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Puerto Lápice
Puerto Lápice is a municipality in the province of Ciudad Real, Castile-La Mancha, Spain. It has a population of 1,052.
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Mirko Đerić
Mirko Đerić (Anglicized: Mirko Djeric; ; born 17 April 1995) is an Australian professional basketball player.
Professional career
Djeric started his career in 2012. He played for the Bankstown Bruins of the Waratah League, the NBL teams the Wollongong Hawks and the Townsville Crocodiles, and for the Townsville Heat of the Queensland Basketball League.
Prior to 2016–17 season, he signed for FMP of the Adriatic League. Later in 2016, he moved to Vršac of the Basketball League of Serbia. On 27 December 2017, he hit 9 three-pointers out of 11 attempts against Split.
On May 30, 2019, Djeric signed for the Cairns Taipans of the Australian NBL.
National team career
Djeric was a member of the Australia national under-17 basketball team that won the silver medal at the 2012 FIBA Under-17 World Championship. Over eight tournament games, he averaged 9.8 points, 2.0 rebounds and 5.6 assists per game.
See also
List of foreign basketball players in Serbia
References
External links
Player Profile at eurobasket.com
Player Profile at realgm.com
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Mügeln
Mügeln is a town in the district Nordsachsen, in the Free State of Saxony, Germany. It is located 9 km southwest of Oschatz and 14 km northwest of Döbeln. The town has a population of approximately 4700 people.
Geography
Mügeln lies almost equidistant between Leipzig and Dresden at a distance of approximately 50 km from each town. Mügeln is not directly situated on any main traffic routes, but 10 km south of Mügeln one encounters the A14 motorway, and 10 km to the north one encounters the B6 federal highway, close to Oschatz. In addition, there is a tourist narrow gauge railway, the Wild Robert (Wilder Robert) which is operated by the Döllnitzbahn company as one of its attractions. The nearest railway station is in Oschatz.
The comparatively flat countryside around Mügeln is mostly used for agriculture, and comprises moderately large fields for the growing of crops. A number of man-made lakes are an occasional feature, the largest of which is situated in and around a forested area of some 30 km/sq, less than 7.0 km to the north-west. The forested area effectively surrounds the neighbouring village of Wermsdorf on all sides except the south which faces towards Mügeln. Wermsdorf has a quarry to the north-east of its boundary, and well maintained historical buildings to visit.
History
The first historical record of Mügeln is in a document of 984 AD. The population was predominantly Sorbian at that time. In 1064, Mügeln came into the possession of the Bishop of Meissen, and in 1256 Mügeln was awarded the right to hold a market.
1261: The Castle of Ruhethal (Schloss Ruhethal) was built
1325: The Sorbian language was outlawed
1429: Destruction of Mügeln by the Hussites
1542: The first Lutheran service was held in Mügeln
1561: Bishop Johann IX of Meissen and of Haugwitz granted the town an escort and a bridge right
1581: Bishop Johann IX, the last Catholic bishop of Meissen converted to the Lutheran Protestantism. He lived in Mügeln and got the Castle of Ruhethal and the former cloister of Marienthal in Sornzig, as a “life annuity” for use.
1618-1648: During the Thirty Years' War, Mügeln was plundered by Swedish troops and most of its inhabitants fell victim to a plague epidemic. Only 67 inhabitants of the approximately 700 inhabitants survived.
1735: the town privileges were expanded, it got the upper and hereditary courts (Ober- und Erbgerichte) by decree of the Electoral office (kurfürstliches Amt).
1834: The last town-gate was removed.
1875: Mügeln was assigned to the administrative district Oschatz (Amtshauptmannschaft Oschatz)
1884: The narrow-gauge railway connecting Mügeln with Döbeln, Oschatz and Wermsdorf was opened
1945: In April the town was occupied by Soviet troops
1968 - 1975: The narrow gauge railway was gradually shut down. First of all, the section between Mügeln and Döbeln, then the section between Mügeln and Wermsdorf. (From 1975 to 1995 the remaining section was only used for the transport of goods.)
1994: During the reordering of the district, Mügeln was assigned to the Torgau Oschatz district, in spite of the fact that the most citizens elected for the district Döbeln.
1995: Passenger traffic on the narrow-gauge railway: the Mügeln-Oschatz section was resumed
Mügeln mob attack
On August 19, 2007, eight Indian citizens were chased through the town and beaten. The assailants were a large group of predominantly German youths. The incident received worldwide media attention, which was particularly disturbing and unwelcome because of the participation of some of the public in what could be rightly compared to little better than spectators seeking entertainment by encouraging the assailants to continue their assault.
The incident occurred during a town celebration in Mügeln, and although the motives were never ascertained, racism is thought to be at the root of the trouble. One of the victims has accused the police of brutality. A preliminary investigation has been launched against two of those believed to be responsible for the assault, and the German Federal Government has vowed to increase its efforts to thwart right-wing extremism.
Twin towns
Mügeln is twinned with:
Bodman-Ludwigshafen, Germany, since 2000
Personalities
Heinrich von Mügeln (approx. 1319-1380), author of Middle High German Minneliedern, poems, fables, chronicles and sayings; his name is derived from the town but he lived elsewhere in Saxony
John IX of Haugwitz, the last Bishop of Meissen, lived here.
Sites of interest
The Castle of Ruhethal (Schloss Ruhethal)
Narrow gauge railway of Wild Robert (Wilder Robert)
Monument to Heinrich von Mügeln in the old market of Joachim Zehme (2005)
See also
Mügeln railway network
Döllnitzbahn
References
External links
Mügeln town Website (German)
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Secretary of Defense-Empowered Cross-Functional Teams
Secretary of Defense-Empowered Cross-Functional Teams (SECDEF CFTs) are specialized organizations within the Department of Defense, authorized by Section 911 of the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act. The SECDEF CFTs are designed to help the Department improve mission effectiveness and efficiencies, improve business operations, and help the DoD address its most-pressing readiness and modernization activities.
Legislation
The Secretary of Defense-empowered cross-functional team concept was established under Section 911 of the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act. The provision was included in response to Congressional and Government Accountability Office (GAO) assessments which found that, while the Department of Defense maintains military forces with unparalleled capabilities, the department "continues to confront organizational and management challenges that hinder collaboration and integration across the department.". As such, it was determined that CFTs could fill a key role in addressing and resolving critical objectives and other organizational outputs that span multiple functional boundaries.
The purpose of the cross-functional teams was:
to provide for effective collaboration and integration across organizational and functional boundaries in the Department of Defense;
to develop, at the direction of the Secretary, recommendations for comprehensive and fully integrated policies, strategies, plans, and resourcing decisions;
to make decisions on cross-functional issues, to the extent authorized by the Secretary and within parameters established by the Secretary; and
to provide oversight for and, as directed by the Secretary, supervise the implementation of approved policies, strategies, plans, and resourcing decisions approved by the Secretary.
Current Cross-Functional Teams
Since FY17, the Secretary of Defense has chartered four cross-functional teams:
Personnel Vetting Transformation (PVT)
Established in August 2017, the PVT CFT was tasked with examining all aspects of the enterprise-wide security, suitability/fitness, and credentialing mission, including a greater alignment and integration of insider threat and
adjacent missions. The PVT was disestablished in January 2019, with its duties transferred to the newly created Personnel Vetting Office in the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence.
Protecting Critical Technology Task Force (PCTTF)
Established in October 2018, the PCTTF was tasked with examining and identifying solutions to "ensure the integrity and security of [Department of Defense] classified information, controlled unclassified information, and key data," and to prevent the loss of intellectual property and data.
Close Combat Lethality Task Force (CCLTF)
Established in February 2018, the CCLTF was tasked to " develop, evaluate, recommend, and implement improvements to U.S. squad-level infantry combat formations in order to ensure close combat overmatch against pacing threats and strengthen the combat, lethality, survivability, resiliency, and readiness of infantry squads."
Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations Cross Functional Team (EMSO CFT)
Established in February 2019, the EMSO CFT was established specifically within Section 1053 of the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act. The EMSO CFT was tasked to "(1) establish processes and procedures to develop, integrate,
and enhance the electronic warfare mission area and the conduct of joint electromagnetic spectrum operations in all domains across the Department of Defense; and (2) ensure that such processes and procedures provide for
integrated defense-wide strategy, planning, and budgeting with respect to the conduct of such operations by the Department, including activities conducted to counter and deter such operations by malign actors."
The Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General John E. Hyten is the Senior Designated Official (SDO) for the EMSO CFT. The Deputy Director of the EMSO CFT is Maj Gen Lance Landrum, who also serves as the Deputy Director for Requirements and Capability Development (J8) on the Joint Staff.
Concept Refinement
Under the Section 918 of the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act, Congress required the Secretary of Defense to issue criteria that differentiates the CFTs created in accordance with the FY17 NDAA section 911 from other types of working groups, committees, integrated product teams, and task forces of the DoD. In a memo dated 2 December 2019, the Secretary of Defense established the following criteria:
Report directly to the Secretary of Defense or Deputy Secretary of Defense and are to provide routine updates directly;
Work only on "high-priority initiatives that are not within the authority of a single DoD Component head or Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) Principal Staff Assistant (PSA)";
Work on "complex problem sets where speed, end-to-end solutions, and impact are critical";
Work on "areas where they can enrich collaboration and integration across the Department";
Support "comprehensive and fully-integrated policies, strategies, plans, and resourcing decisions";
Additionally, the CFTs may also (when authorized or approved by the Secretary of Defense) "make decisions on cross-functional issues on [his] behalf" and "supervise the implementation of policies, strategies, plans, and resourcing decisions."
See also
cross-functional team
National Defense Authorization Act
United States Department of Defense
Organizational structure of the United States Department of Defense
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Gheorghe Remenco
Gheorghe Remenco (November 19, 1918 - October 29, 1977) was a journalist and author from Chişinău, Bessarabia, son of Alexandra Remenco and Dumitru Remenco.
Works
Lielie ciocârlie (despre cântăreaţa Tamara Ciobanu), Chişinău, 1964.
Prin Chişinău odinioară şi azi, (Chişinău, 1966),
La baştina frumosului (Chişinău, 1970),
Comoara noastră - monumentele, (Chişinău, 1977)
Bibliography
Donos, Alexandru. În dar oamenilor: [Schiţă despre jurnalistul Gheorghe Remenco] // Nistru, 1979, Nr. 7, pp. 115–121.
Iurie Colesnic, Destinul tragic al unui filozof din Basarabia interbelică: despre Dumitru Remenco (1895-1940), filozof, ziarist la "Cuvânt moldovenesc", "Glasul Basarabiei", Viaţa Basarabiei, 2004, Nr. 2. pp. 210–220.
References
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Dumitru I. Remenco - ziarist şi filosof
Destinul tragic al unui filozof din Basarabia interbelică : [despre Dumitru Remenco (1895-1940), filozof, ziarist la "Cuvânt moldovenesc", "Glasul Basarabiei"
CONTRIBUŢII PRIVIND ACTIVITATEA ORFELINATULUI „CASA COPILULUI” DIN CHIŞINĂU, Vera Stăvilă, Muzeul Naţional de Arheologie şi Istorie a Moldovei, str. 31 August, 121-A, MD-2012 Chişinău, Republica Moldova (2007) - Artikel (Moldavisch)
Contribution to the study of the activity of the Chişinău orphanage “Children’s home”
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Botley
Botley is the name of several places in the United Kingdom:
Botley, Buckinghamshire
Botley, Hampshire
Botley, Oxfordshire
See also
Botley the Robot, a fictional robot featured in Knowledge Adventure's JumpStart Adventures 3rd Grade: Mystery Mountain
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Ian Langford
Ian Langford (2 June 1936 – 25 February 2017) was an Australian cricketer. He played one first-class cricket match for Victoria in 1962.
See also
List of Victoria first-class cricketers
References
External links
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Jesús Selgas Cepero
Jesús Selgas Cepero (born 24 December 1951) is a Cuban artist specializing in painting, tapestry, and installations.
Selgas was born in Cienfuegos, Cuba, and attended the Escuela Nacional de Arte (ENA) in Havana between 1968 and 1970. He went on to study at Havana's Escuela Nacional de Diseño, graduating in 1980. He moved to New York the same year, and in 1988 passed a course in photography at the Fashion Institute of Design.
Individual exhibitions
In 1976 Selgas held his first personal exhibition, under the name Acuarelas y Tapices ("Gouaches and Tapestries") at the Teatro Nacional de Guiñol, Havana, Cuba. In 1982, along with two other Cuban artists, he exhibited at the show Three Cuban Painters at Middlesex County College in Edison, New Jersey. Among other exhibitions during the period he displayed in 1990 at the Genesis Gallery, Chicago, under the name "Selgas. Icons". In 1995 he exhibited a show titled Remembrances at the New World Gallery in Düsseldorf, Germany.
Collective exhibitions
Selgas's work appeared in 1977's Trabajos en fibra exhibition at the Havana Museo de Artes Decorativas. He participated also in the Genesis Gallery's 1989–90 Christmas show, in New York: Up & Coming Artists, an exhibition of the Canadian Imperial Bank Collection in New York, and in Mariel: A Decade After at the Museo Cubano de Arte y Cultura, Miami, Florida. In 1995 his work appeared in Art. Exhibit and Silent Auction of Works by Contemporary Artists at New York's Jadite Galleries.
Awards
Salgas was in 1977 awarded first prize for tapestry by the Havana Museo de Artes Decorativas. In 1989 he received the Marshall Cummings Prize at the New York Citywide Art Competition.
External links
Jose Veigas-Zamora, Cristina Vives Gutierrez, Adolfo V. Nodal, Valia Garzon, Dannys Montes de Oca; Memoria: Cuban Art of the 20th Century; (California/International Arts Foundation 2001);
Jose Viegas; Memoria: Artes Visuales Cubanas Del Siglo Xx; (California International Arts 2004);
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Church of Our Lady of the Conception of the Military
The Church of Our Lady of the Conception of the Military () is an 18th-century Roman Catholic church in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil. It is located on Rua Nova in the historic center of Recife and is under the administration of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Olinda e Recife. The church was listed as a historic structure by the National Historic and Artistic Heritage Institute in 1941.
History
The Recife Infantry Regiment (Terço da Vila de Santo Antônio do Recife), which included officers, sergeants and squares of the Corps of Execution and Cavalry, organized a Brotherhood of Our Lady of the Conception of the Military in the early 18th century. Under the command of João Lobo de Lacerda they requested permission to construct a church dedicated to Our Lady of the Conception on March 19, 1725. Some evidence dates to the beginning of construction of the church to 1710. It was completed in 1771.
Construction of the church was authorized by Antônio Fernandes de Matos. It features a simple, severe façade, in contrast to its richly decorated interior. The structures lacks a churchyard. It is constructed of heavy stonework, a single tower, and Rococo pediment. The interior walls are richly decorated with baroque carving.
The vault of the chancel is notably complex. It consists of a crossed arch with two side altars as typical of the period of King João V. The ceiling of the nave is a style associated with Nicolau Nasoni and André Soares, a sculptor, of northern Portugal. The length of the nave has a carved veranda; it is the only example of this type of construction in Recife. The ceiling of the name is richly painted with themes associated with the life of the Virgin Mary.
The paintings of the church depict elements atypical and possibly prohibited by the Church of the period, including homunculus of Jesus Christ on the breast of the Virgin Mary. A painting depicting the Battle of Guararapes is located in the lower choir. It was commissioned by Governor José César de Meneses, and attributed to João de Deus Sepúlveda. The central painting of the Virgin is attributed to José Rabelo Gonçalves.
The church remains under the management of the Brotherhood of Our Lady of the Conception of the Military.
Protected status
The Church of Our Lady of the Conception of the Military was listed as a historic structure by the National Historic and Artistic Heritage Institute in 1941. The heritage designation includes both the church and the Summer Palace of the Archbishop. The structures were registered under the Book of Historical Works, Inscription 4-T and Book of Fine Arts, Inscription fl 53. Both directives are dated September 25, 1941.
Access
The church is open to the public and may be visited.
References
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Rostoklaty
Rostoklaty is a village and municipality in Kolín District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic.
References
This article was initially translated from the Czech Wikipedia.
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Kevin Rolland
Kevin Rolland (born 10 August 1989) is a French freestyle skier. He won the gold medal at the 2009 FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships in the halfpipe. He lost his title in 2011 to the Canadian Mike Riddle but still finished on the podium at the second place.
Rolland has also won seven medals at the Winter X Games and two medals at the Winter X Games Europe, including back-to-back golds in the SuperPipe at both events. Rolland also became the overall Winter Dew Tour Superpipe Champion in 2011.
During the development of the open world extreme sports video game Steep, several professional skiers including Kevin Rolland and extreme sports athletes and experts were consulted by the developing team.
References
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Courtright Reservoir
Courtright Reservoir is a reservoir in Fresno County, California. The reservoir is at an elevation of 8,170 feet (2,490 m) in the Sierra National Forest, in the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range, bordering the John Muir Wilderness.
The high Sierra reservoir is formed by Courtright Dam in Helms Creek canyon and has a capacity of . The dam is composed of rock-fill and is 315 feet (96 m) tall, measured from the crest to the original streambed. It was completed in 1958 and is owned by Pacific Gas and Electric. Its primary purpose is hydroelectricity production.
The lake is an "off-river" (or "off-channel") storage reservoir. In addition to the small amount of conventional hydroelectricity production from the flow of Helms Creek, Courtright Reservoir serves mainly as the upper reservoir for the Helms Pumped Storage Plant. Wishon Reservoir, an on-channel reservoir a couple of miles downstream on the Kings River, is the lower reservoir and main water source. During times of peak demand for electricity, when it is most expensive, water is drained from Courtright Reservoir, run through the 1,212 MW Helms Power Plant and empties into Wishon Reservoir. When demand and prices for electricity are low, water is pumped from Wishon Reservoir to Courtright Reservoir using the power plant's reversible turbines. Helms Power Plant is 1,000 feet (300 m) underground in a chamber carved out of solid granite at the north end of Wishon Lake. It is similar to Southern California Edison's Eastwood Powerhouse near Shaver Lake, which is also a pumped-storage plant.
Courtright Reservoir is a haven for weekend and outdoor enthusiasts seeking to camp, fish, hike, boat, swim, rock climb, and 4x4 among others. It is surrounded by unique domes of granite that are essentially in the center of the Sierra Batholith and are highly sought after by rock climbers from all around. It is also used during warmer-weather months by local astronomers, such as members of the Central Valley Astronomers, who take advantage of its 8,170 feet (2,490 m) elevation and excellent location for night sky viewing free from light and air pollution.
See also
List of dams and reservoirs in California
List of lakes in California
References
United States Forest Service
United States Geological Survey
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Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York
Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, KG (5 June 13411 August 1402) was the fourth surviving son of King Edward III of England and Philippa of Hainault. Like many medieval English princes, Edmund gained his nickname from his birthplace: Kings Langley Palace in Hertfordshire. He was the founder of the House of York, but it was through the marriage of his younger son, Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge, to Anne de Mortimer, great-granddaughter of Edmund's elder brother Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence, that the House of York made its claim to the English throne in the Wars of the Roses. The other party in the Wars of the Roses, the incumbent House of Lancaster, was formed from descendants of Edmund's elder brother John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, Edward III's third son.
Early years
On the death of his godfather, the Earl of Surrey, Edmund was granted the earl's lands north of the Trent, primarily in Yorkshire. In 1359, he joined his father King Edward III on an unsuccessful military expedition to France and was made a knight of the Garter in 1361. In 1362, at the age of twenty-one, he was created Earl of Cambridge by his father.
Military career
Edmund took part in several military expeditions to France in the 1370s. In 1369, he brought a retinue of 400 men-at-arms and 400 archers to serve with John Hastings, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, on campaigns in Brittany and Angoulême. The following year, he first joined Pembroke again on an expedition to relieve the fortress of Belle Perche and then accompanied his eldest brother Edward, the Black Prince, on a campaign that resulted in the siege and sack of Limoges. In 1375, he sailed with the Earl of March to relieve Brest, but after some initial success, a truce was declared.
In the 1370s, English envoys entered into an alliance with Ferdinand I of Portugal, where Portugal promised to attack Castile with the Lancastrian army. As a consequence of the Caroline War in France, John of Gaunt was forced to postpone the invasion of Castile. In 1381, Edmund finally led an abortive expedition to press John's claim to Castile, joining with King Ferdinand in attacking Castile as part of the Fernandine Wars. After months of indecisiveness, a peace was again declared between Castile and Portugal, and Edmund had to lead his malcontented troops home.
Edmund was appointed Constable of Dover Castle and Warden of the Cinque Ports on 12 June 1376 and held office until 1381. On 6 August 1385, he was elevated to Duke of York. Edmund acted as Keeper of the Realm in 1394/95 when his nephew, King Richard II of England, campaigned in Ireland and presided over Parliament in 1395. He was also keeper of the realm in 1396 during the king's brief visit to France to collect his child-bride Isabella of Valois. The duke was left as Custodian of the Realm in the summer of 1399 when Richard II departed for another extended campaign in Ireland. In late June of that year, the exiled Henry Bolingbroke landed at Bridlington in Yorkshire. He raised an army to resist Bolingbroke, then decided instead to join him, for which he was well rewarded. He thereafter remained loyal to the new Lancastrian regime as Bolingbroke overthrew Richard II to become King Henry IV.
Later life
In Richard II's will, Edmund was highly emphasised as the king's heir despite the stronger claims of Henry of Bolingbroke and Edmund Mortimer. This was not due to any preference Richard had for Edmund, but rather a desire the king had to set Edmund's son, Edward, on the throne. Towards the end of his life, in 1399, he was appointed Warden of the West March for a short period. Otherwise, from 1399 onward he retired from public life.
Edmund of Langley died in his birthplace and was interred at King's Langley Priory; however, his tomb was relocated to the nearby All Saints' Church, Kings Langley in 1575 after the priory had been dissolved. When the tomb was moved again during church restoration work in 1877, three bodies, one male and two female, were found inside. His dukedom passed to his eldest son, Edward. He was the last of his siblings to die, and lived the longest out of all of them.
Marriage
Langley's first wife, Isabella, was a daughter of King Peter of Castile and María de Padilla. She was also the sister of the Infanta Constance of Castile, the second wife of Langley's brother John of Gaunt.
They had two sons and a daughter:
Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York (c. 137325 October 1415), killed in action at the Battle of Agincourt.
Constance of York (c. 137428 November 1416), great-grandmother of Queen Anne Neville.
Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge (c. 20 July 13855 August 1415), executed for treason by Henry V. Ancestor of Kings Edward IV, Edward V, and Richard III of the House of York, and all succeeding monarchs of England beginning with King Henry VIII, whose mother Elizabeth of York was his great-granddaughter.
After Isabella's death in 1392, Langley married his second cousin once removed Joan Holland, whose great-grandfather Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, was the half-brother of Langley's grandfather Edward II; she and Langley were thus both descended from King Edward I. The young Joan was the granddaughter of his late sister-in-law Joan of Kent. The marriage produced no children.
Shakespeare's Duke of York
Edmund, the 1st Duke of York, is a major character in Shakespeare's Richard II. In the play, Edmund resigns his position as an adviser to his nephew Richard II, but is reluctant to betray the king. He eventually agrees to side with Henry Bolingbroke to help him regain the lands Richard confiscated after the death of Bolingbroke's father, John of Gaunt. After Bolingbroke deposes Richard and is crowned Henry IV, Edmund discovers a plot by his son Aumerle to assassinate the new king. Edmund exposes the plot, but his wife Isabella convinces Henry to pardon her son.
Ancestry
Notes
Bibliography
James Reston, Jr. "Dogs of God," New York: Doubleday, p. 18.
Douglas Biggs, "A Wrong Whom Conscience and Kindred Bid Me to Right: A Reassessment of Edmund of Langley, Duke of York and the Usurpation of Henry IV" Albion, 26 (1994), pp. 231–246.
Douglas Biggs, "To Aid the Custodian and Council: Edmund of Langley and the Defense of the Realm, June–July 1399," Journal of Medieval Military History, I (2002), pp. 125–144.
Douglas Biggs, "’A Voyage or Rather and Expedition to Portugal:’ Edmund of Langley in Iberia 1381/82," Journal of Medieval Military History 7 (2009), pp. 57–74.
Douglas Biggs, Three Armies in Britain: The Irish Campaign of Richard II and the Usurpation of Henry IV, 1399, Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, The Netherlands, 2006.
External links
For the tombs of Edmund of Langley and Isabella of Castile, see 'Friaries: King's Langley priory', A History of the County of Hertford: Volume 4 (1971), pp. 446–451. Date accessed: 5 October 2012
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The End Is Known
The End Is Known (, ) is a 1992 Italian-French mystery film directed by Cristina Comencini. It is an adaptation of the novel with the same name by Geoffrey Holiday Hall, in which the setting is moved from post-war America to 1980s' Italy.
Cast
Fabrizio Bentivoglio as Lawyer Bernardo Manni
Valérie Kaprisky as Maria Manni
Carlo Cecchi as "Cervello" (the brain)
Mariangela Melato as Elena Malva
Valeria Moriconi as Elvira Delogu
Massimo Wertmüller as Carlo Piane
Corso Salani as Rosario
Daria Nicolodi as Lawyer Mila
Valeria Milillo as Archivista
Stefano Viali as Lawyer Anselmi
Marina Perzy as Miss Gerli
References
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Khadoor Sahib (Lok Sabha constituency)
Khadoor Sahib Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 13 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies of Punjab state in northern India. This new constituency came into existence as a part of the implementation of delimitation of parliamentary and assembly constituencies in 2008.
Assembly segments
This constituency comprises nine Vidhan Sabha (legislative assembly) segments. These are: Before delimitation, Kapurthala and Sultanpur Lodhi assembly segments were in Jalandhar, Zira assembly segment was in Firozpur and Jandiala, Patti, Khadoor Sahib and Tarn Taran assembly segments were in Tarn Taran Lok Sabha constituencies. Khem Karan assembly segment was created as a part of delimitation in 2008.
Jandiala
2012 Baljit Singh Jalal Usma
2017 {Sukhwinder Singh Deni}
Tarn Taran
2012 [ harmeet singh sandhu ]
2017 { Dr. Dharamvir Agnihotri }
Khem Karan
2012 [Virsa Singh Valtoha]
2017 [Sukhpal Singh Bhullar]
Patti
2012 Adesh Pratap Singh Kairon
2017 S. Harminder Singh Gill
Khadoor Sahib
2012 Ramanjit Singh Sikki
2016 Ravinder Brahmpura
2017 Ramanjit Singh Sikki
Baba Bakala
2012 Manjit Singh Mianwind
Kapurthala
2012 Rana Gurjeet Singh
Sultanpur Lodhi
1997-2012 Bibi Upinderjeet Kaur
2012 Navtej Singh Cheema
2017 Navtej Singh Cheema
Zira
2012 Hari Singh Zira
Old assembly segments
These are the assembly segments which underwent boundary delimitation
Valtoha
2007 Virsa Singh Valtoha
Members of Parliament
1952-2008: Constituency does not exist
See Tarn Taran (Lok Sabha constituency)
Election Results
See also
Tarn Taran (Lok Sabha constituency)
List of Constituencies of the Lok Sabha
Notes
External links
Khadoor Sahib lok sabha constituency election 2019 result details
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National Bank of Scotland
The National Bank of Scotland was founded as a joint stock bank in 1825. Based in Edinburgh, it had established a network of 137 branches at the end of its first hundred years. In 1918 the bank was bought by Lloyds Bank, although it continued to operate as an independent institution until 1959, when it merged with the Commercial Bank of Scotland to become the National Commercial Bank of Scotland. Ten years later the National Commercial Bank merged with the Royal Bank of Scotland.
The First Hundred Years
In December 1824, The National Bank of Scotland announced that funds had been raised for the formation of a new bank in Edinburgh. Almost immediately it was followed by advertisements from the Scottish Union Banking Company and the Scottish Union Commercial Banking Company stating that they were to follow suit. Negotiations followed whereby the promoters of the latter two banks agreed to join in with the promoters of the National Bank. In March 1825 the National Bank was formally constituted with a nominal capital of £5 million under the chairmanship of the Lord Provost, Alexander Henderson of Press. The Bank finally opened for business in the October and immediately began to issue its own notes. It obtained a Royal Charter in 1831.
The "National" in the Bank’s title was no accident. "From its inception the policy of the Bank was directed towards the establishment of a branch system throughout Scotland." By the end of its first full year there were 13 branches; 40 by 1850 and 112 by the end of the century. It was also the first Scottish bank to open an office in London (1864). From 1885 to 1914 it was second only in size to the Bank of Scotland.
Although most of the increase in branches came from new openings, there were some small acquisitions including the Commercial Banking Company of Aberdeen in 1833; and the Perth Union Bank in 1836. It was the National’s failure to buy the Glasgow & Ship Bank in 1843 that prompted the opening of the first branch in Glasgow. A Bank of Glasgow company was also formed in 1843 and was acquired by the National in 1844 but the evidence from Checkland was that no physical presence had been established and it was no more than a paper transaction prior to a pooling of resources.
The banking industry was (and still appears to be) continually afflicted by crises but there is no indication in the histories of anything other than stable financial progress. A table published in 1898 saw annual published net profits between 1864 and 1896 remaining within the range of £100-200,000; the opening year was £125,000 and the closing year £198,000.
Part of Lloyds
In the early twentieth century the English banks were beginning to look north of the border and in 1918 Lloyds Bank acquired the National Bank. Lloyds allowed the National to continue operating independently until 1959. At that point the Commercial Bank of Scotland approached Lloyds with a view to a merger. Lloyds agreed to dispose of its 100% holding in the National Bank and the two Scottish banks merged to become the National Commercial Bank of Scotland; Lloyds was left with a 37% stake in the enlarged bank.
The National Bank became the first commercial bank in the world to offer a mobile banking service, which was established on the Isle of Lewis in 1946. In 1947 a new headquarters building was opened in St. Andrew Square, designed in an American-inspired style.
References
External links
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The National Bank of Scotland, bankingletters.co.uk
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Kent Curtis
Marvin Kent Curtis (October 10, 1890 – December 24, 1957) was an American novelist, illustrator, composer, yachtsman, and teacher. Curtis served in World War I as an aviator with the Royal Air Force, was shot down, reported dead, and held prisoner of war until the war's end. Based on his war experiences, he authored The Tired Captains, a novel centered on a group of World War I pilots. Curtis was of the "Lost Generation," Americans born in the 1890s who came of age during World War I. He lived intermittently in Paris during the 1920s. Curtis published primarily boys’ adventure stories set in the places where he lived: the North Woods of Minnesota and the islands off the Florida coast.
Early years
Curtis was born in Wichita, Kansas to Charles E. Curtis and Grace Emily Kent. Curtis was named for his famous great-grandfather Marvin Kent, for whom Kent, Ohio was named.
Curtis graduated in 1909 from Lake View High School (Chicago, Illinois), the year before the Kent Normal School, later Kent State University, was founded on land donated by William S. Kent, the brother of Curtis’ grandfather. Following high school, Curtis completed his college preparatory work at Tome School for Boys in Port Deposit, Maryland.
Curtis entered Amherst College in 1910 as a member of the Class of 1914. There he contributed to the Amherst Olio and served as Editor-in-Chief of the Amherst Four Leaf Clover. He left the college without graduating.
World War I Aviator
Curtis joined the Royal Air Force when the US entered World War I. In 1918, Curtis’ Sopwith Camel was shot down behind enemy lines while over France. His family was notified that he had been killed in action. However, he had survived the crash and lived for nearly 40 years.
Kent enlisted as a private in the Aviation Section, Enlisted Reserve Corps of the Army at Fort Omaha, Nebraska, on June 7, 1917. After graduation from the School of Military Aeronautics at the University of Illinois on August 25, 1917, he was ordered to Oxford, England, where he completed flight training with the British Royal Flying Corps. Curtis’ unusual behavior in machine gun class was described in War Birds: Diary of an Unknown Aviator.
Commissioned 1st Lieutenant on May 30, 1918, he was assigned to the American 148th Aero Squadron and reported for duty on the British front in France July 4, 1918. Curtis’ first attack on enemy targets was a bombing run over Croisilles, France, on August 22, 1918. From his open cockpit biplane, he dropped 4 bombs and fired 200 rounds at enemy targets. During the Second Battle of Bapaume, he undertook a similar mission over Bapaume, France, dropping 4 bombs and returning safely to base on August 23.
On Saturday, August 24, 1918, Curtis flew with his squadron leader Elliott White Springs. Curtis piloted his Sopwith Camel #B7869 off the battlefield runway at 5:50 pm on his third mission in three days, another bombing run over Bapaume. He would not return. The Camel's maximum flying time was 2½ hours. Official documents report him missing and not returned at 8:20 pm.
The Adjutant General, War Department, wired the family that Curtis had been killed in action. Cleveland newspapers carried reports of his death. In fact Curtis’ plane was shot down behind enemy lines but he survived the crash and was taken prisoner by the Germans. He remained in German prison camps until liberated December 1, 1918, nearly a month after the November 11 Armistice ending the war.
Literary Connections
In a letter to his sister on February 15, 1920, Curtis wrote "Good news! Tonight a check for $10 arrived as payment for a 750-word sketch accepted by the Home Sector Magazine. It is my first sale, and naturally I am much encouraged by the start." Indeed, Second-String Atrocities appeared March 13, 1920 in The Home Sector: A Weekly for the New Civilian.
It was while teaching at the Snyder Outdoor School for Boys in 1922, Curtis won second place and $1,000 in a national writing competition for his scenario "The Quinn Millions for Millions of Quinns." He was teaching French, Spanish, and history to 40 boys in a remote preparatory school on Captiva Island when George Briggs arrived with the news and with the prize.
Curtis went on to publish boys adventure stories. Three stories - The Blushing Camel, Drumbeaters Island, and the Cameleers – followed the adventures of young Alexander Brassgat living on an island off the Florida coast. These three stories were later published together as Cruises in the Sun. And he wrote one historical novel based on pilots in World War I.
Curtis was related to Hart Crane, the American poet. Though it is unclear whether Curtis and Crane ever met or corresponded, they became stepbrothers when Curtis’ father, Charles E. Curtis, married Crane's mother.
Curtis was related to and corresponded with another American author and illustrator, Rockwell Kent. Kent's great-grandfather Marvin Kent was the brother of Rockwell Kent's grandfather, George Lewis Kent.
Curtis crossed the Atlantic 25 times and the Pacific once. When in Paris during the 1920s he stayed often at 21 rue Visconti in the studio of Richard and Alice Lee Myers. He knew many other artists living in Paris including Virgil Barker, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Grace Flandrau, Sinclair Lewis, Archibald MacLeish, and Gerald and Sara Murphy.
Curtis gave Howard Vincent O'Brien the title for his book, Folding Bedouins or Adrift in a Trailer.
F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote that Curtis' The Blushing Camel was one of the best boys' books he'd ever read and compared it to books by Hemingway and Twain.
Joseph Whitehill dedicated Able Baker and Others "for Kent Curtis, author of Cruises in the Sun and numerous other joyous mischief."
Curtis and philatelist Elliott Perry met on board the RMS Aquitania in 1922 on way to Cherbourg.
Outdoorsman
Curtis spent more than 30 summers in Minnesota at Camp Mishawaka. There he served as an associate director, co-owner, counselor, and entertainment director for the boys’ camp near Grand Rapids.
"Kent Curtis was the most unique person I've known. Multi-talented, Kent could do anything but add up a laundry slip: writer (5 books), artist, musician (he played the piano but couldn't read a note), actor, woodsman, cook, sailor, expert in canoeing, raconteur par excellence, but through all his talents, the humorist predominated. He was idolized by more boys than anyone else. He was the life of camp and of reunions. At camp, he always had charge of the Saturday Night Shows, or contributed to them; he took the Canadian trips (he knew the Quetico so well that he never used a map in later years); he introduced sailing to Camp Mishawaka in 1937 and had charge of it for the 20 years until he died in December 1957."
Curtis was an avid sailor. He introduced sailing to the camp and led 31 Big Canadian canoe trips through the Minnesota boundary waters. He often wintered on Captiva Island, Florida – the subject of his boys adventure stories. He sailed the length of the Mississippi River. And in 1932, he captained his sailboat Marelen II to victory in the St. Petersburg to Havana race.
Death
Curtis suffered a heart attack on December 16, 1957 and died in a Fort Myers, FL hospital on December 24. Curtis was cremated and a headstone was placed in the Kent family plot in Standing Rock Cemetery in Kent, Ohio.
Works
The Story of a Flambeau Ramble (Outer's Book, June 1916)
Second-String Atrocities (The Home Sector, March 13, 1920)
Movies of Moose (Outers' Recreation, July 1921)
The Quinn Millions for Millions of Quinns (Chicago Daily News, April 1922)
No Mean City (The Cleveland Press, November 22, 1922)
The Blushing Camel (New York: Appleton, 1927)
Drumbeater’s Island (New York: Appleton, 1928)
The Tired Captains (New York: Appleton, 1928)
The Last Wanigan (New York: Coward-McCann, 1929)
The Cameleers (American Boy Magazine, 1932)
The Big Blow (Fort Myers News-Press, May 13, 1937)
The Million Dollar Donax (American Boy, March–April, 1940)
Cruises in the Sun (Chicago: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, 1950)
Source: Library of Congress Online Catalog
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Ahala
Ahala was a cognomen used by a branch of the patrician gens Servilia. There were also several persons of this gens with the name of Structus Ahala, who may have formed a different family from the Ahalae; but as the Ahalae and Structi Ahalae are frequently confounded, all known persons of these names are given here.
Gaius Servilius Structus Ahala, consul in 478 BC, died in his year of office, as appears from the Fasti Capitolini.
Gaius Servilius Structus Ahala, legendary Roman hero of the 5th century BC
Gaius Servilius Q. f. C. n. Structus Ahala, consul in 427 BC.
Gaius Servilius P. f. Q. n. Structus Ahala, consular tribune in 408 BC, and magister equitum in the same year; which latter dignity he obtained in consequence of supporting the senate against his colleagues, who did not wish a dictator to be appointed. For the same reason he was elected consular tribune a second time in the following year, 407. He was consular tribune a third time in 402, when he assisted the senate in compelling his colleagues who had been defeated by the enemy to resign.
Gaius Servilius Ahala, magister equitum in 389 BC, when Camillus was appointed dictator for a third time. Ahala is spoken of as magister equitum in 385 BC, on occasion of the trial of Marcus Manlius Capitolinus. Manlius summoned him to bear witness in his favor, as one of those whose lives he had saved in battle; but Ahala did not appear. Pliny, who mentions this circumstance, calls Ahala "Publius Servilius".
Quintus Servilius Q. f. Q. n. Ahala, consul in 365 BC, and again in 362, in the latter of which years he appointed Appius Claudius dictator, after his plebeian colleague Lucius Genucius Aventinensis had been slain in battle. In 360 he was himself appointed dictator in consequence of a Gallic tumultus and defeated the Gauls near the Colline gate. He held the comitia as interrex in 355.
Quintus Servilius Q. f. Q. n. Ahala, magister equitum in 351 BC, when Marcus Fabius Ambustus was appointed dictator to frustrate the Lex Licinia Sextia, and consul in 342, at the beginning of the First Samnite War. He remained in the city; his colleague had the charge of the war.
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Winder, Georgia
Winder (pronounced WINE-der) is a city in Barrow County, Georgia, United States. It is located east of Atlanta and is part of the Atlanta metropolitan area. The population was 14,099 at the 2010 census. The city is the county seat of Barrow County.
History
The Georgia General Assembly incorporated Winder in 1893. The community was named after John H. Winder, a railroad builder.
The first Jameson Inn opened in Winder in 1987.
Geography
Winder is located in central Barrow County at (33.996495, -83.720873). It is west of Athens and northeast of downtown Atlanta.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which is land and , or 3.97%, is water.
Transportation
Major roads
State Route 8
State Route 11
U.S. Route 29
State Route 53
State Route 81
State Route 82
State Route 211
Pedestrians and cycling
There are limited walkability options available currently. However, neighboring Clarke, Gwinnett and Hall counties have accessible trails available.
Demographics
As of the census of 2010, there were 14,391 people, 4,693 households, and 3,599 families residing in the city. The population density was 941.5 people per square mile (363.3/km²). There were 4,098 housing units at an average density of 378.2 per square mile (146.0/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 71.8% White, 18.2% African American, 0.25% Native American, 2.0% Asian, 0.1% Pacific Islander, 1.72% from other races, and 2.8% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 9.8% of the population.
There were 4,693 households out of which 34.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 45.7% were married couples living together, 17.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 32.1% were non-families. 27.3% of all households were made up of individuals and 12.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.53 and the average family size was 3.07.
In the city, the population was spread out with 26.3% under the age of 18, 9.5% from 18 to 24, 30.9% from 25 to 44, 19.1% from 45 to 64, and 14.2% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 34 years. For every 100 females, there were 90.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 83.9 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $35,924, and the median income for a family was $40,896. Males had a median income of $31,371 versus $21,736 for females. The per capita income for the city was $17,108. About 10.3% of families and 13.1% of the population were below the poverty line, including 14.3% of those under age 18 and 16.8% of those age 65 or over.
It has a variety of retail establishments and restaurants, especially in a new trade area that was recently annexed into the City known as The Gateway. "The Gateway" at University Parkway is a 130-acre retail development that's home of AMC (Previously Carmike) Gateway Cinemas and multiple restaurants and retail establishments. University Parkway. In November 2011, Winder residents approved Sunday alcohol sales, becoming one of the first cities in Georgia to lift the ban.
Arts and culture
National Register of Historic Places
The county courthouse in Winder was built in 1920, and is listed under the National Register of Historic Places.
Museums
The Barrow County Museum is located in the old Barrow County Jail, built around 1915. It features a hanging tower and jail cells.
Education
Public schools
Public schools are part of the Barrow County School District and include Winder-Barrow High School. The district consists of eight elementary schools, four middle schools, and two high schools. The district has 610 full-time teachers and over 9,362 students.
The following is a list of schools featured in Winder.
Holsenbeck Elementary School
Kennedy Elementary School
Yargo Elementary School
Westside Middle School
Richard B. Russell Middle School
Haymon-Morris Middle School
Winder-Barrow High School
Apalachee High School
Sims Academy of Innovation and Technology
Former Schools
Winder-Barrow Middle School (closed 2013)
Snodon Preparatory School (closed 2014)
Private schools
Bethlehem Christian Academy
B.C.C.A Barrow County Christian Academy
Colleges and universities
Lanier Technical College - (Winder-Barrow Campus)
Mayors
David Maynard, 2012–present
Chip Thompson, 2008-2012
Buddy Ouzts, 1991-2007
William Landress, 1987-1990
John Mobley Jr., 1980-1986
Donald Duke, 1980
C.A. Rutledge, 1975-1979
Bill Harwell, 1969 - 1974
'C.A. Rutledge, 1961 - 1968
John P. Kelley, Sr., 1957 - 1960
J. Guy Ouzts, 1953 - 1956
John W. Robinson, 1949 - 1952
R.L. Eavenson, 1947 - 1948
Marion Lay, 1943 - 1946
H.T. Flanagan, 1941 - 1942
Unknown, 1937 - 1941
H.T. Flanagan, 1933 - 1936
John W. Carrington, Jr., 1931 - 1932
W.B. McCants, 1927 - 1930
George Thompson, 1923 - 1926
George N. Bagwell, 1921 - 1922
John H. Maynard, 1918 - 1920
Lucius A. House, 1917
W.O. Perry, 1915 - 1916
C.M. Ferguson, 1914 - 1918
Julian J. Wilson, 1911 - 1912
Robert L. Carithers, 1909 - 1910
Unknown, 1904 - 1908
Albert A. Camp, 1903
Lewis C. Russell, 1902
Dr. J.C. Delaperriere, 1890 - 1901
H.S. Segars, 1890
Unknown, 1887 - 1889
H.D. Jackson, 1886
N.J. Kelly, 1885
In popular culture
The town of Winder is referred to in the B-52s' song "Hot Corner". It is also referenced in the rap group, Migos, song “John Wick” .
Actor James Wolk and Elizabeth Jae Lynch, a schoolteacher, met in Winder in the summer of 2009, while volunteering at Camp Twitch and Shout. They began dating shortly afterward, and in June 2015 the two were married.
References
External links
City of Winder official website
Winder, Georgia, at City-Data.com
Railfanning in Winder, Georgia
Concord Methodist Cemetery historical marker
Rockwell Universalist Church historical marker
Winder's Most Historical Site historical marker
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13th Open Russian Festival of Animated Film
The 13th Open Russian Festival of Animated Film was held from February 28 to March 3, 2008 in Suzdal, Russia. The winners for all of the main award categories were announced on March 2nd. The jury consisted of 33 professionals in a variety of different professions related to animation. 85 films, totaling over 14 hours of running time, were screened. This was the first festival held after the death of Aleksandr Tatarskiy, who had headed all the previous festivals. The artistic director in his place was Aleksandr Gerasimov.
Main awards
Other prizes
Jury rating
Each jury member was asked to list their top 5 five films of the festival. 5 points were given for a 1st place vote and so on, down to 1 point for a 5th place vote. An official award was given to the top three films at the closing ceremony.
External links
Official website with the results
Breakdown of jury votes
Breakdown of jury votes (categories)
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Denny Sullivan (third baseman)
Dennis J. Sullivan (June 26, 1858 – December 31, 1925) was an American utility player in Major League Baseball, playing mainly as a third baseman for the Providence Grays () and Boston Red Caps () of the National League. A native of Boston, Massachusetts, Sullivan attended Boston College and College of the Holy Cross. Listed at , 170 lb., he threw right-handed (unknown batting side).
In a six-game career, Sullivan was a .261 hitter (6-for-23) with six runs, three RBI, and two doubles without home runs. He made six appearances as a third baseman (4), catcher (1) and left fielder (1), and was a member of the Providence 1879 National League champions.
Sullivan died at the age of 67 in his homeland of Boston, Massachusetts.
See also
1879 Providence Grays season
1880 Boston Red Caps season
External links
Baseball Reference
Retrosheet
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Stomil Olsztyn (football)
OKS Stomil Olsztyn is a Polish football club based in Olsztyn, Poland. It was founded on 15 July 1945 as OKS Warmiak. The brightest era of this club was the 1990s when it played in the Polish First League. Between 2004 and 2012 the team was known as OKS 1945 Olsztyn.
Successes
6th in Polish First League (season 1995/96)
Quarter-final in Polish Cup (seasons 1998/99 and 2000/01)
Emblem
The emblem of the club depicts a Great Cormorant.
Current squad
Stomil's achievements
Before promotions to First League
In Ekstraklasa
After relegation from Ekstraklasa
Notable managers
Józef Łobocki
Bogusław Kaczmarek
Jerzy Budziłek
Stanisław Dawidczyński
Zbigniew Kieżun
Ryszard Polak
Marek Chojnacki
Jerzy Masztaler
Maciej Radkiewicz
References
External links
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Stonehouse Bay
Stonehouse Bay () is a bay in Antarctica on the west side of Laubeuf Fjord, indenting the east coast of Adelaide Island between Hunt Peak and Sighing Peak. The bay is 5 nautical miles (9 km) wide. It was first sighted and surveyed in January 1909 by the French Antarctic Expedition under Jean-Baptiste Charcot. The bay was named for Bernard Stonehouse of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), a meteorologist in 1947-48 and biologist in 1949 at Stonington Island and leader of the FIDS sledge party which resurveyed the bay in 1948.
Adelaide Island's largest glacier, the Shambles Glacier, calves into Stonehouse Bay.
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Tolidostena atripennis
Tolidostena atripennis is a beetle in the genus Tolidostena of the family Mordellidae. It was described in 1956 by Nakane.
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Richard A. Scott
Richard A. Scott (born February 19, 1964) is an ex-Alaskan freelance comic book artist, writer, videographer and voice talent.
Biography
Scott currently embellishes for AC Comics FemForce having just contributed to FemForce's 150th issue (Aug 2009). Other contributions include DC Comics / TSR, INC, Avatar #1 (1990) as an assistant inker. He also was a regular contributor to the second incarnation of the legendary Science Fiction Review (1990–91) helmed by Elton Elliot. Contributing much spot art for much of the run along with his very good friend Randy Lee Prinslow.
He also writes for TwoMorrows Publications Back Issue! edited by Michael Eury. Issue #25 covered the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art art gallery, #30 Gary Owens, #39 Fred Hembeck. Scott also has done an article for issue #54 of The Jack Kirby Collector edited by John Morrow, about Fantastic Four the Lost Adventure. He has also covered Megan Rose Gedris for Curve. Here he started doing collaborative jam pieces of art with the artists he has interviewed (providing a unique spin with his interviews.) The Gedris art is currently seen on his website. His Fred Hembeck article for Back Issue! #39 will feature one of these jams.
Scott did research work and took photos for Robert James Parish's Gus Van Sant, Unauthorized Biography. He assisted his long-time friend Andy Mangels on Animation on DVD-the ultimate guide and his upcoming book for TwoMorrows Lou Scheimer: Creating The Filmation Generation. He was also involved with Andy's The Perez Archives for The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (getting to help select images and provide the color guide for the book). He also assists him with the yearly bi-coastal, charitable Wonder Woman day event.
Scott has appeared in Woodcrest Productions Michael Golden The Creator Chronicles DVD and has been involved with the soon to be released Joe Sinnott The Creator Chronicles DVD. He also has filmed for the upcoming Matt Wagner production as well.
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: Season one, Volume two boxed DVD set, Disk #6 He-Man Invades the San Diego Comic-Con Richard is interviewed in the middle of the San Diego Comic-con for the DVD as well as being a P.A. (uncredited on DVD).
And if you look real hard you might see him in TNT's Leverage Season #2 Episode 7 "The Two Live Crew Job" (2009).
He also uses the aliases of 'Spunky (cheese)' and 'Chameleon King' patterned off his favorite Legionnaire Chameleon Boy in the Legion of Super-Heroes.
Bibliography
Comics work includes:
FemForce, (AC Comics, Apr 2009–Present)
Avatar, (DC Comics, May 2008–Present)
Writing work includes:
Back Issue!, The Jack Kirby Collector, Draw (Twomorrows, 2006-Current)
Curve magazine (Sept 2008-?)
Gus Van Sant, Unauthorized Biography (Da Capo Press, October 2001)
Animation on DVD-the ultimate guide (Stone Bridge Press, March 2003)
Video work includes:
Michael Golden The Creator Chronicles (Woodcrest Productions 2008–present)
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (BCI Eclipse Fall 2005-2007)
TNT'S Leverage (TNT Aug 2009)
References
External links
Facebook website
Richard A. Scott at Comic space
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Wiltz railway station
Wiltz railway station (, , ) is a railway station serving Wiltz, in north-western Luxembourg. It is operated by Chemins de Fer Luxembourgeois, the state-owned railway company.
Service
The station is situated on a branch of the Line 10, which connects Luxembourg City to the centre and north of the country. It is the terminus of the branch, which splits from the main line at Kautenbach.
References
External links
Official CFL page on Wiltz station
Rail.lu page on Wiltz station
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St. Joseph's Convent Girls' Senior Secondary School
St. Joseph's Convent Girls' Senior Secondary School is a girls' convent school located in the city of Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India. It is an English Medium Senior Secondary School for girls affiliated to the C.B.S.E, New Delhi. It conducts classes from kindergarten to the senior secondary level.
History
The school was founded in 1873 by the Indian Province of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Chambéry. It is administered by the Sisters of St. Joseph's Convent, Jabalpur in accordance to the general rules governing the above congregation. Saint Joseph is the patron Saint of the school. Currently, Sr. Navya is the Principal of the school.
References
External links
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List of Running Man international episodes
In November 2011, the rights to air the show was sold to nine areas in Asia, namely Taiwan, Thailand, Indonesia, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, Cambodia, and Malaysia, proving Running Man's rise in popularity as a Hallyu program. In January 2013, SBS announced Running Man in Asia as one of the big projects of 2013. Producer Jo Hyo-jin stated that the program would be touring two countries in Asia in the first half of 2013. The program has previously travelled to Thailand, China, and Hong Kong for filming. Jo Hyo-jin has also mentioned interests raised by Singaporean television stations in purchasing the Running Man format, which reiterated Running Mans popularity in Asia.
Producer Im Hyung-taek confirmed that the program would be filming in Macau, China and Hanoi, Vietnam in early February, and the respective episodes were aired on television in late February and early March. In February 2014, Jo Hyo-jin announced that the program was invited by the Australian Tourist Commission to film in Australia, and did so in mid-February which aired in March.
A spin-off of Running Man, titled Keep Running, was announced in May 2014. The spin-off, which is the Chinese version of Running Man was scheduled to air in the fourth quarter of 2014 on Zhejiang Television. Cast from the Korean version will participate in the Chinese version as well. The spin-off was a success, and currently the show has aired its fourth season. There was also an Indonesian adaptation of the show, titled Mission X, following a similar format on the show, with the exception that the members would using armbands, and the games would be played just for fun rather than playing it to win the prize.
International episodes
The popularity of Running Man throughout Asia provided the opportunity to take the show outside of South Korea. Running Man has travelled to various countries including China, Thailand, Vietnam, Australia, Indonesia, Taiwan, and the United Arab Emirates. International episodes are notable for their ability to draw large groups of fans to mission venues.
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Oakleigh
Oakleigh may refer to:
Australia
Oakleigh, Potts Point, a heritage-listed house in Sydney, New South Wales
Oakleigh, Victoria, suburb of Melbourne, Australia
Electoral district of Oakleigh, an electoral district in Victoria, Australia
New Zealand
Oakleigh, New Zealand, locality in the North Island
United Kingdom
Oakleigh, Glencrutchery Road, Douglas, Isle of Man, one of Isle of Man's Registered Buildings
United States of America
Oakleigh, former name of Las Juntas, California
Oakleigh Historic Complex (Mobile, Alabama), historic complex in Mobile, Alabama
Oakleigh (Holly Springs, Mississippi), a historic mansion in Holly Springs, Mississippi
See also
Oakeley (disambiguation)
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Klaus Bachler
Klaus Bachler (born 27 July 1991, in Unzmarkt) is an Austrian racing driver. He has competed in such series as ADAC Formel Masters and the German Formula Three Championship. He won the 2007 Formula Lista Junior championship season.
Racing record
Complete Porsche Supercup results
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‡ Bachler was a guest driver, therefore he was ineligible for points.
† Driver did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance.
Complete FIA World Endurance Championship results
24 Hours of Le Mans results
External links
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60 State Street
60 State Street is a modern skyscraper on historic State Street in the Government Center neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. Completed in 1977, it is Boston's 15th tallest building, standing 509 feet (155 m) tall, and housing 38 floors .
History
Sixty State Street marks the site of one of two colonial taverns named the Great Britain Coffee-House, where Queen Street (now Court Street) ended and King Street (now State Street) began. This Great Britain Coffee-House, established in 1713, advertised "superfine bohea, and green tea, chocolate, coffee-powder, etc."
In 1838, Thatcher Magoun Sr., a ship designer, builder and merchant who ran a shipbuilding facility in Medford, established Thatcher Magoun & Son, a counting-house, on the 60 State Street site to manage his business revenue, bookkeeping and correspondence. This helped to establish State Street as one of Boston's financial centers, hence initiate the city's Financial District. His son and grandson, Thatcher Magoun Jr. and Thatcher Magoun III, kept the firm going in the maritime trade until the late 1870s. An abstract from the firm's records reads:
Correspondence and business records including bills of lading, receipts, outfitting accounts, and crew lists, relating to the ships ARCHIMEDES, DEUCALION, ELECTRIC SPARK, GREENWICH, HERALD OF THE MORNING, MANLIUS, MEDFORD, PHARSALIA, SWALLOW, TALMA, THATCHER MAGOUN, TIMOLEON, and WITCHCRAFT, built in Magoun's yard in Medford, Mass., and engaged in trade between Boston, New York, San Francisco and foreign ports including Liverpool, Elsinore, Havana, and Hong Kong; and materials not specifically related to Thatcher Magoun & Son business enterprises: i.e. the records of B. Delano and Sons, a mercantile firm at Kingston, Mass., business papers of Daniel Tufts, and estate papers of James Nielson (managed by Thatcher Magoun). Includes correspondence with various shipmasters.
Upon Magoun Sr.'s death at 81 in 1856, the Thatcher Magoun, a clipper ship built by Hayden & Cudworth in Medford for Thatcher Magoun & Sons, was named and launched in his memory. Author Hall Gleason described the clipper as follows: "Her figurehead was a life-like image of the father of ship building on the Mystic... She made five passages from Boston to S.F., the fastest being 113 days and the slowest 152 days; seven from N.Y. to S.F., fastest 117 and slowest 149; two from Liverpool in 150 and 115 days. The average of the fourteen is 128.7 days. S.F. to NY. in 96 days in 1869."
Design and features
Architecture
Designed by the Chicago-based firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and developed by Cabot, Cabot & Forbes, 60 State Street is clad in pink granite to blend with the red brick of Faneuil Hall, City Hall Plaza and other neighboring buildings and spaces. The granite-clad triangular pillars alternate with vertical banks of rectangular floor-to-ceiling windows in a pattern similar to that of Eero Saarinen's black granite-faced CBS Building, a.k.a. "Black Rock," in New York City.
Also like Black Rock, 60 State Street is surrounded by a pedestrian plaza. Only this time the plaza is raised rather than sunken and is accessible at street level from State Street and by two flights of stairs from Faneuil Hall Marketplace.
Unlike Black Rock's rectangular solid composition, 60 State Street was given eleven sides and a two-part scheme so that it has the appearance of side-by-side octagonal tubes from a distance. The chamfered corner pillars are similarly octagonal. This theme recalls Boston's historic architectural vernacular of chamfered bay windows on Beacon Hill and in the Back Bay.
Venues and tenants
The main office of a major international law firm, WilmerHale, is located at 60 State Street.
The building is shared with Good Measures and is the corporate headquarters for the company. The building also served as the corporate headquarters of the Sheraton Hotel group from 1978 until they were acquired by Starwood Hotels and Resorts in 1998.
The State Room is located in the building's elegant space on the 33rd floor, the site of the former Bay Tower Room restaurant. The State Room run by Longwood Venues hosts private functions (such as weddings, corporate events) and offers panoramic views of Boston Harbor, the Financial District, Boston Common, the Massachusetts State House, the Charles River and the Mystic River. In 2009, the American Idol Preliminary round for Boston was held here.
A Bank of America branch is at street level, with ATMs located at the intersection of Congress Street and State Street, where Boston's Financial District begins.
Berkshire Bank announced 60 State Street as their new corporate headquarters in late 2017.
See also
List of tallest buildings in Boston
References
External links
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Son (TV series)
Son (), is a Turkish psychological thriller series produced by Ay Yapım, broadcast on ATV and directed by Ezel's director Uluç Bayraktar. Starring actors are Yiğit Özşener, Nehir Erdoğan, Erkan Can, Berrak Tüzünataç, and Engin Altan Düzyatan.
The series has been sold to 20th Century Fox Television in the United States and was adapted into a pilot named Runner for ABC. No series has been ordered from this pilot, Also the rights to produce local versions of the series have been sold in Russia, Spain and France. In the Netherlands, the remake Flight HS13 was released in 2018.
Plot
Well, nothing is as it seems. A happy marriage, a husband and wife that love each other, a mother and father protective of their children. No doubts, no lies and a trusting relationship. There are three types of women: The ones who are married to their Home, the ones who are married to their children, and the ones who are married to their husband. Aylin is a woman who is married to her husband, and has been since the first day. But one day she finds out that all her life is actually a big lie, like a slap in the face.
International broadcasts
References
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Cree Nation of Nemaska
The Cree Nation of Nemaska is a Cree First Nation of Quebec, Canada. It is headquartered at the Cree village of Nemaska and also has a terre réservée crie of the same name, both located in the Eeyou Istchee territory in Northern Quebec. In 2016, it has a registered population of 781 members. The nation is in negotiation with the government of Canada to obtain its self-governance.
References
External links
Official website
First Nation Detail by Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada
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Japanese Mexicans
Japanese immigration to Mexico began in the late 19th century, to found coffee growing plantations in the state of Chiapas. Although this initiative failed, it was followed by greater immigration from 1900 to the beginning of World War II, although it never reached the levels of Japanese immigration to countries like the United States, Brazil or Peru. Immigration halted during World War II and many Japanese nationals and even some naturalized Mexicans citizens of Japanese origin were forced to relocate from communities in Baja California, Sinaloa and Chiapas to Mexico City and other areas in the interior until the war was over. After the war, immigration began again, mostly due to Japanese companies investing in Mexico and sending over skilled employees. Currently, there are an estimated 30,000 people who are Japanese or of Japanese descent in Mexico including a recent migration of young Japanese artists into the country who have found more opportunity there than in their home country. It is the fourth largest Japanese community in Latin America.
Beginning
Japanese were among the Asian slaves who were shipped from the Spanish Philippines in the Manila-Acapulco galleons to Acapulco. These slaves were all called "Chino", which meant Chinese. In reality, they were of diverse origins, including Japanese, Koreans, Malays, Filipinos, Javanese, Timorese, and people from Bengal, India, Ceylon, Makassar, Tidore, Terenate, and China. Filipinos made up most of their population. The people in this community of diverse Asians in Mexico was called "los indios chinos" by the Spanish. Most of these slaves were male and were obtained from Portuguese slave traders who obtained them from Portuguese colonial possessions and outposts of the Estado da India, which included parts of India, Bengal, Malacca, Indonesia, Nagasaki in Japan, and Macau. Spain received some of these Chino slaves from Mexico, where owning a Chino slave showed high status. Records of three Japanese slaves dating from the 16th century, named Gaspar Fernandes, Miguel and Ventura who ended up in Mexico showed that they were purchased by Portuguese slave traders in Japan, brought to Manila from where they were shipped to Mexico by their owner Perez. Some of these Asian slaves were also brought to Lima in Peru, where there was a small community of Asians made out of Chinese, Japanese, Filipinos, Malays, and others.
The history of modern Japanese migration begins near the end of the 19th century. In 1868, Japanese isolation from the world was broken which prompted large scale social and economic upheaval, with the Japanese government encouraging emigration . These emigrants included those from Okinawa, who fled oppression by the Japanese government after the island was taken over in 1878.
Mexico was the first country to recognize Japanese sovereignty after the end of its isolation, signing a treaty with it in 1888 to allow citizens of both countries the ability to travel to the other and establishing consulates. Mexico was the first Latin American country to receive Japanese immigrants in 1897, with the first thirty five arriving to Chiapas under the auspices of Viscount Enomoto Takeaki, with the permission of Mexican president Porfirio Díaz . These first Japanese communities mostly consisted of farm workers and other laborers. Japanese authorities were interested in creating a coffee plantation in Chiapas, for export to Japan. They established the Sociedad Colonizadora Japón-México to recruit Japanese farmers to migrate with government support to obtain land. Others went without government assistance and were called “free emigrants” able to buy land without obligation to the Japanese government. However, economic conditions in Chiapas forced many immigrants to abandon their contracts with the Japanese government and instead formed a new organization called the Sociedad Cooperativa Nichiboku Kyodo Gaisha which allowed them to diversify their economic activities. The very first settlement was based on coffee production but failed for various reasons including the fact that not all of the colonists were farmers and many became sick with tropical diseases. Many from this colony dispersed but there remains a small Japanese community in Acacoyagua, Chiapas . However, its establishment marks the first Japanese immigration to Latin America.
1900 to World War II
Most of the immigration to Mexico occurred from 1900 to the beginning of World War II. Many of the immigrants in the first half of the 20th century were skilled laborers or illegal immigrants. Mexico Japan relations were superficial in the latter 19th to mid 20th century but immigrants to Mexico had favorable treatment, as Mexico needed additional workers for modernization efforts.
In the first decade of the 20th century, a large number of Japanese immigrants came as workers contracted to companies doing business in the country which needed skilled labor. This was first in the mining and sugar cane industries and later in construction and railroads. The main Japanese companies involved in this were Kumamoto, Toyo and Tairiku Shokumin Kaisha which did business in mining and agriculture. The three companies sent a total of 530 people to Mexico between 1904 and 1907. However, many of the immigrants could not do the hard labor of the mines and sugar cane fields, prompting them to abandon their contracts, heading to California or even Cuba . During this time period, the number of people of Japanese background went down in Mexico.
In 1908, Japan and Mexico informally agreed to end immigration by contract, but “free” immigrants continued to come. From 1914 to 1938, another 291 people immigrated to Mexico from Japan. Legal skilled laborers after 1917 often worked in the health fields, along with those Japanese invited by the Japanese community in Mexico. Most of these were in Baja California where the economic development was greatest. A number of other Japanese came to the country illegally from the United States, after being rejected by this country, coming to Mexico hoping to enter the U.S. again. These were mostly concentrated in the north of Mexico and those who could not re-enter the United States stayed in Mexico permanently.
Significant Japanese immigration into the Ensenada, Baja California area took place between 1920 and 1940 with only two known Japanese residents before that. Ensenada, Rosarito and Mexicali attracted Japanese immigrants, legal and illegal. The number of Japanese by 1940 was about 300, most of whom worked in farming and fishing. Japanese fishing enterprises included the capture of lobster and mollusks. A significant portion of Japanese agricultural production was exported to the United States and even led to a Japanese-owned chili pepper dehydration facility for the same purpose.
Before WWII, the highest concentrations of Japanese and Japanese descent were in Baja California, followed by Mexico City and Sonora. Most worked in fishing and agriculture followed by non-professional workers, commerce, professionals and technicians. Up until the war, the treatment of Japanese in the country and their descendants had been favorable, very different than the treatment of Chinese in the country, which suffered discrimination and even expulsion in the early 20th century. The Japanese were relatively free from discrimination in Mexico, unlike the United States, Brazil and other countries in the Americas. One reason for this is that the Japanese population was not as prominent as the Chinese one in numbers and the work that they did, which included the construction of factories, bridges and other infrastructure was viewed favorably. The Japanese were not considered to be foreign exploiters, rather partners in Mexico's development because of their technical skills in fields such as medicine and engineering.
In Chiapas where the earliest Japanese immigration occurred in the prior century, intermarriage was common, breaking down ethnic barriers. This has led to the end of a distinct Japanese population in the state, leaving only family names as a reminder. The official census of 1940s counts only 1,550 Japanese nationals in the country, the overwhelming majority men, although other studies put the number higher, as many as over 6,000. Even with the 6,000 figure, it pales against the number of Japanese in other countries in the Americas at the time such as the United States (285,000), Brazil (205,000), Canada (22,000) and Peru (18,000) .
Japanese immigration halted by World War II to near zero, and those who were in the country were faced with restrictions and relocation after Mexico broke diplomatic ties with Japan in 1941. Japanese national and even those with naturalized Mexican citizenship were forced to move from areas along the Pacific coast such as Baja California, Sinaloa and Chiapas inland, with some forced into exile to Japan. The goal was to keep the Japanese in Mexico away from ports and from Mexico's border with the United States so that they could not be used as a “fifth column” by the Japanese government.
Japanese nationals were forced to move to interior cities such as Puebla, Guadalajara and Cuernavaca. Most went to Mexico City and Guadalajara but there were concentrations in Guanajuato and Querétaro. It is estimated that about 1,100 people moved to Mexico City and Guadalajara alone. The Japanese community worked to buy properties to house the displaced including the former Temixco Hacienda near Cuernavaca which allowed the Japanese there to grow crops and live semi-independently. The fear of Japanese-Mexicans faded during the war, with some allowed to go back home before 1945 and the rest after.
Mexico was one of a number of countries to take this action, but in the end only about 3,500 people were affected as opposed to 120,000 in the United States. With some exceptions, those forcibly relocated were allowed to return after the war and retake possession of their property. However, in a number of cases, this proved impossible as people created new lives in the central states and/or they lost farming land and/or water rights to the unscrupulous. Those most able to return to their old life were the fishermen of the Ensenada area. This treatment of the Japanese is not in most accounts of Mexican history and is not taught in schools.
One consequence of the war was that it caused many Japan-born to remain in Mexico, even if they had plans to one day return to Japan. The main reason for this was that the war completely destroyed the old Japan, and what they knew no longer existed. After the war, there was a strong division among the Japanese-Mexican community as to whether Japan had really lost the war, (with about ten percent refusing to believe Japan could lose). However, the division was enough to keep the Japanese-Mexicans from seeking restitution from the Mexican government or promote the memory of the displacement.
Post war to 1978
After the end of the war, Japanese immigration to Mexico began again. From 1951 to 1978, this immigration was associated with Japan's economic growth, giving it money to invest abroad. From the 1950s to the present, over three hundred Japanese enterprises have established themselves in Mexico and Japan is Mexico's third largest trading partner. These companies brought highly skilled workers into the country, usually on two-year renewable visas.
Since Japanese immigration began, it was a small and dispersed phenomenon, with few to no formal policies or support to Japanese immigrants. Shortly before the war, many Japanese in Mexico began to form associations called “nijonjinkai” (Japanese associations) or “kenjinkai” (associations of people from the same prefecture). However, before the war, there was no nationwide Japanese immigrant organization similar to those in the United States. The closest organization to this function was the “kyoeikai” which arose in response to the displacement of Japanese during WWII, especially in Mexico City. Later, the leaders of these organizations would form the Asociación México Japonesa, which remains today.
Mexicans of Japanese descent and current immigration
In 1997, descendants of Japanese immigrants celebrated a century of Japanese immigration into Mexico, with an estimated 30,000 people of Japanese nationality or ethnicity living in Mexico. Despite the immigration starting in the latter 19th century, it never reached the numbers it did in other countries such as the United States and Brazil. Japanese immigrant influence is strongest in Baja California, and can be seen in both the last names of many of its residents and the operators of maquiladoras near the U.S. border. There are still scattered communities of Japanese descendants from the first half of the 20th century in other areas. In addition to the Asociación México Japonesa, there are some regional Japanese associations such as the Asociación Japonesa del Sur de Veracruz established in 1996.
There has been little research into this ethnic group in Mexico. The main researcher is María Elena Ota Mishima who has written various works on the topic, including the book Siete Migraciones Japoneses en México 1890-1978.
There has been one notable influx of Japanese into Mexico since 1978, which is young artists from Japan who have settled mostly in Mexico City. They have come because they have found it easier to develop their careers in Mexico, as the art market in Japan is very small and very hard to break into. More people in Mexico visit museums than in Japan and the range of artistic styles is much less restricted in Mexico. In 2011, the Museo Universitario del Chopo held an exhibition called Selva de cristal: artistas japoneses en México to promote the work of artists of Japanese and Japanese descent in Mexico. Artists represented included Luis Nishizawa, Kiyoshi Takahasi, Carlos Nakatani, Kyuichi Yahai and Kiyoto Ota .
Notable Japanese and Japanese-Mexicans include theater promoter Seki Sano, painters Tamiji and Tawaja and Luis Nishizawa. Tanetoshi Kirawawa founded one of the most successful Japanese businesses in Mexico, and is also known for his philanthropic work such as the publication of books and magazines about Japan including Japónica and the creation of institutions such as Liceo Mexicano-Japonés, with teaches both Japanese and Mexican children, as well as the Japan study program of the Colegio de la Frontera Norte.
As a result of Japanese investment in automotive and associated industries, there has been a significant influx of Japanese immigrants to the Bajío region. The largest increase has been in Guanajuato, which has seen a 400% increase in Japanese residents since 2013. The opening of Honda and Toyota plants in Celaya and a Mazda plant in Salamanca greatly increased the Japanese presence. As a result, branches of Japanese banks as well as the first Japanese consulate-general in Mexico have opened in León.
Education
The Liceo Mexicano Japonés is located in Mexico City. As of 1983 some Nikkei families living in other Mexican states have their children move to Mexico City and live with their relatives so they can attend this school.
In addition, the Escuela Japonesa de Aguascalientes (アグアスカリエンテス日本人学校 Aguasukarientesu Nihonjin Gakkō), an overseas Japanese school, is in Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes. As of 2013 it has 59 primary school students and 13 junior high school students for a total of 72 students.
Part-time Japanese schools include the Colegio Japones de Guadalajara A.C. (グアダラハラ補習授業校 Guadarahara Hoshū Jugyō Kō) in Zapopan, Jalisco and the Asociacion Regiomontana de Lengua Japonesa A.C. (モンテレー補習授業校 Monterē Hoshū Jugyō Kō) in San Pedro Garza García, Nuevo León. Colegio Japones de Guadalajara is held at Secundaria y Preparatoria Femenil Colinas de San Jaier. Formerly it had its classes held at the Escuela Primaria "Antonio Caso" in Guadalajara. Asociacion Regiomontana was previously based in Apodaca.
Literature
A novel Mudas las Garzas by Selfa A. Chew is based on the oral histories of Japanese Mexicans in the middle of the 20th century.
See also
Japanese community of Mexico City
Japan–Mexico relations
References
Further reading
Watanabe, Chizuko. "The Japanese Immigrant Community in Mexico Its History and Present" (Master's thesis), California State University at Los Angeles, 1983.
Katashima, Yasuo (片島 康夫 Katashima Yasuo) (Department of English, Nagasaki Wesleyan Junior College). "Teaching Japanese Language in Mexico by Japanese Mexican Community" (<一般論文>メキシコの日本語教育事情 : 日系社会の日本語教育事情, Archive). Annals, Nagasaki Wesleyan Junior College Research Institute of Regional Area Study 5, 39-48, 1998-03-31. Nagasaki Wesleyan University. (CiNii)
Galindo, Sergio Hernández (May 2008). "La guerra interna contra los japoneses" (Archive). Dimensión Antropológica (No. 43). pp 87–119. Mexico DF: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia.
Nihon-jin mekishiko ijūshi (日本人メキシコ移住史; "The History of the Japanese Immigrants in Mexico"). 日本人メキシコ移住史編纂委員会, 1971. See profile at Google Books.
External links
Mexico-tagged articles at Discover Nikkei
Los que llegaron - Japoneses from Canal Once (in Spanish)
Instituto de intercambio cultural México-Japonés A.C. (Nichiboku) (グアダラハラ日墨文化交流学院) - Guadalajara organization
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Melvin Ormond Hammond
Melvin Ormond Hammond (17 July 1876 – 11 October 1934) was a Canadian journalist and photographer, known throughout his professional career simply as M. O. Hammond.
Life
M. O. Hammond was born in Clarkson, Mississauga, in Ontario, the only son of Alvin and Catharine (Nauman) Hammond. His parents were farmers, and young Melvin had to help out with the daily chores besides going to school, first in Clarkson, then in Oakville, Ontario. He first ventured into journalism at the age of 14, when he became a correspondent for the Oakville Star. Three years later, he moved to Toronto, where he got a position with the Toronto Globe. He started out as the secretary of the managing editor but soon became a general reporter, and shortly afterwards was posted as a political reporter at Queen's Park, the seat of the government of Ontario.
In 1900, he married Clara Williams, a Methodist minister's daughter; together, they had a son, Harold James (b. 1901) and a daughter, Helen Isabel (b. 1909). From 1903 to 1906, Hammond was sent to Ottawa, reporting for the Globe from Parliament Hill. After his return to Toronto, he worked in various editorial positions at the Globe until his death in autumn 1934.
Work
Besides his interests in politics, his different positions at the Globe permitted him to also satisfy his interests in Canadian history and culture. As arts editor of the Globe, he wrote on, promoted, and came to know many Canadian artists and writers of his time.
Although Hammond was a successful journalist, his work as a photographer has proved of more lasting value. He recognized the value of photography early on, and documented his travels extensively. As a member of the Toronto Camera Club, he had been exhibiting his photographic works regularly at various exhibitions, including the Canadian National Exhibition. Hammond illustrated many of his newspaper articles with his own photographs. Over the years, he acquired a reputation as a skilled portrait photographer, and through his memberships in the Toronto Camera Club and the Arts and Letters Club, also had the opportunity to photograph many famous artists of his time.
Beyond journalism and photography, Hammond also wrote three books:
Confederation and Its Leaders, Toronto, McClelland, Goodchild and Stewart, 1917; a book containing political biographies
Canadian Footprints: A Study in Foregrounds and Backgrounds, Toronto, MacMillan, 1926; a book on the theory of photography
Painting and Sculpture in Canada, Toronto, The Ryerson Press, 1931
See also
Newton McTavish, another journalist and photographer from Toronto
Centennial of the City of Toronto, 1934, of which Hammond was on the Pictures Committee.
References
Illustrated biography
Biographical sketch
External links
Exhibition of Hammond's photographs
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NCAA Women's Water Polo Championship
The NCAA Women's Water Polo Championship has existed since the 2001 season. Seven conferences have teams competing in women's water polo: the Big West Conference, the Collegiate Water Polo Association (CWPA), the single-sport Golden Coast Conference, the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC), the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF), the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) and the Western Water Polo Association (WWPA). Some teams compete at Division III either as members of the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference or independently. Teams qualify by either winning their respective conference tournament or receiving one of the few at large bids available.
Champions
Team titles
Tournaments
2018
The NCAA Women's Water Polo Championship was held on May 8–13, 2018 at the USC Uytengsu Aquatics Center, Los Angeles, California. Ten teams were selected to participate in the annual event. Conference champions from the Big West, CWPA, Golden Coast Conference, MAAC, MPSF, SCIAC and WWPA are represented with the seven automatic bids. They were joined by three at-large teams, with play-in games ahead of the tournament.
Conference Champions:
Big West - UC-Irvine
CWPA - Michigan
Golden Coast - Pacific
MAAC - Wagner
MPSF - USC
SCIAC - Pomona-Pitzer
WWPA - UC-San Diego
at-large teams - Stanford, UCLA, California
Opening Round (May 8): Wagner def. UC-San Diego 10-7, UC Irvine def. Pomona-Pitzer 16–2
First Round (May 11): No. 1 USC def. Wagner 12–5; No. 4 UCLA def. Pacific 8-4; No. 2 Stanford def. UC Irvine 14-8; No. 3 California def. Michigan 13–6
Semi-finals (May 12): No. 1 USC def. No. 4 UCLA 10–6; No. 2 Stanford def. No. 3 California 11–7
Championship (May 13): No. 1 USC def. No. 2 Stanford 5-4
2017
The NCAA Women's Water Polo Championship was held on May 12–14, 2017 at the IU Natatorium; Indianapolis, IN. Ten teams were selected to participate in the annual event. Conference champions from the Big West, CWPA, Golden Coast Conference, MAAC, MPSF, SCIAC and WWPA are represented with the seven automatic bids. They are joined by three at-large teams, with play-in games ahead of the tournament.
Conference Champions:
Big West - UC-Irvine
CWPA - Michigan
Golden Coast - Pacific
MAAC - Wagner
MPSF - UCLA
SCIAC - Pomona-Pitzer
WWPA - UC-San Diego
Opening Round (May 6): Wagner def. UC-San Diego 6–5, Pacific def. Pomona-Pitzer 11–5
First Round (May 12): No. 1 UCLA def. Wagner 17–2; California def. No. 4 UC Irvine 9–7; No. 2 Stanford def. Pacific 13–6; No. 3 USC def. Michigan 12–6
Semi-finals (May 13): No. 1 UCLA def. Cal 14–11; No. 2 Stanford def. No. 3 USC 11–10
Championship (May 14, 3:00 PM ET): No. 2 Stanford def. No. 1 UCLA 8-7
Maggie Steffens of Stanford, who scored the winning goal against UCLA with 9 seconds left, was named the tournament's most valuable player.
2016
The NCAA Women's Water Polo Championship was held on May 13–15, 2016 with UCLA, Los Angeles hosting. Eight teams were selected to participate in the annual event. Conference champions from the Big West, CWPA, Golden Coast Conference, MAAC, MPSF, SCIAC and WWPA were represented with the seven automatic bids. They were joined by three at-large teams, with play-in games conducted on May 10, 2016.
Play-in games (May 10, 2016, Canyonview Aquatic Center at the University of California, San Diego): San Diego State def. Wagner 7–4, UC San Diego def. Whitter 11–7
Tournament First Round games (May 13, 2016): UCLA def. UC San Diego 17-4, Stanford def. UC Santa Barbara 12-5, Southern California def. San Diego State 12-3, Michigan def. Arizona State 5-4
Semi-finals (May 14, 2016): Southern California def. Michigan 9-6, Stanford def. UCLA 7-4
Championship (May 15, 2016): Southern California def. Stanford 8–7
2015
The NCAA Women's Water Polo Championship was held on May 8–10, 2015 with Stanford, Stanford, CA hosting. Eight teams participated in the event. As has been the case since 2011, conference champions from the MPSF, WWPA, SCIAC, CWPA, MAAC, and Big West represented the six automatic bids. They were joined by four at-large teams, with play-in games being conducted on May 2: UC San Diego (18-18) def. Whittier (21-14) 17–11, Princeton (29-3) def. Wagner (25-8) 12–2.
Tournament First Round games (May 8, 2015): UCLA (24-2) def. UC San Diego 9–2, California (19-7) def. UCI (19-8) 6–5, Southern Cal (22-5) def. Hawaii (18-9) 14–7, Stanford (23-2) def. Princeton (30-4) 7–2.
Semi-finals (May 9, 2015): UCLA def. California 9–5, Stanford def. Southern Cal 9–8
Championship (May 10, 2015): Stanford def. UCLA, 7–6
2014
The NCAA Women's Water Polo Championship was held on May 9–11, 2014 with USC, Los Angeles hosting. Eight teams participated. Play-in games among four at-large teams were conducted May 3 on the campuses of the higher-seeded teams, with No. 8 seed Indiana defeating No. 9 seed Wagner 11–6, and No. 7 seed UC San Diego defeating No. 10 seed Pomona Pitzer 13–9.
Tournament First Round games (May 9, 2014): No. 1 seed Stanford def. No. 8 seed Indiana 18–2, No. 2 seed UCLA def. No. 7 seed UC San Diego 12–8, No. 3 seed USC def. No. 6 seed UCI 14–11, No. 4 seed Cal def. No. 5 seed ASU 7–4
Semi-finals (May 10, 2014): [1] Stanford def. [4] California 12–8, [2] UCLA def. [3] USC 5–3
Championship (May 11, 2014): [1] Stanford def. [2] UCLA 9–5
Annika Dries of Stanford was named the tournament's most outstanding player.
2013
The NCAA Women's Water Polo Championship was held on May 10–12, 2013 with Harvard University, Cambridge, MA hosting. Eight teams participated. Conference champions from the MPSF, WWPA, SCIAC, CWPA, MAAC, and Big West were joined by two at-large teams.
Tournament First Round games (May 10, 2013): No. 2 seed Stanford (27-2) def. No. 7 seed Iona (21-8) 20–3; No. 3 seed UCLA (26-6) def. No. 6 seed Princeton (26-5) 8–6; No. 1 seed Southern California (24-1) def. Pomona-Pitzer (18-16) 27–1; No. 4 seed Hawaii (21-9) def. No. 5 seed UC San Diego (25-13) 13–6
Semi-finals (May 11, 2013): No. 2 seed Stanford def. No. 3 seed UCLA 5–3; No. 1 seed Southern California def. No. 4 seed Hawaii 16–9
Championship (May 12, 2013): No. 1 seed Southern California def. No. 2 seed Stanford, 10-95OT
2012
The tournament was held at the SDSU's Aztec Aquaplex in San Diego, California with automatic bids for the MPSF, CWPA, Big West, MAAC, WWPA and SCIAC conferences. The three-day championships on May 11–13, 2012, also had two at-large teams.
Tournament First Round games (May 11, 2012): No. 1 Stanford (23-2) def. No. 8 Pomona-Pitzer (21-16) 17–5; No. 2 UCLA (21-3) def. No. 7 Iona (24-11) 14–3; No. 3 Southern California (21-5) def. No. 6 Princeton (28-4) 14–2; No. 4 UC Irvine (24-6) def. No. 5 Loyola Marymount (20-9) 8–6.
Semi-finals (May 12, 2012: No. 1 Stanford def. No. 4 UC Irvine 12-3; No. 3 Southern California def. No. 2 UCLA 12-10.
Championship (May 13, 2012): No. 1 Stanford def. No. 3 Southern California 6-4.
2011
The tournament was held at the University of Michigan's Canham Natatorium in Ann Arbor, Michigan with automatic bids for the MPSF (Stanford), CWPA (Indiana), Big West (UCI), MAAC (Iona), WWPA (UC San Diego) and SCIAC (Redlands). The three-day championships on May 13–15, 2011, also had two at-large teams.
Tournament First Round games: No. 1 Stanford (25-1) def. No. 8 Iona College/University of Redlands (play-in winner) 22-7; No. 4 USC (18-6) def. No. 5 UCI (21-8) 14-9; No. 3 UCLA (24-6) def. No. 6 Indiana (21-8) 8-5; No. 2 California (24-4) def. No. 7 UC San Diego (17-18) 13-5.
Semi-finals: No. 2 California def. No. 3 UCLA 7–4; No. 1 Stanford def. No. 4 Southern California 8–4.
Championship: No. 1 Stanford defeated No. 2 California 9-5 for its second national title.
All Tournament First Team: Amber Oland, Stanford; Annika Dries, Stanford; Emily Csikos, Cal; Kim Krueger, Stanford; Patricia Jancso, USC; Melissa Seidemann, Stanford; Dana Ochsner, Cal; Priscilla Orozco, UCLA
All Tournament Second Team: Stephane Peckham, Cal; Jakie Kohli, Indiana; Joelle Bekhazi, USC; KK Clark, UCLA; Cortney Collyer, UC Irvine; Jessy Cardey, UC Irvine; Maggie Wood, Iona; Kelly Easterday, UCLA
Tournament MVP: Annika Dries, Stanford
2010
The tournament field was announced on Monday, May 3, 2010 with the championship tournament on May 14–16 at San Diego State University's Aztec Aquaplex. Teams that received automatic bids were UCLA (MPSF), Michigan (CWPA), Marist (MAAC), Loyola Marymount (WWPA) and Pomona-Pitzer (SCIAC). Stanford, Cal and USC of MPSF received at-large bids.
Tournament Bracket: #1 Stanford (24-2) def. #8 Pomona-Pitzer (18-14) 23-3; #2 USC (22-3) def. #7 Marist (18-14) 20-5; #6 Loyola Marymount (27-4) def. #3 UCLA (20-7) 5-4; #4 Cal (24-8) def. #5 Michigan (32-6) 12-8.
Semi-finals: #1 Stanford def. #4 Cal 6-3; #2 USC def. #6 Loyola Marymount 10-6.
Southern California defeated Stanford in the title game 10-9 for its second national title in school history.
2009
The following conferences and institutions received automatic qualification for the 2009 championships, which were played on May 8–10: Collegiate Water Polo Association, Michigan; Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, Marist; Mountain Pacific Sports Federation, USC; Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, Cal Lutheran; and Western Water Polo Association, Loyola Marymount. The following institutions received at-large bids to the championship field: Stanford, UCLA, and Hawaii.
The first-round games: #1 seed USC (24-1) def. #8 Cal Lutheran (19-12) 22-2; #2 Stanford (24-3) def. #7 Marist (18-13) 21-5; #3 UCLA (22-6) def. #6 Michigan (33-8) 13-6; and #4 Hawaii (18-8) def. # 5 Loyola Marymount (24-7) 11-7.
Semi-finals: #1 USC def. #4 Hawaii 17-5; #3 UCLA def. #2 Stanford 12-11.
The UCLA Bruins women's team (3rd seeded) battled the #1 rated USC Trojans for the national championship on Sunday, May 10, 2009 at College Park, Maryland. With two goals from Tanya Gandy in the first minute of the game, UCLA won a record fifth consecutive crown, 11th national title and 7th NCAA crown, by a score of 5-4. Gandy earned the NCAA Tournament's most valuable player honor.
See also
Pre-NCAA Intercollegiate Women's Water Polo Champions
References
External links
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National Women's Collegiate Champs
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Charles J. O'Byrne
Charles J. O'Byrne (born 1959) is an American lawyer, former Jesuit priest, and former political staffer to Governor of New York David Paterson. O'Byrne served as Secretary to the Governor--the highest unelected position in New York government--during the Paterson administration. He stepped down from that position in October 2008 after admitting to having failed to pay five years' worth of taxes.
O'Byrne previously served as Chief of Staff to Paterson when Paterson served as a member of the New York State Senate and as Lieutenant Governor of New York. He also worked as a speechwriter for Howard Dean's 2004 presidential campaign. Prior to entering politics, O'Byrne practiced law and was a member of the Society of Jesus for 12 years before departing his order and authoring a controversial 2002 article about Catholic priests and seminarians.
Early life, education, and early career
O'Byrne was born into an Irish Catholic family in New York City. His father was a teacher and then a principal in New York public schools, and his mother was a psychologist. O'Byrne graduated from Red Bank Catholic High School in New Jersey in 1977.
O'Byrne attended Columbia University and graduated summa cum laude in 1981, majoring in history with a concentration in the Medieval and Renaissance periods. During college, he took a summer job in the New Jersey Attorney General's office, and at 22, became acting superintendent of elections and acting commissioner of registration in Monmouth County. He went on to Columbia Law School, graduating with a J.D. in 1984. At Columbia, O'Byrne became close friends with Stephen Smith Jr., a member of the Kennedy family. After law school, he worked as a corporate litigator at the Manhattan office of Rosenman & Colin LLP.
Priesthood
O'Byrne left corporate law for a vocation to the priesthood in 1989 and attended Saint John Neumann Residence and Hall, a preparatory school for seminarians under the Archdiocese of New York. O'Byrne was later admitted into Saint Andrew Hall, the Jesuit Novitiate in Syracuse for his primary formation as a Jesuit. He professed his vows as a Jesuit at the LeMoyne College Chapel in Syracuse, New York in 1991 and completed his philosophy studies at Loyola University Chicago. O'Byrne went on to seminary at Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1994 and received two master's degrees. During his studies in Cambridge, he acted as Harvard Law School's chaplain and worked as a teaching fellow at Harvard University with Robert Coles, the Pulitzer-prize winning author. In 1996, O'Byrne was ordained as a priest. He received a voluntary Decree of Dismissal from the Society of Jesus in 2002 when his superiors determined that he no longer wished to remain in the Order.
A friend of the Kennedy family, O'Byrne acted as a spiritual adviser during the 1991 rape trial of Stephen Smith's brother, William Kennedy Smith and officiated at the marriage of John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette in 1996. In 1999, he presided over the funeral of Kennedy and Bessette in New York City after they died in a plane crash. As of 2008, he was a trustee of the Jean K. Smith Trust, the Kennedy Smith Foundation and the Smith Family Trust. In a 2006 financial disclosure, he listed gifts in excess of $1,000 and trustee commissions from members of the Smith family.
Aftermath
O'Byrne authored "Sex & Sexuality: One Man's Story About Religious Life and What Seminaries Really Teach About Sex", a controversial September 2002 article in Playboy magazine that alleged hypocrisy and sexual dysfunction in the Catholic Church. The article caused some controversy, portraying O'Byrne's fellow seminarians as men who entered the religious life with "little or no sexual experience" who made up for lost time. O'Byrne asserted that there was "sex all around me, including relationships between Jesuits." He also asserted that there was a prevalence of priests who held an unnatural interest in young male parishioners.
O'Byrne, who is openly gay, later left the Catholic Church and became a practicing Episcopalian.
Political career
In 2003, O'Byrne joined Howard Dean's presidential campaign as Policy Director for New York, and was then hired as a speechwriter. After Dean dropped out of the race, O'Byrne went to work for State Senate Minority Leader David Paterson as a speechwriter and policy analyst. In 2006, O'Byrne became Paterson's Chief of Staff.
O'Byrne maintained his position as Chief of Staff when Paterson was elected Lieutenant Governor of New York, and was elevated to Secretary to the Governor (the functional equivalent of a Chief of Staff) when Paterson was sworn in as Governor in March 2008 following the resignation of Eliot Spitzer. O'Byrne was variously described as Paterson's "quarterback", "gatekeeper", "alter ego", "confidant", and "enforcer", and as "the glue that held the administration together".
On October 24, 2008, O'Byrne resigned from his post following the revelation that he owed nearly $300,000 in back taxes. O'Byrne admitted to having failed to pay taxes for five years. After O'Byrne's unpaid taxes became public knowledge, he contended that his failure to pay was caused by depression. Later, his attorneys asserted that he suffered from "late-filing syndrome", which is not a recognized mental disorder. O'Byrne was "lambasted" in the media following his excuses regarding the unpaid taxes.
Later career
As of June 2019, O'Byrne served as Executive Vice President for Policy at
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Karwar Airport
Karwar Airport is a proposed airport and will be built by the Indian Navy at Alageri village near Ankola, in Karnataka. The naval air station is expected to start functioning in 2025.
The Airports Authority of India (AAI) will operate a civil enclave at the naval air base which is part of the Navy’s Rs 10,000 crore Phase 2 of Project Seabird.
Naval Air Station
The Naval Air Station Karwar is being built on 1,328 acres primarily to cater to the Navy's large, ship-based helicopter units and Dornier 228 aircraft that will be stationed at the base. The Indian Navy's Boeing P-8I, advanced maritime surveillance aircraft is also expected to be stationed at Karwar.
The commissioning of a Naval Air Station at Karwar will decongest INS Hansa at the nearby Dabolim Airport which is a front line Air Station that is highly congested with both operational and training flying. The resulting restrictions on civil commercial air traffic has met with opposition from civilian quarters since Goa is a popular tourist destination In India
In early 2007, there were reports of a concerted move by the Navy, the AAI, and the state of Karnataka to extend the runway planned at the naval base at Karwar to 2,500 metres (8,200 ft) to accommodate Airbus A320s and to acquire 75 extra hectares for this purpose. However, there have been no corresponding plans announced so far to relocate flight training from Dabolim to this airport or any other more convenient place.
Civilian Use
Navy had initially planned to construct a 2,000 metre long runway for the naval air station. The Karnataka State Government approached the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to use the air station for civil operations. The MoD approved of the proposal and asked the State government to facilitate the extension of the runway by another 1000 metres to a total of 3000 meters.
The AAI had carried out an inspection of the site at the request of the Karnataka Government in 2006. It had given suggestions regarding orientation, location and extension of the proposed runway to 2,500 metres and also of its land requirements of an additional 75 hectares.
Accordingly, in 2019, the district administration began acquiring 40 acres for extension of the runway and for the terminal building. The State Government has requested the Central Government to bear the cost of acquisition of this additional land, estimated to be Rs. 20 crores.
See also
INS Kadamba
List of airports in Karnataka
References
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Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) is one of the six regional accreditation organizations recognized by the United States Department of Education and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation. This agency accredits over 13,000 public and private educational institutions ranging from preschool to college level in the Southern United States. Its headquarters are in North Druid Hills, Georgia, near Decatur and in the Atlanta metropolitan area.
SACS accredits educational institutions in the states of Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia, as well as schools for US students in Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America, and South America.
There are a number of affiliate organizations within the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. One affiliate organization is the Southern Association of Community, Junior, and Technical Colleges.
Commission on Colleges
The first SACS was founded in 1895 and is currently made up of Council on Accreditation and School Improvement and the Commission on Colleges which existed since 1912. It also works with the Council for Higher Education Accreditation and the Association of Specialized and Professional Accreditors.
The SACS Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) accredits universities and colleges in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and Latin America (Extraterritorial).
Every six months, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges publishes an online report on its accreditation actions, including reaffirmations of accreditation and public sanctions of institutions of higher learning. The reports include specific public sanctions of schools and statements disclosing why those institutions have been placed on sanction.
The Commission on Colleges accredits both public and private institutions of higher education in the United States, including some community colleges as well as four-year institutions. As a regional accreditor, SACSCOC accreditation extends to all of the educational programs offered at the accredited institution.
Institutions in Latin America accredited by SACSCOC include the Mexican universities of Fundación Universidad de las Américas, Puebla; Universidad de las Americas, A.C.; Universidad de Monterrey; Tecnológico de Monterrey; Instituto Centroamericano de Administración de Empresas (INCAE or the Central American Institute of Business Administration) in Costa Rica and Nicaragua; and Keiser University Latin American Campus in Nicaragua. The SACSCOC has also accredited the American University in Dubai.
Council on Accreditation and School Improvement
SACS CASI accredits over 13,000 primary, middle, and secondary schools, as well as school systems located in the SACS region. In 2006, AdvancED was established with the unification of SACS CASI, NCA CASI, and NSSE creating the world's largest education community. Today, SACS CASI acts as an accreditation division of AdvancED.
On December 9, 2018, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools had excluded Bennett College from its membership due to failure of completion of the chapter 13, section 1 of the Principles of Accreditation. During the same year, they have suspended membership of the Loyola University New Orleans for the same reason and set up special committees to Johnson University and Prairie View A&M University for the full year. Due to this process, Memphis Theological Seminary was denied reaffirmation and was put on warning for a year, citing the lack of financial responsibilities and institutional planning.
The SACS had also put full year and half year warnings on the Denmark Technical and Roanoke–Chowan Community Colleges, citing lack of governing board characteristics, as well as financial federal and state responsibilities and conflict of interest, among others. The SACS also had denied faculty change to Ferrum College and a change from private to public to the Florida National University.
In 2018 a merger between College of Biblical Studies and Crossroads Bible College had been proposed and accepted with the common name of the institution will be College of Biblical Studies-Houston per Substantive Change Committee. During the same year, a merge between Keiser and Walford Universities was also called in. As of 2019, the institution is called Keiser University as was agreed upon by the Substantive Change Committee.
See also
List of recognized accreditation associations of higher learning
References
External links
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8th Canadian Parliament
The 8th Canadian Parliament was in session from August 19, 1896, until October 9, 1900. The membership was set by the 1896 federal election on June 23, 1896. It was dissolved prior to the 1900 election.
It was controlled by a Liberal Party majority under Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier and the 8th Canadian Ministry. The Official Opposition was the Conservative/Liberal-Conservative, led by Charles Tupper.
The Speaker was first James David Edgar, and later Thomas Bain. See also List of Canadian electoral districts 1892-1903 for a list of the ridings in this parliament.
There were five sessions of the 8th Parliament:
List of members
Following is a full list of members of the eighth Parliament listed first by province, then by electoral district.
Electoral districts denoted by an asterisk (*) indicates that district was represented by two members.
British Columbia
Manitoba
New Brunswick
Northwest Territories
Nova Scotia
Ontario
Prince Edward Island
Quebec
By-elections
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Central Nebraska Regional Airport
Central Nebraska Regional Airport is three miles northeast of Grand Island, in Hall County, Nebraska. It is owned by the Hall County Airport Authority. The airport sees two airlines, subsidized by the Essential Air Service program. In 2016 the airport had 68,879 passenger boardings (enplanements), a 6.6% increase from the 64,602 enplanements in 2015. The airport had 7,961 enplanements in calendar year 2008, 20,136 in 2009 and 37,101 in 2010.
The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2017–2021 categorized it as a nonhub primary airport based on enplanements in 2016 (over 10,000 per year).
History
The facility was formerly Grand Island Army Airfield. Today about a dozen military buildings remain there including several hangars, some former warehouses being used for commercial storage and several sheds along with the old parachute building.
United Airlines stopped at GRI from the 1930s until Frontier took over in 1959.
Facilities
The airport covers 1,847 acres (747 ha) at an elevation of 1,847 feet (563 m). It has two concrete runways: 17/35 is 7,002 by 150 feet (2,134 x 46 m) and 13/31 is 6,608 by 100 feet (2,014 x 30 m).
In the year ending June 30, 2011 the airport had 24,387 aircraft operations, an average of 66 per day: 65% general aviation, 23% airline and 13% military. 45 aircraft were then based at this airport: 62% single-engine, 13% multi-engine, 2% jet and 22% military.
Central Nebraska Regional Airport was selected to be a new Chinook Helicopter Base. The Nebraska National Guard has been on site since 2004, with ground scheduled to be broken in 2006 and the base opening in 2008.
in April 2016 a new Terminal was opened, costing estimated $20 million; the old terminal will become office space for the hall county airport authority. Gate 1 now has a fully closed Jet Bridge or "Jetway" to the aircraft, a first for any airport in the Central Nebraska area. Plans include a second jet bridge if more airlines come in.
Trego-Dugan aviation, the on-site FBO, has moved buildings, now operating adjacent to their service hangars, new space includes Wifi, Internet Cafe, and lounge for private pilots
Airlines and destinations
Passenger
Air Midwest operating as US Airways Express on behalf of US Airways via a code sharing agreement commenced service on October 29, 2006 with two daily flights to Omaha Eppley Airfield and one daily flight to Kansas City International Airport. Air Midwest ended their service in May 2008, and local commuter air carrier Island Air then announced plans to take over but did not begin this new replacement service.
The airport has scheduled passenger jet service on two airlines. Allegiant Air began flights to Las Vegas on September 4, 2008 with McDonnell Douglas MD-80 jetliners and now flies Airbus A319 jets several days a week nonstop to Las Vegas and Phoenix, the latter being served via Phoenix–Mesa Gateway Airport. In June 2011, American Eagle commenced flying between GRI and Dallas/Ft. Worth and serves the airport with Canadair CRJ-700 regional jets operated by ExpressJet via a code share agreement with American Airlines. This flight has been and still is occasionally operated with a Canadair CRJ-900 by Mesa Airlines.
Past jet service
In 1977 the original Frontier Airlines (1950-1986) was flying Boeing 737-200 service on a routing of Grand Island - Lincoln - Omaha - Denver - Phoenix and was also serving the airport with Convair 580 turboprops with direct flights to Denver, Kansas City, Omaha and St. Louis. Frontier pulled out in 1984. In 1986 Air Wisconsin was flying BAC One-Elevens direct to Chicago O'Hare International Airport via Lincoln.
See also
List of airports in Nebraska
References
Other sources
Essential Air Service documents (Docket OST-2002-13983) from the U.S. Department of Transportation:
Order 2004-5-15: selecting Great Lakes Aviation, Ltd., to provide essential air service with subsidy support at Grand Island, Kearney, McCook, North Platte, and Scottsbluff, Nebraska, for two years at a total annual subsidy of $5,233,287. Also, the Department makes final the termination of the eligibility of Norfolk, Nebraska, to receive subsidized essential air service proposed in Order Order 2003-6-25, June 19, 2003.
Order 2006-6-26: selecting Air Midwest for service at Grand Island and McCook, Nebraska, for two years, beginning when the carrier inaugurates full service, at a total annual subsidy of $2,296,462 for both communities. Grand Island will receive two nonstop round trips to Omaha each weekday and weekend (12 total round trips per week) and one nonstop round trip each weekday and weekend to Kansas City (6 total round trips per week); McCook will receive two one-stop round trips each weekday and weekend to Omaha (12 one-stop round trips per week); both Grand Island and McCook will be served with 19-passenger Beech 1900-D aircraft.
Order 2008-7-8: selecting Great Lakes Airlines, Ltd. to provide subsidized essential air service at Grand Island, Nebraska, Joplin, Missouri, El Dorado/Camden, Harrison, and Hot Springs, Arkansas, at a combined annual subsidy.
Order 2011-1-25: selecting American Eagle Airlines to provide essential air service (EAS) at Grand Island, Nebraska, for an annual subsidy of $2,215,582, for a two-year period beginning when the carrier inaugurates service through the end of the 24th month thereafter.
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List of manor houses
A manor house was historically the main residence of the lord of the manor in Europe. The house formed the administrative centre of a manor in the European feudal system; within its great hall were held the lord's manorial courts, communal meals with manorial tenants and great banquets. The term is today loosely applied to various country houses, frequently dating from the late medieval era, which formerly housed the gentry.
Denmark
Berritzgaard Manor
Børglum Abbey
Clausholm Castle
Dragsholm Castle
Egeskov Castle
Fuglsang Manor
Gavnø Castle
Glorup Manor
Krogerup Manor
Nysø Manor
Rosenholm Castle
Skjoldenæsholm Castle
Svanholm Manor
Vemmetofte Convent
Gammel Estrup
Estonia
See: List of palaces and manor houses in Estonia
Finland
Malmgård
Sarvlax
Stensböle
Esbogård
Träskända
Alberga
Vuojoki
Sjundby
Svidja
Qvidja
Kankas
Villnäs
France
Germany
See: List of castles, palaces and manor houses in Germany
In Great Britain and Ireland
Channel Islands
Sausmarez Manor in Guernsey
Samarès Manor in Jersey
Les Augrès Manor, Jersey
Longueville Manor, Jersey
Saint Ouen's Manor, Jersey
Sark Manor, Sark
England
Ireland
Dunboy Castle, is located on the Beara Peninsula in south-west Ireland
Ballylickey Manor House on Bantry Bay
Temple House, Ballymote, County Sligo
Mount Juliet Estate Manor House, Country Kilkenny
Temple House Manor, County Westmeath
Bunratty House, County Clare
Northern Ireland
Killadeas, 'Manor House Hotel', County Fermanagh
Richhill Castle, County Armagh
Scotland
Brodie Castle
Drum Castle, started as a 13th-century tower house.
Foulis Castle
Haddo House
House of Dun
Lingo House
Monboddo House
Muchalls Castle
Raasay
Wales
Bodysgallen Hall near Conwy Castle
Gwydir Castle, Conwy valley, North Wales
Weobley Castle, Gower
Tretower Court near Crickhowell
Llancaiach fawr near Abercynon and Ystrad Mynach
Latvia
See: List of palaces and manor houses in Latvia
Netherlands
Huis Doorn (Doorn, near Utrecht)
Slot Heemstede (Heemstede, near Haarlem)
Norway
Austrått Castle
Fritzøehus Castle
Damsgård Manor
Eidsvollsbygningen
Fossum hovedgård
Frogner Manor
Frogner Hovedgård (Skien)
Linderud gård
Jarlsberg Manor
Store Milde Hovedgård
Poland
Abbot's Palace (Oliwa)
Bachorza manor
Branicki Palace, Białystok
Castle in Pszczyna
Czerniejewo
Dzików Castle
Jabłonna Palace
Krasiczyn Palace
Kozłówka Palace
Krasków, Lower Silesian Voivodeship
Kurozwęki Palace
Książ
Łańcut Castle
Nieborów
Owińska
Pabianice
Pawłowice
Pławowice
Przeworsk
Przyszowice
Racot
Rogalin
Rydzyna Castle
Śmiełów
Świerklaniec
Sztynort
Turew
Walewice
Wilanów Palace
Żelazowa Wola
Portugal
Solar da Madre de Deus
Solar de Mateus
Solar dos Matas
Quinta da Regaleira
Solar de Sezim
Russia
Abramtsevo
Arkhangelskoye
Grebnevo
Kuskovo
Ligovo
Meyendorf
Muranovo
Ostankino
Priory Palace
Ropsha
Rozhdestveno
Sergiyevka
Strelna
Tarkhany
Yasnaya Polyana
Yelagin Palace
Znamenka (residence)
Spain
Archbishop's Palace of Alcalá de Henares
Archbishop's Palace, Seville
Alcázar of Toledo
Alcázar of Seville
Alcázar de los Reyes Cristianos
Alcázar of Segovia
Cortijo de Miraflores
Cortijo Jurado
Liria Palace
Palace of Zarzuela
Palace of Moncloa
Palace of the Borgias
Pazo de Meirás
Royal Palace of Madrid
Royal Palace of El Pardo
Royal Palace of Aranjuez
Royal Palace of La Granja de San Ildefonso
Royal Palace of Riofrío
Royal Palace of La Almudaina
Sweden
Augerum
Charlottenborg
Djupadals
Elleholms
Göholms
Halltorp
Harpsund
Marielund
Övralid
Skärva
Ström
Tromtö
North America
United States
All manors in North America are mostly located in the United States.
Old Westbury Gardens
Arlington
Biltmore Estate
Berkeley
Berry Hill
Bloedel Reserve
Boone Hall
Brandon
Bremo
Evelynton
Gunston Hall
Oheka Castle
Orton
Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site
Filoli
Kykuit
Monticello
Mount Vernon
Skylands
Nemours Mansion and Gardens
Coe Hall
Prestwould
Pennsbury Manor
Carter's Grove
Spelling Manor
The Breakers
Hearst Castle
Rosewell
Stratford Hall
Villa Vizcaya
Winterthur
Rough Point
Westover
Wilton
Canada
A few manors are found in Canada and most are in Quebec:
Willistead Manor - Walkerville, Ontario
Manoir Rouville-Campbell - Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Quebec
Manoir Taschereau - Sainte-Marie, Quebec
Manoir Bleury-Bouthillier - Rosemère, Quebec
Manoir Louis-Joseph-Papineau - Montebello, Québec
Manoir Mauvide-Genest - Saint-Jean-de-l'Île-d'Orléans, Québec
References
External links
Eesti mõisate loend (List of Estonian manors in Estonian Wikipedia)
Liste des châteaux de Bretagne (List of Breton manor houses in the French Wikipedia)
Luettelo Suomen kartanoista (List of Finnish manor houses in the Finnish Wikipedia)
There is a short list of Norman manoirs in Pays de Caux.
Lijst van kastelen in Nederland (From the Dutch Wikipedia, a comprehensive list of castles and manor houses in the Netherlands)
Lijst van kastelen in België (From the Dutch Wikipedia, a comprehensive list of castles and manor houses in Belgium)
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Stans Scheffer
Johannes Constantijn "Stans" Scheffer (16 December 1914 – 12 December 1982) was a Dutch swimmer. He won a bronze medal in the 100 m backstroke event at the 1938 European Aquatics Championships, and finished seventh in the 100 m freestyle in 1934. Between 1933 and 1938 he held three national titles and 12 national records in the 100 m freestyle and 100 m and 200 m backstroke events.
Scheffer competed in the 100 m backstroke at the 1936 Summer Olympics, but failed to reach the final. On 25 January 1940 he married Nida Senff, who won the gold medal in the same event at the same Olympics. They had a son born in 1942, and earlier in 1938 published a book Wij zwemmen voor ons plezier (We swim for pleasure).
References
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Your Love (Marié Digby album)
Your Love is Marié Digby's fourth album and first for new record label Star Records/MCA Music. It also includes the previously released singles "Say It Again" and "Umbrella". Two official music videos have been released for the single "Your Love" in solo and duet versions.
Track listing
References
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String Theory (band)
String Theory was an electronic music band from Chicago that existed from 1997 until 2005. The members were Joshua R. Davison and Nathan T. Tucker. Contemporaries included Casino vs Japan, Pulseprogramming, and Telefon Tel Aviv.
The two now work as the Thorny Tigers production team and are 2/3 of the band Parks & Gardens with Andy Duncan formerly of Ok Go.
Discography
Releases
SMAK 03/04 12" - Skam Records, 2001: double 12" with Made (band)
Anhedonia CD/LP - Consumer's Research and Development, 2002
Magic Arrows / String Theory FEW-005 7" - Frank Wobbly & Sons, 2004
Radiovalerian CD/LP - Wobblyhead Records, 2004
Rubyray MP3 - Electrochelou Web Label, 2005
Remixes/Compilations
String Theory Meets Salvo Beta Uptown at Manzebel Retbeats (Remix for Salvo Beta) - Evil Against Evil CD and 12" 2002
Bloopalong, Tevatron, Jusaan - SMAK 2CD - Skam Records, 2002: CD of Smak 12" series
Stepp In/Out - Lumptronic 5: Lumpenwave - Lumpen Magazine, 2002
Ambulette - Select #4: Chicago School Select Media, 2002
Dregs (Miles Tilmann Remix) - Hazardous Materials CD Compilation - Consumers Research and Development 2005
References
Gapers Block: String Theory at Rodan
Boomkat: String Theory - Anhedonia
String Theory Discography
[ Allmusic: String Theory's Radiovalerian]
External links
String Theory Website
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Fromentine
Fromentine is a district of La Barre-de-Monts, in the Vendée region of France. It is located opposite the island of Noirmoutier and is the main way to "l'Ile d'Yeu".
History
The name Fromentine seems to be a transformation of froment (wheat in French), which was grown in these lands and was famous in the big west French cities (Like Nantes or Bordeaux)
For decades Fromentine has been the junction point for the French isles of Noirmoutier and Yeu. It wasn't colonised until the 19th century, when a few locals and the baron of Saint-Geniès, who was the owner of Fromentine lands, built their houses in the sand dunes of Fromentine.
Since then, more people have come, and Fromentine began to be the seaside station it is now at the dawn of the 20th century, when the train arrived for the first time (1896) in Fromentine, and linked it to the rest of the world, and brought the district developers who made the district what it is.
They built numerous villas and hotels and designed the station as a tourist attraction, or at least a passage point for the tourists going to Noirmoutier and Yeu.
During the Second World War, four Germans ships were sunk by the Canadian aviation only a hundred meters from Fromentine's main beach. They can still be seen at low tide.
Fromentine was linked to Noirmoutier by Noirmoutier's bridge in 1971, which was the first real way to Noirmoutier, considering the Gois isn't usable all the time, and that using boats wasn't the easiest way to cross the strait between the island and the land.
Heritage
Most of Fromentine heritage is the result of its colonisation over the last two centuries.
The villas
On Fromentine backfil you can find a really uncommon line of seaside villas, from the very typical cottage of 1920, to the Arab-type villa Dar Koum" along with the Basque-like villas. They were for most of them built over the first decades of the 20th century, with the incoming of rich tourists from the cities. Some were homes, some secondary residences, and they were even seasonal rentals back at that time.
Notre-Dame-des-Flots
Fromentine chapel was built a few years after the war, between 1950 and 1952. It is named Our-Lady-of-the-Floods because the general architecture is designed as a ship hull.
Fromentine's lighthouse
This lighthouse was settled here in 1915. It is nearly unique, first because of the materials that have been used to craft it: metallic, which is rare, most of the lighthouse being built with concrete. It is also rare because of its size: only 33 feet when lighthouses usually get to more than 66 feet.
Activities
Sports d'Hiver à la mer
"Winter sports at the seaside" is a bunch of activities that has been set in Fromentine since 2009-2010. As the title states, it allow to enjoy the mountain and winter activities at the seaside. You can go dog sledding on the beach or snow-shoeing in the woods, or simply make a gourmet hike at night, enjoying food from both mountain and sea. A new activity of pine needles sledging is set in 2014.
It was first an initiative from La-Barre-de-Monts commune, and had as a goal to increase Fromentine tourism during winter, which generally left the town nearly empty. It is for now a success.
Gallery
References
External links
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Cathal mac Davok Ó Con Ceanainn
Cathal mac Davok Ó Con Ceanainn, (died 1370) was King of Uí Díarmata.
Overview
Cathal is the only ruler of the territory mentioned after Aodh Ó Con Ceanainn. The Annals of the Four Masters simply list his death without giving any details.
References
The Tribes and Customs of Hy-Many, John O'Donovan, 1843
The Parish of Ballinasloe, Fr. Jerome A. Fahey.
The Great Book of Irish Genealogies, 239.11, 244.2, pp. 556–557, volume one, Dubhaltach MacFhirbhisigh; edited, with translation and indices by Nollaig Ó Muraíle, 2003-2004. .
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Vol. 2 (AD 903–1171): edition and translation
Annals of Ulster at CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts at University College Cork
Annals of Tigernach at CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts at University College Cork
Revised edition of McCarthy's synchronisms at Trinity College Dublin.
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Podium (company)
Podium is a privately held technology company headquartered in Lehi, Utah that develops cloud-based software to help businesses modernize customer interactions, such as messaging and customer feedback, and improve their online reputations.
History
Podium was founded in 2014 when Eric Rea got a call from his father about his tire shop's online reviews not being reflective of the verbal feedback he received from customers. His father was looking for a way to improve those reviews, but he didn’t know how to go about it. After some initial research, Rea found that existing solutions were largely antiquated, email-based tools.
Around the same time Dennis Steele was working for a PR firm focused on helping businesses improve their online reputation. Steele, familiar with the process, knew that many businesses and agencies were building online reputation strategies that were time-consuming and largely ineffective.
Determined to build a better service, Rea and Steele teamed up to develop a tool that would help small businesses build their online reputation through online reviews.
Podium was initially known as RepDrive before rebranding as Podium in 2015. The company raised $500,000 in an initial round of funding led by Peak Ventures.
In May 2017, Podium received a $32 million Series A investment from Accel, Summit Partners, and GV (formerly Google Ventures). The investment comes on the heels of a successful year that saw the company increase ARR by 600% in 2016. The investment was slated to help further develop Podium’s Customer Interaction Platform.
In October 2017, Podium broke ground on its new 125,000-square-foot corporate headquarters in Lehi, Utah. The building was completed in August 2018.
In June 2018, Podium received a $60 million Series B investment lead by IVP and joined by existing investors Accel, GV (formerly Google Ventures) and Y Combinator.
In May 2019, Podium partnered with ASA to help ASA Automotive dealers easily interact with customers and build their online reputation through reviews.
Y Combinator
Podium was selected to participate in the Winter 2016 class of Y Combinator, a startup incubator that has helped develop Airbnb, Dropbox, and Reddit. The company presented on the second demo day for the Winter 2016 batch on March 23, 2016.
Awards and recognition
Podium was named one of the 2016 Emerging Elite by Mountain West Capital Network in September 2016.
Podium's CEO Eric Rea was interviewed for "The Top" podcast in December 2016.
Podium's co-founders Eric Rea and Dennis Steele were named to The Peak 100 with Rea being named to the top-10.
Podium was named the No. 3 Best Place to Work in Utah by the Deseret News in June 2017.
Eric Rea was named one of the highest rated CEOs by Glassdoor in June 2017.
Podium won the DMN Best Places to Work (Mid-sized Companies) in July 2017.
Podium was named the No. 1 Startup to Watch by Utah Valley Magazine in September 2017.
Podium was named one of the 2017 Emerging Elite by Mountain West Capital Network in October 2017.
Podium was named Utah Business Medium Companies Best Companies to Work for in December 2017.
Podium ranked 16th on Glassdoor's Best Places to Work in 2018 list.
Podium ranked 13th on the 2018 Inc. 5000.
Podium was listed on Forbes' 2018 Cloud 100
Podium was recognized by Forbes as one of their Next Billion-Dollar Startups
Podium was ranked as the ninth fastest growing technology company, public or private, by Deloitte in 2018
Podium was named by Fast Company as one of the World's Most Innovative Companies in 2019
References
External links
Official Website
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Gavrilovskaya, Kargopolsky District, Arkhangelsk Oblast
Gavrilovskaya () is a rural locality (a selo) in Pechnikovskoye Rural Settlement of Kargopolsky District, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. The population was 71 as of 2010.
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Oswaldo Luizar
Oswaldo Luizar Obregón is a Peruvian politician. He was born in Cusco-Peru in 1962 and studied Physics. He is currently a Congressman representing Cusco for the period 2006-2011, and belongs to the Union for Peru party.
References
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First cabinet of Nicolas Jean-de-Dieu Soult
The First cabinet of Nicolas Jean-de-Dieu Soult was announced on 16 May 1832 by King Louis Philippe I.
It replaced the Cabinet of Casimir Périer.
It was dissolved on 18 July 1834 and replaced by the Cabinet of Étienne Maurice, comte Gérard.
Ministers
The cabinet was created by ordinances of 11 October 1832, with Marshall Soult as President. The ministers were:
Changes
On 31 December 1832:
On 4 April 1834:
On 19 May 1834:
References
Sources
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List of elections in 1997
The following elections occurred in the year 1997.
1997 Honduran general election
1997 Indonesian legislative election
1997 Iranian presidential election
1997 Mexican legislative election
1997 Papua New Guinean general election
1997 Philippine barangay election
1997 Salvadoran legislative election
1997 Singaporean general election
1997 South Korean presidential election
1997 Yemeni parliamentary election
Africa
1997 Algerian legislative election
1997 Burkinabé parliamentary election
1997 Cameroonian parliamentary election
1997 Cameroonian presidential election
1997 Chadian parliamentary election
1997 Djiboutian parliamentary election
1997 Gambian parliamentary election
1997 Kenyan general election
1997 Liberian general election
April 1997 Malian parliamentary election
July 1997 Malian parliamentary election
1997 Malian presidential election
1997 Mauritanian presidential election
1997 Moroccan general election
Asia
1997 Indian presidential election
1997 Indonesian legislative election
1997 Iranian presidential election
1997 Pakistani general election
1997 Singaporean general election
1997 South Korean presidential election
1997 Indian presidential election
Australia
1997 Fraser by-election
1997 Northern Territory general election
1997 South Australian state election
1997 Sutherland state by-election
Europe
1997 Albanian parliamentary election
1997 Andorran parliamentary election
1997 Bulgarian parliamentary election
1997 Croatian presidential election
1997 Croatian Chamber of Counties election
1997 Irish general election
1997 Irish presidential election
1997–1998 Lithuanian presidential election
1997 Montenegrin presidential election
1997 Norwegian parliamentary election
1997 Polish parliamentary election
1997 Serbian general election
1997 Serbian presidential election
1997 Slovenian presidential election
France
1997 French legislative election
Germany
1997 Hamburg state election
Spain
1997 Galician regional election
United Kingdom
1997 Beckenham by-election
Blair Babe
1997 Conservative Party leadership election
Richard Huggett
List of MPs elected in the 1997 United Kingdom general election
1997 United Kingdom local elections
1997 Paisley South by-election
1997 Scottish devolution referendum
1997 United Kingdom general election
1997 Uxbridge by-election
1997 Winchester by-election
1997 Wirral South by-election
United Kingdom local
1997 United Kingdom local elections
1997 Northern Ireland local elections
English local
1997 Wiltshire County Council election
North America
1996–97 Belizean municipal elections
Canada
1997 Alberta general election
1997 Canadian federal election
1997 Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick leadership election
Ontario municipal
1997 Ontario municipal elections
1997 Brantford municipal election
1997 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election
1997 Ottawa municipal election
1997 Ottawa-Carleton Regional Municipality elections
1997 St. Catharines municipal election
1997 Sudbury municipal election
1997 Toronto municipal election
1997 Windsor municipal election
Caribbean
1997 Jamaican general election
Mexico
1997 Mexican legislative election
United States
1997 United States gubernatorial elections
United States mayoral
1997 Houston mayoral election
1997 Los Angeles mayoral election
1997 New York City mayoral election
1997 Pittsburgh mayoral election
United States gubernatorial
1997 New Jersey gubernatorial election
1997 United States gubernatorial elections
1997 Virginia gubernatorial election
California
1997 Los Angeles mayoral election
New Jersey
1997 New Jersey gubernatorial election
New York
1997 New York City mayoral election
Pennsylvania
1997 Pittsburgh mayoral election
Texas
1997 Houston mayoral election
Virginia
1997 Virginia gubernatorial election
Oceania
1997 Papua New Guinean general election
Australia
1997 Fraser by-election
1997 Northern Territory general election
1997 South Australian state election
1997 Sutherland state by-election
South America
1997 Argentine legislative election
1997 Bolivian presidential election
1997 Falkland Islands general election
1997 Guyanese legislative election
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KJHS
KJHS may refer to:
Kehillah Jewish High School
Kennedy Junior High School
Kermit Junior High School
Killicomaine Junior High School
Kittanning Junior High School
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Kabyle people
The Kabyle people (Kabyle: Iqbayliyen, ) are a Berber ethnic group indigenous to Kabylia in the north of Algeria, spread across the Atlas Mountains, one hundred miles east of Algiers.
They represent the largest Berber-speaking population of Algeria and the second largest in North Africa.
Many of the Kabyle have emigrated from Algeria, influenced by factors such as the Algerian Civil War, cultural repression by the central Algerian government, and overall industrial decline. Their diaspora has resulted in Kabyle people living in numerous countries. Large populations of Kabyle people settled in France and, to a lesser extent, Belgium, Canada and United States.
The Kabylians speak the Kabyle Berber language. Since the Berber Spring of 1980, they have been at the forefront of the fight for the official recognition of Berber languages in Algeria.
History
The Kabyle were relatively independent of outside control during the period of Ottoman Empire rule in North Africa. They lived primarily in three different kingdoms: the Kingdom of Kuku, the Kingdom of Ait Abbas, and the principality of Aït Jubar. The area was gradually taken over by the French during their colonization beginning in 1857, despite vigorous resistance. Such leaders as Lalla Fatma n Soumer continued the resistance as late as Mokrani's rebellion in 1871.
French officials confiscated much land from the more recalcitrant tribes and granted it to colonists, who became known as pieds-noirs. During this period, the French carried out many arrests and deported resisters, mainly to New Caledonia (see: "Algerians of the Pacific"). Due to French colonization, many Kabyle emigrated into other areas inside and outside Algeria. Over time, immigrant workers also went to France.
In the 1920s, Algerian immigrant workers in France organized the first party promoting independence. Messali Hadj, Imache Amar, Si Djilani, and Belkacem Radjef rapidly built a strong following throughout France and Algeria in the 1930s. They developed militants who became vital to the fighting for an independent Algeria. This became widespread after World War II.
Since Algeria gained independence in 1962, tensions have arisen between Kabylie and the central government on several occasions. In July 1962, the FLN (National Liberation Front) was split rather than united. Indeed, many actors who contributed to independence wanted a share of power but the ALN (National Liberation Army) directed by Houari Boumediene joined by Ahmed Ben Bella seemed to had the upper hand because they of their military forces.
In 1963 the FFS party of Hocine Aït Ahmed contested the authority of the FLN, which had promoted itself as the only party in the nation. Aït Ahmed and others consider that the central government led by Ben Bella is authoritarian and on September the 3rd 1963 the FFS (Socialist Forces front) was created by Hocine Aït Ahmed. This party regrouped people against the regime in place and a few days after its proclamation, Ben Bella sent the army into Kabylie to repress the insurrection. Colonel Mohand Ouelhadj had also taken part in the FFS and in the maquis because he considered that the moujahidin were not treated as they should be. At the beginning, the FFS wanted to negotiate with the government but since no agreement was reached, the maquis took up arms and its representatives swore not to give them up as long as democratic principles and justice were a part of the system. But after Mohand Ouelhadj’s defection, Aït Ahmed could barely sustain the movement and after the FLN congress on April 16th 1964 which reinforced the government’s legitimacy, he was arrested on October 1964. As a consequence, the insurrection was a failure in 1965 because it was hugely repressed by the forces of the ALN directed by Houari Boumediene. In 1965 Aït Ahmed was sentenced to death, but was later pardoned by Ben Bella. Approximately 400 deaths were counted amongst the maquis.
In 1980, protesters mounted several months of demonstrations in Kabylie demanding the recognition of Berber as an official language; this period has been called the Berber Spring. In 1994–1995, the Kabyle conducted a school boycott, termed the "strike of the school bag". In June and July 1998, they protested, in events that turned violent, after the assassination of singer Matoub Lounes and passage of the law requiring use of Arabic in all fields.
In the months following April 2001 (called the Black Spring), major riots among the Kabyle took place following the killing of Masinissa Guermah, a young Kabyle, by gendarmes. At the same time, organized activism produced the Arouch, and neo-traditional local councils. The protests gradually decreased after the Kabyle won some concessions from President Abdelaziz Bouteflika.
On 6 January 2016, Tamazight was officially recognized in Algeria's constitution as a language that was equal to Arabic.
Geography
The geography of the Kabyle region played an important role in the people's history. The difficult mountainous landscape of the Tizi Ouzou and Bejaia provinces served as a refuge, to which most of the Kabyle people retreated when under pressure or occupation. They were able to preserve their cultural heritage in such isolation from other cultural influences.
The area supported local dynasties (Numidia, Fatimids in the Kutama periods, Zirids, Hammadids, and Hafsids of Bejaïa) or Algerian modern nationalism, and the war of independence. The region was repeatedly occupied by various conquerors. Romans and Byzantines controlled the main road and valley during the period of antiquity and avoided the mountains (Mont ferratus). During the spread of Islam, Arabs controlled plains but not all the countryside (they were called el aadua : enemy by the Kabyle).
The Regency of Algiers, under Ottoman influence, tried to have indirect influence over the people (makhzen tribes of Amraoua, and marabout).
The French gradually and totally conquered the region and set up a direct administration.
Algerian provinces with significant Kabyle-speaking populations include Tizi Ouzou, Béjaïa and Bouira, where they are a majority, as well as Boumerdes, Setif, Bordj Bou Arreridj, and Jijel. Algiers also has a significant Kabyle population, where they make up more than half of the capital's population.
The Kabyle region is referred to as Al Qabayel ("tribes") by the Arabic-speaking population and as Kabylie in French. Its indigenous inhabitants call it Tamurt Idurar ("Land of Mountains") or Tamurt n Iqbayliyen/Tamurt n Iqbayliyen ("Land of the Kabyle"). It is part of the Atlas Mountains and is located at the edge of the Mediterranean.
Culture and society
Language
The Kabyle speak Kabyle, a Berber language of the Afro-Asiatic family. As second and third languages, many people speak Algerian Arabic, French and, to a lesser degree English.
During the first centuries of their history, Kabyles used the Tifinagh writing system. Since the beginning of the 19th century, and under French influence, Kabyle intellectuals began to use the Latin script. It is the basis for the modern Berber Latin alphabet.
After the independence of Algeria, some Kabyle activists tried to revive the old Tifinagh alphabet. This new version of Tifinagh has been called Neo-Tifinagh, but its use remains limited to logos. Kabyle literature has continued to be written in the Latin script.
Religion
The Kabyle people are mainly Muslim, with a small Christian minority. Many Zaouia exist all over the region; the Rahmaniyya is the most prolific.
Catholics of Kabyle background generally live in France and result from intermarriage with the French. Recently, the Protestant community has had significant growth, particularly among Evangelical denominations.
Economy
The traditional economy of the area is based on arboriculture (orchards and olive trees) and on the craft industry (tapestry or pottery). Mountain and hill farming is gradually giving way to local industry (textile and agro-alimentary). In the middle of the 20th century, with the influence and funding by the Kabyle diaspora, many industries were developed in this region. It has become the second most important industrial region in the country after Algiers.
Politics
The Kabyle have been fierce activists in promoting the cause of Berber (Amazigh) identity. The movement has three groups: those Kabyle who identify as part of a larger Berber nation (Berberists); those who identify as part of the Algerian nation (known as "Algerianists", some view Algeria as an essentially Berber nation); and those who consider the Kabyle to be a distinct nation separate from (but akin to) other Berber peoples (known as Kabylists).
Two political parties dominate in Kabylie and have their principal support base there: the Socialist Forces Front (FFS), led by Hocine Aït Ahmed, and the Rally for Culture and Democracy (RCD), led by Saïd Sadi. Both parties are secularist, Berberist and Algerianist.
The Arouch emerged during the Black Spring of 2001 as a revival of the village assembly, a traditional Kabyle form of democratic organization. The Arouch share roughly the same political views as the FFS and the RCD.
The MAK (Movement for the Autonomy of Kabylie) also emerged during the Black Spring, It claimed the right for a regional autonomy of Kabylie. On 21 April 2010, MAK proclaimed a Provisional Government of Kabylie in exile (ANAVAD). Ferhat Mehenni was elected President by the National Council of the MAK. In 2013, MAK officially became an independantist movement and changed its name to The Mouvement for the Self-determination of Kabylie.
Diaspora
For historical and economic reasons, many Kabyles have emigrated to France, both for work and to escape political persecution. They now number around 1 million people. Some notable French people are of full or partial Kabyle descent. Some tribes in the rif of Morocco such as the mtalssa or ibdarsen can trace their roots to kabylie.
Notable people
Sports
Karim Benzema
Nabil Ghilas
Samir Nasri
Karim Ziani
Zinedine Zidane
Business
Issad Rebrab
Ali Haddad
Entertainment
Cinema
Isabelle Adjani
Mhamed Arezki
Dany Boon
Fellag
Samy Naceri
Marie-José Nat
Daniel Prévost
Jacques Villeret
Malik Zidi
Music
Idir
Matoub Lounes
Souad Massi
Marcel Mouloudji
Sinik
DJ Snake
Sofiane
Soolking
YL
Writers
Mouloud Feraoun
Mouloud Mammeri
Mourad Chebbine
Genetics
A study by Arredi, et al. (2004) includes the frequencies of lineages among one Kabyle population from Tizi Ouzou Province.
MtDNA Haplogroups, inherited only from the mother, were found at the following frequencies: H (32.23%) mainly H1 and H3; U* (29.03% with 17.74% U6), found in ancient Iberomaurusian specimens; preHV (3.23%) ; preV (4.84%); V (4.84%); T* (3.23%); J* (3.23%); L1 (3.23%); L3e (4.84%); X (3.23%); M1 (3.23%) ; N (1.61%) and R (3.23%).
See also
Berber people
Kabylism and Berberism
Kabyle language
Famous Kabyles
Notes and references
External links
Provisional Government of Kabylie (ANAVAD)
Kabyle Movement of Autonomy
Kabyle centric news site
Social web site
Kabyle centric news site
Ethnologue.com about Kabyle language
Algerian linguistic policy
Cultural site
Analysis
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Buzz! Junior: Jungle Party
Buzz! Junior: Jungle Party is a party video game developed by Magenta Software. Initially released in 2006 for PlayStation 2, it is the first game in the Buzz! Junior series.
Jungle Party comprises forty different mini-games (twenty-five in the US version). Many of these mini-games require little knowledge or skill, so that they are more suited to younger children than the normal Buzz! quiz games, although they can also be enjoyed by older children or even adults. Cohort Studios developed a PlayStation 3 version where the player can use a Dualshock wireless controller for the 1st time, yet is limited to only 5 playable mini-games.
The game received mixed reviews, and was a British Academy Children's Awards winner.
A PSP version of the game was released in November 2010.
Gameplay
Jungle Party is designed in a way that kids would be able to play it. Up to 4 people can play all the 40 mini-games, with Liz Barker as a narrator. Some of them include skydiving, color matching, stealing an ostrich's egg and shooting balloons. Each game has a specific objective, with maximum points given by completing twenty of those in one round.
Every player can pick their own colored monkey, either blue, orange, green or yellow, and controls them using their Buzz! Buzzer. Each controller has four colored buttons with a red buzzer on top. Some games simply use the Buzz! button, while others use the four colored buttons. In addition, there is a single-player mode which features customized versions of the multi-player games. After playing through ten games, a final score will be given (out of 80,000 overall) with a ranking on the leaderboard.
Reception
Jungle Party has received "mixed or average" reviews holding an aggregate score of 70% on Metacritic. IGN noted that there was a lot of rehash with just the setting changed, while adding that more variety would probably appeal to a wider audience. VideoGamer wrote that despite the fact that Jungle Party looks pretty simple, it has enough mini-games to keep players interested for a while. Luke Van Leuveren of PALGN thought that single-player part isn't really deep or appealing, with multi-player giving the most entertainment to the players.
Critics found that the controls are responsive, and designed for everyone to use. The transitions between animations and colorful have been praised. Some reviewers considered the simplicity of the mini-games as something that gives the game a lack of depth and wide appeal.
In November 2007, the game was a winner of the British Academy Children's Awards in the Video Game category.
References
External links
Official website
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List of programs broadcast by IFC
This is a list of current, past, and upcoming programs broadcast by IFC, an American premium television channel owned by AMC Networks.
Original programming
Comedy
Continuations
Miniseries
Animation
Reality
Acquired Series
Arrested Development
Basilisk
Batman
Blue Planet II
Dynasties
Freaks and Geeks
Gunslinger Girl
Hell Girl
The IT Crowd
The Jon Dore Television Show
The Monkees
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Mystery Science Theater 3000
Orphan Black
Pee-Wee's Playhouse
Samurai 7
Seven Worlds, One Planet
That 70's Show
The Three Stooges
Toast of London
Two and a Half Men
Witchblade
Upcoming original programming
In development
References
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Savilahti Stone Sacristy
The Stone Sacristy is located in Savilahti, Mikkeli, Finland and is the sacristy of the old church. It is considered to be one of Savonia's oldest buildings and one of the most famous symbols of Mikkeli. No one is sure of the date it was built. The sacristy's current façade is the result of renovations in the 1930s.
In 1930, the town council granted the museum association funds to convert the sacristy into an ecclesiastical museum. The following year, the sacristy was opened as a museum with a collection of ecclesiastical artefacts from Mikkeli and the surrounding regions.
Sources
Savon historia, I osa, 2. p., Pirkko-Liisa Lehtosalo-Hilander, Kauko Pirinen, Kustannuskiila Oy, Kuopio, Savon Sanomain Kirjapaino Oy 1988
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Majid (film)
Majid is a Moroccan film written and directed by Nassim Abassi, starring Brahim Al Bakali and Lotfi Sabir. The film premiered at the Leighton House Museum with the Mena Film Festival.
Plot
The main character, a ten-year-old Moroccan orphan named Majid, has recently moved to Mohammedia with his brother. His brother is an appealing and careless drunk. Majid makes very little money on the streets selling books, and lives a very simple and disheartening life. From the start of the film, Majid is having reoccurring nightmares and soon realizes that he cannot remember his deceased parents' (who had died in a fire) faces anymore. He also realizes that he has no photographs of his parents, except for a ruined family photograph, in which his parents' heads are burnt away from the photo due to the fire. He meets a new street-smart friend named Larbi, who helps him on the journey to find a photograph of his parents. This search leads them to the big city of Casablanca where they come face to face with many dangerous events and become part of a moving adventure.
Cast
Brahim Al Bakali as Majid
Lotfi Sabir as Larbi
Wassime Zidi
Moulay Abdellah Lamrani
Abderrahim Tounsi
Mohammed Ben Brahim
Aïcha Mahmah
Hicham Ibrahimi
Mostafa El Houari
Aziz Hattab
Youssef Karte
Brahim Khai
Mohamed Harraga
Yassine Sekkal
Fayçal Azizi
Inspiration
Nassim Abassi was brought up in Morocco, and had many inspirations for the film Majid. Abassi had stated:
Reception
The film was greatly received by many critics. Raphael Cormack had written in the Arab Review that the film is "both genuinely funny and genuinely moving". The film had also won numerous awards like in Morocco's National Film Festival, Rotterdam Arab Film Festival and many more.
References
External links
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VP-153
VP-153 was a Patrol Squadron of the U.S. Navy. The squadron was established as Bombing Squadron 153 (VB-153) on 15 April 1944, redesignated Patrol Bombing Squadron 153 (VPB-153) on 1 October 1944, redesignated Patrol Squadron 153 (VP-153) on 15 May 1946 and disestablished on 14 June 1946.
Operational history
15 April 1944: VB-153 was established at NAS Clinton, Oklahoma, as a medium bombing squadron flying the PV-1 Ventura. Unlike other PV-1 squadrons, VB-153 was organized as a special squadron under the operational control of Training Task Force to carry a target seeking glider bomb known as Pelican. The device was equipped with beam-rider radar homing equipment developed by the Bureau of Ordnance Special Design Section in April 1942. Production of the missile was begun at Charleston, South Carolina., in September 1943. The missile was initially developed to be used against submarines and was designed around the casing of the standard 525-pound Depth charge. The disadvantage of the missile was that it could not be used against defended targets because the signal was lost beyond . In order for the missile to locate its target the mother ship had to continue on a straight course while painting the target with its radar beams.
22 September 1944: After a number of unsuccessful test drops, the Pelican program was put on hold and VB-153 reverted to the normal PV-1 training syllabus. It had been determined that the PV-1 lacked sufficient range for carrying the device and associated gear.
4 November 1944 – March 1945: VPB-153 was transferred to its new home port at NAS Moffett Field, California, under the operational control of FAW-8. The squadron's specially modified PV-1s were left behind with the HEDRON, since the modifications for the Pelican had reduced the range significantly from the standard PV-1. The squadron continued its operational training in preparation for its upcoming transfer overseas. Rocket training was undertaken at NAAS Arcata, California and NAF Fallon, Nevada. On 28 February 1945, the squadron transitioned to the new PV-2 Harpoon. Shakedown was completed by the end of March.
24 March – April 1945: VPB-153 was transported by ship to Naval Base Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and NAS Kaneohe Bay, under the operational control of FAW-2. Advanced op erational training was begun in early April for all hands. On 20 April, a detachment of six aircraft and eight crews was sent to Midway Island to fly routine search sectors.
6 May 1945: The squadron grounded all its aircraft due to a report that certain problems with wing spars in the PV-2 had caused crashes. The squadron and HEDRON maintenance personnel carefully checked out all of the aircraft before flights continued.
6 June – 12 July 1945: VPB-153 received orders to proceed for duty at NAS Agana, Guam, coming under the operational control of FAW-18. The squadron became operational at that site on 15 June and commenced flying routine patrols on the 20th. Each five-sector patrol was flown daily over a distance of . Searches at this stage of the war were largely negative. On 12 July, the squadron flew air cover for the crippled SS Boudinot.
October 1945: VPB-153 was relieved for return to the West Coast.
20 November 1945: VPB-153 was reformed at NAS Edenton, North Carolina, with nine PV-2 Harpoon aircraft under the operational control of FAW-5.
6 February – 20 March 1946: The home port for VPB-153 was officially changed from NAS Moffet Field to NAS Edenton. On 20 March 1946, word was received that the squadron was to be disestablished. The nine aircraft complement was transferred to the HEDRON, with two aircraft transferred in from the Headquarters Detachment of FAW-5 until the disestablishment of the squadron.
14 June 1946: VPB-153 was disestablished at NAS Edenton, N.C.
Aircraft assignments
The squadron was assigned the following aircraft, effective on the dates shown:
PV-1 - April 1944
PV-2 - February 1945
Home port assignments
The squadron was assigned to these home ports, effective on the dates shown:
NAS Clinton, Oklahoma - 15 April 1944
NAS Moffett Field, California - 4 November 1944
NAS Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii - 24 March 1945
NAS Moffett Field - October 1945
NAS Edenton, North Carolina - 6 February 1946
See also
Maritime patrol aircraft
List of inactive United States Navy aircraft squadrons
List of United States Navy aircraft squadrons
List of squadrons in the Dictionary of American Naval Aviation Squadrons
History of the United States Navy
References
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Parson's Cause
The "Parson's Cause" was a legal and political dispute in the Colony of Virginia often viewed as an important event leading up to the American Revolution. Colonel John Henry, father of Patrick Henry, was the judge who presided over the court case and jury that decided the issue. The relatively unknown Patrick Henry advocated in favor of colonial rights in the case.
In 1758, the Virginia colonial legislature passed the Two Penny Act. According to legislation passed in 1748, Virginia's Anglican clergy were to be paid 16,000 pounds of tobacco per year, one of the colony's major commodity crops. Following a poor harvest in 1758, the price of tobacco rose from two to six pennies per pound, effectively inflating clerical salaries. The House of Burgesses responded by passing legislation allowing debts in tobacco to be paid in currency at a rate of two pennies per pound. King George III of Great Britain vetoed the law, causing an uproar in the colony. Many Virginia legislators saw the king's veto as a breach of their legislative authority.
The Reverend James Maury had sued in Hanover County Court (April 1, 1762) for back wages on behalf of all the ministers involved, and he effectively became a representative of the British cause. The court ruled (Nov. 5, 1763) that Maury's claim was valid, but that the amount of damages had to be determined by a jury, which was called for in December 1763. Patrick Henry, then relatively unknown, rose to prominence by defending Hanover County against Maury's claims. Henry argued in favor of the Two Penny Act. As reported by the plaintiff Maury in a letter (Dec. 12, 1763) to fellow Anglican minister John Camm shortly after the trial, Henry argued in substance "that a King, by disallowing Acts of this salutary nature, from being the father of his people, degenerated into a Tyrant and forfeits all right to his subjects' obedience."
The jury awarded Maury one penny in damages. The award essentially nullified the Crown veto, and no other clergy sued.
The Hanover County Courthouse is still operating; historic U.S. Route 301 passes by it. The courthouse is adjacent to the Hanover Tavern, where Patrick Henry lodged while arguing the Parson's Cause, and is the third oldest courthouse still in use in the United States. The state historic office dates the building's construction between 1737 and 1742.
See also
History of Virginia
References
Scott, Arthur P. "The Constitutional Aspects of the 'Parson's Cause, Political Science Quarterly, 31:4 (Dec. 1916): 558–577. . .
"Episode 017: Parsons Cause, Bishops, and Trade", American Revolution Podcast, November 5, 2017
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Charles Cornewall
Vice Admiral Charles Cornewall or Cornwall (1669 – 7 October 1718), of Berrington, Herefordshire, was an officer in the British Royal Navy and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1709 and 1718.
Origins
Cornewall was born in 1669, eldest of the eleven children of Robert Cornewall and Edith Cornwallis, and was baptised at Eye, Herefordshire, on 5 August 1669.
Career
Cornewall joined the navy in 1683 and was given his first command, the Sloop , on 19 September 1692. The following year he was given command of the 44-gun and sailed under the command of Admiral Edward Russell to the Mediterranean, where he would remain until 1696.
On 27 January 1695, Adventure was one of a squadron of six frigates under the command of Commodore James Killegrew aboard . The flotilla was spotted by two French warships, the 60-gun Content and the 52-gun Trident, who closed on them believing them to be merchant ships. They retreated on discovering their mistake and were pursued by the British ships, the ensuing firefight lasting through the night and into the next morning before the French ships were compelled to surrender. Killigrew was killed in the action, and Cornewall was appointed to command the Plymouth in his place.
Cornewall was given command of in 1697, but left the navy after the Treaty of Ryswick. In 1701 he stood for parliament in Weobley against his cousin Henry Cornewall, but was defeated having gained just four votes. Returning to sea in March that year, he was given command of but had to resign a few months later due to the sudden death of his father whose concerns, he wrote on 25 Sept. 1701, "are like to prove more troublesome and tedious than I expected, though when settled may prove of very considerable advantage to my children." These affairs having been settled, he was appointed to command but rejected it when it became clear that he would effectively be a second captain under John Leake in Newfoundland, protesting that "their sending a private captain to command … me in my own ship [was] a modest way of terming me a blockhead."
This record of resigning from commands, combined with an uneasy political relationship with Robert Harley, made it difficult for him to gain a new command, and it was not until 1705 that he was appointed to . In that ship he returned to the Mediterranean where he served for the next two years, first under Clowdesley Shovell and then under Thomas Dilkes. In the autumn of 1707 he commanded a detached squadron operating off the coast of Naples, returning to England in March the following year.
In 1709 Cornewall changed his name to Cornwall, in an effort to distinguish between the different branches of his family, and stood once more for parliament. This time he was successful, being elected member for Bewdley on 2 March 1709. He did not spend much time in the house, being busy commanding squadrons in the Downs and off Dunkirk. In October 1710 he led a convoy to Smyrna aboard , but his Whig politics made it impossible to gain a further command on his return, and he languished on half-pay for some years.
The accession of George I in 1714 brought about a dramatic improvement in Cornwall's prospects, with him being appointed Controller of Storekeepers Accounts at the Navy Board. In 1715 he returned to parliament as member for Weobley. He was promoted to the rank of rear admiral on 16 June 1716, and appointed Commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean in October the following year.
Sailing with his flag aboard , he took up his post in Gibraltar. His first task was to open negotiations with Ismail Ibn Sharif, emperor of Morocco to "demand satisfaction for the depredations of the Salé corsairs and procure the release of all His Majesty's subjects now captive in Barbary." When Ismail refused to release any of his slaves Cornwall established a blockade of his ports, but the measure had no effect on Ismail's policy despite the capture of several corsair vessels. During this time he engaged in a bitter dispute with the Governor, who refused to admit the admiral's authority even in matters relating to the ships in the port. Cornwall eventually resolved to put the matter before the King or the Speaker of the House of Commons, but was prevented from doing so by being once more engaged in active service.
Cornwall was promoted to vice admiral in March 1718, and became second-in-command to George Byng on the latter's arrival in the Mediterranean in June of that year, hoisting his flag aboard . Cruising with a combined force of nineteen ships of the line, two frigates and a galley off Syracuse they attacked a Spanish fleet in the battle of Cape Passaro on 31 July 1718. Attempting to avoid capture, the Spanish split into eight groups which the British chased down individually. Cornwall's part of the fleet was charged with the pursuit of the Marquis De Mari, who led a force of six ships of the line, nine frigates and a number of smaller vessels aboard his flagship El Real. Cornwall captured El Real and three other warships, with the Spanish burning seven more to avoid their capture.
After the battle, Cornwall transferred his flag back to HMS Argyll and convoyed the captured Spanish prizes to Port Mahon, from where he set sail for England. However, his health had been poor for some time, and on putting in at Lisbon on the homeward journey he died there on 7 October 1718. His body was conveyed home and buried in the south aisle of Westminster Abbey.
Cornwall's career had been illustrious without being spectacular, as John Charnock put it: "We have at least a very extraordinary, if not unequalled instance in this gentleman, of its being possible for an officer to serve, with the most irreproachable character, and to attain a very high rank in the service, without ever having it in his power to increase his reputation, by any of those brilliant exploits which fortune throws in the way of her greater favourites."
Family
Cornwall married twice, but no details of his first marriage survives. His second wife was Dorothy Hanmer daughter of Thomas Hanmer, with whom he had fourteen children:
Henry Cornewall (b. 1698)
Thomas Cornewall (b. & d. 1699)
Sir Robert de Cornwall (1700–56), MP for Leominster
Henrietta Cornewall (1701–28)
Cyriac Cornewall (1702–1703)
Charles Cornewall (b. & d. 1704)
Job Cornewall (1705–28)
Theophila Cornewall (1706–21)
Jane Cornewall (b. 1708)
Jacobs Cornewall (1709–38), father of Charles Wolfran Cornwall
Emma Cornwall (1712–77), married Thomas Vernon
Edith Cornwall (b. & d. 1712)
Annabella Cornwall (1713–82)
Mary Cornwall (b. 1714)
His estate at Berrington was inherited on his death by Sir Robert.
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1957 NCAA University Division football season
The 1957 NCAA University Division football season saw two different national champions. Auburn University was ranked first in the AP writers' poll taken at season's end, while Ohio State University was first in the UPI coaches' poll. Auburn was ineligible for a bowl game, however, having been placed on probation indefinitely by the Southeastern Conference, after having paid two high school players $500 apiece.
During the 20th century, the NCAA had no playoff for the major college football teams in the University Division, later known as Division I-A. The NCAA did recognize a national champion based upon the final results of "wire service" (AP and UPI) polls. The extent of that recognition came in the form of acknowledgment in the annual NCAA Football Guide of the "unofficial" national champions. The AP poll in 1957 consisted of the votes of as many as 360 sportswriters. The UPI poll was taken of a panel of 35 coaches. In both cases, the voters would give their opinion of the ten best teams, and under a point system of 10 points for first place, 9 for second, etc., the "overall" ranking was determined. The top teams played on New Year's Day in the four major postseason bowl games: the Rose Bowl (near Los Angeles at Pasadena), the Sugar Bowl (New Orleans), the Orange Bowl (Miami), and the Cotton Bowl Classic (Dallas).
Conference and program changes
Conference changes
One conference began play in 1957:
Gulf Coast Athletic Conference – active through the 1963 season
One conference played its final season in 1957:
Central Church College Conference – conference active since the 1951 season
Membership changes
September
In the preseason poll released on September 16, the defending champion Sooners of the University of Oklahoma—who had won 40 consecutive games in '53, '54, '55, and '56 -- were the first place choice for 127 of 174 writers casting votes, followed by Texas A&M, Michigan State, Minnesota, and Tennessee. As the regular season progressed, a new poll would be issued on the Monday following the weekend's games.
September 20 - Abner Haynes and Leon King suit up for North Texas State College against Texas Western at Kidd Field in El Paso, marking the first time a major college football team based in Texas fielded African-American players. King scored a 33 yard touchdown, while Haynes had a long touchdown run called back "despite never stepping out of bounds and the whistle not blowing until he crossed the goal line." Texas Western escaped with a 14-13 win.
September 20–21 - The U.S. Air Force Academy, founded two years earlier played its first major college schedule in 1957. The Falcons made their debut at UCLA on Friday night and lost 47–0. They would finish their first season 3–6–1, but were undefeated the following year. On Saturday, #1 Oklahoma won at Pittsburgh 26–0. #2 Texas A&M beat Maryland 21–13 in a game at Dallas. #3 Michigan State, #4 Minnesota, and #5 Tennessee had not yet begun their seasons. #11 Georgia Tech beat Kentucky 13–0 and rose to third, while #12 Navy won 46–6 at Boston College and rose to fifth. The first AP poll was 1.Oklahoma, 2.Texas A&M, 3.Georgia Tech, 4.Michigan State, 5.Navy.
September 28 - #1 Oklahoma was idle. #2 Texas A&M won at Texas Tech 21–0 and #3 Georgia Tech played to a scoreless tie with SMU. #4 Michigan State beat Indiana 54–0. #5 Navy beat visiting William & Mary 33–6. #6 Minnesota, which beat Washington 46–7, and #7 Duke, which had beaten Virginia 40-0, rose to 3rd and 4th place. The poll was 1.Oklahoma, 2.Michigan State, 3.Minnesota, 4.Duke, and 5.Texas A&M.
October
October 5 - #1 Oklahoma beat Iowa State 40-14. #2 Michigan State won at California 19–0. #3 Minnesota beat visiting Purdue 21–17, #4 Duke beat Maryland 14–0, and #5 Texas A&M won at Missouri 28–0. The poll was 1.Oklahoma, 2.Michigan State, 3.Texas A & M, 4.Minnesota, and 5.Duke.
October 12 - A crowd of 75,504 watched in Dallas as #1 Oklahoma had a difficult time with unranked Texas; the Longhorns picked off four passes and the score was 7–7 at the half before the Sooners preserved their winning streak 21–7 in a game that wasn't pretty. At the same time, #2 Michigan State won 35–6 at Michigan, leading the AP voters to re-evaluate. #3 Texas A&M won 28–6 over Houston. #4 Minnesota won 41–6 at Northwestern. #5 Duke narrowly beat Rice in Houston, 7–6. The Spartans took over the top spot in the next poll: 1.Michigan State, 2.Oklahoma, 3.Texas A & M, 4.Minnesota, and 5.Duke.
October 19 - #1 Michigan State lost 20–13 to Purdue and fell out of the top five, and #2 Oklahoma beat Kansas 47–0 and reclaimed the top spot. #3 Texas A&M won 7–0 at TCU and #4 Minnesota lost at Illinois 34–14. #5 Duke beat Wake Forest 34-7, and #6 Iowa beat #13 Wisconsin 21–7, while #9 Auburn beat Georgia Tech 3–0 in Atlanta and rose to fifth place in the polls. The poll: 1.Oklahoma, 2.Texas A & M, 3.Iowa, 4.Duke, and 5.Auburn.
October 26 - #1 Oklahoma edged Colorado 14–13, and lost the top spot again, despite being 5–0. #2 Texas A&M beat Baylor 14–0, and replaced the Sooners in the next poll. #3 Iowa won 6–0 at Northwestern and rose to third. #4 Duke went to neighboring Raleigh to play North Carolina State, and ended with a 14–14 tie. #5 Auburn won at Houston 48–7. #7 Notre Dame beat Pittsburgh 13–7 and rose to fifth. The poll: 1.Texas A & M, 2.Oklahoma, 3.Iowa, 4.Auburn, and 5.Notre Dame.
November
November 2 - #1 Texas A&M got past host Arkansas 7–6, and #2 Oklahoma won at Kansas State 13–0. #3 Iowa played Michigan to a 21–21 tie, and #4 Auburn beat Florida 13–0. #5 Notre Dame lost 20–6 to visiting Navy, and #6 Michigan State won 21–7 at Wisconsin and rose to fifth. The poll: 1.Texas A & M, 2.Oklahoma, 3.Auburn, 4.Michigan State, and 5.Iowa.
November 9 - #1 Texas A&M beat SMU 19–6 and #2 Oklahoma won at Missouri 39–14. #3 Auburn beat Mississippi State 15–7 in Birmingham, #4 Michigan State beat Notre Dame 34–6, and #5 Iowa beat Minnesota 44–20. The poll remained unchanged.
November 16 - #1 Texas A&M lost 7–6 to Rice in Houston. #2 Oklahoma had not lost a game since early in 1953, had won 47 consecutive games, when they hosted Notre Dame. The Irish, 4–2 and on a losing streak, were an 18-point underdog coming into Norman. The Sooners, who had scored in 123 consecutive games (dating back to 1945), were unable to reach the end zone, but had held off the Irish on two goal line stands. In the final minutes, Notre Dame was on the 3-yard line on fourth down, when Dick Lynch "crossed up the Sooners" and ran around right end for a touchdown. Oklahoma's desperate passing drive at game's end was stopped by a Notre Dame interception, and the crowd of 62,000 was stunned into silence... and then stood up and applauded for both the Sooners and the Irish. The previous defeat, more than four years earlier, had been at the hands of Notre Dame as well. Final score: Notre Dame 7, Oklahoma 0. #3 Auburn beat Georgia 6-0 at Columbus, Georgia while #4 Michigan State beat Minnesota 42–13. #5 Iowa lost 17–13 at #6 Ohio State; the 7–1 Buckeyes rose to third, while the 6–1–1 Hawkeyes fell to eighth. #8 Mississippi, which beat Tennessee 14–7 in Memphis, rose to fifth. The poll: 1.Michigan State, 2.Auburn, 3.Ohio State, 4.Texas A&M, and 5.Mississippi.
November 23 - #1 Michigan State closed its season with a 27–0 win over Kansas State, but fell to third. #2 Auburn, on probation, won at Florida State 29–7. As the only unbeaten (9–0) school among the majors, Auburn was voted #1 in the AP poll. #3 Ohio State wrapped up its season with a win 31–14 at Michigan and was first in the UPI poll. #4 Texas A&M lost 9–7 to Texas, #5 Mississippi was idle, and #6 Oklahoma won 53–6 at Nebraska and returned to the top five. The poll: 1.Auburn, 2.Ohio State, 3.Michigan State, 4.Texas A&M, and 5.Oklahoma.
November 28–30 - Thanksgiving Day saw Bear Bryant's #4 Texas A&M team lose 9–7 to Texas. On Saturday, #1 Auburn shut out rival Alabama 40–0 at their annual meeting in Birmingham to close its season 10–0, while the Crimson Tide finished at 2–7–1. Bryant, who had transformed the Aggies from a 1–9 team in 1953 to a contender, would accept the job as head coach at his alma mater Alabama at season's end. #2 Ohio State and #3 Michigan State were both 8–1 in the regular season, but Ohio State was 7–0 in Big Ten play, compared to the 5–1 Spartans, and got the Rose Bowl bid. #5 Oklahoma beat Oklahoma State 53-6. #8 Navy, which won the Army-Navy game 14–0 in Philadelphia, finished with an 8–1–1 record, a bid to meet Rice in the Cotton Bowl, and a fifth-place finish in the final poll.
The services were split as to the national champion. The AP Trophy went to Auburn, the choice of a majority of writers for #1, and the only major college program to finish unbeaten (Arizona State, then a lesser power, also finished 10–0). Auburn, however, was on probation and was ineligible for a bowl, and the UPI coaches poll awarded #1 to the Ohio State Buckeyes (8–1). Both Auburn and Ohio State are recognized in the NCAA Football Guidebook as unofficial national champions for 1957. The final AP poll was: 1.Auburn, 2.Ohio State, 3.Michigan State, 4.Oklahoma, and 5.Navy, while the UPI poll was 1.Ohio State, 2.Auburn, 3.Michigan State, 4.Oklahoma, and 5.Iowa.
Conference standings
Bowl games
Major bowls
Wednesday, January 1, 1958
Other bowls
College Division
Final results
Six college football teams finished the 1957 season with unbeaten and untied records. The Arizona State Sun Devils, with a 10–0 record, had the greatest point differential among the four teams with 10 wins. The Sun Devils scored 396 points while allowing only 66. Second was Pittsburg of Kansas (320/53) which was an NAIA team, followed by Middle Tennessee State (241/40) and Auburn (207/28). The remaining undefeated teams had fewer than 10 wins. Three undefeated teams each had nine, eight, seven, and six wins.
Heisman Trophy
John David Crow, HB - Texas A&M, 1,183 points
Alex Karras, T - Iowa, 693
Walt Kowalczyk, HB - Michigan State, 630
Lou Michaels, T - Kentucky, 330
Tom Forrestal, QB - Navy, 232
Jim Phillips, E - Auburn, 216
Bob Anderson, HB - Army, 204
Dan Currie, LB-C - Michigan State, 197
Clendon Thomas, HB - Oklahoma, 185
Lee Grosscup, QB - Utah, 147
Anderson was a sophomore and Grosscup a junior
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See also
1957 NCAA University Division football rankings
1957 College Football All-America Team
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Opsosturmia
Opsosturmia is a genus of parasitic flies in the family Tachinidae. There is one described species in Opsosturmia, O. tarsalis.
References
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1931 Brown Bears football team
The 1931 Brown Bears football team represented Brown University during the 1931 college football season.
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Paul Joseph Nussbaum
Paul Joseph Nussbaum, C.P. (September 7, 1870 – June 24, 1935) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Corpus Christi, Texas (1913-1920) and Bishop of Sault Sainte Marie-Marquette, Michigan (1922-1935). He was the first Passionist bishop in the United States.
Biography
Henry Nussbaum was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Bernard and Louise (née Erne) Nussbaum. He was orphaned at a young age and was subsequently raised by his relatives. He made his profession as a member of the Congregation of the Passion (more commonly known as the Passionists) on July 24, 1887, taking the religious name of Paul Joseph. Later that year he was sent to do missionary work in Argentina, where he was ordained to the priesthood on May 20, 1894. He remained in Argentina until 1904, when he was recalled to the United States. He served as a curate in West Hoboken, New Jersey, and Dunkirk, New York. From 1908 to 1913, he served as a consultor for St. Paul of the Cross Province.
On April 4, 1913, Nussbaum was appointed the first Bishop of the newly erected Diocese of Corpus Christi, Texas, by Pope Pius X. He received his episcopal consecration on the following May 20 from Archbishop Giovanni Bonzano, with Bishops John Joseph O'Connor and Charles Edward McDonnell serving as co-consecrators. He was the first member of his order to become a bishop in the United States. He was later installed at Corpus Christi Cathedral on June 8, 1913. He founded St. Ann's Society for married women, and promoted the Forty Hours' Devotion and daily Communion. He also emphasized Catholic education and doubled the number of parochial schools in the diocese. In 1918 he was seriously injured in a train accident and never fully recovered. After six years as bishop, he resigned on March 26, 1920; he was named Titular Bishop of Gerasa on the same date. He then returned to St. Michael's Monastery in West Hoboken as a professor of seminary students.
Following the resignation of Bishop Frederick Eis, Nussbaum was appointed the fifth Bishop of Sault Sainte Marie-Marquette, Michigan, on November 14, 1922. He remained at Marquette until his death at age 64. He was buried in West Hoboken. His remains were transferred to Corpus Christi Cathedral in 1985 by Bishop Rene H. Gracida, Ordinary,through information received by Mr. and Mrs. Francis C. McGerity, parents of Rev. Francis X. McGerity of the Diocese of Corpus Christi.
References
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Jen Dziura
Jen Dziura is a New York-based writer, educational humorist, and educator.
Early life
Jen Dziura was born and raised in Virginia Beach. In the mid-nineties, Jen worked as the teen columnist for the Virginian Pilot, after pitching for the position with a hand-written letter. She was a philosophy major at Dartmouth College, the first person in her family to attend college. While in her sophomore year she started her first company, an internet marketing firm, and had 8 part-time employees by graduation. She has perfect GRE and SAT scores and a 780 on the GMAT, and has spent over a decade teaching in the adult education field.
Career & Writing
Dziura graduated from Dartmouth College. In 2010, Dziura began writing Bullish, an advice column originally on The Gloss. Bullish also appeared on The Grindstone and the Daily Muse, before being headquartered on the GetBullish website. Koa Beck on DailyWorth wrote: "Get Bullish advocates designing your own career by finding fulfilling ways to create value in what you do."
She is the author of two sets of GRE flashcards, the lead author and editor of The 5 Lb. Book of GRE Practice Problems, the author of Foundations of GMAT Verbal, and co-author of or contributor to numerous other test prep, debate, and logic books. While the Foundations of the GMAT Verbal textbook cite that Jennifer has contributed to "over a dozen educational books", the extent of such contributions and the number of contributions is unauthenticated.
Jennifer wrote 22-page booklet for Vice magazine on "How to Debate" to promote Dewar's Scotch. She has written and performed comedy, touring the country and performing for the troops in Iraq.
Conference
Jennifer founded the annual Bullish Conference, first held in 2013. The conference was originally held in Miami, FL but moved to Dziura's hometown of New York City in 2015, and will be held in California in 2016. Autostraddle described the Bullish Conference as "A vacation that helps you meet your goals in a powerful, focused, and inspiring way?"
The Williamsburg Spelling Bee
From 2004 to 2016, Dziura co-hosted the Williamsburg Spelling be with bobbyblue. Lauren Gill of The Brooklyn Paper wrote the Williamsburg Spelling Bee had "become so famous that "Law and Order: Special Victims Unit" once modeled a murder victim on Dziura."
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Chibchacum
Chibchacum is the rain and thunder god of the Muisca. Research on the Muisca religion tells us about Chibchacum. Main scholar is Javier Ocampo López.
Description
One tale tells how the Muisca venerated a rock and worshipped Bochica. Chibchacum was very angry and rebelled against Bochica. He went down to Earth and noticed a woman, Chié coming to get some water. Chibchacum wooed her into joining his rebellion, promising that Chié would be his queen once Bochica was finished. Chié joined, and soon everybody was fighting, believing that they were better than others and lying. This caused a civil war. Chié was cursed by Bochica and was turned into a barn owl. His plan foiled, Chibchacum plotted his revenge. He had his revenge by speaking an evil incantation causing a huge flood. The people screamed to Bochica telling them to let them live and in return they would worship Bochica. So, once Bochica created a valley to wash away the floodwaters, he knew he had to punish Chibchacum. Bochica cursed Chibchcacum by forcing him to carry Mother Earth on his back. To this day the Muisca believe that when there is an earthquake, it is Chibchacum shifting his heavy load.
See also
Chibafruime
Atlas, forced to hold up the sky in Greek mythology
Loki, believed to cause earthquakes in Norse mythology
References
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Guihua
Guihua can refer to
Osmanthus fragrans
a part of Hohhot
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Good Neighbor
Good Neighbor, also called The Killer Next Door (MIFED Title), is a 2001 thriller with Billy Dee Williams, Danica McKellar, Tobin Bell.
Plot
A young woman discovers the fine line between paranoia and having your worst fears become real in this tale of terror. Molly Wright is a typical college student sharing a house off-campus with her friends. Between her criminology classes, trying to keep up with her homework, and working as a volunteer with a local church group, Molly is wearing herself to a frazzle, so many of her friends think her imagination is working overtime when she begins to wonder aloud if Geoffrey Martin, the eccentric artist who has moved into the house next door, might be a serial killer. Molly's friends have a hard time believing her, but Paul Davidson, a police detective, thinks something funny is going on in the neighborhood after a number of missing persons cases are reported. But can Paul build a case against the killer before Molly becomes his next victim?
Cast
Billy Dee Williams as Sgt. Paul Davidson.
Danica McKellar as Molly Wright.
Tobin Bell as Geoffrey Martin.
Christine Horn as Rea pucker
James Stephen Jones as Brad Farmer.
Moe Michaels as Levi (as Mohamed El Emam).
Brian Bremer as Lt. Vandemeer.
Polly Craig as Sister Maya.
Amber Wallace as Young Molly.
Brandon O'Dell as Danny.
Ron Clinton Smith as Brian.
Kelly Finley as Mother.
Lucinda Carmichael as Amy.
Bill Greeley as Sgt. Peter Warfield.
Jeffrey Charlton as Bailey Parks.
Kathy Simmons as Professor.
Jennifer Crumbley as Carla Richardson.
Chet Dixon as Barney.
A.J. Jerrick as Ben.
Hawn Sterling as Javier.
Nathan Farmer as Frat Boy.
Randall Taylor as Officer 12.
Jon Huffman as Honus Balfore.
Syr Law as Deli (as Crystal Porter).
Joan Glover as Brooklyn.
Charles Lawlor as Virgil.
Production crew
Directed by Todd Turner. This is the first film directed by Todd Turner.
References
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Service mesh
In software architecture, a service mesh is a dedicated infrastructure layer for facilitating service-to-service communications between microservices, often using a sidecar proxy.
Having such a dedicated communication layer can provide a number of benefits, such as providing observability into communications, providing secure connections, or automating retries and backoff for failed requests.
Implementations
Consul
Istio
Kuma
Linkerd
Maesh
Grey Matter
See also
Microservices
References
https://searchitoperations.techtarget.com/definition/service-mesh
https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/microservices/what-is-a-service-mesh
https://buoyant.io/2017/04/25/whats-a-service-mesh-and-why-do-i-need-one/
https://www.infoq.com/servicemesh/
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Forest Hill railway station, Queensland
Forest Hill railway station is a closed railway station on the Main Line railway in Queensland, Australia. It served the town of Forest Hill in the Lockyer Valley Region.
Description
The railway station originated as a siding to service the property of AJ Boyd beginning in 1880. The siding was initially called Boyd's Siding, but later changed its name to Forest Hill, the name of Boyd's property. Forest Hill was recorded as a railway station in 1881 and was moved one kilometer west to its present location in 1886. The importance of rail transport for shipping produce had significantly declined during the 1960s. The railway station closed on 31 July 1992.
A small, disused portion of the waiting building and station remain. Four large concrete grain silos to the west end of the station are used by occasional freight trains.
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Bahadurgarh Fort
Bahadurgarh Fort is a historical fort, built in the year 1658 CE, by the Nawab Saif Khan, but the fort was restructured by Maharaja Karam Singh of the historical princely state of Patiala in 1837.
Design and architecture
The fort is built in an area of about 21 sq kilometers in a circular shape surrounded by two ramparts and moat. The fort was built in 1658 and later renovated between 1837 and 1845 in the cost of around 100,000 at that time.
The fort was named after Guru Tegh Bahadur, the ninth Guru.
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X-Scream
X-Scream is a ride at the top of the Stratosphere Tower in Las Vegas, Nevada. At a height of approximately , the world's third highest amusement ride, located on top of the Stratosphere Las Vegas. The name of the ride is a play on the word extreme.
Ride experience
X-Scream comprises straight piece of track similar to that of a conventional roller coaster, which carries a single open top car. This trackway pivots vertically in a see-saw motion, letting the car roll backward and forward along the length. The ride car is allowed to roll quickly forward to the end of the track, past the edge of the building, before braking sharply. The rolling back and forth of the car and the rocking of the track is programmed to take the rider by surprise and feel like they are at risk of falling from the precipice of the building.
See also
Big Shot (ride)
High Roller (Stratosphere)
SkyJump Las Vegas
References
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Aghuzlu
Aghuzlu (, also Romanized as Āghūzlū and Aghooz Loo; also known as Āqowzlū and Auqūzlu) is a village in Zarrineh Rud Rural District, Bizineh Rud District, Khodabandeh County, Zanjan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 627, in 139 families.
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Judson School
The Judson School was a K-12 boarding school in Paradise Valley, Arizona. It closed in 2000 after more than 70 years of operation. It was owned and operated by Henry and Barbara Wick, along with their son, Hank Wick.
In 1928, Judson School opened with seven boys as students. Judson was the state’s oldest independent college preparatory school. Henry Wick, who had been teaching at Judson School since 1938, purchased the school from
George Judson in 1945. In the late 1940s, Henry Wick began offering classes in English as a Second Language.
This brought students from all around the world representing, at times, 30 different countries. Girls were admitted to Judson School for the first time in 1956. Henry Wick sold the 55-acre Judson School property to Cachet Homes in the fall of 1999. In the summer of 2001, the campus buildings were demolished to make way for a gated community of 34 luxury homes. A small structure has been built on the property as a memorial to 72 years of Judson School history although the structure now serves as a security gate house and the secondary room as a janitorial storage part-time
Notable alumni
Michael Reagan (class of 1964), conservative political commentator and adopted son of 40th United States President Ronald Reagan.
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Beatrice of England
Beatrice of England (25 June 1242 – 24 March 1275) was a member of the House of Plantagenet, the daughter of Henry III of England and Eleanor of Provence.
Childhood
Beatrice was the second eldest daughter of King Henry III of England and Eleanor of Provence. Beatrice's childhood was plagued by tragedy, and the stresses of her father's reign coupled with her mother's unpopularity with the English people.
Her oldest brother Edward became dangerously ill when she was very young. Though he recovered, Beatrice's youngest sister Katharine died at a very young age leaving Beatrice's parents grief-stricken. Katharine, who possibly had a degenerative disease that had caused her to become deaf, died at the age of four.
The English were unhappy with King Henry III owing to the influence that Eleanor and her Savoyard kinsmen exercised on the monarchy, and the Barons demanded more power. In 1263, Eleanor was sailing on a barge that was attacked by London citizens. This harsh, bitter dislike created several problems for Henry III and his family. On the other hand, Eleanor and Henry enjoyed a happy marriage, and Beatrice grew up in a loving environment, close to her siblings.
Marriage and issue
At one point, Henry conducted negotiations for Beatrice to marry the king of France and also rejected a proposal that she should wed the son of the King of Norway. On 22 January 1260, when she was seventeen, she married John de Dreux, heir to the duchy of Brittany. She and John II had six children:
Arthur II, Duke of Brittany (1261–1312)
John of Brittany, Earl of Richmond (1266–1334)
Marie of Brittany, Countess of Saint-Pol, wife of Guy III of Châtillon (1268–1339)
Pierre, Viscount de Leon (1269–1312)
Blanche of Brittany, wife of Philip of Artois (1271–1327)
Eleanor of Brittany, Abbess of Fontevrault (1275–1342)
Death
Beatrice died on 24 March 1275 in London, England. Her death was once said to have occurred in childbirth, but the dates do not bear out this theory, which has been disproved in several articles. John II honoured his wife with a chantry, an institutional chapel on private land or within a greater church, which was to be finished when he died, so that he and Beatrice would be together again. Beatrice was buried at Grey Friars Church in Greenwich, London. Her husband succeeded as duke 11 years after her death, therefore Beatrice was never styled Duchess of Brittany.
Historical overview
Though little information is available concerning Beatrice's activities, she was an important part of English history. Her marriage to John II helped forge an alliance with France, thus placing the Earldom of Richmond under the so-called shield of England.
During Henry's reign, there was much opposition to him in England. At a time when Simon de Montfort wanted to strip the king of some of his power to give more say to the barons, it was necessary for Henry to strengthen his rule via family marriages to useful people. His first daughter had married the King of Scotland, and Beatrice's marriage to John II, who controlled the Earldom of Richmond, gave Henry an additional source of power. Moreover, a substantial number of French nobles came to England and could be appointed to political positions.
When Henry was crowned, very few areas within the Angevin Empire (comprising Gascony, Béarn, Angoulême, Saintonge and Agenais), remained loyal to Henry.
The marriage of Beatrice and John II would prove to be useful for Henry III, if only to help Henry recover Poitou. Now Henry had English security and influence on the northern border, and the instance on English overlordship. Though Henry was planning on regaining Poitou, he was defeated after his campaign. Because he could not regain Poitou, his domains were small compared to the Angevin Empire. With his various strategies, Henry III reigned over England for 56 years until his death in 1272.
Ancestry
References
Bibliography
Boutell, Charles. The Handbook to English Heraldry. University of Michigan, Michigan:
Reeves and Turner, 1914. 138.
Cannon, John, and Ralph Griffiths. The Oxford Illustrated History of the British Monarchy. New York, New York: Oxford UP, 1988. 147.
Crawford, Anne. Letters of Medieval Women. Grand Rapids: Sutton, Limited, 2002. 35.
French, George R. Shakespeareana Genealogica. Boston, Massachusetts: Macmillan, 1869. 5–30.
Richardson, Douglas. Plantagenet Ancestry : A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families. Boston: Genealogical Company, Incorporated, 2004. 13–18.
The Yorkshire Archaeological Society. The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal. Yorkshire: Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 1905. 163.
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Don Syme
Don Syme is an Australian computer scientist and a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, Cambridge, U.K. He is the designer and architect of the F# programming language, described by a reporter as being regarded as "the most original new face in computer languages since Bjarne Stroustrup developed C++ in the early 1980s."
Earlier, Syme created generics in the .NET Common Language Runtime, including the initial design of generics for the C# programming language, along with others including Andrew Kennedy and later Anders Hejlsberg. Kennedy, Syme and Dachuan Yu also formalized this widely used system.
He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge, and is a member of the WG2.8 working group on functional programming. He is a co-author of the book Expert F# 3.0.
In the past he also worked on formal specification, interactive proof, automated verification and proof description languages.
In 2015, he was honored with a Silver Medal from the Royal Academy of Engineering.
See also
F Sharp Software Foundation
References
External links
Don's Weblog on F#
InfoQ Interview with Don Syme, 27 March 2009
F# at Microsoft Research
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Siemens Venturio
Siemens Venturio is a concept intercity and interregional train from Siemens Mobility.
The Venturio concept is intended for top speeds between 160 km/h and 250 km/h, train lengths of 3–9 (originally 3–12) cars, and optional active tilting. The design allows for the installation of various kinds of traction equipment, such as 3 kV DC, 15 kV 16.7 Hz AC and 25 kV 50 Hz AC electric, or diesel-electric.
The Venturio concept was developed from the ICE TD high-speed DMUs for Deutsche Bahn, which were produced by a consortium under the leadership of Siemens. The company offered the Venturio in a tender for a second batch of the related ICE T high-speed EMUs, but another bid won in 2002.
In 2002, Siemens and British transport company FirstGroup agreed to develop a replacement for the aging InterCity 125 high-speed DMUs, the Venturio UK. However, Britain's Strategic Rail Authority ordered a halt to the programme. Following the abolition of the SRA, the UK's Department for Transport started the Intercity Express Programme instead, for which Siemens did not offer the Venturio again but submitted a joint bid with Bombardier.
No Venturios have been ordered or produced so far.
See also
ICE T
ICE TD
References
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Eldon Danenhauer
Eldon Danenhauer (born October 4, 1935) was a college and professional American football offensive tackle. He played college football at the Pittsburg State University in Pittsburg, Kansas and professionally in the American Football League (NFL) with the Denver Broncos from 1960 through 1965. He was an AFL All-Star in 1962 and 1965.
See also
List of American Football League players
References
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Dauniškis
Dauniškis is a lake located in Dauniškis park, Utena city, Lithuania. It has a length of 0.7 km and maximum width of 0.3 km.
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Delias frater
Delias frater is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It was described by Karl Jordan in 1911. It is found in New Guinea.
The wingspan is about 56 mm. Adults are similar to Delias eichhorni, but the white area on the upper surface of the forewings is smaller and more diffuse at the edges, and sometimes so much diffused with black as to be almost entirely suppressed. The black discocellular bar of the underside of the forewings is very thin and angulate, being sometimes almost interrupted before R2 (vein 5).
Subspecies
D. f. frater (Mount Goliath, Langda, Irian Jaya; Western Province, Papua New Guinea)
D. f. soror Toxopeus, 1944 (Korupun, Irian Jaya)
D. f. far Schroder & Treadaway, 1982 (Paniaia, Irian Jaya)
References
External links
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Still Want You
"Still Want You" is the second single by American singer-songwriter Brandon Flowers from his second studio album, The Desired Effect.
Composition
The song reflects on seemingly negative trends in the world (aging, rising crime, climate change, nuclear distress, global disasters) and rebuffs them with the line "I Still Want You". It is ostensibly about staying together.
Music video
In promotion of the video, Flowers's YouTube channel released a series of clips titled "Keys", "Bass", "Drums", "Vox", and "Strings".
The black and white music video was directed by Warren Fu (Daft Punk, The Killers, Haim). The video portrays Flowers and two backup singers in black and white dancing and singing.
Reception
Critical
Billboard gave the song a positive review remarking that, "[t]his song is awesome . . . When the call and return chorus of Flowers' hook is answered by the high-pitched choral voices, "Still Want You" kicks into another gleeful gear." Stereogum called it a continuance of "the creative renaissance that the Killers frontman seems to be going through with his new solo album, The Desired Effect." Gigwise said of the track, "Flowers delivers on his promise to give us something a bit different, yet it remains just as great as his previous offerings have been." DirectLyrics wrote, "The first single was amazing but this new song is just ‘instant’, quite catchy at moments, and evidently a whole more radio-friendly than its predecessor."
Track listing
Accolades
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EXACTO
EXACTO, an acronym of EXtreme ACcuracy Tasked Ordnance, is a sniper rifle firing smart bullets being developed for DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) by Lockheed Martin and Teledyne Scientific & Imaging in November 2008.
The new .50 BMG gun and improved scope could employ "fire-and-forget" technologies including "fin-stabilized projectiles, spin-stabilized projectiles, internal and/or external aero-actuation control methods, projectile guidance technologies, tamper proofing, small stable power supplies, and advanced sighting, optical resolution and clarity technologies". Its estimated availability is 2015.
The DARPA EXACTO program may face competition from Sandia National Laboratories for creating a guided sniper round. The DARPA EXACTO program uses different methods than Sandia's guided round. It relies on remote-guidance tied to the optics, which may be more reliable than Sandia's laser guidance method of painting the target with a laser for their projectile to follow, which can be detected, diffused, or blocked. EXACTO models on existing .50 BMG ammunition and rifles instead of needing new hardware, which the Sandia guided dart would need. Although EXACTO is specifically focused on military applications, Sandia is seeking to make commercial sales of their guided sniper projectile.
DARPA test fired the EXACTO in early 2014 and released video of demonstrations in July 2014. Exact technologies used in the bullets were not revealed, but the EXACTO uses a real-time optical guidance system with no visible fins or other steering mechanism on bullet illustrations. Footage released showed the rifle intentionally aiming off target so the bullets could correct their flight path. EXACTO technology is claimed to markedly extend the day and night-time range of current sniper systems. How the ammunition is designed to change direction in mid-air is classified. The second phase of the program was completed in summer 2014 with a number of improvements provided. The next phase included further refinements and a system-level live-fire test.
The EXACTO program completed another round of live-fire tests in February 2015. In the tests, an experienced shooter used the guided rounds to track and hit a moving target several times. Video showed the bullets maneuvering in-flight to achieve hits. Additionally, an inexperienced shooter used the system and was still able to hit the moving target.
In mid-2016, Russia revealed it was developing a similar "smart bullet" designed to hit targets at a distance of up to .
See also
Airburst round
Barrett XM109
XM25 CDTE
References
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Voskehask
Voskehask (, also Romanized as Voskeask; formerly, Musakan and Molla Musa) is a village in the Shirak Province of Armenia.
Population
Population per years is the following.
Literature
Հովհաննիսյան, Մարուսյա: Ոսկեհասկ (Մոլլա-Մուսա) գյուղի պատմությունը, ազգագրությունը եվ բանահյուսությունը. Erevan, 2007.
References
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Hindu, California
Hindu (also, Hindoo) is a former settlement in Plumas County, California. Hindu is located on the Western Pacific Railroad, west of Chilcoot. It still appeared on maps as of 1934.
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1959–60 Irish League
Statistics of the Irish League in season 1959–60.
Overview
It was performed in 12 teams, and Glenavon won the championship.
League standings
References
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Ahmed Abdul-Malik
Ahmed Abdul-Malik (born Jonathan Tim, Jr.; January 30, 1927 – October 2, 1993) was an American jazz double bassist and oud player.
Abdul-Malik is remembered for integrating Middle Eastern and North African music styles in his jazz music. He was a bass player for Art Blakey, Earl Hines, Randy Weston, and Thelonious Monk, among others.
Early life
Abdul-Malik claimed that his father was from Sudan and moved to the United States. Research by historian Robin Kelley, however, indicates that Abdul-Malik was born to Caribbean immigrants and changed his birth name: Ahmed Abdul-Malik was born Jonathan Tim Jr., (sometimes spelled "Timm") on January 30, 1927, to Matilda and Jonathan Tim Sr. – both of whom had immigrated from St. Vincent in the British West Indies three years earlier. They also had a daughter, Caroline, born a little more than a year after Jonathan Jr. Jonathan Tim Sr.'s death certificate not only confirms his birth in St. Vincent, it indicates that his father – Abdul-Malik's grandfather – James Tim, and his mother, Mary Daniels, were both from the Caribbean. City directories for Brooklyn, as well as the American Federation of Musicians Union Local 802 directory, confirm the bassist's birth name as Jonathan Tim Jr.
The family lived at 545 Hopkinson Avenue, but moved to 1984 Atlantic Avenue before their son began school. Jonathan, Jr. had violin lessons from his father, who was a plasterer and general laborer. Aged seven, Jonathan, Jr. attended the Vardi School of Music and Art, "to continue his violin training, and over time took up piano, cello, bass, and tuba." His parents divorced in the late 1930s, and he lived with his father and new wife, at 2117 Dean Street, but his father died on February 9, 1941, from a bleeding gastric ulcer. Jonathan, Jr. continued studying, including having lessons with local bassist Franklin Skeete, before joining The High School of Music & Art in Harlem. There, "his skills on violin and viola earned him a spot in the All-City Orchestra."
Later life
Abdul-Malik was most active as a jazz musician from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s. He recorded half a dozen albums as leader, which have been described as containing a "refreshing" fusion of jazz with Arabic and African music. During this time he was also described as "a hard bop bassist of some distinction". As an oud player he did a tour of South America for the United States Department of State and performed at an African jazz festival in Morocco.
Discography
As leader
1958: Jazz Sahara (Riverside) with Johnny Griffin
1959: East Meets West (RCA Victor)
1961: The Music of Ahmed Abdul-Malik (New Jazz)
1962: Sounds of Africa (New Jazz)
1963: The Eastern Moods of Ahmed Abdul-Malik (Prestige)
1964: Spellbound (Status) with Ray Nance and Seldon Powell
As sideman
With Art Blakey
The African Beat (Blue Note, 1962)
With John Coltrane
Live! at the Village Vanguard (Impulse!, 1961)
With Walt Dickerson
Relativity (New Jazz, 1962)
Jazz Impressions of Lawrence of Arabia (Dauntless, 1963)
With Earl Hines
'Fatha': The New Earl Hines Trio (1964)
The Real Earl Hines (1964)
With Jutta Hipp
Jutta Hipp with Zoot Sims (1956)
With Odetta
Odetta and the Blues (1962)
Odetta Sings the Blues (1968)
With Herbie Mann
Herbie Mann at the Village Gate (Atlantic, 1961)
Herbie Mann Returns to the Village Gate (Atlantic, 1961 [1963])
With Ken McIntyre
Year of the Iron Sheep (United Artists, 1962)
With Thelonious Monk
Misterioso (Riverside, 1958)
Thelonious in Action (Riverside, 1958)
Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall (Blue Note, 1957, released 2005)
With Dave Pike
Limbo Carnival (New Jazz, 1962)
With Randy Weston
With These Hands... (Riverside, 1956)
Jazz à la Bohemia (Riverside, 1956)
The Modern Art of Jazz by Randy Weston (Dawn, 1956)
Tanjah (Polydor, 1973)
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Buckworth (disambiguation)
Buckworth is a village in the Huntingdonshire district of Cambridgeshire.
Buckworth may also refer to:
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Cazeneuve (company)
The company A. Cazeneuve was founded in Paris by André Cazeneuve in 1905 and produced steel wool for grinding and cleaning floors. He had designed a specialized lathe to turn out the long, even and sharp chips needed for this purpose.
In 1920 the company was in dire straits economically. The technical director Henri Bruet took over ownership of the company in exchange for unpaid wages. He started manufacture of lathes of the series LO with overhead belt drive.
The son of Henri Bruet was also named Henri. He attended the École nationale supérieure d'arts et métiers, and became a mechanical engineer like his father. His diploma thesis was the design of the lathe HB, named after his own initials. This model came into production after Henri graduated, in 1949. The HB was revolutionary for its time. 40 000 machines were produced in the course of 50 years.
From 1959 to 1973 Cazeneuve also manufactured the HB series at its own factory in northern Tokyo. Approximately 6000 units were sold to Southeast Asian and American customers. This series was also made under license in Spain at the Amutio works.
From 1950 to 1964 Henri Bruet was issued a series of patents for novel mechanisms and arrangements for use in lathes. Most of these ideas found their way into a very unconventional, courageous and beautiful design: The 360 HB-X (x for experimental). This lathe had a belt variator actuated by a hydraulic servo arrangement, so that infinitely variable spindle speed was available by pushing a small lever on the right side of the apron. The hydraulic pump also lubricated the spindle and feed gearboxes.
There was proper shielding of the operator from chuck contact, coolant and flying swarf. Both leadscrews ran in sealed oil baths. The apron was of a totally novel design. The leadscrew engaged with a worm wheel instead of the usual halfnuts. The apron gear system could engage every metric and imperial thread directly and automatically. The leadscrew could be disengaged for each cut without losing register. This made it easy to turn and thread directly against an endstop, even into blind holes. Accordingly, the lathe was equipped with an assortment of endstops both for the saddle and crossfeed. The endstop trip mechanism had a sensitive adjustment. There was a foot-operated emergency stop and spindle brake.
The tailstock was also of completely new design. The quill could be fed by three different methods: Rapidly by a large starwheel, by worm reduction via a smaller handwheel, or automatically by geared connection to the saddle. The transverse adjustment of the centre was done by an eccentric mechanism. The centre was protected from overload by a spring arrangement.
The Cazeneuve HBX 360 was marketed from 1965. Production of the first 50 units started at La Plaine St Denis and in Ruchon. From 1968 it was built at a new, dedicated factory at Pont Évêque.
Around the same time (in 1967) the Japanese Cazeneuve factory in Osaka (Osaka Kosakucho) began manufacturing the HBX 360 for the Japanese market, about 50 units per month. This production lasted until 1976, and from 1970 they also produced the larger but similar model HBY 590 there.
Due to high demand on the French domestic market around 1968, about 200 HBX lathes were imported from Japan between 1968 and 1969. These machines differ from the French model in some details, particularly the electrical equipment and motor. The HBX 360 was also made under license in Brazil for the local market.
Henri Bruet became very debilitated by Parkinson's disease. He left his position as technical director at Cazeneuve in 1972. In 1983 the company went through bankruptcy, and was bought and restructured by the CATO group. Henri Bruet died in 1992. The HBX 360 was still offered in its original, manual form with only cosmetic updates until 2008.
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Coming Home (Faye Wong album)
Coming Home (stylized in lowercase) is an album recorded by Chinese Cantopop singer Faye Wong. It was released on her return to Hong Kong in 1992 after her year-long stay in New York City.
Background
Wong had issued her first three official albums under the stage name Shirley Wong. The cover for Coming Home prominently shows the name "Faye", and from 1994, after the release of Sky she used name "Wáng Fēi" () on album sleeves.
This album included "Fragile Woman", a cover of a Japanese song "Rouge" composed by the J-pop diva Miyuki Nakajima and sung by Naomi Chiaki. While this song had been covered by other Chinese singers, Wong's version nonetheless swept over Hong Kong and single-handedly lifted her to stardom.
It became the No. 1 hit on almost all local radio stations and won Song of the Year at several musical awards. (Thanks to Wong's cover, this 1972 song—in different language versions—would in the early 1990s become a huge regional hit in Thailand, Vietnam and the rest of Southeast Asia and even Turkey; the most popular English version was titled "Broken-Hearted Woman".)
Wong also recorded a Mandarin version of "Fragile Woman", released on her 1994 compilation album Faye Best ().
The album also included her first English-language song, "Kisses in the Wind".
Wong stated in a 1994 concert that she very much liked this song, after which various websites listed it as her personal favourite.
Composition
Coming Home was a notable change in musical direction from the more traditional Cantopop fare of her earlier albums. Like them, it incorporated R&B influences.
Track listing
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Karl Zener
Karl Edward Zener (April 22, 1903 – September 27, 1964) was a perceptual psychologist best known for his affiliation with Dr. J. B. Rhine and their work in the field of extra-sensory perception or ESP.
Biography
Zener was born in Indianapolis, Indiana the son of Clarence and Ida Zener, and brother of Katharine (later Mrs Katharine Hurmiston) and Clarence (later Dr Clarence Zener). He received a Ph.B. from the University of Chicago in 1923, followed by M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in psychology from Harvard University in 1924 and 1926. He then went on to spend a year as a United States National Research Council Fellow at the University of Berlin before returning to the U.S. After a year of teaching psychology at Princeton University, Zener took up what was to be a lifelong post with Duke University, in Durham, North Carolina.
The main thrust of Zener's work over the next ten years concerned conditioned responses, and during the 1930s he maintained one of the few Pavlovian conditioning laboratories in the U.S. It was also during this time that, along with colleague J.B. Rhine, he devised the card symbols that were used by Rhine in early ESP tests. Rhine called cards bearing these symbols "Zener cards" in honor of his colleague.
Zener's later work focused on theories of perception and the analysis of perceptual experience. With research partner Dr. Mercedes Gaffron, he identified previously unknown aspects of visual processing and comprehension. The resultant Zener-Gaffron theory combined a psychological analysis of perception with then-contemporary findings from the field of biological neuroscience.
Zener was the recipient of the only grant ever given for psychological research by the Ford Foundation Program in Humanities and the Arts. Zener was appointed Chairman of the Department of Psychology at Duke University in 1961, after having served there as the director of graduate studies in psychology for nearly twenty years.
The Zener Auditorium (Room 130, Sociology-Psychology Building) of Duke University is named after him.
Personal life
Zener married Ann Adams and the couple had three sons: Dr. Karl A. Zener, Dr. Julian C. Zener, and Wilfred Zener. Wilfred, however, died in a tragic drowning accident in 1956.
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William Fawcett (botanist)
William Fawcett (1851–1926) was a British botanist and coauthor of the Flora of Jamaica.
Fawcett was Director of Public Gardens and Plantations in Jamaica from 1887 to 1908. He then returned to Britain where he worked with Alfred Barton Rendle to produce the first few volumes of the Flora of Jamaica,
(illustrated by Beatrice O. Corfe and Helen Adelaide Wood).<ref name=metadatBHL>BHL: Metadata for Flora of Jamaica, containing descriptions of the flowering plants known from the island.] Retrieved 14 March 2019.</ref>
References
External linksFlora of Jamaica, containing descriptions of the flowering plants known from the island, by William Fawcett and Alfred Barton Rendle. London 1910. at BHL The banana, its cultivation, distribution and commercial uses, by William Fawcett. London, Duckworth 1921. at BHL Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture, Jamaica, by William Fawcett. Kingston, Botanical Dept., Vol.1 , Vol.2 , Vol.3 , Vol.4 , Vol.5 & 6 Economic plants. An index to economic products of the vegetable kingdom in Jamaica by William Fawcett. Jamaica, Govt. Print. Establishment 1891. at BHL A provisional list of the indigenous and naturalised flowering plants of Jamaica '',by William Fawcett. Kingston 1893. at Nybg [http://mertzdigital.nybg.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p9016coll23/id/12589/rec/28
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George Pratt
George Pratt may refer to:
Arts and sciences
George Pratt (artist) (born 1960), American painter and graphic novelist
George Pratt (missionary) (1817–1894), author of the first Samoan language grammar and dictionary
George Dupont Pratt (1869–1935), environmentalist
Politics and law
George Pratt, 2nd Marquess Camden (1799–1866), British peer and Tory politician
George W. Pratt (1830–1862), New York state senator, and Union Army colonel
George Pratt (Connecticut politician) (1832–1875), American lawyer and politician
George White Pratt (1840–?), Wisconsin state senator and assemblyman
George C. Pratt (born 1928), U.S. federal appellate judge
Characters
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Box Brown
For the abolitionist, see Henry Box Brown
Box Brown (born Brian Brown 1980) is an American cartoonist whose first work was the online comic Bellen!.
He was awarded in 2011 a Xeric Grant for the comic Love is a Peculiar Type of Thing.
In 2011, Brown started a Kickstarter fundraiser to create a new publisher called Retrofit Comics, with the goal of publishing 16 alternative comic books over 16 months. Since completing this goal, Retrofit Comics has continued to publish new comic books every month or two.
Brown created a full-length graphic novel about the professional wrestler André the Giant called André the Giant: Life and Legend. It debuted as ninth bestseller on the New York Times Bestseller List for Paperback Graphic Books and remained on the list for three weeks.
In 2019, his book Is This Guy For Real? The Unbelievable Andy Kaufman won the Eisner Award for Best Reality Based Work.
Graphic novels
Love is a Peculiar Type of Thing (Top Shelf, 2009).
The Survivalist (Blank Slate, 2011).
Number, Issues 1 & 2 (Retrofit / Big Planet Comics, 2014).
André the Giant: Life and Legend (First Second, 2014).
An Entity Observes All Things (Retrofit Comics, 2015).
Tetris: The Games People Play (First Second, 2016).
Powerman (Kilgore Books, 2016)
Is This Guy for Real? The Unbelievable Andy Kaufman (First Second, 2016).
Cannabis: The Illegalization of Weed in America (First Second, 2019).
References
External links
Retrofit Comics
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Robertson–Webb protocol
The Robertson–Webb protocol is a protocol for envy-free cake-cutting which is also near-exact. It has the following properties:
It works for any number (n) of partners.
It works for any set of weights representing different entitlements of the partners.
The pieces are not necessarily connected, i.e. each partner might receive a collection of small "crumbs".
The number of queries is finite but unbounded – it is not known in advance how many queries will be needed.
The protocol was developed by Jack M. Robertson and William A. Webb. It was first published in 1997 and later in 1998.
Details
The main difficulty in designing an envy-free procedure for n > 2 agents is that the problem is not "divisible". I.e., if we divide half of the cake among n/2 agents in an envy-free manner, we cannot just let the other n/2 agents divide the other half in the same manner, because this might cause the first group of n/2 agents to be envious (e.g., it is possible that A and B both believe they got 1/2 of their half which is 1/4 of the entire cake; C and D also believe the same way; but, A believes that C actually got the entire half while D got nothing, so A envies C).
The Robertson–Webb protocol addresses this difficulty by requiring that the division is not only envy-free but also near-exact. The recursive part of the protocol is the following subroutine.
Inputs
Any piece of cake X;
Any ε > 0;
n players, A1, …, An;
m<n players which are identified as "active players", A1, …, Am (the other n − m players are identified as "watching players");
Any set of m positive weights w1, …, wm;
Output
A partition of X to pieces X1, …, Xm, assigned to the m active players, such that:
The division is envy-free with the given weights for the m active players. I.e., for every two active players Ai and Aj, player Ai believes that the value of his piece Xi divided by the value of the other piece Xj is at least wi/wj.
The division is ε-near-exact with the given weights among all n players – both active and watching.
Procedure
Note: the presentation here is informal and simplified. A more accurate presentation is given in the book.
Use a near-exact division procedure on X and get a partition which all n players view as ε-near-exact with weights w1, …, wm.
Let one of the active players (e.g. A1) cut the pieces such that the division is exact for him, i.e. for every j: V1(Xj)/V1(X) = wj.
If all other active players agree with the cutter, then just give piece Xi to active player Ai. This division is envy-free among the active players, so we are done.
Otherwise, there is some piece P on which there is disagreement among the active players. By cutting P to smaller pieces if necessary, we may bound the disagreement such that all players agree that: V(P)/V(X) < ε.
Split the active players to two camps: the "optimists" who think that P is more valuable, and the "pessimists" who think that P is less valuable. Let δ be the difference between the values, such that for every optimist i and every pessimist j: Vi(P)/Vi(X) – Vj(P)/Vj(X) > δ.
Divide the remaining cake, X − P, into pieces Q and R, such that the division is near-exact among all n players.
Assign P ∪ Q to the optimists. Because they believe that P is valuable, they necessarily believe that P ∪ Q is sufficiently valuable to more than cover their due share.
Assign R to the pessimists. Because they believe that P is less valuable, they necessarily believe that the remainder, R, is sufficiently valuable to more than cover their due share.
At this point we have partitioned the active players to two camps, each collectively claiming complementary portions of the cake and each camp is more than satisfied with their collective portion.
It remains to divide each portion of the cake to the players in its camp. This is done by two recursive applications of the procedure:
Recursively partition P ∪ Q among the optimists (i.e. the optimists are active and all other players are only watching).
Recursively partition R among the pessimists.
In both applications, the near-exactness factor should be at most δ. Because the resulting partition is δ-near-exact among all n players, the partition among the optimists doesn't cause envy among the pessimists and vice versa. Thus the over-all division is both envy-free and near-exact.
See also
Brams–Taylor protocol – another envy-free protocol with disconnected pieces and finite unbounded runtime. Does not guarantee near-exactness.
Simmons–Su protocols – envy-free protocol which guarantees connected pieces but the runtime might be infinite. Does not guarantee near-exactness.
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Demi-Tasse Tales
Demi-Tasse Tales is a US anthology drama series. Eleven half-hour episodes aired on CBS from January 6, 1953 to May 26, 1953. It aired alternate weeks with Your Jeweler's Showcase.
Among its guest stars were Gig Young, Ann Dvorak, Don DeFore, Diana Lynn, and Ward Bond.
External links
Demi-Tasse Tales at CVTA
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Blewett Falls Lake
Blewett Falls Lake (sometimes incorrectly spelled as Blewitt Falls Lake) is a reservoir located in Anson County and Richmond County in North Carolina. No bridges span the lake. It is a major lake in the Uwharrie Lakes Region and the southernmost and widest body in this chain of lakes. Created by the damming of the Great Pee Dee River, the lake occupies the former Blewett Falls on that river, which were named after an early local family. The lake was created for hydropower in the early 20th century.
The lake is located at and has a surface area of at an elevation of 178 ft (54 m) above sea level with 34 mi (55 km) of shoreline. .
Aircraft crash
On April 28, 1992, a United States Air Force Lockheed C-130E Hercules, (AF Ser. No. 64-0501, c/n 3985, of the 317th Tactical Airlift Wing) from Pope AFB crashed into the lake during a training mission. All nine crewmembers were killed.
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Tyrannophryne pugnax
Tyrannophryne pugnax, the tyrant devil is a species of deep-sea anglerfish in the dreamer family, Oneirodidae. It is the sole member of its genus. Like other oneirodids, T. pugnax is a bathypelagic fish with a bioluminescent lure. It is known only from two adolescent female specimens, one caught in 1928 near Tahiti-Rarotonga, and the other in 1956 northwest of Bikini Atoll.
The most distinctive feature of T. pugnax is its extremely long lower jaw, the joint of which extends backwards well past the base of the pectoral fin. The body of the fish is relatively slender, naked, and entirely black in color. The tail fin has unpigmented rays and is covered by dark skin for some distance past its base. The sphenotic spines (above the eyes) and symphysial spine (at the tip of the jaw) are present.
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François Bassil
François Semaan Bassil (born March 15, 1934) is a prominent Lebanese banker. He was Chairman and General Manager of Byblos Bank, one of Lebanon's top three banks from July 1979 to July 2015, and has served as Chairman of the Board of the Association of Banks in Lebanon (ABL) for four terms. He currently holds the position of Chairman of Byblos Bank Group, an entity composed of banks and subsidiaries of Byblos Bank S.A.L. In 2015, Bassil was named in Global Finance Magazine’s first annual list of Who’s Who in The Middle East.
Early life, education
Bassil was born in Fidar, north of Beirut in 1934. His father, Semaan Bassil, was a well-known businessman who founded in 1950 the “Société Commerciale et Agricole Byblos Bassil Frères & Co.”, a Lebanese company specialized in natural silk, leather tanning, and agricultural credit activities. In 1963, this company became Byblos Bank S.A.L.
Bassil holds a Doctoral Degree in Law (Ph.D.) from the Catholic University of Louvain, in Belgium.
Distinctions
In 2008, Bassil was awarded an honorary doctoral degree “Doctorate Honoris Causa” in the humanities by the Lebanese American University (LAU), and in 2010 the Université Saint-Esprit Kaslik (USEK) awarded him an honorary degree “Doctorate Honoris Causa” in Business.
Throughout his professional career, he received many honorary distinctions, among them the Order of the Crown awarded by H.M. King Albert II of Belgium; and Knight in the Order of St. Gregory the Great, awarded by Pope John Paul II. In 2012, Lebanese President Michel Sleiman awarded Bassil the title of Commander in the National Order of the Cedar. In 2015, Bassil was awarded the Knight Grand Cross of the First Class of the Order of St. Gregory the Great by Pope Francis.
Career
Bassil started his career in the banking sector in 1962 by contributing to the establishment of Byblos Bank S.A.L. and became chairman and general manager of the bank in 1979. He then lead the success and growth of Byblos Bank in Lebanon, transforming it from a mid-sized locally based entity to one of Lebanon's top three banks, with total assets of USD 19 billion, and customer deposits reaching USD 15.7 billion as of 31 December 2014.
Under his guidance, Byblos Bank established numerous international partnerships and received many distinctions, while maintaining its position as Lebanon's most solid Bank. Byblos Bank is listed on the Beirut Stock Exchange (BYB) and became in 2009 the first Lebanese issuer to list in the London Stock Exchange for twelve years.
Today, Byblos Bank actively operates in 10 countries worldwide including: Lebanon, the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Armenia, Cyprus, the United Arab Emirates, Iraq, Nigeria, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
See also
Byblos Bank
List of Banks in Lebanon
Banque du Liban
Economy of Lebanon
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Walter Schindler
Walter Schindler (December 10, 1897 – April 3, 1991) was a highly decorated career officer in the United States Navy, who ultimately achieved the rank of Vice Admiral. While a Commander during World War II, Schindler received a Navy Cross and a Silver Star for his service aboard the , including during the Battle of the Coral Sea. He was later twice awarded the Legion of Merit.
Biography
Schindler was born on December 10, 1897 in New Glarus, Wisconsin, to S. A. Schindler and Anna Schindler. His father became a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly. Schindler graduated from the University of Wisconsin in Madison in 1917, before attending and graduating from the United States Naval Academy as a member of the Class of 1921.
In 1935 he was ordered to duty with the United States Asiatic Fleet, and on July 1, 1936, assumed his first command (of the minesweeper ).
In 1942 Schindler flew with the ace Stanley "Swede" Vejtasa in the Battle of the Coral Sea in the back seat of a Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber filming the naval battle unfolding below him. Schindler's footage was later used to develop future strategies for aircraft carrier combat.
Commander Schindler was considered the first U.S. serviceman to shoot down a Japanese A6M Zero fighter plane from the rear seat of a navy dive bomber. His Navy Cross citation reads:
The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy Cross to Commander Walter Gabriel Schindler, United States Navy, for extraordinary heroism and distinguished service in the line of his profession as Gunnery Officer on board the Aircraft Carrier U.S.S. YORKTOWN (CV-5), in action against enemy Japanese forces at Tulagi Harbor on 4 May 1942, and in the Battle of the Coral Sea on 7 and 8 May 1942. In order to advise his seniors more accurately and intelligently, Commander Schindler volunteered as free gunner in an airplane in Scouting Squadron FIVE (VS-5), attached to the U.S.S. YORKTOWN (CV-5), in three attacks against Japanese forces, at Tulagi on 4 May, although opposed by heavy anti-aircraft fire, and in two attacks on 7 and 8 May in the Coral Sea area, in the face of enemy fighters as well. He shot down a Zero type Japanese fighter which attacked the plane in which he was serving as free gunner on 8 May. His conspicuous intrepidity was above and beyond the call of duty on these occasions. Commander Schindler's conscientious devotion to duty and gallant self-command against formidable odds were in keeping with the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service.
His Silver Star citation reads:
The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star to Commander Walter Gabriel Schindler, United States Navy, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action while serving as Gunnery Officer on the Staff of Task Force Commander for the first ten months of World War II.
Schindler commanded the Cleveland-class light cruiser following the end of the war (from November 7, 1945 to July 24, 1946). He also served as chief of research for the Navy's Bureau of Ordnance, and chief of the U.S. naval mission in Chile. In the 1950s, he served as commanding officer of the Naval Ordnance Laboratory in White Oak, Maryland, commanded the cruiser division off the coast of Korea, then served as assistant Chief of Naval Operations for first operations and readiness. Starting in 1955, he commanded U.S. naval forces in Germany, before becoming the commandant of the Eighth Naval District, based in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1958.
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Category:People from New Glarus, Wisconsin
Category:Recipients of the Navy Cross (United States)
Category:Recipients of the Silver Star
Category:Recipients of the Legion of Merit
Category:United States Navy admirals
Category:United States Naval Academy alumni
Category:University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni
Category:American naval personnel of World War II
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