1909, he was named an Officer in the Legion d'Honneur. In 1912, he completed his last major decorative project at "Villa Arnaga", Edmond Rostand's home in Cambo-les-Bains, which is now a museum. He died in Paris while painting. Among the works he illustrated are L'Assommoir (The Dram Shop) by Zola, Aux flancs du Vase by Albert Samain, and Poèmes by Henri de Régnier. Prizes, medals 1884 - Medal (Third-class) at the Salon for A Wish and Another 1888 - Medal (Second-class) at the Salon for The New Mother 1889 - Silver Medal at the Exposition Universelle in Paris 1900 - Gold medal at the Exposition Universelle in Paris Salons 1875 - Société des Artistes Français, medallion portrait of Edmond Got 1881 - Exhibition of French Artists, The Fifth Lady 1882 - Paris Salon, The Burial of a Child in Normandy 1890 - Exhibition of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Phlox 1896 - Exhibition of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, decorative panel that includes portraits of his wife and son Exhibitions 1889 - Exposition Universelle in Paris 1899 - Venice Biennale 1900 - Exposition Universelle in Paris 1908 - Galerie Georges Petit , a retrospective of more than three hundred works 1909 - Galerie Boussod et Valadon in The Hague Other selected paintings References Further reading Selina Baring Maclennan, Gaston La Touche: A Painter of Belle Époque Dreams, Antique Collectors Club (2009) Jean Valmy-Baysse, Gaston La Touche, sa vie, son œuvre, from the series "Peintres d'Aujourd'hui", éditions F. Juven, Paris, 1910. Online. Henri Frantz, Gaston La Touche 1854–1913, éditions Studio, Paris 1914, London 1915. "Important Painting by La Touche”. 1917. Bulletin of the Detroit Museum of Art, Vol. 11 (7/8), April–May, 1917. Detroit Institute of Arts: 65–68. pdf article at website. pdf thumbnails. External links Gaston La Touche website, homepage: with a biography, works, publications and critical commentary. Paintings by La Touche @ The Athenaeum. Category:1854 births Category:1913 deaths Category:People from Saint-Cloud Category:19th-century French painters Category:French male painters Category:20th-century French painters Category:French draughtsmen Category:Post-impressionist painters	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Anapo The Anapo (Sicilian: Ànapu) is a river in Sicily whose ancient Greek name is similar to the word for "swallowed up" and at many points on its course it runs underground. The Greek myth of Anapos is associated with it. The river springs from the Monte Lauro in the Hyblaean Mountains (hills), near Palazzolo Acreide, crossing the whole territory of Syracuse, where it flows into the Ciane. Historically, its waters were used to feed the aqueduct of Syracuse, built in 480 BC by the tyrant Gelo and running for . Its waters now power the hydroelectrical station near Solarino. References External links Fiume Anapo Category:Rivers of Italy Category:Rivers of Sicily Category:Rivers of the Province of Syracuse	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Shot Online Shot Online is a massive multiplayer online golf video game which also features character development and MMORPG elements. It is developed by the Seoul-based game developer WebzenOnNet Co. Ltd., and published by Webzen under their game portal website, GamesCampus. Although there is no subscription fee or cost to download and play the game, the game offers upgraded "Gold" membership plans for a monthly fee, and additional items may be purchased using real currency through the game's website. History Shot Online was originally created as a Korean title, then later marketed to the United States. Debuting in 2004 as a free online download, this game worked its way onto store shelves in 2006 when a retail version was made available. The game is currently available as a direct download from the publisher's website. Retail boxed versions of the game are no longer available. Game updates are pushed through an update server with major improvements scheduled every six months. Using this method the developer can make rapid fixes or game changes such as the addition of auction houses to the game. Game developers have promised updates such as graphical improvements in the future. Publishing The game is available in eight different languages (English, German, French, Spanish, Korean, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese). Webzen publishes the English version under their game portal, gamescampus.com, and the German, French, and Spanish versions of the game under the portal gamescampus.eu, as well as linking to the game from their main Webzen.com games portal. Gameplay Introduction The golf simulator allows up to four players to tee-off together on several fictional and non-fictional courses, while The Square allows a player's avatar to interact with NPCs and make trades with other players. For each hole completed, the character earns both experience points and in-game currency called NG ("Not Gold"). When the player accumulates enough experience points, their character will advance to the next level. NG can be used to purchase items such as clubs, balls, clothing, greens fees, and club repair fees. Characters Shot Online is similar to many other MMORPGs in the sense it uses a mixture of player experience and items to increase a players skill. All characters are designed in anime. The game classifies players as Beginner, Amateur, Semi-Pro, Tour-Pro, Senior Pro, Master-Pro, Royal-Pro, Grand Royal Pro, Grand Royal Pro II, National Pro, National Pro II and National Pro III. This classification is based on both a player's level and handicap achievements on specific courses. As you progress, more options become available such as the ability to create guilds or use better equipment. Seven character classes are also available which will give a player different starting abilities based on different character skills. Two character types are only able to be created with a Gold Plus membership. Courses There are a wide variety of courses based on real-world locations and fictional designs. Courses have different green fees, and playing them provides varying bonuses and experience points depending on the difficulty. Tournaments Tournaments are offered, which can be played at any level. Currently a string of seasonal tournaments are being hosted. In addition to these seasonal tournaments, free tournaments are also offered. Instead of any head-to-head play like in a real tournament, your score is registered upon completion of the course. When the tournament ends winners are declared from the submitted scores. See also GolfStar Pangya References External links Shot Online Official Website (English) Category:Massively multiplayer online role-playing games Category:2004 video games Category:Golf video games Category:Windows games Category:Windows-only games Category:Video games developed in South Korea	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Order of the White Rose (1886–1915) The Order of the White Rose was a Jacobite society founded in 1886 by Bertram Ashburnham as a successor to the Cycle Club. The Order attracted many writers and artists and began the Neo-Jacobite Revival that flourished in the 1890s. The Order closed during the First World War, but in 1926 the Royal Stuart Society was formed to carry on its ideal and mission. History Jacobites support restoration of the House of Stuart to the thrones of England, Scotland, and Ireland. Following the defeat of the Jacobite rising of 1745, Jacobitism was rigorously suppressed, and Jacobite sympathisers had to form secret clubs and societies to discus their ideas in private. One prominent example was the "Cycle of the White Rose" usually known as the Cycle Club, which had been founded in 1710 by the Williams-Wynn family in North Wales. The Cycle Club continued to meet under the family's patronage until the 1860s. Formation In 1886, Bertram Ashburnham circulated a leaflet seeking Jacobite sympathisers, and amongst those who replied was Melville Henry Massue. Together they formed the Order of the White Rose, a Jacobite group that was the spiritual successor to the Cycle Club. The Order was officially started on June 10, 1866. The Order was influenced by the Oxford Movement of the 1830s and 1840s which promoted Anglo-Catholicism and held up Charles I as a martyr. The Order attracted Irish and Scottish Nationalists to its ranks. While these various interests gathered under the banner of restoring the House of Stuart, they also had a common streak against the scientific and secular democratic norms of the time. Some even planned (but did not execute) a military overthrow of the Hanoverian monarchy, with the aim of putting Princess Maria Theresa on the British throne. Neo-Jacobite revival In 1889, the New Gallery in London put on a major exhibition of works related to the House of Stuart, organized by Henry Jenner. Ashburnham - the president of the gallery - persuaded Queen Victoria to lend a number of items to the exhibition, as did the wife of her son Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany and families with Jacobite sympathies and pasts from England and Scotland donated items. The exhibition was a significant popular success and revived public interest in the House of Stuart generally, and Jacobitism specifically. The Order of the White Rose was largely a romantic and sentimental organisation, focused on a nostalgic vision of a Jacobite past. It attracted artists and writers to its ranks, including Frederick Lee, Henry Jenner, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Robert Edward Francillon, Charles Augustus Howell, Stuart Richard Erskine, Andrew Lang and Herbert Vivian. The order published its own paper The Royalist from 1890 to 1903. The popularity of the exhibition sparked a renewed interest in the political ideals of the Jacobite cause, especially amongst monarchists and Anglo-Catholics. Immediately following the exhibition, new Jacobite groups began to form. In 1890, Vivian and Erskine co-founded a weekly newspaper, The Whirlwind that espoused a Jacobite political view. Ashburnham was not a proponent of the political side of the movement, and in 1891 The Order of the White Rose split, when Vivian, Erskine and Melville Henry Massue formed the Legitimist Jacobite League of Great Britain and Ireland. Vivian and Massue were leading members of the neo-Jacobite revival, while Erskine soon focused his political endeavours on the related cause of Scottish Nationalism. The League was a "publicist for Jacobitism on a scale unwitnessed since the Eighteenth Century". Several other Jacobite and Legitimist societies formed in the early 1890s, and though serious in intent, they were widely greeted with amusement and disdain. The Order was the leading society for the artistic and historical side of Jacobitism. Art dealer Charles Augustus Howell and journalist Sebastian Evans were members of the Order, while poets W. B. Yeats and Andrew Lang were drawn to the cause. By 1910 it had inspired a branch in North America. Closure In 1914, just after the start of the First World War, Prince Rupprecht – the legitimate king of England, Ireland and Scotland according to the Jacobite Succession – appeared in German uniform in support of The Kaiser. Public sympathy immediately turned against the Neo-Jacobites, many supporters left, and the Order was quickly closed. References Category:Neo-Jacobite Revival Category:Monarchist organizations Category:1886 establishments in the United Kingdom Category:Organizations established in 1886 Category:Monarchism in the United Kingdom	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Coke Studio Bel 3arabi Coke Studio بالعربي ("'Coke Studio Bel 3arabi"') is a music television programme in the Middle East and North Africa featuring performances by various Arabic and international music artists. It is inspired by the Pakistani show of the same name. It is a program that brings together established Arab and international artists to collaborate and record an original fusion song meshing two or more unique genres of music. Season 1 (2012) Scheduled episode line-up Episode 1 Episode Airing Date: 11 April 2012 Episode Theme: Oriental Music - Pop meets Flamenco music Artists Profile: Nancy Ajram, an Arab pop music icon meets José Gálvez who comes from a pure Gypsy Spanish tradition. Episode 2 Episode Airing Date: 18 April 2012 Episode Theme: Oriental Tarab music meets Yugoslavian Gypsy Music Artists Profile: Syrian artist, Rouwaida Attieh and Bilal who hails from the “Nawar” Gypsy clan in Lebanon are paired with The Yugoslavian Gypsy Brass Band from the Balkan. Episode 3 Episode Airing Date: 25 April 2012 Episode Theme: Oriental music meets Opera Artists Profile: Yara with her soulful and soft vocals meets Tino Favazza, a Sicilian tenor. They come together to create a fusion where the Oriental music meets Opera. Episode 4 Episode Airing Date: 2 May 2012 Episode Theme: Oriental music meets House music Artists Profile: Jannat from Morocco with her tender voice along with The Chehade Brothers (Farid and Rami Chehade) with their traditional music meet the avant-garde DJ Jerry Ropero. The three artists meet to create a fusion of Oriental and House music to “Niyal Albou”. Episode 5 Episode Airing Date: 9 May 2012 Episode Theme: Oriental Music meets Hip Hop music Artists Profile: Mohamed Hamaki a star of the Arabic music meets Jay Sean the international hip hop artist with more than 8 million copies sold for his first 2 singles. The come together to create a fusion rendition of “Mustafa ya Mustafa”. Episode 6 Episode Airing Date: 16 May 2012 Episode Theme: Oriental Music meets Reggae music Artists Profile: Mohamed Mounir, the King, the most renowned Egyptian artist meets The Wailers, who along with Bob Marley defined Reggae Music. They come together to create a fusion where Egyptian music meets Reggae music. Episode 7 Episode Airing: 23 May 2012 Episode Theme: Oriental Music meets R&B music Artists Profile: Saber Al Robai a star of the Arabic and a distinctive voice along Cairokee, the first rock band meet with Shontelle the gifted as both a writer and a singer, that carved a reputation in the Caribbean music world over the last several years. They all come together to create a fusion where the Oriental music meets R&B music. Episode 8 Episode airing: 30 May 2012 Episode Theme: Oriental music meets Tango Artists Profile: Wadih El Safi, the famous Lebanese cultural icon, also known as the “Voice of Lebanon”, meets Fabien Bertero, a young Argentinean musician, violinist, arranger, and composer. The artists combine their voices and talents to come up with a one-of-a-kind fusion song. Episode 9 Episode airing: 6 June 2012 Episode Theme: Best of Coke Studio Middle East Season 2 (2013) Hosts: Abdel Fattah Grini & Bruna Tameih Sound Director: Hadi Sharara Scheduled episode line-up Episode 1 Episode Airing Date: 25 April 2013 Artists Profile: Sherine Abdel Wahab from Egypt & Nelly from USA Fusion Song: Just A Dream Episode 2 Episode Airing Date: 2 May 2013 Artists Profile: Karol Saqr from Lebanon & Mika from UK Fusion Song: Relax, Take It Easy Episode 3 Episode Airing Date: 9 May 2013 Artists Profile: Cairokee from Egypt & Ayo from Nigeria - Germany Fusion Song: Fire/Ethbat Makanak Episode 4 Episode Airing Date: 16 May 2013 Artists Profile: Kadim Al Sahir from Iraq & Dimitri from France Fusion Song: Fakihat Al Hob Episode 5 Episode Airing Date: 23 May 2013 Artists Profile: Shamma Hamdan from UAE & Jay Sean from UK Fusion Song: Down Episode 6 Episode Airing Date: 30 May 2013 Artists Profile: Myriam Fares from Lebanon & Flo Rida from USA Fusion Song: Wild Ones Episode 7 Episode Airing: 6 June 2013 Artists Profile: Waed from KSA & Yves Larock from Switzerland Fusion Song: Rise Up Episode 8 Episode airing: 13 June 2013 Artists Profile: Naya from Lebanon & Edward Maya from Romania Fusion Song: Men Idi Episode 9 Episode airing: 20 June 2013 Artists Profile: Mohamed Hamaki from Egypt & Mustafa Sandal from Turkey Fusion Song: En Büyük Hikaye/We Eftakart Episode 10 Episode airing: 28 June 2013 Episode Theme: Best of Coke Studio Bel 3arabi - Season Two Promo Song: Abdel Fattah Grini - Oyouno El Kahla Season 3 (2014) Episode 1 Episode airing: 12 Sep 2014 Artist Profile: Assala Nasri from Syria & Kool & the Gang from USA Fusion Song: She's Fresh Episode 2 Episode airing: 19 Sep 2014 Artist Profile: Shatha Hassoun from Iraq & Tom Novy from Germany Fusion Song: Al Ein Molayatin Episode 3 Episode airing: 19 Sep 2014 Artist Profile: JadaL from Jordan & Diana Yukawa from Japan Fusion Song: Jaddele Episode 4 Episode airing: 10 Oct 2014 Artist Profile: Maya Diab from Lebanon & Jason Derulo from USA Fusion Song: Talk To Me Episode 5 Episode airing: 17 Oct 2014 Artist Profile: Mashrou' Leila from Lebanon & Nile Rodgers from USA Fusion Song: Get Lucky Episode 6 Episode airing: 24 Oct 2014 Artist Profile: BLAK R from KSA & Sandy Mölling from Germany Fusion Song: Derailed Episode 7 Episode airing: 31 Oct 2014 Artist Profile: Balqees Ahmed Fathi from Yemen & David Penn from Spain Fusion Song: Ya Hezzaly References External links Category:2012 television series debuts Category:Coke Studio	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Eunice (annelid) Eunice is a genus in the polychaete family Eunicidae. Individuals grow to a length of between . Their bodies have multiple segments. They have two eyes and five tentacles. They have well-developed sense organs and relatively large brains. Their color is dark purple-brown to red-brown with a white ring at the fourth segment. They are found in oceans and seas around the world. They have an evertible proboscis with distinctive mouthparts, some of which comprise two rows of maxilliary plates in a radula-like fashion. Species Eunice afra Peters, 1854 Eunice antennata (Savigny, 1820) Eunice aphroditois Pallas, 1788, Bobbit Worm Eunice australis Quatrefagus, 1865 Eunice bilobata Treadwell, 1906 Eunice borneensis (Grube, 1878) Eunice denticulata Eunice filamentosa Eunice fuscafasciata (Treadwell, 1922) Eunice norvegica (Linnaeus, 1767) Eunice pennata (O.F. Müller, 1776) Eunice perimensis Gravier, 1901 Eunice perrieri Gravier, 1900 Eunice petersi Fauchald, 1992 Eunice philippinensis Hartmann-Schröder & Zibrowius, 1998 Eunice philocorallia Buchanan, 1893 Eunice plessisi Rullier, 1972 Eunice plicata Baird, 1869 Eunice polybranchia (Verrill, 1880) Eunice prayensis Kinberg, 1865 Eunice procera Grube, 1866 Eunice profunda Miura, 1987 Eunice tovarae Carrera-Parra & Salazar-Vallejo, 2011 Eunice uschakovi Wu, Sun & Liu, 2013 Eunice vittata (Delle Chiaje, 1828) References Davey, Keith. Life on Australian Seashores. "Eunice." Online. March 4, 2008. Taxonomicon Bennett, I. (1987) W.J. Dakin's classic study: Australian Seashores. p. 190, Angus & Robertson, Sydney. Davey, K. (1998) A Photographic Guide to Seashore Life of Australia. p. 37, New Holland, Sydney. Edgar, G.J. (1997) Australian Marine Life: the plants and animals of temperate waters. p. 159, Reed Books, Kew. Fishelson, L. & F. Rullier (1969). Quelques Annelides Polychetes de la Mer Rouge. Israel Journal of Zoology 18: 49-117. Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp. Phillips, R. Dales. Annelids Pg 110. Hutchison and Company. London. 1963. Shepherd, S.A. & Thomas, I.M. (1982) Marine Invertebrates of Victoria, Pt. 1. p. 257, South Australian Government Printer, Adelaide. http://www.hia.php?p=taxdetails&id=129278 Category:Polychaete genera Category:Errantia	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Ralph J. Lamberti Ralph J. Lamberti (born November 14, 1934) is a member of the Democratic Party, and held the office of borough president of Staten Island, New York from 1984 to 1989. Early life Ralph J. Lamberti was born and raised in the West Brighton section of Staten Island. His grandparents settled in Staten Island shortly after arriving from Cava de' Tirreni, Italy in 1899. In the late 1940s, Lamberti attended Curtis High School and played football under Coach Andrew Barberi, who is considered one of the greatest football coaches in Staten Island history. Lamberti also attended Wagner College and the College of Staten Island. From 1955 to 1957, Lamberti was enlisted in the United States Army, and was stationed at Fort Benning in Georgia. Career Public service (1957–1984) Lamberti held many roles in public service, in 1961 he was named acting assistant director of the Island office of the state Department of Motor Vehicles, and was later appointed confidential assistant to the Motor Vehicles commissioner and the department's acting director of investigation. In 1965, Lamberti ran as the Republican candidate for the state Assembly, but withdrew before the election. In the mid-1960s, Lamberti became Business Administrator of New York State's Narcotics Control Center in Staten Island, a facility which in 1976 became the Arthur Kill Correctional Facility. In 1972 he was appointed administrator to Staten Island Borough President Robert T. Connor, and switched to the Democratic Party in 1973. The following year Lamberti was appointed as Deputy Borough President of Staten Island by Connor, a position he held until 1984. In 1976, Lamberti was the Democratic candidate for New York State Senate 24th District and lost to incumbent state Sen. John Marchi. In 1977, he was re-appointed Deputy Borough President of Staten Island by Anthony Gaeta. Borough President (1984–1989) On November 10, 1984, Lamberti was sworn in as the 12th Borough President of Staten Island. In the ceremony he noted "My grandfather dug ditches and corked pipes for the water department ... Now, a century later, his grandson [has become] president of the borough he so cherished." As Borough President, Lamberti created the "Harmony Street Fair," an annual celebration of the Island's growing ethnic diversity. Lamberti also created the action center, where members of his staff were assigned to take complaints about the city government from the public, and he was the first to donate funds to Project Hospitality. In the late 1980s, Lamberti led staunch opposition to the proposed City Charter revision abolishing the New York City Board of Estimate. At the time, this board was responsible for budget and land-use decisions for the city. It gave the mayor, comptroller and city council president each two votes on the board, while the five borough presidents got one. The proposed revisions would significantly reduce the power of borough presidents and resulted in Lamberti, among other elected officials, making secession from NYC a political issue on Staten Island. In 1986, Lamberti appointed a 15-member committee yesterday to study whether it is economically and legally feasible for Staten Island to secede from New York City, stating "We do not want to secede from the city of New York," adding, "If you take away our voice in city government and reduce us to a spectator, we may have no other choice." In 1987, Lamberti made a controversial deal with then New York City Mayor Ed Koch by which the four homeless shelters originally planned for Staten Island were not built in return for accepting a new city jail on Staten Island. In 1988, Lamberti announced that New York City has agreed to limit the jail from what was originally planned for 4,000 beds on a draft environmental impact statement to a limit of 1,000 beds, and stated that this amounted to "our fair share" of city jail space. On March 22, 1989, the United States Supreme Court unanimously decided that the New York City Board of Estimate violates constitutional protections of one-man, one-vote – since Lamberti's vote, at that time represented about 400,000 Staten Islanders, and carried the same weight as Brooklyn Borough President Howard Golden's, representing 2.3 million. This decision led to Lamberti being the last Staten Island Borough President to serve on the New York City Board of Estimate. He was defeated in the 1989 by then Congressman Guy Molinari, the first time in 20 years, that a Republican won this office. The seat of Staten Island Borough President has not been held by a Democrat since. Later career (1990–2005) Upon his departure from Borough Hall in 1990 Lamberti was appointed Executive Vice President of Staten Island University Hospital where he served for 15 years, retiring in 2005. Accolades In 2001 NECO awarded Lamberti the Ellis Island Medal of Honor. This medal is presented to American citizens "who have distinguished themselves within their own ethnic groups while exemplifying the values of the American way of life". In 2007 he was given the Outstanding Community Member Award by Wagner College. Wagner College honored Lamberti with an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree in May 2013. St. John's University honored Lamberti with an honorary Doctor of Civil Law degree. In 1991, the Staten Island Zoo named one of its wings in honor of Lamberti and named the attraction the Ralph Lamberti Tropical Rainforest. Committees Lamberti has served various roles on several Staten Island committees, including Former chairman of Snug Harbor Cultural Center Chairman of the Wagner College DaVinci Society Former chair of the Staten Island United Way Founder of the annual Harmony Street Fair Past President of the Staten Island Council of the Boy Scouts of America Former member of the boards of: American Red Cross Aid for Retarded Children VNA Heart Foundation Alzheimer's Association Parkinson's Disease Foundation Personal life A lifelong Staten Islander, Lamberti lives with his wife in the Sunset Hill neighborhood. They have four adult children and five grandchildren. 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Megachile woodfordi Megachile woodfordi is a species of bee in the family Megachilidae. It was described by Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell in 1911. References Woodfordi Category:Insects described in 1911	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
DMart Avenue Supermarts Ltd., doing business as DMart, is a chain of hypermarkets in India founded by Radhakishan Damani in the year 2002, with its first branch in Powai’s Hiranandani Gardens. , it had 200 stores across India in the states of Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, National Capital Region, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh and Punjab. DMart is promoted by Avenue Supermarts Ltd. (ASL). The company has its headquarters in Mumbai. 2017 IPO After the IPO listing (as Avenue Supermarts Ltd.), it made a record opening on the market on the National Stock Exchange. After the close of the stock on 22 March 2017, its market value rose to 39,988 crore. This pegged it as the 65th most valuable Indian firm, ahead of Britannia Industries, Marico and Bank of Baroda. As of 21 November 2019, the market capitalization of DMart is close to 114,000 crore. This is 33rd rank for all listed companies in Bombay Stock Exchange. According to Forbes' Real-Time Billionaires Index, the promoters of D Mart have been named as 2nd richest Indian as on February 15, 2020 with a net worth a $17.8 billion References External links Category:Indian companies established in 2002 Category:Companies based in Mumbai Category:Hypermarkets Category:Retail companies established in 2002 Category:Supermarkets of India	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
List of UEFA Intertoto Cup winners The UEFA Intertoto Cup was a European association football competition, held during the summer for European clubs that have failed to qualify for either the UEFA Champions League or the UEFA Cup. It provided "an alternative qualifying route into the UEFA Cup". The tournament did not come under official UEFA sanction until 1995, and was abolished in 2009. The first tournament provided two winners, both of whom therefore qualified for the UEFA Cup in the 1995–96 season, with Strasbourg and Bordeaux as the winning teams. From the following season to the 2005 contest, three teams were awarded Intertoto Cups, with French teams being the most successful. In 2006, the format was modified to allow eleven clubs to qualify for the second qualifying round of the UEFA Cup, with the Intertoto Cup being awarded to the team that progressed the farthest in the competition. The competition was originally played over two legs, one at each participating club's stadium. Hamburg, Villarreal, Schalke 04 and Stuttgart hold the record for the most victories, with each team winning the competition twice. The only teams to retain the UEFA Intertoto Cup are Villarreal and Schalke 04, who both retained the cup in 2004 after winning the previous year. Teams from France have won the competition on the most occasions, with 12 winners coming from the country. Winners Performances By teams By countries See also List of European Cup and UEFA Champions League finals List of UEFA Cup and Europa League finals List of UEFA Cup Winners' Cup finals List of UEFA Super Cup matches List of UEFA Intertoto Cup winning managers References General Specific External links UEFA Intertoto Cup official history Category:UEFA Intertoto Cup UEFA Intertoto Cup	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Cataclysm Cataclysm is derived from the Greek κατά kata, "down, against" and κλύζω klyzō, "wash over, surge." It may refer to: Deluge (mythology) a hypothetical Doomsday event any catastrophic geological phenomenon volcanic eruption earthquake, the result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust that creates seismic waves more generally, any large-scale disaster Video games World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, an expansion pack of Blizzard Entertainment's World of Warcraft Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, an open-source cross-platform roguelike video game Homeworld: Cataclysm, a stand-alone expansion, of the Homeworld space-based RTS franchise Geometry Dash: Cataclysm, a level made to change the history of the game Geometry Dash by Robtop Games Books and comics Cataclysm (Dragonlance), a fictional event in the Dragonlance novels Batman: Cataclysm, a DC Comics crossover story arc featuring Batman Cataclysm: The Ultimates' Last Stand a 2013-2014 crossover storyline appearing in the Ultimate Marvel line of books Godzilla: Cataclysm - see Godzilla (comics)#IDW Publishing Other uses See also Cataclysmic variable star, which irregularly increase in brightness by a large factor, then drop back down to a quiescent state (initially called novae) Ekpyrosis (conflagration) Eschatology	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Frank Otto (academic) Frank Otto (October 7, 1936 – July 26, 2017) was an American educator, pioneer in computer-assisted language learning (CALL), entrepreneur, and the founding executive director of CALICO (the Computer-Assisted Language Instruction Consortium). Early academic career Otto received his PhD in 1960 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. During his program there he conducted dissertation research in the area of foreign languages in the elementary school. With support from publisher Heath de Rochemont, a division of D.C. Heath, he investigated alternative approaches to staffing foreign language programs. His projects involved working with the publisher’s efforts to broadcast their Parlons Français program to over two million schoolchildren in the Midwest from a DC-3 airplane flying overhead. In addition to his degree in Educational Administration and Curriculum Development, Otto also received his state certification as a teacher of Spanish, History, and English. Upon graduation from Wisconsin, he took a faculty position at The Ohio State University in one of the first programs in foreign language education in the United States. During his time at Ohio State, Otto worked with such well-known figures in Foreign Language Education as Dr. Edward Allen and Dr. Paul Pimsleur. Pimsleur on more than one occasion agreed with Otto's opinion that foreign language instruction was eventually "going to wind up on the computer!” In 1972 Otto accepted the position to serve as Director of the Language Institute at the University of the Americas in Puebla, Mexico. He also worked with the US embassies in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Columbia not only throughout Latin America but also in Asia, mainly in the Philippines. During that time in his career he also served on the Advisory Committee on Learning Technologies for the Developing World established by the Institute for International Research of the US Agency for International Development. Brigham Young University Following his work in Central and South America, Otto was recruited by Brigham Young University (BYU) in 1975 to help develop a program in ESL (English as a second language). While at BYU he participated in the development for the TICCIT system. of what could well be the first interactive multimedia program for teaching Spanish online. During his time at BYU, Otto was instrumental in the founding of CALICO (the Computer-Assisted Language Instruction Consortium). As an important part of his work with CALICO, he also served as the founding editor of the CALICO Journal. Entrepreneurship Following his service at BYU and for CALICO, Otto retired and devoted full-time to his company CALI for the development of ELLIS, which stands for "English Language Learning Instruction System" as an allusion to Ellis Island, the port of entry for millions of immigrants to the United States of America. ELLIS was later purchased by Pearson Learning and is still available today from Pearson as ELLIS: A Digital Learning ELL Curriculum References Category:University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni Category:Ohio State University faculty Category:Brigham Young University faculty Category:Linguists from the United States Category:American business executives Category:American Latter Day Saints Category:People from Orem, Utah Category:1936 births Category:2017 deaths	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Kevin Brandstätter Kevin Brandstätter (born 8 January 1996 as Kevin Metze) is an Austrian football player. He plays for SK Vorwärts Steyr. Club career He made his Austrian Football First League debut for FC Blau-Weiß Linz on 14 March 2017 in a game against Floridsdorfer AC. References External links Category:1996 births Category:People from Schwanenstadt Category:Living people Category:Austrian footballers Category:LASK Linz players Category:SV Ried players Category:FC Blau-Weiß Linz players Category:SK Vorwärts Steyr players Category:Austrian Football Second League players Category:Austrian Regionalliga players Category:Association football midfielders	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Indian Powerplus The Indian Powerplus is a motorcycle that was built from 1916 to 1923 by the Hendee Manufacturing Company. Designed by Charles Gustafson, the Powerplus's engine was Indian's first flathead. Origin Charles Gustafson left Reading Standard in 1909 and joined Indian as Oscar Hedstrom's assistant. Gustafson had designed side valve "flathead" engines for Reading Standard, which had been the first motorcycle manufacturer in the United States to use a flathead engine in a production motorcycle. When Hedstrom left Indian in 1913, Gustafson became Indian's chief engineer. In late 1915, Indian introduced Gustafson's replacement for Hedstrom's V-twin engine. The new engine used side valves instead of the inlet-over-exhaust (IOE) valve layout used in Hedstrom's designs. The flathead engine was quieter and less expensive to manufacture than the earlier IOE engine and needed less maintenance. It was named "Powerplus" because its output of approximately was noticeably greater than that of the earlier engine. The new engine was installed in the existing frames for Indian V-twin motorcycles, and used existing drivetrain components, tanks, handlebars, and other components. The drive train included a clutch, a kickstarter, and a three-speed gearbox. The standard frame for the Powerplus had a conventional rigid rear wheel mounting, but the Powerplus was also available with Indian's Cradle Spring Frame. Introduced in 1913, the Cradle Spring Frame had a rear swingarm linked to trailing leaf springs. Controls The Powerplus had twist grips on both handles; the throttle was controlled by the left twist grip while the right twist grip advanced or retarded the spark. Three controls were on the right side of the gas tank, a vertically-operated shifter, an exhaust valve lifter, and a hand clutch lever. The clutch lever was linked to the clutch pedal positioned on the left side of the bike. Promotion and development Between 24 and 28 August 1915, Erwin "Cannonball" Baker rode an early Indian Powerplus from Vancouver to Tijuana in 3 days, 9 hours and 15 minutes, establishing a new "Three Flags" record. The Powerplus engine was revised in 1917 with the barrels and pistons lengthened by a quarter of an inch and the piston wrist pin relocated below the piston center. This was done to reduce the occurrence of piston slap. The valve caps in the cylinder head were finned from 1917 until the end of production. A larger engine, with a displacement of approximately , became available in 1920. End of production Production of the larger Powerplus engine ended in 1922, the year in which production of the Powerplus's eventual successor, the Chief, began production. The Powerplus was renamed the "Standard" in 1922, reflecting the fact that it was not as powerful as the Chief. The Standard was discontinued in 1923, and the Cradle Spring Frame was discontinued with it. Indian would not offer rear suspension on a production motorcycle again until 1940, when the Chief and the Four would be given plunger suspension. References Citations Sources Powerplus Category:Motorcycles introduced in the 1910s Category:Motorcycles powered by V engines Category:Vehicles introduced in 1916 Category:Standard motorcycles	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Field hockey in Canada In Canada, field hockey is generally restricted to spring, summer and early autumn seasons, except in southwestern British Columbia, where it can be played year-round. It is principally a girls' sport in schools, but is played by both men and women in adult leagues across the country. In the late 1990s, registered membership was just over 10,000 (8,200 women and 1,200 men) and the estimated total playing population, including school players, was 30,000. The modern form of field hockey was first played in Canada in British Columbia. In 1896, the first recorded match in Canada was played by Vancouver girls, and the Vancouver Ladies Club was formed. Men were also playing at the turn of the century in Vancouver and Victoria, and a Vancouver League came into existence in 1902. The first women's organization in Canada was formed in Vancouver in 1927. International contests have increased markedly since the 1950s. The Canadian women's team participated in the women's international tournament for the first time in 1956. In 1979 Canada hosted 18 countries in Vancouver for that world event; Canada placed 8th. The 1978 Canadian team was the first to enter the Women's World Cup, placing 5th. See also Canada men's national field hockey team Canada women's national field hockey team	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Lagma Lagma is a village in the northern Indian state of Bihar representing the Rajput, Brahman, Musahar and muslim communities. Geography Lagma is located on the bank of the Kosi River. It is surrounded by the river on three sides. Highway NH-107 passes through the village. It is about 25 kilometers from Saharsa district and 7 Kilometers from Sonbarsa Block. There are three schools in this village, one primary school, one middle school and One high school near NH-107. Category:Villages in Saharsa district	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Ekecheiria In Greek mythology, Ekecheiria (also transliterated as Ekekheiria) was the spirit and personification of truce, armistice, and cessation of hostilities, and is also used to refer to the Olympic truce. In Olympia there was a statue of her crowning Iphitos of Elis. References Category:Greek goddesses Category:Personifications in Greek mythology Category:Peace goddesses	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Wakefield, Michigan Wakefield is a city in Gogebic County, Michigan, United States. It is located in the western Upper Peninsula. The population was 1,851 at the 2010 census. The city is situated within Wakefield Township, but is politically independent. It is on U.S. Highway 2 (US 2) about east of Ironwood and the Wisconsin border. M-28 has its western terminus in the city. It is home to Sunday Lake, Indianhead Mountain Resort, Gogebic County Medical Care Facility, and Gogebic County Community Mental Health Authority. Once a mining town, the economy is now based upon the forest industry, goods and services, and tourism. History Founding George Mix Wakefield, born born February6,1839,in Henderson, New York, a son of James Patterson Wakefield and Hannah B. Hall, had the town site of Wakefield platted in May 1886; the general location was already being referred to as "Wakefield" as early as the fall of 1884. His parents moved their family to Waukesha County, Wisconsin in October 1844. Mr. Wakefield became interested in logging and real estate and acquired vast tracts of land in the western Upper Peninsula of Michigan in the 1870s and 1880s. Together with various other capitalists he built sawmills and logged the pine forests of the area, and later became involved in mineral exploration. He was one of the parties who held interests in the mineral rights to the Sunday Lake mine, as well as a few nearby properties. George M. Wakefield Mr. Wakefield moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1879 and established a real estate business, dealing in timber and mineral lands in Michigan, Wisconsin, Texas, and Alaska. He was secretary-treasurer of the Ontonagon River Improvement and Boom Company, organized in 1880. They made it possible to float logs out to Lake Superior and built a sawmill on an island near the mouth of the Ontonagon river in Ontonagon, Michigan. The G. M. Wakefield Mineral Land Company was formed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on September 18, 1899 for the purpose of dealing in mineral lands, timber, agricultural lands, and real estate. George M. Wakefield, his wife and their son Vernon T. Wakefield were the stockholders with a capital stock of $50,000 divided into 500 shares. Most of the land held was in Township 47 North, between Wakefield and Lake Gogebic. Mr. Wakefield was also a major stockholder in the Beacon, Continental, Cosmos, International, and Summit mineral land companies. The Wakefield ancestry is traced back to John Wakefield, who was born about 1614, probably in Gravesend, County Kent, England and immigrated to Virginia aboard the "America" in June 1635, along with his brothers Richard Wakefield and Thomas Wakefield. John Wakefield eventually settled at Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. Incorporation Wakefield was incorporated as a village by the Gogebic County Board of Supervisors on November 20, 1887. It became incorporated as a city in 1919. Mining boom The founding of Wakefield and much of its early history was based upon the discovery of iron ore on the east end of Sunday Lake by George A. Fay in 1881. Upon its discovery several mining companies surged to the area and many mines opened. Many of the cities location names such as Plymouth, Pike, Castile, and Comet got their names from these iron mines. The first mines in Wakefield were the Sunday Lake, Iron Chief, and the Brotherton. According to the Gogebic Range Directory of 1888, the output of these mines in 1886 was as follows: Sunday Lake, 13,00 tons; Iron Chief, 9,584 tons, and the Brotherton, about 3,500 tons. Wakefield's iron mines include: MIKADO Captain John Lester did pioneering work on the MIKADO in 1886. Development occurred off and on for several years, until the first ore was shipped in 1895. The mine is credited with shipping over one million tons from 1895 to 1917. Shipments from 1919 to 1952 were sent under the PLYMOUTH name. The MIKADO mine was located on the northwest end of the open pit, in Verona location. PILGRIM Explorations began on this location in the spring of 1886 under Captain Harry Letcher. Nothing was shipped until 1919–27 when the PILGRIM made shipments of twenty-two thousand tons. The PILGRIM was located just east of the MIKADO. PLYMOUTH The PLYMOUTH open pit mine operated just to the west of the WAKEFIELD, but the PLYMOUTH was entirely an open pit operation, with the possible exception of a small amount of ore taken out of the No.3 shaft as it was being sunk. It began shipping in 1916 and closed on November 6, 1952, having shipped almost seventeen million tons. WAKEFIELD Drill exploration began on the WAKEFIELD property in July 1912, and two shafts were down by the following summer. The first ore shipment was made on October 15, 1913. The WAKEFIELD soon became an open pit mine, shipping a total of almost fourteen million gross tons from 1913 to 1954. CITY OF CHICAGO Exploration began in the latter part of 1886 at this location on the north shore of Sunday lake. The SPARTA operated on the same location in 1888 and the CITY OF CHICAGO returned in 1896, eventually producing shipments of almost one hundred thousand tons of ore between 1896 and 1915. It was also called the SOUTH CHICAGO in 1915. SPARTA The former CITY OF CHICAGO exploration became the SPARTA in 1888. It was developed and shipped almost ten thousand tons from 1891 to 1895. ALPHA In the summer of 1886 the Alpha Iron Mining Company sank a shaft near the north shore of Sunday lake. By 1890 this location was taken over by the PIKE mine. PIKE Captain Robinson D. Pike (1838–1906) of Bayfield, Wisconsin took over the former ALPHA option in 1889. Ten years later the PIKE made its first shipment, with total shipments of over one hundred five thousand tons from 1899 to 1910. In 1927 the PIKE became part of the SUNDAY LAKE GROUP. BROTHERTON Frank H. Brotherton began mineral explorations near Sunday lake in the summer of 1883. The first iron ore was shipped from the mine in 1886, with total shipments amounting to two million six hundred ninety thousand tons by the time the mine closed in 1923. SUNDAY LAKE This location was first explored in 1881 by George Fay. Development picked up by 1884, and the first iron shipment left port at Ashland on November 19, 1885. The SUNDAY LAKE mine later encompassed all of Section 10 and the former BROTHERTON mine. Over seventeen million gross tons of ore went out from 1885 to 1961. The mine closed on February 16, 1961. IRON CHIEF Development of the IRON CHIEF mine began in 1884 under the Fink Mining Company. It was originally called the ASCHERMANN for Edward Aschermann (18341904) of Appleton, Wisconsin. The mine shipped about twelve thousand tons of iron ore in 1886 and 1887. CASTILE Captain Pentecost Mitchell (1861–1933) discovered iron ore on this location in 1886. The CASTILE began producing in 1906 and shipped almost nine hundred thousand tons of ore by the time it closed in 1923. METEOR The METEOR started as an exploration in 1890, called the NORTON. It was developed into a mine by 1900 and operated until 1904, shipping one hundred thirty-two thousand tons between 1899 and 1904. Over six million tons of stockpile ore went under the name NORTH MIKADO. COMET Captain Pentecost Mitchell found ore here and an exploration called the ECLlPSE was developed from 1886 to 1890. The COMET began in 1890 making its first ore shipment in August. The COMET was shut down in 1893 reopening in 1900 and operating until 1902 as part of the METEOR mine. It is credited with shipments of eighty-nine thousand tons in 1890–93. MORGAN The MORGAN mine east of Wakefield was developed in 1918–23 and made its first ore shipment on January 30, 1923. It operated until 1925 and shipped over fifty-eight thousand tons. VICAR The easternmost productive mine on the Gogebic Range covered most of Section 12, east of Wakefield. This location was once called the JONES & LAUGHLIN exploration and included the old PHOENIX exploration that dated back to 1887. The VICAR shipped about one hundred two thousand tons in 1950–51. Post-mining era After the closure of the Sunday Lake Mine on February 16, 1961, the local economy shifted from one of mining to the forest industry, goods and services and tourism. Logging had been a mainstay of the local economy since the early 1900s. In 1941, the county embarked upon a county forest project to demonstrate that with selective cutting, under proper management, forests could be perpetuated, of increasing value and quality. By 1956, the project included out of the total of in the county and Ottawa National Forest harvesting marked hardwoods, aspen, and conifer. In support of the local lumber industry, many successful lumber, trucking, equipment sales, and logging businesses have existed in Wakefield and many continue to do so today. They all support the larger industries of lumber and plywood mills located in Gogebic County and outlying areas. After the local mining jobs were lost, many in the community began providing goods and services, which included restaurants, food markets, bakery, bars, gas stations, hardware stores, drug stores and other commerce that supports the needs of the community. With an average of 156–240 inches of annual snowfall, the city greatly benefits from winter tourism. Indianhead Mountain opened in 1959 and has grown to become a major tourist magnet in both winter and summer. Snowmobile trails, cross-country skiing trails, and ice fishing on Sunday Lake have also drawn many tourists to the city during the winter months. During the summer, hiking, camping, fishing, and on occasion American Power Boat Association boat races on Sunday Lake contribute to a growing local tourist industry. As a typical small town, many are drawn back to participate in the annual old-fashioned July 4 celebration. The week-long event includes softball tournaments, high school class reunions, homecoming church services, town picnic and concert at Eddy Park, a Sunday Lake run contest, Main Street parade, children's races, and fireworks display over Sunday Lake. 2016 storm Severe storms struck the Gogebic Range during the late evening of July 11, 2016 and the early morning of July 12, 2016. The storm produced flash floods across the area and one confirmed EF0 tornado in nearby Bessemer Township. In particular, the city of Wakefield was struck with a thunderstorm with straight line winds around 90 MPH which downed numerous trees and power lines, turned over a camper trailer, and tore the roof off of a former ice rink along Sunday Lake. Following the storm, parts of the city remained without power for a considerable time before crews could restore power. Community City Hall The City Hall is located at 509 Sunday Lake Street (Formerly the Father Daniel Hall). City departments include Water and Electric, Public Works, and Finance. The City Staff operate from the building and Department of Public Works garage which include: Building Inspector City Assessor City Manager City Clerk City Treasurer Utilities Department of Public Works Working Foreman Assistant DPW Electric/Water Department Working Foreman On September 17, 2014, the City Council voted unanimously to approve a one-year Lease with Option to Purchase Agreement with the Roman Catholic Diocese of Marquette for Father Daniel Hall (FDH). That fall the old City Hall closed and the City government moved into FDH. Plans to repair or replace the old City Hall had been discussed for decades. The boilers and some bathrooms were not functioning, the exterior required extensive tuck-pointing and repair, and the building did not meet ADA standards. Many of the offices were in need of rewiring and required structural repairs. Many of the other areas were no longer utilized. As conditions deteriorated the cost of keeping the doors open increased year after year. Conversely, FDH had seen significant improvements. In 2013, the roof was replaced, and the boilers are functioning. All of the rooms are on one floor, and the entrance is handicap accessible, offering access to all residents. The new City Hall, now called the municipal building, was purchased in October 2015 for $101,899 using general funds. City Council The City Council consists of the Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem, and three council members who are elected for two-year terms. City commissions Active commissions include: Civil Service Planning Housing Commission Devevelopment projects Current projects are: Walking trail and lights along the southwest shoreline of Sunday Lake. New playground equipment at Eddy Park. Memorial Building demolition project. Renaissance Tax-Free Zone through the Michigan Renaissance Zone Act of 1996 created for both economically distressed urban and rural areas alike. Renaissance Zones are a powerful market-based program designed to spur new jobs, investment, and redevelopment in designated areas. The City of Wakefield renaissance zone is 47 acres in size and provides participating companies the advantage of tax-free incentives until 2017. Memorial Building Completed in 1924 on the south shore of Sunday Lake, the Wakefield Memorial Building was the center of the community. At a cost of $400,000 it was dedicated to the youth who fought in World War I. It housed a banquet area, meeting rooms, an olympic size swimming pool, and a 1,200 seat movie theater with main floor and balcony seating. By the late 1950s after the local iron mines closed, the major tax base was lost and the city no longer had adequate funds to operate the Memorial Building. During the ensuing decades, other entities owned the building but little was done to sustain it. The harsh winters soon destroyed the roof and the building was soon structurally unsound and in a dilapidated state. In July 2004, Marvin Suomi, a 1965 graduate of Wakefield High School purchased the Wakefield Memorial Building. Headed by Mr. Suomi, the Wakefield Memorial Building Foundation was established as a 501(c)(3) organization with the goal of constructing a new, smaller, energy efficient/sustainable building. Federal and state funding were dependent upon a series of environmental reviews and assessments by both the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Michigan State Housing Development Authority. The State Historic Preservation Office did not want the old building torn down but after lengthy negotiations a consensus was reached by the project coordinator and shortly thereafter the City Council approved the demolition. By late spring 2010 the Michigan State Historic Preservation Office approved the archival records compiled of the memorial building and Wakefield City Hall. HUD then released $147,000 in federal funds that were used to pay for the demolition. Demolition of the old Memorial Building began on July 6, 2010 and was complete on August 28, 2010. Twelve stained-glass windows from the theater auditorium were salvaged for restoration and use in the new building design. In July 2011 the City Council in conjunction with the Wakefield Memorial Building Foundation, decided to remove a roughly theater from the plans for a building. The new building will function as a community center and house city offices, the city library, and a swimming pool. When the project is complete, the new building will be operated by the City and utilized by the entire community. It is currently unknown if or when the project will proceed. Education The Wakefield-Marenisco School is located on the southeast shore of Sunday Lake. The first building on site was erected in 1890, and the first high school (Mary McDonald) in 1909. By 2003–2004 the renovated high school building housed 4 year olds through grade 12. The 2004–2005 school year saw the consolidation of the Wakefield-Marenisco School District. The merging of the two communities ended the existence of the respective districts individual schools. The combined districts have approximately 300 students. Central School Elementary closed in 2000. In 2001 the elementary students moved into the high school building. Mary McDonald School established in 1909. It was demolished in 1970. Wakefield Public Library The Wakefield Public Library was opened to the public on February 4, 1935. It was originally located on the second floor of the City Hall building on Sunday Lake Street. It is now located at 401 Hancock Street. The dream for the library dates back to Oct 17, 1934 when a group of local citizens concerned about the literary heritage of their community decided to take action. They felt that a measurement of the cultural concerns of a community could be made through the literary pursuits of its citizens. The city of Wakefield made its first appropriation of $1,000 to lay the groundwork of the fine community facility we enjoy today. The Wakefield Public Library serves the City and Township of Wakefield. With help from the "Friends of the Library" it has received some needed renovations. In 2005, the children's section was totally remodeled followed by the "teen section" in 2006. Public safety Wakefield Volunteer Fire Department. Gogebic County Sheriff's Department at 100 Iron Street, Bessemer, Michigan. Michigan State Police Post No. 87 at 100 Sunday Lake Street. Healthcare facilities & nursing homes Gogebic County Medical Care Facility at 402 North Street is a 109-bed Nursing Home facility which provides extended-stay nursing care to seniors with varying levels of disabilities. It is owned and operated by the county government. Gogebic County Community Mental Health Authority at 103 West US 2 provides a complete range of services for all residents of Gogebic County. These services are for people with emotional disturbance or mental illness. In addition, services are available for persons with developmental disabilities and co-occurring substance abuse issues. KeenAgers Corporation at 303 Brotherton Street is a non-profit organization that offers assisted living and independent living to the elderly. The facility offers all meals and laundry service. KeenAgers was founded by the late Reverend Wilbert Staudenmaier. Sunset Manor at 200 East Pierce Street is a one-story independent living facility for the elderly and low income housing and operates on 30% of income for flat rate/rent and includes all utilities. It consists of 30 efficiency apartments and 1 bedrooms. It is run by the Wakefield Housing Commission under the Federal Housing Department (HUD). Religion Grace Baptist Church at 512 Sunday Lake Street. Immaculate Conception Catholic Church at 407 Ascherman Street. All Saints Lutheran Church at 1202 Putnam Street. Wakefield Methodist Church at 706 Putnam Street. Calvary Baptist Church at 1201 Peters Street. Community and Veterans Groups Wakefield Senior Citizen Center at 900 Pierce Street was established in the early 1950s. It was a church before it was utilized in its current role. Programs include senior issues such as healthcare, Medicare, eye care, diabetes, and nutrition. The Senior Center is involved in the Meals on Wheels program sponsored by Gogebic County. Rotary Club of Bessemer and Wakefield meets every Thursday at noon at the Keenager's facility. Wakefield Historical Society at 306 Sunday Lake Street. Collections include a "turn-of-the-century" collection, specializing in mining and lumbering. Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 9084 at 107 East US 2, on the south shore of Sunday Lake. American Legion Post 11 at 605 River Street. Recreation and tourism Eddy Park & Campground is located on the north-northeastern shore of Sunday Lake. The park provides picnic, playground, and swimming areas and has two pavilions for gatherings. The park and campground is opened from Memorial Day weekend to the end of September. The modern campground has water, electric (20, 30, and 50 Amp), and sewer services. Indianhead Mountain Ski Resort is located west of the city at 500 Indianhead Mountain Road. The mountain provides a vertical drop of on 29 runs with 196 skiable acres and several trails up to a mile long. Summer activities include hiking, golf, and wildlife watching. American Power Boat Association (APBA) boat races. The City of Wakefield has hosted APBA boat races on several occasions. Badger State Outboard Association boat races were held on Sunday Lake from July 31, 2011 through August 8, 2011. Advertised by the Wakefield Chamber of Commerce as "Speed Week on Sunday Lake", APBA Outboard Nationals were held on Sunday Lake from July 27 through August 1, 2015. Nation Stock & J Class Boat Races were held July 22-26, 2019. Media Local newspapers and radio include: The Wakefield News-Bessemer Pick & Axe is published weekly on Wednesday at 405 Sunday Lake Street. The Ironwood Daily Globe is published Monday through Saturday and serves Gogebic and Ontonagon Counties in Michigan and Iron County, Wisconsin. WJMS AM 590 from Ironwood, Michigan WIMI FM 99.7 from Ironwood, Michigan WUPM FM 106.9 from Ironwood, Michigan Notable people Walter S. Goodland, Governor of Wisconsin, practiced law in Wakefield. Ernest J. Korpela, Wisconsin State Assemblyman, was born in Wakefield. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which is land and is water. Transportation Major highways Bus Service Indian Trails provides daily intercity bus service between St. Ignace and Ironwood, Michigan. Demographics 2010 census As of the census of 2010, there were 1,851 people, 818 households, and 452 families residing in the city. The population density was . There were 994 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 96.8% White, 0.1% African American, 1.1% Native American, 0.4% Asian, 0.5% from other races, and 1.1% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.0% of the population. There were 818 households of which 20.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 42.3% were married couples living together, 8.6% had a female householder with no husband present, 4.4% had a male householder with no wife present, and 44.7% were non-families. 38.6% of all households were made up of individuals and 18.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.11 and the average family size was 2.72. The median age in the city was 50.1 years. 17.1% of residents were under the age of 18; 5.5% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 20.5% were from 25 to 44; 30% were from 45 to 64; and 26.7% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 48.4% male and 51.6% female. 2000 census As of the census of 2000, there were 2,085 people, 883 households, and 535 families residing in the city. The population density was 261.5 per square mile (101.0/km²). There were 1,035 housing units at an average density of 129.8 per square mile (50.1/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 98.23% White, 0.48% Native American, 0.05% Asian, and 1.25% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.19% of the population. There were 883 households out of which 21.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 50.1% were married couples living together, 7.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 39.3% were non-families. 35.3% of all households were made up of individuals and 21.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.15 and the average family size was 2.76. In the city, the population was spread out with 16.1% under the age of 18, 6.9% from 18 to 24, 22.4% from 25 to 44, 24.1% from 45 to 64, and 30.5% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 48 years. For every 100 females, there were 90.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 89.3 males. The median income for a household in the city was $25,368, and the median income for a family was $36,810. Males had a median income of $31,406 versus $21,278 for females. The per capita income for the city was $17,036. About 6.3% of families and 12.2% of the population were below the poverty line, including 17.4% of those under age 18 and 9.7% of those age 65 or over. Population The population peaked in 1920 with the mining boom and has been in steady decline since. References Books Cox, Bruce K., Pioneers of Wakefield Michigan 1884–1900, Agogeebic Press, LLC, 2007. Cox, Bruce K., Headframes and Mine Shafts of the Gogebic Range, Volume 2, Bessemer-Ramsay-Wakefield, Agogeebic Press, LLC, 2000. Category:Cities in Gogebic County, Michigan Category:1887 establishments in Michigan Category:Populated places established in 1887	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Jean René Allard There is also an article about Jean Victor Allard, former Chief of the Defence Staff Jean René Allard (born September 22, 1930) is a former politician in Manitoba, Canada. He was elected to the Manitoba legislature in 1969 as a New Democrat, but subsequently left to sit as an Independent MLA. The son of Alfred Allard and Donalda Champagne, Allard was educated at the Collège de Saint-Boniface and at the University of Manitoba. In 1952, he married Catherine Whyte. He fathered six children, Sylvette, Paul, Pierre, Luc, Marika and Marc. He worked as a lawyer, served as leader of the Union Nationale Metisse, and was a member of the Louis Riel Society and the St. Boniface Historical Society. In 1966, he proposed that a statue of Louis Riel to be erected beside that of Queen Victoria at the Manitoba legislature. This idea was approved, and the statue was unveiled in 1971. The statue depicted a corpus in the nude and was not supported by all Métis. Allard, however, was one of its strongest defenders. He first ran for the Manitoba legislature in the 1966 election, as a Liberal, and finished second to Progressive Conservative incumbent Joseph Jeannotte in the northern riding of Rupertsland. Allard subsequently aligned himself with the social-democratic NDP for the 1969 election, and was elected for Rupertsland in a close three-way race. His loyalty to the NDP was tenuous. He was an opponent of socialism, and later claimed that he only joined the NDP because of party leader Edward Schreyer's populism. He was also a social conservative, and strongly opposed to abortion. Allard was an unpopular figure in caucus, and was described by some as difficult to work with. Allard continued to attend meetings of the Liberal Party of Canada even after being elected as a New Democrat, and openly considered running for the Liberals at the federal level. He left the NDP to sit as an Independent on April 7, 1972, claiming that "left-wing radicals" had taken over the party. He did not run for re-election in 1973. In the 1974 federal election, Allard ran as a Liberal in the northern constituency of Churchill, but finished third. He did not return to politics after this. Allard chained himself to the Manitoba Legislature's statue of Louis Riel in 1994, protesting a government decision to have it demolished and replaced with a more formalized statue. "It would hurt me if they tear it down", he was quoted as saying. The protest was unsuccessful, however, and the original statue was removed to the grounds of College St. Boniface. In 2002, Allard printed an article in the Queen's University journal Inroads'', which called for a radical shift in funding to Canada's aboriginal communities. Arguing that the current aboriginal leadership is unresponsive to the needs of its people, Allard argues that the federal government should pay every native citizen $300 per month, bypassing bands and councils entirely. He frequently referenced the spiritual legacy of Big Bear in this article, claiming that the 19th-century chief's methods point the way to renewed accountability and personal choice. References External links Jean Allard's website: Big Bear's Treaty Category:1930 births Category:Living people Category:New Democratic Party of Manitoba MLAs Category:Franco-Manitoban people	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Brisbane Roar FC end of season awards The Brisbane Roar End of Season Awards are the individual awards won by players of the Australian football club, Brisbane Roar, who compete in each of the A-League, National Youth League and W-League competitions. These awards are presented annually at the club's presentation night following the completion of the A-League season. Brisbane Roar Senior Team Gary Wilkins Medal (Player of the Year) Player's Player Award Member's Player of the Year Golden Boot Brisbane Roar Chairman’s Club Person of the Year Award Queensland Roars Against Racism Multicultural Ambassador Award Discontinued after 2010–11 season. Spotless Brisbane ROAR Volunteer of the Year Award Discontinued after 2010–11 season. National Youth League Player of the Year Best and Fairest Discontinued after 2008-09 season. Westfield Women's League Player of the Year Player's Player of the Year Best and Fairest Award Discontinued after 2009–10 season. References External links Brisbane Roar.com A-League.com End of Year Awards	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Japanese rock garden The or "dry landscape" garden, often called a zen garden, creates a miniature stylized landscape through carefully composed arrangements of rocks, water features, moss, pruned trees and bushes, and uses gravel or sand that is raked to represent ripples in water. A zen garden is usually relatively small, surrounded by a wall, and is usually meant to be seen while seated from a single viewpoint outside the garden, such as the porch of the hojo, the residence of the chief monk of the temple or monastery. Classical zen gardens were created at temples of Zen Buddhism in Kyoto during the Muromachi period. They were intended to imitate the intimate essence of nature, not its actual appearance, and to serve as an aid to meditation about the true meaning of existence. History Early Japanese rock gardens Stone gardens existed in Japan at least since the Heian period (794–1185). These early gardens were described in the first manual of Japanese gardens, Sakuteiki ("Records of Garden Keeping"), written at the end of the 11th century by Tachibana no Toshitsuna (1028–1094). They were largely copied from the Chinese gardens of the Song Dynasty (960–1279), where groups of rocks symbolized Mount Penglai, the legendary mountain-island home of the Eight Immortals in Chinese mythology, known in Japanese as Horai. The Sakuteiki described exactly how rocks should be placed. In one passage, he wrote: "In a place where there is neither a lake or a stream, one can put in place what is called a kare-sansui, or dry landscape". This kind of garden featured either rocks placed upright like mountains, or laid out in a miniature landscape of hills and ravines, with few plants. He described several other styles of rock garden, which usually included a stream or pond, including the great river style, the mountain river style, and the marsh style. The ocean style featured rocks that appeared to have been eroded by waves, surrounded by a bank of white sand, like a beach. White sand and gravel had long been a feature of Japanese gardens. In the Shinto religion, it was used to symbolize purity, and was used around shrines, temples, and palaces. In zen gardens, it represents water, or, like the white space in Japanese paintings, emptiness and distance. They are places of meditation. Zen Buddhism and the Muromachi period (1336–1573) The Muromachi period in Japan, which took place at roughly the same time as the Renaissance in Europe, was characterized by political rivalries which frequently led to wars, but also by an extraordinary flourishing of Japanese culture. It saw the beginning of Noh theater, the Japanese tea ceremony, the shoin style of Japanese architecture, and the zen garden. Zen Buddhism was introduced into Japan at the end of the 12th century, and quickly achieved a wide following, particularly among the Samurai class and war lords, who admired its doctrine of self-discipline. The gardens of the early zen temples in Japan resembled Chinese gardens of the time, with lakes and islands. But in Kyoto in the 14th and 15th century, a new kind of garden appeared at the important zen temples. These zen gardens were designed to stimulate meditation. "Nature, if you made it expressive by reducing it to its abstract forms, could transmit the most profound thoughts by its simple presence", Michel Baridon wrote. "The compositions of stone, already common in China, became in Japan, veritable petrified landscapes, which seemed suspended in time, as in certain moments of Noh theater, which dates to the same period." The first garden to begin the transition to the new style is considered by many experts to be Saihō-ji, "The Temple of the Perfumes of the West," popularly known as Koke-dera, the Moss Garden, in the western part of Kyoto. The Buddhist monk and zen master Musō Kokushi transformed a Buddhist temple into a zen monastery in 1334, and built the gardens. The lower garden of Saihō-ji is in the traditional Heian period style; a pond with several rock compositions representing islands. The upper garden is a dry rock garden which features three rock "islands". The first, called Kameshima, the island of the turtle, resembles a turtle swimming in a "lake" of moss. The second, Zazen-seki, is a flat "meditation rock," which is believed to radiate calm and silence; and the third is the kare-taki, a dry "waterfall" composed of a stairway of flat granite rocks. The moss which now surrounds the rocks and represents water, was not part of the original garden plan; it grew several centuries later when the garden was left untended, but now is the most famous feature of the garden. Muso Kokushi built another temple garden at Tenryū-ji, the "Temple of the Celestial Dragon". This garden appears to have been strongly influenced by Chinese landscape painting of the Song Dynasty, which feature mountains rising in the mist, and a suggestion of great depth and height. The garden at Tenryū-ji has a real pond with water and a dry waterfall of rocks looking like a Chinese landscape. Saihō-ji and Tenryū-ji show the transition from the Heian style garden toward a more abstract and stylized view of nature. The gardens of Ginkaku-ji, also known as the Silver Pavilion, are also attributed to Muso Kokushi. This temple garden included a traditional pond garden, but it had a new feature for a Japanese garden; an area of raked white gravel with a perfectly shaped mountain of white gravel, resembling Mount Fuji, in the center. The scene was called ginshanada, literally "sand of silver and open sea". This garden feature became known as kogetsudai, or small mountain facing the moon," and similar small Mount Fuji made of sand or earth covered with grass appeared in Japanese gardens for centuries afterwards. The most famous of all zen gardens in Kyoto is Ryōan-ji, built in the late 15th century where for the first time the zen garden became purely abstract. The garden is a rectangle of 340 square meters. Placed within it are fifteen stones of different sizes, carefully composed in five groups; one group of five stones, two groups of three, and two groups of two stones. The stones are surrounded by white gravel, which is carefully raked each day by the monks. The only vegetation in the garden is some moss around the stones. The garden is meant to be viewed from a seated position on the veranda of the hōjō, the residence of the abbot of the monastery. The garden at Daisen-in (1509–1513) took a more literary approach than Ryōan-ji. There a "river" of white gravel represents a metaphorical journey through life; beginning with a dry waterfall in the mountains, passing through rapids and rocks, and ending in a tranquil sea of white gravel, with two gravel mountains. The invention of the zen garden was closely connected with developments in Japanese ink landscape paintings. Japanese painters such as Sesshū Tōyō (1420–1506) and Soami (died 1525) greatly simplified their views of nature, showing only the most essential aspects of nature, leaving great areas of white around the black and gray drawings. Soami is said to have been personally involved in the design of two of the most famous zen gardens in Kyoto, Ryōan-ji and Daisen-in, though his involvement has never been documented with certainty. Michel Baridon wrote, "The famous zen gardens of the Muromachi period showed that Japan had carried the art of gardens to the highest degree of intellectual refinement that it was possible to attain." Later rock gardens During the Edo period, the large promenade garden became the dominant style of Japanese garden, but zen gardens continued to exist at zen temples. A few small new rock gardens were built, usually as part of a garden where a real stream or pond was not practical. In 1880, the buildings of Tōfuku-ji temple in Kyoto, one of the oldest temples in the city, were destroyed by a fire. In 1940, the temple commissioned the landscape historian and architect Shigemori Mirei to recreate the gardens. He created four different gardens, one for each face of the main temple building. He made one garden with five artificial hills covered with grass, symbolizing the five great ancient temples of Kyoto; a modern rock garden, with vertical rocks, symbolizing Mount Horai; a large "sea" of white gravel raked in a checkboard pattern; and an intimate garden with swirling sand patterns. In the last century, zen gardens have appeared in many countries outside Japan. Selection and arrangement of rocks The selection and placement of rocks is the most important part of making a Japanese rock garden. In the first known manual of Japanese gardening, the Sakuteiki ("Records of Garden Making"), is expressed as "setting stones", ishi wo tateru koto; literally, the "act of setting stones upright." It laid out very specific rules for choice and the placement of stones, and warned that if the rules were not followed the owner of the garden would suffer misfortune. In Japanese gardening, rocks are classified as either tall vertical, low vertical, arching, reclining, or flat. For creating "mountains", usually igneous volcanic rocks, rugged mountain rocks with sharp edges, are used. Smooth, rounded sedimentary rocks are used for the borders of gravel "rivers" or "seashores." In Chinese gardens of the Song dynasty, individual rocks which looked like animals or had other unusual features were often the star attraction of the garden. In Japanese gardens, individual rocks rarely play the starring role; the emphasis is upon the harmony of the composition. For arranging rocks, there are many rules in the Sakuteiki, for example: Make sure that all the stones, right down to the front of the arrangement, are placed with their best sides showing. If a stone has an ugly-looking top you should place it so as to give prominence to its side. Even if this means it has to lean at a considerable angle, no one will notice. There should always be more horizontal than vertical stones. If there are "running away" stones there must be "chasing" stones. If there are "leaning" stones, there must be "supporting" stones. Rocks are rarely if ever placed in straight lines or in symmetrical patterns. The most common arrangement is one or more groups of three rocks. One common triad arrangement has a tall vertical rock flanked by two smaller rocks, representing Buddha and his two attendants. Other basic combinations are a tall vertical rock with a reclining rock; a short vertical rock and a flat rock; and a triad of a tall vertical rock, a reclining rock and a flat rock. Other important principles are to choose rocks which vary in color, shape and size, to avoid rocks with bright colors which might distract the viewer, and make certain that the grains of rocks run in the same direction. At the end of the Edo period, a new principle was invented: the use of suteishi, "discarded" or "nameless" rocks, placed in seemingly random places to add spontaneity to the garden. Other important principles of rock arrangement include balancing the number of vertical and horizontal rocks. Sand and gravel Gravel is usually used in zen gardens, rather than sand, because it is less disturbed by rain and wind. The act of raking the gravel into a pattern recalling waves or rippling water, known as or , has an aesthetic function. Zen priests practice this raking also to help their concentration. Achieving perfection of lines is not easy. Rakes are according to the patterns of ridges as desired and limited to some of the stone objects situated within the gravel area. Nonetheless, often the patterns are not static. Developing variations in patterns is a creative and inspiring challenge. Stone arrangements and other miniature elements are used to represent mountains and natural water elements and scenes, islands, rivers and waterfalls. Stone and shaped shrubs (karikomi, hako-zukuri topiary) are used interchangeably. In most gardens moss is used as a ground cover to create "land" covered by forest. Shirakawa, which is a black-speckled granite from Kyoto, Japan, was prized for its ability to hold raked grooves and was previously used in Oregon's Japanese Garden. The source of Shirakawa is now a protected waterway, making it illegal to harvest Shirakawa. Oregon's Japanese Garden has subsequently been forced to look for alternative sources of gravel with similar properties, and has experimented with granite chips from Canadian quarries. Symbolism In the Japanese rock garden, rocks sometimes symbolize mountains (particularly Horai, the legendary home of the Eight Immortals in Buddhist mythology); or they can be boats or a living creature (usually a turtle, or a carp). In a group, they might be a waterfall or a crane in flight. In the earliest rock gardens of the Heian period, the rocks in a garden sometimes had a political message. As the Sakutei-ki wrote: Sometimes, when mountains are weak, they are without fail destroyed by water. It is, in other words, as if subjects had attacked their emperor. A mountain is weak if it does not have stones for support. An emperor is weak if he does not have counselors. That is why it is said that it is because of stones that a mountain is sure, and thanks to his subjects that an emperor is secure. It is for this reason that, when you construct a landscape, you must at all cost place rocks around the mountain. Some classical zen gardens, like Daisen-in, have symbolism that can be easily read; it is a metaphorical journey on the river of life. Others, like Ryōan-ji, resist easy interpretation. Many different theories have been put forward about what the garden is supposed to represent, from islands in a stream to swimming baby tigers to the peaks of mountains rising above the clouds to theories about secrets of geometry or of the rules of equilibrium of odd numbers. Garden historian Gunter Nitschke wrote: "The garden at Ryōan-ji does not symbolize anything, or more precisely, to avoid any misunderstanding, the garden of Ryōan-ji does not symbolize, nor does it have the value of reproducing a natural beauty that one can find in the real or mythical world. I consider it to be an abstract composition of "natural" objects in space, a composition whose function is to incite meditation." A recent suggestion by Gert van Tonder of Kyoto University and Michael Lyons of Ritsumeikan University is that the rocks of Ryōan-ji form the subliminal image of a tree. The researchers claim the subconscious mind is sensitive to a subtle association between the rocks. They suggest this may be responsible for the calming effect of the garden. Landscape painting and the Zen garden critique Chinese landscape painting was one of the many Chinese arts that came to Japan with Zen Buddhism in the fourteenth century. That the Buddhism of Zen influenced garden design was first suggested not in Japan, but in the West by a Hawaiian garden journalist Loraine Kuck in the 1930s and disputed as such by a scholar of Japanese garden history, Wybe Kuitert in 1988. This was well before scholars jumped on the bandwagon in the 1990s to deconstruct the promotion and reception of Zen. The critique comes down to the fact that Buddhist priests were not trying to express Zen in gardens. A review of the quotes of Buddhist priests that are taken to "prove" Zen for the garden are actually phrases copied from Chinese treatises on landscape painting. Secondary writers on the Japanese garden like Keane and Nitschke, who were associating with Kuitert when he was working on his research at the Kyoto University joined the Zen garden critique, like Kendall H. Brown, who took a similar distance from the Zen garden. In Japan the critique was taken over by Yamada Shouji who took a critical stance to the understanding of all Japanese culture, including gardens, under the nominator of Zen. Christian Tagsold summarized the discussion by placing perceptions of the Japanese garden in the context of an interdisciplinary comparison of cultures of Japan and the West. Zen priests quote from Chinese treatises on landscape painting indicating that the Japanese rock garden, and its karesansui garden scenery was and still is inspired by or based on first Chinese and later also Japanese landscape painting. Landscape painting and landscape gardening were closely related and practiced by intellectuals, the literati inspired by Chinese culture. A primary design principle was the creation of a landscape based on, or at least greatly influenced by, the three-dimensional monochrome ink (sumi) landscape painting, sumi-e or suiboku-ga. In Japan the garden has the same status as a work of art. Though each garden is different in its composition, they mostly use rock groupings and shrubs to represent a classic scene of mountains, valleys and waterfalls taken from Chinese landscape painting. In some cases it might be as abstract as just a few islands in a sea. Any Japanese garden may also incorporates existing scenery outside its confinement, e.g. the hills behind, as "borrowed scenery" (using a technique called Shakkei). List of shrines and temples with rock gardens In Kyoto: Daitokuji Daisen-in Jishoji Jisso-in Myoshinji Rozanji Ryoanji Tofukuji Outside Kyoto: An'yō-in (Kobe) Bingo-Ankokuji (Fukuyama) Harima Ankokuji (Kato, Hyogo) Jōmyō-ji (Kamakura) Kinbyōzan Zuisenji (Kamakura) Komyozenji (Fukuoka) Shitennoji (Osaka) See also Adelaide Himeji Garden - Sea of Sand Japanese garden List of garden types Higashiyama Bunka in Muromachi period Rock garden Wabi-sabi References Bibliography , Éditions Robert Lafont, Paris, () Note *The Sakuteiki is a garden book with notes on garden making that dates back to the late seventeenth century. Its oldest title is Senzai Hishõ, "Secret Extracts on Gardens", and was written nearly 1000 years ago, making it the oldest work on Japanese gardening. It is assumed that this was written in the 11th century by a noble man named Tachibana no Tichitsuna. In this text lies the first mention of the karesansui in literature. Only recently we saw an English modern translation of this gardening classic. External links Photo Gallery of Japanese Zen Gardens Virtual tour of the Zen Gardens in and around Kyoto Geometrical concepts of Japanese rock garden Tsubo-en – A virtual tour of the karesansui garden in The Netherlands Study into the karesansui gardens of the Edo era – karesansui gardens of Traditional Samurai Residences Neuroscience unlocks secrets of Zen garden (Requires subscription) Neuroscience unlocks secrets of Zen garden (Mirror) Criticisms of the term "Zen Garden" - in Japanese Garden Journal Rock garden Category:Zen art and culture Category:Horticulture and gardening Category:Rock art in Asia Category:Rock gardens Category:Zen Buddhist terminology Category:Zen gardens Category:Buddhism in the Muromachi period	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Gimme the Money Gimme the Money is partial autobiographical novel by Iva Pekárková about her time taxi-driving in New York City. It was published in Czech in 1996 by Nakladatelství NLN (NLN Publishing), under the name Dej Mi Ty Prachy (Gimme the Money). It was later translated into English by Iva Pekárková with help from her husband, Raymond Johnson, and published by Serpent's Tail through a grant from the Czech Ministry of Culture. Gimme the Money was also translated into German under the title,Taxi Blues, by Marcela Euler and subsequently published in 2000 by Malik Publishers. The novel is about a female Czechian taxi driver Jindřiška, nicknamed Gin, and her life of navigating and finding a place in New York City and the taxi industry. Plot This novel begins with Gin and her roommate, Gloria, in their apartment. Readers learn that Gin makes her money from taxi driving and that she works at a garage under a Russian man named Alex who is constantly sexually harassing her. However, this does not seem to faze Gin, because this is what happened at the other garage where she worked under the dispatcher Kenny. Several days later, Gin picks up a passenger named Clyde. Clyde and Gin sleep together and Gin is interested in him, but the relationship is broken off when Gloria sleeps with him. Gin is so distraught that she contemplates suicide, but then destroys all of Gloria's paintings in the apartment. Because she no longer has a place to live, she moves in with Talibe, her husband from Mali. He and Gin do not get along very well because their different cultural upbringings clash. The only reason Gin married him was so that she could get a green card. Another day Gin is hanging out with a couple of other taxi drivers at a bar. One of these taxi drivers, Geoffrey, tells her that the only way for a taxi driver to make money is to cheat the customers by messing with the meter and using a book with fake prices. Ginny refuses because she does not want to get fined. Geoffrey and his friend, Sengane, talk about the times they have murdered some aggressive passenger while they were driving. While she is living with Talibe he asks her to marry his cousin, Ouagadougou, because Ouagadougou needs a green card. Gin initially refuses because she does not want to get in trouble with the authorities and risk deportation herself. However, she gives in because Talibe threatens to divorce her and marry someone else who will agree to marry as many of his family members as he needs. The day after her wedding with Ouagadougou, one of Talibe's friends calls Gin telling her that Talibe was shot while taxi driving. While Talibe is recovering in the hospital, he is distressed because he had a blood transfusion. In Mali culture, blood is very important, and Talibe is disgusted that the blood inside him is not his. He is also confused because he was shot while wearing his protective amulet, and he does not understand why the magic does not protect him. While Talibe could have gotten better, he died because his whole belief system crumbled. Once Talibe dies, Gin wants to find another place to live because she does not want to go back to their apartment. She goes to her old boss, Kenny, and asks if she can stay with him for a while, but he refuses because, unbeknownst to her, he has a wife and kids. Gin then returns to Gloria to ask to stay at her place, but when she returns to her old apartment and sees Gloria, she realizes that she is still not over the betrayal and runs back to Talibe's apartment. When she arrives at her apartment Ouagadougou is waiting for her. Because she is his wife, he argues, they should live together. Gin gives in, and Ouagadougou moves into the apartment with her. After Talibe's death Gin takes a couple of weeks off taxi-driving. When she returns to Alex's garage he has a brand-new fleet of taxis. She also visits Kenny, and he gives her a knife to protect herself while taxi driving. However, Gin feels less safe with the knife in her bag. One night when she was picking up customers, a passenger gets into her taxicab who gives Gin a bad vibe. He is not clear in his directions, but eventually they end up underneath Macombs Dam Bridge next to an abandoned part of Jackie Robinson Park. The passenger pulls a gun on her and starts telling her how he is going to kill her like he killed other people in that spot. While listening to his description of his last kill, Gin realizes that this is the man who killed her husband. When the man asks for her money, she hands it to him through the partition and cuts him with the knife that Kenny gave her. The man pulls his hand back and his gun flies into the front seat. Gin gets out of the car and starts running, but Stanley, the robber, tackles her. When she is falling, she flips the knife behind her and it sinks into Stanley's heart; killing him instantly. Once she has made sure that he is dead she cleans up the scene as best she can and drives away. For the next couple of months, she is paranoid that the police are going to find out who killed this man and arrest her, but nothing happens. She continues to work, and she discovers that Alex's new fleet of taxis are stolen police cars. However, because she has killed someone she does not see how breaking the law is such a big deal anymore. She also starts making more money by cheating her passengers using the tricks that Geoffrey and Kenny taught her. The book ends with Gin driving out of New York in her yellow taxi with an unknown lover to see the rest of the United States. Main characters Gin (Jindřiška): a female taxi driver from Prague living in the not so glamorous part of New York City Gloria: Gin's Cuban roommate who was born and raised in Harlem Randy: a homeless man who is a friend of Gin's Alex: the Russian owner and dispatcher at the taxi company where Gin works Talibe: Gin's first husband from Mali who dies while taxi driving by a serial killer Kenny: Gin's boss at the previous garage where she worked Clyde: Gin's boyfriend who cheats on her with Gloria Geoffrey: one of Gin's colleagues Ouagadougou: Gin's second husband and Talibe's cousin Stanley: the serial killer who kills Talibe and tries to kill Gin, but is accidentally killed by Gin Author's Inspiration for Gimme the Money Gimme the Money was loosely based on Iva Pekárková's experience as a taxi-driver in New York City. She said in an interview with The Central Europe Review that she made Gin "...more naive than I was, so that she could discover more, so that it would be more shocking for her." Pekárková finds that it is easier for her to write stories where cultures are being blended, because she sees that as interesting. Likewise, she finds it difficult to write stories about the Czech Republic, because she cannot find any new or interesting stories from her home country. Gimme the Money has both the clashing of cultures and the Czech influence through Gin's views on New York. Translation While the majority of the English translation was completed by Iva Pekárková, in order for the publisher to obtain a grant from the Czech Ministry of Culture, they included her husband, Raymond Johnson, in the translation. While he did not translate the novel, he helped Pekárková with editing the translation. Gimme the Money was also translated into German by Marcela Euler under the title: Taxi Blues. Critical reception Gimme the Money was described by Madelaine Hron, Associate Professor at Wilfrid Laurier University for English and Film Studies, as "Fresh, gutsy, hilarious, the novel is one terrific (and terrifying) joy-ride through New York, propelled by a Czech taxi driver—a woman taxi driver at that." She also appreciated how even though the novel was about New York, Gin's Croatian roots did not get lost. References Category:1996 novels Category:Autobiographical novels Category:Czech novels Category:Novels set in New York City	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Robert Emmons Robert Wales Emmons II (December 28, 1872 – April 18, 1928) was an American football player, coach, yachtsman, and millionaire. He played and coached college football for Harvard University from 1891 to 1895. He later had a successful career in the banking and stock brokerage business. He was an avid yachtsman who was the managing owner of the Resolute in its successful defense of the America's Cup in 1920. Early years Emmons was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1872. He was the son of Nathaniel H. Emmons and Eleanor G. (Bacon) Emmons. He attended preparatory school at Groton School. Harvard Emmons enrolled at Harvard University where he played college football as an end for the Harvard Crimson football team from 1891 to 1894. He was elected by his teammates to serve as captain of the 1894 Harvard football team. He was president of his class at Harvard as a junior, and The New York Times wrote that "[h]is popularity depends mostly upon the great enthusiasm with which he has clung to football at Harvard during four steady years of defeat." He graduated from Harvard in 1895 but returned in the fall of 1895 as the Harvard Crimson football team's head football coach. He led Harvard to an 8–2–1 record in his only year as the head coach. Business career and family After leaving Harvard, Emmons became the treasurer of the Lawrence Gaslight Co., and a banker and bondsman associated with the firm of F.A. Schirmer & Co. in Boston. At the time of the 1900 United States Census, Emmons was living in Boston with his wife, Helen, and their son, Robert W. Emmons III. His occupation was listed at that time as a stock broker. At the time of the 1930 United States Census, Emmons continued to live in both with his wife, Helen. At that time, they had two sons, Robert W. Emmons 3rd and Gardner Emmons. They also had five live-in servants, and Emmons' occupation was listed as a stock broker. In 1920, he was still living in Boston with his wife and two sons; he was listed as being employed in the shipping business. In 1917, Emmons purchased the Eastern League baseball team in Lynn, Massachusetts, which he moved to Lawrence, Massachusetts. U.S. Navy He served in the United States Navy during World War I, had the rank of lieutenant commander, and was assigned to organize the Naval Overseas Transport Service. Yachtsman He was an active yachtsman for many years. His accomplishments as a yachtsman include service as skipper and managing owner of the Resolute in its successful defense of the America's Cup in 1920. By 1913, Emmons was already a well-known yachtsman. At that time, J. P. Morgan and Cornelius Vanderbilt III asked Emmons to oversee the defense of the America's Cup set for 1914. Emmons became part of the syndicate with Morgan and Vanderbilt that built and owned the Resolute. Emmons monitored the construction of the Resolute at Nathanael Greene Herreshoff's boatyard in the winter and spring of 1913 to 1914. Emmons and Charles Francis Adams III led the Resolute in its 1914 defense of the America's Cup, but the competition was terminated upon the outbreak of World War I. Death Emmons died suddenly at his summer home at Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts, in April 1928. Head coaching record References External links Category:1872 births Category:1928 deaths Category:19th-century players of American football Category:American football ends Category:Harvard Crimson football coaches Category:Harvard Crimson football players Category:American military personnel of World War I Category:United States Navy officers Category:Sportspeople from Boston Category:Players of American football from Massachusetts	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Johanne Cathrine Krebs Johanne Cathrine Krebs (21 April 1848 - 1 April 1924) was a Danish painter and women's rights activist. She was known for her portrait painting. She was active in establishing the women's department of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Biography Krebs was born in Byrum, Denmark . Her father was friends with the painters P. C. Skovgaard (1817–1875) and Johan Thomas Lundbye (1818-1848) sparking her interest in painting. She became a student of P.C. Skovgaard from 1869 and 1871. At that time she was unable to enroll in the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi). In early 1888 Krebs wrote an article for the Danish newspaper Politiken, stating that the existing, private Danish Women's Society's School for Women (Tegneskolen for Kvinders) was not a substitute for admitting women to the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. By late 1888 the Art Academy's Art School for Women (Kunstakademiets Kunstskole for Kvinder) opened, allowing women access to instruction at the Academy. She and Augusta Dohlmann (1847-1914) were considered to have been the leaders in this movement. From 1888-1908, she held the position as the school's inspectorate. From 1880 through 1895, Krebs exhibited at the Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition. From 1891 through 1924 she exhibited at the Free Exhibition (Den Frie Udstilling) of which she was a co-founder. Krebs exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois, and in 1900 at the Exposition Universelle, where she received a bronze medal. She died in Copenhagen on 1 April 1924. References External links images of Johanne Cathrine Krebs's paintings on artNET Category:1848 births Category:1924 deaths Category:People from the North Denmark Region Category:19th-century women artists Category:19th-century Danish painters Category:Danish women artists Category:Danish women's rights activists	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Connecticut Four The Connecticut Four are librarians who filed a lawsuit known as Doe v. Gonzales, challenging the constitutional validity of National Security Letters (NSL) issued by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) under the USA PATRIOT Act. In 2005 the Library Connection, a consortium of libraries sharing a common computer database, received a National Security Letter demanding that the "libraries in the Library Connection network identify patrons who had used library computers online at a specific time one year earlier." Section 505 of the PATRIOT Act, forbids recipients to tell anyone else about receiving it. Violation of the gag order is a criminal offense. George Christian, executive director of Library Connection, and three members of the executive committee of the board engaged the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to represent them. Because of the gag order, all four plaintiffs were identified in the lawsuit as either John Doe or Jane Doe. The Connecticut Four also challenged the validity of the gag order. For almost a year the ACLU fought to lift the gag order, challenging the government’s power under Section 505 to silence four citizens who wished to contribute to public debate on the PATRIOT Act. In May 2006, the government finally gave up its legal battle to maintain the gag order. On June 26, 2006, the ACLU announced that, after dropping its defense of the gag provision accompanying the NSL request, the FBI abandoned the lawsuit entirely. The Connecticut Four were honored by the American Library Association with the 2007 Paul Howard Award for Courage for their challenge to the National Security Letter and gag order provision of the USA PATRIOT Act. The Connecticut Four met on September 28, 2016 for the first time since 2006 when the group spoke out against the excess demands made of the librarians by the FBI under the authority of the Patriot Act. The members of the Connecticut Four have also spoken out individually on numerous occasions regarding the excesses of the Patriot Act. As of September 28, 2016, the Connecticut Four have reunited as a group in the civil liberties cause to protect the civil liberties of both librarians and library patrons. Members George Christian, executive director of Library Connection Peter Chase, vice president of Library Connection, former director of the Plainville (CT) Public Library, and former chairman of the Connecticut Library Association’s Intellectual Freedom Committee Barbara Bailey, president of Library Connection and director of the Welles–Turner Memorial Library in Glastonbury, Connecticut Jan Nocek, secretary of Library Connection and director of the Portland (CT) Library. Response In a summary of the actions of the Connecticut Four and their challenge to the USA PATRIOT Act, Jones (2009: 223) notes: “Librarians need to understand their country’s legal balance between the protection of freedom of expression and the protection of national security. Many librarians believe that the interests of national security, important as they are, have become an excuse for chilling the freedom to read.” In Popular Culture In the 2018 film, Public, Emilio Estevez as Stuart Goodson, a librarian at the Cincinnati Public Library, asks Bill Ramstead (played by Alec Baldwin) of the Cincinnati Police Department, whether Ramstead had "heard of the Connecticut Four." References Category:Libraries in Connecticut Category:American librarianship and human rights Category:Patriot Act	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Carl Zeiss Meditec Carl Zeiss Meditec AG is a multinational medical technology company and subsidiary of Carl Zeiss AG. It manufactures tools for eye examinations and medical lasers as well as solutions for neurosurgery, dentistry, gynecology and oncology. Among its products are the most common tools used by ophthalmologists and optometrists. In October 2018, Carl Zeiss Meditec won FDA premarket approval for its ReLEx Smile laser system. Also in October 2018, Carl Zeiss Meditec announced the acquisition of Reno, Nevada-based IanTech for an undisclosed sum. In September 2019, Carl Zeiss Meditec launched the CIRRUS 6000 at the European Society of Retina Specialists 2019 Congress. References External links Category:Manufacturing companies of Germany Category:Companies based in Thuringia Meditec Meditec	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Dead End (manga) is a manga by Shohei Manabe. Although the original name was actually a transliteration from the English The End, Tokyopop changed the name to Dead End for the US market. Story Shirou is a construction worker, tired of the usual daily routine of his job; he hopes that something will come to awake him from the monotony of his life, and his wish is answered when a young girl named Lucy, falling naked from the sky, enters his life. They spend together two days, enough for Shirou to fall in love with her; but on the third day, when Shirou comes back home, he can't find her anymore, and instead he finds his friends murdered. After that he meets a stranger who claims to be his friend, and learns that he had his memory voluntarily erased, he knew Lucy from before, and to find a way to solve the puzzle he has to find 5 old friends, who have had their memory erased just like him. Along with these five friends he must uncover, there are also many others who seek his death and one particular monster who kills in a brutal way. External links Official web page on Tokyopop's web site Mania.com vol. 1 review Mania.com vol. 3 review Ign UK Comics vol. 1 review Category:Kodansha manga Category:Seinen manga Category:Tokyopop titles	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
2011 Pennsylvania state elections Pennsylvania held statewide elections on November 8, 2011, to fill judicial positions and allow judicial retention votes. The necessary primary elections were held on May 17, 2011. Judge of the Superior Court There was one vacancy to fill on the Superior Court of Pennsylvania. The seat being vacated is currently held by Robert A. Freedberg, who decided not to run in the election because he would face mandatory retirement due to his age in three years. Primary campaign Vic Stabile, a partner in a Harrisburg law firm, and Paula A. Patrick, a judge on the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas, faced off for the Republican nomination. Both candidates received a rating of "recommended" from the Pennsylvania Bar Association. Stabile won the endorsement of the Republican State Committee. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette also endorsed Stabile for the Republican nomination. The Philadelphia Inquirer endorsed Patrick. On the Democratic side, David N. Wecht, currently a judge on the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas, was the only candidate to file; therefore he ran unopposed in the Democratic primary election. He received a rating of "highly recommended" from the Pennsylvania Bar Association. The election was held on May 17, 2011. Stabile won the Republican primary, receiving 378,566 votes (65.3%) against Patrick's 200,856 (34.7%). Wecht received 605,665 votes (100.0%). General election Stabile and Wecht faced each other in the general election. Wecht was endorsed in the general election by the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, which both cited his judicial experience. Stabile was endorsed by The Patriot-News, which cited his "down-to-earth approach". In the general election on November 8, Wecht won the seat with 1,029,560 votes (54.5%) against Stabile's 859,687 (45.5%). Judge of the Commonwealth Court There was one vacancy on the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania. The seat to be vacated is currently held by Johnny Butler, who decided not to run in the election. Primary campaign Anne Covey, a private attorney, and Paul P. Panepinto, a judge on the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas, contended for the Republican nomination. They received bar association ratings of "recommended" and "highly recommended", respectively. Covey won the endorsement of the Republican State Committee. Covey was also endorsed for the Republican nomination by both the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Kathryn Boockvar, an attorney who most recently worked for the Advancement Project and had previously spent 11 years in private practice, and Barbara Behrend Ernsberger, who has spent her career in private practice, competed for the Democratic nomination. Boockvar received a rating of "recommended" from the Pennsylvania Bar Association; Ernsberger received a rating of "not recommended" because she did not participate in the bar association evaluation process. Boockvar won the endorsement of the Democratic State Committee. The Philadelphia Inquirer and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette also endorsed Boockvar for the Democratic nomination. In the election on May 17, 2011, Covey received 406,764 votes (70.3%) and Panepinto received 171,996 (29.7%). The Democratic race was much closer: the initial results showed that Boockvar had received 311,624 votes (50.2%) and Ernsberger had received 309,508 (49.8%). Because the margin was less than half of a percent, these results triggered a recount, mandatory unless waived by the trailing candidate. Ernsberger declined to waive her right to a recount. On June 8, 2011, the Secretary of the Commonwealth announced that the recount had confirmed Boockvar's victory. The figures were nearly the same; in the final tally, Boockvar had 311,732 votes (50.2%) and Ernsberger had 309,680 (49.8%). General election Covey and Boockvar faced each other in the general election. Covey was endorsed in the general election by the Philadelphia Inquirer, which noted her "quasi-judicial experience of having served on the state's labor relations board". Boockvar was endorsed by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and The Patriot-News, which both praised her breadth of experience. In the general election on November 8, Covey won with 978,634 votes (52.4%) against Boockvar's 890,701 (47.6%). Retention elections The following judges were up for retention in the 2011 general election: Supreme Court judge Michael Eakin Superior Court judge John T. Bender Superior Court judge Mary Jane Bowes Commonwealth Court judge Renée Cohn Jubelirer Commonwealth Court judge Robert "Robin" Simpson Commonwealth Court judge Mary Hannah Leavitt The Pennsylvania Bar Association recommended retention of all six judges. Eakin actively campaigned for retention, raising $526,000—more than any of the four candidates contending for the open seats on the Superior Court and the Commonwealth Court—and airing television advertisements. In the general election on November 8, voters elected to retain all six judges. All the judges won their retention elections by a wide margin; each of them was favored for retention by over 70% of voters. References External links Judgepedia: Pennsylvania judicial elections, 2011 Official candidate sites Vic Stabile Paula A. Patrick David N. Wecht Anne Covey Paul P. Panepinto Kathryn Boockvar Barbara Behrend Ernsberger	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Leges Clodiae Leges Clodiae ("Clodian Laws") were a series of laws (plebiscites) passed by the Plebeian Council of the Roman Republic under the tribune Publius Clodius Pulcher in 58 BC. Clodius was a member of the patrician family ("gens") Claudius; the alternative spelling of his name is sometimes regarded as a political gesture. With the support of Julius Caesar, who held his first consulship in 59 BC, Clodius had himself adopted into a plebeian family in order to qualify for the office of Tribune of the Plebs, which was not open to patricians. Clodius was famously a bitter opponent of Cicero. The Laws One law, the Lex Clodia de Auspiciis ("The Law of Clodius on the Auspices"), prevented the Roman Magistrates, who presided over the legislative assemblies, from dissolving the assemblies (specifically, the Tribal Assembly), by declaring that unfavourable omens (auspices) had been observed. This had been an ordinary form of legislative obstruction for centuries, and was formally codified around the year 150 BC by the Lex Aelia et Fufia. Pompey, for example, was known to have used this obstructive device at least once. Thus, in effect, this law repealed the Lex Aelia et Fufia. Another law, the Lex Clodia de Censoribus ("The Law of Clodius on the Censors"), prescribed certain rules for the Roman Censors in exercising their functions as inspectors of public morals (mores). It also required the concurrence of both Censors to inflict the nota censoria. During the census (conducted once every five years), the Censors could place a nota next to the name of a citizen, usually for offences such as bankruptcy, cowardice, or having been a gladiator. If a citizen had a nota placed besides his name, he was subject to a range of penalties, including fines, exile, assignment to an inferior tribe for voting purposes, or even the loss of his citizenship. Thus, by requiring concurrence for the placement of a nota, this law placed an additional check on the powers of the Censors. This was typically the only act that required the concurrence of both Censors. Also, when a senator had been already convicted before an ordinary court, this law permitted the Censors to remove him from the senate in a summary way. This law was repealed in 52 BC by the Lex Caecilia De Censoria, which was enacted by a political enemy of Clodius, Metellus Scipio. A third law, the Lex Clodia de Civibus Romanis Interemptis, was key to Caesar's support for Clodius. The law threatened punishment for anyone who offered fire and water to those who had executed Roman citizens without a trial "qui civem Romanum indemnatum interemisset, ei aqua et igni interdiceretur." This was an ingenious means of forcing Cicero into exile without trying him directly. Cicero, an enemy of Clodius having executed members of the Catilinarian conspiracy several years before without formal trial, was clearly the intended target of the law. Caesar supported Clodius as he wanted Cicero exiled (Cicero was one of the leaders of the Senate's optimates, which was a group that opposed Caesar, Clodius, and other populares.) As a result of this law, Cicero went into exile, from which he did not return for 18 months. A fourth law, the Lex Clodia Frumentaria required the distribution of grain to Rome's poor citizens for free. Before this law, grain had been distributed to Rome's poor at a low price instead. This was somewhat radical, as during the first centuries of the republic, as per the Valerian and Porcian laws, several citizens had been executed for distributing free grain to the poor, under the concern that they were plotting to win popular support in order to overthrow the government and seize a tyranny. A fifth law, the Lex Clodia de Sodalitatibus ("The Law of Clodius on the Associations") was a law that declared that certain clubs of a "semi-political nature" (i.e. armed gangs) were lawful. These clubs had been abolished through a decree of the senate in 80 BC, probably upon the urging of the aristocratic Roman Dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla, who had attempted to weaken the power of Rome's citizens and to strengthen the senate. The result of this law was a wave of violence and gang warfare that resulted in Clodius' murder, and that was not to end until the end of the republic and the establishment of the Roman Empire. A sixth law, the Lex Clodia de Libertinorum Suffragiis ("The Law of Clodius on the Voting of Freedmen") attempted to extend freedmen's (i.e. ex-slaves') voting rights (suffrage). A seventh law, the Lex Clodia de Rege Ptolemaeo et de exsulibus Byzantinis pertained to several of Rome's eastern provinces and vassal states (in particular Ptolemaic Egypt and Byzantium in Greece). See also Roman Law List of Roman laws References External links The Roman Law Library, incl. Leges Entry from Harry Thurston Peck, "Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities" (from the Perseus Project) Modern works Tatum, W. Jeffrey. The Patrician Tribune: P. Clodius Pulcher. Studies in the History of Greece and Rome (University of North Carolina Press, 1999) hardcover Fezzi, L: Il tribuno Clodio (Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2008) Category:58 BC Category:1st century BC in law Category:Roman law Category:1st century BC in the Roman Republic	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Vulnerabilities Equities Process The Vulnerabilities Equities Process (VEP) is a process used by the U.S. federal government to determine on a case-by-case basis how it should treat zero-day computer security vulnerabilities; whether to disclose them to the public to help improve general computer security, or to keep them secret for offensive use against the government's adversaries. The VEP was first developed during the period 2008-2009, but only became public in 2016, when the government released a redacted version of the VEP in response to a FOIA request by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Following public pressure for greater transparency in the wake of the Shadow Brokers affair, the U.S. government made a more public disclosure of the VEP process in November 2017. Participants According to the VEP plan published in 2017, the Equities Review Board (ERB) is the primary forum for interagency deliberation and determinations concerning the VEP. The ERB meets monthly, but may also be convened sooner if an immediate need arises. The ERB consists of representatives from the following agencies: Office of Management and Budget Office of the Director of National Intelligence (including the Intelligence Community-Security Coordination Center) United States Department of the Treasury United States Department of State United States Department of Justice (including the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the National Cyber Investigative Joint Task Force) Department of Homeland Security (including the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center and the United States Secret Service) United States Department of Energy United States Department of Defense (to include the National Security Agency, including Information Assurance and Signals Intelligence elements), United States Cyber Command, and DoD Cyber Crime Center) United States Department of Commerce Central Intelligence Agency The National Security Agency serves as the executive secretariat for the VEP. Process According to the November 2017 version of the VEP, the process is as follows: Submission and notification When an agency finds a vulnerability, it will notify the VEP secretariat as soon as is possible. The notification will include a description of the vulnerability and the vulnerable products or systems, together with the agency's recommendation to either disseminate or restrict the vulnerability information. The secretariat will then notify all participants of the submission within one business day, requesting them to respond if they have an relevant interest. Equity and discussions An agency expressing an interest must indicate whether it concurs with the original recommendation to disseminate or restrict within five business days. If it does not, it will hold discussions with the submitting agency and the VEP secretariat within seven business days to attempt to reach consensus. If no consensus is reached, the participants will suggest options for the Equities Review Board. Determination to disseminate or restrict Decisions whether to disclose or restrict a vulnerability should be made quickly, in full consultation with all concerned agencies, and in the overall best interest of the competing interests of the missions of the U.S. government. As far as possible, determinations should be based on rational, objective methodologies, taking into account factors such as prevalence, reliance, and severity. If the review board members cannot reach consensus, they will vote on a preliminary determination. If an agency with an equity disputes that decision, they may, by providing notice to the VEP secretariat, elect to contest the preliminary determination. If no agency contests a preliminary determination, it will be treated as a final decision. Handling and follow-on actions If vulnerability information is released, this will be done as quickly as possible, preferably within seven business days. Disclosure of vulnerabilities will be conducted according to guidelines agreed on by all members. The submitting agency is presumed to be most knowledgeable about the vulnerability and, as such, will be responsible for disseminating vulnerability information to the vendor. The submitting agency may elect to delegate dissemination responsibility to another agency on its behalf. The releasing agency will promptly provide a copy of the disclosed information to the VEP secretariat for record keeping. Additionally, the releasing agency is expected to follow-up so the ERB can determine whether the vendor’s action meets government requirements. If the vendor chooses not to address a vulnerability, or is not acting with urgency consistent with the risk of the vulnerability, the releasing agency will notify the secretariat, and the government may take other mitigation steps. Criticism The VEP process has been criticized for a number of deficiencies, including restriction by non-disclosure agreements, lack of risk ratings, special treatment for the NSA, and less than whole-hearted commitment to disclosure as the default option. References See also Cyber-arms industry Tailored Access Operations Category:Computer security Category:Cyberwarfare Category:Hacking (computer security) Category:National Security Agency Category:2000s establishments in the United States	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Polski Komitet Wykonawczy Polish Executive Committee in Ruthenia (, ) was a Polish representative body in Ukraine created on March 6, 1917 at the Kiev Congress of Polish Communities on the initiative of NDs (liberals) and the Polish Socialist Association (PSO). Abbreviated as PKW na Rusi, it was headed by Joachim Bartoszewicz. PSO was created on March 3–4, 1917 in Kharkiv headed by T. Żarski. These political associations, the declared tactic of which was quite contrary, at the same time consisted of different centers of one party. PSO in Kharkiv was created by former members of the PPS-FR and also included representatives of the PPS-L and the SDKPiL, while Kiev members of the PPS-FR led by Kazimierz Domosławski were more supportive of the PKW. Despite that none of the centers considered itself representative of the one PPS-FR. Background During March and start of July 1917 quite actively to nation-building activity of the Central Council of Ukraine reacted PKW. The appeals of the committee shows an anticipating and situational nature of liberals in regards to the Ukrainian question who de facto controlled the committee and for a long time (to July) were able to set aside Polish socialists and democrats that cooperated with PKW from political activity. That position was stipulated by the pro-Russian orientation of the committee and its support of the Russian Provisional Government from one side and from another - the desire of immediate implementation of national self-determination rights for peoples of the Russian Empire. After the proclamation of the First Universal of the Central Council of Ukraine, PKW left number of socialists and democrats at the following Kiev Congress of Polish Communities on June 23, 1917. Nonetheless, on June 30, 1917 PKW in its appeal to the Central Council indicated that "the Congress of Polish organizations in Ruthenia warmly welcomes the aspirations of the fraternal Ukrainian nation to political liberation and declares that the Poles, who are considered an indigenous citizens of the land, are ready to work together in laying the foundations of the Ukrainian nation own existence with ensuring the rights of the Polish national minority in Ukraine". Among the former members of PKW was the Polish Democratic Central (Polska Centrala Demokratyczna, leader - Jevgeniusz Straczewski and S.Stempowski) which was a block of four democratic parties in Ukraine, and the conservative Party of National Labor (Stronnictwo Pracy Narodowej, leader - Janusz Radziwill, Waclaw Grzybowski, and Stanislaw Horwatt). Among the most prominent politicians of the Democratic Central was Meczyslaw Mickiewicz. In support of the democrats and number of socialists who left PKW Domoslawski declared that his party, PPS-FR, recognizes PKW as an excess organization, because it is a simple block of bourgeoisie. However soon PKW went into opposition to the Central Council of Ukraine when the last adopted the declaration of the Russian Provisional Government for Ukraine on July 3, 1917 and allowed other Polish parties to join its ranks. References External links Hai-Nyzhnyk, P., Potapenko, M. The attitude of the Polish revolutionary movement in the Dnieper Ukraine to question of the independence of the UPR (1917-1918). "Materials of the 5th Science Conference November 15–16, 2008". Zhytomyr 2009 Category:Political history of Ukraine Category:History of Kiev Category:Polish revolutionary organisations Category:Polish political parties in Ukraine Category:1917 establishments in Ukraine Category:1917 disestablishments	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Vrútky Vrútky (; (rare); ) is a town in northern Slovakia, close to the city of Martin. It lies in the historic Turiec region. Geography The town lies at the confluence of Váh and the Turiec, in the Turčianska kotlina, near the Malá Fatra mountain range. It is located north of the city of Martin, with which it shares a public transport system, and from Žilina. Etymology The name is derived from a plural form of Proto-Slavic *vьrǫ tъkъ > vrútok meaning "a hot spring". History The town was first mentioned in 1255 as villa Vrutk. However, a settlement had previously existed, and had the old Slavic name vrutok. By the end of the 13th century, the settlement had been divided into Dolné Vrútky and Horné Vrútky. By 1332, the settlement gained independence and in 1809, had the town almost 300 inhabitants. The construction of the Košice-Bohumín Railway in 1870 and the Salgótarján in 1872, brought economic development and Vrútky gained the status of being a key railway junction. This new status was also reflected in the increased number of inhabitants, which rose from 915 in 1869, to 1,944 in 1880 and 4,345 in 1900. Between the years 1949-1954 and 1971-1990 the town was amalgamated with Martin under the name Martin-Vrútky. Vrútky regained independence in the year 1990, when it separated from Martin. Demographics According to the 2001 census, the town has 7,298 inhabitants; 96.01% of inhabitants are Slovaks, 1.33% Czechs 0.47% Roma and 0.33 Hungarians. This same census shows that Roman Catholics account for 50.34%, people with no religious affiliation account for 24.86% and Lutherans account for 19.01% of the total town population. Twin towns — sister cities Vrútky is twinned with: Bebra, Germany Fulnek, Czech Republic Łaziska Górne, Poland Nymburk, Czech Republic Notable people Ján Bodenek – writer, translator Emanuel Böhm – politician, writer Radoslav Brzobohatý – film and television actor John D. Hertz – founded the Yellow Cab Company Zora Mintalová – Zubercová – ethnographer, historian and museologist Hana Zelinová – prose writer and dramatist František Zvarík - film and theater actor Tomáš Galis – Bishop of Zilina See also Gymnázium Vrútky References External links Official website Category:Cities and towns in Slovakia	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Merja (name) Merja is a Finnish feminine given name. Notable persons Merja Halmetoja, ice hockey player Merja Huttunen, writer Merja Korhonen, volleyball player Merja Otava, writer Merja Raski, singer, composer Merja Salo, photographer, professor Merja Satulehto, dancer Merja Savolainen, footballer Merja Sjöman, footballer Merja Tynkkynen, writer Merja Wirkkala, singer References Category:Finnish feminine given names	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Teratorn Aircraft Teratorn Aircraft, Inc. (named for the extinct ice age soaring bird) was an American aircraft manufacturer based in Clear Lake, Iowa. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of ultralight aircraft in the form of kits for amateur construction and ready-to-fly aircraft under the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules. The company was formed as Motorized Gliders of Iowa, Inc. in 1976 and located in a production facility. The company first produced the weight-shift Teratorn Aircraft Teratorn and the follow-up Teratorn T/A single seat ultralight motorglider designs. In 1983 it introduced the Tierra and Tierra II. After Teratorn went out of business in about 1989, Golden Circle Air of De Soto, Iowa took up production of Terratorn's designs. Golden Circle Air went out of business in circa 2006, the designs were acquired by Indy Aircraft and put back into production in 2011. Terratorn's Tierra and Tierra II designs have a reputation for structural strength and robustness in service; more than 4000 have been completed and flown. Aircraft References External links Category:Defunct aircraft manufacturers of the United States Category:Ultralight aircraft Category:Homebuilt aircraft	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Gustav Klimt Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 – February 6, 1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is noted for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other objets d'art. Klimt's primary subject was the female body, and his works are marked by a frank eroticism. In addition to his figurative works, which include allegories and portraits, he painted landscapes. Among the artists of the Vienna Secession, Klimt was the most influenced by Japanese art and its methods. Early in his artistic career, he was a successful painter of architectural decorations in a conventional manner. As he developed a more personal style, his work was the subject of controversy that culminated when the paintings he completed around 1900 for the ceiling of the Great Hall of the University of Vienna were criticized as pornographic. He subsequently accepted no more public commissions, but achieved a new success with the paintings of his "golden phase", many of which include gold leaf. Klimt's work was an important influence on his younger contemporary Egon Schiele. Life and work Early life Gustav Klimt was born in Baumgarten, near Vienna in Austria-Hungary, the second of seven children—three boys and four girls. His mother, Anna Klimt (née Finster), had an unrealized ambition to be a musical performer. His father, Ernst Klimt the Elder, formerly from Bohemia, was a gold engraver. All three of their sons displayed artistic talent early on. Klimt's younger brothers were Ernst Klimt and Georg Klimt. Klimt lived in poverty while attending the Vienna Kunstgewerbeschule, a school of applied arts and crafts, now the University of Applied Arts Vienna, where he studied architectural painting from 1876 until 1883. He revered Vienna's foremost history painter of the time, Hans Makart. Klimt readily accepted the principles of a conservative training; his early work may be classified as academic. In 1877 his brother, Ernst, who, like his father, would become an engraver, also enrolled in the school. The two brothers and their friend, Franz Matsch, began working together and by 1880 they had received numerous commissions as a team that they called the "Company of Artists". They also helped their teacher in painting murals in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. Klimt began his professional career painting interior murals and ceilings in large public buildings on the Ringstraße, including a successful series of "Allegories and Emblems". In 1888 Klimt received the Golden Order of Merit from Emperor Franz Josef I of Austria for his contributions to murals painted in the Burgtheater in Vienna. He also became an honorary member of the University of Munich and the University of Vienna. In 1892 Klimt's father and brother Ernst both died, and he had to assume financial responsibility for his father's and brother's families. The tragedies also affected his artistic vision and soon he would move towards a new personal style. Characteristic of his style at the end of the 19th century is the inclusion of Nuda Veritas (naked truth) as a symbolic figure in some of his works, including Ancient Greece and Egypt (1891), Pallas Athene (1898) and Nuda Veritas (1899). Historians believe that Klimt with the nuda veritas denounced both the policy of the Habsburgs and Austrian society, which ignored all political and social problems of that time. In the early 1890s Klimt met Austrian fashion designer Emilie Louise Flöge (a sibling of his sister-in-law) who was to be his companion until the end of his life. His painting, The Kiss (1907–08), is thought to be an image of them as lovers. He designed many costumes that she produced and modeled in his works. During this period Klimt fathered at least fourteen children. Vienna secession years Klimt became one of the founding members and president of the Wiener Sezession (Vienna Secession) in 1897 and of the group's periodical, Ver Sacrum ("Sacred Spring"). He remained with the Secession until 1908. The goals of the group were to provide exhibitions for unconventional young artists, to bring the works of the best foreign artists to Vienna, and to publish its own magazine to showcase the work of members. The group declared no manifesto and did not set out to encourage any particular style—Naturalists, Realists, and Symbolists all coexisted. The government supported their efforts and gave them a lease on public land to erect an exhibition hall. The group's symbol was Pallas Athena, the Greek goddess of just causes, wisdom, and the arts—of whom Klimt painted his radical version in 1898. In 1894, Klimt was commissioned to create three paintings to decorate the ceiling of the Great Hall of the University of Vienna. Not completed until the turn of the century, his three paintings, Philosophy, Medicine, and Jurisprudence were criticized for their radical themes and material, and were called "pornographic". Klimt had transformed traditional allegory and symbolism into a new language that was more overtly sexual and hence more disturbing to some. The public outcry came from all quarters—political, aesthetic and religious. As a result, the paintings (seen in gallery below) were not displayed on the ceiling of the Great Hall. This would be the last public commission accepted by the artist. All three paintings were destroyed when retreating German forces burned Schloss Immendorf in May 1945. His Nuda Veritas (1899) defined his bid to further "shake up" the establishment. The starkly naked red-headed woman holds the mirror of truth, while above her is a quotation by Friedrich Schiller in stylized lettering: "If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please only a few. To please many is bad." In 1902, Klimt finished the Beethoven Frieze for the Fourteenth Vienna Secessionist exhibition, which was intended to be a celebration of the composer and featured a monumental polychrome sculpture by Max Klinger. Intended for the exhibition only, the frieze was painted directly on the walls with light materials. After the exhibition the painting was preserved, although it was not displayed again until 1986. The face on the Beethoven portrait resembled the composer and Vienna Court Opera director Gustav Mahler. During this period Klimt did not confine himself to public commissions. Beginning in the late 1890s he took annual summer holidays with the Flöge family on the shores of Attersee and painted many of his landscapes there. These landscapes constitute the only genre aside from figure painting that seriously interested Klimt. In recognition of his intensity, the locals called him Waldschrat ("forest demon"). Klimt's Attersee paintings are of sufficient number and quality as to merit separate appreciation. Formally, the landscapes are characterized by the same refinement of design and emphatic patterning as the figural pieces. Deep space in the Attersee works is flattened so efficiently to a single plane that it is believed that Klimt painted them by using a telescope. Golden phase and critical success Klimt's 'Golden Phase' was marked by positive critical reaction and financial success. Many of his paintings from this period included gold leaf. Klimt had previously used gold in his Pallas Athene (1898) and Judith I (1901), although the works most popularly associated with this period are the Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (1907) and The Kiss (1907–08). Klimt travelled little, but trips to Venice and Ravenna, both famous for their beautiful mosaics, most likely inspired his gold technique and his Byzantine imagery. In 1904, he collaborated with other artists on the lavish Palais Stoclet, the home of a wealthy Belgian industrialist that was one of the grandest monuments of the Art Nouveau age. Klimt's contributions to the dining room, including both Fulfillment and Expectation, were some of his finest decorative works, and as he publicly stated, "probably the ultimate stage of my development of ornament." 1905, Klimt painted The Three Ages of Woman, depicting the cycle of life. He created a painted portrait of Margarete Wittgenstein, Ludwig Wittgenstein's sister, on the occasion of her marriage. Then, between 1907 and 1909, Klimt painted five canvases of society women wrapped in fur. His apparent love of costume is expressed in the many photographs of Flöge modeling clothing he had designed. As he worked and relaxed in his home, Klimt normally wore sandals and a long robe with no undergarments. His simple life was somewhat cloistered, devoted to his art, family, and little else except the Secessionist Movement. He avoided café society and seldom socialized with other artists. Klimt's fame usually brought patrons to his door and he could afford to be highly selective. His painting method was very deliberate and painstaking at times and he required lengthy sittings by his subjects. Although very active sexually, he kept his affairs discreet and he avoided personal scandal. Klimt wrote little about his vision or his methods. He wrote mostly postcards to Flöge and kept no diary. In a rare writing called "Commentary on a non-existent self-portrait", he states "I have never painted a self-portrait. I am less interested in myself as a subject for a painting than I am in other people, above all women... There is nothing special about me. I am a painter who paints day after day from morning to night ... Who ever wants to know something about me ... ought to look carefully at my pictures." In 1901 Hermann Bahr wrote, in his Speech on Klimt: "Just as only a lover can reveal to a man what life means to him and develop its innermost significance, I feel the same about these paintings." Later life and posthumous success In 1911 his painting Death and Life received first prize in the world exhibitions in Rome. In 1915 Anna, his mother, died. Klimt died three years later in Vienna on February 6, 1918, having suffered a stroke and pneumonia due to the worldwide influenza epidemic of that year. He was buried at the Hietzinger Cemetery in Hietzing, Vienna. Numerous paintings by him were left unfinished. Klimt's paintings have brought some of the highest prices recorded for individual works of art. In November 2003, Klimt's Landhaus am Attersee sold for $29,128,000, but that sale was soon eclipsed by prices paid for Willem de Kooning's Woman III and later Klimt's own Adele Bloch-Bauer II, the latter of which sold for $150 million in 2016. More frequently than paintings, however, the artist's works on paper can be found on the art market. The art market database Artprice lists 67 auction entries for paintings, but 1564 for drawings and watercolors. The most expensive drawing sold so far was "Reclining Female Nude Facing Left", which was made between 1914 and 1915 and sold in London in 2008 for . However, the majority of the art trade traditionally takes place privately through galleries such as Wienerroither & Kohlbacher, which specialize in the trade with original works by Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele and regularly present these at monographic exhibitions and international art fairs. In 2006, the 1907 portrait, Adele Bloch-Bauer I, was purchased for the Neue Galerie New York by Ronald Lauder reportedly for US$135 million, surpassing Picasso's 1905 Boy With a Pipe (sold May 5, 2004 for $104 million), as the highest reported price ever paid for a painting up to that point. On August 7, 2006, Christie's auction house announced it was handling the sale of the remaining four works by Klimt that were recovered by Maria Altmann and her co-heirs after their long legal battle against Austria (see Republic of Austria v. Altmann). Altmann's fight to regain her family's paintings has been the subject of a number of documentary films, including Adele's Wish. Her struggle also became the subject of the dramatic film the Woman in Gold, a movie inspired by Stealing Klimt, the documentary featuring Maria Altmann herself. The portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II was sold at auction in November 2006 for $88 million, the third-highest priced piece of art at auction at the time. The Apple Tree I (c. 1912) sold for $33 million, Birch Forest (1903) sold for $40.3 million, and Houses in Unterach on Lake Atter (1916) sold for $31 million. Collectively, the five restituted paintings netted more than $327 million. The painting Litzlberg am Attersee was auctioned for $40.4 million at Sotheby's in November 2011. The city of Vienna, Austria had many special exhibitions commemorating the 150th anniversary of Klimt's birth in 2012. Folios Gustav Klimt: Das Werk The only folio set produced in Klimt's lifetime, Das Werk Gustav Klimts, was published initially by H. O. Miethke (of Gallerie Miethke, Klimt's exclusive gallery in Vienna) from 1908 to 1914 in an edition of 300, supervised personally by the artist. The first thirty-five editions (I-XXXV) each included an original drawing by Klimt, and the next thirty-five editions (XXXVI-LXX) each with a facsimile signature on the title page. Fifty images depicting Klimt's most important paintings (1893–1913) were reproduced using collotype lithography and mounted on a heavy, cream-colored wove paper with deckled edges. Thirty-one of the images (ten of which are multicolored) are printed on Chine-collé. The remaining nineteen are high quality halftones prints. Each piece was marked with a unique signet—designed by Klimt—which was impressed into the wove paper in gold metallic ink. The prints were issued in groups of ten to subscribers, in unbound black paper folders embossed with Klimt's name. Because of the delicate nature of collotype lithography, as well as the necessity for multicolored prints (a feat difficult to reproduce with collotypes), and Klimt's own desire for perfection, the series that was published in mid-1908 was not completed until 1914. Each of the fifty prints was categorized among five themes: Allegorical (which included multicolored prints of The Golden Knight, 1903 and The Virgin, c. 1912) Erotic-Symbolist (Water Serpents I and Water Serpents II, both c. 1907–08 and The Kiss, c. 1908) Landscapes (Farm Garden with Sunflowers, 1907) Mythical or Biblical (Pallas Athena, 1898; Judith and The Head of Holofernes, 1901; and Danaë, c. 1908) Portraits (Emilie Flöge, 1902) The monochrome collotypes as well as the halftone works were printed with a variety of colored inks ranging from sepia to blue and green. Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria was the first to purchase a folio set of Das Werk Gustav Klimts in 1908. Fünfundzwanzig Handzeichnungen Fünfundzwanzig Handzeichnungen ("Twenty-five Drawings") was released the year after Klimt's death. Many of the drawings in the collection were erotic in nature and just as polarizing as his painted works. Published in Vienna in 1919 by Gilhofer & Ranschburg, the edition of 500 features twenty-five monochrome and two-color collotype reproductions, nearly indistinguishable from the original works. While the set was released a year after Klimt's death, some art historians suspect he was involved with production planning due to the meticulous nature of the printing (Klimt had overseen the production of the plates for Das Werk Gustav Klimts, making sure each one was to his exact specifications, a level of quality carried through similarly in Fünfundzwanzig Handzeichnungen). The first ten editions also each contained an original Klimt drawing. Many of the works contained in this volume depict erotic scenes of nude women, some of whom are masturbating alone or are coupled in sapphic embraces. When a number of the original drawings were exhibited to the public, at Gallerie Miethke in 1910 and the International Exhibition of Prints and Drawings in Vienna in 1913, they were met by critics and viewers who were hostile towards Klimt's contemporary perspective. There was an audience for Klimt's erotic drawings, however, and fifteen of his drawings were selected by Viennese poet Franz Blei for his translation of Hellenistic satirist Lucian's Dialogues of the Courteseans. The book, limited to 450 copies, provided Klimt the opportunity to show these more lurid depictions of women and avoided censorship thanks to an audience composed of a small group of (mostly male) affluent patrons. Gustav Klimt An Aftermath Composed in 1931 by editor Max Eisler and printed by the Austrian State Printing Office, Gustav Klimt An Aftermath was intended to complete the lifetime folio Das Werk Gustav Klimts. The folio contains thirty colored collotypes (fourteen of which are multicolored) and follows a similar format found in Das Werk Gustav Klimts, replacing the unique Klimt-designed signets with gold-debossed plate numbers. One hundred and fifty sets were produced in English, with twenty of them (Nos. I–XX) presented as a "gala edition" bound in gilt leather. The set contains detailed images from previously released works (Hygeia from the University Mural Medicine, 1901; a section of the third University Mural Jurisprudence, 1903), as well as the unfinished paintings (Adam and Eve, Bridal Progress). Paintings Drawings In 1963, the Albertina museum in Vienna began researching the drawings of Gustav Klimt. The research project Gustav Klimt. Die Zeichnungen, has since been associated with intensive exhibition and publication activities. Between 1980 and 1984 Alice Strobl published the three-volume catalogue raisonné, which records and describes all drawings by Gustav Klimt known at the time in chronological order. An additional supplementary volume was published in 1989. In the following year Alice Strobl transferred her work to the art historian and curator Marian Bisanz-Prakken, who had assisted her since 1975 in the determination and classification of the works and who continues the research project to this day. Since 1990, Marian Bisanz-Prakken has redefined, documented, and scientifically processed around 400 further drawings. This makes the Albertina Vienna the only institution in the world that has been examining and scientifically classifying the artist's works for half a century. The research project now includes information on over 4300 works by Gustav Klimt. Selected works Klimt University of Vienna Ceiling Paintings Palais Stoclet mosaic in Brussels Fable (1883) Idylle (1884) The Theatre in Taormina (1886–1888), Burgtheater, Vienna Auditorium in the Old Burgtheater, Vienna (1888) Portrait of Joseph Pembauer, the Pianist and Piano Teacher (1890) Ancient Greece II (Girl from Tanagra) (1890–91) Portrait of a Lady (Frau Heymann?) (1894) Music I (1895) Love (1895) Sculpture (1896) Tragedy (1897) Music II (1898) Pallas Athene (1898) Flowing water (1898) Portrait of Sonja Knips (1898) Fish Blood (1898) Schubert at the Piano (destroyed 1899) After the Rain (Garden with Chickens in St Agatha) (1899) Nymphs (Silver Fish) (1899) Mermaids (1899) Philosophy (1899–1907) Nuda Veritas (1899) Portrait of Serena Lederer (1899) Medicine (Hygieia) (1900–1907) Music (Lithograph) (1901) Judith I (1901) Buchenwald (Birkenwald) (1901) Gold Fish (To my critics) (1901–02) Portrait of Gertha Felsovanyi (1902) Portrait of Emilie Flöge (1902) Beech Forest (1902) Beech Grove I (1902) Beethoven Frieze (1902) Beech woods (1903) Hope (1903) Pear Tree (1903) Life is a struggle (1903) Jurisprudence (1903–1907) Water Serpents I (1904–1907) Water Serpents II (1904–1907) The Three Ages of Woman (1905) Portrait of Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein (1905) Farm Garden (Flower Garden) (1905–06) The Stoclet Frieze (1905–1909) Portrait of Fritsa Reidler (1906) Sunflower (1906–07) Farm Garden with Sunflowers (1907) Danaë (1907) Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (1907) Poppy Field (1907) Hope II (1907–08) on the Attersee I (1908) The Kiss (1907–08) Lady with Hat and Feather Boa (1909) The Tree of Life (1909) Judith II (Salomé) (1909) Black Feather Hat (Lady with Feather Hat) (1910) Schloss Kammer on the Attersee III (1910) The Park (1910) Death and Life (1911) Cottage Garden with Crucifix (destroyed) (1911–12) Apple Tree (1912) Forester's House, Weissenbach on Lake Attersee (1912) Portrait of Mäda Gertrude Primavesi (1912) Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II (1912) The Maiden (Die Jungfrau) (1913) Semi-nude seated, reclining (1913) Semi-nude seated, with closed eyes (1913) Portrait of Eugenia Primavesi (1913–14) Lovers, drawn from the right (1914) Portrait of Elisabeth Bachofen-Echt (1914) Semi-nude lying, drawn from the right (1914–15) Portrait of Friederike Maria Beer (1916) Houses in Unterach on the Attersee (1916) Death and Life (1916) Garden Path with Chickens (destroyed)(1916) The Girl-Friends (destroyed) (1916–17) Woman seated with thighs apart, drawing (1916–17) The Dancer (1916–1918) Leda (destroyed) (1917) Portrait of a Lady, en face (1917–18) The Bride (unfinished, 1917–18) Adam and Eve (unfinished, 1917–18) Portrait of Johanna Staude (unfinished, 1917–18) Legacy Visual art According to the writer Frank Whitford: "Klimt of course, is an important artist—he's a very popular artist—but in terms of the history of art, he's a very unimportant artist. Although he sums up so much in his work, about the society in which he found himself—in art historical terms his effect was negligible. So he's an artist really in a cul-de-sac."<ref>Whitford, speaking on The Kiss: The Private Life of a Masterpiece, BBC TV</ref> Klimt's work had a strong influence on the paintings of Egon Schiele, with whom he would collaborate to found the Kunsthalle (Hall of Art) in 1917, to try to keep local artists from going abroad. Artists who reinterpreted Klimt's work include Slovak artist Rudolf Fila. Cultural influence Several of Klimt's most famous works from his golden period inspired the title sequence for the animated adaptation of the manga series, Elfen Lied, in which the art is recreated to fit with the series' own characters and is arranged as a montage with the song "Lilium". The opening to the anime Sound of the Sky also is largely inspired by Klimt's works, which was also directed by the same director as Elfen Lied. The design of the land of Centopia on the TV series Mia and Me is inspired by Klimt's works. The art of the video game Transistor also uses patterns and embellishments inspired by Klimt. Couturier John Galliano found inspiration for the Christian Dior Spring-Summer 2008 haute couture collection in Klimt's work. Gustav Klimt and his work have been the subjects of many collector coins and medals, such as the 100 Euro Painting Gold Coin, issued on November 5, 2003, by the Austrian Mint. The obverse depicts Klimt in his studio with two unfinished paintings on easels. Commemoration of 150th anniversary of birth In addition to the permanent exhibitions on display, the city of Vienna, Austria celebrated the 150th anniversary of the birth of Klimt with special exhibitions throughout the city. Guided walking tours through the city allowed people to see some of the buildings where Klimt worked. Google commemorated Gustav Klimt with a Google doodle celebrating Klimt's painting The Kiss on his 150th birthday, 14 July 2012. In 2012, the Austrian Mint began a five-coin gold series to coincide with the 150th anniversary of Klimt's birth. The first 50 Euro gold coin was issued on January 25, 2012 and featured a portrait of Klimt on the obverse and a portion of his painting of Adele Bloch-Bauer. Klimt was also mentioned in season 3 episode 5 of the Netflix original series Bojack Horseman. Gustav Klimt Foundation In 2013, the Gustav Klimt Foundation was set up by Ursula Ucicky, widow of Klimt's illegitimate son Gustav Ucicky, with a mission to "preserve and disseminate Gustav Klimt's legacy." The managing director of the Leopold Museum, Peter Weinhäupl, was appointed as Chairman of the foundation. As a reaction, the museum's director Tobias G. Natter resigned in protest, citing Ucicky's past as a Nazi propaganda film-maker. Ownership battle National Public Radio reported on January 17, 2006 that "The Austrian National Gallery is being compelled by a national arbitration board to return five paintings by Gustav Klimt to a Los Angeles based woman, the heir of a Jewish family that had its art stolen by the Nazis. The paintings are estimated to be worth at least $150 million." This incident, involving Maria Altmann, was subsequently made into the Hollywood movie Woman in Gold. See also Bride of the Wind (biopic) Gustav Klimt's list of paintings Japonism Lost artworks List of Austrian artists and architects References Bibliography . . O'Connor, Anne-Marie (2012). The Lady in Gold, The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, . . Salfellner, Harald (2018), Klimt. An Illustrated Life. Vitalis Verlag. . . Further reading Chillida, Julio Vives. El Beso (Los Enamorados) de Gustav Klimt. Un Ensayo de Iconografía, Lulu.com, junio de 2008, . Czernin, Hubertus. Die Fälschung: Der Fall Bloch-Bauer und das Werk Gustav Klimts. Czernin Verlag, Vienna 2006. Kallir, Jane, Alfred Weidinger: Gustav Klimt. In Search of the Total Artwork. Prestel, New York 2009, Schorske, Carl E. "Gustav Klimt: Painting and the Crisis of the Liberal Ego" in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture. Vintage Books, 1981. Weidinger, Alfred. Klimt. Catalogue Raisonné'', Prestel, New York, 2007, External links Adele's Wish Documentary film on the Bloch-Bauer court case (Republic of Austria v. 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David Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Turville David John Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Turville, HonFRS, HonFREng (born 24 October 1940), is an English politician, businessman and philanthropist. From 1992 to 1997, he served as the chair of Sainsbury's, the supermarket chain established by his great-grandfather John James Sainsbury in 1869. He was made a life peer in 1997 as a member of the Labour Party, and is on a leave of absence from the House of Lords since 15 July 2013. He served in the government as the Minister for Science and Innovation from 1998 and 2006. He is a major donor to the University of Cambridge and in 2011 was elected Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. He also made the largest donation in British political history, giving £8 million to the Liberal Democrats. Early life and business career The son of Sir Robert Sainsbury and Lisa van den Bergh, Sainsbury attended Eton College before going on to earn a degree in History and Psychology at King's College, Cambridge. He then completed an MBA at Columbia Business School in the United States. Sainsbury joined the family firm, then known as 'J. Sainsbury Ltd.', in 1963, working in the personnel department. He became a director in 1966. He was Financial Controller from 1971 to 1973, just before the company's flotation. When the company listed on the London Stock Exchange on 12 July 1973, at the time the largest flotation ever, his family retained control with an 85% stake. His father, Sir Robert Sainsbury, gave almost his entire stake in the company to David Sainsbury, his only son, whereas his uncle Alan Sainsbury split his stake in the business between his sons John Davan Sainsbury, Simon Sainsbury and Tim Sainsbury. John Davan Sainsbury became chairman in 1969 on Sir Robert Sainsbury's retirement. He was the group's Finance Director from 1973 to 1990, during which time the company grew rapidly. He was Chair of Savacentre from 1984 to 1993, during which time the hypermarkets business grew slowly. He was deputy chairman from 1988 to 1992. On JD Sainsbury's retirement as chairman and chief executive on 2 November 1992, David Sainsbury became chairman. In 1996, Sainsbury's announced its first drop in profits in 22 years, and the first of three profits warnings during his chairmanship was issued. Although there were senior management changes, which included David relinquishing the chief executive's role to Dino Adriano and becoming non-executive chairman, there were no new directors or outsiders appointed to the senior management team. Profits fell the next year, but rose in 1998. At this point, David Sainsbury, who had wanted to step down at the end of 1997, made a surprise announcement of his retirement as chairman to pursue his long-held ambition to have a career in politics, after "32 enjoyable and fulfilling years" working for Sainsbury's. Sainsbury's share price increased on the day of this announcement. On his retirement as chairman, to avoid any conflict of interest, David Sainsbury placed his then 23% stake in Sainsbury's into a "blind" trust, to be administered by lawyer Judith Portrait. When David Sainsbury announced his intention to give away £1 billion to charity in 2005, his 23% stake was sold down, eventually to 12.9% by early 2007. His beneficial holding became just 7.75% when he regained control of his shares in February 2007 following his decision to step down as Science and Innovation Minister in November 2006. During the private equity takeover bid in the first half of 2007, David indicated he was willing to let the Sainsbury's board open its books for due diligence if someone offered him a price of 600 pence per share or more. David Sainsbury retains a sizeable shareholding in his family's supermarket chain (around 5.85%). To further his philanthropy interests, he placed 92million of his shares (representing 5.28% of the Company's share capital), into his investment vehicle, Innotech Advisers Ltd (which donates all its dividends to charity), meaning his beneficial stake is just 0.57% (lower than JD's 1.6% beneficial interest). The Sainsbury family as a whole control approximately 15% of Sainsbury's. In the Sunday Times Rich List 2008 his family fortune was estimated at £1.3 billion. Political career Sainsbury joined the Labour Party in the 1960s, but was one of the 100 signatories of the 'Limehouse Declaration' in an advertisement in The Guardian on 5 February 1981; he went on to be a member of the Social Democratic Party formed by the authors of the Declaration. After the 1983 election, he prompted the party to give more priority to recruiting members and finding a firm financial base; he was by far the biggest donor to the party, and a trustee, giving about £750,000 between 1981 and 1987. His donations were typically earmarked to specific projects rather than general day-to-day operations. Along with David Owen, Sainsbury opposed merging the SDP with the Liberal Party after the 1987 election, and provided office space for Owen to help him re-establish a separate political party, which was created in 1988. The "continuing" SDP was wound up in 1990, and Sainsbury changed allegiance back to the Labour Party, rejoining them in 1996. A year later, following the Labour Party's election victory, he entered the House of Lords as a Labour peer, being created Baron Sainsbury of Turville, of Turville in the County of Buckinghamshire, on 3 October 1997. Between 1996, the year he rejoined Labour, and 2006, when he stood down as a government minister, Sainsbury donated £16 million to the Labour Party, usually in batches of £1 million or £2 million each year. He donated a further £2 million on 7 September 2007, stating that he was impressed by Gordon Brown's leadership and believed "that Labour is the only party which is committed to delivering both social justice and economic prosperity". He gave another £500,000 on 15 December 2008, making a total of £18.5 million. He is associated with the Labour Friends of Israel. In April 2006, it was reported Sainsbury "faced a possible probe into an alleged breach of the ministerial code after admitting he had failed to disclose a £2 million loan he had made to the Labour Party – despite publicly stating that he had." He subsequently apologised for "unintentionally" misleading the public, blaming a mix-up between the £2 million loan and a £2 million donation he had made earlier. In July 2006, he became the first government minister to be questioned by police in the "Cash for Peerages" inquiry. On 10 November 2006, he resigned as Science Minister, stating that he wanted to focus on business and charity work. He categorically denied that his resignation had anything to do with the "Cash for Peerages" affair, stating that he was "not directly involved in whether peerages were offered for cash", although this was contradicted by subsequent press reports attributed to "Labour insiders" which suggested that his resignation was indeed a direct consequence of the affair. From July 1998 to November 2006, he held the post of Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department of Trade and Industry, as the Minister for Science and Innovation in the House of Lords, a government position for which he accepted no salary. Because of his importance to the Labour Party as a donor, contemporary press reports described him as "unsackable." He has argued that there are "far too many reshuffles", and that there were considerable benefits to his remaining in post for so long. Sainsbury has also been associated with the Institute for Public Policy Research and Progress. Between 2001 and 2011 he provided £2 million of funding for Progress. In 2009, he created the Institute for Government with £15 million of funding through the Gatsby Charitable Foundation to help government and opposition politicians to prepare for political transitions and government. He donated £390,000 to Progress and the Movement for Change between December 2011 and April 2013, while he was not on a UK electoral register, which is contrary to electoral law, leading to Progress and the Movement for Change being fined by the Electoral Commission. Sainsbury funded the "Remain" side of the 2016 European Union membership referendum campaign, giving £2,150,000 to the Labour and £2,125,000 to the Liberal Democrats "Remain" campaigns. After the 2017 general election, Sainsbury announced he would no longer provide financial backing to party political causes, but will donate to charitable causes. During 2016 he had donated £260,000 to Progress in addition to backing "Remain" organisations. During the 2019 United Kingdom general election campaign Sainsbury donated £8 million to the Liberal Democrats, over half the party's election funding, making its election donations larger than the Labour Party's. Charitable works Sainsbury founded the Gatsby Charitable Foundation in 1967. In 1993, he donated £200 million of Sainsbury's shares to the Foundation's assets. By 2009 the foundation had given £660 million to a range of charitable causes. In 2009, he allocated a further £465 million to the foundation, making him the first Briton to donate more than £1 billion to charity. He set up the Sainsbury Management Fellowship scheme in 1987 to develop UK engineers into leaders in industry. Sainsbury has donated £127 million of the Gatsby Charitable Foundation's money to Cambridge University in the last decade: he gave £45 million to the Cambridge University Botanic Garden in 2005. In 2011, Cambridge's Sainsbury Laboratory opened, paid for by an £82 million donation from the Gatsby Foundation made in 2008. It was said by the Financial Times to be "one of the biggest donations ever made to a British university ... surpassed only by a 2000 gift to the university by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation." In 2013, together with his wife Susie, he joined the Giving Pledge, the group started by Warren Buffett and Bill and Melinda Gates, pledging to donate half his fortune to charitable trusts during his lifetime. Chancellor of the University of Cambridge In 2011, Sainsbury was formally proposed by the Nominations Board of Cambridge University to succeed the Duke of Edinburgh as Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. If his election had not been contested by 17 June, he would have assumed office on 1 July. However, his nomination became the first in 163 years to be contested by another candidate when, on 29 May, local shopkeeper Abdul Arain stood in protest at a planning application for a Sainsbury's Local branch in Cambridge's Mill Road district, triggering a contest that would have to wait until an October ballot. Four days later, a group of Cambridge University alumni successfully drafted actor Brian Blessed as an alternative candidate. On 20 June, socialist barrister Michael Mansfield became the third candidate to oppose Sainsbury. An election took place on 14 and 15 October 2011 in which Sainsbury won with 52% of the votes (2893 votes out of 5558) on a 2.5% turnout and he was confirmed to the position on 16 October 2011. Personal life Sainsbury and his wife, Susan Carol "Susie" (née Reid) a former teacher, have three daughters. Lady Sainsbury is a Trustee of the Royal Academy of Music. The family live in the Manor of Turville in Turville, Buckinghamshire. The Manor once belonged to the abbey at St Albans, but was seized by the Crown in the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1547. The manor house has since been rebuilt as Turville Park, a fine stately home in the village. Sainsbury's elder sister was Elizabeth (married name Clark, 19 July 1938 – 14 August 1977) and his younger sisters are Celia and Annabel. He is the nephew of Alan Sainsbury. His cousins have included Simon Sainsbury, Conservative peer John Sainsbury, and former Tory MP Sir Tim Sainsbury. His great-grandparents, John James Sainsbury and Mary Ann Staples, established a grocer's at 173 Drury Lane in 1869 which became the British supermarket chain Sainsbury's. Academic titles In 1994, Sainsbury was appointed as an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. In 2007, he was awarded an honorary degree in science by University College London. In 2007, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Heriot-Watt University. In 2008, he was awarded an honorary degree in science by the University of Bath. In 2008, he was made an honorary fellow of the Royal Society. 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Niccolò Ardinghelli Niccolò Ardinghelli (1502–1547) was an Italian Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal. Biography Niccolò Ardinghelli was born in Florence in 1502, the son of a noble family. As a young man, he studied Latin, Ancient Greek, and law. He began his career as a secretary to Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, iuniore. He was a canon of Florence Cathedral. In 1539, he became vicar of Marche. He became a datary in 1540. He was also a protonotary apostolic. On 13 July 1541 he was elected Bishop of Fossombrone. He was despatched as nuncio to Francis I of France to encourage peace negotiations with Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and promote support for holding an ecumenical council. He traveled in the accompany of Cardinal Farnese, who was papal legate to the Kingdom of France and the Kingdom of Spain. Pope Paul III made him a cardinal priest in the consistory of 19 December 1544. He received the red hat and the titular church of Sant'Apollinare alle Terme Neroniane-Alessandrine. In 1545 he became Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura. He resigned the government of the Diocese of Fossombrone on 16 March 1547. He died in the Palazzo Baldassini on 23 August 1547. He was buried in Santa Maria sopra Minerva. See also Catholic Church in Italy References Category:1502 births Category:1547 deaths Category:Italian cardinals	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Eric Forsberg Eric Forsberg (born December 16, 1959) is American writer. He wrote and directed the feature film Mega Piranha, as well as the writer of the feature film Snakes on a Train, one of the first mockbusters produced and released by The Asylum. He also wrote the screenplays for 30,000 Leagues Under the Sea and War of the Worlds 2: The Next Wave, also for The Asylum. He directed the film Alien Abduction which aired on Sci Fi Channel, as well as Night of the Dead which aired on Chiller TV. Other writer and director credits include the political thriller Torture Room, and the stoner comedy Sex Pot as well as Monster, Almighty Thor, Arachnoquake, and Age of the Hobbits. He also worked as a Co-Producer and assistant director on numerous films for Christopher Coppola and Alain Silver, including White Nights, Bel Air, and Palmer's Pickup. In his early years Forsberg was an improvisational comedy instructor at The Players Workshop and The Second City Training Center in Chicago. Biography Eric Forsberg was born in Chicago on December 16, 1959. He is the son of improv director Josephine Forsberg and filmmaker Rolf Forsberg. Before moving to Hollywood in 1997, Forsberg worked as a writer and director in the Chicago theater scene. The original musical, Knat Scatt Private Eye, with Steve Carell, was among his more successful productions. Forsberg also taught improvisation at The Players Workshop and The Second City Training Center where his students included Stephen Colbert, Amy Sedaris, Tim Meadows, and Rachel Dratch. Forsberg also worked as a director for the youth programs at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. His performance credits include Silas Brimfire at the Bristol Renaissance Faire. Soon after Forsberg arrived in Los Angeles, he began working with director Christopher Coppola and producer Alain Silver. Following that he started writing screenplays and directing feature films for David Michael Latt and David Rimawi at The Asylum. Eric Forsberg was a founding member of The Second City Training Center in Los Angeles where his students included Brian Stepanek and Masi Oka. Forsberg lives in Southern California with his wife Karen and his daughter Lola. He is a founding member of the production company Cerebral Experiment. Filmography Writer and director Mega Piranha – (2010), Syfy, The Asylum Sex Pot – (2009), The Asylum Torture Room – (2008), Cerebral Experiment Monster – (2007), The Asylum Night of the Dead – (2006), Cerebral Experiment Alien Abduction (film) – (2005), The Asylum Andy – (1985), Players Workshop Writer Age of the Hobbits (2012), The Asylum Arachnoquake (2012 – story), Active Entertainment/SyFy Almighty Thor (uncredited) – (2011), The Asylum/SyFy MILF (story credit)- (2010), The Asylum War of the Worlds 2 – (2008), The Asylum 30,000 Leagues Under the Sea – (2007), The Asylum Snakes on a Train – (2006), The Asylum Blackhorse: History of the 11th Cavalry – (2005), US Army The Aquanauts (TV)- (1999–2000), Village Roadshow, Animal Planet Stage Playwright and director PLAYS & MUSICALS FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES Jimmy Sweeter Visits Candyland – Children's Theater of The Second City – (1980) The Wondrous Tales of Baby Clown Foo – Children's Theater of The Second City – (1981) Tales of Young King Arthur – Children's Theater of The Second City – (1981) Santa and the Christmas Gnomes – Children's Theater of The Second City – (1981) Swash Buckler and the Gems of Chaos – Children's Theater of The Second City – (1982) The Adventures of Sinbad – Children's Theater of The Second City – (1983) Knat Scatt Private Eye (children's version) – Children's Theater of The Second City – (1984) Monkey Kings and Other Things – Children's Theater of The Second City – (1986) Mississippi Mark and his Crazy Caliope Company – Children's Theater of The Second City – (1987) The Fast Paced Comedy of the King some Clowns and a Couple of Bad Guys – Children's Theater of The Second City – (1988) Dr. Stagemaster's Amazing Imagination Machine – Candlelight Dinner Theater – (1989) Fantastic Fantasy Factory – Candlelight Dinner Theater – (1990) MenuMania – Candlelight Dinner Theater – (1992–93) Plays and musicals And So They Fell – Performer's Arena – (1981) A Dozen Idiots (co-writer) – Performer's Arena – (1981) Knat Scatt Private Eye – Theatre Building Chicago/Players Workshop/Avalon Theater Company – (1986) A Tribute to Vincent van Gogh by the Impressionists' Circle – Performer's Arena – (1988) Time Machine – Theatre Building Chicago/New Tuners – (1994) Cannibal – Theatre Building Chicago/Writer's Bloc New Play Festival – (1995) Director The Bacchae (by Euripides – Performer's Arena – (1981) The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son (by JRR Tolkien) – Performer's Arena – (1981) Rhinocéros (by Eugène Ionesco) – Performer's Arena – (1982) A Thousand Clowns – Performer's Arena – 1983 The Man in the Glass Booth (by Robert Shaw – Performer's Arena – (1984) Marat Sade (by Peter Weiss) – Performer's Arena – (1984) What the Butler Saw (by Joe Orton) – Performer's Arena – (1985) Sketch Comedy Revues/Grad Shows – The Players Workshop performed on The Second City stage – (1983–1992) Fright Fest – (1991–1996), Six Flags Great America, JPM Productions, Inc. Bristol Renaissance Faire – (1990–1997) Comedy Revues at the Second City Training Center Chicago – The Second City – (1987–1992) Comedy Revues at the Second City Training Center Los Angeles – The Improv – (1999–2003) References External links Category:1966 births Category:Living people Category:Writers from Chicago Category:American male screenwriters Category:American film directors Category:20th-century American dramatists and playwrights Category:Renaissance fair performers Category:American male dramatists and playwrights Category:Screenwriters from Illinois Category:20th-century American male writers	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Design-Oriented Programming Design-oriented programming is a way to author computer applications using a combination of text, graphics, and style elements in a unified code-space. The goal is to improve the experience of program writing for software developers, boost accessibility, and reduce eye-strain. Good design helps computer programmers to quickly locate sections of code using visual cues typically found in documents and web page authoring. User interface design and graphical user interface builder research are the conceptual precursors to design-oriented programming languages. The former focus on the software experience for end users of the software application and separate editing of the user interface from the code-space. The important distinction is that design-oriented programming involves user experience of programmers themselves and fully merges all elements into a single unified code-space. See also: User interface design Graphical user interface builder Elements of graphical user interfaces Visual programming language Experience design User experience design Usability References: Visual programming Intro to Design-Oriented Programming Languages Category:Computer programming	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Rozes (musician) Elizabeth Mencel (born April 14, 1993), better known by her stage name Rozes (stylized as ROZES or R O Z E S), is an American musician, singer and songwriter from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is best known for her 2015 collaboration, "Roses", with duo The Chainsmokers. She also featured in Galantis' song "Girls on Boys". Early years A native of Montgomeryville, Pennsylvania, Mencel grew up in a gospel-influenced home and first studied piano at age six. Eventually she also became proficient in clarinet, saxophone, guitar, violin, flute, and trumpet. Mencel first started her musical career at North Penn High School. Soon after, she earned an associate degree from Montgomery County Community College and then transferred to Temple University in Philadelphia. After one year at Temple, Mencel chose to pursue music as a full-time career and left university. Career In October 2014, under her professional moniker Rozes, Mencel was featured on and wrote Just a Gent's "Limelight", reaching #1 on Hype Machine and has over 2 million plays on SoundCloud. Mencel was featured on The Chainsmokers' 2015 hit, "Roses", which she co-wrote with Andrew Taggart, one half of The Chainsmokers. Released on June 16, 2015, the single peaked at number six on the Billboard Hot 100, as well as number one on Billboard's Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart for the week of January 9, 2016. Rozes' debut EP, Burn Wild, was released on February 14, 2016. In 2017, Rozes signed a deal with Photo Finish Records. where she released singles "Where Would We Be" with Nicky Romero, "Canyons", and "Famous". Her debut EP under Photo Finish "i don't know where i'm going, but i'm on my way" was released on August 24, 2018. In 2019, Rozes released her track "Halfway There", which became the official anthem to the 2019 Women's March on NYC via The Women's March Alliance. Discography Extended plays Singles As lead artist As a featured artist Promotional singles References External links Category:Living people Category:1993 births Category:Musicians from Philadelphia Category:American female songwriters Category:21st-century American singers Category:Singers from Pennsylvania Category:Songwriters from Pennsylvania Category:21st-century American women musicians	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Charles Lisner Charles Maurice Lisner OBE (1928 - 1988) was a French-Australian dancer and the founder and first artistic director of the Queensland Ballet. Early life Charles Lisner was born in Paris, France. Lisner emigrated to Australia with his parents in 1937. He started dancing late in life, in his early twenties, and traveled to London where he spent time with the Sadler's Wells Ballet. He later joined the Royal Ballet, Covent Garden. Creation of Lisner Ballet Academy and Queensland Ballet In 1953, Lisner returned to Queensland after the death of his father, and established the Lisner Ballet Academy with virtually no money. From that academy grew Lisner's privately owned company, the Lisner Ballet, which was established in 1960. In 1962, the name was changed to the Queensland Ballet. Lisner stepped down as Artistic Director and Chief Executive Officer of the company in 1974. Lisner married Valerie, one of his dancers. He was an uncredited dancer in the film, The Red Shoes (1948) Queensland Ballet studio seasons are performed in The Charles Lisner Studio Theatre of the Thomas Dixon Centre. He was appointed OBE in the 1976 New Year Honours. Many photographs of the academy were taken by Grahame Garner, as a regular photographer for the Queensland Guardian newspaper. 911 negatives from his collection of the Lisner Academy were lodged with the National Library of Australia in 2009. Bibliography My Journey through Dance (1979) (autobiography) The Australian Ballet: Twenty-one years (1983) References External links Queensland Ballet Category:Australian male ballet dancers Category:Ballet teachers Category:Australian Officers of the Order of the British Empire Category:1928 births Category:1988 deaths	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Nucleus Research Nucleus Research is an information technology research firm specializing in investigative research and the return on investment (ROI) analysis of technology deployments. The firm uses ROI case studies as its research approach and has published more than 400 case studies in various market segments. The company is based in Boston, Massachusetts. History Founded in 2000, Nucleus Research publishes ongoing technology research following an investigative, case-based approach rather than traditional analyst opinions. Launched by Ian Campbell and Rebecca Wettemann, the company provides insight into the financial value of technology to both vendors and users of technology. The firm is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy and as of 2011 is the only technology research firm registered with that organization. Since 2003, Nucleus has sponsored the Annual Technology ROI Awards (www.roiawards.com) which recognizes the top 10 technology deployments in terms of return on investment realized. The company gained notoriety by publishing a number of controversial investigative research reports: In 2002, the company published a report stating that 61% of customers listed as reference customers on Siebel’s Web site had not achieved a positive return on investment from their Siebel deployments, [1] creating news coverage of the topic and Nucleus’s research approach [2] [3]. In 2003, the company published a similar report examining SAP deployments and finding 57% of SAP’s reference customers had not achieved a positive ROI, [4] creating controversy with SAP [5]. In 2006, the company investigated the advertising claim by SAP that its customers were 32% more profitable than their peers and published a report finding customers were actually 20% less profitable [6], generating industry response [7] [8]. Leadership Ian Campbell, president and chief executive officer References [1] “Nucleus Evaluates the Real ROI from Siebel Reference Customers.” (http://nucleusresearch.com/news/press-releases/nucleus-evaluates-the-real-roi-from-siebel-reference-customers/) Nucleus Research 2002-09-23. “Nucleus Research study also finds Siebel installations cost $18,000/user per year; Reference customers cite exorbitant license, consulting and maintenance costs as key ROI inhibitors.” [2] “Nucleus Research, Siebel Spat.” (http://www.destinationcrm.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=45318) DestinationCRM 2002-09-25. [3] “Survey slams Siebel; company fires back.” (http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/31473/survey_slams_siebel_company_fires_back/) ComputerWorld 2002-09-25. [4] "Nucleus Research finds 57 percent of SAP Reference Customers have not achieved a Positive ROI.” (http://nucleusresearch.com/news/press-releases/nucleus-research-finds-57-percent-of-sap-reference-customers-have-not-achieved-a-positive-roi/) Nucleus Research. 2003-03-31. Retrieved 2009-03-08. "Customers will see benefits after lengthy implementations, but many deployments anchored down by excessive consulting costs." [5] “Nucleus Research Deemed Presumptuous.” (http://www.destinationcrm.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=44868) DestinationCRM 2003-03-31. [6] “SAP Customers are 20 Percent Less Profitable than Their Peers - Despite SAP Marketing Claims.” (http://nucleusresearch.com/news/press-releases/sap-customers-are-20-percent-less-profitable-than-their-peers-despite-sap-marketing-claims/) Nucleus Research 2006-03-07. [7] “Nucleus to SAP: Gotcha!“ (http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/2006/03/nucleus_to_sap_1.html) Business Week 2006-03-13. [8] “Does SAP sap profits?” (http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2006/03/does_sap_sap_pr.php) Rough Type 2006-03-03. External links http://www.NucleusResearch.com Category:Financial services companies of the United States	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
24 Themis Themis (minor planet designation: 24 Themis) is one of the largest asteroids in the asteroid belt. It is also the largest member of the Themis family. It was discovered by Annibale de Gasparis on 5 April 1853. It is named after Themis, the personification of natural law and divine order in Greek mythology. Not to be confused with 269 Justitia, named for Justitia, Themis' Roman name. Discovery and observations 24 Themis was discovered on 5 April 1853 by Annibale de Gasparis of Naples, though it was given its name by fellow Italian astronomer Angelo Secchi. The asteroid was named after Themis, the Greek goddess of law. Gravitational perturbations in the orbit of Themis were used to calculate the mass of Jupiter as early as 1875. On 24 December 1975, 24 Themis had a close encounter with 2296 Kugultinov with a minimum distance of . By analyzing the perturbation of Kugultinov's orbit due to the gravitational pull of Themis, the mass of Themis was determined to be approximately solar masses ( Earth masses). Orbit and rotation Themis is in an elliptical orbit around the Sun with an eccentricity of 0.1306 and an inclination of 0.76°. It has an orbital period of 5.54 years. The distance between Themis and the Sun ranges from 2.71 AU at perihelion and 3.55 AU at aphelion, with a mean distance of 3.1302 AU. Themis is part of the Themis family of asteroids, which is located in the outer part of the main belt. The family consists of a core of large objects surrounded by a cloud of smaller objects; 24 Themis is a member of the core. Surface materials Ice On 7 October 2009, the presence of water ice was confirmed on the surface of this asteroid using NASA’s Infrared Telescope Facility. The surface of the asteroid appears completely covered in ice. As this ice layer is sublimated, it may be getting replenished by a reservoir of ice under the surface. Scientists hypothesize that some of the first water brought to Earth was delivered by asteroid impacts after the collision that produced the Moon. The presence of ice on 24 Themis supports this theory. Because of its proximity to the sun (~3.2 AU), the widespread ice on the surface of 24 Themis is somewhat unexpected. The surface ice may be replenished by a sub-surface reservoir of water or impact gardening—a lunar phenomenon in which the moon overturns surface material at a rate of 1 m/ Gyr. An alternative mechanism to explain the presence of water ice on 24 Themis is similar to the hypothesized formation of water on the surface of the Moon by solar wind. Trace amounts of water would be continuously produced by high-energy solar protons impinging oxide minerals present at the surface of the asteroid. The hydroxyl surface groups (S–OH) formed by the collision of protons () with oxygen atoms present at oxide surface (S=O) can further be converted in water molecules () adsorbed onto the oxide minerals surface. The chemical rearrangement supposed at the oxide surface could be schematically written as follows: 2 S-OH → S=O + S + or, 2 S-OH → S–O–S + where S represents the oxide surface. Organics Organic compounds were also detected on the surface of Themis in the form of tholins, high-molecular weight organics found in the outer solar system, distinguished by a brown or reddish color in optical spectra. Compounds found in the spectra of Themis include ice tholin (the residual of an irradiated mixture of water ice and ethane), asphaltite, carbonaceous meteorite material, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. See also Water presence on other celestial bodies: Extraterrestrial liquid water References External links Asteroid Themis has 'frosted surface' NASA detection of Water Ice and organics on the surface of 24 Themis 000024 Category:Discoveries by Annibale de Gasparis Category:Minor planets named from Greek mythology Category:Named minor planets 000024 000024 18530405 Category:Extraterrestrial water	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Liujiang District Liujiang District (; Standard Zhuang: ) is under the administration of Liuzhou, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China, located on the southwest bank of the Liu River. It covers a land area of and had a population of 562,351 . The southernmost county-level division of Liuzhou City, it lies south of Liuzhou's city proper, bordering the prefecture-level cities of Laibin to the south and Hechi to the northwest. Administrative divisions Liucheng consists of 11 towns and 1 township: Towns: Labao (拉堡镇), Liyong (里雍镇), Baipeng (百朋镇), Chengyuan (成团镇), Luoman (洛满镇), Liushan (流山镇), Sandu (三都镇), Ligao (里高镇), Jiangde (进德镇), Chuanshan (穿山镇), Shibo (土博镇) The only township in the Baisha Township (白沙乡) Transportation Rail Guizhou–Guangxi Railway Liujiang hominid These findings might give some support to the claim that modern humans from Africa arrived at southern China about 100,000 years BP (Zhiren Cave, Chongzuo City: 100,000 years BP; and the Liujiang hominid: controversially dated at 139,000–111,000 years BP ). Climate References External links Category:County-level divisions of Guangxi Category:Liuzhou	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Rosso (surname) Rosso is a surname of Italian origin, which means red. Geographical distribution As of 2014, 45.5% of all known bearers of the surname Rosso were residents of Italy (frequency 1:2,279), 13.4% of Argentina (1:5,407), 9.7% of Brazil (1:35,898), 6.8% of the United States (1:89,908), 6.0% of France (1:18,766), 4.9% of the Dominican Republic (1:3,613), 2.9% of Colombia (1:27,711), 1.7% of Bolivia (1:10,735), 1.4% of Uruguay (1:4,175) and 1.1% of Spain (1:73,139). In Italy, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:2,279) in the following regions: 1. Piedmont (1:253) 2. Liguria (1:881) 3. Friuli-Venezia Giulia (1:884) 4. Veneto (1:2,032) In Uruguay, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:4,175) in the following departments: 1. Soriano (1:654) 2. Florida (1:1,228) 3. Canelones (1:2,608) 4. Río Negro (1:2,716) In Argentina, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:5,407) in the following provinces: 1. Córdoba Province (1:1,667) 2. Santa Fe Province (1:1,733) 3. San Luis Province (1:2,332) 4. La Pampa Province (1:2,962) 5. Formosa Province (1:3,927) People Antonio De Rosso (b. 1941), head of the Orthodox Church in Italy and the Metropolitan of Ravenna and Italy Camilla Rosso (b. 1994), British actress, sister of Rebecca Rosso and Georgina Rosso Franco Rosso (1941–2016), Italian-born film producer and director Frank Rosso (1921–1980), American baseball player George Rosso (1930–1994), American professional football player Giovanni Rosso (b. 1972), Croatian professional football player Julee Rosso (contemporary), American cook and food writer Medardo Rosso (1858–1928), Italian sculptor Nini Rosso (1926–1994), Italian jazz trumpeter and composer Patrick Rosso (b. 1969), French judoka Renzo Rosso (b. 1955), Italian clothing designer; co-founder of the Diesel clothing company Rebecca Rosso (b. 1994), British actress, twin sister of Camilla Rosso, and younger sister of Georgina Rosso Stefano Rosso (1948–2008), Italian songwriter and guitarist See also Rosso (disambiguation) Merrick and Rosso, an Australian comedy duo, Merrick Watts and Tim Ross References Category:Italian-language surnames Category:Surnames of Italian origin	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
David Davis (British politician) David Michael Davis MP (born 23 December 1948) is a British Conservative Party politician who served as Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union from July 2016 to July 2018 and has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Haltemprice and Howden since 1997. He was previously elected to the House of Commons for Boothferry in 1987, and reelected in 1992. Davis was sworn of the Privy Council in the 1997 New Year Honours, having previously been Minister of State for Europe from 1994 to 1997. He was brought up on the Aboyne Estate, a council estate in Tooting, South West London. After attending Bec Grammar School in Tooting, he went on to gain a master's degree in business at the age of 25, and went into a career with Tate & Lyle. Having entered Parliament in 1987, at the age of 38, he was appointed Europe Minister by Prime Minister John Major in July 1994. He held that position until the 1997 general election. He subsequently was Conservative Party Chairman and Shadow Secretary of State for the Office of Deputy Prime Minister. Between 2003 and 2008, he was the Shadow Home Secretary in the Shadow Cabinets of both Michael Howard and David Cameron. Davis had previously been a candidate for the leadership of the Conservative Party in 2001 and 2005, coming fourth and second respectively. On 12 June 2008, Davis unexpectedly announced his intention to resign as an MP, and was immediately replaced as Shadow Home Secretary; this was in order to force a by-election in his seat for which he intended to seek re-election by mounting a specific campaign designed to provoke wider public debate about the erosion of civil liberties in the United Kingdom. Following his formal resignation as an MP he became the Conservative candidate in the resulting by-election, which he won a month later. In 2012, together with Liam Fox, he founded Conservative pressure group Conservative Voice to amplify the voice of grassroots members, which Davis thought was getting lost in the party. In July 2016, following a referendum in which a majority of those voting supported leaving the European Union, he was appointed by new Prime Minister Theresa May to the brand-new Department for Exiting the European Union (DExEU) as Secretary of State, with responsibility for negotiating the UK's prospective exit from the EU. He was sidelined mid-way through the talks, with the Prime Minister's Europe Adviser Olly Robbins taking charge of negotiations. Davis resigned from his government position on 8 July 2018, over May's Brexit strategy and the Chequers plan. Following his resignation, DExEU junior minister Steve Baker and Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson also resigned. Early life Born to a single mother, Betty Brown, in York on 23 December 1948, Davis was initially brought up by his grandparents there. His maternal grandfather, Walter Harrison, was the son of a wealthy trawlerman but was disinherited after joining the Communist Party; he led a 'hunger march' to London shortly after the more famous Jarrow March, which did not allow Communists to participate. His father, whom he met once after his mother's death, is Welsh. After his mother married Ronald Davis, the family moved to London, where they lived initially in a flat in Wandsworth which Davis has described as "a terrible little slum". Later, after his half-sister was born, the family moved to a council estate in Tooting, his stepfather being a shop steward at Battersea Power Station. On leaving Bec Grammar School in Tooting, his A Level results were not good enough to secure a university place, so Davis worked as an insurance clerk and became an infantry soldier in the Territorial Army's 21 SAS (Artists) Regiment, in order to earn the money to retake his examinations. After doing so, he was able to win a place at the University of Warwick (BSc Joint Hons Molecular Science/Computer Science 1968–71). Whilst at Warwick, he was one of the founding members of the student radio station, University Radio Warwick and he founded a men's choir. He went straight on from there to London Business School, where he earned a master's degree in business (1971–73), and later attended Harvard Business School's six-week Advanced Management Program (1984–85). Davis worked for Tate & Lyle for 17 years, rising to become a senior executive, including restructuring its troubled Canadian subsidiary, Redpath Sugar. He wrote about his business experiences in the 1988 book How to Turn Round a Company. He met his wife, Doreen Cook, at Warwick. They married on 28 July 1973, and have three children. Political career Whilst a student, Davis was active in the Federation of Conservative Students, becoming national chairman in 1973. Davis was first elected to Parliament in the 1987 general election as the MP for Boothferry which, in 1997, became the constituency of Haltemprice and Howden. He was a government whip when parliament voted on the Maastricht Treaty in 1992, angering many of the Maastricht Rebels on his own right-wing of the party. Davis's progression through the Conservative ranks eventually led to him becoming a Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (1994–97). He rejected a shadow ministerial position under William Hague, opting instead to chair the Public Accounts Committee. In 1999, Davis presented the Parliamentary Control of the Executive Bill to the House of Commons, in which he proposed to transfer ministerial exercise of the Royal Prerogative to the Commons in the following areas: the signing of treaties, the diplomatic recognition of foreign governments; European Union legislation; the appointment of ministers, peers and ambassadors; the establishment of Royal Commissions; the proclamation of Orders in Council unless subject to resolutions of the Commons; the exercise of the powers of the executive not made by statute; the declarations of states of emergency; the dissolution of Parliament. Davis used his first interview as Shadow Home Secretary in November 2003 to state his personal support for a reintroduction of the death penalty for people convicted of multiple murder "where there is clear evidence and no doubt" surrounding the offender's guilt, citing "Yorkshire Ripper" Peter Sutcliffe and Moors Murderer Ian Brady as examples of offenders who would fall into this category. This interview came almost 40 years after the abolition of the death penalty for murder. As Shadow Home Secretary, Davis turned the Conservatives away from the Labour Party's plan to reintroduce identity cards, citing spiralling costs and libertarian issues. He turned initial Conservative support into one of concern and abstention, making the final change to one of opposition much easier. Davis believed that once the true cost and unreliability of the ID card scheme was explained to the general public, they would turn against it. He was also credited by some commentators with "claiming the scalps" of two Labour ministers, David Blunkett and Beverley Hughes, after both were forced to resign. 2005 leadership contest At the time of the 2005 Conservative leadership contest, David Davis was Shadow Secretary of State for the Home Department. His Campaign Manager in the leadership contest was Conservative MP and Davis's deputy as Shadow Home Secretary, Andrew Mitchell (who in 2010 became Secretary of State for International Development in Prime Minister David Cameron's Cabinet). Davis was initially the front runner in the contest, but after a poorly received speech at that year's Conservative Party Conference his campaign was seen to lose momentum. However, referring to a Conference speech by the party's former leader, campaign manager Andrew Mitchell said: "William Hague made a great speech which many people will judge to be better than all the other leadership candidates put together. What that tells you is that being absolutely brilliant at being able to make a speech at conference is not the be-all-and-end-all of leadership. There are other things as well." He was photographed at the conference alongside two women wearing T-shirts emblazoned with "It's DD for me" which was viewed as being patronising to women. In the first ballot of Conservative MPs on 18 October 2005, Davis came top with 62 votes. As this was less than the number of his declared supporters, it became clear that the Davis bid was losing momentum. The elimination of former Chancellor Kenneth Clarke left the bookmakers' favourite, David Cameron, without a rival in the centre of the party. In the second ballot, held two days later on 20 October 2005, Cameron polled 90 votes, Davis 57 votes and Liam Fox was eliminated with 51 votes, so Davis went through to the next stage with David Cameron. In spite of a strong performance in a BBC Question Time head-to-head debate in the final stage of the leadership contest, Davis could not match his rival's general popularity. Conservative party members voted to elect Cameron the new Conservative leader, Davis losing with 64,398 votes against Cameron's 134,446 votes. Cameron chose to re-appoint his rival as Shadow Home Secretary following his victory. Alleged leaking of government documents Davis is alleged to have played a role in the leaking of sensitive government documents when he was Shadow Home Secretary in 2007. According to a police statement, under interview after arrest, civil servant Chris Galley said Davis was his first contact and that he (Davis) introduced him to Damien Green, the Shadow Immigration spokesman. Chris Galley initially approached Davis stating he had access to government immigration details which he was willing to leak to help the Conservative Party. Under questioning by police Galley said that Green told him "do not mention Davis" (see note 122.) In April 2009, following a disciplinary hearing, Galley was dismissed from his job as a junior Home Office official for leaking information to Green. Civil liberties On 12 June 2008, Davis resigned from the Shadow Cabinet and announced his resignation as an MP, in order to force a by-election, and cause a wider debate on the single issue of what he believed to be the erosion of civil liberties. On 18 June 2008, he resigned from the House of Commons. He stood as the Conservative Party candidate for his current seat in the subsequent by-election. The announcement came a day after the narrow passing of a parliamentary vote on the Counter-Terrorism Bill, which would extend the limit on the period of detention of terror suspects without charge in England and Wales, from 28 to 42 days. He won re-election with 72% of the vote, breaking several voting records in the UK, but neither the Labour Party nor the Liberal Democrats put up a candidate. As is common at by-elections, voter turnout declined significantly from the previous general election to 34%. At the time of Davis's resignation, the Labour MP Andy Burnham made a speech which was widely interpreted as falsely implying an inappropriate relationship between Davis and the then Director of Liberty, Shami Chakrabarti. Burnham was forced to issue a public apology under threat of legal action. As a backbench MP, Davis continued campaigning for civil liberties. He participated in the Convention on Modern Liberty, where he gave the keynote speech on the convention's final day. He also spoke at the 2009 Guardian Hay Festival, where he criticised Labour's "illusory pursuit of an unobtainable security", and was well received by an overwhelmingly non-Conservative audience. On 15 June 2009, Davis gave the 2009 Magna Carta Lecture at Royal Holloway, University of London, in association with the Magna Carta Trust. Davis has also supported civil liberties campaign group Big Brother Watch and in January 2010 he spoke with Tony Benn at the official launch. In 2012 he helped lead the opposition to Coalition plans to allow police and security services to extend their monitoring of the public's email and social media communications. He expressed concern with the findings of a VICE News investigation into the deployment of IMSI-catchers in London. In 2014, along with Labour MP Tom Watson he challenged the government's introduction of the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act 2014 in the courts. Although Davis is a staunch Eurosceptic and has criticised the record of the European Court of Human Rights, he has also argued against withdrawal from the court's jurisdiction, on the basis it might encourage countries with far worse civil liberties to do likewise. Davis has taken more conservative stances on some other civil liberties issues, having repeatedly voted to restrict abortion, fertility treatment and embryo research. He also repeatedly voted against the furthering of LGBT rights, including supporting the controversial Section 28 act, which banned teachers from "promoting homosexuality" or "teaching ... the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship", and opposing the legalisation of same-sex marriage saying it was "not an issue of rights but a clash of beliefs". Torture During a House of Commons debate on 7 July 2009, Davis accused the UK government of outsourcing torture, by allowing Rangzieb Ahmed to leave the country (even though the government had evidence against Ahmed, upon which Ahmed was later convicted for terrorism) to Pakistan, where it is said the Inter-Services Intelligence was given the go-ahead by the British intelligence agencies to torture Ahmed. Davis further accused the government of trying to gag Ahmed, stopping him coming forward with his accusations after he had been imprisoned back in the UK. He said, there was "an alleged request to drop his allegations of torture: if he did that, they could get his sentence cut and possibly give him some money. If this request to drop the torture case is true, it is frankly monstrous. It would at the very least be a criminal misuse of the powers and funds under the Government's Contest strategy, and at worst a conspiracy to pervert the course of justice." Davis was amongst the signatories of a letter to The Guardian condemning the Coalition's efforts to hide the UK's involvement in rendition and torture behind secret trials. 2010 Coalition government (2010–2015) In May 2010, after the 2010 general election which resulted in a hung parliament, it was reported that David Cameron wanted to invite Davis and other right-wingers such as Michael Howard and Iain Duncan Smith into his Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition cabinet. However, Davis declined and remained a critic of the government on its stance on tuition fees. In January 2011, along with Jack Straw, he secured a vote in the Commons to challenge a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights that prisoners should be allowed to vote and MPs subsequently chose to ignore the ruling. He offered critical commentary on the coalition in a BBC interview in March 2012. In a November 2012 speech, he urged David Cameron to hold a referendum on the UK's membership of the EU by 2014. He suggested to hold two votes, the first where voters would be asked whether they wanted to renegotiate current EU arrangements, and a second where they would be asked to either accept a renegotiated deal or leave the EU altogether. Following George Osborne's budget in 2014, Davis wrote for The Conservative Woman, calling on Osborne to make the personal allowance fully transferable for single-earner families. Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union (2016–2018) Following Theresa May's appointment as Prime Minister, Davis was appointed Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union (Brexit Secretary) on 13 July 2016. He published in ConservativeHome his initial thoughts on the way Brexit might proceed. In his role as Brexit Secretary, Davis announced that Parliament will take action on translating EU laws into British laws as part of the process of Withdrawal from the European Union. Davis stated that the Brexit timetable discussion would be the "row of the summer" during an TV interview with Robert Peston on Peston on Sunday. The timetable was set on the first day of negotiations and it was dictated by the EU. On 7 September 2017, the European commission published the minutes of a meeting in July at which Michel Barnier, the EU's chief Brexit negotiator, briefed the commission on the outcome of his first round of talks with Davis. Barnier expressed concern about Davis's commitment to the talks (he had been going to Brussels for the start and end of each round of talks, but had not been staying there for the duration). In November 2017, Davis acknowledged that the negotiations with the EU were difficult, but appealed to European countries not to "put politics above prosperity", implying that by doing so, countries like Germany would harm their own economies. He blamed Germany and France for blocking trade negotiations. Davis also argued that the UK and the EU should agree a free trade deal more comprehensive in scope than "any the EU has agreed before." Some politicians were angry because reports about the potential effect of Brexit on 58 economic sectors were severely edited before Davis gave them to the Exiting the European Union Select Committee. They maintained Davis – and by implication Theresa May's government – chose to disregard a binding and unanimous vote from MPs requiring the information to be provided in full. Davis later appeared to contradict his earlier assurances that impact analyses had been carried out when he said the government had not produced any economic forecasts of what would happen after the UK leaves the EU. On 8 July 2018, Davis resigned as Brexit Secretary as he did not "believe" in the Prime Minister's Brexit plan. Following that Steve Baker also resigned. Brexit transition negotiations In January 2018, former Irish prime minister, Bertie Ahern, said Davis did not understand the implications of Brexit for Ireland's border with Northern Ireland. On 20 November 2018, he was criticised by the Liberal Democrat MP Layla Moran, of the pro-EU group Best for Britain, for suggesting that the UK could negotiate a free trade agreement during a post-Brexit "transition period" without first having successfully negotiated a Withdrawal Agreement with the European Union. 2019 Conservative Leadership Election Following Theresa May's resignation in May 2019 Davis supported Dominic Raab as the next leader of the Conservative Party. 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Chenar Rahdar Chenar Rahdar (, also Romanized as Chenār Rāhdār and Chenār-i-Rāhdār; also known as Chenān-i-Rāhdār and Rāhdār) is a village in Qarah Bagh Rural District, in the Central District of Shiraz County, Fars Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its existence was noted, but its population was not reported. References Category:Populated places in Shiraz County	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Idris Williams Idris Williams (19 April 1836 – 4 November 1894) was an educationalist, prominent Congregationalist, and Liberal councillor for the Cymmer division of the Glamorgan County Council, South Wales. Early life Williams was born at Porth Farm on 19 April 1836, the third and youngest son of Edward and Jane Williams. At that time, Rhondda was a remote, rural backwater. During his lifetime, Williams witnessed the transformation of the valley into a thriving industrial community. Williams received very little formal education and at the age of nine he went to work as a haulier at George Insole & Son's Cymmer Colliery. At the age of sixteen he was sent to a school in Cardiff and two years later became an apprentice carpenter at Pontypridd. After completing his training he returned to the Cymmer Pit to work as a carpenter in 1854–5. In 1855 he was married to Mary Evans, daughter of the Rev. Joshua Evans of Cymmer. They had six children. Public life Williams supported William Abraham (Mabon) during his successful campaign for election to Parliament in 1885 as Liberal-Labour MP for Rhondda. In 1892 Williams became a Liberal councillor for the Cymmer division of the Glamorgan County Council. Although he lost the popular election he took up the position unopposed a month later when the winning candidate became an alderman. Richard Griffiths, in his study of the commercial life of the Rhondda, speculates that Williams' prominence in the public life of the Rhondda Valley was based on two factors. The first was his connection with the pre-industrial society of the valley as the heir to Porth Farm, an agricultural holding that disappeared with the advent of industrialisation (although the former farmhouse, where his younger brother Levi Williams lived, survived next to the railway station in the centre of Porth). The second factor was the considerable wealth that he accrued after coal mining operations commenced on the land which formerly formed part of the Porth Farm. Death and legacy Williams died suddenly in Porth on 4 November 1894 and was buried four days later at the Cymmer Independent Chapel graveyard after "a vast concourse of people [had] assembled to pay their last tokens of respect and esteem." References External links Related newspaper and other articles: Relieving Officer (1860): unsuccessfully sought election as relieving officer for the Rhondda district (1868): lay-preacher and deacon at Cymmer Independent Chapel, instrumental in arranging a for the Rhondda which led to similar festivals in subsequent years Pontypridd Board of Governors (1869): elected as relieving officer Pentre Rhondda (1877): registrar of marriages Llanwonno (1877): school board election Ystradyfodwg Burial Board (1879): board member Congregational Association East Glamorganshire (1880): meeting chair Glamorgan County Council Election – Cymmer Division (1892): letter to the Editor and response Glamorgan County Council Triennial Election 1892. Cymmer District (Rhondda) (1892): letter to council electors News in Brief (1892): chosen to replace elected councillor Rhondda Intermediate School (1892): committee vice-president Birmingham Water Bill (1892): Glamorgan Water Committee activity Up and Down the Valley (1892): Porth and District Chamber of Trade meeting Sad Scene in a Rhondda Chapel (1894): further details of death; councillor and assistant overseer and registrar of marriages of the parish of Ystradyfodwg Late Mr Idris Williams (1894): representatives of various groups at the funeral Er Cof am y Diweddar (In Memory of the Late) (1894): song written by Joseph Parry for and sung at the funeral The Late Mr. Williams, Porth (1894): condolence votes from the Rhondda and Pontypridd executive of the National Union of Teachers and the guardians of the Pontypridd Union Congregationalism (1894): condolence letter from English Congregational Union of Glamorganshire and Carmarthenshire The Late Mr Idris Williams (1894): death noted by East Glamorgan Liberal Association Category:Members of Glamorgan County Council Category:1836 births Category:1894 deaths	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Banki State Banki or Bānki State was a princely state in Odisha during the British Raj. Its capital was Banki, in the western part of present day Cuttack district. The last Raja was arrested for murder and Banki State was subsequently annexed by the British Raj. Until 1840 it paid an annual tribute of 443 pounds. History Banki was a zamindari state of Orissa located in the hilly area to the west of Cuttack district. The predecessor state had been ruled by a powerful Raja who in the 17th century had established the zamindari of Dompada as a gift to his second son. River Mahanadi flowed to the north of the state, separating it from Baramba and Tigiria. It was bound in the south by Puri district and in the west by Khandpara State; a little part of the state was located north of the Mahanadi. The state included 177 villages, the most important of which were Charchika, Baideswar, Kalapathar and Subarnapur. Banki became a British protectorate in 1807 following the defeat of the Maratha Empire in the area. In 1821 it was made part of the Feudatory States of Orissa. The population grew from 49,426 inhabitants in 1872 to 56,900 in 1881, with a density of 377 per square mile in 1901. 99.5% of the population were Hindu and the main ethnic group in the hills were the Juang people. Rulers The rulers of Banki State bore the title 'Raja'. In 1840 the last Raja was deposed and the state was confiscated after he was condemned by a British tribunal to life in prison for murder. After annexation Banki was put under direct control of the Bengal Presidency, being administered by the Cuttack Commissioner. Rani Sukadei Rani Sukadei (1686 A.D. - 1726 A.D.) was an Indian queen of the princely state of Banki, Odisha. She is known for her display of courage and bravery in the battles against Gajapati of Khurda. She is regarded as the only undefeated warrior queen in Indian history. Rajkumari Sukadei of Badamba married the King of Banki, Maharaja Dhanajay Trilokyanath Harichandan Deb. Their union strengthened the ties between the two princely states, Banki and Badamba. As the queen of Banki, the Rani took keen interest in the welfare of her subjects. The King and Queen visited the Jagannath temple at Puri and on their way back to Banki, they were invited by the King of Khurda, Gajapati Gopinath Deva at his courrt. It is said that when the Raja and Rani paid a visit to Gajapati. Gajapati at Sukadei's first sight got attracted to her so much so that he planned an attack on Banki in order to woo her as soon as the King and Queen departed for Banki from Khurda. Raja Dhanajay refused to accede his kingdom to Khurda on Gajapati's demand, thus decided to fight a war with the Gajapati. In the battle of Ragadigrama, the combined armies of Badamba and Banki fought with the army of Khurda. The Gajapati's army still outnumbered the combined armies of the defendants. Raja Dhanajay suffered huge loses at the hands of Gajapati. He was ultimately killed in the battle. When this news reached Sukadei it devastated her but then she got determined to protect her husband's kingdom. Only when the commanders of Banki had accepted defeat. Sukadei emerged and motivated the soldiers and commanders to not to loose hope. She declared that the war is not over and she shall herself lead the army to the battle ground. In the afternoon Sukadei marched with a troop of 700 soldiers towards the Gajapati's camp. Both the armies again met at Ragadigrama. Sukadei single handedly killed several soldiers of the Gajapati's army. She challenged the Gajapati for a fight. Gajapati undermining her abilities stepped down from his horse to fight with her accepting her challenge. The valiant queen defeated the Gajapati and captured her, thus ending the war. See also Doctrine of Lapse Orissa Tributary States References External links Odisha Royals - Puri Estate Category:History of Odisha Category:Cuttack district Category:Princely states of India ca:Banki	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Omoglymmius fulgens Omoglymmius fulgens is a species of beetle in the subfamily Rhysodidae. It was described by R.T. & J.R. Bell in 1978. References Category:Omoglymmius Category:Beetles described in 1978	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Frenchman's Creek Beach and Country Club Located in Palm Beach County, Florida, Frenchmans’s Creek Beach and Country Club is a residents-only, year round residential country club community set on of land. The community contains 606 Florida luxury homes - 188 custom / million dollar estate homes, 90 villa homes, 291 patio homes and 37 town homes. 95 of these homes are located on deep water canals offering boating and yachting activities. Eleven homes are located outside the confines of the main community with intra-coastal water access, adjacent to the public marina. Home prices range from $750,000 to over $5 million. In 1935, the Hoyt family bought land on North Prosperity Farms Road near the Intracoastal Waterway. By the 1940s, the family owned much of the area, then known as Paradise Port. In the later 1940s, federal surveyors found a small wooden sign that one of the Hoyt children, Billy Hoyt, had placed on a small creek. It turned out the children had informally named the stream for one of their mother's favorite novels: Daphne du Maurier's Frenchman's Creek. The name became official and still marks the small waterway that runs through the Frenchman's Creek neighborhood and connects to the nearby Marina. In 1977, developers Burt Haft and Jack Gaines purchased the of land, formerly owned by the Hoyts, from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation for $61 million, which included two public golf courses. The south of Donald Ross Road, with the two golf courses, became Frenchman's Creek. The north of Donald Ross Road were sold and are now home to The Bear's Club and Ritz-Carlton Golf and Spa communities. Frenchman's Creek was approved by the county for the development of 3,300 housing units; Haft Gaines settled for a much lower density of only 600 home sites. Houses were then marketed from $325,000 to more than $3 million. In 1986, additional land was purchased in Juno Beach on which the Beach Club was built directly adjacent to the Atlantic Ocean. Frenchman’s Creek also includes a private ocean-front Beach Club along with two 18-hole golf courses, 17 tennis courts, deepwater anchorage for boats and yachts, a clubhouse, and a stand-alone fitness and spa facility exclusively for member use. Membership in the private club at Frenchman's Creek is limited exclusively to the 606 residences within the community. Frenchman's Creek is owned and operated by its equity members, thus establishing each Member as an owner in part of the common areas, Club and their related facilities. Membership in this Palm Beach country club is a family-style membership with golf, tennis and activities intended for use by every member of the immediate family. As a resident in the community, country club membership is mandatory. Members pay an Equity Fee, a portion of which is refundable and the non-refundable portion is a contribution to the Capital Reserve Fund. Members are billed annual club dues and POA maintenance fees established by the annual operating budget. Frenchman’s Creek is located at 13495 Tournament Drive, Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410 P: (561) 622-8300 \| F: (561) 622-8891 References www.frenchmanscreek.com http://floridahome.palmbeachpost.com/realestate/neighborhoods/frenchmans-creek-beach-country-club/ External links http://www.frenchmanscreek.com http://floridahome.palmbeachpost.com/realestate/neighborhoods/frenchmans-creek-beach-country-club/ Category:Buildings and structures in Palm Beach County, Florida Category:Golf clubs and courses in Florida Category:Tennis venues in Florida Category:Planned communities in Florida Category:1977 establishments in Florida	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Andrew Kyle Andrew Kyle (born 1978) is a Northern Irish international lawn & indoor bowler. Kyle bowls for County Antrim Bowling Club indoors and Larne Bowling Club outdoors and in 2016 represented a combined Irish team at the Bowls World Cup in Australia. He was selected as part of the Northern Ireland team for the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast in Queensland. References Category:1978 births Category:Living people Category:Male lawn bowls players from Northern Ireland	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
2015–16 North Florida Ospreys men's basketball team The 2015–16 North Florida Ospreys men's basketball team represented the University of North Florida during the 2015–16 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Ospreys were led by seventh-year head coach Matthew Driscoll and played their home games at UNF Arena on the university's campus in Jacksonville, Florida as members of the Atlantic Sun Conference (A-Sun). For the second year in a row, the Ospreys won the A-Sun regular season championship. They finished the season 22–12, 10–4 in A-Sun play. Guard Dallas Moore was named A-Sun Player of the Year, the first such award for a North Florida player. Driscoll and his staff were named A-Sun Coaching Staff of the Year for the second year in a row. As the No.1 seed in the Atlantic Sun Tournament, they advanced to the semifinals where they were upset at home by Florida Gulf Coast. As a regular season conference champion who failed to win their conference tournament, the Ospreys received an automatic bid to the National Invitation Tournament. As a No. 7 seed, the Ospreys hosted the No. 2 seed Florida in the first round, where they fell 97–68. The Ospreys made the most three point shots (402) out of all NCAA Division I teams in the 2015–16 season, earning them the nickname "Birds of Trey". Previous season The Ospreys finished the 2014–15 season with a program-best overall record of 23–12, and a 12–2 record in conference play. They won the Atlantic Sun Conference Tournament and advanced to the NCAA Tournament for the first time. As a No. 16 seed in the South Region, they were defeated 81–77 by fellow No. 16 seed Robert Morris in the First Four in Dayton, Ohio. Preseason Before the season, Driscoll agreed to a four-year contract extension to remain the team's head coach through 2022. The Ospreys were picked as preseason favorites to retain their A-Sun Conference title by coaches and media. Multiple players received preseason all-conference honors, including guard/forward Beau Beech who was named A-Sun Preseason Player of the Year. Roster Schedule and results November The Ospreys carried their previous season's momentum right into their first game by earning a road upset of Illinois by a score of 93–81. In a game that UNF never trailed, the Ospreys set a program record (at the time) for three-point-shots made with 17. It was the program's second victory over a Big Ten Conference opponent, with the first coming in December 2014 at Purdue. In their home opener, the Ospreys blew out Texas–Rio Grande Valley, 106–84. For the second straight game they connected on 17 three-point-shots, tying the program record. They improved to 2–0 for the first time since the 2005–06 season. It was just the third time UNF has reached 100 points since joining Division I. Guard Dallas Moore recorded his second straight double-double and became UNF's 11th player to score 1,000 career points. On November 18, coach Matthew Driscoll surpassed Matt Kilcullen to become the winningest coach in program history with a 98–69 win over crosstown rival and NAIA member Edward Waters. With the win, UNF started the season 3–0 for the first time since the 1994–95 season when they were members of Division II. Over the next two games, the Ospreys trailed at halftime by only two points at Louisville and one point at Saint Louis, however, they went on to lose those games by margins of 28 and 13 respectively. They won three consecutive games to finish November with a record of 6–2. December On December 2, Moore and Beech each scored 31 points (a career high for Beech) in a 108–119 loss at LSU. The Ospreys led 56–48 at halftime, but 43 points by freshman phenom Ben Simmons proved too much for UNF to handle. The Ospreys once again set a program record for three-point-shots made with 19. In their next game, they trailed at Dayton by only three points at halftime, but lost by a margin of 15. On December 12 against Coastal Georgia, the Ospreys scored the most points in program history with a 117–71 victory. In December, North Florida swept a four-game home stand to extend their winning streak at UNF Arena to 14 games, a program record. The Ospreys then lost two in a row at Arkansas and at VCU to close out the month of December. January On January 2, the Ospreys won at Eastern Michigan, 82–77, to finish their non-conference schedule with a record of 11–6. In the game, senior forward Demarcus Daniels set the program record for career blocks with 146. Their 11 wins marked the most non-conference victories in program history. On January 9, the Ospreys defeated crosstown rival Jacksonville for the fifth time in a row in the River City Rumble. On January 16, the Ospreys defeated Kennesaw State, 93–78, despite trailing by 14 points in the first half. In the game, guard Beau Beech scored a career high 33 points, and UNF extended its home winning streak to 17 games. On January 24 in a win at NJIT, the Ospreys made a program record 20 three-point-shots, a record that was broken or tied four times in the 2015–16 season. February The Ospreys had improved to 7–0 in conference play until losing at home to Stetson on February 1. The loss snapped an 18-game home winning streak. The Ospreys lost the following three games, all on the road, to fall into a three-way tie for first place in the A-Sun at 7–4. They snapped their losing streak by defeating NJIT at home, 107–71 on February 18. On February 20, the Ospreys clinched at least a share of the Atlantic Sun regular season title by defeating USC Upstate, 81–78. They secured the regular season championship and No. 1 seed in the Atlantic Sun Tournament with a win at crosstown rival Jacksonville. March The Ospreys began their quest to win back-to-back Atlantic Sun Tournament titles by defeating USC Upstate in the quarterfinals, 92–69. However, they were blown-out by 33 points in the semifinals by Florida Gulf Coast. Their 56 points were the fewest they scored in any game this season. Due to renovations at the O'Connell Center, the 7-seed Ospreys hosted the 2-seed Florida Gators in the first round of the 2016 National Invitation Tournament, where they fell 97–68 in front of 6,011 fans at the UNF Arena. \|- !colspan=9 style="background:#031B49; color:white;"\| Non-conference regular season \|- !colspan=9 style="background:#031B49; color:white;"\| Atlantic Sun Conference regular season \|- !colspan=9 style="background:#031B49; color:white;"\| Atlantic Sun Tournament \|- !colspan=9 style="background:#031B49; color:white;"\| National Invitation Tournament Source: NOTES: Game postponed from Saturday, January 23 at 4 pm to Sunday, January 24 at 6 pm due to Winter Storm Jonas. Awards and honors Beau Beech, guard Atlantic Sun All-Conference First Team Atlantic Sun Player of the Week (Jan. 11–17). Beech averaged 27 points, 9 rebounds, and 3 assists in two wins over Lipscomb and Kennesaw State. Preseason Atlantic Sun Player of the Year Preseason Atlantic Sun All-Conference Team Demarcus Daniels, forward Atlantic Sun Defensive Player of the Year Atlantic Sun All-Academic Team Atlantic Sun Player of the Week (Jan. 4–10). Daniels averaged 22 points, 9.5 rebounds, and 2.5 blocks in two wins over Stetson and Jacksonville. Atlantic Sun Co-Player of the Week (Feb. 15–21). Daniels averaged 24 points, 6.5 rebounds, 2.5 assists, and 2.5 blocks in two wins over NJIT and USC Upstate. Scored a career high 25 points versus NJIT. Preseason Atlantic Sun Defensive Player of the Year Preseason Atlantic Sun All-Conference Team Chris Davenport, forward Preseason Atlantic Sun All-Conference Team Head Coach Matthew Driscoll and staff Atlantic Sun Coaching Staff of the Year Trent Mackey, guard Atlantic Sun Scholar-Athlete of the Year Atlantic Sun All-Academic Team Dallas Moore, guard Atlantic Sun Player of the Year Atlantic Sun All-Conference First Team Atlantic Sun All-Tournament Team Atlantic Sun Co-Player of the Week (Nov. 13–15). Moore recorded 26 points, 10 assists, and no turnovers in a road upset of Illinois. Atlantic Sun Player of the Week (Nov. 23–29). Moore averaged 16.0 points, 8.7 rebounds, and 5.7 assists in a loss at Saint Louis, a win at Hartford, and a neutral site win over St. Francis Brooklyn. Atlantic Sun Player of the Week (Jan. 18–24). Moore averaged 22.5 points, 5 rebounds, 6.5 assists, and 2.5 steals in two road wins over USC Upstate and NJIT. Preseason Atlantic Sun All-Conference Team References Category:North Florida Ospreys men's basketball seasons North Florida North Florida Ospreys men's basketball North Florida Ospreys men's basketball North Florida	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Swimming at the 2002 Commonwealth Games – Women's 50 metre backstroke The women's 50 metre backstroke event at the 2002 Commonwealth Games took place 2–3 August. The heats and the semi were held on 2 August, the final on 3 August. Results Final Key: WR = World record Semifinals Preliminaries References Heats Results Category:Swimming at the 2002 Commonwealth Games Category:2002 in women's swimming	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
2005–06 FIS Cross-Country World Cup The 2005–06 FIS Cross-Country World Cup was the 25th official World Cup season in cross-country skiing for men and ladies. The season began in Düsseldorf on 22 October 2005 and was concluded in Sapporo on 19 March 2006. Calendar Men Women Men's team Women's team events Men's standings Overall Distance Sprint Women's standings Overall Distance Sprint Nations Cup Overall Men Women Points distribution The World Cup points in the 2005–06 season were awarded according to the following table: Achievements Victories in this World Cup (all-time number of victories as of 2005/06 season in parentheses) Men , 5 (6) first places , 3 (3) first places , 2 (10) first places , 2 (9) first places , 2 (5) first places , 1 (9) first places , 1 (6) first place , 1 (5) first place , 1 (4) first place , 1 (3) first place , 1 (2) first place , 1 (1) first place , 1 (1) first place , 1 (1) first place , 1 (1) first place Women , 6 (26) first places , 4 (4) first places , 3 (16) first places , 2 (18) first places , 1 (4) first place , 1 (3) first place , 1 (2) first place , 1 (1) first place , 1 (1) first place , 1 (1) first place , 1 (1) first place , 1 (1) first place , 1 (1) first place References External links Overview of the season and results at the official website of the International Ski Federation. Overall World Cup, men, at the official website of the International Ski Federation. Overall World Cup, women, at the official website of the International Ski Federation. World Cup 2005-06 World Cup 2005-06 Category:FIS Cross-Country World Cup seasons	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Fighting Back Fighting Back may refer to: Fighting Back (Cloven Hoof album), 1986 Fighting Back (Battlezone album), 1986 Fighting Back (1948 film), directed by Malcolm St. Clair Fighting Back: The Rocky Bleier Story, a 1980 made-for-television movie Fighting Back (1982 American film) Fighting Back (1982 Australian film)	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Nåt gammalt, nåt nytt, nåt lånat, nåt blått is an album by Håkan Hellström, released in 2005. In English the title corresponds to "Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue." The title describes the nature of the album—some songs are leftovers from earlier recordings, some are newly written ones and a few others are covers. For example, "Jag vill ha allting" is a cover of Luna's "I Want Everything", while "13" is a version of the Big Star song "Thirteen". Track listing "" "" Clubland "" As Long As You Are with Me) "" I Want It All "" Just Like Romeo "" August in Hell "" I Hate That I Love You and I Love You So Much That I Hate Myself "" "" "" Moving On "" The Street Forward "" Category:2006 albums Category:Håkan Hellström albums Category:Swedish-language albums	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Sam Lane (field hockey) Sam Garrett Lane (born 30 April 1997) is a field hockey player from New Zealand. Personal Life Sam Lane was born in Christchurch, New Zealand and raised in Temuka, New Zealand. He started playing hockey when he was 3 years old. Career Club level In the New Zealand National Hockey League Lane plays for Canterbury. National team Sam Lane made his senior debut for the Black Sticks in 2016 during the Trans–Tasman Trophy against Australia. During his career, Lane has only medalled once with the national side, at the 2017 Oceania Cup held in Sydney, Australia. Lane's most recent appearance for the national team was during the inaugural tournament of the FIH Pro League. New Zealand finished in eighth and last place. International Goals References External Links Category:1997 births Category:Living people Category:New Zealand male field hockey players Category:Male field hockey forwards	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
List of Sporting de Gijón players This is the list of notable footballers who have played for Sporting de Gijón. Generally, this means players that have played 100 or more league matches for the club. However, some players who have played fewer matches are also included; this includes first nationals at the club, and some players who fell short of the 100 total but made significant contributions to the club's history or in his career. Appearances and goals include La Liga, Segunda División and playoffs matches. Substitute appearances are included. Statistics are correct as of the end of the 2015–16 season. Key Players Asturian flag is added for Spanish players born in Asturias. References List of players in BDFutbol.com All Sporting footballers "La historia del Sporting en La Liga" () Sporting Category:Association football player non-biographical articles	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Vasant Utsav Vasant Utsav is a complex of buildings in Thakur village, Kandivali EAST, Mumbai. It is located next to Thakur Jewel and Thakur college of science and commerce. There are about 550 apartments. The complex is structured by 6 buildings, Raas, Rangoli, Rakhee, Poornima, Ragini and Umang. Ragini and Umang, are separated from the other four by a public road. The complex has a club house which is equipped with a gym and a swimming pool. The housing units are 1 bhk, 2 bhk and 3 bhk. All the 1 bhk are 550 sq.ft, 2 bhks are either 775 sq.ft or 800/850 sq.ft. and 3 bhks are around 1000 sq.ft. (only Rangoli building has 3 bhks). Behind the complex is located the Thakur Shyamnarayan Ground and also the Thakur Public School. Oxford International School is also within walking distance. Category:Buildings and structures in Mumbai	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Yorkville School Yorkville School, also known as Parkview School, is a historic multi-room school in Yorkville, Illinois, United States. History Yorkville, Illinois was founded in 1833 when Earl Adams built a log cabin on the south side of the Fox River. As the area developed, the river split the population into Bristol, north of the river, and Yorkville to the south. Yorkville and Bristol remained separate communities through the 1880s. During that decade, however, Yorkville and Bristol officials agreed to form a single school district. The Yorkville School was the first large school building in the area and held classes from first grade through high school. Grade school students were largely drawn from the two communities, but high school students would attend from as far as away. Despite the name, the school was built in what was then still called Bristol. Yorkville residents filed a lawsuit to stop construction, but the district was able to construct the building before the case went to court. It replaced an 1830s one-room schoolhouse on the south side of the river and an 1850s four-room school building on the north side. Bristol was later merged into Yorkville. A large addition on the east side was built in 1907. Yorkville High School was built in 1959. The old Yorkville School continued to house grade and middle schools for another nine years. In 1968, the school building became home to Waubonsee Community College, who renamed the structure Parkview School. Waubonsee later moved to Sugar Grove, Illinois. The building was still used for grade school classes until 1991. The building is now used by Parkview Christian Academy as its main campus and houses grade levels Preschool through 5th grade. References Category:School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Illinois Category:Victorian architecture in Illinois Category:School buildings completed in 1887 Category:Buildings and structures in Kendall County, Illinois Category:National Register of Historic Places in Kendall County, Illinois	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Khadzhimurat Gatsalov Khadzhimurat Soltanovich Gatsalov (, born December 11, 1982 in Chikola, North Ossetia–Alania) is a Russian wrestler of Ossetian descent. As of February 2020, he represents Armenia. Olympic Champion 2004, Five Times World Champion. He won the gold medal in the freestyle 96 kg class in the 2004 Summer Olympics, he beat future UFC Light Heavyweight and Heavyweight Champion Daniel Cormier in the semi-finals. He won five world medals in the 96 kg class at the FILA Wrestling World Championships. In 2013, he moved up to the 120 kg class and won a gold medal at the FILA Wrestling World Championships. He started his senior level competitive career at 84 kg in 2002 before moving up to 96 kg and 120 kg. Khadzhimurat is a devout Sunni Muslim In 2014, Gatsalov became Cormier's training partner ahead of Cormier's fight against Jon Jones in UFC 182. References Twitter Account Biography on fila-wrestling.com Category:1982 births Category:Living people Category:Russian male sport wrestlers Category:Olympic wrestlers of Russia Category:Wrestlers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Category:Olympic gold medalists for Russia Category:Olympic medalists in wrestling Category:European Games competitors for Russia Category:Wrestlers at the 2015 European Games Category:World Wrestling Championships medalists Category:Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Category:People from Irafsky District Category:Russian people of Ossetian descent	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
That's the Way a Cowboy Rocks and Rolls That's the Way a Cowboy Rocks and Rolls is the fifth studio album by American country artist, Jessi Colter. The album was released in November 1978 on Capitol Records and was produced by Richie Albright and Waylon Jennings. Background That's the Way a Cowboy Rocks and Rolls contained ten tracks of entirely new material. The album's first single, "Maybe You Should've Been Listening," only reached a peak of #45 on the Hot Country Songs chart in 1978, and the album's second single, "Love Me Back Sleep" peaked even lower on the chart in 1979. The album charted among the Top Country Albums list, reaching #46 upon its release in January 1978. The album's title track would later be covered and released as a single by country music artist, Jacky Ward in 1980, where it would reach #7 on the Hot Country Songs Chart. Like Colter's previous releases, the album was co-produced by Waylon Jennings, a country artist and Colter's husband. He also helped serve as background vocals on the album as well. The album was rated by Allmusic, and was given three out of five stars. Track listing "Roll on" — 3:29 "Black Haired Boy" — 2:51 "I Was Kinda Crazy Then" — 3:10 "That's the Way a Cowboy Rocks and Rolls" — 3:20 "My Cowboy's Last Ride" — 3:12 "Hold Back the Tears" — 3:00 "Maybe You Should've Been Listening" — 4:35 "Don't You Think I Feel it Too" — 3:02 "Love Me Back to Sleep" — 2:26 "My Goodness" — 5:00 Personnel Recorded at Jack Clements's Caribou Ranch American studio in Nederland, Colorado, United States. Richie Albright — drums producer J.J. Cale — guitar Fred Carter — guitar Jessi Colter — keyboards, lead vocals Johnny Gimble — violin Sherman Hayes — bass Waylon Jennings — background vocals, guitar, producer Ralph Mooney — steel guitar Gordon Payne — guitar Clifford "Barny" Robertson — background vocals, keyboards Carter Robertson — background vocals Tony Joe White — guitar, harmonica Chart positions Album – Billboard (North America) Singles - Billboard (United States) References Category:1978 albums Category:Jessi Colter albums Category:Capitol Records albums	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Mapire, Peninsula de Paria Mapire is a town situated in the Bideau Parish of the Valdez Municipality, Sucre, Venezuela. The town is situated 24 kilometers from Guiria, the capital of Valdez, on the Paria Peninsula. Quick facts Population: 120 inhabitants Demonym: Maripero Currency: Bolívar fuerte (VEF) Economy : Fishing and Tourism Time zone: (GMT -4) Calling code: 0294 zip code: 6150 Coordinates:10° 38' 26" North, 62° 8' 58" West Official language: Spanish Mayor: Jesus Ramirez Lopez Patron Saint: Coronation of Virgen del Valle - May 31 Geography Mapire Beach This beautiful cove is a settlement of several fishermen families, and has a small river that supplies the population with water. This bay is open towards the south; the beach is 100 meters long. Ubication: In the south coast of the Paria Peninsula, 4 kilometers to the west of Puerto de Hierro. original name: Mapire geographical location: Valdez, Sucre, Venezuela, South America geographical coordinates: 10° 38' 26" North, 62° 8' 58" West History The story told by José Stronghold Logan (historian, singer, poet and farmer), says that were families Garcia, Gonzalez. Villava and Blanc, the first inhabitants of the town, dedicated to working the land, specifically the cultivation of cocoa. How to get there Mapire is reached from Guiria by sea route an hour (by boat or otherwise) or via land road vehicles suitable for large and small, to Salina, Campo santo, Juan Pedro and other coastal hamlets Tourism Mapire has a stunning beach, in harmony with mountain ranges, slopes encarpadas itself wrapped by a mountain climate. In Mapire its inhabitants are divided into two sectors. La Playa (beach) and El Cerro (the hill). in the beach fishing of (snapper, mullet, Moor, etc.) is performed, woodworking (making fishing boats) and dry cocoa produced in the estates. In the Hill have settled most of the families find the school, the chapel of the town and the river Mapire, water source and meeting area for residents. Gallery External links Mapire Tourism Foundation official website Miss Paria Beauty Pageant Aerea de Mapire Category:Sucre	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Magnac-Lavalette-Villars Magnac-Lavalette-Villars is a commune in the Charente department in southwestern France. Population See also Communes of the Charente department References INSEE Category:Communes of Charente	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Jacek Krenz {{Infobox architect \|name=Jacek Krenz \|image= Portalegre_JDaxx.jpg \|caption= \|nationality=Polish \|birth_date=1948 \|birth_place=Poznań, Poland \|death_date= \|death_place= \|practice= \|significant_buildings=The Monument Cemetery of the Lost Cemeteries in Gdańsk PL, Church in Waglikowice, PL }} Jacek Krenz, born in 1948 in Poznań, Poland, is an academic architect and painter. He is a professor at Gdańsk University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture, taught also at University of Fine Arts in Poznań – both in Poland – and at Universidade da Beira Interior in Covilhã, Portugal. Charter member of The Polish Watercolour Society. Work Festus, Art Hotel in Sopot PL 2005Orphanage, with T. Mielczyński. Awarded an Honorary Mention in the competition. 2003The Monument Cemetery of the Lost Cemeteries in Gdańsk PL, with H. Klementowska. First Prize in the competition. Realization of the design - 2002Futura Leasing Ltd, new site in Gdańsk PL 2000Church in Waglikowice, with P. Loch, completion 1993Renovation of the residential and public historical buildings.Bank NBP interiors Gdańsk, PL, with P. and B. Loch. Interior design.The Center of Music in the Old Brewery in Kartuzy PL 2004Pavilion of Gdańsk at 11 Cities/11 Nations Contemporary Nordic Art and Architecture, Leeuwarden, NL 1999Monument to the Fallen Shipyard Workers of 1970. Gdańsk, Solidarity Place: with S. Baum and W. Mokwiński, PL 1980 He is a co-founder of the Wdzydze Artists’ Village in Kaszuby, Poland, where he works in his summer studio. As a result of several workshops and artistic journeys around Europe, his works are in numerous private, public, and corporate collections. Bibliography 2016: Krenz J., Teixeira J. S.: Castelo Branco: akwarela & poesia. Castelo Branco: Junta de Freguesia de Castelo Branco, 2016, 2016: Krenz J., City in my eyes. in: Sketch City: Tips and Inspiration for Drawing on Location. p.132-145, Gingko Press Inc. 2015. 2010: Ideogramy architektury. Między znakiem a znaczeniem, Wydawnictwo Bernardinum, 2010: Ideograms in Architecture. Between Sign and Meaning, Covilha: Universidade da Beira Interior, 2014, 1997: Architektura znaczeń, Wydawnictwo Politechniki Gdańskiej, Exhibitions of drawings and watercolours Paisagens, Passagens. Individual exhibition of drawings and paintings. Museu de Lanificios, Covilhã, Portugal 2014Jacek Krenz - Watercolours, Katarzyna Krenz - Poetry. Warzywniak Gallery. Gdansk Oliwa. 2013.OUVINDO CHOPIN - 3 editions in Portugal: Casa Santa Maria, Cascais, Galeria Municipal do Palácio Ribamar, Lisbon, Espaço Cultural do Chiado da Fundação Sousa Pedro. Lisbon, 2010Galeria de Santo António in Monchique, Portugal 2010,Arte e Genero in Castelo Branco, Portugal 2010,Casino de Lisboa in Lisbon, Portugal 2009,ARTE ALGARVE in Loulé, Portugal 2008,Palaca Milesi in Split, Croatia 2008,City Museum in Trogir, Croatia 2008,Centro Chiado in lisbon, Portugal 2008,Galeria Municipal in Castelo de Vide, Portugal 2007,Galeria Municipal in Oeiras, Portugal 2007,the Royal Watercolour Society’s Bankside Gallery in London 2005 and 2006.The Old Market House Arts Centre in Dungarvan, Ireland 2006,Museu de Lanifícios in Covilhã, Portugal 2006The Labyrinth Gallery in Kraków, Poland 2005The Municipal Gallery in Łeba, Poland 2005;Farum Kulturhus in Denmark 2005,The Municipal Gallery in Dignano (Vodnjan) Croatia 2001TU Delft Faculty of Architecture, The Netherlands 1987Society of Polish Architects, Gdańsk, Poland 1986Rotterdam Town Hall, The Netherlands 1986,Haarlem Town Hall, The Netherlands 1985,Haarlem Cultural Center'', The Netherlands 1984, External links Jacek Krenz – architect WATERMARKS – Jacek Krenz Watercolors Category:Polish architects Category:20th-century Polish painters Category:21st-century Polish painters Category:1948 births Category:Living people Category:Gdańsk University of Technology faculty	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Center High School (Texas) Center High School is a public, 4-year high school located in Center, Texas and is classified as a 4A school by the University Interscholastic League. It is part of the Center Independent School District and is located in central Shelby County, Texas. In 2015, the school was rated Met Standard. In 2013, U.S. News & World Report gave Center High School a bronze medal and named the school one of the best high schools in the nation. History Center High School dates back prior to 1900 as "Center School". The earliest graduating class dates back to 1903 with a graduating class of six people. The original high school building is the current middle school building. The school was built in 1939. The building also caught fire in 1963, but was extinguished. The current high school building has a new wing specifically designed for career learning opportunities such as culinary, graphic design, business, etc. Athletics The school is home to the Center Roughriders. The team name comes from the Rough Riders, but is spelled without a space. The Center Roughriders compete in the following sports: Football Basketball Tennis * Volleyball Golf Baseball Softball Soccer * Track and field * Powerlifting * Key: * - has been to state within the past decade. The current Athletic Director for Center is Coach Ponder. The previous being Barry Bowman. The Pride of Shelby County The Roughrider Band, more commonly known as The Pride of Shelby County, is an award-winning band program currently under the direction of Chris Smith and Patrick Conn. The marching band has received 1's at marching contest by a panel of judges. To get a 1 is the highest honor. The band also participates in the National Association Of Military Marching Bands\|National Association of Military Marching Band (NAMMB) competition where the school competes against other 4A schools to place. Theater Arts The Center High School theater department is active in the UIL One Act Play competition. The director of the theater department is Center High School alumnus, Christopher Watlington. In 2015, the CHS Theater Department put on the show God (play) by Woody Allen for UIL One Act Play. The show made it to Area and placed as alternate. The lead actor, Christopher Caudle, won "Best Actor" at both District and Bi-District competitions. Austin Wright was awarded "All Star Cast" and Braden Wood was awarded "Honorable Mention" at both meets, respectively. The theater department also puts on an annual Christmas play as well as a traditional production called "Center Stage". The earliest documented Center play dates back to 1930. Spirit Organizations The school has Varsity and Junior Varsity cheerleading. The mascot, Rowdy the Rough Rider, is typically worn by an upperclassman. The school's award-winning dance team is known as The Chapparals. The Twirlers perform at half-time during the football games before the marching band performs. The twirlers date back as far as 1951. References External links http://www.centerisd.org/ Category:High schools in Shelby County, Texas Category:Public high schools in Texas	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Lintneria pitzahuac Lintneria pitzahuac is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from Mexico. It is similar in colour and pattern to Lintneria lugens and Lintneria pseudostigmatica, but smaller than Lintneria pseudostigmatica and with narrower wings. There are very narrow, white segmental transverse bands on the abdomen upperside. The wing markings are all narrow and not so well defined. The fringe of the hindwing is almost completely white, with only a few dark dots in the veins. The larvae probably feed on Lamiaceae (such as Salvia, Mentha, Monarda and Hyptis), Hydrophylloideae (such as Wigandia) and Verbenaceae species (such as Verbena and Lantana). References Category:Lintneria Category:Moths described in 1948	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Robur LO 1800 A The Robur LO 1800 A is a leightweight off-road lorry, made by East German manufacturer VEB Robur-Werke Zittau from 1960 to 1967, alongside the on-road model LO 2500. The LO 1800 A is a forward control lorry, and has rear-wheel drive with switchable front-wheel drive. Its name is an abbreviation for Luftgekühlter Ottomotor, 1800 kg, Allrad (air-cooled otto engine, 1800 kg payload, all-wheel-drive). Powered by a 3.35 l, carburetted, Robur LO 4 engine, rated at 2800 min−1, and mated to a five-speed gearbox, the LO 1800 A can reach a top speed of 82 km/h. References External links Category:Robur trucks Category:IFA vehicles	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Rohan Burke Rohan Burke (born 24 July 1961) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton in the Victorian Football League (VFL). He is the son of Gerald Burke who played for Carlton in the 1950s. Notes External links Rohan Burke's profile at Blueseum Category:1961 births Category:Carlton Football Club players Category:Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia) Category:Reservoir Lakeside Football Club players Category:Living people	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Fame and Fortune (Elvis Presley song) "Fame and Fortune" is a 1960 song by Elvis Presley. It was written by Fred Wise (lyrics) and Ben Weisman (music) and published by Elvis Presley's company Gladys Music, Inc. Presley recorded it on March 21, 1960 in the RCA Studio B in Nashville, Tennessee. He also sang it on the TV special The Frank Sinatra Timex Show: Welcome Home Elvis (recorded March 26, 1960, and aired on May 12 of that year). The song was first released on a single as the flipside to "Stuck on You" (RCA 47 7740). It was Presley's first post-army single. "Fame and Fortune" peaked at number 17 on the Billboard Hot 100 on the week of May 5, 1960, while "Stuck on You" spent several weeks at number 1. In the United States the single "Stuck on You" (backed with "Fame and Fortune") was certified Gold by RIAA for selling in over 1 million copies. Musical style and lyrics "Fame and Fortune" is a ballad. Charts References External links Elvis Presley – Stuck on You at Discogs Category:1960s ballads Category:1960 songs Category:1960 singles Category:Elvis Presley songs Category:RCA Records singles Category:Songs with lyrics by Fred Wise (songwriter) Category:Songs with music by Ben Weisman	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Folk instrument A folk instrument is a musical instrument that developed among common people and usually does not have a known inventor. It can be made from wood, metal or other material. Such an instrument is played in performances of folk music. Overview The instruments can be percussion instruments, or different types of flutes or trumpets, or string instruments that are plucked, hammered or use a form of bow. Some instruments are referred to as folk instruments because they commonly appear in folk music, even though they do not meet the criteria defining a folk instrument; an example is the harmonica. List of folk instruments accordion alboka appalachian dulcimer autoharp bagpipe balalaika bandura banjo bağlama binioù kozh birimbau bodhrán bombard bouzouki & Irish bouzouki bukkehorn bullroarer cajón catá cavaquinho Celtic harp chajchas charango çığırtma çifteli cimbalom claves concertina cuatro daegeum darbuka didgeridoo dhol djembe dholak dingulator damphu dotara dranyen drum ektara erhu fiddle fujara gadulka gaida gayageum gudok guitar guitarra Portuguesa guitalin gusle gusli haegeum hank drum hardingfele harmonica harmonium hammered dulcimer hurdy-gurdy jaw harp jouhikko jug kazoo kantele kaval khamak klopotec kobza komuz kora kulintang launeddas låtfiol lur lute madal mandola mandocello mandolin & octave mandolin marimbula mbira/thumb piano melodeon mridangam mountain dulcimer musical saw nyckelharpa ocarina pan flute pipa pogo cello quena phamuk rebab recorder ravanahatha rubab salamiyyah shofar sinfonia sitar snare drum smallpipes Sarangi (Nepali) Sarangi (Indian) sopilka spilåpipa Steel Guitar steelpan stompbox tabla talking drum tin whistle tambura tiple trembita tres oud ocarina udu uilleann pipes ukulele viola beiroa viola braguesa viola caipira viola campaniça viola da terra viola toeira violin vuvuzela washboard washtub bass willow flute xylophone zampoña zurna zither zhaleika Category:Ethnology Category:Folk music Category:Musical instruments	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Mannelli Mannelli is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include: Caesar Mannelli (1897–1936), American rugby union player Carlo Mannelli (1640–1697), Italian violinist, castrato and composer Luigi Mannelli (born 1939), Italian water polo player Massimo Mannelli (born 1956), Italian golfer Maurizio Mannelli (1930–2014), Italian water polo player Riccardo Mannelli (born 1955), Italian artist and illustrator See also Manelli Category:Italian-language surnames	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
List of members of the People's Representative Council, 2004–2009 This article lists the members of the People's Representative Council from 2004 to 2009. The 16th People's Representative Council follows the 2004 Indonesian legislative election held on 5 April 2004. There are 550 elected MPs in the Parliament. Speaker and Deputy Speaker List of members Aceh North Sumatra West Sumatra Riau Riau Islands Jambi South Sumatra Bangka Belitung Bengkulu Lampung Jakarta Banten West Java Central Java Yogyakarta East Java West Kalimantan Central Kalimantan East Kalimantan South Kalimantan South Sulawesi Central Sulawesi Gorontalo North Sulawesi Southeast Sulawesi North Maluku Maluku Bali West Nusa Tenggara East Nusa Tenggara West Papua Papua References Anggota Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat Republik Indonesia Periode 2004-2009 (Part 1) Anggota Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat Republik Indonesia Periode 2004-2009 (Part 2) Anggota Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat Republik Indonesia Periode 2004-2009 (Part 3) Anggota Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat Republik Indonesia Periode 2004-2009 (Part 4) Category:List of members of the People's Representative Council	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Krakout Krakout is a Breakout clone that was released for the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, BBC Micro, Commodore 64, Thomson computers and MSX platforms in 1987. One of the wave of enhanced Breakout variants to emerge in the wake of Arkanoid, its key distinctions are that gameplay is horizontal in layout, and that it allows the player to select the acceleration characteristics of the bat before playing. It was written by Andy Green and Rob Toone and published by Gremlin Graphics. The music was composed by Ben Daglish. Reception In 1990, Dragon gave the game 4 out of 5 stars, calling it "one of our favorites, this is Breakout with a different flavor". References External links Krakout at Complete BBC Games Archive Category:1987 video games Category:Breakout clones Category:BBC Micro and Acorn Electron games Category:Amstrad CPC games Category:Commodore 64 games Category:MSX games Category:ZX Spectrum games Category:Video games scored by Ben Daglish Category:Video games developed in the United Kingdom	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
NA-220 (Umerkot) NA-220 (Umerkot) () is a constituency for the National Assembly of Pakistan. Members of Parliament Since 2018: NA-220 (Umerkot) Election 2002 General elections were held on 10 Oct 2002. Nawab Muhammad Yousif Talpur of PPP won by 58,161 votes. Election 2008 General elections were held on 18 Feb 2008. Nawab Muhammad Yousif Talpur of PPP won by 75,080 votes. Election 2013 General elections were held on 11 May 2013. Nawab Muhammad Yousif Talpur of PPP won by 99,700 votes and became the member of National Assembly. Election 2013 General elections were held on 11 May 2013. Pir Shafqat Hussain Shah Jilani of PPP won by 82,017 votes and became the member of National Assembly. Election 2018 General elections were held on 25 July 2018. See also NA-219 (Mirpur Khas-II) NA-221 (Tharparkar-I) References External links Election result's official website NA-228	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Orpha, Wyoming Orpha is an unincorporated community in Converse County, Wyoming, United States. Orpha is located near Wyoming Highway 93 northwest of Douglas. The town lies just north of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway and the North Platte River. Several miles to Orpha's northeast lies a historic Hog Ranch saloon, c. 1882, well known for its gambling operations. (See Fort Laramie Three-Mile Hog Ranch for an example of this kind of saloon.) Fort Fetterman lies across the river from Orpha, a few miles downstream. References Category:Unincorporated communities in Wyoming Category:Unincorporated communities in Converse County, Wyoming	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
New Standards (Malachi Thompson album) New Standards is an album by the American jazz trumpeter Malachi Thompson recorded and released by the Delmark label in 1993. Reception Allmusic reviewer Steven McDonald stated "New Standards takes on a nice variety of material ... The playing is entertainingly upbeat, keeping the music interesting even when Thompson and the band go off into improvisational wilds. Thompson's trumpet work is outstanding, entertaining and listenable without condescending to the production of light and fluffy jazz". Track listing "Joshua" (Victor Feldman) – 6:38 "Pinnoccio" (Wayne Shorter) – 8:25 "Crescent" (John Coltrane) – 8:48 "Resolution" (Coltrane) – 5:57 "If I Only Had a Brain" (Harold Arlen, Yip Harburg) – 8:57 "We Speak" (Booker Little) – 11:31 "Dhyia Malika" (Malachi Thompson) – 8:25 "Chicago Soundscapes" (Thompson) – 12:58 Personnel Malachi Thompson – trumpet Steve Berry – trombone (tracks 1, 2 & 5-8) Joe Ford – alto saxophone (tracks 5-8) Ron Bridgewater (tracks 1 & 2), Carter Jefferson (tracks 5-8), Sonny Seals (tracks 3 & 4) – tenor saxophone Kirk Brown – piano Yosef Ben Israel (tracks 1 & 2), John Whitfield (tracks 3-8) – bass Nasar Abedey (tracks 3, 4, 7 & 8), Avreeayl Ra (tracks 1, 2, 5 & 6) – drums Dr. Cuz – percussion (track 8) References Category:Delmark Records albums Category:1993 albums Category:Malachi Thompson albums Category:Albums produced by Bob Koester	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Portland Rockets The Portland Rockets were a professional American football team based in Portland, Oregon for two nonconsecutive seasons during World War II. They were members of the Northwest War Industries League as the Portland Boilermakers in 1942 and the American Football League (AFL) in 1944. The Rockets played their home games at Multnomah Stadium and its colors were green and orange. In 1944 team president Henry J. "Sandy" Sandberg asked people to submit suggestions for the team's nickname, the winner of which was L. J. Maclin of Salem, Oregon. Six other people made the same suggestion, but Maclin had submitted his entry first. They all received season tickets. Robert L. Mathews, former head coach of the Portland Pilots football team, was hired to coach the Rockets during the 1944 season. Their first game was held at 2:30 on September 3 against the Seattle Bombers. In front of 10,213 attendees at Multnomah Stadium Seattle beat Portland, 21–13. The Rockets finished their first season with a 3–6 record. At the end of the 1944 season, Rockets owners were out $40,000 after plans to farm the league's talent to the National Football League (NFL) failed. See also Portland Thunderbirds Portland Loggers Portland Storm Portland Thunder Portland Steel References Category:Sports clubs established in 1942 Category:Sports clubs disestablished in 1944 Rockets Rockets Category:Defunct American football teams in Oregon Category:1942 establishments in Oregon Category:1944 disestablishments in Oregon	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
1908 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship The All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship 1908 was the 22nd series of the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Ireland's premier hurling knock-out competition. Tipperary won the championship, beating Dublin 3-15 to 1-5 in a replay of the final. Format All-Ireland Championship Semi-finals: (2 matches) The four provincial representatives made up the semi-final pairings. Two teams are eliminated at this stage while the two winning teams advance to the All-Ireland final. Final: (1 match) The winners of the two semi-finals contest this game with the winners being declared All-Ireland champions. Results Connacht Senior Hurling Championship Leinster Senior Hurling Championship Kilkenny refused to play due a dispute over the Railway Shield. Munster Senior Hurling Championship Ulster Senior Hurling Championship All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship References Sources Corry, Eoghan, The GAA Book of Lists (Hodder Headline Ireland, 2005). Donegan, Des, The Complete Handbook of Gaelic Games (DBA Publications Limited, 2005). 1908	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Collected (Black 'n Blue album) Collected is a five disc Black 'N Blue box set, released in 2005, with 4 audio CDs and one DVD. This release contains the first four studio albums released by the hard rock/ glam metal band, Black 'n Blue. The DVD contains an entire live concert performed by Black 'n Blue, containing most of Black 'n Blue's hits, while also including a few songs that were never released on any Black 'n Blue disc. These include "Run Run", "Summer Heat", and "Rock n' Roll Animals", which later became "Knocking On Heaven's Door". Track listing Disc 1 "Strong Will Rock" "School Of Hard Knocks" "Autoblast" "Hold On To 18" "Wicked Bitch" "Action" "Show Me The Night" "One For The Money" "I'm The King" "Chains Around Heaven" Disc 2 "Rockin' On Heaven's Door" "Without Love" "Stop The Lightning" "Nature Of The Beach" "Miss Mystery" "Swing Time" "Bombastic Plastic" "We Got The Fire" "Strange Things" "Two Wrongs (Don't Make It Love)" Disc 3 "Nasty Nasty" "I Want It All, I Want It Now" "Does She Or Doesn't She" "Kiss Of Death" "12 O'Clock High" "Do What You Wanna Do" "I'll Be There For You" "Rules" "Best In The West" Disc 4 "Rock On" "Sight For Sore Eyes" "Heat It Up! Burn It Out!" "Suspicious" "Snake" "Live It Up" "Gimme Your Love" "Get Wise To The Rise" "Great Guns Of Fire" "Stranger" Disc 5 (DVD) "Chains Around Heaven" "One For The Money" "Show Me The Night" "Summer Heat" "Run Run" "Autoblast" "Action" "Strong Will Rock" "Hold On To 18" "Violent Kid" "Rock'N'Roll Animals" "Wicked Bitch" "School Of Hard Knocks" "I'm The King" "Lip Lock" "Sign In Blood" Personnel Jaime St. James: Lead Vocals Tommy Thayer: Guitar, keyboards Jeff Warner: Guitar Patrick Young: Bass Pete Holmes: Drums Category:Black 'n Blue albums Category:2005 compilation albums Category:2005 video albums Category:Music video compilation albums	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
FC Bucha FC Bucha is an amateur club from Bucha and the regional competitions of Kiev Oblast. The club participated in the 2012–13 Ukrainian Cup. The club originally was founded in 1999. Honours '''Ukrainian Amateur Cup Winners (1): 2011 Bucha Bucha Bucha	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Charles Stuart Parker Charles Stuart Parker (1 June 1829 – 18 June 1910) was a British academic, writer and Liberal politician. Parker was the eldest son of Charles Stuart Parker (1800-1868), merchant, of Aigburth, Liverpool, and Fairlie, Ayrshire, and his wife, Anne Sandbach. When the British government emancipated the slaves in the 1830s, the elder Charles Stuart Parker was compensated for over 400 slaves he shared ownership of on 16 estates in British Guiana. As a result of the wealth obtained by his father in sugar and slavery, the younger Charles Stuart Parker was educated at Eton and at University College, Oxford. After obtaining a first class degree he became a fellow of his college in 1854. He was a public examiner at Oxford in 1859, 1860, 1863, and 1868. From 1864 to 1868 he was Private Secretary to Edward Cardwell, 1st Viscount Cardwell when he was Secretary of State for the Colonies. Cardwell married Parker's sister Annie. At the 1868 general election, Parker was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Perthshire. He was a member of the Royal Commission on Military Education from 1869 to 1870, and of the Scottish Endowed Schools Commission from 1872 to 1874, and was one of the Special Commissioners for Public Schools. Parker lost his Perthshire seat at the 1874 general election. He was returned the House of Commons as MP for Perth at a by-election in January 1878 at a by-election, and held the seat until 1892. He was chairman of referees on Private Bills in the 1885 parliament. Parker collated and published the papers of Sir Robert Peel in 1899. He also published Life and Letters of Sir James Graham, Second Baronet of Netherby, P.C., G.C.B., 1792-1861 in 1907. Parker lived at Fairlie House, which had been built by his grandfather, Charles S Parker (1771-1828). He died in London at the age of 81. References External links Category:1829 births Category:1909 deaths Category:People educated at Eton College Category:Alumni of University College, Oxford Category:Scottish Liberal Party MPs Category:Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies Category:UK MPs 1868–1874 Category:UK MPs 1874–1880 Category:UK MPs 1885–1886 Category:UK MPs 1886–1892 Category:Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
The Mighty Sprouts The Mighty Sprouts is a live-action series of five pre-school television shows produced by The Walt Disney Company for their Playhouse Disney (UK & Ireland) channel. The show dealt with environmental issues from a child's perspective. One of the main characters in the series is Sam, she is a normal young girl, who is also a recycling hero with her two best friends, Sam played by the young actress Freya Karlettis, who has also starred in the movie 'Happy Families' and the West End musical 'The Lion King'. The series debuted on Monday, November 3, 2008. References Category:British children's television programmes Category:Disney Channel original programming Category:2000s American television series Category:2000s British children's television series Category:2008 American television series debuts Category:2008 American television series endings Category:2008 British television series debuts Category:2008 British television series endings Category:English-language television programs Category:Environmental television	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Fictitious Athlete Hall of Fame The Fictitious Athlete Hall of Fame began in 2013. There are two criteria for nomination to be inducted into the Fictitious Athlete Hall of Fame: the character must be a fictitious athlete or athletic supporting role appearing after 1970. In 2015 a "veterans" category was opened, which accepts nominees from before 1970. Voting in the Fictitious Athlete Hall of Fame is public. There are three rounds of voting each year: one preliminary vote to narrow the field, a second vote to refine the nominees, and a final vote to determine the inductees. Inaugural induction Rocky Balboa, from the Rocky film series, was chosen as the inaugural induction to start the Fictitious Athlete Hall of Fame. 2014 inductions In 2014, three fictional athletes and one contributor were selected. The athletes were: Crash Davis; Bull Durham (played by Kevin Costner) Ricky "Wild Thing" Vaughn; Major League (played by Charlie Sheen) Roy Hobbs; The Natural (played by Robert Redford) The contributor was: Harry Doyle; Major League (played by Bob Uecker) 2015 inductions In 2015, the Veteran category was introduced to include those fictional characters who appeared in movies before 1970. Five fictional athletes, two contributors, and one veteran were selected. The athletes were: Happy Gilmore; Happy Gilmore (played by Adam Sandler) Reggie Dunlop; Slap Shot (played by Paul Newman) Hanson Brothers; Slap Shot (played by David Hanson, Steve Carlson, and Jeff Carlson) The contributors were: Carl Spackler; Caddyshack (played by Bill Murray) Mr. Miyagi; The Karate Kid (played by Pat Morita) The veteran was: Andy "Champ" Purcell; The Champ 1931 film (played by Wallace Beery) 2016 inductions Three fictional athletes, two contributors, and one veteran were selected. The athletes were: Apollo Creed; Rocky film series (played by Carl Weathers) Benjamin "Benny" Franklin Rodriguez; The Sandlot (played by Mike Vitar) Charlie Conway; The Mighty Ducks (played by Joshua Jackson) The contributors were: Chubbs Peterson; Happy Gilmore (played by Carl Weathers) Gordon Bombay; The Mighty Ducks (played by Emilio Estevez) The veteran was: Dennis Ryan; Take Me Out to the Ball Game (played by Frank Sinatra) 2017 inductions Three fictional athletes, one contributor, and one veteran were selected. The athletes were: Bobby Boucher; The Waterboy (played by Adam Sandler) Forrest Gump; Forrest Gump (played by Tom Hanks) Willie "Mays" Hayes; Major League (played by Wesley Snipes) The contributor was: Mickey Goldmill; Rocky film series (played by Burgess Meredith) The veteran was: Guffy McGovern; Angels in the Outfield (played by Paul Douglas) 2018 inductions Three fictional athletes, one contributor, and one veteran were selected. The athletes were: Daniel LaRusso; The Karate Kid (played by Ralph Macchio) Dottie Hinson; A League of Their Own (played by Geena Davis) Paul "Wrecking" Crewe; The Longest Yard (played by Burt Reynolds) The contributor was: Morris Buttermaker; The Bad News Bears (played by Walter Matthau) The veteran was: Huxley College; Horse Feathers (played by Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, and Zeppo Marx) References External links Elkhart Truth Announces 2015 Fictitious Athlete Hall of Fame Inductees Inaugural Induction Press Release NewsWire: 2015 Fictitious Athlete Hall of Fame Finalists Announced Podcast: Bill Littlefield interviews Kirk Buchner to discuss the Fictitious Athlete Hall of Fame Permission Granted interviews Kirk Buchner to discuss the Fictitious Athlete Hall of Fame Fred Wallace of Bayshore Broadcasting interviews Kirk Buchner to discuss the Fictitious Athlete Hall of Fame Jerry Greene of the Orlando Sentinel covers the Fictitious Athlete Hall of Fame Bob Asmussen of the News-Gazette covers the Fictitious Athlete Hall of Fame TSN covers the Fictitious Athlete Hall of Fame The Howard Simon Show covers the Fictitious Athlete Hall of Fame Broadway World covers the Fictitious Athlete Hall of Fame Permission Granted Youtube Video of interview with Kirk Buchner to discuss the Fictitious Athlete Hall of Fame SportsNet Interview of Kirk Buchner begins at 37:15 News Talk 770 (CHQR) Dave Rowe talks about the 2016 finalists Category:Sports halls of fame	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Mimandria recognita Mimandria recognita is a moth of the family Geometridae first described by Max Saalmüller in 1891. It is found on Madagascar. References Category:Moths described in 1891 Category:Pseudoterpnini	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }

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