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Joe McCain
Joseph Pinckney McCain II (born April 26, 1942) is an American stage actor, newspaper reporter, and brother of the late U.S. Senator and two-time presidential candidate John McCain.
Early life and education
Joseph Pinckney McCain II was born to John S. McCain, Jr. and Roberta McCain on April 26, 1942 in the naval base hospital in New London, Connecticut. His father's perpetual traveling for Navy assignments meant that Joe had attended 17 different schools by the time he completed 9th grade. He entered the United States Naval Academy, but left in 1961 during his first year. Although he had tried to emulate his older brother, father (against his advice), grandfather and forebears, he later said "I just didn't like all the formations and inspections and things like that." He then attended the Norfolk Division of the College of William & Mary which became Old Dominion University, where he later said he "discovered fraternities and beer and girls."
Vietnam era
Joe McCain was a member of the United States Navy and in 1965 to 1966 served as an enlisted man aboard the during the Vietnam War. During that conflict and his brother's long time as a prisoner of war, the National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia, which included Joe, heightened awareness of the POWs' plight. In 1970, McCain sat in a bamboo cage in Los Angeles, eating simulated POW food to dramatize the plight of POWs. In the same year, he and two other brothers of POWs traveled around the U.S. circulating petitions to be presented to North Vietnamese representatives, and sought the signatures of opponents of the Vietnam War as well as those supporting it. He then helped bring 13 tons of mail to the North Vietnamese delegation at the Paris Peace Talks, demanding humane treatment for the POWs.
Career
Following Vietnam, McCain tried both journalism and medical school before moving to acting. He worked at the San Diego Union and San Diego Evening Tribune, but got in trouble at one for perpetrating a prank. He subsequently became a dinner theater actor.
McCain married around 1998, but divorced in 2008, having no children.
Political involvement
2000 presidential election
McCain was a volunteer manager for his brother's 2000 presidential campaign in his home state of Virginia, making over 100 campaign appearances. He expressed anger at some of the tactics that George W. Bush used in defeating his brother, and said that the Republican Party needed to be reformed.
Possible congressional run
In 2001, Republican Party activists in Northern Virginia tried to recruit McCain to run for the U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia's 8th congressional district against the incumbent Democrat Jim Moran. They believed McCain's personal characteristics, combined with his brother's name and appeal to moderate voters, would allow an effective challenge. McCain declined to run, however, due to the growing Democratic tilt of the district, saying, "I don't mind running uphill for anything. But it looked like it was going to be a vertical wall."
Political views
In 2005, McCain was vocal in his reaction to revelations of Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse during the Iraq War, saying "To be fighting from supposedly the higher ground, and yet to have allowed this kind of stuff that goes on in Abu Ghraib – it destroys the fact we're fighting for the better cause. It's just awful."
2008 presidential election
During his brother's 2008 presidential campaign, McCain acted as a low-key surrogate. He was aware of the past foibles of presidential siblings and offered self-deprecating lines such as, "I'm the discount John McCain. They call me McKmart." On October 15, 2008, The Baltimore Sun obtained an e-mail written by McCain with the subject title "Shoaling" that spoke about his unhappiness with unnamed top campaign officials who "control the message" of his brother's run for president.
McCain also received press coverage for remarks made in early October. In the context of describing his naval service postings in Arlington, Virginia and Alexandria, Virginia, McCain jokingly described northern Virginia as "communist country", for which he later apologized.
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Sarah Crompton
Sarah Crompton (1802 – 13 May 1881) was an English children's writer.
Sarah Crompton was born in Birmingham, the daughter of J. W. Crompton, a merchant. She was widely known for her promotion of education amongst the poor; she wrote a number of books written with "short words" which were used to teach children and illiterate adults. These included The Life of Christopher Columbus, in short words and The Life of Robinson Crusoe in short words. She died in Birmingham on 13 May 1881, aged 79; she was buried in the family vault in the Old Meeting House graveyard.
References
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Miani, Punjab (India)
Miani is a village in Shahkot in Jalandhar district of Punjab state, India. It is located from Shahkot, from Nakodar, from district headquarter Hoshiarpur and from state capital Chandigarh. The village is administrated by a sarpanch who is an elected representative of village as per Panchayati raj (India).
Transport
Shahkot Malisian station is the nearest train station. The village is away from domestic airport in Ludhiana and the nearest international airport is located in Chandigarh also Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International Airport is the second nearest airport which is away in Amritsar.The buses are available from miani to Begowal and to dasuya.
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Chapel Hill, Indiana
Chapel Hill is an unincorporated community in Polk Township, Monroe County, in the U.S. state of Indiana.
History
Chapel Hill was platted in 1856. The community took its name from the Chapel Hill Methodist Church located there. The community ultimately would fail to grow to its founders' expectations. A post office was established at Chapel Hill in 1897, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1925.
Geography
Chapel Hill is located at .
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Animation Mentor
Animation Mentor is an online animation school that teaches students character animation skills. Headquartered in Emeryville, California, the school offers a 6 core animation courses in addition to Creatures and Maya Workshops where students are taught by “mentors,” experienced animators who are professionals working in the animation industry.
Animation Mentor is a distance learning school at which animation professionals teach character animation to students in over 105 countries.
History
The school was founded in 2005 by three working animators: Bobby Beck, who is the CEO and president of the school, Shawn Kelly, who is a working animator at Industrial Light & Magic, and Carlos Baena, who is a working animator. The school opened on March 27, 2005, with 350 students and 5 employees.
Academics
Animation Mentor is an online learning institution and operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The program includes live Q&A sessions with mentors from the animation industry, and mentors provide audio-visual critiques of weekly assignments. Graduates of the program receive a Certificate of Completion in Character Animation and create a demo reel.
Awards
The school has won several awards, including the 2006 Best Practices in Programming Award Gold Level, 21st Century Distance Learning Award from the U.S. Distance Learning Association, and was an honoree at the 10th Annual Webby Awards.
The school won the 2008 PRSA Bronze Anvil Award for its white paper "Behind the Characters: Job Satisfaction, Career Outlook, and Salary Survey Report" and was again named an official honoree at the 13th Annual Webby Awards. In 2008, Sony Pictures Imageworks awarded its top scholarship to Luis Rodrigo Huerta to earn a Master’s Degree at Texas A&M and participate in online animation courses at Animation Mentor.
Notable Animation Mentor alumni and productions
Students who have graduated from Animation Mentor have worked on box office features, including Frozen, Inside Out, How to Train Your Dragon, How to Train Your Dragon 2, Peanuts, Horton Hears a Who!, Pirates of the Caribbean, Bee Movie, Monsters vs. Aliens, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Kung Fu Panda, Bolt, Garfield: The Movie, Transformers, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, and others.
References
Further reading and listening
Interview with Co-founders
CG Society Interviews Co-founders
Interview with Shawn Kelly and Carlos Baena
External links
Animation Mentor website
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Kayrat Kulbayev
Kayrat Kulbayev (, Qaırat Kýlybaev) is a Kazakh music producer who rose to popularity as a jury member in SuperStar KZ 3, the Kazakh version of Pop Idol. Kayrat served as the vice president of Kazakh media firm Shahar Media Group, official partner & associate of SonyBMG in Kazakhstan, from 2003 till 2006.
Biography
Kayrat used to be producer of pop music duo "Duet L" in early 1990s. He is now a producer of pop-bands "Chinatown", "Pertsy".
He is married and has two daughters.
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Arrhenia acerosa
Arrhenia acerosa, commonly known as the moss oysterling, is a species of agaric fungus in the family Hygrophoraceae. It is found in Europe, where it grows on mosses.
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Coimbatore bypass
The Coimbatore Bypass refers to a series of bypasses connecting the various National Highways and State Highways passing through and originating in the South Indian city of Coimbatore.
The Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation is undertaking the construction of six rail-over-bridges in the city.
In 2008, the State Highways Department came up with a proposal to create a Ring Road passing through Peelamedu Road, Kalapatti Road, Saravanampatty Road and Kurumbapalayam Road to help decongest Avanashi Road, Mettupalayam Road and Sathyamangalam Road. The 12 km road would extend from the South India Textile Research Association (SITRA) Junction in Peelamedu, going through Kalapatti Road and connect Sathyamangalam Road at Saravanampatty and then it would connect Mettuppalayam Road at Kurumbapalayam.
Neelambur–Madukkarai
The first section of the bypass was a two-laned road with paved shoulders built by Larsen & Toubro (L&T) from Neelambur to Madukkarai on National Highway 544 (formerly National Highway 47) which intersects Trichy Road at Chintamani Pudur near Irugur and Eachanari on Pollachi Road. Land acquisition began as early as 1974, but the project was delayed. Construction began in 1998, and was completed in twenty-two months. It was made operational in 2000, after many delays which almost forced L&T to pull out. It was the first road privatisation project to be implemented on a build-operate-transfer model in South India. In 2010, the National Highways Authority of India gave Iragavarapu Venkata Reddy Construction Limited (IVRCL) the tender to widen and toll the road as part of a larger toll road project from Chengapalli to Walayar. The issue was taken to court and the Delhi High Court restrained the road transport ministry from withdrawing the project awarded to Larsen & Toubro. In late January 2012, it was reported that IVRCL planned to sell the project, valued at an estimated 10 billion, and Reliance Infrastructure was said to be a "likely frontrunner" to acquire it. In 2011, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) demanded that the road be widened to four lanes.
The road is subject to frequent traffic delays, and most of these are caused by the road's six toll plazas; these are primarily attributed to the fact that there are only four toll collection lanes on each toll plaza, two in each direction, and much of the time only one is open in each direction. The road is also subject to fatal accidents.
Aathupalam Bridge
The first section also included the construction of a new 32.2m bridge over the Noyyal, at Aathupalam, with a toll period of 21 years, till 2018. The toll booth was India's earliest to use International Road Dynamics iToll tolling system. In 2000, L&T asked the Government for permission to regulate users of the bridge, and agreed to the subsidised toll rate of 50 per day per bus of the Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation irrespective of the number of trips made by the bus. L&T subsequently stopped collection of toll from vehicles bearing Local Number plates. The revenue from the Toll Booth goes partly to fund for a Railway Bridge and underpass at Chettipalaym.
Sathyamangalam–Pollachi
The National Highways Authority of India has also invited feasibility studies to upgrade National Highways 948 and 83 (formerly National Highway 209) connecting Pollachi and Bannari passing through the city. In 2009, the National Highways Authority of India sanctioned funds for widening the existing highway passing through the city which included construction of a new Rail-over-bridge at Ganapathy. However, funds were withdrawn after the agency decided to execute future projects under a public–private partnership.
Due to withdrawal of funds from the National Highways Authority of India, the Highways and Minor Ports Department of the State Government has taken up upgradation works on the two connecting roads. In 2010, during the World Classical Tamil Conference 2010, the then Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, M. Karunanidhi announced the construction of a three-tier flyover at Gandhipuram at a cost of 1.48 billion, to be completed over a period of two years. It would start from the Central Bus Station and end at the Corporation built Omni Bus Station on Sathyamangalam Road. The project also includes a four-lane underpass from the 100 Feet road junction to Nava India junction, four-lane up connecting the City Bus Station, State Express Transport Corporation (SETC) Bus Station, Central Bus Station and the proposed Bus Station on Sathyamangalam Road at a length of 1.2 km, the flyover will cover both the junctions. The cost was later brought down to 1 billion, and the Flyover construction was to have started in January 2011. The project met with many protests by the Hindu Munnani activists who protested the demolition of four temples along Sathyamanagalam Road and Dr. Nanjappa Road. In 2012, the Member of Parliament representing Coimbatore, P. R. Natarajan, stated that the project was not practical and demanded changes in its design.
In 2011, the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu announced the construction of two new flyovers at Ukkadam and Athupalam to help decongest the Palakkad Road.
Mettupalayam–Sulur
The National Highways Authority of India is conducting studies for a bypass along the Mettupalayam–Sulur National Highways 81 and 181 (formerly National Highway 67). The proposed length of this road is , and is expected to cost 6.01 billion to build. The project was met with protests from farmers who claim that the project passes through fertile land and demanded re-alignment of the road. M R Sivasamy, the president of Tamizhaga Vivasayigal Sangham, demanded that the proposed road to be rerouted to start from Neelambur, and run through Vellanaipatty, Kallipalayam, Kunnathur, Kattampatty, Kuppepalayam, Sikkarampalayam and Odanthurai to reach Mettupalayam. The project has drawn ire from the public who are opposed to paying toll and feel that the wetlands in Sulur would be destroyed. From Sulur, the width of the road is 10 metres, with one-metre hard way on either side, while 30-km of the road, covering important towns, is four-lane, and the remaining, two-lane till Karur.
In 2013, the NHAI announced that it was withdrawing from the project due to lack of support from the state government.
In 2014, the NHAi handed over the section back to the State Government for maintenance and upkeep.
As per the update on Jan 31, 2015, NHAI had mentioned in their website (https://web.archive.org/web/20090804025214/http://www.nhai.org/implementation.asp, S.No-115) as this project is still under implementation in NHDP PhaseIIIA. and the same has been removed as per the update on 31 July 2016
Western Bypass
In 2010, an announcement was made in the State Budget to build a Western Ring Road at a cost of 2.84 billion for 26 km. The proposed road would have been from Madukarai near ACC Cement industry, starting on Palakkad Road connecting Mettupalayam Road via Perur Road, Marudamalai Road(Bharatiyar University) and Thadagam Road(kanuvai).
In 2011, the Government of Tamil Nadu and the Highways and Minor Ports Department announced the construction of a long Western Bypass from Kuniamuthur to Thudiyalur. The road would help connect people going from Madukarai, and Palakkad to Marudamalai, Thadagam, Thudiyalur and Anaikatti. The proposed road would be wide with paved shoulders on both sides and would cost 1.3 billion to build. In May 2012, the Highways Department and Local Planning Authority announced that a freeze had been imposed to prevent new land approvals in the area as land acquisition for the road construction was to begin soon. Residents of Thudiyalur opposed the road as it required demolition of their homes. The following November, it was announced that the road would terminate at Narasimhanaickenpalayam instead of Thudiyalur to minimise acquisition of land.
In 2012, the government finally decided to abandon the project in favour of an eastern road that connected Mettupalayam Road with Avinashi Road and the existing L&T bypass.
See also
Chennai Bypass
Coimbatore BRTS
Transport in Coimbatore
References
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The Golden Man (collection)
The Golden Man is a collection of science fiction stories by American writer Philip K. Dick. It was first published by Berkley Books in 1980. The stories had originally appeared in the magazines If, Galaxy Science Fiction, Beyond Fantasy Fiction, Worlds of Tomorrow, Science Fiction Stories, Orbit Science Fiction, Future, Amazing Stories and Fantasy and Science Fiction
Contents
Foreword, by Mark Hurst
Introduction, by Philip K. Dick
"The Golden Man" (1954)
"Return Match" (1967)
"The King of the Elves" (1953)
"The Mold of Yancy" (1955)
"Not By Its Cover" (1968)
"The Little Black Box" (1964)
"The Unreconstructed M" (1957)
"The War with the Fnools" (1964)
"The Last of the Masters" (1954)
"Meddler" (1954)
"A Game of Unchance" (1964)
"Sales Pitch" (1954)
"Precious Artifact" (1964)
"Small Town" (1954)
"The Pre-persons" (1974)
Story Notes
Afterword
Reception
Thomas M. Disch reported that the collection included a wide range of work, from some of Dick's best to outright "turkeys", concluding "Dick is of that stature where even his failures merit publication."
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Juninho Pernambucano
Antônio Augusto Ribeiro Reis Júnior (born 30 January 1975), commonly known as Juninho or Juninho Pernambucano is a Brazilian former footballer, who is currently sporting director of Olympique Lyonnais. Noted for his bending free kicks, he is widely considered to be the greatest free kick-taker of all time and holds the record for the highest number of goals scored through free kicks with 75.
Juninho began his professional career in 1993 with Brazilian club Sport do Recife. Two years later he joined Vasco da Gama where he played over 100 matches and won six titles. In 2001, he joined Ligue 1 side Olympique Lyonnais where he played for the next eight years, winning seven consecutive league titles and scoring 100 goals in 350 official appearances for the club. Following his departure from Lyon in 2009, Juninho played in Qatar with Al-Gharafa and in the United States with New York Red Bulls. The latter stint was wedged between two spells back at Vasco, where he ultimately retired in 2013.
Having made his international debut in 1999, Juninho played 40 games for the Brazilian national team and scored six goals. He represented Brazil at the 2001 Copa América and was part of the squad which won the 2005 FIFA Confederations Cup before retiring from international football after the 2006 World Cup.
From 2013 to 2018, Juninho was a football commentator for Brazilian sports network Rede Globo.
Club career
Early career: Sport Recife
Born in Recife, Juninho started his professional career at Sport Recife and quickly established himself as a rising star in Brazilian football. He won two regional titles with the club.
Vasco da Gama
Juninho Pernambucano joined Vasco da Gama in 1995. He won several trophies during his first stint with the club, including the Brazilian Championship in 1997 and 2000, the Copa Libertadores in 1998, the Copa Mercosur in 2000, as well as the 2000 Brazilian Silver Ball award as one of the best Brazilian midfielders of the season. At that time, he was playing with Romário, Edmundo, and Juninho Paulista, and he became a favourite of the Vasco fans. Since that time he has been known as Reizinho de São Januário (The Little King of São Januário), a reference to Vasco da Gama's stadium, as well as Reizinho da Colina (The Little King of the Hill).
In 2001, the player won a preliminary injunction against Vasco da Gama, after which he became a free agent. Although he left Vasco for Lyon after a judicial fight, he is still considered a favourite of Vasco fans. Juninho has been cited in a classic chorus sung by the fans remembering his free-kick goal against River Plate at River Plate Stadium, during the 1998 Libertadores which helped the club reach the finals against Barcelona de Guayaquil. Juninho played 295 games for Vasco from 1995–2001.
Olympique Lyonnais
In 2001, Juninho moved abroad to play for French club Olympique Lyonnais. Before his arrival at Lyon, the club had never won the French championship. Starting out in his first season at the club, Olympique Lyonnais won seven league titles in a row. At Lyon, Juninho made himself especially noted for his accurate, powerful and varied set pieces. Regarded as one of the world's greatest free kick takers of the present day and possibly one of the greatest of all time, he was a noted passer, having provided many assists, and his leadership abilities prompted Lyon manager Gérard Houllier to name him team captain.
Juninho Pernambucano scored 100 goals while at Lyon. Forty-four of those goals were scored from free-kicks, the last of which was a strike from long distance against Olympique de Marseille. He scored his 100th goal on his very last game for Lyon, through a penalty kick against Caen. Juninho was also a prolific goalscorer in the Champions League, and he matched Sonny Anderson as the club's top goalscorer in European competitions with 16 goals, on a match against Steaua Bucharest in November 2008. He later became Lyon's top goalscorer in the Champions League with 18 goals, while reaching three quarter-finals in the competition.
On 26 May 2009, Lyon chairman Jean-Michel Aulas announced in a press conference that the club had accepted Juninho's request to leave Lyon at the end of the season as a free agent, despite the fact that the player still had a year left in his contract. During the press conference, Juninho sat next to Aulas and left without saying a word.
Al-Gharafa
On 17 June 2009, Juninho signed a €2.5 million, two-year contract with Qatari club Al-Gharafa. In his first season with the club, Juninho captained the team to their seventh league title and wins in the Qatari Stars Cup and Qatar Crown Prince Cup, completing the treble. He finished the season with Player of the Year honours from the Qatar Football Association. Juninho played 66 games for Al-Gharafa Sports Club and scored 25 goals.
Return to Vasco da Gama
On 27 April 2011, Juninho rejoined his former club Vasco da Gama. He scored his first goal for them in his first game back, via a freekick against Corinthians. He scored another 2 free kicks and a penalty during the course of the Brazilian top flight season. On 28 March 2012, he played and scored a goal for a 4–1 lead in Edmundo's farewell game against Barcelona Sporting Club. Vasco went on to win this game 9-1. Juninho then scored a trademark free kick against Esporte Clube Bahia in the fourth round of the Campeonato Brasileiro; that goal was to be his 16th since returning to Vasco from Al-Gharafa Sports Club.
In July 2012, Juninho extended his contract with Vasco for 6 months. On 18 July 2012, he made his 350th appearance for the club against São Paulo FC. In August 2012 he played against his youth team Sport Club do Recife and scored a free kick goal, which was his fourth goal from free kicks in Campeonato Brasileiro Série A 2012. Juninho played in 370 official matches for Vasco scoring 88 goals.
New York Red Bulls
On 17 December 2012, Juninho signed for Major League Soccer team New York Red Bulls. He made his first appearance for the team on a friendly match against Malmö, in which he was a starter. On 3 March 2013 Juninho made his official debut for Red Bulls, playing the full time in a 3-3 draw against Portland Timbers. On 3 July 2013 NY Red Bulls announced that they reached an agreement with Juninho for the cancelation of his contract. The midfielder featured in 13 games for the New York Red Bulls, providing the team with four assists.
Third stint with Vasco da Gama and retirement
On 11 July 2013, Vasco da Gama announced Juninho's return to the club. The player scored and assisted in his third debut for Vasco, in a 3–1 victory against rivals Fluminense. He scored his first home goal of the season against Criciúma with a 32-metre free kick, also assisting Edmílson for the third goal of the game. He played his third game for Vasco da Gama against another rival team Botafogo, setting up Andre for Vasco's first goal, in a 3–2 defeat. He played his sixth game against Grêmio and made another assist. It was his fourth assist in Campeonato Brasileiro. Juninho made his fifth assist against Sport Club Corinthians Paulista; the game ended in a 1–1 draw. He played his 16th game against Vasco rivals Botafogo and made two assists; the game ended with a 2–2 draw after Botafogo had led 2–0. Juninho played 16 games for Vasco in his third stint with the club, scoring 2 goals and making 7 assists in the Campeonato Brasileiro.
He retired from playing professional football on 2 February 2014. During his years at Vasco da Gama, Juninho won six titles: the Brazilian Championship in 1997 and 2000, the Campeonato Carioca in 1998, the Rio-São Paulo Tournament in 1999, the Copa Libertadores in 1998, and the Copa Mercosur in 2000.
Following his retirement, Juninho worked as a football commentator for Brazilian sports network Rede Globo, a stint that ended up in 2018.
International career
On 7 September 1999, Juninho Pernambucano became one of the few footballers to have played two top-level matches in two different countries in the same day. He represented his country in the second half of the friendly match between Brazil and Argentina in Porto Alegre, which Brazil won 4–2, playing about fifteen minutes. In spite of a delayed flight to Montevideo, he managed to arrive in Uruguay in time to feature in the second half of the Copa Mercosur match between Vasco and Nacional. He took part at the 2001 Copa América with Brazil.
Although Juninho had a period of prolonged domestic success during the 2000s, that contributed to him being considered as one of the best Brazilian players in the world at the time, he was not selected for the Brazilian squad that featured in the 2002 FIFA World Cup and in the 2004 Copa América. Brazil would win both tournaments. He was however a member of the Brazil squad that won the 2005 FIFA Confederations Cup.
In the 2006 FIFA World Cup Juninho scored against Japan in a group stage match. Following Brazil's defeat to eventual runners-up France in the quarter-finals of the tournament, he announced his international retirement, so as to make way for younger talents coming through the ranks in Brazil, in order to build for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
Director career
Olympique Lyonnais
In May 2019, Juninho was appointed as the director of football of his former club Olympique Lyonnais. His first decision was to name former Brazilian international teammate Sylvinho as the head coach of the French Ligue 1 team.
Style of play
Juninho has been described as "one of the world's most feared strikers of a static ball". The method he uses for long-range free kicks is frequently "knuckle balling", where the ball has almost no spinning motion during flight. A successful knuckle ball will "move" or "wobble" in the air unpredictably, making it difficult for the goalkeeper to save. He first made his name as a free kick taker in Europe with a long range free kick against Bayern Munich in the 2003–04 Champions League group stage in which the ball dipped viciously at the end of travel that deceived Bayern keeper Oliver Kahn, who was considered one of the best goalkeepers in the world at the time.
He has scored from free-kicks beyond 40 metres on four occasions: a 41-metre effort against AC Ajaccio in 2006, a 45-metre goal against Barcelona in 2007, a 48-metre goal against OGC Nice in 2008, and a 40-metre strike against Marseille in 2009, this being his final free kick goal for Lyon. Even before Lyon, he displayed his talent at Vasco da Gama, scoring several free kick goals for the club. Juninho has also scored memorable free kick goals for Brazil, the most famous being a curling shot from 27 metres against Greece in the 2005 FIFA Confederations Cup. Brazil would go on to win the match 3–0. Also, Juninho scored two memorable free kicks against Nice in the 2008–09 season as Lyon were losing 2–0. Juninho rapidly pulled back his team by scoring one free kick that bounced past the goalkeeper and in the top corner and one from 48 yards away. Lyon went on to win that game as well with a converted penalty by Karim Benzema. Juninho's style of freekick taking has been adapted by several other players, such as Andrea Pirlo, Cristiano Ronaldo, Didier Drogba, and Gareth Bale. The knuckle ball free kick technique takes a significant amount of skill to replicate and strike accurately. In total, Juninho scored 75 official goals from direct free kicks throughout his professional football career, which spanned from 1993 to 2013.
A talented and diminutive right-footed midfielder, beyond his qualities as a set-piece specialist, Juninho was also known for his skill as an offensive playmaker, and for his ability to produce effective passes, which led him to getting assists on many of his teammates' goals throughout his career. He was also gifted with good technical ability and intelligence, as well as excellent vision and passing range, and powerful and accurate striking ability from distance; furthermore, he drew praise in the media for his tenacity, work-rate, composure under pressure, strong character, and leadership, which saw him serve as club captain both at Lyon and Al-Gharafa. A versatile player, although he usually played as an attacking midfielder, he was also capable of playing as a winger or as a central midfielder.
Honours
Club
Sport do Recife
Campeonato Pernambucano: 1994
Copa do Nordeste: 1994
Vasco da Gama
Campeonato Brasileiro Série A (2): 1997, 2000
Campeonato Carioca: 1998
Torneio Rio-São Paulo: 1999
Copa Libertadores: 1998
Copa Mercosur: 2000
Lyon
Ligue 1 (7): 2001–02, 2002–03, 2003–04, 2004–05, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2007–08
Coupe de France: 2007–08
Trophée Des Champions (6) 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
Al-Gharafa
Qatar Stars League: 2009–10
Qatari Stars Cup: 2009
Qatar Crown Prince Cup (2): 2010, 2011
International
Brazil
Toulon Tournament: 1995
FIFA Confederations Cup: 2005
Lunar New Year Cup: 2005
Individual
Revista Placar Bola de Prata: 2000
UNFP Ligue 1 Player of the Month (3): February 2005, March 2005, October 2006
UNFP Ligue 1 Player of the Year: 2005–06
UNFP Ligue 1 Team of the Year (3): 2003–04, 2004–05, 2005–06
ESM Team of the Year (2): 2005–06, 2006–07
Qatar Football Association Player of the Year: 2010
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2016 Milano–Torino
The 97th edition of the Milano–Torino cycling classic was held on 28 September 2016. It was run over a distance of , starting near Milan in San Giuliano Milanese and ending near Turin on the Colle di Superga. The race was won by Colombian rider Miguel Ángel López after a late attack on the Superga hill. Canadian Michael Woods was second, Rigoberto Urán third.
Teams
Eighteen teams of up to eight riders started the race:
Result
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Harry Bateman
Harry Bateman FRS (29 May 1882 – 21 January 1946) was an English mathematician.
Biography
Harry Bateman first grew to love mathematics at Manchester Grammar School, and in his final year, won a scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge. Bateman studied with coach Robert Alfred Herman preparing for Cambridge Mathematical Tripos. He distinguished himself in 1903 as Senior Wrangler (tied with P.E. Marrack) and by winning the Smith's Prize (1905). He published his first paper when he was still an undergraduate student on "The determination of curves satisfying given conditions". He studied in Göttingen and Paris, taught at the University of Liverpool and University of Manchester before moving to the US in 1910. First he taught at Bryn Mawr College and then Johns Hopkins University. There, working with Frank Morley in geometry, he achieved the PhD, but he had already published more than sixty papers including some of his celebrated papers before getting his PhD. In 1917 he took up his permanent position at California Institute of Technology, then still called Throop Polytechnic Institute.
Eric Temple Bell says, "Like his contemporaries and immediate predecessors among Cambridge mathematicians of the first decade of this century [1901–1910]... Bateman was thoroughly trained in both pure analysis and mathematical physics, and retained an equal interest in both throughout his scientific career."
Theodore von Kármán was called in as an advisor for a projected aeronautics laboratory at Caltech and later gave this appraisal of Bateman.
In 1926 Cal Tech had only a minor interest in aeronautics. The professorship that came nearest to aeronautics was occupied by a shy, meticulous Englishman, Dr. Harry Bateman. He was an applied mathematician from Cambridge who worked in the field of fluid mechanics. He seemed to know everything but did nothing important. I liked him.
Harry Bateman married Ethel Horner in 1912 and had a son named Harry Graham, who died as a child, later the couple adopted a daughter named Joan Margaret. He died on his way to New York in 1946 of Coronary thrombosis.
Scientific contributions
In 1907 Harry Bateman was lecturing at the University of Liverpool together with another senior wrangler, Ebenezer Cunningham. Together they came up in 1908 with the idea of a conformal group of spacetime (now usually denoted as ) which involved an extension of the method of images. For his part, in 1910 Bateman published The Transformation of the Electrodynamical Equations. He showed that the Jacobian matrix of a spacetime diffeomorphism which preserves the Maxwell equations is proportional to an orthogonal matrix, hence conformal. The transformation group of such transformations has 15 parameters and extends both the Poincaré group and the Lorentz group. Bateman called the elements of this group spherical wave transformations.
In evaluating this paper, one of his students, Clifford Truesdell, wrote
The importance of Bateman's paper lies not in its specific details but in its general approach. Bateman, perhaps influenced by Hilbert's point of view in mathematical physics as a whole, was the first to see that the basic ideas of electromagnetism were equivalent to statements regarding integrals of differential forms, statements for which Grassmann's calculus of extension on differentiable manifolds, Poincaré's theories of Stokesian transformations and integral invariants, and Lie's theory of continuous groups could be fruitfully applied.
Bateman was the first to apply Laplace transform to integral equation in 1906. He submitted a detailed report on integral equation in 1911 in the British association for the advancement of science. Horace Lamb in his 1910 paper solved an integral equation
as a double integral, but in his footnote he says, "Mr. H. Bateman, to whom I submitted the question, has obtained a simpler solution in the form"
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In 1914 Bateman published The Mathematical Analysis of Electrical and Optical Wave-motion. As Murnaghan says, this book "is unique and characteristic of the man. Into less than 160 small pages is crowded a wealth of information which would take an expert years to digest."
The following year he published a textbook Differential Equations, and sometime later Partial differential equations of mathematical physics. Bateman is also author of Hydrodynamics and Numerical integration of differential equations. Bateman studied the Burgers' equation long before Jan Burgers started to study.
Harry Bateman wrote two significant articles on the history of applied mathematics:
"The influence of tidal theory upon the development of mathematics"
"Hamilton's work in dynamics and its influence on modern thought"
In his Mathematical Analysis of Electrical and Optical Wave-motion (p. 131) he describes the charged-corpuscle trajectory as follows:
a corpuscle has a kind of tube or thread attached to it. When the motion of the corpuscle changes a wave or kink runs along the thread; the energy radiated from the corpuscle spreads out in all directions but is concentrated round the thread so that the thread acts as a guiding wire.
This figure of speech is not to be confused with a string in physics, for the universes in string theory have dimensions inflated beyond four, something not found in Bateman's work. Bateman went on to study the luminiferous aether with an article "The structure of the Aether". His starting point is the bivector form of an electromagnetic field E + iB. He recalled Alfred-Marie Liénard's electromagnetic fields, and then distinguished another type he calls "aethereal fields":
When a large number of "aethereal fields" are superposed their singular curves indicate the structure of an "aether" which is capable of supporting a certain type of electromagnetic field.
Bateman received many honours for his contributions, including election to the Royal Society of London in 1928, election to the National Academy of Sciences in 1930. He was elected as vice-president of the American Mathematical Society in 1935 and was the Society's Gibbs Lecturer for 1943. He was on his way to New York to receive an award from the Institute of Aeronautical Science when he died of coronary thrombosis. The Harry Bateman Research Instructorships at the California Institute of Technology are named in his honour.
After his death, his notes on higher transcendental functions were edited by A. Erdélyi, W. Magnus, F. Oberhettinger, and F. G. Tricomi, and published in 1954.
Publications
In a review of Bateman's book Partial Differential Equations of Mathematical Physics, Richard Courant says that "there is no other work which presents the analytical tools and the results
achieved by means of them equally completely and with as many original contributions" and also "advanced students and research workers alike will read it with great benefit".
1908: The Conformal Transformations of a Space of Four Dimensions and their Applications to Geometrical Optics, Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society 7: 70–89.
1910: History and Present State of the Theory of Integral Equations, Report of the British Association.
1914: (dissertation) The Quartic Curve and its Inscribed Configurations, American Journal of Mathematics 36(4), link from University of Michigan Historical Math Collection.
1915: The Mathematical Analysis of Electrical and Optical Wave-motion on the Basis of Maxwell's Equations, Cambridge University Press, link from Trove.
1918: Differential equations, Longmans, Green, London, Reprint Chelsea 1966.
1932: Partial Differential Equations of Mathematical Physics, Cambridge University Press 1932, Dover 1944, 1959.
1933: (with Albert A. Bennett, William E. Milne) Numerical Integration of Differential Equations, Bulletin of the National Research Council, Dover 1956.
1932: (with Hugh Dryden, Francis Murnaghan) Report of the Committee on Hydrodynamics, Bulletin of the National Research Council, Washington D.C., link from Google Books.
1945: "The Control of an Elastic Fluid", Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society 51(9):601–46, or Selected Papers on Mathematical Trends in Control Theory (Richard Bellman & Robert Kalaba editors).
Bateman Manuscript Project: Higher Transcendental Functions, 3 vols., McGraw Hill 1953 to 1955, Krieger 1981.
Bateman Manuscript Project: Tables of Integral Transforms, 2 vols., McGraw Hill 1954.
See also
Bateman Manuscript Project
References
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Hurricane Irene (2005)
Hurricane Irene was a long-lived Cape Verde hurricane during the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. The storm formed near Cape Verde on August 4 and crossed the Atlantic, turning northward around Bermuda before being absorbed by an extratropical cyclone while situated southeast of Newfoundland. Irene proved to be a difficult storm to forecast due to oscillations in strength. After almost dissipating on August 10, Irene peaked as a Category 2 hurricane on August 16. Irene persisted for 14 days as a tropical system, the longest duration of any storm of the 2005 season. It was the ninth named storm and fourth hurricane of the record-breaking season.
Although there were initial fears of a landfall in the United States due to uncertainty in predicting the storm's track, Hurricane Irene never approached land and caused no recorded damage; however, swells up to and strong rip currents resulted in one fatality in Long Beach, New York.
Meteorological history
Hurricane Irene began as a Cape Verde storm. A vigorous tropical wave moved off the west coast of Africa on August 1, initially weakening due to cooler sea surface temperatures. It moved westward and passed near Cape Verde, where convection started to increase. The system subsequently developed into a tropical depression on the afternoon of August 4, 690 miles (1100 km) southwest of the Cape Verde Islands. Early on August 5, the depression abruptly turned to the northwest into an area of higher wind shear, causing some computer models to predict that the depression would dissipate, while others predicted steady strengthening. The sudden threat to the storm's existence prompted National Hurricane Center (NHC) forecaster Lixion Avila to comment, "How little we know about the genesis of tropical cyclones." Despite the unfavorable conditions in its vicinity and its poor organization, Tropical Depression Nine continued to strengthen, becoming Tropical Storm Irene on August 7.
Because Irene was in an environment laden with dry air and high shear, it soon weakened to a tropical depression, on August 8. On the morning of August 10, as it was passing north of the Lesser Antilles, Irene nearly dissipated into a remnant low, but forecasters predicted with "very low confidence" that the storm would survive. Contrary to these expectations, warmer waters and less wind shear allowed Irene to become gradually more organized while south of Bermuda, and it became a tropical storm once again early on August 11.
Due to uncertainties about how the region's subtropical ridge would interact with Irene, the models continued to give unclear signals of the storm's future. Some of the models predicted that Irene would make landfall in North Carolina, while others continued to anticipate that Irene would dissipate. The uncertainty ended when a weakness in the subtropical ridge allowed Irene to turn sharply northward, which caused the storm to pass midway between the Outer Banks of North Carolina and Bermuda on August 15. Soon after, upper-level shear weakened greatly, and Irene rapidly intensified, first to a hurricane, then to its peak strength as a 105 mph (170 km/h) Category 2 hurricane on the afternoon of August 16, while located 350 miles (560 km) northeast of Bermuda; at the same time it also attained minimum pressure of 970 mbar. Though NHC meteorologists thought it was likely that Irene would become a hurricane, they were not expecting an intensification of such a magnitude.
Irene entered a region of increased wind shear and began to weaken, and as a result it was downgraded to a tropical storm early on August 18, when it was 520 miles (830 km) south of Cape Race, Newfoundland. All convection within 230 mi (370 km) of the cyclone dissipated on August 18. Irene was subsequently absorbed by an extratropical cyclone later that day. Irene lasted for 14 days as a tropical system, the longest duration of any storm of the 2005 season.
Impact and records
As Hurricane Irene stayed well away from land, no coastal warnings or watches were issued for it. Despite Irene's long life there were no reports of tropical storm force winds affecting ships. There was no damage as a result of Irene.
However, the hurricane generated strong waves and increased the risk of rip currents along the East Coast of the United States. Many beaches in New Jersey restricted swimming activities, and lifeguards at one beach performed more than a hundred rescues over a three-day period. Waves along the coastline of New York reached . A 16-year-old boy drowned after being caught in a rip current near Long Beach, New York on August 14. His body was recovered on August 16 after washing ashore.
When Tropical Storm Irene formed on August 7, it was the earliest date for the formation of the ninth tropical storm in an Atlantic hurricane season, beating the previous record held by a storm in the 1936 season by 13 days. This storm also marked the fifth occasion the name Irene had been used to name a tropical cyclone in the Atlantic.
See also
List of 2005 Atlantic hurricane season storms
Timeline of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season
List of New Jersey hurricanes
References
External links
National Hurricane Center's archive on Hurricane Irene
National Hurricane Center's Tropical Cyclone Report on Hurricane Irene
Photo gallery of surf from Hurricane Irene in North Carolina
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Children of Rage
Children of Rage is a 1975 film written and directed by Arthur Allan Seidelman, filmed mostly in Malta. It deals with the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The film stars Helmut Griem, Simon Ward, Cyril Cusack, Olga Georges-Picot and Richard Alfieri.
Plot
When Ahmed, a Palestinian guerrilla, is killed, his brother Omar (Richard Alfieri) takes his place. Omar is wounded while disguised as an Israeli but escapes from the hospital to avoid questioning. Before being transported to the safety of the camps, he is treated by David (Helmut Griem), an Israeli doctor and friend of the family. David’s conscience persuades him to go to the camp to help alleviate the suffering. The resistance he gets from some of the militants culminates in the death of him and Omar.
Critical Response
The film created quite a stir and controversy on its original release as it was the first Hollywood film to tackle the post 1967 Arab-Israeli conflict. According to the director, the Rugoff
chain in New York thought they might suffer a bombing if they agreed to distribute the film.
Richard Wagner, reviewing it for Jump Cut website states, "Seidelmann’s film is, in effect, a cinematic Rorschach test to which people will respond depending on what they bring to it." New York film critic Mark A. Bruzonsky, a writer and consultant on international affairs living in Washington. D.C, described it as It is a shocking and absorbing portrayal of Middle East reality. Though admittedly espousing the theme of Palestinian homelessness through Israeli usurpation, the film is not the propaganda it is said to be by those who fail to appreciate the writer’s artistry or motivations. For those viewers aware of the complex history of the Arab-Israeli tragedy, Children of Rage is a powerful presentation of the human dimensions of what transpires daily on both sides of the nationalist/cultural barrier.
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ColE1
ColE1 is a plasmid found in bacteria. Its name derives from the fact that it carries a gene for colicin E1 (the cea gene). It also codes for immunity from this product with the imm gene. In addition, the plasmid has a series of mobility (mob) genes. Its size and the presence of a single EcoRI recognition site caused it to be considered as a vector candidate.
Replication
ColE1 replication begins at the origin. 555bp upstream from this point, RNA polymerase initiates transcription of RNAII which acts as a pre-primer and begins the synthesis of the leader strand. The transcript folds into a secondary structure which stabilises the interaction between the nascent RNA and the origin's DNA. This hybrid is attacked by RNase H, which cleaves the RNA strand, exposing a 3' hydroxyl group. This allows the extension of the leading strand by DNA Polymerase I. Lagging strand synthesis is later initiated by a primase encoded by the host cell.1
Replication is carried out entirely by host proteins (RNA polymerase, DNA polymerase I and RNase H) so that inhibition of translation will stop the growth of the cells, but not the replication of ColE1. Since the translation of Rop protein will also be inhibited, a higher than normal copy number will result in these cells.
Copy number control
RNAI is a counter-transcript to a section of RNAII and so binds to its 5' end. This alters the folding of RNAII so that the DNA-RNA hybrid is not stabilized and cleavage does not occur. This ensures that at high copy numbers, replication is slowed down due to increased RNA I concentration. Rop is a secondary replication repressor, it stabilizes the RNAI-RNAII hybrid. Rop may be especially important at preventing runaway replication at slow growth rates.
ColE1 has a copy number of 25-30 according to its original publication
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Robert Proctor (field hockey)
Robert Proctor (born 16 July 1949) is a retired field hockey player from Australia, who was a member of the Australia national field hockey team that won the silver medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada.
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Lauren McCrostie
Lauren McCrostie (born 10 January 1996) is a British actress from London, England, who is best known for her roles in the films Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, The Falling and short films Second Skin and Brothers.
Career
McCrostie attended Dulwich Village Infants' School, Dulwich Hamlet, The Charter School and St Marylebone School. McCrostie always had a passion for performing and as a child she would persuade her younger sister to perform with her and put on shows for their parents. McCrostie made her film debut when she auditioned for Carol Morley's film The Falling. Although McCrostie had no formal drama training, she was later cast as the character Gwen in Morley's film, alongside Maisie Williams, Florence Pugh and Greta Scacchi. After her role in The Falling, McCrostie hired an acting agent who secured auditions for appearances in short films and another with Tim Burton. Following an audition and meeting with Burton, McCrostie was cast as Olive Abroholos Elephanta in the film Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, alongside Eva Green, Asa Butterfield, Ella Purnell and Samuel L. Jackson. In between her earlier acting jobs, McCrostie was waitressing at a cafe and went to drama classes at the Actors Centre. McCrostie became the ambassador for the Barnes Film Festival in 2017 which caters for young people looking for outlets to express their creativity in film and media.
Activism
McCrostie is an advocate for ethical and sustainable living and she has created a small online website which sells products made from re-purposed materials that would have otherwise been thrown away. A costume designer who worked with McCrostie on a short film, initially inspired McCrostie to only buy clothing from charity and vintage shops. McCrostie later learned about the destructive effect the fashion industry has on the environment and to humans, so she felt motivated to continue buying second-hand clothing to promote the idea of conscious consumption. The documentary The True Cost also inspired McCrostie to promote sustainability in the fashion industry.
McCrostie maintains an environmentally-friendly and sustainable lifestyle, and encourages her family to shop package free and to reduce the amount of plastic they consume as a household.
In November 2017, McCrostie became an ambassador for the New York based environmental organisation called Earth Angel which endeavours to reduce waste and harm to the environment on the sets of film, television, commercials and special events.
Personal life
McCrostie is a vegan. McCrostie is dyslexic. McCrostie's paternal grandfather was born in Scotland and both her parents are from Kenya.
McCrostie lives with her mother and younger sister in Dulwich in the UK. McCrostie's mother went to drama school and now works in radio.
Filmography
Film
Theatre
References
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Zombiesthaan
Zombiesthaan is a Bengali horror zombie film directed by Abhirup Ghosh. The film released on 13 December 2019 under the banner of Krishna Motion Pictures. This is the first Bengali language zombie movie.
Plot
The movie revolves with the post apocalyptic adventure of one lady and her survival strategy. In the year 2030 a dangerous biochemical turns the major people into ferocious zombies. A survivor Akira is travelling through the wastelands of Bengal and trying to find out her way into a safe zone. All communication systems are out of order. In her journey, she faces insane zombies as well as survivors. Akira takes shelter in a house of one mysterious Anil Chatterjee. Anil believes that the human era is over.
Cast
Rudranil Ghosh as Anil
Tanusree Chakraborty as Akira
Rajatava Dutta
Souman Bose
Debolina Biswas
Jeena Tarafder
Sourav Saha
Satyahari Mondal
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Robin Morris
Robin Francis Morris (born 6 November 1976) is a former Canadian-born Indian cricketer who played for both Mumbai and Odisha in first-class, List A and T20 matches. He was caught for involving in doctoring the pitch conditions for betting purposes at Galle stadium during Sri Lanka's home test matches against India and Australia.
Career
Robin Morris made his First-class cricket debut for Mumbai during the 1997–98 Ranji Trophy season. He also played for the Mumbai Champs team between 2000-2009 in the Indian Cricket League, a List A cricket tournament which was defunct in 2009. He was part of the Mumbai Champs squad during the Champions Cup 2000–01.
He played his last first-class cricket match during the 2004-05 Irani Cup for Mumbai against the Rest of India cricket team. Robin Morris went onto quit cricket at the age of 31 after becoming a victim by playing in the Indian Cricket League which went onto become a controversial issue leading the tournament to be scrapped from part of the BCCI programme.
Fixing allegations
Robin Morris was alleged by the International Cricket Council for being involved as the match-fixer during Sri Lanka's home Test series against both Australia in 2016 and against India in 2017. Robin Morris was intended to have influenced in fixing allegations relating to Sri Lankan home matches for attempting pitch tampering by the ICC during Sri Lanka's 2nd test match against Australia in Galle and Sri Lanka's 1st test match against India in Galle. Robin was reported to have given bribes to groundsman, Tharanga Indika who works as the groundsman at the Galle International Stadium to monitor the pitch conditions in those 2 home matches played by Sri Lanka against Australia in 2016 and India in 2017 and was noticed to have earned from betting after analysing the Galle pitch conditions. Robin Morris explained that the Galle pitch was prepared in favour of bowlers and the Sri Lankan cricket team during the 2nd test against Australia in 2016 where Sri Lanka managed to win the match by a massive margin of 229 runs, where Australia lost all 20 wickets within 3 days when batting second consuming only 501 balls.
Robin Morris along with Dubai based business person Gaurav Rajkumar, Galle groundsman Tharanga Indika and Sri Lankan first-class cricketer Tharindu Mendis have also been investigated by the ICC for attempting to another pitch tampering at Galle in Sri Lanka's forthcoming first test match against England as a part of the England's series against Sri Lanka in November 2018.
In December 2019, Morris along with four other people, were arrested with regards to an alleged kidnapping.
See also
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Rahbani brothers
The Rahbani Brothers (), Assi Rahbani (; May 4, 1923 – June 21, 1986), and Mansour Rahbani (; 1925 – January 13, 2009) were Lebanese composers, musicians, songwriters, authors, playwrights/dramatists. They are best known for their work with Lebanese singer Fairuz. Their younger brother Elias Rahbani (Arabic:إلياس رحباني; born 1938) is also famous lyricist and composer.
History
Early career
Coming originally from Rahbeh, a small town in the north of Lebanon, the Rahbani Brothers were not involved in music aside from the extensive reading that their parents made sure they had. Though Assi and Mansour occasionally helped the local priest in arranging the vocals and instrumentation of their Antiochian Orthodox liturgies, their musical career began when Assi obtained a job at the Near East Radio channel.
While working as police officers in Beirut, Mansour and Assi started at the radio channel as paperboys, dealing with the music sheets and lyrical editing. They eventually composed their own jingle and suggested it to the supervisor at the channel, Halim El Roumi, the father of singer Majida El Roumi. He was impressed with their effort and further encouraged them by paying them for their work and broadcasting it on the channel airwaves. The jingles or pieces were usually broadcast live and the brothers' perfectionism became one of their trademarks as they demanded a lot of time in rehearsal and preparation and efforts from the singers to yield the maximal results.
In 1951, Nouhad Haddad (later known as Fairuz), one of the singers in the channel's chorus, came to the attention of Halim El Roumi. Assi composed her very first song, "Itab" ("Blame").
Halim el-Roumi attended the recording session and asked Assi to compose additional songs for her. Assi and Mansour Rahbani and Fairuz soon became one of the most prominent groups on the Lebanese music scene. The trio released about 50 songs in the following three years and found it more convenient to split from the channel and work on their own without the employment restrictions. The Rahbani Brothers and Fairuz became a musical team. Both of the Rahbani Brothers composed and both of them wrote lyrics as they always clarified in interviews and as attested by their family members as well as by artists who collaborated and worked with them.
In 1953, Assi proposed to Fairuz and the couple was married in 1954.
In 1957, the trio performed for the first time at the Baalbeck International Festival; it was the first time that local Lebanese artists had appeared in the festival.
The 1960s
Fairuz and the Rahbani Bros started building their career based on the numerous songs they recorded and released. Radio and TV became the primary media through which their music was spread. Assi and Mansour also began writing musicals, plays with musical dialogs, and interpretations of patriotic themes that appealed to the Lebanese public.
The musicals mostly focused on the village life, the innocence of growing up, the problems of love, parental care, and the mischief of youth. One of them was made into a feature movie, Biyya'el Khawatem (Rings Merchant) directed by Egyptian film director Youssef Chahine.
The 1970s
During the 1970s, the trio's combined sales passed the 30 million mark due to the international exposure of their music. The Rahbani Brothers also launched the careers of artists who first worked as backup singers for Fairuz or acted in their musicals; many of them became major forces in the Arab music industry. Georgette Sayegh, Najat Al Saghira, Sabah, Wadih El Safi, Ronza, Fadia Tanb El-Hage, and Huda, Fairuz's younger sister were the most prominent of the Rahbani Brothers' proteges.
Fairuz, Assi, and Mansour were introduced to the Western world during their 1971 tour of the United States. Initially, managers and event-organizers in the US doubted the popularity and drawing power of Fairuz and the Rahbani Brothers. However, after a concert of June 6, 1971 at Carnegie Hall sold out, Fairuz proved that she could be a viable artist abroad. After four months of extensively touring the US, Canada, and Mexico, the trio returned to Beirut where Assi and Mansour started working on the musical Al Mahatta (The Station), and a TV show called Al Mawasem (Seasons) starring Huda.
On September 22, 1972 Assi suffered a brain hemorrhage and was rushed to the hospital. Fans crowded outside the hospital praying for him and lighting candles. After three surgeries, Assi's brain hemorrhage was halted.
Ziad Rahbani, the eldest son of Fairuz and Assi, at age 16, decided to take over his father's composition for the musical Saaloui n'Nass (The People Asked Me). Three months after suffering the hemorrhage, Assi attended the premiere performance of the musical in Piccadilly Theatre in Hamra Street. Elias Rahbani, Assi's younger brother, took over the orchestration and musical arrangement for the performance.
Within a year, Assi had returned to composing and writing with his brother. They continued to produce musicals, which became increasingly political in nature. After the Lebanese Civil War erupted, the brothers continued to use political satire and sharp criticism in their plays. In 1977, their musical Petra was shown in both the Muslim western and Christian eastern portions of Beirut.
In 1978, the trio toured Europe and the Gulf nations, including a concert at the Paris Olympia. As a result of this busy schedule, Assi's medical and mental health began to deteriorate. Fairuz and the brothers agreed to end their professional and personal relationship in 1979. Fairuz began to work with a production team helmed by her son, Ziad Rahbani, whilst Assi and Mansour composed for other artists such as Ronza.
The 1980s
Assi and Mansour Rahbani continued to compose musicals for Ronza and Fadia Tanb El-Hage (Ronza's sister). They re-made their musical Al Sha'khs (The Person) which they had first performed with Fairuz in the early-1970s. The songs were re-recorded with Ronza's voice; the production featured a small role played by Rima Rahbani, Fairouz's and Assi's daughter.
On June 26, 1986 Assi Rahbani died after spending several weeks in a coma. The nation went into mourning. He was buried in East Beirut; in order to make way for his funeral procession, the city's warring Muslim and Christian factions declared a cease fire and opened the city's checkpoints.
The 1990s
In the summer of 1998, Fairouz, Mansour Rahbani, Elias Rahbani, and Ziad Rahbani re-staged a number of their old musicals at the Baalbeck International Festival. The sold out shows ended with three new songs composed by Mansour and Elias Rahbani, their first collaboration in almost 25 years.
At the end of the show, Fairouz sang to Assi: "I came to Baalbeck after 20 years, asking where you are, but no one could tell me. Don't say you are not here, your shadow is still fluttering on these stairs, calling into the echoes..."
Critical interpretation – links to critical articles
A dearth of artistic-literary criticism exists on the works of the Rahbani Brothers, Ziad Rahbani, and Fairouz. One of the main reasons being their works are seen from a Nationalistic point of view. Proper literary criticism remains to be created most probably in later years. However, one of the most important literary interpretations are found in Nizar Mroueh's "In Lebanese Arabic Music and the Rahbani Musical Theatre".
Articles with a critical interpretation:
In Arabic:
http://rahbaniarchive.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/rk-on-btd-02.pdf
http://ziadandassirahbanicriticism.wordpress.com/
http://rahbaniarchive.wordpress.com/
In French:
http://z-rahbani.blogspot.ae/2008/06/de-lintgrisme.html
http://z-rahbani.blogspot.ae/2008/06/un-nouveau-dvd.html
Works
Musical plays
Ayyam al Hassaad (Days of Harvest – 1957)
Al 'Urs fi l'Qarya (The Wedding in the Village – 1959)
Al Ba'albakiya (The Girl from Baalbek – 1961)
Jisr el Amar (Bridge of the Moon – 1962)
'Awdet el 'Askar (The Return of the Soldiers – 1962)
Al Layl wal Qandil (The Night and the Lantern – 1963)
Biyya'el Khawatem (Rings for Sale – 1964)
Ayyam Fakhreddine (The Days of Fakhreddine – 1966)
Hala wal Malik (Hala and the King – 1967)
Ach Chakhs (The Person – 1968–1969)
Jibal Al Sawwan (Sawwan Mountains – 1969)
Ya'ich Ya'ich (Long Live, Long Live – 1970)
Sah Ennawm (Did you sleep well? – 1970–1971 – 2007–2008)
Nass min Wara' (People Made out of Paper – 1971–1972)
Natourit al Mafatih (The Guardian of the Keys – 1972)
Al Mahatta (The Station – 1973)
Loulou – 1974
Mais el Reem (The Deer's Meadow – 1975)
Petra – 1977–1978
Elissa – 1979 (Never performed due to the separation of Fairuz and Assi)
Habayeb Zaman – 1979 (Never performed due to the separation of Fairuz and Assi)
Ar-rabih Assabeh (the seventh spring – 1984)
Films
(1965) Biyya' el Khawatem (" The wedding Rings Seller" )
(1967) Safar Barlek (The Exile)
(1968) Bint El-Hares (The Guardian's Daughter)
See also
Assi Rahbani
Mansour Rahbani
Fairuz
Ziad Rahbani
References
External links
Elias Rahbani
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David Harris (rabbi)
Rabbi Dovid Harris (born 1945) is an Orthodox rabbi who along with Rabbi Akiva Grunblatt, serves as co-Rosh Hayeshiva (deans) at the Yeshivas Rabbeinu Yisrael Meir HaKohen. He is a prominent figure in the yeshiva world and speaks annually at the Torah Umesorah - National Society for Hebrew Day Schools convention. He also serves on the Rabbinic advisory committee of Torah Umesorah.
Life and education
Rabbi Harris was born in 1945 in Scranton Pennsylvania where he attended Scranton Hebrew Day school. After graduation, looking for a yeshiva high school, he decided on the Rabbinical Seminary of America in Queens New York. It was really a monumental decision because Rabbi Harris has spent his entire life studying or working for the Yeshiva and its affiliates. Rabbi Harris graduated from high school and continued on in the Yeshiva's post-high school program. In 1964 Rabbi Harris, along with the entire Yeshiva, traveled to Israel to study. In 1968 Rabbi Harris returned to Israel along with the entire Yeshiva. He would remain behind in 1969 to help strengthen the Israel branch. Rabbi Harris would complete his studies at the Yeshiva in 1973 after receiving his rabbinic ordination.
Career
In 1974 he co-founded the school's first external affiliate branch, the Talmudical Institute of Upstate New York, also known as "Rochester", together with Rabbi Menachem Davidowitz.
In the Fall of 1988, Rabbi Dovid Harris also founded Mesivta Tiferes Yisroel, another branch of the Chofetz Chaim Network.
See also
Yeshivas Rabbeinu Yisrael Meir HaKohen
Mesivta Tiferes Yisroel (an affiliate school).
Talmudical Institute of Upstate New York (an affiliate school).
Rabbi Binyomin Luban
References
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Boyz (film)
Boyz is a 2017 Marathi film directed by Vishal Devrukhkar, produced by Lalasaheb Shinde and Rajendra Shinde and presented by the singer Avadhoot Gupte. The film stars Sumant Shinde, Parth Bhalerao, Pratik Lad and Ritika Shrotri in lead roles, and marks the acting debut for Sumant Shinde and Pratik Lad. A sequel named Boyz 2 was released on 5 October 2018.
Plot
This is a tale of Kabir "Gayatri" Panigrahi, raised by his mother alone. He's tired of facing questions about his father. All the time his mother steers away from the discussion whenever they come to the topic of Kabir's father, which has now developed deep cracks between the two. The only communication thread between them is Kabir's aunt. Citing the tense atmosphere at home his mother and aunt decide to send Kabir to a Boarding school.
Two years on, Kabir has settled at the School and has earned every possible success that is achievable. He's striving for success all the time although the questions about the identity of his father still keep haunting him.
Dhairya and Dhungya, two village children get inducted in school as a special case. Both Dhairya and Dhungya are full of mischiefs. Tired of their deeds the villagers have arranged their admission to the boarding school to keep them away. The new entrants start to show their colors and the institute which is based on its principles start to witness changes.
Would the presence of Dhairya & Dhungya affect Kabir? would it be the positive or negative effect? Would Kabir be able to find his answers? Will the broken relation between Kabir and his Mother be mended? Would Dhairya and Dhungya change their ways and initiate responsible beginning? All that forms the crux of the story.
Cast
Sumant Shinde as Kabir Gayatri Panigrahi
Parth Bhalerao as Dhungraj aka "Dhungya"
Pratik Lad as Dhairyasheel aka "Dhairya"
Ritika Shroti as Grace
Santosh Juvekar as Mandar sir
Shilpa Tulaskar as Gayatri Panigrahi (Kabir's Mother)
Sharvari Jamenis as Radhika (Kabir's Aunt)
Zakir Hussain as Fernandez Sir
Bhalchandra Kadam as Baban
Vaibhav Mangle as Namya
Ashvini Mahangade as Teacher
Sunny Leone as Item number "Kutha kutha jayacha honeymoon la"
Box Office
Boyz was released on 8 September 2017, with the first weekend collection over at the box office. The film collected in its first week. and became a surprise blockbuster at the box office. A sequel named Boyz 2 was released on 5 October.
Soundtrack
The music of the film is composed by Avadhoot Gupte with lyrics by Avadhoot Gupte and Vaibhav Joshi.
Track listing
References
External links
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Madam X (band)
Madam X is an American hard rock band first active in glam metal during the 1980s. Originally formed by two sisters, Maxine and Roxy Petrucci, the band also featured male members John (Jayme) Grosjean, Bret Kaiser and Chris Doliber, and later included future Skid Row vocalist Sebastian Bach. Disbanding in 1988, the group reformed briefly in 1991, and has become active again after reforming for a second time in 2013. The band released a new album, Monstrocity, on October 31, 2017.
Career
Madam X was formed in Detroit, Michigan in 1982 by the Petrucci sisters, who had previously played in an all-female group called Pantagruel. They recruited bass guitarist Chris Doliber and vocalist John (Jayme) Grosjean, and the band relocated to the East Coast. Shortly after, John (Jayme) Grosjean left the band and was replaced by Bret Kaiser and they moved to New York. They were signed to Jet Records by Don Arden and released their debut album We Reserve the Right in 1984, produced by Rick Derringer. A single, "High in High School", was also released. They also appeared on the British TV music show ECT.
Kaiser later left the band and was unsuccessfully replaced by British singer John Ward, later in the bands Sabre and Shy. More songs were recorded but remained unreleased as the band were dropped by Jet. Ward then left the band and was replaced by unknown Canadian vocalist Sebastian Bach. Roxy Petrucci also left, joining Vixen, and was replaced by Mark "Bam-Bam" McConnell. Despite touring with a flamboyant stage show, the group disintegrated in 1988 with Bach leaving to join Skid Row, and McConnell joining Carrera. Madam X continued briefly as a trio with Shawn Duncan replacing McConnell, but when Doliber left to form his own band, Madam X disbanded.
In 1991, the Petrucci sisters reformed Madam X with vocalist Lenita Erickson; this line-up was later renamed Hell's Belles with Irene Wohlman on bass guitar, but soon disbanded.
Roxy Petrucci later reformed Vixen, being joined by Maxine on bass for a tour during 1998, only to leave Roxy's band thereafter. Vixen subsequently had to split following that tour when Roxy's previous bandmate Jan Kuehnemund filed a lawsuit to keep the rights to the Vixen name. After leaving Madam X, Bret Kaiser formed his own band (Kaiser) with his brother, and later performed with his own band ('56), releasing an album titled Steppin. Kaiser also performs as an Elvis Presley tribute artist. McConnell died on May 24, 2012.
The four original members, Bret Kaiser (vocals), Maxine Petrucci (guitars), Roxy Petrucci (drums) and Chris "Godzilla" Doliber (bass), reunited at the Sweden Rock Festival on June 7, 2014. In August 2017 EMP Label Group, a record label formed by David Ellefson of Megadeth, signed the original-member line-up of Madam X and their new album Monstrocity was released October 31, 2017.
Discography
We Reserve the Right (1984)
Monstrocity (2017)
Personnel
Current members
Maxine Petrucci – guitar (1982–1988, 1991, 2013–present)
Roxy Petrucci – drums (1982–1986, 1991, 2013–present)
Bret Kaiser – vocals (1982–1985, 2013–present)
Chris Doliber – bass guitar (1982–1988, 2013–present)
Past members
John (Jayme) Grosjean (1981-1982)
John Ward – vocals (1985–1986)
Mark McConnell – drums (1986–1988; died 2012)
Sebastian Bach – vocals (1986–1987)
David Rolen – vocals (1988)
Shawn Duncan – drums (1988)
Lenita Erickson – vocals (1991)
Irene Wohlman – bass guitar (1991)
Timeline
References
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Racism in Oregon
There has been a history of racism in the U.S. state of Oregon.
History
In 1857, the Oregon Territory proposed a state constitution banning black people from entering, residing, or acquiring property. In 1859 Oregon became the only state to enter the Union with such an exclusion clause.
In the 1920s, Oregon had the largest Ku Klux Klan (KKK) membership per capita in the United States. KKK member Walter M. Pierce was elected governor in 1922.
Oregon did not ratify the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which prohibited the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on their color or race, until 1959.
Portland
Portland is among the whitest major cities in the United States. Gentrification has displaced many black residents in north and northeast Portland.
In 2017, CBSN presented the documentary film, Portland | Race Against the Past, which focused on racism in Portland.
See also
Vanport, Oregon
References
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Geoffrey Archer (writer)
Geoffrey Archer is a fiction writer from London. He specialises in military adventures and spy thrillers and created the character Sam Packer.
Career
Geoffrey Archer was born and grew up in north London and had an interest in fiction and drama from an early age.
After several false starts in his choice of career, Geoffrey Archer moved into journalism. He started with a local television station in Southampton as a trainee researcher, then moved first to Anglia TV in Norwich and then to Tyne-Tees TV in Newcastle as an on-screen journalist. He started as a reporter with ITN in 1969. He covered the troubles in Northern Ireland in the 1970s and the civil war in Beirut in 1976, was allowed to travel with a Polaris nuclear submarine, and eventually became Defence Correspondent for ITN. These experiences prompted him to begin writing stories with military and spy themes.
In 1995 Archer left ITN to concentrate on writing full-time. In 1998 his novel Fire Hawk was short-listed for the Crime Writers' Gold Dagger Award.
Books
1988 – Sky Dancer
1989 – Shadow Hunter
1993 – Eagle Trap
1995 – Scorpion Trail
1997 – Java Spider
1998 – Fire Hawk
2001 – The Lucifer Network
2002 – The Burma Legacy
2004 – Dark Angel
References
External links
Brockes, Emma (23 July 2001). "Archer: the interview". The Guardian .
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Category:English spy fiction writers
Category:Writers from London
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Hell's Four Hundred
Hell's Four Hundred is a 1926 American silent drama film directed by John Griffith Wray and starring Margaret Livingston, Harrison Ford and Henry Kolker. A dream sequence towards the end of the film was shot in Technicolor.
Cast
Margaret Livingston as Evelyn Vance
Harrison Ford as John North
Henry Kolker as John Gilmore
Marceline Day as Barbara Langham
Wallace MacDonald as Marshall Langham
Rodney Hildebrand as Bill Montgomery
Amber Norman as Vivian
References
Bibliography
Solomon, Aubrey. The Fox Film Corporation, 1915-1935: A History and Filmography. McFarland, 2011.
External links
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Alan H. Coogan
Dr. Alan Hall Coogan is a former professor of geology at Kent State University. He received his M.A. in paleontology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1957. Dr. Coogan received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, Urbana in geology in 1962. He then went on to receive his J.D. from the University of Akron in 1977.
Dr. Coogan was a geology professor at Kent State University from 1967 until his retirement in 1999. His main expertise is in petroleum geology of the Appalachian Basin.
Professional papers and presentations
Dr. Coogan has written more than 200 journal articles, abstracts, book chapters, etc., with respect to sedimentary geology and applied sedimentary geology. He has also been involved in more than 20 technical environmental reports to governmental agencies.
Coogan, Alan H. “A fault-related model for the facies of the Lower Silurian Clinton Sandstone interval in the subsurface of eastern Ohio.” Northeastern Geology, v. 13 issue 2, 1991, p. 110-129.
Coogan, Alan H. “Subsurface Siluro-Devonian carbonate interval (Bass Islands-Columbus/Onondaga and Oriskany) in Ohio.” AAPG Bulletin, v. 80 issue 9, 1996, p. 1521.
Coogan, Alan H.; Hackathorn, Merrianne, editor. “Ohio's surface rocks and sediments.” Bulletin - Ohio, Division of Geological Survey, 1996, p. 31-50.
Coogan, Alan H.; Lesser, Gustavo. “Appalachian basin-edge, fault-related sequence terminations.” Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America, v. 23 issue 5, 1991, p. 346.
Coogan, Alan H.; Parker, Marilyn M. “Six potential trapping plays in Ordovician Trenton Limestone, Northwestern Ohio.” Oil and Gas Journal, v. 82 issue 48, 1984, p. 121-126.
Coogan, Alan H.; Peng, Shengfeng. “Depositional and subrosional Salina halite-bed terminations in northeastern Ohio are structurally controlled.” Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America, v. 26 issue 5, 1994, p. 10.
Coogan, Alan H.; Peng, Shengfeng. “Sauk Sequence wedge; structural and depositional setting for Knox and older petroleum reservoirs in Ohio.” Northeastern Geology, v. 16 issue 3-4, 1994, p. 221-230
Coogan, Alan H.; Worstall, Robert S. “Silurian Clinton shoestring channel sandstones in Ohio.” Compass, v. 68 issue 1, 1990, p. 4-12.
Coogan, Alan; Palmer, Donald F. “The effects of short term climate change in engineering geology.” Annual Meeting - Association of Engineering Geologists, v. 34, 1991, p. 548.
Farmerie, Randy L.; Coogan, Alan H. “Silurian Salina salt strata terminations in northeastern Ohio.” Northeastern Geology, v. 17 issue 4, 1995, p. 383-393.
Lesser, Gustavo; Coogan, Alan H. “Structural effects on Cambrian-Early Ordovician paleotopography in east-central Ohio.” Northeastern Geology, v. 15 issue 1, 1993, p. 62-77.
Peng, Shengfeng; Coogan, Alan H. “LOGCAL; a new tool to analyze the geophysical logs.” AAPG Bulletin, v. 79 issue 9, 1995, p. 1417.
Schultz, Troy; Coogan, Alan H. “Indoor air risk assessment of BTEX volatilization from ground water to indoor air.” Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America, v. 30 issue 2, 1998, p. 70.
Awards
In 1987, Dr. Coogan received the Outstanding Educator award from the American Association of Petroleum Geologists.
In 1994, Dr. Coogan received the John T. Galey Memorial Award from the American Association of Petroleum Geologists.
External links
Dr. Coogan's Webpage
aclcenergy.com - Alan Coogan's Ohio Geo-Land Services website
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Archichauliodes
Archichauliodes is a genus of fishflies in the family Corydalidae. There are more than 20 described species in Archichauliodes.
Species
These 21 species belong to the genus Archichauliodes:
Archichauliodes anagaurus Riek, 1954
Archichauliodes chilensis Kimmins, 1954
Archichauliodes collifer Theischinger, 1983
Archichauliodes conversus Theischinger, 1983
Archichauliodes cuspidatus Theischinger, 1983
Archichauliodes deceptor Kimmins, 1954
Archichauliodes diversus (Walker, 1853)
Archichauliodes glossa Theischinger, 1988
Archichauliodes guttiferus (Walker, 1853)
Archichauliodes isolatus Theischinger, 1983
Archichauliodes lewis Theischinger, 1983
Archichauliodes neoguttiferus Theischinger, 1983
Archichauliodes phaeoscius Riek, 1954
Archichauliodes pictus Theischinger, 1983
Archichauliodes pinares Flint, 1973
Archichauliodes piscator Theischinger, 1983
Archichauliodes plomleyi Kimmins, 1954
Archichauliodes polypastus Riek, 1954
Archichauliodes rieki Theischinger, 1983
Archichauliodes simpsoni Theischinger, 1983
Archichauliodes uncinatus Theischinger, 1983
References
Further reading
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Jatoi
Jatoi may refer to:
Jatoi (tribe), a Baloch tribe of Pakistan
Jatoi, Pakistan, a city in Punjab, Pakistan
Jatoi Tehsil, Pakistan
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Nyanga
Nyanga may mean:
Nyanga Province, of Gabon
Nyanga, Gabon, a place in the province of Nyanga in Gabon
Nyanga River, in Gabon and Congo
Nyanga people, an ethnic group from Congo
Nyanga, Zimbabwe, a town
Nyanga District, Zimbabwe
Nyanga National Park in Zimbabwe
Nyanga, Cape Town, a township in South Africa
Nyanga language (ISO 639/3 code nyj)
Nyanga-li language (ISO 639/3 code nyc)
People with the surname
Gaspar Yanga (AKA Gaspar Nyanga), leader of a slave revolt in colonial Mexico
Yannick Nyanga, French rugby union player
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Boucheron (disambiguation)
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Boucheron, a French jewelry company
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Stand by Your Man (film)
Stand by Your Man is a 1981 American made-for-television biographical film based on the life of Tammy Wynette, the country music superstar, including her tumultuous marriage to fellow star George Jones.
The Washington Post published a largely negative review of the movie, with critic Richard Harrington stating that "Unfortunately, television will be television, and the results are lackluster and somewhat misleading."
Cast
Annette O'Toole as Tammy Wynette
Tim McIntire as George Jones
James Hampton as Billy Sherrill
Cooper Huckabee as Euple Byrd
Monica Parker as Jane
Robert Carnegie as Glen Daley
Fredric Cook as Richard
References
External links
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Alfred Dockery House
Alfred Dockery House is a historic plantation house located near Rockingham, Richmond County, North Carolina. It was built about 1840, and is a two-story, five bay, brick dwelling with a low hipped roof in the Greek Revival style. It rests on a brick foundation and has two ells. The house was restored in 1951. Also on the property are the contributing remains of an outbuilding and the remains of a water powered mill. It was the home of Congressman and brigadier general of the Tennessee State Militia Alfred Dockery (1797-1875).
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.
References
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Ostedes subochreosparsa
Ostedes subochreosparsa is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Breuning in 1965.
References
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Rootin Tootin Luton Tapes
The Rootin Tootin Luton Tapes is a collection of demos made by New Zealand band Split Enz in 1978. During their 2006 tour of Australia it was announced that these recordings would finally be released as an official album after lengthy pressure from the fan club Frenz of the Enz.
In 1978 Split Enz fired their record company, their manager, and co-founder Phil Judd had left for the final time. The band was in a slump, and the opportunity arose for them to record in a small studio in Luton. It was a cramped space with percussionist Noel Crombie having to set up his kit in the studio's toilet and Eddie Rayner in a position where he was almost constantly hitting Tim Finn in the head with his elbow. In spite of this, the band claims that this was a very passionate recording session, and was the beginning of a new era.
Some songs were re-recorded for the album Frenzy, but the band considered the original recordings to be far superior. This was partly due to the engineering and mixing incompetence on that album by producer Mallory Earl resulting in tracks described by Noel Crombie as "woolly and average", and also from subdued performances by the band.
In 2007, Split Enz keyboardist Eddie Rayner remixed the available tapes; a limited edition 2-CD set was made available by the Frenz Of The Enz fan club to its members, while the commercial release is a single CD.
2 CD version
CD 1
"Miss Haps" (Tim Finn, Eddie Rayner) - 4:08
"Home Comforts" (Tim Finn) - 4:13
"Animal Lover" (Eddie Rayner) - 3:16
"Carried Away" (Neil Finn) - 4:37
"Semi-Detached" # (Tim Finn) - 5:03
"Holy Smoke" (Neil Finn) - 3:21
"Message Boy" (Tim Finn) - 3:47
"Hypnotised" (Tim Finn) - 3:41
"Late In Rome" (aka "Serge") (Neil Finn) - 3:25
"Straight Talk" (Tim Finn, Rob Gillies) - 3:23
"Hollow Victory" (Tim Finn) - 3:23
"Evelyn" (Neil Finn) - 3:16
"Best Friend" (Tim Finn, Neil Finn) - 3:04
"Creature Comforts" (Tim Finn, Nigel Griggs) - 2:52
"Remember When" (Tim Finn) - 3:56
CD 2
"Hermit McDermitt" (Tim Finn) - 5:02
"Betty" (Tim Finn) - 6:13
"I See Red" (Tim Finn) - 3:15
"Mind Over Matter" (Tim Finn, Neil Finn) - 3:09
"Next Exit" (Tim Finn) - 3:54
"She Got Body She Got Soul" (Tim Finn) - 2:57
"So This Is Love" * # (Phil Judd) - 4:14
"Abu Dhabi" # (Tim Finn, Eddie Rayner) - 4:53
"Famous People" # (Tim Finn) - 4:02
"I'm So Up" * # (Phil Judd) - 2:58
"Marooned" # (Tim Finn, Eddie Rayner) - 2:27
"Livin' It Up" # (Nigel Griggs) - 1:17
"Frenzy" # (Tim Finn, Eddie Rayner) - 3:07
Single CD version
Features CD 1 only.
Production
Recorded at Quest Studios, Luton, Bedfordshire, England, July 1978 (except those marked * - recorded on the Dave Lee Travis Show, BBC Studios, London, January 1978)
Produced by Dave Cook & Split Enz
Engineered & mixed by Dave Cook
Remixed & remastered by Eddie Rayner & Adrian Stuckey at Bignote Studios, Burleigh Heads, Queensland, Australia, 2006/07 (except those marked # - original 1978 mixes)
Original release of Rootin Tootin Luton tracks
Though largely unreleased prior the 2007 CD, ten songs from The Rootin' Tootin Luton Tapes were released in various artist albums or on the B-sides of singles.
"Hermit McDermitt"
B-side of "I See Red" (New Zealand/Australia), 1978
Frenzy album (A&M version), 1982
Spellbound album, 1997
"Message Boy"
B-side of "I See Red" (New Zealand/Australia), 1978
"Semi-Detached"
B-side of "Things", 1979
Frenzy album (A&M version), 1982
Spellbound album, 1997
Frenzy album remix/remaster, 2006
"Hypnotised"
B-side of "I Hope I Never" (Australia), 1980
"Carried Away"
B-side of "I Hope I Never" (Australia), 1980
Frenzy album (A&M version), 1982
Frenzy album remix/remaster, 2006
"Holy Smoke"
B-side of "History Never Repeats" (New Zealand/Australia), 1981
Frenzy album (A&M version), 1982
"Next Exit"
More Hits & Myths! NZ-only various artist album, 1981
"Livin' It Up"
B-side of "I See Red" (Canada), 1982
Frenzy album (A&M version), 1982
"Mind Over Matter"
Frenzy album (A&M version), 1982
"Evelyn"
I Like It Rare 4 Frenz Of The Enz fan club-only CD, 2007
Lost tracks
In a Frenz of the Enz newsletter, Eddie Rayner was interviewed regarding the release of the Luton tapes. Sadly he has confirmed that one tape containing approximately 5 songs is missing. One track that he assumes is on it is called "Sensational" (as this track is not on any of the other tapes he has).
Personnel
Tim Finn - vocals, piano
Neil Finn - guitar, piano, vocals
Nigel Griggs - bass
Noel Crombie - percussion
Malcolm Green - drums
Eddie Rayner - keyboards
Phil Judd - guitar, vocals on "So This is Love" and "I'm So Up"
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Basingstoke Bison
The Basingstoke Bison are an English Ice Hockey club from Basingstoke. They currently compete in the NIHL National League and have previously been members of the Ice Hockey Superleague and its successor the Elite Ice Hockey League.
History
Formed in 1988 as the Basingstoke Beavers, the club became the "Bison" in 1995. Their team logo is very similar to that used by the Buffalo Sabres from 1996–2006. Joining the Superleague in 1996, the Bison dropped out in 1998 and joined the British National League. In 2003 they joined the newly formed Elite Ice Hockey League.
Despite being one of the lower-budget teams in the EIHL, the Bison maintained their fan base and greatly enhanced local sponsorships and doubled their season ticket sales. This success is mainly testament to the hard work of Mark Bernard, who occupied the general manager and head coach role with the club during the 2004/05 and 2005/06 seasons. Bernard also stepped into the netminder's role part way through the latter season after Jayme Platt had left the team.
In May 2006, Bernard left the club to take up the assistant general manager's post with American Hockey League club, the Norfolk Admirals. Prior to his departure, Bernard secured the services of a number of the players that made up the 05/06 roster.
In June 2006, Planet Ice announced that the new player/coach of the club would be former club captain Doug Sheppard, with former Bison and London Racers defenceman Duncan Dalmao returning as player/assistant coach. Sheppard set about building his roster around the core that he had inherited from Bernard. The Bison embarked upon a successful year under Sheppard, securing their highest ever Elite League finish, and taking many points off the top sides in the League.
In April 2007, David Taylor, owner of the Bracknell Bees, purchased the Bison. He appointed Ryan Aldridge as the head coach of the team, signalling the end of Doug Shepherd's reign. Shepherd went on to join rivals Sheffield Steelers.
Following financial problems, which had resulted in the departure of a number of players (including starting netminder Stevie Lyle), Taylor relinquished ownership of the Bison and the team's new owner was announced as Tomas Enerston by Planet Ice on 8 November 2007. Less than a year later, following further financial difficulty, Planet Ice put together a rescue package to keep Bison on the ice until the end of the 2008/09 season.
On 25 March 2009, the Bison released a statement confirming that they would be joining the EPL for the 2009/10 season. Entry to the EPIHL was confirmed on 15 April 2009, and Steve Moria took over as head coach the following day.
After Moria's departure at the end of the 2011–2012 season, it was announced that Doug Sheppard would return as the Bison head coach for the 2012–2013 season. In March 2013, Sheppard signed another deal with the Basingstoke Bison to continue as head coach for the 2013–2014 season.
The Basingstoke Bison won the 15/16 English Premier League title, under Doug Sheppard as coach. This ended their silverware drought of 23 years.
The 2017/18 season was arguably the Bison's greatest ever season. Remaining under Doug Sheppard, they secured a historic treble by winning the NIHL 1 South league, NIHL 1 South playoffs and finally the NIHL Final Four playoffs.
In 2018/19, the Bison had a major squad rebuild, with just 7 players remaining at the club from the previous season. With Doug Sheppard joining rivals Bracknell Bees, the Bison brought in British ice hockey veteran Ashley Tait as a player-coach. With Coventry Blaze legend Russell Cowley and imports Richard Bordowski and Michal Klejna, the Bison achieved an unlikely 3rd place finish in the league, and made their way to the cup final, which they lost to the Peterborough Phantoms.
Roster
Roster for the 2019/20 NIHL season.
Honoured members
Basingstoke have only retired the number of two players, the first being Kevin Conway's number 10 in 2005 following his initial retirement from ice hockey. In the 2005–06 season, Tony Redmond was honoured with a testimonial season. In September 2009, it was announced that Don Yewchin, the original ice hockey coordinator for the Beavers in 1988 would have his number 12 jersey retired before Basingstoke's league game with local rivals Bracknell Bees on Saturday 10 October 2009. In a fantastic twist of fate, Basingstoke won the game 12–0 . In 2016, Tony Redmond's number 20 shirt was retired when the club beat Telford Tigers 7-0. In 2018, the club held a testimonial match to celebrate Kurt Reynolds, as he took a time-out from hockey.
Team honours
1989/90
Champions – English Div 1 Promotion Play-offs
1991/92
Winners – Southern Cup
1992/93
Champions – Heineken Division One
Champions – Heineken Div 1 Promomtion Play-offs
Runners-up – Southern Cup
1993/94
Runners-up – Southern Cup
1994/95
Runners-up – Southern Cup
1998/99
Runners-up – British National Ice Hockey League
Runners-up – Christmas Cup
1999/00
Winners – B & H Plate
Runners-up – ntl: Christmas Cup
Runners-up – BNL Play-off Championships
2000/01
Winners – B & H Plate
Runners-up – Findus British National Ice Hockey League
Runners-up – FBNL Play-off Championships
2003/04
EIHL First Team All Star – Curtis Cruickshank
2012/13
Runners-up – English Premier Ice Hockey League
2013/14
Winners – English Premier Ice Hockey League Cup
Runners-up – English Premier Ice Hockey League
Winners – English Premier Ice Hockey League Play-off Championship
2015/16
Champions – English Premier Ice Hockey League
2017/18
Champions – NIHL Britton League Division 1
Champions - NIHL Britton League Play-Offs
Champions - NIHL National Final Four Play-Offs
Past head coaches
Ashley Tait – 2018 – present – Player / head coach
Doug Sheppard – 2012 – 2018 – Player / head coach
Steve Moria – 2009–2012 – Player / head coach
Ryan Aldridge – 2007–2009 – Player / head coach
Doug Sheppard – 2006–2007 – Player / head coach
Mark Bernard – 2004–2006 – Player / head coach / general manager
Steve Moria – 2002–2004 – Player / head coach
Charlie Colon – 2000–2002 – Head coach
Rick Strachan – 1999–2000 – Player / head coach
Don Depoe – 1998–1999 – Head coach
Notable players
Darcy Anderson
Derek Campbell
Brad Cruikshank
Mark DeSantis
Jason Goulet
Jason Hewitt
Wes Jarvis
David Kozier
Dean Melanson
Dwight Parrish
Curtiss Patrick
Jayme Platt
Brent Pope
Danny Stewart
Steve Thornton
David Vychodil
Ben Davies
Footnotes
External links
Basingstoke Bison web site
Bolt Action Media – Bison's Media providers web site
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Joseph Krauskopf
Joseph Krauskopf (January 21, 1858, Ostrowo, Prussia – June 12, 1923, Atlantic City, New Jersey) was a prominent American rabbi, author, leader of Reform Judaism, founder of the National Farm School (now Delaware Valley University), and long-time (1887-1923) rabbi at Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel (KI), the oldest reform synagogue in Philadelphia which under Krauskopf, became the largest reform congregation in the nation.
Early life
In July, 1872, at the age of fourteen, Krauskopf emigrated to the United States, expecting to join his older brother, Manaseh, in New Jersey. Tragically, his brother was murdered just as Krauskopf arrived in the United States and instead he went to Fall River, Massachusetts, where he had cousins. There he found employment as clerk in a tea-store. While not denying or renouncing his own faith, he attended the local Unitarian Church (there was no Jewish congregation in the city), and became a protégé of Mrs. Mary Bridges Canedy Slade , who was the assistant editor the New England Journal of Education, a well-known author and composer, and the wife of the principal of the local high school, Albion Slade. Mrs. Slade directed Krauskopf's self-education, as he could not afford to quit work to attend school. In 1875 Mrs. Slade recommended him to Isaac Mayer Wise who was organizing the first rabbinical class at the newly founded Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, Ohio. Rabbi Wise probably respected Slade's recommendation because she was a prominent hymnist and author of children's literature. Also writing a letter of recommendation for Krauskopf was William Reed, the editor of the Fall River Daily Evening News. Thus, through the intervention of this devoutly Christian woman, Krauskopf went to rabbinical school.
Rabbinical Education and Early Career
Krauskopf arrived in Cincinnati in 1875 to be part of the first class at Hebrew Union College. This was Krauskopf's first opportunity to enter a program of formal education since arriving in the United States three years earlier at the age of fourteen. Krauskopf spent the next eight years at Hebrew Union College. In this time, he earned a high school degree, a bachelor's degree from the University of Cincinnati, and finally rabbinical ordination from Hebrew Union College in 1883. Therefore, in Cincinnati, he effectively went to high school, college, and rabbinical school simultaneously. While studying at Hebrew Union and at the University of Cincinnati, Krauskopf earned money as a tutor, contributed articles to journals, and published and marketed (with his future brother-in-law, Henry Berkowitz) the Union Hebrew Reader (1881, commonly known as the First Union Hebrew Reader), the Second Union Hebrew Reader (1884), and Bible Ethics: A Manual of Instruction in the History and Principles of Judaism, According to Hebrew Scriptures (1884) (full text). A contemporary journal, which focused on the study of Hebrew language and literature, praised the first Union Hebrew Reader (which sold for 25 cents) for providing ordered lessons that would "lead to the needed familiarity with the Hebrew page." In 1899 both of his Hebrew readers were being sold through the "Educational Catalogue for 1899" advertised in the publishing industry trade journal, Bookseller, Newsdealer, and Stationer.
While studying for his ordination, Krauskopf served as a student rabbi in Peoria, Illinois, and in Kalamazoo, Michigan. After his ordination, he became the rabbi at Congregation B'nai Jehudah in Kansas City, Missouri. Two years later, in 1885, he finished work on his graduate degree and earned a Doctor of Divinity from Hebrew Union College.
In Kansas City, Krauskopf was enormously popular within his synagogue and the larger urban community. He gave widely attended public lectures, some of which were later published as books. Additionally, he was involved in a wide range of civic activities. The governor of Missouri made him a life-member of the board of what was then known as the National Conference of Charities and Corrections. In 1885 he was instrumental in organizing a convention of reform Rabbis in Pittsburgh. Although only two years out of rabbinical school, he was elected vice-president of the Pittsburgh Conference, of which Isaac Mayer Wise was president. This conference wrote the Pittsburgh Platform, which became the defining statement of Reform Judaism at that time. In July 1887 Krauskopf accepted an offer from Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel of Philadelphia. His Kansas City congregation tried to prevent him from leaving, and even state and local politicians pressured him to reject the offer from KI. A delegation from Kansas City failed in its attempt to get KI to release Krauskopf from his contract. All of this caused some embarrassment and delayed his move, but he finally left for Philadelphia in late October.
Career at Keneseth Israel
Krauskopf was formally installed at Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel (KI) on October 23, 1887. Once in Philadelphia, Krauskopf quickly established himself as a leading figure in both the Jewish and non-Jewish communities. Krauskopf's congregation was almost entirely made up of Jews from Germany and other parts of central Europe. From the beginning of KI (in 1847) services and board meetings had always been conducted in German. Krauskopf was from Germany and spoke fluent German. Nevertheless, he transformed KI into an English speaking and thoroughly Americanized house of worship. For example, while continuing to hold religious services on Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath, Krauskopf also established a Sunday service which followed the traditions of American Protestantism. These Sunday services were more educational than religious, with Krauskopf giving sermons or lectures that lasted more than an hour. He spoke on theology, religion, ethics, social science, natural science and current events. A talented and popular speaker, he drew as many as 1,000 listeners to his Sunday services, including non-members and non-Jews who came to hear him speak. Krauskopf published these sermons and lectures as pamphlets which sold briskly. Under Krauskopf, KI flourished and became the largest reform Jewish congregation in the United States. Following the intellectual lead of his teacher, Isaac Mayer Wise, he was committed to the study of Jewish-Christian relations and even attempted to reclaim the apostle Paul as a model for Judaism. He worked closely with Catholic and Protestant leaders in Philadelphia, and was a force for ethnic and religious pluralism. On a national level, he helped organize the Jewish Publication Society of America, in 1888.
Krauskopf's congregation was almost entirely made up of German Jews. However, at this time, the American Jewish world was being transformed by massive immigration from Russia, Poland, and other parts of Eastern Europe. In 1894 Krauskopf visited Russia to investigate the condition of Jews in that notoriously anti-Semitic nation. Initially the Russian government refused to give him a visa, simply because he was Jewish. This led to a resolution in Congress, proposed by Representative Isidor Rayner of Maryland, urging the United States to abrogate the existing treaty with Russia. Congressman Rayner argued that if an American citizen could not freely travel in a country (Russia), then the United States should not maintain a treaty of friendship with that country. Krauskopf was uncomfortable with this publicity, but later admitted it probably led to Russia finally granting him a visa. While in Russia, Krauskopf gained a first hand look at the condition of the Jews within the Pale of Settlement. Krauskopf met with American diplomats, Russian political leaders and various intellectuals including Leo Tolstoy, best known as the author of War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877). Tolstoy told Krauskopf that the Jews had no future in Russia. At Tolstoy's suggestion, Krauskopf visited Jewish agricultural colonies in the Russian Empire and the Jewish Agricultural School at Odessa. On his return he worked to establish a similar institution outside of Philadelphia, believing that it would attract Jews from Russia and help provide them with an education to begin a new life in the United States. By 1895, Krauskopf had raised enough money to start a school, which was established in 1896 as the National Farm School in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. The school was non-sectarian, and indeed non-religious, but most of the early students were Jewish. Support came from private donations, state funds, and the Federation of Jewish Charities of Philadelphia. Krauskopf served as the first president of the institution, which is now Delaware Valley University. Krauskopf spent a great deal of time raising money for the school, and in 1905 led a capital campaign that raised $50,000 (about $1.5 million in 2015), including a $12,500 donation from Andrew Carnegie.
When Krauskopf came to KI the congregation had 250 member families. Within a few years it had over 400 member families. By 1892 the Congregation had moved to a newly constructed impressive building on Broad Street with seating in the sanctuary for over 1600 people. A year later the Congregation hired an assistant rabbi to work under Krauskopf. By 1900, KI's religious school had over 500 students. Under Krauskopf KI abolished the traditional Bar Mittzvah for thirteen-year-old boys and replaced it with a confirmation for boys and girls at age sixteen or seventeen.
Shortly after the outbreak of the Spanish–American War in 1898, Krauskopf became a leader of the National Relief Commission, and was one of three special field commissioners to visit army camps of the United States and Cuba. Almost immediately after he arrived in Cuba, Krauskopf contacted the Jewish philanthropist Nathan Strauss, persuading him to donate an ice factory to support the needs of American troops in Cuba. Two weeks later the entire ice plant was shipped to Santiago, Cuba. In Cuba, Krauskopf became friends with Col. Theodore Roosevelt and conducted services for the eight Jewish soldiers in Roosevelt's Rough Riders (the First United States Volunteer Cavalry). Krauskopf and Roosevelt would remain friends and when Roosevelt died Krauskopf had a large stained glass window commissioned in his honor which today, is part of the entrance foyer in the Keneseth Israel synagogue in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania. In March, 1903, Krauskopf was elected director-general of the Isaac Meyer Wise Memorial Fund, and in July of the same year he became president of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, the main professional organization of reform rabbis.
During World War I Krauskopf continued his patriotic public service, working under Herbert Hoover in the U.S. Food Administration. During this period he spent a good deal of time in Washington. He served on the Liberty Loan Committee for Philadelphia and was worked on issues involving food conservation. This dovetailed with his long relationship to the National Farm School.
Writings and Scholarship
Krauskopf was a prolific writer. After his ordination he published 14 major books, hundreds of sermons as pamphlets, numerous journal and newspaper articles, and various other publications.
The Jews and Moors in Spain came from a series of eighteen public lectures Krauskopf gave while he was the Rabbi at Congregation B'Nai Jehudah in Kansas City, Missouri. These lectures were initially published in the Kansas City Journal These lectures were enormously popular among "both Jews and Christians" and thus Krauskopf consented to their publication in book form. Indicative of their popularity, and the political significance of Krauskopf's interfaith activities, the book had letters of endorsement from Thomas T. Crittenden, the former Governor of Missouri and U.S. District Judge Arnold Krekel.
In his book Evolution and Judaism, Krauskopf accepted the idea that science might "overshadow" religion but that the science needs to be well understood and properly connected to religion. Krauskopf accepted the scientific legitimacy of evolution and Darwinian theory. He argued, in a chapter titled "Darwinism," that "Supreme order is the manifestation of supreme intelligence. If I had no other proof for my belief in the existence and sovereignty of an Intelligent Final Cause, I would derive it from my recognition of the fact that supreme order, uninterrupted harmony, eternal and immutable law, control all nature, heaven and earth, all inorganic and organic, in but one way, and in no other." He argues that evolution is simply part of the law of nature and that "this natural law shape matter with design and direct force with a purpose, and design and purpose presuppose intelligence." Krauskopf argued that evolution was the same as "Supreme Governing Power, Supreme Will, Supreme Natural Law" and that "by theologians it is called 'God.'" With "this conception of the nature of God" he argued that "every difference between science and religion disappears" and "with this conception of God, as manifested in nature, I am prepared to accept even Darwinism." Thus, Krauskopf accepted evolution, as set out by Darwin, as consistent with the existence of God, because God provided the "supreme intelligence" to let evolution happen. Under this analysis, there could be no conflict between religion and science, and "Darwinism, though disagreeing with the Biblical account of creation is with religion, not against it." He praised Darwin, declaring that "God has had no better interpreter of the greatness and magnificence of His handiwork." He acknowledged that Darwin "opposed" the "Biblical account" of creation, because modern research proved the Biblical account of creation imperfect," But Krauskopf argued that this science, and Darwinian notions such as natural selection, actually supported the idea of a superior being – God – who set into motion evolution through natural selection. He concluded that "Judaism and ever progressive religion with a conception of God ... can freely and conscientiously accept the theory of organic evolution." Thus, the "sum of Supreme Will, Supreme Power, Supreme Intelligence, evolutionists name The Reign of Natural Law, the theologians call it God." Evolution and Judaism is also interesting because, at the same time as adopting a sceptical approach to traditional readings of the bible, Krauskopf attempted to justify Jewish religious continuity by presenting a Jewish form of panentheism that viewed the universe as an evolving phenomenon and presented a biological argument for the reality of life beyond death.
In Jesus—Man or God? Kraukopf argued Jesus was centrally a Jewish scholar and compares his teachings to those of the Jewish philosopher/ scholar Hillel that the historical persecution of Jews was a result of Christianity rejecting, or forgetting, its Jewish and Old Testament origins and in effect, becoming paganized. As a result of this "the [Christian] church, founded on love and peace and justice, became a church of hatred and inhumanity." He argued that the Protestant Reformation led to "the slow return from the pagan Christ to the Judean Jesus, the gradual stripping away of the many foreign-borrowed accretions under which the Nazarene prophet and patriot had well-night been buried" and thus "after eighteen hundred years of cruel separation, Christian and Jew are drawing closer to each other." He argued that "Unitarian and Reformed Jewish Churches" were "the advance guard of both factions have met." Krauskopf believed that Christianity – and especially the New Testament – had been corrupted by "foreign material and falsified history, of pagan mythology and Persian demonology and Egyptian mysticism." He argued that one modern Christianity purged itself of this invasive material Christianity would move back toward its Jewish roots based on "the Judaism that was taught by a Jewish prophet, and patriot and martyr, the Rabbi of Nazareth."
Personal life
In 1883 Krauskopf married Rose Berkowitz, the sister of his close friend and intellectual collaborator, Henry Berkowitz. In the same ceremony, Henry Berkowitz married Flora Brunn. The ceremony was conducted by Rabbi Isaac Meyer Wise, who had been the mentor to both men at HUC. The Krauskopfs had three children, Harold, Eleanore, and Manfred, before Rose died in 1893. After her death Krauskopf was absorbed in professional duties and activities, including his trip to Russia and founding the National Farm School. However, during this period he managed to court Sybil Feineman, who was the daughter of Krauskopf's former congregants in Kansas City. In fact, Krauskopf had taught her when she took a confirmation class in Benai Jehuda. In 1896 he went back to Kansas City to marry her, in a ceremony at her parents’ house. The Rabbi was 38 at the time and his new wife was 25. They had one child, Madeleine. In 1923 KI made Krauskopf a rabbi for life, with the expectation that he would retire soon. However, shortly after that, on June 12, 1923 Krauskopf died.
Members of his family continued his traditions in many ways. His great nephew was Rabbi Malcolm H. Stern, who became an assistant rabbi at KI, published First American Jewish Families (1960, revised 1991), and was the president of the American Jewish Genealogical Society. Rabbi Krauskopf's son, Manfred, served as the president of the Board of Trustees of the National Farm School, which his father had founded. The Rabbi's grandson, Joseph L. Krauskopf served on the Board of Trustees of the Farm School and his great-grandson, Joseph Charles Krauskopf, currently serves on the board of the same institution which has evolved into Delaware Valley University.
Selected publications
Sunday Discourses (1887–1902)
Service Ritual (1888)
Service Manual (1892)
My Visit to Tolstoy: Five Discourses (cir. 1894)
Gleanings from Our Vineyard (1895)
The Mourners' Service (1895)
Sabbath-School Service (1896)
Society and Its Morals (1900)
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The Seven Ages of Man (1902)
Old Truths in New Books (1902)
References
Goldman, Yosef. Hebrew Printing in America, 1735-1926, A History and Annotated Bibliography (YGBooks 2006).
External links
http://www.whatsoproudlywehail.org/authors/mary-b-c-slade
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/n/ncosw/
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Phoebe Omlie
Phoebe Jane Fairgrave Omlie (November 21, 1902 – July 17, 1975) was an American aviation pioneer, particularly noted for her accomplishments as an early female aviator. Omlie was the first woman to receive an airplane mechanic's license, the first licensed female transport pilot, and the first woman to be appointed to a federal position in the aviation field.
During the late 1920s and early 1930s, Omlie set several world records in aviation, including the highest altitude parachute jump by a woman. She was also the first woman to cross the Rocky Mountains in a light aircraft, and was considered by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt to be one of "eleven women whose achievements make it safe to say the world is progressing".
Early life
Phoebe Jane Fairgrave was born in Des Moines, Iowa on November 21, 1902, and was the only daughter of parents Harry J. Park and Madge Traister Park. After divorcing Harry Park, Madge married Andrew Fairgrave, who adopted her two children, Phoebe and Paul. Phoebe and her brother, Paul, attended Oak Park School in Des Moines until she was 12, when she and her family moved to St. Paul, Minnesota. There, Fairgrave attended Madison School and Mechanic Arts High School and graduated in 1920. Fairgrave's interest in aviation was sparked the day before she graduated, when President Woodrow Wilson visited Minneapolis. President Wilson's visit was commemorated by a flyover and was the first airshow of any kind that Fairgrave had witnessed.
Aviation career
Shortly after graduating high school, Fairgrave spent a few months at the Guy Durrell Dramatic School and worked briefly as a secretary. Bored with the prospects, she began hanging around airfields near her home and attempted to convince the airport manager to allow one of his flight instructors to take her flying. The manager finally agreed, thinking that he could scare Fairgrave's interest in aviation out of her by performing various aerobatic maneuvers in an attempt to make her sick. Instead, Fairgrave demanded more flight time and used some of her inheritance to purchase a Curtiss JN-4 biplane after her fourth flight.
Still in her teens, Fairgrave started performing stunts on the wing of her aircraft as another pilot remained at the controls. Fairgrave began wing walking, learned to hang below the plane by her teeth, parachute, and "dance the Charleston on the top wing". Using the stunts she had learned, Fairgrave claimed the record for the highest parachute jump for a woman by jumping from her plane at (MSL) and earned a movie deal, flying aerobatic stunts for the film serial The Perils of Pauline. This was her first flight with Vernon C. Omlie, who would become her husband. Following the record setting jump, Fairgrave and Omlie flew around the country on a barnstorming tour and eventually married in 1922.
In 1925, the Omlies moved to Memphis, Tennessee and began offering flying lessons and mechanical services to local residents. A year later, in 1927, Phoebe became the first woman to receive an airplane mechanic's license, as well as the first licensed female transport pilot. While Vernon continued operating the business and working as a flight instructor, Phoebe began working for the Mono Aircraft Company. Flying the company's Monocoupe 90 light aircraft out of Quad City International Airport in 1928, Omlie set a world altitude record for women when she reached (MSL). That same year, Omlie competed in the Edsel Ford Air Tour and became the first woman to cross the Rocky Mountains in a light aircraft. Omlie later joined the Ninety-Nines as a charter member after competing in a race with Amelia Earhart.
Omlie's success as a pilot was recognized by the Democratic National Committee, and she was enlisted to fly a female speaker around the country for Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1932 presidential campaign. After the successful campaign, Omlie was appointed by President Roosevelt as the "Special Adviser for Air Intelligence to the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics". This made her the first woman to be appointed to a federal aviation position. In this role, Omlie acted as a "liaison between the National Advisory Committee of Aeronautics and the Bureau of Air Commerce" alongside Amelia Earhart to create what would become the National Airspace System.
On August 5, 1936, Vernon Omlie and seven passengers were killed when a commercial flight they were aboard crashed in St. Louis, Missouri while attempting to land in foggy conditions. Phoebe Omlie immediately resigned her position in Washington, D.C. and returned to Memphis. Following her husband's death, Omlie did not return to Washington, D.C. until 1941, when she accepted a job as "Senior Private Flying Specialist of the Civil Aeronautics Authority". In this position, and to meet the severe need for pilots for service in WWII, Omlie established 66 flight schools in 46 states, including a school in Tuskegee, Alabama that would later train the famous Tuskegee Airmen. With the Tennessee Bureau of Aeronautics, she established an "experimental" program to train women as instructors. The first class, ten women from various states, trained between September and February 1943, and was meant to establish her strong and, to some, controversial belief that " . . . if women can teach men to walk, they can teach them to fly." These women went on to instruct both men and women pilots both in military and civilian flight training programs, including the Navy V-5 and the USAAF Women Airforce Service Pilots.
Unhappy about the increasing regulation of the aviation industry by the United States Federal Government under President Harry S. Truman, Omlie resigned in 1952 and left aviation.
Later life
After resigning from the Civil Aeronautics Authority, Omlie returned to Memphis and purchased a cattle farm in Como, Mississippi. Omlie's inexperience with farming caused hardship for the business, so she traded the farm around 1957 for a small cafe and hotel in Lambert, Mississippi. The hotel business proved to be just as unsuccessful for Omlie, who returned to Memphis in 1961.
Omlie periodically spoke to aviation groups about her concerns over increasing federal regulation of the industry, but the speaking engagements dwindled over time and ceased by 1970. The last five years of Omlie's life were spent in seclusion, living in a flophouse in Indianapolis, Indiana, fighting lung cancer and alcoholism. Omlie died on July 17, 1975, and was buried next to her husband in Forest Hill Cemetery.
In June 1982, a new air traffic control tower was dedicated and named in honor of Phoebe and Vernon Omlie at the Memphis International Airport.
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Lucy Montz
Lucy Montz (December 30, 1842 – March 23, 1922) was the first woman to be licensed to practice as a dentist in Kentucky.
Early life and education
Lucy Ann Dupuy was born on December 30, 1842 in Warsaw, Kentucky to John T. Dupuy and Henrietta (Ross) Dupuy. In 1860, she married Frank Montz in Louisville, Kentucky, and together they had one daughter who died in infancy. She was widowed at the age 20. Montz moved to Covington where she taught school. While teaching school, she studied at Cincinnati College of Dental Surgery, and graduated with honors in 1889.
Dental career
After graduation, Montz became a member of the faculty of the Cincinnati College of Dental Surgery for several years. In 1893, at the age of 51, she relocated back to her home town of Warsaw and began a dental practice. She was admitted to the Kentucky Dental Association in 1893, and later that year was honored at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago as the only woman dentist in Kentucky. She continued to practice dentistry until 1921, when she retired due to illness.
Death and legacy
After her retirement, Montz moved to Madison, Indiana and died on March 23, 1922. She was buried in the family cemetery in Warsaw, Kentucky. The Dr. Lucy Dupuy Montz House in Warsaw is on the National Register of Historical Places.
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Zalaegerszeg
Zalaegerszeg (; ; ; ) is the administrative center of Zala county in western Hungary.
Location
Zalaegerszeg lies on the banks of the Zala River, close to the Slovenian and Austrian borders and west-southwest of Budapest by road.
History
The area was already inhabited in the Upper Paleolithic, according to archaeological findings (the oldest ones in Zala county.) Later, the area was inhabited by Celts.
The first written mentions of the town are as Egerscug (1247) and Egerszeg (1293); the name means "alder-tree corner" and is probably a reference to the town's situation in the angle where two rivers meet. King Béla IV donated the town to the diocese of Veszprém in 1266, so that it became church property. As Egerszeg lay somewhat distant from Veszprém, however, the taxes paid by the town often ended up in the pockets of such local oligarchs as the Kőszegi family.
In the 14th century, Egerszeg was the largest town of the area. Between 1368 and 1389, it was a royal town for a short time, then Sigismund I donated it to the Kanizsai family who traded it for another town with the bishop of Veszprém. Zalaegerszeg remained their property until 1848.
In 1381, the town built a stone church. In 1421, Egerszeg was granted oppidum status, which meant they could pay taxes once a year and the citizens could elect their own judge. The population grew quickly, and by the 16th century, Egerszeg became the de facto centre of Zala comitatus.
In the 1530s, development was brought to a halt. Taking advantage of the power of the king being weakened, the owners of the surrounding lands attacked the town often, and the Ottomans already began to occupy Hungary after the Battle of Mohács in 1526. From 1568, the town was fortified, a castle was built. The Ottomans attacked the town for the first time in the late 1570s, but they failed to capture it.
After Kanizsa fell to the Ottomans, the strategic importance of Egerszeg grew, but the castle was severely damaged in 1616 and captured by the Ottomans for a short time in 1664. The citizens suffered not only from the war, but from plagues and heavy taxes as well.
Egerszeg, even though it was on the periphery of the comitatus, became its capital in the 18th century, mostly because the councils were always held there, because of its importance in the Ottoman times and because it wasn't the estate of a local lord, unlike the other towns in Zala. The county hall was built between 1730 and 1732 in Baroque style, and for a long time it was the only significant building of the town. In the 1760s a large church and a barracks was built. Most of the citizens still not owned stone-built houses, and fires often destroyed the town, until 1826, when stone buildings were built.
Until the early 19th century, there were only a few craftsmen and merchants in the town, because they had to pay taxes to the bishop who owned the city. By the 1830s 10% of the residents of the mostly Roman Catholic town were Jewish, but even they did not give a boost to trade. Because of this, even though the town was the centre of administration, economically and culturally it wasn't really important. Even though it had about 3,500 residents, it had only two primary schools. The cultural centres of the comitatus were Kanizsa and Keszthely.
Zalaegerszeg played only a minor role in the revolution and freedom fight in 1848-49. In 1870, it lost its town status and became a village, which meant a decrease in prestige, even more so, since Nagykanizsa kept its town status. On May 31, 1885, Zalaegerszeg became a town again. In 1887, the village of Ola was annexed to the town. In 1890, the railway line between Ukk and Csáktornya (Croatian: Čakovec) connected Zalaegerszeg to the railway system of the country. In 1895, several new buildings were built, including a new secondary school, a town hall, a hotel, a nursery school and a brick factory, but the town ran into debt and the mayor, Károly Kovács had to resign. His successor, Lajos Botfy decreased the debt and could continue the development of the town, but in the early 20th century Zalaegerszeg was still behind the other county seats in many ways.
The representative at the Hungarian Parliament József Farkas de Boldogfa was person of deep catholic and monarchist convictions, although he was a very tolerant and also responsible Parliament Representative: On december 12th of 1901 József Farkas de Boldogfa led a delegation to Budapest to meet personally Baron Gyula Wlassics de Zalánkemén (1852–1937) Minister of Religion and Education with the purpose of asking his support for building a Synagogue on Zalaegerszeg, relying on the fact that the minister, as a Zalaegerszeg native, is well aware of the situation of the local Jews' community. A couple of years after these negotiations the Synagogue of Zalaegerszeg was finished in 1904.
The 1920s brought prosperity again; new buildings included the new post office, the railway station, the office of the fire department, the police headquarters, the monastery of the Notre Dame Order and a synagogue in Baroque style.
The most significant loss in World War II was the deportation of the 1221 Jewish citizens to Auschwitz. The city was freed from the Nazis by the Red Army on March 28, 1945. On the next local elections in 1949, the local branch of the Communist party got only about 10% of the votes, still they became the leaders of the city.
The 1950s brought important changes. Zalaegerszeg got a more industrial profile with the construction of the textile factory and the discovery of oil resources in 1952. The railway line was expanded, too. Lots of workers were commuting from the nearby villages, because it was almost impossible to find a flat in the city, so several residents of Zalaegerszeg (mostly those who were considered to be opposed to the Socialist system) were forced to relocate.
The citizens took part in the revolution in 1956. The revolution in the city began on October 26. The communist local government fled to Körmend, and until the arrival of the Soviet troops (November 4) the city was governed by the Revolutionary Council.
In the 1960s and 1970s, the city experienced a demographic explosion. Several new flats were built, new residents moved into them, and the growing city absorbed many surrounding villages (Csácsbozsok, Botfa, Zalabesenyő, Bazita, Andráshida, and Pózva). Albeit at a slower pace, it continues to expand toward the settlements of Bocfölde and Bagod.
After the end of Socialism, Zalaegerszeg wasn't affected by economic recession as much as other cities were. The 1990s brought dynamic development to the city.
Zalaegerszeg hosted the 1983 World Orienteering Championships. In 2001, Zalaegerszeg hosted the Central European Olympiad in Informatics (CEOI). Zalaegerszeg also hosted the 2004 European Women's Handball Championship preliminary round, the 2005 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship and the 2005 European Fencing Championships.
Main sights
Roman Catholic church (Baroque)
Old county hall (18th century)
Hevesi Sándor Theatre
Göcsej Museum and open-air museum
Museum of Oil Industry
Kisfaludi Strobl collection
Bazita Peak TV Tower
Sport
Zalaegerszegi TE, local football team
Zalakeramia-ZTE KK Professional Basketball team
Demographics
In 2001, Zalaegerszeg had 61,654 inhabitants (95.5% Hungarian, 1% Romani, 0.4% German...). The distribution of religions were, 71.1% Roman Catholic, 3.8% Calvinist, 1.6% Lutheran, 11.6% Atheist (2001 census).
Politics
The current mayor of Zalaegerszeg is Zoltán Balaicz (Fidesz-KDNP).
The local Municipal Assembly, elected at the 2019 local government elections, is made up of 18 members (1 Mayor, 12 Individual constituencies MEPs and 5 Compensation List MEPs) divided into this political parties and alliances:
Notable people
Ferenc Deák (1803–1876), member of parliament, minister of justice
Miklós Gábor (1919–1998), actor
Dezső Keresztury (1904–1996), critic, literary historian
Zsigmond Kisfaludi Strobl (1884–1975), sculptor
Károly Kovács (1839–1904), mayor
József Mindszenty (1892–1975), cardinal, archbishop of Esztergom
Lajos Portisch (1937-), chess player
Gyula Wlassics (1852–1937), minister of education
Lajos Vajda (1908–1941), painter
László Andor (*1966) EU-Commissioner
James Nemeti Stamp (1997-present) JLR Technician
Twin towns — sister cities
Zalaegerszeg is twinned with:
Klagenfurt, Austria
Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Dobrich, Bulgaria
Varaždin, Croatia
Varkaus, Finland
Kusel, Germany
Marl, Germany
Gorizia, Italy
Krosno, Poland, since 2000
Târgu Mureş, Romania
Surgut, Russia
Lendava, Slovenia
Kherson, Ukraine
References
Notes
External links
The official website of Zalaegerszeg
Aerial photography: Zalaegerszeg
Zalaegerszeg at funiq.hu
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Albert Campbell (footballer)
Albert Campbell (born 4 January 1938 in Belfast, Northern Ireland) is a former footballer who played with Crusaders in the Irish League in the 1960s, and who won two full international caps for Northern Ireland (the first Crusaders player to be capped): against Wales in the 1963 Home Internationals and Switzerland in a World Cup match in 1964. He also won a 'B' international cap against France in 1959.
With Crusaders, he won the Ulster Cup and County Antrim Shield, and was part of the club's first Irish Cup-winning teams in 1967 and 1968. He was named the Ulster Footballer of the Year for the 1960/61 season.
References
External links
Northern Ireland's Footballing Greats
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Fraunhoferstraße (Munich U-Bahn)
Fraunhoferstraße, is an U-Bahn station in Munich on the U1 and U2. It is also served by route of the Munich tramway.
References
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Monge de Montaudon
The (Lo) Monge de Montaudon (meaning "monk of Montaudon") (fl. 1193–1210), born Pèire de Vic, was a nobleman, monk, and troubadour from the Auvergne, born at the castle of Vic-sur-Cère near Aurillac, where he became a Benedictine monk around 1180. According to his vida, he composed "couplets while he was in the monastery and sirventes on subjects that were popular in the region."
Life
The Monge requested and received the priory of Montaudon from the abbot of Aurillac. Montaudon may be identified with Montauban or perhaps with a Mons Odonis southeast of Clermont. He became so popular with local nobility that he was taken from his monastery to serve them, receiving honours and gifts in return. In this way he greatly improved the state of his priorate and, upon his request, was released from his monastic vocation by his abbot to follow Alfonso II of Aragon, whose vassal the viscount of Carlat and lord of Vic was. This is the view of his vida; he may have simply abandoned holy orders. Internal evidence in his poems suggests wide wanderings, to Périgord, Languedoc, and Catalonia, and the patronage of Dalfi d'Alvernha and Maria de Ventadorn.
At Alfonso's court, according to his vida, he ate meat, courted women, and composed songs and poems. In return he was appointed lord of the poetical society of Puy Sainta Maria (Puy-Sainte-Marie) at Le-Puy-en-Velay (Podium Aniciense) and received a sparrow hawk, the prize the society granted for superb poetry. According to his vida, he held the "suzerainty" of the "court of Puy" (cour du Puy) until it was dissolved.
After this he went to Roussillon, where he became prior of the Benedictine priory of Saint-Pierre-de-Belloc, near Villafranca, though this establishment was not, contrary to his vida, a dependent of Aurillac. He is said to have "enriched [the priory] and improved it" before "ending his days" there.
Songs
The Monge's earliest song which can be reliably dated refers to the captivity of Richard I of England in Austria (1192–1194). Though seven of his cansos survive, he is most well known for the genres he probably invented: the enueg and plazer. He wrote four enuegz: Be m'enuejan, per saint Marsal and Be m'enueja, per saint Salvaire being two. His cansos are "rich in feudal metaphors".
Among the Monge's other works, Mout me platz deportz e gaieza and Be m'enueia, s'o auzes dire have been translated into English as "What I Like" and "What I Don't Like" respectively. He wrote fictional tensos with God. Around 1192–4 he wrote Pos Peire d'Alvernh' a chantat, a famous parody of a satire of Peire d'Alvernha. In it he insults his contemporaries, such as Arnaut Daniel, Arnaut de Maruelh, Folquet de Marselha, Gaucelm Faidit, Guilhem Ademar, Guillem de Saint Didier, Peire Vidal, Peirol, Raimon Jordan, and Raimon de Miraval. Two of his melodies survive. One of these, the music for the enueg Fort m'enoja, so auzes dire was borrowed from a sirventes, Rassa, tan creis e mont, of Bertran de Born: the only piece of Bertran's music to survive. Only one melody by the Monge himself—for a canso entitled Ara pot ma dona saber—survives. Nonetheless, this lone piece of work is characterised by phrase variation and motivic transformation, with an unexpected ending.
The poem S'eu vos voill tan gen lauzar was appended to a set of four by the Monge in the 13th century, but it is probably a work of Jausbert de Puycibot.
Sources
Aubrey, Elizabeth. The Music of the Troubadours. Indiana University Press, 1996. .
Chambers, Frank M. "On the Attribution of a Provençal Poem." Modern Language Notes, Vol. 62, No. 5. (May, 1947), pp. 320–322.
Egan, Margarita (trans.) The Vidas of the Troubadours. New York: Garland, 1984. .
Gaunt, Simon, and Kay, Sarah (edd.) The Troubadours: An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. .
Kehew, Robert (ed.) Lark in the Morning: The Verses of the Troubadours. Ezra Pound and William De Witt Snodgrass, trans. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. .
Routledge, Michael J. Les Poésies du Moine de Montaudon. Montpellier: 1977.
External links
Complete works in Old Occitan on trobar.org
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Supervisor Engine (Cisco)
The Cisco Supervisor Engine is the brain of many of Cisco's switches. The Supervisor Engine has evolved several times. While it is the management segment of many routers, the power of the switch is often much greater than that of the Supervisor Engine because one of the features of many switches is that dozens of the functions are accelerated by ASIC chips.
Abridged list of features:
802.1q VLAN
Spanning Tree Protocol
Ether Channel
Jumbo Frames
(E)IGRP, OSPF, RIP (2), Static Routing
BGP, IS-IS
QOS
Some have Layer 3 & 4 Switching
Specifications
Details
Supervisor Engine I
68EC040
Chassis: 2900, 2948G, 2980G, 4000, 4500, 5000, 5500, 6000, 6500, 7600
Supervisor Engine II
MIPS R4700
Chassis: 2926, 4000, 4500, 5000, 5500, 6000, 6500, 7600
Supervisor Engine II+
MIPS R4700
Cisco Express Forwarding
Chassis: 2926, 4000, 4500, 5000, 5500, 6000, 6500, 7600
Supervisor Engine III
Cisco Express Forwarding
Max DRAM: 256MB SD
Redundant Capable
Netflow accelerator card
Supervisor Engine IV
Cisco Express Forwarding
Max Flash: 64MB (supplemental Compact Flash optional)
Supervisor Engine V
Cisco Express Forwarding
Chassis: 4500
Supervisor Engine 6
Cisco Express Forwarding
Chassis: 4500 "E" Series
Supervisor Engine 32
Cisco Express Forwarding
Chassis: 6000, 6500, 7600
A low cost, reduced version of the 720
Policy Feature Card 3b
MSFC 2A?
Supervisor Engine 720
Cisco Express Forwarding
Policy Feature Card 3A, 3B, 3BXL
Chassis: 6500, 7600
MSFC1-3
Multi-Layer Switch Feature Card
See also
Cisco IOS
Catalyst switch
Catalyst 6500
Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Switches
References
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps663/products_tech_note09186a00801a5d58.shtml
http://www.ciscosystems.com/en/US/prod/collateral/switches/ps5718/ps4324/product_data_sheet09186a00801fcaba.pdf
http://www.cisco.ac/application/pdf/en/us/guest/products/ps4324/c1167/ccmigration_09186a008011b8da.pdf
http://www.berkcom.com/resources/cisco/C6500_ccmigration_09186a00800887fd.pdf
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps663/products_tech_note09186a0080094645.shtml
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St. George's Church, Cologne
St. Georg's Church is one of twelve Romanesque churches in the city of Cologne, Germany.
History
The date of the foundation of St Georg's is unknown, but it was consecrated towards the end of the 11th century. The nave was vaulted in the mid-12th century, the westwerk was added in 1188 and the entrance portal on the north side in 1551. The church was damaged during World War II, resulting in extensive restoration which included the removal of the Baroque extension to the westwerk and replacement with a simple hip roof in the Romanesque style.
Architecture
St Georg's has the trefoil-shaped eastern end typical of other Romanesque churches of Cologne, its chancel and transepts each terminating in an apse. The nave is unique in Cologne in having its arcade supported on columns rather than piers.
There is a robust westwerk with walls of 5 metres thick, suggesting that it was intended to be much taller than actually built. The original Romanesque roof of the westwerk was replaced with a Baroque belfry, but this was damaged during World War II and later replaced with a steeply pitched hip roof of copper. During the late 1920s the church had been entirely glazed by the Expressionist artist, Johan Thorn Prikker. These windows were lost during the war, but have been reproduced from the original cartoons.
See also
Twelve Romanesque churches of Cologne
Cologne Cathedral
German architecture
Romanesque architecture
List of regional characteristics of Romanesque churches
Romanesque secular and domestic architecture
References
Literature
Hiltrud Kier: Via Sacra zu Fuß, Kölns Städtebau und die Romanischen Kirchen. Bachem Verlag, Köln 2003 (²/2005) .
Ulrich Krings, Otmar Schwab: Köln: Die Romanischen Kirchen – Zerstörung und Wiederherstellung. Reihe Stadtspuren Bd. 2, Köln, Bachem Verlag, 2007 (712 S. mit CD Chronologie des Wiederaufbaus).
Sybille Fraquelli: Zwölf Tore zum Himmel. Kinder entdecken: Die Romanischen Kirchen in Köln. J.P. Bachem Verlag, Köln 2007.
Hiltrud Kier und Ulrich Krings: Die Romanischen Kirchen in Köln, Köln, 3.Auflage 1986.
Sabine Czymmek: Die Kölner Romanischen Kirchen, Schatzkunst, Bd. 1, Köln 2008, Bd. 2, Köln 2009 (= Colonia Romanica, Jahrbuch des Fördervereins Romanische Kirchen Köln e. V. Bd. 22, 2007 und 23, 2008)
External links
Förderverein Romanische Kirchen Köln e.V.
Romanesque churches of Cologne on Sacred Destinations
Romanesque churches on Cologne-Tourism
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Stoptail bridge
A stoptail bridge (sometimes also called a stopbar bridge) used on a solid body electric guitar or archtop guitar is a specialized kind of fixed hard-tail bridge. Hard-tail bridged guitars use different bridges from those guitars fitted with vibrato systems (which are also known as tremolo arms or whammy bars).
Construction and materials
The stoptail bridge consists of two parts: an adjustable fixed bridge piece, such as a Tune-o-matic and a separate stopbar (or stop bar) tailpiece.
A stopbar tailpiece is, as the name implies, a bar-shaped formed metal piece commonly made of pot metal or zinc alloys although aluminum and brass may be used. Many manufacturers claim that the use of lightweight metals and alloys, such as aluminum, provide a greater transfer of the string's vibrational energy or "resonant quality" to the guitar body since there is less mass to excite. Aluminum was also used in the early examples of stoptail bridges from the 1950s, so it carries the mantle of "vintage" vibe.
The "stop" part comes from the fact that the string ends are held in place or they "stop" inside the bar. The bar is mounted on top of the guitar body usually by means of sturdy threaded metal studs screwed into threaded sleeves embedded into the body of the guitar. The studs and stopbar are located behind the separate bridge piece.
The stopbar can either simply slip onto notches on top of the studs, or be held in place using set screws. One danger to be aware of is that the stopbar can fall out of the notches when changing strings and put a ding in the guitar's finish. When it is held in place using the screws, it is sometimes referred to as a "locking stopbar". In these designs, the Tune-o-matic bridge section is also usually fastened to its embedded studs by set screws. This fastening of the key components in a stoptail bridge system is claimed to impart more sustain and tone to the guitar's sound.
Function and advantages
The stopbar has holes drilled into it that allow the guitar strings to be threaded from the rear and out through the front. The string path then goes over the bridge saddles and the string nut to the machine heads located on the headstock.
The stopbar tailpiece is meant to be adjusted for string tension. The threaded posts can be lowered or raised to increase or relieve the string tension at pitch. This is an important adjustment especially when changing the gauge of the string set on the guitar. There are practical limits to this technique: too high and you could bend the posts and the strings won't seat properly into the bridge saddles; too low and the string break will rest on the rear of the bridge, killing sustain and tone. Some players prefer to tighten the stopbar all the way down in an attempt to increase sustain and tone. This requires a different stringing technique.
Some players, like Duane Allman, deviate from the norm and "top wrap" their strings. This is when the direction of the string path is reversed so that the strings are threaded through the leading edge of the stopbar then come out the rear and wrapped over the top of the stop bar. The advantage is that strings are supposedly easier to bend because of the decreased string break angle. Also, the "nonspeaking" string length is increased, which may have an effect on the strings' harmonic vibration (see sympathetic resonance). The increased tendency for the strings to produce natural harmonics may make techniques such as pinch harmonics easier to accomplish. This is the same way that a wraparound stoptail bridge is strung. Regardless of the technique used, the tension provided by tightening the strings to pitch is the only thing keeping the stopbar in place, unless it is a "locking" type.
The supposed advantages of using a stoptail bridge over a tremolo bridge are: greater ability to keep the strings in tune, especially under the duress of hard note-bending; better string path stability and ability to intonate; and, better sustain due to a more direct resonance of the guitar's tonewood excited by the transmission of sound wave energy from the vibrating string. This is not a universally accepted opinion and guitarists will argue over the virtues of stoptail, hard-tail and tremolo bridges probably for as long as they all exist.
Variations
Gibson Guitar Corporation guitars tend to be most often associated with the stoptail bridge, especially the iconic Gibson Les Paul model, whereas Fender Musical Instruments Corporation guitars are most often thought of as vibrato bridges like the famous Stratocaster model.
Wraparound
A variant of a stoptail bridge is the "wraparound." Wraparound style bridges are used on less costly models such as the Gibson Melody Maker and on expensive, high-end guitars like PRS Guitars. This style bridge combines the bridge and stopbar into one unit. There are a variety of wraparound bridge designs. They may have individual movable bridge saddles (adjustable stoptail bridges), a fixed compensated saddle similar to an acoustic guitar bridge, or simply a straight stopbar anchored in the bridge position.
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Pierina (name)
Pierina is an Italian and Spanish feminine given name. Notable people with the name include:
Pierina Borsani (1909–1960), Italian female basketball player and athlete
Pierina Carcelén, Peruvian actress, model and dancer
Pierina Gilli (1911–1991), Italian Roman Catholic visionary
Pierina Legnani (1868–1930), Italian ballerina
Pierina Montenegro (born 1986), Uruguyan footballer
Pierina Morosini (1931–1957), Italian Roman Catholic from Bergamo who was killed after a man tried to rape her
See also
Maria Pierina (1890–1945), Roman Catholic religious Sister
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Trioxidane
Trioxidane (also systematically named μ-trioxidanediidodihydrogen), also called hydrogen trioxide or dihydrogen trioxide, is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula (also written as or ). It is one of the unstable hydrogen polyoxides. In aqueous solutions, trioxidane decomposes to form water and singlet oxygen:
The reverse reaction, the addition of singlet oxygen to water, typically does not occur in part due to the scarcity of singlet oxygen. In biological systems, however, ozone is known to be generated from singlet oxygen, and the presumed mechanism is an antibody-catalyzed production of trioxidane from singlet oxygen.
Preparation
Trioxidane can be obtained in small, but detectable, amounts in reactions of ozone and hydrogen peroxide, or by the electrolysis of water. Larger quantities have been prepared by the reaction of ozone with organic reducing agents at low temperatures in a variety of organic solvents such as the anthraquinone process, and it is also formed during the decomposition of organic hydrotrioxides (ROOOH). Alternatively, trioxidane can be prepared by reduction of ozone with 1,2-diphenylhydrazine at low temperature. Using a resin-bound version of the latter, relatively pure trioxidane can be isolated as a solution in organic solvent. Preparation of high purity solutions is possible using the methytrioxorhenium(VII) catalyst. In acetone-d6 at –20 °C, the characteristic 1H NMR signal of trioxidane could be observed at a chemical shift of 13.1 ppm. Solutions of hydrogen trioxide in diethyl ether can be safely stored at -20 °C for as long as a week.
The reaction of ozone with hydrogen peroxide is known as the "peroxone process". This mixture has been used for some time for treating groundwater contaminated with organic compounds. The reaction produces H2O3 and H2O5.
Structure
In 2005, trioxidane was observed experimentally by microwave spectroscopy in a supersonic jet. The molecule exists in a skewed structure, with an oxygen–oxygen–oxygen–hydrogen dihedral angle of 81.8°. The oxygen–oxygen bond lengths of 142.8 picometer are slightly shorter than the 146.4 pm oxygen–oxygen bonds in hydrogen peroxide. Various dimeric and trimeric forms also seem to exist. It is slightly more acidic than hydrogen peroxide, dissociating into H+ and OOOH−.
Reactions
Trioxidane readily decomposes into water and singlet oxygen, with a half-life of about 16 minutes in organic solvents at room temperature, but only milliseconds in water. It reacts with organic sulfides to form sulfoxides, but little else is known of its reactivity.
Recent research found that trioxidane is the active ingredient responsible for the antimicrobial properties of the well known ozone/hydrogen peroxide mix. Because these two compounds are present in biological systems as well it is argued that an antibody in the human body can generate trioxidane as a powerful oxidant against invading bacteria. The source of the compound in biological systems is the reaction between singlet oxygen and water (which proceeds in either direction, of course, according to concentrations), with the singlet oxygen being produced by immune cells.
Computational chemistry predicts that more oxygen chain molecules or hydrogen polyoxides exist and that even indefinitely long oxygen chains can exist in a low-temperature gas. With this spectroscopic evidence a search for these type of molecules can start in interstellar space.
See also
Molozonide
References
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Melchior Wyrsch
Johann Melchior Wyrsch (August 21, 1732 – September 9, 1798) was a Swiss painter of the 18th century.
Life
Johann Melchior Wyrsch was born on August 21, 1732, in Buochs, Unterwalden. He was the son of Balthazar Francis Xavier, Councillor, bailiff and Diet envoy, and Anna Klara Achermann. Wyrsch began his art studies 1745 as a portrait painter with Johann Michael Suter in Lucerne and Franz Anton Kraus in Einsiedeln as teachers.
Between 1753 and 1754 he spent a study tour in Italy, where he mainly resided in Rome and Naples. After his art studies in Italy, he returned to Switzerland and began his artistic activity as a portrait and church painter. In 1768 he moved to Besançon, where he painted many portraits of respected people.
Together with the sculptor Luc Breton, whom he had met in Rome, he founded in 1773 the academy for painting and drawing ( Académie de Peinture et de dessin ) in Besançon.
In 1877 he traveled to Paris, and returned to Besançon, where he was appointed in 1784 an honorary citizen. In the same year he moved to Lucerne, where he proposed to the Council of Lucerne in 1783 to found a School of Drawing with the task to teach talented young students in drawing and modeling.
With an increasing blindness ascribed to cataracts, he withdrew to Buochs, where at the Conquest Nidwalden he was murdered by the troops of Napoleon Bonaparte.
Legacy
In the transition from Baroque and rococo on the one hand to Classical and Romanticism on the other hand Wyrsch participated in the development of portraits for differentiated characterization of a single individual.
He was enshrined in the "enlightened paternalism" of the Old Confederation, however, his work has been on the liberal bourgeois era.
He painted as a religious painter numerous altars in Central Switzerland and the Franche-Comté that are still adorned with his paintings.
He remained a central Swiss painter of the late Baroque.
In 1780 the abbot of Disentis, Columban Sozzi, paid attention to the talent of Felix Maria Diogg (1762–1834), and enabled him to travel to Wyrsch in Besançon.
Literature
Matthias Vogel, Regine Helbling, Marianne Baltensperger (Eds.): Powdered and cleaned. Johann Melchior Wyrsch 1732–1798. Portraitist and church painter , Schwabe, 1998.
Dr. Paul Fischer: The painter Johann Melchior Wyrsch of Buochs, 1732 - 1798 | His Life and Work , commission publishing, bookstore C. Bachmann, Zurich 1938
Johann Kaspar Fuessli: History of the best artists in Switzerland Johann Melchior Joseph Würsch (page 102-109), Orell, Gessner, Füsslin and Comp, Zurich, 1779
Wyrsch, Johann (Jean) Melchior Joseph (Josef) , Swiss Institute for Art Research, Hans-Peter Wittwer
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George N. Gillett Jr.
George Nield Gillett Jr. (born October 22, 1938) is an American businessman. Originally from Wisconsin, he lives in Vail, Colorado. He is married and has four children.
Biography
Gillett graduated from Lake Forest Academy in 1956. He attended Amherst College and is a 1961 graduate of Dominican College of Racine, Wisconsin. Gillett's first job following college was with Crown Zellerbach as regional sales manager.
Gillett's career continued in the 1960s in marketing and management consulting, initially with McKinsey & Co. A sports fanatic since childhood, by 1966, he was business manager and partner of the Miami Dolphins. In 1966, he purchased a 20% interest in the Miami Dolphins NFL franchise for $1 million. He sold this interest in 1968 for $3 million, and used some of the proceeds to purchase the nearly defunct Harlem Globetrotters and later started Globetrotters Communications, a nationally syndicated radio group. He reinvigorated the Globetrotters by an intense marketing effort that included a popular cartoon series.
In 1978, Gillett bought Packerland. With the successful venture of Packerland, Gillett then diversified into radio and television with the start of Gillett Communications Company. At its peak, Gillett Communications owned network affiliates, the majority of which were CBS, in many of the country's major television markets.
In 1979, he launched Gillett Communications by buying three small television stations. Three years later he bought the WSM television station in Nashville. In 1984, Gillett acquired Appleton-based Post Corporation's eight television stations, 22 newspapers and associated plants; the non-broadcast assets were sold to Thomson Corporation and other buyers. In 1987, he acquired Storer Broadcasting using Kohlberg Kravis Roberts junk bonds, after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) lifted restrictions on ownership.
In 1985, Gillett acquired Vail Associates' Vail and Beaver Creek ski resorts. He would often ride chairlifts and greet guests, and launched a massive installation of high-speed detachable chairlifts. Gillett also supported major alpine ski events at a time when most ski areas in America declined to host international races, starting with the 1989 World Alpine Ski Championships, and through his support hosted the 1999 World Alpine Ski Championships.
Gillett's companies sought Chapter 11 protection in 1992, as higher interest rates penalised junk bond issuers. Gillett's media arm was reorganized as SCI Television, shortly before being purchased by New World Communications under the control of Ronald Perelman. Many of these stations would eventually be sold to News Corporation and become owned-and-operated stations carrying Fox.
After junk bonds
Gillett walked away with $32.1 million to restart his business empire when Vail floated on the NYSE. In 1995, he repurchased Packerland undertaken by Booth Creek Management Corp., a company created to oversee the acquisitions and management of interests of the Gillett family from that point forwards, and of which Gillett remains chairman.
In 1996, he formed Booth Creek Ski Holdings Inc., acquiring or building a range of ski resorts in New Hampshire, California, Washington and Wyoming. He later bought Grand Targhee Ski and Summer Resort, together with several golf courses. Booth Creek continues to operate Sierra-at-Tahoe.
From 1997, he extended his meat interests by building Corporate Brand Foods America (which included ITC, Iowa Ham, Jordan Meats and Wright Bacon). Iowa Beef Processors (IBP) purchased the company for US$550 million in 1999.
Gillett and Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst then bought ConAgra's beef operations – Swift & Company – for US$1.4 billion in 2000. On July 12, 2007, JBS S.A., the largest beef processor in South America and one of the largest worldwide beef exporters, purchased Swift & Company in a US$1.5 billion all-cash deal. The acquisition made the newly consolidated JBS Swift Group the largest beef processor in the world.
In the meat business, Gillett now also formally controlled:
Petaluma Poultry – natural and organic chicken products
Snowball Foods – food processor of turkey and chicken products
Kings Delight – food processor of turkey and chicken products
B3R Country Meats – processes fresh and frozen natural beef
Coleman Natural Products – processes fresh and frozen natural pork products and lamb
Gerhard's Napa Valley Sausage – a producer of gourmet sausage products made primarily from poultry.
North American sports interests
In 2000, Gillett joined forces with Pat Bowlen and John Elway in a failed attempt to buy the Denver Nuggets of the NBA, Colorado Avalanche of the NHL, and Pepsi Center. On January 2, 2001, Gillett bought an 80% interest in the Montreal Canadiens and their home arena, Molson Centre, for US$185 million. Prior to the purchase, Gillett had shown interest in the Florida Panthers, New York Islanders, Ottawa Senators, and the Phoenix Coyotes. Gillett's bid initially raised fears that he might move the NHL's oldest franchise to the United States. However, after no other viable offers surfaced from Canadian interests, Molson agreed to Gillett's offer. Molson, however, maintained the right of first refusal should Gillett ever sell the team.
On August 6, 2007, Gillett bought a controlling interest of the NASCAR team Evernham Motorsports from founder Ray Evernham, thereby forming Gillett Evernham Motorsports. In January 2009, a merger was completed with fellow NASCAR team Petty Enterprises. As a result, GEM was renamed Richard Petty Motorsports. Gillett no longer has a share in the team.
On March 27, 2008, Joey Saputo, chairman of USL First Division team Montreal Impact, confirmed talks with Gillett and Major League Soccer for a Montreal franchise. While a bid for a franchise was launched with Saputo and Gillett co-heading the venture, as a result of finances, however, the team would rescind the bid later that year on November 22.
On June 20, 2009, the Montreal Canadiens confirmed that Gillett had sold the "Habs", the Bell Centre and the Gillett Entertainment Group, a Canadian-based sports and entertainment promoter, to the Molson brothers for a reported $550 million (Cdn). The deal was concluded on December 1, 2009.
Liverpool F.C.
Since October 2006, Gillett and fellow American Tom Hicks had been parties interested in a proposed takeover of Liverpool F.C. of the Premier League. In January 2007, Reports stated that Gillett had made another bid for Liverpool. On January 31, 2007, Dubai International Capital announced they had pulled out of the deal, giving Gillett the opportunity to buy the club from David Moores. On February 2, 2007, Gillett and Hicks reached a deal with the club's board, which was sealed on February 6, thought to be worth in the region of £435 million: £220 million to buy out existing shareholders (including approximately £44.8 million of debt), and £215 million for the new stadium proposed at nearby Stanley Park. The Board unanimously recommended that the club's shareholders accept this offer.
On January 22, 2008, a majority of Liverpool fans, at the game between Liverpool and Aston Villa, protested against Gillett and Hicks' running of the club, urging the pair to sell their shares in Liverpool F.C. to Dubai International Capital (DIC). Neither owner, nor their representative Foster Gillett were present at the game. Gillett was reportedly targeted by DIC to sell his shares. It was reported that he has fallen out with Tom Hicks and in recent months has kept silent over his dealing with the club. On March 7, 2008, it was reported that Gillett had agreed to sell 98 per cent of his Liverpool stock to DIC, but Hicks blocked the sale. In an interview on Prime Time Sports in Canada, Gillett revealed that he and his family had received death threats from angry Liverpool fans: "The fans don’t want him [Tom Hicks] to have even one share of my stake in the club, based on what they are sending to me. As a result of that we [my family] have received many phone calls in the middle of the night threatening our lives, death threats. A number came to the office and my son, Foster, and daughter-in-law, Lauren, have received them." The relationship between Gillett and Hicks broke down some time ago, leading to in-fighting at Anfield.
It has been reported that former manager Rafael Benítez's relationship with Hicks and Gillett had become increasingly strained and he was fired on June 2, 2010, after a poor season which saw the club finish seventh in the Premier League, missing out on UEFA Champions League football for the following season.
As of October 15, 2010, Gillett had lost ownership of Liverpool F.C., and despite numerous attempts to prevent it, the club was sold to New England Sports Ventures (NESV), for a fee believed to be around £300M which was far below his valuation of "between £600M and £1 billion (B)", by the Liverpool F.C. board of directors in a 3–2 vote.
As of November 2010, Gillett was personally named in a lawsuit filed by Mill Financial, seeking $117 million. Mill Financial, based in Springfield, Virginia, reportedly refinanced a loan used by Gillett to buy a big stake in Liverpool F.C. in 2007. Gillett's partner in the deal was Tom Hicks. Gillett and Hicks, dba Gillett Football LLC, lost control of Liverpool F.C. after they were unable to stop the Royal Bank of Scotland, which financed their original purchase of the team, from selling Liverpool F.C. The bank sold Liverpool F.C. to Boston Red Sox owner John W. Henry’s New England Sports Ventures at a price that was lower than expected. At the same time the Liverpool issue was occurring, Gillett's Richard Petty Motorsports fell into financial trouble.
On January 11, 2013, Hicks and Gillett finally decided to drop their case in the English Law Courts against Sir Martin Broughton, Christian Purslow and Ian Ayre, the three directors on the board of Liverpool F.C. at the time of the sale of the club to NESV. They also agreed to drop their case against NESV and RBS Bank. The terms of the agreement are confidential, though it is believed that no monies were paid to Hicks or Gillett. Earlier in the week, Hicks and Gillett had lost a Court of Appeal bid to delay a High Court Trial, so they could have more time to raise the monies needed to fund the multimillion-pound lawsuit.
As of 2016, Gillett is still paying £1.5 million per year in interest payments to Mill Financial, who lent him £50 million for his failed investment in Liverpool.
Other interests
Other former Gillett business interests include:
Northland Services Inc. – a marine transportation company
Great Northern Bark and Sierra Organics – landscaping and gardening products company
Gillett's other current business interests include:
Summit Automotive Partners, an auto dealership group
References
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Lyudmila Bogomolova
Lyudmila Ivanovna Bogomolova (later Nikonova, , born 25 March 1932 in Moscow) is a retired Soviet ballerina.
Biography
Between 1946 and 1951 Bogomolova studied at the Moscow State Academy of Choreography, and after graduation was accepted to the Bolshoi Ballet, eventually becoming its soloist. She retired in 1971 and until 1988 taught classical dance at the Academy of Choreography; between 1978 and 1980 she also worked as a choreographer at Bolshoi. In 1959 she became the Honored Artist of Russia.
Bogomolova married two ballet dancers, Stanislav Vlasov and then Vladimir Nikonov. She has two sons, Leonid Nikonov (born 1961, first marriage) and Andrei Nikonov (born 1970, second marriage). Both sons became ballet soloists at Bolshoi.
See also
List of Russian ballet dancers
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Miriam Chaszczewacki
Miriam Chaszczewacki or Miriam Chaszczewacka (1924–1942) was a 15-year-old Jewish girl and Holocaust victim who in 1939 began writing a personal diary about her life in the Radomsko ghetto which ended a few days before her assassination in 1942.
Discovery and publication of the diary
Miriam's teacher Stefania Heilbrunn returned to Radomsko, Poland after World War II had ended. While she was visiting the city cemetery, she met a Polish woman who gave her a sealed envelope saying: "My son has asked me to give this to you. I don't know anything about it" and left. In the envelope Heilbrunn found a notebook with handwriting she recognized as belonging to her former student, Miriam Chaszczewacki. Heilbrunn brought the notebook to Israel and published its content.
Originally the diary was written in Polish. Parts of the diary were published in Hebrew, Yiddish, Polish, English and German. The original notebook was donated to Yad Vashem.
Life
Miriam's mother Sarah Lavit Zelber, born to a Hassidic family was a kindergarten teacher and a public figure. Miriam's father David was born in Ukraine. He opened a Jewish school in Radomsko where he taught Hebrew. This school was later active in the ghetto. Miriam's brother Nahum was born in 1929. Miriam was a 15-year-old gymnasium student and a member of a Zionist youth movement when the war began. She is described as a gentle, sensitive, intelligent and talented girl who studied Hebrew in her father's school. In another testimony, she is described as a shy, romantic and dreamy teenager.
Miriam's father and brother were murdered in the ghetto by the Germans. The father, David, was killed for refusing to board a deportation train. The brother Nahum was buried in a mass grave in the Jewish cemetery.
Chapters of the diary
The diary begins with the introductory chapter that describes the events between the summer of 1939 and the occupation of Radomsko by the Germans in September 1939. The second part of the diary consists of 27 dated entries starting at 21 April 1941 describing the events of the war and ghetto life along with the typical account of a teenage girl's emotions.
Death
The last entry in the diary in Miriam's handwriting was on 7 October 1942, when Miriam was 18. Between 9 and 12 October 1942 about 14,000 residents of the ghetto were sent to Treblinka.
In the last page of the notebook appears an entry in a different, adult, handwriting, possibly by the Polish policeman who was the son of the woman who passed the notebook to Stefania Heilbrunn:
On the evening of the 24 October 1942 she surrendered, together with her mother, to a Polish policeman on duty on Limanewskeigo Str. They asked to be taken to the Judenrat, as they have been hiding for a week in a lavatory and had enough of it all. During the last 3 days they ate raw groats. They were taken to the Police station and the next day left with a transport by lorry to Częstochowa.
In one of the diary's last entries, about a month before her death, Miriam wrote:
It may seem silly, but only a step away from death I still worry about my diary. I would not want for it to meet a miserable end in an oven or on a rubbish heap. I wish somebody could find it – even if it be only a German – and would read it. I wish that these scribblings, though they record barely a fraction of the cruelties, would one day serve as a true and faithful document of our times.
References
Further reading
Children of Dust and Heaven: A Collective memoir, Cape Town: S. Heilbrunn, 1978.
Stefania Heilbrunn; Miriam Chaszczewacki, Children of Dust and Heaven: A Diary from Nazi Occupation Through the Holocaust; A Collective Memoir, new ed., Pacific Palisades, Calif.: Remember Point, 2012.
"KINDER AUS STAUB UND HIMMEL: EIN TAGEBUCH AUS DER NS-BESATZUNGSZEIT WÄHREND DES HOLOCAUSTS: GERMAN EDITION" by Stefania Heilbrunn
External links
History of the Radomsko ghetto (Polish), including portions of Miriam's diary on the Radomsko history museum site
Student film inspired by the diary
Miriam Chaszczewacki’s Diary, Europeana
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1st Banffshire Artillery Volunteers
The 1st Banffshire Artillery Volunteers was a part-time unit of the British Army's Royal Artillery founded in Banffshire in Scotland in 1859. Through various reorganisations it served as auxiliary garrison artillery until 1908.
Volunteer Force
The enthusiasm for the Volunteer movement following an invasion scare in 1859 saw the creation of many Rifle and Artillery Volunteer Corps composed of part-time soldiers eager to supplement the Regular British Army in time of need. By 1861 five Artillery Volunteer Corps (AVCs) had been formed in Banffshire:
1st (Macduff) Banffshire AVC formed before October 1859, originally as a subdivision
2nd (Banff) Banffshire AVC formed on 29 December 1859, originally numbered 1st
3rd (Banff) Banffshire AVC formed on 5 April 1860; absorbed into 2nd AVC in 1864
4th (Portsoy) Banffshire AVC formed on 8 October 1860
5th (Cullen) Banffshire AVC formed on 18 February 1861
On 22 October 1861 these units were brought together into the 1st Administrative Brigade, Banffshire Artillery Volunteers, with its headquarters (HQ) at Banff. In 1863 the brigade was joined by the 1st Elgin AVC, which had been formed at Lossiemouth in Elginshire on 26 March 1860. A 2nd Elgin AVC was formed at Burghead on 16 October 1872 and was also included in the 1st Banff Admin Brigade. On 13 November 1875 a new 3rd Banffshire AVC was formed at Gardenstown to replace the unit disbanded in 1864.
Reorganisation
In December 1876 the artillery volunteers in North East Scotland were reorganised. The five Banff units joined the 1st Aberdeenshire Administrative Brigade and the two Elgin units joined the 1st Inverness-shire Administrative Brigade.
When the administrative brigades were consolidated in May 1880, the Banffshire AVCs were included in the new 1st Aberdeenshire AVC as Nos 9–13 Batteries. However, in May 1882 they were withdrawn, together with two Aberdeenshire batteries and the Lossiemouth battery from Elgin, to form the 1st Banffshire AVC with the subtitle 'Aberdeen, Banff and Elgin', and the following organisation:
HQ at 6 Castle Street, Banff
No 1 Battery at Macduff – former 1st Banff
No 2 Battery at Banff – former 2nd Banff
No 3 Battery at Gardenstown – former 3rd Banff; disbanded 1904
No 4 Battery at Portsoy – former 4th Banff
No 5 Battery at Cullen – former 5th Banff
No 6 Battery at Peterhead – former 1st Aberdeenshire
No 7 Battery at Fraserburgh – former 5th Aberdeenshire
No 8 Battery at Lossiemouth – former 1st Elgin
The unit carried out its annual practice camp at Barry Buddon, and had five carbine ranges near company HQs.
Royal Garrison Artillery
In 1882 all the AVCs were affiliated to one of the territorial garrison divisions of the Royal Artillery (RA) and the 1st Banffshire AVC became part of the Scottish Division. In 1889 the structure was altered, and the corps joined the Southern Division. In 1899 the RA was divided into separate field and garrison branches, and the artillery volunteers were all assigned to the Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA). In 1902 their titles were changed, the unit becoming the 1st Banffshire Royal Garrison Artillery (Volunteers).
Territorial Force
When the Volunteers were subsumed into the new Territorial Force (TF) under the Haldane Reforms of 1908, the personnel of the 1st Banffshire and most of the 1st Aberdeenshire RGA (V) were combined to form a new I (or 1st) Highland Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. The new unit included a Banffshire Battery and the Banffshire Small Arms Ammunition Section of the Brigade Ammunition Column. However, the Banffshire Battery was disbanded in 1911 and replaced by another Aberdeen Battery.
Uniforms and insignia
The original five Banff AVCs wore a uniform that closely followed that of the Royal Artillery, except that white/silver lace was worn in place of yellow/gold. After 1882 the 1st Banff AVC was one of the few Scottish artillery corps to have a Pipe band, which wore the Duff tartan of its Honorary Colonel.
Commanding officers
The Commanding Officers (COs) of the unit were:
J. Cruikshank, Major 22 October 1861, Lieutenant-Colonel 14 August 1863
Lt-Col James Moir, 29 December 1865
Lt-Col Francis W. Garden-Campbell, former Lieutenant in the Scots Fusilier Guards, 8 November 1873; on amalgamation with the 1st Aberdeen Admin Brigade he was appointed second Lt-Col of that unit, resuming command of the 1st Banff AVC when it became independent again
Lt-Col Patrick Jamieson, VD, 7 October 1893
Vacancy from 1896
Lt-Col Charles G. Masson, 18 April 1900
Lt-Col John James George, VD, 18 April 1907
Honorary Colonel
Alexander Duff, Earl of Fife (later the 1st Duke of Fife, KT, GCVO, VD), was appointed Honorary Colonel of the unit on 15 March 1884.
Notes
References
Ian F.W. Beckett, Riflemen Form: A Study of the Rifle Volunteer Movement 1859–1908, Aldershot: Ogilby Trusts, 1982, .
Col John K. Dunlop, The Development of the British Army 1899–1914, London: Methuen, 1938.
Maj-Gen James Grierson, Records of the Scottish Volunteer Force 1859–1908, Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1909.
Norman E.H. Litchfield, The Territorial Artillery 1908–1988 (Their Lineage, Uniforms and Badges), Nottingham: Sherwood Press, 1992, .
Norman Litchfield & Ray Westlake, The Volunteer Artillery 1859–1908 (Their Lineage, Uniforms and Badges), Nottingham: Sherwood Press, 1982, .
Edward M. Spiers, The Army and Society 1815–1914, London: Longmans, 1980, .
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Labor Left
The Labor Left, also known as the Socialist Left and Progressive Left, is an organised Left faction of the Australian Labor Party. It competes with the more economically liberal Labor Right faction.
The Labor Left operates autonomously in each State and Territory of Australia, and organises as a broad alliance at the national level. Its policy positions include party democratisation, economic interventionism, progressive tax reform, refugee rights, gender equality and gay marriage.
Factional activity
Most political parties contain informal factions of members who work towards common goals. However the Australian Labor Party is noted for having highly structured and organised factions across the ideological spectrum.
Labor Left is a membership-based organisation which has internal office bearers, publications, and policy positions. The faction coordinates political activity and policy development across different hierarchical levels and organisational components of the party, negotiates with other factions on political strategy and policy, and uses party processes to try and defeat other groups if consensus cannot be reached.
Many members of parliament and trade union leaders are formally aligned with the Left and Right factions, and party positions and ministerial allocations are negotiated and divided between the factions based on the proportion of Labor caucus aligned with that faction.
History
Labor Party split of 1955
The modern Labor Left emerged from the Labor Party split of 1955, in which anti-Communist activists associated with B. A. Santamaria and the Industrial Groups formed the Democratic Labor Party while left-wing parliamentarians and unions loyal to H. V. Evatt and Arthur Calwell remained in the Australian Labor Party.
The split played out differently across the country, with anti-Communists leaving the party in Victoria and Queensland but remaining within in most other states. This created a power vacuum which allowed the Left to take control of the Federal Executive and Victorian state branch, while its opponents were preserved elsewhere.
From 1965 organised internal groups emerged to challenge the control of the Left, supported by figures such as John Button and Gough Whitlam. After the Victorian branch lost the 1970 state election in the midst of a public dispute with Whitlam over state aid for private schools, the South Australian Left, led by Clyde Cameron, and New South Wales Left, led by Arthur Gietzelt, agreed to support an intervention which saw the Victorian state branch abolished and subsequently reconstructed without Left control.
Labor Left split in the 1980s
During the 1980s, after a prolonged dispute over ideological and tactical issues a split occurred within the South Wales Labor Left creating two fractions; the 'Hard Left' and the 'Soft Left'. A significant event which caused the split was the election of the Secretary Assistant of the New South Wales Labor Party, where the Hard Left faction supported Anthony Albanese while the Soft Left faction supported Jan Burnswoods. The Hard Left faction aligned itself and gained support from grassroots movements, maintaining "closer links with broader left-wing groups, such as the Communist Party of Australia, People for Nuclear Disarmament and the African National Congress" as well as the wider trade union movement. The Soft Left was aligned with the Labor Right faction and rank and file party branches. The factions had significantly different views on policy. The Soft Left supported Keating's privatisation of the Commonwealth Bank and Qantas, as well as the Gulf War, while the Hard Left members were more often against these.
Labor Left factions from all jurisdictions
Federal Members of the Labor Left
See also
:Category:Labor Left politicians, current and former parliamentary members of the Labor Left
References
Further reading
Barcan, Alan, (1960) The socialist left in Australia 1949–1959 Sydney: Australian Political Studies Association (Occasional monograph (Australian Political Studies Association)) no. 2.
Leigh, Andrew, (2000) Factions and Fractions: A Case Study of Power Politics in the Australian Labor Party Australian Journal of Political Science, 2000, volume 35, issue 3, pages 427–448.
Bongiorno, Frank (2014) The New South Wales Left at 60 NSW Left Website.
External links
Challenge website (a publication of the National Left)
NSW Socialist Left website
SA Socialist Left website
QLD Left website
National Young Labor Left website
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Paudge Mulhare
Paudge Mulhare (born 1944) is an Irish retired hurler and Gaelic footballer who played as a forward for both Offaly senior teams from 1965 until 1975.
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Édouard Ignace Andlauer
Édouard Ignace Andlauer (15 December 1830 – 14 December 1909) was a French composer and organist.
Life
Andlauer was born in Andlau (Alsace) where his father was a schoolteacher. From a very early age, he showed aptitudes for music. After receiving his first musical instruction in his father's home, he took organ lessons from Joseph Wackenthaler, organist of the Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Strasbourg, and piano lessons with Conrad Berg. His musical talent developed rapidly and he entered the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, directed by François-Joseph Fétis, as student of Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens, and Charles Auguste de Bériot. He won the first prize for harmony and organ.
At the end of his studies, on 1 September 1848 at the age of just 18, he obtained, in competition, the vacant position of organist at St. George's Church, Haguenau. In addition to his position as organist, he headed the Société chorale from 1857 to 1861.
A distinguished teacher, Andlauer trained many students. One of them, Balthasar Waizenecker, entered the new School of Religious Music in Paris founded in 1853 by Niedermeyer, where he won the first prizes; later followed by the two Dürrenwachter brothers, organists in Constantine and Bône, as well as Ducret, organist in Niort. Among Andlauer' were also Clément Lippacher, organist at the Église Saint-Eugène-Sainte-Cécile in Paris, composer of the ballet Viviane, operettas Joséphine vendue par ses sœurs and Les Papillons, and a series of compositions including the sacred drama Le Christ; P. Young (Jung) of New-York, composer of The Roman Hymnal and English and Latin Hymnus, Miss Numann and Miss Scherrer.
Andlauer contributed to the chamber music concerts, arranged since 1849 by the professors of the Municipal Music School, in which world-renowned artists took part, Teresa Milanollo, Levassor, Schwaederlé, Wuille, Rucquoi, Mme Jaëll, Gleichauff, Nosscck. He has composed works for organ, piano and voice. Several of his organ pieces have become popular, such as his organ fantasy, Marienthalerlied: , in honour of the Virgin of Marienthal. He founded the Cécilia, directed for many years the singing of the circle of young people, L'Aloysia, and accepted, in 1879, the position of piano master at the school of municipal music and often made organ evaluations.
On the occasion of his jubilee, on 1 September 1899, Emperor Wilhelm II awarded him the 4th class Order of the Crown.
His son, Eugene, born in 1867, who also studied at the Brussels Conservatory, was an organist at the St. George's Church, Selestat (1888-1938).
Selected works
1895: Impromptu, for piano
1898: Fillette, little waltz for piano
Notes and references
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Most Holy Redeemer Church, San Francisco
Most Holy Redeemer Church in San Francisco, California, is a Roman Catholic parish situated in The Castro district, located at 100 Diamond Street (at 18th Street).
History
The parish was established by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco in 1900 and describes itself as "an inclusive Catholic community – embracing all people of good faith – Catholics as well as those people interested in learning about the Catholic experience – regardless of their background, gender, race, social status or sexual orientation."
In The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk, Randy Shilts mentions the church several times. The church was later vandalized by anti-Proposition 8 protesters, although many churchgoers were opposed to the ballot initiative.
For many years, Most Holy Redemer was the home of Father William Young, one of the very few priests in the Bay Area qualified to celebrate the Tridentine Mass. Father Young celebrated this weekdays at Most Holy Redeemer, and each Sunday at St. Vincent's Holy Rosary Chapel in Marinwood.
Ministry to LGBT people and AIDS outreach
In the 1980s, the neighborhood was deteriorating and the parish with it. Property values fell and a largely gay population moved in. Seeing the change in the neighborhood, Archbishop John R. Quinn appointed Fr. Tony McGuire as pastor of the church in 1983. McGuire brought together the largely older women who made up most of the remaining congregation and the few gay men who joined the parish. Together they began an outreach to the new gay population of the neighborhood.
As the AIDS epidemic hit the gay community, the parish began providing services to those in need. The parish paired parishioners with people suffering from AIDS in the neighborhood to give them rides to the doctors, help around he house, or to meet other needs. The older women in the parish were instrumental in this ministry. It became a place "that helped save souls and helped save lives."
In 1986, a scroll was begun with the names of parishioners who had died of AIDS. Framed photos of some of them line the church. Quinn regularly visited this parish, especially during the annual 40 Hours Vigil held throughout the 1980s in support of those who were HIV-positive and their caregivers.
, the AIDS support group is active again, though it is smaller than it was in the 1980s.
References
External links
Most Holy Redeemer Church, San Francisco
Further reading
Donal Godfrey, Gays and Grays. The Story of the Inclusion of the Gay Community at Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Parish in San Francisco. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2007.
Redeemer Church, Most Holy, San Francisco
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Tulaipanji
Tulaipanji () is an Indian rice cultivar from West Bengal, India. It is an indigenous aromatic rice grown mainly in the Raiganj subdivision of Uttar Dinajpur district and some pockets of Dakshin Dinajpur district. In 2012, the Government of West Bengal sent Tulaipanji rice to the food festival at the London Olympics.
Tulaipanji is an indigenous aromatic rice landrace grown mainly in Raiganj sub-division of North Dinajpur district of West Bengal, India. The aroma and quality of this rice variety are strongly associated with its native origin.
Tulaipanji is categorized as 'non-Basmati aromatic rice'. It has medium-long slender grain with an average length of 5.5 mm, length/breadth ratio of 3.4 and elongation ratio of 1.6. Cooked rice is tasty, good in texture, bright in appearance, non-sticky and friable due to high amylose content.
Tulaipanji contains amylose – 28.3%, protein – 7.3%. It has comparable quality parameters like 77.1% hulling, 65% milling, 54.2% head rice recovery and alkali value at 4.0.
Traditionally, Tulaipanji is grown without using any fertilizer in mid-land to high-land condition and preferably in jute harvested fields, after rainy season during the August–December period. Low soil fertility and moisture stress generally prevail in the growing field and believed to be the key factor behind the aroma. Inorganic fertilizers are generally not used due to the reduction in aroma and other qualitative parameters.
Detailed descriptive parameters of Tulaipanji rice
The Tulaipanji rice when cooked turns out to be whitish-yellow, slender, non-sticky and tasty. The rice is excellent for preparation of pulao, fried rice and biryani. Tulaipanji is also very famous for its disease-pest resistance quality.
See also
Gobindobhog
Kanakchur
References
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264315135_Tulaipanji_-_A_precious_scented_rice_land_race_of_North_Bengal_India
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1988 Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix
The 1988 Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix was the first round of the 1988 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 25–27 March 1988 at the Suzuka Circuit.
500 cc race report
Tadahiko Taira was on pole of the 5-column grid (it became 4-columns in 1990). Wayne Rainey got the start and lead through the first turns, with Kevin Schwantz, Wayne Gardner and Christian Sarron behind. Schwantz took the inside of the hairpin, but Rainey dove back under and got him back on the exit; Schwantz succeeded in taking the lead on Spoon.
At the end of the 1st lap, it was Schwantz and Gardner, then a gap to Toshihiko Honma (riding #46) and Sarron. Gardner and Schwantz swapped the lead many times.
Eddie Lawson and Niall Mackenzie moved through the field to 3rd and 4th. Norihiko Fujiwara lowsided at the hairpin.
On the last lap Gardner ran off the track and stayed on, but lost any chance of winning the race.
500 cc classification
References
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Ripazepam
Ripazepam is a pyrazolodiazepinone derivative structurally related to certain benzodiazepine drugs, especially zolazepam. It has anxiolytic effects.
See also
Benzodiazepine
References
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Sioux City Symphony Orchestra
The Sioux City Symphony Orchestra is an American orchestra based in Sioux City, Iowa. Its home is the Orpheum Theater.
History
The Sioux City Symphony Orchestra and The Sioux City Municipal Band were each formed in the early 1930s under the guidance and direction of Leo Kucinski. Under Kucinski's leadership, the orchestra gradually developed into a highly respected, paid-professional Class B civic orchestra with a regular performing season. The orchestra originally performed in the Sioux City Municipal Auditorium, but in 2001 moved to the restored historic Orpheum Theater.
The Municipal Band, with close kinship to the orchestra, is also a paid-professional group that traces its origins to The Monahan Post 64 Band of the American Legion, in the 1920s. The Monahan Post Band became world-famous when it was selected as the "official" band of the American Legion in the mid-1920s. From its founding until the early 1930s, The Monahan Post Band made several tours that included concert appearances in New York City, New Orleans and Paris. The home of the Municipal Band is the city band shell in Grandview Park.
Sioux City's ability to produce highly gifted musicians for fine music of all styles can be attributed to its citizens' very strong and longstanding commitment to and financial investment in music education within the public and private school systems. In the 1930s, Kucinski worked closely with Superintendent of Schools M.G. Clark to create the foundation for its public school music program. Additionally, Morningside College has long been home to a vital and energetic music department, which has served to contribute to the pool of fine musicians and music educators in Sioux City. Sioux City has an All-City Orchestra whose members are elementary grade students who participate by audition, and the Siouxland Youth Symphony, whose players are selected by competitive auditions from the junior schools and high schools in the area.
After Kucinski, other music directors of the orchestra have included Thomas Lewis, Stephen Rogers Radcliffe and Xian Zhang. Xian Zhang had originally been contracted to the orchestra for 3 years, but resigned after 2 years because of her schedule demands. In March 2009, the orchestra announced the appointment of Ryan Haskins as its next music director, as of 1 July 2009.
Music Directors
Leo Kucinski (1925-1977)
Thomas Lewis (1977- )
Stephen Rogers Radcliffe (1995-2004)
Xian Zhang (2005-2007)
JungHo Kim (2008)
Ryan Haskins (2009–present)
References
External links
History of the orchestra from the Sioux City Symphony page
University of North Dakota Faculty/Staff Newsletter, 16 December 2005, with information on Radcliffe tenure
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Ixodes siamensis
Ixodes siamensis is an ixodid tick (hard tick) that is parasitic on mammals in Thailand.
References
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Korean noodles
Korean noodles are noodles or noodle dishes in Korean cuisine, and are collectively referred to as "guksu" in native Korean or "myeon" (cf. mien) in Sino-Korean vocabulary. Preparations with noodles are relatively simple and dates back to around BCE 6000 to BCE 5000 in Asia. In Korea, traditional noodle dishes are onmyeon (beef broth-based noodle soup), called guksu jangguk (noodles with a hot clear broth), naengmyeon (cold buckwheat noodles), bibim guksu (cold noodle dish mixed with vegetables), kalguksu (knife-cut noodles), kongguksu (noodles with a cold soybean broth) among others. In royal court, baekmyeon (literally "white noodles") consisting of buckwheat noodles and pheasant broth, was regarded as the top quality noodle dish. Naengmyeon, with a cold soup mixed with dongchimi (watery radish kimchi) and beef brisk broth, was eaten in court during summer.
Noodles by ingredients
Dangmyeon (당면; cellophane noodles) - made from sweet potato starch
Memil guksu (메밀국수) - buckwheat noodles similar to Japanese soba noodles
Gogi-guksu (고기국수) - Noodle soup of Jeju Province made with sliced pork
Olchaengi guksu (올챙이국수) - noodles made from dried corn flour which are eaten in mountainous places such as Gangwon Province
Gamja guksu (감자국수) - noodles made from a mixture of potato starch, rice flour, and glutinous rice flour
Gamjanongma guksu (감자농마국수) - noodles made from potato starch that have a very chewy texture. It is a local specialty of Hwanghae Province
Milguksu (밀국수) - wheat flour noodles. While noodles were eaten in Korea from ancient times, productions of wheat was less than that of other crops, so wheat noodles did not become a daily food until 1945.
Dotori guksu (도토리 국수)- noodles made from acorn flour
Chilk guksu (칡국수) - noodles made from kudzu and buckwheat
Ssuk kalguksu (쑥칼국수) - noodles made from Artemisia princeps and wheat flour
Hobak guksu (호박국수) - noodles made from pumpkin and wheat flour
Kkolttu guksu (꼴뚜국수) - noodles made from buckwheat flour and wheat flour
Cheonsachae (천사채) - half-transparent noodlesphoto made from the jelly-like extract left after steaming kelp, without the addition of grain flour or starch. The taste is bland, so they are generally eaten as a light salad after seasoned or served as a garnish beneath saengseon hoe (sliced raw fish). Cheonsachae has a chewy texture and is low in calories.
Noodle dishes
Banchan
Japchae - Sweet potato noodles (cellophane noodles) stir-fried with thinly sliced beef and vegetables; it may be served either hot or cold.
Warm noodle soups
Janchi guksu - wheat flour noodles in a light broth made with anchovy and optionally kelp or beef broth. It is served with a sauce made with sesame oil, soy sauce, scallions and a small amount of chili pepper powder. Thinly sliced jidan (지단), or fried egg, gim, and zucchini are topped on the dish for garnish. The name is derived from the word janchi (잔치, feast or banquet) in Korean because the dish was specialty foods for birthdays, weddings or auspicious occasions because the long, continuous shape was thought to be associated with the bliss for longevity and long-lasting marriage.
Kalguksu - knife-cut wheat flour noodles served in a large bowl with seafood-based broth and other ingredients
Gomguksu (곰국수) - wheat flour noodles in a broth of gomguk or gomtang which is made from boiling beef bones or cartilage.
Jjamppong (짬뽕) - wheat flour noodles in a spicy broth including vegetables and seafood.
Cool noodle dishes
Bibim guksu - thin wheat flour noodles served with a spicy sauce made from gochujang and vinegar. Half a hard-boiled egg, thinly sliced cucumber, and sometimes chopped kimchi are added as garnishes.
Makguksu - buckwheat noodle soup, especially popular in Gangwon-do province and its capital city, Chuncheon
Naengmyeon - thin buckwheat noodles either served in a cold soup or served with a gochujang-based sauce; the noodles and other vegetable ingredients are stirred together by the diner. It is originally a winter dish, and a local specialty of the Ibuk region (이북지방, nowadays the area of North Korea).
Mul naengmyeon - literally "water cold noodles." It is served in a bowl of a tangy cold soup made with beef broth or dongchimi. Vinegar and/or mustard sauce can be added to taste.
Bibim naengmyeon - literally "mixed cold noodles." It is served with no broth but mixed with the spicy, tangy sauce called chogochujang, made from gochujang, vinegar, and sugar.
Jjolmyeon (쫄면) - similar to bibim naengmyeon but the noodles are more chewy. It is a representative dish of Incheon
Milmyeon (밀면) - A dish unique to Busan, derived from naengmyeon
Kongguksu (콩국수) - wheat flour noodles in a bowl of cold soy milk broth
Jatguksu (잣국수) - wheat flour or buckwheat noodles in a bowl of cold broth made from ground pine nuts and water. It is a local specialty of Gapyeong, Gyeonggi Province. The recipe is quite similar to kongguksu, but the dish has cleaner and more savory taste.
Dongchimi guksu (동치미국수) - wheat or buckwheat noodles in a bowl of cold dongchimi.
See also
Chinese noodles
Japanese noodles
Korean cuisine
Vietnamese cuisine
List of noodles
List of noodle dishes
Noodle soup
References
External links
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WRZC-LP
WRZC-LP (92.3 FM) was a radio station licensed to Red Cliff, Wisconsin, United States. The station was owned by First American Prevention Center.
Its license was cancelled by the Federal Communications Commission on February 13, 2013, due to the station not filing a renewal application before the December 1, 2012 expiry date.
References
External links
RZC-LP
RXC-LP
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Czajcze
Czajcze may refer to:
Czajcze, Piła County in Greater Poland Voivodeship (west-central Poland)
Czajcze, Złotów County in Greater Poland Voivodeship (west-central Poland)
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Shooting at the 2010 Commonwealth Games – Men's 50 metre rifle three positions singles
The Men's 50 metre rifle three positions singles event took place at 9 October 2010 at the CRPF Campus. There was a qualification held to determine the final participants.
Results
External links
Report
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They Will Kill Us All (Without Mercy)
"They Will Kill Us All (Without Mercy)" is a song by the Los Angeles-based punk rock band The Bronx, released as the first single from their 2003 debut album The Bronx. It was their first single to chart, reaching #65 on the UK Singles Chart.
While the album was released by Ferret Music and the band's own label White Drugs, the singles for all of their albums have been released exclusively in the United Kingdom, through Wichita Recordings. The single was released on both compact disc and 7-inch vinyl, the latter pressed on white vinyl and limited to 1,500 copies. The B-side song is a live recording of "I Got Chills" from a performance at the Three Clubs in Hollywood. The cover artwork was designed by guitarist Joby J. Ford.
The music video for "They Will Kill Us All (Without Mercy)" was directed by Mike Piscitelli. It depicts an African American man in a heavy jacket walking through Los Angeles, lip syncing the song's lyrics while dancing and making exaggerated gestures to the music. The band members appear as extras whom the man bumps into or passes on the street. During the final chorus the man is shot in the chest by an unseen gunman and bleeds to death on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In a 2009 interview, singer Matt Caughthran named it as his favorite of the band's videos and explained its nature:
The idea behind that video was that if the TV was turned all the way down and there was no sound, it would look like a hip-hop video. The great thing about that was that it actually worked, 'cause I would get interviews, like we were in Sweden for [...] the Hultsfred Festival and I was doing press and I sit down with this lady and she just starts laughing. She goes "I think there's a mistake here. I think this is the wrong band." I'm like "What are you talking about?" She's like "I'm here to interview The Bronx", and I'm like "That's me. I sing for The Bronx." She's like "But you're not black." [...] That was a good moment, 'cause that means the video worked.
Track listing
CD version
Vinyl version
Personnel
Band
Matt Caughthran – lead vocals
Joby J. Ford – guitar, backing vocals, artwork and design
James Tweedy – bass guitar, backing vocals
Jorma Vik – drums
Production
Gilby Clarke – producer, recording
Howie Weinberg – mastering
See also
The Bronx discography
References
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List of Kappa Sigma Grand Conclaves
This is a list of Kappa Sigma Grand Conclaves and Leadership Conferences.
Kappa Sigma (ΚΣ) is an international fraternity with currently 235 active chapters and 32 colonies in North America. There have been more than 245,000 initiates, of which more than 188,000 are living and more than 12,900 are undergraduates. It is currently the leader of all American fraternities in terms of pledges and new initiates per year, service hours, and philanthropic donations. It has the oldest continuous endowment fund which has donated $4.5 million to undergrads since its inception in 1919.
Legend:
Notes
References
Grand Conclaves
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New Zealand DSC class locomotive
The New Zealand DSC class is a heavy shunting locomotive used throughout New Zealand. The class was built in seven batches, the first 18 locomotives being built by British Thomson-Houston of the United Kingdom, with the remainder being built by New Zealand Railways.
The class is widely used in both the North and South Islands of New Zealand, mainly for heavy yard shunting, although some members of the class have been used for local mainline shunting services. All members of the class are now fitted with shunters refuges, and most are fitted with remote control capabilities.
Design and entry into service
In the late 1950s, NZR needed a suitable heavy shunting locomotive that produced more power than the existing DS and DSA class locomotives and would be suitable for replacing the BB, C, and WF class steam locomotives. In 1959, an order was placed with British Thompson-Houston in association with the Clayton Equipment Company for eighteen centre-cab shunting engines with a horsepower output of around 420 hp.
The new locomotives, allocated road numbers DSC 400-417, entered service in 1959-60 and were allocated to Auckland and Frankton Junction (Hamilton). For a time in 1962, DSC 402 was dispatched to Picton to shunt the NZR road/rail ferry MV Aramoana until newly constructed Addington DSC 418 arrived to take over, allowing 402 to return north.
The BTH locomotives were powered by two 6-cylinder inline 210 hp Rolls-Royce C6SFL diesel engines connected to BTH generators, which were in turn coupled to four BTH traction motors, one to each axle. They were not entirely troublefree though, with issues arising with the airbrakes and spare parts for the diesel engines among others. However, once this was resolved, the class settled down to work reliably in their intended role.
Two further orders were placed with the NZR Addington and Hillside Workshops in the 1960s, with production running from 1962 to 1967. The NZR-built locomotives were different in that they were powered by two Leyland UE902 diesel engines producing 210 hp, and had electrical equipment built by Associated Electrical Industries Ltd (AEI), which had purchased BTH earlier. Again there were various troubles, this time more to do with the mechanical components and compatibility on later batches.
Re-engining
In the late 1970s, NZ Rail decided to undertake a re-engining programme for the DSC class. Due to design differences, it would not be possible to use the same type of diesel engine across all locomotives, and so two different types were selected:
All BTH locomotives would be repowered with the Rolls-Royce C6TFL diesel engine.
All NZR locomotives would be repowered with the Cummins NT855 diesel engine.
The process was spread out from the late 1970s into the early 1980s. As part of this, some locomotives were repainted in the International Orange livery but with their pre-TMS numbers instead of the later TMS numbers. As a result of this, the locomotives were equipped with new radiator header tanks which were mounted behind the radiator on top of the engine hoods in a 'north-south' alignment. Later the tanks were relocated to an 'east-west' alignment.
Fitting shunter's refuges
In 1989, DSC 2406 was trialled as the first shunting locomotive to be fitted with shunter's refuges at either end of the locomotive. New recessed steps were fitted at either end of the locomotive frames with a vertical hand-rail on the running-board proper. The locomotive's engine hoods were not shortened at the time.
This modification was successful, but it was noted that the engine hoods were a potential constraint. All further DSC class locomotives equipped with the refuges had their engine hoods shortened by 500mm, necessitating the relocation of the radiator header tanks to their present 'east-west' alignment.
This modification was subsequently made to all DSG, DSJ, and DH class locomotives as well as DAR 517. None of the BTH-built DSC class locomotives were fitted with these refuges and several NZR-built examples did not receive them either, due to withdrawal before they could be fitted or by dint of being used for other purposes.
Disposal
As of September 2018, 42 units have been withdrawn from service.
BTH-builds
As a part of the program of the New Zealand Railways Corporation to rationalize the locomotive fleet in the late 1980s, all of the British Thomson-Houston built locomotives were withdrawn. All, besides one, were scrapped either at Otahuhu Workshops, or at Hutt Workshops between October 1989 and early 1990.
DSC 2067 was given a reprieve when it was sold to the NZ Dairy Group (later subsumed into Fonterra) to shunt their Whareroa milk factory. In 2003, the loco was overhauled at the Westfield servicing facility. The overhaul included repairs and a repaint. In 2007, the locomotive was sold to Alliance Group Limited to shunt at their Pukeuri freezing works on the outskirts of Oamaru. In the late 2000s/early 2010s, it was repainted into the Alliance Groups yellow livery, and its two Rolls-Royce engines were replaced with two Cummins engines.
NZR-builds
With the rationalization of the locomotive fleet in the late 1980s, three NZR builds were withdrawn in 1989. Between 1989 and 1990, two units were laid up after being damaged due to accidents. Between 1998 and 2013, at least 20 units were laid up due to being either, surplus to requirements, due to accident damage or catching fire. Eleven of them were scrapped, the rest where either returned to service or sold. The frame of DSC 2231 was used as a test-bed for overhauled Cummins engines after being withdrawn. In September 2015, DSC 2338 was also laid up and sent to Hutt Workshops for storage.
The first unit to be preserved, DSC 2759, was purchased by Ian Welch in August 2002. The loco was moved to Mainline Steams Plimmerton depot. The loco was repainted in Mainline Steams variation of the Tranz Rail Blue livery. It has been named as "Show Pony". The second unit to be preserved, DSC 2584, was purchased by the Waitara Railway Preservation Society in January 2003. In 2011, the locomotive was repainted in their own livery, of dark blue and light yellow.
Two units were also sold, but this time to industrial users. DSC 2421 was sold to Alliance Group for their freezing works in Lorneville in July 2002. The loco was given a mechanical tidy-up at Hutt Workshops,and was repainted in the companys livery with a grey cab, yellow hoods and thin red chevron stripes on the ends, and is still in service. The other unit, DSC 2257, was sold sometime in 2007 to Ravensdown Fertilizer for their New Plymouth plant. The locomotive had been on loan to the company for a time before being sold. It was placed into storage due to operational reasons, and had been cheaper to hire one from KiwiRail. In 2016, the locomotive was sold to the Waitara Railway Preservation Society.
In August 2016, KiwiRail issued a Request for Quotation (RFQ) via the Government Electronic Tendering Service (GETS) for DSCs 2285, 2338, 2434 and 2680. Following the sale of the four DSCs, 2285, 2434 and 2680 were scrapped in March 2017, and 2338 was sold to DBM Contracting. In November 2017, 2366 was withdrawn and sent to Hutt Workshops, with 2543 following in February 2018. The latter is now officially written off.
In August 2017, KiwiRail announced they were in discussions with global suppliers including General Electric, Electro-Motive Diesel, Alstom, CRRC and Stadler Rail to construct replacements for the remainder of the class. It is expected the first of the replacements to arrive in 2020/21.
References
External links
NZ Rolling Stock - Preserved NZR diesels
DSC class
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1944 California Golden Bears football team
The 1944 California Golden Bears football team was an American football team that represented the University of California, Berkeley during the 1944 college football season. Under head coach Stub Allison, the team compiled an overall record of 3–6–1 and 1–3–1 in conference.
Schedule
References
California
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Cuban yellow bat
The Cuban yellow bat (Lasiurus insularis) is a species of bat from the family Vespertilioninae. It was previously included as a subspecies of the Northern yellow bat, a species that has a similar ecology and biology. The species is endemic to Cuba, specifically the Las Villas Province in Cienfuegos, and it is listed under the IUCN Red List as vulnerable due to its ongoing population reduction and relatively small geographic range.
See also
Northern yellow bat
References
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Category:Bats of the Caribbean
Category:Endemic fauna of Cuba
Category:Mammals of Cuba
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Dripstone
Dripstone may refer to:
Hood mould or dripstone, an architectural feature for handling rain water
Dripstone, a type of speleothem (cave formation) that includes for example stalactites
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Pseudothyretes nigrita
Pseudothyretes nigrita is a moth in the subfamily Arctiinae. It was described by Sergius G. Kiriakoff in 1961. It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana and Kenya.
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Basically Duke
Basically Duke is an album by bassist/cellist and composer Oscar Pettiford which was recorded in 1954 and first issued on the Bethlehem label as a 10-inch LP.
Reception
The Allmusic site awarded the album 4 stars.
Track listing
All compositions by Oscar Pettiford except where noted.
"Jack the Bear" (Duke Ellington) - 3:15
"Tamalpais" - 3:33
"Swing Until the Girls Come Home" - 3:54
"Mood Indigo" (Ellington, Barney Bigard, Irving Mills) - 2:56
"Chuckles" (Clark Terry) - 2:42
"Time on My Hands" (Vincent Youmans, Harold Adamson, Mack Gordon) - 3:10
Personnel
Oscar Pettiford - bass, cello
Clark Terry, Joe Wilder - trumpet
Jimmy Cleveland - trombone
Jimmy Hamilton - clarinet, tenor saxophone
Dave Schildkraut - alto saxophone
Danny Bank - baritone saxophone
Earl Knight - piano
Osie Johnson- drums
References
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Henry East Havergal
Henry East Havergal (1820–1875) was a priest in the Church of England and an organist.
Havergal, eldest son of William Henry Havergal (1793–1870), was born at Coaley, Gloucestershire, 22 July 1820. His mother died in 1848 and his father remarried in 1851. His sister, Frances Ridley Havergal (1836–1879), became well known as a writer of religious poetry.
From 1828 to 1834 he served as a chorister in New College, Oxford, and was bible-clerk there from 1839. He matriculated from Magdalen Hall on 18 May 1839, graduating B.A. 1843 and M.A. 1846. In 1843, he became chaplain of Christ Church, and served in a like capacity at New College from 1844 to 1847. From 1847 till his death, he was vicar of Cople, Bedfordshire.
Also in 1847, he married, on 16 September, Frances Mary, eldest daughter of George J. A. Walker.
For his church at Cople, he built an organ with his own hands, which possessed the peculiarity that it was an F organ, that being the note to which the ordinary compass of the human voice extends. On this instrument, he carried out many experiments, and regularly acted as organist. He further constructed a chiming apparatus, and was in the habit of chiming the bells himself before service. For some time, he was the conductor of a musical society at Bedford.
He possessed a natural alto voice, and in a trial of William Crotch's oratorio Palestine he played the double-bass and sang the alto part in the choruses at the same time. He was also a performer on the trumpet. He died of apoplexy at Cople vicarage on 12 January 1875, aged 54.
Musical publications
‘A Selection from the Hymns and Songs of the Church by George Wither,’ 1846.
‘The Preces and Litany of T. Tallis, to which is added a Short Form of Chanting the Preces and Litany,’ 1847; never before printed.
‘Christmas Carols for one or more Voices,’ 1850.
‘Hymn for Advent—Dies Iræ,’ by W. J. Irons; the music by H. E. Havergal, 1854.
‘Tunes, Chants and Responses,’ 1865.
‘Hymn Tunes, part i. Original, part ii. Harmonised and Selected,’ 1866.
‘Forty-two Chants, each combining two principal Melodies,’ 1870
Also Te Deums, hymns, and songs.
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Fort Sanders, Knoxville
Fort Sanders is a neighborhood in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA, located west of the downtown area and immediately north of the main campus of the University of Tennessee. Developed in the late 19th century as a residential area for Knoxville's growing upper and middle classes, the neighborhood now provides housing primarily for the university's student population. The neighborhood still contains a notable number of its original Victorian-era houses and other buildings, several hundred of which were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 as the Fort Sanders Historic District.
Fort Sanders is named for a Civil War-era Union bastion that once stood near the center of the neighborhood, which was the site of a key engagement in 1863. In the 1880s, several of Knoxville's wealthier residents built sizeable houses in what is now the southern half of Fort Sanders, then known as "White's Addition," while the northern half, known as "Ramsey's Addition," was developed to provide housing for plant managers and workers employed in factories along Second Creek. Fort Sanders was incorporated as the separate city of West Knoxville in 1888, and was annexed by Knoxville in 1897. In its early years, Fort Sanders residents included some of Knoxville's leading industrialists and politicians, as well as professors from the University of Tennessee.
Fort Sanders was the childhood home of author James Agee, and provided the setting for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, A Death in the Family. A ten-fold expansion of U.T.'s student body after World War II brought about the need for student housing, and many of the old homes in Fort Sanders have since been converted into apartments.
Location
Fort Sanders and the University of Tennessee campus straddle a hill that is bounded by Second Creek on the east, Third Creek on the west, the Tennessee River on the south, and a declivity now traversed by the Southern Railway tracks and Interstate 40 on the north. The university occupies the southern half of the hill, overlooking the river, while Fort Sanders occupies the northern half. Cumberland Avenue (part of U.S. Route 70), commonly called "The Strip," is the approximate boundary between the two. Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center occupies the western half of the Fort Sanders neighborhood.
The World's Fair Park, the site of the 1982 World's Fair, lies opposite Second Creek to the east. The Mechanicsville neighborhood lies on the other side of I-40 to the north. West of the L&N tracks, Cumberland Avenue becomes Kingston Pike, which continues into West Knoxville.
History
Battle of Fort Sanders
In November 1863, Confederate forces under General James Longstreet marched north from Chattanooga to Knoxville in hopes of dislodging Union forces under Ambrose Burnside, who had occupied Knoxville a few months prior. After a brief skirmish at Campbell's Station (Farragut), Longstreet's forces approached Knoxville from the west along Kingston Pike. Delaying maneuvers executed by General William P. Sanders gave Union forces in the city time to complete fortifications, although Sanders was mortally wounded on November 18, and died at the Lamar House the following day. With Union fortifications in place, Longstreet decided to surround the city and starve Union forces out.
During the Siege of Knoxville, Confederate pickets stretched roughly along what is now Twenty-First Street between Cumberland and Forest avenues. Union fortifications included Fort Byington atop "The Hill," Battery Noble at what is now the intersection of Melrose and Seventeenth, and Battery Zoellner near the intersection of Highland and Eleventh. Fort Sanders, originally "Fort Loudon" but renamed in honor of the deceased General Sanders, was an earthen fort that spanned Seventeenth between Laurel and Clinch, and continued along Laurel and Clinch eastward to Sixteenth Street.
On the morning of November 29, 1863, after a two-week siege, Longstreet ordered three brigades under General Lafayette McLaws to attack Fort Sanders, in hopes of breaching Union lines. The attackers marched from what is now the intersection of Nineteenth and Forest, southeastward across the intersection of Eighteenth and Highland, toward the fort's northeast corner at the intersection of Seventeenth and Laurel. They were unable to overcome a deep trench at the base of the fort, however, and retreated with heavy casualties. The battle, which lasted just twenty minutes, effectively ended Longstreet's chances of taking the city, and he retreated shortly afterward.
Early development
Knoxville's industrial growth after the Civil War led to a rapid increase in the city's population. During the 1880s, pollution from an ore smelting operation drove residents in the upscale Summit Hill area to seek new homes elsewhere. Several chose the hillslope west of Second Creek known as White's Addition (after Hugh Lawson White, who once owned a house in the area), which stretched from the Tennessee River to what is now Laurel Avenue. Among the earliest to build mansions in White's Addition were candy manufacturer Martin Luther Ross and Tennessee attorney general George Pickle.
During the same period, a number of factories sprang up along Second Creek, and the area known as Ramsey's Addition, which stretched northward from what is now Laurel Avenue to the railroad tracks, developed primarily as housing for factory managers and workers. Unlike the more exclusive White's Addition, residents in Ramsey's Addition ranged from wage workers to upper-level managers, and the neighborhood had a mix of houses ranging from impressive Victorian mansions to small, inconspicuous shotgun-style houses.
An 1886 map of Knoxville shows development in the Fort Sanders area stretching as far west as what is now Seventeenth Street. The University of Tennessee consisted of several buildings clustered around "The Hill." Factories located along Second Creek included the Knoxville Tannery, the Caswell Furniture Company, the Knoxville Ice Company, the Barker Bucket Factory, the Knoxville Button Factory, and the massive foundry of the Knoxville Iron Company (part of which still stands). The Samuels Keg Factory and the Knoxville Woolen Mills were located along the railroad tracks at the north end of Ramsey's Addition.
With a need for city services, and bureaucratic issues preventing annexation by Knoxville, the Fort Sanders area incorporated as the separate city of West Knoxville on March 8, 1888. The city's boundaries were Second Creek on the east, Asylum (now Western) Avenue and the railroad tracks on the north, Third Creek on the west, and the river on the south. West Knoxville had an initial population of 1,520, and J.W. Yoe served as the first mayor. West Knoxville was annexed by Knoxville in 1897. Today, "West Knoxville" generally refers to the section of Knoxville along Kingston Pike, west of Third Creek and Alcoa Highway.
Later development
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Fort Sanders was home to some of Knoxville's key industrial figures. Department store owner Max Arnstein, who built the seven-story Arnstein Building at the south end of Market Square, owned houses at 1403 and 1625 Laurel. Wholesaling tycoon Matthew McClung, a partner in Cowan, McClung and Company, built the house at 1625 Clinch. Marble quarry magnate John J. Craig lived at 1415 Highland, and Coca-Cola bottler J. Patrick Roddy lived at 1803 Clinch. Knoxville Journal founder and editor William Rule lived at 1604 Clinch. Ranson Whittle, the founder of the Whittle Trunk and Bag Company, lived at 1802 Highland.
Fort Sanders was also home to a number early University of Tennessee professors and administrators. Weston Fulton, inventor of the sylphon (used in the manufacture of thermostats), lived at 1202 Clinch in the early 1900s. William Waller Carson, founder of the school's civil engineering department, lived at 1310 Clinch, and later built what is now the Ronald McDonald House at 1705 Clinch. Thomas Jordan, the school's dean in the early 1900s, lived at 1312 White, and mathematics professor Cooper D. Schmitt lived at 1302 White. Schmitt's son, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Bernadotte Everly Schmitt, lived in the house as a child. Artist Catherine Wiley lived at 1317 White in the 1910s while working as an instructor at UT.
With the advent of the automobile in the 1920s, Knoxville's wealthier residents began to move to suburbs on the periphery of the city, and urban neighborhoods such as Fort Sanders began to decline. After World War II, the University of Tennessee's student body grew from just over 2,000 to almost 30,000 by 1975, and most of the homes in Fort Sanders were converted into student housing. The university's expansion (and more recently the expansion of Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center) led to the destruction of many of the neighborhood's early houses, and preservationists, namely the Fort Sanders Community Improvement Association, increased efforts to protect its historical resources.
A Death in the Family
Author James Agee (1909–1955) spent his early childhood in the Fort Sanders neighborhood. The Agees initially lived at 1505 Highland Avenue (the house is no longer standing), but moved to Laurel Avenue after the death of Agee's father in 1915. Agee's maternal grandparents, Joel and Emma Tyler, lived on Clinch Avenue. Joel Tyler was a cofounder of the mill machinery company Ty-Sa-Man, where Agee's father worked.
The Fort Sanders neighborhood provides the primary setting for Agee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, A Death in the Family. The novel opens with Agee and his father taking a walk through downtown Knoxville, making stops on Gay Street and Market Square, and passing the Deaf and Dumb Asylum and the L&N Station as they made their way back to Fort Sanders. Agee mentioned a vacant lot along Forest Avenue where he and his father liked to look out on the lights of North Knoxville in the distance, and listen to the engines of the L&N, which "coughed and browsed" in the valley below. The book ends with Agee and his uncle conversing while standing over the "waste of briers and of embanked clay" of the ruins of the Civil War-era Fort Sanders.
In 1999, Fifteenth Street was renamed "James Agee Street." In 2005, James Agee Park was established in a vacant lot (formerly the home of Mayor Samuel B. Luttrell) at the intersection of James Agee Street and Laurel Avenue.
Fort Sanders today
Fort Sanders, or "The Fort" as it is known by residents, remains a popular place for students. Most residents are in their twenties and many go home during the summer, leaving the neighborhood virtually empty compared to its very active, and sometimes belligerent, feel during the school year. Due to the area's younger population and proximity to a large university, the neighborhood is a hotbed for house parties and bars alike. The neighborhood is somewhat infamous in Knoxville for its party atmosphere, and residents have been known to throw multi-street block parties that can attract thousands. Cumberland Avenue, or "The Strip", is a popular hangout for students, as it contains numerous bars, restaurants, and stores.
During the Fall football season, Fort Sanders, along with the campus itself, serves as a headquarters for Tennessee Volunteers fans' tailgating and pre-game activities.
The Knoxville Police Department and The University of Tennessee's Police Department jointly patrol Fort Sanders. The University operates a fully armed and operational police that helps protect students both on campus and in Fort Sanders.
Fort Sanders Historic District
The Fort Sanders Historic District, listed on the National Register in 1980, originally consisted of approximately 400 buildings, and covered a area bounded by White, Grand, Eleventh, and Nineteenth. Most of the district's contributing houses were built between 1880 and 1930, and the majority were designed in Victorian (especially Queen Anne) or Bungalow/Craftsman styles. The district also includes three churches and several commercial buildings.
Notable structures
Christ Chapel (1538 Highland Avenue), originally the Ramsey Methodist Church, and later the Epworth Methodist Church, now home to a non-denominational congregation. The church was originally constructed in 1895, and renovated in 1929 after it was partially destroyed by fire. Christ Chapel purchased and rehabilitated the church in the early 1980s, and built the modern rear addition in 1989.
Laurel Theater (1538 Laurel Avenue), originally the Fort Sanders Presbyterian Church; a two-story brick church built in 1898.
310 Thirteenth Street (Firedog Pizza/Deli), a late nineteenth century Victorian commercial building.
307 18th Street (18th Street IGA), a commercial vernacular store built circa 1923; initially known as the W.T. Roberts Grocery Store.
1202 Clinch Avenue, a two-story house built in 1876, making it one of the oldest houses in Fort Sanders; once used as a residence by inventor Weston Miller Fulton.
Laurel Terrace (1415 Laurel Avenue), a -story Queen Anne-style brick house built in 1894 by candy manufacturer Martin Luther Ross.
1604 Clinch Avenue, a two-story Georgian Revival house, built in 1914, and used as a residence by publisher and mayor, Captain William Rule; now used by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Pickle Mansion (1633 Clinch), a Queen Anne-style house built in 1889, with a large wrap-around porch. The house suffered significant damage from a fire in 2002.
1705 Clinch Avenue, a -story brick apartment building constructed by University of Tennessee civil engineering professor William Waller Carson in 1903; the Ronald McDonald House purchased the building in 1985.
1803 Clinch Avenue, a two-and-a-half-story Georgian Revival-style house built in 1912; this house served as a residence for J. Patrick Roddy, founder of the Roddy Coca-Cola Bottling Company.
1308 White Avenue, a Queen Anne-style house built in 1894 for marble company executive James E. Ross. It was subsequently the home of Knoxville judge Charles Hayes Brown. The University of Tennessee has announced plans to purchase and demolish this house, along two adjacent houses, to make way for a new science facility.
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The Long Grazing Acre
The Long Grazing Acre is a collaborative album released by Uilleann Piper Paddy Keenan and Guitarist/Singer Tommy O'Sullivan in 2001, featuring a combination of traditional, original, and covered folk songs and instrumental tunes within the Irish Traditional Music idiom. A number of the tunes on this album were written by Keenan for the soundtrack of the 1997 film Traveller, including "The Pavee Jig," "Antara" and "The Twirly haired Girl," though they were not used in the score.
Tracks
Musicians
Paddy Keenan: uilleann pipes on 1,4,5,6,7,8,10,12, low whistle on 2,3,5,9
Tommy O'Sullivan: guitar on all except 9, vocals on 3, 7, 11
Greg Sheehan: percussion on all except 3,6,9
James Blennerhassett: bass/double bass on all except 9
Stephen Housden: electric guitar on 2,8
John Fitzgerald: keyboard on 5, Organ on 11,12
Mary Green: harmony vocals on 7
Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill: harmonium on 9
Pearse Dunne: chimes on 9
Critical reception
Rick Anderson of AllMusic gave the album four out of five stars, praising Keenan's "dazzling showcase of jaw-dropping technical prowess" and expressiveness, as well as O'Sullivan's generally "fine vocal performances", qualified only by a mention that his rendition of "Stranger to Himself" might have been "too bland." Ken Ricketts and Marya Parker of Musical Traditions call the album "great", but go on to say that many of Keenan's releases have been even better, and express a particular preference for the album's Traditional selections over its original compositions. Philippe Varlet also expresses disappointment with the album's modern direction and music selection, but praises the performers' technical abilities, awarding only three out of five stars.
New uilleann pipes
This album is the first recording on which Keenan plays a new set of pipes which he commissioned from the late maker Dave Williams of Grimsby, England, and received in 2000. Williams patterned them after the set Keenan had been playing for the prior 35 years, which was made by the Crowley family (except for the chanter which was made by Leo Rowsome).
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Monti Tiburtini (Rome Metro)
Monti Tiburtini is a station on Line B of the Rome Metro. It is located on Via dei Monti Tiburtini, at the junction with Via Filippo Meda. To make room for its construction, in the early 1980s, some tennis courts and a football field of a nearby sports centre were demolished. It opened on 8 December 1990. Nearby are the Ospedale Sandro Pertini and bus stops for services 61, 449, 542, 544, 548 and n2.
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Michael Bosqui
Michaël Bosqui (born 2 February 1990 in Fos-sur-Mer) is a French-born Mauritian professional footballer who plays for Championnat National side CA Bastia.
Career
Senior career
He began his career in the team of his city Etoile Sportive Fosséenne in season 2010-2011.
In the 2012 Summer, Bosqui moved to FC Istres in Ligue 2.
In February 2015, Bosqui moved to CA Bastia.
International career
Justin has called up to play for Mauritius in 2016.
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Kyle Cranmer
Kyle Cranmer is an American physicist and a professor at New York University at the Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics and Affiliated Faculty member at NYU's Center for Data Science. He is an experimental particle physicist working, primarily, on the Large Hadron Collider, based in Geneva, Switzerland. Cranmer popularized a collaborative statistical modeling approach and developed statistical methodology, which was used extensively for the discovery of the Higgs boson at the LHC in July, 2012.
Cranmer is active in the discussions of data preservation, open access, reproducibility, and e-science in the context of particle physics.
Cranmer performed a search for exotic Higgs decays in archived data from the ALEPH experiment ten years after the experiment finalized. He serves on the advisory board for INSPIRE, the literature database for high energy physics, and is a member of the Data Preservation in High Energy Physics study group as well as [Data and Software Preservation for Open Science].
Since the discovery of the Higgs boson, Cranmer has been a popular choice as a guest on science television programming. In July, 2011, Cranmer appeared in a special episode of Neil deGrasse Tyson's StarTalk Live alongside Bill Nye the Science Guy, Eugene Mirman, and Sarah Vowell. In a special video created for Science Nation, the online magazine of the National Science Foundation, Cranmer was featured discussing the Higgs boson in November, 2012. Cranmer also discussed the discovery of the Higgs boson in a TedxTalk in February, 2013.
Cranmer obtained his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2005 under Sau Lan Wu and his B.A. in Mathematics and Physics from Rice University. He was a Goldhaber Fellow at Brookhaven National Lab from 2005-2007. In 2007, he was awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from President George W. Bush via the Department of Energy's Office of Science and in 2009 he was awarded the National Science Foundation's Career Award. Cranmer is also a graduate of the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts
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Souad Mekhennet
Souad Mekhennet (born 1978) is a German journalist and author who has written or worked for The New York Times, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, The Washington Post, The Daily Beast and German television channel ZDF.
Early life and education
Mekhennet was born in 1978, the daughter of a Turkish mother and a Moroccan father; she grew up principally in Germany, but spent some years of her childhood in Morocco. She attended the Henri Nannen School for Journalism in Hamburg and the Johann-Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt.
Career
Journalism
Since 9/11, Mekhennet has covered conflicts and terrorist attacks in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. She was one of two Times reporters who published the first story on Khaled el-Masri, a German citizen, who was detained, flown to Afghanistan, interrogated and allegedly tortured by the CIA for several months. She also worked on the series Inside the Jihad, published between 2007 and 2008, in which she and her colleague Michael Moss interviewed various jihadist leaders, including the head of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. In February 2015, she was the lead reporter of a Washington Post story that first revealed the true identity of the ISIS militant known as "Jihadi John".
Fellowships
Mekhennet currently holds fellowships with the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University, the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, the Geneva Center for Security Policy, and New America. She is the 13th Recipient of the Hanno R. Ellenbogen Citizenship Award jointly with conservationist Tony Fitzjohn presented annually by the Prague Society for International Cooperation and Global Panel Foundation. She is a European Young Leader (EYL40) alumni.
Books
She is the co-author of two books in German: Islam (2006) and Die Kinder des Dschihad: Die neue Generation des islamistischen Terrors (2008); and one in English, with Nicholas Kulish: The Eternal Nazi: From Mauthausen to Cairo, the Relentless Pursuit of SS Doctor Aribert Heim (2014). Her memoir, I Was Told to Come Alone: My Journey Behind the Lines of Jihad, was published in 2017.
Books
Mekhennet, Souad and Michael Hanfeld. Islam. Würzburg: Arena (2006)
Mekhennet, Souad, , and Claudia Satter. Die Kinder des Dschihad: Die neue Generation des islamistischen Terrors. Munich: Piper Taschenbuch (2008),
Mekhennet, Souad and Nicholas Kulish. The Eternal Nazi: From Mauthausen to Cairo, the Relentless Pursuit of SS Doctor Aribert Heim. New York: Penguin Random House (2014),
Mekhennet, Souad. I Was Told to Come Alone: My Journey Behind the Lines of Jihad. New York: Henry Holt and Co. (2017)
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M. Alexander Jurkat
M. Alexander Jurkat is an attorney, and a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games.
Career
M. Alexander Jurkat is an attorney who gave George Vasilakos the idea to license the property of a small press roleplaying game called Battlelords of the 23rd Century (1990) that Jurkat had worked on, the result of which was published as the Battlelords CCG (1995) through Vasilakos' New Millennium Entertainment.
New Millennium went out of business after being unable to deal with its CCG-related debts, and on July 4, 1997, Vasilakos and Jurkat—together with investor Ed Healy—announced that they had formed the new gaming company, Eden Studios; they also acquired the rights to Conspiracy X from their former New Millennium Entertainment partners to continue the line.
Vasilakos and Jurkat were fans of C.J. Carella's work, and in July 1998 they announced an exclusive license to Carella's WitchCraft and Armageddon role-playing games, previously published by small-press roleplaying company Myrmidon Press. Eden Studios arranged a deal with Steve Jackson Games to produce GURPS Conspiracy X (2002), which was authored by Jurkat. Vasilakos and Jurkat decided to make Unisystem the house system of Eden Studios, first displaying this intention with the RPG All Flesh Must Be Eaten (2000), written by Vasilakos and Christopher Shy and edited by Jurkat.
Jurkat ceased being an owner in Eden Studios in 2005 and left the company's day-to-day operations behind in 2006, later becoming a freelance editor for companies like Margaret Weis Productions and Wizards of the Coast. His Dungeons & Dragons design work includes the Magic Item Compendium (2007) and Player's Option: Heroes of Shadow (2011).
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Koh Kong Safari World
Koh Kong Safari World was a zoo and an animal theme park in Cambodia, located 500m from the border crossing to Thailand. Species included elephant, dolphin, tiger, orangutan, and bird shows.
The zoo was transferred in 2018 to a new location in Phnom Penh, under the name Phnom Penh Safari World.
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Scituate High School (Massachusetts)
Scituate High School is public secondary school of Scituate, Massachusetts, United States. It serves roughly 1000 highschoolers from grade nine to graduation of grade twelve.
Athletics
Scituate High School Athletics competes in the Patriot League, and competes in MIAA Division 2 and 3. Scituate's Football team competes in Division 5.
Scituate Athletics:
Fall
Football:
League Champions: 1960, 1961, 1967, 1978, 1983, 1984, 2010, 2013, 2017 & 2018
Sectional Finalist: 2017
State Semifinalist: 2010
State Champions: 2018
Cheerleading:
State Finalist: 2007
Golf:
League Champions: 1966, 1967, 1976, 1978, 1981, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997 & 2013
Sectional Finalist: 1984
State Finalist: 1985 & 1990
State Champions: 1986
Boys' Cross Country:
League Champions: 1997 & 1999
Girls' Cross Country:
League Champions: 1999, 2000 & 2003
Field Hockey:
League Champions: 2016 & 2017
Girls' Soccer:
League Champions: 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 & 2016
Sectional Finalist: 2013 & 2014
Boys' Soccer:
League Champions: 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2018 & 2019
Sectional Semifinalist: 2019
Winter
Boys' Hockey:
League Champions: 1996, 2006, 2010, 2013 & 2017
Sectional Semifinalist: 1984, 2003, 2011 & 2013
Sectional Finalist: 2005, 2009 & 2016
State Semifinalist: 2006
State Finalist: 2008, 2010 & 2017
State Champions: 1985 & 2007
Boys' Basketball:
League Champions: 1962, 1993, 1995, 2001, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015 & 2018
Sectional Semifinalist: 1993, 2010 & 2019
Sectional Finalist: 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 & 2009
State Semifinalist: 2013
State Finalist: 2008
Girls' Basketball:
League Champions: 1984, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 & 2018
Sectional Semifinalist: 2013
Sectional Finalist: 2011
State Semifinalist: 2012
Boys' Indoor Track:
League Champions: 1998
Girls' Indoor Track:
League Champions: 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 & 2003
State Champions: 1990, 1991, 1992 & 1994
Gymnastics:
League Champions: 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1999 & 2000
Sectional Finalist: 1987, 1990 & 1991
Boys' Swimming:
League Champions: 2008
Wrestling:
League Champions: 2000 & 2012
Spring
Boys' Lacrosse:
League Champions: 2015 & 2018
Sectional Semifinalist: 2016, 2017 & 2019
Sectional Finalist: 2015
State Semifinalist: 2006 & 2018
State Finalist: 2007
State Champions: 2008 & 2009
Girls' Lacrosse:
League Champions: 2016, 2017 & 2018
Sectional Semifinalist: 2012, 2014 & 2016
Softball:
League Champions: 1982
Baseball:
League Champions: 2001, 2004 & 2019
Sectional Semifinalist: 2015
Girls' Tennis
League Champions: 1986, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2017, 2018 & 2019
Sectional Semifinalist: 2009, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015 & 2019
Sectional Finalist: 1986, 2004, 2008, 2010 & 2013
State Semifinalist: 1997 & 1998
State Finalist: 2006
Boys' Tennis
League Champions: 1998, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 & 2017
Sectional Semifinalist: 2011, 2012 & 2015
Sectional Finalist: 2017 & 2018
Girls' Track & Field:
League Champions: 1999 & 2000
State Champions: 1990 & 1995
Boys' Track & Field:
League Champions: 1970, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1991 & 1997
State Champions: 1973, 1974, 1975, 1980 & 1984
References
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Telsen Department
Telsen Department is a department of Chubut Province in Argentina.
The provincial subdivision has a population of about 1,788 inhabitants in an area of 19,893 km², and its capital city is Telsen, which is located around 1,494 km from the Capital federal.
Settlements
Gan Gan
Telsen
Chacay Oeste
Colonia Agricola Sepaucal
Tres Banderas
Laguna Fria
Bajada del Diablo
Sierra Chata
Mallin Grande
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Maher Ben Aziza
Maher Ben Aziza (born 27 July 1980) is a Tunisian fencer. He competed in the individual foil events at the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics.
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Prague Process (co-operation in migration management)
The Prague Process is a regional policy process and a targeted migration dialogue promoting migration partnerships among its 50 participating states of the European Union, Schengen Area, Eastern Partnership, the Western Balkans, Central Asia, Russia and Turkey.
The Process was developed as a part of the EU external migration and asylum policy in line with the overarching framework called the Global Approach to Migration and Mobility (GAMM). In the context of the GAMM the Prague Process has been given a priority as a regional dialogue process towards the East.
History, key principles and co-operation areas
The Prague Process originated from the EU financed project "Building Migration Partnerships", and was initiated during the Czech EU Presidency with the signature of the Prague Process Joint Declaration at the Ministerial Conference in April 2009.
In the Joint Declaration the participating states agreed to "strengthen co-operation in migration management, to explore and develop agreed principles and elements for close migration partnerships between their countries, following a comprehensive, balanced, pragmatic and operational approach, and respecting the rights and human dignity of migrants and their family members, as well as of refugees."
The Joint Declaration together with the Prague Process Action Plan 2012–2016, adopted at the second Ministerial Conference of the Prague Process in Poznan on November 2011, set the key principles, and main co-operation areas (mirror the GAMM), which are as follows:
Preventing and fighting illegal migration;
Readmission, voluntary return and sustainable reintegration;
Legal migration with a special emphasis on labour migration;
Integration of legally residing migrants;
Migration, mobility and development;
Strengthening capacities in the area of asylum and international protection (this topic was first brought up in the Action Plan).
The Ministerial Declaration signed by the parties at the 3rd Prague Process Ministerial Conference in Bratislava gave a mandate to the Process for the years 2017–2021.
Leading and participating states
The Czech Republic acted as a leader of the Prague Process until December 2010, when the leadership was handed over to Poland, which chairs the process until present day.
As of December 2010, when the Republic of Belarus joined the process, the Prague Process has 50 member states.
The list of members consists of:
The role of the Secretariat/ support Team is carried out by International Centre for Migration Policy Development.
Projects under the Prague Process umbrella
Prague Process Targeted Initiative (PP TI)
Full name:Support for the implementation of the Prague Process and its Action Plan.
To support the implementation of the Prague Process and its Action Plan, in August 2012 the Ministry of Interior of the Republic of Poland and the European Commission initiated a project called the Prague Process Targeted Initiative. The project is being jointly implemented by Poland, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Sweden, and ICMPD in its role of the Prague Process Secretariat. All Prague Process member states participate in the project to certain extent.
The project strives to strengthen and maintain an expert level dialogue and information exchange through co-operation within the network of Prague Process National Contact Points. It also works on building up a Knowledge Base in a form of state-owned Migration Profiles (Extended and Light versions), which describe migratory situation of the Prague Process states, and interactive online map – I-Map.
Additionally, 7 Pilot Projects, that complement implementation of certain actions of the Prague Process Action Plan, are being implemented within the PP TI framework. The Pilot Projects focus on Illegal migration, Legal migration, Migration and Development, and Asylum & International protection.
ERIS
Full name: Development of joint principles, procedures and standards on integration policies between the Russian Federation and European partners.
The ERIS project, implemented in the period February 2013 – January 2015 and led by the Czech Republic, Austria, and the Russian Federation, was focused on further development of migration management systems in the sphere of integration of legally residing immigrants. The project aimed at exchange of knowledge on integration policies between project partners, at establishment and maintenance of institutionalised co-operation between migration and integration authorities of participating partners, and at development of joint principles, procedures and standards for integration policies.
As a final outcome of the project, a Manual on the principles, procedures and standards for integration policies was developed.
EaP-SIPPAP
Full name: Eastern Partnership co-operation in the fight against irregular migration – Supporting the implementation of the Prague Process Action Plan.
The 2-year project EaP-SIPPAP was implemented by Hungary, Latvia, Poland, Slovakia, and Romania in the period April 2013 – July 2015 under the lead of the Hungarian Ministry of Interior.
The project targeted institutions in the border management sphere in 6 Eastern Partnership countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine.
References
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Student Union (Valdosta State University)
The Student Union of Valdosta State University serves as the social center of VSU and offers students a food court, bookstore, theater, game room, lounge space, and student organization offices.
History
The original University Union, built in 1966, contained the University snack bar, book store, radio station WVVS, mail services, a swimming pool, the offices of the University Union Board, Student Government Association, the yearbook, and newspaper editorial offices. The school book store was latter relocated to a larger structure between S. Walter Martin Hall and the Special Education and Communication Disorders Building on the southern portion of the campus. A committee of students, faculty, and staff was formed in 2004 to study the possibility of opening a new Student Union. It was determined that the original facility was inadequate to serve Valdosta State University's growing student enrollment.
In 2008, after years of planning, construction began on a new facility to replace the outdated Union to better accommodate the growing student population of VSU. The construction of the facility was paid for through student fees. The old Student Union and the old gymnasium were demolished to allow room for the construction of the , three story building. The facility opened on January 7, 2010 and a ribbon cutting ceremony was held January 19.
Facility Details
The buildings official size is
The total cost of construction was $43.2 Million
WTW Architects of Pittsburgh and local firm Ellis, Rickett and Associates Architects and Planners designed the new student union and Skanska USA Building, Inc. served as contractors.
Features
The Student Union features a 305-seat theater with Dolby surround sound, a 10x17' movie screen, and convenience area outside the theater. A two-story, VSU Bookstore is located inside the Student Union that features a technology shop and text books on the first floor and university merchandise on the second. A game room that offers pool tables, table tennis, board and card games, and video gaming systems is on the bottom floor. On the second floor is a food court that contains a Which Wich?, Moe's Southwest Grill, Starbucks, and a Chick-fil-A and features indoor and outside seating. On the third floor is a multi-Purpose Room with seating capacity for 540 persons and lecture seating capacity for 850 persons. The space can also be divided into three smaller rooms to host multiple events. A glass-walled, two-story rotunda serves as a lounge space with computer kiosks for students. The windows give students a view of Hopper Hall, Converse Hall and Odum Library. The Student Union also features space for student organizations with 24 suites that will accommodate student groups, and 6 meeting rooms.
Photo gallery
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Zamane Se Poocho
Zamane Se Poocho is a 1976 Bollywood film directed by Abrar Alvi.
Songs
"Aji Ek Sang Udaao Rang Bhigaao Ang" - Mohammed Rafi, Kishore Kumar
"Ae Ishq Kahin Le Chal Rangeen Fizaaon Mein" - Sharda
"Aapke Qarib Aapke Hi Paas" - Krishna Kalle
"Dekho Dekho Baaten Karti Main Khaamoshi Hoon" - Sharda
"Dil Mein Jo Aaya Apun Kiya" - Mohammed Rafi
"Ham Bhanvar Mein Kinaare Banaaya Karen" - Krishna Kalle
"Rootthoge Mana Loongi Badi Raat Padi Hai" - Sharda
External links
References
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Fabio Scarsella
Fabio Scarsella (born 19 July 1989) is an Italian football player. He plays for FeralpiSalò.
Club career
He made his Serie B debut for Frosinone on 30 May 2009 in a game against Grosseto.
References
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Skerry
A skerry is a small rocky island, usually too small for human habitation. It may simply be a rocky reef. A skerry can also be called a low sea stack.
A skerry may have vegetative life such as moss and small, hardy grasses. Skerries also, in some areas of the world, are rested upon by animals such as seals or birds, though usually not inhabited.
Etymology
The term skerry is derived from the Old Norse sker, which means a rock in the sea (which in turn derives from the Proto-Indo-European root *sker-, "cut", in the sense of a rock cut off from the land). The Old Norse term sker was brought into the English language via the Scots language word spelled skerrie or skerry. It is a cognate of the Scandinavian languages' words for skerry – Icelandic, , , , , found also in , , , , and (shkhery). In Scottish Gaelic, it appears as sgeir, e.g. Sula Sgeir, in Irish as sceir, in Welsh as sgeri, and in Manx as skeyr.
Formation
Skerries are most commonly formed at the outlet of fjords where submerged glacially formed valleys at right angles to the coast join with other cross valleys in a complex array. In some places near the seaward margins of fjorded areas, the ice-scoured channels are so numerous and varied in direction that the rocky coast is divided into thousands of island blocks, some large and mountainous while others are merely rocky points or rock reefs that menace navigation.
Examples
The island fringe of Norway is such a group of glacially formed skerries, called a skjærgård (which translates to archipelago); many of the cross fjords are so arranged that they parallel the coast and provide a protected channel behind an almost unbroken succession of rocky islands and skerries. By this channel one can travel through a protected passage almost the entire 1,600 km route from Stavanger to North Cape, Norway. The Blindleia is a skerry-protected waterway that starts near Kristiansand in southern Norway, and continues past Lillesand.
The Inside Passage provides a similar route from Seattle, Washington to Skagway, Alaska. Another such skerry-protected passage extends from the Straits of Magellan north for along the west coast of the South American continent.
The Swedish coast along Bohuslän is likewise guarded by skerries. Even the east coast of Sweden, in the Baltic Sea, has many big skärgårdar (archipelagos), notably Stockholm archipelago - Stockholms skärgård.
The southwestern coast of Finland also has a great many skerries; so many, in fact, that they form an archipelago. This area is experiencing post-glacial rebound that connects the rising islands as they break sea level, revealing till deposits and eventually clay bottoms. The skerries exist as small rocky islands before uplift of adjacent terrain changes the classification of this landform into a tombolo.
In the Russian Federation, the best examples are the Minina Skerries, located in the Kara Sea, in the western shores of the Taymyr Peninsula, and the Sumsky Skerries (Sumskiye Shkhery) , located in the White Sea.
The United Kingdom has a large number of skerries including Staple Island (an Outer Farne Island) in England; a small rocky outcrop near the Fowlsheugh in northeast Scotland; numerous reefs in the Hebrides such as Dubh Artach and Skerryvore; and The Skerries, located off the Antrim coast of Northern Ireland.
Skerries is the name of a coastal area of Dublin, Ireland, with many skerries offshore, including Rockabill, Shenick Island, Colt Island and St Patrick's Island.
The most southerly skerries are perhaps the Skrap Skerries off South Georgia.
See also
Stack (geology)
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Rape Scene (disambiguation)
Rape Scene is a 2004 album by Thighpaulsandra.
Rape scene is a setting where a rape has taken place, either fictional or real.
Rape scene may also refer to:
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Doctor Octoroc
Levi "Doctor Octoroc" Buffum, is an American chiptune musician and pixel artist based in Philadelphia. Drawing influences from 80's pop culture and beyond, primarily video games from console systems made by Nintendo, the artist initially gained notable Internet recognition in December 2008 with his chiptunes album of Christmas songs arranged in the style of different Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) games, entitled 8-Bit Jesus.
The album was originally made available on December 8, 2008 as a free nine-track download from DoctorOctoroc.com, as an extension of the track that Doctor Octoroc contributed to the Foundation 9 Holiday Card, featuring ten other chiptunes artists, including 8-Bit Weapon and ComputeHer. After the small collection of tracks appeared on sites like Kotaku, Joystiq, Boing Boing, and Destructoid, Doctor Octoroc created nine more tracks for an even eighteen tracks total, which he posted to his blog on December 22. The complete physical album became available in a 6-panel digipak, designed by Jude Buffum, and includes an additional bonus track titled "Let It Snoki Doki Panic".
He later made a name for himself as a freelance artist, creating 8-bit and 16-bit parody animations, most notably his re-imagining of the Internet sensation Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (original film by Joss Whedon) as a theoretical NES game. Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Game was released in April 2010 and since then, Buffum has created similar works of animation based on Twilight, Jersey Shore, Glee, Harry Potter, Doctor Who, and Man Vs. Wild.
Music
As a chiptunes artist, Octoroc uses a modded NES control deck as an instrument via MIDI CC signals that manipulate the console's hardware. He also composes tracks using soundfonts ripped from Super NES and Genesis games.
Albums
8-Bit Jesus (2008)
After These Messages (December 2010)
Shamroctoroc (March 2011)
In The RP2A Over The Sea (April 2019)
Doctor Octoroc has arranged and composed tracks contributed to Here Comes A New Challenger, Loser: A Sega Genesis Tribute, Iwadon: Hiroyuki Iwatsuki Tribute Album, and a 16-Bit arrangement of the Doctor Who (series 5) theme, as well as a similar arrangement of the opening song for the short-lived FOX TV show, Firefly.
Animation
As a result of the popularity that ensued after he released Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Game, Octoroc began creating similar animations.
Full length animations
Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Game (April 2010)
Initially created to visually accompany Doctor Octoroc's 8-bit arrangement of the Dr. Horrible soundtrack, the 8-Bit Dr. Horrible animation became the focus of the project, gaining attention from many of the cast and crew members of the original film. Among them, Felicia Day, Neil Patrick Harris, and Maurissa Tancharoen made positive mention of the animation on Twitter. The animation was also mentioned by celebrity gossip extraordinaire Perez Hilton, incorporating the moniker "Internet genius" into his description of the creator. In addition, a screenshot from the animation showed up during the 2010 Google I/0 day 2 keynote during a presentation about the beta of YouTube Lean Back.
Animated Shorts
Below is a list of animated shorts created for various websites.
8-Bit Twilight (June 2010)
8-Bit Glee (September 2010)
8-Bit Harry Potter (November 2010)
Jersey Shore: The RPG (December 2010)
Mario's Night Before Christmas (December 2010)
Mario Paint Torture (January 2010)
Man Vs. Wild IV: Infinity Bear Saga (June 2011)
Saved By The Bell Interactive Game (August 2011)
Game of Thrones RPG (August 2011)
Other animations
YTCracker: The Link Music Video (July 2010)
Firewall (November 2010)
16-Bit Doctor Who Series 5 Intro (June 2011)
EneMemes (September 2012)
Notes
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Oxalis tuberosa
Oxalis tuberosa is a perennial herbaceous plant that overwinters as underground stem tubers. These tubers are known as uqa in Quechua, oca or cubio in Spanish, New Zealand yam and a number of other alternative names. The plant was brought into cultivation in the central and southern Andes for its tubers, which are used as a root vegetable. The plant is not known in the wild, but populations of wild Oxalis species that bear smaller tubers are known from four areas of the central Andean region. Oca was introduced to Europe in 1830 as a competitor to the potato, and to New Zealand as early as 1860.
In New Zealand, oca has become a popular table vegetable and is simply called yam or New Zealand yam (although not a true yam). It is available in a range of colours, including yellow, orange, pink, apricot, and the traditional red.
Cultural significance
Grown primarily by Quechua and Aymara farmers, oca has been a staple of rural Andean diets for centuries. Of all Andean root and tuber crops, oca is currently second only to potato in area planted within the Central Andean region. Oca is important to local food security because of its role in crop rotations and its high nutritional content.
Diversity
Andean farmers cultivate numerous varieties of oca. Oca diversity may be described with respect to morphological characters, local cultivar names, or molecular markers.
Morphological characters
Oca morphotypes are distinguished by foliar, floral, fruit, stem, and tuber characteristics, as described in the International Plant Genetic Resources Institute's document on oca descriptors. The morphological diversity of oca tubers, in particular, is astounding. Tubers range from 25 to 150 mm in length by 25 mm in width; skin and flesh color may be white, cream, yellow, orange, pink, red, and/or purple and distributed in range of patterns.
Local cultivar names
Oca-growing communities often name varieties based primarily on tuber morphology and secondarily on flavor. For example, common names may include ushpa negra (black ash) or puka panti (red Cosmos peucedanifolius). Great inconsistency of nomenclature has been reported within and among communities.
Molecular markers
Numerous studies have additionally described oca diversity through molecular approaches to study protein and genetic variation. Molecular markers, such as allozymes (e.g., del Río, 1999) and inter-simple sequence repeats (e.g., Pissard et al., 2006), show oca diversity to be low relative to other crops, probably because of its vegetative mode of propagation. While genetic differentiation corresponds well with folk classification, cluster analyses indicate that folk cultivars are not perfect clones, but rather genetically heterogeneous groupings.
Edibility
Oca is cultivated primarily for its edible stem tuber, but the leaves and young shoots can be eaten as a green vegetable also. Mature stems can be used similarly to rhubarb. Andean communities have various methods to process and prepare tubers, and in Mexico oca is eaten raw with salt, lemon, and hot pepper. The flavour is often slightly tangy, but there is a considerable degree of difference in flavors between varieties and some are not acidic at all. Texture ranges from crunchy (like a carrot) when raw or undercooked, to starchy or mealy when fully cooked.
Use categories
Oca is fairly high in oxalates, concentrated in the skin. Significant variation in oxalate concentration exists among varieties, and this variation distinguishes two oca use-categories recognized by Andean farmers.
One use-category, sour oca, contains cultivars with high levels of oxalic acid. Farmers process these tubers to form a usable storage product, called khaya in Quechua. To prepare khaya, tubers are first soaked in water for approximately one month. Then they are left outside during hot, sunny days and cold, freezing nights until they become completely dehydrated. This process is similar to the preparation of chuñu from bitter potatoes. Cultivars in this use category are referred to in Quechua as khaya (name of the dried, processed product) or p'usqu (sour/fermented), and in Aymara as luk’i.
The other use-category, sweet oca, contains cultivars with lower levels of oxalic acid. The traditional Andean preparation methods for this use-category are also geared towards reducing the oxalate level of the harvested vegetable, but without dehydration. This is done by exposure to sunlight, which decreases the organic acid content and thereby increases the sweet taste of the oca.
Once exposed to sunlight, oca can be boiled, baked or fried. In the Andes it is used in stews and soups, served like potatoes, or can be served as a sweet. Cultivars in this category are referred to in Quechua as wayk'u (boiling), misk'i (sweet/delicious) and in Aymara as q'ini.
Sour oca and sweet oca form distinct genetic clusters based on AFLP data. This suggests the possibility of distinct evolutionary histories for each use-category.
Nutrition
Oca is a source of carbohydrates, dietary minerals, and protein. Cultivars vary substantially in nutritional content.
Cultivation
Oca is one of the important staple crops of the Andean highlands, due to its easy propagation, and tolerance for poor soil, high altitude and harsh climates.
Distribution
Oca is planted in the Andean region from Venezuela to Argentina, from 2800 to 4100 meters above sea level. Its highest abundance and greatest diversity are in central Peru and northern Bolivia, the probable area of its domestication.
Climate requirements
Oca needs a long growing season, and is day length dependent, forming tubers when the day length shortens in autumn (around March in the Andes). In addition, oca requires climates with average temperatures of approximately 10 to 12 °C (ranging between 4 and 17 °C) and average precipitation of 700 to 885 millimeters per year.
Oca requires short days in order to form tubers. Outside the tropics, it will not begin to form tubers until approximately the autumn equinox. If frosts occur too soon after the autumn equinox, the plant will die before tubers are produced.
Soil requirements
Oca grows with very low production inputs, generally on plots of marginal soil quality, and tolerates acidities between about pH 5.3 and 7.8. In traditional Andean cropping systems, it is often planted after potato and therefore benefits from persisting nutrients applied to, or left over from, the potato crop.
Propagation
Oca is usually propagated vegetatively by planting whole tubers.
Propagation by seed is possible but is rarely used in practice. Sexual propagation is complicated by several factors. First, like many other species in the genus Oxalis, oca flowers exhibit tristylous heterostyly and are consequently subject to auto-incompatibility. Furthermore, on the rare occasion that oca plants do produce fruit, their loculicidal capsules dehisce spontaneously, making it difficult to harvest seed. Oca flowers are pollinated by insects (e.g., genera Apis, Megachile, and Bombus).
Cropping factors
Oca tuber-seeds are planted in the Andes in August or September and harvested from April to June. The first flowers bloom around three to four months after planting, and the tubers also begin to form then. Between planting and harvesting, the oca crop requires little tending, except for a couple of weedings and hillings.
Oca is a component of traditional crop rotations and is usually planted in a field directly after the potato harvest. A common sequence in this rotation system may be one year of potato, one year of oca, one year of oats or faba beans, and two to four years fallow. Within this system, q’allpa is a Quechua term that signifies soil previously cultivated and prepared for planting of a new crop.
The cultural practice is similar to potatoes. Planting is done in rows or hills 80–100 cm apart, with plants spaced 40–60 cm apart in the rows. Monoculture predominates, but interplanting with several other tuber species, including mashua and olluco, in one field is common in Andean production. Often this intercoppng consists of several different varieties of each species. Such mixed fields may later be sorted into tuber types during harvest or before cooking.
Harmine found in root secretions of O. tuberosa has been found to have insecticidal properties.
Yields
Yields vary with the cultural method. Annals from Andean countries report about 7-10 tonnes per hectare for O. tuberosa production. But with adequate inputs and virus free propagation material, oca production can range from 35 to 55 tonnes per hectare.
Limitations
Pests and diseases limit the production of oca. Crops in the Andes are often infected with viruses, causing chronic yield depression. Adequate techniques to remove viruses have to be applied before the varieties can be used outside the Andean region. Cultivation is also constrained by the Andean potato weevil (Premnotrypes spp), ulluco weevil (Cylydrorhinus spp), and oca weevil, the identification of which remains uncertain (possibly Adioristidius, Mycrotrypes, or Premnotrypes). These weevils often destroy entire crops. Further notable pests are nematodes.
As already mentioned, both day-length restrictions and the presence of oxalates can also be considered limiting factors. Scientists work with specific breeding, selection, and virus cleaning programs on these purposes.
Conservation efforts
A number of ongoing ex situ and in situ conservation projects currently focus on the preservation of O. tuberosa diversity. The International Potato Center (CIP) in Peru has several hundred accessions of oca collected from regions in Bolivia, Argentina and Peru to help ensure and maintain diversity. Currently, there are further efforts to collect accession of oca in regions where habitat destruction and pests are threatening diversity of wild oca accessions.
Alternative names
Apilla in Bolivia
Apiña in Bolivia and Peru
Batata-baroa or mandioquinha (literally, "little mandioca") in Brazil, a name shared with the unrelated arracacha
Cuiba or quiba in Venezuela
Hibia or Cubio in Colombia
Macachin or miquichi in Venezuela
Papa extranjera in Mexico
Huasisai, Qua or ibi in Peru,
Truffette acide in France
Yam in many other places, such as Polynesia and New Zealand, where the Dioscorea vegetables known elsewhere as yams are generally very uncommon.
See also
New World crops
Mashua
Yacón
Ulluco
References
Further reading
External links
Oca in Lost Crops of the Incas
NewCROP page on oca
Andean root and tuber crops at the International Potato Center
Oca, ulluco, and mashua at the International Potato Center
Oxalis tuberosa at Plants for a Future
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ACODA
ACODA are a four-piece alternative metal band from Corby, Northamptonshire, United Kingdom. Formed in 2008, the band consists of vocalist/guitarist Damon Tang, bassist/vocalist Stephen Crook, guitarist/vocalist Jake Crawford and drummer/vocalist Jay Russell. The band are known for their energetic and emotive live shows and blending the musical influences of rock, metal, progressive metal and post-hardcore.
They were named in the top 10 best unsigned UK bands by Kerrang! magazine in September 2011.
Their debut EP ACODA was released on 19 March 2012 and received commendations from Kerrang!, Rock Sound Magazine and Metal Hammer magazine. The release saw the band tour extensively, including appearances at Download Festival and Slam Dunk Festival.
On 12 August 2013, Acoda signed to Best Before Records and released their debut full-length album Yours to Defend on 28 October 2013. They have also gone on to release their 6-track EP, Round the Sun in May 2014. Their new album 'TRUTH SEEKER' is released through Best Before Records on 30 March 2015 featuring singles 'Whispers Like Roars', 'Make It Up As You Go', Round The Sun' and 'Face Everything'.
Biography
In 2009, Acoda recorded a home studio demo of six tracks. On the back of shows in mainland Europe, the band continued to tour the UK DIY circuit, whilst writing new music.
In 2010, the band teamed up with local music producer Justin Gleich to record the single "Finding Your Feet" and its B-side "Paint By Numbers" at Premier Studios, Corby. Acoda signed to Small Town Records for the single release.
In April 2011, Acoda entered the studio to record twelve tracks with producer Dan Lancaster. The drums were recorded at Middle Farm Studios, Devon and the remaining instrumentals at Studio Glasseye, Hertfordshire.
In June 2011, the band played their first major festival performance at Download Festival on the Red Bull Bedroom Jam stage, followed by a gig on the River Thames on HMS Metal Hammer. The remainder of the summer saw performances at Sonisphere Festival, T in the Park,<ref name="Perthshire Advertiser" >{{cite web|title=No sleep till Balado for metalheads' |url=http://www.perthshireadvertiser.co.uk/perthshire-news/local-news-perthshire/perthshire/2011/07/08/no-sleep-till-balado-for-metalheads-73103-29013558/ |accessdate=16 September 2013}}</ref> Hevy and Underage Festivals.
Acoda ended 2011 being named one of the Top 10 best unsigned bands in Britain by Kerrang! magazine.
On 19 March 2012, Acoda released the four track EP ACODA to critical acclaim from Kerrang!, Rock Sound and Metal Hammer magazines. The lead single "I Creep" received airplay on the Radio One Rock Show.
The band supported the record with performances at Download Festival, Hevy Music Festival, Camden Crawl and Slam Dunk Festivals and played gigs in places such as London and Nottingham, amongst others.
On 20 August 2012, the band released This Is Life and supported it with shows in England, Scotland and Wales.
In February 2013, the band returned to Studio GlassEye, Herts to record five tracks with producer Dan Lancaster.
2013 saw the band continue to play gigs in places such as Birmingham, Southampton, Bristol and Sheffield, amongst others and support slots for bands like Funeral for a Friend.
On 27 June, Acoda released the track "The Future Is Yours to Defend" and announced that the debut full-length album Yours to Defend would be released through Best Before Records worldwide on 9 September 2013.
On 12 August 2013, Acoda signed to Best Before Records for the release of Yours to Defend and announced a new release date of 28 October 2013.
ACODA's new album "Truth Seeker" is released through Best Before Records 4/2015 featuring the singles 'Whispers Like Roars', 'Make It Up As You Go', 'Face Everything' and 'Round The Sun'.
Discography
Albums and EPs
2009: Characters (EP)
2012: ACODA (EP)
2013: Yours to Defend Album
2014: Round the Sun (EP)
2015: "Truth Seeker" 2nd Album
References
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Ayrancı Dam
Ayrancı Dam is a dam in Buğdaylı, Turkey, built between 1956 and 1958.
See also
List of dams and reservoirs in Turkey
References
DSI
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Little Bit of Life (song)
"Little Bit of Life" is a song written by Danny Wells and Tony Mullins, and recorded by American country music artist Craig Morgan. It was released in August 2006 as the lead-off single and title track from his album Little Bit of Life. The song was a Top Ten hit for him on the Billboard country charts in late 2006-early 2007, peaking at number 7.
Content
"Little Bit of Life" is a moderately up-tempo song in which Morgan lists off the various objects and events that make up his life, preceding each with the words "a little bit of". Morgan also recorded unique versions of the song for various country music stations with the line, "A little bit of radio goin' boom, boom, boom" changed to use the radio's callsign, i.e., "A little WDRM goin' boom, boom, boom."
Music video
The music video was directed by Wes Edwards and premiered in August 2006.
Chart performance
Year-end charts
References
External links
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Passenger virus
A passenger virus is a virus that is frequently found in samples from diseased tissue, such as tumours, but does not contribute to causing the disease.
Experimental demonstration of passenger status
Proving that a virus has no causative role can be difficult. Although none of the following signs is definitive, evidence that a virus found in diseased tissue is a passenger rather than a causative agent includes:
injection of the virus into healthy animals without causing disease;
the absence of the virus at the earliest stages of the disease;
curing the viral infection using antiviral drugs or vaccination with no effect on the course of the disease.
Examples
A well-established example is lactate dehydrogenase virus, which is often found in mouse tumours. GB virus C and Chandipura virus are possible examples in humans. It has also been suggested that a virus related to Alcelaphine herpesvirus 1 is a passenger virus that, unlike AHV1 itself, doesn't cause bovine malignant catarrhal fever. The discredited Duesberg hypothesis posits that HIV is a passenger virus in the etiology of AIDS.
References
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Corran Purdon
Major-General Corran Wiliam Brooke Purdon (4 May 1921 – 27 June 2018) was an Irish-born commando in the British Army, who took part in the raid on St Nazaire for which he was awarded the Military Cross. He was subsequently a prisoner in Colditz Castle.
Early life
Purdon was born on 4 May 1921 in Cobh, near Cork, Ireland, during the Irish War of Independence. His father worked for the army as a medical officer and his mother was a homemaker. In the early 1920s the family moved to India. In 1926, after his father completed his tour with the Indian Army, the family moved to Belfast. Purdon was educated firstly in India, then at Campbell College in Belfast and, finally, at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.
Career
Military career
Purdon was commissioned into the Royal Ulster Rifles in 1939 at the start of the Second World War. He was attached to No. 12 Commando and saw action with that unit in the raid on St Nazaire, for which he was awarded the Military Cross. He was subsequently imprisoned in Colditz Castle for a year.
He became commanding officer of the 1st Battalion, Royal Ulster Rifles in 1962 and in that role was deployed to Borneo during the Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation. He went on to be Commander, Sultan of Oman's Armed Forces and Director of Operations during the Dhofar Rebellion in 1967, Commandant, School of Infantry in 1970 and General Officer Commanding North West District in 1972. His last appointment was as General Officer Commanding, Near East Land Forces in 1974 before retiring in 1976.
Police career
After retiring the British Army, Purdon was appointed Deputy Commissioner of the Hong Kong Police Force (HKPF) in 1978, and worked for it until his retirement in 1981 at the age of 60.
Family
In 1945, Purdon married Maureen Patricia Petrie; they had two sons and one daughter. Patricia died from cancer in 2007 leaving Purdon a widower. In 2009 at the age of 88, years after the death of his first wife, Purdon married Jean Ottway the widow of his cousin. Purdon and Ottway remained married until Purdon's death.
Death
Purdon died in his sleep of natural causes at his home in the early hours on 27 June 2018 at the advanced age of 97 with his family at his side.
Media and events
Purdon appeared in some history-related documentaries. In March 2009, Purdon, then aged 87, along with Micky Burn (1912-2010) and Dr Bill 'Tiger' Watson' (1921-2018) went to Saint-Nazaire to commemorate the raid while filming a feature-film documentary adapted from Burn's 2003 autobiography Turned Towards the Sun.
In March 2012, Purdon, then aged 90, was made guest of honour in St Nazaire at the 70th anniversary celebratory event of the St Nazaire Raid. In June 2014, Purdon, then aged 93, attended the 70th anniversary celebratory event of the D-Day Landings.
References
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Hersey station
Hersey is an MBTA Commuter Rail station in Needham, Massachusetts. Located in the Bird's Hill neighborhood, it serves the Needham Line. The station serves as a park-and-ride, with easy access from Route 128. Hersey station has been open since 1917, except for an 8-year closure during Southwest Corridor construction. It is fully accessible.
History
The Needham Cutoff opened on November 4, 1906 from West Roxbury to Needham Junction, allowing trains from the former New York and New England Railroad to reach Boston without needing to use the New York Central's Highland Branch. Building the cutoff required a significant length of difficult rock cuts - "one of the heaviest pieces of short railroad construction ever attempted in New England" - reaching a depth of at Great Plain Avenue. Needham Junction was originally the only stop on the cutoff; Bird's Hill opened as an infill station at Great Plains Avenue in 1917.
The station was closed with the rest of the line on October 13, 1979 due to Southwest Corridor construction.
On March 21, 1980, the Massachusetts Legislature directed the MBTA to rename the station to honor Needham selectman Henry D. Hersey, "an outstanding spokesman for commuter rail service in the commonwealth". In addition to this station, the MBTA also honored Hersey by naming locomotive MBTA 1000 as Henry D. Hersey "Mr. Commuter Rail". Newly designated Hersey station reopened with the rest of the line on October 19, 1987.
Unlike the other Needham Line stations, Hersey was not renovated during the closure with a mini-high platform for handicapped accessibility. A mini-high platform was added between 1990 and 1992, making the Needham Line the first completely accessible line on the MBTA system.
References
External links
MBTA - Hersey
Great Plain Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View
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