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George W. Scranton George Whitfield Scranton (May 11, 1811 – March 24, 1861) was an industrialist and politician, a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania from March 4, 1859, until his death in 1861. Moving to Pennsylvania in the late 1830s to establish an iron furnace, he and his brother Selden T. Scranton are considered among the founders of the city of Scranton, Pennsylvania, named for their family. They and two partners established what became known as the Iron & Coal Company. They developed a method of producing T-rails for constructing railroad track, which previously had been imported from England. The innovation led to a boom in production of track and construction of railroads. Scranton became a major industrialist, also leading the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, which depended on the iron industry. After his death, his cousin Joseph H. Scranton, an early investor who had moved to this city, became president and the cousin's son, William Walker Scranton, became general manager of the Iron & Coal Company. W.W. Scranton managed the company during and after the Scranton General Strike of 1877, founding the Lackawanna Steel Company. Early life George Scranton was born in Madison, Connecticut. Among his siblings was his brother Selden T. Scranton. He attended Lee’s Academy. He moved to Belvidere, New Jersey, in 1828 and became a teamster. He and his brother both worked at Oxford Furnace, an iron manufacturing factory. Career Learning of extensive iron and coal deposits in northeast Pennsylvania, the two Scranton brothers became interested in potential for new industry and moved to this area of mining "hard" or anthracite coal. Together with Sanford Grant and Philip H. Mattes, they formed the firm of Scrantons, Grant & Company. Mattes was head of a branch of a bank in Easton, Pennsylvania, and helped gain financing. In 1839 Scranton started manufacture of iron, and began experimenting with the practicability of smelting ore by means of "hard" or anthracite coal in Slocum Hollow (now Scranton, Pennsylvania). This area was developing as the center of extensive mining of anthracite coal. Scranton was the founder of the Lackawanna Iron & Coal Company, named after the river. He and his brother Selden, together with Grant and Mattes, are considered founders of the city of Scranton, named after the Scranton family. He also constructed the Northumberland division of the Lackawanna Railroad, helping to create the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad. He was the president of two railroad companies. In 1858 Selden Scranton returned to Oxford Furnace in New Jersey. Politics Scranton was elected to Congress from Pennsylvania as a Republican in 1858 to the 36th Congress and served from March 4, 1859, until his death in Scranton on March 24, 1861. Personal life In 1847, his cousin Joseph A. Scranton moved with his second wife and young family to this corner of Pennsylvania. One of his sons, William Walker Scranton, went to Yale in the family tradition, later becoming general manager of the Lackawanna Iron & Coal company. He led the company during the extensive protests and action in the city in 1877 during the Scranton General Strike. See also List of United States Congress members who died in office (1790–1899) References Sources External links Category:Members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania Category:American manufacturing businesspeople Category:19th-century American railroad executives Category:1811 births Category:1861 deaths Category:Scranton, Pennsylvania Category:Pennsylvania Republicans Category:People from Belvidere, New Jersey Category:American steel industry businesspeople Category:Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives Category:19th-century American politicians
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Conservation in Bhopal This article is about the conservation in Bhopal, the capital of Madhya Pradesh state of India. Van Vihar National Park The Van Vihar National Park is a national park located in the heart of Bhopal. Although declared a national park in 1983, it is developed and managed as a modern zoological park. It covers an area of about 4.45 km². Crusade for Revival of Environment and Wildlife CREW is a society registered in 1997 under the Madhya Pradesh Society Registration Act 1973. CREW's aim is to emerge as Central India's primary centre for policy and enforcement regarding conservation and management of natural resources, wildlife and biodiversity. The Central Indian States of Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh have distinctive characteristics that set this region apart from other areas of the Indian sub-continent. Besides the wealth of natural resources-both forest and mineral--some of the most important archaeological sites, dating back to ten thousand years are located in Madhya Pradesh. CREW has continued to campaign for the protection of environment, biodiversity, wildlife, forest cover, endangered species and wetlands. CREW uses the visual media and releases b-rolls in digital broadcast quality format on crucial environment related issues to different sections of the media for direct relay and wider dissemination of knowledge and information relating to natural environment and factors threatening environmental balance. As a major initiative to build awareness regarding the importance of wetlands and their conservation, Crew launched an awareness campaign with its documentary "water Birds of Bhopal" shot mainly around Van Vihar National Park, a huge wetland recognized by the Ramsar Convention as an important wetland site in Central India. Crew has produced the documentary "Endangered Gharial (crocodilian gharial crisis)" to tell how India's special crocodilian Gharial, considered to be one of the most critically endangered of all crocodilian species, is threatened by the destruction of its nesting and basking sites and shrinking prey base. Gharials get caught in fishing nets and are killed by fishermen and turtle hunters. In collaboration with the Regional Natural History Museum Crew organised a forest, wildlife and birding training camp for college and university teaching staff in the Satpura Tiger Reserve. Crew also organises birding camps for village children. A number of risks and practices are threatening forests, wildlife, wetlands and the environment. Crew works hard at preventing them. These threats include: Disintegration of natural habitats and the remaining forest corridors due to rapid development and human pressure. Pollution due to the reckless dumping and disposal of waste and the destruction of the ecosystem and the threat to aquatic and avian species. Destruction of natural habitats because of unlawful mining, logging of timber, grazing, man-made forest fires, large-scale commercial exploitation of minor forest produce, use of chemical pesticides, and fishing practices. Vanishing stripes Crew had released two reports Vanishing Stripes-I (1999) and Vanishing Stripes-II (2000) to issue the firm warning that tiger's survival is threatened by poaching and loss of prey-base. Our forests are shrinking at an alarming pace. Human pressure on forest is immense due to rapidly increasing population. The situation gets aggravated by reckless destruction of green cover by the timber and the mining mafia. Forest land is also getting rapidly encroached. Unhindered grazing, minor forest produce and firewood collection are also activities adding to the crisis. From 710 tigers in the last census, the tiger population in the central Indian State of Madhya Pradesh has now come down to 276. The latest tiger figures were presented by the Wildlife Institute of India and the Tiger Conservation Authority of Government of India at a seminar held at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi on 23 May 2007. The seminar was attended by Prodipto Ghosh, Secretary Union Ministry of Environment and Forest, chief wildlife wardens and tiger reserve directors from many states. The latest tiger population estimate glaringly shows that most of those at the helm of affairs have never bothered to realize the gravity of the problem on the tiger front. They have only offered lip-service and exhibited superficial concern for the basic issues involved. They have remained mainly interested in deriving benefits, both financial and political by allowing populist activities to continue even in the core forest areas. Unless ecological balance is ensured on a long-term basis, no living species, including the human beings, may be able to survive. Our forests are shrinking at an alarming pace. Human pressure on forest is immense due to rapidly increasing population. The situation gets aggravated by rapidly shrinking green cover. We are now confronted with a national crisis. It is important to save the tiger in its natural habitat. The tiger sits at the apex of the biotic pyramid and is an important link in the entire food chain. The tiger will be safe in the wild only when there is prey-base. This would in turn depend on the survival of the flora, i.e., grasses, fruit bearing trees, herbs, shrubs and the water bodies along with all other factors linked with the natural habitat. Only then our rivers would be perennial and the underground water would remain charged. The two reports-Vanishing Stripes-I; and Vanishing Stripes-II published by CREW reveal the gravity of the problem and point out how gravely the tiger is threatened in its own habitat. Central Indian Highlands Wildlife Film Festival 2012 Bhopal, capital of Central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, hosted the Central Indian Highlands Wildlife Film Festival in 2012. The festival's theme was "The Tiger Habitat". The festival was organised by the Crusade for Revival of Environment and Wildlife. References External links http://www.bhopalbirds.com/ Category:Bhopal Category:Conservation in India
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KMEL KMEL (106.1 FM) is an Urban Contemporary radio station that is licensed to San Francisco, California and serving the San Francisco Bay Area. It is owned and operated by iHeartMedia. KMEL has studios located in the SoMa district, and broadcasts a "superpower" Class B signal of 69,000 watts from a transmitter atop the San Bruno Mountains south of San Francisco. The station's powerful signal is heard all over the Bay Area and covers areas as far north as Santa Rosa, as far east as Elk Grove in the southern portion of Sacramento County, and as far south as the Santa Cruz Mountains. It is currently one of the highest rated stations in the San Francisco Bay Area, with the largest listening audience males 18-to-34 demographic. History 1940s-1977 106.1 FM began as KGO-FM, sister station of KGO. The FM station was originally licensed at 96.9 FM in 1946. KGO-FM moved to 106.1 FM on November 3, 1947, with facilities at a former General Electric plant on East 12th Street in Oakland. On January 14, 1955, KGO-FM moved from 106.1 to 103.7 and today is statioin KKSF. On May 7th, 1958 RKO General, owner of Top 40 powerhouse KFRC 610 AM, was granted authority to construct a new station at 106.1 FM and on July 20th, 1961 it became officially licensed with the call letters KFRC-FM. The station's call letters changed to KFMS in November 1968, then KKEE in October 1972. In September 1973, the KFRC-FM call letters were reinstated, and the station began a "nostalgia rock" format, playing oldies and soft rock as "K106". As KMEL AOR era (1977-1984) On July 2, 1977, after Century Broadcasting purchased the FM station, K106 was rebranded KMEL, playing album-oriented rock ("AOR"). Psychedelic poster artist Victor Moscoso created the station's mascot: a camel wearing headphones. The station used the KMEL call letters to name itself "Camel 106". KMEL was a top-rated station in 1980 with a tightly formatted approach, and along with newer rival KSFX, helped force legendary rival KSAN to switch to country music. That same year, KMEL signed popular New York radio personality and San Francisco native Alex Bennett. Bennett anchored the morning position which was followed by well-liked veteran Tony Kilbert covering mid-day, music director Paul Vincent covering the afternoon, then Mary Holloway and Michael St John in the evening. The station played mostly cuts from about 30 top rock albums, interspersed with a few lesser known songs such as on the "Fresh Kamel Trax" feature highlighting new albums at noon and at 8 pm. With news reporter/sidekick Joe Regelski, Bennett built a large following over the next two years, becoming known as a "benignly nasty" morning DJ, "the guy everybody loves to hate", according to Promotion Director Ken Wardell. The year 1982 saw many changes at Bay Area rock stations. In January 1982, KMEL obtained a new rival when KCBS-FM transformed itself from an adult contemporary-format station into rock-formatted KRQR. In May 1982, AOR competitor KSFX dropped rock and went to a talk format as KGO-FM. Bennett and Regelski left KMEL in June after the station hired Sebastian, Casey & Associates as programming consultants to increase ratings. Bennett said that programming consultants were "the single most cancerous force in our industry." In August, Bennett and Regelski went to work at KQAK. KMEL lost market share to its competition—KQAK, KRQR, KOME and KSJO. In September 1982, KFOG entered the battle for rock-listener market share after dropping its beautiful music format in favor of an eclectic mix of rock. With so many AOR stations in the Bay Area, KMEL faced stiff competition. Top 40/CHR era (1984-1987) Despite KQAK switching away from its AOR format in April 1983, changing to modern rock, the Bay Area AOR scene was still highly competitive. KMEL finally dropped the AOR format at Noon on August 25, 1984, and flipped to a mainstream CHR format designed by new program director Nick Bazoo, brought in for the purpose from WEZB in New Orleans. The first song under the new format was "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'" by Michael Jackson. Bazoo took on the young Keith Naftaly as music coordinator. Bazoo was credited with breaking the song "One Night in Bangkok" in May 1985. Bazoo left KMEL for Los Angeles in June 1985, and Steve Rivers was hired from Tampa to take his place as program director. Naftaly continued underneath Rivers. Despite the format switch, the KMEL callsign was retained as a holdover to this day. Naftaly created a new slogan for KMEL, "The People's Station", reflecting its community outreach programs and prime-time public affairs shows. Jeff Chang credits KMEL's reputation as "the people's station" for its location "blessed with one of the strongest campus and community radio networks in the country." Two on-air personalities hired in this era came from local college radio stations: Davey D from UC Berkeley's KALX and Kevvy Kev from Stanford's KZSU. In March 1985, KMEL hired John London and Ron Engelman to host a morning zoo program. Mark McKay covered the mid-day slot, while Howard Hoffman took the afternoon drive time shift, Sonny Joe Fox covered evenings, Licia Torres spun tunes at night, and Mark Todd carried the overnight shift. Weekends were anchored by Sue Hall and Ty Bell. During the football season in late 1985, 49ers tight end Russ Francis joined the morning zoo by phone and sometimes in person to comment on sports. Promoting her song "Slave to the Rhythm", Grace Jones visited the morning zoo in 1986, meeting Hall, London, and Engelman. The success of "The All New, All Hit 106 KMEL" eventually helped push main CHR rival KITS toward a modern rock format as "The New Live 105 FM" as AM rival KFRC abandoned its CHR format in August 1986 for adult standards as "Magic 61". The station's branding as "106 KMEL" remained in place for many years. Steve Rivers left KMEL to work at KIIS-FM in Los Angeles, so Lee Michaels was hired as program director. When Michaels left, Keith Naftaly had been recognized as the Music Director of the Year by the Gavin Report, and this helped him rise at the age of 24 to the position of program director in June 1987. Under Naftaly's guidance, KMEL gravitated its format direction from top 40 pop to rhythmic by adding more urban artists and increasing its popularity with younger audiences. Rock and most pop titles were eliminated in the process. Rhythmic-turned-urban era (1987-present) In late 1986, KMEL wanted to explore the mix show format, which Naftaly and Michaels put into place Powermixers DJ Dave Moss and DJ Alex Mejia as interns on a new Saturday night show called "Club 106." In early 1987, KMEL hired popular club DJ Cameron Paul away from rival KSOL because of his sizable following. Paul remixed Salt-n-Pepa's "Push It", which had been a B-side song, and this remix was played first on KMEL. The song became so popular that it gave Salt-n-Pepa their first mainstream crossover hit. Paul was in demand as a remixer. This ability of remixing and redrumming the records became very popular among all of KMEL's Powermixers. KMEL had obtained even more talent from the DJ community, now bringing on Michael Erickson, Theo Mizuhara and Billy Vidal. The station also hired new music director Hosh Gurelli from Boston. KMEL became to be known as one of the most innovative stations because of its music selection and the type of programming it was doing, plus the air personalities' focus on the community. KMEL re-invented once again by putting Cameron Paul on 6 nights a week - Monday though Friday, then doing a live broadcast from San Francisco's number one 18+ venue "City Nights". Personalities during this time included John London, Renel Lewis and Brian Cooly on "The Morning Zoo", middays with Leslie Stoval, afternoon drive with Rick Chase, and nights with Evan Luck. As the 1980s gave way to the 1990s, KMEL became one of the first crossover pop stations in the nation to target young multiracial audiences with not-yet-mainstream hip-hop, dance, freestyle, house, and reggae music. KMEL was the first pop station in the U.S. to play "Wild Thing" by Tone-Loc and "Bust a Move" by Young MC and first of any radio station in the country to play "U Can't Touch This" by Oakland rapper MC Hammer and "Ice Ice Baby" by Vanilla Ice. Bay Area artists Too Short and Digital Underground also got early airtime on KMEL. By September 1992, Century Broadcasting sold KMEL to Evergreen Media. The new owners guided KMEL into its current urban contemporary format, effectively shedding its Top 40 direction for good and refocused now as an R&B station with a strong emphasis on hip-hop. The station was alternately known as "KMEL Jams" in the mid-1990s. The present-day format has made the station less synonymous with the previous short lived formats and became more recognized in the Bay Area's African American community all the while targeting a wider audience to date, thus giving it heritage status through the callsign. Evergreen patterned the diversity of the station after its then-sister station KKBT in Los Angeles by maintaining a multi-racial staff to ensure KMEL had "No Color Lines" under the new phase of the format. Also in 1992, KSOL, which ironically suffered in ratings due to KMEL's newfound success, retooled itself as KYLD "Wild 107.7" (now "Wild 94.9") and quickly emerged as KMEL's prime competitor for their mutual core audience demographic. In response, KMEL introduced new music shows The Wake-Up Show hosted by Sway Calloway and King Tech and Street Knowledge hosted by Davey D, in addition to the public affairs program Street Soldiers hosted by Joseph E. Marshall. The fierce competition over the coveted 18-34 "urban" listening audience continued for another four years until the passage of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 expanded the limit of radio stations that a company could own. Evergreen Media ended the ratings war with KYLD by purchasing it later that year. Jeff Chang blames the Telecommunications Act for reducing the amount of community-based programming and causing playlists to become more generic on urban stations nationwide. Meanwhile, a third competitor, KHQT out of San Jose, was also in competition with the two stations until 1995, when it changed formats under new ownership. In the 1990s, KMEL's DJ Alex Mejia put together a show called "Westside Radio" which featured Ice Cube's West Side Connection. Frequent guest DJs were also rappers, including Ice-T, Ice Cube, Kid Frost, LA Dream Team, Snoop Dogg, and Rodney-O & Joe Cooley. Chancellor Media (later AMFM Inc.) later purchased Evergreen Media (along with subsidiaries KMEL and KYLD), and AMFM was then swallowed up by Clear Channel Communications via a $24 billion deal in 1999. Controversially, KMEL canceled its Sunday night Street Soldiers public affairs program but later reinstated the show. On October 1, 2001, radio personality and hip-hop activist David "Davey D" Cook was terminated, due to what the station said were consistently low ratings. His dismissal occurred after new Program Director Michael Martin took charge of the station, and happened at the same time as the station changed many programming elements, as well as coinciding with the layoffs of several other station personnel, including on-air personalities Trace-Dog Nunez, Rosary Bides, and Franzen Wong. Cook, however, claims his departure was due to his political views, including his having aired statements from California Congresswoman Barbara Lee and rapper Boots of The Coup voicing opposition to the War in Afghanistan. On August 15, 2013, KMEL fired longtime morning host Jesus "Chuy" Gomez after 20 years. KMEL's current format and programming The majority of KMEL's playlist features music under the rubric of the Urban Contemporary format, heavy with hip-hop and R&B. KMEL also competes with Urban adult contemporary ("Urban AC") formatted KBLX (now owned by Entercom). KMEL reports as rhythmic contemporary per Mediabase, even though they're not a rhythmic contemporary station (another urban station on the rhythmic panel of Mediabase & urban panel of Nielsen BDS was WJHM in Orlando, Florida until morphing to rhythmic and was moved over to BDS' Rhythmic panel in February 2012. Another station, WPGC-FM in Washington, D.C., would follow suit in July 2012). Per Nielsen BDS reports, they are urban contemporary, KBFB in Dallas/Fort Worth are rhythmic contemporary stations per Mediabase reports, but they report on the BDS urban panel despite being the only rhythmics in those areas where there are existing urban contemporary stations (WKYS/WERQ and KKDA-FM). KMEL, as of 2012, is now listed as urban contemporary per RadioStationWorld.com rather than rhythmic. It is one of the last remaining urban contemporary stations on the Mediabase rhythmic panel. KMEL suffered a setback in ratings between 2009 and 2010. This was mainly due in part to Arbitron phasing out the diary keeping approach to ratings for the PPMs. This contributed to the brief decline of KMEL's ratings since the station has a specific audience target. While any longtime urban contemporary stations in other major cities (like WPGC-FM in Washington D.C. and KPRS in Kansas City) had to introduce songs typical of what is played on rhythmic radio stations to reboost ratings, KMEL programming executives decided not to revert to its rhythmic/urban roots; it remained urban and instead the playlist rotation was tightened as of 2010 in order to keep the longtime station from changing formats. In addition to its typical daytime mixture of hip hop and R&B, KMEL plays R&B and soul slow jams from roughly 10:00 pm to 1:00 am Monday through Thursday. The 10:00pm hour of that shift is known as "The Ten O'Clock Booty Call" with the remaining two hours devoted solely to slow jam love songs dubbed as "The KMEL Lounge". Urban contemporary gospel airs on Sunday mornings. KMEL is one of two area stations to play gospel; KBLX is the other. It even plays Old School hip hop and soul during midday mix show "The Twelve O'Clock Throwback Mix", on Friday mornings "Funky Fridays", and mixed in general during their weekend playlist rotation. In line with its slogan, "The People's Station", KMEL broadcasts the community-affairs show Street Soldiers, hosted by Dr. Joseph E. Marshall, on Sunday evenings. Booster KMEL is rebroadcast on the following FM Booster: Alumni By introducing their music, KMEL established many artists careers in the late 1980s and 1990s, including Mariah Carey, En Vogue, Tupac Shakur, Digital Underground, DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince, MC Hammer, Queen Latifah, MC Lyte, Timex Social Club, Tony! Toni! Toné!, Bell Biv Devoe, Boyz II Men, Jodeci, E-40, the Coup, Too Short, Club Nouveau, Oakland 3.5.7., and Mac Dre. Many popular Bay Area and national media personalities either got their start or spent time working at KMEL, including Joe Regelski, Mary Halloway, Alex Bennett, Geno Michellini, Theo Mizuhara, John London, Ron Engelman, Howard Hoffman (aka Howard "The Refrigerator" Hoffman), Sonny Joe Fox, Don Sainte-Johnn, Rick Shaw, "Marvelous" Mark McKay, DJ Cameron Paul, Michael Erickson, Sue Hall, Rick Chase, Alex Mejia, Dave Moss, Latin Prince, Billy Vidal, Diana Steele, Carmen, Evan Luck, Rosary Bides, The Baka Boyz, Lisa St. Regis, The Latin Prince, Prince Ice, Jose Melendez, Rick Lee, Greg Lopez, Efren Sifuentes, Renel Brooks-Moon, Trace-Dog Nunez and Franzen Wong, Mark Todd, Kevin Nash, J. Paul Emerson, Cousin Johnny, DJ "X" (who is currently known as DJ "Earl Gray"), Gill Alexander, DJ Short-E (currently at KHHM in Sacramento), Senen SLiM Rodriguez (currently at KJHM and KFCO in Denver), Kimberly Clemons, "Broadway" Bill Lee (who is now at WCBS-FM in New York City), David "Davey D." Cook, Christopher Lance, MTV's Sway Calloway, DJ King Tech, and Jesus "Chuy" Gomez. Promoting hyphy The station has played a significant role in the promotion of hyphy music in the San Francisco Bay Area by playing tunes from many of the local artists associated with hyphy. KMEL's mixshows have long contained exclusive hyphy music which can seldom be heard over the airwaves elsewhere in the country. Because the station broadcasts live via streaming audio from their website, it gives the genre a platform for possible worldwide exposure. References External links 106 KMEL official website Bay Area Radio Museum: The Complete KMEL Airchecks Collection KMELforever.com: A Website Dedicated To The Preservation Of The History Of KMEL KMEL Summer Jam - The Original "Summer Jam" concerts by Andrew Knyte of NJS4E Is KMEL the people's station?: a community assessment of 106.1 KMEL. Oakland, California: Youth Media Council, 2002 Category:IHeartMedia radio stations MEL Category:Urban contemporary radio stations in the United States Category:RKO General Category:Radio stations established in 1947 Category:1947 establishments in California
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Aberderfyn Halt railway station Aberderfyn Halt railway station served the Aberderfyn Road area of Ponciau, a village that lies within the community of Rhosllanerchrugog. Opened in 1905 the halt had closed by 1915, partly as a result of WWI and also through road transport competition. On 1 August 1861 the GWR had opened a mineral branch from just north of Ruabon to serve the blast furnaces of the iron works at Aberderfyn and Ponciau. This line was extended to the village of Legacy on 27 August 1876. History The station opened in June 1905 on the Wrexham to Ponkey (Ponciau) Branch of the Great Western Railway. It was one of three halts on the line south from Wrexham and Legacy, the others being at Fennant Road and Ponkey Crossing. The Ponkey (Ponciau) Crossing Halt to Legacy Halt line closed to all traffic on 18 January 1917 whilst the Ruabon portion of the Ponkey (Ponciau) branch continued to serve private sidings. Services To try and cater for falling passenger numbers railmotors were introduced on the 1st May 1905. These consisted of a carriage with a miniature locomotive at one end, partly contained within the body of the coach. Passenger services never ran south to Ruabon as indicated by the 1919-1924 map which shows a mineral line running south from Ponkey Crossing Halt. The 1906 timetable shows the line working as the 'Wrexham and Ponkey Crossing' branch, served by railmotors on weekdays only and only accommodating a single class. Trains from Wrexham first stopped at Rhostyllen and then Legacy before running down to Fennant Road and Ponkey Crossing. An impressive fifteen trains a day ran in each direction, roughly one an hour, with a short stop over at Ponkey Crossing before returning to Wrexham. The three halts were very close to each other with two minutes allowed between Fennant Road and Aberderfyn and only a single minute between Aberderfyn and Ponkey Crossing. Infrastucture The halt was located on a single track section of track just south of Aberderfyn Road and its level crossing. Given the early and late trains that ran lighting would have been provided at the station. The site today Few signs remain of the trackbed to the north however on the southern side of Aberderfyn Road the station footprint is covered with trees and undergrowth (datum 2019). References External links Category:Disused railway stations in Wales Category:Former Great Western Railway stations Category:Railway stations opened in 1905 Category:Railway stations closed in 1915
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Brian Banks (politician) Brian Roderick Banks (born November 15, 1976) is a Democratic former member of the Michigan House of Representatives and former candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 2nd District of the Michigan Senate. Education A high school dropout, Brian Banks later received his GED. Criminal and civil history Since 1998, Brian Banks has been convicted of eight felonies and one misdemeanor. Civil judgements Since his first election, Brian Banks has civil judgements against him in the amount of $47,809.84. He has been evicted a total of seven times in recent years, including two eviction proceedings filed against him in 2016. During the 2012 election, Brian Banks refused to pay Sawicki & Sons, the company that made his campaign signs. During the 2012 Primary Election, Brian Banks was evicted from a home in Harper Woods at 19239 Berden by landlord Michele Wood, who took him to court three times for writing bad checks and not paying rent. After the 2012 General Election, Brian Banks was evicted from his Harper Woods home at 20927 Fleetwood when he bounced two checks to landlord Dan Sylvester. Sexual harassment In 2013, Brian Banks was sued for sexual harassment by his Legislative Aide, Mr. Tramaine Cotton. According to Tim Bowlin, director of the House Business Office, the state paid $85,622 to the Dickinson Wright law firm to defend Banks against the charges of sexual harassment. The lawsuit was later settled for $11,950. Fraud On June 28, 2016, Brian Banks was charged with three new felonies and one misdemeanor by Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette over documents he falsified, to obtain a personal loan in June 2010. In a press release, the Attorney General's office said the felony charges against Banks stemmed from his use of falsified pay stubs in an application for a $7,500 loan. The news release stated that Banks claimed to work for IHI Attorneys and Consultants of Farmington, but investigators learned he had never worked there, and the paychecks “originated with a payroll company the firm never used.” Because of his previous felony convictions, Banks was charged as a habitual offender and could have faced life in prison if convicted of the new felonies. In August 2016, Banks was bound over to Wayne County Circuit Court for trial on all charges by District Court Judge Deborah Langston. Banks was formally arraigned in Circuit Court on August 23. On February 6, 2017, Banks plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge of filing false financial statements, a charge that carried a penalty of up to a year in prison. As part of a plea deal Banks reached with the Michigan Attorney General’s office, the remaining felony charges he was facing were dropped. Sentencing on the plea deal was set for 9 a.m. on February 17, 2017. Banks was sentenced to time served. He previously spent one day in jail. In a statement following Banks sentencing, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette stated, "“Former Rep. Banks pleaded guilty, admitting he did indeed commit the crime for which he was sentenced. I am pleased to see this case come to a close and that the residents of his district have the chance to get an honest, hardworking and law-abiding representative.” Mail fraud In July 2016 Kevin Trayer, the Postmaster of the Richland Post Office, investigated Brian Banks for mail fraud, concerning mail pieces that listed defunct Political Action Committees in the required political disclaimer. The pieces attacked Banks Primary opponent Pamela Sossi and echoed claims Banks had made while knocking doors. The former legislators tied to the dissolved PAC's had no ties to Brian Banks and denied allowing him to use the PAC's for any purpose. Violation of Michigan Campaign Finance Act On September 15, 2016, Michigan Secretary of State Ruth Johnson ruled that Brian Banks used House funds or resources to mail invitations to an event advocating for his re-election, a violation of section 57 of the Michigan Campaign Finance Act. As a result, Banks was required to personally reimburse the Michigan House of Representatives for the materials and labor misused. In December 2016, Brian Banks filed a motion to have Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette's office disqualified from the case, again claiming that the charges brought against him were politically motivated collusion between Pamela Sossi and the Attorney General, timed to ensure Banks lost his bid for re-election. Wayne County Circuit Judge Michael Hathaway dismissed Banks motion, ruling that the key question was not why Banks may have been charged, but whether he committed the crimes alleged in the charges. In February 2017, Brian Banks reached a plea agreement with the Attorney General's office in which all felony counts against were dropped in exchange for his immediate resignation from the Michigan House of Representatives and pleading guilty to one misdemeanor. Banks announced his formal resignation in Wayne County Circuit Court on February 6, 2017. FBI corruption & bribery investigation In December 2017, the Detroit Free Press obtained FBI wiretap transcripts that were unsealed in U.S. District Court. The investigation is linked to a corruption case against Gasper Fiore, the owner of Boulevard & Trumbull Towing, a large City of Detroit contractor. In December 2017, Fiore entered into a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney's Office, in which he agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy to commit federal program bribery. According to court documents, the government had probable cause that Fiore and 17 other targets were involved in several crimes, including: extortion, wire fraud, bribery and conspiracy to distribute marijuana. Fiore was so politically connected that in 2016, his daughter helped write an amendment to the Michigan Department of Transportation budget that ensured his company would win a multimillion-dollar contract, federal documents show. Along the way, Fiore appeared to have gotten help from Banks. "Fiore is involved in bid-rigging with legislator Brian Banks," Special FBI Agent Robert Beeckman wrote in 2016 affidavit, which included intercepted text messages and phone calls between Fiore and Banks. According to the affidavit, in a May 5, 2016, phone conversation, Fiore and Banks spoke about the MDOT contract when Banks mentioned Fiore's political "might." "MDOT said you have a mighty force behind you ... They said: 'We don't want to mess with that force,' " Banks said. Fiore responded: "Mmmmmm yeah. Does that mean, So what they doing with the deal then?" Banks: "So, you good so far. You hear me." On May 26, a phone call between Gasper Fiore and Banks again discussed the MDOT contract. "MDOT said you have a mighty force behind you," Banks stated. Fiore laughed in response. "They said you – 'We, we don't want to mess with that force behind you.'" Later in the conversation, Banks again reassures Fiore: "You know with the MDOT, you good." The conversation between Banks and Fiore was among many that the government obtained after bugging Fiore's phone last year. Campaign finance records show both Jennifer Fiore and Gasper Fiore donated to Banks House campaign against Pamela Sossi. Other controversies Brian Banks has falsely claimed to be an attorney, leading Wayne County Sheriff Benny Napoleon to endorse him. Sheriff Napoleon's spokesman Dennis Niemiec said the Sheriff was unaware of Banks' felony convictions and Sheriff Napoleon said he did not previously know about Banks' felonies. The State Bar of Michigan has no record of Banks ever being licensed to practice law in Michigan. Brian Banks campaign website previously stated that he was on staff at the law firm Rodnick, Unger and Kaner, P.C. and was an adjunct professor at Baker College. An employee at Rodnick, Unger and Kaner, P.C. told the Huffington Post that while Banks briefly worked at the firm as a law clerk, he left after only a few months. Brian Banks has also claimed to be an elementary school teacher and his biography on the Michigan House Democrats website listed him as a former elementary school teacher. The Michigan Department of Education Online Educator Certification System states that Banks has never held an Educator Certification. Michigan law prohibits convicted felons from being employed by a school, unless independently waived by the Superintendent and School Board. During the 2012 General Election, the Grosse Pointe Democrats refused to endorse Brian Banks, despite his request for the endorsement and the fact that he was the Democratic candidate. Legislative accomplishments During Brian Banks tenure in the Michigan House of Representatives, members of the Michigan Democratic Party had over 190 pieces of legislation signed into law. Despite being Chairman of the Detroit Caucus, 91 percent of Brian Banks bills died in committee during the same period of time. Only 2 of his bills ever received votes on the floor and neither passed into law. Political career 2012 election Despite a number of controversies, Brian Banks defeated Scott Benson by 96 votes to win the 2012 Democratic Primary. 2014 election Although only receiving 42% of the vote in the 2014 Primary, Banks was re-elected. 2016 primary election During the August 2016 Primary Election, Brian Banks narrowly defended a challenge for his seat by Harper Woods attorney Pamela Sossi, a first time candidate. Despite Banks significant fundraising advantage, Sossi led the race throughout the night until last minute votes were reported, giving Banks a narrow victory. Sossi swept the suburbs, winning Harper Woods, Grosse Pointe Woods and Grosse Pointe Shores, while Banks won Detroit. According to the Detroit Free Press, the 1st House District Primary Election was the most competitive election in Wayne County. As the Chair of the Detroit Caucus, Banks was able to enlist the help of Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, other lawmakers and interest groups in Lansing to raise $140,545, second most of all candidates facing Primary challengers. Records show that Banks major financial backers included Republican "Matty" Moroun (owner of the Detroit International Bridge Co.), State Rep. Andy Schor, Reynolds American, Rizzo Environmental Services and Gaspar Fiore. Rizzo Environmental and Fiore would later be ensnared in a public corruption investigation by the FBI. 2016 general election During the November 8 General Election, Banks received 66 percent of the vote over engineer William Broman, his Republican challenger. Resignation from Michigan House of Representatives On February 6, 2017, just 26 days into his third term in the Michigan House of Representatives, Brian Banks resigned his seat to avoid prison time. Banks’ resignation letter, submitted to House Speaker Tom Leonard, was effective immediately. In a statement, Speaker Leonard said, “Rep. Banks had one legal issue after another during his time in public office. I am glad to see he is finally taking responsibility for his actions, and hopefully today's plea agreement provides the fresh start he needs." By 9 am, February 8, 2017, Banks was sending e-mails to supporters inviting them to a March 6 fundraiser for his PAC, Bank on Banks for Michigan, leading to speculation that he would be running for future office, or financially backing his chosen successor. The fundraiser was held at Sinbad's restaurant in Detroit, and advertised tickets starting at $50 and topping out at $5,000 for a platinum sponsorship. On February 16, 2017, Governor Rick Snyder called a Special Election to fill the vacancy left by Banks resignation. Both the Governor and the Secretary of State's office ruled that Banks was not eligible to run for his own seat, ending speculation that he might do so. Additionally, Representative Aaron Miller filed HB 4208 to ensure that expelled or resigned former members could not run in the Special Election called because of the vacancy they caused. 2017 special election During the Special Election held to fill the vacancy caused by Brian Banks resignation, Banks ran his childhood friend Tenisha Yancey against his 2016 Primary opponent, Harper Woods attorney Pamela Sossi. Despite the reports about Yancey's violent past, Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan again intervened to defeat Sossi. Duggan aggressively campaigned for Yancey, even voicing a robocall on her behalf. According to Mayor Duggan, the main reason he supported Yancey concerned Sossi's failure to support the Mayor's "D-insurance legislation." This legislation would allow automotive insurance coverage with reduced coverage for Detroiters, without guaranteeing a reduction in automotive insurance rates. The Mayor stated "I am very impressed with the way Tenisha Yancey turned her life around and became an accomplished prosecutor, and she is committed to supporting my initiative to reduce car insurance rates for Detroiters, whereas Pam Sossi was in the pocket of the medical providers and unscrupulous attorneys who are ripping off our residents." Curiously, Yancey's campaign distributed literature featuring a statement from Banks endorsing her — and bragging that he was very proud of opposing Duggan's D-insurance plan. As she did in 2016, Sossi again swept the suburbs winning Harper Woods, Grosse Pointe Woods and Grosse Pointe Shores. Unlike the 2016 Primary Election, Sossi also won Absentee Ballots. Ultimately, Brian Banks was able to take advantage of unusually low voter turnout to utilize his political and financial network to guide Yancey to a 198-vote victory, ensuring that she would replace him in the Michigan House of Representatives due to the voter registration of the District. 2018 primary election In August 2017, Brian Banks filed candidate paperwork to run for the Michigan State Senate 2nd District seat in anticipation of a resignation by Bert Johnson, who has been federally indicted for corruption. According to the invitation obtained by the Detroit News, Banks kicked off his campaign with a November 13 fundraiser at the American Serbian Hall in Detroit. Suggested contributions ranged from $41 for a ticket to $2,000 for a sponsor-level donor. Banks attempt to return to the Michigan Legislature failed. In the August 7, 2018 Election, Banks lost to first-time candidates Adam Hollier of Detroit (25.1%) and Abraham Aiyash of Hamtramck (20.9%). 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Soundscraper Soundscraper is the eighth studio album by Praga Khan. It was released in 2006. Track listing "Heal Me" – 7:30 "We Fuel Our Own High" – 3:53 "Pick-Up Truck" – 5:38 "Right or Wrong" – 4:52 "Don't U Tell Me" – 4:29 "Picasso’s Dream" – 6:31 "Earth & Space" – 3:40 "United in Love" – 4:39 "Sweet Angel Ice" – 3:38 "China Lady" – 6:41 "You Break My Heart" – 4:22 Notes Category:2006 albums Category:Praga Khan albums
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Saparua Saparua is an island east of Ambon Island in the Indonesian province of Maluku; the island of Haruku lies between Saparua and Ambon. The main port is in the south at Kota Saparua. The island of Maolana is located near its southwestern side and Nusa Laut off its southeastern tip. Saparua was administered as a single eponymous district (kecamatan) of Central Maluku Regency (Kabupaten Maluku Tengah), but in 2012 an additional district of East Saparua was formed from the eastern peninsula of the original district. Kota Saparua (Saparua town) is the administrative centre of the residual (western) district, while Tuhaha is the administrative centre of the new district. The island (including Maolana) covers a land area of 168.1 km2, and had a population of 32,312 as of the 2010 census. The inhabitants of Saparua speak the Saparua language, as well as Indonesian and Ambonese Malay. Saparua was the location of Indonesian national hero, Pattimura's rebellion against Dutch forces in 1817. It was also the birthplace of G.A. Siwabessy, a prominent politician who was Indonesia's Minister of Health during the 1960s and 1970s. Villages on Saparua There are 17 administrative villages, listed below with their populations at the 2010 Census; ten comprise the new district of East Saparua, while seven remain with the existing Saparua district Saparua (2,680) Tiouw (1,443) Paperu (1,301) Booi (919) Haria (6,727) Portho (2,704) Kulur (824) Saparua Timur Ouw (1,588) Ullath (1,478) Siri-sori Amapatti (1,645) Siri-sori Amalatu (1,923) Tuhaha (2,222) Ihamahu (1,428) Iha (339) Nolluth-Titasomi (2,856) Itawaka (1,820) Mahu (578) Gallery References External links Old map of Manipa, Haruku, Saparua and Nusalaut Saparua island Category:Islands of the Maluku Islands Category:Central Maluku Regency Category:Landforms of Maluku (province)
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Geulei Teiman Geulei Teiman ( or , lit. The Redeemed of Yemen) is a religious moshav in central Israel. Located near Hadera in the Sharon plain, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hefer Valley Regional Council. In it had a population of . History The moshav was founded in 1948 by residents of Kfar Yavetz, a village which was evacuated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. The residents were immigrants and refugees from Yemen. In 1967, Geulei Teiman was split into a moshav and a housing project, but the two neighborhoods were reunited in 1992. References Category:Moshavim Category:Religious Israeli communities Category:Populated places established in 1948 Category:Populated places in Central District (Israel) Category:Yemeni-Jewish culture in Israel Category:1948 establishments in Israel
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Delphic Hymns The Delphic Hymns are two musical compositions from Ancient Greece, which survive in substantial fragments. They were long regarded as being dated circa 138 BCE and 128 BCE, respectively, but recent scholarship has shown it likely they were both written for performance at the Athenian Pythaides in 128 BCE . If indeed it dates from ten years before the second, the First Delphic Hymn is the earliest unambiguous surviving example of notated music from anywhere in the western world whose composer is known by name. History Both Delphic Hymns were addressed to Apollo, and were found inscribed on stone fragments from the south outer wall of the Athenian Treasury at Delphi in 1893 by French archaeologist Théophile Homolle, while Henri Weil restored the Greek text and Théodore Reinach transcribed the music to modern notation (; ). Reconstruction of the fragments was facilitated by the fact that the First Hymn uses vocal notation, and the second one employs instrumental notation . It was long been believed that all that could be told of the composer of the First Hymn is that it was written by an Athenian, around 138 BCE, since the heading of the inscription giving the name of the composer is damaged and difficult to read. However, careful reading of this inscription shows that it cannot be the ethnic "Athenaîos" (from Athens), but rather names "Athēnaios Athēnaiou" (Athénaios son of Athénaios) as the composer (; ). The Second Delphic hymn has been dated to precisely 128 BC; evidently it was first performed in the same year. The name of the composer has also survived, both in the heading of the hymn and in a separate inscription: Limēnios, son of Thoinos, an Athenian . The occasion of the performance of both hymns was a Pythaid, a special religious procession of the Athenians towards Delphi held on specific occasions, usually after certain omens. First Delphic Hymn Both hymns are monophonic (consisting of a single melodic line), but are differentiated by their notation. The First Hymn is in so-called vocal notation and it is in the cretic (quintuple) meter throughout . The First Delphic Hymn falls into two large parts, a Paean (lines 1–27), in three verses, and what might have been called a Hyporchema or dance (lines 27–34). However, almost all of the last part is lost. First verse The image below shows the first verse of the hymn in conventional transcription. The letters above the words represent the notes of music. Various modern recordings of the music can be found in External links (see below). In this verse the singers call on the Muses (goddesses of music and dance) to leave their home on Mount Helicon and to join in the song in honour of Apollo. This part has been translated by Armand D'Angour as follows (): Ten different notes in all are used in this first verse. The fourth note from the bottom (written mu in the Greek alphabet or the note C in the conventional modern transcription) is the so-called mesē, or central note, to which the music most often returns . Music with this mese was said to be in the Phrygian mode. There are more notes above the mese than below it. F and B below the mese are not used, and the lowest note, here E, is used only in the first section of the hymn. The note immediately above the mese D (written lambda in Greek) occurs only in one place in section one, in bar 24, but is much more extensively used in verse 2. According to , an archaic pentatonic effect is produced in the lowest tetrachords by avoiding the lichanos, while above the mese there is modulation between a conjunct chromatic tetrachord (C D D F) and a disjunct diatonic one (D E F G), extended by two more chromatic notes, A and A. (A tetrachord is a series of four consecutive notes covering the interval of a fourth, e.g. C, B, A, G; the lichanos ("forefinger string") was the second note of a tetrachord going down; the "conjunct tetrachord" is the tetrachord whose lowest note is the mese; and the "disjunct tetrachord" is the one whose lowest note is the string above the mese .) Second verse The second verse describes the presence of the delegation from Attica and the sacrifice of Arabian incense and young bulls that they are making. It also mentions the sound of the pipes (auloi) and the lyre (cithara) accompanying the sacrifice. In this verse there is a change of key; according to it changes from the Phrygian mode to the Hyperphrygian. There is extensive use of the notes (D and D) immediately above the mese, and there is also repeated use of the note B (written with the letter omicron in the Greek notation) immediately below the mese . The strings Greek lyre (cithara) were not tuned in exactly the same way as those of a modern piano, and the intervals from C to D and from D to D were probably less than a modern semitone . Therefore, in this section the music wanders around a small group of closely spaced notes. The technical term for a group of closely spaced notes like this is a pyknon. The text reads : The photograph below shows part of verse 2 and the beginning of verse 3 on the inscription, starting from the word "carrying arms" and ending at "Attica". Third verse The third verse is rather fragmentary, with several gaps in the words and music, but enough survives to make sense of it. In this verse the singers address Apollo directly, and describe how he took over the prophetic tripod at Delphi after killing the snake that guarded it, and how once he thwarted an army of invading Gauls (see: Brennus (3rd century BC)). This verse returns to the same key as the first. As in the first verse, the small intervals above and below the mese are once again not used. There are some octave leaps, and "the tone is bright and clear" . Second Delphic Hymn The Second Hymn is headed Paean and Prosodion to the God and is described as having been composed by Limēnios son of Thoinos, an Athenian . It consists of ten sections in all, the first nine in cretic metre constituting the paean, while the tenth in aeolic rhythms (glyconics and choriambic dimeters) is the prosodion. Slightly more lines of the music have survived than in the first hymn, but there are also numerous gaps where the stone has been broken. The style and subject matter of the second hymn is similar to the first, but the musical notation is different. In this hymn the notes are written with the symbols used by instrumental players (see below). divide the hymn up into ten short sections, with frequent changes of key. As in the First Delphic Hymn, the song opens by calling on the Muses to come to Delphi to join in the song in honour of Apollo: The first verse has been translated by J.G. Landels as follows : The hymn goes on to describe how the sky and sea rejoiced at Apollo's birth on the island of Delos, and how Apollo, after his birth, visited Attica; ever since which time the people of Attica have addressed Apollo as "Paian" (healer) (sections 2–5). Just as in the first hymn, the singers then address Apollo directly calling on him to come, and remind him how he killed the Python which formerly guarded the Delphic tripod and how he once defeated an army of marauding Gauls with a snowstorm (sections 6–9). The final part of the work is the prosodion, or processional hymn, with the metre changing from cretic (– u –, with variants u u u – and – u u u) to glyconic (x x – u u – u –, with variant x x – u – u u –). (The symbol – stands for a long syllable, u for a short one, and x x for long-long, long-short, or short-long). In this part, the singers beg Apollo and his sister Artemis ("mistress of Cretan bows") to protect Athens as well as Delphi, and they close with a prayer for the continued dominion of the victorious Roman empire . The Second Hymn is composed in a different key from the First Hymn. The central note (mese) of the first section is D (in conventional notation), rather than C, making it the Lydian mode . Below the mese are the notes A and B, and above it are E, E, F, and G. The notes used in the second section are different from the first section. B is replaced by B; E and the top G are not used, and a bottom E and a top A are added, so the range of notes is wider. One way of interpreting this is to assume that the music has moved into the Hypolydian mode . Mostly the melody moves up and down in small steps but there are some big jumps occasionally down to the bottom E. According to , the modes of the different sections as follows : Lydian Hypolydian Hypolydian Chromatic Lydian Hypolydian Hypolydian Chromatic Lydian Hypolydian Lydian Lydian Musical notation The musical symbols used for the hymns can be interpreted thanks to a treatise by Alypius, a musicographer of late antiquity (3rd century A.D.) . Two different notations of music were used, one a series of special signs, perhaps derived from an archaic alphabet, and the other simply the 24 letters of the Ionian alphabet. The first hymn uses the latter system and the Second Hymn the former. But it was possible to use both systems at the same time; if so, the special symbols were used for the instrumental accompaniment, and the Ionic alphabet for the song itself . A suggested reason for the difference in notation in the two hymns is that the author of the first, Athenaios, is listed as a singer, while the author of the second, Limenios, was a cithara-player. One difference between the two notations is that the symbols in the first hymn are placed above the vowels, while those in the Second Hymn are mostly placed above the consonants which begin the syllables . Aftermath These hymns were thoroughly examined by musicologists and there have been many efforts to perform them with replicas of ancient musical instruments. The first modern public performance of the First Hymn was in June 1894, only one year after its discovery, during the international athletic convention in the Sorbonne University in Paris for the establishment of the modern Olympic Games (). See also Musical system of ancient Greece Hurrian songs Oxyrhynchus hymn Seikilos epitaph Recordings Arda Mandikian recorded these fragments at Delphi in 1950 Musiques de l'Antiquité Grecque: De la Pierre au son. Ensemble Kérylos, directed by Annie Bélis. K617, 1996. K617-069. D'Euripide aux premiers chrétiens : musiques de l'antiquité grecque et romaine. Ensemble Kérylos, directed by Annie Bélis. 2016. Both Hymns are played, the first is performed by a baritone (Jan Jeroen Bredewold) with tympanon (Annie Bélis), the second by a bass-baritone (Frédéric Albou) with Kithara (Benoît Tessé) and Transverse Aulos (Nathalie Berland). Music of Ancient Greece. OP and PO Orchestra, conducted by Christodoulos Halaris. Orata. ORANGM 2013. Music of the Ancient Greeks. De Organographia (Gayle Stuwe Neuman, Philip Neuman, and William Gavin). Pandourion Records, 1997. PRDC 1001. Musique de la Grèce antique. Atrium Musicæ de Madrid, Gregorio Paniagua, dir. Harmonia Mundi (France), 1979. HMA 1901015. References Further reading Anderson, Warren, and Thomas J. Mathiesen. [2001]. "Limenius," Grove Music Online, edited by Laura Macy (Accessed 24 August 2005), (subscription access) Davison, Archibald T., and Willi Apel (eds.). 1949–50. Historical Anthology of Music. Two volumes. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1949. . Weil, Henri. 1894. "Un Nouvel Hymn à Apollon". Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique 18:345–62. West, M[artin] L[itchfield]. 1992. Ancient Greek Music. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press. (cloth); (pbk). External links Four versions (spoken and sung) of the First Hymn Reconstructed recording of the First Delphic hymn by The Ensemble de Organographia Hymne à Apollon, music scores of two versions of the First Hymn by Gabriel Fauré at IMSLP. Hackworth, Corey M. (2015). "Reading Athenaios’ Epigraphical Hymn to Apollo: Critical Edition and Commentaries". Ohio State University PhD Dissertation. Limenios: Paean and Processional. Reconstructed recording of the Second Delphic Hymn Ensemble Kérylos a music group directed by scholar Annie Bélis and dedicated to the recreation of ancient Greek and Roman music. 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U. Muthuramalingam Thevar Ukkirapandi Muthuramalinga Thevar (30 October 1908 – 30 October 1963), also known as Pasumpon Muthuramalinga Thevar, was a significant figure in the 20th century politics of the state of Tamil Nadu, India. He was a socialist and sometime colleague of Subhas Chandra Bose who became the leader of the All India Forward Bloc (AIFB), of which he was national deputy chairman from 1952. He was elected three times to the national parliament. Childhood and family life Muthuramalingam Thevar was born in the village of Pasumpon, Ramnad district. He was the only son of Ukkirapandi Thevar and Indiraniammal. His mother died before his first birthday. From 1910 onwards he was in the custody of his maternal grandmother Parvathiammal in the neighbouring village of Kallupatti. Parvathiammal was furious with Muthuramalingam's father for having taken two new wives shortly after the death of his second wife. During his youth, Thevar was aided by Kuzhanthaisami Pillai, a close family friend of his father. Pillai took responsibility for arranging Muthuramalingam's schooling. First he was given private tuition and in June 1917 he began attending classes at an elementary school run by American missionaries in Kamuthi. Later he joined the Pasumalai High School (near Thirupparankundaram) and then he shifted to the Union Christian High School in Madurai. Muthuramalingam did not complete his studies. In 1924, he missed his final examinations due to a plague epidemic. The following year he also missed his chance to attend the final examinations, as he returned to Pasumpon to fight a legal battle over issues of inheritance of family property. The case lingered and was not settled until 1927, when the court ruled in Muthuramalingam Thevar favour. Muthuramalingam's father died on 6 June 1939. Opposition to Criminal Tribes Act One issue particularly impacted on Thevar's political career. The Criminal Tribes Act (CTA) had been enacted in 1920 by the government of the Madras Presidency and was subsequently implemented in a piecemeal fashion. Thevar mobilised resistance to it, touring villages in the affected areas and leading protest rallies for the rights of the individuals registered under it. In 1929, the Maravars of 19 villages in Appanad were forced to registered under the CTA. Thevar led a massive campaign in the villages, urging the people to defy it. The authorities partially withdrew, and reduced the number of CTA registrations in the concerned areas from around 2000 to 341. In 1934, Thevar organised a convention at Abhiram, which urged the authorities to repeal the CTA. A committee consisting of Thevar, P. Varadarajulu Naidu, Perumal Thevar, Sasivarna Thevar and Navaneethakrishna Thevar was appointed by the convention to carry on the efforts to persuade the government to revoke the Act. The CTA was, however, not revoked but instead its implementation was widened. Thevar again led agitations and awareness-raising campaigns against the Act. At the time the Justice Party was governing the Madras Presidency, and their refusal to revoke the law created a strong animosity on Thevar's behalf towards that party. 1936 District Board election Infuriated by the attitude of the Justice Party government towards the CTA, Thevar concluded that the communities affected by the Act had to be mobilised by the Congress. After returning from a trip to Burma in 1936, he began to work to strengthen the Congress in the southern areas of the Presidency. He contested the election to the Ramnad District Board from the Mudukulathur constituency, defeating his Justice Party opponent. This was Thevar's first experience of being a candidate in an election. After the election, Thevar made a bid to be elected the president of the District Board, as did P. S. Kumarasamy, the Raja of Rajapalyam. Conflict erupted within the local Congress organisation over the issue. S. Satyamurthi, on behalf of the Tamil Nadu Congress Committee, intervened to preserve the unity of the Congress. Thevar was persuaded to withdraw his candidature and presented a motion nominating Kumarasamy as president. When the Congress Socialist Party began to mobilise in the Madras Presidency in 1936, Thevar joined their ranks. 1937 provincial election Ahead of the 1937 elections to the assembly of the Madras Presidency, Thevar enlisted youths from the Mukkulathor communities to work for the Congress. His activities created worries for the Justice Party government, which forbade him to travel outside of the Ramnad district and to make speeches in public. In February 1937, Thevar contested the assembly election himself, as a candidate in the Ramanathapuram constituency. He had a powerful opponent in the Raja of Ramnad. Thevar won a landslide victory with 11 942 votes against 6 057 for the Raja. Following the election, the Congress formed a government in the Presidency. Thevar had high hopes that the new Congress ministry would revoke the Criminal Tribes Act but the new Chief minister, C. Rajagopalachari, did not do so. Trade unionist During the late 1930s, Thevar became increasingly involved in labour activities. He formed and led the Pasumalai Mahalaskshmi Mill Workers' Union, the Meenakshi Mill Workers' Union and the Madura Knitting Company Labour Union. During a prolonged strike of the Pasumalai Mahalaskshmi Mill Workers' Union, demanding the reinstatement of a section of fired trade unionists, Thevar was jailed for seven months from 15 October 1938. In the end, the management of the Mahalakshmi Mills accepted the demands of the union. In the same period a strike was led by Thevar at the Madura Knitting Company. In 1945, he became the founding president of the TVS Thozhaili Sangam. Formation of the Forward Bloc Thevar attended the 52nd annual session of the Indian National Congress, held in Tripuri in March 1939. At this meeting the presidency of Subhas Chandra Bose was challenged by Pattabhi Sitaramayya. Sitaramayya had the active support of Gandhi. Bose, whom Thevar supported, was re-elected as the Congress President. Bose was elected president again over Gandhi's preferred candidate Pattabhi Sitaramayya. Thevar strongly supported Bose in the intra-Congress dispute. He mobilised all south India votes for Bose. However, due to the manoeuvrings of the Gandhi-led clique in the Congress Working Committee, Bose found himself forced to resign from the Congress Presidency. He then launched the Forward Bloc on 22 June, calling for the unification of all leftwing elements into a united organisation within the Congress. Thevar, who was disillusioned by the official Congress leadership which had not revoked the CTA, joined the Forward Bloc. When Bose visited the state immediately after the formation of the Forward Bloc in 1939, it was Thevar who played the key role in arranging a rousing reception in Madurai on 6 September. Support for the Temple Entry Movement The Temple Entry Authorisation and Indemnity Act was passed by the government of C. Rajagopalachari in 1939. This removed restrictions prohibiting Dalits from entering Hindu temples. Thevar supported this reform and on 8 July he helped the activist A. Vaidyanatha Iyer take Dalits to Meenakshi Temple in Madurai. U. Muthuramalingam Thevar Strong supported this reform, U. Muthuramalingam Thevar issued a warning statement. He said, "I would be there at the entrance of the Meenakshi Temple. Those who dare to prevent the Dalits’ entry into the temple, could come there and meet me. I will answer them". After this statement, the caste Hindus hesitated to prevent.[3][4][5] On 8 July 1939, Vaidyanatha Iyer entered the Meenakshi temple at Madurai in the company of L. N. Gopalasamy and six of his Dalit friends, P. Kakkan, Muruganandam, Chinniah, Purnalingam and Muthu.[4][6][7] In jail The growing popularity in Thevar as a leader of elements opposing the official Congress leadership in Tamil Nadu troubled the Congress-led government. Thevar was also increasingly associated with labour militancy. A criminal case, the so-called Madura Security Case, was proceeded against him. He was banned from leaving Madurai. When travelling to his birthplace, Pasumpon, in September 1940 he was apprehended and jailed for 18 months at the Central Jail in Tiruchirapalli. His capture sparked wide condemnation in Tamil Nadu. Soon after his release he was arrested again under the Defense of India Rules. He was released from prison on 5 September 1945. After release from jail In 1945, Rajagopalachari tried to make a comeback within the Congress organisation in Tamil Nadu. He had the support of Gandhi and Sardar Patel, but the majority of the Tamil Nadu Congress Committee opposed him. A conference was held in Tirupparankundram to elect the leadership. Chaos broke out as warring factions confronted each other. Thevar interrupted the disputes and passed a motion re-electing Kamaraj as the TNCC President. Elections to the assembly of the Madras Presidency were again held in March 1946. Thevar contested from the Mudukulathur constituency, and was elected unopposed. Soon thereafter, the CTA was repealed. In February 1948 the Congress expelled all dissenting fractions, including the Forward Bloc, which became an independent opposition party. Thevar became its president of its Tamil Nadu state unit, a position he would hold for the rest of his life. On 23 January 1949, in connection with birthday anniversary celebrations of Bose, Thevar announced that Bose was alive and that he had met him. Soon thereafter Thevar disappeared without any explanation. He returned to public life in October 1950. Rumours claimed that he had travelled to Korea and China during this period. On the national level the Forward Bloc had been suffering from internal ideological divisions. In 1948 two separate Forward Blocs had emerged, a 'Forward Bloc (Marxist)' (out of which the Forward Bloc of today emerged) and a 'Forward Bloc (Ruiker)' (led by R.S. Ruiker). On 23 June 1951, the two parties reunified at a meeting in Calcutta. A central committee was announced for the united party, which included Thevar as one of its members. 1952 general election In January 1952, the first general elections in independent India were held. The Forward Bloc contested with the aim of forming non-Congress governments at the Centre as well as in the states. Election were held simultaneously to the Lok Sabha as well as to the legislative assemblies of the states. Thevar contested the Aruppukottai constituency in the Lok Sabha election and the Mudukulathur constituency in the assembly election. He won in both cases. After the election, he decided to vacate his Lok Sabha seat and concentrate his efforts to the Madras legislative assembly. After the election, Congress lacked a majority of its own in the Madras legislative assembly. Thevar cooperated with the communists in trying to form a non-Congress governing coalition. However, the governor intervened and made C. Rajagopalachari of the Congress the Chief Minister. Split in the Forward Bloc In 1955, internal divisions reappeared with the Forward Bloc. The Indian National Congress had adopted Socialism as its guiding principle at a session in Madras. Some leaders within the Forward Bloc, like the chairman Mohan Singh and Sheel Bhadra Yajee, now argued that the time had come for the Forward Bloc to merge with the Congress. This proposal did however not win much support in other sections of the party leadership. Singh-Yagee unilaterally declared the party merged into the Congress. An extraordinary central committee meeting was convened in Nagpur 11–15 May 1955. Singh, Yagee and their followers were expelled from the party. Hemanth Kumar Bose was elected chairman of the party, Haldulkar the general secretary and Thevar the deputy chairman of the party. Thevar would hold that post until his death. 1957 general election Thevar travelled to Burma for the second time in December 1955, taking part in political and religious activities organised by the All Burma Tamil Nadu Association. He returned on 18 February 1956 and began to prepare for the coming general election. A new dynamic in the efforts to build a non-Congress front had emerged in the Madras State (which had been reorganised in 1956). The Congress had been divided and C. Rajagopalachari had formed a new party, the Congress Reform Committee (CRC). In the election, Thevar again contested both the Aruppukottai constituency in the Lok Sabha election and the Mudukulathur constituency in the assembly election. He won both seats, but this time he decided to vacate the assembly seat. Ramnad riots A by-election was held in the Mudukulathur assembly constituency on 1 July 1957, as Thevar had resigned from his assembly seat. The election was won by D. V. Sasivarna Thevar of the Forward Bloc. The situation in the area was tense on the day that the results were released, and there was a sizeable presence of police forces in place. Clashes between Maravars, who largely supported the Forward Bloc, and pro-Congress Devendrakula Velalar began in a few villages soon after the election result was acknowledged. Gradually the violence spread to more and more villages, and by August the riots had spread throughout the entire district. Several persons were killed and thousands of houses were torched. Thevar travelled to Delhi on 17 July to attend the session of the Lok Sabha. He returned on 9 September. On 10 September he took part in a 'Peace Conference' together with T. V. Sasivarna Thevar and Velu Kudumbar, a legislative assembly member of the Forward Bloc from the Kudumbar community). From the Devendrakula Velalar side six Kudumbars took part. There was also a delegate from the Nadar caste Velusamy Nadar. The conference concluded that the three castes should live in harmony. Final years After being released from prison Thevar began mobilising for the Madurai municipal elections, held in March 1959. An alliance of the Forward Bloc, Communist Party of India, Indian National Democratic Congress and Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam was formed. The alliance won the elections, and for the first time Congress lost its hold over the city administration. Following the election, Thevar's health deteriorated and he largely withdrew from public life. He was nominated for the 1962 Lok Sabha election but attended only one campaign meeting, which also was attended by Rajaji (who now had merged with his INDC with the Swatantra Party). Thevar was re-elected, but due to health reasons he was unable to travel to the parliament in Delhi. Thevar died on 30 October 1963 on his 55th birthday.He passed away at Thirunagar,Madurai at 4:30 am. Legacy The pillars of Thevar's political thought were spiritualism, nationalism, anti-imperialism and wanting to create a non-Congress political alternative. Although committed to the construction of a federal socialist India, Thevar rejected Marxism-Leninism as a foreign concept and he opposed the trade policy of the Soviet Union as discriminatory towards countries like India. But first and foremost, his animosity towards the communists was due to the rejection of the Indian communists of Subhas Chandra Bose (who they had called a 'quisling'). His relationship to Marxism was further complicated by his spiritualistic orientation. After his death, the Forward Bloc entered into a period of decline in Tamil Nadu and Kerala. The party leadership was overtaken by Thevar's disciple P.K. Mookiah Thevar. The party organisation became ridden by splits and disputes. In this situation, the major chunk of the Maravar vote-bank of the Forward Bloc was overtaken by the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam. Several official honours have been given to Thevar. In 1968 the Pasumpon Muthuramalinga Thevar College was founded in Usilampatti by the then DMK-led state government. His biography was included in the high school textbooks in Tamil Nadu. In 1971 his cemetery in Pasumpon was converted into an official memorial. A life-size portrait of Thevar was installed in the Tamil Nadu assembly in 1980. In 1984, after the bifurcation of the Ramnad District the 'Pasumpon Muthuramalingam District' was created. On 1 October 2002 the life-size statue of Thevar was unveiled in the Parliament House by then President of India, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam. Chamiers Road, an important arterial road in Chennai, was renamed after Thevar, and currently there is a statue of Thevar where his eponymous road intersects with Anna Salai. And the one in Mumbai city which connects both western express and eastern express highways to the Mumbai airport the road earlier known as Sion-Mahim link road is renamed after Thevar. Thevar is revered as a hero of the Thevar/Mukkulathor community. Thevar is an icon in the political life in southern Tamil Nadu. Many political parties seeking the support from that community at the time of elections will make pay their respect to him. But at the same time his legacy is not entirely uncontroversial. At times violence between Thevars and Dalits flare up in the area, and desecrations of monuments of Muthuramalinga Thevar have taken place. References Cited sources Bose, K. (1988) Forward Bloc. Madras: Tamil Nadu Academy of Political Science __INDEX__ Category:1908 births Category:All India Forward Bloc politicians Category:1963 deaths Category:Tamil Nadu politicians Category:Trade unionists from Tamil Nadu Category:People from Ramanathapuram district Category:Indian independence activists from Tamil Nadu Category:1st Lok Sabha members Category:2nd Lok Sabha members Category:3rd Lok Sabha members
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Holbeach Marsh Holbeach Marsh is a fenland area in the South Holland district of Lincolnshire, England. Holbeach Marsh is situated between the market town of Holbeach on the A17 road at the south, and The Wash estuary at the north, and is bounded by the waterways of the Whaplode (Holbeach) River at the west, and Fleet Haven at the east. The area comprises approximately of arable farms, dispersed buildings, and small settlements. The marsh villages of Holbeach Bank and Holbeach Clough—or Saracens Head—are at the south-west edge, and Gedney Dyke at the south-east. Within the Marsh are the villages and hamlets of Holbeach St Marks, Holbeach St Matthew, and Holbeach Hurn. At the north-east on The Wash saltmarsh is the bombing range of RAF Holbeach. History In 1810 a late 17th- or early 18th-century wooden coastal vessel, the Sea Venture, was beached and wrecked during a gale on the marshes just north of Holbeach St Matthew, while trading between Whitby and London. Registered Holbeach Marsh electors entitled to vote in parliamentary elections for the Southern Division of Lincolnshire in 1841 numbered 18. Historical trade directories include Marsh occupations in 1855 of publicans of the Harvest Man and Pear Tree public houses, a blacksmith, and 34 farmers; in 1885 a shopkeeper & beer retailer, a butcher who was also the proprietor of a public house, and 18 farmers, one of whom was also a land agent, and one a landowner; and in 1933 two farmers with 53 smallholders. By the 1870s the Marsh was a centre for yearly South Lincolnshire Fen-country hare coursing competitions under St Leger open meetings. Beating on horseback was used to flush out the quarry. Holbeach Marsh was an ecclesiastical district within Holbeach parish in the late 19th century, and had a population of 743. In 1948 of land was reclaimed from The Wash by the construction of an -high embankment, long, with a base of deep and a top of . The bank took six months to build and used 500,000 tons of clay. The scheme was the work of three local farmers with the support of the Ministry of Agriculture, and cost £41,000. References External links Category:South Holland, Lincolnshire Category:Landforms of Lincolnshire Category:Fens of England Category:Levels in the United Kingdom
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David Krogmann David W. Krogmann (1934 – January 22, 2016) was an American biologist and a professor of biochemistry at Purdue University. He is known for his work in photosynthesis in chloroplasts and cyanobacteria. He discovered the Orange Carotenoid Protein of cyanobacteria in 1981 and helped solve its crystal structure. References Category:1934 births Category:2016 deaths Category:Purdue University faculty Category:American biologists
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Firestarter: Rekindled Firestarter: Rekindled (retitled Firestarter 2: Rekindled for video) is a 2002 television miniseries and the sequel to the film adaptation of the Stephen King novel Firestarter. It stars Marguerite Moreau as now-adult Charlie McGee, Danny Nucci, Dennis Hopper, and Malcolm McDowell as Charlie's old nemesis from the original story, John Rainbird. It debuted as a Sci Fi Pictures two-night miniseries on the Sci Fi Channel. Plot Vincent Sforza (Danny Nucci) works for a large, influential research firm, and he has been put in charge of locating several people who were part of an old experiment from the 1970s—an experiment in which a group of college students were given a dose of a chemical called LOT-6. Apparently, the victims of the experiment have won a class action lawsuit and need to be found so that a check can be issued. Included on the list is Charlene "Charlie" McGee (Marguerite Moreau), the offspring of two of the participants in the experiment. When Charlie was a kid, Charlie's mother Vicky (Karrie Combs) was murdered by men who worked for the now-defunct Shop, the government department that wanted to harness her pyrokinesis as a military weapon. Charlie's father Andy (Aaron Radl) was killed by John Rainbird, a professional killer who had been hired by the Shop. Ever since then, Charlie has been in hiding to protect herself. Under an assumed name, she now has a job at a university library, where she secretly does research to find a way to suppress her pyrokinetic abilities. When Vincent finally locates Charlie, he unintentionally sets into motion a series of events with deadly consequences. It turns out that there is not really a class action lawsuit settlement. John Rainbird (Malcolm McDowell), who was thought to have been burned to death by Charlie, is still alive, scarred from the burns—and he is looking for Charlie, because he is still obsessed with her. Rainbird has been using the lie about a class action lawsuit to lure the original LOT-6 experiment's victims out of hiding, so these victims can be killed one by one in order to keep things quiet. Charlie gets help from James Richardson (Dennis Hopper), one of the victims of the LOT-6 experiment. The experiment has given James the ability to tell the future. When Vincent discovers that he has been duped into luring Charlie back to Rainbird, Vincent also decides to help Charlie. John has been working on perfecting the LOT experiments, and has created six young boys with rather unusual abilities. One has the power of suggestion, another can sense truth and deception, two can move things with their minds, one has a destructive voice from Hell, and the most dangerous one of them all is an energy sink, someone who can suck the life and energy out of anyone or anything. Rainbird is using these children to rob a bank as a test of warfare in the new decade. With Vincent and James on her side, Charlie must decide whether to keep running, or fight Rainbird to the end. Charlie chooses to fight to the end, and after Rainbird kills Vincent, Charlie kills Rainbird—right in front of his boys—by taking him into a fiery embrace, and literally turning him into a pile of ashes. Then Charlie ends up in a one-on-one battle against the energy sink. Charlie uses her powers to destroy the energy sink, and the other boys realize that Charlie was telling them the truth when she said that they become a little less human every time they use their abilities. Charlie, finally having no need to be in hiding, later boards a bus to Canada. Cast Marguerite Moreau as Charlene "Charlie" McGee Skye McCole Bartusiak as Young Charlie McGee Malcolm McDowell as John Rainbird Dennis Hopper as James Richardson Danny Nucci as Vincent Sforza John Dennis Johnston as Joel Lowen Darnell Williams as Gil Ron Perkins as Special Agent Pruitt Deborah Van Valkenburgh as Mary Conant Dan Byrd as Paul Travis Charitan as Cody Scotty Cox as Andrew Emmett Shoemaker as Edward Devon Alan as Max Eric Jacobs as Jack Aaron Radl as Andy McGee Karrie Combs as Vicky McGee Release Firestarter: Rekindled debuted as a Sci Fi Pictures two-night miniseries on the Sci Fi Channel March 10–11, 2002. References External links Category:Firestarter Category:2002 television films Category:Fictional mutants Category:Universal Pictures films Category:Television sequel films Category:Television programs based on works by Stephen King Category:Syfy original films Category:Films directed by Robert Iscove
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3537 Jürgen 3537 Jürgen, provisional designation , is a stony Eunomia asteroid from the middle region of the asteroid belt, approximately 8 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered by American astronomer Edward Bowell at Lowell's Anderson Mesa Station, Arizona, on 15 November 1982. It was named after planetary scientist Jürgen Rahe. Orbit and classification Jürgen is both a member of the Eunomia and Maria family of asteroids. It orbits the Sun in the central main-belt at a distance of 2.2–3.0 AU once every 4 years and 2 months (1,520 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.16 and an inclination of 15° with respect to the ecliptic. The first precovery was taken at Crimea-Nauchnij in 1982, extending the asteroid's observation arc by just 25 days prior to its discovery. Physical characteristics Jürgen is a common S-type asteroid. It has also been characterized as a rare LS-type by Pan-STARRS large-scale photometric survey. Diameter and albedo According to the survey carried out by the NEOWISE mission of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, the asteroid measures 7.8 and 8.3 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo of 0.168 and 0.188, while the Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link (CALL) assumes an albedo of 0.21 and hence calculates a larger diameter of 9.1 kilometers. Rotation period A 2004-published photometric lightcurve analysis by Brazilian astronomer Alvaro Alvarez-Candal rendered a provisional rotation period of 14 hours with a brightness amplitude of 0.3 in magnitude (). Naming This minor planet was named after Jürgen Rahe (1939–1997), German planetary scientist, astrophysicist, and Director for Solar System Exploration at NASA's Office of Space Science. He is best known for his cometary atlases and observations using the International Ultraviolet Explorer. Jürgen Rahe was also a principal investigator of the International Halley Watch (IHW), director of both, the astronomy department at FAU and the Dr. Remeis Observatory, and affiliated with IAU's Physical Studies of Comets, Minor Planets and Meteorites commission for many years. His diplomatic skills in international projects were beneficial to both IHW and IAU. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 2 April 1988 (). References External links Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB), query form (info) Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, Google books Asteroids and comets rotation curves, CdR – Observatoire de Genève, Raoul Behrend Discovery Circumstances: Numbered Minor Planets (1)-(5000) – Minor Planet Center 003537 003537 Category:Discoveries by Edward L. G. Bowell Category:Minor planets named for people Category:Named minor planets 19821115
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Joanne Cantwell Joanne Cantwell is an Irish sports presenter. Personal life Cantwell was raised in Dublin, one of five daughters. She studied journalism at Dublin City University. Cantwell is married with one daughter and lives in Ongar, Co. Dublin. Sporting career Cantwell participated in a number of competitive sports from her early teens. She played ladies' Gaelic football for the Dublin senior ladies' football team, and was part of the team that won Dublin's first-ever senior Leinster Ladies Senior Football Championship. She was named Young Dublin Player of the Year in 1997 and was awarded an All-Star in 1998. Journalism career Cantwell began her journalism career while still in university, covering weekend sport on radio station FM104. In 2001, she joined the independent Irish channel TV3, where she produced news bulletins and presented the Sports Tonight show. She then joined state broadcaster RTÉ. Cantwell is the presenter of weekly rugby magazine programme Against the Head on RTÉ Two, and was also a match reporter on Premier Soccer Saturday. During the summer months, Cantwell began working as a reporter on The Sunday Game, Raidió Teilifís Éireann's main Gaelic games television programme shown on RTÉ Two every Sunday during the Football Championship and Hurling Championship seasons. In April 2016, Cantwell was the first woman to anchor RTÉ's coverage of the Champions League. In February 2018, Cantwell was named as the new presenter of The Sunday Game following popular studio host Michael Lyster's retirement from RTÉ at the end of the 2018 GAA season. Feud with Joe Brolly In the beginning of 2019, she was seen to be at loggerheads with prominent GAA pundit Joe Brolly, who mused sarcastically that it was 'going to be an extremely long year' Although, Brolly often is celebrated for 'butting heads' with fellow pundits and presenters and many saw the comment as merely lighthearted banter between two broadcasters. After a minor incident with fellow GAA pundit Pat Spillane involving shoulder patting, Brolly was dropped from future RTE coverage of GAA games. Brolly claims that Cantwell had 'lost all confidence' in his ability as a broadcaster and as a pundit. References Category:Year of birth missing (living people) Category:Living people Category:Gaelic games writers and broadcasters Category:RTÉ television presenters Category:Dublin senior ladies' football team players Category:Dublin ladies' Gaelic footballers Category:Alumni of Dublin City University
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Gazeta de Buenos Ayres The Gazeta de Buenos Ayres [sic] () was a newspaper originating in Buenos Aires, United Provinces of the Río de la Plata, in 1810. It was initially used to give publicity to the government actions of the Primera Junta, the first post-colonial Argentine government. In the beginning it was written by Mariano Moreno, with the aid of the priest Manuel Alberti; Manuel Belgrano and Juan José Castelli were also part of its staff. It was organized on June 2, 1810, and the first issue was released the following June 7; the Gazeta was published each week afterwards. The date 7 June has been honored in Argentina as Día del Periodista, "Journalist's Day", since 1938. The Gazeta provided information about new laws, the development of the Peninsular War and the Argentine War of Independence, and served as a vehicle for political thought. The government ordered that the newspaper be read aloud at chapels after mass celebrations, because of the high illiteracy rate among the population. It was closed by the minister of government to Buenos Aires, Bernardino Rivadavia, in 1821. Writers Mariano Moreno (June 7, 1810 - December, 1810) Gregorio Funes (December 1810 - March 1811) Pedro José Agrelo (March 18, 1811 - October 5, 1811) Vicente Pazos Silva (November 5, 1811 - March 25, 1812) Vicente Pazos Silva (Wednesday edition) and Bernardo de Monteagudo (Friday edition) (March 25, 1812 - October 5, 1812) Manuel José García (Since September 7, 1812) Emiliano Medrano (October 8, 1812 - April, 1815) Camilo Henríquez (April, 1815 - November, 1815) Julián Álvarez (November, 1815 - 1820) Bernardo Vélez (1820 - September, 1820) Manuel Antonio Castro (September 12, 1820 - September 12, 1821) Bibliography References Category:Defunct newspapers of Argentina Category:Spanish-language newspapers Category:Argentine War of Independence Category:1810 in Argentina Category:Publications established in 1810 Category:Publications disestablished in 1821 Category:Media in Buenos Aires Category:Weekly newspapers published in Argentina
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Nickolas Zukowsky Nickolas "Nick" Zukowsky (born 3 June 1998) is a Canadian professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam . Major results 2018 8th Winston-Salem Cycling Classic 3rd Overall Tour of the Gila 1st Young rider classification 2019 1st Overall Grand Prix Cycliste de Saguenay 1st Points classification 1st Young rider classification 3rd Overall Tour de Beauce 1st Young rider classification 9th Chrono Kristin Armstrong References External links Category:Canadian male cyclists Category:Cyclists from Quebec Category:Sportspeople from Quebec Category:1998 births Category:Living people
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Bohdalec (Žďár nad Sázavou District) Bohdalec is a village and municipality (obec) in Žďár nad Sázavou District in the Vysočina Region of the Czech Republic. The municipality covers an area of , and has a population of 293 (as at 28 August 2006). Bohdalec lies approximately south-east of Žďár nad Sázavou, east of Jihlava, and south-east of Prague. References Czech Statistical Office: Municipalities of Žďár nad Sázavou District Category:Villages in Žďár nad Sázavou District
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List of tallest structures in Finland A list of the tallest structures in Finland. This list contains all types of structures. Finland Category:Landmarks in Finland Tallest
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Echinopsis maximiliana Echinopsis maximiliana, is a species of Echinopsis found in Bolivia and Peru. References External links maximiliana
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Rebecca Russo Rebecca Russo is an American-born women's ice hockey player. Having won a national U19 championship at Shattuck St. Mary's, Russo played her NCAA hockey with the BU Terriers. On November 3, 2015, Russo set the Boston University Terriers women’s ice hockey record for most assists in one game, with five against Yale. In her first season of NWHL hockey, she was selected to play in the 2017 All-Star Game. Russo's selection came via an online fan vote on the NWHL website, as she placed among the top four vote getters. Playing career Russo competed for the United States U18 national team in an exhibition series against Canada during the summer of 2011. NCAA Making her NCAA debut on October 5, 2012, Russo would gain her first point with the Terriers, logging an assists. Russo scored her first NCAA goal on February 20, 2013 against the New Hampshire Wildcats. In her senior season (2015–16) with the Terriers, Russo logged a career-best 38 points (15 goals, 23 assists), while appearing in 39 contests. During her senior season, she also registered a scoring streak from January 23 to February 14. NWHL Russo would score twice in a 4-0 win on November 20, 2016, against the Connecticut Whale, which was the first shutout in Riveters history. Playing for Team Kessel, Russo scored a goal at the 2nd NWHL All-Star Game. She would also win the fastest skater competition in the 2017 NWHL All-Star Skills Competition. In May 2017, it was announced that Russo had re-signed with the New York Riveters for the 2017/18 season. Russo participated in the 3rd NWHL All-Star Game. Personal Russo has worked for the MLB Network. References Category:1994 births Category:American women's ice hockey forwards Category:Living people Category:New York Riveters players Category:Boston University Terriers women's ice hockey players Category:Metropolitan Riveters players
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Mycetophagus californicus Mycetophagus californicus is a species of hairy fungus beetle in the family Mycetophagidae. It is found in North America. References Further reading Category:Tenebrionoidea Category:Articles created by Qbugbot Category:Beetles described in 1878
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Liu Lijuan (sitting volleyball) Liu Lijuan (born 15 June 1984) is a Chinese female Paralympic sitting volleyball player. She is part of the China women's national sitting volleyball team. She competed at the 2008 Summer Paralympics winning the gold medal. See also China at the 2008 Summer Paralympics References External links Category:Living people Category:Volleyball players at the 2008 Summer Paralympics Category:Paralympic competitors for China Category:Chinese women's volleyball players Category:1984 births Category:Chinese sitting volleyball players Category:Medalists at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
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Ni Zhiqin Ni Zhiqin (; born 14 April 1942) often referred to as Ni Chih-Chin, is a retired Chinese high jumper. He is known for breaking the world record with 2.29 m on 8 November 1970 in Changsha, but because PR China was not a member of the International Association of Athletics Federations at the time, his record was never ratified. International competition References Ni Zhiqin breaks men's high jump world record GANEFO Games. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-01-14. Category:1942 births Category:Living people Category:Chinese male high jumpers Category:People from Quanzhou Category:Athletes from Fujian Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1974 Asian Games Category:Asian Games medalists in athletics (track and field) Category:Asian Games silver medalists for China Category:Medalists at the 1974 Asian Games
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Mars (1930 film) Mars is a 1930 short animated film. It is one of many short films in the Oswald the Lucky Rabbit series. Plot Oswald and a big badger are sitting on a bench in a park. Momentarily a pretty female cat walks around and sings the song A Bench in the Park (this song was used earlier in King of Jazz). When she drops a handkerchief, Oswald and the badger rush to pick it up. Upon picking, they pulled the handkerchief until it is rip apart. When the cat passes by again, Oswald snags part of the badger's clothing onto a nail on the bench. The badger rushes again and ends up wearing just his undergarments. Oswald then approaches the cat as the other guy runs away in embarrassment. But before he could spend a long time with her, the badger returns in a wine barrel before kicking Oswald in the rear. The kick is so strong that Oswald is sent into space. Following a long trip after being booted, Oswald finds himself landing on the planet Mars. He encounters a lot of bizarre animals before meeting their king. When the Martian king asks for his identity, Oswald introduces himself by singing his theme song. The king likes his song, and so do the bizarre animals. After everybody parties around for several moments, a giant spider-like creature comes to the scene. All the other animals run away, including Oswald. Oswald continues to run until he reaches an edge. Without any other place to go, the rabbit is forced to jump. Oswald falls and finds himself moving in space again. On the way, he finds a meteoroid which he rides on. Back on Earth, the badger and the cat are recently married as they walk around in their wedding outfits in the park. The cat, however, does not seem to enjoy her new found relationship. Suddenly, Oswald's meteoroid drops by, striking and knocking the badger unconscious, later knocked Oswald for a second. The cat appears to be overjoyed by the sight as the badger got knocked out, laying down on the sidewalk, and the cat and Oswald walks towards the badger's stomach and gives Oswald a kiss. Later, the cat goes on to date Oswald. References External links Mars at the Big Cartoon Database Category:1930 films Category:1930 animated films Category:1930s American animated films Category:American films Category:1930s animated short films Category:1930s science fiction films Category:American black-and-white films Category:Films directed by Walter Lantz Category:Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoons Category:Universal Pictures short films Category:Mars in film Category:Walter Lantz Productions shorts Category:Universal Pictures animated short films Category:Animated films about animals Category:American science fiction films Category:American animated short films Category:1930 short films
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Regent Park Regent Park is a neighbourhood located in downtown Toronto, Ontario, built in the late 1940s as a public housing project managed by Toronto Community Housing. It sits on what used to be a significant part of the Cabbagetown neighbourhood and is bounded by Gerrard Street East to the north, River Street to the east, Shuter Street to the south and Parliament Street to the west. Regent Park's residential dwellings, prior to the ongoing redevelopment, were entirely social housing, and covered all of the 69 acres (280,000 m²) which comprise the community. The original neighbourhood was razed in the process of creating Regent Park. The nickname Cabbagetown is now applied to the remaining historical, area north and west of the housing project, which has experienced considerable gentrification since the 60s and 70s. History Regent Park—and adjoining areas of the Old City's east end—were home to some of Toronto's historic slum districts in the early 1900s. Most residents of the area were poor and working-class people of British and Irish descent, along with smaller numbers of continental European Jewish and Macedonian immigrants. Concern over crime and social problems in the area, as well as substandard housing, led to plans for affordable housing during the Second World War. These plans came to fruition soon after the end of the war, when the Regent Park North public housing project was approved in 1947. Families began to move into Regent Park North in 1949, but construction continued into the 1950s. The last families moved into Regent Park North in 1957. In subsequent years, more public housing units were built in Toronto, including Regent Park South, which was completed in 1960. The high-rise portion was designed by Page and Steele while the spartan row house and walk-up apartments were designed by John Edward Hoare. Although Regent Park had been designed to alleviate the area's substandard housing, crime, and social problems, these issues soon reemerged. By the mid-1960s, for example, there were complaints about the housing projects falling into a state of disrepair. Changes to the Canadian immigration system in the 1960s led to an influx of multicultural and multiethnic immigrants into the country. Some of these people, including immigrants from the Caribbean, China and Southeast Asia, settled in Regent Park in the 1960s and 1970s, changing the ethnic and racial composition of the neighbourhood. Meanwhile, the area continued to have a reputation of crime. In the early 2000s, a new redevelopment plan for Regent Park was implemented. The plan in question called for Regent Park to be redeveloped as a mixed-income neighbourhood. Because of the area's proximity to the downtown core, it is potentially high value real estate. The neighbourhood's ethnic composition has changed between 2001 and 2016. In 2001, the neighbourhood was 22% Black, 21.8% South Asian, 19.5% European, 14.1% Chinese, 10.6% Southeast Asian and 3.4% Latin American. By the 2016 census, Europeans had become the largest group, while the presence of visible minority groups declined. The neighbourhood in 2016 was 28% European, 25.7% South Asian, 13.6% Black, 12.5% Chinese and 3.7% Southeast Asian. In Regent Park, the median household income in 2016 was $42,369, although there was a decrease in this income range as compared to 2011. This is lower than the median household income for Toronto at $65,829. As well, the Regent Park neighbourhood has a higher percentage of households without income (5.9%) compared to the City of Toronto average (4.7%) and 44.4% of households are at or below the poverty level, compared to 20.2% for the city average. Redevelopment More than a half-century old, the Regent Park projects were aging rapidly and in need of costly repairs. The city government developed a plan to demolish and rebuild Regent Park over the next many years, with the first phase having started fall 2005. The addition of market units on site will double the number of units in Regent Park. Former street patterns will be restored and housing will be designed to reflect that of adjacent neighbourhoods (including Cabbagetown and Corktown), in order to end Regent Park's physical isolation from the rest of the city. In support of the Clean and Beautiful City campaign by former Toronto Mayor David Miller and to further the goal of renewing architecture in all Toronto Community Housing projects, an architectural competition was held for the design of the first apartment building in the complex. Toronto-based architectsAlliance was selected winner of the competition, with a modern glass point tower set on top of a red-brick podium structure in their proposal. While phase two had not yet been completed, the third stage of the revitalization plan began in May 2014, which will include newer or updated facilities. The revitalization plan has five phases. Phase two of the revitalization plan was completed in 2018 with the third phase set to be completed by 2021/2022. Evolution from a transitional community to a residential community Regent Park was designed as a transitional community. It was to house people experiencing financial difficulties, or socioeconomic adjustment support. Most residents were on social assistance and working residents paid rent proportional to their income (average total income of individuals in 2010 was $38,714). In the last two decades Regent Park has also become an immigrant community, as immigrants facing difficulties settling in Canada end up living there. Thus, the community is always viewed and administrated as a transitional community. This contributed to the concentration of a socially marginalized population and various social ills of Regent Park. In particular, a transitional community failed to generate the awareness, interest and commitment of its residents to invest in the development and sustainability of a higher quality of life. Culture Various community groups, including the Salvation Army, have been highly active in promoting a positive sense of community and community representation, and in pursuing a higher quality of life. The CRC, which has operated since 1965, offers healthy meals, free clothing, showers and laundry facilities, housing supports, drop-in, life skills and food skills programs. Additionally, they provide the only not-for-profit social housing in Regent Park. Every year, they host Taste of Regent Park in the Big Park, with a pay-what-you-can community catered meal, local vendors and live entertainment. Another such organization is Regent Park Focus Youth Media Arts Centre, which "uses media technology as a tool to employ young people, enhance resiliency, bridge information gaps, increase civic engagement, promote health and effect positive change." Pathways to Education is a program of the Regent Park Community Health Centre that promotes "individual health and the health of the community by addressing the two principal social determinants of health: education and income." Moreover, there are various cultural associations such as Regent Park Tamil Cultural Association, which aim to promote intra and inter cultural development and exchange and to foster a healthier community. Neighbourhood characteristics The majority of the buildings in Regent Park are owned and operated by Toronto Community Housing, the public low-income housing administrator in Toronto. Regent Park is the "Community Housing Unit 27" managed by TCHC and its manager is Ade Davies. Most units are low rise apartment units bounded by Gerrard Street, Parliament Street, Dundas Street and River Street. The units are three-storey brick buildings with central balconies. On the south side of Dundas Street the housing consists of five high-rise apartment towers with two-storey townhomes on the east and west sides. Demographics Regent Park has long been recognized as one of the lower-income neighbourhoods in the downtown Toronto area. There is a higher representation of visible minorities, refugees, immigrants and Aboriginal people in the neighbourhood compared to neighboring areas. It experiences a higher rate of violence, crime, drug abuse and social ills compared to many other Toronto communities. Regent Park has a reputation for poverty in Toronto. In 2016, median income in part of Regent Park was $42,369, an increase from $22,268 in 2011. The neighbourhood's Census Tract (5350030.00) has experienced a significant shift in income structure between the 2006 Census, and 2011 National Household Survey. In the 2006 Census, 61.1% of residents earned less than $20,000 annually. However, by 2011, such low-income residents only constituted 40.4% of residents. By 2016, that number dropped further to 35.2% of residents. The number of those earning more than $60,000 has tripled from in those years, representing 25.6% of the population in 2011. Although a significant portion of residents making less than $20,000, since revitalization, the neighbourhood has become home to a growing number of high-earning residents. This shows one of two things, either the historical residents have experienced increasing incomes or low-income residents can no longer afford housing in the neighbourhood and are experiencing displacement. The neighbourhood in 2016 was 28% European, 25.7% South Asian, 13.6% Black, 12.5% Chinese and 3.7% Southeast Asian. The poverty rate has dropped to 44.4% in 2016 from a high of 73% in 1996. Government Canada consists of 338 electoral districts and Regent Park is located in the Toronto Centre riding. For city administration, each district is divided into two city wards. Regent Park is located in Ward 28. In 2002, Toronto City Councillors recognized the need for increased tenant participation in the day-to-day management of housing. As a result, Toronto Community Housing Corporation (TCHC) initiated the Tenant Participation System (TPS). The first election for TPS was held in 2003. The tenant representatives were volunteers representing a constant number of adjacent units. Overall the formal mechanism set up to give tenants voice in the day-to-day management of the Regent Park had a positive impact. For instance, lighting in Regent Park has improved as a direct result of the TPS representatives requests. However, the mechanism developed for the whole of Toronto's various housing communities need to adopt to local conditions in order to meet the needs of the Regent Park residents more effectively. Emergency services The Toronto Fire Services station 325 is Regent Park's fire station, located at 475 Dundas Street East. The Toronto Police Service – 51 Division is responsible for the community. It was located in the community at 30 Regent Street, but has since been moved to nearby 51 Parliament Street. As late as 2001, the relation between some residents and police was confrontational. Paramedics serving the Regent Park area are deployed from Toronto Emergency Medical Services Station 40, an Advanced Life Support and Basic Life Support station staffed with Level II (Advanced Care Paramedic) and Level I (Primary Care Paramedic) crews located at 58 Richmond Street East. Education Regent Park is served by two public libraries. The Toronto Public Library Parliament branch is located at the corner of Gerrard and Parliament streets and houses a special local history archive about Regent Park. The other nearby library is the Riverdale branch located at the junction of Gerrard Street and Broadview Avenue. In addition, the Children's Book Bank is a small nonprofit that provides free books and literacy support, located at 350 Berkeley Street (at Gerrard). The Regent Park Child Care Centre may be found at St Bartholomew's Church, which cares for infants and toddlers. Public education There are four Toronto-based school boards that provides public education for the city, including the neighbourhood of Regent Park. Two of the four Toronto-based school boards teach primarily in English, the secular Toronto District School Board (TDSB), and the separate Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB). The institutions operated by the other two Toronto-based school boards, the secular Conseil scolaire Viamonde, and separate Conseil scolaire catholique MonAvenir, teach primarily in French. However, neither French-language school board operates a school in Regent Park. The following TDSB elementary schools operated in Regent Park: Nelson Mandela Park Public School on Shuter Street - first opened 1853 as Park Public School (current building built 1914-1917) and renamed in 2001 when Park Public School and Park Senior Public School merged after the late South African President Nelson Mandela; school serves Junior Kindergarten to Grade 8. Lord Dufferin Public School on Parliament Street Regent Park/Duke of York Junior Public School on Regent Street - opened 1958 as Regent Park PS and merged with Duke of York PS (located at 14 Pembroke Street and now ecole publique Gabrielle Roy of the Conseil scolaire Viamonde) during the period of 1977-1980. This school was demolished in 2015 and a new Toronto District Catholic School will be built at a future date. Transportation Regent Park is served by several Toronto Transit Commission streetcar routes: 501, 505, 506; and by the 65 Parliament bus route. The streetcars provide quick access to the Yonge subway line, while the 65 Parliament bus provides access to the Bloor-Danforth line. The Don Valley Parkway is a major highway that runs to the east of the neighbourhood. Academic study Regent Park has attracted the attention of various social science scholars and media. Scholar and activist Dr. Sean Purdy has written his thesis based on his research about Regent Park. His paper "Ripped Off" By the System: Housing Policy, Poverty and Territorial Stigmatization in Regent Park Housing Project, 1951–1991 provides valuable insights about Regent Park. The recent Regent Park Revitalization Plan is also viewed and undertaken as a pilot Canadian social re-engineering effort. The federal and local governments view the plan as means to establish best practices and bench marks. Although such enthusiasm adds to the momentum of the revitalization plan, the Regent Park history warrants caution as not to repeat or reproduce the shortcomings of its past. List of academic literature August, Martine. "Challenging the Rhetoric of Stigmatization: The Benefits of Concentrated Poverty in Toronto's Regent Park." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, Vol. 46, no. 6 (2014), 1317–1333. Gosine, Kevin & Faisal Islam. “’It’s Like we’re One Big Family’: Marginalized Young People, Community, and the Implications for Urban Schooling.” School Community Journal, Vol.24, no.2 (2014), 33-61. Purdy, Sean. "Framing Regent Park: the National Film Board of Canada and the Construction of Outcast Spaces in the Inner City, 1953 and 1994," Media, Culture and Society (UK), Vol.27, no.4 (July 2005). Purdy, Sean. "By the People, For the People: Tenant Organizing in Toronto’s Regent Park Housing Project in the 1960s and 1970s," Journal of Urban History, Vol.30, no.4 (May 2004), 519-548. Luisa Veronis. "Exploring the Margin: The Borders between Regent Park and Cabbagetown" Keep regents park clean/Users/zinzoro/Desktop/PHOTO ON 25-01-2020 AT 11.19 2.jpeg Documentaries Farewell Oak Street by Grant McLean Invisible City by Hubert Davis Return to Regent Park by Bay Weyman A Way Out by Christene Browne Notable residents Ahmed Hussen, Canadian lawyer and politician. He is MP in the Canadian Parliament, representing the York South—Weston riding as a member of the Liberal Party of Canada. Trevor Daley, professional hockey player Glen Metropolit, professional hockey player Point Blank, hip hop group Puffy L'z, rapper See also List of neighbourhoods in Toronto References External links Regent Park Revitalization Plan City of Toronto: Regent Park Neighbourhood Profile Category:Neighbourhoods in Toronto Category:Public housing in Canada Category:Urban decay in Canada
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Ruby Soho "Ruby Soho" is a song by the American punk rock band Rancid. It was released as the third and final single from their third album, ...And Out Come the Wolves. The song reached number 13 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks. Track listing "Ruby Soho" - 2:37 "That's Entertainment" - 1:29 "Disorder and Disarray" - 2:49 Samples "Ruby Soho" uses a sample of "Give Me Power" by The Stingers (1971) as an intro to the song. Cover versions The song has been covered by artists such as Japanese voice actress Rie Tanaka on the compilation Puncolle - Voice Actresses' Legendary Punk Songs Collection, as well as the Japanese rock band BIS. It was also covered by American indie rock band Vampire Weekend in February 2010 during a BBC radio session and by Jimmy Cliff on both his Sacred Fire EP (2011), and his album Rebirth (2012). Phish's Mike Gordon began covering the song (based on Jimmy Cliff's cover) during his 2017 Winter Tour. In popular culture On July 21, 2009, "Ruby Soho" was released along with "Time Bomb" and "Last One to Die" in the Rancid 01 track pack for Rock Band 2. The song was released, along with "21st Century (Digital Boy)" by Bad Religion and "Linoleum" by NOFX as downloadable content for Guitar Hero World Tour and Guitar Hero 5. The Australian rock band Violent Soho's name was inspired partially from the song's name. Charts References External links Lyrics Category:1995 singles Category:Rancid (band) songs Category:Songs written by Tim Armstrong Category:Songs written by Lars Frederiksen Category:Songs written by Matt Freeman Category:Epitaph Records singles
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2018 European Badminton Championships The 2018 European Badminton Championships were the 27th tournament of the European Badminton Championships. They were held in Huelva, Spain, from 24–29 April 2018. Tournament The 2018 European Badminton Championships is the 27th edition of the championships. This tournament was awarded to Huelva following a decision adopted by the Executive Committee of Badminton Europe and made public at the General Assembly of the aforementioned organization that took place in Prague, Czech Republic. The candidature led by the Spanish Badminton Federation in collaboration with the city of Huelva, the Regional Government of Andalusia, the Deputation of Huelva and the Andalusian Badminton Federation will organize the European Championships to be played between 24 and 29 April 2018. The tournament consist of men's (singles and doubles), women's (singles and doubles), and also mixed doubles. 300 athletes from 25 countries will compete in this tournament. Venue The tournament will be held at the Palacio de Deportes de Huelva, Spain, also known as Carolina Marín Sports Hall – a facility dedicated to the Spanish badminton player who has managed to find her place on a podium usually taken by Asians. The Principe de Asturias Sports Hall in University of Huelva will be used as training section. Point distribution Below is the tables with the point distribution for each phase of the tournament based on the BWF points system for the European Badminton Championships. Medal summary Medalists Medal table Men's singles Seeds Viktor Axelsen (Champion) Anders Antonsen (Quarterfinals) Rajiv Ouseph (Final) Brice Leverdez (Semifinals) Rasmus Gemke (Quarterfinals) Mark Caljouw (Third Round) Pablo Abián (Second Round) Lucas Corvée (Quarterfinals) Wild card Badminton Europe (BEC) awarded a wild card entry to Jan Ø. Jørgensen of Denmark. Finals Top Half Section 1 Section 2 Bottom half Section 3 Section 4 Women's singles Seeds Carolina Marín (Champion) Kirsty Gilmour (Quarterfinals) Mia Blichfeldt (Semifinals) Evgeniya Kosetskaya (Final) Beatriz Corrales (Second Round) Line Kjærsfeldt (Semifinals) Natalia Koch Rohde (Quarterfinals) Neslihan Yiğit (Third Round) Wild card Badminton Europe (BEC) awarded a wild card entry to Sara Peñalver Pereira of Spain. Finals Top Half Section 1 Section 2 Bottom half Section 3 Section 4 Men's doubles Seeds Mathias Boe / Carsten Mogensen (Withdrew) Mads Conrad-Petersen / Mads Pieler Kolding (Final) Kim Astrup / Anders Skaarup Rasmussen (Champions) Vladimir Ivanov / Ivan Sozonov (Semifinals) Marcus Ellis / Chris Langridge (Quarterfinals) David Daugaard / Mathias Christiansen (Quarterfinals) Jones Ralfy Jansen / Josche Zurwonne (Quarterfinals) Mark Lamsfuß / Marvin Emil Seidel (Quarterfinals) Finals Top Half Section 1 Section 2 Bottom half Section 3 Section 4 Women's doubles Seeds Kamilla Rytter Juhl / Christinna Pedersen (Withdrew) Gabriela Stoeva / Stefani Stoeva (Champions) Maiken Fruergaard / Sara Thygesen (Semifinals) Lauren Smith / Sarah Walker (Quarterfinals) Selena Piek / Cheryl Seinen (Semifinals) Émilie Lefel / Anne Tran (Final) Isabel Herttrich / Carla Nelte (First Round) Chloe Birch / Jessica Pugh (Quarterfinals)Wild card Badminton Europe (BEC) awarded a wild card entry to Olga Konon and Linda Efler of Germany. Finals Top Half Section 1 Section 2 Bottom half Section 3 Section 4 Mixed doubles Seeds Chris Adcock / Gabrielle Adcock (Champions) Mathias Christiansen / Christinna Pedersen (Final) Marcus Ellis / Lauren Smith (Semifinals) Jacco Arends / Selena Piek (Quarterfinals) Mark Lamsfuß / Isabel Herttrich (Semifinals) Evgenij Dremin / Evgenia Dimova (Quarterfinals) Marvin Emil Seidel / Linda Efler (Quarterfinals) Ronan Labar / Audrey Fontaine (Quarterfinals)'' Wild card Badminton Europe (BEC) awarded a wild card entry to Joachim Fischer Nielsen and Alexandra Bøje of Denmark. Finals Top Half Section 1 Section 2 Bottom half Section 3 Section 4 References External links Official website Tournament link Category:European Badminton Championships European Badminton Championships Badminton Category:International sports competitions hosted by Spain Category:2018 in Spanish sport Category:Badminton tournaments in Spain Category:Sport in Huelva European Badminton Championships
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Ronald Ringsrud Ronald Ringsrud is an emerald dealer and writer of the book Emeralds, A Passionate Guide. This work draws on Ringsurd's decades of work in the emerald industry and includes a foreword written by John Koivula, the Chief Gemologist at GIA. Author Background Ronald Ringsrud has a background in emerald gemology and the world emerald market. He has given presentations and lectures on these issues since 1986. As the owner of Ronald Ringsrud Company, he was the host and guide in Bogotá for visits to the emerald marketplace from foreign buyers as well as guiding groups from the L.A. County Museum of Natural History and the G.I.A. [Gemological Institute of America] on their trips to the Colombian emerald source. Ringsrud has published three articles in the journal Gems and Gemology, produced by the Gemological Institute of America (GIA). He was a speaker at the GIA’s International Gemological Symposium in 1991.” In 2006, he presented at the GIA Gemological Research Conference in San Diego, California with the topic of “Subjectivity in Gemology.” In an interview with Southern Jewelry News, Ringsrud describes his rise to the Board of Directors of the American Gem Trade Association (AGTA). He mentions the secrecy and intrigue of the emerald mines of Colombia, stating that “the mines are very shrouded and closed.” He has posted video clips about the subject on sites such as YouTube. Also, his charitable activities in Colombia aim to assist people in the mining area. Emeralds, A Passionate Guide Emeralds, A Passionate Guide is a 2009 non-fiction work published by Ringsrud's own company Green View Press. This work is an “adventure into the unique world of emeralds". In addition to the textual combination of anecdotes and scientific facts, this guide contains 70 microphotos and over 250 color photos and illustrations. The screenwriter Diane Lake reviewed Emeralds, A Passionate Guide as “a book [that] glistens and gleams—that fairly sparkles with its intensity.” The reviewer for pricescope.com states: “The subtitle of Ronald Ringsrud’s new book A Passionate Guide, The Emeralds, The People, Their Secrets has been well selected. The book is not just about an emerald, more specifically a Colombian emerald; it is about a country, its people and one man’s love affair with it all.” The book has received other positive reviews. References External links Ronald Ringsrud: Official Website Emeralds, A Passionate Guide Category:Gemologists Category:Living people Category:American male writers Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
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Qaradağlı, Shusha Qaradağlı (also, Karadagly) is a village in the Shusha Rayon of Azerbaijan. References Category:Populated places in Shusha District
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Olive mill pomace Olive mill pomace is a by-product from the olive oil mill extraction process. Usually it is used as fuel in a cogeneration system or as organic fertiliser after a composting operation. Olive mill pomace compost is made by a controlled biologic process that transforms organic waste into a stable humus. Adding composted olive mill pomace as organic fertiliser in olive orchards allows the soil to get nutrients back after each olive crop. Two-phase pomace In crude olive oil production, the traditional system, i.e. pressing, and the three-phase system produce a press cake and a considerable amount of waste water while the two-phase system, which is mainly used in Spain, produces a paste-like waste called "alperujo" or "two-phase pomace" that has a higher water content and is more difficult to treat than traditional solid waste. The water content of the press cake, composed of crude olive cake, pomace and husk, is about 30 percent if it is produced by traditional pressing technology and about 45–50 percent using decanter centrifuges. The press cake still has some oil that is normally recovered in a separate installation. The exhausted olive cake is incinerated or used as a soil conditioner in olive groves. External links Does the composted olive mill pomace increase the sustainable N use of olive oil cropping?. 2009. 16th Nitrogen workshop. Connecting different scales of Nitrogen use in agriculture. Turin Italia. Category:Olives Category:Composting Category:Organic fertilizers
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Heinz Leymann Heinz Leymann (17 July 1932 - 1999) was a Swedish academic, famous for his studies on mobbing among humans. He held a degree in pedagogical psychology, and another one in psychiatry and worked as a psychologist. He was a professor at Umeå University. Academic background Born in 1932 in Wolfenbüttel, Germany, Leymann, became a Swedish citizen in the mid-1950s, and was awarded his Ph.D. in pedagogical psychology from Stockholm University in 1978. He then went on to get another research doctorate (doktor i medicinsk vetenskap, "doctor of medical science," typically translated into English as Ph.D.) in psychiatry in 1990 from Umeå University. Somewhat unusually, his doctorate in psychiatry was based on his clinical background as a psychologist; he did not go through medical training. Leymann's work on mobbing Leymann pioneered research into mobbing in the 1980s. His initial research in the area was based on detailed case studies of a number of nurses who had committed or tried to commit suicide due to events at the workplace. He developed the Leymann Inventory of Psychological Terror (LIPT), a questionnaire of 45 mobbing actions. Although he preferred the term bullying in the context of school children, some have come to regard mobbing as a form of group bullying. As professor and practicing psychologist, Leymann also noted one of the side-effects of mobbing is post-traumatic stress disorder and is frequently misdiagnosed. Among researchers who have built on Leymann's work are: Davenport, Schwartz & Elliott Hecker Shallcross, Ramsay & Barker Westhues Zapf & Einarsen See also Leymann Inventory of Psychological Terror Workplace bullying References Duffy, M., & Sperry, L. (2012). Mobbing: Causes, Consequences, and Solutions. New York: Oxford University Press. External links The Mobbing Encyclopaedia Website concerning Leymann's work on mobbing. The Heinz Leymann Memorial Website Website dedicated to the research of Dr. Heinz Leymann. Category:Academics and writers on bullying Category:Workplace bullying Category:1932 births Category:1999 deaths Category:Swedish psychologists Category:Swedish psychiatrists Category:Swedish people of German descent Category:Stockholm University alumni Category:Umeå University alumni Category:Umeå University faculty
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Österreicher (surname) __NOTOC__ Oestreicher or Österreicher is a German language surname with the literal meaning "One from Austria", "the Austrian" (German Österreich means "Austria"). 'Oe' is a common rendering of "Ö" whenever the diacritics are not available. Österreicher Karl Österreicher (1918 - 2000), Austrian diplomat (de) Rudolf Österreicher (1881 - 1966), Austrian writer Johann Friedrich Oesterreicher (1771 - 1835), a Bishop of Eichstätt (de) Monsignor John (Johannes) Maria Oesterreicher (1904 - 1993), an Austrian Roman Catholic theologian József Manes Österreicher (1756 - 1831), a Jewish Hungarian physician Richard Oesterreicher (born 1932), Austrian musician (de) Oestreicher Carole Oestreicher, a member of the Luxembourg national korfball team Dan Oestreicher, baritone saxophonist for Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue John Oestreicher (Wisconsin politician), American politician and lawyer Rachel Oestreicher Bernheim, a Jewish American female human rights activist, the chairwoman of The Raoul Wallenberg Committee of the United States Robert T. Oestreicher, American businessman and 45th mayor of Columbus, Ohio See also Österreich (surname) Estereicher Category:German-language surnames
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Thomas Shute House Thomas Shute House is a property in Franklin, Tennessee, United States, that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. The property has also been known as Creekside. It dates from at c.1845. When listed the property included three contributing buildings, and two contributing structures on an area of . The property was covered in a 1988 study of Williamson County historical resources. It is one of about thirty "significant brick and frame residences" surviving in Williamson County that were built during 1830 to 1860 and "were the center of large plantations " and display "some of the finest construction of the ante-bellum era." It faces on the Franklin and Columbia Pike that ran south from Brentwood to Franklin to Columbia. See also Mooreland, also on the pike north of Franklin and NRHP-listed James Johnston House, also on the pike north of Franklin and NRHP-listed Aspen Grove, also on the pike north of Franklin and a Williamson County historic resource Mountview, also on the pike north of Franklin and a Williamson County historic resource Alpheus Truett House, also on the pike north of Franklin and a Williamson County historic resource References Category:Central passage plan architecture in Tennessee Category:Greek Revival houses in Tennessee Category:Houses completed in 1845 Category:Houses in Franklin, Tennessee Category:Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Tennessee Category:National Register of Historic Places in Williamson County, Tennessee
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Can-con Can-Con may refer to: Can Con, Short for "Canadian Content", a Canadian policy requiring a set percentage of Canadian works on the Canadian Airwaves CAN-CON (convention), Ottawa Literary science fiction convention
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Vladimir Nakoryakov Vladimir Nakoryakov (; 26 July 1935 – 1 April 2018) was a Russian scientist in the fields of thermal physics and fluid dynamics. An academician of Russian Academy of Sciences, he joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1972, and was awarded the USSR State Prize in 1983. Vladimir Nakoryakov was born in 1935 in Petrovsk-Zabaykalsky (now Zabaykalsky Krai). His father was executed in 1937. Nakoryakov graduated from Tomsk Polytechnic University. In 1982–1985 he was a chancellor of Novosibirsk State University. In 1985–1990 he was a vice-president of general committee of Siberian Division of USSR Academy of Sciences. In 1986–1997 he was a president of Thermal physics Institution of Siberian Division of USSR Academy of Sciences (Russian Academy of Sciences). He became PhD in 1971 with his thesis "Heat-mass exchange in acoustic field". Nakoryakov worked as a head of  chairs in Novosibirsk State University and Novosibirsk State Technical University. He set down the fundamental basis for the theory of absorptive heat pump, elaborated a sequence of directions of ecologically clean power engineering and electricity-saving techniques. Also, he had been an expert in Nobel Committee for Physics and Chemistry for four years. Recognition Order of the Badge of Honour (1970) Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1982) USSR State Prize (1983) Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" (IV class) (1999) Order of Friendship (2007) Global Energy Prize (2007) References Category:1935 births Category:Novosibirsk State University Category:Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner Category:2018 deaths Category:Recipients of the Order of Friendship Category:Soviet physicists Category:20th-century physicists Category:Russian physicists Category:Recipients of the USSR State Prize
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Mount Auburn Cemetery (disambiguation) Mount Auburn Cemetery is a cemetery in Cambridge and Watertown, Massachusetts, United States. Mount Auburn Cemetery may also refer to: Mount Auburn Cemetery (Harvard, Illinois), United States Mount Auburn Cemetery (Baltimore, Maryland), United States See also Mount Auburn Cemetery Reception House, an historic building located in the Cambridge, Massachusetts, portion of Mount Auburn Cemetery
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Spilosoma clasnaumanni Spilosoma clasnaumanni is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Lars Kühne in 2005. It is found in Kenya. References Category:Moths described in 2005 clasnaumanni
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September 1 Events 1355 – King Tvrtko I of Bosnia writes In castro nostro Vizoka vocatum from the Old town of Visoki. 1420 – A 9.4 MS-strong earthquake shakes Chile's Atacama Region causing tsunamis in Chile as well as Hawaii and Japan. 1449 – Tumu Crisis: The Mongols capture the Emperor of China. 1529 – The Spanish fort of Sancti Spiritu, the first one built in modern Argentina, is destroyed by natives. 1532 – Lady Anne Boleyn is made Marquess of Pembroke by her fiancé, King Henry VIII of England. 1604 – Adi Granth, now known as Guru Granth Sahib, the holy scripture of Sikhs, was first installed at Harmandir Sahib. 1644 – Battle of Tippermuir: James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose defeats the Earl of Wemyss's Covenanters, reviving the Royalist cause. 1715 – King Louis XIV of France dies after a reign of 72 years, which is the longest of any major European monarch. 1763 – Catherine II of Russia endorses Ivan Betskoy's plans for a Foundling Home in Moscow. 1772 – The Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa is founded in San Luis Obispo, California. 1774 – Massachusetts Bay colonists rise up in the bloodless Powder Alarm. 1804 – Juno, one of the largest asteroids in the Main Belt, is discovered by the German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding. 1831 – The high honor of Order of St. Gregory the Great is established by Pope Gregory XVI of the Vatican State to recognize high support for the Vatican or for the Pope, by a man or a woman, and not necessarily a Roman Catholic. 1836 – Narcissa Whitman, one of the first English-speaking white women to settle west of the Rocky Mountains, arrives at Walla Walla, Washington. 1838 – Saint Andrew's Scots School, the oldest school of British origin in South America, is established. 1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Chantilly: Confederate Army troops defeat a group of retreating Union Army troops in Chantilly, Virginia. 1864 – American Civil War: The Confederate Army General John Bell Hood orders the evacuation of Atlanta, ending a four-month siege by General William Tecumseh Sherman. 1870 – Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Sedan is fought, resulting in a decisive Prussian victory. 1873 – Cetshwayo ascends to the throne as king of the Zulu nation following the death of his father Mpande. 1878 – Emma Nutt becomes the world's first female telephone operator when she is recruited by Alexander Graham Bell to the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company. 1880 – The army of Mohammad Ayub Khan is routed by the British at the Battle of Kandahar, ending the Second Anglo-Afghan War. 1894 – Over 400 people die in the Great Hinckley Fire, a forest fire in Hinckley, Minnesota. 1897 – The Tremont Street Subway in Boston opens, becoming the first underground rapid transit system in North America. 1905 – Alberta and Saskatchewan join the Canadian confederation. 1906 – The International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys is established. 1911 – The armored cruiser Georgios Averof is commissioned into the Greek Navy. It now serves as a museum ship. 1914 – St. Petersburg, Russia, changes its name to Petrograd. 1914 – The last known passenger pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo. 1920 – The Fountain of Time opens as a tribute to the 100 years of peace between the United States and Great Britain following the Treaty of Ghent. 1923 – The Great Kantō earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama, killing about 105,000 people. 1928 – Ahmet Zogu declares Albania to be a monarchy and proclaims himself king. 1934 – The first Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer animated cartoon, The Discontented Canary, is released to movie theatres. 1939 – World War II: Nazi Germany and Slovakia invade Poland, beginning the European phase of World War II. 1939 – General George C. Marshall becomes Chief of Staff of the United States Army. 1939 – The Wound Badge for Wehrmacht, SS, Kriegsmarine, and Luftwaffe soldiers is instituted. The final version of the Iron Cross is also instituted on this date. 1939 – Switzerland mobilizes its forces and the Swiss Parliament elects Henri Guisan to head the Swiss Armed Forces (an event that can happen only during war or mobilization). 1939 – Adolf Hitler signs an order to begin the systematic euthanasia of mentally ill and disabled people. 1941 – The Nazis execute 2,500 Jews by shooting in Ostroh, Ukraine. 1951 – The United States, Australia and New Zealand sign a mutual defense pact, called the ANZUS Treaty. 1952 – The Old Man and the Sea, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Ernest Hemingway, is first published. 1958 – Iceland expands its fishing zone, putting it into conflict with the United Kingdom, beginning the Cod Wars. 1961 – The Eritrean War of Independence officially begins with the shooting of Ethiopian police by Hamid Idris Awate. 1961 – The first conference of the Non-Aligned Countries is held in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. 1967 – The Khmer–Chinese Friendship Association is banned in Cambodia. 1967 – Six-Day War: The Khartoum Resolution is issued at the Arab Summit, and eight countries adopt the "three 'no's against Israel". 1969 – A coup in Libya brings Muammar Gaddafi to power. 1969 – Trần Thiện Khiêm becomes Prime Minister of South Vietnam under President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu. 1970 – Palestinian guerrillas attack the motorcade of King Hussein of Jordan in a failed assassination attempt. 1972 – In Reykjavík, Iceland, American Bobby Fischer beats Russian Boris Spassky to become the world chess champion. 1974 – The SR-71 Blackbird sets (and holds) the record for flying from New York to London in the time of 1 hour, 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds at a speed of . 1979 – The American space probe Pioneer 11 becomes the first spacecraft to visit Saturn when it passes the planet at a distance of . 1980 – Major General Chun Doo-hwan becomes President of South Korea, following the resignation of Choi Kyu-hah. 1981 – A coup d'état in the Central African Republic overthrows President David Dacko. 1982 – The United States Air Force Space Command is founded. 1983 – Cold War: Korean Air Lines Flight 007 is shot down by a Soviet Union jet fighter when the commercial aircraft enters Soviet airspace, killing all 269 on board, including Congressman Lawrence McDonald. 1985 – A joint American–French expedition locates the wreckage of the . 1991 – Uzbekistan declares independence from the Soviet Union. 2004 – The Beslan school siege begins when armed terrorists take schoolchildren and school staff hostage in North Ossetia, Russia; by the end of the siege three days later more than 385 people are dead (including hostages, other civilians, security personnel and terrorists). 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Herbert Norman, Canadian historian and diplomat (d. 1957) 1913 – Ludwig Merwart, Austrian painter and illustrator (d. 1979) 1913 – Christian Nyby, American director and producer (d. 1993) 1914 – John H. Adams, American jockey (d. 1995) 1916 – Dorothy Cheney, American tennis player (d. 2014) 1919 – Ossie Dawson, South African cricketer (d. 2008) 1919 – Hilda Hänchen, German physicist and academic (d. 2013) 1920 – Liz Carpenter, American journalist, author, and activist (d. 2010) 1920 – Eduardo J. Corso, Uruguayan lawyer and journalist (d. 2012) 1920 – Richard Farnsworth, American actor and stuntman (d. 2000) 1921 – Willem Frederik Hermans, Dutch author, poet, and playwright (d. 1995) 1922 – Yvonne De Carlo, Canadian-American actress and singer (d. 2007) 1922 – Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2000) 1923 – Rocky Marciano, American boxer (d. 1969) 1923 – Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, Canadian businessman and art collector (d. 2006) 1924 – Hal Douglas, American voice actor (d. 2014) 1925 – Arvonne Fraser, American activist (d. 2018) 1925 – Art Pepper, American saxophonist, clarinet player, and composer (d. 1982) 1926 – Abdur Rahman Biswas, Bangladeshi banker and politician, 10th President of Bangladesh (d. 2017) 1926 – Gene Colan, American illustrator (d. 2011) 1926 – Russell Jones, Australian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2012) 1927 – Soshana Afroyim, Austrian painter (d. 2015) 1927 – Wyatt Cooper, American author and screenwriter (d. 1978) 1929 – Mava Lee Thomas, American baseball player (d. 2013) 1929 – Maurice Vachon, Canadian wrestler (d. 2013) 1930 – Turgut Özakman, Turkish lawyer and civil servant (d. 2013) 1930 – Dick Raaymakers, Dutch composer and theorist (d. 2013) 1930 – Charles Correa, Indian architect (d. 2015) 1931 – Abdul Haq Ansari, Indian theologian and scholar (d. 2012) 1931 – Beano Cook, American journalist and sportscaster (d. 2012) 1931 – Cecil Parkinson, English accountant and politician, Secretary of State for Transport (d. 2016) 1931 – Boxcar Willie, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1999) 1932 – Derog Gioura, Nauruan politician, 23rd President of Nauru (d. 2008) 1933 – Marshall Lytle, American bass player and songwriter (d. 2013) 1933 – Ann Richards, American educator and politician, 45th Governor of Texas (d. 2006) 1933 – T. Thirunavukarasu, Sri Lankan politician (d. 1982) 1933 – Conway Twitty, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1993) 1935 – Nicholas Garland, English cartoonist 1935 – Seiji Ozawa, Japanese conductor and director 1935 – Guy Rodgers, American basketball player (d. 2001) 1937 – Al Geiberger, American golfer 1937 – Allen Jones, English sculptor and painter 1937 – Ron O'Neal, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2004) 1937 – Allen Weinstein, American historian and academic (d. 2015) 1938 – Alan Dershowitz, American lawyer and author 1938 – Per Kirkeby, Danish painter, sculptor, and poet (d. 2018) 1939 – Lily Tomlin, American actress, comedian, screenwriter, and producer 1940 – Yaşar Büyükanıt, Turkish general (d. 2019) 1941 – Graeme Langlands, Australian rugby league player and coach 1942 – C. J. Cherryh, American author and educator 1944 – Archie Bell, American soul singer-songwriter and musician 1944 – Leonard Slatkin, American conductor and composer 1945 – Mustafa Balel, Turkish author and translator 1945 – Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, Yemeni general and politician, 2nd President of Yemen 1946 – Barry Gibb, Manx-English singer-songwriter and producer 1946 – Shalom Hanoch, Israeli rock singer, lyricist and composer 1946 – Roh Moo-hyun, South Korean soldier and politician, 9th President of South Korea (d. 2009) 1947 – Al Green, American lawyer and politician 1947 – P. A. Sangma, Indian lawyer and politician, 11th Speaker of the Lok Sabha (d. 2016) 1948 – Greg Errico, American drummer and producer 1948 – Józef Życiński, Polish archbishop and philosopher (d. 2011) 1948 – Russ Kunkel, American drummer and producer 1949 – Garry Maddox, American baseball player and sportscaster 1949 – Alasdair McDonnell, Irish physician and politician 1950 – Mikhail Fradkov, Russian politician, 36th Prime Minister of Russia 1950 – Phillip Fulmer, American football player and coach 1950 – Phil McGraw, American psychologist, author, and talk show host 1951 – David Bairstow, English cricketer and sportscaster (d. 1998) 1952 – Manuel Piñero, Spanish golfer 1953 – Don Blackman, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (d. 2013) 1954 – Richard Burden, English politician 1954 – Dave Lumley, Canadian ice hockey player 1955 – Bruce Foxton, English singer-songwriter and bass player 1956 – Vinnie Johnson, American basketball player and sportscaster 1956 – Bernie Wagenblast, American publisher, founded the Transportation Communications Newsletter 1957 – Alexandra Aikhenvald, Australian linguist 1957 – Gloria Estefan, Cuban-American singer-songwriter and actress 1957 – Duško Ivanović, Montenegrin basketball player and coach 1959 – Keith Clearwater, American golfer 1959 – Mike Duxbury, English footballer 1959 – Kenny Mayne, American football player and journalist 1959 – Joe Jusko, American illustrator and painter 1960 – Ralf Außem, German footballer and manager 1960 – Karl Mecklenburg, American football player 1961 – Pete DeCoursey, American journalist (d. 2014) 1961 – Jeremy Farrar, British academic and educator; director of the Wellcome Trust 1961 – Christopher Ferguson, American captain, pilot, and astronaut 1961 – Boney James, American saxophonist, composer, and producer 1962 – Tony Cascarino, English-Irish footballer 1962 – Ruud Gullit, Dutch footballer and manager 1963 – Stephen Kernahan, Australian footballer 1964 – Brian Bellows, Canadian ice hockey player 1964 – Holly Golightly, American author and illustrator 1964 – Dave O'Higgins, English jazz saxophonist 1964 – Charlie Robison, American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1965 – Craig McLachlan, Australian actor and singer 1965 – Tibor Simon, Hungarian footballer and manager (d. 2002) 1966 – Tim Hardaway, American basketball player and coach 1966 – Ken Levine, American video game designer, co-founded Irrational Games 1967 – Steve Pemberton, English actor, screenwriter and director 1967 – David Whissell, Canadian engineer and politician 1968 – Mohamed Atta, Egyptian terrorist (d. 2001) 1969 – Henning Berg, Norwegian footballer and manager 1970 – David Fairleigh, Australian rugby league player, coach, and sportscaster 1970 – Hwang Jung-min, South Korean actor 1970 – Padma Lakshmi, Indian-American actress and author 1971 – Joe Enochs, American soccer player and manager 1971 – Yoshitaka Hirota, Japanese bass player and composer 1971 – Hakan Şükür, Turkish footballer and politician 1973 – J.D. Fortune, Canadian singer-songwriter 1973 – Rieko Miura, Japanese singer and actress 1973 – Simon Shaw, English rugby player 1973 – Zach Thomas, American football player 1973 – Ram Kapoor, Indian actor 1974 – Burn Gorman, American-born English actor and musician 1974 – Jason Taylor, American football player and sportscaster 1974 – Yutaka Yamamoto, Japanese director and producer, founded Ordet Animation Studio 1974 – Jhonen Vasquez, American writer, director, cartoonist, and comic illustrator 1975 – Natalie Bassingthwaighte, Australian singer-songwriter 1975 – James Innes, English entrepreneur and author 1975 – Nomy Lamm, American singer-songwriter and activist 1975 – Cuttino Mobley, American basketball player 1975 – Scott Speedman, English-Canadian actor 1976 – Babydaddy, American singer-songwriter and producer 1976 – Marcos Ambrose, Australian racing driver 1976 – Clare Connor, English cricketer 1976 – Érik Morales, Mexican boxer 1976 – Sebastián Rozental, Chilean footballer 1977 – David Albelda, Spanish footballer 1977 – Raffaele Giammaria, Italian racing driver 1977 – Arsalan Iftikhar, American lawyer and author 1977 – Aaron Schobel, American football player 1978 – Max Vieri, Australian-Italian footballer 1980 – Sammy Adjei, Ghanaian footballer 1980 – Chris Riggott, English footballer 1981 – Clinton Portis, American football player 1981 – Adam Quick, Australian basketball player 1982 – Jeffrey Buttle, Canadian figure skater 1982 – Paul Dumbrell, Australian racing driver 1982 – Ryan Gomes, American basketball player 1983 – Iñaki Lejarreta, Spanish cyclist (d. 2012) 1983 – José Antonio Reyes, Spanish footballer (d. 2019) 1983 – Jeff Woywitka, Canadian ice hockey player 1984 – Ludwig Göransson, Swedish film composer 1984 – László Köteles, Hungarian footballer 1984 – Nick Noble, American football player 1984 – Rod Pelley, Canadian ice hockey player 1984 – Joe Trohman, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer 1985 – Larsen Jensen, American swimmer 1986 – Anthony Allen, English rugby player 1986 – Gaël Monfils, French tennis player 1986 – Stella Mwangi, Kenyan-Norwegian singer-songwriter 1987 – Dann Hume, New Zealand singer-songwriter, drummer, and producer 1987 – Leonel Suárez, Cuban decathlete 1987 – Mats Zuccarello, Norwegian ice hockey player 1988 – Simona de Silvestro, Swiss racing driver 1988 – Gabriel Ferrari, American soccer player 1988 – Mushfiqur Rahim, Bangladeshi cricketer 1988 – Chanel West Coast, Rapper-songwriter and model 1989 – Astrid Besser, Italian tennis player 1989 – Jefferson Montero, Ecuadorian footballer 1989 – Daniel Sturridge, English footballer 1990 – Stanislav Tecl, Czech footballer 1991 – Rhys Bennett, English footballer 1991 – Angélica Kvieczynski, Brazilian gymnast 1992 – Cristiano Biraghi, Italian footballer 1992 – Woo Hye-lim, South Korean singer-songwriter 1993 – Mario Lemina, Gabonese footballer 1994 – Anna Smolina, Russian tennis player 1994 – Betty Cantrell, Miss America 2016 1995 – Nathan MacKinnon, Canadian ice hockey player 1996 – Zendaya, American actress and singer 1997 – Jungkook, South Korean singer, songwriter and record producer Deaths 870 – Muhammad al-Bukhari, Persian scholar (b. 810) 1067 – Baldwin V, Count of Flanders (b. 1012) 1081 – Bishop Eusebius of Angers 1159 – Pope Adrian IV (b. 1100) 1198 – Dulce, Queen of Portugal (b. 1160) 1215 – Otto, bishop of Utrecht 1256 – Kujō Yoritsune, Japanese shōgun (b. 1218) 1327 – Foulques de Villaret, Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller 1339 – Henry XIV, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1305) 1376 – Philip of Valois, Duke of Orléans (b. 1336) 1414 – William de Ros, 6th Baron de Ros, English politician, Lord High Treasurer (b. 1369) 1480 – Ulrich V, Count of Württemberg (b. 1413) 1557 – Jacques Cartier, French navigator and explorer (b. 1491) 1581 – Guru Ram Das, Sikh 4th of the Ten Gurus of Sikhism (b. 1534) 1599 – Cornelis de Houtman, Dutch explorer (b.1565) 1615 – Étienne Pasquier, French lawyer and jurist (b. 1529) 1646 – Francis Windebank, English statesman (b. 1582) 1648 – Marin Mersenne, French mathematician, theologian, and philosopher (b. 1588) 1678 – Jan Brueghel the Younger, Flemish painter (b. 1601) 1685 – Leoline Jenkins, Welsh lawyer, jurist, and politician, Secretary of State for the Northern Department (b. 1625) 1687 – Henry More, English priest and philosopher (b. 1614) 1706 – Cornelis de Man, Dutch painter (b. 1621) 1715 – François Girardon, French sculptor (b. 1628) 1715 – Louis XIV of France (b. 1638) 1838 – William Clark, American soldier, explorer, and politician, 4th Governor of Missouri Territory (b. 1770) 1839 – Izidor Guzmics, Hungarian theologian and educator (b. 1786) 1868 – Ferenc Gyulay, Hungarian-Austrian commander and politician (b. 1799) 1922 – Samu Pecz, Hungarian architect and academic (b. 1854) 1930 – Peeter Põld, Estonian scientist and politician, 1st Estonian Minister of Education (b. 1878) 1943 – Charles Atangana, Cameroonian ruler (b. 1880) 1947 – Frederick Russell Burnham, American soldier and adventurer (b. 1861) 1953 – Bernard O'Dowd, Australian journalist, author, and poet (b. 1866) 1967 – Siegfried Sassoon, English captain and poet (b. 1886) 1969 – Drew Pearson, American journalist and author (b. 1897) 1970 – François Mauriac, French novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885) 1971 – Alan Brown, English soldier (b. 1909) 1974 – Gerd Neggo, Estonian dancer, dance teacher, and choreographer (b. 1891) 1977 – Ethel Waters, American singer and actress (b. 1896) 1981 – Ann Harding, American actress (b. 1901) 1981 – Albert Speer, German architect and author (b. 1905) 1982 – Haskell Curry, American mathematician and academic (b. 1900) 1982 – Władysław Gomułka, Polish activist and politician (b. 1905) 1983 – Henry M. Jackson, American lawyer and politician (b. 1912) 1983 – Larry McDonald, American physician and politician (b. 1935) 1984 – Madeleine de Bourbon-Busset, Duchess of Parma (b. 1898) 1985 – Stefan Bellof, German racing driver (b. 1957) 1986 – Murray Hamilton, American actor (b. 1923) 1988 – Luis Walter Alvarez, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911) 1989 – A. Bartlett Giamatti, American businessman and academic (b. 1938) 1989 – Kazimierz Deyna, Polish footballer (b. 1947) 1989 – Tadeusz Sendzimir, Polish-American engineer (b. 1894) 1990 – Edwin O. Reischauer, American scholar and diplomat (b. 1910) 1991 – Otl Aicher, German graphic designer and typographer (b. 1922) 1997 – Zoltán Czibor, Hungarian footballer (b. 1929) 1998 – Józef Krupiński, Polish poet and author (b. 1930) 1998 – Cary Middlecoff, American golfer and sportscaster (b. 1921) 1998 – Osman F. Seden, Turkish director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1924) 1999 – W. Richard Stevens, Zambian computer scientist and author (b. 1951) 2003 – Rand Brooks, American actor and producer (b. 1918) 2003 – Terry Frost, English painter and academic (b. 1915) 2004 – Ahmed Kuftaro, Syrian religious leader, Grand Mufti of Syria (b. 1915) 2004 – Alastair Morton, South African businessman (b. 1938) 2005 – R. L. Burnside, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1926) 2006 – György Faludy, Hungarian author and poet (b. 1910) 2006 – Warren Mitofsky, American journalist (b. 1934) 2006 – Bob O'Connor, American businessman and politician, 57th Mayor of Pittsburgh (b. 1944) 2006 – Kyffin Williams, Welsh painter and educator (b. 1918) 2007 – Roy McKenzie, New Zealand horse racer and philanthropist (b. 1922) 2008 – Thomas J. Bata, Czech-Canadian businessman (b. 1914) 2008 – Jerry Reed, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (b. 1937) 2010 – Wakanohana Kanji I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 45th Yokozuna (b. 1928) 2012 – Sean Bergin, South African saxophonist, flute player, and composer (b. 1948) 2012 – Hal David, American songwriter and composer (b. 1921) 2012 – Smarck Michel, Haitian businessman and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Haiti (b. 1937) 2012 – William Petzäll, Swedish politician (b. 1988) 2012 – Arnaldo Putzu, Italian illustrator (b. 1927) 2013 – Ignacio Eizaguirre, Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1920) 2013 – Gordon Steege, Australian soldier (b. 1917) 2013 – Margaret Mary Vojtko, American linguist and academic (b. 1930) 2013 – Ken Wallis, English commander and pilot (b. 1916) 2014 – Ahmed Abdi Godane, Somali militant leader (b. 1977) 2014 – Roger McKee, American baseball player (b. 1926) 2014 – Joseph Shivers, American chemist and academic, developed spandex (b. 1920) 2015 – Gurgen Dalibaltayan, Armenian general (b. 1926) 2015 – Dean Jones, American actor and singer (b. 1931) 2015 – Richard G. Hewlett, American historian and author (b. 1923) 2015 – Ben Kuroki, American sergeant and pilot (b. 1917) 2018 – Randy Weston, American jazz pianist and composer (b. 1926) Holidays and observances Anniversary of the Start of the Armed Struggle (Eritrea) Christian feast day: Constantius (Costanzo) of Aquino David Pendleton Oakerhater (Anglican Communion) Giles Loup (Lupus) of Sens Nivard (Nivo) Sixtus of Reims Terentian (Terrence) Verena Vibiana The beginning of the new liturgical year (Eastern Orthodox Church and the Eastern Catholic Church) September 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Constitution Day (Slovakia) Disaster Prevention Day (Japan) Earliest day on which Father's Day can fall, while September 7 is the latest; celebrated on the first Sunday in September. (Australia, Fiji, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea) Earliest day on which Labor Day can fall, while September 7 is the latest; celebrated on the first Monday in September. (Canada, United States, Palau) Earliest day on which Teacher's Day can fall, while September 7 is the latest; celebrated on the first Friday in September. (Singapore) First day of school in many countries in Asia, Europe and the Americas. Flag Day (Honduras) Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Uzbekistan from the Soviet Union in 1991. Journalist Day (Taiwan) Knowledge Day (Russia, Ukraine and Armenia) Random Acts of Kindness Day (New Zealand) Veteran's Day (Poland) Wattle Day (Australia) References External links BBC: On This Day On This Day in Canada Category:Days of the year Category:September
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Nicolaes Geelvinck Nicolaes Geelvinck (11 October 1706, in Amsterdam – 15 June 1764, in Amsterdam) was lord of Castricum, Bakkum, Santpoort, Velsen, Stabroek, schepen, and owner of the country estate Akerendam-by-Beverwijk. He was appointed as mayor of Amsterdam in 1747, but in 1748 lost his seat in the vroedschap and as a counsellor to the Admiralty of Amsterdam, thanks to Mattheus Lestevenon. Life In 1729 Nicolaes Geelvinck married Johanna Jacoba Graafland. His father Lieve Geelvinck married Johanna's mother Anna de Haze the year after. Nicolaes worked at the townhall as a lawyer and city secretary. In 1737 he became administrator WIC, a position held for life. When his wife died in 1740, Nicolaes remarried in 1743 to Hester Hooft, at that time held to be the most beautiful woman in Amsterdam, who died two months later of a spleen disease. His childless sister and a widow perhaps took her place as mother, for Nicolaes had five children to bring up. In 1747 Nicolaes Geelvinck married for the third time, to the only daughter of mayor Gerrit Corver. She brought a million guilders with her and on the death of her father she inherited another 1.1 million. Nicolaes had other reasons to be happy, for - not yet forty - he had just become mayor, and was expected to make reforms to the Admiralty. The "Pachtersoproer" On 9 November 1747, during the Taxleasers uproar, Nicolaes Geelvinck - the only burgomaster present - quickly had to flee the city hall on Dam Square, before the mayors room was occupied by the people and a ceiling mob was stuck from the window to make clear, the place was cleaned. The people regarded the leaseholders as responsible, and the regenten's oligarchy as the cause of their misery. The Amsterdam mayors suffered from much criticism, though there were promises that the leasing system would be revised. Nicolaes' problems did not end there. The result of the tax leaseholders uproar was the Doelistenbeweging, a group of mainly Calvinist merchants, trying to put limits on the powers of the mayors and the Jewish streetvendors. The system of leasing of taxes was quickly lifted. A recently introduced income tax unique in Europe, also aroused resistance, although it affected only the richest (5%) of the population. This tax was replaced by a gift, as often occurred in difficult years with wars. The Austrian Succession had caused a costly war with France. In 1749 Nicolaes inherited 90,000 guilder from his great-aunt Sara Hinlopen: shares, bonds and farmland in one of the oldest polders, the Zijpe. Akerendam Nicolaes Geelvinck lived in the most expensive mansion in Amsterdam, seven windows wide. In 1742, he had bought the Akerendam in Beverwijk from his sister Anna Elisabeth. In 1760, he sold the estate, with stabling for 21 horses, a menagerie, an orangery, eleven hectares of countryside and a number of paintings, when his wife inherited an estate near Velsen, formerly belonging to his father-in-law Gerrit Corver. By the time of his death, Nicolaes Geelvinck was worth six million and the inventory of his belongings took up 66 pages. His widow demanded that until her death she could continue living in the mansion on Herengracht; his nine children got 800,000 guilder each. After her death the mansion came into the hands of her son Nicolaas Geelvinck (1732–1787), the new administrator of the WIC. The mansion was sold in 1782 to John Hope, son of Thomas Hope, a banker and art collector. (The canalside mansion on Herengracht 509-511 was demolished in 1917 due to the widening of the Vijzelstraat; parts of the interior were moved to Amstel 218). In July 1787 Joan Geelvinck, his brother and a patriot, was elected as mayor of Amsterdam. He had to flee half a few months later to France. Bibliography This article is based entirely or partially on its equivalent on Dutch Wikipedia. Broersen, E. (1992) Akerendam, een buitenplaats in Beverwijk. Evenhuis, R.B. (1974) Ook dat was Amsterdam. Deel IV. External links Summary of information on Watervliet Baptismal records for his 9 children Poem on his marriage with Hester Hooft Lords of Holland Category:1706 births Category:1764 deaths Nicolaes Category:Mayors of Amsterdam Category:People from Amsterdam
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Bill Harris Arena The W. F. "Bill" Harris State Fair Arena (called Bill Harris Arena or Fair Park Arena) is a 5,000-seat multipurpose indoor arena located at the Alabama State Fairgrounds. The arena is used primarily for basketball, but also hosts concerts and other events. The arena has previously served as the home of the Birmingham Magicians and the Birmingham Blitz of the American Basketball Association and the Alabama Outlawz of X-League Indoor Football. It is named in honor of Bill Harris, longtime athletics director for Birmingham City Schools. Professional teams In 1985, the Puerto Rico Coquis of the Continental Basketball Association considered moving to Birmingham, but discussions with the Alabama State Fair Authority did not progress quickly enough to secure a commitment. The CBA did come to the Bill Harris Arena in 1991 when the Pensacola Tornados relocated to Birmingham as the Birmingham Bandits. The Bandits played for a year before moving again to Rochester, Minnesota. The Birmingham Power of the National Women's Basketball League played home games at the arena and at Birmingham–Southern College's Bill Battle Coliseum during the 2001–02 season. In 2005 the Magic City Court Kings of the World Basketball Association played home games at Bill Harris Arena and Miles College. Other events A February 2001 basketball game between Stillman College and Miles College was interrupted by repeated brawls between fans of the opposing teams. The game was ended by order of the Birmingham Police Department and the 2,000 fans sent away. The Bill Harris Arena has hosted numerous basketball championships for the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference and the Southwestern Athletic Conference. The arena currently hosts the monthly flea market at the fairgrounds, held on the first full weekend of each month. Category:Sports venues in Birmingham, Alabama Category:Indoor arenas in Alabama Category:American Basketball Association (2000–present) venues Category:Continental Basketball Association venues Category:1987 establishments in Alabama Category:Sports venues completed in 1987 Category:Arena football venues Category:Basketball venues in Alabama
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Pampa del Indio Pampa del Indio is a village and municipality in Chaco Province in northern Argentina. References Category:Populated places in Chaco Province
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Josiah Bartlett Josiah Bartlett ( – May 19, 1795) was an American physician and statesman, delegate to the Continental Congress for New Hampshire, and signatory of the Declaration of Independence. He was later Governor of New Hampshire and Chief Justice of the New Hampshire Superior Court of Judicature. Personal life Josiah Bartlett was born at 276 Main Street in Amesbury, in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, to Stephen and Hannah-Mary (Webster) Bartlett. His father Stephen was the son of Richard and Hannah (Emery) Bartlett. He was their fifth child and fourth son. By age 17, he had learned some of both Latin and Greek. He also began the study of medicine, working in the office of Dr. Ordway of Amesbury at the same time. Before Bartlett turned 21, in 1750, he moved to Kingston, New Hampshire, in Rockingham County, and began his practice. Kingston at that time was a frontier settlement of only a few hundred families, and Bartlett was the only doctor in that part of the county at the time. He purchased land and a farm. On January 15, 1754, he married Mary Bartlett of Newton, New Hampshire. She was his cousin, the daughter of his uncle, Joseph. They would remain married until her death on July 14, 1789. Josiah and Mary had three sons and seven daughters: Mary (1754), Lois (1756), Miriam (1758), Rhoda (1760), Hannah (who died as an infant in 1762), Levi (1763), Josiah (1768), Ezra (1770), Sarah (1773), and Hannah (1776, also died as an infant). All three of his sons and seven of his grandsons would follow him as physicians. Political career Bartlett became active in the political affairs of Kingston, and in 1765 he was elected to the colonial assembly. In 1767 he became the colonel of his county's militia and Governor John Wentworth appointed him justice of the peace. As the Revolution neared, his Whig policies brought him into opposition with the Royal Governor, John Wentworth. Although his lodge is not known, his great grandson, Levi S. Bartlett, had a letter written by Josiah to his son Ezra saying, "I attended a Mason meeting last night, and as soon as you can I wish you would join the Masons." In 1774, Bartlett joined the Assembly's Committee of Correspondence and began his work with the revolutionary leaders of the other 12 colonies. Later that year, when Wentworth dismissed, or prorogued, the Assembly, Josiah was elected to its revolutionary (and illegal) successor, the Provincial Assembly. He also suffered the loss of his home by fire, alleged to have been set by opposition Tories. He moved his family out to the farmhouse and began rebuilding immediately. When the assembly appointed Bartlett and John Pickering as delegates to the Continental Congress, he declined because he wished to attend to his family, but remained active in New Hampshire's affairs. In one of Governor Wentworth's last acts before being expelled from New Hampshire in 1775, he revoked Bartlett's commissions as Justice, Militia Colonel, and Assemblyman. Continental Congress Bartlett was selected as a delegate again in 1775, and attended that session as well as the meetings in 1776. Indeed, for a time in late 1775 and early 1776, he was the only delegate attending from New Hampshire. Much of the work of the Congress was carried out in Committees. The most important of these had a delegate from each state, which meant that Bartlett served on all of them, including those of Safety, Secrecy, Munitions, Marine, and Civil Government. Eventually, after his continued letters home to the Assembly and Committee of Safety in New Hampshire, William Whipple and Matthew Thornton were added to the delegation in Philadelphia. When the question of declaring independence from Great Britain was officially brought up in 1776, as a representative of the northernmost colony Bartlett was the first to be asked, and answered in the affirmative. He eventually became one of the delegates to sign the Declaration of Independence. In 1777, he declined a return to the congress, citing fatigue due to earlier efforts. But when trouble threatened, he used his medical skills and accompanied John Stark's forces to the Battle of Bennington in August. He was re-elected to Congress in 1778, and served on the committee that drafted the Articles of Confederation. But, after the articles were adopted, he returned to New Hampshire to attend to personal business. This was the last of his federal service. While he was at the Congress in 1776, his wife Mary had managed the farm, seen to the completion of rebuilding their house, cared for nine children, and given birth to Hannah. Later career Although he remained in the state after 1778, in 1779 he returned to his role as a judge, serving in the Court of Common Pleas. Then in 1782 he was appointed to the New Hampshire Supreme Court despite not being a lawyer. In 1788, Bartlett was made the Chief Justice of the state supreme court. That same year he was a delegate to the New Hampshire convention for adoption of the Constitution, serving part of the time as its Chairman. He argued for ratification, which finally took place on June 21, 1788. The legislature of the new State of New Hampshire selected him to be a U. S. Senator, but he declined the office. As Governor In 1790 Bartlett secured legislation recognizing the New Hampshire Medical Society. He was also elected chief executive of New Hampshire. He served in 1791 and 1792 as President. Then when the new State Constitution took effect in 1792 he continued, now as governor. He resigned in 1794 after four years because of declining health; he died the next year. During his tenure, he oversaw the installation of a new state constitution, compilation of the laws and statutes in force, and provision for the early payment of the State's debt. He actively promoted agriculture and manufacturing, the improvement of roads, and saw the start of projects to build canals. Medical career Bartlett actively practiced medicine for 45 years, after having apprenticed with another doctor and then establishing his own practice at the age of 20. Around 1735, the area around Kingston suffered an epidemic of a fever and canker called throat distemper. For adults it was a serious illness, and for children it was frequently fatal, especially among the very young. When the illness struck again in 1754, Bartlett experimented with therapy using several available drugs, and empirically discovered that Peruvian Bark would relieve symptoms long enough to allow recovery. Bartlett founded and was the first president of the New Hampshire Medical Society. In 1790, he delivered the commencement address at Dartmouth College when his son Ezra graduated. Though the honor was in part due to his signing of the Declaration of Independence and his new selection as President of the New Hampshire Medical Society, it was in large measure a recognition of his medical career. Josiah Bartlett was awarded an honorary M.D. (Doctor of Medicine) the same day his son was awarded the same degree. Death and legacy Bartlett retired to his home in Kingston and died there on May 19, 1795. The cause of death was paralysis. He is buried next to his wife Mary in the Plains Cemetery, also at Kingston. Relatives of Bartlett still live in his home; the Josiah Bartlett House was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1971. A bronze statue of Bartlett stands in the town square of Amesbury, Massachusetts. His portrait hangs in the State House in Concord, New Hampshire, drawn from an original by John Trumbull. Bartlett, New Hampshire, a town just north of Conway, is named in his honor, and the Josiah Bartlett Elementary School is a visible presence on its major roadway. Bartlett is featured on a New Hampshire historical marker (number 46) along New Hampshire Route 111 in Kingston. The Bartlett School in Amesbury, which operated from 1870 until it was closed in 1968, operates as the Bartlett Museum, Inc., a nonprofit museum. In popular culture Bartlett is a character in both the 1969 stage musical 1776 as well as the 1972 American musical film 1776 directed by Peter H. Hunt. The fictional U.S. president on The West Wing, a popular NBC television drama series, is named "Josiah Bartlet". Despite the spelling difference, the character (played by Martin Sheen), who is also the former Governor and Congressman from New Hampshire, is a fictional direct descendant of this New Hampshire signer of the Declaration of Independence. In one episode, the fictional Bartlet is getting ready for his official presidential portrait and asks, "no chance John Trumbull is available to do this?". Dr. Mark Craig, the St. Elsewhere character portrayed by William Daniels, who was the original Broadway cast's John Adams in the musical, 1776, often drops the name of Dr. Josiah Bartlett, a bigwig at "Boston General", the TV series' fictional equivalent of Massachusetts General Hospital. References Leach, Frank Willing. Descendants of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence. Salt Lake City, UT: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1966. Print. Further reading "Papers of Josiah Bartlett"; 1979, Olympic Marketing Corporation; . External links Biography by Rev. Charles A. 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Slough (UK Parliament constituency) Slough is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Tan Dhesi, a member of the Labour Party, since the 2017 UK general election. Slough had previously been represented since 1997 by Fiona Mactaggart, also of the Labour Party, until she stepped down from politics. Constituency profile The Conservatives gained the new Slough seat in 1983, and held it until 1997, when Labour gained the constituency. Workless claimants stood at 3.9% in November 2012, just 0.1% above the national average, and while lower than all of eastern Kent and the Isle of Wight, statistically significantly greater than the regional average of 2.5%. The borough has one of the largest mixed commercial (company headquarters and manufacturing) estates in Europe and fast rail links to London on the Great Western Main Line, to be bolstered by direct city centre services with Crossrail. The area is also the part of the M4 corridor that is the closest to the capital and London Heathrow Airport. The seat has a large Asian population with Hindu, Muslim and Sikh communities, and less than half of the seat's population is White. It has one of the highest proportions of Sikh residents of any seat outside of London and the metropolitan West Midlands at 10%, with its newly elected member, Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi, becoming Britain's first turbaned Sikh MP in the 2017 general election. History From 1945 to 1983 most of the area presently covered by this seat was in the Eton and Slough constituency, which was a marginal seat usually held by the Labour Party. The Labour MP from 1950 to 1964 was the veteran politician Fenner Brockway, a radical progressive social democrat, who led in writing on pacifism, prison reform, anti-colonialism and anti-discrimination, was editor of the Labour Leader, attended talks by the Fabian Society and had joined the fledgling Independent Labour Party in 1907. The Slough constituency was created for the 1983 general election from the bulk of the abolished Borough Constituency of Eton and Slough, which contributed 88.2% of the constituency. The remaining northern slice came from the safe Conservative constituency of Beaconsfield. It currently covers the Borough of Slough, with the exception of the Colnbrook with Poyle ward, which was added to the Windsor constituency after it was created within the Borough of Slough as a result of minor boundary changes involving the counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Surrey in 1998. As of the 2017 general election, the seat is one of two Labour seats from a total of eight seats in Berkshire. Boundaries and boundary changes 1983–1997: The Borough of Slough. 1997–2010: The Borough of Slough wards of Baylis, Britwell, Central, Chalvey, Cippenham, Farnham, Haymill, Kederminster, Langley St Mary's, Stoke, Upton, and Wexham Lea. 2010–present: The Borough of Slough wards of Baylis and Stoke, Britwell, Central, Chalvey, Cippenham Green, Cippenham Meadows, Farnham, Foxborough, Haymill, Kedermister, Langley St Mary’s, Upton, and Wexham Lea. The Foxborough ward was transferred to Windsor for the 1997 general election, but returned in 2010. Members of Parliament Elections Elections in the 2010s Elections in the 2000s Elections in the 1990s Elections in the 1980s See also List of Parliamentary constituencies in Berkshire Slough Borough Council includes historical information about wards and local elections Notes and references Notes References Sources British Parliamentary Constituencies, A Statistical Compendium, by Ivor Crewe and Anthony Fox (Faber and Faber 1984). Official list of candidates nominated 2010 Slough Borough Council website accessed 21 April 2010 External links The Boundary Committee for England page about Slough Unitary Authority, with links to pre and post 2004 ward maps Category:Parliamentary constituencies in Berkshire Category:Government and politics of Slough Category:United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1983
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TripleA __NOTOC__ TripleA is a free and open-source turn based strategy game based on the Axis & Allies board game. Gameplay features multiplayer and several AIs for single-player mode. For live multiplayer games, the community maintains two lobbies for the most current Stable and Unstable versions. There is also a Play by Email multiplayer mode. A wide variety of map scenarios have been developed for (e.g. World War II, Punic Wars and Napoleonic wars) with a variety of rules, units and many options, such as "low luck" which reduces the number of dice rolled making game depend more on strategy. History is developed in Java and can run on personal computers with Java SE installed. Some designers also worked on FreeCol, and . Originally set up on Sourceforge repository in 2002, development was in 2016 migrated to GitHub. In February 2018 the game's GPLv2 license was re-licensed to the GPLv3. Reception has been compared to Axis & Allies and also Risk. A Chip.de review called a and ranked it 30 of 238 in their strategy game ranking list. Chip.de named also among the in 2011. A cnet.com/download.com staff review rated it 4.5 of 5 and noted that . A Games4Mac review of the macOS version rated the game 70 of 100 in 2006. giga.de rated TripleA 3 of 5. Other reviewers of TripleA include Macworld, Ghacks, and O'Reilly Media, Inc.. A review in German computer print magazine LinuxUser 2007 / 12 praised the Linux version of TripleA as and . Linux Format magazine in December 2011 reviewed the game and called it and . was also used and mentioned in computer science relating scientific publications due to its open source nature and project size and maturity. The Polish game magazine CD-Action included on a cover disk in 2012. As is fully free and DFSG conform in software and content, it is included in many Linux distributions, for instance Ubuntu OS, Gentoo, or Debian. became a popular freeware title which was offered by multiple download outlets, including digital distributor Desura. Alone from Sourceforge.net the client was downloaded between 2002 and 2016 over 1.2 million times. The game's maps are provided via a separated Sourceforge repository and are there downloaded after a client (from whatever source) was installed and started, indicating the existence of over 7 million installations between 2010 and May 2017. See also Axis & Allies (1998 video game) List of open source games References External links Category:Open-source strategy video games Category:World War II grand strategy computer games Category:Freeware games Category:Linux games Category:Java platform games
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List of Australian mammal emblems This is a list of Australian mammal emblems. References See also List of Australian bird emblems List of Australian floral emblems Category:Zoology-related lists Mammal emblems Australian Mammal
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Barazi Barazi (, also Romanized as Barāzī) is a village in Chahriq Rural District, Kuhsar District, Salmas County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 232, in 41 families. References Category:Populated places in Salmas County
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2014–15 SG Sonnenhof Großaspach season SG Sonnenhof Großaspach are a German football club which are based in Aspach, Baden-Württemberg. During the 2014/15 campaign they will be competing in the 3.Liga. Competitions 3.Liga League table Matches References External links Official team site SG Sonnenhof Großaspach at Weltfussball.de Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv historical German domestic league tables eufo.de European club profiles and current rosters Category:SG Sonnenhof Großaspach seasons Sonnenhof Großaspach
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Chronological list of Spanish classical composers The following is a chronological list of classical music composers who have lived in, worked in, or been citizens of Spain. Renaissance Baroque Classical era Romantic Modern/Contemporary Spanish Composers Category:Spanish music-related lists
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Frank Patterson Frank Patterson (5 October 1938 – 10 June 2000) was an internationally renowned Irish tenor following in the tradition of singers such as Count John McCormack and Josef Locke. He was known as "Ireland's Golden Tenor". Early life Patterson was born in Clonmel, County Tipperary on 5 October 1938. As a boy he performed with his local parish choir and was involved in maintaining the annual tradition of singing with the Wrenboys. Frank received special encouragement from local connoisseur Tommy O'Brien after a Highschool performance as Lazarello in Maritana. He sang in the local St. Mary's Choral Society and at a production of The Pirates of Penzance performed with both his parents. Frank's interests extended beyond music and as a boy he represented Marlfield GAA hurling club, played tennis at Hillview and golf at the Mountain Road course. He quit school at an early stage to work at 'Slater's', the printing business of his mother's family. Patterson moved to Dublin in 1961 to enrol at the National Academy of Theatre and Allied Arts where he studied acting while at the same time receiving vocal training from Dr. Hans Waldemar Rosen. In 1964 he entered the Feis Ceoil, a nationwide music competition in which he won several sections including Oratorio, Lieder and the German Gold Cup. Career Patterson gave classical recitals around Ireland and won scholarships to study in London, Paris and in the Netherlands. While in Paris, he appeared in a radio broadcast which caught the attention of the Philips Record Company. This led to a contract and his first record, My Dear Native Land. He worked with conductors such as Sir Colin Davis and some of the most prestigious orchestras in Europe including the London Symphony Orchestra and Orchestre de Paris. He also toured with Janine Micheau in Pelléas et Mélisande and won a reputation as a singer of Handel, Mozart, and Bach oratorios and German, Italian and French song. Patterson had a long-running programme on RTÉ, the Irish national broadcaster, titled For Your Pleasure. In the early 1980s he moved to the United States, making his home in rural Westchester County, New York. A resurgence of interest in Irish culture encouraged him to turn towards a more traditional Irish repertoire. Adding hymns, ballads, and traditional as well as more popular tunes to his catalogue he became a popular singer in a country with a strong Irish connection and in March 1988 was featured host in a St. Patrick's Day celebration of music and dance at New York's famous Radio City Music Hall. He gave an outdoor performance on the steps of the Capitol in Washington with the National Symphony Orchestra before an audience of 60,000. Patterson was equally at home in more intimate settings, such as a concert he gave for Boys' Town. His singing in the role of the Evangelist in Bach's St. John Passion was given fine reviews. Further recordings followed, of Beethoven arrangements, Irish songs, Berlioz songs, Purcell songs and others, all on the Philips label. Frank Patterson performed sell-out concerts from London's Royal Albert Hall to New York's Carnegie Hall, and with his family he presented two concerts at the White House, for presidents Ronald Reagan in 1982 and Bill Clinton in 1995. He recorded over thirty albums in six languages, won silver, gold and platinum discs and was the first Irish singer to host his own show in Radio City Music Hall in New York. Rising to greater prominence with the new popularity of Celtic music in the 1990s, Patterson saw many of his past recordings reissued for American audiences, and in 1998 he starred in the PBS special 'Ireland in Song'. His last album outsold Pavarotti. In recognition of his musical achievements he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Salve Regina University, Newport in 1990 an honorary doctorate in fine arts from Manhattan College in 1996 and the Gold Medal of the Éire Society of Boston in 1998. Film Patterson appeared in several films, starting with The Dead (1987), an adaptation of a story by James Joyce, which was directed by John Huston and starred his daughter Anjelica Huston. Patterson played Bartell D'Arcy, the character who sings The Lass of Aughrim. Patterson is heard twice in the Coen brothers film Millers Crossing (1990), in which he sings both Danny Boy and Goodnight Sweetheart. In 1996 he appeared as "Tenor in Restaurant" in Neil Jordan's Michael Collins, singing Macushla. A recording of him singing the Irish traditional Dan Tucker also appeared in Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York (2002). Religion and social conscience Patterson was a devout Catholic, and in 1979 sang at the Mass celebrated by Pope John Paul II in Dublin's Phoenix Park before a congregation of almost a million people. In 1984 he was awarded the Knighthood of St. Gregory by the Pope. He was also a Knight of Malta and a Knight Commander of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem. While many of his Irish songs were quite sentimental, he did not indulge in strongly nationalistic themes and the first funds raised for the Glencree Centre for Peace and Reconciliation in the early 1970s were takings from a concert he gave in the Rupert Guinness Hall. Later, he continued to donate to the Centre from performances by him at the National Concert Hall in Dublin. Faith of our Fathers Patterson was one of various artists (including the Monks of Glenstal Abbey, the RTÉ Philharmonic Choir, and the Dublin Philharmonic Orchestra) to create the Faith of Our Fathers album, which topped the Irish Albums Chart for two months in 1996. Illness and death In 1999, he learned he had a brain tumour. He had several operations in the following year and his condition appeared to have stabilised. Cardinal O'Connor, in his personal funeral plan, had requested that Frank Patterson sing Ave Maria at his funeral. , Patterson was diagnosed with a recurrence of his illness on May 7, 2000 and he cancelled his appearance at the Cardinal's funeral on the following morning, May 8. Following the Cardinals's funeral Patterson briefly recuperated and resumed performing. Patterson's last performance was on June 4, 2000, at Regis College in Weston, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston. Shortly thereafter he was admitted to the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center where he lapsed into a coma and died at the age of 61. At his death accolades and tributes came from, among others, President of Ireland Mary McAleese, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and Opposition leader John Bruton who said he had "the purest voice of his generation." He was survived by his wife, the concert pianist Eily O'Grady, their son Eanan, a violinist with whom he frequently performed, and by his sister Imelda Malone and brothers Noel and Maurice. Legacy In December 2005 Lisa Marie Presley attended a celebrity wedding in County Tipperary, and while there made a detour to place flowers on Patterson's grave as a tribute from the Presley family, impressed by Patterson's interpretations of songs later performed by Elvis. "You'll come and find the place where I am lying, And kneel and say an Ave there for me; And I shall hear, though soft you tread above me, And all my grave will warmer, sweeter be, For you will bend and tell me that you love me, And I shall sleep in peace until you come to me." In February 2002. an independent film-maker, Johnny Watts, met Eily Patterson on Staten Island, New York . This meeting resulted in 'The Tribute in Song', a series of three one-hour programmes featuring Patterson's music to commemorate those killed in Manhattan in 9/11 which also became a moving tribute to Frank Patterson himself. In September 2008, Watts personally presented to the Irish Consulate in New York City, a plaque that honoured Frank Patterson's contribution to 'Tribute in Song'. It was intended that the plaque would be returned to Patterson's native Clonmel. A bronze life-size piece by sculptor Jerry McKenna from Texas, titled "The Golden Tenor Statue", was unveiled to his memory in Mick Delahunty Square, Clonmel, in June 2002. References Sources Irish Times Obituary, 17 June 2000. It was said the whole world seemed still when he sang. External links Documented recitals in Ireland by Patterson from Arts and Humanities Research Council (hosted by Cardiff University and the Royal College of Music). Category:1938 births Category:2000 deaths Category:20th-century Irish singers Category:20th-century opera singers Category:Irish male singers Category:Irish operatic tenors Category:Knights of Malta Category:Knights of St. Gregory the Great Category:Knights of the Holy Sepulchre Category:Musicians from County Tipperary
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Kolkata Monorail Kolkata Monorail is a rail-based transit project planned for the city of Kolkata, West Bengal, India. The Kolkata-based Andromeda Technologies has received the order for building a monorail public transport system in 2008. Corridors The First Monorail corridor, Budge Budge to Taratala in Kolkata, was awarded to Andromeda Technologies Pvt. Ltd. (ATPL) on BOO (Build, Own and Operate) basis but so far only the viability study and preliminary survey has been done by ATPL. According to Biplab Bhattacharya, on behalf of the ATPL; lack of support from financial institution and "unfavourable" conditions, the project is yet to take a leap forward. This system is perfect for feeder services to any existing or proposed LRT corridor as well as sustainable as a stand-alone MRTS project. Phase I Corridor 1: Budge Budge to Taratala . The work has started. The Transport department of West Bengal state government, in 2007, given on order to Andromeda Technologies Pvt. Ltd. for implementing this project on BOO basis. But now the project has come to a halt for now. Phase II Corridor 2: Taratala to Rajarhat . The work has not started yet. Other projects: The project will comprise,40-km-long elevated tracks from Barrackpore to Joka, passing through the city’s Central Business District. There will be 37 stations, including Joka, Behala, Esplanade, Panihati and Barrackpore, between the two terminal stations and reportedly it will be covered in 90 minutes. The trains will have four coaches and initially, around 120,000 passengers will be ferried in the first phase of the project. Later, the capacity is to be raised to 480,000. See also Kolkata Metro References Category:Transport in Kolkata Category:Proposed monorails in India Category:Companies based in Kolkata
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Walter Lyon (Pennsylvania) Walter Lyon (April 27, 1853 – March 21, 1933) was the sixth Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania as a Republican from 1895 to 1899. He was born in Shaler Township, Pennsylvania. He was educated at the Wakeam Academy and was admitted to the bar as an attorney in 1876. In 1889, he was appointed as United States District Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania. He resigned from this position in 1893 to run for Pennsylvania State Senate; he served in this body for one term until his election as Lieutenant Governor. After leaving politics, he founded the Pittsburgh law firm of Lyon, Hunter & Burke. He later retired to Sewickley, Pennsylvania. External links The Political Graveyard Category:1853 births Category:1933 deaths Category:Pennsylvania state senators Category:Lieutenant Governors of Pennsylvania Category:People from Shaler Township, Pennsylvania Category:United States Attorneys for the Western District of Pennsylvania Category:Pennsylvania Republicans
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Toni Iwobi Toni Chike Iwobi (born 26 April 1955), better known as Tony Iwobi, is an Italian politician for Lega Nord who was elected to the Italian Senate in the 2018 general election. Early life and education Born in the city of Gusau in northern Nigeria, he is of Igbo descent. He is one of 11 siblings in a Roman Catholic family. He attended Catholic schools. His mother tongue is Igbo and English. He completed a degree in economics with specialization in marketing and business management in Manchester, England. He came to Italy on a student visa in 1976, and obtained a degree in accounting in Treviglio. He also has higher degrees (laurea) in computer science from USA and Italy. Career Iwobi is the founder and since 2001 managing director of Data Communication Labs Ltd. Previously he worked for AMSA (Azienda Milanese Servizi Ambientali) and has worked for a company in Roveredo, Switzerland. A supporter of federalism, which he knew from Nigeria, he became a member of Lega Nord, where he was particularly inspired by Gianfranco Miglio. In 1993, he was elected municipal councillor for the party in Spirano, a position he held until 2014. From 2010 to 2014 he also served as assessor with responsibility for social services. Iwobi was in 2014 selected by party leader Matteo Salvini to draft Lega Nord's new immigration policy which had a hard stance against illegal immigration and played a big role in the party's campaign in the 2018 Italian general election. In the 2018 general election he was elected to the Italian Senate, becoming the first black person to take a seat in the Senate. He is general counsel of the Italy-USA Foundation. Personal life He is married to an Italian woman and has two children. References Category:1955 births Category:Living people Category:People from Zamfara State Category:Nigerian emigrants to Italy Category:Italian people of Nigerian descent Category:Italian Roman Catholics Category:Lega Nord politicians Category:Senators of Legislature XVIII of Italy Category:Politicians of Lombardy
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Paykan F.C. Paykan Football Club () is a football team based in Tehran, Iran. The team is sponsored by Iran's main automobile manufacturer Iran Khodro and is named after one of its older products; the Paykan car. Paykan F.C. is the football club of the multisport Paykan Sport Club which also includes Basketball and volleyball teams. History Establishment The club was established in 1967 by Mahmoud Khayami with financial help from the Iran Khodro factory. The main objective was to promote their factory's products, and improve their reputation. They were able to lure great players such as Ali Parvin, Majid Halvaei and Amir Abedini, and several of the Persepolis players of the time. In 1969 the team became the Tehran City League's champions and the team appeared to have a bright future. The team was dissolved in 1970 after a series of difficulties between the players and management. Most of the players went back to Persepolis. Rebirth of Paykan Paykan still operated without a football team specifically in the 1980s but carried on with basketball, handball, and volleyball teams. Paykan did not have a football team until the year 2000, when they were able to buy Bahman's shares and participate in the top level of Iranian football after 30 years. The team participated in the 2000–01 Azadegan League with Bahman's squad but with a different coach. Among Iranian football clubs, the team is known to have one of the better organizations in terms of facilities and management. The team had little success and were relegated from the Iran Pro League in the 2004–05 season. They were back in the IPL for the 06–07 season where they finished a respectable 7th and showed their ability to compete at the highest standard. Relocation to Qazvin In 2008 Paykan was moved to Qazvin because the city of Tehran had many football teams with low attendance figures. They started the season well but toward the end their results got worse. The team changed their coach in the last weeks of the 2008–09 season and finished in mid table. Although they finished in the top half of the table in 2009–10 season the club chairman decided to replace Hamid Derakhshan with Mohammad Ahmadzadeh as the head coach. Paykan were relegated in 2010–2011, but the following year they earned their promotion back to the Iran Pro League for the 2012–2013 season. Tehran and Qods Paykan moved back to Tehran and started playing in the newly renovated Takhti Stadium. Paykan was relegated to Azadegan League again in April 2013. Before the start of the 2013–14 season Paykan once again relocate and this time to the city of Qods. In the 2013–2014 season Paykan finished 2nd in the Azadegan League, thus giving them a shot at Iran Pro League promotion. Paykan defeated Siah Jamegan 3–1 on aggregate and advanced to play Iran Pro League club Fajr Sepasi in a promotion play-off. The first game in Shiraz ended 0–0 with neither team getting the upper hand. But, in the return leg in Qods, Paykan achieved promotion with a lone goal in the 65th minute. Following the good support from the people of Qods, Paykan announced they will be playing in that city for the 2014–15 Persian Gulf Pro League season. At the end of the 2014–15 season, Paykan finished 15th and was relegated. In the 2015–16 Azadegan League season, Paykan finished first and were directly promoted to the Persian Gulf Pro League. In the winter of 2017, after a good first half of the season, Paykan became the first ever Persian Gulf Pro League side to sign an Afghan player, when they signed Afghan national team captain Faysal Shayesteh. Seasons Sponsorship Official sponsors For the 2007/08 season it has been announced that Paykan's official kit sponsor will be ISACO. Kit providers 2008/09: Majid 2009/10: Daei 2011/12: Umbro Club chairmen Nader Shahsavari (1970–05) Hossein Kafami (2005–06) Ibrahim Sanaei (2006–07) Mostafa Karkhaneh (2007–08) Mohammad-Reza Davarzani (2008) Kamran Sahebpanah (2008–10) Mahmoud Shiyi (2010–present) Club managers Managerial history Alan Rogers (1969–70) Klaus Schlappner (2000-01) Hamid Alidoosti (2001–02) Bijan Zolfagharnasab (2002–03) Homayoun Shahrokhi (2003–04) Mohammad Mayeli Kohan (2004–05) Farhad Kazemi (2005–06) Samvel Darbinyan (2006–08) Ali Asghar Modir Roosta (2008–09) Hamid Derakhshan (2009–10) Mohammad Ahmadzadeh (2010) Hamid Alidousti (2010–11) Mohammad Hossein Ziaei (2011) Farhad Kazemi (2011–12) Abdollah Veisi (2012–13) Firouz Karimi (2013) Farhad Kazemi (2013–14) Mansour Ebrahimzadeh (2014) Samad Marfavi (2014–15) Alireza Marzban (2015–16) Majid Jalali (2016–18) Hossein Faraki (2018–present) Players First-team squad Updated as December 10, 2018 Loan list For recent transfers, see List of Iranian football transfers winter 2018–19. Former players For notable former players, see :Category:Paykan F.C. players. Honours Azadegan League: Winners (2): 2011–12, 2015–16 Runners–up (1): 2005–06, 2013–14 Tehran Football League: Winners (1): 1969–70 References External links Official website Peykan's History in IPL Farhad Kazemi's official website (Iran Pro League) Category:Football clubs in Iran Category:Association football clubs established in 1967 Category:Sport in Tehran Category:1967 establishments in Iran
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Will Jason Will Jason (1910–1970) was an American film and television director. He shot a number of short films for MGM during the early 1940s. Selected filmography The Soul of a Monster (1944) Tahiti Nights (1944) Eve Knew Her Apples (1945) Ten Cents a Dance (1945) Blonde Alibi (1946) The Dark Horse (1946) Idea Girl (1946) Slightly Scandalous (1946) Sarge Goes to College (1947) Smart Politics (1948) Music Man (1948) Campus Sleuth (1948) Rusty Leads the Way (1948) Kazan (1949) Everybody's Dancin' (1950) Disc Jockey (1951) Chain of Circumstance (1951) Thief of Damascus (1952) References Bibliography Bernard A. Drew. Motion Picture Series and Sequels: A Reference Guide. Routledge, 2013. External links Category:1910 births Category:1970 deaths Category:American television directors Category:Film directors from New York City Category:People from New York City
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Phaeobacter leonis Phaeobacter leonis is a Gram-negative, strictly aerobic and heterotrophic bacteria from the genus of Phaeobacter which has been isolated from anoxic marine sediments from the Gulf of Lions. References Category:Rhodobacteraceae Category:Bacteria described in 2013
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Ashleelotar Daye Ashlilatar Daye () (meaning: "Accusation for vulgarity") is a Bengali film released in 1983. The film is based on a thriller cum courtroom drama novel by the Narayan Sanyal with the same title, which was published in 1975. Sanyal took this novel theme from Seven Minutes by Irving Wallace. This film directed by Uma Nath Bhattacharya. Arundhati Hom Chaudhury and Haimanti Sukla sang in this film. Pabitra Chattopadhyay was the lyricist. Starring Chiranjeet Chakraborty Alpana Goswami Dilip Roy Biplab Chatterjee Anamika Saha Satya Banerjee Sanghmitra Banerjee Santana Basu Plot See also Bhanu Pelo Lottery Golpo Holeo Sotyi References Category:1983 films Category:Indian films Category:Bengali-language films Category:1980s Bengali-language films
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René Sporleder René Sporleder (born 30 November 1969) is a German judoka. Achievements References Category:1969 births Category:Living people Category:German male judoka
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Menlo, Kansas Menlo is a city in Thomas County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 61. History Menlo was located on the Union Pacific Railroad as it existed at the time. The rail line subsequently moved south, and the tracks through Menlo have been removed. A post office was opened in Menlo in 1888, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1992. Geography Menlo is located at (39.356117, -100.724339). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land. Demographics 2010 census As of the census of 2010, there were 61 people, 18 households, and 15 families residing in the city. The population density was . There were 22 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 98.4% White and 1.6% Native American. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.6% of the population. There were 18 households of which 44.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 77.8% were married couples living together, 5.6% had a male householder with no wife present, and 16.7% were non-families. 16.7% of all households were made up of individuals and 5.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.39 and the average family size was 3.80. The median age in the city was 26.5 years. 36.1% of residents were under the age of 18; 8.3% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 32.8% were from 25 to 44; 18% were from 45 to 64; and 4.9% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 45.9% male and 54.1% female. 2000 census As of the census of 2000, there were 57 people, 22 households, and 11 families residing in the city. The population density was 495.2 people per square mile (183.4/km²). There were 23 housing units at an average density of 199.8 per square mile (74.0/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 98.25% White, and 1.75% from two or more races. There were 22 households out of which 40.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 54.5% were married couples living together, and 45.5% were non-families. 40.9% of all households were made up of individuals and 18.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.59 and the average family size was 3.83. In the city, the population was spread out with 35.1% under the age of 18, 5.3% from 18 to 24, 28.1% from 25 to 44, 24.6% from 45 to 64, and 7.0% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 29 years. For every 100 females, there were 83.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 105.6 males. The median income for a household in the city was $16,250, and the median income for a family was $27,500. Males had a median income of $26,071 versus $21,250 for females. The per capita income for the city was $9,475. There were 25.0% of families and 17.6% of the population living below the poverty line, including no under eighteens and none of those over 64. Education School unification consolidated Menlo, Rexford and Selden schools forming USD 316 Golden Plains. The Golden Plains High School mascot is Bulldogs. Menlo High School was closed through school unification. The Menlo High School mascot was Menlo Tigers. References Further reading External links City Menlo - Directory of Public Officials Schools USD 316, local school district Maps Menlo City Map, KDOT Category:Cities in Kansas Category:Cities in Thomas County, Kansas
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Demodamas Demodamas () (flourished in the 3rd century BC), was a Seleucid official of the 3rd century BC. Demodamas was born in Miletus, and was the son of Aristides. He served as a general of the Seleucids under Seleucus I Nicator and Antiochus I Soter. Around 294-293 and 281-280 BC, Demodamas served as the satrap of the Seleucids in Bactria and Sogdiana. At the time he undertook military expeditions across the Syr Darya to explore the lands of the Scythians, during which he furthered farther to the north than any Greeks before him, with the possible exception of Alexander the Great. During the expedition he repopulated Alexandria Eschate, which had been destroyed by a previous barbarian attack. He also constructed several altars in honour of Apollo along the river. Demodamas later wrote an autobiographical account of his expeditions in Central Asia, which served as an important source for the Roman geographers Strabo and Pliny the Elder. See also Patrocles Megasthenes Footnotes Sources Category:Ancient Greek explorers Category:Ancient Greek geographers Category:Ancient Milesians Category:Seleucid generals Category:Seleucid satraps
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List of national identity card policies by country This is a list of identity document policies by country. A national identity document ("ID", "ID card", "identity card", "IC", "citizen card" or "passport card") is an identity card with photo, usable as an identity card at least inside the country, and which is issued by an official authority. Driver's licenses and other cards issued by regional governments indicating certain permissions are not counted here as national identity cards. So for example, by this criterion, the United States driver's license is excluded, as these are issued by local (state) governments (although these or state IDs are more or less required as nationwide identification). Identity card policies by country Countries with compulsory identity cards According to a 1996 publication by Privacy International, around 100 countries had enacted laws making identity cards compulsory. In these countries, the card must be shown on demand by authorised personnel under specified circumstances. In some countries alternative proof of identity, such as a driving licence is acceptable. Privacy International said that "virtually no common law country has a card". The term "compulsory" may have different meanings and implications in different countries. of a card may only become compulsory at a certain age. There may be a penalty for not a card or similar official identification such as a passport. In some cases a person may be detained until identity is proven. This facilitates police identification of fugitives. In some countries, police need a reason, such as suspicion of a crime or security risk. In other countries, police can ask for official identification without stating a reason. Random checks are rare, except in police states. Normally there is an age limit, such as 18, after which possession is mandatory, even if minors aged 15–17 may need a card in order to prove that they are under 18. In the European Union, a citizen's national identity card – if it complies with certain technical standards and states citizenship – can in most cases be used to travel (within the EU) in lieu of a passport. {| class="sortable wikitable" |- ! width=180pt|Country ! width=280pt|Name ! Description |- | | Tazkira (Afghan identity card) | The Tazkira is an electronic ID card. |- | | Letërnjoftimi (Albanian Identity Card) | The Letërnjoftimi is an electronic biometric ID card, compulsory upon 16 years old and costs 1200 lekë (€10). |- | | بطاقة الهوية الوطنية/ Carte nationale d’identité (Algerian National Identity card) | The Algerian national identity card is an electronic biometric ID card, compulsory for all Algerian nationals and costs 2500 Algerian Dinar. |- | | Bilhete de identidade de cidadäo nacional (national citizen identity card) | The Angola national identity electronic is compulsory. It contains the person's name, date of birth, date and place of issue, validity, affiliation, photo, Marital status, fingerprint of the citizen's right indicator, a signature and address. Nevertheless, more than 12 million Angolans do not possess a national identity card. |- | | Electoral National Identification card | The Antiguan and Barbudan national identity card is compulsory for voting as well as for different government transactions. |- | | Documento Nacional de Identidad (DNI) (National Identity Card) | The Documento Nacional de Identidad (DNI) is issued at a person's birth, and updated at 8 and 14 years of age, and thereafter renewed every fifteen years. For many years, the DNI was issued as a small booklet (libreta). In 2009, the DNI was revamped and digitalized; and booklets were issued along with a card (tarjeta) simultaneously. Since 2012, DNIs are issued only in card format, and starting in 2015, they'll have a chip with information of the holder and NFC payment. The new DNI card is required to obtain a new Argentine Passport and there are penalties if they aren't renewed in time. |- | | Şəxsiyyət vəsiqəsi (Azerbaijan Identity Card) | The Şəxsiyyət vəsiqəsi is an ID card, compulsory upon 16 years old and costs 5 manats (€2,5). It is not compulsory to carry it at all time. |- |Bahrain |Central Popular Registration (CPR) |Central Population Register (CPR) is a nine digit (all numeric) identification number which is also called as personal number issued for all the residents living in Bahrain. In order to avail basic or any services, carry out financial transactions one must have CPR. |- | |National identity card (NID-Card)জাতীয় পরিচয়পত্র |National ID card is compulsory for all citizens at the age of 18. All Bangladeshis are issued with an NID Card which can be used to obtain a passport, Driving Licence, credit card, and to register land ownership. |- | | Нацыянальная ідэнтыфікацыйная карта (Belarus national identity card (since 2020)) | Belarus has combined the international passport and the internal passport into one document. It follows the international passport convention but has extra pages for domestic use. The Belarusian passport is compulsory at 14. Reissued every 10 years. Could be issued before 14 for travelling purposes. New biometric Identity cards are planned to be rolled out in 2020. |- | | Identiteitskaart / Carte d’Identité / Personalausweis (Identity Card) | The card is first issued at age 12, compulsory by 15. Since the beginning of 2005 the eID (electronic IDentity card) has been issued to Belgian citizens who apply for a new identity card. Apart from being a form of identification, the card also is used for authentication purposes. Future usages include using the eID as a library card, keycard for restricted areas or chatrooms and the digital signing of documents. It is expected that in 2009 all Belgians will have an eID card. They have to be carried at all times. |- | | Carte nationale d'identité (National identity card) | Compulsory. Biometric since 2016. |- | | Bhutan citizenship card | The Bhutanese national identity card is an electronic ID card, compulsory for all Bhutanese nationals and costs 100 Bhutanese ngultrum. |- | | Cédula de Identidad (Identity Card) | Compulsory at 18, but rarely required by police. |- | | Omang (National Identity Card) | It is compulsory for all citizens at age 16, and there are penalties for not obtaining it within one month of turning 16 or obtaining citizenship, whichever comes last. Includes the image of the individual (no headgear or eyewear), their particulars, and their right thumbprint. Valid for 10 years, whereupon it must be renewed and a new photograph taken. Must be presented upon request by any agent of the state, and the state requires all non-state institutions to use the national ID card as the only acceptable means of identification for citizens - passports and driver's licences should not be used, even though they contain most of the information on the ID card, including the ID card number. There are penalties for being issued a replacement card when it has been lost, however, if it is changed to update information on it only the application fee must be paid (e.g., upon expiry, and legal name changes as when a woman gets married and assumes her husband's surname). Every time a new one is issued for whatever reason, a new photograph must be taken. The individual keeps their national ID card number for life, and in recent years it has been linked to the birth certificate number of newborn infants (it is the same number). The national ID card must be surrendered to the government upon the demise of the individual, at which time it will be exchanged for an official death certificate. |- | | Lična Karta / Osobna iskaznica (Identity Card) | Compulsory at 16 and is to be carried at all times after turning 18. |- | | Cédula de Identidade (Identity Card) | Compulsory to be issued since the age of 18 (though it can be substituted by a series of equivalent documents, see below). It is usually issued, for civilians, by the secretariat of public security of each unit of the federation, but other – including the Armed Forces, the Police and some professional councils – can issue alternate identity cards, too. All must meet certain specifications – they are all coloured green – but each unit of the federation can include minor differences such as the numbering scheme, font, printed seal, and background pattern. The card's front has the bearer's picture (with an electronic stamp on it) and right thumb print. It also includes either the bearer's signature or – if the bearer is illiterate – the phrase "cannot sign" (não assina) The verso has the unique number assigned the bearer (registro geral or RG), the bearer's full name, parents' names, birthplace (locality and federation unit), birth date, and CPF number. It may include some additional information. It is officially 102 × 68 mm, but lamination tends to make it slightly larger than the ISO/IEC 7810 ID-2 standard of 105 × 74 mm, so it is a tight fit in most wallets. A driver's licence has only recently been given the same legal status as the national identity card. In most situations, only a few other documents can be substituted for a national identity card: for example, identification documents issued by national councils of professionals. |- | | Kad Pegenalan (National Identity Card) | Compulsory for all citizens at the age of 12. |- | | Лична карта (Identity Card) | First issued and is compulsory after turning the age of 14. The new Bulgarian ID cards were introduced in 1999. They follow the general pattern in the EU and replaced the old, Soviet-style "internal passports", also known as "green passports". Since 2007, the Bulgarian identity card can be used to travel within the European Union. Since 29 March 2010 new Bulgarian identity cards were introduced with embedded chip with personal data. |- | | Carte d'Identité Nationale Burkinabè (CNIB) [Burkinabé National Identity Card] | National Identity Card compulsory at the age of 15 and valid for 10 years. |- | | Carte Nationale d'Identité (CNI) [National Identity Card] | National Identity Card compulsory. Valid for international travel within the East African Community. |- | | Khmer Identity Card | Compulsory and biometric since 2011. |- | | Carte nationale d'identité / national identity card | Optional, although compulsory for voting, acquisition of both passports and driving licenses and for certain government transactions. |- | | Cartão nacional de identificação (Cape Verde national identity card) | The Cape Verdian national identity card (referred as “Citizen Card”) is an electronic biometric ID card, compulsory for all Cape Verdian nationals. The card format is identical to the Portuguese Citizen card, with information displayed in both Portuguese and English and is made by the same company, also in Portugal. New biometric identity cards are being issued since 2018, replacing the format paper (similar to the old Portuguese identity card) which was issued since 1957. |- | | Carte nationale d'identité (National identity card) | Compulsory. |- | | Carte nationale d'identité (National Identity Card) | Compulsory with a price of 10.000 CFA. |- | | Cédula de Identidad (Identity card) | Normally this is first issued at age 2 or 3, but it can be issued whenever the parents request its issue. It is compulsory at 18, when it has to be carried at all times. |- | | Resident Identity Card (居民身份证) | Normally this is first issued at school age, but it can be issued whenever the parents request its issue. |- | | Cédula de Ciudadanía (Identity card) | Registro Civil de Nacimiento (Birth record) issued when the parents register the newborn. Tarjeta de identidad is issued at age of 7. From 26 June 2013, is available the new format (coloured blue) with biometric features. The previous format (coloured pink) is still valid until the minor reaches 14, when he or she has to request the new blue format. Cédula de Ciudadanía is compulsory at the age of 18, and from 31 July 2010, the only valid format is the yellow one. It has to be carried at all times and must be presented to police or the military upon their request. |- | | Carte nationale d’identité (Comoros national identity card) | The Comorian national identity card is an ID card, compulsory for all Comorian nationals. Biometric since January 2018. |- | | Carte nationale d'identité (national identity card) | Compulsory at the age of 18. |- | | Cédula de identidad (Costa Rica) | Every citizen immediately must carry an ID card after turning 18. |- | | Osobna iskaznica (Personal card) | The Croatian identity card is compulsory for citizens of Croatia who have a permanent residence in Croatia and are at least 16 years old. By law, it must to be carried at all times. |- | | Carnet de identidad (Identity card) | N/A |- | | Greek: Δελτίο Ταυτότητας Turkish: Kimlik Kartı (Identity card) | Compulsory at 12. |- | | Občanský Průkaz (Civil card) | Compulsory at 15. |- | | Carte nationale d'identité/ بطاقة الهوية الوطنية (national identity card) | Compulsory for all Djiboutians. Electronic since 2014. |- | | Cédula de Identidad y Electoral (CIE)(Personality Verification Card) | If needed, an underage ID card may be obtained at the age of 16, yet the official ID (which will allow the individual to vote) is obtained at 18. |- | | بطاقة تحقيق الشخصية (Personality Verification Card) | The Personality Verification Card is compulsory at the age of 16. Issued by the Civil Registry Office which is subordinate to the Ministry of Interior. Not carrying the ID card is only penalised by fine not exceeding 200 EGP. |- | | Documento Único de Identidad (Unique Identity Document) | Every citizen 18 years or older must carry this ID card. |- | | Cédula de Identidad (National identity card) | Every citizen over 18 years must have a national identity card. The renewal of the card is $10.00. |- | | Documento de Identidad Personal (Personal Identity Document) | Compulsory to all citizens. |- | | ብሄራዊ መታወቂያ ካርድ (National identity card) | Compulsory for all Eritrean citizens. New version rolled out in 2014. |- | | Isikutunnistus (Identity card) | Compulsory by law, but there is no penalty for not having one. Many electronic services are available (legally binding digital signatures, internet banking, internet voting, strong authentication to government and private websites). Citizens carrying ID cards are not required to carry drivers licence and registration. |- | | ብሄራዊ መታወቂያ ካርድ (National Identity Card) | Compulsory to all Ethiopian citizens. |- | | Carte Nationale d'identité (National Identity card) | Compulsory. |- | | Gambian National Identity Card | All Gambian citizens 18 years or older are required to hold a Gambian National ID Card. |- | | ეროვნული პირადობის მოწმობა (National identity card) | Compulsory for Georgian citizens after turning 14 (within 6 months). Valid for international travel to Turkey. |- | | Personalausweis (Identity Card) | Compulsory for all German citizens aged 16 or older to possess either a "Personalausweis" (identity card) or a passport, but not to carry it. While police officers and some other officials have a right to demand to see one of those documents, the law does not state that one is obliged to submit the document immediately. Fines may only be applied if an identity card or passport is not possessed at all, if the document is expired or if one explicitly refuses to show ID to the police. If one is unable to produce an ID card or passport (or any other form of credible identification) during a police control, one can (in theory) be brought to the next police post and detained for a maximum of 12 hours, or until positive identification is possible. However, this measure is only applied if the police have reasonable grounds to believe the person detained has committed an offence.As driving licences are not legally accepted forms of identification in Germany, most persons actually carry their "Personalausweis" with them. more |- | | Ghana Card | Compulsory for Ghanaian citizens above 16. |- | | Αστυνομική Ταυτότητα (Police Identity Card) | In Greece, the biggest change in Identity Documents Law happened in 2000, when some fields of the Police Identity Card (as Greeks call it) were rejected. These fields included religion, addresses, biometric characteristics and fingerprint. Oppositely, some fields were added. These are Latin transliterations of name and surname, blood type and Rhesus of the owner. Under this law, all Greeks over 12 years old must go to a police office to ask for an Identity Card. In Greece, there are many everyday things you cannot do without an ID. In fact, according to an older law, the Police ID is the only legal identity document and no one has a right to ask for more identity documents. Since the 1980s all legal services in Greece must be done with this ID. Also, you can travel within the EU with a Greek national ID card, but it is not advisable since travelling with ID without machine readable zone often causes delay at border controls. Carrying the ID is not compulsory; however during routine police checks, if you are found without an ID, the police officer may take you to the nearest police station for further investigation. |- | | Documento Personal de Identificación (National Identity Document) | Identity cards are issued to any Guatemalan and legal residents. For children between 0 and 12 years the document is golden shaded; between 13 and 17 years the document is silvered. Documents for Guatemalan citizens are blue and for legal residents are red. Guatemalan constitution requires personal identification via documentation, person rooting or the government. If the person cannot be identified may be sent to a judge until identification is provided. |- | | Carte nationale d'identité (National identity card) | Compulsory with a price of 100.000/150.000 CFA. |- | | Bilhete de identidade CEDEAO (CEDEAO national identity card) | Biometric since 2018, with a price of 10,000 CFA. |- | | Guyana national identity card | The Guyanese national identity card is an electronic ID card, compulsory for all Guyanese nationals. |- | | Kat Identifikatsyon Natsyonal / Carte nationale d’identité (National identity card) | Compulsory. |- | | Cédula de identidad (national identity card) | The Honduran national identity card is an electronic ID card, compulsory for all Honduran nationals at the age of 18. |- | | Hong Kong Identity Card (HKID) | Identity cards have been used since 1949, and been compulsory since 1980. Children are required to obtain their first identity card at age 11, and must change to an adult identity card at age 18. Police officers have an absolute right to require every person aged 15 or above on public premises to produce their HKID or valid passport for inspection; failure to produce such photo ID constitutes an offence in law. |- | | Személyi igazolvány (Identity card) | See (in Hungarian) It is compulsory to possess an ID or passport from the age of 14. A driving license can be also used for identification from the age of 17. Private entities however, are legally required to accept passport or driver's licence for proof, but often do not accept them, only the ID card, thus in effect almost all citizens have the ID card. Police has the legal power to stop people on streets at random and ask for ID paper only if they have any proof that the person was involved in a crime, or is a witness. If the person has no proof for identification he/she can be detained for maximum 24 hours. It is a common misconception in Hungary that the Police can ask for your ID at any time, but since 1990 this is not the case. |- | | [[Indian identity card|Aadhaar]] (Identity card) | Proof of identity such as a passport, Aadhaar, ration card, PAN card, or driving licence is mandatory for issuing essentials such as electricity, water, mobile phone SIM cards, etc. Those without proof of identity can often not obtain such basics. Aadhaar is envisioned to be the only necessary and sufficient ID for obtaining a wide range of services. While Aadhaar is practically mandatory for the aforementioned services, its legal status is uncertain as the matter is sub-judice under the Supreme Court of India. |- | | Kartu Tanda Penduduk - KTP (Resident Identification Card) | The card is issued to Indonesian citizens and foreign nationals with permanent residence in the Republic of Indonesia. Possession of KTP is compulsory for residents whose age is 17 or older, and residents who is married before the age of 17. The electronic version (e-KTP) is valid indefinitely, unless the data recorded on the card has changed (e.g. address, marital status, etc.). |- | | کارت شناسائی ملی (National Identity card) | The Iranian national identity card is compulsory for citizens and permanent residents, aged 15 and over. |- | | Iraq National Card | The National Card is an electronic biometric ID card, compulsory for all Iraqi citizens starting in 2016 and costs 5,000 dinars. |- | | Teudat Zehut (Hebrew) (Arabic) | The Teudat Zehut is first issued at age 16 and is compulsory by 18. |- | | Carte Nationale d'Identité (CNI) National Identity Card | Compulsory at the age of 15. |- | | بطاقة شخصية (Personal card) | First issued at age 16 and is compulsory by 18. |- | | Жеке қуәлік (identity card) | Сompulsory at 16. |- | | Kitambulisho | All citizens (and permanent residents) are issued a national identification card at age 18. ID cards are the most common forms of identification, although passports can also be used interchangeably in most instances. As of Autumn 2019 there is a new National Integrated Identity Management System (NIIMS) – better known as Huduma Namba, which has caused controversy. |- | | Letërnjoftim / Лична карта (National identity card) | Biometric national ID cards compulsory to all Kosovar citizens. |- | | بطاقة المدنية (Loosely translated to civil card) | All residents of Kuwait must have a Civil ID card. The parents of newborns should apply for registration of the child within 60 days after birth. An expatriate must apply for a civil ID card within 30 days of getting his residency. |- | | Инсандык карта (National identity card) |Compulsory at 16. Biometric since 2018. |- | |ບັດປະຈຳຕົວ (identity card) | There is a compulsory identity document issued in Laos. The document is issued by the police on behalf of the Ministry of Home Affairs and is the main form of identification on the territory of the Lao P.D.R . All Laotian are obliged by law to carry their identity cards with them at all times and are subject to fines should they not, all Laotian nationals must hold the new magnetic Identification Card. Biometric. Distribution of national ID cards started in 2015 and the card is compulsory for all national citizens aged 16 and above. |- | | Personas apliecība (identity card) | An identity card or passport is the mandatory personal identification document for a citizen of Latvia or a non-citizen who lives in Latvia and has reached 18. |- | | بطاقة هوية (identity card) | There is a compulsory identity document issued in Lebanon. The document is issued by the police on behalf of the Ministry of Interior and is the main form of identification on the territory of the Republic of Lebanon. All Lebanese are obliged by law to carry their identity cards with them at all times and are subject to fines should they not. , all Lebanese nationals must hold the new magnetic Identification Card. |- | | National ID card | Compulsory for all national citizens. ID cards were implemented in 2013. |- | | National identification card | New biometric national identity card have been rolled out in the late 2017. |- | | Carte nationale d'identité / Personalausweis / National Identitéitskaart (National identity card) | First issued at age 15 and only issued to Luxembourg citizens, who are required by law to carry it at all times. |- | | Bilhete de Identidade de Residente (Resident Identity Card) | It is compulsory for all Macau residents at the age of 5. |- | | Kara-panondrom-pirenena / Carte nationale d'identité de citoyen malagasy | Possession is compulsory for Malagasy citizens from age 18 (by decree 78-277 (3 Oct 1978)). |- | | MyKad | Issued at age 12, and updated at 18. MyPR for Permanent Resident. MyKas for temporary residents. Non-compulsory MyKid before age of 12. MyKad and MyPR must be carried at all times. Cards are differentiated by colour. MyKad is blue, MyPr is red and MyKas is green. |- | | National Identification card (Chipaso cha Nzika) | Biometric. Distribution of national ID cards started in 2017 and the card is compulsory for all national citizens aged 16 and above. |- | | Passport Card | New biometric credit-sized passport cards replaced both driving licenses, health insurance cards and certain types of credit cards. They are compulsory for acquiring a passport book. |- | | Carte nationale d'identité NINA (NINA National identity card) | Compulsory to all Malian citizens. |- | | Karta tal-Identità / Identity card | Issued at 14, updated at 16, compulsory at 18. |- | | بطاقة الهوية الوطنية / Carte nationale d’identité (National Identity card) | Compulsory at 15. Biometric since 2013, with information displayed in Arabic, French and English |- | | National Identity Card | Every Mauritian citizen who has reached 18 years old has to apply for a National ID card, which is one of the few accepted forms of identification, including a passport. | |- | | Buletin de identitate (Identity card) | Compulsory at 16. |- | | بطاقة التعريف الوطنية / Carte nationale d'identité (National identification card) | The national identity card is the ID of the citizens of Morocco (in Arabic : بطاقة التعريف الوطنية). This is an official document which allows any citizen to prove his identity and therefore it is valid, his Moroccan nationality. It is compulsory for all citizens aged over 18 years, but it can be obtained from the age of 16. A new version of the card is out, it has the form of a credit card. The Directorate General of National Security of Morocco announced it will issue a new electronic national identity card (NIEC) on 1 April 2008. The current national maps will be gradually replaced in four years. The NIEC is biometric and provides citizens of a birth certificate, residence certificate, extract of birth and citizenship certificates. |- | | Monégasque identity card | Compulsory for all Monégasque citizens. |- | | Монгол Улсын иргэний үнэмлэхийн хуудас (Citizen Identity Card of Mongolia) | The national identity card is compulsroy for all Mongol citizens. Electronic since 2012, with informations displayed both in Mongol and English. |- | | Lična karta (Лична карта, Identity card) | Compulsory at the age of 16, but can be issued at 14 and has to be carried at all times after turning 18. It is issued only to Montenegrin citizens with permanent residence in Montenegro. While it is the most often used official identification document, three other hold the same status — Passport, Driver's licence and Refugee ID card. Old style IDs, that refer to the no longer existing states of SFRY or FRY, are not valid since 2011. |- | | Bilhete de identidade (Identity card) | N/A |- | | National Registration Card (Identity Card) | Myanmar citizens are required to have a National Registration Card (NRC), while non-citizens are given a Foreign Registration Card. |- | | National ID card | Compulsory for all Namibia citizens. New identity cards replaced previous “SWA” IDs in 2016. |- | | राष्ट्रिय पहिचान कार्ड National Identity Card | New biometric cards rolled out in 2018. Information displayed in both English and Nepali. |- | | Identiteitskaart (Identity card) | Although it is not compulsory to carry a proof of identity at all times, since 1 January 2005 it is compulsory to show identification, when an authorized officer asks for it, from the age of 14. An authorized officer can only do so under certain circumstances. Such circumstances include suspicious behaviour, committing any offence, or if a person is interviewed as a witness of a crime. Identity checks at events where the public order may be in danger are also allowed. Otherwise random identity checks by the police are not allowed in principle but can happen in certain areas such as a train station or suspicious areas such as where prostitution is rife, and a fine for not showing proof of identity may be successfully challenged in such cases. The fine for not being able to show proof of identity when legally required is €60 (16 and over) or €30 (if 14 or 15). Proof of identity is also required when opening a bank account and when entering an employment contract. |- | | Carte nationale d'identité (National identity card) | Compulsory. |- | | National identity card | Compulsory. Electronic since 2013. |- | | "Identity Card", "Travel Pass" (with specified destination of travel and written permission) | Photos North Korea is probably the country which imposes the strongest fines for citizens not carrying ID cards. To travel North Koreans need not only an identity card, but also a "travel pass", with specified destination and written permission. Sometimes citizens may be punished with time in a labour camp for not carrying their cards, however this is often only a short sentence and people are usually released upon presentation of the card at a later date. Although much is not known about the properties of the card, it is probably plastic and similar in size to most European ID cards. Between 2004 and 2008, all records were transferred to an electronic Korean-language central database. Obtaining a driving license in North Korea is not usual – except in the case of professional drivers, mechanics, and assistants – since few citizens own cars. Only government officials are issued passports because the state restricts citizens travel. North Koreans working abroad are issued contracts between North Korea and the host country to allow for travel, and government officers often accompany and supervise workers. |- | | Лична карта (Identity card) | Issued by the ministry of interior to citizens with permanent residence in North Macedonia. It is compulsory at the age of 18. |- | | بطاقة الهوية الوطنية (Identity Card) | Compulsory for citizens turning 15. Biometric since 2014 with information displayed in both Arabic and English. |- | | Cedula de Identidad (National identity card) | Cedula de Identidad. Required at 12 (cedula juvenil) and 18 years of age. Panamanian citizens must carry their Cedula at all times. New biometric national identity cards rolling out in 2019. The card must be renewed every 10 years (every 5 years for those under 18) and it can only be replaced 3 times (with each replacement costing more than the previous one) without requiring a background check, to confirm and verify that the card holder is not selling his or her identity to third parties for human trafficking or other criminal activities. All cards have QR, PDF417, and Code 128 barcodes. The QR Code holds all printed (on the front of the card) text information about the card holder, while the PDF417 barcode holds, in JPEG format encoded with Base64, an image of the fingerprint of the left index finger of the card holder. Panamanian biometric/electronic/machine readable ID cards are similar to biometric passports and current European/Czech national ID cards and have only a small PDF417 barcode, with a machine readable area, a contactless smart card RFID chip and golden contact pads similar to those found in smart card credit cards and SIM cards. The machine readable code contains all printed text information about the card holder (it replaces the QR Code) while both chips (the smart card chip is hidden under the golden contact pads) contain all personal information about the card holder along with a JPEG photo of the card holder, a JPEG photo with the card holder's signature, and another JPEG photo but with all 10 fingerprints of both hands of the card holder. Earlier cards used Code 16K and Code 49 barcodes with magnetic stripes. |- | | Computerised National Identity Card | Computerized National Identity Card (CNIC). First made at the age of 18, not compulsory to carry all the time. The card is mandatory for opening bank accounts, for passport and almost all substantial monetary transactions from car, land to high-value assets. |- | | بطاقة هوية (identity card) | Identification Card. First made on the age of 16, The fields in it are identical to those in ID cards issued by Israeli civil administration prior to the Oslo accords, fields include Full name (four names), Mother name, date of birth, birthplace, Gender, Religion, place of issuance, and issue date. in addition to an appendix that includes address, marital status, name and ID number of and listing of partner, and previous name(s), in addition to a listing of children names. The document "validity" is incubated until the Israeli authorities approve it. |- | | National identity card | E-National ID cards were rolled out in 2015. |- | | Cédula de identidad civil (Civil National Identity card) | The Paraguayan national identity card is issued by the National Police and is compulsory for all citizens; with a cost of 8500 Paraguayan guaraní. |- | | Documento Nacional de Identidad (National Identity Card) | National Document of Identification or Documento Nacional de Identidad (DNI). Citizens can have a minor DNI but at the age of 17 they are encouraged to renew their DNI to get an Adult DNI. At 18, it is compulsory. |- | | Pambansang Pagkakakilanlan (Philippine Identification Card) | The Philippine Identification System (PhilSys) ID also known as the Philippine identity card is issued to all Filipino citizens and resident alien in the Philippines. The pilot implementation will start in selected regions in 2018 and full implementation starting 2019. The national ID card is compulsory and will harmonize existing government-initiated identification cards issued including the Unified Multi-Purpose ID issued to members of the Social Security System, Government Service Insurance System, Philippine Health Insurance Corporation. and the Home Development Mutual Fund (Pag-IBIG Fund). |- | | Dowód osobisty (Identity card) | At 18, Polish citizens with their permanent residence in Poland must obtain Polish National Identity Card, however at 13 years of age some form of identification is required. The ID Card is issued free of charge. Those who do not comply with the relevant law are subject to restriction of freedom (community sentence) for up to one month or a fine. Pre-war Polish IDs were issued on-demand. Compulsory German ID cards (Kennkarte) were introduced during the Nazi-German occupation on 1939-10-26. Compulsory Polish IDs were introduced into Polish law in 1951. In many circumstances, a Polish passport may be used as an equivalent form of identification. Polish citizens without their permanent residence in Poland may obtain the card at any issuing office in Poland. Residents of Poland who are not Polish citizens may use Polish government issued residence card, instead. The oldest style of IDs, paper – similar to passports, is not valid since 2008-03-31. New style IDs issued after 2001 and before 2015 to people 65 years of age or older are valid indefinitely, otherwise the document is valid for ten years or five years (when issued under 18). |- | | Cartão de Cidadão (Citizen card) | the government has issued the Cartão do Cidadão (Citizen Card). The older Bilhete de identidade which has been compulsory at 10, is still in limited use. All citizens starting at the age of 6 are required to obtain an identity card, but are not required to carry them. According to other sources it is required to carry them. |- | | Qatari ID Card | the government has issued a Qatari ID Card to every Qatari citizen and resident over the age of 15. There are currently two types of cards in use, the smart card can be used to identify in government websites as well as for easier access to the country. |- | | Carte de identitate (identity card) | The Carte de identitate is compulsory at 14. |- | | Internal passport of Russia | A Russian identity document is issued to any citizen on request at the age of 14 and reissued at ages 20 and 45. People may use other documents for identity as well (e.g., driver's license, passport). |- | | Rwandan National Identity Card | Compulsory for all Rwandan citizens living in the country, with a price of 500 RWF. Valid for international travel to Kenya and Uganda. |- | | National Identity Card | Compulsory. |- | | Carta di identità (National Identity Card) | Compulsory for all Sanmarinese citizens. Biometric and valid for international travel since 2016. |- | | Bilhete de identidade (identity card) | Compulsory. Issued since 2008. |- | | بطاقة الأحوال المدنية (Bitaqat Al-Ahwal Al-Madaniya, Iqama or Bataka) | Compulsory for men 17 and older and optional for teenage men aged 15–16. Optional for women but issued to women 18 and older. |- | | Lična karta (Лична карта) (Identity card) | Compulsory for citizens 16 and older permanently residing in Serbia, and compulsory for non-citizens residing in Serbia. Optional for minors 10–15. Must be carried whenever in public. Although the identity card is the most commonly used identification document, three others will suffice: a passport, driver's licence, or refugee ID card. Cards referring to the former states SFRY and FRY were eliminated by the end of 2016. |- | | Carte Nationale d'identité CEDEAO (CEDEAO National Identity card) | Compulsory for all citizens. Biometric since 2017. |- | | National Identity card | Compulsory for all Seychelles citizens, with a cost of SR50. |- | | Sierra Leone identity card | Compulsory for citizens and permanent residents with a price of 10,000 SLL every 5 years. |- | | National Registration Identity Card | Compulsory for citizens and permanent residents 15 and older and must be renewed upon turning 30 and upon turning 55 if born after January 1962. The NRIC does not need to be carried at all times, and it need not be produced to police officers who are merely screening passers-by while on patrol. But it is sometimes necessary to produce one's NRIC: for example, when renewing one's passport, voting, and applying for public services. Notably, the NRIC includes the bearer's race, among typical demographic information. |- | | Občiansky preukaz (citizen card) | Compulsory for citizens 15 and older and is used to identify the bearer in daily interaction with authorities. The citizen card includes the bearer's photograph, birth date, address, and unique number. |- | | Osebna izkaznica (identity card) | Compulsory for citizens 18 and older who have a permanent residence in Slovenia but who do not have a passport. Citizens younger than 18 may obtain an identity card with their parent's permission. It must be carried at all times. |- | | Warqadda Aqoonsiga (identity card) |Compulsory for all Somali citizens. Electronic since 2014. |- | |South African identity card | Compulsory for citizens 16 and older, and compulsory for all non-citizen permanent residents. The older form of Identity Document, in the form of a green booklet, began being phased out in 2013. Although passports and driver's licences are also acceptable forms of identification, banks only accept a national identity card. Your ID has a barcode, a photo, and a unique number. Demographic information including age and gender − but not race – is included, as is the bearer's criminal record, voting history, licence to drive, right to possess a firearm, and the like. A national identity card is necessary to obtain a passport, bank account, and driver's licence, and is also necessary to register to vote. Employers will typically photocopy a visitor's identity card to process her appointment. Because it is frequently necessary to produce a national identity card, many South African permanent resident carry their card at all times. As of January 2019, South Africans citizens born outside of South Africa, as well as permanent residents, still cannot apply for the new ID card, nor access the online services of Home Affairs. |- | | 주민등록증 (Identity card) | Compulsory for citizens 17 and older. This card contains the citizen's unique resident registration number, which is required for government and private business, for example, opening bank accounts and creating online accounts with web sites and gaming networks. |- | | National identity card | Compulsory for all Sudanese citizens. |- | | Identiteitskaart (national identity card) | Compulsory for all Surinamese citizens.http://www.gov.sr/media/779631/de_surinaamse_identiteitskaart.pdf |- | | Documento Nacional de Identidad (DNI; National identification document) | Compulsory for anyone 14 and older and must be carried at all times. Minors younger than 14 can obtain a DNI, for example, to travel to other European countries. It is routinely used for identification and is often necessary to conduct public and private business. Many companies and government offices photocopy a bearer's DNI. Beginning in 2006, the DNI has been replaced by the DNI electrónico (electronic DNI). Since 2015, the National identity card became fully biometric, releasing yet again, a new design. |- | | National Identity Card ජාතික හැඳුනුම්පත தேசிய அடையாள அட்டை | All citizens over the age of 16 need to apply for a National Identity Card (NIC). Each NIC has a unique 10 digit number, in the format 000000000A (where 0 is a digit and A is a letter). The first two digits of the number are your year of birth (e.g., 88xxxxxxxx for someone born in 1988). The final letter is generally a V or X. An NIC number is required to apply for a passport (over 16), driving license (over 18) and to vote (over 18). In addition, all citizens are required to carry their NIC on them at all times as proof of identity, given the security situation in the country. NICs are not issued to non-citizens, but they too are required to carry some form of photo identification (such as a photocopy of their passport or foreign driving license) at all times. In addition the Department of Post may issue an identity card with a validity of five years, this may be gained in lieu of an NIC if the latter is unable to be issued. |- | | National ID card | Compulsory for all Swazi citizens. |- | | بطاقة الهوية الوطنية (National ID card) | Compulsory for all Syrian citizens. Must be uptained at the age of 14. Information displayed in Arabic only. |- | | National Identification Card國民身份證'| Compulsory for ROC nationals 14 and older whose household is registered in Taiwan. |- | | Корти миллии миллӣ (national ID card) | Compulsory for all Tajik citizens. Electronic, with informations displayed in both Tajik and English since 2015. |- | | บัตรประจำตัวประชาชน (Thai national ID card) | Compulsory for citizens who are 7 – 70 years of age. People older than 70 years and exempted citizen can still apply for a card. A fee of ฿100 is payable in case of loss, damage or information alteration. |- | | Bilhete de Identidade (Identity Card) | Compulsory for all East Timorese citizens. Issued since 2018, with EU and Portuguese funds. |- | | بطاقة التعريف الوطنية (Tunisian National Identification Card) | Compulsory for citizens 18 and older. A minor can obtain a national identity card with a parent's approval. |- | | Nüfus Cüzdanı (Identity card) | Compulsory from birth and must be carried at all times. A photograph is optional until the bearer turns 15. It is often photocopied at government offices, banks, and the like. |- | | National Identity Card | Compulsory for Ugandan citizens anywhere in the world, and compulsory for non-citizen permanent residents in Uganda. In April–August 2014 the government registered sixteen out of eighteen million citizens. In 2017 the government began a nationwide effort to register children. An identity card or identity number is required for all government services, including voting, as well as many private services—for example, opening bank accounts, buying insurance policies, transferring interests in real property. |- | | Паспорт громадянина України (Passport of Ukrainian citizen) | Compulsory for citizens 14 and older. Before 2016, the national identity card was a blue soft paper booklet like the typical international passport. In 2016, the government began issuing credit-card-sized biometric identity cards (a/k/a "internal passport" or "passport card") containing an RFID chip. The bearer's address is not printed on the card but is instead coded on the chip and can be accessed by any NFC compatible device. The card is printed in Ukrainian and English except for patronymic information that is only printed in Ukrainian. Cards last ten years before expiring, except that minors' identity cards must be renewed upon turning 18. |- | | بطاقة الهوية الوطنية (National ID Card) | Compulsory for residents. |- | | Cédula de Identidad (Identity card) | Compulsory for citizens and residents except infants younger than 45 days. |- | | Cédula de Identidad (Identity card) | Compulsory for anyone 10 and older, and it must be renewed every 10 years. |- | | Giấy chứng minh nhân dân (People's proof document) | Compulsory for citizens 14 and older. |- | | National Registration Card | Compulsory for citizens aged 16 and older. It is laminated and must be carried at all times. The national identity card for citizens is green having the last digit of 1, Blue in colour with 2 as the last digit for Commonwealth and Pink in colour with 3 as the last digit for other. |- | | National Registration Card | Compulsory for citizens 16 and older. It is plastic and must be carried at all times. |} Countries with non-compulsory identity cards These are countries where official authorities issue identity cards to those who request them, but where it is not illegal to be without an official identity document. For some services, identification is needed, but documents such as passports or identity cards issued by banks or driving licences can be used. In countries where national identity cards are fully voluntary, they are often not so commonly used, because many already have a passport and a driving licence, so a third identity document is often considered superfluous. Countries with no identity cards These are countries where official authorities do not issue any identity cards. When identification is needed, e.g. passports, identity cards issued by banks etc., or cards that are not mainly identity cards like driver's licenses can be used. Most countries that are not listed at all in this page have no national ID card. See also Identity document Cédula de identidad National identity cards in the European Economic Area Stop and identify statutes Obligation of identification Notes As noted above, certain countries do not have national ID cards, but have other official documents that play the same role in practice (e.g. driver's license for the United States). While a country may not make it de jure compulsory to own or carry an identity document, it may be de facto'' strongly recommended to do so in order to facilitate certain procedures. In most countries, non-resident foreign citizens have to be able to identify themselves through a passport. For residents with "foreign" characteristics (e.g. skin color, dialect) possession of an acceptable identity card might be useful to reduce the risk of harassment from the police and other authorities. In many countries, people suspected of crime will be detained until their identity is proven even in countries not requiring an identity card. 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Canton of Lassay-les-Châteaux The canton of Lassay-les-Châteaux is an administrative division of the Mayenne department, northwestern France. Its borders were modified at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Lassay-les-Châteaux. It consists of the following communes: Aron La Bazoge-Montpinçon Belgeard Champéon La Chapelle-au-Riboul Charchigné Commer Grazay La Haie-Traversaine Hardanges Le Horps Le Housseau-Brétignolles Jublains Lassay-les-Châteaux Marcillé-la-Ville Martigné-sur-Mayenne Montreuil-Poulay Moulay Rennes-en-Grenouilles Le Ribay Sainte-Marie-du-Bois Saint-Fraimbault-de-Prières Saint-Julien-du-Terroux Thubœuf References Category:Cantons of Mayenne
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Dick Weissman Dick Weissman (born January 21, 1935) is a singer, composer, banjo player, author and teacher. He co-founded The Journeymen with John Phillips and Scott McKenzie in 1961. The group recorded three albums and seven singles for Capitol Records before breaking up in 1964. Weissman released a solo album "The Things That Trouble My Mind" for Capitol in 1964, before moving into a career as a studio musician, record producer and songwriter. In 1972 Weissman moved to Colorado and began writing instructional books for banjo and guitar, which were published by Mel Bay. To date, he has written 15 published books on music and the music business and has written over fifty instructional folios for various music publishers. He later became a tenured professor in the Music & Entertainment Industry program at the University of Colorado at Denver. In 1979, Dick recorded a solo album on Kicking Mule Records, Inc. Its name is "Modern Banjo - Mountain Style". As stated on the jacket, this was a great challenge for him and he dedicated the album to guitarist Sam Brown. He dedicated to Sam because he "thought that he (Sam) might have liked some of the music on this record" and because "Sam Brown (was) one of my favorite guitarists." Sam Brown died shortly after the album was completed. According to Dick, "a victim of the music business, New York City, and his own frustrations." Between 1994 and 2005, Weissman recorded three additional solo albums, for the Folk Era, Wind River and Long Bridge folk labels. In 2016 Weissman's musical memoir The Music Never Stops: A Journey Into the Music of the Unknown, The Forgotten, The Rich & Famous was published. References External links Performer Entry at All Music Guide Category:Living people Category:1935 births Category:American singer-songwriters
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Gyroelongated pentagonal bicupola In geometry, the gyroelongated pentagonal bicupola is one of the Johnson solids (J46). As the name suggests, it can be constructed by gyroelongating a pentagonal bicupola (J30 or J31) by inserting a decagonal antiprism between its congruent halves. The gyroelongated pentagonal bicupola is one of five Johnson solids which are chiral, meaning that they have a "left-handed" and a "right-handed" form. In the illustration to the right, each square face on the bottom half of the figure is connected by a path of two triangular faces to a square face above it and to the right. In the figure of opposite chirality (the mirror image of the illustrated figure), each bottom square would be connected to a square face above it and to the left. The two chiral forms of J46 are not considered different Johnson solids. External links Category:Johnson solids Category:Chiral polyhedra
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Niokhor Dionge Niokhor Dionge (born 15 February 1962) is a Senegalese judoka. He competed in the men's lightweight event at the 1980 Summer Olympics. References Category:1962 births Category:Living people Category:Senegalese male judoka Category:Olympic judoka of Senegal Category:Judoka at the 1980 Summer Olympics Category:Place of birth missing (living people)
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Jim Stärk Jim Stärk is a Norwegian band whose records have met with some success in its native land as well as abroad, especially the EP Morning Songs, which topped the Norwegian charts. The band name is derived from James Dean's character in the film Rebel Without a Cause. Discography Albums Ten Songs and Hey Hey (BP 2002) No Time Wasted (Sweet Recordings 2003) Ten Songs and Hey Hey, No Time Wasted (Sweet Recordings 2003) Double album, vinyl Jim Stärk (Sweet Recordings 2005) Turn Around and Look (Sweet Recordings 2006) Rainy Love Sounds (Sweet Recordings 2011) EPs Morning Songs (Sweet Recordings 2004) Singles "You're the One That I Want" feat. Claudia Scott (BP 2003) "It's All Right" (Sweet Recordings/Universal 2006) "True Story" (Sweet Recordings/Universal 2011) References Category:Norwegian musical groups
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Zoltán Illés Dr Zoltán Illés (born 17 January 1961) is a Hungarian chemical engineer and politician from Vojvodina, Serbia, member of the National Assembly of Hungary (MP) for Terézváros, 6th District of Budapest (Budapest Constituency VIII) from 2010 to 2014. He also represented Terézváros between 1998 and 2002. He secured a seat from Fidesz National List in the 2002 Hungarian parliamentary election. He served as Chairman of the Committee on the Environment from 25 June 1998 to 14 May 2002. Illés was appointed Secretary of State for Environmental Protection and Water in the Ministry of Rural Development on 2 June 2010. In September 2013, Illés responded to a formal question from Bernadett Szél (LMP) about the Roșia Montană Project in Romania, where amongst other things he said "just because you’re pretty doesn’t also mean you’re smart," and lectured her for daring to utter the Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's name. Later, Illés has apologized for these remarks. House Speaker László Kövér has defended Illés' controversial comments in parliament, referring to his fellow Fidesz politician’s words as "offensive, but not flagrantly offensive." As environmentalist, he strongly criticized the planned upgrade of the Paks Nuclear Power Plant, signed between the Hungarian and Russian governments in January 2014. As a result, he was unable to run as parliamentary candidate for the 2014 parliamentary election. Since then, Illés accused Orbán's government in several cases with corruption and development of oligarchic system. Personal life He is married. His wife is Dr Adrienne Illésné Gerlényi. They have a son, Szabolcs. References Category:1961 births Category:Living people Category:Hungarians in Vojvodina Category:Hungarian people of Croatian descent Category:Fidesz politicians Category:Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (1998–2002) Category:Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (2002–2006) Category:Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (2010–2014) Category:People from Subotica
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Beaujon Hospital The Beaujon Hospital () is located in Clichy, Paris, France and is operated by APHDP. It was named after Nicolas Beaujon, an eighteenth-century French banker. It opened in 1935 and was designed by Jean Walter. References External links Profile at Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (in French) Category:Hospital buildings completed in 1935 Category:Hospitals in Paris Category:Hospitals established in 1935 Category:Buildings and structures in Seine-Saint-Denis Category:1935 establishments in France
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Vivian Lee Vivian S. Lee (born September 1966) is an American radiologist and health care executive. A Senior Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) in Cambridge, Massachusetts and an NIH-funded investigator at the University of Utah, she is a member of the Commonwealth Fund Board of Directors, the JAMA Journal Oversight Committee, and the Society of Medical Administrators. Raised in Norman, Oklahoma and trained in biomedical engineering and medicine, Lee established an NIH-funded research program in magnetic resonance imaging at NYU. She was elected Fellow of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) in 2006 and served as the President in 2008–2009. For her scientific discoveries, she was elected to the American Society of Clinical Investigation and the National Academy of Medicine. Among her leadership roles in academic medicine, Lee served as the inaugural Chief Scientific Officer and Vice Dean for Science at NYU Langone Medical Center, and prior to that as the Vice-Chair for Research in the Department of Radiology. For six years, she served as the CEO of University of Utah Health, Dean of the University of Utah School of Medicine and senior vice-president for health sciences of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. During her tenure as Dean, she was elected to the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Council of Deans Administrative Board. She is also a member of the advisory boards of the Massachusetts General Hospital and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Lee has studied the management and improvement of health care, with an emphasis on data measurement and feedback to create learning health systems and her work has demonstrated the virtuous cycle of improved patient-centeredness, higher quality with better outcomes, and lower costs. She is married to international legal scholar Benedict Kingsbury. Lee also serves on the Board of Directors of the American Association of Rhodes Scholars, and is also a Director of Zions Bancorporation and Merrimack Pharmaceuticals. Education and training A U.S. Presidential Scholar and National Merit Scholar, Lee graduated from Norman High School, in Norman, Oklahoma in 1983. Lee graduated from Harvard-Radcliffe College magna cum laude in 1986 before receiving a Rhodes Scholarship to study at University of Oxford where she received a doctorate in medical engineering. She then earned an M.D. with honors from Harvard Medical School and subsequently completed a residency in diagnostic radiology at Duke University and a fellowship in MRI at NYU Medical Center. In 2006, she completed a Master of Business Administration degree at NYU's Stern School of Business, graduating as valedictorian. She later delivered the commencement speech for the class of 2017. Research in MRI Funded initially while an MRI fellow and subsequently by the NIH, Lee's initial work developed methods to measure kidney glomerular filtration rate (GFR) and perfusion, noninvasively using ultra-low dose gadolinium-contrast enhanced MRI. These techniques were applied to the improved diagnosis of renovascular disease, renal transplant dysfunction, and renal function in cirrhosis. Extensions of this work include the use of MR methods to measure tissue hypoxia and tubular function. While a part of the NYU MRI research team, Lee contributed to multiple advances in clinical body MRI, including pioneering 3D (volumetric) liver imaging for routine clinical care and for improved detection of hepatocellular carcinoma, improved methods for assessing vascular disease with 3D gadolinium-enhanced MR angiography and venography, and improved surgical planning for living related transplant donor planning in liver and kidney transplantation. As the director of Cardiothoracic MR imaging at NYU, Lee developed new MR methods for fast cardiac imaging and for improved detection of myocardial infarcts. Subsequently, Lee's NIH funded research focused on the development of non-contrast-enhanced methods for vascular MR imaging, and functional calf muscle studies that assess exercise-induced "stress-rest" performance in patients with suspected peripheral vascular disease. A popular lecturer who has received multiple teaching awards, Lee authored a textbook entitled Cardiovascular MRI: Physical Principles to Practical Protocols (Lippincott 2006). Administrative and Leadership roles NYU Langone Medical Center During her 5-year tenure as Vice-Chair for Research in Radiology, Lee helped build a research administrative infrastructure that enabled the department, previously unranked in NIH research funding, to reach the top 20. During that time, NYU Langone was also the first U.S. site to install a whole body 7 Tesla MRI scanner. In 2007, Lee became the inaugural Vice Dean for Science, Chief Scientific Officer and Senior Vice-President, serving as a member of NYU's executive leadership team. Initiatives as Chief Scientific Officer included establishing a new philanthropically-funded Neurosciences Institute and a new NIH-funded Center for Translational Science Institute (CTSI), upgrading core facilities, educational initiatives in grantsmanship, and establishment of a new Center for Health Informatics and Bioinformatics and a new Department of Statistics and Epidemiology. During her four-year tenure, NYU's ranking among NIH-funded schools of medicine increased from #36 to #26, and continued to rise thereafter. International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) While at NYU, Lee held a number of leadership positions in the ISMRM, the preeminent professional organization of clinical and research MR scientists. She served on the Board of Trustees from 2002–2010, President 2008–2009, and as Scientific Program Chair for 2005 Annual ISMRM meeting. During her tenure, the ISMRM increased financial reserves, enhanced clinician membership and supported sustainability efforts through new "virtual" meetings. University of Utah From 2011 to 2017, Lee served as Senior Vice-President for Health Sciences, Dean of the School of Medicine, and the CEO of University of Utah Health. Lee was responsible for an academic health sciences complex that includes five major schools (School of Medicine, School of Dentistry, and Colleges of Nursing, Pharmacy and Health) and a health care system comprising four hospitals, dozens of clinical and research specialty centers, a network of 12 Salt Lake City-area health centers, a regional affiliate network of 19 partner facilities, a health plan, and over 1,400 board-certified physicians. Under her leadership, the University of Utah established a new School of Dentistry, the first new academic dental school in the nation in over 25 years, graduating its first class in 2017. Work at the University of Utah Lee led University of Utah Health to recognition for its health care delivery system innovations that enable higher quality at lower costs and with higher patient satisfaction, as well as successful strategies of faculty development and mentorship. In 2012, the University of Utah become the first health system in the country to post patient reviews online. In 2016, University of Utah was ranked first among university hospitals in quality and safety, with NYU Langone and Mayo Clinic rounding out the top three. That year marked the 7th consecutive year that the University of Utah was ranked in the top 10 in quality in the nation. The University's health insurance plan acquired a commercial license, grew five-fold, and was successful in the individual exchange. Improved financial performance of the clinical enterprise enabled increased support and growth of education, research, and community service initiatives. As Dean, Lee led the significant expansion of the School of Medicine class size from 82 to 125 students per year with increased ongoing state funding. A number of significant philanthropic commitments were made during her tenure, including the establishment of a new Rehabilitation Hospital, funding for a number of research initiatives including the Utah Genome Project, the Center for Medical Innovation, and Driving Out Diabetes: A Larry H. Miller Family Foundation Wellness Initiative, as well as both private and state funding for a new School of Medicine building. During her tenure, the University of Utah's health sciences budget grew 50 percent to over $3.5 billion. Utah Genome Project Early in her tenure at the University of Utah, Lee announced the Utah Genome Project as a cornerstone of the University of Utah's biomedical research strategy. The Utah Genome Project is "a large-scale genome sequence and analysis initiative to discover new disease-causing genes," and is unique among genome initiatives because it uncovers genetic signatures of disease and drug response in large families. The University, one of the few sites selected to conduct large scale mapping for the Human Genome Project and the International HapMap Project, had previously identified important disease-causing genes such as BRCA1, breast and ovarian cancer gene, APC colon cancer gene, and KCNH2 cardiac arrhythmia gene, among more than 30 others. Among the industry partnerships developed to advance genomic research as part of the Utah Genome Project included Regeneron, Omicia, and Janssen Research and Development. In September 2014, the University of Utah accepted a controversial $12 million donation from billionaire entrepreneur Patrick Soon-Shiong for the "Chan Soon-Shiong Heritage 1K Project" under the umbrella of Lee's signature Utah Genome Project. The contract governing the tax-deductible gift led to the University paying $10 million of the donation to NantHealth, a company founded by Soon-Shiong, for genetic testing services. On April 25, 2017, Greg Hughes, Speaker of the Utah House of Representatives, stated that the Utah Legislature was considering an investigation into the questionable donation. Stat News reported on May 3, 2017, that the Utah legislative investigation was in its early stages, reviewing documents and conducting interviews about the contract with NantHealth and the donation from Soon-Shiong. State auditors found that "the U of U should have conducted a competitive procurement process. The university believes it did not need to conduct a competitive procurement because it was an allowable exception to the competitive process." The auditors disagreed with the University's position, "Because the request to use his company was not ... a condition of the donation, it did not meet the exception requirements of state [procurement] code." The audit also noted positively that "University scientists have used data generated during the H1K project to obtain $7.6 million in new money and up to $43.7 million in furthered research," leading to the identification of 34 gene mutations in diseases including multiple cancers and other conditions. Huntsman Cancer Institute controversy Lee became embroiled in a public controversy when University leadership fired Huntsman Cancer Institute CEO, Dr. Mary Beckerle, on April 17, 2017. Lee and university leadership were publicly criticized for the move by HCI's founder and prime benefactor, billionaire philanthropist Jon Huntsman, Sr. The decision prompted public protests by University of Utah faculty and staff, including an online petition calling for University leadership to reverse the decision and reinstate Beckerle. Jon Huntsman, Sr., publicly called for Lee and University President David W. Pershing to be fired from their leadership positions on April 21, 2017, questioning their ethics and predicting that the governor and state legislature would become involved to ensure their removal. On April 22, 2017, the Editorial Board of the Salt Lake Tribune (a newspaper owned by a member of the Huntsman family) called for Lee's removal as the "only remedy in this case." The University Board of Trustees met with Pershing and Lee on April 25, 2017. Within hours after the meeting, Pershing released a written statement announcing that Beckerle was immediately resuming her service as CEO and Director of Huntsman Cancer Institute and would report directly to the President of the University. Pershing's announcement signaled that Lee would no longer oversee the Huntsman Cancer Institute, raising questions about the future direction of the University Health system. Huntsman stated that a planned donation of $250M dollars would have been withheld unless the university's decision was reversed and Dr. Berkerle reinstated. He also called the university's action, which he attributed to Lee, a "terribly, terribly unethical act." On 28 April, Lee announced via email that, effective the same day, she was stepping down as the university's senior vice president for health sciences, dean of the medical school, and CEO of the healthcare system. She retains her appointment as a tenured professor of radiology. As part of her contract, Lee retained her salary of more than $1 million for one year after resigning her administrative position. After her resignation, local reporters at the Deseret News discovered more details about the dispute over finances with Huntsman Cancer Institute, including demands for substantial increases in financial transfers from the University to the Huntsman Cancer Institute to fulfill prior agreements. Awards and recognition In her academic career Lee was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to study at Oxford University, and received the Chang-Lin Tien Leadership award in 2009. She was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in October 2015. Currently, she is on the board of directors at Zions Bank, Merrimack Pharmaceuticals, and the American Association of Rhodes Scholars. She is part of the Journal of the American Medical Association Journal Oversight Committee, the National Advisory Committee for the Health Care Delivery System Reform Program of The Commonwealth Fund, the Scientific Advisory Board of Massachusetts General Hospital, the Council of Councils of the National Institutes of Health, and the Administrative Board of the Council of Deans for the Association of American Medical Colleges. Publications Lee VS, Blanchfield, BB, Disentangling Health Care Billing For Patients’ Physical and Financial Health. Journal of the American Medical Association Network, February 20, 2018, 319(7):661–663. DOI:10.1001/jama.2017.19966 Lee VS, Transparency and Trust—Online Patient Reviews of Physicians, New England Journal of Medicine, Perspective, January 19, 2017, N Engl J Med 2017; 376:197–199, Lee VS, Why Doctors Shouldn’t Be Afraid of Online Reviews, Harvard Business Review, March 29, 2016 Lee VS, Miller T, Daniels C, Paine M, Gresh B, Betz L, Creating the Exceptional Patient Experience in One Academic Health System. Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges, March 2016, Volume 91 – Issue 3 – p 338-344 Kawamoto K, Martin CJ, Williams K, Tu MC, Park CG, Hunter C, Staes CJ, Bray BE, Deshmukh VG, Holbrook RA, Morris SJ, Fedderson MB, Sletta A, Turnbull J, Mulvihill, SJ, Crabtree GL, Entwistle DE, McKenna QL, Strong MB, Pendleton RC, Lee VS. Value Driven Outcomes (VDO): a Pragmatic, Modular, and Extensible Software Framework for Understanding and Improving Health Care Costs and Outcomes. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Online, Nov 13, 2014 Lee VS, Redesigning Metrics to Integrate Professionalism Into the Governance of Health Care, JAMA, May 12, 2015, Vol 313, No. 18 Zhang JL, Morrell G, Rusinek H, Warner L, Vivier P-H, Cheung AK, Lerman L, Lee VS. Measurement of renal tissue oxygenation with Blood Oxygen Level Dependent (BOLD) MRI and oxygen transit modeling. Am J Physiology – Renal Physiology 2014;306(6):F579 –87 Sigmund EE, Vivier PH, Sui D, Lamparello N, Mikeev A, Rusinek H, Babb J, Storey P, Lee VS, Chandarana H. Intravoxel incoherent motion (IVIM) and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) in renal tissue under hydration and furosemide flow challenges. Radiology 2012; 263(3):758-69 Lee VS, Spritzer CE, Carroll BA, Pool LG, Bernstein MA, Heinle SK, MacFall JR. Flow quantification using fast cine phase-contrast (PC) MR imaging, conventionalcine PC MR imaging, and Doppler sonography: in vitro and in vivo validation. AJR 1997; 169:1125-1131. Lee VS, Lavelle MT, Rofsky NM, Laub G, Thomasson D, Krinsky GA, Weinreb JC. Hepatic MR imaging with a dynamic contrast-enhanced isotropic volumetric interpolated breath-hold examination: Feasibility, reproducibility, and technical quality. Radiology2000; 215:365-372. Lee VS, Resnick D, Bundy JM, Simonetti OP, Lee P, Weinreb JC. Cardiac function: MR evaluation in one breath hold with real-time true fast imaging with steady-state precession. Radiology 2002; 222:835-842. Pandharipande PV, Krinsky GA, Rusinek H, Lee VS. Perfusion imaging of the liver: Current challenges and future goals. Radiology 2005; 234(3): 661-673. Lee VS, Rusinek H, Bokacheva L, Huang AJ, Oesingmann N, Chen Q, Kaur M, Prince K, Song T, Kramer EL, Leonard EF. Renal function measurements from MR renography and amulticompartmental model. Am J Physiology—Renal Physiol 2007; 292;F1548-1559. Miyazaki M, Lee VS. Non-enhanced MR angiography: State-of-the-Art. Radiology, 2008:248(1):20-43. 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2013–14 VfL Bochum season The 2013–14 VfL Bochum season is the 76th season in club history. Review and events During the winter break, the club mourned the death of long-time general manager Klaus Hilpert, who died on 20 January 2014. Matches Legend Friendly matches 2. Bundesliga League fixtures and results DFB-Pokal Squad Squad and statistics Squad, appearances and goals scored |} Transfers Summer In: Out: Winter In: Out: VfL Bochum II |} Women |} Sources External links 2013–14 VfL Bochum season at Weltfussball.de 2013–14 VfL Bochum season at kicker.de 2013–14 VfL Bochum season at Fussballdaten.de Bochum Category:VfL Bochum seasons
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Jamalganj railway station Jamalganj railway station is a railway station in Joypurhat, Rajshahi Division, Bangladesh. See also Joypurhat railway station Santahar railway station References Category:Railway stations in Joypurhat District Category:Transport in Rajshahi Division
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List of programs broadcast by Arirang TV The following is a list of television programs formerly or currently broadcast by Arirang TV. # #KOREA 4.0 - current #Stylecast - past #Stylecast 2017 - past 100 Icons of Korean Culture - past 21st Century - past The 3S - current 4 Angles - current A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Arirang TV Arirang
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Noor Deen Mi Guangjiang Hajji Noor Deen Mi Guangjiang (born 1963) is an expert in Islamic calligraphy, specializing in the Sini style which originated from the Chinese Muslim tradition. Born in the province of Shandong, he is a lecturer at the Islamic College at Zhengzhou in the province of Henan, and is also a researcher of Islamic culture at the Henan Academy of Sciences. In 1997, Haji Noor Deen was the first Chinese Muslim to be awarded the Egyptian Certificate of Arabic Calligraphy and to be admitted as a member of the Association of Egyptian Calligraphy. His calligraphy is known for its beauty and complexity. External links Noor Deen Mi Guangjiang website Category:Islam in China Category:1963 births Category:Living people Category:Hui people
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List of Duck Dodgers episodes This is a list of episodes from the Duck Dodgers cartoon series. Each season contains 13 episodes. A total of 39 episodes were produced spanning 3 seasons. Series overview Episodes Season 1 (2003) Season 2 (2004–05) Season 3 (2005) External links Category:Lists of American children's animated television series episodes Category:Duck Dodgers
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Vincent Braillard Vincent Braillard (born 29 April 1985) is a Swiss motorcycle racer. After his racing career, he started a new career as a floorball player. He currently plays for Unihockey Team Semsales. Career statistics Grand Prix motorcycle racing By season Races by year (key) References External links Profile on MotoGP.com Category:Swiss motorcycle racers Category:1985 births Category:Living people Category:125cc World Championship riders
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Batrachorhina fuscolateralis Batrachorhina fuscolateralis is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Stephan von Breuning in 1939. It is known from Zanzibar and Kenya. References Category:Batrachorhina Category:Beetles described in 1939
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83rd Infantry Division (German Empire) The 83rd Infantry Division (83. Infanterie-Division) was a formation of the Imperial German Army in World War I. The division was formed in November 1914 as the "Division Posen 1", part of the Posen Corps (Korps Posen), and became the 83rd Infantry Division in June 1915. It was initially formed from the garrison infantry regiments of Fortress Posen (Festung Posen). The division was disbanded in 1919 during the demobilization of the German Army after World War I. Combat chronicle Division Posen 1 initially served on the Eastern Front, fighting in Poland, including at the 1914 Battle of Łódź, and then spent most of the period until mid-1915 fighting along the Rawka and Bzura Rivers. On June 2, 1915, it became the 83rd Infantry Division. It fought on the Narew River in July and August 1915 and participated in the capture of Białystok on August 26, 1915, and the subsequent conquest of Grodno. Until April 1917, it occupied the line along the Berezina River and was then along the Servech and Shchara Rivers for several months. It remained in the Bukovina region until the armistice on the Eastern Front. In March 1918, the division was sent to the Western Front, where it initially occupied the line in Lorraine and then moved to Flanders. It went to the Somme region in August and returned to Lorraine in September, where it was for the remainder of the war. Allied intelligence rated the division as fourth class. Order of battle on formation The 83rd Infantry Division was formed as a square division. The order of battle of the division on June 14, 1915, was as follows: 165. Infanterie-Brigade Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 329 Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 330 166. Infanterie-Brigade Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 331 Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 332 Ersatz-Eskadron/Ulanen-Regiment (1. Brandenburgisches) Nr. 3 5.Landsturm-Eskadron/V. Armeekorps Stab Feldartillerie-Regiment Nr. 55 Ersatz-Abteilung/2. Großherzoglich-Hessisches Feldartillerie-Regiment Nr. 61 1. Ersatz-Abteilung/Feldartillerie-Regiment von Podbielski (1. Niederschlesisches) Nr. 5 Fußartillerie-Bataillon Nr. 112 Landwehr-Pionier-Kompanie/XIX. Armeekorps Late-war order of battle The division underwent a number of organizational changes over the course of the war. It was triangularized in September 1917, losing the 332nd Infantry Regiment. Cavalry was reduced, artillery and signals commands were formed, and combat engineer support was expanded to a full pioneer battalion. The order of battle on April 15, 1918, was as follows: 165. Infanterie-Brigade Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 329 Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 330 Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 331 3. Eskadron/Dragoner-Regiment von Wedel (Pommersches) Nr. 11 Artillerie-Kommandeur 80 Feldartillerie-Regiment Nr. 249 III.Bataillon/Fußartillerie-Regiment Nr. 28 Stab Pionier-Bataillon Nr. 83 1.Landwehr-Pionier-Kompanie/I. Armeekorps 1.Landwehr-Pionier-Kompanie/V. Armeekorps Minenwerfer-Kompanie Nr. 83 Divisions-Nachrichten-Kommandeur 83 References Division-Posen-1 (Chronik 1914/1915) - Der erste Weltkrieg 83. Infanterie-Division (Chronik 1915/1918) - Der erste Weltkrieg Hermann Cron et al., Ruhmeshalle unserer alten Armee (Berlin, 1935) Hermann Cron, Geschichte des deutschen Heeres im Weltkriege 1914-1918 (Berlin, 1937) Günter Wegner, Stellenbesetzung der deutschen Heere 1825-1939. (Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück, 1993), Bd. 1 Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), compiled from records of Intelligence section of the General Staff, American Expeditionary Forces, at General Headquarters, Chaumont, France 1919 (1920) Notes Category:Infantry divisions of Germany in World War I Category:Military units and formations established in 1914 Category:Military units and formations disestablished in 1919 Category:1914 establishments in Germany
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John Benson (architect) Sir John Benson ICE (1812 – 17 October 1874) was an Irish architect, born in Collooney, County Sligo. Although most of his work was in Cork, he was knighted for his design for the Dublin Great Industrial Exhibition. Life John Benson was born in Collooney, Co. Sligo, in 1812. At the age of twenty-one he was sent by Edward Joshua Cooper of Markree Castle, to 'a technical school in Dublin', presumably the Royal Dublin Society's School of Architectural Drawing. Early work included the restoration of Markree Castle in Collooney, Benson passed his surveyor's examination in 1846 and worked as county surveyor for Cork and was involved in the relief work during the famine of 1847. In 1848 he was appointed of consulting engineer to the Cork Harbour Board and improved the navigation of the river. He was architect for the 1852 Irish Industrial Exhibition and won the competition to design the Exhibition Building for the Great Industrial Exhibition (1853) in Dublin. He was knighted for his work at the 1853 exhibition. Benson was a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers. He was engineer and architect for the Cork and Macroom Direct Railway and the Rathkeale & Newcastle Railway. He also supervised the refurbishment of the Theatre Royal, Cork in the 1860s. Architectural works The Firkin Crane building was designed by Sir John Benson and opened in 1855. The building is a unique rotunda, which formed part of Cork's original Butter Exchange, and currently houses the Butter Museum. The Atheneum (Cork Opera House (1855) used as a template the design for the exhibition buildings at the Irish Industrial Exhibition. St. Patrick's Bridge, Cork (1861) The Western Tower over the main door of the North Chapel in Cork was designed by Benson. References Attribution Category:1812 births Category:1874 deaths Category:Irish architects Category:People from County Sligo Category:Irish civil engineers Category:Irish knights Category:19th-century Irish architects
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Clementina Ródenas Clementina Ródenas Villena (born 11 May 1949) is a Spanish politician from the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) who was Mayor of Valencia between 1989 and 1991. References Category:1949 births Category:Living people Category:Spanish Socialist Workers' Party politicians Category:Mayors of Valencia Category:Women mayors of places in Spain Category:People from Valencia Category:Valencia city councillors
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Auguste-Louis de Rossel de Cercy Auguste-Louis de Rossel de Cercy (22 June 1736 – 27 February 1804) was a French painter of the 18th century. He especially painted naval scenes. De Cercy was born in Dompierre-sur-Mer in 1736, and was a Marquis. He died in 1804 in Paris. Gallery References External links Works by Auguste-Louis de Rossel de Cercy Category:18th-century French painters Category:French male painters Category:19th-century French painters Category:1736 births Category:1804 deaths Category:19th-century male artists
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Maungataniwha Range The Maungataniwha Range is a volcanic mountain range located in Northland Region of New Zealand. The Mangamukas, as it is known by the local residents and many Northlanders because of the name of the settlement and river on the southern side, separates Kaitaia and the Aupouri Peninsula from the rest of Northland. The highest point in the Maungataniwha Ranges is Raetea at 744m. The range is home to many kauri trees and part of the range is a part of Northland Forest Park. The New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage gives a translation of "taniwha mountain" for Maungataniwha. State Highway 1 crosses the range and passes through the Mangamuka Gorge. With a summit of 383m, the road is known to be one of the most winding, twisty and hilly section of the entire length of highway in New Zealand. It was built in the 1920s and was sealed in 1961, making it the preferred route from Whangarei to Kaitaia. In the early 1900s, a railway was proposed to either run through the ranges or run round them to connect Kaitaia and the Far North with the North Auckland Line or the Okaihau Branch line of the national rail network. After much debate, the idea never went ahead and in 1936 the decision was made not to extend the Okaihau Branch to Kaitaia and the extension from Okaihau to Rangiahua was closed. References Category:Mountain ranges of New Zealand Category:Far North District Category:Landforms of the Northland Region
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San Toy San Toy, or The Emperor's Own is a "Chinese" musical comedy in two acts, first performed at Daly's Theatre, London, on 21 October 1899, and ran for 768 performances (edging out The Geisha as the second longest run for any musical up to that time). The book was written by Edward Morton, and the musical score was written by Sidney Jones with lyrics by Harry Greenbank and Adrian Ross. Additional songs were written by Lionel Monckton. The cast included Marie Tempest, Scott Russell, Huntley Wright and Rutland Barrington. The piece enjoyed international success. In America, San Toy opened at Daly's Theatre on Broadway on 10 October 1900. It was revived at the same theatre in 1901, 1902 and 1905, playing for a total of more than 200 performances in these productions. The piece was regularly performed by amateur theatre groups, particularly in Britain, from 1910 through the 1930s, but it has been produced only rarely since then. Some of the language and stereotyping in the show reflect the period in which it was written and would not now be considered politically correct. However, a close inspection to the lyrics of such songs as Samee Gamee display a gentle mocking of the pretension of Western superiority. Roles and original cast Captain Bobby Preston (Son of Sir George Bingo Preston) – Hayden Coffin Yen How (A Mandarin) – Rutland Barrington Sir Bingo Preston (British Consul at Pynga Pong) – Fred Kaye Sing Hi (President of the Board of Ceremonies) – Colin Coop Lieut. Harvey Tucker – Lionel Mackinder Fo Hop (A Chinese Student) – Scott Russell Fang (A Boatman) – Mr. McLean Li Hi, Li Lo (Tartar Guards) – T. H. David and F. Vigay Old Mandarin (At Court of Peking) – Ackerman May Li – Huntley Wright Poppy (Daughter of Sir Bingo) – Hilda Moody Dudley (Her Maid) – Gracie Leigh Chu (A Widow) – May Buckley Wun Lung (Perpetual Corporal of The Emperor's Own) – Gladys Homfrey Ko Fan (Of The Emperor's Own) – Maidie Hope Yung Shi, Me Koui, Siou, Shuey Pin Sing, Li Kiang, Hu Yu (Wives of Yen How) – F. Collingbourn, Maroie Fawcett, M. Roche, F. Allen, Ethel Hope and Mary Collette Trixie – Topsy Sinden Mrs. Harley Streeter – Alice Davis Hon. Mrs. Hay Stackporle – K. Francis Miss Mary Lambkin – Hilda Coral San Toy (Daughter of Yen How) – Marie Tempest Synopsis Act I In the town of Pynka Pong, where Sir Bing Preston is the British Consul, two jade merchants bribe Li, the private secretary of the mandarin Yen How. Li flirts with Dudley, the maid at the British Consulate, but Li is in love with Ko Fan, one of the Emperor's female guards, a service into which all noble daughters are conscripted. The Mandarin, however, has got around the conscription law for his favourite daughter, San Toy, by raising her as a boy. However, the student Fo Hop discovers the secret, and his price for silence is San Toy's hand in marriage. The Mandarin allows this on the condition that no one must ever know that San Toy is a girl, cleverly preventing the marriage from happening. San Toy is in love with the Consul's son, naval Captain Bobby Preston, but a marriage between the two would never be permitted by either of their fathers. Bobby must leave San Toy to go to Peking on his father's business and departs sadly. Fo Hop, discovering their romance, tells San Toy that he will turn her into the model Chinese wife. A new edict from the Emperor is announced, ordering that now all sons, as well as daughters, of Mandarins must join a new regiment in Peking, so San Toy must depart for Peking, where she will admit her sex, entering the girls' regiment, and can see Bobby. The Mandarin declares that he will also go to Peking and petition the Emperor to return his daughter. Act II In the Emperor's Palace at Peking, San Toy is introduced to the Emperor, and he is charmed by her, telling her that she will be treated with favour. Li arrives, followed by Dudley, who entertains the Emperor. The Preston family and consulate staff arrive. Poppy Preston, the Consul's daughter, explains Western marriage customs. San Toy assures Bobby that she is still his, and Yen How and his wives also arrive and are pleased to see that San Toy is receiving the amorous attentions of the Emperor. However, it is declared that the Emperor is astrologically ill-suited to San Toy but well-suited to one of the other girls, leaving San Toy free to marry Bobby, Li to marry his old love Ko Fan, and Yen How to be promoted to Viceroy. Musical numbers ACT I - A Street in Pynka Pong No. 1 - Opening Chorus - "On China's empire shining bright, the moon will reach its full tonight..." No. 2 - Quintette - Li, Wai Ho, Ah Wen, Yu Sam & Me Koui - "Of noble kin is the mandarin..." No. 3 - Song - Dudley - "A modern lady's maid who serves a modern lady has got to know her trade..." No. 4 - Song - Poppy - "Once I was free to roam over the fields at home..." No. 5 - Song - Yen How & Wives - "Oh, my name is Yen How, I'm a Mandarin great..." (seven verses) No. 6 - Song - San Toy - "Where the plum-tree flower'd gaily in the garden came an Englishman to meet a little maid..." No. 7 - Duet - San Toy & Bobbie - "Oh my lover, you are clever smart but you've never taught me yet..." No. 8 - Concerted Number - "Have you heard there's a girl in the moon? ..." No. 9 - Quartette - Poppy, Dudley, Tucker amp; Li - "You cannot think how dull it is where fashion plates are nullities..." No. 10 - Song - Bobbie - "Dear little maid, San Toy, child of the morn are you..." No. 11 - Duet & Scena - San Toy & Fo Hop - "When you are wed to me ... Far sooner dead I'd be..." No. 12 - Duet - Dudley & Li - "Your marriages here are certainly queer, I do not see what's the attraction..." No. 13 - Finale Act I - "We have come here now to renew our protestation..." ACT II - Hall in Emperor's Palace at Peking No. 14 - Solo & Chorus - Sing Hi & Mandarins - "We are the cream of courtly creatures, mighty mandarins..." No. 15 - Song - Dudley - "Rhoda Rye was a London lass, taking and trim and tidy..." No. 16 - Chorus - "Make room for the Emperor's Own, imposing and splendid, who guard the Imperial Throne..." No. 17 - Concerted Number - "At our majestic monarch's behest, welcome the whole barbarian band..." No. 18 - Song - Blanche and Chorus - "How are English husbands won? Would you like to know?..." No. 19 - Pas Seul No. 20 - Duet - San Toy & Bobbie - "As I'm a China maid, and you're an Englishman..." No. 21 - Entrance of Wives - "We have come to see (squeak) what the palace life is..." No. 22 - Chinese Duet - Dudley & Li - "Pletty littee Chinee, welly nice and tiny, livee on a mantel shelf..." No. 23 - Quartette - Poppy, Tucker, Dudley, Li & Chorus - "What joy to know a month or so will see us in town again..." No. 24 - Song - Yen How & Chorus - "I used to think a Chinaman was twenty times as fine a man..." (four verses) No. 25 - Song - Bobbie - "A many maidens sweet and tender, and fair there are beneath the sun..." No. 26 - Song - San Toy - "A butterfly, spreading his shining wing, went fluttering forth in the golden spring..." No. 27 - Song - Li - "Blitish sojeman in led, ladie's muffee top-side head, ah!..." (four verses) No. 28 - Finale Act II - "Vain was the fond endeavour love and its bond to sever! ..." Supplementary Numbers No. 29 - Song - San Toy - "Little China maids, till their beauty fades, must be hidden..." No. 30 - Song - Li - "Life is a mouse trap, open wide; man is the mouse what walk inside..." No. 31 - Song - San Toy - "It's very clear, before I came here this wasn't a lively spot..." No. 32 - Song - San Toy - "From a country far in the golden west a certain somebody came..." Notes References Midi files, lyrics and cast list Description of the musical Synopis and other information External links Vocal score List of longest running plays in London and New York Article comparing The Nautch Girl and Utopia Limited with other exotic-locale works, such as San Toy, and analyzing the implications of the exotic settings as a reflection of British imperialism Category:1899 musicals Category:Original musicals Category:Musicals by Sidney Jones Category:British musicals
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Waverly Sandstone The Waverly Sandstone is a geologic formation in Michigan. It preserves fossils dating back to the Carboniferous period. References Category:Carboniferous Michigan Category:Carboniferous southern paleotropical deposits
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Death on the Run (1936 film) Death on the Run (French: Le mort en fuite) is a 1936 French comedy film directed by André Berthomieu and starring Jules Berry, Michel Simon and Marie Glory. Two struggling actors decide to attract publicity by pretending that one has murdered the other, but things soon get out of hand. It was made at the Neuilly Studios. The film's sets were designed by Jean d'Eaubonne. It was remade two years later in Britain as Break the News starring Jack Buchanan and Maurice Chevalier. In 1954 the film was remade in France. Cast Jules Berry as Hector Trignol Michel Simon as Achille Baluchet Marie Glory as Myrra Fernande Albany as Olga Stefany Gaston Mauger as Le directeur du théâtre Gabrielle Fontan as La concierge Paul Gury as Ivan Claire Gérard as Madame Irma Paul Faivre as Le gardien Jean Diéner Hugues de Bagratide as Le juge de Sergarie Georges Paulais as Un policier Pierre Mindaist Marcel Vibert as L'avocat Eddy Debray as La médecin aliéniste Robert Ozanne as Le reporter André Siméon as Un agent References Bibliography Geoffrey Nowell-Smith. The Oxford History of World Cinema. Oxford University Press, 1997. External links Category:1930s comedy films Category:French comedy films Category:1936 films Category:French films Category:French-language films Category:Films directed by André Berthomieu Category:French black-and-white films
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Aas-Jakobsen Dr. ing. A. Aas-Jakobsen AS, trading as Aas-Jakobsen, is a civil engineering consultant company specializing in structural engineering. The company is based in Oslo, Norway, and primarily works with bridges, roads, railways, offshore oil and buildings. The company has 250 employees. The company was established by Andreas Aas-Jakobsen in 1937. For the first decade, the company specialized in shell structures, but from the 1950s, the company shifted to bridge design. The company later started designing offshore installations and became a verifier for such structures, and later also became a consultant for railway projects and major road projects, such as the Bjørvika Tunnel through Oslo. Major projects which the company has participated in include the Arctic Cathedral, Askøy Bridge, Bømla Bridge, Brønnøysund Bridge, Candaba Viaduct, Djupfjordstraumen Bridge, Drammen Bridge, Grenland Bridge, Heidrun, Helgeland Bridge, Henningsvær Bridge, Lysefjord Bridge, Mjøsa Bridge, Nordhordland Bridge, Osterøy Bridge, Rama III Bride, Sleipner A, Stord Bridge, Tromsø Bridge and Varodden Bridge. New design for yet unbuilt projects include the Storfjord Bridge, which would, if it was completed, become the longest spanned suspension bridge in the world, spanning across Storfjorden. The company is also part of the team which will design Terminal 2 of Oslo Airport, Gardermoen, and an long bicycle tube in Bodø, which would allow bicyclists to ride during winter without exposure to the elements. References External links Official site Category:Engineering companies of Norway Category:Companies based in Oslo Category:1937 establishments in Norway Category:Construction and civil engineering companies established in 1937
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Kick harness The kick harness, also known as the extra harness or plus harness, is a set of additional connectors that allow arcade PCBs to have extra inputs beyond what the JAMMA wiring standard allows. A typical JAMMA PCB supports only 1 joystick and 3 buttons each for 2 players. JAMMA boards that require this extra harness are referred to as JAMMA+ or JAMMA Plus boards. The kick harness is named for its most ubiquitous use in arcades: the additional kick buttons in the game Street Fighter II. Many games, especially fighting games, have adopted similar button layouts. Harnesses for games that do not employ kick buttons, such as trackball and driving games, are still commonly referred to as kick harnesses. The harness connects directly to the PCB, having its own ground loop and power connection. In the case of Capcom's CPS-2 system board, the kick harness is a 34-pin connector that plugs into the side of the 'A' Board. Unlike JAMMA inputs, kick harnesses have not been standardized. Even PCBs requiring functionally identical inputs may require different wiring. For example, Street Fighter II and Super Street Fighter II have the same control panel layout, and are both produced by Capcom, but they have different pinouts due to the configuration of their respective CPS-1 and CPS-2 system boards. See also JAMMA Category:Arcade hardware
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Paul Eriksson Paul Eriksson (born April 26, 1991) is a Swedish professional ice hockey player. He played with Timrå IK in the Elitserien during the 2010–11 Elitserien season. References External links Category:1991 births Category:Living people Category:Timrå IK players Category:Swedish ice hockey defencemen
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Underhill F.C. Underhill F.C. is an individually owned premier league football club based in Beitbridge, Zimbabwe. Underhill are playing home matches in Masvingo (Mucheke stadium) until their own stadium in Beitbridge (Dulibadzimu) is upgraded; References Category:Beitbridge Category:Football clubs in Zimbabwe
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Liberalitas In ancient Roman culture, liberalitas was the virtue of giving freely (from liber, "free"), hence generosity. On coins, a political leader of the Roman Republic or an emperor of the Imperial era might be depicted as displaying largess to the Roman people, with liberalitas embodied as a goddess at his side. The goddess Liberalitas appears on coinage issued under the emperors Gordian III Trajan, Antoninus Pius and Septimius Severus, sometimes designated as Augusta or Augusti in association with Imperial cult. On one example, a Roman holds out his toga to receive coins poured by Liberalitas, as Antoninus looks on from an elevated seat. The divine Virtues are sometimes associated with a particular activity or function performed by the emperor—in the case of Liberalitas, the congiarium or giving of gifts by the emperor directly to individuals. The enacting of the particular virtue was considered an epiphany of the goddess or miraculum: Liberalitas was thought to have manifested herself when Trajan distributed cash gifts to the populace during his formal arrival ceremony (adventus) in 99 AD. Pliny names the quality of liberalitas in his Panegyric to Trajan. Liberalitas was theologically linked to Providentia, "providence", and Annona, the embodiment of the grain supply. References Category:Roman goddesses Category:Personifications in Roman mythology
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Lee Chung-hee (basketball) Lee Chung-Hee (Hangul: 이충희) (born November 7, 1959 in Cheolwon, Gangwon Province, South Korea) is a retired South Korean basketball player. He played as a shooting guard. Widely considered as the best Asian perimeter shooter of all time, Lee Chung Hee was named the Most Valuable Player of the 14th Asian Basketball Championship, albeit South Korea lost to China at the final in 1987. He is 182 cm (5 ft 11 in) tall. He competed at the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games, where the South Korean team finished in ninth position. His former teams include Hyundai Electronics and Hung Kuo Elephants. References Category:1959 births Category:Basketball players at the 1988 Summer Olympics Category:Living people Category:Olympic basketball players of South Korea Category:South Korean men's basketball players Category:Asian Games medalists in basketball Category:Basketball players at the 1978 Asian Games Category:Basketball players at the 1982 Asian Games Category:Basketball players at the 1986 Asian Games Category:Basketball players at the 1990 Asian Games Category:Jeonju KCC Egis players Category:South Korean basketball coaches Category:Changwon LG Sakers coaches Category:Goyang Orion Orions coaches Category:Wonju DB Promy coaches Category:Shooting guards Category:Asian Games gold medalists for South Korea Category:Asian Games silver medalists for South Korea Category:Asian Games bronze medalists for South Korea Category:Medalists at the 1978 Asian Games Category:Medalists at the 1982 Asian Games Category:Medalists at the 1986 Asian Games Category:Medalists at the 1990 Asian Games
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White Butte White Butte is the highest natural point in the U.S. state of North Dakota. At an elevation of 3,506 ft (1,069 m), it is a prominent butte in Slope County, in the Badlands of the southwestern part of the state. It is located east of US 85 and about south of Amidon. The nearest town is Amidon, about seven miles to the northwest. The summit is located within the boundaries of the Little Missouri National Grassland and is about south of Theodore Roosevelt National Park. It is on private property, owned by the Dennis family who live nearby. At the parking area, one mile due north of the trailhead, the family maintains a small mailbox-like receptacle for donations to help maintain the area, and requests a $5 contribution from visitors. From the trailhead, the trail itself is a 4-mile round trip. The Killdeer Mountains, to the north, rise roughly from their foothills, but are shorter than White Butte. See also Outline of North Dakota Index of North Dakota-related articles List of U.S. states by elevation References External links Category:Buttes of North Dakota Category:Landforms of Slope County, North Dakota Category:Highest points of U.S. states Category:Tourist attractions in Slope County, North Dakota Category:North American 1000 m summits
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Patrice Brun (historian) Patrice Brun, (born 1953, Pessac) is a French historian, a specialist of ancient Greece and epigraphy. His research focuses on the history of classical and Hellenistic Greece. He was president of the Bordeaux Montaigne University between 2009 and 2012. Bibliography 1983: Eisphora, syntaxis, stratiotika : recherches sur les finances militaires d'Athènes au IVe, Belles Lettres/Annales littéraires de l'université de Besançon. 1995: Les Archipels égéens, V° - II° siècles av. J.C., Paris, Les Belles Lettres 2000: L'orateur Démade. Essai d'histoire et d'historiographie, Bordeaux, Editions Ausonius, 2003: Le monde grec à l'époque classique 500-323 a.c, Paris, Armand Colin, 2005: Impérialisme et démocratie à Athènes. Inscriptions de l'époque classique, Paris, Armand Colin, 2009: La bataille de Marathon, Paris, Éditions Larousse, 2014: De la renonciation comme acte politique. Chronique d'une présidence d'université, Bordeaux III, 2009-2012, Le Bord de l'eau, 2015: External links Patrice Brun on the site of the Bordeaux Montaigne University Patrice BRUN on .rdv-histoire.com Category:Heads of universities in France Category:21st-century French historians Category:French hellenists Category:1953 births Category:People from Gironde Category:Living people
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CNIB Chanchlani Global Vision Research Award The CNIB Chanchlani Global Vision Research Award is an annual global research award that promotes vital world-class research to explore the causes of blindness and vision loss, as well as potential cures, treatments and preventions. The award of $25,000 is given to vision scientists around the world who have made a major, original contribution for advancement in above said fields. The award was established in 2011 by Vasu and wife Jaya Chanchlani in collaboration with CNIB (Canadian National Institute for the Blind), the Toronto Netralya Lions Club and the Toronto Doctors Lions Club. The $500,000 endowment established with Mr. Chanchlani’s significant financial support, the awards promotes first-class global research of vision science and vision rehabilitation. Award Recipients 2016 - Dr Robert Molday Dr Molday is Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, University of British Columbia 2014 - Jayakrishna Ambati Dr Ambati is Professor and Vice-Chair for Research of Ophthalmology and Founding Director of the Center for Advanced Vision Science at the University of Virginia. 2012 - Professor Hugh R. Taylor Taylor is Melbourne Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne and Chair of Indigenous Eye Health, where he was formerly Professor of Ophthalmology and department head and is founder of the Centre for Eye Research Australia. He is the Vice President of the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness and Treasurer of the International Council of Ophthalmology. See also List of medicine awards Notes Category:Academic awards Category:Canadian awards Category:Medicine awards Category:Lions Clubs International Category:Awards established in 2011
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Diego Velázquez Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (baptized June 6, 1599August 6, 1660) was a Spanish painter, the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV, and one of the most important painters of the Spanish Golden Age. He was an individualistic artist of the contemporary Baroque period. He began to paint in a precise tenebrist style, later developing a freer manner characterized by bold brushwork. In addition to numerous renditions of scenes of historical and cultural significance, he painted scores of portraits of the Spanish royal family and commoners, culminating in his masterpiece Las Meninas (1656). Velázquez's artwork became a model for 19th century realist and impressionist painters. Since then, famous modern artists, including Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí and Francis Bacon, have paid tribute to Velázquez by recreating several of his most famous works. Early life Velázquez was born in Seville, Spain, the first child of João Rodrigues de Silva, a notary, and Jerónima Velázquez. He was baptized at the church of St. Peter in Seville on Sunday, June 6, 1599. The baptism most likely occurred a few days or weeks after his birth. His paternal grandparents, Diogo da Silva and Maria Rodrigues, were Portuguese and had moved to Seville decades earlier. When Velázquez was offered knighthood in 1658 he claimed descent from the lesser nobility in order to qualify; in fact, however, his grandparents were tradespeople, and possibly Jewish conversos. As was customary in Andalusia, Velázquez usually used his mother's surname. Raised in modest circumstances, he showed an early gift for art, and was apprenticed to Francisco Pacheco, an artist and teacher in Seville. An early-18th-century biographer, Antonio Palomino, said Velázquez studied for a short time under Francisco de Herrera before beginning his apprenticeship under Pacheco, but this is undocumented. A contract signed on September 17, 1611, formalized a six-year apprenticeship with Pacheco backdated to December 1610, and it has been suggested that Herrera may have substituted for a traveling Pacheco between December 1610 and September 1611. Though considered a dull and undistinguished painter, Pacheco sometimes expressed a simple, direct realism although his work remained essentially Mannerist. As a teacher, he was highly learned and encouraged his students' intellectual development. In Pacheco's school Velázquez studied the classics, was trained in proportion and perspective, and witnessed the trends in the literary and artistic circles of Seville. On April 23, 1618, Velázquez married Juana Pacheco (June 1, 1602August 10, 1660), the daughter of his teacher. She had two daughters. The elder, Francisca de Silva Velázquez y Pacheco (1619–1658), married painter Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo at the Church of Santiago in Madrid on August 21, 1633; the younger, Ignacia de Silva Velázquez y Pacheco, born in 1621, died in infancy. Velázquez's earliest works are bodegones (kitchen scenes with prominent still-life). He was one of the first Spanish artists to paint such scenes, and his Old Woman Frying Eggs (1618) demonstrates the young artist's unusual skill in realistic depiction. The realism and dramatic lighting of this work may have been influenced by Caravaggio's work—which Velázquez could have seen second-hand, in copies—and by the polychrome sculpture in Sevillian churches. Two of his bodegones, Kitchen Scene with Christ in the House of Martha (1618) and Kitchen Scene with Christ at Emmaus (c. 1618), feature religious scenes in the background, painted in a way that creates ambiguity as to whether the religious scene is a painting on the wall, a representation of the thoughts of the kitchen maid in the foreground, or an actual incident seen through a window. The Virgin of the Immaculate Conception (1618–19) follows a formula used by Pacheco, but replaces the idealized facial type and smoothly finished surfaces of his teacher with the face of a local girl and varied brushwork. His other religious works include The Adoration of the Magi (1619) and Saint John the Evangelist on the Island of Patmos (1618–19), both of which begin to express his more pointed and careful realism. Also from this period are the portrait of Sor Jerónima de la Fuente (1620) – Velázquez's first full-length portrait – and the genre The Water Seller of Seville (1618–1622). The Water Seller of Seville has been termed "the peak of Velázquez's bodegones" and is admired for its virtuoso rendering of volumes and textures as well as for its enigmatic gravitas. To Madrid (early period) Velázquez had established his reputation in Seville by the early 1620s. He traveled to Madrid in April 1622, with letters of introduction to Don Juan de Fonseca, chaplain to the King. Velázquez was not allowed to paint the new king, Philip IV, but portrayed the poet Luis de Góngora at the request of Pacheco. The portrait showed Góngora crowned with a laurel wreath, which Velázquez later painted over. He returned to Seville in January 1623 and remained there until August. In December 1622, Rodrigo de Villandrando, the king's favorite court painter, died. Velázquez received a command to come to the court from the Count-Duke of Olivares, the powerful minister of Philip IV. He was offered 50 ducats (175 g of gold) to defray his expenses, and he was accompanied by his father-in-law. Fonseca lodged the young painter in his home and sat for a portrait, which, when completed, was conveyed to the royal palace. A portrait of the king was commissioned, and on August 30, 1623, Philip IV sat for Velázquez. The portrait pleased the king, and Olivares commanded Velázquez to move to Madrid, promising that no other painter would ever paint Philip's portrait and all other portraits of the king would be withdrawn from circulation. In the following year, 1624, he received 300 ducats from the king to pay the cost of moving his family to Madrid, which became his home for the remainder of his life. Velázquez secured admission to the royal service with a salary of 20 ducats per month, lodgings and payment for the pictures he might paint. His portrait of Philip was exhibited on the steps of San Felipe and received with enthusiasm. It is now lost (as is the portrait of Fonseca). The Museo del Prado, however, has two of Velázquez's portraits of the king (nos. 1070 and 1071) in which the severity of the Seville period has disappeared and the tones are more delicate. The modeling is firm, recalling that of Antonio Mor, the Dutch portrait painter of Philip II, who exercised a considerable influence on the Spanish school. Velázquez depicts Philip wearing the golilla, a stiff linen collar projecting at right angles from the neck. The golilla replaced the earlier court fashion of elaborate ruffed collars as part of Philip's dress reform laws during a period of economic crisis. The Prince of Wales (afterwards Charles I) arrived at the court of Spain in 1623. Records indicate that he sat for Velázquez, but the picture is now lost. In 1627, Philip set a competition for the best painters of Spain with the subject to be the expulsion of the Moors. Velázquez won. Recorded descriptions of his painting (destroyed in a fire at the palace in 1734) say it depicted Philip III pointing with his baton to a crowd of men and women being led away by soldiers, while the female personification of Spain sits in calm repose. Velázquez was appointed gentleman usher as reward. Later he also received a daily allowance of 12 réis, the same amount allotted to the court barbers, and 90 ducats a year for dress. In September 1628, Peter Paul Rubens was positioned in Madrid as an emissary from the Infanta Isabella, and Velázquez accompanied him to view the Titians at the Escorial. Rubens, who demonstrated his brilliance as painter and courtier during the seven months of the diplomatic mission, had a high opinion of Velázquez but had no significant influence on his painting. He did, however, galvanize Velázquez's desire to see Italy and the works of the great Italian masters. In 1629, Velázquez received 100 ducats for the picture of Bacchus (The Triumph of Bacchus), also called Los Borrachos (The Drunks), a painting of a group of men in contemporary dress paying homage to a half-naked ivy-crowned young man seated on a wine barrel. Velázquez's first mythological painting, it has been interpreted variously as a depiction of a theatrical performance, as a parody, or as a symbolic representation of peasants asking the god of wine to give them relief from their sorrows. The style shows the naturalism of Velázquez's early works slightly touched by the influence of Titian and Rubens. Italian period In 1629, Velázquez was given permission to spend a year and a half in Italy. Though this first visit is recognized as a crucial chapter in the development of his style—and in the history of Spanish Royal Patronage, since Philip IV sponsored his trip—few details and specifics are known of what the painter saw, whom he met, how he was perceived and what innovations he hoped to introduce into his painting. He traveled to Venice, Ferrara, Cento, Loreto, Bologna, and Rome. In 1630 he visited Naples to paint the portrait of Maria Anna of Spain, and there he probably met Ribera. The major works from his first Italian period are Joseph's Bloody Coat brought to Jacob (1629–30) and Apollo in the Forge of Vulcan (1630), both of which reveal his ambition to rival the Italians as a history painter in the grand manner. The two compositions of several nearly life-sized figures have similar dimensions, and may have been conceived as pendants—the biblical scene depicting a deception, and the mythological scene depicting the revelation of a deception. As he had done in The Triumph of Bacchus, Velázquez presented his characters as contemporary people whose gestures and facial expressions were those of everyday life. Following the example of Bolognese painters such as Guido Reni, Velázquez painted Apollo in the Forge of Vulcan on canvas prepared with a light gray ground rather than the dark reddish ground of all his earlier works. The change resulted in a greater luminosity than he had previously achieved, and he made the use of light-gray grounds his regular practice. Return to Madrid (middle period) Velázquez returned to Madrid in January 1631. That year he completed the first of his many portraits of the young prince, beginning with Prince Balthasar Charles with a Dwarf, (Boston, Museum of Fine Arts). ln portraits such as Equestrian portrait of prince Balthasar Charles (1635), Velázquez depicts the prince looking dignified and lordly, or in the dress of a field marshal on his prancing steed. In one version, the scene is in the riding school of the palace, the king and queen looking on from a balcony, while Olivares attends as master of the horse to the prince. To decorate the king's new palace, the Palacio del Buen Retiro, Velázquez painted equestrian portraits of the royal family. In Philip IV on Horseback (1634–35), the king is represented in profile in an image of imperturbable majesty, demonstrating expert horsemanship by executing an effortless levade. The large The Surrender of Breda (1634–35), also painted for the Palacio, is Velázquez's only extant painting depicting contemporary history. Its symbolic treatment of a Spanish military victory over the Dutch eschews the rhetoric of conquest and superiority that is typical in such scenes, in which a general on horseback looks down on his vanquished, kneeling opponent. Instead, Velázquez shows the Spanish general standing before his Dutch counterpart as an equal, and extending to him a hand of consolation. The influential minister Olivares was the early patron of the painter. His impassive, saturnine face is familiar to us from the many portraits painted by Velázquez. Two are notable: one is full-length, stately and dignified, in which he wears the green cross of the order of Alcantara and holds a wand, the badge of his office as master of the horse; in the other, The Count-Duke of Olivares on Horseback (c. 1635), he is flatteringly represented as a field marshal during action. In these portraits, Velázquez well repaid the debt of gratitude that he owed to his first patron, whom Velázquez stood by during Olivares's fall from power, thus exposing himself to the great risk of the anger of the jealous Philip. The king, however, showed no sign of malice towards his favorite painter. The sculptor Juan Martínez Montañés modeled a statue on one of Velázquez's equestrian portraits of the king (painted in 1636; now lost) which was cast in bronze by the Florentine sculptor Pietro Tacca and now stands in the Plaza de Oriente in Madrid. Velázquez was in close attendance to Philip, and accompanied him to Aragon in 1644, where the artist painted a portrait of the monarch in the costume as he reviewed his troops in Fraga. Velázquez's paintings of Aesop and Menippus (both c. 1636–1638) portray ancient writers in the guise of portraits of beggars. Mars Resting (c. 1638) is both a depiction of a mythological figure and a portrait of a weary-looking, middle-aged man posing as Mars. The model is painted with attention to his individuality, while his unkempt, oversized mustache is a faintly comic incongruity. The equivocal image has been interpreted in various ways: Javier Portús describes it as a "reflection on reality, representation, and the artistic vision", while Alfonso E. Pérez Sánchez says it "has also been seen as a melancholy meditation on the arms of Spain in decline". Had it not been for his royal appointment, which enabled Velázquez to escape the censorship of the Inquisition, he would not have been able to release his La Venus del espejo (c. 1644–1648, English: Venus at her Mirror) also known as The Rokeby Venus. It is the first known female nude painted by a Spanish artist, and the only surviving female nude by Velázquez. Portraiture Besides the many portraits of Philip by Velázquez—thirty-four by one count—he painted portraits of other members of the royal family: Philip's first wife, Elisabeth of Bourbon, and her children, especially her eldest son, Don Baltasar Carlos, whom Velázquez first depicted at about two years of age. Cavaliers, soldiers, churchmen, and the poet Francisco de Quevedo (now at Apsley House), sat for Velázquez. Velázquez also painted several buffoons and dwarfs in Philip's court, whom he depicted sympathetically and with respect for their individuality, as in The Jester Don Diego de Acedo (1644), whose intelligent face and huge folio with ink-bottle and pen by his side show him to be a wise and well-educated man. Pablo de Valladolid (1635), a buffoon evidently acting a part, and The Buffoon of Coria (1639) belong to this middle period. As court painter, Velázquez had fewer commissions for religious works than any of his contemporaries. Christ Crucified (1632), painted for the Convent of San Plácido in Madrid, depicts Christ immediately after death. The Savior's head hangs on his breast and a mass of dark tangled hair conceals part of the face, visually reinforcing the idea of death. The figure is presented alone before a dark background. Velázquez's son-in-law Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo had succeeded him as usher in 1634, and Mazo himself had received a steady promotion in the royal household. Mazo received a pension of 500 ducats in 1640, increased to 700 in 1648, for portraits painted and to be painted, and was appointed inspector of works in the palace in 1647. Philip now entrusted Velázquez with the mission of procuring paintings and sculpture for the royal collection. Rich in pictures, Spain was weak in statuary, and Velázquez was commissioned once again to proceed to Italy to make purchases. Second visit to Italy When he set out in 1649, he was accompanied by his assistant Juan de Pareja who at this point in time was a slave and who had been trained in painting by Velázquez. Velázquez sailed from Málaga, landed at Genoa, and proceeded from Milan to Venice, buying paintings of Titian, Tintoretto and Veronese as he went. At Modena he was received with much favor by the duke, and here he painted the portrait of the duke at the Modena gallery and two portraits that now adorn the Dresden gallery, for these paintings came from the Modena sale of 1746. Those works presage the advent of the painter's third and latest manner, a noble example of which is the great portrait of Pope Innocent X in the Doria Pamphilj Gallery in Rome, where Velázquez now proceeded. There he was received with marked favor by the Pope, who presented him with a medal and golden chain. Velázquez took a copy of the portrait—which Sir Joshua Reynolds thought was the finest picture in Rome—with him to Spain. Several copies of it exist in different galleries, some of them possibly studies for the original or replicas painted for Philip. Velázquez, in this work, had now reached the manera abreviada, a term coined by contemporary Spaniards for this bolder, sharper style. The portrait shows such ruthlessness in Innocent's expression that some in the Vatican feared that it would be seen unfavorably by the Pope; in fact Innocent was pleased with the work, and hung it in his official visitor's waiting room. In 1650 in Rome Velázquez also painted a portrait of Juan de Pareja, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, USA. This portrait procured his election into the Accademia di San Luca. Purportedly Velázquez created this portrait as a warm-up of his skills before his portrait of the Pope. It captures in great detail Pareja's countenance and his somewhat worn and patched clothing with an economic use of brushwork. In November 1650, Juan de Pareja was freed by Velázquez. To this period also belong two small landscape paintings both titled View of the Garden of the Villa Medici. As landscapes apparently painted directly from nature, they were exceptional for their time, and reveal Velázquez's close study of light at different times of day. As part of his mission to procure decorations for the Room of Mirrors at the Royal Alcazar of Madrid, Velázquez commissioned Matteo Bonuccelli to cast twelve bronze copies of the Medici lions. The copies are now in the Royal Palace of Madrid and the Museo del Prado. During his time in Rome, Velázquez fathered a natural son, Antonio, whom he is not known ever to have seen. Return to Spain and later career From February 1650, Philip repeatedly sought Velázquez's return to Spain. Accordingly, after visiting Naples—where he saw his old friend Jose Ribera—and Venice, Velázquez returned to Spain via Barcelona in 1651, taking with him many pictures and 300 pieces of statuary, which afterwards were arranged and catalogued for the king. Undraped sculpture was, however, abhorrent to the Spanish Church, and after Philip's death these works gradually disappeared. Elisabeth of France had died in 1644, and the king had married Mariana of Austria, whom Velázquez now painted in many attitudes. In 1652 he was specially chosen by the king to fill the high office of aposentador mayor, which imposed on him the duty of looking after the quarters occupied by the court—a responsible function which was no sinecure and one which interfered with the exercise of his art. Yet far from indicating any decline, his works of this period are amongst the highest examples of his style. Las Meninas One of the infantas, Margaret Theresa, the eldest daughter of the new Queen, appears to be the subject of Las Meninas (1656, English: The Maids of Honour), Velázquez's magnum opus. Created four years before his death, it serves as an outstanding example of European baroque art. Luca Giordano, a contemporary Italian painter, referred to it as the "theology of painting", and in the eighteenth century the Englishman Thomas Lawrence cited it as the "philosophy of art". However, it is unclear as to who or what is the true subject of the picture. Is it the royal daughter, or perhaps the painter himself? The king and queen are seen reflected in a mirror on the back wall, but the source of the reflection is a mystery: are the royal pair standing in the viewer's space, or does the mirror reflect the painting on which Velázquez is working? Dale Brown says Velázquez may have conceived the faded image of the king and queen on the back wall as a foreshadowing of the fall of the Spanish Empire that was to gain momentum following Philip's death. In the 1966 book Les Mots et Les Choses (The Order of Things), philosopher Michel Foucault devotes the opening chapter to a detailed analysis of Las Meninas. He describes the ways in which the painting problematizes issues of representation through its use of mirrors, screens, and the subsequent oscillations that occur between the image's interior, surface, and exterior. It is said the king painted the honorary Cross of Saint James of the Order of Santiago on the breast of the painter as it appears today on the canvas. However, Velázquez did not receive this honor of knighthood until three years after execution of this painting. Even the King of Spain could not make his favorite a belted knight without the consent of the commission established to inquire into the purity of his lineage. The aim of these inquiries would be to prevent the appointment to positions of anyone found to have even a taint of heresy in their lineage—that is, a trace of Jewish or Moorish blood or contamination by trade or commerce in either side of the family for many generations. The records of this commission have been found among the archives of the Order of Santiago. Velázquez was awarded the honor in 1659. His occupation as plebeian and tradesman was justified because, as painter to the king, he was evidently not involved in the practice of "selling" pictures. Final years There were essentially only two patrons of art in Spain—the church and the art-loving king and court. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, who toiled for a rich and powerful church, left little means to pay for his burial, while Velázquez lived and died in the enjoyment of a good salary and pension. One of his final works was Las hilanderas (The Spinners), painted circa 1657, a depiction of Ovid's Fable of Arachne. The tapestry in the background is based on Titian's The Rape of Europa, or, more probably, the copy that Rubens painted in Madrid. It is full of light, air and movement, featuring vibrant colors and careful handling. Anton Raphael Mengs said this work seemed to have been painted not by the hand but by the pure force of will. It displays a concentration of all the art-knowledge Velázquez had gathered during his long artistic career of more than forty years. The scheme is simple—a confluence of varied and blended red, bluish-green, gray and black. Velázquez's final portraits of the royal children are among his finest works and in the Infanta Margarita Teresa in a Blue Dress the painter's personal style reached its high-point: shimmering spots of color on wide painting surfaces produce an almost impressionistic effect – the viewer must stand at a suitable distance to get the impression of complete, three-dimensional spatiality. His only surviving portrait of the delicate and sickly Prince Felipe Prospero is remarkable for its combination of the sweet features of the child prince and his dog with a subtle sense of gloom. The hope that was placed at that time in the sole heir to the Spanish crown is reflected in the depiction: fresh red and white stand in contrast to late autumnal, morbid colors. A small dog with wide eyes looks at the viewer as if questioningly, and the largely pale background hints at a gloomy fate: the little prince was barely four years old when he died. As in all of the artist's late paintings, the handling of the colors is extraordinarily fluid and vibrant. In 1660 a peace treaty between France and Spain was consummated by the marriage of Maria Theresa with Louis XIV, and the ceremony took place on the Island of Pheasants, a small swampy island in the Bidassoa. Velázquez was charged with the decoration of the Spanish pavilion and with the entire scenic display. He attracted much attention from the nobility of his bearing and the splendor of his costume. On June 26 he returned to Madrid, and on July 31 he was stricken with fever. Feeling his end approaching, he signed his will, appointing as his sole executors his wife and his firm friend named Fuensalida, keeper of the royal records. He died on August 6, 1660. He was buried in the Fuensalida vault of the church of San Juan Bautista, and within eight days his wife Juana was buried beside him. This church was destroyed by the French around 1809, so his place of interment is now unknown. There was much difficulty in adjusting the tangled accounts outstanding between Velázquez and the treasury, and it was not until 1666, after the death of King Philip, that they were finally settled. Style and technique It is canonical to divide Velázquez's career by his two visits to Italy. He rarely signed his pictures, and the royal archives give the dates of only his most important works. Internal evidence and history pertaining to his portraits supply the rest to a certain extent. Although acquainted with all the Italian schools and a friend of the foremost painters of his day, Velázquez was strong enough to withstand external influences and work out for himself the development of his own nature and his own principles of art. He rejected the pomp that characterized the portraiture of other European courts, and instead brought an even greater reserve to the understated formula for Habsburg portraiture established by Titian, Antonio Mor, and Alonso Sánchez Coello. He is known for using a rather limited palette, but he mixed the available paints with great skill to achieve varying hues. His pigments were not significantly different from those of his contemporaries and he mainly employed azurite, smalt, vermilion, red lake, lead-tin-yellow and ochres. His early works were painted on canvases prepared with a red-brown ground. He adopted the use of light-gray grounds during his first trip to Italy, and continued using them for the rest of his life. The change resulted in paintings with greater luminosity and a generally cool, silvery range of color. Few drawings are securely attributed to Velázquez. Although preparatory drawings for some of his paintings exist, his method was to paint directly from life, and x-rays of his paintings reveal that he frequently made changes in his composition as a painting progressed. Legacy Velázquez was not prolific; he is estimated to have produced between only 110 and 120 known canvases. He produced no etchings or engravings, and only a few drawings are attributed to him. Velázquez is the most influential figure in the history of Spanish portraiture. Although he had few immediate followers, Spanish court painters such as his son-in-law Juan Bautista Martinez del Mazo and Juan Carreño de Miranda took inspiration from his work. Mazo closely mimicked his style and many paintings and copies by Mazo were formerly attributed to Velázquez. Velázquez's reputation languished in the eighteenth century, when Spanish court portraiture was dominated by artists of foreign birth and training. Towards the of the century, his importance was increasingly recognized by intellectuals close to the Spanish court—an essay published In 1781 by Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos said of Velázquez that "when he died, the glory of Painting in Spain died with him." In 1778, Goya made a set of etchings after paintings by Velázquez, as part of a project by the Count of Floridablanca to produce prints of paintings in the Royal Collection. Goya's free copies reveal a searching engagement with the older master's work, which remained a model for Goya for the rest of his career. Velázquez's work was little known outside of Spain until the nineteenth century. His paintings mostly escaped being stolen by the French marshals during the Peninsular War. In 1828, Sir David Wilkie wrote from Madrid that he felt himself in the presence of a new power in art as he looked at the works of Velázquez, and at the same time found a wonderful affinity between this artist and the British school of portrait painters, especially Henry Raeburn. He was struck by the modern impression pervading Velázquez's work in both landscape and portraiture. Velázquez is often cited as a key influence on the art of Édouard Manet, who is often considered the bridge between realism and impressionism. Calling Velázquez the "painter of painters", Manet admired the immediacy and vivid brushwork of Velázquez's work, and built upon Velázquez's motifs in his own art. In the late nineteenth century, artists such as James McNeill Whistler and John Singer Sargent were strongly influenced by Velázquez. Modern recreations of classics The respect with which twentieth century painters regard Velázquez's work attests to its continuing importance. Pablo Picasso paid homage to Velázquez in 1957 when he recreated Las Meninas in 44 variations, in his characteristic style. Although Picasso was concerned that his reinterpretations of Velázquez's painting would be seen merely as copies rather than unique representations, the enormous works—including the largest he had produced since Guernica in 1937—obtained a position of importance in the canon of Spanish art. Salvador Dalí, as with Picasso in anticipation of the tercentennial of Velázquez's death, created in 1958 a work entitled Velázquez Painting the Infanta Margarita With the Lights and Shadows of His Own Glory. The color scheme shows Dalí's serious tribute to Velázquez; the work also functioned, as in Picasso's case, as a vehicle for the presentation of newer theories in art and thought—nuclear mysticism, in Dalí's case. The Anglo-Irish painter Francis Bacon found Velázquez's portrait of Pope Innocent X to be "one of the greatest portraits ever". He created several expressionist variations of this piece in the 1950s; however, Bacon's paintings presented a more gruesome image of Innocent. One such famous variation, entitled Figure with Meat (1954), shows the pope between two halves of a bisected cow. Recent rediscoveries of Velázquez originals In 2009, the Portrait of a Man in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which had long been associated with the followers of Velázquez' style of painting, was cleaned and restored. It was found to be by Velázquez himself, and the features of the man match those of a figure in the painting "the Surrender of Breda". The newly cleaned canvas may therefore be a study for that painting. Although the attribution to Velázquez is regarded as certain, the identity of the sitter is still open to question. Some art historians regard this new study to be a self-portrait by Velázquez. In 2010 it was reported that a damaged painting long relegated to a basement of the Yale University Art Gallery might be an early work by Velázquez. Thought to have been given to Yale in 1925, the painting has previously been attributed to the 17th-century Spanish school. Some scholars are prepared to attribute the painting to Velázquez, though the Prado Museum in Madrid is reserving judgment. The work, which depicts the Virgin Mary being taught to read, will be restored by conservators at Yale. In October 2011 it was confirmed by art historian Dr. Peter Cherry of Trinity College Dublin through x-ray analysis that a portrait found in the UK in the former collection of the 19th-century painter Matthew Shepperson is a previously unknown work by Velázquez. The portrait is of an unidentified man in his fifties or sixties, who could possibly be Juan Mateos, the Master of the Hunt for Velázquez's patron, King Philip IV of Spain. The painting measures 47 x 39 cm and was sold at auction on December 7, 2011, for £3,000,000. Descendants Velázquez, through his daughter Francisca de Silva Velázquez y Pacheco (1619–1658), is an ancestor of the Marquesses of Monteleone, including Enriquetta (Henrietta) Casado de Monteleone (1725–1761) who in 1746 married Heinrich VI, Count Reuss zu Köstritz (1707–1783). Through them are descended a number of European royalty, among them King Felipe VI of Spain through his mother Sophia of Greece and Denmark, King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, King Albert II of Belgium, Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein, and Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg. Selected works Apollo in the Forge of Vulcan (Apolo en la Fragua de Vulcano) (1630) – Oil on canvas, 223 x 290 cm, Museo del Prado, Madrid Christ in the House of Martha and Mary (1618) – Oil on canvas, 63 x 103.5 cm, National Gallery, London Cristo crucificado (1631) – Oil on canvas, 248 x 169 cm, Museo del Prado, Madrid Democritus (c. 1630) – Oil on canvas, 101 x 81 cm, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen El Triunfo de Baco (Los borrachos) (1628–1629) – Oil on canvas, 165 x 225 cm, Museo del Prado, Madrid Temptation of St. Thomas (1632) – Oil on canvas, 244 x 203 cm, Museum of Orihuela Cathedral, Spain Equestrian portrait of Duke de Olivares (1634) – Oil on canvas, 313 x 239 cm, Museo del Prado, Madrid Aesop (1639–1640) – Oil on canvas, 179 × 94 cm, Museo del Prado, Madrid Imposición de la casulla a San Ildefonso (1623) – Oil on canvas, 165 × 115 cm, Museo de Bellas Artes, Seville Old Woman Frying Eggs (c. 1618) – Oil on canvas, 105 × 119 cm, National Gallery, Edinburgh La reina Isabel de Borbón a caballo (1629) – Oil on canvas, 301 x 314 cm, Museo del Prado, Madrid Las Hilanderas (The Fable of Arachne) (c. 1657) -Oil on canvas, 167 × 252 cm, Museo del Prado, Madrid Las Meninas (1656) - Oil on canvas, 318 × 276 cm Mars Resting (1640) - Oil on canvas, 179 × 95 cm, Museo del Prado, Madrid Menipo (1639–1640) – Oil on canvas, 179 × 94 cm, Museo del Prado, Madrid Mercury and Argus (1659) – Oil on canvas, 127 × 248 cm, Museo del Prado, Madrid Portrait of Count Duke of Olivares (1624) – Oil on canvas, 202 x 107 cm, São Paulo Museum of Art, São Paulo Portrait of Duke de Olivares (1635) - Oil on canvas, 67 × 54.5 cm, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg Portrait of Innocent X (c. 1650) - Oil on canvas, 141 x 119 cm, Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Rome Portrait of Juan de Pareja (1650) - Oil on canvas, 81.3 x 69.9 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City Infanta Margarita Teresa in a Pink Dress (c. 1653/1654) - Oil on canvas, 128 x 99,5 cm, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Infanta Margarita Teresa in a Blue Dress (1659) - Oil on canvas, 127 x 107 cm, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Margarita Teresa, Infanta of Spain (c. 1655) -Oil on canvas, Lobkowicz Palace, Prague Infant Philipp Prosper (1659) - Oil on canvas, 129 x 99 cm, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Portrait of Mother Jerónima de la Fuente (1620) – Oil on canvas, 79 x 51 cm, Museo del Prado, Madrid Rokeby Venus (La Venus del espejo, c. 1648–1651) – Oil on canvas, 122 × 177 cm, National Gallery, London The Surrender of Breda (1633–1635) – Oil on canvas, 307 × 367 cm, Museo del Prado, Madrid The Adoration of the Magi (1619) – Oil on canvas, 203 × 125 cm, Museo del Prado, Madrid The Lady with a Fan, (c. 1638–1639) – Oil on wood, 69 x 51 cm, The Wallace Collection, London The Lunch (c. 1617) – Oil on canvas, 108 x 102 cm, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg The Waterseller of Seville (c. 1620) – Oil on canvas, 105 × 80 cm, Apsley House, London Sant Paul (Velázquez) (c. 1619) – Oil on canvas, 99.5 cm × 80 cm, Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona Notes References Sources Asturias, Miguel Angel, and P. M. Bardi (1969). L'opera completa di Velázquez. Milano: Rizzoli. . Carr, Dawson W., Xavier Bray, and Diego Velázquez (2006). Velázquez. London: National Gallery. . Harris, Enriqueta (1982). Velazquez. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press. . McKim-Smith, G., Andersen-Bergdoll, G., Newman, R. (1988). Examining Velazquez. Yale University Press. . Ortega y Gasset, José (1953). Velazquez. New York: Random House. . Portús, Javier (2004). The Spanish Portrait from El Greco to Picasso [exposition, Museo nacional del Prado, 20 october 2004-6 february 2005]. London: Scala. . Further reading Brown, Johnathan (1986) Velázquez: Painter and Courtier Yale University Press, New Haven, ; Brown, Jonathan (1978) Images and Ideas in Seventeenth-Century Spanish Painting Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, ; Brown, Johnathan (2008) Collected writings on Velázquez, CEEH & Yale University Press, New Haven, . Davies, David and Enriqueta Harris (1996) Velázquez in Seville National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, ; Elizabeth McGrath and Jean Michel Massing The Slave in European Art The Warburg Institute 2012. Erenkrantz, Justin R. "The Variations on Past Masters". The Mask and the Mirror. Accessed on April 10, 2005. Goldberg, Edward L. "Velázquez in Italy: Painters, Spies and Low Spaniards". The Art Bulletin, Vol. 74, No. 3 (Sep., 1992), pp. 453–456. Moser, Wolf (2011) Diego de Silva Velázquez: Das Werk und der Maler 2 Vols. Edition Saint-Georges, Lyon, Pacheco, Francisco and Antonio Palomino (2018) "Lives of Velázquez", Getty Publications Passuth, László : Más perenne que el bronce – Velázquez y la corte de Felipe IV (Título original: A harmadik udvarmester) / Noguer y Caralt Editores, 2000 Prater, Andreas (2007) Venus ante el espejo, CEEH, . Salort-Pons, Salvador, "Velázquez en Italia", Fundación de Apoyo a la História del Arte Hispanico, Madrid 2002, "Velázquez, Diego" (1995). Enciclopedia Hispánica. Barcelona: Encyclopædia Britannica Publishers. . Wolf, Norbert (1998) Diego Velázquez, 1599–1660: the face of Spain Taschen, Köln, . External links Velázquez works at the Web Gallery of Art Velázquez at Artcyclopedia.com 202 paintings by Diego Velázquez at DiegoVelazquez.org Diego Velázquez at WikiPaintings.org Diego Velazquez's Online Exhibition at Owlstand.com Diego Velázquez, Collection of resources and illustrated pigment analyses. ColourLex. Category:Spanish Baroque painters Category:1599 births Category:1660 deaths Category:Baroque painters Category:Spanish Roman Catholics Category:Painters from Seville Category:Spanish portrait painters Category:Knights of Santiago Category:People from Seville Category:Spanish Baroque Category:Spanish untitled nobility Category:Spanish people of Portuguese descent Category:17th-century Spanish painters Category:Spanish male painters
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Cass, West Virginia Cass is a census-designated place (CDP) on the Greenbrier River in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, USA. As of the 2010 census, its population was 52. The town, founded in 1901, was named for Joseph Kerr Cass, vice president and cofounder of the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company. History Cass began as a company town for those who worked for West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company, logging the nearby Cheat Mountain. The cut logs were brought by rail to the town, where they were processed for use by paper and hardwood-flooring companies throughout the United States. Cass's skilled laborers, who worked in the mill or the locomotive repair shop, lived with their families in 52 white-fenced houses, built in orderly rows on a hill south of the general store. In 1960 the mill closed. In 1963, the state bought the logging railroad and converted it into a tourist attraction, carrying passengers into the vast Monongahela National Forest. In the late 1970s, the state bought most of the town and its buildings for the new Cass Scenic Railroad State Park. In 1982 the mill burned down. The Cass Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. Current status The town has a general store, a restaurant, a history museum, and 20 houses refurbished for tourist lodgings. The tourist railroad runs from the town to the half way point called Whittaker Station. Here a restored loggers' camp has been created on the mountain. Then the railroad continues up the Mountain to Bald Knob (the third highest peak in West Virginia). On Fridays the trains make runs to the ghost town of Spruce, West Virginia (currently not in service). Cass is the northern terminus of the Greenbrier River Trail. Other The town was featured on Travel Channel's Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern. The town was also featured in the 2013 movie Angel’s Perch. In 2018, the town was featured in an episode of the PBS series, Travels with Darley. Cass Cave, located in Cass, contains highest subterranean waterfall in West Virginia and Virginia, Lacy Suicide Falls. References Category:Census-designated places in Pocahontas County, West Virginia Category:Census-designated places in West Virginia Category:Logging communities in the United States Category:Logging railroads in the United States Category:Company towns in West Virginia Category:Populated places established in 1901 Category:1901 establishments in West Virginia
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Blue Fjord Formation The Blue Fjord Formation is a geologic formation in Northwest Territories. It preserves fossils dating back to the Devonian period. See also List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Northwest Territories References Category:Devonian Northwest Territories Category:Devonian southern paleotropical deposits
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Coffee production in the Dominican Republic Coffee production in the Dominican Republic is based mainly in the mountain regions of the country, in the highlands which form at least one-half of the area of Hispaniola. Introduced to the country in 1715, the Dominican Republic bean is larger and thicker than Martinique's. The major coffee variety grown in the country is Arabica (known internationally as “mild”). Robusta is also grown but only in about 1.3% of the land area; it is consumed locally. History Coffee was first introduced in the Dominican Republic in 1715 and has been the principal crop of the small scale farmers. Coffee began to be exported circa 1872. In the early 20th century, the crop was cultivated in all the Cibao, principally in the district of Puerto Plata. The exportation of coffee from the Dominican Republic in 1900 amounted to . Important coffee areas in 1918 were in Moca, Santiago and Baní, with approximately 66% of the crop exported from Puerto Plata. The area under coffee plantation was (about 3% of land under farming), but since 1981 the area cropped has substantially declined, but the production level has remained generally the same due to the adoption of modern technological inputs. There are five major coffee producing regions, four of them being in the hilly region – the Central Mountain Region, the Northern Mountain Region, the Neyba Mountain Range, and the Bahoruco Mountain Range. There were 40,000 to 50,000 farmers operating in this sector. Production In 2013, according to FAO statistics, coffee production was , which was about 0.1 percent of world production. It was grown in an area of with a yield of per ha. See also Economy of the Dominican Republic References Bibliography Dominican Republic Category:Economy of the Dominican Republic Category:Agriculture in the Dominican Republic
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Robert Fisher (MP) Robert Fisher (ca. 1465–1535) was an English politician. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Rochester in 1529. References Category:1465 births Category:1535 deaths Category:People of the Tudor period Category:English MPs 1529–1536
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2009–10 New York Knicks season The 2009–10 New York Knicks season was the 64th season of the New York Knicks in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Key dates June 25 – The 2009 NBA draft took place in New York City. July 8 – The free agency period started. Summary NBA Draft 2009 Free agency Draft picks Roster Pre-season Regular season Standings Record vs. opponents Game log |- bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 1 | October 28 | @ Miami | | Danilo Gallinari, David Lee (22) | David Lee (9) | Chris Duhon (5) | AmericanAirlines Arena 19,600 | 0–1 |- bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 2 | October 30 | @ Charlotte | | Al Harrington, David Lee, Nate Robinson (17) | David Lee (18) | Chris Duhon (8) | Time Warner Cable Arena 18,624 | 0–2 |- bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 3 | October 31 | Philadelphia | | Al Harrington (42) | Wilson Chandler, Al Harrington (6) | Chris Duhon, Larry Hughes (6) | Madison Square Garden 19,763 | 0–3 |- bgcolor="#bbffbb" | 4 | November 2 | New Orleans | | David Lee (28) | Al Harrington, David Lee (8) | Chris Duhon (9) | Madison Square Garden 19,763 | 1–3 |- bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 5 | November 4 | Indiana | | Al Harrington (22) | David Lee (19) | Chris Duhon (6) | Madison Square Garden 19,273 | 1–4 |- bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 6 | November 6 | Cleveland | | David Lee (21) | David Lee, Wilson Chandler (6) | Chris Duhon (8) | Madison Square Garden 15,874 | 1–5 |- bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 7 | November 7 | @ Milwaukee | | David Lee (18) | David Lee (7) | David Lee, Larry Hughes, Chris Duhon (4) | Bradley Center 15,486 | 1–6 |- bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 8 | November 9 | Utah | | Toney Douglas (21) | Wilson Chandler (10) | Larry Hughes (5) | Madison Square Garden 19,355 | 1–7 |- bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 9 | November 11 | Atlanta | | Toney Douglas, Al Harrington (23) | Al Harrington (12) | Larry Hughes (8) | Madison Square Garden 19,699 | 1–8 |- bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 10 | November 13 | Golden State | | Danilo Gallinari (19) | Danilo Gallinari (10) | Chris Duhon (7) | Madison Square Garden 19,763 | 1–9 |- bgcolor="#bbffbb" | 11 | November 18 | @ Indiana | | Al Harrington (26) | Larry Hughes (10) | Chris Duhon (8) | Conseco Fieldhouse12,258 | 2–9 |- bgcolor="#bbffbb" | 12 | November 21 | @ New Jersey | | Al Harrington, Danilo Gallinari (17) | David Lee (12) | Chris Duhon (8) | Izod Center 14,050 | 3–9 |- bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 13 | November 22 | Boston | | Al Harrington (30) | David Lee (16) | Chris Duhon (6) | Madison Square Garden 19,763 | 3–10 |- bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 14 | November 24 | @ LA Lakers | | Nate Robinson, Wilson Chandler (15) | Wilson Chandler, David Lee (7) | Chris Duhon (6) | Staples Center 18,997 | 3–11 |- bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 15 | November 25 | @ Sacramento | | David Lee, Nate Robinson (25) | David Lee (12) | Nate Robinson, Al Harrington (5) | ARCO Arena 11,375 | 3–12 |- bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 16 | November 27 | @ Denver | | Al Harrington (41) | Al Harrington, David Lee (10) | Larry Hughes (9) | Pepsi Center 19,155 | 3–13 |- bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 17 | November 29 | Orlando | | Nate Robinson (24) | David Lee (12) | Chris Duhon (9) | Madison Square Garden 18,861 | 3–14 |- bgcolor="#bbffbb" | 18 | December 1 | Phoenix | | Danilo Gallinari (27) | Danilo Gallinari (10) | Larry Hughes (12) | Madison Square Garden 19,763 | 4–14 |- bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 19 | December 2 | @ Orlando | | Wilson Chandler (24) | Danilo Gallinari (7) | Danilo Gallinari, Larry Hughes (3) | Amway Arena 17,461 | 4–15 |- bgcolor="#bbffbb" | 20 | December 4 | @ Atlanta | | Al Harrington (27) | David Lee (17) | Chris Duhon (10) | Philips Arena 17,165 | 5–15 |- bgcolor="#bbffbb" | 21 | December 6 | New Jersey | | Al Harrington (26) | Al Harrington (14) | Al Harrington, Chris Duhon (5) | Madison Square Garden 19,602 | 6–15 |- bgcolor="#bbffbb" | 22 | December 7 | Portland | | Larry Hughes (21) | David Lee (10) | Chris Duhon (9) | Madison Square Garden 19,763 | 7–15 |- bgcolor="#bbffbb" | 23 | December 11 | @ New Orleans | | Al Harrington (28) | David Lee (14) | Chris Duhon (9) | New Orleans Arena15,569 | 8–15 |- bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 24 | December 15 | @ Charlotte | | Chris Duhon (18) | David Lee (8) | Chris Duhon (6) | Time Warner Cable Arena 13,606 | 8–16 |- bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 25 | December 17 | @ Chicago | | Chris Duhon, Danilo Gallinari, Al Harrington (18) | Jared Jeffries (9) | Chris Duhon (7) | United Center 19,791 | 8–17 |- bgcolor="#bbffbb" | 26 | December 18 | LA Clippers | | David Lee (25) | David Lee (11) | Chris Duhon (10) | Madison Square Garden 19,763 | 9–17 |- bgcolor="#bbffbb" | 27 | December 20 | Charlotte | | Wilson Chandler (26) | David Lee (15) | David Lee (7) | Madison Square Garden 18,767 | 10–17 |- bgcolor="#bbffbb" | 28 | December 22 | Chicago | | Al Harrington (20) | David Lee (21) | David Lee (5) | Madison Square Garden 19,763 | 11–17 |- bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 29 | December 25 | Miami | | Danilo Gallinari (26) | David Lee (16) | Danilo Gallinari, Chris Duhon (3) | Madison Square Garden 19,763 | 11–18 |- bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 30 | December 27 | San Antonio | | David Lee (28) | David Lee (10) | Chris Duhon (13) | Madison Square Garden 19,763 | 11–19 |- bgcolor="#bbffbb" | 31 | December 29 | @ Detroit | | David Lee (30) | David Lee (12) | Chris Duhon (7) | The Palace of Auburn Hills 22,076 | 12–19 |- bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 32 | December 30 | @ New Jersey | | Al Harrington (25) | David Lee (15) | David Lee (8) | Izod Center 17,575 | 12–20 |- bgcolor="#bbffbb" | 33 | January 1 | @Atlanta | | Nate Robinson (41) | Wilson Chandler (17) | Nate Robinson (8) | Philips Arena 17,366 | 13–20 |- bgcolor="#bbffbb" | 34 | January 3 | Indiana | | Wilson Chandler (23) | David Lee (16) | Chris Duhon (7) | Madison Square Garden 19,763 | 14–20 |- bgcolor="#bbffbb" | 35 | January 7 | Charlotte | | Wilson Chandler (27) | Jared Jeffries (10) | Wilson Chandler, Chris Duhon (6) | Madison Square Garden 19,763 | 15–20 |- bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 36 | January 9 | @ Houston | | David Lee (26) | David Lee (12) | David Lee (6) | Toyota Center15,693 | 15–21 |- bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 37 | January 11 | @ Oklahoma City | | Nate Robinson (19) | David Lee (13) | David Lee (4) | Ford Center 17,152 | 15–22 |- bgcolor="#bbffbb" | 38 | January 13 | @ Philadelphia | | David Lee (24) | David Lee, Jared Jeffries (9) | Chris Duhon (7) | Wachovia Center 12,444 | 16–22 |- bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 39 | January 15 | Toronto | | Al Harrington (31) | David Lee (14) | David Lee (9) | Madison Square Garden 19,763 | 16–23 |- bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 40 | January 16 | @Detroit | | Danilo Gallinari (27) | David Lee (17) | David Lee (9) | The Palace of Auburn Hills 19,185 | 16–24 |- bgcolor="#bbffbb" | 41 | January 18 | Detroit | | Nate Robinson (27) | David Lee (15) | David Lee, Chris Duhon (5) | Madison Square Garden 19,302 | 17–24 |- bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 42 | January 22 | Los Angeles | | David Lee (31) | David Lee (17) | Chris Duhon (8) | Madison Square Garden 19,673 | 17–25 |- bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 43 | January 24 | Dallas | | Jared Jeffries (14) | David Lee (14) | Chris Duhon (4) | Madison Square Garden 19,418 | 17–26 |- bgcolor="#bbffbb" | 44 | January 26 | Minnesota | | David Lee (28) | David Lee (10) | Chris Duhon (13) | Madison Square Garden 18,111 | 18–26 |- bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 45 | January 28 | Toronto | | David Lee (29) | David Lee (18) | Chris Duhon (9) | Madison Square Garden 18,828 | 18–27 |- bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 46 | January 30 | @ Washington | | David Lee (24) | Danilo Gallinari (10) | David Lee (6) | Verizon Center 16,233 | 18–28 |- bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 47 | January 31 | @ Minnesota | | Wilson Chandler (27) | David Lee (11) | Jared Jeffries (5) | Target Center 13,711 | 18–29 |- bgcolor="#bbffbb" | 48 | February 3 | Washington | | Nate Robinson (23) | David Lee (10) | Nate Robinson (8) | Madison Square Garden 19,225 | 19–29 |- bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 49 | February 5 | Milwaukee | | David Lee (32) | David Lee (15) | Nate Robinson (7) | Madison Square Garden 19,247 | 19–30 |- bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 50 | February 6 | @Cleveland | | Nate Robinson (26) | David Lee (8) | Chris Duhon (8) | Quicken Loans Arena 20,562 | 19–31 |- bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 51 | February 9 | Sacramento | | Wilson Chandler (35) | David Lee, Jared Jeffries (10) | Chris Duhon (9) | Madison Square Garden 19,531 | 19–32 |- bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 52 | February 16 | @ Chicago | | David Lee (24) | David Lee (12) | David Lee (4) | United Center 20,989 | 19–33 |- bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 53 | February 17 | Chicago | | Al Harrington (27) | David Lee (12) | Chris Duhon (8) | Madison Square Garden 19,763 | 19–34 |- bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 54 | February 20 | Oklahoma City | | David Lee (30) | David Lee (10) | David Lee, Sergio Rodríguez (6) | Madison Square Garden 19,763 | 19–35 |- bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 55 | February 22 | Milwaukee | | Tracy McGrady (15) | David Lee (13) | Eddie House (3) | Madison Square Garden 19,763 | 19–36 |- bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 56 | February 23 | @Boston | | David Lee (28) | David Lee (15) | Tracy McGrady (8) | TD Garden 18,624 | 19–37 |- bgcolor="#bbffbb" | 57 | February 26 | @Washington | | Al Harrington (37) | David Lee (16) | Sergio Rodríguez (7) | Verizon Center 17,408 | 20–37 |- bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 58 | February 27 | Memphis | | Al Harrington (31) | Wilson Chandler (8) | Wilson Chandler (5) | Madison Square Garden 19,763 | 20–38 |- bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 59 | March 1 | @ Cleveland | | Bill Walker (21) | David Lee (10) | Toney Douglas (6) | Quicken Loans Arena 20,562 | 20–39 |- bgcolor="#bbffbb" | 60 | March 3 | Detroit | | Al Harrington (26) | David Lee (18) | David Lee (6) | Madison Square Garden 19,341 | 21–39 |- bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 61 | March 5 | @Toronto | | David Lee (23) | David Lee (18) | Sergio Rodríguez (7) | Air Canada Centre 18,889 | 21–40 |- bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 62 | March 6 | New Jersey | | David Lee (23) | Wilson Chandler (10) | Tracy McGrady (7) | Madison Square Garden 19,763 | 21–41 |- bgcolor="#bbffbb" | 63 | March 8 | Atlanta | | Danilo Gallinari (27) | David Lee (13) | Sergio Rodríguez (4) | Madison Square Garden 19,763 | 22–41 |- bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 64 | March 10 | @ San Antonio | | David Lee (21) | David Lee (10) | David Lee (4) | AT&T Center18,278 | 22–42 |- bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 65 | March 12 | @ Memphis | | Bill Walker (21) | David Lee (14) | Wilson Chandler (4) | FedExForum 12,236 | 22–43 |- bgcolor="#bbffbb" | 66 | March 13 | @ Dallas | | Bill Walker (23) | David Lee (14) | Toney Douglas (8) | American Airlines Center20,224 | 23–43 |- bgcolor="#bbffbb" | 67 | March 15 | @ Philadelphia | | Danilo Gallinari (21) | David Lee (16) | Toney Douglas (7) | Wachovia Center 13,563 | 24–43 |- bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 68 | March 17 | @Boston | | David Lee (29) | David Lee (9) | David Lee (7) | TD Garden 18,624 | 24–44 |- bgcolor="#bbffbb" | 69 | March 19 | Philadelphia | | Danilo Gallinari (25) | Al Harrington (13) | Tracy McGrady (3) | Madison Square Garden 19,763 | 25–44 |- bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 70 | March 21 | Houston | | David Lee (27) | David Lee (20) | David Lee (6) | Madison Square Garden 17,242 | 25–45 |- bgcolor="#bbffbb" | 71 | March 23 | Denver | | Danilo Gallinari (28) | David Lee (16) | Toney Douglas (7) | Madison Square Garden 19,763 | 26–45 |- bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 72 | March 26 | @ Phoenix | | Al Harrington (24) | David Lee (13) | Tracy McGrady (5) | US Airways Center18,422 | 26–46 |- bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 73 | March 29 | @Utah | | Al Harrington (26) | Al Harrington (17) | Tracy McGrady (6) | EnergySolutions Arena 19,911 | 26–47 |- bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 74 | March 31 | @ Portland | | David Lee (20) | David Lee (10) | David Lee (5) | Rose Garden Arena 20,636 | 26–48 |- bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 75 | April 2 | @ Golden State | | David Lee (37) | David Lee (20) | David Lee (10) | Oracle Arena 19,230 | 26–49 |- bgcolor="#bbffbb" | 76 | April 4 | @ LA Clippers | | David Lee (29) | David Lee (10) | Sergio Rodríguez (10) | Staples Center 16,083 | 27–49 |- bgcolor="#bbffbb" | 77 | April 6 | Boston | | Danilo Gallinari (31) | Earl Barron (18) | Chris Duhon (8) | Madison Square Garden 19,763 | 28–49 |- bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 78 | April 7 | @Indiana | | Toney Douglas (20) | David Lee (16) | Tracy McGrady (6) | Conseco Fieldhouse15,330 | 28–50 |- bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 79 | April 9 | @ Orlando | | Danilo Gallinari (28) | Earl Barron (12) | Chris Duhon (5) | Amway Arena 17,461 | 28–51 |- bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 80 | April 11 | Miami | | David Lee (26) | Earl Barron (12) | David Lee (5) | Madison Square Garden 19,763 | 28–52 |- bgcolor="#bbffbb" | 81 | April 12 | Washington | | David Lee (26) | Earl Barron (13) | Toney Douglas (5) | Madison Square Garden 19,763 | 29–52 |- bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 82 | April 14 | @Toronto | | Bill Walker (28) | David Lee (11) | Toney Douglas, Chris Duhon, David Lee (5) | Air Canada Centre 18,333 | 29–53 Player statistics Regular season |- | | 7 || 6 || 33.1 || .441 || .000 || .759 || 11.0 || 1.1 || .6 || .6 || 11.7 |- | | 25 || 1 || 11.7 || .400 || .359 || .923 || 2.1 || .6 || .1 || .7 || 4.7 |- | | 65 || 64 || 35.7 || .479 || .267 || .806 || 5.4 || 2.1 || .7 || style="background:#ff8c00;"| .8 || 15.3 |- | | 7 || 0 || 8.9 || .381 || .000 || .588 || 1.9 || .0 || .0 || .1 || 3.7 |- | | 56 || 12 || 19.4 || .458 || .389 || .809 || 1.9 || 2.0 || .8 || .0 || 8.6 |- | | 67 || 59 || 30.9 || .373 || .349 || .716 || 2.7 || style="background:#ff8c00;"| 5.6 || .9 || .0 || 7.4 |- | | style="background:#ff8c00;"| 81 || 74 || 33.9 || .423 || .381 || .818 || 4.9 || 1.7 || .9 || .7 || 15.1 |- | | 11 || 0 || 12.7 || .487 || .000 || .636 || 2.8 || .6 || .5 || .1 || 4.1 |- | | 72 || 15 || 30.5 || .435 || .342 || .757 || 5.6 || 1.5 || .9 || .4 || 17.7 |- | | 18 || 0 || 20.6 || .331 || .250 || style="background:#ff8c00;"| 1.000 || 2.2 || 2.1 || .7 || .0 || 6.4 |- | | style="background:#ff8c00;"| 81 || style="background:#ff8c00;"| 81 || style="background:#ff8c00;"| 37.3 || style="background:#ff8c00;"| .545 || .000 || .812 || style="background:#ff8c00;"| 11.7 || 3.6 || style="background:#ff8c00;"| 1.0 || .5 || style="background:#ff8c00;"| 20.2 |- | | 24 || 24 || 26.1 || .389 || .242 || .754 || 3.7 || 3.9 || .6 || .5 || 9.4 |- | | 27 || 8 || 19.7 || .491 || .347 || .806 || 1.4 || 3.4 || .8 || .1 || 7.4 |- | | 27 || 13 || 27.4 || .518 || style="background:#ff8c00;"| .431 || .787 || 3.1 || 1.4 || .8 || .1 || 11.9 |} Awards, records and milestones Awards Week/Month All-Star David Lee was named to the Eastern Conference All-Star Team Nate Robinson won the NBA Slam Dunk Contest. 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