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Pandemis chondrillana
Pandemis chondrillana is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in France, Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, Russia, Asia Minor, Iran, Afghanistan, from Kazakhstan to Siberia, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia and north-western China.
The wingspan is 17–24 mm for males and 20–27 mm for females. Adults have been recorded on wing from May to July.
The larvae feed on Rosa, Salix, Populus and Quercus species.
References
Category:Moths described in 1860
Category:Pandemis
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List of communes of Luxembourg by population density
This is a list of communes of Luxembourg by population density. Cities are given in italics.
See also
List of communes of Luxembourg by area
List of communes of Luxembourg by highest point
List of communes of Luxembourg by lowest point
List of communes of Luxembourg by population
References
Population density
Luxembourg, communes
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List of Ghanaian records in athletics
The following are the national records in athletics in Ghana maintained by Ghana's national athletics federation: Ghana Athletics Association (GAA).
Outdoor
Key to tables:
ht = hand timing
* = doubtful distance
A = affected by altitude
nw = no wind measurement
OT = oversized track (> 200m in circumference)
# = not ratified by federation
y = denotes one mile
Men
Women
Indoor
Men
Women
References
General
Ghanaian Outdoor Records - Men 13.8.2015 Updated
Specific
External links
GAA web site
Category:National records in athletics (track and field)
Athletics records
Records
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Carmentina molybdotoma
Carmentina molybdotoma is a species of sedge moths in the genus Carmentina. It was described by Alexey Diakonoff and Yutaka Arita in 1979. It is found in Japan.
References
External links
Carmentina molybdotoma at Zipcodezoo.com
Category:Moths described in 1979
Category:Glyphipterigidae
Category:Moths of Japan
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Metal oxide adhesion
The strength of metal oxide adhesion effectively determines the wetting of the metal-oxide interface. The strength of this adhesion is important, for instance, in production of light bulbs and fiber-matrix composites that depend on the optimization of wetting to create metal-ceramic interfaces. The strength of adhesion also determines the extent of dispersion on catalytically active metal.
Metal oxide adhesion is important for applications such as complementary metal oxide semiconductor devices. These devices make possible the high packing densities of modern integrated circuits.
Oxide thermodynamics
Metal oxides are formed consistent with minimizing surface energy and minimizing system entropy. The formation reactions are chemical in nature, forming bonds between oxygen dimers and pure metals or metal alloys. The reactions are endothermic for transition metals and semi-metals. At isothermic and isobaric conditions at atmosphere, the probability for a free metal surface to bind an oxygen dimer via oxidation is a function of the partial pressure of oxygen, the surface energy between the crystal and the liquid or vapor phase (see heat of formation), and time.
In standard conditions, the determining factors for phase change are temperature and pressure. The idea here is that oxygen is making a phase change from gas to solid, and at the same time a bond is forming between oxygen and a metal. The instantaneous breaking of one bond and forming a different one required an energy contribution higher than the enthalpy of bond dissociation for molecular gaseous oxygen at 298K is +498.34 kJ/mol and is typically expressed as ∆Hf since it is also the heat of formation.
The majority of contributed entropy in the formation of metal-oxides is from O2(g). Gaseous oxygen molecules have high translation entropy, due to the excited vapor phase. This allows the transport of oxygen from the system to the interface or reaction surface. The change in entropy (ΔS) for oxidation is negative (exothermic) for semi-metals, transition metals, alkali earth metals and lanthanides/actinides. This fact is due to the elevated surface energy of an exposed pure metal and the ability of the tiny oxygen dimer to attract to high energy sites. The trend for oxide formation is that the reaction rate increases as atomic number increases.
Areas with elevated surface electron density will always oxidize prefentially, as is demonstrated beautifully in the formation of electro-anodized titanate. The formation of oxides is dominated by interactions between the Gibbs free energy surfaces of constituents. The intersections of Gibbs surfaces at a given temperature and pressure would be represented in 2D space as phase diagrams. In real world applications, Gibbs surfaces are subject to the additional dimension entropy. This third dimension constitutes a Cartesian coordinate space and the surface mapped out by the Gibbs energy for a given reaction gives a threshold energy needed for a phase transition. These values can be found in ASM library volumes, or online as the "standard heats of formation."
∆G=∆H-T∆S
standard state change of enthalpy is independent and thus the gradient of the change in Gibbs free energy as a function of temperature is linear. This dictates that an oxide becomes less thermodynamically stable with increasing temperature.
An important distinction between equilibrium wetting and non-equilibrium wetting is that the non-equilibrium condition occurs when a chemical reaction is taking place. This non-equilibrium wetting is an irreversible thermodynamic process that accounts for the changes of the chemical potential when forming a new boundary phase, such as an oxide.
Work of adhesion
The ideal work of separation Wsep is the reversible work needed to separate the interface into two free surfaces. Important as a state function depending on the mechanical properties. It is referred to as ideal because when the two free surfaces create an interface, the concentration of the interface will only be identical to the bulk at the instant the surface is created. In order to reach chemical equilibrium, the process of diffusion will take place which will increase any measurement of the work of separation. The work of adhesion is the reversible free energy change for making free surfaces from interfaces. It is represented by the equation:
where:
Wad is the work of adhesion
γm and γo are the respective surface energies of the metal and oxide
γmo is the surface energy between the two materials in contact
The following table gives some common metals and their corresponding surface energies. All the metals are face-centered cubic crystal structure and these surface energies correspond to the (100) surface plane.
Oxide stability
Ellingham diagrams are generated according to the second law of thermodynamics and are a graphical representation of the change in the Gibbs free energy with respect to changing temperature for the formation of oxides.
Solid-gas interface
Structure
Real surfaces may be macroscopically homogeneous, but their microscopic heterogeneity plays a crucial role in the relationship between the metal and its oxide.
Transition metal oxides
Certain transition metals form multiple oxide layers that have different stoichiometric compositions. This is because the metal has multiple valency states with fewer or more electrons in the valence shell. These different valency states allow for multiple oxides to be formed from the same two elements. As the local composition of the material changes through diffusion of atoms, different oxides form as layers, one on top of another. The total adhesion in this situation involves the metal-oxide interface and oxide-oxide interfaces, which adds increasing complexity to the mechanics.
Roughness
Increasing surface roughness increases the number of dangling bonds at the metal-oxide interface. The surface free energy of a crystal face is:
where:
E is the binding energy of the material
T is the temperature of the system
S is the surface entropy of the material
The binding energy favors a smoother surface that minimizes the number of dangling bonds, while the surface entropy term favors a rougher surface with increasing dangling bonds as the temperature is increased.
Heterogeneity
Solid adsorption of an oxygen molecule depends on the heterogeneity of the substrate. Crystalline solid adsorption is dependent on the exposed crystal faces, grain orientations, and inherent defects because these factors provide adsorption sites with different steric configurations. Adsorption is largely determined by the reduction of Gibbs free energy associated with the exposed substrate.
Crystallographic orientation
A material's charge remains neutral when a surface is created by the law of charge conservation, but individual Bravais lattice planes, defined by their Miller indices, may be non-polar or polar based on their symmetry. A dipole moment increases the surface Gibbs free energy, but the greater polarizability of oxygen ions as compared to metals allows polarization to decrease the surface energy and thus increase the ability of metals to form oxides. Consequently, different exposed metal faces may adhere weakly to non-polar oxide faces, but be able to perfectly wet a polar face.
Defects
Surface defects are the localized fluctuations of surface electronic states and binding energies. Surface reactions, adsorption, and nucleation can be drastically affected by the presence of these defects.
Vacancies
Oxide growth is dependent upon the flux (diffusion) of either coupled or independent anions and cations through the oxide layer. Stoichiometric oxides have an integer ratio of atoms can only support coupled diffusion of anions and cations through the lattice migration of Schottky defects (paired anion/cation vacancies) or Frenkel defects (complete anion lattice with cation vacancies and interstitials). Non-stoichiometric oxide films support independent ion diffusion and are either n-type (extra electrons) or p-type (extra electron holes). Although there are only two valence states, there are three types:
cation excess (n-type)
anion deficit (n-type)
cation deficit (p-type)
Non-stoichiometric oxides most commonly have excess metal cations as a result of insufficient oxygen during the creation of the oxide layer. Excess metal atoms with a smaller radius than O2− anions are ionized within the crystal lattice as interstitial defects and their lost electrons remain free within the crystal, not taken by the oxygen atoms. The presence of mobile electrons within the crystal lattice significantly contributes to the conduction of electricity and the mobility of ions.
Impurities
Impurity elements in the material can have a large effect on the adhesion of oxide films. When the impurity element increases the adherence of the oxide to the metal it is known as the reactive element effect or RE effect. Many mechanics theories exist on this topic. The majority of them attribute the increase in adhesion strength to the greater thermodynamic stability of the impurity element bonded with oxygen than the metal bonded to the oxygen. Inserting yttrium into nickel alloys to strengthen the oxide adhesion is an example of the reactive element effect.
Dislocations
Dislocations are thermodynamically unstable, kinetically trapped defects. Surface dislocations often create a screw dislocation when stress is applied. In certain cases, screw dislocations can negate the nucleation energy barrier for crystal growth.
Oxide-support relationship
The adsorption of a monolayer of gas atoms is either commensurate or incommensurate. Commensurate adsorption is defined by having a crystal structure relationship between substrate-adsorbate layer that produces a coherent interface. Wood's notation is a description of the relationship between the simplest repeating unit area of the solid and adsorbate. The difference between the resulting commensurate interfaces can be described as an effect of misfit. The interfacial interaction can be modeled as the sg plus the stored elastic displacement energy due to lattice misfit. A large misfit corresponds to an incoherent interface where there is no coherency strain and the interface energy can be taken as simply the sg. In contrast, a small misfit corresponds with a coherent interface and coherency strain that results in the interfacial energy equivalent to the minimum sg.
Strength of bond
The strength of the bond between the oxide and metal for the same nominal contact area can range from Pa to GPa stresses. The cause of this huge range stems from multiple phenomena dealing with at least four different types of adhesion. The main types of bonding that form adhesion are electrostatic, dispersive (van der Waals or London forces), chemical and diffusive bonding. As the adhesive forces increase, separation in crystalline materials can go from elastic debonding to elastic-plastic debonding. This is due to a larger number of bonds being formed or an increase in strength of the bonds between the two materials. Elastic-plastic debonding is when local stresses are high enough to move dislocations or make new ones.
Solid-gas kinetics
When a gas molecule strikes a solid surface the molecule may either rebound or be adsorbed. The rate at which gas molecules strike the surface is a large factor in the overall kinetics of oxide growth. If there molecule is absorbed there are three potential outcomes. The surface interaction can be strong enough to dissociate the gas molecule into separate atoms or constituents. The molecule may also react with surface atoms to change its chemical properties. The third possibility is solid surface catalysis, a binary chemical reaction with a previously adsorbed molecule on the surface.
Dispersion
Most often it is kinetically favorable for the growth of a single oxide monolayer to be completed before the growth of subsequent layers. Dispersion in general can be modeled by:
where:
Ns is the number of atoms on the surface
Nt is the total number of atoms in the material
Dispersion is crucial to the growth of oxides because only atoms that are exposed to the interface can react to form oxides.
Diffusion
After the initial oxide monolayer is formed, new layers begin to build and the ions must be able to diffuse through the oxide in order to increase thickness of the oxide. The rate of oxidation is controlled by how fast these ions are able to diffuse through the material. As the thickness of the oxide increases, the rate of oxidation decreases because it requires the atoms to travel a further distance. This rate can quantified by calculating the rate of diffusion of vacancies or ions using Fick's first law of diffusion.
where:
J is the flux and has units of mol·m−2·s−1
D is the diffusivity of the ions in the material
δC is the change in concentration of the material
δx is the thickness of the oxide layer
Solid surface catalysis
In 2007 the Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded to Gerhard Ertl for the study of solid-gas interface molecular processes. One such process is the oscillatory kinetic catalysis. Oscillatory kinetic catalysis can be explained by different crystal surfaces favoring unmodified faces and reconstruction to reduce surface strain. The presence of CO can cause the reversal of surface reconstruction past a certain percent coverage. Once the reversal occurs, oxygen can be chemisorbed on the reverted surfaces. This produces an adsorption pattern with areas of surface coverage rich in CO and others O2.
Driving force
The driving force of catalysis is determined by the difference between the unprimed equilibrium and the instantaneous interfacial free energies.
See also
Oxide
Crystallographic defect
Corrosion
Oxidation potential
Reduction potential
Pourbaix diagram
Ellingham diagram
MOSFET
Metal oxide varistor
Surface Properties of Transition Metal Oxides
References
Category:Oxides
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Redwing Coaches
Redwing Coaches is a coach tour operator in London and Kent.
History
Redwing Coaches was founded in 1987 by Paul Campana. Initially based in Coldharbour Lane, in 2000 it relocated to Herne Hill. In July 2006, the business was sold to Addison Lee.
In April 2013, the business was purchased by Paul Hockley and Nigel Taylor in a management buyout. In June 2015, the Reliance Travel of Gravesend business was purchased.
Services
Redwing operates a commuter service from Gravesend to Central London. It operates day trips out of London under contract to Evan Evans Tours.
Fleet
As at November 2015 the fleet comprised 55 coaches.
References
External links
Showbus gallery
Category:London bus operators
Category:Transport in Kent
Category:1987 establishments in England
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Esmail Mahmudi
Esmail Mahmudi or Esmaeel Mahmudi or Esmail-e Mahmudi or Ismail Mahmoodi () may refer to:
Esmail Mahmudi, Cheghapur
Esmail Mahmudi, Kabgan
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Digimon All-Star Rumble
Digimon All-Star Rumble is a fighting video game developed by Prope and published by Bandai Namco Games for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 video game consoles. Much like its spiritual predecessors, it features Digimon from across the series' several iterations. It was released in November 2014 in North America, Europe and Australia.
Setting
The game is set in the Digital World at a time of peace. The Digimon propose to hold a "Digimon Evolution Tournament" in order to gain experience and Digivolve, as well as determine the strongest one. However, there is an ulterior motive behind the tournament and players will discover what this is as they play through the game's Story Mode.
Gameplay and characters
Digimon All-Star Rumble features 12 base playable Digimon (6 of them from Digimon Adventure, 2 from Digimon Adventure 02, 2 from Digimon Tamers and 2 from Digimon Fusion), and a total of 32 forms. Six of the base forms and their Digivolutions were revealed in the game's announcement.
Each Digimon can Digivolve into a higher form during battle when their meter is filled. When Story Mode is completed with a character, their "Super Form" will be unlocked; to play as this form, when selecting the character, the player is given the option to switch the character's alternate form from their regular Digivolved form to the unlocked Super Form. A certain powerup in the game turns the other Digimon in the battle into Numemon temporarily.
On the following chart, players can see every playable Digimon, Digivolved Forms and Super Forms available in the game. Some of these evolutions are not common in the Digimon universe, but some adjustments have been made to balance the game and include as many forms as possible.
Stage Digimon (enemies)
ShellNumemon
Apemon
Goblimon
Mushroomon
Tortomon
SkullMammothmon
Cyclonemon
Boltmon
Ebemon
Locomon (cannot be attacked, instead Locomon will run over and damage any Digimon standing on the train tracks when it drives by)
Reception
All-Star Rumble received average to mixed reviews from critics, holding a total score of 49 on Metacritic.
Push Square gave the game 5 out of 10; summarising that "at its core, Digimon All-Star Rumble is an accessible brawler that may be a hit with younger gamers, but numerous issues put a dampener on the fun. Story mode will frustrate, and while the fleshed out versus mode is easily the title's best asset, the total lack of online multiplayer will be the nail in the coffin for fighting enthusiasts. With tempered expectations, fans could get something out of this, but for everyone else, there are better brawlers for better prices already on the market".
PlayStation Lifestyle gave the game 4.5 out of 10, praising the games "exclusive western release and the amount of character content but felt the game was unfinished and repetitive."
Mike Fahey of Kotaku stated that despite his desire for a Digimon game, it was "not enough that I can give this half-assed effort a pass. "
References
External links
Category:2014 video games
Category:Digimon video games
Category:PlayStation 3 games
Category:Versus fighting games
Category:Video games developed in Japan
Category:Xbox 360 games
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Nurul Islam Babul
Nurul Islam Babul is a Bangladeshi business magnate. He is the chairman of the business conglomerate Jamuna Group.
Career
Best known for the Jamuna Group and Jamuna Future Park, Babul is also the owner of the Bangla daily Jugantor. He founded the group in 1970s.
Controversies
Babul was arrested and sent to jail on 23 February 2007 on charges of corruption during the 2006-08 Bangladeshi political crisis. In 2013, the police attempted to arrest Babul from the residence of former Bangladesh President H M Ershad.
Personal life
Babul is married to Salma Islam, a member of Jatiya Sangsad from Jatiya Party.
References
Category:Bangladeshi businesspeople
Category:Living people
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
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Merana
Merana is a commune (municipality) in the Province of Alessandria in the Italian region Piedmont, located about southeast of Turin and about southwest of Alessandria.
Merana borders the following municipalities: Piana Crixia, Serole, and Spigno Monferrato.
References
Category:Cities and towns in Piedmont
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Permanent Peoples' Tribunal
The Permanent Peoples' Tribunal is an international People’s Tribunal founded in Bologna, Italy on June 24, 1979 at the initiative of Senator Lelio Basso.
History and functions
The Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal (TPP) was formally born in Bologna in 1979 as a direct continuation of the experience of the Russell Tribunal II with Latin American dictatorships (1974-1976), promoted by Lelio Basso to denounce the crimes committed by the military regimes of the region. The will of the people and the victims of Latin America, the changed the occasional nature of Russell Court and it became a permanent forum of complaint for communities experiencing the absence and impotence of international law. Therefore, the TPP is a grass-root initiative and the result of the need to create an independent tool for researching and analysing for the cognitive, cultural and doctrinal development needed to start the process of liberation and justice of the people. The TPP's work is characterised by its subsidiary nature. Just as the Russell Tribunal, the existence of the Permanent People's Tribunal is due, even today, to the absence of a competent international court to rule on the allegations and claims of individuals conceived in their collective dimension. The International Criminal Court, founded in 1998, should have addressed - and with much larger resources - some of the functions carried out bu th PPT, but it has often proven too slow and too much influenced by political decisions to perform its functions. Opinion tribunals, including the PPT, is therefore also a mean to push judicial courts based on intergovernmental treaties, such a as the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice, to dare more and to reinforce their impartiality.
In terms of competences, the PPT goes beyond the recognition of individual criminal responsibility in order to assess also the responsibility of states, of business corporations and of international organizations. It aim is to generate truth, memory and moral reparation.
The work of the TPP is based on the principles expressed in the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Peoples proclaimed in Algiers in 1976 and the main international instruments protecting human rights. The historical and geographical context of the Declaration, known as the Charter of Algiers, clearly links the general principles of the Declaration for the liberation struggles—which Resolution 1514 (XV) of the United Nations of 14 December 1960 had already put under the protection of international law—with the understanding that the right to self-determination could not be proclaimed as fulfilled and that it did not involve only the political phase of decolonization.
The scope of the concept of self-determination expressed in the Charter of Algiers must relate to the context and the principle of “freedom” which is not limited to a particular time and place and has, in this case, not an individual but a collective subject which is precisely, the people. In the Charter of Algiers and, therefore, in the Permanent People's Tribunal, the principle of self-determination serves as legal support and target indicator of the struggles of peoples whose sovereignty is at risk due to external and internal forces the Tribunal has documented from 1979 to date. As is the case with the principle of self-determination, the concept of people in the Charter of Algiers is not unique, but rather presents a contextual or political significance not limited to a strict definition by the Declaration, but left to the free interpretation of those who, now and then, have used its principles over the years. According to the Charter, peoples are important collective subjects but marginalized by a law designed for States as the only recipients of rights, including the individual and collective dimensions in a single legal system serving both individuals and peoples.
The peoples in the history of the TPP belong to different groups with different needs, aspirations and real tragedies, which control the materiality and binding force of an international law continuing to be fragile. The original idea of the Russell Tribunal II and the TPP lies in the awareness that the formal recognition of the principles and rights is the starting point of a process of liberation in which collective identities, called “Peoples,” are the main actors. This process requires a permanent collective demand for the feasibility and applicability of these principles, recognized in many international law instruments.
Structure
The Court is composed of a president, four vice-presidents, a secretary general and 66 international members, all recognized experts from different disciplines such as law, economy, sociology, arts, and literature.
Sessions of the Permanent Peoples' Tribunal
Since its establishment until today, the Tribunal has held 46 sessions on numerous cases of human rights violations. Its specificity, expressed in the TPP's Statute, lies in applied research to cases of crimes against peace and against humanity, to cases of genocide and to crimes—not yet established—attributable to economic and political activities promoting poverty, inequality, exclusion.<ref>The first rulings are published in Italian by Gianni Tognoni, ed., Tribunale permanente dei popoli. Le sentenze, Verona: Bertani editore.</wref> By observing the chronological development of the meetings, it is evident that the work of the Permanent People's Tribunal is within the evolving framework of international law. The story told in the judgments of TPP traces a map of the last thirty years of the history of peoples and matches many of the most representative ties and challenges for the peoples and the law, in the context of historical situations where States or private actors (transnational corporations) weaken or create obstacles for the intervention of the international law.
The judgments of the TPP (www.tribunalepermanentedeipopoli.fondazionebasso.it) rely almost exclusively on sources of existing international law. However, it is important to remember that many of the judgments have gone beyond the mere application of existing rules and have evidenced legal contradictions or gaps, in order to indicate forms of application and commitment of future positive law.
List of the Permanent People's Tribunal's Sessions
46. Session on Alleged violations of international law and international humanitarian law by the Turkish Republic and its officials against the Kurdish people and their organizations (Paris 2018)
45. Session on the violation of human rights of migrants and refugee people (2017-2018)
44. Permanent Peoples Tribunal on Human Rights of Migrant and Refugee Peoples (Launched Barcelona 2017, on-going Session)
43. Myanmar's crimes against the Rohingya and Kachin Peoples I (London, 2017)
42. Living wage for Asian garment workers as fundamental human right (Sri Lanka 2011; Cambodia 2012; India 2012; Indonesia 2014; Sri Lanka 2015)
41. Fundamental rights, local community participation and infrastructure projects (Torino-Almese, 5–8 November 2015)
40. Session on the Canadian mining transnational corporations (on-going)
39. Sri Lanka and the Tamil People II (Bremen, 7–10 December 2013)
38. Free trade, violence, impunity and people's rights in Mexico (Mexico, 2011-2014)
37. Session on agrochemical transnational corporations (Bangalore, 3–6 December 2011)
36. Sri Lanka and the Tamil People I (Dublin, 14–16 January 2010)
35. Transnational corporations and the rights of peoples in Colombia (Colombia, 2006-2008)
34. The Philippines II (The Hague, 21–25 March 2007)
33. The European Union and transnational corporations in Latin America: policies, instruments and actors complicity in the violation of peoples' rights (Madrid, 14–17 May 2010)
32. Human rights violations in Algeria, 1992-2004 (Paris, 5–8 November 2004)
31. International Law and the new wars (Roma, 14–16 December 2002)
30. Global multinationals and “human distorted” (Warwick, 22–23 March 2000)
29. Elf-Aquitaine (Paris, 19–21 May 1999)
28. Violations of the fundamental rights of children and adolescents in Brazil (São Paulo, 17–19 March 1999)
27. The rights of workers and consumers in the garment industry (Brussels, 30 April-5 May 1998)
26. Chernobyl: environment, health and human rights (Vienna,12-15 April 1996)
25. Violations of the fundamental rights of children and minors (Trento, 27–29 March; Macerata, 30 March; Napoli 1–4 April 1995)
24. Crimes against humanity in the former Yugoslavia II (Barcelona, 7–11 December 1995)
23. Crimes against humanity in the former Yugoslavia I (Bern, 17–20 February 1995)
22. Asylum right in Europe (Berlin, 8–12 December 1994)
21. Industrial risks and human rights II (London, 28 November – 2 December 1994)
20. Industrial risks and human rights I (Bhopal, 19–23 October 1992)
19. Tibet (Strasburg, 16–20 November 1992)
18. The conquest of and international law (Padua-Venice, 5–8 October 1992)
17. Impunity for crimes against humanity in Latin America (Bogotá, 22–25 April 1991)
16. Brazilian Amazon (Paris, 12–16 October 1990)
15. Porto-Rico (Barcelona, 27–29 January 1989)
14. The policies of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank II (Madrid, 1–3 October 1994)
13. The policies of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank I (Berlin, 26–29 September 1988)
12. The interventions of the United States in Nicaragua (Brussels, 5–8 October 1984)
11. Armenian Genocide (Paris, 13–16 April 1984)
10. Guatemala (Madrid, 27–31 January 1983)
9. Zaire (Rotterdam, 18–20 September 1982)
8. Timor Orientale (Lisbon, 19–21 June 1981)
7. Afghanistan Il (Paris, 16–20 December 1982)
6. Afghanistan I (Stockholm, 1–3 May 1981)
5. El Salvador (Mexico, 9–12 February 1981)
4. The Philippines and the Bangsamoro people (Anvers, 30 October-3 November 1980)
3. Eritrea (Milano, 24–26 May 1980)
2. Argentina (Genève, 3–4 May 1980)
1. Western Sahara (Brussels, 10–11 November 1979)
See also
Tibetan sovereignty debate
References
External links
Permanent Peoples' Tribunal
Category:Organizations established in 1979
Category:Human rights organisations based in Italy
Category:Organisations based in Bologna
Category:People's Tribunal
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Otter, Ohio
Otter is an unincorporated community in Paris Township, Union County, Ohio, United States. It is located at , just Northwest of Marysville, on the banks of Otter Run, at the intersection of Dog Leg Road and Westlake-Lee Road.
Before 1900, there was a railroad station located here on the Western Division of the Toledo and Ohio Central Railway, but never a post office. The railroad station was discontinued on May 26, 1954.
References
Category:Unincorporated communities in Union County, Ohio
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82nd Expeditionary Air Support Operations Squadron
The 82d Expeditionary Air Support Operations Squadron is a provisional United States Air Force unit located at Camp Buehring, Kuwait. The squadron was first organized in 1969 as the 82d Tactical Control Flight, an element of the Tactical Air Control System. It was inactivated in 1988, but was converted to provisional status in 2009 and has since served in the Global War on Terror.
Mission
The 82d Expeditionary Air Support Operations Squadron is a combat support unit. The squadron provides tactical command and control of airpower assets for the Joint Forces Air Component Commander in support of the Joint Forces Commander in combat operations.
History
Lineage
Constituted as the 82d Tactical Control Flight on 24 June 1969
Activated on 25 June 1969
Inactivated on 31 March 1988
Redesignated 82d Expeditionary Air Support Operations Squadron and converted to provisional status on 12 Feb 2009.
Activated by July 2010
Assignments
4468th Tactical Control Squadron, 25 June 1969
609th Tactical Control Squadron, 15 October 1969
727th Tactical Control Squadron, 1 June 1976
602d Tactical Air Control Wing, 1 March 1977 - 31 March 1988
Air Combat Command to activate or inactivate at any time on or after 12 February 2009
368th Expeditionary Air Support Operations Group, by July 2010
386th Air Expeditionary Wing, c. 18 December 2011
Stations
McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas, 25 June 1969
Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico, 15 January 1973 – 31 Mar 1988
Camp Victory, Iraq, by July 2010
Camp Buehring, Kuwait, by May 2014
References
Notes
External linkes
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Benny Andrews
Benny Andrews (November 13, 1930 – November 10, 2006) was an American of mixed African and European ancestry painter, printmaker, and creator of collages. During the 1950s, he studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he began to take an interest in painting. In 1958, he moved to New York City to pursue artistic and activist work. Among other successes, he created art education programs to serve underprivileged students at Queens College and participated actively in the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition (1969). His advocacy of artists of color Howardena Pindell, Sam Gilliam, Roy DeCarava, and others contributed to their increasing visibility and reputation in museums and the historical canon. He received many awards, including the John Hay Whitney Fellowship (1965–66), the New York Council on the Arts fellowships (1971–81), and the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (1974–81).
Background
Benny Andrews was born into a family of ten on November 13, 1930, in the small community of Plainview, Georgia. His parents, George and Viola (née Perryman), were sharecroppers. His mother and father emphasized the importance of education, religion, and freedom of expression. Andrews' father was a self-taught artist whose drawings and paintings led to renown as the "Dot Man" and a retrospective at the Morris Museum of Art.
Despite his parents' stress on education, they could not afford to let Andrews go to school when they needed his help to pick or plant cotton. He attended Plainview Elementary School, a one-and-a-half room log cabin. Education past the seventh grade was discouraged in the sharecropping community, but Andrews parents allowed him and his siblings to attend high school during the winter months. Andrews managed to graduate from Burney Street High School in Madison, Georgia in 1948, making him his family's first high school graduate.
He received a two-year scholarship to go to Fort Valley College, a black state college in Georgia, for his work in the local 4-H organization. Unfortunately, Fort Valley College's limited art curriculum made it difficult for him to explore a range of media. He did, however, spend one summer painting murals in Atlanta during this time. Andrews' grades were poor, so when his scholarship ran out, he left college to join the U.S. Air Force. He trained in Texas before serving as a staff sergeant in Korea. While serving in the military, Andrews regularly sent his earnings home to support his mother and younger siblings. Having served from 1950 to July 1954, when he received an honorable discharge, Andrews used the G.I. Bill to attend the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he was trained as an abstract expressionist and received his BFA. Prior to beginning his education at the Art Institute of Chicago, Andrews had never set foot in a museum. His professor Boris Margo helped Andrews discover his own personalized art style during this time and encouraged Andrews to experiment with combining painting and collage techniques. While earning his BFA, Andrews also worked as an illustrator for record companies and created advertisements for various Chicago theater companies. He also regularly created and sold sketches of Chicago's jazz scene.
After graduating from the School of Art Institute of Chicago, Andrews moved to New York City in 1958, where he settled on the Lower East Side. He began working in the Christmas card division of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in order to generate income for his young family. His work also steadily gained critical attention and was exhibited in several cities, including New York, Philadelphia, Detroit, Provincetown, Massachusetts, where Paul Kessler gave Andrews his first solo show in 1960. In 1962 the New York Times praised his first New York City solo exhibit at the Forum Gallery. He received the John Hay Whitney Fellowship for 1965. This fellowship was renewed in 1966, and Andrews used the money to return to Georgia. While in Georgia, Andrews created his Autobiographical Series of paintings. He then received a CAPS award from the New York State Council on the Arts in 1971. In the same year, he painted one of his most notable works, No More Games, which highlighted the plight of black artists and became an icon of his emerging social justice activism in the art world.
In 1966 Andrews began teaching art classes in drawing and painting at the New School for Social Research in New York, the Jewish Community Center in Bayonne, New Jersey, and an arts initiative in the South Bronx. Then, from 1968 to 1997, he taught at Queens College, City University of New York in the SEEK program, which offered academic support for underserved students.
In 1971, Andrews began teaching at the Manhattan Detention Complex. His arts program for prisons soon became a national model. Mayor John Lindsey honors Andrews for his work in 1973, and in 1976 Andrews curated an exhibition of work made by prisoners at the Studio Museum in Harlem.
In 1976, Andrews became the art program director for the Inner City Roundtable of Youths. This organization was composed of gang members who sought to combat youth violence and strengthen New York City's urban communities.
Starting in the 1970s, Andrews regularly spent time at the MacDowell Colony. He is elected to the colony's board of directors in 1987.
Social justice work
In 1969, Andrews co-founded the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition (BECC), an organization that protested the Harlem on My Mind: Cultural Capital of Black America, 1900-1968 exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. No African-Americans had been involved in organizing the show, and it contained no art—only photo reproductions and copies of newspaper articles about Harlem.
The BECC then persuaded the Whitney Museum to launch a similar exhibition of African American artists, but later felt compelled to boycott the Whitney show for similar reasons.
From 1982 to 1984, Andrews served as the director of visual arts for the National Endowment for the Arts. In this position, he had the chance to advocate for fellowships and grants to go to talented black artists who may otherwise have escaped notice.
Andrews traveled in 2006 to the Gulf Coast to work on an art project with children displaced by Hurricane Katrina.
Art
Benny Andrews was a figural painter in the expressionist style who painted a diverse range of themes of suffering and injustice, including the Holocaust, Native American forced migrations, and Hurricane Katrina. In the 1960s he began to find his own style of painting, which developed parallel to the flourishing collage moment. Other influences on his work include surrealism and Southern folk art. His work hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Studio Museum in Harlem (New York City); the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia; the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC; and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Reflecting his minimalist style, Andrews said he was not interested in how much he could paint, but how little. He incorporated his sparing use of geometrical forms to convey broader messages about his subjects. Gabriel Tenabe describes his drawing as "delicate, subtle, and intimate... draw(ing) from his past private life in Georgia and his social life in New York." Christian imagery is juxtaposed with sensibilities of humanism to call out false religion, false democracy, sexism, and militarism and their roles in creating a failed society.
Using various media, Andrews depicted diverse American scenes and people in a figurative style that he felt both reflected the dignity of those he portrayed and served his commitment to social change.
Family life
Benny Andrews married Mary Ellen Jones Smith, a photographer, in 1957. The couple had three children, Christopher, Thomas, and Julia, before separating in 1976. The couple officially divorced in 1986.
Andrews then married artist Nene Humphrey in 1986. The couple met at the MacDowell artist colony.
Andrews died of cancer on November 10, 2006 at the age of 75.
Honors and awards
John Hay Whitney Fellowship - 1965-66
New York Council for the Arts Fellowship - 1971-1981
MacDowell Colony Fellowships - 1972-1973, 1975-1978
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship - 1974-1981
O'Hara Museum Prize, Tokyo -1976
Bellagio Fellowship, Rockefeller Foundation - 1990
Member of the National Academy of Design - 1997
President’s Award to The Benny Andrews Foundation, United Negro College Fund - 2010
Selected Collections
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
References
External links
New York Times obituary
Benny Andrews papers, 1945–1968 from the Smithsonian Archives of American Art
Benny Andrews at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
Benny Andrews papers, 1940-2006 from the Stuart A. Rose Library, Emory University
Benny Andrew's Estate website
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William Duncan State School
William Duncan State School (WDSS) is a state school located on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. The school was opened in 1987 with just 186 students enrolled. Presently there are approximately 495 students enrolled.
History
With a large increase in population of the Nerang area in the 1980s, the Nerang State School, Nerang's only primary school at the time, was nearing capacity. The Queensland Department of Education decided to open the William Duncan State School in Nerang in 1987. The William Duncan State School was named after William Duncan, one of the first white men to set foot in the area of Nerang in 1842.
Current day
The school has created a new motto aside their other one, "A United School of Excellence". They have also developed a new initiative called the "Centre of Musical Excellence" (CME) (established in 2014). This program is especially for musically orientated students. There are special CME classes for those students. They have a great learning system with a recently built building (completed in late 2011) including a kitchen, science lab, new library, computer lab, toilet, and meeting rooms.
In the news
This school has a policy of exclusion. It is reported in the media that children who do not attend school due to reasons including legitimate illness are excluded from special reward days.
This school has a policy of bullying with it being reported that children have been reprimanded for hugging outside the school grounds.
This school has a policy of harassment with children banned from rolling up their sleeves.
Facilities
In this school there are 2 senior girl and boy toilet blocks, 1 junior girl and boy toilet block, a teachers library, student library, science room, kitchen, junior oval, senior oval, junior playground (2), senior playground and multi-purpose courts. Every classroom has an interactive white board. In many of the ICT lessons they have the use an iPad to help them research things for their lessons. They are also taught some essential keys to learning and researching.
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Pat Hannigan (rugby league)
Patrick "Pat" James Hannigan was a New Zealand rugby league footballer who played in the 1910s. He played at representative level for New Zealand (Heritage № 48), and Nelson, as a forward (prior to the specialist positions of; ), during the era of contested scrums.
Rugby union career
Hannigan played rugby union, for the Nelson-Marlborough combined side against the 1908 Anglo-Wesh touring side.
Rugby league career
Hannigan won a cap for New Zealand during the 1910 Great Britain Lions tour of Australia and New Zealand, playing as a forward, i.e. number 9, in the 20-52 defeat by Great Britain at Domain Cricket Ground, Auckland on Saturday 30 July 1910.
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Sonchella
Sonchella is a genus of Asian flowering plants in the dandelion family.
Species
Sonchella dentata (Ledeb.) Sennikov - Russia (Altai, Tuva), China (Qinghai), Mongolia
Sonchella stenoma (Turcz. ex DC.) Sennikov - Russia (Buryatiya , Chita), China (Tibet, Gansu, Inner Mongolia), Mongolia
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Artscape Theatre Centre
Artscape Theatre Centre (formerly Nico Malan Theatre Centre) is the main performing arts centre in Cape Town, South Africa. It was opened in 1971 and is located on reclaimed land in the Foreshore area. The inaugural performance was scheduled to be Verdi's Aida but illness struck the title-role singer Emma Renzi and the production was replaced by CAPAB Ballet's Sylvia. Other productions in the opening season were Mozart's Die Zauberflöte in Afrikaans and Puccini's Madama Butterfly.
The complex includes:
Opera House, seating 1,487 with provision for two wheelchairs.
Theatre, seating 540 but more or less depending upon whether the pit is used.
Arena Theatre, seating 140.
The Artscape Theatre Centre was originally commissioned by the Provincial Administration of the Cape Province and run by CAPAB (Cape Performing Arts Board). It was formerly known as the Nico Malan theatre complex, after the former National Party administrator of the Cape Province, Dr Johannes Nicholas Malan, who initiated the project. The centre was privatized and renamed in March 2001, when the Cape Performing Arts Board (CAPAB) was dissolved. the CEO is Marlene le Roux.
The Artscape Theatre Centre is also the home of Fine Music Radio and oversees the Maynardville Open-Air Theatre in Wynberg, Cape Town. It also houses the Cape Philharmonic Orchestra and the Cape Town Opera. The Cape Town City Ballet also performs there.
See also
List of concert halls
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Sagna
Sagna may refer to:
Sagna, Neamț, a Romanian commune
Dharyala Sagna, a town in Pakistan
Sagna (surname)
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2014 Norwich City Council election
Council elections for the Norwich City Council were held on 22 May 2014 as part of the 2014 United Kingdom local elections. The elections were moved from earlier on in May to coincide with the East of England 2014 European Parliament election.
One third of the council's 39 seats were up for election in 2014, plus an extra seat in University ward, meaning a total of 14 seats in 13 wards. The other 25 seats were not contested in 2014.
The election saw no seats change hands, with the Council staying exactly as it had been in 2012. The Green Party had lost the County Council seat in Town Close ward to Labour in the 2013 election, but held their city council seat in these elections.
All changes in vote share are calculated with reference to the 2010 election, the last time these seats were contested.
Previous Composition
Before the election, Labour held all the seats in seven wards: Bowthorpe, Catton Grove, Chrome, Lakenham, Mile Cross, Sewell and University; the Green Party held all the seats in five wards: Mancroft, Nelson, Thorpe Hamlet, Town Close and Wensum; and the Liberal Democrats held all the seats in Eaton ward.
Election result
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Changes in vote share are relative to the last time these seats were contested in 2010.
Council Composition
Prior to the election the composition of the council was:
After the election, the composition of the council was:
Ward results
Below are the ward-by-ward results.
Bowthorpe
Catton Grove
Crome
Eaton
Lakenham
Mancroft
Mile Cross
Nelson
Sewell
Thorpe Hamlet
Town Close
University
University ward elected two seats in this election, with each voter casting up to two votes under the plurality-at-large voting system.
Wensum
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552 Sigelinde
Sigelinde (minor planet designation: 552 Sigelinde) is a minor planet orbiting the Sun.
It was named after a character in Richard Wagner's opera Die Walküre (The Valkyrie).
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A Message from Mars (1903 film)
For the 1913 UK version of this film, see A Message from Mars (1913 film).
A Message from Mars is a 1903 New Zealand short film, based on a play that had been highly popular in Australia and New Zealand.
Another version of this film was made in 1913 in the UK as A Message from Mars (1913 film). In December 2014, the British Film Institute announced this latter film was posted online on their website.
Plot
A Martian comes to Earth to show a human he is selfish.
Preservation status
This 1903 film was New Zealand's first fiction film and is now considered a lost film.
References
External links
A Message From Mars at IMDB
A Message From Mars at Silent Era
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Blue rinse
A blue rinse is a dilute hair dye used to reduce the yellowed appearance of grey or white hair. Benjamin Netanyahu is a famous politician who uses this style
The blue rinse gained popularity after Jean Harlow's appearance in the 1930 film, Hell's Angels. Queen Elizabeth also contributed to the popularity of the blue rinse in the 1940s.
In British politics, the term Blue Rinse Brigade is used to refer to affluent older women involved in Conservative politics, charity work and committees.
See also
Blue hair
References
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XWT (disambiguation)
XWT is an open source software related to Vexi.
XWT may also refer to:
Xwt (toolkit), an extension of the open-source project Mono
Wergaia language (ISO 639:xwt), an indigenous Australian language
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Sinking Spring
Sinking Spring is the name of several towns in the United States:
Sinking Spring, Ohio
Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania
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Koji Enokura
was a Japanese painter and installation artist.
He was one of the key members of Mono-ha, a group of artists who became prominent in the late 1960s and 1970s. The Mono-ha artists explored the encounter between natural and industrial materials, such as stone, steel plates, glass, light bulbs, cotton, sponge, paper, wood, wire, rope, leather, oil, and water, arranging them in mostly unaltered, ephemeral states. The works focus as much on the interdependency of these various elements and the surrounding space as on the materials themselves.
Career
Kōji Enokura was born in Tokyo. In 1966, he graduated from the painting department at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. Enokura received an MFA in painting at the same university in 1968, and taught there from 1975 until his death in 1995.
Site Specific Installations
From the beginning of the 1970s, Enokura stained paper, cloth, felt, and leather with oil and grease. He also discolored the floors and walls of galleries and outdoor spaces. These installations are no longer extant but are documented in photographs. In 1970, Enokura exhibited in Tokyo Biennale ’70 – Between Man and Matter, with Jiro Takamatsu and Susumu Koshimizu. World-renowned artists such as Richard Serra, Jannis Kounellis, Luciano Fabro, Christo and Bruce Nauman also exhibited. There he presented Place (1970), stacks of rough straw paper piled in different heights and soaked with oil.
One of his most notable works is Untitled (1970), a triangular structure of slashed leather placed on the floor in the corner, which highlights the relationship of the adjacent walls as much as the texture of its own surface. In a similar vein, for the Paris Youth Biennale in 1971, he constructed Wall, a three-meter-tall and five-meter-wide concrete partition between two trees in the Parc Floral. This work—for which he was awarded a scholarship that allowed him to live in Paris from 1973 to 1974—has been an enduring icon of his practice.
Through interventions such as these, he sought to affirm his own place in the world. In his writings he stated, “It is the tension between the body and the material that interests me, and that’s what I want to explore. It attests to the consciousness I have of my own existence.”
By 1973, Kōji Enokura, Kishio Suga, Lee Ufan, Nobuo Sekine, and other artists such as Susumu Koshimizu, and Katsuro Yoshida became collectively known as Mono-ha (literally “School of Things”).
Photographs
In addition to taking photographs that served simply to document his ephemeral installations, Enokura also took photographs that he considered to be artworks in their own right. These explored similar themes of liminal states of being, depicting pools of water on the floor or trickling off a table, or reflections of light. One of the most iconic images, Symptom: Sea–Body (P.W. No. 40) , shows the artist lying down on the seashore, his body following the curve of the incoming tide. Of this work, curator Simon Groom wrote:
Later works on canvas
During the 1980s and 1990s, Enokura continued to explore the act of staining on cotton-fabric. In these works, which are titled Intervention or Intervention (Story) and are numbered sequentially, the artist typically contrasted smooth fields of black paint with unpainted fabric, sometimes drenching the entire surface. In several canvases he used oil-soaked beams of lumber to mark the fabric—either affixing the beams to the work or leaning them against it.Some works from this period feature shelves that support glass bottles filled with sand and water, or in one unusual case a potted plant. Enokura also created numerous works consisting of fabric in single or double layers hung diagonally on the wall and folding out onto the floor.
Exhibitions
Kōji Enokura’s first solo exhibition was at Tsubaki Kindai Gallery, Tokyo, in 1969. Since then, he has had numerous solo shows in Japan, including the Saito Memorial Kawaguchi Museum of Contemporary Art and the National Museum of Art, Osaka, in 1994. In 2005, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, held a major retrospective.
His work has also been included in landmark surveys, such as the Tokyo Biennale ’70: Between Man and Matter, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, 1970; the Paris Biennale, 1971; the Biennale of Sydney, 1976; the Venice Biennale, 1978; Avanguardie Giapponese degli Anni 70, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, 1992, and Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, 1993; Reconsidering Mono-ha, National Museum of Art, Osaka, 2005; and Re: Quest―Japanese Contemporary Art since the 1970s, Museum of Art, Seoul National University, Korea, 2013.
His work has received renewed attention in the United States following his inclusion in Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-ha, at Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, in February 2012. This exhibition was the first survey of Mono-ha in the United States, and was followed by a solo exhibition at Blum & Poe in June 2013, which was his first solo show in the United States.
The estate of Kōji Enokura is represented by the galleries Blum & Poe (Los Angeles, New York, Tokyo), Fergus McCaffrey (New York), and Tokyo Gallery + BTAP (Tokyo, Beijing).
Collections
Kōji Enokura’s work is in the collection of numerous museums, including:
Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya
Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima
Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Museum of Modern Art, Saitama
National Museum of Art, Osaka
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Punta della Dogana, Venice
Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo
Bibliography
Japon des avant gardes: 1910–1970. Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 1986.
Kōji Enokura: A Retrospective. Tokyo: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2005.
Chong, Doryun. Tokyo 1955–1970: A New Avant-Garde. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2012.
Yoshitake, Mika. Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-ha. Los Angeles: Blum & Poe, 2012.
References
External links
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Koji Enokura
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Earl Cureton
Earl Cureton (born September 3, 1957) is an American retired professional basketball player. His nickname was "The Twirl".
NBA player
He was drafted by the Philadelphia 76ers in the 3rd round of the 1979 NBA draft (58th overall pick) after playing collegiately for Robert Morris University and the University of Detroit. During his twelve seasons in the National Basketball Association, the 6'9" forward-center played for the Philadelphia 76ers (1980–1983), Detroit Pistons (1983–1986), Chicago Bulls (1986–87), Los Angeles Clippers (1986–88), Charlotte Hornets (1988–89, 1990–91), Houston Rockets (1993–94) and Toronto Raptors (1996–97). He played 674 NBA regular games and 54 playoff games, averaging 5.4 PPG and 4.7 RPG in 18.4 minutes per game. He won two NBA Championships: with Philadelphia 76ers in 1982/83 and with Houston Rockets in 1993/94.
Post-Playing Career
Cureton serves as a Community Ambassador for the Detroit Pistons, a position he has held since 2013. This role includes leading Pistons organizational outreach and community partnerships.
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Helge Lilletvedt
Helge Lilletvedt (born 13 June 1964 in Bergen, Norway) is a Norwegian jazz keyboardist, composer and music arranger, known from collaboration with musicians Terje Rypdal, Vigleik Storaas, Arve Henriksen, Per Jørgensen, Olav Dale, Ole Amund Gjersvik and Herborg Kråkevik.
Career
Lilletvedt studied classical piano at the Bergen Music Conservatory and was early interested in jazz and other rhythmic music. He has for many years been in the lineup of Bergen Big Band. Lilletvedt is a versatile performer, and as a freelance musician he works in many different fields, as soloist, accompanist, band and orchestral musician.
Honors
Vossajazzprisen 1999
Discography
Solo albums
1996: A Textile Soundscape
Collaborative works
With Jiri Hlinka
1985: Jiri Hlinka med Studenter (VestNorsk Plateselskap)
With various artists
1986: Knut Gribb tar Bergenstoget (Polygram)
1996: Blue Moods – New Voices, New Directions – Blue Notables Vol. 9 (Blue Note)
1996: XX (Vossajazz)
2010: Våkenatt For Hardanger (Kirkelig Kulturverksted)
With Seglem/Thomsen/Gjersvik (Producer)
1988: Poems for Trio (Hot Club)
With Ole Amund Gjersvik
1990: A Voice from the Past (Acoustic Records)
1992: Appasionata Criminelle (Acoustic Records)
1993: Alone In the Crowd (Acoustic Records)
1995: Around the Fountain (Acoustic Records)
2002 Combo Tango Plays Music by Ole A. Gjersvik (Acoustic Records)
2013: Latin Collection (Acoustic Records)
With Gustav Lorentzen
1995: Kanskje Kommer Kongen (CNR Music)
With Herborg Kråkevik
1995: Mi Haugtussa (Norsk Plateproduksjon)
2000: Kråkeviks Songbok (Universal Music, Norway)
2001: Songen Om Mitt Liv (Universal Music)
2002: Eg og Edith (Universal Music)
2008: Annleis Enn I Går (Sonet, Universal Music Group)
2009: Kvar Ein Dag (Universal Music)
2011: Jul I Stova (Universal Music)
2011: Alltid I Mitt Sinn (Universal Music)
With Helen Eriksen
1996: Standards (Blue Note)
1998: Lovevirgin (Blue Note)
With Jan Bang
1997: Pop Killer (Virgin)
With N'Light'N
1998: Dedication (Tee Productions)
With Merethe Mikkelsen Band
1999: Where Do You Start feat. Toots Thielemans (Force Majeure)
With Vamp
2000: En Annen Sol (MajorStudio)
2002: Månemann (MajorStudio)
2005: Siste Stikk (MajorStudio)
2006: Denne Uro/I Full Symfoni (MajorStudio)
With Anne Dorte Michelsen
2001: Fred Hviler Over Land Og By (Medley Records, EMI)
2003: Stille Som Sne (Sony)
With Jan Eggum (Arranger)
2001: Ekte Eggum (Grappa)
With Millpond Moon
2001: Nation of Two (Bergen Records)
2015: Time To Turn the Tide (Tikopia Records)
With Göran Fristorp
2004: Pie Jesu (DownBeach)
2008: Min Lyckas Hus (DaWorks)
With Rein Alexander (Arranger)
2004: Rein Alexander (Sony)
With Beate Jacobsen
2005: Coming Up (LimitCycle)
With Haugesund Popensemble (Arranger)
2006: Skyld På Meg (MajorStudio)
With Bergen Big Band (Producer)
2008 Som Den Gyldne Sol (Grappa)
With Merete Arnevåg
2008 Somerfuglhagen (Make Music AS)
With Terje Rypdal, within Bergen Big Band
2010: Crime Scene (ECM)
With Jan Frode I. Christensen
2011 Sannsynligvis Eg (Filter)
With Tomine Mikkeline
2012: Tomine Mikkeline (Universal Music Group)
With Jan Kåre Hystad
2013: Listen Alone (Acoustic Records)
With Ingvild Lilletvedt Nordstoga
2014: Den Minste Caféen (Plassen Produksjon)
With Julian Berntzen
2014: Hellemyrsfolket (Songbird)
With Brit Johnsrud
2015: Light Blue Outfit (Aslaug Records)
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Herceg Novi
Herceg Novi (Montenegrin Cyrillic: Херцег Нови; ) is a coastal town in Montenegro located at the entrance to the Bay of Kotor and at the foot of Mount Orjen. It is the administrative center of the Herceg Novi Municipality with around 33,000 inhabitants. Herceg Novi was known as Castelnuovo ("New castle" in Italian) between 1482 and 1797, when it was part of Ottoman Empire and the Albania Veneta of the Republic of Venice. It was a Catholic bishopric and remains a Latin titular see as Novi. Herceg Novi has had a turbulent past, despite being one of the youngest settlements on the Adriatic. A history of varied occupations has created a blend of diverse and picturesque architectural style in the city.
Names
In Montenegrin, the town is known as Herceg Novi or Херцег Нови; in Italian as Castelnuovo; and in Greek as Neòkastron (Νεοκαστρον), all meaning 'new castle'.
History
Archeological findings from Luštica peninsula and Vranjaj cavern imply that the area was populated in Neolithic and early Bronze Age. In 3rd century BC, after beating the Illyrians, the area was ruled by Roman Republic. After the split of the Roman Empire, the area fell under rule of Western Roman Empire. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, the area was dominated by Byzantine Empire. Slavic tribes began inhabiting these lands in 7th century AD. During these times the small settlement was part of Byzantine-held Dračevica district, which in turn later belonged to Principality of Travunija. In 10th century Dračevica comes under the control of various Dioclean/Zetan dukes, who were in turn incorporated into Kingdom of Serbia ruled by the Nemanjić dynasty. After the death of Emperor Stefan Dušan, Serbian Empire begins to fracture into smaller principalities and districts, Dračevica being administered by great duke Vojislav Vojinović. After the rulership of Vojinović, the area, along with most of modern Montenegro, comes under the rule of Balšić noble family.
The medieval town was founded on a small fishing village as a fortress in 1382 by the first King of Bosnia, Stefan Tvrtko I Kotromanić and was originally named Sveti Stefan (Saint Stephen).
After the death of Tvrtko, Duke Sandalj Hranić of the Herzegovinian Kosačas acquired Sveti Stefan. During his reign, the town picked up trading salt. When Hranić died, his nephew, Herzog Stjepan Vukčić Kosača inherited it. During the reign of Duchy of Saint Sava, the town grew in importance and became Stjepan's seat, getting a new name in the process: Herceg Novi. Herzog Stjepan also founded Savina monastery.
The Turks conquered Herceg Novi in 1482, and ruled for 200 years, until 1687. They built Kanli Tower on the upper edge of the city. However, there was a short pause between 1538 and 1539 when it was held by the Spaniards before they were defeated in the Siege of Castelnuovo. In their brief overlordship, the Spanish built a Hispaniola fort above the city that is well-preserved today. Evliya Çelebi visits the Bay of Kotor and mentione Croats, Bosnians and Albanians(Arnauts) who live in the Herceg Novi.
Venice gained control of the city and included it into Albania Veneta, an administrative unit on the territory of present-day coastal Montenegro. In Venice, the city was known as Castelnuovo. The Venetians refortified the old town walls and towers and reinforced the fortress with a Citadella tower (destroyed in an earthquake in 1979). On 24 August 1798, Herceg Novi was annexed by Habsburg Austria but was then ceded to Russia as per the Treaty of Pressburg on 26 December 1805. The Russians officially occupied Herceg Novi between 28 February 1806 and 12 August 1807.
On 7 July 1807, Herceg Novi was ceded to Napoleon I Bonaparte's French Empire as per the Treaty of Tilsit. Official French rule over Herceg Novi began on 12 August 1807, when the Russians left the city. The city was part of Dalmatia until 14 October 1809, when it was annexed to the newly created Illyrian Provinces.
Herceg Novi, as well as the rest of the Bay of Kotor, was overtaken by Montenegrin forces in 1813. It was under control of a temporary government based in Dobrota between 11 September 1813 and 10 June 1814, which was supported by Montenegro. The appearance of Austrian forces in 1814 caused the Prince-Bishop of Montenegro to turn over the territory to Austrian administration on 11 June. After Herceg Novi was retaken, as well as the rest of the bay, it became part of the Dalmatian crownland. The bay was under Austro-Hungarian control until 1918.
In 1900, the two names ERZEG NOVI and CASTELNUOVO PRESSO CATTARO were used in bilingual cancellations.
The Kingdom of Montenegro attempted to retake the Bay of Kotor during World War I, it was bombarded from Lovćen, but by 1916 Austria-Hungary defeated Montenegro.
On 7 November 1918, the Serbian Army entered the bay and were greeted by the people as Slavic liberators. The bay later became a part of the self-proclaimed State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs. Within a month, this region united with Serbia as part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, renamed to Yugoslavia in 1929. The bay was a municipality of Dalmatia until it was, like all historic entities, abolished in 1922. It was incorporated into the Zeta Oblast (province), from 1929 style Zeta Banate.
Herceg Novi was annexed by Mussolini's fascist Italy during World War II in 1941. It became a part of the province of Cattaro.
Herceg Novi was later retaken by Yugoslav Partisan forces on 10 September 1943. Within Tito's Communist reformed Yugoslavia, Herceg Novi became part of the People's Republic of Montenegro.
It would follow its fate at the dismemberment of Yugoslavia into the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro in 2003, and as that fell apart in 2006 into independent Montenegro.
Ecclesiastical history
It once was a Catholic bishopric, but no residential incumbent data are available.
Titular see
In 1933 the diocese was nominally restored by establishing in the Latin Church of the Catholic Church a titular bishopric of Novi (in Dalmatia), listed as suffragan of the Archdiocese of Doclea (which in Classical times controlled its region in the Roman province of Dalmatia Superior).
The following individuals held the titular bishopric. They were either auxiliary bishops or officials of the Vatican:
Abel Costas Montaño (1968.11.11 – 1974.12.11), as Auxiliary Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cochabamba (Bolivia) (1968.11.11 – 1974.12.11); later Bishop of Tarija (Bolivia) (1974.12.11 – retired 1995.10.20); died 2015
Alfred Gonti Pius Datubara, Capuchin Franciscans (O.F.M. Cap.) (1975.04.05 – 1976.05.24) as Auxiliary Bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Medan (Indonesia) (1975.04.05 – 1976.05.24); succeeded later as Metropolitan Archbishop of above Medan (1976.05.24 – retired 2009.02.12)
Juan Ignacio Larrea Holguín (1983.08.05 – 1988.03.25) as last Military Vicar of the Military Vicariate of Ecuador (Ecuador) (1983.08.05 – 1986.07.21) and first Military Ordinary of Ecuador (1986.07.21 – 1989.12.07); later Coadjutor Archbishop of Guayaquil (Ecuador) (1988.03.25 – 1989.12.07), succeeding as Metropolitan Archbishop of Guayaquil (1989.12.07 – retired 2003.05.07), died 2006; previously Titular Bishop of Cellæ in Proconsulari (1969.05.17 – 1980.06.28) as Auxiliary Bishop of Quito (Ecuador) (1969.05.17 – 1980.06.28?), Bishop of Ibarra (Ecuador) (1980.06.28 – 1983.08.05)
Jan Lebeda (1988.05.19 – 1991.11.05) as Auxiliary Bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Praha (Prague, Czechoslovakia) (1988.05.19 – death 1991.11.05)
Titular Archbishop: Ernesto Maria Fiore (1991.12.16 – 2001.10.30), while Dean of Tribunal of the Roman Rota (1985.06.06 – 1993.07.02) and on emeritate; previously Prelate Auditor of Roman Rota (1960.06.23 – 1985.06.06)
Odilo Pedro Scherer (2001.11.28 – death 2007.03.21) as Auxiliary Bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of São Paulo (Brazil) (2001.11.28 – 2007.03.21) and Secretary General of National Conference of Bishops of Brazil (2003–2007); later succeeded as Metropolitan Archbishop of São Paulo (2007.03.21 – ...), created Cardinal-Priest of S. Andrea al Quirinale (2007.11.24 [2008.02.17] – ...), Member of Commission of Cardinals overseeing the Institute for Works of Religion (2008.02.24 – 2014.01.15), Member of Council of Cardinals for the Study of Organisational and Economic Problems of the Apostolic See (2009.05.09 – 2014.02.24)
Carmelo Cuttitta (2007.05.28 – 2015.10.07) as Auxiliary Bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Palermo (Sicily, Italy) (2007.05.28 – 2015.10.07); later Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ragusa (Italy) (2015.10.07 – ...)
Titular Archbishop Paul Fitzpatrick Russell (2016.03.19 – ...) as papal diplomat: Apostolic Nuncio (ambassador) to Turkey (2016.03.19 – ...); Apostolic Nuncio to Turkmenistan (2016.03.19 – ...); and Apostolic Nuncio to Azerbaijan (2017.04.07 – ...). The Apostolic Nunciature for all three countries is located in Ankara. Previously, he was chargé d'affaires (head of mission) of the Apostolic Nunciature to China, based in Taiwan (2008.05.02 – 2016.03.19).
Local government
Population
The Herceg Novi municipality stretches from Prevlaka to the Verige strait. An almost unbroken string of towns lie along this strip of coast, accommodating the municipality's 30,864 (2011 census) residents. These include Igalo, Herceg Novi, Baošići, Đenovići, Meljine and Bijela.
Tourism
Herceg Novi is a major Montenegrin tourist destination. It is well known as a spa and health center; nearby Igalo has an abundance of healing sea mud called "igaljsko blato" (Igalo mud) and mineral water springs called "igaljske slatine" (Igalo water springs). The most famous tourist attractions in Herceg Novi are castle Forte Mare built by the Bosnian king Tvrtko I in 1382, a clock tower built by Austrians in the 19th century, the Kanli tower built by Turks, and the Serbian church St. Michael Archangel in central Belavista Square.
Whilst the city itself is not a major destination for sunbathing, with no long sandy beaches along the rest of the Boka Kotorska bay, many beaches are reachable by boat. Tourist companies organise one-day boat trips to Luštica peninsula, which lies opposite to the town. Popular Luštica peninsula beach sites include Žanjic, Mirište and Rose. Herceg Novi accounted for one-third of overnight stays in Montenegro before the Yugoslav wars, but the situation has changed since in favour of Budva, Kotor and other resorts in the northern part of the coast.
Zelenika which is also a small city in Herceg Novi is also a very popular place to visit along the shores of Montenegro.
Culture
"JUK Herceg-Fest"
This cultural events center was established on 24 February 1992. Two years later the cultural center joined with the "Orijen" movie distribution and production company. Together they have played a crucial role in enhancing the city's cultural life. Among many annual festivities are the mimosa celebration, local theatrical events, and a film and music fest.
"The Operosa Opera Festival" takes place during the summer in the Kanli Kula amphitheater inside the fortress of Stari Grad (Old Town).
The Herceg Novi City Archive was returned in 1956 the Archive to Herceg Novi after being temporarily relocated to Zadar, Croatia. The Archive was relocated to Zadar by Italians during the Second World War. The original archive building, built in 1885, suffered severe damage from the 1979 earthquake. Shortly afterward, the building was renovated. Today, the Archive is in size. The Archive features modern equipment and a library open to the public. The oldest document in the Archive originated in 1685. The library contains approximately 30,000 volumes and 1,000 periodicals.
The Historical Museum was established in 1949 and officially opened in 1953. The museum building, a gift to the city from the former mayor, Mirko Komnenović (1870–1941), and his wife Olga, is at least 150 years old.
The City library contains at least 30,000 volumes. Among the contributors to this collection are Dušan Petković (5,000 books), Veljka Radojević (1,500), Doklestić, Daljev, Lučić, Subotić and others.
Transportation
Herceg Novi or Igalo is usually the final destination of buses that come from inland Montenegro and Serbia. The Adriatic Motorway, a two-lane motorway that extends for the length of the Montenegrin coast, goes through Herceg Novi before it merges with the Croatian road network at the Debeli Brijeg border crossing.
The ferry operates on the Kamenari – Lepetane line at Verige Strait, eliminating the need to go all the way around Boka Kotorska bay in order to reach Tivat, Kotor, Budva and inland Montenegro.
Tivat Airport is away (via the ferry). There are regular flights to Belgrade and Zürich, and dozens of charter planes land daily on Tivat airport during the summer season. Dubrovnik Airport in Croatia is some away, and it maintains regular flights to many European destinations.
Climate
The area of the Bay of Kotor has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen climate classification: Cfa) with significantly more rain in the winter than in the summer. Herceg Novi has a specific microclimate, which is a result of southern exposition, proximity to the sea, limestone substratum and mountainous hinterland which prevents the breakthrough of cold air masses.
Herceg Novi has approximately 200 sunny days a year. In July and August there are approximately 11 sunny hours per day.
Average annual temperature is (similar to that of Naples and Lisbon). There are frequent slight temperature oscillations; the average daily temperature fluctuation is only 4 °C (7.2 °F). Average temperature from May to September is about , and the average summer sea temperature is rather high, between .
The annual average precipitation is . Relative air humidity is at its highest level, 80%, in the fall. Its lowest level, 63%, comes in the summer.
International relations
Twin towns — Sister cities
Herceg Novi is twinned with:
Notable residents
Jovan Vavic – former head coach of the USC men's and women's water polo teams
References
Sources and external links
Official website of Herceg Novi municipality
GCatholic – (titular) bishopric
City Port Herceg Novi
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Alteveer, De Wolden
Alteveer is a village in the Dutch province of Drenthe. It is located in the municipality De Wolden, about 5 km south of the town of Hoogeveen.
Alteveer has about 640 inhabitants.
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GRAM domain
The GRAM domain is found in glucosyltransferases, myotubularins and other membrane-associated proteins. The structure of the GRAM domain is similar to that found in PH domains.
Human proteins containing this domain
DIP; GRAMD1A; GRAMD1B; GRAMD1C; GRAMD2; GRAMD3; MTM1; MTMR1; MTMR2; NCOA7; NSMAF; OXR1; SBF1; SBF2; TBC1D8; TBC1D8B; TBC1D9; TBC1D9B; WBP2; WBP2NL; dJ439F8.1;
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Virgil Livers
Virgil Chester Livers, Jr. (born March 26, 1952 in Fairfield, Kentucky) is a former American football cornerback in the National Football League. He was drafted by the Chicago Bears in the fourth round of the 1975 NFL Draft. He played college football at Western Kentucky.
Livers has been an assistant principal at Bowling Green High School from 1998 to 2017.
Livers is known for a testicle injury during his NFL career with the Chicago Bears, and there are a number of articles (as well as the film, Hot Tub Time Machine, though not by name) on football injuries and the importance of wearing cups that reference his injury, and some that go into excruciating detail.
Livers also played for the USFL Chicago Blitz 1983-1984 as a defensive back. The team went 17-20 in those two years. In 2017, Livers was inducted into the Kentucky Pro Football Hall of Fame.
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Radner
Radner is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Gilda Radner (1946–1989), American comedian and actress
Maria Radner (1981–2015), German opera singer and passenger on Germanwings Flight 9525
Roy Radner (born 1927), American economist and business professor
Sidney Hollis Radner (born 1919), American magician
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Radnor (disambiguation)
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Pittsburgh Phantoms (ABA)
The Pittsburgh Phantoms were an American professional basketball team whose office is based in the Pittsburgh suburb of Elizabeth, Pennsylvania. The Phantoms were a member of the current American Basketball Association, and began play in December, 2009. The Phantoms played their home games in Munhall, Pennsylvania at the Carnegie Library of Homestead - Athletic Club as well as the Langley High School (Pittsburgh) Gymnasium. Although the Phantoms intended to play games in the ABA during the 2010-11 season, no games were held.
The Phantoms had originally planned to be a charter member of the Global Professional Basketball League before leaving for the ABA.
Year-by-year
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Kyzyl-Kuch
Kyzyl-Kuch () is a rural locality (a village) in Ilishevsky District, Bashkortostan, Russia. The population was 5 as of 2010. There is 1 streets.
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Ștefan Tașnadi
Ștefan Tașnadi (Hungarian: István Tasnádi, 21 March 1953 – 28 February 2018) was a Romanian heavyweight weightlifter who won a silver medal at the 1984 Olympics.
Tașnadi took up lifting in 1970 at a sports school and from 1976 to 1984 was a member of the national team. He retired in 1984 to become a weightlifting coach.
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Tage Schultz
Tage Schultz (June 16, 1916 – February 2, 1983) was a Danish field hockey player who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.
He was born and died in Copenhagen.
In 1936 he was a squad member of the Danish team which was eliminated in the group stage of the Olympic tournament. He played one match in the consolation round.
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Mali London
Mali London (Serbian Cyrillic: Мали Лондон, English: Little London) is a suburban settlement in Pančevo, Serbia. Mali London is located on both sides of the road E70, nearby the industrial site of the city. It has about 70 housing units, inhabited by Romani people.
The first housings were built 50 years ago. Many of the residents of Mali London make a living by recycling metal. Used cars are brought to the settlement and taken apart, to be resold as scrap or sheet metal. The settlement is without running water or electricity, and it presents a health risk for its inhabitants. In 2005, some people of Mali London have formed the association Mali Rit London Društvo Roma.
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Zoe Romano
Zoë Romano is an American ultra-distance endurance runner. Romano is the first and only person ever to run the Tour de France course of 2,000 miles at 30 miles a day, which she ran while the competing cyclists were racing on the course. She was also the first female to run coast-to-coast across the United States unsupported, pushing her gear in a running stroller from Huntington Beach, California, to Charleston, South Carolina. In 2013 she chose as another big personal goal and challenge a run on the island of Corsica.
Childhood and education
A native of Maine, Zoë Romano graduated in 2009 from the University of Richmond in Richmond, Virginia, where she majored in Spanish and International Studies and began her running career. In 2014 she received the Distinguished Recent Graduate Award from the University of Richmond, her alma mater. Zoë is also a writer and currently in an MFA program in creative writing at Queens University of Charlotte, North Carolina, for which she attends summer residencies in South America. She has published in Marathon & Beyond, The Portland Phoenix, and University of Richmond Magazine.
Ultra-distance challenges
Romano began her cross-country run from California. She followed that first big challenge soon after with a smaller ultra marathon. Romano ran the entire Tour de France course in 2013, pushing her gear in a running stroller. She started her 2,000 mile journey on May 18 in Nice and finished in Paris a day before the peloton, covering the course in nine weeks at the rate of 30 miles a day. The course involved climbing more than 100,000 feet of elevation, the equivalent of scaling Mt. Everest three times. She was followed on this run by filmmaker Alexander Kreher, who is producing a film about Romano. A trailer for the film is ready, but the film has not yet been released.
"When she took the first steps of her 2,000-mile journey . . ., Zoe Romano wasn't sure she'd ever actually finish. She was buzzing with excitement as she stood at her start line in Cagnes-sur-Mer heading toward Marseille. But she was equally nervous and scared, rightly so for someone who was about to cover the entire Tour de France course on foot."
While standing in Calvi, Haute-Corse, a town on the northwest coast of the island of Corsica, she had finished 79 days of running, logging an average of 30 miles each day, and said, "This just feels surreal because there were so many times I had doubts and felt uncertain. There were times when I could hardly imagine being able to finish on time and in one piece. It feels impossible that it has actually happened."
Community involvement and charity work
While living in Portland, she was a volunteer coach for TED (conference) TEDxDirigo and a Spanish tutor for students of Greater Portland. She is a former ambassador to the Boys & Girls Clubs and has presented inspirational and educational talks to many local running groups, schools, and community initiatives. Zoë received a Key to the City from Mayor Nick Mavodones and had a day of Portland named in her honor. Her fundraising has included work with sponsors and donors to organize giving and cause-marketing campaigns to raise $191,000 for the World Pediatric Project in 2013. She led grassroots efforts to raise $17,000 for Boys & Girls Clubs of America in 2011.
Romano formerly lived in Portland, Maine and in Richmond, Virginia. In 2013 she released her TedxRVA video. She gave an account of her adventure philanthropy at a Grand Prix banquet award ceremony of the Richmond Road Runners Club in 2017. She received an honorarium check from the RRRC for her charities and the next day led an early morning trail run near the James River with members of the club.
She and her accomplishments have been featured on the Today Show, NPR, CNN and in Runner’s World. Romano has been named to Richmond’s “Top 40 Under 40” list and is currently a Rotary Global Scholar.
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WXTV-DT
WXTV-DT, virtual channel 41 (UHF digital channel 26), is a Spanish-language television station licensed to Paterson, New Jersey, United States and serving the New York City television market. It is one of two East Coast flagship stations of the Univision network (alongside WLTV-DT in Miami–Fort Lauderdale, Florida). WXTV-DT is owned by the Univision Local Media subsidiary of Univision Communications, as part of a de facto triopoly with Newark, New Jersey-licensed UniMás co-flagship WFUT-DT (channel 68) and Smithtown, New York-licensed Justice Network affiliate WFTY-DT (channel 67). The three stations share studios on Frank W. Burr Boulevard in Teaneck, New Jersey; WXTV and WFUT share transmitter facilities at the Empire State Building in Midtown Manhattan.
WXTV's programming is simulcast to Long Island on WFTY's third digital subchannel (UHF channel 23.3 or virtual channel 67.3 via PSIP) from its transmitter in Middle Island, New York.
History
WXTV first signed on the air on August 4, 1968, originally operating as an independent station, carrying programs in both English and Spanish. The station originally operated from studios at 641 Main Street in Paterson, New Jersey; the station later moved to 24 Meadowlands Parkway in Secaucus, New Jersey and then to its current facilities in Teaneck.
In 1970, WXTV became an entirely Spanish-language station, and affiliated with the Spanish International Network, which became Univision in 1987. Since the mid-1980s, WXTV has used the slogan A su lado, an adaptation for the Hispanic market of the On Your Side campaign created by Frank Gari, and even used the similarly named news music package for a time.
The September 11, 2001 terror attacks on the World Trade Center did not affect WXTV's over-the-air signal, as WXTV's transmitter is located at the Empire State Building. WXTV and WCBS-TV (channel 2), who had a full-powered backup transmitter at the Empire State Building, were the only major New York City stations whose over-the-air signals were not disrupted. For a time until the other English stations could re-establish emergency transmission bases at Empire or the Armstrong Tower, WXTV's anchors reported in both languages for viewers without pay access to local English stations.
From the 1980s to 2002, WXTV operated a low-powered repeater in Philadelphia, first on channel 35 as W35AB and then on channel 28 as WXTV-LP. In 2002, Univision acquired a full-power outlet in Philadelphia, WUVP-DT, and the former WXTV-LP joined Telefutura as WFPA-CD.
Digital television
Digital channels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
Analog-to-digital conversion
WXTV discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 41, on June 12, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 40, using PSIP to display WXTV's virtual channel as 41 on digital television receivers.
Subchannels
Bounce TV
On March 1, 2015, WXTV started carrying Bounce TV after WWOR-TV (channel 9) dropped it from its digital lineup to create a space for the upcoming Buzzr.
News operation
WXTV-DT presently broadcasts 17 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with three hours each weekday and one hour each on Saturdays and Sundays); in addition, the station produces an hour-long extension of its morning newscast Noticias 41 Al Despertar en UniMás for sister station WFUT which airs weekdays at 7:00 a.m., a newscast for Altice USA's News 12 Networks on weekdays, and the 15-minute sports highlight program Accion Deportiva 41, which airs Sunday nights at 11:15 p.m. as part of the 11 p.m. newscast. WXTV also maintains news partnerships with CNN en Español, the Dominican Republic's Noticias SIN, Peru's América Televisión, and Mexico's Enlace Publica and utilizes the reporting staff of sister radio station WADO (1280 AM) for on-air reports.
The 6 and 11 p.m. weekend newscasts tend to be preempted by Univision programming that runs longer than it is scheduled to air (which is rare for the primetime schedule, unless a football (soccer) match airs). In the event that there is a technical fault occurring during either of WXTV's weekday newscasts, WXTV will cut to Univision's satellite feed until it is able to rejoin the East Coast feed for the national Univision news bulletins. Univision's satellite feed features entertainment programming and Primer Impacto Extra from 6–6:30 and 11–11:30 p.m. for stations that do not have local newscasts.
WXTV is known for having newscasts whose ratings frequently rival its English-language counterparts. From 1972 until 2013, the station's lead news anchor was Cuban-born Rafael Pineda; his 41 years at channel 41 gave him the distinction of being the longest-serving news anchor on a New York City television station, English or Spanish, until Chuck Scarborough of WNBC surpassed him in 2016.
WXTV won the July 2008 sweeps period and also became the first Spanish-language television station to win all three evening slots (local newscasts and 6 and 11 and the national news at 6:30 p.m.). WXTV's 6 p.m. newscast was also #1 among the 25-54 demographic, followed by WABC-TV (channel 7), WCBS-TV, WNJU (channel 47), WNYW (channel 5) and WNBC (channel 4). On June 22, 2010, WXTV-DT became the first Spanish-language television station in the New York City market to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition.
On January 5, 2012, it was announced that WXTV's 6 p.m. newscast ended the 2011 calendar year as #1 newscast in that timeslot in the entire United States among adult demographics. WXTV outperformed all early evening local newscasts in the country, regardless of language among Adults 18-49. On May 7, 2012 beginning with WXTV's 6 p.m. newscast, the station's moved its newscasts to a temporary set and announced on the next day (May 8) on their morning newscast that WXTV was constructing a new set to debut on July 23. On May 2, 2012, WXTV's weeknight 11 p.m. newscast was extended by five minutes to 11:35 p.m. (expanding to 35 minutes in length), while the weekend late newscasts continued to run for a half-hour from 11 to 11:30 p.m.
Notable current on-air staff
Adriana Vargas – weeknights anchor
Rafael Bello – weekdays meteorologist and entertainment anchor
Alex Roland – general assignment reporter
Notable former on-air staff
Daisy Fuentes
Rafael Pineda (Retired in 2013)
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Fakaseasea
The fakaseasea is a tradition dance song of Tuvalu. Dancing songs are the most common type of the traditional Tuvaluan songs, with other tradition dance styles including fakanau and fatele.
Tuvaluan dance music
Dancing songs are the most common type of traditional Tuvaluan songs. Older style dancing songs were known to be performed while sitting, kneeling or standing. The two primary traditional dances of Tuvalu are the fakanau (for men) and oga (for women) and the fakaseasea.
The modern fatele involves the women on their feet, dancing in lines; with the men facing the dancers, sitting on the floor beating the time with their hands on the mats or on wooden boxes, such as tea chests.
Performance of the fakaseasea
The fakaseasea was mainly performed by women, who were on their feet, dancing and moving their arms, hand and upper body; while men and women would sing and beat the time. It is a slower song with very loose rules on how to dance to it, with variations on different islands with different names. The fakaseasea tradition continues in the present day although performed mainly by elders.
References
Further reading
Christensen, Dieter, Old Musical Styles in the Ellice Islands, Western Polynesia, Ethnomusicology, 8:1 (1964), 34-40.
Christensen, Dieter and Gerd Koch, Die Musik der Ellice-Inseln, Berlin: Museum fur Volkerkunde, (1964)
Koch, Gerd, Songs of Tuvalu (translated by Guy Slatter), Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific (2000)
Linkels, Ad. The Real Music of Paradise (2000). In Broughton, Simon and Ellingham, Mark with McConnachie, James and Duane, Orla (Ed.), World Music, Vol. 2: Latin & North America, Caribbean, India, Asia and Pacific, pp 218–229. Rough Guides Ltd, Penguin Books.
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Neva Enfilade of the Winter Palace
The Neva Enfilade of the Winter Palace, St Petersburg, is a series of three large halls arranged in an enfilade along the palace's massive facade facing the River Neva.
Originally designed as a series of five state rooms by the architect Francesco Rastrelli in 1753, they were transformed into an enfilade of three vast halls in 1790 by Giacomo Quarenghi. Following a fire in 1837 they were rebuilt under the direction of Vasily Stasov. Frequently used as the palace ballrooms, they formed a processional route, and were the focus of the imperial court. In 1915, the last Tsar, Nicholas II, had the enfilade transformed into a military hospital. Following the Russian Revolution of 1917, the enfilade, along with the remainder of the building, has been used as a series of exhibition halls of the State Hermitage Museum.
History
The Palace was originally built in 1732, as an official residence for the Tsaritsa Anna I of Russia and designed by the architect Francesco Rastrelli. The Tsaritsa found the small Winter palace of Peter the Great insufficiently grand, and had taken over the neighbouring, and grander, palace of Admiral General Fyodor Matveyevich Apraksin, this she had rebuilt to form her own Winter Palace.
During the reign of Anna's successor, Elizabeth, Rastrelli, still working to his original plan, devised an entirely new scheme in 1753, on a colossal scale—the present Baroque Winter Palace (externally the palace seen today); the Tsaritsa wanted the palace to exceed in beauty and size all other European royal palaces. The expedited completion of the palace became a matter of national honour to the Empress, and to pay for it taxes were increased on salt and alcohol to fund the extra costs, although the Russian people were already burdened by taxes to pay for Russia's wars. The final cost was 2,500,000 rubles. By 1759, shortly before Elizabeth's death, an imperial Palace truly worthy of the name was nearing completion; at that time, the Neva enfilade contained five the principal state rooms. Work continued during the short reign of Elizabeth's nephew Peter III and on into the reign of Peter's widow Catherine the Great.
During Catherine the Great's reign, Neoclassicism came into vogue, and the new Tsaritsa was a great admirer. Rastrelli was dismissed and new architects working in the new fashions were employed. During this period, the original ornate rococo decoration of the palace was replaced with the more simple and stark neoclassicism which is a hallmark of the Palace today. The Neva enfilade was completely redesigned between 1790–93 by the architect Giacomo Quarenghi. Taking in the floor above, he transformed the original five rooms into three vast halls: the Concert Hall, the Great Hall and the Great Ante-Room. They were decorated in classical style with faux marbre and columns supporting life size statues.
Following a disastrous fire which destroyed most of the Winter Palace's interiors in 1837, the halls were recreated in similar style by the architect Vasily Stasov.
Court use of the enfilade
Until 1905, during the winter months, the Tsar and Tsaritsa were traditionally resident in the palace; this was the period of the Saint Petersburg social season and the first floor piano nobile would be in near constant use. The remainder of the year the imperial couple resided elsewhere, and the palace housed the staff and the officials of the monarchy, who occupied the ground and second floors. The halls of the enfilade were designed to form an important part in the ceremonial life of the court, not just as ballrooms for festivities but for processional use. From the entrance to the private apartments at the western end of the Concert Hall, Imperial processions would proceed in state through the enfilade to the Jordan Staircase or turn and continue through the eastern state rooms.
Before 1917, during ceremonies and functions, access to the various hall of the enfilade was dictated by rank. Those who were most important were positioned closest to the beginning of an imperial procession in the Concert Hall, the lesser exalted in the Nicholas Hall and the least important in the Great Ante-Room. The imperial court was very conscious of rank. This was particularly obvious amongst the ladies attached to the court. Etiquette dictated that all these ladies, regardless of age, wore white silk dresses with a low decolletage and a red or olive green velvet train with gold embroidery. On their heads they wore red or green kokoshniks studded with jewels. While other women present were allowed coloured dresses, the train and kokoshnik was mandatory court dress.
Further classification was given to the women's ranks by indication of whether they were "Dames a Portrait" or "Demoiselles d'Honneur." The former, higher ranking class wore the Tsaritsa's portrait mounted in diamonds on their left breast, while the latter wore the Tsaritsa's monogram surrounded by diamonds. In between these two ranks were the "Dames du Palais" who like the "Dames a portrait" wore olive green, the lower ranking "Demoiselles d'Honneur" wore red.
While red and green were the colours of the Tsar and Tsaritsa, further colour was added by the women attached to the numerous Grand Duchesses. Each Grand Duchess had her own colour, and all the ladies attached to the suite would wear it. Queen Victoria's foreign secretary, writing to her in 1894 of a state procession through the enfilade, recorded of the Grand Duchesses' colours that one "is a particularly hideous shade of orange." The Foreign Secretary then went on to describe the "8,000 to 10,000" people present in the Winter palace's "interminable halls", and a particular "Demoiselle d'Honneur" who was "so old that she was propped up against a wall." Overall, the splendour and size of the Winter Palace and its colourful and bejewelled ladies failed to impress the Foreign Secretary for he reported to the Queen that the Grand Church "was not very large" and that the assembled imperial court had "an absence of beauty as compared with that seen at one of Your Majesty's drawing rooms." He did, however, concede that the Queen's granddaughter looked "simply magnificent...the perfection of what one would imagine an Empress of Russia on her way to the altar would be." That wedding of Queen Victoria's granddaughter to the Tsar was to be one of the final huge gatherings at the Palace, however. The palace's state rooms had had their swan song during the reign of Alexander II between 1855 and 1881.
Alexander II was the last Tsar to use the Winter Palace extensively not only for governing the empire but also entertaining. Of special note were the Bals des Palmiers given at the palace. On these occasions, 100 palm trees were brought from the hot houses at Tsarskoe Selo; these would be scattered throughout the enfilade, and around them supper tables seating 15 people would be constructed. During the course of the evening the Tsar would make the rounds of the tables, eating a piece of bread or fruit at each, in order that the guests may say that they had dined with the Tsar.
Following the assassination of Alexander II, the Winter Palace was never truly inhabited again. The new Tsar Alexander III was informed by his security advisers that it was impossible to make the Winter Palace secure. The Imperial family then moved to the seclusion of the Palace of Gatchina, some 40 miles from St. Petersburg. When in St. Petersburg, the Imperial family resided at the Anichkov Palace, but the Winter Palace was used for official functions. Alexander III, however, was not a lover of society and, when using the Winter Palace, preferred playing bridge in an anteroom to dancing. While most St Petersburg balls did not conclude until 6am, at the Winter Palace, from 2am the Tsar would dismiss the musicians from the orchestra one by one, until only the pianist and a fiddler remained, by which time his guests had taken the hint and gone.
The final imperial reception at the Winter Palace was a themed, fancy dress ball celebrating the reign of Alexei I, which took place on 22 January 1903. The Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovitch recalled the occasion as "the last spectacular ball in the history of the empire...[but] a new and hostile Russia glared through the large windows of the palace...while we danced, the workers were striking and the clouds in the Far East were hanging dangerously low." The entire Imperial family, the Tsar as Alexei I and the Tsaritsa as Maria Miloslavskaya, all dressed in rich 17th century attire posed in the Hermitage's theatre, many wearing priceless original items brought specially from the Kremlin, for what was to be their final photograph together. The following year Russia was at war, and the Tsar and Tsaritsa abandoned St Petersburg, the Winter Palace, and high society (considered by the Tsaritsa to be decadent and immoral) for the greater comfort, security and privacy of Tsarskoe Selo.
The Concert Hall
The Concert Hall has an architrave seemingly supported by paired Corinthian columns, the capitals of which serve as plinthes for life-size statues of the various muses. It is decorated in a similar loose Baroque influenced neoclassical style as the Great Anteroom at the western end of the Enfilade. It is indicative of the size of the Winter Palace, that whereas most other royal palaces such as Buckingham Palace, Queluz and Sanssouci all have music rooms, the Winter Palace has a concert hall. This is because it was the intention of the builders of the Winter Palace that their palace should outshine all other royal palaces. In fact Catherine the Great, for whom the enfilade was designed, was delighted when she bought an art collection for the Winter palace that Frederick the Great, the creator of Sanssouci could not afford.
So it was, that from this vast double height hall that solemn Imperial processions began. On such occasions the Concert Hall would be reserved for the highest ranking guest and members of the court. At a given moment, four "massive Ethiopians", the Tsar's official bodyguards, fantastically dressed in scarlet trousers, gold jackets, white turbans and curved shoes, would ceremonially open the doors from the private Arabian Hall (2 on plan above) and the imperial procession would pass through the enfilade. The procession through would be preceded by the Marshal of the Court carrying a gold staff seven feet high topped with a diamond crown. On less formal occasions, as the hall's name suggests, it was used for concerts, balls and grand receptions.
Today, as part of the State Hermitage Museum, the room houses the silver reliquary of St Alexander Nevsky, formerly at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery. The reliquary was brought to the Palace in 1922, where it was set up to obscure the now blocked, grand doors from which the Imperial family used to enter from the private apartments.
The Nicholas Hall
The Nicholas Hall is located in the centre of the enfilade. The largest room in the palace at , it was originally simply known as the Great Hall, and was the setting for many imperial balls and receptions. Following the death of Nicholas I in 1855, a large equestrian portrait of the late tsar was hung from the wall, and the hall was renamed the Nicholas Hall.
While in the same architectural rhythm as the preceding Concert Hall, the architecture is more severe. Here, the architrave is immediately below the ceiling. The only ornamentation is the carving of the corinthian capitals and the entablature.
Writing in 1902, the Duchess of Sutherland and the American-born Duchess of Marlborough, herself the chatelaine of one of Britain's great palaces, described their impressions of a court ball held in the Nicholas Hall.
The Duchess of Sutherland wrote: "The stairs of the palace were guarded by cossacks, with hundreds of footmen in scarlet liveries, I have never in my life seen so brilliant a sight - the light, the uniforms, the enormous rooms, the crowd, the music, making a spectacle that was almost Barbaric in splendour...They seat at supper nearly four thousand people"
While the Duchess of Marlborough recorded that dinner (she sat beside the Tsar) was protracted and comprised "soups, caviar and monster sturgeons, meat and game, pates and primeurs, ices and fruits, all mounted on gold and silver plate fashioned by Germain"
Ironically, the Duchess of Sutherland then went on to describe the hungry peasants outside the gates - "... all the want of penury of the peasants and this strange show to keep up the prestige of the aristocracy and the autocracy of one gentle, quiet little man."
During World War I, the hall was used as an infirmary. It was restored in 1957, when the State Hermitage Museum was under the direction of Mikhail Artamonov.
The Great Antechamber
The Great Ante-Chamber of the Winter Palace is the principal entrance hall to the state apartments of the palace. The first room of the piano nobile at the head of the Jordan staircase, it formed the processional exit of the Neva enfilade, and presented a procession with a choice, either to descend the staircase and exit the palace, which happened once a year for the ceremony of blessing the waters of the Neva, or to turn right and continue through the next enfilade to the small throne room (5) or continue on through the Armorial Hall (6) and Military Gallery (7) to the Great Throne Room (8) or Grand Church (9).
Exhibition halls
Today, as part of the State Hermitage Museum the halls of the Neva enfilade are preserved as "palace interiors" containing only minimal furniture they are used for exhibitions. Many of the mirrors which lined the interior walls opposite each window have been concealed behind exhibition boards which creates a utilitarian feel to the halls, and one has to look upwards to the carved captals, statues, great chandeliers and moulded ceilings to gain an impression of the hall's glacial grandeur and classical architecture.
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John Foley (rugby league)
John "Jack" Foley (birth unknown – death unknown) was a Welsh professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1900s and 1910s. He played at representative level for Wales and Welsh League XIII, and at club level for Ebbw Vale, as a forward (prior to the specialist positions of; ), during the era of contested scrums.
International honours
Jack Foley won 5 caps for Wales in 1908–1911 while at Ebbw Vale 2-tries 4-points, and represented Welsh League XIII while at Merthyr Tydfil in the 14-13 victory over Australia at Penydarren Park, Merthyr Tydfil on Tuesday 19 January 1909.
References
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Wakefield Trinity v Ebbw Vale 1910
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White House Council for Community Solutions
The White House Council for Community Solutions was created by executive order of US President Barack Obama on December 14, 2010. Under the terms of the order, the Council will be dissolved within two years unless its establishment is affirmed by the president at that time.
Its mission as stated in the White House release is to "...support the nationwide "Call To Service" campaign authorized in the Serve America Act (Public Law 111 13)." Its 30 members will serve two-year appointments.
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Linda (1946 song)
"Linda" is a popular song written taking its name from then-one-year-old future star Linda McCartney. It was written by Jack Lawrence, and published in 1946.
Composition
The song was written in 1942 when Lawrence was in the service during World War II, taking its name from the then one-year-old daughter of his attorney, Lee Eastman. (His daughter was Linda Eastman McCartney, future first wife of the Beatle Paul McCartney.)
The song did not get published until after Lawrence left the military, and was then recorded by a number of performers, but the biggest hit was by Ray Noble's orchestra (with a vocal by Buddy Clark). Other charted versions were by Charlie Spivak (vocal by Tommy Mercer); Paul Weston (vocal by Matt Dennis); and by Larry Douglas.
Recordings
The recording by Ray Noble and Buddy Clark was recorded on November 15, 1946 and released by Columbia Records. It first reached the Billboard magazine charts on March 21, 1947 and lasted thirteen weeks on the chart, peaking at number one.
The recording by Charlie Spivak was recorded on November 19, 1946 and released by RCA Victor Records. It first reached the Billboard magazine charts on March 28, 1947, and lasted nine weeks on the chart, peaking at number six.
In 1962 Jan & Dean did a version of the song for Liberty Records that reached #28 on the Billboard Hot 100. Their next song, the #1 Surf City, made them a Surf Duo but their previous work was primarily doo-wop/Teen appeal.
Namesake
Note: There is another song titled "Linda", written by Ann Ronell for the film score of The Story of G.I. Joe (1945). It was nominated for an Oscar (but didn't win). Jan and Dean recorded a version of Lawrence's song that sometimes gets mixed up with Ronell's song (possibly due in part to the unique arrangement of the Jan and Dean recording).
Recorded versions
Marcus Belgrave
Sam Butera
Jimmy Clanton
Perry Como - for his album Como Swings (1959)
Priscilla Cory performed the song in the movie Deadman's Curve, the story based on Jan and Dean in 1978. Priscilla is the great grand daughter of inventor Nathan B. Stubblefield.
Bing Crosby - sang the song on three occasions on his radio show in 1947.
King Curtis
Dennis Day
Dale Hawkins
Jan and Dean - Jan & Dean Take Linda Surfin''' (1963).
Willie Nelson
Ray Noble and His Orchestra (Buddy Clark vocal)
Paul Petersen
Jim Reeves - Girls I Have Known (1958).
Line Renaud
Frank Rosolino
Bob Scobey
Frank Sinatra
Jerry Vale - I Remember Buddy'' (1958).
Adam Wade
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Isaac S. Taylor
Isaac ("Ike") Stacker Taylor (31 December 1850, Nashville, Tennessee – 28 October 1917, St. Louis, Missouri) was an American architect. He was one of the most important architects in St. Louis and the midwestern United States at the turn of the twentieth century, designing commercial, residential, industrial, and governmental structures.
Taylor's career spanned nearly 50 years, the last 36 at the helm of his own firm, and some 215 projects. An obituary declared that "his career...has been synchronous with the architectural progress of St. Louis" and his works "in number and importance are second to none in his city." He served as Chairman of the Architectural Commission and Director of Works for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (St. Louis World's Fair) of 1904 and himself designed numerous pavilions at the fair. Taylor was still designing up until his death at age 66 several months after the United States entered the First World War.
Early life and career, 1850–81
Taylor was born in Nashville, Tennessee, on the last day of 1850 and moved with his parents and older brother to St. Louis a year later. At St. Louis University, he earned a degree in classical languages with honors in 1868. After graduation, he joined the firm of George I. Barnett, a native of Nottingham, England, who became St. Louis' best-known architect during the mid-nineteenth century and who trained several generations of local designers. Taylor, who rose to serve as Barnett's junior partner from 1876 to 1881, worked on several of the firm's prominent commercial projects in St. Louis, including the Southern Hotel, the Julie Building (which housed Barr's Department Store), and the Mercantile Center for the Famous Clothing Company. Taylor also contributed to the designs for many of Barnett's residential works, including Shaw Place.
Taylor establishes his own firm, 1881–87
Taylor's firm became well known for major commercial buildings in downtown St. Louis, which in the last quarter of the nineteenth century began to emerge as one of the dominant metropolises in the American Midwest, not the least because of its strategic location just south of the juncture of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. Vast amounts of cargo passed through its ports, particularly raw agricultural products from the South and the states of the Great Plains as well as industrial products from the manufacturing centers in the North.
According to David Simmons, Taylor built his career by establishing a reputation as "an honest and dedicated architect" who strove to complete commissions in a timely manner and within his given budget, while still accepting challenging jobs that other designers refused to take. Such renown undoubtedly became an asset in a profession where designers often famously underestimate the costs and timeline for their buildings' completion.
The firm's success seems to have taken off during the mid-1880s, with 1885 being a particularly pivotal date. That year, Taylor completed the Drummond Building, a six-story Italian-Renaissance-Revival structure in downtown St. Louis, which housed the corporate offices and factory of the Drummond Tobacco Company, the city's second-largest manufacturer of the product. St. Louis had become a major tobacco-processing center during the latter part of the century, and Taylor's firm eventually was responsible for erecting nine different factories, three of them for Drummond. Taylor also broke into the market for designing some of the city's newest lodging establishments, finishing the Beers Hotel at 4th and Olive Streets in 1884 and remodeling the Laclede Hotel into the new Hurst Hotel in 1885 (he would be called on to revamp this hotel again in 1897). At the same time he expanded his reach into industrial architecture, finishing factories for the St. Louis Illuminating Company in 1885 and the Woodward and Tiernan Print Co in 1887. Taylor also began to attract commissions outside St. Louis during this time, erecting the Crescent Hotel in the resort town of the Ozarks, Eureka Springs, Arkansas (1885) and the National Hotel in Peoria, Illinois (1887).
Mature career, 1888–1901
Between 1888 and 1901, Taylor rose to the top of the architectural profession in St. Louis. The downtown core of the city took definitive shape with a swath of major building projects, including Louis Sullivan's famous Wainwright Building, completed in 1891. Taylor built 40 of these new structures for major corporate clients, bringing his firm considerable financial success. One reason was his 1890 hiring of a new chief designer, Milwaukee native Oscar Enders (1865-1926), who had gained considerable experience as a draftsman with several firms in Chicago, and who in 1895 became the second president of the St. Louis Architectural Sketch Club. David Simmons credits Enders for bringing a "fresh, contemporary look" to Taylor's firm's projects in the 1890s.
Downtown St. Louis
St. Louis' protracted growth at the close of the nineteenth century was due to its strategic location as a transportation hub for steamboat and railroad traffic, particularly following the completion of the Eads Bridge over the Mississippi River in 1874. Many businesses based in St. Louis expanded, constructing lavish new headquarters or speculative office buildings. Taylor was intimately involved in this construction boom. The building that apparently secured Taylor's reputation as one of the city's top architects was the Liggett & Myers/Rice-Stix Building (1888–89), a massive brick and Missouri granite structure occupying an entire city block on Washington Avenue between Tenth and Eleventh Streets in an emerging mercantile wholesale district. A speculative property built by the tobacco giant Liggett & Myers to lease space to other firms (including, eventually, the entire building to Rice-Stix, a wholesale dry goods company), the building still stands in remarkably well-preserved condition, though it has now been converted to apartments. It is, along with one other structure, the sole surviving example of a Taylor Romanesque Revival commercial design. The building reputedly cost a whopping $900,000 ($ today), as Liggett & Myers were "unsparing of money in order to make [on] their block [a building] rarely equaled for utility and grandeur." Taylor built a solid structure, with an interior supported by massive brick arches, cast iron columns encased in hollow tile, and steel floor beams covered with seven inches of yellow pine that was in turn topped with one-inch-thick dressed maple. Probably influenced by John Wellborn Root's Rookery Building in Chicago, Taylor made extensive use of terracotta ornament and iron interior staircases. Manufactured by Pullis Brothers, the ironwork required for the building was said to be the largest contract ever awarded in St. Louis. The city's architectural press gave Taylor high praise upon the building's completion, calling the block's transformation "a wonderful evidence of St. Louis' building progress."
Taylor attracted a steady flow of clients from all different industries in St. Louis. The buildings he designed in the central business district reflect such diversity, though typologically they did not differ substantially, consisting mostly of monumental office blocks that ranged from 3 to 10 stories in height and often dominated their sites. These included such works as the Rialto Building (1892), an impressive Romanesque Revival structure punctuated by bay windows and large projecting cornice; the Mercantile Club Building (1891), an asymmetrical, picturesque Romanesque/Gothic Revival structure with a roofline punctuated by tall gables and thin spires; the Neoclassical Curlee Clothing Company Building (1899); and the massive 424-room, ten-story Planter's House Hotel, at the time one of St. Louis' premier lodging establishments, which opened in 1894. In 1901-02 he completed the National Bank of Commerce, a towering eleven-story French Renaissance skyscraper that housed 198 offices; sculptural lion heads from its interior are now on display at The Wolfsonian-Florida International University in Miami Beach.
Taylor developed close contacts with the newspaper industry in St. Louis, which probably contributed greatly to his success during this period and into the new century. He completed the headquarters for two of the city's major press outlets during this period: the Globe-Democrat Building at 6th and Pine Streets (1889) and the St. Louis Republic Building at 7th and Olive in 1899. In an article in 1894, the latter singled out Taylor for his ability to combine aesthetic taste with practicality as one of his particular strengths as a designer that contributed to his success. This is likely accurate, as Taylor was not a particularly innovative designer; though versatile in a variety of styles, he did not deviate from the eclecticism popular among most late nineteenth-century American designers; nor at first glance does he seem to have developed any new handling of space, materials, or volumes. He seems to have been mostly focused on giving clients what they wanted and keeping in touch with popular design trends, objectives that would have served him well in the growing corporate culture of St. Louis.
Connections abroad
Taylor's family connections provided him with the chance to build a few structures abroad as well. In the early 1890s, his brother George S. Taylor, a businessman in Mexico City, helped him land his most important hotel commission, the Grand National Hotel, a lavish Spanish Colonial structure that included some 400 guest rooms with a 150-foot observation tower attached to its courtyard, in the early 1890s. At the same time, he designed the new passenger depot for the Monterey and Gulf Railroad in Monterrey, finished in 1894.
As World's Fair architect, 1901–04
The crowning achievement of Taylor's career was his direction of the architectural ensemble for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, the only world's fair hosted by St. Louis. In 1901, Taylor's strong connections to St. Louis' leaders in business and industry, including the city's most influential banker, landed him the position of chairman of the Architectural Commission and Director of Works. Taylor hired a young architect, Emmanuel Louis Masqueray, as his chief designer, and the two of them collaborated on the overall layout of the fair, which consisted of the somewhat-odd arrangement of two axes of buildings set at a right angle to each other and bisected by a third axis formed by the Grand Lagoon at a 45-degree diagonal.
Taking a break from his own architectural practice, he began working 12-hour days, seven days a week on the fair. Taylor's task of supervising the design and construction of all the major buildings for the fair was a gigantic task, and was complicated his constant struggles for funds, but he pulled it off admirably from all accounts. In addition to functioning as the CEO of design and construction, negotiating personalities, timelines, and budgets, Taylor himself designed several major structures, all of which were temporary. Among them, were the largest structure, the Agriculture Building, which covered more than 18 acres and cost $525,000; Statler's Inside Inn; the Missouri State Building; the Horticulture Building; the Forestry, Fishery, and Game Building; and the Livestock Exhibition Complex.
Return to private practice, 1905–17
After the 1904 Exposition, Taylor rejoined his firm, which had suffered financially during his absence. The latter half of the first decade of the twentieth century was marked by several tall commercial building projects in central St. Louis. These included the Mills Building (1906), the Aberdeen Building (1907), and the LaSalle Building (1909), a narrow 13-story structure that used the Simplex reinforced concrete system of 370 piles between the foundation and the bedrock 65 feet below grade. The building was characterized by vertical strips of brick alternating with projecting, terracotta-faced white oriel windows, serviced by three elevators. The most innovative project, though, involved the raising of the Equitable Building in St. Louis in 1910 by setting the top eight stories on hydraulic jacks and replacing the bottom two floors and the brick-and-stone foundation with a reinforced concrete and steel structure behind a glass skin. In the last decade of his career Taylor also completed several annexes to other large office buildings that had outgrown their original spaces, including the Times Building Annex (1910) and the Mercantile Trust Company Annex (1916).
Work in Texas
Taylor had developed some contacts in Texas in the 1880s that began to bear fruit for him during the new century. He was hired to construct the new Majestic Theater in Dallas by the Interstate Amusement Company in 1911, which unfortunately burned down in 1917 and was replaced by the current Majestic Theater, designed by the famed movie theater architect John Eberson and opened in 1921. In 1912, the Dallas Chamber of Commerce hired him to design their new 11-story office building for $500,000.
Government Buildings
Taylor also completed two permanent monumental civic structures in his last years, both of them exercises in axial, Beaux-Arts neoclassicism, as befitting the City Beautiful movement, then in vogue in a number of major American metropolitan centers. Opened in 1910, the Municipal Courts Building originally housed not just courtroom and detention cells (and was adjacent to Taylor's newly built municipal jail), but also the Health Department, Police headquarters, coroner's office, and the Board of Election Commissioners. Its I-shaped plan incorporates six light courts around which most of the offices and hallways are arranged.
The other major government commission Taylor undertook was the Jefferson Memorial Building, at the entrance to Forest Park in St. Louis, in 1911-12, on the exact site of the main entrance to the 1904 World's Fair. Now the Missouri History Museum, and only slightly altered, the monumental structure, rather simply but elegantly arranged in two long wings around a central columned loggia, houses the collections of the Missouri Historical Society. The central loggia included Karl Bitter's huge sculpture of Thomas Jefferson.
Personal life
Taylor was a lifelong bachelor. A large man, he garnered renown for his "gargantuan...frame and appetite." Taylor was well-liked, and was said to have a big heart and great "conviviality." He was also known for being studious, apparently being extremely well-read in the history of the United States as well as an expert on Gothic architecture. Taylor's congenial nature no doubt allowed him to build a robust network of personal and business connections. He was well-respected among his peers and one of the leaders of the increasing professionalization of architecture in America at the end on the nineteenth century, becoming a charter member of the Western Association of Architects. Upon its merger with the American Institute of Architects, he remained a member of the St. Louis Chapter and later was named a Fellow of the AIA.
Taylor died at home at age 66, rather suddenly, in October 1917. He left an estate of $400,000, a considerable sum at the time, most of which went to his brother George, who was residing in Mexico City. Taylor left $5,000 and his architectural library and records to Oscar Enders.
List of works
Educational buildings
Old Main, Southern Illinois Normal School (now Southern Illinois University), Carbondale (1887; burned 1969)
Factories
Columbia Box Company, St. Louis (1906)
Drummond Tobacco Company Factories, St. Louis (1885)
Guernsey Scudder Electric Light Company, St. Louis (1890)
Hamilton & Brown Shoe Company, St. Louis, Boonville, Columbia (Missouri) [ten projects] (1900-1916)
Liggett and Myers Tobacco Company
Folsom Avenue Plant, St. Louis (1896)
Mallinckrodt Chemical Company Factories, St. Louis (1895-1900)
Robert Brown Oil Company, St. Louis (1889)
P.C. Murphy Trunk Company, St. Louis (1892)
St. Louis Illuminating Company (1885)
Woodward & Tiernan Print Company, St. Louis (1887)
Government and civic buildings
Board of Education Offices and Library, St. Louis (1891)
City Jail, St. Louis (1910)
Jefferson Memorial Building (now the Missouri History Museum), St. Louis (1911–12)
Municipal Courts Building, St. Louis (1910)
Hotels
Crescent Hotel, Eureka Springs, Arkansas (1885)
Grand National Hotel, Mexico City, D.F., Mexico (1892)
Hurst Hotel, St. Louis (1885) (remodeled by Taylor, 1897)
Monterrey House, Monterrey, Mexico (1894)
National Hotel, Peoria, Illinois (1887)
Oriental Hotel, Dallas, Texas (1890)
Planter's House Hotel, St. Louis (1894)
Union Station Hotel, St. Louis (1894)
Louisiana Purchase Exposition (all completed 1904)
Agriculture Building
Forestry, Fishery, and Game Building
Grandview Inn (off-site)
Horticulture Building
Livestock Exhibition Complex
Missouri State Building
Service Building
Statler's Inside Inn
Office buildings
Aberdeen Building, St. Louis (1907)
Bee Hat Company Building, St. Louis (1899)
Columbia Building, St. Louis (1890)
DeMenil Building, St. Louis (1893)
Interstate Building, St. Louis (1892)
Kennard Building, St. Louis (1900)
LaSalle Building, St. Louis (1909)
Liggett and Myers Tobacco Company/Rice-Stix Building/Gateway Merchandise Mart, St. Louis (1888)
Mercantile Trust Company Annex Building, St. Louis (1916)
Rice-Stix building, St. Louis {1889)
Meyer Brothers Drug Company, St. Louis (1889)
Mills Building, St. Louis (1906)
National Bank of Commerce Building, St. Louis (1902)
Nicholson Building, St. Louis (1893)
Rialto Building, St. Louis (1892)
Silk Exchange Building, St. Louis (1901)
Railroad stations
Monterrey and Gulf Railroad Depot, Monterrey, Mexico (1890–94)
Residences
Archbishop's Residence, Catholic Archdiocese of St. Louis (1891; demolished 1956)
R.G. Carson House, St. Louis (1893)
Chauncey Ladd House, St. Louis (1905)
"Maylanson Manor" for Alanson C. Brown, Ladue, Missouri (1910)
J.M. Sloan House, St. Louis (1906)
Thomas S. Sullivan House, St. Louis (1901)
William H. Thompson House, St. Louis (1897)
Gallery
Bibliography
Bartley, Mary. St. Louis Lost. St. Louis: Virginia Publishing, 1994.
Bryan, John Albury. Missouri's Contribution to American Architecture. St. Louis: St. Louis Architectural Club, 1928.
Francis, David R. The Universal Exposition of 1904: Exhibits, Architecture, Ceremonies, Amusement. St. Louis: Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company, 1904.
Hallenburg, Heather M. "Form, Function, Fusion: The Architecture of Isaac S. Taylor, 1850-1917." M.A. Thesis, University of Missouri, 1979.
Savage, Charles. Architecture of the Private Streets of St. Louis. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1897.
Tallent, Jeff. Terrace Tales: A Contemporary History of Washington Terrace, Street of Mansions. St Louis: Finbar, 1992.
Simmons, David J. "The Architectural Career of Isaac S. Taylor," Newsletter of the Missouri Valley Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians 17, no. 4 (Winter 2011): 1-10.
References
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Dream (Boyzone song)
"Dream" (also known as "I Can Dream") is a song by Irish boy band Boyzone. It was released on 15 June 2018 as a promotional single for the band's sixth album, Thank You & Goodnight.
Background
On 1 May 2018, the band announced that they will release the sixth and final album to celebrate the band's 25 years journey in music. Following the announcement of the album, they also announce the release of the song from the album, titled: "I Can Dream", which was released on 15 June 2018. The song also contains Stephen Gately's vocals. Gately previously recorded a solo version of the song as the b-side to the single "Stay" (2001). When the song's original producer, Pete Kirtley, found the old DAT-recording containing "I Can Dream", he sent it to Boyzone's label. The band decided to re-record the song adding their vocals to Gately's version, thus including their late co-member of Boyzone in their last ever studio album. Boyzone re-wrote some of the lyrics and Keith Duffy said they turned it into "a song reminiscing about us back in the 1990s".
Music video
A lyric video for the song was also released on the band's YouTube official account on 15 June 2018. Images of the band when they were young which contains Stephen Gately's images was also used in the video.
Track listing
Digital download
"Dream" – 3:21
Charts
Release history
References
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Affleck baronets
The Affleck Baronetcy, of Dalham Hall in the County of Suffolk, was a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain. It was created on 10 July 1782 for the naval commander Edmund Affleck. The title became extinct on the death of the eighth Baronet in 1939.
Affleck baronets, of Dalham Hall (1782)
Sir Edmund Affleck, 1st Baronet (1725–1788)
Sir Gilbert Affleck, 2nd Baronet (1740–1808)
General Sir James Affleck, 3rd Baronet (1759–1833)
Sir Robert Affleck, 4th Baronet (1763–1851)
Sir Gilbert Affleck, 5th Baronet (1804–1854)
Sir Robert Affleck, 6th Baronet (1805–1882)
Sir Robert Affleck, 7th Baronet (1852–1919)
Sir Frederick Danby James Affleck, 8th Baronet (1856–1939)
The decline and extinction of the Affleck baronetcy
The seventh baronet lost money through fraudulent dealings by a firm of solicitors and sold Dalham Hall and its estate in 1901 to Cecil Rhodes to raise £100,000.
The 8th baronet, Frederick Danby James Affleck, was born with no expectation of inheriting the title and immigrated to Queensland, Australia as a cadet with the P&O shipping line. He unexpectedly inherited the title after the death of his cousin, the seventh baronet, in 1919. Frederick Affleck was involved in numerous business ventures in Queensland but lost all his money. He died, poor and blind, on 24 July 1939 at the Dunwich Benevolent Asylum on North Stradroke Island in Queensland, Australia and was buried in Toowong Cemetery in Brisbane.
Frederick Affleck's eldest son, Frederick James Siddartha Affleck (born 1905 in Wynnum, Brisbane), was a habitual criminal and at the time of his father's death in 1939 was in Boggo Road Gaol in Brisbane along with his younger brother Dalham Robert Affleck serving a four-year sentence for robbery and blackmail.
Although Frederick senior and Frederick junior wanted Frederick junior to inherit the title from his father, Frederick junior and his siblings were illegitimate as Frederick senior had not been legally married to their mother at the time of their births. Although Frederick senior claimed to have married Elizabeth Annie (Lily) Ross in 1904, at that time she was married to (but separated from) her first husband Lionel Laurence Green. Frederick senior and Lily did not marry until 1918 after Lily believed Green to have died. However, Green had not died, so this was not a legal marriage. Shortly before his death, on 21 June 1939, with Green definitely dead, Frederick senior and Lilly married again and then re-registered the births of their children which, under Queensland law, made their children legitimate as their parents were now legally married. After Frederick senior's death, Lily applied on behalf of her imprisoned son for him to inherit the title. However, after many enquiries, on 22 June 1949, the Attorney-General declared that English law did not recognise Queensland's subsequent legitimacy of the birth as being sufficient to inherit the title. As there were no other living heirs, the title became extinct.
Other relatives
Admiral Philip Affleck, brother of the first Baronet, was also a distinguished naval commander.
References
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David Oh (musician)
David Oh (, Korean name: Oh Se-hun; Hangul: 오세훈; born June 29, 1991) is an American singer based in South Korea. He competed in the 2010 MBC reality television series The Great Birth, placing in the top five. He subsequently was a cast member on the 2011 variety show We Got Married, appearing alongside the singer RiSe. He released his first extended play, Skinships, in 2016.
Discography
Extended plays
Singles
References
External links
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Alpine skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Qualification
The following is about the qualification rules and the quota allocation for the alpine skiing events at the 2018 Winter Olympics.
Qualification rules
Quotas
A maximum of 320 athletes are allowed to compete at the Olympic Games. A maximum of 22 athletes per nation will be allowed to compete with a maximum of 14 males or 14 females from a nation being permitted. Each nation may also enter a maximum of one team in the team event.
A standard
The A standard entails a competitor to be ranked within the top 500 in any event on the FIS Points list which will be made public after qualification ends on January 21, 2018. The qualification period began on July 1, 2017.
B standard
National Olympic committees (NOC) without athletes meeting the A standard can enter one competitor of each sex (known as the basic quota) in only the slalom and/or giant slalom events. These athletes must have only a maximum of 140 FIS points on the FIS Points list on 21 January 2018.
The Points List is calculated by taking the average of five event results for technical events (giant slalom and slalom) and three events for speed events (downhill, super G, and super combined).
Qualification eligibility
Allocation of quotas
Basic Quota
Every NOC will be assigned one male and one female quota spot meeting the B standard.
Host nation
The host nation (South Korea) is awarded an additional quota per gender, granted all athletes meet the standard above.
Top 30 on Points list
Every NOC with at least one male and/or female in the top 30 of any event will be allocated one additional male and/or female quota in addition to the basic quota. If an athlete is ranked in the top 30 in more than one event a second additional quota for that sex will be given or if two different athletes are in the top 30.
Remaining quotas
The remaining quotas will be assigned using the Olympic Quota allocation list on 22 January 2018. The spots will be assigned until a maximum of 320 quotas are reached including the above. When a nation reaches its maximum, remaining athletes from that country will be skipped over. The list is a table of athletes in the top 500 in their two best events (including both male and female athletes). These additional quotas an be used to enter either male or female.
An athlete can be counted only once for the above criteria. For example, if a country has only one athlete meeting all three criteria then only one quota will be given (not 3).
Team event
The top 16 nations in the overall FIS World Cup Nations standings as of 22 January 2018 will ber permitted to enter a team of two male and two female athletes in the mixed team event. If South Korea is not among the top 16, then the top 15 along with South Korea will qualify. In the event one of these nations have only 3 quota spots earned above then they will be awarded a fourth quota to allow them to participate in the team event. It is unknown if these quotas are in addition to the 320 above.
Qualification summary
The IOC decided to allow two male and one female competitor from North Korea, which were allocated as three additional places to the existing quotas.
Allocation
The following is the quota allocation as of 28 January 2018.
Men
Women
Additional quotas
Canada and Japan rejected one quota; Germany, Italy and Sweden rejected two and Norway rejected ten.
Added totals from reallocation are included in the totals.
Next eligible NOC
In total 29 quotas have been made available for reallocation, 1 one of which was given to Hungary to compete in the team event. The following are the next eligible NOC's with those entries removed who either have already returned quotas, or are at the maximum (22) as of 24 January 2018. Bold indicates the acceptance of a quota, while a strike through indicates refusal.
Team event
Liechtenstein, Croatia, Japan and Serbia declined a spot in the team event.
References
External links
FIS Points List
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Sinop University
Sinop University (Turkish:Sinop Üniversitesi ) is a university located in Sinop, Turkey. It was established in 2007.
References
External links
Official Website
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2010–11 Neftchi Baku PFK season
The Neftchi Baku 2010-11 season is Neftchi Baku's nineteenth Azerbaijan Premier League season, and their only season under manager Arif Asadov.
Squad
(captain)
On loan
Transfers
Summer
In:
Out:
Winter
In:
Out:
Competitions
Azerbaijan Premier League
First round
Results
Table
Championship group
Results
Table
Azerbaijan Cup
Squad statistics
Appearances and goals
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Goal scorers
Disciplinary record
Player of the Month
References
External links
Neftchi Baku at Soccerway.com
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Lisa Francis
Elizabeth Ann Francis (born 1960), known as Lisa Francis, is a former member of the National Assembly for Wales for the Welsh Conservative Party in the Mid and West Wales region. The region covers the areas of Powys, Pembrokeshire, Ceredigion, Camarthenshire and Gwynedd; Francis represented the region from 2003 to 2007.
In 2007 Francis also served on Aberystwyth's Town Council. She was also Deputy Chair of Mid & West Wales Area Conservative Council, and the Welsh Conservative Spokesman for Welsh Language and Culture and for Older People's issues, but subsequently left the Conservatives.
In addition to her political activities, Francis is a Director of the Mid Wales Tourism Company and is the Trade Representative for Ceredigion. She also serves on Ceredigion Hospital's Working Committee and on the Aberystwyth Citizens Advice Bureau - Management Board.
In 2007 Francis won the Dods Assembly Woman of the Year Award .
External links
Lisa Francis My View - blog
Lisa Francis Page on Welsh Conservatives Website
Welsh Conservatives Website
Offices held
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Brendan O'Carroll
Brendan O'Carroll (born 15 September 1955) is an Irish writer, producer, comedian, actor, and director, best known for portraying foul-mouthed matriarch Agnes Brown on stage, and in the BBC and RTÉ television sitcom Mrs. Brown's Boys. In 2015, O'Carroll was awarded the Irish Film and Television Academy Lifetime Achievement Award for his contribution to Irish television.
Early life
The youngest of 11 children, O'Carroll was born in Finglas, Dublin. His mother, Maureen, was a Labour Party TD and his father, Gerard O'Carroll, was a carpenter. His father died in 1962 when O'Carroll was six, and Brendan's mother raised their eleven children with little money. He attended Saint Gabriel's National School and left at the age of 12. He had a string of occupations; these included being a waiter and a milkman.
Career
Early career
Having become well known as a comedy guest on The Late Late Show, O'Carroll released four stand-up videos, titled How's your Raspberry Ripple, How's your Jolly Roger, How's your Snowballs and How's your Wibbly Wobbly Wonder.
O'Carroll wrote the screenplay to Sparrow's Trap, a boxing movie. The film, which had Stephen Rea cast in the lead role, ran into financing difficulties midway through the shoot when the distributor withdrew and it was abandoned. Incurring debts of over €1 million, O'Carroll became bankrupt and the film has never been produced.
O'Carroll presented a quiz show, called Hot Milk and Pepper, on RTÉ One, with long-term collaborator Gerry Browne.
Mrs. Brown's Boys
In 1992, O'Carroll performed a short radio play titled Mrs. Brown's Boys and shortly afterwards he wrote four books titled The Mammy, The Granny, The Chisellers and The Scrapper. In 1999, a movie named Agnes Browne, starring Anjelica Huston, was released, based on his book "The Mammy". O'Carroll also co-wrote the screenplay. He then decided to put together his own family theatre company, Mrs. Browne's Boys, and dressed up as a woman to play his part, as the actress he had originally hired failed to turn up.
From 1999 to 2009, he wrote and performed in five plays. Since 2011, the stage shows have been re-toured across the UK. In 2011, his plays were adapted into a television sitcom (with the name "Browne" shortened to "Brown"). So far, from 2011, 28 episodes have aired, across three series, several Christmas special episodes and a one-off live episode that aired in 2016 on RTÉ One and BBC One. Mrs. Brown's Boys D'Movie was released on 27 June 2014, and was a significant success in the UK, staying at number one in the box office for two consecutive weeks. However, the film had negative reviews; one saying it was not just unfunny but "close to anti-funny". O'Carroll's wife, his sister Eilish, his son Danny and his daughter Fiona, all appear or have appeared on episodes of Mrs. Brown's Boys.
The Course
It was announced in January 2015 that the BBC wanted O'Carroll to do "other stuff", due to the fact that Mrs Brown's Boys had become so successful. He revealed plans to adapt his first ever written play, The Course into a television sitcom.
Family and personal life
O'Carroll was married to Doreen O'Carroll from 1977 to 1999. He married Jennifer Gibney in 2005. They live in Davenport, Florida. O'Carroll has three surviving children: Danny, Fiona and Eric. O'Carroll's first son, Brendan, died from spina bifida when he was just a few days old.
O'Carroll's paternal grandfather, Peter O'Carroll, a father of seven and a prominent republican, was murdered on 16 October 1920 at his home in Manor Street, Dublin by British soldiers. The British soldiers also shot and left-for-dead O'Carroll's father Gerard who was only nine years old. His father was lucky to survive. The incident was investigated in the television series Who do you think you are? In March 2016 O'Carroll appeared in the BBC2 documentary Brendan O'Carroll – My Family at War, which explored the involvement of three of his uncles – Liam, James and Peadar O'Carroll – in the Easter Rising.
Filmography
Film
Television
Stage
References
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List of oldest buildings in Sofia
This article attempts to list the oldest buildings in the city of Sofia, Bulgaria, including the oldest temples and any other surviving structures. In most instances, buildings listed here were reconstructed numerous times and only fragments of the original buildings have survived. Some dates are approximate and based on architectural studies and historical records.
In order to qualify for the list a structure must:
be a recognisable building (defined as any human-made structure used or intended for supporting or sheltering any use or continuous occupancy);
incorporate features of building work from the claimed date to at least in height.
This consciously excludes ruins of limited height, roads and statues.
Other structures
The following are old constructions, mostly ruins that might not fit the above criteria for a building.
See also
List of oldest church buildings
List of churches in Sofia
Ancient Roman architecture
Byzantine architecture
History of Sofia
Timeline of Sofia history
List of oldest buildings in Varna
References
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Dwork conjecture
In mathematics, the Dwork unit root zeta function, named after Bernard Dwork, is the L-function attached to the p-adic Galois representation arising from the p-adic etale cohomology of an algebraic variety defined over a global function field of characteristic p. The Dwork conjecture (1973) states that his unit root zeta function is p-adic meromorphic everywhere. This conjecture was proved
by Wan (2000).
References.
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St. John's Lodge (Newport)
St. John's Lodge #1 in Portsmouth, Rhode Island (originally located in Newport, Rhode Island), founded in 1749, is the oldest lodge of Freemasons in the state of Rhode Island.
The lodge met in Newport until it was moved to Portsmouth, Rhode Island about 1985.
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1962 Montgomeryshire by-election
The Montgomeryshire by-election, 1962 was a parliamentary by-election held on 15 May 1962 for the British House of Commons constituency of Montgomeryshire.
Previous MP
The seat had become vacant when, the constituency's Member of Parliament (MP), the Rt Hon. (Edward) Clement Davies died
Clement Davies (19 February 1884 – 23 March 1962) had been Montgomeryshire's MP since the 1929 general election. He had been a Liberal Party member from 1929-1931, a Liberal National MP from 1931 until 1939, then an Independent Liberal member until he rejoined the Liberal Party in August 1942. Davies was the Liberal Party leader from 1945 until 1956.
Candidates
Four candidates were nominated. The list below is set out in descending order of the number of votes received at the by-election.
1. The Liberal Party candidate, was (Hugh) Emlyn Hooson. He was a barrister, born 26 March 1925. Hooson had contested the seat of Conway at the general elections in 1950 and 1951
Hooson won the by-election, in a seat which had been represented by some sort of Liberal continuously since 1880. He retained the seat until he was defeated in the 1979 United Kingdom general election. Hooson was a candidate for the Liberal leadership in 1967. In 1979 he was given a Life Peerage as Baron Hooson.
2. The Conservative candidate was Robert H. Dawson. This was the only Parliamentary election he contested.
3. Representing the Labour Party was Tudor Davies, who also contested no other Parliamentary election.
4. The Rev. Islwyn Ffowc Elis stood for Plaid Cymru, the Welsh nationalist party, which in 1962 had never won a Parliamentary election. He contested the seat for a second time in the 1964 United Kingdom general election.
Result
See also
Montgomeryshire constituency
List of United Kingdom by-elections
United Kingdom by-election records
References
British Parliamentary Election Results 1950-1973, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Research Services 1983)
Who's Who of British Members of Parliament, Volume IV 1945-1979, edited by M. Stenton and S. Lees (Harvester Press 1981)
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Herrischried
Herrischried is a municipality in the district of Waldshut in Baden-Württemberg in Germany.
Mayor
Christof Berger was elected in 2004 and reelected in 2012.
References
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Longstreet Hotel, Casino, and RV Resort
Longstreet Inn, Casino and RV Resort is located on State Route 373, in Amargosa Valley, Nevada, seven miles north of Death Valley Junction. The resort has a nine-hole golf course, 60 rooms, an RV park with 50 spaces, as well as a casino, a bar and two restaurants.
Notes
External links
Longstreet Hotel & Casino website
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Joseph F. Smith (Pennsylvania politician)
Joseph Francis Smith (January 24, 1920 – May 14, 1999), was an American politician from Pennsylvania who served as a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives for Pennsylvania's 3rd congressional district from 1981 to 1983. He served as Chairman of the Philadelphia Democratic City Committee from 1983 to 1986 and as a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate for the 4th district from 1971 to 1981.
Early life and education
Smith was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and attended St. Anne's Parochial School. He graduated from Northeast Catholic High School in Philadelphia in 1939. He attended St. Joseph's College in Philadelphia from 1940 to 1942. Smith was a Sergeant and Purple Heart recipient in the United States Army during World War II from 1942 to 1945.
Career
After leaving the military, Smith became active in local politics, serving first as Ward Chair for James A. Byrne between 1965 and 1970. He became Byrne's Administrative Assistant during that time. He then served in the Pennsylvania State Senate from 1971 until 1981, and eventually became Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations.
He won election in 1981 as a Democrat to the 97th Congress through a special election to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of United States Representative Raymond Lederer due to the ABSCAM sting. Smith lost the Democratic primary in the special election to David B. Glancey, but then ran as a Republican, with the blessing of the GOP, in the general election and won. He promised during his campaign that he would caucus with the Democrats if elected.
After redistricting in 1982, Smith narrowly lost the Democratic primary against fellow congressman Tom Foglietta. He went on to become Democratic City Chairman in Philadelphia between 1983 and 1986. Smith also served as the 31st Ward Leader for more than three decades.
He died in Philadelphia and is interred at the Most Holy Redeemer Cemetery in Philadelphia.
Legacy
In honor of Smith's years of service to his community, the United States Postal Service facility located at 1602 Frankford Avenue in Philadelphia ("Kensington Station") was renamed as the Joseph F. Smith Post Office Building.
Personal life
He was married to Regina Bukowski-Smith, also of the Port Richmond section in Philadelphia. They had one daughter, Regina.
References
H.R.4554: To redesignate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1602 Frankford Avenue in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as the "Joseph F. Smith Post Office Building". Sponsor: Rep Robert A. Borski. Introduced May 25, 2000; July 18, 2000, considered and passed House; October 6, 2000, considered and passed U.S. Senate.
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Inés Temple
Ana Inés Amelia Temple Arciniaga (born 20 January 1959) is a Peruvian businesswoman. She is president of Lee Hecht Harrison Peru and Lee Hecht Harrison Chile.
Family and education
Temple is the daughter of Alejandro Temple Sanchez-Checa and Nelly Amelia Arciniaga Rojas. She was educated at Colegio Santa Úrsula, Lima.
Temple has a BS in business administration from New York University in New York City, and an MBA from the Adolfo Ibañez School of Management in Miami, Florida. She has 3 children.
Career
She set up the Peruvian branch of Drake Beam Morin, a human resources company, in 1993. In 2011, Drake Beam Morin was acquired by Adecco and merged with its existing Lee Hecht Harrison subsidiary.
She wrote Usted S.A - Empleabilidad & Marketing Personal in 2010; it has gone through several editions and was among the top selling books in Perú for 2013.
She has chaired the board of directors of Perú2021, and of CARE Peru.
References
External links
Ines Temple Home Page
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Prehistoric Wales
Prehistoric Wales in terms of human settlements covers the period from about 230,000 years ago, the date attributed to the earliest human remains found in what is now Wales, to the year AD 48 when the Roman army began a military campaign against one of the Welsh tribes. Traditionally, historians have believed that successive waves of immigrants brought different cultures into the area, largely replacing the previous inhabitants, with the last wave of immigrants being the Celts. However, studies of population genetics now suggest that this may not be true, and that immigration was on a smaller scale.
Palaeolithic
The earliest known human remains discovered in modern-day Wales date from 230,000 years ago. An early Neanderthal upper jaw fragment containing two teeth, whose owner probably lived during an interglacial period in the Lower Palaeolithic, was found in a cave in the River Elwy valley, at the Bontnewydd Paleaolithic site, near St Asaph (), Denbighshire. Excavations of the site between 1978 and 1995 revealed a further 17 teeth belonging to five individuals, a total of seven hand axes and some animal bones, some of which show signs of butchery. This site is the most north-westerly in Eurasia at which the remains of early hominids have been found, and is considered to be of international importance. Late Neanderthal hand axes were also found at Coygan Cave, Carmarthenshire and have been dated to between 60,000 and 35,000 years old.
The Paviland limestone caves of the Gower Peninsula in south Wales are by far the richest source of Aurignacian material in Britain, including burins and scrapers dated to about 28,500 years ago. The first remains of modern humans, Homo sapiens sapiens to be found in Wales was the famous Red Lady of Paviland, discovered in the 1820s. This was a human skeleton dyed in red ochre discovered in 1823 in one of the Paviland caves in Gower. Despite the name, the skeleton is actually that of a young man who lived about 33,000 years ago at the end of the Upper Paleolithic Period (old stone age). He is considered to be the oldest known ceremonial burial in Western Europe. The skeleton was found along with fragments of small cylindrical ivory rods, fragments of ivory bracelets and seashells. These remains have been more accurately dated to 29,000 years ago, coincident with a warmer period.
Settlement in Wales was apparently intermittent as periods of cooling and warming led to the ice sheets advancing and retreating. Wales appears to have been abandoned from about 21,000 years ago until after 13,000 years ago, with a burial found at Kendrick's Cave on the Great Orme dating to about 12,000 years ago.
Mesolithic
Following the last Ice age, Wales became roughly the shape it is today by about 7000 BC and was inhabited by Mesolithic hunter-gatherers. Wales has many sites where Mesolithic material has been found, but securely stratified material is rare. The earliest dated Mesolithic site in Wales is Nab Head, Pembrokeshire, around 9,200 years ago. Many of the sites from this period are coastal, although 9,000 years ago they would have been some distance inland from the sea. There is a particular concentration in Pembrokeshire, but there are also a good number of upland sites, most apparently seasonal hunting locations, for example around Llyn Brenig. Some decorated pebbles found at Rhuddlan represent the earliest art found in Wales.
An investigation of post holes at the late Neolithic - Early Bronze Age chambered tomb of Bryn Celli Ddu on Anglesey, published in 2006, gave a radiocarbon dating which placed two of the holes in the Mesolithic period.
Neolithic
The earliest farming communities are now believed to date from about 4000 BC, marking the beginning of the Neolithic period. Pollen evidence indicates the clearing of forests on an increasing scale during this period. The Neolithic saw the construction of many chambered tombs, the most notable including Bryn Celli Ddu and Barclodiad y Gawres on Anglesey. Three main types of megalithic tomb are found in Wales, the Severn-Cotswold type in the south-east, the Portal dolmen type and the Passage graves which are characteristic of the Irish Sea area and the Atlantic façade of Europe and Morocco. Megalithic tombs are most common in the western lowlands. There is evidence of close cultural links with Ireland, particularly in the Early Neolithic period.
A number of houses from the Neolithic period have also been found in Wales, most notably the settlement at Clegyr Boia near St David's in Pembrokeshire. Many artefacts have also been found, particularly polished stone axeheads. There were a number of "factories" in Wales producing these axeheads, the largest being the Graig Lwyd factory at Penmaenmawr on the north coast which exported its products as far afield as Yorkshire and the English midlands. Pottery finds also indicate a relationship with Ireland.
The Bronze Age
Metal tools first appeared in Wales about 2500 BC, initially copper followed by bronze. The climate during the Early Bronze Age (c. 2100-1400 BC) is thought to have been warmer than at present, as there are many remains from this period in what are now bleak uplands. Much of the copper for the production of bronze probably came from the copper mine on the Great Orme, where prehistoric mining on a very large scale dates largely from the middle Bronze Age. In particular copper from the Great Orme mines appears to have been used for the production of bronze implements of the Acton Park Complex, named after a hoard found at Acton Park near Wrexham. These tools, particularly axeheads, were developed towards the end of the Early Bronze Age and are innovative in both metallurgy and design. They were widely exported, with examples being found along the continental coast from Brittany to north Germany.
Burial practices in the Bronze Age differed from the communal tombs of the Neolithic period, with a change to burial in round barrows and the provision of grave goods. Inhumation was soon replaced by cremation and in Wales the cemetery mound with a number of burials had become the standard form by about 2000 BC. One of the most striking finds from Bronze Age Wales was the gold cape found in a tomb at Bryn yr Ellyllion, Mold, Flintshire dated to 1900-1600 BC, weighing 560 g and produced from a single gold ingot. Very few weapons have been found in Early Bronze Age graves in Wales compared with other objects, and the lack of traces of earlier Bronze Age settlements is thought to indicate that farms or hamlets were undefended.
From about 1250 BC there was a deterioration in the climate which became more marked from about 1000 BC, with higher rainfall and much lower summer temperatures. This led to an increase in peat formation and probably the abandonment of many upland settlements. It has been suggested that this led to conflict and to changes in social organization, with the earliest hillforts appearing about 800 BC.
The Late Bronze Age saw the development of more advanced bronze implements, with weapons becoming increasingly common. While the weapons reflect introduced styles, there are pronounced regional variations in the styles of tools, particularly axes. On the basis of tool types, Wales can be divided into four regions, the south-east, south-west, north-west and north-east. These regions show an approximate correspondence to the territories of the tribes later recorded in these areas by the Romans, the Silures, Demetae, Ordovices and Deceangli respectively.
The Iron Age
The earliest iron implements found in Wales come from Llyn Fawr at the head of the Rhondda Valley, where objects apparently deposited as votive offerings include three made of iron: a sword, a spearhead and a sickle. These items are thought to date to about 650 BC, and while the sword appears to be imported the sickle is an imitation of a native bronze prototype. The Iron Age saw the building of hillforts which are particularly numerous in Wales, examples being Pen Dinas near Aberystwyth and Tre'r Ceiri on the Llŷn Peninsula. The earliest distinctively Iron Age settlement in Wales is considered to be Castell Odo, a small hillfort near the tip of the Llŷn Peninsula, dated to about 400 BC. The largest hillforts are most numerous along the eastern border of Wales, with some large examples also found in the lowlands of north-west Wales. In the south-west, by contrast, hillforts are very numerous but mainly small, with an area of under 1.2 hectares.
A particularly significant find from this period was made in 1943 at Llyn Cerrig Bach on Anglesey, when the ground was being prepared for the construction of a Royal Air Force base. The cache included weapons, shields, chariots along with their fittings and harnesses, and slave chains and tools. Many had been deliberately broken and seem to have been votive offerings. These finds are considered to be one of the most important collections of La Tène metalwork discovered in Britain. Pottery on the other hand is fairly rare in Wales during this period and most of what has been found appears to be imported.
The La Tène culture is traditionally associated with the Celts, and the general view until fairly recently was that the appearance of this culture indicated a large-scale invasion by peoples who also brought a Celtic language which later developed into Welsh. The currently more popular view is that any movement of peoples was on a smaller scale, with cultural diffusion responsible for most of the changes. There is some evidence to support the latter model, such as burials associated with earlier religious sites. It has been suggested that a Celtic language was being spoken in Wales by about 700 BC.
The prehistoric period ended with the arrival of the Roman army, who began their campaigns against the Welsh tribes in 48 AD with an attack on the Deceangli in north-east Wales. Wales was divided between a number of tribes, of which the Silures and the Ordovices put up the most stubborn resistance. The Roman conquest of Wales was complete by 79 AD. The reports of Roman historians such as Tacitus give a little more information about Wales in this period, such as that the island of Anglesey was apparently a stronghold of the Druids. The impact of the arrival of the Romans may have varied from one part of Wales to another; for example there is evidence that some hillforts, such as Tre'r Ceiri, continued to be occupied during the Roman period.
Notes
See also
List of Cadw properties
Early history of Ireland
Prehistoric Britain
Prehistoric Scotland
Archaeology of Wales
Prehistoric Wales
References
Barry Cunliffe (1987) Iron Age communities in Britain''' (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 2nd ed)
John Davies, (1994) A History of Wales (Penguin Books)
I.Ll. Foster & Glyn Daniel (eds) (1965) Prehistoric and early Wales (Routledge and Kegan Paul)
John Edward Lloyd (1911) A history of Wales: from the earliest times to the Edwardian conquest (Longmans, Green & Co.)
Frances Lynch (1995) Gwynedd (A guide to ancient and historic Wales series) (HMSO)
Frances Lynch (1970) Prehistoric Anglesey: the archaeology of the island to the Roman conquest (Anglesey Antiquarian Society)
Frances Lynch, Stephen Aldhouse-Green and Jeffrey L. Davies (2000) Prehistoric Wales (Sutton Publishing)
Pitts, M. 2006. Sensational new discoveries at Bryn Celli Ddu. British Archaeology No. 89 (July/August) p. 6
J.A. Taylor (ed) (1980) Culture and environment in prehistoric Wales'' (BAR British series 76)
External links
Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales
Artifacts from Pontnewydd Cave held on Gathering the Jewels
Artifacts from Coygan Cave held on Gathering the Jewels
Artifacts from Paviland Cave held on Gathering the Jewels
Mesolithic stone beads from Nabs Head, Pembrokeshire, held on Gathering the Jewels
Mesolithic fins from Rhuddlan held on Gathering the Jewels
Pentre Ifan Cromlech/Dolmen in Pembrokeshire, Wales
Carreg Coetan Arthur Cromlech/Dolmen in Pembrokeshire, Wales
The Prehistoric Monuments in Wales, Herbert E. Roese
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Lana Tisdel
Lana M. Tisdel (born May 28, 1975) is an American woman whose early life and involvement with the December 1993 murders of Brandon Teena, Phillip DeVine and Lisa Lambert was chronicled in the 1998 documentary The Brandon Teena Story and the 1999 film Boys Don't Cry (which left out DeVine). She was portrayed in the film by Chloë Sevigny, who was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance as Tisdel.
The director of the film, Kimberly Peirce, worked on the script for many years and interviewed Lana and her mother for details on their life. Peirce also drew information from other sources including All She Wanted by Aphrodite Jones (1996), a biography of Brandon Teena and the lives of those involved with the murders; and a 1994 Village Voice piece written by Donna Minkowitz which was responsible for the story becoming a media sensation in the early 1990s.
Background
In the fall of 1993, Tisdel, aged 18, met Brandon Teena, 20, through their mutual friends. Teena was new to the close-knit area, from Lincoln, Nebraska, and the local crowd was curious about him. Teena and Tisdel began seeing each other, because Tisdel found Teena attractive and believed Brandon was a biological man. He was in fact born female, but identified as male. Tisdel has made it clear that her relationship with Brandon Teena was brief and did not include sex; only lasting about two months from their first meeting until the murder. However, their two-month relationship is described as very intense. Her mother Linda testified that Tisdel would be with Brandon all day, had trouble sleeping, and their relationship was all she cared about during that time.
On December 19, 1993, Brandon Teena was arrested for forging checks, and put in jail for several days. Tisdel found out he was assigned as a female after his birth name (Teena Renae Brandon) was printed in the local newspaper in the arrests section. Tisdel paid to get him out of jail, and he told her that he was undergoing sex reassignment surgery. Tisdel has disputed claims that after the truth was revealed to her, they continued a romantic relationship, but instead she told Brandon that they could still be friends. Tisdel defended Teena often, at one point lying to authorities and telling them she had seen him naked and saw his penis, in hopes they would leave him alone.
Two people that they were friends with during this time were John Lotter and Tom Nissen. Both young men had criminal records, and Teena had been staying with Nissen. Falls City is a small town, and all of these families were well-acquainted; Lana's best friend was Michelle Lotter, John's sister. Initially friendly, Lotter and Nissen soon began to harass Teena and Tisdel and scrutinize their relationship. During a Christmas Eve party, Lotter and Nissen forced Teena to take off his clothes in order to show everyone, including Lana, that he was anatomically female.
The two then kidnapped Teena and took him to a rural area, where they raped and beat him. Afterwards, Teena came to Tisdel's house, and Tisdel and her mother convinced him to speak to the police and go to the hospital. Lotter and Nissen had told Teena that if he told anyone what they did, they would kill him.
Murders
A few days later, on New Year's Eve 1993, Lotter and Nissen came to the Tisdel residence drunk and looking for Teena, and threatened the Tisdel sisters. They then drove to the house of Lisa Lambert, where Teena had been hiding out. Also in the house was Phillip Devine, a friend of theirs who was dating Tisdel's sister Leslie. Lisa Lambert was a single mother from Pawnee City, Nebraska, who often let friends stay with her in exchange for their help and company, because she lived outside of town. Lotter and Nissen then shot Teena, Lambert, and Devine to death. Lambert's son Tanner was in the house at the time and was unharmed. Tisdel was not present at the time of the murder, as it took place inside Lambert's home in Humboldt, Nebraska, a 30-minute drive away from Falls City, where Tisdel lived with her mother and sister. The bodies were discovered the next day by Lambert's mother, Anna Mae.
Aftermath
Tisdel, her sister Leslie, and mother Linda were all involved in the criminal trial and later lawsuits that followed the murder and later, movie development. Lana also has other siblings, including a brother, Terry Torrance. The Tisdel family appeared on Maury and A Current Affair, to discuss Brandon Teena and the trial proceedings. The Tisdel family did not get along well with Brandon Teena's mother, Jo Ann Brandon, and his sister, Tammy, who accused Tisdel of being responsible for the murders.
Tisdel sued the creators of Boys Don't Cry for using her name and likeness without permission, and the suit was settled out of court. Leslie Tisdel was vocal about the film's script changes, and upset that her boyfriend who was murdered, Phillip Devine, was not included in the film, nor was she, and instead the film focused on Brandon Teena. There has been scrutiny that the lack of information on Phillip Devine (1974–1993), who was from Iowa, is because he was African American, and Leslie stated she believed he has been left out of the story because of racism. When Boys Don't Cry was released, she petitioned Nebraska movie theatre owners to not show the film. Lisa Lambert's (1969–1993) name was changed to Candace in the movie. Tisdel's mother, Linda Gutierres, who died on December 2, 2003, at age 54, was portrayed in the film by Jeannetta Arnette.
Tanner Lambert graduated from Humboldt High School in 2011, and was raised by his aunt. John Lotter and Tom Nissen are currently in prison, with Nissen serving life imprisonment and Lotter facing execution.
Lana graduated from Falls City High School in 1993. She married Josh Bachman in 2001 and lives in Kansas with their children.
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Kwok Kam-hung
Kwok Kam-hung (born 13 May 1934) is a Taiwanese footballer. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1960 Summer Olympics.
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Elizabeth Ryan (field hockey)
Elizabeth ("Lizzy") Ryan (born 10 November 1985 in Hamilton, New Zealand) is a field hockey striker from New Zealand.
International senior competitions
2005 – Champions Challenge, Virgiania Beach
2006 – World Cup Qualifier, Rome
References
New Zealand Field Hockey Federation
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T. Jefferson Parker
T. Jefferson Parker (born 1953) is an American novelist. Parker's books are police procedurals set in Southern California.
Early life and career
Parker was born in 1953 in Los Angeles, California, and he has lived his entire life in Southern California. He was named T. Jefferson Parker. The "T" doesn't stand for anything. His mother said she thought it would look good on the presidential letterhead. He was educated in public schools and received his bachelor's degree from the University of California, Irvine in English. He began his writing career as a journalist for The Newport Ensign. Parker later switched jobs to the Daily Pilot, winning three Orange County Press Club Awards. It was at this time that he began writing his first novel, Laguna Heat. He received the Edgar Award for Best Novel in 2002 for Silent Joe and again in 2005 for California Girl. In 2008, his short story "Skinhead Central" won Parker another Edgar award, making him one of the elite few writers to have won the Edgar three times.
Writing style
Parker's stories usually have one protagonist, and occasionally part of the story will be shown from the antagonist's point of view. His stories usually build suspense as the protagonist tries to prevent further crimes. The crimes depicted in the story are usually gruesome acts, which cause much unrest in the town where the story is set. Parker is renowned for using California settings and depicting the effects of crime on a community.
He draws on his experience as a lifelong California resident. Although most of his work is set in Orange County and Los Angeles County, he has relocated to San Diego and some of his more recent writing is set there.
Life
Parker lives in Southern California, where he writes and spends time with his family. His hobbies include hiking, hunting, fishing, and playing tennis.
Novels
Stand Alone Novels
Laguna Heat (1985)
Little Saigon (1987)
Pacific Beat (1991)
Summer of Fear (1993)
The Triggerman's Dance (1996)
Where Serpents Lie (1998)
Silent Joe (2001)
Cold Pursuit (2003)
California Girl (2004)
The Fallen (2006)
Storm Runners (2007)
Full Measure (2014)
Crazy Blood (2016)
Roland Ford series
The Room Of White Fire (2017)
Swift Vengeance (2018)
The Last Good Guy (2019)
Charlie Hood series
L.A. Outlaws (2008)
The Renegades (2009)
Iron River (2010)
The Border Lords (2011)
The Jaguar (2012)
The Famous and the Dead (2013)
Merci Rayborn series
The Blue Hour (1999)
Red Light (2000)
Black Water (2002)
As editor
Hook, Line & Sinister (2010)
Notes
References
Interview with and Biography of T. Jefferson Parker
External links
T. Jefferson Parker's Official Website
Interview with T. Jefferson Parker
1988 audio interview with T. Jefferson Parker at Wired for Books.org by Don Swaim
T. Jefferson Parker Fansite
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Hugues Lapointe
Hugues Lapointe, (March 3, 1911 – November 13, 1982) was a Canadian lawyer, Member of Parliament and Lieutenant Governor of Quebec from 1966 to 1978.
Life and career
Born in Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec, the son of the Canadian Member of Parliament Ernest Lapointe and Emma Pratte, he studied at the University of Ottawa and Université Laval. He was admitted to the Quebec Bar in 1935. He practised law from 1936 to 1961. He served during World War II and achieved the rank of lieutenant colonel.
He was elected as a Liberal in the 1940 federal election in the Quebec riding of Lotbinière. He was re-elected in the 1945, 1949, and 1953 elections. He was defeated in the 1957 election.
He held three cabinet positions: Solicitor General of Canada (1949–1950), Minister of Veterans Affairs (1950–1957), and Postmaster General (1955–1957).
In 1979, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.
He was married to Marie-Lucette Valin.
References
Hugues Lapointe at Assemblée nationale du Québec
External links
Order of Canada Citation
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Reza, Iran
Reza () may refer to:
Reza, Khuzestan
Reza, South Khorasan
See also
Deh Reza (disambiguation)
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Payroll taxes in New South Wales
Employers, or a group of related businesses, whose total Australian wages exceed the current NSW monthly threshold are required to pay NSW payroll tax. Broadly speaking, the tax amount is a percentage of taxable wages paid within NSW. This percentage is called the payroll tax rate.
The following table lists the payroll tax rate and annual threshold in force for the indicated dates. The monthly threshold is the appropriate fraction of the annual threshold according to how many days there are in the month.
Each monthly payment or 'nil' remittance is due seven days after the end of each month, or by the next business day if the seventh day is a weekend (i.e., August payment is due by 7 September). The annual reconciliation and payment or 'nil' remittance is due by 21 July.
Effective July 2007 - In NSW, payroll tax is levied under the Payroll Tax Act 2007, and administered by the Taxation Administration Act 1996.
Prior to 1 July 2007 - In NSW, payroll tax was levied under the Payroll Tax Act 1971, and administered by the Taxation Administration Act 1996.
See also
Taxation in Australia
External links
Payroll Tax - Office of State Revenue
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List of national parks of Uruguay
The following is a list of some of the National Parks in Uruguay.
Wetlands/coastal
Lagoons on Uruguay's east coast. Classified as a wetland of international significance under the Ramsar Convention.
Laguna de rocha. Lagoon in Rocha.
Castillos Lagoon. Freshwater lagoon in Rocha.
Garzon Lagoon. Semi-freshwater lagoon in Rocha and Maldonado.
Santa Teresa National Park. Includes beaches, forests and the Fort of Santa Teresa.
Cabo Polonio. Includes beaches and sand dunes.
Central Hill Country
Lunarejo Valley. Located between Rivera and Artigas (on the border with Brazil). Native grassland, ferns and hill scrub, with small pockets of sub-tropical vegetation in the valleys.
Quebrada de los Cuervos. Located near Treinta-y-Tres. Includes canyons and a sub-tropical forest in the bottom of the gorge.
Arequita National Park. Located in north of Minas. Includes a large round mesa of volcanic rock and forests.
Uruguay River
Esteros de Farrapos National Park. Includes 24 islands, covering 174.96 km2. Classified under the Ramsar Convention as a Wetland of International Significance.
Caves
Palace Cave in Flores. The geology dates from the Late Cretaceous period and is composed of sandstone, which formed during the Paleocene. Classified as a National Park in 2013.
References
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National parks
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Angelo Maggi
Angelo Maggi Mariotti (born December 16, 1955) is an Italian actor and voice actor.
Biography
Born in Rome, Maggi rose to fame in the 1980s as an actor. During that time, he made at least six film appearances and was quite popular on stage early in his career. He is more successful as a voice dubber, as he is the official Italian dubbing voice of Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis and Jackie Chan. Other actors he dubs includes Steve Guttenberg, Gary Oldman, Danny Huston, John Turturro and Robert Downey Jr..
Maggi's character dubbing roles include Perry Cox (portrayed by John C. McGinley) in Scrubs, Leroy Jethro Gibbs (portrayed by Mark Harmon) in NCIS and Tony Stark (portrayed by Robert Downey Jr.) in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In his animated roles, Maggi has been the current Italian voice of Chief Wiggum in The Simpsons since the fifth season. He even provided the Italian voice of Sheriff Woody in the animated film Toy Story 4 following the death of Woody's longtime Italian dubber Fabrizio Frizzi the previous year.
Filmography
Cinema
Di padre in figlio (1982)
Sapore di mare (1983)
Zero for Conduct (1983) - Renato Petrocelli / Speedy Gonzales
Dagger Eyes (1983)
Time for Loving 2 - One Year Later (1983) - Marchesino Pucci
Vacanze in America (1984)
Mi faccia causa (1984)
Il coraggio di parlare (1987) - Gino, the pusher
Stradivari (1988) - Opera Singer
Ascolta la canzone del vento (2003) - Dad
Television
Time for Loving (1982)
L'amore non basta (2005) - Guido
Paul VI: The Pope in the Tempest (2008) - Eugenio Pacelli
Il delitto di via Poma (2011) - Recchia
Dubbing roles
Animation
Shotaro Kaneda in Akira
Superman in Superman: The Animated Series
Michael Stone in Anomalisa
Sheriff Woody in Toy Story 4
Rei's Grandpa in Sailor Moon (Viz Media redub)
Chief Wiggum and Reverend Lovejoy in The Simpsons
Abraham Van Helsing in Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
Monkey in Kung Fu Panda
Monkey in Kung Fu Panda 2
Monkey in Kung Fu Panda 3
Monkey in Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness
Live action
Tony Stark / Iron Man in Iron Man
Tony Stark / Iron Man in Iron Man 2
Tony Stark / Iron Man in Iron Man 3
Tony Stark / Iron Man in The Incredible Hulk
Tony Stark / Iron Man in The Avengers
Tony Stark / Iron Man in Avengers: Age of Ultron
Tony Stark / Iron Man in Captain America: Civil War
Tony Stark / Iron Man in Spider-Man: Homecoming
Tony Stark / Iron Man in Avengers: Infinity War
Tony Stark / Iron Man in Avengers: Endgame
Tony Stark / Iron Man in Spider-Man: Far From Home
Yang Naing Lee in Rush Hour
Yang Naing Lee in Rush Hour 2
Yang Naing Lee in Rush Hour 3
Seymour Simmons in Transformers
Seymour Simmons in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Seymour Simmons in Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Seymour Simmons in Transformers: The Last Knight
James Gordon in The Dark Knight
James Gordon in The Dark Knight Rises
William Thacker in Notting Hill
David in Love Actually
Raymond Reddington in The Blacklist
Roger Callaway in It Takes Two
Tim Carson in Casper: A Spirited Beginning
Jack Frye in The Aviator
Isaac French/Dr. Miles Phoenix in The Number 23
William Stryker in X-Men Origins: Wolverine
King Richard the Lionheart in Robin Hood
Leroy Jethro Gibbs in NCIS
Malcolm Crowe in The Sixth Sense
Christopher Marlowe in Shakespeare in Love
Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream
David Dunn in Unbreakable
Larry Mazilli in Clockers
Pete Hogwallop in O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Dr. Andrew Brown in Everwood
Chuck Noland in Cast Away
Carl Hanratty in Catch Me If You Can
Viktor Navorski in The Terminal
James B. Donovan in Bridge of Spies
Perry Cox in Scrubs
Robby Ray Stewart in Hannah Montana
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Joe Klinger
Joseph John Klinger (August 2, 1902 – July 31, 1960) was a first baseman, catcher, and left fielder who played in Major League Baseball in 1927 and 1930. Klinger played in three games for the New York Giants in 1927 and in four games for the Chicago White Sox in 1930.
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IBM Cross System Product
IBM's Cross System Product (CSP) was an application generator intended to create online systems on IBM's mainframe platforms. Introduced in 1981, CSP consisted of a set of source code generators that allowed developers to interactively define, test, generate, and execute application programs. CSP was composed of two products:
Cross System Product/Application Development (CSP/AD) - development environment.
Cross System Product/Application Execution (CSP/AE) - runtime environment.
CSP version 3 was released in 1986 with extended functions:
DB2 support in CICS/OS/VS and MVS/TSO environment
SQL/DS support in VSE and VM/SP environment
MVS/XA (31bit addressing) support
The 1987 SAA announcement cast doubt on IBM's commitment to CSP – it "wasn't silent on CSP; it dismembered it.".
The last version of CSP, version 4.1, went out of support at the end of 2001.
In 1994 IBM released a successor product called VisualGen which incorporated "the ability to develop client/server applications (particularly the addition of Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) to applications), the ability to access data from non-IBM vendors’ data stores, and the ability to execute application in operating environments beyond the mainframe." In 1996 this product was again renamed to VisualAge Generator. VisualAge Generator was withdrawn from service in 2009 and succeeded by Rational Business Developer.
See also
Rational Software
References
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Noël Vidot
Noël Vidot (born 15 December 1962 in Saint-Denis) is a French professional football player and manager.
Career
He played for the Le Havre AC, Nîmes Olympique, Stade Lavallois and Le Mans FC. He was a member of the French squad that won a silver medal at the 1987 Mediterranean Games.
In 1994, he began his coaching career. He coaches the CS Saint-Denis, US Cambuston and AS Chaudron. In 2007, he was a head coach of the Réunion national football team.
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Structured ASIC platform
Structured ASIC is an intermediate technology between ASIC and FPGA, offering high performance, a characteristic of ASIC, and low NRE cost, a characteristic of FPGA.
Using Structured ASIC allows products to be introduced quickly to market, to have lower cost and to be designed with ease.
In a FPGA, interconnects and logic blocks are programmable after fabrication, offering high flexibility of design and ease of debugging in prototyping.
However, the capability of FPGAs to implement large circuits is limited, in both size and speed, due to complexity in programmable routing, and significant space occupied by programming elements, e.g. SRAMs, MUXes.
On the other hand, ASIC design flow is expensive.
Every different design needs a complete different set of masks.
The Structured ASIC is a solution between these two.
It has basically the same structure as a FPGA, but being mask-programmable instead of field-programmable, by configuring one or several via layers between metal layers.
Every SRAM configuration bit can be replaced by a choice of putting a via or not between metal contacts.
A number of commercial vendors have introduced structured ASIC products. They have a wide range of configurability, from a single via layer to 6 metal and 6 via layers. Altera's Hardcopy-II, eASIC's Nextreme are examples of commercial structured ASICs.
See also
Gate array
Altera Corp - "HardCopy II Structured ASICs"
eASIC Corp - "Nextreme Structured ASIC"
References
Chun Hok Ho et al. - "Floating Point FPGA: Architecture and Modelling"
Chun Hok Ho et al. - "DOMAIN-SPECIFIC HYBRID FPGA: ARCHITECTURE AND FLOATING POINT APPLICATIONS"
Steve Wilton et al. - "A Synthesizable Datapath-Oriented Embedded FPGA Fabric"
Steve Wilton et al. - "A Synthesizable Datapath-Oriented Embedded FPGA Fabric for Silicon Debug Applications"
Andy Ye and Jonathan Rose - "Using Bus-Based Connections to Improve Field-Programmable Gate Array Density for Implementing Datapath Circuits"
Ian Kuon, Aaron Egier and Jonathan Rose - "Design, Layout and Verification of an FPGA using Automated Tools"
Ian Kuon, Russell Tessier and Jonathan Rose - "FPGA Architecture: Survey and Challenges"
Ian Kuon and Jonathan Rose - "Measuring the Gap Between FPGAs and ASICs"
Stephane Badel and Elizabeth J. Brauer - "Implementation of Structured ASIC Fabric Using Via-Programmable Differential MCML Cells"
Kanupriya Gulati, Nikhil Jayakumar and Sunil P. Khatri - "A Structured ASIC Design Approach Using Pass Transistor Logic"
Hee Kong Phoon, Matthew Yap and Chuan Khye Chai - "A Highly Compatible Architecture Design for Optimum FPGA to Structured-ASIC Migration"
Yajun Ran and Malgorzata Marek-Sadowska - "Designing Via-Configurable Logic Blocks for Regular Fabric"
R. Reed Taylor and Herman Schrnit - "Creating a Power-aware Structured ASIC"
Jennifer L. Wong, Farinaz Kourshanfar and Miodrag Potkonjak - "Flexible ASIC: Shared Masking for Multiple Media Processors"
External Links: eda.ee.ucla.edu/EE201A-04Spring/ASICslides.ppt
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Shinkō Kinema
was a Japanese film studio active in the 1930s.
Background
Shinkō was established in September 1931 out of the remnants of the Teikoku Kinema studio with the help of Shōchiku capital. The historian Jun'ichirō Tanaka writes that the studio was part of Shōchiku's effort to monopolize the Japanese film industry, using Shinkō to control some of the independent production companies by distributing their films, and absorb rebellious talent who left rivals like Nikkatsu or Fuji Eiga. And in fact, Shinkō did distribute the films of jidaigeki stars like Tsumasaburō Bandō and Kanjūrō Arashi or gendaigeki stars such as Takako Irie. For a time, such directors as Kenji Mizoguchi, Tomu Uchida, Minoru Murata, Shigeyoshi Suzuki, and Yutaka Abe, as well as such stars as Tokihiko Okada, Isamu Kosugi, Eiji Nakano, Fumiko Yamaji and Mitsuko Mori made movies there. Masaichi Nagata became studio head at one point. Its main offices were located in Hatchōbori in Tokyo, and its studios in Uzumasa in Kyoto and Ōizumi (now in Nerima) in Tokyo.
Merger
Shinkō, however, could not retain such talent and remained a second-rank studio. In the 1941 government-led reorganization of the industry, it was merged with Daito Eiga and the production arm of Nikkatsu to form Daiei Studios. The Tokyo and Kyoto studios of the Toei Company are currently located on the sites of the old Shinkō studios.
See also
Cinema of Japan
References
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Father Brown, Detective
Father Brown, Detective is a 1934 American mystery film directed by Edward Sedgwick and starring Walter Connolly, Paul Lukas and Gertrude Michael. It is based on the Father Brown story "The Blue Cross" by G. K. Chesterton, a story which also informed the 1954 film Father Brown with Alec Guinness and Peter Finch.
Plot
When infamous jewel thief Flambeau (Paul Lukas) announces his intention to steal stones from a diamond cross in Father Brown (Walter Connolly)'s church, the crime-solving cleric fights to retain the cross, and also to save the soul of the elusive Flambeau.
Cast
Walter Connolly – Father Brown
Paul Lukas – Flambeau
Gertrude Michael – Evelyn Fischer
Robert Loraine – Inspector Valentine
Halliwell Hobbes – Sir Leopold Fischer
Una O'Connor – Mrs. Boggs
E.E. Clive – Sergeant
Donald Gray - Don (as Eldred Tidbury)
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12.7x55mm
The 12.7x55mm cartridge is a Russian-made .50 caliber cartridge used in both pistols and rifles (although one of each has been made so far). It was developed without a parent case, and as such, was made from scratch.
Purpose
It is intended as an armor-piercing handgun/rifle cartridge. It comes in jacket soft point, hollow point and full metal jacket variants.
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Tumbler (glass)
A tumbler is a flat-bottomed beverage container usually made of plastic or glass.
Theories vary as to the etymology of the word tumbler. One such theory is that the glasses originally had a pointed or convex base and could not be set down without spilling. Another is that they had weighted bottoms which caused them to right themselves if knocked over.
Collins glass, for a tall mixed drink
Dizzy Cocktail glass, a glass with a wide, shallow bowl, comparable to a normal Cocktail glass but without the stem
Highball glass, for mixed drinks
Iced tea glass
Juice glass, for fruit juices and vegetable juices.
Old Fashioned glass, traditionally, for a simple cocktail or liquor "on the rocks". Contemporary American "rocks" glasses may be much larger, and used for a variety of beverages over ice
Shot glass, a small glass for up to four ounces of liquor. The modern shot glass has a thicker base and sides than the older whiskey glass
Table-glass or stakan granyonyi
Water glass
Whiskey tumbler, a small, thin-walled glass for a straight shot of liquor
Political
The Jana Sena Party from India has been assigned a glass tumbler as a common election symbol.
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Avafi, Ahvaz
Avafi (, also Romanized as ‘Avāfī; also known as ‘Aveyfī and ‘Avīfī) is a village in Gheyzaniyeh Rural District, in the Central District of Ahvaz County, Khuzestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 714, in 131 families.
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Dixons (retailer)
This article is about the former online division of the British "Dixons Retail plc". This is not related to the online business of the long independent Dixons (Netherlands).
Dixons was a retailer in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It was owned by Dixons Retail plc.
With its origins in a photographic shop opened by Charles Kalms, the chain had a store in most towns and cities across the United Kingdom and Ireland. On 5 April 2006, Dixons announced that they were removing the brand from the high street (except in Ireland) and would only be using the Currys brand, branded as Currys.digital. DSG Ireland followed suit in August 2008.
History
The first Dixons was opened by Charles Kalms in Southend as a photographic studio in 1937. The business flourished during the Second World War, as there was much demand for photographic services and family portraits.
By the end of the war, Kalms had opened seven more studios in the London area. The demands for portrait services decreased considerably after the war, and he was forced to close all but one studio in Edgware, north London. The company was taken over by his son Stanley Kalms, who was chairman until September 2002, and remains president of the Dixons Group for life.
On 5 April 2006, Dixons announced that there would no longer be any Dixons shops in Britain; shops would henceforth be named Currys.digital. This was said to signal a shift to more Internet based selling and to "reduce confusion". Dixons stores were to be retained in Ireland, and in locations such as airports, and the Dixons website would continue.
Dixons named shops in Ireland were also discontinued in August 2008, being renamed Currys (not Currys.digital, however, and with a new Currys logo). A Dixons.ie internet site was set up. Dixons branches in airports were re branded as Dixons Travel from January 2009, and the new format was rolled out to many airports in the United Kingdom.
Closure
In October 2012, Dixons Retail announced that they would no longer trade using dixons.co.uk website. All customers were redirected to Currys and PC World websites. The orders and agreements purchased on dixons.co.uk will continue to be honoured by Currys and PC World sites.
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James Gettys (founder of Gettysburg)
James Gettys (August 14, 1759 – March 15, 1815) was the founder of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
Personal life
He was born on August 14, 1759, in the Marsh Creek Settlement in Pennsylvania. His parents, Samuel and Isabella (Ramsey) Gettys, were Scottish and Irish and emigrated from Ireland. James was born with a twin sister named Ann, who died shortly after birth. James' other siblings included Mary (1752-1823); Elizabeth (1755-1788); William, (1757-1813; John (1761-1776); Isabella, 1764-?); and Martha (1768-1815). James married Mary Todd. They had two children, James Gettys Junior (1799 - death) and Robert Todd (1809-1827).
The founding of Gettysburg
On October 9, 1786, Gettys purchased 116 acres of his father's property during a bankruptcy auction for 790 pounds. The valuable land was in the crossroads of York Road and Black Gap Road (Baltimore Road). The legal transfer was officially recognized by John Penn and John Penn, Jr., on April 17, 1787 and entered into the York County Court records on April 18, 1787. In late 1786, James Gettys took the 116 acres and divided them into 220 lots. He held an official lottery in which area citizens purchased the rights to buy one or more lots. This is recognized as the official beginning of the town originally name Gettystown.
Community investments
In January 1799, during the formation of a new county, James Gettys promised to donate land for a jail “gaol” and county courthouse, as well as the quit rents of 200 town lots to the future county if Gettystown was named as the county seat. On January 22, 1800, Governor Thomas McKean issued an Act of Assembly which formed a new county named Adams with Gettystown as the county seat.
James Gettys invested in two turnpike companies created to cover dirt roads with gravel for easier traveling and commerce in and out of Gettysburg. On April 7, 1807, Governor Thomas McKean approved the creation of the Gettysburg and Petersburg Turnpike Company. Gettys was the Treasurer. Similarly, on February 6, 1811, Governor Simon Snyder approved the creation of the Gettysburg and Blacks' Turnpike Company, of which James was an investor.
In March 1813, James Gettys and several area men petitioned the state legislators for the right to create a bank in Adams County. In March 1813, the legislators passed an Act of General Assembly approving the request; however, Governor Snyder vetoed it. Then, on Friday, April 29, 1814, Governor Snyder's veto was overridden. The Act of General Assembly was officially passed. James Gettys sold the organizers one lot in the center of town for erecting the bank. Thus, the bank was located in Gettysburg and named the Bank of Gettysburg. On May 26, 1814, Gettys was elected as a Bank Director.
Civil servant
On October 18, 1803, James Gettys was elected Sheriff of Gettysburg, a position he held for 3 years. On May 21, 1806, he was elected both Town Clerk and Treasurer of the Borough of Gettysburg. In 1807, Gettys was elected to the Town Council in Gettysburg. He was also elected to the Assembly for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and served from 1807-1809. In 1812, Gettys was elected as Gettysburg Borough's fire director. In 1815, he was elected Burgess of the town.
Military career: American Revolution
Samuel Gettys, James' father, owned the famous Gettys Tavern where the Pennsylvania Rifleman Battalion and the Pennsylvania Militia met on June 24, 1775, to sign up and join the American Revolutionary War for independence. James Gettys took part in the Revolutionary War. In 1781, Gettys joined the Revolutionary War battle, this time as a Cornet for the Light Horsemen of York County, a volunteer company the Light Horse Battalion of the Pennsylvania Militia under Col Irvine.
Later military career
In 1786, James Gettys was promoted to Lieutenant under Captain James Hamilton in a Troop of Light Horse. In 1794, during the Whiskey Rebellion in Western Pennsylvania, Gettys was commissioned as a Second Major in the 4th Regiment of the Militia of York County under the command of Brigadier General Henry Mille. In 1800, James Gettys was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel of 20th Regiment of the Militia of Adams County. In 1814, during the War of 1812 he was promoted to Brigadier General, 5th Division. Then, in the later half of 1814, during a reorganization of the state militia, Gettys became the Vice Brigadier General. He remained in that position until his death.
Court martial
In 1802, in the height of the political infighting between the Federalist's Party and the Democrat-Republican Party, the Republican Governor of Pennsylvania, Thomas McKean, mandated the state militia men change from the traditional Federalist black cockade to a new red and blue one to differentiate Pennsylvania's militia. Several of Getty's officers were slow to change their cockades. Republicans also accused those who did follow the mandate of wearing red and blue cockades that were too small. The disagreement escalated and progressed to a physical fight during the General's Parade in Gettysburg in November 1802. On November 15, 1802, Gettys was court martialed. His trial was held on December 6, 1802, at the home of Major William Sturgeon in New Oxford. Gettys was found guilty of allowing his men to train wearing the black cockade. He was temporarily suspended and fined $10.00.
Death
In March 1815, many members of the Gettys family died of what was thought to be Typhus Fever, spread from the epidemic in Maryland. On March 15, 1815, after 11 days of illness, James Gettys died. In total, the disease killed five people in his family, leaving his two young sons, James, Jr., and Robert Todd, orphans.
James Gettys was originally buried in Gettysburg Presbyterian Church's cemetery at Washington and Railroad Street. When the church moved to its current location, James Gettys, Jr., paid for his parents' exhumation and reburial in Evergreen Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
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Jang Hang-sun
Jang Hang-sun (born Kim Bong-soo on February 22, 1947) is a South Korean actor.
Filmography
Film
Television series
Awards and nominations
References
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Jiří Rusnok
Jiří Rusnok (born 16 October 1960) is a Czech politician and economist who served as Prime Minister of the Czech Republic between July 2013 and January 2014. Since 1 July 2016 he has been serving as Governor of the Czech National Bank.
Previously, Rusnok served in the government of the Czech Republic as Minister of Finance from 2001 to 2002 and as Minister of Industry and Trade from 2002 to 2003. On 25 June 2013, he was appointed as Prime Minister by President Miloš Zeman. Rusnok replaced Petr Nečas, who resigned over a corruption and spying affair.
On 25 May 2016, President Miloš Zeman appointed Rusnok as 4th Governor of the Czech National Bank, succeeding Miroslav Singer. Rusnok took office on 1 July 2016.
Early life
Rusnok was born in Ostrava-Vítkovice. He studied at the University of Economics in Prague, graduating in 1984.
Career
Rusnok worked for Státní plánovací komise (State Planning Commission) and Federální ministerstvo pro strategické plánování (Federal Ministry for Strategic Planning). Before the so-called Velvet Revolution, he was a candidate for membership in the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.
In the 1990s, Rusnok worked as director of a department of the Czech-Moravian Confederation of Trade Unions (19921998). He joined politics in 1998 as a member of the Czech Social Democratic Party (ČSSD). Prime Minister Miloš Zeman appointed Rusnok to his cabinet as Finance Minister in June 2001. He continued as Minister of Industry and Trade in the cabinet of Vladimír Špidla; however, he resigned his post and parliamentary mandate and left politics in March 2003, after disagreements with Špidla. After that, he worked in the private sector.
Prime Minister
President Miloš Zeman appointed Rusnok as Prime Minister of a caretaker government in June 2013 in a move that was criticized by political parties in the Czech Republic. It was called irresponsible by the parties of the former coalition government (ODS and TOP 09), while the opposition (ČSSD) called for early elections.
On 7 August 2013, Chamber of Deputies denied support to the caretaker government of Rusnok. His cabinet got support of 93 legislators, compared to 100 against, while seven legislators abstained. A majority of voting legislators was required. Following the vote, TOP 09 stated that due to a lack of support for a potential renewed ODS-TOP 09-LIDEM government, they would instead support an early election. The ČSSD and KSČM also supported an early election. In reaction, Rusnok signaled his intention to resign the next day: "I think this result is positive, as far as further political development in our country is concerned. It will lead to the dissolution of the parliament."
Governor of the Czech National Bank
In 2014, Zeman appointed Rusnok to the seven-member board of the Czech National Bank, replacing Eva Zamrazilova. In 2016, he succeeded Miroslav Singer as the bank’s governor, again following an appointment by Zeman.
Other activities
European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB), Ex-Officio Member
International Monetary Fund (IMF), Ex-Officio Alternate Member of the Board of Governors (since 2016)
Political position
Rusnok supports moving the Czech Republic closer to adopting the euro. In 2014, he also backed the central bank’s policy of weakening the Czech koruna to fight deflation risks and help an economy recovering from a record-long recession.
See also
Jiří Rusnok's Cabinet
References
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Layal (name)
Layal (plural of Layl or plural of the name of Leila) (:) is an Arabic feminine given name, meaning Nights. Appeared in 20th century as a romantic literary name that based on Arabic middle-age culture.
Notable people with given name
Layal Abboud: (15 May 1982) Lebanese singer.
Layal Najib: (?-2006) Lebanese photojournalist
Layal Watfeh: (February 14, 1980) Syrian composer, musician, and voice actor.
See also
Leila (name)
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Manalcus Aycock House
Manalcus Aycock House is a historic home located at Black Creek, Wilson County, North Carolina. It was built in 1900, and is a large two-story, six bay, rambling frame dwelling. It consists of a hipped-roof section with two-story cross-gable wings. It features a large front porch with half-timbering and sawnwork decoration and stained glass windows. Also on the property is a contributing hipped-roof garage.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.
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Lorenzo Malfatti
Lorenzo Malfatti (September 11, 1923, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – November 23, 2007, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) was a baritone opera singer and professor of music at Chatham College, where he taught voice, diction, and opera, and conducted the Chatham College Choir.
Later in his career he was a voice coach for the Lyric Opera of Chicago. He later joined the faculty of the University of Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music. He was an alumnus of the Juilliard School, the Cherubini Conservatory in Florence, Italy, and the St. Cecilia Conservatory and Academy in Rome, Italy. He held an honorary doctorate from Chatham College.
He dubbed the voices of Fernando Lamas in the 1952 film The Merry Widow, Howard Keel in Annie Get Your Gun (1950) and Danny Kaye in Hans Christian Andersen (1952).
External links
Obituary from ''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Obituary from Chatham College
Biography
Photo gallery
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Turkey Run (West Branch Susquehanna River tributary)
Turkey Run is a tributary of the West Branch Susquehanna River in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is approximately long and flows through Clinton Township. The watershed of the stream has an area of . The stream is not designated as an impaired waterbody. It is a relatively small stream and is located near State Correctional Institution – Muncy. The stream's watershed is designated as a Warmwater Fishery and a Migratory Fishery.
Course
Turkey Run begins at the base of a large mountain in Clinton Township. It flows east for a few tenths of a mile before turning south and passing through a small pond. After a few tenths of a mile, the stream turns southeast for several tenths of a mile, passing through another small pond, crossing Pennsylvania Route 405, and crossing railroad tracks. It then turns south-southwest for several tenths of a mile before reaching its confluence with the West Branch Susquehanna River.
Turkey Run joins the West Branch Susquehanna River upstream of its mouth.
Hydrology
Turkey Run is not designated as an impaired waterbody.
Geography and geology
The elevation near the mouth of Turkey Run is above sea level. The elevation of the stream's source is above sea level.
Turkey Run was described as a "small stream" in an 1892 book of Lycoming County history. The stream is in a region known as the Black Hole Valley, along with Black Hole Creek.
Watershed
The watershed of Turkey Run has an area of . The stream is entirely within the United States Geological Survey quadrangle of Muncy. Its mouth is located within of Seagers.
The designated use for Turkey Run is aquatic life. The stream is not far from Williamsport, but is on the opposite bank of the West Branch Susquehanna River. The State Correctional Institution Muncy is located near the headwaters of Turkey Run.
History
Turkey Run was entered into the Geographic Names Information System on August 2, 1979. Its identifier in the Geographic Names Information System is 1189947.
Peter Smith had a farm on Turkey Run by 1778. His wife and children were killed in July 1778. In August of that year, a group of soldiers and militia were sent to the farm to protect people helping Smith harvest his crop. Turkey Run provided power to gristmills and sawmills in the early days of settlement in the stream's vicinity.
A bridge carrying Pennsylvania Route 405 crosses Turkey Run. In 2013, an $85,000 bridge replacement was planned for 2014 to 2016. Turkey Run Partners once applied for and/or received a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit to discharge stormwater into the stream during construction activities.
Biology
The drainage basin of Turkey Run is designated as a Warmwater Fishery and a Migratory Fishery. In the 1970s, the stream was described as being "moderately depressed" downstream of the State Correctional Institute Muncy.
See also
Black Hole Creek, next tributary of the West Branch Susquehanna River going downriver
Glade Run, next tributary of the West Branch Susquehanna River going upriver
List of rivers of Pennsylvania
References
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Salda
Salda may refer to:
Salda, Burdur, a township in Yeşilova district of Burdur Province, Turkey
Salda, Estonia, village in Kadrina Parish, Lääne-Viru County, Estonia
Salda Lake in Turkey
Salda River in Russia
Salda (genus), a genus of heteropteran bugs in family Saldidae
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Messier 5
Messier 5 or M5 (also designated NGC 5904) is a globular cluster in the constellation Serpens. It was discovered by Gottfried Kirch in 1702.
Discovery and visibility
M5 is, under extremely good conditions, just visible to the naked eye as a faint "star" near the star 5 Serpentis. Binoculars or small telescopes will identify the object as non-stellar while larger telescopes will show some individual stars, of which the brightest are of apparent magnitude 12.2.
M5 was discovered by German astronomer Gottfried Kirch in 1702 when he was observing a comet. Charles Messier also noted it in 1764, but thought it was a nebula without any stars associated with it. William Herschel was the first to resolve individual stars in the cluster in 1791, counting roughly 200.
Notable stars
105 stars in M5 are known to be variable in brightness, 97 of them belonging to the RR Lyrae type. RR Lyrae stars, sometimes referred to as "Cluster Variables", are somewhat similar to Cepheid type variables and as such can be used as a tool to measure distances in outer space since the relation between their luminosities and periods are well known. The brightest and most easily observed variable in M5 varies from magnitude 10.6 to 12.1 in a period of just under 26.5 days.
A dwarf nova has also been observed in this cluster.
Gallery
References
External links
SIMBAD: M5
M5,SEDS Messier pages
M5, Galactic Globular Clusters Database page
Historic observations of M5
Image of M5 by Waid Observatory
Messier 005
Messier 005
Messier 005
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Eva Natus-Šalamounová
Eva Natus-Šalamounová (June 27, 1936 - February 28, 2018) was a Czech graphic artist.
Born in Halle, Natus-Šalamounová studied from 1954 until 1960 at the under . In the latter year she became an associate professor at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, where she remained until 1963. She also worked at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. Active as a printmaker, she also produced illustrations for books and magazines and worked in the field of animation. She died in Halle. One of her prints is in the collection of the National Gallery of Art.
References
Category:1936 births
Category:2018 deaths
Category:Czech printmakers
Category:Women printmakers
Category:Czech women artists
Category:20th-century Czech artists
Category:20th-century printmakers
Category:20th-century women artists
Category:21st-century Czech artists
Category:21st-century printmakers
Category:21st-century women artists
Category:People from Halle (Saale)
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Jim Traynor
James Traynor (born 27 September 1953) is a Scottish former sports journalist and Director of Communications at Rangers F.C.
Prior to joining the Glasgow club, Traynor was employed by the Scottish newspaper the Daily Record. He was also presenter of BBC Radio Scotland's football-based phone-in show Your Call.
Traynor was also a pundit on the Superscoreboard show on Radio Clyde for the 2000–2001 season. He also appeared on Scotsport during that season.
In December 2012 he wrote his final article for the Daily Record. Following rumours about a role at Rangers, he took up the position of Director of Communications on 8 December 2012 and resigned on 1 November 2013.
References
Category:1953 births
Category:Living people
Category:Rangers F.C. non-playing staff
Category:Place of birth missing (living people)
Category:BBC sports presenters and reporters
Category:Scottish sportswriters
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1960 Uber Cup
The 1960 Uber Cup, held during the 1959-1960 badminton season, was the second edition of the women's international badminton championship. The ties (sets of matches) between zone winning nations took place in April 1960. Having won the previous tournament in 1957, the United States hosted the final round in Philadelphia.
In a repeat of the 1957 Uber Cup final, the United States were victorious over Denmark with Judy Devlin again victorious in all three of her matches.
Teams
As defending champion, United States skip through to the final.
Europe
Denmark
Ireland
Asia
India
Malaysia
Americas
Canada
United States
Australasia
New Zealand
Australia
Knockout stages
Qualifying round
First round
Second round
Final
References
tangkis.tripod.com
Mike's Badminton Populorum
Uber Cup
Category:Thomas & Uber Cup
Category:Badminton tournaments in the United States
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Dublin Rathmines West (Dáil constituency)
Dublin Rathmines West was a short-lived parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas from 1977 to 1981. The constituency elected 3 deputies (Teachtaí Dála, commonly known as TDs) to the Dáil, using the single transferable vote form of proportional representation (PR-STV).
History
The constituency was created for the 1977 general election, under the Electoral (Amendment) Act 1974, largely replacing the former Dublin South-Central constituency, as part of the redistribution of constituencies which attempted to secure the re-election of the outgoing Fine Gael–Labour Party government.
The constituency was abolished under the Electoral (Amendment) Act 1980 for the 1981 general election. It was mostly replaced with the Dublin South-Central constituency although a smaller part went to Dublin South-East.
Its election was also notable for representing the first time that Mary Robinson, (later 8th President of Ireland), stood for the Dáil, though she was unsuccessful.
Boundaries
The constituency covered the Rathmines district of South-East Dublin and adjoining areas. It consisted of the following wards of the county borough of Dublin: Crumlin D, Kimmage A, Kimmage B, Kimmage C, Kimmage D, Kimmage E, Rathfarnham A, Rathmines West A, Rathmines West B, Rathmines West D, Rathmines West E, Rathmines West F, Terenure A, Terenure B, Terenure C.
TDs
1977 general election
See also
Dáil constituencies
Politics of the Republic of Ireland
Historic Dáil constituencies
Elections in the Republic of Ireland
References
External links
Oireachtas Members Database
Category:Dáil constituencies in County Dublin (historic)
Category:Rathmines
Category:1977 establishments in Ireland
Category:1981 disestablishments in Ireland
Category:Constituencies established in 1977
Category:Constituencies disestablished in 1981
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Arde Madrid
Arde Madrid is a Spanish period comedy-drama limited television series created by Paco León and Anna R. Costa, which premiered on November 8, 2018 on Movistar+. León also directed every episode of the series and stars in it, alongside Debi Mazar, Inma Cuesta and Anna Castillo. The series tells the story of the period which American actress Ava Gardner spent in Francoist Spain. On 14 November 2018, Movistar+ renewed the series for a second season, but on 3 May 2019, the creators announced their decision to not continue the series.
Premise
Ava Gardner's life in Madrid in the 1960s is told from the point of view of her maid and chauffeur, both spies in Franco's secret service, who report on her hedonistic lifestyle, filled with an elite group of artists, aristocrats and expats.
Cast
Main
Episodes
References
External links
Arde Madrid (Serie de TV) on Filmaffinity
Category:2010s Spanish television series
Category:2018 Spanish television series debuts
Category:2018 Spanish television series endings
Category:Spanish comedy television series
Category:Spanish-language television programs
Category:Period television series
Category:Television series about the history of Spain
Category:Movistar+ network series
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Mikawa, Ehime
was a village located in Kamiukena District, Ehime Prefecture, Japan.
As of 2003, the village had an estimated population of 2,232 and a density of 16.61 persons per km². The total area was 134.38 km².
On August 1, 2004, Mikawa, along with the town of Kuma, and the villages of Omogo and Yanadani (all from Kamiukena District), was merged to create the town of Kumakōgen and no longer exists as an independent municipality.
External links
Kumakōgen official website in Japanese
Category:Dissolved municipalities of Ehime Prefecture
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Federal List of Extremist Materials
Federal List of Extremist Materials () is a list of works that were banned in Russian Federation, primarily based on the Russian Internet Restriction Bill. It is compiled by the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation. Producing, storing or distributing the materials on the list is an offense in Russia.
As of January 21, 2020, this list included 5005 items. 106 items are already excluded from the list (although their numbers remained in the list).
The list includes publications and websites that criticize Russian authorities, such as the book FSB blows Russia up by Yuri Felshtinsky and Alexander Litvinenko, certain publications by Muslim theologians and Jehovah's Witnesses, certain antisemitic materials, the Navalny video, songs, video files, brochures and websites.
In 2012 scientology books by L. Ron Hubbard were added to the list.
There is a separate list of people and organizations suspected of involvement in terrorism or extremism. The list is compiled by Rosfinmonitoring.
Content
Articles, leaflets, other printed and handwritten materials
works written by A. A. Dobrovolsky (№№ 6 - 10, 576)
an open letter written by non-governmental organization Voice of Beslan to the President of the United States, U.S. Congress, the European Parliament, etc. (№ 589) about Beslan school hostage crisis
Books and brochures
Henry Ford. "Der internationale Jude: Ein Weltproblem" (№ 459) and version of the book, translated into Russian language - "Международное еврейство" (№ 2955)
Adolf Hitler. "Mein Kampf" (№ 604)
Benito Mussolini. "La dottrina del fascismo" (№ 668) and version of the book, translated into Russian language - "Доктрина фашизма" (№ 608)
Henry Picker. "Hitlers Tischgespräche im Führerhauptquartier" (№ 711)
Heinrich Himmler. "SS-Mann und Blutsfrage" (№ 767)
K. V. Rodzaevsky. "The Last Will of a Russian Fascist" (№ 861)
Jürgen Graf. "The myth about Holocaust, the truth about destiny of the Jews during World War II" (№ 973)
Eugen Dühring. "Die Judenfrage als Frage der Rassenschadlichkeit fur Existenz, Sitte und Kultur der Volker, mit einer weltgeschichtlichen Antwort" (№ 979)
Richard Wagner. "Das Judenthum in der Musik" (№ 1204)
V. A. Prussakov. "Hitler without lies and myths" (№ 1596)
Édouard Drumont. "La France juive". (№ 1791)
Gottfried Feder. "Das Programm der NSDAP und seine weltanschaulichen Grundlagen" (№ 2000)
Joseph Goebbels. Michael: A German Destiny in Diary Form (№ 2385)
Alfred Rosenberg. The Myth of the Twentieth Century (№ 2532)
M. S. Martsinkevich. "Реструкт!" (№ 2572)
Yu. G. Felshtinsky and A. V. Litvinenko. "FSB blows Russia up" (№ 2791)
B. V. Stomakhin. "Violence as a method" (№ 5004)
Movies and videos
"Der ewige Jude" (№ 5)
video entitled "ISIS declaration to President Vladimir Putin" (№ 4095)
video "Putin publicly, at a meeting of Jews admitted that he is a Jew", lasting 02 minutes 15 seconds (№ 4933)
video titled "Evidence. Putin is building the Khazaria", starting with the words: "Russia is captured by Jews, Putin is the President of the Khazar Republic", ending with the words: "Think about which nation in Russia he cares about?" (№ 4969)
Pictures and images
A poster depicting a man who looks like President of the Russian Federation V. V. Putin, on whose face makeup is done with eyelashes and lips are painted, which, as conceived by the author / authors of the poster, should serve as a hint of the allegedly non-standard sexual orientation of the President of the Russian Federation (№ 4071)
Poetry
A. M. Byvshev's poem "Ukrainian patriots" (№ 2596), where he disagreed with Russian intervention in Donbass and supported military resistance by Ukrainians.
Songs
song "Cry of the Nordic Blood" by Kolovrat (№ 791)
song "Nigger" by Korrozia Metalla (№ 2384)
song "Skinhead" by Korrozia Metalla (№ 2797)
song "Heil Führer" by Korrozia Metalla (№ 3012)
song "The White Race" by Kolovrat (№ 3760)
song "Racial fidelity" by Kolovrat (№ 3955)
References
External links
Federal List of Extremist Materials (Russian)
Anti-censorship links to "extremist materials" (Russian)
Anti-censorship links to "extremist materials" (Russian, a different site)
Federal Law on Counteracting Extremist Activity (English)
Category:Censorship in Russia
Category:Blacklisting
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Spomenka Štimec
Spomenka Štimec (born 4 January 1949) is a Croatian writer, one of the most acclaimed contemporary writers in Esperanto, and also significant to Esperanto in Croatia. She shared a FAME Award.
References
Category:1949 births
Category:Living people
Category:Croatian Esperantists
Category:Writers of Esperanto literature
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Nalaikh
Nalaikh () is one of nine Düüregs (districts) of the Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar. It is subdivided into 6 Khoroos (subdistricts).
Unlike most other düüregs, Nalaikh is technically a separate city, but still under the common administration of the capital.
Notable people
Kyokutenho Masaru - sumo wrestler
References
Category:Districts of Ulaanbaatar
Category:Populated places in Mongolia
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